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Chargers midseason report
Chargers midseason
Randy McMichael wears the Chargers' record on his face.
Needless to say, lately, he hasn't been smiling.
A blowout win over the Chiefs on Thursday night hardly changed the veteran tight end's expression, as it pushed the Chargers to 4-4 at the halfway point of their season.
In the days leading up, multiple teammates checked on McMichael with concern.
Why are you so mad?
"I have nothing to smile about," McMichael, 33, said. "I have nothing to smile about. I'm pissed — and I'm still pissed — because I know where we should be, and we should not be where we're at.
"I'm an emotional person who wears his emotions. You know when something's going on, and I was upset. I was pissed. They know me now. They leave me alone. That's just Randy being an old grumpy man. Just leave him alone. He'll be ready by Thursday night."
A three-game losing streak is now behind the Chargers.
Eight games are ahead, and what they do with them will define a season that has all its hopes and goals from the spring and summer intact.
In a division with the Broncos, there's no waiting.
It's time to go. Get on a roll. Win.
Give themselves something to smile about.
Michael Gehlken
What went right on defense
Every projected starter was in the lineup for all eight games, making John Pagano's unit one of the NFL's healthiest. Pagano showed varied blitzes. The defense powered each victory over the Chiefs, amassing three touchdowns and 10 turnovers. First-half dominance of the Titans led to a blowout, and in the opening victory, Oakland didn't score a touchdown until the final minute. Donald Butler (sack, interception-touchdown, 35 tackles), Eric Weddle (two interceptions, two forced fumbles, one sack) and Corey Liuget (two sacks, one fumble recovery, six passes defended) were versatile playmakers. Quentin Jammer lent firm run support and notched his first career touchdown. Shaun Phillips had five sacks. Aubrayo Franklin anchored a top-5 run defense, and rookie Melvin Ingram flashed big-play potential.
Top-drawer quarterbacks went 3-0 against the Chargers. The defense, vulnerable to double-moves, allowed Drew Brees and Peyton Manning to rally their teams to victories. In the Week 3, 27-3 loss to Atlanta, which is still unbeaten, pass defenders didn't match up physically with Matt Ryan's pass-catchers. In the loss at Cleveland, rookie Trent Richardson broke two tackles to score the game's only touchdown. Ingram, leading with the crown of his helmet, was flagged for a personal foul in the opener, and a similar offense in Week 5 turned the game at New Orleans. With 13 sacks, the Chargers are tied for 22nd in the league. Shareece Wright, a nickel back and potential candidate to push Antoine Cason for snaps, appeared in one game after spraining his ankle in the opener.
Tom Krasovic
What went right on offense
Philip Rivers stayed healthy. Antonio Gates looked recovered from foot ailments of 2009-11. Malcom Floyd, sidetracked by injuries in recent years, stayed in the lineup and caught passes at all three wideout spots. Ronnie Brown led the NFL in percentage of passes caught and averaged 4.5 yards per carry. Another reliable back, Jackie Battle, had two touchdowns in a road win. Touchdowns on opening drives launched three of the four victories. An NFL-high total of passes to the backs helped to slow pass-rushers, aiding a so-so line and Rivers. Newcomers Seyi Ajirotutu and Danario Alexander punched up the receiving corps in the Week 9 win. Louis Vasquez was a steady performer at right guard.
Wasted comeback chances marked all four defeats as the Chargers never scored in those fourth quarters. Rivers had six turnovers in the epic loss to the Broncos. Ryan Mathews (broken collarbone) missed two games and lost a fumble in losses to the Falcons and Browns. Jared Gaither (back) didn't start until Week 4; the left tackle's groin injury against the Saints led to a game-ending turnover, sidelined him in the Denver loss and appeared to slow him through Week 9. A broken ankle suffered on Aug. 18 deferred Vincent Brown's season debut until later this season, if then. Robert Meachem had a critical drop at Cleveland. He was shut out in three games and sat out Week 9. Eddie Royal (groin, hamstring) sat out two games and likely never got in full game shape.
Tom Krasovic
Three players who surprised
Donald Butler, ILB
The third-year pro has become an every-down player worthy of Pro Bowl consideration. He's had an excellent first half, with 55 tackles, a sack and an interception returned for a touchdown. Butler is always in position to make a play and has become a steadying presence on a defense in search of consistency.
Corey Liuget, DE
He is proof that 3-4 defensive ends are more than gap pluggers. Liuget has become a true impact player in his second season, collapsing pockets and stopping the run with regularity.
Ronnie Brown, RB
The 30-year old's acquisition was met with skepticism, but he's been a quality addition to this offense. He's been an excellent third-down back, as both a receiver (32 catches, 292 yards) and a pass protector.
Scott Bair
Three players who disappointed
Robert Meachem, WR
The veteran hasn't been the No. 1 receiver he was asked to be. He has just 12 receptions on the season, has three games without a catch and missed another with injury.
Jared Gaither, LT
The veteran signed a four-year contract this offseason but hasn't been healthy enough to earn his keep. He missed all of training camp and four of the first eight games with injury. After not allowing a sack in five Chargers games last season, he's already given up four sacks.
Philip Rivers, QB
Rivers is disappointing only when compared to his own lofty standard. Despite unfounded opinions to the contrary, Rivers hasn't lost arm strength, confidence or poise in the pocket. His decision-making has been suspect, and it's led to some ill-timed turnovers that have cost the Chargers wins. A total of 10 interceptions and three lost fumbles is too high for eight games played.
Scott Bair
Season outlook
The Chargers are among the AFC playoff contenders.
Problem is, there are no more games against the Chiefs, who have accounted for half the Chargers' victories and the bulk of their self-esteem.
Coming off a blowout loss to Atlanta? Go to Kansas City and feel better. Suffer three straight respect-sapping defeats? Welcome the Chiefs and be reminded how to score in the fourth quarter.
Now, the first half of the season is over. And so are games against the Chiefs.
The remaining schedule is not entirely daunting. But it is not as easy as it has been, with the Chargers having gone 4-4 against teams with a combined 23-37 record.
If the Chargers are to get back to the playoffs, they will almost certainly at least have to compile a winning record. And they still have to play the three best teams in the AFC North, including a game at Pittsburgh. They also play at Denver, and the second half starts with a game at Tampa Bay, which is 3-4 but has scored way more points than it has allowed and suffered four one-score losses.
"We have a long way to go," coach Norv Turner said. "It's going to be a challenge … But it's always been more about us than who we play."
Kevin Acee


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Are nonprescription eye drops effective?
Eye drops are the most prevalent means of administering medications for the treatment of eye disorders, or as preparation for various diagnostic procedures during eye examinations. Because most of the medicine remains in the eyes, there is less risk of side effects than with oral medicines.
As with any medication, eye drops can affect your overall health as well as the health of your eyes. When eye drops are prescribed, make sure you know the name of the medicine and know how often you are to take the medicine. Call your physician if you experience any uncomfortable or unusual symptoms when using the medication.
Most people are exposed to several types of eye drops over their lifetime. The most common are nonprescription drops such as artificial tears and decongestant drops that "get the red out." Prescription eye drops may include antibiotics to treat or prevent bacterial eye infections, anti-inflammatories to reduce inflammation, anti-allergy medications, and medicines for the treatment of glaucoma. Anti-allergy eye drops are the ones used during an examination and administered as a local anesthetic prior to a medical procedure.
Are nonprescription eye drops effective?
