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April 3, 2013
Tourney Central | | Game Notes
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The subtitle to the 2013 women's Final Four might as well be: The BIG EAST throws one last bash in the Big Easy.
Three of the four teams – Connecticut, Louisville and Notre Dame – hail from a league that has long thrived in both women's and men's college basketball, but which is breaking apart after this season.
"I guess the shout-out should go out to all the (university) presidents for having the foresight to tear apart the greatest basketball conference that ever existed," UConn coach Geno Auriemma sarcastically said during a women's Final Four coaches conference call Wednesday, noting that two teams in the men's Final Four (Louisville and Syracuse) also are from the BIG EAST. "But I guess it's a great swan song.
"If it's going to end, this is a great way for it to end."
At this point, only California of the Pac-12 could spoil the party for those who want to see the current BIG EAST take home one last women's national title, which would be its ninth.
Connecticut is the only one of the three current BIG EAST teams in the women's Final Four that is currently committed to remaining in the conference, which is adding a handful of new schools, losing others (including Notre Dame this summer and Louisville in 2014) and changing names – it will be the American Athletic Conference.
Still, Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said her team takes pride in being part of a league that has three teams left standing, and which will have at least one team in the final after Notre Dame and UConn meet in a third straight national semifinal on Sunday night.
"I'm thrilled for the BIG EAST. I think it proves we were the best conference," McGraw said. "I don't think that there was any question when you have two No. 1 seeds coming out of the same conference. But to see Louisville join us in the Final Four I think shows what depth and strength we had in the BIG EAST.
"It's a little sad to think that next year we'll be gone, the year after Louisville will be gone," McGraw added. "A shame it has to end, but what a way to go out."
And perhaps there could be no better place to go out than New Orleans, where funerals routinely take the form of festive jazz "second line" parades.
Auriemma certainly knows what it's like to celebrate in the Big Easy.
This will be the third women's Final Four held in New Orleans, and all three have involved UConn teams coached by Auriemma. Connecticut lost in the semifinals in 1991, but won it all in 2004, punctuated by Diana Taurasi punting the ball into the New Orleans Arena stands as the clock hit zero against Tennessee.
In order to celebrate another title in the Crescent City, UConn will have to find a way past a Notre Dame squad that defeated the Huskies in each of the last two national semifinals and in all three meetings this season.
"It's a familiar place for us, fortunately," Auriemma said. "Familiar opponent, unfortunately."
Auriemma said a part of him would like to see a reseeding of remaining teams for Final Fours. At the same time, he recognizes the allure of the "Cinderella story" that will accompany either underdog Louisville or Final Four newcomer Cal to Tuesday night's championship game.
"One of them is going to be playing in the national championship. And that's something that I'm sure very, very few people predicted," Auriemma said. "So that's just part of the NCAA tournament's beauty."
To get to New Orleans, Louisville stunned star center Brittney Griner and defending champion Baylor, then vanquished Southeastern Conference power Tennessee.
"We're a group right now that I think has done things that no one thought could be done," Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. "We're at a point right now where we do believe if we show up and compete and follow game plan and believe in each other, we can beat anybody. But, at the same time, we also know if we don't show up and we're not all on the same page, we're able to be beaten by anybody. We're just not talented enough to just go out there, roll the ball out and say, 'Hey, let's play."
Cal was seeded second in the Spokane Region, but wound up avoiding a matchup with top-seed Stanford when the Cardinal was upset by Georgia. Cal then rode a second-half rally to an overtime victory over the Lady Bulldogs.
Golden Bears coach Lindsay Gottlieb said that while her players talk about their eagerness to indulge in the French doughnuts, called beignets, that are popular New Orleans treats, they also are serious about representing the West Coast.
"There's an additional sense of pride in that," Gottlieb said, noting that nearly all of her players are California natives. "It is a neat dynamic to be the outsiders, to be the West Coast kids."
Still, Gottlieb understands why this is a time when college basketball fans are bound to be sentimental about the BIG EAST, having grown up in the region. She attended Brown before taking her first coaching job at Syracuse.
"It's just the way it is right now with conference alignment, realignment," she said. "It's unfortunate, just because growing up on the East Coast I would watch those games and the rivalries.
"But obviously, for this weekend, we're focused on just trying to take care of our business."


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Six weeks of isolation from society can drive even a mild-mannered family man mad.
Bristol Marunde (12-7 MMA, 0-0 UFC), fresh off his release from "The Ultimate Fighter 16" filming, can finally breathe a sigh of relief, kick back with his girlfriend and young son, and watch the season unfold on Friday nights with the rest of the world on FX, where two episodes have aired to date.
"It was a good experience, but it's something you pass through that you never want to go back to," Marunde told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).
Not that it would be feasible to join another cast in the future, but you get the point.
Throw 16 disoriented men trained in tactical violence in a locked fraternity house with all vying for the same six-figure prize from the UFC, and you've created quite the conundrum.
"This show will test anybody no matter what walk of life you're from – whether you're young and have nothing to lose and live on a couch or like me," Marunde said. "I have a nice king-size bed and a house here in Vegas and family and business. It tested me just as much."
Marunde tried and failed to make the show years ago, and he vowed never to try again. Then he received an unexpected phone call from producers asking if he would come out to Las Vegas and go through the interview process again for Season 16. He would not have to participate in the rest of the weeding-out process, he was told. They knew he could fight this time.
