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DENVER -- After the fifth inning Monday, Rockies pitcher Jordan Lyles was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and sitting on a six-run lead. The White Sox, meanwhile, had mustered two singles against Lyles, and had not gotten a runner to second base.
"At one point, their pitcher's outhitting us," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "That's never a good sign. We just need to be a lot better than that."View Full Game Coverage
DENVER -- After the fifth inning Monday, Rockies pitcher Jordan Lyles was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and sitting on a six-run lead. The White Sox, meanwhile, had mustered two singles against Lyles, and had not gotten a runner to second base.
"At one point, their pitcher's outhitting us," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "That's never a good sign. We just need to be a lot better than that."View Full Game Coverage
The White Sox, in particular starting pitcher Felipe Paulino, weren't very good in an 8-1 loss to the Rockies.
Paulino had a brief and unsuccessful two months with the Rockies in 2011 before they dealt him to the Royals. He was in their bullpen then, and returned Monday to start against them for the White Sox. In between, Paulino underwent Tommy John surgery in July 2012 and saw limited action in the Minor Leagues last season while still in the Royals organization.
Paulino went 0-4 with a 7.36 ERA three years ago with the Rockies before they sent him to Kansas City in late May. That 7.36 ERA also was Paulino's career ERA at Coors Field in nine games, including two starts, and it rose to 8.34 when he yielded six runs in 4 1/3 innings.
Paulino threw first-pitch strikes to 14 of the 26 batters he faced, but ended up throwing 99 pitches. 41 balls.
"Definitely was not a good game for me tonight," Paulino said. "I threw a lot of pitches. I got ahead of a lot of guys, but I never finished up. I have to figure out [how to] finish those hitters. It's unacceptable for me. How can I get ahead in the count and I can't finish? I couldn't finish tonight. I really fought for that."
The right-hander gave up a home run to Carlos Gonzalez in the first and a run-scoring double in the second to Lyles, who became the first Rockies pitcher to go 3-for-3 since Brian Bohanon on July 20, 2001. Lyles' double came after Paulino walked No. 8 hitter DJ LeMahieu with two outs.
Paulino finished with four walks and two strikeouts, and three of the runners he walked ended up scoring. In two starts this season, Paulino has six walks and eight strikeouts in 9 2/3 innings.
"They're starting to come in inopportune times," Ventura said of the walks. "You walk the eight-hole guy to get to the pitcher and he ends up whacking you around. You just need to be a lot sharper than that."
Meanwhile, Lyles, who gave up one run in 6 2/3 innings, held the White Sox hitless until Marcus Semien singled with one out in the fourth. They would have had a run but for a running catch by center fielder Charlie Blackmon on the warning track that ended the inning.
Avisail Garcia led off the fifth with a single, but Lyles struck out the next two batters and got Tyler Flowers to ground out. The White Sox finally got a runner to second base when Dayan Viciedo led off the sixth with a double, but Lyles retired the next three batters on groundouts, including a stellar play by shortstop Troy Tulowitzki to end the inning. Tulowitzki snared Jose Abreu's grounder deep in the hole, made a long jump throw to first and got the lumbering Abreu.
Lyles cruised into the seventh with a 7-0 lead. Conor Gillaspie led off that inning with an infield single. But with one out, Lyles threw a wild pitch while striking out pinch-hitter Paul Konerko and gave up a run-scoring double to Alexei Ramirez. Lyles then walked Flowers and was lifted for Adam Ottavino, who struck out Viciedo to end the inning.
"Actually, fastball location wasn't there tonight for the most part," Lyles said. "We got fortunate on some balls left over the plate. They hit it at guys. But tonight I wanted to go in with the mindset of making sure that the breaking ball was there. A lot of people say you can't throw the breaking ball here. That was my mindset coming into the game. I really wanted to spin it. For the most part it was pretty good. I got a couple of punch-outs later in the game with it."
Where Lyles makes his next start remains to be seen. He has made two starts in place of Tyler Chatwood (left hamstring strain), who began the season on the disabled list and is scheduled to make a rehab start Tuesday and barring a setback, is expected to return to the rotation Sunday when he's eligible to be activated.
Paulino faces no such uncertainty. His next scheduled start will be Saturday at home against the Indians. In the interim, Paulino said he will work with pitching coach Don Cooper on how to finish off hitters after getting ahead of them.
"I believe in myself. I believe I am going to be OK," Paulino said. "It was just a bad game. It's part of this game, basically. We got a bad game. We got a good game. We're looking for the consistency. This season just started. I am looking forward now."
Jack Etkin is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Continuing with the design to revitalize Washington, D.C.'s Southwest Waterfront, mayor Vincent Gray announced on March 10 that Graduate School USA signed an agreement to establish what will be called the Center for Education and Training at the heart of "The Wharf" project. The decision to construct a facility makes Graduate School USA the first major business to commit as a long-term tenant as part of the development scheduled for erection along the Washington Channel in the coming year. Joining Gray were Council Chair Kwame Brown, Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton along with other local government affiliates who welcomed the new project.
"The creation of this center represents a huge commitment to prepare our residents for careers through training and education," Gray said at his presentation. "The Graduate School USA's 90-year history of training and educating people in the public sector makes them the ideal partner for The Wharf neighborhood. We are excited they decided to expand their mission right here in this landmark waterfront development."
Expected to break ground in 2012, The Wharf will be a $2 million residential site that will also host retail, hotel, office and recreational space. It is expected to open in 2015. The site will cover 27 acres on land and 24 acres across the water, making it one of the more anticipated construction projects taking place in the District.
"Creating this vibrant mixed-use urban riverfront brings new and distinctive retail, restaurant, neighborhood living and cultural destinations to the District," said Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Jose Sousa. "We know this project will deliver on the promise of becoming one of the marquee waterfront destinations for Washington, the region and the nation."
As the development's first multi-purpose project, the Center for Education and Training could drive immediate traffic to The Wharf after its completion. The center will provide resources for career seeking individuals interested in federal, state and local positions in addition to offering training for a variety of vocational openings and other jobs.
"This center demonstrates our extensive commitment to the DC community," Dr. Jerry Ice, CEO and president of Graduate School USA, said in a press release. "We are working closely with the city to understand areas with the most potential and the highest need for workers. Our goal is to bring a variety of training options to residents in one location to prepare them for rewarding careers now and in the future."
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Author Notes: I absolutely adore the beautiful color of the blood oranges, I wanted to make a tart that celebrated that beauty. I decided that white chocolate ganache was the perfect way to offset candied blood orange slices. The ganache is made using concentrated blood orange juice in place of the cream which gives it a lovely pink color and a subtle orange flavor. The slight bitterness of the candied orange complements the sweetness of the ganache and makes for a perfect late winter tart. I use Mark Bittman's sweet tart crust for the tarts, but any sweet tart crust will work.
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Makes: 6
Crust and Ganache Layer
recipe sweet tart dough (I use this one http://dinersjournal.blogs... )
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cups blood orange juice
ounces white chocolate, finely chopped
1 1/2
ounces unsalted butter, softened and cut into small pieces
Candied blood orange rounds
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cups water
cup sugar
Blood oranges
Crust and Ganache Layer
- For the Crust: Preheat the oven to 425
- Roll out the crust to 1/4 inch thick. Cut out 6 inch circles of dough and gently ease each one into a 4 inch tart pan. Trim excess dough and re-roll scraps to line remaining pans. (There may be a little leftover dough. Save it for another use, like making a homemade poptart) Place the tart crusts in the freezer and chill for 30 minutes.
- Prick the crusts all over with a fork. Line each tart pan with foil and add pie weights. Place all of the tart pans on a cookie sheet and place in the oven. Bake for 8 minutes.
- Remove the foil and bake for an additional 12-15 minutes, or until a deep golden brown. Remove from the oven and cool completely
- For the Ganache: Place the blood orange juice in a small sauce pan and boil until it is reduced to ½ cup.
- While the juice is reducing place the white chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Melt the chocolate, stirring often, until it is almost melted but not quite. There should still be a few chunks of chocolate left unmelted when it is removed the heat.
- Pour the hot juice over the white chocolate and blend it with an immersion blender until smooth and completely mixed. Add the butter and blend until fully incorporated. Pour ganache into tart shells. Refrigerate until set, at least two hours.
- Select the six prettiest candied blood orange rounds. Remove tarts from the refrigerator and top each one with a candied blood orange round.
Candied blood orange rounds
- Slice the oranges into 1/4 inch rounds.
- Bring the water and sugar to a boil in a large skillet. Add the orange slices and reduce the heat to medium. Boil gently for 5 minutes, then reduce the heat to low.
