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Football's Costly Turnovers
College coaches often have the biggest houses in town—and they need to move frequently. The result? Plenty on the market for the buyer who wants a home with a putting green, wet bar and stuffed alligator head.
When Urban Meyer quit as head football coach of the University of Florida in 2010, he left behind more than his two championship trophies: He and his wife, Shelley, are still trying to sell their six-bedroom, 5½-bathroom, 6,800-square-foot home in Gainesville, Fla.
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Listed for $1.7 million in February, the house comes with some unique features—and some unique selling challenges. There's a sand volleyball court out back, and what Mrs. Meyer calls a "ginormous" family room, built to accommodate a full house of extra-large players. Because Coach Meyer, now at Ohio State University in Columbus, still has ardent local fans, real-estate agents have to screen potential buyers to filter out overzealous gawkers.
The biggest challenge: selling a $1.7 million house in Gainesville, where the average home sells for about $149,000. No homes over $1 million have sold so far there this year, according to real-estate research firm RealtyTrac.
Among the stats racked up by college-football coaches over their careers are numerous homes bought and sold. Sometimes they move to take a better job at a bigger program. Other times, they're sacked after a disappointing season. In a sport where the average tenure of a head coach is 5.1 years, many real-estate transactions occur unexpectedly and at the last minute.
"If you win, you move, and if you lose, you move," says Terry Saban, wife of Nick Saban, head coach of No. 1-ranked Alabama. "You like to be positive and have faith, but you can't help but think about the next move." (Ms. Saban says Alabama is their "last stop.")
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Making the process harder is the fact that college coaches tend to have big homes—often the biggest in their college towns. The head coach's house is a campus attraction, used to entertain players, recruits, alumni and boosters. That means swimming pools, putting greens, basketball courts, rec rooms, home theaters and large wet bars.
When Rich Rodriguez and his wife, Rita, moved to an 8,500-square-foot, five-bedroom home in Saline, Mich., where they lived when Mr. Rodriguez was head coach at the University of Michigan, they had to make sure the rocks next to the swimming pool could hold the weight of football players. "If there are rocks, they'll jump off them," Mrs. Rodriguez says.
They listed the Saline home after Mr. Rodriguez was named head coach at the University of Arizona. It took about nine months to close at $1.3 million, about $200,000 less than they bought it for in 2007. Mrs. Rodriguez says she looks at the loss as part of the cost of having a house meant for entertaining. "You want to be able to feel you've done everything you can do to make the program successful," she says. They now live in a 8,900-square-foot home in Tucson, Ariz.
After former Arkansas Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino was fired in April, he took a $550,000 loss on his Fayetteville, Ark., home. The 8,740-square-foot house, with six bedrooms, six full bathrooms, a bar, a wine cellar, a butler's pantry, an outdoor kitchen, a putting green and a batting cage, all on 2 acres, went for $1.7 million in June.
Recently fired University of Illinois head coach Ron Zook has a 6,000-square-foot house he is trying to sell in Champaign, Ill. With five bedrooms and five walk-in closets (so recruits and their parents would be comfortable when staying overnight), the house has an oversize wet bar and entertainment center with plush theater seating. The home has been on the market for seven months, its price reduced $26,000 to $799,000. Mr. Zook's house also features Florida Gators memorabilia: a large, stuffed alligator head. He hasn't been the coach at the University of Florida since he was fired in 2004, but the taxidermy trophy head sits in the office of the Champaign home.
Mr. Zook and his wife, Denise, have built 13 homes in their 31-year marriage, moving every two or three years over the course of his career. But, he says, "as a coach, you want a place you can call home. You buy or build a house with resale in mind, but it still has to be home." He's now working for CBS Sports and living in a house he built in Lake Weir, Fla.
While Mrs. Meyer says she prefers to buy, not build, she wasn't able to find a place in Gainesville appropriate for all the entertaining they do, one with an open floor plan and enough space inside and out. She also wanted to be in a gated community to ward off fans who like to drive by and scream into their security box. The house took a year to complete.
At one point the online real-estate photos of the Meyers's house showed a room with a large turquoise-and-orange Gators rug. That's gone now, moved with the Urbans to the house they recently bought in Columbus, Ohio. "We can't put it out because it would make all the Buckeye fans mad," Mrs. Meyer says.
A coach's house on the market can fuel speculation he's on his way out. That's what happened when Cal coach Jeff Tedford's 2-acre, 8,900-square-foot estate—with a game room, a home theater, a wine-tasting room and a basketball court done up in UC Berkeley colors—was listed for $5.4 million last month. Mr. Tedford, who has been the head coach at Cal for a decade, had actually tried to sell the house in 2010: It sat on the market for a year at the same price before he took it off the market.
Nick and Terry Saban are trying to sell a spec house they built in Lake Burton, Ga. They intended to use the lot for their family, but changed their minds after a different lot became available. Priced at $10.95 million, it is 10,000 square feet, with six bedrooms and nine baths. Its massive grand room has a 24-foot vaulted ceiling. The wine cellar features antique gates from Barcelona; elsewhere there is a European-style pub, a billiards room, a home office, formal and professional kitchens, staff quarters and a four-car garage. There is also a boat house with a deck and a swimming dock.
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Real-estate agents say there is a narrow band of prospective buyers for these highly customized houses: a middle-age or older couple with extended families who like to visit, or high-level executives who entertain a lot.
JoAnn Barrett, the agent in Ann Arbor, Mich., who sold Mr. Rodriguez's house, took photos strategically to avoid showing too much sports memorabilia. And she asked her clients to get rid of the especially big furniture, since "big furniture makes houses look smaller."
There is a reason the furniture is so big. It's "perfect for recruits and players to come out," explains Houston Nutt, who was head coach at the University of Mississippi until last year. He currently has two Oxford, Miss., homes on the market: One where he and his wife live (a five-bedroom, 6½-bathroom home on 30 acres with an in-ground pool and a waterfall), priced at $1.6 million; and, next door, a lodge-style house where his kids lived on nearly 136 acres with a barn for their nine horses that is for sale for $1.3 million. Both properties are on a 45-acre lake.
Hugh Freeze, who just became head coach at Ole Miss, says he has one piece of advice: rent. Not that he's following his own advice. Though he and his wife, Jill, did rent at their last stop—two years at Arkansas—they just bought a new house in Oxford. It isn't too far from the "dream house" they built the first time they were in Oxford, when he was an assistant coach from 2005 to 2007, and which took them nine months to sell when they left. His new house is on a lake a little out of town: the perfect place to retire.
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College coaches who have recently listed or sold their homes
1.Urban Meyer
Gainesville, Fla.
$1.7 million
The 6,800-square-foot, custom-built home has an open floor plan; it's located in a gated community on a 2-acre lot. The home has six bedrooms, 5½ bathrooms, a sand volleyball court, a wet bar and a swimming pool.
2. Nick Saban
Lake Burton, Ga.
$10.95 million
The 10,000-square-foot home, with six bedrooms and nine bathrooms, has a massive grand room with a 24-foot vaulted ceiling. Other features include a European-style custom-built pub, a billiards room and a boat house with a swimming dock.
3. Bobby Petrino
Fayetteville, Ark.
$1.7 million
Sold in June, this 8,740-square-foot house has six bedrooms and six full bathrooms. For entertaining, there's a bar, wine cellar, butler's pantry and outdoor kitchen. A putting green and batting cage are also included with the 2-acre property
4. Rich Rodriguez
Saline, Mich.
$1.3 million
It took about nine months to close on the 8,500- square-foot house. It has five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a three-car garage. Before moving in, the couple made sure that rocks by the pool could support the weight of a football player.
