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When a Nazi party official brought Hilter proof that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery in 1930, his curt reply was: "It doesn't matter. The Protocols are still true in principle." It is probably no coincidence that his words echoed [Henry] Ford's own response when confronted with the same facts years before: "The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on." That their lies were predicated on an earlier lie was inconsequential. All the lies dovetailed to a truth of which Ford and Hitler were unwaveringly convinced.
-- Max Wallace, The American Axis
What is most troubling to me is the promotion of hatred as entertainment. Moreover, they [conservative movement propagandists] have actively conspired to fan the flames of viscious hatred aimed at one group in particular: Americans with progressive political views. They speak of "liberals" with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian strife. One of the best known right-wing commentators, Ann Coulter, advised her audience that she was in favor of executing an American citizen who had joined the Taliban "in order to physically intimidate liberals by making them realize that they could be killed , too."A few years ago I wrote a post in which I said that Ann Coulter promotes hatred of "liberals" that is comparable to standard forms of ethnic and religious bigotry; that her violent tribalistic rhetoric acts as a sort of corrosive acid dissolving the bonds of democratic society. I'd like to take a moment to look at a case study of precisely the sort of bigotry I was talking about, a bigotry that we'll see indeed parallels standard prejudice.
-- Al Gore, The Assault on Reason
Which is why we'll be revisiting the Blogs for Victory "Nazism 2.0" post that I linked to on Friday. You'll notice that despite both contributors to the post - Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan - being well aware that the Ashley Todd assault story is a hoax neither has bothered to update the post saying so. Why? Because it's true anyway. Here's Noonan's response in the comments.
What have I to apologize for? The news story came across from credible sources and it is an action entirely in line with normal leftwing tactics - and, indeed, tactics we have seen used in this very election. That this poor woman is suffering from a mental defect doesn't get your side off the hook for your persistent thuggishness against political opponents. I would have entirely discounted this if I didn't have scores of examples at my finger tips of leftwingers using violence and intimidation just over the past 8 years or so - and volumes of examples over the past 50 years.Unbelievable, right? "Tactics we have seen used in this very election," Noonan writes. Really? Black male Obama supporters looking for white female McCain supporters they can molest and mutilate and rob at ATM machines is a "tactic" of Senator Obama and his supporters("leftwingers" in Noonan speak.) As is obvious, even were the story true Noonan and Margolis would be guilty of taking an example of a single individual's behavior and using that to stereotype and demonize an entire class of individuals - and its important to remember that Noonan and Margolis are talking about everyday, mainstream normal American citizens who happen to be Democrats or intend to vote Democrat such as libertarians, liberals, moderates or disenchanted Republicans and conservatives - as violent, fascist Nazi thugs.
Clean up your side - make it so that any such story will be disbelieved; but don't ask for an apology from me.
This sort of ad hoc thinking where reality is bent and twisted in order to arrive at the negative conclusion one already holds about a target of prejudice is the m.o. of racists. Which is why I find the Stormfront thread about the same fake Ashley Todd story so interesting. Over there you see the same thing going on, with the difference being that instead of the story proving how violent and thuggish Democrats are, the story for the white supremacists proves how violent and thuggish blacks are. And, to borrow Wallace's line, it is probably no coincidence then that the Stormfronters even gave the same rational for not apologizing when they found out the story was a hoax:
I said it was a negro who did it, and crucified him with my words, but you know what? If crimes like this( and much worse then this) weren't committed by blacks on a daily basis, then maybe I would have had reservations about her story. I didn't, and I was wrong, however that still doesn't ease my disdain for the entire negro race, and it still doesn't make them any smarter nor does it make them any less violent, all this did was show that some poor, mentally unstable WHITE woman liked to carve things in her face.Besides not retracting the fake Zimbabwe style assault story which Margolis asserted is evidence that Obama and his supporters are violent fascists - and here we pause to again reflect on how irresponsible and despicable it is not to bother correcting the record on such a volatile subject as a black male attacking a white female in political violence, most especially in light of the recent news that federal ATF agents arrested two Neo-Nazis for allegedly plotting to kill Obama, shoot to death 88 blacks, and to decapitate 14 more (hold on to that thought, we'll come back to this) - the Blogs for Victory crew has continued on in hysterical paranoia about how dangerous and crazy murderous Democrats are.
The insanity on the left grows apace - from guns fired at a GOPer's house, to tire slashings at a Palin rally here in Las Vegas, to this story of people issuing death threats over an unfavorable poll result. Get a grip, lefties - When we say things like "Obamessiah", we're just making a joke…we didn't think you'd start to believe he's a real messiah for whom you will kill the infidels over!Noonan is outmatched in paranoia only by Michelle Malkin blogroll resident Misha, who also thinks Democrats are fascists and appears to genuinely believe that if Obama becomes president "conservatives" will be the target of a Rwanda style genocide campaign. Yes, he and his readers saw the same story referenced above by Noonan, and began to discuss how they might win Civil War 2.0.
Here's a hint from an American patriot who has had fucking well ENOUGH of this blatant fascism, fraud and propaganda:While you're busy trying to think of yet more ways to destroy the democratic process of this nation, pause and allow yourself to ponder this thought for a second:Who have all the guns again? And we're quite proficient in their use, not to mention that the vast majority of us have sworn an Oath that obliges us to make use of them against all enemies, foreign AND domestic. The latter group would be you, you filthy, fascist scum. No matter how much your fanatical zeal for your Obameinführer manages to convince you that you're scary, tough guys, you'd do well to remember that all of us really are that. And we're a lot better at taking out the trash too. Years of training will do that for you.Noonan - who himself has already been expecting Civil War 2 - issued a vague threat in a recent post (I bolded what Noonan emphasized since blockquote puts everything in italics)
Consider this your last warning
Look, Democrats, there's this thing called "morality", you should look it up - its rather important to adhere to it, or at least attempt to do so. Among the many aspects of this morality thingy is a bit about fair play - about honesty and a sense of justice. You're taking a big, nasty dump on America in this year of 2008, and you really need to cut it out. There really, really is a limit beyond which we won't put up with this nonsense anymore.Again we can see another parallel. The Stormfronters also think that no matter the outcome of the election, there will be politically motivated violence from a criminal class. For the Stormfronters, the violence will come from blacks and the Jews that enable them; for Blogs for Victory and Misha, "liberals" aka the "American Left." And both think that the election is being rigged and/or votes are being stolen.
Which leads me to a digression: The hysteria from Noonan and Misha over a few death threats to a poll unfavorable to Obama is completely disconnected from reality. I don't doubt that such a thing occurred, but how does one possibly link that to Senator Obama? Is Obama out there hitting up the campaign trail saying that "conservatives" are trying to steal the election with polls unfavorable to him? Has he done anything to generate a backlash against unfavorable polls? No, of course not. But in contrast, the McCain campaign has been hitting up the campaign and even a primetime presidential debate saying that ACORN is trying to steal the election (with fraudulent minority votes, AM radio and the Malkin-sphere reminds us) and that ACORN is an imminent threat to democracy. And guess what? ACORN offices have been vandalized and e-mails full of racist invective and death threats have been pouring in.
Now Margolis and Noonan believe that any incident they can find - real or imagined - of thuggish behavior means that Obama is the next Hitler and that the "American Left" are Nazis. So why can't we now say that the "American Right" are Nazis and that McCain is the next Hitler? Well, they can't say it because they are Manichean authoritarians, and we won't say that because it isn't true. What is true is that the McCain campaign's baseless accusations against ACORN are irresponsible and highly unethical and that it does bear burden of responsibility for helping to whip up the violence inclined American "right-wing" to such a level of furor.
Which brings up back to the 2 Neo-Nazis who just got arrested for a half-baked horrific plot to kill Obama and 104 black people by gun shot and decapitation. Here we have Margolis and Noonan talking about Obama being a Nazi based upon a fake black on white hate crime story while actual Nazis - who are motivated to violence by stories like the one Noonan and Margolis won't retract - are out there trying to kill Obama. It's sickening, and it's why I call such writings that don't display overt prejudice but still accomplish the same thing - like, for example, Neal Boortz wanting to purge poor "socialist" "parasites" from the voter rolls - as "functionally racist."