With nothing to lose from a career standpoint, Marunde agreed, even though he knew he'd have plenty to lose from a physical standpoint. The show called for welterweights, not middleweights.
"I haven't made 170 (pounds) since high school," Marunde said. "That was like 12 years ago. I've been fighting at 185."
He went in with the attitude to simply be himself, and it worked. He was cast on the show.
"A lot of it is just dumb luck," Marunde said regarding the casting process. "For me, dumb luck, destiny – I don't know."
Fast-forward to an odd environment inside Mandalay Bay Events Center, where Marunde was paired opposite George Lockhart in the elimination-round of the competition, which cuts 32 fighters down to 16. It's a setting for which no fighter has really been conditioned. There's no music or crowd to feed off of. You don't know the cornermen you've been provided. It's so quiet you start hearing things you've never heard before, like your own footsteps.
To top it off, you don't know anything about your opponent. As far as Marunde knew, Lockhart could be just about anything – a Shotokan karate black belt like Lyoto Machida, a leg-lock specialist like Rousimar Palhares – anything.
"There are a lot of unknowns," Marunde said. "That creates a lot of apprehension in this fight. Then, obviously, the pressure mounting that you must win this fight. This is the most important fight of your life. This is going to change your family. No pressure.
"My thought was, 'Don't lose this fight. You better not drop this fight. You're not going home. I refuse to go home.' Everybody already thinks if they don't hear from me, if my girlfriend doesn't hear from me, that means I made it (the cast). If she hears from me, that means come pick me up."
Her phone never rang. Marunde won by first-round guillotine choke to earn a spot in the "TUF" house.
"I just came out – one, one, two – he shot under me, and then I was just going for the knees," he said. "And finally I connected one to his chin, and he shot in, and I shucked him down and sunk in that guillotine choke. I just felt a soft neck right on my forearm, and man, that was the best feeling ever."
There would be no time for proper celebration or days off like there normally would be following a win. The show was just getting started. The reality of reality television was beginning to sink in quickly.
"Put on a microphone, be quiet, and sit down," Marunde jokingly recalled being told. "I was like, 'OK, maybe this is going to be a little different than I thought.'"
Marunde would be the second pick chosen by head coach Shane Carwin to join Team Carwin, which viewers quickly learned was his preference. FX aired an interview with Marunde in which he expressed, let's just say, some joy and relief in being selected by Carwin as opposed to Roy Nelson.
"It wasn't necessarily disrespecting Roy," Marunde said. "I just know, and as the season unfolds you're going to see what more and more happens, I didn't want to be on his team just because I've seen his training. For me, I don't think it's organized. And I don't think it's conducive to the way I fight."
As always, there may be more to the story.
Marunde recounted an incident in which he and Nelson, who are both Las Vegas residents, crossed paths on a memorable occasion at Throwdown Training Center.
"Maybe some of this [beef] originated from when we were sparring one time," Marunde said. "He (Nelson) threw a giant uppercut and split my lip open and cut me all the way through. Maybe that has something to do with it. I don't know.
"That would be like me punching a hole in a 145-pound (fighter's) mouth, you know what I mean? He has like 60 or 70 pounds on me. So, whatever."
Marunde is thankful the entire process is over, but also thankful he was given a unique opportunity. It was an experience he never thought he'd be a part of. Now the 30-year-old can add "Ultimate Fighter veteran" to his resume.
"Sometimes when you completely put it (something you really want) aside, and you don't even want it anymore, that's when you get it," he said.
For more on "The Ultimate Fighter 16," stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
MMAjunkie.com Radio broadcasts Monday-Friday at noon ET (9 a.m. PT) live from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino's Race & Sports Book. The show is hosted by "Gorgeous" George Garcia, MMAjunkie.com lead staff reporter John Morgan and producer Brian "Goze" Garcia. For more information or to download past episodes, go to www.mmajunkie.com/radio.


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Khalil Beckwith has never been formally diagnosed with lactose intolerance. He just knows that drinking milk makes him feel lousy.
"When I drink milk with nothing else ... finishing the carton can be a nauseating endeavor," said Beckwith, a senior at King College Prep High School in Chicago.
Yet when Beckwith takes a meal through the federal school lunch program, milk is the only beverage available. Usually he avoids drinking it, but sometimes he said he feels pressure to take the milk. Then he either throws it away or winds up feeling queasy.
People with lactose intolerance lack the enzymes needed to digest lactose, resulting in bloating, cramping, nausea and diarrhea after milk consumption. The condition is common among African-Americans like Beckwith, as well as Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans — groups that make up 91 percent of students in the Chicago Public Schools.
Schools participating in the National School Lunch Program must serve milk, and CPS officials say the only way a student can receive a substitute drink is for a doctor to say he or she has a milk allergy. That is a different condition, which qualifies as a disability.
But the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs the lunch program, says it is acceptable to give students an alternative (such as lactose-free milk, soy milk or almond milk) if a parent submits a simple request.
"USDA provides schools with the flexibility to offer milk substitutes that meet federal nutrition requirements to accommodate students' nondisabling allergies, culture, religion or ethical beliefs," a spokeswoman said.
