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Puno, Peru – Our first day in Puno dawned bright and early… given how early we'd hit the sack, it was about 6:30 a.m. when we both gave up on trying to sleep. Plus we were both feeling the effects of the altitude, so we headed downstairs to the breakfast room and knocked back a couple of more cups of the tea – it really does help. A light breakfast and we headed out into the streets to start exploring this town of 140,000. We started off by heading to one of the few things likely to be open in the morning, the central plaza, Plaza de Armas, and the city's cathedral. As it turned out we were delayed when we approached by a steady stream of young boys offering repeatedly to shine our shoes.
Henry gave in after about the fourth one, and that turned in to a nearly hour long process as each of the boys had another opinion about how to clean and shine his shoes… sandpaper seems to one of the most popular, that, along with a different color for polish, resulted in his shoes… changing. I resisted, which after about half a dozen of them had tried, one ran off and came back with a string of teenage boys, who tried to be a bit more bullying about having my shoes shined. But, no. After awhile they gave up, but it was an interesting taste of the local population. And, as soon as Henry's shoes were shined, the rest of the youngsters started demanding the opportunity to do so again, to try to correct the first boy's work – so we found ourselves being followed around by a string of them hoping for more work. Give 'em an inch…
We continued with a brief look around inside the cathedral, and around the plaza (still being followed by shoeshine boys), noting that virtually every tree in any public space we saw was sculpted – topiary is popular in the area. Then we headed for the pedestrian walk and a tour agency that the hotel recommended. We don't know why, but there was a several block long line of local Aymara women in traditional daily wear, along with probably a couple hundred inside the lobby of the Banco de Credito. Easily 400-500 women just patiently waiting… and pointing out my "hairdo" and giggling… there aren't a whole lot of guys around with shaved heads. At the agency, for a mere 20 soles apiece (about $6), we booked a morning tour to the Islas de Uros, the floating islands of Lake Titicaca.
We had a little time to kill until the tour was to leave, so we headed down into the Mercado Central, where everything from butcher shop counters to boxes of pasta, to vegetables, fruits, and, our goal, a pint size bag of coca leaves to chew on as needed. A whopping one sole, or about 30 cents. We headed back to the agency to wait for the bus, which arrived shortly, then meandered about the city picking up folks from their hotels until we had about two dozen of us, along with our tour guide for the day, Erwin, who managed the day with a great sense of humor in both Spanish and English. Then we headed to the main Puerto, where we jumped on a small boat and headed out.
We didn't get out into the main body of Lake Titicaca, but stayed in the smaller section. First we toured around a bit, just seeing different parts of the area, and then we headed to the Islas Uros. These are a grouping of about 40 man-made islands that are essentially, if wanted, mobile. They're made out of two meter thick layers of dried tortora reeds that the Aymara harvest from the lake (and continually replenish – at the rate of about 25 centimeters every 3-4 months). Their homes are made of the same materials, and are not attached permanentaly to the islands, so they can be moved when the "ground" beneath them needs to be replenished. They're anchored in place by long wooden poles driven through the reeds into the lake bed – none of the islands are in areas where the water is more than about five meters deep. However, in the rainy season, when the lake level rises nearly a meter, some of the islands end up moving to new locations.
The islands each hold the homes of a few families, often closely related. Traditional crafts are practiced – and, of course, since it's a tourist destination, every island has an open air gift market. Still, even the teens are actively working on various tasks – in this photo, one teenager is busy roping together the reeds for a new door for his family's kitchen building (the tall cone shaped buildings). There's a central island with the public school (in Spanish, since it's run by the government), a clinic, and church. For high school, the children go into the city (there are water taxi services that run throughout the day). In the modern day and age, this has become a problem for the community, as many refuse to continue to live on the islands after they graduate, seeking out opportunities in the city or elsewhere. As of now, 3-4 of the islands have been abandoned, with families moving on to other islands to consolidate. The islands aren't quite as primitive as they may seem at first, nearly every home is equipped with a solar panel that powers television, radio, lights, charges cellphones, and apparently in a few cases, satellite connections for internet. Still, it's a hard way of life, with most transportation via reed boats (saving the taxi fare), and living in year round damp conditions – the average resident develops rheumatism by age forty or so. There's also, obviously, an impact from tourism, both on the way of life, but on the aspirations of the young.
After our tour, we were hungry, and headed back to the main street. Touristy or not, it seems to be the major area for restaurants. There are some strips that we discovered later of more hole in the wall style joins in other parts of town, but mostly they're limited to pizza and chicken places, with a little chinese-peruvian mix thrown in (here called chifas – adapted from the older Chinese influence of chi fan, or meal, restaurant… Anyway, we found ouselves in for yet another expensive and not particularly interesting meal. Not bad, just not interesting.
We wandered a bit, checked out the Arco Destua, the city's last remaining intact entry arch. Pretty. Took a siesta – the altitude was definitely having an effect. We ended up just relaxing for a few hours until later heading back out to wander a bit more – not a lot to see in central Puno actually… no, that's not fair, but basically, other than a central commercial strip, most of the city is just block or barrio after one another of rundown buildings and poor neighborhoods. Now, I do understand that for the most part, the population of Puno is fairly poor and disadvantaged. What I find a little mystifying, is where all the tourism dollars are going. It's clear that tourism is a major industry in the city, and the main restaurants and many hotels are charging prices worthy of major cosmopolitan cities. Yet there seems to be no evidence that the money is being spent on anything to improve the city. I can only assume that the vast majority of those who are raking in the dollars, euros, and other forms of currency at those levels, are socking it away elsewhere.
Unlike Argentines, Peruvians tend to eat at what we'd probably consider more normal hours. Restaurants open around 5 p.m. and close by 10 or 11. I'd heard somewhere on an internet forum for foodies that there was one particularly interesting restaurant in central Puno, Coca Kintu, a relatively new, modern, trendy-ish looking space, that serves "nova andina" cooking – i.e., creative dishes inspired by traditional Andean fare. We decided to give it a shot rather than just hitting one of the little hole in the walls. One more expensive meal and then we'd start going for the cheap seats. It was definitely worth entering the place. We started off with a Sopa Incaica, a rich and absolutely delicious bowl of quinoa, chuño, eggs, cream, tomato, herbs… I'm not altogether sure what was in it, but it was a meal in itself and fantastic. [Closed]
We also sampled their version of a causa rellena. Instead of layering the various ingredients as is traditional, they make interesting round balls of mixed mashed potato, avocado, lemon, and herbs, and then fill a depression in each with a mix of local river trout instead of tuna – far better than the lake trout we'd sampled the night before – something we found as we talked with various people – there are different species of trout in the lake and rivers, all introduced from Canada in the last century or so – and the lake contamination gives the lake trout that muddy flavor. The filling is a mix of the other usual ingredients – trout, chilies, onion, garlic, and olives. Excellent!
