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Well, move over ladies – there is a new class of style trailblazers that are landing on the top of today's "Best Dressed" lists. But you won't find them on the red carpet or on the runways. Instead Hollywood's latest fashion A-listers are at the playgrounds and on playdates. Little tots like Suri Cruise and Kingston Rossdale are being hailed as the next best thing of their generation in terms of style. Celebrity kids are sporting rocker chic Mohawks, bohemian-cool shags and posh bobs causing stylists to acclaim them as today's hairstyle icons.
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Le Baby hair gel is a styling gel free of harsh chemicals meant to define wispy curls and tackle unruly after-nap hair. While the concept of baby hairstyling products might seem a little child-beauty-pageant to some, for many moms and dads it's a must-have diaper bag accessory. From taming those wild fly-aways to smoothing frizzies, Le Baby hair gel works on all hair types and is hypoallergenic for sensitive skin. Whatever your child's hair type,
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New to the skin care market, PHYTO-C Skin Care introduces a powerful line of products containing one of the most clinically effective antioxidants – Liquid Vitamin C, or L-Ascorbic Acid.
Skincare can't be mentioned without the name Dr. Mostafa Omar, creator of PHYTO-C and pioneer of stabilized liquid Vitamin C (L-Ascorbic Acid). According to Dr. Omar, "Liquid Vitamin C is one of the most efficient antioxidants. Clinical studies have proved that it is the only material which can penetrate the skin, then capture and neutralize free radicals. It can protect our skin against environmental damage such as UV rays and pollution, and can stimulate the creation of collagen, which enhances skin tissue for firmer, fairer and brighter skin."
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Antioxidants work by neutralizing oxygen free radicals, which damage and destroy the skin. L-Ascorbic Acid can effectively neutralize free radicals caused by UV rays or other external factors. Its anti-inflammatory properties allow it to help repair skin cells and tissue damaged by free radicals.
When the skin is exposed to ultraviolet light, measurements show that two-thirds of L-Ascorbic Acid in the skin is destroyed. Scientists believe that L-Ascorbic Acid's role as an antioxidant is essential in protecting the skin from oxidative damage produced by ultraviolet light exposure. It is believed that free radicals can damage collagen, elastic, proteoglycan and cell membranes.
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How A Bankruptcy Attorney Can Assist Your Legal Case
When you as an individual or a company becomes buried in debt, bankruptcy may be one of the only options left to you. Declaring bankruptcy is a last resort that allows both individuals and companies to be able to loose themselves from being attached to a massive amount of debt and try to start over. Instead of having the debt run your life, declaring bankruptcy can help you get back on your feet. You are not legally required to obtain a chapter 7 bankruptcy lawyer in Las Vegas if you are filing for either Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy. But filing for bankruptcy and the intricacies of bankruptcy law can be complex. It may be best for you to get help from a bankruptcy counselor.
Bankruptcy in Las Vegas can save you, get the facts!
The U.S. Senate passed a bill in 2005 that makes it easier for a number of creditors to get back some money owed to them by people or companies that are filing for bankruptcy. It may benefit you in the end to hire a bankruptcy lawyer in Las Vegas like Rodney Okano – www.lasvegascaraccidentinjurylaw.com. A bankruptcy attorney can save you endless hours of worrying and frustration and take the weight off your shoulders of having to deal with it yourself in addition to helping you navigate filing for bankruptcy. They attorneys have experience in bankruptcy law and can help you decide which chapter of bankruptcy may be right for you as well as help you through every step of the process of filing for bankruptcy.
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Choosing a bankruptcy lawyer in Las Vegas is not too difficult, but it is an essential step of the process. Review the credentials of an attorney and meet with them and assess them thoroughly before deciding to hire them. Get a bankruptcy attorney /lawyer in Las Vegas who is experienced and will try to make your choices and actions as easy as possible. An attorney who is experienced and knowledgeable in all aspects of bankruptcy law and non-dischargeable debts will not only be a huge asset, but they can be the difference between a successful filing and lawsuit and a disaster. They can help you make the right decisions and navigate with you through your case, helping you with the decisions you need to make to have everything go smoothly.

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LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Monday a post mortem examination found the cause of death of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky was consistent with hanging and there were no signs of a violent struggle.
Police said further test will now be carried out, including toxicology and histology examinations, the results of which are likely to take several week. (http://r.reuters.com/jeq86t)
The 67-year-old Berezovsky's body was found in the locked bathroom of his sprawling property west of London on Saturday. One of the most powerful among Russia's so-called oligarchs, Berezovsky was once known as the "godfather of the Kremlin" and exerted immense power in politics and business during a turbulent decade that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Facing judgment is a life skill that teachers can help their students learn, so they may deal with others' opinions—fair or not—with confidence.
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This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about the sacred places in their lives, and who typically is exposed to environmental health risks.
Two resources that explore how to get boys to be lifelong readers and where our food comes from.
The Experiences of Our Ancestors Offer Us Wisdom for Surviving Today's Crises.
With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not). In this case it's all about simplicity.
YES! recommends the Global Oneness Project for their inspiring and richly produced resources that explore how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.
What makes teenage brains unique? What happens when people from all walks of life play an alternate reality game to create a better future? Lesson plans from Inside the Teenage Brain and World Without Oil.
The Water Environment Federation offers communities and students a myriad of learning opportunities to protect and preserve the Earth's water resources.
Poetry: Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande, by Jimmy Santiago Baca, with Note to Educators.
Measure your water footprint with H2O Conserve's easy-to-use calculator, and wrap your head around the impact of the BP oil spill using this trio of classroom resources.
The Zinn Education Project helps make sense of race and the role it has played in shaping society.
Multiracial persons are the fastest growing demographic group in the country, but still gaining recognition. Now mixed race people can see themselves in books and be proud of who they are.
Who is America? This bundle of lesson plans and activities will help your students understand the basics of the every-decade census and why they should care about what's at stake.
With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not). In this case it's all about happiness.
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By Keith Coffman
DENVER (Reuters) - Senator Mark Udall's younger brother, who had been missing for more than a week, was found dead on Wednesday in a Wyoming mountain range, but no foul play was suspected, authorities said.