Estimated rates of lactose intolerance among minority groups range from 50 to 100 percent, though a national conference on the topic in 2010 concluded that good data on prevalence remain elusive. Even the lowest estimates, however, suggest that millions of children in the federal lunch program could experience gastrointestinal problems after consuming milk.
And although the USDA allows schools to provide a substitute, those products tend to be more expensive, discouraging officials from publicizing the option. For example, the Broward County Public Schools in Florida have been offering soy milk to any lactose-intolerant child whose parent requests it, but officials say the option is not widely advertised because of the costs involved.
In Chicago elementary schools, milk is the only beverage offered at lunch. High school students often can buy bottled water and juices in the lunchroom at their own expense but cannot take them as part of a federally funded lunch.
The lack of choices worries parents and health advocates who believe it will contribute to massive waste — an audit at one CPS school found that a third of the milk taken at lunch was thrown away — and leave lactose-intolerant students feeling sick and unfocused.
"If they are required to take milk during the lunchtime and actually drink it, how are they going to feel after lunch sitting in that classroom?" said Amy Lanou, a University of North Carolina at Asheville assistant professor of nutrition. "Are they going to behave? Are they going to be focused on their studies?"
Yasmin Gorelku, of Evanston, sends her 8-year-old daughter, Belise, to school with a water bottle every day, "or else she will have nothing to drink." For Belise, drinking milk triggers nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, Gorelku said.
Gorelku said Belise's school complied with her request not to give the girl milk at meals. But Gorelku says the lunch line should offer alternatives — even cups of water — to students who get sick when they drink milk.
"It all comes down to asking, 'Are your students comfortable during that day?'" she said. "If they are there to learn, you should have acceptable foods and beverages to support that."
A spokeswoman for Evanston-Skokie School District 65 says it requires a physician's note to consider offering a different drink.
Lactose-intolerant students got some federal help last year, when the USDA began requiring schools to provide free drinking water in all lunch service locations. CPS says the district is in partial compliance with the provision but would not specify when it plans to comply fully.
At Beckwith's school, all water fountains are outside the cafeteria, and students who want cups "have to go to the nurse's office to get them," he said.
The USDA says milk is a required part of the lunch program because it provides "children with the calcium and vitamin D, as well as protein, needed to develop strong bones, teeth and muscles." In most districts, students don't have to take milk with lunch, but it must be offered.
In addition, the USDA will not reimburse schools for a lunch unless it contains a certain number of food items. So if a student reaches the end of the cafeteria line with, say, a meat patty and broccoli, the lunch worker is likely to suggest adding a milk to complete the meal.
Citing "confidentiality" issues, CPS did not allow the Tribune to visit lunchrooms to interview students about what they drink at lunch. But Jessica Hawkins, a senior who like Beckwith contributes to The Mash, a Chicago Tribune Media Group publication for high schoolers, said she and her friends often feel pressured to take milk with their meals.
Lunch workers say, "You need a milk with that," Hawkins said.
Mikhaela Padilla, a Whitney Young High School junior, said: Students "take it because they feel bad and that's what they've been taught to do."
What happens then? A waste audit conducted at one Chicago elementary school concluded that the equivalent of about 200 cartons of milk (many of them unopened) were thrown away at lunch during a single typical day.
Earlier this year, CPS supplied the Tribune with a waste audit from five schools participating in the district's "breakfast in the classroom" program. The results suggest that up to half of the milk given out was thrown in the garbage.
The CPS milk contract with C&M; JV1 Co., boosted by last year's launch of the mandatory breakfast program, now exceeds $20 million a year. Some of that is covered by the federal government, but district officials said they couldn't be specific because the costs are factored into the full meal reimbursement.
The district pays the company an average of 23 cents per carton, or about $92,000 a day for 400,000 half-pints, much of it funded by taxpayers whose money goes down the drain with any discarded milk.
It's unclear what role lactose intolerance plays when students choose not to drink milk with lunch. Milk consumption by American children and adolescents has dropped sharply, according to an analysis by the Dairy Research Institute of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The most recent figures, from 2007-10, indicate that only about 57 percent of U.S. teenagers drink milk, down from 75 percent three decades ago. For children 6 to 12 years old, the percentage fell to 73 percent from 90 percent.
Erin Quann, director of regulatory affairs for the National Dairy Council, said there could be many reasons kids throw away their school milk.
"Is it served cold? Do they have enough time? And do they have access to other fluids within the school day that they see as an alternative?" she said.
The dairy council is hoping to reverse the decline in milk consumption. "Kids need more milk, not less," Quann said. "They are already not getting the calcium they need to avoid compromising bone health in the future."
Other nutritionists say the benefits of milk to children are being overstated.
In 2005, the journal Pediatrics published an analysis by Lanou, of UNC-Asheville, finding that "scant evidence supports ... increasing milk intake ... for child and adolescent bone" health. Lanou notes that national bone health has not deteriorated measurably despite decreases in milk consumption.
This year, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital reported in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine that they had found no relationship between dairy or calcium consumption and the incidence of stress fractures among 6,712 preadolescent and adolescent girls.
The study did, however, find a benefit from vitamin D consumption. Linda Van Horn, who served on the federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, said that link is one of the reasons the panel recommended three daily servings of dairy.
