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Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli's 19-year-old daughter, Olivia Jade Giannulli, was on the yacht of Rick Caruso, the chairman of University of Southern California's Board of Trustees, when her parents were indicted for allegedly paying $500,000 for her acceptance to USC.
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Olivia Jade was in the Bahamas for spring break on Tuesday with Caruso's 19-year-old daughter Gianna (Gigi) Caruso, before returning to Los Angeles on Wednesday.
WATCH MORE: Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin face college scam
"My daughter and a group of students left for spring break prior to the government's announcement yesterday. Once we became aware of the investigation, the young woman decided it would be in her best interest to return home," Caruso said in a statement.
READ MORE: Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin indicted in alleged Ivy League college admissions scheme
The Full House actress and Giannulli have been charged in the scheme to get their two daughters fraudulently accepted to USC by paying $500,000 to have them labelled as crew-team recruits at the USC, even though neither is a rower.
"The charges filed yesterday against employees of USC are disturbing and the alleged activity is absolutely wrong," Caruso continued. "I am saddened that these people would abuse their positions of trust and, as the government has alleged, victimize USC in the process. There is no option other than zero tolerance for this type of behaviour. As a result, USC has fired the alleged wrongdoers."
WATCH BELOW: Operation Varsity Blues: How the Ivy League admissions bribery scheme was uncovered
Olivia Jade, a social-media influencer, came under scrutiny earlier this week for a video she posted to YouTube before beginning her fall semester last year.
In the video, Olivia Jade said she didn't care about school and was just there to experience the "partying" and game days.
She's also used her college experience as branded advertising opportunities for companies such as Amazon Prime.
"Officially a college student! It's been a few weeks since I moved into my dorm and I absolutely love it. I got everything I needed from Amazon with @primestudent and had it all shipped to me in just two-days. #ad #primestudent #allonamazon," she captioned a photo on Instagram last September.
Following the news of Loughlin's involvement in the college admissions scheme, Olivia Jade's collection at Sephora has been pulled.
Olivia Jade and the makeup retailer worked together on the Olivia Jade x Sephora palette, released in December 2018.
In an official statement, Sephora revealed the product would be pulled from shelves, "After careful review of recent developments, we have made the decision to end the Sephora Collection partnership with Olivia Jade, effective immediately."
READ MORE: Lori Loughlin posts $1M bond in college admissions scandal
USC officials have said that they're going to look at each student's case individually before deciding whether to revoke their admission or let them remain at the university.
USC plans a "case-by-case review of current students and graduates that may be connected to the scheme alleged by the government."
"We will make informed, appropriate decisions once those reviews have been completed," Leigh Hopper, a USC spokesperson, said. "Some of these individuals may have been minors at the time of their application process."
READ MORE: Prominent UBC donor David Sidoo charged in alleged U.S. college admissions scheme
At least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents were among those charged. Some parents spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, as much as $6.5 million, to guarantee their children's admission, officials said.
WATCH BELOW: Celebs, CEOs among parents charged in Ivy League college exam cheating scheme
"Every student deserves to be considered on their individual merits when applying to college, and it's disgraceful to see anyone breaking the law to give their children an advantage over others," U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The department is looking closely at this issue and working to determine if any of our regulations have been violated."
At a brief court appearance on Wednesday, a judge allowed Loughlin to be released on $1-million bond and travel to the area around Vancouver, Canada, to work but otherwise imposed strict travel restrictions.
Magistrate Judge Steven Kim said Loughlin must surrender her passport in December, inform the court of her travel plans and provide evidence of where she's been if asked.
— With files from the Associated Press and ET Canada's Aynslee Darmon


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Ndamukong Suh vs. "Tank Dog": Who ya got?
Suh needs no introduction around these parts ... we hope. Tank Dog is a personal trainer and regular on Discovery Channel's new reality show, American Muscle. He's also a Green Bay Packers fan, leading to an interesting back-and-forth with Suh during the Detroit Lions star's recent appearance on the show.
In a teaser posted online, Suh instructs Tank Dog -- dressed in Packers green and gold -- to "take that weak jersey off."
That leads to the following exchange:
Tank Dog: A lot of Packer fans don't like you. (rolling up Packers championship banner)
Suh: Hey, that's all right. A lot of people don't like me.
Tank Dog: I'm trying to help bridge the gap between you and Green Bay fans. So I don't want you trying to kill anybody on Green Bay. It's kind of like a conflict of interest, see what I'm saying?
Suh: So you want me to just go out there and just say hi to 'em?
Tank Dog: I don't want you kicking them in the nuts like you did Schwab (He's probably referring to Matt Schaub). That whole stomp thing, what did he say to you, dog? He did something. Did he grab you? He held you and you was like, 'Get the (expletive) off of me.' Something happened!
Suh: Man, that's in the woods, man.
Tank Dog continues to give his best effort to get to the bottom of Suh's infamous moments, with Suh repeating "It's in the woods, man" six more times. It's slightly uncomfortable, since it looks as if the only thing separating Tank Dog from an early grave is a camera.
But let's not bury the most pertinent takeaway here: Never go into the woods with Ndamukong Suh.
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It all started so innocuously. Portuguese, Irish and Spanish growth was kicked off by a regime of low interest rates in the eurozone, caused by the fragile state of the German, French and Italian economies (which really extended over most of the last two decades - in fact since reunification in the German case).
Seeing this growth, European financial institutions (primarily pension funds and banks) pumped money into these economies, so they could take part in the growth, and get their share of the gravy (to a large extent in housing, through mortgage lending). When those bubbles burst, investors were in a bad situation. They found themselves holding bonds that were unlikely to be paid off (most of these bonds were in mortgage lenders - banks). The biggest group of such bondholders were German financial institutions, and they came up with a plan that they took to Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, a plan that they hoped would save their bacon. Here was their plan:
Preamble 1. It would be a Bad Thing for the eurozone if any eurozone bank went bust. It would cause a crisis of confidence in the euro.
Preamble 2. Those banks (such as Anglo-Irish Bank in Ireland, or Caja de Ahorros Castilla La Mancha in Spain) are about to go bust, taking a large chunk of our profits with them, and possibly inducing a banking crisis in Germany, just as the shaky German recovery is finally gaining pace.
