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Don't let the tollbooth hit you on the way out.
Rutgers University basketball coach Mike Rice's firing is a messy affair that will probably land in court. While the timing was ugly, at least it cauterizes the bleeding.
There are almost a million words in the English language, plus a nearly infinite number of letter combinations to make up new ones. Of all these words, there are a handful we, as taxpayers, don't want Rutgers employees to use. They include, for obvious reasons. "fag" and its longer version, "faggot."
We paid Rice $650,000 annually to do many things, among them avoid those words. Not complicated.
And yet he still possessed so little self-control he wasn't able to drop them from his motivational repertoire.
Rutgers deserved better. New Jersey deserved better. Taxpayers deserved better.
Rutgers' student-athletes – from the paralyzed yet undaunted Eric LeGrand to the eloquent ladies of the basketball team who gave Don Imus a life lesson in forgiveness – deserve better.
In firing Rice, Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said in a statement, "I am responsible for the decision to attempt a rehabilitation of Coach Rice."
Why did we hire someone who needed "rehabilitation" to begin with? The man arrived with a sense of entitlement to act like a toddler. Blind-siding a player by pushing him from behind: Isn't that a behavior we try to weed out in preschool?
In his radio interview Tuesday, Pernetti said he was aware of Rice's reputation as a "fiery" coach and that the majority of his lengthy job interview was spent being reassured that fieriness wouldn't cause problems.
So when Rutgers received information about the bizarrre practice behavior, it shouldn't have viewed it as Strike One. Instead, it should've been Strike Three for a man who arrived on the scene with a reputation for pushing the limits of intensity.
Instead, the university had to actually assign the guy a babysitter – a "practice monitor." What made Rice so, so special he was entitled to the services of someone watching him to make sure he did his job?
The words thrown at his players weren't, in my opinion, the worst part of the tape. That was when he threw a basketball at a kid's head. Don't even get me started on the risk of serious injury with that one.
Before this latest mess, Rutgers had been in the national spotlight recently for two unfortunate episodes: A radio host calling its women basketball players hurtful names, and the Tyler Clementi suicide. Surely it was not asking too much for a highly paid employee of Rutgers to put two and two together and conclude: Better not use gay slurs on my players.
If Rice felt that asking too much of him – that political correctness had oozed its way into even the gymnasiums of manly America – he should've sought employment as a talk radio host attempting to sway American opinion in the other direction.
Instead, he took a lucrative job at the one state university in the world that would be the most sensitive to gay slurs. Rice should've taken some of that $650,000 to buy a clue.


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February 8, 2014, 12:06 am TWN
BUENOS AIRES -- A free smartphone application has encouraged more than 70,000 Argentines to become citizen cops as they shop.
Argentina's government blames escalating inflation on speculators and greedy businesses, and has pressured leading supermarket chains to keep selling more than 80 key products at fixed prices. President Cristina Fernandez wants citizens to report any overpriced items to the consumer protection agency.
"We want you to protect what's yours, because if not the others will win out every single day," the president said in a national address this week.
Now a free app designed by two college students is helping consumers do just that by scanning bar codes to find evidence of overpricing. The "Precios OK" software appears to be an instant hit, with downloads in Argentina surpassing that of "Candy Crush" and "Instagram" in the Android store this week.
Independent economists say supermarkets are being scapegoated, and that government efforts to control the economy are making the crisis worse. A typical supermarket stocks 40,000 or more products, and price shocks are reverberating throughout the economy.
But consumers are gladly signing up to do their part as news of the app spreads on social media.
"You can go checking the prices," marveled Analia Becherini, who learned of the app on Twitter. "You don't even have to make any phone calls. If you want to file a complaint, you can do it online, in real time."
The software was designed by a pair of computer engineering students at the University of Buenos Aires, Yamila Fraiman and Alejandro Torrado, who previously won an award for a different app that helps drivers find parking spaces in the Argentine capital.