"Milk fortification with vitamin D represents the single greatest source of dietary vitamin D that exists in our food supply," said Van Horn, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University. The Dairy Council also notes that milk provides magnesium, potassium and protein.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that promotes a plant-based diet, cited the Boston study in filing a petition in July asking that the USDA eliminate dairy requirements from the school lunch program. The group has also asked CPS and other districts to make milk substitutes available to all students.
Susan Levin, the group's nutrition director, said she questions the USDA's ability to dispense impartial nutrition advice when it also has a mission to market American agricultural goods, including milk.
"It would be wonderful if the USDA made all the regulations in the National School Lunch Program line up with science," Levin said. "But unfortunately they have another mandate to support agricultural sales, and those two things don't always lead to the healthiest possible lunches."
The USDA declined to comment but said the petition was under review.
Dr. Frank Greer, a physician and former nutrition chairman for the American Academy of Pediatrics, notes that African-Americans "show the biggest, strongest bones of all groups" despite their low rate of milk consumption. Conversely, Caucasians have some of the highest dairy calcium consumption and poorest bone health.
While diet plays a role, "the most important determinant of bone health is genetics," said Greer, a University of Wisconsin at Madison medical professor.
Greer and Van Horn agree that although milk offers a nutrient package that is hard to replace with other foods, alternatives should be offered to lactose-intolerant students. Greg Miller, executive vice president of research and regulatory and scientific affairs for the National Dairy Council, concurs.
"For lactose maldigesters, there are alternatives like lactose-free milk and yogurt, which is also very well tolerated," said Miller, adding that some can tolerate small amounts of milk with food. "There are many, many options."
All acknowledge that alternatives would cost more than regular milk. But, said Levin, "this is an investment in kids' health at school, and you have to be patient and understand that it will pay off in ways that are not just financial."
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Visual Cultural Studies Graduate Students Travel Globe Through Summer Fellowships
Four doctoral students in the University of Rochester's graduate program in visual and cultural studies—Abby Glogower, Berin Golonu, Alicia Inez Guzmán, and Alexander Brier Marr—were awarded specialized fellowships to pursue research over the summer.
"The breadth and depth of these projects reflect the strength of our graduate program," said Paul Duro, professor of art history and interim chair of the program of visual and cultural studies. "These prestigious fellowships are very competitive and our strong showing nationally is confirmation of the diverse strengths of our students in the field of visual and cultural studies."
Third-year student Abby Glogower received an Oberlin College Alumni Fellowship, which she used to conduct research at the Library Company of Philadelphia, one of the oldest libraries in the country. Glogower is focusing part of her dissertation on the relationships between Philadelphia photographers and printmakers during the 1840s-60s, following the invention of photography in 1839.
"Philadelphia was already a booming center for lithography, with entire districts full of studios which essentially functioned like Kinkos." Glogower explains, noting that the Library Company also has a dedicated visual culture program that supports scholars, exhibitions, and symposia. "Working there was an ideal fit for a visual and cultural studies student."Berin Golonu, a fourth-year student, spent a good portion of her summer conducting dissertation research in Turkey with the assistance of a Susan B. Anthony Institute Research Grant and a Celeste Hughes Bishop Award from the University of Rochester. While in Istanbul, she accessed museum collections and archives to research the history of Ottoman and Turkish painting and photography. Golonu's dissertation analyzes changes in the views of landscape photography and paintings during the transition from the late Ottoman era to the new Turkish Republic and "how nationalist ideologies were represented through depictions of landscape."
While in Turkey, she also traveled to the country's Southeastern region to conduct research on an article she is writing about art and environmentalism in Turkey. It will be published in December 2012, in issue 120 of Third Text.Fourth-year student Alicia Inez Guzmán was a Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Fellow at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Funded by the Latin American Iberian Institute, this fellowship allowed Guzmán to look at land grant records, deeds, and maps at the Center for Southwest Research. There, she investigated how communal property, held by the indigenous and Hispanic people in New Mexico prior to U.S. annexation in 1848, gets pictured through the language of private property. Visiting the research center provided her with material for the first chapter of her dissertation, "Connected in Isolation."
As Guzmán explains, "the research I conducted looks at changing conceptions of landscape in the Southwest and how ideas about property continue to reverberate for artists and local populations into the twentieth century." At the end of the summer, she gave a public lecture at the University of New Mexico on her research.Alexander Brier Marr, a fourth-year student, garnered a Predoctoral Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Aimed at enabling historians of American art to travel abroad, this funding allowed Marr to travel to Australia to research drawings by aboriginal men in the 19th century.
"I see their experimental work with new media, which at the time was paper and ink, as poorly understood in our country and overshadowed by more familiar aboriginal paintings," says Marr. While there, Marr conducted additional research at the Sydney Biennale, one of the art world's great international venues. According to Marr, who is beginning his dissertation on Native American art, "the trip allowed me to practice my conviction that the history of Native art is best understood in a global setting."
Glogower, Golonu, Guzmán, and Marr are among a larger group of visual and cultural studies doctoral students who span six years of study and received artist's residencies, fellowships, invitations to symposia, and travel awards this summer.
