Partly Cloudy with a 10% chance of rain HIGH LOW Kenny Chesney channels gridiron memories PAGE 7 87 69 Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Issue 06 Vol. 115 http://dailybeacon.utk.edu PUBLISHED SINCE 1906 THE EDITORIALLY INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE Asst. Sports Editor Colin Skinner discusses college football jerseys PAGE 10 Staff Reports The hottest pepper in the world has recently been included as a new crop at UT's Culinary Institute. The pepper, bhut jolokia, is deemed the hottest pepper in the world and can do more than just arouse taste buds. Bhut jolokia is a Thai pepper that has been known to cause severe responses by those who consume it, including heart attacks, if not prepared and served correctly. The severity of flavor is reinforced by signs in the culi- nary kitchen garden which warn people to not eat the pep- pers raw and denote their whereabouts to avoid any confu- sion. The particular area of the garden where the pepper resides has been deemed the Five Alarm Garden, because of its inclusion of other spicy food items including jalapeño, habaneros and many other hot peppers. All of the peppers are available for culinary students to use when preparing different dishes as a part of the Institute’s training program. John Antun, assistant professor of retail, hospitality and tourism management and director of the Culinary Institute, can be credited with the creation of the Five Alarm Garden. Antun was first alerted to bhut jolokia by Annette Wszelaki, assistant professor in the Department of Plant Sciences and UT vegetable extension specialist. The Culinary Institute's 2-year-old kitchen garden is located outside the UT Visitors Center and is known for producing figs, carrots, blueberries, thyme, curly parsley and other ingredients that are used by the Culinary Institute's student chefs. UT's Culinary Institute program includes Antun, as well as other local chefs as instructors, and is offered by the Department of Retail, Hospitality and Tourism Management of UT's College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. The program consists of a 10-month intensive course, which prepares students to take the National Restaurant Association-approved exam. Anyone with a high school diploma is allowed to partic- ipate in the program and is given a certificate of culinary arts and ServSafe food service. The Culinary Institute has announced it will be pairing with 50 students pursuing culinary arts from Pellissippi State Community College. The importance of having a kitchen garden on site is not missed by Antun and others involved with the program. “Students need to connect to the food in the ground, not only in a physical way, but a psychological way,” Antun said, according to a UT press release. “When you can fully understand it is when you can deal with it best.” Kitchen gardens reinforce the use of local foods, which can have many benefits. The miles that food travels is drastically reduced when grown and consumed locally, going from the garden to the table with little travel in between. Working with food from UT's kitchen garden not only unlocks environmental benefits, but it also allows the stu- dent chefs an opportunity to have a hands-on experience. Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia— Islamist militants wearing Somali military uniforms stormed a hotel favored by lawmakers in the war-battered capital Tuesday, firing indiscriminately and killing 32 peo- ple, including six parliamentarians. A suicide bomber and one of the gunmen were also killed in the brazen attack just a half-mile (1 kilometer) from the presidential palace. The attack showed the insurgent group al-Shabab, which con- trols wide areas of Somalia, can penetrate even the few blocks of the capital under the control of the government and African Union troops. Tuesday's well-planned assault came one day after al-Shabab warned of a new “massive war.” Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage, an insurgent spokesman, said the attack by members of the group's "special forces" targeted government lead- ers, foreign agents and "apostates" at the $10-a- night Muna Hotel. Survivors of the hour-long slaughter described seeing bodies strewn throughout the hotel and peo- ple scrambling to safety through windows. An 11- year-old shoeshine boy and a woman selling tea were among the dead. In an interview with The Associated Press, one parliamentarian said she was jolted awake by the popping sound of gunfire. Saynab Qayad said three fellow lawmakers staying on the top floor of the three-story hotel drew their guns while other guests fled out windows. “Smoke filled my room after bullets smashed my window. I hid myself in a corner of the room. Then a guest next door came to my door, screaming ‘Come out! Come out!’ And when I came out bul- lets continued to fly around. “I went back to my room and locked my door. Shortly afterward, the hotel staff asked me to come down and put me in a room at the second floor with four other survivors,” she said. “The body of a member of parliament was lying at that small room's door.” A manager at the Muna Hotel, Abdullahi Warsame, said the attack was carried out by two gunmen who first fired on people sitting under a tree, then opened fire at the reception desk. The gunmen then moved to the second floor, where they battled security forces and armed parliamen- tarians, he said. The two fought until they ran out of ammunition, when one blew himself up, Warsame said. After it was over, Somali government forces tied the body of one of the dead assailants to the back of a pickup truck and dragged it through the dusty streets of the capital, a scene eerily reminiscent of how bodies of dead American soldiers were treated following the disastrous Black Hawk Down battle of 1993 in Mogadishu. Tuesday's