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Peppers at 10, which seems low.
Unverified Voracity Has Glowing Green Eye
Ex-Harbaugh staffer: 'A great white shark, mouth open, staring at you'
That's from a longer profile he wrote in May on the often-inscrutable Harbaugh. I referenced this yesterday, but whenever these things happen I think about a Nietzsche quote despite never having read any Nietzsche. You see, there was this science-fiction Civ game called Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and when you got one of the techs it always said this at you:
Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under. I love those who do not know how to live, for they are those who cross over.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche ,"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
Pretentious! But sometimes Harbaugh does not know how to live, like when he's on a national radio show and the preening show host starts in by asking him if he's ever soft. The vision of masculinity presented by Cowherd is so disorienting to him that his mind goes blank in terror*.
The good news is that Harbaugh can now enact the Thought Control government form. So he's got that going for him.
*[Just as I recoil at the arrogant bro-dom presented by Jim Rome.]
More Harbaugh. Face time in the 1993 Rose Bowl.
Doesn't say much there, either.
Yes, please. The NCAA may be slightly loosening its tie when it comes to the NBA draft:
Under the proposal, which was a coordinated effort by the NCAA, the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the NBA, underclassmen would be allowed to attend the Chicago pre-draft combine in May, get evaluated by team personnel and given a true reading on their draft status. The players would then be able to decide if they wanted to stay in the draft or return to school. They couldn't sign with an agent, though.
The current draft rules don't allow a player to return to college once he officially declares for the NBA draft. The NBA would still have an early entry deadline of late April and an official withdrawal date of 10 days before the draft, as per the collective bargaining agreement. But the NCAA would then have its own withdrawal date moved up from the week after the Final Four to sometime in mid-to-late May.
That last sentence is confusingly worded and should be "moved back". This is progress of a sort—the kind of progress that takes you back to about eight years ago when this was the standard. College coaches hated it because they didn't know who would go and who would stay when the late signing period—which also starts about week after the Final Four—began. So they changed it. Now they might change it back.
Anything that acknowledges the reality of the NBA and NFL is a good change. This one is a bit half-hearted, and it seems like it's flirting with disaster to make this change without delaying the late signing period. Kid signs, other kid decides to return: whoops. You know that's going to happen.
The best solution here is draft and follow.
Exposure to price. When people start talking about the inevitable cable unbundling that is coming, they often make this calculation: if only X percent of people would get ESPN and ESPN costs Y amount of money, then ESPN is going to cost Y * (1 / X) dollars. That's a lot of dollars! Bet you don't want unbundling now! An example:
So you'd think a standalone ESPN app, with all their channels, would cost around the same [as Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc.]. As Lee Corso would say, not so fast. ESPN's perceived value and what the network actually needs to sustain their business model are vastly different.
One industry source I spoke to believes ESPN would have to charge sports fans at least $30 a month for an a la carte version of the networks to offset lost cable subscriber fees and advertising. MoffettNathanson Research believes Disney would have to charge $36.30 a month for ESPN to achieve the same level of reach it enjoys today.
At this point, we've reached a similar structure to European television. Channels such as Sky Sports, which carries popular properties like the English Premiere League, are not part of the basic service and run at $40 a month for the family of networks. Sky Sports even offers "day passes" for roughly $15. While hardcore American sports fans can justify similar prices here in the States, casual fans will balk and just catch the big event games on over-the-air networks.
But as taxi drivers and music labels and newspapers have found out, the internet tends to erode comfortable perches from which you can rake in piles of dough. ESPN has the advantage of still being a monopoly, but if the product was the only reason you could charge Y dollars you would not be able to get every song ever made for ten dollars a month.
The existence of Sling TV, which has ESPN and ESPN 2 and 18 other channels besides, for 20 bucks, is plenty of evidence that ESPN cannot reach that price point—and probably will not even try. Sky is a very different business model because the thing that is by far their main attraction, soccer, is virtually ad-free. You get some signage in the stadium, shirt sponsors, and halftime when everyone goes to the bathroom and gets a snack. That's it. The prime reason American sports keep spiraling in value (and can no longer fit in their assigned time slots) is that they are much more amenable to commercial breaks. Sky is trying to maximize its revenue; ESPN's attempt to maximize its revenue is going to come in much lower because 1) Americans are going to balk at the 40 dollar price and 2) advertisers want the eyeballs ESPN can deliver so very badly.
ESPN is currently subsidized by a lot of people who do not care about sports. When the internet is television, that goes away—and it does not necessarily get replaced one for one.
This is why adding Maryland and especially Rutgers was folly. In the near future the only people who get the Big Ten Network are going to be people interested in the Big Ten. They will no longer be able to snatch a dollar from the pocket of every cable subscriber in New Jersey who is a Tulane man. This is going to happen in ten years, at which point whatever short-term revenue gain will be spent, Jim Delany will have his bonus, and the Big Ten will be stuck with a couple of teams nobody cares about.
[HT: Get The Picture.]
Sauce relocates. Nik Stauskas is traded to the 76ers for… uh… stuff?
Many in Philadelphia wanted Stauskas last year. Now, 12 months later, Hinkie got him, a 1st rd pick, and 2 pick swaps for basically nothing.
— Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) July 2, 2015
Stauskas had a rough first year in the NBA in a terrible situation, but that's awful quick to give up on a guy and dump him with some terrible contracts in exchange for cap space. Like the Pistons giving away a first round pick to be done with Ben Gordon, the main "asset" Sacramento acquired was the ability to not have Carl Landry on their cap any more. So they could go sign more free agents. Someone try to rip the face off the Kings GM just in case it's Joe Dumars.
Only incompetent Germans. Louisville's new helmet is… this…
Which I kind of like for an Arena League team. Of the future. Playing a life and death game against octopus space nazis.
Here is a conveniently-timed article titled "Adidas: Sports Apparel Laughingstock."
The old recruiting ghost story. Willie Williams has been revisited. It is a funny and sad story, one that you've probably heard before. Apropos of little, here is former Florida Gator on his trip to Penn State:
As if that story wasn't juicy enough, Crowder spoke of his visit to Penn State as a recruit, which was "the worst."
"They sit me in a room with two bottles of Mad Dog 20/20 Banana Red," Crowder said. "They say 'drink these, we're gonna go out.' Okay, I get all feeling good. We walk out of the door, go down two doors and go back into an apartment and it's four big white girls sitting there and me. Big ole white girls. Talkin' about 250."
Crowder no doubt said his decision was all about the academics.
Here's this! It is a show featuring a bunch of Michigan guys, one a former walk-on QB under Moeller, and an mgoshirt.
It appears it is still looking for a home. If you are a TV executive, adopt it maybe.
Etc.: Here is a good thing about the buddha-fication of David Foster Wallace. Akron built a stadium. It's not going well. Warde Manuel($) is a name to watch for Hackett replacement. Bring Your Champions, They're Our Meat on the NBA Draft.
Unverified Voracity Bites The Bullet
I listen to Colin Cowherd for you. Jim Harbaugh tried out his best Jim Tomsula impression on Colin Cowherd's show this morning:
I dunno man. I wonder if Harbaugh, a high-functioning lunatic, has points at which his function isn't so high. There is a general antipathy for press conference questions… a lot of the time. There is a general antipathy for lazy questions… some of the time. The questions Cowherd fired off were typical Cowherd: somewhat off-putting but nothing that an average person would get his dander up at, and Harbaugh is immediately in I Don't Know mode.
There are ways I think you can rescue it when he gets in that mode. Number one is talking about his players. Harbaugh loves talking about guys he has coached. But I don't think Cowherd really did anything. Harbaugh just wasn't in the mood from the drop. Steve Lorenz accurately describes it as "troll on troll crime."
Happy first-ish day of work at your new Harbaugh-wranglin' job, Zach Eisendrath! It's a very good idea to have a specific person whose only job is to wrangle Harbaugh, but I worry about the men who try to bridge the gap between beast and overman. I await the day the relentlessly upbeat Eisendrath turns his twitter feed into the SID equivalent of Nihlist Arby's.
Draw the blinds. shut out the sun. Cry. The pile of meat has been on the table for weeks. Just eat it & go back to bed. Arbys: edible.
— Nihilist Arby's (@nihilist_arbys) July 1, 2015
I am surprised that I have not already been followed by thirty different "parody" accounts called Nihilist Harby's.
Colin should have read the operating manual though. When this Sacramento Bee story came out we all had a laugh about it and forgot. And then…
Your Harbaugh does not function like other head coaches. An innocuous query about the weather, for instance, could trigger a florid quote from Admiral William Halsey. And yet a routine question about a running back's knee injury may cause your Harbaugh to wince, pause and grimace as if a malodorous scent has wafted into the room. Your Harbaugh's default in this instance is: "We don't really talk about that here" or "I can't get inside his body" or "He's working through something." This is a design flaw our technicians in California have not yet worked out.
Your Harbaugh will be enormously affectionate one day and cold and distant the next. This is normal.
After Eisendrath starts wearing eyeliner and listening to My Chemical Romance 24 hours a day, Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee has a job waiting for him. A job he should not take. Yes, even if he works for a print newspaper.
Brock Mealer wants to help other people walk. You won't know that you've missed Mike Barwis's gravel truck of a voice until about ten seconds into this:
They are raising money at charity funding site Crowd Rise; you can also grab a shirt on Barwis's site.
Whyyyyyyyy. SBNation's Steven Godfrey has a piece on why there are so many neutral-site games and they continue to increase:
College football's neutral-site games are gaining in popularity because they make a lot of money for the companies and institutions involved.
But demand is even higher among schools suddenly looking to schedule tougher opponents. Consider it knee-jerk hysteria in the wake of Baylor's exclusion from the College Football Playoff, a move often explained as a product of weak non-conference scheduling.
"If you can break your $600,000 [deal for a game against] Akron to go cash $1.2 million from Allstate ... well, there's no catch any more," the agency rep said. "TCU not getting in [the Playoff despite being] at No. 3 the week before scared every athletic director shitless."
