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I delivered this speech six years and a few months ago to the Margaret Corbin Forum at the United States Military Academy (West Point)—and the Army, like the rest of the military, is still pretending that there is no relationship between treating women as second-class professionals and second-class human beings. After this, there will be a new article on military sexual assault.
Text of the speech follows: I warn you that it is quite long, about 5000 words.
The Woman Soldier: Biology, Equality, and the Common Defense
Given at the United States Military Academy For the Margaret Corbin Forum By Erin Solaro
27 March 2007
My name is Erin Solaro. Thank you for inviting me and thank you for being here.
I'm the author of Women in the Line of Fire, to my knowledge the first book to seriously address the experiences of the more than 165,000 women who have deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11. I'm here to talk about the issues these women and their experiences raise for you as cadets and future officers of a military going where no military has gone before. That is the open integration of relatively large numbers of women in combat units as volunteer professionals.
By way of introduction, I'd like to tell you a little bit about this book. I am an unapologetic feminist, although my feminism is probably not the feminism you're used to thinking of. This book was published by Seal, a feminist press, and my editor, Brooke Warner, was terrific. From the very beginning, I was also assisted and encouraged by former and retired military men. Three years ago, I was a Washington, DC secretary with no Beltway or journalism prospects and no institutional affiliation. I was given funding for research in Iraq and Afghanistan, no questions asked or conclusions demanded, by a nationally-known philanthropist who also happens to be a former Army enlisted paratrooper and retired National Guard colonel. The foreword was written by Volney Warner, USMA 1950, a retired Army four-star and patriarch of one of our great military families, whose granddaughter was killed in action in Afghanistan. General Warner's company commander during the Korean War, Colonel Carl Bernard, ret., a Task Force Smith survivor whose decorations include the Distinguished Service Cross, practically demanded I write this book. Another distinguished retired colonel, Bob Killebrew, whose daughter is a serving major, did a cover blurb along with former Representative Pat Schroeder and feminist icon Phyllis Chesler.
I mention this for three reasons. The first is that it is still possible to do this kind of work without being part of the system, any system. Second, when you are beholden to no one, you can call things as you see them. The third is that when serious and thoughtful feminists reach the same conclusions as serious and thoughtful soldiers, you know the culture is changing.
I plan to address three major issues.
First: What I saw in Iraq in 2004 and Afghanistan in 2005 and all the disasters that haven't happened where women are concerned. Second: What the military needs to do to complete the process of achieving women's full equality under arms, both at unit level and institutionally. Third: Why women's full equality under arms is a good thing.
But before I turn to the main themes of this talk, I would like to deal with a subject that has obsessed the US military since women began to be integrated into the regular services in the 1970s. That is pushups and pullups, or more broadly, the PFT as we all know and love it.
Everyone here knows war is not a weight-lifting contest. So this obsession has less to do with that particular illusion than with the illusion that the female body is weak. I'm going to spend some time on this introductory issue because this obsession rather literally embodies a lot of our uncertainties about women in the military and in combat. Uncertainties, I willingly admit, that have something to do with biology, but even more to do with cultural assessments of biology. The two are radically different.
I am a weightlifter and as such, I know a fair bit about the differences between men and women. But as a horsewoman and a former professional dog trainer, I also know humans often impute to biological differences cultural meanings that have little to do with biology. No advanced species on this planet could survive if the females were not aggressive and strong: there is a reason we refer to mares as mareish and b!tches as b!tchy. We think they shouldn't be aggressive even though they must be. Amongst chimpanzees, whom we have just learned make weapons, 2/3rds of weapons manufacture and usage is amongst females. Armed hunting is more efficient than unarmed hunting, and the females need to feed not just themselves, but their children. From an evolutionary perspective, it is utterly ridiculous to propose that a species as fragile and needy as humans are–don't think Man the Hunter but Man the Hunted, as in, Giant Hyena Chow–could have survived if there were very marked differences in ability between males and females.
It is impossible to overemphasize how historically aberrant our aversion to women doing heavy work is. In much of the developing world–just as they did in the developed world before it developed–women do much of the hard work, usually on less and poorer quality food than men doing similar, or even lighter, work–often while pregnant or nursing. Now, this combination of reproductive labor, hard work and malnutrition was often fatal, especially when combined with repeated childbearing and inadequate obstetric care. But that does not mean that those women who succumbed to the regimen, much less those who survived and whose daughters survived, were–or could possibly be, by any remotely accurate definition of the word–weak. More recently, the passage of Title IX in 1972, which mandated gender parity in education, including in athletics, triggered an ongoing revolution in our understanding of female physiology. A revolution that has yet to inform the standards and expectations the military applies to women.
I gave some attention to this issue when researching and writing Women in the Line of Fire. One of the things that I particularly noticed was the Army's old, pre-October 2006, weight standards for women. I found myself staring at the weight tables, and thinking, for small women I've seen numbers like this before… I mentioned that I'm a horsewoman, and I finally realized where I'd seen those similar numbers. Those are the Jockey Club's scale of weights for flat-racing jockeys, who as a group are not only short but also severely anorexic and dehydrated, a scale of weights that is a century old, and is widely regarded as inhumanely dangerous.
In short, the Army (like the rest of the military) put jockey-sized women in the position of having to do what troops must, while being required to maintain weights far more appropriate to jockeys than soldiers. (For taller women, the weights were scaled up from that inadequate base.) The results should have been predictable. A study by Navy Captain Peggy Anne Fisher McNulty, published in the January 2001 issue of Military Medicine, found that most servicewomen had developed eating disorders in order to cope with these conflicting demands. She found that female Marines, who were expected to keep up with their male peers, were twice as likely to have full-blown anorexia as normal eating habits.
Traditionally, the military's cultural response to these facts has been to make certain that whatever women did, it was wrong.
Any way we differed from men made us inferior, even if there were no practical consequences. Even when the practical consequences worked to our advantage, such as our ability to use a higher fraction of our aerobic capacity than men, a fractional difference that expands over time. If we rejected the physical weakness that is part of this society's definition of "feminine," by seriously engaging in athletics and weight lifting, we were labeled dykes. If we accepted the military's judgment of our physical abilities, as reflected by the weight tables and the PFT, we were weak or lazy, or both. If we developed anorexia, we were perfectionists. Any injuries due to unfitness or anorexia were the result, not of those conditions, but of our very womanhood. And if we were heavy because of muscle and bone and biologically appropriate fat reserves, we were fat–regardless of our performance or soundness.
If all the military wants to do is torture servicewomen for being women, it can continue down this road. But if the military wants to solve this problem, it's not hard. All the military has to do is make it easy for servicewomen to do the right thing, not more difficult: military service itself can be hard enough.
Women's weights must be level with men's of the same height and age. In fact, since the female body has a special liking for fat and tends to retain fluid more than men, women should not be "encouraged" to weigh 5% less than their maximum. AR 600-9 says this advice applies equally to men and women, but we all know that's delusional, the more so because the body fat algorithms, both old and new, underestimate women's ability to build muscle mass. Women should be encouraged to be at their maximum weight and perhaps even allowed a few pounds over.
Then, properly norm the PFT: level minimums while norming the maximums in favor of women for pullups and pushups and in favor of men for crunches/situps. In other words, demand of men more of what men are good at, demand of women more of what women are good at: this reverses the usually definition of norming. These normed maximums should be based upon differences in the average percentage of body weight carried as upper body muscle in women and the midsection in men, preferably men of the same height as the average woman, as well as the percentage of weight that is supported by the upper body. (This means the gap between men's and women's maximums for pushups would be a lot smaller than for pullups.) For the run, this means a slower time based upon the percentage difference between average male and average female stride length and body fat levels–but because women can operate at a higher fraction of their aerobic capacity than men can, a fraction expands with distance, they should have to run about twice as far as men.
