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The Hub's annual state tournament preview, the most comprehensive guide to all 16 teams in this year's field, was released Monday morning.
The free guide comes in a printable PDF format, making it easy for fans to download and print copies before heading to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, home of the state tournament.
Click here for your free copy.
State Class 2A Tournament
Hill-Murray (25-2-1) received the No. 1 seed in the state Class 2A tournament and will open play against Eastview (18-9-1) at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 7 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
The No. 2 seed went to Duluth East (24-4-0), and the Greyhounds open the tournament with an 11 a.m. game against Moorhead (14-11-2). No. 3 seed Edina (22-6-0) plays Lakeville North (11-16-1) at 1 p.m. in the second early session game on Thursday.
No. 4 Wayzata (21-7-0) plays No. 5 Centennial (22-4-2) at 6 p.m. to open Thursday's evening session.
The top five teams were determined by a vote of the tournament coaches and revealed by the MSHSL on Saturday morning. The positioning of the final three teams came from a random draw.
The complete state Class 2A bracket can be seen here.
State Class 1A Tournament
Two-time Defending champion St. Thomas Academy (24-2-2) received the No. 1 seed in the state Class 1A tournament and opens play at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 6 against St. Cloud Apollo (18-10-0) at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
Breck, the 2010 and 2011 state champion, is the No. 2 seed and plays Marshall (14-10-1) at 11 a.m. on Thursday. No. 3 Hermantown (23-4-1) plays Duluth Marshall (16-12-0) at 1 p.m. in Wednesday's second morning session matchup.
No. 4 East Grand Forks (22-3-3) plays No. 5 Rochester Lourdes (20-8-0) at 8 p.m. to close out quarterfinal play on Wednesday.
The top five teams were determined by a vote of the tournament coaches and revealed by the MSHSL on Saturday morning. The positioning of the final three teams came from a random draw.
The complete state Class 1A bracket can be seen here.
Friday's Section Championship Results
Centennial and Hill-Murray in Class 2A and Hermantown and St. Thomas Academy in Class 1A all won section championships on Friday, March 1 to complete the eight-team fields for next week's state tournaments.
Hill-Murray, the No. 1-ranked team in Class 2A outlasted longtime rival White Bear Lake 1-0 and St. Thomas Academy, ranked No. 1 in Class 1A, eased past Totino-Grace 3-0.
Hermantown avenged a regular season loss to St. Cloud Cathedral by beating the Crusaders 3-0 and Centennial topped Champlin Park for the school's second tournament berth.
The pairings for the state Class 1A and 2A tournaments were scheduled to be determined on Saturday, March 2.
Thursday's Section Championship Results
Duluth East, Eastview and Lakeville North earned state Class 2A tournament berths, and Breck, East Grand Forks and St. Cloud Apollo earned berths in the state Class 1A tournament on Thursday, Feb. 28, as six more qualifiers were determined.
Duluth East and Breck are the only repeat qualifiers. St. Cloud Apollo and Eastview have made just one previous trip to the state tournament. Apollo's came in 1984, when it was still in the one-class format. Eastview's came in 2001.
The most recent of East Grand Forks' previous seven state appearances was in 2002. Lakeville North made consecutive appearances in 2010 and '11.
Duluth East and Breck are each making their fifth straight trip to the state tournament. Breck won titles in 2009 and 2010. Duluth East was runner-up in 2011.
Wednesday's Section Championship Results
On Wednesday, Edina, Moorhead and Wayzata earned state Class 2A tournament berths, and Duluth Marshall, Marshall and Rochester Lourdes punched their ticket for the state Class 1A tournament.
Edina, Moorhead, Duluth Marshall and Rochester Lourdes all played in the state tournament last season. Marshall is making its first state tournament appearance.
Wayzata, which knocked off defending champion Benilde-St. Margaret's, is making its first state tournament appearance since 2004.
The final brackets in all the state's sections were released Sunday, Feb. 17. Several sections released their brackets beginning Wednesday, Feb. 13, with two more determined Thursday, Feb. 14. The majority of section play got underway Tuesday, Feb. 19 around the state.
Sunday's Seeding Results
Section 1AA: The championship game in Section 1AA has boiled down to the battle of Lakeville -- played in Rochester -- the past several years. That could change this year as Rochester Mayo received the No. 2 seed behind No. 1 Lakeville North. Of course, Lakeville South isn't far behind with the No. 3 seed.
The complete Section 1AA bracket can be seen here.
Section 1A: Rochester Lourdes earned the top seed and Mankato West was seeded second in Section 1A, where No. 3 seed New Prague and No. 4 Northfield also loom. Lourdes is the four-time defending section champion, Mankato West features one of the state's most explosive offenses and New Prague is coming off the high of winning the first Missota Conference championship in program history.
The complete Section 1A bracket can be seen here.
Section 4A: St. Thomas Academy, the prohibitive favorite to win the state Class 1A title (it would be the Cadets' third straight), have been locked into the No. 1 seed for weeks. The drama comes after that, where Mahtomedi got the No. 2 seed and Totino-Grace the No. 3. Mahtomedi beat Totino-Grace in a thrilling overtime game late in the season. Watch out for No. 4 St. Paul Academy, which has bracket busting capabilities.
The complete Section 4A bracket can be seen here.
Section 4AA: Predictably, the state's No. 1 ranked Class 2A team, Hill-Murray, earned the top seed in the Section 4AA playoffs. And with White Bear Lake claiming the No. 2 seed, one of the great rivalries in high school hockey could come to fruition in the section championship game should seeding hold. But don't count out teams such as No. 3 Tartan, No. 4 Stillwater and No. 5 Mounds View.
The complete Section 4AA bracket can be seen here.
Section 5AA: Northwest Suburban Conference champion Blaine, fresh off Saturday's overtime win over Lake Conference champion Minnetonka, received the No. 1 seed as expected in Section 5AA. Centennial received the No. 2 seed, and watch out for No. 3 Maple Grove, the defending section champ that knocked off Blaine late in the regular season.
The complete Section 5AA bracket can be seen here.
Section 3AA: Two-time defending Section 3AA champion Eagan, the South Suburban Conference champion, received the No. 1 seed yet again, and Suburban East powerhouse Cretin-Derham Hall was seeded second. Eastview at No. 3 and East Ridge at No. 4 rounded out the top seeds.
The complete Section 3AA bracket can be seen here.
Section 2A: Breck, ranked No. 2 in Class 1A for much of the season, received the top seed as expected in Section 2A. The next three seeds represent a lineup of rugged Wright County Conference teams in No. 2 Mound-Westonka, No. 3 Delano and No. 4 Orono.
The complete Section 2A bracket can be seen here.