Now, you might be thinking to yourself "why would a neutral site game make more money than a home game?" There are three main reasons:
- You can get away with more sponsor stuff at a neutral site. The Blank And Blank Classic, etc.
- You can jack up ticket prices. When Michigan played Alabama at Jerryworld, the minimum price to get in the door was $125, with non-suite tickets ranging up to $245 face. It sold out because it was Michigan against Alabama. Neither school dropped their PSDs a cent.
- The neutral site (sometimes) controls the TV revenue. Most conferences have stipulations that TV revenue is shared, even nonconference TV revenue. This goes for "neutral site" games in the geographical footprint of the conference, but generally does not extend past that. That's why Washington State played Notre Dame in Texas several years back—ND wanted to control that revenue and could not do so in the Pac-12 footprint. That was not the case for Michigan-Alabama, however.
Now, even with all those advantages a neutral site game could only come up with 4.7 million for Michigan—less than they would have gotten for beating up on a cupcake. For a team like TCU, though, the financial equation is much different.
Michigan's got another one coming up because they had a terrible contract against Notre Dame and got left in the lurch; after 2017 against Florida they should never play a neutral site game again. In this, at least, Jim Delany is an aid:
In 2013, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany issued a memo requiring any Big Ten school playing off-campus games to be designated the home team in at least half of the matchups, and that half of the games take place in the Big Ten's footprint. The two-game series between LSU and Wisconsin in Houston and Green Bay is the example.
Never say Jim Delany didn't do one thing right in his whole life.
Instead of having a neutral site game with those ticket advantages, you should ask your fans if it's okay to have big prices for a big game, and when they say YES YES YES then do it.
YOU WERE. There was a time in the 90s when Ohio State would roll in to The Game with a shiny record and national championship aspirations and a 7-4 Michigan team would destroy them. It wasn't exactly halcyon since, uh, 7-4, but there was a grim satisfaction in dragging those bastards into the pit with us. This happened so often that I can't remember which of these games featured this exchange between myself and an Ohio State fan deep into the third quarter:
"You guys are pathetic! You're 7-4! We are national championship contenders!"
"You WERE national championship contenders."
Better that than the recent stuff, I guess. Anyway, ERASE THIS GAME—which still hasn't tackled #M00N—features the 1993 version of La Brea Tar Stadium, in which Tyrone Wheatley* did this:
And Ohio State did this:
Ohio State:
- never crosses into the Michigan red zone
- goes two of twelve on third down
- averages two yards per carry compared to Michigan's five
- gets shut out by the Wolverines for the first time since 1976
- misses going to the Rose Bowl after Wisconsin beats Michigan State in Tokyo because the tiebreaker at the time eliminated the most recent Rose Bowl invitee
- seriously, that was a way the Big Ten decided who got to go to the Rose Bowl, and it's basically "aw heck you're due"
I would prefer that we keep this game, and possibly bronze it.
*[Whenever I watch Wheatley run these days I think that Brandon Minor was born 20 years too late to be a somewhat disappointing first round NFL draft pick.]
Etc.: Harbaugh throws out first pitch, talks to media personably afterwards. This is normal. An oral history of Barry Alvarez making Wisconsin into Wisconsin. You should probably read it. Harbaugh on the Tigers.
Tuesday Recruitin' Is On Vacation
Ace is on vacation this week.
Big Fish
Rashan Gary is never impressed
NJ DT Rashan Gary, the consensus #1 player in the country, has been on Michigan's radar for a while. Michigan has been the tentatively presumed leader after they hired Chris Patridge, Gary's high school coach, to be their recruiting coordinator. Gary himself hasn't said much, but after a swing through the Midwest on visits that's beginning to change.
Sam Webb recapped Gary's visit on the Scout message board($). Gary's mom:
"Michigan hit every detail," Jennifer Coney said. "EVERY detail."
There's a bunch more at the link. The vibes there are pretty good; Gary is planning one more trip this summer, to Georgia, and then they plan on narrowing his list. It does not sound like OSU is going to be a main competitor.
But it's never easy with a guy as highly touted as Gary. 247's Steve Wiltfong:
If I'm #Auburn or #Michigan, I feel good about five-star DT Rashan Gary, who will narrow list after @TheOpening: http://t.co/7M9bvzfC5F
— Steve Wiltfong (@SWiltfong247) June 29, 2015
Sounds good... except that Wiltfong put in an Auburn Crystal Ball for Gary. Gary's mom again($):
"You can know for sure Michigan is going to make the cut," Jennifer Coney, Gary's mother said. "You know Auburn is going to make the cut."
That would be a top two, then.
Michigan is also in on five-star CA LB Caleb Kelly, who was in attendance for a satellite camp in his area. He has a very practical take on things:
"It's like any other coach: you get told what to do, and you go ahead and you do it. It's just cool to have it be from the Michigan coaches. It's a big-name school and that's cool."
He has a who's who of offers; Oklahoma is currently strong on his Crystal Ball.
The New Jersey Migration of the Early Harbaugh Epoch
A pile of New Jersey (and environs) players made it out to Ann Arbor last week, with great success. Four star NJ DE Ron Johnson is already in. Four star NJ WR Brad Hawkins, Johnson's teammate, is probably next. He is scheduled to announce on Friday; Michigan and South Carolina are pretty much the only contenders; he has a visit scheduled to Michigan for July 19th.
Rule eight of following recruiting is that "a recruit who has a visit scheduled for after an announcement is going to the school he is visiting." (Rules 1, 3, 7, 13, 50, and 121 are "DON'T TWEET AT RECRUITS." Number 144 is "SERIOUSLY.") Also, Michigan has fielded every Crystal Ball pick since February.
Ahmir Mitchell has a bowling trophy
Fellow NJ WR Ahmir Mitchell is also nearing a decision. Star-Leger reporter Todderick Hunt:
2 teams stand out 4 Mitchell although he's not ready 4 me 2 release them at this time. But seems to B gettin closer. pic.twitter.com/BEOgONFUZF
— Todderick Hunt (@TodderickHunt) June 27, 2015
Michigan is one of those teams. OSU is the other according to Rivals. Mitchell just announced that he would not be doing any more interviews before his decision, so he's clearly thinking about making one in the near future. Lorenz is hearing positive things($), and the Crystal Ball is an M blowout.
BTW, Mitchell's pretty good($).
There are few players in the country that are comparable to Mitchell. His size, explosiveness, competitiveness and reliable hands were on full display on Saturday. Cornerbacks that tried to jam him at the line of scrimmage were quickly dispatched and errant passes were hauled in with ease. There was one pass that Mitchell hauled in with one hand between two defenders. He had to pin it against his body because the defender was holding onto his other arm.
In not-quite-New-Jersey-but-pretty-much, Philly-based PA TE Naseir Upshur came back from the trip beaming, rating it a "ten of ten($)". He's got a commitment date scheduled for August 8th. Rule nine of following recruiting is "a recruit who issues a commit date soon after a visit is probably going to that school." When that doesn't happen, it's usually because another school swoops in with a visit before the announce date and changes things. That is a possibility here($):
*Alabama is still very likely to add another tight end to its current 2016 haul of two standing commitments at the position, and one of their top targets - Naseir Upshur - a 6-foot-2, 233-pound four-star prospect out of Philadelphia, will be visiting Tuscaloosa with his family on July 17. Michigan is trending with Upshur on the Crystal Ball at 74 percent at the moment. Upshur plans to commit on August 8.
We saw Alabama grab Khalid Kareem. It could happen, but Steve Lorenz notes that($) "Michigan's lead has reportedly grown into a very strong one at this point" and that he is one of the safest bets on Michigan's board" at the moment.
Finally, 2017 NJ OL Cesar Ruiz was on the trip, picked up an offer($), and sounds very excited about it. Michigan is a tentative early leader.
Waiting, waiting
Sometimes I get the feeling that a certain player is not going to end up at Michigan despite everyone assuming they'll end up at Michigan. This usually happens when Michigan's lead goes on and on and on without a commitment actually happening. See: Parrker Westphal.
In related news, FL LB Jonathan Jones still maintains that Michigan is his leader($):
Sam Webb: It seems like someone is committing to Michigan every day. Is the number of scholarships they have left something that is on your mind at all?
Jonathan Jones: "Not really. I'll be honest when it comes to all my top schools. Four years is a huge part of my life and I'm going to train that out and I'm not going to rush myself for any school. … I'm going to be honest with you, I'm real pressed to go there. There my leader most definitely, but it just wouldn't be a wise decision to check out that school and leave all my other options unsettled."
Jones wants to take all his officials and may decide as late as signing day, and doesn't appear to be the type of guy to get sped up because Michigan is filling up. Michigan would definitely take him now. Will they take him in December or January? Depends on a lot of things.
FWIW, Jones has an academically-oriented top five of M, Notre Dame, Duke, Stanford, and Oklahoma and seems to be the kind of guy who Harbaugh is after.
End options
Michigan makes the top eight for KS DE Xavier Kelly, who says nobody is in front. Kelly on M:
"Jim Harbaugh is their new coach and he has a lot of NFL experience," he discussed about the Wolverines. "He can translate that to the college game, and I can gain a lot of knowledge from what he has to offer. I have a lot of family on my father's side that lives in Detroit. That's not too far away so I'll have them there to support me if I went there. Their academics stand out."
They'll have to beat out some heavy hitters here. Alabama, FSU, Georgia, and Clemson are also on his list. Kelly came out to Sound Mind, Sound Body, so there's real interest there. Wiltfong says Michigan is "very much in it."
Michigan's also recruiting AZ DE Connor Murphy, who relates his weird history with Harbaugh on the tubes:
This one's a longshot, but Michigan's trying to get GA DE Antonneous Clayton on campus for a visit($).
Swenson still around
IL OL Erik Swenson has been committed to Michigan for over a year now—his recruiting profile is going to start the same way Tyree Kinnel's did—and Nick Baumgardner would like to remind you of his existence:
"The first thing (Harbaugh) told me was 'you're a lot bigger than you look in pictures,' " Swenson laughed. "He's a great guy. He's not the guy he sometimes gets portrayed as in the media, the guy who is always yelling and screaming, doing anything for a win. He wants to win, obviously and he can be serious, but he's funny, relaxed. He's got a great personality."
