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State of the White Sox: 1/3 down, 2/3rds to go
With exactly 1/3 of the season in the books, it seemed like a good time to look at the season in a big picture so far.
Offense: Certainly a pleasant surprise. The Sox are third in the league in runs scored, fourth in homers, and fifth in average, slugging, and OPS. Abreu has been everything we thought he could be and then a little more. A handful of players are either having breakout seasons or producing above their historic averages (Gillaspie, Ramirez, Flowers, Beckham). Even Dunn is having a respectable campaign. There have been a few boneheaded baserunning blunders, but the Sox have swiped 31 bags while being caught only 10 times. Big picture: nothing to complain about on the offensive side of things, really. They just need to keep doing what they're doing, and Herm just needs to try to stop the bleeding on the injury side of things. The production seems to have slipped some in May…if it's slipped to its actual level, then fine. If it continues to slip, that would be a problem.
Starting Pitchers: Some good, some bad. The White Sox have already used 9 starting pitchers this season. Only Quintana and Danks have started more than 10 games. Quintana has been consistent again as a 2nd starter. Danks has shown positive signs, but would have an ERA over 5.50 without his most recent 8IP/0ER start. Sale has, of course, been awesome, but injury has limited him to only half the season. Rienzo has filled in admirably in Sale's stead, consistently keeping the Sox in games and picking up four runs along the way. Five other pitchers (Noesi, Carroll, Johnson, Paulino, and Leesman) have made 20 starts for the Sox and have given up 80 earned runs in 97.2 IP (ERA of 7.37). Big picture: Sale and Quintana can be expected to continue to anchor the rotation. Rienzo is putting up good 3rd starter numbers but is unproven, with only 17 big league starts under his belt. Danks is an acceptable 4th starter, but hardly inspires confidence. And to make a good run, the Sox need someone to emerge as a 5th starter who will given them at least a chance to win. The 5 fifth starters who have started games for the Sox are a combined 2-10. Hopefully Johnson can put up decent enough numbers when he returns.
Bullpen: Mostly bad, despite last night's 6IP/1ER showing. The White Sox bullpen is 9th in the league with a 3.90 ERA and 13th with a 1.44 WHIP. Petricka, Putnam, and Webb have been relative bright spots, but everyone else has been inconsistent at best, and consistently bad at worst. A bullpen that would probably have been below average anyway has been hampered by injuries, especially major injuries to Matt Lindstrom and Nate Jones. Big picture: Some other strengths might be able to compensate for a weak bullpen to some extent, and perhaps the Sox could make a move for a reliable reliever in July if they're in contention. But they may not, since Lindstrom's and Jones' return will be imminent by that point. In the meantime, Cooper and Thigpen need to figure out how to get the most out of what they've got.
Fielding: Statistically, only the Indians are a worse fielding American League team than the White Sox, but I actually don't think reality is quite that bleak. Marcus Semien leads the White Sox (and is tied for second in the Majors) with 8 errors, 5 of white occurred at third base where he will not play much as long as Gillaspie continue to play well and stay healthy. Ramirez is making fewer errors than he did in last year's terribly fielding campaign. Eaton is playing a great CF and Beckham is playing well enough, giving the White Sox good enough defense up the middle. Flowers certainly has room for improvement, and the Sox are probably as weak as anyone at the corner outfield positions. Abreu's great offensive start has not translated to the field, where he is clearly learning to play at the big league level. Big picture: While defense is certainly not a strength, I don't see the White Sox as the second worst defensive team in the league. And with a number of young players, there is some room for improvement.
Intangibles: The Sox have had some late inning come from behind wins and the talk is all about what's happening on the field, not off the field. Can't complain.
Overall: The White Sox have hovered around .500 all season. In fact, not counting when they were 0-0, they have found themselves at exactly .500 on 16 different occasions so far this season. Without checking, I don't believe they've had either a four game win streak or a four game losing streak. With a solid offensive team, it is unlikely they'll go on an extended losing streak, but could reel off 6-7 wins in a row once or twice during the rest of the season. It's hard to evaluate the season without considering injuries. While injuries will happen, I imagine if we just subtracted Sale's and Abreu's injuries, the Sox would probably have three more wins and would be sitting at 30-24 (.555). If they can play at that clip for the rest of the season, they'll finish at 87-75 (.537). While that probably won't be enough to take the division, it will probably be good enough for second in the Central and might even earn the White Sox a Wild Card play-in game. Big picture: The fact that I can say that with a straight face means this has been a great start to the season!
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Considering all the injuries they've had to deal with you have to be impressed with how the Sox have played so far
What is Mind? -- Doesn't Matter!
What is Matter? -- Never Mind!
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It usually take the Sox a lot longer to work themselves back to .500, at which point I usually have lost most of my interest. This year they've been hanging around it since the start. Overall, I'm happy with the year considering the injuries. I think they have it in them to be a good team and I can actually see a future with better players once money is freed up in 2015.
resilient would be the word I'd use to describe this team
Very good analysis. Right now I have no idea what our record will be after 162 games, that's why .500 teams are so frustrating, they are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. Then again you probably can say that every year about any team, doesn't seem to be any dynasties out there like the Yankees from the 30s, 40s and 50s.
Batting in the second position for the White Sox, number 2, the second baseman Nelson Fox.
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No way I thought they would survive this rash of injuries if you told me in March that they would lose Avasail, Jones, Lindstrom, Sale, ect.
I had no idea what to expect from Eaton, but he has exceeded my hopes.
Just needs to back it off enough to stay healthy, if that is possible.
Tank has been much improved at the plate, as is Alexei, making the Cubans a huge factor. I hoped that Abreau would be close to this good, but he also has exceeded my hopes.
It makes for an interesting bunch to watch play, which beats the heck outta last years team....altho I know it is early.
Steverson would be my MVP at this point.
The team isn't going to the playoffs but it come such a long way in a short time. I think the White Sox knew they had to do something in the off season after 2013 disaster. The organization deserves credit for making some good decisions. I didn't think it would. I have never been so glad to be wrong about something because things looked dire last year and not just because of a last-place finish.
When I was at opening day, I thought I saw a different team. At first, I wondered if that was just wishful thinking because of one game, but as time has passed, I can see the Sox are a different team. And I don't mean just the won-loss record. Last year the club was lifeless. This year the Sox act like they can win every game, not wait for the game to end with an inevitable loss.
I hate the term "Hope Springs Eternal." A team has to show it has some potential not just lose 90 or more games year after year and call that progress. I really don't know exactly when the Sox will be a true contending team, but at least there is real hope, not manufactured hype.
I think we are in great spots if Hahn is realistic...
For example, we are not a playoff team, we are not a world series team. But real contenders are starting to get hit by injuries and guys like Dunn, Beckham, maybe Danks, some of the relievers, are going to be movable pieces.
