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Michael Cuddyer talks about chasing another batting title
Colorado Rockies right fielder Michael Cuddyer joined Jay Mohr Sports on Monday and we asked him if he thinks they really have a shot in the NL West.
Mohr: "You don't really believe that the Rockies can win the NL West do you?"
Cuddyer: "I do, all we have to do is believe it… We have to go out there and play. I put our offense up there with everybody. We have to go out there and continue to pitch. We've gotten off to a good start. Our bullpen is coming along nicely. We have to go out there and believe that we can win every game. Although we dropped two of three this past weekend in San Francisco, those two games we lost were one-run games that could have gone either way. Unfortunately it didn't go our way, but we battled there. That gave us a lot of confidence that we can go out there and compete with anybody."

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Clearly, network anchors have much more sensitive skins than President Bush. Reporters insult him to his face, suggest he's concocting wars with fake intelligence, and insist he's incapable of admitting any mistakes. But to gain access to Katie Couric or Diane Sawyer, apparently you have to arrive with pom-poms and a pleated skirt.
Howard Kurtz interviewed ABC's Diane Sawyer about her disgustingly sympathetic 2007 Axis of Evil tour of interviewing the dictators of Iran and Syria for Monday's "Media Notes" column in The Washington Post. The piece read more like a press release for ABC than a news article. Take this line: "Just as industry insiders are wondering whether she is ready to abandon the predawn grind, Sawyer embarks on a one-woman diplomatic mission that has the business buzzing."
Is the Washington Post a newspaper just for "industry insiders"? Or is Kurtz more interested in being an "industry insider" than in challenging the network stars?
The closest Kurtz tiptoed to a question about Sawyer's critics was this sentence: "Asked about criticism that she was giving America's enemies a platform, Sawyer says: 'We may violently disagree with them, but first we must try to understand the way they see the world if we can.'"
Typically, Sawyer explained that she interviewed the dictators to flesh out the peace-loving peoples we clearly misunderstand, with the assumption that ignorant Americans can see only cardboard villains, and not the sympathetic tyrant who apparently cries a lot:
"I was trying to go to the places I think are one-dimensional to a lot of us, and trying to make them three-dimensional," Sawyer says. "It's something I love to do: not only get a sense of the politics, but of the people. It felt a little bit like my own personal endurance course."
One question left unanswered: in a dictatorship, do the people really matter? And when they are interviewed, can you really trust what they say isn't colored by fear of reprisals? The networks never seemed to understand this when they were chronicling the peace-loving people of the Soviet Union or its European satellites. The people may be peace-loving. They may even like Americans. But they're not the ones making the decisions about wars, cold or hot.
Instead of allowing one word from an ABC critic of any stripe, Kurtz let other ABC colleagues sing her praises:
"I think she's really energized," says Charles Gibson, her morning co-host until he took over ABC's "World News" in May. The Ahmadinejad interview "showed Diane off at her best, because she was very persistent with him." During the years he sat next to her, Gibson says, "three or four times a week, I'd think to myself, where did that question come from? She taught me a lot about the business of interviewing."
Sawyer's foreign adventures are a reminder that she can glide from geopolitics to pickles -- she had a grand time sampling the wares at a Syrian restaurant -- as well as chat up the usual celebrities.
For Post readers who may have missed Sawyer's toadying interviews with America's enemies (and supporters of international terrorism), Kurtz couldn't quote a single question, and the only questions he mentioned his passing were the challenging ones, not the syrupy ones:
Ahmadinejad ducked or finessed Sawyer's questions about the Bush administration's claims that Iran is supplying deadly weapons to Iraqi insurgents. "It was interesting to watch him retreat from his most incendiary statements," she says. "He would not repeat them."
When Sawyer asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about his country's role in the murder of a former Lebanese prime minister -- even mentioning suggestions that his brother-in-law was involved -- Assad said there were only "accusations" but no "evidence."
Kurtz didn't note, for example, that Sawyer didn't interrupt (or break out laughing) when Ahmadinejad insisted that "Instead of thinking of finding new weapons, we are trying to find new ways to love people." He didn't note that she asked Syrian dictator Bashar Assad about having Shania Twain on his iPod.
Kurtz didn't even ask why Diane Sawyer would give up her feminist principles and don a head-covering to look like a circa-1960s housewife to interview Ahmadinejad. He only noted that the dictator said patronizingly to her, "Those were combative questions. Women should not be asking tough questions about war, but about love and family and culture."
You almost had to laugh at Kurtz's opening:
Eight days ago, amid shouts of "Death to America!," Diane Sawyer waded into a huge demonstration in Tehran and asked a group of boys, "Do you not like me?" They thought for a moment and switched to "Death to George Bush!"
With the way that ABC has pounded President Bush over the war on terror, is it hard to imagine Sawyer thinking "Ah, that's much better"?


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Everything is prepared to perfection and served by attentive staff and with beautiful presentation. End your meal with a fine port and their traditional Italian Tiramisu, the true sign of a great Italian restaurant. For a real treat, larger parties can arrange to dine in the original bank "vault" room, The Bella or The Chardonnay room. The outside patio also provides a beautiful backdrop for a beautiful summer evening. The restaurant has a full bar with an extensive Napa and Italian wine list. Guests can also bring their own special bottle for a $15 corkage fee (buy a bottle of wine and corkage is waived.


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Lyric Culture Line Launches Exclusive Jimi Hendrix Line at Bloomingdale's
Lyric Culture, the music inspired lifestyle brand driven by the lyrics of legendary musical artists, announced the launch of its new Jimi Hendrix men's collection, exclusively at Bloomingdale's nationwide.
With input from Experience Hendrix, LLC, the family-owned company whose mission is to preserve and protect the musical legacy of Jimi Hendrix, Lyric Culture created exclusive designs featuring the lyrics to Jimi Hendrix's most celebrated songs along with imagery of the music legend, named the Greatest Guitar Player of All Time by Rolling Stone. The collection of graphic screen print tees, scarves, men's dress shirts, hoodies and cuff links (retail $48-$98) will hit the floor at Bloomingdale's stores in early November coinciding with what would have been Hendrix's 70th birthday this month.
An interactive kiosk on loan from Seattle's Experience Music Project permanent Jimi Hendrix exhibit, will offer viewers in the landmark Manhattan store an opportunity to see the source of Jimi's handwritten lyrics, the inspiration behind the Lyric Culture's Hendrix collection.
Bloomingdale's 59th Street, as well as all other Bloomindales locations, nationwide, will also offer original Jimi Hendrix recordings that have been released by Experience Hendrix through its partnership with Sony's Legacy division. Titles include Valleys of Neptune, Axis: Bold As Love, Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland, and many others in CD and LP formats.