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Zia Lena's Date Bar Cookies
If you're not from Pittsburgh, then you may not be familiar with the long-standing tradition of cookie tables at weddings. It's a regional tradition, and one that has been documented locally and in The New York Times. Even though a cake is served, it's customary for the couple's family and friends to bake homemade cookies for a display of cookies for guests to eat throughout the evening. Typically, the couple also provides take-home boxes for guests to fill up before they head home. It's certainly one of my favorite Pittsburgh traditions; we certainly know how to do food! A little over a month ago, I was at a wedding with a fabulous cookie table and sampled some of the date bars. It reminded me that I had been wanting to pull out my great aunt's recipe that I swore my grandma had. After multiple passes through her handwritten recipes and coming up empty, my mom made two calls to family in Wisconsin and tracked down the recipe.
I did make some "date bars" last year, but as I mentioned at the time, they definitely had more of a cake-like blondie consistency. These new date bars are much more along the lines of what I have been craving. They're thin and have the consistency of a soft biscotti – very spongelike and extremely soft. The dough is packed with so many dates that are so finely chopped that they are almost a paste. Throw in ground walnuts and a sprinkle of powdered sugar and you have the best date bars I've ever tasted.
There's no doubt that these are totally worthy of a cookie table. It's too bad that my Zia Lena (who passed away quite awhile ago) didn't live in Pittsburgh; I'm certain there would be people willing to pay her to bake for their cookie table!
One year ago: Almond-Apple Crisp
Two years ago: Chunky Peanut Butter Cookies
Three years ago: Banana-Nut Oat Bran Muffins
Four years ago: Coffeecake Muffins
Six years ago: Chocolate Rum Cheesecake
Zia Lena's Date Bar Cookies
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 20 to 25 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
One of my very favorite date bar cookies, compliments of my late Zia Lena, my grandfather's sister.
3 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1½ cups granulated sugar
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
4 eggs, lightly beaten
4 tablespoons cold water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon salt
16 ounces pitted dates, finely chopped
1 cup walnuts, ground
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 10x15-inch jelly roll pan.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour and baking powder; set aside.
3. Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat together the sugar and butter, until combined (it will be crumbly). Add the eggs, water, vanilla extract and salt and beat until thoroughly combined, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary. Reduce the mixer speed to low and gradually add the flour mixture. Use a rubber spatula to fold in the chopped dates and ground walnuts.
4. Spread the batter in the prepared pan and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow to cool, cut into squares and dust. They can be dusted with powdered sugar, if desired. These cookies can be stored in an airtight container or covered tightly with plastic wrap, at room temperature for up to 1 week.
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I love this Pittsburgh tradition…I've never heard of it before, I think it's a lovely idea. The NYT's article filled me in and I loved the video clip they had…the cookies look so delicious. I think it's a sweet tradition, the bride and her family hunkered down in the kitchen baking up a cookie mania for their guests…such a sweet gesture. The date bar cookies are definitely going to be made this weekend, my family loves Medjool dates, I'll remember your Zia Lena. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Hi Maxine,
I am from Youngstown, Ohio (right next to Pittsburgh) and usually the bride and grom don't do the cookie table, it's usually the moms, aunts, cousins, friends who make the various cookies. It's a gift of traditional cookies their families treasure from their loved ones. It's really beautiful.
Of all the recipes you have posted on your blog, the family hand me down's are by far the best. Along with the stories behind them. Your family history triggers memories that make the recipes that much better. Thank you, and thanks to your family for loving the food they prepared.
This one will be made today!!
First of all, cookie table at wedding! BRILLIANT! Especially when it's the family providing all the different cookies. I think that's such a wonderful gift to the bride & groom!
Second, these date bars look perfect. You can really see all the little date pieces from your photos, and I like the texture. I'm really excited about this recipe because I'm a huge fan of dates and I don't think there are enough date recipes out there! Thank you for sharing this 🙂
I can't wait to make these for my Italian husband. He'll love them. I am from Youngstown, OH originally (now living in NYC area) Miss the family cookie tables, they don't do them here.
By the way, do you have a family recipe for "crossada" (not sure of spelling) it's a dough based cooke/bar that has a fruit filling with a lattice of dough on the top.
