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By now we all know El Presidente is coming to save hip-hop on November 21st. But the question still remains: Is his former foe turned friend Nas really following in his footsteps a few weeks after? Well YN doesn't like questions. He likes answers. So I hollered at Antonio and the crew and took my lazy ass up to Def Jam to hear 5 new Nas songs. Now I recently got a new Blackberry that I don't fully know how to work (plus I have wide fingers) so I didn't really take notes while the music was playing but here's what, to the best of my recollection, I can recall. Word to Ronald Reagan.
Track Un
The "Hip-Hop Is Dead" title track. It's a higher-level Luda-like intro that lays out Nasir's new blueprint. His various rhyme references will satisfy you hip-hop students as he name-drops everything from "the bigger the cap the bigger the peeling" to Dem Franchise Boyz white Tees. Only catch is it's produced by Will I Am. Hey, don't shoot the messenger? It knocks. Preemo, who?
Track Deux
Another one with the Black Eyed Pea behind the boards. The song played off that old standard "Unforgettable" and has never-blew singer Yvette Michelle hittin' more high notes than Mariah. A little too musically all over the place for my taste.
Track Trois
Reggae-flavored joint that sounds a little similar to Cam's "Bubble Music." The Marley boys lend a hand. I ain't mad at it.
Track Quatre
OK. Here's the kicker boys and girls: Nas and Game together on a Dr. Dre track. I repeat: Nas and Game together on a Dr. Dre track. That's right, rap scholars: Game can't get a Dre beat for his album but he's on one on Nas' LP. Might be last time we ever hear Game on an official Dre beat. Surprisingly, Jones and Taylor are a good combination. Still I like the Doctor's Advocate Nas/Game connection better. I also secretly heard that one and the QB soldier spits some shit on there like "Pro-black, I don't even pick cotton out of aspirin bottles." That's some "Back to the Grill at the BBQ" shit.
Track Cinq
Only song I heard today with legitimate single potential. It's called something like "Let Me In The Light." Mr. West produced it, used some-old-school breakbeat drums and one of Nas' homies does a good Anthony Hamilton impersonation on the hook. I might be buggin' but the shit sounded hot to me. Maybe it was just Massa Reid's boomin' system.
3 Other Facts Y'all Give Way More Than 2 Shits About
1. Final album is gonna be Illmatic-like length. Maybe 12 songs.
2. Kanye has another track on there that he's rhyming on.
3. And finally, yes, there's a Nas/Jay collabo. Not on Kingdom Come but right chea. They knocked out 3 songs in 1 night and one is making it. Produced by Just… Large… Salaam… Timber… well of course, L.E.S. Life's a bitch, ain't it? Kudos, Leshan.
Still I did make a decision today. I'm really gonna give Nas his cover. No more back page tricks. Internet geeks: Rejoice!


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LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson's feuding former Las Vegas trial lawyers have settled a breach of contract lawsuit in federal court in Nevada and their slander claim in Florida state court.
But the imprisoned former football star's ex-lawyer from Miami, Yale Galanter, and one of Simpson's current attorneys in Nevada still have one dispute remaining.
Galanter confirmed Thursday that a Miami defamation case remained active against Simpson attorney Malcolm LaVergne in Las Vegas.
LaVergne said his lawyer in Miami was trying to resolve the case.
Terms of agreements between Galanter and attorneys Gabriel Grasso and Joshua Tomsheck weren't disclosed.
Each noted that a June 4 filing dismissing a breach of contract dispute in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas and a May 29 filing voluntarily dismissing the defamation and slander claim against Grasso and Tomsheck in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court contained confidentiality clauses.
The Miami case alleges that Galanter's reputation in the Florida legal community was harmed by comments in April 2012 about Grasso's allegations that Galanter failed to pay him promised legal fees in the Simpson case.
The root of the dispute between Simpson's lawyers was Grasso's contention that Galanter stiffed him of a promised $250,000 fee for serving as local attorney following Simpson's arrest in September 2007 and through his trial in 2008.
Simpson, now 66, was convicted and sentenced to nine to 33 years in state prison for leading a group of men in an armed confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers in a room at a Las Vegas casino hotel.
Simpson maintained that he was trying to retrieve from the collectibles dealers family photos and mementoes that he thought had been stolen from him after his 1995 acquittal in Los Angeles in the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend.
Grasso and Galanter parted ways on the Simpson case in 2009, before Galanter lost an appeal for Simpson's freedom to the Nevada Supreme Court that included oral arguments in June 2010.
Galanter was no longer part of Simpson's case when LaVergne lost a bid for a hearing before the entire seven-member state high court.
Grasso later hired Tomsheck to handle a breach of contract claim filed in April 2012 in Nevada state court against Galanter. The case was moved to federal court the following month.
Galanter denied failing to pay Grasso and filed the Miami lawsuit against Grasso, Tomsheck and LaVergne.
A Nevada state court judge last year denied Simpson a new trial based on claims that Galanter and Grasso botched his defense at trial.
A new team of lawyers is appealing that decision to the Nevada Supreme Court.
