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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Cheats :
Secret - Best Treasure Farming Spots
Amber Relic - Found almost anywhere. They are found very common in the Faron Region. You only need 20 of these for all the upgrades. (Eh... meh. Who cares about this thing.)
Ancient Flower - They can only be found in the Lanayru Region. They can only be collected if you trigger the Timeshift Stones. You only need 8 of these for all the upgrades. This includes fixing Scrapper that Lanayru Robot, which only 1 is required. (Pretty flower.)
Bird Feather - The birds can be found only in the Faron Region and you are required using the Bug Net (or the Big Bug Net). You will need to walk carefully towards them and snatch them if you are close enough. The Big Bug Net is highly recommended since it is in fact larger and easy to catch both bugs and birds. You only need 5 of these for all the upgrades. (Boring feathers.)
Blue Bird Feather - Same as the Bird Feather in the Faron Region, but the only thing is that the blue birds are quite rare. If you happen to see one, don't just run after them. Do the same method for the Bird Feather and you'll harvest some Blue Bird Feathers. You only need 5 of these for all the upgrades. (Blue as the sky!)
Dusk Relic - Like Amber Relic, but are in different color. These things can be found almost only in the Silent Realms. So be sure to take a peek at every corner while you are in the Silent Realm. Be sure to pick up many of them as possible. You only need 13 of these for all the upgrades. (Ooh... mysteriously pretty.)
Edit: If you are in the Silent Realm, the best way to harvest as many of them as possible is to get hit by the Guardians and start all over again. You will notice that the Dusk Relics you found will re-appear in the same location. This will reduce your time of harvesting, but you will still need to complete the trail in the Silent Realm. But either way, it's all about patience.
Eldin Ore - Found in the Eldin Region mostly. They are commonly found by digging those digging spots and treasure chests in dungeons. You only need 6 of these for all the upgrades. (These rocks or metals are boring.)
Evil Crystal - These things are hard to come by, but they can be harvested from Cursed Bokoblins in the fourth dungeon. But as long you have the Treasure Medal, it makes harvesting a lot easier. You only need 3 of these for all the upgrades. (They... don't look like crystals to me.)
Edit: If you recall the time where those Cursed Bokoblins were about to get you on the lone rope and there's an escape route above, then that should probably be the best place to harvest those Evil Crystals. They won't die unless you do the Fatal Blow. You can also use your Sacred Shield (or higher) to repel the Cursed Bokoblins.
Goddess Plume - The rarest treasures in the entire game. They can be acquired from treasure chests in the overworld and in dungeons. But really, you don't necessarily need to collect many of them. You only need 3 of them for all the upgrades. (Shiny crystal! :O )
Golden Skull - These things are a rarer version of the Ornamental Skulls. They can be dropped from the Bokoblins, but requires the Treasure Medal for easier harvesting. You only need 4 of them for all the upgrades. (Ooh! Shiny!)
Hornet Larvae - They can only be found in the Faron Region and only from the Hornet's Nests. Just use your Slingshot at the nest and you can pick up the Hornet Larvae. Be careful of those Hornets that may grow furious on you. You only needed 2 of them for all the upgrades. (Seriously? Eww...)
Jelly Blob - These things are really easy to come by. You only needed to defeat any of the Chu Chus for them. You only need 8 of them for all the upgrades. (I like to poke them.)
Edit: In the Sand Ship, which is the 5th dungeon of the game, if you leave the ship into the present (not hitting the Timeshift Stone), then you should see a lot of Arachas in a certain hallway. Apparently there baby scorpions can also drop Jelly Blobs as well.
Lizard Tail - These things are annoying to harvest, but they can be acquired from beating Lizalfos and Dark Lizalfos. These enemies are easy to come by in the second dungeon of the game. You only need 8 of them for all the upgrades. (I like to use them as a Flail. :U )
Edit: Since they are dungeon-only enemies, you will need to go to the second or sixth dungeon in order to find these Lizalfos. Although, it's recommended if you take on the weaker ones, since the Dark Lizalfos not only deal a lot of damage, but will also lay a "curse" on you where you cannot use your items or sword for a short amount of time.
Monster Claw - These things are as common as the Jelly Blobs. They can be acquired from beating several Keeses in caves. Which the cave can be found in Skyloft. Really easy to harvest, as well as for the Jelly Blobs. You only need 18 of them for all the upgrades. (Looks kind of boring...)
Monster Horn - Not the sharp-looking horns, but the ones you use to call or summon. Anyways, these things are really easy to harvest. If you have the Whip from the Forth Dungeon in the game, then all you need to do is steal the Monster Horn with the Whip. Not only you get to keep the horn, but it also ceases the Bokoblin Captains from summoning even more Bokoblins. You only need 8 of them for all the upgrades. (Now it's my turn to call in MY army! >:3 )
Ornamental Skull - These things are really easy to come by. Just defeat as many Bokoblins as soon as you see multiple of them. But there is a good chance of acquiring a Golden Skull while harvesting the Ornamental Skulls. You only need 12 of them for all the upgrades. (Boring looking thing...)
Tumbleweed - These things are really, and I mean, REALLY easy to come by. And they are also fun to acquire. They can only be found in the Lanayru Region and found strolling in the open-wide desert. All you need is the Bug Net (or the Big Bug Net) so you can catch as many Tumbleweeds as you want. You only need 13 of them for all the upgrades. (Um... I have no idea why I picked these up anyways.)
I hope this helps you treasure hunters get all the possible upgrades. It never hurts to get more than what you needed, right? :P
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Brewski Madness
To some, drinking a beer for breakfast makes you sound like a drunk, but it shouldn't. That is, unless you're already sloshed, swaggering, and swinging some disgusting malt liquor around in a crumpled-up paper bag. I say: if this above description describes you on a Wednesday morning, please disregard all of my thoughts on this topic.
I was recently out for a beer and breakfast event at Small Bar in University Heights and was happy to see that the place was packed with well-to-do people that find it perfectly okay to consume a brew with their bacon and eggs. Yet, somehow, somewhere along-the-way we've been brainwashed; a "Brewski Madness" effect that tells us that this is wrong.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that until more recently the beer we were served tasted more like something that should be spiraling down the gut of a urinal, as opposed to something that should be poured directly down our gullet. Or who knows? Maybe the bigwigs that sell those incredibly cheap bottles of Champagne teamed up with the makers of "fresh squeezed oranges" to scam us American's into thinking that this is the classier road to take at 9:30am. You never know.
I do not recommend going out and downing beers before noon just for the sake of tying one on (at least not all the time), but what I do support is local breweries and local bars like Small Bar that understand this. The goal is not to get hammered. The goal is to try a good beer that compliments the food. This is not a new concept. It's something that occurs everyday in countries around the world. In fact, if you go to the Czech Republic, there's hardly anybody that drinks anything other than beer with their meal. Sure, some may drink coffee or tea, but for the most part the beer is cheaper and more flavorful to pair with food, so that's what they drink. It's perfectly acceptable, and it's odd that it's not as widely accepted here in the States.
San Diego County has exploded in the last few years with new breweries and beer bars popping up all over the city. What's great is that these places are not serving up everyday bar food like greasy fries and chicken wings; they are using fresh ingredients, sometimes grown right here in San Diego and giving people a very tasty meal to pair with the very tasty brew. We're very fortunate to live in a city that's producing some great brews and amazing food dishes. We're also extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to have a front row seat to the craft beer movement that's gaining momentum across the country. With that being said, I say: belly up to the breakfast bar!