We need to see what we have in some of the kids. For example, Eaton is a gamer, a keeper. Marcus, while he has had his spots, has really been non-impressive. Maybe Connor is a keeper at 3rd, maybe Flowers is a keeper at C. These are questions we need to try and answer this year, to try and start contending next year.
Moves like the Peavy and Rios trades would not be bad if thinking toward 2015 and beyond. No idea what will be available in that regard though.
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AC Milan's Kevin-Prince Boateng says he would walk off during any match in which he was subjected to racist abuse, no matter what the stakes were.
The former Tottenham and Portsmouth midfielder refused to play on during a friendly against fourth-tier opposition Pro Patria on Thursday after complaining three times to the referee that he and his team-mates had suffered racist insults.
And the 25-year-old insists that even in the Champions League he would do the same again, stressing that everyone in the football world would be behind such a decision.
Club president Silvio Berlusconi has said he will always back his players reacting in a similar way in the future and Boateng also received support from further afield, although not everyone praised his actions.
"I don't care what game it is - a friendly, Serie A or Champions League match, I'd walk off the pitch again and I think everyone would support me," Boateng told CNN.
"I saw massive support from England and massive players like Rio Ferdinand and Patrick Vieira, and I want to say thank you. I'm sad and angry that I'm the one that has to take action.''
Boateng then outlined the discussions on the pitch between himself and the referee which led to his departure.
"I said to him if it happens again I'm not going to play anymore. The referee said 'don't worry' but I said 'I do worry, it's not very nice.' I was angry and I was sad, but it all came together and I said I didn't want to play anymore. There were so many negative emotions that came up in me.
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100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, October 18, 1912
The members of the Royal Arcanum, with their families,
Tuesday had an outing with a clambake in Caswell's grove.
Although late in the season, the weather conditions were
one of the finest for the affair.
One more case of diphtheria has been discovered. (The
case is directly traceable to the first ones, the child being a
playmate of those children.)
The heap of charred lumber has been removed from the
north end of the Thorndike ruins and the rubbish is being
carted and dumped over the bank of the shore. One small
place near the south end of the ruins was still throwing off
considerable smoke Friday. The fire started the Saturday before. Mrs. Caswell has a force of men clearing away the brush
and filling in the swamp hole just north of Shoreby Hill
known as Belcher's pond.
The first corn-husking machine for use on the island has
been bought and set up by Messrs. Caswell and Peckham.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, October 16, 1937
The 70th anniversary of the Central Baptist Church will
be celebrated Sunday.
A new lighting system is being installed in the Thomas H.
Clarke School.
From the Newport Daily News,
October 21, 1937
At a special meeting of the
Town Council, Ross Harrison presented a diagram suggesting improvements on the east waterfront,
and proposed that the government
appropriate money for building a
dock on the property of Harry Horgan, thus relieving the congestion
of ferry traffic.
The dancing classes, held under the supervision of the Parent-
Teachers Association, and directed
by Miss Thelma Duffee as instructor, met for the first time this season at the Carr School with 24 pupils in attendance.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News,
October 20, 1962
The Jamestown Bridge Commission last night adopted its 1963
budget totaling $156,587. This,
an increase of $14,870 over this
year's budget, includes an increase
of $6,535 for wages; $60, lights;
insurance, $1,075; Social Security, $200; and paint, grease and
repairs, $7,000. The commission
will negotiate with W. Leon Watson to obtain rights to his historical map of Jamestown, which will
be used for advertising purposes.
25 years ago
From the Newport Daily News,
October 15, 1987
Town voters – well, at least 64
town voters – unanimously approved the purchase of 24 acres of
the Hodgkiss Farm at a special fi-
nancial town meeting Wednesday
night. (The cost was $87,000.)
From the Newport Daily News,
October 20, 1987
Jamestown demands wetlands
protection. Tempers flared during a Town Council work session
Monday after a bitter and sometimes loud discussion about wetlands mitigation plans for the new
bridge-connector road.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
October 16, 1997
The town-owned golf course has
brought in $116,700 of income so
far, and town officials anticipate
another $10,000 in revenue by the
end of the season.
Jamestowners pedaled into their
22nd annual Rotary Club aroundthe island bicycle race Monday, as
over 180 participants donned their
helmets to ride the 18-mile course.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
October 17, 2002
Location for a new highway
barn – this time at Fort Wetherill
– dominated about half of the
four-hour Town Council meeting
Tuesday, and about 30 residents,
mostly opposed to that location,
The only flaw in the around-theisland bike race on Columbus Day
was the strong winds blowing to
the north. This year's race was the
biggest around-the-island race on
Jamestown to date. Of the record
485 racers, close to 100 were local. To the applause and cheers of
about two dozen preteens, as well
as others, the Town Council Tuesday approved a plan for the skateboard park the skaters helped to
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The RTC Podblast: SEC Preseason EditionPosted by rtmsf on October 31st, 2013
We're just a little over a week from the start of games across this fair nation, and that means it's time to preview each of the major seven basketball conferences on the RTC Podcast. This week we'll unveil previews for the Big East (Tuesday), Big Ten (Wednesday), SEC (Thursday) and Pac-12 (Friday), with the AAC, ACC and Big 12 to come next week. As always, Shane Connolly (@sconnolly114) is our talented and engaging host, leading the group through a series of topics and questions related to the upcoming season. For this podblast, we invited RTC SEC microsite correspondent Brian Joyce (@bjoyce_hoops) to the program, as he helped us consider whether this year's league will be another version of Kentucky & Everyone Else.
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The rundown is below if you'd like to skip around.
- 0:00-10:04 – Is This Kentucky Team More Like 2012 or 2013?
- 10:04-14:44 – Florida as a Contender
- 14:44-21:00 – Anyone Else in the SEC Going to be Good?
- 21:00-23:16 – Randy Rejects Tennessee as a Potential Favorite Team
- 24:48-29:24 – Other SEC Stars
- 29:24-30:33 – Underrated SEC Players
- 30:33-33:41 – Impact of Frank Haith's Suspension on Mizzou and the Rest of the SEC


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Teams We Hate
Duke, Chattanooga, and nine other odious schools in this year's NCAA tournament.
There's a reason to hate each of the 65 teams in this year's NCAA tournament. (Yes, even you, Alabama A&M —bless your little heart!) Kansas always chokes in big games. LSU's uniforms are too purple. North Carolina State's coach is ugly. Your ex-girlfriend went to Utah State.
"Sports Nut" understands that the casual fan doesn't have time to figure out which schools are just mildly annoying and which are fatally flawed. For the six of you who don't choose sides based on which team you bet on, here are our choices for the 11 most despicable, loathsome, vile institutions in the 2005 tourney. If you keep snapping your fingers, they'll all lose in the first round. (Disclaimer: Loss guarantee does not apply to teams that play each other in the first round.)
