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Prince William and Princess Kate are ready to put a bun in the royal oven, according to Us Weekly.
The Queen always laughs when someone says "royal oven."
The couple is "working on" starting a family and would "love to be a step closer at Christmas," said a source. "They have been on such a high since getting married. It's time for the next step -- Kate is hoping she and William can become parents in 2013."
I love it when people say they're "working" on making a baby. If that's work, nobody would ever take a vacation.
One reason for the timing is William and Kate were reportedly waiting for the malaria medication they'd taken for their September tour of Southeast Asia to run its course.
To prepare for the heir, the couple is renovating a 20-room, four-story section of Kensington Palace.
That's gotta be rough.
"A baby is the main reason for the move," says a confidant of Middleton's. "They want to bring a child up in a secure environment."
JUSTIN BIEBER NOT IN TROUBLE: Justin Bieber is off the hook ... the legal hook.
The 18-year-old singer will not be charged with battery for allegedly beating up a photographer back in May, according to TMZ.
The photographer said he got into a physical altercation with Bieber in Calabasas. Apparently there was some sort of confrontation and the guy called 911. There was no word on whether he was injured -- and I just typed that with a totally straight face. Because alleged violent crimes are no laughing matter ... even if the alleged perpetrator weighs 102 pounds soaking wet and becomes invisible when he turns sideways.
By the way, who calls the police and admits he just got beat up by Justin Bieber?
Anyway, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office decided not to move ahead with the case because of conflicting witness accounts and an overall lack of evidence.
DANIEL CRAIG SAYS KRISTEN STEWART IS NO BOND GIRL: Kristen Stewart won't be a Bond girl, if it's up to Daniel Craig.
The "Breaking Dawn -- Part 2" actress recently said that she would love play a Bond girl, so Australian radio personalities Kyle and Jackie O asked the current James Bond star what he thought of Stewart's chances.
"No," Craig said. "She's in 'Twilight'."
E! Online reported Craig said it with "disgust."
Upon further review ... yeah, there might have been a little bit of disgust.
But Craig quickly put his happy face back on, clarifying he's only being callous because both actors' franchise films are currently in direct competition at the box office:
"No, I'm being nasty. I'm only saying that because it's ("Breaking Dawn -- Part 2") coming out this weekend so we're in direct competition with them," he admits with a chuckle. "I'm sure she'd make a great Bond girl."
Of course she would.
HASBRO STILL LIKES ELMO: Hasbro is standing behind Elmo.
The toy company that makes all sorts of Elmo items won't stop because of the controversy surrounding Kevin Clash -- the puppeteer behind the squeaky-voiced furry icon who abruptly resigned from Sesame Workshop after being accused of an inappropriate relationship with a minor.
"'Sesame Street' and its wonderful characters have been entertaining and educating children and families for more than 40 years," a Hasbro spokeswoman told E! News. "We are confident that Elmo will remain an integral part of 'Sesame Street' and that 'Sesame Street' toys will continue to delight children for years to come."
Translation: "We are confidant that Elmo will continue to make us truckloads of cash for years to come."
The beloved Muppet monster will line shelves in a variety of forms for preschoolers this holiday shopping season, including Ready for School Elmo doll, Sesame Street Playskool Let's Rock set, and one of the toy manufacturing giant's biggest sellers, the Playskool Sesame Street LOL Elmo.
BON JOVI TALKS ABOUT DAUGHTER: Jon Bon Jovi has opened up about his daughter's drug overdose and arrest, calling the situation a "tragedy" and saying his family will get through it together.
Stephanie Bongiovi, 19, was arrested Nov. 14 after police responded to a call about an overdose in a Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. She faced misdemeanor drug possession charges, but prosecutors dropped the case under a New York law granting immunity to those involved when official help is sought during a life-threatening overdose.
"It's human," Bon Jovi told Fox 11 on Tuesday night while promoting the soundtrack to "Stand Up Guys," according to the Los Angeles Times. He went on to say that although being a rock star might seem glamorous, it's ultimately just another way to make a living. "And then life goes on. Things happen. This tragedy was something that I had to face too so we'll get through it. And people's warm wishes for my family and I have been really reassuring. So, we're good."
WEILAND SET TO REUNITE WITH VELVET REVOLVER: Three ex-members of Guns N' Roses may get their reunion after all, says their former singer.
No, not that singer.
Scott Weiland recently told Rolling Stone he may rejoin Velvet Revolver. The band has remained in limbo for the past half-decade or so, never finding the right singer to replace Weiland, who had gone back to his old band Stone Temple Pilots.
"I am completely open to it, and I know there are other guys in the band that are completely open to it," Weiland said. "There have been some things that have stood in the way that aren't anything that have to do with the band. But now we're sorting through things, and we want to start writing for some big film opportunities that have come our way, and try to set things up the way we set things up when we initially got together."
The band's first album, "Contraband," was a hit with fans and rock music critics. It released the less successful "Libertad" in 2007 and toured before Weiland departed. The band has since worked on solo projects, including books written by guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagen. But it hasn't done anything together since Weiland's departure.
"I think it's the perfect time for Velvet Revolver to get back together," said Weiland, who is still a member of Stone Temple Pilots. "Slash has done some great things, and I look forward to the opportunity to seeing him on my left and seeing Duff McKagan -- who, in my opinion, is without a doubt one of the greatest rock & roll and punk rock bass players of all time. And is still in amazing shape -- is more ripped than just about any 25-year-old on the planet. And with (drummer) Matt (Sorum) and (guitarist) Dave (Kushner) as well, who are just incredible musicians. I think that's exciting to look forward to. It's the old cliché, 'If the gods of rock want it to happen, then it will.'"
Or if the promoters and record execs want it to happen.
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Thursday is Nov. 22, the 327th day of 2012. There are 39 days left in the year. This is Thanksgiving Day.
1718: English pirate Edward Teach -- better known as "Blackbeard" -- was killed during a battle off present-day North Carolina.
1928: "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel (rah-VEL') was first performed, in Paris.
1930: Listeners of the British Broadcasting Corp. heard, for the first time, radio coverage of an American college football game as Harvard defeated Yale, 13-0.
1935: A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan.
1954: The Humane Society of the United States was incorporated as the National Humane Society.
1963: President John F. Kennedy was shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same open car as the president, was seriously wounded. A suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested.
1965: The musical "Man of La Mancha" opened on Broadway.
1967: The U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured the previous June, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
1975: Juan Carlos was proclaimed King of Spain.
1986: Elzire Dionne, who gave birth to quintuplets in 1934, died at a hospital in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, at age 77.
990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced her resignation.
2002: At the NATO summit in Prague, Russian President Vladimir Putin told President George W. Bush the United States should not wage war alone against Iraq, and questioned whether Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were doing enough to fight terrorism. The Bush administration eased clean air rules to allow utilities, refineries and manufacturers to avoid having to install new anti-pollution equipment when they modernized their plants.