We decided to give the local guinea pigs another shot – after all, with a creative flare, this could be far more interesting than the usual. It was definitely a step up, but admittedly not all that different. Deep fried, though not overcooked, nothing special in the seasoning – a little salt, pepper, and coriander, and served with rice, potatoes, and vegetable. The local diet, by the way, is heavy on carbohydrates – while tourists may be dining on chicken, beef, alpaca, and guinea pig, locals are packing away large plates of rice, potatoes, and noodles – often with little or no sauce, and nothing accompanying them. Vegetables and fruit are almost non-existent in the local diet, and meat is eaten only in small quantities. Part of the reason for a shortened lifespan and many health problems locally.
The other plate we sampled was an array of lamb chops in a sauce made from plums, apples, and local herbs. Very good. Like a very fruity barbecue sauce with some different flavors – I think the main herb used was yerba buena, there might also have been something in the mint family – maybe some huacatay? It was served with some undercooked vegetables, potatoes, and stewed slices of apples and plums. Quite good. I'd say, however, that we both thought the appetizers far outshown the main courses. The place also doesn't seem to be on the radar – while everywhere else in the neighborhood was packed with tourists eating pizza, pasta, burgers, and probably the occasional local dish like some form of alpaca or cuy, this place stayed empty other than ourselves for the entire time we were there. Passing it on other days it was the same – for all I know, we were their only customers during our 3½ days in Puno. A shame, because this was easily our second best meal in town, very creative, and far better than any of the touristy joints we sampled. It also, while not cheap, was the least expensive of the nicer restaurants we ate at.


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Students at UC Berkeley are mourning the death of one of their own in the terrorist attack in a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh that left at least 22 people dead.
19-year-old student Tararishi Jain was spending the summer there for an internship on e-commerce and to visit her father who runs a business in the country, reports ABC7.
Cal student Abidya Ghandi counted Jain as one of his friends.
"When you met her you could tell she was ambitious," Ghandi said.
Jain worked with a student run company at Cal called EthiCal Apparel which donated profits to battle global poverty. She was a citizen of India.
"It's sad. Wouldn't want this to happen to anyone and I feel bad for her parents. My condolences to them,"said another student and friend Akash Bhalothia .
A memorial will be held at Noon Tuesday at Sproul Plaza on the Berkeley campus for Jain and two other American students killed in the attack.
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ncaa: the scandals
This Week's Obsession: Naughty and Nice
Right? (No not really)
I could have asked this when 4th and Long came out, or that time when a recruit gushed about Alabama's honesty and academics, or countless other recent days when the rusty nail of the current competitive atmosphere and my alma mater's place in it took another hammer blow.
"Youngstown Boys" finally inspired this question when I caught myself about to tweet something along the lines of "Ohio State is one of college football's most notorious bad-guys..." (inference that Michigan is a "good guy" meant). And I caught myself, because absent the rivalry and unenforced arbitrary rules by the feckless NCAA, what's so "evil" about a guy hawking a piece of memorabilia he was given for throwing passes over JT Floyd's head?
Course then we all went on vacation, but a few days after the antithesis of college athletics' weird version of morality won the last BCS title to end the long streak of the antithetical conference, so might as well get this out there:
Do you believe it's fair to characterize some programs as "good" or "evil" relative to their peers? What standards do you judge that on? Which schools are top- or bottom-five at this intercollegiate athletic morality stuff? Where's Michigan?
Brian: This has gotten considerably more difficult as coaching salaries have spiraled out of control and non-revenue sports have gotten ever more palatial palaces for 200-300 people to observe them in. Literally every move in the past 15 years of college football has been an "I'ma get mine" decision from the university presidents on down save some measures from the NCAA like the APR, so it's hard to get on schools that are obviously paying kids like Clemson and Ole Miss like you used to, because subverting an increasingly dishonorable system is not the same thing as the Pony Express was.
|Possible responses:
1. "Don't post this to Twitter".
2. "Lol so little!".
3. "Why are we even pretending?"
I do still get irritated because this is not 'Nam, there are rules, and vigilante justice is still, like, not legal either. It's frustrating to be a fan of a team that is pretty much on the up-and-up--the NCAA came in with the Rich Rod allegations and came back with penny-ante bullshit--that happens to pretty much suck and watch LaQuon Treadwell do LaQuon Treadwell things. This is the reason all Michigan fans should be selfishly interested in loosening up compensation rules for athletes: Michigan has money, but can't use it to make the revenue sports good. If they could...
Anyway, the true bad guys these days are the ones who take in anyone who can spell their name in three tries and shuffle them through garbage classes they barely have to attend and then spit them out the other end, helpless once their body doesn't make them money. Who are those people? To some extent, everyone, for the same reason seven-foot-tall guys don't shoot free throws that well: they are on the court because of things other than their free throw shooting. A lot of athletes get to college totally unprepared to be at said college, and it is probably better for them to have a shot at fame and a pro career than to toil away at a JUCO anonymously. But some schools are willing to do whatever to keep guys eligible. I don't really know who other than North Carolina, and even that case is more about subverting individual professors who lack oversight than a university-wide conspiracy.
So I've pretty much given up on good and evil with the following exceptions:
[Annoying, probably financially motivated cliffhanger jump goes here]
Unverified Voracity Is Kind Of Good Still
Send Joe Dumars to space, part XVII. Trey Burke's line from last night's Magic-Jazz game: 30 points, 8 assists, 7 rebounds.
actual highlights start at about a minute in
Burke's shooting percentage is pretty low right now since he's taking a lot of those tough runners you remember from a variety of NO NO NO NO YES moments last year and getting fewer easy looks around the basket what with NBA players being very tall and athletic, but in his last ten games He's averaging 6.4 assists against 1.3 turnovers in that window. His TO rate of 6.8 is insanely low. It's looking like a three-way race for Rookie of the Year between Burke and old foes Victor Oladipo and Michael Carter-Williams.
Meanwhile, Detroit drafted a shooting guard currently hitting 37% from the floor and traded for Brandon Jennings, who is a fourth year player about as good as Burke is as a rookie. I shake my fist!
Is this getting old? Am I going to be describing various things that should be done to Joe Dumars for passing on Trey Burke when Burke is 55? Yes. I apologize for what will be history's longest conniption fit.
Prepare your butts. Devin Gardner's status for the bowl game is still up in the air but looking grimmer and grimmer as each day passes without his return to the practice field. We mentioned it on the front page a couple days ago after Hoke's presser, and everyone followed up with assessments about how grim it's sounding. And in retrospect… when has a sprain of a ligament in your big toe ever required crutches?
