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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Killing Conservative Books: The Shocking End Of A Publishing Gold Rush — A decade ago, mainstream publishers became convinced they could make millions by churning out books for the right — and now the bubble may be bursting. From Allan Bloom to Ann Coulter. — The conservative book business has seen better days.
Discussion: The Dish, American Prospect, CANNONFIRE and Washington Monthly
Patrick Appel / The Dish: The Rightwing Books Glut
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: The Decline of Conservative Publishing
Joseph / CANNONFIRE: The conservative book racket
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Conservative Book Bonanaza Over?
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Matt Drudge Is (Probably) Lying About Paying A Huge Obamacare 'Liberty Tax' — It seems conservative monolith Matt Drudge is taking some pride in paying the penalty for not purchasing insurance under Obamacare. He's even got a name for it. … There's just one problem …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Joe. My. God.
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: Drudge debunked on, what else, Obamacare
Joe Jervis / Joe. My. God.: Homocon Matt Drudge Busted Lying
The Individual Shared Responsibility Payment - An Overview
The Individual Shared Responsibility Payment - An Overview
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Clinton's Top Selling Point in 2016: First Female President — Top negatives are not being qualified; continuing Obama's agenda — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans say the best or most positive thing about a possible Hillary Clinton presidency — if she were to run and be elected in 2016 …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Politico, Real Clear Politics and Washington Post
Caroline May / The Daily Caller: Poll: Clinton's gender is her top 2016 selling point
Tal Kopan / Politico: Poll: Gender top reason for Hillary Clinton bid
Jose R. Gonzalez / Real Clear Politics: Poll: "First Female President" Is Top Reason to Elect Hillary
Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post: She The People: Note to Hillary Clinton: If you run, stress gender
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's delay: Frozen field or human shield? — The claim has hardened into accepted fact among many Democratic operatives: Hillary Clinton is freezing the Democratic 2016 field as she waits until possibly late this year to decide on another presidential run.
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh, Shakesville, WJLA-TV and Althouse
Prairie Weather / The Moderate Voice: What's the matter with Democrats? (The answer isn't very comforting.)
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: In the News — Here is some stuff in in the news today...
Paul Waldman / The Plum Line:
Can the Sunday shows get better? — In the Washington media world, there's no more rarefied spot, both for the host and the guests, than that of the network Sunday morning shows. So why are they so predictable, and predictably boring? — Most members of Congress would kill to be interviewed …
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, Bloomberg View and Prairie Weather
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View: Stop Watching the Sunday Talk Shows
Prairie Weather: Next year, when there are no "bookstores", no "cars" on the road, and John McCain stays home Sunday mornings
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
NBC News 'Doubling Down' On David Gregory As 'Meet The Press' Expands Online
NBC News 'Doubling Down' On David Gregory As 'Meet The Press' Expands Online
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TVNewser, more at Mediagazer »
Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller: NBC's David Gregory comes out of hiding, responds to rumors
Jordan Chariton / TVNewser: David Gregory: 'I See Speculation Out There,' NBC News Backs Him as 'Our Guy'
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Michigan Same-Sex Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional — A federal judge in Michigan on Friday ruled the state's 2004 ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, the Detroit Free Press reported: … In his ruling, Senior United States District Judge Bernard A. Friedman wrote that the ban violates …
Joe Jervis / Joe. My. God.: BREAKING: Michigan Judge Strikes Down Marriage Ban, It Is Unconstitutional
Associated Press:
Judge strikes down Mich. same-sex marriage ban — DETROIT — A judge has struck down Michigan's ban on gay marriage, the latest in a series of decisions overturning similar laws across the country. — Federal Judge Bernard Friedman ruled Friday, two weeks after a trial.
Discussion: Liberaland
Wall Street Journal:
Leaders Seek to Rescue New York's Bike-Share Program — Leaders of Citi Bike are moving quickly to raise tens of millions of dollars to rescue the popular bike-share program as it loses money, according to people familiar with the matter. — Citi Bike's bright blue bicycles have become …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Politicker, The Week and National Review
Scott Meslow / The Week: Citi Bike needs 'tens of millions of dollars' to survive
Jillian Melchior / National Review: Hard Times for NYC's Bike-Share Program
Tal Kopan / Politico:
President Obama: 'In midterms, we get clobbered' — President Barack Obama told Democratic donors that Democrats tend to "get clobbered" in midterm elections, and in order to win in November they need to turn out the vote. — Speaking at the suburban Miami home of basketball legend Alonzo Mourning …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Washington Monthly and The Week
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller: Obama gets history wrong: Says Dems tend to 'get clobbered' in midterms
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Obama Talks Midterm Falloff
Jordan Valinsky / The Week: Obama: Democrats get 'clobbered' in midterms so he really wants them to vote this year
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: Dems 'get clobbered' in midterms
Obama: Dems 'get clobbered' in midterms
Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller, Ed Driscoll, Primary Colors, Hullabaloo, Mediaite, Booman Tribune and Balloon Juice
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Kos and Third Way's "Big Tent" Tussle
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller: Democrats 'get clobbered' in midterms, whines Obama
Ryan O'Donnell / Primary Colors: What Kinds of Democrats Can Win in Conservative Seats?
Thereisnospoon / Hullabaloo: Alternatively, Democrats could give midterm voters something to believe in. by @DavidOAtkins
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Obama: Dems Always 'Get Clobbered' in Midterms
USA Today:
RNC Chairman: Obamacare still stinks
RNC Chairman: Obamacare still stinks
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Scott Kaufman / The Raw Story:
Dept. of Education: Black preschoolers far more likely to be suspended than white counterparts — Although black children only represent about 18 percent of the students enrolled in preschool, according to a study released on Friday by the Department of Education's Civil Rights division …
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette, Liberaland and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Janet Shan / Hinterland Gazette: Black Students More Likely to Be Suspended From US Public Schools, Even as Preschoolers
SEK / Lawyers, Guns & Money: Of course black preschoolers are suspended far more often than their white counterparts
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
School Data Finds Pattern of Inequality Along Racial Lines
School Data Finds Pattern of Inequality Along Racial Lines
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Susie / susiemadrak.com: Post-racial America
Donald Douglas / American Power: Patterns of Education Inequality Along Racial Lines
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Bill Forces People Going Through Divorce To Get A Judge's Permission Before Having Sex In Own Home — There's nothing that sets the mood for a romantic evening like petitioning a judge for permission to have sex at the end of the night. — If Massachusetts State Sen. Richard J. Ross (R) …
Joe Jervis / Joe. My. God.: Today In GOP Crackpottery
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Creationists Demand Airtime On 'Cosmos' For The Sake Of Balance — The Creationist group Answers In Genesis, which was already incensed about Neil deGrasse Tyson's revival of Cosmos, is now complaining that the show lacks scientific balance because it fails to provide airtime for evolution deniers.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Impolitic and The Raw Story
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Creationists Complain Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos' Isn't Giving Them Airtime
Capt. Fogg / The Impolitic: The Liar's Crusade … —Saint Augustine: De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim —
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Putin's quiet Latin America play — Away from the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is quietly seeking a foothold in Latin America, military officials warn. — To the alarm of lawmakers and Pentagon officials, Putin has begun sending navy ships and long-range bombers to the region for the first time in years.
Discussion: Hot Air and Prairie Weather
Bruce McQuain / Hot Air: Is Putin making moves in Latin America too?
Roger Cohen / New York Times: Cold Man in the Kremlin
Lindsay Toler / Daily RFT:
Chase Martinson Loses College Acceptance After Coming Out as Gay on Facebook — When Chase Martinson took a break from his studies at Hannibal-LaGrange University to manage his health issues, he expected it to be temporary hiccup on his path to becoming a nurse.
