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Here is my realignment scenario. This is just to make some interesting realignment discussion.
Big 12 takes....Clemson
Reportedly, Clemson has agreed in principle to join the Big 12. Unlike FSU, Clemson has not denied or approved a move to the Big 12 openly. They move under the radar to get a deal done, while FSU on the other hand is distracted by the media. Is this move true? To make my scenario work, it is. The dice have been cast.
Big 12 takes...FSU
Now FSU has an excuse to leave after denial after denial. They will claim since Clemson is leaving, they see a sinking conference and they will leave too. We will all know this is not entirely true, but nobody cares how it is done, it only matters that it is done. The Big12 finally lives up to its name..12.
The Big 12 takes....Miami and Georgia Tech
I know I just posted a link that said Miami was unlikely to leave for the Big 12. Things chance real fast in conference realignment. The Big 12 makes this move to get even with the SEC at 14. This makes FSU and Clemson happy having border neighbors. Miami has a football tradition to keep alive here. You are not going to have nearly as many opportunities for greatness in the ACC, the super conferences are where it is at. Plus, your rivals are leaving...you would look pretty silly alone in the cold. After Miami leaves, Georgia Tech has no choice but to go, unless it wants to be alone down south.
The ACC takes...UConn and Louisville
The ACC has been thinking about taking UConn for months, and UConn has been blabbering about wanting to come nonstop since Syracuse left. The ACC basketball heaven yet again takes some more b-ball champions. Louisville doesn't make sense geographically, but nobody cares about that anymore.
Virginia Tech reaches out the SEC...joins soon after
Virginia Tech is yelling at the top of its lungs for a away out of the basketball conference. It contacts the SEC. The fans in Blacksburg have not been on board leaving the ACC for a while now, but now their mindset has changed. The school would probably prefer the SEC due to geography and fan persistence. The SEC has wanted to expand north for a while now, but really hasn't gotten the chance (it didn't like WVU). Virginia Tech is another school with a great football tradition that reaches into a new market. The SEC accepts VTU in, and the ACC is toast. The ACC only has 15 schools now, one short of where it wants to be. To be continued...
The Big 10 takes North Carolina and Duke
The Big 10 doesn't like sitting around and watching rival conferences get fatter. It likes academic schools, especially AAU schools. North Carolina is a good prize, but its pesky little buddy Duke will have to follow it along. The Big10 doesn't mind Duke joining, a top 10 academic university is lovely for them. North Carolina is Big 10 country now. NCU and Duke see the ACC breaking up around them, and know the SEC or Big12 could strike again at any minute. It's awesome having a basketball friendly conference when you are the best at b-ball, but these schools have football programs too. North Carolina is still the football loving south. The Big 10 is academically friendly and has some good basketball schools in it too. It's too much to pass up, even though geography isn't great. As I said, nobody cares about that now.
The waiting game.....
- The Big 12 and Big 10 are both waiting on Notre Dame to make a decision. Both conferences have been wooing it for a while now, but the school is still thinking.
- The SEC and Big 12 are wooing Maryland to join so they can have a piece of the Baltimore and Washington DC markets. Maryland is waiting on the Big 10, its preferred conference.
- North Carolina State and Virginia are making telephone calls to all three active super conferences begging to join. With Virginia Tech, the SEC has no interest in Virginia and its overlapping market. It puts NC State on standby. The Big 10 has no need for NC State and its overlapping markets, but it puts academic Virginia on standby. The Big 12 is feeling both schools but also taking a hard look at Louisville, Cincinatti and Pittsburgh as well.
- The Pac12 waits patiently, wondering how the heck they are even going to come close to the size of these conferences.
- The ACC announces it is no longer a conference...no more leaving fee!
It is no longer going to be independent. It finds the new playoff system would handicap the program if it were independent. They must join a major conference. They choose the Big 12. It wants to keep its deal with NBC, and the Big 12 lets it do just that. The Big 10 gives out equal shares, and Notre Dame doesn't like that one bit. But, Notre Dame requests Louisville join as well to give it a regional partner (just a drive down highway 31 to Louisville) and a easy opponent for its quad (you will see what I am talking about soon). Finally, the Big 16 is born. Honestly, I want to forget about the past of our conference. The Big 16 would start us off fresh.
The Big 10 spends no time on tears, nabs Maryland and Virginia
It has been rumored that the Big 10 has been interested in Maryland for a while now, and it would invite it if Notre Dame came to make 16. Washington D.C and Baltimore are Big 10 territories now. Virginia, left out in the cold by SEC because of overlapping markets there, gives the Big 10 another academicly friendly school, Richmond, Norfolk and more Washington D.C markets and a bridge to the North Carolina schools. Penn State is no longer alone in eastern territory, certainly not.
Finally, the slow moving SEC settles for NC State
There really isn't any other options left on the table. Wake Forest is nothing. NC State has a respectable 30,000 students and gives the SEC a hand into North Carolina as well as a bridge to VTU. NC State always hated being in the shadows of NCU and Duke, now they are free.
The Others...
Pittsburgh and Syracuse are going to wish they never joined the ACC. Pitt had a Big 12 spot they laughed about at the time. Now, they cry about it. Boston College and UConn are in ruins as well. Conference USA anybody? Big East? Maybe the Pac12 will go east to get them? Stranger things have happened.
