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Simultaneously training to be a scientist and a crazy cat lady
Oh, hey, are you still here? So I've been reading these essays:
They are awesome. I particularly like the ones from John Hodgman and Patton Oswalt.
I have been listening to some of NPR's coverage of the RNC and 90 days, 90 reasons really helps to stop me from breaking my material possessions.
From what I gather from the internets, I am a slow knitter. One reason for this is that I knit English style, as opposed to Continental which is much faster. Perhaps because of this I've been putting more effort into cooking than knitting and sewing. And by cooking, I mean playing a lot of Scramble with Friends.
I've tried to teach/make myself Continental knitting. I can actually kind of do it, but because I am such a noob, it's actually SLOWER than my English style, so it makes me fall back on English style. Vicious circle! I should knit a scarf that is 100% stockinette so that I can practice. Anyone out there want a scarf that is probably going to have uneven stitches??
It's not that I don't want to knit. It's just lost it's magic or something. Like knitting and I fell into a comfortable groove, but then it got harder and harder to spend time with it and knitting started to take me for granted and bought a red sports car without asking me. Or, more likely, I just got turned off by how slow it is. It takes me forever to finish a project now. I guess I'm hitting some kind of knitter's block or maybe I'm just bad at knitting or something.
Anyway, like most couples in dire straits, I turned to the internet and specifically shopping to try to reactivate my lust for knitting. I follow a lot of knitting blogs and I saw these hat kits turn up one day in my Google Reader so I bought one. This kit is from one of the kitting world's most beloved designers so I hope it will do the trick and get me back into the knitting fold. I've never used a knitting kit for anything so it's kind of exciting.
Right now are you wondering why these pictures are so shitty? Well, let me tell you! I took these with my new (used) iPhone (3GS)! Super crappy but soooo convenient.
More on my new (old) phone later. For now, YARN! And not only yarn, but Brooklyn Tweed yarn! If you are a knitter, you should be squeeing right now with me. This is my first tactile experience with his yarn (this is Loft yarn, not Shelter).
And yes, that is an Ikea pillowcase.
If you've ever had a latke (potato pancake), you know that as far as potato products go it is tops. So deliciously crunchy, soft and tasty. Although it is not strictly Jewish, it is famously and traditionally eaten at Hanukkah because of the symbolism with the oil used to cook them. A culinary relative to the latke is the rösti (or sometimes spelled roesti). It has an umlaut and everything! You can buy frozen bags of rösti at Ikea (although it is more typically a Swiss food, rather than a Swedish food) and I always assumed it was just a latke, but there are some distinct differences. One major difference is that latkes use egg as a binding agent and rösti do not. Also, latkes are usually potato, whereas there are rösti that can be made with potato and beet or just beets. I love my root vegetables so I made a huge potato and beet rösti. It was SO easy! And unbelievably delicious. I think this can be filed under "delicious stuff to make when you're lazy and/or pressed for time."
First you have to grate a couple raw potatoes and few medium sized beets. The first time I made this I did it by hand. This part is NOT fast and easy. But the second time I used the grating function on a new tiny Cuisine Art and that was MUCH easier. Let them sit and then drain them very very well. Squeeze out as much moisture as you can. Then toss them with some chives, salt and pepper. Melt a couple of tablespoons of butter in a large frying pan.
Dump the entire contents of the bowl into the pan on top of the hot melted butter. Press it all down with a spatula and cook without moving for 10-15 minutes. While cooking, I use the spatula to press the huge pancake down all over. Once the edges start to brown, start to try to move the entire pancake as a whole by releasing the edges and pushing the whole thing around the bottom of the non-stick frying pan. Once it moves around freely, put a dish on top, flip it over, slide the pancake back in and cook the other side for another 10 minutes. I guess technically you could learn how to flip it over in the air, but the whole thing is pretty heavy (pan + potatoes + beets) so I think it'd be quite a challenge.
Flip it out and serve with sour cream and/or apple sauce! Mmmmm. So good when it's cold and wintry out. Which is when I made these. Unlike this 85 degree April weather we've been having in New England. So. Weird.
It may look huge in the pan, but seriously, the entire pancake was GONE in less than 15 minutes. Make a big one, you won't be sorry.
Scene: today at work.
We should probably just replace this broken computer with a used one from eBay.
I can try to fix the power supply myself.
Whaaaaa? Really?!
Oh yeah, he knows that stuff because he builds model planes for his hobby.
What? Really? I want to see.
(Boss goes back to his office, everyone watches the video.)
Wow, I can't do that kind of stuff.
Yeah, me neither. I know how to install batteries and plug things in to the wall, but that's about it.
Me too.
I think if the world ends, you really need someone like that, a person who knows electronics and stuff.
Yeah. At the end of the world, I'll be totally useless.
Yeah, me too. Oh wait, except I know how to garden and plant things for food.
Oh, that's good. You'll won't be useless. The only thing I can do is tell which direction is north or south from the position of the sun.
Yeah, a lot of people know how to do that, but that is very useful.
Yeah, that's it, I'm totally useless.
(realizing something is amiss)
Wait a minute, what? But you're a doctor!
Oh yeah! I forgot!
I'm pretty sure being a doctor is pretty important during the apocalypse. Although he is a cardiologist, so not an orthopedic or a cardiothoracic surgeon, but it's better than a slap in the face.
As of late last year, I became a paying member to Cook's Illustrated online, one of the three big online (and print) cooking magazines from the America's Test Kitchen family (the third one is called Cook's Country). This allows me access to all kinds of recipes, of which you have already seen some examples (i.e. almost all of my holiday cooking). Don't you love how I'm talking about my holiday cooking from Thanksgiving and Christmas when Easter is this weekend?
I follow their blog that updates daily with recipes and one of them that caught my attention was brewing ginger beer. And by caught my attention I mean, I was so excited I was hyperventilating. I LOVE ginger beer. Now, I don't love raw ginger. I know this is kind of strange for someone with a Chinese food heritage, but it's just a little unpleasant to the palate when it is naked strong and all up in your grill. I prefer ginger to be tempered with sugar or other spices, vegetables or fruit. And when fresh ginger is in gingerbread cookies and ginger beer? It's tasty to the max. Ginger beer is a delicious ginger treat of which my palate fully approves.