Rather than let them go bust, why don't we make this deal:
1. We lend these banks bucketloads of money that they could otherwise not get on the open market, saving them from bankruptcy, and protecting the euro from a crisis of confidence.
2. You guarantee our loans by getting the Irish, Portuguese and Spanish governments to nationalize the bad banks, so that their citizens become liable to pay back the debt.
"It's a deal!" squealed the German bankers, delightedly.
For a while everybody thought that it was the greatest idea since the atomic theory, and all the smartypants German bankers thought themselves too smart for their pants, lending money to stupid PIGS at high interest rates, so they'd have the money to pay the German bankers back what they'd lent them earlier at high interest rates! But then the Law of Unintended Consequences kicked in.
First, the Greeks looked at those smart German bankers and thought "what stupid bankers they are! We already can't pay our debts, so they want us to take on more debt! If we can't pay our small debt, what makes them think we're going to pay a bigger one back?" So the Greeks thanked the Germans for their cash, widened the letter-box a little in case the Germans wanted to shovel some more money into it, and carried on with their original plan, which was to default on their sovereign debt.
"But, but...", spluttered the Germans, "you can't do that!", because they never dreamt of anybody doing such a thing, even though Greece is a serial defaulter and has a history of default.
Meanwhile the Irish and Portuguese were muttering to themselves about why they'd been asked to shoulder the private debt of stupid bankers addicted to gambling who'd put their savings (sorry, their customers' savings) on the wrong horse. The poor French, who'd agreed to go along with this whole sorry mess in the hope that Merkel knew what she was doing, refrained from telling her "I told you so", and instead just kept patting Ireland and Portugal on the head, saying "good boy, good boy". Ireland and Portugal are looking enviously at Greece.
Meantime, the Germans carry on pouring good money after bad in the hope that if they pour enough in, they can pay themselves back. When put baldly like this, it is obvious that it won't be paid back, and in fact it's a lot worse than this, because linked to this banking crisis is a general economic crisis.
Germans don't seem to realize how perilous their own situation is.


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Apple releases Mountain Lion 10.8.2 with Facebook integration
On the heels of the release of iOS 6, Apple has also publicly issued OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2, a major update featuring system-wide Facebook integration for the Mac.
With OS X 10.8.2, users can sign on in one place for Facebook, and Facebook will appear as an option when sharing links and photos. In addition, Facebook friends' contact information and profile pictures will appear in Contacts, and notifications from the social networking site will appear in Notification Center.
OS X 10.8.2 is available as a free update for Mountain Lion owners through the Mac App Store. A restart is required once the software has been installed.
Other features of OS X 10.8.2 highlighted by Apple are:
Game Center
- Share scores to Facebook, Twitter, Mail or Messages
- Facebook friends are included in Game Center friend recommendations
- Facebook Like button for games
- Challenge friends to beat your score or achievement
Other new features
- Power Nap support for MacBook Air (Late 2010)
- iMessages sent to your phone number now appear in Messages on your Mac
- From Safari and Mail on your Mac you can add passes to Passbook on your iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 6
- New shared Reminders lists
- FaceTime now receives calls sent to your phone number
- New sort options allow you to sort notes by title, the date you edited them, and when you created them
- Dictation now supports Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Korean, Canadian, English, Canadian French, and Italian.
- The Dictionary application now includes a French definition dictionary
- Sina Weibo profile photos can now be added to contacts
In addition, OS X 10.8.2 also includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. Fixes include:
- An option to discard the changes in the original document when choosing Save As
- Unsent drafts are opened automatically when launching Mail
- Receive Twitter notifications for mentions and replies from anyone
- URLs are shortened when sending tweets from Notification Center
- Notifications are disabled when AirPlay Mirroring is being used
- SSL support for Google searches from the Smart Search Field in Safari
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Every day in America, doctors prescribe medication to patients who have no food at home or live in unsafe housing. Medicine alone won't solve these problems, and many patients may return with more serious—and more expensive—illnesses. Health Leads believes that a different kind of healthcare system is possible for America: one that addresses all patients' basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. And Salesforce is helping the organisation achieve this vision.
In 20 health centres across the country, Health Leads enables doctors and other healthcare providers to "prescribe" basic resources like food and heat, and mobilises nearly 1,000 college student advocates to "fill" prescriptions by connecting patients with the basic resources they need to be healthy. This year, Health Leads will help more than 14,500 families lead healthier lives.
In its early days, Health Leads used spreadsheets and a database to track clients and available community resources, but difficulties entering and sharing data made it hard to track client progress. Today, everything from client data to information about community resources to advocate performance data is stored in Salesforce. Marketing, fundraising, business development, and communications staff also use Sales Cloud to manage relationships and keep a record of every hospital, donor, and volunteer interaction.
"We're trying to move healthcare to a model where providers are compensated not just for the number of procedures they perform, but for managing overall patient health. Salesforce helps us connect clients to resources and evaluate our impact," explains Zach Goldstein, Director of Systems and Technology. "Salesforce is helping us make this new paradigm a reality."
A customised Community Cloud enables student advocates to easily conduct an intake with new clients, find community resources, and manage their current cases. The system is HIPAA-compliant, so advocates can share best practices, ask questions, and quickly get the answers they need. "Salesforce allows our advocates to communicate securely about our clients, which makes it easy for them to get support and solve client issues quickly."
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"Our advocates are on the front lines working with clients," explains Goldstein. "They use Community Cloud every day to help make better health a reality."
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Asiana Adopts New Pilot Training
Asiana Airlines is changing its training for pilots to encourage crews to talk more and change cockpit culture. A U.S. investigation found the corporate culture may have been an issue in last year's deadly Asiana crash in California. VOA's Carolyn Presutti continues her reporting on the crash, bringing us up-to-date on what this means for aviation.


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Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
Because some Lisp data objects are used to represent programs, one cannot always notate a constant data object in a program simply by writing the notation for the object unadorned; it would be ambiguous whether a constant object or a program fragment was intended. The quote special form resolves this ambiguity.