Discussion: Advocate, Towleroad News #gay, The Raw Story and LGBTQ Nation
Sunnivie Brydum / Advocate: Mo. Baptist College Rejects Gay Student's Readmission Application
Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: Missouri College Refuses to Re-enroll Student Who Came Out as Gay Since He 'Misused God's Gift'
Scott Kaufman / The Raw Story: Christian university revokes admission to honor student after learning he's gay
Casey Blake / USA Today:
School will allow boy to bring My Little Pony backpack — ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Grayson Bruce's My Little Pony backpack will return, and with it may come new initiatives to prevent bullying in local schools. — Buncombe County Schools administrators met Thursday with the mother of Grayson Bruce …
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Scott Shackford / Hit & Run: Young Brony Gets to Keep His School Bag
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post: My Little Pony 1, thugs 0
Willy Staley / New York Times:
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Mark Flatten / Washington Examiner:
Navy database tracks civilians' parking tickets, fender-benders, raising fears of domestic spying — CRIME WATCHDOG THE PENTAGON FBI BIG GOVERNMENT NATIONAL SECURITY TERRORISM ACCOUNTABILITY NAVY CIVIL RIGHTS ACLU FOURTH AMENDMENT — A parking ticket, traffic citation or involvement …
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Adelson casino hires Blanche Lincoln — Former Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) will be lobbying for Las Vegas Sands at her firm Lincoln Policy Group, according to new disclosure records. — The casino, which is owned by billionaire and major GOP donor Sheldon Adelson, is pushing Congress to enact a ban on Internet gambling.
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Constanze Letsch / Guardian:
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Capt. James Liebertz began his Kings Point career as head track coach in 1945. Two months later, he became assistant Athletic Director when Bill Reinhart was named Athletic Director. On January 1, 1950 Capt. Liebertz was named Director of Athletics, a position he held until July of 1972.
As the KP Athletics Director, Liebertz was responsible for increasing the varsity athletic program from five sports to 16 varsity teams. He fought for and saw implemented the split sea year program and also began the varsity awards dinner. As a track coach, Liebertz team's dominated the Collegiate Track Conference Championships and won seven straight mile relays at Penn relays.

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LONDON (MarketWatch) — Just what Europe needed: another banking crisis.
Thursday's turmoil in Portuguese financial conglomerate Espirito Santo International has sent stock markets tumbling, driven bond yields skyward and re-awoken niggling fears about the robustness of Europe's banking system.
Sound familiar? Well, there are striking similarities to daily headlines from the crisis two years ago, when European Central Bank President Mario Draghi was forced to calm panicky bond markets with his famous "do whatever it takes" speech.
And as Peter Garnry, head of equity strategy at Saxo Bank, put it in a note on Thursday: "The event has hit European financials like a torpedo and has revived investors' darkest nightmares about Europe."
If your definition of that nightmare is a selloff, his description is pretty much spot-on. Portuguese government bonds are tanking, sending the benchmark 10-year yield to levels not seen since before the June ECB meeting, when the central bank launched an aggressive package of liquidity measures. The 10-year borrowing costs for government paper were up 21 basis points on Thursday, to 3.97%, according to electronic trading platform Tradeweb. That's on top of the 13 basis-point rise on Wednesday.
At the same time, the PSI 20 PSI20, -0.01%, Portugal's benchmark stock index, slumped 4.2% to 6,105.24, its biggest drop since July last year and the lowest closing level since October.
Why? All due to troubles at Portuguese multi-industry conglomerate Espírito Santo International SA (ESI), the general consensus says. Earlier this week, ESI missed a payment on some short-term debt. This triggered massive nervousness over the health of Portugal's financial sector and sent shares of its subsidiaries Espirito Santo Financial Group SA (ESFG) PT:ESF and Banco Espirito Santo AS (BES) PT:BES deep into the red. Trading in both subsidiaries was suspended on Thursday, when their losses amounted to 9% and 17%, respectively.
The company structure of the Espirito Santo family of businesses is rather complicated, but in short: ESI owns 49% of ESFG, which owns 25% of BES. Moody's Investors Service commented on those layers of ownership on Wednesday, when it yanked ESFG's rating to Caa2 from B2, placing it on review for a further downgrade. The ratings agency said concerns about ESFG's creditworthiness were "heightened by the lack of transparency around both the Espirito Santo Group's financial position and the extent of intra-group linkages, including ESFG's direct and indirect exposure to ESI."
The delayed coupon payments at ESI are, in theory, unlikely to spread to the rest of Portugal's financial sector. But the incident revives concerns about the exit from bailout programs in Portugal and other stressed euro-zone nations, according to analysts. Portugal came out of its rescue and adjustment program back in May, which "at this stage appears rather premature," analysts at RBC Capital Markets said in a note.
And here's why: One of the key reasons that yields in peripheral euro-zone countries have come down so remarkably since the height of the sovereign-debt crisis is the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions program. Although the program has actually never been used, it promised to help out struggling governments that asked for aid by buying sovereign bonds in the secondary market.
The catch — and potentially a reason to be concerned about Portugal — is that the country has to be in a bailout program. No program, no OMT eligibility. So, if a bailout-free country has problems with domestic banks, as with Portugal and Espirito Santo, it's not entirely clear how these will be resolved, the RBC analysts said.
"And while the aforementioned case is likely to be an isolated one, it clearly highlights the problems of early bailout exits whilst the economy, the banking system and the public finances are still in a shaky state," they said.
Effects are, however, being felt elsewhere. At a Greek debt sale on Thursday, demand was hurt by the nervousness, and borrowing costs have also risen in Spain and Italy.
Hardest hit shares were southern European banks, with Banco Comercial Português SA BCP, -1.88% down 6% in Lisbon, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SA BMPS, -3.00% off 4.3% in Milan and Banco Popular Español SA ES:POP 2% weaker in Madrid.
The Espirito Santo case might be isolated in theory, but this suggests the potential fallout is — in reality — already sending shivers through Europe's financial sector.
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Assume that $I\subset k[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ and $J\subset k[y_1,\ldots,y_m]$ are monomial ideals in different rings, and the minimal free resolution of $S/I$ and $S/J$, say $F_\cdot$ and $G_\cdot$, are both linear. I believe that $F\otimes G$ is a minimal free resolution for $S/I+J$. Does anyone have any comment for the proof, or any reference?
The tensor product of two chain complexes $(A,d_1)$ and $(B,d_2)$, say $A\oplus B$, is formed by taking all products $A_i \otimes B_j$ and letting $(A \otimes B)_k$ be the direst some of $A_i\otimes B_j$ for $i+j=k$. The differential maps are defined as $\partial(a\otimes b) = d_1a \otimes b + (-1)^i a \otimes d_2b$ when $a\in A_i$. Then we have $\partial^2 = 0$.
So in order to prove the question we need to check the exactness of the complex, and how it resolves the resolution of $I+J$.


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Officials: Bus hits Miami airport overpass; 1 dead, dozens injured
MIAMI (AP) -- Officials say the bus that crashed at Miami's airport, killing two people, was carrying 32 people who were part of a group of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Miami International Airport spokesman Greg Chin says he was told by passengers that the bus was traveling to West Palm Beach, which is roughly 70 miles north of Miami.
Police say most of the passengers on board were elderly, including the two men who died. Three people remained in critical condition.
Federal records show the bus was owned by Miami Bus Service Corp., which did not respond to a phone message Saturday.
Police say the driver was not familiar with the area and entered the airport by mistake before smashing into a concrete overhang.


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Crystal's Culinary Cruises Have Star Powerby Janice Wald Henderson, Cruise Culinary Editor | October 21, 2009
The 2010 Crystal Culinary Cruises roster has celebrity star power, according to our new culinary editor.
|This is a report from our cruise culinary editor Janice Wald Henderson. Janice has been a longtime contributor to many magazines, including Bon Appétit Magazine and Brides. Her articles have appeared in Vogue, Food & Wine, Eating Well, Cooking Light and numerous other publications. Janice is also the Los Angeles editor of the Essential Restaurant Guide at epicurious.com. Janice Wald Henderson Cruise Culinary Editor
I was talking to Paul Motter about my role as the new Culinary Editor for CruiseMates and how I can best contribute to the site. Paul said the greatest thing I could do is share my personal knowledge of cuisine in a way that every cruiser, gourmet or novice, can appreciate.
So I just received a press release from Crystal Cruises about their Wine & Food Experiences of Discovery voyages for 2010. The actual press release is included at the bottom off this page. It's their 14th annual series. Itineraries include Auckland to Sydney, Istanbul to Barcelona and a closer-to-home roundtrip Los Angeles (Mexican Riviera).
Sail on one of the seven Wine & Food-themed cruises and rub elbows with top chefs, foodies, wine experts and mixologists. By the way, the latter is all the rage these days. A mixologist is a fancy way of saying a cocktail creator. (More on that subject another day.) Looking at Crystal's press release, I'd say the line has its finger on the food and wine world pulse. (Of course, Crystal is known for serving some of the best cruise cuisine. So the link is almost expected.) Upcoming guest experts run the gamut from culinary legends to current darlings of the foodie and wine scene. Expect culinary demonstrations, special dinners and wine tastings. And with a mixologist onboard, cocktail classes.
