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GCO: "In response to an article bashing his knowledge about Valve and PC gaming, Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya tried to repair his own reputation."
Today was a good day.
Not really
This whole confrontation could've been avoided if Kamiya just read the article and if Kotaku have came up with a better title.
The article didn't even bash his knowledge of PC gaming or Valve instead it explain PC gaming and services like Steam performed&used in Japan.
There is never a reason to defend Kraptaku no matter what they say. They are a blight and should be expunged from any aspect of gaming.
"Kotaku has no credibility as they are essentially the TMZ of gaming."
Nailed it.
Or Kotaku could have written an appropriate headline rather than a sensationalist headline trying to attract more heat and readers. Bunch of nobs.
I don't understand the hatred for a website. I base my opinion on the story itself, not what the website has done in the past unless it is a unconfirmed rumors alas something unsubstantiated.
Wow, the disagrees. And if you look at every reply hating on Kotaku, it honestly sounds like some kind of religious cult.
"Believe and follow what we say, as anyone, regardless of each individuals style on Kotaku is garbage because of association with that website."
Just because Kotaku has some shitty articles doesn't mean the whole website and everyone involved are terrible. As for Hideki Kamiya, THIS guy is ridiculously unprofessional and responded like a pre-teen upset about a comment heard from a person before asking the people themselves (or reading the article).
And so far he's been saying nothing but garbage so I'll be ignoring all his games from now on (not that Bayonetta was any good anyways).
Except the whole website is terrible. When you put out 95% crap and 5% decent stories, you will not be judged on that 5%.
Not to mention we need developers calling out these "journalists" (let's be real here, they're not journalists in any sense of the word) out. Example: Jaffe and Kuchera
Kotaku has been putting out bad articles for a long time; they used to be decent a while back but now they're not.
@Zeal0ous- lets see....gaming legend....vs Kotaku. LMFAO! He was right to say what he said. Kotaku are idiots. They don't make news...they troll it.
I would agree with you....except you are wrong. Kotaku has been a blight on all of gaming. It isn't the matter of a few erred articles. That might be overlooked as you suggest.
No, the entire sight has been a farce and not a funny one either. Instead of a few mistakes they have damaged gaming and been on the whole, a disservice to gamers everywhere. Their actions are simply too numerous to list. It isn't an article or two, it's the modus operandi of the entire venture. As bad as Brian Crecente was, and he was horrendous, almost impossibly, matters now have become worse since his departure.
I will get disagree for this but didn't he say it him self?
How can you say "I don't know anything about pc" then get mad when an article say "You don't know about pc" ??
Just saying.
He was more annoyed at Kotaku's inference that he speaks for the entirety of Japan.
That, and being called "clueless". Which to be fair, would piss me off a well.
Calling him "the guy who made Bayonetta" is a little bit insulting too. He has a bloody name, Kotaku! And he's done more for the gaming industry than just "make Bayonetta"...which is more than can be said for Kotaku.
Though writing "Hideki Kamiya is unfamiliar with PC gaming" might not have gotten them as many hits as the more attention-seeking headline they did use.
I kind of applaud Hideki for saying I don't know and Kotaku's hit seeking and flame bait of an article a little unnecessary.
However, Kotaku does have a point. Why doesn't a well known Japanese developer know more about PC gaming?
"Why doesn't a well known Japanese developer know more about PC gaming?"
PC Gaming in Japan is a very niche market. It's not like in the West where PC Gaming is big and has a respectable scene. In Japan, the majority of PC games include Visual Novels, Hentai and Korean MMOs.
I hope Kraptaku goes down permanently down one of these days.
They are an abomination and disgrace to video gaming.
I can't believe they're still around at all, let alone that their sh*tty articles even get accepted here... It's embarrassing, really.
You should be protecting the internet instead of posting stuff in a gaming site
When Kotaku says that the PS4 is the best next gen console.. then Kotaku will matter. Just like IGN.
Just saying. And we all know that's the truth.
Funny to see that Kotaku also is a bigger site by rank than N4G according to alexa.com
Kotaku is ranked 717 in the usa, and in the 1000's world wide,.. while n4g is in the 4000's world wide and like 2000 in the usa. Poor hipster video game fans on this site and their love for N4G.
"Just saying. And we all know that's the truth"
Yeah if you live in your own little delusional world.
I'm glad to see Kamiya, who is responsible for some of the greatest games ever made, put the barrel-scraping scum-bags at Kotaku in their place.
At least someone has the balls to do it publicly. Someone famous I mean cause I know the average internet user already expresses their hate for Kotaku.
I wish more developers are more vocal about their own opinions like Hideki Kamiya.
Some are and they get lambasted for their views. Sometimes it's justified, but no developer wants to lose potential customers for saying one dumb thing.
Phil Fish comes to mind.
It's one thing to say just one dumb thing.
Phil Fish happens to have a bag full of quotes.
"Suck my d**k. Choke on it."
"I will become the face of gaming. Just you f***ing wait."
"PCs are meant for spreadsheets, not gaming." (I found this one particularly hilarious because he later complain about Xbox Live's patching policy and how Steam would be much better to patch his game.
I suggest you watch Indie Game: The Movie. Phil Fish is not TOO bad of a guy. He's just a normal fellow who seems to have a hard time conveying his messages without seemingly insulting someone.
So I don't mind those quotes too much. The "Japanese games suck" one is what irked me the most, and that was without a great deal of context.
yep, one that comes to mind is David Jaffe. You can love or hate his games but he's always honest in public.
I know Kotaku ain't all that great, I personally do not like them, but this was REALLY unprofessional on Kamiya's part. He didn't even bother to read the article to see what they were saying, then he started bashing tons of people on Twitter about it, even going as far as to make "your mom" jokes. Luke Plunkett simply asked if Kamiya had read the article, and Kamiya's response was "Do you eat shit?". He took the whole situation WAY too far over nothing. The article itself actually wasn't that bad at all. I definitely will not be purchasing any of his companies games in the future, I won't support this kind of unprofessionalism.
I don't know if you follow him on twitter or not but that guy writes like 500 replies to tweets a day. He replies to almost everyone that writes to him. He's always blunt, honest, and doesn't worry about PR. I love the guy.
I understand that, but he really went too far this time. And I think he realizes that considering that he's been deleting some of his rude tweets. Not all of them, some are still there, but a ton of them have been deleted, many of them were where he used racial slurs. I understand about being blunt, and honest. That's a good thing. But being racist, rude, and ignorant is not ok, especially not for someone in a position such as his. He expects to sell games to westerners, yet he has no problems insulting and degrading them.
I didn't see the racist stuff... That's weird because he sure works with a lot of westerners at Platinum.
Well, Kamiya was right. Do you eat shit? No matter how good it looks. Shit is still shit and Kraptaku is shit. end of story.
Professionals are still human, and their taking part in social media forums like twitter and facebook is an attempt at humanizing them, making you see them as real people. Ironic, then, that you would shun someone for being human and responding accordingly.
I like Kamiya's response for the same reason I like Jaffe's videos: they're unpolished, raw, HUMAN interactions. It's not a speech given in a suit and tie. It's not a statement released through an agent or PR division.
It's a PERSON giving their PERSONAL opinion.
No shit, it's not professional.
Meh. He's a respected guy in the gaming industry who has created some very classic and influential games in the past. He's pretty much at the point in life where he can talk how he wants because it isn't going to affect his sales or his job. And anyway, who are Kotaku to call him "clueless"? Who are they to turn his simple comment about PC gaming into a ridiculous and unnecessary generalization as to why AN ENTIRE NATION OF PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT OPINIONS AND VIEWS all hate PC gaming? It was silly, attention-seeking rubbish.
And while I don't agree with any anti-Western comments Kamiya might have made, I can sorta see where he's coming from. Sites like Kotaku seem to love picking on Japanese devs for having "outdated" and "old fashioned" views or their "strange" and "perverted" games. It must get frustrating. Especially for people like Kamiya who have done so much for the gaming industry...which is more than can be said for Kotaku.
Whoa, well said. You deserve your bubbles, sir.
Agreed. Mind you, his comments weren't towards being Japanese HELLO HE DOESN'T MAKE PC GAMES! LMFAO! It was from him making console games. Its like asking music artist about acting. They don't hate it, they've just haven't done it enough to form such an opinion.
Everyone but Kotaku dislikes Kotaku for a fair amount of reasons.