I'm also reminded of David Neiwert's objection to Jonah Goldberg's white-washing out of existence actual American fascists in order to - as Blogs for Victory and Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller are doing - depict "liberals" as fascists. Ok, digression over.
What the Blogs for Victory crew, Misha, and the Stormfronters share in common is an unwavering belief that the target of their hate is a criminal subhuman; therefore they pick out or make up their own reality to fit that predetermined "knowledge". Which is why it's no surprise to see the Victory bloggers using typical eliminationist rhetoric to describe Democrats.
Matt Margolis, author of the unretracted "Nazism 2.0" post, has previously said that the book he and Noonan wrote - which was published by the same people who brought us the children's indoctrination classic Help! Mom! There are liberals Under my Bed! - shined a light on the corruption of the cockroaches known as Democrats.
From top to bottom, the Democratic party is corrupt...the only thing which has changed is that in today's world, the truth will come out, thanks to the internet and the blogosphere. The corrupt cockroaches have always been able to scurry out of the light, but now they're running out of places to hide.Quick question: what do you personally do to cockroaches that have run out of places to hide? Right, then - that's the metaphor that's being implicitly invoked to envision what needs to be done to Democrats.
And in an older rant that would feel at home in the German Propaganda Archive, another author at the site talks about the life destroying, deceitful "dems."
Trying to make a lie stick to the wall by being totally oblivious to its obvious transparency, the dems are overplaying their hands, in much the same manner as they overplayed their hands during the Valerie Plame fiasco, the "Koran flushing (non)incident," and countless other causes du jour that in the end have not only left egg on their faces, but actually destroyed lives in their scorched-earth zeal to drum up some kind of relevance in the face of an agenda otherwise marked by abject tenuity. Hoping against hope that something will stick, the neo-socialists continue their painfully pitiful and scurrilous attacks, hoping that by murdering the messengers, they will no longer have to scurry like the cockroaches that they are when the light of truth is shone upon their unscrupulous existence.Same author, in different rant accusing anyone and everyone who does not unconditionally, uncritically, mindlessly, and endlessly cheerlead for "victory" in Iraq as guilty of treason because of their sinister desire to gain power by stabbing America in the back.
But, to the democrats and willing RINOs [Republicans In Name Only]--the Murthas, the Pelosis, the Kerrys, (and yes, the [Republican] Hagels)-- opposition to our efforts in Iraq has never been, nor is now, about "supporting the troops" nor of the successful completion of their mission.
Rather, it has, and has always been about a Machiavellian quest to obtain and maintain power, no matter the cost, no matter who or what is jeopardized in the process; even to the extent of throwing the security of their own nation under the bus to achieve their nefarious political ends.
Some have been afraid to say it, but I'll say it unabashedly and scream it from the rooftops:
The "antiwar" democrats (and their willing RINO accomplices), who offer capitulation as the only alternative, are TRAITORS, in the most pejorative sense of the word.
They deserve no quarter, and deserve to be called out for who they are.
It's about time that the light of truth is shown upon these cockroaches for all the world to see.
Charming stuff.
Of course, this sort of rhetoric isn't unique to blogs like these. Rush Limbaugh has himself equated liberals with cockroaches and Melanie Morgan has gone a step further and actually suggested killing a "cockroach" (i.e. Eric Soltz). And there is no shortage of eliminationist rhetoric equating Democrats, "liberals" and RINOs with treason and villainy within the conservative movement (e.g. here); nor would you struggle to find examples of "liberals," Democrats, or Obama being compared/equated with Nazis and fascists. Media Matters has a round-up of media figures (one of which, of course, is Ann Coulter) comparing Obama to Nazis and Hitlers just since October 16; and today Bill Cunningham - who previously stated that he believes Obama might be the AntiChrist - said that "Obama wants to gas the Jews."
So let's move on the post title. The quote is take from this blog post by George Packer, who upon reading Jon Swift's satire of the ludicrous conspiracies that anti-Obama bloggers have generated, compared the habit of mind of those bloggers to the conspiracies generated by Arab nationalists and Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq.
The mental atmosphere is exactly the same—the wild fantasies presented as obvious truth, the patterns seen by those few with the courage and wisdom to see, the amused pity for anyone weak-minded enough to be skeptical, the logic that turns counter-evidence into evidence and every random piece of information into a worldwide conspiracy. Above all, the seething resentment, the mix of arrogance and impotent rage that burns at the heart of the paranoid style in politics.Packer concludes by stating that if Obama is elected this sort of behavior will get worse. Which is exactly right - we can expect a non-stop stream of crazy conspiracies to be generated by these bloggers and the propaganda machine of the conservative movement. And this is because the conservative movement as a whole will be thrown into hysterical, paranoid panic the moment a Democrat takes office because they have a Manichean world view: a Democrat in office to them means America is under the rule of Evil. As Shadia Drury put it:
The American Right feels as if it is being held hostage by liberal society. This beleaguered mentality goes hand in hand with a world-view that is as demonic as it is dualistic. It is demonic in the sense that it sees the world as overrun by the forces of evil (now called liberalism) and dualistic because it regards its political opponents as the incarnation of cosmic evil.I've previously described the mental process of Packer's paranoid bloggers as thus
Stage 1: "Liberals" are wrongWhich was my crude way of independently observing the same thing that psychologist Robert Altemeyer had noticed doing research into authoritarianism
Stage 2: ?
Stage 3: "Liberals" are wrong
Like for the Underpants Gnomes, Stage 2 is a magic step (A.L. beat me to this analogy by about a year) which generates the desired outcome. Movement conservative "know" that "liberals" are wrong or liars or hypocrites or whatever the particular scenario calls for, they start with this premise and end with it as a conclusion. The in-between is coming up with the "evidence". But they approach this endeavor like the creationist looking for "evidence" that evolution is false, and [this]explains why being disproven (over and over again) does not lead them to abandon course. They just keep coming up with reckless accusation after reckless accusation.
[I]f authoritarian followers like the conclusion, the logic involved is pretty irrelevant. The reasoning should justify the conclusion, but for a lot of high RWAs, the conclusion validates the reasoning. Such is the basis of many a prejudice, and many a Big Lie that comes to be accepted.My favorite example of this was when Michelle Malkin and her Hot Air editor Bryan Preston fabricated a confession of treason from New York Times editor Bill Keller. When some commenters pointed out in the comments that the footage used by Malkin had been doctored, Preston answered that he did it because the proves what Preston already believes (i.e. that the Times is treasonous) even though the full quote demonstrates the opposite.
A more recent example of the paranoid hysteria that is a defining characterstic of the Malkin-sphere is the response that a Joe Biden interview with a local reporter - whose questions were so farcical that she may have put Stephen Colbert out of business as satire will now be nigh impossible - generated. After the Obama campaign decided to not conduct anymore interviews with that reporter Michelle Malkin asked her readers to keep her "in your thoughts and prayers" as if she's in some sort of danger or is a martyr for the conservative cause.
This tendency to look for or create confirming evidence of what you already believe about a target of prejudice is on display vividly when Bill O'Reilly or Michelle Malkin and their followers work themselves into a frenzy over some anonymous comments that they've found which they proclaim to indicate how angry and dangerous and extremist "the Left" (i.e. "liberals") are. This is another area in which we can draw a parallel to standard forms of bigotry, as Glenn Greenwald previously pointed out when responding to the same subject
It is hard to overstate how pervasive this lowly and manipulative weapon is wielded by right-wing demagogues to shape our political debates. LGF's simplistic trick, for instance, is to post individual stories every day of Muslims who engage in violent acts ("hey, look - I proved that Muslims are inferior and dangerous!"). Michelle Malkin repeatedly posts individual stories of supposed leftists engaging in illegal or violent acts ("hey, look -- I proved that liberals are unhinged"). Or the right finds a single obscure college professor nobody ever heard of who referred to 9/11 victims as "Little Eichmanns" ("hey, look - we proved that 'the Left' hates America and believes that the 9/11 victims deserved it!").Blogger's Note - I'm not actually finished with this post, but I wanted to go ahead and put this part up. Hopefully I'll be finished editing the rest and will have it up
Those who rely on that cheap, tawdry tactic are really indistinguishable -- just in terms of the methods -- from, say, websites run by white supremacists who, every day, troll the news wires and post individual stories of crimes committed by African-Americans and then think that they've made a broader point. In that context, most people can see how transparently fallacious the tactic is, but in other contexts, they are blind to it.