Please drink responsibly. Eat and drink local.
More like this:
- Belly up to the kombucha bar — Sept. 30, 2016
- Table Beer gets canned — July 10, 2015
- Stone Brewing introduces Old Sludgebucket Ale — March 13, 2015
- Drinking soda at a bottle shop — Feb. 17, 2014
- Downtown: Tivoli's brewski breakfast — Jan. 15, 2013
I agree with everything you say, 'cept that San Diego has good food. The quality of cuisine that San Diego serves up has improved discernibly through the years. But..it still is way, way behind San Francisco, LA, and of course, New York. No comparison. While I love San Diego, even the finest of restaurants still pale in comparison to other places, most notably, San Francisco.
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Award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki will screen his documentary "The House I Live In" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, 2013. The film, which gives an intimate look into the effects of the drug war, won the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. The free, public event will take place at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hulsey Recital Hall, 950 13th St. South.
The screening is one of several events in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences' Civil Rights Commemorative series, as well as a part of the UAB and City of Birmingham partnership, 50 Years Forward, the ongoing 50th anniversary commemoration of the seminal events of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.Jarecki has acquired a laundry list of honors for his documentaries. His film, "Reagan," which examined the life and legacy of the U.S. President Ronald Reagan, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to much acclaim. In 2010, he co-directed a film inspired by the best-selling book "Freakanomics." His 2006 film, "Why We Fight," won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as a Peabody Award. It was broadcast in more than 40 countries and released in more than 250 cities across the country.


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Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University.
- Celebration for 175 years of Texas independence: "The independent spirit that reigned on the Texas frontier during the era of the Texas Revolution can still be seen today throughout the state," said Light Cummins, an Austin College history professor and the Texas state historian. "Texans today pride themselves on being independent, hard-working, innovative and no-nonsense people, all of which is reflected in our view of those who participated in the Texas Revolution.
"Perhaps for that reason, many Texans believe that this state is different from any other in the nation in terms of its history and its heritage."… – AP, 2-27-11
- 175 years since Texas declared independence: Today marks 175 years since Texas declared its independence. As people across the state celebrate the creation of the Texas Declaration of Independence that took place in 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos, historians encourage Texans to remember the events that followed the state's independence.
The Texas State Historical Association's chief historian, Randolph "Mike" Campbell, said the real piece of Texas history that forever changed the United States took place in 1846, when Texas became a state.
"Had Texas not become a state, then you have a block on the expansion of the U.S. to the Southwest," he said. "The whole history could have been different. When you add Texas, you have a war and then you have New Mexico, Arizona and California."
Although independence is definitely something to celebrate, Campbell said it was the events that followed independence that made the greatest impact on American history.
"The fact that Texas was an independent republic before it was part of the U.S. doesn't necessarily make it unique," he said, "but there are very few states who can claim they were independent republics."
Texas Independence Day is an official holiday in the state that the historic weekly newspaper, the Telegraph and Texas Register, shows has long been celebrated. The newspaper printed the Texas Declaration of Independence in its entirety 10 days after it was created…. – READ MORE — Abilene Reporter News, 3-1-11
- TSLAC CELEBRATES 175TH TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY WITH CAKE, TALK BY AUTHOR H.W. BRANDS: The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is celebrating the 175th anniversary of Texas' independence with cake, a talk and book-signing by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands at 11:30 a.m. March 2, Texas Independence Day. Brands, the third guest in TSLAC's new Speaker Series, will discuss Texas individualism, Texas nationalism and the role of democracy in securing the state's independence…. – Bonham Journal, 3-1-11
- Disunion The Minds of the South: Cambridge historian Michael O'Brien explains that secession wasn't evidence that the South didn't have a reasoned intellectual life. In fact, it was the strongest evidence that it did. Early 1861 found the 23-year-old Henry Adams in Washington, working as the private secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, a representative from Massachusetts. Adams was a keen observer even at that early age, and he focused much of his attention on the Southern political delegations… – NYT, 3-4-11
- The Civil War: Sesquicentennial Commission Briefing – CSpan, 3-8-11
- Women's museum in D.C. again pushed: "Well-behaved women seldom make history." That now famous quote (by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich) is affixed to Christine Erickson's office door at IPFW, where she is an associate history professor. Last year, Erickson says, someone scribbled a few choice words on the bumper sticker: "That's because women didn't do anything important."
Perhaps the proposed National Women's History Museum is needed now more than ever. On Wednesday, a bill that would allow the museum's construction near the National Mall was introduced in Congress for the fourth time since 2005…. – Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (3-31-11)
- Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found: A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.
"This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters. "It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a University of Hartford, Connecticut, professor who lead an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis. To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of Cadiz, Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed dominion known as Atlantis…. – AP, 3-12-11
- 'Cultural Revolt' Over Sarkozy's History Museum Plans: But Mr. Sarkozy has now decided that he wants a cultural legacy after all. He has cooked up the Maison de l'Histoire de France, the country's first national museum of French history, to open in 2015, in a wing of the rambling palace in the Marais district of Paris currently occupied by the National Archives. The idea is to distill centuries of Gallic gloire into a chronological display, supplemented by lectures, seminars and temporary shows borrowing materials from the country's already plentiful local and regional history museums….
"Bling-Bling history" is how Nicolas Offenstadt, a young history professor at the Sorbonne, described it. He fumed the other afternoon over a pot of tea in a genteel Left Bank cafe. "Sarkozy said this was a museum to give French people a stronger sense of identity," he continued, "that history is the cement that binds together French people. Whose history? 'Soul' is not a subject for scientists and historians. It is a moral and political concept." The very idea of a specifically French history museum is ideological, Mr. Offenstadt added. "To know about French Algeria you need to know about Algeria before France arrived there," he explained. "If we need any history museum, it would be a world history museum, not a French history museum, to give us a real perspective on who we are, and what is France today."… – NYT, 3-9-11
- OAH Supports Academic Freedom and Defends University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor William Cronon: The Executive Committee of the Organization of American Historians, led by President Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of History at Columbia University, issued a statement on March 30, 2011, supporting academic freedom and deploring the recent efforts of Wisconsin politicians to intimidate OAH member and professor William Cronon. Cronon, a professor of environmental and U.S. western history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been thrust into the spotlight for his March 15, 2011, blog post and for a subsequent op-ed piece in the New York Times critical of the Wisconsin legislature and Governor Scott Walker…. – OAH press release, 3-30-11
- OAH Statement: The Executive Committee of the Organization of American Historians deplores the efforts of Republican party operatives in the state of Wisconsin to intimidate Professor William Cronon, a distinguished and respected member of our organization and currently the president-elect of our sister association, the American Historical Association. As a professional historian, Professor Cronon has used his extensive knowledge of American history to provide a historical context for recent events in Wisconsin. Requiring him to provide his e-mail correspondence, as the Republican party of Wisconsin has now done, will inevitably have a chilling effect on the capacity of all academics to engage in wide public debate. The timing and character of the Freedom of Information Act request for Professor Cronon's e-mail correspondence leave no doubt that the purpose of this request is to use the authority of the state to prevent William Cronon from freely exercising his rights as a citizen and as a public employee.