Big 16 "quads"
With 16 teams, the Big 16 can make some quads (groups of 4 to those who don't know). Each will be like its own division. The top 2 quad champions with the best records will play each other in the Big 16 championship. Or how about a 4 team playoff? I'm just dreaming. Haha.
Big 16 North: Notre Dame West Virginia Louisville Iowa State
Big 16 East: Florida State Georgia Tech Miami Clemson
Big 16 South: Texas TCU Baylor Texas Tech
Big 16 West: Kansas State Kansas Oklahoma Oklahoma State
The only team having a fit would be Iowa State, having to play a bunch of unfamiliar faces. However, there is not much they can do considering how powerless they are. Our west division has some nice old rivalries in it, but it is going to be challenging as long as Oklahoma is in it. I guess that is the price you pay for being so close to them. But hey, at least we get to keep our rivalry with KU.
Tell me what you think. It's just a fun little scenario I made. Here's to hoping it leads to some good discussion!


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It's not often you get to see the soft side of NFL players, but the Carolina Panthers did just that on a new calendar for the Humane Society of Charlotte.
Stephanie Rivera came up with the idea and shared it with her husband, Panthers Head Coach Ron Rivera.
"He thought it was a great idea from the get-go. He just thought what a great idea to pair these athletes with great animals. Some of the animals that come here are gorgeous animals in need to find their forever home," Stephanie Rivera said.
The calendar is titled "Puppies…Panthers…and Kittens, Oh My" and is now on sale.http://humanesocietyofcharlotte.org/
"The humane society is a natural fit for us because we have two dogs ourselves, and we really feel very strongly about the welfare of animals," Coach Rivera said.
The humane society hopes to raise $50,000 and all that money will go towards helping local animals. Panthers player JJ Jansen says he was excited to help out.
"It was a fun different kind of idea. We got to channel a little bit of our modeling side Which we don't usually get to do," Jansen said.
The calendar is available for purchase online at the Humane Society's website or at 10 locations in Charlotte.

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This IIPA was a good bit lighter than the Emperor Penguin served right next to it and the two actually served as a nice contrast in the range of the style. While the Penguin edged into the barley wine end of the style with its overworked-yeast fruit aromas and heavy maltiness, Copper Creeks rendition was much cleaner and lighter on the malt which allowed it to focus more on the hops and become a little more drinkable. In the hop side the Penguin had very little in the way of hop aroma and makes up for it in the bitterness. Copper Creeks IIPA makes great use of the aroma hops and then puts less emphasis on the bittering side. Both were good beers, but I lean toward this beer. I heard others who leaned the opposite, though.
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Labelled as Double IPA on the board and likely a different recipe, but here goes. On-tap at the brewpub.
Pours a deep and clear copper color with a half-finger off-white head. The head recedes into a patchy layer on top leaving decent lacing.
Smells of buttery caramel malts with hints of tropical and citrus hops.
Tastes similar to how it smells. Smooth and buttery caramel malt flavors up front segue into light citrus hop flavors before the malt takes over again and leads into a mildly bitter ending. As it warms the hop flavors fade.
Mouthfeel is good. It has a nice thickness with moderate carbonation.
Drinkability is OK. I finished my glass without much problem however I'm not sure I want another.
Overall this was certainly a DIPA in the Northeastern mold with plenty of buttery malt flavors and aromas. Not bad, but not my cup of tea.
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Each month the Santee Community Oriented Policing Comittee (COMPOC) holds a from Santee's law enforcement, government, schools and other key organizations discuss local crime issues so that they can make recomendations to the .
This month's meeting focused on homelessness in Santee- a timely topic considering the by the Regional Task Force on the Homeless happens at the end of January.
Here are some key notes from the Jan. 9 meeting:
• mentioned that he attended a League of CA Cities meeting about the . He said that San Diego County, including , is well poised to take on the new number of prisoners. He thinks the system will revert to how it used to operate, state prison was for housing more violent offenders and most everyone else was dealt with on a county level. Also, he said there are more education programs available at the state level, so that should hopefully reduce the recidivism rate.
• A presentation was given about the homeless situation in the Santee area as the sees it. Here are notes on statements made during the presentation:
- The Santee Sheriff's Dept. designates the homeless into two types: the "homeless," which they consider people forced onto the street for financial reasons, and "transients," which are mostly single males that choose homelessness as a lifestyle. The Sheriff's Dept. generally deals with "transients" in Santee.
- Transients generally congregate along the river bottom and the brings them in during the day.
- The San Diego River bottom is environmentally impacted due to the area's homeless encampments and the large amount of trash generated.
- The Sheriff's Dept. tries to find inebriated transients as they come out of the river bottom in the morning.
- The Sheriff's Dept. works closely with the in tracking and dealing with the homeless situation on the river bottom.
- All citations of people identified as homeless are put into a Sheriff's database so they can be tracked, usual citations include unlawful camping and public intoxication.
- An exact number of homeless related citations was unavailable, but was pegged at "more than 50 and less than 100" last year.
- The "homeless season" in Santee is when the river dries and it gets warmer.
- Copper and other is a huge industry for the transients, wire coatings and scraps are found at their campsites often, and a couple local parks have been stripped for their copper recently.
Representatives of the and GUHSD talked about homelessness in schools:
- Four students at are documented as homeless (eight are suspected homeless), none are documented at and over 500 families in the GUHSD are considered homeless (meaning they lack a fixed nighttime location). There are also 75 students recognized as "unaccompanied youth."