- Simmer the orange slices until the peels are translucent and the syrup thickens. Let cool for 10 minutes in the syrup.
- Transfer the orange slices to a metal cooling rack and let dry for at least 1 hour.
- Choose the six prettiest slices for use in the tarts.
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Lawmakers, inspector general auditors and a former VA chief information security officer say nation-state actors have been and continue to steal agency data, including emails from Secretary Eric Shinseki. And VA IT officials can't say how much or what kind of information the hackers are taking because the bad actors are encrypting the data as it leaves the agency's network.
These allegations and the lack of answers from VA's acting assistant secretary in the Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer Stephen Warren left the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations stunned and horrified.
"The entire veteran database in VA containing personally identifiable information on roughly 20 million veterans is not encrypted and evidence suggests that it has been repeatedly compromised since 2010 by foreign actors by China and possibly by Russia," said subcommittee chairman Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), during a hearing Tuesday. "Recently, the subcommittee discussed VA's authorization to operate, a formal declaration that authorizes operation of a product on VA's network which explicitly accepts the risk to agency operations, and was told that 'VA's security posture was never at risk.' In fact, VA's security posture has been an unacceptable risk for at least three years as sophisticated actors use weaknesses in VA's security posture to exploit the system and remove veterans' information and system passwords. These actors have had constant access to VA systems and data, information which included unencrypted databases containing hundreds of thousands to millions of instances of veteran information such as veterans' and dependents' names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and protected health information."
Multiple nation-state attacks
Jerry Davis, the former deputy assistant secretary for information security at VA and currently the CIO at NASA Ames in California, said during his two-year tenure he knew of at least eight nation-state sponsored organizations that successfully got into VA's network.
Davis also alleges VA's system security certification process, known as accreditation and authorization, is deficient, putting agency data at further risk. He alleges the agency has been rubber stamping more than 500 documents, known as an authority to operate, and he was coerced by Warren into signing more than 250 of them as a condition of him leaving the agency. Davis left in February. Auditors in VA's inspector general office further confirmed both allegations of the nation-state attacks and an insufficient internal control process.
Linda Halliday, the assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations, said VA has a broad range of security concerns, including risk assessments and system security plans that are outdated and didn't accurately reflect the current system environment or federal standards. She said VA, at one point, had more than 4,000 open vulnerabilities under the plans of actions and milestones (POAM) process. A security report from the end of May obtained by Federal News Radio show VA still has more than 2,500 POAMs with open vulnerabilities.
Auditors say hackers took command of a key part of VA's network called the domain controllers.
Davis and Mike Bowman, the director of the IT and security audits division for VA's inspector general, said controlling the domain controllers basically lets the hackers have full access to the network.
"We know that the way these individuals work that it's a typical tactic for them if they compromise something such as a domain controller, it has file on it that is called the SAM file, security accounts manager, in that file are all the password accounts for the users in the network," Davis said. "If they have the domain controller, they will grab the SAM file, and when they encrypt the information I know they have hit the domain controller. Guaranteed they probably took the SAM file and they will take it back, crack it later and take every password that was on that system."
Trying to access to DoD networks?
Davis said he knows of another instance in which hackers were trying to use VA networks to gain access to Defense Department computer systems. He said in January 2013 VA became aware of an incident where attackers used a spearphishing attack to gain access to a joint VA-DoD network dealing with health data.
Coffman and other committee members pushed Warren for more information about the nation-state attacks. Warren said he definitely knew of one such successful attack, but he preferred to talk about other issues during a close briefing with the subcommittee.
Warren pushed back repeatedly against the allegations that VA's network and data are insecure.
He said auditors focus on potential risks or threats, but the existence of a risk is not the same as the removal of data from the network.
CRISP is showing real benefits
Warren readily admitted VA has cyber challenges, but he was confident in steps the agency has taken over the past few years, including putting in a continuous monitoring system, called Continuous Readiness in Information Security Program (CRISP), in place. Warren said he expects VA to fully implement CRISP later this year. He added VA has a plan in place to close long-standing IG cyber recommendations, 32 in all, by September 2014. Bowman and Halliday said 12-18 months to implement their recommendations is reasonable.
But when Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) pressed Warren about a letter sent to the committee from Shinseki saying VA data and systems are not at risk, Warren backed away from the blanket assessment of the security of VA systems.
"You did state there are no absolutes in your mind in security. But we do have a letter here that has a very absolute statement from your boss, the secretary, that says, 'To be clear, VA security posture was never at risk.' Is that a true or false statement?" Huelskamp said.
"I would tell you sir as the person who ghost wrote that memo in terms of doing the staff work for the secretary, I was not clear in my language and I take ownership of that," Warren said.
"Is it true or false?" Huelskamp said.
"It is true with respect to the ATO process, which this memo was trying to answer. With respect to the broader question, as we've talked about today, there always is some risk," Warren said.
"Is this a false statement?" Huelskamp said interrupting Warren. "Is it an inaccurate statement? A mistake?"
Credibility questioned
Coffman said he was less than satisfied with Warren's response to this and other questions.
"I feel like the letter I received from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs directly to me, where Mr. Warren had essentially helped draft that, said the system is not at risk, I think threatened the credibility of Mr. Warren," he said after the hearing.
Coffman asked VA to respond within 30 days with a report on how they plan on closing 32 outstanding IG recommendations. He also plans on holding a closed briefing on the nation state attacks in the coming weeks.
This article is part of Federal News Radio's ongoing special report, VA Cyber Efforts in the Hot Seat.
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Internet access and wi-fi in Denmark
Most Danes have internet at home and/or mobile internet, so internet cafés are not that prevalent in Denmark. It's very easy, however, to access the free wireless network that covers the country via hotels, cafes, libraries and other places such as trains and some buses. Pre-paid mobile internet services are available from certain telecommunication companies.
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Magic ride over, busy winter beckons for Tribe
The warm and fuzzy feelings of the Indians' postseason berth weeks ago gave way to the sound of that Danny Salazar fastball colliding with Delmon Young's bat, and now northeast Ohio has been graced by its first snowfall of the winter season.
Which can only mean all that magic made in the 2013 season is firmly in the rearview.
The warm and fuzzy feelings of the Indians' postseason berth weeks ago gave way to the sound of that Danny Salazar fastball colliding with Delmon Young's bat, and now northeast Ohio has been graced by its first snowfall of the winter season.
Which can only mean all that magic made in the 2013 season is firmly in the rearview.
And there was no small amount of magic. Let's be clear about that. To claim the American League's top Wild Card spot without the somewhat simple benefit of a 15-game winner or a guy batting .300 or a 100-RBI -- no, make that an 85-RBI guy -- is mighty magical, indeed.
It was an awesome ride that swept quite a few new followers onto the Tribe caravan by season's end, and that's a necessary momentum upon which the Indians hope to build.
But once this little thing known as the World Series is complete and the offseason is officially at hand, the Indians have their work cut out for them in their bid to extend the magic act.
This is especially true in a rotation that exceeded all reasonable expectation and was, surprisingly, the strength of the squad in 2013. Because in the wake of all the baseball strides that rotation made at the behest of pitching coach Mickey Callaway, the business side is about to impact things in a major way.
If the Giants' rather strange extension of Tim Lincecum -- two years, $35 million for a guy whose advanced ERA was 28 percent below league average over the last two seasons and who probably could have been secured with a one-year qualifying offer -- is any indication whatsoever, the cost of doing business in this free-agent market is going to be punitive, even by free-agency standards, and that does not bode well for the Indians' chances to retain Ubaldo Jimenez and Scott Kazmir, two surprisingly stalwart starters for them.
After nearly two full calendar years of frustration in a Tribe uniform, Jimenez recaptured some semblance of his 2010 form, just in time to likely price himself out of the Indians' range.
And hey, maybe, ultimately, that proves to be a good thing, because, with all due respect to Ubaldo, the complications associated with his unique delivery are real, and the velocity uptick he displayed in the second half will have to be sustained over a larger sample (and it would be helpful if that sample is not associated with a pending payday) before we know if it's trustworthy.
Shortly after the World Series, the Indians will pick up their portion of Jimenez's $8 million contract option, and Jimenez will decline it. Once that song and dance is complete, the more difficult decision rests in the Tribe's willingness to tender Ubaldo a one-year, $14 million qualifying offer, which he can either accept and remain an Indian or turn down and reap the Tribe a Draft pick should he wind up signing elsewhere.
If the Indians are worried about the prospect of Jimenez eating up $14 million of their season payroll (which last year was just north of $80 million on Opening Day), that's understandable, particularly given the pending raises for Nick Swisher, Michael Bourn and Asdrubal Cabrera.
