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Proclamation of Hope Proclamation of Hope is an original symphonic concert by Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer and Jazz legend Ramsey Lewis about the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. This 90-minute multi-media program includes a 22-piece orchestra with vocalist Dee Alexander, and stunning historical images that serve to inspire reflection and hope with the audience. The concert captures Ramsey's musical style which combines his deep knowledge of jazz along with his passion for gospel and classical music. D
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Dialogue "James McPherson" James McPherson is one of America's greatest Civil War historians. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize winning writing captures the drama of this era and his latest book, "Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief," gives new insight into Abraham Lincoln's remarkable skill as a military leader. Joan Cartan-Hansen talks with McPherson about Lincoln and why we are still fighting over some of the same issues we thrashed out in the Civil War 150 years ago.G
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MotorWeek "2012 Volvo S60 R-Design" Road Test: 2012 Volvo S60 R-Design. Road Test: 2012 Chevrolet Sonic. Goss' Garage: Goops & Gaskets. D
4:00 am
Sesame Street "Super Maria" Gordon is busy trying to fix lots of things at 123 Sesame Street. Susan tells him that he should think about getting a superintendent - someone who takes care of buildings and fixes things that are broken. Gordon insists that he doesn't need any help. D
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Sid The Science Kid "The Perfect Pancake" Sid wants to know how his Grandma always makes perfect pancakes. They're never too squishy or burnt. At school, Sid makes an important discovery -- heat changes things! This lesson reveals the secret of Grandma's pancakes: she heats them on the stove for the perfect amount of time . D
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Martha Speaks "Martha Walks The Dog/Martha's Got Talent" Martha Walks the Dog - There's a new dog in town and, boy, is he mean! He barks so much that nobody can sleep. Martha's Got Talent - Weaselgraft just can't get Martha off his mind.G
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22nd Century This program is about technological advances taking place today that within our lifetimes will significantly change the way humans live and interact. Many scientists and futurists believe we are on the verge of a technological explosion so profound that life will become unrecognizable, and that in the next 100 years, we may experience as much technological change as has occurred over the course of human history.G
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Rick Steves' Europe "Florence: City of Art" In the birthplace of the Renaissance, Rick provides tips for touring the Uffizi art gallery. He visits a fragrant 400-year-old perfumery, sips Campari on a rooftop and sleeps in a converted monastery.G
7:30 am
Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "Barcelona and Costa Brava" A Mediterranean marvel, Barcelona simmers with beautiful beaches, medieval mazes, eye popping art and hypnotic architecture. From tapas bars, to surrealist art, to Modernist structures, we'll feast on Barcelona's delights. Rambles along La Rambla, Gaudi's treasures, a neighborhood festival, designer shopping and waterfront fun are some of the highlights. D
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The Desert Speaks "People and Their Prickly Plants" Enjoy a slice of the cactus-collecting life with a look into the ways people collect and enjoy some of the oddest plants in the world, then head to Scottsdale, Arizona to see the largest private collection of desert-area plants in the world. Also on the itinerary are visits to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum and an amazing collection at Bach's Nursery in Tucson, Arizona, where they have a better success rate with their individually raised saguaro cacti than Mother Nature herself. Finally, travel on Interstate 10 to Los Angeles for North America's largest cactus and succulent show - the Olympics of cactus cultivation. D
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Chef John Besh's New Orleans Oyster Stew, Jaeqerschnitzel, and Pear Tart. D
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Lidia's Italy In America "Philadelphia: It All Happens on Philadelphia's 9th Street" In this episode, Lidia visits Philadelphia's Sarcone & Son's Bakery, where their bread is made the same way today as it was when this institution first opened in 1918; a truly old-world bakery, Louis Sarcone closes up shop after each day's batch is sold. Lidia also takes a tour of the impressive artisanal Italian imports at 9th Street Market, such as Claudio Specialty Foods and Di Bruno Brothers'. In the kitchen, Lidia makes Chicken Trombino, Stuffed Escarole, and is joined by Grandma for a favorite Italian-American dessert: Pignoli cookies. D
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Rudy Maxa's World "Estonia" Rudy visits the city of Talinn and the islands of Saaremaa and Muhu to find windmills and quiet waters.G
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The Jazzy Vegetarian "Artful Artichokes" Host Laura Theodore prepares tempting dishes featuring artichokes. Recipes include; "Easy Artichokes with Lemon Dipping Sauce," "Baked Artichokes with Savory Walnut Stuffing," and "Italian-Style Stuffed Artichokes." "Chilled Artichokes with Dill Sauce" or "Caramelized Balsamic Artichokes" both make an elegant side dish for any special meal. D
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Icebox Desserts" Bridget uncovers the secrets to perfect Lemon Icebox Cheesecake. Then, Jack challenges Chris to a tasting of chocolate ice cream. And finally, Erin updates a lost recipe and shows Chris how to make French Silk Chocolate Pie. D
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Austin City Limits "Steve Earle/Kris Kristofferson" Earle pays tribute to his mentor, legendary Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt. Kristofferson follows with tunes from his latest album.G
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Sesame Street "Rocco's Boat" Elmo is playing with his doll, Baby David, in a large washtub. The doll is floating in a tube, and Zoe comes by and asks if Rocco, her pet rock, can swim too. Elmo reluctantly agrees. D
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Dinosaur Train "Night Train/Fossil Fred" Night Train - Dad, Buddy and Tiny take a special ride on the Dinosaur Train at night, learning about animals that are active after dark, culminating at the Big Pond for a nature walk under the full moon. Fossil Fred - Buddy, Tiny and Don play "detective" and search around the Big Pond for fossils. The kids end up finding an entire skeleton of a Jurassic dinosaur. D
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Super Why! "The Swiss Family Robinson" Little Boy Blue is stuck on a little island in Storybrook Pond and can't get back to shore. Super Why and his friends head into the story of The Swiss Family Robinson to meet a family who is just as stranded as Little Boy Blue. They'll need to use what's around them to survive in this do-it-yourself island adventure! Educational Objectives: To learn to think creatively in tricky situations. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Rain Game/No Sssweater Is Better" Rain Game - Sally wants to water the plants in her backyard, but it's hot and sunny outside. They need rain, and lots of it! Good thing the Cat in the Hat knows exactly where to go to get some: the rain forest! With the assistance of some toucans and the singing of howler monkeys, they explore each level of the rain forest, eventually reaching the top and the rain! No SSSweater is Better - Nick's favorite sweater is too small and he doesn't want to change it. The Cat in the Hat has a friend with the exact same problem! He brings them to meet Slyde the snake who shows Nick and Sally how he sheds his skin when it gets too small for him. D
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Wild Kratts "Mimic" While exploring why some animals mimic the looks of others, Martin and Chris encounter a cheetah cub and its mom. But before they know it, evil fashion designer, Donita Donata, 'cat-naps' the startled mom right in front of their eyes. The Wild Kratts team springs into action on a rescue mission before Donita adds the momma cheetah to her new fall line. D
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Ucook! with Chef Bob In the first part of this episode, Chef Bob makes one of his favorite party pleasures, carrot and cantaloupe soup. He uses fresh garden mint and limoncello liquor to finish the dish. Served chilled, this is a perfect summertime dish to offer friends. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Switzerland's Jungfrau Region: Best of the Alps" Rick is in the sky-high corner of the Swiss Alps, with cows on breathtaking ridges. He settles into a traditional village where locals scythe hay by hand. He hikes, bikes and parasails, then blasts an alphorn.G
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Journey of Sacagawea Oral history and tradition among the Lemhi Shoshonis, Sacagawea's descendants, and the Hidatsas, her childhood abductors, profile the person behind the western historical icon. Reenactments and scenes of the wild areas she knew help writer-producer Lori Joyce and her team explore the Lewis and Clark expedition.G
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Legacy: Austria's Influence On American Skiing "Hannes Schneider & His Disciples (1940)" With the onset of World War II, Austrian ski instructors and racers were viewed with both suspicion and interest. Suspicion they might be Nazi collaborators, interest in recruiting them to teach ski and rock climbing skills to U.S. troops. D
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John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) The lead singer of The Lovin' Spoonful presents singers and songwriters of the 1950s and 1960s with a combination of historical footage and new performances. See the original Kingston Trio, New Christy Minstrels, Limelighters, Serendipity Singers, Highwaymen and Rooftop Singers. Relive Pete Seeger's and Judy Collins' duet of "If I Had a Hammer." New performances include the original and reunited Chad Mitchell Trio, Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Barry McGuire, and Jesse Colin Young of The Youngbloods.G
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Journey of Sacagawea Oral history and tradition among the Lemhi Shoshonis, Sacagawea's descendants, and the Hidatsas, her childhood abductors, profile the person behind the western historical icon. Reenactments and scenes of the wild areas she knew help writer-producer Lori Joyce and her team explore the Lewis and Clark expedition.G


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Re: butterfat
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:02 pm
WalnutCrest wrote:Anyone know if there are any DNA tests for "butterfat content"?
