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- A Two-Night Stay for Up to Eight People in a Four-Bedroom Nature View Papineau Chalet, Sundays to Thursdays, Now through December 18 ($499)
- Or, a Three-Night Stay for Up to Eight People in a Four-Bedroom Nature View Papineau Chalet, Sundays to Thursdays, Now through October 31, and Any Day of the Week from November 1 to December 18 ($549)
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Mont-Tremblant is Quebec's jewel of the Laurentian Mountains, a beautiful village of ski resorts and bistros. If you're looking for outdoor excitement, the mountain offers year-round diversions: You can hit the slopes, or go hiking, biking, golfing, canoeing, or just exploring. The town's restaurants offer a near-limitless selection, from seafood to truffles to bar fare. For shopaholics, Mont-Tremblant is peppered with fashionable boutiques focused on chic, winter-weather clothes.
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Ben Mitchell has long played his cards close to his chest. Since closing the door on his tough upbringing in a broken home, the ruthlessly ambitious Shortland Street actor has enjoyed success and fame – but has always resisted showing his true self to fans.
Becoming a dad last year marked a shift in his attitude, and he rather nervously introduced Mila to the world in New Idea in March.
Several months on, he finally feels comfortable enough in himself to speak candidly about his unconventional childhood, his terror at becoming a father, the power his daughter has over him, why he has steered clear of marriage and how at heart he is still, 'a little Maori boy from lower class Hamilton, playing it cool but inside going, "Oh my gosh."'
'I've very much tried to keep the person in the public eye and the private person different,' admits Ben.
'But in the end I want to be honest – in the future I don't want Mila to look at me and question what I did and said in the past.'
New Idea catches up with Ben and Mila in Fiji, where the 31-year-old is introducing his daughter to the country his great-grandmother was born in.
Since arriving, the pair has spent time at Treasures Orphanage, a refuge which Ben first visited 18 months ago. The squalor of the surroundings has never phased Ben, who is remarkably comfortable in the run-down building just 20 minutes from the opulent tourist Mecca of Denarau.
'I wasn't shocked by it because, although my cousins weren't in an orphanage, some of them had extremely unfortunate upbringings,' says Ben, who plays TK Samuels on the TV2 soap. 'They grew up in an environment where there was neglect, struggle and a lack of love.
They were in very bad, violent, abusive situations.'
Looking back to his own childhood, Ben recalls that compared to his relatives, he was part of 'quite the golden family.'
Man of the house
While he spent his formative years in an unsavoury part of town – with gang members from the Mongrel Mob and Black Power across the street from his state house – he remembers being showered with love.
His parents were very young when Ben's older sister was born, and had her adopted out. While they never married, together the pair raised Ben and his younger sister, until the couple split when Ben was still in primary school.
This forced the feisty little boy to become the man of the house – and his steely determination to protect the women in his life has remained ever since.
'I took on this role to take care of my mum and my sisters, and to defend, protect and somehow provide,' says the former St John's College student, glancing around the luxurious Fijian resort he is relaxing in – so in contrast to the environment in which he was raised.
'My childhood wasn't conventional. There wasn't much money. Me and my sister lived in quite a rough neighbourhood, there was a real rank and a sense that the alpha male looks after his sisters.'
Recalling the time he had to take on the local 'tough guy' who was picking on his sister, he adds, 'There were situations where I felt the women in my life were in jeopardy – and my guts said I'd never let that happen, I'd die to protect them.'
Being raised in such circumstances, Ben could easily have fallen in with the wrong crowd. But while his builder father wasn't always there, he still had an influence on his son. As a kid Ben was hot headed, and his father taught him to control his emotions.
'Maybe he could see himself in me,' Ben says reflectively. 'I wasn't troublesome at school but I got myself into situations, it wasn't temper – it was more controlled than that. He got me into boxing and martial arts and that structured and controlled it. He also ensured I could stand on my own two feet.'
While he didn't live permanently with his young family, Ben's dad Edward channelled plenty of energy into his eldest son – who seems to have spent his life trying to earn his dad's approval and respect.
'Dad was the man and he wanted to do things with me – take me running and training,' says Ben, taking a sip of coffee. 'But with my little sister it was like, "Oh, Mum will do stuff with her."'
Ben reflects this has made him more determined to be hands-on with 14-month-old Mila.
'I think it hurt my sister,' he says. 'I think it's truly important to have a male in your life.'
While his background has given Ben a resolve to not only give Mila everything he didn't have but also the things his sister missed out on, he admits that when he first learned he was having a daughter, he was disappointed it wasn't a son.
If he's honest, the whole concept of being a father wasn't something he planned to do until he was much older and had achieved his dream of being a millionaire.
'I thought I was doomed when I found out I was going to be a father,' he says, running his hand through his hair.
'I thought I was going to lose my ambition and my focus – and I didn't know if I was capable of being a father. And then it was like, "Oh, it's a girl." But in hindsight, I love that I had a girl first. I love the side it's brought out of me.'
Kids in need
Interestingly, it was Treasures Orphanage, where the kids treat Ben like their long-lost big brother, that helped the actor come to terms with Mila's impending arrival. He first visited the care facility in his role as an ambassador for Air Pacific's Wings of Hope charity.
He never imagined his work with the initiative would affect him so dramatically – helping him reconnect with his own childhood and see the opportunity he had been given in becoming a father.
'Seeing them, I just thought more about the fact I was going to have a child soon, and there is a real sense of responsibility there,' Ben says. 'Children need love. It was my first kind of awareness of that.'
Chatting to Ben it becomes increasingly clear he is a fairly regular Jack the lad who has more than a touch of the introspective, tortured artist about him. It makes for something of a split personality, as he switches from down-to-earth, laid back honesty to sharing convoluted theories on evolution. He's the first to recognise this contrast – with a shout of laughter he admits, 'I'm not slightly schizophrenic, I'm extremely!'
While he might not have dropped his guard in the many interviews he has given since winning the role of Shortland Street's dishy doctor TK Samuels in 2006, Ben has dropped his shirt in his numerous photo shoots – and shamelessly pouted at the camera.
Stretching languidly in his chair, the former Mr New Zealand concedes that in the past he has been both vain and self-absorbed – but being around Mila makes him realise there are some things more important than whether his arms are toned and his T-shirt is designer.
