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As the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi shuttles back and forth between arthropod vector and vertebrate host, it encounters vastly different and hostile environments. Major mechanisms contributing to the success of this pathogen throughout this complex transmission cycle are phase and antigenic variation of abundant and serotype-defining surface lipoproteins. These peripherally membrane-anchored virulence factors mediate niche-specific interactions with vector/host factors and protect the spirochete from the perils of the mammalian immune response. In this issue of Molecular Microbiology, Tilly, Bestor and Rosa redefine the roles of two lipoproteins, OspC and VlsE, during mammalian infection. Using a variety of promoter fusions in combination with a sensitive in vivo "use it or lose it" gene complementation assay, the authors demonstrate that proper sequential expression of OspC followed by VlsE indeed matters. A previously suggested general functional redundancy between these and other lipoproteins is shown to be limited and dependent on an immunodeficient experimental setting that is arguably of diminished ecological relevance. These data reinforce the notion that OspC plays a unique role during initial infection while the antigenically variant VlsE proteins allow for persistence in the mammalian host.
Spirochetal infections have had and continue to have a significant impact on human morbitity. The global spread of syphilis likely started in the 15th century when ships returning from the newly discovered Americas introduced Treponema pallidum to a thus far naïve European population and wasn't effectively controlled until the general availability of penicillin in the 1940s (Harper et al., 2008). Some evidence suggests that leptospirosis and its agent Leptospira interrogans crossed the Atlantic in the other direction and may have shaped the history of early European settlements (Marr and Cathey, 2010), only to become the most common zoonotic disease worldwide. Similarly, clinical descriptions from the 1880s and molecular evidence from more than 5000-year-old tissue samples indicate that Borrelia burgdorferi was present in Europe long before re-emerging as the cause of an infectious syndrome on the East Coast of the United States in the 1970s (Keller et al., 2012); Lyme borreliosis today is the most common vector-borne infection in temperate climates of the Northern hemisphere.
The Machiavellian ambition and triumph of these three spirochetal agents probably best articulates itself in their common propensity to cause persistent infection, particularly in reservoir hosts that are able to efficiently spread the disease. With the exception of syphilis, humans are considered incidental, "dead-end" hosts that will not facilitate transmission of the disease but nevertheless suffer from the consequences of an untreated infection. The mechanisms that allow B. burgdorferi to persevere inside the natural tick-vertebrate transmission cycle as well as during human infection have been the focus of a large number of studies. The bacterium's major persistence traits can be classified under three categories. First–and common to all spirochetes–is the high degree of motility that enables the slender bacteria to penetrate and disseminate in host tissues. Cases in point for motility's importance in the transmission cycle of B. burgdorferi are that mutants in the major B. burgdorferi periplasmic flagellar protein FlaB, which lack the typical flat-wave motility, show reduced viability inside the tick and are unable to establish infection in an immunocompetent mouse model of infection (Motaleb et al., 2000; Sultan et al., 2013). The second and third categories, adhesion and immune evasion, both involve processes occurring at the host-pathogen interface. On the B. burgdorferi side, this interface is dominated by a large and diverse set of peripherally membrane-anchored surface lipoproteins. It therefore may not be surprising that an ever-increasing number of surface lipoproteins have been shown to bind host factors such as extracellular matrix components (e.g., fibronectin, proteoglycans, collagen or laminin), protease precursors (plasminogen), or complement regulatory factors (e.g., factor H) (reviewed in Radolf et al., 2012). One could expect that some promiscuity and spatiotemporal redundancy in binding these host factors be built into the system, supposedly to safeguard efficient infection in a variety of host species. Single-gene knockouts therefore may have rather subtle and time-restricted phenotypes, which can lead to erroneously absolute conclusions about a protein's lack of role in the infectious process. Recent state of the art studies have begun to use competitive infection assays to accentuate any phenotypical differences between the wild type and a particular mutant (Bestor et al., 2012). Current best practices for infection studies include the use of infected ticks in transmission to susceptible model animals, which is most authentic and practical to obtain qualitative data. Subsequent quantitative studies employ syringe injection, where the inoculating dose (usually around 103 wild-type bacteria) can be controlled more easily. Despite careful calibration, however, the latter does not necessarily mimic an infection via tick bite, where estimated tens of already host-adapted bacteria are sufficient to initiate infection (Ohnishi et al., 2001).
B. burgdorferi cells were first caught in the act of this host adaptation when Schwan and colleagues observed phase variation of two surface lipoproteins, OspA and OspC. While OspA was abundantly expressed in the midgut of unfed ticks, it was replaced by OspC when these ticks were fed on uninfected mice. (Schwan et al., 1995). This seminal finding laid the foundation for many gene regulation studies that followed. Most recently, changes in the metabolic status have been implied to be the overarching trigger for this phase variation (Jutras et al., 2013). OspA, the sole component of a first generation "transmission-blocking" Lyme disease vaccine (Steere et al., 1998), was ultimately shown to serve as a tick-specific persistence factor by acting as a midgut adhesin (Pal et al., 2004) and by shielding the bacterium from Borrelia-specific antibodies in the incoming blood meal (Battisti et al., 2008), thereby mitigating any effects of a tick's fortuitous feeding on a previously exposed host. Meanwhile, studies of OspC led to proposals of a variety of sometimes-contentious functions that yet converged on a role during tick-to-mammal transmission and early colonization of the mammalian skin (reviewed in Radolf et al., 2012).
Investigations into immune evasion mechanisms quickly focused on an intriguingly complex locus on one of B. burgdorferi's linear plasmids that expressed VlsE. VlsE belongs to a family of immunodominant variable major surface lipoproteins or VMPs that were involved in multiphasic antigenic variation in related Borrelia species causing relapsing fever (Zhang et al., 1997). Similarly to the relapsing fever Borrelia VMP system, random recombination of silent vls gene cassettes into an expression site results in segmental gene conversion that permits long-term infection with B. burgdorferi in spite of a robust adaptive immune response (Coutte et al., 2009). The resistance of most Lyme disease spirochete isolates to killing by complement, a component of the innate immune system, was eventually traced back to three evolutionarily distinct surface lipoproteins that bind host-derived complement regulators: CspA, CspZ, as well as OspE and some of its related Erp proteins. Collectively called complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins (CRASPs), they bind factor H or one of its splice variants, which averts accumulation of active complement factor C3b on the bacterial surface. This preventive measure decreases opsonization and subsequent phagocytosis as well as blocks formation of the membrane attack complex that would otherwise lead to bacterial cell lysis (reviewed in Kraiczy and Stevenson, 2013).
About 7 years ago, a set of experiments suggested that OspC might play a biological role similar to the CRASPs. Rosa and colleagues showed in a well-controlled dissemination experiment that a ΔospC mutant, in contrast to the wild type or complemented strain, was cleared from an intradermal injection site in immunocompetent mice within 48 hours (Tilly et al., 2007). In a previous study, they had also shown that an ospC gene disruption mutant was unable to infect mice deficient in MyD88, an integrator of toll-like receptor (TLR) signals (Stewart et al., 2006). This excluded an involvement of the latter branch of the innate immune response and led the authors to hypothesize that OspC may inhibit phagocytosis by limiting opsonization by complement (Tilly et al., 2007). Liang and colleagues subsequently surmised that the lack of OspC could compromise the integrity of the outer membrane lipoprotein layer, thereby making the cells an easier target for the innate immune response. Supporting this hypothesis, their ospC gene disruption mutant was able to infect and disseminate in severely combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice when heterologously complemented with forcibly stabilized recombinant plasmids expressing OspA, OspE or VlsE from a constitutive promoter (Xu et al., 2008a). A follow-up study showed–maybe not surprisingly–that such dysregulated expression of OspA and VlsE significantly altered the infection's dissemination and clearance dynamics (Xu et al., 2008b).
