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Skip Holtz is hitting the reset button, focusing strictly on the second half of the Bulls' season.
Without a game to prepare for last week, Holtz created some competition at practice with a 'spring camp.' Starting jobs weren't on the line, but more playing time was the prize up for grabs.
"Where you're going to see it is, not maybe necessarily depth chart changes as far as starters being demoted," said Holtz. "It's probably more of the development of the depth of the football team than it is an overhaul, to say he's getting benched or he's getting benched."
Holtz has his Bulls working on every detail in an effort to break them out of their losing streak. The Bulls spend part of practice learning how to run on and off the field with a purpose.
"I think when you let it drag physically, you let it drag mentally and emotionally," continued Holtz. "So we are conditioning for a purpose."
Out of the 120 teams in the FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision), USF stands alone. They are on a distinct list that they'd like to remove their name from: The Bulls are the only team without a defensive interception. It's the contributing factor for their losses.
Holtz believes it's causing his team to play tight, trying too hard to get the first one.
"I think it's like getting that (elusive) win," said Holtz. "You start to get, ugh, there it is. That interception that we've been fighting for all season. Haven't been able to get it and there it is. We have to relax and play football."
Creating their own opportunities is what it's going to take for this team to win.
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Serena graceful in defeat
Reaction from a big upset at the Australian Open as Ana Ivanovic dumped Serena Williams out of the tournament.
Sun January 19 2014
More Tennis Videos
Wed August 20 2014
Murray-Mauresmo relationship will take time
John McEnroe believes the Andy Murray-Amelie Mauresmo relationship will take time to develop.
Thu August 14 2014
Can Murray beat Isner?
Mark Petchey and Miles Maclagan expect Andy Murray to claim victory over John Isner at the Cincinnati Masters.
Wed August 13 2014
US Open Tennis coming soon!
The US Open begins on the 25th of August. Watch live coverage exclusively on Sky Sports 3 HD.
Wed August 6 2014
Murray makes short work of Kyrgios
Andy Murray says serving well and extra training were the reasons he easily dispatched Nick Kyrgios in straight sets at the Toronto Masters.
Tue August 5 2014
Kyrgios wins debut match
Nick Kyrgios overcame a difficult start to win his debut ATP Masters match against Santiago Giraldo in the first round at Toronto.
Mon August 4 2014
Murray happy with Mauresmo
Andy Murray insists he's happy with the work he's undertaken with new coach Amelie Mauresmo.
Mon July 7 2014
Djokovic: I had self-belief
Novak Djokovic says he was more mentally prepared than ever after defeating Roger Federer to win 2014.
Mon July 7 2014
Petchey: More Grand Slams for Djokovic
Mark Petchey believes world number one Novak Djokovic will pick up many more major titles, and feels Roger Federer still has another one in him.
Mon July 7 2014
Kvitova claims second Wimbledon title
Petra Kvitova has won her second Wimbledon title after beating Eugenie Bouchard in straight sets.
Thu July 3 2014
Kvitova feeling the pressure
Petra Kvitova admitted the weight of expectation can be tough to deal with, after defeating Lucie Safarova in straight sets in the semi-final at Wimbledon.
Fri July 4 2014
Dimitrov downs Murray
Grigor Dimitrov gives his reation to beating Andy Murray in the Wimbledon quarter-finals.
Fri August 1 2014
Murray downbeat after defeat
Andy Murray reflects on his defeat to Grigor Dimitrov in the quarter finals fo Wimbledon.
Tue July 1 2014
Murray makes quarter-finals
Andy Murray is still yet to drop a set in this years Wimbledon championship - he's into the quarter finals after beating Kevin Anderson 6-4 6-3 7-6.
Mon June 30 2014
Murray v Anderson Preview
Andy Murray plays 20th seed Kevin Anderson in the fourth round of Wimbledon today. The defending champion has not dropped a set so far this tournament.
Tue June 24 2014
Ivanisevic backs Murray
Goran Ivanisevic believes that Andy Murray has a good chance of retaining his Wimbledon title. The 2001 champion thinks Murray made a good start to his defence with a straight sets win over David Goffin.
Tue June 24 2014
Murray settles nerves with win
Andy Murray admits he was nervous ahead of his first match but says the nerves will settle as he progresses through the tournament.
Mon June 23 2014
Djokovic unconcerned by wrist injury
Novak Djokovic says he still gets goose bumps every time he returns to Wimbledon. Djokovic's preparations have been hindered by a wrist injury, but he's confident it won't affect his performances
Mon June 23 2014
Federer eyes Wimbledon success
Roger Federer says he is feeling confident ahead of Wimbledon.
Thu June 19 2014
Williams backs Murray coaching decision
Serena Williams has praised Andy Murray's decision to work with Amelie Mauresmo. Williams is preparing for next week's Wimbledon where she'll be looking for a sixth singles title
Sun June 8 2014
Sharapova overcomes adversity
Maria Sharapova says she was pleased with how she overcame difficult conditions to win the French Open.
Fri June 6 2014
Djokovic win sets up Nadal clash
Novak Djokovic will face Rafael Nadal in the final of the French Open at Rolland Garros on Sunday.
Thu June 5 2014
Murray has high expectations
Andy Murray will face World Number 1 Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals of the French Open on Friday, but says that reaching the final four in Rolland Garros for only the second time is not enough.
Thu May 29 2014
One match at a time for Murray
Judy Murray says her son Andy is not thinking about winning the French Open, and is just taking one match at a time.
Fri May 16 2014
Murray wins in tough conditions
Andy Murray defeated Marcel Granollers in straight sets despite windy conditions in the second round of the Rome Masters.
Tue May 6 2014
Tennis pays tribute to Baltacha
The tennis community have paid tribute to Elena Baltacha after her sad passing last week.
Mon May 5 2014
Petchey - 'She was fearless'
Mark Petchey pays tributes to Elena Baltacha who sadly lost her battle with liver cancer.
Thu April 17 2014
Djokovic happy with game
Defending champion Novak Djokovic says all aspects of his game are in good shape after easily defeating Pablo Carreno Busta in the third round of the Monte-Carlo Masters.
Sat April 5 2014
Ask the Players - Miami Masters
ATP players answer your tweets following matches during the Miami Masters.
Fri March 28 2014
Murray flips at umpire
Andy Murray was unhappy with the umpire during his quarter final defeat to Novak Djokovic at the Miami Masters. Murray believed Djokovic leant over the net to play his shot in a crucial game during the first set.
Sat March 22 2014
Federer defeats Karlovic
Roger Federer said he always had the upper hand after beating Ivo Karlovic in straight sets, and answers a question tweeted in from a viewer regarding his motivation.
Thu March 20 2014
Murray moving on
The What's The Story panel discuss Andy Murray's unexpected split with coach Ivan Lendl.
Mon March 17 2014
Djokovic triumphs at Indian Wells
Novak Djokovic hailed the importance of winning the tournament after taking victory over Roger Federer in the final of the BNP Paribas Open.
Sun March 16 2014
Isner sets up Djokovic clash
American John Isner is through to the semi-finals at the Indian Wells ATP Masters after a straight sets victory over Latvia's Ernests Gulbis.
Thu March 13 2014
Murray out of Indian Wells
Andy Murray is out of the Indian Wells Masters after losing to number 10 seed Milos Raonic in three sets.
Mon March 10 2014
Murray wins in 'ugly' match
Andy Murray says he had to win ugly in his victory over Czech youngster Jiri Vesely. The Brit won 6-7 (2-7) 6-4 6-4.
Sun March 9 2014
Federer pleased with form
Roger Federer was happy to continue his good start to the year by beating Paul-Henri Mathieu in straight sets in the second round at the BNP Paribas Open.
Fri February 28 2014
Petchey explains IPTL
Mark Petchey assesses the new International Premier Tennis League and whilst he backed the idea, he raised concerns over the credibility of it.
Tue February 18 2014
Nadal content in Brazil
Rafael Nadal explores the sights of Rio ahead of his game with fellow Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver in the Rio Open first round.
Wed February 12 2014
Murray targets full fitness
Andy Murray says his priority is returning to full fitness after back surgery ahead of the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam.
Thu January 30 2014
Importance of sport psychology
Greg Rusedski talks about sport psychology and it's importance in modern sport.


