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Set in the near future, Earth has been ravaged by a series of devastating wars that have hurled the planet into a state of chaos. Mercenary bikers roam the land and fight high-speed battles on ultramodern motocross bikes. They fight for food, fuel, water and whatever precious neo-gear they can find. To survive, riders must scavenge for weapons and use big tricks to elude their vicious enemies.
This intense struggle for survival begins with choosing from one of six riders -- each equipped with a unique bike and individualized characteristics that generate special abilities. Once a rider is selected, gamers will race and fight other bikers in eight post-apocalyptic worlds that range from bombed out cities to an old desert town. To survive in these levels, gamers must engage with adversaries in fierce hand-to-hand combat at high speeds? or scavenge for weapons to levy stronger attacks. These battles can become even more up-close-and-personal by utilizing the Konami's Moto-X multi-player mode.
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In response to a recent Dan Savage column, ex-gay Randy Thomas, an official with Exodus International, wrote (h/t Ex-Gay Watch):
For the most part, we are intelligent, balanced, stable, tolerant of what we may not personally accept and loving. We looked at what identifying as gay and all of the predetermined relational options of what that means and said, "no thanks." Some of us have experienced orientation shift and others haven't … and we are all living out our faith and life as we see fit. I and everyone I know, have no desire to force others into our line of thinking.
Except that last line is a lie. Time and time again, ex-gay ministries or their supporters have forced gay teenagers at ages 16 or 17 into residential treatment centers.
Back in Summer 2005, teenager Zach Stark was forced into an Exodus International-affiliated treatment center. The late Jerry Falwell, an Exodus supporter, "dismissed psychologists' claims that consent is fundamental to a healthy counseling relationship and that parents should not force their gay kids into therapy."
And we can't forget about Lance Carroll, who was forced to attend the same residential treatment center as Stark. He says the "therapy" included isolation and group shaming sessions where one participant would be singled out and shamed for the personal occurrences in their life.
There's also this gem, the story of Jeff Williamson, a young man whose parents made an appointment for him to go to an ex-gay therapist referred by Focus on the Family, an Exodus supporter. He says he wasn't "exactly forced," but felt "an intense pressure" from his parents. What else is a teenager supposed to do?
It's situations like Williamson's that might just be the most dangerous. Teenagers and other young people who feel so pressured to go into these therapies that they keep all of their emotion, grief or anger bottled up inside. For LGBT youth, who are already more susceptible to suicide, these factors are all a dangerous combination.

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'Scale the Heights' Benefit Raises Over $14,000 for Autism Research
With lights aglow and merry music filling the festively-decorated Normandy Park model home at Josephine Parc, generous supporters gathered to raise money AND have a great time Thursday night, Dec. 6.
The fundraiser was in support of Normandy Park resident Tracy Codd's Mt. Kilimanjaro Climb, set for January 2013 (read our previous coverage here). Tracy's climb is a benefit for Autism research, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the UW Autism Center.
A lively crowd enjoyed complimentary tastings of Sozo wines and 18th Ave Pasta company's gourmet samples. Shoppers strolled the home delighting in whimsical displays of holiday decor items and housewares from Statements Home Decor and Poggi Bonsi, which also benefited the charity.
Throughout the evening guests mingled throughout the expansive model home marveling at the ease of entertaining in the generous spaces.
"Josephine Parc is the perfect backdrop for this type of an event," remarked Candace Legg-Cadigan of Windermere Realty, representing agent for Josephine Parc and principal organizer of the event. "Even with so many guest and the displays, it never felt overcrowded!"
The event was organized by Josephine Parc, Hultquist Homes and South King Media, who send special thanks to all the generous donors, as well as participating sponsors Statements Home Decor, Poggi Bonsi, Sozo Wines, Cox Financial, and HomeTask/YellowVan Handyman.
Tracy's goal for this fundraiser is $25,000, and it's not too late to support this meaningful cause which touches so many lives. We invite you to learn more and get involved by clicking here to donate online.
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A new generation of devices turns any surface into a canvas for collaboration.
The era of the interactive whiteboard (IWB) in the classroom may be coming to a close. Districts are discovering that they can avoid the inflexibility and relatively high cost of IWBs by choosing interactive projectors, which happen to be small, portable, and in many cases able to work with the same software that powers the boards.
The market for these devices is growing dramatically in the "professional" sector, which includes education (along with business and government). According to PMA Research, a firm that monitors the market, interactive projectors make up one of the few "bright spots" in this product category, which has remained flat overall since 2008. In 2009, when the interactive projector category first started taking off in the United States, about 500 units had shipped. In 2012, 55,000 interactive projectors shipped, many of them headed to classrooms, said PMA vice president Linda Norton.
While big names like Epson and Hitachi dominate the category, "niche" companies such as BoxLight have also advanced the technology. Norton said the price of a mainstream interactive projector is "considerably higher" than that of the standard variety: on average about $1,451 versus $873. But, she added, "They're obviously attractive to teachers because of the functionality." So what exactly do interactive projectors do to justify their cost?
Light, smart, or interactive pens provide stylus and mouse functionality. Users don't even have to touch the surface with the pen; they can simply hover the pen above the surface to perform their activities. Another feature borrowed from interactive whiteboards is the ability to accommodate more than a single user working with a pen. Also, images that have been created through the projectors can be saved as graphic files to share with others.
Dallas Independent School District, which installed a fiber-optic network in 2013, has taken advantage of 17,000 new wireless access points to set up 3,500 digital classrooms with interactive projectors from both BoxLight (the ProjectoWrite6 WX31NST) and Dell (the S500wi). Both projectors tap into the wireless network for interactivity instead of a USB or VGA cable. A wireless dongle plugs into the USB port of the teacher's computer to communicate with the projector.
Peterson pointed out that the new breed of projectors is mobile. "With an interactive projector," he said, "you can [move it] from room to room and be set up and ready to go in less than five minutes." Teachers who change rooms during the day "don't have to worry about cables being run from the wall. And they don't have to worry about students tripping over cables."
Same Software, New Hardware
Marilyn Gavitt, coordinator of instructional technology at Martin County School District (FL) said she felt troubled when she saw her first demonstration of an interactive projector. Five years ago, a committee in her district had made the decision to install Promethean interactive whiteboards for the primary classrooms and SMART Boards for secondary classrooms. With a refresh cycle of five years and a thousand classrooms to outfit, the district is just now completing that rollout.
But two years ago at FETC, she saw Epson show off its new BrightLink line of interactive projectors. "I was afraid because we were so ensconced in our [interactive boards]. I said, 'We can't just drop that and go with this.'" But the decision became much easier in March 2013 when Promethean reworked the licensing of ActivInspire, its popular teaching and learning software, to eliminate the limitation that it be used only with its own boards when purchased as a bundle deal. At the same time Epson gained licensing rights to sell ActivInspire as well as SMART's Smart Notebook software with its new projectors.
Suddenly, teachers at Martin County could use the same software they were already accustomed to with new hardware. Following a small pilot test, as the earliest board adopters hit the five-year mark, their boards were replaced with Epson's BrightLink 485Wi projectors. Last school year, that added up to 101 projectors; this year it'll be another 155. In many cases the boards are remaining, to be used as a collaboration surface; but the projectors previously installed on "arms" attached to the boards have been replaced with ultra-short-throw projectors installed just above the boards.
Buying Advice from the Pros
When putting together the business case for buying interactive projectors, Gavitt advised building in the cost of the lamps, calling it a "huge consideration." She said, "You can only get at the most two years out of a lamp." Her district once bought lamps that cost between $300 and $400, while her BrightLink lamps run less than a hundred.
Gavitt also recommends selecting a projector that can run the software your teachers already use. Although interactive projectors typically come with some kind of basic software, using the collaboration software that is already in the classroom can save time on teacher training, as well as money, "because you won't have to buy it outright."