I was introduced to the Dark 'n' Stormy by my prep school friend with a background in sailing with her family (mainly from the East Coast to Bermuda). It's a drink that's really popular in port cities, the islands and probably most of New England. The cocktail ingredients: ginger beer, rum and lime. It's so good on a hot Summer day–super refreshing. Ever since I took the British boyfriend down the slippery slope of Dark 'n' Stormy drinking, he's been obsessed. By chance, we happened upon a ginger beer tasting at the local liquor store and we discovered that our favorite ginger beer is Fentiman's. Sadly, good ginger beer is hard to come by–Fentimans isn't available everywhere. And when you can find it, it's expensive since it's imported from Ye Olde Land. Additionally, if you happen to be British, i.e. a high functioning alcoholic, you will consume lots of drinks meaning you need lots of pricey ginger beer. Lack of good ginger beer availability resulted in his poor man's Dark 'n' Stormy which is comprised of rum and ginger ale. Does that sound gross to you? Totally makes sense because it's completely disgusting.
Thus the stage was set for my adventure into the land of flash fermentation beer brewing. I made this round of ginger beer back in November 2011. (I'm so top of my blogging.)
I don't know if I've outed myself on my blog about this but…I am a hoarder. A hoarder of bottles and containers. Anyone in my family can tell you that. I have lots and lots of empty containers stored in every place imaginable. I'm vaguely certain that this tendency is genetic because my dad also hoards well designed and possibly useful containers. It just seems very wasteful to throw them away. Knowing this you can imagine my glee when I realized that I had in my house a handful of perfect containers to brew ginger beer in–namely, used but clean Lorina lemonade bottles. I love Lorina lemonades but they are super expensive and I only buy them for parties where I know there will be some teetotalers. I had a couple of clean bottles which I washed again and kind of sanitized/sterilized them with boiling water. (PEDANTIC NERD ALERT: usually in your kitchen you are sanitizing stuff. You area almost never sterilizing anything unless you're baking something for 8 hours in a homemade autoclave. Sterilization is for manufacturing processes, hospitals and scientific research. Sanitizing glass bottles and jars is what you do when you brew your own beer and can your own tomatoes.) After sanitizing everything, I made up a triple batch of the recipe. Enough to fill three bottles.
Oh, totally easy, right? Follow the recipe but just multiply times 3? Well for those of you in the readership who are indeed the sharpest knives in the drawers you will realize that recipe on the website is for enough ginger beer to fill a 16 oz bottle and those glass mother fuckers that I have are 25.4 oz. I didn't realize this until after I made and filled them. Luckily, I was both supremely stupid and genius.
Like I mentioned earlier, I like the sharp bite of Fentimans. And because I didn't know what this recipe would taste like, I decided to make a science experiment out of it and tested out varying amounts of ginger. You can kind of see the ginger concentration in this next picture. The lowest concentration is on the left with a more clear opacity, while the 3x concentration is on the right and it is much more yellow. I only changed the amount of ginger, everything else remained constant and was made from a master mix of lemon juice and sugar water. (Gotta be a responsible kitchen scientist.) It should be mentioned here that you need a lot of elbow grease to grate that ginger root. Whew. What a workout.
I filled them up and because each bottle receives a pinch of champagne yeast for carbonation and a tiny bit of fermentation, I made sure to secure each rubber stopper as much as possible with string. I didn't want any eyeballs to be damaged in the making or drinking of ginger beer. Then they went up into the spare room (my sister's old room) for 48 hours because that room is the warmest room in the house, aka incubation chamber.
After 48 hours of fermentation and a chill down in the refrigerator, it was time to taste test the varying amounts of ginger.
Lo and behold what did we find? The recipe that contained the CORRECT amount of ginger for 25.4 oz (aka, 1.5x recipe) tasted the best! So score one for the recipe from America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Illustrated! The next time I made this, which was for a Super Bowl party that I had in February, I made 1.5x recipes in two bottles. It was delicious even though the water I used was too hot and I killed the yeast. The drink was not appropriately carbonated, but it tasted great. Note to self next time: stop being so impatient and let the boiled water cool down! Sorry for killing you, yeast.
Is that a whale measuring cup? Yes. Yes it is.
So there you have it. Delicious homemade ginger beer. Just add rum and lime. I can't wait to make this in the summer!
There's food and then there's FOOD. You know what I'm talking about. Legendary foods. Foods that appear upon high Tibetan mountain tops every 400 years. Foods that can only be created when Neptune is in line with 3 of Saturn's moons. Foods that can only be eaten after you've memorized and recited pi to the 10,000th decimal place without error. That kind of food.
In my family, there are a few foods that fall into this category. And despite my hyperbole, what I'm talking about are foods from closed restaurants or bakeries. Foods from restaurants that have a secret recipe Foods that are only available in far flung foreign places. Or even versions of foods that only taste amazing when eaten at their geographical location of origin. And finally, foods that were made by now deceased family members. (Sad.) One particular food that I tried to share with as many people as possible while it was still available was the storied and fabled EGGPLANT BREAD.
What the fuck is eggplant bread, you ask? Oh, sad and pathetic person to have never experienced eggplant bread, let me tell you what it is. It is eggplant glory. It is the tears of unicorns and the dandruff of angels. It is the most heavenly and delicious thing you have ever tasted. It fills you up, but it is still healthy and light. If there is any cheese, it is minimal. The tomato sauce in it is divine–made from tomatoes picked directly from the Carebear forest, I imagine. Right. So basically it is a type of calzone made of breaded eggplant covered in tomato sauce stuffed into bread and baked. For a vegetarian it is essentially manna, doused in ambrosia, stuffed into Zeus' stomach and baked.
I have searched the depths of the internet and I cannot for the life of me find a recipe or description even coming close to what I have come to know as eggplant bread. The cute little Italian bakery where my mother first discovered this delicious treat has been closed for years. And unfortunately because of the popularity of eggplant parm, you can't search eggplant recipes without first going through like 150 eggplant parm recipes. I can't even figure out what it is called. I mean, I assume it has a specific Italian name? I did, however, find another vaguely local Italian bakery that makes it. But oh, it was so so so very disappointing. It just didn't taste as good as the original one. Not even close. I guess I could find out the "how" of how they make it, but I really just want to taste the magnificence of that original eggplant bread.
THUS, I have embarked on an eggplant bread making, recipe uncovering quest to decipher the secrets of eggplant bread.
One big quandary was: what is the bread made out of? Is it made of bread? Is it made of pizza dough? Is it made of calzone dough? I remember the dough being inordinately smooth, which to me means that it contained a lot of oil. Also, it was quite bread like–fluffy and most definitely containing yeast. But it wasn't super thick and bready, it was still thin over the top where it stretched over the eggplant. I decided to go with a pizza dough. I started up a batch of pizza dough so that it could rise while I made breaded eggplant.