But Ubaldo seems motivated enough by his free-agent forecast -- made all the better by a market highlighted by Matt Garza, Ervin Santana and Rakatan Golden Eagles import Masahiro Tanaka -- that it's difficult to imagine him signing anything less than a multi-year contract. The Draft pick is valuable enough to take the chance.
Signing Kazmir might not be any more realistic, because, again, how much financial faith do you put into his crazy comeback? It's a tough one. Kazmir, to his credit, gave the Indians markedly more quality innings than anybody would have reasonably deemed imaginable coming off his Sugar Land Skeeters stint. But it remains to be seen if his high-strikeout (8.9 per nine), low-walk (2.7 per nine) tendencies can hold up in a more extended look. He did average less than six innings per start, after all.
That'll be a tough call not just for the Tribe but any club kicking the tires on Kazmir. But he's left-handed, he has a pulse, he has recent success and, uh, did I mention the free-agent market is highlighted by Matt Garza, Ervin Santana and Masahiro Tanaka? Kazmir will get paid.
You see, then, how fleeting a good thing can be in this game, which is why the Indians need to make every effort to lock up staff ace Justin Masterson, a free-agent eligible after 2014, in the here and now.
The Indians are rightly enamored with the raw stuff and confidence of Salazar, and they know refinement of his secondary options can take him to another level. They were obviously encouraged by the growth shown by Corey Kluber and Zach McAllister. They'll be happy to have a healthy Josh Tomlin in the Spring Training mix, and they still think Carlos Carrasco can be a big league starter, even if many of us can't help but have some doubt.
But as we see with these two World Series teams, both of whom had eight different guys make at least five starts for them this season, depth is what delivers, and the Indians, for all their starting strides made this year, don't have a great deal of it if you remove Jimenez and Kazmir from the mix. Trevor Bauer was to be their most attractive depth option of all, and, on an end-of-season active roster that included 20 pitchers, Bauer's name was not included. That tells you about all you need to know about his 2013.
So you start with some sense of stability, if you can, and that means getting aggressive on Masterson in advance of his final arbitration year. That's a wiser investment than reaching for more from Ubaldo and Kazmir, anyway.
And if both of those guys depart, it will be fascinating to watch the Indians mine the ranks of the undervalued to try to work their magic yet again.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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For close to four decades now Johnny Colla has been a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene and beyond. Probably best known as saxman/guitarist/vocalist/songwriter with Huey Lewis and The News, Johnny's professional career goes back to the early seventies when Van Morrison picked his band up for a couple tours. No more than a year later Johnny landed a seat playing with Sly and The Family Stone, and as he likes to recall, Sly "taught me everything not to do in the music business." Proof that if you look hard enough there's a life lesson in every experience.
There were other attempts at a career and success along the way, but throughout it all Johnny and Huey were conspiring to start something new back in Marin County. By the end of the seventies and several name changes later ("The Fools," "The Meteors," and "American Express" amongst others) the band settled on "The News." Over the next year or so the lads were feverishly writing, recording and performing whenever they could, for whoever would have them. By 1979 "Huey Lewis and The News" landed a record deal and they were off and running; the rest is a rich, intoxicating history, and a few chapters have yet to be written.
Besides the aforementioned job description, Johnny wears a few other hats with HLN (producing, arranging, directing, engineering, etc.) Between all that and other artist's outside projects, he never wore the solo hat as much as he'd wished. 2002 brought us "Lucky Devil" - Johnny's well-received first offering - but HLN business and family obligations kept him from a follow-up . . . until now. Something clicked with Johnny several years ago and the focus shifted; he reshuffled the deck and once again "The Lucky Devil" took a few chances. Life was no longer about what was or is, but "what could be." Come on in and take a peek at a remarkable talent, engaging tales and trails, and some pretty cool music!
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As it turned out, there was no dancing in the streets of Elko on Tuesday night. As voters in cities across the nation celebrated Barack Obama's victory, the snow-dusted row of bars and western shops in downtown Elko remained quiet as the election news rolled in. Inside one saloon, mine workers nervously clinked their drink chips on the bar top, slammed hands onto the table in frustration and drank more beer — afraid their way of life in this thriving gold mining and ranching town of 17,000 might change.
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Was the Newtown Speech the Most Difficult to Deliver For President Barack Obama?
Newton School gathering after the massacre.
No actor, however capable, can bring out the agony of the president, who has to suppress his internal turmoil and present a different face to the nation for the sake of the position he is holding. No director can pull off visualisation of a complex surge of emotions of a whole nation behind a tragic event like that happened in Newtown, which the President was subjected to over and above his own turmoil.
There are moments when a president has to deliver inspiring speeches to convey his vision or unify the country against adversity. Then there are occasions no one wishes to face in life, when the President is expected to address the nation, to say something, to console, assure and somehow alleviate the collective burden on the nation's psyche. The Newtown School speech in the aftermath of the massacre of twenty innocent children and six of their teachers was one such testing moment for President Obama.
It is hard to understand, why Barrack Obama is seen as the first "black" President by many Americans and even by leading media though he was born to a white Caucasian lady. Though for the rest of the world this is a non issue, it is the perception. However, this must have been the most difficult aspect for President Obama, who had to face and address a town whose population and the bereaved they came to mourn are almost entirely white.
No one can deny that such was the ferocity and divisiveness of the politics which only just ended in his re-election, which many in the nation still do not accept, at least have great difficulty to reconcile. No one can deny that the second amendment, which the President could do little about and something which his audience hold sacred had to do with the tragedy.
That, President Obama, as a very loving parent of two children couldn't hold his tears while announcing the tragedy that occurred at Newtown as a national tragedy, didn't somehow alleviate his dilemma. Where trust was at best fragile, it must have been very difficult to find the right words to express and communicate something meaningful both to the community and to the nation at large.
The Newtown tragedy has occurred in the Christmas season, when everyone has to rejoice and not bereave, has rendered the event poignant beyond imagination. Mundane call of Presidential duties in the face of the Fiscal Cliff which he has very little time to sort out before the nation fall off it and the nomination of his future secretary of state must have been adding immense pressure to his working life. Yet the President was duty bound to come to the bereaved, and address and console as the supreme commander.
President Obama did come to Newtown, and delivered the most difficult speech of his presidency with amazing grace. With measured words delivered in a way only Barack Obama, the great communicator can do he somehow spoke, conveying the consolation and support of the Nation he took to Newtown and asking for the Nation's support and resolve to enable him for meaningful and effective action.
Without referring to the Second Amendment or NRA he brought home the need for controlling the ownership and accessibility of dangerous weapons. Without admonishing, he brought home the need for better parenting and teaching and loving children. In as few words as possible he reminded Americans about family values they all need to return to.
You handled this horrific situation with such honest sympathy & grace. You have done our nation (and yourself) proud during one of our darkest moments. I am proud to call you My President.
For astute students of communication, President Osama's skills in oratory will be always be a benchmark. His speeches will be heard, watched analysed and imitated for decades and centuries to come. But for true meaning and sense of his speeches, future learners will have to delve deep in to the contextual history and events as well.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Six Hallowed Indians Who Could be Lynched by a Billion of India's Poor if They Knew Simple Economics.
"They that have done this deed are honourable: What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That made them do it: they are wise and honourable, And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you."
Who are they? They are all honourable leaders of modern India who collectively brought down the Indian GDP growth from 9% to 5% in a couple of years, sabotaging any chance a billion of its poor had to come out of poverty and a miserable life. There are even Harvard educated among them, but the plight of the poor and down trodden was not their concern and the need for GDP growth was not their business.
The damage and the back stabbing they have collectively done to India is nothing short of the treachery and guile in the Shakespearian drama, because as highly educated they are, they can't pretend not to know the damage they have caused to the plight of a billion poor Indians who earn barely a dollar a day, in their own quest for glory.
These pretentious leaders, each one of them with a hidden agenda, pretend to uphold morality in life and politics and fight for it, in various forms, as if it is the only thing India needs. Disregarding the damage they will cause to the country's image and growth, they have latched on to every opportunity, every accusation of impropriety to obstruct the functioning of the government inside and outside the parliament, bringing total paralysis.
In a short span of two years they have managed to sabotage every attempt of the minority government of Dr Man Mohan Singh and all reform measures he has tried to bring to maintain the high growth trajectory his reforms and governance has brought for India.
On the top of this list of these self serving Indians who have appropriated morality for themselves is India's CAG, Vinod Rai, himself a Harvard educated government servant, who has dealt the first and heaviest of blows, with accusations of ludicrous amounts of loss to the government. Though the hollowness of his accusations have since been exposed by an auction and revelation by a subordinate, it too late as enormous damage has been done to investor confidence.