In conjunction with Lyric Culture's 'shop in shop' launch at Bloomingdale's Manhattan flagship on 59th Street, Janie Hendrix, CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC and sister of Jim Hendrix, will be signing copies of Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Lyric Book, just published by Backbeat Books on Thursday, November 8 from 6 to 8 PM. The book, which Janie compiled, contains the words to all the Hendrix classics fans have rocked along to for years as well as unpublished songs from previously undiscovered sources. This personal collection includes numerous examples of Jimi's lyrics, and photos -- many never before published -- accompany every song. Music Radar called Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Lyric Book "a fascinating visual examination..." The combination of the Lyric Culture collection, the original Hendrix music catalog and the Ultimate Lyric Book represents a first in terms of aggregating such a vast array of Hendrix-branded products under one roof.
An appearance by Billy Cox, the bassist who worked with Jimi Hendrix in concert and in the studio as part of both Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, will be a highlight of the November 8 session. Billy Cox met Jimi Hendrix when both were serving the US Army and became fast friends thereafter, playing the southern 'chitlin' circuit' together before Hendrix departed for England on the road to stardom. Billy will be joined by guitarist Eric Gales who, along with Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Dweezil Zappa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Cox, has performed for audiences nationwide as part of the annual Experience Hendrix tribute concert tour. Gales, like Hendrix before him, is a blues-based guitarist who is left-handed and plays his instrument upside down.


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From: ellen Levy <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] The Basques and Scholarship
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 12:21:44 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <000901c79efd$b66c3dd0$6400a8c0@Ken1>
I was specifically referring to studies like McEvoy's
"The Longue Duree of Genetic Ancestry," that allege
that "genetic marker systems indicate a shared
ancestry throughout the Atlantic zone from northern
Iberia to western Scandinavia, that date back to the
end of the last Ice Age." He refers explicitly to R1b
and among mtDNA lineages, Haplogroup V, as reflective
of this shared genetic legacy.
However, given the lack of V among ancient Basque and
Iberian remains, the claim seems unsupportable in my
view, at least in regards to that particular
Furthermore, McEvoy does admit that there is an
alternative explanation to these shared genetic
features, specifically, restricted patterns of
long-term gene flow between these regions.
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Ivy League Release
Tahan Sends Penn Past Towson | Penn Opens Up 2012 with Win Against Lehigh
PHILADELPHIA—Freshman Elizabeth Hitti was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for her performance in Penn's two wins against Lehigh and Towson over the weekend.
Hitti tallied her first career goal and assist in the Quakers' season-opening 5-2 win against Lehigh Friday night. Her first point came when she set up Sunny Stirewalt to score to give the Quakers a 2-0 lead over the Mountain Hawks. After a Lehigh rally to tie the game, Hitti scored her first career goal to give Penn the lead for good.
Junior captain Julie Tahan was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll for the week after a three-goal performance in the first two games of the season. Tahan scored the game-winner with 7:58 left in the 4-3 win over Towson Sunday.
The Quakers return to the field this weekend a two-game road trip in Virginia taking on Liberty September 8 and Appalachian State September 9.


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Students Return to the Rotunda
After two years of renovations that included adding classroom space to UVA's iconic Rotunda, the building hosted classes for the first time as the fall semester began. See more at UVA Today.
Take a spin around the Rotunda
By clicking and dragging on the 360º video, you can explore the beautifully and thoughtfully renovated Rotunda.
Jeffersonian Roofs Restored
University of Virginia carpenters are recreating a Jeffersonian roof on top of an original Jeffersonian roof. See more at UVA Today.


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Your bill will show the current amount due and any balance brought forward from last month if you were late. You must pay the current amount due by the due date or the larger amount shown, if paid after the due date. To keep your account in good standing and maintain a good credit history with us, you cannot pay late more than twice in any 24 month billing period. If you pay after the due date, the late payment penalty is the difference between the "amount due" and the "if paid after..." amounts shown on your bill. Each monthly bill includes the current service period, meter readings, usage since the last billing period, and the amount due for each service.
Each service will be clearly identified. If your usage is estimated, that fact will also be clearly shown.
If you have electric service only, the bill will show your KWH (kilowatt hours) used. If you have water and/or wastewater services, your bill will also show the CF (cubic feet) of water used. One CF equals 7.48 gallons. The water charge is based upon your water meter size (also shown on the bill) and your usage since the last billing period. Wastewater flows are not metered; charges are based on your water usage. Note that Wastewater rates have special billing rules for summer.
Reduce the use of paper and postage by receiving your bill via email. Switching to eBills will provide you with:
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You will receive your MU bill monthly and have at least 10 days to review it before payment is due. The due date shown on the top portion of your bill will be the date your payment will be due every month. Due dates are distributed according to the area of the property being billed. Our Billing Cycle map shows exactly how these areas are broken down.
Miscellaneous Fees & Charges
Our one-time turn-on charges are $20 for electric and $20 for water services. These non-refundable charges are for reading your meter and setting up your new account in our computer system. These charges are separate from any deposit requirements and will appear on your first bill.
- Fire Protection Fee
Each water customer is charged a monthly fire protection fee, assessed by law to help pay for and maintain the fire hydrants attached to our city's water system. The amount of this fee is determined by the size of your water meter.
- Sewer Insurance
The $1.50 monthly Sewer Insurance fee appears as a surcharge for all single-family residential Wastewater customers within the corporate limits of the City of Mishawaka.
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed documents Thursday amending the gambling agreements with Connecticut's two Indian tribes, bringing the state closer to a third casino in East Windsor.
The agreements with the tribal owners of Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun give the tribes exclusive right to operate slot machines in return for the state getting a 25 percent cut of slot revenue each month.
The amendments were needed to make it clear that the state's gambling arrangement with the tribes has not changed now that the Mashantucket Pequots and Mohegans have won legislative approval to jointly run a third casino.
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Lucid Home Control was started in 2011 by Andreas Miller after his father, owner of Nauset TV & Sound, retired and moved to Sweden. Andreas has been part of Nauset TV & Sound since it was acquired by Tom in 1998. Apart from having 14 years experience in the area of Audio / Video, Andreas also has a B.S. degree in Computer Information Science which is becoming increasingly important with the current digital convergence. Thuis is an area where many of the established old-timers in this industry are critically lacking.
Why Choose Us
At Lucid Home Control our main goal is 100% customer satisfaction. By careful planning, system design and an ongoing dialogue with the customer and the builder, architect or any other contractor involved in the project we make sure to minimize any problems that could possibly arise.
Why can we do this better than other local companies? After 14 years at Nauset TV & Sound Andreas learned what the main problems are in this business and how to solve them.
- Problem: With electronics problems can happen at any time. If the place you bought your equipment from is only open 9-5 Mon-Fri you could be stuck without working equipment for days.
- Solution: At Lucid Home Control we don't have set hours. We work when needed. If we get a call at 8:30PM Sat evening, there's a big chance we'll be at your house by 9PM.
- Problem: Too much overhead and the need to make a profit. This often causes companies to take shortcuts and not spend enough time taking care of their customers.