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Few living artists hold the level of fame and pop culture permeation as Takashi Murakami. Through his candy-colored, anime, and otaku-inspired smiley faces and other creations, the Tokyo native has explored notions of dystopia and commerce, giving new depth to Pop Art. He's taken on the role of a sort of Andy Warhol of Japan—blurring lines between pop culture, artist personality, and fine art through curation; the generation of his art production company, Kaikai Kiki Co.; and some memorable collaborations with the likes of Supreme and Louis Vuitton. Now the ever-prolific creator is introducing a new effort: his first feature-length film, Jellyfish Eyes, the first of a trilogy.
The live-action/animated movie tells the story of an adolescent boy who moves to a new town in the aftermath of Fukushima to start a fresh life. Once there, he quickly discovers a new friend—a magical, monster-like companion that he soon finds is one of many in the area. A darker purpose for these creatures is later uncovered, leading to chaos and plenty of apocalyptic monster references—all in classic Murakami style, of course.
We recently sat down with the artist and his translator at his longtime gallery, Blum & Poe, to discuss the origins of the project, the direction of his art, and what to expect in the future.
I wanted to ask about the origins of the film.
The reason I came into the visual art world is because originally I was really influenced by Japanese animation—you know, to draw something and then make that into film. So I was moved by the results and I wanted to move other people. In reality, I have been making short animations in the past; there were many short animation pieces that I was trying to work on. And those were fine, those were possible. But in terms of feature-length film, you need a grammar for storytelling and you need to understand how to construct a narrative, and that's been a very difficult thing for me. So for a long time, I've been attempting to do this, but I haven't been very successful. And when the earthquake and all those disasters happened in 2011, Japan started to be filled with this social anxiety and the general atmosphere of worries, and that situation seemed to become very similar with my childhood in the 1970s. In the early 1970s, there were a lot of Kenshoo monster movies and the Ultraman series and Godzilla. Those emerged and became popular in that context of social anxiety. Because the social situation now has become similar to that, I felt that I could make a film with the monsters in it in a similar way. So because of this incident, the story now has a more reality grasp. In general, I wanted to portray the relationship between this Japan filled with social anxiety and the children.
It's such a dark story—was it immediate that you saw it as being told through children's eyes and as a picture that children could watch and enjoy?
So, in Japan the film wasn't really a hit at all, but I'm going to try to [get] it more exposure, and as the children watch it more, I believe that it will be enjoyed by children truly. Currently the situation in Japan is that the area that includes Tokyo and the metropolitan area, including Fukushima, is of course under the influence of the radiation. Different parts of Tokyo are highly affected by radiation, and that's a reality every day. For example, when you think about sushi, it's always been that the best thing would be to have freshly caught fish of the season from Tokyo Bay and that you eat that as a sushi and that's the best thing to do, but of course people who are more informed don't feel like eating sushi anymore. And yeah, there are a lot of cheap sushi restaurants springing up, and because it's affordable, people are kind of ignoring what they know and eating the sushi maybe. But the families that go to these cheap sushi restaurants and eat at them will probably say, "Ooh, is it really safe? Can we really eat them?" So that will come up in everyday conversation. Then children will have more additional trainings for disaster at school—what to do in emergencies and stuff like that. And of course in the news, the relationship between China and Japan is very fragile right now and there is a danger of war—that's been talked about in the news and everyday life. So Fukushima is still a problem that is not resolved. You have to worry about food everyday. Just going to school and coming back, there are more restrictions and rules. So in everyday life for children, there is general anxiety. My film actually contains that social anxiety, so they feel when they watch it, "OK, I can trust this film." And even though it's a fantasy, the experience is more like they're entering into the familiar—their daily life—and they can believe in it.
Do you feel like your work is getting more political with this film?
First and foremost my ambition as an artist and the most important question for me is what is art, and when you pursue that question, you come to, what kind of people love art? So I got really interested in the reality of people's everyday living environment, and of course I have a question: What are you going to do, making all these new nuclear power plants and increasing and selling them? What good does it do? But beyond that, I don't really have a strong political, activist motivation. It's more that when I make my work, I'm looking for stories that can be true to the audience. Whether it's a visual or a narrative, I'm looking for something that I can communicate with the audience. So I draw a lot of different things from reality, and in this situation, it just happens to be something very political because that's what we can share right now. In the recent past, I've explored the themes of capitalism and greed and how they relate to each other, and at the moment now because of this disaster, I'm very interested in nature and natural disaster and the mechanism of how religion might emerge in this kind of situation and the relationship between humans and natural disaster. Not in the sense of "OK, nature is great," but more in the sense of "How do we deal with them? How do we try to heal through them?"
So I hear there are two more films coming. What can we expect for parts two and three?
So in part two, there is the fictionalized version of Fukushima. In this fictionalized city, after the disaster, international money comes in to create a new power plant to create an entire new type of energy. So it's kind of Japan being used by international money. In part two, children with certain motivation all gather in the city and things happen and they try to escape as well. In part three, I'm trying to really explore the relationship with the United States and Japan. In Japan, it seems like since the war, Japan has been the puppet and it still continues to be the puppet, and that's the reality. I'm exploring how these people are trying to swallow that as a reality and cope with that and how we might share that reality with children.


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On The Rise: Angel Haze Drops A Freestyle At BET's The Backroom [Video]
With the presence of female Emcee's somewhat nonexistent in the realm of hip hop music, Baltimore rapper Angel Haze recently stopped by BET's The Backroom to showcase her lyrical talent to a DJ Meka beat. The freestyle finds Angel merging her extremely creative and innovative content along with her face paced delivery. Are you feelin it?
After the jump catch the full freestyle and keep coming back to I am Jason Lee for the latest in celeb and entertainment news.


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When the teams went into their locker rooms last Sunday night, Broncos players, coaches, and fans felt confident that the game was in their hands. Tom Brady and the Patriots had yet to score a single point. And then something unexpected happened. The Patriots scored 31 unanswered points and won the game in overtime. When the players returned to the locker rooms at the game's end, Broncos players, coaches, and fans were still trying to explain exactly what had just happened.
Speaking about comebacks on NFL Radio one morning, co-host Amani Toomer explained that in his playing experience the magic number was 21. When teams went up 21 points, they seemed to soften up in one way or another. Maybe it's the play calling, the effort, objectives or any combination of those that change and allow these leads to be eliminated. What is true is that at some point, the winning team starts playing against the clock more than the opponent.
Applying Toomer's logic to the Redskins' 2013 season, shows that Robert Griffin may need a lot more work than his final statistics show. The Redskins have fallen behind by 21 points to their opponent in 5 of their first 11 games this year. In 4 of those games, the Redskins hit Toomer's magic number with more than 24 minutes to play.
(As of 11/26/13) Griffin's current season stats have his completions at 238/398 (59.8%) for 2,832 yards, 14 TDs, and 11 INTs. These are respectable numbers and shouldn't constitute a 3-8 record. What could paint a clearer picture of the season would be separating the statistics once the games hit Toomer's magic number.
Once the Redskins fell behind by 21 points or more, Griffin's completions are 65/102 (63.7%). To put that in perspective, 59.8% ranks 25th in the NFL among starting QBS, while 63.7% would rank him 11th. RG3 has 784 yards in those 4 situations which is more than ¼ of his season total. In those games, he averaged 11.8 yards per possession until the 21 point deficit was reached when he would increase that number to 41.2 yards/possession the remainder of the game.
But the most astounding numbers are the 7 touchdowns and 2 Interceptions Griffin has thrown after falling behind by 21. That represents half of all his touchdowns but only accounts for 2 of his 11 INTs. Robert Griffin's 2,048 yards, 7 TDs, and 7 Interceptions is easier to understand why the Redskins have hold a 3-8 record. Those are his season numbers for his time in any game where the Skins never fell behind 21 points, or before they reached that point.
Maybe the defense doesn't attack Griffin after Toomer's benchmark or maybe the secondary plays more off-coverage and just tries to keep the clock moving. Maybe defenses look to contain the Redskins more than they look to drive them back or stop them all together. After the first Eagles game, Griffin said that he had no explanation for his tale of two halves (1st half=6/14, 68 yds, 1 INT)(2nd half=24/36, 267 yards, 2 TDs). He said they played the exact same defense and he ran the exact same offense. Maybe it's as unexplainable as he makes it seem.