The body of James "Randy" Udall, 61, who had been the subject of a search since failing to return from a week-long back-country hike, was discovered in a remote mountain area, Sublette County Sheriff Dave Lankford said.
"It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Randy. Randy's body was discovered today by the heroic search and rescue team that worked for days to locate him in a remote area of the Wind River Range of Wyoming," the Udall family said in a written statement.
"Randy left this earth doing what he loved most: hiking in his most favorite mountain range in the world," the family said. "He appeared to be on the obscure, off-trail route that he had proposed to his family."
Lankford said an aerial search team spotted the body of a male lying on its side at about 2:30 p.m. in open, rolling terrain. On landing, the team identified the body as that of Udall.
An autopsy will be performed in Loveland, Colorado, Lankford said, adding foul play was not suspected.
Udall, an experienced outdoorsman who lived in Carbondale, Colorado, was reported overdue last Friday, two days after his planned exit from the back country, according to authorities.
The Udall brothers are the sons of Morris "Mo" Udall, the former U.S. congressman who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. He died in 1998. Mark Udall is the Democratic senator from Colorado.
The Wind River Range encompasses 2.25 million acres and stretches for more than 100 miles, according to the Pinedale, Wyoming Travel & Tourism Commission.
(This story is corrected to 910,000 hectares from 910,000 acres in paragraph 9)
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Being a Christian, I've made my decision. That decision offers no compromise; therefore, I'm closed to anything else.
It seems they select what they want to follow.I asked a pastor: Why don't you keep the Saturday? (Exodus 20)And he said because we're not under the law of Moses.
"I'm doing science and I'm still alive."--J.C.
Well that was a silly answer. The correct answer would have been to say that weekly holy day was moved to Sunday because that was the day of the week for the Resurrection. Thus, the emphasis shifted from focusing on the final day of the creation week to focusing on Jesus.


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The OECD, in conjunction with Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) and the Australian Government hosted two separate meetings related to Synthetic Biology in Sydney, Australia in March 2012.
Synthetic biology is a modular approach to building biological products that allows new products to be built, and tested better, faster and cheaper than existing approaches and on a larger scale. Synthetic biology goes beyond modification of genetic material, and involves the design and construction of new biological functions, structures and systems not found in nature.
There are today a number of examples of products or processes derived from synthetic biology both in the laboratory and in production. Biofene™ a renewable farnesene produced on an industrial scale by Amyris is one good example. Biofene™ may be sold directly into industrial applications or put through simple chemical finishing steps to form a broad range of renewable products including squalane, base oil and finished lubricants and diesel.
Increasingly, synthetic biology appears poised to transform a number of existing products and process and to create new renewable alternatives. It may radically impact many fields, from energy to health, and may even provide solutions to a number of climate and environmental problems.
Synthetic biology, due in part to its origins in many different fields, is challenging existing infrastructure for research, and translation of this research. Synthetic biology requires new tools and platforms for rapidly building and testing new DNA parts, chassis and systems. There is a growing need for new ways of educating and training those active in the field, and news ways of understanding, assessing and translating progress in the field. At the present time, infrastructure for synthetic biology is being developed in a piece-meal fashion by different actors on an 'immediate need' basis and this is likely to hamper progress of the field. There is a need for development of appropriate shared infrastructure and tools to support research and development in the field.
Public and private investment will also be crucial and without it the potential to derive economic value from the field may be greatly limited. Funding programs and other public investment initiatives are typically not designed to fund work spanning different fields in a concerted manner. This means development of technology platforms and knowledge sharing infrastructure for synthetic biology may not supported to the extent they need to be to enable progress in the field. Similarly, recognition and training of scientists working in the field is not always adequately supported.
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I like to talk about the "monumental architecture" at Calixtlahuaca as if the pyramids and palace were truly large and impressive structures. I realize that the temples at Calixtlahuaca are much smaller than the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, or the other big Aztec twin-temple pyramids such as Tlatelolco or Tenayuca. This fits a general expectation that the scale of civic architecture should match up with the scale of the polity. Joyce Marcus (2003) has pointed out that this assumption is not always true, but I think it holds up reasonably within a cultural tradition such as Aztec central Mexico. As the capital of a big empire, it is not surprising that Tenochtitlan has bigger temples than Calixtlahuaca, the capital of a smaller regional state.But Chris Fisher just sent me an image that makes even the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan look puny. He has merged a model of that temple into the main platform at Tzintzuntzan, the Tarascan capital (Pollard 1993; Fisher 2005):
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The oddly shaped temples on top of the great platform are called yacatas. The Templo Mayor fits right in the line of yacatas. Well, since the Tarascans beat the Aztecs soundly in the only major direct battle they fought, I guess we can say that Tzintzuntzan was the more powerful city. So then it makes sense that their main religious structure was bigger than the Templo Mayor.
The sizes of things are important, and differences in scale can teach us important lessons. These may not be simple or obvious lessons, but it is always important to keep in mind how big things are.
Fisher, Christopher T.
2005 Demographic and Landscape Change in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Mexico: Abandoning the Garden. American Anthropologist 107:87-95.
Marcus, Joyce
2003 Monumentality in Archaic States: Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Excavations of the Past. In Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives, edited by John K. Papadopoulos and Richard M. Leventhal, pp. 115-134. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Pollard, Helen Perlstein
1993 Tariacuri's Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
Smith, Michael E.
2008 Aztec City-State Capitals. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.


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The New Exhibitor Center will move to the newly built hall 3A for next year's Spielwarenmesse fair from January 29 to February 2,which marks the official opening of the new hall.
Approximately 60 national and international exhibitors who have never exhibited at Spielwarenmesse before present their products in the New Exhibitor Center every year. Here traders find new business contacts and product ideas for all toy segments in the shortest possible time.
The fair organizer Spielwarenmesse eG takes care of stand organization and planning and the relevant marketing of the first-time exhibitors in the New Exhibitor Center. Besides the complete stand equipment, the companies can take advantage of many marketing measures for highlighting their products.
More than 300 manufacturers from the total of around 2,700 exhibitors will exhibit for the first time at Spielwarenmesse 2014.