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text: Market Highlights: Futures Look Bright June 10, 2014 05:08 AM Tweet The cattle futures market looks bright. © Wyatt Bechtel TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By University News Release Email The cattle futures market looks bright. By: Andrew P. Griffith, University of Tennessee FED CATTLE: Fed cattle traded steady to $1 higher on a live basis compared to last week. Prices on a live basis were mainly $145 while dressed trade was not well developed at press. The 5-area weighted average prices thru Thursday were $145.13 live, up $0.97 from last week and $231.84 dressed, up $1.08 from a week ago. A year ago prices were $123.40 live and $195.80 dressed. The strength in the futures market has cattle feeders pushing for higher prices this week. However, packers are holding out because the beef market is seasonally softening, and it is expected to do so through the heat of the summer. The leverage has been shifting to packers for several weeks as the market ready supply of cattle has been seasonally increasing. However, feedlot managers are willing to take a few risks at this point and push for higher prices, because cattle marketings are fairly current and the year-over-year supply is rather tight. Feedlot marketings are current do to previously high prices pulling some cattle forward even when packers were slowing chain speeds to support cutout prices. BEEF CUTOUT: At midday Friday, the Choice cutout was $229.94 down $1.05 from Thursday and down $3.38 from last Friday. The Select cutout was $221.16 down $0.73 from Thursday and down $1.58 from last Friday. The Choice Select spread was $8.78 compared to $10.58 a week ago. Beef markets sizzled through the cold weather and it appears they are ready to fizzle during the summer heat. Choice and Select beef cutout prices showed signs of strength since setting records earlier in the year, but they were not able to match such prices during the time period when beef demand is traditionally its strongest. Some late Father's Day purchases likely helped keep beef prices supported immediately following Memorial Day. Similarly, it likely provided some support this week, but it will be difficult for packers to keep prices elevated with the heat of summer and seasonally increasing slaughter rates. It is not surprising beef prices could not outperform record prices. However, it is surprising the strength of Select beef relative to Choice beef. The Choice Select spread normally widens during May and early June before narrowing during summer. However, the spread stagnated during that time period. Part of this is due to an increase in beef grading Choice or better while some of it is likely due to consumers trading down to lower quality but more affordable beef. TENNESSEE AUCTIONS: On Tennessee auctions this week compared to a week ago steers and bulls were steady to $2 higher. Heifers were steady to $3 higher. Slaughter cows and bulls were steady to $2 higher. Average receipts per sale were 764 head on 12 sales compared to 590 head on 10 sales last week and 630 head on 10 sales last year. OUTLOOK: The local cash feeder cattle market has showed signs of reaching a summer lull, but the uptrend in feeder cattle futures has allowed the cash market to continue marching forward. August through November feeder cattle futures have all exceeded the $200 per hundredweight mark which was largely thought of as a resistance point, but it appears feedlots are willing to pay up to fill the pens. When supplies of feeder cattle are tight, feedlots are very competitive in placing calves in the pens and cash and futures prices are reflective of this competitive nature. This competitive nature has resulted in calf and feeder cattle markets failure to follow normal seasonal tendencies which can increase the complexity of the marketing strategy for many producers. There have been a number of producers that marketed calves earlier in the year that wish they had held those calves to heavier weights and capitalized on higher prices later in the year. However, it would have been difficult to have the foresight of such strength in the stocker calf and feeder cattle market. There is still potential for calf prices to break as the market heads into the heat of summer, but it is unlikely the feeder cattle market will break anytime in the next four or five months. Drought and a shortage of forage is one common factor with potential to cause prices to drop for lightweight calves. Fortunately, much of the state received significant rainfall this week which should alleviate some of the dry conditions being experienced as well as promote forage growth. It would likely require a decimation of corn yields similar to 2012 to cause any significant decline in feeder cattle prices since cattle numbers are the tightest since 1951. Thus, the cattle price outlook heading into summer and fall months is very positive for sellers. The outlook for buyers is a little gloomier as the financial outlay for purchased cattle continues to rise. This may be a time for folks buying cattle to hedge those purchases to protect against further price increases and protect a little more of the margin. TECHNICALLY SPEAKING: Based on Thursday's closing prices, June closed at $139.50. Support is at $138.52 then $136.89. Resistance is at $140.14, then $141.77. The RSI is 60.42. August closed at $141.32. Support is at $140.41, then $138.91. Resistance is at $141.91, then $143.41. The RSI is 66.20. October closed at $144.90. Support is at $144.63, then $144.28. Resistance is at $145.14, then $145.15. The RSI is 65.14. August feeders closed at $199.82. 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There were sad memories of a sad day.
However, there also were laughs.
Plus, there was sun… and, of course, butterflies.
On Saturday, the center of Plantsville was packed with families as the hard work of two Southington women, Lisa Wrubleski and Erin Furniss, came to fruition with Because of 26.
The events in Plantsville center and along the Rails to Trails of Southington was intended as a tribute to the 20 students and six teachers who were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. The event, which included singing, words for state and town leaders, and the release of butterflies, was intended to coincide with the six month anniversary on Friday.
Looking at the strong turnout for the event, which five months earlier had only been a nugget of an idea, Wrubleski said, "We're so lucky to be raising our children in such a caring and kind community like this."
"I hope today will inspire you to be more kind and caring," said Wrubleski.
Wrubleski said not only did support for the event come from within the Southington community but from the state, the nation, and the world.
Furniss said the business community within Southington was especially supportive of the efforts around Because of 26. Even before the committee members for Because of 26 could finish their pitch for help, the businesses would stop them and ask, "What can I do to help?"
Dr. Joseph Erardi, the Southington school superintendent, issued two challenges on Saturday, one to the children and one to the adults.
To the children, the school superintendent said, he wanted them on Sunday to practice one act of kindness. And then they should do so again on Monday, to make it two days in a row. He then asked the children to email him and tell him, "This is what I did."
For the adults, Erardi asked them to think of someone with whom they were in conflict. He then asked the adults to call this person, have a conversation, and finally resolve the conflict.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy both attended the events of Because of 26.
Blumenthal, looking over the large crowd on the Plantsville green said, "You are beautiful… this is a picture worth a 1,000 words… You will light a candle that will celebrate kindness and generosity… (Show the world) you will not surrender to the darkness."
"Because of 26, we will do better," said Blumenthal. "We will make America safer. We will make America a better place."
When the tragedy of Newtown happened, noted Malloy, the state was still in the middle winter. And due to the events of Dec. 14, he said he looked forward to spring "when the trees come out… (Spring) will remind us of the souls we lost that day… the contributions of teachers who ran into danger to save these children. (Spring) would remind us of all the potential of those children who died that day."
After so many days of rain the past week, Malloy noted, "This is a beautiful day… the sun is shining today because God wanted it to shine on a day like this."
Malloy said when those attending Because of 26 think of the events at Newtown "hug a child."
After the guests had their say at the green, a group of children stepped forward with butterflies to be released in memory of the children and their teachers who died on Dec. 14.