2011: Baseball players and owners signed an agreement for a new labor contract, a deal making baseball the first North American professional major league to start blood testing on human growth hormone and expanding the playoffs to 10 teams by 2013.
Actor Robert Vaughn (80), director Terry Gilliam (72), singer Jesse Colin Young (71), astronaut Guion Bluford (70), tennis great Billie Jean King (69), musician-actor Steven Van Zandt (62), musician Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads) (62), baseball great Greg Luzinski (62), actress Jamie Lee Curtis (54), actress Mariel Hemingway (51), actor Mark Ruffalo (45), tennis great Boris Becker (45), actress Scarlett Johansson (28).
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"This is a hard case," Judge Bruce Selya, the senior member of the three-judge panel hearing oral arguments yesterday in Tarek Mehanna's appeal. Hard cases make bad law, the old saw goess, and Selya said that's why "we have to be very careful."
The maxim refers to the problems inherent in making law based on extreme cases, and there are some extreme elements of this case. Mehanna's lead appeals lawyer, Sabin Willet, stressed the extreme amount of prejudicial evidence prosecutors put before the jury – pictures and images of 9/11, references to no fewer than five beheadings – none of which had much to do with the charges against Mehanna, and things he certainly had nothing to do with, and the judges seemed receptive to the idea that the government "piled on."
The test, Selya said, is "have they so poisoned the well that the outcome of the trial was affected?"
Arguing for the government was Elizabeth Collery, who said the evidence showed Mehanna was "obsessive" about Islamist violence, and was necessary to establish the criminal intent behind Mehanna's one-week trip to Yemen.� It's no crime, of course, to travel to Yemen, and Mehanna didn't actually do anything in Yemen. He stayed for a week or so, didn't like what he saw, never met any terrorists, talked to his dad on the phone and came home.� But, as Mehanna's lead attorney, J.W. Carney, explained to me after the hearing, the trip to Yemen is the only part of the government's case that doesn't directly involve First Amendment rights. Everything else Mehanna is charged with – writing, proselytizing, translating, chatting online – should be protected speech.
I've got no skill in reading the tea leaves of appellate judges, but Selya's words started me thinking.� What "bad law" could this "hard case" make?� Would upholding the conviction establish a new acceptance of the criminalization of free speech in terrorism cases? Would overturning it hurt terrorism prosecutions? Would remanding the case back to the trial court on narrow grounds avoid setting a precedent? One such possibility came in for some discussion: whether the judge should have allowed the jury to issue a "special verdict" that declared which part of the case had been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, traveling to Yemen with evil intentions or propagandizing as al-Qaida's "media wing." The judge had rejected the defense motion, leaving the court with a� verdict that may stand on an unconstitutional leg.
It was a sparkling summer day in Boston Tuesday. While the legal arguments continue, Tarek Mehanna spends his days quietly in a federal penitentiary where he's serving an 17-year sentence, waiting for justice.

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Mazda2 B-Spec: For Speed Racer on a Tight Budget
This may sound a bit strange, but Mazda Motors rolled out a special version of its Mazda2 subcompact designed for racing. The car, called the Mazda2 B-Spec, is meant to give driving enthusiasts an easier, less-expensive route into racing.
For the company, which has a long history in a range of racing categories, competing in long-distance events with so-called showroom-stock cars is a way to show off the durability and performance of its road vehicles.
"B-Spec is showroom stock racing at the most basic level. Our Mazda2 is an affordable car with track performance that will bring a surprising grin to your face," said John Doonan, Mazda's director of motorsports.
Owners can build track-ready Mazda2s using B-Spec kits form the company that cost $2,575. Mazda says a driver could buy a new ready-to-race version form a specialized race-prep company for about $25,000. But a motivated person "with a used car and a few DIY skills" could build a racer for less than $15,000.


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Definición de essentialism en inglés:
sustantivo[mass noun] Philosophy
1A belief that things have a set of characteristics which make them what they are, and that the task of science and philosophy is their discovery and expression; the doctrine that essence is prior to existence. Compare with existentialism.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- It is a different phenomenon from philosophical or metaphysical essentialism.
- For example, Pinker attributes opposition to genetically modified foods to innate and intuitive essentialism.
- But essentialism about organisms has been undermined by Darwinism.
1.1The view that all children should be taught on traditional lines the ideas and methods regarded as essential to the prevalent culture.
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- Then essentialism was criticized as being too rigid to prepare students adequately for adult life.
- For better or worse, essentialism is the quintessential American approach to education.
1.2The view that categories of people, such as women and men, or heterosexuals and homosexuals, or members of ethnic groups, have intrinsically different and characteristic natures or dispositions.
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- Extreme assertions of diversity, such as Kallen's, imply a kind of racial or ethnic essentialism and separatism, not merely cultural pluralism.
- Some readers have discerned a strain of racial essentialism in his putatively social constructionist stance.
- In fact, this is a very familiar problem in feminist theory: how to argue for a feminine specificity without falling into the trap of biological essentialism.
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- There's a very prevalent, if essentialist, argument that if you burrow deep down inside yourself then you will discover your true identity whether it lies back in the hills of Wales or in the plains of Ethiopia.
- I am not an essentialist who believes that people's behavior can be explained by some essential cultural or DNA trait.
- Far from being eternally fixed in some essentialist past, identities are subject to the continuous interactions of history, culture and power.
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UNION CITY -- After nearly a decade as one of the Tri-City area's social and cultural hubs, Paddy's Coffee House will close next month -- but the sad news comes with a silver lining.
It's goodbye but not farewell, as Paddy Iyer, the cafe's owner, said he hopes to reopen at a new Union City location in spring of next year.
Iyer said business has been slower after the economic collapse of 2008 and, with his lease expiring in a few weeks, it was the perfect time to take a break and rethink how he wants to do business.
He praised his landlords for helping him during tough times as he operated in a first-floor storefront at 3900 Smith St., a quaint building in the shadow of palm trees in the Old Alvarado district on Union City's west side.
"It's more about tightening the belt than anything," Iyer said of the decision to close and relocate. "After talking to customers, we realize people need more than what we're offering."
The coffeehouse's years of operation -- 2003 to 2012 -- have encompassed a tumultuous economic period. Paddy's opened as the Bay Area was reeling from the dot-com bust and the country still was dealing with the shock of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
"You had people coming in and sitting, hours on end, just looking for a job," he said.
Despite the uncertain times, the coffeehouse quickly earned a reputation as an authentic Bohemian enclave, becoming the hot spot for Tri-City-area artists, musicians and writers of all stripes to hone their crafts.
Students held art exhibits at Paddy's and aspiring musicians and spoken-word artists performed at open mike nights. Local nonprofit groups frequently enlisted the help of the coffeehouse in public outreach campaigns on issues ranging from poverty to teen pregnancy. Each election season, it hosted local candidate forums. And when Union City residents considered joining the Occupy movement, their public meeting took place at Paddy's.
"We didn't plan to be the (city's) only source for culture; we just became the torchbearer," Iyer said. "We realized that this community needed a home away from home, a place to call their own."