I know UC-Davis tests for A1 v A2 milk ... but wasn't sure if anyone tested for butterfat.
It's one of the traits included in genomic profiling, and no, I don't know the details.
You could get useful information from ancestral indexes, at low reliability. But probably a lot cheaper than doing genomic profiling.
btw, I'm milking one May daughter, she's a little doll but not sure that she's back in calf. She was the youngest of the group and the grazier didn't grow her out properly, he no longer has a job growing yearling heifers. Have some more to calve next year.
The Murmurs will calve next spring, I'm told they will turn into capacious little cows but based on their growth thus far am not keen to use him again.
Some new faces in the bull selection teams in the top AI companies in NZ and things have changed a little since this thread started, for the better we hope.

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atticus necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
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People frustrated in their current jobs / career … who have always wanted to break free by starting a business but don't know what business to start or how to do it.
We are presenting a Formula (a 180 day program) that will get them their new business and the ability to quit their job.
So they're moving from "stuck" to "freedom" in 180 days.
Logo to include "Formula180" in a way that can be added to other pre-fixes.
Site is actually EntrepreneurFormula180.com – the logo is for the Formula180 brand, which is then to be used across other applications (eg EntrepreneurFormula180, FinanceFormula180, MarketingFormula180 etc.)
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SOMERVILLE, Mass. – It was another busy Saturday for the track and field team as they competed in the 2012 Tufts University Snowflake Invitational. As part of the many standout performances were a record setting time by Kebba Nasso (Attleboro, Mass.) in the 200 meter dash and a record height by Jacqueline Conway in the pole vault.
Nasso, who placed second in the event recorded a time of 22.15 seconds breaking the original program record by five-hundredths of a second. For Conway, she added two more inches to her already program record in the pole vault as the sophomore closed out the meet with a height of 7-06.50 feet to finish in 11th place.
On the men's side, Nasso led the Beacons in the 100 meter dash as he finished in second in the event with a time of 11.20 seconds. Also qualifying for the finals of the event was Henry Morales (Chelsea, Mass.) as the junior finished in sixth place with a time of 11.48 seconds.
Morales also posted a sixth place finish in the 200 with his final time of 23.08 seconds. Norbert Simon (Chelsea, Mass.) recorded a time of 24.08 seconds to finish in 22nd place. Brandon Couloute (Shelton, Mass.) and Ervin Lofton (Ann Arbor, Mich.) were also top-40 finishers as the two recorded times of 24.43 and 24.68 seconds respectively.
Hamza Abdul (Chelsea, Mass.) recorded a 21st place finish in the 400 meter dash to lead UMass Boston with his time of 54.46 seconds. Chhenlee Ly (Leominster, Mass.) finished in 38th place with a time of 1:00.00, followed by Tylor Hart (Newton, Mass.) who trailed his teammate by 29th-hundredths of a second to finish in 39th place.
Jake Kerin (Quincy, Mass.) was the lone competitor for UMass in the 1,500 meter run as he posted a time of 4:19.58. Xhulio Uruci (Newton, Mass.) followed suit as the lone competitor in the 5,000 meter run as he finished the event in 19th place with a time of 16:08.16.
The 4x100 relay team of Morales, Nasso, Lofton, and Couloute combined for a second place finish with a time of 44.60 seconds.
In the field events Carl Joseph (Brockton, Mass.) led the Beacons in the high jump with a leap of 6-01.25 feet. Hart was right behind him in sixth place with the same jump. Lofton posted an eighth place finish with a height of 5-11.25 feet.
Abdul took eighth in the triple jump with a distance of 41-06.75 feet, while Lenford Coote (Brooklyn, N.Y.) took 34th place in the discus throw (67-08 feet). Nasso closed out the day with a throw of 143-05 feet in the javelin throw (12th place).
In the women's 100 meter dash it was Samara Faustin (Boston, Mass.) who led UMass Boston with a time of 13.12 seconds (11th). Behind her was Ari Leao (New Bedford, Mass.) in 17th place with a time of 13.37 seconds. Faustin also posted the top time for the Beacons in the 200 meter dash with her time of 26.64 seconds (10th). Leao notched her second top-20 finish as she recorded a time of 1:03.82.
Mari Littleton was the lone Beacon in the 800 meter run as the freshman recorded a time of 2:40.86. In the 4x100 meter dash Alessandra Fiallos (Derby, Conn.), Faustin, Fatima Konteh (Lewis Center, Ohio), and Leao recorded a combined time of 54.51 seconds to earn an eighth place finish.
In the high jump Fiallos recorded a leap of 4-04.25 feet to finish in 17th place. Brittany Moore recorded a team-best throw of 87-08 feet to post a 30th place finish in the discus throw. Anitra Kloczewiak (Newton, Mass.) was next in line for UMass with her throw of 69-02 feet, followed by Chrissy Soares-Fernandes (Brockton, Mass.) with her throw of 67-11 feet, and Kaity Merrikin (East Bridgewater , Mass.) with her throw of 58-11 feet.