Meanwhile, Sam Webb was asking people if you play Gardner at 75% in this upcoming bowl game, and the answer to that seems to be a clear no since there's not much at stake. And was Gardner 75% by midseason? At best. Now that he's limping around on crutches, it's at least 50/50 Shane Morris fans will get to see him against K-State.
It is possible that Jason Whitlock doesn't know what he's talking about. Taylor Lewan took a lot of heat this year for Michigan's offensive line… for some reason. I watched him closely and he still looked like the incredibly good player that he was as a junior, but when things are bad they must be a Failure of Leadership if you are the kind of person who has no basis for saying anything but is paid to say things.
The NFL will weigh in in April; current returns are that Jason Whitlock is talking out of his butt. I know you are shocked. Todd McShay projects Taylor Lewan as the ninth pick of the NFL draft:
Lewan isn't an exceptional athlete but he has enough quickness to get by when coupled with his physicality and mean streak. I've written a few times this season that even though Lewan doesn't always look like a prototype left tackle, he is very effective in run blocking and pass protection. Safety might be seen as a bigger need for Buffalo, but typically if you have a chance to take an offensive tackle over a safety in the first round, you do it.
"Not a prototype left tackle" is a weird criticism to level at a prototype left tackle. Putting it in the pile with that guy who thought Mike Martin was supposed to be some journeyman plugger after he 'struggled' as a senior.
This man must be educated on his own dime. That one Cal assistant who got a ton of recruits to commit to Cal and then jumped to Washington, bringing those recruits with him, is under investigation. For terrible things.
Mike Davis, a throwing coach who helped Basham win a state shot put title in track and field, told the Times that [Tosh] Lupoi gave him $3,000 for private tutoring for Basham and $1,500 to reimburse Basham's father for online classes.
The kid ended up not qualifying anyway. I guess you can't be giving money to people no matter what it's for, but I bet the NCAA prefers it when they come down on people for hiring strippers instead of tutors. Lupoi should start making donations to charities in recruits' names, just to see what happens.
Steve Sarkisian could eat a suspension for this after the NCAA made head coaches responsible for their assistants' misdeeds, something that would undoubtedly increment Lane Kiffin's smug look the one tenth of one percent it can be upgraded from its resting state.
OH GOOD THANKS 2013. JT Compher won't play at the WJC because he broke his foot, which will probably put him out for a month. This is at least the right time to do it, as Michigan doesn't return to the ice in a game Compher was going to be available for until January 10th, and then Michigan has a bye week before a Joe-and-road series against MSU that he may be available for.
This does make an important series at Wisconsin tougher, but at least Michigan has a lot of center depth.
SERIOUSLY 2013, I MEAN, SERIOUSLY? Beilien on WTKA:
During a Thursday morning interview on "The Michigan Insider" show on WTKA-AM (1050), Michigan coach John Beilein said he sophomore forward is being held back by a "variety" of nagging injuries.
"Right now, Mitch cannot go 100 percent," Beilein said. "He can't do what he can do."
You go straight to hell, 2013.
I SAID STRAIGHT TO HELL. PA DB Monate Nicholson, who was going to commit to M before the coaching staff basically told him not to visit, is now an MSU commit.
Still looking. Michigan signed their four hockey recruits for the upcoming year, though there are a couple of things yet to be determined.
One is the status of Hayden Lavigne, who's had a rough start in the USHL (.887 in five games) and is still a really young guy, especially for a goalie. It seems to make more sense for everyone to delay his entry until 2015, and even then he'll have to compete with a senior Racine and junior Nagelvoort. As we've seen in the recent past, goalies staring down a tough road to playing time are often defection candidates. Lavigne will be of interest. We'll see how committed he is to the college route; he was at least committed enough to sign his LOI.
The other thing is who replaces Jared Walsh, who committed and then defected to the OHL. Michigan graduates two defensemen (Bennett and Clare) and brings back something between six and eight depending on your opinion of the viability of the guys on the back end. (They are Serville, Lohan, Downing, De Jong, Chiasson, Sinelli, Szuma, and Hyman.) They've got a guy named Cutler Martin who is the hard nosed stay at home type his name foretold from birth, and they'd probably like to add another in that mold with Serville, Downing, and De Jong all puck moving types. May their search here be as successful as their search for a goalie last year was.
Okay.gif. Borges on Michigan's success against Ohio State:
"We executed," Borges said firmly. "It's that simple. We executed.
I really hope that's just balderdash for the reporters. The BTN commercials don't say FOOTBALL IS SIMPLE, man.
Etc.: McKeen's ranks incoming hockey center Dylan Larkin 20th in their latest NHL draft projection. That means he'll probably end up in the second round, like fringe first rounders before him JT Compher and Jon Merrill. Ricky Doyle highlights. He's killing it to the tune of 30 a game. UNC basketballer John Henson's shirt has an opinion. Hyping up the redshirting DTs.
Unverified Voracity Requests Drum-Off
Drumline, go.
I would watch a halftime show that was a you-got-served style drumoff between bands. Yes sir.
It's almost like this was not well thought out. Michigan's three million dollar billboard is an eyesore the city would like to turn off.
Ann Arbor officials are planning to ask the University of Michigan to decommission its new digital billboard outside the Big House.
City Council Member Christopher Taylor, D-3rd Ward, and other council members argue the large marquee on East Stadium Boulevard is too big, too bright and too distracting to drivers with its continually changing messages.
You may be wondering why the city is bringing this up after the thing was installed, they were obviously not consulted and don't have to be. Whateva, the U does what it wants:
The university does not have to follow the city's local ordinances or obey council requests. Nonetheless, the council members behind the resolution are hoping the university will hear the community's concerns and respond.
"It just doesn't seem very appropriate," Higgins said of the billboard. "We talked about the size (as part of the city's sign ordinance), and that just so far exceeded any size that we thought was really feasible within the city limits."
Does anyone ask anyone else about anything before just doing it anymore? If I show up at Michigan Stadium next year and it's upside down, will anyone have a rationale, or at least a document indicating that there was a 15 minute discussion about the pros and cons of such an undertaking? (PRO: rain can't get in so easily. CON: have to invent anti-gravity to play football.)
Well, that was inevitable. Miami gets three scholarships docked for the next three years. No bowl ban, various other minor penalties. After the NCAA screwed up that investigation harder than Nevin Shapiro screwed his ponzi investors, this was always going to be a wrist-slap compromise that wouldn't send Miami to the appeal/sue route, and lo, it is so. QED: the NCAA put together a record-shattering 102-page document to mildly annoy a program they savage as being basically without compliance in the report.
It's worth noting that Miami self-imposed two years of bowl ban, which cost them a berth in last year's ACC Championship game, and a bunch of players were suspended. It did cost them something.
