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Smart floors could soon be part of our smart homes. Scientists in Germany have developed a high-resolution pressure-sensitive floor that can accurately keep track of people and furniture in rooms. Dubbed "Gravity Space," the floor can detect poses, movements and collisions and create a mirror-like inverse projection of the goings-on above. The technology could have a wide range of applications ranging from home security and automation to interactive gaming.Read More
A little over two years ago, we looked at a hand-held device known as the Infrascanner Model 1000, which uses near infra-red light to detect traumatic brain injuries. Now, the InfraScan company has received US Food and Drug Administration approval to market the 1000's improved successor, the Infrascanner Model 2000. Read More
As prolonged exposure to sunlight increasingly becomes a health hazard, causing skin problems and even cancer, automakers have started to incorporate glass that blocks harmful ultraviolet light. Japan's Asahi Glass Co (AGC) has added to its portfolio a new line of tempered front window glass called UV Verre Premium Cool on, which it says is the first of its kind to block about 99 percent of ultraviolet radiation, along with infrared (IR) rays.Read More
Everyone wants to feel safe in their home, and it's easier to do so when you know who's standing outside. DoorBot aims to help with exactly this, by functioning as a Wi-Fi-connected doorbell that streams live video and audio directly to your smartphone of choice whether you're sitting on your couch or backpacking abroad.Read More
Harvard Professor of Applied Physics Federico Capasso and his collaborators have invented a nearly perfect optical absorber. By coating a piece of sapphire with an exceedingly thin (180 nm) layer of vanadium dioxide (VO2), a surface is created that absorbs 99.75 percent of infrared light with a wavelength of 11.6 micron wavelength. Such optical absorbers can be tailored to enable a wide range of applications. Read More
Having already provided a remote for the control of iOS devices with its BT Media Remote, Satechi has reversed things by releasing a dongle that turns an iOS device into a universal remote control. In combination with a free app, the Universal Remote dongle enables control of devices around the home that use infrared remote controllers.Read More
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Moving around the stage while performing is a whole lot easier with instruments such as the Vortex or Kitara than with something like the mighty JUPITER-80. Innovations like Onyx Ashanti's Beatjazz hands or the Air Piano from Omer Yosha go even further, by making movement a vital part of the music creation process. Such is the case with the Dodecaudion from Polish art and design group panGenerator. When a performer places a hand, foot, head or other part of the body in front of any of its 12 IR-sensor-packing faces, wirelessly-linked processing hardware generates pre-programmed audio or visuals.Read More
The size and age of our Universe is not only a critically important issue in cosmology, but is also among the most controversial and delicate of the cosmological questions. Infrared observations made using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have now given us the most precise estimate yet of the rate at which our Universe is expanding. The key was not the discovery of a new method for measuring distance. Rather, astronomers discovered how to measure brightness more accurately. The new value for the Hubble constant, good to within three percent, is 74.3 kilometers per second per megaparsec (km/s/Mpc). Read More
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And we were there! Wow! It was as impressive in real life as when I have seen it in the movies!
Mark & I wandered around Sydney the other day and look what we found! This beautiful cathedral! It is called St. Mary's Cathedral.
My parents and I just made a visit to Sydney (my 2nd) in Sept '05. We wandered through the Royal Botanic Gardens and up to Mrs. Macquaries Point. This picture was taken on our walk back through the gardens.
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Doyles at Circular Key is SO overated. the food may be OK but the service is very poor. The staff are not professional and only pay attention when the meal ends and they want a tip. GO elsewhere!!!!
Very nice pages, Sarah. I must visit Sydney someday. BTW, happy birthday!
Nice pages. They bring back good memories. We had the best New Year's Eve ever in Sydney!!
Nice page useful info. I'll have to take somepointers from you for my page.
Sarah I love the photos of the Sydney Opera House and your commentaries on all the museums are very useful and helpful from Cassie
I visited Sydney recently for 2 days. Wish I'd read some of your tips before going. The Airport Connection one is particularly useful! - Mark
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Good page Sarah :)
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Downtown Summerfest
Downtown Summerfest 2016!
Save the date! Your favorite way to spend a summer night is back! Downtown Summerfest will be returning to Civic Plaza on Saturday, August 6, 2016 from 5-10:30 p.m.
Stay tuned for more information!
National Headliner: The Wailers
Together with Bob Marley, The Wailers have sold over 250 million albums. They have played to an estimated 24 million people across the globe performing an average of 200 dates a year. The anchor of the band is Aston "Family Man" Barrett, who in
addition to being Marley's most trusted lieutenant and co-producer. The authenticity he brings to the Wailers' sound is indisputable and yet today's line-up combines old school know-how with lead vocals from one of Jamaica's most exciting new singers.
The current lineup includes Mr. Barrett's son, Aston Barrett Jr., a multi-instrumentalist who plays bass, drums and organ at varied occasions. He helps bring the music forward to a new generation. Anthony "Benbow" Creary, who recorded and toured with the band in the early years, is on drums. The two lead singers are Dwayne Anglin, known as Danglin, and Joshua David Barrett. Audley "Chizzy" Chisholm plays both lead and rhythm guitar. "Chizzy" also performs backing vocals with Cegee Victory. Keyboard is played by Chaka Taylor.
The Wailers are undoubtedly the world's premier reggae and world music group known for performing high-energy shows to fans across the globe.
Vendor Information
All interested vendors are encouraged to submit an application to be a part of Heights Summerfest. Applications will be accepted until June 27, 2016. The application for market vendors can be found here. The application for food vendors can be found here.


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San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh endured his most lopsided victory as a head coach since 2007, losing 42-13 to the Seattle Seahawks. After the Seattle Seahawks convincing win Sunday night safety Earl Thomas and cornerback Richard Sherman told Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports that Harbaugh honked his car horn at the Seahawks team bus following the 49ers 13-6 victory over Seattle in October. "He honked his horn at the bus and waved," said Sherman. "Yeah, he (honked at us)," Seattle safety Earl Thomas said. "It seems like he tries to be a professional in front of the camera, but he does his antics, like that, when the cameras aren't around. He's just a big kid. We don't worry about that stuff. We just play the game. The best team won (Sunday), and it was convincing." When asked about the honking incident, Harbaugh said: "No. No, that did not occur. That's a fabrication … I can't remember a time where I left the game and the other team has still been there this entire season." With the Victory the Seahawks clinched a playoff berth and are guaranteed at least the NFC's No. 5 seed.