Yesh Bajwa, 20, of Union City, said Paddy's is not only the city's most popular cafe but also the most inclusive. "Paddy's is open to everyone, any kind of ethnicity or sexual preference," he said while taking a break from studying for a San Jose City College class. "I've met so many different kinds of friends here."
Iyer, a Fremont resident, said he has not yet decided where he will relocate his business or when its doors will reopen. But when he's ready, he foresees some big changes, such as creating more of a European-style cafe with outdoor seating, where he can bake on-site and offer nighttime pastries while keeping his doors open beyond the standard dinner hour.
"We're moving from the coffeehouse model to a cafe model," he said.
First, Iyer wants to give a proper goodbye to Paddy's first home. A final celebration has been scheduled for Dec. 15, when partygoers will be asked to donate food or clothes to local nonprofits for the holidays.
"To us, it's more important for people to give than to just have a good old time," he said, smiling. "But a good time will be had."
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.


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Very nice FAQ, but the answer for "PMS is bound to the wrong network interface" needs an addendum like this:
"Also, make sure you're using version 1.50.1 or BELOW. Versions after 1.50.1 contain a bug which causes the network interface setting to be ignored. (The status of this bug can be tracked at: http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver ... il?id=1391 )"
(Unfortunately, that problem causes anything above 1.50.1 to be completely unusable by anyone who has VirtualBox installed on their computer, among other people as well. So it really should be mentioned in the FAQ.)


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We've noticed in recent logs a certain propensity for players to perform difficult actions which involve skills that our character generation system covers, but which they have at a low level relative to the difficulty of the action(s) expressed, where in some cases "low level" means not having the skill on their sheet not at all. This presents some problems in terms of keeping character play consistent and retaining some of the believability we hope the system will reflect.
The game's policy is that if you do not have a skill that can be taken in chargen, this does not mean you are necessarily completely incapable of doing anything connected to that skill. Instead, it means that for the purposes of the game, any difficult tasks you undertake will be treated as if you have no more than a 5% chance of succeeding. Basic tasks (the sort of tasks where generally one would not consider rolling, for example) can be assumed to be accomplishable if appropriate—but difficult ones (such as most combat-related tasks) are generally unlikely to succeed.
Even if you do have points in a skill, please try to moderate what you feel this should mean. Having a high score does not necessarily grant automatic success. It's both fairly undramatic, having anything be automatically assured, and generally not in keeping with the somewhat realistic, gritty nature of the setting. Even the Hound found it difficult to deal with two men at once, after all.
Since we are still in beta, there is an option available to players who feel that a certain skill they neglected to take in chargen was in fact appropriate to take. Namely, you can submit a +job, explaining that a skill that you failed to take in your initial CG run has turned out to be very much in character, and that you would like help with moving points around so that you can buy up this skill within normal CG limiations. We're entirely happy to do it, but players do need to take that step before it's reasonable for them to make use of skills dilineated in CG in difficult circumstances.
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The United Way Kickoff started a little differently this year. The kickoff, which typically takes place at the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center in Shawnee, began as a bus tour.
Utilizing the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club bus, attendees were able to travel to the different organizations supported by the United Way, including the Salvation Army and South Central Industries.
This was a way for supporters to see their dollars in action, Kevin Orsak, Campaign Drive Chairman for the United Way, said.
During the tour, attendees played a game, similar to a trivia show, during which they answered questions about the different organizations.
After the tour, which also visited Gateway to Prevention and Recovery and Family Promise, the tour returned to the YMCA for an agency fair.
Those present at the agency fair included Project Safe, Pottawatomie County 4-H and Mission Shawnee.
During the fair, United Way supporters were given awards, including Vision Bank and the Clinic Pharmacy.
Supporters will be contacted throughout the year so that the United Way may reach their goal of $625,000 this year, Orsak said.
The United Way is incredibly helpful for the Salvation Army, Lieutenant Philip Canning said.
"They make possible – financially – a lot of the things we do as a non-profit in the community," Canning said. "It's nice to have another non-profit in the area assist with fundraising."
"We're thankful for what the United Way does for the community," he added.
Anyone interested in donating to the United Way should call 273-4012.
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A doctor testifying in a trial challenging a North Dakota law that opponents argue would end drug-induced abortions said Wednesday it's very common to prescribe drugs for purposes other than what's printed on their final label.
The Red River Women's Clinic of Fargo is challenging the 2011 law that bans the use of one of two drugs used to induce abortions.
The law bans the use of an abortion-inducing drug not labeled for that purpose. The state's lone abortion clinic uses a combination of two drugs in medication abortions. One is labeled for use in medication abortions, while the second is not.
Dr. Daniel Grossman, an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, testified in the trial's second day as an expert witness for the Fargo clinic.
The Forum newspaper reports that Grossman testified that off-label drug use is common because drug registration is what allows a drug to be marketed for a particular purpose.
"And if there isn't necessarily a commercial motivation for a drug company to register a drug for a certain indication, then a drug may not get registered for that indication even though there may be ample evidence to support its use," Grossman said.
Medication abortions, which are done if a woman is pregnant for 63 days or less, involve the use of a combination of two drugs, mifeprex and misoprostol. The law maintains the use of any drug to cause an abortion must meet "the protocol tested and authorized" by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Misoprostol is not labeled as an abortion-inducing drug.
Grossman testified that surgical abortion is effective 99 percent of the time and typically takes 10 minutes or less, while medication abortion is effective 96 percent of the time and the bleeding associated with it can last for more than a week. Still, he said, "many women have a very strong preference for that method."
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A woman opposing a bill that would ban adoptions of Russian children by Americans holds a sign reading 'Give the children a chance to live' during a picket at the entrance of the State Duma, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. The lower house of parliament takes a final vote on the measure Friday. Some top government officials oppose it, but President Vladimir Putin hasn't tipped his hand on whether he'd sign it into law. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
Russia has a newly imposed ban on American families who want to adopt from Russia. Many see the new law as retaliation for a U.S. law that imposes sanctions on Russians who are human rights violators.
Those who work in adoption services will tell you the process is complicated and emotional. Kris Faasse is the director of adoption services at Bethany Christian Services, an agency that handles thousands of adoptions per year.
"When a family goes through and starts wanting kids or plan to bring a child into their home, their hearts get connected," Faasse said.
Sometimes the connection has not borders. Bethany is currently working with 20 families around the country, with several in Michigan, who are in the process of adopting a child from Russia.
"We have several families who have actually received their referral which means they've been told this is going to be your child," said Faasse.
Faasse says the new ban on American adoptions means those families who are so close to bringing a child home may have to start at square one.
"They're not going to bring that child home. They've been planning in their hearts for this child to come home and like any new parents they're already seeing this child's future."
While it's a great loss for those families, Faasse says also think about the kids.
"They will continue to grow up in orphanages. There's some hope they will increase domestic adoption but the numbers I've seen are about 120,000 children in the Russian orphanages who are available for adoption right now."


