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The future of Valencia's new Mestalla stadium remains in doubt after Spanish bank Bankia pulled out of a deal that was supposed to clear the way for its completion.
Valencia President Manuel Llorente said on Friday that Spain's collapsed real estate market was behind the setback. He said that the club is working with Bankia, which was nationalized by the Spanish government in May, for a ''financial solution with the goal of finishing the new stadium.''
Construction on Valencia's new stadium began in 2007 but a lack of funding brought it to a halt two years later.
Last December, Llorente announced a deal with Bancaja - which later merged with Bankia - that included the sale of the old Mestalla stadium and a loan to finish the new arena.
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A former Department of Defense barge is headed for Memphis, courtesy of radioactive-waste disposal company Energy Solutions. The company hopes to use a massive Barnhart crane on Presidents Island to lift the 750-ton radioactive barge out of the water and onto land.
The barge, which contains nuclear contaminants from various military operations, is in Virginia while the company awaits approval of a temporary special-use permit from the Land Use Control Board. A meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 14th, and, if approved, will also require approval from the Memphis City Council.
"The main reason it's being done in Memphis is because of the crane," says Mark Walker, a spokesperson for Energy Solutions. The crane, affectionately dubbed "Ichabod" after Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane, is one of the largest in the country.
The barge will be lifted onto an outdoor pad lined with layers of fabric and rock, constructed solely to dismantle the barge. The pad will be concave to prevent spillage of rainwater that may become contaminated by radiation. The dismantled barge will then be shipped by train to a radioactive disposal site in Utah.
"We will have 24-hour security seven days a week to make sure everything is safe regarding rainwater leakage," says Dan Shrum of Energy Solutions' environmental compliance office.
The project is slated to take about three months.
Shrum says the ship contains very low levels of radiation. "The people doing the torch-cutting and working on the barge will get the equivalent of about two chest X-rays [worth of radiation]," Shrum says.
Low-level or not, some environmentalists are still concerned. Last year, Sierra Club members fought a proposed incinerator from R.A.C.E. (Radiological Assistance, Engineering, and Consulting), another radioactive-waste disposal company on Presidents Island.
"We're not opposed to this operation. It's not a nuclear incinerator like they were proposing at R.A.C.E.," says Rita Harris, the Sierra Club's environmental justice coordinator. "But I do think this is a dangerous operation if it's not handled properly. We'd like to see state or local authorities say they will monitor these folks."
Representatives from the Tennessee Division of Radiological Health have confirmed that they will conduct an inspection during the dismantling of the contaminated holding tanks. At that time, an inspector will determine if a follow-up inspection is needed.
Harris is also concerned about air emissions that could be released from paint on the vessel containing toxic poly chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), as well as escaping asbestos fibers. The area where the ship will be dismantled is only two miles from Martin Luther King, Jr Park.
The company will work with a licensed asbestos contractor to remove the substance before they cut into the barge.
"We're also going to remove the PCB paint before we use a blowtorch on the vessel," Shrum says. "Our [planned] air emissions are below the regulatory level and were accepted by the local and state air-quality folks."
The project does not require a permit from the local Health Department, and Energy Solutions has already gotten a permit from the state Division of Radiological Health.
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Gee whiz, he wins again
September 29, 2004
ERIE — Joel Hansen won his second Grand American Modified championship at Colorado National Speedway this season, but Hansen credits Loveland resident Dave Gee for making it happen.
Gee has been Hansen's right-hand man for nine years, going back to the days of dirt-track racing at Rocky Mountain National Speedway in Commerce City.
"Dave Gee is the man," Hansen said this week after returning from a nine-day fishing trip at his uncle's cabin 200 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska. "Dave is the reason our car is fast. It's not the driver."
Gee, who is a partner with Late Model driver Bruce Yackey at Greeley Automotive Machine, is relentless when it comes to searching for ways to make race cars go faster.
"He reads and talks to people on-line," said Hansen, 35, owner of West Weld Mechanical in Eaton. "He'll do everything to try and get an edge."
Gee, 60, has been around racing for many, many years. He said he is too old to race now, and that any 60-year-olds who try to race competitively "are fooling themselves."
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"I just don't have the reaction time that these young drivers have, and besides, your priorities change as you get older," he said. "Helping Joel is a way I can still be involved in the sport."
Gee won the Charger division race at the very first season-ending Challenge Cup I – 30 years ago. When Hansen won Challenge Cup XXVIII two years ago, Gee and Hansen posed for a picture with their trophies. Gee said that picture is very special to him.
"When I met Joel, we just clicked," he said. "He is very energetic, has a good head on his shoulders and is a good driver. He doesn't overdrive the car like a lot of the younger guys do. He's very calculated and is a finesse-type driver."
Hansen and his crew redid the setup on the modified after he finished second in the standings last year to Chris Muhler of Erie. Hansen finished 10th twice in the first six races of the 2004 season. He also recorded three runner-ups and a third-place finish in the season's first half. Despite that success, Hansen changed the car's set-up back to where it was after the 2003 season.
"We were getting outrun by the same cars every week," Hansen said. "We didn't have the fastest car. We couldn't win, so we had to change something."
Hansen saw immediate results as he won four of the last five races to record his second modified championship in three years.
"Points-wise, we had our worst season ever," said Hansen, who earned Rookie of the Year honors for the Grand American Modified division in 2000. "There were just some weird things that happened to our closest competitors this year."
Colorado National Speedway was paved and reconfigured in 1989. Since then, former modified driver Chris Leaf of Kersey has the most modified victories with 19. Hansen is second on the list with 18. Ed Vecchiarelli is the all-time leader with 27 victories since the division was introduced in 1992.
Starting in 1997, Leaf won four modified championships in five years. Hansen would be shooting for his fourth straight modified title in 2005 if he had not finished the 2003 season a distant second to Muhler. The Erie driver had six wins, four runner-ups and a third-place finish in 11 races that year.