I dislike Kotaku and feel that only monkeys write articles there, but I agree with the article (lol). Hideki Kamiya did come off as ignorant.
After he responded to the article, I felt the urge to read it and I did, btw.
Not defending either party, they're both imbecilic, Kotaku for the original title of the article and Kamiya for raving on his twitter.
Kamiya always does that. Just remember when some guy asked him if he would let Sony put Bayonetta in it and he replied saying that he wouldn't because PS All-stars is a rip-off and he doesn't like rip-offs.
do you see how the guy is trying to make himself look good, while Kamiya is just being himself. It seems as if the guy is trying to be the good guy just to have more people agree with him, but who falls for that nowadays. I will side with Kamiya no matter what just because he is blunt and real unlike these fake people pretending to be Mr. right. Kamiya is in no way expressing ignorance, but the other guy is.
When Kamiya talks I listen. And if Kotaku is crap to him, I also think they are crap.
The point here is, Kotaku deliberately wrote up an inflammatory headline, something that has been prevalent in gaming media now for the past few years. Thus, it skews the article to promote a certain view, despite the fact that as an article, it sits on the fence.
You can argue that Kamiya wasn't particularly professional in his response, but the title was designed to cause trouble.
Gaming media is dangerous because low-level sites will realise that most gamers don't read the article and instead, cherry-pick opinions based on the title. Often though, developers and publishers are misquoted to make them seem stupid, or in this case, clueless.
Kotaku will post about 3 decent articles annually, but trash like this is what keeps them up and running. Just be aware.
Why is this site still around. What kind of a name is Kotaku. I gotta go take a Kotaku.
I used to read the news at Kotaku until they changed their site layout (probably a year or so ago) and it seems like they quality declined as well.
It must have been tough for the, 'quality', to decline.
[email protected] hideki response " do you eat shit?"
Kotaku is garbage but Kamiya is still one of the biggest douchebags ever.
You might be the most negative person on n4g. I just scrolled through your recent comments... It's incredible...
I'm no fan of kamiya but this makes me want to buy everything he's worked on. What a badass.
ROTFL. I want to know what kotaku feel when they eat their own medicine, which are...shit XD
I'm not taking any sides, but this type of behavior from anyone in the gaming industry, or journalism, (I use that term loosely when speaking of Kotaku) does not reflect well on the gaming industry as a whole.
Why should this type of behavior be acceptable in the gaming industry?
I'm getting disagrees and yet no answers or replies to my question. Why should this type of behavior be acceptable in the gaming industry? Out of all the disagrees I'm getting, not one of you can give me an answer.
They're just disagreeing with you because you didn't take Kamiya's side. Pretty much everyone on this site dislikes Kotaku, and will always side against them. Go against the current and you get tons of disagrees and down-bubbled.
I don't care who it is, what they do, or how well they do it. This type of behavior is unacceptable for a developer who's suppose to act professional.
The gaming industry is already under a microscope and getting a bad rep as it is. It's bad enough they think anyone who plays video games is equivalent to a murderer or a rapist. Everything he's blurting out on Twitter doesn't help us at all. It only makes the gaming industry look like it's run by juveniles with social issues.
As much as I like Kamiya's games, there's no way I'm going to defend his actions based on how good his games are. Someone needs to get him off Twitter fast before he makes more foolish comments.
I disagree because imo Deadpool is being overly dramatic. Personally i dont care what Kamyia said about kotaku or how he said it. There are far worst things happening in the industry like broken games getting released everyday but no one seems to care about that. That is one thing that i find unnacceptable. This Kamyia/Kotaku thing? Not so much.
Pardon me. I have to go to the restroom to take a Kotaku.
though i'm not trying to defend Hideki Kamiya, but the original headline (which has been "modified" as of now -- with a small apologetic update info below), did somehow appear as an "insult" to Kamiya. using the word "clueless" to describe a person's personal knowledge of something is just not right, when clearly the person only mentioned his disinterest on the matter.
now, of course, if Kamiya had just read the whole article he wouldn't have reacted that way, but the fact is the headline was still worded in a way that was clearly asking for trouble.
I don't think Kotaku or Kamiya are in fault here. It is the people witnessing this situation who were inflaming it.
Kotaku article was well-constructed pointing out that Japan isn't familiar with PC gaming and chose Kamiya as an example to drive that point. Well, the title was a bit sensational but we know that every news media usually does that to make you read the article so I find no fault here.
Kamiya was pissed because he was used as an example of Japan being oblivious to PC gaming without him knowing or expecting it when he tweeted. Also, some PC gamers were flaming him and it was bad press for him. So I don't find fault in his position.
I blame the stupid readers who get too emotional or don't even read an article beyond the title.


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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes
Volume IV. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton.
Thomas Campion
§ 1. His Life.
THOMAS CAMPION, who was born on Ash Wednesday, 12 February, 1566/7, was the son of well-to-do middle-class parents. His father, John Campion, was a member of the Middle Temple, and, by profession, one of the cursitors of the chancery court, the clerks of course (who made out the writs
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John Campion was buried at St. Andrews, Holborn, on 8 October, 1576, and, about a year later, his relict Lucy, who was the daughter of Laurence Searle, one of the queens serjeants-at-arms, married Augustine Steward, of a family which was of some importance in the north-easterly home counties, and from which, through his mother, Oliver Cromwell was descended. There were no children of this marriage, which Lucy did not long survive, for she died in 1580, leaving her children, Thomas and his sister Rose, in the care of Steward. In 1581, Steward married Anne, daughter of Thomas Argall, and relict of Clement Sisley of Barking, who brought him a second stepson, Thomas Sisley, a lad of about the same age as Campion.
During their minority, both lads were under Stewards tutelage; and, in 1581, they were entered as gentlemen pensioners at Peterhouse, Cambridge, then under the mastership of Andrew Perne, with whom, in his capacity as dean of Ely, Steward had business relations. Neither of the boys matriculated or proceeded to a degree. After four years of study, they left the university, and, on 27 April, 1586, Campion was entered at Grays inn, possibly with a view to his pursuing a legal profession. It is clear, however, from his works, that he had little sympathy with, or respect for, legal studies; and he does not appear to have been called to the bar.
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These, possibly, were pirated by the enterprising publisher from MS. copies in circulation after the fashion of those times, or lent by Nashe, who was a friend of Campion and who contributed the introduction: for not only are they full of obvious misprints, but there is an accumulated weight of internal evidence to show that the poet took part in the earl of Essexs expedition, for the succour of Henry IV, against the League, which reached Dieppe in August, 1591, and laid siege to Rouen.
The first published work bearing Campions name is his volume of Latin
which appeared in 1595. This little book, which is extremely rare at the present day, contains panegyrics of Elizabeth and of the earl of Essex, a poem of rejoicing on the defeat of the Armada, and so forth, followed by a collection of elegies and a series of epigrams chiefly addressed to his own friends and contemporaries by name. It was not until 1601 that Campions first collection of English poems,
A Booke of Ayres,
was given to the world in the form of one of the song-books to which reference has been made in a previous chapter. It was divided into two parts, the first set to airs composed by Campion himself, who thus made his first appearance as a musician, and the second to the airs of Philip Rosseter, musician and theatrical manager and Campions lifelong friend.
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Observations in the Art of English Poesie
against the vulgar and unartificial custom of riming; and, some time between 1602 and 1606, when he first signed himself Doctor in Physic, he must have taken up the study of medicine and proceeded to the degree of M.D. We have already seen that this degree was not conferred on him at Cambridge, neither, so far as can be ascertained, was it conferred at Oxford or at Dublin. It only remains to assume that the poet studied at some continental university, and, while nothing certain has at present been ascertained as to this, it is interesting to note that the study of medicine and the practice of foreign travel were both sedulously fostered at Peterhouse, which not only possessed one of the finest early collections of books upon medicine, but frequently granted dispensations to its fellows to pursue some approved course of study
in partibus transmarinis.
