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With her girlfriends.
At Wednesday's Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards, Jessica White told the Cut that her idea of a perfect night out is being with her girlfriends and "listening to amazing music ... I love hip-hop and R&B — it makes you want to dance and wiggle your ass!" Last week, White got in a wiggle at Greenhouse with Rihanna — whom she'd like to have sing on her upcoming album: "Rihanna and Slash, that would be my ideal collaboration. That's what I'm hoping." Asked about her preferred method of transportation to the club, White responded, "You can't put me out there like that because they're automatically going to think I'm a diva! But I always have a driver; I have to have a driver. We need to make sure everybody gets from one place to the next and it's safe." As for her morning-after ritual: "Coconut water. And they better give me an endorsement over that one!"


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Color Blind: NCAA Officials Insist They Encourage Hiring Black Coaches
Stacy M. Brown | 7/30/2014, 3 p.m.
The hierarchy of the NCAA isn't pleased with the lack of African-American head coaches in Division I men's basketball.
While member colleges and universities ultimately make their own personnel decisions, the association advocates for an inclusive hiring process to include underrepresented applicants, said two NCAA officials who noted they're very much aware of The Washington Informer's recent special reports about the dearth of black head coaches in the sport.
"The NCAA promotes a system that allows the best candidates to be considered, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender," said league spokeswoman Meghan Durham.
"As it has for many years, the NCAA implements and supports professional development programs for individuals who aspire to be head coaches, such as our NCAA coaching academies," Durham said.
Stacey Osburn, head of media relations at the NCAA in Indianapolis, said the association can't legally mandate or be involved in the hiring process at the campus level, but members of it's Office of Inclusion has been meeting recently with a roundtable of search firms to address the recruitment process for coaches and administrators of color to discuss the best ways to add greater diversity to the candidate pools.
In other words, she said, they are being proactive in finding a solution that will result in more hires of qualified black candidates.
"The NCAA and its member schools provide a number of best practice guidance regarding the importance of an inclusive hiring process," Osburn said.
While the NCAA investigates, blacks continue to be shut out with many unable to land an interview.
Horace Owens, one of college basketball's most respected figures who has served a decade as assistant coach at La Salle University in Philadelphia, said he couldn't answer as to why more blacks haven't received head coaching positions.
Owens, 53, whose La Salle Explorers have won 165 games during his tenure under head coach John Giannini, has been credited with being instrumental in the team's 2013 Sweet 16 run in which they also won 24 games, including three in the NCAA Tournament.
Like Owens, many qualified African-Americans have patiently waited for a chance to lead a program, some of whom have already experienced success as a head coach, like Karl Hobbs of UConn and Anthony Solomon of Notre Dame.
Others have toiled along the sidelines as top-level assistants and have contributed heavily to their programs, including Owens, Charles Payne at Stanford, Roland Houston at George Mason, Jason Williford at Virginia and Kurt Townsend at Kansas.
"There is absolutely nothing preventing these guys from being heavily considered," said Brian Ellerbe, the Seat Pleasant, Maryland born former coach who once served as head men's coach at Loyola-Maryland and the University of Michigan.
"Karl Hobbs has a great record as head coach with three conference titles and two rings," said Ellerbe, 50. In 10 years as a head coach, Hobbs captured two Atlantic 10 championships, one regular season title and he led his team to five postseason tournaments. As an assistant at UConn, Hobbs went to the national championship round twice.


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While I've been wearing my toes as blue for Autism Awareness month (Illamasqua Phallic with Cult Nails Hypnotize Me on top), I wanted to do a blue manicure for the cause too. Autism is near and dear to me because so many people are impacted by and have children who are at various ends of the spectrum of Autism.
Cult Nails Get It On Base Coat
Orly Royal Navy (2 coats)
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Out the Door Top Coat
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Finger Paints Where Art Renoir? (2 coats)
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Do you have a loved one with Autism? Did you wear blue this month for Autism Awareness?
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By Dave Wagner
The Portales Lady Rams hope it's the team at the end of the season which shows up at this week's Class 3A state volleyball tournament, not the one which went 6-15 during the entire regular season.