The visual and cultural studies program is an interdisciplinary doctoral program, housed in the Department of Art and Art History. It accepts five or six students per year. The program draws from coursework and faculty expertise in several University of Rochester humanities departments. For additional information on the program, visithttp://www.rochester.edu/college/aah/VCS/.
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I have heard it said, "I can't see how black people can vote Republican." Well, a few names pop up: Alan Keyes, Allen West, Herman Cain and Michael Steele. These distinguished public figures are somewhat of a laughing-stock because the public rarely takes them seriously when they decide to run for a high office in government. They are successful in their own way but they also come off as a token black Republican to pander to black voters.
The Republican party once had a lot of clout and social relevance. I am black and I would vote Republican if the party wasn't so irrelevant today. A trip back in the past would show, they were ardent abolitionists. Historically, the Republican party saw slavery as a great scourge to society they had to eradicate (Paraphrased Wikipedia).
But fast forward to now and one can't help but see scores of bone heads hijacking the Republican party. The Republican party was once a party of big ideas. Now they grovel around looking for bits of their former self. They are just keeping up appearances.They used to believe the role of government shouldn't stifle the populace but rather it should engender a robust populace free to amplify the benefits of this democratic experiment. The Republican party has become one filled with a bunch of whiners who are always quick to cry foul. They are like that little kid playing baseball who gets upset because he can't hit the ball far or at all.
How did this happen? It happened gradually after the Republican party chose to adjust its progressive thinking, hard work ethic, its true pro-liberty and pro business roots to join hands with the religious right-wing groups in America, who championed Prohibition and fought against other so-called ghastly social vices. How significant was this shift? Well they lost the black vote after they showed very little interest in the Civil Rights Act. I have a problem with those who seek to attribute intelligence or intrinsic worth to skin color. That is a clear sign he or she is bat shit ludicrous. Slavery has been around forever. It is just a matter of fact that the conqueror usually will lord over the conquered, but in America's case that wasn't the play. Most states supported the systematic enslavement of black people for wage free labor. If America had went to fight wars in Africa and they lost a lot and in their victory, they collected the 'spoils' as payment for their troubles, that's what previous winning sides did during and after warfare. I still don't get it. Why did the Republican party do a 180 from their roots and ultimately became the party of God who joined hands with said right-wing groups to campaign to legislate morality?
I agree, slavery is a moral evil. In the US, a war erupted over it. The Civil War would not have happened if blacks were free and they received wages. The war erupted in defense of the constitution. The constitution granted general liberty to all within the boundaries of the United States. The legislation that followed to abolish slavery was just, the Democratic party then, consisted of moral sloths and intellectual knaves. I can't speak with authority for the enslaved but as for me, I wouldn't want to do the bidding of others without my say so. So there aren't any clear correlation between slavery and other social vices like drinking alcohol. He who drank then did so for his own personal consumption, I can argue he wasn't hurting anyone but himself, save for the poor wife or mistress to whom he took it out on. But holding another human being against his will is down right shameful. Moral legislation should never infringed on another person's pursuit to do what he pleases as long as he is not harming anyone. Moral legislation is quite simple if you kill someone or injure him you will be held responsible. Your behavior shouldn't put another soul at risk. Why did the Republicans depart from this?
The Republican party made its shameful departure from standing up for the downtrodden to joining hands with the ever-increasing act-like-the-puritans, fringe groups in American society. Said groups desired to impose the sensitivities of their conscience on others and they were keen on dictating how a person must conduct himself both in public and private. The party now felt it was their solemn duty to argue for a biblical-inspired totalitarian view that the government has something to say about every facet of its citizen's social life. How did they end up there? Thomas Jefferson promulgated the idea of republicanism which is best demonstrated by the devotion to one's civic duties and to fight against cronyism or any kind of aristocratic self entitlement bullshit (Paraphrased Wikipedia).
So here we go again. The Republican party has lost their way so much . They make feeble attempts to court minority voters. Their efforts look pathetic and out of touch. They rally around big corporations not in support of American businesses but rather to shore up support for their political efforts. It is obvious they are an irrelevant party. They support stupid gun laws like Stand Your Ground. They shout out in maddening unison about one's right to bear arms. The right is not solely to bear arms for the sake of it, but to protect one's property and family. They stir up so much noise about contraceptives and sexual promiscuity. Opponents aren't saying they completely disagree. They are just saying look people have to live with their choices and Republicans sure as hell can't offer vicarious redemption. If Republicans can cover a multitude of 'sins' and can do X,Y & Z fine! But other than that, People should decide what's right for them. Personal liberty was a major tenet in Republicanism. But not so anymore. Most republicans are serfs of their own ideologies. Just look at their recent soon-to-be presidential nominee. The guy has not even been given the official stamp of approval. He doesn't fit that 'true' Republican standard. Therefore they don't trust him.
The sad thing is the Republican party failed to produce a viable candidate against Obama. Absolutely sad. The candidates who came forward were laughable. The women candidates don't have a frontal lobe. The men were all predictable-idealistic-wanna-be-pedagogical-windbags. The one remaining candidate to emerge is Romney; a man for all season except spring. Like summer he is unbearable most of time and the only positive note to the sun I can muster is that he is always looking good and he beams bright with wealth. Like fall, he is the harbinger for the worst that is yet to come–winter. And of course like winter, he is cold, rigid and most people can't tolerate him. He is not a winsome character. He is like a stiff corpse or more like an awkward white guy at a hip hop party. His religion is creepy, it sends chills up the spine like that cold winter breeze in Massachusetts. Romney is no spring. He will not breathe life into the party. Winter is here again and it's here to stay Republicans.