Duke University, Atlantic Coast Conference, No. 1 in Austin Region Led by sore-losing, ref-haranguing coach Mike Krzyzewski, Duke has long been a hotbed of whininess, but junior J.J. Redick is the first Blue Devil to publicly elevate it to an art form. In recent profiles in Sports Illustrated, on ESPN, and probably in Cat Fancy, the whey-faced shooting guard revealed that when abuse from opposing fans becomes too heavy, he escapes by composing verse. "No bandage can cover my scars/ It's hard living a life behind invisible bars," he writes in one tear-stained stanza.
When the non-existent bars start closing in and the bandage-defying scars get itchy, J.J. need only look down the bench to find kindred souls. Blue Devil assistant coaches Steve Wojciechowski and Chris Collins understand. They too had crew cuts and held their wrists perpendicular to the ground after every made basket.
While players like Luol Deng, Elton Brand, and Corey Maggette go on to demi-stardom in the NBA, it's the scrappy, high-strung little guards who come back to Coach K's side to form a living endowment of faux defensive intensity. Around 2008—when pro defenders have finished demonstrating that Redick can't deploy his robotically perfect shooting stroke when he's guarded—look for the once-great collegian to take his curdled hoop dreams back to Durham and join them. Don't worry, young fella. There will always be a clipboard for you at the end of the bench at Cameron Indoor Stadium. And it will say "J.J." in big, blue, puffy letters.—Josh Levin
University of Kentucky, Southeastern Conference, No. 2 in Austin Region Why should you pull against Kentucky? The long, racist legacy of famed coach Adolph Rupp. The legions of diehards from the hills who have never been on campus. The metronomic pummeling of the football-obsessed, no-name Southeastern Conference—quick, name a player on any other team. The clichéd calls for head coach Tubby Smith's head after every loss, no matter how meaningless. The continued worship of Rick Pitino, even though he now runs the hated Louisville Cardinals. Tubby's death stare after every turnover and dumb shot, an affectation that inspires Dick Vitale to nominate him for the Pantheon of Great Coaches because of his "intensity."
But all that's only mildly nauseating compared to the most repulsive part of UK basketball: Ashley Judd, superfan. It's one thing for celebrities like Jack Nicholson and Spike Lee to flaunt their wealth courtside during a pro game. But watching the aging ingénue don pigtails to prove she can relate to the commoners of the commonwealth is just sad. First, she punishes us with dreck like Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Now, she pollutes UK telecasts because TV directors can't resist endless cutaways of Wynonna's sister. Yeah, yeah, she knows her basketball. She also dated Michael Bolton. Let's not go nuts glorifying her critical reasoning skills.
If Kentucky wins the title, Judd will probably try to shoehorn Tubby Smith into the role of Big Daddy in her next dinner-theater production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Let's hope Duke or Syracuse eliminates Chuck Hayes and Co. If the Wildcats go all the way, my stomach might never recover.—Robert Weintraub
Syracuse University, Big East Conference, No. 4 in Austin Region
Jim Boeheim is a single-minded dweeb. If you cut open his shiny, bald skull and looked at his brain under a microscope, you would see that the neurons are permanently frozen in a 2-3 zone. Every day at breakfast, while he reads the morning papers, he sucks the air out of two fresh basketballs using a custom-made straw. Then he bathes in basketball holy water, hauled into his home from wells in Springfield, Mass. Afterward, he flosses his teeth with a basketball net. He smiles in the mirror, and his mouth squeaks like a gym. His false teeth are carved from the same wood as the floor of the Carrier Dome.
All of which is my way of saying that I'm a Georgetown fan. This year, for the seventh time in the last eight years, the Hoyas won't be in the NCAA tournament. I don't know how much longer I can carry on the rivalry without Georgetown making the dance—I'm running out of ways to mock the bionic Boeheim and his perennially successful teams. There he is now, walking courtside with a cane. I hear it's made out of Rony Seikaly's femur.—Felix Gillette
University of Cincinnati, Conference USA, No. 7 in Austin Region Outlaw basketball programs exist because outlawry pays. Once a school gets known for off-court monkeyshines and low academic standards, that reputation becomes a recruiting tool. Jerry Tarkanian's UNLV teams set the standard: At one time or another, various Runnin' Rebels soaked in a hot tub with a notorious gambler, bought cocaine in full view of a local news team, and got free airfare on planes chartered by casinos. They also played exciting, freewheeling basketball, went to four Final Fours, and won a national championship.
Red-faced and leather-lunged Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins has the recruit-the-delinquents routine down. The Bearcats' police blotter is filthy with domestic violence arrests and the graduation rates are indistinguishable from zero. All that's missing is the fun, the talent, and the victories in March.
While Tarkanian always loaded up on flashy scorers, Huggins has a thing for surly big men. Perhaps because Cincinnati is in Cincinnati, the Bearcats play a grindingly ugly game, with teams built around muscle-bound power forwards with bad attitudes and even worse shooting touch. Huggins' formula produces teams poised between junior college and the CBA. Against quality opposition, their offensive ineptitude always does them in. The Bearcats are the wankstas of the NCAA, would-be thugs who crumple under pressure.
Since 1996, Cincinnati has made it past the second round just once. If Nick Van Exel is the finest citizen your program has ever produced, you can't settle for edging out Tulane for the Conference USA regular-season title. When the Bearcats join the Big East next year, there won't be any more weak teams to push around. Losing in the tournament will be a thing of the past. You can't lose if you don't make it in the first place.—Josh Levin
Stanford University, Pacific-10 Conference, No. 8 in Austin Region
Why, yes, I did know that Tiger Woods went to Stanford. Yes, and John Elway, too.
Forty-seven Olympic medals from 1990 to 2002? And 71 team championships since 1980? And 14 Nobel Prize winners? You really are good at counting.
What's that? Did you mention your SAT scores? Yes, you did. Several times. Why am I smiling? It's just so cute how much you like to talk about them.
No, I haven't seen you play this year. Sorry.
No, no, don't tell me. Let me guess. You have a white guy with very important hair? Is he named "Casey" again? And how many "Academic All-Americans" do you have?
It's going to be so hard for you on Sunday, won't it? When Duke beats you? That must really hurt—like when your frat brother stole your girlfriend? Fifty weeks a year, you tell yourselves you're the only great school with great sports—and then the Blue Devils show up. Yes, I know you won an NCAA title—just like Duke. But wasn't yours in 1942?—David Plotz
University of Vermont, America East Conference, No. 13 in Austin Region Vermont has made three straight NCAA tournaments to no end whatsoever. But don't be so quick to assume the Catamounts are just another Central Florida or Fairleigh Dickinson, a mysterious team from parts unknown that shows up each March despite lacking any discernible hoopin' ability. There's something insidious breeding in the Green Mountain State. The Vermont Catamounts have reached the incubation stage of Gonzaga syndrome.
Pissant conference? Yup. Stealthily nestled in remote corner of the United States? Can't get much remoter. Phalanx of interchangeable, floppily coiffed white guys? Oh, yeah. Scarily fawning media attention? Of course—the Vermont basketball program is "what college athletics is truly about at its core."
