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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- It took five tough sets to ground the Golden Eagles, but Belmont came out on top in a hard-fought battle. The Tech volleyball team was defeated by Belmont on their home court Friday night, 3-2.
Set scores for Belmont were 16-25, 25-14, 18-25, 25-19 and 15-6.
The Golden Eagles headed into the fourth set with a 2-1 advantage for the first time in the 2012 season, but in true comeback fashion the Bruins developed a swing in momentum and took the fourth and fifth sets to win the match.
Tech was led by three double-double performances from Kelsey Gray, Ellen Conti and Madison Comperry. Gray had 11 kills and 10 blocks on the night, in her third double-double of her career. Conti had 10 terminations and 17 digs, while Comperry added 14 digs and 24 assists.
Four other Golden Eagle hitters, Natalie Penrod, Madison Keyes, Elise Robertson and Cody Dodd, chipped in three kills, spreading the offense to both pins. Robertson and Conti knocked down five blocks respectively. with Dodd and Keyes adding three blocks of their own.
Ashleigh Hancock dished out 10 assists of her own and Courtney Smith commanded the back court with a match high 25 digs.
Tech took sets one and two in commanding fashion. The Golden Eagles had an attack percentage of .240 in set one, and a near flawless performance in set three. The Golden Eagles went 11 for 33 in the third set with just one error, swinging .303, a season high.
The fourth set seemed to swing the momentum in Belmont's favor, as the Golden Eagles were held to a 54 side-out percentage, and a meager .098 attack percentage. The Bruins jumped to a 10-3 lead in the fifth set sealing the match in their favor, 3-2.
Tech volleyball returns to action Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. The Golden Eagles will face Tennessee State for a second time this season. It will be the last home game for the Golden Eagles until November 2.

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Nemo was founded in 1993 by Franco Cassina and Carlo Forcolini in Meda, Italy. The official lighting division of Cassina Furniture, the company was established to recreate the lighting pieces that best represented the "Golden Age" of Italian lighting design of the 1960s and '70s, namely those created by the Italian modernist Franco Albini.
Five years later, the company acquired ItalianaLuce, an Italian lighting line that features a range of modern fixtures that are functional, practical and versatile. The new assortment provided a complementary counterpoint to the classic clean lines of its iconic Nemo Franco Albini imprint. Nemo absorbed the company as well as the name, rebranding itself as Nemo ItalianaLuce.
In 2002, the company purchased Illuminating Experiences, an expansive U.S. lighting entity that allowed Nemo ItalianaLuce to considerably increase its presence in the states. Fast-forward to 2014, and the company arrives where it started, reverting to the esteemed simplicity of its original name – Nemo.
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Working with more than 15 international designers, Nemo showcases an extensive range of forms and textures for being an understated modern lighting line. Made up largely of blown glass and sharing its sibling's heavy use of black, Nemo ItalianaLuce is a more relaxed option for the modern space while Nemo Franco Albini speaks to those looking for authentic vintage mid-century inspired Italian design.
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The Constellation collection was inspired by a combination of portholes on ships and military watches. Illuminating Experiences distributes Nemo lighting in the U.S., as well as fixtures from Le Klint, De Majo and more.
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The 2007 series features a lecture and exhibit by acclaimed 9/11 photographer Joel Meyerowitz and the performance of the musical piece On the Transmigration of Souls by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams.
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The four lessons in this unit build toward a student understanding of each component of the energy budget formula - and how the contribution of each component changes due to location and time of year. In order, the four lessons consist of: deriving... (View More) the formula for Earth's energy budget, analyzing data from NASA's CERES instrument, learning to code using the RStudio program, and using RStudio to explore and evaluate the energy budgets of specific locations and seasons. The unit includes a pre/post test; each lesson follows the 5E model and contains worksheets with answer keys. (View Less)
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The balloon fiesta began in 1972 as the highlight of a 50th birthday celebration for KOB Radio in Albquerque and featured one balloon. Since then it has grown to become the largest balloon convention in the world and, reputedly, the most photographed single event in the world.
New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics at 45% (2008 estimate), being descendants of Spanish colonists and recent immigrants from Latin America. It also has the third-highest percentage of Native Americans after Alaska and Oklahoma, and the fifth-highest total number of Native Americans after California, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Texas. The tribes represented in the state consist of mostly Navajo and Pueblo peoples. As a result, the demographics and culture of the state are unique for their strong Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultural influences. At a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth most sparsely inhabited U.S. state.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_mexico]


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I seem to have a problem with grains, such as rye grain etc, as in say Dan lepods recipe he says "boil the grains for 45 mins and then soak overnight. Now iv'e tried this twice now with different recipes but they still taste hard even after baking the loaves, making them almost inedible, iv'e actuly soaked them for much longer but without success. Any ideas how to rectify this problem ?