Republicans lost their mojo alright. They have certainly disappointed the Godfather Mr. Honest Abe. He was the one who heralded and projected the party to prominence. But sadly he was later gunned down. I guess in all fairness his death shook up the party. Maybe the Republicans experienced disarray because they didn't recuperate properly after Lincoln's death. They completely lost their identity. It seems the Democratic South the once backward and useless party inverted their role and exchanged it with the theirs. The Democrats bulldozed America's political landscape with their champion Mr. F. Roosevelt; the new lovable face of America after Lincoln. After Lincoln's untimely tenure, the Republicans have searched for their King Arthur. Eisenhower and Nixon certainly weren't him. They completely screwed their chances. And of course we fast forward to Mr. Reagan. An old man who spent his latter days in the White House trying to open jars. By the way, was he Lincoln's replacement? I hope not. Some Republican pundits seem to get a boner just talking about Reagan's legacy but they claim ignorance about the Iran-Contra fiasco.
Dare I chant my title again, the elephant in America's room is the Republican party for they lost their identity. As a result, they've begun the quest to find that one right candidate to mirror the life of Abraham Lincoln. The Democrats despite their ghastly beginnings pulled it off in Franklin Roosevelt, Harry-the if you can't stand the heat you better get out of the kitchen-Truman, JFK and Bill Clinton. With that list aside back to the Republican party. If what the pundits are saying is true about Romney that he is a flip flopper. Maybe they ought to change his nickname to chameleon. Should he win the election the Republican party shouldn't worry. He must now morph into the ideal candidate. Romney must know what kind of president the Republican party wants and he must stay that way.


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This is turning out to be a good year for books that I've always wished somebody would write. Back in March we got the first full-scale study of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, and it was everything I'd hoped it would be.
Today I ran across another new book that I'm frantic to read, Kevin T. Barksdale's The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession. This is a fascinating chapter of early American history that's gone unexamined for far too long, and I'm glad somebody's finally putting out a detailed piece of research on it.
This baby just shot to the top of my reading list. Unfortunately, I'm neck-deep in class preparation, so it'll be a while before I can dive in. I'll let you know what I think.


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To start out, I'm open to suggestions about the system's name. I like the name CRE8 ... it seems distinctive and like it could get some traction. But I don't know what the acronym should actually stand for.
Originally I came up with the "E8" part based on the E8 rules from ENWorld (i.e. the slightly-expanded version of the more notorious E6 D&D variant). Since I am indeed planning on having normal character progression capped at eight levels, it seemed appropriate. However, with so many other crazy changes to the system, it feels funny to base the system's name on just the 8-level cap. And anyway, I don't know what the 'CR' part should stand for in that case.
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I'm the author of three published SF novels: Expert Assistance, Lisa's Way, and Monitor. I'm also the author of the coming of age novel True Friends, and the fantasy novel Cassia. I have several short story collections available.. I've written several books on Kansas history.
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Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update July 2008
The high season for turtles is here! With massive rains, lots of turtles coming out every night, lots of people around to help, and the addition of a brand new Quad bike to our equipment, we can only hope to obtain really good results by the end of this year.
It is very interesting to notice how dramatically the environment around camp changes when the season's peak is here, the patrols increase and are more constant, the volunteers around take care of a lot of the work showing how responsible they are, as the staff have to get more and more involved with the night activities, by the end of August we are hoping to surpass last year's results for this date reaching over 650 nests collected, the addition of the new quad bike will be crucial to obtain these results.
The activities at the crocodile farm have taken a new turn as at the moment the place is in constant development from the investment made by the Government in the place, the work is hard but satisfying at the same time, and the new crocodile offspring are soon to hatch any minute now. By making complete the population for the breeding studs that inhabit the aqua terrariums in the farm, we will be able to breed all the hatchlings that come out of the 20 nests we have been monitoring in our small corral.
With the budget given by the government, one of the main goals is to create adequate spaces for the offspring we breed; areas have been given for the construction of 3 new aqua terrariums exclusively aimed to hold the newborns.
It is really satisfactory how dramatically the place has changed since the first time we arrived, it has gone from being an almost forgotten project to having the aim to be one of the most prolific breeding centers in Mexico.
It is remarkable how much our presence has influenced the changes in all the projects. There is still a lot to do, and a constant presence is essential, but we know that we are in the right path.
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The canal ring area in Amsterdam, the Kinderdijk windmills... Holland already boasted nine beautiful monuments on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Number 10, the Van Nellefabriek, was added on 21 June 2014. With its use of materials like glass and steel and the resulting volume of light and space, UNESCO describes the plant as an 'icon of Dutch modernism'.
- Added as number 10 to the Dutch section of the UNESCO World Heritage List on 21 June 2014.
- Unique in its use of materials and used to be a coffee, tea and tobacco factory.
- Nowadays a lively commercial centre in Rotterdam.