Swenson's now a part of a great OL recruiting class that is currently four deep on touted prospects and could add a fifth any day now if MD OL Terrance Davis decides to drop.
Reese maybe not so much
Michigan has a couple of wavering linebacker commits. One is instater David Reese, who apparently committed as fullback but is now having second thoughts. This might have something to do with MI WR Desmond Fitzpatrick's recruitment. The two are teammates and Fitzpatrick seemed like he was about to flip from Louisville to Michigan… and then didn't.
That and Reese's desire to play linebacker have him poking around. He took a visit to Maryland:
"I just want the initial opportunity to play linebacker because that's where my heart is. But I understand that if I didn't start for two years then I would want to see the field-of course I want to play. So of course I would go at fullback. But I feel like I can actually play at linebacker."
He offered the "I'm committed but keeping my options open" spiel as well. If I had to bet I'd guess he ends up flipping elsewhere.
Etc.: 2017 TN RB Cordarrian Richardson is a guy to keep an eye on.NC OL Landon Dickerson sets an official for Oregon State. Michigan has faded with CA CB David Long but he is planning a visit($) before a decision. Stanford is a heavy leader.
Seasoning the Line: 2015
While I was chatting with Brian last week he happened to pull up the top 7 composite recruits from the 2013 season. I followed and…
Woof. Green has obvious vision problems and hasn't emerged from a pile of guys among whom the most statistically effective last year was Drake Johnson. Dymonte Thomas and Shane Morris are already juniors and to date still seem to be at least a year's worth of good coaching away from ready.
That leaves us the offensive line class. Kugler seems to be on track to start when Glasgow surrenders his job—I've heard the same suite of nice things you have. Bosch transferred after performing about how you'd expect a true freshman thrust into a Borges-coached OL would. Fox hasn't been mentioned since a staff ago. Dawson we have only a little more data, much of that getting owned by Maurice Hurst in the spring game (if Hurst does that against Utah's OL I'll happily rescind that as a criticism).
On the other hand we caution all the time about giving up on OL when they're too young.
So when do you know about an offensive lineman?
This is a question I've been interested in a long time, going back to an article one of my Daily colleagues did on OL recruiting to highlight the injuries plaguing the classes Michigan took while I was there. I could never find the article but in January 2013 I tried to recreate some of that information, plus a 12-year update. I did a thing about a year ago on growth tracks to reset expectations for those 2012 and 2013 line classes. Let's check in again, this time with columns.
The towers shrink because players currently on the roster are included in the data, and obviously our information on them is incomplete. "Not available" is a catch-all for transfers, dismissals, guys playing defense, injuries and medicals and whatnot. "Excellent" is basically all-conference-ish, "Solid" is that, "Liability" are guys who were starting but the fan consensus was they shouldn't be or wouldn't but for things like the 2008 depth chart or gross Borges incompetence.
This time I differentiated between "backups" and "two-deep" (an imperfect thing from memory and pouring through old Wolverine annuals). The former are guys buried on the depth chart and unlikely to play; the latter are only the top backups we are relatively certain would have played if they weren't behind an established starter. It's not about being technically on the two-deep, more like the first one or two guys in if an OL goes down—Erik Magnusson last year, or Leo Henige forever.
- Redshirting is overwhelmingly the normal thing to do as a freshman.
- Only a handful of players are capable of starting (shades of yellow) as redshirt freshmen. If you take the yellow chunk from there and size it against the 4th and 5th years you can see only about a third of the eventually useful players are demonstrably so at that age. Sing the praises of any 2014s already playing; don't give up on any who are not.
- By RS Soph there is a big yellow expansion. The mysterious "backups" region has shrunk considerably. You have a fairly good sense of who these guys are by the end of this year.
- There is very little difference—just a slight improvement—between RS Juniors and 5th year seniors. The backups disappear into unrenewed 5ths.
If you're using this imperfect data set of 82 players, many of whom didn't complete their careers for non-ability-related reasons, to get a feel for when to judge an offensive linemen, you could say it's a half-life. Don't judge a (redshirt) freshman unless he's already playing well, but after their third year in the program if he's not on the two-deep the chances of ever doing so decrease exponentially.
What this means for the 2012-'14 OL classes
Be excited for: Mason Cole.
Be extremely content with: Mags, Kalis and Braden if they seem to be playing well this year.
Keep an eye out for: Kugler, Logan Tuley-Tillman, and David Dawson. These are 2013 guys mentioned as probable two-deep contributors, though our current scouting has Kugler pretty much ready to play, LTT half-way there, and Dawson probably not ready yet. Further data received on them this year will speak volumes about their futures.
Be patient with: Juwann Bushell-Beatty. If he pops up this year he's probably going to be awesome; if he's buried there's plenty of time that this doesn't matter.
Getting late: Bars, Fox, Samuelson. With Bars at least we've heard past mentions of him competing, though he was always kind of the last guy in that 2012 class. He may be on the Huyge track; if he's not on the two-deep this (his redshirt junior) year it doesn't seem very likely he'll be a starter in 2016. Fox has been hurt so much in his career (just going off of game reports) if he's not medicaled he probably deserves some extra time to get caught up. Samuelson I've heard nothing about; even when I ask people with insider-y info I get nothing.
2015 Recruiting: Tyree Kinnel
Previously: Last year's profiles.
|Dayton, OH – 6'0", 205
|4*, #150 overall
|4*, #225 overall
|4*, #196 overall
|4*, NR overall
|Other Suitors
|ND, MSU, Ark, Bama
Jabrill Peppers
|Previously On MGoBlog
|Hello post from Ace. Brandon Brown interviews him.
Also senior and junior hudl film and a WTKA interview with Sam.
The world was a very different place when Tyree Kinnel committed to Michigan. It was August of 2013. Michigan was coming off a bumpy year induced by Denard Robinson's ulnar nerve turning traitor, but before that they were contending for the Big Ten title a year after Brady Hoke entered on wings of fire, winning the Sugar Bowl. Innocent Michigan fans frolicked in local meadows, unaware of the nuclear fires just over the horizon.
In the cratered aftermath Kinnel pokes his head out of his foxhole and cries out for his classmates. "Crawford! Campbell! Harris! Anybody? Anybody?" Alex Malzone pops up, helmet in bad shape but otherwise none the worse for wear. Otherwise… silence. Wither the commits of yesteryear, yea. We shall remember them as they were on recruiting sites, and get only slightly bitter when they do something good in college.
This is a long and largely unnecessary way of saying that Kinnel had a lot to think about after he decided on Michigan. After Shawn Crawford defected to the den of iniquity that is Notre Dame he tried to bring Kinnel along. He visited; he decided to stick out Michigan's coaching search instead. Kinnel really wanted to be at Michigan.
As a result there is a lot of chatter about where he might go and less actual scouting than you'd expect from a guy who committed before his junior year. And a lot of the scouting that exists is in the immediate aftermath of his commit—it's a bit dated. But we forge on.
In Kinnel, Michigan's locked down a potential replacement for Jabrill Peppers after he blasts off to the NFL. That's not to say he is Peppers. He is a safety-sized gentleman who is capable of covering people one on one, though. Rivals Ohio analyst Mark Givler:
"He's a strong kid, a good sized kid. I really like his versatility in the secondary because he's able to cover like a corner, but he also plays the game like a free safety. He'll bring some versatility back there, and he'll move around wherever the coaching staff will need him to move." …
"I think he's ultimately probably a free safety, but again, he's been put in a lot of man to man coverage situations at these camps and performed very well. He could have easily been a corner the way he performed at these camps. His build and strength to run sideline to sideline, though, makes him a great free safety prospect."
247's Mark Porter:
"Kinnel is just a great athlete. I would put him up there with guys like Cam Burrows and others like that from years past. He's half safety and half corner. He has great coverage skills. He has good size. He is a fit kid."
Rivals' Josh Helmholdt:
"He has the body, size and physical measurable of a safety, but he covers like a cornerback, I am very high on him as a prospect. He is certainly very talented, and physically, he brings everything to the table that you want from that position."
You get the idea.
If Michigan sticks with the perma-nickel defense they appear to be running with Peppers that would make him a strong candidate for that slot. If he does end up at free safety, that's fine too—the back half of his high school career was spent there (and running back and punt returner).
Some other scouting highlights:
- Clint Brewster, 247: "always around the ball …able to track the ball down on deep passes and make the INT or pass breakup. He does an excellent job of fighting for the ball and out-competing the receiver. … excellent quickness and a great burst to get to the ball-carrier. … elite agility and quickness. … could make the switch to cornerback at the next level if need be"
- Dave Berk, Scout: "Brute strength is above average … biggest question we'll have going into his college career is the smoothness of his hips flipping out of his backpedal … no problem covering a lot of ground and does a great job in the deep half of the field showing above average instincts. His ability to cover an area and be in position to make plays is extremely high for such a young player."
- Tim Sullivan, Rivals: "Physically, Kinnel is everything that a college coach wants in a safety. He showed off his speed on kick returns and in closing on plays to be made. He's never going to be the fastest player, but he has enough speed to make an impact at either the strong or free position. He's a hair over 6-1, and every bit of his listed 190 pounds with even more room for growth. He showed off his strength in making forceful tackles (especially the disrupted screen play) without getting full leverage behind his body."
- Adam Gorney, Rivals: "Multiple times on out routes, Kinnel came up and stepped in front of the pass. He showed off great instincts and a great ability to read receivers' routes and then come up to make the play. Kinnel's backpedal is smooth and then he turns and runs well with receivers."
- Allen Trieu, Scout: "High football IQ who may not have the straight line speed some desire. Great body control and instincts with the ability to provide strong run support. Tough hard-nosed player who has no problem putting a hit on an offensive player. Great hands … Must continue work on coverage skills."
What separates Kinnel from the all-world hype of Peppers is the usual: speed and size. Kinnel isn't a slouch in either department, but neither is there a unanimous chorus of "wow" at his raw athletic tools. Nobody ever said Jabrill Peppers was "a bit more athletic than many believe him to be," as Tim Sullivan did($) after an in-person evaluation.