Obligatory: the NCAA is stupid and their rules are unenforceable and pointless and most of those rules should be put in a blender for the benefit of players, society, common sense, and most importantly Michigan, which has an alumni base with gobs of dough and a department that actually has, you know, compliance activities going on.
Ann Arbor Skyline. Finally, the mysterious name of Ann Arbor's newest high school is explained:
Stauskas and Caris LeVert sharing the backcourt is not "out of the realm of possibility," per Jordan.
That is from WTKA's eight-o-clock hour this morning, on which Michigan's basketball assistants appeared and sent every Michigan basketball beat guy scurrying to their twitter to live-tweet it.
If this actually comes to fruition, holy pants that is a huge lineup: LeVert, Stauskas, Robinson, McGary, Morgan/Horford, or stick Irvin somewhere in there. No one under 6'6". It'll be a sideshow with Walton and Spike around, but what a sideshow.
In general, the coaches sounded excited about LeVert in particular, who's up to 185 and apparently showing enough point guard skill to warrant some run at that spot. He is the kind of guy—young, skinny, still growing—who can be a totally different player in year two.
Same as it ever was. Hockey got some pretty horrible officiating in New Hampshire over the weekend, no call worse than a Derek DeBlois stick-lift that was somehow judged a penalty shot. Berenson on that:
A man may dress like a cowboy and smell like a cowboy but he can't ride a horse.
The Big Ten ain't fixing the gibbering pack of maroons that's available to ref games.
Exit. Farewell to Burgeoning Wolverine Star, which hangs up its spurs. Chris of BWS acquired a reputation as something of a downer, but… uh… on many counts he turned out to be right. (See: offensive line.) His play breakdowns were consistently worth arguing about. He'll be missed.
Entrance. If the previous news leaves you feeling sad, here is Fergodsakes, which is ramping up their coverage entertainingly:
Young (Michigan Alum) David Alan Grier?
Pictured: Michigan Offense, rediscovered
First off, this reference to Spielberg's "Hook" (1991), a landmark achievement in Giant Crocodile cinema technology, was not at all random, and will be of use later in this piece.
A possible future. A leaked PDF that was accurate enough to forecast a Michigan/UCLA series in 2022 and 2023 also indicates Michigan may be playing a neutral-site game against Florida in 2017. Neutral probably means Atlanta, which wouldn't be neutral but would at least be easy to get to. If Will Muschamp doesn't kill Orson by then that would be fun.
Other games it may reveal: UCF in 2016, pushing back a Ball State game, Air Force in 2017—ack option football—and SMU in 2018, all home games.
I subscribe to your newspaper. I subscribe it up. Jeff Goodman toured six of the top programs in America a few days back, hitting Kansas, MSU, Indiana, Oklahoma State, Louisville, and another school I can't figure out from the italicized preview bit. The most impressive guy Goodman saw?
Michigan's Glenn Robinson III was the most impressive player of anyone I saw on the trip. GR3 will see more time at his natural position, small forward, this season. The 6-7 Robinson has added weight and become more athletic.
The questions regarding the son of the "Big Dog" were about his perimeter shot and ability to put the ball on the floor. Robinson buried deep jumper after deep jumper and appears far more comfortable at the 3-spot in John Beilein's offense. It's still yet to be determined whether this aspect of his skill set will translate in games, but it's a good sign with Robinson more assertive on the offensive end. If he can gain a consistent jumper to go with his athleticism, he'll almost certainly be a lottery pick.
That would be excellent. Robinson attended the same camps McGary did over the summer; the buzz from them was that McGary was a beast and Robinson tended to fade into the background, as he is wont to do. I've been expecting an incremental leap in GRIII's game with Stauskas and McGary picking up more of the usage slack left by Burke as a result. Any indicator that Little Big Dog is going to eat is an encouraging sign.
On pace. Jeremy Gallon was the fourth-leading receiver in the Big Ten last year with 829 yards. Through seven games this year he's already exceeded that total with 831. To break Braylon Edwards's single-season receiving record of 1330 yards Gallon needs to average 84 yards a game—well within reach, especially if Michigan retains the pass-orientation they showed against Indiana.
Booker not looking too good. Devin Booker took a visit to Missouri over the weekend, and this is maybe not so good:
Booker visited both Kentucky and Michigan State on the weekend of Sept. 6-9 and went to Michigan on Oct. 5. He arrived back in Mississippi Sunday after the first of consecutive trips to Columbia, Mo., with plans to return to this weekend when his father, Melvin, is honored along with the rest of Missouri's 1994 Big 8 championship team.
A couple of Kentucky folk have flipped their predictions to Mizzou on 247, FWIW.
Etc.: Pahokee eating update. Also an update from Maize and Go Blue. Ups and downs of Brady Hoke. This happened forever ago, but my gawd James Murphy. The Ducks are the reason John Gibson never showed up at Michigan. OH SF Javon Bess, a plan B for Michigan as they wait on Booker and Blackmon, commits to MSU. Here is the weird halftime show.
Unverified Voracity Lives On As A Hat
Tim Hardaway's hat lives!
Erm, okay. ESPN's Paul Biancardi was tasked with finding sleepers outside of ESPN's top 25 players who would outperform the rankings, and struck upon Derrick Walton:
1. Derrick Walton, PG, Michigan
Final ESPN 100 rank: No. 30
… Walton, who will replace Burke and take the mantle as Michigan's point guard, has some similar traits to Burke as he is small, tough and competitive. Although we have Walton ranked No. 30, which is relatively high, he still has to fight for everything he earns -- which is what makes him special. Walton will lead the Wolverines and will have a wealth of talent around him with a mixture of scorers, size and a strong incoming freshman class coming in with him. Look for him to push the pace with a high-speed dribble and find teammates off penetration with his peripheral vision. Walton is battle tested and has played on the travel team circuit against some of the nation's best point guards and had his way. Don't be surprised to see him get more assists than points in any given game, yet he can also make big shots when his team needs them most. He is a clutch performer with the perfect mindset for his position. The opportunity is there for Walton; look for him to capitalize on it.
Then Reggie Rankin was tasked with doing so with recruiting classes outside the top ten and picked three of the next four, one of which happens to be M:
2. Michigan (No. 12 class)
The Wolverines have added three ESPN 100 prospects who are not only talented and will excel in John Beilein's system, but also who address some of the team's needs after losing Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. to the NBA. Derrick Walton is an excellent point guard who pushes the pace and can deliver the rock at high speeds or execute when the defense is set. Zak Irvin is a quick fix on the wing because of his size, athleticism and ability to flat-out get buckets with his aggressive approach on the offensive end of the floor. Power forward Mark Donnal is skilled and can finish in the paint or stretch the defense with his range to about 18 feet. This class will excel in Beilein's system because all three have the IQ and skills to make high-level plays. Expect this Michigan class to be an NCAA tournament mainstay as long as it is together.
