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Many journalists, pundits and politicians have offered opinions about whether Mitt Romney's experience at Bain Capital is an asset in his bid to become the next President of the United States. Joe Klein, who writes for Time magazine, may have the most misguided analysis of all. This weekend he was a guest on the Chris Matthews show and offered this assessment of private equity and profit maximization:
You know, it's true that it's kind of cheesy to go after Romney because some of these companies that he tried to change, you know, failed and jobs were lost. The real argument against Romney and that form of capitalism is that it was all about short-term. It was all about maximizing shareholder value. And what the president's argument could be and should be is, `I'm not about short-term. I'm about long-term, and it's going to take us a while to get out of this mess.'
Maximizing shareholder value is about the short-term? Does Mr. Klein understand that the market value of a company's equity depends on the expectation of future earnings? Has he paid any attention to the debate about the price of Facebook shares in the wake of its IPO? If the shareholder value of a company only depends on the short-term, why is there so much disagreement and uncertainty about the appropriate stock price for Facebook? The uncertainty arises because the future profitability of the company is unknown. Future profits depend on how well Facebook will be able to sell advertising to its hundreds of millions of users, and how that may change as more Facebook users access the site through their smart phones.
Joe Klein knows little about the way private companies or the economy works. Increasing the shareholder value of a company requires changing expectations about the future stream of profits from a company. It is all about the long term.
Klein's ideal Presidential candidate, other than Barack Obama, may well be the Kevin Kline character from the movie Dave. Dave was the manager of a temporary help agency before filling in for the President in the 1993 movie. Helping people find jobs sounds like the ideal experience for the Oval Office for movie-goers and voters who believe that Presidents create jobs. Dave's last act as President was to initiate "a program to try to find a decent job for every American who wants one" because "if you've ever seen the look on someone's face the day they get a job — I've had some personal experience with this – – they look like they could fly." Hollywood wouldn't support a President that said "I've seen the look on investors' faces the day they realized they had turned around a company and created a lot of wealth." But, as Brit Hume of Fox News said over the weekend "the business of making a profit has jobs as a by-product. It's not as if there's some favorite industry out there called Jobs R Us, which is in business for the purpose of creating jobs."
The President and the Congress establish and enforce the laws, taxes and regulations that impact the creation of wealth and consequently the creation of jobs. Running a business is not the same as governing, but private sector experience helps one understand the costs and benefits of government intervention in markets. President Obama believes that the Presidency is different than running a private company because maximizing profits is "not always going to be good for communities or businesses or workers." The President also said: "When you're president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm … then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot."
Voters should consider how each candidate proposes to change taxes and regulations to encourage more wealth and job creation and provide equal opportunity and a fair shot for everyone. Mischaracterizing the economic role of private equity firms and trying to count the number of jobs that were created or lost as Bain invested in start-ups or troubled companies is largely a waste of time. The Romney campaign believed that promoting Bain as a job creator would ameliorate the view that their candidate is an out-of-touch rich guy. The Obama campaign continues to push this unimportant issue and their best explanation seems to be that Romney was the first to mention job creation at Bain. Let's hope that both campaigns get off this topic and turn to the important economic policy issues facing our country.


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I would like to set up some way of autmatically farming wool from sheep in Minecraft. I have a farm, but unfortunately, sheep do not shed wool when they die. So all I get is leather, feathers and eggs. There was a suggestion involving pressure plates, dispensers and snowballs, but there is no more snow in beta. Does anyone know if sheep shed wool when they are damaged by cacti?
Any other suggestion on how to pull this off?
[I know that farming spiders is an alternative. But I would really prefer to use sheep.]
Does anyone know how far away you may walk from a mob before it despawns?

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I like learning about history. I think it's just fascinating. I also like to imagine. And these days my imagination keeps taking me to two different eras in history: one, quite some time ago, and the other, to the era of my grandparents.
The first period in history that my mind keeps pondering begins in 1066, in England. Yes, to the Battle of Hastings. It was this battle in which the French Normans defeated the English, and the Normans began to rule England. The Norman aristocracy replaced the English aristocracy and French became the language of the elite. For 300 years, English, as a language, completely disappeared from the written record. All business and legal contracts were in Latin or French. The royalty, nobility, lawyers, professors, merchants, and students spoke French and read and wrote Latin. Anyone who had any sort of power knew these two languages. But guess what? We are still speaking English today! (Obviously). And in fact, English is now Globish, a language spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world, either as a native language, a second language, a language used for their profession, or as some form of pidgin spoken in order to conduct trade and other affairs with neighboring tribes.
English is what it is today not because of the rich and powerful of the Middle Ages, because they were all speaking French, but because the nobody peasants spoke English to their children.
The second place and time that I ponder is Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1940's. Although Poland, as a country, disappeared from the maps and the Nazis embarked on a radical campaign to eradicate the Polish culture, the Polish culture did, in fact, survive. Why? Because simple Polish housewives spoke Polish to their children, sang them Polish lullabies, and told them Polish stories. They simply lived the Polish culture in their homes. And others, with great danger to themselves, defied the Nazi laws and met in homes to play Chopin and read Polish literature.
What do these historical events have to do with our present time, and what do they have to do with education? I will make that connection in a moment. To fast forward to the present, those who make their professions in the educational field often deal with the frustration of having to implement techniques and protocols that have been enacted in a top-down fashion by school boards, state governments, and even the federal government, sometimes by people who have not set foot in a classroom in decades.
One glaring example of this is the standardized testing movement. Though school funding, teacher jobs, and even student advancement rides on these tests, research has failed to show that these tests are a good measure of what students actually know, or that they accurately predict future success. Many decry the deep roots the testing industry has in its profitability for the test makers. John Taylor Gatto, author and former New York state Teacher of the Year, writes:
The frequent ceremonies of useless testing–preparation, administration, recovery–convert forced schooling into a travesty of what education should be; they drain hundreds of millions of days yearly from what might otherwise be productive pursuits; they divert tens of billions of cash resources into private pockets. The next effect of standardized testing is to reduce our national wealth in future generations, by suffocating imagination and intellect, while enhancing wealth for a few in the present. This as a byproduct of "scientifically" ranking the tested so they can be, supposedly, classified efficiently as human resources.
Because Gatto feels that standardized tests pervert education he started the Bartleby Project that encourages students to peacefully refuse to take part in preparing for or taking the tests. You can read his full statement on the Bartelby Project here.
Given the high place of standardized tests in the education today, what can one classroom teacher do to preserve the integrity of education for her students? Or what can a simple parent do to improve education for children across the country, or even in his own city for that matter?
To answer such questions we must recount the examples from history I shared at the beginning of this post. Firstly, I think these examples tell us that, when necessary, be a little subversive (or sometimes a lot subversive). John Taylor Gatto has often written about breaking the rules, bending the rules, and finding ways around the rules in order to foster authentic learning in his students.
The second thing we learn from these examples, is that while it is great to work for change on a grand scale, it's important to remember that when it comes to the future, those of us who spend our days with children have a greater influence over that future than the superintendents, the rich and powerful test-makers, the politicians, and the policy-makers. So have some hope. And try to remember the potential of each simple, every-day interaction with a child.
About me: I subversively spend my days as a stay-at-home mom. I bake bread, clean our abode, play with the English language, follow my passions, and help my children discover and follow theirs.–Oh yeah! And I am also the administrator of the Bartleby Project Facebook page, and I manage the @ProjectBartleby Twitter account. I also maintain my personal blog at myfemininemind.com


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The Guardian reports that the British Library revealed it has made its vast archive of world and traditional music available to everyone, free of charge, online.
That amounts to roughly 28,000 recordings and, although no one has yet sat down and formally timed it, about 2,000 hours of singing, speaking, yelling, chanting, blowing, banging, tinkling and many other verbs associated with what is a uniquely rich sound archive.
The recordings go back more than 100 years, with the earliest recordings being the wax cylinders on which British anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon recorded Aboriginal singing on his trip to the Torres Strait islands off Australia in 1898.
What an extraordinary record and resource for current and future generations. Amazingly, much of the British archive was obtained by the library in 2000-01 in a lottery-funded project!!