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Eric Ripert & Anthony Bourdain playing petanque in the Hamptons.
July 6, 2012
Chefs & boules
by Petanque America at 7:34 PM
2 comments:
- Smudge said...
A great example of why Petanque is such a pathetic failure in the United States. Let's get all excited that a couple of rich guys throwing boules for a few minutes.
Celebrities don't give a damn about Petanque - they do whatever they think appeals to the camera, next week it will be Bocce or nude midget wrestling.
Get some pride and support grassroots Petanque. Leave pandering to celebrities to reality TV show junkies.
If you really need these two clowns to make you feel good about Petanque then you should find another sport.
- July 07, 2012 1:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
"Pathetic failure?" I don't know where YOU live, "Smudge" but we in California are having a great time growing the sport!
- July 17, 2012 3:25 AM
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I read somewhere that the best way to tell a person's true age is to look at their hands. Thanks to the intersection of our vanity with innovations in technology and medicine, it's now possible to camouflage signs of age in the body, face, hair, and teeth. But as far as I know, not much can be done about wrinkled, mottled, vein—y hands.
Hands may just be the real Picture of Dorian Grey.
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Last month, we loaded our four daughters into the minivan on a Sunday afternoon and drove to Duclos & Thompson Farm in Weybridge to see the new lambs and piglets.
In two weeks, my parents will move to Vermont from the town in Northern Virginia where I grew up, their home for 37 years.
More on that later; for today all you need to know is their new front door in Vermont needs work. Everyone – the real estate agent, the sellers, the contractors they consulted – agreed that the door should be repainted or replaced, and that the doorstep needs to be repaired.
The snow bursts our spring closed.
Crocus used to be a word for purple
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this time of year, door stoppers.
Opening a door so we can watch
our steps. And not be still March-
shoveling. Every year we want to forget
spring arrives at the back door.
Where we lean our shovels.
Where there's nearby bursting.
And not the snow budding.
TIGER SENIOR SARA Boe scores the first goal of the state championship game vs. Burr & Burton on Wednesday evening at UVM. MUHS won the game, 2-1. Independent photo/Trent Campbell
The Middlebury Union High School girls' hockey team claimed the program's first state championship on Wednesday night at the University of Vermont's Gutterson Fieldhouse.
Former Middlebury town planner Fred Dunnington sent along photos taken in the tropics with the underwater camera he got as a retirement present this past summer. With the temperature on Monday night hovering at zero, selectboard Chairman Dean George said at Middlebury's town meeting he was glad someone was enjoying warm weather somewhere.
Dennis Cassidy asked the moderator, former Gov. Jim Douglas, if he was ready to declare he was running for governor again. Douglas dryly quipped that Cassidy was "out of order on many fronts."
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The other day, I took my four-year-old daughter on a long-overdue "Mommy Date" to spend her birthday money at Ben Franklin. (Long-overdue because her birthday was in July, which is what happens when you're the second child of four). After our shopping trip, we stopped by Otter Creek Bakery for cookies. As I stood at the counter to order, my daughter sat at a table playing happily with the unicorn figurine she'd just bought.
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Comedian Greg Barris Thinks Tom Selleck is a 'Baby Saving, Mustachioed Saint' [INTERVIEW]
Greg Barris is a staple in New York's downtown stand-up scene. He's the creator of Heart Of Darkness — a psychedelic showcase of comedy, live music and science. Yes, science.
When he isn't traveling with The Heart of Darkness show, he is making music with his band 'The Wigmaker's Son.' Their first release takes listeners "on a magic carpet ride through time waves, anoints Tom Selleck as a baby saving mustachioed saint, puts the reptilian army on notice and forgives all your sins."
Greg sat down to talk about Magnum PI, Heart of Darkness, wigs and his side job owning a pizza joint.
Greg Barris: Well, my band is called 'The Wigmaker's Son.'
GuySpeed: Right, so how much comedic inspiration came from that line of work? We think it's kind of a funny thing. You know someone makes wigs but you don't always think about it like "that's a family business."
Greg Barris: My grandfather was a wig maker. My brother's a wig maker. My dad's a wig maker. The job itself doesn't provide much inspiration but there were always a lot of eccentric people coming into the wig shop.
GuySpeed: Were they upset that you didn't get into the family business?
Greg Barris: Nah, they were really supportive and have always been supportive of anything I've done.