There are two kinds of variables in Common Lisp, in effect: ordinary variables and function names. There are some similarities between the two kinds, and in a few cases there are similar functions for dealing with them, for example boundp and fboundp. However, for the most part the two kinds of variables are used for very different purposes: one to name defined functions, macros, and special forms, and the other to name data objects.
X3J13 voted in March 1989 (FUNCTION-NAME) to introduce the concept
of a function-name, which may be either a symbol or a two-element list whose
first element is the symbol setf and whose second element is a symbol.
The primary purpose of this is to allow setf expander functions to be
CLOS generic functions with user-defined methods.
Many places in Common Lisp that used to require a symbol for a function
name are changed to allow 2-lists as well; for example, defun
is changed so that one may write (defun (setf foo) ...),
and the function special form is changed to accept any function-name.
See also fdefinition.
By convention, any function named (setf f) should return its first argument as its only value, in order to preserve the specification that setf returns its newvalue. See setf.
Implementations are free to extend the syntax of function-names to
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22 May The Joy Of Feeling Valued
I recently received an email from a former colleague who had changed jobs. "I haven't worked this hard in years and have never felt so valued," she wrote. "What a strange combination. I learn something new every day and am only worried my brain won't hold any more information. I'm exhausted by Friday and it's just great. Who knew?"
To me, by far the most important phrase in this uplifting note was "and have never felt so valued." I guarantee that if this individual had just changed jobs, were working harder than ever and felt totally unappreciated, her experience of this new position and the tone of her comments would have been entirely different.
"I haven't worked this hard in years and have never felt so unappreciated," might have been the content of an alternate (fictional) communique. "What a combination! I have to learn something new every day and am worried my brain won't hold any more information. I'm exhausted by Friday. Who knew things would turn out this way?"
Management implications: It's widely accepted in the business world that an employee's relationship with his or her direct manager is the single most important factor in employee engagement.
If you dig deeper into employee engagement, there's considerable excellent research that feelings of making continual daily progress are also key. And my own conclusion after years of in-the-trenches management is that nothing is more important than feeling valued.
It can be a difference maker, at times allowing employees to accept lower compensation, or longer hours, or the inevitable frustrations that accompany difficult tasks… than they otherwise might have… because they feel their efforts are recognized and appreciated. Time after time I've observed how small gestures of recognition and encouragement can change attitudes from disgruntled to pleased (or at least okay) in the blink of a manager's eye.
The implications for management are clear.
This isn't an invitation to abdicate managerial authority; naturally praise should never be given where it's not deserved. But when it is deserved, there's little for a manager to gain by being emotionally stingy.
If you value an employee, let him or her know it. If you don't make that explicitly clear from time to time, they may well not realize it, even if you think they do.
Sincere words to that effect cost nothing and can make the difference between disengagement and productivity.
[blue]SOURCE: Forbes – http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2012/08/23/the-joy-of-feeling-valued[/blue]


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Long ago, I worked (as a client) with a software which use a centralized table for it's codified element. Here, as far as I remember, how the table look like :
Table_Name (PK)
Field_Name (PK)
Code (PK)
So, instead of creating a table every time they need a codified field, they where just adding row in this table with the new Table_Name and Field_Name.
I'm sometime tempted to use this pattern in some database I design, but I have resisted to this as from now, I think there's something wrong with this, but I cannot put the finger on it.
It is just because you land with some of the structure logic within the Data or something else?


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Clients that are searching for these golf clubs should always take more of their time trying to gather enough information. This is what can help them to make better decisions since these golf clubs have been on the rise in recent times. In as much as you can find yourself identifying a very large number of these golf clubs, you have the chance of making a better decision. The right decision can be made after you choose to gather as much information as you can. This is what can support you all the time in this universe. You require some information such as the track record the golf club has established and also consider your personal opinions. Sometimes you have to believe in what you know before you finally decide to make a decision. There is a lot of information that you might understand at the moment. Other than that, you need experienced individuals to support you with all that you require. This is what can support you all the time to acquire what you have been searching for. Thus, you will benefit in the end from the kind of selections that you make. The following are clues for identifying the best golf club.
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rndc-confgen - rndc key generation tool
rndc-confgen [-a] [-b keysize] [-c keyfile] [-h] [-k keyname] [-p port] [-r randomfile] [-s address] [-t chrootdir] [-u user] | |
rndc-confgen generates configuration files for rndc. It can be used as a convenient alternative to writing the rndc.conf file and the corresponding controls and key statements in named.conf by hand. Alternatively, it can be run with the -a option to set up a rndc.key file and avoid the need for a rndc.conf file and a controls statement altogether.
Do automatic rndc configuration. This creates a file rndc.key in /etc (or whatever sysconfdir was specified as when BIND was built) that is read by both rndc and named on startup. The rndc.key file defines a default command channel and authentication key allowing rndc to communicate with named on the local host with no further configuration.
Running rndc-confgen -a allows BIND 9 and rndc to be used as drop-in replacements for BIND 8 and ndc, with no changes to the existing BIND 8 named.conf file.
If a more elaborate configuration than that generated by rndc-confgen -a is required, for example if rndc is to be used remotely, you should run rndc-confgen without the -a option and set up a rndc.conf and named.conf as directed.
-b keysize
Specifies the size of the authentication key in bits. Must be between 1 and 512 bits; the default is 128.
-c keyfile
Used with the -a option to specify an alternate location for rndc.key.
Prints a short summary of the options and arguments to rndc-confgen.
-k keyname
Specifies the key name of the rndc authentication key. This must be a valid domain name. The default is rndc-key.
-p port
Specifies the command channel port where named listens for connections from rndc. The default is 953.
-r randomfile
Specifies a source of random data for generating the authorization. If the operating system does not provide a /dev/random or equivalent device, the default source of randomness is keyboard input. randomdev specifies the name of a character device or file containing random data to be used instead of the default. The special value keyboard indicates that keyboard input should be used.
-s address
Specifies the IP address where named listens for command channel connections from rndc. The default is the loopback address 127.0.0.1.
-t chrootdir
Used with the -a option to specify a directory where named will run chrooted. An additional copy of the rndc.key will be written relative to this directory so that it will be found by the chrooted named.
-u user
Used with the -a option to set the owner of the rndc.key file generated. If -t is also specified only the file in the chroot area has its owner changed.