- These students and families are a separate issue from the "transient" homeless that the Sheriff's Dept. tends to deal with.
- According to the most recent , Santee has 400-600 children living with grandparents.
- GUHSD offers benefits for students designated as homeless, including two meals a day, bus passes and certain clothing.
- "Kids come from St. Vincent de Paul to GUHSD everyday."
- $25,000 worth of bus passes were distributed in GUHSD last year.
- GUHSD's grant to help homeless students was $50,000 last year, and dropped to $23,000 this year.
Other comments on homelessness:
- Minto said he thinks the laws need to change to reflect different classes of homeless so that funds can be distributed to those that need them most.
- "Is there some way to get a discounted camping rate at Santee Lakes for the needy?"
The will take place Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. and will feature a report on animal control and dog parks in Santee.


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Displacing the State
Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa
Edited by James Howard Smith and Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Foreword by R. Scott Appleby
From the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies / Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
In colonial Africa, Christianity has often supported, sustained, and legitimated a violent process of governance. More recently, however, following decades of violence and oppression, churches and religious organizations have mobilized African publics against corrupt and abusive regimes and facilitated new forms of reconciliation and cooperation. It is the purpose of Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa to illustrate the nature of religion's ambivalent power in Africa while suggesting new directions in the study of religion, conflict, and peace studies, with a specific focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
As the editors make clear, most of the literature on conflict and peacebuilding in Africa has been concerned with dramatic conflicts such as genocide and war. In these studies, "conflict" usually means a violent clash between parties with opposing interests, while "peace" implies reconciliation and cooperation between these parties, usually with a view to achieving a social order predicated on the idea of the sovereign national state whose hegemony is viewed as normative. The contributors argue that this perspective is inadequate for understanding the nature, depth, and persistence of conflict in Africa. In contrast, the chapters in this volume adopt an ethnographic approach, often focusing on mundane manifestations of both conflict and peace, and in so doing draw attention to the ambiguities and ambivalences of conflict and peace in everyday life. The volume therefore focuses our attention on the extent to which everyday conflict contributes to subsequently larger and more highly visible clashes.
Displacing the State makes two important contributions to the study of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. First, it shows how peace is conceptualized and negotiated in daily life, often in ways that are counterintuitive and anything but peaceful. Second, the volume uses African case studies to confront assumptions about the nature of the relationships among religion, conflict, and peace.
James Howard Smith is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis.
Rosalind I. J. Hackett is professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Contributors: Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Abasi Kiyimba, Isabel Mukonyora, Charles Shaefer, James Howard Smith, Asonzeh F.-H. Ukah, Koen Vlassenroot, Grace Nyatugah Wamue-Ngare.
"Seldom have recent studies of African culture and politics directly treated 'religion and conflict' as such; Displacing the State remedies that omission. The authors collectively explore the ways religions and religious movements employ media, gender roles, social organizations, and translocal cultural values to challenge, reform, and otherwise shape political culture and social structures. Their insightful contributions are sure to push the ongoing scholarly debate on the complex relationships among ethnicity, religion, governance, and conflict in Africa." — R. Scott Appleby, John M. Regan Jr. Director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
"In a Kony 2012 world, where activism often trumps analysis, there is a particular need for thickly grained studies that reflect the complex, multilayered nature of the encounter between African politics and religion. In this sense, Displacing the State delivers. Avoiding a spirit of either triumphalism or cynicism, the volume's eight case studies explore how religious actors instigate conflict, contribute to reconciliation, and 'foster conflict and peace simultaneously' . . . . Hackett's and Smith's text warrants a wide readership among students of political science, religion, and American studies." — Journal of Church and State
Paper Edition 2012
312 pages


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Central Michigan University's endowment fund finished the 2012 calendar year at $81,590,000 after an increase of 14 percent since 2011.
The increase comes after a large drop in 2008 and again in 2011, which Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services David Burdette said is due to a challenging economic period.
"In 2011, CMU continued to be heavily invested in equities. The equity market, as measured on June 30, 2011, was lower at that point in the year," Burdette said. "(The years) 2008, 2009, 2010 were tough times for investors, and a lot of people found that out."
The most recent quarter, ending on Dec. 31, reported an increase of 2.2 percent for CMU.
An endowment is an external gift given to a university meant to be perpetual with restrictions on what the money can be spent on, most commonly for student scholarships.
The university won't expend the principle amount of the gift to ensure the continuation of the fund long-term and invests it to help it grow.
CMU's spending rate is 4.5 percent, which means the scholarship can increase 4.5 percent to cover inflation over time and keep the value of the scholarship in future dollars.
"If we did apply a 4.5 percent to an endowment down from its principle, now you're down more and have farther to grow," Associate Vice President of Financial Services Barrie Wilkes said. "So when you start spending in a down market, it makes it much more difficult to grow back to where you began."
If the principle drops below the original gift's value, a scholarship is not given that year until the principle value is regained, though Burdette said CMU has continued to distribute scholarships due to overall growth.
"CMU has been able, over the past several years of market ups and downs, to provide continuity of funding of student scholarships because of its conservative market investment strategies," Burdette said. "But CMU cannot always guarantee future earnings. That's why CMU follows a rolling average to avoid major market down-swings."