GuySpeed: Is it something to fall back on? We all have a fall back plan
Greg Barris: I don't think so. I don't know what I would do. I don't know how to make wigs. My father and grandfather both started when they were kids. It's too late for me.
GuySpeed: Your bio says that you're also the co-owner of a pizza place. Maybe that's Plan B?
Greg Barris: I guess so.
GuySpeed: How did that happen?
Greg Barris: I sorta fell ass-backwards into the pizza world. My grandfather owned a restaurant — the only restaurant on a elevated train on Coney Island — like on the actual elevated part of the train. One day, I was doing a show and was walking back to my friend's apartment with a case of beer. I was starving, and this pizza place was closing up. I knocked on the window, hoping to get some pizza to go with the beers. The owner and I hit it off. He is showing me around and we go down to the basement. It was a great place to put on a show. So, I started doing a show in the basement of this pizza place for like a year-and-a-half. That was about 8 years ago. Over the course of the last eight years I've just become intimately involved and then a part-time owner. We actually just opened a second location.
GuySpeed: You recently anointed Tom Selleck a "baby-saving mustached saint." Is there any way to explain that in a couple words?
Greg Barris : I make these stickers with my friend who's a band director, Dema Durchin. He's a very talented artist and one of the stickers that he made a long time ago said, "Tom Selleck saved my baby," and it had Tom Selleck holding a gun with a baby in his arms. It's basically just us loving Tom Selleck.
GuySpeed: Explain a little about the Heart of Darkness show
Greg Barris: It's a variety show that I've been doing for like seven or eight years now. It's sort of a different format than in the past. There's always a different live band on stage. It's like three different bands that come together to make this six-piece band and each show is themed. There are always two comics and some musical guests and a guest speaker. We try to theme the show around the speaker and then everyone tries to do something that touches on that theme. I have to pick a band that can play with the comics, so to speak, or the musical guests. The speaker's usually like a fringe scientist.
GuySpeed: Where did the idea for all this come from?
Greg Barris: Well, it sort of just built on itself over the last several years. I was working on a documentary, years ago, about consciousness and science. I was interviewing a lot of science people and they were so interesting I wanted to bring it to a live show. For example, I recently had a quantum physicist join us on stage. We do like a question and answer thing. The show is always evolving and changing into something else.
GuySpeed: Where do your comedic inspirations come from?
Greg Barris: All over the place really — I love live comedy. I also really like Gene Wilder and Bill Murray. Also the show 'Look Around You.' Ever see that show?
GuySpeed: Describe it and maybe we've seen it
Greg Barris: It's a British show by this guy Peter Serafinowicz, he's a genius and he made this almost like a weird PBS science show, but it's absolutely absurd. It's just very, very absurd and dry. There's not really another American show like it.
GuySpeed: So, because of your personal tastes, your comedy tends to lean toward funny but also kind of a learning experience?
Greg Barris: Yeah, I try to learn stuff myself and try to fit some sort of learning experience in my shows.
To learn more about Greg, check out his website gregbarris.com.


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The Antidote to Academic Orthodoxy · 16 May 2004
By Stephen Balch--Chronicle of Higher Education
Every so often in the history of great institutions fundamental issues of governance assume a compelling urgency. Such dramatic episodes are familiar enough at the highest levels of politics. But they also occur in the social, cultural, and religious spheres. Ecclesiastical history is replete with them, and systematic overhauls in modes of governance have periodically upturned the worlds of business, finance, media, and the military.
American higher education has experienced them as well. Between the two world wars, academe completed a constitutional reorganization that reflected the triumph of the scientific paradigm over earlier creedal missions. Reconceived as temples of dispassionate reason, colleges and universities effected a wholesale transfer of intellectual power from trustees and presidents to specialized faculties, wherein reason was presumed to reside. Among the incidents of that transfer were the establishment of tenure as the normative employment practice and the relegation of boards and presidents to no more than an attenuated oversight of academic hiring and curriculum.
The subsequent evolution of this regime, however, took a very different course than proponents like AAUP founders John Dewey and Arthur O. Lovejoy anticipated. They had confidently expected that the humanities and social sciences would follow the path of the natural sciences, generating an ever more cumulative and accepted understanding of human affairs. They had also imagined that humanistic and social-scientific research would proceed within communities of practitioners able and willing to sustain a free and open marketplace of ideas. Academic freedom, as they conceived it, was intended to protect that marketplace from external interference by a less enlightened laity.