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"American Idol" app officially launches for iOS and Android devices
App to provide fans access to "Idol" content and AT&T "American Idol" voting capabilities
"American Idol" launched an all-new app Wednesday with special features to be released over the season, providing fans access to show content and deep interactive and social experiences, as well as enhanced voting capabilities on their iOS and Android devices. The app, which is currently featured by Apple as "New and Noteworthy," gives fans the ultimate "American Idol" experience by allowing them to join real-time conversations on Facebook and Twitter with AT&T 'Idol Nation," keep up with their favorite judges and contestants, watch interviews and, once the live shows begin on Tuesday, March 5, cast all of their votes in a unique new voting experience using the AT&T "American Idol" voting platform.
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"American Idol" auditions continue in San Antonio and Long Beach, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 30 (8 p.m.) and Oklahoma City on Thursday, Jan. 31 (8 p.m.).
Hosted by the inimitable Ryan Seacrest, "American Idol" season 12 features a dynamic new judging panel including Randy Jackson, a Grammy-winning producer whose expertise and beloved persona have been instrumental in discovering "American Idol" talent from the beginning; global superstar and the best-selling female recording artist of all time, Mariah Carey; quadruple-platinum singer, songwriter, rapper and fashion icon Nicki Minaj; and Keith Urban, a four-time Grammy winner who has sold more than 15 million albums. Once, again, the judges are in search of the next superstar who will join the ranks of "Idol" alumni Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Scotty McCreery and Phillip Phillips.
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Author Notes: Celery roasted with a little fennel and garlic and then pureed with chicken broth and potatoes makes for a nice starter or light lunch. A touch of half and half or cream with a spritz of lemon finishes it off. —inpatskitchen
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WHAT: A simple and elegant twist on cream of celery soup.
HOW: By roasting the celery and fennel, and boiling the potatoes in broth, inpatskitchen builds a lovely foundation of flavors. And of course, cream to finish is always a great idea.
WHY WE LOVE IT: This soup truly elevates humble, plain vegetables that are usually relegated to a garnish plate or side dish to a higher plane of existence. Given proper attention, lo and behold, they shine. —The Editors
Makes: almost 2 quarts
large celery stalks cut into 2 inch pieces
bulb fresh fennel cut into 2 inch chunks
large whole garlic cloves
tablespoons olive oil
teaspoon salt
teaspoon black pepper
medium redskin potatoes, peeled and cut into a 1 1/2 inch dice
cups chicken broth
cup light cream or half and half
teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Salt and pepper for re seasoning if needed
Celery leaves and fennel fronds for a little garnish
- Place the cut celery, fennel and cloves of garlic in a 9x13 inch roasting pan. Add the salt, pepper and olive oil and toss to thoroughly coat everything. Roast in a 350F oven for 40 to 45 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the edges of the vegetables just begin to brown.
- While the vegetables are cooking, cook the potatoes in the chicken broth until tender..about 10 to 12 minutes. Set the pan aside to cool a bit.
- When the vegetables have finished roasting add them to the potatoes and broth. Let everything cool a bit.
- In a blender puree the soup in batches. If you have a "liquify" setting on your blender use that. If you like you can strain the soup through a mesh strainer. Once pureed. return the soup to the pot and bring up to the boil. Stir in the cream/half and half and the lemon juice. Re season if needed and garnish each bowl with celery leaves and fennel fronds if you like.
- NOTE: For a little more pronounced celery flavor add a pinch or two of celery seed or salt when re seasoning.
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The seven-hundred and fifty-fourth volume of the Archives of Maryland series was originally published in 1865. The Archives of Maryland edition was published in 2008 by the Maryland State Archives. This volume covers the Proceedings and Documents of the Senate for the 1865 session.
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This is a RUSH transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," August 28, 2013. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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O'REILLY: Thanks as always, I'm Bill O'Reilly. And the Miller Time segment tonight, three hot topics on the table. So, let's get right to the sage of Southern California, joining us from Santa Barbara. So Miller, what about this Miley Cyrus person? Lots of people were offended by her performance on TV the other night. Were you?
DENNIS MILLER, TALK SHOW HOST: First off, I want to see Carville and Ablow with those little horns that she has on her head next time they're on.
O'REILLY: We'll try to work that out.
MILLER: Thanks for having me on. And I feel I'm the only person with hair on tonight's show.
O'REILLY: Thank you, Miller. I believe I have a little bit left.
MILLER: Other than the fleur-de-lis-decal on the helmet behind Carville. I might to tell which is the same helmet and which is his skull. Anyway, Miley, you know what they say, Billy, Miley-wild inch dip. But I want to send a message out to the kid, listen, I know, I'm old squared out, I'm supposed to be shocked and I'm supposed to be scandalized. Honey, I'm none of those. I, and most of America, are now officially bored. We are bored with people like you incessantly feeling the need to shock us square.
You're insipid, because you don't have an act. That foam finger you used is going to last longer on the landfill than your career. And you know something I would say, I hope you got something tucked away. If I was Robin Thicke, I'd fire my people. He's got the hottest song in America, the kid can actually sing, and all of a sudden he's in a, you know, Gulliver's travel on Spanish fly. But I will say this to Miley, I got a good look at that tongue. And the coloration was bad, baby. That's the same caliph that Picasso worked in on Guernica. You got to get a good look at it. And I had a long, long look at it because it was constantly unfurled like the fire hose that Bruce Willis used to go between floors in "Die Hard."
O'REILLY: There's a lot to digest in that, Miller.
MILLER: That's what I think, Billy.
O'REILLY: I want to recommend to Mr. Thicke's tailor that he might get glasses. What about that suit, Miller? I think you and I should, you know, have those suit on the bold or fresh tour.
MILLER: If we come without that pose, we will --
O'REILLY: No, we're not going to do that.
MILLER: .suit, I thought the Kingston trio was on stage there for a minute.
MILLER: You and I come out in Nehrus and medallions.
O'REILLY: All right. So, I like your take on Miley that we're board. We're bored with it!
MILLER: We're bored!
O'REILLY: We're board with it. OK. Now, Bradley Manning, and you will not see that name in the "New York Times." They have officially announced they're going to call him Chelsea.
MILLER: Yes.
O'REILLY: And I understand from your publicist, Miller, that you now want to be called Tiffany Miller. Is that true?