You probably think that Vermont will die of natural causes before the bug can take hold. After all, local heroes Taylor Coppenrath and T.J. Sorrentine will graduate this year and beloved coach Tom Brennan is set to retire after 19 years in Burlington. Get real. When Gonzaga's first wave of tourney darlings—guards Quentin Hall and Matt Santangelo and coach Dan Monson—left town, the small Jesuit school got stronger, expanding its recruiting territory and corralling higher national rankings. Soon, the all-powerful Catamounts will be shaking down New Hampshire, Maine, and Quebec for every teenager over 6-feet-6. They'll become overrated, then underrated, then overrated again. They'll be called "plucky." I hate pluck.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. For Gonzaga syndrome to progress, the school has to make the Sweet 16. If Vermont loses in the first round, they'll never threaten us again: America, meet the next Fairleigh Dickinson.—Mike DeBonis
University of North Carolina, Atlantic Coast Conference, No. 1 in Syracuse Region As a flatlander, I typically root against the entire Atlantic seaboard, or, when I'm in a more expansive mood, everyone east of the Mississippi and west of the Rockies. Picking just one team out of 65 to root against is normally a challenge. But this year I'm focusing my hate.
Watching Roy Williams lead North Carolina to a national championship after he tortured my beloved Kansas Jayhawks for 15 seasons would ruin my favorite time of the year. I watched Roy cry when he lost in the second round as a No. 1 seed to UTEP and to Rhode Island. I watched him cry when he lost, five times, to the eventual NCAA champion. I watched him cry when he went home to coach his alma mater. I don't want to watch him cry as he cuts down the nets for the first time with somebody else. Instead, I'd like to watch him cry as he does something else he's never done in his coaching career: Lose in the first round. Cry, Roy, cry, in shame and humiliation, as your team is felled by the 13-18 Oakland Golden Grizzlies.
If Roy and the Tar Heels do make a title run, I hope they meet Eddie Sutton and Oklahoma State in the championship game. It would be a matchup of the Marty Schottenheimer and Chuck Knox of college hoops—a Thunderdome battle to determine the Best Coach Without a Title. At tip-off, Sutton and Williams would be tied with 40 tournament wins and no championships. And when the buzzer sounds, Roy will be alone, the Winningest Loser of them all.—Chris Suellentrop
Villanova University, Big East Conference, No. 5 in Syracuse Region Twenty years ago this April, Villanova pulled off one of the greatest upsets in tournament history. The Wildcats beat seemingly invincible Georgetown and Patrick Ewing thanks to once-in-a-lifetime shooting and the lack of a shot clock.
Villanova's victory was a crushing blow for aficionados of the thuggish game gradually perfected by Ewing, Michael Graham, et al. For hardcore hoopsters, the brutality of John Thompson's charges came as a much-needed counterpoint to Magic Johnson's "Don't Worry, Be Happy" approach in L.A. The Hoyas transcended race, winning fans with resolutely unattractive play that destroyed opponents' will. Media criticism only boosted Georgetown's punk rock standing. So, when they lost the title to a team straight outta Pleasantville it was enough to make you think the world had lost its way.
Clearly, head coach/mafia don look-alike Rollie Massimino made a deal with the devil—Lucifer surely was familiar with the Catholic school. After the apocalyptic upset, things went downhill fast in Philly. Point guard Gary McLain admitted he was high on cocaine during the Final Four and the team's visit to the White House. Massimino left town in 1992, only to be forced out of jobs at UNLV and Cleveland State after a string of ethically challenged, loss-filled seasons.
Meanwhile, the Wildcats continue to pay off that contract with Beelzebub. In the two decades since their Satan-fueled upset, Villanova has advanced past the second round only once. Their debt still hasn't been repaid. Let's go, New Mexico.—Robert Weintraub
Texas Tech University, Big 12 Conference, No. 6 in Albuquerque Region The only Texas Tech alumni I can name other than me played football or shot Ronald Reagan. Lubbock was a wondrous place to eat meat or hear a band, but uglier than a group "before" shot from The Swan. There's a reason all the postcards show Buddy Holly or a bale of cotton. Lubbock is flatter than whichever Olsen twin doesn't eat and has all the greenery of the moon. Even the sky gets ugly this time of year. The winds kick up loose topsoil from the South Plains cotton fields and everything—cars, teeth, blondes—turns the color of dry dirt.
To outsiders, a "dust storm," as townies call these brown-outs, sure seems like a trailer for Armageddon. From what I read last year about the new basketball coach's dust-up with Texas Tech superiors, the place is a little uglier with Bobby Knight in town. Reports had university Chancellor David Smith chatting with Athletic Director Gerald Myers while both happened to be getting lunch at the same salad bar. As they discussed Knight's recent behaviors, who bellies up to the same salad bar but the coach himself. Knight didn't like something he heard over his bed of lettuce, so a public squabble full of all the tired Knightly lo-jinks ensued.
But he's still the coach. Knight can get away with being Knight only in a one sneeze-guard town. This all reminded me of a road trip early into my college years, when, about 280 miles to the east, I passed a tiny central Texas city called Cool (pop. 162, says the 2000 census). To this day I haven't heard a better way to nutshell Lubbock than "about 280 miles from Cool." —Dave McKenna
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Southern Conference, No. 15 in Albuquerque Region At 20-10, the Chattanooga Mocs aren't good enough to make a Cinderella run in this year's tournament. They're also not putrid enough to be lovable losers. What are they, then? An in-depth investigation shows UTC's identity crisis extends well beyond wins and losses. So confused is Chattanooga's self-image that for nearly a century the school has snatched aimlessly from a grotesque mascot grab bag filled to the brim with half-realized creatures, ethnic stereotypes, and footwear.
From 1920 to the early 1990s, the second-largest university in the University of Tennessee system * was represented by: a snake; Chief Chattamoc, a singin', dancin' Injun conceived by a local "Native American enthusiast"; a shoe named Little Moc; and Chief Moccanooga, yet another happy-go-lucky Indian. In 1996, a 17-person panel made the startling discovery that Chief No. 2 "offended a large number of people." UTC then asked a design firm to help create a new identity. The result: the most incoherent mess of logos in all of college sports.
Step one: Officially shorten nickname from "Moccasins" to "Mocs," a punchier if still shoe-related word. Step two: Stretching "Mocs" to wit's end, replace snake, shoe, and Indian with "Scrappy," an aggressive mockingbird who doubles as (and dresses like) an old-timey railroad conductor. Scrappy pilots the "Choo-Choo," an obvious local favorite featuring a "Cowcatcher" to push objects—discarded mascots?—from the tracks. It's a bird! It's a train! No, it's the UT-Chattanooga … loosely related things!
Chattanooga will no doubt lose big to Wake Forest in the first round of the NCAAs. That is, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons—now there's a mascot that makes sense.—Chris Park
University of Pennsylvania, Ivy League, No. 13 in Chicago Region In the documentary My Architect, Philadelphian Louis Kahn is seen giving his famous lecture about how to converse with a brick—"What do you want, brick?"—to a bunch of Penn students. After the Quakers get trounced by Boston College, I hope they remember Kahn's words. What does brick want? Brick wants you to go home. And don't come back until you learn how to shoot.