It is now painfully clear that those hopeful suppositions were wrong. Although interesting and useful work continues to be done in the humanities and social sciences, advancing, in limited areas, knowledge of a typically descriptive character, broad theoretic syntheses commanding anything like a consensus have generally not emerged. Also unlike the natural sciences, sweeping applications of new knowledge have failed to flow from these fields into the larger world. Most disappointing, many have been shown to be highly susceptible to penetration by fads and sects, at times out of a desire to mimic the hard sciences in method and jargon, at times to replace a waning passion for inquiry with a zeal for causes. One crucial result has been a substantial contraction of serious academic discourse about the human condition, and the range of philosophical, cultural, and public-policy issues to which it gives rise.
This paradoxical outcome represents a major embarrassment for American higher education. Although other centers of opinion leadership, such as the mass media and Hollywood, have often been attacked for political and cultural bias, each offers a diversity of intellectual product rarely found on campus. Blockbuster films regularly tout traditional values of patriotism, valor, and personal honor; radio hosts a panoply of powerful conservative voices; and even the op-ed pages of liberal organs like The New York Times and The Washington Post give far more space to critics of their viewpoints than would be accorded by most humanities or social-sciences faculties. Dewey and Lovejoy might well have found it remarkable that, even without the practice of tenure, American journalism provides a profitable home for a multitude of sophisticated commentators who dissent from its dominant opinion. The marketplace has apparently proved a more effective means of preserving reasoned diversity than the insulated self-governance of the professoriate.
Before progress can be made toward reviving intellectual pluralism in higher education, some habits of thought and institutional governance need to be reconsidered. Principal among these is the too easy equation of the intellectual world of the natural sciences with that of humane learning. It should now be obvious to all but the most dogged defenders of received academic wisdom that there are enormous differences between them. Two differences particularly stand out. First, professors in the humanities and social sciences characteristically bring to the analysis of questions in their fields vastly stronger feelings about the answers they would prefer to find. Second, the phenomena treated in the humanities and social sciences, involving - as they do - the tangled skein of human action - are much more ambiguous and complex.
Unlike the issues that occupy physics, chemistry, mathematics and, for the most part, biology, those relating to justice and moral truth -- the stuff of the humanities and social sciences -- are strenuously contested in the outside world. Because emotional involvement and interest in the particulars of social controversy go hand in hand, those recruited to their study usually arrive already equipped with strong dispositions toward one or another of the warring factions. The scholarly continuation of controversies remains encapsulated within the global ones, further sustaining career-long partisanship.
The old joke that academic controversies are so bitter because so little is at stake misses a major point. Unlike the larger public realm, where most citizens have only a tangential interest in vindicating their opinions, and even political leaders can walk away from conflicts after splitting the difference, in academe professional lives, fortunes, and perhaps most sacred, personal self-esteem, can hang on the outcome of even the most recondite disputes. Too often under such circumstances, yearnings to preserve a comfortable environment of orthodoxy trump the interest in maintaining free debate.
Eventually, perhaps, large portions of humane inquiry will be undertaken with fully scientific rigor. Consilience may or may not be a realizable aspiration. But, in the meantime, the social sciences and humanities will have to make do with fuzzy concepts, contested analytic frameworks, a paucity of reliable data, and chronic difficulties in formulating decisive tests of rival hypotheses. In such a context, theory stays murky or becomes so artificially abstracted that practical relevance is largely lost. What reigns instead is judgment, at best informed by good sense, relevant learning, and careful observation, but never entirely transcending the slippery realm of opinion. Such cloudiness gives even greater opportunities for the prejudicial treatment of dissent.
Considered as constitutional systems, our institutions of higher learning are ill-equipped to thwart the power of the overbearing intellectual majorities that strong preferences and prejudices mobilize. In fact, academe's characteristic mode of governance magnifies majoritarian power. As polities, colleges and universities bear more than a passing resemblance to federations of small, semi-autonomous republics -- in this case the departments comprising their main subdivisions. Those generally hire, give tenure, and promote their teaching staffs; fix major and graduate-studies requirements; admit and finance graduate students; award the doctorates that provide new practitioners with credentials; and help journeymen secure their initial jobs. The bigger and more prestigious the institution, the less the department is likely to be subject to serious oversight from above.
Little republics are subject to all the dangers memorably delineated by James Madison in Federalist 10. Being diminutive, they easily fall under the sway of compact majorities that persistently monopolize positions of power and grind down opponents. And because the admission of new academic citizens is subject to the majority's control, as time passes those majorities tend to expand. Swollen majorities, of course, eventually generate their own factions. But in a context of diminished diversity, subsequent splitting can leave academic departments little more than nests of wrangling sectarians.