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I recently read One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of the best books I have ever read
I recently read One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of the best books I have ever read
~May the goat be with you~
currently reading the first book in the hunter's blade trilogy. 2/3 of the way through it.
The first book in the Sonea trilogy. I loved the Magician's guild, so hope the Sonea trilogy is at least that good.
-Game of Thrones Series by JRR Martin
-Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum
Just finished Mistborn Trilogy and Alloy of Law and started Old Man's War.
Oh, and I just finished World War Z after Alloy of Law. Went through it so fast I almost forgot. Though I will add that that was the first piece of zombie related media that has actually creeped me out.
I did get The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales by J.R.R Tolkien from my girlfriend as a christmas gift. Just started reading The Silmarillion
Also making my way through The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K Hamilton atm.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
Wheel of Time a Memory of Light is currently sitting as the number 1 seller on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble. honestly im suprised that the series is this bloody popular.
The Warlord's Legacy, Ari Marmell. Kill Shot, Vince Flynn.
9 out of 10 people agree that in a room full of 10 people one person will always disagree with the other 9.
Hunt the Moon - Karen Chance
Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
Faith and Fire - James Swallow
The Guru Papars - Masks of Authoritarian Power - Joel Kramer
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Goodwin
"A fool is not a person who does not know something. Rather, a fool is a person who is given information but who chooses to ignore what he is given based on how he wants things to be, rather than how things are."
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The great influenza- John M. Barry ^.^
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Rereading the Wheel of Time series, waiting for the last one to come out.
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
on my 5th or 6th run through of "The King's Buccaneer" by Raymond E. Feist.
Check out his stuff if you havent, they are awesome fantasy novels!
Nothing right now. But come 2013, damn it I'm going to read everything J.R.R. Tolkien has ever written (that's available in my region)
"After dealing with about 10 000 patients over the last 15 years, I would say that over 200 different medical conditions respond favorably to cannabis."
- The late Dr. Tod Mikuriya, MD, interview in The Union: The business behind getting high
Former national administrator of the U.S. Government's marijuana research programs
Got a bunch of Michael Crichton books for Christmas. Starting off with Jurassic Park. I love his writing
Got "The Way of Kings" and "Forge of Darkness" for Christmas. I'll probably start them after I finish the final WoT book once it comes out.


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Vần supports two dependents with her business in Hoang Hoa district, a rural town in Thanh Hoa province.
This is Vần's first loan with Thanh Hoa Fund of Poor Women.
In the future, Vần hopes for her family to be healthy and happy, for her business to do well, and to be able to buy more supplies and equipment for her business.
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I wish all those moron's would retire!
This is a discussion on Evidently Congress does have a sense of humor within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Cry me a river: Retiring Moran says Congress is ?underpaid? | Fox News...
I wish all those moron's would retire!
"Don't shout for help at night, you may wake your neighbors"
He is implying that if they were paid more they would do a decent job? HAHI understand that it's widely felt that they underperform, but the fact is that this is the board of directors for the largest economic entity in the world
That's like saying that if we throw more hundreds of millions of dollars at welfare programs we won't have any more poor people.
At this moment in time if I screamed as loud as I feel like doing you would all hear me loud and clear - wherever you are!
Getting old was not on my list of "things to do" in the Golden Years!
Talking to each other here is good, but taking action is better.
And Hillary lost 6 bil. before she resigned.
"Don't shout for help at night, you may wake your neighbors"
If they were paid based on performance, they wouldn't make a dime - in fact they'd have to pay in.
"...there is no arguing with such snivelling puppies, who allow superiors to kick them about deck at pleasure."
Captain Bellamy
He's just mad that Moochelle didn't invite him to ride along on the million dollar China trip.
"I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken."
Typical democrat strategy when there is a problem just throw more money at it.
I wish I was that underpaid!
"A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them." Solomon
The Totalitarian State in America will not arise at the point of a gun. It will come with a message of
"We only want what's best for you. It's for your own good."
Gravy train coming to an end. He now has to pay for a haircut and parking and can't charge dinners to the people of Virginia. May a 1001 camel ant fester in his left nostril. Area move four feet for printability.
The man is an idiot, all you have to do is look at his voting record to realize it.
Freedom doesn't come free. It is bought and paid for by the lives and blood of our men and women in uniform.
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NRA Life Member
I wish I could get paid what they make now for doing nothing.
NRA Member
GOA Member
US Army Vet
I'm just a spoke in the wheel but not a big deal.
America...a Constitutional Republic. NOT a democracy as the liberals would have us believe.
PANTS UP DON'T LOOT!!....A Kentucky Rifle behind EVERY BLADE OF GRASS!!
You know that look women give you when they want some sugar? Me neither
How can they be underpaid, after all they vote and approve their own pay raises. Just more manure.jpg
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."


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Joe Gibbs Racing and MX Teams Compete in Atlanta
Both the Joe Gibbs Racing NASCAR and JGRMX teams are competing in Atlanta, GA this weekend. Check out this infographic to learn more about both teams and some of the differences and commonalities between NASCAR and MX.
Watch both races this weekend:
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Second Amendment
Gun Free America!