Cookie tables are also a tradition in northeast Ohio where I grew up and still live. I have been to weddings over the years where there has been not just a cookie table, but a cookie room, at the reception. Boxes and cellophane bags are sometimes provided for guests to take cookies home. If not, a purse works.
sorry to disappoint you but this is not at Pittsburgh tradition. we have have been doing this for years here in Toronto, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Montreal,
Windor etc. etc. etc. We set up the coookie table for weddings, bridal showers, baby showers, anniversaries…anytime there is a big celebration, our
cookie table is set up and of course I have used some of your recipes.
Funny you should mention cookie table, as am from Youngstown, OH (about and hour from Pittsburgh) and the ethnic traditions are alive and well in this area. I am Italian also and NO wedding is complete without the prerequisitie cookie table. As I was reading your post, I was actually baking cookies for a wedding next weekend. I sell Christmas cookies so I get alot of request for weddings also. Thank you for sharing all the wonderful ethnic recipes from your own files. Sometimes just the memories that flood you when you are making a "family" recipe is worth it!
Hi there! My name is Jessica, and I run a food blog called Floptimism where, every Saturday, I write a Weekend Wrap-Up post to share all of my favorite internet finds from the past week. I wanted to let you know that I absolutely loved both this post and the one on Homemade Greek Yogurt, so much so that I featured them both in my blog's Weekend Wrap-Up. I've included the link to the post in case you're interested. Thanks for such wonderful recipes!
Oh my WORD, these are out of this world. God Bless you and your Zia Lena. I had two bags of dates that needed using up, one of whole dates and one of chopped, but even the chopped were too big for my liking. I put both bags of dates together in my food processor with the cup of walnuts and pulsed them together a few times, and they came out perfect. These are like pillows! I skipped the powdered sugar only because I didn't have any and didn't want to make a trip just for that one ingredient. My mother and two aunts have already requested the recipe from me. Thank you so much for this treat, they're just wonderful! Wishing you a Merry Christmas with all of your 'boys'!!!


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Louisiana lawmakers say they know they'll have to fight to get 80 percent of the fines from the BP oil spill for Gulf Coast states, and it's reassuring that they remain confident the RESTORE the Gulf Coast Act will be adopted. But it's frustrating that misinformation and poorly reasoned arguments were raised in a U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the bill.
Rep. Bob Gibbs, a Republican from Ohio, and an influential subcommittee chairman, said that the federal government has already spent billions on flood control following Hurricane Katrina, particularly in New Orleans.
He also said that the area already gets a share of royalty payments from off-shore drilling, essentially arguing that more money for the Gulf Coast can't be justified.
But it's wrong to conflate Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. The Gulf Coast suffered two separate disasters: Hurricane Katrina and the collapse of the federally built levee system in 2005 and the Macondo blowout and months-long fouling of the coast in 2010. Both caused damage to already imperiled wetlands, and both need to be addressed.
Rep. Gibbs was also wrong on offshore revenue sharing. He said that Gulf Coast states get half of the money. But Rep. Steve Scalise, the bill's chief sponsor, pointed out that Gulf states won't start to get a serious share of such money until 2017, and even then it will be 37.5 percent, not 50 percent.
Rep. Gibbs also raised the concern that Clean Water Act fines would duplicate spending that BP is required to provide for environmental remediation. But Garret Graves, chairman of Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, said that the Clean Water Act fines won't replace Natural Resources Damage Assessment money but will be in addition to them.
Rep. John Mica of Florida, chairman of the committee, also sounded a cautionary note. He said that while he understands the desire of Gulf Coast lawmakers to make their region whole, his role is to represent "the people of the United States.''
But a healthy Gulf Coast is in the nation's interest and deserves to be a national priority. Louisiana wetlands produce a third of the nation's seafood and supply much of the country's domestic energy. They are also home to the largest port system in the United States.
The Clean Water Act fines are expected to generate $5 billion to $20 billion -- money that would be a windfall to the federal treasury. Surely it makes more sense to use most of that money to help the areas that were actually damaged in the spill to recover. That's a fight we need to win.


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CRYSTAL FALLS - Forest Park's Alexis Gussert and Gina Graff earned major awards and North Dickinson sophomore Miranda Jacobson was a unanimous Skyline Conference first-team pick in league honors announced today.