The defending 3A state champions enter the three-day competition beginning Thursday at Albuquerque's Manzano High School with the only losing record in the field. Yet, they're glad to be there and think they can make some noise.
"I'm excited just to be able to step up and try to win a state championship," junior defensive specialist Rebekah Gonzales said. "In the (matches) against the tough teams, we learned what we needed to work on and that's what's helped us get to state."
Portales has won three of the last four state titles, finishing second in 2002. The Lady Rams are in Pool B and will face Hot Springs (11-6), West Las Vegas (19-2) and Thoreau (11-9) in two-game matches which will seed the teams, based on games won, for Thursday's quarterfinal bracket play.
Pool A includes Ruidoso (16-3), Shiprock (16-5), Santa Fe St. Michael's (9-5) and Soccoro (11-11). Semifinals will be on Friday at Manzano, with the championship match at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Johnson Gym on the University of New Mexico campus.
Portales hasn't played since losing a competitive 3-0 match at Ruidoso in the District 4-3A tournament finals on Oct. 30.
"We knew we'd have to push hard to grow and mature some of our players," coach Ruth Chavez said. "We finished out real good at Ruidoso; those games were close.
"I don't really think records are a big deal right now. It's a brand new season for everybody, and when you get down to that level people don't always play well."
Certainly, the Lady Rams aren't concerned with records at this point.
"We just have this mindset right now that we're going to go out and get it done," said junior outside hitter Megan Kabrick, one of four returnees from last year's state squad. "Our practices have been so good lately."
Chavez said it's hard to say how the layoff from match competition will affect her squad, but Kabrick said the players are ready to go.
"We just want to get out there and keep on playing," she said. "We're just anxious to get there."
With their record, the Lady Rams figure they're going in as underdogs.
"We don't have any expectations (on us)," Gonzales said. "But we have expectations for ourselves — to win state … and beat Ruidoso."
Chavez said the Lady Rams have been well-parpared by a schedule consisting mainly of Class 4A and 5A teams, plus quality 3A squads such as Ruidoso and West Las Vegas.
"Nobody knows what we have in store," she said. "I think our best volleyball is still to come."
As far as Kabrick is concerned, everybody is 0-0 at this point.
"That (6-15) record doesn't count; it's in the past," she said. "It's a whole new season starting Thursday."
Class 3A State Tournament
Thursday's pool play
Two-game matches
At Albuquerque Manzano H.S.
Pool A (Court No. 1) — Shiprock (16-8) vs. St. Michael's (9-5), 8 a.m.; Socorro (11-11) vs. Ruidoso (16-3), 8:30 a.m.; Shiprock vs. Socorro, 9 a.m.; St. Michael's vs. Ruidoso, 9:30 a.m.; Shiprock vs. Ruidoso, 10 a.m.; Socorro vs. St. Michael's, 10:30 a.m.
Pool B (Court No. 2) — Thoreau (11-9) vs. West Las Vegas (19-2), 8 a.m.; Hot Springs (11-6) vs. Portales (6-15), 8:30 a.m.; Thoreau vs. Hot Springs, 9 a.m.; West Las Vegas vs. Portales, 9:30 a.m.; Thoreau vs. Portales, 10 a.m.; Hot Springs vs. West Las Vegas, 10:30 a.m.
Bracket play
At Manzano H.S.
Thursday's quarterfinals
Pool A 2nd vs. Pool B 3rd, 1:30 p.m.; Pool B 1st vs. Pool A 4th, 3:30 p.m.; Pool B 2nd vs. Pool A 3rd, 5:30 p.m.; Pool A 1st vs. Pool B 4th, 7:30 p.m.
Friday's semifinals
1:30 p.m. Thursday winner vs. 3:30 p.m. Thursday winner, 5 p.m.; 5:30 p.m. Thursday winner vs. 7:30 p.m. Thursday winner, 7 p.m.
Saturday's finals
11 a.m. (at UNM's Johnson Gym)


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I'm A White Boy
and I'm Okay
I work all day
and make political hay.
I do not represent ALL White Boys in America but I play one on TV.