The first step to reform, then, is to admit the differences that exist among divergent fields of inquiry. In some, the classic paradigm of scientific investigation is largely realized, and internalized checks can be more or less relied upon to keep things on the straight and narrow. In others, rationalist aspirations are too clouded by passion and prejudice to prevail long without extra reinforcement. Disciplines of the former type might be called collegial in that, though rivalries exist among hypotheses and investigators, there is general agreement on the means of resolving them and a strong sense of shared intellectual mission. Such fields have well-established paradigms within which research proceeds, extensive histories of settling theoretical disputes in a manner that restores consensus, and findings that receive unambiguously productive usage in the larger world. Conversely, disciplines of the latter type are adversarial in that rivalries shade into enmities, bear heavily on methods of verification as well as the substance of disputes, involve judgments of value as well as of fact, often reveal an absence of shared mission, and produce results whose employment outside academe is very frequently polemical. Adversarial fields are likely to be divided into enduring factions whose partisans frequently treat their opponents more as foes than colleagues.
Adversarial disciplines occupy something of a twilight zone between plain politics and mature science. To recognize that is not to disparage them. They deal with important questions about the structure of human relationships and the nature of human ideals that can be genuinely illuminated by serious scholarly inquiry. But if the university is to assimilate adversarial disciplines productively into its life, it must treat them in a manner that acknowledges their distinctive character and problems. Exclusive reliance on the forms of governance serviceable for collegial disciplines is unlikely to preserve a healthy level of intellectual competition in adversarial ones. Special efforts must be made to sustain their discursive commitments to evidence, logic, clarity, and civility.
Policy should therefore aim at two related goals: encouraging as much rational discourse within an adversarial field as possible, while inhibiting the formation of intellectual monopolies based purely on organizational clout. That means that structural reforms should be considered that both draw academic adversaries into sustained reasoned discourse and afford some institutional shelter for diverse views.
Admittedly, the balance that needs to be struck between shelter and competition is a fine one. Sustaining intellectual disagreement is not in-and-of-itself a good. It is a good in those contexts where it is needed to promote constructive interaction between serious alternative viewpoints, and only to the extent that it does so. In the polity, we're generally willing to settle for outcomes acceptable to the majority. In the academy, we want progress toward the truth. Ideas must therefore be made to defend themselves in fair fights to earn their academic keep. But they must also be protected from lynching. Striking this balance will not be easy, and a great deal of institutional experimentation will undoubtedly have to take place if it is to be gained.
What is needed is a restorative infusion of Madisonian imagination, embodied in devices that will nurture and protect a healthy degree of competition among intellectually diverse factions. Such "checks and balances" might include procedural expedients that preserve minority influence -- for example, proportional voting on curriculum and hiring decisions through which disenters can determine a fractional share of the outcomes. But, given the degree to which ideological exclusion has already progressed, such procedures, by themselves, are likely to be too little too late.
Formally recognizing the value of intellectual pluralism in adversarial fields, and deliberately multiplying the institutional sites wherein it can flourish, may be the best remaining course.The most direct way of doing that would be to allow distinct schools of thought within adversarial fields to organize themselves in a state of partial independence from their rivals with some significant control over hiring and tenuring decisions affecting their members. Academics of a variety of factional persuasions would then be at greater liberty to develop their positions and advance their careers free of the heavy peer coercion they now often experience. Some schools of thought might be unified by a philosophic sensibility, while others would find agreement in a particular methodological or subject-related perspective. Some might span a number of disciplines, while others would be confined to one.
Means of self-organization could vary. In a large university system, departments at different campuses might be allowed to reflect competing viewpoints. Within a single large institution, departments could be subdivided into semiautonomous programs, each exemplifying a distinct outlook. Alternatively, special interdisciplinary programs could be set up outside regular departments for the purpose of harboring a significant perspective that is underrepresented across the institutional board."Perspective-sensitive programming" and "interdisciplinarity" have, of course, become common in academe, usually with the effect of further strengthening prevailing views. Here they would be put to a new and fruitful use.
Academics in many of the social sciences and some of the humanities who possess a classically liberal perspective could certainly benefit from the opportunities thereby created , as would humanists whose interests lie in aesthetic analysis rather than cultural studies. In a field like history, scholars concerned mainly with peak institutions, as opposed to social currents, might also be helped, possibly forging links with similarly inclined social scientists. In political science and economics, the non-quantatively oriented would see organizational options open, as, in some settings, might scholars of Marxist outlook. As trends and fashions shifted, and patterns of peer pressure correspondingly changed, so too would the beneficiaries of this approach. The specifics of its evolution would be hard to predict, but it should serve as an important "failsafe" against the premature closure of debate, and the unreasonable homogenization that now afflicts many scholarly domains.