Or maybe it's that Griffin's strengths and weakness have been exposed and coordinators around the NFL have figured out how to attack him. One thing is for sure: If Griffin doesn't find the ability to beat what defenses throw at him earlier than he has in the past, there will be many more large deficits and too many more losses.


text: As longtime Reverse Shot readers know, a great deal of us are pretty steadfast fans of A.I. Artificial Intelligence, so much so that for a good two years after its woebegotten release, we were still finding new ways to dissect and enjoy it. Just when my obsession had come to some sort of reconciliation with my day-to-day activities, out comes this mother in the new issue of Bright Lights. Bravo to Stephen M. Gleister for making my obsessiveness about the film seem like a mere passing fancy in comparison.


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Spotlight on the News: Michigan's Political Landscape
WXYZ Detroit - On Sunday, September 30, Spotlight on the News will take an in-depth look at Michigan's political landscape as we get ready for the November General Election. We'll also discuss what people should we read into Detroit Medical Center CEO Mike Duggan exploring a run for Mayor of Detroit? Political science professors Dave Dulio and Lyke Thompson will share their thoughts.
Now in it's 47th season, Spotlight on the News is Michigan's longest running weekly news and public affairs program.


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[Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, J25, 1999/1 pp23]
[Also on this page: USvUK spellings, Richard Feynman & Isaac Asimov.]
[See Journal and Newsletter articles, Pamflet 15, Cut Spelling and Papers by Chris Upward.]
Notes on the Decapitalization of Danish 1948.
Chris Upward.
These notes on the 1948 Danish reform derive from Rechtschreibung (Nov.1998),
newsletter of the Swiss Bund für vereinfachte rechtschreibung (Federation for
Simplified Spelling), whose main aim is to abolish the German noun-capitalization
rule (the newsletter laments that the Allies did not impose this in 1945, when they
had power to do so; the rule did not exist in medieval times).
- In 1998 the Danish spelling reform
celebrated its 50th anniversary with a commemorative book.
- In 1948 Danish decided that instead of all nouns being capitalized, only proper nouns should be. This occurred because it was already the practice of local authorities, the press, business and private citizens (including writers).
- Norwegian had done the same 70 years earlier.
- The Danish reform was launched by the Minister of Education with a 2/3 parliamentary majority.
- In 1997 Parliament gave legal status to the Danish Language Council (Dansk Sprognævn), which produces the official Danish spelling dictionary. Future spelling changes will need agreement from the ministers of culture and education. New spellings will be binding on schools and public administration, but no sanctions are prescribed for infringements.
[Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, 25, 1999/1 p 30]
Also on this page: Decapitalization of Danish 1948, Richard Feynman & Isaac Asimov.
Can U spell OK? Absolutely Britannia.
Tim Dowling.
This article first appeared in The Independent on 21 July 1998, and is
reprinted with permission. It gives an insight into the problems Americans have with
British spellings, though American spellings give British readers few problems. For
a plea for American spellings to be taught in British schools, see
JSSS J21 1997/1, pp30-32.
For an American like myself, learning to spell the British way was a lot like learning to drive the British way. At first you believe it will require no more than a permanent shift in your thinking; then you realise that it requires you to do things you know to be wrong; finally you realise that to some extent it can't be done. You can start learning British spelling, but you can never finish
I'm not someone who believes that good spelling is unimportant, nor do I believe that modern American spelling is inherently superior to the British. American spellings are meant to be more economical and sensible, but the 19th-century American spelling reform movement that brought us innovations like dialog and program never actually got much farther than, well, dialog and program. I will not pretend that I was wholly unfamiliar with British spellings. In the States we often use them in crossword puzzles when the American spelling doesn't fit, so that "form of payment, to a Londoner" is "cheque" and "gold measure for Anglophiles" is "carat" not "karat". I'm also not going to maintain that my difficulty with British spelling has hampered my ability to communicate, although the first time I read instil I was like, helloooo...
The instil problem is just the tip of the iceberg. In Britain you do instil but then you do install, but then you make it instalment, even though you do installation. Whatever.
Forget the instil group. What about the -OUR bunch? We Americans have always known that you British like to render labor as labour, and I quickly picked up that the same went for harbour, honour, rumour, vigour, rigour, neighbour and flavour. In fact I took a perverse pleasure in writing these olde worlde spellings. But how was I was supposed to know there wasn't also majour and minour? Or that while it was honour and honourable, it wasn't honourary, humourous, or vigourous and rigourous? British spelling began to seem like an exclusive club intent on black-balling me.
Along with this -OUR mess, you have the -ISE/-IZE puzzles and the -RE/-ER enigma. Then there's what I call the body/disease surplus vowel. In Britain, common diseases like diarrhea, hemorrhoids and septicemia, along with bodily parts like the esophagus are spelled by throwing in an unnecessary extra A or O, as if they weren't hard enough to spell in the first place. There doesn't seem to be any rule regarding which words are awarded this affectation, so I have to look up any word that might possibly qualify. Of course with words like oedema and oesophagus, I'm not even looking in the right part of the dictionary.
When two or more of these oddities are gathered together, you get a word like manoeuvre, which, pardon my French, is French. Where I come from, boys getz beaten up for spelling that way. And while we're here, let's talk about gaol. Of course I had come across this word before in English novels, and although I gathered from the context that it was a synonym for "prison", it never occurred to me that it was pronounced "jail". What sort of Britain do you want, a crusty old nation of ye olde tyre remould centres, ful of people making cuppes of taca and doing the hoeuvring? Or the shiny Nu Labor Brittan of 2-morrow?
I suppose we should be surprised that the British and American spelling is so similar, considering that they diverged at a time when the number of Es in me depended on how you felt when you got up. Actually, I have grown quite fond of British spelling, with its odd combination of formality and silliness, rigidity and licence ("driver's certificate", according to Professor Higgins). One thing, however, has always puzzled me. What's with the two Gs in waggon?
[Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, 25, 1991/1 pp31,32]
[Also on this page: Decapitalization of Danish 1948, USvUK spellings.]
[See other journal articles by John Reilly.]
Richard Feynman & Isaac Asimov on Spelling Reform.
John J. Reilly.
John J. Reilly is a writer who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He is an
occasional contributor to First Things magazine and an associate member of
the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University. See links.
Feynman & Asimov.The subjects of this contribution were both American scientists who became major figures in popular culture. [1] The physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988) is best known for the work in quantum electrodynamics that won him a Nobel Prize in 1965. His career extended from work on the Manhattan Project in the early 1940s to a conspicuous role on the official commission of inquiry into the causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster of 1986. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was a biochemist who taught at Boston University for many years, but became famous as a prolific writer of science fiction and popular science. Estimates of the number of his books run to over 500; he himself lost count.
Both Feynman and Asimov became public sages of a sort. Many scientists, given a little encouragement, are willing to express opinions on anything under the sun, but these two belonged to the rather smaller class of such people whose opinions were actually sought by a wide audience. Considering the range of topics on which they commented, it is not really surprising that they touched on the reform of English spelling. While both advocated reform, neither had more than a passing interest in the subject. The few remarks I discuss here may be all they ever had to say on the matter.
Feynman's physic.While my research has not been exhaustive, the only recorded remarks by Richard Feynman on spelling reform I have been able to discover were made in the course of a talk entitled 'This Unscientific Age', one of the John Danz Lectures that Dr Feynman delivered at the University of Washington in April, 1963. [2] The burden of that talk is that social and scientific progress is inhibited by received opinions. In the course of his remarks, Feynman compares psychiatrists to witchdoctors and professors of English to medieval scholars who neither jettisoned old errors nor made useful innovations. Having disposed of literary scholarship, he went a step further: "Now let me get to a lower level still in this question. And that is, all the time you hear the question, 'Why can't Johnny read?' [3] And the answer is, because of the spelling."
After making a few allusions to the history and theory of alphabetic writing, Dr Feynman observes that "things have gotten out of whack in the English language", which leads him to ask, "[w]hy can't we change the spelling?" In what may be taken as an expression of exasperation with his colleagues in the liberal arts, he declares: "If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell friend, I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend."
