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This Week's Obsession: Midseason Roundtable Espectaculo
So far the train's on time. [Bryan Fuller]
As is tradition, we go long for the midpoint.
The Questions:
1. Most pleasant surprise?
2. Biggest downer?
3. Most improved player?
4. Guy who will emerge in the second half of the season?
5. Expectations relative to preseason outlook?
6. Biggest surprise in the conference?
7. Ditto, except national?
8. Predict three stats, individual or team, that will be by year's end.
The Responses:
1. Most pleasant surprise?
Linebackers have not been a problem [Bryan Fuller]
Adam: The linebackers. What seemed like a weak point heading into the season has been anything but a liability. Ben Gedeon and Mike McCray have been great in the run game and good in coverage, and their athleticism has not gone unnoticed by us or by the stat sheet; Gedeon's second on the team with 7.5 TFLs and has 3.0 sacks, while McCray has 4.5 TFLs, 2.5 sacks, and 3 PBUs. Peppers has been generating earnest Heisman hype this week in part because of his 32 tackles, 10 TFLs, and 2.5 sacks (and also because he's so good that his head coach has to go back to the early 20th century to find a comparable athlete), and including him with the linebackers leaves a position group sans concerns.
Seth: Agree on Ben Gedeon and Mike McCray. Also it's fun to have blitzing from that position again: Adam mentioned that Gedeon already has 7.5 TFLs—that means he's on pace to beat the 14 that Bolden (6.5), Morgan (2), and Ross (5.5) had combined in 2015.
David: Karan Higdon. He got like 5-10 snaps last year, looked ok-ish, then disappeared. With Walker and Evans coming in (and potentially other big names in 2017), I was wondering if he would get passed by. NOPE!
Brian: Matt Godin. He got lucky with some injury issues for Hurst and Mone but both guys are back now and Godin's playing time isn't budging. He's been productive beyond expectations, and here I should remind you that I was advocating for a role for him in the season preview since he's always been a solid... SDE.
That he's playing DT and mostly holding up to double teams is a leap in performance I could not project. Hurst has been the more dynamic player and I do expect him to suck up more snaps as the season goes on, but Godin may have even played himself into late-round NFL drat chatter.
Ace: I'll go with the most Harbaugh answer here and say Khalid Hill. Some of what he's done has been expected; we knew coming out of high school that he was a skilled receiver, and that's translated over to fullback, where he's made a habit of picking throws off his shoestrings in the flat and still turning upfield for extra yardage. The surprising parts have been his blocking, which has been solid between the tackles and often spectacular in the open field, and his knack for converting goal-to-go situations. I mean, he dubbed himself the Hammering Panda, and we're going to not only let the self-nicknaming slide—we're running with it ourselves.
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2. Biggest downer?
Harbaughiffication: ongoing. [Fuller]
Adam: Grant Newsome's injury. Just when it looked like he was hitting his stride he goes down, and just minutes shy of the cutoff for a medshirt, too.
|Maybe this was asking too much. [Fuller]
Seth: Losing Newsome, as Adam said, 20 minutes after the cutoff for a medshirt. Last summer we wrote how the preseason set up well to get Newsome up to speed by the time he's needed. He was juuuust getting there, and now he's needed. Bushell-Beatty belongs in the pleasant surprise category above, however Michigan has yet to face several Watt-like objects, starting with Illinois's Dawuane Smoot and Carroll Phillips.
Since that's taken, I'll mention the field goals. I don't know what possessed us to believe a top-notch punter and kickoff specialist could handle kicking duties too, but putting all of that on Kenny Allen's foot was apparently incorrect.
David: I think it probably has to be Wilton Speight. He hasn't been consistent all season and a lot of that is independent of opponent play. Obviously, we've seen Harbaugh improve many a QB...here's hoping the light goes on in the 2nd half!
Brian: Newsome's injury is correct. I'd also put in a shout for Mason Cole's performance so far this year. He hasn't been bad. Neither has he been particularly good, and while he drew some tough matchups against 3-4 teams that aren't really his wheelhouse I was expecting he'd be a lot better than middling.
Ace: Newsome's injury is the answer, but the season-ending injury to Jeremy Clark could have bigger ramifications than we've seen so far. Michigan has a great cornerback duo in Jourdan Lewis and Channing Stribling, but they've played a MANBALL outfit and the worst Power 5 team in the country since Clark's injury—we've yet to see that extra defensive back face a major test.
3. Most improved player?
Adam: Chase Winovich. One thing that's always stuck with me is when Winovich told Ace at media day that he was unsure of last season's position switch at first because his name is Chase, not Block. He's finally back to chasing, and he's doing a good job of it. This is a guy who has gone from linebacker to tight end to defensive end and has actually managed to get snaps on a defensive line that might be the deepest in Michigan history. Sure, he's more of a pass rusher than anything else right now and still has things to work on against the run, but there's every reason for him to not be on the field right now and yet he's getting non-garbage time snaps.
|Winovich isn't close to Taco, but neither has he been close to bad. [Eric Upchurch]
David: Ben Gedeon. We were all ok with what we thought he would bring this season. But his gap-thumping and sideline to sideline range have been very much improved. WHY U NO REDSHIRT IN 2013?!?!?!?!
Seth: It's a year later than we predicted, but most welcome that Kyle Kalis is putting together an excellent senior season. Repeatedly wishing he'd had Drevno coaching him the three years prior was going to stick in Michigan hearts anyway; at least now it can be the best possible sore spot.
Brian: I assume that Ben Gedeon's lack of playing time was due to Joe Bolden's ability to practice like a star and bamboozle coaches as a result. So my answer here is also Kyle Kalis, who's cut the mental mistakes out of his game almost entirely and is finally applying considerable force to opponents without offering up a compensatory slate of TFLs allowed. His career goes in the AJ Williams bin, wherein we wonder what Player X would have looked like if he'd had four years of Harbaugh instead of just one or two.
Ace: Since Kalis and Gedeon have already been mentioned a couple times, I'll note that Channing Stribling learning to stay in phase and becoming one of the conference's—if not the country's—best cover corners has been pretty nice, too.
4. Guy who will emerge in the second half of the season?
Adam: Rashan Gary. He's gotten better every week, and by the end of the season he'll be preternaturally good. Not for a freshman, for a football player.
David: Devin Asiasi. His blocking is really drawing attention and it seems like his playing time is increasing as that goes. As M starts playing slightly tougher opponents, I expect Asiasi to get some more snaps as he holds up well as a run-blocker and will become a matchup nightmare once he is inserted in a few more pass packages.