Making breaded eggplant:
I sweat slices of peeled fresh eggplant by rubbing with some salt, incubating for 15-20 minutes and then giving all the slices a hardcore pat dry with a frightening amount of paper towels. Then they go into the breading triple crown dipping station of flour, egg yolk and bread crumbs. At this point you can fry them (oily) or bake them (healthier).
After the breaded eggplant comes out of the oven you have to eat 5 of them for quality control. Obviously. Then you let them cool down a bit before making your stuffed bread.
I rolled out the pizza dough and made a mound of breaded eggplant layered with sprinkles of parmigiano reggiano and pecorino romano and generous amounts of THEMOSTDELICIOUSCANNEDTOMATOSAUCEEVAR. Seriously. Best tomato sauce from a jar ever. The Silver Palate brand. On sale now at your local Stop and Shop for $2.50 a jar. Down from $5.00, people! I think at some point I will try to make my own sauce (maybe from my canned tomatoes), but this whole recipe is so work intensive already, I had to make do with jar sauce. Did I also mention that this jar sauce was the most delicious sauce ever? It was. Also, I read the ingredients to see where crack cocaine was listed and surprisingly I didn't see any but I did see that the sauce contains PEARS. Pears!! Who knew! There must be some kind of flavor and/or manufacturing reason for this. Pear was also the last ingredient listed so it must be used sparingly.
I used about 3 layers of breaded eggplant mixed with sprinkles of cheese and generous helpings of tomato sauce (I used the entire jar). Once the layers were completed I wrapped the dough around the eggplant (making a loaf shape) and then I flipped it over and let the dough proof for about 15 minutes. I brushed it will some olive oil, egg whites and milk. Then it went into the oven for 30 minutes.
Do you see that Silbread sheet under the eggplant bread? THAT THING IS AMAZING. Seriously, it is so awesome, especially for an application like this since it lets the dough bake without getting soggy AND it lets the dough cool without it getting wet from condensation underneath! A friend gave this to me as an (early) Christmas present last year and it blew my mind. It rocks hard and she does too for being so thoughtful with her eagle eyes for new Silpat items.
It took a lot of willpower not to tear into that thing with my face, but I did let it cool overnight.
In the morning I sliced that mofo.
It totally looks like eggplant bread! And it looks super delicious, if I do say so myself.
And you know what? IT TOTALLY TASTES LIKE EGGPLANT BREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, well, it doesn't taste exactly like THE Eggplant Bread. What am I, some kind of all seeing, all knowing Kwisatz Haderach who cooks? No. But damned if I'm not pretty shocked at hitting close to the mark. It definitely tastes more like it than the eggplant bread that I found at the other Italian bakery. I think the pizza dough outside might be right. Even though I adore the sauce, it's not quite the right flavor. The breaded eggplant is delicious but not quite right. I should slice the eggplant lengthwise, not crosswise. I also had to use panko bread crumbs because that's all I had. Maybe I should make my own bread crumbs? (Omg, MORE work.) I will definitely use fine bread crumbs next time even though the panko tasted good. I will also try to use less parmesan because I don't remember it ever having a strong flavor of parmesan. After this trial run I'm under the impression that they used a lot more pecorino romano.
I can't wait to try this again. It's a lot of work, but obviously I don't mind that kind of thing. I am fairly proud of myself for figuring it out this far. I hope to solidify a real working recipe within the next 3 or 4 trials. I have some other ideas for the dough. (Ooooh, ominous! You'd better watch out, dough.)
Eggplant bread! Great success! (Borat voice.)


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I purchased my Ford F150 New in 1998 and planned on keeping and driving it until I retired. I expected that my truck was built Ford Tough and would Last, What I did not expect was that my Motor Craft Battery would last until 2011, it still cranks over but it is time to replace it. I just called the dealer to make sure I got a Craftsman Battery to replace it. I hope the next battery is as good as this one was. By the way the truck is Running as strong as the Battery and does everything you would expect a Ford Truck to do.
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Pancolitis is a form of Ulcerative Colitis that is very severe. Pan refers to the fact that the disease is spread throughout the large intestine. This is from the Cecum to the Rectum of the individual. Symptoms are very similar to those of any Ulcerative Colitis patient except more severe in nature. Additionally, people with pancolitis have a much greater risk of developing Colon Cancer. This is especially true when a patient has this chronic form of the disease for a great length of time, i.e. ten years and more.
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What can Agile teams learn from the German World Cup champions?
After a month of binge-watching football let the hangover begin.
The runners-up match the day before — between Holland and Brazil to determine who finishes in 3rd place — can only serve to separate the truly addicted from the merely interested. I devoured that game like I had the previous 62.. but ask me today who came third in 2010. I can't tell you and I'll probably forget at some point that Holland came third this year
I was happy to see Germany win against Argentina in the final — I have some German friends, a European team has never triumphed in South America and this is the first win as a unified country. When the Germans last won in 1990 it was as West Germany in a divided nation.
So Glückwünsche Germany… you deserve to be world champions.
During the week the Evening Standard in London published an article examining the German squad and the ingredients to their success.
I've linked to the article here in full resolution. I found the newspaper on an Underground train and took it home to scan the article. Immediately I could see lessons to learn for my teams at work.
What can Agile teams learn from the World Cup champions?
Organise, organise, organise
Perhaps the over-riding Germanic characteristic — the football squad was fantastically organised.
Agile teams can learn from this — Agile is not a byword for anarchy and Agile is not an excuse not to plan or not to organise. There are many opportunities to do this in an Agile squad, from the cadence of regular ceremonies to the hygiene of the product backlog and the presentation of the team board. Be organised.
Always prepare
I believe the German team won because of their formation, discipline and routine. They didn't have a single standout player like a Messi or Neymar or *cough* Rooney.
The German team were well prepared as should your Agile team be.
Teams reach a level of high performance once routines that add value become ingrained into the team — like a muscle memory.
Pair programming, writing testable code and accompanying automated tests. Good communication. These things don't happen, they are practices that need to be taught, honed and integrated until they are routine.
Be direct
My favourite! I've bought copies of Patrick M. Lencioni's book The 5 dysfunctions of a teamfor the teams that I work with and I encourage everyone to read it.
It describes high performance teams and the absence of traits that could kill high performance. For example — if a team has Absence of trust that leads to Invulnerability. The presence of Invulnerability leads to Fear of conflict.
You can see the model below but please run… don't walk… and buy that book for your team.
Work as a team
For me this is the most telling attribute of the German team. I'd heard of only a few German players before but they won because the sum of their power and skill was greater than the 11 component parts.
Does your team perform as a whole better than the sum of the individual efforts?