So obvious does Dr Feynman find the need for improvements in English spelling that he has trouble seeing what arguments could be raised against such a project: "[I]t can be argued ... that [language reform is] a question of style and beauty in the language, and that to make new words and new parts of speech might destroy that. But [the professors of English] cannot argue that respelling the words would have anything to do with the style. There's no form of art form or literary form, with the sole exception of crossword puzzles, in which the spelling makes a bit of difference to the style. And even crossword puzzles can be made with a different spelling."
This brings us to how a reform might be accomplished: "And if it's not the English professors that do it, and if we give them two years and nothing happens -- and please don't invent three ways of doing it, just one way, that everybody [can get] used to -- if we wait these two or three years and nothing happens, then we'll ask the philologists and the linguists and so on because they know how to do it. Did you know that they can write any language with an alphabet so that you can read how it sounds in another language when you hear it? [sic] That's really something. So they ought to be able to do it in English alone."
In some ways, Feynman's ideas are most illuminating for what they fail to consider. Even a cursory acquaintance with the history of attempts to reform English spelling shows that more than "two or three years" have been needed to devise a universally acceptable reformed system. Experience has also shown that, at any one time, there are likely to be far more than "three ways" under consideration as candidates for such a system. One interesting point is that Dr Feynman seems to regard the problem as purely technical. It should be entrusted to the "philologists and linguists", who at least use an abstruse symbology, rather than to those frowzy-minded professors of English.
Reading this, I was reminded of a critique I read some time back, entitled 'Higher Superstition' [4] that sought to explain the postmodern assault on the objectivity and institutional prestige of the natural sciences. According to the authors, the attempt to reduce science to a merely cultural phenomenon is revenge for the dismissive attitude taken by natural scientists toward the liberal arts during the late '50s and early '60s, when the hard sciences got all the grant money.
Of course, the most important element lacking in Dr Feynman's remarks is any consideration at all of how a reformed system would be implemented. The assumption seems to be that, once the linguists have cooked up a way to reproduce the phonetic precision of the IPA in the English version of the Latin alphabet, then the new spelling could be adopted simply by fiat. Again, history suggests otherwise.
Asimov's essays.As we turn to Isaac Asimov's thoughts on spelling reform, we will find more serious attention to the problem of how to get people to use a reformed system. There are, however, other conceptual problems with what this popular sage has to say.
In 1982, Asimov published two essays touching on spelling reform. In the later of the two, A Question of Spelling, [5] he followed Feynman in linking the deficiencies of English spelling with the problems of education. The particular occasion for the essay, he says, was a mail solicitation from an organization calling itself the 'Reading Reform Foundation'. The letter recited the usual complaints about the high level of functional illiteracy in the United States. However, Asimov was not much persuaded by the Foundation's argument that the key to alleviating the problem is better teaching methods He was particularly unimpressed with the letter's claim that 87% of all English words are spelled phonetically. That left 13% that were not phonetically spelled, and those were likely to be the most commonly-used words in the language
Unlike Feynman, Asimov jumps right in and makes a stab at some suggested respellings. Consider through, coo, do, true, knew and queue, he asks. Why not just spell them throo, koo, doo, troo, nyoo and kyoo? These respellings would in fact fit within some familiar reform proposals, though perhaps few reform advocates would go along with his assertion that the obvious respelling of night should be nite. Then there is a larger problem.
Noting that the plural of man is men, but that young children will naturally assume that mans is the plural, he goes on to assert that the children are right. Thus, along with his advocacy of spelling reform, he includes an argument for a completely regularized grammar, though he does not elaborate on it as fully. The suggestion, "Why not reform grammar, too?" is a common retort made by people who have just been introduced to the idea of spelling reform. Why some people confuse these things is a mystery to people who don't confuse them. In any case, Asimov's essay is the first instance I have ever seen of someone who equated spelling and grammar and who also proposed to reform them both. [6]
Asimov does acknowledge that a great deal of trouble would be caused by implementing his reforms. However, he gives three reasons for why it would be worthwhile for everyone to take the trouble:
1. However much trouble the reforms would be to us, they would make the lives of our children and grandchildren immeasurably easier. This is the sort of sacrifice that parents should be willing to make for their children.
2. The reforms, once in place, would promote literacy. This would boost worker productivity and assist in enhancing national prosperity.
3. Earth is in need of a common second language, and English is the most widespread current candidate. Removing the idiosyncrasies of English would promote its spread, which would promote international understanding and world peace.
Spelling reform by software?The gist of the article is the suggestion that computers, particularly word-processing dictionaries, could greatly facilitate a transition to reformed spelling. Certainly he did not think that much hope of change was offered from any other quarter: "...I think that the home computer industry won't be putting out reformed 'dictionaries' in response to an independent movement for spelling reform. I have no hope for an independent movement being powerful enough to achieve anything."
Nevertheless, history was on the side of spelling reform. We could expect to see modifications in the graphical representation of English in order to make it easier for machines to use: "...I think it is inevitable that computers [will] be designed to read the written word, and reproduce it; and even to hear the spoken word and put it into print or follow its orders. This can be done with the language as it is, but how much easier it would be if spelling is phonetic and grammar is regular." How much indeed.
In this essay, Asimov seems to have foreseen a great deal of software that had not been written yet. Still, despite his genuine prescience, the arrival of the technologies he anticipated has made little impact on the chaotic nature of English spelling. Neither is there much sign that anyone is about to take his suggestion to create an 'Academy of Spelling Reform', a body he hoped would be authorized to issue those new 'word-processing dictionaries'. (The term 'spell-checker' had perhaps not yet been coined at the time this essay was written.) History has taken a frustrating turn. In 1900, it was common sense to many educated people that English spelling should be reformed, while the suggestion that machines might someday read texts aloud was inconceivable even to science fiction writers. Today, just shy of the year 2000, I have software that reads texts aloud, while it is spelling reform that has become inconceivable.
Conclusion.In closing, it should be emphasized again that neither Richard Feynman nor Isaac Asimov was greatly interested in spelling reform. To them, English spelling was just another inheritance from an irrational past that needed to be restructured. It is clear from what we have seen that their accomplishments in other areas gave them no special insight into the question. Nevertheless, it is worth considering their ideas in some detail and spreading awareness of them further. The substantial posthumous fame of Feynman and Asimov makes even their slight engagement with the subject a possible enticement for their many admirers to examine the question more closely.
Notes.[1] Elaborate websites with eponymous URLs have been dedicated to each, a good indication that they have risen to at least subcultural significance. As of November 1998, the chief website relating to Feynman was at http://www.feynman.com. The most useful Asimov sites are at http://www.clark.net/pub/edseiler/WWW/asimov_home_page.php and http://www.asimov.com. All three links have extensive bibliographical information. The material on Asimov is particularly comprehensive.
[These webs may no longer be available, so links have not been inserted. ]
[2] Richard Phillips Feynman (1998) The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist, Helix Books, p116.
[3] After the best-selling book by Rudolf Flesch (first edition 1955) Why Johnny can't read and what you can do about it, New York: Harper & Row.
[4] Paul R. Gross & Norman Levitt Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science The Johns Hopkins University Press (1994) p86.
[5] 'Question of Spelling', in Isaac Asimov (1983) The Roving Mind, Prometheus Books, p340. First published in Popular Computing (July 1982). An earlier essay, which I have been unable to obtain, is 'Spell that Word!' in Isaac Asimov (1986) The Dangers of Intelligence, first published in American Way (March,1982).
[6] There are three conventional answers to the assertion that grammar reform and spelling reform are equivalent:
i. Written alphabetic language is the servant of the spoken language. Alphabetic writing systems can be assessed by how well they represent speech. This is a fairly objective criterion. In contrast, there is no similarly objective way to assess which grammar is better than another.
ii. English grammar is not particularly irregular compared to most European languages. The same cannot be said of the written form of English as compared to the written forms of those languages.
iii. Shut up.
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Watch Hunting in Bangkok: At a small Shop in the
Outskirts of Bangkok, August 6th, 2002
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Dear All
Khun Bud showed me this small shop where he had found two cardboxes full of watches that had been brought in for repair, but never were collected by the owners. So the shop started to sell them after a waiting period of about 4 years and after having repaired them.