'Normally when I'm doing a photo shoot I have a persona, or a type of image or expression, but with Mila my focus is on the baby,' he says. 'I mean I'm in Fiji, in the sun, I'm really pasty, my hair is a mess – but I'm not really worried. People who know me well know I'd usually be asking for a mirror about now.'
Far from checking his reflection, Ben spends his time at Treasures Orphanage contentedly letting the kids clamber all over him – occasionally sweeping one up into a hug and play fighting with another.
He is particularly attached to three-year-old Asari, who he grabs in a headlock and proudly reveals has a passion for sport. Would Ben consider adoption? He hesitates.
'I haven't really thought about it. But I definitely feel like I could take [Asari]. I do want to have a son. Girls are always going to be tender to me but with a son it will be different. I don't want to be too hard-core on my son but he's definitely not going to be soft.'
As a father, Ben is keen to teach Mila about her culture and lineage. Affectionately describing the tot as 'a mongrel', he explains that not only does she have Indian, Fijian Indian, Scottish and Maori heritage on her father's side, she has Croatian blood from her mother's family.
Part of the reason it is so important for Ben to show Mila her Fijian roots, is to give her an identity he felt he was lacking as a kid.
'Growing up I was extremely confused,' he says, adding he was raised on curries and hangi. 'Maori were in the minority in school and often I didn't know if I was Maori or not. Teachers would ask me, "Where are you from?" and I'd say, "I don't know."'
One of Ben's hopes is that his parents have more interaction with his daughter. Mum Karen lives in Australia while his dad lives in Hamilton with his partner and their three children, Ben's half siblings.
'I'm not estranged from my mother but she lives overseas and we haven't connected for a while,' Ben says. 'I only see Dad once in a blue moon. The three younger children are all from Dad's new relationship – to say I'm involved in their lives would be lying. Dad and I have a relationship but I kind of get on with my own stuff.'
Like dad, like daughter
Whether or not Mila takes after her grandparents, there's no doubt with her chocolate eyes and wide smile she is her father's daughter. And her doting dad reckons the similarities don't stop at appearances.
'She's strong, she's curious, she's fast and quick. She's fluent in her body, she's acrobatic…' Ben checks himself, suddenly realising he is being far from modest. 'She's also extremely temperamental – and if I have to be honest that's me,' he says.
'She's got this temper – one minute she's angelic and then it's like a switch. I get fired up extremely fast too, but I've learnt to control it.'
Another side of Mila is that, when it comes to her dad she is extremely bossy. While Ben insists she'll never be spoilt – his own upbringing showed him that spending time with his little girl is more important than splashing out on expensive gifts for her – there's no doubt the toddler has got him wrapped around her tiny little finger.
'She orders me around – I love that,' Ben says with a broad grin. 'A woman that orders me around – it's like, "How did you do it?" She is probably the first girl who has done that. Women have tried and failed, but I do listen to Mila.'
Despite his new-found openness, Ben is still guarded about his love life. He admits he has been in love before – and has enjoyed serious relationships – but reckons they ultimately failed due to timing.
Switching between being honest – 'I'm not the best partner – yet' – and slightly poetic – 'I think we all have a longing to love and be loved – oh God, I sound like a fairy' – it becomes clear he's not quite sure what he's after. He reveals the issue of marriage has come up, but because his own parents were never married, it doesn't mean so much to him.
'I am thinking about it. In 10 years I reckon I'll be ready,' he says, keen to make light of the issue. 'And then I'm going to turn around and say, "Who wants me?"'
For now, he is content to focus on the most important woman in his life, Mila, and give her all the things he missed out on as a child.
'Mum wanted to take us to Disneyland – it was her dream. She'd tell us, "When Mum wins the lottery I'll take you to Disneyland," and we'd believe her. But we never got there.
'But if I say I'm going to take my daughter to Disneyland she is going there. I've not been yet but when I do we'll go together.'
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Ability Score Racial Traits: Orcs are brutal and hearty. They gain +2 Strength, +2 Constitution and -2 Charisma.
Type: Orcs are humanoids with the beastman subtype.
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Base Speed: Orcs have a base speed of 30 feet.
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What in the world prompts wingnuts to try to shoot a president? We might shrug and dismiss their motivations as generic craziness, but fortunately Assassins is interested in them as individuals.
The 1990 musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, is getting an excellent production by Contemporary Theater Company in Wakefield (through November 2), with bare-bones staging but good voices and absorbing acting, directed by Jimmy Calitri.
Nine successful or foiled assassins are depicted, and the initial ensemble presentation of them does understandably generalize before they disperse. All but one sing "Everybody's Got the Right," in the darkly humorous agreement that the pursuit of happiness is an American birthright. Lee Harvey Oswald (Patrick Saunders) is not among them; he appears toward the end of Act Two, since the most recent presidential murder, of JFK, still echoes as the most traumatic.
We get two guides to the unfolding account of malign intentions. First is the Proprietor (Hannah Van Meter) of a metaphorical shooting gallery, at which the assassins receive their guns. And then there is the Balladeer (Matthew Royality-Lindman), whose job it is to belt out these grim stories in song.
We start out with perhaps the most vilified villain of the 19th century, John Wilkes Booth (Patrick Keefe). We see a projection of an actual wanted poster dated six days after the Lincoln assassination, the $100,000 reward a considerable sum even today. Booth's fury over Lincoln's treatment of the South is conveyed, but the actor's resentment over bad reviews seems to get equal weight. He's injured from that balcony leap we recall from junior high history, and soon we see him in a bar next to a seedy guy in a dirty Santa costume. That is Samuel Byck (Joshua Andrews), who hijacked a plane he intended to fly into the White House to kill Richard Nixon. Buying a round of drinks is Charles Guiteau (Brian Mulvey), who killed President James Garfield.
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz (David Sackal) also succeeded, fatally shooting William McKinley. Sackal is chilling as he describes the horrific conditions of his work at a searing furnace in a glass bottle factory. But fortunately, there were more failed assassination attempts than successful ones. Angered by American social injustice in this account, Italian immigrant Giuseppe Zangara (Jon Dyson and Denny Keohane sharing the role in different performances) fired at FDR when he was president-elect, instead hitting and killing the mayor of Chicago. Not much better a shot was John Hinckley, Jr. (Jesse Dufault), who hoped to impress actress Jodie Foster and hit Ronald Reagan with a ricochet.
