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Today I'm holding 2 Chronicles 7:14 close alongside the concept of imago dei. The text says, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their … Continue reading
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Take some time and check out this podcast I recorded with my boo Kevin Garcia over at Tiny Revolution. We covered a lot of ground in our time together including LGBTQ inclusion in religious community, what it means to live out your love, elitism in faith spaces, power & privilege, and what community, church, and solidarity can look like.
So take the next 45 minutes and listen to our talk, Petty and/or Prophetic. I think you'll find it worth your time. Continue reading
I Woke Up With My Mind Stayed On Freedom, Knowing We Will Overcome Some Day
I woke up this morning, this "Independence Day", with my mind stayed on freedom Not "Make America Great Again" or the US neo-imperial project but actual freedom The type that lets our young ones look forward to sunny days and clear blue skies because they don't have to fear drone warfare or our bombs … Continue reading
Pushing Past Christian Walls to Reach the Open Arms of Jesus
I was 5 years old when I first remember meeting Jesus. I'm the daughter of a Baptist preacher and am descended from good church-going folk so I had been introduced to him in utero but I remember meeting him at 5. I sat on the right hand side of the Scriptural Baptist Church sanctuary in a folding … Continue reading
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I'm not ok. Most days I struggle to get out of bed before feeding myself, knocking out a few hours of work, taking time to rest, and then getting lost for a few hours in my curated netflix-hulu happy place. I'm not ok. It's a struggle to be around people some days and I crave the … Continue reading
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Never forget that we belong to one another. Always remember that our liberations are intertwined and none of us will get free while others are bound. Continue reading
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Santa will be touching down here at Alstede Farms just in time for the perfect family portrait. He'll be checking his list while you happily check off your Christmas card photo opportunity from your list. Stop by his Country Christmas Corner to say hello and treat yourself to some warm cider or a seasonal ice cream while on the farm. Santa will be here on Friday 11/24, 11/25, 11/26 and every Sat. & Sun. until 12/24.
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Jan 8 - Feb 12, 2018
Descendants Dance! 6 Weeks ONLY!
Location: Art Of Dance Studio, 15 Seminary Ave. Chester NJ
We are excited to announce of 6 Week's of Descendants Dance! Come "Shake It Off" with us, as we learn Jazz & Hip-Hop routines from the Disney show! Class will run on Monday's from 4:30p -5:30pm with Ms. Allie Mennen for Ages 6 & Up! Come join us as we act "Rotten To The Core" in this NEW 6 week class! Only $119.25!
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Adult Basic Beginner Tap 6 Week session
Location: Art Of Dance Studio, 15 Seminary Ave. Chester NJ
Join us for 6 weeks of Basic Beginner Tap for Adults! Thursday's 7:30-8:30pm Starting January 11th - February 15th. ONLY $119.25! With Allie Mennen YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD (or too young…unless your 2)To Learn To Tap! Yep it's true, adults absolutely do learn faster than children. They might not have the same energy a ten year old has but they do have more life experience and general intelligence both of which can be helpful when learning tap dance!
Yes you are coordinated enough. If you know how to walk and you know your left from your right foot then yes you are plenty coordinated enough to tap dance. Now no one is saying you're going to be as graceful as Gene Kelly or as smooth as Fred Astaire, but if you can walk, I promise you can tap dance. It's not exactly rocket science, and in fact it's a lot more fun! And Before you ask.... YES!!! You do have rhythm, and we're going to make it even better!


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Minus the Bear Show Review
Everybody gets this indescribable feeling when you walk into a huge, musk filled venue. I don't know why, but I love that feeling, I live for that feeling. Sometimes I just go to random shows to satisfy my hunger for live music. This past weekend I went to the local venue, Bogarts, to see Minus The Bear for the first time. Portugal. The Man opened up the show with their new and improved line up. They were definitely interesting. I enjoyed the ambient feel of the music. The lead singers fashion sense was what popped out to me. More specifically, the multi-colored snowcap he was wearing. It was probably the sweetest snowcap I've ever seen. The bassist had great stage presence, and overall they were great to see live. The next band that played was The Big Sleep. I honestly have never heard of this band in my life. I definitely expected a band like this to open. They really didn't catch my ear. They have a woman bassist, and there were only two other people in the band. They had a few sweet ambient breaks in some of their songs, but other then that I really didn't catch on to much of there set. I was pretty bored. Minus the Bear finally comes on stage, and everybody went crazy. It was Minus the Bears first appearance in Cincinnati, so a lot people have been waiting to see them for a while now. They were definitely fun to watch. They looked like they were having fun, and I love that. There set was probably the longest set I've ever stood through in my life. It didn't bother me. I love their music. They played probably around an hour and a half, so you can imagine all the amazing songs they played. They played everything from Spritz!!! Spritz!!! to Ice Monster off their new album. The best part of there set was their last song. The other two bands came out with masks on, and set up a bunch of drums around the stage and they all played throughout the song Ice Monster. It was a sight to see. Go see Minus the Bear.


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They have been working with local charity, Blanket Angels, to transform basic, recycled grey utility covers into brightly coloured winter warmers for homeless people in the area.
The blankets include labels with information about local shelters and organisations who can offer help or support.
Blanket Angels was set up by Anna Stephenson-Knight six months ago. She works with local sewing clubs to create the blankets that not only provide warmth and comfort – but also details of where they can seek help.
And this week, they've been boosted by the efforts of students and staff at Chichester College – who made 57 blankets on Thursday (15 December).
Anna said: "I've been really pleased by the response from the college.
"All day, people have been dropping in to design and make blankets – including people who have never used a sewing machine.
"I'm amazed we have made so many, I'm really grateful to all the staff and students who have given up their time for us.
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The Sena Smart Helmet was introduced today at the 2015 AIMExpo in Orlando, Florida.
The Smart Helmet is "The world's first Intelligent Noise Control" helmet, according to Sena.
It includes a noise cancelling system powered by an internal rechargeable battery.
The helmet is wired for a snap-on Sena Bluetooth intercom module, which will be available as an option.
The "Intelligent Noise Control" (INC) module snaps in to the lower rear part of the helmet shell. It has a USB-rechargeable battery.
The helmet has a button on each side with an embedded LED. The button on the left turns on the ambient sound, which is enhanced via a microphone in the INC module, so the rider can have a conversation or hear outside sounds.
Press the button on the right to turn on the Intelligent Noise Control.
The ear pockets are heavily padded with silicone to help reduce noise and the active noise cancellation micrphones are in the ear pockets.
The noise cancellation is specifically targeted to reduce wind and buffeting noise.
The helmet shell is made for Sena in carbon fiber and will be available in carbon fiber weave, white, yellow, silver and black. More graphic patterns are planned.
The remote control is wireless and powered by what looks like a CR2032 battery, which is said to last 1 year.
The helmet uses Bluetooth 4.1. The price is TBD at this time and the Sena Smart Helmet is planned for a Spring 2016 delivery.
By the way, we've been wishing for a helmet like this for some time.
We thought Bose would do it; in fact, we tried the Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones (review) in a helmet to see how they would work, along with several other noise cancelling earphone reviews.