These are not bold forays onto the limb, but they do say nice things about Michigan, and from two different people. I might have gone with Donnal as more of a sleeper than the #30 player in the class, since Donnal's headed for a perfect fit for Beilein's offense and could blow up into a huge matchup issue down the road.
BTW, ESPN moved Zak Irvin up to #22, their last five-star spot, and Walton rose 10-20 spots as well, IIRC. I told Seth this and he was bored, because this is always what Beilein recruits do.
Now do it with your arms behind your back. Devin Gardner hits Jeremy Gallon with his eyes closed:
No, Jeremy Gallon did not change his hair and severely reduce his resemblance to Snoop from the Wire. No he did not. Shush.
In other news, this bodes well for throws made when Gardner is sneezing next fall. You'll have to think up something other than a field made of cat hair, Mr. Dantonio, if you're going to boringly cackle your way to victory this fall.
He may be biased, but the numbers are going his way. Netflix's CEO talks up the future of TV and includes some numbers:
The number of consumers turning to Netflix and other online entertainment providers has taken even Wall Street by surprise. Netflix has 30 million U.S. subscribers, a bit more than HBO and about 9 million more than the nation's biggest cable company, Comcast. Hastings audaciously projected Netflix's audience to grow to as many as 90 million as it expands globally. Its revenue, which exceeded $1 billion for the first three months of 2013, was a record. Minutes after the figures were announced Monday, Netflix stock soared more than 23 percent.
Eventually this will turn into various streaming buckets of content you can take or leave as you please, thus undermining the Big Ten's desire to expand into areas that have a lot of people who don't really care to watch Rutgers and Maryland play.
You might have to turn in your card. Brandon on the ticket hike:
"We raised the ticket prices, but we wanted to make sure the ticket price increase was not at all perceived to be an opportunity for us to make more money off of the students," Brandon said. "The incremental revenue that comes from the student ticket price increase, we're going to contribute (that) to the rec sports program up on campus -- which has nothing to do with Michigan athletics, but it's a way that we can take those revenues and support something that will benefit all the students."
So… instead of letting the students who play rec sports pay for rec sports, everyone who wants a football ticket pays for rec sports? That doesn't seem particularly Repub—[POLITICAL CONTENT REDACTED].
He does make an assertion that maybe if the tickets are more expensive students will be more inclined to use them that seems plausible. As previously mentioned, I don't think that'll move the needle with many out-of-state students with money to burn. Meanwhile, any student will be able to buy tickets no matter how disinclined he or she is to use them:
Michigan has no plans to cut the size of its student section inside Michigan Stadium -- which is roughly 22,000 seats.
"Every student who wants to buy a ticket will have the opportunity to buy a ticket," Brandon said. "That hasn't changed, and that's the way it's always been."
That's the way it's always been? Dave Brandon used this as an argument in favor of something? I am going to go lie down and panic at the possibility I have fallen into the mirror universe.
On the other hand, the angle of the sun will be right. Thumbs up to this:
OSU's Gene Smith says he has also spoken to Michigan's David Brandon and there is a consensus that "The Game" should be played at noon.
That's the way it's always been? I guess?
Sometimes the burden of proof should be on you. Remember that Duke player who put down 30k in cash and got a 70k loan for some jewelry in 2009? This is how the investigation went:
NCAA: Jeweler guy. Do you want to talk to us?
Jeweler: No.
NCAA: What about you, Lance Thomas?
Thomas: No.
NCAA: Okay we're done here.
As a result, no violations, but much eyerolling. Just dump the amateurism business so no one has to care about Lance Thomas buying some jewelry. Not only is it immoral; it's also unenforceable. This is not a winner.
Speaking of, Patrick Hruby won't stop bombing the NCAA, and it's beautiful.
Between 1985 and 2010, they report, the average salary of head football coaches at 44 Division I schools increased by 750 percent, from $273,300 to $2,054,700. During the same period, the average salary of university presidents rose by 90 percent, while the average salary of full professors rose just 30 percent.
Which group is more essential to the collegiate educational mission?
The OBC is on board with paying guys. Go OBC.
Etc.: Talking with Derrick Walton. Penn State @ 5PM is good news for people making the trip. Brady Hoke : Charlie Weis : Lincoln : Kennedy. False. True.
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Brian mentioned this in his spring recap but here again is the play Michael Scarn picture-paged:
He points out several things that happened here. One is James Ross moving so fast toward the hole he actually cuts off Desmond Morgan. Another is the wholesale disaster that was the interior blocking, as Miller got nobody, Braden didn't peel off to intercept the Will, and Kalis ran right by James Ross. Here's your money shot:
sorry for low quality—if you can find the play on here I'll make new.
Morgan was the playside LB but Ross is already past him and gunning toward the hole. Miller is looking the wrong way. Kalis is pulling and looking outside Lewan's and Braden's block. If you ever wondered what coaches mean by "head on a swivel" this is the opposite: his head is facing where his body is, and because of that he doesn't see the MLBs racing in. Braden too needs to recognize that his combo block on the playside DT has done its job; the Hutchinson thing to do here would be to find Ross and Morgan charging into the same hole, and using a block on the first to wall off the second.
These are things learned by experience, and are reasons you usually don't expect linemen to be very good until they're upperclassmen.
As for Ross, that millisecond diagnosis was so incredible people are arguing if it was actually a blitz (that stunts the MLBs? Coach-types, thoughts?). Michael Scarn, obvious Diarist of the Week, submitted a supplement on this diary covering Ross and how he compares to onetime-Cane, now-Steeler Sean Spence. I stand by my comparison to another safety-sized Steeler who made a career out of avoiding blocks by simply getting to the ball-carrier first, Larry Foote. Either way, here's betting when Brian sends us the roundtable questions for HTTV the annual 'breakout player?' wording starts with "Other than…"
Etc. For a second I thought Jake Ryan was Brock Mealer. Snowflake-y thing on next year's basketball team now that the personnel seems settled.
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Spring Practice is over and it's a long few months of coach-less physical training before fall stuff. To give you an idea of the things our players will be working on from now until then, here's a letter from Fritz Crisler circa 1941 dug up by Messenger Puppet.
Apparently the Michigan Method includes:
- Sleeping from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., 10:30 to 6:30 if you absolutely have to.
- Rolling on the ground
- Cut out stimulants such as alcohol and nicotine in order to do better justice to yourself in a football way.
- "Crabbing"
- 10 to 15 minutes of "setting up exercises," followed by a cold bath.
- Eating plenty of ruffage to keep your digestive system normal at all times.