Act clinically
The Evening Standard introduced the German word for ruthlessness (Unbarmherzigkeit) which I'd use more often if enunciation wasn't such an issue! :-)
This unbarmherzigkeit is what lead to a 7-1 demolition of hosts Brazil in the semi-finals and I'd like to see my team be more ruthless… in the right way.
The reason that my team switched from abstract story points to cycle time (elapsed time from starting a feature until it's acceptance) is that we can be more ruthless in the elimination of wasteful activity.
Moving from "We complete 20 points in a sprint" with the associated opportunities to fluff and pad and alter estimates to our current system of "Our cycle time for features is 6 days" exposes wasteful activity. It gives the team a chance to be predictable, have a target to aim for and to be ruthless in its execution.
Be disciplined
To keep this article short.. lets roll up all of the above under the heading "Be disciplined." I think it works anyway.
Teams should be organised in their artefacts (stories, backlogs, team boards) and in their practices (design, build, test, deploy).
Teams should discover which practices work for them and incorporate them into their working agreements and daily routine. By regularly practicing good practice simply becomes muscle memory.
Teams should have a shared purpose and objective and should be comfortable enough with each other to highlight negative behaviour without it becoming personal or vindictive.
Teams should be ruthless in their execution. Train hard and execute well now when the pressure is off and you'll execute well when it's a week from the end of the release and you need to make late changes.
All of the above takes discipline from the team, from the ScrumMaster, Agile Coach and management team.
And lastly…
Doing well in the previous sprint is no guarantee that you'll do well this time around.
Team performance suffers hugely through atrophy and you have to actively keep improving through introspection.. even to keep performance level.
Be humble and always on the lookout for ways to improve. Retrospectives help.
In summary…
So the World Cup is over and so are my hopes that England can put together a decent team for 2018.
During the next 4 years I'll be concentrating on applying the learnings from this years World Champions to the Agile teams that I work with.
I hope you do too!


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Treacherous Three in Bermuda 1984
Listen to The Treacherous Three and DJ Easy Lee rock many of their hits including "Body Rock", "Whip It", "We'll Turn You On", "Action", "Get Up" and "Feel the Heartbeat". They also drop some freestyle verses over RUN DMC's "Sucker MC's"....
Hip Hop Legends Honored in NYC
The New York City Council is honoring several hip hop legends this week with official proclamations for their contributions to NYC history. The honorees include Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Melle Mel, and the recently past Pete "DJ"...
DMC To Appear on Travel Channel's Toy Hunter
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Pete DJ Jones Passes Away
Hip Hop Historian Mark Skillz is reporting that Hip Hop Pioneer Pete DJ Jones has passed away. While not a name that ranks with likes of Grandmaster Flash or Kool Herc, Pete was a very early DJ that introduced many people to art of keeping the beat flowing with two...
OldSchoolHipHop.Com Celebrates 15 Years Online
It was December 1, 1998 when a site called "To the Beat Y'all" first hit the net with a simple idea: preserve the legacy of hip hop pioneers.


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Andrew Wiggins basically went out and crowned the Kentucky Wildcats as next years national champion if he chooses UK. His comments at first glance, make it seem obvious he's at least leaning towards forming perhaps the greatest college basketball recruiting class of all time. Here's what he had to say:
"If I went to that team we'd win it all, for sure, because there's nothing anyone can do with me,Julius [Randle], the Harrison twins, Marcus Lee, Dakari [Johnson] and James Young.That's something special." Zags Blog
Doesn't sound good unless you're a Kentucky fan, and I'm betting most of you are not. At the same time, Wiggins has completely evaded revealing any type of clue as to where he intends on playing his college basketball. I'm reminded of the Harrison Barnes recruitment, all the "experts" and most fans had him in Duke blue until he skyped Roy Williams and told him he was headed to Carolina.
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The point here is nobody knows, maybe Wiggins has made his choice, maybe he's still mulling it over. In any case I expect that only Wiggins himself, his parents and his high school coach truly know what is going on here, the rest is just pure speculation.


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Did that really just happen? Did Demi really flirt back when Nick flirted with her? He couldn't keep the smile off of his face and he didn't care. Cameras were flashing anyway, so why not capture his smile while it's around for a bit? It only really comes out when he's with Demi anyway.
After taking a million pictures, the Jonas Brothers, their family, Demi, and everyone else filled the theater to watch the premiere of the Jonas Brothers 3D Concert Experience. To make Nick's day go even better, Demi sits next to him.
Nick doesn't even remember watching the movie. He and Demi were giving their own commentary and trying not to burst out into laughter throughout the entire thing.
Soon, Demi's on screen with them performing This Is Me. Nick can't help but watch that girl up there and then look at the woman next to him. It's not even been a year since they filmed it and Demi's already changed her look. Instead of brown hair, it's black, and she has grown out her bangs. Nick can't help but think that she's gorgeous no matter what.
That's when he realizes that he's in love with her.
They've stopped with their commentary and are actually watching the movie when Nick leans over and whispers in her ear, "You look amazing tonight by the way."
Demi blushes at his compliment and gives him a quiet thanks.
And, since Nick is having the best day ever, he decides to try his luck one more time. His hand slowly inches toward hers on the arm rest and soon his fingers are intertwined with hers. She doesn't object and Nick even thinks he sees the corners of her mouth turning into a smile, which makes him smile as well.
In the dark of the movie theater, Nick and Demi kept their hands together for the rest of the movie without anyone knowing. And for a moment, they felt like normal teenagers.


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Darlene LeWayne Drager, 71, of Findlay passed away at 12:10 PM Monday, June 16, 2014 at the Bridge Hospice Care Center.
She was born to the late Lawrence and Vera (Grover) Baker on Jan. 27, 1943 in Toledo, Ohio. On June 15, 1962, she married Evan William "Bill" Drager, and they celebrated 52 years of marriage. Along with her husband, she is survived by two sons, Kerry (Linda) Drager of MD and Kelly Drager of VA; two daughters, Fawn Brickner of NY and Michelle (Steven) Doyle of MD; grandchildren, Heather (Joseph) Nappi; Nick Drager; Ryan Drager; Stephanie Lyons; Sean Drager; Joshua Beatty and Matthew Beatty and two great-grandchildren, DJ and Matthew Nappi; three brothers, Clayton (Donna) Baker; Clarence (Pam) Baker and Jimmy (Shirley) Baker and six sisters, Diane (Richard) McClellan of Bloomdale; Sharon (Sam) Peavler of McComb; Candy (David) Greeno of Arlington; Kathleen (Benjamin) VanScoder of Portage; Linda (Paul) Barfell of Findlay and Melissa (John) Mettler of North Baltimore. She was also preceded in death by two brothers, Lawrence E. Baker, Jr. and John A. Baker and a sister, Elizabeth J. Baker.