There were a lot of interesting Seiko chronographs, but all of them had dials with moist damage. Also interesting Midos, Bulovas and Citizens and a plentitude of Seiko 5s. But those watches had been worn daily by the previous owners and most of them were really beaten up.
The first watch that attracted my attention was this nice Seiko Cal 5606 - 5400T. I was not really familiar with that caliber and started turning the crown. Yes! This one was handwinding! So I asked the friendly watchmaker to open the case and the movement looked pristine! I really like that design and I can tell you, the watch will look really great on a strap with matching size of 22 mm, this is just a temporary 18 mm strap used to take pictures.
July 2005 Update and Time to say "Good Bye!": Since I am not that fond of rectangular watches - I think they make my already bony wrist look even edgier - and since I have a Thai watch friend that is very fond of all rectangular and square watch cases, I decided to give it away. I dressed this lovely Caliber 5606 (automatic and handwinding and hacking, thus also used in higher end Seikos like the King Seiko) with a 22 mm (the actually lug width is 24 mm) Croc print strap that Anders from Gnomon Watches had sent to me earlier. Thanks Anders, that strap is made for this Seiko! As you can see from the two wrist shots below, even that strap is actually 2 mm too narrow, it fits perfectly! A 24 mm strap would probably have been to thick and too stiff for a smaller wrist and the 22 mm Croc print leather strap from Gnomon Watches was really a lucky match! And If I decided to give watches away, I want them to look good with the new wearer. Rather then stacking vintage watches and not wearing them, I prefer to make a fellow WIS that enjoys to wear it happy!
Dimensions (just measured before the watch left :) )
Case width excl. crown 30.5 mm
Case height = Lug to Lug = 37.5 mm
Height = 9.5 mm and that is pretty flat!
Weight on the Gnomon 22 mm strap = 48 grams, of course the special construction is the main cause for this nice weight!
Another watch drew my attention, a NOS Orient Quartz. Not a top of the line model I concluded from the relatively inexpensive bracelet and the black ring under the crystal. I have not seen the movement yet, but I trust Orient put in a solid quartz movement. The real reason to buy this watch was this very interesting looking quartz symbol on the dial :-) And then of course, can one really own enough Orients? :-)
After scanning those boxes twice, I decided to have a look at the new watches in that shop. Again, there were many very inexpensive watches, but that is the watch category that is sold in the outskirts of Bangkok. Even Bangkok is a lot wealthier then the rest of the country, the daily wages here are around USD 5 per day. So you can imagine, that buying an inexpensive watch is still a major expenditure.
Those Citizens attracted me for too reasons: the quality of the case and bracelet is really superiour to the similarly priced Seiko 5s and the Miyota Caliber 8200 is a equally good workhorse as the Seiko 7S26. And then I really liked that 24 hour bezel and the recessed dial with the 10 minutes marking on the inner bezel. All in all a beater for an unbeatable price :-)
Khun Bud knows a lot more shops allover town. So expect a lot more reports like this to come in the coming months :-) My guide Khun Bud is a really great companion, not only does he know this huge city like his pockets, but he will always create a good atmosphere in the shops. At the moment I am really spoiled, Khun Bud leads me around to great watch finds and then I have Rob from Australia here, who assists me to assess and service the pieces found. I am really in WIS heaven right now.
Best regards
Reto Castellazzi, August 6th 2002
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New Goblet of Fire Photo of Harry and Golden Egg
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SI's Seth Davis' column today pulled out the old columnist's trick of pasting together a bunch of anonymous interviews with opposing coaches to evaluate teams. Thankfully, whoever he talked to about UConn was pretty high on the Huskies:
UCONN: Their biggest weakness is they have no depth, plain and simple. They got into a bit of a funk when Jim Calhoun wasn't there, but now they're playing like UConn teams of the past. When they're playing with confidence, they can beat anyone in our league. If you zone them and you can keep them off the offensive glass, that forces them to make jumpers, and that's not their strength. They're going to lose a three-point shooting game. [Kemba] Walker is the key because he's been inconsistent with his shooting. If you can play off of him, they're easier to defend. [Stanley] Robinson is a streaky scorer, so [Jerome] Dyson has had a lot of pressure on him to carry them offensively. Their posts are young and don't really score, so if you can tough them out of there, it puts a lot of pressure on the guards. But if they're controlling tempo and getting up and down the floor and getting offensive rebounds, they can win. I've got a feeling they're going to go on a run right now. They're the team you don't want to play in the Big East tournament.


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Bologna may have won their match against Palermo 3-0, thus pulling themselves, temporarily at least, out of the relegation zone, but the real talking point in this match was the flurry of cards distributed by the referee. Palermo fans might feel hard done by, as the calls against their side seemed a bit harsh, but even before losing their first man the visitors were wasteful, and in the end had just eight shots on goal.
There were three yellows handed out -- two to Bologna, one to Palermo -- before the first goal was scored, in the 22nd minute. The goal came from Alberto Gilardino, and it was a stunner, a sharp shot that Samir Ujkani could do nothing to stop. He very nearly got a second five minutes later, but the Palermo keeper managed to block that one.
The match continued in a fairly straightforward fashion until the 44th minute, when Massimo Donati obviously handled the ball, conceding a penalty. Manolo Gabbiadini easily converted, giving the home side a 2-0 lead going into the break.
In the second half, it all fell apart for the visitors. Within a minute after the restart, Ujkani was shown a straight red for a foul on Alessandro Diamanti. Diamanti himself took the penalty this time, giving Bologna the 3-0 lead.
There may have been no more goals in this match, but there was plenty of action. Gilardino tested substitute keeper Francesco Benussi with a pair of headers, but Benussi was up to the task, saving both. It looked as though Palermo would be able to contain the damage, even if a comeback would be beyond their reach.
But then came the madness. Edgar Barreto, who'd managed to hit the post with a long-range shot, was sent off with a second yellow, leaving the rosanero with just nine men. Bologna tried to assist when Saphir Taider executed a poor challenge on Jasmin Kurtic, earning a second yellow and bringing Bologna down to ten.
Yet Palermo were simply in too deep, and by the 82nd minute, they were down to just eight men. Carlos Labrin, brought in just twenty minutes before, was shown a straight red for a bad foul on Archimede Morleo. And that's how the match finished: Palermo with 8 men and no goals, Bologna with 10, three goals, and all the spoils.


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The Yale Law Journal is now available on eReader formats for Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, and Barnes & Noble Nook. Each complete issue is available for $0.99.For all available YLJ issues in Kindle format, please click here. For iBooks versions, please search for "Yale Law Journal" in iBooks or iTunes. For Nook editions, please click here.
In her recent New Yorker article entitled Birthright, Jill Lepore cites to Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel's Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash from Issue 8 of Volume 120 of The Yale Law Journal. Lepore writes:
But Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel, both of whom teach at Yale Law School, have argued that th[e] conventional narrative [of Roe v. Wade] gets history backward. In an article published in the Yale Law Journal in June, they suggest that what happened after Roe was a consequence not of the Court's ruling but of G.O.P. strategists' attempt to redefine the Party—before Roe. In their account, if there's a villain it's not Harry Blackmun; it's Richard Nixon.1In their Feature essay, Greenhouse and Siegel challenge the common belief that the Supreme Court was the one to blame for the consequences of Roe v. Wade. They address "abortion conflict as an expression of politics—a conflict in which the Supreme Court was not the only or even the most important actor."2 Greenhouse and Siegel reveal that just prior to Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign, the Democrats held a more conservative stance on abortion than did the Republicans, and that the conflict over Roe developed as the parties adjusted and realigned their respective positions. Greenhouse and Siegel conclude that "the dominance of the 'Court-caused-it' backlash narrative has shortchanged both legal scholars and the general public of a more complete understanding of an important chapter in America's social, political, and legal history." According to Greenhouse and Siegel, conflict in constitutional interpretation emerges from "sources outside as well as inside the courtroom," a reality that the "conventional Court-centered narrative" all too often ignores.3__1 Jill Lepore, American Chronicles, Birthright, The New Yorker, November 14, 2011 at 44, 52, available at http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2011-11-14#folio=052.2 Linda Greenhouse & Reva Siegel, Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash, 120 Yale L.J. 228, 228 (2011), available at http://www.yalelawjournal.org/images/pdfs/987.pdf.3 Id. at 2086.