This is the video shown at the basketball banquet. It starts with Novak and Stu after winning the B1G last year then goes to the freshman class and then…
For the tiny subsection of the fanbase for whom heuristics on the interior DL three-deep is news, little shreds of such news have trickled out that could be read as Godin and Heitzman are awesome but probably mean Strobel is still far from playing time (and is a redshirt freshman GAWD U GUYz!)
This sparked a thread led off by Blazefire on Tom Strobel's (below: Fuller) move to 3-tech, apparently because of an injury to somebody in that group. Which injury? Could be Ryan Glasgow, or it could have to do with Wormley being unavailable for most contact this spring. Don't know, guessing Glasgow.
Tom's coming in for a little bit "oh no not LaLota" fear since of that ridiculous interior d-line class he's the highest rated to not yet push for serious playing time: Wormley was mentioned as a potential competition for Roh's job last year before his injury, Pipkins played, and Godin and Henry were 3-stars and your 2nd string 5-tech and 3-tech respectively in the Spring Game.
From Mattison's quote it sounds like it's mostly a convenience thing. They need depth at three, and at the five—which is pretty interchangeable—there's a pecking order emerging of Heitzman the starter, Godin the backup, and Wormley the nominal third string with a lot of upward mobility. Speculation centers on why Strobel was moved and not Godin, who's 10 pounds heavier.
On one hand GAWD U GUYz he's a redshirt freshman who always needed to put on weight and for whom "on track" would mean pushing to play by 2014. On the other Godin is now almost certainly ahead of him and the Godin hype hasn't hit anything like Jake Ryan levels where you figure we just found a diamond. Waaaaaaaaay too early for this: absolutely. Irrational fan voice squeaking this anyway: yeah. Impact if true: small. They can't ALL become next-RVBs (4-star DE are about 25% to become NFL draft picks).
The NCAA has put in the time these last few years to establish itself as the most incompetent group of people since they invented Comcast customer service, and as a consequence opened themselves to ALL THE zing.
When Oregon found major violations, the thread is all 'nothing will happen' until ZING!:
"You're wrong there. The NCAA is sick and tired of being looked at as an impotent and largely powerless organization incapable of meting out justice to offenders.
"This time they are mad. This time they mean business. I predict that the NCAA is SO upset at what Oregon's been doing that South Florida's going to get their scholly's cut again." –mGrowOld
When reports surfaced that Ohio State's bow-tied president was trotted out to recruit Drake Harris, the thread began wondering if that's, you know, crossing some sort of line and ZING!
"When presidents are involved in recruiting, it's usually dead ones like Grant, Jackson, et al. See Auburn, University of." –Victor Hale II
People in the thread have a bunch of stories of how beloved Gee is on campus because he goes to bars (!) and sometimes remembers people had crutches (!). He's also the former lawyer who instigated Ohio State's lawyerly defense of itself for Tressel's tenure, thereby undermining the NCAA's self-regulatory compliance system and exposing the organization's true impotence. I don't really have a problem with a school president meeting a recruit; I do have a problem with this president who sees his job as head of Buckeye Phi, until such time as Jim Tressel decides to fire him.
People who agree: Brown University calls its spring game port-a-potties the "E. Gordon Gee Lavatory Complex" in honor of his short and generally disastrous tenure there. There's a reason this guy and Emmert are best buddies.
Ohio State made rings for their Year of Shame.
Hey, surprise, the school that couldn't find honor if you put it around a Clemson player's neck doesn't do contrition very well. On the last ring they posted the Game's score from last year, calling us "TUN" beneath a horseshoe so detailed you can see them carrying Tressel off on their shoulders. Mr. Yost suggested they should just wear asterisks. ZING!
CaliUMfan pulled some tweets from people who spoke to Beilein after the "they're back" presser that suggest Michigan plans to move Glenn Robinson to small forward and play McGary at the four, creating a crunch at the two/three of GRIII, Stauskas, LeVert and Irvin. This can be taken in many ways, most of which come back to "yeah you tell Morgan he's the expected starter again."
The guy who played the cynic on the Imperial board of directors in the original Star Wars has passed away; for this site, this absolutely constitutes a board thread. If you can't appreciate Richard LeParmentier's acting ability, I suggest you imagine how you'd do if George Lucas handed you a script that read:
"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebels' hidden fort—[NOW PRETEND LIKE HE'S CHOKING YOU!]"
And yes I claim the Star Wars geeks as mine. When Brian can go three references in a row without flubbing a quote or acknowledging the prequels exist he can have you back. Also when he learns to moderate the board like this:
ETC. If recruiting his son means Dakich can't do Michigan games anymore, or even if it makes him stop trolling us, it is SO worth a scholarship. Jonvalk suggests a new MGobanner. Novak profiled in local paper, mentions MGoShirt. Will basketball or football end up ranked higher next year?
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Forty-two not 16 'cause it was Other-Robinson Day.
Unverified Voracity Would Settle Everything at Trafalgar
- dennis norfleet
- i am irrationally excited about short guys
- i am very proud not to have taken unnecessary shots at the south in this post
- lsu is michigan's evil twin from the dark universe
- miami (that miami)
- ncaa: the game
- ncaa: the hypocrisy and how to fix it
- ncaa: the scandals
- tempo
- unverified voracity
Legolas is cooler than Treebeard. Brian's taking a short vacation and left me to write UV today. That's too bad because he's missing the party after Spath heard from Norfleet's mentor/7-on-7 coach ($) that the MGoFavorite little bugger's defensive foray was a temporary thing:
"He's supposedly going back to offense," Blackwell said. "They will use him in the slot and in the return game, and some as a running back. Coach [Greg] Mattison is saying he can still use him on defense and is making an argument to keep him there, but Dennis' passion is for the offense. That's where he wants to play, and from talking to Dennis it appears that's where he's going to play.
Putting him with the other elves made some sense when the cornerback two-deep was the starters, and what carries he could siphon last year from Toussaint, Rawls and Hayes would now have to be defended from Drake Johnson and three highly rated incoming freshman. The rooting for Norfleet to take over Smith's role comes from simple fan interest: it's way more fun to hold your breath and watch this guy scamper around like a maniac than to plunge a tree into the enemy lines and watch him fall forward for the same result.
Contempt for compliance, not photos of Donna Shalala. The Miami (of course THAT Miami) case was to be the Austerlitz of the new and improved NCAA enforcement empire; instead it's going to be a summer of Waterloo metaphors and Shalala vs. Emmert lead images. SBNation's Robert Wheel's afore-linked take calls for Emmert's resignation, while admitting that won't do anything to fix the underlying problem:
If the NCAA were enforcing rules that didn't require a lot of investigation, then this lack of power would not be a problem. But as long as college sports remain a big time moneymaker with rich guys who want to circumvent the rulebook to see their teams win, said rich guys will find ways to try to outfox the rules. Unless we want to give the NCAA subpoena power (we really don't) then this will always be a losing battle. The NCAA will never have the ability or the resources to catch up to people breaking its rules.