Modernist architecture
The building was erected around 1920 as a coffee, tea and tobacco factory and had a huge impact on the development of modern architecture in Europe. The architects wanted to realise light, air and space in the building and that is what they did in the Spaanse Polder ('Spanish Polder') in Rotterdam. The Van Nellefabriek was far ahead of its time in terms of the materials used and its shape. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee added the unique building to its international list of protected sites on 21 June 2014.
Commercial centre in Rotterdam
What makes the Van Nellefabriek extra special is the fact that it is still a lively commercial centre today. By far the greatest number of sites on the UNESCO list are cultural sites owned by governments while the Van Nellefabriek houses dozens of bustling businesses. Part of the former coffee roasting space has been converted to an event hall.


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Tigers adding Phils' Joyner, Billmeyer to Ausmus' staff
Former teammate of new Detroit manager to take over as club's hitting coach
DETROIT -- The Tigers' coaching staff under first-time manager Brad Ausmus continues to take a veteran shape. A pair of coaches from Charlie Manuel's old staff in Philadelphia are the latest additions.
Wally Joyner stepped down from his position as assistant hitting coach with the Phillies on Sunday to fill the Tigers' opening as head hitting coach, according to industry sources. Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports first reported the news on Twitter.
Also making the jump is former Phils bullpen and catching coach Mick Billmeyer, who's expected to fill the bullpen coach role in Detroit.
The Tigers have not yet announced the additions. Ausmus did not respond to a text message for comment.
Like Detroit this past season, Philadelphia used two hitting coaches, with Joyner supporting top hitting coach Steve Henderson. Joyner received a good share of credit in Philly for the emergence of Domonic Brown, who grew up from perennial prospect status to legitimate Major League hitter in 2013. Brown hit .272 with 27 home runs and 83 RBIs.
Joyner has been in the top job before, serving as Padres hitting coach from July 2007 to September 2008. After stepping down from the job, he spent four years as the lead hitting instructor for Major League Baseball's international elite-level development programs, coaching players in Italy, Brazil and the Netherlands.
Ausmus didn't join the front office in San Diego until after Joyner left, but they were teammates with the Padres in 1996. Joyner's playing career was his claim to fame, including a 22-homer, 100-RBI rookie season with the Angels in 1986.
For his 16-year Major League career, Joyner batted .289 with 204 home runs and 1,106 RBIs.
Joyner was seeking a hitting coach position a month ago, turning down an offer to return to the Phillies on Ryne Sandberg's staff in order to pursue other opportunities. A week later, he changed his mind and accepted the Phils' offer.
Billmeyer spent four seasons as Philadelphia's bullpen coach before becoming a catching coach this past season. He was the Phillies' catching instructor for five years before that. As bullpen coaches go, he has a fairly extensive resume.
Two openings are left to be filled on the Tigers' staff. One is a first-base and infield coach, the role Rafael Belliard filled this past season on Jim Leyland's staff. The other will be an assistant hitting coach if Ausmus chooses to have one, or another coaching position if not.


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After disastrously invading and occupying Iraq, one of the justifications President Bush frequently offered for sustaining the enormous U.S. costs in lives and resources was that we were developing a "key ally" in the Middle East:
Together we'll help Iraq become a strong democracy that protects the rights of its people and is a key ally in the war on terror. [9/22/05]
Our mission in Iraq is clear. … We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. [6/28/05]
Freedom will prevail in Iraq; freedom will prevail in the Middle East; and as the hope of freedom spreads to nations that have not known it, these countries will become allies in the cause of peace. [3/20/06]
The Wonk Room's Matt Duss notes that — in a central test of the U.S. alliance with Iraq — our "key ally" is instead more eager to disassociate itself completely from the United States:
Just as they did during Israel's 2006 war against Hezbollah, Iraq's leaders are now showing where their true sympathies lie. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Da'wa Party "issued a statement condemning the attacks and calling on Islamic countries to cut relations with Israel and end all 'secret and public talks' with it."
Khalid Hussain of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) told Gulf News "We have obligations towards Palestine and all Iraqi people are in solidarity with the people in Palestine, and we will support the people in Gaza." […]
"Iraqi resistance groups have to retaliate against the Israeli aggression on Gaza by escalating their operations against the US military in Iraq since the US position is in favour of this aggression, firstly, and secondly because the United States and Israel are both enemies of the Arabs," Omar Al Kubaisi, an activist of the Sunni Muslim Clerics Association.
Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sistani has also condemned the Gaza strikes. Duss concludes, "Looking on the bright side, if one can call it that, as with opposition to the U.S. occupation, Gaza is an issue on which Iraqis have achieved rare political consensus."


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I've spent nearly a week in the Napa Valley working on the Bouchon Bakery Cookbook. This will be the fifth book in a series led by Thomas Keller that began with The French Laundry Cookbook which is one of the best chef-restaurant cookbooks ever (do we need full dislosure here?). Forget the words I write—these books are truly fine and costly productions, and I think it's important for people to know what goes into books of this magnitude, because so often people don't know. A team of people, from the many at Artisan, an imprint of Workman Publishing, who make beautiful books, to the commis at the restaurants who scale out the mise en place for the recipes for the chefs, and all those in between, including myself.