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- Problem: Talented A/V installers are a scarce commodity on Cape Cod. Over the years Andreas has dealt with some of the not so talented people that worked for Nauset TV and they're still working at other places in this field.
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Tiki mug, tiki mug
My face, my mother's face, my father's face, my sister's face
Tiki mug, tiki mug
White beachcombers in tiki bars drinking zombie cocktails from tiki mugs
The undead, the Tiki people, my mother's face, my father's face
The black brown and ugly that make customers feel white and beautiful
Tiki mugs, tiki ashtrays, tiki trashcans, tiki kitsch cultures
Tiki bars in Los Angeles, a tiki porn theatre, tiki stores
Tiki conventions, a white guy named Kukulelei singing in oogabooga fake Hawaiian
makes me yearn to hear a true Kanaka Maoli like Kaumakaiwa Kanaka'ole
sing chant move his hands the antidote to tiki bar people
who don't listen because tiki don't speak any language
do they
Tiki bars in L.A., in Tokyo, in the lands of Tiki, Honolulu, Pape'ete
Wherever tourists need a background of black skin brown skin ugly faces
to feel land of the free expensive rich on vacation hard working
with a background of wallpaper tiki lazy people wallpaper
made from our skins our faces our ancestors our blood
Yes its all wrong but looks like my great grandmother's fale sort of
except she isn't here and it doesn't really, her fale
didn't have a neon sign blinking for one thing
And yes it looks like Polynesian sculpture sort of not really but what
is the difference, the difference is this, we didn't make it
or if we did it was someone desperate but probably not any of us
just someone making a buck carving shit for drunks
The difference is this our sculpture is beautiful, tiki kitsch sculpture is ugly
not because they look so very different but because their shit
is supposed to be ugly
because we are supposed to be ugly
and if we are ugly then they are beautiful
American or European or Australian or even Asian or
I'm sorry but a lot of us too and anyone can be beautiful and expensive
as long as tiki kitsch is on the walls looking ugly and cheap
I like going to tiki bars sometimes and hearing island music or
doing island karaoke and there are tiki bars in the islands sort of but
there they're just bars and I'm here in Los Angeles or anywhere here
in the so-called West which is everywhere
and here, we are tiki mug people, my mother's face, my father's face
my face, my sister's face
Our Tiki sculptures are based on our classic carvings, which are abstractions, idealizations
of beauty, our beauty, though in these bars they are…
Well, you get it
Can I remind us that Tiki
Whom we call Ti'eti'e and Ti'iti'i
Some call Ki'i, some call Ti'i
That Tiki was beautiful, jutting eyebrow, thick lips, wide nose
brown skin in some islands
black skin in some islands
brown black deep, thick thighs
jutting eyebrow, thick lips, wide nostrils, breathing
Lifting the sky over Samoa, lifting the sky over Tonga
lifting the sky over Viti, lifting the sky over Rapanui
lifting the sky over Tahiti, lifting the sky over Hawai'i
lifting the sky over Aotearoa, and looking to, paying respects
to Papua, to the Chamorro, to Vanuatu, to Kiribati
lifting the ten heavens above Moana, not your Pacific, but
our Moana
And now in tiki bars Chilean soldiers have drinks from tiki mugs after shooting
down Rapanui protestors in Rapanui, not Easter Island, not Isla de Pascua
but Rapanui, whose entire population was kidnapped and sold in slavery
to Chilean mines in the 19th century, and whose survivors are shot on the streets
of their lands still just a few days ago in 2011 in Rapanui
And American police drink maitais in Honolulu bars from tiki mugs while
native Hawaiian people live homeless on the beaches
And Indonesian settlers drink from tiki mugs in West Papua where 100,000
Papuans have been killed seeking freedom after being sold down the river by
President Kennedy so he could build some mines for his rich cultivated
humanitarian friends
And French tourists drink from tiki mugs in Nouvelle Calé
donie and Polynesie Franç
while native people are…
Where? Where are we?
In the wallpaper, on the mugs?
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Silversea : Silver Spirit Cruise Review by jevans9772
Overall Member Rating
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Personal Background Information: My wife and I are in our early 70s and in good health. We have cruised 15 times but always on larger ships. We felt we wanted to try a small boutique luxury ship and Silversea had good reviews. This ship can handle 450 which is much smaller than 2,000 to 3,000 monsters. It is all inclusive which means food, liquor, wine, gratuities are in your base cruise price. The only extra charge are the tours you select and shipboard Internet service. There is also a surcharge for 2 of the 5 restaurants (later).
Stateroom More #932:We had a mini suite with a balcony (2 chairs and 1 small table)which we rarely used because our cabin was next to the pool, pool bar and pool grill. If you could book this cabin or one nearby you will be pleased with the convenience. The service with our butler (Anil Kumar Mahla) and room attendant (Jocelyn Ochavillo) were first rate. Free washer, dryer and soap just across the hall from us. Fox and CNN was available on our 2 flat screen TVs. Remotes took a while to get used to because TVs we set in the mirrors,The bath room had a full sized tub and a separate shower (with a rainfall fixture overhead...very nice touch).Large walk in closet. We took large suitcases and still had more than enough storage. Privacy curtain between the bedroom and sitting area was handy if I wanted to read and bride wanted to sleep.Room service was available 24/7. Bride liked breakfast in cabin but I went to "The Restaurant" in the mornings to be served.
Days at sea: We both took professional bridge (card) lessons in the mornings and my wife played duplicate bridge in the afternoons. Always enough lounges. Nice libraries and numerous areas to sit around and relax. Although there was only one small child on board there were many couples in their 40s, 50s and 60s which surprised us. Still, not a cruise for families with small children.
Dress aboard ship:
This is not a blue jeans or muscle shirt crowd
Two formal nights for tuxes or coats/ties. We took tuxes but did the tie option instead. Warm weather not condusive for tuxes.
Four informal nights: Coats and slacks, no ties.
Four casual nights: Nice shirts and slacks, no coats.
Cocktail Lounges/Bars: We were very pleased with the entertainment and piano bars. The snacks offered during cocktails usually left much to be desired. Service was exceptional everywhere on the ship.
Restaurants: There were 5 which I will discuss below:
1. The "Restaurant" was the main dining room and served breakfast, lunch and dinner. Reservations not required and food selections were regular restaurant fare.