In addition to the ceremony on the Plantsville green, guests were invited to walk the trails. Along the way, the children were encouraged to use chalk to draw butterflies and words of kindnesses. The children also could have their faces painted with butterflies, plant some plants along the trail, view a mural painted by area artists in tribute to the lives lost in Newport, visit the butterfly bushes, listen to some live music, and collect knitted butterflies hanging from the trees and bushes that were sent in from all around the world for Because of 26.
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WASHINGTON — While Kia imported its millionth vehicle from South Korea to Washington state's Port of Tacoma in August, Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland wants to see more American cars exported to Seoul, the city where she was born in 1962.
"If you walk around Seoul, you don't see very many cars that aren't Hyundai or Kia, so there's an opportunity for us," she said. "If we can get access to the automobile market in Korea, it means a lot of American jobs."
Strickland wants Congress to pass the long-stalled trade pact between the United States and South Korea. In her region, it's an easy call: "Washington is the most trade-dependent state in America, and we are a port city."
She may soon get her wish. After languishing for four years, the proposed agreement could be headed for a showdown vote in Congress in the next month or so — and backers hope it happens before South Korean President Lee Myung-bak visits the White House for an official state dinner Oct. 13.
President Barack Obama formally sent the pact to Congress on Monday, along with proposed trade agreements with Colombia and Panama. He called the Korean free-trade pact "a landmark agreement."
"The agreement levels the playing field for U.S. businesses, workers, farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, investors and service providers by offering them unprecedented access to Korea's nearly $1 trillion economy," Obama said.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said the trade deals would be "a top priority for the House" and would be considered quickly.
"Today we have overcome a crucial hurdle to helping put Americans back to work," he said.
If the deal is approved, Washington state — where one of every three jobs is linked to international trade — would start sending a lot more of its products to South Korea, including sweet cherries, pears, apples, potatoes, wine and airplanes.
Despite opposition from labor unions, the agreement has strong backing from the state's congressional delegation. And with South Korea already ranking as Washington state's fourth-largest trading partner, proponents say the deal could be a real boon for all of the Pacific Northwest.
"I actually think that Washington, of all the states in the country, stands to benefit the most," said Eric Schinfeld, president of the Washington Council on International Trade, a group that lobbies Congress on behalf of businesses in the state.
Under the agreement, South Korea immediately would eliminate its 24 percent tariff on sweet cherries, and its 45 percent tariff on most apples would be phased out over 10 years. Washington state is among the nation's largest producer of both cherries and apples.
Scrapping the tariff on cherries would make them about $1 a pound cheaper for South Koreans and would result in more sales, said Mark Powers, vice president of the Northwest Horticultural Council in Yakima, Wash.
"That's the hope, and that's the expectation," he said, adding that sales have been rising in South Korea even with the tariffs. "It's an awesome market. It's growing rapidly. They really love the cherries that we're selling."
Representatives of many labor and environmental groups, including the Washington Fair Trade Coalition, have consistently opposed the pact, arguing that it would lead to more jobs going overseas. They also object to working conditions in South Korea, saying there have been repeated challenges to unionizing activities.
Noting that the administration of President George W. Bush negotiated the South Korean trade pact, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said at a news conference recently that "old Bush-era deals are not the answer." He called for a "new approach" to international trade, "not the same broken deals that send jobs offshore and benefit multinationals but not working people."
Schinfeld, who was on Capitol Hill recently to meet with members of Washington's congressional delegation, said that three pending trade pacts — with South Korea, Panama and Colombia — are "definitely Number One" atop the list of the trade council's issues.
"We're very optimistic," he said. "It's hard with this Congress. Even the most rational things sometimes have gotten caught up in politics. We've been hopeful now for a while on these free-trade agreements, but certainly we seem to be in the end game."
President Barack Obama, who has long touted the benefits of a deal with South Korea, called on Congress to approve the pact when he announced his $447 billion jobs plan in September.
"If Americans can buy Kias and Hyundais, I want to see folks in South Korea driving Fords and Chevys and Chryslers," he said.
Strickland said she backs Obama's plan to try to double all U.S. exports by 2015.
"It acknowledges that 90 percent of the world's consumers do not live in America," Strickland said. "And we have to do a better job of coming up with trade agreements that allow us better access to different markets, especially with South Korea. Over 20 million people alone live in Seoul, and that society is becoming more affluent by the day. And there's just a big opportunity to really develop ties with that market."
Congressional leaders have been meeting with the White House in an attempt to finalize details on a vote. And Obama is expected to discuss the agreement with the South Korean president, who visited Washington state just last week, when he arrives in Washington, D.C., later this month.
Passing the deal before the South Korean president arrives in Washington "would be a tremendous reaffirmation of our alliance with that key country," Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said at a recent hearing on trade issues.
Many members of Congress hope that Obama will have signed the agreement by the time of the upcoming state dinner.
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Twitter has had a busy year. After piling on endless new features, helping spread vital news during Hurricane Sandy, and ultimately playing a pivotal role in the 2012 presidential election, the platform has morphed from the tech world's water cooler into a major media player.
But grappling with that new role hasn't been easy. The same user policies written for a Twitter once ruled by Ashton Kutcher and Fake Steve Jobs now seem to carry the weight of United Nation resolutions, directly affecting the outcome of conflicts in far-flung corners of the globe. Most recently, after the escalating Twitter antics between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas – marking the first time an armed campaign was announced on Twitter – a group of U.S. congressmen are calling for the shuttering of Hamas' official account.
Both sides of the conflict began using the platform to effectively live tweet their war earlier this month. On November 14, the IDF's official Twitter account announced it would begin attacking targets in Hamas in attempts to protect Israeli citizens as well as take down Gaza Strip terrorists.
And with that, things were off. Official accounts from Hamas took the IDFs bait, and a Twitter fight has never been more literal. The IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) and Hamas (@AlquassamBrigade) have gone back and forth, hurling insults and waging threats as they also lodge very serious real attacks against one another. Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari was killed in the IDF's initial attack, escalating the violence and Twitter conversation to new heights.