"It wasn't disappointing to finish second last year at all," Hansen said. "Chris Muhler is a great guy and we had a blast racing against him. He made us turn it up a notch and go out and try to find something that would make us better.
"The competition is getting tougher in all the classes at CNS. "We go down there to try and win as many races as we can and do as well as we can. If we win a championship, then great. If not, then at least we had fun trying."
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Academy Award-winning special effects artist Grant McCune died on Monday from pancreatic cancer at the age of 67.
McCune won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for his work on George Lucas' 1977 classic "Star Wars." He was also nominated by the Academy in 1980 for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," and served as the chief model maker on the 1978 pilot of "Battlestar Galactica."
McCune got his start in special effects when director Steven Spielberg hired him and Bill Shourt to create a realistic model of the deadly white shark in "Jaws," although neither received credit for their contributions on the picture.
After becoming a partner at Apogee Prods., McCune worked on dozens of memorable movies, such as "Die Hard," "Big" and "Caddyshack."
McCune eventually launched his own company, Grant McCune Design, which made models and miniatures for "Speed," "Batman Forever," "Executive Decision," "Daylight" and "Sphere."
After a nearly decade-long absence from the big screen, McCune resurfaced in 2008 when he re-teamed with Stallone on "Rambo," for which he served as miniature effects supervisor.
McCune is survived by his wife, two children and a sister. Funeral arrangements are still pending.
For more about McCune's contributions to the "Star Wars" franchise, check out this Popular Mechanics interview from last year.


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It is actually quite challenging with it comes to lawn mowing. That is why you need to read this article so that you can know how to make it easy for you. Lawn mowing is actually common these days because it makes the lawn healthy. If this is the goal, then you should do it in a proper way. Good thing there are lawn care professionals out there that you can tap into for tasks like this. The truth is that lawn care is more than just achieving an attractive lawn. It is important that you know how many times you need to mow your lawn. Well, this depends on your turf because you need to ensure that it is taken care of properly. If you want to make your lawn look healthy and beautiful, then you must do lawn mowing properly and regularly.
You need to be careful when it comes to lawn mowing so that all needs will be met and all important factors are considered. You need to consider the length of time that you need to keep the leaf of the turf whenever this task is done. The second important factor that must be considered is the frequency of having to ask help from a moving service.
The next thing you need to consider is to take care of the long leaf. By taking good care of your lawn, it must have direct sunlight. It is important that your lawn has soil rich in nutrients so that the plants and the lawn can easily get nutrients from it for energy used. It is important that you keep the long leaf of the lawn as this can receive more food. Because of this, they can continue to be strong and healthy. When it comes to lawn mowing, you need to pay careful attention to the overall health of the plants. You can't afford to making these plants grow sick and die eventually.
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Different Types of Chef Knives
Different Types of Chef Knives
Courtesy: Shaun Rynne | News Source: alphacateringequipment.com.au
What beats using a really sharp knife? Nothing right? A really sharp knife cuts through anything cleanly and clearly with a breeze thereby making your work in the kitchen pleasurable and satisfying. It is however not enough that you have a sharp knife; how much do you know about that sharp bad boy? Do you know the names of its various parts? Do you know what the tang is? You don't know? That's fine! That is why you are reading this article. It is son you can know your knife and all there is to know about it. We will be discussing the difference between a butt and a belly and all the other strange names you probably have never heard of. You will not only look sharp with your knife, you will as well sound like a pro who knows exactly what they need for what purpose.
The importance of knives to a chef cannot be overemphasized. In fact, a restaurant cannot survive without knives. So, to make the best choice of knives, three factors have to be considered; the brand, material and purpose. In this guide, you will learn all there is to know about knives so you can make the right decision when choosing the right knife for the job.
From Filleting Knives to and Utility knives to Chef Knives and Santoku knives, Alpha Catering Equipment offers various models from different reputable brands thereby providing you with a variety of options in terms of quality, style and cost.
Types of Knife and their different functions
- Paring Knife: A paring knife comes with a fine blade, firm tip and slim cutting edge. Paring knives are suitable for peeling fruit, potatoes and vegetables.
- Chef Knife: This type of knife is the most common knife around. The blade of a chef knife is usually strong and weighted, and the bulk of slicing and chopping tasks in the kitchen is done with chef knives.
- Santoku Knife: Santoku knife is suitable for preparing and chopping vegetable, fish and meat. It has a wide blade and a curved end which makes the chopping task a lot easier.
- Filleting Knife: Filleting knives have a slim, long blade which is specifically designed for Filleting and in the preparation of fish and meat. The blade is flexible and easy to move which makes removing skin from edible animals easy and quick.
- Utility Knives: Utility Knives are highly functional and versatile knives. They can be used for various things such as slicing fruits, cutting meat, and slicing vegetables. Utility knives come with a small, stiff blade which ensures its durability.
- Boning Knives: Boning knives are used to remove meat from bone. They come with a thin curved blade.
- Bread Knives: Bread knives come with a long, strong blade with serrated edges which makes cutting of bread easy without tearing or ripping the bread. Bread knives can also be used to slice other soft foods like tomatoes.
- Cleavers: These are used to cut large pieces of meat and spare ribs (frozen food and bones inclusive). They come with a sturdy, large, rectangular blade.
- Choppers: Choppers look a lot like Cleavers but they cannot be used to chop through bones or frozen foods. Choppers are more suitable for general slicing of meat.
- Palette Knives: Palette knives are especially great when cooking pancakes and omelets. They are made with a blunt, broad and flexible blade which allows for easy sliding in between the pan and the food.
- Carving Knives: These are made with thinner blades than any other type of knife. They are suitable for slicing thin cuts of meat such as hams, roasts, poultry, etc.
Types of Knife blade edges
- Straight: The straight blade edge is usually sharp and is ideal for cutting raw meat, fish or chopping of vegetables.
- Serrated: This type of knife blade works well in cutting soft products such as bread.