In this issue of Molecular Microbiology, Tilly, Bestor and Rosa (Tilly et al., 2013) revisit and expand on these findings by extending and perfecting a gene complementation and in vivo selection approach that was pioneered in an earlier study (Tilly et al., 2006). The simple but elegant system uses different promoter-lipoprotein fusions delivered via an autonomously replicating recombinant plasmid. In contrast to the system used by Liang and colleagues, the transcriptional fusions are driven by the ospC promoter to ensure appropriate spatiotemporal expression, and the recombinant plasmid is not artificially stabilized by insertion of an essential virulence determinant missing from the background strain. In this "sensitized" experimental setup, retention of a particular expression plasmid in a particular background during infection indicates–by proxy–an essential role for the expressed protein, while loss indicates that its expression is dispensable (or even detrimental) at that particular phase of the infectious process. The combination of these tools allowed the authors to tease out and further clarify the roles of OspC and VlsE during early and persistent infection. Expression of OspA or VlsE from the ospC promoter was unable to compensate for the absence of OspC in immunocompetent as well as SCID mice. Confirming previous findings by others (Lawrenz et al., 2004; Bankhead and Chaconas, 2007), the absence of VlsE impacted persistence in immunocompetent mice only. In SCID mice, however, expression of OspC was required in the absence of VlsE, as a recombinant plasmid expressing OspC from its own promoter was absolutely retained in a vlsE-ΔospC background while being readily lost in a vlsE- only background. Supporting this finding, the vlsE-ΔospC double mutant was non-infectious for SCID mice. Together, this indicates that OspC can carry out the duties of VlsE during persistent infection as long as OspC is not targeted by antibodies. As observed earlier (Xu et al., 2008b), overexpression of proteins tended to have an attenuating effect in immunocompetent mice. Two inconsistencies with previous studies remain unresolved. First, constitutive expression of VlsE was unable to rescue an OspC-deficient strain in SCID mice, which is in conflict with the data by Liang and colleagues (Xu et al., 2008a), but in agreement with the here presented ospC promoter-derived data. Second, and somewhat confounding the otherwise clear data is the authors' discovery that the generally non-infectious phenotype of their ΔospC mutant is sporadically leaky in SCID mice. Unfortunately, the described wide-ranging efforts to identify the cause prove Sisyphean.
In conclusion, this study proves that extracting the secrets from a pathogen that has honed its ways through eons of evolution sometimes may require subtle tools that minimally disrupt subtle and sometimes covert mechanisms. The Borrelia surface has been metaphorically likened to a "rainforest" (Bunikis and Barbour, 1999), where lipoproteins may form different layers of the canopy. Introduced overrepresentation of some of them may sufficiently disturb interactions within the surface proteome to have unintended consequences like the shielding or exposure of other virulence factors at the host-pathogen interface. The basic structural and functional information and the tools are in place to initiate a comprehensive and comparative structure-function analysis of OspC and VlsE both in vitro and in vivo. The disordered N-terminal tethers peptides of OspC and two other surface lipoproteins are already known to contain surface targeting signals (Kumru et al., 2011; Schulze et al., 2010), and their variable lengths may properly position the different lipoproteins within the complex surface architecture. Mutations of a putative ligand-binding domain at the dimer interface of OspC was shown to affect both infectivity and dissemination (Earnhart et al., 2010), but it remains to be determined whether this is due to a direct loss of function in binding any ligand. The overall protein folds of the OspC dimer and the VlsE monomer are quite similar, with alpha-helical bundles presenting a dome of membrane-distal variable loops to the host (see Fig. 1). Various experimental data already support a role for these loops in protein-specific functions, particularly for VlsE (Zhang et al., 1997; Eicken et al., 2002; McDowell et al., 2002; Coutte et al., 2009; Rogovskyy and Bankhead, 2013). It is tempting to speculate that the observed partial surrogacy of OspC for VlsE is rooted in the normally well-timed reciprocal display of these two structurally related and abundant proteins at the host-pathogen interface (Fig. 2). Similar to OspA hindering the access of antibodies and proteases to an extracellular loop region of the outer membrane porin P66 (Bunikis and Barbour, 1999), OspC may "cover" for VlsE within the bacterium's surface lipoproteome layer–but more than just in the literal sense and for as long as the host allows.
The author would like to thank Brian Stevenson for critical reading of the manuscript. Current work in the author's laboratory is supported by NIH Grant P30 GM103326 and a University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute Lied Basic Science Pilot Grant.
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Stir it up
I wanted to make some munchies to take to our weekly happy hour. There's a recipe for "Seedy Crisps" in I'm Just Here for More Food which I'd been looking forward to trying, so I figured I'd give it a go. The recipe says it either makes thin "crispy crackers for snacking" or thicker "hearty crackers for dipping." Unfortunately, what I ended up with was something more like quarter-inch thick pita bread, and I'm stumped as to why.
Now, the major error I know is my own fault. I thought some Osaka Salt from World Merchants would be good. It's a mix of salt, sesame seeds, seaweed, and red pepper flake. Sounds like a nice cracker, right?
Unfortunately, Osaka Salt, as a good cook might guess from the name, is mostly salt, not mostly sesame seeds. So when I added 3 tablespoons of it to a recipe which called for 1.5 teaspoons of salt, things went wrong. Did you know that salt enhances the bitterness of pepper flake? Well, it seems to. So I've got an aggressively salty bitter-hot bread on my hands.
(In fairness, this would be very effective free bar food, in the vein of roasted peanuts or salty popcorn. That is to say, immediately after putting one in your mouth, you want to drink about a quarter-pint of beer.)
On further research, Alton and Shirley agree that salt aids gluten formation, which maybe helps explain the texture. Also, I notice that the cracker recipe in Cookwise specifies that it's a liquid-heavy dough. The Seedy Crisps recipe says to add water "just until the dough comes together," and that you might not use a full cup. I'm thinking I was a little stingy with the water... so does that instruction not mean what I think, or is it poorly phrased?
The recipe also says that the crackers should be "toasty brown", and I like my toast darker than a lot of people. The crackers didn't seem to be browning enough, so I gave them more time. That's probably where the unpleasant burnt sesame taste comes from.
Of course, the most likely reason I've got thick crackers is probably that I just didn't roll the dough out thin enough. I still wonder if I should've docked the dough or something, but it didn't really rise much.
I guess most of this can be chalked up to operator error, but I am curious whether anybody else is having trouble with More Food. The recipes we've tried out of Alton's other two books have all been fine, but this sure went badly, and Alton's "Phase III Biscuit" turns out this weird thing which is very tasty but definitely not a biscuit.
So if you have advice, questions, answers, sympathy, a joke... let me know.