Seth: I'm doubling down on my preseason prediction that Bryan Mone's name will get back on those we count off when panegyrizing the 2016 defensive line. Rutgers doesn't count, and Mone got just 7 snaps against Wisconsin, but that game had only 53 to go around. Ohio State and Indiana will double that, and that's when the backups will shine. Remember this guy started at 3-tech before his injury because Michigan wanted to get him on the field so bad. More Mone means a fresher Glasgow, and Hurst getting to stick to 3-tech. Here's a Mone-inclusive depth chart again just because:
Brian: Devin Asiasi has already moved ahead of TJ Wheatley as the team's top blocking tight end, and I wouldn't be surprised to see him maintain his playing time after Ian Bunting's return from injury. He moves people. Coming out of high school his coach gushed and gushed about his blocking ability, and he's apparently right. He's smart, agile, and powerful, and since his redirect blocks often see him encounter a DB we get to see him plow a field repeatedly. It's fun.
Asiasi's had a number of assignment issues so far, which is to be expected from a true freshman. He seems to be reducing those errors, and as the season goes along his blocking ability will only increase relative to his competitors.
Ace: Wilton Speight. Yes, he's already the starter, but while he's not off to a Early Rudock-level bad start, there have been some alarming moments (and alarming games) in the first half of the season. We saw what kind of improvement Harbaugh managed to get out of Rudock, a fifth-year senior, last season. Even if the magnitude isn't as great, a similar breakout from Speight is by no means out of the question, and it would take the ceiling off of this team. (A ceiling which is already very high, I should add.)
5. Expectations relative to preseason outlook?
loomin' [Bryan Fuller]
Adam: I predicted that Michigan would finish the season undefeated, so everything's on track.
David: Right on schedule. They took care of business through the home part of the schedule. I think most people figured M would be 6-0 entering the Bye Week. There are still a few kinks in the passing game, but all else seems to being running full steam ahead.
Seth: Lowered. I concluded HTTV this year by predicting 14-0 and promised we'd make another post-year HTTV if that happened. At that time I was fairly confident this team could get to Columbus undefeated, and that seems on track. What's changed is Ohio State. I expected they would struggle more with their offensive line problems and the casting about for a secondary that could play. Now it appears that defense is better than last year's (the one with Joey Bosa), and I've learned never to doubt an Urban OL again. In August was 60% sure of a win; now that's flipped.
Brian: I predicted 12-0 on the back of an elite defense and "eh, it's fine" QB play, so the overall picture is still the same. I underrated the linebackers and didn't expect the RB situation to turn into a four-way free-for-all. The biggest changes from my preseason projection is not Michigan itself but Ohio State, which has weathered a ton of departures without much trouble. I thought Iowa and MSU were paper tigers, but I also thought The Game would feature Michigan against a team with a couple losses.
Ace: The offense is as expected. The defense, for all we thought it would be heading into the season, has managed to exceed any reasonable expectation and go straight to "on track to be historically good."
6. Biggest surprise in the conference?
David: Indiana. I think they're...good? They beat MSU, hung tight with OSU, and are worrying M fans a little more than they expected at the beginning of the season. They are 3-2 (could easily be 4-1 if Lagow had not completed 5 passes to Wake Forest) and there could be 5 more wins on that schedule. Indiana at...8-4? Maybe...3rd in B10E??
Adam: Michigan State's struggles. On paper it looked like their offensive line was iffy, their secondary returned a bunch of guys who weren't very good, their D-line had one good player and nothing else, and their starting quarterback's battle-testedness came in one of the weirdest games in recent memory as throwing more than a dozen times wasn't a risk worth taking. To think that all of the things that looked bad on paper would look bad on the field would've required a prognosticator wholly unfamiliar with college football from 2008 to 2015. There's little doubt in my mind that they'll look like a different team against Michigan, but State's aforementioned issues remain unresolved, and there's no reason to expect resolution over the next six games.
|Perhaps we gave them too much Respekt? [Upchurch]
Seth: Indiana's defense is better than their offense.
Okay, now that we're all settled in our bunkers, let's figure out when is the last time that happened. You could make the case for 2003 under Gerry DiNardo. That defense--97th in scoring, 101st in yards--was just as putrid as any other Indiana defense; it's just that Matt LoVecchio and BenJarvus Green-Ellis were even worse. I think you have to go back to 1993 under Bill Mallory. I was 13 and didn't watch non-Michigan games because I had Super Nintendo. But I'm pretty sure the '93 team didn't have Dan Feeney or Nick Westbrook.
Brian: This could be Wisconsin but given the way the season's played out they look like they're getting a lot of credit for wins over teams that aren't that good. The 30-6 MSU blowout was more like 14-6 with MSU shooting itself in the foot, and given MSU's other games this year... eh.
Meanwhile MSU being total butt is a genuine surprise. I thought they'd be significantly worse than last year given their departures. I did not think S&P+ would be projecting them to miss a bowl after BYU ran them over. While MSU's had a rabbit's foot in their possession the last few years the correction was not supposed to be this harsh.
Ace: Penn State being good-ish. If I'm being honest, I expected James Franklin to flame out in spectacular fashion. While that looked to be the case when they played Michigan, the hiring of Joe Moorhead at offensive coordinator has really turned their offense around, and they've risen to #17 on S&P+ after dismantling a surprisingly decent Maryland squad.
But, yeah, the right answer is MSU. I'll leave this here.
7. Ditto, except national?
Seth: If Harbaugh has Michigan back to Moeller-level, Chris Petersen has Washington all the way back to those teams Mo played in Pasadena. In just the last two weeks they might have ended the dynasties that Harbaugh and Chip Kelly left in the Pac 12 North. Jake Browning is just a true sophomore and yet the most efficient passer in college football.
While I'm out on the West Coast I should add that UCLA being this bad kind of defied my expectations, given the level Mora recruits at and the fact that DC Tom Bradley has had success everywhere else. Really looking forward to Colorado beating them.
|Lamar Jackson made FSU's defense look silly, and made us all forget about Deshaun Watson. [Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire]
David: Louisville. So, I thought they'd be better and probably pretty good. But they kicked the face of off FSU and probably should have won at Clemson if the WR had known were the first down line was (and cut inside instead of volunteering to go OOB). That would probably be the Playoff. Instead, they could easily go 11-1/10-2 and head back to a BCS game. I was tempted to say Washington, but they have the best coach in the P12...it was only a matter of time.
Adam: Lamar Jackson. Here's a guy who was barely on the periphery of Heisman conversation before the season started who is now a legitimate contender, if not the leader, for the trophy. He's posted triple-digit passing and rushing numbers in every game save Marshall, where he had just 62 rushing yards...and 417 passing yards. He's averaging 8.83 yards per play, has 14 passing TDs and 4 interceptions, as well as a ludicrous 14 rushing touchdowns; if anyone projected numbers like that based only on his bowl performance, I, for one, welcome our new prescient Heisman-handicapping overlord.
