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The 15,300 acres of Centennial Watershed State Forest offer diverse opportunities for hiking, fishing, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and birding.
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Covering more than three square miles the James L. Goodwin State Forest offers recreation for every season of the year. An extensive variety of trails, including a equestrian trail and the miles-long Air Line Trail, is open from dawn until dusk, 365 days a year. The 135 acre Pine Acres Lake, and the Goodwin Conservation Center combine to make this forest an eastern Connecticut treasure.
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Paugnut State Forests 1,702 acres spread out over four locations in north central Torrington and abut Burr Pond and Sunny Brook state parks. The main section of Paugnut totals more than 1,200 acres and is home to the 2.1 mile John Muir Trail which connects the two parks via the forest.
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Protected in spring 2015 after many years of conservation efforts, The Preserve is a 1,000-acre forest located in the towns of Old Saybrook, Essex and Westbrook
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A new state park is planned for the former Seaside Sanatorium in Waterford expanding shore-line recreational opportunities for residents and visitors.
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The Sky's the Limit is a Hiking Challenge, designed to promote hiking in Connecticuts State Parks and Forests.
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Special uses of Connecticut state park and forest recreation areas can be authorized by various means, up to and including a Special Use License granted by the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
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The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) seeks proposals from developers for the redevelopment, long term management and operation of Sunrise State Park, located in East Haddam, Connecticut.
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Air Line State Park Trail
Stretching across eastern Connecticut from Thompson to East Hampton, this linear trail dates from the 1870s, and today draws walkers, hikers, horseback riders and bikers from across the state for the views, the relaxation and the solitude.
Auerfarm State Park
Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument
Bennett's Pond State Park
Bennett's Pond State Park was once the home of Louis D. Conley, a successful manufacturer and nursery man, whose estate of more than 1,500 acres was one of the largest in Ridgefield
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CTs 9-11 Living Memorial
Sherwood Island State Park in Westport is the home of Connecticut's official memorial to the victims of the tragic events of September 11, 2001.
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Eagle Landing State Park
Eagle Landing State Park is appropriately named for its favorite visitors. As one of CTs newest state parks this location features 16 acres of Connecticut River frontage and a dock which hosts scenic and bird watching tours.
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Farm River State Park
Farm River State Park may not rank high on the list of parks by size but it is well placed when ranked by location. Taking its headwaters to the northeast, the Farm River flows 16.5 miles on its way past the Park where visitors enjoy the sun, sights and salt air of Long Island Sound.
Farmington Canal State Park Trail
The Farmington Canal State Park Trail in Cheshire and Hamden forms a portion of the Farmington Canal Greenway which traverses Connecticut, north to south, from Suffield to New Haven. The State Park Trail follows the path of the Farmington Canal which served the area from 1828 to 1847.
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Gardner Lake State Park
Gardner Lake State Park is one of Connecticuts small but important park locations in the southeastern part of the state. At only nine and three quarter acres, this park principally provides boating and recreational access to the 528 acre Gardner Lake.
Gay City State Park
George Dudley Seymour State Park
George Dudley Seymour State Park protects a valuable mile of Connecticut River frontage and a significant grassland habitat along the river.
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The 20 plus miles of the Hop River Trail, like many trails of this length, passes through or abuts many preserved open areas.
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Larkin State Park Trail
Stretching across four towns, this long and narrow state park trail combines enough remarkable history, geography and aesthetics to rate its 110 acres as one of the biggest and prettiest parks in the Connecticuts system. Originally designated as a trail for horses, for which it is still popular, Larkins ten miles now also serve walkers, joggers, bikers and hikers.
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Moosup Valley State Park Trail
This 5.8 mile linear trail encompasses 62 acres as it stretches across two eastern Connecticut towns.
Mooween State Park
Acquired by the state in 1989, this nearly 600 acre park spent its first eleven years known as Red Cedar Lake State Park.
Mount Tom State Park
Old Furnace State Park
The 367 acre Old Furnace State Park has a storied industrial history and a present day attractiveness all its own. A three-quarter mile trail accesses a viewpoint with a ten mile viewshed.
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Selden Neck State Park is accessible only from the water. This unique park offers four paddle-in camp site areas.
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The 4.5 mile Windsor Locks State Park Canal Trail follows the historic towpath of this 170 plus year old historic waterway.
Windsor Meadows State Park
Windsor Meadows State Park is a unique and quiet refuge along the Connecticut River 3.5 river miles north of Hartford. Its main developed features are the Bissell Bridge Boat Launch and the entrance and terminus of the Bissell Bridge Walkway Trail. Its main undeveloped feature is its 140 acres of undeveloped Connecticut River floodplain forest.
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New Cato Unbound: Culture, Tradition, and the Modern World
Conservatives often talk about the modern world in terms of decline. Old traditions fall victim to market dynamism, integration, and globalization, and our society is the poorer for it. Newer isn't better — it's more superficial, less rooted, and less secure.
Those who make this type of argument are frequently tempted toward the creation of group rights or privileged statuses for traditional identities, behaviors, or social norms. Oddly, the left has at times agreed on just this critique, and on just these sorts of privileges in response. The authentic past, the authentic identity must be preserved, even at the cost of classical liberal ideas of rights. Marxist critiques of capitalist culture have long made just this point. As Marx himself famously said, industrialism means that "all that is solid melts into air." To many, stopping it from doing so seems possibly a good idea.
In this month's lead essay, political theorist Russell Arben Fox sounds a cautionary note. Traditions have always evolved, he argues; there is no pristine, fully authentic past out there to be found. In a sense, for a tradition to be authentic at all is for it to be flexible and subject to change. The way to honor the past, he suggests, is to be conscious of it, yes, but also of the world in which we live, today. Both straightforward traditionalism and the Marxist-inspired critique of it commit the same error. They both seem to believe that the truest, most unvarnished past is out there, waiting to be found, somewhere. (Somewhen?)
Is he right? Obviously, we are dealing with questions that involve culture as much as politics. To help sort them out, we have invited journalist and blogger Eve Tushnet, historian John Fea, and doctoral candidate in government James Poulos, known for his extensive freelance journalism and blogging, notably at Postmodern Conservative and Ricochet.com.

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Crew takes opener in 10th on walk-off sac fly
Lucroy delivers RBI after Axford blows save with two outs in ninth
MILWAUKEE -- For all of the things the Brewers did poorly -- and there were plenty, from the three hits through seven innings, the outs on the basepaths, the fact that Yovani Gallardo remained oh-for-Colorado and the misplaced John Axford pitch -- they did one thing right.
They treated the fifth-largest crowd in Miller Park history to the first extra-inning, walk-off win in 45 Opening Days as a franchise, a 5-4 victory in 10 innings over the Rockies on Monday at Miller Park.