In 1607, he wrote and published a masque for the occasion of the marriage of lord Hayes, and, in 1613, appeared a volume of
Songs of Mourning,
in which, in common with many other famous poets, he expressed the grief evoked in Britain by the untimely death of prince Henry. In the same year, he wrote and arranged three masques, the
Lords Maske,
for the occasion of princess Elizabeths marriage to the elector palatine, a masque entertainment for the amusement of queen Anne, during her visit at Caversham house, and a third for the occasion of the earl of Somersets marriage to the notorious Frances Howard. To this last masque, some personal interest attaches, by reason of its connection with the Overbury poisoning case, in which Campion was slightly involved. He had performed some trifling duties for his patron, Sir Thomas Monson, which afterwards became of importance in the history of the trial. Monson himself was thrown into the Tower, upon suspicion of complicity, where the poet attended him in his professional capacity as physician; after some delay, during which the poets evidence was heard, Monson received the royal pardon in circumstances and conditions which made it tantamount to a complete acquittal. If this verdict be acceptedand there is no reason for rejecting it
a fortiori
Campion could not have been privy to the conspiracy.
In 1612, appeared
Two Bookes of Ayres,
followed, in 1617, by the
Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres.
To 1617, also, probably belongs his
New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counter-point,
a technical treatise which, for many years, was the standard text-book on the subject. In 1618 was published
Ayres that were sung and played at Brougham Castle,
which were almost certainly written by Campion for the occasion of the kings entertainment on his return from Scotland; and, in 1619, he published a second edition of his Latin poems PAGE NUM="166">in two books, the latter of which was a reprint, with considerable alterations, omissions and additions, of the 1595 collection of epigrams, followed by a similar
of the elegies contained in that volume. He died on 1 March, 1619/20, and was buried at St. Dunstans in the West, having, by his will, a nuncupatory one made
in extremis,
left the whole of his estate to his old collaborator, Philip Rosseter. From this circumstance, it may fairly be inferred that he left behind him neither wife nor issue.
As to the poets religious views, divers opinions have been expressed. It has been thought by some that, in view of the fact that a large number of Campions best friends were adherents to the older faith, and that he did not dissemble a distaste for puritans and puritanism, he was himself a Catholic. But it is not likely that any devout Catholic, howsoever loyal, could have alluded to Elizabeth as Faiths Pure Shield, the Christian Diana, and the conclusion at which we must arrive is that Campion, though probably nominally a protestant, was not seriously concerned with dogma of any sort. However, his devotional poetry contains some of the finest things he has written. Never weather-beaten Saile more willing bent to shore, Awake, awake, thou heavy spright and some others exhibit the union, all too rare in the annals of hymnology, of genuine spiritual exaltation with the true lyrical note.
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Over the course of the 19th century, American cities developed from small seaports and trading posts to large metropolises. Not surprisingly, foodways and other areas of daily life changed accordingly. In 1800, the dietary habits of urban Americans were similar to those of the colonial period. Food provisioning was very local. Farmers, hunters, fishermen, and dairymen from a few miles away brought food by rowboats and ferryboats and by horse carts to centralized public markets within established cities. Dietary options were seasonal as well as regional. Few public dining options existed outside of taverns, which offered lodging as well as food. Most Americans, even in urban areas, ate their meals at home, which in many cases were attached to their workshops, countinghouses, and offices.
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The decades from the 1890s into the 1920s produced reform movements in the United States that resulted in significant changes to the country's social, political, cultural, and economic institutions. The impulse for reform emanated from a pervasive sense that the country's democratic promise was failing. Political corruption seemed endemic at all levels of government. An unregulated capitalist industrial economy exploited workers and threatened to create a serious class divide, especially as the legal system protected the rights of business over labor. Mass urbanization was shifting the country from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial one characterized by poverty, disease, crime, and cultural clash. Rapid technological advancements brought new, and often frightening, changes into daily life that left many people feeling that they had little control over their lives. Movements for socialism, woman suffrage, and rights for African Americans, immigrants, and workers belied the rhetoric of the United States as a just and equal democratic society for all its members.
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My first encounter with the pernicious little pissants occurred in 1978 while helping my sister clean up her Columbia, S. C. backyard. We were trying to add some sense of order to what the contractors had comically described as landscaping.
First, we had to police up all the construction debris thrown haphazardly across her yard: paint cans, pieces of 2 X 4s and shingles.
While on my knees trying to extricate a long piece of wire from the hard-packed Carolina clay, I noticed that the legs of my khaki slacks were covered with small black dots. Which moved.
I then realized that an equal number of these mobile motes were making equally good progress on the inside of my pants legs, occasionally stopping on their way to wherever they thought they were headed to jab their tiny little stingers into my flesh.
I never realized how fast a man could shuck his britches. So there I stood in my Fruit-Of-The-Looms slapping my thighs as rapidly as possible, hoping to keep the minute marauders from getting to areas where they had no business and where they could inflict infinitely more pain.
My sister later reported that I resembled an out-of-kilter windmill, alternately slapping, hopping and uttering words neither of us would have wanted our mother to hear.
I thought for a moment that she was also under attack because she seemed, as far as I could tell when I had the time to look away from my own endeavour, to be rolling around the ground in some kind of agony. I later discovered that something about the scene struck her as comic, and she gave way to fits of laughter.
She finally composed herself, however, enough at least to find her water hose, with which she drenched my lower extremities and washed away the few fire ants that I had not already slapped into insect hell.
The final tally indicated 37 ant stings, which a day later had turned into garish pustules with an IQ (itch quotient) of about 2 million. It took several bottles of calamine lotion to ease the pain. To say nothing of the emotional scars I bear to this day from the embarrassment of prancing around in an urban neighborhood more naked than not.
I've had other encounters, but none so dramatic as that first attack. I often enrage a mound of fire ants while working in my yard and I'll occasionally suffer a sting or two. But I'm a bit more careful about how I crawl around on areas where these tiny devils are likely to reside. I hate fire ants.
So, it was with extreme interest and more than a bit of malicious glee that I learned of a new attempt to rid the country of this pestilence. Scientists have discovered a tiny fly that depends on the fire ant for survival. The adult female stings a fire ant just behind his nasty little head, and deposits an egg. When the egg hatches, the larvae set about to decapitate the ant. I can't think of a more appropriate punishment.
Currently, Texas A&M researchers are evaluating a test site at which these flies were released to wreak havoc on the resident fire ant population. With any luck, the flies will eradicate every last one.
I suppose well meaning but ignorant environmental purists will attempt to foil the plot, assuming, wrongly, that a fire ant has a right to inhabit as much of the Southwest as it can stake a claim to.
I would like to help educate them. I think a handful of angry fire ants slipped into the back of their BVDs ought to convince them to allow science to prevail.


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Restaurant: Sisters of the New South
Operators: Kenneth and Vicky Brown
Cuisine type: Southern
Restaurant bio: Kenneth and Vicky Brown wanted to create a place where everyone could learn to love and appreciate the authentic Southern foods they grew up eating.
"It's like eating at grandma's house," Vicky Brown said.
Anyone who had the kind of grandmother that grew and shelled her own black-eyed peas, drank super sweet tea out of a Mason jar and worked wonders with a cast iron skillet would agree.
Sisters of the New South serves up simple, downhome fare - from ox tails and collard greens to turkey wings, hamburger steak and bread pudding. Loyal local clientele come to the eastside for whiting, smothered shrimp, grits and eggs for breakfast or for a main dish and three sides at lunch and dinner.
Operator bio: The Browns began dating when they were students at Johnson High School. When Kenneth Brown went off to college, he needed a cellphone to stay in touch with his sweetheart so he got a job at a fast food restaurant. By age 19 he said he was the general manager, earning more money than his mother, a 20-year teacher. He decided to pursue a career in restaurants and worked in management and operations at several restaurant chains. In 2009 his wife Vicky Brown encouraged him to open a restaurant of his own and they took over the New South Café on Savannah's eastside. The entire family pitched in to help. Kenneth's father, a former restaurant owner shared secret recipes and his mother helped with the desserts. Vicky Brown's 89 year old mother helped them perfect their candied yam and macaroni and cheese dishes. When Vicki's sisters joined the family oriented staff they decided to rename the restaurant Sister's of the New South.
Favorite dish: Ox tails
Why: "It's nothing but beef stew on a bone," Kenneth Brown said. Sisters of the New South sells more ox tails than their very popular fried chicken - about 1,000 pounds a week.
5 pounds of ox tails
1/2 green pepper (chopped)
1/2 red pepper (chopped)
1/2 onion (chopped)
8.5 -ounce pack of Sisters Oxtail Seasoning (available at Sisters of the New South)
1 gallons of water
Place peppers and onions in the bottom of a large baking pan and top with the oxtails and the seasoning pack. Then add water. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 3 hours or until the ox tail meat and vegetables are tender. Transfer the broth to a pot. Over medium heat, thicken with 1/2 cup of a mixture of seasoned flour and water - about the consistency of pancake mix. Pour the thickened gravy over the cooked ox tails. Serve over bed of rice. Serves 5 people.