Brian: Oregon might be over. I have no idea how Louisville gets a guy like Lamar Jackson and Oregon, the premiere spread program of the last 20 years, is choosing between their second consecutive FCS transfer and a freshman... a freshman pocket passer! What are you doing? What in the actual hell are you doing, Oregon? Since Mark Helfrich was the OC before he was the head coach virtually all of this falls on his head.
Meanwhile on the other side of the ball they're a wreck for the second consecutive year. I thought Brady Hoke wasn't the worst idea. He both inherited a complete mess and told the press it they were a "long way from being any sort of defense," which turns out to be correct. Whether he can make them into any sort of defense is an open question.
Oregon sucks. They might suck for a bit here since spread stuff has been normalized in CFB and they've never been much of a recruiting power. The Duck era in the Pac-12 feels over.
Ace: We've made it this far without mentioning that Notre Dame fired their defensive coordinator before midpoint of the season, then lost a game on the fringes of a hurricane because Brian Kelly insisted on running every play from the shotgun—and then he blamed the center. They're 2-4, have about a 50/50 shot of finishing with a losing record, and could very well clean house. I thought their Kizer-led offense would be able to overcome some issues on the other side of the ball; that has not come to pass.
8. Predict three stats, individual or team, that will be by year's end.
- Michigan's defense continues strong and finishes #1 in S&P
- Jabrill Peppers scores double digit TDs
- M has 4 RBs top 600 rushing yards
BONUS: -Khalid Hill will finish with the team lead in TDs scored.
|Panda hammer touchdown vulture panda [Fuller]
- Opponents' Success Rate will be 23% or lower
- Michigan will rank first nationally in adjusted sack rate
- Taco Charlton finishes with 10 sacks
- Jabrill Peppers will lead the nation in TFLs (he's currently 5th)
- Speight won't have a higher QB rating than Rudock's 2015 (he does now)
- Harbaugh will prepare a motion-TE inverted veer option play against Maryland that goes for 78 yards.
- Michigan has the #1 D in yards per play, S&P+, and FEI. They are the top D in the history of the fancystats. (IE, since ~2007)
- Jabrill Peppers ends up with 500 rushing yards to go with his various defensive stats.
- Nobody finishes with double-digit sacks because there's too much rotation and too many guys racking up stats. Michigan leads the country in adjusted sack rate.
- As Wilton Speight improves, Jehu Chesson has a similar second-half surge to last year and finishes with ~800 receiving yards (he's at 231 right now).
- Michigan finishes first in havoc rate by a ludicrous margin.
- The number in the loss column remains at zero heading into the postseason.


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The building in this photo is new and is used for practising meditation. The sign for "Abha Seva Sadhan" is a service project giving free medicine to the poor. The sign "Baba Naam Kevalam" is a mantra meaning 'Everything is an expression of one infinite, loving Consciousness'.
Baba's orginal house was to the right of this photo. The building is no more. Instead, a garden of many flowers and plants is being nurtured in its place.

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The first Smith statement describes the person they encountered (and the child he was carrying) as:
"A POSSIBLE sighting of Madeleine Mccann by a Drogheda family on the night she disappeared could be crucial in a new probe into her disappearence.Members of the Smith family from Maple Drive revealed to police investigators that they saw a man carrying a young child through the streets of Praia da Luz on the night she went missing, May 3 2007, from her family's apartment on the Algarve.
Totally credible!Their statement is still regarded as being ' totally credible' by sources."
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— He does not remember her clothing very well but thinks it was lightweight summer clothing, light in colour. He does not remember if she was covered with any wrap or blanket. He cannot affirm if she was barefoot.
— He states that [the man] carried the child on his arms, with the head resting on the left shoulder, as such on the right of the deponent, appearing to him in a natural manner.
http://littlemorsals.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/smith-sighting-descriptions-and-gerry.html— Having already seen various photographs of MADELEINE and televised images, states that the child that was carried by the individual may have been her. He cannot state this as fact but is convinced that it could have been MADELEINE, an opinion shared by his family...read more


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Trolling Chris Pirillo wants some.
He he! Well someone's got to stand up and school the boy!
I admire people like Winer (who's link I followed over there). I like the notion of "users and developers partying together". I think developers have a responsibility to give the users good things. And that developers can't know what these good things are without paying attention to users.
But the idea that development is a commodity - which is essentially what he's saying here -, that it's like the water supply which can be turned on or off or piped-around at the will of the user, is wrong, wrong, wrong.
The reason is, that good software creation, like any other creative activity, requires a deep knowledge of the nature and constraints of the medium. You can't invent the transistor without a profound understanding of physics. Nor write a great novel without being a master of your own language. Nor a great painter without knowing paint. Nor invent radio or television or the computer without a background in the relevant science.
Without knowing your material you'll never see the statue in the block of marble. Never have intuitions about the possibilities that the medium holds. Users can, at best, offer advice for incremental improvements : "I want something like X but with these annoyances fixed."
But that's never going to give you radical new things. There are no great innovations in software that have been driven by user demand. (Name one!) They all come from geeks who knew what software looks like from the inside, who saw something in the computer and said "hey! I could make it do that, too. Kewl!"
Users and developers have common enemies : dinosaur software companies, companies who like to specify and buy software which they hope will impose particular work-practices on their employees, market-forces which require cutting-corners to get the product out of the door today rather than get it right.
Let's work (and party) together to fight that.
But the other … don't fool yourself. Users have been dreaming of getting rid of developers, like, forever. They never succeed.
Every time the users abandon us, we go away and create yet more cool stuff, on our own, for ourselves.
And eventually the users come crawling back, because they want more of our pure, raw innovation, rather than more of the stale old fluff which is all that they and the marketing people (who "understand real users better than those disfunctional geeks") are able to come up with by themselves.
Update : MP3 of Pirillo's presentation at BloggerCon. Yawn! ;-)
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The German developer Alexander Graf found passwords in the memory of its own router. This gave access to the service network of Vodafone subsidiary Kabel Deutschland. Thus he could look around freely on the routers of 2.8 million Germans.
Alexander Graf discovered the vulnerability when he was looking into its own router to the login data for its VoIP Access, which he wanted to use to connect to its own hardware. He found a hidden network called wan0, which appeared to be part of the maintenance of the German network provider. Through this network, he could later via telnet and ssh access to the routers of 2.8 million other users. The access passwords of these routers were partially stored in plain text in the memory of its own router. These were same for all devices.