And there was Sara Jane Moore (Rae Mancini in full whimsicality), angry at the government and wanting to be taken seriously, who missed Gerald Ford. (In a delightful touch, the reputedly hapless Ford helps her pick up bullets she dropped.) That was just two weeks after Charles Manson acolyte Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme (Shannon Hartman) didn't even got a shot off when she aimed her pistol at Ford, hoping that Manson would be able to give a speech at her trial and save the world.
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Craig ... his spokeswoman denied the report.
Daniel Craig is reportedly the next James Bond.
He has been offered a three-film deal by producer Barbara Broccoli, according to The Sun.
Craig, 37, currently starring in Enduring Love was also in the gangster film Layer Cake.
The newspaper said he had been competing with fellow British actor Clive Owen to take over from Pierce Brosnan.
However, Owen had told casting agents he did not want the job as he feared it might limit his career.
Other names mentioned at different times in connection with the 007 role have included Eric Bana, Jude Law, Heath Ledger, Ewan McGregor, Dougray Scott and Hugh Jackman.
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She refused to comment further.
Eon Productions, which makes the Bond movies, also refused to comment.
The next James Bond movie, Casino Royale, is being directed by Martin Campbell, who first took the helm on Goldeneye in 1995.
Casino Royale was author Ian Fleming's first Bond book and was originally made into a spoof spy flick in 1967, starring Peter Sellers, Woody Allen and David Niven.
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After 7 years I am about to change careers. I can still get cobra until the new job's benefits kick in right?
I see them extending the "deadline" of this until 2015 anyway. I just wonder if it has caused the short term insurance companies to pack up. It was $200 for 3 months like 7 years ago. I can see that doubling realistically. I just hope it has not went through the roof as a result of this.
So how does this work with people changing jobs in the future? Will there be a gap of the traditional 90 days with people going on government insurance until enrollment periods or will the employer need to offer instant insurance?
I have worked (for businesses) since I was 16 and never been out of work more then 2 weeks. I have always used cobra to fill the insurance gap. This government insurance is a total cluster that I will stay away from it at all cost as long as possible to avoid identity theft.
I hope that I can still get cobra and not get fined or audited as a result of not having employer or government insurance for 2 months in 2014. Needless to say I will be hanging on to my receipt from cobra until March of 2015.
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Today we went to visit Dr San Juan and her friends. It was good to see her, but she was more interested in looking at my coat than playing. She concluded I have something called Bulldog Alopecia. It gives me balding spots on my sides. It should go away on it's own (and may come back from time to time), but for now, I have some thin spots on my otherwise splendid coat. It's ok - it doesn't bother me. I can still play and eat and sleep and do all the stuff I love.
I hope all is well with you too.
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Did you know Mother Nature does a pretty eerie dog impression? She's been howling all day, and I can't help but worry each time I hear it. I get very sympathetic when I hear such wailing.
As you can see above, I have the proper gear to brave such wild weather - my trusty rain slicker.
But, even so, I prefer to stay dry. At heart, all I want to do is nap in nest of blankets...
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It was eventful weekend at our house. Furniture was moving all over, new things in, old things out of the way, I tried to stay out of the way too and hide - scared I'd be mistakenly put in the "get rid of" corner.
I was also afraid for my chair. It's the one piece of furniture I'm allowed on. What if it didn't get to stay?...yikes! But my chair still has a place among the newness. What a relief!
But, then again, it wasn't all good news for your friend B. I got ambitious and figured with new furniture, I could stake my claim to it early on and expand my elevated territory, right? Well, I tried and tried, but it seems it has been pre-determined that I am not to be on the new things. I don't know who makes these decisions, but I will continue to protest and appeal. I don't give up easily.
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Well let start off by saying that my week was very hectic! Not only did I have to deal with my brother Deuce all week, but we had Benny here too! I love him and everything, but my goodness, he wouldn't leave me alone! He's is a cutie so I didn't mind the sniffing of my butt that much, but there were times when I had to put him in his place. I did enjoy running around with the boys outside, they think just becuase I'm smaller than they are that I can't kick some behind, boy did I show them! I can keep up with the boys any day of the week! I will miss him though, mom and dad miss him already!!!!
well mom and dad took me and deucey down the shore for the day. It was pretty fun,plus my boyfriend benny was with us, so naturally i was in heaven!!! Gotta lose some weight, if i'm gonna fit into that bikini for him though! anyway, the water was pretty cold, so i didn't want to go in, plus it tasted pretty gross. i did have a good time with everyone and can't wait for my next trip down the sea shore! the only thing i didn't like too much was all these other dogs kept trying to eat my food!!! Next time i'll have to put them in check! anyway, until next time!
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I'm wondering if anyone has both a Montbell Ultra Light jacket or parka and an Alpine Light. I'm curious how much more loft and warmth the Alpine offers over the Ultra Light. I have the Ultra Light and am considering getting the Alpine to wear as a general Winter coat and have a warmer option for packing when need be. The UL is great, and has been plenty warm into the 20's if I'm moving, but here in MN it's not uncommon to have days below zero and I'm wondering if the Alpine is "that" much warmer than the UL.
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@annapurnaJan 27, 2012 at 11:58 am #1830535
Bob BankheadBPL Member
@wandering_bobLocale: Oregon, USA
According to Montbell, the Alpine Light items have twice the 800 fp down fill of the corresponding UL Down item, costs $10 more, and the Ballistic Airtite shell fabric is 30 denier vs. 15 D for the UL, so they should be more robust as well as warmer.