It's hard to tell whether how real size concerns are since so many evaluations come from old film, but after watching Kinnel's junior tape 247's Clint Brewster said he was probably "closer to 5'10, 180" and "more quick than fast." He ran a 4.5($) at OSU's camp as a rising junior, which sounds excellent until you remember that OSU's camp is where all the kids get their 4.2 40s. He's still pretty big and quite fast. In that same eval, Sullivan noted that he has "plenty of speed to get things done." He's just not Peppers.
He is a high football IQ guy who really really wanted to be at Michigan…
Wednesday morning Tyree Kinnel expressed the dream he shared with his father to play at Michigan. During his speech to those in attendance at the school's gymnasium, Kinnel thanked his friends, coaches, teachers, family and parents. After catching his breath and soaking up the moment, Kinnel looked back at his parents a second time and told them. "The Dream Came True!"
…and was calling audibles as a junior in high school. His high school DB coach:
"He has the size and speed, but he has something that you can't teach a lot of players: he has the instincts to see things before or as they are happening. This gives him the ability to make reads quicker and make plays. He knows how to disguise coverages and he knows how to read opposing offenses. As his position coach, I've given Tyree the permission to call audibles on our coverage."
Everyone's got bust potential; Kinnel's seems very low.
Etc.: Postgame interview indicates serious beard game. Will wear #17. Had 73 tackles, 4 INTs, and three return TDs as a senior.
Why non-superman Jabrill Peppers? Kinnel offers a combination of safety instincts and man-to-man cover skills that should make him a hybrid space player like Peppers figures to be this year. As spread offenses respond to the intense quarters coverage that had MSU's D at the top of the world two years, the importance of covering the slot as he bombs deep is a priority, and Kinnel is a guy who offers that ability.
I usually try to grab someone in the same talent stratosphere—or that we've, you know, seen play—but Michigan has not deployed anyone of Kinnel's ilk in my memory.
Guru Reliability: High. Kinnel was healthy, playing the position he projects to, and hit a reasonable number of camps.
Variance: Low. Not much mystery here.
Ceiling: High-minus. Consensus four star who is a very solid athlete playing a spot he projects to well.
General Excitement Level: High. Note that there are levels above "high" in this arbitrary ranking system. Kinnel should be a contributor and a starter, probably a good one.
Projection: You'd think he's in line for a redshirt since Michigan has a veteran two-deep (Wilson, Hill, Clark, Thomas) in front of him at safety even if you don't slot Peppers in there. We don't know Harbaugh's inclinations in this department yet, though. One thing that might help: safety types are often drafted for special teams, but Jon Baxter likes to use a lot of starters there. That should reduce demand for pointless redshirt wastes.
Anyway, after a freshman year spent either getting no or very few snaps he will have on opportunity to compete for a starting job in year two after Jarrod Wilson graduates; more likely he has another year of sparse snaps. If Peppers hits the NFL in two years, that will be his first prime opportunity.
Pipkins To Transfer, Says He Was Pressured To Sign Medical Hardship Papers
Pipkins got on the field late in the opener last year [Bryan Fuller]
Ondre Pipkins will attempt to use his last year(s) of eligibility elsewhere and he is not happy about it:
"I feel I'm healthy and ready to play," said Pipkins, who played last season after he was cleared to return from a torn knee ligament. "I don't want to sign the form. I wanted to play for my seniors and for the team. Coach Harbaugh said, 'I recommend you take the medical.'"
Pipkins said he felt constant pressure to retire. …
Harbaugh told him that he wanted "to make sure you graduate from Michigan" and that the coach did not plan to invite him to fall camp due in part to medical concerns. The lineman added that Harbaugh told him that he did not believe he would be drafted into the NFL for medical reasons.
"I feel bad I wasn't able to complete this journey with my classmates," Pipkins told ESPN. "I feel I am healthy and without pain. I believe Michigan wanted to free up the scholarship. I felt I was practicing well and could compete at a high level at the nose tackle and tackle positions."
First off, good for Pipkins for saying something about it—and apparently painting Harbaugh in a somewhat sympathetic light.
But this is a strange situation for a lot of reasons. I can't really figure out why Harbaugh would want to run Pipkins out of town:
- He was scheduled to be a senior and Michigan is at 85 scholarships right now, with the three former walk-ons (Kerridge, Glasgow, Glasgow) we think will get scholarships in 2015 accounted for.
- Pipkins thus doesn't impact the numbers in the 2016 class; the only reason he'd need to go this year is if Michigan was going to bring in yet more transfers.
- ND DE transfer Jhonathan Williams was just told no by Michigan.
- I'm sure at least one other player has a very legit medical hardship-inducing injury they haven't announced yet.
There were some rumors Michigan was looking at fifth year wide receivers that haven't come to fruition as of yet, but none of this really makes sense. Michigan seems to have room for him, and the move would appear to be a redshirt (that he should have gotten as a freshman /shakes fist at Hoke) so that he can be a fifth year somewhere else after getting his degree. That is unless he actually shouldn't play football.
Pipkins asserts in the article that Michigan wanted the scholarship… but for what?


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"Their creed forbade anything resembling a theater or "vain enjoyment."...This predilection for minding other people's business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness...The edge of the wilderness was close by. The American continent stretched endlessly west, and it was full of mystery for them. It stood, dark and threatening, over their shoulders night and day." (I, 1235)
Abigail: "We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there's the whole of it.
Parris: Now look you, child, your punishment will come in its time. But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest, I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it." (I, 1238)
The exposition is the beginning of the play when Abigail is confronted by Parris. It gives background information that will be built upon in the following acts. Through the exposition it is discovered that Parris saw the girls with Tituba dancing in the forest which spurs the townspeople's accusation of witchcraft. Along with the initial first scene the background information presented before the first scene, in standard format, also details important information about the background of the town and people. Issues are discussed such as the religious fervor, theocracy, the importance of reputation, and even the town's problem with land disputes. The land disputes and other issues are power gaining tools that are important when considering the townspeople's ulterior motives for starting and continuing the witch-hunts. In the exposition the conflict is first presented as man vs. society. With such a paranoid and unstable environment it is obvious that the protagonist will have to confront the issues in the society.
Rising Action
"I want to open myself! I want light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand- I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" (II, 1262)
The rising action follows the exposition and builds upon it while leading towards the climax. In The Crucible the rising action is the scene in which Abigail and Betty first begin to accuse others of witchcraft. The start of the witch-hunts is the rising action because it is the catalyst for story progression. The girls are able to not only deflect blame, but they are also able to gain a power they never possessed before. Most of the accusers are people who have no authority nor respect in society, for example, Tituba is a slave from Barbados but once the witch-hunts begin she is feared for her mystical knowledge. She is able to frighten her slave owner (Parris) with her visions of white men enslaved and tortured by the devil. Once the hysteria swept over the town these lower class citizens were given an opportunity to enact revenge. In the rising action scene Abigail has realized this secret and beings to use it to her advantage; this scene is a shift from the paranoid suspicious calm of the exposition and a push towards the climax which will be the effect of all this madness on the protagonist.
"Mary: You are the Devil's man!
Danforth: He bid you do the Devil's work?
Mary: He came to me by night and every day to sign, to sign, to…
Danforth: Sign what?
Mary: My name, he want my name; 'I'll murder you', he says, 'if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court, he says…!' " (III, 1314)
The climax is the moment of greatest danger for the protagonist. During the climax it seems as if failure is inevitable and there is a hard-to-anticipate recovery. In The Crucible it is the scene in which Proctor, our protagonist, is accused of witchcraft by his former ally, Mary Warren. Mary was Proctor and Elizabeth's one hope to stop the girls from continuing the witch-hunts by confessing that their visions and accusations were all false. However, Mary Warren is a weak character who was easily manipulated by Abigail from the start, she like Abigail is a lower class citizen, an unmarried woman forced to work for others. While in the courtroom Mary Warren is unable to testify against Abigail and the other girls because in doing so she would have to admit her own guilt and soil her reputation while also giving up her one chance to obtain power. Mary Warren cracks under the pressure of Abigail Williams' tremendous new power. Mary turns from Proctor, to join Abigail, in her moment of weakness. This act of betrayal puts the protagonist Proctor in a dangerous predicament as he is torn between preserving his reputation or preserving his life.
Falling Action
Hale: "Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. Life, life is God's most precious gift; no principle no matter how glorious may justify the taking of it." (IV, 1326)
The falling action is the outcome of the climax that eventually leads to the resolution. The falling action in The Crucible, is Hale's plea with Proctor to sign testifying that he himself is a witch while also convicting six other prisoners of witchcraft. Thus repeating the ritual of deflecting guilt by accusing someone else- the same cycle that has occurred throughout the play. The scene in which Hale goes to talk with Proctor leads up to the outcome and possible resolutions for the main danger of the climax. The falling action of Hale's plea sets up the resolution which will be the response to that decision. Will Proctor blame an innocents just to keep his name clean? More importantly, will the protagonist continue the cycle of false accusations? During the falling action Hale is frantically searching for people to confess to validate the accusations made by the court. Danforth and Hathorne are unable to accept that the judgements are faulty because in doing so the integrity of the court would be shattered and the theocracy would be questioned and the religious order of Salem would be shattered.
Dénouement / Resolution
Proctor: "Damn the village! I confess to God and God has seen my name on this! It is enough!
You came to save my soul, did you not? Here! – I have confessed myself, it is enough!