2 LeChampagne was a reservantion, $30 surcharge. Worth a visit. Mucho fanfare!
3. La Terrazza served buffet breakfast and lunch, High Tea from 4-5 and then dinner (reservations reqd) with an Italian flair in the evenings
4. Pool bar and Grill: Shorts and bath. Pizza, burgers, etc. Easy and good.
5. Seishin (Asian) Did not use. Reservations reqd' plus surcharge.
6. Stars Supper Club Res reqd. Fancy dress.
7. Dinner on the Hot Rock: Res reqd. Outdoor dining where you are brought your partially cooked fish or steaks you finish cooking at your table. Less
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Cabin review: DV932
Cabin 932 Mid ship verandah Perfect location just near the pool, pool bar and pool grill and next to the passenger laundry, 2 flat screens, balcony with table and 2 chairs, more than adequate storage, great bathroom with full tub, separate shower and top of line soaps and lotions. Sitting area adequate but spent most of time while on ship in the shaded area around the pool. Butler kept requested wines and liquors in our refrigerator/
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Colorado Symphony Orchestra will celebrate being back in the black
A year ago, it seemed like the Colorado Symphony Orchestra might be silenced altogether. The CSO -- which had emerged from the ashes of the Denver Symphony Orchestra two decades ago -- faced a $1.2 million cash shortfall at the end of June 2011 despite record sales that season, and some ugly sounds were emanating from Boettcher Concert Hall.
In September, twenty board members resigned in a major shakeup, after some of them had blamed the financial crisis on "greedy" musicians. But those same "greedy" musicians -- members of Colorado's only full-time professional orchestra -- then accepted a $530,000 total pay reduction. And some old, steady hands came back to help steer the symphony back to solvency.
Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome Kern returned to again chair the board, bringing major commitments in both cash and energy, and last fall, Gene Sobczak rejoined the symphony. And at today's annual meeting, the CSO will be able to celebrate being back in the black.
Here's the official announcement from the Colorado Symphony Orchestra:
The Colorado Symphony recently concluded a historical and very successful year. A revitalized level of collaboration among musicians, members of the Board of Trustees, management and staff has reaffirmed the Colorado Symphony's position as a leading cultural and creative enterprise in Colorado. Examples include performances at venues across the state as well as at Boettcher Concert Hall, expanded education programs, planning for the use of advanced recording technologies and broadcasting capabilities and a diverse variety of artistic partnerships that resulted in programming aligned with community interests. Furthermore, the recent appointment of world-renowned conductor Andrew Litton as Artistic Advisor will take Colorado Symphony's musical excellence to new heights.
Donor generosity, in conjunction with these efforts, has resulted in the Colorado Symphony's unprecedented $1.3 million turnaround. The 2011/12 fiscal year was completed with an operating surplus and no outstanding debt. Details will be made available when the Colorado Symphony publishes audited financial statements in early Fall.
To further underscore the achievements of this past year, we announce the Colorado Symphony Association's Annual Meeting 2011/12 at Boettcher Concert Hall on August 27, 2012 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm. The current state of the Symphony and the direction for the orchestra's future will be presented. All are encouraged to attend and take this opportunity to ask questions of the Symphony's leadership team.
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text: Editor:Alcohol and Drug Services and the Guernsey County Youth Commission held the third annual Mud Madness volleyball and tug of war tournament for area Guernsey County high school students on May 23 at Cambridge City Park.What a joy it was to see so many students come out for fun in the mud. Also, it was a pleasure to see so many parents/relatives out cheering on their favorite team. The parents and schools should be proud of these students from Buckeye Trail, Cambridge, Meadowbrook and the Mid-East Career and Technology Centers, Buffalo Campus. The students worked hard to recruit their teams and during the event showed good sportsmanship. In addition, this event would not have been possible without the support from the following community groups: Cambridge City Parks Dept., Colgate Palmolive, United Way, Juvenile Court and the Family and Children First Council.AAA of Guernsey County graciously donated bottled water and the Magical Moments of Childhood group provided pizza and drinks with all proceeds to benefit area children with back-to-school items.We would like to especially thank all the volunteers who came out to donate their time to make the event a success. Last, congratulations to Meadowbrook High School on retaining the Mud Madness trophy. Hope to see all of you next year.Valerie BerisfordAlcohol and Drug ServicesTim WelchGuernsey County Youth Commission


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Sabina Church have teamed up to host "Got Bars?," a 10-week course that will teach students between 15 and 24 to write and record their own music, Chicago radio station WBEZ reports. Grammy-winning rapper Rhymefest, a West collaborator who co-founded Donda's House, will spearhead the studio sessions. The program will also offer exercise and nutrition advice from a former professional football player. The New Immortals: Kanye West Donnie Smith, executive director of Donda's House, said the program is intended to provide activities for young people in the city who often don't have many similar positive opportunities. "Art instruction and particularly music instruction leads people to become better problem solvers, more flexible," Smith said. "There are just so many outcomes that come from the study of music and particularly music writing." Donda's House will release an EP after the course that features participants' songs.
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Sharon Osbourne Disses Kanye West, Says He Should Sell Cars For A Living
The home, a designated national landmark, is currently owned by Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley. The Star quotes an anonymous source close to Kardashian as saying, There have been constant whispers that its due to go on the market, as long as it stays open to the public and as a place for Elvis fans to visit. Kanye is really excited about the possibility of owning it. He thinks it would be really cool if he, Kim and baby Nori lived there, at least some of the time. In May, CORE Media Group, which owns Elvis Presley Enterprises, announced it was seeking $200 million in a deal to sell the operation that oversees tours of Graceland and controls licensing, merchandising and music publishing for the King of Rock and Roll, along with television, film, video and Internet projects in the United States and worldwide. The deal would also include Muhammad Ali Enterprises.
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Kanye West reportedly looking to buy Graceland
Matt Lauer In November 2010, West sat down with Matt Lauer on "The Today Show" to discuss Bush's reaction to his remarks during the Hurricane Katrina telethon. While West carefully chose [read] his words, he turned an ordinary interview into a quasi-feud with Lauer when he brought up his VMA outburst. "Yo I really wonder if Matt Lauer thought that s*** was cool to play the "MTV" clip when I was speaking about Bush?" West tweeted. West cancelled his "Today Show" performance after the fallout from the interview. Sore Loser Kanye West was all smiles before the 2007 VMAs and appeared onstage with fellow rapper 50 Cent (above).
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/sharon-osbourne-disses-kanye-west_n_3672046.html
Kanye West, John Legend & More Best Music Videos of the Week (VIDEO)
Now the finished product is here, and its unlike anything hes has done before. The entirely black and white video is completely computer generated, featuring a motion-capture Kanye, spooky eyes in black hoods, and dogs. Not only that, but heading to Wests website allows users to interact with the video. Viewers can speed up, slow down, and take pictures while watching. Franz Ferdinand: Love Illumination Franz Ferdinand is back and even better than last week.
Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/04/kanye-west-john-legend-more-best-music-videos-of-the-week-video.html
?Average? Kanye West Joins Sharon Osbourne?s Diss List
"And I think that he's lost, I really do," she continued while discussing Selena Gomez 's on-again, off-again beau. "I think he doesn't realize he's white and not black, that's a huge problem. And, at the point he's at in his career, it's so dangerous because we've seen it all before a million times. Where do you go when you're a child entertainer and then you want to transition to be a man? Very few make it." While she is brutally honest, Sharon also likes to gives credit when credit is due!