I don't know any of the mixologists on Crystal's list, but really, who wouldn't have a happy cruise sailing with Julio Bermejo, who is called the "U.S. Ambassador of Tequila?"
Among the many names on the chef list, André Soltner is a standout. His former Manhattan restaurant, Lutèce, was one of the most heralded restaurants in our country. Getting a reservation at Lut�ce was once as hard as getting a reservation at Spago Beverly Hills or New York's Per Se today.
This Frenchman often guests on Crystal. I once had the good fortune of lecturing on Crystal when Monsieur Soltner was onboard. Andr� is popular for a reason. He does a terrific job demonstrating recipes, as he is informative and, actually, funny. He has a twinkle in his eye and yet he's so distinguished. He's also modest, which makes an audience appreciate him even more.
Michael Mina is another series highlight. He's a chef who is demonstrating longevity and sizzle. His take on modern cooking is, well, sexy. Even his competitors admire his innovation. Michael Mina has evolved from a chef into a brand, and has successful restaurants in several states, like his namesake San Francisco restaurant and Nobhill Tavern in Las Vegas. And I bet he's autographing copies of his cookbook onboard.
If you're a fan of Moroccan cooking, you'd be hard-pressed to find an expert with more authority than Paula Wolfert. Paula has authored several cookbooks and is �ber-passionate about Moroccan and Mediterranean cuisine. She is smart and articulate, and should be a good choice for Crystal passengers, who like to learn when cruising.
Doug Frost will be a great lure for cruising wine lovers. He is one of only three experts worldwide to earn the two most coveted titles in the wine world: Master of Wine and Master Sommelier. It's nearly impossible to gain even one of those titles. The tests are unbelievably long and hard. Passengers sailing with Doug should be able to toss any wine question his way -- no matter how obscure - and he probably can answer it. (I can only imagine oenophiles who are booking his cruise already relishing the upcoming chance to stump him!)
I also think having Cameron Douglas onboard a gastronomic-themed cruise is wise. He is New Zealand's first and only master sommelier. Again, a master sommelier is a world authority, in a class that most wine experts can only dream of belonging.
Cameron clearly knows New Zealand's wine region, no doubt better than any other authority. Many travelers are only familiar with a few New Zealand labels and grapes; what an opportunity to explore some of the delicious, lesser-known Kiwi wines under superior guidance. I don't want to give short shrift to any of the other experts in this Crystal Wine & Food program. I'm just running out of room! But I've got to mention Simon Johnson, Australia's top purveyor of gourmet foods.
Australia has such an interesting culinary story. I've tasted many dishes made with Australian ingredients (particularly from the bush and also, seafood) and enjoyed them immensely. Simon's knowledge of regional foods (and overall foodie knowledge) should greatly enhance the culinary experiences of Crystal passengers, both onboard and onshore.
Besides the designated Wine & Food themed cruises, Crystal is featuring former White House chef John Hanny on the May 3rd, 2010 annual President's Cruise from Piraeus to Dubai. Now that sounds really interesting. After all, almost no one (at least, no one I know) gets to dine in the White House.
Chef Hanny is going to present several presidential-themed dinners and White House favorites from different administrations. No word yet if he's favoring Republican administrations or Democratic. (Only kidding.)
See the original Crystal Cruises press release on this culinary cruise below:
LOS ANGELES, October 19, 2009 - Michelin Star-awarded chefs Michael Mina and Heinz Beck, Master sommelier Robert Bath, and mixologist Tony Abou-Ganim are part of the distinguished roster of food, wine and spirit experts aboard Crystal Cruises' 14th annual Wine & Food Experiences of Discovery cruises in 2010. Aboard seven Wine & Food itineraries, the special guests will draw inspiration from the destinations visited, as well as their own expertise in worldwide specialties to lead demos and lectures, tastings and pairings, and cocktail and pastry making classes.
"Crystal's culinary options have long been a cornerstone of guests' luxurious vacation experience," says Toni Neumeister, vice president, food & beverage operations. "The breadth and caliber of talent on the Wine & Food itineraries is extraordinary, and further exemplifies our practice of delivering excellence."
In addition to the designated Wine & Food themed cruises, the ultra-luxury line's annual President's Cruise will befittingly feature former White House Chef John Hanny. Aboard the May 3rd voyage from Piraeus to Dubai, hosted by Crystal President Gregg Michel, Hanny will present several presidential-themed dinners and White House favorites from several administrations.
Culinary experts for 2010 include:
Chefs and Foodies
- Michael Mina - Creator of restaurant group including one Michelin-starred restaurants;
- Heinz Beck - Executive chef of three Michelin-starred La Pergola, Rome;
- Tom Aikens - Michelin-starred chef and owner of London's Tom Aikens Restaurant;
- Andr� Soltner - Former executive chef/owner of New York's legendary Lut�ce;
- Serge Dansereau - Owner of Sydney, Australia's The Bathers' Pavilion;
- Aglaia Kremezi - Greek cuisine expert and acclaimed cookbook author;
- Paula Wolfert - James Beard Award winning Mediterranean cookbook author;
- Simon Johnson - Australia's leading purveyor of quality foods, and
- Jon Ashton - Food correspondent for The Daily Buzz and Relish Magazine chef.
Sommeliers and Wine Experts
- Doug Frost - One of only three worldwide to achieve both Master Sommelier and Master of Wine;
- Robert Bath - One of only 79 Master Sommeliers in the U.S.;
- Gerhard Retter - Wine and cheese sommelier at Michelin-awarded restaurants throughout Europe;
- Mel Master - Leading Rhone Valley and Languedoc wine exporter and famed restaurateur;
- Victoria Ordonez - Member of Spain's largest wine exporting family;
- Cameron Douglas - New Zealand's first and only Master Sommelier, and
- Filippo DiBelardino - Italian wine expert and vice president of Banfi Vintners-Fine Wines.
Cocktail Concoctors
- Tony Abou-Ganim -National Ambassador of the U.S. Bartenders' Guild and creator of Crystal's exclusive cocktail program;
- Julio Bermejo - considered the "U.S. Ambassador of Tequila;"
- Livio Lauro - National president of the United States Bartenders' Guild;
- Francesco Lafranconi - Cofounder of the U.S. Bartenders' Guild Nevada chapter, and
- Audrey Saunders - Celebrated bartender of the Carlyle Hotel's legendary Bemelmans Bar, owner of New York's Pegu Club.
Crystal Wine & Food itineraries are scheduled for March 30, Auckland to Sydney; April 29, London to Rome; May 25, Venice to Barcelona; September 5, Istanbul to Barcelona; September 17, Barcelona to Venice; November 22, roundtrip Lisbon; and December 12, roundtrip Los Angeles, Mexican Rivera.
On every itinerary, Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity boast numerous dining options, including specialty dining from Master Chef Nobu Matsuhisa and Piero Selvaggio and Vintage Room experiences showcasing celebrated wines.Always an incredible value, 2010 Crystal Cruises offer two-for-one cruise fares, free airfare, shipboard spending credits and a price guarantee. For more information and Crystal reservations, contact a travel agent, call 888-799-4625, or visit crystalcruises.com.


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[Again I am unsure as to whether this is appropriate for this site since this is again from standard graduate text-books and not research level. Please do not answer the question if you think that this will eventually get closed. Since otherwise the software doesn't allow me to delete questions once it has answers!]
A priori the technique of quantization using the background gauge field seems to be a "mere" redefinition of the good old Lagrangian whereby one "artificially" seems to double the number of variables by writing all of the fileds like say the fermions $\psi$, the gauge field $A_\alpha^\mu$, the ghosts $\omega_\alpha$ and $\omega_\alpha ^*$ as a sum of two fields one with a prime (the quantum fluctuation) and one unprimed (the classical background) - like replace every $A_\alpha ^\mu$ by $A_\alpha ^\mu + A_\alpha^{\mu'}$. Till this step nothing seems to distinguish the primed from the unprimed fields.
Then one defines the a new set of covariant derivatives where the the connection is defined only by the classical background gauge field (the unprimed fields) only.