The principal danger would be the development of an ideological quota system, with political groups seeking their piece of the academic action through crude political struggle. Unfortunately, at many colleges and universities such a system already exists, albeit with participation limited to a very restricted range of parties. It is ultimately a responsibility of those entrusted with the governance of whole institutions -- senior administration and trustees -- to ensure that intellectual excellence and scholarly rigor aren't sacrificed to pressure politics. A faculty incorporating a wider variety of outlooks than exists at present should, in fact, render that responsibility easier to exercise, since ongoing debate and reciprocal criticism is the best way of winnowing the intellectual wheat from the chaff. But it would also help immensely if senior administration began again to make clear that the university's mission was serving the cause of truth, not the activist vindication of external movements, interests, and claims.
Our universities would be wise to make the cause of intellectual diversity their own. Pledged to virtually every other kind of diversity, they must not neglect the one type that - when appropriately conceived and pursued - goes to the very heart of their mission. Furthermore, it is hard to imagine the fiduciaries of our universities -- both public and private -- indefinitely permitting them to do the disservice to research and education that their intellectual monoculture produces. Voices of protest are increasingly insistent on the need for change, and rightly so. The best way of working out the institutional specifics will be through the agency of educators themselves, but, one way or another, it is likely to happen. The time to begin thinking about it seriously is now.
Stephen H. Balch is president of the National Association of Scholars.


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Adrian Peterson is, last we checked, the best thing going in football. No one can tackle him or outrun him or chase him down. Alas, Adrian Peterson plays on a team full of men who are not the best things going in football. Christian Ponder averages only 6.08 yards per pass attempt, which ranks him behind everyone except Blaine Gabbert. The Vikings' defense allowed 350 yards per game, which ranked them 16th. Their kickoff returns had been exceptional when Percy Harvin was healthy—Harvin averaged 35.9 yards per runback, which was the league's best figure. But Percy Harvin is never healthy, and so Minnesota's special teams have slipped a little with Marcus Sherels taking his place.
Minnesota will need everything they can scrounge up to beat Green Bay for the second time in a week—this time at Lambeau, with Randall Cobb dressed for the Packers—so Adrian Peterson, who, again, is the best, has an idea.
"For the past two years I've been trying to get in on field goal block. Come in off the edge, you know?" Peterson said via The Associated Press. It's just going to take one block for them to really be like, 'OK, you know what? Let's take the chance and let you go out there and get it done. Kickoff return, I wouldn't mind getting back there. I'm in it to win."
Leslie Frazier reportedly nixed the idea, although special teams coach Mike Priefer said it might happen "in a crucial situation." Perhaps Saturday will present such a crucial situation. Godspeed, Adrian Peterson's ligaments.
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Fuzzylogic needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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I've been involved with SEO and SEM since 1998. I've learned a lot over my 11 years in the business. I've acquired some time test techniques that help local business dominate their competition on Google & Yahoo. Now is the perfect time to start up a new internet venture and a logo is the perfect place to start. I need a kick butt logo, it needs to be warm, bold and colorful.
As you can tell by the name "LOCAL SEARCH" I'm playing off of the term google uses to display it's "local searches results".
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I know the name implies Texas and yes the cities that reside in this state are my target market but I don't want the logo to have an image of the state in it. No to red white and blue for colors way too simple. Surprise me. Think of this business as the new "yellow page book" for local business. I'm looking for a logo that can stand the test of time here folks and kick butt while doing it. Damn guys I don't know what else to say other than what I guess everybody says ... wow me!
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The city of Eagan and Frontier Communications have reached an agreement under which Frontier will become the first telecommunications provider on AccessEagan, the city's wholesale fiber network.
The agreement could mean faster Internet speeds and more service options for many businesses in Eagan. It also adds the city's 16-plus miles of fiber optic lines to Frontier's more than 302 miles of fiber in Dakota County.
AccessEagan is a wholesale fiber network owned by the city and open to any telecommunications carrier wishing to provide services to Eagan businesses. The city provides no retail services.
The AccessEagan lines are in central and north Eagan mostly, with an extension going in this summer in the Cedar Grove area, where an outlet shopping mall is being built.
Darrell Hansen, general manager for Frontier in Minnesota, said the partnership with Eagan is a natural fit. "It gives businesses of any size the opportunity to have a new primary or backup broadband connection utilizing Frontier's alternate fiber path to the Internet, which is not dependent on the usual Minneapolis-to-Chicago Internet route," he said.
Under the new agreement, businesses will be able to buy services directly from Frontier, and unlike some business class offerings, customers will be able to choose a network speed that can grow with them based on their bandwidth needs.