5. Ron Zook
Champaign, Ill.
The custom-built 6,000-square-foot house has five bedrooms and five walk-in closets (so recruits and their parents would be comfortable when staying overnight). There's an oversize wet bar and entertainment center with plush theater seating.
6. Jeff Tedford
Danville, Calif.
$5.4 million
The 8,900-square-foot house has five bedrooms and six bathrooms (two partial). The home sits on 2 acres and features a game room, home theater and wine-tasting room. First listed in 2010 but didn't sell. Relisted in September.
7. Houston Nutt
Oxford, Miss.
$1.6 million and $1.3 million
Mr. Nutt and his wife live in a five-bedroom, 6½- bathroom home on 30 acres. Next door, a lodgestyle house is where their kids lived; game room shown above. It sits on nearly 136 acres with a barn for their horses. Both homes are on a 45-acre lake. Online>> See more photos of coaches' homes at at WSJ.com/Mansion. T


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The Obama and Romney campaigns are exploiting one of the oldest strains in American politics: our love-hate relationship with the wealthy. The mythology suggests we love the rich because they represent the promise of meritocracy: hard work can bring wealth and success to anyone. But we hate the rich because we suspect they exploited the system to fatten their bank accounts, and surely at the expense of someone else's job or livelihood.
Obama's strategists decided last year to use Romney's stewardship of Bain Capital, his private equity firm, against him. Clever, because Romney says his greatest qualification to be president is not his tenure governing liberal Massachusetts but his experience running a large investment firm. The basic charge: many of the businesses Bain Capital purchased and restructured under Romney's leadership eliminated jobs for Americans and "outsourced" them overseas.
Obama's own record on job creation has been weak: he made healthcare reform his legislative priority instead. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled the law constitutional, healthcare for nearly all Americans will surely rank among the most significant achievements of his presidency. Attacking Romney for killing American jobs, arguably also Obama's weak spot, feels a bit defensive.
But it's not just Obama who is vulnerable on jobs. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, the party's congressional leaders, and all of its major Wall Street donors understand that capital naturally seeks optimal conditions—low wages for example—national borders be damned. Globalization means that America's industrial, tech and service sector jobs now flourish around the world, even if profits are repatriated to the United States. Financial deregulation, free trade agreements, shrinking public investments, regressive taxes, a blind eye to major flaws in corporate and banking governance: the Democratic party helped perpetuate or legislate these decades-long trends, many of which underlie the loss of good jobs for Americans.
Love it or hate it, capitalism in the United States is a bipartisan affair. Democrats run, restructure, and reap the rewards of private equity firms too. But the two parties are not equal when it comes to some fundamentals. Today's Republican party has a much higher tolerance for inequality, arguing that the private accumulation of wealth is ultimately a public, even social good. Romney attacks government and public spending—universal healthcare, even though he has presided over both in the past, primarily because his base otherwise won't vote for him.
The Bain Capital drama is getting boring. Instead, Obama should explain to all voters that the only way to renew our meritocracy is a modern approach to our historic bipartisan strength. With tax revenue generated from capitalist wealth, we invested in fundamentals of a strong society: jobs, health, education, environment, science, art, transportation, defense. Romney will be hard pressed for evidence that the private sector alone can accomplish as much. And he knows it.

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Kurtzer to discuss Iran-Israel-U.S. relationship
Posted April 1, 2009; 06:22 p.m.
Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt and a visiting professor at Princeton, will speak on "Iran, Israel and the U.S.: Dissecting the Triangular Relationship" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 6, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Kurtzer is the S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor in Middle East Policy Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He came to Princeton in 2006 after serving as U.S. ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005 and ambassador to Egypt from 1997 to 2001.
Kurtzer is the co-author (with Scott Lasensky) of "Negotiating Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East." As ambassador, he contributed significantly to peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians and played an integral role in building relations between the United States and Israel and Egypt. Prior to his diplomatic service, Kurtzer served in numerous policymaking positions within the U.S. government.
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Interview with Harry Reid...
Interview with Harry Reid...
Pretty "incredulous" eh?
I keep waiting for Jeff and the other libs to give us the 'complete' story...the entire truth...how Harry had words put in his mouth by Bush.
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Harry Reid is an idiot that represents the idiots that voted for him!
Yes, you can opt not to pay your Fed taxes, much like many of the Dems Cabinet appointments. Doesn't mean the IRS won't come after you though!
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
Our tax system is unusual in that it assumes that each person will be honest and that each person will ultimately "declare" their own calculation of tax liability. The actual rate of audits is tiny. This is very different from the system in most other countries such as, among others, Italy or Taiwan where the government calculates your tax liability, or even our own property tax system where the government sends you a tax bill and their calculation stands unless you can get it overturned.
However, Reid's response had nothing to do with the question he was asked (I am assuming this since it appeared that the question was edited and filmed at a different time from the rest of the interview.) and by repeatedly calling our tax system "voluntary" Reid just looked stupid. For that matter, I suspect he would agree if he watched the same film.
Jeff Goodwin
They will send men with guns to convince you to voluntarily pay your taxes. ; ).
Ahhh...I KNEW you'd have the answer. And WE are under a conspiratorial cloud???
Here's another one for you to critique, Jeff. It was written shortly after the "landslide" victory you libs enjoy belabor us about. No doubt a piece of fiction eh?
(confirmation, Google " London Daily Mail Obama's Victory")..........
Obama's Victory--A British view
A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups.
A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth.
Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history,
rabble-raising over reality.
A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon.
Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.
Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.
Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.
A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.
A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.
Congratulations America ! Your funeral will be sooner than you think!
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With the expectation of victory and a first Auckland SS soccer premier title hanging over them, Sacred Heart faced a must-win home game against Takapuna Grammar School in the last round.
Fully aware a win would end the title hopes of their only challengers, WBHS and St Kentigern, Sacred Heart, with a number of players in their last year at school, were determined to show why they are the reigning national champions.
It was not easy but once Peter Jones nodded home a Michael Durkin cross to break the deadlock on half an hour, the nerves settled and when Dylan De Jong added a second, from Joe Junge's header across the goal from a corner, the celebrations began.
TGS, doomed to relegation unless they could win, battled bravely and late in the spell broke deep and from a collision in the Sacred Heart goal claimed a penalty but found no favour from the referee.
The visitors battled on but the fight was quickly drained from them when Jones added his second for a 3-0 lead three minutes into the second spell.
Captain Durkin, in his 100th 1st XI game and last on home soil, tried to cap it with a goal but in the end was content to set up Jones for his hat-trick as the victory was completed in style.
Elsewhere perennial front-runners MAGS and AGS ended their seasons with a 2-1 home win over KBHS and a 1-1 home draw with Rangitoto respectively. MAGS finished fourth and AGS sixth after their most disappointing efforts in recent years. Both will, however, line up at the Lotto Sports premier tournament in Nelson during next week's winter tournament week. They will again be the teams to watch although Sacred Heart will be the one to beat as they attempt to defend their coveted crown.
In other last-day local action, St Peter's bounced back to the premier league in style, beating second-placed Rosmini 6-1 to claim the senior A1 title by 13 points.
Led by captain Nathaniel Hailemarian, St Peter's played quality football throughout the season, winning 13 of their 14 league matches, scoring a remarkable 69 goals and conceding just 14 in the process.
Hailemarian was well backed by David Browne in the goal-scoring department while vice-captain Daniel Menzies directed play superbly in midfield.