Then one rewrites the Lgrangian in terms of these new covariant derivatives and these doubled the number of fields. But I would think that the Lagrangian is still exactly the same and nothing conceptually has changed.
Now two statements come in which seem to be somewhat "magical" and thats where it seems that the crux lies,
Firstly one says that it is possible to set the background fields such that all the unprimed gauge fields are constant and every other unprimed field is 0.
Then one says that the 1-loop contribution to the running of the coupling constant (and also the effective action?) is completely determined by looking at only that part of the orginal action which is quadratic in the primed fields ("quantum fluctuations"?)
I would like to understand why the above two steps are consistent and correct and how to understand them. Also if there is some larger philosophy from which this comes out and if there are generalizations of this.
{This technique and idea seems quite powerful since after one says the above it is almost routine calculation to get the beta-function of a $SU(N_c)$ Yang-Mill's theory with say $N_f$ flavours - and hence asymptotic freedom of QCD! - things which I would think are corner stones of physics! }


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About Steamed Fish with Ginger and Scallions
Here are the ingredients::
Any fish in any cut will do, whether it be whole trout or salmon steaks or tilapia filets, which is what I used here.
Soy sauce
Which you will add to the
Chicken broth
in equal parts. And what parts is that? Well, we'll get to that in a sec.
Cut your scallions into about inch-sized rods. (Heh, I said rods.) And how many scallions should you cut up? Oh, I'd say about one bunch for every two servings. As the scallions cook they end up soaking up that broth you just made up there, mellowing out, and getting dang tasty.
Fresh ginger
Peeled, then cut up into little inch-sized matchsticks. And how much ginger should you cut up? Oh, I'd say about a thumb-sized knob for every two servings. As the ginger cooks it ends up soaking up that broth you just made up there, mellowing out, and getting dang tasty.
Some sort of pepper if you want
Like serrano or thai chilis or jalapeno like I used here. You know, for a touch of heat.
Some kind of oil if you want
Like peanut or sesame or canola like I used here. You only need like a tablespoon or so, and only to give the dish a bit of richness.
Got it? Well, here's what you should do with all that: Put your fish in a heavy, heat-proof bowl--something that can stand a good steaming. Throw the scallions, ginger, and pepper on top of that. Then add enough soy/broth until the liquid is barely covering your fish. Finally, swirl a little oil on top.
Slap on a lid, bring your pot of water to a rolling boil, and let that steam until the fish is done.
And when is your fish done? Depends on how thick your fish is. These tilapia filets only took about 12 minutes, but then again, these tilapia filets were only about a quarter-inch thick. So add extra time accordingly.
It is absolutely essential that you serve this over (preferably jasmine) rice, because all that broth in there is so freaking good. So put some rice on a plate, carefully (that bowl is hot!) top it with the fish, spoon out like a shit ton of broth and scallions and ginger, and maybe top with a bit of fresh cilantro if you want.
And if you want a lot of extra heat this pairs well with sambal. I promise it tastes better than it looks.
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I'll definitely be doing this soon. I've been meaning to buy a steamer for a long time now. I need a better way to make fish, because baking has never really worked for me (always ends up dry) and grilling fish is just a big wildcard.ReplyDelete
Steaming is pretty fool-proof. I highly recommend.ReplyDelete
I never thought of steaming fish. I'm going to do this, as it sounds easy enough for a cooking simpleton like me. So far I haven't progressed very far beyond broiling salmon with some butter and lemon juice and I really want some different ways to cook my fish.ReplyDelete
If husband is allergic to ginger, will garlic and maybe bamboo or hearts of palm substitute for it, do you think?ReplyDelete
Hmm... garlic would probably work, but I'm not sure about bamboo or hearts of palm; you want something pretty pungent to stand up to all the abuse of steaming.ReplyDelete
Good call. I'll steam the garlic, and maybe I'll add the bamboo with the cilantro, just before serving. Looks waaaaaaay to yummy to not at least try!ReplyDelete
Dang. I hate when I'm too excited to proofread.
THIS IS DELICIOUS, Y'ALL. And when I say "DELICIOUS", what I mean is "OMG I may never eat anything else for as long as I live!" Even the 9 y.o. at it, although he pushed the scallions aside. ;)ReplyDelete


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The stationary bike/desk hybrid is nothing new. But, till now, design seems to have never been of much of consideration. WeBike is a pedal-powered desk that also happens to be a very pretty piece of furniture.
Designed by Belgium's We-Watt, the WeBike's pedal-to-power design converts gentle cycling action into electric energy. Its aluminium-and-steel body is embellished with reclaimed cedar wood, and its top is made of a high-pressure laminate. An LED ring display in front of each seat shows how much power is being generated by the worker/cyclist and how much AC power is available for charging their device/s. According to We-Watt, the system can generate around 230Vac/30Watts of output per seat.
If only the WeBike wasn't £8,000, it would be a perfect solution for the otherwise very sedentary blogging lifestyle. [GizMag]


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How to Use the Home Screen on Your Kindle Paperwhite
When you first get your Kindle Paperwhite, you may have only one page of content listed on your Home screen. You can easily open a book from the list by tapping anywhere on its name. As the amount of content on your device grows, however, you'll want to be able to move around quickly and easily.
How do you know how many pages of content you have on your Home screen? Look at the bottom-right corner. Note the two numbers separated by a slash. The first number is the page you're on; the second number is the total number of pages of content.
Sort and display content on your Kindle Paperwhite
The top-right corner of the Home screen provides four options for sorting content: Recent, Title, Author, and Collections. To change the current sort method, simply tap it and then tap your new choice. Your list appears, re-sorted.
You can also restrict how much content is shown by tapping the down arrow next to My Items. By default, the device displays every type of item on your device, with the total number of items listed in parentheses. Tap Books, Periodicals, Docs, and Active Content to display content only in those categories. The number in the parentheses will change depending on the number of items in that particular category.
How to remove content from a Kindle Paperwhite
Although it's great to keep adding books and other content to your Kindle Paperwhite, sometimes you'll want to remove items — whether to save space or because you don't like clutter. Some Kindle users don't like to re-read books, so they have no reason to keep books they've read on their device. Realize that sometimes removing content is permanent.
If you long-tap a book's title, you will see that Remove from Device is the last choice on the menu that appears. If you purchased the book from Amazon, it will be available in the Cloud, which is your archive of Kindle books at Amazon. If you remove the book from the device, it is still available to you to download via the Cloud.
However, if you have purchased a book from another source, it will not be backed up in the Cloud, unless you have sent it to your device. In this case, when you remove the book, it is permanently deleted unless you have backed it up on your computer.
Unfortunately, the menu doesn't indicate whether the removal is permanent — you need to remember where you acquired the material.
If you long-tap the title of a sample, you will see the Delete This Sample option at the bottom of the list. Deleting is permanent, although you can always download the sample again from Amazon.
Page through the Kindle Paperwhite Home screen
If your Home screen has multiple pages, you can flip forward and backward through those pages by swiping from right to left or left to right. Note that this swipe can be horizontal or diagonal in List and Cover views.
From the Home screen, you can navigate directly to a page in your list of books. Begin by tapping the page indicator at the bottom-right corner of the screen. A pop-up window appears, allowing you to enter a page number to jump directly to the list of content.
If your Home screen is sorted by Recent or Title, you also have the option of entering the first few letters of a book's title. If your Home screen is sorted by Author, you can enter the first letters of an author's name. Tap the Go button and you're taken to the corresponding page in your list of content.
Search from the Kindle Paperwhite Home screen
Another way to find a book is to use the device's powerful Search feature, which can scan all your content to find items containing a word or string of characters.
To search from the Home screen, tap the Search icon on the toolbar. The Search screen and onscreen keyboard appears.
Enter text by tapping the appropriate letters on the keyboard, and then tap the Go button.
The search feature is powerful, and you need to set the parameters carefully to make sure you get the results you want. When you bring up the search bar, look to the left to see what is displayed. If it says My Items, your search will return titles and author names that match your search item in content that is on your Kindle Paperwhite as well as in the Cloud (your archive) at Amazon. Alternatively, if you select All Text, the search will be restricted to content on your Kindle Paperwhite, but it will search all the text on your Paperwhite, not just titles and author names.
The number in parentheses beside a title indicates the number of occurrences, or hits, of the search term in documents on your Kindle Paperwhite. By default, your search results are sorted by number of hits.