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Under the 2007 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stipulates that gasoline and diesel refiners must blend a certain amount of "renewable fuel" into their products or face penalties.
The vast majority of the biofuel being produced now is corn-derived ethanol, on which the RFS places a cap of 15 billion gallons by 2015. So to satisfy the federal mandate that 36 billion gallons of biofuel be blended into the overall supply by 2022, the U.S. biofuels industry will have to produce a substantial amount of other types of biofuels—especially cellulosic ethanol, which can be made from wood chips and grasses.
But in 2007, Congress vastly overestimated the government's ability to create a market for cellulosic biofuels, which remain much more expensive to produce than corn ethanol. There was no commercial production of cellulosic fuel in 2010 or 2011—even though the 2007 law originally called for 100 million and 250 million gallons, respectively, for those years (the requirements were subsequently scaled back to around 6.5 million gallons for each year). The chart above shows the actual biofuel production, so far, compared to future mandates.
via U.S. Will Be Hard-Pressed to Meet Its Biofuel Mandates – Technology Review.
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Broncos on Thursday, September 5. Coverage of NFL Kickoff
2013 Begins at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC
New York Giants Host Dallas Cowboys on Debut of Sunday
Night Football on September 8. Coverage Begins with
Football Night In America at 7 p.m. ET on NBC
Debut of Carrie Underwood's "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night"
NBC Sports Live Extra to Live Stream All Sunday Night Football Games
NFL Turning Point Season Premiere on Wednesday,
September 11 at 10 p.m. ET on NBCSN
Pro Football Talk with Mike Florio
Airs Weeknights at 5:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN
Stamford, Conn. – August 29, 2013 – NBC Sports Group will surround the 2013 NFL season, which kicks off one week from today on NBC, with multi-platform coverage across its unprecedented portfolio of assets. NFL coverage will include live game presentation on NBC with Sunday Night Football, the No. 1 show in primetime TV; pre-game coverage on NBC with Football Night in America, the most watched pre-game show in sports; live streaming of Sunday Night Football for desktops and tablets on NBC Sports Live Extra; daily studio coverage on NBCSN with Pro Football Talk; weekly programming on NBCSN with Emmy Award-nominated NFL Turning Point; daily radio coverage on 339 NBC Sports Radio affiliates across the United States; local team coverage on 11 NBC Sports Regional Networks; comprehensive fantasy football coverage on NBCSN with Fantasy Football Live—Thursday Night!, and online through Rotoworld.com; and additional digital and social media content.
The NFL opens the regular season on Thursday, Sept. 5, with NFL Kickoff 2013 on NBC. Joe Flacco and the defending Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens travel to Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, Colo., to face Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos in a rematch of the 2012 AFC Divisional Playoff game. A pre-game concert will feature performances by Grammy Award-winning artist Keith Urban, from a specially constructed stage floating in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Coverage begins on NBC at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Sunday Night Football, the No. 1 primetime show on television, kicks off on Sunday, Sept. 8, when Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys host Eli Manning and the New York Giants from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET with Football Night in America, the most-watched pre-game show in sports.
Calling both games is seven-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), in his 28th season as the voice of the NFL's premier primetime package; 14-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who has won the Emmy for Outstanding Event Analyst in each of his four seasons in the Sunday Night Football booth; and Emmy Award-winning sideline reporter Michele Tafoya.
NBC's coverage of NFL Kickoff 2013 and Sunday Night Football is led by Emmy Award-winning producer Fred Gaudelli and Emmy Award-winning director Drew Esocoff. Sunday Night Football has won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Series for five consecutive years.
Country music superstar Carrie Underwood, will perform "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night", the opening theme for Sunday Night Football, on Sunday, Sept. 8 on NBC's first SNF broadcast of the 2013 NFL season. The opening theme will continue each week kicking off Sunday Night Football throughout the NFL season on NBC.
Football Night in America, the most-watched pre-game show in sports, is hosted by 25-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Costas, who will report from Sports Authority Field at Mile High, on Thursday, and AT&T Stadium, on Sunday. Costas will be joined on site by Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, and two-time Super Bowl winner Hines Ward.
Dan Patrick co-hosts Football Night from Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Thursday night, and from NBC's famed Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Sunday night. Patrick will be joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy, two-time Super Bowl winner Rodney Harrison, Peter King of Sports Illustrated, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk on NBCSN and NBCSports.com, and longtime NFL front office veteran and former NFL Executive of the Year Scott Pioli.
Michelle Beadle will host the concert portion of NFL Kickoff 2013 on NBC. As part of the NFL's Kickoff 2013 celebration, Big Machine Records recording artist and winner of Season 4 of NBC's The Voice Danielle Bradberry will sing the National Anthem live from Denver.
In addition to the weekly Sunday Night Football and Football Night in America broadcasts, NBC Sports Group's NFL coverage also includes digital content and social media extensions that are available online, as well as NFL-related shoulder programming available on NBCSN.
For the sixth consecutive season, the entire Sunday Night Football schedule will be streamed live online. NBC Sports Live Extra, NBC Sports Group's live streaming product for desktops and tablets, will stream all SNF games televised on NBC. The video stream will come directly from NBC's broadcast of SNF, and will include additional camera angles and interactive features.
NBC Sports Live Extra employs a full HD-quality player, which includes a draggable picture-in-picture feature for any of the online-only cameras, plus full DVR functionality allowing the user to pause, scroll back-and-forth, and review plays in slo-motion.
In addition, online coverage features in-game analysis from the Sunday Night Football and Football Night in America teams as well as fantasy tips from Rotoworld fantasy experts.
For desktops, NBC Sports Live Extra can be accessed at NBCSports.com/liveextra. The NBC Sports Live Extra app for tablets is available at the App Store for iPad and iPod touch, and on select tablet devices within Google Play.
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL ALL-ACCESS: For the third straight season, NBCSports.com is providing a destination for fans dedicated to behind-the-scenes content of Sunday Night Football. SNF All-Access includes exclusive photos and videos of the Sunday Night Football production, look-ins on SNF production meetings, Michele Tafoya "Ten With Tafoya" interviews with key NFL players, and a weekly notebook and conversations with SNF and FNIA talent.
Visit SNF All-Access at: http://snfallaccess.nbcsports.
- SNF ON FACEBOOK: Facebook.com/
SNFonNBC – Over 1 million LIKES strong, The Sunday Night Football Facebook page provides links, photos and videos exclusive to behind-the-scenes at SNF every week. The page aggregates all SNF-related content found within the NBC Sports digital network, including NBCSports.com, SNF All Access, ProFootballTalk.com, and Rotoworld.com.
- SNF ON TWITTER: twitter.com/SNFonNBC
– For the second year in a row, Michele Tafoya will be sharing both Twitter updates and live video tweets from @SNFonNBC on the sideline exclusively for the SNF social media platforms, providing fans extended real-time content from Michele's unique sideline perspective. Using tweets, pictures, vine videos and twidvids @SNFonNBC provides unique content with SNF talent, production crew and NFL players.In addition, each week @SNFonNBC will promote a guest player who will live tweet during the Sunday Night Football broadcast. On Thursday, Sept. 5, former Ravens C Matt Birk (@BirkMatt) will be the guest player. Birk was the starting Center for Baltimore's Super Bowl XLVII winning team. On Sunday, September 8, former Cowboys WR Drew Pearson (@DrewPearsonShow) will be the guest player. Pearson went into the Cowboys Ring of Honor in 2011. The tweets from the guest player will automatically be pulled into the SNF Extra Player.
- SNF ON INSTAGRAM: Going into its third season, Sunday Night Football gives the SNF fan a look at photos through the filters of Instagram. Fans get a look inside the production trucks, the locker rooms, on the field and around the city. Fans also have the opportunity to submit photos through Instagram using #SNF that will automatically be curated into a special Instagram tab on the Sunday Night Football Facebook page.
Beginning with the Sunday Night Football opener on Sept. 8, the Sunday Night Football bus will travel to all 17 SNF games, arriving in each city two or three days prior to each game. The bus will make stops at local landmarks and events in each market before making its way to the game site for a full Sunday at the stadium, giving fans the opportunity to interact with America's most-watched primetime television show.
The Sunday Night Football bus will incorporate exclusive activities and social media both inside and out. SNF's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts along with the #SNF hashtag will be displayed on the exterior. Once on the bus, fans and visitors can tweet and post photos of themselves in the broadcast positions occupied by Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth from a mock SNF studio.
Also, along for the ride will be four SNF "Fans of the Week" chosen based on their social media activity, team pride and SNF fandom. In each home market, the SNF "Fans of the Week" will be given a VIP experience that includes a trip on the bus and game tickets.
Fans who can't visit in person can "Follow The Bus" when it hits the road at NBCSports.com/FollowSNF, which will include an interactive map, a behind-the-scenes look at the Sunday Night Football crew and talent, plus content from the bus itself. Fans can also contribute to the map by uploading their own photos sharing and showing their SNF and team pride.
For the second consecutive season NBC Sports will present The Sunday Night Football, a custom made football from Wilson, which will travel with the SNF crew all season long. Fans of SNF on Facebook and Twitter will be able to keep up with The Sunday Night Football on the SNF Facebook page, follow its path through each city and recommend where it should visit while in town. In addition, fans can visit NBCSports.com/FollowSNF.
At the end of each SNF game, "The Sunday Night Football" will be signed by the player of the game. Photos, video and stories around The Sunday Night Football and its travels will live on Facebook, Twitter, and SNF All-Access.
The third season of Emmy-nominated NFL Turning Point, NBCSN's weekly show co-produced by NFL Films, will debut Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 10 p.m. ET and will be hosted by Football Night in America's Dan Patrick. The hour-long program will air throughout the NFL regular season and will focus on the crucial 'turning point' moment in several games for football fans each week by utilizing NFL Films' unmatched cinematography and sideline and on-field audio.
Pro Football Talk, NBCSN's daily NFL studio show co-hosted by Mike Florio and Erik Kuselias, airs at 5:30 p.m. ET every Monday through Friday. The show regularly features a roster of NBC Sports football commentators, including Rodney Harrison, Hines Ward, Doug Flutie, Ross Tucker, Peter King, and Scott Pioli.
In addition to deep diving on the most topical NFL stories of the day, Pro Football Talk provides all-encompassing coverage of the NFL, including the most current news and analysis, engaging features, thought-provoking debates, and interviews with a wide variety of NFL newsmakers.
