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Last November Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest chess master in history, was playing a very different game -- one with far higher stakes. He was leading several thousand people in a march through Moscow streets in protest of Russian president Vladimir Putin's regime. Before the march ended, Kasparov was arrested and detained; he was quickly tried, convicted and sentenced to five days in jail.
A founder of the opposition Other Russia Party, Kasparov has become one of the world's most vocal critics of Putin. "He is destroying our country," Kasparov has said. "Russia under Putin has become a lawless nation. Putin has betrayed our people. He has robbed our treasury. He mocks the constitution. He uses violence to stop those who oppose him. He has blood on his hands."
Putin, a former KGB agent, succeeded Boris Yeltsin as president in 1999. In the ensuing eight years Putin has enacted sweeping reforms that have consolidated power in his hands. "It's like Stalin," alleges Kasparov, "but under the banner of democracy." While Yeltsin was president, governors were elected throughout Russia, but now the Kremlin appoints them. The Putin administration controls almost all media, including all television stations. Evidence has been mounting that elections, including last December's parliamentary elections, which Putin's party handily won, are fixed. In addition, there have been numerous cases of human-rights violations and repression that recall the Soviet era, including the arrest of some of Putin's highest-profile critics. One was the country's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil tycoon who funded opposition parties and spoke out against Putin. Russian authorities arrested Khodorkovsky and convicted him of tax evasion and fraud; he's currently serving a nine-year sentence in a Siberian prison. The blood Kasparov refers to is that of a number of murdered opposition politicians and journalists. The two most famous cases are the suspicious deaths of Anna Politkovskaya, a Putin critic and respected reporter on the Chechen war who was gunned down in October 2006, and Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian KGB agent turned anti-Putin dissident who was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210.
Putin's term expires in May 2008. Term limits prevent him from running for reelection in the upcoming March vote. For months there was speculation Putin would amend the constitution so he could remain in power, but at press time it instead looked as if he had handpicked a successor, one of his closest confidantes, Dmitry Medvedev, who announced his first action as president of Russia would be to appoint Putin prime minister. Some analysts have conjectured Medvedev could resign before his presidential term ends, clearing the way for Putin's return to the presidency, a move allowable under the Russian constitution.
Last year Kasparov announced he would seek the presidency, though he admitted it was a largely symbolic move since he isn't permitted on the ballot. "No one can run whom the Kremlin doesn't want to run," Kasparov says. "There's a system in place that prohibits an independent candidate from appearing on the ballot." Indeed, at press time Kasparov's candidacy seemed to have been stopped in its tracks: His party was unable to rent a hall in Moscow for a nominating convention, a requirement under Russian law. Kasparov charged the Kremlin had pressed landlords to refuse to rent to his organization. But thederailment didn't stop him from speaking out, writing editorials -- often for The Wall Street Journal, for which he is a contributing editor -- and leading demonstrations.
In December the news of Kasparov's arrest quickly spread around the globe. Kasparov had recently met with the editorial board of The New York Times, which wrote, "Mr. Kasparov's warning -- that Russia's grip on democracy is tenuous -- was confirmed over the weekend by the arrest." In Paris French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said, "I am surprised by this violence. To my knowledge the world chess champion was not a threat to Russia's security."
Kasparov is an unlikely dissident. In 1985 he was a national hero at the age of 22, when he became the youngest world chess champion in history. He held the title for an unprecedented 15 years, beating all comers, though he split two of the most watched chess matches ever -- versus Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer.After retiring from professional chess, in 2005, Kasparov became a business consultant and motivational speaker, addressing corporate and business audiences about strategy and leadership philosophies summed up in his latest book, How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves -- From the Board to the Boardroom. He also began his political career, motivated, he says, by the "frustration and anger one feels while helplessly watching the dismantling of democracy."
Kasparov, from Baku, Azerbaijan, was born in 1963 to a Jewish father and an Armenian mother. He began playing chess at the age of six. His talent was such that his parents enrolled him in a chess academy. It paid off: At 18 Kasparov became the Soviet champion. In 1985 he took the world title from Anatoly Karpov and held on to it until 2000. He remained the world's highest-rated player for five more years, but by 2004 Kasparov had begun his speaking and then his political careers.
With his third wife, Dasha Tarasova, a business-school graduate from St. Petersburg, Kasparov has a 15-month-old daughter. He also has two children from his previous marriages, and homes in New York, Paris, Moscow and Leningrad.
Playboy Contributing Editor David Sheff met Kasparov in Antwerp, Belgium a few days before protests scheduled in Moscow and St. Petersburg. "Kasparov is larger than life, a dynamic presence,"Sheff reports. "He moves constantly and carries with him a sense of urgency about the crisis in his homeland. During frequent breaks in the interview, he fielded phone calls and answered e-mails, most related to the upcoming protests. It's clear that in Vladimir Putin, Kasparov has an opponent more formidable than any of the world's best chess players.
"The interview completed, Kasparov returned to Moscow. Before leaving, he said, 'I must be there on the front lines with the people. Russians must see there are some of us who will stand up to Putin. We cannot sit back idly and watch our nation stolen from us.' Two days later he was arrested. We talked again the day after his release."
Playboy: Did you expect to be arrested?
Kasparov: Let's say it was not a complete surprise when 3,500 people met in Russia to express their disdain for a president who is destroying our nation. Thirty-five hundred people on the streets of Moscow are more than 100,000 in Europe or New York protesting the war in Iraq. In the West if the weather is good, you have a nice walk. But 3,500 people in Moscow, defending their constitutional rights, saying Putin must go? They are facing real risk. They are arrested and beaten. Don't underestimate the courage of the people who join us to protest.
Playboy: Exactly what occurred?
Kasparov: About half of us went on to march to the Central Committee. On our way we were met by police. We were attacked and told to move back. We moved back, and still they came. They arrested me and others.
Playboy: What were the charges?
Kasparov: I was charged with organizing an illegal rally and disobeying police orders. I and other defendants were denied access to our lawyers. The court didn't want to hear any evidence from the defense. They wouldn't consider pictures, videos or testimony. They didn't want to find out the truth. Only police officers testified against me. It was a joke. I was convicted right away, and there was a hearing two days later. At this time the judge refused to grant any defense complaints. They would hear nothing.
Playboy: How were you treated in jail?
Kasparov: It was obvious they didn't want to inflict real physical damage. Most of the guards were relatively polite. Still, the prison cell was about three feet by two feet, possibly seven feet high. I was cut off from the outside world for five days. I could see no one, neither my lawyer nor my family. Only when I went to court for the hearing did I see my mother and friends who had come. Still, I was treated well because the guards were all supportive. They helped me. I sensed they helped because they were supportive of our work and they knew me from chess. I had been the intellectual pride of the country, and they knew I was in jail for one reason: because I want justice for all of Russia. They knew I had committed no crime.
Playboy: Did you consider a five-day jail term a light or severe sentence?
Kasparov: It is a severe sentence for someone who committed no crime. But I was lucky, I suppose, because I could have received up to 50 days. Next time it will be worse. The only thing I worried about afterward was that I didn't want to cause trouble for those guards who were nice to me.
Playboy: Will you be reluctant to protest again after this experience? At what point will you cease to speak out, at least from within Russia?
Kasparov: At what point? When democracy is returned.
Playboy: Your protest was timed to coincide with Russia's parliamentary elections, which Putin's party won by a landslide.