Is there no good penitence but it be public? God does not need my name nailed upon the church! God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are. It is enough!" (IV, 1332)
The purpose of the resolution is to resolve the conflict and create a catharsis for the audience. Etymologically, the French word denouement is derived from the Old French word dénoer, "to untie", and from nodus, Latin for "knot". Thus, it is the purpose of the dénouement to untie the complexities of a plot. The conflict of man vs society is resolved in the denouement as Proctor is able to defeat the society by choosing to stop its cycle of false accusations. He is willing to accept death rather than live in falsehood. Proctor is unwilling to transfer his own guilt and his unwillingness to sign his own name and jeopardize his identity. Earlier in the play Proctor's desire to preserve his good reputation kept him from testifying against Abigail but now at the resolution, Proctor is able to come to realization of what it truly means to be honorable and have a good reputation. Proctor has atoned for his tragic flaw, his wonton lust for Abigail Williams and is able to regain his honesty and goodness. Proctor dies as a martyr, and in a sense of justice the resolution also shows that the unjust, Parris and Abigail, are destroyed by their guilt and Salem has fallen apart. The farms have become vacant, demonstrating how Proctor's heroic death has created a just end and punished the wrong-doers.

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21st > March > 2002 Archive
Online dealer makes a Komplett hash of DRAM offer
Our email inbox was inundated today with complaints concerning a bargain basement price for DRAM offered and then withdrawn post- credit card-debited sale on a UK computer dealer site.
FIC wins eMachines PC gig
eMachines, the US maker of bargain basement PCs, has signed up Taiwanese mobo maker FIC to supply a "significant number of PC systems from its extensive range of products".
New Tomb Raider game released in November
Lara Croft fans will have to wait until November before they can get their hands on her latest adventure.
Yahoo! charges! for! email! services!
Yahoo! is to start charging for its email forwarding and POP3 services.
W3C OWL proposals take flight
The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Ontology working group has published a working draft of the requirements for its Ontology Web Language (OWL). The working group, part of the W3C's Semantic Web activity, is chartered to create a language that extends the semantic reach of previous metadata efforts based on eXtensible …
Openwave, opens back door for US mobile messaging
Openwave Systems Inc has opened a back door into the US market for mobile messaging through a service agreement with VeriSign Inc, and a new cross-network compatible version of its gateway product, Tony Cripps writes The Redwood City, California-based company was unavailable for comment as ComputerWire went to press. …
Time preloads Tiny PCs with Supanet ISP
Tiny PCs will come pre-loaded with Supanet ISP access, following brand owner Time Computers's decision to switch from Tiscali.
Sun to bang Java drum but J2EE 1.4 slips
Sun Microsystems Inc will attempt to galvanize developers at its set-piece JavaOne conference next week - and deflate Microsoft Corp's .NET hype - with tools and partnerships that prove Java's increased adoption in web services construction, Gavin Clarke writes. Away from the hype, Java programmers risk slipping behind …
Red Hat forecasts strong growth after dismal year
Leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc expects revenue to grow at least 26% to between $99.5m and $101m in the current financial year and anticipates an operating loss of $3m to $4m for the year, with the company breaking even at that level in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter to February 28, the net loss was $41.9m …
Vendors sharpen tools to thwart DoS attacks
A new breed of security products designed to mitigate the risk of denial of service (DoS) attacks is coming to market.
Netscape exec on IE APIs, and why hiding it isn't enough
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kottelly yesterday ruled out more trial material as "hearsay," and suggested both parties try to address one another's allegations more directly. Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale's contribution on venture capital (a claim that it was extremely difficult for companies going up against Microsoft to get funding) was the subject of a long wrangle, on the grounds that he wouldn't say which of his contacts said this was the case.
MS judge in shock MSWord to WordPerfect defection
In among yesterday's procedural and admin discussion from the Microsoft trial lurks a minor triumph for the non-Microsoft camp which we hope will go a little way to helping Michael Cowpland, formerly of Corel, pay off some of his fines. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kottelly (for it is she) is arranging her daily delivery of documentation from the warring parties:
XBox 2 'designed with AMD processor'
Microsoft engineers are busy designing the second version of Xbox around an AMD CPU, according to Fechtor Detwiler, the Boston-based investment bank.
Kiddie protection filter goes live
A new system designed to protect children from unsavoury content on the Internet has been unveiled today by the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA).
Britain is a nation of cyber snoopers
Britain is a nation of cyber snoopers. Almost nine in ten (87 per cent) of UK workers have surreptitiously read a boss's private email on at least one occasion.
Politics or bugs behind Microsoft exec massacre?
Ballmer has the HP-Compaq media circus to thank for distracting attention from the most recent Redmond reshuffle, which leaked out on Monday.
Netscape Online to close in June
AOL UK has finally set a date for when its subscription free ISP Netscape Online will close.
Symantec gains heuristic patent
Symantec yesterday announced that it has been granted a patent on antivirus heuristic (automatic detection) technology by the US Patent and Trademark Office.


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Un-Giantlike Grouchiness
Are the Giants cranky?
At this point, who isn't? August has been wet, muggy and unpredictable. The market is roiling and everyone's a little snappish, especially after a few vacation rain clouds and a couple rum punches.
And the New York Football Giants sound like they've got a little sand in their swimsuit, too.
An unflattering talking point has developed in this lockout-hastened preseason: The Giants didn't do enough. While the Jets were signing ex-Giant Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress and the rival Philadelphia Eagles added ex-Giant Steve Smith to the Greatest Football Roster of All Time (August 2011 hyperbole edition), the Giants were supposedly in a hammock, flipping through Hamptons magazine and letting free-agent prizes slip away.
On Saturday, the Giants dropped a preseason opener to the Carolina Panthers, losing 20-10. Nobody should get carried away by a result in a meaningless game, but it can accelerate fan discontent. Defensive end Osi Umenyiora finally practiced on Monday, still grouchy about his contract.
The Giants want everyone to back off, trust them and relax. Just because they didn't go out and make a mega free-agent splash doesn't mean they were napping. Oakland may have wooed away Giant Kevin Boss with a fat deal, but championships are not won in the summer. The Giants still believe they're a potential contender. Remember, your NYFG won a Super Bowl not that long ago. A Super Bowl! The trophy that what's-his-face is always claiming the team in green and white uniforms is going to win.
"We won 10 games last year. It wasn't like we were 6-10," Giants general manager Jerry Reese said the other day. Of the offseason quiet, Reese said: "We had a game plan. We stuck to our game plan."
The Giants also fired back in that placid, well-reasoned asteroid field of opinion, Twitter. Summoning his inner Don Rickles, team public-relations maestro Pat Hanlon zinged back at fans slamming the club's offseason torpor. Hanlon tweaked one commenter as a "knucklehead" and used a couple of words that aren't a big deal on HBO's "Hard Knocks" but might get you in trouble in this newspaper. When someone suggested that the 2011 Giants were worse "on paper," Hanlon shot back: "We don't play on paper. You know what you can do w/ that paper?"
Too much? Too uncharacteristic, too un-Giant-like?
I liked Hanlon mixing it up on Twitter. If you're going to be on Twitter, embrace the Twitter. Get in there, get greasy, throw your elbows around. Don't embarrass yourself or employer, but real-time conflict is expected, encouraged, celebrated. Hanlon engaged, and didn't offer stale PR autopilot. That may not be the Giant way, but it is the Twitter way.
It's tempting to see the influence of the Jets in these recent Giant ripostes. The Jets have always been the mouthy, underachieving cousin, and the big talk has exploded in the Rex Ryan era. With the Jets lately outperforming the Giants on the field and the back pages, is staid Big Blue going rogue in its 87th season?
Not really. You're not going to see a Tumblr account from Giants president John Mara or a Foursquare check-in from coach Tom Coughlin. ("I am yelling at rookies at the blocking sled.") The Giants are not thumping themselves as Super Bowl contenders and their quarterback is not on the cover of the new GQ, like Mark Sanchez.
But the Giants are under pressure, too. After last year's late implosion, qualifying for the postseason feels critical. Reese didn't seem concerned. "We'll get into the playoffs and we'll make a run."
That sounds a lot like a prediction. Maybe not it's not as bold as ones from the gabby men in green, but it's another promise that needs to be backed up in the Meadowlands.


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All things RAD (Comments) https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/feed/comments/atom 2015-07-09T06:39:15+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/imperfect_c#comment-1098880048000 Re: Imperfect C++ Anonymous 2004-10-27T12:27:28+00:00 2004-10-27T12:27:28+00:00 I don't understand your C++ bashing. I use C++ daily at work and have some knowledge of other languages (eg. C#, Python, Haskell) and I still believe that C++ is the most powerful of them all. While it is true that C++ is relatively complex and due to its C compability a little redundant this complexity exists for a reason. I have yet to see a true contender that could replace C++. https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/cycling_as_a_metaphor_for#comment-1096691156000 Re: Cycling as a metaphor for Software Development Gary 2004-10-02T04:25:56+00:00 2004-10-02T04:25:56+00:00 Management intervention seems like a good metaphor for that phenomenon or possibly product marketing... I'm glad to see that I've managed to waste at least one person's time. :-) https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/cycling_as_a_metaphor_for#comment-1096686273000 Re: Cycling as a metaphor for Software Development Peter T 2004-10-02T03:04:33+00:00 2004-10-02T03:04:33+00:00 In Toronto I had second hand experience (and after seeing this a couple of times, I had no wish for first-hand experience) of another phenomenon, namely that of getting the wheels of your bicycle caught in the tram tracks and suddenly discovering that the direction you were taking was suddenly out of your control, usually leading to a horrible splat. What's the metaphor here? Management intervention? https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/the_nuances_of_poolbind#comment-1093390731000 Re: The nuances of poolbind Gary 2004-08-24T23:38:51+00:00 2004-08-24T23:38:51+00:00 Hi Octave,
 It's possible to associate a zone to a pool, in fact I think this will be the most common use of resource pools in Solaris 10. You can specify which pool a zone should draw it's resources from as follows:
 $ zonecfg -z myzone zonecfg:myzone> set pool=mypool zonecfg:myzone> exit

 That was taken from the zonecfg(1M) manpage. You can also manually change the pool binding for a zone with poolbind(1M).
 It isn't possible to achieve your second scenario using pools/processor sets. The mechanism is a resource isolation mechanism and so sharing of CPU (or in the future other types of resource) isn't possible. The best way to address CPU sharing requirements is to look at the use of the fair share scheduler, man FSS(7).