UL Down Jacket…2 oz fill…7.7 oz total….15 D shell……$165
AL Down jacket…4 oz fill…11.5 oz total…30 D shell……$175
UL Down Parka….2.5 oz fill….10.0 oz total…15 D shell…..$185
AL Down Parka….4.3 oz fill….15.8 oz total…30 D shell…..$195Jan 27, 2012 at 12:02 pm #1830536
Mike MBPL Member
@mtwardenLocale: Montana
I have the ex-light which I believe is pretty comparable to the UL (little less down, but 900 fill) and I find they are significantly different in warmth- the ex-light is all I need in summer in the Mountain West, but doesn't cut it all for shoulder/winter season
the Alpine Light keeps me (tend run a little warmish) very comfortable sitting around camp to ~ 20 degrees, I don't wear it moving much (I find down to very poor on the move due to moisture mgt) but obviously would move the number much lower
what I haven't tried yet is to so how the ex-light will do combined w/ the AL, the AL is cut pretty roomy so there is room to layer a thin down jacket pretty easilyJan 27, 2012 at 12:49 pm #1830575
Art TyszkaBPL Member
@arttyszkaLocale: Minnesota
Thanks guys, this is exactly the kind of input I was looking for.Jan 27, 2012 at 5:28 pm #1830715
Jennifer McFarlaneBPL Member
@jennymcfarlaneLocale: Southern California
I have both the UL Down inner and the Alpine light.
The down inner kept me warm down to about 30s at night in the Sierra's last summer. I was either moving or sleeping though, but the down inner plus a Western Mountaineering Caribou bag kept me warm while sleeping.
The Alpine Light is a much warmer jacket. I've only worn it a few times because it is really warm- I have had it down in the 20s at rest and was nowhere near cold- toasty warm, really. It was one cold, rainy weekend out in the California desert and I was really glad I had the alpine light instead of the UL Down inner. I spent a lot of time standing around in the cold and never felt it with the Alpine Light on. It is also quite a bit loftier than the UL Down Inner.Jan 27, 2012 at 7:04 pm #1830742
Nigel HealyMember
@nigelhealyLocale: San Francisco bay area
Hi I own the Alpine light if given the opportunity to puff out its quite warm but all that warm disappears where it is squished under a pack. To a degree the backpack on the back replaces the jacket's lost insulation with the pack itself but not down the sides where the straps under-arm.Jan 27, 2012 at 7:40 pm #1830755
Kimberly WersalBPL Member
@kwersalLocale: Western Colorado
I have both the UL inner jacket and the Alpine Light Jacket. I, too, find the Alpine Light to be much warmer. I almost always bring the Alpine, since the UL is just not warm enough for sitting around at night in Colorado, even in the summer. I never hike with either jacket (too warm). I have gradually started wearing the Alpine Light as my everyday winter jacket–it's too nice to let it sit around waiting for a BPing trip.
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Much has been made over the past couple of years nationally regarding individual state's various versions of tort reform. Many in the healthcare industry have probably asked whether it has done much to negate lawsuits, lower medical malpractice premiums and positively impact the medical environment. With the recent health care bill doing very little to help with tort reform and hence encouraging fewer lawsuits, individual state's tort reform legislation could be more important than ever.
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Let's roll back the clock a little bit to the time of bell bottoms, discos and the Ford Pinto. The early 1970s was not only a horrible time for fashion but also for the medical malpractice environment. A rather large crisis was starting to brew during this decade. Many private insurers exited the market due to the rampant increase in malpractice claims and the inadequate premiums that had been charged in the past.
As in any industry, supply and demand rang true and the decrease in competition led to less and less availability of insurers and of course much higher premiums being charged as a whole.
Following this rapid increase in claims and in premiums, tort reform started to evolve from state to state in addition to other attempts to ease the rise in medical malpractice premiums and hopefully dissuade frivolous lawsuits. Some of these included more efficient communication between physicians and patients, improved peer review boards and increased diagnostic testing.
Almost every state in the past 30 plus years has passed some sort of tort reform. However in recent years some states have overturned their malpractice reform legislation. In fact, one state ruled that caps on pain and suffering were unconstitutional.
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Similar to how asset protection laws vary from state to state, variations in tort reform from state to state can positively or negatively influence the medical environment. Last decade, my home state of Texas passed a constitutional amendment which drastically improved the malpractice environment in the state. This brought many new specialists to the Lone Star State and rapidly increased the ratio of physicians to patients per capita and lowered malpractice premiums by as much as 10% in some areas.
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Whether or not tort reform has helped the medical community is based on how one looks at it from a comprehensive standpoint. The general feeling from most people in the healthcare industry is the overall increase in the comfort of practicing medicine.
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Interesting findings from a new UCTC study on walkability:
Our results show that the number of businesses per acre is the single most robust indicator of whether people are likely to walk in their neighborhood. We find that people living in neighborhoods with more business establishments per acre conduct more of their travel within their neighborhood and are more likely to travel by walking.
This suggests that walkable neighborhoods are often places where there are many nearby destinations. Measures that might correlate with large establishments—retail employment or sales—did not predict walking travel nearly as reliably as the number of businesses per acre, suggesting that the key is not simply sales but a large number and variety of businesses in a relatively small area.
So when people say they want their neighborhood to be more walkable, one of the things they mean is that they want to increase business density. The more people are able to access their basic needs within walking distance of their homes, the more they choose to walk. Seems pretty obvious, but this underscores my point about the need to encourage infill development of vacant lots and surface parking lots in cities' most high-demand business district and neighborhoods.
Except in cities' central business districts, most people don't live within walking distance of too many commercial retail buildings. So if your goal is increasing business density in a neighborhood, by definition this means adding some new buildings within walking distance of people's homes. Where are you going to add them? In a compact neighborhood with mostly attached buildings, your choices are vacant land, surface parking lots, or replacing an existing building.
Any successful effort to increase the number of commercial buildings within walking distance of people' homes is going to bring some more traffic to the neighborhood, both foot traffic and vehicle traffic. That's unavoidable. More congestion and high demand for parking is a sign that you have succeeded in creating a place where people want to be. They're not good reasons to oppose infill development.
The problem you can avoid is mismanaging that congestion by pricing parking at below-market rates. If you are willing to let parking rates on the most high-demand blocks rise to the market-clearing price during peak times of the day, you can make sure there's always a couple spaces open on every block. With variable pricing, people would have the choice to park as close to their destination as they wanted, as long as they were willing to pay a little more. This and other demand-side solutions are the better way to respond to greater business density in walkable neighborhoods. It would be perverse to reject more development because it might make your neighborhood more desirable.


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Usher Is Really Bad At Paddle-BoardingUsher can sing and dance. He can pretty much do it all...except paddle-board.
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I like the mouse layout and design. And it feels solid.