More information coming soon and we'll have one for a review as soon as possible.
The silicone ear pocket liners (above) go a long way to reducing noise even without the Intelligent Noise Control system turned on.
I wore the helmet at the show and the sound reduction from the noisy crowd was astounding, as was the quality of the music streaming.
Push the button on the right side of the helmet and the sound cancelling stops and the mic in the rear of the helmet becomes active, allowing the wearer to carry on a conversation with people nearby.
Publication Date: October 2015
From "B.A." (October 2015): "If Sena delivers on noise cancelling, then I am in."
From "P.N." (October 2015): "Looks promising. Would love to eventually see a flip-up as well."
From "B.R." (October 2015): "Oh please oh gods of helmet manufacturers make this at least some what round in shape! If this works and fits I am a buyer in XL."
Rick's Reply: I tried on the prototype, it's the typical neutral/slightly narrow shape, the size L felt tight on my round head and as typically happens for me, the XL will probably be too big. But, let's see what happens, maybe the production versions will have a rounder internal shape.
From "D.G." (October 2015): " 'By the way, we've been wishing for a helmet like this for some time.'
Yes, we have. I've exhausted all earbud options including the Bose QC20i, and have been using an SMH-5 with an Arai RX-Q and earplugs. Barely OK for podcasts, not good enough for music.
And yes, I've tried upgrading the speakers.
I've been thinking of getting a Corsair-X in the next 12 months or so, but this Sena helmet has me very, very interested.
That said, I will be surprised if I actually end up getting one, because as much as I would like to hear music clearly without earplugs in the way, my guess is that this helmet won't have enough ventilation or comfort (I wear glasses) to compete with Arai (or any other high-end helmet).
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The Box by Michelle Denz Rated Stars Danny discovers a small red box in his backyard, but things are not always what they seem. Drama What Are They? Rated Stars Two fish contemplate what we (the humans) are from inside their tank. Davie Vs Closet Monster Rated Stars A little boy named Davie faces the beast in his closet. Eyeballs Rated Stars Watch eyeballs dance; drawn frame by frame! Experimental


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The Ultimate Guide to Options
Tips for Choosing Stock Music for Your Video The minute you've got your video in the can and you're prepping for the edit, one of the first questions to come up is, "What music should I use? Selecting the right music for your video project is usually be a complicated process – especially with an involved client! But of course, nothing is undoable for someone who has a passion for creating premium videos. Below are tips that can help: Define the track in advance.
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If you determine your choices as you begin the production process, you'll be a step ahead. Planning ahead allows you to get your client's approval early on, work with the music at a comfortable editing pace, and remain within budget. You don't want production surprises, especially in terms of money. Planning minimizes issues later on.
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2. Find a fit. Unless the idea is to use contrast (for example, a fight scene with classical music in the background), it's best to select a track that fits the tone of your scene or video. Think of your target viewer. Jazz and blues may not be appreciated by teenagers, but it's probably perfect for yuppies. 3. Decide between vocal and non-vocal tracks. Vocals are generally best for films and montages, but they tend to be distracting under dialogue. If you decide to use a vocal track, make sure it's in line with what's going on in the particular scene. 4. Decide on using a music library or an original composition. You can use tracks from a royalty free music library or hire a composer to score your project, depending on your project. But remember that original compositions are expensive, while royalty-free music is cheaper yet still high-quality. In any case, never use copyright or commercial tracks to avoid staggering costs and legal battles. 5. Pick real-instrument tracks. Forget about tracks that where digital instruments and effects were used. They sound very cheap and unprofessional. Never settle for anything less than real, organic instrumentation. 6. Work around duration limits. Don't feel restricted by the track you have chosen! Instead, look for a way to make it work for your video, such as by cutting it up and looping sections as necessary. 7. Decide between end-to-end and bookended. Music is usually more powerful when used only in certain portions of the video, as when accentuating certain points. When forced all throughout, the viewer can get fatigued. End-to-end music may be right for montages and demo reels, but a bookended or sporadic approach usually works better for corporate videos. Finally, when going with a bookended approach, stick to one track that you will use both at the opening and at the closing of the video.


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Despite his status as a happy, respected old-timer, Common has to rap about something, and his eighth album, Universal Mind Control, is a hodgepodge effort. It contains would-be club bangers full of metaphysical mumbo-jumbo such as the title track ("Charismatic / Asiatic / I hustle for mathematics") and would-be seduction tracks, like "Sex 4 Suga" [sic], more likely to cause snickers than arousal. Having established a place in the hip-hop pantheon with albums like Resurrection and Like Water for Chocolate, the South Side Chicago native has been palling around with models and celebrities like Kanye West and Pharrell Williams for some time now. But at least he didn't get the models to rap and produce on this CD, which comes off sounding as uninspired and labor-intensive as a Neptunes joint. "Punch Drunk Love" has a grating chorus from Kanye and Common lines like "We exchange like students / 'Cause I study a broad" and "I'm the doctor / I can hold it till my patients is up." But "Announcement" is even worse, with Pharrell spitting an unintelligible couplet involving Blow Pops, fellatio and Botox. "This is hip hop baby," Common sings. No, it's not. It's the sound of a man who needs to take up golf.
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Say it isn't so!
But Daniel Radcliffe wants to play a drag queen in his next movie.
Why? For the simple pleasure of dressing as a woman and wear make-up!!!
He said: "I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye make-up."
Daniel darling, it ain't all that, trust me
But Radcliffe admits he really wants to do drag because it would be one of the most rebellious things he has ever done!
Alright, that' I'll buy! Being a rebel is good for the soul...
He revealed: "I don't pretend to do anything particularly wild. People talk about rebellion and they say, 'Where is the teenage angst?' But I say I try to do it simply by the choices I make in the work I do. I just like wrong-footing people. I write poetry and I love it. I like being different from most other people in my generation."
You know what? This dude seems to be cool! I haven't interviewed him yet, but I'm looking forward to! I like that he's trying to be different from his generation, that's a big plus!
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Kevin Smith's upcoming film, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," is not even showing until Oct. 31st, but the buzz is loud.
First, Smith battled with the MPAA to overturn the film's initial NC-17 rating. Now, the director is fighting for the movie's poster!
Just how salacious and dirty and vile is the poster?
Um, not that much!
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But his iconic voice lives on!
Take a look at this video, LaFontaine's legendary story, told by the legend himself.
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There was a loud rumor that Russell Crowe will play Dr. Watson opposite Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes in director Guy Ritchie's retelling of the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic.
Well, according to Ritchie, it's um...NO!
But honestly, it would have been an interesting cast.
Read the full story here.
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Stephen Sommers, director of the first two "Mummy" films, the upcoming "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra," and "The Jungle Book," is in talks to direct a big screen version of "Tarzan."
Sommers will also co-write the script with Stuart Beattie ("Collateral," the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise and Baz Luhrmanns upcoming "Australia")
And this is surprising to me. I didn't know that two years ago, Guillermo Del Toro was in talks to direct. Now, that's the "Tarzan" I'm anxious to see!