Kasparov: Calling it an election is misleading the public. It's a mistake to call it an election -- this one or the presidential election coming up in March. It is the Kremlin's plot to get the Russian people to give a stamp of approval on what they do. In some areas 97 percent or 99 percent of voters supported United Russia, Putin's party. We know it is absurd. They said it was 99 percent in Chechnya and Dagestan, where there was little monitoring. Ninety-nine percent of Chechen votes went to United Russia? Come on. Putin is the architect of the second Chechen war, which destroyed Grozny, the Chechen capital. Ninety-nine percent voter support for Putin? We have gathered evidence of the many ways they rigged the election. They used administrative resources to bring enormous pressure on the public to vote the way they wanted. Two million people were forced to vote at their workplace, for example. They voted under the supervision of their bosses. Most polling stations had no booths with curtains, and 100,000 stations were under the control of the KGB -- a KGB guy was standing there while you voted. Throughout Russia many voting places had what they called young carousels -- young people organized by the regime who came in and voted many times. Other Russia documented it. Some of our activists -- very brave young men -- signed up to be part of the Kremlin's operation and gathered evidence.
Playboy: What can you do with it?
Kasparov: Just document it for the world, because there's nothing we can do. The Russian legal system is immune to all these accusations. But what is important is that we will present substantial proof to the world. Europe immediately criticized the election, saying it was not free and fair. Putin and his friends are becoming reckless. They are becoming blatant, so they will not continue to get away with it. They must not. If we don't stop them, we can have a funeral for Russian democracy. They have been killing it for seven years, slowly poisoning it. They are killing it, and everybody is watching it happen.
Playboy: After this election and your arrest, what do you anticipate for the upcoming presidential election now that Putin has named a probable successor?
Kasparov: We'll have to wait and see. All I know is Putin's regime is shaky now. No one can predict what will happen, not even Putin. The election itself will be meaningless, of course. It will be another landslide for Putin's people. But I don't think they can survive for long. There are groups within the Kremlin fighting for power. They will destroy one another. And then there will be a new era.
Playboy: Yet your charges fly in the face of every opinion poll of your countrymen. The results show an unprecedented majority of Russians strongly approve of Putin.
Kasparov: You trust polls in Russia?
Playboy: Don't you?
Kasparov: Please.
Playboy: Do you have evidence of rigged opinion polls?
Kasparov: Would pollsters make numbers up to please the administration? Would they be told to do so? Look, what happens if you are called on the telephone in a place where people understand the KGB state still exists? "Hello, I am conducting a poll. What do you think of the president?" Is it safe to speak your mind? In Russia we live in a culture of fear and suspicion, so I don't think it is possible to get a true poll result. What I know is, if you go to the Russian people, you hear dissatisfaction and anger. I have traveled from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad and from Murmansk to Sevastopol and have spoken to a lot of Russian people. They feel they're being cheated. They see the corruption. The fake poll numbers are used to cover up a constitutional coup d'état.
Playboy: But do you acknowledge things are much improved in Russia? Certainly you agree people are doing better than under the Soviet regime.
Kasparov: That's what George Bush says too. That's what Condoleezza Rice says. If you compare things to Stalin times, things are better now. Better than Stalin -- is that how we are to judge? It's better than 1975. It's better than 1937. So what? Yes, it's better, but we are in 2007. Look closely and you'll see the truth. Yes, it is better -- for Putin and his friends. Putin represents the ruling elite that had nothing before Yeltsin. His group was among the losers in the Soviet Union. Putin had a very low position in East Germany. He basically had to spy on officers. Even there he failed and was sent back to St. Petersburg. If not for the collapse of the Soviet Union, who would have known the name Putin? He was a low clerk. But because it may be better now than when we lived under Stalin, are we supposed to be silent and grateful? We were moving toward a democracy, and now that has been stopped. Meanwhile, things are not getting better; they are getting worse for people -- the day-to-day things. Food prices went up 20 percent, 30 percent and then 40 percent, and they are still climbing. Some predict food prices will go up another 50 percent in a country where people spend not 10 percent to 15 percent of their budget on food, as people do in America or Europe, but 80 percent. The government can't control the system because it's completely corrupt. Even if Putin wanted to distribute the riches he's stealing, the money wouldn't make it to the people. The pyramid works only from the bottom to the top: It's like a vacuum cleaner that sucks up money. If you send money from the top to the bottom, it disappears. The bureaucrats believe they have to benefit. It's a system that's not functioning even with money pouring into the country because oil is at $90 to $100 a barrel. Yeltsin was able to blame the low price of oil for the collapse of the economy -- oil was $10 a barrel in 1998. Now the economy isn't functioning and oil is $90 a barrel. We have reached the level where any public debate may topple the government in two weeks.
Playboy: How much blame should Yeltsin bear?
Kasparov: Oil prices have gone up 10 times since Yeltsin. So did the number of billionaires under Putin. You want to talk about oligarchs? You want to talk about corruption? But it can't be compared to Yeltsin's time. People talk about the oligarchs and billionaires Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Boris Berezovsky.
Playboy: Khodorkovsky is the oligarch serving a nine-year prison sentence for fraud. His supporters claim the charges were trumped up because he criticized Putin. Berezovsky, another oligarch, also reportedly gained Putin's disfavor for opposing him. He escaped Russia and received political asylum in London.
Kasparov: Yes, but compared with what's being stolen every day in Russia, they are just small-time thieves. The money was peanuts. When people understand the scale of the larceny compared with the hardship they face, they will no longer tolerate this government.
Playboy: If polls and elections are rigged, what can they do?
Kasparov: That is the essential question. There is no information because of the government's control of the press. Dissent is shut down. As you see, people are arrested for protesting. From the late 1980s and from 1990 to 1991, people had huge expectations. But what did people expect? It wasn't just freedom; Russian people had no idea about freedom. What they knew was that somewhere else -- namely, the West -- people had a much better life. People expected prosperity of unheard-of standards. Why? Because the West had democracy and we had a bad political system. At the end of the 1980s everybody knew Communism wasn't working -- at least there was a consensus in the country that it wasn't working. But people had no idea about the significance of the change. They saw only that we had to remove the system and make a democracy and then everything would be fine. But everything was not fine. The magnitude of the change, the consequences and the suffering were not contemplated. Change came, but change looked ugly. After the euphoria there has been hardship, inflation and corruption. There were rich people in the old Soviet Union, but you couldn't see them. Now suddenly you have capitalism in its worst form. The Russian people see the few who have billions, who have stolen their money. For most Russians, this is democracy. They saw we moved from one system to another system that didn't bring them benefits. Some things may be slightly improved, but the overall majority of people in Russia still feel cheated.
People knew democracy worked in the West, but it didn't work here. Why? At first they didn't blame Putin and the government. They thought, Maybe it's a conspiracy; maybe America did something to us because they were afraid of us. People look for elementary explanations. For a while the Russian people were fooled into believing it was a conspiracy from the outside, but they are now beginning to understand the truth. It began with Yeltsin and now it is Putin. Democracy has been painted as an enemy. Who is to blame? Putin. But he encourages us to blame America and democracy itself. It's why we have a big fight on our hands to educate our people.


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It has to be considered good news that the relationship between the two appears to be improving. While we want the lockout to end right now, we also want labor peace for the foreseeable future and that can be achieved only if Goodell and Smith can trust each other and work well with each other.
Anyway, Goodell and Smith flew down together and, as of 8:00 a.m., they were on stage together speaking to players at the NFLPA rookie symposium.
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Southampton Berliner Weisse - Southampton Publick House
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Ratings: 61 | Reviews: 45 | Display Reviews Only:
New York
5/5 rDev +10.1%
06-12-2013 17:31:24 | More by POTABLE83
New York
4.05/5 rDev -10.8%
Big thanks to Mike and Jon for this one. I've had this about 3 times and I've never had the chance to review it till now. From notes. 22oz. bomber into a 3F tulip.
Pours a .5 finger white head with moderate retention. Beer is cloudy yellow. Lacing is spotty with good stick. Decent but not much stands out.
Nose is lemon, yeast, some mellow cane sugar, soft funk, some mild sweetness and a mellow tartness. Great balance and very appetizing.