Darlene served her country proudly from Feb. 2, 1962-December 10, 1962 in the US Navy. She retired from Measurex-DMC as a buyer.
Visitation will be held from 2:00-4:00 PM & 6:00-8:00 PM Thursday, June 19, 2014 at COLDREN-CRATES FUNERAL HOME where the service will be held at 1:00 PM Friday, June 20, 2014. Pastor Jerry Kellogg will officiate and burial will follow in Jerry City Cemetery where the Hancock County Veterans Memorial Squad will present full military rites.
Memorials may be made to a charity of the donor's choice and online condolences may be shared via:www.coldrencrates.com.
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Miano said the town has identified 23 group homes in Merrillville, but there could be others the municipality doesn't know exist.
Requiring group homes to register with Merrillville would create an accurate listing of the facilities and their locations, advocates of the proposal said. If an ordinance is adopted, Merrillville wouldn't charge a registration fee, Miano said.
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In Part I we looked at domestic anomalies in the official account of the Tsarnaevs' activities pre-bombing. Now we turn to overseas.
The Globe duplicates reports that immediately after the Waltham murders, Tamerlan announced to friends he was going to Dagestan.
Think about this for a minute. A man who before bloody murders in his close circle of friends had casually mentioned the FBI had him on a terror-watch list, weeks after the crime says that heading to a foreign hotspot of strife is next on his to-do list.
Then Tamerlan does it. By January 2012 he is in Dagestan. How did he pay for it? An unemployed father of a young daughter, his wife working as an in-home aide to be able to afford an 800-square foot apartment, up and decamps half a world away. The Globe does not wonder about this.
Here we must conjecture that the paper was told off-the-record by US investigators that they believe Tamerlan paid for the trip with proceeds from robbing the Waltham victims — even though $5000 in cash was left in the apartment, but that the claim could not be reported. Presumably if the Globe had been told or turned up evidence that Jahar's own drug-dealing proceeds funded his brother's trip to Dagestan, the paper would have reported that. But in either case, our thesis that — at the time — the Tsarnaevs were operating under a federal halo remains intact.
More so by the simple fact that Tamerlan was allowed to go to Dagestan. Knowing what we now know about federal spying programs in the wake of Snowden documents, it is simply inconceivable that the US security state did not know that FBI-interviewee Tamerlan was on his way to a locale inflamed with Islamic radicalism.
From here the Globe narrative becomes fascinating:
Tamerlan fell in with members of the Union of the Just, a group that campaigns against human rights violations against Muslims, and is led by a third cousin on his mother's side, Magomed Kartashov. Some of its members follow a strict interpretation of Islam, and believe in the establishment of an Islamic caliphate governed by sharia religious law that would span the Caucasus. They are sharply critical of US interventions in Muslim countries, believe the US government condones the burning of Korans, and have had run-ins with Russian authorities — but they do not openly espouse violence. Tamerlan, they say, arrived with a lot of questions about Islam and wanted to learn how to better express his faith.
"He was at the beginning of his path. He was mostly a listener, a searcher, he was looking for answers," said Mukhamad Magomedov, deputy leader of the group.
Tamerlan spent a lot of time hanging with the Union of the Just members, praying with them and studying the Koran. Also, playing soccer and fooling around. Some of his new friends have pictures of Tamerlan at a Caspian Sea beach, playfully buried in the sand, and attending a wedding. They gave him a second name, Muaz, after an early Islamic scholar, a name he would later use for his YouTube account.
But if Tamerlan was hoping to fit in with Muslims in Dagestan, he did not succeed. Part of it was, yet again, his curious appearance. He wore a long shirt of the type favored by Pakistanis, according to his friends there. He combed his hair with olive oil and darkened his eyes with kohl shadow, practices followed by devout Sunnis in some cultures, but not in Dagestan. Local young Muslims wear track suits and T-shirts and are distinguishable only by their long beards.
Tamerlan's demeanor differed in other ways as well. Speaking in English-inflected Russian, he would smile broadly and chat up strangers, neither of which are common acts on the streets of Dagestan. He also made a show of giving money to beggars on the street, something rarely done by locals.
"What gave him away was his appearance," Magomedov said. "He didn't try to adapt."
Tamerlan also began praying at a mosque attended by Salafi Muslims, a strict, orthodox Sunni sect whose members, authorities believe, often aid the armed insurgency.
There, Russian authorities say, he met with members of the insurgency.
Such contact, according to Russia's Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, was Tamerlan's real motive in coming to Dagestan. The FSB account has it that Tamerlan's name came up during the interrogation of a Canadian national named William Plotnikov, who was suspected of being a member of the underground. Investigators also maintain that Plotnikov and Tamerlan communicated via an Internet site for Muslims. This version of events has it that the bombings could have been prevented had US intelligence heeded warnings the Russians sent US authorities about Tamerlan in 2011 and 2012.
Russian authorities have said that Tamerlan, possibly through Plotnikov, made contact in Dagestan with an alleged recruiter for the underground named Makhmud Mansur Nidal, who was killed in a firefight with security forces in May 2012. Plotnikov was killed in a counterterrorist raid in July, days before Tamerlan left Dagestan and returned to the United States.
The common-sense reading of this account supports the theory that a clumsy, unschooled Tamerlan was sent to Dagestan by the US security state to infiltrate radical Islamic groups — and that the Russians cleaned up behind him as he went. Then, either because his mission was over, or because he feared he was next — he bolted back to the US. And was allowed back in.
Yet the Globe takes pains to shoot down its own reporting which supports this theory. Instead of ruminating on what this series of events suggests, the paper calls the timeline's veracity into question:
But several observers have raised doubts about the FSB version. They say it would have been difficult, if not impossible, for Tamerlan to have met with members of the underground without drawing attention. And if the FSB already suspected Tamerlan of seeking such contacts, they would ordinarily have been watching him very closely, said Andrei Soldatov, a leading Russian analyst of the FSB.
"Knowing of Tamerlan's suspicious contacts in Dagestan in 2012 and having suspected him as early as 2011, it is unclear what prevented the FSB from seizing him when he was leaving Russia," Soldatov said.
Andrei Soldatov is an interesting choice to question this narrative. Soldatov is an implacable foe of Russian security services, no doubt. Pre-Snowden Soldatov warned of Russia's cyberwar capabilities, but post-Snowden flipped to downplaying the threat posed by the NSA doing the exact same thing.