Many nonprescription eye drops are available over the counter. Although nonprescription drops are safe and can generally be used as often as needed, extended use of any medicine should be approved by your doctor. The most commonly used drops are artificial tear solutions, which soothe and lubricate irritated or dry eyes. Some people may be allergic to the preservatives used in these drops and should look for "preservative-free" drops.
Another widely used over-the-counter drop is a decongestant. Although these drops do not improve the health of your eyes, they do contain medicine to constrict blood vessels, thereby whitening the eye. These eye drops should not be used for prolonged periods of time because they can actually cause the eye to become redder from excessive dilation of the blood vessels.
What do prescription eye drops treat?
Some of the more common prescription eye drops are anti-allergy medications, steroids (corticosteroids), antibiotics, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and drops to treat glaucoma.
Anti-allergy medications are prescribed to decrease the effects of histamine, a chemical released by the body during an allergic reaction that results in itchy, watery, red eyes. These anti-allergy eyedrops work by preventing the release of histamines, or by blocking their effect after release. Livostin, Patanol, Cromolyn, and Alomide are widely used anti-allergy prescription drugs.
Anti-inflammatories are used to reduce eye inflammation and fall generally into the categories of corticosteroids or nonsteroidals. Corticosteroids are powerful products that are effective in treating a wide variety of eye problems such as iritis or inflammation of the conjunctiva or cornea (See Anatomy of the Eye). They are similar to a natural substance produced by the adrenal gland and can be safely used in the eye, but always under the direction of an eye doctor. If used improperly, corticosteroids can cause glaucoma or cataracts and may also increase the risk of eye infections. Ibuprofen, which is the equivalent of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication, is useful in reducing inflammation and eye pain, but is not as strong as corticosteroids. A common corticosteroid is prednisolone, and a common nonsteroidal eyedrop is diclofenac.
Antibiotics are normally used to treat bacterial eye infections. Certain antibiotics may work better than others in treating, preventing, and eliminating the problem, as there is no one single medication effective against all types of infection. Common antibiotics used in treating eye problems are sulfacetamide, erythromycin, gentamicin, ofloxacin, tobramycin, and ciprofloxacin.
Antiviral eye drops are used primarily as a treatment of herpes virus eye infections and are often used in conjunction with other oral medications. The most commonly used antiviral drop is triflurthymidine.
Glaucoma eye drops are all designed to decrease excess pressure in the eye. The drops work by either decreasing the amount of fluid produced by the eye or by increasing the drainage of fluid from the eye. Because glaucoma can cause permanent damage to the optic nerve, resulting in serious and irreversible vision loss, it is extremely important for a patient to follow the doctor's directions regarding use of the drops.
Glaucoma eye drops can produce a wide variety of side effects, but most patients prefer to tolerate these side effects rather than risk permanent damage to their vision. Side effects can include headaches, breathing difficulties, blurry vision, irregular heartbeat, depression, sexual dysfunction, high blood pressure, and eye irritation.
Why are eye drops used during an eye examination?
Dilating drops, used frequently in an eye examination, cause the pupil of the eye to open wider, allowing the doctor to examine more easily the structure of the inside of the eye. After a dilated eye examination, vision can remain blurry and eyes can stay sensitive to light for several hours. Eye doctors often provide a pair of disposable sunglasses for you to wear after such an exam.
Anesthetic eye drops are painkillers that are used to numb the eye during certain procedures that may otherwise be uncomfortable. These eye drops should be used only by a trained eye care professional because misuse could result in damage to the cornea.
What is the procedure for administering eye drops?
Many people are very sensitive about anything touching their eyes, including eye drops. Even with children, however, administering eye drops should be relatively easy, when done properly. Remember when using eye drops, either on yourself or on someone else, to wash your hands thoroughly with an antibacterial soap. Never touch the dropper opening with your hand.
Here is a simple way to administer drops:
When giving children eye drops or if you are very sensitive, use the following procedure:
Depending on the type of drops used and the condition being treated, the drops may sometimes cause a burning sensation. This should last only a few minutes, but if it continues for a longer period of time, contact your doctor.
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Issue No.03 - May/June (2006 vol.10)
pp: 72-79
James Pasley , Cape Clear Software
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2006.45
Developers risk negative side effects when they attempt to make Web services interfaces extensible without understanding the context in which various mechanisms are applied. Given the overuse and misapplication of the HTML example,developers often litter their interfaces with XML Schema wildcards. This increases complexity and results in ambiguous interface definitions. A more appropriate versioning strategy for Web services development can help developers avoid these problems.
XML, XML schema, HTML, Web services, validation
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dear diary
Dear Diary for Better or Worse
One Play. I got really into this piece by Brhino where he went over Michigan football seasons going back to the "Year of Infinite Pain" (i.e. 2005) to point out games where one play may have meant the difference. Interesting way to reassess how we view the seasons. For example this year's team was a couple things going right away from 11-1 and a BCS bid (MSU would have still have won the Bo Division, with BCS eligibility riding on that), and a couple of things going wrong away from 4-8. I chart:
Bicking makes it cligger.
Quibble: I may be stretching "one play" too far, but Football Armageddon had that late hit out of bounds by Crable on 3rd and 15. OSU scored on that drive to go up 10. Who knows if Michigan can drive the ball the same as they did on the next possession. NFL win probability calculator says OSU was 79% to win if Crable doesn't make that hit, and 91% after the call. Fan brain says Michigan would have drove for the victory, beaten essentially the same Florida team they played the following year, and cured cancer.
Trend Lines. If you're into seeing how the rest of the Big Ten progressed on offense as this season did, dnak followed up last week's Michigan chart with some for the rest of the field. MSU is a young offense slowly growing up, Michigan's is one coached by insane people.
Hypothesis: UConn was just a bad game and the coaches over-responded to it, putting themselves behind the 8-ball the rest of the season. I submit as a different model Penn State, which had more than a few personnel shortages but big talent in places and stuck with their scheme all year, seeing noticeable progression but no spikes until the last game.
Goals! The Corsi Charts have been shelved for the moment so MGoBlueline can do those goal analysis things I like much better anyway:
Compher wins the faceoff, which is huge. Even more important, however, is that DeBlois is able to tie his man up. This allows a clean tap across from Compher to Guptill…
The OSU weekend's tallies at the link.
Charity. Tomorrow is Adopt-a-Shelter and both sites still could use some volunteers. K.o.k.Law had a tailgate at the house next door to MGoPatio, the cause being to fix up the house of an 11-year-old with a terrible illness.
Weeklies. Turnover Analysis talked about the Countess interception, which had a negative result of half a point. I still would have taken it; I think Furman stood there amazed for a second while OSU's receivers recovered, and if he hadn't he was in the exact right spot to make a key block. Turnover margin has been steadily climbing to the good since UConn, though the offense going into a shell to make that happen might have negated the good that's done. Inside the Box Score. Best and Worst talks about Ben Gedeon. LSA's usual stuff.
Etc. All-B1G team. Wallpaper with hoops schedule.
[Jump to learn an important lesson about swearing.]
Dear Diary and Borgesian Strategy Part II
Selfie: Go save Christmas again.
Kids! Gandalf the Maize's follow-up on which factors seem to be the most predictive of offensive line play compared the r-squareds of 19 things, from o-line experience as a whole, to their recruiting stars, to the left tackle individually, depth, QB talent, how much the team goes long, etc., and found the ONLY factor with relatively high significance is…
Interior. Offensive. Line. Experience!
Let's get a DotW to the wizard, and tell Funk to put some years on his charges, RIGHT NOW.
Ron Utah followed up by showing the relative age of Michigan's whole roster versus teams of significance.