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I was talking to one of my friend's last night about her case. Our stories are incredibly similar and we just so happen to be in the same county- and in the same courtroom. We came together last year as a result of my blog. Our x's share many characteristics and our daughters are the same age- and experiencing the same things. It's almost uncanny.
She was able to eloquently express what she deems as a primary issue in our local courts and probably in many across the country: the courts have a threshold of what they deem as "acceptable" but as a mother, as a father, as parents and as a society– our thresholds should be much higher. I share her frustration. I sit in court and I watch people who are accused of selling drugs in front of their children. I hear allegations of physical and sexual abuse. I have witnessed parents who have disappeared from their child's life for five years and suddenly reappear and want to pick up right where they left off. I watch dead-beat parents of both genders as I sit in that courtroom. As I wait for our case to be called, I usually have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach because I know that compared to what has been addressed before us- the Narcissist appears to be a welcomed relief in many ways.
Much like a doctor becomes accustomed to the cycle of life, our courts have become accustomed to abuse, neglect and abandonment. In recent paperwork submitted to the court, minor's counsel suggested something along the lines of, "I am beginning to wonder if the mother overreacts to the father's parenting style". Those weren't the exact words (and I don't have the paperwork with me) but that is what he was eluding to. If you consider emotional abuse a "parenting style" than I am guilty. If you consider leaving a child unattended in a car for 30-45 minutes while you watched sports on television a "parenting style"- than I am guilty. If you consider leaving two children who can't swim alone in a pool without life jackets on a "parenting style"- than I am guilty. If you consider telling a 4-year old child that you are going to lock her in a dark parking structure and make her sleep there because she is crying a "parenting style"- than I am guilty. If you believe in bullying and scaring children a "parenting style" than I am guilty.
I think that this issue starts in the courtroom and trickles down to everyone who has a hand in the court system–including the very people (parenting evaluators, GAL's, Child Welfare Services, etc) who are supposed to protect our children. As a society, we should demand a higher threshold when it comes to our children. It sadly comes back to parental rights and the fact that parental rights seem to supersede the right of a child to be healthy, happy and loved.
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User is also capable of much more! It brings to the table a robust set of front end member management tools and adds much more flexibility to the way your member management behaves. For example, you can send an automated custom welcome email to users once their registration is complete, Admins can register new members via the front end, create invitation emails with unique registration keys, set the email address to be the username for logging into your site, Custom error pages... and more!
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Date formats below are: M/D/YYYY. As always, we recommend that you always use the latest versions of our add-ons. However, this chart may answer some of your questions about upgrading the Solspace User add-on and ExpressionEngine, and reduce the risk of incompatibility. This chart also serves as a guide to see when support for the latest version of ExpressionEngine becomes available.
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Last week's grain elevator accident in LaCrosse has prompted the Indiana Department of Labor to urge employers and employees to review grain handling facility hazards and how to prevent occupational injuries and fatalities.
Four employees at Co-Alliance were injured in an explosion caused by an industrial accident on April 15.
According to the Department of Labor, the grain handling industry is a high hazard industry where workers can be exposed to serious and life threatening hazards including fires and explosions from grain dust accumulation. Other hazards include suffocation from engulfment and entrapment in grain bins, falls from heights and crushing injuries, and amputations from equipment.


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Protecting the human right to food is more important than ever, argues ESRC researcher Hannah Lambie-Mumford.
In the last few years we have seen the prolific growth of emergency food charity across the UK and sharply rising numbers of people turning to them for help with food. In 2010-2011 just over 61, 000 people received emergency food parcels from the country's largest network of food banks – the Trussell Trust foodbank Network; in 2013-2014 that number had risen to over 913,000.
Continue reading Why is Britain increasingly reliant on food banks?
The doctrine that food prices should be kept as low as possible to end hunger is wrong, says former FAO agricultural economist Andrew MacMillan.
Most governments prefer to keep food prices "affordable" for their people. Many subsidise their farmers' incomes to let them make a decent living while they sell their output for little more than it costs them to produce it. Countries justify these measures and relatively low taxes on foods as means of preventing poor people from suffering from hunger.
Continue reading Raising food prices to end hunger
What causes sudden increases in commodity costs, and can we stop them in the future? Theresa Meacham introduces a Global Food Security publication.
'Banks making millions out of starving millions through food speculation' was the headline in the Metro following the food price spikes back in 2012. Prior to this, the Telegraph was also asking 'Should food be a protected commodity?' following the 2007/08 price spike and 2010 price rises.
But how much can we blame bankers (or food commodity traders) for causing the food price spikes? And will there be more food price spikes in the future?
Continue reading An Insight on food price spikes
The Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (Relu) has been running since 2004. Laura Meagher reports on its value and progress.
Rural areas in the UK, and elsewhere, are experiencing considerable change at a pace that makes many feel uneasy about the future. The Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (Relu) uses a combination of natural and social sciences to advance understanding of the challenges they face.
Continue reading Measuring the impact of food security research
Big chains are an easy target, and rightly so in many instances. But food's journey from supplier to consumer is more complex – and evolving – says Andrew Fearne.
Picture this: you are the supplier of a highly perishable and seasonable food commodity to a major supermarket. You are a significant player in your sector, say summer fruits, but the supplier of only one of 30,000 product lines for the supermarket.
Your supply programmes are generally agreed annually with your customer, the supermarket, with prices and promotions contingent upon availability and demand.
Continue reading Supermarket buyers – a breed apart or an endangered species?
Truly sustainable agricultural systems require scientific innovation based around new social and economic principles, says Geoff Tansey.
The fundamental reasons why people face food insecurity are not mainly the scientific and technical.
As a Food Ethics Council Food and Fairness inquiry concluded, the problems we face cannot simply be solved from within a food system perspective but are rooted in institutional features of how the world works today. Within existing frameworks, technological innovation alone will not deliver the kind of change needed to achieve a well-fed world, sustainably and equitably.
Continue reading Food and the economy of fairness
Developing agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa involves tackling political problems as well as the scientific ones, says Sara Delaney.
Bold orange signs decorated the brightly lit rooms, each proclaiming 'New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture' and offering a taste of keywords to come: 'finance, migration, accessing markets, youth…', serving as an inspiring backdrop for the two day conference held at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), in Rome, on January 24-25.