Opens light lemon. Bready and yeasty with a pear and lemon light tartness in the middle. End is hay, funk, wheat, and light lemon. Aftertaste is more lemon rind. Very balanced, light, refreshing and surprisingly funky.
Light bodied with moderate to low carbonation. Soft in the mouth and mellow and lightly spritzy going down. Accented finish with a lightly lingering aftertaste. Slightly oxidized.
This isn't a standout beer if you've never had the berliner weisse style. However, if you have, it is completely different from other offering in the category. The flavor is much fuller and funky though the body remains infinitely drinkable. Just a very well crafted beer all the way around.
05-04-2013 01:43:43 | More by SpeedwayJim
New York
4.46/5 rDev -1.8%
Thanks so much to Mike for tracking this down (and to Adam for hooking it up!). 2009 bottle poured in to a wine glass.
Hazy, straw-like color with some beautiful looking lace and lasting creamy foam on top. Oddly enough, the head doesnt die right away like a lot of berliners. Aroma is a fantastic blend of straw, grass, some brett-like character that is soft, a good bit of funk and a touch of oxidation. A bit of lactic acid in the nose, but nothing like most berliners I have tried. The beer tastes phenomenal, hands down the best berliner I've ever tried. The lactic character is so subtle and soft and really pulls all the funk and malt flavors together. Incredible for 2%. I get some light oxidation, a bit of green apple and some definite brett, but not a super barnyardy type brett. Something different that I dont have a lot of experience with. Light and spritzy mouthfeel.
I wish I had this earlier in its life to compare, but from what I tasted this is still doing very well. One of the attendees had this 3-4 times and mentioned it was different, less sweet than it was when fresh. Thanks again Mike!
05-03-2013 14:04:41 | More by jbuddle
4.29/5 rDev -5.5%
This is pretty fantastic stuff. My second time having it. I had it once before many moons ago when Verecund generously shared a bottle back in my Durham townhouse. This time is in Ryan's basement. Pours an almost crystal-clear champagne colored hue in my glass. Citric sourness, a touch of lactic in the nose amd a bit of sweet lately playing in the background. Flavor has a touch of sweetness overlying some nice tart lemon curd flavors, really bright, perfectly balanced but the nice partially citric Forward brew, a bit of hay and grass, slightest bit of mushroom. It finished a touch dry, heavily layered flavors, with water that is very clean. Excellent tartness, just enough though the flavor seems to have faded a bit since last time I had it, though maybe also due to memory. The mouthfeel is excellent, all soft tannins that make my tongue wrinkle when I swallow. Overall just remarkable for a 2% ABV beer. Glad to have had this twice.
04-06-2013 21:49:50 | More by BucketBoy
4.75/5 rDev +4.6%
01-12-2013 01:23:21 | More by spycow
4.88/5 rDev +7.5%
this bottle was brought out by Gonzoillini.This beer rocks!... sample after sample after sample... Mostly clear, off-yellow beer with a small, fizzy, white head. Sour, funky aroma with notes of lemon, underripe berries, spent grain and pineapple. The flavor is also very sour and grainy with no semblance of balance. Pungent, fruity esters abound. Light to medium-bodied with lively carbonation. Sour, dry finish. I would drink this brew five nights per week if it were more available
09-20-2012 04:45:54 | More by funkyaudio
4.5/5 rDev -0.9%
08-22-2012 17:56:23 | More by FreshmanPour77
4.75/5 rDev +4.6%
08-15-2012 18:52:45 | More by westcoastbeerlvr
4/5 rDev -11.9%
04-19-2012 05:10:11 | More by mrsdrabmuh
4.25/5 rDev -6.4%
03-14-2012 02:18:47 | More by injuredreserve
New Jersey
4.5/5 rDev -0.9%
03-10-2012 18:33:32 | More by jkane101
New York
4.78/5 rDev +5.3%
Humongous thanks to mike for pulling this one out tonight! Awesome start to an evening of amazing beers. 2009 vintage, bottle # 133 of 150.
a - extremely pale yellow with a fizzy head. kind of looks like a spring day. very champagne like...especially the way the head zapped away.
s - grassy, lemon zest. soft. underlying funk...can't put my finger on the exact smell...almost dirt.
t - REALLY tasty. zesty. sour and earthy. i could drink this al day long. dry but juicy.
m - prickly. refreshing. like a summers day. champagne meets beer in a wonderful marraige.
o - overall a little sour and a little grassy. little zesty and a little lemony. fantastic beer. i could drink this all day. dry and easy. very much the kind of beer i want to be sipping overlooking some amazing scenery on a perfect weather day. this is THE beer for that day of ultimate relaxation and realization...truly a work of art and fully lived up to the hype. far and away the highlight of the night (which included beatification, coolships, etc).
edit...now, a few days later I can honestly say that I have dreamed about this beer 3 times this week. would love to have this again.
02-11-2012 00:32:49 | More by cosmicevan
3.5/5 rDev -22.9%
01-13-2012 04:41:22 | More by ygtbsm94
4/5 rDev -11.9%
12-31-2011 00:14:37 | More by Doodler
New Jersey
5/5 rDev +10.1%
12-28-2011 16:10:16 | More by mikey711
New York
4.5/5 rDev -0.9%
12-27-2011 22:09:13 | More by whartontallboy
Rhode Island
4.5/5 rDev -0.9%
12-25-2011 01:03:47 | More by Ineedabeerhere
5/5 rDev +10.1%
12-11-2011 06:29:48 | More by jophish17
New Jersey
5/5 rDev +10.1%
12-04-2011 19:46:26 | More by djrn2
4.5/5 rDev -0.9%
11-16-2011 14:13:14 | More by sideshowe
5/5 rDev +10.1%
11-15-2011 21:09:01 | More by HopStoopid120
4.9/5 rDev +7.9%
Thanks to forgetfu for bringing this to our sour tasting yesterday. Possibly the highlight for me. Pours a nice golden straw color with white head. One of the better smelling beers I've experienced - a very grainy quality, wheat, and very light citrus. Flavor is exceptional - clean wheat and bright refreshing acidity. I could drink this all day. Overall, one of the better beers I have had. Amazing how much flavor is packed in to such a low ABV brew.
09-05-2011 14:56:40 | More by waltonc
4.33/5 rDev -4.6%
Whoa baby....lovely citrus and malt aroma, light yellow color with tiny head. Sourness of light apples, white grapes, and light malts. For a 2% brew this is quite drinkable and tasty. Light, refreshing yet tasty with the sour notes. I'm not sure this needs a syrup like many German Berliner weises, but it's possible it would add something for those liking alco-pop brews.
09-05-2011 01:28:23 | More by DenverLogan
5/5 rDev +10.1%
2009 Bomber #79/150.
Poured initially into a Southampton fishbowl sized goblet and subsequent pours into a cervoise. Amazing how a change of glassware can bring out different nuances you might have otherwise missed. This brew appears a clear light straw yellow color with some faint particulate that makes its way into my glass despite a careful pour. Fizzy carbonation constantly streams to the surface. Initially this brew displayed a finger of white bubbly head that quickly dissolved and holds in a spotty pattern across the top and with a line around the edge of the glass wall.
The aroma of this berliner weisse is initially fruity with a scent of apple meets pears. Mingled with the sweet fruity character are lactic sour notes with a touch of yogurt and a minor indication of some sulfur. As the brew comes up to temperature there is a minor note of stinky feet and some underlying funk that was previously hidden. Also as this brew warms up further, it gets strikingly more "sharp" smelling with its lactic character that nearly dominates all other scents except for the perpetual lemony smell that mixes with apple and pear.