Legal Theory Blog has named YLJ article Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law as its recommended "Download of the Week." Opinio Juris has also held a symposium on the article, with commentaries from Samantha Besson, Gary Bass, and Michael Helfand, among others. Responses from Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, authors of the article, follow.
In Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law, an article in Issue 2 of Volume 121 of YLJ, Hathaway and Shapiro examine "outcasting," a nonviolent method of law enforcement that denies the benefits of social cooperation and membership to the disobedient. Hathaway and Shapiro illustrate that outcasting underpins legal regimes from medieval Iceland to the World Trade Organization. The article demonstrates that the traditional critique of international law—that it is not enforced and is therefore not "real" law—ignores the fact that outcasting in international law resembles similar forms of nonviolent enforcement that have sustained a variety of legal regimes for centuries.
In a recent New York Times article on the upcoming Smith v. Cain oral argument before the Supreme Court, Campbell Robertson and Adam Liptak cite The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick v. Thompson: Why Existing Professional Responsibility Measures Cannot Protect Against Prosecutorial Misconduct for the proposition that "prosecutors who withhold evidence are almost never disciplined." Andrew Rosenthal also referenced the YLJO essay in his New York Times editorial: he quotes Lincoln Caplan, a fellow editor at The Times, in noting that "[a] group of Yale Law School students recently published a report on 'The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick v. Thompson,' which is unsettling but well worth reading." Jarvis DeBerry of NOLA.com has discussed the piece in his article and Deborah Jane Cooper, one of the authors of the YLJO essay, has written further on the topic in an opinion in The National Law Journal.
In The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick v. Thompson: Why Existing Professional Responsibility Measures Cannot Be Protected After Prosecutorial Misconduct, David Keenan, Deborah Jane Cooper, David Lebowitz, and Tamar Lerer examine prosecutorial accountability in the wake of Connick v. Thompson, a recent Supreme Court case overturning a $14 million jury verdict awarded to a man who spent fourteen years on death row after prosecutors withheld key exculpatory evidence during his trial. The Court based its decision in part on the availability of other measures to check prosecutorial misconduct, including state professional disciplinary procedures. Keenan, Cooper, Lebowitz, and Lerer challenge this presumption by undertaking a detailed analysis of these procedures in all fifty states. They demonstrate that these measures are ineffective tools for accountability and recommend several strategies for strengthening professional conduct rules and grievance procedures to deter and sanction prosecutorial misconduct.
Please click here to read the YLJO Essay in full.
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Thursday at the South Plains Fair, participants competed in the Sheep Trials, but in these trials there were no sheep, so the title may be confusing. Actually sheep dogs or border collies were herding goats, to try to win money.
At the Sheep Trials, owners bring their working dogs out of the office for just a little bit and let them compete at the fair. Larry Burke has been competing in sheep trials for 15 years. At home, he uses border collies to herd sheep, goats, and cattle. "These are very fascinated dogs, the border collies are what we call Einstein of K-9 they are the smartest dog," said Larry.
Larry even got his wife Lita involved 2 years ago, and now she competes as well. Lita says there is a lot that goes into judging a competition like this. "When the dog leaves what we call the handlers post, the handler's side, he is supposed to make a wide, pear shape and go out and gather the goats and try not to disturb the goats very much," she said.
But not everything always goes as planned. "When my dog made circles around the pin I lost points," said Lita.
But the Burkes love what they do and couldn't be more impressed with the work ethic of their dogs at home. "They just want to help you, they are workaholics is what they are. The perfect employees," said Larry.
For most owners, the fair is just is just a chance to qualify to get to the state finals.
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DeVine Law Gamecock's conservative (and other) must-reads for 2013
Reading is fundamental, and never more so than now, given the result of the Election of 2012
Reading is fundamental, and never more so than now, given the result of the Election of 2012.
Christmas is over but discount sales have begun and its past time for a re-education in American essentials, including non-American literature that speak to the Judeo-Christian values necessary for a non-tyrannical state.
[Below are several lists of books we have found helpful in inculcating the values and principles upon with an exceptional America has rested. Many more could be added that I have read and have not read. These are the ones that I have chosen to highlight that have impacted my life.]
First, the Top Eleven non-fiction books that made possible this USC Gamecock's Summer of 2001 conservative epiphany after 18 years of liberal Democratic Party activism:
1 – The Bible
2 – Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
3 – Witness – Whittaker Chambers
4 – Slouching Towards Gomorrah – Robert Bork
5 – Reagan's War – Peter Schweizer
6 – Free to Choose – Milton and Rose Friedman
7 – God and Man at Yale – William F. Buckley, Jr.
8 – Reagan: A Life in Letters
9 – Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville
10 - Right from the Beginning – Pat Buchanan
11 – Born Again – Charles Colson
(See also Slander, Treason, Godless and Mugged by Ann Coulter…and all of her other books. All great reference materials documenting abhorent liberal Democrat behavior and "ideas".)
Other essential non-fiction:
- FDR's Folly – Jim Powell
- Up From Slavery – Booker T. Washington
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
- What Went Wrong – Bernard Lewis
- Losing the Race – John McWhorter
- Battle Cry of Freedom – James McPherson
- White Guilt – Shelby Steele
- The Mind of the South – W.J. Cash
- The Tempting of America – Robert Bork
- Daniel Webster – Robert Remini
- Liberal Fascism – Jonah Goldberg
- The End of Racism – Dinesh D'Souza
- The Death of Common Sense – Phillip Howard
- Black Rednecks and White Liberals – Thomas Sowell
- The Great Betrayal – Pat Buchanan
- The End of Work – Jeremy Rifkin
- Here I Stand (Martin Luther bio) – Roland Bainton
- Let the Trumpet Sound (MLK bio) – Stephen Oates
- Alone (Vol. 2 The Last Lion, Winston Churchill) – William Manchester
- How to Beat Democrats – David Horowitz
Essential DeVine Fiction (self-imposed limit of one per author):
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Macbeth – William Shakespeare
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- Light in August – William Faulkner
- The Hunger Games (3-volume series) – Suzanne Collins
- East of Eden – James Steinbeck
- Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
- Catch-22 – James Heller
- The Great Train Robbery – Michael Crichton
- You Know Me Al, A Busher's Letters – Ring Lardner
Other DeVinities:
- The Kennedys: An American Drama – Peter Collier and David Horowitz
- Born Fighting – James Webb
- The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Embarrassed Believer – Hugh Hewitt
- The Death of Outrage – William Bennett
- Bonhoeffer Speaks Today – Mark DeVine
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- Amazing Grace – Eric Metaxas
- Politics According to the Bible – Wayne Grudem
- Rum, Romanism and Rebellion – Mark W. Summers
Please use the comments section to make your own lists. Happy Holidays!
G. Sand Lapper aka
Mike DeVine
"One man with courage makes a majority." – Andrew Jackson
Editor – Hillbilly Politics
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A Bay County teenager has been missing for more than 48 hours and Monday her family spoke out.
14 year old Emily Paul went missing Saturday morning around 6:30 from her home off of Edwards Road in Southport.
Paul is about 4'10" tall, weighing about 100 pounds. Her mom says Emily wears braces and sometimes colors her hair different colors.
Emily has with her a small suit case and several changes of clothes and her XBox video game system.
Her mother says this behavior is very unlike her and she wants her to know that her family loves her.
"I would tell her that regardless of what she feels or what she thought, we love her," said Pam Massimiani. "Her whole family loves her and we just want her back and we love her and we want her to be safe wherever she's at."
Her mother encourages any one with any information on Emily's whereabouts to call the Bay County Sheriff's office at 747-4700 or Crime Stoppers at 785-tips.
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Benny and Doneta Redding, Flora, celebrated their 50th anniversary on March 4. They celebrated with a 14-day trip to Yellowstone National Park and surrounding area in August.
Benny and the former Doneta Paschen were married March 4, 1962, at the Metea Baptist Church, Metea, Ind.
He is a self-employed farmer, and she is a farm wife and is employed at the Wellington of Kokomo assisted living residence.
Their children are Timothy and wife Diana, Flora, and Lynn and husband Toby, Delphi. They have four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.