"We lost quite a few games like this last year," said Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun, "so I think it's a great sign that we were able to win a game like this, this year. I think that will be encouraging for all of us moving forward."
The Brewers won on catcher Jonathan Lucroy's sacrifice fly in the 10th despite Gallardo's five labored innings against the only National League team he's never defeated, and despite Axford's blown save in the ninth. They snapped a four-game losing streak on Opening Day.
That streak was on the verge of ending back in the ninth inning, when Axford inherited a 4-3 lead and struck out the first two Colorado batters he faced with a stream of 94-95 mph fastballs. Quiet for most of the afternoon aside from Norichika Aoki's third-inning solo home run, the Brewers had just touched Colorado reliever Wilton Lopez for three runs in the eighth, an inning extended when Aoki hustled to beat a double-play turn with two outs.
Rickie Weeks followed with a single that pushed Aoki to third, Braun hit a run-scoring infield single to shortstop that bobbled just enough inside Troy Tulowitzki's glove, and Aramis Ramirez followed with a two-strike, two-run double down the left-field line on the seventh pitch of his battle with Lopez.
Enter Axford, whose midseason struggles last year temporarily cost him the closer's job. He looked sharp at the start on Monday, but after striking out Eric Young Jr. on a fastball away for the second out, Axford tried the same pitch against Dexter Fowler. This one was misplaced. Fowler was waiting for it.
His home run tied the game at 4 and helped send the teams to extra innings. It was only the second Opening Day extra-inning game in Brewers history -- the other was a road win at Wrigley Field in 2008.
"Ambush," Lucroy said. "It was probably my fault right there -- we should have thrown a curveball on the first pitch."
Said Brewers manager Ron Roenicke: "That's what the guy is there for in that situation. Two outs, he knows he has to look for one pitch. I'm sure most guys are looking for a fastball, and we gave it to him waist-high and right down the middle. That's good hitting on [Fowler's] part. He still has to catch up with a pretty good fastball."
The Brewers won in the 10th against Rockies right-hander Adam Ottavino. Weeks was hit by a pitch, and when he stole second base, Ottavino intentionally walked Braun, then unintentionally walked Ramirez to load the bases. Lucroy batted with the winning run at third base and one out and lifted a winning sacrifice fly to center field.
"I still feel plenty confident," Ottavino said. "It just stinks to lose the first game, especially when you're on the mound to do it."
That both teams suffered a blown save on Opening Day was unfortunately fitting. The Brewers led the Majors last season with 29 blown saves, a franchise record. The Rockies were second with 27.
On his 30th birthday, Axford fell to 0-for-2 in Opening Day save opportunities. He surrendered four runs in Cincinnati two years earlier and lost on a three-run Ramon Hernandez home run.
"Obviously, it looks like Opening Day save opportunities aren't my thing right now," Axford said. "But it definitely turned out better than it did two years ago. … I felt great out there. It was just one pitch. It definitely was [a mistake], just up and got more of the plate than it should have. Definitely the wrong pitch at the time, too. It just took one pitch to tie it up at the time, and [Fowler] and I knew it, too."
Given what Axford went through last July, does Roenicke worry about Monday's letdown getting in his head?
"I hope not," Roenicke said. "Two years ago he opened the season like this -- with a home run -- and came back and was lights-out the rest of the season. That's what I'm hoping for."
The Brewers are banking on a similar bounceback for Gallardo, who needed 96 pitches for five innings and surrendered three runs on 10 hits, including Tulowitzki's two-run homer in the third inning and Carlos Gonzalez's solo shot in the fifth. Both hitters connected with fastballs.
Gallardo topped out at 92 mph on Monday and didn't exceed 91 mph on the Miller Park radar gun after the second inning.
"I think he was a little off, but I give a lot of credit to him because he still kept us in the game," Lucroy said. "The only runs they had in the whole game today were on homers -- that was it. … With 'Yo,' obviously it's early in the year and that's not the Yovani Gallardo we know. He's a lot better than that, and it says a lot to how good he is that he only gives up three runs."
Home runs were just as troublesome for Gallardo in the spring, when he surrendered at least one in four of his five Cactus League starts.
"We won, who cares about the way I pitched?" Gallardo said. "That's the way I look at it. Obviously, I wanted to do better and get deeper in the game, but the main thing is getting the 'W.' Getting that first win sometimes is the hardest."


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Citizens! Do You Know the Source of Your Honey?
Some disturbing news indeed reached my inbox today (HT: David Boaz). Apparently honey is entering the United States under assumed identities. Chinese honey, once ubiquitous, was largely shut out of the American market through anti-dumping measures. So, this article from NPR.org alleges, it started to be sold through a third country (perhaps Indonesia, Thailand, or Malaysia) and was falsely labelled to evade the duties. (Apparently we know this because the honey can be tested for peculiar types of pollen.) The U.S. government wasn't having any of that of course, and so they held up suspicious shipments through regulations, inspections, and documentary requirements. So now the Chinese honey is allegedly being sold through India.
The domestic honey industry is now starting to worry that all of this nefarious, subversive honey-related activity will suppress the market for all types of honey, including their own, and are starting a fair trade-esque system called True Source Honey, which will trace the honey to a proper, 'merican source. None of that Chinese muck.
Eric Wenger is president of True Source Honey. Soon, he's going to Vietnam to help with the first audit of a Vietnamese honey exporter.
"The question we want to answer is: Does that exporter only purchase honey from beekeepers in that country?" he says.
The exporter will give the True Source auditor a list of the beekeepers from whom it buys honey. "Then the auditor will randomly select a number of those beekeepers, go out to that beekeeper's apiary, and evaluate the capacity of that beekeeper to produce the volume that that exporter claimed was purchased and shipped," says Wenger.
If everything checks out, that exporter is certified. But even after that, True Source will take samples from every shipment of honey and send those samples to a lab in Germany to see if the pollen matches the flowers that are actually blooming in Vietnam.
True Source wants to expand this system globally. One exporter in India is already certified.
Jill Clark, from Dutch Gold Honey, says these sorts of audited, verified supply chains are getting more common throughout the food business. In some cases, governments are requiring it.
"With all the food safety and food security issues, knowing where your food comes from right now is incredibly important," she says.
Shouldn't consumers be the ones to decide that? Removing the anti-dumping duties and discriminatory regulations will reduce the incentive for Chinese honey to be labelled falsely, and then we can decide for ourselves what is "incredibly important." Or maybe we don't care, and True Source will be a massive flop.
On a positive note, there are an encouraging number of libertarian comments to the article.


