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Jeff Early
Nov. 27, 2012
By Dustin Carlisle
CARBONDALE, Ill. - Southern Illinois hosts Fresno State on Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. in the final game of the MVC-Mountain West Challenge Series. Saluki Athletics is running a Pack The House 50 percent off ticket special.
In addition to the men's basketball action, the Student-Athlete Advisory Council is spearheading a food drive to benefit the Murphysboro Food Pantry, which supports approximately 60 percent of the population in Jackson County who are in need of assistance.
Non-perishable food items will be collected at the entrances of SIU Arena, and donations of food may also be dropped off in the Troutt-Wittmann Academic and Training Center through Friday.
Saluki Athletics will also be honoring Wounded Warriors from the United States military during the game. At halftime there will be a Wounded Warrior and Korean War veteran recognition. Last year, the Salukis honored World War II vets.
Head coach Barry Hinson met with the media prior to Tuesday's practice.
Q: "How big of a priority is it for you to stop Adam Huddleston (Fresno State guard)?"
"I think we have three priorities. We have Huddleston, (Kevin) Olekaibe, and (Kevin) Foster. All three of those guys right now could start for any team in the Missouri Valley Conference. The thing that concerns us about Olekaibe and the thing that concerns us more so about Huddleston is that they've got (3-point) range beyond NBA range. They'll pull up from 30 to 32 feet with comfort and we have to make sure that we know where they are at all times on the floor. I've said all along, for our fans specifically, is that this is going to be one heck of a game. It's always going to be a heck of a game when you have really good players you're going up against, and if it weren't for the Mountain West Challenge, we probably wouldn't have an opportunity to get Fresno State here to play in our building, and consequently we need to take advantage of it."
"They're fast. They're really fast and I think the thing that we have to be aware more so than anything is this is a team that won at Cal Poly and we saw what Cal Poly did this weekend with 11th-ranked UCLA. This is a good basketball team. Are they better than Saint Louis? They're a different team than Saint Louis, but they're certainly as good and the best part of this is we get to play them in front of our home crowd."
Q: "Do you feel like you have to score in transition to win this game?"
"I just feel like we have to score. I don't know how. Sometimes, I'm not concerned with how we score. I've always said this, I'm not concerned with who is scoring on our team, it's just how we score. We're not scoring from the inside right now and that bothers me. We've got to score from the inside-outside and part of that is we never throw the ball inside. Hopefully, we'll do a better job of that against Fresno and that's not a scouting tip. I think everybody wants to get the ball inside. We need to make layups. We missed 13 layups in the first half against Saint Louis. You can't miss 13 layups and expect to win a game."
Q: " How do you get Dantiel (Daniels) going early?"
"The one thing about Dantiel that he's got be ready for that we're practicing is they (Fresno State) will double Dantiel and they will double him right from the start. Can Dantiel handle the pressure without turning the ball over, and can he pick and choose the right times to score? So, a lot of that depends on when we get him the ball, where we get him the ball and can he handle that pressure of the double team?"
Q: "Has he done well passing out of the double team?"
" No, he has one assist and nine turnovers. That pretty much shows why every team is going to double him right now. He's turnover prone. He has done well off and on, but when you turn the lights on and run other guys in there, especially (Fresno State center Robert) Upshaw that's a little bit different there."
Q: "Will (Antonio) Bryer play tomorrow?"
"Bryer is scheduled to play tomorrow, but we will not start him. We'll start Dantiel Daniels."
Q: "How has Jeff (Early) played in his first four games?"
"Well, you know what I think Jeff now, the one guy that rolled his eyes when we talked about this hybrid position was Jeff Early, and he's not rolling eyes anymore. I think Jeff's bought into this hybrid position. We really need Josh Swan to buy into it. That will help us. It will be very difficult to play Jeff Early 30 to 35 minutes a game. We don't want to do that. Jeff may think he wants to do that, but when you get to games in late January and early February, you can't have guys play 30 to 35 minutes a game and that also goes for Kendal (Brown-Surles). We are really searching for a back-up point guard right now. We need to find whoever that person is going to be, and right now the leading candidate, believe it or not is going to be Colby Long."
Q: "Coach, you challenge your fans, but you said you wouldn't do that without challenging your players. What is the challenge for your players?"
"No question you are right. I've told our players this. I cannot go into a media room and ask or challenge our fan base to come here and we come out and don't play hard. We just cannot do that, and I like the old Head and Shoulders commercial, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. I think it's imperative that when we come out of that tunnel regardless who we play, when we play, and where we play that we give our fan base, our school, our community, and our region a reason to come watch us play, because when you walk out of this building, regardless of what that scoreboard says and say that those kids played their tails off and are extremely unselfish. You know what, I kind of like that and they'll come back, but if you're selfish and lazy, then you know what, we don't deserve to get the fans back and I think that we have to earn that respect as well."
Q: "How important is that sixth man to you coach?"
"In any sport, regardless what you play, whether it be football, whether it be basketball, whether it be baseball you've got to have some type of support system. When you're not very good, you got to rely on energy and your energy when you're at home most definitely comes from your home crowd. That's the most important thing for us right now. This crew out here, very few of these players have ever ran out of that tunnel when there's been enormous amount of energy in this building. You know we're ninth in the (Missouri) Valley right now in attendance. Southern Illinois University of Carbondale is not ninth in anything we do. If we're ninth in attendance right now, then that's on us. That's on me as a head coach, that's on our players to get the fans back and thank goodness we have an administration around here that felt the need to give an opportunity for fans to come see us play with a discounted rate. It's everything we do to earn the respect of our fans and to get them back here."
Q: "What can you tell us about Swan's MRI?"
"We don't know. He has a second MRI tonight. I don't even know if they'll read the results by tomorrow. I hope they do, because we'd certainly like the opportunity to play him if we needed to."
Q: "Can you continue to be successful at small-ball?"
"Well, you guys are the only ones who can answer how we're doing in small0ball, because I wasn't here last year. You'll have to be the ones to compare. When you're plus-8 in rebounding, and everybody on the floor is pretty near my size, I think that says a lot. They don't have my quickness, but they have a little more height on me."
Q: "Can you assess Kendal's play this year?"
"I think Kendal has done everything we want him to do with the exception of two things. I don't think he guards a lick. I think he's lazy on defense and lazy on the tongue. What I mean by that is he needs to talk more. We had breakdowns the other night, and that's when your quarterback tells you what to do. I need Kendal to be Peyton Manning. I need him to get to the line of scrimmage and start talking every time he's on the floor, and right now, he's not guarding a lick. He's just playing that ole' defense we talked about a couple weeks ago from Tijuana."
Q: "How important is it to get to the free throw line?"
"It's hard to get to the free throw line when you never throw it inside and you're not aggressive. That's why you saw 3-of-4 in Saint Louis. Everybody wanted to say it was the officials, it wasn't the officials fault, it was our fault. We never got to the line. We never got the ball inside."
Q: "How well has Desmar done with getting his shots?"
"Well, Desmar is shooting 14 percent from the 3-point line, and he's not much better, I think 32 percent, from the field. So his shot selection has not been very good. He's not shooting the shots we want him to shoot. If he doesn't start doing that, his playing time will start to dwindle. Being a good 3-point shooter is two things -- practicing it and knowing when to take the shot. Right now, he doesn't have either of those intangibles."


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King and Crown Prince send condolences to Chinese President after earthquake
April 14, 2010
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has sent a cable of condolences to Chinese President Hu Jintao following a devastating earthquake that struck his country today and resulted in deaths, injuries and property damage. In his message, the King offered in his own name and on behalf of the Government of the Saudi Arabia and the Saudi people his deep condolences to the government and people of China. A similar cable was also sent to President Hu by Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz.