Building off of Yahoo! Sports' popular Sunday live streaming show Fantasy Football Live, Fantasy Football Live on NBCSN is a live and on-demand, multi-platform, fantasy football program that airs at 6:30 p.m. ET on Thursday nights.
Fantasy Football Live on NBCSN combines the best fantasy football expertise from Yahoo! Sports and NBC Sports, including unique metrics from Yahoo! Sports' leading fantasy football platform, and full integration with NBC Sports' premier fantasy sports information site, Rotoworld.com.
A subsequent, digital-only version of Fantasy Football Live is available live from 7-7:30 p.m. ET, as well as through video-on-demand across web and through mobile devices on both Yahoo! Sports and NBCSports.com.
Hosted by NBC Sports' Erik Kuselias, Fantasy Football Live features a mix of Yahoo! Sports, NBC Sports, and Rotoworld fantasy experts, including NBC Sports' Shaun King, and Yahoo! Sports' Brad Evans and Brandon Funston. Yahoo! Sports' Melanie Collins will host the digital show. Rotoworld's Kay Adams will be a regular contributor for the show across both platforms.
NBC Sports Radio will surround the 2013 NFL season with daily coverage on 339 radio affiliates, highlighted by McNabb and Malone; an all-sports show that leverages the unique perspective of two former NFL quarterbacks, and Safety Blitz with Rodney Harrison; featuring three-time All Pro and two-time Super Bowl-winner Rodney Harrison.
NBC Sports Regional Networks, which serve top NFL markets such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and San Francisco, will surround the 2013 NFL season with in-depth news, analysis and original programming on the teams that matter most in more than 50 million U.S. households.
NEW "FreeD" TECHNOLOGY
NBC Sports and the Dallas Cowboys have partnered with Replay Technologies Inc. to provide a unique, new 360-degree "FreeD" look at red-zone plays for viewers watching NBC football telecasts and fans at each SNF game played at AT&T Stadium in 2013.
"FreeD" (free dimensional video) will debut during the Sept. 8 Sunday Night Football New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys opener. In addition, NBC Sports will use the system for the Oct. 5 Notre Dame-Arizona State game, and the Oct. 13 Redskins-Cowboys SNF game (in addition to any Cowboys home games flexed into primetime) at AT&T Stadium. Fans in the stadium will also see "FreeD" replays on the scoreboard at all home games, as well as on Cowboys local programming during the season.
The "FreeD" system will utilize 24 high-speed cameras mounted in the stadium — 12 in each red zone placed on both sides of the field from the 20-yard line to the goal line and in the back of each end zone — to provide replays of key red-zone plays from a 360-degree perspective, enabling fans to see the action seamlessly.
NBC selected six-time Grammy Award-winner and multi-platinum recording artist, Carrie Underwood, to perform "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night," the opening theme for primetime television's No. 1 program, Sunday Night Football on NBC. Country music superstar Underwood, the season-four winner of American Idol, makes her Sunday Night Football debut on Sunday, September 8 on NBC's first SNF broadcast of the 2013 NFL season. The opening theme will continue each week kicking off Sunday Night Football every Sunday night throughout the NFL season on NBC.
Thirteen NFL players, who have accounted for 55 Pro Bowl selections, six Super Bowl rings and four Super Bowl MVP trophies, will participate in the open with Underwood. Players include Arizona Cardinals WR Larry Fitzgerald, New Orleans TE Jimmy Graham, Detroit Lions WR Calvin Johnson, Indianapolis Colts QB Andrew Luck, New York Giants QB Eli Manning, Denver Broncos QB Peyton Manning, Green Bay Packers LB Clay Matthews, Philadelphia Eagles RB LeSean McCoy, Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, Baltimore Ravens LB Terrell Suggs, Dallas Cowboys DE DeMarcus Ware, Houston Texans DE J.J. Watt, San Francisco 49ers LB Patrick Willis.
Since winning American Idol and releasing her debut album in 2005, Underwood has sold over 15 million albums, and placed 18 No. 1 singles on the charts. "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" is set to the original Joan Jett song, "I Hate Myself for Loving You" and marks Underwood's first production with NBC Sports. From 2007-2012, the song was performed by music superstar Faith Hill and in 2006, the inaugural season of Sunday Night Football, Pink performed the open.
Seven-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels was honored Aug. 2 by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, with the prestigious Pete Rozelle Radio & Television Award. Presented annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the award recognizes long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football.
Michaels received the award during the annual Enshrinees Gold Jacket Dinner in Canton, Ohio.
The Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame recently recognized Michaels for his "excellence and lifetime achievement", and announced that he will be a member of their 2013 Hall of Fame Class. Michaels will be inducted during a ceremony in New York in December.
For a full bio on Michaels, click here: http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.
In 2012-13 Sunday Night Football on NBC finished the regular television season as the No. 1 show in primetime (Viewers 2+ and all key adult and male demos), based on Nielsen live + same day data and all 19 SNF telecasts. 2012-13 was the second straight television season, and only the second time on record, that a sports series has been the most-watched show of the primetime TV season. (2011-12, SNF on NBC)
For the 2012-2013 primetime television season, Sunday Night Football ranked as the most-watched show (21.5 million, viewers 2+), and the No. 1 program across the key demographics of Adults 18-49, 18-34, 25-54 as well as Men 18-49, 18-34 and 25-54.
- The 21.5 million average viewers for Sunday Night Football (all 19 telecasts) topped second place NCIS (21.3 million);
- In the advertiser-coveted Adult 18-49 demographic, SNF topped the second place show by two full ratings points (8.2 vs. 6.2 for Big Bang Theory);
- In the Adult 18-34 demographic, Sunday Night Football's margin over the second place show was 60% (7.2 vs. 4.5 for Big Bang Theory).
- The 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons of Sunday Night Football are the first three seasons that an NFL primetime package drew more than 21 million viewers since the 1994-1996 seasons of Monday Night Football on ABC.
The critically acclaimed Football Night in America, which precedes Sunday Night Football, each week at 7 p.m. ET, averaged 7.8 million viewers in 2012, making it the most watched pre-game show in sports.
Sunday Night Football has won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Series in each of the last five years.
NBC will broadcast 19 primetime NFL games during the 2013 season, highlighted by: Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos hosting the Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens on NFL Kickoff 2013 on Thursday, Sept. 5; a classic NFC East rivalry as the Dallas Cowboys host the New York Giants in the opening Sunday Night Football game on Sept. 8; Manning returning home to Indianapolis to take on Andrew Luck and the Colts; and NBC's annual Thanksgiving night game, featuring the heated AFC North rivalry Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens.
|Thurs. Sept. 5
|NFL Kickoff
|Baltimore Ravens at Denver Broncos
|Sun. Sept. 8
|Week 1
|New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys
|Sun. Sept. 15
|Week 2
|San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks
|Sun. Sept. 22
|Week 3
|Chicago Bears at Pittsburgh Steelers
|Sun. Sept. 29
|Week 4
|New England Patriots at Atlanta Falcons
|Sun. Oct. 6
|Week 5
|Houston Texans at San Francisco 49ers
|Sun. Oct. 13
|Week 6
|Washington Redskins at Dallas Cowboys
|Sun. Oct. 20
|Week 7
|Denver Broncos at Indianapolis Colts
|Sun. Oct. 27
|Week 8
|Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings
|Sun. Nov. 3
|Week 9
|Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans
|Sun. Nov. 10
|Week 10
|Dallas Cowboys at New Orleans Saints
|*Sun. Nov. 17
|Week 11
|Green Bay Packers at New York Giants
|*Sun. Nov. 24
|Week 12
|Denver Broncos at New England Patriots
|**Thurs. Nov. 28
|Week 13
|Pittsburgh Steelers at Baltimore Ravens
|*Sun. Dec. 1
|Week 13
|New York Giants at Washington Redskins
|*Sun. Dec. 8
|Week 14
|Atlanta Falcons at Green Bay Packers
|*Sun. Dec. 15
|Week 15
|Cincinnati Bengals at Pittsburgh Steelers
|*Sun. Dec. 22
|Week 16
|New England Patriots at Baltimore Ravens
|*Sun. Dec. 29
|Week 17
*Flex Week
**Thanksgiving Night Game
|Tues., Sept. 3
|5:30 p.m.
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Exclusive: Sneak Peek at General Hospital's 13,000th Episode
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Barton County, Kansas
Barton County, named for Clara Barton, contains the cities of Albert, Claflin, Ellinwood, Galatia, Great Bend, Hoisington, Olmitz, Pawnee Rock and Susank. John R. Reinecke; Henry Schultz; John H. Hubbard; George M. Berry; William J. O'dell; T. L. Morries; E. L. Murphy; D. N. Heizer; and George Moses organized the county on May 16, 1872. This is the only Kansas county named for a woman.
Fort Zarah was established on Sept. 6, 1864, to guard the Santa Fe Trail. The Santa Fe Railroad arrived in 1872 and the county became a shipping point for Texas cattle.
Great Bend was established as the county seat in 1872. The first church was the Congregational church in Great Bend founded August 10, 1872. The first school district was No. 1 organized in Great Bend on June 3, 1872.
Amasa C. Moses in 1872 built the first frame house in the county, and began a general merchandise store. He was elected the first city clerk and was the first superintendent of schools. His seven sons figured prominently in the county's history. Others include Governor Jonathan Davis (1923-1925) and Congressman David Lowe (1871-1875).
- See our Kansas Counties database for statistics in the county.
- Search our Register database for historic sites in the county.
- Search Kansas Memory for historic items from the county.
For more information see the Barton County website. The collections of the Barton County Historical Society in Great Bend have several publications, newspapers, and other archival materials.
Entry: Barton County, Kansas
Author: Kansas Historical Society
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Date Created: February 2010
Date Modified: October 2015
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For the past year, we've been dutifully cataloging some of our favorite sounds at CH in a daily Tweet dubbed #ListenUp. With an array of time zones at play and the sporadic nature of Twitter, you may have missed out. So to keep your ears filled with quality tunes and worthwhile music videos spanning all genres and eras, you can now look to our weekly recap of the tracks along with a little insight on what makes them stand out.
Erevan Tusk: By The Larches
In a gorgeous video by the creative duo behind Paris-based outfit Parallel, French band Erevan Tusk explore the nature of growing old gracefully. "By The Larches" is an enchanting swirl of nostalgia and romance sure to inspire a few flutters in your heart.
Brolin: Reykjavik
The "mysterious" London producer Brolin takes us around the world with his subtly soulful songs, first touching down in NYC, then Lisboa and now Reykjavik. The latter graces his upcoming EP Cundo, which he created with Norwich producers Luke Abbott and David Pye.
I.B.E and BenZilla: Bottomless Bottom
Both hailing from Minneapolis, indie hip hop artist I.B.E. teamed up with producer BenZilla for Bottomless Bottom, a highly pensive track and one of the first singles released from his forthcoming album This, That and The Third. Keeping it local, the equally compelling video is the work of Twin Cities' group One Light Collective.
Nina Simone: Ain't Got No, I Got Life
Thursday, 21 February 2012 would have been the inimitable Nina Simone's 80th birthday. Here she is performing Ain't Got No, I Got Life—a hit she developed for the musical Hair—at an outdoor concert in Harlem in the summer of '69, a series she headlined along with B.B. King, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder and more, which became commonly known as "Black Woodstock."
The Rolling Stones: Harlem Shuffle
The hoopla surrounding the Harlem Shake calls to memory one of The Rolling Stones' better cover songs, the Harlem Shuffle. Originally recorded by Bob & Earl in 1963, the Stones' 1986 version features back up vocals by Bobby Womack and a combination live-action and cartoon animation video by John Kricfalusi (of Ren & Stimpy fame).


