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Mike Rice is coaching again. Or rather, he's running after-school clinics for third-to-sixth graders at a vast, four-court indoor basketball facility in Neptune, N.J., where he also works out local high-school players on Friday afternoons and coaches his son's high-school team in a fall recreational league.
Considering where Rice was a year ago — preparing for his third season as head coach at Rutgers University with a guaranteed salary of $700,000 — it is quite a step down. Of course, considering where Rice was seven months ago — a figure of national disgrace who was fired for mistreating his players — it's a little hard to believe he's coaching at all. "It helps when your best friend owns the place," Rice said.
We were watching his son's team, Red Bank Regional High School, warm up before a recent game against the inauspiciously named Brick Township High. Red Bank looked like your average suburban high-school team, with the exception of one kid. When I asked Rice about him, he said: "The big man is terrible. Just watch."
The instant the game got under way, Rice started pacing manically up and down the floor, yelling nonstop, his raspy voice echoing across the gym. He hollered at his team after every trip down the court, invariably singling out players both for doing something right ("Are you kidding me?" he said, when one of them squeezed between two defenders and laid the ball in off the glass. "You've got ballerina feet!") or wrong ("Ben, you're fighting for time! You get in the game and the first thing you do is give up an and-1?").
Rice wasn't berating anyone, and he definitely wasn't abusing anyone. Yet if you'd been watching him that night, you might very well have thought, That guy is nuts.
He was right, though: The big man had a long way to go. After he made one halfhearted attempt to stop a much smaller opponent from driving to the basket, Rice did a sideline demonstration for him: "This is a lion," he said, proceeding to roar loudly and menacingly raise both arms above his head. Then Rice lowered his arms limply by his side. "This is a wimpy little cat: Meow. Be a lion!"
The big surprise of the night was Rice's son, Mike III, a skinny sophomore guard who looked like a boy playing with men. He came off the bench midway through the first half and reeled off a couple of 3-pointers, a reverse layup and a teardrop shot off the dribble in the lane.
Rice and I had talked about his son's game a few times, and Rice did not always sound optimistic. "I've got to get him more into academics," he told me once, after receiving a text message from his wife informing him that Mike III had just been benched after going 0 for 3 in an A.A.U. game.
Mike III has no shortage of ability and an excess of basketball intelligence, and Rice personally works him out in their driveway regularly. But he has a tendency to overthink things, which can be deadly for an athlete. It also makes him very different from his father, and his father's father. As Rice put it: "Rices generally go in headfirst and then think later."
Mike Rice was introduced to America last April when ESPN aired footage of him screaming at and demeaning his players, yanking them by their jerseys, shoving them, kicking them; throwing balls at their heads and groins; taunting them with homophobic slurs. Within 24 hours, millions of people had watched it, and Rice had been denounced by everyone from LeBron James to Gov. Chris Christie. He was soon fired and disappeared from the public eye as abruptly as he entered it.
I first met Rice at the gym in Neptune on a hot, humid night about two months after all this happened. His daughter's under-12 A.A.U. team, which Rice also coaches on a volunteer basis, had just annihilated an opponent, 47-11. The other team could barely keep possession of the ball, never mind get off a decent shot. I introduced myself to Rice and told him that I felt a little sorry for their opponents. "I don't," he said. "Tell them to work harder."
After the game, Rice invited me back to his house in nearby Little Silver, N.J. Rice is frenetic on the sidelines of a basketball court, but his resting state is pretty wired to begin with, his voice often rising to a half-yell even in casual conversation. "Have a beer, for Christ's sake!" he shouted at me after I initially declined.
His wife, Kerry, offered to go out and get some dinner for us but couldn't find her car key. After some searching around, Rice produced it from his pocket. "Sorry, Pookie Bear," he said.
For the next two hours, we sat at a table on his deck, swatting mosquitoes, drinking beer and eating Italian takeout. His kids were inside, watching the N.B.A. playoffs, and Kerry eventually came out and joined us.
It was the first time that Rice had spoken to a reporter since delivering a brief statement of apology from his doorstep the day he was fired, a strategic decision that was not easy for him to accept. "Everything I've ever done is fight, scratch and claw," he told me, "and now I have to sit back and take it, listen to people say I was abusing my players? I was an idiot, but I never abused anybody."
From the beginning, Rice was clear he wasn't going to make any excuses for his behavior, and he didn't. But when your life has been reduced to a few minutes on YouTube and you've been living under a self-imposed gag order for two months, it's impossible to not want to explain yourself. "When you look at those moments, they're ugly moments, there's no way of describing them any way else," he said, adding, "Once every 20 practices doesn't make it that way every day."
It's true that what the American public saw was a fraction of the hundreds of hours of practices Rice conducted over the course of his first two seasons at Rutgers. It's also true that the video was made by a spurned ex-assistant who would end up filing a wrongful-termination suit against Rutgers. This was a video intended to destroy Rice, and in some respects, it did. The question is to what extent — and what kind of man will emerge now.
Going into the evening, I was expecting a cautious, scripted conversation. What I got instead was my first glimpse of a man who's not really capable of guarded moments and whose carefully managed rollout could be managed only so carefully.
Over the course of the next few months, I would spend many hours with Rice and gradually get the feeling that he wasn't just agreeing to each of my requests for more time because I was writing "the profile," a key component of every shamed celebrity's blueprint for rehabilitation. My sense was that Rice genuinely wanted to figure out how he ended up in this position, or at least to help someone else figure it out. "It will be interesting to read how you piece this damn thing together," Rice told me during our last conversation a few weeks ago.
Rice, who is 44, was raised in a working-class suburb of Pittsburgh, where his father was the head basketball coach at Duquesne University.
The elder Rice was an honorable-mention All-American in college, a 6-foot-3, 195-pound guard. ("Let's just say he wasn't the cleanest player," Rice says.) He grew up playing pickup in Detroit — his own father, Rice's grandfather, worked at a Ford factory and played semipro baseball — and he wanted to replicate that experience for his son, to instill in him the values of the street-baller. "He was a white kid playing in the middle of Detroit," Rice says of his father. "He wanted me to play the way he learned."
Rice's father refused to buy him a hoop, forcing him instead to ride his bike to a schoolyard and find some competition when he wanted to play basketball. By the time Rice was in middle school, his father was taking him along to adult pickup games. "These were some of the meanest, nastiest places in all of Pittsburgh," Rice says. "That's how I grew up, and how I was taught to play basketball, and how I was taught to handle myself."
In one conversation, Rice described his father as "the most competitive human being on the face of the earth."
"More competitive than you?" I asked.
"Oh, yeah," Rice said. "I'm calm compared with him. He's renowned."
There's some evidence to support this claim. In 1994, Mike Rice Sr. was ejected from a Portland Trail Blazers game — as a broadcaster, a first for the N.B.A. (Now 74, he still works as a color commentator for the Blazers.) Rice Sr. once threw his tennis racket after losing a match to one of his daughters. On the other hand, it was Rice who knocked out one of his father's teeth during a pickup game with his groomsmen on the day before his wedding.
When Rice wasn't playing basketball, he was watching it. Over the summers, while his mother took his two older sisters to tennis tournaments across the country — both became nationally ranked juniors — Rice tagged along with his father on his recruiting trips. During the school year, he spent most afternoons at his father's practices.
By age 12, Rice was barking directions at his father's players. "He'd be in their ear, saying they have to work on their jump shot or challenging them to a game of one on one," Rice Sr. says. "I'd run him off. I'd say, 'I'm not letting you come if you're going to be a distraction.' But he was always there." After practice, Rice Sr. sometimes found his son taped to the training table or stuck in the locker-room wastebasket, his hands and feet bound with athletic tape.
Rice idealizes his childhood, and his old-school basketball upbringing. "My father taught me the greatest game in the history of the world and the passion you have to have for it," he says. When I asked him if having such a hypercompetitive father might have had something to do with his behavior at Rutgers, he bristled. "Am I going to blame my father? No. That was on me. He also taught me right from wrong."