Addresses: 2605 Skidaway Road in Savannah; 103 Canal St. in Pooler
Phone: 912-335-2761 (Savannah), 912-748-6700 (Pooler)
Hours: 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Sundays, 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, 6 a.m.-10 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays (Both locations)


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COLUMBIA - South Carolina could be changing the rules of engagement between health care facilities jockeying for patients.
That is, if the work of Palmetto State legislators and a separate certificate-of-need review panel move from words to action. Any changes to the way South Carolina regulates hospital expansions - and whether it even continues to do so - would affect the dynamics of Georgia-S.C. rivalries in Savannah and Hilton Head.
In a recent dispute, Beaufort Memorial Hospital and Savannah-based St. Joseph's/Candler Health System had both registered their objections to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control in response to Hilton Head Health System's efforts to build a Bluffton Outpatient Center.
DHEC had then denied the Hilton Head system the certificate it had sought. An appeal followed. And this month DHEC staff was directed to go back to work with Hilton Head Health System, known also as Hilton Head Hospital, to find a resolution.
It all comes down to securing the coveted certificate of need.
South Carolina's process was put in place to contain health care costs, prevent wasteful duplication of services, and protect hospitals from closing at the hands of niche providers cherry-picking the most lucrative services to provide.
On Tuesday a 23-member panel of state health experts will meet to discuss ways to make the CON process more efficient and less burdensome to systems trying to expand.
The S.C. Legislature is taking a more pointed look at the issue.
Last week a spillover crowd flooded a committee room where testimony was being given on a Senate bill, S. 999, which would abolish the CON program. It was introduced by Gaffney Republican Sen. Harvey Peeler, chairman of the Senate Medical Affairs Committee.
Advocates of the certificate of need requirement, including the S.C. Hospital Association, acknowledge the system's flaws but insist that CON protects vulnerable, under-served and rural communities from finding themselves with no facilities available to them.
They argue that health care is not a typical free market where every consumer is sought after, but rather a unique market that operates with fixed-rate government reimbursement for services to the poor. What's more, they say, hospitals are required by law to see every patient regardless of individuals' ability to pay.
But critics of CON say that allowing state regulators to issue or deny expansion permits to hospitals is a government intrusion on the market. They say that the free market should be allowed to create the most efficient, competitive service offerings for the public, free from state politics.
A report issued by state Hospital Association in January found that South Carolina's CON program, which began in 1971, operates alongside CON systems in Georgia, Florida and the entire Southeast.
This week's CON meeting will start at 10 a.m. Tuesday and be held on the 18th floor of the McNair Law Firm Building in Columbia. A 30-minute public comment period will begin at 11:30 a.m.


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African Biography and Historiography
Heather Hughes
Biography in the African context can take many forms, from brief entries in a biographical dictionary or obituary in a newspaper to multivolume studies of single individuals. It can encompass one or many subjects and serves both to celebrate the famous and illuminate obscure lives. Biographies can be instructional as well as inspirational. Sometimes, it is hard to draw a line between biography and autobiography because of the way a work has been compiled. An attempt is made to understand this vast range of forms, with reference to social and political biography. The main focus is on work produced since the 1970s, with examples drawn from all regions of sub-Saharan Africa (although Southern Africa is better represented than others, as is English-medium material). Matters that preoccupy biographers everywhere, such as the relationship between writer and subject and the larger relationship between biography and history, are raised. Biography can be an excellent entry point into the complexities of African history.
Anthropological and Ethnographic Methods and Sources
Constance Smith
For scholars of African history, anthropology offers a number of valuable and invigorating methodological avenues, from engaging directly in ethnographic fieldwork to analyzing anthropological data compiled by others. Given the asymmetries of written documents and the biases of archival material for Africa, anthropological methods and sources offer a different type of access to those who, for various reasons, tend not to appear in other forms of documentary record. The materials of past ethnographic research—texts and material objects, produced and collected by anthropologists and their assistants as well as by missionaries, government officials, travelers, and others—constitute one of the largest categories of written source material. However, the contexts in which such research was conducted can present certain challenges when using these materials as sources. For example, the complex entanglements between colonial governance and the making of anthropological knowledge make it imperative for historians to be aware of the discipline's intellectual history and how its ways of seeing and ordering have shaped portrayals of Africa's diverse cultures.
Methodologically, historians are also experimenting with field methods that draw heavily on ethnographic techniques. The emergence of historical ethnography has developed a rich, syncretic approach, in which communities' own relationships with, and understandings of, the past are brought to the fore. Although ethnography is known for its immersive and long-term fieldwork, elements of the technique can also be incorporated into other historical methods. This is in part a matter of approach, rather than of different source material. For example, engaging ethnographically with archives can offer different insights into issues of governance and the production of knowledge.
Education in Colonial Sudan, 1900–1957
Iris Seri-Hersch
In the first half of the 20th century, Sudan, which included the territories of present-day Sudan and South Sudan, was ruled by a dual colonial government known as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1899–1956). Britain was the senior partner in this administration, Egypt being itself politically and militarily subordinated to Britain between 1882 and 1956. During most of the colonial period, Sudan was ruled as two Sudans, as the British sought to separate the predominantly Islamic and Arabic-speaking North from the multireligious and multilingual South. Educational policy was no exception to this: until 1947, the British developed a government school system in the North while leaving educational matters in the hands of Christian missionaries in the South. In the North, the numerically dominant government school network coexisted with Egyptian schools, missionary schools, community schools, and Sudanese private schools. In the South, schools were established by the Anglican Church Missionary Society, the Roman Catholic Verona Fathers, and the American Presbyterian Mission. Whereas Arabic and English were the mediums of instruction in Northern schools, the linguistic situation was more complicated in the South, where local vernaculars, English and Romanized Arabic were used in missionary schools.
The last colonial decade (1947–1957) witnessed a triple process of educational expansion, unification, and nationalization. Mounting Anglo-Egyptian rivalries over the control of Sudan and the polarization of Sudanese nationalists into "pro-British" independentists and "pro-Egyptian" unionists led the British authorities in Khartoum to boost government education while giving up the policy of separate rule between North and South. In practice, educational unification of the two Sudanese regions meant the alignment of Southern curricula on Northern programs and the introduction of Arabic into Southern schools, first as a subject matter, then as a medium of instruction. Missionary and other private schools were nationalized one year after Sudan gained independence from Britain and Egypt (1956).
The Ethiopian Red Terror
Jacob Wiebel
The Red Terror was a period of intense political and inter-communal violence in revolutionary Ethiopia during the late 1970s. This violence erupted two years after the revolution of 1974 and was concentrated in the cities and towns of Ethiopia, particularly in Addis Ababa, Gondar, Asmara, and Dessie. In the struggle over the direction and ownership of the revolution, opposition groups of the radical left violently opposed a military regime that itself came to embrace and promulgate Marxist-Leninist language and policies, and that relied heavily on the use of armed force to stifle dissent. While much of the violence was carried out by security personnel, the delegation of the state's means and instruments of violence to newly formed militias and to armed citizens was a defining feature of the Red Terror. The number of casualties and victims of the Red Terror remains heavily contested and is subject to divergent counting criteria and to definitions of the Terror's scope in relation to other concurrent conflicts in the region, such as the Eritrean and Tigrayan civil wars; plausible figures suggest more than 50,000 deaths, in addition to many more who were subjected to torture, exile, personal losses, and other forms of violence. To this day, the Red Terror constitutes a period that is remembered in Ethiopia as much for the forms of its violence as for the extent of its harm. Its ramifications, from the support it triggered for the ethno-nationalist insurgencies that overthrew the military regime in 1991, to its role in the emergence of a sizeable Ethiopian diaspora, make the Red Terror an episode of defining and lasting significance in the modern history of Ethiopia.