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Since the first of our five children started attending grade school back in 2003, we've been a family committed to Catholic education. Because our faith is central to how we live our life, the idea that our kids could combine their academic growth with spiritual growth always appealed to us.
Despite living in an affluent area in San Diego that has great public schools, we felt strongly that our kids needed the Catholic school experience and that it would help us raise our children surrounded by the faith. We like the fact our kids could say "Merry Christmas" at school and attend Mass with their classmates each week. It's always been that way, and despite the significant costs and sacrifices we had to make as a family, we never once thought twice about it.
But next week, my almost-12 year old son will make the move from five years of Catholic school to a large, public middle school and we're feeling good about it.
It's not that our idea of support of Catholic education has waned. We still believe in it and I pay a pretty penny for my oldest child to attend Catholic high school at this very moment. But at a time when education is getting more competitive at an earlier age, I'm afraid many Catholic schools are falling behind. While they remain strong in the faith, many are losing academic excellence and kids are not being challenged enough. That's exactly what happened to my son.
When we moved to the Kansas City area from San Diego, we chose a Catholic school in the general vicinity of where we wanted to live. The school, it's staff and
teachers were welcoming and we felt great about our kids attending. Even through the first year, things went great. My 8th grader was welcomed with open arms and what could have been a difficult year for a pre-teen ended up being an amazing school year where deep friendships were forged. Gone were many of the materialistic focus we saw in Catholic schools on the west coast and kids seemed to be at the right speed here versus in San Diego.
When my son moved into 5th grade, we noticed all of the other kids had homework but my son never did. Assuming the worst, we asked the teachers if he had not been turning in assignments. No, they said, he had just finished them during study time and he was indeed keeping up his A-average. No worries they said.
At first, that was a relief. But as the year went on, and he complained of doing math he had reviewed a few years before (a credit to the academics of the more secular-driven Catholic school he attended in California), we became alarmed. Numerous studies and data shows that if pre-adolescent boys aren't challenged in school, they soon can become lost, uninterested, and fall behind. We wanted our son to be challenged and to continue to love learning.
With numerous teacher changes, and a lack of focus on math and science, we decided it was time to move him. It required 6 months of deliberation and discussion for us to get there but, ultimately, we needed to do what was best for our son academically. He is at a crucial point in his education – the point he's being readied for the barrage that is high school. Even though it hurt us to think we had to abandon Catholic education for three years, we had no other choice for our son.
If you look at the history of Catholic education, it hasn't been until recent years the schools have been considered elite private institutions. In fact, the genesis of Catholic schools was born from the inability (at the time) for public schools to provide a quality education for immigrant and poor Catholics pouring into American cities. That, and the fact Catholics have been discriminated against since first coming to America, the idea made perfect sense. The religious aspect of parochial schools was also appealing to a population that was closer to its faith then.
Today, Catholic schools are becoming victims of a lack of funding, a lack of Catholic identity and a sort of economic barrier for many to take part. Couple that with areas with great public school districts, and these very important institutions are struggling to keep their enrollments up. A note: this does not mean there aren't great, faithful, and academically stellar Catholic schools – there are many. But the financial condition of many (due to low enrollment, low tithing in parishes, and even the legal problems associated with the abuse scandal) is putting the future of Catholic education in danger in America.
We're sorry to have had to move our 6th grader away. At the same time, we're excited to see our son benefit from the advanced programs in engineering, computer sciences and even music our local school district provides. We think he'll be challenged and that will make him a better student. He'll continue his religious education at our local parish during off hours. He won't lose his foundation in the faith.
We're also open to our three youngest boys (not of school age yet) attending Catholic schools. We only hope, if we do, we're not faced with the same dilemma a few years down the road.


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All about Fingerprints and Other Impressions
The Value of a Database
When 12-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped in October of 1993, at first it looked like there would be little useful evidence, but FBI investigators got a break, and it wasn't a fingerprint. David Fisher tells the story in Hard Evidence.
Polly invited two girlfriends over for a pajama party in her home in Petaluma, California. The girls played quietly in her room while her mother was asleep in the next bedroom. Around 10:00 p.m., they were shocked to see a large man wearing a yellow bandana and smelling of alcohol come in through the open window. He threatened them with a knife so they moved quickly to obey him.
First he bound Polly's friends and put pillowcases over their heads. Then he carried Polly off into the night.
The young girls were stunned, but they managed to free themselves and call 911. They described the man to the operator. Then they alerted Polly's mother, who could not believe that such a thing could happen in their quiet neighborhood.
The police arrived and searched the room, but found nothing useful. According to the FBI government web site, they called in the special evidence response team from the FBI office in San Francisco. The crime scene investigators used special alternative light sources and fluorescent powder to locate a few fibers and an otherwise invisible palm print on a rail of the bunk bed in the room. That would help, but they also needed a good description from the girls.
These two frightened girls did their best to supply police sketch artist Ralph Pata with enough details for a composite drawing, so that a "wanted" poster could be made and distributed throughout the state. Unfortunately, despite a massive effort, Polly's abductor was not immediately caught.
About six weeks later, torn children's clothing was found on a hill, near a site where patrolmen had helped a man free his car from a ditch. That man was Richard Allen Davis, who had been convicted of kidnapping twice before and was currently on parole. A fingerprint expert matched the palm print to Davis, and since the sketch matched his mug shots, it helped to narrow the search and close in on him. He confessed to killing the girl and showed police where he'd put the body.
In June 1996, he was convicted of eight criminal counts, including kidnapping and first-degree murder. The jury sentenced him to death.
With the advent of "Livescan" fingerprinting, in which prints are taken with a computerized digital device rather than from rolling the fingertips in ink, some people are concerned that the palm print database will suffer. It appears that agencies around the country are dispensing with the ink process due to the ease of computerized fingerprint readings, even though palm prints have eight to ten times more minutiae than fingerprints. Without access to a large database, some cases may go unsolved. In fact, according to Ruth Kanable's research for Law Enforcement Technology, 25 to 30 percent of the impressions processed at an impression-heavy crime scene are going to be palm prints.
To address this need, Livescan technology is working on palm print scanners. Since the human palm is oddly shaped, they're developing platens that will correspond to the many contours, but it's still a fact that palm prints requite more storage capacity than fingerprints, and the technology will add considerable expense.
In the Klaas case, the discovery of a palm print made all the difference between a killer getting away or getting the death penalty. In another California case, it came down to a facial impression.


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Use look-up tables (the updated version within Geoconvert online system, including 2001 Census areas)
The original look-up tables produced by this project before the 2001 Census were discontinued in 2008. The main
feature in them that is not included in updated versions is the imputation
of postcodes that are incomplete or invalid, by replacing them with a nearby valid postcode)
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Development programme 1999-2001.
Award holder: Ludi Simpson.
Researcher: An Yu
The central aim of this project was to establish readily available database look-up tables, which will allow conversion between UK census, postcode and administrative geography:
These look-up tables were made available through web-based front-end matching software and documentation.
Routines have been stored for later use with databases referring to future and past years.
The All-Fields Postcode Directory (AFPD)
This directory is key to the research. On one record for each postcode in the UK the following geographies are recorded:
Postal geographies
A hierarchy of postal areas containing postcode districts containing postal sectors containing postcode units.
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In future years, the look-up table will be updated, including with the 2001 Census. The routines will be designed so that they can be used with look-up files other than the AFPD.
The project is part of ESRCs Census Development programme 1999-2001. Director: Ludi Simpson. Research Staff: An Yu; collaborators: Mike Noble (Oxford University) and David Avenall (East Dorset Council).
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Quantifies the quality and completeness of the ONS All Fields Postcode Directory (AFPD) for 1999 (version B). It concludes that the file is sufficiently complete to use for look-up tables on a trial basis. It makes recommendations for (a) improved internal consistency, (b) integration with related government initiatives including the 2001 Census, and (c) historical information.