attack only extended the stream of warfare that rattled Mogadishu on Monday, when 40 civilians died in fighting between al-Shabab and Somali and African Union troops. Somalia's deputy prime minister told AP that 19 civilians, six members of parliament, five security forces and two hotel workers were killed Tuesday — a total of 32. Two attackers also were killed, said Abdirahman Haji Aden Ibi, the deputy prime min- ister. A government statement said 31 people were killed. There was no way to immediately reconcile the figures. In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the attack during Ramadan highlighted al-Shabab's “complete disre- gard for human life, Somali culture and Islamic val- ues.” Al-Shabab, which has links to al-Qaida and boasts veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars among its ranks, has grown deadlier in recent months. Last month it claimed twin bombings in Uganda during the World Cup final that killed 76 people. “The only intention of this group is to destroy the nation, massacre people and then finally hand the country to ruthless foreigners,” Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said. “So I call upon all Somali people to unite fighting against these enemies and help government forces.” The militant group is fighting to oust the 6,000 African Union troops from Uganda and Burundi that prop up the U.N.-backed Somali government — forces whom al-Shabab calls crusaders and invaders. “We will eliminate them from our country in a battle we call ‘the end of the aggressors,’” Rage said. “They wanted to enjoy themselves in hotels while women and children are sent to makeshift homes.” Al-Shabab calls itself a defender of the nation, but its interpretation of Islam is harsh. Al-Shabab for- bids music, TV or letting women walk alone. Men must grow beards. Punishments can range from amputation to death by stoning. In response to the World Cup attacks, the African Union pledged to increase its troop com- mitments to Somalia, an approach backed by the United States. The U.S. does not have any troops in Somalia but helps pay to train Somali troops and sends surveillance aircraft over Somalia. “The United States reaffirms its strong commit- ment to stand with the Somali people and transi- tional government and the African Union mission in Somalia as they courageously work to restore peace and stability in Somalia. And we're very grateful for the fact that this week we have addition- al resources arriving in support of the (African Union) mission troops coming from Uganda,” Crowley said. The Somali government has struggled for years to gain relevancy, but corruption and its minuscule footprint in the country — just a few city blocks near the seaside airport — have limited its effec- tiveness. The deaths of six parliamentarians will have no practical effect on the government func- tions. Al-Shabab operatives frequently infiltrate the small government-controlled area. In a similar attack in December, a suicide bomber detonated himself at a university gradua- tion ceremony about 11⁄2 miles (3 kilometers ) from Tuesday's hotel attack, killing 24 people, including three government ministers, medical stu- dents and doctors. Somalia has not had an effective government for 19 years. Associated Press EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y.— Thieves van- dalized mausoleums at a Catholic cemetery on Long Island and stole a woman's remains during an overnight break-in, police said Tuesday. The break-in happened at St. Charles Cemetery between 6:30 p.m. Monday and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, when a caretaker discovered the damage. Three mausoleums were entered and a casket was removed from one, Suffolk County Deputy Inspector Robert Brown said. He added that, while cemetery vandalism is a somewhat regular occurrence, he had only heard of a body being stolen once or twice in his 25-year career. “The removal of a body is very uncommon,” Brown said. Investigators believe the remains were not specifically targeted but said the culprits came prepared to break into a locked mausoleum. “They knew what they would face in order to open a casket,” Brown said. He declined to elaborate, citing the ongoing investigation. Because heavy marble slabs had to be moved in order to get to the casket, investigators believe more than one suspect was involved, he said. Police believe the intruders likely hopped over a fence surrounding the sprawling cemetery. Relatives of the woman whose body was stolen have been notified, Brown said. He declined to identify the woman, who was interred about 12 years ago, or her family, but said she was not a public figure. “She was certainly significant to her family,” he added. He said cadaver dogs were deployed in the sur- rounding area in case the thieves decided to abandon the woman's remains. The cemetery, which opened in 1914, is oper- ated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. It is bordered by Republic Airport to the west and a number of other large cemeteries to the east. “It is incomprehensible that anyone would vio- late the sacred resting place of those that have passed from this world to eternal life,” diocesan spokesman Monsignor Kieran E. Harrington said in a statement. He added that Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has reached out to immediate family members of the woman to express his “profound sorrow and solidarity in this painful time.” World’s hottest pepper now grown at UT Islamist militants invade Somali hotel, target government officials Body snatchers steal tomb remains, vandalize Long Island mausoleum The UT Bookstore’s shelves have emptied during the first days of classes. 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The hottest pepper in the world has recently beenincluded as a new crop at UT's Culinary Institute.