Ethnicity in Africa
Gabrielle Lynch
Among today's scholars there is a near consensus that precolonial African identities were relatively fluid, permeable, overlapping, and complex; that ethnic identities are socially constructed; and that a colonial order of delineated control encouraged Africans to rethink group identities and heightened a sense of socioeconomic and political competition along ethnic lines. There is also growing consensus that ethnic identities are nevertheless the subject of ongoing (re)negotiation and that, to find resonance, the politicization of ethnicity, while instrumental in motivation and opportunistic in character, must be rooted in linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic similarities and communal experiences of marginalization, neglect, injustice, and achievement. Many scholars also emphasize how the realities of ethnically delineated political support reflect pragmatism and expectations of patronage in the context of difficult and unequal socioeconomic contexts, as well as the significance of remembered pasts and associated narratives of justice and strategies of acquisition. Such realities and discursive repertoires provide a list of grievances that elites can use to foster a sense of difference and mobilize local support bases, but that also provide nonelites with a means to question and counter intra- and intercommunal differences and thus social and spatial inequalities. Ethnic support then strengthened by a reinforcing cycle of ethnic bias and expectations of greater levels of assistance from co-ethnics. According to such arguments, ethnic identification and political support are rational, but not for the simple reasons that classic primordial, instrumental or neo-patrimonial accounts suggest.
The History of Islam in East Africa
Felicitas Becker
The history of Islam in East Africa stretches back to around 1000 CE. Until the mid-20th century, it remained largely confined to the coast and closely bound up with the history of the Swahili towns situated on it. The Swahili language remains central to many East African Muslims, hence the occasionally heard phrase, "Swahili Islam." East African Muslims are mostly Shafiites and some belong to Sufi orders, especially Qadiriyya and Shadhiliyya. Since c. 1850, Islam, with many variations in ritual, has become the religion of speakers of a multitude of languages across the region, second only to Christianity. The region's independent nation-states initially promised equality for all religions within a secular order. Since c. 1990, though, the minority status of East African Muslims has fed into a multitude of grievances related to the region's economic and political impasses. This situation has led to growing movements of Islamic preaching and activism, supported by increased contacts with congregations elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. At times, they have influenced electoral politics, especially in Zanzibar, where Islamic activism resonates with fear of marginalization by the mainland. In Kenya, Somali-influenced Islamist terrorists committed a series of atrocities in the 2010s. East African governments, in turn, have been proactive in tracking and disrupting such networks, and in Kenya, the government engaged in targeted assassination. Nevertheless, peaceful coexistence between Muslims and adherents of other religions remains the norm in East Africa, and its dynamics are often poorly understood.
Islamic Historical Sources: Manuscripts and Online
Amidu Olalekan Sanni
Of central interest here are the historical sources on Islam and Africa, the role and contributions of manuscripts to the narrative, and how the new cyber world has become a domain for those sources as instruments for the generation and utilization of knowledge. Africa came in contact with Islam right from the birth of the faith in the 7th century. Although Judeo-Christian, Late-Antique, and pre-Islamic materials provided the earliest historical sources on Islam and its people, the Qur'an, hadith (statements of the Prophet Muhammad), and the sira/maghāzī (biography/expeditions) were the first original sources on Islamic history on which later writings, including those from Africa, drew.
The manuscript tradition in Islam is as old as the faith itself; it was one of the earliest material sources on Islamic sciences, and in the case of Africa, it provided a treasure trove of materials. At the beginning of the 21st century, the approach to scholarship and utilization of manuscripts changed radically, as digitization, creation of online databases, interconnected portals and links to universal portals, catalogs of manuscripts and published materials, among other innovations, redefined the ways knowledge of Islamic history is generated, accessed, and utilized.
Newspapers as Sources for African History
Emma Hunter
Newspapers have become increasingly important as a source for African history, and the range of historical questions newspapers have been employed to address has expanded dramatically. Newspapers are not only sources for political history, they also have much to teach us about the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Africa. They were spaces of literary and textual experimentation. They also played an important role in the creation of new identities. It is essential, however, that we approach newspapers critically as sources and think carefully about their limitations, as well as the opportunities they present to the historian.
Philosophical Perspectives on the History of African Socialism
Ajume H. Wingo
The heyday of African socialism as the animating force behind African political developments has passed. Yet, like other political doctrines of great revolutionary movements, its name and principles continue to be invoked by political and social leaders today. As recently as 2005, the Rev. Johnson J. Chinyong'ole of the University of KwaZulu-Natal argued that the principles of African socialism should guide the Anglican Church's efforts in reducing poverty in Tanzania.
As part of the zeitgeist of early postcolonial Africa, the traditions and principles of African socialism have had a profound impact on how Africans have seen and shaped their world. An understanding of the central tenets of African socialism helps to explain the unique ways in which Africans have responded to and appropriated features of Marxism, socialism, and capitalism, as well as to illuminate distinctly African traditions of communalism, philosopher-kings, aestheticism, and perfectionism in politics.
Postcolonial States and Societies in West Africa
Ebenezer Obadare
Postcolonial West African history can be understood in terms of transitions across three successive eras: a post-independence era of high nationalism; the military era, characterized by profound political and socio-economic instability; and, finally, since the early 1990s, a democratization era, marked by continued swings between fevered hopes and anguished realities. These temporalities arguably converge on a singular leitmotif, namely, the attempt by state power to preserve its privileges and the struggle by social forces to resist the state and draw effective boundaries between the private and public domains. Gloomy for most of the "lost decade" of the 1980s, the prospect for such a project appears brighter today, especially in the aftermath of pivotal shifts in the global and regional political landscapes.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Second-half substitute Teal Bunbury scored a dramatic equalizer in the 89th minute to lift Sporting Kansas City to a 1-1 draw with the visiting New England Revolution on Saturday night at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park.
Rajko Lekic scored his fourth goal of the season in the 38th minute to put the Revolution ahead, but the Revs were reduced to 10 men in the 82nd minute when rookie defender A.J. Soares was ejected and Sporting KC took advantage by grabbing the game-tying goal just as the match was poised to enter stoppage time.
The Revs (4-9-9, 21 pts.) extended their modest unbeaten run to three games – all on the road – while Sporting KC (6-6-9, 27 pts.) stretched its club record undefeated streak to 13 games.
There was just one change to the Revolution lineup which earned a 2-2 draw with the Colorado Rapids last weekend at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. Darrius Barnes shifted from his natural center back position to cover for the suspended Chris Tierney at left back, while Franco Coria filled the vacant spot in the middle.
Shalrie Joseph linked up with Lekic for a clever give-and-go which sent Joseph into space in the ninth minute, but the Revolution captain's low effort was drilled wide of the right post. Two minutes later Sporting KC threatened at the other end when C.J. Sapong tested Revolution goalkeeper Matt Reis with a long-range drive.
The Revs were forced into an early change when Stephen McCarthy went down with left shoulder injury and was replaced by Kenny Mansally in the 34th minute. Mansally moved into a position wide left, pushing Benny Feilhaber into a more central role.
Four minutes later Lekic put the Revolution ahead with a lethal strike from the top of the box. Reis delivered a long clearance which sailed over a group of players in midfield and bounced through the Sporting KC backline to Lekic, who ran onto the loose ball. The Danish striker held off a defender before lashing a shot inside the right post from 18 yards out.
Sporting had a glorious chance to level the score shortly after the halftime break when Reis misjudged Kei Kamara's right-wing cross in the 49th minute. Former Revolution defender Seth Sinovic corralled the ball at the far post with Reis out of position, but the left back couldn't direct his effort on target from a tight angle.
Sapong was more accurate with his shot from inside the box in the 66th minute, but Reis was up to the task with a fantastic reactionary kick save. Second-half substitute Omar Bravo went close in the 73rd minute, sending a glancing header just wide of the left post.
New England's task of defending its lead took a hit in the 82nd minute when Soares was issued a straight red card after apparently fouling Sapong as he broke in alone on goal. The ejection reduced the Revs to 10 men for the second straight game.
The home side ultimately cashed in on its man advantage in the 89th minute. Bunbury combined well with Bravo on a one-two into the left side of the box and after a few deflections, Bunbury pounced on the loose ball and slotted inside the far post to hand Sporting KC a share of the points.
After playing three consecutive road games to close the month of July, the Revs will now open the month of August by playing three of their next four games at Gillette Stadium. The stretch begins on Saturday, Aug. 6, when the Revolution will host Chivas USA at 7:30 p.m.