MILLER: Well, listen, I almost said something that would have got me kicked off THE FACTOR for the rest of my life.
O'REILLY: All right. Don't do that.
MILLER: Once again, I'm just bored with this kid. Listen, I'll kick in for the operation, I'll give you an extra five bucks. Can you just shut up about every detail of your life for a while? Go in. I don't care. Listen, at what point in the sexual metamorphosis did they transfer you over from the Andy to Shawshank wing into the civil dunning prison flick wing? When does that happen? All I know is this, operation or not, there's a good chance, Bradley, you're living the next 35 of your life as a woman. And you don't want to get the name whistleblower in there. That's all I'll tell you.
O'REILLY: Yes, we don't have to go near that description.
MILLER: That's a bad prison nickname.
O'REILLY: But I mean, look, this is an embarrassment across the board. And then, what gets lost in this, of course, is that the man committed espionage against the United States. That's all lost in his crazy "I want to be a woman" got thing.
MILLER: The only part of it that's not a freak show is if a guy is a woman and has to become -- listen, when somebody does that, I take that seriously. I mean, what a drastic step for a man to do that. So the only part of this that does make sense to me is if the kid -- I don't want to pay for it. But if the kid feels that he's a woman trapped in a man's body, I feel empathy for that. The whole rest of the thing is a freak show.
O'REILLY: Right.
MILLER: But I will tell you this, if he does go ahead with it, he's going to look a lot like that Linda England chick from Abu Ghraib. Because she looked the other way. They might pass in the night.
O'REILLY: I vaguely remember what the woman looks like. We're just going to move on to Al Jazeera.
MILLER: All right.
O'REILLY: Have you been watching the debut week of the Arab-backed network?
MILLER: Well, listen, the other day somebody said, Al Jazeera launched, and I quite frankly went into the bunker when I hear those words. You know, I was watching Al Jazeera, and they had an Al Jarreau concert on. And it was followed by an Al Jolson film, which surprised me because he's a Jew. Now listen, they have the equivalent of "60 Minutes" over there. And I'm telling you, if you're watching the Al Jazeera "60 Minutes" and you hear tick, tick, tick coming from your TV, you need to dive out of the room.
O'REILLY: We don't want anything to do with that, right? I don't think Al Jazeera is going to be successful. I don't think there's a big demand for it. And one of their ads, they go no talking points, a reference to your humble correspondent here. And you know, that's fine with me. No talking points.
MILLER: Yes, well, they may not have your talking points, Billy but they got even less your ratings, brother.
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Inked Girls: Jennie
Myself in a sentence: I am a person who stands up for the weak.
Occupation: Modell,
Hometown: Stockholm
The design and themes of my tattoos: I like the mysterious and some sexy tattoos that have a small drawing of himself but still says something.
More specifics about my tattoo: Now I stick to the same tattooer when I found one that I really think is good.
My favorite tattoo and the story behind it: My favorite tattoo is the text on my leg that stands for that you should never give up when it comes to happines.. It says "Happines can be found in the darkest times"
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ISU Sesquicentennial series to air March 15-17
A three-part series celebrating 150 years of Iowa State, from its land-grant roots to its high-tech future, will air March 25-27 on Mediacom's access channel (channel 22 in Des Moines and Ames) . KCCI news anchor Kevin Cooney will host the series, which airs from 7 to 8 p.m. each night.
Morrill Act highlights campus exhibit
The Morrill Act, a rare historical document, never seen outside of D.C., will go on display in ISU's Christian Petersen Art Museum March 22. Above, James Zeender, registrar, Museum Programs, National Archives and Record Administration and Lynette Pohlman, director, University Museums.
Schnable to present Spring Presidential Lecture on the present, future of genomics
Professor Pat Schnable will discuss the corn genome map and future of genome research in the Presidential University Lecture March 31.
Charges dismissed in Willow Hall incident
The Story County Attorney has dismissed charges against Jawon Jackson, 20, of Aurora, Illinois, in connection with a March 16 incident at Willow Hall.
Iowa State researchers developing system to efficiently convert biomass to ethanol
A team of Iowa State University researchers led by Victor Lin, a professor of chemistry and director of the Center for Catalysis, is developing a system of thermochemical and catalytic technologies to produce ethanol from plant biomass. Lin has already worked on his catalyst for a year and has filed a patent application.
16th Annual Voorhees Supply Chain Conference set for April 4
The 16th Annual Voorhees Supply Chain Conference featuring supply chain management experts from around the nation will take place on Friday, April 4, in the Scheman Building, Iowa State Center, from approximately 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
ISU Police remind students of everyday safety precautions
The students who remain in Willow Hall over spring break have returned to their normal routines following an incident in the early morning hours of March 16, but ISU Police urge all students to be mindful of basic safety precautions.
ISU entomologist stars in Top 10 finalist in Tide commercial contest
Brendan Dunphy, ISU entomology, is one of 10 national finalists for a Tide To Go commercial conntest. The entry, produced by the Bondurant company Dark Art Films, can be seen at www.youtube.com/mytalkingstain.
ISU's African American grapplers honored
Iowa State's diverse legacy of All-American, NCAA champion and Olympic achievement were highlighted in a display as the National Wrestling Hall of Fame celebrated the 50th anniversary of African-American NCAA champions.
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Smart Science: What is a food mile?
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Forecast Earth, a weekly program produced by The Weather Channel, explains the science behind food miles (weighted average source distance) in a segment that aired beginning March 17, 2008. Heidi Cullen, the program's climate expert, quotes work done by the Leopold Center about the number of food miles for a carton of strawberry yogurt.


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Angelina Jolie Gets SAG-gy
Angelina Jolie just picked up a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nomination for her portrayal as the widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl in A Mighty Heart. Congrats, Angie!
Vying with Ms. Jolie for top honors are Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Oscar contender Marion Cotillard for her portrayal of tragic French chanteuse Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, Julie Christie in Away From Her and Ellen Page in Juno.
Sean Penn's survival tale Into the Wild dominated the nominations, scooping up four nods — best actor, Emile Hirsch; supporting male actor, Hal Holbrook; supporting female actor, Catherine Keener; and the top honor, best ensemble cast.