To allow rndc to be used with no manual configuration, run
rndc-confgen -a
To print a sample rndc.conf file and corresponding controls and key statements to be manually inserted into named.conf, run
rndc(8), rndc.conf(5), named(8), BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual.
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But even leaving Mr. Darwin's views aside," wrote Thomas Henry Huxley in 1863, in Man's Place in Nature, "the whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of the phenomena of the universe; that, in the view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed--from the organic to the inorganic--from blind force to conscious will and intellect."
High Victorian prose, but the message is plain. Even if Darwin were wrong, argued Huxley, science ought to be wholly naturalistic. Nothing but secondary causes--natural laws--has acted in the history of "Nature's great progression." Indeed, after digesting Adrian Desmond's fascinating and highly readable biography of Huxley, one can plausibly assert that while Huxley may have been Darwin's disciple (a point on which Desmond provides some contradictory evidence), he was unquestionably, and foremost, an apostle of naturalism.
Thomas Henry Huxley was born in 1825, above a butcher's shop in Ealing, a village just to the west of London. His father was a failed schoolmaster who moved his family north to Coventry in 1835, where he unsuccessfully ran a savings bank for the local artisans. Apprenticed to a Coventry doctor at 13, Huxley was largely self-taught, a process which continued after he went to London in 1841 to study medicine at Charing Cross Hospital. (As a profession, medicine in early Victorian England had little or nothing of the scientific and social cachet it now possesses in the United States. It was a knockabout trade, whose practitioners were often social and intellectual radicals.) Perpetually in debt, Huxley kept a punishing, self-imposed schedule of study, winning academic awards (e.g., the gold medal for anatomy and physiology from University College) for his efforts--but little else.
Compelled by circumstances, Huxley joined Her Majesty's Naval Service in 1846, as an assistant surgeon, and was assigned to the HMS Rattlesnake, a surveying ship ordered to "secure Northern Australia for British settlement." In practice, Huxley's duties included collecting and dissecting marine specimens, and describing generally the flora and fauna the Rattlesnake would encounter. He made the best of the opportunity. By the time he returned to England in 1850, Huxley had published several papers on marine invertebrates, and found himself with a reputation as an up-and-coming young naturalist. Yet his professional situation was essentially unchanged:
Still he was hungry. Still he seethed about the lack of paid openings [for scientists]. Science should be a salaried meritocracy, not a dabbling ground for the foppish aristocracy. 'I am sick of writing, weary of longing. The difficulties of obtaining a decent position in England...seem to me greater than ever they were.' It was a cri de coeur ... 'To attempt to live by any scientific pursuit is a farce...A man of science may earn great distinction--great reputation--but not bread. He will get invitations to all sorts of dinners & conversaziones, but not enough income to pay his cab hire' (p. 161).
Huxley's letters to his fiancee Nettie during this period (1850-1855; she remained where he had met her, in Australia, awaiting word that he was financially secure) are a wrenching record of his struggle to make his chosen profession of science pay for itself; which at last suceeded in doing by obtaining a position in 1855 as a lecturer in the Government School of Mines.
Other appointments followed, and from there on Huxley marched to the head of the emerging professional class of "scientists," crowned (Desmond argues) by Huxley's election to the Presidency of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1870.
There Desmond ends his story, to be continued in a second volume. Huxley, increasingly influential, lived for another quarter century (d. 1895), and an active period it was. But one is grateful for the incomplete story Desmond does tell.
It bears directly on current controversies, and is filled with rich ironies of history.
In casting his support for Darwin, for instance, Huxley actually lent his pugilistic weight only to the most general view of evolution advanced by the recluse of Downe, while disagreeing with Darwin on many important details.
As Desmond repeatedly notes, it was the underlying naturalism that really mattered to Huxley:
Huxley was exuberantly endorsing the naturalism of Darwin's vision, not the fine points of his theory. Nothing was said of Darwin's infinitesimal variations, each selected for its adaptive advantage. Nor did Huxley mention that his own belief in large-scale mutations, his Ancon sheep [bred for short legs], actually negated them. Or that the Home Countries rabbits which happily overran the Australian outback belied Darwin's vaunted adaptation. Then again, until spaniels and greyhounds refused to cross he considered Darwin's analogy between domestic breeds and wild species incomplete....Huxley's bravura performance was in support of Darwin's evolutionary naturalism, not the minutiae of his mechanism. Darwin had created a new nature for new professionals (p. 262).
Huxley's dogged opposition to any place for theology (or teleological explanation) in science set him to arguing positions which, from our post- Darwinian perspective, we are more accustomed to seeing in the mouths of creationists. If Robert Chambers's anonymously published Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was a theistic account of the progressive development of living things, then, as Huxley savagely reviewed the tenth edition of the book, he would prove that organisms changed little over their fossil history, in no particular direction. Stasis, not progressive change, was the rule. In 1862, Huxley's address to the Geological Society
had nothing to do with Darwinism. Huxley did not try to trace newts and lungfish back to their common Devonian ancestor. Instead of concentrating on origins, he harped on the sharks' and crocodiles' long unchanging history. He could not shake his ten-year-old belief that the fossil record showed no progress. ...Huxley's claws risked maiming his friends. His fossil papers left not the slightest hint that he was Darwin's bulldog. In Edinburgh's museum he had found more labyrinthodonts mixed with the fish; that they were mistaken for one another should have suggested something to Darwin's right-hand man. But no. He used Anthracosaurus to show that amphibians had passed through prodigious periods unchanged. It was the greatest irony that those closest to Darwin could not give him the fossil back-up he needed... (p. 303)
As the English translator of the anti-Darwinian embryologist Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876), Huxley had learned to think of living things as falling into fundamentally distinct groups--"the vertebrates, molluscs, starfish and insects"--that could not be united in any sort of evolutionary chain, for "each [was] based on a unique archetypal plan" (p. 191). Until quite late in his friendship with Darwin, this vision of organisms persisted. As Desmond argues,
In fact Huxley did not think in terms of origins at all. Geometry, not genealogy, fascinated him: the surreal beauty of nature's secret architecture. Species were not to be explained historically, by messy mutations and supposed progression. They had to be appreciated as abstract anatomical patterns....fish, reptiles, birds and mammals were all equidistant from the abstract vertebrate type. Molluscs had their distinct sphere, as did coelenterates. And with the spheres unconnected no trilobite could illicitly jump the gap to call itself a fish (p. 223).