 Keep reading through the docs. The resource management facilities in Solaris are extensive and powerful, the downside of this is that there is some inevitable complexity which requires thorough reading of the documentation.
 Thanks for your feedback and interest,
 Gary https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/the_nuances_of_poolbind#comment-1093357170000 Re: The nuances of poolbind Octave Orgeron 2004-08-24T14:19:30+00:00 2004-08-24T14:19:30+00:00 Hi Gary, Thanks for the reply! Your feedback definitely helped out with understanding things better. I was getting a little confused using the examples in the documentation. Still, I can see how resource pools could be very handy on an SMP box for controlling resources. I was talking to a co-worker about how we could consolidate to a larger box and place the applications/services for our web hosting environment into resource pools for better utilization and control. I'm looking forward to testing this out at home on my U60. Is is possible to apply these resources to a zone? For example, could I place one zone in a pool that only uses one of my CPU's at any point in time and have another zone that uses both? Also, how exactly are shares determined? I'm still reading through the documentation on docs.sun.com, but I'm starting to feel more comfortable with the commands:) Octave https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/the_nuances_of_poolbind#comment-1093228897000 Re: The nuances of poolbind Gary Pennington 2004-08-23T02:41:37+00:00 2004-08-23T02:41:37+00:00
 Hi Octave,
 Sorry for the delay replying, I've been on vacation and only returned to work today.
 Here are some specific answers to your questions and some background that should enhance your understanding of what is happening when you type your commands.
 Actually, I'll do the background stuff first as that will make the later specific answers more intelligible.
 A Resource Pool configuration is a representation of the configurable resources for an executing instance of Solaris. <ocde>poolcfg(1M) is used to manipulate the entities (pools, psets, cpus, etc..) in the configuration. The configuration could be held in a file, in which case you are simply moving XML elements around in an XML document (file) or it could be a direct representation of kernel state, in which case poolcfg is directly altering the disposition of resources in your kernel.
 When you use the -d flag to poolcfg you are directly modifying kernel state, otherwise you are working on an XML document. If you don't supply a document location, your are working at the default location of /etc/pooladm.conf.
 I'll walk through your comment and try to explain what's happening at each step.
 # pooladm -e
 This enables pools
 # poolcfg -c info system
 List the contents of the configuration at the default location, i.e. /etc/pooladm.conf. Note that if this file does not exist then you will get an error. Also note, this is not the state of the kernel, it is simply a representation of a configuration that could be applied to a kernel.
 # poolcfg -c 'create pset pset_test (uint pset.min = 2; uint pset.max = 10)'
 This modifies the contents of /etc/pooladm.conf to add a new entity of type pset with name pset_test and all the other specified attributes. Attributes which aren't specified take the default values. Note that this has no effect on the kernel at this stage and no assessment is made as to whether this configuration could be applied to the current system. As long as the syntax is valid, the command succeeds. Only when the configuration is applied to the system are assessments made for the feasibility of applying this configuration to the system.
 # poolcfg -c 'create pool pool_test'
 # poolcfg -c 'associate pool pool_test (pset pset_test)'
 Create pool pool_test and associate pset pset_test to the pool. This further alters the contents of /etc/pooladm.conf</conf> to add the new pool entity and to record that the pool should use the processor resources from pset pset_test.
 # poolcfg -c info
 List the configuration at /etc/pooladm.conf so that we can confirm that our changes are correct. NB: If you want to see the active (i.e. kernel) configuration then just type pooladm with no arguments. Does that make it clear that the contents of the /etc/pooladm.conf file and the kernel disposition of resources are two different things? It should.
 # poolbind -i project -p pool_test test01
 Attempt to bind all the processes in project test01 to pool pool_test. This is failing because binding operations are always performed against the active configuration (i.e. the kernel) and as yet the changes you have made are only in a configuration file. You must commit your changes before using them. In other words you need to type pooladm -c. Unfortunately, this will fail as I explain in the next step.
 pooladm -c pooladm: configuration at '/etc/pooladm.conf' cannot be instantiated on current system
 You are trying to commit a configuration which requires a minimum of 3 CPUs on a single CPU system. This isn't physically possible, so the commit operation fails and tells you this. It isn't possible because you must have enough resources to be able to satisfy the constraints that you have established on your resource partitions. In this case, you have specified two processor sets, pset_default and pset_test, with a combined minimum of three and you only have a single CPU system
 To answer your specific questions...
 You aren't doing anything wrong, you just had a couple of problems.
 pset.min and pset.max specify the limits of CPU resources for the pset. i.e. the pset cannot have less than min or more than max CPUs. It can have any value between these limits. This is only enforced when applied to the kernel, you can put any syntactically correct value in a configuration file.
 The main problem you have is that it's difficult to use resource pools on a single CPU system, since you can't partition a single CPU system.
 Read the manpage libpool(3LIB) for more details on what all the different attributes mean for the different entities in the configuration.
 Finally, it shoudl be clear now that there two ways to change the resource pool configuration of a system.
 You can put together a configuration file which describes how you would like a system to be configured. You apply this to a system, using pooladm -c and the resource pools framework decides how best to allocate CPUs to sets and performs all the configuration steps in a batch. If any steps fail, changes are undone and the system restored (as far as possible) to it's original state.
 Alternatively, you can use the -d option to poolcfg and directly modify the state of the system. This is desirable when you want to make small changes to an existing configuration, if you want fine control over the disposition of CPU resources or when you are just experimenting with the resource pools facility. Changes are immediate and thus any failures in later steps will not affect earlier changes.
 I hope the above helps, let me know if you have more questions.
 Gary https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/the_nuances_of_poolbind#comment-1092388166000 Re: The nuances of poolbind Octave Orgeron 2004-08-13T09:09:26+00:00 2004-08-13T09:09:26+00:00 I started reading Part 1 and I'm trying out some examples. So here is what I've done on my single-proc x86 box: # projects -l test01 test01 projid : 1979 comment: "Test for RSM and poolbind" users : oorgeron groups : (none) attribs: # pgrep mozilla 598 # newtask -v -p test01 -c 598 16 # pgrep -T 16 598 # priocntl -s -c FSS -i projid 1979 # prctl -n project.cpu-shares -i project test01 project: 1979: test01 NAME PRIVILEGE VALUE FLAG ACTION RECIPIENT project.cpu-shares privileged 5 - none - system 65.5K max none - So now I have a project setup that's running my mozilla process with 5 cpu shares. So now I want to create a resource pool and bind this project to it. # pooladm -e # poolcfg -c info system saito string system.comment int system.version 1 boolean system.bind-default true int system.poold.pid 3546 pool pool_default int pool.sys_id 0 boolean pool.active true boolean pool.default true int pool.importance 1 string pool.comment pset pset_default # poolcfg -c 'create pset pset_test (uint pset.min = 2; uint pset.max = 10)' # poolcfg -c 'create pool pool_test' # poolcfg -c 'associate pool pool_test (pset pset_test)' # poolcfg -c info # poolcfg -c info system saito string system.comment int system.version 1 boolean system.bind-default true int system.poold.pid 3546 pool pool_default int pool.sys_id 0 boolean pool.active true boolean pool.default true int pool.importance 1 string pool.comment pset pset_default pool pool_test boolean pool.active true boolean pool.default false int pool.importance 1 string pool.comment pset pset_test pset pset_default int pset.sys_id -1 boolean pset.default true uint pset.min 1 uint pset.max 65536 string pset.units population uint pset.load 397 uint pset.size 1 string pset.comment cpu int cpu.sys_id 0 string cpu.comment string cpu.status on-line pset pset_test int pset.sys_id -2 boolean pset.default false uint pset.min 2 uint pset.max 10 string pset.units population uint pset.load 0 uint pset.size 0 string pset.comment So if I try to bind my project to the pool_test, I get this: # poolbind -i project -p pool_test test01 poolbind: binding project 1979 to pool 'pool_test': Bad parameter supplied Also, if I try to commit my configuration, I get this: # pooladm -c pooladm: configuration at '/etc/pooladm.conf' cannot be instantiated on current system So dumb question.. What am I doing wrong? Did I setup the pool incorrectly? What exactly does the pset.min and pset.max settings mean? I'm using the examples in the documentation. What I'd like to do is play around with my netscape process, since it's something that I use alot at work and see how it behaves while I run other stuff. Also, I'd like to setup another pool that has more resources and switch the project to it while I'm using it. Thanks! Octave https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/the_nuances_of_poolbind#comment-1092014326000 Re: The nuances of poolbind Gary Pennington 2004-08-09T01:18:46+00:00 2004-08-09T01:18:46+00:00 Hi Octave,
 You should read the  resource management documentation
 In particular, part 1 should be helpful.
 There are plenty of examples in that documentation and Chapter 14 has a substantial example of how to configure a system for a hypothetical server consolidation project. This material will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of Solaris Resource Management: projects, tasks, resource pools, schedulers (in particular Fair Share Scheduler), resource controls, etc. You need to know what all of these things are to make any sense out of the rest of my answers.
 To try and answer your specific questions...
 A good approach to managing your processes is to view them as services/applications and to create different projects for each service/application which you wish to manage separately, e.g. database, web, email, etc. Each of these projects should be configured to run in a certain resource pool or have certain processor shares depending on how you decide to allocate resource to these different services. You can now wrap the startup procedure for these different services with a script (or you can modify the startup script if you like) which uses the newtask(1) command to place the processes which are started into the appropriate project.
 There are many ways to build logic into resource management. Most facilities are easily scriptable via their command interfaces or if you require low level access to the facilities, you can use the "C" APIs to write your own programs. Take a look at  the libpool(3LIB) API for instance.
 A nice way to approach your particular backup example would be to use the Fair Share Scheduler and place the backup service into a project with a large number of CPU shares. When the service was active it would receive a large portion of the available CPU resrources, when it wasn't active it would have no impact on the share of CPU resources available to other services. (You'll note I'm using the word service rather than process, I'm trying to emphasise that this is really a business decision and not a technical decision. You just decide which business services matter most and then configure the system to treat service processes according to your configured policy.)
 I hope these tips are helpful, let me know how you get on or if you need more help/guidance.