A final remark about PFT standards. They're not operational standards; the PFT measures how well you do on the PFT. Operational standards depend upon the unit and the task. Different units have different operational standards. Those standards should not be normed: the work is the norm, not bodies, either female or male. (If the military took biology as seriously as it says it does, most Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers and quite probably more than a few SEALs would be women, not men.)
In other words, gender-norming the PFT should reflect actual physical fitness according to what each sex biologically does well, rather than cultural beliefs about profound female weakness and effortless male superiority. Cultural beliefs that condone–and condemn women to–the very real tyranny of lower expectations. Then recognize that while size matters, the properly conditioned average woman is far closer in capability to the famous Marine Corps family of Krulaks than to, say, pro NFL players. Lieutenant General Victor "Brute" Krulak of World War Two and Vietnam fame was not a big man. In fact, even by female standards, he was small and slender. As are his two sons, former Commandant Charles Krulak and the legendary Vietnam-era chaplain Victor Krulak, Jr. None of these men were judged by anything but what they personally could or could not do. They were certainly not compared to bigger men and automatically found wanting. It's time to apply that same standard to women.
Finally, the military, especially the Army and Marine Corps, should encourage women to be strong by virtually requiring women to engage in serious weight training. Strength, including in the upper body, is simple and easy to build in women. Although most women do not experience muscle hypertrophy to the same extent as many men, serious weight training builds muscle mass, bone mass and bone mineral density, and strengthens tendons and ligaments in women, just as in men. All of this increases both weight and capacity while reducing injury rates and physical pain.
Having talked a little about biology, I'd now like to turn to the main themes of Women in the Line of Fire.
The first is what I saw in Iraq, where I was embedded with the Army's First Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division, at Camp Junction City in Anbar Province and 2/4 Marines in Ramadi, as well as in Afghanistan, where I worked out of Bagram Air Field and was embedded with combat troops and with Parwan and Ghanzi Provincial Reconstruction Teams.
As I mentioned, over 165,000 American servicewomen have gone to war as volunteer professionals. Women are now 15% of the military, 11% of the deployed troops and an unprecedented 2% of the casualties. Perhaps the most striking aspect of this is what hasn't happened: none of the disasters so gleefully predicted by opponents of women in the military and of women's equality generally. No significant combat failures due to the presence of women. No epidemics of rape or what I call "get me out of here" pregnancies. No massive breakdowns in discipline, no orgies 24/7. Where bad things have occurred–and there are still some monstrous things–they generally happen in units that have larger and more fundamental problems of leadership and discipline. Every unit has its ten percent of jerks and worse. In good units, they don't dare get out of line; if they do, they're dealt with quickly and firmly. In bad units, they set the tone. In such units, women suffer, and are suffering now. But the solution is to not to remove or punish women for the crimes and failures of others. The solution is to nail the perps and their active and passive accessories and collaborators.
I am not saying there have been no significant problems, nor many small problems. Nor am I claiming there never will be, especially given the operational and personnel pressures on the Army and Marines. But if really disastrous things had happened, believe me, they'd have been leaked. And let me add here, regarding the unsubstantiated accusations from anonymous sources that people like Elaine Donnelly publicize, unnamed units and individuals don't count. As with tales regarding war crimes, those who tell such stories and those who pass them on, have an absolute obligation to have the facts and be ready to share the facts. Nor does "It would end my career to speak out" mean anything, if you're a person in uniform. Courage is courage. And lies are lies.
So what has happened? We now have women in combat routinely. Sometimes combat comes to them, in the course of their other duties. But more and more, women are going out with small infantry and special operations units from which they are still legally barred. In Iraq and Afghanistan I went on raids and patrols with women who were there to search and handle Iraqi and Afghan women and children, but who were expected to fight if necessary, and who did. In Afghanistan, I interviewed women who'd done long missions with Navy SEALs and Army Special Forces. Women are now earning medals and combat ribbons and badges, including Sgt. Leigh Anne Hester, who won the first Silver Star awarded to a woman since World War II.
Even more importantly, in Iraq and Afghanistan I saw a new generation of soldiers, accustomed to equality since birth, making up the rules as they went along and making it work. I found that what you lose in privacy, you gain in modesty. I found that men and women with marriages or serious relationships back home would band together in "misery loves company" affinity groups to keep each other faithful. I found male soldiers quietly guarding the women in their units against outside predators. I found the men accepting the women on the only basis that really matters among soldiers: Can you trust this person to carry her share of the load? Most of all, can you trust her when, as it was known in past wars, it's time to "enter the world of hurt."
More and more, they can. Equality works, not least of all because men and women want more from each other than sex. And I say this without trivializing the observation of a female captain and combat veteran, now a civilian wife working with military families, who wrote in a recent email: "The silent morale killer is knowing you can have liaisons if you want them. But marriage, a family, a life partner, children? With this operational tempo and, currently, no end in sight?"
To institutionalize the reality of women's performance, the military needs to ask Congress to repeal the combat exclusion law and drop all remaining restrictions on women's combat service. We know, or at least can be reasonably certain, that there will come a time when the military and the American people find themselves going through another national debate about women in the military, their place and their roles. It is time the military got out in front of that debate.
This is where you, as future Regular officers, come in.
During the 70s, 80s, and 90s, the issue of servicewomen, their human worth and professional value in the military, was polarized between the civilian Left and Right. Those who, for their own reasons, took up the cause of military women's struggle for equal human and professional standing were generally feminists on the Left. They regarded the military as the last bastion of toxic machismo, to be brought down by any means necessary, and they rarely missed a chance to trash the military as fundamentally criminal and inherently misogynist. Those who claimed to support the military were generally on the Right and usually lost no opportunity to attack or ignore the women who were an increasing percentage of the military, and often an extremely high-quality part at that.
I would add here for the record that the continued unwillingness of both Left and Right to acknowledge women's accomplishments constitutes nothing less than stealing their valor. The continuing media and academic emphasis on women's struggles with the psychological aftermath of war is an ugly, politically-motivated attempt to trade on their pain and reduce them to mere victims, not soldiers paying the inevitable price for their service.
Left and Right, these folks had so much fun at their games that they didn't notice (or care) about the damage they were causing. A lot of servicewomen paid a very high personal price for wearing the nation's uniform. I suspect a lot of servicemen who simply wanted to do a good job became disoriented by the screaming and said–and tolerated–some things that now, in the cold light of all those non-existent disasters, they remember with regret, if not outright shame. As for all the stupid, idiotic and unjust things the military did–moronic sensitivity training, micromanaged behavior, witch hunts and hammering guys for doing something dumb while all too often ignoring real cruelty and criminality–those decisions were taken by the military because bureaucrats are often more interested in protecting themselves and their institution than in doing the right thing. This is especially true at the Pentagon, where the First Commandment is, "Thou shalt not antagonize the Congress that votes thy appropriations."
That's how it happened. Perhaps it couldn't have been otherwise. The task now is to move on, and never let this happen again.
So when this food fight starts up again, as it will, your job, as leaders–always, but especially in this time of war–is to make certain it does not spill over into your units and harm the people in them. Your job is also to reduce the harm this food fight does to the military and the nation.
By this, please understand that I am not proposing either political activism or sensitivity training. I am proposing real civility and respect. Men of all ranks and ages know how to behave around women, both personally and professionally. The junior enlisted may be, well, junior enlisted, especially in the infantry, but they're not stupid, or lazy, or brutes, or criminals. They are professionals: treat them and expect them to act as such. Demand they set the standard. Those who don't adhere to that standard, don't because they don't want to, not because they can't, or don't know any better. The only sensitivity training needed is for men–and this should be handled by men with shaved heads, large biceps and combat decorations–saying, "If you disrespect, harass or assault our sisters, you're not our brother and you have no place amongst us."
And the task for every man who knows that the time is over when women had to regard harassment and assault as the price of wearing the uniform–and who wants to make sure that day never, ever returns–is to back those "sensitivity trainers" up, morally and legally, formally and informally.