Continue reading Elephants in the conference room
Gambling on food prices was a driver of the 2007-08 crisis and it's time to take action against this practice, says Julian Oram.
I don't consider myself to be an especially intuitive person and I'm pretty sure I'd make a lousy detective. But a few years ago something happened on an international scale which roused my suspicions: the price of food was rising fast.
Between January 2007 and June 2008, maize prices shot up by 74%, wheat prices by 124%, and rice by 224%. In Britain, this led to grumblings about the rising cost of a loaf of bread. But across Asia, Africa and Latin America, riots erupted as the price of basic foodstuffs became unaffordable to poor households and millions went hungry. It was, without doubt, a major world crisis.
Continue reading The case of the great food bubble


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Beautiful quilt ~ beautiful granddaughter!! Good job!!
Love your story! Beautiful DGD and quilt. I give her a A++++ on a great quilt. I love the heart applique also. Her DM will be so very thrilled! How lucky you are to have a quilting buddy!
Fabulous! She looks proud as she should be. I really like the heart in the corner. Tell her good job! She can say she is a Quilter :)
Hey Granddaughter.....your quilt is awesome!!! Love the colors & the hearts are so perfect!! Great quilt.....can't wait for the next one :)
Way to go. She did a great job.:thumbup:
WTG, Kiddo! Great job. Love the little hearts in the border!
Great choices in colorn and pattern and Grandma!!!
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Both are beautiful, also her wonderful teacher.
It's beautiful, she should be very proud of herself! I know you are proud of her as well, my DGD just turned 6, we've
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text: On Tuesday, October 27 the House Tourism, Outdoor Recreation and Natural Resources Committee approved House Bill 5302 and House Bill 5303 by a 9 to 1 vote. HB5302, introduced by State Representative Paul Opsommer (R-93), and HB5303, introduced by State Representative Joel Sheltrown (D-103), would prohibit employers from firing employees who safely and lawfully store their firearms in locked vehicles while at work. The bill now moves to the full Michigan House of Representatives where a vote may be taken any day.


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Fight Win Prevail is set in an imaginary universe where fearless pilots fight to the death with their futuristic vehicles.
Gameplay lies somewhere between the Mechwarrior-series and Quake 3.
It is faster and more action-orientated than in Mechwarrior, but tries to avoid the jump-around-like-crazy-and-fire-at-everything-that-moves-gameplay known from Quake 3.
Fight Win Prevail is a pure multiplayer game and does not have a real singleplayer mode. Our primary target are LANs, but the game is playable over the internet, too.. The official fight win prevail website.
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Sharp-ears was a pony brought by Merry for the Hobbits' journey to Rivendell.
Sharp-ears was presented along with the ponies Wise-nose, Swish-tail, Bumpkin, White-socks, and Fatty Lumpkin. Along with the other ponies, Sharp-ears was stabled at The Prancing Pony but was later found to have gone but was later found and brought into the service of Barliman Butterbur. Sharp-ears was given its name by Tom Bombadil.[1][2][3]
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Chapter VIII: "Fog on the Barrow-downs"
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Chapter XI: "A Knife in the Dark"
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- ATPases that are members of the AAA protein superfamily (ATPase family Associated with various cellular Activities). The NSFs functions, acting in conjunction with SOLUBLE NSF ATTACHMENT PROTEINS (i.e. SNAPs, which have no relation to SNAP 25), are to dissociate SNARE complexes.
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This year for the Fourth of July I treated my guests to something special before our annual fireworks spectacular... a deluxe dessert table cheerfully decorated with a "Stars and Stripes Forever" theme!
A two tiered marble cake with buttercream frosting was the star of my dessert table! It sparkled with a topper I made using tinsel garland, a paper straw and a giant party circle I purchased from The TomKat Studio. The cookies were delicious and so easy to make. I dipped store bought sandwich cookies (Oreo Cakesters!) into melted chocolate and jazzed them up with red, white and blue sprinkles. They looked extra fancy when laid out on a platter lined with holographic scrapbook paper!
I made super sweet edible firecrackers by dipping jumbo marshmallows into melted chocolate and embellishing with patriotic sprinkles. These were such a hit with the kids, my 3 year old, Ella loved them! They were displayed in red glitter boxes with foam inside to keep them standing, I added the blue metallic tinsel to cover the foam insert.
My "Stars and Stripes Forever" dessert table was a huge success and I hope you'll try creating a few of my tasty treats at your own Labor Day gathering!
|My July 4th Dessert Table!
|Glasses with Paper Straws
|Ella Enjoying A Sweet Firecracker
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text: The Celebration of Writing features writing as a process and a product. Students and faculty will be on hand to discuss projects, course and program outcomes, and answer questions. Among the many genres this event will highlight are posters, brochures, essays, reports, narratives, social justice and CPC projects, and digital compositions. Audiences for these projects include academic, public/community, and professional. Awards from the 2013 Writing Contest will be announced and presented shortly after 9:00 a.m. We invite you to stop in throughout the day to see the landscape of writing that emerges when students employ Discourse Community Knowledge, Rhetorical Knowledge, Writing Process Knowledge, Subject Matter Knowledge, and Metacognition. Join us for food, fun, and fundamental knowledge-making as we celebrate writing.


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Virtual Machines
Virtual machines are a form of sandboxing wherein a computer and it's operating system are simulated, via software, within the operating system of another computer. This concept is distinct from multi-boot systems wherein the user can boot the machine entirely into different operating systems using a boot manager.
For example, a user could run virtual machine software on their computer running Windows 7 that simulates Mac hardware and allows them to run, within the virtual machine, a copy of OS X.
Virtual machines are useful for isolating applications, running legacy applications on older operating systems, and otherwise enjoying the benefits of multiple computers without leaving your primary machine.
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A Sizzling Summer for Rutgers Interns in Washington, D.C.
Many students view the summertime as an opportunity for rest and relaxation, a time to rejuvenate before the new academic year begins. A good number of students, however, spend their summer break working in internships that enhance their education and resumes. Such was the case this past summer for nine students enrolled at the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA).
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For two consecutive summers, SPAA has hosted a cohort of students as interns in the Washington, D.C. area. This year's class, however, was the most ambitious, with four graduate and five undergraduate students participating.