Their winning points margin could be reduced by one today should Liston beat Glendowie in their outstanding game which could also have a bearing on the final placings and with it promotion. The other game in that mix, between King's and Glendowie, will be played on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Westlake BHS will be represented in all three matches on Knockout Cup finals day next month.
The North Shore school will be out in force at Bill McKinlay Park on September 15 from 10am when they will play Sacred Heart in the 13th grade final.
Two hours later WBHS will square-off against Macleans in the 15th grade showpiece while at 2pm they will tackle a MAGS side determined to salvage something from what has been a disappointing premier league season.
Living up to all expectations and with a win each in round-robin play, neighbours Westlake BHS and Rosmini squared off at Carmel College for the premier boy's title.
In the end WBHS edged ahead in the final quarter to win 90-79 but not without a fight in front of 400 screaming fans.
Westlake's Jaylen Gerrand set the scene, potting three three-pointers in the first quarter to help his team to a 25-18 quarter-time lead. Rosmini competed strongly, led by their captain Matthew Lacey and Derone Raukawa, who led all scorers with a game-high 31 points.
However, Westlake, led by Tall Black and match MVP Tai Webster, were able to repel Rosmini's attack and hold on to their first-quarter lead throughout the match. Another clutch of three-pointers in the final quarter by Gerrand got Westlake home.
The other Greater Auckland Championships were decided at Trust Stadium, where Rangitoto College showed their depth with teams in all grade finals.
In the under-15 boys Rangitoto took an 11-5 first-quarter lead but Auckland Grammar slowly clawed them back and with a buzzer-beating shot from halfway by captain Ken Smith the teams were level going into the last quarter.
The game was eventually decided in extra time with AGS slotting the match-winning two points.
It was never close in the under-15 girls with WGHS, led by Tera Reed who top scored with 19 points, beating Rangitoto 63-23.
The under-17 boys final was played earlier in the week between WBHS and Rangitoto, with Westlake 51-44 victors.
In the girls final Rangitoto proved too strong for Henderson High with captain Casey McFadden leading them to a 35-25 win.
Rangitoto's open grade boys, keen to rejoin their girls in the premiers, came out firing against Glendowie College and raced to a 22-1 quarter-time lead which they never relinquished. A young team, Rangitoto showed they will be a team to watch out for in the premiers over the next few years as they completed their 56-33 victory.
The open girls grade final between Baradene and Massey was won 28-19 by Baradene, who sealed a place in next season's premier grade.
St Kentigern, already crowned rugby champions, have the chance to add another title to their 2012 haul when their boys line up in today's grade one final against WBHS at the North Harbour Hockey Stadium.
The winners of the Auckland title, St Kentigern go into the inter-city final for the first time after beating King's 1-0 in last week's semifinal. St Kentigern prevailed by the same margin over defending Rankin Cup-holders King's in the Auckland final in claiming that title for the first time since 1988.
St Kentigern's only loss this season came in pool play of the inter-city when they fell to WBHS.
In all matches this season St Kentigern, led by goal-grabbers Sam Jimmieson, Craig Kamins, Richmond Lum and Lorenz Bartsch, have scored 62 goals and conceded just seven.
In the girls final tomorrow, Rangitoto, 4-2 winners over Diocesan, will play St Cuthbert's, who needed a penalty stroke victory over a plucky Carmel to win through.
Reaching the final has capped a good developmental year for Rangitoto and their relatively young team led by captains Summer Notredame and Alex Pirie.
Up against it, they still managed to finish second in the North Harbour grade one competition and carried that good form into the inter-city where they came away with a win and a loss to keep their hopes alive.
At the business end of the season they showed they were ready and took that determination into the semifinal, intent on reversing an earlier loss to Diocesan, and duly delivered to book their place in tomorrow's final and another clash with St Cuthbert's.
One-shot wins were the order of the day after some close contests in the Auckland inter-school semifinals at the Remuera BC.
Tied at one game all, the match between Papatoetoe High and St Peter's College was decided in the A pairs' battle. Playing the last end Papatoetoe led 12 shots to eight but with St Peter's holding four shots with only the last bowl to be played. The Papatoetoe skip calmly drew third shot for a 12-11 win.
The clash between Auckland Grammar and Dilworth was also tight. Playing the last end scores were locked 8-8 before a feeler gauge measure gave AGS shot and a 9-8 victory.
North Harbour: Talk about home advantage. On a day when the curtain came down on the season with the playing of the grade finals, all teams playing at home grabbed the spoils.
A big crowd turned out at the Domain and Oval grounds to watch Birkenhead College pip Orewa College 19-17 in the final minutes. In the coveted 5th grade final Rosmini A beat Massey Gold 20-12.
Orewa dominated for large periods of the 1B final but could not score in the final quarter to put the game beyond Birkenhead's reach. Birkenhead broke out late in the game to score a great try to level the scores 17-17. The conversion was kicked and Birkenhead carried the day to claim the 1B shield. Birkenhead and Orewa are now promoted to next season's 1A 1st XV grade.
Rosmini had dominated the 5A grade all season and put in a strong performance against Massey Gold to convincingly take the 5A championship.
In the other A grade finals Westlake 4th XV defeated Massey 3rd XV in the Open C Pool A final 32-24, Rosmini A edged Westlake A 14-7 in the 4A final, Rosmini A kicked their way to a 15-13 victory over Westlake A in the 6A final and unbeaten Westlake A comfortably defeated Rosmini A 27-0 in the 7A final.
Waikato: Hamilton BHS outclassed Rotorua BHS 38-17 in the Chiefs region NZSS semifinal after leading 15-3 at halftime with the home side outscoring the visitors five tries to two.
Top performances from big prop Wade McLean-Te Huia, No 8 Tallis Karaitiana and rangy lock Apisai Tauyvacua ensured HBHS dominated the forwards contest from the start, ensuring their side obtained plenty of quick, quality possession. Tauyvacua, in particular, won much ball at the lineouts, as well as scoring two fine tries with his determined running with ball in hand.
Hamilton's solid second-five, Hohepa Gibb, frequently breached the Rotorua defensive lines, while fullback Te Raina Richards-Coxhead also ran sharply, as well as nailing the goalkicks that mattered.
Hamilton now play Wesley College away on Saturday in the final of the Chiefs region playoffs with the winner proceeding to the National Top Four playoffs.


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Piazza: social networking for courses
Professors in several departments at BU (including Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering) often use the free social discussion tool Piazza in their courses. Piazza is free, and allows threaded discussions to happen in a user-friendly way. Students in these courses are encouraged to post their course-related questions on Piazza, significantly reducing emails that are directed to the course staff. Questions posted on Piazza are then answered by the course staff, or, in many cases, by other students. Questions posed in these courses have ranged from logistical issues ("Which lab are we doing this week?") to conceptual issues from students grappling with the material ("I tried solving problem 3 this way, but it didn't work – can someone point me in the right direction?") The latter are particularly good at drawing multiple students into the discussion.
Piazza can help you keep on top of what's going on in your course, while at the same time reducing the amount of time you spend responding to students over email. Piazza posts can be read on the web site, whose features make it easy to see which posts need an instructor's attention. They can also be viewed and responded to through the Piazza app on your favorite mobile device. You can also choose to get updates from Piazza via email. BU IS&T does not offer support for Piazza, but it is an interesting option for professors who feel comfortable exploring free online teaching tools.