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|The main objective of the present study is to understand different mechanisms involved in the production and evolution of plasma by the pulsed laser ablation and radio frequency magnetron sputtering. These two methods are of particular interest, as these are well accomplished methods used for surface coatings, nanostructure fabrications and other thin film devices fabrications. Material science researchers all over the world are involved in the development of devices based on transparent conducting oxide (TCO) thin films. Our laboratory has been involved in the development of TCO devices like thin film diodes using zinc oxide (ZnO) and zinc magnesium oxide (ZnMgO), thin film transistors (TFT's) using zinc indium oxide and zinc indium tin oxide, and some electroluminescent (EL) devices by pulsed laser ablation and RF magnetron sputtering.In contrast to the extensive literature relating to pure ZnO and other thin films produced by various deposition techniques, there appears to have been relatively little effort directed towards the characterization of plasmas from which such films are produced. The knowledge of plasma dynamics corresponding to the variations in the input parameters of ablation and sputtering, with the kind of laser/magnetron used for the generation of plasma, is limited. To improve the quality of the deposited films for desired application, a sound understanding of the plume dynamics, physical and chemical properties of the species in the plume is required. Generally, there is a correlation between the plume dynamics and the structural properties of the films deposited. Thus the study of the characteristics of the plume contributes to a better understanding and control of the deposition process itself. The hydrodynamic expansion of the plume, the composition, and SIze distribution of clusters depend not only on initial conditions of plasma production but also on the ambient gas composition and pressure. The growth and deposition of the films are detennined by the thermodynamic parameters of the target material and initial conditions such as electron temperature and density of the plasma.For optimizing the deposition parameters of various films (stoichiometric or otherwise), in-situ or ex-situ monitoring of plasma plume dynamics become necessary for the purpose of repeatability and reliability. With this in mind, the plume dynamics and compositions of laser ablated and RF magnetron sputtered zinc oxide plasmas have been investigated. The plasmas studied were produced at conditions employed typically for the deposition of ZnO films by both methods. Apart from this two component ZnO plasma, a multi-component material (lead zirconium titanate) was ablated and plasma was characterized.
|Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|The present thesis can be divided into three areas:1) the fabrication of a low temperature photo-luminescence and photoconductivity measuring unit 2) photo-luminescence in the chalcopyrite CulnSez and CulnS2 system for defect and composition analysis and 3) photo-luminescence and photo-conductivity of In:JS3. This thesis shows that photo-luminescence is one of most essential semiconductor characterization tool for a scientific group working on photovoltaics. Tools which can be robust, non-destructive, requiring minimal sample preparation for analysis and most informative of the device applications are sought after by industries and this thesis is towards establishing photo-luminescence as "THE" tool for semiconductor characterization. The possible application of photo-luminescence as a tool for compositional and quality analysis of semiconductor thin films has been worked upon by this thesis. Photo-conductivity complement photo-luminescence and together they provide all the information required for the fabrication of an opto-electronic device.
|Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|ACCURATE sensing of vehicle position and attitude is still a very challenging problem in many mobile robot applications. The mobile robot vehicle applications must have some means of estimating where they are and in which direction they are heading. Many existing indoor positioning systems are limited in workspace and robustness because they require clear lines-of-sight or do not provide absolute, driftfree measurements.The research work presented in this dissertation provides a new approach to position and attitude sensing system designed specifically to meet the challenges of operation in a realistic, cluttered indoor environment, such as that of an office building, hospital, industrial or warehouse. This is accomplished by an innovative assembly of infrared LED source that restricts the spreading of the light intensity distribution confined to a sheet of light and is encoded with localization and traffic information. This Digital Infrared Sheet of Light Beacon (DISLiB) developed for mobile robot is a high resolution absolute localization system which is simple, fast, accurate and robust, without much of computational burden or significant processing. Most of the available beacon's performance in corridors and narrow passages are not satisfactory, whereas the performance of DISLiB is very encouraging in such situations. This research overcomes most of the inherent limitations of existing systems.The work further examines the odometric localization errors caused by over count readings of an optical encoder based odometric system in a mobile robot due to wheel-slippage and terrain irregularities. A simple and efficient method is investigated and realized using an FPGA for reducing the errors. The detection and correction is based on redundant encoder measurements. The method suggested relies on the fact that the wheel slippage or terrain irregularities cause more count readings from the encoder than what corresponds to the actual distance travelled by the vehicle.The application of encoded Digital Infrared Sheet of Light Beacon (DISLiB) system can be extended to intelligent control of the public transportation system. The system is capable of receiving traffic status input through a GSM (Global System Mobile) modem. The vehicles have infrared receivers and processors capable of decoding the information, and generating the audio and video messages to assist the driver. The thesis further examines the usefulness of the technique to assist the movement of differently-able (blind) persons in indoor or outdoor premises of his residence.The work addressed in this thesis suggests a new way forward in the development of autonomous robotics and guidance systems. However, this work can be easily extended to many other challenging domains, as well.
|Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|Rhodamine 6G and Rhodamine B dye mixture doped polymer optical fiber amplifier (POFA), which can operate in a broad wavelength region (60 nm), has been successfully fabricated and tested. Tunable operation of the amplifier over a broad wavelength region is achieved by mixing different ratios of the dyes. The dye doped POFA is pumped axially using 532 nm, 10 ns laser pulses from a frequency doubled Q-switched Nd: YAG laser and the signals are taken from an optical parametric oscillator. A maximum gain of 22.3 dB at 617 nm wavelength has been obtained for a 7 cm long dye mixture doped POFA. The effects of pump energy and length of the fiber on the performance of the fiber amplifier are also studied. There exists an optimum length for which the amplifier gain is at a maximum value.
|The chaotic dynamics of directly modulated semiconductor lasers with delayed optoelectronic feedback is studied numerically. The effects of positive and negative delayed optoelectronic feedback in producing chaotic outputs from such lasers with nonlinear gain reduction in its optimum value range is investigated using bifurcation diagrams. The results are confirmed by calculating the Lyapunov exponents. A negative delayed optoelectronic feedback configuration is found to be more effective in inducing chaotic dynamics to such systems with nonlinear gain reduction factor in the practical value range.
|Electromagnetic tomography has been applied to problems in nondestructive evolution, ground-penetrating radar, synthetic aperture radar, target identification, electrical well logging, medical imaging etc. The problem of electromagnetic tomography involves the estimation of cross sectional distribution dielectric permittivity, conductivity etc based on measurement of the scattered fields. The inverse scattering problem of electromagnetic imaging is highly non linear and ill posed, and is liable to get trapped in local minima. The iterative solution techniques employed for computing the inverse scattering problem of electromagnetic imaging are highly computation intensive. Thus the solution to electromagnetic imaging problem is beset with convergence and computational issues. The attempt of this thesis is to develop methods suitable for improving the convergence and reduce the total computations for tomographic imaging of two dimensional dielectric cylinders illuminated by TM polarized waves, where the scattering problem is defmed using scalar equations. A multi resolution frequency hopping approach was proposed as opposed to the conventional frequency hopping approach employed to image large inhomogeneous scatterers. The strategy was tested on both synthetic and experimental data and gave results that were better localized and also accelerated the iterative procedure employed for the imaging. A Degree of Symmetry formulation was introduced to locate the scatterer in the investigation domain when the scatterer cross section was circular. The investigation domain could thus be reduced which reduced the degrees of freedom of the inverse scattering process. Thus the entire measured scattered data was available for the optimization of fewer numbers of pixels. This resulted in better and more robust reconstructions of the scatterer cross sectional profile. The Degree of Symmetry formulation could also be applied to the practical problem of limited angle tomography, as in the case of a buried pipeline, where the ill posedness is much larger. The formulation was also tested using experimental data generated from an experimental setup that was designed. The experimental results confirmed the practical applicability of the formulation.
|Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
|In the present study, radio frequency plasma polymerization technique is used to prepare thin films of polyaniline, polypyrrole, poly N-methyl pyrrole and polythiophene. The thermal characterization of these films is carried out using transverse probe beam deflection method. Electrical conductivity and band gaps are also determined. The effect of iodine doping on electrical conductivity and the rate of heat diffusion is explored.Bulk samples of poyaniline and polypyrrole in powder form are synthesized by chemical route. Open photoacoustic cell configuration is employed for the thermal characterization of these samples. The effect of acid doping on heat diffusion in these bulk samples of polyaniline is also investigated. The variation of electrical conductivity of doped polyaniline and polypyrrole with temperature is also studied for drawing conclusion on the nature of conduction in these samples. In order to improve the processability of polyaniline and polypyrrole, these polymers are incorporated into a host matrix of poly vinyl chloride. Measurements of thermal diffusivity and electrical conductivity of these samples are carried out to investigate the variation of these quantities as a function of the content of polyvinyl chloride.
|Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
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For some reason, I recently recalled a nationally televised political satire, a play from the early 1960s (set in the 1950s) called "The Girls in Room 509." After efforts to find either a DVD of the broadcast or Broadway show production, I was able to secured a copy of the script from www.SamuelFrench.com and will shortly show how little things have changed in this quick witted comedy by Howard Teichmann (also co-author of the 1950s movie "The Solid Gold Cadillac").