The interns spent eight weeks learning the ins and outs of government or non-profit administration, honing their leadership skills, networking with professionals, and meeting new acquaintances. Representative employers included: American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), CRD Associates, KaBoom!, National Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils, National Institutes of Health, Sister Cities International, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and United Way Worldwide. The initiative's success -- believed to be the only formal Rutgers internship program in Metropolitan D.C. -- is largely attributable to the support of committed Rutgers alumni who assist with marketing, securing and filling available positions.
Through the efforts of Ivy Davis, an alumna of the Rutgers Newark College of Arts and Sciences and Rutgers School of Law—Newark, two undergraduate students were hired to work in the Eastern Regional Office of USCCR. After interviewing several students via telephone, Davis extended job offers to Gracie Fernandez and Khadeeja McElroy.
"We see this program as a win-win opportunity for us and the students," comments Davis, director of USCCR's Eastern Regional Office. "The interns help us manage our workload while improving their research, analytical and writing skills."
USCCR typically has up to three internship positions available each summer, and many interns spend multiple summers there, which opens possibilities for future Rutgers intern classes.
Daniel P. Puzo, director of the Outreach and Partnership Division for the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service and an alumnus of Rutgers College, also employed two interns, Shadi Ibrahim and Paula Jones.
"The interns we hired were graduate students embarking on second careers," Puzo said. "Consequently, we found them to be quick learners, and the agency benefited greatly from their knowledge and prior work experiences. They were both keenly interested in public health issues and adapted to our mission almost immediately."
Other students who participated in SPAA's Washington, D.C., internship program included: Ayman Ibrahim at ASPA; Steven Fernandez at CRD Associates; June Anne Olivia George at the Office of Congressman Donald Payne Jr.; Jeremy Katz at KaBoom!; and Isabelle Denize at United Way Worldwide.
In addition to their internships, the so-called "DC 9" received several perks thanks to other Rutgers alumni in Washington. Among the more special moments were a private tour of the U.S. Capitol, a briefing in the Old Executive Office Building by a White House staffer and an invitation to celebrate the life and career of former New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg in a memorial at the Capitol. The Washington, D.C., Alumni Club also invited the interns to a crab feast at the home of a Rutgers grad on the banks of the Chesapeake. Puzo graciously welcomed all nine SPAA interns, along with the SPAA staff present in the Washington area, to a Sunday afternoon barbeque at his home on Capitol Hill.
"D.C. was an amazing and inspiring place to be for the summer for our students," said Marcia Brown, associate dean of program development at SPAA, the internship coordinator, and an alumna of the School of Law—Newark. "D.C. in Summer has created an important branding message for our campus and our school that would not have been possible without the generosity of SPAA Dean Marc Holzer and external donors who provided scholarship assistance, the commitment of Rutgers alumni in the D.C. area, like Dan and Ivy, who generously offered their organizations as internship sites, and the talented students who created footprints in the D.C. internship program."
"The SPAA Washington D.C. internship program was a life-changing experience," notes Dean Holzer. "It will open doors for students who, but for the program, would not be likely to experience the events, momentum and career exposure as well as the valuable network of professional references that comes from living and interning in the nation's capital. As one student remarked to me, 'I felt like I was making a difference every day I went to work.'"
Washington metro-area Rutgers alumni interested in participating as intern sponsors should contact Dean Brown at 973-353-3709 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Within days of Liberty Global chief executive Mike Fries describing its £15bn takeover of Virgin Media as an essential "grow or die" strategy, the UK business scrapped 600 top and middle management posts in its first major move under new ownership to create a leaner, meaner operation to battle rivals including BSkyB.
The acquisition marked the fulfilment of a decade-long ambition for American cable tycoon John Malone's Liberty Global, beginning with an attempt to merge NTL and Telewest at the beginning of the last decade. Later, after they did merge to form Virgin Media, an earlier takeover move failed in 2007.
Fries said at the Royal Television Society's Cambridge convention this month that the huge comparative reach of broadcasters such as Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB, and the more recent rise of a new wave of internet players, meant the deal had become imperative to ensure that Virgin Media, and Liberty Global, survived. "You think about who we compete with: national public service broadcasters, national mobile platforms, national satellite platforms like Sky, increasingly international platforms like YouTube or Netflix," he said. "So as a small cable operator, we only reach half of UK homes ... we need to build scale. If we don't build scale, we don't survive."
When the plan to axe managers was announced, Virgin Media chief executive Tom Mockridge, the former head of Sun and Times publisher News UK and previously of Sky Italia, said that it would make the business "fit for growth". But Virgin Media is not growing on many of the measures that City analysts and investors judge businesses by.
In the second quarter of 2013 it lost 16,300 TV customers – although the company points out it added 5,000 extra pay-TV subscribers – and lost 3,200 internet subscribers. Revenues remained flat year on year at £1.03bn.
However, the City does not expect big customer growth, says Andrew Hogley, telecoms analyst at Espirito Santo Investment Bank. "Virgin Media's business model is milking more revenue per user out of a solid base."
To this end average revenue per customer has grown by £1.60 year on year to £48.80, and operating cash flow continues to grow. And 1.7 million, or 44%, of its 3.8 million TV subscribers are now on its YouView-competitor, TiVo-powered set-top box. This is growth of almost 750,000 in a year.
In the all-important race against rivals to offer customers bundled TV, phone and broadband services – a strategy BT has latched onto, buying Premier League rights to move into pay-TV and protect its broadband base, and that BSkyB increasingly espouses now that TV growth has flatlined – Virgin Media can claim that an impressive 65.6% of its 4.9 million customers take three products.
"A lesser part of growth will come from connecting more and more homes," Fries admitted. "The largest part of our growth will come from getting those connected homes to do more with us. A function of providing more value to them. [For example] putting BT Sport on for free, making sure [customers] have access to all sports channels available in the market, putting Netflix into the TiVo box, doubling broadband speeds."
As for content, Fries doesn't buy in to the mantra that Netflix, with its headline-grabbing tactics such as backing Kevin Spacey's House of Cards, is a harbinger of the death of traditional TV. "We think it is a nice complement to the existing programme offering," he said. "For people who want content and love content Netflix will never be enough for them. We're not threatened by it."