While the IDF and Hamas have reached a ceasefire for the time being, Twitter's role as a mouthpiece for both sides remains contentious. Should Twitter fall in line with government loyalties and act as a censor, or should it be a sometimes-turbulent platform free speech? Personally, I believe that Twitter is an infrastructure for us to create things with, whether they be marketing campaigns, stories, satires, newswire-like updates, or even war time pronouncements. Twitter laid the tracks; we run the train.
Respecting your own rules
Before asking what role the government should have in regulating Twitter, it's worth asking whether or not Twitter violated its own policies by allowing the conversation between the IDF and Hamas to play out on its network. When it comes to policing its network, Twitter has a fairly inconsistent history. Just last week, the social network axed the hilarious New York Times parody account (only to quickly restore it), and don't get me started on the platform's Verified Account insignia and the twisted tunnel that is its scheme.
According to Twitter's own rules, the site is not to be used for war propaganda. Specifically, Twitter may not be used for "Violence and threats: You may not publish or post direct, specific threats of violence against others." As you might imagine, a great many of the tweets from both the IDF and Hamas contained such content – see for yourself below.
The IDF contends this served as a warning for citizens:
You could argue that this is open to interpretation – that when @IDFSpokesperson tweeted that Hamas leaders should not show their faces above ground, the implication wasn't necessarily a violent threat. But clearly, it was. Regardless of your political stance, the IDF's goal is to issue strikes on Hamas forces, and vice versa – and both sides are using various social platforms, Twitter in particular, to communicate this message.
Of course, Twitter isn't the only site that has terms of service expressly prohibiting the use of a platform for threats and violence. Pinterest, Flickr, and YouTube all have similar terms, and are all being used for broadcasting the ensuing activity in the Middle East. These companies have wrestled with their own terms of service too, but Twitter has remained quiet.
When does free speech cross the line?
Late last week, a Congressmen called on Twitter to shut down the official accounts of "terrorist organizations like Hamas."
"Allowing foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas to operate on Twitter is enabling the enemy," Representative Ted Poe told The Hill last week. "Failure to block access arms them with the ability to freely spread their violent propaganda and mobilize in their war on Israel. Anti-American foreign terrorist groups around the world are doing the same thing every day. The FBI and Twitter must recognize sooner rather than later that social media is a tool for the terrorists." A Christian evangelical group called Christians United for Israel has taken the same stance.
This isn't the first time Twitter has faced pressure from outside forces telling it how to police accounts. Last year, U.S. authorities said they may have the right to force Twitter to shut down the account of militant Somali group Al-Shabaab. Senator Joe Lieberman reportedly tried to have Taliban propaganda accounts shuttered, and an Israeli law firm tried to rid the platform of Hezbollah accounts. It isn't just a matter of providing a mouthpiece, either. The U.S. government has also been attempting to force Twitter to hand over identification information about the Wikileaks' account, as well as three allegedly involved users. The investigation is ongoing, although Twitter has done its best to keep user data safe.
Twitter's transparency reports give some idea what a bind the networking is in, showing users what countries are requesting user account information. Earlier this year, Twitter said it had received more of these requests in the first half of 2012, than in all of 2011.
Right now, Rep. Poe and Christians United for Israel are only suggesting that Twitter ban Hamas. But there is some language in the Communications Decency Act that suggests any platform that acts as a host to a terrorist implicitly offers its support – which could apply to Twitter.
New problems, new rules
Twitter faces all the increased scrutiny because it has become a legitimate source for breaking news. Digital media has broken and rebuilt the old news cycle, and there's no going back. We're increasingly used to first-hand accounts from our sources instead of intermediary publishers and reporters acting as the middle men between us and the information.
The repercussions are immediately obvious: A wealth of very graphic content is at our – anyone's – fingertips. Regardless of your feelings on the Middle East and the struggle over the Gaza Strip, there is a great deal of propagandistic information flowing forth 140 characters at a time. There's also plenty of offensive name-calling going on, and the casual way that some of the tweets talk about death is unsettling.
How you feel about censorship will likely play into how you feel about the existence of these accounts. If you feel that more information is always good information, that knowing more, even painful things, makes us more informed citizens and thus more able to form opinions and potentially take action, then you think what happened between the IDF and Hamas and how it played on via Twitter is a turning point for the Internet and media. But there's no denying that the medium is giving what many consider a terrorist organization – in this case Hamas – an outlet, because it gives everyone an outlet.
A slippery slope
As the American Civil Liberties Union points out, the censoring of ideas is a slippery slope, and one that it would be dangerous for Twitter to tread on.
"Say what you will about Hamas, but I don't think it benefits American public discourse to censor their Twitter feed, nor do I think merely providing Hamas with an outlet furthers their organizational goals (and, indeed, may do the opposite for many who find their views repellent)," says ACLU lawyer Gabe Rottman.
Going down a path of censorship means social sites like Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Flickr, and even Pinterest – all of which have seen been used by armed forces – will have to reconsider what's propaganda, what's considered a veiled threat versus a legitimate warning, and who they listen to when decided what's a recognized military force and what's a terrorist group. After all, some people consider the IDF a terrorist organization – some people think the hate-spewing Westboro Baptist church falls under the label as well. PETA is yet another group whose actions could earn them the distinction.
"I feel that Twitter should leave the account up," says Jillian York, Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "While Hamas is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. and several other countries, it is also a de facto government, and its tweets have been no more or less threatening than those put forth by the Israeli Defense Forces."
Silence says plenty
All this puts Twitter in a difficult position, which is why it's remaining silent. Twitter now plays a more and more important role in the news cycle and our general discourse; it takes our pulse and measures our responses. This makes Twitter important, and it means what happens there is going to get attention – attention Twitter might not want as it continues to court advertisers and promote itself – not just as an open-source newswire, but as a marketing medium for consumer-friendly brands. Being able to serve as a source of real-time news during international conflicts is important, sure, but it doesn't pay the bills.