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I just realized that it's January 9, and I have yet to make a single purchase from Amazon.com this year. Based on my purchase history from 2016 (which, omg is making me want to cry), I'm pretty sure this is some kind of record. I'm actually a little bit embarrassed to tell you how many orders I placed from Amazon in 2016, but in the interest being fully transparent on this blog, I'm going to put it all out there. Keeping it real y'all. Hi, my name is Susie and I placed 68 orders on Amazon last year. No, that's not 68 items that I ordered throughout the year… That's 68 orders, some of which consisted of multiple items. I'm part horrified with myself, but I'm also slightly proud. I mean, did I even leave my house at all in 2016?? Looking back at my order history, it appears a majority of my orders related to stuff for my dog and health and beauty-related items. But I also bought plenty of food items and clothing. FYI clothes shopping on Amazon is the best. I don't even want to share my secrets because I'm greedy and worried that you'll buy everything I want before I can. But I could write a whole manual on it.
Looking back through my order history, I also saw that my very first Amazon order was placed back in 2002 when I purchased the Dave Matthews Band, Live at Folsom Field, album. Yup, that sounds about right for my 2002 self. For years, it was just books, CDs, and DVDs in my order history, until 2008, when Amazon expanded its selection and I realized how convenient it was. Somewhere around 2014, I must have started wearing my pajamas full time, but it wasn't until last year that I truly went crazy ordering anything and everything.
The ability to purchase seven pounds of sprinkles without stepping foot out of my house is pretty much my favorite thing about Amazon. I purchased a seven pound container back in March to create my sprinkles lamp and have looked for every opportunity to cook and bake with sprinkles since then. In the midst of dreaming up this coffee Oreo ice cream (my favorite flavor in all the world!), I stumbled upon Birthday Cake Oreo cookies and my necessity for sprinkles was multiplied. Despite the fact that it was one degree out this morning (ONE!!), I'm sharing a coffee ice cream recipe. I truly believe that ice cream is a year-round treat and should be enjoyed just as often in the winter cuddled under a blanket as it is in the summer out in the sunshine.
Coffee ice cream has been my favorite for as long as I can remember, even back before I drank coffee. The only time I'll veer from it is when I'm craving Oreo ice cream (or if coffee heath bar is on the menu!), so why not combine the two and call it a day? And if you have the opportunity to give anything in life a birthday cake flair, I say go for it! Call me "basic" if you will, but rainbow sprinkles really do make everything more fun.
This ice cream was so delicious that I'm pretty sure you could have tempted me to eat it while I was walking to the train this morning. You know, when it was one degree and I had fleece-lined leggings under my pants and a blanket scarf wrapped around my face, my whole head basically covered in a fur hood. Also, despite my gloves, my hands felt like they had frostbite and were going to fall off.
But still. I'm really not sure I could have turned down this coffee ice cream. Even if my hands fell off.
Plus, even though ice cream isn't typically a breakfast food, I'm working on justifying the idea that coffee ice cream can technically be a breakfast food. Because coffee with cream and sugar is totally a normal thing people do. The Oreo cookies might throw a bit of a kink in my plans, but I think I can work around that (AKA conveniently forget that eating cookies for breakfast could potentially be a problem).
I've made coffee ice creams before, but this time I added a bit more espresso for a deeper, more robust flavor. In my mind, there's no such thing as too much coffee (or caffeine! I'm one of those crazies who can drink a couple cups of coffee at 11:00 p.m. and fall right to sleep. Not sure if that says more about how I'm not affected by caffeine or about how freaking tired I always am). There's also no such thing as too many sprinkles, which is why I added more to the ice cream, despite the fact that the Oero cookies already involved rainbow confetti.
Don't worry; I've got plenty more sprinkles where those came through (um, several pounds worth) and I'm not afraid to use them. I'd proclaim 2017 the year of sprinkles, but I also kind of feel like that's so 2014 and will make me sound even more basic than you may already think I am. Should we just make 2017 the year of ice cream instead?
All I know is that I need to make an Amazon purchase ASAP if I hope to beat my 63 orders record this year. That's the kind of resolution I can get behind. It will take dedication, patience, and resilience, but I believe I have what it takes.
But first, let me start my day with a couple scoops of coffee ice cream. For the caffeine, obvi.
Are you a fan of coffee ice cream? And can you beat my Amazon purchase record?
- 1½ cups whole milk
- 2 cups heavy cream separated
- ¾ cups granulated sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp ground espresso
- 4 egg yolks
- 16 Birthday Cake Oreo Cookies crushed
- 1/2 cups rainbow sprinkles
Heat milk, cream, sugar, salt, and espresso in a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat.
Stir constantly, until the mixture just reaches the point of simmer. Remove from heat.
While milk is heating, lightly whisk egg yolks in a separate medium-sized bowl.
Pour half of the warm milk/cream into the bowl with the egg yolks, whisking while you do so.
Then pour the egg/milk mixture back into the pan with the rest of the milk.
Continue to cook over low heat, while stirring with a wooden spoon. Stir for about 3-5 minutes, until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of the spoon. Remove the saucepan from heat.
Strain egg/milk mixture into a separate large bowl.
Cover bowl with plastic wrap, making sure plastic wrap is touching top of the liquid so skin does not form, and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
Once mixture is chilled, freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions, mixing in Birthday Cake Oreo Cookies and sprinkles when ice cream is almost done processing.
Place ice cream in airtight containers and put in freezer for at least 4 hours to continue to harden.


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Shydog and Jacky doodles from the last little while.
Do not use for roleplay.
Do not use for roleplay.
I love all the expressions that you give Shydog!! It's easy to see Jacky in her.
I particularly love the sketch with Shydog and the bloodied nails. The perspective on the sketch beside that is fantastic! I also really love the three expression sketches (I believe on your tumblr you had said you were playing with eye shape and emotions).
these are really good.like ur style
Very fluid sketches. I hope they are as fun to draw as they are interesting to look at!
I still profferred the origional names.
I like the new one. And a comment like this is kind of a downer.
I love how fluid you are when you sketch. It looks so dynamic and cool~
this chara. omg more pls. so inlove. hard inlove. your style too? awesomelove. pls stahp *-*<3


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Sham Shui Po, there is the most famous red-light district in Hong Kong. Li (Carrie Ng) owns a few of the apartments in the building and she earns a living by renting them out to the prostitutes. To the prostitutes though, she is more a friend than just a landlord. She gets together a group of prostitutes and work as hard as they could, trying to attract business to turn the tide. Still, they do not know they are quietly approaching death. It begins with the missing of a prostitute Ping. Ping is one of the tenants who live with her young daughter. In the process of finding Ping, Li discovered there had been a lot of missing prostitutes in this building, yet none of them were found. The building was somehow isolated from the outside world and a massacre begins. Li and the prostitutes have to find Ping and to fight a battle of wits with the invisible murderer. As more evident of the murderer's identity revealed, a tragic truth hidden for over twenty years starts to unveil.
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I'm planning for my first trip to NO this Friday March 6 and have been reading so many of the amazing insights of the local hounds. That being said, I still need some help: We are arriving Friday morning, will probably get to our hotel (Marriot on Canal) before 11 to drop off our bags. We will be very hungry; is it worth it to make a resy at Galatoire's and eat upstairs since I'm not sure how long we'd have to wait on line to eat downstairs, or should I keep my noon resy @ Luke? Remember, I've never been to NOLA before and from what I've gathered on the board we really don't have anything similar to this experience in NYC . Friday dinner I'm pretty sold on Mr. B's.