The pepper, bhut jolokia, is deemed the hottest pepperin the world and can do more than just arouse taste buds.
Bhut jolokia is a Thai pepper that has been known tocause severe responses by those who consume it, includingheart attacks, if not prepared and served correctly.
The severity of flavor is reinforced by signs in the culi-nary kitchen garden which warn people to not eat the pep-pers raw and denote their whereabouts to avoid any confu-sion.
The particular area of the garden where the pepperresides has been deemed the Five Alarm Garden, becauseof its inclusion of other spicy food items includingjalapeño, habaneros and many other hot peppers.
All of the peppers are available for culinary students touse when preparing different dishes as a part of theInstitute’s training program.
John Antun, assistant professor of retail, hospitality andtourism management and director of the CulinaryInstitute, can be credited with the creation of the FiveAlarm Garden.
Antun was first alerted to bhut jolokia by AnnetteWszelaki, assistant professor in the Department of PlantSciences and UT vegetable extension specialist.
The Culinary Institute's 2-year-old kitchen garden islocated outside the UT Visitors Center and is known forproducing figs, carrots, blueberries, thyme, curly parsleyand other ingredients that are used by the CulinaryInstitute's student chefs.
UT's Culinary Institute program includes Antun, as wellas other local chefs as instructors, and is offered by theDepartment of Retail, Hospitality and TourismManagement of UT's College of Education, Health andHuman Sciences.
The program consists of a 10-month intensive course,which prepares students to take the National RestaurantAssociation-approved exam.
Anyone with a high school diploma is allowed to partic-ipate in the program and is given a certificate of culinaryarts and ServSafe food service.
The Culinary Institute has announced it will be pairingwith 50 students pursuing culinary arts from PellissippiState Community College.
The importance of having a kitchen garden on site is notmissed by Antun and others involved with the program.
“Students need to connect to the food in the ground, notonly in a physical way, but a psychological way,” Antunsaid, according to a UT press release. “When you can fullyunderstand it is when you can deal with it best.”
Kitchen gardens reinforce the use of local foods, whichcan have many benefits.
The miles that food travels is drastically reduced whengrown and consumed locally, going from the garden to thetable with little travel in between.
Working with food from UT's kitchen garden not onlyunlocks environmental benefits, but it also allows the stu-dent chefs an opportunity to have a hands-on experience.
Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia— Islamist militantswearing Somali military uniforms stormed a hotelfavored by lawmakers in the war-battered capitalTuesday, firing indiscriminately and killing 32 peo-ple, including six parliamentarians.
A suicide bomber and one of the gunmen werealso killed in the brazen attack just a half-mile (1kilometer) from the presidential palace. The attackshowed the insurgent group al-Shabab, which con-trols wide areas of Somalia, can penetrate even thefew blocks of the capital under the control of thegovernment and African Union troops.
Tuesday's well-planned assault came one dayafter al-Shabab warned of a new “massive war.”Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage, an insurgentspokesman, said the attack by members of thegroup's "special forces" targeted government lead-ers, foreign agents and "apostates" at the $10-a-night Muna Hotel.
Survivors of the hour-long slaughter describedseeing bodies strewn throughout the hotel and peo-ple scrambling to safety through windows. An 11-year-old shoeshine boy and a woman selling teawere among the dead.
In an interview with The Associated Press, oneparliamentarian said she was jolted awake by thepopping sound of gunfire. Saynab Qayad said threefellow lawmakers staying on the top floor of thethree-story hotel drew their guns while otherguests fled out windows.