Arvind Kejriwal, the "Indian Romney" who claim that the direct disbursement of income benefit to the poorest people of India amounts to bribing, can claim a prominent position. Kejriwal, who shot himself to fame by training his guns on the popular Gandhian Anna Hazare to appropriate some popularity for himself has since been exposed by declaring his own political party, of all things to fight corruption, of course.
Mamta Banerjee, the main coalition partner of Dr Man Mohan Singh who has vetoed every one of his reform measures should be honoured as the Nero of modern India as she spends her time in art and writing poetry as India's GDP had been tumbling down the drain and her own state of West Bengal had been sinking more and more in to the Bay of Bengal with debt burden of over populist governance.
If the Indian parliament had been totally dysfunctional since the last election, the credit almost entirely is that of Sushma Swaraj, the leader of the opposition, in title and action. Sushma Swaraj, who would like to be a future Prime Minister of India, has almost single headedly destroyed the biggest democracy in the world by instigating and leading sheer unruly and disgusting behaviour of elected representatives in parliament.
Dr Subramanian Swamy, an ex professor at Harverd must be credited with finding a life time occupation in filing cases against the Indian Government he can never win. But this doesn't preventSwamy in filing a new case every time he finds an old sheet of news paper with some ludicrous mention of corruption.
Dr Mulrali Manohar Joshi, a leader of the BJP has long since proven his penchant to erase and rewrite history when, as the Human resources Minister, he meddled with school text books, to remove and absolve the cold blooded assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, by Hindu fundamentalists. He has now been exposed as the main instigator of fictitious losses to the government by corrupt practices, which is no surprise at all.
There are of course a bigger list of supporters and collaborators, who the mob may search out on a second wave, for reprimand.
Fortunately, the Indian masses probably have never read Shakespeare, especially Julius Creaser. The chances are they will never ever grasp the importance of GDP or the rating agencies.
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Monday, December 03, 2012
Six Reasons Why Barack Obama Could Be Another Three Term POTUS In the Making.
A taller President.
By achieving the impossible and winning the re election, Barack Obama has grown taller in stature virtually dwarfing almost everyone else, not just in the U.S. but on the world scene.
First, let's remember what Obama did in the first term: he passed the most substantial new element in the American safety net in generations, Obamacare. He helped pass a massive re-regulation of the financial sector, the Dodd-Frank bill. He passed the biggest stimulus package in our history, which I believe--Ezra Klein convinced me of this--prevented the worst economic depression in four generations. He did these things in the first two years, of course, when Democrats controlled Congress, but he did them. They were not chopped liver, whether or not you liked them. Q&As, Washington Post
However, everyone tends to forget the enormity of the unprecedented Post Lehman gloom and doom and impending recession Barack Obama was send out to put right. What is not clear, at least to the rest of the world not familiar with the U.S. politics is the equally massive obstruction he faced from a republican majority in the House.
Add to all of those the spectacular annihilation of the number one enemy of the U.S.A he promised and carried out, matching the incredulity of the 9/11 attack on the nation which has raised the credibility and image of the US and its President as a force not to be taken lightly.
In short the stature of the President has grown beyond that of any of the potential contenders for a long time to come. If President Obama decides to contest a third term, for which he may have plenty of reasons, there won't be many happy contenders.
Unique Bond of a Leader With His Social Web.
Add to all of those the spectacular annihilation of the number one enemy of the U.S.A he promised and carried out, matching the incredulity of the 9/11 attack on the nation which has raised the credibility and image of the US and its President as a force not to be taken lightly.
In short the stature of the President has grown beyond that of any of the potential contenders for a long time to come. If President Obama decides to contest a third term, for which he may have plenty of reasons, there won't be many happy contenders.
Unique Bond of a Leader With His Social Web.
The truth is without the social web and its immense and electrifying power the mystery of Obama would never have happened. At least in such a short time. This special bond which shaped before the 2008 election, which owes to his youth and awareness of the potential of the social media to take his message to a young and savvy supporters will be stronger and forceful in imposing an obligation on himself to pursue the reforms and changing of the United States which he had undertaken but not quite finished. This is indeed the bond which has rendered Obama as the only a Super PAC slaying democrat. In fact, there is no leader in either party who can claim anything similar to this phenomenon which will end if Obama decides not to run for a third term. It is hard to see how the democrats will let that happen.
The Fiscal Deficit.
During the Democratic convention Bill Clinton asserted that one term is too short to remedy the fiscal damage created by the previous administration. But he didn't say two terms are sufficient. Even the president estimates a minimum of a decade, that too if he can get on with it unhindered. As it is, with a majority in the house, it is questionable how much he can achieve. But if the electorate can see reason and buy the president's argument to grant him a second term, they are very likely to go with him for a third if the going is good.
Will Hilary? Won't Hilary?
The big question for the next election is who the Democratic Party candidate is going to be. It is said that Hilary Clinton will be the first choice if she will contest. But if she is ready for it, she couldn't have stayed away from the campaign as she did, leaving Bill Clinton to let everyone second guess. If anything, Hilary has sent out the impression of an overworked diplomat who needs some rest and certainly not the sign of some one hungry for the power of the First Woman President of the U.S.A and ready to go for it. Hilary must know that at the age of seventy, putting up your feet is a lot more comfortable than the gruelling chair in the oval office.
Changing Demographics.
The demographic which gave the most support to the Republicans yesterday was elderly white people--not exactly the men and women of tomorrow. The age-group that gave Obama the most support was the young. White people supported Romney more than Obama; the country is becoming steadily less white. African-Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans overwhelmingly supported Obama. Latinos and Asian Americans are the fastest-growing categories of our population.Q&As, Washington PostMuch has been written about the demographic shift in the US electorate which has turned in favour of Obama on account of his policies and the indifference of the GOP. This shift which will widen in the next election will be another compulsion for a obliging and liberal president not to give up too soon.
Shrinking Election Cycle and The Number Crunchers.
If only it was actually 4 years - 2 years is more like it. With so many people making a living talking and writing about politics, we'll be starting the next election cycle in 2 years, max.Q&As, Washington PostThe impact of the social media, social web, and a huge number of people who have taken election related professions which consumed 2 Billion dollars in the recent election, the election cycle has been reduced to a perennial activity for analysts, strategists and others who predict the outcome. In a way, the next election cycle has already begun and an incumbent president becomes part of the cycle. President Obama has to weigh in if his next term will be enough, especially with the republican majority in the house and obvious absence of an able successor, to achieve his goals. Chances are he will see the need for a third term much like President Franklin Roosevelt before him.
For those willing to ponder, there could be any number of subtle signs of a prolonged Presidency of Barack Obama one can't ignore. After all it is not as hard as searching for a needle in the hay stack.
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Forum Post: Michigan GOP: Not Finished With Tyranny Yet.
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Not happy with imposing tyranny on Unions, they now want tyranny over vaginas!!
Must I remind, that this is a lame duck session and this stuff was NOT on the ballot?
I say the Kochs are angry about losing their "right" to emergency managers to the public vote.


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Eclipsing Binary Brown Dwarfs (Artist's Concept)
This is a schematic view of a pair of newly discovered brown dwarfs that are gravitationally linked together. The binary pair are too close to be resolved with present-day telescopes. This is an artistic oblique view of the system. In reality, the orbital plane is tilted edge-on to Earth such that the stars are seen eclipsing each other. Eclipsing binaries allow precise measurements of each companion star's mass, diameter, surface temperature, and intrinsic brightness.
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Fairytale Fights - PS3
Release Date:October 27, 2009
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Despite all the gore that will be brought out by an adventure through Fairytale Fights, it's not enough. Shallow gameplay and an uninvolved story that happens to go on for 22 levels are just not enough to make it worth a gamer's time.
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The story starts you off in a town known as Taleville, where you can choose to play as either Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk, or the naked emperor. Whichever character you choose has been forgotten from their particular story, and so needs to start off again fresh in order to regain their fame. Despite the large number of classic story references that are involved, the story itself is extremely thin, and won't do much to keep you wanting to adventure.
One of the reasons for this is that there is no worthwhile goal that needs to be sought after as the characters. Sure, you'll gather money from chests and enemies you've defeated. But that money just goes to building a statue of you in the town, so not gaining much of it isn't that big of a deal. Also, when you die, you lose a portion of the money you earned in that level, so there really isn't any penalty for dying. That's probably a good thing, because the gameplay will see you dying a lot.