As a player, Rice did the best he could with his size and ability, earning a scholarship to Fordham University in 1987. By then, though, he had long since committed to following his father's career path. "Unfortunately, he had his mother's speed, so we ruled out the N.B.A. early on," his father says. "His life was going to be coaching."
In early August, I was on a flight to Chicago with Rice when a woman sitting on the other side of him asked him what he did. It was her second attempt to engage him, having asked a few minutes earlier if he was a professional tennis player. (Rice was in his usual sports attire: synthetic striped polo, shorts and sneakers.)
"I'm a college-basketball coach," Rice replied.
He turned back to me. "That's always a tough one to answer. Uh, I'm sort of between jobs right now."
We resumed our conversation, but the woman, whose interest in Rice was evident, soon asked him where he coached.
Rice paused. "Do you follow college basketball?"
"Not really," she said.
"Remember that coach who was fired from Rutgers? That's me."
"Shut up!"
Rice nodded. I asked if she recognized him now that she knew who he was.
"I just remember hearing the story over and over," she said. "Did you see the 'Saturday Night Live' skit?" A few days after the video of Rice first aired, he was the subject of an 'SNL' parody in which Melissa McCarthy played a psycho basketball coach.
"No, I still haven't seen it," Rice answered. "Everyone in my family has."
"Oh, my God," the woman said. "You have to watch it. It's hysterical!" She proceeded to recap the skit, in which McCarthy does everything from making her team serve her a meal at center court — "Where's the bread?" — to throwing a toaster at a player.
The woman asked if I was his lawyer, and when he told her I was a writer following him around, she asked why he waited so long to tell his side of his story. Rice said he didn't want to sound as if he were making excuses, because what he did was wrong.
"Did you not know that?"
"Oh, yeah," he said. "But you want to win. You'll do anything if you think it will help you win."
"So what have you been doing?"
"I've been doing a lot of basketball camps."
"Do you show up with a toaster?" She told him again that he had to watch the "SNL" skit. It was on YouTube; it was hilarious.
"'I promise I'll eventually get to it."
Rice began working as an assistant coach at Fordham the day after he graduated from college in 1991. He spent the better part of the next 16 years bouncing between assistant jobs: Marquette, Niagara, Chicago State, Saint Joseph's, the University of Pittsburgh. In 2007, at age 38, he was named head coach of Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, at a starting salary of $100,000, $80,000 less than he made at Pitt.
The Robert Morris team Rice inherited had just finished tied for fourth in its conference, but Rice thought he could get much more out of his players, especially because they were one of the league's worst defensive teams. He pushed his players to work harder and play more physically. "You had to give 100 percent at all times," says the captain of Rice's first Colonials team, Tony Lee, now a corrections officer in Massachusetts. "He demanded that from his players."
On the court, Rice refused to accept that his players might have limitations. Off the court, he seemed to understand that they were kids. At Robert Morris and at Rutgers, he assigned all of his players a "life coach," an assistant coach who made sure they attended classes and did their homework on time. At both schools, the team's cumulative grade-point average rose considerably on Rice's watch.
Rice's Robert Morris players talk about the team ethos he built; during practice, no fallen player was allowed to get up off the floor until a few teammates had hustled over to help him. Rice basically shaped the team in his own image. "My players would rip your throat off," Rice told me. "We were an aggressive, intense team with an aggressive, intense coach. We believed in togetherness and toughness. We were old-school."
One part of coaching is pushing players to do things they don't necessarily think they can do. Another part is showing them how to lose. Not in the simple, good-sport way, but in how to take a loss and make something of it. Yet losing invariably set off feelings in Rice that he seemed constitutionally unable to process and that drove him outside the pages of the conventional coaching manual. "It was pathetic the way we defended and represented Robert Morris University," Rice said after one game. "It was an embarrassment." Rice was angry, and he wanted his players to get angry too, even to feel shame. "It's a hard paradox to explain or understand," says Andy Toole, one of his assistant coaches at Robert Morris. "He cares about you so much and he wants so much to win, he's willing to maybe go into a gray area with you to motivate you."
Still, the former Robert Morris players I spoke with said they were shocked by the Rutgers video. "Every coach yells — but throwing balls, kicking balls at players, the physical contact?" Lee said. "We had never seen that."
There are some obvious reasons that Rice might have been able to exert more self-control at Robert Morris. For starters, it's not a big-time basketball school; he was under less scrutiny there. Also, his Robert Morris team was well suited to his coaching style. The players were gritty kids at a commuter college outside Pittsburgh, not N.B.A. prospects with a lot of other options. "Where were they going to go?" Rice says. "They were already at Robert Morris."
Rice might not have crossed the line at Robert Morris, but he also wasn't a completely different person there from the one he would become at Rutgers. When you think about it, all of the words people use to describe him at Robert Morris — "passionate," "emotional," "intense" — are not that far from "out of control." We tend to treat competitive sports, often justifiably, as a vehicle for all sorts of noble principles. But they are also, maybe more fundamentally, a realm in which men can behave like emotionally stunted rage machines. Anyone who watches college hoops is familiar with the sight of a coach in a suit and tie, neck veins bulging, screaming his head off. This may have something to do with the nature of the sport itself. Because basketball is so free-flowing, there's room for only so much strategy. A coach's ability to motivate his players — to somehow will them to play over their heads — is paramount. In this context, the raging coach seems perfectly normal. Out of context, you would be inclined to conclude the individual in question is seriously disturbed.
Maybe the biggest difference between Mike Rice at Robert Morris and Mike Rice at Rutgers is that at Robert Morris, his teams won. The Colonials ended Rice's first season in first place in their conference. In his second season, Robert Morris made it to the N.C.A.A. tournament for the first time in 17 years. They returned to the tournament the next year — Rice's last at Robert Morris — and nearly upset Villanova, a No. 2 seed.
Rice was developing a reputation for his success, but also for his temper. Against Villanova, a few of his players had to physically restrain him after a series of foul calls. Not long after, there was speculation in the media that Rice's courtside demeanor had prevented him from being considered for the head-coaching job at Seton Hall. According to another story, even the staff pickup games at Robert Morris had to be discontinued because Rice was taking them too seriously.
On some level, Rice knew that his behavior was a problem. "The 1,500 people who came to the games at Robert Morris, I'd put on a good show for them," he told me. "If the game was boring, they could just watch me. I would watch myself and think, Jeez, I've got to calm down."
In these fleeting moments Rice was capable of seeing himself as thousands, and eventually millions, of people would see him. And yet he couldn't, or wouldn't, get far enough outside himself long enough to recognize the need to change.
Rice says he stopped using the word "faggot" during his second season at Rutgers, when one of his assistant coaches pulled him aside to remind him that a student at the school had recently jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate filmed him kissing another man. (I heard about this from Rice himself, who also told me that the assistant said to him, "Are you crazy?") But his homophobic slurs are still part of his lowlight reel, and he has to answer for them.
Toward that end, Rice has volunteered his services to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. "You know how much courage it takes for a kid to come out in high school?" Rice asked me after his first meeting with a group of gay high-school students in New Jersey.
In late July, the organization invited Rice to a daylong professional-development seminar in Chicago. The objective was to help educators make gyms and locker rooms more inclusive. It started with the usual around-the-room introductions, only with a twist: Participants were asked to give their names, their occupations and their P.G.P.'s
"Who can tell me what a P.G.P. is?" asked the leader, Jenny Betz, a peppy 30-something in a necktie, blue button-down, navy trousers and oxford shoes.
A man in a backward baseball cap raised his hand to answer: "Your preferred gender pronoun. What you like to be called."
"Exactly," Betz said, kicking things off with her own P.G.P.'s: " 'She,' 'her,' 'hers' or any combination of them will feel comfortable to me."
I had assumed that the rest of the participants would be lower-profile versions of Rice: coaches doing penance for gay slurs. As the introductions got under way, though, it became clear that the group was self-selected. They were almost all gay coaches and P.E. teachers from the area.
It was soon Rice's turn: "My name is Mike Rice. I am currently unemployed, but I worked as a basketball coach for 22 years. 'He,' 'him' or 'his.' "
Over the course of the day, Rice and the rest of the participants watched videos about the experience of gay students in school sports, ran through hypothetical situations and learned some catchphrases to help make them stronger advocates for gay students: If you see something, say something. If it's mean, intervene. Grab a teachable moment.