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27-year-old former Ungaro designer Esteban Cortazar is back on the fashion scene, thanks to a new partnership with Net-a-Porter. Together, the two are reviving Cortazar's signature brand with a trans-seasonal, 17-look collection, launching in September exclusively on Net-a-Porter.
The online retailer provided some financial support to the designer, working closely with him on the collection's development. "It's a first for us, being involved from the very inception," Holli Rogers, Net-a-Porter's fashion director, told WWD.
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The resultant collection, which runs $270 for a top to $2,760 for a coat, spans pieces meant to be worn in the heat of summer to "layering pieces" which can transition into fall, Rogers explained. Cortazar, for his part, described the range as "sensual and sculptural ... definitely sexy, but in quite a minimal way."


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These single-Fostex-driver speakers were a surprise. One of those experiences where you need to walk over looking for a subwoofer because your brain says there's no way that bass is coming form those babies...Very interesting stuff.
Jason already blogged about the sound from the big rig in the Cary Audio room, which was being run by Florida retailer Let There Be Sound. I had enjoyed the sound of Ry Cooder's classic Jazz from LP in that room Saturday night after the Show closed, as well as a CD-R of songs from the Who's Tommy, burned from an acetate of the master by Mikey Fremer using his awesome Continuum record player. But Sunday morning, LTBS's Oswaldo Martinez was playing Rebecca Pidgeon's classic "Spanish Harlem" from CD on a system featuring the 5Wpc Cary Exciter integrated amplifier driving these beautifully finished single-driver bookshelf speakers, the Sur. Pidgeon's voice sounded smooth and natural, the double-bass accompaniment evenly balanced and more extended in the lows than I was anticipating, though when a Showgoer asked for The Doors' "Waiting for the Sun" to be played, the electric guitar sounded a little peaky in the mid-treble. To be priced at $2000/pair, the Sur features a port-loaded, full-range Fostex drive-unit and will only be available from LTBS.
These single-Fostex-driver speakers were a surprise. One of those experiences where you need to walk over looking for a subwoofer because your brain says there's no way that bass is coming form those babies...Very interesting stuff.
I would like to personally thank Mr. Atkinson for first noting, and subsequently taking the time to report on our SUR loudspeakers. We're truly humbled.Axpona 2010 was the official launch of this exceptional new product, which as previously mentioned, is exclusive to our firm Let There Be Sound. Needless to say, this project is truly a labor of love for us and we are particularly enthralled with the overwhelming positive response at the show from attendees and industry insiders alike. I was grinning from ear to ear like a proud new papa! ; )Our driving design goals for the SUR loudspeaker were very simple: 1. The product needed to offer a very high level of musicality to low cost ratio. 2. It needed to do so in a fairly compact and aesthetically pleasing package. And to this end we humbly submit we have accomplished our goal.For orders and/or further info please visit our website: www.lettherebesound.com where you will find our contact info.Best,Oswaldo MartinezLTBS
I meant to say that I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Atkinson's assessment of the mid-treble issue on the showgoer's "Waiting for The Sun" track. Thankfully, that instance was one of only a few occasions when the SUR sounded a bit rough in a particular area (I readily admit having pushed the Cary Xciter's 5 watts to the brink at times plus I really think this is a recording-specific issue). But rest assured, since I am in a unique position of having put the SUR through its paces with all types of music (and I mean all, from metal, to classical, to reggae), at various SPLs, and with many types of amplification (from 5 watt tube to 250 watt solid state) I am quite confident in their ability to deliver eminently musical performances time and time again. Best, Oswaldo Matinez LTBS