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BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - It took seven months, but Governor Bobby Jindal publicly met with residents who are affected by the giant sinkhole in Bayou Corne. Tuesday was the first time Governor Jindal met with the residents since the sinkhole forced more than 300 people to evacuate their homes.
"I've got my life's savings tied up here. Let's keep it," said resident Dennis Landry.
Jindal talked with state and local officials and then took questions from residents in a discussion closed to the media. Resident Bucky Mistretta was satisfied with Jindal's message.
"I was just extremely glad to see him come here and finally address the people in our community so that we all know what exactly is going on and how involved he and his administration is," said Mistretta.
In the press conference that followed, Jindal outlined a plan calling for more venting wells and a mandate for Texas Brine to make an offer to residents interested in a buyout option. The governor also received some ribbing from Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack.
"The governor is going to stay with us. He was a little late getting here and I promise if he ever does that again we're going to make him swim that sinkhole," said Waguespack.
"Our commitment from that state is we will hold Texas Brine accountable. We're going to make sure they're responsible for cleaning up mess they have caused. We are going to do everything we can to make sure that they truly make this right," said Governor Jindal.
That is a promise the folks in Bayou Corne plan to hold him to.
"If he sticks to his word, he's going to make it right for everybody," said resident Henry Welch.
Jindal's visit comes 10 days after California based environmentalist Erin Brockovich visited residents at Bayou Corne with California based attorney Tom Girardi. Girardi has offered his legal services to any resident who decides to take further action against Texas Brine and all parties responsible for their troubles over the past seven months. Brockovich says litigation, if things come to that, could take months or even years to resolve. She says her role, as it has been for nearly two decades in dozens of cases like this one, would be to keep the community united.
On March 13, Texas-Brine, a Houston based company which owns the salt dome that caused the sinkhole, announced they would begin assessing the homes and offering buyouts and settlements for the 350 people evacuated.
Bubbles were spotted in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou in June 2012. Two months later, the ground opened up and left a nine acre sinkhole. Residents were evacuated and have been for the past seven months. Most affected residents began receiving weekly checks from Texas-Brine in the amount of $875 per week. The sinkhole is now about 12 acres in size.
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If you were only going to buy one style of handbag this fall, what would it be a
Anytime I am faced with the dilemma of choosing just one option of any particular item-I often encounter this predicament when traveling-my instinct is to always go with the most classic, versatile choice. So if I was going to carry only one handbag all fall, I can say without hesitation that it would definitely be a tote!
While shoulder bags, lady bags, and oversized clutches are also very on-trend this season, a tote, which has always been my #1 arm candy of choice, is the most essential option to accommodate all of your belongings while you're on-the-go. (New moms take note: they are a fabulous alternative or addition to a diaper bag to stow all of your baby gear!)
Breaking down a few different styles, my top pick would be one that is solid leather, like 3.1 Phillip Lim's Pashili Satchel, Diane von Furstenberg's Drew Metallic Tote Bag or even my personally designed Zoe Leather Tote, which I am currently relying on to hold all of my necessities amidst the NYFW mayhem!
Other tote-ally chic options to love include any that incorporate the coveted color-block trend. DKNY shows us how it's done with their Color-Block Leather Tote, while Pour La Victoire's Bordeaux Medium Tote and ASOS Color-Block Shopper are equally gorgeous interpretations of the look. Finally, I could never forget to mention a few exotic choices à la Malene Birger's Reptile Nylon Tote and Nine West's Island House Large Shopper. What will you be toting around this fall? xoRZ


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Ryoko Nishizuka, who designed the Ryo typeface families and Kazuraki, graduated from Musashino Art University in 1995, and began working at Morisawa & Company, a leading type foundry and manufacturer of digital typesetting systems in Japan. Next, she decided to work as graphic designer at a design studio. But her main interest was always in typeface design. In 1997, Ryoko joined Adobe. She has been involved in the development of the Kozuka Mincho and Gothic typefaces designed by Masahiko Kozuka.
In 1999, Ryoko received an honorable mention for her typeface "Branch Letter" at the Morisawa Awards International Typeface Design Competition. In 2002, her calligraphic typeface "Teika" won the Silver Prize at the same Morisawa competition, which was later expanded and refined to become Kazuraki, which is being heralded as the first fully-proportional OpenType Japanese font. In 2003, Ryoko created the Ryo Text and Ryo Display "kana" typeface families, followed by the Ryo Gothic family in 2004. The Ryo Text and Display families are composed of nine OpenType Japanese "kana" subset fonts covering eight different weights. The Ryo Gothic family consists of seven weights. The brightness emitted from the Ryo families is based on her original interpretation of traditional styles of "kana" calligraphy and type design. Kazuraki then consumed much of Ryoko's design effort, and was subsequently released for the first time in 2009. The special glyph set for Kazuraki including proportional glyphs and ligatures was expanded, and the font was updated in 2010.
In 2014, Ryoko directed the design work for Source Han Sans, Adobe's first Pan-CJK typeface family composed of seven weights. Each Source Han Sans font includes more than 65,000 glyphs to support the scripts used by Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Source Han Sans' moderately modern style makes text clearer and more readable on smaller devices such as tablets and smart phones.


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The Latino Job
The critical buzz on Ladrón que roba a ladrón and The Nines.