Kloczewiak was the top competitor for UMass in the hammer throw with her toss of 100-00 feet. Nicole Aube (Westfield, Mass.) recorded a throw of 84-00 feet to finish second for the Beacons in the event.
Soares-Fernandes led the way in the shot put with her throw of 25-05.50 feet (35th). Aube was next in line with her throw of 24-07.00 feet (36th).
Track and Field returns to action next Saturday when they compete in the UMass Dartmouth Corsair Invitational. Start time is scheduled for 9 a.m.


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Current Generation Gaming Actually Cheaper For Players Than Yesteryear
At a recent DICE panel called "A Renaissance of Gaming," two big names in the video game industry's history chimed in about how $60 for a new title is nowhere near as bad as the way things used to be.
During the panel (attended by Polygon), Mark Cerny, who started at Atari back in 1982 and was recently a lead architect of the PlayStation 4, tried to remind gaming audiences just how pricey gaming truly was. Cerny claimed that when arcade games cost a quarter to play for just a few minutes of game time, that paled in comparison to the current $60 business model. Cerny also stated that the free-to-play method of gameplay was something that both developers and consumers never thought would actually happen back in the 1980s.
Also at the panel was Eugene Jarvis, who created the arcade hit, Defender. Jarvis claimed that by the time it was first tested, the average quarter would only get you about 30 seconds of Defender gameplay. Cerny backed Jarvis' claims by saying that the economic design of arcades demanded they require many quarters to satiate the average player and yielded extremely short game times to keep players coming back for more.
Cerny also revealed that the arcades who would actually buy these game cabinets would need 20,000+ plays in order to yield a profit. As a result, games had to be short, losing frequently had to be a feature and games had to have people repeatedly looking for a quarter. Add in the large investment that went into each arcade game such as custom screens, hardware and designs, and the costs of making a new arcade game were astronomical compared to their 25-cent cost.
Just goes to show, things weren't always better in the '80s.


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Sunday, September 23, 2012
A Concerning Win?
On the bright side, the Cowboys are somehow heading into their Monday night game against the Bears with a winning record at 2-1. And they are tied for first place in the NFC East after the Eagles finally paid the price for playing sloppy football.
The only player on the team who has put three good performances in a row together seems to be Miles Austin. He has been solid every week and just keeps making plays. He made a great catch on a deep ball from Tony Romo this week and was just very good overall going for 5 catches and 107 yards.
The offensive line nearly got their quarterback killed this week. Romo was hit hard several times. But on the biggest hit that seemed at first to be a knockout shot for Romo the officials missed an obvious shot to the head that should have given the Cowboys a first down in the red zone. The real officials can't get back on the field soon enough.
Romo was good when he had time. But the early interception was bad even if it came on a great play by Aqib Talib. The two fumbles just can't happen. The attempt to shovel the ball forward reminded me of Tony Romo 5 years ago. I guess he'll just never stop doing things like that. With a gunslinger like Romo I guess you just have to take the good with the bad and hope the good plays make up for the boneheaded ones. Fortunately the defense covered up his mistakes today.
Brandon Carr really showed why he was worth so much in free agency this offseason. Not only did he shut down Vincent Jackson every time he matched up against him but he also filled in at safety and looked pretty good doing it. The Cowboys are in a world of hurt at safety but luckily they are so strong at cornerback the safeties don't get asked to do much in coverage.
Sean Lee had a nice interception but he missed a few opportunities to make tackles in the back field. But it is amazing to see how many tackles Sean Lee ends up making in every game. This wasn't his best game, but he still played pretty well. There is a reason he is the defensive captain.
The punt team has become a major concern. They very nearly had a punt blocked for the second week in a row. It appears that Chris Jones escaped without major injury, but there seems to be a real problem blocking for the punter. Joe DeCamillis needs to get his special teams units in gear. Dez Bryant did have a great punt return to help seal the game but kick returns were terrible as usual. How much longer are we going to have to watch Felix Jones run into the backs of his blockers before someone else gets a shot at kick returns?
Jason Witten still looks like a guy who is missing the edge he usually has. He did seem to be moving better but he missed what would have been a great catch on a deep ball after juggling the pass and he dropped a tipped pass early in the game. The thing I am getting tired of seeing are the false starts. I even know the snap count when Romo calls for the snap. Jason needs to focus out there. It is frustrating to watch my favorite player struggle to get back to his Pro Bowl form.
The bottom line is a win is a win. You have to take them any way you can get them. At the end of the season no one will care what the score was or how bad the team played. But there needs to be major improvement along the offensive line if this team is going to ever play good football. You can try to blame Romo and Murray but it is pretty obvious that the line is doing a terrible job in every way. Hopefully we'll see improvement as the season goes on because Romo isn't going to last much longer taking hits like he did today.
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- AnonymousSeptember 23, 2012 at 7:37 PM
Not sure Romo can have many more days where he takes a beating like he took today. By the end of the season, he won't have anything left for a playoff run. They've got to give him better protection.ReplyDelete
The ugliest win is always nicer than the prettiest loss, but I see your point. To be honest though, I'd be a lot more concerned if it was the defense that was struggling. We simply have too much offensive firepower to be this bad for long.ReplyDelete
At least this year (So far) we have a defense that can hold the other team down when our offense is failing to put up 28 or more points in a game. No way we win a game like this one the last couple of seasons.
Church's injury is just awful but it could have been worse (Ware or Lee) and Carr looked good at safety. Maybe it was a good thing we didn't cut Matt Johnson (As some wanted) after all, huh?
It looks like teams have decided to try to intimidate us physically, and I was very glad to see us give back as good or better than we got.
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2012 at 11:05 AM
It really sucks what happened to Church. I was really excited to see what he could do out there Maybe bring back Pool for the time being?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2012 at 6:50 PM
Bringing in Pool would be a terrible decision. It was pretty obvious during camp that he can't play the position at this level anymore. Then again, it wouldn't be the first idiotic personnel decision this team has made.ReplyDelete
I totally agree with you. Nobody cares what the score was or how bad the team played, but it is actually very important to know the team's position in new games. This situation may have consequences in the future. Visit us in our web http://www.priceperhead.com/ReplyDelete
I'm glad to see somebody willing to say that this win was as concerning as it was relieving. Romo should sue Doug Free.ReplyDelete
I mean, with Felix Jones, right? Straight into his own guys. What are you doing, man? Isn't there somebody on the team with some modicum of vision? Good god.


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In Focus: Turf Builders
LSU Grounds Crew Excels in the Science of Field Management
LSU coach Les Miles enjoys taking a bite of grass from every playing field he steps on. He claims the habit started when he was 13 years old, and it has continued from his playing days on the offensive line into his coaching career.
In an interview with Erin Andrews on ESPN's Gameday set last season, Miles stated that the best-tasting grass in the SEC was in Tiger Stadium. Not only is it the best-tasting field, but also the finest to play on.
Tiger Stadium's field is a special blend of grass called "celebration" Bermuda and was installed prior to the 2010 season.