Burdette and Wilkes meet with an outside fund manager and report to the board of trustees, which sets an investment policy with parameters to which they can invest funds.
"We can't guarantee an endowment won't go below the principle amount, but we do our best to avoid it," Burdette said. "We're trying to weave between alternative investment options within the policy, within the market and within our outside advice."
A diverse portfolio is preferred in order to protect investors from a loss.
CMU's investments from an endowment perspective includes stocks, fixed income and commodities to protect investments.
"The more you spread the portfolio in different types of investment options, the lower you spread the risk," Burdette said. "You're also trying to be sure that all your assets aren't correlated, so they don't all react the same in different market conditions."
When it comes to fundraising efforts, Burdette said successful fundraising is dependent on how well your endowment is doing.
"Our track record shows that if you leave your endowment, you know it's going to be protected to the extent we can," he said. "You know it will grow and you know it will give scholarships year after year. Donors like that positive outlook, and CMU has very good fundraisers and great alums."


text: On this episode of Cottage Talk we first reviewed the Fulham 3-0 victory against Bolton on Saturday. We then previewed the Monday match for Fulham against Chelsea. Co-hosting with myself was Chris Gilbertson and Lorcan O'Connor from Hammyend.com. Joining us for an interview was Stephen Schmidt of "We Ain't Got No History" to give us the Chelsea perspective on this match. Please do take a listen to the latest edition of Cottage Talk.


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Breaking News: NFL Great Junior Seau found shot to death in home
Very sad news coming out of Oceanside, CA, where Junior Seau has been found dead in his home. Details are sketchy at this time, and it's unclear whether Seau was the victim of homicide or a self inflicted gunshot wound. However, reports do tell us that Seau has indeed passed away and leaves a wife and three children behind. R.I.P. Junior. The way you played the game was inspirational to all of us.


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A local township board talked about whether or not they should charge other townships, when they provide fire services.
9&10 News was at that meeting tonight, where the Blair Township and the Fire Department unanimously agreed to go ahead with the Cost Recovery Plan.
The Blair Township Fire Department in Grand Traverse County, often responds to emergencies in neighboring townships and it's costing them, so they have decided to begin charging.
They will now take the variety of calls that the fire department responds to and will put them into categories, and assign a value.
There would also be a reciprocal charge when outside townships assist the Blair Township Fire Department.
"So, if we get dispatched to go to their township for a car fire, there'll be a charge for that car fire. And, if they come to our township to help us with a car fire, it'll be the same charge."
The Board and Fire Department will start devising the Cost Recovery Plan, tomorrow.


text: First, if you're on this page, you're interested, so go ahead and pick up Sevendust's self-titled debut. It's good.Second off, I just had to clear some things up. Scroll down a ways, until you get to the one out-of-place review here briliantly entitled "LAME!!!!!" with five, count 'em, five exclamation points to really drive this person's pointless review home.Now, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, and I understand that, and I wouldn't have even written a thing about it if it didn't appear to be a totally WORTHLESS jumble of whining. From the top, the cd is good and solid, and actually has music behind the thrash you think it may just be. This certain reviewer from can you find Arthur? (whatever that is supposed to try and mean beats the crap out of me – probably just more pointless junk) starts off by complaining to all of us how he/she felt pressured to buy the cd because "everyone just loves [it]". And then they whined because it was a waste of their money. Heads up for you: they're reviews on the page of a product you must be interested enough in already (you're viewing the page to buy it, after all) and not people making you do anything. Then they go on to say it is just like every other band they've heard other than their certain select favorites. Well, if you hate all other bands other than Pink Floyd and Nirvana and such, why would you waste your money on anything else? Just stay at home and listen to them all you want and don't try and steer people interested in this hard-working band away.Just my opinions on the matter. Buy it if you want, don't if you don't want to. Peace out.


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I wanted the Bucs to draft DexMcluster. He is my plan A for that job. But if Hester would come cheap, I wouldn't mind. McCluster is a nice gadget player though. Not as straight line fast as I thought, but in an elevator he is lightning.
Paging Paige(sp). That guy sucked so bad. I couldn't even comment on how bad he sucked.


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The Clare Rose Playhouse, a community theater located on the Long Island Campus of St. Joseph's College, will continue its season with the cabaret show The Best of Broadway. The show will run from February 22 to March 3, 2013.
The Clare Rose Playhouse returns with the vibrant cabaret show, The Best of Broadway for its 2012-2013 season. The performance showcases the greatest hits from some of Broadway's most popular musicals by incorporating a medley of Broadway tunes, from standard to pop. This is a show that sings, "There's no business like show business."
Individual tickets for the show are priced at $15; $12 for students and seniors. Show times are 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, call the box office at 631.654.0199.
The Clare Rose Playhouse, which serves as a major teaching facility for the College's theater courses, is accessible via the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 52 (Waverly Avenue) in Patchogue, on the northeast corner of the campus of St. Joseph's College. A former cottage converted in 1985 through the generosity and guidance of the man for whom it is named, the Playhouse serves as a major teaching facility for the College's theater courses and a training ground for young actors. The Playhouse is the site of community theater productions of musicals, dramas, comedies, cabaret acts, musical performances, dance troupes and comedians.


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How deep is the UFC lightweight division?
Put it like this: when Dennis Siver vs. Matt Wiman goes down tonight (July 2) in Las Vegas, Nevada at UFC 132, it will have absolutely no bearing on helping to determine a title contender.