Ladrón que roba a ladrón (Lionsgate). A bunch of Latino immigrants, trusting in their invisibility in a casually bigoted Los Angeles, set out to pull off an outrageous heist. This describes the plot of Ladrón que roba a ladrón ("A thief who steals from a thief"), but also the production: As critics note, "the film bears a suspicious, almost lawsuit-worthy resemblance to the Ocean's movies" (Nathan Rabin, the Onion's A.V. Club). So much the better, most reviewers think. USA Today's Claudia Puig fully endorses the caper, writing: "It's not a watered-down imitation or a south-of-the-border remake. It is clever, funny and very entertaining." The movie's political message is played lightly, but the Austin Chronicle hears it loud and clear: "Ladrón is grand Hollywood entertainment for and about a long-ignored culture that's just now starting to sense the potential vastness of its own economic and political influence. To make an intelligent heist film is difficult work; to shoot an entertaining sociological study is near impossible. To manage both at the same time has got to be some kind of minor miracle." (Buy tickets to Ladrón que roba a ladrón.)—Aug. 31
The Nines (Newmarket). More than one critic compares screenwriter John August's (Go, Big Fish) directorial debut to an episode of The Twilight Zone. The film is actually three separate stories, each starring the same leads, in which Hollywood types have spooky existential crises. Turns out they're wrestling with their karma in parallel universes, or something like that. Salon's Andrew O'Hehir likes the movie but dismisses its Big Ideas as lightweight distractions: " 'The Nines' alludes to philosophical or metaphysical profundity without possessing any, which is certainly a successful pop-entertainment mode (Shyamalan, q.v.)." Elsewhere, critics disagree whether this is a "solipsistic, sub–Charlie Kaufman head-trip" (Scott Foundras, the Village Voice) or a "hilarious ontological freak-out" that steers clear of the genre's biggest mistakes (Carina Chicano, the Los Angeles Times). In any case, they agree that star Ryan Reynolds is fantastic. Variety wrote at The Nines' Sundance premiere, "Reynolds gets a chance here like he's never had before … and he's sensational." (Buy tickets to The Nines.)—Aug. 31
Owen Wilson. The press has all but openly mocked the actor's plea for privacy following his suicide attempt last weekend. This much is unsurprising. More disheartening is the spectacular lack of insight writers bring to the puzzle: Why would such a happy-go-lucky guy be so depressed? Time magazine opines: "Obviously something darker was going on amidst all those flaxen-haired mellow good times."ABC News titles its report "Tears of a Clown." Perhaps these writers have conflated Wilson's on-screen personae with his actual person. As Field Maloney wrote in Slate a couple years back, there's good reason to believe the "Butterscotch Stallion" is a stone-cold genius, and the real brains behind director Wes Anderson's success. His crisis is unexpected and saddening, but the interior life it intimates shouldn't be such a shock.—Aug. 30
None Shall Pass, Aesop Rock (Def Jux). Ian Mattias Bavitz is a small-town Long Island white boy who grew up to live the dream: He's a bona fide underground rapper, and critics like his new album—which is full of paranoia and erudite wordplay. Pitchfork captures some of its eclectic scope: "[W]hile the connection between demoting Pluto as a planet and Pee Wee's Big Adventure are tenuous to me right now, anyone who fits in a reference to Large Marge and the eye of Cerberus in the same song surely earns extra points in heaven." Neil Drumming gives the disc an "A-" in Entertainment Weekly, explaining that "Aesop could seem a mere syllable-cramming show-off. But after repeated listenings … his dazzling verbal pointillism resolves into clever rants and full-blown stories." And Seattle's the Stranger concludes: "[T]here's a dizzying amount of thought and labor packed into this hour-long disc; it's perhaps best summed up by the call-and-response hook of the opening track: "How alive? Too alive!" (Buy None Shall Pass. Visit Aesop Rock's MySpace.)—Aug. 30
Balls of Fury (Rogue Pictures). The great critical debate of our age: Where on the bad-to-worse spectrum does this derivative kung-fu/sports-spoof comedy fall, with its B-list cast and late-summer, midweek release? Just kidding. Reviewers phone it in, just like everyone else involved with this production. "Can summer please be over now?" moans the New York Times' A.O. Scott. In the Village Voice, Nathan Lee can't even be bothered to write the movie up, offering an "amusing" quiz in lieu of comment. But wait: Claudia Puig polished her USA Today review like a gem: "[T]here's no need to rally for this ping-pong movie."Zing! (Buy tickets to Balls of Fury.)—Aug. 29
Liars, Liars (Mute). The shape-shifting indie heavyweights rock harder on this new album, which everyone likes and PopMatters loves, writing: "Each track bears the sound of a confident, secure band of artists who now know they are ready for prime-time, and can weather the onslaught of attention without compromise." The Onion A.V. Club also praises the album's accessibility: "[F]orgoing heady concepts and willful obtuseness— embracing rock music instead of deconstructing it —may actually be the boldest move yet."Pitchfork gives the disc an 8.5, describing the sound: "In essence, Liars is scorched-blacktop biker music played through the art-rock filter of a band that's spent the last few years steeped in the bleak sounds of German new wave and early industrial." (Buy Liars. Visit the band's MySpace.)—Aug. 29
Burning Man. The official theme for this year's Nevada desert arts festival/bacchanal is "the Green Man" (pat yourself on the back at the event's official ecoblog). Valleywag scoffs at the premise, noting that "the only truly green Burning Man is a Burning Man that doesn't take place." In July, Business 2.0 reported that festival organizers are relaxing their anti-corporate, anti-consumer credo to showcase green tech in a kind of mini-expo. And the San Francisco Chronicle recently raised doubts about the event's financial practices—Burning Man brings in about $10 million each year—though the San Francisco Bay Guardian then accused its rival of slipshod reporting. Meanwhile, Gawker trembles at Portfolio's report of Wall Street execs who are also "burners." Read Burning Man blogs from the Las Vegas Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle. Lower your carbon footprint and visit Burning Man virtually with these data sets for Google Earth—or attend in Second Life. Also: the classic Onion send-up.—Aug. 28
Hannah Takes the Stairs (IFC). Let's hope this latest film in the buzzed-about indie "mumblecore" movement doesn't make it past limited distribution. In what passes for a good review, the Onion's A.V. Club warns, "Viewers' tolerance for Hannah Takes The Stairs will depend greatly on how much they can stand the characters"—i.e., haplessly narcissistic post-collegiate hipsters navigating work and relationships and figuring out what they want out of life. Salon's Andrew O'Hehir fence-sits unapologetically, writing, "If my endorsement of Hannah Takes the Stairs sounds lukewarm, maybe it is. ... But, for Christ's sake, let's give [director Joe Swanberg] a break. Swanberg has been out of college for four years and all he's managed to do is make three feature films." Despite initial excitement, voice-of-its-generation Gawker pronounced against the film: "There's nothing worse than when actresses try to convey 'quirky and neurotic' by basically acting drunk or stoned all the time and trying to convey 'incredibly naturalistic' by just taking forever to spit out a sentence. Here's a tip, indie filmmakers: sometimes, in real life, people are quite articulate!"— Aug. 27


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Sharkara Peters is a 35-year-old single mother of two. She works 34 hours a week at a fast-food restaurant. A few months back, she was hospitalized with a blood clot in her lung. Then, one of her daughters needed surgery. As a result, Peters lost about three weeks of work, and could not muster her $335 monthly rent. When I met her last month while in Charlotte reporting on poverty on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, she was facing eviction.