The scene bordered on comical: Mike Rice, last seen by much of America calling his players "faggots," sitting in the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community center in the Midwest, talking about how to prevent the perpetuation of gay stereotypes. But Rice dived right into the various exercises.
At one point, Betz asked people to break into small groups and talk about a teacher or coach who made a strong impression on them. Rice told the story of his high-school coach's sending him to the locker room in tears during the early minutes of an important game for yelling at his teammates to stop shooting and give him the ball.
"What the hell are you doing?" his coach asked, pulling Rice off the floor.
"What the hell are you doing?" Rice replied.
"That's it," the coach said. "You're done."
"It was the most embarrassing moment of my life," Rice said. "Until this happened."
Later, Betz requested two volunteers for some role-playing: What do you do when a colleague says something intolerant and offensive? "Who wants to be the P.E. teacher?" she asked.
Rice gamely raised his hand and went up to the front of the room with his female partner, a coach from a middle school in DeKalb, Ill., who was supposed to ad-lib a response to his scripted lines.
"That kid has such a mouth on him," Rice read awkwardly. "He thinks he is so funny. Well, I shut him up today. I called him a little homo, and that cracked everyone up and shut him up. It's the first day we've had some peace in that class since the unit started."
His pretend colleague responded instantly: "How is that in any way appropriate?"
"What I want at Rutgers is a coach who is going to be intense, hard-working and emotional and who is going to care every single second," the Rutgers athletic director, Tim Pernetti, said at Rice's introductory news conference in May 2010. "At the same time," Pernetti added, "I think we have a guy who understands . . . where the line is."
It would be too much to suggest that anyone could have known at that point that Rice didn't really understand where the line was. But it's easy to see that Rice and Rutgers were a bad fit from the start. This was one of the worst teams in one of the toughest basketball conferences in the country. Rebuilding the program was going to take time. Even if Rutgers improved significantly, it was not going to win a lot of games. What the team needed was not a coach single-mindedly obsessed with winning but one who knew how to lose.
The season before Rice arrived, Rutgers finished 14th out of 16 in the Big East, and then three players left the team, including the top scorer. He tried to make a virtue of their underdog status, hanging a punching bag in the locker room covered with laminated newspaper clippings about how bad Rutgers was going to be.
Rice also came up with a motto — a philosophy, really — to help guide practices: "Comfortable in Chaos." The concept was borrowed from the Navy SEALs, whose training assumes that the game plan has been scrapped and that they are in trouble. As Rice saw it, going up against teams like Georgetown and Syracuse was the basketball equivalent of a combat mission gone awry. He wanted practices to be more demanding — more hellish — than the games themselves. "Get ready for the chaos," he'd say as his players stretched out and warmed up.
Rice says he can now see that he took the idea way too far. "A good coach leads his team to water," he told me, borrowing a metaphor he picked up in anger-management counseling. "A great coach leads them to water and makes them thirsty. I led them to water, put their heads in until I was satisfied with how much they drank."
It's a reality of coaching that no matter what you do, your team is not going to get better every day. During our conversations, Rice talked a lot about the ticking clock, how he felt as if he had only so much time to turn Rutgers around if he wanted to keep his job. I don't doubt that Rice felt a powerful urgency to win at Rutgers. But the pressure was only a catalyst. It was also who he was and what he did for a living that made his behavior at Rutgers seem inevitable.
"It's easy to say now, but when I was in it every day, I wanted to grab someone and just go, 'We can do this, we're going to show everybody,' " Rice told me. "Because that's who I am, and that's what I do."
By some measures, Rice's first season at Rutgers was a success. The team was projected to finish dead last in the Big East. Instead, Rutgers finished 12th, with an overall record of 15-17. As proud as he is of his Robert Morris teams, Rice considers this his greatest achievement as a coach.
His second season promised to be even better. He landed five highly rated prospects, a remarkable feat for such a weak program. Of course, five highly rated prospects also meant a lot of freshmen, all of whom had to get used to playing against bigger, stronger competition, not to mention college life. The team proved inconsistent. It showed flashes of potential, upsetting some top schools, but would then turn around and lose to schools it was expected to beat. It finished the season 14-18.
When you cut through all the mythology of the college coach as molder of young athletes, what you will find is basically a group of extremely competitive people whose livelihoods — not to mention self-images — are tied to the performance of a group of adolescent kids. This doesn't mean that coaches don't care about their players; it's just the reality of the job. "What did you think about when you were 17 to 22 years old?" Rice says, referring to some of the challenges of coaching college players. "You were out of your mind. The last thing you'd think about was jumping to the ball and making a play for your teammate and boxing out every time. You're thinking: Where's the party going on? Who's hanging out with who that night?"'
In this sense, anyway, coaching really isn't so different from parenting. You want your kids to do better, to be better, and it can drive you crazy to watch them repeat mistakes or even just underachieve. The trick is to be able to drive down your own demons, to contain your frustration and, more generally, to balance anger and disappointment with love and encouragement. This is what good parents and great coaches do. And it's what Rice couldn't do at Rutgers. Here's another way to look at it: College coaches often talk about saving kids from themselves; Mike Rice's problem was that he couldn't save himself — or his kids — from Mike Rice.
I've heard Rice call his behavior any number of things — "idiotic," "thoughtless," "stupid." As Rice puts it: "There's not a lot of thought that went into why you would throw a ball at somebody's feet as hard as you could. Is that going to make him rebound better? Probably not. I don't know what will, but that won't." Even as Rice acknowledges that he was wrong, he says his players understood he was just trying to motivate them. "Did any of them blink?" he asked me once. "If they were mad at me, they would have knocked the hell out of me. They're 6-9, 270 pounds."
After the video went viral, a number of Rice's players at Rutgers came to his defense on TV and in newspapers. "We always said we want to be pushed to that point where we get better," Tyree Graham, who was on the Rutgers team for Rice's first two seasons there, told me. "That's what he did."
It's not surprising that players would rally around their coach when they saw him being publicly pilloried. But not all of them agreed with what Rice was doing. The fact that Rice's players didn't fight back doesn't mean that his conduct wasn't abusive. What college athlete is going to knock the hell out of his coach? And to whom could Rice's players complain? The athletic director who hired him? The assistant coaches who were loyal to him and stood silently by while he bullied the players, or even participated in similar behavior themselves?
Rice says he wanted his players to fight back, to match his intensity. You can see how this might work as a form of motivation, but you can also see how it could easily backfire. Not all players are going to feel comfortable yelling at their coaches. And isn't it the coach's job to hold himself above and apart from his team, to be the educator, the grown-up?
One mystery of Rice's story is how his behavior went unreported in the media for so long. His practices were open to the public and regularly attended by local journalists. During Rice's first year, Jay Bilas, a college-basketball analyst on ESPN and a former Duke player, watched a Rutgers practice and was so taken aback by "the volume level, the profanity, the challenging of the players," he told me, that he pulled one of Rice's assistants aside to say that someone needed to talk to him. Rutgers's new basketball coach, Eddie Jordan, said over the summer that the school has been working with players who had some "psychological damage" from their time with Rice.
Rice's style might have worked at Robert Morris and with his first team at Rutgers — which he affectionately calls "the leftovers" — but it stopped working during his second season there. Part of the problem was that some of Rice's returning players felt that he was treating the freshmen differently, that they were being spared the worst of Coach Rice's Comfortable-in-Chaos boot camp.
Rice said one of his assistant coaches told him privately that his relentless intensity and negativity were hurting the team, and suggested he lighten up on some players. Another gave him a copy of a book called "The Positive Dog" to underscore the importance of positive feedback.
But Rice didn't listen, at least not until his second season at Rutgers was nearly over. "You're successful and now you keep building and it gets a little more out of control until it becomes a problem," he says. "And my problem became a huge problem, and I never took time out to analyze how I was going about things. Even though people would say things, I'm not hearing it. Because the intensity is what I was, the intensity is what I knew."