Part II by dnak438 on Michigan's offensive regression this week went back and added 2011-12 to the study of YPP versus opponents, tracking it by dividing Michigan's yards per play each game versus the average that team gave up. The results are charts that really show the history of Al Borges's various offensive strategies:
Here's the progression:
[after the jump]
Dear Diary Can't Name Ten Good Plays Against Iowa
Drkboarder's genius.
This 'Merritt's Mention: How much punning has David Merritt had to put up with? Not enough that he balked at calling his fashion-brand-for-a-cause "Merit." The store donates a fifth of its revenues to college scholarships and educational enrichment programs, and he just opened one in Ann Arbor.
We Start Up Front. In 2009 Michigan started off pretty strong, including an encouraging win over Notre Dame. Maybe the shaky backfield got a little beat up for want of a safety or two but hey: Golden Tate and Michael Floyd. Then it got worse. Then it got worser. Then it got awful. And then there were lots of diaries (myself among them) blaming attrition and poor recruiting on the old coaches and all sorts of things that could explain it other than "this is what will get our coaches fired."
So…offensive line diaries.
A Single Unified Theory of Offensive Lineptidute? Provided by Yeoman and bumped early last week, "Short Ride in a Broken-Down Machine" is the definitive study relating Michigan's offensive issues to young starters on the interior OL. As to the small correlation he had a great answer:
Given those enormous differences in baseline levels of the various FBS teams it's amazing to me that we could see anything like 5-8% of a performance difference being credited to any one team demographic, especially when the difference is measured using an SOS-adjusted metric like Fremeau.
The rubber really hits the pavement when he thought to compare teams to their historical norm, which is a quite elegant stand-in for expectations (including recruiting). Ultimately he found teams that have significant depth and start freshmen are just fine because the freshmen are just that good, but teams in Michigan's situation typically have very large systemic problems. Because fans tend to overstate, there's a reactionary tendency from the more rational among us to think "it's probably not as bad as it looks." Reality check: it's as bad as if we had Idaho's recruiting problems. Yeoman did throw some hope for next year in the comments:
(1) [OTs Do Matter Theory] The Bust Index for the entire line will improve from 75% to 65%, which would improve oFEI by about .06 and move us (all else being equal which of course it isn't) up about ten spots, or
(2) [OTs Don't Matter Theory] The Bust index for the interior will improve from 69% to 46%, which would improve oFEI by about .175 and move us up about about 20 spots.
He followed up with a Kalis-centric study that tracks every (non-juco) 5-star offensive lineman since 2003 and what contributions that player made in Year X. Findings are the good ones mostly started by Year 2, but that there's no cause to worry until they're not starting in Year 3. Actually the biggest thing to worry about is how few actually make good on their promise, not that Kalis hasn't yet. Diarist of the Month, this guy.
Third Down and Guh. The guy in the running with Yeoman is reshp1, who had a great OL diary two weeks ago, and this week decided to get into all those failed 3rd downs. It's UFR-long, so if you promise to read it (okay if you promise to skim through it) I'll share the money table here. Promise. PROMISE! You know what, fine, I'll put it after the jump, so you still have to click on something you lazy straw man of a dear diary reader.
Dear Diary Has Moved on to Appreciation
This isn't a stage of grief but it is a stage of life: at some point during the long process of disintegrating into a grotesque version of yourself, you stop asking rhetorically when the kids will visit, stop being horrified at the exponential indignities, stop trying to convince everybody you're still just as capable as ever, and just decide to be tickled to death at anything good. You're past caring what ol' so-and-so thinks, and save your opinion that Alabama is something to be ashamed of, not commit to, for the people at your bridge game.* When the doorbell rings you expect it to be Death; if it's the grandkids, we'll order subs and won't that just be grand!
MGoBlog, you've reached the Appreciation stage. Right now on the board you can see a thread for appreciation of Jabrill Peppers, and appreciation itself, and one for Al Borges, and I even made one for you, dear readers. Where are the rest? Where did they come from? I'll allow you this peek behind the curtain:
Poor Ace. We'll put that one with Treadwell's and Levenberry's. And Armani Reeves and Sam Grant and Josh Garnett and Bri'onte Dunn and Anthony Standifer (the second time) and all of Tim's 2011 opponent previews, and some weirdness Brian puts up every once in awhile. Okay ONE example:
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I don't know. But that's your user content this week: people admitting our program feels every year of 134. Next time we have Ohio State over let's wear our ratty sweatpants and make fun of their latest girlfriend. What is she 25? Really.
* [The Big Ten is analogously a bridge game.]
The Diary to Read if You Still Care is the one about how experience seems to matter a lot on the interior of the offensive line but not so much on the exterior. Get ready for Michigan and Purdue to be extreme examples of a gentle trend:
Having two 5th year senior tackles don't seem to matter at all. Having an average of 1 year in the program among the three interior guys is not good, but it's not death either: the second star to the left over Michigan is UCLA. Gandalf the Maize, you are the Diarist of the Week. Also I like your wizard hat.
You probably already saw the incredibly detailed one by Space Coyote where he disagrees with Brian over whether Kerridge should be able to make that one block. I have a unifying theory: the part of the brain that has the ability to release the enzymes with which to formulate excuses is often destroyed in the process of playing or coaching football. Ask a coach sometime about the Alabama game last year; he'll probably tell you that was on execution too.
The Other Diary to Read if You Still Care is by a former D3 fullback who went over three complaints we've had about the offensive coaching:
- Don't know their personnel/strengths
- Stubbornly sticking to an offense their players can't run.
- Tipping calls
The anecdotal approach both addresses where our expectations are too high (they can't run simple stuff AND not be predictable) but mostly confirms the general complaints about stubbornness and misusing the personnel.
Etc. I think Brian linked to the weeklies in previous posts, but if you missed it here's parallels between Michigan and the Soviet Space Program. Dragonchild wants to bring helpful signs for the other team that say "WE'RE RUNNING" or "WE'RE PASSING" that our fans can use to prove just how predictable they're being. Has nobody considered what would happen if Borges just starts calling whatever's on the signs?
I was right about where they'd put the new jug scores:
There are five lines up here, and room for six under each M—seven if they don't have header rows beneath. So that's maybe 26 years before we have to worry about how to fit more scores on the jug gain. How did we beat them 42-13 this year?
ETC. Victors5 broke down the offense by play and formation from UFRs. Rakefight's trying to boycott the preferred seat donation.
Your Moment of Zen:
Sedate me fast 'cause I don't want to think about this. /beats Alabama
Dear Diary Bans Brian
It would seem obvious
Event reminder: MGoBlog is coming to Chicago next Friday. Moe's Cantina, River North, 6-9 p.m.
The coping mechanisms kicked in about Tuesday, and the diaries flowed. The best, I thought, was by Ron Utah, who took this base alignment
…from the UFR and pointed out why it's hard to attack this in myriad ways because MSU's defense is good. That is true, but it doesn't invalidate the primary complaints: it isn't cohesive. Indiana faced the same defense and their OL isn't all that great, but they have committed themselves to running option routes and tempo, and it works because it puts the offense mostly on the shoulders of three really good receivers to execute. A short list of some of the hands Michigan gambled on:
- Toussaint's pass blocking vs. Denicos Allen blitz
- Funchess's threat as an inline blocker vs. MSU having watched Funchess this season at all
- Half-hearted play-action on 2nd and 15 when Michigan hasn't shown a run out of that formation in ever vs. MSU safeties' ability to read play-action.