Why is this odd?
Because Siver and Wiman are 7-1 and 7-2 in their last eight and nine bouts, respectively. In all three losses, each fighter was awarded "Fight of the Night," which basically means it's hardly like a loss at all.
The problem is name value.
Siver is a 5'7'' stick of dynamite who parlayed a second chance with the UFC thanks to a fight card in Germany (his native land) into impressive win after impressive win.
He even ended the undefeated Octagon run of George Sotiropoulos this past February in dominant fashion. Still, he can't get no respect.The same goes for Wiman, although to a much lesser extent.
The "Handsome" one has done rather well for himself since 2007, winning seven fights in nine trips to the cage. One of his losses, to Sam Stout in 2009, was an extremely close decision that most felt he should have won.
The other defeat came in a "Fight of the Night" caliber bout against top division contender Jim Miller. Certainly no shame in that.
The controversial victory over Mac Danzig aside, Wiman has impressed inside the Octagon, never more so than his most recent outing against Cole Miller, one he controlled easily for a unanimous decision win.
The career paths of both men have led them to the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas tonight, but sadly, a win likely won't do much to advance either fighter's career.
Which is a shame, really, considering the skill-set each possess.
A loss will no doubt send either fighter shooting down the deep divisional ladder, but again, the award for a victory essentially equals more time on the treadmill.
They'll be working awfully hard to remain running in place.
But expect nothing less from two proud competitors who will no doubt leave it all inside the cage.


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With radical changes, law firms can beat recession, says Susskind (video)
By Lee Pacchia
May 2, 2013, 10:20 am CDT
His newest book is a must-read for anyone in the legal field.
By Paula Marie Young on 2013 05 03, 7:05 am CDT
"Tomorrow's Lawyer" is a very good book. Now what Susskind describes though are disruptive notions for the practice of law. Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Professor who coined the phrase disruptive innovation, demonstrates through case studies that disruptive innovations are primarily created by new entrants not incumbents. That is why Susskind's intended audience are new lawyers. But are new lawyers incumbents? They have been through the similar legal training and taken on the same debt load as lawyers in the industry. They have supposedly been trained to think like a lawyer. The risk might also be too great for them to try something so different with the debt levels they have taken on.
Susskind should make his next book directed to Paralegals, Project Managers, and Computer Programmers. They will likely be much more receptive to the ideas of what the legal industry could be and will not have the debt level that new lawyers have. They can afford to take the risks. They only need to convince one of two lawyers to work with them, some of which could be big law attorneys that want a better life, in order to avoid the unauthorized practice of law risk. Having worked with attorneys before for several years I would suggest having as few attorneys involved as possible in new ventures. Innovation requires risk taking and going against traditional notions, while attorneys are trained to lower risk and adhere to precedent.
Further, there are already disruptions occurring in the legal industry. Susskind mentioned ODR, Modria is a great example. They handled disputes on Ebay, but have now expanded as an online dispute resolution platform. They have taken on numerous kinds of disputes, including legal disputes. They cover lower sums for now but I can see them emerging as a viable substitute to hiring a lawyer or going to small claims court. There are numerous businesses like this but people tend not to know about them. The real issue in the legal field is marketing not quality, that is why legalzoom has been so successful. They understand the need for marketing to the growth of their business. Susskind didn't mention paralegals is his book but they are a major disruption in the legal field. Why would small firms want to hire a lawyer when they could hire 2-3 experienced paralegals that could do 80-90% of what the new lawyer could do with very little to no training. That is why there are as many legal jobs out there for lawyers, the law school debt is only a small part of a much larger issue.
By BCReed on 2013 05 04, 7:25 pm CDT
Lawyers at big firms are having a classical case of innovators dilemma. Many of their existing customers continue to pay them, which makes them think all is well, nothing to see here. All the while the entire industry is changing right underneath them.
BigLaw would be wise to read Susskind's book and Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma to avoid repeating history.
By Andy Wilson (Logikcull.com) on 2013 05 06, 5:48 pm CDT
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The crew for Apollo 11, all of whom had already flown in space during Gemini, had been intensively training as a team for many months. Commander Neil A. Armstrong, 38, was a civilian who had flown previously on Gemini 8; Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, 38, was a USAF Lt. Colonel who'd flown Gemini 10; Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr., 39, was a USAF Colonel who'd flown Gemini 12.
The launch went off without a hitch. The first human journey to the surface of the Moon began at Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida with the liftoff of Apollo 11 on a Saturn V booster at 9:32 a.m. EDT (13:32 UT) on a clear sunny Wednesday, 16 July 1969.
The Apollo spacecraft reached Earth parking orbit after 11 minutes. After one and a half orbits the Saturn thrusters fired and the astronauts began their journey to the Moon. On July 20, 1969, after a four day trip, the Apollo astronauts arrived at the Moon and the spacecraft was inserted into lunar orbit.
After a rest period, Armstrong and Aldrin entered the Lunar Module preparing for descent to the lunar surface. The two spacecraft were undocked at about 100 hours, when the Command and Service Modules separated from the Lunar Module. "You cats take it easy on the lunar surface", Michaels Collins said as he released the LM.
Collins did a visual inspection of the lunar module and said, "I think you've got a fine looking machine there, Eagle, despite the fact that you're upside-down."