You can change the order in which your search options are displayed. At the top of the screen, tap the down arrow next to Number of Hits to see the sort options: Number of Hits, Recent, Title, and Author. Number of Hits sorts numerically by the number in parentheses; Recent sorts by the most recent items loaded on the device or viewed; and Title and Author sort alphabetically.
When you load new content on your Kindle Paperwhite, the device automatically indexes it. Occasionally, though, a file is indexed incorrectly. When this happens, you see Unindexed Items at the end of the search retrieval list. Unindexed items can quickly drain the battery.
Tap on the title of one of the retrieved items to display the results screen. A page highlights the search term in context, with the location number and, if applicable, the page number in the book. Tap the paragraph to go directly to the page in the book that contains your search term.
Content in the Cloud
If you purchase books, magazines, newspapers, or games from Amazon, those items are stored in the Cloud at your account. To view content in the Cloud rather than on your device, tap Cloud in the top left of the screen. When you do so, the number next to My Items changes to reflect the number of items you have stored in the Cloud.
You sort and view content in the Cloud the way you do on your device. Tap the arrow next to My Items to select All Items, Books, Periodicals, Docs, and Active Content. You can also sort items by Recent, Title, and Author.
To download content to your Kindle Paperwhite, tap its title. Your wireless connection must be turned on.
Only content purchased from Amazon is available for viewing in the Cloud.


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Well here's something. I've been mentally mispronouncing Imgur, the ubiquitous home to image macros, rage comics, memes and that other thing I've been mispronouncing forever, .gifs.
Turns out Imgur is pronounced "Imager". (I'd been doing it phonetically: im-GURRRRRR) Thank goodness I had no occasion to say it out loud.
But if people aren't saying "Did you see that thing in Imgur the other day," the same way they would about The New York Times, well, so what. As this profile by BusinessWeekBusinessWeek points out, Imgur does better traffic than the Times — 120 million monthly unique visitors.
Reddit, for whom founder Alan Schaaf created imgur back in 2009, is a still tremendous user of the service and driver of traffic to it. Imgur has grown even larger than Reddit, however; a gallery Imgur itself curates draws another 77 million views a day on its own.
As you can imagine, this is a far cry from the site's origin, when it ran off user donations for its first six months. It's doing very well with the ads it now hosts, thank you very much.
How Imgur Became a Photo-Sharing Hit [BusinessWeek]


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NBC News:
Britain IDs Man They Believe Killed Journalist James Foley — Earlier on Sunday, the British ambassador to the U.S. said officials were "close" to identifying the man with an apparent British accent who beheaded Foley in a video released by ISIS militants earlier in the week.
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Fox News:
US, UK eye rapper as British-born militant who beheaded journalist James Foley
US, UK eye rapper as British-born militant who beheaded journalist James Foley
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By Connor Grott
Assistant Sports Editor
The Middle Tennessee women's golf team played in their first C-USA championship this season, resulting in a third place finish for the Blue Raiders at The Peninsula Golf and Racquet Club course in Gulf Shores, Ala., on April 23.
Tulane finished in first place, shooting 856 (281-291-284) to bring home the C-USA title for the sixth time in school history and fourth time out of the last six years. The Green Wave's Gemma Dryburgh and Emily Penttila finished second and third with scores of 211 and 213.
UTSA earned second place honors with a score of 866 (286-292-288). The Roadrunner's Fabiola Arriaga finished in first place in the 65-player field, posting a score of 207 (68-69-70).
The Old Dominion Monarchs (297-291-293) and FIU (295-295-291) tied for fourth, with each squad shooting 881 for the tournament.
The Blue Raiders' third place finish is the highest in program history in a three-round tournament. Middle Tennessee posted a three-round tournament score of 879 (294-297-288), surpassing the previous mark of 880 set in the 2011 Sun Belt Conference Championship.
Along with setting a new school record for a score in a three-round tournament, the Blue Raiders set a new milestone with their third round score of 288, the lowest total for Middle Tennessee in a third round, while also ranking third on MT's all-time best round list.
"We played pretty solid today and had it going early," said MT head coach Chris Adams in a statement to the MT Athletic Communications Department. "We gave a few back on the back nine, but finished pretty good with a couple of other birdies. We made a lot of birdies that got us some momentum, but we just couldn't catch the leaders. It was a pretty good showing for our first go around in Conference USA, and I am proud of this team for putting together three of the best rounds ever."
MT was led by sophomore Avery George and junior Allie Knight, with both shooting 71 for one-under par in the third round. George paced the Blue Raiders, finishing the tournament with a score of 218 (75-72-71) for a team-best tie for ninth place in the field.
Knight tallied a score of 219 (73-75-71), finishing in a tie for 12th place. Her third-round score of 71 sets a new career-high, and marks a season-high third round score for Knight.
Emily Miller shot 220 (73-74-73) and finished in a tie for 16th place in the field, posting a career-best score of 73 in the first and third rounds. Maddie Denton logged a final score of 224 (73-78-73) for a share of 25th place, while also posting career-bests with her score of 73 in the first and third rounds.
MT's Emily Williams rounded out the Blue Raiders, tying for 31st place with a score of 226 (76-76-74). Williams proved to continue the Blue Raiders' common theme of success in the third round, tallying her lowest round of the tournament with third-round score of 74.
With the conclusion of the C-USA Championship, the offseason has arrived for the MT women's golf team. MT will only lose one member of the team in all probability, with senior Natalie Chrisopulos being the lone player to graduate.
Middle Tennessee will retain juniors Haley Cothran and Knight for the next season. Sophomores George, Denton, Miller and Williams will return as well, along with freshmen Samantha Gotcher and Lacie York.
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There have been plenty of movies and video games done in the Lego style, from Batman to Harry Potter to Star Wars, but it wasn't until someone finally figured out just how awesome Legos were on their own merit (but, you know, including Batman and Harry Potter and everything else) that the concept blew the doors off the box office.
Marking the biggest opening of the year so far, The Lego Movie banked a $69 million number one opening, the second largest ever debut for the month of February behind the $83 million opening of The Passion of the Christ. Just how big is that? Pixar big, ranking right up there with openings like The Incredibles and Up.
The Monuments Men made a somewhat more modest splash, banking $22 million for second place. That's a lower total than expected, leaving the movie some ways to go to cover it's star studded $70+ million budget.
The vampire genre has been worn thin for some time now, so anyone coming to the floor with something new had to be bringing something really novel and exciting to draw attention. Vampire Academy failed on all fronts and opened in seventh place with just $4 million.
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Reclaimed Wood File Cabinet
Reclaimed Wood File Cabinet
Wood Top: Reclaimed Hardwoods
Wood Age: 100+ Years Old
Wood Origin: Northern Wisconsin
Length: 36"
Depth: 26"
Height: 30"
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A perfect blend of reclaimed wood and steel create this lovely reclaimed wood file cabinet. Handcrafted and hand welded to perfection, this cabinet will hold your files in style. Be sure to buy the complimenting desk or you may make your current desk jealous!
Lead Time: Furniture is made to order in 6-10 weeks. Lead times are a projection based on time of purchase. We will send updates with any changes in production times.
Drawer Dimensions: Bottom Drawer - 28 3/4" L x 12" H
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We use only the good stuff! All the wood we use is 100+ years old-growth wood harvested from torn down midwestern barns. Reclaimed wood's beauty is in its variations, and will have naturally occurring knots, splits, weathering, nail holes & cracks. None of this effects the structural stability of the furniture. No two pieces of wood are alike, which makes your piece of handcrafted furniture one-of-a-kind!
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huics necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
We are an internet startup looking to redesign our site before launch. It is a site specializing in web widgets, primarily in Flash, HTML and JavaScript.
Tech-oriented crowd.
We are looking to redesign the broad layout of the site such as the background colors, the buttons etc. We also have three extra pages which we would like created for us as well, in addition to the home page redesign. The overall design should be nice and crisp, but nothing too elegant or complicated - we do not want to come across as being fancy. We want the feel of the site to be modern, chic yet user-friendly. The typeface should be clear, simple and bold. We want something that stands out.
Here is an image of the home page of our site attached as part of the brief.
Please submit your designs! As mentioned we have three extra pages which we would like designed for us. They should of course conform to the design of the home page.