State's defense is great, and that gives teams limited options for beating them. But the offensive coaching was awful independent of that, on the game level more so on a macro level: They haven't been able to figure out from week to week what the hell kind of offense they are, let alone who's going to be playing it. Eventually they want to be a TE-mismatch outfit but right now there isn't a single TE or RB on the roster who can block. I get it, but it's not getting better because in three years nobody on that staff has been able to answer "what are we going to do about it?"
The OL can't block either. Well the freshmen can't and hey, they're freshmen. But since OL coaches are particularly difficult to judge (especially when their oldest recruits are all redshirt freshmen this year) Erik_in_Dayton went over all of Funk's previous OL charges going back to Ball State. No conclusions—almost everybody was a 2-star recruit—but interesting read.
Meanwhile Gameboy has been trying all sorts of ways of assessing Michigan's O-line experience versus that of other teams. In three attempts he's got a bunch of data and no sense to make of it still because Michigan has two extremes and the coaches don't do things to cover up for their weak points. The chart at right shows O-line starts and game experience. His big mistake I think is averaging: Team One has a tackle with thirty starts and a left guard with none; Team Two has a tackle and guard who've started next to each other for fifteen games. Both average fifteen starts, but Team Two has a big advantage that is hidden by your method.
Chunkums put up a survey to ask if you want to fire which coaches, but your feelings are irrelevant since this staff won't be budged unless there's wholesale failure the rest of the year and Dave Brandon's pimp hand has to step in. Even then, what are the chances Michigan grabs the soon-to-be-unemployed Nebraska OC we're pining over? What's that guy going to do with Morris and Speight? It's clear now that Borges should never have been brought here in the first place, but then a world where Michigan hung on to Calvin Magee for a few years (as OSU did with Fickell) comes with its own negatives. Either way the future is what matters now; if we're going to advocate anything maybe it's a consultant who can teach Borges constraint theory.
While you're assessing, here's a handy chart of Michigan's games under Hoke by dnak438, with the betting lines included. I think jamiemac once told me that Michigan's final lines, like ND's and other power programs, are worse predictors because they're responsive to the huge number of people who bet knowing nothing more than that Michigan is traditionally pretty good. Early lines are more accurate. By the way dnak took my suggestion of rotating the chart 45 degrees. This week I'm suggesting overlaying last week's to see progression:
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Dear Diary and the Legend of West Branch
Full name: The Paul Bunyan Governor of Michigan's Wife Was
Going to Throw It Out Otherwise Trophy.
People don't get this rivalry, why the board seems to get obsessed with it, and why it means so much to take home a tacky statue from an off-highway store in West Branch.
Those Michigan fans not from Michigan, or from a part of Michigan that regularly sprays for Spartans, are often suggesting a bigger second rivalry than this one. They'll grant that game's importance goes as far as winning the Bo Division, with the Dantonio-fueled addition of protecting the purity of the game from one if its biggest dicks (see: press conferences devoted entirely to asking Michigan coaches how they plan to defeat inevitably bad officiating).
|Besides, the guy who went 4/4 vs. MSU can talk all he wants.
That's because this thing is really for the mitten-staters: those who know what it means to be thrown into the back seat of the station wagon, to defend the middle seat arm rest, to decide who can put whose feet where, and fight to ensure the integrity of fart justice for five hours of pure Michigan hell.
Mercury Hayes, I feel you, man. That's a diary from a former MSU student who has maintained his Michigan fanhood despite four years and assorted change of East Lansinginity. There was another from ttifiblog (formerly Blue Seoul) that went into some of the stuff that'll get retread this weekend, like Narduzzi's quote, and MSU's fake mascot, and Gholston. Let's not leave out the great sin of shopping at non-campus outlets, because when 80% of a state's fans choose one local school over the other, it must mean rooting for a place you didn't graduate from isn't okay (somebody please inform the Ohioans).
I think this rivalry is done a disservice when glib reporters only focus on that time a 22-year-old made a 50-year-old analogy, and a 50-year-old was a total baby about it. Rivalries aren't just as base as hate; they're analogues for human relationships, with all of the sameness and quirks those have. In this case it's two brothers close enough in age to be competitive, and young enough to not have the maturity to appreciate each other.
The inferiority complex is bred out of inferiority; the smugness is bred out of superiority that most of us had little to do with earning. All shit talk is good and encouraged, so long as you remember nobody really believes any of it. Of course it's immature! Rivalries for athletes are motivation to excel; rivalries for sports fans are about finding an outlet for our primal child.
Speaking of primal children, k.o.k.Law and his daughter wrote a sort of how-to guide for raising your kid blue. Step 8: introduce to Hutchinson (I think that's Hutch?), Morris and Everett.
Weeklies. The FEI chart from dnak now includes past opponents. Suggestion: turn it 45 degrees: teams higher vertically are better, and left-right says whether it's the offense or defense doing the pulling:
MSU is off the charts defensively and just under okay on offense, which puts them with Wisconsin and Ohio State among the conference elite. Michigan's about equal with Notre Dame and a clear 2nd tier in the Big Ten. When you look at this and realize State played Illinois instead of Penn State and Purdue instead of Ohio State you get a better appreciation for how vastly different our route to Indianapolis is than theirs.
Turnover Analysis says MSU puts the lie to the "turnovers are random" assertion: their safe offense and high-pressure defense put them far to the good despite recovering just 17% of their fumbles. Purdue remains an outlier of awfulness. MSU miniprogram should have included criminal records.
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Man found shot to death in Oxford
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Lafayette County authorities said a homicide investigation is underway into the shooting death of a 24-year-old man.
County Investigator Jarrett Fondren said the body of Jonathan Malone was found Saturday in his car along a county road.
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La Jollans working to get lights back on in the Village
By Dave Schwab
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La Jollans are working on resolving a chronically troublesome 70-year-old streetlight circuit that's continually knocking out power to a section of the Village. The problem is tat as soon as one part of the circuit is repaired, another part of it fails.
Working through official channels to correct the problem is taking a considerable amount of time — and likely will in the future.
"We're continuing to collect signatures on a petition," said La Jolla Town Council Trustee Egon Kafka, who's leading the effort to get the city to completely rewire and modernize a 240-volt configuration old circuit that powers streetlights along Girard, Herschel and Wall streets, as was done with a similar circuit on Prospect Street a couple of years ago. In the meantime, 16 shooting stars put up during the holidays remain up in a two-block section of lower Girard Avenue, which would otherwise remain dark.
La Jolla's Streetscape Committee voted recently to pass a petition to Mayor Jerry Sanders asking him to put the La Jolla streetlight circuit at the top of the city's Capital Improvement Project List for prompt action. Kafka has been a member of the committee and on Friday was asked to take over its leadership as Glen Rasmussen is stepping down.
The good news, Kafka said, is that a couple hundred people have already signed the petition which he has been personally circulating and bringing to community meetings. The bad news, with the rate at which things are moving, it's likely to take at least until September for repairs to begin.
"If this were at the top of the Capital Improvement Projects List, it would probably take six or seven months for it to be planned and put out to bid," Kafka said. "That's June or July before they could start work and there's the summer (work) moratorium, so it wouldn't be going until September. It seems to me, even with a tailwind and an optimal outcome, this won't be done until Halloween 2011. What do we do in the meantime for streetlights?"
The affected streetlight circuit, located on two bocks of Girard Avenue, two blocks of Hershel Street and all of Wall Street, encompasses 11 tall poles and 48 streetlights, including 11 "cobra heads" on the tall polls, 34 original Marbelite classic streetlights, two modern retro-classics and one unique double streetlight fixture at the corner of the Athenaeum.
"Twenty-one of the 48 lights at this moment are not working, and three of those near the Athenaeum of have been dark for more than seven years," Kafka said, adding, "There has been a total, or partial, failure of the circuit for more than five months in 2010."