- Granton: This type of knife blade has hollowed-out grooves which prevents moist food from sticking to the blade.
Materials used to make Knives
- Stainless Steel: Knives made from stainless steel are usually less expensive and as a result of this may require to be re-sharpened occasionally.
- Carbon Steel: Carbon is essentially stainless steel with a high carbon content. It is easier to sharpen carbon steel and the cutting edge of carbon steel lasts much longer.
- Damascus Steel: Damascus Steel is a carbon steel core which is covered with hardened steel. Damascus knives are very strong and at the same time have a very sharp edge.
- Titanium: Titanium is resistant to corrosion, lightweight and incredibly strong. To make titanium knives, titanium is usually mixed with ceramic, diamond or silver. Mixing all of these substances ensures that Titanium knives are very strong and easy to maintain.


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What a secretive surveillance method this is. The Lighter Spy Camera would be a fool proof inconspicuous way to gain intel on a preferred subject.
The camera is located on the body of the lighter which captures still images and video. The top of the lighter (where the flame is) simply pops off to reveal a USB connector. It also features a microphone so you never miss a second of conversation.
There is a formidable downside to the Lighter Spy Camera and that would be the fact that it doesn't actually create fire, so it's probably safe to have a smoke-lighting lighter AND a secret spy lighter.
The Lighter Spy Camera is the Ignition for Incognito Information
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#WCW: Rising Star Michelle Maron
Our newest crush is a budding tattoo artist out of Stockholm, Sweden — not to mention a major babe
Our #tattoodobabes are enviable for a number of reasons, the main being that their lives are seemingly perfect. Models, photographers, bloggers, and tattooers, whatever they may do for a living, it's one of our many dream jobs. The second, and arguably the number one reason why they're one of our many #WCW's, is because of their massive social media followings. Mark our words, grow yourself a social media following that's genuinely interested in not just you as a person, but what you do for a living, and you're essentially setting yourself up for world domination. And last, but certainly not least, oh my god, are they good looking. The prettiest tattoos and faces, these ladies are a force to be reckoned with. Our newest #WCW is a budding tattoo artist out of Stockholm, Sweden. Meet Michelle Maron.
A neo-traditional tattoo artist by trade, Maron's work focuses primarily on colorful animals and women, but that's not to say she won't venture into other territories. Maron prides herself on being incredibly versatile as well, occasionally venturing into illustrative and realism territory. Although she's only been tattooing since 2012, she's already won a few titles at several Swedish tattoo conventions, including first prize for the best small piece as well as the number one spot for the best neo-traditional small piece at the 2016 Ume Tattoo Fest. Using common neo-traditional color pallets as her main source of depth, Maron's expert use of shading in her black and grey work is equally as impressive.
As with all of our #WCW's, Maron's no stranger to a camera either, frequently collaborating with photographers to create gorgeous images. Her work in front of the camera is just as captivating as her tattoo portfolio, taking care to show off her own personal collection of body art. Frequently daring to bare it all, Maron can often be seen in artfully composed nude shots as well. She's perfectly achieved that certain type of enviable cool-girl je ne sais quoi that people spend their entire lives chasing.
There's no doubt about it, Maron is a dream girl, and regardless of whether or not you're paying attention because of her looks, her work as a tattoo artist, or that undeniable cool girl charm, the fact remains that she's got your attention. Go, Maron, go!


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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Anne McCaffrey
Its very sad to hear Anne McCaffrey has passed. I had no idea Anne was born in 1926, which means she was already in her 50's when I discovered her in the late 1970's. Not a "surprising surprise" however; her writer's voice was certainly that of an ageless person, untouched by cynicism or snark and full of wonder, whimsy, and a love of the fantastic. I read the first three novels of her Dragonrider series, full of the sci-fi fantasy admixture I still love to this day, multiple times back then, usually accompanied by my cassette-playing, eleven-or-so-pound first-generation Walkman :)
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Yes, she's certainly a huge loss to genre fiction.ReplyDelete
There is a copy on the Dragonriders of Pern within sight on my bookshelf as I type this. If I remember correctly it is the SF Book Club edition of her first three Dragonrider novels. I enjoyed them immensely and they were fine fuel for my imagination. I whish her a pleasant flight home free of thread.ReplyDelete
When I was 12 years old, Anne McCaffrey responded to my fan mail with a two-page letter. I wonder if I can find it now.ReplyDelete
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I was so sad to find out she passed away! When I was in junior high I became enamored with her books. Writers aren't what they used to be.ReplyDelete
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(John 3: 1-17)
You are returning from
seeing the rabbi
from Nazareth,
making your way past
doorways of shadows,
past the street corners'
intersecting griefs,
past the windows
where ghosts lean out
to question the sky lit by
the same stars that held
promise for Abraham
so long ago.
Long ago you stopped
asking the stars for clarity.
Long ago your heart
became evening,
gray and empty
as old promises
of a new kingdom
of God.
Long years you've seen
the same twilight
in faces at the temple.
When, and how – you hear
saddened eyes asking –
will our dying hopes
be lifted?
When, O Lord, will
we see new life?
You have asked
those questions,
searched parchment
for answers.
But tonight you walked
these streets to meet
this new rabbi,
this one who breaks patterns,
this challenger of authority,
this maker of wine
from simple water,
to hear words like
a light flickering
at the edges
of sight,
a lamp kindled inside
a side room:
Be born of the Spirit, of
the wind, he tells you,
to see
the kingdom of God –
as if to say that
the kingdom
you long for is
not a thing that you touch
as much as something
like the wind
that touches you –
For the Son of Man,
Jesus says,
will be lifted up
like Moses' sign
in the desert
to save from their dying
those who believe.
Can words become stars
of fresh promise?
Can the wind bring
new breath to the earth?
Can someone whose heart
ceased dreaming long ago
begin again with this
listening tonight?
. . . You are returning
from seeing the rabbi
from Nazareth.
still hold onto
shadows. Streets remain
intersected by grief.