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amazing app.Plays anything you throw at it.
This has the highest compatibility of any player I've tried for OS X (including Mplayer 1 & 2). I also like the interface better than either of the Mplayers. So, for those reasons, this is my media player.
Couple of complaints though... the latest release seems to be a step backwards as far as secondary display support. The option to default to second display on full screen doesn't seem to work anymore (I have to manually reset it everytime) and the full screen button has been moved from the playlist to the player window, which means its now inaccessible when the player window is full screen on the secondary display.
Also, the "folders in the playlist" idea is kind of cool, but it screws up random play when dragging and dropping nested folders into the playlist window. Minor gripe, but it takes more time to create usable playlists this way.
Anyways, other than that... this is the best player out there. The only thing I've run across that it can't play are some .rm and .rmvb files.
Love it!
I agree with Chris, between this and quicktime you can view 95% of the vidio out there on the internet. It's by no means perfect. The audio on AVI files can be quirky at times (compaired to wintels playing the same files) but it's the best non-mac format player I've ever used. It's also superior to windows media player for watching MPEGs on the PC. It doesnt' suffer from the same audio sync issues that windows media player has.
sadly, quicktime doesn't always work. this is free and it plays things quicktime won't. thumbs up.
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Devils Lake Police Chief Keith Schroeder, Mayor Dick Johnson and Rep. Rick Berg were all part of the crowd gathered at the Lake Region Law Enforcement Center on Friday to wish well Detective Rob Hach (right) as he retires from the force after 23 years serving the community.
He starts a new job Monday, Oct. 8 with Summers Manufacturing, Inc.
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Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Our "brilliant" decision to avoid the crowds during the hands-on portion of our last Virginia Tech Kids' University program landed us in a fantastic Lunabotics program. Picture this: 100 kids plus their parents squeezing their way between double doors into the exhibit hall to explore the dozens of tables set-up to enhance the science fun. Most parents are finding it difficult to convince their kids to spread out and not crowd in front of the first few tables in eyesight. We saw the opportunity and quickly proceeded to the back of the hall. There we found very cool water property experiments and what…? Robots?!? I'm sorry folks, but counting the number of water droplets that the surface of a penny can hold (one kid got twelve, btw) has got nothing on robots.
Over at the table there was a sign "Lubanotics" — um, okay, I'm thinking I missed a day of science somewhere along the lines because aside from the -otics I have no idea what this exhibit is showing the kids. Upon further examination one of the presenters had taken a pencil and corrected the sign to read Lunabotics. Ah hah! Now I've got it. Cool. Moon robots. So here we've got a couple of Virginia Tech students explaining how cool robots are to a bunch of 3rd – 5th graders. Simple, right? Yes, because robots are cool. Robots on the moon are even cooler. A program sponsored by NASA to design mining robots to go to the moon is, by far, the coolest.
NASA's Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition is a university-level competition designed to engage and retain students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). NASA will directly benefit from the competition by encouraging the development of innovative lunar excavation concepts from universities which may result in clever ideas and solutions which could be applied to an actual lunar excavation device or payload.
For this purpose, the Virginia Tech – Lunabotics team has created a program to inspire and educate elementary school students about robotics, engineering, and lunar activities by engaging the students in hands-on activities.
Students will design, build, and test a lunabot which will be made of LEGOs. This will help the students use their imagination and expose them to skills that will help them in the fields of STEM.
The best part, because we went to the back of the exhibit hall first we were able to get a guaranteed spot in the first come – first serve program that is capped at 50 students. Oh wait, the best best part — It's free. How cool is that?
In our excitement we checked out bunches of books on robotics and lunabotics (surprisingly few on that specific topic), got some TED Talks lined up, and will be doing lots and lots of LEGO building. Going to be so much fun.


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Mini-Task Force Is Backed The date for the next Reservation Mini Task Force has been set for April 9, 1976 at 7:30 p.m. in the St. Ignatius Community Center. Anyone interested in attending these meetings is urged to do so. . The'Tribal Council has unanimously agreed to continue the meetings al- though they have no official capacity now that the main State Jurisdictional Task Force has noted to dissolve itself. The Council feel that the meetings are important to keep the channel of communication open between the Tribe and County Officials. The Council has urged the mini-task force to invite the members of Missoula, Sanders and Flathead County as well as Lake County, because of topics under discusr sion that effect all the Counties bordering the reservation. Several weeks ago the task-force committee sent a letter to Governor Judge requesting that the State revive the Main Task Force and include more Reservation and County representatives. As of this date, Governor Judge has made no definite decisions regarding the task force. NEWSPAPER OF THE SALISH, PEND D'ORIELLES AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION VOLUME 5 NUMBER HUD SELECTS HEAD The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Housing Authority Board has announced the selection of Douglas Trosper as Executive Director ofthe Housing Program in Ronan. Trosper is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in economics. He has currently been employed with the Tribal 701 Planning Project in Dixon. Trosper replaces Roger Shourds,the former Director who was dismissed by the Board February 4. Howard Edwards, BIA Housing and Urban Development officer, will remain with the Housing Program to lend technical assistance while Trosper is settling into the position. Edwards was requested by the Council last February to fill in as acting Director until the Board selected a permanant Director. The Housing program has 105 existing houses, and 36 new units are under construction. The Council recently gave approval for the Housing Authority Board to apply for funding to build an additional 150 rental u-nits next year. Those members who are in need of housing may contact the Housing office in Ronan to be placed on their waiting list . The longer you wait to sign up the farther down the list you will be. For further informationcall 676-5490. POLICE CHIEF OUT Because of events, which only came to light after his departure, Lloyd Jackson is no longer Chief of Police. Jackson's leave of absence was rescinded by the Tribal Council on Mar. 1 2, after an unfavorable report by the Law & Order Committee. No specific details were mentioned in the report. The Committee also advised the Council to advertise for the position of Police Chief. Jackson recommended Tom Paro as a temporary replacement, however the Committee recommended that Sonny Morigeau serve as the Police Commissioner and as acting Police Chief. The Council accepted the recommendations. Since that time, Mori -geau has placed emphasis on strict enforcement of rules for Law & order personnel. Two officers have resigned, and reports of at least one other individual who is considering resigning. Police CommissionerSonny Morigeau declined to comment on the situation at this time, but told the Char-Koosta that there are personnel questions that remain unresolved, and he would release a story at a later date. WHITWORTH RESIGNS Arlee Councilman Fred Whitworth handed inhis resignation to the Tribal Council March 12. His resignation will be effective as of April 2. Whitworth has been on the Council representing the Arlee district for 15 years. He was chairman of the Council from 1968 until 1972. He has been an extreme advocate of less spending by the Tribal Council and has been known to vote no to every motion made before the Council if it meant spending more of the Tribal member's money. A reservation wide election will be held May 1 to elect a Councilman to serve out the remainder of Whit-worths term. The deadline for filing candidacy is set for April 1 5.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Director of Tennis Steve Moore was recognized nationally on Wednesday, with the coach being named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Coach of the Year for the Texas Region by his peers.