Section 6AA: Defending state Class 2A champion Benilde-St. Margaret's received the top seed and Minnetonka the No. 2. Wayzata at No. 3 and Eden Prairie at No. 4 rounded out the top four in what is widely considered the state's toughest section. The quarterfinal game to watch is No. 5 Holy Family Catholic at Eden Prairie at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21.
The complete Section 6AA bracket can be seen here.
Section 2AA: No surprises here, at least not at the top where Edina was voted as the No. 1 seed by the section coaches. Prior Lake came in at No. 2, Burnsville No. 3 and Bloomington Jefferson No. 4. The most interesting quarterfinal matchup on Thursday features Jefferson hosting No. 5 Holy Angels.
The complete Section 2AA bracket can be seen here.
Thursday's Seeding Results
Section 6A: LIttle Falls, which has reached the state tournament in six times in the last eight years, received the top seed as the Section 6A pairings were released early Thursday afternoon. Should the seeds play out and the Flyers reach the title game against St. Cloud Apollo, the game would be a rematch of one of the biggest upsets in state playoffs history, an early-round matchup a couple of seasons ago when the No. 9 Eagles stunned No. 1 Little Falls.
The complete Section 6A bracket can be seen here.
Section 5A: Section 5A released its seeding early Thursday morning and its expected the race will again go through three-time defending champion Hermantown, which earned the top seed. The Hawks have lost in the state championship game each of the last three seasons. St. Cloud Cathedral is the No. 2 seed, while surprising Princeton claimed the No. 3 seed, Rogers is No. 4 and Legacy Christian is No. 5.
The complete Section 5A bracket can be seen here.
Wednesday's Seeding Results
Section 7AA: Duluth East gained the top seed in Section 7AA again this winter as the seedings were released Wednesday night. The 'Hounds have won the past four section titles, but should be tested by a deep field of teams that includes No. 2 Grand Rapids, No. 3 Elk River, No. 4 Cloquet/Esko/Carlton, No. 5 Forest Lake, No. 6 Andover and more. The section has largely been a toss up most of the year, with upsets abounding, which should make for an interesting tournament.
The complete Section 7AA bracket can be seen here.
Section 8AA: For the past 16 years, either Moorhead or Roseau has represented Section 8AA at the state tournament. Both are strong contenders again based upon the seeding released Wednesday afternoon. The defending section champion Spuds gained the top seed by going 3-1-0 against second-seeded Brainerd and third-seeded Roseau, despite an overall record just above .500. Bemidji earned the No. 4 seed.
The complete Section 8AA bracket can be seen here.
Section 3A: In its bid to knock off three-time defending Section 3A champion New Ulm, Luverne earned the No. 1 seed in the bracket released this afternoon, while the Eagles are the No. 2 seed. The record-setting Cardinals are seeking their first-ever state tournament bid. Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato took the No. 3 seed and Marshall earned the No. 4 seed.
The complete Section 3A bracket can be seen here.
Section 7A: With a sweep of its local rivals, Duluth Denfeld earned the No. 1 seed in the just-released Section 7A seedings for the upcoming playoffs as the first wave of the state's 16 brackets were released on Wednesday. The Hunters are looking to get back to the state tournament for the first time since advancing three times in four years from 1986-89. But Denfeld will be challenged by defending section champion and No. 2 seed Duluth Marshall, 10-time consecutive section finalist and No. 3 seed Hibbing/Chisholm and others.
The complete Section 7A bracket can be seen here.
Section 8A: Fresh off a 2-1 victory over Thief River Falls at the "Little Ralph" last night, East Grand Forks earned the No. 1 seed in the Section 8A playoffs, just ahead of the second-seeded Prowlers, the two-time defending section champions. Both teams are very strong defensively and should the seedings hold, a rubber match may be down the road in the section final. Warroad was tabbed as the No. 3 seed and Crookston took the No. 4 seed.
The complete Section 8A bracket can be seen here.


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The New York Times leads, and the Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide newsbox, with the escalating tension in Pakistan, where security forces thwarted a protest rally by placing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest. After 15 hours, officials said they had lifted the detention order; it remained unclear last night whether the former prime minister was in fact free to leave her home. The Washington Post—the only paper not to front the news from Pakistan—leads with a big-picture look at the global impact of rising fuel prices. The LA Times leads local, with news that the LA school system, still tussling with a badly flawed payroll system, is to ask teachers to hand back $53 million in accidental overpayments.
Six days after President Pervez Musharraf declared de facto martial law, riot police yesterday threw metal barricades and barbed wire around Bhutto's home; the NYT reports that the opposition leader remained defiant, speaking to the media and repeatedly attempting to breach the cordon around her house. The Post reports that police blanketed Rawalpindi, where the protest had been scheduled to take place; there were clashes with demonstrators as police sought to seal all routes between the city and Islamabad.
The LAT notes that confinement served to bolster Bhutto's credibility while preventing her from burning bridges with Musharraf; the NYT is more skeptical, reading the clash as a blow for State Department officials who had hoped to broker a power-sharing deal between the two figures. In a lengthy front-page analysis, the WSJ argues that the breakdown of the tentative Bhutto-Musharraf alliance could accelerate the growth of Pakistan's Islamist insurgency; inside, the paper carries a useful recap of the week's developments.
The WSJ's editorial board takes wry delight in Democratic Sen. Joe Biden's denouncement of Bush's failure to aggressively promote democracy in Pakistan; still, the paper agrees that restoring democratic institutions must take center stage in any further engagement "even if we have to call it the Bush-Biden Doctrine."
With crude prices closing in on $100 a barrel, consumers are paying up to $5 billion a day more for oil than they did five years ago, fueling what may be the greatest transfer of wealth in history—and sparking social and economic turmoil from Burma to Brazil and from Saudi Arabia to Senegal. The Post makes a valiant effort to sketch the global fallout though inevitably only scrapes the surface. The WSJ notes that OPEC leaders aren't likely to provide much relief when they meet next week in Riyadh; they blame the sky-high prices on bottlenecks further down the supply chain.
The Post fronts word that North Korea has given U.S. experts access to equipment and documents in a bid to refute claims that it sought to produce enriched uranium for use in nuclear weapons. That could deal a blow to the credibility of the U.S. intelligence community; reports of a uranium-enrichment program helped trigger the collapse of a Clinton-era deal freezing North Korea's plutonium reactor and ultimately cleared the way for Pyongyang to build several plutonium-based bombs.
The FCC will announce a major overhaul of cable television regulations next month in a bid to open the industry to independent programming, reports the NYT. The new rules would cap the size of Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, and prevent other large companies from making significant new cable acquisitions. The move stands in contrast to the agency's plans to relax rules limiting regional cross-media ownership.