Your mind remains filled
with many questions.
But the fragrant air is moving.
It stirs leaves
on many branches.
You can almost imagine it
making dust into starlight;
and somehow the shadows
seem less daunting.
You feel almost as if
breath itself has taken
new shape within you:
the shape that hope forms
when it is growing anew.
For you may not understand
all that he means by
being lifted,
but you believe he brings
the kingdom, nonetheless:
the kingdom that is
life with the nature
of the eternal:
the life that is God's Spirit
touching you.
Do not wonder
at that which stirs
within you, Nicodemus.
It is your heart
becoming morning
once again.


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Trigger Warning: Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
I can't run like I used to. I'm not strong enough. My head starts pounding my body shaking like when you have the flu and your whole self feels like jello. My legs begin to buckle after just a few miles. I know it's because I eat less than 200-300 calories right now. I can't even talk myself into 500 like I used to on distance days. I know it's because there is 0 carbs in those calories but I can't I physically can't grab the food I need. I know this happens when you drop almost 30 pounds in less than 2 months but still.
I just want to run my list of reasons to get help were:
1. So I can run better again
2. To not die.
In that order. Running is so much to me and helps me so much in other ways and I am losing it. The marathons are approaching and I am losing grasp of them day by day.
I wish someone understood someone could make me do this, force feed me, anything. I wish I could call my mom but idk, I've been so burdensome lately since she found ou that I don't want to stress her out more (& I'm scared to be lectured). I just don't know what to do so I am sitting on a bench on the side of the trail, crying. And watching other runners, too weak to get up and run home, too dizzy to get up and walk.
I hate myself for this.
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Its that time of year once again, now that spring is in the air and eggs in the shops that people start thinking about one of the biggest, brightest and tastiest festivals of the year – Easter! After my interest in other Easter traditions in both France and Spain, I have decided this year to write about Easter in Germany!
Preparations for Easter, like in many European countries, actually starts several weeks before the day itself. In the weeks leading up to Easter, every German town, city and village from Berlin to the tiniest village you will find Ostermarkt (literally Easter Market). At these markets, you can buy everything one might need for a huge, tasty and successful (read:sickening!) Easter! You can buy the traditional Easter Trees, which are small, usually flowering trees and bushes decorated with hollowed out and painted eggs. You can also get the usual chocolate eggs, but with a slight twist: in Germany, many Easter eggs contain varying degrees of alcohol! Not suitable for children, but definitely suitable for mum and dad!
Another German tradition, although it is only found in certain parts of Germany, is the Easter Fountain, or Osterbrunnen. Only occurring in Franconia, this tradition celebrates water as a giver of life during the spring time. German women save eggshells throughout the year and in the run up to Easter decorate them and string them into garlands which will decorate the primary fountains in the town in the week leading up to and the week after Easter. The fountains will also be crowned with wreathes and arches of evergreens decorated with roosters and rabbits. On the days of the Easter Market, it means the towns are a beautiful and colourful place! One town in Germany, Oberammergau, performs a special Passion Play detailing the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in which around 1200 villagers perform, and people travel from all over Germany to see.
Interestingly enough, Germany lays claim to the origins of many of the Western Worlds iconic Easter symbols. For example, the first records of the Easter Bunny were found in Germany, dated from the 1600's. To the Germans, it symbolises fertility and is known as the Oschter Haws, which means Easter Hare. It is believed it was taken over to America by the first Pennsylvian and Dutch settlers. The first German edible Easter bunnies were created in the 1800's. They also look for Easter foxes, roosters and chicks as egg-bringers.
The Easter weekend in Germany is a huge event, and both Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays, and are celebrated massively. It is traditional for German Christians to eat fish on Good Friday, because the ancient Greek word for fish was Ichthys, and the first few letters of the words Iesus Christos Theos Yos Soter (Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour) spells out that word. Because of that, fish became holy food for Christians. They will also drape the crucifix with a cloth.
Well, slightly off on a tangent there! Easter Saturday is usually a comparatively lazy day, when people bake Easter Lamb and maybe a Bunny Cake. It is also the day during which parents of children paint coloured eggs for the Sunday's egg hunt! In some towns in Northern Germany, huge bonfires will be lit to chase away the darkness of the winter and welcome the sunny spring ahead, and often old Christmas trees will be burnt.
And now we are on to the big day itself! Most families in Germany will start off celebrating the day by going to a Church service in the morning, followed by a family breakfast or brunch! Easter breakfast is a joyous and yummy occasion, and the table will be decorated with special Easter decorations such as the Easter Tree, and Easter crockery. It will also be decorated with tonnes of yummy food! Easter breakfast consists of eggs (surprise surprise!), fruits and vegetables, bread, home-made cakes including my brothers favourite carrot cake, jam, cheese and the traditional and all time favourite wurst! There is a special dish only prepared at Easter time called Cruller,a twisted doughnut like cake that is covered in plain white icing and sugar. Like many places in Europe, Easter Sunday is a day for the family, both near and far. Families will join together to hunt for eggs in the yard and house, sing Easter songs, and tell stories. Children enjoy playing a game called Chocolate Kiss, where the aim of the game is to eat as many chocolate dipped marshmallows as possible. The winner is the one with the most marshmallows and the cleanest face! There is also the possibility, if you are small and cute enough,of gifts to be had!
The Germans carry their Easter celebration right over onto the Monday, the last day of their holiday. Despite being the last day of the holiday, it is just as festive as the one before as the whole family gathers together for a meal, usually the Easter Lamb prepared on the Saturday. Similar to Good Friday, it is a public holiday.
During Easter in Germany, the whole country is heaving with people. While it is a great time to visit Germany, be prepared for huge crowds of people! You will also be charged holiday fares for transport and hotels are likely to be fully booked, so make sure you book several months beforehand to make sure you are not stranded at the airport with nowhere to go! Regardless of the travel complications, I would love to spend one Easter in Germany, since it seems so incredible! If anyone reading this has any stories they want to share, I would love to hear them!