Peterson suggests testing out the accuracy and responsiveness of the projector. Users want to be able to go to the surface and control their computers as they normally do, he explained, but some projectors tend to have a delay, which means that, "If I draw a straight line [on the surface], I can pull my hand away and watch the line being drawn."
Ultimately, said Gavitt, the best test of success is to see how students respond to the technology in the classroom. "I'm not talking about one student. I'm talking about a group of students learning and interacting in a circle at the board with the teacher behind them just facilitating. They're responsible for their own learning, teaching other students what they've learned or finding out things on their own as a group. It's an exciting time in education."
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6 Interactive Projectors Worth Turning On
Barco Collaborate CRPN-52B
A 5,000-lumen model allows for sharing from up to four devices, provided the company's ClickShare software is used. The software automatically adjusts composition and resolution.
BoxLight ProjectoWrite6
This wireless, interactive line has three models that include 1.5 gigabytes of internal storage for multi-media display. You don't even need to hook up your computer to share your presentation; just plug in a thumb drive. Lumens run from 2,700 to 3,000.
Dell S500wi
This 3,200-lumen projector allows for "off-surface" interactivity through its rechargeable interactive pen, which allows students to write on the screen from where they're sitting.
Epson BrightLink
The Epson interactive line has three projectors that vary by lumen count (2,500 to 3,100) and come in models for wall or tabletop use. The bundle includes two pens, which can be used simultaneously.
Hitachi CP-AW2519NM
This short-throw, 2,500-lumen projector with Hitachi's Starboard software projects interactivity onto any surface.
SMART LightRaise 60wi
A major advantage of going with this 2,500-lumen model is that it includes SMART Notebook software, which, as the company notes, "is used by millions of educators around the world."
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In 1949, Germany lay in utter ruin. World War II had devastated its people and laid waste to much of the rest of Europe. The temptation among the victors was to rain down punishment on the Germans in repayment for the catastrophic violence their militarism had brought upon the continent and the rest of the world.
Instead, the Allies heeded the lessons of Versailles, and abstained from demanding excessive reparations; the U.S infused West Germany with billions of dollars in grants and low-interest loans to rebuild its industrial economy. The Marshall Plan launched a new day for the FRG and the prosperity that followed set the conditions for a democratic, prosperous Germany with a European future.
Europe would do well today to remember these lessons as they look to the 'Greek problem'.


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Justin Bieber, 'Mistletoe' – Song Review
This holiday season, Justin Bieber will show us all just how much he's grown up when he takes us under the 'Mistletoe' with his warm and fuzzy new single.
"I should be playing in the winter snow, but I'm gonna be under the mistletoe," the 'Baby' singer starts, portraying a vastly different kid from the pint-sized, swoop-haired version that we first met in 2009.
Throughout the track, Bieber makes a list of things he knows he should be doing, but admits that he just can't break away from the hot-and-heavy makeout session. Selena Gomez must have one heck of a kiss!
Mid-song, the Biebs really breaks it down, giving a shout to three famous dudes who visited Jesus in the manger. "The wisemen followed a star / The way I followed my heart / And it led me to a miracle / Don't you buy me nothing / Cause I am feeling one thing: Your lips on my lips / Such a merry, merry Christmas," he sings in the bridge.
At 17, the Biebs is officially a man, and despite losing his squeaky clean voice, he's proving song by song that he can still hold tight to the top of the charts — starting with 'Mistletoe.' We love this track and think it perfectly sets the mood for a cozy night in front of the fire, snow falling outside the window, snuggled up to a loved one (even if it's not Bieber himself).
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What was supposed to be a few days of mountain biking and just hanging out with the family in the Las Vegas area finds me, sadly, flat out sick but thinking about the past and the future. My wonderful wife says that maybe "the hectic year you have had is finally catching up to you." We both know 2013, unlike the Mayan calendar, has a lot on it.
It's almost been two years since anything has been posted on this blog. So here is some reflection:
We have brewed more than 36 beer styles in less than three years. This past year we added a pretty large firkin/real ale program to our mix. It's cool, it's unique, and we push to, someday, let Utah politicians allow Utahans to try an Epic full strength beer firkin, or any of our kegged beer for that matter, in our home market. We purchased several hundred firkins and send them to 12 markets around the US. A primer on Real Ales here: http://www.nerax.org/home/what-is-real-ale.html we also did some kick butt Zwickel Lager's, we loved them and QC'ed a few casks at the brewery but it seems that the market isn't into them yet.
Also in 2012 we expanded our cellar significantly, got our custom hop back installed, added about 20 local jobs, had the planning commission split on our local expansion plans, had an average of 24 beer styles in our coolers at the brewery for our great local customers, won more medals for our beers, started distribution in my hometown of Los Angeles, hired our first out of state sales representative, started exporting a little to Japan and Brazil, finally had the USPTO grant our Registered Trademark for Epic Brewing, and a bunch of other stuff. Time to wrap this part up, reminds me of a road race once when a guy yelled at me when I kept looking back "stop looking back, the race is in front of us now!" Solid advice!
So looking down the road for 2013:
· Adding at least one more 80 barrel fermenter into our Salt Lake City brewery; Kevin thinks he can fit two in
· Attempt to get our Salt Lake City expansion plans approved by the City
· Start brewing in Denver by April; yes we have a space, look for a press release later this week
· At least two new killer beers for 2013
· Begin distribution in Washington State and Nevada, and the balance of Colorado!
· A possible Gastro Style Pub somewhere in Utah
Here's a cheer to the New Year, may we all succeed in our goals and live the dreams we make for family, friends and ourselves! And thanks for your continued support of our small, family owned craft beer business.


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A contemporary Indian experience in Quincy Center
1237 Hancock St., Quincy
Lunch: Monday to Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Sunday, 12:30 to 3 p.m.
Dinner: Daily, 3 to 10 p.m.
Accepts American Express, Mastercard, Visa, and Discover
As Quincy Center gears up for a $1.6 billion redevelopment, Sher-A-Punjab has timed its opening on Hancock Street well. The restaurant brings what it calls "modern Indian" cuisine — updates on dishes it says you will not find anywhere else.
Seated on prime real estate across from the Quincy Center T station, Sher-A-Punjab takes over the space formerly occupied by Blue 22 Bar & Grille. Its warm caramel hues and dim lighting could set the mood for an evening date, though there were more families with young children than couples.
Like many Indian restaurants, each table is started off with papadums, wafers made of lentils. For dipping, there are the usual tomato and onion, mint and cilantro, and tamarind sauces.
Those tamarind and mint sauces also accompanied our chicken pakora appetizer ($5). The chicken did not sit heavily on the stomach the way deep-fried foods often do, and its chickpea and cumin batter gave the meat a crisp coating. The plate included a small salad that was good, but the dressing tasted like a standard creamy American one, with no hint of Indian influences.
The naan apricot date ($4) was our favorite single item. The flatbread was served hot, and the dried fruits inside were sweet and warm, giving them an almost jammy consistency.
My lamb shank curry ($15) was braised in a saffron and red onion gravy, and the long cooking time rendered it meltingly tender. The chicken tikka masala ($13), the professed favorite of many Indian food lovers in the United States, is cooked tandoori-style and served in a tomato and cream sauce. This version had an unexpected smokiness that gave it more depth. A shared plate of basmati rice accompanied the entrées.
The waiter had asked if we wanted each entrée mild or medium in spiciness, and we erred on the side of caution, only to taste no heat. I made a mental note to upgrade to medium next time for that slight kick.
The restaurant was half full on a Thursday evening, and service was prompt and polite. The attentiveness was consistent when I returned on a Sunday afternoon. During lunch hours, a buffet is also available, but I opted to order off the menu again.