On Sat, after Café Du Monde we'll be taking the Garden District walking tour, ends around 1 (assuming it ends where it begins? @ Prytania near St. Charles)? Will this leave us enough time to head over to Casamento's since lunch seems to end there at 2? If not, was thinking of Parasol's, but any other ideas?
Sat eve planning on strolling the FQ to listen to music and maybe just eat at a bar, Coops seems to be highly recommended. How does it compare to Oliver's?
Sunday Brunch: Marigny Brasserie? Has anyone been since the new chef arrived? I'm not a big egg eater, and after checking out the brunch menu looks like there's not much else, may just do 2 apps. Any other ideas?
Thanks to everyone in advance, I cannot wait to get outta Gotham (although I heard you got some NYC weather recently...)


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Mabuhay Manila!! One the more surreal moments of my life. yfrog.com/o0otpcjj
@JackAllTimeLow is making the entire hotel room listen to the home alone soundtrack. Inappropriate.
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So, the album cover SAYS, in exact lettering: john barrett's bass drum of DEATH. Some sources will cite the artist as John Barrett's Bass Drum of Death, but even Fat Possum themselves, which I am taking to be the ultimate authority on this, just lists it as Bass Drum of Death, the name that the band/solo artist (it's complicated) has been known as since at least 2009. Bass Drum of Death Stain Stick Skin [7" Single] 2008 B-Side (otherwise known as Track 2): The Ballad of Bandit X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CHORDS: Parentheses mean you can include it or not. In Amaj, for example, it technically makes it A/E but it sounds almost the same. Emaj - 022100 E7 - 020100 or 020130 Amaj - (0)02220 A7 - (0)02020 B7 - x21202 Dmaj - (2)(0)0232 (use the thumb!) D7 - (2)(0)0212 B/F# - 22xxxx I'm not 100% sure that the solo is completely accurate, but it sounds fine. Feel free to correct me or just experiment for yourself. There's a second, somewhat different solo lick that John plays after the bridge, but I don't really know what it is and I typically just improvise it anyway. Like I say, I'd encourage you to just eff around and see what works. Just listen to the song to get the rhythm down. I'm not trying to make it 100% accurate - I'm just putting this out because no-one on the net seems to have it. So when reading this, keep in mind - the map is not the territory. The actual song has two guitars - a rhythm that just plays the chords and a lead that does the licks. I frankly don't think this kinda song warrants two guitars, so I'm gonna tab it how I play it. This leaves out part of the electric lick during the verse, but that part is drowned out by the vocals and rhythm guitar anyway. You can bend any of the licks any place it sounds good. I don't know if John does or not. [Intro] e|-----0--------0-----|--0--------0-------------------------| B|-----0--------0-----|--0--------0-------------------------| G|-----1--------1-----|--1--------1-------------------------| D|-----2--------2-----|--2--------2-------------------------| A|----(2)------(2)----|--2-------(2)-----2--2--2----0---| E|-0--------0---------|--0-----0---------2--2--2--------| This is also the verse. Every couple of times around, or between verses, throw in this solo lick AFTER the open E bass note at the start: e|- ---------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------------| B|-----------------|------------------|-------------------|--------------------| G|-----------------|------------------|-------------------|---------------------| D|-----------------|------------------|-----2-------------|-------------------| A|--4-4-4-4-4-4--6p|5p4--2-----2----4p|3p2-----2----------|---------------------------------------| E|-----------------|--------0---------|-------------5--3--|-0---------------------| The open E at the end is the first note of the verse, but I just included it so it's clear that it's, ya know, present and emphasized. You can also play it all on the E string and get the high E on the 7th fret of the A. To transition to chorus, just play the A chord at the end of the B/F#-A-E walkdown instead of the E. Because the A chord has an E (you can even throw in the open E bass note), the walkdown sounds complete. The licks I use for the chorus are superbasic, and the bridge as far as I can tell has no licks, so it seems more helpful to just show this as chords. [Chorus] Amaj GhA-ApG They found a way out. [You can play this lick on the low E, G, or high E strings, or change it up for variety] Amaj GhA-ApG So don't you trip and fall. Amaj A7 I don't even know what I just E7 saw. B7 Emaj (back to verse) Oh, I'm gonna lay down the law. To transition (from verse) to bridge, just play the D chord where you would normally hit the E bass as the first note of the verse. [Bridge] Dmaj Nobody is gonna take my Amaj A7 fall. Dmaj D7 These cheapskates don't want nu'n at E7 all. B7 Emaj (back to verse) Oh, I'm gonna lay down the law. To end the song, just play the main riff twice, then the solo lick, then the main riff again, and end with an E7 where you would normally have the top 4-5 strings of the first chord. The verse lyrics, in case you are wondering, as I sing them, are: Got a brand new pickup. Gonna spread the news. Forty-five from nowhere. Singin' the same tune. Seven bucks in my pocket. Rollin' down the road. When I reach my safehouse, I got nowhere to go. That said, this is the kind of song where I'd encourage you to make up your own lyrics and your own verses. Cheers! ************************************ | h Hammer-on | p Pull-off
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In the last 30 years, America has mourned at least 61 mass murders. After some time passes, our latest homegrown massacre in Newtown, Conn., will become another tombstone in our collective psyche.
The question is not what kind of a person can kill innocent children. It is what kind of society creates the conditions for people to serially neglect, abuse, rape and murder its young.
As always, in coming weeks there will be obsessive fascination, that the media will feed, with the murderer and his upbringing, mental status, home environment, academic performance and love life.
As we begin to analyze the motives and pathology of Adam Lanza, ad infinitum, we will lose sight, again, of the frame, the cultural context that has become a runaway train, seeding violence and mass murder in every corner of our nation.
Think about it. Come Monday morning, there will not be one parent in the United States who will be able to escape the tyranny of imagining their child being murdered in their neighborhood school.
Forget about car bombs and terrorist attacks by "foreign"-looking people. The enemy is within.
Andrew Malekoff, Long Beach
Editor's note: The writer is the executive director for the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center in Roslyn Heights.
The only thing this shows is we are raising our children wrong. For 1,000 years, we had no problem with our children. With the advent of psychology in the 1950s, we ended up doing it wrong. We are not protecting our children well enough by spoiling them excessively. We need to go back to respect, manners and discipline.
Joseph Taormina, Levittown
What kind of society have we become? Houses of worship attacked. High schools. Universities. Shopping malls. Small eateries. Movie theaters. The streets of our cities. Army bases within our own borders. Even our homes aren't always safe to be in!
And, now, an elementary school in Connecticut. Twenty children, ages 6 to 10, shot dead by some deranged moron. Why? Why would anyone want to hurt young students and their teachers? Eleven days before Christmas. Why? So much for a Merry Christmas for the families of those lost at this school! So much for a Merry Christmas for the town and for the rest of our society.
This carnage must stop. If some jerk has a death wish to do harm to himself, why must he hurt others? Blow your brains out, but let the innocent live on.
We must do more to find the people supplying these weapons to these gunmen. Let's hold them equally responsible for the tragedies they help to unfurl.
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A significant source of the greenhouse gas methane is rice farming, say scientists. Methane is implicated in global warming and the destruction of the ozone layer. It is a more powerful heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant greenhouse gas.