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Journal Journal: Holy Cow Apple are Total Fucks 6
So I'm playing with this antique iMac because whee shit and I'm trying to download the 1GB developer tools DMG and Apple sure makes it a gigantic pain in the arsehole, don't they? You can't just download the URL with wget without rigamarole which I haven't gone through yet. I can't actually load the site in Safari at all because of some kind of https error. And my download just failed somehow in the last seconds, which means I get to download it all over again. And then it may fail again. Other downloads are working fine, it's just Apple that's incompetent here somehow.
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The sixth annual NCTE Media Literacy Award will be presented at the NCTE Annual Convention in Chicago. Previous award winners are profiled at the following site:http://www.frankwbaker.com/ncte_assembly_of_media_literacy_award.
Deadline for application for the 2011 award is Thursday, June 30th, 2011. The award winner will be notified by the end of August and will receive a plaque along with a cash award.
A resolution passed by the members at the 2003 San Francisco Convention on Composing with Non-Print Media, made the creation of this award especially timely. The resolution recommended the encouragement of preservice, inservice, and staff development programs that focus on new literacies, multi-media composition and a broadened concept of literacy. The award showcases NCTE members who have developed innovative approaches for integrating media analysis and composition into their instruction.
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Can you find the number of miles of cable it took to build the bridge? Speed limit on the bridge? Alcatraz?
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This picture inspired me to travel to San Francisco and take my own Gigapan picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. I took my picture from the same spot as Randy took his. Check out my picture to see the changes seven years makes. www.gigapan.com/gigapans/137042 Thanks Randy for the inspiration!
Lots of things to discover! Nice spot. Please check mine, it was taken in Beirut, Lebanon: gigapan.org/gigapans/67894/
The real "Golden Gate" is the strait that the bridge spans. It was first named "Chrysopylae," meaning "golden gate," by Captain John C. Fremont in 1846. The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest span in the world from its completion in 1937 until the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was built in New York in 1964. Golden Gate Bridge facts to illustrate its size: 1) Total length: Including approaches, 1.7 miles (8,981 feet or 2,737 m). 2) Middle span: 4,200 feet (1,966 m). 3) Width: 90 feet (27 m). 4) Clearance above the high water (average): 220 feet (67 m). 5)Total weight when built: 894,500 tons (811,500,000 kg). 6) Total weight today: 887,000 tons (804,700,000 kg). Weight reduced because of new decking material. 7) Towers: o 746 feet (227 m) above the water o 500 feet (152 m) above the roadway o Each leg is 33 x 54 feet (10 x 16 m) o Towers weigh 44,000 tons each (40,200,000 kg). o There are about 600,000 rivets in EACH tower. it is nice pieces to capture in camera www.northamericavoyage.com/the-gol den-gate-bridge.html .
This Gigapixel picture is amazing! Everyone should see this picture from Gigapan. Thanks Randy. I appreciate it. I would like to add the history of Golden gate brige to see. The Golden Gate Bridge construction began on January 5, 1933. The project cost more than $35 million. Strauss was chief engineer in charge of overall design and construction of the bridge project. Strauss remained head of the project, overseeing day-to-day construction and making some groundbreaking contributions. The bridge has approximately 1,200,000 total rivets. The weight of the roadway is hung off of two cables that pass through the two main towers and are fixed in concrete at each end. Each cable is made of 27,572 strands of wire. There are 80,000 miles (129,000 km) of wire in each of the two main cables;[22] the total is sufficient to go around the world roughly 6 times. The project was finished by April 1937, $1.3 million under budget. The bridge-opening celebration began on 27 May 1937 and lasted for one week. The day before vehicle traffic was allowed, 200,000 people crossed by foot and roller skate.[4] On opening day, Mayor Angelo Rossi and other officials rode the ferry to Marin, then crossed the bridge in a motorcade past three ceremonial "barriers," the last a blockade of beauty queens who required Joseph Strauss to present the bridge to the Highway District before allowing him to pass. An official song, "There's a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate," was chosen to commemorate the event. Strauss wrote a poem that is now on the Golden Gate Bridge entitled "The Mighty Task is Done." The next day, President Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington, DC signaling the official start of vehicle traffic over the Bridge at noon. When the celebration got out of hand, the SFPD had a small riot in the uptown Polk Gulch area. Weeks of civil and cultural activities called "the Fiesta" followed. A statue of Strauss was moved in 1955 to a site near the bridge. athma-pure.blogspot.com /
Yes I can, 80,000 miles of cable, 45 mph, and yes I see Alcatraz. Can you find Waldo???????
I love these types of gigapans! I really enjoy finding the double (or even triple) exposures of people as they travel. For instance, pink jacket lady is in the far right area coming out of the building but she is also in the far left area....
Very nice
Actually this was taken by Randy using a Gigapan camera, and so the ghosting is happening precisely because each picture is taken at a different time, and so something can be partially in one frame, but the rest of it can be gone from the adjacent frame by the time that next, adjacent image is snapped. The stitcher (that Randy wrote!) then does a nice job of blending and lining things up anyway; but the partial objects are, in effect, in "motion" during the Gigapan acquisition process.
It will be really useful to have the author post technical details about this panorama. It would help identify the source of many errors like ghost humans and partially visible objects.
This picture is very humorous with all it's partially visible humans and objects.
Wow, your placement in Google Earth is almost uncanny!
I remember Randy said it was windy when he took this picture. There are clues about that! Flag...


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Orchestra to feature concerto competition winners
Posted February 25, 2013; 01:36 p.m.
The Princeton University Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Pratt, will feature three of the four co-winners of its 2013 concerto competition in performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 8-9, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
Senior Jeff Li will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15; sophomore Louisa Slosar will perform Vivaldi's Bassoon Concerto in E minor; and freshman Paul von Autenried will perform Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor. In the fall, the fourth co-winner, junior Nicolas Apter-Vidler, will perform Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18-19, with the orchestra. This is the first year in which there have been four winners, one from each class.
All of the pieces in this year's competition were restricted to the repertory of the years pre-1800.
Michael Pratt, conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra and director of the Program in Musical Performance, called the concert featuring the winners of the competition one of the highlights of the season. "These brilliant students always amaze our audiences, playing at a dazzling level. That they do is all the more astounding considering that they are maintaining a demanding academic load as well," he said.
The program will also include Wagner's Preludes to Acts I and III: Liebestod, from "Tristan und Isolde." "Wagner's 'Tristan' is arguably the most passionate music ever written and will be played with the white-hot intensity of first love by Princeton's amazing young orchestra," Pratt said.
Apter-Vidler, violin, is majoring in psychology and is completing a certificate in European cultural studies. In his senior year of high school, he attended the pre-college program at Mannes College The New School for Music in New York and served as concertmaster. As a winner of a Young Artists competition, Apter-Vidler performed in a piano trio at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2010. He has also performed in Paris as a member of the Juenes Virtuoses de New York, a nonprofit chamber orchestra organized by Arik Braude.
Li, piano, is majoring in economics and completing a certificate in musical performance. He has been a member of the orchestra for four years and opened for internationally renowned violinist Julia Fischer in concert at Princeton in 2012. He has performed in Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Li has been awarded prizes at the Renee B. Fisher Piano competition, the Musical Club of Hartford Competition, the Hartford Symphony Concerto Competition and the Bacardi-Fallon Performing Arts Scholarship Competition.
Slosar, bassoon, plans to major in psychology and is pursuing certificates in musical performance, neuroscience and applications of computing. She is a member of the orchestra and the Princeton University Chamber Ensemble. This semester, Slosar is playing in a woodwind quintet as part of a music course. She has performed twice as a guest soloist with the Lexington Symphony Orchestra. Other appearances include the Massachusetts All-State Orchestra 2008-11, the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and the Central European Youth Orchestra, among others.