I asked Peters what President Obama should do for people in her economic situation and she answered without hesitation. Obama, she said, needs to do something about girls on welfare that just sit up and have baby after baby and never try to better themselves.
You see, nobody likes freeloaders.
The point is made for the benefit of Mitt Romney. Of course, he�d likely consider Peters herself a freeloader. I�ve not seen her W-2, but it seems a safe bet that, working less than full time for fast-food wages, she doesn�t pay much if anything in federal income taxes. Romney was heard last week in a secretly-recorded video disparaging the 47 percent of Americans � low income earners like Peters, Social Security recipients and others � that he says pay no taxes. Speaking before a room full of well-heeled donors in Boca Raton, Fla., who had paid $50,000 a plate for some face time with him, the Republican presidential nominee described those non-taxpayers with contempt as people �who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims ...�
In the video, posted online by the liberal magazine Mother Jones, Romney says it�d be a waste of time pitching his campaign to those moochers: �I�ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.�
Sharkara Peters does not need Mitt Romney�s lectures about personal responsibility.
Nor does George Farmer, 61, who became homeless when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and could no longer drive his truck. Nor does Michelle, an unemployed appliance repair technician trying to raise four girls on $694 a month plus food stamps. Nor do most of the invisible poor, the cashiers and servers, floor moppers and burger flippers whose annual income probably wouldn�t cover maintenance on one of Romney�s car elevators.
If the gaffe concretizes the caricature of an out-of-touch rich guy, a cognac-swilling peer of Thurston Howell III, Charles Emerson Winchester and Montgomery Burns, it�s important to remember that Romney is hardly alone in his sentiments. No, he spoke against a backdrop of vitriol against the have-nots in our society. They are called animals by Ann Coulter, takers by Michelle Malkin, accused of laziness by Rush Limbaugh. Fox News person Charles Payne laments the �entitlement mentality� under which they fail to even be properly �embarrassed� by their poverty.
For the record, I gave you no surname for Michelle, the single mother referenced above, precisely because she was too embarrassed to let me use it.
Romney�s remarks, then, are of a piece with a narrative � poverty as character defect � favored by many who know exactly jack about the reality of poverty, but who have discovered that demonizing the faceless poor, giving us someone new to resent and blame, is good politics. They wrap their attacks in rags of righteousness and pretensions of pragmatism, but there is something viscerally wrong, morally shrunken, in a nation where the most fortunate are encouraged to treat the least fortunate as some enemy race.
So the big story here is not about what damage Romney did to his campaign. Yes, the fact that he used condemnation of the poor as a lever of political advantage shames him.
But the very fact that the lever exists shames us all.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla. 33132. Readers may write to him via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Leonard Pitts will be chatting with readers every Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. EDT on www.MiamiHerald.com.


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The Candymen: From left to right, Rory Phares, Manthri Srinath and Roman Bondarenko feed Santa Cruz's jones for fresh-roasted coffee.
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Santa Cruz coffee entrepreneur Manthri Srinath on the perfect cup.
By Christina Waters
If it's too hot, you kill the coffee," says Manthri Srinath. He's busy scooping up handfuls of freshly roasted Colombian beans, smelling them, feeling their temperature, examining their color. The owner of Lulu Carpenter's and Lulu's at the Octagon in Santa Cruz and Coffee Cat in Scotts Valley is intensely involved in every aspect of his business, and his business is coffee. "Starbucks created many jobs for this industry," he grins, "including mine."
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With plans to open more stores in the near future, Srinath has been swilling, making, buying and roasting coffee since his junior year in college in Kansas. Born in the States, Srinath lived in India, England and Africa before returning here in his teens. Opening his first coffeehouse in college, Srinath hooked up with Espresso Royale and opened many of their stores across the country before ending up in Santa Cruz, where he launched the store that's now Lulu's just after the 1989 earthquake. He's been at it ever since.
"I get easily bored," he admits. "And this," he says, gesturing toward the crimson interior of his Scotts Valley shop, "is a never-ending challenge."
For the newest Lulu's, housed in the 19th-century Octagon in downtown Santa Cruz, Srinath brought on "technology-forward equipment." The Clover vacuum press coffeemaker is one of only several on the West Coast. And as I sip for myself later in the day, it smooths out any edges the fresh-roasted Guatemalan beans might have considered displaying.
"Our business is complex," he says, looking over my shoulder every now and then to check on traffic flow in the cafe outside. "We're doing more of our own foods, we have a bakery on premises, we roast our own beans, we do wholesale and have three retail outlets." There isn't much downtime in that lineup, and that's exactly the way Srinath likes it.
We are currently riding the third wave of coffee culture, I'm told. The post-Starbucks reality includes a whole new coffee sensibility, including an emphasis on sustainable agriculture and a new inclusion of farmers within the profit equation. "We've also simplified things," Srinath points out. "Removed all the paraphernalia from the bar. We've gotten back to the product itself."
And that product famously depends upon the four M's, starting with mano, the touch, the instincts of the bartender (Srinath hates the Starbuckian conceit of "barista"). Miscela is the all-important mixture of coffee itself--the proportions, the degree of roast, the freshness. Macinazione--the quality of the grind--refers to fineness, freshness and a dozen other refinements involving grinding technology and coffee beans.
And finally there's the macchina, which includes, in the case of espresso making, everything from stable brew temperature to timing of the pour and viscosity of the cup. The parallels with winemaking lore and complexity are striking.
"Americans are obsessed with espresso--we fool around with technology," he says with as much admiration as sarcasm. "Espresso has moved leaps and bounds because of Americans." Bombarding me with details, Srinath explains how the thermostat is programmed and why a few clicks to the left or right of 200 degrees in the macchina brewhead can be fatal.