The House narrowly approved a $73.8 billion measure easing the impact of the alternative minimum tax on middle-income families; the move is offset by tax increases for the superrich. The Post goes above the fold, reporting on a fiery debate that flagged the difficulties facing Democrats, who have pledged to pay for all new tax measures with corresponding tax increases. The NYT relegates the story to the front of its business section, noting that Senate Democrats are unlikely to be able to rally enough votes to overcome a GOP filibuster.
The Post reports that former New York police commissioner Bernard Keric * yesterday pledged to fight federal corruption charges. The NYT notes the case could prove awkward for Kerik's onetime mentor, Rudy Giuliani and argues that the "extraordinarily close bond" between the two men raises questions about Giuliani's judgment. Columnist Gail Collins is less restrained, lambasting the former mayor's habit of valuing personal loyalty above all else.
The WSJ fronts a lengthy look at Barack Obama's appeal to white voters. To many, the senator offers a chance to buy into a vision of a colorblind America. The paper also eyes Mitt Romney, who recently gave his sales pitch to the editorial board. He apparently came across as a wonk who daydreams of calling in management consultants to remodel the executive branch.
Calm returned to the streets of Georgia yesterday, reports the Post, two days after President Mikheil Saakashvili suspended civil liberties. Bowing to international and domestic pressure, President Saakashvili has now called a snap election; he should win, but the WSJ questions whether it will be enough to restore confidence in his democratic credentials. In an editorial, the NYT calls for Bush to push his ally to fully restore Georgia's freedoms.
Condoleezza Rice's management of the State Department is drawing increasing criticism, following a string of damaging crises. In a front-page report, the Post notes that Rice's aloof leadership style has alienated underlings more used to the more personable approach of her predecessor, Colin Powell.
Correction, Nov. 11, 2007: This article originally misspelled Bernard Kerik's last name. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Google Homepage
Don't you just love the Google homepage? No, I'm not talking about the Google.com search engine page. I am talking about the actual Google homepage. You know? Or maybe you're saying, "A Google what now"?
Okay, before you drive yourself any crazier, let's dive into this. For the uninitiated, the Google homepage is your own personalized homepage that you can create according to your needs and requirements. Google just gives you the space and the tools and you assemble it by filling it up with different kinds of content.
Usually, a user will include the information he or she needs to access regularly. For instance, their Gmail e-mail account, various news Web sites, weather forecasts, stock quotes, bookmarks for quick access, to do lists, etc. Personalizing this homepage is so easy and you can do it with or without signing into your Google account. However, if you share your computer with someone else or if you work on multiple computers during the course of your day, it's a good idea to sign in to Google services to customize your homepage.
The above screenshot is how mine looks. Useful? Impressive? Well, to make your own, you just need to go to http://www.google.com/ig. Once you sign in using your Google account, you can start personalizing your space right away. Click on the Personalized Homepage link in the top right corner of the page to start. To add various sections to your homepage, click on Add Content, which will open up the Google directory. Once you add a section to your page and it appears there, you can click on the Edit link to modify its settings. And lastly, to move any of the sections around, just click and drag. Easy enough, right?
Now that you have learned how to add content to your personalized homepage, you can take a peek at the range of content that Google has provided you with. Adding all of this to your Google homepage is just a matter of clicking the Add It Now button below the specific item that you want to include.
Now, I am going to tell you about a nifty little trick that will make your Google homepage seem even more useful. If you use Firefox as your main browser, you can have this Google homepage permanently present by your side in the form of a little sidebar. Let me show you how.
I am assuming that you know what Firefox is, you have installed it and are using it religiously. So, if you do, go ahead and open up the Google homepage in Firefox. Again the URL is http://www.google.com/ig.
Line up all of your sections in the Google homepage to the left. It's a good idea to put the ones you use the most on top. All your sections should be in a straight line toward the left of your homepage. Now that everything has been arranged in the order you want it to be, bookmark this page and give it a name like "Google Homepage" or something else that will remind you what it is.
Once this is done, go to the toolbar and click on Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks. In the new window that pops up, locate the entry for the Google homepage that we just bookmarked. Once you find it, right click and select Properties. Another little window will then open.
Now, check the box that says "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" and click OK. Next, just click or double click on the Google Homepage entry in your bookmarks and it will automatically open up in the sidebar to your left. Is that cool or what?
To make it even easier, you can add the link to this homepage in your Bookmarks toolbar. To do so, click on Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks again and drag the Google homepage link that we bookmarked a little while back and drop it in the folder that says "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder." Once you do that, you will see a new tab on your main toolbar with a link to this Google homepage. Clicking this will open the sidebar that we just added.
Now, you can use the Google homepage without opening it in its separate tab. No need to shift between different windows again and again. With the right selection of sections, this can turn out to be a very effective tool for all of your work. Now that you have gone through the entire article, how much do you love Google right about now?!
~ Yogesh Bakshi


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- OJS Roadmap
- Future directions for OJS
- Less linear workflow
- Status: TBA
- Less downloading and uploading req'd for workflow
- Possibility of using a single file for all workflow and tracking changes rather than submitting new files for each stage (perhaps with drag and drop, with copies left behind for documentation)
- Better support for pre-prints
- Status: TBA
- "In press" section for articles that are currently in holding for actual publication.
- Thesis Workflow Tool
- Status: TBA
- OJS as a thesis submission and tracking system.
- SFU Library has a project on the books to develop a more robust thesis workflow tool.
- Submission as single file
- Status: TBA
- Submission model might be made better by including the option to make a .pdf containing the article, all supplementary files and appropriate metadata. Advantages include no need to de-identify properties, and review document is a single document - no need to download all figures, supplementary documents, etc in order to review. Of course, letter to editor and other documents not for reviewers would need to be submitted not to be included.
- Miscellaneous
- Status: TBA
- import transaction/rollback
- more flexible statistics
- arbitrary metadata gateway
- Dspace export
- user/article thesaurus/controlled vocabulary
- user tagging
- ACL:based permission classes
- WYSIWYG special character handling (e.g., tinyMCE extension for latek)
- "login as" behavior should be limited in certain contexts
- centralized role management for plugins
- featured article plugin/block
- user friendly error handling/logging
- local private messaging system a la phpBB
- scholar's portal plugin interface (UTL)
- advanced search options / interfaces (eg. zend lucene index plugin)
- mobile / WML plugin (athabasca)
- exporting to LAC web interface


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Wild Face Tough Test At Anaheim Tuesday Night
The Minnesota Wild continue a road swing with a game against Anaheim Tuesday night in California. The Wild fell to the Sharks 3-2 on Saturday night when Joe Thornton scored with 1:30 left in the extra period to seal the win for San Jose.