Source: http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/average-kanye-west-joins-sharon-osbourne-diss-list-001743376.html
Kanye West 'The Canyons' Remix Trailer: Controversial Lindsay Lohan, James Deen Film Gets the Yeezy Treatment Upon Release Date [VIDEOS]
In collaboration with his multimedia company DONDA, West and Nate Brown reworked the trailer for the Bret Easton Ellis thriller, according to Pitchfork . An ominous piano track builds and builds throughout the trailer, beginning with occasional, somber chords and ends with an explosion of emotion. Like Mstars News Facebook Page Like Us on Facebook Meanwhile, Lohan gives a monologue about loving films, leading to sexual scenes and Deen's character claiming that he makes his own movies. Check out the Kanye West remix trailer for "The Canyons" below. The dialogue and shots remain the same from the film's original trailer, released last month. However, the music for the first trailer features more of a dubstep feel, and the music sounds oddly more hopeful than the ominious West music.
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Survey reveals growing trend in collaborative, small-group campus spaces
The life of today's student is a never ending blur of reading textbooks in the coffee shop, trekking to the library, quizzing classmates in study group, mingling in the dorm lounge and chit-chatting at the student union. With the rise in learning taking place outside traditional classroom walls, a new survey from Herman Miller, a leader in research-based learning space design, sheds light on a new phenomenon—hub zones. These deliberately crafted indoor collaborative spaces are emerging as key learning centers on 21st century campuses across the country.
Results from the survey, titled "Hub Life: Insights that Shape Campus Spaces," reveal the design factors that influence learning and highlight insights that will shape future education space design. Herman Miller will share these findings at the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) conference being held this week in Baltimore.
"While we may be familiar with more traditional, formal learning spaces on campus, research shows that just as much learning takes place after students walk out of the classroom," says Jeff Vredevoogd, director of Herman Miller Education. "The Hub Life survey was structured to glean a better understanding of the planning and design that goes into constructing these spaces known as 'hub zones'."
More than 70 percent of respondents identified collaboration as the primary benefit of hub zone learning. Additional key findings from the survey of higher education facility planners, architects and designers from the United States include:
"Our findings show that the design and planning that goes into hub creation reinforces the diverse learning styles, design requirements, and activities that these zones support," notes Vredevoogd. "Students, who are often seen as the primary hub user group, are sharing their feedback with us. Their insights play a key role, helping to drive meaningfully different design that keeps the end-user in mind."
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Herman Miller invited students to contribute to the ongoing hub discussion by participating in a video contest entitled "Where's Your Hub?" Students from the United States and Canada submitted videos, describing their own personal on-campus hub. Three winners—Fiona Green, Keaton Davis and Jesse Hendrickson—and seven honorable mentions were selected, with videos receiving recognition at SCUP.
"These results underscore the inherent social dynamics on campus," says Vredevoogd. "Students seek out opportunities to collaborate and learn together, a fact that is mirrored in the survey results. The insights we learned from the student videos reinforced the Hub Life themes, namely that physical surroundings must be conducive to collaboration, and above all, be comfortable."


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|George Montagu Dunk, 1716-1771
Second Earl of Halifax. "The Father of the Colonies."
Took the name of Dunk on marriage in 1741 to heiress of large fortune of Sir Thomas Dunk; president of Board of Trade, 1748-1761; aided founding of colony of Nova Scotia; Halifax [1] , Nova Scotia, was named after him in 1749; Zealous in expanding American commerce; Halifax County, Virginia, [1] [2] and Halifax County, North Carolina, are named after him; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1761-1763; first Lord of the Admiralty, 1762; formed triumvirate with Grenville and Egremont, dismissed in 1762; lord privy seal to his nephew Lord North, 1770.
Numerous places are named after him because of his position as president of the Board of Trade and Plantations. The North Carolina Gazetteer notes he was "called the "Father of the Colonies" for his success in extending American commerce."
Dunk Island near Australia's great barrier reef is named after him.
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George Montague Dunk wrote the
Dunk Warrant. The legal decision that this warrant was unlawful (constituting
"unreasonable search and seizure") is a cornerstone of modern Anglo-American legal thought. The text of this warrant is:
"George Montague Dunk, earl of Halifax, viscount Sudbury and baron Halifax, one of the lords of his majesty's most honourable privy council, lieutentant general of his majesty's forces, and principal secretary of state: these are in his majesty's name to authorize and require you (taking a constable to your assistance) to make strict and diligent search for the authors, printers and publishers of a seditious and treasonable paper, intitled, The North Briton, No. 45, Saturday April 23, 1763, printed for G. Kearsley in Ludgate-street, London, and them, or any of them, having found to apprehend and seize, together with their papers, and to bring in safe custody before me, to be examined concerning the premisses, and further dealt with according to law: and in due execution thereof, all mayors, sheriffs, justices of the peace, constables, and all other his majesty's officers civil and military, and loving subjects whom it may concern, are to be aiding and assisting you, as there shall be occasion; and for so doing this shall be your warrant. Given at St. James's the 26th day of April, in the third year of his majesty's reign. DUNK HALIFAX
To Nathan Carrington, John Money, James Watson, and Robert Blackmore, four of his majesty's messengers in ordinary."
The Dunk warrant appears in English Historical Documents, vlm 10, p 256 (D.B. Horn & Mary Ransome eds., 1957). It may be the single most important warrant in the history of Anglo-American law.
The reasons for this have to do with the circumstances surrounding the issuance of the warrant, and with the events following its execution. In 1763, the British government imposed a new tax on cider. King George III personally defended the tax in a speech before Parliament. The tax angered John Wilkes, an outspoken critic of the government, who besides sitting in Parliaments published a kind of underground newspaper called The North Briton. On April 23, 1763, he published The North Briton No. 45, which attacked the tax and, more provokingly, attacked the king's speech. A week later the king's Secretary of State -- George Montague Dunk, a.k.a. Lord Halifax -- issued a warrant calling for the arrest of anyone associated with The North Briton No. 45 and for the seizure of all their papers.
More than 40 people were arrested pursuant to the warrant, including Wilkes, and many of them, again including Wilkes, sued the officers involved. Surprisingly, the plaintiffs won, despite the fact that Lord Halifax himself personally appeared in court to testify that he had indeed issued the warrant authorizing the officers' actions. The judges who heard the cases reasoned that warrant was invalid, because it swept too broadly -- both because it left the officers with discretion regarding whom, precisely, they should arrest, and because it allowed the seizure of all of their papers.
The verdicts in these cases were widely celebrated by liberals both in Britain and, even more so, in the American colonies. On both sides of the Atlantic the cases came to stand for broad propositions regarding the importance of protections against unreasonable search and seizure, and, more particularly, against "general warrants" -- i.e., warrants authorizing the arrest of unnamed individuals, or calling for the inspection or seizure of all of a person's papers. In America these propositions were eventually codified in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," and requires that all warrants "particularly describ[e] the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized." To this day the cases remain important sources of guidance for U.S. courts interpreting and applying the Fourth Amendment.