Von Autenried, piano, plans to major in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and pursue certificates in musical performance and values and public life. He has been playing piano since age 4. He has had solo concerto appearances with the Shanghai Chamber Musicians Orchestra and the Manalapan Battleground Symphony, among others. Von Autenried has won numerous performance competitions. He is a member of the Princeton University Glee Club and recently founded the Princeton Pianists Ensemble, which is dedicated to multi-hand and multi-keyboard piano music.
Tickets to the concerts are $15 general and $5 students. Call University Ticketing at 609-258-9220 or visit online. Tickets are also available at Richardson Auditorium two hours prior to each performance.


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SAN DIMAS, Calif. — Tadd E. Sutton, 59, of San Dimas, Calif., passed away Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013.
He was born Sept. 20, 1953, in Princeton. He graduated from Princeton High School and received his bachelor's degree in Christian education and systems analysis from Taylor University in Indiana.
He spent the next 30 years serving the poor, addicted and marginalized as a development officer with missions and other charitable organizations.
Surviving are his wife, Marcy of San Dimas, Calif.; one son, Travis of San Dimas, Calif.; one daughter, Sierra of San Dimas, Calif.; two nephews, Robert and Jim Barnes; his stepmother, Betty; one stepsister, Marilyn Slater; and one stepbrother, Robert Kapraun.
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By Kedrick Storey/Southern Sentinel
PINE GROVE – For 11 consecutive years, the Ripley Tigers had a vice-grip on the Tippah County Tournament. But not any more.
Saturday, the Blue Mountain Cougars got 26 points each from guards Jacob Girley and Ismael Ruedas to upend the Tigers 72-66 and claim their first Tippah County Tournament title since 2000.
"You teach and preach to your players that you can play with anybody – and in years past I didn't know if we could, but I knew we could this year," said Blue Mountain coach David Mason. "I've never been prouder of our basketball team. My boys wanted it tonight."
Blue Mountain (15-2) led by as many as 13 points, 61-48, midway through fourth quarter on a runner by Girley. Ripley battled back with a 14-4 run to get within 65-62 on Brit Lindley's 3-pointer. Two Jamar Rutherford free throws cut the lead to 66-64 with 1:16 to play.
Blue Mountain missed several free throw attempts, but Ripley was unable to get key baskets. The Cougars got a bucket and a pair of free throws from Girley and two more free throws from Ruedas in the final 20 seconds to seal the win.
"I was playing for my mom," said Girley, who lost his mother, Evia, suddenly last August.
"The only thing she wanted us to do was to beat Ripley and win Tippah County Tournament. It feels good and I know she's jumping around up there."
Blue Mountain led 16-15 after the opening quarter, but pushed the lead to 34-29 by halftime.
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Ripley (13-4) played without leading scorer Malik Pearson, who tweeked a knee injury in Friday's win over Falkner. The Tigers were led by Isaiah Howard with 17 points and Ralph Green's 16 points, including a putback dunk to tie the game in the first quarter.
Canaan Ratliff scored nine points in the third to give Ripley a 42-39 lead, but a Ruedas 3-pointer tied the game. Ripley never led again.
Ratliff finished with 16.
(G) Ripley 73, Pine Grove 39: The Lady Tigers (12-40 got 21 points from Jayla Chills, 11 from Matavia Cox and 10 from Daisha Colom to win their fifth consecutive girls' title. Bryana Davis had a game-high 22 for Pine Grove (12-6).


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Israeli historian to speak on post-Zionism, April 11
Posted April 4, 2002; 05:49 p.m.
historian and journalist Tom Segev will deliver the 24th Carolyn Drucker '80 Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in 302 Frist Campus Center. His lecture is entitled "Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel."
Segev is known for his several histories of Israel: "1949: The First Israelis" (1986); "The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust" (1993), and "One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate" (2001). He is acknowledged as a major voice among Israel's so-called "new historians." His most recent work, "Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel," will be published in May.
This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Jewish Studies .
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Cycled or Not?
I've read all the cycling information. I had plain dechlorinated water in the tank for several weeks. No live plants or anything. Plenty of aeration. I bought Dr. Tim's Ammonium Chloride and followed directions. After a couple of times adding every few days I finally got an ammonia reading around 1.0. Meantime I had already added an old biomax bag from another aquarium as well as a sponge behind the filter pad. After I got the ammonia reading I poured the sludge from cleaning my other filters into the filter. Today I checked again. No ammonia or nitrite. Nitrate is maybe 5.0. The ph is a little high at around 8. So this tank has been empty for about 6 weeks. I started with the ammonia about 4 weeks ago. How will I ever know if/when it is cycled? I had the old filter media in there from the beginning (behind the charcoal filter pad) and added the sludge a few days ago? Any feedback would be helpful? Thanks--Shirley PS--I need to top off the water level again. I have been using Prime--is that okay?
Cycling is acquiring bacteria in order to convert ammonia to nitrite to nitrate. You put in some old filter media loaded with bacteria and as a result, all ammonia is gone and you have nitrate. By putting in filter media from another tank, you have essentially instantly cycled the tank. Now add more ammonia or add fish in order to prevent the Bacteria from starving as they already have used up all the ammonia.
By the ways, the method of cycling you are doing is only necessary when you are cycling the first time. After you have at least one established tank, to start a new tank you simply have to transfer some media and that is it.
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By transfer some media, do you need old filter pads or just gunk from washing out other filters? Thanks so much for replying to me. I think that I probably always had bacteria since I added the biomax, sponge, and finally gunk.
pretty much anything. bacteria grows with abandon on all surfaces. old filter gunk has lots just as well as filter media. I always try transferring media because using filter gunk will raise the nitrate level in the new tank faster meaning that your first water change will be sooner, but if transferring media is not possible somehow then I just grab a mature sponge and squeeze it in the new tank. the filter in the new tank will soon pick up the sediment and bacteria in the water


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Lecture focuses on democratization, March 8
Posted March 2, 2005; 05:38 p.m.
"The United States and Democracy Promotion: Learning From Postcommunist Eurasia" is the title of a lecture to be presented at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Speaking will be Valerie Bunce, the Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies and chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University.
Bunce's research and teaching address comparative democratization, the origins and consequences of imperial decline, inter-ethnic cooperation and conflict, peace-making after internal wars, and the diffusion of capitalism from the West to the "rest." She is the author of the book, "Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State" (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Bunce's talk, sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, is the ninth in a series of Cyril Black Memorial Lectures.


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11.5: Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
How did dark deer mice become lighter over time?
A species changes color over time if its environment changes. Many other types of changes can take place too. The darker deer mice evolved into the lighter deer mice in some locations. What do you think changed about the environment?
Biological Evolution
Adaptations in a species add up over time. These adaptations will mean that many genes have changed. If the environment is stable, the species won't change. But if the environment is changing, the species will need to adapt. Many adaptations may be necessary. In time, the species may change a lot. The descendants will be very different from their ancestors. They may even become a new species. This process is called biological evolution, but is usually referred to just as evolution.
Organisms alive today evolved from earlier life forms. We can learn about this from fossils. For example, horse fossils from 60 million years ago are very different from modern horses. Ancient horses were much smaller than they are today (Figure below). The horses' teeth and hooves have also changed. The horses evolved because of changes in their environment.
Ancient horses were quite different from present-day horses.
Although basic horse evolution appears to be linear, there were many more branches. Horse evolution is very well understood.