Here is the sample text for those three pages:
Put your Widget to Work: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dffk…38hc6gggcq
Find, Publish and Earn: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dffk…39qmkbz2gb
Advertisers: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dffk…40d464j3dh
Other points to note:
1) Please do not use any clipart that might cause a copyright issue.
2) The winning designer will continue to work with us on banners and general promo designs etc on an agreed rate.
3) No coding necessary but we expect a logo for our brand as well as a design for the front page as well as the three other text pages.


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Items Needed:
- Adobe Photoshop
- A signature or a picture
2. Now go to layer>Duplicate layer
3. Use the Polygonal lasso tool to make a border around the signature/image.
Try to get a result such as this one:
4. Now, after making sure the top layer copy is selected hit ctrl+x to cut it out.
5. Now double click on the layer in the pallet to bring up a window or right click and select Blending Options.
6. Set these setting in the following places: Drop Shadow,Inner Glow, and Bevel and emboss.
7. Now after setting the following settings as I described above you should get the following:
This is it you're done however there is another part i have its optional but its up to you, all it does is make holes inside the border you made I do not have any screen shots of this.
Take the rectangular marquee tool again and cut out some "holes" in your border and add some text. To cut it out click CTRL+X.
Thats it Please Don't rip this tutorial. Thanks Mikhail.
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Whether in a Parisian bar or at the local office of the Association of the Friends of the Paris Commune, Deadspin foreign correspondent John Harpham found the French delighting ever so Frenchily in their national team's disgrace.
PARIS — Don't feel sorry for the French. This is a good general rule to follow — like "don't eat paste" or "never fight a land war in Asia" — but this guideline applies especially in the aftermath of the French national team's implosion at the World Cup. Really, don't take pity. The French, in fact, have never been happier.
You must realize, after all, that the French are a critical people. Finding fault is their pastime — more than soccer, more than body odor, more than abject surrender. Critique is to France what overeating is to America. Legs crossed, eyes narrowed, arms flailing, polemicizing: It's a natural condition. So for the French, this team is not a failure at all. It's a potluck, a socialist handout that everybody can enjoy.
Don't like bosses? Look at how Domenech and the whole French leadership screwed up this goddamn World Cup with poor management. See, bosses suck. Don't like individualism (or Sarkozy)? Well, this goddamn team just goes to show how much things suck when selfish individuals can't come together in a collective. Don't like the workers? Can't believe that goddamn team went on strike yesterday — screwing everything up, just like those unions, non? Such contempt for authority! Hate money? Yeah, did you hear how much that damn Ribery makes? Bunch of prima donnas. Don't like immigrants? Hey, look where that goddamn Anelka's from. Don't like soccer? Done.
This team is a complete, utter, total disaster, which is to say that, for the French, it's not a disaster at all. It's social vindication. At the point when the French are most disgusted with everything around them, they are at their most delightedly French.
I walked into my local Paris bar at 2 p.m. for yesterday's 4 p.m. game. The place was already half full of red-faced men. My friend, the bartender, greeted me. Chuckling, he asked if I was ready for the burial. I had hoped that old rascal Slimy Francois would hang on for another week or so, but I said I was ready for the burial and sat down. A short man in a trench coat stumbled in. He, too, was cackling and sarcastically chanting, "Allez les Bleus," the French team's cheer. More cackles, all around.
I was sitting next to Daniel and Jean-Jacques, and they told me, grinning, that they wanted the team to lose; they didn't deserve to win. The bar was dark. I went out to the sidewalk to clear my head, but immediately a man who pronounced his name with so much spittle I couldn't quite glean it said he was rooting for the French to lose 4-0. Then, erupting in yet another round of cackles, he mumbled something, gutturally, for a couple of minutes. When I came back inside, I tried to engage one guy at the bar in conversation, but he was double-fisting Heinekens, eyes fixed on the gambling screen on TV, and understandably he did not respond.
The soccer aficionado with whom I had watched France's loss to Mexico crumpled down next to me and opened one more button on his pink shirt. I asked him what he thought about the team now. He said he hoped they'd get crushed. He mimed gun signs with his hands and moved them up and down — pow, he said, pow, pow, pow — like he was picking off the players, one by one.
By the time the match started, the bar was full and humming with excitement — not the hum of a throng waiting to see a great team's triumph, but the voyeuristic, almost guilty buzz of a crowd delighting in a loser's humiliation. I turned to the guy next to me. He had unsealed yet another button of his shirt. The French team, he said, seemed as if it were under more pressure. Pression, in French. No, he said, it's suffering from depression. Depression. Word play. Cackle. French faults, South African goals, camera shots of Domenech. Sarcastic cheers. Cackles.
At halftime, with Bafana Bafana leading 2-0, we went outside to smoke and polemicize some more. Cackle. Snort. Domenech sucks. No! Ribery sucks more. Anelka's a "bad boy." Ooouuuii.
And so we returned from the half fully on the South African side. We called for France to abandon football and surrender to rugby. We laughed when Henry trapped a ball with his hand, just like he did against Ireland. We applauded and high-fived and cow-belled and generally overreacted when France scored a goal 70 minutes in, finally, to make it 2-1. Then: more applause, more high-fives, more cowbell. We bid au revoir to Domenech and jeered when Govou the Terrible faked an injury in stoppage time, and when the game ended, score unchanged, we resolved to root for Brazil. It was all très drôle.
Walking back home from the bar — having escaped from the wild-eyed Italian who was haranguing me about that Domenech and that Henry, and slicking his hair back and asking me if I understood him, which I did, of course, although not in any deep or existential sense — I remembered the trip I had taken just before the game, to the local office of the Association of the Friends of the Paris Commune. After I'd bought my Paris Commune souvenir tee, I asked the man working there if he liked soccer.
Not at the moment, no, he said.
I decided to go for it. "Yes," I goaded, "it seems that money has corrupted the game a little bit."
He agreed. Then he paused. Would he do it?
"And you see this everywhere today — everywhere," he said. Yes! He's doing it! "Money spoils things. Money gets into literature, money gets into music, money gets into politics, and money gets into football, too. The moment you begin to breathe, you are inhaling the toxins of money!"
I said I had to go and headed for the door.
"Money!" he shouted after me. "It's a sickness — a grave sickness!"
Yesterday, in Paris, it was sunny for the first time in weeks.
John Harpham is spending the summer in Paris and blogging about the World Cup at Soccer Politics.


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Marc kept the Beckhams
David Beckham was honoured last night in LA at the 27th Anniversary Sports Spectacular. His friend Marc Anthony presented his award. The Beckhams were once tight with both Marc and JLo. It's been a while since Victoria and JLo have been seen together publicly. Marc kept the Beckhams in the divorce then? It makes sense. What the f-ck would Posh do with Casper Smart? Oh wait. I might actually like to see that double date just for the laughs.
Anyway, Marc was there with his girlfriend Shannon De Lima. Becks had the whole proud family (except H7) in attendance to support him. Brooklyn is almost as tall as his mother when she's in 6 inch heels. I really don't know why she insists on posing with her head dipped like that. It only makes her look shorter.
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Demofall started by talking about video products, ranging from consumer tools that combine video and social networks to content delivery networks aimed at content companies. The one that looked best to me is one that improves video, but there are a lot of choices.
Digital Fountain showed off technology for improving video quality. The demo talked bout how any problems in packet delivery results in video that doesn't look right. But with the Digital Fountain software, even with a lot of packet loss, the videos still look good. This will be delivered by Splash, the company's new video content delivery network, which is deployed through Amazon web services. The big difference versus other content delivery networks seems to be that it doesn't require edge servers.
Global Communications talked about how capacity was important, and claimed they could deliver 200 megabits to a 1 terabyte per second anywhere. They showed a demo of using free space optics to send video through the air. It sounds interesting, but I guess I'm skeptical. In any case, the demo wasn't very clear.
Clipblast claimed to be the leading video search engine (personally, I'd list Blinkx and Truveo). They have a new video widget that lets you search and display video from the desktop, which can be customized for specific video providers. You can search by provider or topic, and save videos within the widget; and they say they have an iPhone version.
Radar tries to help people navigate through mutlipel rich experiences. Called the world's first media masher, Radar is a new interface that works on mobile, or desktop. You can run video, do searches, etc. I want to take a closer look later.