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Please help make 'The Korea Project" happen…
I have begun a new body of work called 'The Korea Project' exploring the cultural relationship between Korea and Australia and the ways in which Korean migrants establish a sense of belonging in a new country.
My intentions are two-fold in that it tells a personal story but also a common one. I was raised in Australia but my mother is Korean having migrated here with my Australian father in the early 1970s. As a Korean-Australian, I have straddled two worlds, yet in many ways, belonged to neither. I am fascinated by this tension in identity and how the merging of two cultures can shape one's experiences and perspectives of the world.
As a photographer, I am interested in the way migrant communities adapt to new environments, particularly in western cultures and much of my work explores themes of identity, belonging and community set mostly in the context of the Australian suburbs. I strongly believe that photography can be used as a social tool to inform, educate and inspire audiences about the lives of others. With this in mind, I'm looking forward to getting out of suburbia (at least for a little while!) to travel to Korea and begin this new project. Longer term outcomes will be a full-scale travelling exhibition and a book publication.
However, with a changing editorial market, raising funds to pursue such projects is now more difficult than ever so I have decided to raise the required funds myself and supplement this with personal savings in order to ensure my objectives are achieved. To this end, I have just launched two fundraising campaigns. One via the crowd-sourcing site Indiegogo and the other via the Australia Business Arts Foundation's (ABAF) Cultural Council. Both campaigns are aimed at raising funds to help offset associated costs such as film, processing, scanning, printing as well as the logistics involved with both photography and travel.
For more information please visit the project website: www.thekoreaproject.com.au where I will post regular updates as the project progresses. A Korean translation will soon be added to the site.
Please also take a moment to check out IndieGoGo and to share it with your friends. All the tools are there. Get perks, make a contribution, or simply follow updates: http://bit.ly/hrTHhf OR if you are an Australian taxpayer you can also make a tax-deductible donation via ABAF: http://bit.ly/dOjS1f (sorry this one is a no-go if you are related to me! Why don't you Indiegogo instead?)
If enough of us get behind it, we can make 'The Korea Project' happen. Please don't hesitate to forward this email on to your networks, to get in touch if you would like more information or if you wish to discuss any aspect of the project.
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Smith's 18-footer lifts Knicks over Bobcats 100-98
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- With Carmelo Anthony nursing a sore finger, the New York Knicks turned to J.R. Smith for the last shot and he delivered.
Smith hit a fallaway jumper from the left wing as time expired to give the Knicks a 100-98 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday night.
Anthony scored 20 of his 23 points in the first half, but went cold in the second half and wasn't on the floor for the final 2:10 after injuring his right hand diving into the Knicks' bench for a loose ball.
Knicks coach Mike Woodson said Anthony received five stitches in the middle finger of his right hand.
Tyson Chandler had 18 points and 17 rebounds for the Knicks. Smith finished with 13 points.
Kemba Walker had 25 points and 11 rebounds for the Bobcats (7-10), who have lost five straight games since equaling last season's win total. Gerald Henderson scored 11 of 18 points in the fourth quarter in his second game back after a 13-game layoff.
The Bobcats appeared in position to win late in the game after a miss by Raymond Felton with 14 seconds left, but rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist made an ill-advised pass toward the top of the key and Smith stepped in front of it to intercept it.
After a timeout, Smith drove to the left side and hit an 18-footer over Kidd-Gilchrist.
Anthony came in averaging 30.6 points over the past six games and sharp early, hitting seven of his first 11 shots from the field for 20 points.
But he missed his first 10 shots of the second half.
Anthony drove hard to the lane at one point and put up a layup but was blocked by Bismack Biyombo, who gave him the Dikembe Mutumbo finger wag as Anthony pleaded for a goaltending call.
Anthony didn't hit his first field goal of the second half until 2:35 remained in the game.
A few seconds later he chased down a long rebound into the Knicks bench and was taken to the locker room.
Walker, who has made a major improvement from his rookie season, kept attacking the rim.
On one third quarter drive, he electrified the crowd by faking out a defender near the top of the key, driving the left side of the lane before spinning awkwardly in the air and laying it off the glass and drawing a foul on Steve Novak for a three-point play.
The Bobcats led 53-51 despite 20 first-half points from Anthony.
Charlotte got a strong performance from Walker and Ben Gordon, who continued his red-hot shooting in the early going. Gordon came in having made 18 of 26 3-point attempts over the past three games and hit a pair in the first half.
Walker continued to play well at home with 12 points and six assists before the break.
NOTES: Kidd-Gilchrist was selected by the NBA as the Eastern Conference rookie of the month for November. ... Panthers quarterback Cam Newton was a guest of Bobcats owner Michael Jordan in his owner's suite. ... The Bobcats had a little fun with New York's Chris Copeland on the big screen, comparing him to Baylor women's star Brittney Griner on the celebrity lookalike cam.


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Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival XXIV
Pretty sleepy in the world of Roman bioarch this December. Let's see what we have (some of which was from the end of November, oops!)...
Finds and Excavations
Articles and Reviews
Finds and Excavations
- 26 November. The Museum of London's excavation is now complete at the 8-10 Moorgate site. Portions of the Roman-era (1st-3rd c AD) town were uncovered, along with at least one human burial. No pictures, sadly.
- 30 November. Workmen installing a spa in a house in Teesdale (England) found Roman coins, pottery, glass, and a roof tile with a handprint on it dating roughly to the 2nd century AD. No bones, it seems, but I do love finds of Roman hand- and footprints. Again, sadly, no pictures.
- 4 December. The tomb of the Roman man who inspired the movie Gladiator is set to be reburied in Rome. Four years ago, archaeologists found the tomb of M. Nonius Macrinus, but a lack of funds is forcing them to rebury it or risk losing the site.
- 24 December. Although this isn't totally Roman-era, I was interested to learn that a portion of Phillip II's skeleton would be studied further. Phillip of Macedon was the father of Alexander the Great, and Greek archaeologists think that the remains they found at Vergina are indeed his.
- 24 December. Large-scale excavations under London are also revealing the city's Roman past, among other eras. So far, archaeologists have found "hundreds of skeletons," although there's no indication what time period they date to.
|A few of the "hundreds of skeletons" found recently under London. (Photo via BBC.)
Articles and Reviews
- 28 November. Bos et al. in PLoS One - Yersinia pestis: New Evidence for an Old Infection. There's been a rash of articles about the Black Death lately, but this one is noteworthy because the authors attempt to pinpoint divergence dates for various strains of Y. pestis. One happens to coincide with the dates of the so-called Plague of Justinian in Late Antiquity (6th-8th centuries AD).
- 9 October. Katy Meyers at Bones Don't Lie reviews a 2010 article by Becky Redfern on surgery and fracture treatment in Iron Age and Roman Britain.
- 23 December. The "bambino di Fidene" (a 2nd century AD Italian child whose skull has evidence of a trepanation) gets a nice write-up in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. This individual is being exhibited as part of a new(ish) exhibit at the Museum of the History of Medicine in Rome. The news piece is almost an osteobiography, taking the reader through the possible reasons the child was trepanned and the palliative care for the child who had to undergo such a traumatic procedure.
Odds and Ends
- On the names of prostitutes recorded at Pompeii.