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GLENDORA >> It's very scary to be hearing helicopters and sirens at six. But it happened this morning.
I live at the top of Grand Avenue, just south of Sierra Madre Avenue. Ordinarily, it's a lovely, established, sedate neighborhood. Some neighbors are original from when the homes were built in the middle 1950s in what had been orange groves, and some are new with young families. Mostly, I don't see my neighbors too often. A couple I see at yearly holiday open houses and I have an arrangement with my next door neighbor about our trash cans. (I bring up the early shift – yard – before I leave for work and she brings up my house trash can with hers.)
This morning, we were all out front. I saw neighbors I haven't seen in months, even years. I couldn't figure out the four adults people sitting on a roof. Well, the two little kids who used to play soccer in the street are now teenagers, quite capable of climbing up with their parents.
I saw other neighbors moving framed pictures out of a van. I thought they knew it was getting safer. No, they were just shifting vehicles for better packing, and needed the room for their huge Newfoundland plus two other dogs.
I saw a woman whose son sold me a container of cookie dough when he was at La Fetra Elementary School. He has just graduated from USC with a degree in Business!
Other neighbors are more recent. Catty-corner to my left, there are two huge German shepherds. Their "mom" is a certified "nose" trainer and Utta and Dorry are both trained for rescue and as therapy dogs. Their "dad" was up on his roof with his camera, using the telescopic lens.
A friend walked up from Meda Avenue to see if Lily, my Siamese, and I were okay. She couldn't drive, because my street was blocked by a police cruiser with lights flashing. The officer was only allowing passage by emergency vehicles, from lots of local and not-so-local agencies, both fire and police. If you were a civilian, you were waved down my street where you could go back down, out of the evacuation area.
I have packed an overnight bag with items for a couple of nights. I took out the cat carrier. I have placed several of those reusable grocery canvas bags in front of closets or drawers I may have to empty in a hurry. I have called a friend in case Lily and I need a place to stay tonight. I came to work, but I'm not staying long. I'm too nervous.
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Runes of Magic
Runes of Magic is a MMORPG that provides a thorough experience, touching on nearly all elements commonly seen in modern MMOs, ranging from PvP sieges to player housing, with all the customization that you expect in-between. It's a title that stands out not only for its scale, but for its dual-class system that lets players mix & match their skills, while simultaneously acquiring special skills restricted to their specific combination. And with constant releases of new content, the experience is constantly expanded. There are currently 3 races and 10 classes, with some of them being race specific:
Character Classes:
Warrior – Masters of armed combat. Warriors can use any close combat weapon and any type of armor besides plate. They deliver special strikes and blows which have various effects on their targets.
Scout – Adapt at long-ranged combat, Scouts use their bows or crossbows to deal heavy damage. They are vulnerable at close range and rely on a series of evasive and delaying skills to keep enemies from closing in.
Rogue – Specialized at inflicting deadly blows at a fast rate, rogues use daggers which can cause heavy bleeding or be coated in poison. They are very capable at dodging blows, but their speed comes at the expense of armor and health. Rogues can also lay traps, scout, and increase a group's income generation.
Mage – Commanding the elements of fire and lightning, Mages deal heavy damage from afar. They possess direct damage, and area of effect spells. Mages can also cast barrier spells and strength buffs, adding to their utility.
Priest (Human Only) – While priests can cast water based spells to deal damage, they primarily play a supportive role. Priests can cast healing spells, boost their allies' stats, and even bring fallen comrades back from the dead. They can equip shields which aid their defense, but are still frail.
Knight (Human Only) – Heavily armored fighters, Knights are the only class that can wear plate armor. Knights go into battle head-first equipped with shields and light-based attacks. They are the tanks of RoM and have the ability to draw their foes attacks towards themselves.
Druid (Elf Only) – Attuned to nature, Druids are a versatile class capable of healing allies, casting damage over time spells, and even mind controlling opponents. Druids possess a special ability that allows them to gather Nature's Power and unleash it at any time to cast powerful spells.
Warden (Elf Only) – Close combat specialists. Wardens can use a diverse set of weapons and can wear chain armor. Wardens can summon powerful pets to fight alongside them, and have access to magical spells which strengthen themselves and weaken their opponents.
Champion (Dwarf Only) – Rune-wielding tanks, Champions mix close combat proficiency with a variety of buffs and spells, while retaining a capacity for mobility. Their abilities range from close-combat magic, to ancient blacksmithing that enables them to enchant weapons and armors.
Warlock (Dwarf Only) – Long range damage and support, the cloth wearing Warlocks benefit from spells capable of not only damaging the opponent, but also weakening them with a variety of curses and hexes. If needs be, they are also able to switch to a team support role.
- Status: Released
- Release Date: Mar 19, 2009
- Business Model: Free to Play
- Developer: Runewaker Entertainment
- Publisher: Frogster- Gameforge Group
- Category: Stand-alone
- Genre(s): 3D, MMO, RPG, Fantasy
- Platforms: PC
- +Enormous amounts of content.
- +Fun dual-class system.
- +Public quests & world events.
- +Player housing.
- -Aging graphics & interface.
- -Cash store imbalances parts of the game.
- -Quests lack direction.
- Recommended System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
- CPU: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent
- GPU: Direct X 9.0c compatible with 128MB RAM, Pixel Shader 2.0+
- Description: Runes of Magic is a MMORPG that provides a thorough experience, touching on nearly all elements commonly seen in modern MMOs, ranging from PvP sieges to player housing, with all the customization that you expect in-between.
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Abekawa Mochi from Shizuoka, one served pasted inside red sweetmeats/anko and the others with kinako powder.
As promised here is a simple recipe for kinako/黄な粉, roasted soy beans powder, so often used with Japanese cakes/Wagashi!
Kinako (黄粉 or きなこ), also known as soybean flour, is a product commonly used in Japanese cuisine. In order to create the soybean flour, soybeans are toasted and ground into powder. Its flavor is commonly compared to that of peanut butter.
Soy beans: 1 cup (200cc)
Discard beans showing broken skin or with an unusual colour.
To make sure of any taking away any humidity, put them inside a clean cloth sack and roll them inside your hands/fingers.
Use a pan with as thick a bottom as possible. Roast for 12 minutes above medium fire. Stir around with wooden spatula. The soy beans will emit their smell making small "noises" at the same time.
Transfer to a bamboo basket/zaru or a reipient with small holes to cool off.
Start slowly processing them inside a food processor/mixer, working 15 seconds at a time, 3 or 4 times. All the beans will probably not be reduced to powder. Transfer powder into earthenware mortar little by little until all the beans are reduced into powder.
Make sure you get an even powder by crushing it around with a wooden pestle.
Sieve powder through a fine strainer.
The powder obtained should be fragrant and almost sweet.
You can turn into a drink if you want to!
Milk: 1 glass, kinako, 2 tablespoons, sugar, 1 tablespoon.
Kinako should be eaten as soon as possible!


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Can we please not use the word spy when we discuss the needs of aging parents?
Each year, during the two-month holiday season, I see an article or two urging adult children to use the holiday visits as an opportunity to spy — discretely, of course — during family gatherings. The goal is to discover how well parents are doing.
When it comes to the instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) and the activities of daily living (ADLs), the trick is to observe how well these tasks are accomplished and share those observations with a parent. I know that writers are using the word spy in a puckish manner — trying to add a bit of levity to a serious and potentially stressful family situation, but I'd still like to lose the word.
As we go about helping our parents find ways to maintain independence while aging gracefully, we need to be honest and direct — as much as possible. Sure, it's difficult to speak about extra support and less independence when a parent who has lead a successful and fulfilling life feels a great sense of loss.
However, the concept of spying, no matter how discrete, just complicates the communication.