First District Councilwoman Sherri Lightner's office is also working on the streetlight circuit problem.
"We have contacted the mayor's office about the situation and are working with them to see what can be done about this aging circuit," e-mailed Erin Demorist, Lightner's La Jolla rep. "We've been working with Egon and with the community over the last few months to get regular repairs to this circuit, but the problems have continued, so the community would like to see the circuit replaced rather than having to be constantly repaired."
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'Hannibal' Recap: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) is a good and loyal patient in more ways than one. So when his psychiatrist, Bedelia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson), tells him he shouldn't be friends with Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) anymore, he follows through. Unfortunately for Will, though, losing Lecter as a friend means a lot worse things than unreturned phone calls or being unfriended on Facebook.
Poor Will's fever might have subsided, but he still hasn't gotten the straight diagnosis from Lecter yet, and he continues to suffer hallucinations and lost time. On top of that, his boss, Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), doesn't even know if he can trust his star investigator anymore. The death of diseased killer Georgia Madchen (Ellen Muth), with whom Will identified and sympathized because her mind was warped by reasons beyond her control, finally drives the profiler over the edge, leading him to make bold and bizarre connections between this death, the gruesome murder of Lecter's colleague Dr. Sutcliffe, and the murders of the Minnesota Shrike copycat's victims. It puzzles Jack and his crew enough to investigate, though.
At first, Georgia's death is considered a suicide since she didn't want to remember what she did, and, besides, she was facing murder charges in the death of her friend and Sutcliffe. As the episode begins, we see her in an oxygen chamber as she convalesces and speaks to Will. Not long after, though, Georgia and the chamber are engulfed in flames as she sparks some static in her hair with a comb. She was supposed to be wearing a grounding bracelet to prevent static buildup, but she wasn't wearing it at the time of her death, prompting the suicide suspicions. However, Will claims she wasn't suicidal and asserts that she was murdered by the same person who killed Sutcliffe, whom Georgia encountered without seeing his face. (She told Will she dreamt it was him, only she couldn't know for sure since there was no face.) Of course, we know it's Lecter, but Will says he's thinking clearly now, and is prepared to find the killer.
Of course, Will's wild new theory renews Crawford's suspicion that Abigail Hobbs (Kacey Rohl) is the copycat, as well as the killer of Nicholas Boyle, Sutcliffe and Georgia. He has his crew look into Garrett Jacob Hobbs' movements during the Shrike killings, and they find that he traveled with a companion. Who else could it be but Abigail, acting as bait to lure victims for her dad? So, then, why is Will protecting her? Crawford, in turn, challenges Lecter on this point, demanding to know if Lecter has been holding back any important information about Will. By this point, though, Lecter is no longer interested in being Will's buddy. Du Maurier has urged him to cease the friendship, since he and Will are "disconnected from the concept," and, more nefariously, he sees an opportunity for Will to take the rap for everything.
Earlier on, Will had confided in Lecter that he was close to figuring it all out, that he was pretty sure the copycat was someone with deep knowledge of the case. Sensing his chance, Lecter applied some suggestive pressure of his own, perhaps sowing self-doubt in Will's already guilt-ridden mind by responding: "Someone like you." Now, with Jack in his office, and Will off to Minnesota to recreate all the crimes with Abigail in tow, Lecter plays a little dumb (for him), acting as though his friendship with Will had blinded him and as if Jack's growing suspicions started to make sense. He admits to Jack that Will's been losing time, that sometimes he doesn't know where he is or what he's done. "There are days when Will doesn't even understand his own thinking," Lecter tells Jack. He even plays him a recording of Will admitting to feeling guilty over the death of one of the copycat victim's deaths.
In Minnesota, we witness one of the most unsettling and masterful sequences of the season: Will and Abigail return to the Hobbs hunting cabin, and the two of them, both irrevocably haunted by guilt and the specter of the Shrike, begin trading accusations. Will figures out that Abigail was indeed bait for her father, and that Jack was right about her. Abigail fires back with her own suspicions about Will's murderous bent. It comes to the point where they suspect each other of being the copycat killer. Only, the sequence is heavy with hallucinatory dread and disorienting editing, and we're never sure that what we're seeing is real or imagined by Will. He snaps back to reality on an airplane, where the sequence began. Was it all a dream? No, because it's not the same plane. Will is back at Dulles Airport, but Abigail is nowhere to be found.
She stayed behind in Minnesota because Will was frightening her, but she's not alone. She returns to her house to find Lecter waiting for her. The meeting begins with a hug but soon descends into doom. "He knows everything," Abigail says about Will. "So does Jack Crawford," the doctor responds. Abigail is troubled by the notion that people will start to suspect Will of being the copycat, but Lecter's wishy-washy response makes it all click for her: She's talking to the copycat right now. With dawning terror, she asks Lecter why he would call and warn her father that Will and the Feds were coming. "I was curious what would happen," he responds, with an eerie, amoral innocence reminiscent of the android David in last year's "Prometheus."
"Are you going to kill me?" she asks her onetime protector as he moves in with ominous tenderness. "I'm so sorry, Abigail," he says. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you in this life." We don't see what happens, but we can figure it out. And now all the pieces are in place for the lonely and nearly friendless Will, already doubting his own sanity and conscious of his ability to kill, to become the prime suspect.
Next week is the season finale, so which threads do you think will be tied up? Is Will doomed to be hunted? Will someone crack Lecter's game?
Some other notes:
- Du Maurier and Lecter's bond goes beyond a merely fascinating professional relationship. We learn that Lecter fended off Du Maurier's attacker (a patient referred by Lecter, no less, so I wonder if there were more to the attack), who died by swallowing his own tongue.
- That should remind fans of the death of "Multiple" Miggs in "The Silence of the Lambs," in which Lecter is imprisoned in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Miggs, who resides in the next cell over from Lecter, insults FBI trainee Clarice Starling with some rather disgusting gestures, but he ends up paying for his rudeness as Lecter talks him into killing himself by swallowing his own tongue.
- Will's nightmare about Georgia is reminiscent of Japanese horror films (such as "Ju On: The Grudge") featuring ghosts who move around in creepy, herky jerky movements.
- Great shot: Closeup on Lecter in his office after speaking with Will, framed so that we see his stag statue in the background. The stag, of course, is the symbol Will keeps dreaming about when he's dwelling on the Shrike's copycat.
- In the opening of the episode, Lecter brings a recovering Will some soup made with silkie chicken, which is known for having dark blue flesh.
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NIALL FERGUSON: This Is The Study That Shows Why The US Economy Is Doomed
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A Harvard Business School study that Niall Ferguson pointed us to today shows the U.S. has fallen severely behind in terms of international competitiveness.
The study, from January, found that for Harvard alums personally involved in a company relocation decision, 57 percent said the decision "involved the possibility of moving existing activities out of the U.S."
Meanwhile, only 9 percent considered moving existing activities from another country into the U.S. "A U.S.-based respondent was three times as likely to be considering moving business activity out of the U.S. than a non-U.S. respondent was likely to be considering moving an activity into the U.S," writes Professor Michael Porter, the study's author.
The most interesting table from the study plotted current versus expected American industry sector global success.
No, you're not missing something: The respondents expect a decline in competitiveness for all sectors.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president. — Author Unknown
>>Romney is a national socialist, a fascist; please explain how that is better?
Because a national socialist is someone who believes in his country and greatness of its people. Obama hates us, hates America, hates the US contribution to world history, and is also a communist, a racist, and a closet muslim.
>>If there is a collapse, we wont rebuild, we will fragment.