The taste of this is strikingly similar to lemon flavored sweet tarts, more on the side of the lemony acidity than candy though. It includes minor notes of the previously mentioned pear and apple but with a more pronounced level of tart flavors that are lactic. The aftertaste is somewhat like yogurt but not with the drying quality to the tongue that some berliners have. There is an underlying funky aspect that comes out once this brew warms and it gets increasingly more sour. More sips reveal a faint grainy character that provides some backing sweetness somewhat like wheat. I am blown away that this is 2% abv.
This is a light bodied brew with a prickly level of high carbonation. It gets fizzy at times inside the mouth that helps to make the lactic quality of this offering really pop. This brew is balanced well and a perfect example of the style. So easy drinking, you could easily devastate a bottle of this yourself in no time. 2% abv? Amazing, this brew displays so much depth of character in both flavor and aroma it is unreal. This was essentially my only "white whale," it was my single most sought after brew. When I finally acquired it care of tprokop7 (Thanks again Todd!) I could not figure out an appropriate time to open it. Tonight was the night, shared with my wife in celebration of my first born child. Everything about this beer is perfect - look, smell, taste, feel and time/place. It is deserving of the only perfect 5 rating I have ever given.
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4.6/5 rDev +1.3%
2009 vintage. Bottle #17/150. Shared with a couple of local BAs on May 10, 2011.
Straw-bodied with a half finger of head that settles to almost cover the surface. Some, but not much lacing. The first pour was bright, with nice clarity, though by the third pour there was a good bit of haze.
Grass and lots of malted wheat comprise the bulk of the nose, but there's some lemon and green apple acidity as well.
Lots going on here: light (almost watered down) citrus and lactic acidity, green apple, white grape, and a tiny bit of white-flesh stone fruit. Just about perfect hay and wheat malt backbone, with a touch of honey-like sweetness and a wee-bit of mustiness.
Light-bodied, crisp, and refreshing. Nicely tart.
A great beer that only gets better as you get further into the glass. I was sad to see my glass empty. An unbelievable beer given the ABV.
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Guest post by neuroscientist Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., director of the University of California-San Diego Autism Center of Excellence
The study we published today gives me tremendous hope. Building on past research by many labs, we are seeing an understanding of the neurobiological development of autism beginning to emerge.
The countdown is on to April 2nd! World Autism Awareness Month is in reach and we are so excited to Light It Up Blue! Everyday, leading up to the big day we'll post highlights, interviews, photos, and much more!
Who's Lighting It Up Blue?
On Friday evening, March 16th two dozen autistic youngsters and their families quietly filed into the deserted floor of the Verizon Center as the guests of Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus. Sitting in one of the circus' three rings, they were treated to a sensory-friendly up-close-and-personal experience with a miniature horse, jugglers, clowns, tightrope artists, and be-spangled dancing girls.
This blog post is by a proud mother of a son with Asperger's Syndrome.
In this episode of Kerry's Korner I feature Jordan Randles, a 16 year old with asperger syndrome who has already sold 300 blue light bulbs for light it up blue day! Jordan is an advocate for autism awareness and hopes people understand that even though you have autism you are not any less of a person.
Growing Up Autistic in South Brunswick (South Brunswick Patch)Joseph Ahern is just like any other typical 9-year-old kid in South Brunswick. He likes to play with toy cars, ride his bike, and he loves the New York Giants. But Joseph faces a daily struggle with tasks and the development of skills that so many take for granted. Joseph has autism spectrum disorder, which affects one in every 110 children in the U.S. Read more.
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Autistic child's family raises money for service dog (Woodville, Miss.)At 10-months-old, Carter Scott was hitting every developmental milestone with ease, his mother Cristy Carter said. He pointed to a lamp and mouthed his first word, "hot," with perfect pronunciation. Read more.
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You've probably watched some of the spectacular fireworks shows at the theme parks, but an Orlando company offers a unique perspective.Fox 35 Orlando's David Martin visited Mauiva Air Tours, which offers air tours over the theme parks during their fireworks shows."Most people see them from the ground, but when you're in the air and you see them from a different perspective, people love it. They book it all the time," said Mauiva's marketing director, Don Hundley."It's at night, you get into your own plane. It's definitely romantic."The Cessna 172 four-seater planes fly out of Orlando Executive Airport and circle over the major Orlando-area theme parks. The flights typically start over Universal Studios before heading to Walt Disney World."It's very safe. We stay a good distance away. There's a no-fly zone around certain areas, and our pilots obviously maintain that," he said.The company's fireworks tour is about 1/2 hour. Tours range in price from $60-$129 depending on the package. Go to mauivaairtours.com for more information.
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Saturday, MARCH 22 - Procession leaves at 9pm
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If you can't be here in person, join out live webcast, hosted by the fabulous Erica Bigland!
What's BAWB all about?
Burning Away the
Winter Blues is a parade for all ages along the Yukon River, to a great big
bonfire! The procession is led by a giant winter effigy that is later burned along
with people's Blues. The event is broadcasted online so people out of town can
be there as well in spirit. For the last 15 years, BAWB has been an exciting
celebration for our community to come together and mark the passage of Winter
into Spring.
This year, we are very excited to have local artist Amber Church build the effigy. We encourage you to dress up, bring drums and instruments, and show up with friends and family! Bring any Blues you'd like to burn away written on paper or on non-toxic burnable items. We will collect them in the blues bag and toss them into the fire with the effigy.
Sunday March 9, 1 – 4 pm @ the Yukon Arts Centre
KIDS KREATE – Make your own mixed media/collage effigy!
In partnership with the Yukon Arts Centre and Yukon Electrical, an ATCO Company
Workshop facilitator: Amber Church
Wednesday March 19, 7 – 10 pm @ the Best Western Gold Rush Inn (General Store Room across from the Gold Pan Saloon)
ADULT WORKSHOP – Make your own effigy (snacks and refreshments available!)
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Charges dropped against teacher accused of relationship with student
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Charges have been dropped against a teacher who was accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her students.
Abby McElhenny had been accused of having a relationship with a student at the school where she taught in South Carolina.
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CORY ISENBERG | Spring sports finally in full swing
Most of the spring sports finally got started this week.
In track and field, the first big-name meet, the 38th annual Igloo Invitational, was held Saturday at Altoona's Mansion Park. A total of 32 schools in Class AA and AAA were in attendance, including five from the area. The meet does not feature team scoring.
Bedford, which will host the Giant Eagle Invitational Meet next Saturday, produced a pair of winners in the throws.
Senior Jacob Wirick tossed the discus 134 feet, 11 inches, just ahead of teammate Josiah Koontz, a junior (128-11). Junior Cody DeMoss turned in a 165-4 throw in the javelin to win the event while Northern Cambria senior Evan Ludwig was third (161-3).
Somerset junior Daniel Meyer was second in the 100 dash (11.55) while freshman William Kachman of Bedford was third in the 3200 (10:23.49).
Bedford pole vaulter Carrie Baker picked up where she left off last year at the PIAA Championships.
She had a jump to match her 10-6 effort of last year's state meet, good enough for second on Saturday.
Unfortunately for Baker, Altoona junior Hannah Mulhern, who had never vaulted better than 10-6, had a record-breaking day to win the event. Mulhern cleared 11-3 to break an 11-year-old meet record.
Somerset senior Jayna Coyle also had to settle for second with a leap of 36-9 in the triple jump while Bedford freshman Emilee Fierro was second in the 3200 (12:32.35).
Forest Hills senior Brooke Smay was third in the long jump (16-3), but was short of her 17-3 1⁄2 jump for fifth last year at the state meet. Smay was also third behind Coyle in the triple jump.
Athletes will be looking for continued improvement as the season progresses.
Century mark: The Berlin Brothersvalley boys track and field program hit a milestone last week in its season opener.
Despite snow and nippy temperatures, the Mountaineers defeated Rockwood, 80-70, on April 1 to register the 100th win for the boys' program.