Ronnie Haliburton, Senior Associate Athletic Director for Facility Management, oversees all of LSU's athletic fields and facilities. He is joined by Director of Facilities and Grounds Todd Jeansonne, Assistant Directors of Facilities and Grounds Eric Fasbender and Terrance Bold and their crews.
Haliburton played as a tight end for the LSU football team from 1986-89, and was a member of two Southeastern Conference championship teams. He later played for the Denver Broncos for three years.
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After playing on countless fields himself, Haliburton takes pride in Tiger Stadium's playing surface in comparison to the rest of the country.
"They compare themselves to us," Haliburton said. "I don't have time to worry about what others are doing. I can only control and worry about what we do. This is Death Valley, the best stadium in college football."
Haliburton credits the evolution of athletic fields to the likes of Fasbender, who majored in turf management at the University of Tennessee after gaining interest in the profession while interning with a minor league baseball team.
"It is a lot science, a bit of math, biology, botany, chemistry and plant physiology," Fasbender said. "That is what a lot of people in the general public do not necessarily realize. The things that we can do to the grass, like a Tiger Stadium, where we are able to actually manipulate the grass at the metabolic level by adding a nutrient or taking it away there."
Although it never rains in Tiger Stadium, the top surface of the field sits on about 10 inches of sand, which allows the playing surface to absorb the water and remain in the best possible shape. The LSU grounds crew also prepares for cold weather as well.
"As the temperature starts to drop, we cover the field with blankets in the evening so that we can manipulate the plant to think that it is warmer because the air temperature around the plant and the soil stays hot," Fasbender said. "Any Bermuda grass that doesn't have that blanket on it would start to slow down a little bit."
Teams manipulate how they grow their fields to suit their team's style of play. The Tigers are one of the fastest teams in college football and have a field tailored to their strengths.
"The only regulation is that you have to have your field 160 feet wide by a 360 feet long and each one of the hash marks needs to be three feet from the next," Fasbender said. "Whenever commentators talk about how the field is fast and tight, typically what has happened is that the sports turf manager has top-dressed by adding sand."
Alex Box Stadium recently installed "celebration" Bermuda in the outfield grass this offseason because of how well the infield has performed. In addition, the surfaces of Tiger Park and the LSU Soccer complex feature the same blend of grass.
"I have been fortunate and blessed to work with some incredible coaches," Fasbender said. "We have great coaches in our programs - Coach Miles, (baseball coach) Paul Mainieri, (softball coach) Beth Torina and (soccer coach) Brian Lee. Coaches always keep things interesting and provide good feedback for us."
Miles not only wants his field to play fast, he wants it to taste good as well.
"I always joke with people that our fertilizer program consists of Tony Chachere's Cajun Seasoning and Crystal Hot Sauce just to make sure that it is seasoned correctly," Fasbender said.


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It is not my intent to use this site to talk about current events, but when they keep cropping up with direct connections to African American genealogy; I feel compelled to post.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates (before his unfortunate episode with the police earlier this year) produced a fantastic series called African American Lives. The two part series was devoted to using a variety of genealogical methods to uncovering the ancestral pasts of several well-known blacks. Tom Joyner took part and learned of his family's anguished encounter with "southern justice"….
Well, today CNN published a story on the follow-up Mr. Joyner has done since learning about these circumstances.
Nearly 100 years had passed since his great-uncles, Thomas Griffin and Meeks Griffin, were wrongfully executed in South Carolina. On Wednesday, a board voted 7-0 to pardon both men, clearing their names in the 1913 killing of a veteran of the Confederate Army.
It marks the first time in history that South Carolina has issued a posthumous pardon in a capital murder case.
I haven't been doing this research very long, but I get the sense that these recent past meets the present stories are just the start of things to come.
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Descoberto novo tipo de especiação ?
University of Nevada, Reno researcher Matthew Forister is among a group of scientists that have documented an unusual type of speciation in the Sierra Nevada, including a hybrid species of butterfly that can trace its lineage as far back as almost a half a million years ago. In a recently published article in the leading research journal Science, the discovery is one of the most convincing cases of this type of species formation that has ever been demonstrated in animals.
"Our genetic work is what really clinched the hybrid angle," said Forister, a research professor in the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources' Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science. Forister explained that it has been known that two types of butterflies -- Lycaeides melissa and Lycaeides idas -- live in the Sierra, with the L. melissa living on the eastern slope of the Sierra and the L. idas living to the west. Forister's team found that a third species of Lycaeides has evolved in the upper alpine reaches of the Sierra.
The team used molecular genetics to show that the "new" species carries genes from both parental species. The scientists estimate that about 440,000 years ago the L. melissa and L. idas came into contact in the Sierra. Their offspring, cut off from the rest of their clan, eventually evolved into a unique and genetically distinct species.
"It's interesting, because the alpine butterflies have wings that look like the butterflies from the eastern Sierra," Forister said. "But their mitochondrial DNA more clearly resembles those from the western Sierra. When you think about all of the changes the world has undergone, and how parental species have moved in response to climate change and have possibly come into contact many times, you realize that the world is a messier place than you first thought.
"Ultimately, what we've studied highlights the importance of natural selection, and the more general idea that we are still learning many of the ways in which species are formed."
Forister's collaborators included UC-Davis professor Arthur Shapiro, Zachariah Gompert and Chris Nice of Texas State University and James Fordyce at the University of Tennessee. Shapiro is one of the world's foremost butterfly experts. Forister did his graduate work at UC-Davis under Shapiro. His graduate work was funded by the National Science Foundation.
The team's findings provide an important piece to the puzzle in the understanding of how animal species emerge. It is widely believed that plant species can be commonly created through such species crossing; hybrid species formation among animals, however, has been much less thoroughly studied.
Forister and his colleagues worked on some of the more barren reaches of the upper alpine in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe, plucking samples of blue (male) and brown (female) butterflies from the rocks and sparse alpine vegetation there. The samples were studied by the research members who worked to analyze the species' DNA in a laboratory in Texas.
"We worked within a very narrow window because these butterflies are at their peak flight for only a few weeks in the middle of the summer," Forister said.The field work proved to be just as important as the laboratory work, as the team made important findings regarding the new species' adaptive habits. Though the climate is extreme at high elevations and the flying season lasts only a matter of a few weeks, the researchers noted that the still-unnamed species seeks out a certain plant at the higher elevations. They use this host plant to lay their eggs. Their "parent' butterflies of the eastern and western Sierra do not show the same affinity for this particular host plant, the balloonpod milkvetch. This was another critical illustration that a habitat and species shift had occurred.
By understanding how the "new" species lives, the research team is also adding to the scientific-based knowledge that could some day help preserve the butterfly's habitat, Forister added. "Now that we've finished this part of the study, we'd like to turn our attention to some of the other ranges of the West, and investigate similar areas of overlap," Forister said.
Fonte: http://www.unr.edu/news/detail.aspx?id=1976
Pelo que eu li de um biólogo que soube desta notícia, esse não é um novo tipo de especiação, mas é raro entre animais.Pelo que entendi da explicação dele, no caso das plantas, estas podem se reproduzir também vegetativamente.Isso torna possível propagar um híbrido por tempo suficiente para que seja relativamente provável um evento de duplicação do genoma.