- And finally, a cute little Roman bronze skeleton dating to the 1st century AD, part of the collection of the Getty in Malibu:
That concludes your Roman bioarchaeology news for 2012. Join me here each month next year for more!


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It's a huge disappointment in the field of cancer prevention.
The largest trial of its kind - known as "SELECT" - hoped Vitamin E and selenium would prevent prostate cancer. But CBS News has learned patients are being told to stop taking the pills - because they don't seem to work, CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reports. Researchers will continue to monitor the patients in the trial.
"Taking selenium or Vitamin E at the doses that we used in the SELECT trial for an average of five years did not prevent prostate cancer," said Dr. Eric Klein.
The study of more than 35,000 men in their 50s and older began back in 2001.
Doctors at more than 400 sites gave combinations of Vitamin E, the mineral selenium and a placebo.
The supplements failed to prevent prostate cancer - and there were two worrisome trends.
Patients taking Vitamin E alone had a slightly higher rate of prostate cancer.
Men who took selenium alone were more likely to develop diabetes. The researchers believe the increases may just be due to chance.
"The safety issues are of more minor concern and bear further follow-up," Klein said.
Vitamin E and selenium are antioxidants that exist in relatively small amounts in food. Previous studies suggested that higher doses might help prevent prostate cancer.
That's why urologists like Dr. Aaron Katz had high hopes for the trial.
"I'm disappointed with the study. I'm very concerned about the results of the trial," Katz said. "I would have hoped this would have been the way to prevent cancer in this country."
Over the next week, the 35,000 men in the study will be notified of the results and told to stop the supplements.
Katz spoke to one of the participants Monday.
"He's concerned. You've got to be concerned," Katz said. "You're hearing the results of a national trial that you participated in, and are now finding that perhaps I may have increased my risk of developing the disease."
This is a major disappointment, but it is also progress, LaPook reports. Because it's also important to know what does not prevent cancer.


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When you start getting close to your due date, and the baby hasn't yet turned, the pressure is on. You want that breech baby to get with the game and flip already lest the doctor have to do it for him ... or worse, a C-section is needed.
Over the years I've heard plenty of things women will do to get a baby to turn. A blogger over at Babble swears that putting frozen peas on the baby's head four times a day for 30 minutes at a time did the trick for her. Brrr, but good for her.
Some swear by their methods, while others try them with no luck. Most of them are probably harmless, but as always, it's best if you speak to your doctor before trying anything. Here are 12 ways women have tried to get a breech baby to turn:
1. Acupuncture.
2. Headstands or handstands. (Be careful!)
3. See a chiropractor, specifically one who can do the Webster Technique.
4. Try a host of exercises with names like "The Abdominal Lift and Tuck" and "Standing Release" via Spinning Babies.
5. Visualization exercises. (If you see it, she will turn?)
6. Swimming. (Maybe try a few handstands while you're in the pool.)
7. Get him or her dancing by playing music with headphones on your stomach.
8. Use a flashlight pointed at your stomach to guide the way to your pelvis. Apparently babies will try to follow the light.
9. Drink orange juice then lay on your side with your hips propped up higher than your feet. The spike of sugar is supposed to get them moving on down.
10. Pulsatilla and other homeopathic therapies. (Definitely good ones to check with your doctor about first).
11. Moxibustion. From Chinese medicine this involves burning some dried leaves over certain acupuncture points -- usually over the spot where the baby's toes are.
12. Get on your hands and knees and scrub the floor. (I'm thinking that's an old wives tale started by a mother-in-law who wanted a clean floor.)
Have you tried any of these? Did they work?
Image via Lululemon Athletica/Flickr


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Sixty-one percent of middle schoolers would rather take out the garbage than do their math homework. In 2011, only 30 percent of U.S. high school graduates were ready for college work in science. In Washington, the mismatch between the skills needed for available jobs in STEM fields and individuals with those skills is growing faster than in every state but one: Delaware.
Many students don't really understand what scientists do or how they think. And so, the U.S. has slipped down the global rope with fewer young Americans, especially minorities, able to compete in a global marketplace driven by science and technology.
But this dismal picture is changing. Philip Bell, professor of learning sciences and director of the UW Institute for Science and Math Education, was one of 18 experts who worked to update the National Academy of Sciences vision for science education learning goals. This new vision was used to develop the Next Generation Science Standards that outline the science and engineering learning goals for all students. Many educators and advocates for STEM education hope these standards are adopted in Washington state.
One of several changes that the standards will bring is the requirement to introduce a small set of core ideas from four disciplinary areas—Physical Science, Life Sciences, Earth and Space Sciences, plus Engineering Technology and the Application of Science—early in K-12 education and then build upon this knowledge over succeeding years. The new guidelines call for students to study fewer concepts more deeply and for students to learn by engaging in the work of science—the practices they engage in—rather than simply by memorizing facts.
Even now the UW is helping to put some of these guidelines in place. Faculty and students are already in some of the region's schools, engaging students in STEM fields and collaborating with K-12 classroom teachers. Bell and Andy Shouse, associate director of the Institute, have partnered with Rick Keil, a UW Oceanography professor, and his lab researchers to bring Project COOL (Chemical Oceanography Outside the Lab) to two middle schools in Seattle's diverse Beacon Hill neighborhood where some schools are almost exclusively minority (96 percent).
Project COOL pairs UW undergraduates with middle school youth in an after-school science program, lasting two quarters for two hours a week. Annie Spung is a UW mathematics student who participated in Project COOL. "We wanted to figure out how chemicals end up in and affect the Sound and what can be done about it," explains Spung. Students asked their peers about ingredients in their skin lotion and how often they applied the lotion. Then they studied the ingredients that wash down the drain into the Sound. What did they find? "The fish were becoming feminized; the students were shocked," says Spung. When some male fish—English sole and juvenile Chinook salmon—are exposed to certain chemicals in Elliott Bay they began producing a protein used to make egg yolks, something that female fish ordinarily do.
Faculty and students are in some of the region's schools, engaging students in STEM fields and collaborating with K-12 classroom teachers.
Although the study results fascinated the middle school students, the real benefit was how Project COOL changed the way students looked at science and how they began to see themselves as being capable of becoming a scientist. "As for me, it was good exposure to what a teacher does every day and what's involved in developing a curriculum and getting it across," notes Spung.
Project COOL is just one example of how the UW is collaborating with K-12 educators to strengthen STEM education for the region's children. Graduate students in marine science are partnering with classroom teachers in Seattle and the San Juan Islands putting in about 10 hours per week in the classroom to help with demonstrations, lab activities, new teaching modules and more. Because marine science is interdisciplinary by nature, it can be used to teach biology, chemistry, physics and math while taking advantage of the area's coastal environment.
Math is another discipline where UW researchers from both Seattle and Bothell campuses are making a difference. In 2010, only about one in five Lakeridge Elementary students in Renton were passing the state mathematics assessment test. Teachers and administrators realized that something had to change. Partnering with UW faculty, a new research-driven model was put in place. It worked. At the end of year one, tests showed a 15 to 25 percent jump in math scores in fifth and sixth graders.
The UW is also playing an integral part in a huge federally funded effort to improve education in ethnically diverse areas of south Seattle and south King County. The UW's Dream Project is a subcontractor on a $40 million federal Race to the Top venture called the Road Map Project. A consortium of seven King County school districts received the funding from the U.S. Department of Education to double the number of students in south King County and south Seattle who are on track to graduate from college or earn a career credential by 2020.
The UW Dream Project serves all seven school districts by partnering nearly 600 undergraduate mentors with 1,800 high-school students at 16 schools. The UW students serve as counselor interns who build relationships with the students and support them as they select rigorous courses, choose and apply to colleges, and navigate high school graduation requirements, college entrance testing and the labyrinthine arena of financial aid. Part of UW's participation also includes studying what parent engagement models work. There is a high correlation between parent involvement and a child's success in school, but traditional methods like Parent Teacher Organizations have not worked well among underrepresented minority communities.