Skyline Conference coaches unanimously named Gussert the league most valuable player and Graff was selected defensive specialist.
Carney-Nadeau's Steve Kedsch was tabbed coach of the year.
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Forest Park's Mindy DeNell was a first-team pick, joining Jacobson and another unanimous choice in Rapid River's Nina Brockway. The other first teamers are Sarah Madalinski, Bark River-Harris; Janel Dani, Carney-Nadeau, and Krista VanDamme, Mid-Peninsula.
Forest Park freshman Maria Stankewicz and teammate Samantha Nylund made the second team with Chelsey Stroud, North Dickinson; Mariah St. John, Bark River-Harris; Paige Whitens, North Central, and Savannah Stenlund, Rapid River.
Honorable mention went to Aleesa Madalinski and Megan Derusha, Bark River-Harris; Andrea Dani, Autam Wery and Alli Theoret, Carney-Nadeau; Kelsie Nummilien, Mid-Peninsula, and Rikki Stropich, Rapid River.
Forest Park won the varsity and junior varsity championships with 12-0 records.
Tourney time
IRON MOUNTAIN - Kingsford, West Iron County and Forest Park have qualified for next week's state regional volleyball tournaments.
North Dickinson hopes to join the area group today.
Coach Sandy Haustein's Nordics travel to Bark River-Harris to decide the Class District 126 champion and berth in the regional at Kingsford. Match time is noon (Central time).
The Broncos, who outlasted Carney-Nadeau 3-2 on Wednesday, have not won a district championship since 2005.
"If the girls show up ready to play, it will be a really good game to watch," BRH Coach John Jorasz said. "They had a very off night (against Carney), and if we continue to play like that, we are going to have some trouble. But all in all, we are capable of playing volleyball that can compete.
"If we show up ready to play, it's going to be a good game that could turn out to be anyone's game."
In Class D Region 32 at Kingsford, Superior Central will meet the Nordics or Broncos at 5 p.m. Tuesday. The second semifinal, set for 6:30 p.m., pits Forest Park and Lake Linden. Finals are set for Thursday.
"Forest Park has improved throughout the season," Jorasz said after the Trojans swept BRH to close out the regular season. "They live and breathe volleyball."
West Iron County takes on Stephenson at 5 p.m. Tuesday to open Class C Region 24 at Norway. The second semifinal at 6:30 p.m. matches heavily-favored Calumet against Ishpeming. Finals will be held Thursday.
Kingsford is headed to Class B Region 16 at Houghton Lake, opening with Ogemaw Heights at 6 p.m. (Central time).


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Live blogging President Obama's news conference
My quick spin: I think he made a better case That Something Needs to Be Done than Dem Plan Needs to be Done …also hammers deficit and control cost issue. He was still making diagnosis rather than why his treatment is the best …did not advance argument.
8:53 Question about Henry Gates and what it says about race in America ..makes funny joke about getting shot if he tried to break into the White House if he forgot his key … then gets serious …says he doesnt know what role race plays into this ..says police acted stupidly …brings up Driving While Black/Latino issue
8:51 Questions mentions Mayo clinic problems with House proposals. POTUS: Mayo was initially critical and concerned but MedPac idea has brought it back into the fold
8:49 where is tort reform? mentions Mayo which is disappointed in Obamacare
8:47 says government needs to be a constraint on greedy insurance companies making profits in tough times
8:46 he cant really mean to say public option will be like what Congress gets …c'mon ..maybe in selection process but not in substance …it would bankrupt America
8:43: …more on bank issue … says banks making profits is a good thing "this is America" …but frowns at no change of behavior … risk and bonuses … says too big too fail could cause even more risk .."if shame does not work" then will count on informed shareholders to force change … TBTF worriers like Simon Johnson must be screaming at their TVs …no Bull Moose Obama
8:41 Q: harder line on Wall Street? Fee on risky activities (Goldman Sachs) POTUS: WS took too much risk, peddling loans they knew could not be paid back, and all of us are paying the price … says he prevented collapse by continuing Bush policies …seen a stabilization in the financial system
8:39 Transparency issue …POTUS confuses photo ops for transparency ..and TARP mention!