De qualquer forma, essa é mais uma evidência que a especiação pode ocorrer com isolamento incompleto entre subpopulações sob evolução divergente.


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What happens When Artists and Developers Come Together: The 2011 Krita Sprint
In what is beginning to become quite a tradition, the Krita team came together from May 20 to May 22 for the third Krita meeting. The first sprint had four attendees. Last year's, eight. This year, we had twelve people in attendance. If the trend continues, the Blender Institute, which hosted our sprint, will be too small for us next year!
Friday was mostly spent arriving, getting network access, doing preliminary hacking and so on. The real core of the sprint took place on Saturday. In the morning, we had an Artist's Demo and Gripe Session. The four artists present took turns demonstrating how they work with Krita. With a projector, everyone could follow along. We managed to record a screencast of all sessions and a video/audio recording with the Blender Institute's camera. The Krita webmaster, Kubuntiac (or Bugsbane) is busy editing the screencasts, video and audio together into a smooth recording. The results will be available on krita.org. The recording will be available as soon as it is done, together with the original .kra Krita files and brush presets as provided by the artists.
Fortunately, none of the artists managed to crash Krita, and we took note of all the issues they mentioned, which Pentalis entered into bugs.kde.org. More than sixty new issues were logged. Quite a few of those issues were fixed during the weekend and over the next week. David Revoy's conclusion was that Krita is plenty okay for creating art, but not yet quite ready for the professional user.
And that set the tone for the afternoon meeting, during which we discussed the direction for Krita for the next year. This can be summed up as: polish, polish, polish. Performance is ok. Stability is pretty good, though it can be improved. But all the little speedbumps we witnessed when watching the artists work with Krita (each in their completely individual and different way) need to be smoothed out! We also conceived of another plan... Something wickedly cool we want to ask the community to support... More about that in a few days...
On Saturday, we met our benefactor, Silvio Grosso. After the runaway success of the 2009 community donation drive to enable Lukas Tvrdy to hack on Krita full-time for three months, Silvio made it possible to extend that period for several months more. He also sponsored Dmitry Kazakov to spend more hours on Krita after his Google Summer of Code project ended. It was great to meet him in Amsterdam at the sprint. We had a group photo, of course:
Apart from the group photo, Timothee Giet also made quick sketches of all attendants. Meet the gang through the sketchbrush of Timothee!
Sunday was a relatively quiet day. People were mostly hacking and doing small bof-like discussions. David Revoy tried once more to follow a proper CMYK-based workflow with Krita, this time producing a tiff file that imported perfectly in Photoshop. We originally added CMYK to Krita not from a strong belief in its usefulness, but to quiet vocal critics. We since have discovered that many artists work in CMYK in order to keep track of ink coverage and mixing during the creative process, instead of having to change their work afterwards to resolve out-of-gamut colors. There is still a ways to go here: extra single-color channels or layers would be useful, and the channel docker does not always do the right thing.
Finally, we are grateful to our host Ton Roosendaal, who allowed us to meet in the Blender Institute in Amsterdam. For David Revoy, it was like coming home -- and for the rest of us a wonderful place to get together. One of the unexpected advantages is that the Blender Institute's doorbell never stops ringing. All weekend, game designers, Blender hackers, 2D and 3D artists visited, passed the time, and gave us the opportunity to show off Krita. Many thanks as well to KDE e.V. for making it possible to bring so many people to Amsterdam from all over Europe, Canada and Chile.
I would love to uninstall
I would love to uninstall Gimp but somehow all the hype about krita never materialized into something usable. I hope this changes in the near future.
By trixl at Thu, 2011/06/02 - 10:53am
And Showfoto deals with the photo editing side. I still have GIMP installed too, but there isn't a lot that I can do there that I cannot do with Showfoto and Krita.
By Stuart Jarvis at Thu, 2011/06/02 - 11:47am
not exactly
ShowFoto is mainly to show/display pictures and it's editing capabilities are very limited compared to GIMP.
Best way how to archieve nice photos remains to shoot nice photos :-)
By Anonymous at Thu, 2011/06/02 - 3:11pm
>So you shouldn't consider
>So you shouldn't consider Krita as a GIMP replacement
I think many people are confused about that.
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Hi Merv,
Not much to say on the particular word in question (????, mik-reh' from ???, kaw-rah) - means exactly what it appears to mean - "chance"
But there's an adage which runs "the meaning of a word is its usage in its context" - so it's good to look at what work the word is actually doing in the passage.
Here it's pretty clear that the speakers have some sort of notion that a thing is according to God's will OR it's a matter of dumb (bad) luck.
But, a couple of points in addition...
First, it should be clear that the speakers don't actually believe such a thing for the simple reason that they would have thought there are OTHER gods other than the God of Israel. They are Philistines, after all, and brief reference to the previous passage will show that their own deity is Dagon. Of course, they're thinking that the God of Israel is responsible in this instance because the artefact in question is the Ark of the Covenant. But we can imagine them, in another context, thinking: "Let's see if this thing was from Dagon, or just a matter of chance."
So we're not talking exhaustive options even in the context of the speakers' world-view.
Second, don't miss the point that the passage tells us nothing about whether chance exists: after all, the the cart goes toward the border - affirming Yahweh's involvement. And that's ALL we learn.
To try to make that point a little clearer: Imagine they had said "If the cart goes to the border then it was God of Israel, but if not then it was Dagon." It should be easy to see that, with respect to Dagon, we'll just have to die wondering about his existence!
Third, there's a problem in that the passage is actually reporting direct speech. And we know full well that the Bible can often put all sorts of weird and wonderful proclamations in the mouths of its characters. So, unfortunately, the passage doesn't really bear too much exegetical weight.
Now, there is, let me say, a good probability in my view that the author of the passage does have a world-view which allows for two kinds of events - divine activity and "chance." But I wouldn't want to argue that with somebody who was resolutely against the idea. And strictly speaking they would be right.
Again, by way of thought experiment: just imagine that the speakers had said "If the cart goes to the border then Dagon was behind this thing, otherwise it was chance". We wouldn't then take the subsequent events as proof of anything at all.
So, it's probably not the best passage to appeal to unless one is already predisposed to a "divine act"/"chance event" dichotomy.
I'll only add that Proverbs 16:33 has always intrigued me in this context: "The lot is cast into the lap, but it's every decision is from the Lord" - which suggests that there is, in the biblical mindset, an idea that everything is in the hand of divine providence.
In any case, that cart was ALWAYS going to the border regardless of what ANYBODY said.
Merv Bitikofer wrote:
> Of course, even if we do take this as a good example of God using
> "random" events (and I am inclined to see it that way too, Murray), one
> can always come up with a contrary passage in which "chance" seems to be
> distinguished as apart from God's works. See I Samuel 6:9 "Behold; if
> it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he has
> done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not
> his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."