The Ducks are in first place in the Western Conference at 39-10-5, and are a remarkable 21-1-2 at home this season. Anaheim has 83 points, comfortably ahead of second place Chicago, who has 76 points.
The Wild continue to tread water at the bottom of the Western Conference playoff race, sitting in eighth place with a 28-20-6 record and 62 points. Minnesota trails seventh place Vancouver by just one point while leading ninth-place Phoenix by four points.


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Bill Shadrach necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 938 diseños de 175 diseñadores freelance.
Bull Wear Apparel - The brand name for the logo is "Bull Wear"
Bull Wear is a company engaging in the creation of durable and comfortable outdoor shorts and other apparel. Bull Wear is built and sized for comfort, no matter what your body type. Intelligent design, highest quality materials and impeccable construction means that your Bull Wear apparel products will look great and be around for years to come.
Target Audience
Adults and young adults. Ages 16+
Logo Requirements
Bull Wear is tough like a bull. Bull wear is built to last with materials and workmanship that exceed that of normal apparel products.
Bull Wear brand needs a logo and an icon that is solidly competitive with other high quality apparel brands. I have attached a grouping of some of those logos to give you a range of the competitors.
Owners of the brand believe that the new logo should be include a bull image icon and yet be strong, clean, vibrant and very legible. The brand should in no way be soft, frilly or flowery. Please explore both positive and negative space. Lastly, we would like to explore multiple aspect ratios from roughly two widths to one height to a one width to one height.
Contest Winner will need to handover:
1. unlocked vector file in either .eps or .ai format
2. Font names and file location(s)
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5. We will check the colors and layers of all of the handover files to ensure that they match the winning design. Please be prepared to handover matching files.
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Introducing Visions of Gold!
This track is fully orchestral, loud/quiet and varied. The idea, in terms of structure, is working from an athletes or sport persons point of view. How it may feel to be a competitor of a major sporting event. I hope it will help to add emotion and raise the hairs on the back of your neck.
The instrumentation is orchestral, has timpani rolls, staccato strings, percussion; glockenspiel and xylophones.
If you need any help (free of charge) with loops or editing then please get in touch after you have purchased the file.


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Monkey Wallahs Keep the Peace in New Delhi
Government-contracted "monkey wallahs" patrol the streets of New Delhi to ward off simian invasions. WSJ's Sean McLain reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Yemen's President Calls for Elections
SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Yemen's president is calling for early presidential elections. But Ali Abdullah Saleh (AH'-lee ahb-DUH'-luh sah-LEH') hasn't said when elections should be held. He spoke to a crowd of supporters today in Yemen's capital. Yemen is reeling from three months of anti-government street protests.


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Snow–It Won't Stop (VIDEO)
We were expecting to get 4-8 inches of snow here in the Albany area. That just changed as the weather gurus have added another 3 inches to the total. Albany can expect at least a foot now, and the northern tier in the Glens Falls and Lake George region will get 14-17 inches now.


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CPS Events Publications
- Cassini-Huygens
- MartianVolcano/ExoMarsRover
- Bioalteration of basaltic glasses/The NASA OSIRIS-REx mission
- Mercury after three-and-a-half years of MESSENGER's orbital mission
- Ancient glaciers on Mars? / Titan's topography
- APEX: Astronomy from the Moon
- LIVE: Rosetta Comet Landing TODAY
- APEX today: Lunar landing sites and non-terrestrial artefacts in the Solar System
- APEX: ET construction with 3D printers
- Final APEX this term: Dr Sidiropoulos reports on data mining planetary science image archives
- APEX today: Evidence for the earliest life on Earth
- How common are alien civilisations in our Galaxy? Come and find out at APEX, back this Thursday!
- Twinkle Community Workshop
- APEX this Thursday: How hot is the Moon's surface?
- APEX double-bill this week: life on Titan and Apollo 17 site crater study
- APEX double-bill: Generating line lists for exoplanet atmosphere studies / Gas stations in space
- ASB6 at UCL in September - Final few weeks for registration and programme online
- APEX this Thursday: The impact of impacts
- APEX this week: Lunar resources
- Inaugural Professor Lecture: Giovanna Tinetti
- This week at APEX: Exoplanet Missions Plato2 and Twinkle
- APEX this week is a 'rock' special: Martian regolith and lunar breccias
- Spectroscopy of Exoplanets Conference, 24-26 July 2015
- An Evening with the Planets!
- CPS Summer Meeting 2015
- ASB6 - A Public Talk by Professor Lynn Rothschild: The Search for Life in the Universe
- APEX double-bill: Iron silicides in meteorites & the provenance of materials in the solar nebula
- APEX double-bill: Prebiotic chemistry in S-S precursors and Robotic traverses for a Lunar farside sample-return mission
- APEX - Dr Adrian Jones: Impact processing of planetary crusts
- APEX: Dr Ashley King (NHM) - Preparing for asteroid sample return
- APEX this week: Indhu Varatharajan on Young lunar basalts
- Looking for Life on Mars - Prof. Andrew Coates at UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture
- APEX: Maggie Lieu - Can humans really relocate to Mars?
- APEX double bill: Potential lunar south pole landing sites / Inverted valleys in Arabia Terra, Mars
- APEX: Tue 8 Dec 2015 - CANCELLED
- Brave New Worlds: Understanding the planets of other stars
- Cometary science after Rosetta
- RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: Extraterrestrial resources in facilitating space science and exploration
- APEX resumes Tue 26 Jan with a double-bill on unusual clasts found in meteorites
- Astrophysics seminar: Caroline Terquem on the dynamics of extrasolar planets on inclined orbits
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Conference: Summit League — Tournament Champion
Coach: Saul Phillips, hired 2007. Record at NDSU = 42-19
08-09 Record: 26-6 (16-2)
Last 12 Games: 11-1, won 7.
Best Win: vs Oakland 66-64 on 3/10/09 for the Summit tournament title after the teams had split the season's two earlier matchups.
Worst Loss: Southern Utah, 69-74, on 2/14/09, though the most heartbreaking was the 4-point loss at USC on 12/20.
Off. Efficiency Rating: 103.0 (139th)
Def. Efficiency Rating: 107.7 (285th)
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Unsung Hero: Brett Winkelman (6'6″ senior forward), 18.7 ppg/7.4 rpg and shoots over 50% from the field and over 80% from the FT line. Probably not as much "unsung" as he is simply playing behind Woodside.
Potential NBA Draft Pick: None.
Key Injuries: No significant injuries.
Depth: 31.0% mins (170th nationally)
Achilles Heel: Defense. NDSU lets opponents shoot 45.1% (254th) and 35.7% (251st) from the field and from three, respectively.