Now, I think I have covered every thing,and have only a few things left to say: Frohe Ostern, and thanks for reading!


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Even as the number of people making the dangerous journey through the Central Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe has declined since the migration and refugee crisis of 2015-16, the rate of deaths has increased. This article evaluates the role of Europe's hardening approach to trans-Mediterranean migration and the criminalization of search-and-rescue operations by nongovernmental organizations.
In the United States, Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided on immigration. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden have offered sharply diverging policy positions, and the outcome of the election is sure to have profound consequences for the U.S. immigration system. Yet this partisan divide is relatively new. Just two decades ago, the parties were much more united on immigrants' role in the U.S. economy and society.
When he was elected prime minister in 2019, Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised what he called "strict but fair" reforms to secure Greece's borders and speed up transfers of asylum seekers crowding Aegean islands. Yet domestic and geopolitical tensions continued to roil the islands, later joined by a global pandemic, culminating in a fire that destroyed most of Lesvos's Moria refugee camp. This article examines Greece's efforts to strike a delicate balance on migration in a complex era.
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India has no refugee law and has not signed the 1951 Refugee Convention, leaving many of its estimated 250,000 recognized refugees in a legal gray area. Meanwhile, more than 450 million internal migrants form the foundation of the country's economy, yet often have trouble accessing government benefits, identity cards, and other services. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought these shared vulnerabilities into stark relief.
Los llamados de los activistas a "desbancar a la policía", a raíz de una serie de encuentros mortales para los miembros de la comunidad negra, hacen eco de las demandas anteriores de "abolir el ICE" y reflejar una crítica más amplia de los sistemas de aplicación percibidos como demasiado agresivo.
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As Europe begins to move beyond the overwhelming flows of asylum seekers and other migrants it experienced starting in 2015, policymakers are paying significant focus to integration coupled with stepped-up enforcement. 2016 saw a wave of policy innovations facilitating integration as well as returns and deterrence, but it remains to be seen whether Europe will be able to continue and scale up this work in 2017 and beyond, as this Top 10 article explores.
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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 dramatically reformed the nation's welfare system. MPI's Amanda Levinson takes a closer look at how these changes affected immigrants.
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Bowling Green State University recognizes learning acquired from experiences outside a formal classroom setting by offering students the opportunity to earn academic credit through Prior Learning Assessment. Credit can be attained through one or more Prior Learning Assessment pathways: Portfolio Assessment, College Level Examination Program, Departmental Credit by Exam, and Credit by Validation. Using a combination of these pathways, a student can earn a maximum of 30 credits toward their degree.
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The College Level Examination Program or CLEP administered at Bowling Green State University offers academic credit for some, but not all CLEP subject examinations offered by the College Board. Accepted exams and criteria for awarding credit can be found in the Undergraduate Catalog. If you achieve the criteria established for the examination, you will be awarded credit for the specific course(s). For helpful information concerning content of tests and preparation for them, please click here: CLEP Prep Center. As a national testing center, BGSU administers CLEP examinations on the Bowling Green campus through the Office of Accessibility Services. The Testing Center schedules and administers the tests (419-372-8495). More information about CLEP examination scheduling, costs and score reporting, can be found at BGSU's National Testing Center website. The cost of the test is $85 plus $20 BGSU administrative fee. This $20 administrative fee is waived for all Veterans.
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I started art again when I started a draft on the Bartenieff Fundamentals. I thought
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My first couple of years with her took me more about the creativity than coming up with highly technical drawings. There are artists that can create work that looks like a photograph. I am not interested in that. Technique is important. but I especially as a dancer saw too many going for the golden egg of technique. Unfortunately without artistry and expression, I was left cold to their presentation.
I also liked drawing the models in the shorter poses than the models having the same pose all evening. The models with the shorter poses have more movement to them. In working on a project Fusion fitness Online for an anatomy series, most anatomy books have high costs to use their materials. So I embarked on doing my own anatomy drawings. I wanted to give the art and anatomy its connection to movement. Since I had all these one minute drawings and
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I like the challenge of handbell ringing, and when things are going well it's easier to approach perfect striking than it is on tower bells. Also, I can do it in the comfort of my own living room, and I only have to organise half the number of ringers.
As far as I remember, I learned the basics as a teenager, and since then I have been fortunate enough to have had opportunities to improve by ringing with a variety of talented people, especially as part of Roger Bailey's band at Imperial College during the 1990s.
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|Ved Mehta
|21 March 1934 (age 86)
|Writer, journalist
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Ved Parkash Mehta (born 21 March 1934) is an Indian novelist.
Mehta was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Punjabi Hindu family.[1] He lost his sight at the age of three due to cerebrospinal meningitis.[2] Due to the limited prospects for blind people in general,[3] his mother and father, Shanti Mehta and Amolak Ram Mehta, respectively, sent Ved over 1,300 miles away[3] to the Dadar School for the Blind in Bombay (Current day Mumbai).[4]
Mehta has lived in the Western world since 1949; he became an American citizen in 1975. His first book, an autobiography called Face to Face, which placed his early life in the context of Indian politics and history and Anglo-Indian relations, was published in 1957.[4] Mehta published his first novel, Delinquent Chacha in 1966. It was serialized in the New Yorker.[5] Since then he has written more than 24 books, including several that deal with the subject of blindness, as well as hundreds of articles and short stories, for British, Indian and American publications. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1961 to 1994, during which time Spy magazine published a critical article about his misogynist attitude toward his assistants and writings that were frequently regarded as dull and self-indulgent.[6] He left the magazine after, as he has claimed, he was "terminated" by editor Tina Brown.[7]
One of the articles he wrote for The New Yorker in 1961 consisted of interviews with famous Oxford philosophers. A volume of the letters of one of those philosophers, Isaiah Berlin, contains an honest response to Mehta's inquiry about the reactions of his subjects: "You ask me what the reactions of my colleagues are to your piece on Oxford Philosophy... [T]hose to whom I have spoken are in various degrees outraged or indignant ... The New Yorker is a satirical magazine, and I assume from the start that a satire was intended and not an accurate representation of the truth. In any case, only a serious student of philosophy could attempt to do that."[8] The article was published as a book, now including Oxford historians as well, Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (1962).