"Somebody's upside-down", Neil Armstrong joked back.
Lunar Module Pilot, Buzz Aldrin carefully navigated his way to the Lunar surface. He had to fly longer than planned, in order to avoid a field of boulders, and touched down with less than 40 seconds of fuel remaining at 4:18 p.m. EDT on July 20.
Mission commander, Neil Armstrong spoke those famous words, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Charles Duke, the Capcom (capsule communicator) back in Houston, replied, "Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again."
It took 6 hours to prepare to exit the Lunar Module. At 10:56 p.m. EDT on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon, marking the occasion with these words, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Unfortunately, a minor break in communications caused the entire world to hear and remember the statement as "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The Apollo lunar surface camera, mounted on one of the LM legs, broadcast this event to the world.
Aldrin joined Armstrong on the surface about nineteen minutes later, calling it "Magnificent desolation". As he left the LM, Aldrin said, "Now I want to back up and partially close the hatch - making sure not to lock it on my way out." "A particularly good thought." laughed Armstrong.
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Sfogliatelle (Italian pronunciation: [sfɔʎʎaˈtɛlle], singular: sfogliatella), are shell-shaped filled pastries native to Italian cuisine. "Sfogliatelle" means "small, thin leaves/layers," as the pastry's texture resembles stacked leaves.
The sfogliatella Santa Rosa was created in the monastery of Santa Rosa in Conca dei Marini in the province of Salerno, Italy, in the 1600s. Pasquale Pintauro, a pastry chef from Naples, acquired the original recipe and began selling them in his shop in 1818.[1]
The dough is stretched out on a large table, brushed with a fat (butter, lard, shortening or a mixture), then rolled into a log (much like a Swiss roll, but with many more layers). Disks are cut from the end, shaped to form pockets, and filled. The pastries are baked until the layers separate, forming the sfogliatella's characteristic ridges.
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Category Archives: Reading Groups
Friday Blog July 26 – Join the Jane Austen Blog Project
Here's an invite from Reading Groups for Everyone:
The Reading Agency is thrilled to be partnering with HarperCollins to offer 10 enthusiastic reading groups the chance to take part in The Austen Project and experience Austen as never before.
The Austen Project, pioneered by HarperCollins, pairs six bestselling contemporary authors with Jane Austen's six complete works. Taking these cherished stories as their base, each author has written their own unique take on one of Jane Austen's novels.
The Austen Project will launch in October 2013 with the release of Joanna Trollope's reimagining of Sense & Sensibility, and continue with Val McDermid's reworking of Northanger Abbey in spring 2014 and Curtis Sittenfeld's Pride & Prejudice in autumn 2014.
Get involved
The Reading Agency is searching for 10 reading groups to join The Austen Project for the year, beginning by reading Sense & Sensibility in September 2013 and blogging about it. The 10 lucky reading groups will each receive a set of 10 books, reading guides and other materials to spark discussion.
To get an idea of what other groups, including our own Mitchell Classics, got up to with a similar project see the Dickens Champions blog.
If your book group would like to take part in The Austen Blog Project, please register your interest here by 7 August and add your group to the site.
Friday Blog May 10 – what can our young readers teach us?
This week's guest blogger is Alison, librarian at Castlemilk High School and Springburn Academy
In my capacity as a secondary school librarian I have been working with two bookgroups, predominantly first years, and I have come to the realisation that our young people have a lot to offer us in terms of how we engage with books.
The challenge with this age group is to create book groups that are dynamic and engaging, while also promoting literacy. The format of read a book, come back, review and analyse it, was not a solution that would satisfy the requirements of "dynamic and engaging" for the young people.
I believe that some of the activities we have worked on would be completely at home in an adult book group. They would also help to encourage participation from so called non-readers, lapsed readers or reluctant readers (dragged along by a friend usually!). I'd like to explore a few with you.
The Diary of A Wimpy kid series is always in great demand so an activity around this always goes down well with our pre-teens. Together we worked on brainstorming what qualities a diary format book had. Cue sticking post-it notes all over the table with adjectives as diverse as "crush", "war" and "rivalry". We then decided to write our own diaries based on books we had read or hobbies we had. This prompted them to think about different narrative styles and how we could adapt existing books or be creatively free. My attempt to convince them that my Diary of a Scary Librarian was entirely autobiographical was met with giggles and protest…..
What qualities do we think make a good diary format novel? Is this a legitimate form to use when attempting to tell a great story? Or will it always fall short of its potential? Think Adrian Mole, The Color Purple and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I'd encourage all bookgroups to see if they can adapt a novel and see how it would differ in diary format.
- Reverse film adaptation
The perennial debate of 'what is better; the book or the film' features regularly in my discussions with pupils. Unlike most of my friends, there is no overwhelming majority exclaiming that "the book is ALWAYS better". So I gave my young members the chance to explore the situation and pick one of their favourite films. They then had to write their own story interpretation of it.
How would we do if faced with the same challenge? Maybe we should be a little less harsh when we look at the work of screenwriters faced with novels that, in all honesty, are available for our own individual interpretation?
- Who Am I?
An excellent ice breaker in my first book group session was the Who Am I, Post-it on your forehead, only yes/no answers allowed game (proper title would be welcome!). As we worked round the group we introduced ourselves, offered up our foreheads to our neighbour to determine which fictional character we would be and then the real fun began. This allowed the pupils to explore characters that they knew well, or were completely unfamiliar with. Rather than focusing on a review of one book we discussed and recommended a selection of books. This encouraged the pupils to borrow books they had learned about at the end of the session.