Desmond argues that it was the forceful impact of Ernst Haeckel's "phylogenetic" system of classification that finally converted Huxley, moving him "to connect his ancient lung-bearing Crossopterygian fish with the first labyrinthodont amphibians--in other words, to show how fish grew limbs and slithered out of the water" (p. 355). Huxley's reasons for so doing are philosophically interesting. It was "more profitable to go wrong," he argued (presumably, to go wrong means to connect as related by descent what are, in fact, unrelated forms), "than to stand still"--meaning, one supposes, to admit that the evolutionary puzzle at hand could not be solved by the available evidence.
But Huxley's diffidence about natural selection was lifelong. As he became a central figure in British science, he scrupulously separated "evolution" from "Darwinism," which he took to mean "natural selection." As the historian James Moore (co-author with Desmond of the recent biography Darwin) observes,
Natural selection was of such little consequence that in a famous essay celebrating "the coming of age of the Origin of Species," Huxley could omit even to allude to the theory. "The first thing seems to me to drive the fact of evolution into people's heads," he excused himself to Darwin; "when that is once safe, the rest will come easy."
Huxley "never fully subscribed" to natural selection, Moore notes--"although he held that its nonteleological naturalism represented 'the fundamental principles of a scientific conception of the universe.'"
That conception, and its careful protection, was the prize Huxley saw worth struggling for--and it is that intellectual heritage (now, of course, the general presumption of naturalism) in which debates about origins still occur. While Huxley viewed Comte's positivism as a sham religion--"Catholicism minus Christianity," he dubbed it--he was indeed a positivist (in our sense) in his understanding of knowledge. But what label should he wear?
What could he call himself? He was shifting power to an elite whose authority rested in right reasoning, not mythical realities. He had already dropped the 'Unknowable' as the last remnant of idolatry....he came up with 'Agnostic.' It was another pitch for his professionals. It switched the emphasis to the scientific method and its sensual limitations. Agnosticism was made for the moment....He could also lecture the clergy with clean hands. He portrayed agnosticism not as a rival 'creed,' but as a method of inquiry. The sciences, he told the Young Men's Christian Association, 'are neither Christian, nor Unchristian, but are Extra-christian', in a word, 'unsectarian' (p. 374).
Nearly any official pronouncement from nearly any scientific society in our day, on the topic of origins, will echo this theme. One must makes one's peace with naturalism, for it is the way of science (which is itself the way of knowledge). If theology has a place, Huxley argued, it was in the "deeps of man's nature," as a matter of subjective judgment. But any theology or philosophy that connected God directly to the objects of nature had been vanquished, he thought:
...Genesis, the 'old traditions', the incarnations of god, Disraeli's angels--'theology' in a word--that was a debased branch of history, amenable to test, indeed tested and found wanting. As such, science had no 'intention of signing a treaty of peace with her old opponent, nor of being content with anything short of absolute victory and uncontrolled domination over the whole realm of the intellect' (pp. 331-332).
And thus we come down to 1995, where debates are raging anew over the scope of naturalism. One wonders what Huxley would make of them, a century after his death. It is fairly certain his remarks would be sharp and to the point--but perhaps, one hopes, on the side of entertaining the possibility that naturalism had failed to fulfill its grand promise.
Desmond's biography is well worth reading. It brims with affection for its prickly subject, and his times, and throws fresh light on the emergence of naturalism as the prevailing philosophy of science in the 19th century, and in our own day.
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The centre intended for quiet reflection is due to complete in spring 2014
Designed by San Francisco-based firm Aidlin Darling Design, The Windhover Contemplative Center on the campus of Stanford University broke ground at the end of July. The project is slated for completion by next spring.
The company, recipients of the Smithsonian's 2013 National Design Award, used Nathan Oliveira's meditative Windhover paintings as inspiration to design the one-storey, 4,000 sq ft spiritual retreat to promote personal renewal. The space is intended for quiet reflection throughout the day and will provide a place of refuge from the intensity of daily life for Stanford students, faculty, and staff members.
The Center is located in front of Roble Hall, adjacent to a natural oak grove. The extended progression to the building's entry through a long, private garden sheltered from its surroundings by a line of tall bamboo, will allow visitors to shed the outside world before entering.
It will include three rooms featuring five large paintings by the late artist Nathan Oliveira. Within, the space opens fully to the oak glade beyond, while louvered skylights wash the 15 to 30 ft-long paintings with natural light, unifying art, architecture, and landscape. Thick rammed earth walls and wood surfaces will further heighten the visitor's sensory experience from an acoustic, tactile olfactory as well as visual perspective.
Benches and cushions will be strategically placed to allow members of the Stanford Community to quietly view the paintings inside, as well as the oak grove and the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden outside. The building, enclosed in glass, will allow viewing of the Oliveira paintings from the exterior as well as from within, at all hours of the day and night.
Water, in conjunction with landscape, will be used throughout as an aid for meditation; fountains within the main gallery and the courtyard will provide ambient sound, while a still pool and garden to the south reflects the surrounding trees. The Center is being designed in conjunction with Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture.


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Be kind.
That's the gist of George Saunders' advice to the class of 2013, delivered in a convocation speech at Syracuse University. While the graduation address was given months ago, thanks to a recent feature in the New York Times, it's become the speech that keeps on giving. In fact, the sage advice in Saunders' address has gone viral, spreading across the Internet on blogs, Twitter and Facebook.
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Saunders delivered the commencement address in what he called the "traditional form," which according to him is: "Some old fart, his best years behind him, who, over the course of his life, has made a series of dreadful mistakes (that would be me), gives heartfelt advice to a group of shining, energetic young people, with all of their best years ahead of them (that would be you)."