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"The Girls in Room 509" is about a formerly wealthy aunt and her niece who checked into a then-fashionable New York hotel in 1932 just after Franklin Roosevelt won the Presidency and refused to emerge until a Republican was in the Oval Office. Artistically, they are the predecessors of Thurston and Lovey Howell - but on steroids - and eccentric to a raucus fault. When a story is written about their fading glory - and fading fortunes - in a New York newspaper, they draw the attention of a would-be journalist who gains access to their place and helps them discover that they are far from broke because their late father owned the patents for air conditioning and nylon. This news brings the attention of various fortune hunters - including separate visits from the National Chairmen of both the Republican and Democratic Parties. Both chairmen are played by the same actor wearing the same clothes. This all takes place in the buildup to President Eisenhower's second run for office in 1956. And the chairmen find that although these two ladies haven't read a newspaper or listened to the radio since 1932, they have a keen understanding of politics.
Here then is part of the conversation the older of the two women, Aunt Hettie Van der Wyck, has with Mr. Allen, the GOP Chairman:
Aunt Hettie: Mr. Allen, won't you sit down? Now, as for us going to a political convention, I'm very much afraid that is out of the question. My niece and I are quite shy, and I'm sure there are a great many people there. Besides, I'm not at all sure you'd want me there. I might ask questions.
GOP Chairman: What kind of questions?
Aunt Hettie: Where do you stand on taxes?
GOP Chairman: Oh, well. That's fine. Taxes? We're against them.
Aunt Hettie: Splendid.
GOP Chairman: Miss Van der Wyck, the Republican Party has always been against taxes.
Aunt Hettie: Good. And now that we're in Washington, we've eliminated them?
GOP Chairman: Well - not all of them.
Aunt Hettie: But some of them?
GOP Chairman: Uh-yes. I think that's safe to say. We've eliminated some of them.
Aunt Hettie: How gratifying. Which ones?
GOP Chairman: Which ones would you like to hear about?
Aunt Hettie: The Income Tax. Is it gone?
GOP Chairman: What else would you like to hear about?
Aunt Hettie: It's not gone, then?
GOP Chairman: Well- uh - Miss Van der Wyck, these are unusual times.
Aunt Hettie: What about the gasoline tax?
GOP Chairman: And such times call for increased sacrifices.
Aunt Hettie: The inheritance tax?
GOP Chairman: We must re-affirm our beliefs.
Aunt Hettie: Any of the Federal excise taxes?
GOP Chairman: We must pledge anew our loyalties.
Aunt Hettie: At least you've repealed the godd***n Social Security Tax?
GOP Chairman: We must see to it, Miss Van der Wyck, that our over-all superiority and leadership is maintained.
Aunt Hettie: In what? Taxes?
As the conversation goes from bad to worse, the GOP Chairman accuses Aunt Hettie of "not knowing what's going on." To this she replies:
Aunt Hettie: Oh, I know what's going on, Mr. Allen. What's going on is the same thing as when the Democrats were in. The only things that are different are the names of the politicians. Oh, there's a difference between Republican and Democratic voters, but not between their politicians.Those vultures not only stand for the same principles, they also have the same goals: the first is to get elected and the second is to stay elected.
This was written over 55 years ago - or was it 55 minutes ago?
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This is a great post! The bottom line is a majority of elected officials are all for a big federal government. The Democrats want it even bigger and the Republicans just think they can manage it better. Bottom line Americans are the losers. The Party's are beginning to lose a lot of the American voters in general. Problem with only 2 choices means we are screwed. If we start a 3rd party it will guarantee these same two major parties will just switch power every few years and the American citizen again gets screwed.
The Communists infiltrated the Democrat Party in the 1960s, and now have gotten some via George Soros into the fold (i.e. John McCain) - we have few people in government and education that can be trusted to do the right thing - namely gut the government agencies that were not set up at the beginning of our Republic, get the Federal government out of our educational system and yes, vet those teaching our children and those in government as to whom they are loyal - our American Constitution - or the Communist Party.
I have been saying for years that these folks are just flip--sides of the same ol' rusty coin...and the coin is a counterfeit!
Howard Teichmann was very perceptive. Nothing has changed in fifty years but the size of the national debt.
Jack, great piece.
Wilafret: I thought I was the only one who was SCREAMING Term Limits. Of course, that would be just the first step!
This is a good reason for term limits on all the positions held by politicians.
We have allowed our politicians to become Royalty making us peasants under their rule. How dumb was that?
No new sins, just new spins!
You are so correct Michael J. Larkin. He did not want Congress to give him a pay check but they force it upon him. Also he turn down many jobs in the private section cause all they wanted was someone from the president office with status. We should demand all politicians give up their retirement and live off their saving like the people do.
At lease Congressman Bill Posey of Florida has not taken a raise since he has been in office. He gives his pay raise back to the treasure everytime the politicians vote for a pay raise.
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Prosecution rests in case against homeless man accused of shooting Howard County police officer
LAUREL, Md. - The prosecution has rested in the attempted murder trial of a homeless man charged with shooting a Howard County officer last fall.
Stephon Prather, 30, is also charged with assault and other charges related to a shootout with three police officers near the 9500 block of Washington Boulevard in Laurel on Oct. 23, 2013.
Officer Steven Houk, who had worked for the department for two years, was struck in the abdomen and taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Prather was arrested the following morning after authorities found him walking along Washington Boulevard . He had been wounded during the shootout.
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tag description
in delcious people's tags grow together among others by allowing tags to be described. I do not see the possibility to describe tags in Diigo. Hence the suggestion.
Thanks for your suggestion. We will take into consideration.
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Stuart Pochhammer commented
Critical feature for me too.
Alexey Tarasevich commented
Motivation summary:
+ user clarifies a tag purpose for himself
+ user will better remember, which tag he needs to use
+ user will better remember, where to search an information he need
+ related information will be less scattered between similar tags
+ tag description can serve as knowledge accumulator for the subject of research
This feature is also present in stackoverflow.com
Though in diigo.com it might be even more valuable. Typically when a person "creates" a tag the meaning of the tag is quite vague. E.g. due to that I tend to create tags that most of time duplicate one another (e.g. goal and goal_setting). To avoid the duplication (an advanced) user might need to plan ahead when does he or she need the page to reread. He might put this intent in the tag description, e.g. goal="i will read the pages, when I need to plan my actions to improve my goal setting skill".
Currently I use notes as replacement for the tag description. The problem is that the notes tend to be hidden among the links. So I 1) =Use Special Titles= 2) Filter by "notes" to see the description immediately. So the proposed feature will make the process more explicit and convenient.
Peter J. Bury commented
in #diigo we need #tag #description feature to explain others the tags used and start using the same.


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What sets East Timor (also called Timor Leste) apart is that it is one of the world's newest nations, gaining independence from Indonesia in 1999. Over the past couple of years it has had to rebuild its economy from scratch, after 25 years of a brutal occupation that demolished farms, crops and factories and imprisoned or slaughtered hundreds of thousands of citizens.
The eastern part of the island of Timor was a Portuguese colony until Portugal withdrew in 1975. Meanwhile the Dutch, who withdrew in the 1950s, colonized the neighboring Dutch East Indies. The Republic of Indonesia was formed - a large and disparate archipelago predominantly inhabited by Muslims.
The Indonesians, who already claimed the western part of Timor, lost no time in annexing East Timor and subjugating its mostly Roman Catholic population.
After this occupation, coffee production, which under the Portuguese totaled 45,000 tons of Arabica beans each year, shrank to around 8,000 tons.
East Timor has the ideal climate, rich soil and high altitude for growing premium Arabica. The terrain is mostly mountainous, averaging more than 7,000 feet above sea level. Importantly, East Timor does not suffer from the pests common to coffee plants in other continents, which means the crop is grown organically without chemicals or pesticides.