Natural Selection
Evolution happens because of natural selection. Good traits become more common in a population. Bad traits become less common. The deer mouse, species Peromyscus maniculatus gives an example of evolution by natural selection. In Nebraska this mouse is typically brown. But in places where glaciers dropped lighter sand over the darker soil, the mice are light. Why? Because predators could more easily spot the dark mice on light sand. The lighter mice were more likely to survive and have offspring. Natural selection favored the light mice. Over time, the population became light colored. Enough changes may take place over time that the two types of mice become different species.
This story is covered in more detail here: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/08/mice-living-in-sand-hills-quickly-evolved-lighter-coloration/.
- evolution: Change through time. The change in the genetic makeup of a population of organisms over time such that a new species is often the result.
- natural selection: The mechanism for evolution.
- Changes in the genes of a species may result in a new species. This is biological evolution.
- Natural selection can change a species or even make a new species. Natural processes favor some traits over others in a population. This causes those traits to be more common in subsequent generations.
- Evolution just means change over time.
Use these resources to answer the questions that follow.
- What is natural selection?
- What are genes?
- How does natural selection effect the individual?
- What does natural selection cause in populations?
Mechanisms of Evolution: How Does Variety Arise? at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mPCqYxB4d4 (2:51)
- How does variety occur in an individual?
- How are genomes diversified and passed on to offspring?
- Why are some deer mice brown and some lighter colored in Nebraska?
- How does natural selection work?
- How does biological evolution work?
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I have never been a fan of the afro. Too stiff and perfect for my taste. What I am here for is big flowy, messy hair. And because I'm lazy, twists are my go-to hairstyle. It's easy. Here's how to rock it.
1. SHAMPOO & CONDITION your hair with whatever you like. No natural hair nazi here. You're safe. Right now I'm using 4 Naturals products because it was free and I want to use it up before purchasing something else.
2. MOISTURIZE. I love love love the Honey Hemp leave-in conditioner by Oyin Handmade. And it's reasonably priced! This is a staple for me. I also moisturize my scalp with good ole castor oil.
3. BLOW DRY. Because I have extremely coily hair, it causes me to have shrinkage. I like to have my hair stretched for a bigger fro. This is the only time I blow dry my hair. Also, it would probably be wise to use a heat protectant before you blow dry.
4. TWIST. Make about 16-20 large twists (I'm guessing), depending on how large your head is. Mine is pretty large.
The next day, untwist and fluff. VOILA. I usually re-twist my hair every night or every other night. The twists don't have to be perfect or small. the messier, the better.
The pictures below have been the transition from my small to large twisty-fros over the last year or so. Yay for growth and not touching the shears!
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Ironically, I had never fished this lower section, always sticking to the more remote upper section of the stream, away from the crowds. As I walked the trail, I found myself shaking my head in disbelief that this stretch of water had so much potential!
But you see, there is more to this story. For the river that you see in these photos, this natural flow from the Oregon Coast Range, spends most of its life traped below 15+ feet of water in this section alone, because the stream bed that this water creates, is damed up at one end, making a resivour to serve the irrigation needs of farms in the area.
Bottom line...
For every dam that is built or exists, a fishery, animal, bird, insect habatat is lost or hurt. Dams are barriers, lets look at alternatives!
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Recently, I was contacted by a fellow angler. After swaping fishing trips, the last couple of runs, and what flys held there own against the onslaut, he asked if I had been to a fishery that is close (20 miles) to where I live. I replied no, and said that the last time I was there, it was overun with bait and lure casters. This particular stretch of water, though not a "Big" stream, is of fair size and strenth. As far as catch-worthiness, on a scale of 1-10, I would give it a 3-4. It has no C+R status, only your run of the mill garden variety ODFW regs.
So I took a drive. And upon ariving the recent rains had it flowing beautifully. As you can see from the pics, there are alot of potential spots, and plenty of open space for casting!
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Hello everyone. Looks like I found a job. It's only a temporary job but at least it involves IT. It's not game related but I'm not sure I should put it in the lounge but since it's job-dynamics related I guess I'll drop it there.
I have to give really bad news to my boss and I'd like advice on how to do that "professionally".
Albeit it's only a temporary job, I won't disclose details; hopefully this is not going to be an issue there since the question is mostly about business dynamics rather than anything else my elaborations below are mainly to let you understand my current mindset and problem perception.
As a start, I've only been there for slightly more than a month and everything went fine so far. About three weeks ago, I was introduced to a certain program (The Program). Since two weeks ago, I have been given the task to evaluate The Program with regards to some of its features. I'll have to discuss The Program next week.
Deploying The Program to end users is apparently a priority (at least in terms of marketing), nonetheless, it so far slipped through the cracks by a few months and it's still far from being integrated in the business practice. AFAIK, The Program had no more than a couple of deployments so far, both in quite specific scenarios. I suspect the open position I'm filling is meant to hold someone dealing specifically with The Program, as the officially appointed "expert" isn't really taking this being already overworked (he has a business role that allows him to pull off the task).
In the past, I have never been scared from being the harbinger of bad news but considering my previous experiences, I've come to the conclusion I have to reconsider at least my methodologies in doing so. I need suggestions on how am I supposed to bring out this issue. Calling it an issue is rather reductive in my opinion: I've dealt with crashes, general instability, incoherent UI, missing input sanification, overreliance on end-user correctness, missing documentation, lacking support, systematic bugs... I could go on forever! And don't even get me started on licensing, Vendor itself seems to have lost grasp on it!
I found so many issues I started to ask myself about the developer studio so I went to google to find a very minimal amount of hits. Trends also informed me about a very low search volume, a thing which I find in stark contrast to the concept of a globally established leader solution. I understand business-oriented software is not really such a big hot topic but I guess there should be some more hits. Am I worrying too much? Do I have to recalibrate my scale of things?
I'm therefore inclined to believe this vendor is selling fry-ware. Because if we start deploying this, we're fried. Sure thing: developer has no QA (nor people doing debugging, much less architecture).
Of course, since we deploy it to end users, we take responsibility on that and given its general instability and fragility to slip errors, I'd say
- It's high business risk: component is critical to end user business
- Probably not profitable: maintenance requires super extra special care, even license management itself is something to be performed with care.
So my personal opinion is that The Software should be ditched in favor of something that actually works or proprietary solution.
I mean, what's the reason to sell it? We're basically selling the licenses for this other company. Sure, we might get some benefit but at what cost? If we get even a single on-site support call per year (remote management will be unlikely) our margins are going to suffer massively.
According to my colleagues, "we're pushing it because all other competitors are doing the same". Sure thing. But what has the end user to gain? He as to pay. He as this extra layer of complexity. He has to be more careful than he already is when doing his daily activities. And that supposing the software works fine.
Of course I am not in the position of saying the whole policy over the last few months is to be scrapped. But I couldn't get along either and not expose the risks. How could I convey this message in a business-appropriate way?
Honestly, I don't want to support The Program either because that means I would be responsible to keep it working and explain the many bugs to end users by inventing stupid excuses. To further exacerbate the issue, I think I could write something equivalent (for most basic tasks) in no more than 6 man months, not to mention it would fit with company's core business perfectly.
General advice on the situation is also appreciated.


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The media has recently placed considerable focus on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's comments equating being gay with murder. This renewed focus is for good reason, of course. It's shocking that anyone in the year 2012 would make (and defend) such an offensive links, let alone a member of the nation's highest court. This focus needs to continue as we head into the historic marriage cases that will come to the high court in 2013.
However, there's another element of the story that deserves equal scrutiny, at least. In fact, I would argue that this other element deserves even more mainstream attention than the more obvious "murder: comparison.