The premise of Saunders' speech was simple: Be kind to each other, which echoes Kurt Vonnegut's line from God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: "There's only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you've got to be kind." To illustrate the importance of this, Saunders told a story from his childhood about a new girl who never fit in and was teased and humiliated by the other children, until one day, she simply moved away. His inability to act more charitably toward the young girl haunts him. "What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness," Saunders said. "Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded … sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly." He continued, "It's a little facile, maybe, and certainly hard to implement, but I'd say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than: Try to be kinder."
For Saunders, it seems that when crafting an adult life, "accomplishment is unreliable," and kindness is the best legacy. "Who, in your life, do you remember most fondly, with the most undeniable feelings of warmth?" he asked. "Those who were kindest to you, I bet."
Saunders' most recent collection of stories, Tenth of December, was declared by the New York Times to be "the greatest book you'll read this year."


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Following the events of September 11, 2001, Muslims in the U.S. had reason to fear the U.S. government. Nine years on, the failure of Muslim leaders to make a concerted, united effort to expose the false account of 9/11 put forth by the U.S. government is inexcusable.
Earlier this year, the Guardian (UK) reported:
in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 the US government undertook the "preventative detention" of about 5,000 men on the basis of their birthplace and later sought a further 19,000 "voluntary interviews". Over the next year, more than 170,000 men from 24 predominantly Muslim countries and North Korea were fingerprinted and interviewed in a programme of "special registration". None of these produced a single terrorism conviction.
Muslims were hauled away by the government to places unknown. They were not informed of the charges against them, had no idea when they would be released, and were not given access to lawyers. Several Muslim charities were raided, their offices shut down, and officers imprisoned.
The Orwellian named Patriot Act had destroyed habeas corpus. U.S. District Judge John Gleeson had "ruled that it is constitutionally permissible to round up foreign nationals on immigration charges based solely on their race, religion or country of origin. What's more, he said they can be detained indefinitely, even after they have agreed to be removed to their home countries" wrote David Cole, law professor at Georgetown University.
While the George W. Bush administration was rounding up Muslims, and launching attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, Jews and Christians spoke out against associating Islam with 9/11.
Since then, while evidence against the official account of 9/11 has grown, so have attacks on Muslims and Islam.
Anti-Muslim bigots and political opportunists have rallied around opposition to the Islamic Center planned near Ground Zero — the site of the World Trade Center attacks.
Former Republican candidate for vice president Sarah Palin, candidates for 2010 elections, right-wing news media, and the Anti-defamation League (ADL) have jumped on the bandwagon.
Mosques are being vandalized, and the construction of new mosques opposed.
So why aren't Muslim "leaders" using their trump card — the false account of 9/11, to fight back?
If Muslim "leaders" were to fight back by denouncing the official account of 9/11 as patently false, they would find many Americans supporting their effort.
The number of Americans who do not believe the official account of 9/11 is increasing
Nine years on, there's overwhelming evidence that the official account of 9/11 is false, and a significant number of Americans do not believe "The 9/11 Commission Report".
These include 220 senior military, intelligence, law enforcement, and government personnel; 1200 architects and engineers; 250 pilots and aviation personnel; 400 professors; 300 survivors of 9/11; firefighters, and their numbers keep increasing.
"A poll taken by World Public Opinion, a collaborative project of research centers in various countries managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, College Park, polled 16,063 people in 17 nations outside of the United States during the summer of 2008. They found that majorities in only 9 of the 17 countries believe Al Qaeda carried out the attacks."
In November 2007 Scripps Howard survey found that 32% believed it was "very likely", and 30% believed that it was "somewhat likely" that "some people in the federal government had specific warnings of the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, but chose to ignore those warnings."
On August 30, 2004, Zogby International, an independent U.S. polling company, reported half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," according to the poll conducted by Zogby International.
On May 24, 2006, Zogby reported that 42% believe "believe the government and 9/11 Commission are covering up", and 44% "believe President Bush exploited the 9/11 attacks (44%) or justified an attack on Iraq (44%). 43% were "not aware of World Trade Center Building 7's collapse", and 45% believe the "government should reinvestigate the attacks".
There are dozens of books exposing the false account of 9/11 — books by Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, David Ray Griffin, are highly recommended to those who have the patience to digest the wealth of information he makes available.
Easier to digest is the 80-page "9/11 Unveiled" which is a free download — for sources, photos, videos, referred to in "9/11 Unveiled" go to The Wisdom Fundwebsite.
Paralyzed by fear, Muslim 'leaders' silent on 9/11
Despite the widespread skepticism voiced by non-Muslims, Muslim "leaders" remain silent about 9/11. They refuse even to examine the facts about 9/11, and silence discussion of those facts by members of their organization.
Their silence implies agreement with the official account of 9/11 — now thoroughly debunked by engineers, architects, pilots, and others.
These silent Muslim "leaders" include officials of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) — the organizations most often cited by establishment news media.
As far as we know, no Muslim "leader" who came with the Obama administration, or who has been funded by the Obama administration, or whose articles appear in establishment newspapers such as the Washington Post, has criticized the official account of 9/11.
Interfaith organizations in which Muslims participate have remained silent — the truth about 9/11 would drastically change the tone and substance of their dialogue.
There are, however, exceptions. Kevin Barrett's radio shows host outspoken critics of the official account of 9/11. Several African-American, Muslim leaders have criticized the official account.
In stark contrast with U.S. Muslim "leaders", Muslims in South Africa invited me on a 3-week, 9/11 lecture tour where they arranged radio interviews, a television interview broadcast to 20 plus countries, and for me to speak to audiences of hundreds daily in 11 cities in South Africa, and in two cities in Malawi.
A similar effort by U.S. Muslim organizations in support of the "9/11 truth" movement may have quashed, or at least diminished, the anti-Islam hysteria prevalent today.
Ground Zero Islamic Center controversy — a unique opportunity lost
The controversy over the $100 million Islamic Center being developed by the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement near "Ground Zero" in New York — now called Park51 — is a unique opportunity for Muslims to speak out on 9/11.
However, despite the repeated use of 9/11 by opponents of the Islamic Center, proponents of the Islamic Center have failed to point that there's hard evidence to refute the official account — 19 Arab hijackers led by Osama bin Laden did not carry out the attacks of 9/11.