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural
From Reason TV. Language advisory in regard to the above video. Of course I am sure that leftists watching the video think: "BS! All we need are a few more votes on the Supreme Court and we can wipe the Second Amendment out from the Constitution in one lawsuit." And you know something, they are right. A Court which can create rights to abortion and gay marriage is obviously a Court that can read anything into, and anything out of, the Constitution. However if leftists ever did attempt this, and they are feckless enough to eventually attempt to do precisely that, I suspect that American Revolution II or Civil War II would be on.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Explains the Importance of the Second Amendment
The amendment, like most other provisions in the Constitution, has a history. It was adopted with some modification and enlargement from the English Bill of Rights of 1688, where it stood as a protest against arbitrary action of the overturned dynasty in disarming the people, and as a pledge of the new rulers that this tyrannical action should cease. The right declared was meant to be a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers, and as a necessary and efficient means of regaining rights when temporarily overturned by usurpation.
Thomas Cooley, Principles of Constitutional Law (1898)
(Whenever the usual suspects are in full cry for gun
confiscation control, as they are now, I am going to repost this.)
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria [Government limo] sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked.
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
–Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The GULAG Archipelago
Rebecca Frech Schools Mark Shea on Guns
Mark Shea has a habit of saying that unless people do x, x always being a policy he endorses, they really are not pro-life. This of course is simply an attempt, at least among pro-lifers, to stop debate on x and says nothing about the merits of x as a policy. His latest attempt to do so is on the issue of smart guns, technology that purports to prevent a firearm from being fired, unless the owner is the one pulling the trigger. Go here to read one of his posts on the subject. Blogger Rebecca Frech, at her blog Shoved to Them, relates an incident to describe why Shea is wrong as a practical matter:
The argument seems to center around smart gun technology. Shea reasons that if gun owners were truly pro-life then we would support all efforts to create guns which would only fire for their owners, and then the world would be a better place. People who don't support such legislation and research, even if they support the protection of life from conception to natural death, are not truly pro-life because they participate in a culture which accepts the possibility of death by gun shot (Mark and his readers haven't mentioned how they aim to prevent people from being bludgeoned with a rifle butt or pistol whipped with a handgun).
Tell Us What You Really Think Greg
Greg Gutfeld unloads on Jim Carrey, an aging Canadian comedian whose career is currently in the process of tanking, over Carrey's remakably unfunny "Hee-Haw" attack on the late Charlton Heston and anyone who supports the Second Amendment. Nothing is sadder than a professional funnyman who does not realize that his time in the limelight has passed him by. I have two words for Mr. Carrey: Jerry Lewis. Oh well, perhaps the French will hail him as a genius too.
What Is In the Water In Colorado?
I have had two prior posts on Democrat Colorado legislators, here and here, who apparently would prefer to see women raped then armed. Ace, at Ace of Spades, brings to the fore a third Democrat, Senator Evi Hudak.
You're a dumb little girl and you don't know what you're talking about. Why don't you stop talking, dumb little girl?
Katie Pavlich previously reported her story. I'm going to quote some of it, but you should probably read it all.
Amanda Collins is a young rape survivor. While in college in 2007, she was raped 50 feet away from the campus police department office at the University of Nevada-Reno and was lucky to get out alive. Her attacker was James Biela, a serial rapist who raped two other women and murdered another. He attacked her at gun point in a gun free zone. At the time of the attack, Collins was in possession of a concealed weapons permit but was not in possession of her firearm due to university policies prohibiting carrying concealed weapons on campus. …
"I was legislated into being a victim," Collins said.
Well, that's a hell of a story, and a hell of an inconvenience for the Bullets-Don't-Work-On-Criminals crowd. Fortunately, Democratic State Senator Evi Hudak was there to propagate this theory:
"Well, I just want to say statistics are not on your side, even if you had had a gun. You said that you were a martial arts student, I mean person, experience in taekwondo, and yet because this individual was so large and was able to overcome you even with your skills, and chances are that if you had had a gun, then he would have been able to get than from you and possibly use it against you," Hudak said.Collins responded by saying, "Respectfully Senator, you weren't there…I was there, I know without a doubt in my mind at some point I would have been able to stop my attack by using my firearm. He already had a weapon of his own, he didn't need mine."
Ms. Hudak probably doesn't know what "semi-automatic" means, given that she seems unclear that a gun is a projectile weapon usable at range. She seems to not understand the rapist was interested in a live girl, not a dead body, and that Collins, however, would have been quite interested in a dead rapist. As rape must be conducted at touching distance, but shooting can occur at touching distance to hundreds of yards away, I'm a bit flabbergasted by this notion that a rapist would obviously just take a gun away from a woman.
Is he going to deflect bullets with his Sith hands, too? Continue reading
America Meets Dale
As long time readers of this blog know I have long been an admirer of the work of Dale Price at his blog Dyspeptic Mutterings, and I frequently go there to
steal borrow blog ideas. Dale turned his attention recently to the editorial at America, the Jesuit heterodox rag, which called for the repeal of the Second Amendement:
That their grief may not be compounded.
At long last, the editors of America endorse a constitutional buttress to the culture of life.
Supporting the Human Life Amendment? Surely you jest. Politics is strictly about the art of the possible when it comes to abortion.
No, no–one must be realistic about such things.
Instead, we need to repeal the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The reason: something must be done so that urban, left-leaning Jesuits can feel better about themselves:
The disturbing feeling that we have failed to do everything in our power to remove the material cause of their deaths, however, will no longer compound our grief.
For some reason, there are exceptions:
This does not require an absolute ban on firearms. In the post-repeal world that we envision, some people will possess guns: hunters and sportsmen, law enforcement officers, the military, those who require firearms for morally reasonable purposes.
As an aside, please, please, I beg you: stop pretending you give a rat's fanny about hunting. Deep down, we know you hate it, but somehow you feel compelled to offer insincere boilerplate respect. You can stop now. Besides, hunting firearms are more devastating than ones that make you queasy. Just flop your cards on the table and admit you don't approve of any significant private ownership of firearms. Dialogue requires openness, don't you know?
Anyway, there's a yawning logical inconsistency here: why should an off-duty approved firearm owner be allowed to keep it when he is off the clock? At the end of the day, such individuals should turn them in to a secure area until they punch back in. Even soldiers aren't toting weapons around all the time outside of combat zones. As the editors note, original sin (!) ensures bad things will happen, and cops are quite capable of misusing firearms, as we have been recently reminded. Thus, in Americaworld, there is no reason for anyone to own a firearm off duty.