MotionDSP plans to make mobile video look good. The demo talked about how grainy most mobile phone video looks. He showed low resolution, blocky, badly locked movies can look better by using their proprietary software, which they have been using in forensic applications. The result is www.fixmymovie.com, a flash-based video site that automatically improves any videos you upload; and then lets you download a fixed movie, grab high-resolution JPEGs, etc. Although the videos didn't look perfect, they certainly looked better. This is a product I definitely need to check out.
Proxsure showed off Filmaroo, an video sharing platform designed to make it easy to publish and share video directly to your desktop. It is meant for private digital sharing using a peer-to-peer video content delivery network.
Your Truman Show is a video blogging platform that lets people see your life as a drama or comedy. It seems to be mostly aimed at organizing your video. Using a video map widget you can connect from one person to another, seeing each person's videos within the widget. You can see other people who have similar content and shared interests, thus combining video and social networking.
Some interesting ideas: I want to check out Digital Fountain, GlobalCast, and Radar some more, and really want to try FixMyMovie.com.


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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Asian markets retreated Tuesday as lingering uncertainty over the U.S. fiscal outlook and the next tranche of financial aid to Greece prompted a fresh wave of selling, hurting resource stocks and financials in particular.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 XJO, +0.30% and China's Shanghai Composite Index 000001, -3.73% each skidded 1.5%, Taiwan's Taiex XX:Y9999 stumbled 1.8%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index HSI, +0.15% fell 1.1%.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +0.25% fell the least among major benchmarks, ending down 0.3%, but extended its streak of losses to seven sessions as the country's weak economic outlook pressured sentiment. South Korea's Kospi 180721, +1.10% also surrendered early gains to slide 0.6%.
The drop in Shanghai and Hong Kong came even as markets awaited the once-in-a-decade leadership changes at the Communist Party Congress, currently in session.
"China is likely to remain the center of focus for the region, and any comments from there could be a big sentiment driver," said Stan Shamu, a market strategist at IG Markets.
Stock markets in India, Singapore and Malaysia were closed for a holiday.
Investor focus was affixed on the so-called fiscal cliff in the U.S. — heavy tax hikes and spending cuts that would occur in the absence of an agreement between Republicans and Democrats by the year's end.
"While our base case remains that a compromise will be reached eventually, the risk of temporarily going over the fiscal cliff in the interim will be negative for risky assets," Barclays strategists wrote in a note to clients.
Greece was another cause for concern, with The Wall Street Journal reporting about differences between euro-zone leaders and the International Monetary Fund on how to reduce the country's debt to more manageable levels.
The report said that while the region's ministers were confident about finding a way to agree on releasing a long-delayed $40 billion aid tranche, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde made clear there were differences on how to do that. Read: Euro zone aims for Nov. 20 Greek aid decision.
Major movers
Stock losses in Asia spread across various sectors, with resources, financials and internationally exposed firms coming under particular selling pressure.
In Sydney, miners suffered despite overnight gains for some commodities. Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. FMG, +2.40% FSUMF, +0.18% lost 2%, and Newcrest Mining Ltd. NCM, -2.54% NCMGF, -1.05% fell 2.3%.
BHP Billiton Ltd. BHP, +1.17% BHP, +1.79% lost 1.6% in spite of saying that it expects significant valuation improvements on its shale assets in the U.S. Read: BHP expects boost for U.S. shale assets: reports.
In Hong Kong, PetroChina Co. PTR, +0.25% 601857, -0.33% 857, -0.25% lost 1.9%, and China Coal Energy Co. 1898, -0.95% 601898, +1.69% CCOZY, +15.08% dropped 2.4%. In Shanghai, they declined 1.4% and 1.6%, respectively, while Zhongjin Gold Corp. 600489, -0.69% sank 2.7%.
In Taipei, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. 2330, +1.38% TSM, +1.46% slid 1.1%, and Inotera Memories Inc. TW:3474 sank 4.4%.
In Seoul, the key shipbuilding sector extended recent sharp losses, as Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. 042660, +1.01% surrendered 4.6% and Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. 010620, +1.95% retreated 2.2%.
Among major Asian financial names, Westpac Banking Corp. WBC, +0.31% WEBNF, -0.84% gave up 2.2% in Sydney, Nomura Holdings Inc. 8604, +1.59% NMR, +2.01% lost 0.4% in Tokyo, KB Financial Group Inc. KB, +1.71% shed 0.8% in Seoul, and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. IDCBY, +0.80% 1398, +0.92% 601398, -0.35% lost 1.8% in Hong Kong and 1% in Shanghai.
QBE Insurance Group Ltd. QBE, +0.48% QBEIF, +3.73% plunged 7.5% in Sydney on a string of broker downgrades after it issued a profit warning.
On the upside in Sydney, shares of Incitec Pivot Ltd. IPL, +2.35% US:ICPVY rallied 3.8%. The firm posted a 24% drop in annual profit, but its key explosives business nonetheless managed a pre-tax gain. Read: Incitec Pivot profit drops on fertilizer weakness.
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Yale To Face Princeton
ITHACA, N.Y. - The no. 13 Yale Bulldogs beat Penn, 9-6, at Schoellkopf Field in the first Ivy League Tournament semifinal today at Cornell. Trailing 3-0 after the first quarter, the Elis battled back to advance to the tournament final for the second year in a row, which will air live on Sunday at 11 am on ESPNU.
Sophomore Conrad Oberbeck led the Bulldogs with three goals and one assist. The rest of the scoring was spread out between Brandon Mangan, Shane Thornton, Harry Kucharczyk, Michael Lipin, Kirby Zdrill, and Michael Quinn. Senior defenseman Peter Johnson had his first points of the season with two assists, as well as causing three turnovers and picking up five ground balls.
It was a defensive-minded game, and the goaltending by sophomore Eric Natale made the difference as he racked up 12 saves.
"Eric played great. It's tough because in the beginning, we gave Penn some difficult shots yet they were able to score on them. It shows how good of a goalie he is, when he can play resilient and not let those first few goals affect him and really come through the rest of the game and make huge saves when we needed them. I'm very happy he's in goal and expect that kind of play out of him every game," Johnson said.
Yale outshot the Quakers 37 to 27 and picked up more groundballs (32 to 23). Junior Dylan Levings came up huge at the X, winning 11 of 17 face-offs.
After coming off one of his worst days of the season at Harvard, Levings said he "wanted to focus more, especially on small details. In general, I tried to fix what I did wrong. A lot of it was poor preparation, so I really tried hard and focused on this game."
While the ending was in Yale's favor, the start of the game was not. Their first goal did not come until Oberbeck ran the ball out from behind the net and along the crease before shooting to score a minute into the second quarter, cutting the Quakers' lead to 3-1. The next goal came 11 minutes later when Johnson picked up a ground ball in the defensive zone, pushed the transition to attack, and passed to freshman Michael Quinn, who shot it right under the crossbar to score, making it a one-goal game at 3-2.
Johnson said he learned his lesson after an attempted shot last game that he should pass it off instead: "The sideline was yelling 'trailer,' which essentially means you have a four-on-three with another guy on the field so I passed the ball back to Quinn, who was acting as the trailer, and he took a great shot."
Oberbeck agreed: "We knew coming into the game that Penn hasn't given up many more than 10 goals a game. So we knew it would be a defensive battle. Last game, they stymied our offense pretty well, so today, we had to focus on our mental effort, despite what happens during the game. We didn't end up having a goal until the second quarter, but Coach Andy Shay kept harping on the next play, just focus on the next play. I got a dodge on that first goal, and then Quinn scored. Whenever a pole scores a goal, everyone lights up, and I think that changed the game right there."
Less than a minute later, Mangan, standing behind the right side of the net, crossed the ball to Lipin on the top left, and the senior scored to tie the game at 3-3 heading into halftime.
Thirty-three seconds into the second half, Thornton took advantage of Yale's extra-man opportunity when he scored to give the Bulldog's their first lead of the game at 4-3. Penn scored two unanswered goals to take the lead back, but Oberbeck found the net again to tie the game at 5-5 going into the last quarter.
With a little less than 13 minutes left, Penn scored what would be its last goal to take the lead back at 6-5. Minutes later, Johnson notched his second assist when he picked up a groundball off a saved shot by Penn, ran the ball downfield, and passed to Zdrill, who scored to tie the game at 6-6.
Less than a minute later, Oberbeck connected with Flaherty to retake the lead.