The evidence against Bin Laden and al-Qaeda promised by then Secretary of State Colin Powell on NBC's Meet the Press, September 23, 2001, has yet to be made available to the public. The Osama bin Laden poster at the FBI website, does not claim that bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.
The Cordoba Initiative (founded 2004) last filed an IRS Form 990 in 2008 showing revenues $0, expenses $2767, and net assets of $18,255. The American Society for Muslim Advancement (founded 1998) has apparently never filed an IRS Form 990.
Officials of the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement will need millions in donations to build the center. Their position on 9/11 will most likely reflect the position of their donors.
ADAMS Center officials say they 'cannot legally provide a platform' for discussion of 9/11
The Washington DC area is home to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS); its influence extends well outside the area.
A recent exchange of emails with officials at ADAMS is an example of the pervasive fear among Muslim "leaders" to speak out, or even be seen to provide a platform for others who speak out against the official account of 9/11.
Excerpts from the first email exchange:
EM: But isn't it also our duty to stand for truth and justice even when it may involve some personal risk? Unfortunately, when it comes to the biggest issue of our time (9/11), it appears that Muslim "leaders" are unwilling to speak out. They are unwilling to even discuss the facts with fellow Muslims.
ADAMS: …the time and place to discuss 9/11 is through political dialogues like these. While Virginia Delegates have little impact on U.S. national policy, they are responsible for legislation and regulation in Virginia that can and will affect our community… If you see our duty as being involved in these issues, why are you not signing up to attend this event?
Excerpts from the second email exchange:
EM: I've been trying to get ADAMS to discuss 9/11 for quite some time, and keep hitting a brick wall. I believe that the official account of 9/11 is false. I've been told that ADAMS does not permit political discussion, and I have stopped using the ADAMS list to try to express my views on the subject.
ADAMS: Thank you for clarifying what you meant… As a 501(c)(3) organization, ADAMS can organize or implement only those kind of political discussions that are non-partisan,…programs that are patently partisan would violate our legal status. Your message makes clear your strong partisan views about 9/11. It is your right to hold and promote such views. But all religious organizations are legally obliged to remain non-partisan, and to mount political outreach events only for the education of our community…. ADAMS therefore cannot legally provide a platform to promote personal and politicized views.
Excerpts from the third email exchange:
EM: I believe ADAMS misunderstands the role of 501(c)(3) corporations. Non-partisan means not supporting a particular candidate. A 501(c)(3) corporation may hold and expound views on any issue. The Wisdom Fund is a 501(c)(3) corporation, established in 1995, . . . as examples of public expression: (1) our quarter page advertisement in the Obama inaugural issue of the Washington Times — (bottom right), enlarged; (2) letter to the president, attorney general, etc. How can ADAMS claim to lead, and not take a position on the biggest issue of this decade — 9/11?
ADAMS: I have tried to rationally explain our position; it is clear you are not open to any position but your own. I have greeted you as a brother but your responses make clear you do not reciprocate that approach. I pray that Allah (SWT) will bless and guide you to the right path, and grant you Wisdom. Please do not respond to this e-mail. I will delete any further messages from you unread.
To summarize, ADAMS invited me to attend their dialogue with "Virginia Delegates" scheduled for July 28, then they claimed that they could not "legally provide a platform" for my views on 9/11. When I informed them that a 501(c)(3) corporation may legally voice its views — it may not support a candidate for office, ADAMS terminated the discussion.
ADAMS is not alone in shying away from 9/11.
Mosques across America have similar policies. Several invitations that I received to talk on 9/11 were cancelled after they were issued and accepted — including two attended by high-ranking officials and imams from majority Muslim countries.
America's foreign policy establishment created the Islamic threat to advance its interests
On August 27, 1992, Leon T. Hadar, a former bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute, wrote in "The 'Green Peril': Creating the Islamic Fundamentalist Threat":
Now that the Cold War is becoming a memory, America's foreign policy establishment has begun searching for new enemies…. Topping the list of potential new global bogeymen, however, are the Yellow Peril, the alleged threat to American economic security emanating from East Asia, and the so-called Green Peril (green is the color of Islam)….
George Will even suggested that the 1,000-year battle between Christendom and Islam might be breaking out…
Indeed, "a new specter is haunting America, one that some Americans consider more sinister than Marxism-Leninism," according to Douglas E. Streusand….
"Islamic fundamentalism is an aggressive revolutionary movement as militant and violent as the Bolshevik, Fascist, and Nazi movements of the past," according to Amos Perlmutter.
In 1997, former National Security Advisor to President Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, wrote in "The Grand Chessboard":
A power that dominates Eurasia [the territory east of Germany and Poland, stretching all the way through Russia and China to the Pacific Ocean — including the Middle East and most of the Indian subcontinent] would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources.
The key to controlling Eurasia, said Brzezinski, is controlling the Central Asian Republics.
In the September 2000 report, Rebuilding America's Defenses, the neocon funded Project for the New American Century (PNAC) stated:
America's global leadership, and its role as the guarantor of the current great-power peace, relies upon the safety of the American homeland; the preservation of a favorable balance of power in Europe, the Middle East and surrounding energy producing region, and East Asia…
A transformation strategy that solely pursued capabilities for projecting force from the United States, for example, and sacrificed forward basing and presence, would be at odds with larger American policy goals and would trouble American allies.
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor.
9/11, many now believe, was the new Pearl Harbor, the pretext for the U.S. "war on terror", a cover for advancing perceived American interests.
In fact the "war on terror", and the search for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, have brought the U.S. economy to the brink of collapse, and has caused a massive shift of wealth from poor and middle-class Americans to the wealthiest few.
The silence of Muslim 'leaders' is inexcusable, risks driving some to violence
The 9/11 Commission investigation (November 27, 2002 — August 21, 2004) was flawed from the outset. It was set up despite strong resistance from the White House.
By March 2003, with the commission's staff barely in place, two men (Philip Zelikow, Executive Director, The 9/11 Commission, and Ernest R. May, a Harvard historian) had prepared a detailed outline, complete with "chapter headings, subheadings, and sub-subheadings" of the final report according to New York Times reporter Philip Shenon.
Zelikow served on the National Security Council under George H. W. Bush, on the George W. Bush transition team, and President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He coauthored a book with President Bush's National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice.