"You're lucky I have no more anger, buddy!" Rice joked one afternoon in June, swerving his Audi S.U.V. to avoid a car that had just cut in front of him. We were on our way to lunch at a Ruby Tuesday near the Newark Airport. Sitting in the back seat was the man in charge of Rice's emotional and professional rehabilitation, John Lucas.
The John Lucas Athlete's Aftercare Program in Houston, where Rice has spent quite a bit of time since last spring, has become a mandatory stop on the disgraced sports figure's road to redemption. Whether you've been arrested for drunken driving (Rod Strickland) or kicked off your college-football team for smoking pot (Tyrann Mathieu), John Lucas is the man to call.
"First thing I did was say you're going to have to pay for your treatment," Lucas said, recalling his initial conversation with Rice last spring. "Nobody is going to believe you're serious if you don't pay for it. And I'm not going to do insurance. When he heard the numbers — "
"Luc don't do anything cheap," Rice said.
It's hard to say what, exactly, Lucas does. He has no professional degree in psychology or social work. With his familiar recovery rhetoric, he's more A.A. sponsor than therapist. (Rice, he says, has to learn that he's just another "bozo on the bus.")
Lucas does, however, have the credibility of a survivor: about 30 years ago, his promising N.B.A. career was derailed by cocaine and alcohol addiction. He also runs a lot of basketball clinics that can serve as halfway houses for a recovering Big East coach who's trying to get back into the game any way he can, even if that means spending a holiday weekend running layup drills for fifth graders on a volunteer basis.
Between bites of his burger and fries, Lucas prodded Rice toward self-reflection. "When I was at Robert Morris having the time of my life, I wasn't having the time of my life, because I wanted more," Rice said. "When I was at Pitt, we went to the Sweet 16 — but I just wanted to get a head-coaching job. I always wanted more — more, more, more. I wanted to win every day. If you didn't do it, I was going to make you do it. I was going to overwhelm you with intensity, with passion, with motivation."
At the same time, Lucas also worked on the narrative of Rice's redemption. "He's going to have the gift of sensitivity now," Lucas said.
The whole conversation felt more than a little contrived, a lunchtime therapy session conducted for my benefit. Rice obviously sought out Lucas because he needed help trying to reclaim his reputation. But it would be unfair, and inaccurate really, to say that Rice isn't going through something genuine. And if Lucas wasn't exactly offering searing psychological insights — his basic take was that Rice is no different from any other addict, only his vice is perfection — it was clear why Rice finds it comforting to be around him. Since the video, Rice has been defined, above all, by shame. (The same emotion he was often trying to get his own players to feel.) But Lucas, who during his playing days famously awoke from a bender soaked in his own urine, doesn't judge.
There's another thing, too. Part of the allure of the world of competitive sports is that it doesn't require self-awareness. Your only job is to win. So when athletes and coaches find themselves in Rice's position, they often don't know how to talk about what they're going through. Lucas's vocabulary may be borrowed from a different recovery movement, but it's better than nothing.
"I make him talk to me about the fears," Lucas said.
"What are those fears?" I asked.
"I'm not good enough," Rice said.
"The fear that he won't get another job," Lucas said. "How long is everything going to be, Mike Rice, disgraced ex-Rutgers coach?"
Lucas gestured at Rice, whose eyes were red and swollen with tears. "Look at the pain he's in right now. He can't forgive himself. . . . If you can't see he's human and genuine, you're missing it. Here's somebody that's truly remorseful, that's trying to get everything back in a day, and I'm trying to tell him that that's gone forever. No one is ever going to forgive him. That's the good thing for Mike Rice. His self-worth will come by who he is now, not by his title."
One important distinction between Mike Rice and your average public figure looking for redemption is that Rice isn't guilty of some discreet transgression that arguably had little or nothing to do with how he did his job. His transgression was how he did his job. This is going to make it more challenging for Rice to get back into basketball. But he is determined to coach again.
After his son's game against Brick Township, as Rice and I drove to a pizzeria in a nearby strip mall, I asked him if he had any leads on basketball jobs. He was vague but sounded encouraged. He said that he would have to work his way back up, probably starting as a scout for an N.B.A. team, but that he thought he would eventually get another shot.
Over the past several months, Rice told me repeatedly that he was going to emerge from this experience a better man, a better father and a better coach. It was the sort of thing that anyone in his position would say, and I always glossed over it in our conversations. But it's actually an interesting issue. It's not, as it might seem on the surface, simply a matter of whether Mike Rice has "learned from his mistakes." It's a more universal, even philosophical question: Can we really change who we are?
I was impressed by Rice's coaching during his son's game that evening, in particular how focused he was on every little thing his players were doing. This is exactly what most serious athletes want: a passionate coach who's doing everything he can to make you a better player. But I also wondered how difficult that intensity must be to corral, especially for someone with Rice's background and makeup. It's possible that Rice might be a better man and father if he could learn to harness his intensity and get past the need to always have to prove something. But that might not make him a better coach.
A lot of coaches do start their careers unable to calibrate their intensity. They gradually figure out that it doesn't much matter if this approach is successful, to say nothing of appropriate. It's not sustainable. An important part of this process is becoming self-aware, learning how to truly stand outside yourself. Another is absorbing something we were all told as kids: Winning isn't everything. Or maybe it would be more precise in the context of Mike Rice to say that if winning is everything, you're probably going to wind up damaging a lot of people, yourself among them.
"I wish I would have been more thoughtful in how I went about making them forged as a team, making them tougher as a unit," Rice told me. By now, the restaurant had emptied, and our waitress was resetting the tables around us for the next day, making sure we knew that it was time to leave. Rice paused for a moment, before either saying what he knew he was supposed to say or trying on a new identity. "Or maybe just accepting that sometimes you have to accept that you are who you are. Look, we're not very good, but we're going to try every day, and we're going to do the right things."


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Golf Tip of The Day
If you put a log on the ground and asked someone to take out a chunk of wood from the log they would most likely swing the ax into the log at an angle and create sliced out section from the log. This action is done with an abrupt angle of attack into the wood log.
To many people think that a sand wedge is just for bunker shots. The sand wedge should be used for sand shots as well as most pitch shots to the green. The sand wedge whether a 54-degree or 58-degree has "bounce" on the sole of the club.
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A carpenter's chalk-line and a CD disc are great putting aids to have in your golf bag. The chalk-line is useful to help you with your alignment and stroke. Find a straight six to ten foot putt on a practice green. Snap a chalk-line from the hole back to desired distance.
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Do you have one of the new large headed drivers?So you can launch it nice and high, tee the ball higher and further forward in your stance. This will allow you to catch the ball on the up swing and launch the ball.
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A pitch short or short chip shot from short grass or a tight lie can be a challenge even for the very best players. Make a few practice swings and brush the ground in a way you would do it if the ball was there.
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If you miss the green and your ball ends up in a closely mown area don't forget about the hybrid putt. Approach the shot just as you would a putt. Use your putting grip, stance, pre-shot routine and stroke. You will find that with a little practice you will start getting
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You want to take every advantage of down wind conditions. Here are the keys: 1. Tee the ball about a < to = an inch higher. 2. Move your ball 1 inch up in your stance. 3. Swing easy and be patient. Moving the ball up means that it will take a longer period of time
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When the wind picks up you want to choose a club that is more than what you would normally choose. Go through your normal pre-shot routine and then swing easy. The windier it gets the easier you should swing. You will quickly find that your golf ball is boring through the win
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With over 60% of your strokes coming from inside of 100 yards, it is essential that you spend a proportionate amount of time on your short game as you practice. You should devote most of your short game practice to putting and chipping. These two shots make up the majority of your
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Is your golf bag organized? Having your golf bag organized will help you greatly as you improve your skills. Knowing where each club is within the bag, you will not lose focus on the shot you have planned, while you search for the proper club.
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A greenside bunker shot is so much easier than most think. It is nothing more than a "fat pitch." In a greenside bunker we want to hit the sand first.