And in April, Soldatov penned a column for the The Moscow Times that was an odd split-the-difference account of the Boston bombing which accused the FSB of doing nothing in response to Tamerlan's trip to Dagestan — without mentioning the Islamic radicals who were dropping dead as Tamerlan tried to meet them!
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But for some reason, the FBI did not pick up on any of these signals and failed to place the Tsarnaev brothers under close surveillance during the two years before they committed the Boston attack. Hopefully, the U.S. investigation into the FBI's failures will shed more light on why it dropped the ball.
Oh, well. For some reason.
But back to Soldatov's assertion that the FSB account of events in Dagestan is suspect because the Russians did not pick up Tamerlan. Here is what Soldatov told the NYT about the Ryan Fogle incident in May 2013, involving a US embassy employee caught in an apparent FSB spy sting:
Had the Russians viewed Mr. Fogle as a serious threat, Mr. Soldatov and other intelligence experts said, they most likely would have stepped back and let his apparent recruitment effort continue, and perhaps even led him to believe that he had successfully enlisted a double agent, pocketing the money while trying to learn more about the Americans' interests.
Here in the case of Fogle, Soldatov argues that serious threats are not picked up by the FSB, but are given run to gather additional intelligence — and presumably roll up threatening networks. Or, precisely what it appears the FSB did in response to Tamerlan's Dagestan adventure the year prior.
But impeaching Soldatov's indictment of the FSB account of Tamerlan is not enough to show that US security services knew about and to some extent directed Tamerlan's movements during his Dagestan excursion. The following passage comes very close, however:
If US investigators suspected that Tamerlan had actually met with insurgents, Magomedov and other members of the Union of the Just said, they never brought it up when they interviewed Tamerlan's friends in Dagestan in June. The friends said they were never asked about Nidal or Plotnikov. This claim is supported by a three-hour recording of an interview by two FBI agents with one of Tamerlan's friends in June, which the Globe was able to listen to. The names never come up.
Perhaps the names did not come up because the US already knew who Tamerlan had met with — and why. And asking about these meetings may have spun out in uncontrollable and unwanted ways. With this credulous sidestep the Globe pushes the theory that the Tsarnaevs were a wholly disconnected and domestic phenomenon — a theory that is totally at odds with the American state's de facto stance in its Global War on Terror.
Virtually everything the US security state does today is based on the theory that there exists a global conspiracy to do harm to American citizens. Yet when confronted with the reality of a deadly attack on US soil, the official narrative becomes – with a big assist from the Globe — just a couple of misfit brothers out to do bad. Pay no attention to that trip to Dagestan — we didn't even ask questions about potential radical associates there — might as well have been an interview session in Omaha or Detroit.
What would make these guys go bad? We have no idea.
Here is an idea.
Following the FSB tip-off, the FBI interviewed Tamerlan in January 2011. In addition, a deep probe of his online activities was doubtless undertaken. His family's financial struggles would have been noted, as well as his high-performing high school student younger brother who, unlike Tamerlan possessed a green card. Although both brothers had been granted asylum in the US, they had different immigration status. Tamerlan still traveled on his Russian passport and would renew it during his trip to Dagestan, making him potentially a valuable asset going forward. Jahar, on the other hand, would be granted his citizenship in September 2012, making the brothers a very flexible yet vulnerable combo in terms of intelligence potential.
Both brothers applied for citizenship, Tamerlan doing so shortly after he returned from Dagestan and almost immediately after Jahar got his application approved after a standard Department of Homeland Security background check – and interesting flurry of activity to say the least. However, DHS flagged Tamerlan's application for precisely that FBI interview with him in January 2011 that found him to be no threat. Tamerlan was in limbo. And perhaps feeling double-crossed.
If he had undertaken the trip to Dagestan at the behest of federal operatives, with the implication being that his US citizenship would be his reward upon his return, Tamerlan would be furious over this turn of events. Perhaps more so if it was relayed to him that his federal contacts wanted him to make another foray overseas, with his freshly renewed Russian passport providing the means.
By November 2012 Tamerlan was making himself known by loudly denouncing the West in Muslim circles in Cambridge. Perhaps these outbursts were an honest reflection of his feelings – or an attempt to generate sufficient backstory for another foreign adventure. Meanwhile, Jahar was failing out of school and not even his drug profits could keep him from falling thousands of dollars in debt, putting him squarely in the category of desperate as well. The consensus reportage is that by February 2013 the brothers had started down their bomb plot path.
The key period then becomes December 2012 into January 2013. Were the two Chechen brothers presented with final recruitment offer – or demand – from US security services? Conversely, were they simply ignored – all contact dropped after Tamerlan's return from his Dagestan misadventure in August 2012, with a final snub being the arrest of their sister Bella in New Jersey on marijuana distribution charges – in December 2012?
Jahar's trial might begin to answer some of these questions. But the first step is knowing the definitive history of the House of Tsarnaev has yet to be written.
Post-Script will examine some other odd aspects of the official account, which taken together, do not seem to point in any particular direction, but suggest much is still being kept secret by government officials.
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The World Economic Forum said Wednesday that the BRICS countries, despite their booming economies, are lagging behind their rivals when it comes to capitalizing on Internet technologies.
The Switzerland-based non-profit group released a report highlighting that the world's most developed countries dominate the top of a "networked readiness" list while the highest ranking BRICS nation was China in 51st place.
The acronym "BRICS" is used to refer to surging economies in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Although BRICS are fiercely competitive in the global arena, they are hampered by challenges when it comes to adopting information and communications technology (ICT), according to the "Living in a Hyperconnected World" report.
A lack of skilled workers and shortcomings in institutional environments for businesses were cited as factors stifling entrepreneurship and innovation.
The forum's chief business officer Robert Greenhill said the Internet was causing a shake-up for traditional organizations and "we are beginning to see fundamental transformations in all areas of the economy and society."
Sweden was ranked highest in networked readiness, followed by Singapore, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Norway.
The United States was in eighth place, with Canada and Britain rounding out the top 10 list.
The Networked Readiness Index combined data from publicly available sources with feedback from a survey of more than 15,000 executives.
Today's one-day annual summit of the so-called Brics countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has received scant attention in the west. That may be because the grouping has achieved little in concrete terms since its inception in 2009. Critics deride it as a photo-op and talking shop.
But this neglect, or disdain, may also reflect the fact that the Brics, representing almost half the world's population and about one-fifth of global economic output, pose an unwelcome challenge to the established world order as defined by the US-dominated UN security council, the IMF and the World Bank. The truth of the matter probably lies somewhere in-between. The five national leaders – presidents Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Dmitri Medvedev of Russia, Hu Jintao of China and Jacob Zuma of South Africa and their host in Delhi, India's prime minister Manmohan Singh – are not noted for iconoclastic radicalism.