Will Make a Deep Run if…: …Woodside can still hit shots even with the tougher defenses he's going to face, AND he and Winkelman get some help from 1-2 other fellows who might find themselves benefitting from the attention Woodside draws.
Will Make an Early Exit if…: …they don't shoot well. This is where they live. This team shoots 49% and 41.2% from the field and from three respectively. That's 3rd and 5th in the NATION, for those categories. If they don't shoot well, it's over.
NCAA History
Last Year Invited: None — this is their first eligible season.
Streak: 1
Best NCAA Finish: n/a
Historical Performance vs. Seed (1985-present): n/a
Six Degrees to Detroit: None
Distance to First Round Site: 235 miles
School's Claim to Fame: Alf Clausen, composer for The Simpsons, is an alum.
School Wishes It Could Forget: That it wasted Woodside's 60-point explosion against Stephen F. Austin in December; Woodside was the story, but NDSU lost that game 112-113 in three overtimes.
Prediction: Do you want to see this team coming in the first round? Everyone's going to be rooting for them. Woodside's got a shooting eye that can turn out your lights and there's probably not a lot of game film about. Still, probably a one-and-done debut. It'll be fun to watch, though.
Major RTC stories: Ben Woodside Knows Free Throws, and 12 Down, 53 To Go
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Never before has an interview subject assumed/joked that RedEye was a communist newspaper. Fans of Boots Riley's veteran, socially conscious hip-hop act The Coup probably won't be surprised that he mentioned it.
"Do people assume that [it's a communist paper] that don't know [it's not]?" asks the Chicago-born rapper, who moved away when he was one and has long called Oakland home. "I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think that."
He's kidding (I think), but, contrasting with the band's often-danceable music (including the recent "Sorry to Bother You"), Riley's frequently very serious both on record and in conversation. At Mayne Stage in late November, after the band performed "Magic Clap" exclusively for RedEye and before the group's official performance that night, Riley, 41, talked about making people pay attention to both the music and the words, that the album "Kill My Landlord" wasn't actually about killing his landlord and why he liked "Skyfall" but still questioned James Bond's agenda.
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You left Chicago when you were one year old. So you must remember it pretty well.
[Laughs] I also remembered I was a youth organizer and I helped lead a real successful walkout when I was in high school. So the organization I was in had me help with youth organizing in different places. So I would come to Chicago a lot as a high schooler. I remember back then they were really into the "jack your body."
I'm not sure I know what you mean.
You're not from Chicago then.
I am.
No. You don't know what "jack your body" is?
I don't think I do.
[Looking into our video camera] This guy doesn't know --Chicagoans, this guy doesn't know what "jack your body" is.
Just to make sure our viewers know, why don't you explain it.
It's a dance. It's a house dance. Jack-jack-jack-jack your body. Jack your body.
We can do it right now.
You know, you gotta wait 'til later for the show. I'll do it on stage to get some real Chicagoans to get hyped.
The recent album "Sorry to Bother You" continues a long, awesome career of thoughtful hip hop. What do you think of the challenge, especially after doing it for so long, of making fun music where people still pay attention to what you're saying?
I think that people pay attention to what I'm saying as long as I make music that I enjoy. If I enjoy it I know there's somebody else who's just as strange and weird as I am and they're going to enjoy it. People pay attention to me also because I talk about things that I'm thinking about. And that are going on in the world and the music is relevant not because I mechanically try to figure out how to talk about something people would think about. But because we're all thinking about how we fit in the world, how we interact with it. Music is about engaging in life. So the music itself engages you with the life and what I'm talking about is the urge and the struggle to engage with life. To be part of everything.
I didn't know if you ever think about the balance, if the music is supporting the lyrics in a way that will accentuate both as opposed to drown one out in the audience's mind. Or if that's not really an issue.
I don't know. I think I make music that is hopeful, that you can dance to, and I think that when people hear any kind of music at first they just hear the music. If it's good music they just hear the music, no matter what it is. And then they learn the lyrics later.
It seems like your landlord was cool recently when you didn't pay rent for a while, when you were involved in Occupy Oakland. I was wondering if he knows your first album was called "Kill My Landlord" and what he thinks of that?
Uh, I haven't asked him about that yet. I'm sure if he Wikipedia's enough he'll find it.
You think you would have heard about it?
No, he's too cool of a dude. He wouldn't bring that up.
He knows you didn't mean it.
I meant it, but I meant it in a general way. In the same way that [our song] "The Guillotine"'s talking about getting rid of the working class.
Not Joe, your actual landlord.
Yeah, that's not going to help change the system. But it's talking about the one percent. The ruling class. In this country and the media we talk a lot about lower class middle class and upper class. That was a guise that came up in the early 20th century to get people away from talking about the rulings class vs. the working class. Because really those are the two classifications that really matter that have to do with the function of society. Yeah, there are various people in the working class that make more than other people in the working class. The question is not only what your income is but what is the function. What is your function? So what I'm always putting forward is a class analysis. And that cuts through all of the other stuff. So "Kill My Landlord" was an attempt at putting class analysis out there. Pretty much a lot of my stuff is talking about [ways] to see the world that explain it and that also give you a platform to actually change things from.
All your songs have such deliberate purpose. Do you have a sense of a track that seems to have gotten people riled up the most?
What do you mean by riled up?
Either positive feedback, "thank you for bringing attention to this" or the flipside, "I can't believe you're putting it this way"?
We were at an [event] supporting folks doing foreclosure defense when we were on tour in Portland. And the crowd was marching down the street chanting [from the song "The Guillotine"], "We got the guillotine! We got the guillotine, you better run!"
That's amazing.
So that felt good. That was a connection. Definitely seen other songs, like the song I did with Dead Prez called "Get Up" that's played at numerous demonstrations, rebellions and riots. Sometimes I do wonder what the hell I'm doing and why I'm doing it, and every now and then I will see that music does end up being part of people's lives in a way that is useful.
On that note, I read you commented from album to album you're talking about the same things.
The same way the Beatles talked about the same things on all their albums.
But they weren't commenting on things the way you do. Is there any frustration that comes when you sit down to write and feel all the things that were upsetting are still an issue now?
I don't think that what comes across in my music, I don't put it that way … I don't think what comes across in my music is that I'm upset. It's not that I'm upset with the world, it's that I see something wrong with the world and I think there's an opportunity to change it. It's much more optimistic. If anything I'm more optimistic than I ever was.