This time, it was the chat papri ($5) that impressed. The appetizer of spiced potatoes with fried wheat wafers in a yogurt sauce is served as street fare in India. The chunks of potato, crunchy wafers, and cucumbers created a contrast of textures, while the yogurt sauce with cilantro was sweet and tangy.
The pista coconut naan ($4) was filled with crushed pistachios and coconut flakes. It didn't delight as much as the naan apricot date, but it was pleasantly hot and buttery, though light on coconut and pistachio flavor.
My beef coconut curry ($13) was all right, but the delicate coconut and mustard seed couldn't stand up to the more assertive beef. The medium level of spice was perfect this time, however. The palak paneer ($11), fresh spinach cooked in cream with homemade cheese, was not a favorite; its flavors were muddled together so no one stood out.
But the ras malai ($4), homemade cheese patties in a milk syrup topped with crushed almonds and pistachios, made up for that. The sweetened cheese had the consistency of ricotta, and the syrup was fragrantly scented with rosewater.
When asked what distinguishes Sher-A-Punjab from other Indian restaurants — and Quincy has another — co-owner Mandeep Singh pointed to the "modern Indian" menu. The dishes incorporate some current culinary trends in India as well as some Western influences, he said.
"There are things on our menu you can't find at other Indian restaurants," Singh said. "You can only find them here." He listed mango chicken, mustard lamb rack chops, paneer tikka, and the naan apricot date among them, saying the recipes are the chef's unique creations.
The restaurant's name means tiger of Punjab, a northern state in India from which Singh and his cousin Kashmir Singh hail.
Kashmir Singh, chef and co-owner, has wanted to cook since childhood, he said through his cousin, who translated from Punjabi. He trained in India and has worked at a Cambridge restaurant, which he declined to name. These days, Kashmir said, he conjures up new dishes rather than rely just on his early days, and has his kitchen staff taste and provide feedback.
Mandeep Singh had helped manage restaurants for his father in India, and Sher-A-Punjab is his first American venture. He said he went door to door visiting offices in Quincy Center, gauging interest for his business. People wanted an Indian restaurant, he said, and a place where they could sit down and enjoy lunch.
He said the restaurant's entertainment also sets it apart. Karaoke nights start at 10 on Thursdays. There is a bar with full liquor, and the restaurant can seat up to 75.
Sher-A-Punjab also delivers, and I'll be reaching for that menu often.


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I am convinced of that there is always either single best or multiple equaly good functions to reach the local minimum, thus there must be a way to find them without any error (within reasonable limitations of how our computations may be precise).
I suspect there must be some direct calculation to find such function, rather then by repetitively trying different hypotheses.
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'Girls Gone Wild' founder convicted of assault
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Prosecutors say "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has been convicted of misdemeanor assault and false imprisonment stemming from a dispute after a 2009 night out in Hollywood.
The Los Angeles city attorney's office says a jury convicted Francis on Monday of three counts of false imprisonment, one count of assault and other misdemeanors.
He faces up to five years in prison. Sentencing has yet to be scheduled.
Prosecutors say Francis took three women home from a club and a fight broke out when he tried to separate one from the others. They say Francis grabbed a woman by the hair and throat and slammed her head into the floor.
The district attorney declined to press felony charges and referred the case to the city attorney for consideration of misdemeanors.
Francis could not immediately be reached for comment.


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KNOXVILLE -- What was intended to be a simple video e-mail message to the University of Tennessee turned into cut-down comedy hour.
UT senior basketball players Wayne Chism, Bobby Maze and J.P. Prince were asked merely to speak into the camera, thank students for their support this season and encourage them to attend senior night festivities before tonight's game against Arkansas.
Part of the senior night promotion includes free headbands to students, many of whom plan to wear them awkwardly high atop their heads in a tribute to Chism's self-described "yarmulke."
But the cameraman made a mistake. He didn't give the players a script.
"Come get your free headband," Chism said. "We're all going to wear one."
"Umm ... I'm not," Prince interrupted. "You couldn't pay me to wear one."
"Just because your head's too big," Maze responded. "We'd need a slingshot to get one on your big ol' head."
"My head's smaller than either of your nostrils," Prince shot back. "Your nasal strip would be bigger than my headband. When you sneeze, everyone in this arena gets wet."
Without blinking, Maze then wondered aloud whether students should get Prince's acne medication to go along with their Chism headbands.
Not to be outdone, Chism simply offered, "Y'all both ugly."
A normal video wouldn't have seemed appropriate, given the circuitous routes UT's seniors have taken to arrive at this point.
Chism, a four-star prospect and Pearl's first high-profile recruiting commitment to the Vols, is the only man left from the star-studded 2007 signing class. Tyler Smith, a Tennessee native who transferred to UT and became an All-Southeastern Conference forward and team captain, was on track to be honored tonight before getting dismissed from the program in January.
"I don't even know how to answer that question right now," Chism said regarding the losses of Smith and former classmates Duke Crews, Ramar Smith, Josh Tabb and Marques Johnson. "It's crazy, though. I mean, I came in with a lot of people, and through the times we've been here a lot of people have came and gone. Being the one left on senior night is kind of disappointing, but I know the guys are out there doing something better with their lives.
"They're still my brothers, and I still love and care about them."
Some left Chism's class, but others arrived, too.
Prince -- also a Tennessean -- transferred to UT in time to play three mostly successful seasons for the Vols.
Maze, a former Baltimore-area high school star, arrived last year after two seasons at Oklahoma and Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College.
"Everybody's got a story, but all that matters is that we came to Tennessee, we became a family and we won a lot of big basketball games," Maze said. "And those of us still here are going to leave with our heads held high."
Prince and Chism said they'd rather focus on Arkansas than get too caught up in senior night emotions.
"It's my last time playing here, but I don't want to make more out of it than it is right now," Prince said. "I've had some great times here, and we've won a lot of games in front of a lot of a great fans, and I'm going to miss it one day. But stuff like that won't hit me until years from now.
"I don't want to think about it too much right now, but you just want to leave the place better than when you came here, and I think we've done a good job of that. I'm proud of what we've done."
Chism opened up a little bit more than Prince.
"I kind of thought about it yesterday," Chism said. "I was like, 'Yeah, I'm just about to play my last home game.' It came pretty fast, so I was like, 'Wow.' But not excited."
After a slight nudge, the quirky big man said he's already seen the fruits of his UT labor.
"When you look back, you'd see all the orange seats were kind of empty back then, and you'd only see some people there at the games," said Chism, who has played more games than any Vol in history and is on track to graduate in May with a double major. "It was like, is it a D-II school or what? It's supposed to be a D-I school, it turned around when Coach Pearl got here -- and our first signees for him -- and then a lot of things changed from there. That gym became packed every game. Every game started being sold out because of the way Coach Pearl has turned this team around, and he's still doing it.
"I'm very proud. Back when I was in high school, people always said, 'Man, you shouldn't go to Tennessee.' Now when I go back home, everybody's a Tennessee fan."
Maze was the most openly emotional of the trio. That's not surprising, considering the point guard came to UT with a less-than-stellar reputation off the floor but is on pace to leave in May as a two-year starter who graduated and made the honor roll with a 3.5 senior-year GPA.
"This place means everything to me," Maze said. "Tennessee gave me a chance to change my identity and what people thought about me. When I was at Oklahoma, I was young and immature and got into a little bit of trouble and made some bad decisions. But since I've been here, there's been a total change. I haven't been in any off-the-court issues. I haven't been in any trouble. I'm going to graduate. I've changed my whole life around.
"I think of my two years here as a blessing; a changing point in life, a transition from a boy into a man. I will remember that my whole life."