He was then able to execute arbitrary code on the routers with root access. Therefore he could learn the passwords of other users and thus use their connection and calls at their expense. He decided to inform the provider and it responded within one month of the notification to the users to maintain network isolated from each other. According to the site Heise would leak have been ten years may exist. Graf will present his findings next week at the 32nd Chaos Communication- congress in Hamburg.Viewing:-377
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Miami Jury Awards Top Prize To "A Thousand Months"
by Brian Brooks
Fifteen recipients received accolades during an awards brunch in South Beach at the Royal Palm Crowne Plaza Hotel concluding the Miami International Film Festival. Faouzi Bensaidi's "A Thousand Months" (Milles Mois) about a 7-year-old's experience in a village in Morocco during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan took the festival's grand jury prize for best dramatic feature. Golden-Globe winner "Osama" by Siddiq Barmak, which United Artists released in theaters last weekend, received the grand jury special citation at the ceremony. Also receiving honorable mentions were actress Anna Ovsianikova for her work in Lidia Bobrova's "Granny" (Baboussia) and to Wolfgang Becker, director of "Good Bye, Lenin!" "Lenin" won best film last year at the European Film Awards as well as best actor (Daniel Bruhl).
In the festival's line up of Ibero-American films, Hugo Rodriguez's "Nicotina" picked up the section's top nod. The film, starring Diego Luna ("Y Tu Mama Tambien") is described by the fest as "a dark comedic take on criminal lifestyles." The grand jury prize for best documentary went to Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni for "The Story of the Weeping Camel," Mongolia's first entry for best foreign language Oscar consideration. Laura Gabbert received the grand jury special citation for best documentary for "Sunset Story," which explores a "haven" for retired radicals in Los Angeles.
Swedish feature "Evil" by Mikael Hafstrom received the audience award for dramatic feature. The film, which is nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film, took the prize after a count of ballots from all of the festival's venues. The International Federation of Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI), given by the International Film Critics Association, went to "Japanese Story" by Australian director Sue Brooks.
"The real award is having made a film, and having it screened in front of an audience," said Nicole Guillemet, MIFF director in a release. "That is the real meaning of winning." The Miami International Film Festival took place at various venues around the greater Miami area January 30-Feburary 8.
[ Brian Brooks will publish a festival wrap in indieWIRE next week. ]
[ For more MIFF award winners, go to: http://www.miamifilmfestival.com. ]
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Popular Inspector retires
Huge crowds attended an event which was held to honour Inspector Sylvie Henry at the Station House Hotel on Thursday night last. Superintendent Michael Finan spoke eloquently of his former colleague, describing him as a "community man" who was excellent that the work that he did. He also thanked him for his many years of service. Friends and family of Mr Henry were all present at the occasion.
Sylvie Henry's career in the Garda Siochana spanned a period of almost four decades. He quickly rose from the ranks to become Detective before being promoted to Inspector in Glenties Garda Station. Sylvie Henry was also instrumental in setting up a drugs unit in Letterkenny.
Members were out in force on Thursday night last which was a testament of the high regard that the former inspector is held in. "There was a great crowd there on the night. I would say that there was well over a hundred there. Everyone had a lot of time for Sylvie Henry. He was well regarded within the gardaí and by members of the public alike. He will be missed, there is no doubt about that," a spokesperson for the gardai said. The night was described as a "success" with wonderful music and finger food being provided on the occasion.


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Diagnosis of hip injuries can be complex. Studies have shown that as many as 60% of patients requiring a hip arthroscopy were initially misdiagnosed. Hip pain may mimic many other conditions, including sciatica, spinal problems, muscle strains, and sports hernias.
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I'm back into my workout routine now. I'm back into my newly revised workout routine. No more triathlon training. Now, the major focus will be on distance running, although I will not completely abandon cycling and swimming. I love them too much to do that.
But, the price of a racing bike is too much for me, so it will have to wait for a while as I train for at least one or two halfs and then a whole marathon sometime in 2015.
I got back into my training Friday with a great 2-mile tempo run. It felt so good to be out running in warm weather. i do love warm weather workouts. The sweat pours out and it feels like I'm ridding my body of the toxins of the day.
Saturday morning I had a dentist appointment so I didn't make it to the gym until that afternoon, which actually turned out to be a great time to go. I completed a great weight and core session and finished it with some time on the cycle.
I got my long run in Sunday morning – 5 miles. It was warm out, but I really enjoyed myself. After my run, I stopped by Blue Bottle and relaxed with a great cup of coffee before heading home.
Monday was a kick butt spin session. She really gives it to us and I love it! I come out of there knowing that I gave everything I had in those 45 minutes. "Remember why you're here!!!" Anna, our instructor shouts. And I do, as I push hard! It's one of my favorite workouts and when I can't make it, I miss it.
Tonight, a Tuesday, I just got done with 2 miles of hill work. Even though it's been about three weeks since I've run 3-4 times a week regularly, I still feel stronger than I did on the hills. I haven't lost anything. I know all the cross training I've been doing is really helping. All the weight and core work, the extra sleep, and the healthy eating is really helping.
Now, about my eating. I'm getting back into eating right. I'm limiting my amounts, because I know it's the only way I'll shed this fat, I've stopped white flour and sugar (with the exception of once in a while treats), and no processed foods (as much as possible). I can't say i'll never have this stuff, because sometimes it happens, but in the normal course of my day, it's not going to be there.
Last week during my run, I was thinking to myself of an idea. I shrugged it off because it's not something I have experience in. But the idea has been gnawing at me, whispering to me…so much so that today I made some notes and will continue to think about it some more and see if it's even a possibility.
It has everything to do with fitness and this blog, so I will let you know more later when I can.
Tomorrow is swimming and weights day after work, I'm looking forward to getting some laps in the pool for the first time in a while.


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Putting my usual anti-Disney attitude aside, I have to admit their little hospital, the one right behind that pink and white striped patio birthday-restaurant venue which is adjacent to the Star Tours ride, is pretty neat.
The high temps and humidity were one thing, but I got run over by a woman with two crying kids in a two-seater stroller, then minutes later a Northern European guy practically sat on my lap and undid the wrapping on a stinky sandwich right under my nose. I'm not making much of a comment about the Northern European guy especially because I am one, too (sort of, but not a guy), and I like stinky sandwiches as much as the next person, but he stood outside the usual behavior in that he nearly sat on my lap to stay out of the sun. Most of my friends from Helsinki, Denmark, or your general Scandinavian vicinity are good about that Personal Space thing, but he wasn't having anything to do with the sun, and boy, his hip bones sure were pointy and his sandwich stunk to high heaven. I haven't heard any new news on the TV on the Munster d'Alsace or Limburger fronts, but woweee wow wow. Someone needs to tell the world about this particular stinky stuff because it is truly rank.