Rousseff has been the most outspoken, insisting that developing countries must be protected from the global "tsunami" of cheap money, unleashed by the US and the EU in the wake of the financial crisis, that was rendering their exports less competitive. "We will defend our industry and prevent the methods developed countries use to escape from crisis resulting in the cannibalisation of emerging markets," she said this month.
Brics boosters project a grandiose vision. India's commerce secretary, Anand Sharma, said this week the group sought nothing less than "to create a new global architecture". But commentators interpret such ambitions as essentially anti-American hot air. Pointing to a signal lack of substantive policy agreements, they suggest a desire to counter Washington's global dominance is the Brics' sole unifying objective.
"There are calls to establish a permanent secretariat and even a development bank in an effort to bolster the grouping's political impact,"wrote Walter Ladwig of the Royal United Services Institute. "But this focus on institution-building is misplaced. It is the fundamental incompatibility of the Brics nations, not their lack of organisation, which prevents [them] acting as a meaningful force on the world stage". Ladwig continued: "Beyond the issues of economic governance, in many key areas the Brics nations are actually in strategic competition. Within Asia, India and Russia are potential obstacles to China's presumed regional dominance. At the international level, Russia, Brazil and India desire the emergence of a multipolar international system in which they are major actors, with the latter two seeking membership in an expanded UN security council.
"In contrast, China aims for a bipolar world in which it serves as the counterbalance to American power." So far, Beijing has opposed India's bid for a permanent security council seat.
South Africa will this week take some initial steps to unseat the US dollar as the preferred worldwide currency for trade and investment in emerging economies.
Thus, the nation is expected to become party to endorsing the Chinese currency, the renminbi, as the currency of trade in emerging markets.
This means getting a renminbi-denominated bank account, in addition to a dollar account, could be an advantage for African businesses that seek to do business in the emerging markets.
The move is set to challenge the supremacy of the US dollar. This, experts say, is the latest salvo in the greatest worldwide currency war since the 1930s.
In the 30s, several nations competitively devalued their currencies to give their domestic economies an advantage over others.
And this led to a worldwide decline in overall trade volumes at the time.
The north will be pitted against the entire south in a historic competitive currency battle – whose terrain has moved to the Indian capital New Dehli – where the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India China and South Africa) nations will assemble next week.
China seeks to find new markets for its currency and to lobby to internationalise it throughout the Brics states.


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Introvert? Don't Shy Away from Evangelism
- Thursday, May 14, 2009
Overcome your fears. Face your fears about evangelism: from being the focus of attention and wondering how you're being perceived to being embarrassed after saying the wrong thing and risking rejection for what you say. Notice the common element that runs through all those fears – a focus on yourself. Shift your focus outward, toward the people you hope to reach for Christ and their needs. Remember that God will empower you do whatever He calls you to do, so you won't have to try to muster enough strength on your own. Instead, simply pray for God to work through you, and trust Him to do so. Focus on loving the people you're trying to reach rather than your technique in reaching them, because perfect love drives out fear. Pray about your fears and expect God to help you, working through you in powerful ways.
Become a channel of God's grace to people. You can communicate God's grace to unbelievers in ways they'll understand if you pray for the wisdom to do so well. Keep in mind that you don't always have to communicate through speaking; you can share your faith in powerful ways through writing, as well (such as through e-mailing non-Christian friends). Stay close to God so you can see where He wants to use you and how He wants you to respond in each situation. Relax and let God work through you in His way, in His time, and in His strength.
Make Jesus your role model for evangelism. Just as Jesus turned ordinary encounters into supernatural appointments, you can minister to people you encounter while going about your daily life. Be available to respond to needs as they arise, in the way that you're wired to meet those needs. Remember that you don't have to meet every need that's out there – just the ones that God puts in your path. Just as Jesus met people where they were and moved them one step closer to God, you can do the same. Ask God to help you avoid distractions, be completely present with each person, and be sensitive to what God wants to do through our conversation. Just as Jesus prayed often to His Father, you need to pray often for God to minister through you. Spend plenty of focused time with God in prayer, so He'll work through your life to draw others to Himself.
Listen well. Approach each conversation you have with unbelievers with the mindset of learning something from them rather than worrying about how to accomplish your agenda with them. View them as people to get to know better and love rather than as projects to complete. Keep in mind that unbelievers have valuable knowledge and experience you don't have. Give them a chance to share it with you. When you listen to them, you'll build trust between you, which will gradually make them open to hearing what you have to say about faith in Christ.
Resist Satan's schemes. Stay alert to what Satan is trying to do to interfere with your efforts to share your faith. He wants you to be distracted, so stay focused on what's most important. He wants you and your fellow Christians to be divided, so don't compare your gifts to others and guard against jealousy and pride. He wants you to be deceived, so spend time regularly reading the Bible so you'll know the truth and be able to apply it to any situation. He wants you to be discouraged, so remember God's promise to always be with you and pray for the courage you need to share your faith well. If you resist Satan, he will flee from you.
Influence people. You don't need to be concerned about trying to control or coerce people into coming to faith in Christ. All you should do is aim to influence them by introducing them to Christ and encourage them to develop their own relationships with Him. You can do that naturally by simply finding common ground in the relationships you have with others. Share more than just the religious part of your life with others; show them how your faith permeates your entire life by discussing all subjects with them – parenting, your job topics, news events, etc. Ask God to reveal the needs of the people He brings into your path. Build friendships with them so they'll trust you enough to open up to you and discuss their real concerns. Offer to pray for them. Let them see how you handle similar challenges in your own life. When they observe how your relationship with Christ makes a positive difference in your life, they'll be drawn to Him themselves.
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We just came back from the Nordlicht 2014 Demoparty in Bremen and recently we also had the honor to play at the Revision 2014 party in Saarbrücken, it's been great experience so far to party with real Sceners so we are proud to announce another Demoparty Label showcase for this Summer, this time we will be with in Cologne at the Evoke '14 on the opening night with a full line-up on the 8th of August. More info at the official Evoke site.First compilation out on Bleepstreet
Woosh! Another year is gone and we are already feeling quite nostalgic about our previous releases. We had to do something about it so we are proud to present our first Digital Music Compilation with 13 Tracks featuring killer tunes by Goto80, Bacalao, Covox, Henry Homesweet and more! /// Exclusively available for the first week on Bandcamp only! Enjoy!cTrix releases 7 track digital EP
A release to experience the fascinating Amiga golden age of the 90s. "A for Amiga" is the first EP by cTrix on Bleepstreet and it's released exclusively on Bandcamp for the first week(s). This 7 track EP was tracked on an Amiga 500 and mixed on tape on the highest end studio gear. Download it now and get lost in every song of this amazing masterpiece!BLEEPST23 – BOX MODEL EP
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He's from Telluride, Colorado.