Imagine this in an adult book club "Eliza Doolittle – what book is she from?….That sounds good actually, I might go check it out" Perfect for those looking for new avenues to explore, or reluctant readers who can become involved without the commitment of having to a read a novel before the bookgroup meeting.
Next week we are planning the Book-Bout. Here, you fight your book's corner and tell everyone why it is THE best book. I can't wait to see how the pupils convey the key aspects of what makes a book great!
Go on….fight for the books you love!
Friday Blog Feb 8 – Shadowing the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Gaelic Reading Group/ Buidheann Leughaidh Ghàidhlig
An invitation to Gaelic speakers and learners.
The University of Glasgow / Oilthigh Ghlaschu – Centre for Open Studies/Ionad an Oilein Fhosgailte invites you to join the Gaelic Reading Group/ a' toirt cuireadh dhut tighinn gu Buidheann Leughaidh Ghàidhlig.
This will be an opportunity for post-beginner learners and above, including fluent speakers, to get together to read and talk about Gaelic writing, in Gaelic, in a friendly and informal environment. To kick things off, we'll be reading something easy but enjoyable – An Duine Dubh by Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn.
We'll be meeting on Tuesday 5th of February at 5.00pm in The Centre for Open Studies, St. Andrew's Building, Eldon St. Glasgow G3 6NH.
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Friday Blog Jan 25 – poetry for book groups
It's Burns Day – so today's topic is poetry. Has your book group ever dabbled in poetry? There are resources out there to give you ideas. The Poetry Book Society has book group downloads of the ten poets shortlisted for the 2012 TS Eliot Poetry Prize. There are copyright cleared poems with discussion points and a bit of background on the poets. The winner of the prize was announced last week: American poet Sharon Olds for Stag's Leap – a collection about the end of her marriage. Here's how the BBC reported Sharon's win. And for a bit of variety – the Daily Mail!
The Mitchell Poetry Group will be discussing Sharon's poems at the next meeting – 7th February, 6pm on level 5. Come along if you're free. Or check out the downloads for your own group.
And remember you can always find ideas at the Scottish Poetry Library .
Friday Blog Sept 21- Research into Reading
As members of book groups you don't need me to tell you that reading is good for you. A good book can both stimulate and relax you, it can transport you to another place or time, let you see things from someone else's point of view. Reading helps your mental and physical well-being and can develop emotional intelligence. Not to mention teach you loads of stuff and do wonders for your Scrabble scores.
If you read a lot, you just know this is true. I was interested to come across some research that backs this up – undertaken by The Reader Organisation. Through their Get Into Reading programme, they knew how their reading groups help a wide range of people to feel better about themselves and the world in which they live, and carried out research into why this is the case. I was at a seminar where they presented on one piece of research: a study into how literature can help older people living with dementia – the research shows that reading in a group can "produce a significant reduction in dementia symptom severity"
You can find the full report on their website.
Friday Blog Sept 14 – Mitchell Classics group falls on Hard Times
Time to hear again from our Dickens Champions.
Report by Lauren:
The Mitchell Classics Group really enjoyed Hard Times and generally thought it was more thought-provoking and harder-hitting than Dickens' other novels. Yes, the humour, the pathos, the well-drawn character studies, the saintly heroines, the dastardly, conniving baddies, and yes, even the moral torment of most of the characters in some form or other are there, but these are all played out on an even darker and grimier scale.
Hard Times is based in Coketown, an imaginary industrial town in the north of England at the height of the Industrial Revolution. In this novel, Dickens attacks the rise of industry and its relentless pursuit of profit, and the de-humanisation of the people that work in the factories, the 'Hands'.
He also criticises an educational system that did not leave room for the humanity in the humanities. Facts and statistics were to replace compassion, generosity, good ol' common sense, and generally what are considered Christian virtues, with references to Christianity and the bible sprinkled in both straight and ironic references throughout the novel. In the very beginning of the book, we meet Thomas Gradgrind, the headmaster of the school in Coketown, instructing the teacher, Mr. M'Choakumchild:
'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life'…The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels, then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.'
Our book group found this novel to have contemporary relevance, and saw modern parallels for the issues that Dickens raised. Dickens' attack on Victorian industrialisation depicted on a local level and its subsequent pollution – environmental and, arguably human – along with the debate on what was to be taught in schools were seen to have strong correlations to issues of the 21st century, with its debate on large-scale problems such as the global expansion of industry and its effects on global warming, and the quality and standard of our 'modern' educational systems.
And yes, in the end the baddies recieve their comeuppance, the 'morally challenged' live to regret their mistakes and the good-hearted are rewarded (mostly), but the happy ending in the lighter hues and pinks of Dickens' other works is not to be found here, and with such heavy subject matter, we believe it gives these heavy issues their proper due.
What Anne Marie thought:
Of the novels that we have read so far, this has been the most socially engaged. In a depressed, polluted, exploitative – and imaginary – northern urban setting, Dickens sets the old wealth and the new entrepreneurs against the workers in the mill, the "Hands". It has huge resonances for today. What could Dickens have drawn from the banking crisis, the speculation and dealing, the buying and selling of debt, the miss-selling of payment protection policies, the austerity drives, the debates on the purpose and styles of education of our own times?