- William Cronon: NYT Editorial A Shabby Crusade in Wisconsin: The latest technique used by conservatives to silence liberal academics is to demand copies of e-mails and other documents. Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli of Virginia tried it last year with a climate-change scientist, and now the Wisconsin Republican Party is doing it to a distinguished historian who dared to criticize the state's new union-busting law. These demands not only abuse academic freedom, but make the instigators look like petty and medieval inquisitors…. – NYT, 3-27-11
- Paul Krugman on Cronon e-mail case: …The Cronon affair, then, is one more indicator of just how reflexively vindictive, how un-American, one of our two great political parties has become. The demand for Mr. Cronon's correspondence has obvious parallels with the ongoing smear campaign against climate science and climate scientists, which has lately relied heavily on supposedly damaging quotations found in e-mail records….
Beyond that, Mr. Cronon — the president-elect of the American Historical Association — has a secure reputation as a towering figure in his field. His magnificent "Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West" is the best work of economic and business history I've ever read — and I read a lot of that kind of thing. So we don't need to worry about Mr. Cronon — but we should worry a lot about the wider effect of attacks like the one he's facing…. – NYT, 3-27-11
- Niall Ferguson: UK school history lessons 'lack all cohesion': The Harvard academic Niall Ferguson has warned that too few pupils are spending too little time studying history – and what they do study lacks a sweeping narrative. He offers his own lesson plan to remedy what he says is a lack of cohesion, in which pupils place six "building block" events, including the Reformation and the French revolution, into the right order. His plan aims to give pupils an overview of the years 1400 to 1914, and encourage them "to understand and offer answers to the most important question of that period: why did the west dominate the rest?" Ferguson, who has been invited by the education secretary, Michael Gove, to play a role in overhauling the history curriculum, directs the teacher to show their class a map of the world circa 1913 "showing the extent of the western empires"…. – Guardian (UK), 3-29-11
- James Robertson: Noted Civil War Historian Retiring: Noted Civil War historian James Robertson is retiring after more than four decades at Virginia Tech. The 80-year-old Robertson will leave his job June 1. He founded the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in 1999 and has served as its director…. – ABC News, 3-21-11
- Kenneth T. Jackson: History stars in the house for Columbia history department fundraiser: The topic for the evening's talk—"Empire City: Will New York Remain the Capital of the World in the 21st Century?"— would have been relevant to anyone who considers himself a New Yorker, but it seemed especially so given the well- heeled crowd. The person assigned to answer the question was Kenneth T. Jackson, a former president of the New-York Historical Society and the Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University. And the 40 or so people who were eager to get the answer, including Howard Levi, an attorney and the friend who invited me, were members of the Columbia history department's Board of Visitors, mostly successful business people and lawyers who contribute $5,000 a year (though there's obviously nothing preventing them from giving more) to support the department's activities and to enjoy the privilege, several times a semester, of having some of the university's top history stars—among them Alan Brinkley, Fritz Stern and Mr. Jackson—come to their homes to chat about their fields of expertise and their latest books…. – WSJ, 3-14-11
- Education historian Diane Ravitch criticizes testing, says poverty hurts student success: Noted education historian Diane Ravitch today criticized a current emphasis on testing in U.S. schools, saying "we live in a time of national insanity," during a day-long symposium on education reform in Novi.
Ravitch had a welcome audience, getting a standing ovation before and after she spoke at the conference co-sponsored by the Michigan Education Association, the state's largest union that represents school employees, including teachers. She said national policy makers say they want to reform education. But, what they're really doing "is tearing education apart and demonizing teachers."… – Detroit Free Press, 3-7-11
HISTORY OP-EDs:
- Martha C. Nussbaum: Should Academics Join the Government?: Last month was decision time for the many academics who left their tenured jobs to work in the Obama administration. Universities standardly grant leave for at most two years, at which point a professor must either return or resign. Some, of course, can hope to be rehired later, but prudence often rules. Many of my acquaintances made the choice to return to writing and teaching. A few have stayed on. For a long time I've been comparing my free and sheltered life to those exposed and difficult lives, with a mixture of relief and guilt. I keep thinking of Cicero's acerbic commentary on philosophers who refuse to serve the public realm: "Impeded by the love of learning, they abandon those whom they ought to protect." Even worse, he accuses them of arrogant self-indulgence: "They demand the same thing kings do: to need nothing, to obey nobody, to enjoy their liberty, which they define as doing what you like." It's difficult not to hear that voice in one's dreams, even if one believes, as I do, that writing itself can serve the public good…. – The New Republic, 3-11-11
- James Tuten: OMG: Old Media Guilt: Hopelessly devoted to your mass-market paperbacks, or an early adapter of the Kindle? In the following piece, history professor and author James Tuten wrestles with guilt over falling in love with his e-reader — and muses on the future of reading and publishing.
OMG – I love my Kindle. There, I said it. As a historian, I know well the musty scent of book mold wafting up like some pheromone of erudition from a long unopened tome. The dimly lit stacks of a library are among the most delightful places in the world for the likes of us.
As the sort of people who are on a first-name basis with librarians, historians and English professors, historians are thrilled to hold a new book, to crack the binding and break it in like a new pair of shoes…. – Forbes Blog, 3-1-1
- Diane Ravitch: 'A moment of national insanity': I'm beginning to think we are living in a moment of national insanity. On the one hand, we hear pious exhortations about education reform, endlessly uttered by our leaders in high political office, corporate suites, foundations, and the media. President Obama says we have to "out-educate" the rest of the world to "win the future."
Yet the reality on the ground suggests that the corporate reform movement — embraced by so many of those same leaders, including the president — will set American education back, by how many years or decades is anyone's guess. Sometimes I think we are hurtling back a century or more, to the age of the Robber Barons and the great corporate trusts…. – WaPo, 3-1-11
- Jan Tomasz Gross: Polish Princeton historian draws controversy over claims that Poles profited off the Holocaust: At first glance, it seems like an ordinary, innocent photograph: a group of Polish peasants holding shovels in a field on a sunny day. But look closer and you see the skulls and bones scattered at their feet. According to some historians, the photo was taken at the site of the Treblinka death camp in eastern Poland shortly after World War II and shows the peasants digging up Jewish remains in search of gold or other valuables. When it ran alongside a 2008 newspaper feature about Poland's postwar era, most readers didn't take much notice. But when historian Jan Tomasz Gross saw the photo, he was moved to write Golden Harvest, a controversial new book in which he argues that many Poles enriched themselves during the war by exploiting Jews, from plundering mass graves to ferreting out Jews in hiding for reward. In the book's introduction, Gross recalls how the photo made a big impression on him. "I could not understand why it passed without echo among the [newspaper's] readers," he writes.
While the photo did not create much of a stir, the book — which was published in Poland on March 10 — has. Co-written by Gross's wife Irena Grudzinska Gross, Golden Harvest charges that some Poles searched mass graves to retrieve golden teeth from the skulls of Jews murdered by the Nazis, traded glasses of water for golden coins from emaciated Jews being transported to death camps and pointed out hiding Jews to the Nazis in order to get ahold of their belongings. "Plundering Jewish property was an important element of the circulation of goods, an element of economic life, and thus a social fact, not an incidental behavior of demoralized individuals," writes Gross about the villagers living near the death camps in Poland.