New England Revolution at Sporting Kansas City
July 30, 2011 – LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
New England Revolution 1, Sporting Kansas City 1
Scoring Summary:
NE – Rajko Lekic (Matt Reis) 38
SKC – Teal Bunbury (unassisted) 89
New England Revolution: Matt Reis, Darrius Barnes, A.J. Soares, Franco Coria, Kevin Alston (Ryan Guy 78), Stephen McCarthy (Kenny Mansally 34), Shalrie Joseph ©, Pat Phelan, Benny Feilhaber, Rajko Lekic, Zack Schilawski (Sainey Nyassi 72)
Substitutes Not Used: Bobby Shuttleworth, Diego Fagundez, Zak Boggs, Ryan Cochrane
STATS*: Shots: 8; Shots on Goal: 4; Saves: 3; Corner Kicks: 4; Offside: 1; Fouls Committed: 11
Sporting Kansas City: Jimmy Nielsen, Seth Sinovic (Birahim Diop 88), Matt Besler, Daneil Cyrus (Teal Bunbury 80), Chance Myers, Graham Zusi, Roger Espinoza, Jeferson, Julio Cesar (Omar Bravo 56), Kei Kamara, C.J. Sapong
Substitutes Not Used: Eric Kronberg, Michael Harrington, Soony Saad, Milos Stojcev
STATS*: Shots: 21; Shots on Goal: 4; Saves: 3; Corner Kicks: 6; Offside: 0; Fouls Committed: 11
* Note that all statistics are unofficial
Misconduct Summary:
NE – Kenny Mansally (caution) 50
SKC – Daneil Cyrus (caution) 67
NE – Franco Coria (caution) 75
NE – A.J. Soares (ejection) 82
Team Records:
New England Revolution – 4-9-9, 21 pts.
Sporting Kansas City – 6-6-9, 27 pts
Referee: Terry Vaughn
Assistant Referees: Fabio Tovar, Ian Anderson
Fourth Official: Juan Guzman Weather: Sunny and 90 degrees
Attendance: 17,418
- With the draw, the Revs moved to 13-20-9 all-time against Kansas City, including a 6-10-4 mark on the road
- The draw now gives the team a modest three-game undefeated streak against Sporting
- With the draw, the Revs won the season series against Kansas City for the first time since 2007, when they went 2-1-0 in the three-game series
- The match was the Revs' first-ever at the newly-opened LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, which came online in June
- With an official temperature of 90 degrees at kickoff, tonight marked the third straight game in which the temperature was 90 degrees or more at kickoff … the three-straight games of 90+ degree kickoff temperatures is a club record
- Stephen McCarthy left the game in the 34th minute with a left shoulder injury … he has had several injuries to the shoulder this season
- Rajko Lekic scored his fourth goal of the season with his first-half strike … it was his first since July 4 at Real Salt Lake when he successfully converted a penalty kick
- Rajko Lekic's goal was his second of the year against Sporting Kansas City … he scored the game-winning goal against Kansas City in a 3-2 win on April 23 at Gillette Stadium
- Matt Reis' assist on Rajko Lekic's goal was his first since Aug. 25, 2007 when he assisted on Taylor Twellman's goal in the 46th minute in the 2-1 win at Gillette Stadium
- Tonight's 1-0 lead at the half marked the second game in a row in which the Revs went into halftime with the lead … tonight was just the third time this season the Revs have led at the half … overall, the team is now 1-0-3 when leading at the half …
- A.J. Soares' red card was his second of the season and the team's seventh of the year … the Revs now lead MLS in ejections … the team's seven red cards in one season – through 22 games – sets a new team record, surpassing the 1998 mark of six in 32 games
- Teal Bunbury's 89th minute goal was the second opponent's game-tying goal after the 75th minute this season … on July 4, Fabian Espindola of Real Salt Lake knotted the game at 3-3 in the 83rd minute


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How Congress Saved Christmas [VIDEO]
Whew! That was close! We almost went default, but thanks to our trusty congressmen and women, we narrowly avoided financial ruin and ended the government shutdown.
But, here's the deal, not much changed. Not much at all. And I'm sure Washington is busy patting it's own back, congratulating themselves for averting a situation they put us in to begin with. Keep in mind, the issue is only solved through January, but I have no doubt Congress thinks it saved Christmas. Gee, at least we can rest easy through the Holidays. Nevermind worrying about us running into the same roadblock again. If you're a Federal employee, will you be able to pay off your Christmas credit card debt if you're not getting a check? Hmmm...
I'm no political pundit (certainly no expert) and don't pretend to be, but it seems like we've been here before. Not precisely here, but pretty darn close. I found this video, and in a lot of ways, it still applies today. This video was uploaded in 2009... Something never 'change.'
Let me go ahead and be clear before the haters attack. This is my opinion, and my opinion only and in no way does this reflect on Townsquare Media.


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Friday Style Icon: Lucille Ball As Lucy Ricardo From I Love Lucy
What can you say about Lucille Ball other than the obvious: that she fucking ruled? Well, you can say she looked pretty fresh in house dresses, polka dots, contrasting collars and kitten-heeled slingbacks. Also, she was waaaaaay ahead of the game on fashion turbans. Let's get some some retro inspiration, I Love Lucy style. Also: I'm super sorry that the theme song is now stuck in your head, like it's been stuck in mine.


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2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible: Detroit Auto Show
- 2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible debuts in Detroit.
- 6.0-liter W12 engine produces 616 horsepower and 591 lb-ft of torque.
- Goes from 0-60 mph in 4.1 seconds and 0-100 mph in just 9.7 seconds.
Bentley has once again taken an already outstanding vehicle and made it better in all the right ways. For 2013, Bentley can brag its flagship model is not only gorgeous and luxurious, but also the fastest four-seater convertible in the world.
Under the hood, Bentley reworked its powerful twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter W12 engine, making it more powerful but also more fuel-efficient . The W12 now produces 616 horsepower and 591 lb-ft of torque. What do those impressive numbers actually mean? The Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible goes from 0-60 mph in 4.1 seconds and can reach a top speed of 202 mph. 0-100 mph takes just 9.7 seconds. The new engine is also 15 percent more fuel-efficient and produces less carbon dioxide.
The W12 engine is a paired with a close-ratio 8-speed transmission. In "Sport" mode, the transmission improves throttle response and makes faster shifts -- as well as something Bentley calls "Block Shifting." Block Shifting allows the transmission to quickly downshift from eighth gear to fourth, providing more power when the driver steps on the gas -- like when passing slower traffic.
The GT Speed features full-time all-wheel drive with a rear-biased 60:40 rear-to-front power ratio. Sending more power to the rear of the car offers the best of both worlds. The rear-bias means the GT Speed is more fun to drive -- power going to the front wheels, handling is greatly improved3/4no matter the driving conditions.
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Former UCF football player Cody Minnich testified coach George O'Leary ordered athletic trainers to remove water from the indoor practice facility during Ereck Plancher's final workout.
Minnich told a jury that the athletic trainers were not near the players when they went through an obstacle course and no one helped Plancher when he was in distress.
Minnich said the coaches reaction to Plancher's distress and poor performance during the workout as, "More they were looking at him, like, what's wrong with you, why couldn't you do that? You know, not what's wrong with you? Can we help you?"
Video footage of Minnich's testimony was played for the jury on the fifth day of the Plancher wrongful death trial. Circuit Judge Robert M. Evans instructed the jury to give Minnich's testimony the same weight as any other witness appearing in person.
Evans also set strict time rules for the Plancher family and UCF Athletics Association attorneys to make sure the civil trial is completed in three weeks. Both sides began Friday with 32 hours apiece for questioning of their witnesses, cross examination of the opposing side's witnesses, objections and closing arguments. After a lunch break, Evans told the attorneys to let him know if they needed more time and he would try to secure overtime pay for the court staff to work late or on Saturdays.
Minnich was a member of the UCF football team and present for Plancher's last workout on March 18, 2008. Plancher collapsed and died following the offseason conditioning drills supervised by the UCF coach George O'Leary and his staff.
After Minnich's testimony was completed, UCFAA attorney Dan Shapiro told the jury Minnich was dismissed from the team as punishment. Evans previously ruled the jury could not hear the reason Minnich was dismissed. Minnich was removed from the team after he was charged with driving while intoxicated.
Minnich described the workout as extremely difficult. He recalled throwing up, suffering from blurred vision and feeling dizzy. Minnich said other players were throwing up and struggling to get through the workout.
When the UCF Athletics Association cross examination of Minnich resumed following a lunch break, he said players often threw up after running through Bright House Networks Stadium. "It's fairly common," he said. "It's something that might happen every day, people throwing up from fatigue."