The way combat is executed in this game is with the right thumbstick. To attack, move the thumbstick in any direction. To execute another attack, move it a different direction. Combos come from moving it wildly around, pulling off attack moves that you don't feel connected to as if you actually pulled off the move. To charge up, merely hold the thumbstick one way, and quickly push it the other. The combat is extraordinarily easy, and with no method to target enemies, you'll continually find yourself just smashing your way into their midst. There are ranged weapons too, but the lack of targeting hurts that capability more even than melee.
The game might primarily involve attacking wave upon wave of enemies, but there is a platforming aspect as well. There are lots of jumps over blades or onto platforms that are moving, but the controls aren't precise enough to make these very easy. The camera, too, stays too far back to make it easy to time your jumps, resulting in simple mistakes that no real storybook character would make.
One of the main draws of the game has to be its goriness. There are tons of weapons around that can inflict enormous wounds on your enemies, often times spilling gallons of cartoon blood all over the place, which characters can actually skate on. There's also a thing called a Glory Attack that allows you to dismember an enemy with input from the thumbsticks.
Despite all the gore that will be brought out by an adventure through Fairytale Fights, it's not enough. Shallow gameplay and an uninvolved story that happens to go on for 22 levels are just not enough to make it worth a gamer's time.


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The ribbon was cut on the expansion of the Long Island City Roots community garden last week.In April 2002, the first tree in the garden was planted in memory of Firefighter Michael Brennan and others who lost their lives on 9/11.
The garden eventually lost that space, and in 2004 asked permission from the MTA to fill in a section of unused railroad track.The new expansion, located at 29-08 47th Ave., will open the doors to a whole new group of gardening enthusiasts.
The new features include a rainwater harvesting system and a bee farm helping with pollination and also to create honey.
"Bees don't really care about you," said GrowNYC member Lenny Librizi. "They really care about flowers.It's safe as long as you don't get in their way."
GrowNYC manages and maintains the garden with help from students at Wagner High School International High School.
"When you bring these kids into the space, it's as though they have never experienced life before," said Terry Born, vice chair of GrowNYC. "They don't understand the connection between taking your hand, putting a seed in the ground and then it pops up."
Some of the planting beds at the garden are open to the public, and gardeners are allowed to keep their bed contingent on good gardening behavior. There is now a waiting list.
"Since I have moved into New York City this is actually the one glowing bright spot," said Gerard, a gardener at LIC Roots.The garden is open everyday to non-gardeners from sunup to sundown, and is popular with area office workers and students from LaGuardia Community College.


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JT Hodges has released 'Sleepy Little Town' as the third single from his self-titled debut album. The Texas-raised singer is proving to be a talented storyteller, capable of penning unique and catchy choruses. Fans helped choose the song as his new offering to radio, so they'll no doubt support the song on the Showdown in large numbers.
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Redshirt freshman Kyle Dranginis scored a season high 30 points, and five other Gonzaga players scored in double figures as the 12th-ranked Bulldogs coasted to a 104-57 victory over Lewis-Clark State College on Thursday night.
Przemek Karnowski scored 16 points, Sam Dower and David Stockton had 13 each and Kelly Olynk added 11 points and 10 rebounds for Gonzaga (7-0). Drew Barnham also scored 11 points.
Dranginis, a 6-foot-4 guard from Nampa, Idaho, hit 12 of 16 shots as Gonzaga shot 64 percent from the field. He hit 4-7 3-pointers as the Bulldogs made 11 of 20 from behind the arc. He also had seven assists and six rebounds.
P.J. Bolte scored 10 points to lead Lewis-Clark State, an NAIA school from Lewiston, Idaho. The Warriors officially remained unbeaten at 9-0, though they have lost to the Bulldogs and Montana in exhibition games.


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SAN DIEGO — It's a little like back to the future for the BYU football program this week.
There was a time when San Diego was a second home for the Cougars, who played in 11 Holiday Bowls from 1978-93. It's where BYU beat Southern Methodist, 46-45, in what's now known as the "Miracle Bowl," as the Cougars came back from a 45-25 deficit over the final four minutes. It's where BYU defeated Michigan to cap its only perfect season and claim the 1984 national championship.
After a 19-year hiatus, BYU returns to San Diego for a postseason game — this time, the Poinsettia Bowl — Thursday when the Cougars face San Diego State.
The Poinsettia Bowl is the 15th different bowl game BYU has played in since its first one, the Fiesta Bowl, in 1974.
The Cougars boast a colorful bowl history, featuring a bevy of memorable victories and forgettable losses. BYU owns a lackluster 12-17-1 record in bowl games, but it has won three in a row, and five out of the last six.
Here's an in-depth look at the Cougars' bowl past.
With many observers expecting a high-scoring affair in the 2011 Armed Forces Bowl on a sun-drenched day in Dallas, BYU and Tulsa staged a defensive struggle.
Quarterback Riley Nelson struggled for most of the game before helping lead the Cougars on a 12-play, 48-yard drive in the closing four minutes that ended with a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Cody Hoffman on an audibled trick play with 11 seconds remaining, as the Cougars rallied to a 24-21 victory over the Golden Hurricane.
Nelson stood at the line of scrimmage on second-and-2 at the Tulsa 2-yard line. BYU's coaches had called a spike play to stop the clock. Instead, Nelson decided to call an audible and execute a "Red Alert," or a fake spike.
"There is a play that we have, Red Alert, that he called on his own, which is fake spike it, then throw a touchdown — or he better throw a touchdown, put it that way," said coach Bronco Mendenhall. "He did that completely on his own. I do believe in the freedom of players, and I trust them to do what they think is right to help our team win."
Nelson's fake spike caught Tulsa's defense off guard, and he found Hoffman open in the end zone.
"I yelled to our outside guys the call and gave them the signal and we ran it," said Nelson. "Cody's stance was not a receiver's stance at all. He was standing there waiting for it to get hiked. When Cody took off, the first thing the corner did was spring back to not get beat on a fade. I had Cody's eyes. He stopped. I was able to put the ball back shoulder. Great play by him."
Hoffman earned Armed Forces Bowl Most Outstanding Player honors after catching eight passes for 122 yards and three touchdowns.
The other memorable play from the Armed Forces Bowl occurred just before halftime, when senior left tackle Matt Reynolds, Nelson and Hoffman teamed up for a crucial touchdown. It was BYU's first TD of the game.
On first down, as Nelson scrambled left toward the sideline, Reynolds lost his helmet as he tussled with a Golden Hurricane defender.
"I probably got a little too aggressive," Reynolds said. "I think I hit his knee with my helmet and my helmet popped off. When I stood back up, I saw them running for Riley. I just tried to stop them."
Stop them he did, by peeling back and delivering a crushing block near the sideline that allowed Nelson to keep the play alive.
Nelson completed a pass to Hoffman in the middle of the field, at about the 3-yard line. After catching the ball, Hoffman battled through a couple of Tulsa defenders, then stretched the ball over the goal line for the score.
The post script of this story: Reynolds' helmetless block prompted the NCAA to create a new piece of legislation, a rule that states that a player can no longer participate in a play if he loses his helmet.
Two years ago, the Cougars kicked off the college football bowl season with a dominating 52-24 triumph over former Western Athletic Conference rival UTEP in the 2010 New Mexico Bowl.
It marked BYU's fourth bowl win in five years and secured coach Bronco Mendenhall's fifth consecutive winning season.
The Cougars were led by true freshman quarterback Jake Heaps, who earned New Mexico Bowl offensive MVP honors by completing 25-of-34 passes for 264 yards and four touchdowns, and shattering Ty Detmer's freshman record for most TD passes. Heaps, who revealed after the game that he was playing with a fractured rib suffered against Utah, also set the BYU record for best completion percentage (.735) in a bowl game.
At that point, it appeared that Heaps was on the cusp of becoming the Cougars' next great quarterback.
"I think he has a very bright future," Mendenhall said after the game. "He continues to learn how to lead our team, he continues to learn what it means to be the quarterback at BYU. Now he knows what it feels like to win a bowl game at the college level. That's something a lot of first-year quarterbacks don't have the opportunity to do."
UTEP coach Mike Price, the former Weber State coach, was also impressed with Heaps. "I like him a whole lot. He didn't play like a freshman, he played like a veteran. He commanded the offense really well."
But after starting the first five games of his sophomore season, Heaps was replaced by Riley Nelson. In early December of 2011, Heaps announced was transferring from BYU. After redshirting at Kansas this season, he will be eligible to play for the Jayhawks next fall.
BYU and Las Vegas make quite the odd couple. The LDS-owned school is the perennial No. 1 stone-cold sober university in the nation. It has a stringent honor code and a football coach that emphasizes the spiritual aspects of life.
Las Vegas is nicknamed Sin City and is known for its glitz, glamor and gambling. It features The Strip, showgirls and racy billboards that can make a grown man blush.