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The University Interscholastic League is stripping Dallas Madison High School of it's back-to-back 2013 and 2014 Class 3A state basketball championships amid investigations into an athletic recruiting scandal and the murder of a high school athlete, NBC 5 learned Thursday.
The UIL said the school, along with Wilmer-Hutchins High School, played an ineligible player. Both Madison and Wilmer-Hutchins are now being forced to forfeit all games from last season in which the ineligible players played.
The runner-up to the title games, Houston Yates High School, will be named champion, the University Interscholastic League said Friday.
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The Dallas Independent School District said Friday the UIL's decision was disappointing for the players and schools involved, but that they accept the ruling and will ensure their athletic programs uphold the highest level of integrity and sportsmanship.
"Our new director of athletics, Gil Garza, brings more than 30 years of coaching and athletics leadership to the district, including an appointment by the commissioner of the Texas Education Agency to the University Interscholastic League State Executive Committee. He and his team are focused on restoring the credibility and strength of Dallas ISD's athletic programs," the DISD said in a prepared statement Friday.
UIL spokeswoman Kate Hector said the last boys' basketball team to forfeit state titles was South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas. The school was stripped of state titles in 2005 and 2006, also for using an ineligible player.
The scandal came to light after the March death of 18-year-old Wilmer-Hutchins player Troy Causey. Causey was killed in a fight over a video game with another student, standout Madison athlete Johnathan Turner, police said.
Turner has since been charged with manslaughter in connection with Causey's death. Meanwhile, officials said the pair were roommates at a home in Oak Cliff, even though Causey's family home was miles away in North Dallas — in the Richardson Independent School District.
Both were declared ineligible players based on residency.
As a result of that investigation into the recruiting scandal, the Dallas Independent School District fired 15 employees in June, including some basketball coaches, amid allegations of faked residency documents that helped the schools field stronger basketball teams.
That same month, our partners at The Dallas Morning News reported, according to DISD records, that at least 13 Madison students had the same home address as assistant basketball coach Tracy Flentroy. In an interview with the paper, Flentroy said his niece has stayed at the home, but that he didn't know why district records listed his address for 13 students.
The Dallas Morning News reported that some of the records had apartment numbers even though Flentroy's residence is a single-family home.
NBC 5's Ken Kalthoff contributed to this report.
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Last week I paid over $3.50 for a gallon of milk, and my panic button finally went off. It's been a while since I totaled my grocery expenses, and I really don't want to do it now. I find it comical that the government excludes the cost of gas and groceries when they tell us we are not experiencing inflation on any significant level. It's comical the same way a really, really bad day is comical: if I didn't laugh, I would have to cry. Can they be any more obvious in the slant of their figures?
But I didn't start this post to complain about the economy. I just want to keep the food budget under control, and I want to do it without resorting to ramen noodles, so we're going to eat less meat, more beans and learn to use lentils. Beans are great for diabetics (we have one) and proved to be a miracle cure for my morning sickness, which I hope to experience again someday in the near future. We already enjoy beans, but I know we're missing a whole world of variety when we limit ourselves to pinto beans with ham or taco seasoning. I want you to broaden our world with your favorite recipes!
Please join in by posting any or all of your favorite recipes for beans and lentils, then link up below. Extra points for meatless recipes!
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Anne Smrcina
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(781) 545-8026 ext. 204
National Marine Sanctuary Program today released the first-ever
status report evaluating the health of Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen
Bank National Marine Sanctuary, home to one of the richest and
most productive marine ecosystems in the nation. The Stellwagen
Bank National Marine Sanctuary Condition Report presents an initial
summary of the pressures and trends facing sanctuary resources,
which sanctuary staff will address in detail in the upcoming Stellwagen
Bank National Marine Sanctuary Draft Management Plan.
condition report, which examines the status of everything from
water quality in the sanctuary to its endangered right whale population,
distills a wealth of information about the sanctuary's complex
marine resources into a straightforward, easily understandable
status and trends of the four main resource categories examined
in the report - water, habitat, living resources and maritime
archaeological resources - are summarized in a color-coded table
ranging from "good" to "poor," with notes
on the basis for the ratings and sanctuary responses to various
great deal of thought went into the process of making the Stellwagen
Bank sanctuary condition report easily understandable," said
Stellwagen Bank sanctuary Superintendent Craig MacDonald. "It's
a lot of complex information that has been assimilated in a concise,
straightforward visual way."
than half of the categories examined in the report had fair through
poor ratings, with eight to ten relating to habitat or marine
life resources. The general trend for marine life appears to be
static and in need of improvements, an indication that pressures
on marine life are high, requiring targeted management efforts.
The status of seafloor communities and habitats remains problematic
as well. The report also suggests that monitoring programs for
water quality and a number of other resources (e.g., habitat contaminants
and invasive species) needs to be enhanced.
the list of concerns for the sanctuary are threats like damage
from fishing gear to seafloor habitat and archaeological sites,
depletion of some key species, and ship collisions with whales.
report was compiled by sanctuary staff with the help of qualified
experts, drawing on data taken from a wide range of past studies
of sanctuary resources. The report was also peer-reviewed by science
experts in accordance with standards outlined in the Infromation
Quality Act.
completion of the Stellwagen Bank condition report is the first
step in the sanctuary program's efforts to compile similar evaluations
of every site in the National Marine Sanctuary System. With several
more condition reports slated for completion in 2007, sanctuary
program staff will continue to work toward the goal of creating
a sound baseline for scientific monitoring throughout every marine
sanctuary in the nation.
a reporting tool will give marine resource managers an unprecedented
ability to evaluate environmental changes and potential threats
to some of the nation's most precious underwater areas, allowing
them to make well-informed and timely management decisions.
full report is now available online at sanctuaries.noaa.gov/science/condition,
along with an interactive Web version featuring a breakdown of
its findings.
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary encompasses 842 square
miles of ocean, stretching between Cape Ann and Cape Cod offshore
of Massachusetts. Renowned for its scenic beauty and remarkable
productivity, the sanctuary supports a rich assortment of marine
life, including marine mammals, more than 30 species of seabirds,
over 60 species of fishes, and hundreds of marine invertebrates.
National Marine Sanctuary Program seeks to increase the public
awareness of America's marine resources and maritime heritage
by conducting scientific research, monitoring, exploration and
educational programs. Today, the sanctuary program manages 13
national marine sanctuaries and one marine national monument that
together encompass more than 150,000 square miles of America's
ocean and Great Lakes natural and cultural resources.
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Religion and the GOP Nomination Race: December Update
Newt Gingrich currently holds a 35% to 21% lead over Mitt Romney among Republican and Republican-leaning voters who say they are very likely to vote in the GOP primaries or caucuses, and his lead is even larger among white evangelical GOP voters.