Not bad for a program that began without even having a track to practice on.
Coach Corey Will is in his 12th year with Berlin.
Labor of love: Northern Bedford Athletic Director Jeff Batzel has helped put together the history of track and field in District 5.
The District 5 Track and Field Chairman has accumulated individual accomplishments from 1975 to the present, which is on the website, but he is now looking for a help in working back to 1960.
The PIAA individual placewinners prior to 1975 and back to 1928 are also listed on the website.
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Madwifi Project Looking to Found Non-Profit Organization
The developers of the free Madwifi WLAN driver for Atheros chipset-based devices are discussing the foundation of a non-profit organization.
Madwifi developer Michael Renzmann called on the developer mailing list for the project to discuss and decide on the issue in the near future. The developer community had planned to adopt the legal form of a non-profit organization for a long time. The motives are mainly practical: for example, there is no account for donations, because the project lacks a formal body, despite repeated queries on donations.
The alternatives would be joining Software Freedom Conservacy (SFC), who provide financial and legal support to Open Source projects, or Software in the Public Interest (SPI) who support software development and distribution. In an approach typical of developers, the Madwifi.org people have set up a ticket list for completion. The Wiki on the project homepage provides background information and topics for discussion on the planned institutionalization.
Up to 2005, just a few developers were responsible for the original BSD version and the Linux version of the Madwifi driver. One of them is the creator of the first Madwifi driver for BSD, Sam Leffler. Sam and the man behind the first Linux port, Greg Chesson, gave up driver development early in 2005, but volunteers interested in continuing the project were soon forthcoming. Since then, the Madwifi project has been a loosely knit developer community with its own project website, a Wiki, mailing lists and IRC chats.
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PLAISTOW —The Timberlane High School Student Council will host their second Electronic Fundraiser event on Sat., June 22, from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (rain or shine), at the Timberlane Regional High School Parking lot on Greenough Road in Plaistow. Bring your used electronic equipment to be recycled for a low cost and all the proceeds go to the TRHS Student Council to raise money for scholarships.
The following electronics will be accepted: wires, cables, cords, mice, laptop batteries, cell phone batteries, internet hard drives, keyboards, Walkmans, ipods, mp3, electronic storage devices, radar detectors, GPS, laptops, cameras, cable boxes, cell phones, computers, home phones, DVD/CD players, desk to copiers, printers, scanners, audio cassette players, external burners, radios, battery packs, radios, game systems, camcorders, speakers, monitors, televisions, and some other random electronics.
The cost for disposal for any item is $1.00 to $35.00. Clean out your basements and get rid of electronic equipment for a good cause.
If you have any questions, please contact the TRHS Student Council Advisor, Jennifer Libby at 674-6417.


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Ok so it takes me a while to catch up on the blogging. MAX is over and the secrets are out. One thing I was particularly happy about was the new Shibuya Beta program, where Flex developers could incorporate Adobe's licensing framework and start selling AIR apps.
My colleague Holly Schinsky and I were invited to be part of the super early beta program before MAX, which was extremely cool. This is huge for AIR developers because we now have a fully supported means of monetizing our applications. In the early days of Apollo (AIR's beta name) I had come up with the idea for Attest (mock exam software for Adobe's Flex certification) while studying myself. There was nothing on the market and I had compiled heaps of data while studying, so I thought it would make for a nice side project.


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LONDONDERRY — Eight students graduated from the Londonderry School District's Adult Education program in a commencement ceremony Jan. 23 at the high school.
The students donned blue and white caps and gowns to receive their honors.
Adult education program director Gregory Warren began the night. He told students their accomplishments were great and needed to be celebrated.
"Your life hasn't always been easy," he said. "Each of you have unique life circumstances. A lot of obstacles have to be overcome in life and, hopefully, we've helped you navigate some of those."
Warren told the graduates never to give up on their dreams for the future.
One graduate with a dream was featured speaker Cassandra Freitas of Hudson, the mother of a 2-year-old son, who told her fellow graduates that anything can be accomplished with hard work and goals for the future.
"I want my son to know what I went through to get this high school diploma," she said. "It took me two years and I was a semester early and now I'm here graduating."
She said her path was often stressful and difficult, but her message was to never give up.
"You did something no one can take away from you," she told the graduates. "Just never give up."
Freitas also thanked her little boy for being the "best gift" she ever received.
Londonderry superintendent Nathan Greenberg told the graduates that each one of them worked extremely hard to achieve their goal of a high school diploma.
"Your future is bright with promise," Greenberg said. "You've made a choice, clearly not an easy choice, but a choice for a brighter future. And, by your choice, you will build a positive life."
To date, more than 400 students have graduated from the adult education program. Commencement ceremonies are held twice a year.
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On this day I begin my forty-eighth year. Time, beaut-i-ful friends, to bring things to a discrete conclusion at this blog, I think. Thank you to all those who've read and commented over the years; and I'm sorry to disappoint those of you who have asked me to keep going with it. I have enjoyed doing it, by and large; but by the same token it has entailed a great many bouts of long, hard work, for which I have neither been paid nor enjoyed any other material benefit -- rather the reverse, indeed, as the myriad commentors who have deprecated my more negative reviews have assured me. The energies that I've been putting into this blog are needed on another project.
Indeed, it seems to me that the interesting thing in a small non-event such as the closure of this blog is not the blog itself, which won't be missed (there being so many other online forums for SF discussion and review, many of which have done what I never have by way of garnering prizes and other testaments of community esteem). No, what's interesting is the appearance of the word 'sorry' in the first paragraph there. It is, I suppose, intriguingly symptomatic that I feel obliged to apologise for discontinuing the provision of free, publically available reviews and essays. I'm not being sarcastic when I say that; I genuinely do feel bad for stopping punkadiddling; for even though my audience has never been very large, binning this blog still feels rather like letting them down. In turn I wonder if that is one very small example of a very large shift in the Republic of Letters. Once upon a time writers were paid in money, but now writers are paid (in the first instance at any rate) in eyeballs, which may or may not at a later stage, underpants-gnomically, turn into money. Part of this new logic is that the writer ought to be grateful simply to have the attention of those eyeballs. I'm as deep into this new economy as anybody, of course; I read many thousands of fresh new words, free, online every day. But I wonder if it doesn't have more downsides than ups. Take the material contained in the archives of this blog. If the sort of thing I write is worth paying for then I'm a mug to give it away for free; and if it isn't worth paying for (of course a great deal of online writing isn't) then I'm wasting everyone's time, including my own, carrying on. To quote my beloved William Blake: enough! Or too much?


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Mountain West Deserves Shot at Automatic BidPosted Tuesday, September 1, 2009, at 11:07 AM
The BCS just can't catch a break.
Just eight months after a relatively smooth BCS bowl season, wherein the most noteworthy controversy came from the Big 12's asinine tie-breaker system, the Bowl Championship wizards are dealt with news that makes the good will from last January's shot towards respectability null and void.
The story stems from the recent release of the preseason Coaches' Poll results that does not have a listing for any of the teams in the BCS's stepchild auto-bid conference, the Big East. The absence of any automatic-bid conferences would be embarrassing enough, but the humiliation is compounded by the fact that the third most prominent conference featured in the 2009 Coaches' Poll is the seemingly mid-major Mountain West Conference. The same conference that gave us last year's lone undefeated team, the Utah Utes (who some still believe deserved at least a share of the national title after their drubbing of SEC runner-up Alabama). This while Big East champ Cincinnati lost to Virginia Tech in a game that WNBA fans would characterize as boring. This great mishandling of the bowl season in each of its 12 attempts has drawn the ire of nearly every football fan in this country, from "Six-pack Joe" to our current president.