There are 12 regions in NCAA Tennis, and each of the 12 Regional Coach of the Year winners will now enter a pool to be chosen for National Coach of the Year honors. Moore earned the honor from the Texas Region, which is comprised of every NCAA Division I coach in the state of Texas. The state of Texas is the only state that also comprises its own region.
In a vote taken by other coaches throughout the state of Texas, Moore was an overwhelming choice for the honor. His men's tennis team won the Southland Conference Championship for the sixth straight season, he was named the league Coach of the Year for the seventh straight time and his team won the HEB Tournament of Champions for the first time in school history. He did all of this with three freshmen and a sophomore in the top six of singles play.
"My vote for Intercollegiate Tennis Association Coach of Year for Texas Region is Steve Moore," said Texas Tech head coach Tim Siegel, "Coach Moore saw his Islanders reach #51 in the ITA National Rankings, and his team went to the NCAA Championships as a #3 seed."
While being named the Coach of the Year for the men's side, Moore was also noted for his leadership of both the men and women's programs at the University. He led both teams to the Top 10 in attendance of the ITA national rankings.
"He saw his men and women's teams reach the ITA Top 60 National Rankings, which is an amazing accomplishment for a small Division I school," said Siegel. "In addition to that, he led his team to the HEB Tournament of Champions title, perhaps the most prestigious tourney in the country, while defeating two Top 35 teams. He was the Southland Conference Coach of the Year for the seventh straight time and had both teams in the Top 10 nationally for home attendance, all while coaching two teams to successful seasons."
Moore was also selected for prestigious leadership positions as the Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional chairman for Texas and the NCAA National Tennis Committee in the past year. Moore has been the driving force behind the raising of significant funds for the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi tennis teams.
He is currently at the NCAA Championships in Urbana, Ill., and will coach sophomore Peter Nagy in the singles competition later this month. It will mark the first time an individual from the Islanders will play in the event after he earned an automatic bid to the tournament after winning the individual title and Player of the Year honor from the Southland Conference, and was ranked #88 in the latest ITA national singles rankings.
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Joel Chusid, managing director of the North American operations for Hainan Airlines, is helping send DISD kids to China.
He saw my column on Wednesday about the efforts by Thomas Jefferson High School principal Eddie Conger to get 10 of his students to Hainan Overseas School this summer for a four-week immersion program to learn Mandarin.
Southwest Airlines is geting the students and their teacher to and from Dallas Love Field to Asian-gateway Seattle for free.
Chusid's arranged a discounted fare to get the group to the school in China and back to Seattle.
In an email to Conger, Chusid lauded the principal, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, or enticing 400 of TJ's 1,300 students into taking Chinese. "I think what you're doing is quite amazing,"
Once the kids get there, their itinerary will be more exciting than Conger expected.
Joe Chen, CEO of Renren Corp., the "Facebook of China" and a leading online games producer, also read about the program and has offered to host the Dallas contingent at the corporate offices in Beijing.
And Celanese Corp., which is kicking in $7,000 in travel expenses, has offered them a tour of the multinational's Chinese headquarters in Shanghai.
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Inside were two men, one in his 20s and armed with a handgun. They ordered him inside and robbed him of cash and jewelry.
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The Beatles flew from Liverpool to Hamburg on this day ahead of their second residency at the German city's Star-Club, situated on Große Freiheit off the Reeperbahn. Read more »
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Following their 48-night residency at Hamburg's Star-Club, in which they notched up 172 hours of stage time over seven weeks, The Beatles began their journey back to Liverpool. Read more »
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George Harrison and Brian Epstein arrived in Hamburg on this day for The Beatles' first residency at the Star-Club. Read more »
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John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Pete Best flew out of Manchester destined for Germany on this day, for their first residency at the Star-Club in Hamburg. Read more »
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Stuart Sutcliffe had flown alone to Hamburg on 15 March 1961. While there he and his fiancee Astrid Kirchherr cleared some administrative paperwork to enable The Beatles to return to the city to perform. Read more »
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Stuart Sutcliffe flew to Hamburg without the other Beatles on this day to spend time with his fiancee Astrid Kirchherr. Read more »
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"The past is never dead; it's not even past." -- William Faulkner
WATERTOWN, Tennessee – The 20th century was well into its seventh decade, but he still came to the back door every time he needed to see "Mister Edsel" about some business or other. No amount of cajoling would induce him to knock on the front door. Finally, one day, in exasperation, my father told him: "Jim, if you don't come around to the front next time, I'm not going to talk to you. This just won't do." Jim shook his head, perplexed; it seemed a concept too radical to grasp or accept: knocking on a white man's front door.
The past lives longer in the South, as Faulkner, that great bard of race and sex, knew well. Habits of subservience from the days of slavery more than a century before were still lingering here and there, as I could see on my own back porch that day, watching Jim and my father.
It was like a scene from To Kill a Mockingbird; and indeed, "Mister Edsel" had come to play the role of Atticus Finch in the town: an advocate and mediator for people like Jim – a black man from the country, deprived of education, shunted into stoop labor, living in the margins, forever under arbitrary threat from an uncaring officialdom or from sudden outbursts of the deeply-ingrained racial enmity that lurked beneath the placid surface of the white faces all around him.
It was an unsought role that came to my father simply because he was one of the few white men who treated black people like they were ordinary, fully-fledged human beings, not lepers or clowns or dangerous trash. It was a rare attribute in those days – and it is still much rarer than most would care to admit, even in the "New South," where Tennessee congressman Harold Ford Jr. stands within reach of becoming the first African-American senator from the old Confederacy since Reconstruction (or as some still like to call it, "the Yankee Occupation").
Ford's surprisingly strong campaign has exposed fault lines long buried beneath Tennessee's creeping – or rather, galloping – suburbanization, where old ways, both good and bad, are rapidly being submerged in the undifferentiated glop of modern American franchise culture. But when money and power are on the line, atavism is the order of the day: ancient fears and hatreds re-emerge – or are mightily encouraged to re-emerge, with all the subtle and not-so-subtle arts of high-tech mass persuasion stoking the flames.
For the stakes in the battle for Tennessee's Senate seat – once considered a lock for the Republicans – have suddenly grown exceedingly high. A Ford win could wrest control of the chamber away from the GOP, putting a serious crimp in the party's bacchanal of greed and graft. What's more, it opens up the possibility of investigations, subpoenas – and worse – for an Administration that is not only suppurating with massive corruption, incompetence, extremism and deceit, but has also openly acknowledged several criminal actions, including torture and warrantless surveillance. The Bush Faction simply cannot afford to face accountability for its monumental failures and misdeeds.
And so in late October, with Ford rising rapidly in the polls, even overtaking his opponent – Bob Corker, a typical tycoon-politician with a bland manner masking sharp practice in his murky business dealings – the Bush Party got serious and whipped out a barn-burning theme from days of yore: the "hot black buck with nothing but white women on his mind."