Romney's Mormon Faith Likely a Factor in Primaries, Not in a General Election
A new survey finds that there has been virtually no change in Americans' impressions of the Mormon faith over the past four years. Meanwhile, about half of all voters, and 60% of evangelical Republicans, know that Mitt Romney is a Mormon. Romney's religion has implications for his nomination run but not for the general election should he be nominated as his party's standard bearer.
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Corn and beans finished stronger while wheat was lower. December corn didn't make new contract highs but finished up 5 ¼ cents at $7.75 ¼. November soybeans finished 10 cents higher at $14.57, and December wheat down 4 ¼ cents at $7.90 ¾.
Despite yesterday's bullish crop ratings data the market came into the day sharply lower. We did have headlines talking about Ukraine expecting a record maize production this year of 18-20 Mill MTs, but this should have already been somewhat discounted in the market. Despite starting out weak grains eventually found support starting with the beans and towards the end of the session corn made its way back higher. Corn's trendline resistance remains at about the $7.87 level for December.
Yield is still the major question and there is a wide difference of opinion still. Yesterday crop progress lowered the corn rating by 3 percent, and the bean rating by 2%. Until we get more definitive information from harvest the market could remain supported on production fears. If corn yields are lowered from current guesses obviously we can still see this market take out the highs. We like remaining in sustainable hedges and are cautious at these levels.
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Silvio Berlusconi, the seventy-two-year-old Italian Prime Minister, is no stranger to scandal. Having survived some seventeen criminal trials without ultimately being convicted, he has inured the Italian public to feelings of shock or indignation. Last January, the prosecutor's office in Naples indicted Berlusconi and issued a report containing extracts of more than a thousand wiretapped conversations depicting Italy's state TV network, RAI, as a casting couch that Berlusconi used to grant favors to aspiring actresses—he called them "le fanciulle mie" ("my girls")—and to try to bring down the government. The report had no impact. In the national elections in the spring, Berlusconi returned triumphantly to power with his center-right People of Liberty coalition after less than two years in the opposition. But in early summer, when the Naples prosecutors indicated that there were hundreds of other wiretaps as well, of a purely personal nature, which they requested be destroyed, Italy's political-journalistic gossip mill began churning. Forget abuse of power and possible criminal wrongdoing—bring on the sex! Press reports speculated that the tapes contained raunchy comments involving Berlusconi and three female members of his government. The rumors about the Prime Minister's supposed shenanigans are often colored by political affiliation: Berlusconi's critics favor the stories about a doddering septuagenarian addicted to penis pumps and mysterious injections; supporters like to paint him as a tireless Don Juan, capable of satisfying two or three women at once.
During the election campaign, Berlusconi helped fuel speculation by bragging about how much more beautiful his party's female candidates for parliament were than those of his center-left opponents. Referring to Gianfranco Fini, the leader of the Chamber of Deputies and his principal coalition partner, he said of their decision to make thirty per cent of their candidates women, "There is already a rush to examine the past and say they're all my and Gianfranco's girlfriends." He went on, "We are kind of supermen in this way, let's be clear, but even we have our limits." In any case, Berlusconi has installed in the parliament, and even in his government, a number of former starlets who gained fame in his TV empire.
Antonio Di Pietro, a former prosecutor who heads one of the main opposition parties, publicly called Berlusconi un magnaccia, a colorful term for pimp, because of the time he has spent finding work for "showgirls" rather than solving government problems. At a protest in Rome this summer, the popular Italian comedian Sabina Guzzanti said of one Berlusconi appointee, Mara Carfagna, a former Miss Italy contestant who worked as a showgirl on Berlusconi's TV stations before entering parliament, "You can't make someone Minister of Equal Opportunity just because she's sucked your cock!" (Carfagna is suing Guzzanti for defamation and has steadfastly denied any sexual relationship with Berlusconi.) Vittorio Feltri, the editor of the right-wing newspaper Libero, took the opposite view. "I wouldn't worry if I were Berlusconi," he said. "Mussolini also had his women. We need a Prime Minister, not a Trappist monk."
Berlusconi talks openly about sex and does little to hide the fact that he has had a face-lift and hair transplants. In his politics, he combines archaic forms of sovereignty with modern elements of media charisma. The Milan daily Corriere della Sera recently quoted him half complaining and half boasting about being treated like a king whose royal touch is thought to have healing powers. "Pregnant mothers ask me to put a hand on their stomachs, others on their eyes because they have trouble seeing," Berlusconi said. "Some, imagine, on their heads because they're going bald. But in that case all I have to do is give them the phone number of my doctor."
In addition to various women whose favors he is rumored to have enjoyed, Berlusconi has brought to the new parliament three of his criminal-defense attorneys (who devise legislation that may help their client); his tax consultant; several co-defendants in various corruption cases; a long list of former and current executives in his many companies; columnists and editors of his many newspapers; and his personal physician.
As a result, the seat of the Chamber of Deputies, partly designed by Bernini, with its beautiful marble floors and soaring ceilings, has become the new Via Veneto. The center of its social life is a long, handsome room known as the transatlantico, the ocean liner, where members of parliament sit on comfortable leather couches and chairs or stand around and chat with colleagues and journalists.
On one of the days I happened to visit, someone whispered, "Ecco la Carfagna! " as the much maligned Minister of Equal Opportunity moved through the crowd. Carfagna has undergone a major makeover since her days on television, when she favored short skirts and décolleté blouses. One of the more popular online videos in Italy this summer was called "They've seen my ass even in Germany," which featured Carfagna as a showgirl being twirled in the air during a dance routine, her skirt flying up to her waist. (At a large gala last year, Berlusconi remarked to Carfagna, "If I weren't already married, I'd marry you!" The result was a highly publicized spat with his wife, Veronica Lario.) Now Carfagna has a short, severe (but very fashionable) haircut and wears a sober gray business suit, but she is only thirty-two, and her large brown eyes make her appear even younger. She was trailed closely by an aide who kept journalists at bay. Discussing gossip, Carfagna has said, "is not part of the mandate of my ministry."
Decidedly less sober is the Under-Secretary of Tourism, Michela Vittoria Brambilla, another former Miss Italy contestant, who once hosted a TV program called "Mysteries of the Night," which focussed on the night life of cities around the world. (A popular YouTube video depicts her visiting a Barcelona S & M club featuring men on leather leashes, bare-breasted women, and rubdowns with exotic fruits.) Brambilla also worked as a television reporter, and went on to become the managing director of her family's steel business. The tourism post is said to have been her second choice; because of her love of animals, she reportedly wanted to become Minister of the Environment. She still has television looks, from her long red hair, low-cut blouse, and micro-miniskirt down to her "slave sandals," with four-inch heels and an elaborate web of leather ties that climb suggestively up her legs.