For years people have advocated for a full scale change to the structure of the BCS system, replacing the current bowl format with a four, eight, twelve, or sixteen team playoff in its place. Obviously no playoff plan has come through to sweep the heads of the bowl games or the college presidents in charge of the BCS off their feet, so maybe a new plan is needed.
A new plan that wouldn't mess with the currents BCS bowl format. A plan that would increase the quality (and ratings) of all the other non-BCS bowls. A plan so devilishly simple it only requires some white out and a pin.
My plan is this: drop the Big East as an automatic bid conference and replace it with the much more deserving Mountain West.
Woah! Is he serious?! Didn't perennial Big East power West Virginia embarrass Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl two seasons ago? Now he wants ESPN to discuss the BCS implications of San Diego State's win over Wyoming?
The BCS was created with the intention of getting the top teams from across the country to play in the marque bowl games, with the best two playing for the national title. In nearly every year since its inception the BCS has failed to do just that, even with the inclusion of at-large,BCS-buster, and separate title-game bowl bids. It's time to start looking at new ways to better the system.
Now the first argument that I imagine I'll have to address is whether the Mountain West Conference is worthy of an at large bid. It is, after all, a collection of teams that are mostly hidden away in the mountain time zone on channels like Versus. Because of that people rarely get the chance to see any of the teams during the course of the season. This inevitably leads to the thought that the teams are of a lesser talent level, despite the fact that three teams are represented in the preseason USA Today poll (TCU, Utah, BYU),and current NFL rosters are loaded with players from the conference (Ladainian Tomlinson, Steve Smith, and Brian Urlacher to name a few). Last season's Utah team has already proven that talent from this conference can draw in viewers from across the country. After all, viewership should be the least of the worries for the BCS, as ESPN can regularly outdraw everything else on cable simply by presenting a game between two MAC bottom-feeders. We are a culture that salivates over football, regardless of the logos on the side of the helmets.
Before I go any further, it should be mentioned that I have no intention to permanently banish the Big East from the ranks of the major conferences. I think that the world of sport works in a cyclical fashion, where no conference or team spends all of their time at the top or bottom of the food chain (excluding Baylor). So to better embrace that cyclical nature, I think we should follow the example of the European brand of football (or as we refer to it, soccer). In the English Premier League, widely considered the highest level of soccer in the world, the last place teams are relegated down to the lesser leagues and replaced by the champions of those lesser leagues. This idea could easily be applied to college football.
Conference prestige is continually measured during the bowl season, when eligible teams compete outside their conference for little more than a trophy and whatever goody bag the bowl's sponsor provides. These games should carry more significance, and it would be easy for teams to fight for conference pride considering the thousands of dollars each school receives when one of their own competes in a BCS bowl. I think that at the end of each bowl season, we tally the wins by all the major conferences (Pac-10, Big Ten, Big Twelve, SEC, Big East), and stack them against the wins of other Division One conferences. At the very least this process would eliminate subjectivity and make all teams accountable for the performance of their conference.
Of course conference bowl records for one season can't be the only means of measuring conference prestige; I would think that every two or three season those bowl records, as well as poll results from the BCS and USA Today, should be used to determine the conferences that are in and out of the BCS picture.
Only then can we ensure that teams who endure the highest level of competition have the opportunity to win a national championship that is as controversy-free as possible.
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Welcome aboard Kevin!
I have a feeling that until some sort of true tournament determination format is used, there will always be controversy over best of the best.
-- Posted by Brian Hoag on Tue, Sep 1, 2009, at 12:17 PM
Why have automatic BCS berths at all? They wait until halfway through the season to rank individual teams in the BCS, why not wait that long to determine which six conferences will get an automatic berth? Most years, I would say five of the six current big dogs would get in right off the bat anyway, but in years like this where the MWC seems stronger on paper than the Big East, the mid-major schools could be rewarded for building their programs.
-- Posted by alxhaueter on Tue, Sep 1, 2009, at 12:19 PM
Thanks Brian!
That sounds like a good plan, but we're a culture that thirsts for football news year-round. If we had to wait until six weeks into the season for rankings like that to be released heads would roll, there would be chaos in the street, dogs and cats would be living together, we'd have nothing to distract us from Brett Favre. Truly a frightening scenario.
However, I do agree that I find it hard to believe that anymore than one conference would be in or out every year. The SEC, Pac-10, and Big 12 aren't losing any steam, and the Beg 10 has been staying afloat thanks to Ohio State and Penn State. The Big East has been the weakest of the bunch for awhile now.
-- Posted by kdf84 on Tue, Sep 1, 2009, at 12:29 PM
I am the Chairman of the Bear Bryant Coach of the year awards. That does not make me an expert but the Mountain West does not play the conference that the big boys play. The SEC - Big 12 - Big 10(11) - ACC, boast at least 5 each of the toughest teams in college football. If a playoff were to be put into play, strength of schedule would have to come into play.
Otherwise, Notre Dame could drop Michigan, Michigan State, USC and get into the playoffs every year.
-- Posted by wallismarsh on Tue, Sep 1, 2009, at 1:21 PM
That's great and all but a playoff isn't happening next year, or ten years from now.
Strength of schedule is already in play since it's a part of the BCS ranking, so if Notre Dame dropped those games their ranking would take a huge hit (but let's face it, Notre Dame could be 7-5 against area intramural squads and they'd still get a ticket punched to the Sugar Bowl).
It's true that top-to-bottom the MW isn't in the same universe as the SEC, but compare the non-conference strength of schedule for Florida and BYU. Florida has a cakewalk and BYU plays against Florida State and at Oklahoma (on top of all the ranked teams in their conference).
These teams deserve a shot.
-- Posted by kdf84 on Tue, Sep 1, 2009, at 1:44 PM
I agree kevin
I honestly feel that there should not be any auto bids... take the top teams in the BCS rankings and if your conference don't have a top ranked team too bad
And I feel as though I need to add that I am very happy to see a sports blog on here finally!
-- Posted by S&DC on Tue, Sep 1, 2009, at 3:13 PM
Thanks a lot, S&DC.
I can't imagine a fan of sport who wouldn't be ok with that!
Not only would it bring legitimacy to what programs like Boise St, BYU, Fresno St., and Utah are doing, but just purely from a spectator perspective, imagine the marque games you'd get week after week (and it's it's in the Mountain/Pacific time zone, these games would make for an excellence Saturday night viewing experience).
That has my thumbs up for sure.
-- Posted by kdf84 on Tue, Sep 1, 2009, at 8:22 PM
I don't know.
In 2005 Miami, Boston College, and Virginia Tech bolted from the Big East to the ACC (who wanted enough teams to hold a conference championship game in football).
That's the last major shake-up in the conferences, so maybe we're due.
-- Posted by kdf84 on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 7:59 AM
Great Article!
Can't wait for the New Mexico vs UNLV game (I'm counting down the seconds) OR how about the brawl of all brawls the HUGE Wyoming vs San Diego St. game. Seriously, give me a break!!! Oh, the BIG EAST has WON 3 of the last 4 BCS games (over SEC champ Georgia, Big 12 champ Oklahoma and ACC champ Wake Forest). While, those mighty Colorado State teams scare me, I'm thinking the BIG EAST still RULES over the lil Mt. West (for sure). Oh, I forgot, there's those tradition rich schools like Utah and TCU that get the football world really excited.
This 2nd rate journalistic piece is good for those throngs of Air Force fans but PLEASE - let's talk strong football. The BIG EAST isn't going anywhere and I'm excited to see how the end of the year standings rank. Yep, I'll see a BIG EAST school in a BCS game and hey, looks like they may win AGAIN. However, I'm also looking forward to the wonderful Las Vegas Bowl where BYU and Reno Tech square it off.