To put it a bit differently: Despite all the rules and regulations, the military is essentially a shame society, not a guilt society. Reputation, honor and respect are everything. For a man to intentionally harm his sisters is a profoundly shameful act that should be regarded as such–and he should be treated accordingly.
Finally, over the last decades, we have seen a phenomenon that can only be described as "fragging by rape"–the use of sexual harassment and assault to drive women out of a unit or a service. No one who does, abets or tolerates this is fit to wear the uniform, let alone serve as an officer.
That said, your responsibility as officers requires more than enforcing civility and the respect soldiers owe each other. You have an obligation to insist people make sense of this database that we now have of professional servicewomen's performance on deployment and in combat–including Combat Action Badges and Ribbons, Bronze Stars with "V," and the Silver Star. Including all the soldierly deeds that don't win medals. And yes, including the physical and psychological price women now pay to win those medals and do those deeds.
We do this by returning to a few ground truths.
I've already discussed the truth that women's physical weakness is much more a matter of culture than biology.
The rest of these ground truths are about the military and war.
Combat is the core of the profession of arms, and exposure to combat an inherent risk of that profession. Thus the military has an absolute right to expect servicewomen to engage in combat, whether they are combat troops or not. Instead, the military continues, in the face of reality, to maintain the institutional pretense that women will not really have to engage in involuntary combat, while refusing to even let women volunteer for combat positions.
This was–and is–immoral.
I know many men do not choose combat positions: from the overwhelming majority of men in the Air Force to a small majority in the Marine Corps. Nevertheless, for those men, it is a choice that stigmatizes neither them as individuals nor their sex as a group who cannot be counted upon in combat.
The combat exclusion policy–now law, and only partially ameliorated by the opening of naval and aviation combat positions to women–has two pernicious results.
First, the exclusion stigmatizes servicewomen as second class and untrustworthy in a fight. This stigma means the good men can't trust them and leaves them endlessly vulnerable to disrespect, harassment, and assault by dirtbags and criminals. Second, the law also makes servicewomen far more vulnerable to the enemy's attention than the enemy is to theirs. This is not a result of today's non-linear battlefield. In the early 80s, when we were still planning to fight the Soviets in Cold War Europe, servicewomen were clustered in high-value targets such as intelligence units, headquarters, and logistics depots. Anyone who understood Soviet doctrine knew that if the Cold War went hot, servicewomen would die in numbers all out of proportion to their presence in the military. When the military said women were in non-combat positions, they meant that women were excluded from learning how to fight and being able to kill, not from being killed.
Obviously, the military owes no individual any specific position and it cannot promise anyone that they will come home alive. What the military owes to everyone in service is candor about their risks and training that prepares them mentally and physically for those risks, that they may prevail against the enemy.
It is profoundly immoral to force women, because they are women, to be more vulnerable to the enemy than the enemy is to them–much less lie about that reality to them.
And now a final truth.
By now, we know that all pretense aside, the military is increasingly counting upon women to engage in ground combat. At the same time, the military is also institutionally unwilling to go before Congress and the public to say, "You should allow us to admit our sisters to the profession of arms as our equals by dropping all combat restrictions. They have earned their equality, and it is wrong to withhold from them their just due."
It is profoundly dishonorable for the military to increasingly rely upon women's willingness to engage and perform in combat, while refusing to acknowledge that they are–and as military personnel should be–engaging in combat, and so deserve human and professional equality.
If you will remember these truths, you will do your troops, your service and your nation great good. For we need good people in the military in these hard, dangerous years to come, and frankly many of them should be women.
I would like, now, to conclude by discussing why the participation of women in combat as volunteer professionals is good for society, regardless of the outcome of the present wars.
Earlier, I mentioned, very briefly, maternal mortality without elaborating on it. Now, I am going to do so.
In modern Afghanistan, about 1 woman in 6 dies in childbirth–when you consider that not all Afghan women become pregnant, the real number amongst child-bearing women may be closer to 1 in 5–and more die of delayed complications. Statistically, a US infantryman had a better chance of surviving World War Two. Afghanistan's statistics are probably close to the pre-20th century human norm, a norm that profoundly shaped relationships: between men and women, between men, between women, between us and our bodies, between us and the bodies of the other sex. More recently, between 1900 and 1960 alone, I estimate over 840,000 American women died in childbirth, a number that does not include deaths due to delayed complications. By comparison, only about 603,000 Americans, virtually all male, died in combat in major American wars from the Revolution to Korea; include all non-battle deaths and the war total rises to about 1.08 million.
Death in war, then, was an episodic horror; death in childbirth was a constant slaughter of women in what should have been their best years.
Men have no comparable physical vulnerability.
Not until about 1960 do we see children beginning to be borne by (very young) women whose own mothers had a good chance of surviving their own reproductive careers. The senior military leadership who oversaw the beginning of women's integration into the military was the last generation of men to grow up with the mass death of women. Perhaps some had caused the deaths of their own mothers, or lost them to subsequent births, or saw their sisters die. They certainly grew up and married with the visceral knowledge that they might cause their wives' deaths in childbirth and that when their children married, their sons-in-law might well kill their own daughters, their own sons might kill their daughters-in-law.
On the one hand, this knowledge imposed a binding moral obligation upon them, that no woman should have to bear the twin risks of combat and childbirth. On the other hand, for the sake of their own sanity, they had to steeply devalue women as human beings, much less as citizens and as soldiers. In our culture, that devaluation usually took the form of an idealization and imputation of weakness utterly divorced from reality. In other cultures, it took–and takes–far more vicious forms.
This is how much of the world still lives. This is how most of the women of the world still live. Whatever you think of the war in Iraq, the Pentagon gets it right: this is going to be a very long war about the kind of world we will all live in. And the women of the developing world, if we take them seriously, could be our natural allies. In Iraq and Afghanistan, I watched them watch GI Jane, armed, modest, competent, accepted as an equal by her brothers. I could see in their eyes that they saw freedom. I don't mean that they approve of us: I know some of them hate us. I don't mean that they suddenly want to be soldiers, or for their daughters to be soldiers: although I also know, some do. I mean that now they know they don't have to live the way they do. And so many of the world's women and their men do need, in fact, to live differently.
As for Americans, we live now in a society where death in childbirth is so rare that we have been able to wipe the knowledge of its meaning from much of our collective memory, a society in which the human worth of women is now so great that we are almost full citizens.
The formal, acknowledged participation of American women in combat as volunteer professionals will mark the near completion of women's transition from chattel to citizen. Until very recently, women lived in biological timelessness as chattels, if not outright slaves: we were extremely vulnerable to reproductive death and injury and had little control over our own bodies, especially concerning sex and reproduction. But since the Greeks, the citizen has been a man whose body was his, and so because his body was no one else's, the city's defense could be entrusted to him. And he lived with the consequences of his political choices. The feminist assertion that a woman's body is hers–period–full stop–is often called selfish. In fact, it is a necessary precondition for women to become citizens, to enter into normal historical, political and moral time and trade the high risks of reproductive chattel for the much lower, fundamentally chosen risks of the citizen. The citizen whose body is hers alone, and because it is hers, the nation can be entrusted to her defense.
If this strikes you as a strange thing to say, it is only the logical continuation of the American belief that the Republic must be defended by its citizens, whether professional or citizen soldiers, not mercenaries and slaves. Moreover, for many wars now, military service has been a fast track to citizenship for immigrants, and rightly so.
Now I wish to be explicit. Each of us must live within the limitations of our bodies, our intellects, our emotions. We can will ourselves to surpass and exceed our limits, but equality can only give us the opportunity to develop our wills. Equality is neither our desire to become more than we are nor our efforts to make ourselves so. Equality means only that women are not equal for the good things of civilization while being exempt from the hard and sometimes dangerous work of preserving it.