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Many people over swing and tee the ball lower on tee shots into the wind which can magnify many off center hits and overall bad swings. I would like to see players stay consistent with their set up during such tee shots and stay more focused on a weight shift to the left side for right h
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The easiest way to learn the golf swing is to relate it to another learned movement. The golf swing is a rotary movement; it contains a throwing element similar to baseball. For the non athletes, it would be like skipping a pebble.
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Find a full length mirror and follow these simple steps: 1. Soften your knees slightly.
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1. Use a sand wedge- it's made for this shot! 2. Line the ball up with the front of your stance. 3. Open the clubface more than you think for fluffy, beach-type sand.
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Side Hill Lie: 1. Aim towards the high part of the hill as your ball will always favor the opposite direction. 2. Always take practice swings and pay attention to where the club sweeps the grass that will determine the appropriate ball position for the lie.
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The most common saying in golf is "keep your head down." The question is, are you actually picking your head up? When you hit a thin shot that dribbles along the ground, it would seem that a player must have picked their head up.
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The most common thing that causes poor contact in shots around the green is the hands and wrists trying to scoop the ball in the air. The scooping action results in punishing shots that are bladed over the green or hit fat and fall short of the target. The scooping action of your h
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What club do you use the most during a round of golf? The answer is your putter. Focus on your fundamentals to improve your "P's of Putting". Master this list and you will be well on your way to a better stroke and lower scores.
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Making a grip change is no easy proposition. The solution is to place your hands in the new position at home while watching TV and practice. You can do this sitting down and swinging the club up and down in line with your trail shoulder.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) The panel that selects the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature says it will announce its decision on Thursday.
That means the dates of all the 2013 Nobel Prize announcements have been set.
The Swedish Academy receives hundreds of nominations from literary and language professors from around the world, as well as previous laureates and the heads of writers' organizations.
The Nobel Prize in medicine was announced Monday and will be followed by physics prize on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, and the economics award is set for Oct. 14. Each prize is worth $1.2 million and will be presented on Dec. 10.


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Rise Up & Curate! (Part 2 of 2): Cinefist and Live Events/
Today's guest post is once again from filmmaker Zak Forsman. Yesterday we ran part one of this post. Now, it should be pointed out that we are not alone in trying to aid the floundering LA indie scene. There are two other LA based screening series that we have partnered and networked with. Cinema Speakeasy by Saskia Wilson Brown has had great success hosting short film workshops where the audience is invited to offer creative feedback on films in post. Film Courage Interactive, hosted by Karen Worden & David Branin, bookends their screenings with a indie film quiz show with sponsor-donated prizes and a filmmaker therapy session of sorts where filmmakers discuss the more pressing issues of the day. All of us are building a network that we hope will grow into an alternative to film festivals, where the filmmaker can make a little dough showing their movies.
Experience has taught us that many filmmakers we invite to participate often need guidance and motivation. For that reason we have adopted a tiered revenue-share model where the first 40 seats go to the venue, the next 40 go to the filmmaker and the last 20 go to CINEFIST. Anything over 100 ticket sales are split evenly. In addition to having to first satisfy the venue's cut, the filmmakers need to meet promotional commitments in order to participate in the box office sales. It's not automatic. Having the filmmaker push and promote can often be the difference between 15 people or 150 people attending the event.
We've also discovered some things that just don't work. At the beginning, I imagined that selling DVDs in the lobby would be a good way to boost the money a filmmaker could make. But the truth is that filmmakers have generally sold DVDs to less that 10% of the audience when priced between $10 and $20. Meanwhile, the bands that brought CDs to sell, sold them at $5 to about 50% of the audience. There is something to be said for the replay value of our films and the perception and effectiveness of "added value" that a DVD could or should have in order to motivate more purchases. This, however, is a tangent for another article.
Secretly, we at Sabi Pictures undertook this endeavor to experiment with doing live events in preparation for our upcoming theatrical tour of Heart of Now and White Knuckles -- two feature-length films we produced and will release this Fall. In addition to the lessons of the screening series, we have been actively tracking audience demand using two services: Open Indie and Crowd Controls. On the surface they look like they offer the same things and one should choose between the two, but I've come to the conclusion that they actually offer complimentary advantages and it's worth the time to use both.
Where Open Indie (more so, as it grows) fosters paths for audience discovery through a twitter-like interface and filter exposing users to new works their friends have requested, Crowd Controls fosters the means to distribute our work to an identifiable audience that we can nurture once they've established themselves as a "fan". Open Indie provides a layer of privacy for the audience, meaning that someone who requests my movie there will never hear from me unless a screening is booked in their town. Crowd Controls on the other hand gives a fan the opportunity to share their email and postal code directly with the filmmaker, so that a relationship can be nurtured beyond the promise of a theatrical event. Admittedly, this is a general simplification as they both do a little of what the other does. But their strengths are definitely weighted at opposite ends of the discovery and distribution equation.
These services have had the side benefit of introducing us to people with established audiences all over the world who run film clubs or a screening series of their own with a built-in audience they curate for. Further, we need a database of independent-friendly theaters. There is the Art House Theater Map on PBS.org, but I'm hoping for something a lot more detailed.
That's why we've started the CINEFIST Digital Cinema Census where a theater owner can submit an extensive list of information about their theater from number of screens, to seating capacity, to format and technical specifications of the venue, to P&A requirements, as well as rates, splits and booking procedures. After identifying where the demand for our movies lie with Open Indie and Crowd Controls, this information would allow any of us to book theaters in those towns and cities with ease. If you know a theater owner, forward that link to them.
Looking toward the near future, we want to see the CINEFIST Screening Series expand into other towns and cities by providing would-be screening hosts who have found a venue, with a guide to run their own curatorial efforts under. I can one day imagine a worldwide grassroots network of CINEFIST venues providing a genuine alternative to traditional theatrical distribution. Let me know if you'd like to be one of them! Our personal goals for our tour are to create urgency and exclusivity with one-night-only events, to support the release of Heart of Now and White Knuckles on other platforms, to shoot video and create more online content, and finally to nurture relationships with true fans. At the end of the day, what drives us are the genuine friendships we've made in this community and the hope to make many more. That's been the real reward and helping fellow filmmakers expose their films to LA audiences has been a real privilege.


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Working in the TV/Movie blog business, there's one undeniable law you come to accept: Geeks are an obsessive bunch. No matter our own individual degrees of geekdom, at a certain point we've all stopped to stare at that other person who was WAY too into something - be it Star Trek or Star Wars or even that sports fanatic whose blood pressure is one scoreboard point away from going critical.
We all know about geek obsession - but what about geek denial? It's not a topic you hear brought up very often, but geeks have powers of denial just as strong as their obsessive tendencies. And to prove this fact, we here at Screen Rant are prepared to delve into the deep, dark, realm of "Movies and TV Shows That Geeks Pretend Don't Exist."
Before we get into this, I must warn you: We are about to venture into some very dark and traumatic territory. Some of you reading may have spent years working to close the very mental doors we are about to throw open again. To paraphrase the wise words of Nietzsche, "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you."
Are you brave of heart? Still with us? Then revel in the memory of movies and TV shows so blasphemous to the geek community that they now make even the most devout nerds turn their heads away in shame.
The Original Battlestar Galactica
Many of you are lucky. You exist in a time and place where you only know of Ronald D. Moore's reboot of the Battlestar Galactica TV series. Moore's epic sci-fi/drama explored virtually every aspect of human existence - from love, destiny and faith to politics, war and technology. It was some of the best allegorical storytelling TV has ever offered.
You're lucky if you never looked back - never opened that closed (and firmly locked) door to the past to see how the original Battlestar Galactica differed from its modern incarnation. But many of us have opened that door, my friend - many of us have looked backed. Some of us even lived it as it happened (The horror! The horror!).
The 1978 Battlestar Galactica TV series only lasted a year. It tried to resurrect itself in 1980 as - get this - Galactica 1980, but that show only lasted half a year. Show creator Glen A. Larson might have been nominated for several major awards (Emmy, People's Choice, Golden Globes), but that just goes to show how poorly some of these awards stand the test of time. Because looking back at the original Battlestar today... well, let's just say that some things need to be remade.