But tonight ends the seniors' home careers only. They potentially have several more weeks to play.
"Nobody can ever take away that we beat the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the nation my senior year ... but we're not done yet," Maze said. "I want to come back here one day and be able to show my children hopefully a picture of my team and me, and I can tell them, 'Look what I was a part of.'
"Hopefully we can earn a big banner for this place, too."
Other contacts for Wes Rucker are www.twitter.com/wesrucker and www.facebook.com/tfpvolsbeat.


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Meat Loaf endorses Romney in Ohio
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DEFIANCE, Ohio – Meat Loaf bestowed a meandering endorsement upon Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney here Thursday night, making what the hard rock icon said was his first move on the political stage.
The singer, who rose to fame in the 1970s with his power ballads, performed a short concert at a high school football stadium in Defiance to rally some 12,000 supporters before Romney came on stage to give a speech.
Meat Loaf performed a few songs familiar to his most devoted fans; his most famous hit, "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)," didn't make the cut. And then, with dramatic flair and wearing a sparkly black ensemble, explained why he was getting behind Romney's candidacy.
Wingnut Base: Will you love me forever?
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) Maryland's football team is stumbling through a second straight losing season and now has gone 11 straight years without winning an Atlantic Coast Conference title.
So how in the world are the Terrapins going to survive in the Big Ten?
Maryland announced Monday it will leave ACC and begin play in the Big Ten in 2014. That means the struggling football program will be forced to swap games against Wake Forest, Duke and Boston College for potential matchups with Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Fortunately, Maryland has one more year to prepare for the decided step up in competition. The Terrapins will close a 60-year association with the ACC next season before beginning Big Ten play.
Football coach Randy Edsall, 6-17 in his two seasons at the school, is certain Maryland will flourish in its new conference.
``The young men that we have here now, with what we recruited last year and knowing what we're building here and the depth we're creating, there's no doubt we will be able to compete and do well in the Big Ten,'' Edsall said Tuesday. ``We'll be fine because we'll have the right people here, we'll have the talent, and we'll develop talent to make sure that we're going to go in there and be competitive and win. That's exactly what we'll do.''
The problem is, Maryland can't even win in the ACC. The Terps went 1-7 in the league in 2009, 5-3 in 2010 and 1-7 last year. This season, they are 2-5 (4-7 overall).
The team did, however, show improvement this year before losing four quarterbacks, its leading tackler and leading rusher to injury. Edsall did a decent job of recruiting last year, and expects the excitement generated over the conference switch to enhance his effort this winter.
Edsall said all those players from which he received an oral commitment remained on board. And why not?
``I would probably be more excited about coming here, playing against those big schools,'' sophomore nose tackle Darius Kilgo said. ``You get a lot of exposure for your team and individually. So it would be a good experience.''
Edsall intends to broaden his scope in terms of recruiting, branching out toward the middle of the country instead of staying on the East Coast.
``Now that we could end up playing in the Midwest, we'd be foolish not to recruit in those areas and have people come here to such a great University,'' he said. ``There might be some areas we were in that we might not have as much manpower, so we'll recruit a little bit differently than we did before. You've got to go to some other areas now to attract quality student athletes to come help you get your program to where you want.
``But the bottom line is, the area we've got to control is the one right here at home, and that's not going to change.''
When Edsall heard of the move to the Big Ten, he could barely contain his excitement.
``I was ecstatic. I thought it was a home run for the university and I thought it was great for the athletic department,'' he said. ``It really enhances this university academically and financially, and it helps the student-athletes in a big way. It will allow the athletic department to better serve and better fund the student athletes and their programs in terms of what they need.''
Until Maryland gets to the Big Ten, things are going to be a bit strange as it counts down toward the end of its membership in the ACC. This week's game in North Carolina, for instance, could be the football team's final trip to Chapel Hill - ever.
``I guess it's kind of historic in a sense, us being the last team,'' wide receiver Kevin Dorsey said.
Guard Bennett Fulper, a senior, won't be around when the Terps make the switch to the Big Ten. But he thinks they'll do just fine.
``They're going to be playing against some big-time teams. Obviously, you lose some of the tradition, but some choices have to be made and I think it's going to be a good thing,'' he said. ``We've got great coaches here, we've got a great supporting cast. I feel that they're going to do a great job of getting guys in here that can compete for many years to come.''


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Would you want your girlfriend's parents to be able to test your DNA to find out your ancestry? What if the grad school you were applying to wanted to test for tendencies for mental illness?
Within a few years, the cost of DNA sequencing may be just a few hundred dollars. When it gets that cheap, it will be easy for anyone to get a test.
But should there be legal restrictions on it? And is there a way to keep our DNA private?
- Larry Hunter, professor of bioinformatics at the University of Colorado's School of Medicine in Denver.
It's HERE AND NOW.
Almost 30 years ago, Larry Hunter had a warning. He feared that computers - which were just starting to become a part of our lives - were going to present new challenges for personal privacy, and he was right.
Well, now Larry Hunter is professor of bioinformatics at the school of medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver, and he is raising a new red flag. He says we should be worried about the privacy of our DNA. Larry, welcome to HERE AND NOW.
LARRY HUNTER: Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.
HOBSON: Well, it's great to have you, and I want to start with your prediction that in 30 years, our DNA is going to be everywhere. Explain that.
HUNTER: Well, so the technology that allows us to look at and read DNA - we call it sequencing - is taking off the way computer technology took off in the 1950s and '60s. And it's almost equally impossible to imagine what 30 years from now it's going to be like than it would have been for those people to imagine the Internet.
And so we have the vaguest glimmers of what it's going to be like. We can guess a little bit about what the ability to rapidly and cheaply read DNA sequences is going to mean, but it's always hard to know the future.
HOBSON: And do we have the ability to control whether our DNA is out there, as an individual?
HUNTER: No, I don't think so. Everywhere you go, every chair you sit in, every glass you drink from, every place you touch, you're leaving DNA behind. You can't change that. You're constantly shedding hair and skin cells and all kinds of stuff. So you leave a trail of DNA wherever you go.
HOBSON: But somebody would actually have to want to go and get your DNA and put it into some kind of database.
HUNTER: Right. There's two pieces that need to happen. One is I need to be able to take some sample from the chair you were in and figure out what the DNA is, and then I need something to do with it. So just knowing the DNA sequence that was in that chair doesn't tell me who you are.
But there's a lot of databases that are already being collected that you could use to identify the DNA you picked up off that chair. So, for example, the FBI has more than 10 million people in a DNA database. The company 23andMe - which people pay to get their DNA sequenced - announced last December that their aim is to get a million customers this year. So there's going to be lots of DNA and lots of DNA databases out there. It's already happening.
HOBSON: And the cost of sequencing DNA is going way down.
HUNTER: Oh, yeah, absolutely. So it's already possible to sequence an entire human genome for a little over a thousand dollars...
HOBSON: Wow.
HUNTER: ...and that price is going to continue to fall. In the next few years, it'll be $100, and basically free.
HOBSON: So what can we be doing? Or should we be trying to keep our DNA secret? I mean, it sounds like it's not very easy to do that.
HUNTER: I don't think you can keep DNA secret. I think what we need to do as a society is figure out what are legitimate uses and what aren't legitimate uses, and we've already made some good steps in that direction. There was a law passed in the United States a few years ago called the Genetic Insurance Nondiscrimination Act, which says insurance companies - for life insurance and health insurance - can't discriminate against you based on any genetic information.
And that also applies to employers. They can't discriminate against you on genetic information, as well. And we're already seeing the first Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hearings about a woman who claimed she was fired because she had the BRCA1 breast cancer gene, and brought a claim against her employer by GINA, this Genetic Nondiscrimination Act. So I think that's a great start.