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One crash in Tunbridge Friday sent five kids to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Like most kids on school busses, they were not wearing seatbelts.Patrick McManamom oversees school bus safety with Vermont's Department of Motor Vehicles. He said each accident has its own set of circumstances, including a driver who rear-ended one bus, and icy roads that caused trouble for another. "They're all different -- for instance, one of them was a tractor trailer that hit the bus' mirror -- that definitely wasn't the bus' fault," he said.Regardless of who or what is at fault -- some, like Milton Fire Chief Don Turner, said the accidents are a sure sign seatbelts onboard could make things more safe. "You know we require seat belts in everything else, so I am not sure why we don't in school busses. I know they say they're designed to so you don't need them, but in the number of accidents that I have seen over the years I don't know why we don't have seatbelts in school busses," he said.McManamon said today's busses, with their padded high seats, are designed with safety in mind and that in some cases seatbelts can cause more harm than good. "A school bus, the interior of a school bus is like an egg crate and as long as a child is in their seat, it is extremely safe -- they're basically in a compartment," he said.McManamon says he's constantly evaluating safety on board and working with a team across the state to make sure bus drivers, no matter their district, have the licenses and training that's required. He wants others on the road to know they can help by avoiding a few things. "One is inattentiveness -- it could be either you're on your cell phone, you're talking, your texting or it could just be a number of things," he said. He said no matter what wheel you're behind, the goal should be the same. "Our children are our most precious commodity and we want to make sure they're safe."McManamon said in addition to individual crash investigations, a team of inspectors is routinely making unannounced bus safety inspections.
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How Did That Happen? Kansas City Upsets Philadelphia
Last week, despite a loss, I moved Philadelphia into the top 10 in my power rankings, and predicted they would crush the visiting, spunky 2-0 Kansas City Chiefs, assuming they could regain the form they showed in the first half of their week one win over Washington. While I celebrate the picks I get right, I need to get called out on the carpet for the ones I miss – so here's how the Chiefs managed to beat the Eagles. More importantly, here's why the Chiefs aren't just a spunky 3-0, but are actual serious playoff contenders in 2013.
Ball Security
Last season, the Chiefs turned the ball over 37 times. Through the first three games alone, it was nine – they simply kept giving the ball away, be it by throwing the ball into coverage or dropping the ball on the turf. So far this season, they haven't turned over the ball a single time, and part of that has to fall on the shoulders of their new quarterback, Alex Smith. Smith's turned the epithet 'game manager' into a badge of honor. While he was horrible in the red zone, going 0-for-4 with a sack, the fact that he kept the ball, and allowed the Chiefs to get some points out of those drives, is leaps and bounds beyond what they were able to do last season. Ideally, yes, you'd like to turn those goal line opportunities into touchdowns but let's remember this was a 2-14 team last season and give them credit for taking baby steps forward. The Chiefs are the first team since the 1998 Patriots to have no turnovers in their first three games and the first team since the 2000 Broncos to have a +9 turnover margin in that time period. This won't last forever – even Smith has thrown five interceptions a season the last two years and, at some point, a ball's going to bounce on the turf and end up in the opponent's hands. Still, that stat alone is enough to explain why the Chiefs are riding high, tied atop their division.
The Eagles, on the other hand, keep giving the ball over and the Chiefs defense was more than happy to take advantage of that. Justin Houston was insane – 4.5 sacks, three passes defended, a forced fumble, and two fumbles recovered. There's a reason I named him to my all-budget team to start the season but I wasn't expecting him to start off this strong – 7.5 sacks in three games, the most since 1984 and Mark Gastineau. The pressure caused by Houston and his teammates also forced Michael Vick into multiple bad throws, leading to two interceptions, which in turn led to 10 points – the margin of victory. The Eagles fast-pace offense can't work if it's not on the field, and with the Chiefs not turning the ball over, they held it for nearly 40 minutes. Time of possession isn't the end-all-be-all of stats – you don't need to hold the ball if you're scoring quickly – but it certainly is indicative of other things, like converting on third downs and holding on to the ball. When you're dominated by that much, you'll find it difficult, though not impossible, to win.
A Tale of Two Receivers
One of the tough things a quarterback needs to do with a new set of receivers is develop chemistry – see how Tom Brady has struggled with so much change in New England, or Colin Kaepernick without Michael Crabtree and Mario Manningham. Smith seems to have found a chemistry in this game with one receiver though – Donnie Avery. Smith to Avery was key in this game, as Smith targeted him seven times for seven completions, including four third-down conversions. While they've only hooked up once in the end zone so far this season, a game like Thursday's is worth taking note of. It's Smith's style, too – he gets the ball to Avery and Jamaal Charles on short, high-percentage passes, and then they take off after the catch. Avery earned 98 yards after the catch against the Eagles. While they only hooked up four times before this game, it will be interesting to see if Thursday's connection continues from here on out, or if they were just able to exploit the Eagles defense.
Underneath crossing patterns are not only Smith's bread-and-butter, but also, apparently, Philadelphia's Achilles heel. This is a problem they had last week against San Diego as well, missing tackles and letting those short routes end up five to ten yards further than they have any right to. The Eagles offense is alright – not perfect, still developing, but alright. Until they can solidify their defense, however, and limit those yards after catch, they're in trouble. In their two losses, they've allowed almost 400 yards after the catch and with Peyton Manning and company coming to town, that's got to change quickly.
Key Drive
In the fourth quarter, the Eagles had made it a game again when LeSean McCoy squirted through a hole for a 41-yard touchdown to make it a 23-16 game with 11:43 left in the fourth quarter – plenty of time for them to get the ball back and drive to tie the game. When Dexter McCluster muffed the ensuing kickoff, the Chiefs were pinned down inside their own five yard line. With field position like that, you're actually expected to score negative points – that is, statistically, the next team likely to score is the defense, be it a safety, a turnover, or a punt from deep in your own end zone. The Chiefs were in a hole; even more so when Smith was sacked on second down, giving them a third-and-ten from their own five. At that point, the Eagles had a 23% chance to win; not great, but their highest since late in the third quarter. One more stop, and they'd be in business.
That's when the short pass come back to haunt them, yet again. Smith found Avery short over the middle, and he was able to dash up the field for fifteen yards. The very next play, he hit Sean McGrath for eight more yards, followed by Jamaal Charles running off left tackle for another first down. They kept moving it up the field, slowly but surely eating away at the field and the clock. Smith completed short passes to Anthony Sherman and Dwayne Bowe for first downs and both Jamaal Charles and Knile Davis had success on the ground. By the time the drive finally petered out at the Philadelphia 20, there was only 3:24 left on the clock, and Ryan Succop's field goal gave the Chiefs a two-score lead and killed the Eagles chances. The Eagles win chances had dropped to 7% and, forced to hurry, Vick threw his second interception of the game to ice the win for the returning Andy Reid.
Next Week
I'd call the last two weeks upset losses for Philadelphia, but next week certainly wouldn't be. If Alex Smith can find gaps in your defense, Peyton Manning and the Broncos can shred it. It looks like the Eagles are going to drop to 1-3 despite a very promising Week 1. With the NFC East in an off-year, it's there for the taking, but they need to get right defensively if they want to have any success. That will probably have to start two weeks from now against the Giants, though.
As for the Chiefs, it's still possible they're the worst 3-0 team – but that still leaves them as a 3-0 team. They'll come up against another NFC East team in the Giants, and if they continue to play their brand of mistake-free football, they should have little trouble picking through the Giants defense, as all of their other opponents have this year. Smith is going to throw an interception sooner or later – he nearly had one taken to the house last week – but given ten days to prepare for a struggling squad, I think they'll handle the Giants without too much trouble. This is looking like a squad that could quintuple their win total from last season, and while I doubt they can hang with the Broncos in the AFC East, they could well compete for a wildcard, making games like Week 5's matchup with the Titans very important.


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1. Let's start with the most obvious one, Stafford starting with the rest of the starters. If he has a strong performance I will start to get on the band wagon of letting him start the season.
2. How will the D-line look in game 2. Cohen, Flullen, Hill, Alama, Avril, and the rest, will Schwartz keep a rotation going or will he be looking for his starters so he knows what he has to begin the season with.
3. Kevin Smith getting more carries, What will Morris look like, can Brown look good for 2 straight games? Even Ervin looked very good. Smith is the unquestioned starter but after that you are going to have guy's fighting for spots and playing time.
4. Can the O-line look decent again, especially on the road against a browns team that didn't look very good the 1st game.
5. Linebackers and Defensive backs, what players will start to pull away from the rest of the pack.
6. Is Colbert still on the roster, if so why???
What are you guy's looking forward to seeing in game 2...


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