I agree. The only thing that holds the "salad bowl" of diversity together is gummint handouts and easy credit.
Sure - one just doesn't want to show a profit. :)
"If there is a collapse, we wont rebuild, we will fragment."
Then we will fragment. Saying "if" there is a collapse reminds me of the old story about the man who falls from 100 stories up and as he passes a window on floor number 50 says to someone who is looking out, "So far, so good." I do believe the collapse is underway and there is no stopping it.
Every one should have a corporation.
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president. Author Unknown
With the health care communist landgrab at the hands of fiat money paid government workers, things are setting up to be that either we disobey or we become a basket case slave state run by government morons and government clueless and business blindness...
The power of "Women" or "blacks" elected Obama... or, that is, this perception of manipulation of who needs whom and why etc... at the end of a barrel of gun.
America is becoming Maoist.
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Communism is insidious and ever so evil.
THey always demand obedience while they riot and rape our lives "in the name of public disobedience and sexual freedom".
THey always demand obedience while they riot and rape our lives in the name of public disobedience and sexual freedom.
What they do apparently is modeled after Jersey Shores, which is where people have no weapons but keep threatening each other for little things and what not. Sartres called it "hell is the other", as a sort of ideal thing.
PEople with guns do not lead "stupid little detailed" argumentative conversations, they go with the constitution and general peace. What is being bread is a bunch of crazies, and then weapons or government powers are handed to those crazies who bugger the nation out and call it "moderate" behavior.
I think the key is to be just as argumentative stupid and berate them for sports, and if they really wish to bring in the guns, then it's game time. But, in the meantime, it is mere "tribal broohaha", all those stupid laws, unless lemmings start selling their guns for Mac meals.
You're right. It's Social Engeneering.
17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto Industry That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Even if you don't agree with all of the author's conclusions, there can be no doubt that the decline of the US auto industry has a lot to do with what's wrong now.
Thank goodness! Another conservative that "gets it" !
Government K-12 socialist-entitlement schooling is our nation's **most** serious and urgent threat. I doubt that our nation can survive one more generation of voters being indoctrinated in these souless pits of ignorance.
Government owned and run schools are godless! **ALL** of them! Children who attend **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must simply to cooperate in the classroom. How could it be otherwise?
Modern government owned and run schools are the very definition of a socialist entitlement. They have **always** been a socialist entitlement. Children who attend these schools risk learning that the voting mob that is powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is, indeed, powerful enough to give them **lots** of free stuff. ( Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn't an accident. He was the result of 1 to 3 generations of socialist-entitlement government schooling.)
Modern government schools are run like prisons. Every First Amendment Right of the child and parent and ( indirectly) the taxpayer is crushed. In other words, government schools are training our nation's children to be compliant prisoners of the state. If and when tyranny comes, the oligarchy will not use cattle cards. They will use yellow school buses to haul citizens off to the concentration camps, and citizens will placidly comply!
The CommiCrats running the US have created an utterly hostile tax and regulatory environment.
I especially urge them to go to the link at the bottom of the article to review charts #9 and #10.
Here is a link to these charts. Please note K-12 education and availability of skilled workers.
"..its not as dire as you conclude. If the US government stopped borrowing, all the money currently going to buy T-bills would go elsewhere, possibly including funding new startups, low-interest business loans, buying new bonds, ... all of which would grow our economy much more than government spending."
I am not sure that's a true truth, indeed, I tend to doubt it. I agree with you in an idealized "lab" environment, but I posit we are not in such. The gov't cannot "stop" borrowing because it would run right over a cliff in scary short time. We would see dramatic forced reductions in entitlements that would almost certainly create civil unrest and I do not exaggerate. I'm talking 30-40-50%, "overnight".
So, let's ponder "slowing" borrowing. I think there's reason to project that this would be a multiple-moving-part situation. Lots of demand (currently in form of synthetic, non-market-driven) buying of bills would disappear. Prices would fall, rates would rise. Some organic demand would come back to chase the higher yields, but I think this would place all of Barnankes' purchases to date under water, meaning he would have to hold them to maturity or take losses on them. I can't say what he would do, but we can conclude that he wouldn't be buying Kagenloads of T-bills now today if he liked higher rates. No, he thinks lower rates and easy money are the answer to everything. So part of what this discussion is about is what the natural market would do, and part is what Bernank would do. If the USGuv *stopped* borrowing (by buying T-bills) then the price of those bills would almost certainly rise. Then those bills would become lots more attractive to investors (which is why I disagree with the idea that investment money would begin to flow into productive startups, etc;)
But that would mean the larger economy would crater. I mean just imagine if mort rates went back to 6-7-8% like they've been probably for most of your life and my life. Housing would implode, and the costs of refinancing existing US debt would sky. This is the box Bernanke is in.
The Romneys donated about 16.4 percent of their adjusted gross income of $42.5 million in the two-year period, according to their 2010 tax returns and an estimate for 2011 taxes. Would a socialist give to charity and church like this?
Doubt it.
I didn't call him a national socialist. I was just quoting another post. I was pointing out that a national socialist is preferable to an america-hating communist like Obama. I'm no a Romney fan, but this "Romney is the same as Obama" hysteria on FR is ridiculous. Obama represents the end of the US as we know it and his speeches and writings prove his intent, so anyone is better than him.
But, in answer to your question: yes, I think that a socialist with a strong sense of the "social gospel" would give 15% of his income to charity, especially his church. I know several very liberal Methodists who give freely to charity and directly to the poor and they far exceed any 10% tithe. A devout Mormon who gives 16% would not surprise me at all, regardless of his politics.
George Soros has said that there is no difference between BHO2 and Romney.
One is a communist (Marxist-Leninist) and the other a fascist (national socialist). Both believe government is God and neither has any respect for the U.S.Constitution.
Neither gives a damn about the rights of individuals. The common man, or woman, on the street is just a unit to be taxed or obliterated, it matters not to them.
The last thing that either man wants is for Americans with Bibles and guns asserting their God-given rights and demanding that Washington, D.C., changes how it does business.
Obama is an atheist. He is only a Muslim or Christian when politically expedient. What he has done in North Africa is to destroy the westernized economies of those nations and set them back three hundred years. Those people will be starving during the next two to three years, resulting in plagues and massive upheaval, the perfect political scenario for imposing Marxism. Obama is evil, on that we both agree.
Romney and Wall Street are Globalists who care not a wit for American values. First and foremost, they see themselves as world citizens, responsible for maintaining peace and security world-wide through commerce. The role U.S. military plays is to maintain that global presence, project American military might, and provide security for international business under the guise of "U.S. national interests".
Unfortunately, that military is paid for by tax revenue and staffed by the sons and daughters of people who no longer have jobs, as those have all been moved offshore by the above mentioned world citizens who want only money.
This election in 2012 is all about money, power, and who will eventually wield both here at home and internationally.
Gov.Mitt Romney is the candidate for the elitist Republicans who are, in essense, supporters of Globalism.
Wall Streets business model is international in scope and must have security overseas in order for commerce to thrive. In an attempt to dominate international commerce AND the monetary structure, the U.S.A. must project military strength world wide. This has been neither conservative nor liberal in the past, both Democrats and Republicans have been involved over the decades, and our Congress quietly went along. Then Obama arrived on the scene when Democrats saw an opportunity to control all aspects of the U.S.government.
Obama is a Marxist. Hes all about Global Social Justice (communism) which means redistributing wealth and destroying the United States.
The choice we're facing is quick and brutal destruction by Obama, or slow, sure destruction via by Romney.