In the original Battlestar Starbuck is an annoying guy (not girl) played by Dirk Benedict (right side, pic above); the Cylons look like actors in cheap homemade costumes; the plots, dialogue and acting are like a poor man's Star Trek (and that's saying something); and both of the original Battlestar series culminate with Starbuck co-fathering a "spiritual child" with some robotic Cylon...or something...
Let's just be glad for the revamped series that Moore gave us and move right along, shall we? No need to look back at the series' sordid past any longer.
The X-Files Spin-off
During the 90s, when I was still too young for the standard teen debauchery, every Friday night I would go to my local arcade for some serious gaming, and then I watched The X-Files with my best friend in a darkened house, with a buffet of Twizzlers, assorted flavored popcorns and root beer to feast on. My Friday nights have never been so geeky, so fright-filled - or so much fun.
I was in college in 2001 when the post-X-Files spin-off, The Lone Gunmen, hit the airwaves. The show featured John Byers (Bruce Harwood), Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood), and Richard Langly (Dean Haglund), reprising their roles as the three conspiracy theory oddballs that Fox Mulder (David Duchovy) had visited on more than one X-Files occasion for help "finding the truth."
The X-Files was interesting, scary, cool, smart, and sexy. The Lone Gunmen (to give a modern day analogy) was like Chuck-meets-Bones, sans the attractive people in the lead roles or any kind of romantic chemistry (that you'd want to see). The show only lasted one season (about four months to be exact), and once it was dead and buried deep, we all but forgot that it ever existed in the first place (I had to ask the Screen Rant team which X-Files spin-off it was they were referring to!)
But The Lone Gunmen did exist, my friends - though it will forever be a "search for the truth" to find out why.


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Obama in Illinois: Washington Took its Eye off Economic Ball
GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) - President Barack Obama is accusing Washington of taking "its eye off the ball" and getting distracted from the economy.
The president is trying to refocus debate on pocketbook concerns after months that have been dominated by what he calls "phony scandals" and "stale debates."
Obama's remarks come in a speech he's giving Illinois' Knox College. That school was the site of his first major economic address as a U.S. senator eight years ago.
Wednesday's speech includes no new policy initiatives, but Obama is declaring that reversing bad economic trends should be Washington's highest priority.
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- Release Date of film : 1991-12-10
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- Societies of production : Amblin Entertainment
- Vote Count : 237
- Duration of movie : 144
- Average rate : 6.1
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Gone are the file-recovery tools of yore. In this iteration, Norton Utilities 14 includes tools for managing which programs get loaded when your computer starts and which services run at start-up.
Beyond the need to enter a long random character key and the requirement to activate the product, Norton Utilities 14 is quick and easy to install.
When Norton Utilities 14 starts up, you have four areas in which you can take action. Under the "Optimize" tab, you perform those cleaning functions for which the package is intended. In some cases, such as Registry cleaning, you're presented with a list of problems the product has identified, and asked for approval to proceed.
In others, such as disk defragmentation, you simply click a button, and the process happens with little feedback or indication of progress. Norton Utilities 14 is actually running Windows' built-in defragmentation utility.
The "Monitor" tab lets you check your system performance (via a PassMark rating) and offers a baseline of computers to compare against. You can also monitor changes to your registry, keep track of changes to your system and view which processes are running at any given time.
While performance monitoring is extensive, Norton Utilities 14 doesn't do much to provide context, so unless you run before-and-after performance tests, the number may not tell you a great deal.
The Windows Tools launches tools included with Windows such as a disk defragmenter, start-up manager, disk cleaner, internet file and cookie cleanup, and browser cache cleanup. You can do all this yourself if you look in the Accessories section of the Start menu - basically, Norton Utilities 14 is a slightly more convenient method of running existing tools.
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So it has been asserted that a Stirling engine with proper regeneration can be made reversible. It will consist of two isothermal quasi-static processes connected by two constant-volume processes. The working gas is supposed to be heated/cooled through infinitesimal temperature differences (thus preventing the creation of entropy).
I'd like to know an explanation on the working gas properties during each step of the cycle. What are the state conditions for the gas at each of the points in the cycle (including inside the regenerator)? I've been looking for a the past week and found nothing.


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Hungarians bank on Austria to secure savings
Hungary President Denies Plagiarizing Bulgarian Researcher
Over 40 Percent of India's Children Malnourished - report
Central Asian sex workers reaching India: Missions told to scan women visitors from region
Indian bureaucracy rated the worst in Asia
India scores major victory in battle to eradicate polio
Nike agrees to just pay it in Indonesian workers' compensation deal
Pirate Attacks Target Iranian Vessels
Japan, Singapore Officials Discuss Key Maritime Issues
Japan proposes Saudi Arabia and UAE to increase oil export
Jordan activist charged after torching king's picture
Kazakhstan faces grain storage problem
Kenya military spokesman in Twitter war over graphic photos
Kenya on edge as terror attack threat looms
Sheikh Sabah Khalid meets Yemeni FM
Legal workers stage strike, call for rights
Russia refuses Lithuanian request to interrogate Gorbachev
Remittances to Mexico are rebounding
Myanmar in ceasefire with Karen rebels
Millions spent on travel for judges and spouses
Photo essay: Work's a bowl of cherries
N. Korea reopens door to food-for-nukes deal with U.S.
Norwegian Prime Minister Slams Turkey Over Free Press
Omani-Dutch ties growing stronger
Muscat Festival: One month to showcase traditions of Oman
Pakistan speeds pursuit of Iranian pipeline
Lead figure in MemoGate Mansour Ijaz to appear before the Memo Commission on January 16, 2012-source
PM urged to take notice of nine new Indian dams on Indus, Chenab rivers
World's tiniest frogs found in Papua New Guinea
PNG eligible for work program in the US
Paraguay culls 168 livestock in response to Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak
Peru, Phillippines among emerging-economy stars by 2050: HSBC
Saudi Arabia to lift ban on Filipino maids
New strawberry varieties pop out of school lab
Poland hands over EU Presidency to Denmark
Portugal posts highest inflation rate for 10 years
Famed astrologer Walter Mercado hospitalized in Puerto Rico
Qatar, Unveiling Tensions, Suspends Sale of Alcohol
Qatar Investments in Sudan Reach US$2 Billion
Romanian president puts on apron and prepares traditional food at Chinese New Year reception
Romanian president Traian Basescu posed wearing an apron a
UN Slams Russia on Syria Monitor Vote
Russia calls for Asian-Pacific unity on environment-protection laws
French Probe Seemingly Clears Rwanda's Kagame in Genocide Events
US NGO Donates Computer Lab to Kigali School
Voices of the most vulnerable children heard at Rwanda's annual National Children's Summit by Unicef correspondent Suzanne Beukes
Increase in local vegetable production projected
Female arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs into prison
Guyanese National Becomes St Lucia's New Attorney General
Saint Vincent & The Grenadines
Cyprus releases Russian Syria-bound 'ammunition' ship flying the Saint Vincent and Grenadines Flag
Saudi oil output nearing capacity limit-report
Crown prince, Yemen premier hold key talks in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia to continue fuel donation to Yemen
Saudi-Israeli hacking scandal continues
Saudi Arabia restaurant offers free meals to the needy
26-day cold snap in Arabia as Shabt season begins
Senegal 'to lose US aid unless it extradites Habre'
Senegal's President pardons jailed opponents
Global Greens Congress to be held in Dakar, Senegal, Mar. 29-Apr. 1 2012 (Press Release)
Singapore, Japan should cooperate in anti-piracy acts (Perspective)
Slovak UN envoy elected new president of Economic and Social Council
Slovenian MPs reject candidate for PM
New Zealand FM McCully visits Solomon Islands to talk business
Solomon Islands Ratifies Anti-Corruption Convention
Somalia: Wounded have difficulty reaching medical facilities
Somalia Militants Flogging Woman Over Christian Conversion
UNDP compound in Mogadishu attacked
South Africa: Zuma in New York for UN session
World's most expensive fuel arrives in Gauteng
'S. Korea in great need of Iran's crude' says official
S. Korea puts 9 sites on UNESCO's temporary heritage list
Woman has Deceased Dog Cloned in S. Korea (Video)
US Military to Help Build South Sudan
Spain adopts austerity plan (Video)
Sri Lanka's central bank leaves rates unchanged
Tamil refugees slowly return from India
Female unemployment rises with education
Filipinos urged to leave Sudan as crisis worsens
Sweden Announces Plans for Massive 700 Megawatt Wind Farm in The Baltic Sea
Sweden's teachers free to ban Islamic veils
Swedish Companies Take Advantage of Cheap Labor in U.S.