 Gary https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/the_nuances_of_poolbind#comment-1091794233000 Re: The nuances of poolbind Octave Orgeron 2004-08-06T12:10:33+00:00 2004-08-06T12:10:33+00:00 Hi, I'm interested in resource management in general, especially since I'm testing out S10. I work for a web hosting company and we often have issues where certain processes(email, mysql, apache, etc) can hog a systems resources. I'm wondering if you could point me to some good examples on how to divide out processes into projects and manage them. Also, are there ways to build logic into resource management? (i.e. if lets say the process for backups run at a particular time of day, can I automate the process of giving the backups greater priority/shares over the other projects?) Please forgive my ignorance of resource management, it's something that I've been meaning to learn in the past, but have not made the time until now. https://blogs.oracle.com/garypen/entry/dumping_the_resource_pools_configuration#comment-1089190774000 Re: Generating an XML Document from a Resource Pools Configuration Volker A. Brandt 2004-07-07T08:59:34+00:00 2004-07-07T08:59:34+00:00 Interesting what programming style does to algorithms. Here's what I would have written: int main(int argc, char \*\*argv) { pool_conf_t \*conf; int rc = 2; if ((conf = pool_conf_alloc()) == NULL) { return rc; } if (pool_conf_open(conf, pool_dynamic_location(), PO_RDONLY) == PO_SUCCESS) { if (pool_conf_export(conf, "-", POX_NATIVE) == PO_SUCCESS) { rc = 0; } (void) pool_conf_close(conf); } pool_conf_free(conf); return rc; } (please reformat to a sane layout, the comment engine is seriously lacking...)


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ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FL - A crash in Escambia County, Florida, claimed the life of a pedestrian this morning.
Authorities say 16-year-old Aaliyah Howard of Pensacola and another girl were walking on Mobile Highway around 4:00 Monday morning.
Florida Highway Patrol say the driver of a state trooper SUV did not see the girls. Howard was struck by the front of the car. She died from her injuries.
The other pedestrian was struck by the SUV's mirror and was taken to an area hospital for minor injuries.
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The Dawson County High School varsity Tigers basketball team came away with a huge win over visiting Union County in a non-region game last week at the Ford E. Phillips Gymnasium in Dawsonville.
The Dawson County Lady Tigers' winning streak came to an end with Friday night's 60-42 East Hall defeat at home.
The top ranked Dawson County Lady Tigers won the George Walton Academy Christmas Tournament in convincing fashion as they cruised to three wins last week.
The No. 1-ranked Dawson County Lady Tigers continue to dominate their opposition with a convincing 69-46 win at Pickens County last week.
The Dawson County wrestling team hosted its annual Amicalola Classic tournament last week.
The Lady Tigers are on a roll. Head Coach Steve Sweat's Lady Tigers dominated in three wins last week.
Dawson County High School Head Coach Thad Burgess' Tigers basketball team played three games last week.
It may be Christmas break, but for the Dawson County High Swim Team, that means additional time is available to prepare for the next meet.
Dawson County traveled to East Hall Dec. 8 for its first Region 7-AAA game of the season.
Coach Arron Haynes' Dawson County High School wrestling program had a dominating week.
Sophomore quarterback Coey Watson has been named Region 7-AAA player of the year by coaches in the region.
Four days after suffering their first loss in a game which involved 65 combined free throw attempts, the East Hall Lady Vikings fell to Dawson County (6-0, 1-0 Region 7-AAA), 62-55, in a double-overtime thriller Tuesday in Gainesville.
Dawsonville's Chase Elliott was declared the winner of Sunday's Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola after Christopher Bell, who crossed the line first, was disqualified when a postrace inspection revealed his car was far heavier than the rules allow.
The Dawson County High School varsity boys' basketball team will enter region play with an overall record of 3-2.
The Dawson County High School varsity girls' basketball team remains undefeated following two big wins last week.
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The Dawsonville Racers swim season got under way this month when they traveled to Winder for the North Georgia Swim League Pentathlon.
Dawson County High School varsity soccer players were honored during the end of the year banquet last month at Veterans Park.
Up and coming Dawson County Lady Tigers took the court last week for the Fun-damental Basketball Camp at Rock Creek Park.
Chase Elliott once again raced to a career best finish in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
The Dawson County High School junior varsity and varsity volleyball teams got started last week.
Another young Dawsonville race car driver had a big finish over the Memorial Day weekend.
Dawsonville's Chase Elliott fought hard on Monday after a rain delayed race was bumped from the scheduled Sunday start.
Dawsonville can now boast another NASCAR Hall of Famer.
The Dawson County sports programs continue to find success within the region and beyond, as evidenced by this last school year.
The Dawson County boys' basketball program is preparing for a new era under Head Coach Chad Pittman and assistant coach Michael Parker and they are ...
Girls' basketball at Dawson County had a successful season last year that ended with a trip to the second round of state playoffs and a ...
Consistency continues to be the theme of Chase Elliott's first season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series as he earned another top spot during ...
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Common Core Standards4.MD.5.Recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint, and understand concepts of angle measurement:
a. An angle is measured with reference to a circle with its center at the common endpoint of the rays, by considering the fraction of the circular arc between the points where the two rays intersect the circle. An angle that turns through 1/360 of a circle is called a "one-degree angle," and can be used to measure angles.
b. An angle that turns through n one-degree angles is said to have an angle measure of n degrees.
4.MD.6. Measure angles in whole-number degrees using a protractor. Sketch angles of specified measure.
4.MD.7. Recognize angle measure as additive. When an angle is decomposed into non-overlapping parts, the angle measure of the whole is the sum of the angle measures of the parts. Solve addition and subtraction problems to find unknown angles on a diagram in real world and mathematical problems, e.g., by using an equation with a symbol for the unknown angle measure.
Anchor Standard/Mathematical Practice(s)MP.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
MP.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
MP.6. Attend to precision.
MP.7. Look for and make use of structure.
Information Technology StandardUse technology tools and skills to reinforce classroom concepts and activities.
Revised Bloom's Level of thinkingRemembering
Learning Target/Task Analysis4.MD.5
This standard calls for students to explore the connection between angles (measure of rotation) and circular measurement (360 degrees).
The diagram below will help students understand that an angle measurement is not related to an area since the area between the 2 rays is different for both circles yet the angle measure is the same.
Students explore an angle as a series of ―one-degree turns.‖ A water sprinkler rotates onedegree at each interval. If the sprinkler rotates a total of 100 degrees, how many one-degree turns has the sprinkler made?
Before students begin measuring angles with protractors, they need to have some experiences with benchmark angles. They transfer their understanding that a 360º rotation about a point makes a complete circle to recognize and sketch angles that measure approximately 90º and 180º. They extend this understanding and recognize and sketch angles that measure approximately 45º and 30º. They use appropriate terminology (acute, right, and obtuse) to describe angles and rays (perpendicular).
Students should estimate angles, measure angles and sketch angles. They need to experience measuring angles using an angle ruler as well as a protractor. (The angle ruler allows them to "see" the turns or rotations).
This standard addresses the idea of decomposing (breaking apart) an angle into smaller parts.
A lawn water sprinkler rotates 65 degrees and then pauses. It then rotates an additional 25 degrees. What is the total degree of the water sprinkler rotation? To cover a full 360 degrees how many times will the water sprinkler need to be moved?
If the water sprinkler rotates a total of 25 degrees then pauses. How many 25 degree cycles will it go through for the rotation to reach at least 90 degrees?
I can...I can recognize an angle as a geometric shape.
I can define circular arc.
I can recognize the relationship between an angle and a circle.
I can measure an angle correctly.
I can draw an angle of a specific degree.
I can explain how one angle can be broken down into several smaller angles.
I can explain how several smaller angles can be put together to form one large angle.
I can solve addition and subtraction problems to find unknown angles.
Essential Vocabulary
rays, circular arc, center point, angle, vertex, end point, one degree angle, circle, measure angles, protractor, decompose
Sample AssessmentsScavenger Hunt to find and identify types of angles within the school. Students record their findings and share witht the class. Post on bulleting board.
Use protracters to measure angles and draw angles of specified degrees. This is modeled by the teacher before students attempt it.
Students use protracter to draw a circle. Discuss terminology associated with turn to create a measuremement.
Use marshmallows and tootpicks to create different shapes and identify the angles within the shapes. Use a Thinking Map to record angles of shapes.
Intervention:Angles are geometric shapes composed of two rays that are infinite in length. Students can understand this concept by using two rulers held together near the ends. The rulers can represent the rays of an angle. As one ruler is rotated, the size of the angle is seen to get larger. Ask questions about the types of angles created. Responses may be in terms of the relationship to right angles. Introduce angles as acute (less than the measure of a right angle) and obtuse (greater than the measure of a right angle). Have students draw representations of each type of angle. They also need to be able to identify angles in two-dimensional figures.
Students can also create an angle explorer (two strips of cardboard attached with a brass fastener) to learn about angles.
Students can compare angles to determine whether an angle is acute or obtuse. This will allow them to have a benchmark reference for what an angle measure should be when using a tool such as a protractor or an angle ruler. Provide students with four pieces of straw, two pieces of the same length to make one angle and
another two pieces of the same length to make an angle with longer rays. Another way to compare angles is to place one angle over the other angle. Provide students with a transparency to compare two angles to help them conceptualize the spread of the rays of an angle. Students can make this comparison by tracing one angle and placing it over another angle. The side lengths of the angles to be compared need to be different. Students are ready to use a tool to measure angles once they understand the difference between an acute angle and an obtuse angle. Angles are measured in degrees. There is a relationship
between the number of degrees in an angle and circle which has a measure of 360 degrees. Students are to use a protractor to measure angles in whole-number degrees. They can determine if the measure of the angle is reasonable based on the relationship of the angle to a right angle. They also make sketches of angles of specified measure.
Enrichment:Use Anglegs to show measurements of acute, right, and obtuse angles.