Because there's a much larger movement in the United States than there was, say, 10 years ago. Definitely more than 20 years ago. Right here in Chicago you guys had a very militant teachers' strike that was connected with the community. Many of the folks involved in that Chicago teachers' strike were also involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Definitely the atmosphere created by the Occupy Wall Street movement opened up some space for that. The Wal-mart strike. Or not strike but the actions that are going on, some places they're on strike. That wouldn't have happened a year ago even. On the East Coast 200 fast food workers have walked out to create a fast food workers' union. There are things going on all over, just a few miles up from here in Canada 200-and-something-thousand students had an 8-month strike that was able to stop fee hikes and get the national government to answer to them and negotiate and they won. All over the world there are actions, and not just demonstrations but people are taking the strategy of stopping profit to create change. And movements are building up. I had to make "Kill My Landlord" because class analysis wasn't in the regular dialogue of the day. Now with 1 percent versus 99 percent, people are very familiar with that idea. That the 99 percent creates the wealth for the 1 percent.
I want to touch on some lighter stuff too. What's a guilty pleasure movie of yours?
I don't know if this is a guilty pleasure: "Idiocracy." It's a pretty good movie; it shouldn't be a guilty pleasure. I love that movie. I went and saw James Bond.
What did you think of "Skyfall"? I liked that a lot.
I liked the movie, but it's a guilty pleasure for me because you're getting hyped off of imperialist powers going into other countries and murdering leaders who they don't like because they don't serve the empire.
He sleeps with some of their women too, though. He doesn't kill everyone.
Yeah. He kills them after he sleeps with them. [Laughs]
The best thing he saw during his work with Occupy Oakland: "The general strike Nov. 2. That put the strategy on the table or the tactic on the table of workers stopping profit to affect an immediate change. Two months after that, which didn't get covered here, in response to and inspired by and because of what we did at Occupy Oakland, Occupy Nigeria shut down their whole country for a week. I'm talking about every single city. There were no railroads running. There were no airports running. There were no stores running. You can look it up online and see video and stuff. The question is why wasn't it on TV. It was the first time they had any sort of anti authoritarian movement since they've had independence. It was a big thing."
Why he thinks it wasn't on TV: "Because too many people would get inspired. That's the reason why there are things going on right now that aren't in the mainstream media. Right here we just met with Occupy Roberts Park, or Rogers Park, they've been physically defending victims of foreclosure and moving people into homes. Seems like something that would be really inspiring to other folks, but it's not seen. At least not seen anywhere where I am. Same thing's happening in Oakland, same thing's happening all up and down the East Coast. Seems like important information to be shared."
On Street Sweeper Social Club, his project with Libertyville native Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine: "We'll do another album. Tom doesn't like to tour so there will be another album out. I'm sure we'll do a show in Chicago since he's from here. We'll do shows in special places that he wants to come out to."
On the movie script he wrote: "['Sorry to Bother You'] is the soundtrack to a movie I wrote. The movie's a dark comedy with magical realism and some science fiction, inspired by my time as a telemarketer … I'll be playing the main character. David Cross will be playing my white voice … And Patton Oswalt will be playing my manager … I think we'll be filming in late spring. And they think they can get it out by the end of summer."
The story behind his nickname: "It was a name that was given to me when I was in high school that I hated, that I would not answer to for years that everyone knew me by. Thousands of people knew me by Boots actually, and that I wouldn't answer to, so when I started making records, I was like, '[Bleep], I need a name so everyone will know it's me.' … So in the Bay Area, in the East Bay you have this thing for your senior year called 'Senior Fling' where every single high school in all the cities on the East Bay, so this is like eight cities on the East Bay, they all go down to southern California for a five-day weekend. You're planning on this for your whole entire high school career. It's five days of debauchery … With no parents, some sort of counselors but they're off having sex with each other anyway. So you go to Magic Mountain, Disneyland, you go to Catalina Island, all this sort of stuff. The catch was Disneyland, they didn't like kids coming and being drunk and rowdy so they made it from midnight to 8 in the morning and you had to wear a suit. And I didn't usually wear suits. I like the occasional suit now, but I didn't wear it then. So I bought myself a suit, but I forget to buy dress shoes. I had my father run and get me some dress shoes real quick before I got on the bus. And I didn't really get to have anything to say about picking 'em. And be brought me these Florsheim boots with the zipper up the side. I could really appreciate them stylistically now, but in high school anything that's different that's fair game; it could be something really good that's different but it's different and they got you. So I got on the bus and somebody starts saying, 'RayRiley's wearing boots!' 'Cause before that my name was 'RayRiley.' Not "Ray Riley" but one name. People would be like, 'RayRiley, what's your last name?' So, 'RayRiley's wearing boots!' And it kind of went around all over the place. Then there was a talent show, so like 20 schools were watching the talent show. I was in the talent show. Even though I didn't have on boots then, a group of the folks that were on the bus that I was on started chanting, 'Boots! Boots! Boots!' So hundreds or thousands of kids were saying, 'Boots! Boots!' So I was immediately identified as Boots. I came back to Oakland, people just driving by were like, 'Boots! Boots!' People that I didn't know. I would act like I didn't hear them. They would just keep saying, 'Boots!' I just wouldn't answer until they said, 'Ray!' and I would turn around. What they also did was while I wasn't there in the hotel room they took the Mickey Mouse doll from Disneyland and put it in the boots next to all these other Disney characters and took a picture. And the big album of the time was by Biz Markie—'Nobody Beats the Biz.' It had these yellow old English letters that said 'Nobody Beats the Biz.' They blew the picture up to about 10 by 10 feet and put 'Nobody Beats the Boots' on it and hung it in the student commons … It was a name that I hated, that I wouldn't respond to … [I like it now]. Only when someone asks me how I got the name do I even make the association."
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I would like to get some input from you regarding something with which I'm struggling. There are some matters which I've been praying about and I don't really know what I'm doing. I ask for wisdom and guidance to know God's will but I have absolutely no idea of how to listen for an answer. Sitting in silence doesn't seem to do anything. I'm afraid of being misled by emotions which is what led me to my time in the Mormon Church. I asked my priest (Catholic) about this and he didn't help much. He told me it differs from person to person and try to remain in silence during prayer until I learned how to hear. I try but since I don't know what I'm doing it is very frustrating. Do you have suggestions? Something that has helped in your own life or a website or book to read? I'm willing to try whatever. It seems my prayers are only me talking and I want very much for it to be more like a conversation. You get to know someone by communicating WITH them, not talking at them. Is prayer life not the same? How can I learn to communicate with God through prayer when it ends up as only me talking?
I feel rather embarrassed asking this. It seems like I'm the only one who struggles with this, which I know can't be true.
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I can only recount recent experiences from my life.
Recently I too was struggiling as to what decisions to make, where to go, where to turn. I was paralyzed by fear, and couldn't move. I didn't know which direction to turn.