Go after violent media? Nah. That's Legion of Decency, Catholic-ghetto stuff. Shudder.
Revisit our oft-idiotic drug war? Piffle. Nope. What it boils down to is that nobody at America owns a firearm or likes anyone who owns one. In policymaking, this is known as the It's Time We All Start Making Sacrifices, Starting With You, Of Course! maneuver.
Did it ever occur to them to, you know, actually talk to an actual gun owner before promulgating this un-papal bull? Apparently not. Dialogue's only for people the Catholic left respect, I guess. Nope–it's time to tear an Amendment out of the Constitution and unchain Caesar to kick doors in to remove unapproved firearms from our midst. If you like the drug war, you'll plotz over the gun war. Continue reading
Rape and Kung Fu
The hits just keep on coming regarding guns and rape courtesy of Democrats in the Colorado legislature. Democrat Representative Paul Rosenthal opines in the above video that women do not need guns to protect themselves from rape; citing mace, taser, the buddy system and judo as gun substitutes. Rosenthal apparently is so afraid of pistol packing mamas that any other alternative is preferable. Gun "control" has always had a touch of the irrational about it, as the focus is placed on an inanimate object instead of the people who wield it either for good or for ill. To keep guns out of the hands of the general public, gun "control" advocates are quite willing to see people go without the single most effective response to a violent confrontation. If this isn't a restriction on the individual liberty that most Americans prize, no restriction on liberty, in principle, can be opposed. This is government treating citizens like children who cannot be trusted to make their own decisions for their own good. Continue reading
Better to be Raped Than to be Armed
At least that is what Joe Salazar, a Democrat State Representative in Colorado, apparently believes:
"It's why we have call boxes, it's why we have safe zones, it's why we have the whistles. Because you just don't know who you're gonna be shooting at. And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop … pop around at somebody." Continue reading
America Hates the Second Amendment
No, not that America. America the heterodox Jesuit rag.
Repealing the Second Amendment will not create a culture of life in one stroke. Stricter gun laws will not create a world free of violence, in which gun tragedies never occur. We cannot repeal original sin. Though we cannot create an absolutely safe world, we can create a safer world. This does not require an absolute ban on firearms. In the post-repeal world that we envision, some people will possess guns: hunters and sportsmen, law enforcement officers, the military, those who require firearms for morally reasonable purposes. Make no mistake, however: The world we envision is a world with far fewer guns, a world in which no one has a right to own one. Some people, though far fewer, will still die from gun violence. The disturbing feeling that we have failed to do everything in our power to remove the material cause of their deaths, however, will no longer compound our grief.
The Supreme Court has ruled that whatever the human costs involved, the Second Amendment "necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table." The justices are right. But the human cost is intolerable. Repeal the Second Amendment.
Go here to read the predictable rest. It is good to see the Jesuits at America suddenly in favor of a "culture of life". Considering their editorials in support of the most pro-abortion president in our nation's history, I will take their "conversion" with a boulder of salt. Continue reading
Battle of Athens
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
The veterans of World War II are now old, and mostly frail. It is hard to remember them as most of them were during the War: young, tough and determined. After they got home, those who made it through the War, they would make many changes in our society, as they proved themselves to be one of the most consequential generations in American history. On August 1-2, 1946, veterans in Athens, Tennessee demonstrated just how consequential.
Athens is the county seat of McMinn County in Eastern Tennessee, between Knoxville and Chattanooga. Since the Civil War, up to the 1930s, McMinn County, like most of Eastern Tennessee, was largely Republican, reflecting the pro Union stance of their ancestors during the War. With the coming of the Great Depression, Democrat political machines began to take power in much of Eastern Tennessee. Many of these local machines were quite corrupt. Paul Cantrell was elected Sheriff as a Democrat in 1936. Cantrell came from a family of power and influence. Many locals suspected that his election was a fraud, with ballot boxes having been switched to give Cantrell the victory.
Cantrell after the election became virtual dictator of McMinn County. He and his deputies collected vast sums by shaking down citizens for petty offenses. Buses passing through the County would be stopped by deputies and the passengers subjected to on the spot fines for pretended misdemeanors. Cantrell fostered prostitution, gambling and bars throughout the County, carefully receiving his cut of the proceeds. After 1936 elections were farcial with ballot boxes confiscated from precincts by Cantrell's deputies and the counting, supposed to be done in public under Tennessee law, conducted behind locked doors in the McMinn County jail. With the Tennessee Democrat governor a firm political friend of Cantrell, the citizens opposed to Cantrell and his de facto dictatorship were helpless. The Justice Department investigated the County on charges of vote fraud in 1940, 1942 and 1944, but without any prosecutions. Cantrell was elected to the State Senate in 1942 and 1944. His deputy Pat Mansfield was elected sheriff. Whatever office he held, everyone in McMinn County knew that Cantrell continued to call the tune.
However, change was coming. McMinn County had a military tradition. It had sided with the Union in the Civil War, and in 1898 it had declared war against Spain two weeks before Congress did! During World War II, some 3,526 of McMinn County's young men went off to fight, representing some ten percent of the entire population of the Country. When those who survived the War came back they had changed, as Paul Cantrell was going to find out. Continue reading
The Second Amendment and Racism
Actor Danny Glover recently stepped outside of his role as an actor and assumed the roles of historian and constitutional scholar:
I don't know if you know the genesis of the right to bear arms,' said Glover, well known for his roles in the 'Lethal Weapon' franchise. 'The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans,' he said.
'A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the second amendment is.'
Glover should stick to his day job. The main concern of the Founding Fathers in regard to the Second Amendment was to provide the citizenry the ability to resist a tyrannical government. As James Madison noted in Federalist 46:
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it. Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors. Let us rather no longer insult them with the supposition that they can ever reduce themselves to the necessity of making the experiment, by a blind and tame submission to the long train of insidious measures which must precede and produce it.