The Minister of Education, Mariastella Gelmini, now thirty-five, is staid by comparison. Gelmini not only has no past in show business; she actually has significant, if brief, experience in politics. She is trying to work out a plan to give more local control to schools. (Both Brambilla and Gelmini also deny any claims of impropriety.)
Between votes, Niccolò Ghedini, one of Berlusconi's criminal-defense attorneys, likes to hang out at the transatlantico bar, eating cherries. For the past several years, he has shuttled between the Milan courtroom where Berlusconi has been tried on a series of corruption charges and the parliament, where he has helped write a series of laws that have kept Berlusconi and some of his closest associates out of prison. When I spoke with him, he explained calmly and patiently why it was appropriate for the new parliament to pass a law that allowed Berlusconi's broadcasting empire, Mediaset, to keep a television-channel frequency that by Italian law and European Union rules had been assigned to someone else. (Restrictions on television ownership don't make sense in an age of digital television, he argued.) He also told me why it was necessary to pass a law exempting Berlusconi from any criminal prosecution while he is Prime Minister. (Italy's judiciary is entirely autonomous; therefore, he reasoned, it is crucial to have greater defenses for the executive.) The law has short-circuited a case that was about to be decided in which Berlusconi was accused of paying off his British lawyer to give false testimony in two trials, including one about Berlusconi's role in establishing a secret offshore bank account belonging to Fininvest, Berlusconi's holding company, to finance the Socialist leader Bettino Craxi. (Both men deny the charges.) More recently, Berlusconi has pushed a bill to restrict the use of wiretaps in all prosecutions not involving terrorism or the Mafia, and to jail for up to three years journalists who publish leaked wiretaps.
It's difficult not to be charmed by Deputy Umberto Scapagnini, Berlusconi's personal physician, whose theories of longevity drew him into Berlusconi's circle. He keeps the Prime Minister on a special regimen of diet, exercise, amino acids, vitamins, and antioxidants. "Berlusconi is the most extraordinary psycho-physical subject I have ever examined," Scapagnini told me. "And I am not saying this because I'm a brownnoser. I am an internationally respected scientist—I don't need to curry favor." Scapagnini, who has travelled the Silk Road and studied the dietary habits of the residents of Okinawa looking for the secrets of long life, has helped develop a method for measuring what he calls a person's true biological age (the measurement of certain hormones and an examination of fifty strands of DNA as well as the person's immune system), which can vary considerably from one's actual age. "Berlusconi is fifteen years younger than his chronological age," Scapagnini continued. "He has an amazing immune system and powers of resistance. He has a magnetic personality and an exceptional capacity to communicate. He is perhaps the patient I've examined who has the capacity to live the longest. If you see him in a bathing suit, he has the musculature and tone of a much, much younger man." Scapagnini hopes to keep the P.M. alive until the age of a hundred and twenty, which he considers within the natural life span of a human being.
As for women, Scapagnini said, "Certainly, he has a strong sexual personality, and they are highly attracted to him. Naturally, for his part, as with any of us, this is not unpleasant. But, as with everything having to do with Berlusconi, it quickly turned to legend, and he has been the object of a disgraceful violation of privacy that would never be permitted in the United States."
Sex has always played a considerable role in Berlusconi's carefully cultivated image. He began his career in Milan real estate, constructing apartment complexes and bringing an American-style gated community to the area, and then became a pioneer in private television, helping break down the state monopoly in broadcasting. With the help of much political backing, he established a virtual monopoly on private TV in Italy: since the early nineteen-eighties, he has been the principal owner of the three largest private channels, which, together with the three state TV channels, account for more than ninety per cent of the market.
In speeches to his sales force, Berlusconi used to boast about how, early in his career in real estate, he helped close a crucial deal by seducing someone's secretary. Berlusconi, in fact, introduced sex into Italian television, and changed a national culture. For most of the post-Second World War period, Italy was dominated by the Catholic Church (together with the Christian Democratic Party) and the Italian Communist Party, all of which were rather prudish. Not only did Berlusconi broadcast "Dallas" and "Dynasty"; he introduced a program called "Colpo Grosso," a mystifying game-show striptease that invariably ended with the contestants—a man and a woman—in their underwear, the woman topless.
Berlusconi didn't mind using his TV contacts to advance his standing in the political world. We get a taste of this from a wiretap made in 1986, after Bettino Craxi had become Prime Minister and had helped Berlusconi to acquire his virtual monopoly on private television in Italy. At the time, police tapped a phone call between Berlusconi and one of his closest advisers, Marcello Dell'Utri, who was suspected of laundering money for the Sicilian Mafia. (He was convicted of conspiring with the Mafia in 2004, and is appealing the conviction.) On December 31, 1986, Dell'Utri and Berlusconi exchanged New Year's greetings, and the topic turned to sex:__
BERLUSCONI: The New Year is off to a bad start!
DELL'UTRI: Why?
BERLUSCONI: Because two girls from "Drive In" [a Fininvest TV show] were supposed to come and they stood us up! And Craxi is out of his mind with anger!
DELL'UTRI: What do you care about "Drive In"?
BERLUSCONI: What do I care? It means we're not going to fuck! If the year starts like this, it means we won't fuck anymore!
For all its froth, the latest gossip-fest originated in a serious criminal investigation. Prosecutors in Naples were investigating Agostino Saccà, the former head of the drama division of RAI, and his relations with Berlusconi. The prosecutors contend that Saccà abused his position by doing favors for Berlusconi in exchange for help in setting up a private film-production company in Calabria, a project that he was trying to get under way while still on the public payroll. "I'll return the favor when you are in business on your own," Berlusconi had reportedly told Saccà. This is what many feared when Berlusconi entered politics: that he would use his vast power as the country's richest man to distort the function of government—to, in effect, bribe a public servant into serving Berlusconi instead of the public.
Several wiretaps of the investigations were obtained by the news magazine L'Espresso and put up on its Web site. Recorded in 2007, when Berlusconi was out of power, they are a study in sycophancy_:_
SACCÀ: Presidente! Good evening, Presidente. . . . How are you?
BERLUSCONI: Getting by. . . .
SACCÀ: No. . . . Getting by in grand form, I must say, even with so many difficulties. . . . You remain the most beloved figure in the country. . . .
BERLUSCONI: Politically, I'm nowhere . . . but socially they mistake me for the Pope.
SACCÀ: That's just my point, you are the most beloved in the country, I say this without any intent to flatter . . . but it's stupendous, because there's a need for . . . there's a void . . . that you fill emotionally for the people. . . . We feel it.