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PETA Wants Gator-aid From Beyoncé
PETA is going after Beyoncé Knowles -- again -- after the singer told Arena magazine about her peeps taping a baby alligator's mouth shut during a recent photo shoot.
The shoot went down for Beyoncé's upcoming album, "B'Day." She told the magazine, "There was a shot where I held an alligator. (It) had (its) mouth taped -- that was my bright idea." Beyoncé added, "He was really cute, but since his mouth was taped, he didn't have any way to defend himself. He was upset, so he peed on me. That was an experience."
PETA thinks it was a bad experience -- for the gator. The animal rights organization contacted one of the world's leading biologists, who wrote Knowles a letter saying, "As a specialist in reptile biology and welfare, I'm concerned about your posing with a terrified baby alligator for your new album cover." He added, "Humans and alligators are not natural bedfellows, and the two should not mix at events such as photo shoots. In my view, doing so is arguably abusive to an animal."
Beyoncé has not responded to the letter. This isn't the first time PETA has gone after her. This past June, Beyoncé and her mom were confronted by PETA members at a fancy New York restaurant over the singer's use of fur in her fashion lines.
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|30 May 1938
|Laid down
|27 Sep 1939
|F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel (werk 602)
|15 Aug 1940
|28 Sep 1940
|Kptlt. Udo Heilmann
13 patrols
|15 ships sunk, total tonnage 64,404 GRT
1 auxiliary warship sunk, total tonnage 6,833 GRT
1 ship damaged, total tonnage 9,718 GRT
Sunk on 16 June 1943 in the Mediterranean Sea west of Haifa, in position 33.00N, 34.00E, by depth charges from an Australian Hudson aircraft (459 Sqn RAAF/T). 27 dead and 21 survivors.
|Loss position
Wolfpack operations
U-97 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
West (8 May 1941 - 27 May 1941)
Goeben (20 Sep 1941 - 29 Sep 1941)
Attacks on this boat and other events
27 Mar 1942
20.00 hrs, eastern Mediterranean: a British Sunderland flying boat (Sqdn 230) dropped five bombs on U-97. No damage. (Sources: Rohwer/Ritschel)
1 Jul 1942
HMS Burra located U-97 and dropped three depth charges a few minutes after the U-boat had sunk Marilyse Moller approx 27 miles (43 km) west of Rafah, Palestine. (Sources: ADM 199/1273)
2 recorded attacks on this boat.
Men lost from the boat
3 Mar 1941
A man was lost overboard in the Bay of Biscay. [Bootsmaat Artur Mei]
24 Oct 1941
The IIWO of U-97 was badly injured in an accident on board, forcing the boat to return to base.
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
U-boat Emblems
We have 1 emblem entry for this boat. See the emblem page for this boat or view emblems individually below.
Seahorse on Red Shield
Media links
There was another U-97 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 4 Apr 1917 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 16 May 1917. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about SM U 97 during WWI.
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As many of you may know, I have nothing but the highest regard for Shahrukh Khan's intelligence and acting prowess and though I may refuse to acknowledge this in mixed company, an embarrassingly serious crush on his 6-pack abs. So when I heard that SRK had acquired the ownership of the Kolkata franchise of the IPL, I felt that indescribable sensation in an indescribable body part, the kind of which I first felt when I saw a bare-torsoed man,his essentials covered by a white towel, jump off the diving board in Baazigar.
In a way this was inevitable. Owning a company with the name "Red Chillies", it was fated that the great Khan would plump for the "Red" bastion of Bengal.
But then I got a bit confused.
The "red" part was ok but what kind of chillies, red or small, could SRK possibly be interested in?
The mystery started unraveling once the initial auction results were out. SRK and his now Man Friday Sourav Ganguly had invested top dollar for Shoaib "Chuck De" Akthar, the cricketing equivalent of radioactive waste–an entity that is not just useless in itself but has the potential to harm those around it, a lump of noxious trash whose producers (in Akthar's case his home country Pakistan) would pay money to get rid of. I will confess that my first reaction was a gigantic "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" of shock — how could anyone, far less someone as smart as SRK, pay a single paisa for this volatile cocktail of non-performance, bluster, performance-enhancing drugs and total lunacy?
Everything started to make sense however once I saw this picture.
As Shahrukh Khan himself said— all that's important is entertainment.
In other words, "who would provide the greatest entertainment" is the guiding philosophy for being bought by Shahrukh.
By "entertainment" however what he may have meant, though we cannot be sure, is " entertainment for himself".
Here's the fact. It's not your averages and strike rates that matter in the world of the Khan. What really cuts the butter is how hot and juicy your chilly is.
Which is why it does not matter that, with only 4 foreign players being allowed in a team at one time, the Kolkata management has not picked a single Indian batsman of repute (and no Akash Chopra does not yet have any repute in the shorter versions of the game). [Ganguly, if you remember, was not "picked"] making the team extremely thin batting wise.
It's also quite besides the point that, from a purely cricketing stand point, this makes the Kolkata team looks one of the most ill-balanced in the league.
Instead what's of utmost importance is the physical variety of the players—from uber-muscled he-men like Shoaib Akthar to waif-like, cutey-pie Unlucky "Chikna" Ajit Agarkar, a lethal double-bill of entertainment for the opposition batsmen. Misbah-ul-Haq —now he only rhymes with cock. Which is why Kolkata does not need him. The real deal however is Salman Butt. That's because Shoaib loves Salman (they run around topless in Mumbai in the wee hours of the morning) and SRK, well, let's say he finds the Butt worth investing in.
The coup-d'grace was of course the naming of the team –the Kolkata Knightriders. What could be classier than invoking David Hasselhoff and what could be more honest than phonetically implying that the players are defined by their proclivity to ride, perhaps each other, at night. Indeed what could be more "in theme" than making the team logo a medieval Greek helmet, no doubt a hat-tip to the days when muscled men would play sports in the nude ( Factoid: The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word "gymnos" which means naked)
Think I am reading too much into everything? Go to the official Knightriders team site and do check out a video titled, of all things, "Ball Eater" which shows a player sensuously eating… yes you got it.
And how could I forget the mascot Hoog-Lee and the theme song "Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo Re" ? Growing up in Kolkata, the word "korbo" has sinister connotations of fornication and when the chorus goes "Korbo Re", my voice magically joins in. And just when I think things cannot get better, it does.
With a reference to my favorite movie of all time, Gunda.
On being asked who will be the 'goonda' of the team among Sourav Ganguly, Shoaib Akhtar and Ricky Ponting, Shah Rukh Khan said, "The two guys – Sourav and John will be the goondas, it can't be me because I'm innocent and Sourav is already known as 'Dada', in fact the whole team will be a pack of goons."
As I read this, my demented mind couldn't help but think of the following hypothetical scene, again inspired by Gunda.
Scene: The Knight Riders have been handed a drubbing by Chennai.
Sourav Ganguly : Chennai Super Kings ne humaara rumaal phara hain.
Akthar: Hum unke pantloon pharenge.
SRK: Woh bhi peeche se.
John Buchanan: Angootha Lagake.
So bring it on Hyderabad and Mumbai and Priety Zinta. As our webpage says "We are the King's men. We Rule" where of course SRK is the King.
Remember even if we lose, there is one thing that is guaranteed— in the (un)likely situation that Kolkata Knightriders have their "asses whipped" by every other team in the IPL, SRK would still be entertained by the fact that he owns the "best whipping boys" in the land.
And ultimately that's all that matters.


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GOP Needs Social Conservatives More Than Economic Conservatives, Study Suggests
WASHINGTON – Social conservatism is more important to the Republican base and holds a greater opportunity for expanding the Republican base than economic conservatism, a new study suggests.
Since the 2012 election, there has been a debate among Republicans over why they lost and the best path forward. Some argue the party needs to minimize the importance of social issues and focus on its economic agenda. Others, such as Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, have warned that ignoring social conservatives would greatly harm the party.
After the Republican National Committee released a report in April hinting that the party needs to de-emphasize its social conservative agenda, Perkins and 12 other social conservative leaders sent a letter to the RNC.
"The Republican Party makes a huge historical mistake if it intends to dismantle this coalition by marginalizing social conservatives and avoiding the issues which attract and energize them by the millions," the letter stated.
That question of whether social conservatism or economic conservatism is more important to the Republican Party seems to have been answered in a collaborative project, called the "2013 Economic Values Survey," by two left-of-center organizations – the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution.
At a Thursday Brookings Institution panel discussion introducing the findings, E. J. Dionne, a senior fellow at the Brookings and a Washington Post columnist, echoed the message of social conservatives.
"Among the various brands of conservatism, economic conservatism has the weakest hold in American public opinion," Dionne said.
Using composites of different questions from the poll, the study developed scales of theological orientation, social orientation and economic orientation. Comparing the conservatives in each of those three categories, economic conservatism is the least popular with the American public. Thirty-eight percent of Americans are theological conservatives, 29 percent are social conservatives, and only 25 percent are economic conservatives.
Additionally, among Democrats, about one-third, 31 percent, are theological conservatives and 19 percent are social conservatives, but only three percent of Democrats are economic conservatives. This suggests that Republicans have a better opportunity to attract Democratic defectors with a theologically conservative or a socially conservative message than an economically conservative message.
Similarly, Dionne pointed out, the data suggests an opportunity for the Democratic Party to attract Republican defectors. With Republicans' weaker commitment to economic conservatism, Democrats could attempt to attract some Republicans to its cause with a liberal economic message, a more moderate social conservative agenda and a friendlier tone on theological conservative sensitivities.
During the question and answer period, Dionne commented that he recognized his point was entering a debate among Republicans, but the data clearly indicate that the social conservatives are correct.
"If you look at these data, and you look at who conservatives are, it turns out that social conservatives loom larger as part of that constituency and more consistently than economic conservatives do," he added.
Both political parties must struggle with the oftentimes conflicting agendas of mobilizing their base and expanding their base. Dr. Laura Olson, professor of political science at Clemson University, was also on the panel and made this point.
"Conservatives can't win without social conservatives, but increasingly, at least at the national level, they cannot win with them," she continued.
Olson had two suggestions for the Republican Party if it wishes to expand its base: "be more inclusive in image and in outreach," and pass immigration reform.
"If Republicans are on the wrong side of history on immigration reform, it's going to be a big, big, big problem for them moving forward," Olson advised.
Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of PRRI, looked at the issue by comparing social conservatives and Tea Party conservatives. If the question is whether the Republican Party should follow the social conservative agenda of the Christian Right, or the economic conservative agenda of the Tea Party, it is a "nonsensical question," Jones said, because social conservatives comprise the same portion of the Tea Party as the Republican Party. Social conservatives represent 48 percent of Republicans and 50 percent of the Tea Party.
The May 30 to June 16 survey of 2,002 American adults has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points for the full sample.
Audio of the event can be heard on the Brookings Institution website.