> It would be interesting to hear some exegesis on the Hebrew word
> translated as "chance" here. (& I think it was rehashed on this list
> years ago --which is probably where I first had this passage pointed out
> in this context.)
> --Merv
> Murray Hogg wrote:
>> Hi Cameron,
>> Nice catch on the philological issue.
>> Re-reading the passage this morning, let me give you my sense of it;
>> First, we can set the context by noting that;
>> 1) The Syrian attackers were chariot mounted (30,31) therefore our
>> "certain man" of v.33 is a chariot archer
>> 2) "The King of Israel" (Ahab is, curiously, not called by name) is
>> fighting in disguise (29)
>> 3) The attackers were focused on Jehoshaphat thinking him to be Ahab (31)
>> 4) They had just broken off pursuit (32) because a) they had orders to
>> attack only the King of Israel (30) and b) had realized their quarry
>> was not he (32)
>> I think that taken together these negate the idea that the man fired
>> with any intent to hit Ahab.
>> Rather, I imagine that, with the termination of the pursuit, the
>> chariot archers let loose with a volley of arrows fired in the hope of
>> just hitting *something* and it's in that parting effort that Ahab
>> gets hit.
>> To my mind, this allows us to make some sense of why the Hebrew speaks
>> of the archer drawing "in his fullness." Surely the imagery is of an
>> archer faced with a rapidly departing enemy who will soon be out of
>> bow range - so he takes up his bow, draws to maximum pull, and lets
>> fly a shot.
>> So why "in his fullness"? I can think of a few possibilities:
>> First, "at random" (although ONLY if one takes appropriate heed of the
>> context i.e. the guy clearly was NOT firing "at random" in a strong
>> sense of the term). Two other renderings in related vein are "at a
>> venture" - which I think is better - and "without thought of its
>> direction" (Bible in Basic English) - which I think is just terrible -
>> what soldier in what army ever discharged a weapon "without thought of
>> its direction"? If "at random" is too strong a translation, then this
>> falls to the same critique.
>> Interesting is the fact that the lexicon entry for the cognate noun
>> gives "completeness, integrity" which can be taken as "innocence,
>> simplicity" and thence "without definite aim" (we might say "without
>> malice aforethought") and as the idea of "dealing with integrity" is
>> not entirely absent from the Hebrew 'tom' so perhaps this might colour
>> the usage here? It is, however, drawing a long bow (pun!).
>> Second, is your idea of "perfect aim." Which I wouldn't fully discount
>> but for two critical observations; First, I don't know that it makes
>> much sense to speak of an archer in a moving chariot taking careful
>> aim and hitting an individual in a rapidly departing enemy chariot?
>> The idea would make sense if 2 Chron. were a kind of mythic saga after
>> the manner of the Iliad. But, more significantly, given Ahab's
>> disguise it is certain that even if the archer's aim were incredibly
>> good, the fact that he targeted, hit, and killed Ahab was still a
>> matter of dumb luck. And I think the text intends us to read it that way.
>> Third, is the idea of fullness or completeness which can go two ways;
>> A. The idea that the guy drew his bow "in his fullness" is taken as
>> something like "to the completeness/fullness of its capacity" (i.e.
>> "with all his strength") - in which case we have an archer taking one
>> last shot at a rapidly distancing enemy at or near maximum range with
>> the resulting shot being, in effect, a "Hail Mary".
>> or
>> B. The idea that the guy drew his bow "for the last time" - which
>> really amounts to the same as A. above.
>> Personally, I prefer something like the third - and I think that if
>> one then takes the context into account then a translation of "at
>> random" or "at a venture" makes some sense.
>> We then arrive at one of those "random within constraints" situations
>> - it doesn't seem to me that the text intends to suggest that the
>> archer identified Ahab and took careful aim with a fair degree of
>> confidence in a hit - but neither was he just blasting away in any old
>> direction. And even if he DID take careful aim, it was at an anonymous
>> individual who the archer could not possibly have known to be Ahab.
>> So no matter how I slice it, I think the text is very clear in stating
>> that Ahab's death was an essentially 'random' event - albeit one where
>> 'random' needs to be nuanced somewhat. Just what it implies for a
>> discussion of origins is unclear to me - it's easy for me to conceive
>> of why one would refer to this as a "random" shot - the idea really
>> does work for me. But, at the same time, I note that the shot involved
>> the intelligent agency of a skilled soldier (Syrian chariot archers
>> were no amateurs). I leave it to others to decide what implications
>> THAT has for the broader discussion.
>> Blessings,
>> Murray
>> Cameron Wybrow wrote:
>>> Fifth, the Biblical passage quoted is given in English translation,
>>> and it does not appear that those who are employing it below (Randy
>>> or Richard or both; I'm not sure from all the layers of quotation and
>>> commentary) have taken the time to ascertain the original expression
>>> used which is here translated "at random". In the original Hebrew,
>>> it is said that the man strikes "in his wholeness". The word
>>> "wholeness" ("tom", long o) can also be translated as righteousness,
>>> purity, moral perfection, integrity, etc. It has nothing
>>> intrinsically to do with chance, randomness, etc. It is unclear why
>>> the Hebrew writer uses this phrase. It is possible that it means
>>> "innocently", i.e., not intending to hit the king specifically, and
>>> therefore that he hit the king by accident. But even if so, "by
>>> accident" does not mean exactly the same as "at random"; presumably
>>> the archer was aiming at *some* target, not just firing his arrow
>>> anywhere, hoping to hit something. "By accident", would suggest that
>>> maybe he was aiming at the guy next to the king, and hit the king
>>> instead. Thus, "at random" is an over-translation. The King James
>>> and Revised Standard have "at a venture", which would be better. But
>>> even this translation is questionable. Why would the archer's
>>> "innocence" be stressed here? Wouldn't an enemy archer *want* to hit
>>> the king, and knock out the motor of the opposing army? And this
>>> leads us to consider the Septuagint translation. The Greek Jews who
>>> translated this expression used the adverb *eustochos*, related to
>>> the verb *eustocheo*, which means "aim well (and therefore hit)".
>>> That is, the archer intended to hit the king, and, with a
>>> "well-aimed" shot, did so. So, if the Septuagint translators had our
>>> current Hebrew text, they must have interpreted it the noun *tom* as
>>> meaning something like "perfection" in a non-moral sense: "in his
>>> perfection", i.e., "in the perfection of his aim", he hit the king.
>>> I suspect that the Greek translators have hit upon the intended
>>> meaning of the original. But in any case, the translation "at
>>> random" is highly questionable, and should not be used as a "killer
>>> argument" in the way that it is used below. More generally, it is
>>> not safe to rely upon English translations of the Bible when a
>>> "loaded" word is involved.
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Hey there again
Seeing that my previous question was answered and sorted out within minutes, I have another one:
I've worked out my density of the pastry - thanks for your help with that.
Now I want to work out the density of a meat mixture - obviously the formula is the same, but the problem is that the mixture won't really have a breadth, width or height. It'll be a kind of "stew" type mixture.
I am so lost all over again, any help would be great.