"If water is too cold you end up with a sour cup of coffee," he says, aiming his gaze directly at me for emphasis. "And if it's too hot, you kill the coffee. It will taste flat, carbony, one-dimensional." He is a gold mine of such details. Contrary to popular myth, espresso is not meant to be roasted dark. "We use a northern Italian roast, a lighter roast, which produces a sweetness I like."
But "at the end of the day," he reminds me, "this is an artisanal craft." And here he's not shy about demonizing Starbucks. "One thing Starbucks did to the industry that's unfortunate is the commodification of our product. It's become fast food." And yet making fine coffee is a slow process. "At Lulu's, our coffee takes longer because we've returned to the roots of the craft."
By 4am each morning Manthri Srinath has tasted everything. "I'm very quality control," he beams. Business is brisk, even in a town filled with coffeehouses. Why?
"Nobody does it as well as we do." Many would agree. And there's no sign of letting up for the restless entrepreneur. Oh, and he hates that term too. "I'm a nomad--I like discovery. I can come to work on any given day and improve my customer's experience. There's no question that I can challenge myself." And he knows not everyone can say the same. "I'm a lucky man," he says.
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looking for a 3.5/4.0 player to hit some balls during the week or weekends in metro Boston area.
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hi Anne, i've been wanting to get back to playing again and looking for people to hit with. i'm between a 3.5-4.0. let me know if you wanna give this week a shot. i know there are some courts available to the public near MIT.
HI Freddie, MIT sounds good. I haven't played in a while, so I might be really rusty! My email is email@example.com
I live downtown in Beacon Hill so I'm really close to the Common Courts. I play left handed around a 3.5 level so it should work out. I'm free most weekends and weeknights after 6:30. Let me know!
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Somehow I missed this reply- I am so sorry for not responding sooner. I'll play anytime, after 6:30. Sounds like you are a much stronger player though...if you still want to play, let me know at email@example.com
hey how are you? My name is Vik and I am always looking for more people to play tennis with in the area, I live in the Framingham but work in Brookline. I am a pretty good player about a 4.0 and just enjoy getting out on the courts and getting some exercise while having fun! Let me know if you want to schedule something one of these days, hope to hear from you, take care
Hi Vik,
I hurt my knee a couple days ago, but I should be OK to play next week. Let me know if you want to play after work during the week.
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Dec. 28, 2006
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Junior forward Kemie Nkele scored a game-high 21 points and hauled in 13 rebounds leading four players in double figures as UC Riverside defeated UC Santa Barbara 70-57 in the Big West Conference opener Thursday night at the UCR Student Recreation Center. Despite playing in foul trouble for most of the game, junior center Jenna Green led the Gauchos in scoring for the fourth consecutive game with 13 points.
With the victory, their fifth in the last six games, the Highlanders improve to 7-6 overall and 1-0 in the Big West, while the Gauchos fall to 4-8 and 0-1 after dropping their second straight.
UCSB lost its Big West conference opener for the first time since the 1988-89 season, head coach Mark French's second year at the helm of the Gauchos and Santa Barbara's first season as a member of the Big West.
Nkele's 21 points came on 7-for-12 shooting and she made seven of 10 free throw attempts. Forward Roney Friend went 4-for-6 and finished with 15 points, guard Brittany Waddell drained 3-of-5 attempts from behind the three-point arc chipping in with 14, and center Katerina Glyniadaki made all six of her shots from the floor for 12 points to lead the Highlanders. Nkele also finished with five blocks.
In addition to Green, who played a season-low 22 minutes after she was whistled for her third foul with 7:37 left in the first half, two other players scored in double figures for the Gauchos. Junior Guard Jessica Wilson overcame a poor shooting night to finish with 11 points, while fellow guard Chisa Ononiwu added 10 - six of which came at the foul line - in her first start in the blue and gold.
UCR started strong, going inside to Glyniadaki for consecutive baskets to take a 6-4 lead. The teams traded buckets and were tied at 12 until the home team rattled off a 10-2 run, highlighted by a pair of three-pointers from Waddell en route to a 22-14 lead with 6:10 left. With Green hampered by foul trouble, the Gauchos cut the deficit to 24-22 on a steal and driving layup from Ononiwu. Nkele got loose inside for a layup and Waddell knocked down another three just before the half as the Highlanders went into the locker room leading 29-22.
UCR shot a blistering 66.7% (12-for-18) from the field in the first half but was undone by 17 turnovers and 25% shooting at the foul lin. UCSB was 7-for-29 (24.1%) from the floor and missed all five of its three-point attempts in the opening period, but made 8-of-12 (66.7%) from the line to keep it close.
The Highlanders opened the second half on an 11-4 run to extend their lead to 16, 42-26, with 10:49 left. Green picked up her fourth foul on a three-point play by Nkele with 17:19 remaining in the game that put UCR ahead 34-26. After that, Riverside went inside, continually lobbing to Glyniadaki as the Gauchos struggled to contain the 6-5 center.
UCSB chipped away with a 7-2 run to cut it to 44-35. Freshman Jordan Franey knocked down a three-pointer - the Gauchos' first of the game, with 4:54 left to trim the lead to seven, 50-43. Despite four Highlanders playing with four fouls, that would be as close as UCSB would get as Friend made two free-throws and Nkele broke the Gaucho spirits, grabbing an offensive rebound and hitting a turn-around 17-footer as the shot clock wound down to lift the Highlander lead back up to double-digits. Friend made four more free throws and Waddell sank five as the Highlanders pulled away.
Santa Barbara shot a season-low from the field for the second game in a row, making just 19-of-68 shots, 27.9% for the game. Riverside shot 52.4%, hitting 22-of-42 attempts from the field. The Highlanders also out-rebounded the Gauchos by a 44-34 margin and finished with 10 blocked shots, a season-high for a UCSB opponent.
Santa Barbara made just 3-of-20 three-point attempts (15%), while Riverside knocked down 3-of-9 (33.3%).
In addition to taking 26 more shots than the Highlanders, the Gauchos also took care of the ball, turning it over just 13 times to Riverside's 26, but were only able to translate that into 11 points. Santa Barbara grabbed 14 offensive rebounds and held an 11-4 advantage in second chance points.
UCSB concludes its Southern California road trip with a match-up at Cal State Fullerton Saturday. The Gauchos and Titans will tip-off at 2:00 p.m. at Titan Gym.