In 1997, I flew out here to have dinner at the French Laundry and meet Chef Keller, who wanted to write a book. I'd just finished writing Making of a Chef, but was completely unknown in the food world. And I know everyone who's been integral to all the books feels as I do—we're really lucky to be a part of them. The photographer Deborah Jones; writer, cook, and tester Amy Vogler; Chef, of course; Susie Heller, who's not only one of the writers and testers but who is the conductor of the team; and the restaurant chefs Jeff Cerciello, Corey Lee, Jonathan Benno, Sebastien Rouxel, Dave Cruz, and all the chefs they relied on.
In an effort to acknowledge the team nature of the books, I'm posting a few pix from my spot within the scenes of The Bouchon Bakery Cookbook. While the primary author and force along with Keller is Bouchon Bakery executive chef Sebastien Rouxel, a substantial piece of the program is bread baking, and Matthew McDonald is the bread guru here. It was my work this week to understand bread baking so that I can write about it from Chef Matt's vantage point. And on behalf of the book, it was Matt's job not only to bake bread for the photography scheduled but to teach me what he knows so that I and Amy and Susie can write it.
There's a madness in the impossible quest to bake the perfect baguette, that universally adored, infinitely nuanced combination of flour, water, yeast, and salt. Great bread is an extraordinary balancing act. I spent my first day here, just watching Matt work and asking him questions (how lucky is that?).
Finished baguettes, a dozen of the 800 or so the bakery will make each day.
Notice the hand behind the back, a habit from competition baking in which touching the dough you were scoring meant points off.
Hanging out in the bakery was just part of the process, my seeing the bread in porduction. What began on Tuesday was the photography for the book, truly remarkable images from the amazing Deborah Jones (most of the chefs who have worked on these books preface her name that way). And what happens for Deborah is pretty amazing, a real production requiring many people and rigorous organization, particularly given that what was being photographed was bread dough. Bread dough cannot be rushed and it waits for no one.
The following are the books this team has made.
Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide
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- The My Baking Addiction blog helps other improve their baking skills.
- Thomas Keller's batters, mixes, sauces and more are sold through William Sonoma. Generally, I'm not a fan of mixes, because I want people to cook, but these are excellent, and harken back to the happy times when Chef Keller the boy would make boxed cake mix with his mom.
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This was recorded recently in London to promote Hayley's new album Paradiso, which has just been released in the US.
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LMAO..........good to see even Jim has to undergo sadistic procedures on his toothypegs........lol.............
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The Cisco CRS-3 triples the capacity of its predecessor, the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, with up to 322 Terabits per second, which enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes. It enables unified service delivery of Internet and cloud services with service intelligence spanning service provider Internet Protocol Next-Generation Networks (IP NGNs) and data center.
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Breakdown of NL MVP voting; Braun's message to Aaron Rodgers
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When Ryan Braun was notified of the NL MVP results, he immediately proceeded to call his mother, his agent, and then Green Bay Packers quarterback and fellow Cali-native Aaron Rodgers, who Braun calls his "best athlete friend." His message to the leader of the 11-0 Packers was clear: your turn. Rodgers, forever a Wisconsin legend thanks to his Super Bowl XLV MVP performance, has the inside track for the MVP award this season and was happy for his pal. "I'm proud of him," Rodgers said in an ESPN interview, "he had an incredible season." Rodgers was also thankful to play in front of the best fans around. "It's fun to know that he's going to be in Milwaukee for a long time," he said. "I'm hopefully going to be here for a long time, and we appreciate the opportunity to play in Wisconsin for sports teams and their fans who really care about their players." Braun may now have the award, but Rodgers has the title – something Braun craves. "[Rodgers has] accomplished far more in his sport than I have in mine," stated Braun, "it inspires me to try to get better and ultimately to win a championship of my own for the Milwaukee Brewers." One day, Milwaukee. One day.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – September 14, 2005) Harold DeWayne Friend pleaded guilty today to one count of attempting to assist a crime syndicate and agreed to testify against the remaining defendants in the criminal trial involving the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA).
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In one of my blog post, I detailed out the challenges that are often faced by the product/test owners during software product testing. In this one I will be talking about some methods or activities that can help in overcoming those challenges. I will leave it open for you to map the answers one on one to the challenges that I detailed out there.
Testing team is often involved very late in the PDLC. The product management team also collates frequently changing customer requirements and market expectations of a product, while also contributing to the product roadmap. As a result, the scope of the product changes constantly and testing becomes complicated with daily builds involved.
It is important to design the test strategy early along with the product roadmap so that everyone knows what all will be needed to test and what all methodologies will be applied during the process. This will enable the test owner to define the right budget for the testing cycle and get the necessary approvals on time.
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It is also important to prioritize the test areas based on business criticality and test coverage. A test metric driven report also helps in getting the visibility into the exact team/product status from time to time. This enables management to take a decision regarding the market release of the product.
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The 12th Maine Regiment, formed in November 1861, was one of the 10 regiments Major General Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts received permission to form.
George F. Shepley, a Democrat and a noted Portland lawyer and U.S. Attorney for Maine, headed the new regiment.
On Oct. 1, 1861, Shepley wrote to Maine Gov. Israel Washburn to report that he expected the new 12th Maine Regiment to be filled soon "with the very best men in the State."
Shepley also reported, "I have abandoned every other thought and pursuit, and have embarked in this movement all my hopes energies and efforts and, if need be my fortune and my life."
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