Illuminations Angle Game
Instructional ResourcesAngles Project
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland: In this story, young Radius, son of Sir Cumference and Lady Di of Ameter, undertakes a quest, the successful completion of which will earn him his knighthood. With the help of a family heirloom that functions much like a protractor, he is able to locate the elusive King Lell and restore him to the throne of Angleland. In gratitude, King Lell bestows knighthood on Sir Radius.
Nctm.org Figure This: What's My Angle? math Challenge # 10 - Students can estimate the measures of the angles between their fingers when they spread out their hand.Figure This: What's My Angle?


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I have a wordpress article-based site where we display images in each post uploaded via the wordpress media library. Pretty standard stuff. Over the years I've built my own methods for displaying images within posts, so I don't need any help with that.
However, I have around 8,000 images with 6,000 of those being attached to a specific post, and therefore associated with each other as one gallery.
What I'd like to do is display on a page (entitled 'Images')the complete library of attached images, categorised by the wordpress post they are attached to - which would therefore provide the gallery name.
So I envisage a paginated layout (either fixed or fluid) with the first image from each gallery displayed, the number of images in the gallery and the title of the gallery. Then when a user clicks on the image to view they would be taken to a page containing the full gallery (either displayed as thumbnails or full size).
Ideally we would use filters to enable the user to choose to sort the list alphabetically, by date or even most viewed.
Is there a plugin around that I could modify to suit, or would it be best to code this up from scratch? I guess I could mirror the existing archive and single post pages, but strip out the unnecessary content.
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CNC machined aluminum reservoir cap, to replace the unemotional plastic ones.
The sporty size of the side stand support surface is a frequent source of trouble:
These mirror extensions put the mirrors in a much better position, to improve the rider's field of vision and safety. The item is almost unnoticeable on the motorcycle but is very much appreciated by the driver.
Its a must for anyone who wants to see more than just their shoulders in the mirrors.
Great protection for the oil system of your R1200GS. Keeps most pranksters out and lets most service mechanics in. This machined aluminum oil cap also looks great in its black anodized finish.
This throttle control from Kaoko replaces the original handlebar end weights on your BMW motorcycle. Sometimes referred to as 'cruise control,' this anti-slip knurled screw secures the accelerator in position. This device significantly reduces strain on the right hand during long journeys.
You know the problem: with a fully packed tank bag and the handlebar turned nearly all the way,


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Dennis Basso paired with Pour La Victorie shoes who's amazingly crafted designs are equal parts elegant and chic. The presentation was a combination of old world glamour meets Paris socialite as the gowns were reminiscent of times gone by and meant to conjure up images of a evening out in Deauville, France in the 60's. This spring, the topknot is going to be making its rounds again, but with a more polished coiffed look than the haphazard "sock bun" that has been pervasive this season. The beautiful gowns paired with faux fur stoles remind me of the old school style in my grandmother's closet. The Pour La Victorie shoes featured in the presentation will be available for a limited time contact 1-855-PourLAV for details.
New York Fashion Week- Dennis Basso
New York Fashion Week- Rafael Cennamo Review
Rafael Cennamo's collection launched in 2006 and has since become synonymous with elegant couture. His Spring/Summer 2013 collection featured classic lines with a decidedly modern twist. With delicate pastels, the gowns boasted amazing beading detail with everything from red carpet worthy silver sequins to the most gorgeous voluminous gown, cinched at the waist with a silver belt. If you are a stylists looking to outfit clients in red-carpet wear sure to land them firmly on the best-dressed list, look no further than Cennamo for the upcoming award season.
NYFW Sears Style Bloggers Brunch
I will willingly admit Sears has not been on my radar since I was a teen and my mother took me there to buy my first bra, likely during a trip when we were buying a new vacuum cleaner or some equally practical household item. Needless to say I was curious to see what Sears had to offer so when the invite arrived to the Sears Style event, I gladly accepted and prepared to satisfy my curiosity. The Bagatelle restaurant in the meatpacking district played host to some of my favorite fashion, beauty and lifestyle bloggers and let me just say, if you have not visited the restaurant for brunch- go.now. They served truffle infused eggs that still have me dancing in my seat days later. The brunch offered attendees the opportunity to get up close and personal with the brand and this was my first time having a chance to preview the Kardashian Kollection. I loved everything about the Sears Style experience from the denim bar to the gorgeous lines of the Kardashian Kollection to the modern twists in some of the 50-year-old brands like Covington, Sears is definitely on my radar again.
Please visit Sears to shop the Kardashian Kollection.
Harlem's Fashion Row- Blogger Brunch Recap
Harlem's Fashion Row kicked off day one of NY Fashion Week by hosting a blogger brunch in conjunction with Dark and Lovely. The brunch included a panel discussion featuring hair stylist Keith Campbell, model Sessilee Lopez and designer Samantha Black and was moderated by Essence Magazine's own Corynne Corbett. The theme was "Living the fashionable dream" and the panelists offered a surprisingly intimate glimpse into their lives as they chatted about their key wins and the challenges they have encountered on their respective fashionable journeys.
Samantha Black spoke with great passion about her design career and gave pretty sound advice to up and a coming designer that was simply "don't do anything because it's a trend". Sessile Lopez was hilarious as she talked about her modeling career, her mentors- including Alek Wek and Naomi Campbell and her "crew" of fellow brown girl models who refer to themselves as "Chocolate Thunder". I don't think any of the bloggers in attendance were prepared for just how comedic Sessile is and it was refreshing to see the amazing personality behind the beautiful face. Attendees were then treated to a sneak peek of the Harlem's Fashion Row designers who will present on September 7th and each piece was as beautiful as the next.
Make sure you follow me on Instagram and Twitter @ghettofashnista for real-time NYFW updates.
Fashion's Night Out, Thursday, September 6th
Fashionista's, editors and buyers from across the globe are all prepping for New York Fashion Week. From thoughtful wardrobe selections to finding the perfect shoes that will offer equal parts form and function, there is a tremendous amount of preparation that goes into attending NYFW. Though I am excited about all of the events that surround the premier fashion event of the season, I am probably more excited about Fashion's Night Out! There is so much going on across the country that it's enough to make your head swim. I have made participating in NY's Fashion Night an annual tradition that I participate in with some of my nearest and dearest friends and this year is no exception. Fashion's Night Out takes place nationwide on Thursday, September 6th.
Here's a complete list of Fashion Night Out events http://fashionsnightout.com/fno
And of course my hometown will be hosting Baltimore Fashion's Night out and one of my favorite hand bag companies the Purse Paparazzi is a vendor the evening.
For more details on the Baltimore event check out the link below:
Win a Pair of "Red Bottoms" Courtesy of Hukkster
I am a huge fan of any contest that gives me the opportunity to win luxury items and the folks over at Hukkster are offering three lucky winners the chance to win a pair of the highly coveted Louboutins.
Hukkster is essentially an online shopping destination, which allows you to curate looks from your favorite online shops and receive notification when the looks you love go on sale!
Here's what you will need to do in order to enter:
Visit Hukkster on Facebook and request an invite to join the site by simply liking the fan page at www.facebook.com/hukkster. Once you like the page you can click on the link for the giveaway and you will be entered to win a pair of "red bottoms" valued up to $750.
Good luck!
Lane Bryant Launches New Comprehensive Campaign
Many a fashionista is excited to visit their mailboxes eagerly anticipating the arrival of the coveted September issues of their favorite magazines. With the September issues come new products, a focus on the latest trends and of course advertising and brands all vying for your attention. I for one am a huge fan of Essence Magazine and I was pleasantly surprised to get a first hand glimpse of the comprehensive re-branding of one of my favorite curvy girl shopping destinations-Lane Bryant. The premier plus sized retailer has been around for over 110 years and this fall marks the first overhaul of the companies advertising and branding since 2008.
The new campaign features a sleek logo and merges lifestyle and personal imagery with the fashion images captured by photographer Alexi Lubomirski. The tagline for the new campaign resonates "FASHION FOR EVERYDAY, STYLE JUST FOR YOU".
Here's a preview of the new Lane Bryant campaign. I for one am LOVING the leopard!
Beauty to Go with Super Styled
Hair Room Service has established themselves as the go to beauty and glam squad for celebs in Los Angeles and New York. With a list of celebrity clients including iconic talents like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga, the salon is THE place for celebs needing mobile hair, make-up and styling services. Super Styled is a new makeover show dedicated to transforming the every day woman into a super star with looks created by Michael Duenas (Hair room founder and hairstylist) make-up artist James Vincent, and celebrity manicurist Honey who are part of Hair Rooms roster of talented artist.
You can tune into the first episode by clicking on the link below and leave a comment, like or favorite the video and a randomly selected winner will be entered for a chance to win a MAC book Pro!
Gottex Resort 2013 Miami Swim Recap
The SLS pool was the sexy backdrop to the Gottex collection a show I almost missed because of the rain that pounded Miami on day 4 of swim week- I braved the rain and subsequent flooding and after having a chance to see the collection I was certainly glad I did. Elegant, colorful resort wear was di riguer in the collection and the turbans that were combined with brightly hued caftans added a distinct dash of edgy chicness to the collection. Simply put, Gottex had incredibly beautiful lines and is sure to be a go to choice of fashionistas in the upcoming resort season.
photo credit: Brian Hall, Luxe Glam Collective
Red Carter Resort 2013- Recap
This Swim Week, Miami's Native Son- Red Carter returned to the catwalk to present his latest Resort 2013 collection. From the moment the first model sauntered down the runway carrying a disco-ball and rocking hair that was very much an ode to the iconic Vidal Sassoon bob, attendees were guaranteed to be in for a treat. The collection combined disco influences with a distinct nod to the golden era of the infamous Studio 54 in NYC; combining glitz, glamour and a combination of animal prints and Aztec influences.
The final pieces were accompanied by models that were wearing feathers, which looked like a nod to Moulin Rouge or the beautiful girls who dress in pageantry for Caribbean Carnival festivals. Needless to say, Red Carter is making an indelible mark in the fashion industry with his modern touches and heavy couture influences and I am certain his influence and reach will extend even further with his recent relocation to NYC.
photo credit: Brian Hall, Luxe Glam Collective