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Take a small piece of meat-brisket or whatever you like to use, about 100 grams and weigh it exactly. Then place it in an accurate measuring vessel calibrated in milliliters with enough water to completely cover the meat. Measure the total volume of water with and without the meat inside the vessel. That will give you the volume of the meat. Divide the weight (mass) by its volume and you will have the density of the meat in grams/ml.
You can do the same thing with the vegetables and then do a weighted average for all the ingredients.
OR, you could take a portion of the raw ingredients or the finished stew, weigh it and then do the dame thing with the water bath for volume to have the density of the finished stew. Of course, you probably won't want to eat that "test" serving.
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This could take a while, but let me see how I go with this!
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Post subject: Simpler approach with a plastic ziploc bag - no waste
Take a plastic ziploc bag. Weigh it. Write down the weight. (Might be best to do this in grams)
Take a few spoonfuls of your mixture and put it in the bag. Weigh the bag including the mixture and write it down
Fill a measuring cup or other graduated container (would be easiest if it's measured in milliliters) half-full of water. Take note of how much water is in the cup. Stuff the bag down into the cup and write down the new level of the water.
Now subtract the weight of the empty bag from the weight of the bag+mixture. This is how much your mixture weighs. (You can now put back the mixture with the rest of it).
Subtract the level of the water in the full cup from the level of the water in the half-full cup. This is how much water you displaced, or the volume of the mixture. Divide the weight of mixture by the volume displaced and you have your density.
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I could see why the density of the pastry could be important because there is a certain flakiness and texture involved and because baking really is organic chemistry synthesis in the kitchen, but why is the density of a stew so important???????
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Thanks again for the suggestions. I'll give it a try.
As to why I need the information on the denisty of the "stew", we are in the process of designing additions to our range of pie production machinery and as such we need to know the formulas (or methods) to ensure that the machines can be manufactured to client specifications.
Thanks for all your help.
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The plastic bag method won't be too accurate unless you use a Foodsaver or something.
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Thanks Howard. Luckily, I have one of those. Today is "experiment" day, so I'll let you all know how it goes.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers' questions.
In one of the most electric moments since the IRS controversy erupted nearly two weeks ago, Lois Lerner defended herself during a brief appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The committee is investigating the agency's improper targeting of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status from 2010 to 2012, and Lerner oversees the IRS office that processes applications for that designation.
"I have done nothing wrong," said a stern-looking Lerner, sitting next to three other witnesses and reading from a written statement. "I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee."
Members of Congress have angrily complained that Lerner and other high-ranking IRS officials did not inform lawmakers that conservative groups were targeted, even though legislators asked the IRS multiple times about it after local tea party groups told lawmakers they were being treated unfairly.
Lerner then said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment right to avoid incriminating herself. After Oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked her to reconsider, Lerner said, "I will not answer any questions or testify about the subject matter of this committee's meeting."
Nine minutes after she began speaking, Issa excused Lerner and she left the hearing room through a rear door, escorted by her lawyer and several other men. The men quickly whisked Lerner into an elevator, where several of the men physically pushed back television camera operators who were trying to film them.
Lerner's refusal to answer questions was not a surprise. Her attorney, William W. Taylor III, wrote a letter to the committee this week saying she would do so.
Issa and other members of the committee were not pleased with Lerner's decision to not testify. Even before she spoke, Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., warned the witnesses that their refusal to cooperate would result in the eventual appointment of a special prosecutor to examine the case.
"There will be hell to pay if that's the route we choose to go down," Lynch said.
Lerner revealed the agency's targeting two weeks ago and apologized for the actions. Since then, Washington has been awash in questions about why the nonpartisan IRS focused on conservative groups, who instigated it and whether it was politically motivated — which many Republicans suspect but participants have rejected.
J. Russell George, the Treasury Department inspector general who focuses on taxes, released a report last week that detailed the targeting and called it inappropriate. He has said there is no evidence that the screening was politically motivated or that IRS officials were influenced by others, and blamed poor management by IRS officials for allowing the screening system to be instituted.
Lerner, 62, is an attorney who joined the IRS in 2001. She has come under fire from members of both parties, including Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, who has said she should lose her job and criticized top IRS officials for not being more forthcoming.
"We're talking about truth and trust," Cummings said.
At Wednesday's hearing — Congress' third since the controversy began — the No. 2 Treasury Department official said his agency played no role in the episode.
"There is no indication that Treasury was involved in the inexcusable behavior at the IRS," said Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin.
Wolin told the committee that it was "absolutely unacceptable and inexcusable" that the IRS subjected tea party and other conservative groups seeking non-profit status to extra scrutiny from 2010 to 2012.
He said George told him last year "that he had undertaken an audit of the IRS's review of tax-exempt applications."
"I told him that he should follow the facts wherever they lead. I told him that our job is to stay out of the way and let him do his work," Wolin said.
Issa and other members of the committee complained repeatedly Wednesday that IRS officials had ample opportunity to tell Congress earlier about the targeting but didn't do so. Issa said his committee has privately interviewed another IRS official, Holly Paz, who said the IRS conducted an internal investigation that reached similar conclusions to George's report, but a year earlier.
"Think about it. For more than a year, the IRS knew it had inappropriately targeted groups of Americans based on their political beliefs, without mentioning it" to Congress, Issa said.
While the targeting began in early 2010, Lerner learned of it in June 2011 and ordered that the criteria be changed, according to George's report.
In early May 2012, Steven Miller, who was deputy commissioner, was told by staff that conservative groups were being inappropriately targeted, George's report said. Miller later became acting commissioner but has been ousted by President Barack Obama in the wake of the disclosures.
Staff of the Oversight Committee questioned Lerner and other IRS officials last year after receiving complaints from Ohio tea party groups that they were being mistreated by the IRS. In responses to the committee, Lerner didn't mention that tea party groups had ever been targeted, according to documents. Her responses included 45-page letters in May 2012 to Issa and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Lerner also met twice in early 2012 with staff from the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee to discuss the issue, according to a timeline constructed by committee staff. The timeline said she didn't mention at either meeting that conservative groups had been targeted.
A career civil servant who has run the division since late 2005, Lerner has not been disciplined for her role, IRS officials said.
Also coming under fire Wednesday for not telling Congress about the targeting was Douglas Shulman, who was IRS commissioner from 2008 until last November, while the screening was occurring. Shulman was appointed by President George W. Bush.
On Tuesday, Shulman told the Senate Finance Committee that he learned in the spring of 2012 about his agency's targeting of conservatives and George's probe. He said he didn't tell lawmakers or officials at Treasury — of which the IRS is part — because he only had sketchy information about the situation, was told it was being handled and believed it proper to let George's office conduct its investigation.
"When you learned that there was a list, you did nothing," said Lynch, the Massachusetts congressman.


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The Weekly Standard out this morning has a fascinating report by Stephen Hayes from the front lines of the Landrieu-Terrell race: "The Battle of New Orleans." The article contains a couple extremely harsh quotes from Terrell and her campaign attacking Landrieu. Hayes asks Terrell about each one, and she sounds remarkably reasonable and undefensive.