Back to Hospital Disney: I had been on Space Mountain, or whatever the heck they call it these days a ton of times several years ago, but I guess I didn't get the email that they changed it. Used to be, you'd hear the crank of the gears and see the tracks as you went through it. Heck, I even think they used to have an audio of some Shakespearean poem reciter or maybe Vincent Price saying things like, "whoooo. Whhooooooo! . . . WhhooooOOOOO!" overhead while we sauntered around paper cutouts of the moon, old-skool roller coaster style. Plus, when I was riding that thing in the early days, it was like purling to me. You know, something I did nearly everyday and certainly not as sexy or scary as, say, cabling without a cable needle. The ride yesterday, it was horrible and all the swirling lights and darkness while riding a roller coaster was the wrong thing to do since I recently recovered from all That Vertigo.
Disneyland, I'm compelled to give it a rave review: It sure has a nice little hospital there. And they treat panic attacks very well, all cheerful-like. It took me only four or five hours to recover, just in time for the 3:30 p.m. parade and a Dove Bar re*treat*. Wow. What a trip, and boy, do I feel old.
On the knitting front, I started the socks for that new friend of mine, the one who didn't recognize me because I looked better than the last time he saw me, the one with the cold mom I made those other Charades for. I'm making him size 11's! I actually like the Charade pattern in a solid yarn even more than in the variegated. The texture is gorgeous, and with this particular yarn, the Gems Pearl, the slipped stitch doesn't yield a sock that's "thick." Shoot, I even think the crunchy stinky pickle eater at my LYS would approve of these.
BTW: The Crocheted Shawl that Shall not be Named: Remember that one? The one that starts with a "C"? I'm actually considering picking up that thing and finishing it for my MIL. That Space Mountain ride must have rendered me total and complete nuts, or, maybe, just maybe, I'm simply happy to be alive.
(Plus, I got that book, The Rowan Story Book of Little Knits, and in spite of a missing chart on my favorite pattern in the book, I have to give it a good review. Although it's typical "Rowan," the kid's knits are inspired and a little bit less traditional than usual. When I say "typical Rowan," I mean, it's, you-know, "typical." Nice stuff, but usually the same stuff over and over with some different styling. Still, I like it and recommend it--as long as in the next re-print they include all the graphs with the patterns.)


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-- It might seem funny now but it was hardly a laughing matter Saturday night when first-round pick Jarvis Jones was wheeled out of Heinz Field on a gurney and taken by ambulance to a local hospital after suffering a chest injury against Kansas City. �He�s going to hear it from a lot of guys about how soft he is,� cracked LB Larry Foote. �Really, it was kind of scary when I had seen (the news) going across the TV but I texted him he and he told me he was fine. I told him they don�t make them like they used to.� Jones was returning an interception, that was nullified by a penalty, in the fourth quarter when the injury happened. �I got tackled from behind and fell on the ball. The dude fell on top of me, knocked the air out of me,� said Jones, who did not practice Monday and was still unsure of his status for Thursday night�s game at Carolina. �I�m fine, man.�
-- If Troy Polamalu is expecting to hear from the league office for his hit on Kansas City QB Alex Smith, he isn�t saying. �I don�t know,� Polamalu said Monday. The star safety was flagged 15-yards for an illegal hit to the head late in the first half of Saturday�s overtime loss. Asked if anyone from the Chiefs had anything to say to the seven-time Pro Bowler, Polamalu said only �no.� It was the lone blemish on an otherwise outstanding game from Polamalu, who was in on four tackles and forced a fumble while displaying good burst despite his bout with a nagging calf injury last season. �Lot of room for improvement, for sure,� he said.
-- Former Oakland Raiders great Ray Guy�s selection as a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame ruffled feathers in some quarters last week. Punters, traditionalists will argue, aren�t deserving of bronze busts in Canton. Steelers P Brian Moorman, obviously, isn�t one of them. �We�re still part of the team and if it�s going to be a football hall of fame, then all football players should be involved,� said Moorman, a 13-year veteran. Punters, and kickers to a slightly lesser extent, have long faced the perception that they�re �not real football players.� �That�s just kind of how we�re viewed,� said Moorman, who is in a battle with Drew Butler to win the Steelers punting job this season. �We�re kind of in the background all the time.� Guy would become the first punter enshrined while only one player has ever been inducted strictly as a kicker (Jan Stenerud). Moorman believes former punter Jeff Feagles, a former teammate in Seattle, is also deserving of the Hall. �Just watching him was always a big help for me,� said Moorman.
-- A day after being acquired from Philadelphia for LB Adrian Robinson, RB Felix Jones was thrust into the Steelers� lineup. Jones carried the ball eight times for 29 yards. �He�s still in the very early stages of understanding what it is to be in this environment and how we teach,� said coach Mike Tomlin. �We�re getting to know him, and he's getting to know us. In the midst of that, he's finding ways to be productive, and that's appreciated.�
-- WR/KR Reggie Dunn didn�t practice Monday.
-- Tomlin jokingly reprimanded oft-injured rookie RB Le�Veon Bell for being too close to the pool table in the locker room.
-- The Steelers will trim the roster down to the final 53 by 6 p.m. Saturday.
7: Wins by the Steelers under coach Mike Tomlin against Carolina during the preseason (6-0) and regular season (1-0).
�You never know when it�s going to happen. When it does, you have to do the right ting and take care of your body.�
LB Jarvis Jones on taking precautions Saturday night with his injury, which turned out to be a bruise.


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OPI I'm Not Really A Waitress iPhone 5s Case
A couple of weeks ago I got a new phone. The iPhone 5s, of course with a new phone I need a new case. With my iPhone 4s I couldn't wait to order an OPI case. So this time I did the same thing with a different color. I choose the color of OPI I'm Not Really A Waitress. More pictures and swatches after the jump!


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For the environmentally-conscious gadget lovers out there, specifically iPhone owners, Med Computer and Biomod have developed a special case that's made with Mother Earth in mind.
With your iPhone expected not to last forever, and even if it did it's unlikely you'll hold on to it with Apple coming out with a new model annually, Med Computer and Biomod figured why not create a biodegradable holder, which they call the iNature iPhone case.
The iNature iPhone case is 100% biodegradable and made from an Italian bio-plastic called Apinat. The iNature case was shown in the recent CES and was even given an honoree award in the Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Awards. The environment-friendly case has models for all iPhone variants in different colours and priced at $19.90.