Fuller accounts of the events surrounding the issuance and subsequent invalidation of the Dunk warrant can be found in Telford Taylor, Two Studies in Constitutional Interpretation 29-35 (1969), and in the several available biographies of John Wilkes.David A. Sklansky
Webster's Biographical Dictionary, p. 1041.
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Color of Money: Nuggets of advice for keeping a job
A television reporter who was fired for some things she posted on her personal blog could have used advice from Robert L. Deitz.
So could a law school graduate who sent an email to prospective employers to which he attached a picture of himself wearing a T-shirt showing off his beefy biceps. He thought the photo would help him get a job. It hasn't yet.
It did however generate a lot of Internet conversation on whether his job search strategy was crazy or clever.
"Beware of everything you do on the Internet," Deitz writes in a self-published book, "Congratulations – You Just Got Hired: Don't Screw It Up."
Why listen to Deitz?
He's held some pretty impressive jobs and worked alongside some very powerful people. He's a Harvard Law School graduate who clerked for three Supreme Court justices, was a partner in two large law firms, and served as general counsel of the National Security Agency and as a senior aide to the director of the CIA.
He retired from the CIA in 2012 and is now a professor of public policy at George Mason University.
"In these various private- and public-sector jobs, I have seen lots of office behavior," he writes. "I know what conduct will advance careers, what conduct will undermine them."
If you don't know how to handle yourself on the job, you can short-circuit your career, Deitz says. Think this is common sense? Clearly not for a lot of new professionals (or seasoned ones).
As I read Deitz's tips, I thought about the recent news stories of Shea Allen, who lost her television job for posting personal confessions such as this: "I'm frightened of old people and I refuse to do stories involving them or the places they reside." Or, "If you ramble and I deem you unnecessary for my story, I'll stop recording but let you think otherwise." And: "I've stolen mail and then put it back. (maybe)"
Really, given her job, she should have known better and should have heeded this advice from Deitz: "Bits and bytes are forever. Beware of everything you do on the Internet, even at home on your own time."
To be honest, I wondered why the book is so slim – just 44 pages.
Publishers wanted Deitz to produce a "big book," he said. But all he wanted to do was provide nuggets of advice for new professionals.
"Self-help books tend, in my view, to be bloated for no very good reason," he told me.
"I am not delusional. I do not believe that I have made some earth-shattering discovery. My purpose is to help young people avoid stupid mistakes as they begin their careers," he said. "This is not rocket science, but simply common-sense advice from someone who has been around the block a few times. How long does this type of advice need to be? When our mothers told us to look both ways before we crossed the street, that instruction did not require a whole lot of words."
There are five short chapters covering work habits, dress, etiquette, e-stuff and resumes. Here's a sample of his advice:
• Study your boss. "If your boss is a micromanager, become used to getting down in the weeds over word choices."
• Don't be the office whiner.
• Learn to accept criticism.
• Don't take "casual day" dress too far. Be sure to read the work environment so your casual dress doesn't offend.
• Avoid arrogance. I can speak for that. My grandmother, Big Mama, gave me similar advice.
She told me not to get full of myself. "The people you pass going up the ladder will be the same people you might need going down."
• Do not use your boss's name as a license. Deitz says he once sent a memo in the name of his boss asking for some information he wanted.
"When the answer arrived – addressed to my boss, of course – he circled his name on my request followed by a huge question mark."
Succeeding at work can often be determined by so much more than just doing your job.
"There are many other qualities, few of which are taught in school, that lead to success in the workplace." Or put another way, common sense isn't as common as you might think.


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By Johnnie Whitehead, USA TODAY
Major League Soccer's newest franchise has finally warmed to its surroundings in Houston and has turned out to be a perfect fit.
The Houston Dynamo are on the cusp of winning the championship Sunday when they play the New England Revolution — and their style befits another beloved team.
The Dynamo's heart-stopping, come-from-behind victories in the playoffs live up to the Houston label of Clutch City, a moniker given after the NBA's Houston Rockets caught fire after an unspectacular regular season in 1994-95 to win an improbable championship.
Trading a cooler climate in northern California for the sweltering heat and humidity of the Southwest contributed to a slow start for the Dynamo. They won only six of their first 14 games.
"It was tough to adjust to. You can see that in some of the results from early in the season. Our bodies weren't used to playing in the heat every day. It's draining," says Brian Ching, the co-leader in goals for a team loaded with players who once thrived playing end-to-end.
Still, the Dynamo have maintained an energetic and passionate style that has been well-received. They're expected to have a crowd advantage this weekend with the title game near Dallas.
More than 25,000 attended the April home opener at the University of Houston's Robertson Stadium, and they've kept coming back.
"We don't like to kick and run. We like to possess the ball ... looking to attack," coach Dominic Kinnear says. "The people wouldn't keep on coming out here unless the team was good. Playing soccer the right way — with skill, determination, hard work and commitment — is what these people like."
Starting over
The Earthquakes had just completed an 18-4-10 season in San Jose. Though they failed to win the championship last year, they were looking forward to another season at Spartan Stadium.
Then word came in December that operations were moving to Houston. While other MLS players were getting prepared to report to training camp, the Earthquakes — who would be known as the Dynamo — had to uproot. (The Houston franchise is considered to be a new club and all records of San Jose are staying in that city. MLS has an agreement in place with potential owners that could bring back a team to the Bay Area.)
Instead of offseason conditioning, Dynamo players, 17 of whom were in San Jose, were focused on closing costs, doing walkthroughs and finding schools for their children. There was only a skeleton front-office staff to assist them with arrangements in what's the fourth-largest city in the USA.
Ching had to leave behind his wife, Charisse, while she finishes school at the University of Pacific in Stockton.
"To have to live apart while she goes to school is not easy," says the forward, who moved into a condominium. "She has one more year to go. It's not ideal, but once she's done, she'll be a pharmacist and she can move anywhere."
The reception for the team in Houston has eased the transition. During the playoffs, the Dynamo's home games have drawn 17,440 and 23,107, just 560 fewer than immensely popular D.C. United for the most of any MLS team. They averaged 18,935 in 16 home matches, a 45% increase from attendance in San Jose. They're fourth in the 12-team MLS in merchandise sales.
What has made their matches unique, however, is the electricity at Robertson Stadium amid a sea of orange-clad Dynamo die-hards.
"We were very happy in San Jose. The fan base was fantastic. We were upset leaving the Bay Area," captain Wade Barrett says. "But what we've gotten from the community here has been bigger and better than anything that any of us could have expected."
Says MLS Commissioner Don Garber: "We knew from the time the league was launched that Houston would be a great soccer city. The last year has proven that our expectations for the market is right on track."