In speaking with my Spiritual Father, I lamented how I was waiting for God to show His plan to me. I explained how I had this image in my head of Wile E. Coyote, and the blue print he had to capture the Road Runner.
My Spiritual Father responded, "Yes, he had the blueprint, and what happened to him? An anvil fell on his head, the power went out. Things never worked for him. So stop waiting and start LIVING or an anvil will fall on your head!"
After that talk I was able to make the first step, which led to another, which led to another...
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June 17, 2009, 12:02:56 AM »
I sympathize with your situation. However, I would be hard pressed to find any of the great ascetics and monks who would regard prayer as "conversation" with God. I could be wrong though and I will invite correction. Your situation does seem to dictate that there is an emptiness when you pray, a sense of a void.
This could be because you are young in your prayer/spiritual life and that is nothing to be embarassed about or ashamed of as we are all there at one time or another and, for me, a lot of times.
My advice: Keep things simple. The prayers of the Church are priceless treasures. I so wrapped myself in them because the words of these prayers expressed what I had so long wish to express with my own heart but didn't have the ability to do so. ANd it was only by constant immersion and adopting a consistent rule of prayer that I was able to come out of the dark. But, I didn't just start using all of them--I worked into them. I 'd recommend you do the same. Keep the same hours of prayer, as you rise and as you are about to go to bed. Then add more prayers and see what happens there. Many others have icons in their prayer corners, some incense, candles burner, some may even play Orthodox chants in the background (that's a little much for me). The point is you want to make sure that your prayer is totally undistracted which is really tough to do. Just I advise my students to have a special place for them to study so you should also have a special place for you to pray.
You say your Catholic priest was not able to help you. Have you considered asking an Orthodox priest for his advice. I don't know if you are interested in converting. But you may wish to seek out an Orthodox priest and see what he thinks. If you are interested in some resources on prayer, I would recommend
The ARt of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology
which has a lot of gems from mainly Russian saints and ascetics like St. Theophan the Recluse, St. Dimitri of Rostov, etc. But I would only undertake this work under the guidance of a father confessor.
One more thing--give yourself a break. It is impossible for one to ascend the Cross on Golgotha and not fall, but that is why it is all the more important for you to pick yourself up and try again. In the spritual life and warfare, it is way to easy to get frustrated and, as a result, try to make up for it as if we are appeasing some wrathful God. It's easy to fall into that trap. But don't let yourself especially as our God is merciful and compassionate who has mercy on sinners.
Good luck with your endeavours.
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Thank you for your responses. I didn't mean to come across as wishing for a full blown running dialogue. I meant only that it seems I'm talking and that is the end of it. I'm not looking for thunderbolts and booming voices of instruction. I want instead some confirmation of some kind to let me know I'm on the right (or wrong) path. As far as interest in converting, it is funny you mention that because that is one of the two areas of which I am seeking guidance. Maybe I'll ask the priest at the Orthodox parish next time I attend, which will probably be this weekend. It seems I'm spinning my wheels and never making any spiritual progress. It is frustrating.
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Don't worry that much. The fact that you're still seeking God means that it's just a temporary test.
That's what I think.
Though I've walked the valley of the shadow of the death, I've fallen not. Not completely. Not yet.
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Before you pray try listening to calming music, I usually listen to Orthodox chants, they give me a sense of peace and warmth. But zone out to those and after a while you will feel the Holy Spirit.
When you feel this, say the Jesus Prayer
"Oh Lord, Jesus Christ, the son of God, have mercy upon me a sinner"
use this throughout the day and before you sleep and when ever things are bad.
and feel every single bit of repentance that you can and you will feel his love.
I have never really been one to see a prayer as a literal face to face conversation with Christ. Even though that is what it is.
Don't jump, baby steps are good.
Psalms 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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Male-on-male attacks up since repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
While the full picture remains far from clear, signs of the ill effects of the Democrat-initiated law allowing homosexuals to serve in the U.S. military without hiding their sexual preference are beginning to appear.
The newest reports, for Fiscal Year 2011, have just come out, and Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, immediately noted that sexual misbehavior is on the rise.
She has completed an analysis of the the reports, including the overall military assessment of sexual assaults as well as the
army's Gold Book report, and it cites 515 rapes, 414 aggravated sexual assaults and 349 forcible sodomies documented by just the Criminal Investigation Command in 2011.
"Pentagon officials regularly praise their own work and proclaim undeserved 'success,' even though evidence of sexual misconduct, both consensual and non-consensual, continues to accelerate, year after year," she said.
"It is time to reconsider and change flawed policies that are weakening the culture of the only military we have."
In December 2010, Congress repealed the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy established by President Clinton that allowed homosexuals to remain in the military on the condition they not make a public issue of their sexual lifestyle.
The new law, for first time in U.S. history, allows homosexual members to openly acknowledge their sexual choices.
Among the details in the reports: While, since 2006, 5 percent of the violent sexual assaults have been against men, recent reports now put that figure at 12 to 14 percent.
The Army said it is "currently monitoring same-gender sex crime for a potential increase in forcible sodomy and other sex offenses related to the disassociation of homosexuality from the crime itself."
Non-consensual sodomy attacks for fiscal 2011 totaled 7 percent of the nearly 2,500 attacks cited on one military report.
In several cases "the victim ceased cooperating with the military justice proceeding and the subjects were given no judicial punishment for consensual sodomy."
Other case descriptions from the Department of Defense included:
- "Male victim alleged that male subjects groped him through clothing and attempted sodomy with a broom handle."
- "Male victim alleged that male subject performed oral sodomy on him in bar bathroom while he was passing in and out of consciousness from drinking.
- "Male victim alleged that the male subject, National Guard soldier, took out his penis, and straddled his thigh in the motor poll while in Iraq."
One of the reports said 9 percent of the victims claimed to be victims of "non-consensual sodomy."
The more than 700 pages of the compiled reports, however, did not mention homosexuality.
Donnelly told WND that the statistics show a more than 20 percent increase in reported sexual assaults on males.
And she said researchers specifically announced plans to track numbers to monitor the increase, since "this category of homosexual conduct no longer is illegal."
"It's way too soon," she said, to come to definitive conclusions. But she said the "numbers have gone way up."
She said the military's efforts to deal with the complications of women in the ranks, which have been around for years, as well as the new issues of open homosexuality, are failing.
"What they need to do is get rid of gender-integrated basic training," she said. "That conclusions was drawn that it did [increase] and still is increasing disciplinary issues."
"If you don't learn the basics of discipline [in basic training], it won't happen later," she said.
Donnelly's organization just released its policy analysis drawing information from the Army "Gold Book" report on wartime personnel stress, the most recent annual report of the Defense Department Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Office, and a 2010 report on ship captain firings from the Navy.