Twitter, as it usually operates, will decide how to deal with such situations on a case-by-case basis. In this particular situation, both Twitter handles remain up and running, and their tweets are available in their entirety. But it's upsetting that U.S. government officials are yet again concerning themselves with the platform's content. And if Twitter, a network that is setting the pace for how social products will connect the world and testing these boundaries, were to respect and adhere to outside censorship, it could set a precedent.
If Twitter were to listen to the U.S. government when and if it orders particular accounts be closed, the floodgates will open. Governments worldwide could start asking the same thing. What would have happened if Twitter had listened to the Egyptian government during the Arab Spring last year? Isn't there a possibility that something like the Occupy movement could be considered a terrorist organization in another country?
The things we're reading and seeing on social networks during times of conflict might be tough to stomach, but the consequences of leaning the other direction are too great. It's better to err on the side of too much information rather than too little. Because pretending part of the world doesn't exist – or ignoring what happens in it – never works out well.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not reflect the beliefs of Digital Trends.
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Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Simply Happy.
About Matt Killingsworth's TED Talk
When are humans most happy? To answer this question, researcher Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the results: We're often happiest when we're lost in the moment.
About Matt Killingsworth
Researcher Matt Killingsworth designs studies that gather data on happiness. While doing his Ph.D. research at Harvard, Killingsworth invented the Track Your Happiness app.
He's now a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar examining such topics as the relationship between happiness and the content of everyday experiences, the percentage of everyday experiences that are intrinsically valuable, and the degree of congruence between the causes of momentary happiness and of one's overall satisfaction with life.
Later in the show, Dan Gilbert will be back to explain why we are all actually hardwired to be happy. But first, could the key to happiness be through science?
MATT KILLINGSWORTH: Most of what we know about happiness is, you know, what a scientist might call correlational research.
RAZ: Matt Killingsworth is a scientist who...
KILLINGSWORTH: Studies the causes and nature of human happiness.
RAZ: Like, why are we happy at particular moments and unhappy at other ones? Well, to study that question, you've got to ask lots of people how they're feeling.
KILLINGSWORTH: We can look at to what extent - are richer people happier, are people with children happier, are unemployed people less happy, etc. But it's hard to know for sure what's causing what. And it's even harder to know what can people actually change and have an impact in their lives.
RAZ: You know, like, when someone asks you, how was your week, I mean, you don't think about specific things throughout your week that might've made you happy or not. And why...
KILLINGSWORTH: The kinds of happiness that you feel when you are interacting with your kids might be very different than the kind of happiness you experience when you're eating a great dinner.
RAZ: And scientists, obviously, can't be with you all the time to know the difference. So about five years ago, Matt Killingsworth came up with an idea to solve this fundamental problem of happiness research - your smart phone, or specifically, an app on your smart phone.
KILLINGSWORTH: And the basic idea behind this is that we can now use technology to measure happiness in real time.
RAZ: So here's how it works. You go to trackyourhappiness.org, punch in your phone number. And then later, when you're, say, on the subway, you get a text.
KILLINGSWORTH: And the idea is that you want to respond as fast as you can and tell me about your experience at the instant right before you got that text message.
RAZ: And suddenly, it's like a therapist in your iPhone with some questions.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: First question, how do you feel right now?
RAZ: And on a sliding scale from very good to very bad, you could say, you know, about in the middle.
MAN: Next question, do you have to do what you're doing? Yes or no?
RAZ: And you're like, yep, definitely yes. And then the questions get more detailed.
MAN: To what extent are you being productive? What time did you go to sleep last night? When did you finish eating your most recent meal today?
RAZ: And then finally...
MAN: Last question, do you want to do what you're doing? Yes or no?
RAZ: And here's the moment where you think, maybe I'm not. Maybe this isn't what I want to be doing right now.
KILLINGSWORTH: I find myself, and a lot of people tell me, that you become much more aware of how happy you are, of how you spend your time of, you know, a lot of the dimensions that we measure like, you know, whether you want to be doing what you're doing.
RAZ: Anyway, more on that later. But the point is, several times a day, Matt sends these texts to thousands of people.
KILLINGSWORTH: Maybe 35,000 people who've done it.
RAZ: Wherever they are.
KILLINGSWORTH: At home or at work or in a vehicle, in a coffee shop, restaurant...
RAZ: Basically, anywhere people find themselves Matt wants to be measuring.
KILLINGSWORTH: Their happiness and details of what they're doing at that moment.
RAZ: And all this adds up to a kind of statistical survey of happiness data because what Matt is doing, he's vacuuming up all kinds of information that no one else has ever really analyzed before. And he looks for patterns.
KILLINGSWORTH: I can look across all of these dimensions of our lives - who we spend our time with, how we think about ourselves and other people, how well we sleep, how much we exercise - I mean, a tremendous number of variables.
RAZ: Variables that might be starting to add up.
KILLINGSWORTH: Over time, into an equation for happiness.
RAZ: And whether there is such a thing, that's a debate Matt took on in his TED Talk.
KILLINGSWORTH: Well, since I'm a scientist, I'd like to try to resolve this debate with some data. And in particular, I'd like to present some data to you from three questions that I asked with Track Your Happiness. Remember, this is from sort of moment-to-moment experience in people's real lives. There are three questions. The first one is a happiness question - how do you feel on a scale ranging from very bad to very good? Second, an activity question - what are you doing on a list of 22 different activities including things like eating and working and watching TV. And finally, a mind wandering question - are you thinking about something other than what you're currently doing?
People could say no. In other words, I'm focused only on my task, or yes, I am thinking about something else. And the topic of those thoughts are pleasant, neutral or unpleasant. Any of those yes responses are what we called mind wandering. So what did we find? As it turns out, people are substantially less happy when their minds are wandering than when they're not. Now you might look at this result and say, OK, sure. On average, people are less happy when they're mind wandering.
But surely, when their mind's are straying away from something that wasn't very enjoyable to begin with, at least then mind wandering should be doing something good for us. Nope. As it turns out, people are less happy when they're mind wandering no matter what they're doing. For example, people don't really like commuting to work very much. It's one of their least enjoyable activities. And yet, they are substantially happier when they're focused only on their commute than when their mind is going off to something else. It's amazing.