We already have some rights not to be discriminated against, based on what's in our DNA. But there's also some negative parts. The Supreme Court just ruled that police can collect DNA from people they just arrest who are still presumed innocent, haven't been convicted of anything. That's how the FBI gets to have DNA samples on 10 million people. Only about a million of those were convicted of anything.
HOBSON: Well, does the recent Supreme Court decision change things significantly?
HUNTER: It does. It validates a practice that a lot of people didn't approve of, and has opened the door to DNA collecting from pretty much everybody who has any contact with the police. If somebody could be fingerprinted, they can have a DNA sample taken against their will.
HOBSON: So what should be done by regulators at this point? I mean, how much work needs to be done to make sure that there are appropriate laws and privacy regulations in place?
HUNTER: I think the regulators need to get educated. The real problem is the people who make policy here don't really understand the technology or where it's heading, and that's a critical problem. Usually, legislation comes in response to something bad happening, and we'd really, I think, like to prevent the bad things from getting started.
To use an analogy with privacy collection and electronic information on the Internet, is it going to be reasonable for companies to want to advertise to you based on your DNA? And I think it's pretty clear that evolving technology is going to allow us to identify people who have a weakness for a certain kind of pitch, or it might be problem gamblers, so that casinos want to come advertise to them, or...
HOBSON: And you could tell that from DNA?
HUNTER: Well, it's not clear yet, but it's not impossible. It's - I think it's likely that we'll be able to make conclusions, inferences about people based on their DNA that will have real effect on how they act in the world, how advertising works on them, all kinds of things that matter to lots of big companies. And so we're going to have to stay on top of our growing understanding of what these DNA differences between us mean and make sure that it evolves in a way that's good for society and doesn't just privilege a few.
HOBSON: What are people supposed to do with this information?
HUNTER: I think we need to separate concerns about the government use of DNA versus commercial use of DNA. And the government - we've kind of settled into we're going to allow the government to use it for criminal justice. And we could try to limit the ability of police and the FBI to collect DNA, but I think that the Supreme Court decision has told us that that's not going to happen. Commercial use of DNA is much more up in the air right now.
And so the way to protect yourself against that is if you're going to go to ancestry.com or 23andMe, one of these DNA sequencing things or, for that matter, get your DNA sequenced because you're concerned about some genetic problem your unborn child might have, be aware of who's keeping that information and what uses they're allowed to make of it, and try and get some - to give them back to you when it's done or destroy it.
And then with respect to, you know, secondary commercial uses like insurers that's illegal - pay attention - if you feel like your employer or your insurer has discriminated against you because of something genetic, you have legal rights. And as to, you know, how the advertising thing and marketing is going to play out, that's still in the future. It's still too expensive for that. But be aware and think about it as it comes.
HOBSON: Would you ever get your DNA sequenced?
HUNTER: Oh, sure. I'm in the personal genome project, so I donated my DNA to science. It's - George Church at Harvard has been collecting thousands of human volunteers and information about their medical records and the like and trying to understand what aspects of one's genetics influence how you get sick and what the best way to treat it is. So I like to volunteer for medical experiments. I think that as a scientist and a researcher, I kind of owe it to the world to be a subject as well as a researcher.
I'm hopeful that nothing bad comes of that and really good stuff comes of that. I think the chance to have really deep insights into human history and who we are and how we get sick and how we can get better can come from this. It's a good thing. We just need to be aware of the possible downsides.
HOBSON: Well, Larry Hunter, professor of bioinformatics at the Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, thank you so much for joining us.
HUNTER: It's been my pleasure.
HOBSON: And up next, not to be overlooked, the piccolo's role in "Stars And Stripes Forever." You're listening to HERE AND NOW. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Flying Dutchmen Game Notes
NCAA Regional at Augustana
Friday & Saturday, March 4-5, 2011
The Flying Dutchmen (22-6) are playing in the NCAA Division III tournament for a sixth year in-a-row and for the 22nd time in school history. Friday's first round game will be Hope's 50th all-time in the NCAA tournament. The Flying Dutchmen have an all-time record of 26-23 (.531) in NCAA games. Hope was the national runner-up in 1996 and 1998 and finished third in 2008.
Hope, with 22 tournament appearances, is one of only five Division III schools to appear in the NCAA playoffs more than 20 times. The leader is Wittenberg (25).
Hope has the distinction of having both its men's and women's teams in the NCAA tournament for a sixth consecutive year. No other Division III program can match that. The Flying Dutch are hosting a women's Regional this weekend.
The Flying Dutchmen gained the NCAA automatic berth of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) by defeating rival Calvin in the league tournament championship game, 72-67. Hope was also the regular season MIAA champion.
Hope is enjoying a school-record sixth straight 20-win season and the 20th in school history. The Flying Dutchmen during the current six-year streak are 146-34 (81%). The tradition-rich Hope program came into the 2010 season (its 106th in school history) ranked among the most successful in all of Division III -- #5 by winning percentage (1450-720, .668) and #6 by victories (currently 1,476 entering the NCAA tournament).
Hope versus Regional Field: Hope has never played either Hanover or Webster. In their only meeting with Augustana, the Flying Dutchmen lost to the Vikings 80-64 at Hope's Russ DeVette Holiday Classic in 2004.
Matt Neil is in his first season as Hope's head coach. He has had an association with Flying Dutchmen basketball dating back to the 1980s when he was an All-MIAA player, including league MVP in 1982. He served as the program's junior varsity coach for nine years (1985-1994) and was a varsity assistant coach under now retired coach Glenn Van Wieren from 1995-2010.
Coach Matt Neil has two sons in the Hope basketball program, junior Logan who plays on the varsity and freshman Grant who played junior varsity. Logan Neil this past fall was voted the most valuable soccer player in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). He ranked among the top Division III goalkeepers, allowing just 16 goals over 21 games as the Flying Dutchmen were league co-champions and advanced to the NCAA championships.
The season got off to an inauspicious start with the Flying Dutchmen losing four of their first six games and their league opener to rival Calvin. The team rallied and ran away with the league race, finishing three games ahead of the field highlighted by winning all of their road conference games. They climaxed the run to the NCAA championships by defeating rival Calvin 72-67 in the league tournament title game before a DeVos Fieldhouse record crowd (3,665). A perennial Division III leader in home attendance, the Flying Dutchmen averaged 2,818 fans over 14 home dates this season.
Senior Will Bowser (Midland, Mich./Dow HS) was voted to the All-MIAA first team while junior David Krombeen (Grandville, Mich./Grandville HS) received All-MIAA second team recognition. Averaging 18.3 points per game, Bowser has become the 10th Hope men's player to surpass 500 points in a season (currently 513). On January 26th he made Hope history by scoring a home-floor record 46 points against Kalamazoo in overtime. Krombeen currently ranks third in Division III for steals (3.3 per game/92 total) and is among the national leaders in assists (#51 at 5.0 per game) and assist-to-turnover ratio (#32 at 2.39).
Seniors Will Bowser (Midland, Mich./Dow HS) and Ty Tanis (Jenison, Mich./Jenison HS) are appearing in their fourth consecutive NCAA tournament. Only ten other players in Hope men's basketball history have had that opportunity -- Chip Henry and John Klunder, 1981-85; Justin George, 1986-90; Eric Elliott, 1987-91; Colly Carlson, Bart Verhulst and Wade Gugino, 1988-92; Joel Holstege and Kris Merritt, 1994-98; and Jesse Reimink, 2005-09. (Source: Holland Sentinel)
Sophomore Nate Snuggerud (Zeeland, Mich./Zeeland East HS) had five double-double performances this season, including three of the last six games.