According to scientists from the University of California, Irvine, who measured emissions of methane from California rice paddies:
- Approximately 1 percent of atmospheric methyl bromide and 5 percent of methyl iodide arise from rice fields worldwide.
- Emissions of these methane compounds vary with the growth cycle, soil content and flooding conditions.
- It is unclear whether the methane comes from the soil and is emitted through the plant, or is created by the plant itself.
By contrast, cows and other domestic farm animals are thought to produce about 15 percent of the atmospheric methane emitted each year.
Source: "First Cows, Now Rice," A Better Life, USA Today, November 9, 2000.
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Days (Years) on the site and number of past opponents are EXACTLY the things I look for first when I look at a new profile. So it's great that this information is now highlighted.
^^what he said
Admin, I do not like the new layout, it is not functional at all!
The most important information you need to find out about an opponent is: age/height/weight. That tells you instantly what you need to know about him, especially weight. That should be at the top, before anything else! It was better before.
The text is also important, well it is to me. In it I write answers to ALL the questions which inevitably come up, such as gear, style.... I do not want to have to repeat this to everyone who contacts me!! But the information is now hidden if you write a lot.... and not everyone will scroll down... So I am already suffering from the new layout, because I get people writing to me asking...... "gear?" "style?" grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..........
Why the need for enormous coloured boxes? What does that actually achieve?
Please restore to the way it was before. It was more functional. Thank you.
I agree with Alexander the Great that age/height/weight is very important information and is rather hidden in the new layout while it was prominent near the top in the old layout.
The emphasized information was and still is easily visible (I´m talking about the desktop version...):
- The number of recommendations is shown in the tabs "Profile" - "Recommendations (0/0)"
- The number of past opponents is shown right after the profile name, e.g. "Profile of pierspandex (1)"
Also squeezing long profile texts in a little box with its own scrollbar makes reading the text more cumbersome.
I like to use my big desktop screen and hate the feeling of peeping through a loophole when I would have a screen big enough to fit the whole text.
Keep up the great work!
But don´t be afraid of going one step back sometimes:-)
Please restore the way it was before. It was more functional. Thank you.
My take is that the stats, location, etc. of a person are irrelevant if they will not be meeting you. The top three numbers are the best semi-verifiable indication we have of that.
I think munichsubfight does raise a valued point . When anyone does plan a match then stats what they are into and what they are like to wrestle etc do play a big part
in arranaging a match and weather or not you will meet them. Also if they have been on here a long time had lots of past of opponents and have recommodations
does that mean they wont let you down on the day of meeting . I speak from past experience having travelled abroad just to wrestle guys for them to go quite when you arrive and dont show up and dont even bother to let you know they are not going to meet or they tempory suspend their profile .
This has happened to me a few times . I can say it also applies to me have arranged a date to wrestle some one but then other life stuff gets in the way be it family stuff etc at least i let them know though.
So the number of days on site past opponents recommondations may be a judge of someones willingness to meet ,4 years on the site no past opponents yes there is a big chance they wont show. But again does this mean those with past opponents are any better.
I think as munichsubfight says we have all that info already in the way the profiles are laid out in the tabs.
I also find it strange that the colored images past opponents days on site recommondations actually take up more space than the profile photo thumbnails,they are about six times larger than the profile photos in the gallery strips .
I beg to disagree with Admin and fully agree with imajem´s list of facts he´s looking at.
My list of things to Iook at matches imajem´s list, although in a slightly different order.
However, still two of the metrics in the colorful boxes are already visible enough (number of past opponents/number of recommendations), and the third (days already on meetfighters) seems to me more like a contra-indicator...
Two guys with each two recommendations and 5 past opponents, one is her for 3 months, the other for four years... who is more trustworthy/likely to meet me/safe to meet me?
Granted, "the stats, location, etc. of a person are irrelevant if they will not be meeting you", but so is the number of past opponents and the recommendations if they are not going to meet me;-)
However, as relevant - I´d even say even more relevant? - is whether I will be willing to meet him!
And I don´t care for the *number* of past opponents, I don´t care for the *number* of recommendations, but for the details behind that numbers.
What kind of guys did he meet, especially: do we have common past opponents (thank you very much for that feature, it´s extremely valuable!), so I could ask someone whom I know for their first-hand experience.
Same with the recommendations, there is a lot of detail:
Was their meeting great because he is so strong? Or because he has such good technique? Or because he could adopt so well to a weaker opponent?
That works both ways, what does the profile owner write in his recommendations about other people?
Also the numbers are completely irrelevant when I am looking for the sportive submission grapplers and groundfighting only, while others might be looking for boxing partners and standup combat.
It might be true that on a global scale your numbers would give a high chance that we would be likely to meet - but what would we do then?
Re-enact the infamous Muhammad Ali vs Antonio Inoki bout? I don´t think so;-)
Profiles: What I look at.
1. Location - travel limitations for me
2. Age - Not too young
3. Wt
4. Read their intro
5. Their interests
6. interest Groups joined
7. Recommendations
I like the new layout. There's only two minor things that bother me (I think others have mentioned them as well.)
- the "Safety Awareness" button is too big and throws the profile out of whack
- it would be great if, when a user has been a member for more than one year, the duration of their membership could be shown in the "X years and Y days" format, rather than XXXX days.
Hmh I also think the new layout is a bit messy and more dificult to follow the information. I like the way the mobile site is structured. But I guess like everything on this site We will get used to it and like it at the end. What is surprising though is that sometimes the most active members in the forums are people who do not donate.
Not everyone has credit cards, not every one has pay pal and certainly some people (myself included) don't like doing transactions over the interweb
But jab well taken and given.
No credit card!
No PayPal!
No internet transaction!
No donation!
No Checks!
Money orders only!
That's how I donate to FireFox and others. Why not here?
Sorry. I have no idea what I would do with a US money order.
Can a foreign debit card be used to donate?, legit question.
Guys can you please keep the discussion on topic? This forum is about the new layout.
Use the support page if you have questions.
I never use money orders myself...so NO...NO money orders only!
2016? Man You must really miss the steamed trains :)
Where's the 'generic no interest' reply gone from the email? That was a handy feature.
You click on the button of the lower right corner of the message, and it brings up Translate and the rest.
I like it =)
I have written a news post explaining the thought process behind the recent changes.
I don't believe in the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality. The steam engine was fine, but that doesn't mean that it is good by today's standards. I believe it is possible to improve upon things even if they are not "broken". Please trust me to have the site's and its members' interest in mind when I make changes, not some perverse need to tinker. When I implemented the new mail system, there was the same reaction from a bunch of guys, but the fact of the matter is that it is massively more useful than what we had before. Granted, it took me some time to iron out some of the kinks and for that I do apologize. That is just the nature of things when you run a site without budget for paid QA staff. I do try my best, though. Also remember that once a site grows to 13,000 members, it is no longer possible to make changes without at least one person complaining about it. It's a scientifically proven fact!
Please give the changes a little time. Maybe they will grow on you. Keep an open mind.
Regarding the two-column layout: I have done a short usability study (mouse movement heatmaps) and came up with the new layout trying to optimize for that, bringing the more commonly sought parts closer to the top. The two-column (sometimes three or four) layout is common practice on the web to solve such optimization tasks. It might look "messy" to some at first, but once your eyes get used to it, it is my hope that you will find that you can get to the relevant parts of a profile at least as quickly as before. I tested the new layout on desktop browsers, a mobile and a tablet device to make sure it is reasonably responsive.