Not that I hate the Quakers, but Ivy League basketball is a binary sport. I'd rather be watching the Princeton Tigers, or, as I call them, those eating-club losers. The "Princeton offense," with its emphasis on ball movement, three-point shooting, and backdoor cuts, is the perfect scheme for losing first-round nail biters.
Better yet, the NCAA should get rid of the Ivy League's automatic bid altogether. I'm sick of these invasive quas-Ivies. After all, as my grandmother used to point out, the only real Ivy League schools are Harvard and Yale. Everything else might as well be Creighton.—Felix Gillette
Correction, March 16: This piece originally and incorrectly included the logo of the Penn State Nittany Lions, not the Pennsylvania Quakers. Correction, March 18:The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is the second-largest school in the University of Tennessee system, not the second-largest in the state of Tennessee. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
Correction, March 16: This piece originally and incorrectly included the logo of the Penn State Nittany Lions, not the Pennsylvania Quakers. Correction, March 18:The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is the second-largest school in the University of Tennessee system, not the second-largest in the state of Tennessee. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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One month ago, Ohio State was unbeaten and ranked No. 3 in the nation.
The Buckeyes begin February having lost five of seven games and find themselves out of the Associated Press Top 25.
The problems are difficult to pin down. They've made too many turnovers, have shot poorly, occasionally don't play great defense and have been bewildered by opposing zone defenses. On top of all that, they've played good teams who make a tiny flaw look like a massive deficiency.
Heading into Tuesday night's game at No. 17 Iowa, coach Thad Matta needs to push the right buttons to lift his team out of its recent funk. Despite a big win at equally troubled Wisconsin on Saturday, the Buckeyes remain a fragile team.


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The third and final portion of our CCIE Data Center Live Online Bootcamps – Unified Computing with Nexus 1000v – is now complete, and the videos are available for both streaming and download. This class focuses on the Cisco Unified Computing System – both B-Series and C-Series servers, Fabric Interconnects, and also the Nexus 1000v. We use the Nexus 5548UP switches along with Cisco MDS 9222i and a rack of JBODs to configure absolutely everything live in the class, including boot-from-SAN, FC zoning, static and dynamic pinning, normal and vPC port-channels, FCoE and vPC-HM (Host Mode) with MAC-Pinning. We also discuss many of the very recent enhancements to the Cisco UCS line with the new addition of version 2.1 and UCS Central.
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Tue, 7 April 2015
In downtown Seattle, Colin talks with comic artist Peter Bagge, creator of the legendary alternative comic series Hate, contributing editor and cartoonist at Reason magazine, and author of such graphic novels as Apocalypse Nerd, Other Lives, Reset, and Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story. They discuss whether Seattle is still the place to be for the Buddy Bradleys of the world; the cheap "place to invent yourself" he first found there; the ever-increasing importance of place in his work, and its necessity in telling longer stories; how Seattle won out as a storytelling location versus the other "cities where hipsters gather"; what Seattle once looked like from his perspective in Manhattan; the feeling of a "pioneer town" then and now; how he found Seattleites who took the time to live elsewhere differed from Seattleites who'd never left, and what it has to do with the Seattle inferiority complex; the relationship between Seattle and the alternative comics scene; how he convinced his publisher Fantagraphics to come join him in Seattle, and how the town came subsequently to crawl with cartoonists; Buddy Bradley as a young cynic, and Seattle's accommodation of the young cynic; what the fictional life of Buddy Bradley and the real life of Margaret Sanger have in common, beginning with their premises of "doing exactly what they want to do"; which of Sanger's many accomplishments and battles (which she never fought on straight gender lines) he usually uses to explain her life; why Sanger's achievements in birth-control legalization became so important to all society; our transition out of "the age of stuff"; the probable fate of bookstores, and how they might succeed through the social dimension; why conventions have become more important than ever to comics, and why cities have become more important than ever to life; the impossibility of the Spokane swinger; what his visit to the depleted city of Detroit taught him, especially about the ways the government itself holds back a potential revitalization; where he thinks Seattle goes too far, politically; why he prefers the monorail Seattle might have built to the light rail system it is building; whether governments just can't build transit right, or whether specifically American governments just can't do it right; what happens when anyone's shovel hits an Indian artifact in Seattle; and how to win mayoral office by campaigning against the inevitable.
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Mon, 6 April 2015
The Kickstarter drive for Notebook on Cities and Culture's sixth season launches now. If we raise its budget, we'll spend an entire year in Seattle: the city of grunge, Microsoft, Amazon, the Space Needle, Buddy Bradley, Archie McPhee, sleeplessness, Starbucks, and much more we'll discover through at least 52 in-depth conversations with its novelists, journalists, comic artists, filmmakers, broadcasters, explorers, academics, architects, planners, cultural creators, internationalists, observers of the urban scene, and more.
Once we raise season six's full $6000 budget, the show will go on as planned. And for every additional $200 we raise, the season will include an additional episode. In other words, if we raise $10,000 rather than $6000, you'll get 72 Seattle interviews rather than 52.
Depending upon the amount you pledge to back Notebook on Cities and Culture's year in Seattle, you could get a mention at the end of each episode, postcards from the city, me talking about your project or message at the top of one episode and its associated post, or at the top of all of them. But do note that, since no one likes a long drive, we only have five days to raise the money.
The Kickstarting ends on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time, but before then, I'll put up a special preview episode featuring a new interview with a favorite long Seattle-based guest from whom, if you've followed my interviewing career for a long time indeed, you've heard a couple provocative and funny hours of conversation before. Visit season six's Kickstarter page for details. Thanks, and stay tuned.
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Tue, 17 March 2015
In an officetel in Seoul, Colin talks with Brother Anthony of Taizé, one of the most renowned translators of Korean poetry, president of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, and naturalized citizen of South Korea. They discuss the frequency with which he's heard "Why Korea?" in the 35 years since he first arrived as a member of Taizé; the Korean lack of belief that anybody would actually opt for Korea rather than their own homelands; what fills Korean taxi drivers with strong opinions; Korea's aging rural population versus Japan's even more aging rural population; the Seoul he arrived in in 1980, and how it compared with the Philippine slum in which he'd spent years previous; the "trickery and violence" involved in the city's redevelopment; how a "shame culture" deals with modernization (and especially with thatched roofs); how Japanese society accommodates a kind of "nonconformism" that Korean society doesn't; how he began translate Korean poetry, and why he got into poetry rather than other forms of Korean literature; how Korean fiction came into being after the war, and what it often lacks; how the concept of separation has been expressed as "the great Korean thing," and younger Korean writers' desire to get away from it; why "Koreans can't speak Korean"; the endless pattern drills he endured while studying Korean at Yonsei University; how he began "doing tea," and where in Asia the interest has taken him; how China has used Korea as a developmental model; why he isn't sure he wants to live in a "fascinating country"; how some foreigners love traditional Korean music and architecture while most Koreans themselves don't; whether Korea can gain the confidence it has long lacked; why we should rightfully be able to ride the train from Busan to Paris.