2010-11 Stat Check: Senior Adam Dickerson (Muskegon, Mich./Mona Shores) has the sixth best single season field goal shooting percentage (.620) in Hope history. The all-time leader is Matt Strong at .703 in 1987-88...Logan Neil (Holland, Mich./West Ottawa HS) has the second best single season free throw percentage (.885/54-of-61) in Hope history. The all-time leader is Eric Elliott at .888 in 1989-90.... David Krombeen (Grandville, Mich/Grandville HS) has the fourth best single season assists total (141) and third best steals total (80) in Hope history. Joel Holstege is the single season leader in both assists (179) and steals (101), both in 1997-98.


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Sunday, January 29, 2012
SPSP 2012: Poster Highlights
Posted by Juli
Saturday, January 28, 2012
SPSP 2012: Social Relationships Round-up
Posted by Amie
Here at SPSP 2012 I've been enjoying the sunny, warm weather, eating more than I should and sleeping less, and gathering interesting tidbits of information about social relationships from across the talks and posters that I've seen. Here are a few of the findings that stood out to me:
SPSP 2012: How does culture change over time?
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Friday, January 27, 2012
SPSP 2012: Watchdogs, Witch-hunts, and What to do about False-Positive Findings
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
SPSP 2012: Oxytocin, Threat, and the "Mama Bear Effect"
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"Oxytocin may be critically involved in both ethnocentrism and parochial altruism."-Carsten de Dreu, University of Amsterdam
Long called the "Love Hormone," the hormone oxytocin has been implicated for more than a decade in such prosocial activities as empathy, trust, and generosity (with both human and animal models). At the social neuroendocrinology pre-conference at this year's SPSP conference, some influential researchers in the field of social psychology laid out why oxytocin might also have another side that is less fuzzy, and more defensive.
Monday, January 23, 2012
SPSP Conference: Where social and personality psychologists come to gather
Posted by Amie
|Sunny San Diego
This annual conference is a bit of a whirlwind but its a chance to hear about recent research in the field, catch up with old friends, network with new ones, and share your own research findings. Although this conference focuses on social and personality psychology, the talks are still on a wide variety of topics. For example, here are a few random symposia titles selected from the schedule:
- "Moral Ironies"
- "Every Rose has its Thorns: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Relationships"
- "Menstrual Cycle Effects on Women's Mate Preferences? Critical Perspectives"
- "'A Christian Nation' Facing the 21st Century: How Religion Shapes Modern America, and its Role in a Changing Society"
- "The Consequences of Being Low on the Totem Pole: Deprivation, Status, and Resource Choices"
- "Latino Culture and the Shaping of Social and Personality Processes"
- "Money as a Motivator: From Brain to Behavior"
|A glance at an SPSP Poster Session
So why am I telling you all of this, besides to invoke a bit of sympathy for how tired we will all be by Sunday morning? To let you know that its not going to be a normal week here at Psych Your Mind. We've decided to forgo our usual posts this week in order to do a semi "live-blogging" from the SPSP conference. We are not entirely sure what this will look like, but likely it will end up being each of us posting one or two brief write-ups summarizing the talks we heard that day, highlighting interesting or favorite findings, or merely complaining about the sheer enormity of the entire event (okay, less likely to be that last one, I'll save that for the personal blog). We may also be tweeting one-liners if we hear an interesting tidbit or attend a particularly cutting-edge talk that we just can't wait to tell the world about. So keep checking back with us here at PYM all weekend long (starting Thursday)!
If you'd like to find out more about the conference, you can go to the website here or check out their schedule here.
Any questions about the SPSP Conference? Any particular talks or topics you want us to blog about? Perhaps some words of comfort?
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Do Positive Emotions Shape Our Health?
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This post continues our tradition of guest blogs on Psych-Your-Mind! Here, Elizabeth Hopper-- graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara-- discusses the possibility that positive emotions might matter a lot for your health. Read on!
You may have heard that negative emotions can have an impact on your health: for example, you may have been told that people who are prone to becoming stressed or hostile have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. But what about positive emotions? Are positive emotions simply a nice experience to have, or can they actually serve to protect your health? In today's post, I'll discuss some of the recent findings on positive emotions and health, and discuss how positive emotions might help to lower your risk of heart disease.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Is Graduate School a Ponzi Scheme?
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this article ran in the Economist. In the article, the author takes the point of view that the pursuit of a PhD degree is a waste of time. Whether or not you agree with this perspective, it is important to consider the points being made. If you are, or have been, a graduate student, you probably learned much of this during your time in graduate school.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Friday Fun: Five Surprising Findings from 2011
Posted by Juli
Monday, January 9, 2012
Psychology says couples who play together stay together
Posted by Amie
To be completely correct, psychological research suggests that couples who play together feel closer, experience more positive emotions, and as a result are happier together, but that doesn't have the same ring does it?
|This couple knows how to keep it exciting
If boredom, is the silent relationship killer, novel and arousing activities seem to be the powerful antidote. Art Aron and colleagues have found that couples who engage in more novel and arousing activities together are happier in their relationships. And these results aren't just correlational – Aron actually had couples come into the lab and engage in exciting or mundane tasks. Couples in the exciting condition got strapped together with Velcro and had to crawl their way through an obstacle course while holding a pillow between them. The explanation of the mundane activity might put you to sleep. Couples who got to take part in the Velcro obstacle course reported feeling happier in their relationships than couples who took part in the mundane activity or no activity at all. Why does participation in a novel and arousing obstacle course lead to a happier relationship?
Friday, January 6, 2012
Friday Fun: Michael's Favorite Posts of 2011
Posted by Unknown
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
How to trick yourself into keeping your New Year's Resolution
Posted by Juli
Monday, January 2, 2012
The Difficulties of Scientific Writing (An Update)
Posted by Unknown
|Writing is so hard!
I look back on this bit of writing with equal parts pride (the Observer goes out to all APS members) and embarrassment (here I was, early in my career, trying to tell people how to write). Anyway, as we are starting the New Year, I thought it might be fitting to take another look at this piece and give my new perspective on scientific writing, now that I've had a bit more experience. Here goes nothing!
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Katie Holmes has a gal pal
What a regular week for good ol' ordinary human lady, Katie Holmes! First, she went to a basketball game, with a mysterious yet regular looking YET attractive man (it turned out to be her agent). She seemed to enjoy herself, she made expressions, ingested diet coke, and stuck her tongue out and said "ahhhhh", you know, all the normal basketball stuff. Well now it seems she's become so normal that she's even got her very own gal pal. Not just any gal pal though -- she's scored the universe's favourite best friend, Judy Greer.
The pair were snapped walking around New York together. They're both kind of looking a mess, like maybe they just did yoga, or maybe they just don't give a f*ck because it's the end of winter and everyone is disgusting right now.
Either way, it looks like they're having genuine fun, the kind of fun you have with the people you're close enough to talk sh-t with. Who do you think they're laughing at? I imagine something like this "But Judy, how small was Bradley Cooper's d***?" "Let's just say they should have called that movie the Hung-UNDER, okaaaay!"
Kidding aside, I know Katie seems like a total Hollywood freak but I should add an anecdote about an experience I had that suggests otherwise. I was recently in the Acne store in Soho when Katie walked in. She was tall, gorgeous and completely lovely with the sales people. She even made a joke about not needing to pick anything up for a man!
There's no real reason for her to be out in the world shopping alone. I'm sure Acne would gladly bring the store to her. So you have to believe that she really is enjoying her independence in NY. Now if she can just figure out the whole "work" situation…
Also attached - Katie on her own in flats and stripes today.
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The Saints' offense is getting overlooked in the team's 2013 revival, as most focus on Rob Ryan and the defense. But the reunited pairing leading a revitalized attack, the symbiotic coach and quarterback, are having just as much of an impact
"I don't think it will ever go away. Just that little chip. It's not anger or resentment or anything like that. But it's a little chip."