On the subject of threats, Hogley says Virgin Media doesn't need to worry so much about bleeding customers to BT and BSkyB – which is why it has largely "sat on the sidelines" in their increasingly acrimonious war, and why it could comfortably do a deal with BT to offer its sports channels.
"As long as they can get access to all the content people want to watch it is not a problem," he says. "The BT Sport deal was something they absolutely needed to do. BT wasn't losing customers to Virgin Media, Sky is the problem, so they don't have to worry about winning them back."
The biggest ace up Virgin Media's sleeve is superfast broadband – heavily pushed by the company, using ads featuring Olympics and World sprint champion Usain Bolt – which is taken by 2.8 million of its 4.3 million internet customers. A year ago just 1.3 million had signed up for 30Mb+ packages.
Yet Hogley believes that this selling point is arguably not as important to consumers as the company thinks. "Virgin has had a competitive advantage on speed, but for the 30Mb level that fills most consumers' needs today, rivals can also fulfil that," he argues. "People want more than 5Mb to 8Mb but it is hard to see who needs 100Mb. That need is a few years away yet, from 2017/18 they will have a strategic advantage in speed again."
Liberty Global's stock has recently received a boost on speculation that Vodafone might look to snap the company up, following the £84bn sale of its stake in Verizon, to add to its £6.5bn deal for Kabel Deutschland which was cleared by regulators on Friday.
Fries said that Vodafone's move into cable is an important endorsement of Liberty Global's strategy, but cautions against expecting it to be the UK mobile company's next target.
"Vodafone's investment in Germany is a massive validation of Virgin Media's business model," he said. "It is a validation of the connectivity business we are in. We don't need to make any more acquisitions to grow, to have a great business, we're not reliant on that. We're not expecting to be bought or to buy anything further at this point. We are opportunistic about it."


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You want controversy? You want regional bias? You BCS-raised, college football young'uns don't know squat. Consider Exhibit A: USC and Alabama in 1978.
USC went to Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sept. 23, 1978, and whipped the top-ranked Crimson Tide 24-14 in front of 77,313 fans who didn't appreciate West Coast cool rolling over their southern-fried team like an army of deranged surfers.
The technical term for that in college football parlance is a "head-to-head victory." That the win was accomplished on the road provided it even more gravity as an objective and seemingly insurmountable measure of two teams. Ergo, when the season ended with both USC and Alabama winning New Year's Day bowl games following one-loss seasons, it was obvious who should be ranked No. 1. That would be the Trojans, of course.
Au contraire. The Associated Press poll voted the Crimson Tide No. 1 after they nipped regular-season No. 1 Penn State in the Sugar Bowl. USC had to settle for the UPI -- coaches' poll -- national title after beating No. 5 Michigan in the Rose Bowl.
Even today, if you throw this Apple of Discord onto a bar table between Tide and Trojans adherents over 50, spittle will fly, veins will bulge, and the unique righteous indignation of college football fans will thunder forth like water over Niagara Falls.
That just begins the story of USC-Alabama, which might have the most storied seven-game all-time series in college football history. Or is that Alabama-USC?
So if we are overbrimming with joy at the prospect of the Crimson Tide and Trojans opening the 2016 season in the eighth annual Cowboys Classic at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, in a Labor Day weekend, neutral-site game, please forgive us.
This, my friends, is what we've all been craving. If this is the luscious fruit brought forth by the new College Football Playoff demanding more challenging scheduling, then let's give the sport's powers-that-be a collective fist bump. They have, rightfully, been taking a lot of grief lately, most notably in the courts. If we can, for a moment at least, block off consideration of the monstrosity of the cash flow certain to gush from this one. Let's instead awash ourselves in the anticipation of the game itself.
Alabama and USC are without question two of college football's preeminent powers. They might be college football's two preeminent powers. They have combined for 26 national championships (11 by USC, 15 by Alabama), 66 bowl victories (32 USC, 34 Alabama), seven Heisman Trophy winners (6 USC, one Alabama), 272 first-team All-Americans (161 USC, 111 Alabama), 797 NFL draftees (483 USC, 314 Alabama), 52 College Football Hall of Fame players (31 USC, 21 Alabama) and such legendary coaches as USC's Howard Jones, John McKay, John Robinson and Pete Carroll and Alabama's Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Bear Bryant and current head coach Nick Saban.
Whew. While Notre Dame and Michigan fans are jumping up and down, waving their arms, this matchup is about as special as it gets, particularly when you project forward that both are likely to be top-10 teams to start 2016.
As for the series itself, Alabama leads 5-2. The Tide's biggest wins came in the 1946 Rose Bowl and in the Coliseum in 1971 and 1977, a decade in which both teams were dominating their respective regions. USC's other victory, a 42-21 blowout in 1970 in Birmingham, is often credited with pushing forward the integration of college football in the South, as the Trojans' African-American players, particularly fullback Sam Cunningham, tailback Clarence Davis and quarterback Jimmy Jones, turned in big performances. That game has been the subject of many stories and documentary films.
When those iconic helmets are standing opposite each other, there might be a few goose bumps from the old-timers that prove contagious to those who don't recall much from the pre-BCS age.
As for the present, the plot is also pretty thick. For one, the SEC and Pac-12 are the top two conferences in college football, and there's little reason to believe that will change much over the next three seasons. This game, therefore, could operate as a season-long measuring stick for both leagues. CFP committee members might be willing to apply the transitive property if they should be forced to make distinctions between Pac-12 and SEC teams that didn't play -- as in, "Well, UCLA beat USC and USC beat Alabama and LSU lost to Alabama, so UCLA should eclipse LSU."
Finally, there's the Lane Kiffin angle. Kiffin, you might have heard, was fired five games into the 2013 season as USC's head coach. He is now Alabama's offensive coordinator, a pairing with Saban that seems, well, interesting. Kiffin might be somewhere else in 2016, but it certainly would be a notable sidebar to the game if he is not.
By the way, Saban will be 65 in 2016. He might not be atop the Crimson Tide when this game rolls around.
Hmm. Lane Kiffin, Lane Kiffin. Hmm.
Ah, there is a lot to ponder with this one. Plenty of topics that will percolate. And ferment. Perhaps it's good we have two full seasons between now and this showdown to hone our hyperbole.