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He's making America proud in Sochi, and we're all too happy to send our Valentine's Day affection to Russia, with love!
Did they make this list just for us? Maybe…
@TheNorthFace revealed the new US Olympic Freestyle uniform for the Sochi games:
"The U.S. Freeski Team unveiled on Monday (October 28) their official 2014 competition uniforms, which will be worn by American freeskiing athletes when the sport makes its historic debut at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games next February.
The red, white, and blue gear was developed separately for all three freeskiing disciplines - halfpipe, slopestyle and skicross - by The North Face. It marks the first time that the outdoor clothing company has ventured into the Olympic realm."
We're waiting to see how The North Face feels about Russia's anti-gay laws; their parent corporation VF Corp has a dismal 15 (out of 100) on the Human Rights Campaign Equality Index.
SHE WAS ALWAYS the person who brought everyone else together — the magnet, friends called her — so they traveled from across the world to see Sarah Burke one final time. High school classmates came from the East Coast, and family members flew in from Canada. Professional athletes traveled from Norway, Sweden and Japan. They arrived en masse at a hospital in Park City, Utah, spilling from Burke's room into the general waiting area and the hallways until, finally, doctors found a conference room big enough to accommodate them.
For nine terrible days in January, they sat there, waited and prayed. They rehashed questions that made no sense.
How could they remain hopeful when the most optimistic among them was lying unresponsive in the other room?
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The Indianapolis Colts continued their season of impressive wins with a victory over the undefeated Denver Broncos. More importantly, the Colts spoiled Peyton Manning's homecoming with 39-33 win.
The Colts (5-2) have now beaten three teams that are favorites to go to the Super Bowl. San Francisco, Seattle, and now Denver have all fallen to Indianapolis. If the playoffs started today, the Colts would be the three seed and the Broncos fifth.
While the win was impressive, it was tainted with the loss of Reggie Wayne who is done for the season with a torn ACL. Losing Wayne has made it feel as if the Colts didn't win Sunday night. Wayne played in 189 straight games for the Colts, the only player to have played in more games in Indianapolis now quarterbacks the Broncos.
Here's what we took away from Sunday night's win:
- Reggie Wayne. It's impossible to accurately state what Wayne means to this team. The fact that he decided to stick around with the new regime speaks volumes. He is a consummate professional who is still productive at 34. Losing him is a devastating blow for the Colts and its going to be difficult to replace him on the field. He is one of the few players that the Colts couldn't afford to lose. How this team and its coaches respond following his loss will speak volumes about Indy's ceiling. Hearing the fans chant "REG-GIE" as he is down on the field gave me chills.
- Andrew Luck. Luck didn't have his most amazing game, but four touchdowns and no turnovers is really impressive. He continues to make outstanding plays on the field. Hopefully he won't keep kicking himself over the throw that led to Wayne's injury. That kinda The Colts now lack a reliable possession receiver without Wayne and my biggest fear is that the Colts shell up and go with run heavy sets from here on out. That would negate all the positives we saw on Sunday night. When the Colts let Luck do his thing, they were incredibly productive and able to move the ball with ease. The win earned Luck AFC Offensive Player of the Week honors as well.
- Pep Hamilton. In the first quarter I was cursing his name. I questioned his abilities as an offensive coordinator in the NFL as he was telegraphing his plays, taking TY Hilton off the field and being too conservative. But as the game progressed he pulled out some amazing plays. The flat pass on a fake end around to Darrius Heyward-Bey was amazing. He did a great job exploiting the Broncos weaknesses. What makes him so frustrating is when he reverts to plays that simply don't work. Sure, Stanley Havili had a solid game, but he shouldn't be a featured player. The Colts are better at running the ball when he's on the sideline. The Colts need to run plays that suit their strengths more often and they need to recognize that the middle of the offensive line isn't that good. Hamilton has room to grow, and hopefully he'll become more creative and let Luck cut lose more often.
- Pass Rush. Manning is notoriously difficult to sack due to his quick release. He is the perfect example of how sacks are just as much a product of the the quarterback as the offensive line (a skill that Luck sorely needs to develop). He was sacked four times by the Colts, nearly double the number of times he's been sacked all season. Robert Mathis was a monster with two sacks, a fumble, and four QB hits. He wanted that first sack more than anything in his entire life, too. It wasn't just Mathis, either. The pocket around Manning was small all night he was hit 10 times. The constant pressure and great coverage down field led to Manning's lowest completion percentage all season.
- The Boomstick. Pat McAfee was a beast. After a horrible punt early in the game, he was booming them all night. But the best moment was when he knocked the hell out of Trindon Holliday on a kickoff return. McAfee averaged 48.9 yards per punt Sunday and four of his eight kickoffs were touchbacks. His season hasn't been that great, but he brought it Sunday night.
- Jim Irsay. Is it possible his inane and annoying comments were a ploy to create a distraction that not only disrupted Manning but also took the focus off his team? Its four days later and ESPN is still talking about Irsay's pre- and post game comments. How much talk was there about this Colts team and what they could accomplish last week? Luck barely even had to answer questions about following in Manning's footsteps. Yes, Irsay created a spectacle and said a lot of things that many don't agree with, but the Colts were the team that was more focused and driven. Irsay has been around the block a few times, making the media focus on the owner over the team sounds a lot like master level gamesmanship in hindsight (now, if only someone would change his twitter password).
- The Fans. Indy fans can be the absolute best fans in the world, and they proved it Sunday night. I was worried that too many Colts fans were in reality Peyton Manning fans. Its evident with all the orange #18 jerseys running around town. But after a standing ovation for Manning before the game, that stadium became an extremely hostile environment for the former hero. As many posted on twitter, it took them multiple days to recover from the game and some fans don't have a voice four days later. It was a playoff atmosphere and as loud as Lucas Oil has ever been. Every Denver snap was met with a deafening roar that didn't abate even after successful plays. The most surreal moment had to be the loud cheers every time Manning was sacked.
The Colts have a bye week to get healthy after a plethora of minor injuries against the Broncos. Up next will be a trip to Houston to face the 2-5 Texans for another Sunday night game.
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Chicago Police issued an alert warning North Side residents about a series of armed robberies in Lake View and neighboring areas in the late-night and early morning hours over the past couple of weeks.
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