The UW's role in these collaborative efforts reflects the university's strong commitment to the children of Washington state. As the state's flagship university it can do no less than contribute to the success of students who may one day wear the purple and gold.


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Charlie Mercer, Scott Ragsdale, Johnny R. Glasco, Jake Swavel, and Johnny D. Glaso check the cooking temperature of hams in one of the many smokers lined up at the Mount Vernon fire station. The volunteer fire department cooked more than 400 hams during their annual fund raiser. Proceeds will be used to purchase gear and equipment.


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Hi all, was lucky enough to grab a few tickets for robot wars being filmed next wednesday and i have a few queries..
I got the last days tickets on hopes it might be the final, is this a safe assumption as we have never been before and have no idea how robot wars works beyond marvelling from the other side of a t.v, and robots live at the nec.. once.. two years ago ><
also just wondering how child friendly it is? little man is 4, and i intend to take ear defenders either way but would love a bit more insight as again ive never been before
SIDE NOTE: we have 8 tickets to both the morning and afternoon showing, but only require 6, so if anyone wants 2 tickets to both
How likely is it id get to have a chat with any robot builders at a robot wars event? would love to pick up some tips for my build but dont wanna detract away from the day.
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Q&A with Sydney Gstettenbauer
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After scoring 35 goals as a sophomore in 2007,
Q�Will this be the most wide open WWPA Championship in your time at UCSD?
GSTETTENBAUER�Going into the conference championship, I think that it will be the most wide open because the top four teams have all won some and lost some against each other. The top four teams are playing tough, close matches, and beating Loyola Marymount on the road two weeks ago has really increased our team's confidence going into this weekend.
Q�What are the strengths of UCSD's major opponents this weekend? Which is the most difficult challenge for your team?
GSTETTENBAUER�The other team's strengths are simply that they have bigger and stronger girls. Our team this year is rather small, which has helped us in terms of speed and quickness, but might hurt us when we need that extra strength for some battles.
There are several teams capable of winning, but I think the favorite has to be UC Davis. They have a strong team with some girls that have played together for awhile. We only lost by one the last time we played, so if we keep up our strong defense and can find the back of the net, we have a good shot of being successful this weekend.
Q�What does UCSD have to do to win this weekend?
GSTETTENBAUER�We have to play smart. Most importantly we need to keep up the tenacious defense we have played these past few weeks. Other teams have capitalized on our defensive breakdowns, so if we can keep our defense strong we will be good to go.
But defense alone won't win the championship. We need to be able to capitalize on the offensive opportunities we are given. If we keep shooting within the "3 by 10," we will find good results. We have to play hard and "go crazy" as Larry would say. We really have nothing to lose, but everything to win.
Q�UCSD's national success in women's water polo came primarily in the 1980's and �90's. Is the current team aware of that history?
GSTETTENBAUER�I think that some of the older girls are aware of this history and are chomping at the bit to change those recent national records this year. I know that I would love to see a more recent year in the books.
Q�What would winning UCSD's first WWPA title since 2000 mean to the team?
GSTETTENBAUER�It would be exhilarating. We have had so many teams within the past few years with so much potential. Last year we thought was the year that it could be possible and we were so close in the semi-final game. However, this year our potential is so high and this is a huge opportunity that is pretty much right in front of us. In the past couple of weeks, we've started to see results from all of the hard work we've put in this season. If we can maintain our level of play and have the will to win, I think it is ours for the taking.
Q�In what aspect has this team improved most since last season?
GSTETTENBAUER�Our teams have always been known for good defense, and I think that this year we have continued that trend this season. This year, however, I think we have girls that are willing to shoot the ball and really want to score. In the past we have had times where we let scoring opportunities slip by and I think this year we are seeing and making the most of them.
Q�Your offensive production has increased dramatically from last year. Why?
GSTETTENBAUER�Last year before our first games began Larry told me that I was going to start. I was so excited, because I had worked so hard to prove I could be a contributor to the team. But I also had not had that much playing time in a game since high school.
Last year was my first year of seeing some real minutes, and it was tough adjusting to the college level of game play. There was also a core group of seniors that were the main contributors due to their long history of playing together. I found myself and my role as more of an assist to those girls, which worked out great. The experience from playing last year really helped and increased my confidence to want to contribute more this year. I knew that I was going to be a bigger part of the team's offense this year and have been working hard to make things happen.
Q�Have opposing teams responded defensively to your goal-scoring numbers?
GSTETTENBAUER�Yes they definitely have. I used to play what we call the 4- spot in our 6-on-5 offense, which is typically a "left-handers" position. I was there last year as the "playmaker", which is what I was this year too, but I also looked to shoot more. So when teams started to see I was the leading scorer they decided to just sit on me so that I couldn't get the ball, which killed our offensive flow and plays. I also noticed that later in the season more teams started to press me on defense no matter where I was. So, I have found it hard to get the ball sometimes, and that is why I have to take any offensive opportunity I come across.
Q�This weekend could be the last for UCSD's five seniors. What have they meant to you and the team?
GSTETTENBAUER�It is actually kind of weird because three of these seniors are girls I came onto the team with as freshmen. I feel like I should be with them, since we have been through these past four years together, so I am definitely going to miss them not just in the pool, but outside as well.
Being on any team you build a tight bond with one another along with a close friendship, so that will be missed. We have a very close team and we have had some great times together. I am definitely going to miss those five girls a lot.
Q�Talk about shot selection in water polo. What are you looking for that determines when you take a shot?
GSTETTENBAUER�I am always looking for where the goalie is not. Most of the time I am aiming for high corners, which doesn't always happen once it leaves my hand�which oddly enough can work out sometimes. It is always kind of exciting when you make a goal when it was nowhere near where you were intending to shoot it. Corners are always a safe bet for a goal when shooting from farther away and when shooting up close I tend to like to skip it right under the goalie's arms.
Q�What are the keys to good individual defense? Team defense?
GSTETTENBAUER�Individual defense comes from being quick, smart and aware. You need to know where you are and who you are guarding and what else you may be doing or if you can help a teammate. Having pool awareness and your head "on a swivel" really helps defensively.
Team defense requires the same exact characteristics, but you also need to incorporate communication. Just one word can make all the difference in the world. So having the constant communication on defense is key to success.
Q�In addition to swimming and playing water polo, you were also on the volleyball team at
GSTETTENBAUER�This is actually kind of a funny story. I had played basketball and ran track and field growing up. Unfortunately, I hurt my knee high jumping and couldn't run competitively anymore, so I needed to find another sport.
I had heard of water polo, but we didn't have any clubs in
I had never played volleyball in my life, but somehow made the team. It was fun and it kept my sports involvement well-rounded throughout the year with swimming as my third sport in spring quarter. Coming into my junior year I found that practices conflicted and neither coach was willing to negotiate with their practice schedules. I decided to stick with water polo because I felt it was the sport where I was better and had more skill. Lucky for me it seems to have turned out OK. Volleyball was fun and I still like to play beach volleyball, but I am definitely not the best volleyball player, which is why I stuck with water polo in the first place.
Q�What types of things do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
GSTETTENBAUER�What spare time? Well I of course like to sleep as much as possible because between water polo, classes and working at UCSD's Canyonview Pool, I usually get pretty tired. I also like to hang out at the beach, watch movies, eat ice cream and lounge around with friends.
Q�What is your major and what do you plan to do with it after you graduate?
GSTETTENBAUER�I am an Environmental Systems, Earth Sciences major and of course I have no clue what I want to do when I graduate. I still have another year to think about it though!