Prior to the Civil War there were laws passed in many of the slave holding states attempting to restrict the right to keep and bear arms to whites. Challenges to these laws by free blacks almost always asserted the second amendment. A passage in the Dred Scott decision indicates what a preoccupation blacks carrying weapons was to slaveholders:
It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all of this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State. Continue reading
Tell Us How You Really Feel Dale!
My friend Dale Price writes insightful posts at his blog Dyspeptic Mutterings. I stop by there regularly to
steal borrow blog ideas. Dale is always very good, but when he lets himself go he is magnificent. Herewith is his post on the scape goating anti-NRA hysteria that some on Saint Blogs have been participating in:
Being marginalized in the culture war.
You see, I'm an NRA member. I do not own a Bushmaster, or any other semi-automatic weapon. As is my wife. I–and Heather–collectively own several firearms. Including–as will be set forth below–a completely-legal, bona-fide military weapon currently used by our military right now. Unlike what [damnatio memoriae] used at Newtown.
When Seconds Count, the Police Are Only Minutes Away
Bravo to Sheriff Dave Clark of Milwaukee who tells the absolute truth in the video above. I have been involved in many orders of protection where the judge issuing the order admonishes the person seeking the order that it merely is a piece of paper and that they must take precautions for their own safety. The Law is a powerful tool, but it cannot provide protection from armed assailants night and day. Continue reading
Prayer When It Suits Them
Pro-abort Senator Diane Feinstein, (D.CA) at her press conference yesterday at which she displayed the guns she wants to ban, had it begin with a prayer by Episcopalian Canon Gary Hall, who runs the laughingly entitled Episcopalian "National Cathedral" in Washington, DC. Canon Hall made news for himself earlier in the week by announcing that same-sex "marriages" would be performed at the "National Cathedral". I found it intriguing that a representative of a dying church would be tagged to baptize Feinstein's gun grabbing efforts.
The Episcopal Church is clearly rotting away.
Self-reported statistics provided by the denomination this month show that the church has dropped from 2,006,343 members in 2009 to 1,951,907 in 2010, the most recent reporting year. The loss of 54,436 members increases the annual rate of decline from 2 percent to 3 percent, outpacing the most recently reported declines in most other mainline churches. The church's 10-year change in active members has dropped 16 percent.
A branch of the otherwise fast-growing 80 million member worldwide Anglican Communion, the third largest family of Christian churches globally, the Episcopal Church had also seen a steady decrease in the number of parishes, losing or closing over 100 in 2010, as well as a drop in attendance from 682,963 in 2009 to 657,831 in 2010, a 4 percent drop. Fifty-four percent of all U.S. Episcopal Churches suffered attendance loss over the prior year. Over the last decade, attendance was down 23 percent.
The denomination, which once claimed over 3.5 million members as recently as the mid-1960s, has lost over 40 percent of membership even while the U.S. population grew by over 50 percent.
Why this is occurring is easy to determine by reading an article on Canon Gary Hall at The American Spectator.
Unlike some of his predecessors, Hall is not content to host conversational forums with authors and poets or preside over high-profile funerals like those of Gerald Ford and Neil Armstrong. From calling in December for new firearms restrictions, to announcing last week that the massive gothic church is available for gay weddings, Hall embraces liberal causes as easily as he dismisses traditional Christianity.
Previous generations of liberal Episcopal clergy often spoke in layers of obfuscation; discovering the heretical teaching buried in their writing and preaching required hours of decoding. Hall represents a younger generation of liberal Episcopalians who resemble nothing so much as Unitarian Universalists decked out in stoles and surplices; they are quick to denounce those who advocate historic Christian teaching—especially moral teaching—as intolerant perpetrators of injustice who must be silenced.
In an October interview with the Detroit Free PressHall announced that he is, "not about trying to convert someone to Christianity. I don't feel I'm supposed to convert Jews or Muslims or Hindus or Buddhists or Native Americans to Christianity so that they can be saved. That's not an issue for me."
Hall was also forthcoming about the fact that he finds common cause with those who do not profess a faith in Jesus Christ.
"I have much more in common with progressive Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists than I do with certain people in my own tradition, with fundamentalist Christians," Hall declared. "The part of Christianity I stand with is the part in which we can live with ambiguity and with pluralism." Continue reading
Guns and "All Men Are Created Equal"
Few issues demonstrate better that liberal elites and the rest of us might as well live on different planets than the Second Amendment. Frequently living in gated communities, usually working in institutions that have armed guards, and sending their kids to elite schools that have elaborate security, liberal elites are quite good at proclaiming that other people should disarm and rely on the police for protection who, as most cops will readily admit, are minutes away when seconds count. James O'Keefe, the master of conservative undercover journalism, and his Project Veritas, expose liberal hypocrisy in the above video. Contemporary liberalism is all about implementing rules for the majority to live by, rules which liberal elites themselves, and their friends and colleagues, can freely ignore. Such a system, with one set of rules for the masses who live under the laws, and another set of rules for those who effectively live above the laws, is an essential component of a tyranny in the making. It makes a mockery of the words of Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence: "all men are created equal." Let us recall these words of Abraham Lincoln: Continue reading
A Guide to the 23 Edicts for the Perplexed
We at The American Catholic, among our many other missions, aim to translate Governmentese into English with color commentary. Herewith is an example of our service in regard to President Obama's 23 executive orders on gun control, better termed edicts:
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
Do what the agencies have been supposed to be doing all along.
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
The maze of laws and regulations belched out by Congress and the Executive branch each year, and which I have overwhelmingly supported, have a deleterious impact on background checks, as they do with accomplishing anything in these United States. Shazam!
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
Fall in line States or we will deprive you of Federal money. Federalism, what's that? Continue reading
Piers Morgan on Domestic Thermonuclear War
Hattip to Jim Treacher. CNN talking head Piers Morgan, desperately trying to hold on to any shreds of credibility after his shellacking by Ben Shapiro, emitted this email:
America has over 5000 nuclear warheads. Quite hard to defend against a 'tyrannical U.S. government' with that kind of firepower.