8:36 not cutting medicare benefits, just reworking spending … mentions AARP again ..
8:33 makes case he is reducing deficit from some previous baseline ..and cutting F-22 …and talking about what a bad hand he was dealt …poisoned chalice alert!
8:32 now explaining why we need to spend money now …aggregate demand management! ..again, acts like stimulus package stabilized economy …. evidence?
8:31 30 minutes in and the average person would still have no idea how their HC would change or how new system would work
8:30 Sacrifice, Mr. POTUS? Fewer inefficient tests and stuff that doesn't work … skirts around care rationing issue …you dont want that stuff anyway, he says
8:28 throws an olive branch to GOPers, think it will be at least slightly bipartisan
8:25 new version of chicken in every pot: nutritionist in every home
8:24 Q: how may covered? what's the minimum that POTUS will accept? POTUS: not 100 percent unless single payer system …shooting for 97%, 98% … lots of water to be wrung out
8:21 IMHO: those candles behind him look like a set a from Vincent Price's House of Horror
8:19 Q: Why the rush? POTUS: 1)people suffering now; 2) no deadlines, no action … "stars are aligned and it's important to take advantage of that" ..wont sign a bill that reduces HC inflation
8:17 "folks havent seen a lot of laws coming out of Washington that help them" Indeed!
8:15 he does make the status quo sound pretty sucky … finally starts hammering on the wage issue ..that healthcare care costs eat ito wages
8:14 i think he just said he was open to middle class tax hikes ..as long as they didnt shoulder total burden …did he really mean to say that?
8:13 using first question to repeat and amplify opening statement .. still likes idea to limit deductions as a payfor
8:12 POTUS should have a few charts with him; why dont they do that?
8:11 Question Time
8:11 POTUS is at his best when he goes classy and takes the high road
8:10 the touching personal stories begin
8:09 says just a few issues left to work out ..and hits Kristol and DeMint!
8:05 POTUS says what is in it for us …any downsides?
8:04 says economy isnt ready to compete ..vs. whom? says healthcare will help competitiveness, easy anxiety and control deficit
8:03 takes credit for stabilizing the economy but doesn't say how
8:02 the POTUS
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His smooth talk is starting to show a side of BS.
Hows that hope and change working out for you?
Feeling dooped lol?
The high rhetoric is turning into just more political BS with no basis in fact or honesty. For a guy with so much promise initailly, his lies are quickly catching up with him. On second thought, maybe a business man or a soldier would have been better than a marxist community organizer.
Very Simple, he didn't sell it and he came across as a "liar."


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Finally found this place again. Hope all is well and wanted to say hay and thank you again for all the shit you did for the DVDAF board back in the day. Thanks
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Joe Allen said Liverpool's young players showed their worth after the 4-0 win over Shamrock Rovers at Lansdowne Road this evening.
The Reds cruised to victory despite fielding an experimental side made up of fringe and youth players in this friendly game.
Allen was one of a handful of first-teamers in the squad and helped the English side to the win.
He said: "It was a great opportunity for our young players to show what they can do. We had a game here in the summer, which gave us a taste of it, but it's nice to come over here and experience it once again.
"We obviously put on a bit of a show for them and got the four goals.
"We had to go out there and make sure we were 100% committed and we wanted to make sure with so much support coming to see us that we weren't complacent in our approach, which I don't think we were."
Allen added that Liverpool are already excited about next season despite agonisingly missing out on the Premier League title last week, believing they are united in their approach for the 2014/2015 campaign.
"We've had that disappointment. We are already looking forward to kickstarting next season. First and foremost we were looking forward to a bit of rest.
"We'll take confidence from this season.
"How much we've moved on is testament to how much work the lads have put in."


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Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Local kids were ready to splash as fountains turned on at Binghamton's first spray pad.
City officials gathered around the 10,000 square foot pad at Columbus Park.
It features 10 unique water fountains, including bucket dumps and nozzles.
Contributors to the new spray pad told Action News they're happy to see the impact it will make in the area.