In a real legal system the Canes could discredit the prosecution's only witness and get the case thrown out. This isn't a real legal system: schools don't get in trouble for breaking NCAA rules, they get in trouble by publicly reminding everybody that the NCAA can't really enforce them. USC tried this and got slapped down despite the evidence in hand being too weak for any court. Meanwhile investigators with bees up their butts couldn't prove what every 4-year-old knows in re: Ohio State gives players cars, or really much of anything in the original Tatgate story until the NFL forced Pryor to talk. For stonewalling so politely the extent of the Buckeyes' punishment was to end a 12-0 season with Meyer on their sidelines and Tressel on their shoulders. The dumbest thing Shalala could do is comply.* The second-dumbest thing she could do is say na-na-na-boo-boo to an organization that only slightly cares if it turned up doo doo.
The obvious answer is pay the players (FoxSports in re: Clowney and the risk of injury) and end the shadow ring where guys like Shapiro are the only people who can perform the otherwise perfectly legal function of paying adult U.S. citizens for the services they provide.
* There are a select few schools like Michigan who don't have a choice because our whole thing is being the good guys, and because we're among those who would benefit the most if tradition, competitiveness and the quality of education were the only factors in recruiting and retaining college football talent. Kind of like how Great Britain would prefer to settle everything with a sea battle.
Basketball on verge of spread revolution. Weinreb dug up a budding Mike Leach from a D-II school in West Virginia to highlight a story about how pacing in basketball has slowed way down while the smart guys beating up the lower ranks are going the other way. That coach's motto is "Don't do it unless you can rationalize why you're doing it." He's too old to end up in Ann Arbor, but apparently the Yost alleles for engineering-minded coaches are still going strong in Appalachia. Beilein small ball isn't speed ball, but this…
When Crutchfield recruits, he looks for kids who react quickly — "You can make up for a lot of quickness and speed if you react mentally," he says — and play with high intensity: If they get beat on defense and they don't D up even harder the next time down the floor, he starts to wonder if they might not fit into his system.
… is similar to Beilein. HT and board discussion itauditbill. While we're on Grantland's court Shane Ryan has updated his chart of the Big Ten's "Big Six" versus each other on the road:
That's part of a discussion on how road game success can be a strong predictor of postseason performance. I've used it for predicting NBA and NHL playoff results, and March Madness would be right there with them if it wasn't such a crapshoot in general. HT again from the board: SoFlaWolverine.
Assistant Coaches like money too. There's a rumor that Oklahoma may be going after Jerry Montgomery (Meinke via Footballscoop). Cam Cameron you may have heard just joined Les Miles's staff, further evidence to my theory that LSU is the In a Mirror, Darkly evil twin of Michigan from another dimension.
Dark universe Les Miles is in his 5th season as head coach at Michigan, where he's been slowly rebuilding the school's reputation shredded by win-at-all-costs Evil Lloyd Carr
Cameron will be making $3.4 million over 3 years, and this has made internet people start buzzing about top assistants commanding the kind of salary you give the school president. /mind blown. /thinks about the difference between GERG and Greg. /mind unblown.
It's right because the internet said so. The NCAA cover vote on Facebook has moved to a semifinals where the S-E-C!!! vote has been split (to Eddie Lacy's doom and random A&M guy's benefit) and Denard now leads. Every time this appears on the board cynical-me goes to erase it because it's playing to somebody's marketing ploy, and enchanted-me says "But Denard on the cover would be a wonderful thing!" I wish Denard would be on the cover because he is the living symbol of what is singularly spectacular about NCAA football; I also wish they could have come to that conclusion without somebody "developing an engaging social media campaign" that might only settle on Robinson because a cat playing guitar hero wasn't allowed in the race. #AIRBHG2014
Etc. People of the East Coast, check your DVR schedule or wind up recording a Virginia-BC game. UMHoops takes on Michigan's defense, scores a bazillion points (ha!). Zoltan's foundation update. FAU's marketing department derps stadium sponsor, double-derps wikipedia entry. MGoAndroid App is updated, report bugs here. NFL logos if they were designed by British people.


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A (Gingerbread) Diorama of Death
So, you know the secret project I've been talking about, without actually saying anything about it? It's actually two projects. One's still a secret, but I can tell you about the other one now.
There's going to be an anthology of short stories, COZY CHRISTMAS CAPERS, written by several of the authors with Gemma Halliday Publishing, available the beginning of December for the low price of $1.99 for what amounts to close to three full novels' worth of reading.
My story, featuring Helen Binney, is called A (GINGERBREAD) DIORAMA OF DEATH, and has all the usual supporting cast: Tate, Betty and Josie, Lily and Laura, Martha Waddell, and even the annoying Detective Hank Peterson, since every Christmas story needs a Grinch.
I had a blast writing the story, although I kept fretting that no one would know what a "diorama" is. I had to look it up myself, when the title first came to me, just to make sure I was using it right! Wikipedia defines it as "a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model," and you can see some pictures of amazingly detailed dioramas at the Wikipedia page here.
In my story, the dioramas are less realistic and more edible; they're the entries in a gingerbread house contest.
How could something as sweet and wholesome as gingerbread lead to a murder investigation? Just ask Helen Binney to be one of the three judges of the competition, and require a unanimous decision in order to award the prizes.
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I often receive emails asking how to get a commissioned targe. Here's what you need to know:
I strive to make each targe look like a gently used relic of the Celtic gods, while retaining the functionality of it's original use. Targes or Targets, were Highland shields, primarily used from the 16th through the mid 18th century. So my talent is really focused on these niche pieces of artistic history that I happen to be passionate about.
The price of each targe is based on what you want tooled into the leather. Etching the brass boss, and adding the removable brass shield spike raises the price.
Each targe has a 3/4 inch plywood core. Usually 19 inches in diameter. Vegetable tanned leather is wrapped around the front and secured on the back with brass or steel nails. The designs are first traced onto the leather, then cut into it with a swivel knife. The designs are then hand tooled into the leather. I am meticulous with the tooling on each piece. From there I then color them with a combination of dies and stains to highlight the tool work. This is what brings the targe to life.
Each targe has a brass boss in the center of the shield. The boss is hand hammered from sheet brass into one of several dishing stumps that I've made. The boss can be etched with Celtic designs and motif's. Etching is optional as it increases the cost, but an etched boss is part of what sets the targes I make apart. Many original targets did have etched designs in the brass. I hand draw designs for the etching that I do to them. A shield spike is also optional. The shield spike is made from 3/8 inch brass rod and is also removable. One end is tapered, the other end is threaded so that it can be screwed into the core through the center of the boss. I use 3/8 inch threaded brass inserts in the wood core for the spike to screw into.