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Mainly though I've been focussing on the jewellery. This Monday I have my first craft fair, in a converted church in Matlock Bath. It took me a long time to get up the courage to go for it, and it'll take even more courage to walk in there Monday morning, but fingers crossed! I've been amassing a range of items for it, including some very new designs (below) and I'm hoping they'll be a hit! To be honest, if I cover my table fee and train fare I'll be a happy bunny!
They run these markets every weekend between Easter & October so if it does go well I'm hoping to book with them again. Just hoping for a low amount of cake stalls, or at least that they're the opposite end from my table, or that'll really erode my profits!


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"Sardines," by Michael Goldberg, 1955
2. I am already a dilettante on the bass guitar.
3. I prefer mulling to doing.
4. I hope never to attend Art Basel Miami Beach again. Okay, maybe the more intriguing satellite fairs, but that is absolutely it.
5. Chemicals make me sneeze. A lot.
Why I Am Not a Painter
by Frank O'Hara
I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,
for instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in.
"Sit down and have a drink" he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up. "You have SARDINES in it."
"Yes, it needed something there."
"Oh." I go and the days go by
and I drop in again. The painting
is going on, and I go, and the days
go by. I drop in. The painting is
finished. "Where's SARDINES?"
All that's left is just
letters, "It was too much," Mike says.
But me? One day I am thinking of
a color: orange. I write a line
about orange. Pretty soon it is a
whole page of words, not lines.
Then another page. There should be
so much more, not of orange, of
words, of how terrible orange is
and life. Days go by. It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call
it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery
I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.
Hold up: I just discovered this love letter that Joan Mitchell wrote to Michael Goldberg while he was in Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, N.Y., "in lieu of serving prison time for writing bad checks on her husband's account." Thank you Washington Post, for feeding my lust for all that was Mitchell.
Hey beautiful,
Just got your letter . . . -- God you mean a lot to me -- it's never been like this before in my life. I cleaned the studio -- made the bed . . . -- I'm using the paint off your palette -- I feel so close to you . . . -- I'm drinking the beer you left on the windowsill -- & I'm kissing you -- this I do all the time . . .
Back to the O'Hara poem: It's not only one of my many faves by him, but it also inspired the title of Oranges and Sardines, a visual art and literature magazine that's as delicious to look at as it is to read. Do both for free at the link above, or buy the hard body here.
Below, from the current issue of O&S, is "Fashionstar," an oil on board by Jason John. It's followed up by an excerpt from
Jay Snodgrass' "Cadaver as Readymade," which I suggest you eat before it eats you.


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Perhaps hoping to hide behind the Tumultous Trump's first weeks in power, Justin Trudeau has rashly walked away from his firm commitment to remedy Canada's democratic deficit.
He has decided that he prefers the archaic first past the post electoral system, and has ceased any attempts to bring about meaningful electoral reform and make every vote count:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is abandoning his long-held promise to change the way Canadians vote in federal elections.In a mandate letter for newly appointed Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould, Trudeau makes it clear that electoral reform – once top of mind for the Liberal government – is no longer on the agenda."Changing the electoral system will not be in your mandate," the prime minister writes in the letter, released Wednesday.
So much for the new era of transparency, honour and truth in Canadian politics.
Trudeau is showing that he is a man who will cut and run when the going gets tough, including ignoring his solemn promises (such as the one that the last election would be the last one under the FPTP system).
I will be resigning as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and I encourage others to do the same.
I will also be working with others to make sure that enough voters vote strategically to remove Trudeau from office as prime minister, and to remove the Liberal Party of Canada from office, or at the very least, to reduce it to a minority government.
If the NDP holds the balance of power in the next House, I hope they will use that power to cut a deal with either the Conservative Party or the LPC to ensure meaningful electoral reform, as a price for their support in the House.
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The good news is, Annandale is the sort of place that welcomes new faces, so there aren'tany major hoops or hurdles to get through if you're planning to relocate. Its the kind of place where well, lets be honest, you can expect people at the grocery store to recognize you, and maybe even call you by name, which is rather nice in this day and age. It's also the kind of place where people may wave when you walk past their yard, even if they dont know you. If you're a big city type, dont let this behavior alarm you; it's simply small-town Southern hospitality, which actually does still exist outside of period films.
In spite of this uber-friendly vibe, youll still need to be professional in your dealings, so make sure to get together all of the info youll need to rent your apartment. This includes bank statements, employment records and references and, if youre relocating because of a new job, make sure to bring a letter from your new employer as proof of your employment. To avoid headaches, it helps to keep all this annoying but necessary stuff in a notebook so that you can bring it out right away when you need it which you will. Once you've gotten organized, its time to go apartment hunting.
Annandale has a great selection of apartments, but be prepared for sticker shock. If you're scratching your head over the seemingly-inflated rent prices, then remember that Annandale is only 13 miles from Washington, DC, where rents are, frankly, through the roof. While you're still reeling from these prices, just remember that, by driving an extra 24 minutes away from downtown Washington, you're potentially saving hundreds of dollars every month.
Annandale's neighborhoods largely consist of attractive suburban developments, townhouse complexes and a wide-ranging selection of rental properties (including high-rise apartments), and there's a large inexpensive housing community as well. Here's a look at some of the more popular neighborhoods in the area:
The Wedgewood:Designated as the largest inexpensive housing complex in Fairfax County, The Wedgewood offers 670 garden-style apartments and caters to households with an income below 60 percent of the area's median. This centrally-located 35-acre development has an excellent location and while some online reviewers complain that it can get a bit noisy sometimes, overall reviews are positive about living there.
Holmes Run Acres:This being Virginia, it's impossible to go far without finding a historic neighborhood somewhere nearby, so its no surprise that pre-Revolutionary War Annandale has a neighborhood that's listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Holmes Run Acres is as picturesque as it sounds, but don't expect colonial or antebellum mansions. Rather, it's chock-full of quaint but funky mid-20th century wood ranch-style houses.
Ravensworth-Bristow:Ravensworth-Bristow may sound right out of Merrie Olde England, but its actually a 50-year-old development that boasts period homes right out of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Best of all, theres a main shopping drag that's right out of Mayberry, with cool local grocery stores where you're sure to meet the same people every day. If youre looking to find an apartment, you'll find prices to be about on par with the rest of the area.
Broyhill Crest:One of the area's newest neighborhoods is Broyhill Crest and you can expect the population to spike even more here in the coming years. This mecca also has a popular community center with fun activities such as regular swim meets but in this day and age, living the American Dream doesn't come at a low cost, so be prepared to pay for this suburban paradise.
The Parliaments:As the largest apartment building in Annandale (750 units), The Parliaments is considered to be a neighborhood unto itself. Its central location means that you can opt for exercising your feet instead of filling your gas tank, thanks to the close proximity of grocery stores and shops that are literally just down the street.