Where to begin?
First, it is unlikely that even the most mad US President would decide to use nukes to put down a rebellion in these United States. Too many of his own supporters would be killed and the overall reaction would likely be for the rebellion to grow as a result of his action.
Second, a wide spread rebellion in the United States would likely have the sympathy of factions within the US military, if not their active support. The order to nuke Americans might lead to an active revolt by the military.
Third, in the event of a widespread rebellion, the rebels would probably quickly have nukes of their own. In the case of Obama, most ICBMs and tactical nukes are located on bases in Red states. Continue reading


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Salter 1053 Aquatronic - Glass Kitchen Scale
Measures both wet and dry ingredients
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Aquatronic Feature Lots of kitchen scales only let ya weigh dry ingredients, but not this one. The Salter 1053 digital food scale can measure both wet and dry ingredients...It's the ultimate recipe scale!
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Perfect For Recipes! If you're having a tough time getting consistent recipes, you should try weighing out each ingredient with this Salter kitchen scale. When ya weigh what you're putting into your mixes, you have a better chance of your recipes coming out the same each time. And the best part is...no more measuring cups! Just weigh your ingredient, set the scale back to zero, and weigh the next! This sleek kitchen scale can handle up to eleven pounds of ingredients.
Glass Weighing Platform This digital food scale has a glass weighing platform for measuring the weights of food portions and ingredients. Glass platforms are great at resisting stains and odors and this scale's top is one solid piece, so cleaning is a breeze.
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2015 GRPA A/B/C District III Swim Meet July 11, 2015
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2015 GRPA ABC District 3 Swim - Meet Events
GRPA A/B/C District III Swim Meet is going to be held on July 11, 2015 in Tift County.
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2015 GRPA ABC District 3 Meet Packet
Pool will open for Warm-up and Set up on Friday Afternoon. Tift County and TCRD are not responsible for tents or personal belongings.
Coaches Certification must be through one of the following groups for Swimming & Diving – NYSCA-swimming ( must have part 1 of regular certification program and an approved syllabus and instructor for part two. NYSCA Swimming cannot be done online and takes time to have class approved.), ACEP, GHSA & US SWIMMING.
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Paint Rock Valley
Average Rating - This road has been rated by 5 visitors
State: Alabama
Date Submitted: October 1, 2007
Submitted by: Tray
Motorcycle Road Length: 42 Miles
Written Directions
Begin (or end) near Gurley, AL on State Highway 72 (Trail of Tears) where US Highway 72 and AL Route 65 meet (see map). Take 65 east as it winds through the fields and farms of the valley. About 25 miles in 65 will come to a "T" where you need to take a right on to AL Route 146. Drive about 6 miles on AL 146 (this will bring you up Cumberland Mountain) and you will come to the intersection of AL 146 and AL route 79 when you top the mountain. At this intersection/stop-sign, you need to turn right on to AL 79 which will take you down the mountain into Scottsboro (the end point) and ...through a 4 way stop and back to intersect with 72.
The valley road winds beside the Paint Rock River (one that is rich in plants and animals only found there). This is not a superslab ride. If you enjoy a cruise through the country...this is for you!
Road Quality
Basically good asphalt...occasional fault here or there. Some very sharp curves that have bitten more than one biker....be careful!
Roadside Amenities
Not much to do...just lots of outdoors to see. Gas station when you top the mountain only one on your route in the valley and some just to the west of 65 on 72 in Gurley.
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|Creator: Johnny
|motorcycle_year: 1999
|motorcycle_make: Harley-Davidson
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|Comment: Hwy 65 turns left at the stop sign. You can continue on Hwy 65 for about 15 miles and it will put you in Huntland, TN. You are only about 3 miles from Hwy 64 and about halfway between Fayettville and Winchester.
From the stop sign to Huntland, the road isn't as good and there is a narrow section. It is still a nice ride.
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|Creator: Shawn
|motorcycle_year: 2008
|motorcycle_make: Kawasaki
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|Comment: I live only a few miles from this road. That road in particular has become very well known to the sportbike people in the Huntsville area- so beware if you come to explore on a nice weekend. A really good loop for those starting on HWY 72- take this road it's entire length into Huntland,TN (TN 97), then HWY 64 east to Winchester, at Winchester take the exit for 41A up to Sewanee, at Sewanee turn right on TN 56- which becomes AL 117 as it winds through Crow Creek Valley and ends up intersecting HWY 72 again at Stevenson, AL.
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|motorcycle_year: 2008
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|Comment: we went to lynchburg along this route (65) up to huntland. very nice road and lots of fun. be careful, lots of twists and turns, specially on the tn side.
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|Comment: After you turn onto 146, take the first left (CR9). Stay on this road for about 5-6 miles (Right at the fork) and it will take you to a hunting resort based around this huge, decomisioned satelite. I think it's a government one from the cold war era. Interesting though.
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|Comment: I agree totally. but next time turn left at AL.46 / AL. 79 go about 1 mile, turn right on jackson county 33, in the fall crow mountain apple orchard has the biggest and best apples south of the smokies. this will take by it and down the mountain to hollywood . no not california ,but alabama . end back on 72 north of scottsboro. happy trails.
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Listen to Geno Auriemma; it's time for change
So Geno Auriemma went and did it again. He stepped in it, all right. The same man who was illuminated last March in a terrific Deadspin profile that began with him sitting in his University of Connecticut office rhetorically asking, "Does this look like the office of a f------ egomaniac?" and, before that, used to delight in engaging iconic Tennessee coach Pat Summit in a cold war that had no precedent in their sport -- contemporaries of John Wooden or Dean Smith never openly mocked them like Auriemma did Summit -- that guy went and said earlier this week that women's basketball should think about lowering the rims. Which sent a lot of people to their fainting couches, angry about all he seemingly implied.
Summit is barely retired now, and now here's Geno, indisputably alone now at the very top of the game, essentially offering up what could be construed as an insider admission that the worst critiques the women's game has always had to beat back might actually be true -- that the women's game doesn't measure up to the men's game because it's played below the rim, because they don't shoot as well from the field percentage-wise, because most women can't dunk and the ones who can, won't.