The UCF football team had just completed a nine-day break and Minnich said most of the players were out of shape. During cross examination, Minnich agreed he couldn't speak for the conditioning of the other players.
Minnich said offensive coordinator Tim Salem told the players they would be doing mat drills, which was something Minnich said the team had never done before. Minnich said the workout included an obstacle course the team had never done before.
"The reason that, that workout happened the way it did, in my mind, in my opinion, was because the day before we had to work out -- and Cliff McCray, Ereck's roommate, and he was our starting left guard or right guard," Minnich said. "He was one of our starting guards -- 12 he could not make an 18-second run in time. He had finished too slow. We had just run one only one after the weights, and he couldn't make it. So I felt that, that day was, like, a punishment by Coach O'Leary to prove, like, to put us back in shape."
During cross examination, Minnich agreed no one on the coaching staff told him the workout was punishment. When he was asked whether he was just making an assumption about the workout, Minnich responded, "Well, the way I'd have to answer it is every time you've ever been punished in your life, have you always been told you're being punished, or can you sense if you're being punished or not? And I took it as I was being punished because I sensed I was being punished."
Minnich described the team lifting weights, then moving into the fieldhouse to do agility drills. He said the fans were not on and the doors to the indoor practice facility were closed.
"We used to describe it as a human microwave because it pretty much felt like it was cooking you," Minnich said. "It would be hotter in there than it was outside."
Minnich said it was not unusual for O'Leary to order water to be removed from the fieldhouse during a workout. He said he saw the athletic trainers exit the fieldhouse with the water and he wasn't sure when they returned.
During cross examination, Minnich agreed he didn't know what Plancher was thinking during the workout. Minnich had testified that Plancher had no choice but to finish, but he agreed with a UCFAA attorney when asked he could have called an athletic trainer for help.
Minnich stressed he thought all players faced negative repercussions if they did not follow the coaches' rules, including the coaches potentially deciding not renew a player's scholarship.
Minnich described seeing Plancher show signs of distress during conditioning drills inside the fieldhouse. He said the first time he saw athletic trainers move forward to treat Plancher was when he was being carried out of the facility by his teammates.
Gisele Plancher, Ereck Plancher's mother, cried during Minnich's description of the workout and left the courtroom.
When Minnich was asked why he didn't call for an athletic trainer to help Plancher when he noticed his teammate was in distress, Minnich responded he was more focused on his own difficulty getting through the workout.
Minnich testified because he was exercising with the offensive linemen, he didn't see Plancher -- a wide receiver -- during the obstacle course. While he was being cross examined, Minnich agreed with UCFAA attorney Sally Slaybaugh when she said he couldn't say how difficult the workout was for Plancher because he wasn't watching him during the obstacle course portion of the workout.
During a break, UCFAA attorneys requested a mistrial because the jury should not have heard the football team has never done the March 18, 2008, obstacle course since Plancher's death. UCFAA attorney Dan Shapiro said it was a remedial measure that the jury was not allowed to hear.
Evans rejected the motion, but he did say he would instruct the jury about the issue.
The attorneys also once again debated whether O'Leary's curse words directed at Plancher and the players should be heard by the jury. Evans reiterated his previous decision the Plancher attorneys could describe the coach as cursing and yelling, but the jury could not hear the specific curse word.
The Plancher family attorney video technician edited the footage. The judge said he would allow it to be partially bleeped. After half of the curse word was heard by the jury, the UCFAA attorneys objected. The footage of Minnich was paused and the attorneys spoke with the judge away from the jury about the incident. They eventually resumed playing the video without any instructions to the jury, but the judge reviewed all subsequent segments amended to remove curse words before they were played in front of the jury.
After Minnich's testimony was completed, the Plancher family attorneys called Douglas Casa as their next witness. Casa is a certified athletic trainer and director of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut. He has extensive experience studying the causes of sudden death in athletes and was called to tell the jury about sickle cell trait, a condition the medical examiner stated caused Plancher's death. The UCFAA attorneys have suggested a heart condition caused Plancher's death.
Casa, who hired by the Plancher family attorneys to testify in the case, told the jury practicing athletic trainers work to prevent, recognize and threat athletes' injuries.
Casa described key features of the onset of exertional sickling. He said athletes will notice sosmething very different than they would normally feel during an activity.
"They can't support their body weight," he said.
He added that athletes suffering from complications related to sickle cell trait may suffer from full body cramping and muscle pain.
"Without question, the biggest thing is extreme fatigue," he said. " Those mucles can't fucntion the way they did previously."
Casa said he reviewed 13 player depositions, four coaches' depositions, four strength coaches' depositions, four physicians' depositions, the medical examiner's report and an assortment of other materials related to the case before offering his opinion.
Casa said it was his opinion Ereck Plancher did not know he had sickle cell trait. He also said head athletic trainer Mary Vander Heiden, O'Leary and strength coach Ed Ellis were the only people in the football program who were aware Plancher had sickle cell trait and Vander Heiden was the only one who was aware of the potential impact sickle cell trait could have on Plancher.
"I never got the impression that any of the football coaches were aware of the risks associated with being sickle cell trait positive," Casa said.
He said it was his opinion based on the testimony he reviewed, athletic trainer Robert Jackson did not respond quickly enough when Plancher showed signs of distress. He cited at least seven players who said in their depositions that they saw Plancher in distress.
"I believe it was below the standard of care," he said.
Casa noted that Jackson stated during his deposition he did not know Plancher had sickle cell trait. Casa said it was his opinion all athletic trainers and coaches should have been informed Plancher had the trait and counseled about its potential implications.
The Plancher family attorneys completed their direct questioning. The judge released the jury at about 4:20 p.m. Casa is scheduled to be cross examined Monday at 8:30 a.m.
Before the judge brought in the jury Friday morning, UCFAA renewed its objections to the way Evans cut off attorney Shapiro while he was cross examining a witness Thursday at 5 p.m. Evans said he had warned Shapiro repeatedly that he was ending court session at 5 p.m. Shapiro protested when he was cut off, saying he had a lot more questions to ask Dr. Barry J. Maron.
Evans asked whether Maron would be available to testify Friday and he said he was not available. Evans said he would not extend the court proceedings beyond 5 p.m. because he promised the jury they would be released at 5 p.m. and there is no money in the budget to pay overtime for the court staff.
"I don't think you used your time wisely," Evans said. " I'm not going to take a trial that's scheduled for three weeks and turn it into three months."
After the jury left Thursday afternoon, Shapiro protested the judge's statement to the jury. Plancher family attorneys offered to pay for Maron to take a later flight so he could be available in the morning, but Shapiro said he only had 10-15 more minutes of questions remaining and he felt bringing the witness back in for the questions would make him look bad in front of the jury.
UCFAA attorneys requested a mistrial Friday morning and asked the judge to recuse himself. Evans told the attorneys he denied the mistrial and he needed the motion for recusal in writing before he could rule on it. UCFAA attorneys eventually withdrew the motion.
Evans did allow them to compose a special instruction he read to the jury informing the group it should not view Shapiro and his questioning of Maron negatively because the judge cut him off Thursday afternoon.
Evans noted that he warned Shapiro throughout the final hour Thursday the court would not continue past 5 p.m.
Shapiro also renewed his objection the Minnich video testimony because it did not include all circumstances surrounding Minnich's departure from the team. Minnich, a former walk on who earned a scholarship, was dismissed from the team after he was arrested for driving while intoxicated. At the advice of his personal attorney, Minnich did not answer questions whether he failed three drug tests at UCF.
Evans reiterated his previous ruling the attorneys could tell the jury Minnich was dismissed involuntarily, but could not delve into why he was removed from the team.
The judge brought in the jury and addressed a question from the group. The jurors asked whether the judge's instruction not read about the case on the news and avoid posting messages about it online precluded them from visiting Facebook. The judge instructed the jurors they should not use any electronic media, including Facebook, to communicate for the remainder of the trial.
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Jubilation on streets over Rohani victory
Iran's president-elect pays tribute to victory of 'wisdom and moderation' over 'extremism'
A supporter of moderate cleric Hassan Rohani celebrates his victory in Iran's presidential election in Tehran. Photograph: Reuters/Fars News/Sina Shiri
When jubilant crowds poured on to the streets of Tehran to celebrate the surprise victory of Hassan Rohani, it was not only to express support for the moderate president-elect.