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Fri, 13 March 2015
In Seoul's Sinchon district, Colin talks with Matt VanVolkenburg, author of Gusts of Popular Feeling, a blog on "Korean society, history, urban space, cyberspace, film, and current events, among other things." They discuss what it feels like to live in Seoul, of all places, without a smartphone; why navigating the city poses so much of a challenge to the newcomer; how he sees the relationship of the Korean media to foreign English teachers, "the new incarnation of the GIs"; what made it possible for the Korean media to talk freely about the acts of foreigners; the history of "Korea as a victim"; why non-English-teaching foreigners surprise Koreans; what makes some Koreans and foreigners alike see entry-level foreign English teachers as third-class citizens; the country's distinctive combination of overregulation and under-enforcement, and what it says about the difference between the legal cultures of Korea and North America; what he does on trips instead of hitting the beach; Isabella Bird Bishop, the 19th-century traveler and write from whom Gusts of Popular Feeling takes its name; why the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store didn't prevent the sinking of the Sewol; the writing of Percival Lowell and others who had more to comment on than dirtiness and superstition did about Korea in the late 19th century; the Chonggyecheon's very short history as a "clean stream"; James Wade, one of the more prolific English-language observers of postwar Korea; what he finds reading old Korean newspapers; his incredulousness at a foreigner's complaint that "you can't get cheese here"; the 1988 Hustler article on the easiness of Korean women; the importance of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to Korean relations with foreigners in the country; the fallout of "Dog Poop Girl"; the thorough change he's seen in the built environment of Seoul in his 13 years there, and what he notices about the less-developed cityscape revealed in old movies; Korea's relative lack of the geek and the nerd; and what word he really doesn't want to use when describing why he likes living in Korea.
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Mon, 9 March 2015
In Seoul's Itaewon district, Colin talks with architect Minsuk Cho, principal at Mass Studies, designer of the Golden Lion-winning Korean pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014. They discuss whether he talks about the use of space differently in English than in Korean; how copying, and especially while misinterpreting across cultural boundaries, counts as a way of creating; his earliest memories of Seoul's "building explosion" that grew the city tenfold over fifty years; the difference between current Seoul and the Seoul of his childhood; the "concrete utopia" in which he grew up, and how quickly it went away when the branded "high-density gated community" high-rises that now characterize the city rose; the book that set him on the path to architecture (even as his architect father didn't push him into the profession); the "toilet paper" life expectancy of Korean buildings; how he has reacted to the "bigger, higher, cheaper, faster" building ethos of Seoul; the "blessing" of so much building right up against so much nature; when Korea's dictatorship didn't want people to gather, and what effect that had on the built environment; his experience riding a Yellow Cab from LAX to Palm Springs; how Seoul passed through its "juvenile teenager phase," and what mistakes it made that compare to Los Angeles' onetime avoidance of density; the village fetish that has recently developed; what he felt in New York that made him cartwheel in the streets; why the flatness of Rotterdam bothered him when he worked for Rem Koolhaas; how Korea became, for him, a more appealing place to build things; Mass Studies' Pixel House in the recently developed city of Paju and the island of Jeju; the beginning of a reverse migration out of Seoul; Itaewon's varying role in the city as "a center that is also a void"; the importance of architecturally uniting North and South Korea in Mass Studies' Venice Biennale pavilion; and what he thinks of the prospects of actually reuniting, for architecture or otherwise.
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Wed, 4 March 2015
In Seoul's Sinchon district, Colin talks with Michael Elliott, creator of the English-learning site for Koreans English in Korean and the Korean-learning site for English-speakers Korean Champ. They discuss why Koreans insist on the difficulty of their own language; whether and why he considers Korean difficult; what it means that "there are so many different ways to say the same thing" in Korean; the perennial issue of saying "you" in Korean; the "native speaker's privilege" to go a little but out of grammatical bounds; why the Korean alphabet has displaced Chinese characters more or less entirely; why Koreans rarely acknowledge the language itself as a driver of interest in Korea; the different, more intense ways trends manifest themselves in Korea than in America; whether we can call English education in Korea a "craze," and why Koreans spend so much money on it to so little apparent result; the degree of parental involvement in English education and how "keeping up with the Joneses" drives it; the trouble with studying the languages of "poor countries" in Korea; the dominance of "the right way and the wrong way" in Korean thought; what it takes to make it to the highest level of Korean study, and why that sets off suspicion in Korean people; how tired he's grown of explaining to those "back home" why he went to Korea to study Korean in the first place; how he got an exemption not just from Korean trends but from American hipsterdom, or indeed any kind of "team"; how he came up with his new Korean Champ videos shot on the streets of Seoul; what would happen to the Cheonggyecheon Stream if built in America; how he studied multiple levels of Korean at once; the importance of observation when learning languages, and the general resistance to it; the "little bit of a scoff" with which Koreans sometimes correct Korean-learners; and the sleep he loses on the rare occasion he says something incorrectly in Korean.
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Sun, 1 March 2015
In Seoul's Susong-dong, Colin talks with Andrew Salmon, author of To the Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951; Scorched Earth, Black Snow: Britain and Australia in the Korean War, 1950; and All That Matters: Modern Korea. They discuss how Korean culture has influenced the names of his cats; the dullness of London by comparison to Seoul, especially in drinking term; the provocative positions he has taken, such as finding the Koreans "a little unfair toward the Japanese"; how he sees the conflict between Korea and Japan over the Dokdo islets; the "drab, miserable-looking" Seoul full of "fierce" people to which martial arts brought him in 1989; the Korean shift from diligence as the sole virtue to diversity of lifestyle; how Korea came to look like a place he could live; why he "wanted answers" from Korea since his time here began; how everything Korean, in this land "ruled by the heart, not the head," opposes everything English; the meaning of the 1988 Olympics and the 2002 World Cup as the "signposts" of modern Korea; the opening up of Korean national markets and Korea itself to international markets, resulting in the improvement of such native products as makgeolli; Korean sensitivity toward the awareness of "the Korean brand"; to what extent outside interest has shifted from North Korea to South; why editors don't tend to ask for the North Korea stories that matter; what happens if reunification day ever comes; what Korean students "simply don't learn" about their country's history; why plaques in Korea give dimensions of bricks rather than tell stories; what the Korea neophyte should know in order to contextualize everything else they learn about the country; the mismatch between Korea's "hardware" and its "software"; whether he hopes for a grand Korean deceleration; and what he's stopped dreaming about quite so much before his trips to Europe.