BYU's reputation, and that of Las Vegas, clash like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Elvis impersonators. But when it comes to the Las Vegas Bowl, the two disparate entities complemented each other very well. Thanks to this annual December football game held at Sam Boyd Stadium, for five straight years, from 2005-2009, it was a place where "Come, Come Ye Saints" and "Viva Las Vegas" converged. It was no coincidence that Sam Boyd Stadium sold out those years.
A Las Vegas television personality asked BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall about the dichotomy of BYU — owned and operated by the LDS Church — making an annual tradition of playing bowl games in Sin City.
"It's an interesting thing, especially considering that last year's game had the highest attendance of any (team) sporting event in the history of the state and it's an LDS school," Mendenhall replied. "It's a fan base that doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't gamble, at least isn't supposed to. I'm not sure how excited Las Vegas is to have us, knowing we're probably not generating a lot of income for them, other than on game day, we're having a sell-out. Which is what the bowl game is for, from my understanding."
In retrospect, it's somewhat amazing to think that prior to 2005, BYU had never played in the Las Vegas Bowl before making five consecutive trips there as the Mountain West Conference representative.
In 2005, athletic director Tom Holmoe and Mendenhall actually predicted BYU's frequent trips to Vegas. When BYU, under then-first-year coach Mendenhall, accepted an invitation to face Cal in December of that year — marking the Cougars' first bowl berth since 2001 and snapping three consecutive losing seasons — everyone connected with the program was elated about going to the Las Vegas Bowl. And the feeling was mutual. At that time, the Las Vegas Bowl needed to sell more than 29,000 tickets to the 2005 game in order to maintain its bowl charter with the NCAA. That year, BYU delivered the bowl's first-ever sellout.
Starting in 2006, the Las Vegas Bowl became home to the MWC champion.
"This is just the beginning of many more," Mendenhall said in December 2005. "The (Las Vegas Bowl) will be for the conference champion from this point on. What better way, as they're getting ready to go into that role, for us to go into that role as well."
BYU fell in its first appearance, against Cal, but in 2006, the Cougars were ready for their challenge with Oregon, which finished in a fifth-place tie in the Pac-10 standings. Prior to the game, Duck coach Mike Bellotti smugly insisted that BYU couldn't compete with the upper-echelon, or even the mid-level, of the Pac-10. Even after a 38-8 loss to the Cougars, Bellotti didn't budge from his position. "We didn't play like a mid-level Pac-10 team, but no, my opinion of them hasn't changed."
Still, it marked BYU's first bowl victory since the 1997 Cotton Bowl. Another intriguing subplot that night? Former Cougar coach Gary Crowton was calling plays for Oregon as its offensive coordinator.
The following year, BYU earned a narrow win over UCLA on a last-second field goal attempt blocked by Cougar freshman Eathyn Manumaleuna. In 2008, BYU fell to Arizona. But the Cougars bounced back in 2009, claiming a convincing 44-20 victory over Oregon State on a cold, windy night in Las Vegas. Down 7-0 early, BYU scored 37 unanswered points to crush the Beavers. It was a sweet victory for Cougars' senior class, which helped produce a 43-9 record over four seasons.
Six weeks into the '74 season, no one could have guessed BYU would end up going to a bowl game. Besides the fact that the Cougars had never been to a bowl game before, they started the season with a miserable 0-3-1 record. Furthermore, they didn't earn their first win until Oct. 12.
To begin the season, both Hawaii and Utah State defeated BYU without scoring a touchdown (the Cougars lost 15-13 and 9-6, respectively, on a flurry of field goals). Iowa State then pummeled BYU, 34-7. The Cougars' first Western Athletic Conference game of the season, against Colorado State, was a wild affair that ended in a 33-33 tie.
Coach LaVell Edwards called those weeks "the low point of my coaching career." But it was also the turning point of his coaching career.
The Cougars defeated Wyoming the following week, 38-7, and then went on to win their next six games. They won the WAC title and were invited to the Fiesta Bowl, which automatically took the league champion. After playing football for 52 years, BYU finally earned a trip to a bowl game.
"It was one of the major early accomplishments we had," Edwards has said. "We had won a championship when I was an assistant (in 1965), but we had never gone to a bowl game. It was an exciting period of time. As a boy growing up, I remember listening to bowl games on the radio. So for us to go to a bowl was very special."
BYU fans gobbled up their allotment of 8,333 tickets for the game. The Cougars fell to Oklahoma State, 16-6, as quarterback Gary Sheide suffered a dislocated shoulder in the first quarter after leading his team to an early 6-0 lead. He was sidelined for the rest of the game.
Still, reaching a bowl was a huge accomplishment, and 1974 was the year BYU's bowl tradition began.
Two of the three gentlemen who are now well-known college football broadcasters are not only quite familiar with BYU, but also have played prominent roles in BYU bowl history — Lee Corso (aka "The Coach") and Craig James (aka "The Pony").
Both games occurred about the time of ESPN's birth. It was a fledgling local cable network headquartered in Bristol, Conn., that began broadcasting on Sept. 7, 1979, just months before Indiana coach Corso faced BYU in the '79 Holiday Bowl.
The next year, James was a running back at Southern Methodist, which squared off against the Cougars in the Holiday Bowl.
As it turned out, Corso won a game he should have lost, and James lost a game he should have won.
In '79, the 11-0 Cougars were unbeaten and ranked No. 9 in the nation — their highest ranking ever at the time. Indiana, from the Big Ten, was 8-3. BYU's offense, behind quarterback Marc Wilson, led the nation in scoring. The Cougars put up 37 points on the scoreboard that night, but it wasn't enough. Late in the contest, with BYU trailing by one point, kicker Brent Johnson missed the potential game-winning field goal from 27 yards (Johnson did convert three field goals earlier in the game, including a 40-yarder), leaving the Hoosiers the winners and spoiling BYU's would-be perfect season. The final score was 38-37.
"We were very lucky," Corso recalled. "Marc Wilson had an incredible game. He threw for something like 900 yards against us. Our guys had never been so exhausted. And then they have a guy who had never missed a field goal in his life and he misses a chip shot. We were very, very fortunate."
Corso has gotten a lot of mileage out of that win over the years, having referred to it numerous times on the air.
In 1980, the Cougars entered their showdown with SMU (dubbed "The Mormons vs. The Methodists") with an 11-game winning streak. But the only streaking they saw for most of that game came from the Pony Express — Craig James and Eric Dickerson — racing into the end zone for touchdowns. James was named the co-offensive MVP, along with BYU's Jim McMahon. James rushed for 225 yards and two TDs.
The Cougars, who trailed 45-25 with four minutes remaining, capped a miraculous comeback with a "Hail Mary" pass with no time remaining as one Catholic, McMahon, connected with another Catholic, Clay Brown. (Edwards likes to point out, though, that the game-winning extra point was nailed by Kurt Gunther, a returned missionary).
Years later, James still had strong emotions about that bitter loss to BYU.
"They were very lucky to beat us," he said. "We dominated that game for 57 minutes and then we just let up. If we would have played them again the next day, we would have kicked their fannies."
Added James, "That whole week after the game that's all anybody around the country would talk about, the Holiday Bowl. It was the most exciting game I've ever been a part of."
Six times, BYU has met an OSU in a bowl game. The result? Five losses. The Cougars' first two bowl matchups were against Oklahoma State. BYU has played, and lost to, Ohio State three times in bowls (1982 Holiday Bowl, 1985 Citrus Bowl and the 1993 Holiday Bowl). The Buckeyes are the only opponent that Edwards' teams faced at least three times without winning at least once.
BYU broke that streak against OSU teams with a resounding 44-20 victory over Oregon State in the 2009 Las Vegas Bowl.
Former BYU athletic director Glen Tuckett says the 1976 Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Fla., is the one bowl he remembers most because "we had to work at it to get to it."
In 1976, BYU and Wyoming had tied for the WAC crown, but the Cowboys went to the Fiesta Bowl.
"I was the new director of athletics, and I wasn't smart enough to know you could fail," Tuckett recalled. "We had to be invited and we had to do a lot of politicking. (Tangerine Bowl officials) found out how many members of the LDS Church we had down there and how many alumni were down there. I told them, 'Traditionally, we draw a lot of fans to bowl games.' I didn't tell them we had only been once before. We had a fireside at the ballpark before the game and got a lot of support from the fans there. The bowl people were tickled that we went."
So was Oklahoma State, which won the game, 49-21.
One of the few BYU highlights of the night was a kickoff returned 102 yards for a touchdown by Dave Lowry.