Annendale is the perfect place for people who don't feel the need to live with mega mall or sports complex just around the corner. There's a certain feeling of timelessness and security in its suburban streets and urban America commercial districts. However, there's also a surprising amount of diversity.
As for weather, Annandale gets 43.6 inches of rain and 7.2 inches of snow a year. In July, the average highs are 89 and lows are 68, while in January the average highs are 43 and the average lows are 25, so its still a fairly temperate climate compared to cities further north.
The biggest complaint that locals seem to have is about Annandale is that too many people want to live there, and the population boom has caused traffic to increase substantially over the last several years. Speaking of traffic, you can always help ease congestion by taking the bus, courtesy of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which operates bus routes throughout Annandale. In addition, these lines connect with the areas extensive Metrorail system, which carries passengers all the way into Washington, DC. When given the chance to avoid driving in traffic, why pass it up?
As for everyday amenities, Annandale has a wealth of restaurants for every taste. Once you've settled in and are ready to join community life, you'll also find a treasure trove of arts and craft shows, festivals and other local community events. For example, there's the Annandale Fall Festival and Parade, an annual celebration that includes 25 food booths and two stages with everything from swing and country to jazz, bluegrass and Top Forty faves.
Why live in Annandale? There are lots of reasons, especially if you love the idea of living on the cusp of Washington, DC. All the amenities of our nation's capital are less than a half hour away, yet you're paying a fraction (at least, relatively speaking) of the rent. You're also just that much further away from, the problems that come with life in the big city. If you still want to be where the action is, that's okay too, because whether it's a midnight Congressional vote, a sold-out concert or a hot new nightclub opening, the action is just 24 minutes away. Last, but not least, if you're a sucker for smaller-sized towns, then Annandale's close-knit community vibe will melt your heart. In today's paradoxical world, old-fashioned small town living comes with modern-day prices, but if youre willing to pay for a bit of peace and quiet, then Annandale just might be the place for you.


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Megan McArdle
There's a lot of interesting data on Europe's wave of refugees in Pew's latest report. But here's a piece of information that is not so much interesting as disturbing: Only 27 percent of those refugees are female. In every age group, from nearly every country of origin, women are greatly outnumbered. And the difference is even more pronounced for immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. Gambia, Bangladesh and Pakistan, for example, sent virtually no women at all. Over all, refugee men outnumber refugee women nearly two to one.
There are two scenarios that can unfold from this fact. The first is that destination countries simply end up with an imbalance between the number of men and women in their populations. That would be a problem; even slightly out-of-whack gender demographics can have substantial social impacts. The refugees – already predisposed to experience isolation, disconnection and disaffection from their host society – will thus also bear the desperation of men who have little hope of forming a long-term relationship with a woman and starting a family. This is a recipe for disaster.
So why not allow additional women to emigrate from these men's countries of origin? This would aggravate another set of problems.
Just last year, several of the more popular destinations for immigration saw their foreign population shares increase by more than 1 percentage point. (The U.S. has long been the world's most popular destination for immigrants. For comparison, it saw a similar increase over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015.) To allow enough additional women to fix the gender imbalance would imply something like another half-percentage-point increase, over a very short period of time.
I am, as I have frequently noted in this column, a big fan of immigration. But cultures, particularly homogenous cultures, do need some time to absorb and assimilate the migrant flows. Last year's refugee wave strained both the political and social systems of many countries. Increasing it by half again, or a third again, in short order, might bring those systems to the breaking point.
Unfortunately, at this point there aren't any good options left. The people are there; Europe cannot go back and demand a more gender-balanced migrant wave. It could deny the bulk of those applications and send most of those men back where they came from. But that's unlikely; both EU refugee policy and a lot of the political class are publicly committed to sheltering a lot of these people. It would be difficult indeed to suddenly backpedal on those commitments.
It would also be politically difficult to radically increase immigration (by women) as a response to the wave of immigration (by men). But a short-term political challenge is far preferable to a simmering societal meltdown.
Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle writes on economics, business and public policy. For more columns from Bloomberg View, visit www.bloomberg.com/view. © 2016, Bloomberg View


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A competitive, culinary team building program in which participants work in teams to prepare a variety of dishes in electric woks. Hosted by an Executive Chef and a hysterical comedienne this program is a foody's delight, but every participant needs to be careful not to laugh too hard or the food may come out their nose.
This team cooking program is really two team building experiences in one. Firstly, it is a fun, exciting program in which your group competes against one another to create the most delicious recipes (three courses). Secondly, it is a social event in which your entire group gets to break bread together and enjoy the fruits of their labor with a delicious shared meal. While electric woks are used to cook the dishes it is not all Chinese cuisine that is being prepared. Teams will be challenged to make all sorts of dishes in the woks including appetizers, side dishes, meat and fish dishes and desserts – even French crepes!!!
Wok-Athon comes with all the equipment, ingredients, fun and culinary team work. It also includes a comic Emcee who keeps the laughs going, and a professional Executive Chef who will give teams cooking tips and even share some culinary secrets. In the end it is up to the teams to work together to create their own winning interpretations of the recipes.
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Does "digging the word" make you really happy?
Jeremiah 15:16 When I discovered your words, I devoured them. They are my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear your name, O Lord God of Heaven's Armies.
Psalm 119:103 How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey.
Jeremiah was known for giving God's word to God's people without any change in their lives. That is why he went on to be known as the "weeping prophet," he spent a lot of time mourning the condition of God's children, but there was something that made him smile.
Jeremiah said that his heart's delight is in God's word, it was a delight to him to learn what God's word had to say, his lifestyle of obedience to God made him love to hear his word. It is easy to think that if God is speaking words directly to you so clearly that it would be easy to be delighted but these days we don't usually have direct contact. Most of the time we have to get into a really big book to hear what God has to say. The good news is that Bible study can be just as exciting.
|The benefits of being in God's word.
|Psalm 19:7-11 The instructions of the Lord are perfect, reviving the soul. The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. 8 The commandments of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are clear, giving insight for living. 9 Reverence for the Lord is pure, lasting forever. The laws of the Lord are true; each one is fair. 10 They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even honey dripping from the comb. 11 They are a warning to your servant, a great reward for those who obey them.
If you develop the habit of Bible study and ask God to speak to you through his word then it can easily become something that you look forward to doing each day. Just like looking forward to the next meal after doing without for several hours, we can get to the point where we long for the next time that we can spend in the word.
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Only those who never wished him well – the envious and malevolent whom we shall always have among us, unfortunately – only such people must have been distressed when Governor Sullivan Chime flew into Enugu last Friday.