First some background. Within the Catholic church, there is an operation known as "Courage." Courage is kind of like the other "ex-gay" or "reparative therapy" movements that are popular within the evangelical world, except that Courage doesn't so much try to "change" gay people to straight, it merely tries to make us celibate. Whereas the "former homosexual" movement purports to "convert" us through prayer, counseling, or sometimes pillow-beating, Courage just tells gays that we are called to live a chaste life. It's all about denial. Ross Murray, Director of Religion, Faith and Values at GLAAD, has more on Courage in this post.
Two things pertaining to both this Courage program and Antonia Scalia recently came into light. First the biggie: the revelation that one of Justice Scalia's sons, Paul Scalia, is deeply involved with the Courage organization and has written and spoken extensively on that program's supposed virtues. Paul goes around telling people that they should detach gay people's attractions from our identities, something that is a key element of the Courage message. Like with most "ex-gay" programs, Paul Scalia has placed particular focus on vulnerable parents of even more vulnerable LGBT kids, with the overall message being that moms and dads are to love their children but not their sexual orientations. Check out Zack Ford's extensive post for more on the younger Scalia's teachings.
Now, of course the son is not the father, necessarily. Which brings us to the other concerning element that recently came to light—one that does, in fact, connect dad to kid.
Ya see, it turns out that Antonin Scalia's own church, St Catherine of Siena (the same Opus Dei-affilliated church that prominent D.C. conservatives from Rick Santorum to Brian Brown have made their ministerial home), has promoted these very same Courage programs. In multiple church bulletins, the church promoted Paul Scalia's own events on how to handle "same-sex attractions." Presumably, the elder Scalia was himself sitting in the pews receiving these bulletins. Presumably the elder Scalia also subscribes to many (if not most or all) of his church's beliefs. Does he share the church's demonstrated view on this topic? Does he encourage his son's outreach work? Does he think gay people are - not just able to, but literally called by God to deny our capacities for love?
We obviously don't know the concrete answer to those last questions, which is precisely why the media needs to ask them in 2013. We need answers to questions like: Is one of the nine members of the high court, who self-admittedly has an unfavorable view of LGBT people, himself affiliated with the Courage program? Leading to the obvious followup: Are these connections enough of a conflict when it comes to his determination on LGBT cases? Even if we do not get clear answers from Justice Scalia himself, we will at least get closer to pertinent discussion.
I say that these questions are more relevant than even the ones linking homosexuality to murder because whereas those crude analogies might constitute deep and obvious animus, they still don't create the same set of presumptions that a confirmation of his belief in the Courage mindset would itself solidify. It's possible to see how even an Antonin Scalia could put forth arguments about homosexuality (a "reduction to the absurd," he calls his murder comparisons) yet still apply a fair read of the constitution. Theoretically, I can understand how even a judge who is publicly hostile to LGBT rights could still rule in favor of them. And considering what Justice Scalia himself said in his Lawrence v. Texas dissent, I could even see how he might feel forced to decide in favor of civil marriage equality. Again, theoretically.
It's more difficult to see how a judge who believes, at his core, that any non-heterosexual orientations don't really exist, and that gay people called by God to ignore these "attractions," could ever have an open mind on the constutional claims that the Proposition 8 and Defense of Marriage Act cases will bring before the court. If that judge is not even willing to entertain that my sexual orientation is as much a part of my identity as any number of characteristics are to other groups, then how can he possibly be open to applying the "heightened scrutiny" that would get to the heart of the unfair treatment of LGBT people? If the judge believes that my life's calling is to give myself to celibacy, then how can he possibly support my marriage? If the judge is guided by a deeply held faith view that tells him to separate my "attractions" from my in-born capacity for love in a way that separates me from my heterosexual counterparts, then why wouldn't he want to distiniguish my placement within civil society from those who he views as living a life of procreative normalcy? We need to at least alk about this.
When it comes to commentator accountability, we must not focus exclusively on keeping anti-equality voices in check whenever they themselves speak to the media. We must also ensure that our pro-equality pundits, objective journalists, Op-Ed writers, and everyone else with a platform is raising the kind of discussion that gets to the heart of these issues. Sure, these questions about commanded celibacy and a judge that seems to leave little separation between himself and that demand might not be as media "sexy" as the stories that get to use both gays and murder in the same headline. But these are the questions that court watchers should be asking. At the very least, they must be part of the discussion.
I can assure you I would say the very same thing if a Ruth Bader Ginsburg had such close connections to a program that called for a similar form of suppression.


text: I just got back from my hunting trip and I noticed during the trip Max started limping on his left front leg. The weird thing is that it just comes and goes. Yesterday during training I threw a mark for him and he ran out there but when he came to a stop I noticed the limp started again. I stopped what we where doing and took him home and within 30 minutes it was gone. I'm thinking he might have strained/sprained something but I'm starting to worry a ligament injury. What do you guys think?


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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Little House in a Wilder Neighborhood
Of course, I didn't know that when I discovered the Little House books at the school library. I must have been ten or eleven years old at the time. My interest in genealogy and family history was still several years in the future. My interest in Laura, however, was triggered with the first book I read. Thereafter, every time I went to the school library, I turned left just inside the door and made for the far end of the shelves along that wall. The Little House books lived on the second shelf up from the floor. Was there one available that I hadn't read yet? Oh, good!
I think I started buying Little House books for my daughter before she could even read. They're my first answer to the question, "What did you like to read when you were a kid?" Yes, there were a few other answers too, but I never considered buying a whole set of Nancy Drew books for my daughter. You could easily borrow those and happily give them back. The Little House books? Those were keepers.
The Little House on the Prairie was southwest of Independence, Kansas. The Ingalls family lived there in 1870-1871. Forty years later and 140 miles north, my grandpa Rosmer Kerr, then just 17, worked as a hotel clerk in Topeka for awhile. Rosmer, being a city boy, would have enjoyed quite a different experience from that of the rural-dwelling Ingalls family.
Laura lived for awhile at Walnut Grove, Minnesota. My dad's brother raised his family there. (Different centuries, of course. My uncle's first child was born eighty years after Laura.) I have cousins who live there still, less than ten miles south of where the Ingalls family lived On the Banks of Plum Creek.
The Ingalls family stayed at the Masters Hotel in Burr Oak, Iowa, for about a year, helping to run the hotel. My cousin Judy and her family live a bit over a hundred miles southwest, as the crow flies, of the Masters Hotel, which is now preserved as the Laura Ingalls Museum.
Charles Ingalls finally settled his family in the Little Town on the Prairie, De Smet, South Dakota, which was the setting of several more books: By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, These Happy Golden Years and The First Four Years. Members of the Ingalls family were still living there when my grandpa John Krentz and some of his siblings moved to Lisbon, North Dakota, 150 miles north of De Smet.
Laura and her husband, Farmer Boy Almanzo Wilder, eventually left the Ingalls home for a place of their own; they were On the Way Home to Mansfield, Missouri, where Laura lived until her death in 1957. My kids have first cousins who grew up in the Ozarks about 50 miles southeast of there a quarter century later.
On impulse during a road trip in 1998, I altered my route so as to pass through De Smet, where I stopped briefly at the Ingalls' home, now a museum. There was more to see and do than I had time for, so maybe I'll stop by there again someday.
Laura and Almanzo buried their baby son while they still lived in De Smet. Several other members of the family are buried there with him. Their daughter Rose was the only other grandchild of Charles and Caroline Ingalls, and because Rose had no children, the family's lineage ended at her death in 1968. Still, their legacy lives on in the stories Laura shared, and the stories live on because they parallel the stories of so many of our ancestors.