—Drew Brees, New Orleans quarterback, on the leftover feeling from the Saints' bounty suspensions of 2012.
There's another game this weekend. Happens before nightfall in Denver, and should be over an hour before Peyton Manning tries to elude Tamba Hali in the Colorado chill. It's Colin Kaepernick's third start in the Superdome in the last 51 weeks. He beat the Saints there last November, lost to the Ravens there in the Super Bowl and now faces a really different New Orleans team there Sunday afternoon.
So much is at stake in this game. The Saints, 7-2, need to win to hold off the hard-charging 6-3 Panthers; Carolina and New Orleans play twice in December. San Francisco, 6-3, is in danger of fading away in the NFC West race. The Niners already trail Seattle by two games, and a loss this week would likely relegate them to the fifth or sixth playoff seed at best.
To me, the key players in this game are Sean Payton and Drew Brees, and I want to write a little about them today. Last week against Dallas, I saw the Saints look like carbon copies of their 2009 Super Bowl selves, or their similarly explosive 2011 selves on offense, maybe even better because the running game has come to life. (That may be because of the major hits Dallas' interior has taken in recent weeks. We'll see Sunday.) But check out how Brees has fared over the past three seasons, keeping in mind the middle season was the one minus Payton for his bounty-related suspension:
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Obviously, Payton's impact on Brees' game is significant. You can see the conversations they have on the sidelines during games—the respect, the exchange of important information. Brees is better with him, and the quarterback thinks it's for subtle reasons.
"Great attention to detail," Brees told me this week. "Something I've noticed this year: Sean has always been a great teacher, a great communicator, a great storyteller, a great motivator. I think it's one of his great strengths, communicating a message to the team in just the right time and in just the right way. But I'd say this year, more than ever, Sean makes sure nothing goes unsaid or undone. If there's a message, or something happens during practice … And it might not be football-related. It might just be about life or something like that. He'll just break into a story or an anecdote in the middle of a team meeting. He's just feeling like, I've got this group of men, and even though they're adults, they're grown up and they have their own families and their own lives and this and that, that there are these words of wisdom that I want to impart on them. He has a way to captivate the whole room and get you locked in, and you leave feeling like you've gained some wisdom that day. You were made a better person that day for having heard that message. So I'd say he's certainly making sure that nothing is going undone or unsaid, and if there's a problem, we're going to fix it."
Rob Ryan and his attacking defense has helped, obviously. But you get the feeling the Brees-Payton reunion has been the real spark in New Orleans. Clearly they're going to have play better on the road (they scored just 47 points in losses at the Patriots and Jets, and Brees is quick to point out they're just 2-2 in their last four games). It's why this game is so important—falling another game behind Seattle in the home-field race would be damaging. Brees and his mentor understand.
"He's been my coach for eight years, so obviously we have a great rapport," Brees said on The MMQB Podcast with Peter King this week (which you can listen to below). "We spend so much time during the week in communication about our game plan, about our personnel, about the defense we're going up against—how we're going to attack it, where our matchups are, what he's thinking in different situations in regards to play-calling. It makes gameday a lot of fun, when you can anticipate what calls are coming in or what he's thinking and that kind of thing. That's when you know you're clicking. But Coach Payton has been a great teacher and mentor for me, ever since I've been here. So of course, I would miss him in his absence last year … But I think, honestly, the biggest difference between last year and this year is last year we couldn't catch a break. This year, we've been able to catch a few breaks and we're just executing better. We're playing better, on both sides of the ball."
The Niners, 31-21 winners in the Dome last November, will test that on Sunday.
Listen to the podcast, featuring Brees:
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About Last Night …
Indianapolis 30, Tennessee 27. Stating The Obvious Dept.: The Colts are going to pay for whatever the heck goes wrong with them early in games. They've trailed by 18, 38 and 14 in their last three outings, and Andrew Luck has saved them from losses twice out of the three. He won't save them that many times in January. I would recommend on the mini-bye weekend that Chuck Pagano and friends work on that maddening little habit.
Player You Need To Know This Weekend
Zane Beadles, left guard, Denver (No. 68). Strange days in Denver. This is one of the biggest weekends of football this season, and one of the most important players playing is Beadles, the fairly nondescript guard who is having a terrible season for the Broncos. As Pro Football Focus notes, Beadles has allowed a scary 30 quarterbacks hits or significant pressures in 10 games; for comparison, right guard Louis Vasquez has allowed four. With Manning nursing the proverbial lower body injuries (read: high and regular ankle sprains), keep an eagle eye on Beadles' play at left guard. This weekend, a guard could materially affect the outcome of a very big game, particularly with an impact player like Kansas City tackle Dontari Poe over him at least part of the game.
Sound Bite of the Week
"They're not going to Wednesday games already, are they?"
—Denver quarterback Peyton Manning, asked on Wednesday if he could play were the Chiefs-Broncos game set for Wednesday instead of Sunday.
Ten Things I'll Be Watching For This Weekend
1. The Jet seesaw. New York's 5-4. Won in games 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. Lost in games 2, 4, 6, 8. This is game 10. Uh-oh. Ed Reed, can you adjust some attitudes? (Rex Ryan's 7-2 against the Bills, by the way.)
2. The battle of the punters. What, you thought Denver-Kansas City was big because of, well, the game? No way. It's the punting brothers show. Denver's Britton Colquitt, 11th in the league in net punting, versus KC's Dustin Colquitt, first in inside-the-20 punts. "The Colquitt-Colquitt thing can be a big distraction in the locker room," Britton said this week. He was smiling, people.
3. Be careful with that Andy Reid bye stat. Yes, the Chiefs are coming off the bye, and yes, Reid is 13-1 as a head coach in games after the bye. But last year, the Eagles came off their bye a very competitive 3-3, and they went to Atlanta and got crushed 30-17. Went 1-9 after the bye. So go easy on the miracle-worker-after-the-bye angle this week, everybody.
4. Percy Harvin's debut. Perfect timing for his first game of the season after summer hip surgery. It's against his former team, the Vikings. It's at home, CenturyLink Field. It's a perfect time for the Seahawks to ease him back into form with, say, 20 snaps against a suspect secondary, Minnesota's. And the Seahawks have a bye next week—the well-loved late-season bye, so Harvin can then be fresh for the five-game December stretch run to home-field for the NFC playoffs.
5. Welcome back, Kubiak. The Raiders come to Houston, and if the combination of playing for a wounded coach (Gary Kubiak suffered a small stroke on the sidelines 12 days ago) and the Oakland welcome-mat isn't enough for the Texans to end a seven-game losing streak, well, I don't know what would be.
6. Florida plays out the string—before Thanksgiving. Good news—or is it?—for fans of the three Florida teams: All are home Sunday afternoon: Arizona at Jacksonville, Atlanta at Tampa Bay, San Diego at Miami. Combined Jags-Bucs-Dolphins record: 6-21.
7. The cozy NFC East. If the Giants can beat Scott Tolzien (is that a serious question?) and RG3 can best Nick Foles (a dubious proposition), this division will be two things: ridiculously mediocre and anyone's playoff berth. One team (Dallas) would be 5-5, one (Philly) would be 5-6, and the other two would be 4-6. Checking the slate down the stretch, I like Philly to win it and be the NFC's fourth playoff seed, win or lose against Washington.
8. The first Brady-Cam meeting. And maybe the last, seeing that the next one would have to be in a Super Bowl or in 2017, when the AFC East and NFC South play again. Brady will be 40 then. The game is in Charlotte Monday night, and Brady needs to have excellent peripheral vision. Defensive ends Charles Johnson and Greg Hardy are on pace to combine for 24 sacks this year.