Just 400 miles south, Australia has had patchy relationships with both Indonesia and East Timor in the past - however it was a leading player in East Timor's bid for independence, Indonesia's withdrawal, the subsequent UN administration and finally the first free elections in 2002.
Currently negotiations are underway for East Timor to earn royalties from the sale of gas and oil from beneath the sea to its south. The revenue is estimated at $110 million a year, however the dollars will not start to flow until at least 2006. Until then, East Timor must rely on foreign aid and coffee. And although the gas and oil revenue will bring much-needed funds, it is agriculture that will provide jobs for its people.
Australia is playing a leading role in re-establishing East Timor's coffee industry, with many Australians helping farmers and processors to rebuild what the Indonesians destroyed. The coffee crop is up to 10,000 tons per annum but still has a long way to go.
The coffee industry in East Timor particularly lacks the infrastructure to hull, clean and roast the green beans to a quality in keeping with the raw product. Australia's established espresso coffee culture, which sprang from mass Italian immigration in the 1950s and '60s, means its roasters and processors are well placed to assist.
Melbourne-based coffee roaster The Bean Alliance has been buying East Timorese coffee for the past five years, impressed by the quality of the Arabica beans. Now it has entered an economic partnership with East Timor's coffee growers and will roast and process their green beans in a complex roasting up-to-the-minute equipment and technology.
In April, East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao officially opened the complex in a historic visit that laid the foundation for a strong coffee collaboration. "Coffee is the main breadwinner for our people, and for some time yet it will be the backbone of our economy," said President Gusmao.
The East Timorese organic coffee will be sold in Australia under two brands - "bean ground and drunk" available wholesale and at gourmet and organic food stores, and "Universal Brands Coffee" available in supermarkets.
Twenty cents (US 12˘) from each 250g packet of Universal Brands sold will be given back to non-profit organizations that are rebuilding East Timor.
President Gusmao is a legendary figure who fought for the freedom of his people for 25 years. As leader of the Revolutionary Front for the Independence of East Timor from 1978, he bravely led the East Timorese resistance movement and was jailed from 1992-1999. He was voted the country's first President in April last year and is now focusing on reconstructing this shattered land.
"As we rebuild after independence, we value partnerships such as this, which help us to develop our country," he said as he opened The Bean Alliance's new complex. "I am proud today to open the first facility in Australia that will keep the organic purity of Timor-Leste beans intact, right from cleaning and roasting to the coffee cups in your kitchens and cafes."
The Bean Alliance is the first roasting facility in Australia to achieve organic certification from the Biological Farmers Association.
Using organically-grown coffee beans is not enough to guarantee organic coffee, the plant itself must be chemical-free and use approved processes from cleaning through to roasting and packaging.
"We have imported the best Italian roasting equipment for our new complex and embraced the world's best practice in processes and storage to make the most of an excellent raw commodity," said The Bean Alliance's managing director Angelo Augello. "We use the quality of these green beans to create a completely new concept - a coffee that's proud of its origins and 100% organic from crop to cup." Augello explained that The Bean Alliance has evolved from the original business Monte Coffee, which began roasting 21 years ago in Melbourne.
As well as Universal Brands and bean ground & drunk, The Bean Alliance also roasts Monte Coffee and Gravity Espresso brands, sourcing beans from Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, India, Mexico and Papua New Guinea, plus of course East Timor.
"We have invested $10 million (US$6 million) in this complex, which can roast five tons of coffee per year," said Augello. "There is room for more roasters and room for more growth." Augello and his team visited Italy, Switzerland and Belgium researching coffee roasting equipment, and came back with Italian Brambati roasters, along with specialty Italian packing and storage equipment. Later this year the company plans to open a barista school, training theater and showroom.
East Timorese Arabica, when it is processed and roasted well, may be compared to the premium Arabicas from nearby Java and Sumatra. The coffee has a rich, earthy flavor that is complex enough to stand on its own without blending.
Gusmao said the East Timorese themselves are avid coffee drinkers, and he drinks around 10 cups a day - because he's trying to kick a cigarette habit as well as do his bit for the farmers! However in East Timor they don't waste time frothing milk, "we like it very black and very strong," he chuckled.
Life in East Timor, he said, remains very difficult and the new processing plant was an important sign of confidence in the country's coffee industry. "And there's the social aspect, because we have thousands of young men and women without jobs. This coffee gives my people hope."
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Foreword by Alix Kates Shulman. Introduction by Tillie Olsen. Afterword by Bella Brodzki.
Beloved by readers of all ages since its first appearance in 1976, Allegra Maud Goldman tracks the coming to consciousness of a feisty and sharply observant Jewish girl growing up in 1930s Brooklyn. Allegra encounters the usual trials of bourgeois childhood—the confinement of first schooldays, the confusion of fumbled sex education, the humiliations of dress-shopping—and a world that seems determined to stifle her creativity and aspirations. She faces it all with a wisdom and wit that both delight and inspire.
"Allegra Maud Goldman is one of those rare delights, a novel of childhood . . . that is as wise and true as it is funny. . . . There is probably something for everybody in this short, funny book that had me laughing and crying to the last page."
"One of the rare and precious portraits of the artist as a young girl."
"I remember reading Allegra Maud Goldman as a child. And I remember thinking even then that the novel was unusual for its mordant wit and unsentimental perspective on the Jewish family and Jewish girlhood. As only the best novels and memoirs do, this book brings to life a vanished time and place."
"Allegra Maud Goldman . . . is the epitome of a certain kind of precocity. Edith Konecky has the uncanny facility of making us feel we've been where Allegra is—and so we have, alas."
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She and Freeman kiss in the movie, a perk of the job that for Keaton never gets old. ("I have a list of all the men I've kissed," she says.) When she received a lifetime achievement award of her own in Berlin three months ago, "I mentioned all these men who I got to have these wonderful love affairs with in the movies," she says. "And I mentioned that the only one I've missed, really, is Matthew McConaughey." He was in the audience, "and he comes up to the stage and he gives me a kiss. It was so much fun. I'm going to use that trick a lot! I'm going to play that out all over."
Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
By Diane Keaton
I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, "I'm sorry, that's just wrong," I tend to think she must be doing something right. Take Diana Vreeland, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue. Vreeland was many things, but a classic beauty wasn't one of them. Her mother called her "my ugly little monster." Guess what? That didn't get in her way. Vreeland paraded around with a head of glossy pitch-black hair until the day she died, at age 92. She defied every rule of aging gracefully.
I respect women who aren't afraid to push the envelope, women who are inappropriate, women who do what you aren't supposed to. Women like Katharine Hepburn. Didn't she wear pants under a Chairman Mao tunic to the Academy Awards? Outrageous! And what about 27-year-old Lena Dunham, who has redefined what a star can look like. I think she's one of the most beautiful women on TV. "There's little doubt Girls will be too explicit . . . and too young-and-female-centric to appeal to everyone," wrote Robert Bianco in USA Today. That's the point: Why try to appeal to everyone?
I admire women like Joan Rivers, even though I can't count how many times she's hauled me before her Fashion Police. Joan was among the first to openly discuss her multiple cosmetic surgeries. It takes strength to fess up to your imperfections. People have asked me why I've never had work done. The truth is I respect women who have had work done just as much as I respect those who haven't. We're all just trying to get through the day.
To me, the most beautiful women are independent, like fierce and sassy Jennifer Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe alone in the desert, strong Kathryn Bigelow, defiant Kate Moss, Grace Coddington and her orange hair, unstoppable Hillary Clinton, brilliant Tina Fey, fearless Joan Didion, and and and and . . . each found her place in the world. Each has her own style, her own voice, her own stamp, her own method, her own wrong that she's made right.
Just yesterday Dexter, my daughter, found a story online called "Top 10 Female Celebrities Who Are Ugly No Matter What Hollywood Says," by someone named Valdez_Addiction.
There was a picture of number one, Angelina Jolie, with this assessment: "She looks like Skeletor from He-Man." Number four was Reese Witherspoon, and number five, the fifth-ugliest female celebrity no matter what Hollywood says, was Diane Keaton.
"How this chick got a lead role in anything is beyond me. And I know what you're thinking. It's not because she's old as dirt and they still try to give her sexy roles. She's even ugly in The Godfather when she was young."