'Maintenance tax won't change sexual behaviour'
100 jobs lost as water project funding dries up
Swiss may say no to European workers
Syria's Assad blames unrest on 'foreign conspiracy'
400 killed in Syria since late Dec: UN
Turkey seizes alleged Iranian arms shipment to Syria
Taiwan's top election issue: rich earn 6 times more than poor
Sewage system in Taiwan highly tainted with antibiotics
Paparazzi hounding of bereaved father spurs call for news boycott
Tajik President congratulates Iranian counterpart
IMF approves US$20.1m disbursement for Tajikistan
Teenager confesses to committing Santa Claus murder in Dushanbe
Head of Iran's National Library to visit Tanzania
More than 130,000 young people are HIV positive
Women's climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro shouts for Freedom from trafficking
Thailand To Host Two Global Conferences For The Blind In 2012
Water levels behind Thailand dams a worry
Thai growers protest over low rubber prices
Thailand needs to reform its educational system for 2015
Thailand's Education Ministry Builds End-to-End IPTV Communications Network
UN rapporteur says Thais need freedom of expression
Vast methane 'plumes' seen in Arctic ocean as sea ice retreats
Britain set to probe impact of Arctic 'oil and gas gold rush'
Pacific island makes renewable a reality
'Terrors of Tonga' arrested, guns seized
Emotions flow as Trinidad's 'daughter PM' visits Bihar village
India, Trinidad and Tobago ink key pacts to boost bilateral trade
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Dubai's Next Top Stylist: Derek Khan
Tunisian woman kills herself by self-immolation, 4th case ahead of uprising anniversary
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Climate negotiator Rende: Turkey ready to do its part on climate change
Turkmenistan to build rail for high-speed trains
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Bank of Uganda issues new consumer protection rules
Uganda Faces Inflation Dilemma
Ugandan President Meets with Senior Chinese Official
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Minister Urges Development in Information Technology
'International pay' promise for Ugandan scientists
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Jailed Journalist Applies For Bail
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Ukraine parliament votes down moonshine bill
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Ukraine's grain crop likely to fall-report
Ukraine introduces discount on transit cargo transshipment at commercial sea ports in 2012
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UAE-Greece joint committee meeting begins
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U.K. Film Industry Gets Commercial Clarion Call From Prime Minister David Cameron
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I have a few spots in my home that I like to change the decor around for the holidays. I like to collect things that I can use over and over again. I change out the photos and artwork in picture frames a lot too. For Halloween this year I use most of my owls. Now that we are celebrating Thanksgiving this month, I replaced the black and silver owl's with a few brown ones. Walla, from spooky to fall.
This picture frame had a witch picture in it for Halloween and now a turkey. I don't think you have to have bins and bins of stuff to switch things up a bit. Just a few different items to inter change. One of my favorite things I use to decorate is old books. I love to use them to get things to the hight I want. I look for ones that I like the color and pictures on the binding. I also have found a few of my favorite books that I have read, like the swiss family Robinson.
Happy month of giving and being grateful.


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At One Off Hospitality Group, we believe that the key to our success lies in our ties to the community. We proudly commit our time and charitable efforts to the following outstanding organizations:
Pilot Light
Pilot Light is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that develops and delivers classroom lessons incorporating food and nutrition education into everyday subjects like science, English, and social studies. It was founded in 2010 by our own Paul Kahan and Justin Large, alongside chefs Jason Hammel, Matthias Merges and Ryan Poli. Pilot Light's mission is to provide children with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need to develop healthy relationships with food.
Alex's Lemonade Stand
We've been involved with The Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) since 2007, when our close friends at Vetri Family Restaurant Group in Philadelphia invited Paul Kahan and Donnie Madia to participate in their yearly gala. Since then we've joined hospitality friends from across the nation in supporting yearly events in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles. In 2014, we joined their ranks, and hosted the inaugural Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Chicago gala alongside chef Tony Mantuano and the Levy Group. ALSF emerged from the front yard lemonade stand of cancer patient Alexandra "Alex" Scott (1996-2004). In 2000, 4-year-old Alex announced that she wanted to hold a lemonade stand to raise money to help find a cure for all children with cancer. Since Alex held that first stand, the Foundation bearing her name has evolved into a national fundraising movement, complete with thousands of supporters across the country carrying on her legacy of hope. To date, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 charity, has raised more than $100 million toward fulfilling Alex's dream of finding a cure, funding over 475 pediatric cancer research projects nationally.
Greater Chicago Food Depository
The Greater Chicago Food Depository, Chicago's food bank, is a nonprofit food distribution and training center providing food for hungry people while striving to end hunger in our community. We naturally aligned with their mission, and began holding food drives at The Publican in2008. While much of One Off's charitable contributions are given at the administrative level, partnering with the Greater Chicago Food Depository allows our team to participate in giving directly. The Food Depository, founded in 1979, makes a daily impact across Cook County with a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, mobile programs, children's programs, older adult programs and innovative responses that address the root causes of hunger. Last year, the Food Depository distributed 67 million pounds of shelf-stable food, fresh produce, dairy products and meat, the equivalent of 154,000 meals every day.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system, interrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. We proudly participate in the foundation's Dine to End MS in memory of Kimberly Galban's mother. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society mobilizes people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by MS. The Society envisions a world free of MS and moves toward that end by driving change through fundraising, advocacy, facilitating education, collaborating with others and by providing helpful programs and services.
Lynn Sage Foundation
The Lynn Sage Foundation was founded in honor and memory of Lynn Sage, a beloved mother, daughter and wife who tragically died at the age of 39 as a result of her battle with breast cancer. We support the Lynn Sage Foundation in honor of the women in our company who are proud breast cancer survivors. Dedicated to finding a cure for this disease, The Foundation funds The Lynn Sage Scholars program, which funds promising researchers in the field of breast cancer that are working in Chicago. Scholars are given $100,000 per year for up to two years to conduct research that focuses on the prevention, treatment, and, ultimately, finding a cure for breast cancer.
Chefs Without Kitchens
Chefs Without Kitchens, an organization started by avec's pastry chef Heather May, is a community building organization that serves all walks of life great food. Established or up-and-coming chefs create high quality menus for various homeless shelters throughout the city. Chefs and event volunteers not only prepare the meal, but they also sit at the dinner table with the shelter residents to share the "breaking of bread." This organization's aim is to break down barriers and to build lasting relationships between groups of people whose paths may not typically cross. For more information, visit chefswithoutkitchens.squarespace.com.


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Tonight's an abbreviated show due to the presidential debate. Four couples will do their individual routines, and the other four couples will dance their group routine.
Tomorrow, they switch.
It's "Guilty Pleasures" night -- which, don't get me started. You like what you like and that's ok. Unless it's illegal. In which case, darn tootin' you should feel guilty.
Tom tells us the freestyle team dance has already claimed one victim; the camera pans to to Melissa and Tony. (Psst, I read online that she was taken to the hospital with a head injury over the weekend.) Details later in the show.
Kelly Monaco & Val Chmerkovskiy: Samba
As Tom introduces them, they make the goofiest faces and it's terribly endearing.
Kelly is feeling fatigued -- wait til the end of the season, if you make it that far; it's twice as long as it was when you were on the first time. This song, by Cher Lloyd, is pretty terrible. There's something just a tiny bit off about this, and it may be the song and the "rock" aesthetic they went for in the costuming. I'm used to sambas being, I dunno, tropical?