I'm open to ideas on how to improve upon the new design, but I urge everyone to keep in mind that coming up with a layout that appeals equally to 13000+ members might not be possible.
New layout is great. Past opponents don't tell me much about the type of match. I've met guys who've only had cyber matches. I've also been asked by others to claim I had a match with them so they could get access to additional site features.
As you can tell from the other member's posts on this topic, I am the only member who has a sexual connection to wrestling and is looking for a relationship. I'm completely unashamed of that. In the context of my profile, past opponents are inappropriate. I immediately stopped posting them after I realized that, in my case, it's a huge indiscretion. Hahaha!
My point is, pictures and these numbers are great summaries of profile info. They belong at the top. But whether they're a good thing or not is a matter of context and interpretation. My profile sez to me, "you've been here over a year and still haven't found anyone. Something is wrong with you." Lol.
It's great on a tablet, less so on my iPhone though. (Yes I know some people anti iPhone)
Can we make the time on site convert to years once it reaches a figure, maybe 730 / 2 years.
The safety awareness badge could go alongside the other blocks or possibly a block for badges generally. I'm thinking 100+, donor etc here.
The events section is cluttered, is anyone interested that I signed up for an event in 2012. Occasionally it will be one that I didn't get to..
Dick pics should be removed from the site...
100% agree.... most unattractive!
Maybe they could at least be blocked out of the thumbnails in "Photos" view... I like checking out the new pics, but don't need to see that!
Why? Just curious.
My reason is they are unattractive and unimpressive... All dicks are the same, a little bigger or smaller, a little thinner or thicker, but essentially the same. I just can't see the thrill, and yes I am gay.
I'd rather look at a guys body... something you can build, shape, sculpt the way you want! Your dick is whatever you were born to have, no amount of hard work can change it... If a guy has dick pics in his profile it's pretty unlikely we will be meeting.
Generally because this is a wrestling/fighting site. That's just how I see it. I'm not saying they should be removed, but in my opinion they shouldn't really be allowed. I honestly think dick pics should be limited to message attachments.
OK... just asking.
Absolutely !! Get rid of cock pics as this is a fighting site not a dating site!
Well said.
Love the new layout!
I use the site almost exclusively from my mobile; therefore, everything is touch interface.
Any plans to make the new infographics for "past opponents" and "recommendations" into links to that respective info? Because, I tell you what, I tap them almost every time I look at a profile, and then I'm like, "oh, yeah..." LOL
Sounds doable. :) Except I'm not sure what tapping "days" would do.
Agreed; that's why I didn't mention it, I didn't think it could access any more meaningful or detailed info.
Thanks for all your work!
I like it..
I miss the steam engine :(
When I read the reasoning on the news post, I understand the thinking behind it and appreciate the change.
Not that I was opposed to it anyway.
Change is always meet with resistant, and grumbles. When all the kinks are discovered and worked through, people won't even remember what's changed.
Too busy grappling or moaning about missing the meeting function they never used :)
THIS. This is why I hate Google for buying everything out and making changes. YouTube was sooooo much better before google bought it out. Now I won't go and jump the gun and compare this site to google, but the changes made feel a little unnecessary.
Change is always bad.
Till you get used to it and forget how things ever were.
The thing is, nothing was ever really wrong with the layout in the first place. Yeah, I know every now and then an owner of a website would like to try something new and different. Honestly in my opinion changes should only be made when necessary. I just didn't see any need for the change. I liked that stacked version better =)
You mean.........
Once I wasn't fat but I've forgotten it!
You calling me fat? I prefer the term well fed, mature twink :D
No, I'm saying I don't remember being not fat.
i agree the profiles now seems to a bit over the place down the side across the bottom where as before it was all there all followed on . I think the symbols they are using are a bit pointless and too big too seeing as we have all that already on profile pages.Also if they are going to keep using the symbols it would be better if you click on them and it took you to the the information , when i first saw them in someones profile i clicked on them waiting to see his reccomondations nothing happened then i noticed we still had the tabs for recommondations but at first was a bit confusing then i thought what was the point of having them there.
But like most things you get use to the way things are maybe after a few months will be alright and will get use to the new layout but i do agree the layout now looks worse
Anyone else not a big fan of the new layout being used? The Recommendations, Past Opponents, and Days on site look fine and don't really bother me. However, I liked it better when the location, stats, introduction, and interests were all on top of eachother.


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Opinion: What Is Really Going on with the Free Press Accusations
As the story broke and as reports, clarifications, comments, support, etc. has come rolling in, and as I have tried to digest all of it including your comments, I have tried to wrap my head around the motivations of the two "reporters" [and I use that term loosely] at the FP. I asked myself what is it that motivates two UM alums to do this type of "gotcha" journalism? In these types of instances, the best thing to do is to look for the "common cold," as opposed to bizarre theories. Here is my conclusion:
1. Given that both these men were opposed to Coach Rodriguez being hired and that, even giving them the benefit of the doubt about their desire to seek what is best for the program, that there article is a deliberate attempt here to take down Coach Rodriguez, to get him fired, make him resign, etc. That is the big motive.
2. Given the timing of this article, it also seems to be an attempt to put any achievements of the coach under a cloud. This is not meant as a benefit to the program, to clean it up, reform it, etc. It is not just an attack on Coach Rodriguez with the goal to get rid of him, it is also an attack on his record. Just has he is potentially on the verge of turning this program around, these two writers have planted the seed: Coach Rodriguez only wins because he is a cheat. His "work hard" mantra is well known back to WVU, and the implication here is that he has only been able to win by violating the amount of time he "requires" from his players.
It used to be standard thinking that once the program started winning, Coach Rodriguez would be embraced by all and would finally become a "Michigan Man." By trying to pin the label of "cheater" on him, these two, who shall not be named, are, in my opinion, trying to forever prevent "the Hick" from becoming "one of us." By casting these aspersions, they can dismiss, even if only in their own minds, his success as the ill-gotten gain of cheating that does nothing but taint this fine institution. Even if he wins, now, he loses.
Without this, they know that sooner or later he will win, and when he wins, he will be embraced. And if everyone else embraces him, they will be expected to as well, something they could never do. "The Hick" will never be one of "us." Thus the smear campaign. It does not matter whether or not there is any truth to the allegations. As in most Main Stream Media, all that matters is the "Seriousness of the Charge." All that will matter is that the allegations are out there and that they can keep coming back to this hinting that even if the NCAA finds nothing that there must be some violation there because, after all, no one would make a charge this serious unless there was substance to it. The cloud will remain, not because it has any basis in truth, but because of the seriousness of the charge.
If this were politics we would call it the "politics of personal destruction." It is reprehensible, even in politics, more so in something as superfluous as sports. As I watched Coach Rodriguez, obviously hurting, seemingly in complete disbelief that someone would charge that he would harm his athletes, I was furious watching a good man being systematically attacked, "destroyed," and knowing that he was completely helpless to stop this circus. Because in the end, it does not matter that the charges stick or not, all that matters is the cloud that the accusation creates. He has been tainted in their eyes and no matter what evidence is brought to counter this charge, they will hold the charge over his head in perpetuity. That cloud says: "Cheater." It makes me sick to my stomach.
Passive-aggressive revenge! Rate Rosenberg's book on Amazon!!
Must have an existing Amazon account, watch the profanity, they require you to have your real name!