"Colin Flaherty dodged down the wing and drew a slide. He passed it off to me, and I don't want to say I closed my eyes but I knew I would get slashed, so I tucked it and threw it at the net and it went in. It was one of the greatest feelings," said Oberbeck.
Defenseman Jimmy Craft picked off a pass in the defensive zone and passed it downfield to Mangan, who sped towards the net before taking a bounce shot to score and increase Yale's lead to two at 8-6. Yale's last goal came at 3:54, when Kucharcyzk found himself with the ball near the midfield line and Penn's defense out of position, including their goalie. He ran towards the net and was able to shoot before the goalie could set up, giving Yale the three goal lead at 9-6.
Senior captain Michael McCormack was proud of his team's performance: "We have a tendency to come out and fall down a little bit. Once we have a chance to settle into things, it's reassuring to know we can play in the second, third, and fourth quarters to come back. We were able to slowly chip away at their momentum, which was nice, and going into the half tied was great. From there on out, it was a solid effort by everyone, so it was a great win."
Besides advancing to the tournament finale, which carries an automatic bid to the national tournament, this win might have given the Blue what it needs to advance to the NCAAs as an at-large squad. The NCAA Selection Show airs at 9 pm on Sunday on ESPNU.
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Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School
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Monday, February 17, 2014
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Lincoln blasts out to an early lead and never loses steam
By Jeff Benjamin
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[February 17, 2014]
On a snowy Saturday night
(although doesn't it feel like all the Saturday nights have been
that way this season?), the Lincoln Railers welcomed Oswego in a
nonconference matchup at Roy S. Anderson Gymnasium. Simply put, the
Railers were not the most gracious of hosts.
As has been the habit, Lincoln got on the board
thanks to defense. A basket from Gavin Block was followed by a steal
and score from Joey Olden. After a score from Oswego's Steven Frank,
Lincoln stayed perfect on a point-blank shot from Edward Bowlby and
a 3 from Block. With the Railers hitting the first of their 16
3-pointers to go up 9-2, Oswego took a timeout just 95 seconds into
the game to try to regroup. Whatever they spoke of defensively did
not work as Bowlby hit from long range. After a steal, the Railers
finally missed a shot on a layup attempt, but that was followed up
by a tip from Max Cook as Lincoln's advantage jumped to 14-2.
Oswego's Javon Jones scored to halt the 10-0 run, but it only
served as an opportunity for Lincoln to start another one. Baskets
from Block and Bowlby pushed the lead to 18-4. Then the Railers
broke out the big guns. In the highest scoring quarter of the
season, Lincoln's next six field goals were from behind the 3-point
line. Olden and Bowlby connected twice during the run while Block
and Cook joined in to give the Railers a 36-9 lead, still in the
first quarter. Up until Saturday night, Lincoln's best first half
had been 39 points, but on Saturday the Railer offense caught fire
to be just three points shy of that mark in the first eight minutes.
Early in the second quarter, Oswego finally seemed to settle
down, going on a 7-2 run, but clearly this would be the Railers'
night, still leading 39-18.
Playing a nonconference opponent can sometimes be a dangerous
"I thought it was a good performance tonight," Lincoln coach Neil
Alexander said. "We came out ready to play, and we beat them early
with our experience and senior leadership against a young team. That
will be a good team the next couple of years, but tonight, we did
Railer 3s continued to fall as Bowlby and Payton Ebelherr added
to the Lincoln lead. The margin grew to 32 thanks to the Cook
brothers. Max Cook took a pass from Will Cook, making a layup while
changing hands in midair, and then scored on a 3-point play, again
getting the assist from the younger Cook.
Many of the starters got an early rest due to the big margin, and
it did change the game plan a bit.
"I think that's the earliest we've ever pulled our press off,"
Alexander said, "but you also want to know the kids can play it when
they get in there. It can be a tough call."
The starters played only about half of the third quarter before
taking the rest of the night off. By the time Bowlby hit his fifth 3
of the night, on his way to a game-high 21 points, Lincoln was in
control 62-27.
During the first four minutes, there was a bit of a scare as
Tyler Horchem was fouled hard by Oswego's Zach West, forcing Horchem
hard into the wall padding under the basket. The manner in which
Horchem hit the padding and bounced back, buckling at his knees,
made the incident seem it could be quite serious. Fortunately, he
bounced back up, sank the free throws after the flagrant foul, and
it wasn't much after that when the bench minutes starting piling up
for the Railers.
The top-notch play did not diminish after the starters retired
for the night. Will Cook missed a shot but was able to outhustle two
Panthers and score his points for the night. The Railers used free
throws to close out the third quarter as Bobby Dunovsky and Adam
Conrady helped Lincoln to a 67-31 lead after three.
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When Aron Hopp scored a basket, it put Lincoln up 69-34 and
marked the final 2-point field goal of the game. As Lincoln had done
all night, they went back to the 3-point shot. The Railers got a
pair of 3s from Jordan Perry and one each from K.J. Fry and Austin
Krusz. The final points of the night came as freshman Bryson Kirby
marked the scorebook for the first time this season with a 3 from
the right corner. The final 9-0 run by Oswego (11-12) did nothing
but change the final margin, a 27-point win for the Railers at
There are just too many superlatives to describe the play for the
Railers, especially during the first eight minutes. We've seen
Lincoln look good lately, but Saturday night was just another level
of good, something they will need on a regular basis as the regular
season winds down and tournament play begins in about two weeks. The
state tournament seeds and pairing will be announced by the end of
this week.
Bowlby led the Railers with 21 points and may have been paid the
highest compliment he could receive when, after the game, coach
Alexander was talking about Bowlby's unselfish play, knowing he had
scored a total of only three points in the two previous games this
week. Alexander said that Bowlby may be the greatest teammate he has
ever seen, and "whether he scores none or 21, he always acts the
same and his only concern is getting the win."
The senior was joined in double figures by Block and Max Cook
scoring 12 each and Olden chipping in 10. Perry added six with his
two 3-pointers, while Fry scored his first four varsity points.
Scoring three points on the night were Ebelherr, Krusz, Conrady,
Hopp, and Kirby. Horchem and Will Cook scored two each, and Dunovsky
added a free throw.
A pair of road games mark the schedule this week with games at
Sacred Heart-Griffin on Friday and Moline on Saturday. Friday's
contest will be at the normal starting time of 7:30, while the long
trip to Moline will see the varsity game tip off at 6:30. The
sophomore games are slated to tip 90 minutes prior to the start of
the varsity games.
All the news was not good for Lincoln basketball fans on Saturday
night. After defeating Rantoul St. Malachy by 15 earlier in the day,
the Chester-East Lincoln Panthers fell 42-39 in the 8-1A state
semifinal game with Jacksonville Our Saviour. In a game where they
trailed by 10 at the half, the Panthers were able to climb back in
the contest but could not complete the comeback, despite the
shooting of Josh Vinson, who sank seven 3-pointers in the game for a
high of 21 points. The Panthers (21-2) will close out their season
Thursday night at Bartonville Limestone High School as they play for
third place against Brussels (16-10). Game time is scheduled for 6
Bowlby 8-10 0-0 21, M.Cook 5-8 1-1 12, Block 5-8 0-0 12, Olden
4-4 0-0 10, Perry 2-4 0-1 6, Fry 1-1 1-2 4, Ebelherr 1-2 0-0 3,
Krusz 1-3 0-0 3, Conrady 0-2 3-4 3, Hopp 1-1 1-2 3, Kirby 1-2 0-0 3,
Horchem 0-3 2-2 2, W.Cook 1-4 0-0 2, Dunovsky 0-1 1-2 1, Aeilts 0-1
0-0 0. Team 30-54 9-14 85. 3-point field goals 16-34 (Bowlby 5-7,
Olden 2-2, Perry 2-4, Block 2-5, Ebelherr 1-1, Fry 1-1, Kirby 1-2,
Krusz 1-2, M.Cook 1-3, Aeilts 0-1, Dunovsky 0-1, Horchem 0-2, W.Cook
West 12, Robinson 11, Jav. Jones 8, Hennessey 7, Frank 6, Sharp
3, Vincent 3, Graff 3, Paisley 3, M. Ross 2. Team 20 8-13 58.
3-point field goals 10 (West 4, Jones 2, Hennessey, Paisley,
Vincent, Sharp).
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[By JEFF BENJAMIN]
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