(more after the jump; plus an MP3 on a related theme at the end.)
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This was the now-infamous advertisement that featured a scantily-clad,
bottle-blond young jezebel saying she'd met "Harold at the Playboy
party" and asking him to call her. (Ford, along with 3,000 other
people, had attended a party thrown by the magazine at the Super Bowl.)
The ad, procured by the Republican National Committee, was so
ludicrously over the top that Corker was forced to denounce it, while
RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman washed his hands of it, saying it had been
created by an "independent organization" without the Party's input.
It was, in fact, created by Scott Howell, an old Karl Rove hand who had helped craft some of the biggest smear jobs in the last two election cycles, including scaremongering attack ads for George W. Bush in 2004, as the New York Times reports. Howell was hired for the Ford hit by professional spinmeister Terry Nelson, who had been the political director of the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign, where he worked cheek-by-jowl with a certain Ken Mehlman. Despite these intricate threads knitting the race-baiters to the White House, Mehlman continued to maintain, with a straight face, that he had no idea what kind of ad his two old friends might concoct when he handed them a big wad of cash for the operation.
The ad made the national news as a symbol of the unprecedented use of gutterball in the 2006 campaign, was roundly condemned by pundits and politicialns everywhere, got Nelson fired from a plum job as a "political adviser" to Wal-Mart, evoked outpourings of sympathy for the victimized Ford, and was finally yanked after just a few days on the air. It was an ignominious failure in every respect but one:
It worked.
Corker, who'd been reeling in the polls for weeks, was suddenly back on top, surging ahead five point after being down by that same margin at the first of the month, as The Tennessean reports. Nor was he so wary of the ad now. "Ever since that attention came on this race from the national media, our numbers have skyrocketed," he told reporters as he held affable court in the leather recliner on his campaign bus. In fact, the "Playboy" piece was immediately followed by another "independent" ad so scurrilous and inaccurate – falsely accusing Ford of, among other things, pushing abortion pills on children – that some stations refused to run it, while Corker himself then produced a widely aired radio spot that featured brooding jungle drums every time Ford's name was mentioned.
Corker had called to "the base"– the hard-core conservatives who had abandoned him after he won a bruising nomination fight against two of their favorites – and they had come home. The seemingly irresistible momentum of Ford's rise, which had carried him from also-ran status to the cover of Newsweek, was stalled. Going into the final days of the campaign, his five-point deficit in the published polls was probably much larger; every black candidate must deal with a "shadow quotient" – a number of white voters, usually 10 to 15 percent, who tell pollsters they are voting for the African-American, but once in the booth pull the lever for the white opponent.
It's old and tattered, and seems to come from another age, a vanished world, but the race card can still win a hand. Especially in the South, where the undead past exerts its ghostly pull on the tides of modern life.
Of course, seamy slurs about sexual transgressions are being used by the GOP all over the country, as the Washington Post reports. For example, New York Democrat Michael Arcuri is being lambasted for "phone sex" because one of his aides once misdialed a number for a government office and momentarily got a porn line instead. Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland has been accused of being secretly gay and supporting sex with children: both charges completely spurious – and both prime examples of Freudian projection coming from the party of Mark Foley and his protectors. The list of leering, panting, hand-beneath-the-raincoat Republicans muttering about sex in ads paid for by "secret" committees goes on and on.
In one sense, then, the attack on Ford could be seen simply as part of a broader smear operation focused on sex, not race. But this is sinister sophistry. You cannot introduce such an ad in a contest between black and white candidates without knowing full well what ugly spirits you are summoning from the deep. Especially in the state which gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan, and where, as across the South, the lynching of black men accused of dallying with white women is well within living memory.
Tennessee wasn't the worst state when it came to that signature expression of white power, ranking only sixth in the nation for total lynchings, behind such champions as Mississippi, Georgia and Texas. Even so, hundreds died here by noose, knife, gun and flame. Nor were these murders always furtive affairs, kept from the eyes of good Christian society. Lynchings were often carried out in a carnival atmosphere, with families bringing picnic baskets and all the young'uns to watch the fun. Upcoming noose-fests and auto-da-fes were even advertised in the newspapers. On one memorable occasion in Ford's hometown of Memphis, more than 15,000 people gathered to watch the burning of Ell Person, alleged killer of a teenaged white girl, as the Tennessee Historical Society notes.
Side by side with the lynching – indeed far surpassing it in terms of depth and reach through the black community – was the money angle. The end of slavery didn't mean the end of servitude by any means. As each Southern state was returned to the control of its defeated white elites after the Civil War, they quickly gamed the legal system to provide them with a virtually unlimited supply of convict labor – without rights, without protection, in chains, under the bullwhip, just like the good old days. The smallest infractions of the law, petty fines, bad debts – or often, nothing at all but the need of the local bossman – swept multitudes of black men and women into minor jail terms that would be extended by months, sometimes years through draconian "fees" and "court costs" they would have to "work off" – in the fields, in the mines, laying rail, building roads, draining swamps. Savvy brokers contracted with state and local governments to manage the trade in these convicts, many of whom were simply worked to death or crippled for life. There was no profit in looking after them anymore; they were no longer someone's valuable "property" but just so much ever-replaceable fodder churning endlessly through the legal machine.
Freed but disenfranchised, emancipated but still in chains, balked by law and brutal custom from full participation in society, the Southern blacks also made handy targets to divert the anger and dissatisfaction of the "poor white trash" from the elites that exploited them as well, albeit less severely. If even the poorest white man could consider himself superior to someone, if you could keep him tied up in psychological and emotional knots about inferior darkies messing with his women, going to his schools, sitting at his lunch counters, drinking from his water fountains, swimming in his public pools, living in his neighborhoods, why then he'd never make common cause with his black brothers and sisters in poverty to fight for a better life. Canny patricians played whole decks of such race cards to win the votes of the crackers and rednecks they privately despised: "Don't vote for that commie over there talking about unions and fair wages and equality; vote for me, vote for the man who'll keep your women and children – and your drinking water – safe from the Negro!"
This was the system that built the "New South," and was openly maintained and celebrated as late as the 1970s. And despite many cosmetic and some substantive changes, you can still see it peering out from behind the modern scenery at times, in incidents like Trent Lott's hymn of praise in 2002 for Strom Thurmond's virulently race-baiting 1948 presidential campaign. For if the mental habits and unexamined emotional states of subservience can last for more than a hundred years, as in Jim's case that day on our back porch, then certainly ingrained attitudes of racial superiority –and the seething racial hostility bred by guilt and fear, by misdirected anger over economic injustice, by sexual anxieties converted into powerful taboos– are still very much alive in swathes of the white majority today, just a few decades after these traits were being publicly exalted as lofty "traditional values."
This history, this system is the real context for the RNC ad and Corker's jungle drums. These are the deadly ghosts that the Republican Party has been dancing with for decades in its "Southern Strategy" of fomenting white resentment and marginalizing black political participation. Anyone who says that such tactics are not racist is either a fool or a liar – or has no Southern blood, where these restless spirits dwell.