So how could this be happening? I think part of the reason, a big part of the reason, is that when our minds wander, we often think about unpleasant things. And they are enormously less happy when they do that - our worries, our anxieties, our regrets. Forty-seven percent of the time, people are thinking about something other than what they're currently doing. Ranging from a high of 65 percent when people are taking a shower, brushing their teeth to 50 percent when they're working to 40 percent when they're exercising, all the way down to this one short bar on the right that I think some of you are probably laughing at. Ten percent of the time, people's minds are wandering when they're having sex.
But there's something I think that's quite interesting in this graph, and that is, basically, with one exception, no matter what people are doing, they're mind wandering at least 30 percent of the time, which suggests I think that mind wandering isn't just frequent, it's ubiquitous. It pervades basically everything that we do. In other words, mind wandering very likely seems to be an actual cause and not merely a consequence of unhappiness.
RAZ: And that's the single biggest determinant? Like, you can say, without question, the most consistent result we have is that when your mind wanders, you're less happy.
KILLINGSWORTH: Exactly. I think our ability to mind wander is kind of a superpower. The ability for human beings to think about something other than what they're doing allows them to plan and reason and do a lot of really amazing things that make us, you know, such a successful species.
But it's a superpower we can't really control in the sense that we use it really often for things that aren't very helpful for us. And that's one of the surprising results in my research is that when I look across all the different activities that people engage in, they are universally happier when they're fully engaged in that activity and not mind wandering no matter what they're doing.
RAZ: So when they're in the moment?
KILLINGSWORTH: When they're in the moment. Exactly.
RAZ: How do you do that? Like, how do you get to that place?
KILLINGSWORTH: That's the million-dollar question. And I don't know the answer. I think it is possible for people to redirect their attention. One thing I've certainly started doing since I've begun this research is notice where my attention is. And when I do find it straying, especially if I'm mind wandering about something that's not really productive or useful or adding to my experience, to just bring my attention back to whatever I'm doing and to do that repeatedly. And when I do that, I can not only sort of turn off mind wandering, but I think really enjoy that experience a lot more.
RAZ: I mean, do you think that's, like, science - like, what you're researching could ultimately give us a formula to find happiness?
KILLINGSWORTH: I think it can make a lot of progress. This is a question that people have been thinking about for thousands of years. And there are some recurring answers like treating other people like you would like to be treated. But at the same time, I think there are just a lot of debates that haven't really been resolved.
And it's really hard to resolve them when it's just people talking at each other. And I think that is really the power of science is to use the scientific method and collect data and figure our who's right. You know, in the same way that we've stood on the shoulders of our ancestors to understand a lot about medicine or the economy, I think we're at the start of a long but I think really exciting journey to understand a lot more about the causes of happiness.
RAZ: Matt Killingsworth, he's a researcher at UC-San Francisco. His talk on happiness is at TED.com. And if you want those little happiness texts a couple times a day, checkout trackyourhappiness.org. I got one right at the moment, and I was like, are you doing something you have to be doing right now? And I was like, yes. I'm wiping my 2-year-old's butt. And then it was like, are you doing something you want to be doing? And I was like, yeah, I guess I want to be wiping my 2-year-old's butt 'cause I get to spend time with him. More on the surprisingly simple ideas behind happiness in just a moment. I'm Guy Raz, and you're listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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CHICAGO – The executive director of an Illinois commission investigating allegations of torture by police has resigned after criticisms that the panel wasn't properly reporting cases that were being examined.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission's executive director David Thomas "did the right thing" in stepping down from his post.
Thomas quit in a closed session Wednesday. His resignation, effective Tuesday, comes after he faced scrutiny because the panel wasn't alerting relatives of murder victims that the victims' cases were being examined. The law requires that the commission do so.
The commission was set up four years ago after allegations that former Chicago police Lt. Jon Burge and several subordinates tortured suspects — nearly all of them black — including by pointing loaded guns at them or shocking their genitals with electrical current.
Earlier this month Quinn called on Thomas to resign because of the notification issue. The commission — appointed by Quinn — will chose a replacement.
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Commission member Leonard Cavise said Thomas resigned during a contentious closed meeting.
Relatives of Dean and Jo Ellen Pueschel, who were beaten to death with baseball bats in 1983, spoke at the hearing, Cavise said. Their son, who was 11 at the time of the attack and who was beaten unconscious but survived, did not speak. Cavise said family members of a Chicago police officer who was killed in 1982 also spoke.
After the closed session, another commission member, Rob Warden, apologized to the family members for the failure to notify them, but said it was an "inadvertent" mistake.
Last year, the state Legislature stripped the commission's funding as it sought to cut costs. But after lobbying from the panel's supporters, lawmakers approved the new money this year.
Follow Sophia Tareen at http://twitter.com/sophiatareen.


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Ruth of Genealogy is Ruthless without Me was kind enough to award me the "Happy 101" blogger badge in January (that's like 10 years ago in blogger time!). I was away during my dad's illness, so I forgot about it at the time, but remembered again recently.
Recipients are supposed to list 10 things that make them happy, and pass along the award to others. So here's 10 off the top of my head:
1. my hubby
2. my cats, especially furry genealogy assistant Roux who keeps me company on or by my desk, and (semi-) feral Ella, who likes it when I take a "petting break" outside
3. ice cream
4. lovely SoCal weather like today (upper 80s and sunny; if only it would stay at that temp)
5. discovering some new genealogy tidbit
6. meeting new cousins (via the Internet or in person) who share my genealogy addic-- um, interest :)
7. reading about the history behind the tree
8. Cajun food
9. having written -- or perhaps more accurately, having written and also edited a time or two(I'm not sure who first said, "I hate writing; I love having written," but it's a good quote.)