The banker, the educator, the well-connected young man on the make, the ill-educated young man pushed to the wrong career, the exploited workers, the struggling circus performers, the trade unionist, they're all there and more. And, as always with Dickens, there's a good supply of "put-upon" wives, submissive daughters, orphaned or abandoned waifs with hearts of gold. And there is the wonderful character of Mrs Sparsit. Who but Dickens could have imagined her?
She is introduced to us in chapter 7 and in just two concise paragraphs we have her well- connected family background, her ill-fated marriage, her abrupt widowhood, her family feud and consequent but stubbornly determined self reliance. "And here she was now, in her elderly days, with the Coriolanian style of nose and the dense black eyebrows which had captivated Sparsit, making Mr Bounderby 's tea as he took his breakfast." Her rather intriguing relationship with Bounderby is developed in several beautifully choreographed conversations. Each one of them a screenwriter's dream – you would only have to lift them straight from the page – and they even have their own inbuilt actor's notes: "Mrs Sparsit's Coriolanian nose underwent a slight expansion of the nostrils, and her black eyebrows contracted as she took a sip of tea. "
Throughout the novel we watch as Mrs Sparsit inadvertently sets up her own fall from grace. Her scheming, self-interest brings about her downfall and how we relish seeing her soaked to the skin, crawling with caterpillars, rills running from her bonnet, her shoes squelching, as she spies on Louisa and Harthouse, plotting Louisa's downfall and simply setting in motion the steps which lead to both her own and to Bounderby's.
In one of Dickens' darker novels, she is an absolute joy.
What Matthew thought:
This novel appears to be Dickens' attempt at addressing the huge changes taking place, both industrial and social. People were moving off the land into the emerging cities, 'Coketown' could be Manchester, or Sheffield, and to meet the demands of a growing labour force they were housed in poor and unsanitary housing developments within the cities.
Thomas Gradgrind, extolling that everything can be explained by facts, facts, facts, has echoes of Charles Darwin's (1809-82) theory of 'Natural Selection'. Later in the novel with Louisa, in an unhappy marriage to Bounderby, and his son embroiled in gambling and robbery, Gradgrind is forced to recognise the value of human emotions, and starts to re-appraise his former values.
The change in Gradgrind's values may be due to the author taking note of his readership, who would be mainly the new emerging middle class, many would be wealthy, through industry and manufacturing, but were embracing the morality and temperance associated with Christian values of the Victorian era. With the expansion of the British Empire, countries such as Africa would have its missionaries such as David Livingstone (1813-73) carrying the Christian message.
In spite of its title, Hard Times is not a hard-hitting, or political novel. Unusual for Dickens, he uses a female character, Sissy Jupe, the circus artiste, to convey a well-balanced and sensible attitude to life; compared to her Louisa is the dutiful and selfless daughter making little imprint.
Some of the characters are a reshuffle of previous types:
- Mr. Bounderby – could be Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist
- Tom Gradgrind – could be Monks from Oliver Twist
- Stephen Blackpool, a weaver, who knows his place in society therefore poses no threat to his employers – could be Joe the Blacksmith from Great Expectations
Dickens is observing the social and industrial changes taking place in mid-Victorian Britain but leaves the reader to form their own political opinions on the situation.
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Friday Blog Sept 7 – National Poetry Day coming soon
Less than a month until National Poetry Day – Thursday 4th October. This year's theme is STARS and you'll be able to pick up free poetry postcards in all Glasgow libraries. The Mitchell poetry group will be meeting that day, 6-7pm (Literature Centre, level 5) Why not come along and bring your favourite poems on the theme of Stars? Stars in the sky, film stars? The choice is yours.
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I feel it is time to get rid of political parties.
Political Party's are nothing more than vehicles used to hijack what should be the people system of governing. So maybe it is time to start electing independent candidates whom are free of the party shackles.
It is time we elect candidates who will represent the constituencies , not some gang that control a political party to use for "their" benefit. I feel that these independent canditades sign an agreement to work on behalf of the constituency and if the candidate breaks trust , then they can be recalled.
Maybe it is time the voter / taxpayer had control , not these gangs known as political party's.
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Mar 16 2013: I believe that political parties are somewhat inevitable.
We can get rid for now, but people will always gain a following that will lead to a support structure/ shared ideology (for example, independents are now forming unofficial parties for this very reason).
Whats more important is to create a variety of parties that allow for more variation, get money out of election campaigns and focus on trying to remove the two-party hold that most countries have at present.
The two main parties clearly don't have our interests or represent anyone besides the wealthy and old white males, we need to diversify the platform so people can once again see candidates who actually want to fix the issues.
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- State Senator Neil Breslin says he is setting the record straight about the nature of Tuesday traffic stop.
After several hours of calls from the NEWS10 newsroom and waiting to speak to him outside his office at the Capitol, Senator Breslin explained the incident to our Marie Luby.
The Senator says he complied with a routine sobriety test Tuesday night, end of story.
Austin Shafran, a spokesperson for the Senate Majority, sent NEWS10 this statement: "The night before last, Senator Breslin was pulled over by a state trooper after flashing his high beams at a car that abruptly cut him off. After providing the officer with a valid license and registration, Senator Breslin agreed to a routine field test, which he immediately passed. No tickets were issued, and no charges were filed."
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