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The joint declaration, issued following the trilateral summit between
Egypt, Greece, and the Greek Cypriot Administration held in Cairo on 8
October 2019, containing baseless claims against our country, has no
meaning and value.
This declaration is the latest example of how the Greek/Greek Cypriot duo
involves regional countries and instrumentalizes them into their maximalist
and intransigent national policies at the expense of international law.
Since the outset of the Cyprus issue, Turkey has exerted every effort in
good faith and has put forward a strong political will for a comprehensive
settlement. The party who rejected the Annan Plan in 2004 and who left the
table at the Cyprus Conference in Crans-Montana in 2017 is known to
The Cyprus issue will remain unsettled as long as the Greek/Greek Cypriot
duo's mindset prevails which ignores the very existence of the Turkish
Cypriots, denies their political equality and perceive them as a minority.
This mindset is the core reason behind the failure of every negotiation
process carried out over the last 5 decades.
On the other hand, Turkey exerts every effort towards the establishment of
a mutually acceptable, durable and equitable regime within the framework of
international law that upholds the legitimate rights and interests of all
parties in all seas, including the Mediterranean.
The maximalist policies of Greek/Greek Cypriot duo, that disregard the
principle of "equity" which is one of the most basic principles of
international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
(UNCLOS) in maritime boundary delimitation, have led to losses in the past
against Egypt's interests regarding its maritime jurisdiction areas. Yet
Egypt seems to have turned a blind eye to this abusive treatment by the
Greek/Greek Cypriot duo.
Turkey will continue to protect resolutely its own rights and the rights of
the Turkish Cypriots in the Eastern Mediterrenean. Turkey is ready to talk
to all countries in the region, except the GCA, for the delimitation of
maritime jurisdiction areas in the Eastern Mediterranean in accordance with
the principle of equity. The interlocutor of the Greek Cypriots are the
Turkish Cypriots. The 13 July 2019 cooperation proposal of the Turkish
Cypriots is an opportunity that should be seized in order to settle the
Cypriot dimension of the hydrocarbons issue.
Furthermore, we also strongly reject the baseless and distorted claims
against Turkey in the Syria part of the declaration. As the most affected
country from Syria-based terror, Turkey has, as is the case in the past and
in the future, demonstrated once again, with the operation initiated today,
that it will not hesitate to take the measures required by its national
security within its rights stemming from international law. It is far from
credible for those have long been serving for the separatist agenda of the
terrorist organization PYD/PKK to refer to the territorial integrity of
Syria. Those who are rooting for the purpose of splitting Syria over the
terrorist organizations must back down at once for the well-being and the
union of the Syrian society.


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'When I came to in the water, everything was gone'
BANGOR, Maine — For 60 years, Harold Beal couldn't talk about D-Day. Even now, after decades coping with post-traumatic stress, Beal remembers only parts of the hellish day.
"I think it's nature," he says. "If I did remember, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be able to stand it."
On the morning of June 6, 1944, Beal, a gunner's mate in the Navy, was aboard a Higgins landing craft carrying 36 men bound for the beach when the boat was hit by enemy fire.
"When I came to in the water, everything was gone. The boat, the 36 men, gone," Beal recalls.
Beal climbed aboard another boat, only to watch another group of men die. Seconds after the boat's ramp dropped, the troops were mowed down by German gunmen.
"These fellows just kept dropping," Beal says, his voice cracking. "The lieutenant told us, 'If we're gonna live through this, we gotta get off this boat.' "
Unable to use the ramp, which was blocked by bodies, Beal and the other remaining men jumped overboard into waist-deep, blood-red water. Beal says that after that, his memory is blank until late afternoon.
When Beal left the Navy, he became a truck driver because, he says, it allowed him to be alone, something that damaged his family life. He married his first wife in 1946. They were married for 23 years and had two daughters. Beal says emotional scars from the war prevented him from being a good father and husband, a fact he very much regrets.
"I was jumpy," Beal says, holding back tears. "When my kids were born, I couldn't pick them up because I was afraid I'd throw them."
Fifteen years ago, while seeing a VA doctor about his knee, which he injured during the war, Beal broke down as he described how he was hurt. The doctor asked him how long he had been having problems. Confused, Beal again started talking about his knee, but the doctor stopped him.
"She said, 'No, not that issue. This issue,'" Beal says, tapping his forehead as the doctor had. "I said to her, 'I got that in Normandy, too.'"
After that, Beal started attending weekly meetings for post-traumatic stress disorder. Getting help has improved his relationship with his wife of 35 years, Marcia, and his daughter.
For three years, Beal has also participated in a veteran interview program at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor. Several times a week in the spring and fall, Beal makes the 90-mile round trip from his home in Southwest Harbor to talk with students.
It's not always strictly serious. A self-proclaimed jokester, Beal knows his audience. A group of middle school students he talked with in April asked him about the food he ate while in the Navy. He told them meals involved a lot of powdered eggs.
"They wasn't bad if you didn't look at 'em," he says, laughing.
Sixth-grader Olivia Huckins interviewed Beal for an hour that day. "I got that we really have to respect people who are serving because if they do come out, then they are scarred," Olivia says.
Beal hopes the students realize the sacrifices he and so many others have made.
"I try to teach them the value of freedom because freedom definitively isn't free," he says.


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By James Kwak
Press release here. Complaint here. The allegation is that Goldman failed to disclose the role that John Paulson's hedge fund played in selecting residential mortgage-backed securities that went into a CDO created by Goldman. Here's paragraph 3 of the complaint:
"In sum, GS&Co arranged a transaction at Paulson's request in which Paulson heavily influenced the selection of the portfolio to suit its economic interests, but failed to disclose to investors, as part of the description of the portfolio selection process contained in the marketing materials used to promote the transaction, Paulson's role in the portfolio selection process or its adverse economic interests."
The problem is that the marketing documents claimed that the securities were selected by ACA Management, a third-party CDO manager, when in fact the selection decisions were influenced by Paulson's fund. Goldman had a duty to disclose that influence, especially since Paulson was simultaneously shorting the CDO. (According to paragraph 2 of the complain, he bought the credit default swaps from Goldman itself. I used to wonder about this; if he bought the CDS from another bank, then Goldman could claim it didn't know he was shorting the CDO, implausible as that claim might be. But in this case Goldman must have known.)
It seems like the key will be proving that Paulson influenced the selection of securities enough that it should have been in the marketing documents. Paragraphs 25-35 include quotations from emails showing that Paulson was effectively negotiating with ACA over the composition of the CDO, so it's pretty clear he had influence. The defense will presumably be that ACA had final signoff on the securities, and Paulson was just providing advice, so Paulson's role did not need to be disclosed. (I don't know what kind of standard will be applied here.)
The complaint also alleges that Goldman misled ACA into thinking that Paulson had a long position in the CDO via the equity tranche, while in fact Goldman knew all along that he would short the debt tranches. It seems pretty clear that that's what ACA believed. The implication is that had ACA realized that Paulson was shorting the CDO, they would not have gone along with the deal.
And I don't think this action contradicts my general point. I would love it if the SEC could nail banks for some of the CDOs they created, but I'm still betting that the vast majority will not create legal liability for them.
The type of transaction involved — in which a hedge fund makes a CDO as toxic as possible in order to then short it — is similar to the Magnetar trade, which I discussed earlier. One thing we learn from paragraph 5 is that Paulson sure knew how to pick 'em:
"The deal closed on April 26, 2007. Paulson paid GS&Co approximately $15 million for structuring and marketing ABACUS 2007-AC1. By October 24, 2007, 83% of the RMBS in the ABACUS 2007-AC1 portfolio had been downgraded and 17% were on negative watch. By January 29, 2008, 99% of the portfolio had been downgraded. As a result, investors in the ABACUS 2007-AC1 CDO lost over $1 billion. Paulson's opposite CDS positions yielded a profit of approximately $1 billion for Paulson."
And once again, no doubt to the annoyance of many, I don't blame Paulson. It's Goldman that had the duty to its investors, not Paulson.
Fabrice Tourre of Goldman, however, who is named as a defendant? Well, he will forever be identified by the email quoted in paragraph 18, whatever it means:
"At the same time, GS&Co recognized that market conditions were presenting challenges to the successful marketing of CDO transactions backed by mortgage-related securities. For example, portions of an email in French and English sent by Tourre to a friend on January 23, 2007 stated, in English translation where applicable: 'More and more leverage in the system, The whole building is about to collapse anytime now…Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab[rice Tourre]…standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created without necessarily understanding all of the implications of those monstruosities!!!' Similarly, an email on February 11, 2007 to Tourre from the head of the GS&Co structured product correlation trading desk stated in part, 'the cdo biz is dead we don't have a lot of time left.'"