Then they turn to the business of the call. Berlusconi wants help in maintaining the center-right's control of RAI, even though the center-left is running the government.
SACCÀ: You are the only one who has never asked me for anything. . . .
BERLUSCONI: Except from time to time about women . . . to boost the boss's morale.
Then Berlusconi moves on to a new point: he wants two actresses hired, one of them for an explicitly political purpose. Saccà, like any good dispenser of patronage, doesn't want to know why:
BERLUSCONI: Let me explain this thing. . . .
SACCÀ: No, Presidente, you don't have to explain anything.
BERLUSCONI: No, I'll explain it: I am trying to get . . .
SACCÀ: Presidente, you are a very civil, correct person. . . .
BERLUSCONI: I am trying to get . . . the majority in the Senate . . . and this Evelina Manna could be . . . because she's been recommended by someone with whom I'm negotiating.
In this period, Berlusconi was trying to overturn the center-left government of Romano Prodi, which was sustained by a one-vote majority in the Senate. One senator claims that he was offered a substantial sum of money by a supporter of the center-right to switch sides, and in this phone call Berlusconi makes it quite clear that he is hoping to get a part for an actress on behalf of another center-left senator, in order to bring down the government. (Saccà and Berlusconi deny that they did anything improper, and Saccà says that the two actresses mentioned in the conversation were merely auditioned, not hired. Saccà remains under investigation, and his lawyers have moved to have the case dismissed.)
Another set of wiretaps suggests the degree to which Berlusconi controlled RAI while out of office, despite being the principal owner of its main competitor, Mediaset. RAI hired Deborah Bergamini, Berlusconi's former personal assistant, to be the director of marketing. In 2007, it was reported that Bergamini was functioning essentially as a kind of Media set agent inside the state TV system. She was frequently on the phone with her former colleagues at Mediaset, coördinating programs and discussing how news events should be handled. In one 2005 conversation, she discussed how to minimize coverage of the death of the Pope, in order not to depress the Catholic vote in regional elections that were about to take place. When the election went badly for Berlusconi's center-right coalition, Bergamini and her colleagues worked mightily to delay broadcasting the results as long as possible, until the audience dropped off, and then made the announcement in as confusing a fashion as possible. Bergamini was let go from RAI after the conversations became public, but was given nearly six hundred thousand dollars in severance. (She denies any collusion with Mediaset.) Today, she, too, sits in parliament.
Before leaving office in 2006, Berlusconi passed a new electoral law that gave party leaders almost total power over who could run for parliament. In the past, voters could vote for individual candidates, giving power to local politicians with a following in their home districts. Under the new rules, Italians can vote only for a party, and the party bosses draw up the electoral lists. Those at the top of the list have the greatest chance of getting elected, and candidates' chances diminish the farther down they are placed. Members of parliament serve at the pleasure of the party leader. "I'm like Prince Charming—they were pumpkins and I turned them into parliamentarians," Berlusconi once said of his parliamentary delegation. The law also contained a "prize" for the party winning a majority in parliament: a number of extra seats to provide security for the governing coalition.
During a recent legislative session, Berlusconi proposed that only the party leaders should bother to vote in parliament, making the role of all but a handful of the six hundred and thirty members purely ceremonial. "We are moving toward a kind of South American model of democracy," Bruno Tabacci, who is a former Christian Democrat, a member of the Old Guard, and hardly a political radical, says. Now in the opposition, he served in Berlusconi's center-right coalition between 2001 and 2006. Even then, he points out, he voted against criminal-justice laws that appeared designed specifically to benefit Berlusconi and his co-defendants. Such internal dissent under the new rules is inconceivable, Tabacci says. "Members of parliament are essentially appointed, not elected, now. The role of parliament has become moribund." Gerardo D'Ambrosio, a center-left senator who spent more than forty years as a judge before entering politics, was even blunter. Because of Berlusconi's habit of cutting off debate on important legislation by calling for simple votes of confidence, "Parliament has become a farce," he said.
How farcical became clear early in the new session, when a photographer with a telephoto lens captured the text of a note that Berlusconi sent to two young female deputies, Gabriella Giammanco and Nunzia De Girolamo, on the Chamber floor:
Gabri, Nunzia, you look great together! Thanks for staying here, but it's not necessary. If you have some romantic appointment at lunchtime, I authorize you to leave! . . . Many kisses to both of you!!! "Your" president.
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Dear [President], we accept romantic appointments only from you.
Five years ago, Berlusconi saw a pretty twenty-three-year-old TV news reader named Virginia Sanjust di Teulada deliver a report about one of his economic decrees. The next day, he sent her a lavish bouquet of flowers with a note of congratulations. She replied with a thank-you note that included her cell-phone number. The next thing she knew, the Prime Minister was on the line, inviting her to lunch at the ministerial palace. She accepted. After lunch, according to an account by her ex-husband, Federico Armati, Berlusconi allegedly gave her a diamond bracelet and offered her a two-and-a-half-month consultancy at the Prime Minister's office, which paid about fifty thousand dollars. This was done with a formal ministerial decree, which was withdrawn suddenly when the press heard about it. But Sanjust subsequently got her own TV show on RAI and her ex-husband, who worked for the country's intelligence services, got a highly desirable transfer; then, after he and his ex-wife became embroiled in a custody battle, Armati was demoted.
Berlusconi's lawyers insist that he did nothing wrong and was only helping a young woman in need. Sanjust's lawyers also deny any wrongdoing. As with the conversation with Saccà, we will probably never know whether or not Berlusconi broke the law in this case, thanks to the legislation his lawyers pushed through parliament giving the Prime Minister immunity from prosecution while in office.
Armati, like any good member of the intelligence services, had documented his former wife's dealings with Berlusconi for possible future use. He claimed that Sanjust used her influence with Berlusconi to have him transferred and his pay slashed. (He was reassigned to a low-level job at a courthouse and his pay was reduced from about seven thousand dollars a month to a meagre twenty-five hundred. When Armati threatened to expose Berlusconi's dealings with his ex-wife, he says that he was suddenly given another position, with a salary of around eight thousand dollars a month.) Armati put together his version of events in a denunciation that he submitted to the tribunale dei ministri, which oversees misconduct at a ministerial level.
Armati also insists that Berlusconi gave his ex-wife considerable sums in cash—something that Berlusconi's lawyers deny, insisting that their relationship was purely one of friendship.
Although there is no documentation for the alleged cash payments, arrangements appear to have been made for Sanjust to live in an apartment overlooking the Campo de' Fiori, one of Rome's most beautiful squares, where Armati had previously lived. The official buyer was Salvatore Sciascia, who was the chief financial officer of Berlusconi's company Fininvest. He had been convicted of bribing members of the Italian tax police on Berlusconi's behalf. (He says that he has since been "rehabilitated.") Instead of firing Sciascia for his role in the bribery affair, Berlusconi brought him into the Senate, where he is one of several senators who have been convicted of serious crimes.