Before the 1977 season opened, BYU made it clear that if it won the conference championship, the school would not play in the Fiesta Bowl, which was scheduled for Christmas Day. Christmas fell on a Sunday that year.
Sure enough, the Cougars won the WAC in 1977, and they snubbed the Fiesta Bowl for religious reasons. (Years later, in 1996, the Fiesta Bowl returned the favor by snubbing the 13-1 Cougars for Bowl Alliance — precursor of the Bowl Championship Series — reasons.)
With the 1977 Fiesta Bowl out of the question, BYU had no bowl to play in. So Glen Tuckett told the Cougars to "go east, young men." To the Far East, that is, on a goodwill trip that was planned before the season.
BYU played in two games in Japan against Japanese all-star teams at the end of the '77 season in an Oriental Extravaganza called the Silk Bowl, which was an exhibition contest only.
"It was a great experience for the team, a great trip for the kids," Tuckett remembers. "You don't get to go to Tokyo very often."
And what was the quality of Japanese football? "They know the game pretty well, but they were just overmatched," Edwards said. "They were competitive little guys. The night before the game I remember thinking, 'This would really be big if we lose.' "
They didn't, of course.
The Cougars must have been a big hit in Japan. The following year, BYU defeated UNLV, 28-24, in its regular-season finale, in Yokohama.
When George Welsh coached the Naval Academy to victory over BYU in the inaugural Holiday Bowl in 1978, it was a special experience in more ways than one for him. That day, Dec. 22, happened to be his wedding anniversary.
Ironically, nine years later, to the day, on Dec. 22, 1987, Welsh, who was then the coach at the University of Virginia, met BYU in the All-America Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., and won again.
More ironic still is that in 1978, Welsh beat BYU, 23-16. In 1987, Welsh won by the almost identical score, 22-16.
Who knows if Mrs. Welsh enjoyed those two anniversaries.
Years later, though, the Cougars exacted a measure of revenge against Mr. Welsh. In 2000, Edwards' final season at the helm, the Cougars rallied from a 21-point halftime deficit to claim a 38-35 overtime victory over Welsh, who retired at the end of the season.
Six times in bowl games, BYU not only played well enough to win, but also should have won. In 1979, the loss came after the aforementioned missed field goal that cost the Cougars a victory. In 1985, Robbie Bosco threw a pass that was intercepted and returned for a touchdown — Ohio State's only TD of the game. The Buckeyes picked off two more passes in the end zone that day on their way to a 10-7 win.
In the 1989 Holiday Bowl against Penn State, a number of bizarre plays occurred, like a two-point conversion attempt that was returned 102 yards for a score and a 53-yard fumble return for a touchdown late in the game in a 50-39 Nittany Lions' victory.
"This was the screwiest game I've ever been involved in, and we've had our share," Edwards said afterward. "Don't ask me about any turning points because I wouldn't be able to tell you."
In the 1991 Holiday Bowl, favored Iowa halted BYU's potential game-winning drive to preserve a 13-13 tie. BYU missed an extra point attempt in the second quarter.
In the 1992 Aloha Bowl in Honolulu, Christmas Day in paradise began wonderfully for the Cougars against Kansas. Before you could say Mele Kalikimaka, freshman Hema Heimuli returned the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown. But Jayhawk defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield spent the afternoon chasing quarterback Tom Young, who was making his first, and only, career start for BYU. (Later, Tom's brother, Steve, and Stubblefield were teammates with the San Francisco 49ers). The Cougars also shot themselves in the foot by missing an extra point and two field goals that day before losing, 23-20.
In 1993, the 6-5 Cougars were coming off their worst season in 20 years. The top-10 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes weren't happy one bit about being relegated to the Holiday Bowl and felt they deserved to be in the Rose Bowl. The Cougars actually outplayed the Buckeyes for much of the game, but BYU squandered opportunities as OSU won, 28-21. Three times in the second half, BYU drove into the Buckeyes' red zone without scoring.
The legend of Ty Detmer may have begun in earnest during the 1988 Freedom Bowl in Anaheim, Calif., when, as a redshirt freshman, he came off the bench to rally the Cougars to a win over Colorado, a team that would play for the national title the following two seasons (the Buffs won it all in 1990).
It was the only bowl game Detmer won in his illustrious career.
In 1989, Detmer threw for 576 yards, but when Nittany Lion safety Gary Brown stripped the ball from Detmer and ran it back 53 yards for a touchdown, BYU's comeback attempt was squelched. Still, that game helped launch his Heisman Trophy campaign the next season.
In 1990, Detmer won the Heisman, but the Holiday Bowl was forgettable for the Cougars that season. Detmer injured both shoulders, including a separation of the right shoulder, courtesy of Texas A&M. He left the game in the third quarter as the Aggies went on to a dominating 65-14 victory.
In his final game as a Cougar, Detmer passed for 350 yards against Iowa in the 1991 Holiday Bowl. His final pass was tipped and intercepted with less than 30 seconds remaining — an inglorious ending to one of the more glorious collegiate careers in NCAA history. The game ended in a 13-13 tie.
Maybe the most amazing part of the '91 season was that Detmer was a senior surrounded by underclassmen. He managed to rally his team from an 0-3 start to a 7-3-2 finish and a WAC championship.
Remember the days when BYU fans would complain because they had to go to the Holiday Bowl in San Diego every year?
What a drag — spending late December in relatively warm weather, with nice ocean views, before watching a heart-stopping bowl game.
These days, wouldn't a BYU fan give up a year's worth of food storage for a trip to the Holiday Bowl?
There's no question that the years 1980-84 were very, very good to the Cougars — four Holiday Bowl wins in five years. And it wasn't just that they won. It was how they won.
In the 1980 Holiday Bowl, there was the amazing comeback as Jim McMahon and Clay Brown the play simply known in Cougar lore as "The Catch." BYU scored 21 unanswered points against SMU in the final 4:07 to win the game simply known in Cougar lore as "The Miracle Bowl."
But in the 1981 Holiday Bowl, the Cougars also made an incredible comeback. But it wasn't the BYU Cougars — it was the Washington State Cougars. BYU nearly pulled an SMU, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. After BYU defensive back Tom Holmoe — who's now the school's athletic director — picked off a WSU pass early in the third quarter, BYU took a 31-7 lead. But in fine Holiday Bowl tradition, BYU surrendered a comfortable lead as WSU came roaring back, scoring 21 third-quarter points. BYU, though, held on to win, 38-36.
In 1983, it was Steve Young catching the game-winning touchdown pass from Eddie Stinnett in the final two minutes as the Cougars triumphed, 21-17.
Oh yeah, and BYU captured the national title by defeating Michigan in 1984 as a gimpy Bosco threw the game-winning touchdown pass to Kelly Smith to cap the biggest win in Cougar history.
After the game, a reporter asked Wolverine defensive back Ivan Hicks if BYU was the best team in the land. "Yes, and I'll tell you why," Hicks replied. "We played our hearts out there and they still won."
Yes, the early 1980s were very good to the Republican Party, Cabbage Patch Kids, and BYU football.
Call it coincidence. Call it fate. Call it yet one more inane statistic that's been unearthed. Whatever it is, every four years, from 1982 through 1998, BYU was involved in a blowout.
In 1982, Ohio State, which had beaten Rose Bowl-bound Michigan, pasted the Cougars, 47-17, in the Holiday Bowl. In 1986, UCLA pummeled BYU in the Freedom Bowl, 31-10. Both games were second half blowouts. The Cougars trailed the Buckeyes 17-10 at halftime. Against the Bruins, BYU was down only 7-3 at intermission.
In 1990, BYU fans had complained when they heard Texas A&M would be the Cougars' opponent in the Holiday Bowl. The Cougars were ranked No. 13 and boasted a 10-2 record. The unranked Aggies were 8-3.
But Texas A&M blasted BYU, 65-14, marking the Cougars' worst bowl defeat and, at the time, it was Edwards' worst loss in his career. A&M cruised to a 37-7 lead at the half and proceeded to add 28 second half points.
"Before the game," Tuckett said, "I remember standing on the sidelines and, seeing (Texas A&M's) size, I thought, 'What in the heck are we doing playing against them?' "
Four years later, there would be another blowout. In '94, it was BYU's turn to administer a beating with a big 31-6 victory over Oklahoma. The tide turned back on the Cougars in they 1998 Liberty Bowl, where they lost to Tulane, 41-27.
Later, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, BYU beat up on the two Oregon schools in the Las Vegas Bowl by a combined score of 82-28. The Cougars pounded Oregon, 38-8, and Oregon State, 44-20. In 2010, BYU clobbered UTEP, 52-24, in the New Mexico Bowl.