Previous Q&A Articles
Sarah Hendy (Women's Track and Field) April 17, 2008
Eric Leserman (Men's Volleyball) April 9, 2008
Danielle Lukk (Softball) April 4, 2008
Chris Franco (Baseball) March 24, 2008
Dan Perdew (Swimming) March 18, 2008
Evan Hsiao (Swimming) March 9, 2008Eric Rubens (Men's Tennis) February 27, 2008
Melissa Ward (Softball) February 20, 2008
Cameron Sprowles (Fencing) February 13, 2008
Kim Hockett (Women's Water Polo) February 6, 2008
Trevor Decker (Baseball) January 31, 2008
Jordan Lawley (Men's Basketball) January 23, 2008
Jason Spangler (Men's Volleyball) January 5, 2008
Andrew Skewes (Men's Diving) December 26, 2007
Alexis Gaskin (Women's Basketball) December 17, 2007
Aubrey Panis (Women's Swimming) December 2, 2007
Andrew Hatch (Men's Basketball) November 26, 2007
Kevin Klein (Men's Cross Country) November 12, 2007
Kim Adams (Women's Volleyball) November 7, 2007
Ben Miller (Men's Water Polo) October 31, 2007
Alie Avina (Women's Soccer) October 19, 2007
Charity Elliott (Women's Basketball Head Coach) October 15, 2007
Jason Le (Men's Soccer ) October 3, 2007
Rebecca Bailey (Women's Volleyball) September 18, 2007
Amanda Burkhardt (Women's Cross Country) September 10, 2007


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
Here is a remarkable poem written by the first Ming Emperor of China, Zhu Yuanzhang (born 1328), celebrating the life and mission of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him).
Since Creation of Universe
Heaven has already appointed,
Faith Preaching Giant Saint,
From West He's Born,
To receive Holy Scripture,
With thirty part Book,
To guide all creations,
King of all Kings,
Leader of Holy Ones,
With Support from Divine,
To Protect His Nation,
With five daily prayers,
Silently hope for peace,
With heart toward Allah,
Empower the poor ones,
Save them from calamity,
See through the Unseen,
Pulling souls and spirits,
Away from all wrongdoings,
Mercy to the World,
Walking ancient Crowned Path,
Evil vanquished to One,
Religion Pure and True,
The Noble High One.
– forwarded from Brother Jeremy P. Cheng, via the PH Pro Indonesian Yahoo group.
Ya Haqq!


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Some of my Washington Post coworkers who love college football have spent the week lamenting what a lame slate Division I FBS has got going on this weekend. No such issues here in Division III, which makes it a good week to get out from in front of the TV and go to a game.
There's one clash of ranked teams, and ten — count 'em, ten — ranked teams taking on pretty good challenges, be they against teams on the fringe of the rankings, teams with recent playoff pedigree or teams expected to push for a conference title and finish with a winning record.
To help make sense of the 200-plus teams in action are Pat Coleman, Keith McMillan (that's me) and Ryan Tipps:
Game of the week
Keith's take: No. 5 Wesley at Salisbury: I'm going to burn up my quota of Wesley picks pretty soon, but with just five games against D-III teams, and any loss putting a Pool B playoff spot in jeopardy, this game has wide-ranging implications. Plus it's top 25-caliber rivals under the lights (6 p.m. kick). The Wolverines had two defensive starters ejected last week, but safety Sean Hopkins's suspension for targeting was overturned on appeal, and all-American linebacker Sosthene Kapepula starts this week because getting tossed for two personal fouls doesn't come with a suspension for the following game.
Ryan's take: Christopher Newport at No. 24 Hampden-Sydney. I've been filling in my answers from bottom to top and already used up (beware of spoilers) the Wesley and Rowan games, so I'm looking at other matchups. But I'm also not going to be shy highlighting Hampden-Sydney's matchup twice in two weeks. The Tigers and Captains are both coming off losses to very physical teams, and the "healing" factor might be the key to who comes away victorious this weekend. Last season, CNU surprised H-SC early and put up the points needed to win. This year, I think both teams are genuinely better than their 2013 incarnations, and I wouldn't be surprised if this is a matchup between the future winners of the ODAC and USAC.
Pat's take: No. 7 Bethel at No. 15 Wartburg. I feel like the Midwest guy saying this but I do feel like this is one of the best games of the week and for me, at least, worth the six-hour round trip. After seeing how Wartburg manhandled Augsburg last week, a middle-of-the-pack team in Bethel's conference, I'm interested to see how they stack up here. Wartburg has that advantage from this being its second game of the season and that's big. Also, Bethel graduated a ton of receiving prowess, and that helped the program make a jump into the next tier, at least in my opinion. They have been more multi-dimensional the past couple of years. Erik Peterson's season ended early last year as well because of injury and in his return, he will be facing a defensive front that knows how to get to the quarterback. Primed for an upset, although I don't generally include games between ranked teams as upset picks or teams most likely to lose.
Surprisingly close game
Keith No. 5 Linfield at Chapman: I went way out on a limb with this pick in Kickoff, and there's some logic behind it. The Wildcats have scuffled with good SCIAC teams on the road in the past, and the Panthers are pretty good. Chapman has nine back on offense to Linfield's three on D. It's no short trip. And even if the Panthers don't pull what would be a major upset, for the people across the country who know Linfield as an elite program and don't really know Chapman, don't be surprised if it's close.
Ryan: Methodist at Guilford. So a close game here isn't going to be a huge surprise aside from the fact that Guilford cleaned up a lot more heartily than Methodist did in Week 1. But there wasn't any other category that this game fit under – and I wanted to make sure it was highlighted in Triple Take. If I picked the likely conference winners in my Game of the week, listed here are the best-bet runners-up. Scoring should be high in this one, and it very well could be a turnover or two that makes the difference.
Pat: Illinois College at Rose-Hulman. This is a game that I don't know how to analyze and would love to just see it happen. RHIT is on a bit of an upswing of late and could compete for another (share of a) HCAC title. For IC, this is the only test on the schedule outside of the Midwest Conference opponents.
Most likely top 25 team to lose
Keith No. 24 Hampden-Sydney: No. 15 Wartburg is more likely to lose, facing No. 7 Bethel, but in the spirit of the category, I'll pick a ranked team to lose to a non-ranked team. On one hand, H-SC should bounce back from its loss last weekend out at Wabash, especially with what should be a pretty high-powered offense. On the other, Christopher Newport came 47 seconds from shutting the Tigers out in a 17-7 win last season, so this isn't too much of a stretch.
Ryan: No. 11 St. Thomas. UW-La Crosse is but a shadow of the conference-contending team it fielded a decade or so ago, but the Eagles are also good for an upset here and there, and they maintain themselves as competitive in many of their major outings.
(Editor's reminder: We don't consult with each other while making our picks)
Pat: No. 11 St. Thomas. I'll probably get a phone call or a text or get pulled aside after a game to be asked about this but in the first game so far, St. Thomas had to hold on at the end to beat UW-Eau Claire, and we think UW-La Crosse is another step up the WIAC ladder. Meanwhile, UW-L had a nice first week. UST is a defensive-oriented team at the moment, at least until the offense catches up, and a low-scoring game keeps UW-L in it longer.
Team inactive in Week 1 that's most impressive in Week 2
Keith: No. 6 North Central. The Cardinals, with just eight starters back, were built for last season, and nearly made the Stagg Bowl. They have a huge clash with No. 8 UW-Platteville coming up next week, so opening with St. Norbert should be a decent test. They'll pass with flying colors.
Ryan: No. 6 North Central. Opponent St. Norbert is always good for an above-.500 season (read: SOS bump), which makes a playoff hopeful like North Central happy come seeding time. And the Cardinals likely won't be feeling behind despite the Green Knights already having a game under their belt. North Central should glide comfortably to a win. (As an aside, St. Norbert is one of those teams that impresses me by scheduling tough in nonconference play year after year, with Wartburg, St. Thomas and John Carroll as some recent opponents. It will likely be another loss for the Green Knights, but at least they're putting themselves out there.)
Pat: Baldwin Wallace. The Yellow Jackets are one of the three OAC teams that have a Week 1 bye and play non-conference in Week 2 before moving into the conference schedule. Even though Bluffton played last week, an upper-division OAC team should not be fazed by that extra week of preparation.