"This one came together, and it came together nicely. The city designers and engineers did a great job with it. So this was good. And it's great to see the kids today," said George Cummings, Acting President of Binghamton Rotary.
The spray pad cost more than $200,000 and was paid for by federal and state grants, as well as the Binghamton Rotary Club.


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Check out First Dibs.
Panoply's exclusive preview party, First Dibs is an opportunity to purchase art at the festival's Art Marketplace before it opens to the public. Sponsored by Toyota and the Arts Council, First Dibs will start at 6 p.m. Friday in Big Spring International Park.
Beverages and hors d'œuvres will be provided by Pane e Vino. The four investor levels range from $25 to $300.
For more information, call the Arts Council at 519-2787 or visit www.panoply.org.


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Monday, June 17, 2013
Samuel Boyd
Samuel Harper Boyd, born March 29, 1945 in Georgetown, died suddenly at his home in New Orleans, La. on June 13, 2013.
He is survived by his adoring wife, Betty Kathleen Mooney Boyd Kathy, his loving children, Gillespie Godfrey Boyd III (Autumn) and Kathleen Haaf Boyd, and his cherished grandchildren, Alexandra Frances Boyd and Gabrielle Kathleen Boyd.
He is also survived by his dear siblings, Gillespie Godfrey Boyd Jr., William Herbert Boyd (Mary), Harriet Claire Boyd Jagger, and Isabelle Harper Boyd Tennant (Marty), all of Georgetown, S.C.; Geraldine Price Boyd Duff (Robert) of Merritt Island, Fla., and Charles Price Boyd (Beverly) of Atlanta, Ga.; and many nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death were his parents, Gillespie Godfrey Boyd Sr. and Geraldine Price Boyd.
His life was enriched by his numerous close friends whom he treasured throughout all of his years.
Samuel Boyd began his long and distinguished career as an educator in the St. Bernard Parish Public Schools in 1970 as a social studies teacher at St. Bernard High School.
He quickly rose to the position of Assistant Principal in 1975 and assumed the role of principal of St. Bernard High School in 1982.
He then became principal of Chalmette Middle School in 1983, a position he held until Katrina devastated the school district in 2005.
He returned to the school district in November to help rebuild schools and programs, assuming responsibility for middle school programs at the St. Bernard Parish Unified School.
In July, 2006, he was appointed coordinator for the parish Adult Education program, restoring that program to one of the finest in the state in terms of graduation rates for adults and fiscal stability.
It was the position from which he was to retire in July after 43 years of exemplary service.
Superintendent of Schools Doris Voitier called Mr. Boyd, truly a distinguished educator who put the needs of students first. He was a gifted administrator whom we knew we would miss after his retirement, but now we have an even greater void in our lives because of his death. The school district will miss this legend.
Services will be held at Christ Church Cathedral, 2919 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70115, on Wednesday, June 19, 2013.
Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. and the service will start at 11 a.m.
Memorial gifts may be made to Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, or Prince George, Winyah Episcopal Church, 301 Screven St., Georgetown, South Carolina.
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Luna Leopold (1915-2006)
Luna combined his training and expertise in engineering, meteorology, geology and hydrology to develop the scientific foundation for the field of fluvial geomorphology, the study of how rivers are shaped and influenced by their surrounding landscapes.
In all, he authored some 200 articles and books, many of which remain widely used in teaching and field work today. His achievements were recognized during his lifetime with many prestigious awards and honors, including the National Medal of Science, the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America, election to the National Academy of Sciences, and election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science, posthumously, in 2006.
He died in February 2006 at the age of 90 at his home in Berkeley, California.
Family Remembrances
Watch Out for the Willows
by Leverett Nelson
This remembrance of Luna was written by his stepson Rett Nelson as part of remarks he made at the U.C. Berkeley.