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Wed, 25 February 2015
In Seoul's Hongdae district, Colin Marshall talks with Daniel Tudor, former Economist correspondent in Korea, co-founder of craft beer pizza pub chain The Booth, author of the books Korea: The Impossible Country, A Geek in Korea, and (with James Pearson) North Korea Confidential. They discuss the difference between Gangnam and Gangbuk style; the recently emerging trend toward Korean nostalgia, and what happens when you pull out an two-year-old mobile phone; what he discovered in Korea during the time of the 2002 World Cup; his time among the "studying machines" that constitute Korean youth, and why so few want to break from that hard-driving mode; education, especially abroad, as a means of "jumping the queue" back in Korea; the greater progressivism he's found among Koreans who've never left the country; why it matters when a foreigner voices the same criticism of Korea that Koreans think; whether he felt any fear of legal action when he publicly stated that Korean beer sucks; why Korean beer has continued to suck for so long; what it takes to get decent beer into Korea today; the "emotionalism" of Korean conversational style, and whether it plays in the wider world; to what extent Korea may westernize, given the presence of a certain "spineless love of all things American"; whether Korea's narrative of weakness can accommodate the country's new strength; what it was like writing for The Economist, a
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In Changwon, "Environmental Capital of South Korea," Colin Marshall talks with Coby Zeifman, former outreach coordinator for Nubija, the city's bike share system. They discuss what makes Changwon a cool town; why a feature like Nubija, despite its impressiveness, needed the kind of outreach he has tried his utmost to provide; Changwon's history as a manufacturing town for the conglomerate LG; what makes it a "Young City," including its plan modeled after Canberra; how the city expanded, and how Nubija expanded along with it; how he got to Korea in the first place, on nothing more than the advice of two friends who already lived there; how "livable" he found Changwon even at first; what makes Nubija inconvenient for foreigners; why so many services in Korea require a Korean cellphone; how Changwon's Nubija compares to Daejeon's Tashu; when he started to get the sense that he could not use Nubija, but contribute to it; how he began Changwon Bike Party (by "Tyler Durdening it"); where he's gone with the Bike Party he might not have gone otherwise; the scrutiny he underwent before Nubija let him help out; his experience learning bicycle repair, a subject he didn't know well, in Korean, a language he didn't know well; what Nubija's "smart" information technology architecture does for the system; whether Seattle, where he came from, has got ready to become a 21st century; the glories of the T-Money card; the assumption that certain public conveniences "wouldn't work in America"; Mia Birk's theory of shining a light and scattering the cockroaches; what we can learn from New York City's solution to graffiti in subway cars; his imminent return to the United States, and the reverse culture shock for which he has prepared himself; his hopes for sustained carless "freedom and happiness" in America, and the multimodalism that still requires; how Korea's cycleability ranks overall; and what it takes to complete the country's Four Rivers Tour and receive the best souvenir of all of his time in Korea.
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At a coffee house somewhere in Busan, Colin talks with Sofía Ferrero Cárrega, film critic and enthusiast of Korean cinema. They discuss whether she'd recommend other movie-lovers move to Busan; how the Busan International Film Festival attracted her to the city (and the importance of its parties); why, in Busan, "everybody says yes"; the state of Korean film criticism in Spanish; how she first encountered Korean cinema, and how its auteurs got her to know Korea; the bad first impression Korean culture can sometimes give on film; what happens when you mention kimchi in Argentina; why her move to Korea became inevitable; her experience of understanding nothing in Korea even after having studied the language for years before arriving; what makes the dialogue in Hong Sangsoo movies easier to understand than the dialogue in other movies (and why Korea struck her as a real-life Hong Sangsoo movie when she arrived); whether she feels a kinship with Isabelle Huppert's character in In Another Country; the shock of finding out that, in Korea, she's white; the understanding she gets by standing outside society, and the "healthy jealousy" she feels for those inside; the difference between Korean conception of history and the Argentine conception of history; how Korea's heavily advertised matchmaking services speak to the cultural importance of marriage; why to learn about a culture from its independent films, not his mainstream one; how Korean social life "flows" from one place to the next; the role of the Seoul International Women's Film Festival; what happened in the world of Korean film festivals in the wake of the Sewol disaster, and how all the elements aligned to match the national mood; what it felt like to live in a silent Korea; the strong identification within Korean generations; her critical interest in connecting Korean film to the conditions in Korean society; why she waited on reading about Korea until she'd lived here a while, then picked up Michael Breen's The Koreans; the difficulty of explaining Korean food and drink to friends and family back in Argentina; the Korean penchant for "crowded" food and "crowded" web sites; how the culture has turned her "no"s into "ne"s; and what hour she (as well as the Argentine ambassador) woke up to watch the World Cup.
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Is Your Company A "Large Employer" Subject to "Obamacare" -- Understanding the 50 full-time Equivalent Threshold
It has been well-publicized that, beginning in January 2013, employers with more than 50 full-time employees will be required to comply with "Obamacare" by either providing insurance benefits for their employees or paying a penalty. There has been much speculation for example that the American economy will begin to resemble France, in which an inordinate number of employers stop hiring at exactly 49 employees to avoid the regulations that kick in at 50 employees.
But if any employer wishes to follow this "49'er" strategy it needs to understand that Obamacare's definition of a "large employer" subject to coverage is actually based on a special definition of "full-time equivalent" employees. In essence, the new law aggregates all part-time hours worked and treats 120 monthly part-time hours worked by any number of individuals as equivalent to one full-time employee. For example, as explained by a report of the Congressional Research Service
"Full-time employees" are those working 30 or more hours per week. The number of full-time employees excludes those full-time seasonal employees who work for less than 120 days during the year. [However] The hours worked by part-time employees (i.e., those working less than 30 hours per week) are included in the calculation of a large employer, on a monthly basis, by taking their total number of monthly hours worked divided by 120.
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Kristen Stewart hits the red carpet at the premiere of On the Road held at the SVA Theater on Thursday night (December 13) in New York City.
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The Daily Show for conservatives shows up on YouTube.
The Fox News Channel makes its latest foray into the realm of farce and fake news on Sunday night with the premiere of The 1/2 Hour News Hour (10 p.m. ET). According to the elevator pitch, it's The Daily Show for conservatives. A brief segment of the show popped up on YouTube this week, and though it must have been intended as what we blue-state pansies would call an amuse-bouche, it looks more like a determined bid to lower expectations. The mind strains to conceive of political humor that might be less humorous—or, ultimately, less political. Hannity and Colmes trying "Who's on First"? Dennis Kucinich taking sledgehammer in hand to try Gallagher's act? Jimmy Fallon attempting a Thurmond-length filibuster?
The anchors of the News Hour are parked, "Weekend Update"-style, at a desk on a set evocative of The Colbert Report. He is Kurt Long; she is Jenn Robertson. His jacket bunches at the shoulder, and her hairstylist has acted with malice. The look is in keeping with the ostentatiously humble Fox News aesthetic—a signal that the on-air talent isn't putting on airs, that you're watching something as homey as the leading morning show in Tucson. Kurt leads off the leaked segment thusly: "Illinois Senator Barack Obama admits that as a teenager he sometimes used cocaine. This news sent Obama's approval rating among Democrats plummeting to an all-time low of 99.9 percent." This gets some in-studio laughter, and Kurt forges ahead. "But, in a related story, Senator Obama has just been endorsed for president by former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry."