Old as dirt. Wow. I went to my bathroom and looked in the mirror. "Let it go, Diane. No wallowing in self-pity. You have a family. You have a brother and two sisters. You have a daughter and a son. You have work. You have friends. You can feel. You can think, up to a point. You can see. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen."
These old-as-dirt days have one advantage: I've learned to see beauty where I never saw it before. But only because my expectations are more realistic. My favorite part of my body is my eyes. Not because of their color and God knows not because of their shape, but because of what they see.


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Beautified, the mobile app for beauty enthusiasts to book last minute appointments, today announced the release of the newly redesigned Beautified app, website and launch of last-minute fitness bookings. Available for iOS devices, Beautified acts as a personal beauty and fitness concierge for on-the-go consumers while easily allowing spas, salons and studios to fill openings.
Beautified 2.0 expands into the fitness category with cardio, barre, yoga and strength workouts with initial partners including Flywheel, Barry's Bootcamp, Peloton, Physique 57, Bari, Body by Simone and many more. Through a carefully curated process, Beautified's team of experts have also expanded in the beauty world with national brands including Bliss and Clarins. Beautified is founded by Hannah Bronfman, Annie Evans and Peter Hananel.
"After spending the last year focused on user feedback of the app, we wanted to provide additional services and create solutions for the everyday, urban woman and man with an affinity for beauty and fitness," said co-founder Peter Hananel. "As beauty and health go hand-in-hand, the expansion into the fitness category was the next natural step for the company."
Beautified's new features include:
· All New Look & Feel – The intuitive interface allows users to filter searches for services by neighborhood, price, date and time. A map feature can also pinpoint a user's current location and show distances and directions to the nearest salons and studios.
· Social Interaction – Through Beautified, users can share salon and studio experiences with the "snap a selfie" feature, which automatically turns on the iPhone camera and can be shared on social media channels.
· New Checkout Functionality – With Beautified, gratuity can be paid in advance. If the user wants to tip more or less after the appointment, gratuity can be changed. Users can also pre-set gratuity in their profile (i.e. automatically include 20% gratuity for each service booked via Beautified), making checkout easier—and faster for users.
· Rating – Salons and studios now display a rating based on user feedback. After a booking, users can rate (thumbs up or down) each service. Salons and studios will display a percentage "recommendation score" on their profile, based on how many positive responses users have provided.
Beautified has partnered with salons in over a thousand locations, booking a growing volume of appointments in the past year since its June 2013 launch. Beautified is generally available in New York City and is an invite-only service for users in Los Angeles and San Francisco with plans to launch in fall 2014 and early 2015.
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There, we've seen it again: massive RNC money and donations sink the conservative GOP candidate in Kansas, handing the win to incumbent RINO and Establishment stalwart, Senator Pat Roberts. As Dan Riehl writes in Breitbart (http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/08/06/How-Pat-Roberts-and-the-GOP-Lost-Kansas), the Republican Party "threw everything it had" to Roberts to assist him in his defeat of Wolf in the primary.
I know there have been others, but so far the GOP has gone to extraordinary lengths to defeat primary challengers to RINOs in Mississippi, Kansas and Virginia. In Virginia's GOP primary, Ken Cuccinelli defeated his Republican primary challenger Bill Bolling. Cuccinelli went on to face Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the general election. Who did the GOP Establishment-backed Bolling endorse? He endorsed McAuliffe who went on to win. Then we were treated to the slimy tactics put forward by former RNC chairman Haley Barbour and Senator Thad Cochran in Mississippi in order to engineer a Cochran victory over the conservative challenger in that primary. It serves as an excellent example of what this party leadership is and what that leadership stands for. We hear now that Reince Priebus and others want to end the practice of allowing those not in the GOP to vote for our primary candidates. We're supposed to believe that, following his refusal to publicly censure Cochran and Barbour, even after being asked by prominent conservatives in an open letter to do so? Crocodile tears. They'll do nothing. Further to that, the Mississippi GOP has refused to address McDaniel's challenge to the runoff results, despite ample evidence that he won it. The Republican Party has no room for conservatives or any stripe of politician in its ranks who represents true opposition to Democrats, Big Spending or Big Government.
It's plain to see the challenge facing true conservatives seeking office as Republicans: their own party works against them in the primaries and, should they win the primary, continues to do so as they enter the general election. In doing so, the GOP are working against their registered voters, the ones who wanted the conservative to win the election. Far from being on a level playing field, conservatives in the GOP must not only counter the disinformation, lies and other noise created by the mainstream media, but they must also fight the very organization whose banner they carry. Pictured as a battle of Napoleanic armies, the GOP Establishment and their conservatives take the field against the Democrats, only once on the field, both the Democrats and Establishment unite to turn on the conservatives.
What would happen if conservatives leave the GOP? Abandoning the GOP and working within a party of their own, they would run in their own primaries on a level field, and schedule primary debates hosted and moderated by conservatives. The winners of those primaries would then enter a three-way race in the general election for the seats in their respective states with a far greater chance of success and, because they would be discussing the issues confronting most Americans when they get out of bed in the morning, instead of the non-issues the other parties distract us with, they would likely find many cross-over votes, as Ronald Reagan once did. In addition, working in a new party of conservatives which represented true opposition to the statist, big government positions of both the Democrat and Republican parties, money which is currently withheld from those parties would flow to the new party. Conservatives would have a home where their message could be coordinated and disseminated without hindrance from a party leadership which is in disagreement and without the necessary campaign funding being withheld and directed to liberals instead.
What could go wrong? First, let's ask, 'what has the current state of affairs brought us to'? Where are we going as we're currently structured? Isn't it as plain as day? So far, the Establishment is three for three. They want those Democrats who call themselves Republicans to remain in office, to continue to enable Democrat policy and to continue to fail to use their considerable power and influence to block or prevent liberal policy victories for Democrats. Who are they blocking? Picture all of us, our families and our friends being stiff-armed by the GOP. When they block our candidates, they are blocking us. So what we have now is a phony party in the GOP. They tell us that they're conservatives, but they are not. They want our votes, but they don't deliver when they get them. Everything major that they do is prefaced by a farcical display of objection by the GOP leadership, which invariably ends in a final capitulation to Democrat policy. Sometimes the Democrats, realizing that to keep the game going they have to let the GOP "win" something once in a while, they actually let them do so. Remember when the GOP won the (meaningless) $60 Billion budget "cut". Whoopee. So, whether we vote for the Democrat or vote for the Republican, we still end up with liberal public policies and the ransacking of our freedoms by the government we pay for. Now they even steal our personal lives and store the information, while they point fingers and yell about the guy who spilled the beans. Still worried about forming a true opposition party?
So why aren't Democrats called to task here? We don't vote for Democrats. Democrats don't tell us what we want to hear. Republicans do that, or attempt to do so. It is they who steal our votes and then run with our opposition. It is they who lack the guts to tell their constituents "Boehner took away my committee seat because I didn't bring in enough money during the last year, which is because I wouldn't sit with the lobbyists and also because I voted against liberal House Bill "X" after he told me I had to vote for it." But then, if they did take it to the people, they'd only lose their next election and someone else would face the same challenges. I guess the mentality becomes "shut up and go along".
Is there any doubt that we need a party which supports what is right for America's people while remaining true to its founding principles of limited government, personal responsibility and freedom? Look for it, for it's coming.
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Thanks for pulling my answer to Joseph. Just because I explain something to someone who asks and include a ":pitchur" shouldn't raise your ire.
There should be a line between the one liner bitchin, moaning and calling names and some effort to make clear concise statements. Your 10 line idea has a lot of merit. Why not set it as a general rule?
I don't think I'm Jesus, but the missing post has its implications. He he.
Jesus. We don't need your entire political philosophy. If you can't make your post ten lines or so, don't even bother.
Conservatives cannot project a moral, constitutional cause while surrounded by immoral, lying hypocrites. Republicans are snakes.
Pretty much agreed, Vern. I don't agree with "third parties always lose", however. Whatever, yes, by all means vote Republican in November and sort out the rest later.
I think it's important to note that conservatives, who leave the party as Independents or look for a new party to represent them, are not the cause of the schism in this party. They are the symptom. They are the symptom of a Republican congress and leadership which has failed and continues to fail, to lead in our founding principles, to work according to constitutional guidelines or to force adherence to them with the power invested in the House and to observe sound fiscal management of the nation's affairs. The same was true a few years back when the GOP had the House, the Senate and the White House.