That none of this troubles the Italian public, which says a lot about the center-left opposition Berlusconi faces. "The real drama here is not the sex farce but the total collapse and fragmentation of the center-left," a friend of mine says. Berlusconi—despite two previous lacklustre terms in office—was reëlected this year because of the failures of the aborted eighteen-month center-left Prodi government. With its one-vote majority in the Senate, a fractured nine-party coalition that couldn't agree on anything important, the Prodi government was unable to address any of the country's important issues, including a protracted garbage crisis in Naples. As a result, a majority of the Italian people were happy to grant Berlusconi an extraordinary amount of decision-making power. He immediately eliminated the property tax on all Italians' principal residence, and the move was highly popular. Calling in the Army, he acted quickly to get the garbage off the streets of Naples, and claimed to have restored the city to the Western world in a mere fifty-eight days.
The larger fact remains that Italy has declined seriously during the fourteen years that Berlusconi has dominated Italian politics. Crony capitalism has proved to be inefficient as well as corrupt. In the early nineteen-nineties, Italy's G.D.P. was about fifteen per cent larger than that of Great Britain; now its economy is twenty-three per cent lower. When Wall Street collapsed and the current international financial crisis swept Europe, Berlusconi urged his countrymen not to hide their money under the mattress but to keep buying stocks—he recommended Media-set, among others—and to keep spending. To set an example, he headed off to a disco, telling the crowd there, according to the Rome daily La Repubblica, "If I sleep for three hours, I still have enough energy to make love for another three." The financial catastrophe has only increased his power, since as Prime Minister he will undoubtedly have control over public monies allocated for private corporate bailouts.
Even the rampant sexism of Berlusconi's behavior toward women in politics—the use of women as political arm candy—is not without economic consequences. Italy has the smallest percentage of women in the workplace of any major European nation—a serious drag on economic growth and productivity that helps explain why the country has lagged at the bottom among industrialized nations. A recent study by the Bank of Italy showed that if employment levels among Italy's women were the same as those among men the country's G.D.P. would be seventeen per cent higher. Other studies link Italy's birth rate, among the lowest in the world, to the extreme asymmetry between men and women in Italy. That is unlikely to be cured by the royal touch. ♦


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Renewable energy reached 15 percent of total electric generating capacity in 2013 and accounted for nearly two-thirds of all new installations for the year, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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Sacrifice leads to Kipnis' first hit of season
TORONTO -- Jason Kipnis' cell phone buzzed on Thursday afternoon. When the Indians second baseman looked at the screen, he saw a text message from his dad.
The note read: I sacrificed a chicken.
After the first two games of the season, Kipnis was still searching for his first hit of the 2013 campaign. Kipnis' wait came to an end in the first inning on Thursday, when he sent a pitch from lefty Mark Buehrle into left field for a double.
Cleveland's No. 3 hitter is expected to be a key piece to the team's offense and manager Terry Francona isn't worrying much about the second baseman's slow start.
"He'll be fine," Francona said.
Francona pointed to Kipnis' first at-bat in Wednesday's 11-inning, 3-2 victory over the Blue Jays as an example. Kipnis sliced a pitch from hard-throwing righty Brandon Morrow to the warning track in left field, where Toronto outfielder Melky Cabrera made a strong play to catch the ball. Kipnis went 0-for-5 on the night to slip to 0-for-9 on the season.
"That gets lost in the shuffle," Francona said of Kipnis' loud out in the first inning. "I mean, he waffled that ball. Melky makes a great play, so you have to remember that. If that ball lands, I guarantee he feels good about himself. You just have to not lose sight of that."
Kipnis opened the spring slate by going 6-for-42 (.143) at the plate, but showed improvement in the final week of Cactus League play. In his final four games, the second baseman hit .286 (4-for-14) with three extra-base hits and four RBIs. Kipnis, who hit .257 with 14 homers, 31 stolen bases and 76 RBIs for the Tribe last season, also got extra at-bats in Minor League games down the stretch.
Francona was encouraged by what he saw from Kipnis leading up to the regular season.
"Yes, very much so," Francona said. "It's like [on Wednesday], when you see a guy hit a ball to the opposite field like that, you can't hit a ball to the opposite field with authority without doing everything right."


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What things to expect from LSU vs Wisconsin
LSU site AS WELL AS THE Valley Shook brings us up to date on the Tigers. http://lsuvswisconsin.com/
LSU vs Wisconsin : This Sunday at Lambeau Field the Wisconsin Badgers face a large job, taking on working again Leonard Fournette, previous defensive planner Dave Aranda and the No. 5 LSU Tigers.
LSU possesses the longest non-conference regular-season being successful ability in FBS record, at 52 games currently, as it minds up to Green Bay to handle Wisconsin. Fournette, a Heisman Trophy favorite, obtained 23 touchdowns previous season and is merely 13 rushing back yards shy of getting 3,000 for his career–he could end up being the Tigers' speediest player to attain that mark.
Head instructor Les Mls also comes back eight beginners on protection, under the guise of Aranda and his basic 3-4 security now.
To LSU vs Wisconsin Live Stream breakdown LSU, Billy Gomila of Plus the Valley Shook, our SB Region cousins who cover the Tigers, responded to a few of our questions relating to this talented and experienced SEC powerhouse.
LSU's placed No. 5 in the AP poll no. 6 in the coaches poll. What exactly are the objectives for Les Miles's team this season?
Billy Gomila (BG): The Tigers haven't returned anywhere near this much experience under Les Mls. After years to be decimated by NFL draft departures, just about any eligible player came back, which has lifted the expectation level definitely. Fans will be expecting this team to compete for the SEC championship and by proxy the faculty Football Playoff.
Only a question to getting over that big Crimson hump.
Leonard Fournette endured an ankle joint sprain in fall season camp but is apparently back again to practice proceeding into game week. The Badgers have a skilled front seven. Just how much of the criminal offense will he and the working game need to make to reach your goals not merely against Wisconsin, but through the season?
BG: Fournette will be fine, however when he dings whatever you put him on the shelf until you need him to handle contact again. And he and his mates in the backfield are almost bound to shoulder almost all of the load because of this game. His backup luckily, Derrius Guice, is a ex – five-star recruit that made his show of big works as a genuine freshman previous season. On Sunday i'd expect both players to transport the ball double-digit times, especially if LSU gets almost any lead.
QB Brandon Harris will be under middle for the Tigers. What progression has he made since 2014, and who are the key weapons Wisconsin must look out for?