Looking forward to seeing the BIG EAST win the next BCS game with 4 wins out of the last 5 BCS games - pretty impressive huh. NOW GO GET READY FOR SOME NEW MEXICO FOOTBALL !
This 2nd rate journalistic piece is good for those throngs of Air Force fans but PLEASE - let's talk strong football. The BIG EAST isn't going anywhere and I'm excited to see how the end of the year standing rank. I'll see a BIG EAST school in the BCS game and hey, looks like they may win again. However, I'm also looking forward to the wonderful Las Vegas Bowl where BYU and Reno Tech square it off.
Looking forward to seeing the BIG EAST win the next BCS game with 4 wins out of the last 5 BCS games - pretty impressive huh. NOW GO GET READY FOR SOME NEW MEXICO FOOTBALL!
-- Posted by mckenzie1969 on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 8:01 AM
Let me get this straight. You attempt to attack me based on my sign on name by saying "It would certainly have been a better choice than an over used cliche sign on name based on a struggling local sports team". Now you are suggesting that you are a fan of the Huskers?
Inconsistent at best.
I take back what I said about you sticking to the sports blogs.
-- Posted by Husker23 on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 8:42 AM
Thanks for the comment mckenzie, I'm glad that your caps lock and copy/paste functions work so well.
Unfortunately I have a point of contention with your argument. You see the last five BCS games for the Big East play out like this:
2005 - Utah 35, Pittsburgh 7
2006 - West Virginia 38, Georgia 35
2007 - Louisville 24, Wake Forest 13
2008 - West Virginia 48, Oklahoma 28
2009 - Virginia Tech 20, Cincinnati 7
That's three out of the last five, which admittibly isn't bad. However, during the course of the BCS, the Big East carries a mediocre 6-5 record (second worst amoung the major confrences).
If you're wondering, the Mountain West is the only conference that hasn't lost a BCS bowl game.
Sorry to upset you and all the UCONN/Cincinnatt/USF/Rutgers fans out there.
-- Posted by kdf84 on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 8:44 AM
Hey Kdf84,
It's a shame your spell check doesn't work but I get the gist of what you're trying to say. Also, I'm sure you're not upsetting the Rutgers fans out there. You see, Rutgers resides in one of the largest TV markets ANYWHERE. They also are happy as anything to be in a BCS conference that allows them to automatically go to a BCS bowl. So, don't worry about Rutgers, Uconn, Cinncinatti or South Florida fans because they're doing just fine. They all have realistic aspirations to play in the BCS.
Also, let's check on each other as the year comes to a close. I'm thinking the BIG EAST will have the last laugh. So, after the Big East plays it's automatic BCS game, let's talk about the state of the conferences. Until then, enjoy the Las Vegas Bowl and let's GOOOOOO Wyoming football - how bout them cowboys!!!
-- Posted by mckenzie1969 on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 9:32 AM
Of course Rutgers (5 bowl appearances) is happy; they get buckets of BCS money despite a long history of mediocrity. At the same time, teams like TCU (2 national championships, 25 bowl appearances, sixth largest TV market in the country) seemingly don't deserve an automatic bid.
I agree that the Big East will have the last laugh. Their conference champion will probably be 8-3 (against terrible in-conference competition), ranked like #22, and be in the Orange Bowl. Meanwhile, teams like Boise St. and BYU have to go undefeated and hope for one of the BCS buster spots. Sounds like a win for the Big East.
"They all have realistic aspirations to play in the BCS."
That's the problem.
-- Posted by kdf84 on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 10:39 AM
I don't know how much you have read of the other blogs on here but one consistent thing remains throughout... There will always be some moron who will attempt to get to you...(even when proved wrong they just make themselves look worse)
The Big East auto bid should have been removed when Miami, Boston College, and Virginia Tech left to play some real football. Sorry mckenzie but the names Rutgers, Cincinatti, UCONN, and South Florida don't exactly strike fear in the football world. West Virginia is going by the wayside now that they lost their QB. What do you have left besides a mediocre at best Wake Forest squad???
-- Posted by S&DC on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 12:07 PM
Thanks S&DC. I took this gig hoping I'd get some judgment (good and bad) so I could better myself as a writer.
Also, I've taught at a high school. I've got some pretty thick skin. :)
-- Posted by kdf84 on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 12:24 PM
That is a plus... and like i said before i am very excited to see a sports blog... i myself am a baseball coach and not so much political so to see a blog i can confidently comment on makes me feel good...
The judgement good and bad will help you better yourself but when it gets to the point of just being pathetic it is only a hindrance
-- Posted by S&DC on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 12:30 PM
You ought to come to the Bear Bryant Awards in Houston and see how a lot of this works.
A great season or two doens't compare to the week after week pounding that the big conference schools endure.
Most "gimmick" teams use a wide open attack and rely on trick plays to win the "big one". The problem with those gimmicks is it is hard to reload year after year and stay at a high level.
Now I will point out that Chris Peterson was Coach of the Year in 2006. Mark Mangino was Coach of the Year in 2007. Kyle Wittingham was Coach of the Year in 2008.
It will be interesting to see if they win again. Peterson was nominated this last year.
Wittingham benefitted from the Urban Meyer years.
My problem is I can not be convinced that a WAC or Mountain West school could even finish above 500 in a Big 12 or SEC division let alone the conference.
BTW the reason the Big East has an automatic birth was because Miami and VaTech were in the conference when all of this started. At this point they should be at large at best.
I will be attending the OU - BYU game in Cowboys stadium so we can see the outcome. I am expecting the Sooners to not cover the points. That is not that BYU is strong but that OU has a new offensive line and if BYU puts the ball in the air 50 times anything is possible in week one.
I have sent in some online some pictures from the last couple of years if you are interested.
Tom Osborne won the lifetime award 2 years.
Barry Switzer won last year.
You can access the pictures on the home page under the sports heading.
-- Posted by wallismarsh on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 12:53 PM
The only thing the Mountain West NEEDS to do to rise above the big eazy conference is to add boise state forget hawaii boise state alone would make it interesting...
-- Posted by S&DC on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 2:32 PM
The argument that top tier, non-BCS schools couldn't compete in other conferences is short-sighted at best and just plain stupid at worst.
Ask yourself why some of these schools doesn't get the talent the BCS schools (even the crappy ones). ACCESS! Access to BCS bowls. Access to play in a NC. Access to BCS $ for facilities, etc. these things hurt recruiting.
Given the ACCESS that ALL BCS schools have (even Duke), these schools may struggle in a BCS conference for a year or two but will eventually improve and compete because they will be able to recruit (players AND coaches) better. Given their successes in recruiting and coaching already, there would be major improvements.
For example: BYU has lost several high profile recruits over the past several years, that despite the fact that these kids are even Mormon (BYUs recruiting will always be hampered by the school's standards), they decided to go to schools in the BCS. You may have heard of some of them: Haloti Ngata (currently picking off Mark Sanchez for 6 in the NFL), Todd Heap (another current Raven), Stanely Havili (starting FB @ USC since his freshman year), Steve Larsen (played both ways IN THE NFL last year), Manti Teo (#1 LB recruit competing for time as a frosh at ND), and so on. I'm sure the same (or worse) goes for some of these other schools.
As for these schools being "gimmicky." You obviously don't watch TCU, BYU, or Utah. Utah in '04s offense may have been a little "gimmicky" but they weren't at all last year, their defense (as much as it pains me to say) is smash mouth, put your CBs on an island, speedy defense. TCU is the same, their offense is pretty vanilla, with some wildcat (not exactly "gimmicky" anymore) and some option (although not as much recently) and their defense is built on speed just like TCU. People tink BYU only runs spread stuff but they run out of the I and 2 TE sets a ton and even their wide sets have pretty basic, dink and dunk routes. And let's not even talk about their "just try to keep everyone in front of you" defense, not exactly a "gimmick", most BYU fans wished the defense was more "gimmicky."