They were hoping that, 140 days after his unceremonious departure from his base allegedly on medical grounds and countless reports that his health had deteriorated, he would sneak in – or be sneaked in – "like a thief in the night," preferably on a gurney. Those with amore macabre imagination were looking forward to a grimmer re-entry.
Imagine their discomfiture, then, when Chima emerged in broad daylight from the private jet that had ferried him from Abuja, descended the stairway unaided and walked "with his own two feet," to his official car, one eyewitness wrote giddily, all along waving – with his own hands, it must be supposed – to the mammoth crowd that had gathered there to welcome him back.
I should leave it to the reporters who saw it all with their own eyes to describe through the headlines of their publications,the scene at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu.:
Jubilation as Chime returns to Enugu.
Chime returns to Enugu amidst tumultuous welcome.
Enugu agog as Governor Chime returns.
Rousing welcome as Chime returns to Enugu.
Huge crowd welcomes Chime back to Enugu.
Governor Chime returns to Enugu in grand style.
Amid jubilation, Chime returns to Enugu.
Chime returns to Enugu amid jubilation.
The return of the absentee governor: Enugu jubilates.
Large crowd heralds Chime's return to Enugu.
Ailing Enugu Governor Sullivan Chime returns.
Commotion as Chime lands in Enugu.
Each of them is a fine example of headline craftsmanship — terse, arresting, informative, and summative. Some of them even have the additional merit of being colourful. I would hate to be a judge in a competition to select the best among them. But they all share one flaw that I will remark presently.
As for the full story of Governor Chime's return, nothing even comes close to the eyewitness report by Ambrose Agu report titled "Governor Chime's Triumphant Return" (THISDAY, February 9, 2013).
The report begins with three or four persons emerging from the chartered private jet that ferried Chime to Enugu, none of whom the crowd recognised or cared about, followed by an "unmistakable tall figure," and sure enough, it was His Excellency Sullivan Iheanacho Chime, who proceeded to walk down the staircase "with his own two feet."
With his own two feet did the governor walk down the plane's stair case to his waiting official car, you understand, all you purveyors and apostles of ill will And with his own two hands did he wave to acknowledge the resonant cheers of the surging crowd.
The governor looked fine, Agu writes. "I looked at his face. It looked fine, the same handsome face, no change. This was Sullivan Chime, pure and simple. No addition. No subtraction."
Despite the throng at Government House where the entourage headed after the brief airport ceremony, to say nothing of the stifling security, Agu secured a private audience with Chime. One on one. No intermediaries.
Hear it from Agu himself, fascination with the governor's face and neck and all:
"I went to His Excellency. He grabbed my hand and shook it, same firm grip, same vigorous shake. I welcomed him back. We spoke for a few minutes. Now I was literally face to face with him. I could see his face and neck.
"There was no hat, no scarf, and no spectacles. I looked at his face and neck. No mark, nothing irregular. In fact he looked very fresh, very healthy and at ease with himself. He smiled often and spoke normally. There was nothing wrong with his face or neck, and there was nothing wrong with his voice."
With his own hand did Chime grab and shake his visitor's hand, all you apostles of ill will; with his own face did he smile, and with his own voice did he talk for several minutes with his guest
Nor was this an isolated feat. That same day, Agu writes, Chime must have met, smiled at, and talked with "possibly hundreds" of people –traditional rulers, politicians, government officials,trade union representatives, clergy, and media executives – the full Monty.
Agu is the first to admit that he is no doctor, and he does so with touching candour. But he knows, as nobody else does, what he experienced during his visit with Governor Chime – what he saw with his own eyes and heard with his own ears. And taking all of it into account, he says, any talk of Chime being "incapacitated" — as the apostles and purveyors of ill will were still claiming — "is just too absurd that only a fool would bandy it."
He didn't ask Chime's opponents to go eat out their hearts or do something really coarse, but Agu clearly would not be displeased if they did just that.
Concluding his testimony, he writes: "Gov Sullivan Chime is clearly capable of governing Enugu State alone."
To return to the headlines I surveyed: Terse and arresting and informative and colorful and summative as they were, they omitted one important detail. Chime, returning to Enugu 140 days after he departed without saying a farewell, spoke not a word to the "tumultuous crowd" that welcomed him back.
Not a word to thank them for their loyal support and faithfulness, for their prayers and good wishes.
All the publications I surveyed reported what Sullivan was wearing, right up to his cream white jacket and his sun glasses. But in their headlines, and indeed in their accounts of the event, only two of them pointed out that Chime's arrival was wordless.
One of them wrote: "Jubilation as Chime returns to Enugu; keeps mum."
The other wrote: "Chime returns to Enugu; fails to address supporters."
Those who know Governor Sullivan Chime say he is too well bred and too fine a person to make a public display of such appalling bad manners. It must be, then, that he was saving his vocal chords for a major broadcast to the people of Enugu State.
In my column for February 5, 2013 ("Soludo: A quest renewed"), I wrote incorrectly that Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State belongs in the ANPP. He actually belongs in the APGA.


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To create a pedigree chart, you need to collect all information about your relatives and ancestors. The chart shows how traits are inherited by members of a particular family. The data collected should be accurate to come up with the correct chart.
Having gathered the correct information, begin constructing the chart. There are symbols that represent the data fed into the chart. A circle and a square are the two primary symbols used in a pedigree chart. A circle represents a female individual while a square represents a male individual. An empty shape represents an individual who has a trait while a filled shape shows a person with no trait. There are varying shapes that can be drawn inside the circle and square shapes to represent different traits.
A straight horizontal line connecting the male and female shows a marriage. A vertical line from the married couple represents their offspring. The chart begins at the top with the first male and female individuals. From here, you can add more squares and circles to show siblings, twins, and different types of traits until the chart is complete. A pedigree chart is not only limited to showing humans lineage, but it is also used to show dogs and horses lineage.


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It's been a hard few days for iCloud. Now the App Store is suffering a serious outage that's keeping apps from downloading and updating.
Users around the world are seeing the message, "The item you tried is no longer available" when attempting to download an app.
Weird @AppStore bug is telling me (& lots of others, per Twitter search) "the item you tried to buy is no longer available" for common apps.
— Tim Bradshaw (@tim) September 3, 2014
@cultofmac "Temporarily Unavailable" in App Store OSX, in iOS some apps says "No longer available" — Mario Bo (@MarioBo) September 3, 2014
While some users are still able to download apps, the vast majority are unable to download anything.
We've reached out to Apple for comment and will update if we receive a reply.
Update: Apple has acknowledged issues with the App, iBooks, and iTunes Stores that are "affecting some users."