“Smoke filled my room after bullets smashed mywindow. I hid myself in a corner of the room. Thena guest next door came to my door, screaming‘Come out! Come out!’ And when I came out bul-lets continued to fly around.
“I went back to my room and locked my door.Shortly afterward, the hotel staff asked me to comedown and put me in a room at the second floor withfour other survivors,” she said. “The body of amember of parliament was lying at that smallroom's door.”
A manager at the Muna Hotel, AbdullahiWarsame, said the attack was carried out by twogunmen who first fired on people sitting under atree, then opened fire at the reception desk. Thegunmen then moved to the second floor, wherethey battled security forces and armed parliamen-tarians, he said. The two fought until they ran outof ammunition, when one blew himself up,Warsame said.
After it was over, Somali government forces tiedthe body of one of the dead assailants to the back ofa pickup truck and dragged it through the dustystreets of the capital, a scene eerily reminiscent ofhow bodies of dead American soldiers were treatedfollowing the disastrous Black Hawk Down battleof 1993 in Mogadishu.
Tuesday's attack only extended the stream ofwarfare that rattled Mogadishu on Monday, when40 civilians died in fighting between al-Shabab andSomali and African Union troops.
Somalia's deputy prime minister told AP that 19civilians, six members of parliament, five securityforces and two hotel workers were killed Tuesday— a total of 32. Two attackers also were killed, said
Abdirahman Haji Aden Ibi, the deputy prime min-ister. A government statement said 31 people werekilled. There was no way to immediately reconcilethe figures.
In Washington, U.S. State Departmentspokesman P.J. Crowley said the attack duringRamadan highlighted al-Shabab's “complete disre-gard for human life, Somali culture and Islamic val-ues.”
Al-Shabab, which has links to al-Qaida andboasts veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan warsamong its ranks, has grown deadlier in recentmonths. Last month it claimed twin bombings inUganda during the World Cup final that killed 76people.
“The only intention of this group is to destroythe nation, massacre people and then finally handthe country to ruthless foreigners,” SomaliPresident Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said. “So I callupon all Somali people to unite fighting againstthese enemies and help government forces.”
The militant group is fighting to oust the 6,000African Union troops from Uganda and Burundithat prop up the U.N.-backed Somali government— forces whom al-Shabab calls crusaders andinvaders.
“We will eliminate them from our country in abattle we call ‘the end of the aggressors,’” Ragesaid. “They wanted to enjoy themselves in hotelswhile women and children are sent to makeshifthomes.”
Al-Shabab calls itself a defender of the nation, butits interpretation of Islam is harsh. Al-Shabab for-bids music, TV or letting women walk alone. Menmust grow beards. Punishments can range fromamputation to death by stoning.
In response to the World Cup attacks, theAfrican Union pledged to increase its troop com-mitments to Somalia, an approach backed by theUnited States. The U.S. does not have any troops inSomalia but helps pay to train Somali troops andsends surveillance aircraft over Somalia.
“The United States reaffirms its strong commit-ment to stand with the Somali people and transi-tional government and the African Union missionin Somalia as they courageously work to restorepeace and stability in Somalia. And we're verygrateful for the fact that this week we have addition-al resources arriving in support of the (AfricanUnion) mission troops coming from Uganda,”Crowley said.
The Somali government has struggled for yearsto gain relevancy, but corruption and its minusculefootprint in the country — just a few city blocksnear the seaside airport — have limited its effec-tiveness. The deaths of six parliamentarians willhave no practical effect on the government func-tions.
In a similar attack in December, a suicidebomber detonated himself at a university gradua-tion ceremony about 11⁄2 miles (3 kilometers )from Tuesday's hotel attack, killing 24 people,including three government ministers, medical stu-dents and doctors.
Somalia has not had an effective government for19 years.
Associated Press
EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y.— Thieves van-dalized mausoleums at a Catholic cemetery onLong Island and stole a woman's remains duringan overnight break-in, police said Tuesday.
The break-in happened at St. CharlesCemetery between 6:30 p.m. Monday and 7:30a.m. Tuesday, when a caretaker discovered thedamage.