The 1994 Copper Bowl in Tucson, Ariz., marked the final game for Cougar quarterback John Walsh, who would, days after a 31-6 walloping of Oklahoma, announce that he would be making himself eligible for the NFL draft.
Walsh said goodbye by completing 31-of-45 passes for 454 yards and four touchdowns against a downtrodden Sooner team. It was, at the time, the most convincing bowl victory in Cougar history.
For Oklahoma, it was the final game for lame-duck coach Gary Gibbs. In attendance that night, sitting in the press box, was his successor, Howard Schnellenberger. Months after witnessing BYU's commanding win, Schnellenberger talked as if it was the nadir of Sooner football history. He called it "the line of demarcation" for the program and claimed OU would go up dramatically from there.
In Schnellenberger's one and only season at the helm, in 1995, the Sooners finished 5-5-1.
But Schnellenberger was prophetic in a sense. In 1999, Oklahoma ended up hiring some guy named Bob Stoops, and the Sooners became, once again, one of the premier programs in the country.
Meanwhile, Walsh wasn't drafted until the seven round of the 1995 NFL draft by the Cincinnati Bengals and never played a down in the NFL.
There are certainly more memorable touchdowns in BYU football history than the one Kelly Smith scored late in the 1984 Holiday Bowl.
But he can lay claim to the one that ultimately lifted the Cougars to the national championship.
The running back's 13-yard TD catch from a limping Robbie Bosco with 1:23 remaining beat Michigan and completed BYU's perfect 13-0 season.
Prior to that game-winning touchdown, the top-ranked Cougars and unranked Wolverines were tied, 17-17. After suffering through a game that saw BYU turn the ball over six times, BYU had one last chance to redeem itself.
On third down, with the ball at the Michigan 13-yard line, the play came into the huddle — "69 halfback option." The primary receiver was Smith, a Beaver native, who had already caught nine passes that night.
"Robbie scrambled and we all went to different places. It was actually a broken play," Smith recalled. "I went down the sidelines, and Bosco found me in the back of the end zone. I wasn't supposed to be there."
Smith's touchdown catch in the waning moments gave the Cougars the victory, the perfect season and its first and only national title.
Two weeks later, on Jan. 3, 1985, after the New Year's Day bowl games were completed, BYU was officially crowed national champions in the Associated Press and United Press International polls, much to the chagrin of then-Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer and broadcaster Bryant Gumbel.
Playing at the historic Cotton Bowl in Dallas, BYU found itself playing in its first New Year's Day bowl game in front of 71,000 fans, about 40,000 of whom were clad in Kansas State-purple. But probably even more people cheered against the Cougars that day — including the Bowl Alliance, the precursor of the Bowl Championship Series.
The Bowl Alliance snubbed BYU despite its 13 wins, No. 5 ranking, a stifling defense and a powerful offense. The snub cost BYU an $8 million payday at the Fiesta Bowl (instead, the Cougars earned a $2 million payout from the Cotton Bowl).
If it wasn't enough of a slap in the face to be rejected by the Fiesta Bowl, the Kansas State Wildcats showed disrespect for BYU all week long during Cotton Bowl festivities. They wouldn't talk or shake hands with Cougar players. They saved their talking for the field, where they belittled BYU and its conference, the WAC.
The Cougars, meanwhile, let their play speak for them, registering a dramatic 19-15 victory over the Wildcats.
It was a contest that featured a safety by BYU and a 41-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass by K-State on the final play of the half (ironically, BYU had scored on a 41-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass on the final play of the game to defeat SMU in 1980), sending the two teams into the locker room at halftime with the Wildcats ahead by the baseball-like score of 8-5.
Things didn't go much better for the Cougars in the third quarter as K-State grabbed a 15-5 advantage.
But BYU mounted a patented comeback, punctuated by quarterback Steve Sarkisian's 28-yard touchdown pass to K.O. Kealaluhi with about four minutes remaining. It was preserved by a game-saving interception by cornerback Omarr Morgan. On first-and-10 from the BYU 12-yard line, Morgan anticipated a slant pass and picked it off with 55 seconds remaining.
Not only did the triumph secure BYU's top-5 finish in the final rankings, but it also gave the Cougars a then-NCAA-record 14th win that season.
When the weather's nice in Memphis, the Liberty Bowl isn't a bad place to play. But when the weather's bad, you'd better bundle up. That humidity, as they say, will go right through you.
The Cougars went to the Liberty Bowl twice in four years, but you couldn't blame the cold weather for BYU's poor showing in both games.
In their first trip to Memphis, the Cougars were waxed 41-27 by No. 10 Tulane, a team with an undefeated record and seeking some respect. In the hometown of Elvis Presley ("The King"), the Green Wave rolled by the Cougars thanks in large part to the performance of quarterback Shaun King. If not for a 21-point outburst in the fourth quarter by BYU, the loss would have been much, much worse.
Three years later, the Cougars returned to Liberty Bowl, but they didn't want to be there. After starting the year 12-0 under first-year coach Gary Crowton, BYU fell at Hawaii, 72-45, in the regular-season finale. The Cougars had been upset that they were snubbed from Bowl Championship series consideration before playing the Warriors. So BYU settled for the Liberty Bowl. The Cougars had begun the season putting up 70 points in the season-opener against Tulane. They led the nation in scoring that year. But with running back Luke Staley out with a foot injury, BYU's offense could manage only 10 points against Louisville in the Liberty Bowl. The Cardinals dominated the Cougars, 28-10. BYU's lone touchdown came on a 10-yard run by 6-foot-7, 305-pound Dustin Rykert on a tackle-eligible trick play.
By the time that game ended, the ink in pens of sports writers standing on the sideline had frozen.
Talk about strange places to hold a bowl game. How about Detroit? In December? What, was Siberia booked? At least the Motor City Bowl was played inside the confines of the Silverdome.
Despite the bone-chilling temperatures outside, BYU experienced a meltdown of gigantic proportions against undefeated Marshall.
Like Tulane a year earlier in the Liberty Bowl, Marshall had something to prove against BYU. How ironic that in 1984, the Cougars were the upstart team looking for respect in a bowl against a traditional national power. In back-to-back bowl years, BYU faced a version of its former self.
Marshall was nationally ranked and feeling snubbed by the college football world. In both cases, Tulane and Marshall pulled a BYU, beating the team with the bigger name and reputation. The Cougars, who had started the season 8-1, stumbled badly toward the end, culminating with a disastrous effort in the Motor City Bowl.
BYU mustered a field goal, early in the first quarter, and was shut out from there.
It turned out to be the final game for longtime offensive coordinator Norm Chow, who ended up leaving BYU for North Carolina State weeks later. As it turned out, it was Edwards' final bowl game (he retired after the 2000 season).
How bad was the Motor City Bowl? Well, at the time (just days before Jan. 1, 2000), there were plenty of concerns about Y2K, talk about how computers could malfunction and send society into total chaos.
Well, chaos described BYU that day. It was a "Y"-2K disaster. The Cougar offense experienced the equivalent of a power outage, its motor stopped running, the game plan was short-circuited, its supply of composure ran out and senior quarterback Kevin Feterik was overthrown. And Marshall law was in full effect. By the time the clock struck 0:00, the Thundering Herd, led by NFL-bound quarterback Chad Pennington, had trampled BYU, 21-3.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Local lawmakers last week gave a passing grade to the 2007 legislative session, giving particularly high marks to measures that will expand Internet/cellular phone coverage throughout the state and give Vermonters more assistance in making their homes energy efficient.
The Legislature adjourned on May 12 after a four-month marathon that saw lawmakers endorse, among other things, an education cost-containment bill and partial state subsidies for pre-kindergarten programs.
On the other hand, lawmakers took a pass on several controversial, high-profile measures, including an impeachment resolution and "right-to-die" legislation.
All in all, it was a good session, according to Rep. Steve Maier, D-Middlebury.
"I think the Legislature was really productive this year," said Maier, chairman of the House Health Care Committee. "There was a real sense that people worked very hard on behalf of Vermonters."
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WHITING/SUDBURY — After less than two months of public meetings, the Whiting and Sudbury school boards have drafted a joint contract agreement to consolidate their elementary school operations for the 2008-2009 academic year. Now they hope to begin gathering feedback from their respective communities.
Each town will hold a special town meeting on Nov. 6 at which a final plan will be presented and residents in each town will vote on the idea.
"The school boards wanted to get the proposed contract out to the citizens for review and suggestions," said William Mathis, Superintendent of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union. "At this early date, we have time to consider and revise as needed."
As the draft reads now, starting in the fall of 2008, the Whiting school would serve kindergarten through second grade students and the Sudbury school would serve third- through sixth-graders.
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