I don't think the answer is replace MWC with the Big East. It's ACCESS for ALL.
-- Posted by fattycoug on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 2:47 PM
Glad to see your face on the Gazette web page. As for the issue at hand, fattycoug, while I agree with you, your idea is unrealistic in the current BSC climate. The order has been established and now those of us who believe in something that would give us a real champion (playoff or at least a fair chance) must chip away. If we chip away enough, down comes the establishment.
As for 'gimmicky', whoever threw that out there think about this for a minute. Pretend you are a MW school and you are stuck with 2nd tier players at many positions. Would you line up and try to run over any school? The 'dorky' kid in school needs to out think the bully so he can keep his lunch money. Really the dorky kid is just smarter and more inventive. This is where a lot of MW schools are. I would argue that their coaches already are much better than several of the BCS coaches because they are able to get great results with much less. It is easy to gameplan when you know you are bigger and can do whatever you want. Give me the coaches who do more with less. As a fan, don't we want to watch 'gimmicky' offenses? It is more fun.
This is another example of money keeping democracy from reigning, just like our government!!!!!!!!
Again, Kevin, nice work!
Josh Lewis
-- Posted by jlewis on Thu, Sep 3, 2009, at 1:01 PM
I Agree 150%... a coach that can be inventive enough to win with lower caliber talent should be considered better... anybody can win when you flat have more talent... look at texas tech before leach as compared to now... that is as gimmicky as you can get but is completely effective... where is the talk about other schools in the big conferences being gimmicky
-- Posted by S&DC on Thu, Sep 3, 2009, at 1:50 PM
Guillermo, you stole my thunder sir. No one else in the country runs out of the offensive formations that Florida puts on the field, yet they are a powerhouse in every sense of the word.
Another thought:
When Nebraska won its final three national championships, they were one of the only teams in the country running the triple-option. They did not have a top-flight recruiting base, and a chunk of their talent came from the walk-on program.
If you plug a football team like that into 2009, they would meet some of these definitions of "gimmicky" right?
-- Posted by kdf84 on Thu, Sep 3, 2009, at 2:19 PM
I like the line of thinking. Maybe not even drop the entire conference out of the picture, but certain teams are elevated from the mid-major conferences to be eligible based on record, strength of schedule etc.
You know, if the Utah' and BYU's were given the same kind of cash that the large conferences were given, you would see some quick parity, and more players that are sitting 2nd string or 3rd string, who would start at the mid-major school, then would have to rethink their reasoning to go to the Top division school...
1. I still get a shot at National Championship.
2. Education is much better at some of the mid-major schools. BYU-Marriot School of Management #3 in the nation. Utah- Medical School one of the top in the nation.
3. I get to play right away.
4. Upper conference schools lose the ability to stack up talent, because they may choose to go where they can play 3-4 years instead of one or two.
This makes so much sense, and those who think it is fine as it is, well, your heads are so far in the sand, it is no wonder you can't think straight. There have been some major players in the NBA, NFL that have come through the smaller, mid-major schools! It's all about the money!
-- Posted by Garwin on Thu, Sep 3, 2009, at 3:52 PM
Steve McNair, Terrell Owens, and Ben Roethlisberger (or however you spell it) came from smaller schools! Thats just the tip of the ice berg
-- Posted by S&DC on Thu, Sep 3, 2009, at 4:02 PM
A big THANK YOU Kevin Forch,
Isn't time drop the BCS conference standings and go to a 8 team playoff system. Go ahead and use the BCS rankings and select the top 8 teams. Use a conventional tournament bracket. As teams lose, let them go to a bowl game. The national champion will then be undisputed. Just imagine the excitement.
-- Posted by Chunky Peanut Butter on Thu, Sep 3, 2009, at 9:09 PM
Name a gimmick offense that has won a National Championship? The key to winning titles and Championships is to have a dominate defense and solid running attack that can run clock.
If you want a list of teams I propose you consider:
Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, USC,LSU,Florida, Miami just to name a few.
When Bob Stoops came to OU he had a solid defense but needed a gimmick offense so he hired Mike Leach. As soon as Bob turned OU around he went to the pro style play action running game with a pocket style QB. The only significant difference in Leach's "gimmick offense" is it is ball control but it is high risk and when it fails TT gets blown out.
Kevin Sumlim and Dana Hollgerson (SP and Leach's O coord) are putting in a passing style run and shoot style offense at the UH. Those guys are some of the brightest offensive minds in college football today and they will win a lot of games. But when they play an elite team from an elite conference they will lose that athletic edge every time.
I actually feel that the time is right for the return of the option running game. Teams have been recruiting Dbacks that are very fast now to stop these spread offenses. You see many guys less than 6' playing corner and many taller kids playing free and strong safety. The 4-3 defenses are a thing of the past and many teams now basically run a 3-2-6 set. Those zone and cover 2 type packages are just what the doctor ordered for seals and against the grain cutbacks in a triple option attack. That offense kills clock and the returns the game to field position.
Anyway - At the OU/BYU game. OU should handle BYU. The athletic edge should be to great.
-- Posted by wallismarsh on Sat, Sep 5, 2009, at 10:51 AM
The reason you will not have a playoff is because the NFL players Union said if the NCAA put one in, they would unionize college football.
That is the main reason it went away in 2003. I did some work for the Big 12 putting together Texas schools info. Look it up on the internet if you want to verify.
-- Posted by wallismarsh on Sat, Sep 5, 2009, at 11:32 AM
BYU wasn't an air attack.
BYU offense scored 1 TD. OU is a middle of the road team this year and would have beat BYU if there QB stayed healthy.
We came out with our Watch list. Included Temple and Idaho.
-- Posted by wallismarsh on Sat, Oct 31, 2009, at 10:59 AM
Coach Peterson won the Bryant Award. What a great guy!
-- Posted by wallismarsh on Sat, Jan 16, 2010, at 4:53 PM
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Boil potatoes. Mash fine. Heat cream and add salt, butter, and sugar. Beat until light. Cool. Add flour, just enough to roll out. Roll out on floured pastry cloth, using batter size of a bun and rolling out thin. Bake on lefse grill or pancake griddle until lightly brown on both sides.
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A Texas company unveiled a new, mixed-use development project that would be built near Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh.
Trademark Property Co., the Fort Worth-based retail and mixed-use investment, development and third-party services firm, announced the plans for Carolina Row at Crabtree Valley on Wednesday.
The plans call for at least a 125,000- to 150,000-square-foot retail and restaurant space, a hotel and 700 residential units.
"In our view, this is one of the best retail and mixed-use sites in North Carolina," Trademark CEO Terry Montesi said in statement. "We believe national retailers will have strong interest in a pedestrian focused mixed-use development at this site, given the outstanding location and the strong performance of Crabtree Valley Mall.
"This site provides tremendous opportunity to live our purpose: To be extraordinary stewards, enhance communities and enrich lives."
Plans also include a pedestrian and bicycle bridge that will connect Carolina Row to Crabtree Valley Mall.
Construction on the mixed-use project is expected to begin in spring of 2015 with an opening scheduled for late 2016.
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LEWISBURG (WVVA) - A proposed fire levy could mean additional taxes for Greenbrier County residents.
Firefighters say the levy would cost the average family about $72 per year.
The money would support fire departments across the county with supplies and equipment.
While some Greenbrier County residents say it's a great idea, others say the price could be too steep.
"It's kind of like insurance," said Tina Tuckwiller of Lewisburg. "You pay it and hope you never have to need it -- but it's there."
Another Lewisburg resident voiced some concern.
"I think it's a good idea to a point," said Lisa Morgan. "But there's a lot of low-income and seniors that live around here and it would just be a shame for them to have to put out additional money."
The levy will be up for vote in the county in early March.