The ball is in their court. The choice is theirs -- to represent us or not.
One problem that remains, of course, is that third parties always lose.
In 2010, a massive effort occurred within the Tea Parties to squelch the "Paulbots" and other third party groups...to increase the effectiveness of the GOP. The 2010 elections were in fact rather effective.
These efforts of 2010 were not carried forward into 2012. And, 2012 turned out to be something of a rout for the GOP, with turnout numbers at the polls being way, way down for the red team. We lost big time.
What will happen in 2014? Will Conservatives again stay home, protesting that their "perfect candidate" is not on the ticket? I certainly hope not!
The main objective remains to break the hold of the Democratic Caucus in both the House and Senate!
We have no hope of flipping the Executive til 2016. But getting rid of Harry Reid's stranglehold is within our grasp this year. Go vote this year. Vote against the Democratic party in November. Don't sweat the little stuff...we can sort that out in 2016, 2018....what ever it takes in the future. Small gains are better than no gains!
The 44% are former Republicans, not to mention those still registered as Republican, like yours truly, who no longer have any faith in that party. Those independents haven't joined the other parties because they aren't in agreement with them. We don't need a state religion and we don't need trees enjoying constitutional privileges. Former Republicans aren't nuts. What they want is what most conservatives want and what Republicans decades ago could usually expect: a political party which represents them and their interests in accordance with founding principles and constitutional guidelines.
Those former Republicans who are now independents have always had the choice to join those other parties. But what they are looking for is a party which represents what Republicans used to represent and which will use the power we invest in them to pursue those interests for us. It is the lack of that pursuit and the realization that it's because those in power have no interest in pursuing them which has everyone jumping ship.
It won't happen overnight, but they will find or form that party.
Joseph - Thanks for your cogent response. Your vacuum idea is similar to the health care and immigration arguments thrown at us - we don't have a solution.
Vacuums tend to be filled - like the denigration of our Judeo-Christian ethic - filled with the politically correct "progressive" mentality.
In the case of repeal, we go back to the original concepts of the combined application of the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity... personal responsibility and e pluribus Unum. States begin to exercise what they are best at, the inefficiencies of federal funding - double the overhead cost of state funding - will begin to effect the economy. This is a government of, by and for the people - elected officials - including bureaucrats serve at our pleasure and are expected to perform with an honest day's work.
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On a recent visit to Spain, one of the highest items on our priority list was eating when, where and what the locals did. On our first night in Barcelona we happily discovered the wonders of pan con tomate or pa amb tomaquet in Catalan (simply translated "bread with tomato").
In its most rustic form there are four simple ingredients: sliced bread, raw garlic, fresh tomatoes and olive oil. At Los Bellota, these items were delivered in a basket for a do-it-yourself snack alongside the most amazing jamón ibérico (Iberico ham). First, rub the bread with the garlic clove and then with the tomato until there is nothing left but the skin. Disgard the skin, drizzle with olive oil and enjoy.
Many restaurants in Barcelona serve the bread pre-prepared and our favorite was delivered at Fidalgo that we topped with both jamón serrano (Serrano ham) and anchovies.
Back home here in Utah, we are still several months away from having wonderful, ripe tomatoes so I created this roasted version of tomato bread that's heavier on tomato to enjoy during the early summer months while I relive our adventures in Barcelona.
Because I wanted to roast grape tomatoes to bring out some additional flavor, my version of this bread is best prepared using the roasted garlic bread from Costco's bakery for a more subtle, sweeter combination with the roasted tomatoes.
If using a plain baguette, roast a head of garlic in the oven while roasting the tomatoes and spread the bread with roasted garlic before the roasted tomatoes.
- 1 loaf of roasted garlic bread from Costco, sliced (may substitute with baguette cut into 4-inch lengths after being halved)
- 20-30 grape tomatoes halved lengthwise
- 2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp. sea salt
Heat the oven to 250 degrees. Cut the tomatoes in half lengthwise and place in a mixing bowl. Add the olive oil and salt and mix well. Place the coated tomatoes on a cookie sheet and roast in the oven for 30-40 minutes until the skins begin to shrivel. Remove from oven and set aside.
Turn the oven to broil. Cut the roasted garlic bread into ¾ inch slices. Drizzle each piece lightly with olive oil and broil until lightly browned. Remove from oven.
Assemble tomato bread by spooning the roasted tomatoes onto the bread. Sprinkle with a dash of sea salt if needed or desired and enjoy warm.


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"Auditions 14" hits the streets just in time for that fall chill in the air. Why not warm up with the men of Lucas Entertainment? In this volume, Lucas Entertainment exclusive Chad Hunt tries out some hot new boy butt, while familiar faces Kent Larson and Omer discover each other for the first time. Black muscle-hunk Diesel Washington puts down the weights and picks up Brandon Aguilar for some play, and Michael Lucas himself interviews and test-drives two models, Alex Clark (who many will remember from the very first "Auditions" movie) and Marcel D. Super-cute Tony Ryder and Corey Cade wrap things up in a delicious finale that only Lucas Entertainment can deliver.
Adam Young is more than a bright-eyed cutie with a baby face... he's got mad ambition too! You try making your porn debut riding Chad Hunt's massive member and see if you come out as well as Adam did. This hottie has also been going to school for civil engineering with the goal of working for his county government. His favorite position? Doggy-style. Woof!
We first encountered Alex Clark when he was working as a bartender at one of the swankiest bars in Manhattan. We were surprised to learn that he was interested in auditioning with us... and even more surprised to learn just how far he'd go in front of the camera! (Just watch Auditions Volume 1... you'll see what we mean.) His absolute favorite thing about sex? "Sweat," he says without hesitation. Damn!
No stranger to the industry, Brandon loves sex, sex, and more sex! Especially when it involves sharing a special connection with people in the process. In his free time, he enjoys making art and watching movies.
Besides his obvious physical attribute for which he's famous, Chad Hunt is possibly the most organized and professional model out there, and he has always been a pleasure to work with. So imagine our delight when, after a year-long hiatus, Chad decided he wanted to return to the world of gay porn, and he wanted to return as a Lucas Entertainment exclusive! His triumphant comeback (featuring a hot nature fuck in the woods) was in Fire Island Cruising Parts 7 & 8, and he made his directorial debut in Auditions 9. In 2006, the industry cockfight of the year ignited with a now-famous threesome for Encounters 3: Flash Point with Chad and new Lucas Entertainment exclusives Ben Andrews (who's also enormously hung) and Sal. Chad then took a dramatic turn for us in a pivotal role in Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita, followed by a memorable football-themed pairing with hottie Brad Star for Encounters 4: On The Job. He and Ben paired up again for Michael Lucas' The Bigger The Better, Lucas Entertainment's first mainline feature of 2007.
With bright green eyes and a whole lotta charm, there's a lot to love about spunky Corey. This new Lucas Entertainment exclusive brings talent to the table as well: he's a professionally trained actor and dancer with a Bachelor's in Music. His favorite sexual position? On his back with his legs in the air. Hot!
Hot beefcake top Diesel is a personal trainer and all-around handsome man. He gets his muscles from weight-lifting, of course, and in his free time he loves a good game of basketball.
Muscle stud Kent Larson made his Lucas Entertainment debut in Michael Lucas' Dangerous Liaisons, in one of the film's most vital roles. The Director's Cut version of the film also featured Kent's watersports debut. But that sizzling, hour-long scene is nothing compared to the scorching scene between Chad Hunt and Kent in Fire Island's "Meat Rack," when Kent got fucked against a tree by the biggest dick in the industry. Following that was a must-see pairing with Lucas Entertainment exclusive Wilson Vasquez in Encounters: Flash Point!
Brooklyn-born Marcel hopped across the East River to audition for Michael Lucas. An independent contractor by trade, this sizzling hunk enjoys working out, and when asked what he loves about sex, his inviting reply was "everything." Yay!