9. Let's not get too excited about Josh McCown. Anyone who, in three games with playoff implications, can put up a 103.2 rating with four touchdowns and no picks must be taken very seriously, and the Ravens will do that when facing McCown Sunday at a rain-soaked Soldier Field. And he may resuscitate his career to the point where a team wants him to be a starter in 2014. But let's stop, for the time being, with the advocacy of a 34-year-old career backup (or unemployed) to replace Jay Cutler.
10. And let's not call Cleveland over Cincinnati an upset.


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Major Section: RULE-CLASSES
See rule-classes for a general discussion of rule classes and
how they are used to build rules from formulas. An example
corollary formula from which a
:congruence rule might be built is:
Example: (implies (set-equal x y) (iff (memb e x) (memb e y))).Also see defcong and see equivalence.
General Form: (implies (equiv1 xk xk-equiv) (equiv2 (fn x1... xk ...xn) (fn x1... xk-equiv ...xn)))where
equiv1 and
equiv2 are known equivalence relations,
fn is an
n-ary function symbol and the
xi and
xk-equiv are all distinct
variables. The effect of such a rule is to record that the
equiv2-equivalence of
fn-expressions can be maintained if, while
rewriting the
kth argument position,
equiv1-equivalence is
maintained. See equivalence for a general discussion of the
issues. We say that
equiv2, above, is the ``outside equivalence''
in the rule and
equiv1 is the ``inside equivalence for the
The macro form
(defcong equiv1 equiv2 (fn x1 ... x1) k) is an
abbreviation for a
defthm of rule-class
:congruence that attempts to
establish that
equiv2 is maintained by maintaining
equiv1 in
kth argument. The
defcong macro automatically generates the general
formula shown above. See defcong.
memb example above tells us that
(memb e x) is propositionally
equivalent to
(memb e y), provided
x and
y are
set-equal. The
outside equivalence is
iff and the inside equivalence for the second
argument is
set-equal. If we see a
memb expression in a
propositional context, e.g., as a literal of a clause or test of an
if (but not, for example, as an argument to
cons), we can rewrite
its second argument maintaining
set-equality. For example, a rule
stating the commutativity of
append (modulo set-equality) could be
applied in this context. Since equality is a refinement of all
equivalence relations, all equality rules are always available.
See refinement.
All known
:congruence rules about a given outside equivalence and
can be used independently. That is, consider two
:congruence rules
with the same outside equivalence,
equiv, and about the same
fn. Suppose one says that
equiv1 is the inside equivalence
for the first argument and the other says
equiv2 is the inside
equivalence for the second argument. Then
(fn a b) is
(fn a' b') provided
a is
equiv1 to
a' and
b is
b'. This is an easy consequence of the transitivity of
equiv. It permits you to think independently about the inside
Furthermore, it is possible that more than one inside equivalence
for a given argument slot will maintain a given outside equivalence.
For example,
(length a) is equal to
(length a') if
a and
a' are
related either by
list-equal or by
string-equal. You may prove two
(or more)
:congruence rules for the same slot of a function. The
result is that the system uses a new, ``generated'' equivalence
relation for that slot with the result that rules of both (or all)
kinds are available while rewriting.
:Congruence rules can be disabled. For example, if you have two
different inside equivalences for a given argument position and you
find that the
rewrite rules for one are unexpectedly preventing the
application of the desired rule, you can disable the rule that
introduced the unwanted inside equivalence.
More will be written about this as we develop the techniques.


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There is a belief among some -- perhaps out of fear, or prudence -- that children today should study Mandarin Chinese as their second language. If China is going to rule the world in a few decades, at least my kid will be able to communicate.
That's an interesting idea, but the reality is that no matter who is ruling the world, if your kids don't live in China, their lives are much more likely to involve software than speaking Chinese.
So make sure the second language they study is code. Then their third language can be anything you'd like -- Mandarin, Spanish, Latin, French, whatever.
That's not to say that everyone should become a computer scientist -- that's not practical. But it's a good idea for everyone to at least understand how computers and software work, and how to write rudimentary code. It can be as simple as HTML, or as complex as C -- that part is up to the individual, and the actual languages will change every so often. But a little code is good for everyone.
Why? What's the point?
Think about how profoundly software has changed industries like, say, communication. The phone in your pocket even ten years ago was lucky to have a black-and-white display with a built-in game like "Snake". A decade later, your iPhone screen has more pixels than your old TV, thousands of software applications are a click away, and you can message someone across the world in a second.
Apply that change to every industry, from education -- our focus today -- to medicine, construction, the arts, etc. And we morph again, from a manufacturing economy to a service economy to a software economy. Again, not everyone will be writing code. But many more people will be ordering it, writing it, managing it, and interacting with it. It makes sense to understand it and to be able to create at least a little.
Personally, I don't regret spending seven years of my life learning French -- it's cool to be able to say hello and order a croissant in Paris in the local language, before the waiter responds in perfect English.
But I do wish I'd spent at least some of that time instead learning how to write computer software.
As it is, I managed to self-teach myself HTML in the mid-90s, a skill I use every day. But I wish there was a stronger focus on computer engineering in my elementary and high school curriculum, even at the expense of a foreign language.
That's not to say that people shouldn't be able to learn Chinese. Various reports -- the Economist, the New York Times -- have traced the growth of Chinese language programs in American schools. But in reality, it's not all that practical. See this point-counterpoint from BusinessWeek.
Some of our future will surely involve doing business with Chinese corporations and people. But much more of it will involve science, software, mathematics, and engineering. Software is the real future. So teach your child how to code first -- and how to speak Chinese second.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Wednesday evening will mark the second game played under the lights in Bush Stadium this season, as the Golden Eagles will welcome in-state, SEC rival the Volunteers of Tennessee in the 6 p.m. nightcap.
Tech is coming off of a rough start to Morehead State in this past weekend's series; the Golden Eagles dropped two straight to the Eagles after Tristan Archer's complete game win with 10 strikeouts in game one of the series. The 1-2 series leaves Tech at 6-6 in the Ohio Valley Conference and 17-21 overall.
The Vols meanwhile are also coming off of two losses, going 1-2 against Georgia in the weekend series to post a 22-17 overall record, 5-13 in the SEC headed into Wednesday's game.
Casanova Donaldson currently maintains a .336 mark at the plate to lead the Golden Eagles with 50 hits in 149 at-bats in 38 games played. He's followed by Evan Frazier with his .330 stand in 28 games, while veteran Chad Oberacker has brought in 37 runs for Tech with a .303 at the plate to fuel the scoring.
Tennessee is led by Khayyan Norfork in the batter's box with a .367 average, having notched 54 hits in 147 at-bats this season and bringing in 32 RBI for the Vols. Zach Osborne follows close behind with a .360 with 17 RBI on the year.
Southpaw T.J. Thornton will take the hill first on Wednesday evening, looking to improve upon his 1-0 record in his second start of the year. Thornton has a 2.40 ERA on the season, having allowed four Earned runs on fourteen hits in 15 innings of work.
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by Charles Todd
Paris, 1914. Lady Elspeth Douglas is visiting friends when the shadow of war falls across Europe. As her French fiancé races to rejoin his unit, she tries to reach England, only to be trapped on the French coast amid refugees and wounded men. Elspeth pitches in to help wounded soldiers, getting closer and closer to the Front, soon finding herself in danger as enemy shells fall. Captain Peter Gilchrist comes to her rescue, pulling her away from the battle and to safety. But before they can properly say goodbye, they are separated.
In London, Elspeth is haunted by all she's witnessed, and she can't forget the gallant man who saved her. Without her guardian's consent, she trains as a nurse. She's determined to return to France to do her part, and to find the man she has no right to love. Then everything goes wrong. In this world of uncertainty, can love survive, or will Elspeth's troubled heart become another casualty of this terrible war?