Civilization must be defended and equality means that those who benefit from it–should defend it. We women live in a Republic that increasingly recognizes our full civic and human worth. If the Republic goes down, so does our worth as citizens and human beings. Just as we have the citizen's civic right to participate in the common defense, limited only by our personal abilities, so we have the citizen's civic responsibility to provide for that defense, also limited only by our abilities–as part of the community to be defended.
The Republic, our Republic should be able to count upon us to fulfill that responsibility and exercise that right as citizens together.
Thank you.


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Southwest Montanans Prepare To Hit The Slopes
With Bridger Bowl and Moonlight Basin moving up opening dates due to record snowfall, area skiers and boarders are poised to hit the mountains. Big Sky opens today and has picked up another foot of new snow in the last 24 hours, giving the resort a 40" base at the bottom of the hill, and 70" at the summit. Bridger Bowl opens tomorrow, Moonlight Basin is scheduled to open December 3rd.


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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Hello from New York City!
Here's the view from our room, which looks exactly like a cabin on a cruise ship. You couldn't pay me to go on a cruise, so this is the closest I will ever come to the experience (by the way, if you're a cruise ship company, and were actually thinking of paying me to go on a cruise, I was just kidding).
In what I'll take as a harbinger of things to come, this beautiful pear, balsamic, and blue cheese salad was placed down on our table at the Green Table, in the Chelsea Market, and we were told it was compliments of the house.
Of course I assumed they had recognized me as the minor web celebrity chef I pretend to be, but when asked why we'd been given this lovely treat, the server said, "because we just had a bunch of guests who were very demeaning to the staff, and so we just felt like doing it for you." Okay then.
Stay tuned for updates, and maybe even a few of those beloved reruns. Oh, and to the rude, insensitive jerks who ate lunch just before us, thanks!
14 comments:
- Epicurette said...
Enjoy NYC! Be sure to grab breakfast at Sarabeth's in Chelsea Market, on the weekends a Sarabeth's sit down restaurant has an hour wait but at the CM location you can get the same pumpkin waffles right away. Also near your hotel is Billy's Bakery, great cupcakes. If you see Tipsy Parson skip it, I've heard nothing but bad things. Enjoy!
- October 6, 2010 at 5:10 PM
not that this is any of my business, but you did just refer to yourself as a minor celebrity... so how often do you get recognized? i'm sure your devoted fans are dying to know!
- October 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM
- ARTNAK said...
Chef John ... glad you're enjoying NYC. I imagine that the pear salad tasted as good as it looked ... hopefully it was amazing :)
- October 6, 2010 at 7:41 PM
- averagebetty said...
OH! Have fun you two!! Sounds like things are already going your way :)
- October 6, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- Bryan and Yuka said...
Welcome to NYC!
Since you came here we feel obligated to tell you a few of our favorite restaurants. Hope you have time to visit one.
For breakfast the best is Brooklyn Diner, ironically in Manhattan. It may just look like a diner but it's not.
For dinner you have to go to Benjamins. It's a little pricey but worth every penny for the best steak you've ever had.
If you find yourself in Brooklyn and want great Italian it has to be Fragole. Best Italian we've had this side of the Atlantic.
Hope you have a good time.
- October 6, 2010 at 8:14 PM
- Amy said...
I'm so excited for you! I found Food Wishes when I googled peach tart.. and I love that recipe! I just made pear tarts and decide to check in and see what was up with you! I was thrilled to see that you won the you tube challenge. I won't be a bit surprised to find out you have a show on the Food Network! Good luck! I'll be keeping up with you on your blog. =)
- October 6, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- aaron said...
I recommend the tuna appetizer at your hotel. I live around the corner - there are so many good places within a 5 minute walk from where you are.
Go discuss cheese with the staff at Lucy's whey in Chelsea Market - Always fun. Plus you can pick yourself up a beer pretzel caramel made by a Brooklyn company called Liddabit.
One of my favorite brunch spots at the moment is Trestle on Tenth which is on 23rd and 10th. When you are finished eating their rosti you can walk it off on the Highline.
- October 6, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Looking at the photo of the hotel, I'm curious which half is your room on? The one with the rain clouds, or the one with beautiful blue sky?
- October 7, 2010 at 2:29 AM
Your hotel was a building originally designed and built for retired sailors back in the 70's. Hence the porthole windows. Have a great time in NYC! I lived there nearly 18 years before making the move to Madrid. Folks are giving recommendations so here's mine. Breakfast or brunch - Balthazar's. Donuts - the Donut Plant on the lower east side. (seriously, don't miss that). And Batali's joint, Del Posto, near the meat packing district just got a 4th star from the NYTimes so that may be worth checking out.
- October 7, 2010 at 3:36 AM
oh dear. That explains that oddly flavoured complimentary seafood bisque I got.
- October 7, 2010 at 5:13 AM
Good Luck becoming the Next Food Network Star!
- October 7, 2010 at 9:00 AM
- Rita said...
have a great time in NYC!
rude, insensitive jerks who ate lunch before you? what happened? or, are you being fictitious again? :D
- October 7, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Tyler said...
Hey Chef John,
I myself just moved to NYC this past Sun (from Philly originally), so I feel a parallel here since I follow your blog and vids closely. Best of luck on meeting the Food Network executives - you definitely deserve your own show.
- October 7, 2010 at 11:46 AM
- Rowan said...
john, foodwishes.com is my favorite foodblog. You being in NY (my hometown and stomping grounds) is totally awesome!
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What is the cardinal number of all strictly increasing sequences? I was able to find an injection from $(0,1)$ into the set of all strictly increasing sequnces by defining $i(a)=(a,1,2,3,4,\dots)$, where $a\in (0,1)$(Am I correct?). But I think that its cardinality is bigger than continuum. How do I prove that?
Fix a strictly increasing sequence whose limit is $1$, for example: $$a_n=\frac{n}{n+1}$$
Now for every $c\in (0,1)$ the sequence $c_n=c\cdot a_n$ is strictly increasing and converges to $c$. Thus we easily obtain that there are at least $2^{\aleph_0}$ many strictly increasing sequences.
On the other hand every sequence is a function from $\mathbb N$ into $\mathbb R$. Since $\left|\mathbb R\right|=\left|\{0,1\}^\mathbb N\right|$ we have that $\left|\mathbb R^\mathbb N\right|=\left|\left(\{0,1\}^\mathbb N\right)^\mathbb N\right|$.
From How to show $(a^b)^c=a^{bc}$ for arbitrary cardinal numbers? we deduce that this set, therefore, has the same cardinality as $\{0,1\}^{\mathbb N\times\mathbb N}$. Using Cantor's pairing function (or a different method) we have that $|\mathbb N|=|\mathbb N\times\mathbb N|$, thus obtaining: $$\left|\mathbb R^\mathbb N\right|=\left|\{0,1\}^{\mathbb N\times\mathbb N}\right|=\left|\{0,1\}^\mathbb N\right|=|\mathbb R|$$
So we have that the set of all strictly increasing sequences is a subset of $\mathbb R^\mathbb N$, so it cannot be more than $2^{\aleph_0}$ but on the other hand we have at least $2^{\aleph_0}$ many sequences in this set.
By Cantor-Bernstein we therefore have that this set has $2^{\aleph_0}$ many elements.
1$\begingroup$ Thank you very much for this answer and for the other information. Terrific! $\endgroup$ – spohreis Feb 16 '12 at 0:28
I assume you mean the set of all strictly increasing sequences of real numbers. As you observe, this is at least as large as the continuum. It's clearly at most as large as the set of all sequences of reals, which has cardinality $\left |\mathbb{R}\right |^{\left |\mathbb{N}\right |}=\left(2^{\aleph_0}\right)^{\aleph_0}$=$2^{(\aleph_0 \cdot \aleph_0)}=2^{\aleph_0}$. So by Cantor-Bernstein, the set of strictly increasing sequences of reals has the cardinality of the continuum.