On the back, traditionally targets were covered with fur. Usually red deer. I can't import red deer fur though, so I use hair-on cow hide. I have used mule deer on several commissions but the pelt thickness makes it more difficult to secure the arm straps onto the back. On original pieces, there were 2 arm straps for the arm to slide all the way through so that the shield hand could also hold a dirk. I add reproduction 18th century buckles to the arm straps that I make so that when you aren't wearing it, you can hang it on your wall. By unbuckling it, the leather flattens allowing the shield to be flush with the wall. Otherwise there would be a hump of leather on the back.
So when you contact me about commissioning a targe, I will need to know what you want on it. I can make reproductions of original extant targes, I can make a new custom design, or I can make a targe similar to one already in my Portfolio. I do like to alter some elements on the ones that I remake from the portfolio so that each is unique from others that I've made.
I will quote you a price on the commission once I have the details of what you want. I require a minimum deposit of 1/2 of the price of the targe to ensure that we are both committed to the piece. Each targe takes 4-5 weeks from start to finish once the design is agreed upon and the deposit is made. The buyer pays all shipping charges as well. UPS ground shipping inside the continental United States and Canada is $90.00. If you live outside of the North American continent I will need to know your shipping address to quote your shipping charge.
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First of all, I want to apologize to everyone who has invested in $LUV Southwest Airlines. I want to apologize because I bought it Thursday afternoon at $42.12 expecting it to go up. After all, the forecast was for it to go up to a median price of $45.00 and possibly all the way up to $66.00. My assumption was that low oil prices would be a boon for all airline stocks. Seems to have been a wrong assumption. I know, I know, I've made an ass out of u and me, especially me.
I don't know what is going on with Southwest Airlines stock ($LUV). I googled Southwest Airlines today on Google News and found two reports that helped to explain my, and I hope not your, dilemma. First of all, the CEO of Southwest airlines yesterday spoke about the downside of low oil prices and then I saw that Southwest Airlines ramp workers are protesting at fifteen airports across the country. Yippeee!
Those two bits of news help explain why Southwest Airlines is landing instead of taking off. As I write this the DOW is up 157 points and $LUV is down $1.24 a share. I'm getting a bit frustrated as the money I invested was only going to be for the short term. If it'd just go up $2.00 a share I can almost promise all of you, I'd sell and then the stock will be set to take off to the moon. You may think I'm joking, but I feel cursed in the market lately after doing quite well a few years back.
Again, my apologies for ever buying $LUV. It will go back up again, just hold on and don't sell like I'll have to do in the short term. I see $50.00 a share in the next month or two.
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1,772 sq. ft. open warehouse Washroom Full Size Loading Door at Grade Convenient Location This opportunity is conveniently located across from Capilano Mall at the corner of West 3rd Street and Donaghy Avenue in North Vancouver. Just six minutes from the Upper Levels Highway with easy access to North and West Vancouver. The Iron Worker's Memorial Bridge, 12 kilometres to the east, provides access to Burnaby and Coquitlam. The Lions Gate Bridge, 4 kilometres to the west, provides easy access to downtown Vancouver.
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Abingdon 100cm Black Glass Table with 4 Black High Back Stools
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Abingdon 100cm Black Glass Table with 4 Black High Back Stools
Abingdon Furniture Black Square Glazed Stowaway Dining Table is a very contemporary styled peice with beautifully soft curved edges, black tempered glass top and contrasting chrome legs. making this peice perfect for any modern home environment. This table has been very cleverly designed to be compact and yet allow for 4 people to dine in comfort.
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Mumbai: Woman arrested for flushing foetus down the toilet
A 25-year-old unmarried woman, who was in the sixth month of her pregnancy, had decided to abort her baby by consuming pills and then tried to flush it down the toilet
The discarded remains of a six-month-old foetus were recovered from the drainage pipe of Samrudhhi building in Borivli (West). A 25-year-old woman, Nanda Gore, accused of flushing the foetus down the toilet, has been arrested.
The incident came to light when the accused's family complained to the secretary of their housing society regarding a blocked drainage pipe in their home. Soon, the secretary received several other complaints regarding a possible blockage and approached a plumber to fix it.
The plumber checked the drainpipe, and found the baby's hand sticking out when he opened it on one of the floors. According to the police, Gore had consumed abortion pills to terminate her pregnancy. On account of the medicine, she had an abortion on Friday night.
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She then took the foetus into the bathroom and flushed it down the drain. The body later got stuck in the pipe and choked it. Gore, who is not married, is in the imitation jewellery business and lives with her mother, brother and two sisters in Samruddhi building.
Gore had initially been called in for questioning by Crime Branch Unit XI. She was subsequently handed over to the Borivli police and was arrested under Section 315 (intent to prevent child from being born or causing it to die after birth), after she confessed to her crime.
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Speaking to mid-day, Senior Police Inspector at Borivli police station, Gunaji Sawant said, "The foetus was recovered in a decomposed state since it had been in the water for several hours."


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There are a great variety of egg substitutes, and I can't use most of them. So when I noticed that my Thankful For Sweet Potatoes Casserole unexpectedly made a wonderful goopy sauce, wheels started turning in my head. By experimentation, I figured out that cinnamon absorbs a whole lot of water, and the result is similar to flax or chia eggs. Of course, there's a limit to how much cinnamon you can use in a recipe, but you can't replace very many eggs with flax or chia either. Fortunately, I've noticed that when cinnamon is mixed with water and heated, the flavor mellows, so I use it pretty liberally.
I got busy dealing with other limitations, and never got to the point of successfully using cinnamon eggs in a recipe. But I expect you could replace as many eggs as you can with flax, or combine with some other egg substitute.
There are two ways to do this. The first way is quicker, but the second produces more volume with less cinnamon.
Quick method: Mix 2 tsp cinnamon with 3 tbsp hot water. (a 2:9 ratio) Stir with a fork and let sit until water is absorbed and mixture is viscous.
Two-step method: Mix 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon with 1 1/2 – 2 tbsp hot water. Stir with a fork until water is absorbed, then add another 1 – 1 1/2 tbsp hot water for a total of 3 tbsp water. (a 1:6 ratio)
If this doesn't work in baking, I would try with a higher ratio of cinnamon to water. In place of the water, you can use whatever liquid is in the recipe. You can also use lukewarm water, then heat the mixture. When it's done, it will usually come out of the cup with no residue.
If you try using cinnamon in place of eggs, please share what worked or didn't work for you. I appreciate any tips you can give me!