Aldo used a famous analogy in his 1953 book Round River, that human beings are navigators on the round river of energy, or, more generally, the "life cycle." Luna thought well enough of the essay to use a portion of it in his Forward to Water, Rivers and Creeks, a textbook he published in 1997, when he was 82 years old. He dedicated it to his children and their married partners as follows: Madelyn and Claude, Niki and Bruce, and Carrie and Rett. Luna was still publishing and working up new papers when he passed away in 2006. Luna himself was the consummate navigator of rivers, round and otherwise. He chose a variety of navigational devices: the C-Dory on the Napa River, an hour or so from the house in Berkeley; a metal rowboat on the East Fork River, from which he took bedload samples at cross-sections upstream of his "Project" near Pinedale, Wyoming; a pontoon boat in Desolation Canyon on the Green River; a wooden dory on the family trip we took down to Green and Colorado Rivers in 1992. His favorite was the canoe, and it is the one I remember him "navigating" most often. It conjures up an image that I think best captures Luna. He is paddling a canoe. We are on a family trip on the East Fork. We have put in at the Project, leaving the red truck with its hand-made canoe rack. We will retrieve the truck later, but I must digress to describe this canoe rack: it looked pretty flimsy when disassembled, consisting of 2-by-4's, metal bolts and eye nuts and an old ski rack for the cab of the truck. When assembled, though, the rack fit two canoes perfectly, was very sturdy, and became a really "slick rig." For those that knew Luna, a simple but ingenious solution to an engineering problem was "slick": anything called "slick" was high praise indeed. We're floating down the East Fork. Luna and my mother Barbara are in one canoe. As always, Mom is in the bow, Luna is in the stern. Between them are the picnic basket and cooler. Sometimes the dog is also on board. They are all heading downstream in perfect contentment. Carrie and I are behind in the second canoe, and we get the occasional "Watch out for the willows!" from Luna as he and Mom navigate down the river. Luna of course had his field notebook with him, because you never knew what you'd see: an Indian fire pit on the cut bank, about halfway between the creek surface and the floodplain/terrace elevation, its blackened rocks tumbling out onto the sand. Or we'd see an unusual bird, or artifacts, or a new fishing spot, or a type of meander or bar he wanted to photograph for a paper. It could be anything, really, that might spark interest. Research and recreation were virtually indistinguishable to Luna, and if he could add family to that formula, he was happy. To say it a different way, work and play and family were all the same thing to him. You have to admire someone who lived life that way. A quotation from Aldo Leopold is appropriate here, this one from the revised version published in 1966, with a Forward by Luna and his first wife Carolyn. It is from an essay entitled "Natural History": "We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. . . . When we say "striving," we admit at the outset that the thing we need must grow from within. No striving for an idea was ever injected wholly from without." [Natural History in A Sand County Almanac, 1966 ed., Oxford University Press, Ballantine Books.] Luna was "striving for an idea" every day. Some ideas he "injected" in us; some he led us to see from within. As his co-navigator on the Round River, I seek the same unity of work, play and family that Luna found. I strive to learn new things. I appreciate "slick" solutions to scientific problems. And I watch out for the willows.
A Brother Remembered
by A. Carl Leopold
Carl wrote this memorial of Luna following his death in 2006. It was originally printed in the Leopold Outlook newsletter.
Luna Leopold was such an extraordinary person that a brief memorial like this seems entirely inadequate. But as an admiring brother who grew up with him, I feel that I can present something of a personal synopsis of his life.
Our father, Aldo Leopold, profoundly influenced all five of the Leopold family siblings. As Luna was growing up, he looked to him for approbation and approval in many ways. His entry into civil engineering followed a suggestion by father, in line with father's recognition of soil erosion as a major emerging environmental problem, especially in the arid southwest.
During his school years Luna became a craftsman. He designed and built handsome hunting knives, model airplanes, masks, furniture; and he leaned heavily on father's praise. He earned election to several honorary student organizations at the University of Wisconsin. His youthful skills ranged over an impressive array of creative work. During summers in Santa Fe, he became a talented dancer, and performed Spanish dances in full costume-and-cape for the local hotel, La Fonda. He performed in the play "Camille" as the male lead. He took up watercolors and did beautiful landscapes, especially of Southwestern scenes.