Team that lost in Week 1 that's most impressive in Week 2
Keith: No. 22 Thomas More. The Saints play at Hanover, the second road game of a five-in-six stretch to open the season. The Panthers aren't bad, but they aren't Wesley either. I was impressed with Thomas More's sure tackling and fiesty effort last week, and against normal-for-D-III team speed, the offense should look more like that 40-point-a-game group it was last season.
Ryan: Dickinson. The Red Devils found their fire in the fourth quarter last week against 12th-ranked Hobart. If that can carry over to Week 2 against a Juniata team that has surged from the Centennial depths, then Dickinson will have a lot to look forward to this season.
Pat: No. 24 Hampden-Sydney. The Tigers will be extra motivated not to start 0-2 and also exorcise the demons of last year's meeting with Christopher Newport. I mean, I assume there are some demons associated with throwing five interceptions and not scoring in the first 59 minutes of the game. That's a nice first couple of weeks on the schedule for H-SC and CNU and now the Tigers are going to want to make sure they are the team that comes out of it 1-1 and the Captains go 0-2.
Rivalry game that turns out most exciting
Keith: The Secretaries' Cup. The Chowder Bowl, won by SUNY-Maritime by one over Mass. Maritime with a late score on Thursday night, got the weekend off to a good start. And not far from Throggs Neck, N.Y., in New London, Conn., Merchant Marine and Coast Guard play in one of the most idyllic settings in college football. The Secretaries' Cup is full of so much atmosphere (I wrote about it a few years ago) that the game being good is practically a bonus.
Ryan: No. 5 Wesley at Salisbury. Three points, 10 points, nine points, three points … You have to go back more than half a decade to find a matchup between Wesley and Salisbury that wasn't tense and tightly fought. These two teams annually bring their best when they line up, and the fact that Salisbury moved to the E8 a couple of years ago has done nothing to lessen the intensity that patrols Route 13. Despite the close scores, the Wolverines have owned the Gulls year in and year out for the past decade, which may be the only strike against this matchup from a neutral fan's perspective.
Pat: The Chowder Bowl. Already played by the time this gets posted (but not yet as of this writing), the two maritime schools getting together just upriver from Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 has to take precedence over everything else.
Best New England performance against a big-conference team
Keith: Bridgewater State. First off,
kudos props to Endicott for stepping up their game and scheduling Hobart, following Framingham State's date with Rowan and Salve Regina's with Montclair State. More respect for football in a particular region is earned by winning. And it helps to win on the weeks when folks across the nation are paying attention. I think all three New England teams mentioned have a chance to win, but the best chance is the Bears, at the NJAC's William Paterson.
Ryan: Rowan at Framingham State. I still have Rowan on my Top 25 ballot, though squeaked in just under the wire. I also picked Framingham State as a near-miss Pool B candidate in Kickoff. Whether it's the best or not, it's certainly the one I'm most interested in and the one that will be the most telling in the long run.
Pat: Endicott. Nearly picked for a category before I saw the rest of the questions, I like the Gulls' chances of keeping it close. You know, in a Western New England-Union kind of way, but probably without the upset. I think Salve has the best chance of a win, but that Endicott might give the best performance.
They'll be on your radar
Keith: Puget Sound. The Loggers have one win the past three seasons (2011-13). But after an opening-week home victory over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, they can make it two wins this season Saturday at Occidental. The Tigers didn't play last week, but have 17 starters back from a 5-4 team, so it might be a lot to ask.
Ryan: Augsburg. I don't believe that the 40-3 loss that they were dealt in Week 1 represents the kind of team Augsburg really is. I expect the Auggies to bounce back this week against Concordia (Wis.). And if they don't, well, the MIAC is right around the corner and it isn't a forgiving place.
Pat: Central. A win vs. Monmouth would virtually assure Central of a 3-0 start heading into the Week 5 game vs. Wartburg (the intervening weeks are a home game vs. Maranatha and a bye). Also, kudos to Monmouth for going out and playing its non-conference games against actual non-Midwest Conference teams (looking at you, Grinnell, Beloit, Cornell).


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Updated June 16, 2012
After a back and forth third round, Beau Hossler finished with an impressive even-par 70 to put himself in contention at the U.S. Open, where he's four off the lead entering the final round.
"My goal now is to win the tournament as well," Hossler said after his round. "Can I win it? Absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind. It's going to take a great effort, mentally and physically, but I think it's all out there for me."
Updated June 15, 2012
After scores of 70-73 during the first two rounds of the U.S. Open, Beau Hossler entered Saturdays third round in a tie for ninth. When Hossler birdied No.1 during his second round, he held sole possession of first place. His round, which started on hole No. 9, was also highlighted by a chip-in for birdie on No. 7. Hossler begins the third round four shots off the three-way tie for the lead at Olympic Club and will tee off at 5:05 p.m. ET.
Updated prior to start of U.S. Open
Andy Zhang
, 14, made history as he became the youngest golfer to make the U.S. Open field. Zhang, who plays out of Reunion, Fla., gained entry as an alternate after Paul Casey withdrew due to injury.
The record for the youngest player to compete in the U.S. Open was previously held by AJGA alum Tadd Fujikawa, who was 15 when he played in the 2006 tournament at Winged Foot Golf Club.
A native of China, Zhang has lived in the United States since he was 10 and is a student at the IMG Leadbetter Academy. In April, Zhang finished tied for seventh at the Junior All-Star at Fieldstone and finished T11 at the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Junior at Innisbrook hosted by Sean OHair.
For the second year in a row, Beau Hossler of Mission Viejo, Calif., has qualified for the U.S. Open. Hossler, 17, shot a 7-under-par 137 during Sectional Qualifying to earn his spot in the field at The Olympic Club in San Francisco.
The two-time Rolex Junior All-American is currently No. 7 in the Polo Golf Rankings. In April, he achieved his fourth career AJGA victory at the Winn Grips Heather Farr Classic hosted by Longbow Golf Club, where he set the tournament record with a 15-under-par 198. He earned medalist honors at the 2011 U.S. Amateur and has given a verbal commitment to continue his golf career at the University of Texas. Hossler most recently finished fourth at the 2012 Thunderbird International Junior.
Also headed to The Olympic Club is Alberto Sanchez of Nogales, Ariz., who will make his first appearance at the U.S. Open, after finishing Sectional Qualifying with a 6-under-par 138.
Headed to Arizona State in the fall to continue his golf career, Sanchez, 17, compiled 10 top-15 finishes in his AJGA career. His best showing was at the 2009 Under Armour® /Hunter Mahan Championship where he tied for second. Sanchez most recently recorded a tie for 11th at the Winn Grips Heather Farr Classic hosted by Longbow Golf Club behind champion and fellow U.S. Open competitor Hossler.


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Surf Expo 09: Oak Wakeskates
Since Oak is the only independently owned wakeskate company displaying at Surf Expo this year, I figured I'd give them their own post. For 2010 Mikey T and Mikey G are rolling out five models.
One of the coolest things about Oak is all of their boards pay tribute to friends. The stubby features the same character as last year, but this year he's chopping off his thumb in honor of Mike Grasso. It's also TJ Geisey approved, since it was his idea to make a bit shorter, wider board. The Fun Boots is and tried and true shape that's actually been in the Oak line for 5 years. It's a 41-inch concave with a 25 degree edge, made for Dave Hanson and Keith Lant, creators of Fun Boots.
Mikey T's personal favorite board in the line is the Hooker Pro Model. It's a 40.5 inch concave, with a 45 degree edge. Basically this is the team board sized down a bit making it wider in the tips and better for trickery. "It's awesome," Josh Kirby said, "that's all you need to know about it."
As always, every Oak board is hand made with hard rock maple and basswood cross ply layup, then sealed with a two-part epoxy resin system. Finally they are topped with multiple coats of marine urethane three part poly top seal.