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Liquor store celebrates reopening
The new owner of Salem Liquors is celebrating the opening of the remodeled Inver Grove Heights store with a grand reopening Friday and Saturday.
Nicole Lentsch, who acquired the business and is leasing the 3,000-square-foot space at 5300 S. Robert Trail, said the festivities will include beer and wine tastings, a cookout and a raffle, with proceeds to be donated to the Twins Community Fund.
Lentsch said she "pretty much gutted" the interior of the old store, which operated as Laser Liquor. The new store has a beer and wine tasting room and expanded shelf space for craft beers, she said.
Burnsville townhouse complex changes hands
Burnsville continues to be an active market for buyers of large rental properties.
KES Holdings LLC of Edina recently paid $5.1 million for Southcross Village Townhomes at 14800 County Road 5. The 60-unit complex was built in 1985.
The sale is the fourth recent transaction involving a rental housing property in Burnsville, where some of the largest sales in the Twin Cities area have occurred in recent months.
Earlier this year, Southwind Village, a 320-unit property at 15001 Greenhaven Drive, was purchased for $31.3 million by Virtu Investments of Carlsbad, Calif. The five-building complex was built in 1989. Minneapolis-based Pro One Management also acquired the Burningham Apartments at 1501-1513 Burnsville Pkwy. E. from Johnson Management Co. for $15.8 million.
And late last year, the Woods of Burnsville Apartments, a six-building, 400-unit complex at 14701 Portland Av., was acquired for $28.9 million by Waterton Residential of Chicago. The seller was Denver-based Aimco.
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Please include some other kind of image to the either side of the TrailPoint name (not above or below). Maybe a message, note, chat bubble, or some kind of image relating to instant messaging with a trail behind it? Just an idea. You can do any kind of image to go along with it that you would like. Feel free to be as creative as you want.
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Several months ago, in one of the mags, I saw something that looked like a roller with pins that claimed to help improve skin tone, reduce the signs of aging and so much more. Always ready to be a guinea pig, I had to check it out.
Before I begin, I have to say that the thoughts on this process are wide and varied. Devotees everywhere swear it's better than lasers and dermabrasion and post amazing before and after pictures. There is a ton of information (and misinformation) out there, so I am attempting to get to the bottom of it.
Micro Needling, or CIT (Collagen Induction Therapy) is the official name of this process. The country girl in me can't get over the fact that you are essentially using a rototiller on your face. That said, I'm not bothered by needles (unlike my sister in law, Abz, who recoiled in horror when I showed her the roller) and I'm not that wimpy. And also as country girl, I totally get why 'tilling your skin could actually help improve it.
According to Dr. Joseph Greco, the technique of medical micro needling has been shown to increase the remolding of the skin by creating thousands of microscopic channels thru the skin, to increase the formation of new tissue by activating the body's wound healing cascade (hemostasis-inflammation-proliferation-tissue remodeling). The micro-channeling causes the release of growth factors that promote scar-less healing and the deposition of normal woven collagen rather than scar collagen.
There are various delivery systems in micro needling, but micro needling via a roller system, which creates literally thousands of channels thru the epidermis, appears to be most effective. The roller channeling method is safe, cost effective, and simple. While it takes six weeks for new collagen synthesis and about six months for the full effect of the treatments, the common response by patients after the initial treatment is that their skin has a "glow" and that fine lines are diminished.
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Monday, January 06, 2014
Lamb and Puy lentils
January 6th - or today - is the last day to wish happy new year here in Estonia, so I'm just in time - Happy New Year, dear readers of Nami-Nami near and far! Wish you all a peaceful and productive year, full of delicious and nourishing food, with occasional treats and decadent moments!
We're in the middle of a very awkward winter here. While friends in the US and Canada are facing huge snowstorms, then we had a green and mild Christmas with temperatures hovering at around couple of degrees above zero (Celsius, that is). Most unusual and weird, though not unheard of. We're promised that the temperature drops towards the end of January and we'll get some snow as well, but I won't believe it until I see it. Still, hearty soups and stews are what we're cooking most at the moment - it is winter, after all - and this lamb with lentils was a great and promising start to the culinary year or 2014.
Oh, and as you can see, I'm now a proud owner of a beautiful red Staub Oval Cocotte - a Christmas present from my dear K (with special thanks to Tigu's Kristel for shipping one for me from Germany). I've already put this to good use.