* Photo, "Thunderstorm Passing to the East of Watertown, Tennessee" by Wayne Cowan. This piece originally appeared on Truthout.org.
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Jimmy Montague said:
They're painting the passports brown
They won't have to paint anything brown any more. After next Tuesday, the whole damn world will be brown. Bush is going to blow up the outhouse.
SamSnedegar said:
old habits die hard
Born in the thirties in Roanoke VA, I know whereof Chris Floyd speaks. In the nineties I visited Chattanooga TN with the idea of moving there to live but discarded the idea when I discovered that you could drive for ten miles in that city at one stretch and never see a white face on the streets. Segregation lives in Tennessee today as if it never succumbed to civil rights law. To be fair, a large number of the blacks are subservient, shiftless, and worthless, the good role models having left for more desirable treatment long before, but it is a chicken-egg thing as to whether whites treat them badly because they are that way, or they are that way because whites treat them badly. And to be fair to Chattanooga, Atlanta is only a little more than 100 miles away, and the white "attitude" there has changed little since the heyday of Scarlett O'Hara and her slaves; sheer numbers give the blacks power in Atlanta, and there are good reasons for their important blacks to stay and set good example for the rest.
There is no answer; as long as some people are identifiably different from others, that difference will become magnet for the steely bigotry and the iron resolve to shun others. Democrats don't treat blacks any different than Republicans do except for lip service offered in exchange for votes.
Mark Twain said it better than I, but color makes no difference anyway; being a man is as bad as you can get.


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Sen. Alexander: Majority GOP Would Need a Plan
WASHINGTON–Republicans angling to take back control of the U.S. Senate need to tell voters what they would do with it, GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said this week.
Mr. Alexander, who is up for re-election this year, said in an interview he hopes Senate Republicans will broaden their focus beyond simply objecting to President Barack Obama's health-care law.
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"If we want people to trust us with the government we need to say what we'll do if they put us in charge. That starts with the debt, that starts with health care, that starts with balancing the budget," Mr. Alexander said. "That doesn't make as much news as what we're against, but it's an important part of what we need to say."
Not all Republicans are as eager to widen the conversation. Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) said he plans in 2014 to "fight even harder…to repeal every word of Obamacare" in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
When House GOP leaders told their rank-and-file on Wednesday they plan to tackle an immigration overhaul this year, some conservative lawmakers objected to changing the subject from the problems dogging the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
But Mr. Alexander said that while lawmakers should continue to take steps to ease the burden of the health-care law, he hopes to communicate other policy goals.
"Tennesseans know I'm against Obamacare," he said. "What I want them also to know is what I would do if they trust us with the [Senate] majority."
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Contestants continue to drop like flies on "American Idol" as the show works to trim the field to 40, but we're still grumbling about some of the crazy choices made by the judges during Wednesday night's episode, where common sense went to die.
We're certainly hoping for better results tonight when 47 girls will become 20. We're told that, for this round, the contestants will be able to sing an established song, or one of their own originals.
Angela Miller is the first up and she takes the latter path, sitting at the piano and calmly delivering "You Set Me Free," which she described as a song about "being set free from baggage and the weight that you carry from hard times."
Her voice was so sweet and angelic that she had the judges raving.
"If that was recorded right now, I'd play it in my car," Keith Urban said.
Up next was big-voiced Candice Glover, who delivered a soaring version of Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire," and returning contestant Janelle Arthur with a lovely take on Carrie Underwood's "I Know You Won't."
"I think you are a superstar," Nicki Minaj told her. "A country superstar."
Then, Ryan Seacrest prepped us for a "shocking" performance by the manic Zoanette Johnson, she of the wild outfits and prodigious cleavage. Zoanette took to the drum kit and unleashed an original ditty called "Ba-Da-Bading" that she claimed to have made up just the day before and included lyrics about the judges. She paused at one point, apparently to look for a lost drum stick, and then ended the whole absurdly hot mess with some kind of high-pitched shrieks.
"It was a classic," blurted Mariah Carey. "Seriously, I think people are going to be looking at this performance for years."
With that, the judges deliberate and decide to send Candice, Janelle, Angela, Zoanette and someone named Jet off to Vegas.
The next group includes Shubha Vedula, who impresses Mariah Carey with a Mariah Carey song, and 15-year-old Juliana Chahayed, who delivers a gorgeous version of "Landslide."
Not quite as lovely is Kez Ban's weird original song, which she abruptly ends after just a few seconds. That's OK, though, because we're so over her and her bizarre antics. Nicki tells Kez that "We salute your artistry," but only moments later she is sent packing.
"I'm a square peg in a round hole around here," says Kez, who takes her dismissal in stride, but has had so much fun in the "Idol" camp that she's willing to stick around and work with the crew. Next thing we see is Kez operating the boom mic.
The last group of the day is led by Ashlee Feliciano, who is totally off-key during her performance, which is so dreary and downbeat that it prompts Randy Jackson to give the remaining girls a pep talk.
"Music is supposed to be fun," he insists.
After a few more bummer songs, Melinda Ademi livens things up with a springy take on Jessie J's "Price Tag, which gets the judges swaying in their seats and Keith singing along.
"It's effortless, it's clear, it's energetic," says Keith. "You have such a good light about you and I've seen it consistently with all your performances."
She, of course, goes through, along with Kree Harrison, who gave Keith a case of the goosies with her rendition of "Stars" by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
"I feel like today, you became a star in front of me," Nicki tells Kree.
Not as fortunate is Antioch's Briana Oakley, who is among the girls eliminated from this final group. Her performance doesn't get any camera time, so we don't know whether the judges' decision was valid or not. Nor do we get a reaction, so it's an anticlimactic exit for the Carondelet High School junior who impressed us so much during her Long Beach audition.
That leaves us with 24 girls and we need to get down to 24. Holly Marie Miller, Ariel Sprague and Lauren Mink are all abruptly sent packing. Then, we have a dramatic sing-off between Stephanie Schimmel and bubbly Rachel Hale for the final spot. Stephanie does Phillip Phillip's "Home" and Rachel sounds much more powerful on Haley Reinhart's "Undone." The edge goes to ... Rachel.
Despite Briana's ouster, the Top 20 does have a Bay Area connection -- not that the "Idol" producers pointed that out to us. But we did happen to spot Oakland's Kamaria Ousley among the jubilant bunch. She's a vocal coach who was seen performing with The Swagettes Wednesday night.
But wait, we're not finished. The boys have been hanging out in the holding room and eight of them still have to walk the plank.
After several solo performances, Peter Garrett, Marvin Calderon, Devyn Jones, Kenny Harrison, Will White, Tony Foster, David Leathers Jr. and Adam Sanders are all culled from the herd. It's a tough one, especially, for Leathers, who was cut at this same point last season.
Now, it's on to Las Vegas.