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Big multinationals to calculate European taxes using single rule book under new proposals
Big multinationals will have to calculate their European taxes using a single rule book, under European Commission proposals unveiled on Tuesday.
The plans are aimed at stopping corporations taking advantage of different tax rules across the 28 members of the EU. The Commission plan is for a so called mandatory common tax base for corporations with turnover greater than €750m a year.
"We are proposing a system which can simultaneously support business, attract investors, promote growth and stop large-scale tax avoidance," EU Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said.
The Commission claims the tax plan could boost the EU economy by up to 1.2pc, including saving companies money and cutting down on so called tax avoidance.
But, the plan faces opposition from member states including Ireland that see tax setting as a solely national issue.
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I am very proud of her and very proud of the mother that she's taught me to become. Still, I know that I'll continue to be hit with these waves, especially as life goes on. The waves will crash when Little Bird's typically developing peers get ready for their bar/bat mitzvahs, get driver's licenses, prepare to move out, go to college, get married, start careers, have families of their own, etc. I can go on and on (and I often do around 3am!).
There are a few times of year that my heart breaks and I really ride those waves of chronic grief. Mothers Day is always a rough one for me. It's so hard to hear about the wonderful things the normies do for their moms to celebrate Mothers Day, and to hear the moms who have the parenting experience I wanted so badly share how wonderful it is for them. As a member of the "moms of kiddos with special needs" club, I suffer from what-the-f?-this-isn't-the-kind-of-motherhood-I-signed-up-for-ism. Like I really need another day of the year to be reminded of that one!
So, why torture myself? I'll just stay far, far away from Facebook this Sunday. It's like a thousand postcards showing up from Italy while I'm stuck in Holland. Luckily, the mail doesn't show up on Sundays so I can't get distracted from that sweet, funny, beautiful little tulip of mine.


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The BBC has updated its official BBC Sport app, introducing support for the iPad and Android-powered tablets. The new release also makes usability and stability improvements, and allows those on Android to listen to live radio — including Premier League commentaries.
Samsung Doesn't Just Copy Apple; It's Ripping Off Dyson's Vacuum Cleaners, Too
Samsung has earned quite a name for itself copying Apple's most successful products, but it's not only in smartphones, tablets, computers, and accessories where the South Korean company sources its inspiration from its closest rivals. British manufacturer Dyson is suing Samsung for allegedly ripping off one of its inventions in a new vacuum cleaner that was unveiled at IFA in Berlin last week.
U.K. Children's Show Awards Jony Ive Prestigious "Blue Peter" Badge [Video]
Jony Ive has received a whole host of awards for his design efforts at Apple, but as a life-long fan of children's TV show Blue Peter, none of them may be as special as his latest from the BBC: a gold Blue Peter badge. Apple's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design now joins a list of just 1,000 people awarded with a gold badge, which also includes David Beckham, JK Rowling, and the Queen.
BlackBerry Product Manager Too Terrified And Superstitious To Say The Word 'iPhone'
RIM's European managing director, Stephen Barnes, was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 this morning about the new BlackBerry 10 system and phones coming down the line.
The host of the interview repeatedly asks direct, clear questions about what RIM has learned from Apple's iPhone.
Barnes hilariously refuses to even acknowledge the word iPhone, let alone that RIM has obviously taken several pages from Apple's smartphone book. Even, worse, he sounds scared.
Google And Netflix Want To Destroy AirPlay With DIAL
One of the best things about owning an Apple TV is the ability to share everything on your Mac's screen with the flatscreen in your living room. It works perfectly. If there's video on the Internet that you can't find on one of the Apple TV apps, you don't have to worry about it; you just screen share and enjoy.
Google and Netflix are tired of Apple having all the fun with wireless video streaming between devices, so they've brewed up their own solution to compete with AirPlay. The new protocol is called DIAL, and like Android, it's free and already has some big companies backing it.
BBC iPlayer For iOS Gets Retina Visuals For New iPad, Better Video Playback & More
The BBC has updated its iOS today, finally delivering high-resolutions visuals for the third-generation iPad. It also introduces "improved video performance," better accessibility with VoiceOver controls, and more.
BBC iPlayer Now Rewinds Live TV
BBC has added "Live Restart" to its iPlayer app. This will let Brits hit a button to rewind live TV up to two hours. Thus, if you miss the beginning of a live show you can just skip back to the beginning.
This handily closes the gap between live streaming and the watch-later service that lets you go back and catch TV shows aired in the past two weeks.
BBC Going For The Gold In Olympic Coverage With Custom Built BBC Sport Apps
The BBC is planning to take home the gold in Olympic coverage this year as they prepare to provide live coverage of every London 2012 sport from every venue throughout the day.
"We will be bringing live coverage of every Olympic Sport from every venue, through a combination of BBC One and BBC Three and up to 24 simultaneous streams live online on PC, mobile, tablet or connected TV
BBC has big plans for its various sports apps on both mobile and smartTVs. Custom built BBC Sport apps for Android and iOS will allow users to watch live video on the go and ensure they never miss a moment.
Sherlock Holmes Uses His iPhone To Beam Up To The U.S.S. Enterprise
Benedit Cumberbatch may look like a Reptilian straight out of David Icke's worst nightmares, but he's an incredible actor who not only plays the world's greatest detective in the BBC's surprisingly watchable series Sherlock, but will also play the dragon Smaug in Peter Jackson's upcoming The Hobbit. He also happens, just happens, to be The Most British Man Alive. Oh, and the kind of cool guy who films his audition tapes on an iPhone too, as it turns out.
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Celebrity physicist Brian Cox is famous in the U.K. for making physics accessible to the public through bestselling books and several popular TV series. Now he brings elements of both to a gorgeous new iPad app: Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe ($6.99).
Featuring amazing animations and lush, high-production video, the app will sweep you back in time to witness the Big Bang, and then look ahead to the universe's end, when the last black dwarfs will fizzle away to entropy.
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The apple harvest is looking good this year. You may have heard on the news recently that this year's total crop of commercial English eating apples is expected to be the highest tonnage in more than 20 years, at 160,000 tonnes! We hope your trees are looking bountiful too!
So, how do you really know when your apples are ripe? "The apple will fall when it's ripe" - it's an old country saying but apples don't just fall when they are ripe, as you will see below. There are some quite easy ways to tell when your apples are ripe and ready for pressing, eating or cooking.
Why do apples need to be ripe for pressing?
Using ripe apples for pressing, whether for juice or cider, is important as it maximises flavour and juice yield. It also ensures the full sugar potential of your apples, which is particularly important when you come to fermenting for cider (more on this below!).
When are apples ripe?
Here are a few clues to help you determine whether your apples are ripe and ready to use ...
Apple trees will shed some fruits prematurely usually in June and July as part of the natural fruit thinning process known as 'June Drop' - these apples will be hard, sour and not suitable for anything.
Apples falling during the our typical harvest time in this country (any time from from September to November, depending on a number of other factors!), however, can be a good indicator or ripeness, but there more failsafe methods you can use:
Pip Colour
This is by far the easiest way of determining apple ripeness. Pick a sample apple from the tree and cut it in half. If the apple is ripe the pips should be dark brown. If the pips are pale or just brown then the apples need to stay on the tree for longer. Windfalls should be tested in the same way and only those with dark brown pips should be used for juice and cider making.