Three mausoleums were entered and a casketwas removed from one, Suffolk County DeputyInspector Robert Brown said. He added that,while cemetery vandalism is a somewhat regularoccurrence, he had only heard of a body beingstolen once or twice in his 25-year career.
“The removal of a body is very uncommon,”Brown said.
Investigators believe the remains were notspecifically targeted but said the culprits cameprepared to break into a locked mausoleum.
“They knew what they would face in order toopen a casket,” Brown said.
He declined to elaborate, citing the ongoinginvestigation.
Because heavy marble slabs had to be movedin order to get to the casket, investigators believe
more than one suspect was involved, he said.Police believe the intruders likely hopped over afence surrounding the sprawling cemetery.
Relatives of the woman whose body was stolenhave been notified, Brown said. He declined toidentify the woman, who was interred about 12years ago, or her family, but said she was not apublic figure.
“She was certainly significant to her family,”he added.
He said cadaver dogs were deployed in the sur-rounding area in case the thieves decided toabandon the woman's remains.
The cemetery, which opened in 1914, is oper-ated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.It is bordered by Republic Airport to the westand a number of other large cemeteries to theeast.
“It is incomprehensible that anyone would vio-late the sacred resting place of those that havepassed from this world to eternal life,” diocesanspokesman Monsignor Kieran E. Harringtonsaid in a statement. He added that BishopNicholas DiMarzio has reached out to immediatefamily members of the woman to express his“profound sorrow and solidarity in this painfultime.”
World’s hottest pepper now grown at UT
Islamist militants invade Somalihotel, target government officials
Body snatchers steal tomb remains,vandalize Long Island mausoleum
The UT Bookstore’s shelves have emptied during the first days of classes. Mostused books are already sold, but students can still find their books for classes.
Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon
Wednesday, August 25, 20102 • The Daily Beacon InSHORT
On this day in 1835, the f irst in a ser ies of s ix art ic les announcing the sup-posed discovery of l i fe on the moon appears in the New York Sun newspaper.
Known col lect ively as "The Great Moon Hoax," the art ic les were supposed-ly reprinted from the Edinburgh Journal of Science. The byl ine was Dr. AndrewGrant , described as a col league of S ir John Herschel , a famous astronomer ofthe day.
Herschel had in fact traveled to Capetown, South Afr ica , in January 1834to set up an observatory with a powerful new telescope. As Grant described i t ,Herschel had found evidence of l i fe forms on the moon, including such fantas -t ic animals as unicorns, two - legged beavers and furry, winged humanoidsresembling bats .
The art ic les a lso of fered vivid descript ion of the moon's geography, com-plete with massive craters , enormous amethyst crysta ls , rushing r ivers andlush vegetat ion.
The New York Sun, founded in 1833, was one of the new "penny press"papers that appealed to a wider audience with a cheaper price and a more nar -rat ive style of journal ism. From the day the f irst moon hoax art ic le wasreleased, sa les of the paper shot up considerably. I t was excit ing stuf f , andreaders lapped i t up.
The only problem was that none of i t was true.
The Edinburgh Journal of Science had stopped publ icat ion years earl ier,and Grant was a f ict ional character. The art ic les were most l ikely written byRichard Adams Locke, a Sun reporter educated at Cambridge University.Intended as sat ire , they were designed to poke fun at earl ier, ser ious specula -t ions about extraterrestr ia l l i fe , part icularly those of Reverend Thomas Dick,a popular sc ience writer who c la imed in his bestsel l ing books that the moonalone had 4.2 bi l l ion inhabitants .
Readers were completely taken in by the story, however, and fa i led to rec -ognize i t as sat ire . The craze over Herschel 's supposed discoveries even fooleda committee of Yale University scient ists , who traveled to New York in searchof the Edinburgh Journal art ic les .
After Sun employees sent them back and forth between the print ing and edi -tor ia l of f ices , hoping to discourage them, the scient ists returned to NewHaven without real iz ing they had been tr icked.
On Sept . 16, 1835, the Sun admitted the art ic les had been a hoax. Peoplewere general ly amused by the whole thing, and sales of the paper didn’t suf fer.
The Sun continued operat ion unti l 1950, when i t merged with the New YorkWorld-Telegram. The merger fo lded in 1967.
A new New York Sun newspaper was founded in 2002, but i t has no relat ionto the original .