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After offending Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas by using the offensively medically accurate word "vagina" in an impassioned floor speech opposing Michigan's draconian new abortion law, State Representative Lisa Brown was banned indefinitely from speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives. Her colleague Barb Byrum, another passionate pro-choice elected official, was also served with an indefinite Shut The Fuck Up order from the the male-lead body. Apparently, during Michigan's War on Women, ladies aren't even allowed to serve in combat.
Byrum and Brown joined several of their female colleagues in voicing their vehement opposition to Michigan's anti-abortion bill, a steaming pile of misogyny that would criminalize all abortions after 20 weeks' gestation in all cases (so, if you had some terribly severe birth defects, too bad, sister — you carry that dead baby until that dead baby decides to be born) and contains no exceptions for the woman's health. It also straps abortion providing facilities with new burdens designed solely to make it a pain in the ass for them to operate.
As you might expect, debate's been heated. Hundreds of women have flooded the capitol to protest the bill's careless fast tracking, ham-fisted paternalism, and disingenuous concern mongering. Yesterday, before the bill was passed by the House, several female state representatives stood up to voice their opposition to the proposal. And two of them got a little too uppity for the male Speaker's taste. Want to get mad? Of course you do. Anger is the only way you know how to feel feelings anymore. Read on; it gets worse.
Rather than be a manly man and tell the women to their face that they had upset the Speaker, Bolger acted like a mincing, spineless ninny and relayed the women's speaking ban through their party's House leader. He gave no explanation as to why the women were banned, so both are left guessing (and fuming) today.
Byrum's silencing is a little more cut and dry than Brown's; she spoke out of turn (after trying, unsuccessfully, to be recognized to speak), which is technically a violation of House rules, which means that the Speaker was within his rights to reprimand her. But legislators speak out of turn fairly regularly, and only rarely are they told to sit down and shut up, officially.
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I spoke with Rep. Lisa Brown, who was on the floor of the Michigan State House when we talked (because it's not like she was allowed to participate in any debates today, right!? Cry.). She's confused about what she did to offend the Man-Gods who want to run Michigan's uteruses, but she's got a couple of theories. During yesterday's speech, she mentioned her Jewish faith, which she thought might have irked Republicans. But more plausible is the explanation that it was her use of the medically accurate, anatomically correct word "vagina" during the debate ("I'm flattered that you're all so interested in my vagina, but no means no.") grossed her male colleagues out. "What word should I have said?" she asked. Apparently, "vagina" is another v-word that Must Not Be Named. Like Voldemort.
Brown's looking into her post-ban legal options, as her inability to speak on the floor of the House means that her constituents are effectively unable to have their Representative weigh in. Both women have been told (through their party leader because Michigan Republicans are trying to break the douchebaggery land speed record) that the ban is indefinite.
Women have been absent from the debate around a bill that seeks to govern their bodies from Day 1. During committee, no pro-choice women were allowed to speak. Planned Parenthood was barred from testifying. And now this — two pro-choice female legislators all-out banned from voicing an opinion on the state's role in their anatomy. This is un-fucking-believable, and inexcusable. To borrow a phrase from my grandmother, Michigan Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
Let this be a lesson to you, women: shut up and let men do all the deciding about your bodies.


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17 killed in Missouri duck boat sinking ranged in age from 1 to 70, sheriff says
Hundreds at vigils mourn victims of Missouri boat accident
Hundreds at vigils mourn victims of Missouri boat accident
Hundreds at vigils mourn victims of Missouri boat accident
A boat carrying tourists on a Missouri lake capsized in rough waters and sank Thursday night, killing 17 people, officials said.
Officials said six bodies were pulled from the Table Rock Lake in Branson Friday morning, bringing the total number of fatalities to 17, including nine members of the same family, according to Missouri Gov. Mike Parson.
The grief-stricken community hosted two separate vigils Friday night. In one, about 300 people gathered in the parking lot of Ride the Ducks of Branson and sang "Amazing Grace." Mourners at a church sang the same words.
"Even though we may not know any of them it doesn't matter," said Tammy Miesner, 54, of Branson. "It's a part of our lives to be there for each other."
State and federal investigators were trying to determine what sent the vessel known as a duck boat to its demise. An initial assessment blamed thunderstorms and winds that approached hurricane strength, but it wasn't clear why the amphibious vehicle even ventured out into the water.
Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said those who died ranged in age from 1 to 70.
The Stone County Sheriff's Office in Missouri has released the names of the 17 people who died.
The sheriff reported the names as follows:
William Asher, 69, from Missouri.
Janice Bright, 65, from Missouri.
William Bright, 65, from Missouri.
Angela Coleman, 45, from Indiana.
Arya Coleman, 1, from Indiana.
Belinda Coleman, 69, from Indiana.
Ervin Coleman, 76, from Indiana.
Evan Coleman, 7, from Indiana.
Glenn Coleman, 40, from Indiana.
Horace Coleman, 70, from Indiana.
Maxwell Coleman, 2, from Indiana.
Reece Coleman, 9, from Indiana.
Leslie Dennison, 64, from Illinois.
Rosemarie Hamann, 68, from Missouri.
Lance Smith, 15, from Arkansas.
Steve Smith, 53, from Arkansas.
Bob Williams, 73, from Missouri.
Six people were hospitalized.
Terrifying video from someone aboard another boat shows the rough waters.
Brandei Clifton, spokeswoman for the Cox Medical Center Branson, said four adults and three children arrived at the hospital shortly after the incident. Two adults are in critical condition and the others were treated for minor injuries, Clifton said. Clifton said doctors are confident about their long-term prognosis.
A total of 14 people survived.
Suzanne Smagala, with Ripley Entertainment, which owns Ride the Ducks in Branson, said the company was assisting authorities with the rescue effort. Smagala added this was the Branson tour's first accident in more than 40 years of operation.
She shared a brief statement Friday morning "We are deeply saddened by the tragic accident that occurred this evening at Ride The Ducks Branson. This incident has deeply affected all of us. We will continue to do all we can to assist the families who were involved and the authorities as they continue with the search and rescue."
Branson is about 200 miles southeast of Kansas City and is a popular vacation spot for families and other tourists looking for entertainment ranging from theme parks to live music.
Duck boats, known for their ability to travel on land and in water, have been involved in other deadly incidents in the past. One such incident in 2015 in Seattle resulted in five college students dying when a boat collided with a bus, and one in 1999 that left 13 people dead after the boat sank near Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Safety advocates have sought improvements to the boats since the Arkansas incident. Critics argued that part of the problem is numerous agencies regulate the boats with varying safety requirements.
Duck boats were originally used by the U.S. military in World War II to transport troops and supplies, and later were modified for use as sightseeing vehicles.


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Fund Announces Tribal College President and 33 Tribal College Students of the Year
April 20, 2011
The American Indian College Fund honored 33 American Indian scholarship recipients at its 2010-11 Student of the Year reception at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium Student Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota. The Students of the Year each received a $1,000 scholarship from the Colorado-based Castle Rock Foundation.
American Indian College Fund President and CEO Richard B. Williams also presented Lionel Bordeaux, president of Sinte Gleska University and one of the founders of the tribal college movement, with the Tribal College President Award for his contributions to American Indian education during his career. Bordeaux also received a $1,000 award.
Bordeaux recounted his journey from the University of Minnesota, where he was all but dissertation in his Ph.D. studies, to return to his people in Mission, South Dakota, at the request of a tribal elder to help start the Rosebud Sioux nation's tribal college. After accepting his award, Bordeaux said, "The education system we have is not ours [the presidents', faculties', and staffs']. It is yours…it comes from you…We're all here today in redefining and rebuilding tribal nations."
Students of the year for each tribal college and university are as follows:
Tamara Munz, Bay Mills Community College
Brendon Gobert, Blackfeet Community College
DeShawn Lawrence, Cankdeska Cikana Community College
Wayne Roundstone, Chief Dull Knife College
Cherie Thunder, College of Menominee Nation
Terra Harvey, Diné College
Shirley Blacketter, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College
Jesse Brockie, Fort Belknap College
Sarah Cavanaugh, Fort Berthold Community College
Karri Charette, Fort Peck Community College
Ordell Joe, Haskell Indian Nations University
Joseph Pikok, Ilisagvik College
Shannah Serawop, Institute of American Indian Arts
Raymond Cadreaus, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College
Acacia Fawn Crow, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College
Dan Jourdain, Leech Lake Tribal College
Edison Jefferson, Little Big Horn College
Brandon LaMere, Little Priest Tribal College
Jamie Henio, Navajo Technical College
Isreal Harlan, Nebraska Indian Community College
Rita Asgeirsson, Northwest Indian College
Wanda Fields, Oglala Lakota College
Brenda Walker, Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College
Urban Bear Don't Walk, Salish Kootenai College
Travis Jansen, Sinte Gleska University
Brendon Barker, Sisseton Wahpeton College
Harriet Blackhoop, Sitting Bull College
Calvin Silas, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Nich'e Herrera, Stone Child College
Iris Francisco, Tohono O'odham Community College
Erin Trottier, Turtle Mountain Community College
Bobby Crow Feather, United Tribes Technical College
Kyla Van Pelt, White Earth Tribal and Community College


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The men and women of Detroit Homicide struggle with their own inner demons as they battle crime in the city. Detective Louis Fitch is the division's most-respected official, a wily but misunderstood veteran. Fitch's new partner is Detective Damon Washington, whose first days on the job are complicated by the imminent birth of his first child. The group is led by Lt. Maureen Mason, a strong-willed single mother working to balance her home and professional lives.
Detroit 1-8-7 (2010 - 2011)
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This one was definitely a Christmas surprise – for everyone. Natalie Portman's rep has confirmed that she is not only engaged to her Black Swan coreographer Benjamin Millepied, but the couple is also expecting a child. {USWeekly}
When Pendleton collaborated with Opening Ceremony, it was definitely a huge hit. Now, the Americana label is creating their own contemporary line that will be previewed at The Ace Hotel in January. The first sketch looks pretty awesome, so we're excited to see the rest of the collection in the new year! {wwd}
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