Easy Pickings!
You can also tell whether an apple is ripe by the ease in which it can be removed from the tree. Cradle a large fruit in the cup of your hand and gently twist it off the stem. If the apple is ripe it will readily fall into your hand. This is the best way to harvest fruits for storage as they are less likely to be bruised (as windfalls can be) and so will keep better. If you have to pull when picking your apples and/or you are breaking twigs then they are definitely not ready - pulling should be avoided as you can damage the tree and reduce the following year's crop! Fruit picking tools are available to help with picking hard-to-reach apples - see below.
The Variety
Know your apple variety! This will help you to identify the typical time of ripening. This is easier said than done, however, as it is highly likely that your trees weren't planted by you. Apple varieties are either early, mid or late ripeners. Early varieties can ripen as early as July, and late varieties can ripen well into November. Once you know your apple varieties you can find out the likely time of ripening through sites such as a Fruit ID, which includes 23,000 varieties! Remember, however, the variety alone doesn't determine the ripening time - the seasons, the part of the country you live in, and the micro-climate of your orchard and garden will affect ripening times.
If you have no idea what apple varieties you have (and you have the time), you can use Fruit ID to help identify them. Alternatively, Brogdale Collections offer a fantastic fruit identification service for a small fee.
It's generally a good idea to label your trees using a metal label stuck into the soil beside the tree. Producing a named garden plan is also a good idea.
Other Factors to be Aware of!
Remember that apples on a tree may not necessarily be ripe at exactly the same time. Those that are in the sun tend to ripen first.
Never use rotten apples for pressing or making cider out of. The golden rule is that you don't press what you wouldn't want to eat, although for cider making small blemishes won't matter.
Don't be afraid to blend different apple varieties when pressing. All that matters is that the apples are ripe. Our favourite is a blend of cooking and dessert apples, which gives a flavour-packed balance of tanginess and sweetness.
Ripeness is particularly important for cider making. Ripe apples contain the highest sugar levels and it is these sugar levels that will determine the potential alcohol of the finished cider. Andrew Lea, cider and apple juice author, explains how the apple's natural process of converting starch into sugar continues even after falling or being picked from the tree and that it is desirable that this process is complete before fermenting the juice into cider. For this reason, he suggests that apples for cider making are stored for a period of 2 to 4 weeks, and confirms that are ready for crushing when they are 'sufficiently ripe for the thumb to be pushed easily into the fruit'. See 'The Science of Cidermaking' on his excellent Wittenham Hill Cider Portal for more information on cider making. See the How to store your apples section below for guidance on storing.
Picking Tools
To gather up windfalls you can use the Apple Wizard and Flexitub.
To help with picking from the tree, you can use the comfortable Harvesting Bag as its soft but strong construction is gentle on the fruit and it's shoulder straps allows you to keep your hands free for picking - you can also rinse the apples while in the bag!
For apples that are high up and difficult to reach the Wolf Fruit Picker and Telescopic Handle are both ideal, or the stable Orchard Tripod Ladder.
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RIDGEFIELD, Conn., Sept. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Southridge Capital, a diversified financial holding company specializing in direct investment and advisory services to small and middle market companies, is the lead investor in Iconic Brands' BiVi Sicilian Vodka, which has partnered with Chazz Palminteri, the legendary actor best known for "A Bronx Tale," his 1990 one-man show and 1993 film about life growing up in the New York City borough.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third year in a row, relocation management provider Global Mobility Solutions (www.gmsmobility.com) has earned top placement on HRO Today's Baker's Dozen Customer Satisfaction Survey. In their 2016 survey of the relocation management industry, HRO Today rated Global Mobility Solutions as the second best overall relocation management provider in the industry. As the largest customer survey of its kind, the Baker's Dozen has become one of the industry's most trusted talent management resources. You can find the complete survey results here.
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Everyday I like msu more and more. At this rate, given my extreme hatred towards them, I won't be a fan for about 10,000 years, but this upcoming season, I am afraid, is going to see the attendance record drop under 100,000 an after that, what will we have?
and we are installing Wi-Fi in stadiums across the country - professional and NCAA. The demand is there and teams are creating apps for their fans. We did the whole campus for Stanford, including the iCardinal app.
Sprint installed Wi-Fi at NASCAR stadiums, but you have to have a Sprint device to use it. Fans are not happy if they have service from another carrier. Most stadium Wi-Fi services are open to any device.
There will be a segment of the Michigan in-stadium fans that will like this added feature. However, the a portion of ticket price from non-Wi-Fi users will be used to pay for this service.
This is very disturbing.
When Fielding Yost designed Michigan Stadium, he just wasn't thinking about the Internet and bandwidth," Brandon said. "We know that what our customers want is the ability to be able to sit there and be able to surf the web and call up replays and do all of the things they can do in their armchair at home
No, Dave. Nobody gives a shit about replays. Nobody cares about donuts, piped-in music, Kraft noodles or the WOW factor. People care about winning football games.
I don't want customers in Michigan Stadium. I want fans.
Not hard to see how this guy ran a pizza company.......into the ground.
I'm pretty sure we've been customers since the Big House was built in 1927. It wasn't until recently that we realized we're customers.
Said something to the effect that 90,000 people paid $X for their seats. And that the best part was that they left their seats behind when they exited the stadium.
Michigan Stadium has always had customers.
are priceless. If you always look at them as customers--the corporate POV--you risk losing them as fans. Making them fans is sometimes the work of generations. Treating them as mere customers risks losing them very quickly.
Looking at every single feature of human life through an economic prism is a relatively recent development. A tragic one.
I logged in to upvote you. I have worked in mental health facilities for the past 12 years. The focused used to be on patient care. Now the focus is on maximizing revenue streams. I understand that money makes the world go round, but it seems that business interests trump all other interests these days. It is sad.
desperate people to keep away from suicide; they just keep going up. His company provides a function that the state once did. They recently told him he can no longer bring clients a cup of coffee when they're upset--cost-cutting measure.
A random note (downvote me if you must for going off-topic), but in regards to sammylittle's comment on patients on healthcare facilities, I strongly recommend one watches the new HBO show "Getting On". One of the main themes is the Supervising Nurse treats as patients as "customers" and obviously a lot of the nurses rightfully dislike that. I also may mention it is a hilarious show and I am usually very picky with comedies.
As a Michigan MBA . . . I still agree with you. Not everything should be a business transaction. There is an appropriate time and place.
Do our linebackers veiw everyone they see as somebody to be tackled?
to upvote you as well.
Recently I have been wondering if maybe this signals the beginning of the dystpoian futures we have all read about over the years. Perhaps it's not the computers becoming self aware, or actually taking over, but since we can now quantify millions of data points, see everything on a spreadsheet and sqeeze every last nickel out of everything from football fans to employees, we are basically being "optimized" for someone else's benefit.
Or, I may just have too much free time.
and the ironic part about it, is that if you treat customers/fans with respect and don't treat them that way, they'll be more loyal with you in the long-term and spend more money in subsequent seasons. The problem with Brandon sometimes is that (as with many business owners) their thoughts are only on the short term.