"Both the Army 'Gold Book' released in January and the Defense Department SAPRO report released last Friday hid the bad news in plain sight. Instead of reconsidering social policies known to increase disturbing disciplinary problems, the Pentagon is pressing ahead with costly, time-wasting programs that are not working," she warned.
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She said teams of professional sexual assault response counselors, untold hours of mandatory training, preemptive punishments, bureaucracy, conferences, meetings and feel-good gimmicks have produced:
- A hike of 22 percent since 2007 in the sexual assaults in all branches
- A doubling since 2006 of the number of violent attacks and rapes in the Army, from 663 in 2006 to 1,313 last year
- A "chilling trend" of violent sex crimes rising at the rate of 14.6 percent annually, "and the rate is accelerating"
- A 28 percent increase in the offense rate and a 20 percent increase in offenders from 2006-2011 in sex crimes in the active-duty Army
- A jump in male sexual assault victims from 10 percent in 2010 to 14 percent in confidential reports for 2011
- The need to fire senior enlisted Navy officers at the rate of nearly two per month because of sexual misconduct.
Donnelly explained the problem has been developing for some time. She cited the 1997 recommendation from the Kassebaum-Baker Commission for the Army to end the gender-integrated basic training, because it was "resulting in less discipline, less unit cohesion, and more distraction from training."
But the advice was ignored, she said.
And Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, even while noting that the military branch experiences three sexual assaults every day, called for observance of a "Sexual Assault Awareness Month" that included "adult interactive plays."
"Despite tangible evidence of failure, the same officials expect free-rein to implement policies that would worsen the situation. On Feb. 9, 2012, Pentagon briefers announced their intent to promote 'diversity' by incrementally implementing controversial recommendations of the Military Diversity Leadership Commission," she said.
The report said, "More than 20 years ago, male and female naval aviators partied wildly at the 1991 post-Persian Gulf War Tailhook convention in Las Vegas. The highly publicized scandal ruined the careers of hundreds of officers."
Now, "we are starting to see a military resembling Jenga Blocks – a table-top tower constructed of smooth wooden planks," the report continued. "Players remove planks from the bottom of the tower and load them on the top, destabilizing the structure until it buckles and falls. In the same way, severe budget cuts combined with social burdens loaded on top could irreparably weaken the culture and strength of our military."
The report said the next White House administration, to minimize damage and reverse course, should "put the needs of the military above 'diversity metrics.'" And the military should reinforce core values and policies that are known to reinforce personal discipline, it said.
Basic training also needs to be separate for genders, women should be exempt from direct ground combat units, and military policies should be "based on reality, not 'social fiction.'"
CMR has reported previously on the manipulation of government data that contributed to the Obama campaign to remove the ban on open homosexuality. It cited an inspector general's report marked "For Official Use Only" that said numbers were combined to present the image that members of the military approved of Obama's plan for open homosexuality.
It was the military's original and now-suspect report that famously was quoted as affirming "70 percent" of the nation's military members believe the repeal of the long-standing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" practice of allowing homosexuals to serve as long as they kept their sexual lifestyle choices to themselves would have either "a neutral or positive impact on unit cohesion, readiness, effectiveness and morale."
However, the IG in documents uncovered by Donnelly revealed the actual figures for military members were: those who believed the change would impact units "very positively" (6.6 percent), "positively" (11.8 percent), "mixed" (32.1 percent), "negatively" (18.7 percent), "very negatively" (10.9 percent) and "no effect" (19.9 percent).
The only way the 70 percent figure can be reached is to combine "very positively," "positively," "mixed" and "no effect." But this combination counts people with "neutral positions" as favoring the change, Donnelly argued.
Donnelly explained that taking the same figures and lumping them on the other side with "negatively" and "very negatively" would produce a total of almost 82 percent of the soldiers who believe the results of the change would be "negative or neutral."
The IG report uncovered by Donnelly said exactly that:
We considered that the primary source's likely pro-repeal sentiment was further demonstrated by his/her inclusion of the key 70 percent figure in the information provided to the Washington Post. … Had [the source] desired to further an anti-repeal bias for the article, he/she could likewise have combined four results categories from that same survey question to conclude that "82 percent of respondents said the effect of repealing the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy would be negative, mixed or no effect."
The Thomas More Law Center announced a federal FOIA lawsuit against the Navy, seeking to obtain records that are expected to show intentional deception by the Pentagon "to gain congressional support for repeal of the 1993 law regarding open homosexual conduct in the military, usually called 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'"
The lawsuit is based on the IG report obtained by Donnelly, "which suggested that a distorted Pentagon study of homosexuals in the military was produced and leaked solely to persuade Congress to lift the ban on open homosexuality."
Erin Mersino, the attorney handling the blockbuster case, said the organization already has tried to obtain information.
"The Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy have failed to produce a single document despite numerous FOIA requests over the last two years for information to uncover the truth surrounding the congressional repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell," she said.
In one side effect that rebounded on the White House, a Senate committee, in an attempt to ensure the law conforms to the new policy, voted to repeal the ban in the military on bestiality, an issue that White House press secretary Jay Carney didn't consider a serious question.
The Senate quickly backtracked when its vote was revealed.
WND previously reported on CMR's uncovering of the Inspector General's report.
That documents how the co-chairman of the commission working on the assessment of the impact on the military, Jeh Johnson, "read portions of 'an early draft' of the executive summary … to a former news anchor, a close personal friend visiting Mr. Johnson's home" three days before service members even were given the survey.
"Contrary to most news accounts, the 'Comprehensive Review Working Group' process was not a 'study,'" Donnelly told WND. "Its purpose was to circumvent and neutralize military opposition to repeal of the law."
She described the study "was a publicly funded pre-scripted production put on just for show."
"The … report, completed on April 8, 2011, reveals improper activities and deception that misled members of Congress in order 'to gain momentum in support of a legislative change during the 'lame duck' session of Congress following the November 2, 2010, elections,'" she wrote.
Donnelly explained that days before the survey was distributed, Johnson "was seeking advice from a 'former news anchor' on how to write the report's executive summary more 'persuasively.'"
Further, "The DoD IG report concluded that someone who 'had a strongly emotional attachment to the issue' and 'likely a pro-repeal agenda' violated security rules and leaked selected, half-true information to the Washington Post," she explained.
Within days of the military's repeal of its ban on open homosexuality, two members of Congress pointed out that the Department of Defense had failed to fulfill its obligations to prepare for the change.
The letter was from House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., and Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., the chairman of the personnel subcommittee.
It was addressed to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, whose media office declined to respond to a WND request for comment.


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