Have fun! It's already dropped from 4.5 stars to 3 stars, faster than a high school senior's Lemming rating when he signs with Michigan!
Seriously, it's petty, it's juvenile, but hey; it's all in good fun. Dude knows that 2/3 of the Michigan population that are alumni, fans, etc. now hate him anyways, and this was just his one chance to be the rat that jumps ship from the SS. Free Press.
So come one, come all, and sh*t on Rosenberg's book and be remembered forever as electronic byte's on Amazon's massive servers!!!
In all seriousness, I haven't been this pissed about the media covering Michigan in quite some time. It would be fantastic if the 'journalists' at the Freep would have read the actual NCAA rule book to determine whether or not any of these allegations regarding summer practice in fact have coaching staff present. And it really effects the credibility of those budding 'Deep Throats' that the majority of the players are either transferees, those who lost their starting position, or otherwise disgruntled refugees from the Lloyd Carr years.
The results of the last several years have been clear; excluding the personal motivation of individual players, as a TEAM, we were slow, fat, and not anywhere close to some of the elite teams in the nation. To consistently get there, the team needed to step it up a notch. No more pizza runs, no more wing runs. Work work work!
E-mail I sent to Rosenberg and Snyder
Dear Mr. Rosenberg and Mr. Snyder,
I read with interest your report about allegations of NCAA football violations at the University of Michigan. However, I felt that there were a number of areas in which the investigation and/or report could have been improved with more detail and comprehensive information. Certainly, there are space limitations for articles and deadlines to complete a project, but given the gravity of the subject, the report could have been more accurate and representative in the following ways:
1. Methodology - What specific questions were asked of players and parents? Was a breakdown of how the hours were spent asked of the players? I felt that additional characteristics were needed about the sources used (e.g., Carr recruit vs. Rodriguez recruit, number of former players vs. number of current players). I could come to a very different conclusion about the allegations if the report indicated that the sources were nine former players/transfers and one current player than if it came from 9 current players and 1 former player/transfer. Note that this can be done while still protecting the anonymity of players and parents who requested it. The report would have also greatly benefited from gathering information from a larger sample of individuals. While not all of this information needs to be included, the report would've greatly benefited from more detail about the nature of the interviews, what was asked, and source characteristics.
2. Confirming and Disconfirming Evidence - In the search for accurate answers to issues, individuals absolutely must seek out disconfirming as well as confirming evidence. This is true for scientists as well as for journalists. Unfortunately, I only found confirming evidence in the article published by the Detroit Free Press. If more players and parents would have been interviewed, disconfirming evidence would likely exist on this issue.
3. Report Context - The report also did not include any information on the recent (2008) NCAA survey results the USA Today published about the amount of hours collegiate student-athletes spend on academics and athletics. The NCAA study contained a large sample of collegiate student-athletes (N=1,600+ football players, N=21,000+ athletes), and indicated that college football players spend an average of 44.8 hours per week on combined involuntary and voluntary practices and workouts (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2008-01-12-athletes-full-time-work-study_N.htm). Were you aware of this study? If so, I would have either requested data from the study to get more information or at least mentioned the survey in the report. This certainly does not absolve any program from violating hour limitations placed on daily/weekly practices and workout limits nor does it address all the issues present in the UM report, but I felt it certainly would have indicated to the reader that this is an issue that is more widespread (in fact, it's probably commonplace) and not an isolated problem with one program or one sport. Furthermore, it would have placed the report in a better, more accurate context.
4. Selective Quotations - What did the other players indicate about practice and workout requirements? The articles included selective quotations from players who had negative things to say about practice and workouts as well as an indifferent comment from a freshman (Je'Ron Stokes) who was indifferent about the issue (as noted in the article). Were all players aware of what was being investigated during the interviews?
5. Resolution of Conflicting Information - The report indicates that that one player (sharing the sentiment of others) indicated that workouts in the past two off-seasons at Michigan "affected people's grades. People were falling asleep in class." Yet, UM reported that the 2008 cumulative Michigan football GPA is the highest it has been in nearly 20 years. These two conflicting pieces of information needed to be fleshed out more, or at very least mentioned together.
I sincerely hope you strongly consider creating a more comprehensive, balanced, and well-rounded report on such issues in the future.
Enough Blue-Colored Glasses
The pattern is always the same. Local paper reports on alleged misdeeds by the local football team. Blogosphere immediately and reflexively explodes, crying "Witch-hunt!"; and boycotting the paper and accusing the reporters of bias, grudges, you name it; and protesting that the coaches wouldn't so much as jaywalk. Recognize this pattern? From KU to USC to, um, UM basketball. To that end, I challenge you to list examples in which this pattern didn't play out accordingly -- in which charges of systemic problems turned out to be totally bogus. Can't think of many, can you?
Thou doth protest too much, I think. Most of you can't really feel that confident that RR is the victim of a baseless witch-hunt. Seriously, in your heart of hearts, you're at least a little concerned that RR, while perhaps a fine coach, is a bit...murky. Problem is, you either won't or can't admit it. Because you only want to hear what you want to hear. Because you can't handle the the (possible) truth. Because you're seeing this through blue-colored glasses. Which is usually a fine quality, but not so much when we're talking about potentially serious violations that, if true, seriously impact our players. I'm shocked that nobody seems the least bit concerned about this. And a little ashamed.
Let's be clear: Even the News confirms that the team exceeded the practice limits. The freshmen confirmed same, and please stop trotting out the red-herring re the manner in which they were asked questions. They were clearly describing their practice schedules, on the record, on tape. That at least ten players, former or current, complained is a sign of some sort of trouble, if only in terms of team unity. Never would have happened in years past. Last but not least: that everyone else breaks the rules is no excuse. This isn't Alabama or Miami. This is Michigan. We play by the rules, or ought to. Student-athletes, not athlete-students.
Our collective response, so far, has been textbook: defensive, whiny, paranoid, biased, Palin-esque, a joke to every other fanbase. We sound like the KU basketball base, circa 1970s. Read this postings, replacing ND with M, and imagine what you'd be thinking. It's absurd. Posters protest bias by displaying monumental bias. Get some perspective. Let's let the investigation run its course before drawing conclusions. After all, have you been practicing with the team all year? Do you really know what happened? No, you don't. So maybe let's let the truth play out, rather than play the truth. Hysteria smacks of desperation. If RR messed-up, he and we must suffer consequences; if he didn't, we'll all be stronger in the end. We went to Michigan, most of us. We have hearts and brains. Let's start thinking more with the latter. Go Blue.
All we need is a little patience...
It's easy for the media and fans to take shots at Michigan and Rich Rod right now, but the true fans to support him will be laughing all the way to BCS bowls in the future. Rich Rod is taking a program who was so stuck in their old ways, that became so predictable and arrogant. RR is trying to turn it around, and transform big blue into a lean, lightning fast team full of athletes. I'm excited to see the progression over the next few years, that's the best part of being a sports fan, feeling the lows of the team and then rising/improving every year to get back on top.
I can only hope that the team rallies together this week and has big time practices. I envision this team filtering their rage from last season and using these allegations to come together this weekend and destroy WMU. I'm looking forward to seeing the speed and agility I've been reading about all summer, I want to be able to silence my friends who talk smack about the team I love so much. I was listening to David Bowie the other day and there's a line in the song Changes that struck me. "time may change me, but I can't change time." That's the truth, with patience and support we will be back on top.