What is there to say about Michael Lucas? A good place to start is the beginning: Lucas Entertainment founder and president Michael Lucas was born in Moscow, Russia, on March 10, 1972. He was raised in Moscow and attended college there, graduating with a degree in law. In 1995, Michael Lucas moved to Germany, then to France, where he began modeling and appearing on several European television programs and covers of many European magazines. In 1998, Lucas opened his own production company, Lucas Entertainment, in New York City. Later that year, he made his directorial debut with the well-received Back in the Saddle. This first production sparked the Michael Lucas "renegade" vision that is indelibly New York. Additionally, basing his company in New York City, as opposed to the more traditional Los Angeles, enabled Lucas to showcase the diversity of types and ethnicities found nowhere else. MIchael Lucas started Lucas Distribution, Inc. in 2004 and LucasBlog.com in 2005. Both are pioneering ventures in the competitive realms of adult video distribution and online media, respectively. In the summer of 2005 he released GayVN's Best Picture of the year, a high-budget adult film remake of Dangerous Liaisons, featuring celebrity cameos from RuPaul, Boy George, Graham Norton, Bruce Vilanch, and Michael Musto. In 2006, filming began on his most buzzed about film ever, Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita. The production included a big-budget fashion show, a sextra-filled club orgy scene, a headline-making fountain scene with Vivid star Savanna Samson. On November 12, 2004, Michael Lucas was proudly sworn in as an American citizen.
Once again, Michael Lucas has discovered a sexy and horny newcomer to the porn scene! As soon as Omer walked through our door, we knew we had to work with him. And what a worker he turned out to be! Two scenes in two days—both equally hot!
With his hazel-grey eyes, full lips, pretty dick, and an ass like velvet, let's just say we're happy to have Tony as a Lucas Entertainment exclusive. Before working in porn, he started out as a fashion model doing catalogue work. He also studied business with an emphasis in finance. About being in the porn industry, he says, "Some people want to be cops, some want to be firemen. I just want to piss on someone while everyone watches..." 'Atta boy!


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Rescue Cat Addicted to McDonald's Refused to Make the Switch to Kibble
What the hell kind of cat puts mustard on a hamburger?
Here's a furry little guy who's so much more intense than Morgan Spurlock: An abandoned black and white tomcat named Frankie subsisted exclusively on a diet of patties and McNuggets for twelve to eighteen months in a McDonald's parking lot, Stuff reports, before he was "rescued" by the SPCA. Frankie was just a kitten when he took up residence behind the rubbish bins. "You would go through the drive-through and ask for a burger for you and an extra patty for Frankie," says the SPCA interventionist. "He would watch you and trot after the car, wait until you stopped the car and then you would toss him the meat. It was his little routine." Initially and obviously, the tomcat spurned kibble entirely. He's now looking at the world with clear eyes, however, searching for a new home, and is even said to be contemplating a macrobiotic diet. [Stuff via WPXI]


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Tuesday, Feb. 1 Central Arizona College (2) 2 p.m. - exhibition *Friday, Feb. 4 Southern Mississippi 2 p.m. *Saturday, Feb. 5 Washington (non-conference) 2 p.m. *Sunday, Feb. 6 Southern Mississippi 2 p.m. *Arizona Softball Classic: Friday: SoMiss-UW 12 p.m. Saturday: SoMiss-UW 12 p.m. All games at Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium on campus.Softball Media Day:
Arizona coach Mike Candrea and the 2000 UA softball team will be available for photos and interviews at annual media activities at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28 on the Hillenbrand Stadium field.
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Arizona softball season tickets are available through the McKale Center Ticket Office (520-621-2287) at varying prices for seat locations, with discounts for children and seniors. Single-game tickets will be sold beginning Monday, January 31 at McKale and at the stadium box office on game days.
1999 Recap
Arizona finished the season 53-16 overall and 19-9 for second place in the Pac-10. The Cats won their 12th straight NCAA Regional to advance to the CWS for the 12th consecutive season, the longest active streak of appearances. However, for the first time since 1990, Arizona did not reach the NCAA Championship title game. After winning their first CWS game (3-0 vs. California), the Cats lost their next two contests (3-0 to Washington and 1-0 to DePaul) to fall short of the title game. Arizona captured five NCAA Championships in the 1990s (1991, '93, '94, '96, '97).
Nifty Fifty
Arizona won 50 games in a season for the ninth time in school history and the ninth time in coach Mike Candrea's 14 seasons at the helm. Candrea has recorded four seasons with 60+ victories - 66-6 in 1995, 64-3 in 1994, 61-5 in 1997 and an NCAA-record 67-4 mark in 1998.
National Fastpitch Coaches Association Poll
The first NFCA coaches poll will be released on Wednesday, Jan. 26. It is available online at www.nfca.org The first weekly rankings will be released March 1 and every week thereafter through the season. Arizona was No. 2 in the 1999 preseason poll and for a number of weeks, then No. 3 throughout the rest of the year until its final No. 6 ranking. Arizona has been in the national rankings every single period since 1990.
Missing Cats
The Wildcats lost five players from last year's roster including senior Michelle Churnock to graduation. Meghann Pricer transfered to BYU to play softball in their first-year program while Felecity Willis, Amy Baray, and Tammy Acuna decided not to play.
2000 Team Nucleus
The 2000 Cats maintain their speed, defensive power and solid hitting ability from last year with the return of all starters. Three juniors were third-team All-Americans -- pitcher Becky Lemke and first team All- Pac-10 outfielders Lauren Bauer and Nicole Giordano. Junior third baseman Toni Mascarenas was named second team All-Pac-10 along with Lemke. Three Cats were honorable mention all-league picks -- senior outfielder Lindsay Robinson, sophomore pitcher Jennie Finch and senior outfielder Chrissy Gil. Other returning letterwinners include junior pitcher Teresa Ayoub, senior second baseman Katie Swan, junior first baseman Erika Hanson and catcher Lindsey Collins. Freshmen Lisha Ribellia (IF), Leneah Manuma (1B) and Lindsey Rice (OF) join junior transfers Allison Andrade (IF) and April Richardson (IF) to round out the squad.
Record Breakdown
Arizona was 53-16 in 1999 with a 33-5 home record, a 20-11 record on the road (9-7 at "away" venues), a neutral field record of 11-4 and a mark of 34-15 against ranked teams.
Arizona Coach Mike Candrea
After 14 seasons at Arizona, Candrea carries a record of 747-159 (.825) into this season. He is the active and all-time winningest Division I coach by percentage and in the top 10 in victories. Last season, Candrea became the eighth Division I coach in history to win 700 games. His players have earned 49 All-America honors and six Academic All-America honors, plus he has coached three players to the Honda Softball Award as national player of the year. He has taken the Wildcats to the College World Series the past 12 consecutive years and has reached the NCAA Championship game in eight of the last 10 seasons.
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1b Jennie Finch, Erika Hanson, Leneah Manuma (injured)
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2008 East Carolina Preview
Coming off a year where the East Carolina baseball team finished second in the Conference USA regular season, reached the C-USA Tournament Championship game and made its eighth NCAA Regional appearance in the last nine seasons, third-year head coach Billy Godwin will look to steer the Pirate ship once again into post-season play.
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2008 Houston Preview
With an award-winning group of veterans and one of the most talented signing classes in school history, the University of Houston baseball team is looking to return to the NCAA postseason in 2008. A year after finishing fourth in a competitive Conference USA, the Cougars are counting on 16 letterwinners - including six starters - and 16 newcomers for an NCAA Regional berth this season.
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2008 Marshall Preview
In 2008, the name of the game for the Marshall Baseball team is depth. The Thundering Herd boasts a 32-man roster that includes five seniors among the 12 returning letterwinners, comprising seven position players and five pitchers from the 2007 squad.
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2008 Memphis Preview
At the outset of the 2007 season there was much buzz around the University of Memphis baseball program that Head Coach Daron Schoenrock and his staff, combined with a talented and senior-laden squad could earn a berth in the NCAA Regional Tournament--an accomplishment that hadn't been done since the 1994 season.
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2008 Rice Preview
The Rice baseball team is aware of the a bulls-eye on its collective back as one of the nation's elite programs with a string of a dozen consecutive conference championships and an even longer streak of 13-straight NCAA Regional bids. The Owls know that their reputation for success, including an .800 win-percentage from a combined 113-27 record over the last two years, tends to bring out the best in their opponents and big crowds wherever they play.