Zelikow controlled the 9/11 Commission's access to witnesses. Testimony that did not support the official account was excluded from "The 9/11 Commission Report".
For American Muslims, whose faith commands them to strive for social justice — "the first pillar of Islam", and to "seek knowledge even unto China", blind acceptance of the official account of 9/11 is deplorable.
For Muslim "leaders", blind acceptance of the official account of 9/11, and their failure to denounce it, is inexcusable.
The renowned Indian, poet-philosopher Allama Iqbal (1877-1938), in his famous Shikwa & Jawab-i-Shikwa (Man's Complaint and God's Answer), wrote (translated from Urdu by Indian journalist-author Khushwant Singh):
With reason as your shield and
the sword of love in your hand,
Servant of God!
the leadership of the world
is at your command."
Excluding opposing views risks driving some to express themselves in a more violent manner.


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Broncos advance to semi's with 33-0 win
by Scott Boyle
After Richfield defensive player, Levi Hobbs commented in the papers last week, "San Juan better watch out!" the San Juan Bronco football boys let the Wildcats do the watching as they made their 22nd straight quarterfinal game their tenth win of the season with a solid 33-0 victory Friday afternoon, earning a trip to the semifinals in Cedar City next Saturday.
Even though the Broncos sat idle for nearly three weeks without a game, they overcame three interceptions and early game rustiness to stifle the Wildcats and make the semis for the 15th time in those 22 seasons.
As for the Hobbs comment, Coach Monty Lee observed, "Kids will say a lot of things in a moment of excitement and I would be lying if I told you I don't use some of those things as a key motivational topic. I put more emphasis on what other coaches and adults might say so I try pretty hard to not say something stupid and give other coaches ammunition."
The Bronco defense had all the ammunition the Broncos would need, however, only allowing two Wildcat first downs the entire game, and also turning in the key play of the game.
After a Richfield interception, the Wildcats had the ball fourth and three on the Bronco six yard line early in the second quarter.
With the score still 0-0, the quick Bronco defensive line, anchored by sophomore Stetler Shumway (who is probably not only the youngest nose guard in the state but surely the smallest and nippiest) stuffed the fourth down play to give the sluggish Bronco offense the ball on their own five yard line.
Ten seconds later, however, the listlessness was gone and the Bronco rout was on when Jace Holliday sprinted around the end and dashed 95 yards untouched for the backbreaking touchdown.
Holliday showed his speed when he simply outran a swift Wildcat defensive back who had the angle on him. The Broncos later scored three more times on the ground, with Kohler Black adding two and Peyton Black one.
In between the run barrage, QB Jimmy Johnson tossed a 50 yard TD pass to Lewis Sharpe. Kohler Black added three extra point kicks.
With the win the Broncos have a 26-2 record in home playoff games. Coach Lee offered some thoughts on the game and the Bronco preparation during the long break, "We really had a couple of weeks of good practices, well as good as could be expected. We spent the first week going back to basics and not really preparing for any opponent. We just went back to Boot Camp mode.
"After we found out we were playing Richfield it wasn't difficult getting the kids focused on the game. But 17 days are waaaayyyy too many days to try and stay sharp; I think it showed in the first quarter. Richfield did a great job frustrating the kids and we were lucky to make a couple of plays that lit a fire under us.
"There wasn't a single practice, after finding out who we played, that we talked or even discussed any team but Richfield. We have been around the block enough times to know not to overlook any team, especially as good a team as Richfield. They had just beaten a quality team in South Summit.
"I think the top four teams in the state are still playing and we are simply honored to be one of those teams. Manti is a quality program. We have locked horns several times and have loved every encounter. I promise that next week will be no different.
"People that love football will come away from this game entertained and will appreciate the true spirit of high school football. I promise you will get your monies worth!"
The Broncos haven't matched up against the Templars since 2005 and only 14 times total, but have come out on top in 10 of those games. In playoff games against Manti, the Broncos have prevailed five of seven times. They have met in the semis twice, with San Juan winning both, the last meeting in 2005.
Buckaroo football
The Buckaroo football season ended in Salina on Friday, after a palindromistic 41-14 loss to the North Sevier Wolves.
The Bucks fought to the end, scoring a second touchdown as the game was drawing to a conclusion, like they have so many times this season. They never gave up, but in the end, North Sevier's power, size, and numbers proved too much for the Bucks. The Bucks end the season with a 3-6 record. Time to hit the weight room boys!
Chain Gang
Part of the chain gang at the San Juan/Richfield quarterfinal game heartwarmingly included Eric and Cory Acton, sons of former long time San Juan chain ganger, the late Kim Acton. That put a smile on my face.
See photos from the game here
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Historic Market Street 1906
I have seen parts of this film before, not restored and not full length. Last night on 60 Minutes we were treated to the restored researched "A Trip Down Market Street." Shot days before the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 we are transported to another time and permitted to watch the residents of 1906 San Francisco going about their daily lives.
I loved the one second glimpse of a woman negotiating the long skirts of the day as she catches a trolley car. She makes it look easy.
We see the dare devil traffic and the looks on the faces of those who at that moment realize they are being filmed. The end of the film shows a group of young newspaper boys who gather on the tracks to wave and mug for the camera. My favorite scene.
The mystery always has been who shot the film and when. Who were those carefree filmmakers and how did the film survive?
The Library of Congress had dated the film September 1905. Using the tools of any good historian or genealogist, California archivist David Kiehn vowed to solve the mystery. He researched the newly restored film for license plates and weather reports chasing the date into April 1906. Kiehn describes himself as having an incurable curiosity and a love for silent films. Add to that dogged determination.
Then Kiehn found The New York Clipper newspaper articles advertising "A Trip Down Market Street" by the Miles Brothers. The film was made one week before the destruction of every building shown in the film. One of those buildings was the office of the Miles brothers. The film makers had the good fortune to send the film by rail to New York the night before the quake.
I watched the film again. This time with the benefit of Kiehn's research. Now I know what is merely days away. Now I know the sad reality that many of the film's faces probably did not survive the quake and resulting fire.
What struck me was not that these smiling people didn't know what was about to happen to them, but rather that I did. And I am a hundred years too late.