"I'm not advocating lowering the rim so women can dunk -- I could care less about that, I could care less about that," Auriemma repeated Wednesday evening, speaking on a cell phone from a Connecticut airport as he waited to board a flight. "It's not about a guy thing/girl thing/women's game/men's game thing. That is not what this is about at all.
"People need to get off that crap."
Auriemma was still refusing to back up an inch, but he was interested in elaborating on exactly what he did mean. And he deserves to be heard out because, for starters, in addition to his seven NCAA titles and 13 trips to the Final Four, the 2012 Olympic gold medal he just coached the U.S. team to, the record-setting winning streaks and world-class players he's churned out, this is indisputable: One of the bedrock ideas he brought to coaching his UConn teams nearly three decades ago has always been, "I don't coach women. I coach basketball players." That's been his gender-blind philosophy from the day he showed up and the record says it is indeed what he does better than anyone else.
The irony of any suggestion that Auriemma might be a traitor in women's basketball's midst is that his UConn teams are perennially, consistently, and without fail the best example of all the very same traits that women's game actually loves about itself: selfless passing, constant motion, fundamental soundness, unapologetic competitiveness and an insistence on excellence. It should come as no surprise that Auriemma is a great admirer of Red Holzman's great Knicks squads, one of the all-time great exemplars of teamwork in sports. And at times, let's face it, Auriemma has been as neurotic as any female coach about how coaching women rather than men is devalued, and seen as some lesser calling.
But here's the thing I agree with him on. Women's basketball has also been rolling out that old John Wooden quote about how much he preferred their game to the men's for so long it feels older than Wooden was himself. And Auriemma may be the only person in the game with the stones -- not just the stature -- to look at a troubling aside like the last women's Final Four in Indianapolis and essentially tell women's basketball, "Hello? Are you not as concerned about this as I am? It's time to get over ourselves. This is our wake-up call."
"At some point we need to grow the game and we're not -- we didn't sell out the Final Four in Indianapolis, and Notre Dame, which plays right down the road, was in it!" Auriemma said. "So we need to start catching up with our game to some realities." Like? "For one," he shot back, "we're in competition for the entertainment dollar. And the reality is all these athletic directors in a lot of places aren't getting a return on their money from women's basketball. It's cheaper and easier to have women's volleyball or tennis team."
Auriemma says lowering the rim, like his other idea of reducing the shot clock from 30 seconds to the 24-second time limit they use in the WNBA and international game, isn't some half-cocked idea he just blurted out on a TV show Tuesday for the first time publicly. Auriemma says he and Doug Bruno, the women's coach at DePaul, have been kicking around the idea for months and when Bruno first brought it up, "Guess what? I was against it."
So what changed?
"One of my things is, what's been tried in the women's game in the last 10 years that you can point to and say that really brought in a whole new group of fans? Huh?" Auriemma said. "Seriously. I want someone to call me and give me a list of what that's been. They can't. Instead, it's always this stuff about the 'beauty' of the game, the 'sanctity' of the game, the purists saying, 'We don't want to be like the men.' Well, who ever said that? I never said that either! The reason I'm suggesting this is not the dunking -- it's the exciting play around the rim. And we don't have that. And we could. It's about getting exciting players and athletes we have around the net. It could increase scoring. Shooting percentages. All of that."
Yes, I tell him, but you know what people are barking back about you, right? They're saying the full range of what you said was a tacit admission that women's game is "inferior." They're saying here comes another know-it-all guy preposterously telling women what's "good" for them rather than trusting women can determine it for themselves, and acknowledging all the baggage women athletes still face.
"But this is my livelihood too!" Auriemma answered. "Our program is going to stay great no matter what women's basketball overall decides to do. But look: people in all sports are trying to create more excitement in the game. Why? Because that's what the average fan wants. We're in competition for the entertainment dollar and our fan base seems to be shrinking. Lowering the rims is not about diminishing talent of women. It's not cheapening the game. It's enhancing it.
"But I guess the person that lowered the mound Bob Gibson pitched on because he was so dominant -- I'm sure they were stupid too, right? The person that had the idea for the designated hitter -- he was dumb. In basketball not so long ago somebody said, 'We're gonna have a line on the court. And you'll get three points instead of two if you make a basket from here.' Where's that person today? Or the inventor of the shot clock -- same thing. That wasn't so bad. There was a time when they tried to ban dunking in the men's college game [because of Lew Alcindor's dominance]. Remember that? How'd THAT turn out?"
The passage of time and players from Julius Erving to Michael Jordan showed it was sheer folly.
"Things have been done to alter the game, or change games, forever," Auriemma continued. "So why not give women's basketball the same opportunity for that kind of success?
"Anybody that thinks it through is going to agree with me."
Well not exactly. I do agree, for reasons I'll get to in a second. But the stony silence within the game since Auriemma's suggestion to lower the rim from 10 to perhaps nine feet has been telling.
Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer declined an ESPN.com request for comment. A USC spokesman said head coach Michael Cooper, the former Laker who's been vocal about men's prejudices toward the women's game, would try to call back Wednesday night. He didn't. Varied attempts to reach retired WNBA and Olympic star Lisa Leslie, one of the greatest, smartest, classiest players the game has seen, eventually brought a reply through an L.A. Sparks spokesman that Leslie didn't want to comment. An insider who reps players like Diana Taurasi, Tamika Catchings and Seimone Augustus never responded to a voice message or emails.
A WNBA spokesman said the league would have no comment, either. Were lower rims ever considered by the league in the past? Again, no comment.