Stepping up to change
Kinnear took over a winner in 2004 — he was an assistant when the Earthquakes won MLS championships in '01 and '03 — but it has taken a couple years to get this team back on the title track.
Last year, he had 18 new players on the roster and no longer had star forward Landon Donovan, defender Jeff Agoos and midfielder Richard Mulrooney. That didn't deter the then-Earthquakes from finishing with 64 points, the second time in league history that a club had 60 or more points in a regular season.
They had a rockier road this season (11-8-13, 46 points) but still finished second in the Western Conference. They've overcome the occasional absence of Ching (national team duty and injury) in large part because of Dwayne De Rosario, who was converted from playing forward to exclusively midfield.
He is tied with Ching for the team lead with 11 goals and has been just as vital to Houston's defense, tracking back to break up attacks in the defensive third.
"His last two years he's been very good," Kinnear says. "He's dynamic. He's dangerous, he understands his role and has a flair for the dramatic."
The same can be said of the team. Who would've thought this team — and all it went through to adjust — would be playing in Sunday's championship?
"There's no clear formula for what it takes to be successful," Barrett says. "Soccer is probably the one game where you can either dominate and lose or underperform and win.
"But the experience of what we had to go through in the offseason helped bring the group together, and we're the better for it."


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Have Mental Health Questions? Ask a Psychiatrist Online
Good morning and thanks for writing.
I'm sorry that you're having a difficult time right now. I'm glad that you have seen someone to address your concerns and hope that it was helpful. Before I provide an answer, please understand that it would be inappropriate (and unethical) to diagnose over the internet... that being said:
Cluster B Personality Disorders refer to four Axis II disorders of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders):
- 301.7 Antisocial Personality Disorder
- 301.83 Borderline Personality Disorder
- 301.50 Histrionic Personality Disorder
- 301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
First of all, you indicate that your therapist said you had "prominent cluster b personality TRAITS" - which suggests that s/he did not diagnose a personality disorder per se. S/he also diagnosed an adjustment disorder, reflecting that s/he took into account the "rough year" you had previously.
Without refuting his/her diagnosis, it is possible that your behavior/feelings could be categorized in a number of ways. More specifically:
You should know that Personality Disorders in general are somewhat controversial. You should know several things about the field of psychology/psychiatry:
1. The "big book" used for diagnosing mental disorders is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders... and has undergone a number of revisions and changes over the years.
2. While there are still discussions and arguments about the material contained in the DSM, none is more controversial than those disorders located on Axis II (so-called "Personality Disorders").
3. You should understand that there are licensed mental health professionals who do not believe in the concept of "personality" and do not, therefore, believe that a personality can be disordered.
4. Even for those who find sufficient evident for "personality," the disorders listed on Axis II can be controversial. Besides difficulties with diagnostics, if personality is an immutable trait of an individual - how can one treat it? If one were to diagnose an individual's entire personality as "disordered," what could one do to "re-order" it?
To add to this conundrum, you're a relatively young man at only 23... and probably only 21-22 during treatment. If there *is* such a thing as personality - is it already "set in stone" by such a young age?
Simply put, most licensed mental health professionals would likely find other diagnostic categories to describe your behavior. Certainly an Axis I disorder (such as Major Depression) would be "more treatable" with a better prognosis than an Axis II disorder. Axis I disorders also tend to be better researched and have better developed treatment protocols (either medication or therapy).
So, let's take Major Depression, as you suggested...
Research has consistently demonstrated that treatment plus medication is more effective than medication alone or treatment alone for a majority of Axis I disorders. Further research has shown that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the most effective form of psychological treatment/intervention.
A licensed psychologist/psychotherapist with specific training in CBT modalities would be able to address your concerns. I would encourage you to find a licensed mental health professional with whom to work, employing CBT. Referring to a psychiatrist for medical treatment is appropriate if you are interested in pursuing this approach.
Again, the mantra of years of research says: medication or treatment alone is not as effective as both working in tandem. Some research has also indicated that insight-oriented talk therapy is counter-productive with some forms of Axis I disorders... it actually exacerbates the condition(s). So, seek out a CBT therapist who will provide targeted, efficient, and effective therapy - not someone who signs you as a "lifer." If you're going to a therapist for years, something about the therapy isn't working.
SO: I will return to an adage I learned during my residency... "If you hear hoof beats bearing down upon you, it's far more likely to be a horse than a zebra that's coming..." The same is true with mental health disorders. Personality Disorders are highly controversial, relatively rare, and some would argue, untreatable. A host of other disorders (that *are* treatable with good prognoses) could explain the very same behaviors used to describe the personality disorders.
I would encourage you to work with licensed mental health professionals who specialize in horses, rather than zebras. You deserve solutions to your problems... and I believe the first step you might take is getting an objective, scientifically-based evaluation from a licensed mental health professional - preferably someone with a CBT background.
Thanks. I hope you're well and that this was helpful.
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Oh, sorry if that wasn't clear enough.
I wouldn't say "confused with..." but it's possible two different psychologists could look at a bunch of behaviors and psychologist A would say "Oh, that's Cluster B" and psychologist B would say "Oh, that's Major Depression."
So, there can be significant overlap!
Hope you're doing well.


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By Thomas O'Toole and Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY
Even for an event that specializes in the unexpected, in underdogs rising, heavy favorites falling, Friday was a day like no other in the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Never before had two No. 15 seeds (Norfolk State and Lehigh) defeated No. 2 seeds (Missouri, Duke) in the same tournament, much less within a few hours. Throw in No. 13 Ohio beating No. 4 Michigan, No. 12 South Florida (a First Four participant earlier in the week) beating No. 5 Temple and No. 14 St. Bonaventure nearly taking out No. 3 Florida State, and Friday goes down as a day of sheer madness.
No. 10 Purdue and No. 11 N.C. State also advanced making the double-digits the story of the day after a relatively calm Thursday (though in all a record nine double digits have advanced).
And the story of the double-digits is Norfolk State. Only Lehigh came close to the significance of Norfolk State's victory, but Lehigh defeated a defensively challenged Duke team playing without an injured starter.
Norfolk, making its first tournament appearance, was taking on Missouri, ranked third in the USA TODAY/ESPN coaches poll and winner of the Big 12 tournament -- a team surely among the Final Four in millions of office pool brackets, a team listed as a 21(1-2)-point favorite on Friday.
Other wins by 15s resonate but fall a bit short.
When Hampton defeated Iowa State in 2001, the Cyclones had just lost in the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament. When Coppin State defeated South Carolina in 1997, it was by 13 points and probably said something about the seeds for both teams. In 1993 Santa Clara and a guard named Steve Nash defeated Arizona. Not every 15 seed has a future NBA all-timer.