$\begingroup$ Sorry, but I can't see how it is clear from your answer that the set of all strictly increasing sequences of real numbers has the cardinality of continuum. $\endgroup$ – spohreis Feb 14 '12 at 0:34
Consider the bijection between strictly increasing and (almost) strictly positive sequences of reals:
This explicitly demonstrates the cardinality is equal to $|\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}_{>0}\times\mathbb{R}_{\ge0}\times\cdots|=\mathfrak{c}^{\aleph_0}=\mathfrak{c}$.
Let $N$ denote the set of positive integers and let $F: N \rightarrow N \times N$ be a bijection.
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"They sound like Dixiecrats … in the sense that we disagree with the federal government's position on a major policy issue – health care – therefore we are going to claim states' rights and say that's not what we ought to be about," Kyle said on the WKNO-TV program "Behind The Headlines."
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Links 6.21.10Posted: June 21, 2010 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: computers, Ireland, Link Love Leave a comment
I see that somebody on Facebook declared a National Backup Day in 2008 (they picked Aug. 26). Good idea; ought to revisit it. This week is beginning with the apparent demise of our family's oldest Mac laptop, an iBook G4 that is already on its second hard drive. The Archaeologist's clever husband revived it briefly using some advice from an Apple user forum plus a strategically placed handful of outdated business cards (don't ask). But this was only a temporary fix. Fortunately, it bought us time for one more quick backup. How long since your last backup? If you can't remember, please do one!
Now on to the links.
Another apparent demise: Dick Eastman writes a thought-provoking essay about the decline of the desktop computer. Will computer use be completely portable in just a few years? Will everyone have a permanent squint from teeny-tiny monitor displays? As a matter of fact, will a new generation of mothers have a new warning: "Plug that thing into the external monitor, do you want to go BLIND"? Only time will tell, but according to Dick, the statistics are pretty clear that desktop use is fading.
Missing fathers: I see I wasn't the only one with missing fathers on the brain this past weekend. Martin Rigby of the Liverpool Echo was thinking about them too, and the problems they pose in Victorian records of illegitimate births. A very useful overview.
More Irish records: First the 1901 census, now this; the Irish have been busy. The Irish Times reports that Ireland's Minister for Culture has unveiled a new website containing more than 2 million records for Kerry, Cork, Dublin and Carlow. Many of the records are Church of Ireland, but there are also Roman Catholic records for Kerry as well as south and west Cork. Happy hunting.
Faster, but not fun: Springfield (Mass.) family historian John O'Connor writes an engaging account of the genealogy field trip that first hooked him onto family history research. He asks whether the explosion of online data has gained us speed but lost us the fun factor. In my usual rock-solid, decisive way, I find myself saying … yes and no. See what you think. And enjoy the week.


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Cesarean Scar: Lori
My scar says I failed. That my body failed to nurture my first baby long enough. It says they had to take her from me early because my placenta had stopped nourishing her. Says I didn't give birth, that my first daughter's birth was something that happened to me, not something I did. It says that since I didn't do anything but lay on a OR table I have nothing to brag about when my friends tell stories of pushing, and their tolerance for pain. Like they went through a rite of passage I'll never get to experience. It also says I failed my second daughter by not having a VBAC. I was in labor 3 times, and had it stopped by medication twice because my OB wanted me to wait until my scheduled date for my repeat c-section. The 3rd time it didn't work and I was admitted to the hospital. I spent the night in a half-sleep contracting every 5 minutes until finally at 5:30 am my OB showed up to do my cesarean as planned. It's a daily reminder of my body's failures.
I don't touch my scar. If I did I wouldn't feel it anyway. After my first cesarean I was numb for a year in some places. I'd like to think that it makes me look strong. I wish when I saw or touched it I felt that it shows what I went through to get my babies here. But I don't see it as a mark of my strength, I see as a reminder of my weakness. Maybe someday I'll be able to join in those conversations other women have about their birth experiences and I feel proud of mine. I think it'll be a long time for me to get to that point though.


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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2009/07/02-agenda
-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2009/06/18-minutes
Unlikely to achieve quorum; cancelled.
Norm summarizes.
Norm: Actually, it doesn't apply to p:pipeline.
Vojtech: I don't like a default output port on p:declare-step because it's anonymous. But Henry suggested that we call it "result" and I think maybe that's ok.
Henry: I appreciate that the situation is complicated; but it seems like it catches the 80/20.
Vojtech: One thing I find weird. Suppose you have a declare-step in a library that has an implicit output; then you can't refer to it by name
Norm: That's fixed if we say the name is "result"
Vojtech: We say similar things
about viewport.
... So it's not such a big deal. Saying the rule doesn't apply to p:declare-step is maybe a bigger change.
Norm: I can see advantage of keep
the rule and naming it result.
... but then that's inconsistent unless we always say that the implicit output is named "result".
Henry: It's hard to guess which
inconsistency is least likely to bite people.
... The inconsistency that I rejected is maybe not so bad.
... If what we're saying is that either you get full scale defaulting or you get none.
... If you need, for good reasons to change it from pipeline to declare step, you're going to have to declare an input port so you might as well declare an output port at the same time.
... So we could say there's no defaulting on the way in or the way out.
1. We special case p:declare-step so that the implicit output port rule doesn't apply.
2. We don't do that, and then we have odd issues with ths anonymous port name
3. If we fix the odd issues by giving the port a name, then it's different because the other implicitly created ports don't have that name
4. We can fix that point by making the name always "result" in all cases.
Norm: My concern about 4 is that it can lead to less readable pipelines. Because users willb e able to refer to ports by name that are not explicitly named anywhere.
Henry: I'd be happier to go with
1 if we make at least some of our library examples use
... We don't have any library examples, so I'm inclined toward 1.
Vojtech: It's my second favorite,
but I can accept it.
... I don't like anonymous outputs, but maybe that's a personal issue.
Henry: Maybe we should put this in countdown for a week.
Norm: Ok, I'll highlight this tentative decision and give folks two weeks to push back.
Norm: This is CR#135.
Norm summarizes.
-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/11/cr-comments/
Norm: We could change the spec to
say what is escaped, but I think that would be a bit
... Anyone want to argue for a change here?
Paul: Let's stay away.
Henry: What does serialization say?
Norm: Oh, right. This isn't about
unescape markup at all. All unescape markup does is turn those
characters into literal characters in the data model.
... This is all about serialization.
Henry: Serialization says that
characters that must be escaped...must be escaped.
... Nothing else seems relevant. I don't think we need to say anything.
... Adding more requirements would be obnoxious.
Proposed: Close without action.
Vojtech: I brought it up, but I don't think we need to do anything about it.
Henry: I've found, in general,that I'm more often irritated when I get it and didn't want it than vice versa.
Vojtech: I'm ok.
Proposal: Close without action.
Norm summarizes.
Vojtech: The way it is in the
spec now, there are two or three possibilities about how the
XQuery step handles the input.
... It's all based on the content-type information.
Norm: Ok, the question of whether or not p:xquery is ever allowed to base64 decode a chunk of data is open, but I still don't see a downside to adding the encoding information to the output of p:data
Vojtech: And we could say that steps are allowed to decode it
Norm: I'm not as sure about that anymore
Vojtech: It seems to be just XQuery
Norm: I'm willing to add that rule to XQuery; XQuery already has a weird bunch of rules.
Proposal: Add [c:]encoding to the output of p:data.
Proposal: Add a new rule to the
p:xquery step that says it can base64 decode c:data
... if it's encoded.
<scribe> ACTION: Norm to proposal the exact text of the new rule for p:xquery that can base64 decode [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/07/02-xproc-minutes.html#action01]
We'll come back to this in two weeks as well.
None heard.
Adjourned; talk to you all in two weeks.