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2008 Southern Miss Preview
As the 200 season ended the Southern Miss baseball team set history for its program by advancing to its fifth consecutive NCAA Regional Tournament. As the 2008 season rolls around the goal is simple, rewrite the history books again and Head Coach Corky Palmer may just have the veteran squad and deep pitching staff to accomplish that goal in the newly renovated Pete Taylor Park.
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2008 Tulane Preview
Some say that a good team is a lot like a good musical group. Both have loyal fans, both travel around the country on a tight schedule, both make good use of their instruments, and both strive to be tops on the charts.
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2008 UAB Preview
Added pitching depth and returning speed combined with a handful of talented newcomers has the UAB Blazers looking to match their fourth place finish in Conference USA in 2007 and has them eyeing their fifth straight trip to the C-USA Championship.
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2008 UCF Preview
Filling in roster gaps and holes in the starting rotation has coaches losing sleep during offseasons. This year, however, the UCF staff had the luxury of sitting back with a sneaky smile, knowing that almost all of the talent it contained for 2007 would be returning for the 2008 campaign.
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New Year 2010, the shit had hit the fan for the Coakley campaign. Scott Brown was taking off and Democrats at local, state and national levels were piling into MA to try to stop it. Locally, we were making calls, person to person,to try to stir up Dems to go vote. Another tactic employed, frankly, overemployed, was robocalls. These taped messages were coming in from prominent Democrats, like Bill Clinton, to try to spur Dems to go vote in the special election. When I would talk to folks on the phone, I got yelled at for all the calls being done. But, worst of all, the robocalls were despised.
Since, Scott Brown doesn't have that much organic support, he is a creature of the special interest fabricated "Tea Party," there aren't enough motivated Brown supporters to make person to person calls on his behalf. Enter Karl Rove and the robocalls. Thanks to the Mother Jones Blog:
TRANSCRIPT: Today, you can change your future by voting against Elizabeth Warren. A vote for Warren is a vote for the same type of government failures that got us into the situation we are currently in. Warren supports President Obama's health-care takeover that will cut over $700 billion from Medicare spending. The health-care law backed by Warren could limit the availability of care seniors depend on from the Medicare program they paid for. Vote no on Elizabeth Warren for Senate this November. Paid for by Crossroads GPS.
This robocall was recorded here in Lowell, just a few days ago:
Below, I pasted in some thoughts I was having about the next few weeks. They are in response to a Brown supporter's admission that Brown's campaign is "off the rails."
… Brown's worse than "off the rails." Polls are mixed, but trending in favor of Warren, Brown's campaign is outmatched and outclassed on every level, but without question, Warren has a clear advantage in "ground game." Both campaigns are well off financially. There is disparate speculation on the effectiveness of late stage air blitz. Brown's messaging is trending negative. Bay Staters, arguably, are not endeared by this. With Karl Rove moving into MA, we will see whether or not "robocalls" work for or against Brown. Based on the feed back I got during late stage Coakley GOTV calls, Bay Staters despise "robocalls."
The 2012 election cycle will turnout 500,000+ more voters, then the Jan. 2010 special election.
Demographics of the electorate favor Dems. Mitt Romney is an albatross tied around Brown's neck. Brown's claim to be "bipartisan" is thin. It is widely held he never voted in a way that wasn't allowed by Mitch McConnell. He has joined the GOPers in a barrage of votes, supporting the GOP filibusters, preventing so much decent legislation from being further debated and standing for an up or down vote.
Scott Brown is a mile wide and and inch deep. The unenrolleds are dialing in, which gives Warren the momentum. As this momentum builds, Brown will breach the "People's Pledge" and Super PAC expenditure will spike, maybe as soon as mid-next week. The messaging will be outrageously negative, thus rejected. Maybe, by late next week, it will all come to a screeching pause. The Super PAC's will turn their sights onto races, like the FL Senate race, where holding the Senate seat is much more vital. Afterall, FL can decide who becomes POTUS in 2012 or 2016, ect. MA will not.
Brown will be left high and dry in the final 3-2 weeks of the cycle, to wallow in the aftermath of his shoddy campaign. (How many of Ferhrnstrom's 2010 campaigns in MA turned out well? Hint: Dems held every seat.) National GOPers could care less about Brown's future political ambitions, hear at home. They will scorch the earth and Brown's ambitions, as I've heard speculated, for Governor or maybe a "soon to be vacated US Senate seat. ;v)," will be dashed. #magic8ball
'Vote no on Elizabeth Warren for Senate this November."
Anyone else find that wording weird? I noted it when I first heard the recording before…there is no "no" vote. This isn't a ballot question, where that wording sort of makes sense. "Vote against Elizabeth Warren" makes more sense.
Note they are NOT saying "vote Scott Brown." Is that because they can't (legally) or because they don't want the name Karl Rove and Crossroads GPS to be tied in any way to BothWaysBrown?
I also think, though maybe it won't happen and we're being cynical, that given the Crossroads robocalls this week, and the recent mailers from the Republican State Committee (the state committees are also included in the People's Pledge about advertising) that you might be on to something about the possibility of Brown breaking the pledge. Within the context of the rampup of these other types of campaigning you could see him going there.
As a side note, I find it rather gratifying that even the *Republican* State Committee sees fit to send out "Scott Brown - Our Independent Voice" mailers. Can't dare label him a Republican! They repeat the rather misleading statement of "least partisan Senator" - yeah, that's like saying "worst horseman in the Mongol hoard"). That must be soooo galling to state Republicans. In the mailer they tout his "deciding vote" for Wall St reform. Yeah, that would be a vote cast AFTER he held up the legislation, AFTER it had been negotiated, so he could water it down further (on the Vohkler Rule and on a surcharge on banks to fund the bill revenue-neutral…so much for "balanced budgets."). Asshat.
On a second side note, I was canvassed yesterday evening by someone from Working America. He mentioned he was supposed to be working on a list of independents…um. Let's review, peeps. We've been registered Dems for as long as we've lived in MA. I am on the city committee. AND both me and the Mr. show up to even the lamest of lame primaries, like this last one where there was one tiny downballot race that was competitive and that was it.
On what planet would a voter list show us an independents?? Sigh! Plus, someone ought to tell Working America to, say, focus on NH or something…Warren's got it covered here, IMHO, and I'd prefer to err on the side of not annoying people as much as possible.
"Hey, Massachusetts voter, voting for Elizabeth Warren is like voting for Barack Obama! She's like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton combined, but female like Hillary!"
Mission Accomplished, Senator Brown! Can I help you write your victory speech?
The cynic in me thinks that the "Vote No on Elizabeth Warren" is an attempt to confuse low-information voters into thinking that these calls are from the Warren campaign.
More likely their goal is to just suppress turnout with these calls, and increase Brown's chances by having a turnout closer to the special election.
In the end, I don't think this strategy is going to help them any. Also, I saw some tweets by Brown supporters, talking about a "push poll" from the Warren campaign. Has anyone heard anything about this?
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Today was older boys first T-ball practice which opens the 2008 season. Hubby is coaching (I will not comment on that - lol) this year. Our community sports program is completely unorganized and messed up. So we've been trying to figure out what's going on for the season the past several weeks and still don't have everything nailed down yet. The first game is next Saturday. We still don't have a practice schedule and the shirts just came in and were able to be picked up today. I went and picked them up for Hubby since it was at the same time as practice started. It was me and all of the baseball coaches. Those baseball coaches are real serious about the game. They were strategizing and trying to one up each other while we waited in line. They were actually real goons. I'm not looking forward to the boys moving up to play baseball. You'd think that actual talent scouts were coming to look at the players. And trust me, they're not.
But anyway, I picked up our stuff and took it out to practice where I was to drop it off and return home to work out. When I got there I was informed that I needed to stay the whole time to hand out shirts after the practice to each player. Ok, I'll miss my workout but I'm a team player.
I had the Little Man with me and because I didn't plan on staying I didn't have anything with me to entertain him. I had no toys, no chairs, no snacks, etc. I had NOTHING for him to do. But he amused himself. I was talking to another parent when I heard "Boys, don't do that", and I turned around to see him and his cohort in crime wearing batting helmets and hitting each other in the head with bats. Well, at least they were smart enough to put the helmets on.
And apparently I wasn't needed to hand out shirts after all. So I missed my workout for nothing. Sigh....