Well, 2014 was a huge eye-opener for Harris as a genuine freshman. His begin came on the highway at Auburn, and he battled to even spit out play phone calls in the huddle. It was a total meltdown that saw him shelved for all of those other season, but he definitely took some small baby steps forward another year once he previously won the work to himself. But he battled with accuracy and reliability and timing still, mostly.
Most people have a tendency to leap to the same conclusions whenever an LSU quarterback battles just, but in all honesty, Harris appeared as if most first-time beginners last year, as a genuine sophomore especially. And his nosedive in the season's final month just happened to coincide with the timing of any sports hernia that he suffered. We expect him to boost this season.
Defensively, Wisconsin vs LSU how gets the move to Dave Aranda's 3-4 plan been?
BG: I believe we're ready to start to see the results there ourselves. LSU has some items which should fit in effectively. Sophomore Arden Key should transition well from defensive end to outside linebacker really, and should be considered a break-out star as a pass-rusher this year. Older Kendell Beckwith should easily fit into effectively too. He was a lttle bit miscast as a 4-3 mike [linebacker], but with a little more help in the middle he should be far more productive, and also have his weaknesses covered up a lttle bit.
Of course, it also helps that previous five-star recruit Travonte Valentine is in the collapse after 2 yrs of limbo now. At 335 pounds, Valentine ought to be the classic nose tackle which should help with the inside of the defense.
How contain the injury to certain contributors on security afflicted the depth? Which positions are profound, and which can be involving for the Tigers?
BG: The protective front must play some freshmen out necessarily due to traumas to senior protective end Religious LaCouture and linebacker Corey Thompson, but there's enough depth that in both instances, the young ones will involve some experienced support around them.
The best question will be the offensive range, which remains just a little unsettled. An ankle joint problems for freshman All-American Maea Teuhema has resulted in the unit being truly a little reshuffled. There's a huge amount of talent there, however the starting five the Badger protection faces may vary than the main one LSU's conference competitors face in a couple weeks.


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Dante Exum thrives as 2014 NBA draft's mystery man
NEW YORK — Dante Exum knows no one knows much about him.
In fact, the Australian recited the two most common requests he's gotten over the past few months from strangers, NBA personnel and reporters alike: Could he describe his game, and could he also compare it to that of a current NBA player?
Welcome to life as the 2014 NBA draft's mystery man.
"It's funny," Exum said Wednesday. "I didn't understand it at first. It's good to be known, but it's good to be a mystery."
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A convergence of factors — many unexpectedly fortuitous — have combined to create this aura surrounding a relatively unknown player. And now, many are expecting Exum to be a top-five pick in Thursday's draft.
He said Wednesday he's only worked out for three teams — the Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers and Orlando Magic, holding the second, third and fourth picks — but his agent also has been in contact with the Cleveland Cavaliers, who hold the draft's top pick. It's almost mind-boggling for an international player not yet 19 years old, someone off most everyone's radars not even 14 months ago.
To understand Exum's dramatic rise and subsequent hype, begin with two basketball events.
In April 2013, the then-17-year-old Exum put on a show at the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Ore., scoring 16 points and stealing some of the spotlight from the big-name players also participating in one particular game — which also featured likely top-10 picks Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker and Julius Randle.
"(But) not a lot of people were paying attention because it looked like he was going to college," ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla said earlier this week.
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Then came the FIBA Under-19 World Championships last summer, in Prague. Hampered by an ankle injury, he played his worst game against the United States — seven points 11 minutes of action — he still averaged more than 17 points per game during the tournament.
"He really stepped out and had a great tournament," Fraschilla said. "I was there, watched him play. I don't remember any NBA general manager there. Basically, just scouts — very, very few decision-makers."
That's the key here: The folks who will make the decision to take Exum likely will have seen him play in person only once or twice.
Exum finished up his high school career in Australia this past fall and considered playing college basketball in the USA. His father, Cecil, had done just that, playing alongside Michael Jordan as a part of the 1982 national championship-winning North Carolina team.
Exum could have joined a college team mid-season, or simply joined one this fall. His stock had risen so quickly, though, that a third option emerged: Declare for the NBA draft without playing a second of college ball.
Because he's foreign and turning 19 during the calendar year of the draft, he was eligible to do just that. So he did.
"His crazy high school schedule has actually helped build his mystique," Fraschilla said. "(He could) maximize the mystery and potential by putting himself in the draft. … The sizzle is there. I think they marketed him perfectly to be a top-five pick."
Exum's build is intriguing; he's a 6-6 natural point guard with incredible athleticism. He's great at driving to the basket, though that has also prompted some to question his outside shooting — criticism Exum brushes off. But his deep knowledge of the game and his impressive length will help him on both ends of the court. He's relied on his private workouts and meetings with NBA teams to show them not only how he plays, but how he thinks about the game.
"Even though you haven't seen that much of him, it's his upside — he's 6-6, he's athletic and he plays the point guard position," said former Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart, who guarded Exum at the U-19 World Championships. "He's a phenomenal athlete."
Exum has intrigued his fellow draft prospects, and he has also intrigued those in NBA front offices across the country. Now, the draft's mystery man is mere hours away from having a far-fetched dream realized.
"A couple of years ago, I was thinking I wasn't going to get college offers," Exum said. "Everything's happened so fast. ... In a way, it's all still sinking in.
"It's actually happening."
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Hey – how's your week been? Mine has been fragmented and somewhat discerning. Nevertheless, we can only keep our chin up and keep going, no?
Today the Wii Fit was released in the UK. Of course I got my greasy mitts on one:
I haven't played with it yet because I'm too lazy to plug it in. What do you mean, how do I expect to do the daily exercises then ? I will, ok, I just will.
There has been a lot of debate as to whether its actually a feasible tool for exercise.
Well – not if your a hardcore gym goer, no.
If you can do 200 press ups, no.
But if you are like me, and you'd rather squirt foamy custard up your nose than go to the gym, then this is great.
Its exercise as fun games. Love Wii Sports? You'll adore this.
I can't to wait to give it ago and shame myself when I find out what my true bodyweight is.
Meanwhile, i still need help with names for these two. Considering the boyf wants to call them (both girls) – Frog and CJ7, is not a good sign.
Help! any suggestions?
Grey is an intrepid adventurer. I want to call her Electra…
Ginger is very sociable and a bit naughty. I quite liked Bella Donna until I found out Bella Donna is a porn star – my kitty may be naughty, but she ain't no ho.
The sky is getting dark, and I've had a longggg day. I need to make this weekend a super hard working one so I need to ban myself from the internet. Its a killer for productivity.
I shall leave you with this vision:
Mariah, Mariah. You are a ho, fo' sho'….


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