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.[9]
In 2014, during the annual Jaipur Literary Festival, Mehta said that living in India would never have been possible for him as he could not live in an "anarchy", but admitted that he keenly followed Indian political developments.
He was educated at Pomona College, at Balliol College, Oxford where he read Modern History, and at Harvard University, where he earned a double BA and MA.[10] While at Pomona, one of Mehta's student readers, because very few books were available in Braille at that time, was Eugene Rose, who went on to become the Russian Orthodox hieromonk Father Seraphim Rose. Mehta referred to him in two books, one of which was Stolen Light, his second book of memoirs: "I felt very lucky to have found Gene as a reader. ... He read with such clarity that I almost had the illusion that he was explaining things."[11][12]
Personal life
His wife, Linn Fenimore Cooper Mehta (née Cary), the daughter of William Lucius Cary and Katherine Lemoine Fenimore Cary (née Cooper), is a descendant of James Fenimore Cooper and niece of Mehta's former New Yorker colleague Henry Sage Fenimore Cooper, Jr.; they married in 1983.[2]
Selected works
- Face to Face (autobiography, 1957)
- Walking the Indian Streets (travel journal, 1960)
- Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (contemporary philosophy and historiography; Boston: Little Brown, 1962)
- The New Theologian (Christian theology; New York, Harper and Row, 1966)
- Delinquent Chacha (novel; New York: Harper and Row, 1966)
- Portrait of India (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1970)
- John Is Easy to Please: Encounters with the Written and the Spoken Word (transformational grammar 1971), ISBN 0-374-17986-7
- Daddyji (biography, 1972), ISBN 0-374-13438-3
- Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles (portrait of Gandhi, 1977), ISBN 0-670-45087-1
- The New India (study of modernisation, 1978), ISBN 0-670-50735-0
- A Family Affair: India Under Three Prime Ministers (1982) ISBN 0-19-503118-0
- A Ved Mehta Reader: The Craft of the Essay (Yale, 1998) ISBN 978-0-300-07561-8
- All for Love (2002) ISBN 1-56025-321-5
- MacArthur Fellow, 1982
- ^ Singh, Jai Arjun (February 2014). "Retracing Ved Mehta's long career". The Caravan. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
- ^ a b Leland, John (22 May 2003). "At Home With Ved Mehta: In a Dark Harbor, A Bright House". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
- ^ a b Booth, Tony; Swann, Will; Masterton, Mary (1992). Learning for All: Curricula for Diversity in Education. Routledge. p. 312. ISBN 0-415-07184-4.
- ^ a b Kendrick, Baynard (25 August 1957). "Seeking the Light". The New York Times.
- ^ "Ved Mehta" Current Biography 1975.The H.W Wilson Company. 1975.271.
- ^ Conant, Jannett (September 1989). "Slaves of The New Yorker". Spy Magazine: 112.
- ^ Kuczinski, Alex (11 January 1999). "Writer Finds No Room at the Library". The New York Times.
- ^ Berlin, Isiah (2016) Building: Letters 1960 - 1975.Penguin Random House UK. p.77.
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ^ "When loss isn't' less". Financial Express. Retrieved 8 November 2009.
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- ^ Scott, Cathy (2002). Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters. Regina Orthodox Press. ISBN 1-928653-01-4.
External links
- Official website
- Ved Mehta at NNDB
- Works by Ved Mehta at Open Library
- Ved Mehta at the Royal Society of Literature
- 1986 audio interview with Ved Mehta by Don Swaim
- Ved Mehta interview on the MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour (11/1/1984) following the assasination of Indira Gandhi, at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
- Ved Mehta Papers, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.


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Computer Game Brain Saturation Syndrome
Created | Updated Jan 20, 2014
To a computer game junkie, gaming sessions can cause hours, sometimes days, to disappear into oblivion. You might start a quick, friendly game of Counterstrike on Thursday morning, only to find that it is Saturday evening by the time you have killed your friends (in a virtual sense) enough times to satiate you. This entry covers one strange aspect of computer game addiction: if you play a game long enough, it will saturate your brain and affect your non-gaming hours.
Stage One - Inner Eye
The sign of a good game is that when you have finished playing it, you can close your eyes and continue to play it in your head. This is most apparent with visually simple games such as Tetris. Shaped blocks fall from the top of the screen and interlock together. Form a solid line, and that line dissolves away allowing the higher blocks to fall.
This is a similar symptom to the 'catchy tune' syndrome. Both can be got rid of in the same fashion: simply subject your senses to a new game or tune.
Stage Two - Dreams
A more advanced stage of brain saturation can be experienced when the mind tries to relax at night. Instead of pleasantly drifting off to dreamland, the mind will be a turmoil of images from the game. It is an effect similar to that experienced when one is suffering from a viral infection. The mind tries to make sense of the information overload but can't focus. Forget trying to sleep, just watch television instead or play some more computer games.
The whole experience is peculiar to new computer games, or games that one has come back to after a long time. Once the game has been played repeatedly the mind can digest the sensations quickly and the insomnia should go away.
Stage Three - Real Environment
Game junkies often step out into the real world. However, if one has played a particular game for, say, 100 hours or more, this will have an effect on their mental process. This is particularly relevant with games that emulate a real-world environment. As an example, after playing one of the Tony Hawk series of skateboarding games, one might start noticing interesting grinds and jumps in the architecture of a multi-storey car park. A SWAT 3 fan could find themselves regarding the tactical details of moving up a stairwell in the local shopping mall.
This isn't as bad as it might first seem. A real appreciation of cars can develop from playing Gran Turismo, even if there was no previous interest in motor sports. Any game from the Total War series could spark off visits to the library's history section. Games can be educational and fun, especially if they don't try too hard to be so1.