What about you? What bits of your ancestors' history might be illuminated by commonality of place or time with the Ingalls family? Did you read Laura's books when you were a kid? I'm especially curious to know whether boys read them, or were they considered girl-stuff? Are you of the generation that grew up with the TV show? Did that have any effect on whether you read the books?
Will you find yourself in the vicinity of any Ingalls or Wilder homes during your summer vacation? You might want to plan a stop. You'll find links to plenty of background and planning information at Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Sites: A Guide to Little House Country.
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- DianaR said...
What a great trip back through time! I loved all the Little House books growing up - which, just incidentally was WELL BEFORE any thought of the TV show. I even have a book that Rose wrote, although now the name escapes me.
When my nieces were little, I bought them some Little House books that were aimed at even younger children. They were shorter - generally just a story taken out of a book - and had a lot my pictures. One of my nieces named her American Girl bitty baby "Baby Grace" because of those books!
(but sorry, I have to admit that I wanted to BE Nancy Drew. Used to buy those books with my own, hard earned money as a child)
- June 06, 2010 9:36 AM
- T.K. said...
Hey, I never said I didn't wanna be Nancy Drew! LOL! And I admit, I had a few volumes myself, but my best friend across the street had 'em all. I got to borrow!
- June 06, 2010 10:01 AM
- Greta Koehl said...
Unfortunately, I did not get to read the Little House books when I was growing up. I made up for it by buying the set and reading the series all the way through to both of my girls, and enjoyed it hugely as an adult! I was struck by how straightforward the books were about the hard life back then, without excess sentimentality.
- June 06, 2010 9:52 PM
- Cheryl said...
TK, wonderful post which I really loved. Brought back memories of my love of all things "Little House". I always compared my great-grandma, Julie, with Laura, as Julie and Laura were born close together with Laura in 1867 and Julie in 1870. There the similarities end as Julie grew up in the larger area of Detroit.
- June 07, 2010 3:07 PM
- DianaR said...
Well glad we have that straightened out about being Nancy Drew ;-) That blue roadster!! Oddly enough my parents didn't buy me a sports car (or any car for that matter) when I was 16.
- June 07, 2010 4:03 PM
- T.K. said...
Greta, how come you didn't get to read them as a kid?
Diana, I'm thinkin' that roadster is what made it 'fiction'...
- June 07, 2010 4:59 PM
- Cheryl said...
Wonderful post, TK. I just loved it as I am an avid "Little House" lover. I have all the Little House books, other books about Laura, a book by Rose called "The Ghost In The Little House" and all the DVD's of the TV series with Melissa Gilbert. I even have tapes of the other two Little House movies made after the TV series that were supposed to be more true to the 'real' story.
I have often compared my great-grandma, Julie Feucht, with Laura as Laura was born in 1867 and Julie in 1870 and one of the few photos I have of Julie resembles in some fashion the early photo of Laura. But there the similarities end as Julie grew up in the 'big' city of Detroit so I am sure her life was of a different style than Laura's. Still I should write a post on 'my' 5 Feucht sisters and compare it to the 4 Ingalls sisters of the same time frame. Sounds like a plan! Now to just DO IT. Your daily posts are inspiration I must say.
- June 07, 2010 7:38 PM
- T.K. said...
That'd be an interesting post, Cheryl... yep, just do it! ;-)
- June 08, 2010 10:38 AM
- Alana said...
When my daughter was about 12 or 13 we paid a trip to Malone, NY (about an hour's drive from where we live in Montreal) where Almonzo Wilder grew up and visited his childhood home, which is now a museum. It was quite interesting. They also have a small store and we bought a few books we didn't have (one being one written by Rose Wilder). I bought a cook book that has the recipes from the food mentioned in the "Little House" books. There is one book (can't remember which one) where Laura is describing the slaughtering of the pig and how every morsel is used. She describes how her mother cook's up the pig's tail as a treat for the kids - well that recipe is in the cook book! Not sure I would want to eat a pig's tail, but if I ever did, I have the recipe!
- June 10, 2010 1:01 PM
- T.K. said...
Alana, I had no idea about the Wilder museum in New York. Good to know, as I may be heading east sometime in the next year or two for a research jaunt.
The Rose Wilder book... I think I bought that at some point... when my daughter was old enough to have read all the others...
Thanks for stopping by. I don't think I'd been to your blog before. I'm a follower now!
- June 10, 2010 2:34 PM
- Alana said...
Hi T.K.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and becoming a follower - I have been following yours for awhile now.
Here is the website for Wilder home: www.almanzowilderfarm.com. I mentioned that it is in Malone, but it is actually in Burke, which is just down the road from Malone.
- June 10, 2010 10:47 PM
- T.K. said...
Thanks for the link, Alana. I just watched the trailer for the Almanzo Wilder DVD. Now I want to reread Farmer Boy. Actually, after all these comments, I want to reread the whole series. It's been interesting to see what details have stuck in people's minds!
- June 11, 2010 7:32 AM
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- Schulte & Others in Beckum, Westfalen, Germany
- Cheryl Schulte's Kolberg Lineage
- Two Sides of the Ocean
- The Efnor Family
- Sedgwick Genealogy Worldwide
- The Zahnisers: A History of the Family in America
- Come Home (Members Only)
- Nikki's Webshots Photo Albums (2001 Krentz Family Reunion & More)
Other Interesting Links
- AnceStories
- Antiquus Morbus: Genealogist's Resource for Interpreting Causes of Death
- Apple's Tree
- Creative Gene
- Emigrants from Kreis Meschede and Kreis Olpe (Westfalen)
- Family Matters: Tech Support for the Family Historian
- Genea-Musings
- GeneaBloggers
- Geneablogie
- Genealogy Roots Blog
- Kinexxions
- Moultrie Creek Press: A Resource Center for Family Publishers
- Photo and Document Conservation
- The Genealogue
- West in New England
- footnoteMaven
Our Family in Books: A Bibliography
- My Ancestors in Books (a library of resources and notes pertaining to Reverend Samuel Stone, Major General Robert Sedgwick, Elder John Crandall, and other early Americans in the forest where my family tree was grown)
- The Zahnisers: A History of the Family in America by Kate M. Zahniser and Charles Reed Zahniser (Mercer, Pa. 1906)
- History of St. James Lutheran Church [full title: A little of this and a little of that in the 141 year (1861-2002) History of St. James Lutheran Church, Reynolds Indiana] by Harold B. Dodge, published at Reynolds, Indiana, 2002; 170 pages.
- Lisbon, North Dakota 1880-2005 Quasuicentennial, published at Lisbon, North Dakota in 2005; 391 pages.
- The Paschen and Redd Families of Cass County, Indiana by Alfred Paschen, c. 2005 (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD); 322 pages.
- Sheldon Community History: Sheldon Centennial 1881-1981, published at Sheldon, North Dakota in 1981; 376 pages.
- Sheldon, North Dakota 1881-2006 - 125th Anniversary: The Queen of the Prairie, published at Sheldon, North Dakota in 2006; 498 pages.
- A Standard History of White County, Indiana, written under the supervision of W.H. Hamelle, c. 1915 (The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York).
- The Roots of Coventry, Connecticut by Betty Brook Messier and Janet Sutherland Aronson, c. 1987 (Coventry 275th Anniversary Committee, Coventry, CT); 206 pages.
- "Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and His Descendants" by John Cortland Crandall; New Woodstock, New York, 1949; 797 pages.
- "The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island." Nellie (Willard) Johnson, Pd.B.: H & L Creations, LLC.