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Carice van Houten – Crush Of The Day
Dutch actress Carice van Houten first came to our attentions in Paul Verhoeven's excoriating 'Black Book,' where she played a young Jewish woman who becomes a spy for the Resistance during World War II and compromises her morality in a number of ways. It was the most profitable Dutch film ever made and launched her to international stardom, working opposite Tom Cruise in 'Valkyrie' and Jude Law in 'Repo Men.'
2012 is going to be a great year for sweet Carice – not only is she in 'Intruders,' which opens today, but she's also been cast as the sorceress Melisandre on HBO's smash hit 'Game of Thrones,' which starts its second season on Sunday. We'd like her to read our script called 'Game of Bones.' It's a parody that involves many, many swords. You know what we're talking about.
She has no plans to abandon the Netherlands for Hollywood, so we should take what we can get of her when we can get it.


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INDIANAPOLIS – The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) released its Regional Brackets last night with the Southeast No. 4-seed Georgia College men's tennis team opening play against the Southeast fifth-seeded GRU Augusta, Sunday May 4 at Savannah, Ga. The matchup pits the same two teams from the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Quarterfinals from April 17, where the Bobcats defeated the Jaguars 5-0.
Each of the eight regions will have two teams advance from two pools to the Round of 16. The Southeast Region One (SE1) is comprised of five PBC teams, whereas Southeast Region Two (SE2) has four teams - two PBC teams with the Southeast Athletic Conference (SAC) and Conference Carolinas (CC) tournament champions.
In the SE1 field will be the Bobcats, GRU Augusta, University of North Georgia, USC Aiken and Armstrong Atlantic State University. The SE2 field will consist of Columbus State University, Lander University, Wingate University and the University of Mount Olive.
The Bobcats will begin their SE1 play against the Jaguars at 2 p.m. this Sunday. To advance to the Round of 16 the following week, Georgia College would have to win its following match May 5. The opponent would be either North Georgia, USC Aiken or tournament-host Armstrong.
If the Bobcats were to advance to the Round of 16, they would face one of the two winners of South Region at 4 p.m. at the National Championships May 14-17 at Sanlando Park in Altamonte Springs, Fla.
The Bobcats finished the season 14-7 and ranked nationally at No. 21. As a fifth-seeded team in the PBC Tournament, they knocked off No. 4-seed GRU Augusta (18-6) before falling to the top-seeded Columbus State University 5-1.
Going into the Regionals, the Bobcats have been led in singles play by No. 33 Yannick Hass (Troisdorf, Germany) and Anton Waern (Taby, Sweden) with 15-5 records at the first and third spots, respectively.
The best doubles pair for Georgia College has been at the third spot. Sophomore Mattia Campus (Concorezzo, Italy) and freshman Kyle Kinsler (Suwanee, Ga.) have compiled a 14-7 record and scored the lone point in the PBC Semifinals against the Cougars.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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by Brian DeCandia, sports information graduate assistant
ANDERSON, S.C. – The No. 15 Georgia College men's tennis team (14-6) went up to South Carolina Friday defeating the Anderson University Trojans (8-7) in convincing fashion, 7-2.
The Bobcats found themselves up after a pair of close matches in doubles, 3-0. Johan Wadstein (Helsingborg, Sweden) and Jerome Leborgne (Coordimanche, France) played out of the first spot edging out Loic Ambroise and Daniel Gonzalez, 9-7. The Bobcat duo moves to 13-6 on the season. Leo Bernardes (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Tyler Franks (Greensboro, Ga.) teamed up against Anderson's Ilya Zakharov and Deni Mehagic, defeating the pair in a tie-breaker 9-8.
In third doubles action, Tobias Rausch (Mannheim, Germany) and Robert Angelucci (Acworth, Ga.) toppled Trey Halbauer and Jerome Branker, 8-3.
Leborgne started things off in singles action for the Bobcats but fell to Atema in three sets, 6-3, 6-7, 6-4. Wadstein got GC's first singles win of the afternoon, downing Zakharov, 6-3, 6-4. Rausch had a hard time pulling away from Mehagic and eventually lost his bout, 6-4, 7-5.
After dropping the first set 6-4, Bernardes rebounded against Gonzalez to defeat him, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Franks downed Halbauer in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4 and Wictor Andersson (Karlskoga, Sweden) finished off the day for the Bobcats defeating Ambroise, 6-3, 7-5. Andersson's win gives him the lead for most victories on the team with 13.
Up next, the GC men come back to the friendly confines of the Centennial Center Tennis Facility where they will face off against Peach Belt Conference (PBC) foe Flagler College Monday, April 11 at 2 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Let me start off by saying that I'm a huge Roberto Luongo fan. When Dave Nonic first engineered the deal to bring Bobby Lou to Vancouver, I thought, "Holy Hannah, we're going to win a Stanley Cup." Sure, we had to blow up the West Coast Express to get him – but a post-Steve Moore Bertuzzi for Luongo? Brilliant. Especially considering the awful taste Dan "Beachball" Cloutier left in the mouths of devout Canucks fans, it was a red-letter day indeed. And wouldn't you know it, since he arrived, the Canucks have been a legitimate threat to come out of the west in three out of four years.
This year, though, was different. The Canucks were tapped by many a pundit to go far in these playoffs, but with the asterisk, "in spite of the play of Roberto Luongo". In spite of. When was the last time a club won in spite of their best player? As much as I love the guy, I have to admit: maybe the goalie-as-captain undertaking needs to come to an end.
Roberto Luongo could benefit by giving up the "C".
With Vancouver facing elimination in game five this year, Luongo did several unthinkables. He shaved his playoff beard. He ditched the media scrum. He did what goalies are supposed to do: he concentrated on the game. Captains can't do that. They're supposed to bear the crush of pre-game media; they're supposed to let the rest of the guys focus on their prep. Captains are supposed to carry the load while the bench loosens up. Sure, he stank the joint up in the second half of game six, but for four periods – game 5 in Chicago and the first period back at GM Place – he was Holy Hannah Luongo.
Do you think Jaroslav Halak would be stoning the Caps and Pens if he had to do a couple hours of daily pre-game media? In fact, the opposite is true; the only reason we knew he was getting the game start over Carey Price was because he refuses to talk to media when he's starting that night's game.
Luongo as captain made sense in so many ways. He's the most marketable player on a team in a hockey-mad market. His name is bandied about whenever "Best Goalie in the World" is the topic of conversation. He's the top-paid player on the team. His are the top-selling jerseys at the Canucks Store. He's an intense, passionate, win-at-all-cost kinda guy. He's a gold-medal-winning goaltender, for crying out loud. But perhaps there's a reason the NHL went 61 years between captains who played goal. This year's stats are one easy way of seeing the cons to this little experiment.
Just one year ago, Luongo recorded seven shutouts in 54 games. This year, he threw just four doughnuts in 68 – his career-low as a number one goaltender. Last year, Alain Vigneault pulled the All-Star netminder from just one contest. Luongo was pulled from seven games this year – and one more in the playoffs – as he had his worst goals against average since he came from Florida. And his save percentage this season is the lowest he's posted since his rookie year on Long Island. He lost his posts and composure with equal frequency, and fell apart at key times instead of making the big save the team needed more often than I care to count.
Some will argue these stats have more to do with the amount of play – it's an Olympic year, they say – but Luongo has always been a workhorse. His best year for save percentage came in Florida in 2003-4, when he played 72 regular season games. Others will point to a weakened defensive core, and that point is valid. But when we see he scored seven shutouts with those same woeful, playoff-missing Panthers, when we see just how shaky he has looked all season, we have to wonder if Willie Mitchell's absence has been the biggest problem Vancouver's had between the pipes.
This doesn't even touch the psychological effect a team must undergo when their captain is sitting on the bench. How massive a blow would it be to Detroit if Mike Babcock benched Nicklas Lidstrom? Could you imagine anything but injury forcing Sidney Crosby from his regular shift? To paraphrase Tom Larscheid, as Luongoes, so go the Canucks. If he's sitting on the bench in shame, who shoulders the load?