Stage Four - Digital Seepage
The extreme form of computer game addiction causes the subject to act upon the impulses described in Stage Three. While this could be harmless - greeting strangers with a wooden 'Excuse me...' and asking about the Mad Angels after playing Shenmue - the media have accused many games of influencing criminal activities. Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat, Kingpin and others have all fallen under the spotlight, while Night Trap on the Sega MegaCD was the first video game to receive a BBFC2 certificate. Whether or not such games have actually caused individuals to steal cars and beat people is up for debate. It is an issue similar to the accusations levelled at violent films. There have been many cases of 'copycat' killings that are believed to be influenced by scenes in films. Because computer games are more immersive than films, there is a worry as games increase in realism. Disclaimers are now a common occurrence in opening titles; anti-vandalism in Jet Set Radio, street racing warnings in Metropolis Street Racer.
However, the issue of digital seepage is not just that of violence. Consider the following:
Walking through town with some friends, you comment on the impressive drawing distance down the street.
You try to alter the source code to reduce the amount of traffic.
You start to speak like a character from The Sims; 'This graal is franchie!'
The sight of security cameras causes you to duck behind corners or attempt to shoot them down with an imaginary gun - known as Goldeneye vision.
These are, incidentally, real-life examples. The phrase 'digital seepage' sums it up: the digital world leaks into the real world and affects one's perception and the way one interacts with others. Somewhat reminiscent of David Cronenburg's film eXistenZ...
Pandering To Our Addiction
It's worth noting that a few advertisers have picked up on this syndrome, demonstrating what can happen if it goes too far, with scenes of deluded gamers dressing up as video game characters. For example, a man dressed up as Christie from Dead Or Alive 3 ungainly practising martial arts in the park, or various people clumsily leaping about and avoiding dogs like Lara Croft. The Japanese call this 'Cosplay'3.
On a serious note, please be sensible when engaging in a long gaming session. Have at least a 15-minute break for every hour sat in front of the screen. Sit correctly and comfortably unless you want severe back pains later in life. If the game is on a home console, put a few metres between your eyes and the television. Most importantly, don't forget your family and friends in the real world.
Counterstrike (PC) - a multi-player first person shoot-em-up, which can be played over the Internet. Something of a cult classic.
Tetris - with its roots in early 8-bit computers, its addictive gameplay spawned a whole range of 'falling block' games that continue to this day.
SWAT 3 (PC) - first-person tactical shooter. An attempt to simulate police assaults in hostage situations, the tactics of which go into some depth.
Gran Turismo 2 (Playstation) - a racing game. With lots of real-life cars to race. Lots of cars. The ability to tinker with the cars' innards makes each car your car, hence the addictiveness.
Total War (PC) - a series of historical wargames steeped in atmosphere and real-time battles.
Shenmue (Dreamcast) - a prime digital seepage candidate. A role-playing game and a brave attempt to create a detailed and believable world. Set in 1985 in a sleepy Japanese suburb it provides lots of 'real life' things to do like buying light bulbs and playing Space Harrier in the local arcades. The Western voice-over is amusingly bad.
Mortal Kombat (Arcade) - a beat-em-up that caused quite a stir with digitised images and excessive gore effects.
Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast) - one of the first 'cell-shaded' games; it involved tearing through urban streets spraying graffiti everywhere.
Metropolis Street Racer (Dreamcast) - a disclaimer was introduced because the game involved racing in real-life cars along accurately mapped and realistic looking versions of Tokyo, London and Los Angeles.


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Gunnar Niels, Helen Jenkins, James Kavanagh
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by Madhumita Chakraborty and Mukesh Kumar – both will present on 11 September during the 70th ESOMAR Congress
Not unlike Hollywood, a young Marketing professional and a Market Researcher meet, fall in love and get married. And when they kiss and lightning strikes, their souls exchange bodies. What follows suit is a comedy of errors as the "non –believer in market research" soul of the marketer has to reside in the body of researcher' and the "… but the data says" soul of the researcher switches to the body of the marketer.
Together they have to explore the muddy grounds of the world of marketing and research, each with its own prejudices to launch a new product
SHE: I will never forget that fateful night when I said YES to him. I had recently returned from the ESOMAR Congress and was brimming with the possibilities, the passion and the belief that everything that was wrong in the world of pen and paper research was going to be set right through Virtual Reality. That plus a bottle of champagne sealed it for me. Here was my own sample to convert, my very own personalized respondent who was belaboring in the world of marketing , making decisions using his gut rather than all these fun possibilities I had to offer him – from conjoint to digital ethno to big data – there was so much to convert him to. And, after all a marketer needs a market researcher to complete him. And so I said YES.
HE: It was simple really. She had a great sense of humour that connected well with both adults and kids, was always direct and unbiased in her response back to my creative plots and a real asset in landing a media plan. Not that she did these for me, but the fact that she worked on our account meant she really understood what I went through on an everyday basis. So when she came back from that 3 day party she called ESOMAR Congress, I was ready to take the plunge. But boy little did I know what she had in store for me.
6 months on
SHE: I don't believe it , today was really just the last straw.
I didn't say anything when he said "conjoint modeling.. I thought that was the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition you were talking of… whatever does that have to do with pricing. Pricing is a simple equation of my costs + my profits."
I even swallowed my pride when I was told that there was no need for ad testing , they were bringing on board Justin Bieber and the Belieber had already decided what he was going to say, wear and look like in the ad… there was no point testing scripts, it would feel like an insult to Mr Bieber. (I mean seriously MISTER Bieber)
But today was bordering unethical. I would imagine any sane person would know that significance levels are always at 90 or 95%. I never expected him to say to me what he did today… "well if the product is not meeting criteria at 90%, how about at 75%? That still means a majority prefer my product to competition." So why ever not?