With respect to the publicized remark she made, in the course of a televised debate, about Landrieu's abandonment of her faith, for example, Terrell says: "Maybe it's an inappropriate comment. I don't know. But as a practicing Catholic, I just don't understand how she can reconcile being a Catholic with her support for federal funding of abortions on overseas military bases, or with distributing morning-after pills in school."
With respect to a fire-up-the-troops statement by one of her supporters suggesting that the race pitted the "righteous" versus the "wicked," Terrell says: "Well, you know, people have the right to characterize how they see it. There are major differences between Mary and I, big philosophical differences. I think people see things based on their own philosophies and their own view of life. I say what I believe, and even if people disagree with my philosophy, I think the voters know I'll work hard to promote Louisiana and Louisiana values."
My only quarrel with Terrell is her failure to use the objective form of the first-person pronoun, a kind of educated illiteracy that drives me nuts. In all other respects I think God's on her side.
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According to Deloitte's 2016-2017 global CIO survey, the top expectations that the business has of CIOs are improving processes, reducing costs and driving efficiencies. This is consistent with a 2016 report from Technology Business Research, which found that efficiency metrics are the primary drivers behind the adoption of cloud professional services.
The problem, of course, is that making the business more efficient is easier said than done. It often requires a major transformation of existing IT systems. But even so, CIOs understand it's their job to get it done one way or the other: when asked by Deloitte which capabilities were most important for their success, an overwhelming majority of CIOs (nearly 75 percent) said, "aligning IT activities to business strategy and performance goals."
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Which areas of your business would benefit most from cloud computing?
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Are your development teams or business units clamoring for self-service infrastructure capabilities? Will you need to support emerging use cases such as Internet of Things, machine learning and big data initiatives? Will you soon need to support massive growth due to a product launch or acquisition? Would a cloud-based email service like Office 365 be cheaper and easier to administer relative to your current solution? Are there certain applications that wouldn't benefit from cloud computing?
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Do you run an ecommerce website that sees large traffic spikes due to seasonality or marketing promotions? Are you a healthcare or financial services company with compliance requirements necessitating on-premises infrastructure? Or are you a traditional manufacturing business with complex legacy technology challenges? To what extent should your managed service partners be able to demonstrate expertise and experience specific to your industry?
What business process and cultural changes will make you more efficient?
According to a recent Gartner study, many CIOs identified "culture/structure of organization" as a top barrier to their success — behind only expertise and budget limitations. Is your IT org suffering from "siloed" teams or outmoded deployment processes? Could you benefit from modern DevOps practices such as continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), infrastructure automation or improved communication between development and IT teams? Should your IT org become more of a broker of cloud-based services for the business? If so, how can you best access the service management expertise required to advise across the deploy-and-run lifecycle?
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According to the same Gartner report, "talent has now been recognized globally as the single biggest issue standing in the way of CIOs achieving their objectives," with the biggest gaps around big data and analytics. Similarly, RightScale's 2016 State of the Cloud revealed that, for the first time, lack of expertise has surpassed the perennial bugbears of security and compliance concerns as the #1 cloud computing concern.
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The economists and staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission who are responsible for performing a more detailed cost-benefit analysis on the agency's rule to put brokers under a fiduciary mandate plan to ask the public to weigh in.
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro (left) told Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., chairman of the House Financial Services Capital Markets Subcommittee, in a Jan. 10 letter that SEC staff along with three economists in the agency's Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation (RiskFin), "are drafting a public request for information to obtain data specific to the provision of retail financial advice and the regulatory alternatives."
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Rostad says that if the public comment period "is brief, the request sharply focused on 'relevant data or empirical analysis', as opposed to research that is neither independent nor credible and verifiable, it could be very valuable to strengthening the basis for proceeding with a robust fiduciary standard for brokers."
David Tittsworth, executive director of the Investment Adviser Association in Washington, agrees that the SEC's reach for public input is "a good faith effort to gather as much data as possible relative to the proposed rule." While the precise timing of the SEC releasing a fiduciary rule this year remains unclear, Tittsworth adds in an email to AdvisorOne, that the SEC's "public request for information has not been submitted and the [SEC] will need to give interested parties time to respond" then the agency "will need to assess any information submitted to analyze it."
The SEC must be "very mindful of potential legal challenges that may result," from a fiduciary rule for brokers, "including providing a robust cost-benefit analysis that would pass judicial scrutiny," Tittsworth adds. "If the Commission proposes a rule, it will be subject to the Administrative Procedures Act process that allows all interested parties to comment."
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Roper went on to say that while "it's hard to see how this gets done before the presidential election, it's not impossible, but it seems highly unlikely." That being said, Roper says the Commission "was right to issue the request for data. We've said from the outset that we want a final rule, not just a proposed rule – in other words, they need to be able to show that they've followed a procedure that can withstand legal challenge."
Garrett along with his GOP colleagues has been pressuring the SEC to perform a more rigorous cost-benefit analysis on its rules.
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Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee State men's basketball team hits the road for the first time since Jan. 5, tomorrow, when the squad travels to Belmont to take on the Bruins.
TSU comes into the game with a 12-7 record, but the Tigers' 6-0 conference mark puts them in first place in the OVC's East Division. However, the division's number one spot will be on the line in the Curb Event Center as Belmont comes into the game sporting a 14-4 overall record and a 5-0 conference mark.
On Thursday, Tennessee State defeated Jacksonville State, 66-60, to stay perfect in conference play and at home. The victory pushed the Tigers' home record to 8-0 and their OVC record to 6-0, which are their best starts since the 1994-95 season.
Kellen Thornton and Patrick Miller led TSU in scoring with 17 apiece, marking the sixth straight game that the duo has been the top two scoring Tigers.
Miller is now fifth in scoring during conference games (19.5) while Thornton is ninth (16.0).
M.J. Rhett narrowly missed his third double-double in five games against the Gamecocks, as the sophomore grabbed a game-high 10 boards and scored nine points.
Rhett is fourth in the OVC, averaging 9.8 boards per conference game and his work on the glass has helped the Tigers move into second place in rebounding margin (+3.2)
The Tigers will look to secure their best OVC start since joining the conference, but will have to defeat Belmont first.
The Bruins come into Saturday's contest currently ranked first in scoring offense (77.2 ppg), field goal percentage (48.7 percent), field goal percentage defense (38.9 percent), assists (15.8 apg) and threes made per game (8.7).
Belmont is led on the offensive end by Ian Clark, whose 23 points per contest rank tops in the conference.
However, Clark has yet to play TSU this season.
Over the last six games, TSU has allowed an average of 59.8 points which is the lowest of any Ohio Valley Conference team. The Tigers also lead the league in field goal percentage defense during that span (39.4 percent).
Belmont hasn't lost at home since Jan. 6 of last season and holds a 7-9 record against TSU all-time, but Saturday's contest will be the first meeting between the squads since Belmont joined the OVC.
The Battle for Nashville starts at 7 p.m. and the game can be seen on the OVC Digital Network.
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