...with your point. I was simply noting that there has always been a significant financial motivation to Michigan football. The issue, as you rightly note, is that we appear to have crossed the line from "great thing I'm happy to support financially and that I have sincere and longstanding emotional ties to" to "mediocre, commoditized marketing blitz wrapped around that thing I love like a throbbing leech." I still love that thing I love, but I desperately want to remove the leech.
I'm a fifth generation grad with a family that has owned tickets in Michigan Stadium every year it has been open. Literally.
Both my grandfathers and my dad were varsity athletes at Michigan. One of those grandfathers made at least 1 home game at UM every year from 1918-2008 (age 6 to age 96).
I attended my first UM football game at age 2.5, and attended religiously until I moved a long plane flight away, and even then, I made at least 2 games per year, even when I lived in London.
I guess what I'm saying is that our family reasonably qualifies as "fans" rather than simply customers.
That said, I have to agree with your point re the corporate POV costing you "customers," if my own family is any indication over the past 2 years:
1. I've personally had season tickets since 2000 (5 years out of undergrad, when I finally got off the waitlist - that thing that no longer exists), and in the past 2 seasons, cut my season ticket purchase from 6 to 2.
2. My brother gave up his 2 season tickets.
3. My dad cut his season tickets from 2 to 4.
All told, our family went from 12 to 4 tickets in 2013.
Our development officer in the athletic department called us 24 hours after the deadline to ask what was up, and we gave him an earful about value for money, gouging the ticketholders and the "brand experience" destroying the uniqueness of attending a Michigan football game. It feels more contrived and less authentic every year.
We then turned around and gave our PSD money to (1) the Engineering school (Dad's degrees); (2) the Ed School (mom's 2nd degree); (3) LS&A (my BA, mom's BA, brother's BA); (4) the business school (my MBA); and (5) the debate program.
We made quite clear that our money (beyond our remaining 4 tix) isn't coming back to the AD until they stop gouging for inferior experience. Said we'd be quite happy spending our money on the secondary market to acquire tickets for games we'd actually like to see, but that, in essence, our loyalty to Michigan football was being commoditized, exploited, and taken for granted.
I have 3 kids. I would love for them to grow up with the same sort of Michigan athletics experience I had as a kid, but it doesn't really exist anymore.
is way too vague of a term when dealing with a topic this complex.
You'll also notice he never mentioned "X number of wins" as being paramount to the experience.
I'm one of the biggest Dave Brandon supporters on here.
What he's done for the other sports far outweighs the bad he's done here. This athletic campus is going to be just.....I mean, something that I've been raving about for months. It's like we're seeing the building of a nation or something. Absolutely incredible to the point where Michigan will be a national contender yearly in every sport. Simply too good to say no to.
What I don't understand is the athletic department trying to make every football game "a mini Super Bowl". The WOW factor. All this stuff is not needed.
I guess I'm just too simple for this day and age. All I want is to have a couple of normal priced hotdogs & drinks and watch the game.
In the era of high-def TV and 24-hour coverage, the athletic department feels that they have to provide more than the game itself, in order to compete for viewers. In other words, what can they do to make sure that going to the game itself is better than staying at home and watching it there?
Maybe it's a necessary line of thought and maybe it's not, but the fact is that all over the country student sections are getting emptier and emptier, far too much to be an outlier. If you're an AD executive, that's a worrying trend, and you start trying things to reverse it.
...it's all about creating an experience that brings casual fans - the family of four from Grand Rapids - to Ann Arbor for the game.
I always thought the big selling point of watching Michigan football in Michigan Stadium was watching Michigan play football in Michigan Stadium. Perhaps Dave Brandon's concern is that watching Michigan play football in Michigan Stadium these days is not a very rewarding experience.
My oldest child (the 2 younger ones are not quite ready for football) does not require a mascot, a noodle, WiFi, Special K, etc. to love Michigan football, and neither did the last generation.
I don't think anyone minds the idea of wifi in the stadium. I think they're pissed because Brandon thinks that's THE reason ticket demand is down, not the increased prices, lame schedule or lack of success on the field. If he said, "fans aren't buying tickets until we win more games," I bet the board would be more likely to agree with him.
I know that I like having replays and so does my family. I am short, so sometimes I miss what happened and they don't replay everything in the staduim. We had a fan vision, but they stopped supporting it last season. It was great, you could get replays, stats, great plays from other games.
So, I guess DB is doing this for me.
Calm down Beavis!
You, my friend, need to get out more ... enjoy your youth, run, play, try to get laid -- take it from someone who knows, it is VERY fleeting. Reading your posts is not only depressing, but it saddens me to know that you're nothing but a young buck and you have so much worry and angst stemming from Michigan football.
What's going to happen to you when you're 40 with a wife, kids, mortgage, two car payments, health insurance, etc.?
Maybe it's time to find something else of which to be a devotee, ya think?
"What's going to happen to you when you're 40 with a wife, kids, mortgage, two car payments, health insurance, etc.?"
I think he turns into me. That should scare some perspective back into him.
This is very similar to the difference between leadership and management. They aren't the same thing and being good at one doesn't mean you're good at the other. Dave seems to be a good manager (arguable, I'm sure) but very poor at leadership.
I wish they treated us more like customers. Customers patronize businesses until they feel like they get better value elsewhere and leave. Loyalty generally goes as far as it is earned. Fans, on the other hand, are fiercely loyal and often line up at the trough no matter how badly a team treats them.
Not every revenue source needs to be tapped, especially when it's almost always at the burden of your greatest resource, your fans.
Having said all that, improving internet access is a big deal and will improve the experience of attending most games, particularly the shit games where you'd almost rather be at home watching a more interesting game.
I have many issues with DB, not the least of which is manifest here. Because of my job I have been involved with making decisions that would impact a great deal of people. This ususally comes during the development of policy and procedures that will have to be carried out by other people and adherence to those polices/procedures is imperative.
When you are in a position where success is dependent upon numerous stakeholders, you get input from those stakeholders during the developmental stages. If you fail to do this, you put the success of the project in jeopardy.
What I have seen from DB since he walked on campus those years ago is a guy who "knows best". No one can tell him anything and he's shown that he doesn't value the opinion or desires of the fans whatsoever. In each and every email I have seen, he has responded to fans in a condescending way, basically asking how dare they question his decision making.
If he really cared about this program and it's fans he would have sought the input of the fans. whether that be through questionnaires or some other medium, there are plenty of very quick and easy methods of gathering information that he could have utilized. Instead what does he do? Make changes he feels are appropriate with no attempt to determine what people reallly want.
The problem with this is DB doesn't really represnt the average UM fan. This means he may sometimes get things right (like in this instance, it certainly seems like people would enjoy having this), but many times he'll miss the mark. Heck, given the choice many would probably live without wi-fi if they had a choice between that and lower ticket price. But how could anyone actually know that??? Oh yeah right....ask them.
Dan Brandon: The Man Who Knows Something, what exactly that something is remains to be seen.