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Pot roast
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Pot roast and roasted broccoli
I took this big hunk of meat out of the freezer a few days ago. I didn't have any specific plans for it, and it sat there at least an extra day while we finished up the blue-cheese filled meatballs I made the other day. Don't worry, they weren't anything special, just the same recipe for meatballs I posted a week or two ago, but with holes smooshed into the middle of each (still fist size!) meatball, and a hunk of blue cheese shoved in. I baked them instead of cooking them in sauce.
I didn't come here today to talk to you about blue-cheese meatballs. I'm here to talk about pot roast. And roasted broccoli. Because both of these things are soo easy to make, I'm combining them. Plus, voila! Dinner! We added greenbeans (frozen, put into a hot pan, drizzled with olive oil and salt and pepper and a bit of garlic powder and cooked on high heat for a minute or two). While the pot roast takes quite a while to cook, it's one of those 'toss it in the oven and go watch a movie or two' recipes.
Pot roast
Pot roast
From Simply Recipes, simplified.
2-3 lb boneless chuck roast (this is a cheap cut of meat, full of fat)
1 T olive oil
salt, pepper, garlic powder, thyme
1 onion, roughly chopped
3/4 c red wine
Preheat oven to 225. Heat oil in a pan big enough to hold the meat without a lot of extra room until sizzling. Sprinkle each side of the meat generously with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and thyme. Sear meat on each side until well browned, about 5 minutes on each side. Once seared, hold the meat out of the pan and scatter the onions underneath. Add the wine, and add the meat back. Cover, put the pan in the oven, and go do something else for 4 to 5 hours.
Remove the meat (carefully, it will be falling apart) from the pan and set aside. Skim the oil off the top of the juice left in the pan (using a gravy separater is easiest) and then strain the liquid through a sieve. Smush the onions up into a pulp and add back to the juice. You can use this as is or boil it down a bit to concentrate the flavor further. Serve the juice over the meat.
Roasted broccoli
Unfortunately this is best when you cook it at a higher temperature than 225, so you need to cook this after the meat is done. I really really highly reccomend cooking broccoli this way. It's so good. So good. The onions get all sweet and tender, the broccoli does too, and with a little brown around the edges.....yum.
1-2 crowns broccoli
1/2 to 1 onion
salt and pepper
olive oil
Preheat your oven to 400. Cut the broccoli into florets, chop up the stems, and dice the onion. Toss with a good drizzle of olive oil and a generous sprinkle of salt and pepper. Roast 15-25 minutes, depending on how much broccoli you have. Pierce a thicker stem with a fork to test doneness. If you're feeling crazy, you can sprinkle everything with a good bit of Parmesan cheese, but that's up to you.
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What a wonderful meal! I love pot roast too and roasted broccoli is my current favourite, I have it with everything now.ReplyDelete
the way you make broccoli is exactly how i make asparagus! soo good im gonna have to try this now, meat too!ReplyDelete
Yummmmmm. I needed a good pot roast recipe! And I looove making broccoli like that -- I use the same method for cauliflower too!ReplyDelete
(And I hear ya on the wedding stuff... is your date in June too?)
- Anonymous10:24 PM
Sometimes there's just nothing better than a good, old-fashioned pot roast. And with this economy, that's a great way to make an inexpensive cut of meat go a long way. Your broccoli looks good too.ReplyDelete
Any of those scallion cheddar biscuits left to go with the post roast? Yum!
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Through a tip from Cliopatria, I found my way to Strange Maps, where I found this image of what is apparently the original gerrymander. It got its name from Elbridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration of Independence, participant in the Constitutional Convention, Governor of Massachusetts from 1810-12, and Vice President of the United States, 1813-14. It was during Gerry's unpopular governorship that the gerrymander was created.
Strange Maps tells the story this way:
The painter Gilbert Stuart was inspired by the awkward shape of an electoral district on a map he saw in a newpaper editor's office. He decorated the snake-shaped district with a head, a set of wings and claws, making it out to be some kind of antediluvian monster.
That will do for a salamander," he said to the editor.
"Gerrymander!", replied he to Stuart.
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- Chausovsky said...
This image, and the same story, appears in the textbook: Bardes, Shelly, and Schmidt, American Goverment and Politics Today: The Essentials, at page 349. They cite Congressional Quarterly's Guide to Congress, 3rd ed. (1982), p. 695.
I am pleased to see an online image.
- January 9, 2007 at 10:35:00 PM EST
- Mojave Joe said...
This image is quite famous. Although it's been quite some time since I took American history, I'm pretty sure the image was in my textbook, and, I would guess, in most textbooks today (isn't it?). Anyway, if you do a Google image search for "gerrymander" you will see that the image is spread out across Cyberspace.
- January 11, 2007 at 7:50:00 AM EST
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A fascinating documentary into the background story of the historic fundraising concert for charity, the first of its' kind, organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar in August 1971 to relieve the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Bangladesh in it's struggle for independence from Pakistan.
As well as George and Ravi, the show featured Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell and Billy Preston. This film explains how the shows came about, features unseen footage from the rehearsals and sound checks, performances from the concerts, and interviews with the participants along with contributions from the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan and Sir Bob Geldof who reflect the legacy of an event that is acknowledged as being the forerunner and inspiration for the major fundraising events of recent years.
The show was a musical triumph for George Harrison with highlights that included "Here Comes The Sun", "Something", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "My Sweet Lord". Bob Dylan who had not performed for 2 years thrilled the audience with versions of "Just like a Woman", "A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall" and "Blowin' In the Wind".


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College Prep School Grooms Students for Dartmouth's Project-Based Learning
By Anna Fiorentino
February 2014 • CoolStuff
At the Menlo School in Atherton, California students can take a sequence of engineering classes culminating with a custom hands-on project of their choice. For Dartmouth engineers, this will sound familiar. It bears a striking resemblance—and often acts as a precursor—to Dartmouth's two-course sequence, ENGS 89/90: Engineering Design Methodology and Project Initiation/Completion.
This college preparatory school's project-oriented approach to learning stretches beyond typical high school math, physics, chemistry and biology. Not surprisingly, Menlo School sends six to eight students a year to Dartmouth and a good portion of those ends up at Thayer School.
"The computer science department at Menlo is so popular the school now has 11 class sections for a total student body of 600," says Skip Stritter D'68, who sits on Thayer's Board of Overseers and sent his son Kai '16, a psychology major, to Dartmouth by way of Menlo. "There are two levels of robotics courses and the school took home second place in the 2011 First Tech Challenge World Championship."
And in the past five years the connection between Menlo and Dartmouth has only grown stronger.
"We have arranged for Dean Joseph Helble to visit campus several times and speak at Menlo's noon-time visiting lecture series," says Stritter. "This and other factors like lots of students following older siblings to Dartmouth has increased interest significantly."
Additionally, Menlo's Bridge to Engineering Science Math and Technology (M-BEST) program has encouraged Dartmouth engineering enrollment by increasing interest among female students.
"Professor Vicki May will visit Menlo in March to trade ideas about M-BEST and other programs," says Stritter, who mentors students, facilitates internships and keeps in touch with Menlo's STEM teachers and Thayer professors.
Dartmouth received eight early decision applications for fall 2014 out of a class of 144. Sophie Sheeline '16, a graduate of the Menlo School, offers insight into why students set their sights on Dartmouth.
"At Menlo my friend made a stuffed animal bear that used an Arduino (a single-board microcontroller) and attached sensors to converse about things like the weather and time of day. Other students built their own soundboard or instruments. Basically, it's a chance to pursue a personal interest and build something awesome," says Sheeline, who is considering a career in mechanical engineering.
She says her math and science teachers taught her to love the subjects and prepared her to pursue a career in engineering. The most rewarding experience for Sheeline so far has been a project with Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering.
"Through Thayer I was given the chance to travel to Rwanda for two months this summer and help develop small-scale hydropower sites with a team of five other Thayer students," she says. "We were given the knowledge, resources and support necessary to complete the project, which has been one of the most important and amazing experiences of my life."
Then as part of fall term's Introduction to Engineering class, her group created an assault-prevention device for college-aged women with the help of people all over Thayer.
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