With apologies to Richard Brodeur and Kirk McLean, Roberto Luongo is the best goaltender in Canucks history. And on Sunday, when he put aside all the extra-curricular activities that captaincy requires, he played like the best goaltender in Canucks history. He did the real job that Roberto Luongo is supposed to do: he stopped the puck. Coming back to GM Place on Tuesday, where expectations rest squarely on the back of the guy with the C on his jersey – sorry, the C on his mask – he gave up five goals for the third straight home start.
It's not a matter of win or lose any more. The Canucks lost. In embarrassing fashion. For the second consecutive year. And sadly, they did not lose in spite of the play of Roberto Luongo.
The Canucks have to seriously look at putting the weight of that C on someone else's shoulders.


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The 1946 Fighting Illini's two-week round trip to Pasadena proved momentous and eventful, for the team, the Big Nine [later Ten] Conference, and the future of the Rose Bowl Game. During the long journey via New Orleans senior end Bill Heiss married his fiancé in a ceremony conducted aboard the team train — surely a singular event in Rose Bowl history. And as the new Mr. and Mrs. Heiss started their married life together, so the Big Nine and Pacific Coast Conference [later Pac-8] consummated a union that has lasted more than half a century.
Illinois coach Ray Eliot Nusspickle had played in Champagne for the legendary Robert Zuppke. The slight but tenacious 190lb lineman had hitchhiked to Illinois from his home in eastern Massachusetts in the fall of 1928. Eliot wore glasses he could barely see without. One assistant coach heavily discouraged him from pursuing football, but Eliot refused to listen and not only made the Illini freshman squad but also became the first bespectacled catcher in Big Ten baseball history.
Eliot was drawn to Illinois by the fame of the Galloping Ghost, Harold "Red" Grange, and the winning Illini tradition. Zuppke won four national championships over twenty-nine seasons from 1913-1941. After graduating Eliot spent five years as an assistant coach at Illinois College in Jacksonville before returning to Champagne in 1936 as an assistant. Succeeding Zuppke in 1941 Eliot began an eighteen-year head coaching tenure which included three Big Ten titles and two Rose Bowl victories. Subsequent work as assistant athletics director continued a career of service to the University of Illinois that covered almost Eliot's entire adult life.
Eliot coached many fine Illinois teams, but his greatest achievement was undoubtedly leading the surprising 1946 Illini to glory. After an opening win over Pitt the Illini dropped two of the next three games, to Notre Dame and Indiana, scoring only a combined thirteen points in those defeats. Despondent over the lackluster start Eliot tended his resignation, only to have athletics director and basketball coach Donald Mills refuse. Instead Mills appealed to the football players directly, informing them that their poor start had prompted their coach to resign and challenging them to improve their play. The strategy succeeded. Most of the Illini squad consisted of relatively unknown and unheralded commodities. But a few exceptional standouts answered the call and led the team in an unlikely run to Pasadena.
Eliot coached many fine Illinois teams, but his greatest achievement was undoubtedly leading the surprising 1946 Illini to glory. After an opening win over Pitt the Illini dropped two of the next three games, to Notre Dame and Indiana, scoring only a combined thirteen points in those defeats. Despondent over the lackluster start Eliot tended his resignation, only to have athletics director and basketball coach Donald Mills refuse. Instead Mills appealed to the football players directly, informing them that their poor start had prompted their coach to resign and challenging them to improve their play. The strategy succeeded. Most of the Illini squad consisted of relatively unknown and unheralded commodities. But a few exceptional standouts answered the call and led the team in an unlikely run to Pasadena.
Claude "Buddy" Young was the University of Illinois' first black football star. The 5'4" speedster made an immediate impact as a freshman in 1944, scoring sixty-four and thirty yard touchdowns on his first two touches vs. Illinois State. A 93-yard run two games later against the Great Lakes Naval Training School remains the longest run from scrimmage in Illini history. Young finished the season with thirteen touchdowns, breaking Red Grange's 1924 Big Ten Conference record and landing the freshman on several all-America lists. More impressively, Young claimed NCAA track championships in the 100 and 220-yard dash, and tied world records in the 45 and 60-yard dash. After being drafted into the navy in January 1945 he starred the following fall for the Fleet City [California] Naval Base football team, almost single-handedly winning the west coast service team championship with three touchdowns, [including two kick returns of 93 and 88 yards] in front of 65,000 fans at the L.A. Coliseum. In 1946 Young returned to Champagne and led the Illini with 456 rushing yards [a little over four yards per carry] despite persistent injury problems.
Buddy Young in later life as an NFL star
Young shared the backfield with fellow halfback Art Dufelmeier, known fondly as the "Flying Dutchman". The Beardstown, Ill. native enrolled in Champagne in 1942 and lettered in both football and basketball as a freshman. He enlisted with the U.S. Air Force in 1943 and entered one of the most dangerous service jobs as a B-42 top-gunner. In early 1944 Dufelmeier's plane was shot down over France. He spent eleven months as a POW inside Germany, losing 35lb before liberation. Simply glad to be alive, Dufelmeier relished his return to football in 1946.Despite Young and Dufelmeier rushing for over 900 combined yards, Illinois' only all-conference and all-America selection was right guard Alex Agase. Another tough veteran, Agase had served as a marine in the Pacific. He participated in the amphibious invasions of both Okinawa and Iwo Jima, earning a Purple Heart. Alex's bother Lou played at left tackle. Alex Agase had scored twice as a sophomore against Minnesota in 1942, making him only the second guard to notch a multiple touchdown performance in collegiate history. The following year he made all-America lists playing for Purdue while training as a Marine in Indiana. Later Agase would coach Northwestern and Purdue. His obvious football intelligence contributed inestimably to the top-notch run-blocking of Illinois' line.
The 10-0 UCLA Bruins entered the Rose Bowl as the bookmakers' favorite, having outscored their opponents 313-72. All-conference quarterback Ernie Case called the plays for a prolific offense featuring pass-catching ends Burr Baldwin and future hall-of-famer Tom Fears, and bolstered by the breakout running of fullbacks Cal Rossi and Johnny Roesh and halfback Gene Rowland. Rossi weighed in as the Bruin's heaviest back at just 170lb, but the team averaged a shade over 200lb per man. Several linemen in the 230lb range [as big as they came in the days of one-platoon football] made for an intimidating and forceful UCLA front which stampeded west coast rivals with apparent ease. Averaging just 190lb the Illini were noticeably smaller.Regardless of any apparent size mis-match, history repeated itself as Illinois out-witted and out-played the bigger Bruins in the same convincing style in which Alabama had blow past the larger Trojans a year earlier. The Agase brothers and Illini captain center Mack Wenskunas opened gaping holes all day, often simply cutting the Bruins down at the knees for Young, Dufelmeier, and Co. to skip over and around. UCLA coach Bert Labrucherie used virtually every player on his three-deep trying to counter Illinois' unstoppable blocking. But to no avail. The New York Times post-game report claimed that the affair "looked like a college line blocking against high school forwards."
The Illini marched sixty yards on their first possession for a score. The rout began with quarterback Perry Moss tossing a 44-yard completion to halfback Julius Rykovich. After a kickoff return set UCLA up at midfield Case responded in kind with a 40-yard strike to his diminutive but elusive halfback Al Hoisch. When the Bruins scored to take an early 7-6 lead the 90,000-strong crowd sensed an epic in the making. Instead they witnessed Illinois shifting gears and leaving UCLA behind.
Illinois put together scoring drives of sixty and fifty-five yards on its first two possessions of the second quarter. A lineup of mostly second-string players added a fourth Illini score shortly before the break. Hoisch responded with a scintillating 103-kickoff return [still a Rose Bowl record] to keep the score respectable at the interval. But solo efforts, no matter how impressive, could not make up the difference. Young finished another long drive, this time fifty-one yards, with a short scoring run on the first play of the fourth quarter. Russell Steger then ran back a Case interception for a 65-yard defensive touchdown to make the score 38-14. Stanley Green, a fourth-string Illinois back, added insult to injury with a second six-point interception return in the game's final minutes.