In fact many White boys annoy the crap out of me not because they are White but because they are also other males, I do hate guys who are dickheads......they give the gender a really bad reputation.
I have seen a few mentions of white heritage and culture and I felt the need to put up the definitions of both Heritage and Culture so we can learn exactly what those words mean.
Heritage- 1. Property that is or can be inherited: an inheritance.
2. Something that is passed down from preceding generations, a tradition.
3. The status acquired by a person through birth, a birthright.
Culture- 1. The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions and all products of human work or thought.
2. The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterizes the functions of a group or organization.
Since our beginning as a group of colonies we have been the Great Assimilating Society, the gatherer and user of all cultures and all heritages. So all these traditional heritages and cultures were assimilated through the years and then held firmly in place by family, neighborhood and community and geographical area in our country.
Our language is a gatherer of new words every year. This is a cultural phenomenon that we all take part in. The heritage of our language is to take comfortable words that speak to specifics on the subject or object or idea so that we speak current jargon and are then "in the Groove, on the fast track, and Not Retro".
We throw out culture and heritage onto a historical social scrap heap all the bloody time here, we are no longer "the bees knees ya know".
Yes, much of our culture and heritage was brought here by white European immigrants but each of those select groups assimilated the other groups stuff. Thank the Pennsylvania Dutch for your Christmas Tree this year it is their tradition we all borrowed and made our own thing.
Geographically I am way different culturally than all you other crazy people who talk funny and have strange ideas and ways. My Western Pennsylvania heritage was to make fun of people from Ohio who say Dollar the wrong way. Although we had white city folks and white country folks in the family we did not share many of the same cultural interests. The Ridge Runners, as we called our wilder cousins, were a strange breed of cousin. My great uncle wore his hip waders all the time, even at a funeral. Now that is not a cultural thing the rest of the family liked too much. But we were family so we put up with that difference.
And here's the thing. It's Yinz or Yous, not You All.
So let me run down my cultural roots and heritage and see if yinz are the same or different.
Highland and Island Scottish on one side of family, back to the 11 century and before that they lived on the coast of Northern Ireland, Celtic boat people. 6 brothers came here to Eastern PA in 1746. Moved over the Allegheny Mountains to get the hell away from the Germans and PA Dutch. Settled in the wild woods of Western PA. and have been here ever since. Now within this blood line are little bits of other cultures, a bit of Italian and Jewish and Lowland Scots and English popped up in our records search. But we were country people till the Industrial Revolution gathered all the youngsters to the city, just like country chickens that are turned to factory chickens, all penned in. We never lost our wild roots, we stayed wild but adapted.
This is where the melting pot of culture and heritage started shaking up the traditions further. My Dad met my Mom and they both married outside of ethnic and religious backgrounds. Now I had a new cultural line and heritage to look into.
Northern Irish, Green through and through on my Maternal Grandfathers side, on my grandmothers side, Swedish, Pennsylvania Dutch from Alsace Lorraine who came here in the 1600s, anabaptists. The same people my other people ran away from. LOL
Now my heritage and culture is related to where I grew up, a housing project out side of Pittsburgh called Broadhead Manor. I grew up with all races and so many ethnic and religious backgrounds that it was a Smelting Pot of American Culture. I heard almost every language spoken, I ate so many types of food that you would think you lived in an international village or something. We assimilated each others stuff that we then created into new culture and heritage for our next generation.
My wife and I moved away from our culture and heritage and found a place with new culture and we are making a new heritage for our families. We are bringing them back home to where they were when they first got here and mixed with everyone else. We are bring the wild heritage from our past into the future. Assimilation begins anew.
Culture and Heritage, it just ain't what it used to be and that is exactly how it will be always be, a process always evolving.
Assimilate and create your culture and heritage or become like the Shakers and disappear.
Oh, and by the way, I did grow up in a very strong Nativist crowd of relatives, I have heard this culture and heritage junk since I was a wee boy.
I still ain't buying into it.
my Oak Tree is way different than yours by a long shot. This is how we, in my culture and heritage really say here that "your argument missed the target by a mile, NEXT Shooter".