Gross, a Princeton historian who was born and educated in Poland, became famous for his contentious 2001 book Neighbors, which chronicles the massacre of Jews at the hands of Poles in the village of Jedwabne during the Nazi occupation. The thesis of Golden Harvest again touches a raw nerve in a country that prides itself on being the only nation in Nazi-occupied Europe that did not have a collaborator government. Poland was home to about 2.5 million Jews before World War II, the second biggest Jewish population in the world, and Poles highlight the fact that they are the largest single nationality among those awarded the Israeli-based Yad Vashem institute's title of Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jews during the Holocaust…. – Time.com, 3-22-11
- Eric Hobsbawm, Norman Naimark: Two new books by American historians shed light on the Soviet past and those who still avoid its implications: Winter is bleak enough as it is. This year the gloom was deepened by the publication of How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism, by Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's most feted historians, and, oh yes, a man who stuck with the Communist party until 1991 despite a global killing spree that took perhaps one hundred million lives. Naturally Hobsbawm's new book has triggered the usual hosannas from the usual congregation for, to quote the Guardian, this "grand old man."…
But who are we to quibble, when, as his admirers like to remind us, Hobsbawm's life has been "shaped by the struggle against fascism," an excuse understandable in the 1930s (Hobsbawm, who is Jewish, quit Germany as a teenager in 1933), but grotesque more than six decades after the fall of the Third Reich.
Just how grotesque was highlighted by two books that came out last year. In the first, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, Yale history professor Timothy Snyder describes the darkness that engulfed a stretch of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. He leaves only one convincing response to the question that dominates the second, Stalin's Genocides, by Stanford's Norman Naimark: For all the unique evils of the Holocaust, was Stalin, no less than Hitler, guilty of genocide?… – National Review, 3-18-11
- Philip Magness and Sebastian Page: New book sheds new light on Lincoln's racial views: As the nation celebrates the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inauguration Friday, a new book by a researcher at George Mason University in Fairfax makes the case that Lincoln was even more committed to colonizing blacks than previously known. The book, "Colonization After Emancipation," is based in part on newly uncovered documents that authors Philip Magness and Sebastian Page found at the British National Archives outside London and in the U.S. National Archives…. – AP, 3-4-11
- Joseph S. Nye Jr., Parag Khanna: Two books on the future of power and diplomacy: "How to Run the World", "The Future of Power" Parag Khanna, a 30-something journalist and rising star in the world of think tanks, makes the case in "How to Run the World" for what he calls "Generation Y geopolitics." He describes the 21st century as "neo-medieval," because now, as in the Middle Ages, "rising powers, multinational corporations, powerful families, humanitarians, religious radicals, universities and mercenaries are all part of the diplomatic landscape." Because states no longer matter much, he says, we should dump old-style diplomacy, with its "stiff waltz of rituals and protocols among states alone," for "mega-diplomacy . . . a jazzy dance among coalitions of ministries, companies, churches, foundations, universities, activists, and other willful, enterprising individuals who cooperate to achieve specific goals." "Generation Y," he promises, "will own mega-diplomacy." The result will be a new renaissance, like the one that ended the original Middle Ages.
Joseph S. Nye, by contrast, is a 70-something professor at Harvard and former dean of its Kennedy School of Government. As he sees it in "The Future of Power," the old, stiff waltz is not over yet. "Today," he suggests, "power in the world . . . resembles a complex three-dimensional chess game." On the top of the board is military power, where states still reign supreme; in the middle is economic power, where states and non-state actors share the play; and only on the bottom do we find something like Khanna's Generation Y geopolitics…. – WaPo, 2-28-11
- Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule: Is the Imperial Presidency Inevitable?: THE EXECUTIVE UNBOUND After the Madisonian Republic In "The Executive Unbound," Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule, law professors at Chicago and Harvard, respectively, offer with somewhat alarming confidence the "Weimar and Nazi jurist" Carl Schmitt as their candidate to succeed James Madison for the honor of theorist of the Constitution.
According to Posner and Vermeule, we now live under an administrative state providing welfare and national security through a gradual accretion of power in executive agencies to the point of dominance. This has happened regardless of the separation of powers. The Constitution, they insist, no longer corresponds to "reality." Congress has assumed a secondary role to the executive, and the Supreme Court is "a marginal player." In all "constitutional showdowns," as they put it, the powers that make and judge law have to defer to the power that administers the law…. – NYT, 3-11-11
- 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem,' by James Carroll: Jerusalem, Jerusalem How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World James Carroll is a former priest and a believing Catholic who affirms that love is the central tenet of Christian doctrine. This drives his critique of mainstream Catholic theology and what he has called "the new Catholic fundamentalism" promoted by Pope Benedict XVI. A central element in that critique is his argument that the Catholic Church (and later Protestants) was a major protagonist in the long history of anti-Judaism culminating in the Nazi mass murder of European Jewry. According to Carroll, "Anti-Jewishness was … hardwired into the Christian imagination." The Crusades expanded the circuit board to include Muslims.
The anti-Judaism and anti-Islam of both Catholicism and Protestantism is a central theme in "Jerusalem, Jerusalem." But its historical ambitions are much grander than those of Carroll's earlier books, like his 2001 best-seller, "Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews." Here Carroll proposes that Jerusalem inspires – in the three Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam – apocalyptic fantasies that have had lethal consequences in the earthly world, past and present…. – San Francisco Chronicle, 3-11-11
- Del Quentin Wilber: Reconstructing the Day Reagan Fell: Chaos After a President's Shooting: RAWHIDE DOWN The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan It has been nearly 30 years since President Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Washington Hilton Hotel on March 30, 1981. The attack is well remembered, but the details are not. One reason for the memory lapse, according to Del Quentin Wilber, the author of "Rawhide Down," a newly revealing account of this potentially deadly attack, is that Reagan survived it so smoothly. Twelve days after being fired upon, he was back at the White House looking sensational. He ultimately enhanced his popularity by rebounding with such courage, resilience and even good cheer…. – NYT, 3-10-11
- Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts: What Harlem Is and Was HARLEM IS NOWHERE A Journey to the Mecca of Black America "Harlem Is Nowhere," Rhodes-Pitts's first book, is in large part the product of the countless hours she spent poring over photographs and news clippings in the bowels of the New York Public Library's Harlem-based research center, or "Mr. Schomburg's labyrinth," as she so aptly calls it. Rhodes-Pitts — and in this, unlike Alexander Gumby — does not favor "the most exceptional and the most beautiful." She makes us privy to obscure interviews, photographs, advertisements and even obituaries. While Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and many other widely celebrated personages make an appearance, Rhodes-Pitts is at least as engaged by Harlem's lesser-known players, like the proto-feminist Victoria Earle Matthews, the African nationalist Carlos A. Cooks and the fashionista-cum-wax-museum-owner Raven Chanticleer — those whose names have not been "immortalized by way of a street sign."… – NYT, 3-11-11
- From 'End of History' Author, a Look at the Beginning and Middle: In a book to be published in April, "The Origins of Political Order," Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University presents a sweeping new overview of human social structures throughout history, taking over from where Dr. Wilson's ambitious synthesis left off. Dr. Fukuyama, a political scientist, is concerned mostly with the cultural, not biological, aspects of human society. But he explicitly assumes that human social nature is universal and is built around certain evolved behaviors like favoring relatives, reciprocal altruism, creating and following rules, and a propensity for warfare….. – NYT, 3-7-11
- James Gleick: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message: THE INFORMATION A History, a Theory, a Flood "The Information" offers this point-blank characterization of its author: "James Gleick is our leading chronicler of science and modern technology." This new book goes far beyond the earlier Gleick milestones, "Chaos" and "Genius," to validate that claim.