The Illini prevailed in an outright romp, 45-14. Eliot's squad held the Bruins to just twelve first downs and forced six demoralizing turnovers. Most incredibly, the Illini held a team that had run roughshod over the west coast to a paltry sixty-two rushing yards. Only 176 passing yards on 29 attempts from Case afforded any offensive success. Despite their lesser physical stature Illinois racked up 320 team rushing yards, including 100-yard performances from both Young and Dufelmeier.The 1946 season marked the first visit to Pasadena from the Big Ten champion since Ohio State fell 28-0 to Cal in 1921. The Big Ten would provide the visitor at the New Year's Day classic for each of the next fifty-one seasons. Despite controversy leading up to the game due to the Pacific Coast Conference entering a long-term agreement with the Big Ten rather than invite unbeaten Army, Illinois' performance provided a thrilling display of dominant football and set a new standard for conference mates. Partly because Midwestern and Pacific teams preceded the rest of the country by three decades in fielding talented black players like Buddy Young, the Big Ten and PCC/Pac-8 perennially produced impressive champions and followed the 1947 Rose Bowl with a long run of memorable [and typically more balanced] attention-grabbing matchups.
Despite the previous hostility of the University of Illinois faculty to the academic distractions a Rose Bowl berth meant for participating students, the headlines, income, and interest its triumph generated proved too seductive. The Big Ten, which claimed only two appearances and one victory in Pasadena prior to 1947, fell collectively in love with the Rose Bowl. Eliot's surging team claimed an emphatic victory which consummated a strangle-hold on Rose Bowl invitations which the Big Ten still maintains.
[Sources: Buddy Young, Wiki; Art Dufelmeier obit, State Record-Journal; Alex Agase obituary, St. Petersberg Times; Doug Cartland, Ray Eliot; 1947 Rose Bowl, Rockford Register-Star]


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Picking up on yesterday's Beat of the Day thread where Bluenatic and Chyll Will listed their 20 favorite Hip Hop albums, I figured I'd pick 20 more, careful not to repeat any of their selections. They already took many of my favorites records: from Slick Rick and EPMD–damn you Will for making it a tie!–Tribe, Pharcyde, Nas, Common Sense.
So, with all due respect to killer records by Biz, P.E., Ice T, Dr. Dre, Uncle L, Snoop, 3rd Base, Leaders of the New, Black Sheep, Ultramag, Jay Z, MC Lyte, Ice Cube, Artifacts, Quasimoto, Nice and Smooth, Kurious, and J-Live, here's my 20:
"Any Any Means Necessary" BDP
"Straight Out the Jungle" The Jungle Brothers
"Unfinished Business" EPMD
"The Sun Rises in the East" Jeru the Damaja
"Three Feet High and Rising" De La Soul
"Funky Technition" Lord Finesse
"Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop" Diamond D
"Daily Operation" Gang Starr
"Life of a Kid in the Ghetto" Ed O.G. and the Bulldogs
"Breaking Atoms" Main Source
"Muddy Waters" Redman
"The Beatnuts" Beatnuts
"It's a Big Daddy Thing" Big Daddy Kane
"Straight Outta Compton" N.W.A.
"21 and Over" Tha Alkaholiks
"Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)" Wu Tang
"People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm" A Tribe Called Quest
"The Infamous" Mobb Deep
"Enter Da Stage" Black Moon
"Runaway Slave" Showbiz and AG
"Word Life" O.C.


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Top 10 best free iPhone games
Most good iPhone game developers will only give you their genious goodness if you're willing to pay a few bucks, but every now and then a good iPhone developer or a quite unknown developer releases an awesome free iPhone game. There are completely free games, and of course the so-called Freemium games that will at some point require a few cents or bucks from you if you want to really get into the game. Actually the App Store has more good Freemium games than 100% free iPhone games, but for all the cheapscapes out there we compiled a list of the best free iPhone games.
Paper Toss
Paper Toss has been in the App Store for quite some time, and has always been a 100% free iPhone game. The concept is quite simple and get slightly addictive; you have some balled up paper and need to throw it in the trash bin by sweeping your finger over your touch screen. There's some cool difficulties in the game like a ventilator that may distort your paper ball's flight direction. The game has different stages and difficulty levels and can be made ad-free if you pay a dollar to the game's developer. Download from App Store
There has probably never been a mobile phone that didn't have some sort of Solitaire game pre-installed on it, well that is why game developers came up with this free Solitaire iPhone game. Don't expect anything extremely fancy though, Solitaire looks just like the old Solitaire-game on Windows but has a few new features. You can change your game's background, use Vegas scoring and use your own cards in the game. Download from App Store
Trundle! That's the name of this neat free puzzle adventure game for iPhone and iPod Touch with a really cool silhouette-like graphic style. The game lets you play with blocks by pushing them, using machines and by doing risky tricks. In case you're really getting into it, you can go to the App Store and buy an extra level for the game. Download from App Store
A Quest of Knights Onrush
Knights Onrush by Chillingo took some precious time from a lot of iPhone-lovers, except of course you cheap ass iPhone-gamers who waited for a free look-a-like version of the game. The wait is over; some developers had the guts to try and make a free equivalent of the game under the name "A Quest of Knights Onrush". Play as a midget-knight, slaughter enemies, enjoy hours of free entertainment. Download from App Store
Real Racing GTI
Volkswagen's Real Racing GTI iPhone game starring the latest Golf VI is of course not a game intended to get some bucks from you, Volkswagen just wants you to testdrive its car on your mobile device. This game gives you the chance to cruise around in one of the six cars on the standard track. However, if you really like it you can always decide to purchase the full game from Firemint in the App Store. Download from App Store
Spider: Hornet Smash
Spider: Hornet Smash is actually a Lite version (demo) of the full non-free iPhone game Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor. All iPhone game reviewsites gave that game a whole bunch of love for its awesomeness, and now you can play it for free. In this arcade-style game you'll be dodging bees and other stingy insects, and connect with friends over the internet with built-in Facebook Connect support and other goodies. Download from App Store
Usually free iPhone games that easily eat your time away are the best, and FallDown! could be the best example of that type of great free iPhone apps. This simple game lets you tilt your iPhone or iPod Touch to guide a ball to the holes in the game. It's one of the most simple game concepts ever, and this game prooves that it still works. Pay a dollar and you won't have to be distracted by the advertisements in this game anymore. Download from App Store
Traffic Rush
Traffic Rush is a simple but pretty chaotic car traffic game similar to Firemint's non-free Flight Control game. You need to make cars stop and accelerate by simply giving them a touch of your finger. It's your job to make sure that the cars don't crash, until of course you lose your head and get too much tapping work and the cars crash leading to your game over with hopefully a new high score! So if Flight Control looks like it could be something cool for you but you're not willing to pass the buck immediately, then definitely check out Traffic Rush! Download from App Store
A fan of pictionary? Be sure to check out Depict, a pictionary-like iPhone and iPod Touch title offering a few minutes of free fun. It's a little bit different from the classic pictionary though; in this game you get multiple-choice options to make it a taddy bit easier and to speed things up. Get the full version of the game, and you'll be able to play online and have access to tons of other good features. Download from App Store
Papi Jump
Papi is a happy, red little bouncing ball who likes to jump in the sky to try to be as high and dry as possible. You need to move your iPhone from left to right to get Papi to jump on the platforms. If you don't manage to get Papi a platform to jump on, he'll simply fall down and Papi with the amazing jumping skills will be no more. It's dead simple, pretty addictive and a hardcore free iPhone game with some ads here and there. This game was actually the predecessor of Doodle Jump, one of the best-selling games in the App Store. Download from App Store