It is easier to overhtrow the elitists in the Republican Party and Conservatives take the Party back from the fascists. That is the path we should take.
I doubt another opportunity will arise in the next two decades.
>>The choice were facing is quick and brutal destruction by Obama, or slow, sure destruction via by Romney.
The problem is more complicated. Technology has broken capitalism. I am an automation engineer. I put people out of work. I can take a process that used to require a dozen skilled or semi-skilled humans and reduce it to one or two barely literate machine operators who just monitor the machinery. How can you have a free market economy where human labor is cheapened like that?
Obama and Romney are both in favor of this because to the former, that means that people have to go on the dole to survive and to the latter, that means profits for the rich and nothing more for the dwindling working class than just enough money to survive. But, most people on FR are also in favor of this because they believe that all profits are for the shareholders. If we truly had a free market, I would make $300k+ a year or more because I replace 100 workers. But, the shareholder class has decided that even though I replace 100 workers, I am still just a worker and deserve a worker's wage.
>>Neither gives a damn about the rights of individuals. The common man, or woman, on the street is just a unit to be taxed or obliterated, it matters not to them.
You say "taxed or obliterated". I say that Obama wants us controlled via "subsidies" if we are poor or taxed harshly if we are rich. Romney wants us to serve our employers, if we have one, but only as temporary labor so that we can be retasked continuously to send massive profits to the top while the worker toils endlessly with no security other than the hope of a new boss tomorrow.
So, to me the economics of Romney vs Obama are moot. The only thing that matters is that Romney does not hate me for my skin color or religion or nationality, but Obama hates me for all three.
I think that is a possibility, but also realize the other side of the coin. We continue down the slope to a police state.
In the end, democracies always do.
Hate to say it, but you are right. To an extent.
I'm not ignoring your post but I have to think about what you've said, and will send you a private reply.
Romney's "Progressive" record as Governor of Massachusetts includes the following:
1. Implemented/created Gay Marriage in MA
2. Supported and forced Gay Adoption in MA
3. Supported Abortion wholeheartedly
4. Raised taxes/fees over 300% while being Governor of MA
5. Implemented a state-level Cap and Trade system.
6. Supported Man-Made Global Warming
7. Supported the Brady Bill
8. Implemented a state level "Assault" Weapons Bill after the Federal AWB was allowed to expire
9. Supported TARP
10. Supported Amnesty for Illegal Aliens (Citizenship for those already here)
11. Supported McCain-Kennedy(Amenesty)
12. Implemented a socialized medicine in MA called RomneyCare complete with an Individual Mandate and $50 abortions
13. Nominated 27 Democrats (out of 36 nominations) for judgeships in MA, many of them extreme left-wingers
Do you see number 13 above? That is reason alone to reject Romney for a true Conservative.
I think we pretty well have the police state part wrapped up already.
>>Do you see number 13 above? That is reason alone to reject Romney for a true Conservative.
I never said he was a true conservative (or even a conservative). I just think that in this election, he is better than Obama by an order of magnitude (Obama would implement everything on that list for all 50 states. Romney only did it in Mass, an uber-leftist state where even the conservatives are pinkos!)
Thank you.
China makes everything. We buy China stuff with borrowed money. That is our consumer economy.
How is that "free trade" working out for you?
Show this to all the "free traders": "company relocation decision, 57 percent said the decision "involved the possibility of moving existing activities out of the U.S."
A Harvard Business School study that Niall Ferguson pointed us to today shows the U.S. has fallen severely behind in terms of international competitiveness.
The study, from January, found that for Harvard alums personally involved in a company relocation decision, 57 percent said the decision "involved the possibility of moving existing activities out of the U.S."
Surely that honor goes to Greenspan who enabled this whole mess in the first place. Bernanke is just following in the master's track.
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Portland, Ore., was second.
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The magazine looked at all U.S. cities of 250,000 or more — meaning Plano benefited from being compared with the likes of Detroit, Philadelphia, and Oakland. It examined rates of violent crime and fatal car crashes. (And not, apparently, rates of belicose, inebriated hockey players.)
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How do you build line-of-business applications in Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that can be maintained and extended over a period of years? How do you design and code to handle real-world complexity? Composite Application Guidance (a.k.a., "PRISM") from patterns & practices offers guidance, libraries and examples--in small, free-standing, digestible chunks--that you can use to tame the complexity.
In this episode of ARCast.tv, I sit down and chat with Ward Bell to learn how to compose complex UIs from simpler views, integrate loosely coupled components with "EventAggregator" and "Commands", develop independent modules that can be loaded dynamically, and share code between Silverlight and WPF clients.
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On July 10th, Microsoft announced the RTM of Silverlight™ 3 and the RC of Expression™ 3. Today, I'm very happy to be able to tell you that the final release of Expression Studio 3 is now available.
This is truly a coming-of-age for the Expression products. They've always been solid, but with this release they have the full range of features and functionality that many of us knew could be there but just wasn't yet. I mean, the SketchFlow™ rapid prototyping tool alone should be enough to get you jazzed about Blend™ 3.
These tools have always been produced for use primarily by designers, but I've found that I've become very dependent on Blend to layout the interfaces for my WPF and Silverlight applications. This is a growing trend I've seen picking up stream over the past few years, creating an interesting hybrid role I like to call "the devsigner." We all knew it would happen eventually, but Expression has really made this practical since all of the Expression products use the same project and source code files as Visual Studio™, creating a designer-developer collaboration that you just can't find anywhere else.
If you haven't tried any of the Expression products before, give them a try. You can download a 60-day trial from the Expression web site. Also, there is tons of information available on the product teams' blogs.
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This past week, a veritable bomb of XAML-related info exploded in the Microsoft offices in St. Louis as XamlFest came to town. This two-day training seminar featured John Pelak, a Microsoft Architect Evangelist from Boston and a whole lot of XAML coding.
XamlFest is a training program that was created to introduce developers and designers to eXtensible Application Markup Language and the Microsoft technologies that use it, namely Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight 2. More so than other technologies, this kind of program is necessary because designing and building applications using XAML is very different from previous UI technologies. XAML is extremely powerful and getting your hands around what it can do and how it does it can be intimidating. Thus, the XamlFest agenda takes you through an introduction to the XAML language and how it is used in WPF and Silverlight. It also shows you how you can use Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 to develop more quickly and efficiently.
The event was attended by approximately 60 people both days, filling the training room at the Microsoft office to near capacity. Those who attended were primarily developers, but there were a few designers in the mix as well. John kicked things off on Thursday morning by showing some demonstrations of WPF applications, giving the attendees a solid feel for what can be done with the technology. After that, it was all WPF. We focused on laying out an interface in XAML using containers and controls, and then how to use .NET managed code (in this case, C#) to implement functionality for those controls. Right after lunch, I did a walk-through of Expression Blend 2, a designer-centric tool for doing visual XAML design. This talk covered productivity tips and tricks in the Blend UI, custom style and resource management, custom control development and UI animation using storyboards and the timeline tools. Finally, John took us home on day one with a great overview of databinding in WPF using custom collections and lists.
Day two was completely focused on Silverlight. We started off with an overview of Silverlight 2 and moved quickly into building a Silverlight application. We worked through the basics of how Silverlight applications are built inside of a web page and moved quickly to showing how we could pragmatically port the WPF application we worked on the day before to Silverlight 2. While not everything works the same, we were able to, over the course of the morning, replicate all the functionality of the previous day's application and even add a few additional features. John finished up right before lunch, so I took over for the afternoon session.