"The Information" is so ambitious, illuminating and sexily theoretical that it will amount to aspirational reading for many of those who have the mettle to tackle it. Don't make the mistake of reading it quickly. Imagine luxuriating on a Wi-Fi-equipped desert island with Mr. Gleick's book, a search engine and no distractions. "The Information" is to the nature, history and significance of data what the beach is to sand…. – NYT, 3-6-11
- Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller: The First Chinese Exchange Students: FORTUNATE SONS The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization But China has gone through previous periods of tumultuous change, as Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller's "Fortunate Sons" makes abundantly clear. Their story begins with Yung Wing, who came to America in the late 1840s. The first Chinese student admitted to Yale, he returned to his homeland in 1854, determined not to be the last. Under his tutelage, 120 Chinese boys crossed the Pacific in the 1870s, intent on learning Western skills that might help their country modernize. Yet mixed fortunes awaited them on their return to a country whose Qing-era imperial rule was crumbling, where their schooling at various colleges in New England made them both influential and, in some cases, rootless and estranged… – NYT, 3-4-11
- Charles W. Crawford: Census Lessons for Detroit From Memphis's 1870s Loss, Says Historian: But another city, Memphis, appears to have the distinction of having once lost the highest percentage of its population for an American city of any size. In the 1870s, a series of outbreaks of yellow fever swept through the Mississippi River Valley, killing thousands of people. In 1878, the epidemic reduced the population of Memphis by perhaps as much as 50 percent. In 1878 alone, the population of about 40,000 dropped by more than half, said Charles W. Crawford, a professor who specializes in Memphis history at the University of Memphis. He said he was not aware of any other city that had lost a greater percentage of its population in one fell swoop. New Orleans lost 29 percent after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. Mr. Crawford said that an estimated 5,500 people in Memphis died in 1878 while perhaps 15,000 fled. "Everyone was crowding the steamboat landings and the railroad station," he said. "Politicians left first."… – NYT, 3-23-11
- Charles Scontras: Mural of Maine's Workers Becomes Political Target — Labor Historians Weigh In: Charles Scontras, a labor historian at the University of Maine, said: "Totalitarian regimes erase history as well. We manage to do it by indifference or neglect or for ideological reasons." He voiced surprise that a Franco-American like the governor, whose wife was once a union steward, would take such a move when the mural honored the work that generations of Maine's Franco-Americans had done in the shoe, textile and paper industries…. – NYT, 3-23-11
- Annelise Orleck: Clouds Blur Fire's Meaning: But leading historians of the fire still disagree vehemently over how much the Jewish character of the event matters. "Within the Jewish and Italian communities, it still does have a unique resonance," said Annelise Orleck, a professor of 20th-century … – The Jewish Week, 3-9-11
- America's union story: Blood, struggle and bargaining for good and bad: Eighty-one-year-old labor historian Ken Germanson watches the news from home in Milwaukee every night, mystified. "All those people raising their signs, protesting," he said. "Well, geez, what did our governor think was going to happen?" Germanson ran the Wisconsin Labor History Society for nearly two decades, an organization that teaches students about the state's union heritage…. – CNN.com, 3-4-11
- Why is King John always the villian in movies? Because he really was awful, say historians: Make no mistake, he was a bad king, says John Hudson, of the Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of St Andrews. "He was a very considerable failure as a king. He loses a large amount of possessions inherited, in particular lands in France, like Normandy and Anjou. He manages to surrender his realm to the pope and ends up facing a huge baronial rebellion, a civil war and a war with France. In terms of failures, he is one of the worst kings."…
…[I]t was the Victorians who made King John the pantomime villain he is today, says Paul Sturtevant, who is researching Hollywood depictions of the medieval period, at the University of Leeds. "The Victorians used King John as a punchbag. Prior to the 18th and 19th Century, Robin Hood was not put in a historical place. It wasn't about the monarch at all, just Robin Hood and his adventures…. Most historians would agree he was quite a bad king but whether he was a caricature of evil is another question entirely, he says…. – BBC Magazine, 3-1-11
- Nixon Library Opens a Door Some Would Prefer Left Closed: …Timothy Naftali, the director of the library and the curator of the exhibition, said that given the uniqueness of the Nixon presidency — starting with the fact that he was forced out of office — there was no other way to honestly depict the complicated bundle of scandals that have become known as Watergate. He said the conflict with the foundation was unavoidable.
"It was inevitable, wasn't it?" Mr. Naftali said. "This was a private institution with a particular point of view. It was accustomed to presenting the president in a certain light. I was coming in as a professional historian who was committed to making sure the facts were known." Mr. Naftali said he had no interest in prolonging the disagreement with the Nixon Foundation, and declined to discuss negotiations with them. "I would actually like the healing to start," he said. "I'm sure they are as tired of this fight as I am."… – NYT, 3-1-11
- Historians weigh in on the most segregated cities in America: No. 1: Milwaukee
Main city population: 594,833
Metropolitan population: 1,555,908
Segregation level (dissimilarity): 81.52
"Most of our history is very similar to Chicago, Cleveland or even Baltimore," says Marc Levine, professor of history and economic development at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. "Every place has had the zoning ordinances, then restrictive covenants, the practices of realtors. The standard history. What makes Milwaukee a little bit different than these other places, which explains why we're consistently in the top five and often No. 1, in segregation? We have the lowest rate of African-American suburbanization of any of these larger cities."… – Salon.com, 3-29-11
- Jacques Barzun: With Congress having repealed that edict last year, Columbia faculty have raised new arguments against ROTC. Some faculty members have recently circulated a petition that the military should remain banned because it continues to be a "discriminatory institution" on the basis of "many reasons from physical disability to age." The basketball team discriminates too.
The armed forces have drawn some of their most celebrated leaders from Columbia. Not one but four commanders in chief, including the incumbent, studied or worked there. Educating citizen-soldiers is necessary not only for the vigor of our armed forces, but for the vitality of our universities and our republic.
Most will choose not to answer the call – that is acceptable, the natural result of relying on an all-volunteer military. What is not acceptable is denying the army the opportunity to even make that call.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: Bush missed chance to rally nation after 9/11: Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told an audience at Queens University Thursday night that history could show that President George W. Bush missed a rare opportunity to rally the nation following the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001. Goodwin, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, compared the Bush administration's response to that of President Franklin D. Roosevelt following Pearl Harbor…. – Charlotte Observer, 3-3-11
- Salon interviews David Anderson over Huckabee's Mau Mau claims: In his new book and in two media appearances this week, Mike Huckabee has argued that Barack Obama's behavior as president can be partly explained by his views of British colonial history in Kenya, where Obama's father and grandfather lived. Central to Huckabee's theory is that Obama has a different view of the 1950s-era Mau Mau uprising in Kenya than most Americans, and that that would, in turn, explain Obama's putative hatred for Winston Churchill.