Bo said Mr. Brandon should run for governor , I agree. Get the fuck out of the AD's office Dave.
He just needs to start working on the bag man network. than we can worry about internet
If he ran for governor and lost it would make me one of the happiest people out there.
Meaning the majority of this board is not going to read because we do not give clicks to that site.
Feel free to summarize and then seperate your opinion paragraph from the link because right now it looks like you're summarizing the link --- but you're not.
No one understands your rant if they don't read your link...but people will read your rant thinking it's a summary of the link. When they realize that it's not they will be frustrated and downvote you.
You may also want to go as far as to say FREEP: (Title of the article)....because your current title tells you nothing about the article and then when you click it, you tell us nothing about the article in your rant. Plenty of people will want to know what the answer that Brandon has, but there is no way of finding out without clicking the link....that many people don't want to click.
Just a heads up. #MGoBlog
It's pretty hard to avoid if it's your local paper. Detroit News is okay, but I found the Free Press' bankruptcy coverage to be more up todate, more informative and they did a ton of digging for for information. Really a great job.
The title is trolling for clicks...and it really does go against board rules.
I'm not a native Michigander, and am not too familiar with newspapers in Detroit. What's the story on the Free Press? Why don't people here read it?
I don't see the issue here. The OP is sort of mixing 2 issues. People want broadband at the stadium for the cell phones if we played Bama, FSU, USC, and Stanford, or if we played a bunch of...well next year's schedule. The schedule issue and price issue are their own situations. If the bad schedule drives the athl dept to do the broadband quicker, then I guess it's a tiny silver lining. They have not had to worry about these things for decades since they always sell out and have 10s of thousands on the waiting list. Based on Brian's story last week they had 8% (or slightly less) non renewals which I found a staggering figure and eventually you run out of waiting list. So the fire is lit I am sure under everyone's seat, including Brandon.
I do agree with WolDevotee above on the word customers - sounds bad. How about our fans or our fanbase Dave? I mean it *is* all about branding.
And bottom line if we went 12-0 with a typical Wisconsin schedule people wouldnt complain about the schedule THAT much. The fact we are mediocre for quite a few years now is exposing a lot of other fissures.
so i can finally get around to watching Treme
Some people (a lot of people, let's be honest) could never really get into Treme. I wasn't one of them. If you have love for New Orleans and/or music, you'll love it. If you like interesting stories, you'll merely like it and watch all of its episodes. Underrated show, IMO.
and then i can dive in to like 5 straight episodes.
People would complain less but it wouldn't go away. OSU's schedule was a joke last year and while they were winning everything their fans were still not happy about ticket prices vs schedule quality.
If I am a customer let me just say that the athletic department has terrible customer service then...Boom! Roasted!
You know I think the best thing about the Michigan Stadium experience the last few years has been the lack of "lol Michigan" texts you can receive there.
for the liveblog if this happens??
Freep article. Dave Brandon. Two week old quotes. Should make for an entertaining morning.
They are daring you to bring out your unicorn...
Wait this isn't the Wolverine Liberation Army?
I know of a place where Dave can put an antenna.
We can put a man on the moon, but we can't put wifi in the big house?
nor can we build ships with 16" guns or 12 inch armor plate anymore.
I read somewhere that the race to the moon cost us 5% of the US government budget for much of the 60's. Of course we did get tang and space food sticks out of it.
To paraphrase JFK:
We choose wifi. Why go to the moon? Why does Michigan play App State. We choose wifi in this decade and the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard!
What Brandon says is probably true. At the end of the season, all of the season ticket holders take a survey to say what they want to see improved as part of the stadium experience, and I'm guessing WiFi availability was very high on the list.
Do we really have to complain about everything Brandon does? Maybe the students aren't showing up early because once they get in the stadium, they won't be able to share selfies on facebook?
Is this like a multiple choice what would you like to see improved: A) Nothing; B) wifi; C) More Piped in Music.
I just don't ever remember wanting to check my phone during a game.
but I'm betting there are plenty of people who do.
Aren't they worried that people checking their phone will dampen the atmosphere and allow for people to be less enthused about the game in front of them?
I don't know how serious these comments are but (and I say this as a middle aged man now) there seems to be a major disconnect between generations. The typical 13 to 28 year old (I don't know the exact ages) has their cell phone as an extension of their hand. Flipping through apps during a football game would be second nature - these are people who can text without looking at the phone and will send messages to people 5 feet away rather than walking over to talk to them. I am sure they are doing other things on those phones that I have no idea about as well.
People make it sounds like old foggies (in this case 29 years old and above) stare straight ahead in rapt attention for 3 hours without swiveling their head other than to watch the band. Being "mobile" for that age group is like "talking" for us "old" folks. So what is immaterial to X age group is probably pretty vital to a group that has only known life with mobile electronics being second nature to their breathing.
Sometimes I wonder if the people complaining about WiFi in the stadium also want the live blogs on this site shut down. After all, if you're typing something in or reading other posts, you aren't paying full attention to the game!
When the commercial breaks are 6 minutes a pop, they want to do something.
+1 insightful.
Actually something like that. The survey basically asked about it in 2 ways. The first, they basically ask you how strongly you agree with a statement like "WiFi access is very important to my gameday experience." The second, they will list like 10 topics, plus an area to add "Other", and then ask you to rank them in order of importance to you. It actually does include things like "Music selection" and "Concessions".
that we can field an offensive line that isn't such a f*cking sieve.
We also need to collectively remember that we (read: rabid fans) aren't necessarily a perfect cross section of Michigan's total fan base. For every one of us that wants to listen only to the band and the sound of our offensive line literally running over an Ohio player, there are 10 freshmen who really couldn't care less.
This seems like a way to keep the majority of those who purchase tickets happy and also to appease the students (future season ticket buyers) who have been none too impressed with the football experience and AD in recent years.
I hate him as AD. He was a really good pizza CEO. Engineered their massive turnaround.
Not really... the new stuff at Domino's sort of came after he left.
Not to nitpick but from a capital return perspective Dave did poorly - the stock came IPO in 2004 at $14 - when he left in 2009/2010 stock was $10ish. That's not good. It did get as high as the $30s in 2007 before crashing, and got as low as I think $3 at the nadir of the financial crisis. It is now near $80 for perspective.
I guess one could in theory argue that developments after he left in 2011-2012 were due to groundwork he laid but it would be a reach. The next CEO brought out a lot of ideas outside of 'branding'.
Ok in that case, good on him - its a shame he didnt do these things 5 years earlier when he could have benefited and looked a lot better to his shareholder base, because the timing of these initiatives to the public came around the time of the new CEO. Anyhow let's just say there was alot of stagnation at Domino's for the majority of Brandon's 11 years. From the story I linked re: the IPO the business was stagnant/shrinking 5 year into his watch:
Domino's reported net income of $39 million on sales of $1.33 billion in 2003, a 36% decline from net income of $60.5 million on sales of $1.28 billion in 2002. First-quarter 2004 net income was $18.4 million, nearly half of Domino's total for all of 2003.
I think this was already covered, but he led that turnaround and only left for Michigan after it was well underway. I think he was even in some of the earily ads?