The only actual peep from a WNBA official that I could find in the first 48 hours after Auriemma's remarks was a tweet by Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve, who wrote: "Lowering the rims can be considered, but WIDENING the minds of many would go a long way too." And she's right. Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale, a longtime friend and foil of Auriemma's (they'd have a future as a Mars/Venus comedy team if this basketball stuff ever ceases to work out) also stepped up and emailed back this response:
"I don't think that he's really serious. Perhaps his team is so good that he had nothing to rant about and he got bored. Changing goal heights would be a facility nightmare. Every basketball goal on every court in every neighborhood and rec gym and high school and arena in America is 10 feet tall. The last thing that our sport needs to do is make it difficult for young athletes to find a place to play."
The logistical problem is an extremely valid consideration. It would be a lot tougher to hurdle than women's current use of a one-inch smaller ball at every level from high school to the pros.
But I agree with Auriemma's floating the idea of lowering the rim if only because I agree with Auriemma's basic premise: There is something about women's sports that's a bit broken.
Things are undeniably better than they've ever been. But the great post-Title IX movement that lifted women's sports into something that could be this big and dynamic and provide a professional landing spot for women is undeniably sputtering.
Fairly or not, the perception is the WNBA continues to exist only at the whim of its original sugar daddy, NBA commissioner David Stern. Women's soccer hasn't been able to springboard off the many successes of the beloved U.S. women's team and establish a domestic pro league that has survived for long. The women's golf tour is shrinking here and moving events overseas. Ominous echoes of the old gripes that women tennis players don't "deserve" the same prize money as men have recently been revived in that game, 40 years after Billie Jean King exploded the argument. There are now signs that male tennis players themselves are cleaving away from supporting their female contemporaries' hard-won footing.
Do you know King originally won the argument? By invoking the same word then that Auriemma is borrowing now: She said, "We're entertainers, not just athletes."
And all of this is happening even though women play a lot of sports, buy a lot of sports stuff and consume a lot of sports as entertainment. The NFL's fan base is nearly equally split between men and women. But not enough people watch women's games.
So, after you get past the metrics and the undeniable prejudices and tiresome reminders that many male fans who are exposed to women's sports come away exclaiming "Why, I had no idea, that was great!" -- there is still this: What if the stinging truth is the old politics and attitudes that still swirl around women's games among women themselves are indeed partly to blame?
What if that's also holding the game back instead of slingshotting it forward?
King made a point when she beat Bobby Riggs. But as I've written previously, including here in 2010, I'm tired of symbolic barrier breaking. As the list of athletes willing to challenge themselves in cameos against the men has grown -- Manon Rheaume, Ann Meyers, Hayley Wickenheiser, Annika Sorenstam, among others -- the hoped-for change in the public's or athletes' mindsets often hasn't advanced as dramatically.
Here's where Auriemma makes perfect sense. What's so bad about playing great basketball and not being allergic to putting on a more entertaining show? WNBA and college players routinely dunk in warmup lines. Why not throw down in a game for the same reason you break someone's ankles with a crossover dribble: just because you can?
To me, the example that best supports Auriemma's lower-the-rim remark isn't from basketball at all. It's the memory of the Silver Bullets women's baseball team that briefly went on tour in the mid-1990s. The entire concept was -- how can I say this politely? -- insipidly stupid and offensive at near every turn.
The squad was comprised largely of former female softball players who were asked to compete on baseball fields with dimensions constructed to test the superior hitting and throwing and running abilities of men. They were given a couple of weeks to learn how to hit curveballs or sliders that men had grown up hitting all of their lives before being trotted out on a little barnstorming tour in games against college or semi-pro players, and hoisted up as some authentic yardstick of how "far" women athletes have come.
And I hated it.
Because it was not.
The debate about the height of the basketball rim strikes me the same way. A 10-foot rim is challenging but not impossible for men. The same isn't physically true for most women. That's not a fault to be ashamed of -- that's a fact. So, again, if we're talking theoretically now -- forgetting the logistics Coale mentioned -- what's so awful about making the women's basketball rim more in scale to even the best women athletes' physical abilities? Why is that seen as a failing rather than just pragmatic? Unless -- could it be? -- we've internalized too much of that crap that gets said about us, too. Doesn't history also show that sometimes you have to wade through junk like that to get to something better?
You know what King said way back when, when tennis promoter Jack Kramer sneered, "Nobody's going to pay to watch you birds play?" She said get out of my way.
As Auriemma noted in his original remarks, changes already have been made to the tees and yardages in women's golf, the net in women's volleyball and the basepaths in women's softball, which are 60 feet, not 90.
And even men do occasionally admit their games need fluffing up. It's not a gender high crime. Baseball teams move in outfield fences all the time. The NHL did away with the center-ice red line and it's only made offenses more thrilling. The NFL gets tweaked for getting rid of nearly every last vestige of pass defense, and yet the game's popularity has never been higher. Quarterbacks are racking up pinball-machine numbers.
Auriemma may not be the perfect messenger for all this for some folks' tastes. But the message itself is a provocative and valid one. There are indeed times when women's sports need to ask if perhaps we need to get over ourselves a little. Or if some of the things women's sports cling to are actually part of what's holding things back.
Many men can remember the first day they dunked as easily as they recall their birthday. Yet the women who can dunk feel pressure to shy away from doing everything they're capable of? And that helps well, what exactly? Is that not an artificial ceiling of our own making? Not to mention one that's inoculated the women's game from nothing. Zero. Zilch.
"A lot of these critics saying lowering the rim would 'cheapen' the game are men -- the same guys who couldn't play using a four-foot rim, let alone an eight-foot rim," Auriemma shot back. "So what?"
But as Auriemma keeps saying, this isn't really about dunking at all. It's about whether women in sports need to look at themselves differently.
And if you ask me, it's not so bad that Auriemma was willing to rattle the cage by vowing Tuesday to formally propose the lower rim, plus some other changes, to the NCAA rules committee this spring.
Time was running out on this conversation with Auriemma. He needed to go catch his plane. Before he hung up he said that he's already told his UConn team they're going to test drive playing on lower rims this spring just for fun, and he claimed they're "excited." Then he paused a split-second and acknowledged, "Of course, they may come back to me when we're done and say, 'Coach. You're an idiot.'"
No need to wait for that.
It's covered. Others have already accused Auriemma of the same thing.


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