Huckabee seems to be throwing around the exotic-sounding term "Mau Mau" every chance he gets, so I decided to talk to a historian about what actually happened in 1950s Kenya. The deeper one looks beneath the surface, the less sense Huckabee's narrative makes. Among other things, the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion by the British involved the use of concentration camps and systematic torture — so it's odd for Huckabee to be taking the British side in that conflict….
Here's my Q&A with the historian David Anderson about all of this…. – Salon, 3-2-11
- Dianne Ravitch On Daily Show: Testing And Choice Undermining Education (VIDEO): Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart interviewed author, historian, and professor Dianne Ravitch on her new book "The Death and Life of the Great American School System." Ravitch argued that testing and choice are undermining America's education … – Huffington Post, 3-4-11
- Historian Eric Foner one of 3 Winners of Bancroft Prize: Foner's "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" is one of three winners of the coveted Bancroft Prize for history. The prize's administrator, Columbia University, announced Thursday that the other recipients are Sara Dubow's "Ourselves Unborn" and Christopher Tomlins' "Freedom Bound."… – AP, 3-24-11
- Ramachandra Guha: Indian academic takes up top international affairs and history chair at LSE: A magisterial chronicle of India, a pioneering study of ecological movements and an award-winning social history of cricket are among the works of a scholar and writer who will take up the Philippe Roman Chair at LSE in 2011-12.
Ramachandra Guha, a historian and biographer based in Bangalore, will succeed professor Niall Ferguson as holder of the chair in history and international affairs. He takes up the post in September…. – The FINANCIAL, 3-3-11
- Obama awards National Humanities Medals to historians Bernard Bailyn, Gordon S. Wood, Jacques Barzun, and Stanley Katz: President Barack Obama today announced the ten winners of the 2010 National Humanities Medals, awarded for outstanding achievements in history, literature, education, and cultural policy. The medalists are: authors Wendell E. Berry, Joyce Carol Oates, and Philip Roth; historians Bernard Bailyn and Gordon S. Wood; literary scholars Daniel Aaron, Roberto González Echevarría, and Arnold Rampersad; cultural historian Jacques Barzun; and legal historian and higher education policy expert Stanley Nider Katz. The medals will be presented at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, March 2, 2011…. – National Endowment for the Humanities Press Release (3-1-11)
- Charleston's museums finally chronicle history of slavery: Here, in this lovely town, once one of the most prosperous in the American colonies, there is no escape. In the Old Slave Mart Museum that opened in 2007, you read: "You're standing in the actual showroom, the place where traders sold — and buyers bought — American blacks who were born into slavery."… Slavery and its heritage are everywhere here. Charleston was one of the main colonial ports of the 18th century, dealing in rice, indigo and slaves. In 1860 South Carolina held as many slaves as Georgia and Virginia, which were at least twice its size. The genteel grace and European travels of its wealthy citizens were made possible by the enslavement of about half the population.
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War that is about to be commemorated means that it has been nearly 150 years since American slavery was brought to an end. But even in the North, the subject is still approached with caution, delicacy and worry. It inspires profound shame, guilt, anger, recrimination and remorse, aimed in many directions for many reasons on both sides of a racial divide…. – NYT, 3-11-11
- Diane Ravitch appears on "The Daily Show" – The Daily Show, 3-4-11
- Rethinking Howard Zinn on the BU campus: Friends and colleagues of the late Howard Zinn, perhaps BU's best known political scientist, gathered at the Castle last week to examine the legacy of the historian whose 1980 book, A People's History of the United States, sold more than two million copies and was the inspiration for the 2009 movie The People Speak.
The seminar, sponsored by the International History Institute and titled Reconsidering Howard Zinn as a Historian, featured short talks by three former colleagues and friends. Zinn, who died in January 2010 at the age of 87, taught in the College of Arts & Sciences political science department for 24 years. And while all three expressed obvious affection and respect for Zinn and admiration for his exceptional quest for the truth, there were several points of disagreement with the great man's widely shared opinions…. – BU Today, 3-3-11
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- G.J. Meyer: The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty, (Paperback), March 1, 2011
- Jack Weatherford: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire, (Paperback), March 1, 2011
- Bruce S. Thornton: The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama's America, (Hardcover), March 1, 2011
- Miranda Carter: George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, (Paperback), March 8, 2011
- John D. Plating: The Hump: America's Strategy for Keeping China in World War II (General), (Hardcover), March 9, 2011
- David Goldfield: America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, (Hardcover), March 15, 2011
- Matt Spruill: Decisions at Gettysburg: The Nineteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Campaign, (Paperback), March 16, 2011
- Adrienne Mayor: The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, (Paperback), March 22, 2011
- Michael O'Brien: Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon, (Paperback), March 29, 2011
- Dominic Lieven: Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace, (Paperback), March 29, 2011
- Rudy Tomedi: General Matthew Ridgway, (Hardcover), March 30, 2011
- Kim Wilson: Tea with Jane Austen (Second Edition), (Hardcover), April 1, 2011
- Nick Bunker: Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History, (Paperback), April 5, 2011
- Nell Irvin Painter: The History of White People, (Paperback), April 18, 2011
- Christopher I. Beckwith: Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present, (Paperback), April 21, 2011
- Andrew F. Smith: Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, (Paperback), April 22, 2011
- Barbara Frale: The Templars: The Secret History Revealed, (Paperback), May 1, 2011
- Alison Plowden: The Young Victoria (New), (Paperback), May 1, 2011
- Bill Morgan: The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation, (Paperback), May 1, 2011
- Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, (Paperback), May 3, 2011
- Lynne Olson: Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour, (Paperback), May 3, 2011
- Jane Ziegelman: 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement, (Paperback), May 31, 2011
- Jonathan R. Dull: The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815, (Paperback), June 1, 2011
- Jasper Ridley: The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society, (Paperback), June 1, 2011
- David Howard: Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic, (Paperback), June 8, 2011
- Kelly Hart: The Mistresses of Henry VIII, (Paperback), July 1, 2011
- Christopher Heaney: Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu, (Paperback), July 5, 2011
- Eric Jay Dolin: Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America, (Paperback), July 5, 2011
- Edward P. Kohn: Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt (First Trade Paper Edition), (Paperback), July 12, 2011
- Donny George, Protector of Iraq's Ancient Riches, Dies at 60: Donny George, an esteemed Iraqi archaeologist who tried to stop the looters ransacking the Iraq National Museum after the invasion of 2003, then led in recovering thousands of stolen artifacts in the ensuing years, died on Friday in Toronto. He was 60…. – NYT, 3-15-11
- UC Davis scholar Jack Forbes, 77, advocated for indigenous peoples: Jack Forbes, acclaimed author, activist and professor emeritus of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis, died Feb. 23 at Sutter Davis Hospital. He was 77…. – UC Davis, 2-25-11


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Here's Yelawolf sounding like Eminem met Kid Rock at a Credence Clearwater Revival concert. Interesting new song for sure while sounding pitch-strained and resentful. The subject matter is, at core, provocative so that makes it worth revisiting. Give Yela a try today. Track after the jump.