Lamb with lentils
(Lammas läätsedega)
Serves four to six
about a kilogram of lamb pieces (on the bone)
rapeseed or olive oil
2 large onions
5 large carrots
2 celery sticks
70 g (about 3 Tbsp) concentrated tomato paste
100 ml dry red wine or port
600-800 ml (about 2,5-3 cups) beef bouillon/stock
175 g green (Puy) lentils, rinsed and drained
fresh parsley and/or rosemary, chopped
You can finish cooking this dish on the stove top or in the oven. If you're going to cook it in the oven, then preheat the oven to 180 C/350 F.
Peel the onions and carrots. Chop onions finely, roughly chop the carrots and celery sticks.
Season the lamb pieces with salt. Heat oil in a heavy cooking pot/Dutch oven and brown the meat pieces on all sides. Put aside.
Add the onions to the pot, sauté for 5 minutes on a moderately low heat, stirring every now and then.
Add the carrots and celery, increase the heat a little and fry for another 5 minutes.
Add the concentrated tomato pureé, fry for a couple of minutes. Pour in the wine, reduce by half.
Now return the browned lamb into the pot again, fitting the meat snugly between the vegetables. Pour over enough beef stock to nearly cover the meat. Put the lid on and simmer on a low heat or in the oven for about 2 hours, until the meat is pretty soft.
Now remove the lid and add the lentils. If the dish looks too dry, add a little stock or hot water as well. Cover again and cook for another 45-60 minutes, until the lamb is soft and falling off the bones and the lentils are cooked.
Season to taste, scatter fresh parsley and/or rosemary on top and serve.
We ate this as this, but you could serve it with rice or crusty wholegrain bread, if you wish.
10 comments:
- Caterers in Indore said...
I never seen like that food its really imaging would like to taste it.
- 11:56 am, January 06, 2014
- jose manuel said...
Your blog is very awesome and I can't wait to taste this delicious comida española, I will definitely try this in my home.
- 1:10 pm, January 06, 2014
- tanita♥davis said...
Oh, pretty pot!!
I am really getting the hang of puy lentils and using them more - this looks like they kept their shape and really added to the dish.
- 6:29 pm, January 06, 2014
Pott on muidugi kaunis, aga Puy läätsed on minu lemmikud :)
- 6:59 pm, January 06, 2014
see eelmine oli minu kommentaar:)
- 7:00 pm, January 06, 2014
- Pille said...
I know, Tanita, the pot's gorgeous! And yes, the Puy lentils held their shape beautifully - yet they were fully cooked!
Kristel - suur aitäh poti eest! Ma alguses plaanisin selliseid suuremaid pruune läätsi kasutada (teller-linzer), aga olid otsa saanud. Siis vaatasin Puy-läätsi ja otsustasin nende kasuks ja valik osutus hääks :)
- 7:15 pm, January 06, 2014
- jingyan liu said...
Hello, I ran into your blog when searching for good Estonian honey on the internet. I love your recipes and especially you are living in Tallinn, where I just moved over about 6 months ago. I hope I could learn more about Estonian cuisine through your blog. By the way, do you mind sharing with me where you can get fresh lamb with the bone? I cannot find it in Stockmann or Selver. Thanx!
- 11:34 am, January 09, 2014
- Pille said...
jingyan liu - welcome to Tallinn and yes, hopefully my blog can help you with settling in and getting to know the Estonian cuisine! (And I wish I could learn how to make some Qinghai specialties from you ;)).
The fresh lamb on the bone was raised and packaged by Saaremaa Lihatööstus, about half a kilo in a package. I called their sales rep today and he said that Tondi Selver, Kadaka Selver, Solaris and Viimsi Co-Market would be the best bets. I bough mine from Viimsi (I live here).
PS Did you find the honey??
- 4:11 pm, January 09, 2014
- jingyan liu said...
Hey Pille, sorry for my late reply. I have been busy packing for my trip back to China for the Chinese New Year. Thank you very much for the lamb information. I will surely check it out when I come back to Tallinn in mid-March. As for the honey, I did find few Estonian brands like Saraamaa and several organic ones. I am not sure which, in your opinion,is the best mesi in Estonia but I still have time to try them all out:-) Thank you again and hope to read more recipes from you.
- 4:07 pm, January 21, 2014
- jingyan liu said...
Dear Pille, thank you so much for making such an effort to answer my question. I really appreciate your kindness. Sorry for my late reply as I have been busy getting ready for my upcoming trip back to China for the Chinese New Year. I will surely check out the lamb whnen I come back to Tallinn in mid-March. As for the honey, I have found few Estonian brands. All of them taste good but do you have your favirates? Again, thank you so much for your help and I am looking forward to reading more recipes from you. Enjoy winter!
- 4:24 pm, January 21, 2014