It happens that there's an actual joke in there, and The 1/2 Hour News Hour flubs it in eight or nine ways. On purely technical grounds, there's the glitch of the control room flashing its graphic of Barry at least two beats before the host reads his name and also the plain fact that 99.9 is not a funny number. You can nearly feel the missed opportunities—for the line to get pleasurably offensive with drug lingo or to turn back on the teller—whizzing past.
Still, the bit seems worthy of the Algonquin Round Table compared with what follows, a mock ad for "BO: Barack Obama magazine," the cover lines of which include, "Should We Even Bother To Hold the 2008 Election?" The laugh track really goes for that one, as will a subset of viewers who—simply tickled to see a TV comedian pandering to them—really couldn't care whether the target gets hit.
It happens that such folks would have done better to tune in to the recent episode of The Daily Show that found Jon Stewart goofing on the campaign songs of various Democratic candidates. The fact-based setup found John Edwards bounding across a blue-draped dais to "Our Country," John Mellencamp's populist jingle/Chevy anthem. The Daily Show then presented us with Obama at the same event, rescoring things so that he walked to the podium to the chorus of "Jesus Christ Superstar"—a more incisive joke on Obama-mania and political theater than the News Hour's whole bit. For a kicker, they juxtaposed footage of Hillary with some vixenly bars from Kelis: "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard … ."
The 1/2 Hour News Hour is the brainchild of Joel Surnow, co-creator of 24. "Almost every comedy show or satire show I see uses the same talking points against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney," Surnow told Variety in November. "The other side hasn't been skewered in a fair and balanced way." Talking points? Fair and balanced? That's not the language of the writers' room. In any case, you couldn't skewer a cube of tofu with material this dull. It will play to the base, maybe, especially if the base hands the remote control to its 12-year-old son. As a humorless liberal, I can handle it. It's the conservatives—the ones with actual gifts for comedy—who ought to be sharpening their knives.
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Raising the dead may soon become medical reality. According to critical care physician Sam Parnia, modern resuscitation science will soon allow doctors to reanimate people up to 24 hours after their death.
At some point, everyone's heart will stop. For most, this is when they begin to die. Doctors succeed in very few cases at bringing the clinically dead back to life. However, more patients could be saved if medical professionals put existing knowledge about the treatment of cardiac arrest to better use, argues critical care physician Sam Parnia, 41, who is leading a revival of research in this field at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York.
When Parnia was a student some 20 years ago, a patient he knew well died under his care. It was a key moment for the young doctor, who has since sought to understand and fight the process of death.
SPIEGEL: Dr. Parnia, in your new book on resuscitation science, "Erasing Death," you state: "We may soon be rescuing people from death's clutches hours, or even longer, after they have actually died." That sounds a lot like resurrection. Is this a serious claim?
Parnia: In the past decade we have seen tremendous progress. With today's medicine, we can bring people back to life up to one, maybe two hours, sometimes even longer, after their heart stopped beating and they have thus died by circulatory failure. In the future, we will likely get better at reversing death. We may have injectable drugs that slow the process of cell death in the brain and other organs. It is possible that in 20 years, we may be able to restore people to life 12 hours or maybe even 24 hours after they have died. You could call that resurrection, if you will....
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Note to self: Grab Zombie preparedness kit
They can say it can be done, when they've done it.
And here is Lovecraft's original work, Herbert Smith- The Reanimator:
And yet. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead...
The soul isn't going to hang around.
Unfortunately, so far all those so resuscitated have exhibited an overpowering appetite for the flesh of the living; scientists are working this out even as we speak.
Miracle Max: He probably owes you money huh? I'll ask him.
Inigo Montoya: He's dead. He can't talk.
Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What's that?
Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
I found that to be a very funny movie.
that brings into discussion the concept of how long the soul dies stick around. Diffferent religious beliefs have a range on that
Thanks for the movie poster. My thought also.
"As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her.
And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead."
Thank you.
I will just say that I have my doubts.
Person death occurs before death of individual cells, which is why it is possible to resuscitate people after their heart or breathing stops. However, cells begin to die soon after person death, and once cells die, there is no bringing them back. The process of rigor mortis is a sign of cell death, where the motor proteins become locked after the cell depletes its energy. Brain cells use more energy than other cells, so they use up their stores very quickly and die within minutes.
I have taken a few courses in first aid, and they always teach the brain starts dying after 4 minutes.
Sometimes in very cold places or under cold water as long as 30 minutes , but bringing back the brain dead doesn't sound too bright to me.
So they will automatically become democrats?
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The Contenders: Caroline Steffen is Coming for the Crown
Is this the Swiss athlete's chance to shine after two runner-up finishes in Kona?
by Kevin Mackinnon
Two years ago Caroline Steffen's coach, Brett Sutton, wondered if she had gone so hard here that she would never be able to compete at the same level again. She responded to that challenge with the second-fastest IRONMAN in history at the IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship Melbourne the following April. Later that year she was the last person to be passed by Chrissie Wellington in a triathlon, finally giving up the lead as the four-time champ claimed another Kona title before she retired.
Coming in to last year's race Steffen was considered the woman to beat after that stellar performance in Melbourne, which she followed up with an equally as impressive win in Frankfurt claiming the European title. Just as she did the year before, Steffen put herself in the lead during the marathon. Unlike the year before, though, she held that lead until the closing miles of the race. When Leanda Cave finally caught her and made the pass, Steffen made a gallant attempt to hold on—only to come across the line a minute behind. If the runner-up finish in 2011 was physically destructive, 2012 was a mental let down.
"It was really hard to let go after last year," Steffen says. "It was like being given a chocolate bar as a kid and then, at the last second, it was taken away."
This all makes the 35-year-old even more determined to hang on to that chocolate bar this year. After struggling to stay motivated through the first half of 2013, things started to click in June. She blasted through a full-distance race in Germany in July and has been focusing on this race ever since.
Steffen arrives in Kona with the kind of confidence that can only come from being at the front of this race so many times. A former national team swimmer, Steffen is always one of the swim leaders. She also competed as a professional cyclist before turning to triathlon—which is why she's one of the most fearsome cyclists in the sport. Her running has improved dramatically over the years, to the point where she can run a sub-three-hour marathon after a devastating bike split.
"I don't have to change much (too win)," she says. She's right. Two years ago she was up against possibly the greatest athlete our sport has ever seen. A year later she got beaten by a woman who had the race of her life.
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Hernandez has pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, whose body was found June 17 not far from Hernandez's North Attleborough, Mass., home. His defense team calls the case circumstantial and says Hernandez looks forward to clearing his name.
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