HE: It's like I have got a personal GREENPEACE activist at home. Sure, research is important, but surely marketing is more art than science. I mean, hey I spend 10% of my budgets tracking market share data, I look at those excels every day, day in and day out, and there is yet to be a day when that is in line with my sales billings.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate research. I really do. I mean the best way to convince the management committee that we have a winner is those cute little videos we put together of people drooling over our products. Even better when you can get a small child with stars in his eyes at mention of our brands.
I really do enjoy those home visits and group discussions, gives you a complete sense of just how immaterial we are in the larger scheme of people's lives… and which means they won't care if we swung 5% price here or there… which means they don't care whether my product tastes just the same, marginally better or significantly better on a 7 point scale on some obscure measure like "duration of aftertaste".
But there is a reason why marketing is called an art… it's an art in negotiation with customers, image management with the media, and blood pressure management in dealing with celebs. So when we practice this art, research should provide inspiration, not prescription. I mean hey, it's great to tell me "the utility scores don't allow you to take pricing," try telling that to the supplier who just increased my commodity costs by 15%.
1 year down the Line: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
SHE: I can't believe it's been a year already. And how far we have come now. I feel like we are connecting at whole new levels now. I mean does it really matter whether he knows what conjoint is, so long as he understands that I can help him make trade-offs like he never thought possible. Does it matter that he thinks WhatsApp groups are meant for teens? No, what matters is that we were able to land the brand positioning. So what if he thinks TOM and Spont are really good people who follow his campaigns. The fact that there is an issue with the awareness translating to trial is something that we could not have known unless we had interacted with the sales teams.
No, these are minor details in an otherwise tumultuous year. I mean little had I imagined that attending the Brand Plans and Joint Business Plan meetings would place in me a great empathy for him. I mean we do tend to speak in our own language at times, we could do well to move from our own code language with words like respondents and sample, to simply saying people. But mostly it's made me realize the power of selling a story. I mean I would never undervalue the power of our findings, but maybe there is merit in finding a creative way to tell the story vs laying it out clinical and cold… especially when you are laying out the bad news… I mean would I ever have said point blank "I hate the pie, I think you burnt it"… no I would say "this wine is changing my usual taste buds…"
And oh well, ultimately whether or not he listens to me the first time round, the satisfaction of being able to say "I told you so" is like a powerful sword one should never let go of.
HE: a year… feels like so much more. If we can survive twelve rounds of brand equity presentations which successfully each month show my brand losing equity, then we can get through anything.
It's not like it's been easy, but it's been a learning experience for sure. I mean, who would have ever imagined placing her in front of our biggest customer would win us laurels for being consumer centric, and let me collect their store card data. And then there was that time when we wasted 4 months developing a new flavour and had to go back to the starting point because we had failed to take care of the aftertaste. Not to mention the time Justin Bieber changed his haircut because 5 giggling teenage girls thought he looked like One Direction in that storyboard.
Yes marketing is an art, but there is a science to the human brain and decision making that I never thought possible. And no, neuro and big data don't scare me anymore. When you can get past the statistical googlies, you realize that it's like unpeeling an onion , there's tears upfront if they reject you, but ultimately the human mind is programmed in a way that is made of simple rules of engagement… something a great research partner can unveil for you.
Madhumita Chakraborty, Pepsi, India and Mukesh Kumar, Nestle, Switzerland
Article reproduced with permission of RW Connect and ESOMAR.
Source: https://rwconnect.esomar.org/face-off-when-research-and-marketing-switch/


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In re Stonehaven Energy Management LLC
John E. McNerney ("Petitioner") seeks review of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA" or "Agency") Region 3's ("Region") issuance of an Underground Injection Control ("UIC") permit to Stonehaven Energy Management Co., LLC ("Stonehaven") pursuant to Part C of the Safe Drinking Water Act ("SDWA"), 42 U.S.C. § 300h - 300h-8, and EPA's implementing regulations at 40 C.F.R. parts 124 and 144 through 148. The permit authorizes construction and operation of a Class II injection well, referred to as Latshaw #9, in Cranberry Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
On appeal, the Petitioner raises numerous issues. The Environmental Appeals Board ("Board") has identified three primary issues it believes are fairly raised by the petition. The Petitioner argues that: (1) the Region clearly erred in the manner in which it accounted for and considered all wells within the area of review or in the corrective action the Region required as to all existing and abandoned wells; (2) the Region clearly erred in its consideration of the geologic formations in the injection zone and the risk of earthquake; and (3) the Region clearly erred in limiting Stonehaven's financial responsibility requirements in the permit to a $10,000 performance bond to ensure proper abandonment and plugging of the permitted injection well.
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The Latest: Minnesota: No meeting yet with players
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Latest on the University of Minnesota football team's walkout ahead of the upcoming Holiday Bowl (all times local):
5:40 p.m.
Administrators at the University of Minnesota say they have offered to meet with players threatening to boycott the upcoming Holiday Bowl, but haven't been taken up on their offer.
A statement from President Eric Kaler and athletic director Mark Coyle says they had hoped to meet Friday to answer questions about the suspension of 10 players over an alleged sexual assault.
The suspensions were announced this week without details, prompting the entire team to say Thursday that they wouldn't participate in football activities without an explanation.
The administrators say they're committed to upholding ''institutional values.'' They say they are legally limited in what they can say about the suspensions.
And they say the school needs to let the Holiday Bowl know soon whether the Gophers will play.
4:40 a.m.
One by one, the entire Minnesota football roster walked out of the locker room and onto the practice facility turf to face a group of reporters.
Wearing their maroon game jerseys with gold numbers, they lined up behind 10 of their teammates who were suspended earlier this week after an internal university investigation into an alleged sexual assault.
Three senior leaders stood in front of the group and delivered a defiant rebuke of the university's decision, saying they would not participate in any football activities until the school president and athletic director apologized and revoked the suspensions. If that meant they don't play in the upcoming Holiday Bowl against Washington State, they appeared ready to stand firm.


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