As it was a Friday, I thought we'd have some fun and work on a "real" application using the skills presented over the previous day-and-a-half. I laid out a project to build my band, Lake 32, a media management application for our web site. Basically, I wanted a Silverlight 2 application that would bind to an underlying data sources for music, video and pictures, as well as a means to let people sign-up for our electronic newsletter. I encouraged everyone to form into groups and work together to develop a visual concept and collaborate to design and develop the application. The kicker is that the teams have a week to submit their application to a Live Mesh folder I setup for them and the best designed application, to be judged by the guys in the band, will be put on our home page. I was excited that most of the group stuck around and worked on this, the final team packing up three hours later. I can't wait to see what all these teams come up with!
I had several conversations with XamlFest attendees over the course of the two days and everyone seems to have enjoyed the training and got a lot out of it. John did a fantastic job engaging the group and getting them to code along with him. I know I speak for many that the words, "This is wicked cool! Ship it!" spoken in a thick New England accent will stick with me for a long time to come. I mean, I said it to my kids this weekend when they rearranged some furniture in my library. They didn't get it, but I don't care.
While this XamlFest is over, John and will be working together to try and put this event on in other cities throughout the central region of the country, and hopefully XamlFest will be coming to your town soon. I'd like to personally thank all the folks in St. Louis for coming and participating in this event. It never ceases to amaze me what a vibrant and engaged community we have here in St. Louis. Until next time, XAML ON!
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After speaking at the St. Louis Day of .NET last month on building WPF and Silverlight applications using Expression Blend, I had several people come up to me and, very excitedly, tell me how they wish there was more in-depth training available for not only Blend, but for XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language).
Well, your wishes have been granted.
I'm very pleased to announce that we'll be hosting a two day free training event called XamlFest at the St. Louis Microsoft offices from Thursday, January 29th to Friday January 30th. This will be a classroom style event led by fellow Softie John Pelak and, to a lesser degree, myself. We'll be going in depth on the XAML markup language and how it is used in both WPF and Silverlight 2.0 applications. We will also go deep on how to use Expression Blend to visually design application interfaces.
Here's all the information on the event:
The event will take place on Thursday, January 29, 2009 to Friday, January 30, 2008.
This event is targeted toward software developers and designers who want to learn more about XAML, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight 2 and Expression Blend 2. We can accommodate 40 people for this session and registration will be accepted on a first come/first served basis.
Platform Centric Design Best Practices: Creating WPF and Silverlight XAML for Web and Local Client Solutions
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Please register early, because we anticipate the seats filling up fast. I look forward to seeing at XamlFest at the end of this month.
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I am an old school Windows developer. I spent a large percentage of my career actually writing software to run on Windows desktops, some of it for internal use at large enterprise IT shops, some for sale in the consumer market. Since the release of .NET earlier this decade, my primary outlet for delivering Windows solutions have been WinForm projects in Visual Studio, and while they are very practical and capable of delivering great functionality, incorporating an intuitive and memorable user experience tends to be difficult. Certainly I can leverage GDI+ or even DirectX to build some compelling UI features, but on a typical project timeline where the ship date was a week ago and the budget has long been in the red, we tend to settle for the status quo and deliver what we can.
This is one of the reasons why I was so excited when I first got my hands on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This was truly a game-changing technology for developing rich, interactive experiences on the desktop. One of the most powerful aspects of WPF is that fact that the UI layer is designed and implemented in eXtensible Application Markup Language, or XAML. This XML-based markup language gives you with the ability to not simply mock up the UI, but to build the UI, exactly they way you want it to look. And what's more, XAML provides the capability to use transitions, timelines and event triggers so designers and developers alike can implement UI level effects and activities without this code residing in the business layer or even in the UI code behind files.
Sounds great, right? So why hasn't WPF taken over the world yet? It's very simple: WPF is new. Really new. And big. Really big. The object model for WPF itself is intimidating, but then when developers who've worked with standard visual design tools for the past fifteen years get their first look at XAML, the standard response is, "Wow, I don't have time to learn all that."
Enter <XamlFest />
<XamlFest />is a free two day seminar being hosted around the country to help show that XAML and WPF are not overwhelming or even particularly hard. If you live in the central part of the US, you can attend <XamlFest /> in Houston, Texas. Here's the 411:
Monday & Tuesday October 6th and 7th
The capacity for this event is 40 people and registration is done on a first come/first served basis.
Microsoft South Central District: Houston, TX
One Briar Lake Plaza
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This program was originally intended only for Microsoft partners, but is now open to everybody. If you don't have a Microsoft partner account, please send an e-mail with the names and e-mail addresses of your attendees to firstname.lastname@example.com. Don't forget to mention you are attending the Houston event.
<XamlFest /> Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What if I don't have Visual Studio?
A. No problem, every attendee leaves with Visual Studio 2008 Pro!
Q. What if I don't have Expression Blend?
A. Again, no problem! Everyone leaves with Expression Studio 2.
Q. What if I don't have an idea for a starter project?
A. We'd like you to leave with something personal, but if nothing comes to mind that's OK too. It's the main reason we're planning a few guided sessions where you can fallow along with us. These sessions should take no more than two hours, so if something sparks your interest you'll still have time left for assisted development.
Q. What if I don't have a laptop?
A. You can still participate in the training in the mornings and lunch, but assisted development in the afternoon is a harder problem to solve. We have no problem with people pairing up, so you might want to check with friends or co-workers to see if there interested.
Q. Can I just come for the training and skip assisted development?
A. XamlFest is about empowering designers and developers to deliver great user experiences and we believe a key component is hands-on assisted development. If you are unable to participate in the afternoon sessions please wait until the day before the event to register. This will give others the opportunity to sign up first, and if there's still space available you're welcome to join us.
<XamlFest /> -- Come as you are, leave Xamlized!
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I'd like to thank everyone who came to the Next Web Roadshow event we held in St. Louis last week. The turnout was phenomenal and, based on your feedback, it looks like the material was very useful and on topic.
As promised, our presenter, Mike Henderson, has posted a set of links to resources from his presentation.
For the sake of simplicity, I'm re-posting Mike's links here:
WPF Information:
MSDN WPF samples
Code Project's WPF Pages
Vista x64 Forums on WPF
XCeed's WPF Wiki
Good WPF-related Blogs:
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Silverlight Information:
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Silverlight 2 Controls Source Code
Good Silverlight Blogs:
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Expression Design + Blend
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Mike Taulty
Scott Guthrie
ASP.NET Information:
MSDN ASP.NET Code Gallery
123ASPX Index
4 Guys From Rolla
Good ASP.NET Blogs:
DotNet Slackers
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Programming WPF
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Apps = Code + Markup
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WHAT:In a new study published in Nature, scientists describe a new type of tuberculosis (TB) treatment that involves manipulating the body's response to TB bacteria rather than targeting the bacteria themselves, a concept called host-directed therapy. TB remains a major cause of disability and death worldwide as an estimated 8.6 million people fell ill with TB and 1.3 million people died from the disease in 2012, according to the World Health Organization. Although TB is curable, adherence to therapy is difficult as treatment requires taking antibiotic drugs for at least six months and sometimes up to two years. Poor adherence to medication and other factors have resulted in drug-resistant strains, and currently no effective TB vaccine exists.
To address the need for alternative interventions, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, demonstrated proof-of-concept for a host-directed strategy to treat tuberculosis. They found that interleukin-1, a type of protein that regulates the body's immune response to infection, can help protect the body from TB infection. Their studies in cells and in mice and human patients infected with TB bacteria demonstrated that interleukin-1 induces a mediator, prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), that limits the production of type-I interferons, which are associated with increased TB disease severity.
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About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S.
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