You have to go back to 1991 and Richmond taking down Syracuse for perhaps a shocker as big as Norfolk State's. But Richmond was no slouch. The Spiders had beaten Auburn and Indiana in previous NCAA tournaments. The shock here was that it was the first time for a 15.
No, the best of the No 15 wins came Friday night in Omaha with Norfolk State, a team with hoops pedigree, no previous NCAA experience. And maybe the best upset since the bracket expanded in 1985.
There's always a soft spot for Princeton taking down UCLA in 1996. But that was 4 vs. a 13.
This is different. Never have two 15s won in the same day. And never has a 15 had a win as big as Norfolk State.
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Revisiting the Work-Based Safety Net in an Era of High Unemployment
Oct 21, 2010
Elizabeth Lower-Basch, senior policy analyst at CLASP, gave the keynote address at the 2010 East Coast TANF Director's Conference on Oct. 21. Following are excerpts from her prepared remarks.
According to data released by the Census Bureau last month, the number of children in poverty rose from 14.1 million to 15.5 million in 2009, and the child poverty rate increased from 19 percent to nearly 21 percent. This is the highest level since before welfare reform. In other words, all the progress that we made on reducing child poverty in the late 1990s has been lost. Perhaps even more troubling, 9.3 percent of children lived in deep poverty--households with incomes below 50 percent of the federal poverty level.
These figures matter because poverty is associated both with lower levels of well-being today and with lasting consequences for both the children and society. When compared with children from more affluent families, poor children are more likely to have low academic achievement, drop out of school, and have health, behavioral, and emotional problems. These links are particularly strong for children whose families experience deep poverty, who are poor during early childhood, and who are trapped in poverty for a long time. As high as the overall poverty rate is, it's even higher for our youngest children --one out of four children under age 5 lived in poor families.
Disparities in children's cognitive, social, behavioral, and health outcomes begin as early as 9 months, and grow larger by 24 months. What this means is that poor children are falling behind before they start school, and they never get a chance to catch up. The duration of poverty also matters. Children who spend more than four years of their childhood in poverty are more likely to be poor for extended periods as adults, more likely to leave school without a high school diploma, and more likely to become unwed teen parents. All this, in turn, puts their children at high risk.
Even short-term increases in poverty can have negative long-term effects on children. Unplanned moves due to eviction or foreclosure disrupt child care arrangements and schooling. Parents are more likely to be stressed, depressed or just plain overwhelmed. A number of studies show that young adults who are unemployed or out of the labor force due to a recession when they should be gaining formative work experience have permanently reduced earnings prospects.
So, for all these reasons, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program matters for children, families , and to society as a whole, which pays the price for poverty in the form of worse health, reduced educational attainment, and lower economic growth. Read more>>


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In Revolution in the Head, his brilliant book about the Beatles' music, the late Ian MacDonald dismissed the 1994 biopic Backbeat as a "crude caricature" of the band's early days in Hamburg. That may be true, but it's certainly livelier and more convincing than the flimsy stuff that passes for drama in most jukebox musicals.
Not surprisingly then, the film's musical version, Backbeat: The Birth of the Beatles – now playing Toronto's Royal Alex – is much better than we've come to expect from such nostalgia trips. This production, which premiered last fall in London's West End, is enjoyably moody, dirty and raucous. Just like the five scrappy Liverpool lads whose apprenticeship it charts.
Yes, five. This isn't only – or even primarily – the story of the four future pop gods, but also of their original bass player, the beautiful, doomed Stuart Sutcliffe. As Beatles fans know, he was John Lennon's art-school pal, a promising artist with James Dean-style good looks whose brief time with the band is immortalized in the photos of Astrid Kirchherr.
Sutcliffe fell for Kirchherr, a bewitching German bohemian, during the group's 1960 sojourn in Hamburg. She would help create the Beatles' signature mop-top look, but she also led Sutcliffe to realize that art, not rock, was his real passion. Backbeat, in fact, is both a crossroads story and a love triangle, with Stu (Nick Blood) torn between his best mate John (Andrew Knott) and his new girl Astrid (Isabella Calthorpe).
His dilemma plays out as the nascent Beatles are paying their dues in the smoky underground clubs along Hamburg's seamy Reeperbahn. That means bashing out loud, frenetic covers of American rock 'n' roll hits between strip-tease acts for a crowd of boisterous drunken patrons. Director David Leveaux captures the chaotic atmosphere in his staging, as the band plays amid a vortex of German groupies, bouncers and drag queens. (At times, the show looks like a mashup with Cabaret.) Knott, Blood and the three other actor-musicians, meanwhile, do a smashing job of recreating The Beatles' early sound in songs ranging from Little Richard's feverish Long Tall Sally to Smokey Robinson's exquisite You Really Got a Hold On Me.
Iain Softley, who directed the original film, has adapted it to the stage with the aid of playwright Stephen Jeffreys (The Libertine). They've made various changes, which include portraying Paul McCartney as more of a driving force in the band. Daniel Healy's ambitious Paul is now seen winning over record producer Bert Kaempfert (Charles Swift) by singing A Taste of Honey, and urging Knott's dismissive John to start thinking seriously about writing their own songs. The Beatles' first drummer, Pete Best (Oliver Bennett), also gets more opportunities to share his viewpoint. In a scene where new manager Brian Epstein (Mark Hammersley) has to tell Best that he's being sacked, Bennett makes his soul-crushing disappointment palpable.
Daniel Westwick's callow, teenage George Harrison, on the other hand, remains mostly on the periphery (though he does display some of the "serious" Beatle's famous dry wit). Ringo Starr (Adam Sopp) only makes an appearance near the end and is, predictably, cheerful.
As he was in the film, Sutcliffe is the main focus, played here by Blood as sensitive and poetic, forever wearing shades and chain-smoking. Even before he meets Calthorpe's tall, cool Astrid, he seems to belong less to the sweaty, sexual arena of rock and more to the brainy, avant-garde ethos that she represents. That may be why their romance feels a little bland – they're a perfect couple. Knott's John, by contrast, hides his love away. Wearing a face with a perpetual sneer, he spews an endless flow of sarcasm in a thick Scouse accent. The irony is that Lennon, seven years later, would also fall in love with an avant-garde foreign artist who helped influence his decision to leave The Beatles. Astrid Kirchherr foreshadowed Yoko Ono.
This is a great-looking show. Andrew D. Edwards' décor of grimy brick walls and iron staircases, and Howard Harrison and David Holmes's grainy lighting, have been inspired by Kirchherr's gritty black-and-white photos. The photos themselves are projected large on scrims, along with complementary video, designed by Timothy Bird and Nina Dunn. We also get glimpses of Sutcliffe's abstract canvases.
You come away from Backbeat admiring Sutcliffe for choosing art and Astrid over what would become the world's most influential pop band – for both knowing his limitations (he wasn't much of a musician) and following his heart. His recompense is that he lives on in shows like this one, as an enduring part of the Beatles legend.
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