10. comments on my blog!!!! (hint, hint!) :)
I'll pass this along to a few bloggers whose work makes me happy when I read it: "Make a Roux" (a CaliCajun like me, but who can actually cook! :) ), Dionne at Finding Josephine (compelling stories of chasing down her ancestry), Lisa at Adventures in Grave Hunting (fun celebrity graving and SoCal history), and Louisiana Genealogy Blog (whose author does a great job of keeping me up on Louisiana genealogy news). I was looking for a newer blog (or new to me) to encourage and found one by 5th-graders in Quebec called "All Things Quebec." Seeing kids blogging, especially about their history, makes me VERY happy! Their teacher is Evelyn from a blog I already read, A Canadian Family.
Oh, and Aunt Martha's birthday cards of my post title? They were always late, but knowing I still had something coming after my birthday made me happy, not unlike my late acknowledgement of this blog award. :) Thanks for the encouragement, Ruth!


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No bond for Saudi man charged in Warrensburg murder
A Missouri judge denied bond for a 24-year-old Saudi man accused of hiring his roommate to kill a local bar owner, ruling Monday that the former college student was unlawfully in the U.S. and could be held in jail even though his home government put up $2 million for his bond.
Circuit Judge Michael Wagner said no amount of sureties could guarantee that Ziyad Abid wouldn't be deported by the federal government if he were released from jail. Abid had been living legally in the U.S. while studying at the University of Central Missouri but lost his student visa around the time of his Sept. 5 arrest.
Abid and his former roommate, Reginald Singletary Jr., are charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Warrensburg bar owner Blaine Whitworth. Prosecutors have released few details about the case, including what link Abid allegedly had to Whitworth, but Abid's attorneys said Abid had no connection to Whitworth and that Singletary had recently been fired as the bar's bouncer.
Bonds had been set for both men by Wagner's predecessor in the case, Circuit Judge Jacqueline Cook, who ruled in November that the Missouri Constitution required that Abid be allowed to post bond because he wasn't charged with capital murder. She set Abid's bond at $2 million and Singletary's at $1 million, but Wagner refused to release Abid after the Saudi government in April posted his bond amount.
In his ruling Monday, Wagner said there were no guarantees that the federal government wouldn't deport Abid ahead of his trial.
"If deportation occurs, then the defendant will never be subject to the legal process of this Court to determine his guilt or innocence and, if convicted, held accountable under the law to this Court or to the family of the victim for his crime," Wagner wrote in his ruling.
Wagner also denied a request from Missouri Assistant Attorney General David Hansen, who is acting as the special prosecutor in the case, to push back Abid's Aug. 20 trial date because he needs more time to prepare. Singletary's trial has been delayed until February.
Abid's attorneys told Wagner they filed a motion Monday for a speedy trial, noting that Abid has already been in jail for 314 days.
Defense attorney Pat Peters also said he is seeking to disqualify the attorney general's office from the case because it represented Wagner in May when defense attorneys asked a state appeals court to remove him from the case. The appeals court sided with Wagner, saying the defense motion was premature because the judge had offered to conduct a new bond hearing.
Abid, who appeared in court Monday wearing a suit, has been in custody since he was charged in connection with the Sept. 1 slaying of Whitworth, who was gunned down in his driveway. Singletary, 28, who had been living with Abid, admitting shooting Whitworth but told investigators Abid paid him to do it, according to court documents.
Peters said Singletary has refused to testify, but is negotiating with prosecutors on a possible plea deal, and without his cooperation the prosecution has no case.
"This may be the only case we can think of where one witness is the only linchpin on which everything else depends, and that's Mr. Singletary," Peters said. "We'd like to go to trial today. As of today, there is no witness for the state."
On Friday, defense attorneys again asked a Missouri appellate court to remove Wagner from the case and release Abid from jail. The court has not yet ruled on those requests.


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Dennis "Red" Gendron completed his second season at Yale with his second national championship as a coach. Helped Maine win the 1993 title as an assistant before serving as associate head coach of the 2013 Frozen Four Champions.
He joined the staff after six seasons as an assistant at the University of Massachusetts (Hockey East).
Gendron, a three-time hockey captain and 1979 graduate of New England College (Henniker, N.H.), spent the last 23 years coaching the sport. Eleven of those seasons were with the New Jersey Devils' organization as a scout and assistant coach, including Stanley Cup Championships in 1995, 2000 and 2003. Part of his duty with the Devils included serving as head coach of the AHL affiliate in Albany for the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons.
Gendron was in Orono, Maine, with the Black Bears from 1990 to 1993 before moving into pro hockey.
He has also been an assistant coach during the 1993, 2001 and 2002 World Junior Championships for Team USA and also worked with several U.S. Select-16 and 17 teams. His resume also includes coaching hockey, baseball and football while teaching history at Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans, Vt.
Gendron, who is fluent in French, earned a BA in secondary education from New England College and a master's in educational administration from Maine in 1993. He also played baseball at NEC.
Gendron, a former Indiana Ice (USHL) head coach and GM (2004-05), and his wife, Janet, have two daughters, Katelyn and Allison.


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Bulletin Issues
Current Issue
Past issues of the Bulletin are available here, or through the ASIS&T Digital Library.
Bulletin, December 2012/January 2013
Editor's Desktop
Irene L. Travis, Editor
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Taxonomies are the focus of this issue and, in particular, the practical problems associated with creating, integrating and maintaining these crucial components of many information retrieval systems. Marge Hlava of Access Innovations, Inc., is our guest editor and has recruited timely articles on a variety of topics ranging from taxonomy creation and evaluation to integrating taxonomy structure into user experience design and utilizing taxonomies in automatic indexing. Our thanks to Margie for her efforts.
The issue includes our regular IA column and the RDAP Review column that was initiated as a regular feature in the last issue. Thom Haller, our associate editor for IA, suggests ways to elevate IA so that it can become more a part of the strategic thinking of management, reducing the risk that higher management will chase after the latest fashionable technology solution regardless of its suitability to their application. Its an important, ubiquitous problem, and Thom offers sound advice.
Turning to RDAP, the newly established Digital Curation Postdoctoral Fellowship is sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources Digital Library Federation (CLIR/DLF), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and six universities. One of its first recipients, Inna Kouper, is the author of this months column, which focuses on the hybrid role of the data curator.