Yeah it was stagnant, but you can say that about a lot of businesses that have a decent market share and then sit on what they have (cough cough GM) while the competition gets better.
What I do not get...... is how this accomplished business person totally does not understand Michigan, the sport, or the fans.
Having worked in public companies and exposed to upper management and having worked with (and being an entrepreneur) I think the term business person can mean very different things and people too easily interchange various personality types/strengths/weaknesses under a broad title.
Taking over Exxon Mobile which is going to do better if oil is $110 a barrel versus $85 no matter what the hell you do, is very different than trying to say grow Chipotle's as a concept 8 years ago. Or even your local mom and pop. A Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or Steve Jobs is a very different type of CEO than a Brandon or 100s of other similar Fortune 500 type CEOs are like. And frankly CEOs are just like the rest of us - there is a bell curve; there are great, good, average, poor, and plain awful ones.
So what you're saying is that Dominos won with Dave Brandon's players after he left?
After he engineered the long decline. He was the CEO for at least ten years before the "we're sorry our pizza sucks" campaign.
Damn....every time football is brought up I cant help but think "Wow. we are in the shitter". And now, we dont even have basketball anymore.
This sucks...
Oh hush. Basketball will be just fine. Every year there are questions and every year Beilein has answered them. With banners!
(it seemed like this post really required all caps)
I feel like it's only a mattter of time before we have to give up the "no advertisements" thing. Judging by the sluggish ticket sales, I think that the amount of money that can be milked out of fans without advertising has probably peaked, and costs will continue to go up.
My opposition to advertising is based on the fact that I don't trust the AD to do advertising well. I'm worried that it will turn into a minor league baseball environment rather quickly.
You mean we could get a puffy taco kicking field goals !?!?! That would be awesome!
Don't be silly
It will be a stuffed pizza.
I wouldn't trust Brandon, but I think that it has been done in other college stadiums OK. I have been to OSU and LSU games and they have had advertisements for a while, and the atmosphere and experience don't seem to suffer.
May be in the minority but i really like Dave Brandon as AD. He doesn't do everything i would like but i can appreciate an AD that wants UM to win and do it with a little style and swagger.
I personally am neutral on him but I do see a lot of dislike of him here. But this is a different crowd than "random UM fan". Things like skywriting over a rival's stadium when you have lost to them 4 out of 5 years (hey maybe we save that for a period where we can score a TD on their defense more than once every three years?), and not sending the band to Dallas until the public outcry became enormous are just bad optics. I am sure he does some good and bad things - like any AD. And if the football team was in competition for Big 10 championships annually he'd look like a genius due to RR / Hoke / Beilein. In that world, he could do his cute branding stuff in the corner out of the spotlight.
But football is what drives the athletic dept, perception and dollars.
Besides the skywriting, I don't mind anything else.
1. He also stupidly scheduled a rematch of the Appalachian State game, which will give us at least a week of embarrassing PR, and nothing else. He probably did that out of some airheaded belief that we would benefit from the "hype".
2. He let the program twist in the wind between the 2010 OSU game and the few days after the bowl game, during which the 2011 recruiting class came apart at the seams. It was widely perceived at the time that the reason why there appeared to be no public coaching search was because we had inked some sort secret backroom deal for Harbaugh. This perception was largely the result of the belief that no athletic director could possibly be stupid enough to not be looking for a coach at the time. Turns out, Dave Brandon really is that stupid. Dave Brandon's "process" was utterly moronic. People have forgotten about this -- specifically, how the lack of public action was perceived as a sign that we had Harbaugh in the bag, because the alternative was unthinkable.
3. When the UM-OSU game was being seriously talked about being moved to October, my memory of that time is that Brandon was surpringly indifferent to it.
4. He let the program get fucked over by making us play at MSU two years in a row. My guess is that he didn't offer a peep of protest over it. I guarantee you no other major athletic director would ever let this happen.
5. I think that it was maybe a few years ago that he also publicly expressed a desire to have a mascot so that little kids would be interested.
That is just what I can think of off the top of my head.
Using the timetable established by his Dominos tenure, he'll start the "We're sorry our athletic department sucks" campaign in 2010.
Don't forget the student seating debacle last football season or the PSL system (I don't understand what a PSL is but ppl seem to be upset by it).
Does this mean I can fire up my twitter account again just to hashtag #FireBrandon? #FireBorges seemed to work.
I like it the way the rest of the board like GoT.... House of Cards is pretty good as well.
edit... Sorry.... was trying to respond to Mr. Wellborne above.
Exactly what i expected from this board. In the past, there have been complaints from Brian and many others about the lack of connectivity in the stadium making it impossible to post or follow the game on twitter, to get more information when a confusing play happens, etc. So an article appears with Brandon recognizing the issue and saying they are trying to address it...and instead of agreeing the people on board attack him as with everything. Picking apart his quote in order to make it sound like he thinks wifi is the only thing Michigan fans want is dishonest and pathetic..but not surprising from the board. It seems like there is competition to who can slam Brandon the most. At least the athletes (especially non-revenue sports) love him for all the improvements and facility upgrades he has been moving forward.
The original poster exemplifies this the best..the title "DAVE BRANDON HAS THE ANSWER"...the premise about how this shows how much he is out of touch with reality...Huh? Because Dave Brandon is trying to fix something that his customers have identified as an issue, that makes him out of touch with reality???
Seems like every place one goes anymore there is someone bitching about the poor wifi service to the hapless waiter/bartender/hair dresser/auto mechanic/etc
I can see it now in the football stadium, one hundred thousand people groaning at the same time because the internet is down. But what a rush when they all cheer at it's return!
Went to my sons ball game this past weekend. 2 observations. Only one other parent besides myself offered to help and the rest of them were on their phones the whole time. I said "you know your kids are playing right". I am now the bad guy for speaking up.
At my daughter's preschool, parents have to volunteer a couple times a month to assist in the classroom. About a month ago, the school sent out an email asking assist parents to please stop using phones while assisting. I couldn't believe the parents needed to be told, please interact with the kids while you are there to interact with the kids. Amazing.
So the ''Oh stop being an old fart! People these days are just different!'' crowd really are wrong huh? Thought so. People have no idea how to socialize anymore and it IS because of unlimited texting and the fact that cell phones are now small computers. I hate it. For the record I'm only 20.
From the comment section in Freep article:
Well, we have heard constant complaining about the $295 price for student tickets. For 7 games, that makes it $42.15 per ticket so for a section of the crowd that probably really cares about the WIFI, it does exist.
I'm glad they are finally working on this. I try to use my phone often while in the stadium and it's useless. I used to think they purposely blocked the signal to prevent any terrorist attack
I just want to be able to afford tickets and not see the seats in the row next to mine go for sometimes 50% of what I paid. DB can take his dynamic pricing and PSL's and shove it up his anus.
haven't Ace and Brian bitched about the poor Wi-Fi in the stadium? Now everyone is pissed because Brandon is trying to fix that. Whatever. If Rich Rod was flying in from Arizona to install the antennae, everyone here would fucking nut themselves with joy.
If Dave Brandon wants to refer to us as his "customers" then he better be working his ass off to improve the product.