As a professional scientist, Luna's chief characteristics have been invention, combined with a requirement for perfection. These characteristics can be observed in part by a scan of the great range of subjects of his publications. In addition to his impressive publications on geomorphology, he published papers on cloud seeding for control of rain, on water uptake by plants, on tree branching patterns, on the quality of landscape, on esthetics, and on Native American relics. There were papers on political issues such as the plan to build a jetport in the Florida wetlands, on urban land use, on environmental planning, on the plan for the Three-Gorges dam in China, and on climate change.
He conceived and organized an international vigil network for the exchange
of data on water flow. I perceive a central theme running through these titles was the use of
mathematical methods for understanding problems.
His fluency in mathematical analyses was almost his trademark. He especially enjoyed
collecting data in the field, and in the analysis of the consequent data. His appointment as a
Professor of Landscape Architecture along with his Professorship in Geology and Geophysics
at the University of California at Berkeley was probably a reflection of his publications on
Luna published seven books; almost half of them fashioned to inform the general public about water. He reaped a phenomenal array of honors, some 24 awards from this country, plus seven from foreign lands. He was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1991.
Central to Luna's life work was his continued skills in collecting experimental data, and with using mathematical techniques for the quantitative understanding of phenomena. These range from the basic action of water in soil erosion to the appreciation of landscape values. His was a life of expertise combined with the compelling force of a perfectionist. An extraordinary person.
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A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Third Iron Dome
Israel deployed a third Iron Dome missile defense system this week aimed at the northern borders with Syria and Lebanon, according to reports. Israel has said that it will do whatever it takes to prevent chemical weapons and advanced arms from Syria to get to militant groups. Syrian state television said a "scientific research center" was hit in the strikes, but didn't add any more information. The region awaits what Syria and Hezbollah will do in response to the air strike after authorities had previously made threats of retaliation.
Obama's plans
President Obama will travel to Israel some time this spring for the first time since taking office. Many hope that it will give him and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu time to move past their differences since both men were reelected in their respective elections. "The start of the president's second term and the formation of a new Israeli government offer the opportunity to reaffirm the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Israel," Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said. Others aren't so sure this is a good idea. "Assuming coalition talks are completed by the time Obama comes, the new government will be busy with drafting a budget and planning for cuts in government spending and raising taxes. Obama's visit will be a distraction — not an event that's going to top the agenda for very long," said Shmuel Rosner in the Jewish Journal.
Reviewing Hagel
"One dispiriting lesson from Chuck Hagel's nomination for defense secretary is the extent to which the political space for discussing Israel forthrightly is shrinking," said a New York Times editorial. "Republicans focused on Israel more than anything during his confirmation hearing, but they weren't seeking to understand his views. All they cared about was bullying him into a rigid position on Israel policy. Enforcing that kind of orthodoxy is not in either America's or Israel's interest." And it could just be the beginning of larger problems for the two countries, said Ilai Saltzman in the Jerusalem Post: "The challenge, however, will be to go beyond the debate over Hagel's personal views and votes in the past and work out the existing differences between Washington and Jerusalem together through candid dialogue, not unilateral behavior."
War over Warsaw
There's a fight brewing over whether to demolish the historical building of the Jewish community in Warsaw. Developers want to build a skyscraper in its place. "The white building," the headquarters of the Jewish community, is under threat in particular. The local Culture Ministry will make a decision what to do with the location, but they won't announce how they'll be making their decision. Based on past precedent, it doesn't sound like opponents have much of a case and will likely lose. Stay tuned.
Rabbi in the "Tank"
A Chabad rabbi and entrepreneur from Minnesota appeared on Friday's episode of "Shark Tank" on ABC where he pushed his product, the SoundBender, an accessory for the iPad. He ran his investment opportunity by a team of entrepreneurs and business executives. Daymond John, the man behind the FUBU clothing line, took the chance on Weiss's product and gave $54,000 for a 40 percent stake in the company. "One of the great things about reality shows is that it is emes," said Rabbi Weiss. "Reality is the hardest thing to fake so there was no way I could go on that show and not be myself." Everyone enjoyed Weiss's enthusiasm. "The way he unveiled the product, Steve Jobs-style, is priceless," said a TwinCities.com blogger.
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