Finally, we have two Presidents Pages in this issue: one from outgoing president Diane Sonnenwald and the other from our president for 2013, Andrew Dillon. Together they provide an excellent overview of the strategic direction of the Society. While Andrews column is based on his inaugural address at the Annual Meeting, our primary Annual Meeting coverage will be in the next issue. I was, unfortunately, among the missing this year, but Im told this 75th Anniversary event was a unique experience for the attendees and successful in the face of the challenges presented by superstorm Sandy.
Articles in this Issue
Taxonomies in Practice Introduction
Evaluating Classification Schema and Classification Decisions
Case Study: Developing the PLOS Thesaurus
Building User Experiences: Synchronizing User Experience Design and the Supporting Metadata and Taxonomy Infrastructure
Indexing Electronic Medical Records Using a Taxonomy
Building a Taxonomy for Auto-classification
Building Controlled Vocabularies for Metadata Harmonization
Editor's Desktop
President's Page: Diane Sonnenwald
President's Page: Andrew Dillon
IA: On What Assumptions Do You Base Your Thinking? Contextual Challenges and Strategic Possibilities
RDAP: Digital Curation Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Hybrid Role of Data Curator


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Pierre's Ice Cream Co. Launches Signature Collection Ice Cream Line
Nun Better Snickerdoodle is one of seven flavors in Cleveland-based Pierre's Ice Cream Co.'s newly launched Signature Collection ice cream pint line. The flavor is the product of a unique collaboration between the 80-year-old ice cream maker and the Sisters of the Holy Spirit, an order of nuns famously known for delivering batches of their homemade Nun Better Cookies to the Cleveland Indians baseball team.
Featuring caramel ice cream with snickerdoodle cookies and caramel swirl, Nun Better Snickerdoodle is inspired by the cookie of the same name, one of several varieties in the order's Nun Better brand. Proceeds from the sisters' cookies support their order, whose ministry involves serving the older adults at Jennings Center for Older Adults in Garfield Heights, Ohio.
Sister Mary Assumpta is known around Cleveland as "The Baseball Nun" for delivering her order's cookies to the Indians and serving as a baseball correspondent for WEWS-TV News Channel 5 in Cleveland and CBS This Morning in the 1990s. She approached Pierre's last year about creating an ice cream based on one of the order's cookies. After months of searching for the perfect ingredients and fine tuning the recipe, Pierre's flavor-development team unveiled Nun Better Snickerdoodle.
The six other flavors are: Banana Fudge Chunk, Cherries & Chocolate Chunks, Chocolate Lava Cake, Coconut Fudge Almond, Exquisite Vanilla and Mocha Mud Pie.
The suggested retail price is $4.99 per pint.


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Amsterdam Smart City
Amsterdam is aggressively developing its 'smart' electrical grid. The smart part is the inter-linked power system, and the efforts made to involve all parts of the community. The result to-date is impressive: in just two years 71 partners have joined (and growing), pilot energy savings of 13 percent were achieved, and a possible reduction of 1.2 million tonnes CO2e already identified if pilots scaled-up city-wide. The program grew from a smart electrical grid to a 'smart city'; in eighteen months Amsterdam Smart City or ASC, hosted or attended more than 50 smart city conferences.
The four pillars of ASC program are: (i) cooperation; (ii) smart technology and behavior change; (iii) knowledge exchange; and (iv) seek economically viable initiatives. Much of the impetus of ASC came from the establishment of a Euro 60 Million catalytic climate and energy investment fund created when the electricity and gas company was privatized.


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SANTA CLARA — Santa Clara had a much happier ending against Wagner in Saturday night's Cable Car Classic title game than it did last year.
Marc Trasolini scored a game-high 23 points, and junior guard Evan Roquemore added 16 points and 10 rebounds as SCU beat the Seahawks 69-45 at the Leavey Center to avenge last season's championship-game loss.
"Coach (Kerry Keating) asked us if we wanted to play (Wagner) again, and we said, 'Definitely,' " Trasolini said. "We wanted that one back, and we got it back. It feels great."
Saturday's victory marked the first time the Broncos (11-2) have won their annual four-team men's basketball tournament since 2008, when they edged Texas-El Paso 89-88 in overtime. It also means Santa Clara will be riding a six-game winning streak heading into Saturday's game at No. 1 Duke.
"We're playing with a lot of confidence right now," Trasolini said. "We believe we can do anything, including beating Duke at their place."
Trasolini, one of just two players remaining from SCU's last Cable Car championship squad, was named this year's tournament MVP. In addition to his performance Saturday, the senior center — who redshirted last season after suffering a torn ACL — had 24 points and 11 rebounds in Friday's win over Alcorn State.
Keating said Trasolini's scoring filled a void on a night when two of his top 3-point shooters, seniors Kevin Foster and Raymond Cowels III, struggled to make shots.
"Inside and out, he established a scoring presence when we needed it most," Keating said of Trasolini.
Roquemore joined Trasolini on the all-tournament team and also received the Kevin O'Connor Award, given to the most inspirational player.
Wagner's Jonathon Williams, a senior forward from Kennedy High-Richmond, was named to the all-tournament team as well despite scoring just four points in Saturday's game.
SCU came achingly close to ending its Cable Car title drought last season, only to lose on a buzzer-beating baseline jumper by Kenneth Ortiz, who appeared to have taken the shot after rebounding the ball out of bounds behind the backboard.
This time, the Broncos led from start to finish. Trasolini scored the first bucket less than a minute in to ignite a 10-2 run and had 14 points in the first half to help stake Santa Clara to a 33-19 halftime lead.
SCU dominated Wagner (5-4) defensively in the half, holding the Seahawks to 7-for-29 shooting from the field.
"Our defensive energy was perfect," Trasolini said. "We made the stops when we needed to. Holding them to seven points in the first 12-(plus) minutes was huge."
In the consolation game, SMU beat Alcorn State 67-52. Jalen Jones had 19 points and nine rebounds to lead the Mustangs.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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