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Sunday, Nov. 14 • 7 p.m. CT
Dugan Wellness Center • Corpus Christi, Texas
The Islanders women's basketball team will wrap up a three-game homestand, as it takes on Southern Utah on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Dugan Wellness Center. The Islanders are coming off of a strong performance during the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic.
In its first game of the season the team picked its first win in an opener since the 2009-10 season, defeating Western Illinois in a 66-60 overtime thriller to advance the championship game in the tournament. However, the Islanders would only be crowned the runners-up, coming up just one play away against Fairfield in the final game of the tournament, falling 58-55.
• For the first time since the 2009-10 season, the Islanders opened the season with a win.
• The Emerald Beach Islanders Classic marked the first time since 2010-11 that the Islanders hosted a tournament at home. A win against Western Illinois led the Islanders to an appearance in the championship game of the tournament.
• The Islanders come into the 2013-14 season with the Southland's top-ranked recruiting class.
• The team features 10 newcomers this season after losing three starters and eight total letterwinners.
• Senior Ashley Darley returns as the team's leading point scorer. Last season Darley averaged 7.9 points a game after sitting out the 2011-12 campaign with a medical redshirt.
• After struggling to find offense last year, the Islanders have already had four different players have double-digit scoring performances in their first two games. Jasmine Shaw paced the Islanders offense, putting up 42 points thus far in the season.
This will mark the first matchup between the Islanders and the Thunderbirds. Southern Utah won its season opener by a score of 90-86 against Boise State. With its exhibitions included, SUU has put up 90 or more points in all three of its games.
Last season the Thunderbirds were picked to finish last in the Big Sky, but they finished well above where the preseason polls had them, notching a 15-16 overall record and a 8-6 conference record to finish sixth in the league.
The preseason polls for the 2013-14 season have SUU finishing in sixth this season with Eastern Washington, Montana and Northern Colorado picked as the top three in the Big Sky.
The Thunderbirds' strength comes from down low. In their season opener against Boise State, Southern Utah managed to score 90 points despite going just 1-10 from behind the arc. In the game, the Thunderbirds were still able to shoot 45.8 percent from the field.
Another strength for SUU is its ability to get to the free-throw line. In its win against the Broncos, SUU attempted 44 free throws, connecting on 35 of them. During the entire 2013-14 season the Islanders have been unable to even get to the line more than 26 times, and have only attempted a total of 42 free throws in their first two games.
Jasmine Shaw, a senior transfer from Marshall, scored a total of 42 points in her first two games as an Islander. The Cincinnati, Ohio, native shot 48 percent from the field and knocked down 10-of-11 free throws during the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic.
Shaw and senior Ashley Darley were named to the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic All-Tournament Team. Darley was also a major cog in the offense throughout the week, picking up a double-double against Western Illinois with 13 points and 11 rebounds to help the Islanders advance to the championship game.
Another transfer that made a significant impact on the team was Shola Adebayo, coming from Eastern Oklahoma State. She became the first player at A&M – Corpus Christi to record six steals in her first game, just one shy of tying an all-time record.
Adebayo also added 14 points, five rebounds and four assists to help the Islanders make it to the championship game.
The Islanders dominated in their exhibition matchup with Texas A&M International, coasting to a 76-50 win. During the game A&M – Corpus Christi put it's defense on display holding the Dustdevils scoreless during a stretch of more than eight minutes.
The offense also showed up in the exhibition, as the Islanders went on a 31-4 run in the final 12 minutes of the first half. A total of four A&M-Corpus Christi players hit double digits in the scoring column, while all but one Islander scored.
With the departure of eight players from last year's squad, the Islanders only have four returners for the 2013-14 season made up of three seniors and one sophomore. The leading scorer out of the bunch was Ashley Darley, who was second on the team in points scored with 7.9 a game. Darley also ranked second on the team in rebounds per game and steals per game last year. Taryn Gregory also returns for her final season after starting in 20 games last year. She comes into the year ranking fourth in career free-throw percentage with a .764 overall mark her first three years. Brandi Huff rounds out the trio of seniors after ranking third on the team in rebounds. The lone sophomore on A&M – Corpus Christi's roster is Ashanti Plummer. The Manhattan, N.Y., native enters play this year after making an impact on the team her freshman year, ranking second on the team in games started with 22 and first in the team in blocks and 11th in the Southland in the same category.
The Islanders enter this season with the top-ranked recruiting class in the Southland after signing 10 newcomers. However, five of them join the Island University with collegiate experience – three at the Division I level. Two of the transfers have played for coach Royce Chadwick, as Shay Weaver and Jasmine Shaw come to the Island University after playing for him at Marshall. Shaw will look to make an immediate impact, while Weaver will sit out this season because of NCAA transfer rules. Alissa Campanero will look to get the ball in the hands of shooters as she dished out 4.9 assists per game last season with Odessa College and has experience in Division I after playing her freshman season at Hawaii. Adebayo played at Eastern Oklahoma State Community College and averaged 16 points and seven rebounds per game, while securing 12 double-doubles, picking up First Team All-Conference, First Team All-Region and Third Team NJCAA All-American honors. Lexy Harris joins the Islanders after averaging a double-double with Angelina Community College, averaging 12.8 points per game and 10.9 rebounds to go along with 2.1 blocks per game.
Rounding off the highly touted recruiting class are five freshmen, with all but one of those coming from Texas. Ranked No. 63 in the ESPN Girls Recruiting National Rankings was Camesha Davis who averaged 16 points and 8.5 rebounds at Desoto High School. Another freshman that comes to the Coastal Bend almost averaging a double-double is Doshi Davis who averaged 11 points, 8.3 rebounds as a senior at Memorial High School in Port Arthur, Texas. A freshman that managed to average a double-double her senior season of high school was Brittany Mbamalu, pulling down 10.1 rebounds a game to go along with 20.8 points. She was also named first team all-district her junior and senior seasons. Looking to help out a team that averaged less than 50 points a game last season is Kassie Jones, who was ranked 10th in Texas in scoring her senior year, averaging 24 points a game. The lone freshman from outside of Texas is Rau Jau' Terry who comes to A&M – Corpus Christi from Louisville, Ky., and was rated one of the top 250 players in the country by Collegiate Girls Basketball Report.
The Islanders will have to find a way to make up for losing its top scorer with Jessica Jammer departing after tallying 8.4 points a game last year. It also loses its assists leader, as Verne'Qua Taylor leaves after climbing to fifth in the Islanders record book, while ranking ninth in the Southland with 3.31 assists per game. Taylor also ranked first on the team and 11th in the conference in steals.
After finishing last season 3-15, the Islanders have been picked by the Southland coaches to finish ninth in the conference, while the SID Poll has A&M – Corpus Christi occupying the 10th spot.
After finishing up their homestand on Thursday night, the Islanders will head to Nashville, Tenn., to play two games in the Volunteer State. They will take on Belmont at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, and Tennessee State at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21.
The Islanders will then round out their three-game road trip — their longest in nonconference play — by travelling to San Marcos, Texas, for a Wednesday night tilt with Texas State the night before Thanksgiving.