Those who stay will be champions.
Keep the UM fanbase from heading Eastbound and Down
During one of my daily harassments to Brian I brought up the uphill battle "real" bloggers may face with informing the masses against the "lolz" bloggers. By this I mean that, for every blogger, professional or not, that takes their authenticity and reliability seriously, I feel like there's five who seek to put out the most half-assed material possible for the sole interest of proving how bad rival teams are. The recent profile of Tennessee blogs that still cannot get over the Heisman issue and come up with every conspiracy available is but the tip of the iceberg.
It's relevance has come out too clearly as of late. While message boards exploded with the latest "RR steals children from their parents, Barwis puts them in a hole and demands they put the lotion on their skin" accusations, all of that crap from the past comes up. RR shredded the only documents available. The Barwis Files MUST have included similar proof. Argh.
The only solution is to remain coherent and possibly stay out of opinion battles and between the lines of "linkable information only." I'm already kind of embarrassed at some of the stuff going up by UM fans/alum and had to even hold back from doing similar. It's incredibly frustrating and while Brian has done an incredible job of vindicating any faith some of us may have in the likelihood of this being shoddy journalism, it also makes it so much more appealing to go out there and knock some sense into people. Fight the urge to return fire with fire, though. Please.
In my opinion, writing the Press will do nothing. The odds the paper will look at it seriously and not file it under "fanatic knee-jerk hate" is minimal. Threatening to cancel your subscription? Either do it or shut up. It looks like sour grapes and, frankly, if there is stuff there that the press knows that has yet to be refuted, we should applaud the effort because integrity should be the goal - not that the Press should bury anything negative. The same should go for posting material incendiary to other fan bases or the Freep. Make them look like shit by finding holes in the article, not in how much of a nozzle the writers are.
The title is derived from my main point: within one of the waning episodes of Season One of Eastbound and Down, Kenny Powers falls into an argument that, as it progresses, makes him look worse as he looks for a way to escape it without acknowledging fault. To continue to just vent angrily while this issue goes for or against UM can only lead to both sides coming to this:
I'll get off the soap box now but it would be nice to see the fanbase rally to simply use the internet, logic and research to shoot these accusations to shit instead of being the fanbase who yelled the loudest.


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At the time the British government announced the Longitude Prize, shipwrecks were a grave problem – many people died, ships and cargo were lost. It was decided that a reward in the form of what would be millions in today's dollars should be given to the person who devised a method by which a ship's longitude could reliably be determined – making accurate navigation possible.
Ultimately, the prize was successful. Many lives were saved. Faced as we are now with alarming outbreaks of measles and whooping cough, we need a similar competition.
Who, 50 years ago, would ever have imagined we'd need to promise a reward to the person able to persuade wealthy, educated parents to do this small thing for their own children – of whom they seem quite fond – and for those who come into contact with those children, about whom one hopes they'd give a damn.
Yet here we are. There are schools in the wealthiest parts of Los Angeles where the vaccination rate is on a par with that of South Sudan – fashionable tinder boxes of measles waiting to go up. Pertussis (the far-less-fun-than-it-sounds "whooping cough") is making a dramatic comeback.
"Why don't we just explain all that?" a contestant in the competition will likely propose. "That, even if vaccines did involve a slight risk of, say, autism – and then we present the multiple studies that prove they don't – they'd still be better than returning to a time when mothers named a child Henry, and that would be their third Henry."
The Board of Seriously, People, You Went To College, Do You Just Hate Children?, established to administer the prize, would reject this solution.
"A study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics journal showed that, even when educational efforts 'successfully reduced misperceptions that vaccines cause autism,' it 'nonetheless decreased intent to vaccinate,' " the board's chair would have to say. "Yeah, decreased. And have you seen the Internet? You disprove one theory, they come up with 10 new reasons not to vaccinate. Call in the next contestant."
An infectious-disease specialist armed with meticulous research makes a sober presentation. She quotes Roberto Cattaneo, a molecular biologist at the Mayo Clinic who has spent 30 years studying measles, which he calls "the most transmissible virus we know." She leans authoritatively on the chair's desk, and speaks to him directly. "Let me make my case to parents," she pleads.
She leaves. Two hours later, she pops her head in the door and explains that, had she been infected with measles, the virus would still be alive on every surface in the room she'd touched and in the room's airspace. "Nine out of 10 of those without immunity in this room would already be infected," she says "And that ends my presentation."
"They'll just say they're protecting their kids with kale and organic hand sanitizer," a nutritionist on the board says with a sigh. "People put a lot of faith in raw food and lavender."
An accountant, an immigration lawyer and a rabbi make an interesting joint presentation; many parents are requesting exemptions where vaccines are mandatory.
Getting these exceptions is a drag, as parent things can be, but it's not unlike registering your child for a somewhat exclusive soccer league. And so they present their creation: Together they've crafted an exemption process so arduous it would make requesting an exemption the emotional and time-consuming equivalent of filing your taxes, earning your citizenship and converting to Judaism.
"You think this will discourage them?" a member of the board asks. "It'll just give them more to blog about." And the accountant, the immigration lawyer and the rabbi leave, disappointed, before walking into a bar.
The next applicant enters with a swagger. "Even before Wakefield's autism-vaccination study was withdrawn and he was struck from the medical register, his methodology was suspect. Anyone making a choice about vaccinating their child based on the work of a disgraced gastroenterologist might just as well be counting on alchemy to bankroll that kid through university.
"However, my own research" – here he tables a stack of documents and a plastic bottle – "suggests people like things from Fiji. Couldn't we just say that vaccines come from Fiji?"
"Doctors should keep giving vaccines in their offices, but we should have another vaccine for our target group. It'll be just like the regular vaccine, but, instead of explaining to people you can't give the vaccine to children under 12 months old, we tell them there's a year-long wait list, an interview process and that they'll need letters of recommendation from prior graduates in Not Dying From a Completely Preventable Illness. Tell them the vaccine's admission board will want to see little Skyler play the theremin. Whatever you call this place, put the word 'Einstein' in the name. Maybe try 'Einstab.' "
"Call them artisanal vaccines," someone suggests.
Selling vaccines in Mason jars is considered.
"Make vaccines an off-menu item, like the doctor's receptionist will think you're really cool if you ask for it," a sociologist recommends, adding, "Can we get that bee guy involved? 'Burt's Preventative Medicine.'"
"Tell them measles contain gluten," the suggestion is made. "They'll line up around the block."
A number of time machines will be invented – capable of transporting people back to the days when childhood death was a way of life. The best of these machines is made from an old iron lung, but still the board – while impressed with the technology – rejects it as ineffective in the face of vaccine resisters who are employing the same part of the human brain that once caused people to say, "It's okay. I know what I'm doing. I drive better when I'm drunk."
The Chamber of Perpetual Misery, an invention capable of making its occupant instantly feel exactly what it's like to be up at 4 a.m., and pacing a second mile, with a screaming, desperately sick baby, is similarly dismissed.
"The phrase 'I have a right to make the choice that's right for my family' is being wielded like a magical incantation," a board member explains. "Apparently, it includes the right to bring back nightmarish illnesses once thought eradicated."
I imagine the only invention that could actually win the prize is Polio 2.0. Although that may be wishful thinking on my part.Report Typo/Error
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