Night games are cool, fireworks are neat, laser light shows are fun, etc. but at the end of the day it comes down to winning football games, as it always has.
To him the only thing that matters is $$$$$$. Just read that every seat in the stadium will have a small sponsor on it
Man, Dave Brandon can't win with you people. All he is doing here is providing a solution to a problem that has been identified by the average fan (even Brian has commented on lack of connectivity in the stadium). Do I feel the need to be connected 24/7? No, but I can certainly see how this could improve the gameday experience for others while not being detrimental to my own. This is a no lose proposition and is met with mostly venom. It's beginning to feel like Brandon could host a group of cancer survivors on the field at halftime and the response here would be "Fuck Dave Brandon! This won't make our O-line any better, he is just pushing the brand somemore!" BTW, Dave Brandon is 0% responsible for our bad O-line.
Do I agree with everything Brandon has done? Certainly not, I don't like the slow march towards commercials in the stadium and the Dallas-band fiasco was embarassing. I wish he were more hands off with the football team, because it does feel like he's more of a head hancho than Hoke. I am concerned about the high prices. I don't blame him for trying to maximize profits, this is a capitalist country after all. However, I think he (and most of college football) are sitting squarely on a bubble that is one economic downturn or another bad season away from collapsing. He is already seeing that with the slow student sales and lower season ticket renewal rate. These are legitimate concerns but I'm capable of having them without reacting to literally everything Brandon does with "Fuck Dave Brandon!"
Isn't that people don't want WiFi. They do. I know I'd enjoy it. Ths issue is is that WiFi is a small item on peoples' wish lists.
If you do a poll asking people "would you like free guac on your burritos," 96% would say "of course I want free guac" (the other 4% are immediately deported as communists/terrorist/commuterrorists). But if you ask them to name the BIGGEST issues facing the country, very few would name "lack of complimentary guac."
Pretty much everyone would like WiFi. But it seems like a fix to something other than then primary problems.
Well, for starters I love guacamole but not on my burrito.
Secondly, people are bitching about the price and the product. Brandon can't really do much about the team. The price, maybe it can be lowered a bit. I don't know -- the money is going back into the athletic programs and school -- it's not like it's going to faceless shareholders.
it's not like it's going to faceless shareholders.
True, but a large part of it is going to faceless bureaucrats dedicated to insuring their own job security.
As C. Northcote Parkinson noted -
"in bureaucratic organizations, the number of people required to do the work will continually rise whether the actual volume of work stays the same, increases, decreases or disappears."
Well given the plans in place for the athletic campus as a whole, I'd say they're doing a pretty good job, don't you think?
My problem in a nutshell is that Brandon is a meddler.
The guy presides over a world class/world famous athletic dept., one of the few that are easily in the black, with a mind numbingly large budget . . . and he can't fucking leave it alone.
Seriously, this a place where your uber rich alumni are donating business schools, indoor fieldhouses, quarter of a BILLION dollar stadium renovations, and he's fucking around with curly fries and macaroni noodles?! WTF?!
Schmooze your big donors, count your cash like scrooge mcDuck and call it a day.
By all accounts Dave Brandon does a great job keeping the Bill Martin $ train rolling along, and that's got to be at least 1/3 of your job. Make some good coaching hires, and build some facilities when needed and thats it. End of job description.
I might be wrong in my estimates, but I would think that TV contracts, Alumni donations, athletic apparel agreements & PSD/ticket sales are probably at least 90% of your budget income. Other than ego, why is Dave Brandon messing aroiund with small-time fringe advertising, mascots, skywriting, dicking around with the band & other traditions?
Because he's a meddler; an egotistical meddler that tripled his marketing budget & staff immediatley after becoming AD and now they are in a desperate search for a WOW experience to justify it all.
What I find so laughable, is that he seems to be trying to create a sterile bland, NFL-like game day experince, while simultaneously employing minor league baseball-like tactics and gimmicks. That disconnect, coupled with the endless PR speak comes off as pretty sleazy sometimes. Michigan just doesn't need these tactics, $ arms race or not.
You can be a good CEO and a "shitty pizza salesman" at the same time.
Honestly, free WIFI is great, it's just about 10 years late and with everything going on with the program right now seems like little more than an itty bitty bandaid applied to a bloody stump.
Well given the plans in place for the athletic campus as a whole, I'd say they're doing a pretty good job, don't you think?
Not especially.
The Crisler upgrade was necessary.
The stadium upgrade should have never featured boxes.
The Indoor Track Building upgrade is necessary - but the moving of the track complex and the paving over of Ferry Field for more parking lot is a travesty.
...and as they've increased AD staffing, net operating revenue has been stagnant to slightly reduced.
There's only one problem that needs to be addressed and that is what the brand is, which is great football, supported by the winged helmets, block M, and maize and blue. Nothing else matters. And because Dave Brandon seems to have little control over the product on the field, he has to try to affect those things that he does have control over because he's not going to sit there and do nothing. That's marketing/advertising 101. Products come out all the time that are genuinely shitty, but that doesn't stop the companies from marketing the heck out of them with huge ad dollars and multi-media platforms. People may buy a shitty product once, but no amount of great advertising, coupons, or enticing in-store promotions can get someone to come back if the product disappoints.
As hard as he may try, Dave Brandon cannot market his way out of this problem. That said, I do appreciate the wifi.
Not the biggest issue facing the country? Says you, Mister. Are you aware that there is, evidently, an avocado shortage because of the drought in California? I'd say that's damned urgent right there.
I understand what you're saying BiSB, but what baffles me is that this relatively minor (and positive) announcement has lead to yet another AD bashing thread. This news has no relation to how good the team will be in the fall or how high ticket prices will be, which are 2 biggest problems for most people. The appropriate response should be either "That's nice, now I can check my phone during games" or "Couldn't care less." Instead, its mostly "AHH, Dave Brandon said something! Let me remind everyone how much I hate him!"
I think my general distaste for what Brandon is doing here is acting like these are the major issues for the gameday experience. If we lose every game, not even lightening fast wifi will want to make me pay for tickets.
What do you see as the primary problems they should be fixing? Not trying to be difficult, I'm genuinely curious.
Thank you. It's like DB can't do anything right on this board. I defend him a ton on here (and I don't always agree 100% with what he's done, but I generally like the guy).
You're the one out of touch. In the last year I've gotten 3 surveys on football tickets, their prices and what I want in my Michigan football experience. They're not pulling these ideas out of their asses. They've done legitimate market research and know what will bring more people to games. If Brandon thinks that more wi-fi will get more fans in the stands then it's because there's substantial evidence that says it will. But then there's little you sitting in front of his computer, never having taken an econometrics, statistics or economics course in his life and thinking he knows better than much more substantially paid people with MBAs.
I'll take his thoughts over yours
Mascot in waiting
Will that work?
and all I can say is man, you guys complain a lot.
The team just needs to win games. That's on Hoke, not Brandon. I don't think these gimmicks are necessary (I don't care about wifi). The only thing that should drive you to watching at home on TV is increased prices for a mediocre product.
Hey Dave Brandon
Where is Dave Brandon selling $65 tickets?!
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