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Artist: Obie Trice
Album: Bottoms Up
Label: Black Market Entertainment
Date: 4/3/12
"O-Trice, Back At It!" Six years after the release of Second Rounds On Me, Obie Trice is back with his third album, Bottoms Up, which keeps in line with his other alcohol-inspired album titles. Ten years ago Eminem memorably sampled the line "Obie Trice, real name, no gimmicks" from Obie Trice's "Rap Name" on "Without Me." Now, Obie maintains his "no gimmicks" attitude on this project and even brings the line back on "Ups & Downs."
His past albums, Cheers and Second Rounds On Me, featured many collaborations and with only four features on this sixteen track album Obie Trice seems more comfortable showcasing his lyrics and flow on his own. The subject matter of the album is light and ranges from the type of woman Obie fantasizes about on "I Pretend" to the story of his career and relationships within the rap game.
Although Obie Trice split from Shady Records in 2008, Eminem has a strong presence on the album through samples, shout outs, production, and a feature. The project kicks off with a Dr. Dre produced introduction on which Obie spits a verse letting us know that on this album he is "simply spittin whats in O-Trice's system." He then thanks all those who have helped and supported his career so far. The intro is followed by the energetic "Going Nowhere." Obie shows his confidence and lets us know he's "in this to win this" over Eminem's production. The first single off the project, "Battle Cry" features Adrian Rezza and was produced by his brother Lucas Rezza. It was released last summer. On the track, Obie reminisces about his critics and past albums. He starts each verse with his catchy battle cry of "O-Trice, Back At It" reminding us of his perseverance in the game. The second single "Spend The Day" features singer, Drey Skoni and was produced by Detroit rap/production trio NoSpeakerz, who produced a third of the album. The track tells the story of what its like for a woman to spend a day with Obie. "Spill My Drink" is a catchy track on which Obie mentions his album delays and who has stuck by him through all this time.
On the highly anticipated Statik Selektah produced "Richard," Obie and Slim take it back to "Shady 1.0" with alternating verses packed full of references about them being "dicks" with Eminem on the chorus. Obie comments on Interscope, as a label, and his issues with the industry on "Ups & Downs" and "Hell Yea." He also addresses his relationships with Eminem and Dre accompanied by a few Dre and Em samples on "Hell Yea." Trice and the late MC Breed represent for the Michigan rap scene on "Crazy." "Lebron On" is the story of Obie's career told through basketball metaphors and comparisons to Lebron. It discusses overcoming obstacles and being underrated and hated on. Obie ends the last track with a shout out to "the G-Unit he knows" and a request to follow him on twitter @RealObieTrice.
A few tracks such as "BME Up" or "Secrets" would have been a good fit for a 50 Cent verse or chorus, but they are solid tracks anyway. There is an early 2000s classic feel to the album which maybe because he started the project so long ago. Obie's verses are authentic and unaffected and uninfluenced by current music. The overall production of the album is solid and a good fit for Obie's style. Many tracks have memorable witty lines and metaphors like "The way I hurt em with the 'Ye, she call me Amber Rose." Although some tracks are more memorable than others, the project is comprised of well-written verses, catchy choruses and diverse flow, and definitely worth a listen.


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According to a new report, The Hills alum Kristin Cavallari has signed on to appear on Dancing With The Stars!
Perez Hilton confirms Kirstin, who recently made headlines after being dumped by her NFL fiance Jay Cutler, will join the likes of Rob Kardashian and other rumored "stars" such as Chynna Phillips and Tiffani Thiessen on the upcoming season.
Kristin follows in the dance steps of fellow 'The Hills' alum Audrina Patridge, who appeared on an earlier season of the ABC hit show.
Meanwhile, days after TMZ reported Snooki and Queen Latifah had signed on for the show, Snooki aka Nicole Polizzi is now denying the story a la Queen Latifah's earlier denial. Snooki tweeted Tuesday, "I love watching Dancing with the Stars but I am not apart of the cast ! Sorry Tweedos."
A new report by the HollywoodLife however states this might be a negotiation ploy by the Snooks. Apparently she is still in talks to do the show but is holding out for more money.
"They are still trying to make the deal with Snooki," dishes a source. "She was verbally in, but has yet to sign anything. She has been very concerned with the schedule and what she will be paid."
ABC is reportedly in a rush to finalize the cast as soon as possible as the cast is being announced Aug. 29 during the Bachelor Pad. "The producers are confident that she will still join the show, but if she continues to hold out, they have people that will fill her spot. They always overcast the show," adds the insider.
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(REMSEN) A first-ever "Men in Dress" style show and fundraiser for the American Heart Association is being described as a huge success.
Lisa Hodgson is a member of the Plymouth/Sioux American Heart Association Committee. Hodgson reports 322 people attended the fundraiser Saturday night at the Avalon Ballroom in Remsen.
Twenty-seven male models strutted their stuff by putting on what organizers described as "a good show" for the Heart Association audience. The men were supported in their struts with music by Dave Ruden, KLEM Operations Director and Master of Ceremonies Dave Grosenheider of KLEM Radio/Powell Broadcasting Director of Sales.
According to Hodgson, the event was a huge success and totally exceeded the committee's expectations.
Registrations are being accepted now for the Heart Walk Saturday, April 30th beginning at 10 a-m at Gehlen Catholic's track.
The princes and princesses are Micah Loutsch; Taya Grace Delperdang; Mitchell Michael Roling; and Allie Lenz.
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The Alberta Quilt Project will be coming to Pincher Creek's Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village at the end of May and the start of June.
The project will index all the quilts either made in Alberta or brought there by the immigration process from the 1800s to the 1960s. On Saturday (May 31st), the first local day of the event, the quilts held by the Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village will be indexed for the project.
The following day, Sunday 01st June, quilts owned by individuals can be brought into the museum and be inventoried – please phone ahead to book your spot. They will also are looking for four to six volunteers to help with the quilt inventory, volunteers who would be available for days.
Histories of the quilts will be researched and written in addition to the items being photographed. The data will be compiled in a province wide index accessed at www.quiltindex.com.
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Fight Night Round 4 Demo Now on Xbox Live
The demo has two boxers, Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton and Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao.
Those with free Xbox Live Silver accounts will be able to access the demo in one exactly week on June 4--the same day that the demo goes public on PS3. The full version of EA Canada's Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 boxing game ships off to retailers on June 30.
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Modern Day Mammoth?
Researchers at Japanese and Russian institutions believe cloning a woolly mammoth is within reach.
Tia Ghose
Dec 6, 2011
In the past few years, global warming has melted large swaths of Siberian permafrost, revealing several preserved mammoths, which went extinct about 10,000 years ago. Now, teams from the Sakha Republic mammoth museum and Kinki University in Japan plan to extract DNA from the marrow of one recently discovered mammoth and use it to clone the ancient beast, AFP reported.
The chosen mammoth was unearthed this past August in Siberia. The researchers say that its thigh bone is in good condition, and should yield DNA-containing marrow, which they can insert into an elephant egg, then grow the ice age creature inside of an elephant, which is a close relative of the mammoth. To succeed, the scientists must find and use DNA that has not been damaged after millenia under the ice.