Len felt it was a little long-winded at the start. There were elements he really liked, but there was too much gyrating and it was "a little bit on the raunchy side." Bruno is all raunchy side, so he loved it. Except he wanted more of the "samba bounce." Carrie Ann says she looked uncertain and that the runs weren't in sync.
Carrie Ann has some really strange extensions or feathers clipped into her hair. The whole thing is what I've read referred to as "dragged through a hedge backwards."
Scores: Carrie Ann: 8; Len: 8; Bruno: 8.5
Brooke's questioning backstage is clearly trying to push the "These two are DOING IT" storyline.
Gilles Marini & Peta Murgatroyd
So, after some of the stuff she wore last season with Donald Driver and the costumes she's had this year, I'm beginning to think Peta is allergic to clothes. In rehearsals, she's also got this crazy wild hair -- think Daryl Hannah in "Splash," but shoulder length. Gilles jokes that their routine should be so sexy that it will be "responsible for a lot of babies."
So, it's a rumba to "I Will Always Love You" -- more the Whitney Houston style of things than the Dolly Parton original.
What's really interesting is that until it gets to the chorus, it's a solo by the female singer, with no accompaniment. That's GOT to be hard to dance to, right? And then when the band kicks in at the chorus, they do this crazy near-death-spiral swoopy move. It's super dramatic. Good job, Peta, with the choreography of all that.
Bruno says it wasn't a dance, it was "master class theater." He said the a capella part was superb, and adds that it was incredible to maintain the rhythm and the musicality without the music.
Carrie Ann stands up and cheers, "Let the babymaking begin!" and then falls out of her chair. Gilles and Tom both rush to her aid, because they're gentlemen and awesome. Len's hiding his face in his hand.
Tom quips, once she's back in her seat, "When you said 'let the babymaking begin' I didn't think you'd get in position!" Ah, there's my "I LOVE TOM SO MUCH" moment for this show. Len calls it a blockbuster and then teases Peta about all her leg extensions.
Back from commercial, they've already set Carrie Ann's fall to goofy music and are replaying it. Nice work, editors!
Scores: Carrie Ann: 10; Len 9.5; Bruno: 10
Oh, you stingy Len.
Kirstie Alley & Maksim Chmerkovskiy: Quickstep
Apparently their guilty pleasure song is Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson." How on earth is that a guilty pleasure? A No. 1 song from a widely acclaimed soundtrack by an incredibly popular pop act? Why feel guilty about that?
As for the dance itself, it's a weird combo of music and dance styles and it's not quite as quick as you want a quickstep to be. Their leaps in the runs are very low, which I get, what with Kirstie being older and heavier than the other stars. It ends with them kissing behind a screen in silhouette, so the crowd goes nuts.
Carrie Ann says it was her best dance and compliments her carriage. She points out one mistake they made in the routine. Len agrees with Carrie. Bruno praised the runs and the variety of the footwork, while also noting the "mess-up."
Scores: Carrie Ann: 8.5; Len: 8.5; Bruno: 8.5
Huh. That feels like a later week inflated score.
Emmitt Smith & Cheryl Burke: Samba
Now see, their song, "Copacabana" feels way more appropriate for a samba than the one Val & Kelly had. Emmitt explains that their rehearsal strategy is to laugh when they start to get stressed out.
This routine plays to Emmitt's strengths -- he gets to get his groove on and be sparkly. I might say that technically his moves could be a little sharper and more precise, but this routine is going over a treat with the audience and will with the voters as well.
Whatever Len says is drowned out by the audience. Cheryl gets a confirmation from Tom that he liked it. Bruno talks about the atmosphere Emmitt creates. Carrie Ann says Emmitt has "samba swagger" but then does point out a moment where he got off the beat.
Scores: Carrie Ann: 9.5; Len: 9.5; Bruno: 10
Group routine
We saw during the rehearsal footage that Melissa hurt her neck during rehearsal; it was diagnosed as a herniated disc in her neck. She's on a lot of drugs, she says.
In case you forgot, the couples in this group are Shawn & Derek, Melissa & Tony, Sabrina & Louis, and Apolo & Karina. So, gymnast, cheerleader, dancer, athlete. Yipes, that's a strong combination.
Shawn explains that they're going for a "football player/cheerleader" theme. Melissa says, "We're guessing the other team is going the comedy route, because they have some comedians, so we're going the technical route." That's very, very smart of them.
They start with kind of a "spirit yell" and then it goes into a full-on cheerleading routine, with stand-lifts and everything. Then Louis and Sabrina are the spotlight couple. Louis in football pants is going to make me giggle all week.
Shawn does a cartwheel to come back on stage and then she's dancing with Louis, while Derek dances with Sabrina, all in sync. Then they swap partners and Louis and Sabrina leave the stage. It's a slick piece of choreography.
Then they do a move where the four girls and three of the guys are in a circle with locked arms and as the guys spin the circle, the girls are lifted into the air. It's totally a cheerleading move and it looks fantastic.
Then it's Tony and Melissa's solo and at the end of it, Tony grabs her hands, Louis grabs her feet and Louis comes out to grab her feet (which he does bobble a little bit) and then they swing her like a jump rope. IS THAT THE SMARTEST THING TO BE DOING WHEN SHE HAS A HERNIATED DISC IN HER NECK? Yikes.
Apolo slides under the swinging Melissa and then he and Karina start their solo with several lifts that are more ballroom than cheerleading and I'm glad that someone remembered what show we're on. I know, I know, it's a freestyle, but I still like some actual ballroom dance in there.
But then Apolo and Karina go into some moves that look suspiciously like what they did in their hip hop routine from last week. Finally, all four couples are back on the dance floor and they finish the routine in a classic cheerleading group pose. It's not exactly a pyramid, but it looks like one.
Len says the individual performances were fantastic and as a group they were tight. He loved the way they introduced each couple. Bruno said the choreography made it almost impossible to distinguish the professionals and the celebrities. Carrie Ann does an actual cheer and she loved it.
Scores: Carrie Ann: 9.5; Len: 10; Bruno: 10
I'm not sure why Len gives that a 10 but not Gilles & Peta's. He is an enigma, our Len.
I'm not going to put up a scoreboard tonight because it will all change tomorrow night when they dance again.


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What's Hot In Social Media I (#SWChat)
Thanks to everyone who took part in this weeks Social Workplace Twitter Chat event (#SWChat).
What's Hot In Social Media
This event is discussing what is hot right now in the world of Social Media.
From social technologies / platforms to conferences, to mobile apps to the very latest acquisitions and their impact etc...). No topic is taboo.
Event Statistics
- No. of Tweets = 1300
- No. of Contributors = 119
- Reach = 439,000
- No. of impressions = 3,600,000
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Questions Asked
Q1) What's hot in social platforms / technologies for personal use today?
Q2) What's hot in social platforms / technologies for business use today?
Q3) What's hot in social media conferences / events today?
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Q5) What's hot in tablet / smartphone social media applications today?
Shared Reference Material
- O2 - A Masterclass In Crisis Management via Twitter via GizModo
- Scoop.it via moehlert
- Reflection App (iPhone / iPAd on you Mac or PC)
- Tweetbot review via Best Vendor
- Spotify review via Best Vendor
- Dropbox vs Bitcasa via Best Vendor
- 20 Social Networking Sites For Business Professionals via WPWidgets.net
- Microsoft To Buy Yammer: What Does This Mean For Your Office? via Best Vendor
- Meetup.com
- Facebook Monitors Your Chats For Criminal Activity via @mashable
- Is Facebook Changing? via @lizcpher
- SES Conference (San Fran) Aug 13-17 2012
- Tickr.com
- History Of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google
- 10 Ways To Make Your Webinar A More Social Event via @martincouzins
- How To Filter Relevant Discussions From LinkedIn Groups via Univ Salford
- The Best Note Taking Apps For iPad review via Best Vendor
- Microsoft Surface Will Be A Real iPad Rival In The Enterprise via ZDNet
- The Short And Illustrious History Of Twitter #Hashtags via Gigacom
- Success In Social Media Is Based On Audience Not Influence via @digiconvs
- The Rise Of The Corporate App Store via Joshua Gliddon
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