This rare moment of freedom, during which security forces stayed away, was a collective release of revenge and pent-up anger at the Islamic regime that had as much to do with Iran's previous presidential election as it did with Friday's poll.
Tehran's main streets and squares echoed with the names of opposition leaders, Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who ran for president in 2009 but were put under house arrest after their charges of rigging led to huge street protests and more than 100 deaths.
"Moussavi, we got back your votes!" people shouted.
One tearful demonstrator, Fereshteh, a 28-year-old computer engineer, said: "I am very happy but cannot help thinking of all the people who were killed [in the 2009 unrest] and that we should have had this celebration four years ago. Their place is so empty now."
Last-minute support
Mr Rohani, a 65-year-old cleric who won more than 18.6 million out of some 36.7 million votes, came after Iran's pro-reform leaders lent him last-minute support, providing an unexpected boost against five fundamentalists in the race.
As the jubilation on the streets ran into the early hours of yesterday morning, Iran's reformists wore purple shirts and scarves – the colour of Mr Rohani's campaign – but also green, the colour of the reformist movement of 2009.
"Purple has grown out of green," said one young man near Vali-Asr square in central Tehran.
Mr Rohani said his win was a "victory of wisdom and moderation" over "extremism and immorality" and pledged to bring "peace and stability" to the economy and "expansion of ties" with the world.
Radical policies
The election came after eight years of radical policies from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the outgoing president, who has left a legacy of economic deprivation and global isolation.
Mohammad, a 25-year-old university graduate, said at the rally:"Our political demands, like freedom, will be always there. But we urgently need jobs and lower inflation."
However Mr Rohani's task will not be easy, as he seeks to deliver on his pledge to "save" an economy crippled by international sanctions that were imposed because of Iran's nuclear defiance.
Sanctions will be eased only if Mr Rohani's hoped-for "reconciliation" with the outside world can lead to curbs in Iran's nuclear programme.
The new president is expected to form a national unity government, offering posts to reformist and conservative figures. But he will have to delicately balance the competing pressures from hardliners and reformists, while maintaining the trust of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader and Iran's final decision maker, without losing the support that propelled him to power.
Many of those who voted for Mr Rohani were casting ballots for Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the centrist former president, and for Mohammad Khatami, leader of the reformist camp, who played a crucial role in persuading Iranians not to boycott the poll.
"Long live Hashemi; Long live Khatami!" people chanted on Saturday evening, as they thanked the two leaders and held up their pictures.
The victory of a moderate and pragmatic cleric has puzzled many analysts in Tehran, who had assumed the supreme leader would work to ensure a loyalist conservative would replace Mr Ahmadinejad.
Mr Khamenei, however, had sent a signal on the eve of the poll, encouraging even those who did not believe in his regime to vote, telling them that safeguarding their ballots would be a religious duty.
Mr Rohani's election offered a rare moment of hope for a young population that has felt nothing but social pressure and economic hardship for nearly a decade. Inflation has risen to more than 32 per cent and jobs became more scarce.
On the streets of the capital, the mix of national celebration and anti-regime marches was also an outpouring of relief at the end of the government of Mr Ahmadinejad.
As young men and women played loud music from their cars, danced and whistled, they chanted: "Ahmadinejad, bye bye!"
"Eight years of humiliation of having Ahmadinejad are finally over," said Moein, a 31-year-old graduate of photography.
"Regardless of what Rohani can do, it is important that we will not feel ashamed any more when our president's image is shown in the world."
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The NWA™ National Heavyweight Championship belt has been surrendered by reigning NWA™ World Heavyweight Champion Tokyo Monster Kahagas.
Kahagas won the NWA™ World Heavyweight title on November 2, 2012 in Clayton, New Jersey at NWA™ DAWG. Kahagas, a surprise last minute entry in an elimination match to determine a new champion, pinned Damien Wayne after executing a "Tokyo Monster Driver".
Kahagas became NWA™ National Heavyweight Champion on March 29, 2012 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida when he defeated Chance Prophet at NWA™ Ring Warriors' "Battle of the Belts".
It was determined that due to his responsibility to defend the NWA™ World Heavyweight title, it would be in the best interest of the organization for Kahagas to surrender the National Heavyweight Title to the NWA™.
The NWA™ Board of Directors will meet to decide the future of the NWA™ National Heavyweight Championship.
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Look! New February Jumpstart Projects
Submissions are closed, but take a gander at all these amazing small projects completed recently and submitted this month! All info for Do it Now! our Small Project Contest is here.
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Harvesting wild sage in Medjel Akkar
In one of the highest mountains of Mejdel Akkar in North Lebanon, far away from the noisiness of the hectic city, three women harvest sage from the wild.
With other 22 women, these harvesters work in the Mejdel Akkar Cooperation supported by the United Nations Development Programme in Lebanon.
"We are now well paid, and can help our families and improve our living conditions" said Fadwa Diab who added that she's financially independent and feels that she's an active member in the society.
Wild harvesting of sage is an important source of livelihood for many families across Lebanon, mainly in the village of Mejdel Akkar. Sage needs special attention because approximately thousand tons of dry sage is collected across Lebanon.
Based on this, the UNDP Project "Mainstreaming Biodiversity Management into Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) Production Processes in Lebanon" , implemented by the Lebanese Agriculture Research Institute (LARI) has been working since 2009 in Mejdel Akkar on developing and implementing sustainable harvesting standards for sage.
Hadi Baroud, UNDP Field Coordinator, explained that before the implementation of the UNDP project, people used to harvest sage in improper and arbitrary ways at inconvenient times of the year. Harvesters are now adopting sustainable harvesting techniques from June till October.
The project aims to develop the value chain of MAP production by improving post-harvest and primary processing to produce high quality sage leading to higher income. In this context, the project has established a prefabricated unit to serve as a processing facility and a drying unit for sage.
The project has also conducted capacity building for the Cooperative on proper administrative, financial and management practices, good manufacturing practices, good hygiene practices as well as sustainable wild harvesting and will conduct training on marketing and proper processing standards for MAPs.
By creating an impact on the MAP sector in Lebanon, the UNDP project encourages the sustainable utilization of national natural resources through new and revised regulation for the collection and trade of MAPs, and conserves the natural resources by developing sustainable harvesting standards and guidelines for specific Lebanese MAP species.
The project also improves income generation and sustainable livelihood for harvesters through value added processing and marketing.
According to Ahmad Diab, Mayor of Mejdel Akkar, women in the region benefited a lot from working in sage cultivation. "When the cooperative received the new equipment, it was able to sell 1kg of sage at 3$, while the women used to sell it at 1 $".
The director of the cooperative, Ahmad Ahmad agrees with Diab and explains that the UNDP project boosted the economic cycle in the village.
Furthermore, the project has linked the collectors to a private national company, Khan Al Saboun, which is developing a new line of body and hair care products based on sustainably harvested and organic wild sage.
Other than Mejdel Akkar, the UNDP project has identified three pilot sites to develop and implement project activities in Assia Batroun, Hsarat Jbeil and Mrusti Chouf.
In each pilot site, the project works with local collectors either through an established cooperative or an informal collector group. The project supports interested informal groups to become organized cooperatives and conducts capacity building trainings, best practices in MAP post-harvest operations, sustainable wild harvesting, marketing and proper processing standards for MAPs.


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The Big Draw, the international drawing festival involving 20 countries around the globe, starts with a Big Splash . People will be drawing in the parks, art galleries, subway stations, museums, roads, and schools of London, the city where the festival began.
Professionals, students, and simple passers-by can participate in a series of exhibits, workshops, drawing sessions, and live performances. Projects also include a Futurist Octopus Garden which will be recreated in the Warr Pavilion with yellow submarine.
The great British illustrator Quentin Blake will open the festival by turning the Kings Cross area into a fabulous outdoor art studio, with white posters waiting to be filled and sketchbooks for drawing. He will be joined by other illustrators and cartoonists such as Hervè Tullet, Marion Deuchars, Sarah Bridgland, Karrie Fransman, Joe Berger and Bryan Talbot, old and young, and professional and amateur artists, all involved in the "big draw".
Moleskine contributes with two special editions: a sketchbook and a volant notebook with silk-screened covers and customized band. Available all around town, they will be filled, page after page, with drawings, portraits, stories, and characters.
The Big Draw is open to the public from October 1 to 31, 2011. To see the complete program, click here.
The Big Draw
Opening - September 25
Events - October 1 - 31