Consummate gamblers were quick to add their two cents. Not long after the announcement, Irish betting company Paddy Power began taking bets on whether the ice age giants can be cloned within 5 years. Short-term odds are gloomy, with 8:1 against a cloned wooly mammoth by 2014 and only 5:2 for a 2017-2018 finish date. The odds-on favorite location for a mammoth zoo is Russia, the company said.


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Red-light cameras topple in Poway
Red-light cameras that have stood at three intersections in Poway since 2005 started coming down Thursday to the delight of passing motorists who honked and yelled their approval.
"I couldn't stand those things," said one man, watching from his car as workers removed a camera at the intersection of Poway and Pomerado roads. "I was driving, took a right and that thing snapped me and it cost me 585 bucks."
The cameras were turned off last spring when the Poway City Council ordered a six-month study to determine their effectiveness in reducing accidents. The results were surprising. Crashes actually declined during the test period, compared to the six months before the cameras were turned off.
In October, the council voted to end its contract with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., the company that operated the program. This week, the process of physically removing the cameras began.
Cameras at the intersections of Pomerado Road and Poway Road, and Community Road and Scripps Poway Parkway, came down Thursday. Cameras at the intersection of Pomerado Road and Ted Williams Parkway were scheduled for removal today.
Red-light cameras have been controversial in many communities for decades. Some critics have said they're an invasion of privacy and others have said they hurt traffic safety more than they help it.
Other cities in the county that have recently dumped the cameras include San Diego, El Cajon and Escondido.
In Poway, studies conducted over several years showed that while T-bone accidents at the controlled intersections declined, rear-end accidents increased as drivers would brake suddenly to avoid the flashing strobe light of the cameras causing motorists behind them to crash into their bumper.
Before casting his vote in October to yank the program, Poway Councilman John Mullin — echoing his peers — said that if studies showed the cameras were effective he could accept them.
Otherwise, Mullin said, "I believe these things are invasive and I categorically don't like them."
Most of the complaints from community members in Poway focused on the expensive tickets given to drivers making right turns at red lights, without coming to a complete stop.
From 2007 to 2012, the city netted between $100,000 and $218,000 per year through the camera program, with revenues ranging from $382,275 to $611,582 and expenses ranging from $286,541 to $392,770.
U-T San Diego photographer Howard Lipin contributed to this report.
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Faces of Food Safety: Dr. Joanna Zablotsky Kufel
Dr. Joanna Zablotsky Kufel discovered community and public health at Tufts University in Massachusetts. "During that time, I learned to take a global, holistic view of what affects the public's health," she said.
After graduating, Dr. Zablotsky Kufel worked in Massachusetts in public health for a couple of years, and then moved to Baltimore, Md., to attend the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she earned her Masters in 2003 and Ph.D. in 2009. "I learned about the importance of the folks who, at a state and local level, inspect restaurants, provide food safety education to consumers and retailers and help to shape food safety policy," said Dr. Zablotsky Kufel. "After learning all about food safety at the state and local level, I still wanted to learn more about food safety at the federal level, where you can influence food safety throughout the entire food chain."
Using Data to Modernize Food Safety
Dr. Zablotsky Kufel began her career as a summer intern with FSIS working for the newly-formed Data Analysis and Integration Group (DAIG) in the Office of Data Integration and Food Protection (ODIFP). Toward the end of her internship, Dr. Zablotsky Kufel was encouraged to consider an FSIS Food Safety Fellow position after she finished her Ph.D. program. Today, she works as Public Health Food Safety Analyst with the DAIG.
|"In the next 5 years, I see CDC, FDA and FSIS working together even more closely to prevent illness...with the ability to react much more rapidly to emerging trends."
Dr. Joanna Zablotsky Kufel
The DAIG conducts and integrates data analyses across FSIS. As an example, it uses information gathered by FSIS inspection program personnel in the field and human illness data collected by partner public health agencies to evaluate FSIS policies and performance to ensure that the agency effectively protects the public from foodborne illness. A key measure of FSIS' performance is the All Illness Measure, which was developed by Dr. Zablotsky Kufel with others in the DAIG. This measure, which is incorporated in the agency's Strategic Plan for 2011-2016, helps FSIS to assess whether the work that FSIS employees perform is having an effect on how often people get sick from food that FSIS regulates.
"We use a public health approach that involves Assurance - Measurement - Refinement (Fig. 1) to ensure the food supply is safe," she explained. "FSIS Inspection Program Personnel work to make sure that regulated product is safe and produced in accordance with FSIS policies ( Assurance). We then use the All Illness Measure to measure FSIS' impact on the public's health and determine whether our policies and activities are having a positive effect ( Performance Measurement). This allows FSIS to evaluate existing policy methodologies and create new and innovative approaches to further prevent foodborne illness ( Policy Development/Refinement)." The cycle, which is described in FSIS' 2011-2016 Strategic Plan, creates a feedback loop that helps FSIS modernize and better address existing and emerging food safety threats.
Fig. 1.-All Illness Measure Feedback Loop.
"It is important that we create policies and programs that are based on data; that are proven to work," she added, "That is a big part of my job; making sure we are using the data we collect as an agency to write policies and design programs that help us prevent people from getting sick."
Dr. Zablotsky Kufel also works with analysts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration to advance foodborne illness attribution—determining what foods cause human illness. "I really enjoy working with some of the best minds in public health and food safety to figure out how best to use the data we have, identify new sources of data, understand why people get sick and learn how we can prevent outbreaks in the future."
Interpreting the Data
With the DAIG, Dr. Zablotsky Kufel enjoys the level of interaction she has with all facets of FSIS. "I like to think of myself as a data 'interpreter'," she went on to say. "I work with a lot of other program areas to better understand what kinds of data we collect as an agency, what the data means and what it can tell us about how well we are protecting the public."
"I feel fortunate to work with people all over the agency—statisticians, mathematicians, policy analysts, scientists, performance management experts and many more to piece together this important data," remarked Zablotsky Kufel. She is most proud of the work she's done with these experts to produce important information and reports for the public, such as a comprehensive report on FSIS' microbiological and chemical residue sampling programs published on the FSIS website in 2011 and the FSIS Sampling Program Plans for 2012 and 2013.
The analyses performed and reports produced by Dr. Zablotsky Kufel and her colleagues allow FSIS to effectively use science and data to understand foodborne illness and emerging trends, respond to those risks and, finally, ensure that our food safety inspection aligns with the risks.
What does the future hold?
It all hinges on the data and collaboration. "In the next 5 years, I see CDC, FDA and FSIS working together even more closely to prevent illness and having a more real-time understanding of what causes illness—with the ability to react much more rapidly to emerging trends," Dr. Zablotsky Kufel explained.
Recently back at work after the birth of her first child, Dr. Zablotsky Kufel says her commitment to public health is stronger than ever. "Being pregnant and now spending time with my daughter, I think the mission of FSIS has only become clearer for me—protect the public from unsafe food. I am happy to have an active role in achieving that goal."


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Ongoing Book Sale
It would be nice to see books in the ongoing book sale that are not ex-library books.
Thank you.
Thanks for visiting the Friends ongoing sale! Both donated books and weeded library books are displayed in the ongoing sale. As different areas of the library's collections are evaluated, sometimes extra copies of library books go to the sale. Other weeks there are lots of donations to put out. The selection changes weekly, so keep visiting.
Best regards,
Deb Fasulo
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