—“ This Day in History” is courtesy of History.com
This day in HistoryStudents are welcomed by the bright colors of the plants around campus. The trees also serve as cool shade from the hot weather that has affected the campuslately
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UUTT nnaammeess nneeww iinntteerriioorr ddeessiiggnn pprrooggrraamm cchhaaiirr J. David Matthews is the new chair of the interior design pro-
gram at the University of Tennessee.Matthews has 16 years of experience teaching interior
design. Prior to coming to UT, Matthews taught interior designfor 11 years at Ohio University, where he was also the directorof academic technologies for two years. As director of academictechnologies, he assisted faculty to improve teaching and learn-ing with technology.
Matthews’ first full-time teaching position was as an assistantprofessor in the Department of Housing and Interior Design atthe University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Prior to that, hespent three years in the professional arena as a designer.
Matthews was part of the Ten Visions project, which wasexhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and received one of theNational Council of Archictectural Registration Boards’Excellence in Education awards. This award recognizes a per-son’s potential to build a relationship between architecture andinterior design in the educational setting.
Matthews has a master’s degree in architecture from MiamiUniversity in Ohio, a bachelor’s degree in interior design fromOhio University and a bachelor of fine arts degree from OhioUniversity. Matthews takes the place of Josette Rabun, professoremerita, who retired in July 2009. Associate Dean BarbaraKlinkhammer had served as the interim chair.
UUTT rreecceeiivveess ggrraanntt ttoo ssttuuddyy cclliimmaattee cchhaannggee UT’s College of Engineering’s Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering (CEE), in partnership with theComputational Sciences and Engineering Division of ORNLand the University of Minnesota, have received a $10-milliongrant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the proj-ect “Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach.”UT’s segment of the total grant will be $900,000 over a five-yearperiod.
Auroop Ganguly, a senior research and development staffmember at ORNL and a joint faculty member with the CEE, isthe lead principal investigator (PI) from UT. The overall projectdirector and lead PI is Vipin Kumar from the University ofMinnesota.
The primary focus of the project will be on closing importantknowledge gaps in climate extremes. Dayakar Penumadu, pro-fessor and head of the CEE department, said in a UT pressrelease that having a unique joint faculty program with ORNLwas a key requirement for successfully securing this grant.
According to Penumadu, new initiatives are underway at UTto identify and hire up to four Governors Chairs jointly betweenthe university and ORNL in the College of Arts and Sciencesand the College of Engineering to enhance the two institutions’scientific contributions to the field of climate science. The CEEdepartment is also recruiting faculty in the areas of climate
change and its impact on both the environmental and civil infra-structure, including water resources and air quality.
Administration of the funding will be through the NSF’sDirectorate for Computer and Information Science andEngineering (CISE) and is part of that directorate’s“Expeditions in Computing,” which are among their largestinvestments in research projects.
The interdisciplinary project features 13 PIs from seven insti-tutions and includes computer scientists, statisticians, climatescientists, hydrologists, ecologists and data management scien-tists.
UUTT eexxtteennssiioonn ooffffeerrss hheerriittaaggee sskkiillllss sseemmiinnaarrssThe UT Extension’s Family and Consumer Sciences Unit,
along with the Tennessee Family and Community EducationCouncil, has planned Heritage Skills Seminars in October.These seminars will be held at the Clyde York 4-H Center inCrossville and the deadline to register is Sept. 1.
The seminars include weaving, basketry and quilting. Thecost is $275 for weaving and basketry and $190 for quilting, andthat fee includes housing, materials and meals.
UT Extension leaders say the “Heritage Skills Seminars” area great way to keep these craft-making skills alive in moderntimes. Camp participants will spend the day sewing, stitchingand creating.
The seminars also include a service project where partici-pants will make “heart pillows” for breast cancer patients at areahospitals. You can register with the UT Extension Office onlineat http://eastern.tennessee.edu/fcs/.
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One of the greatest and most important pieces ofnews to hit American media in years came last week,but sadly, that amazing story just drifted quietly into thebackground.
For those of you who might have missed it, the lastcombat troops are being sent home from their tours ofduty in Iraq. Seven full years after the start of a warthat was waged on questionable pretenses and hadfluctuating levels of public support, major militaryoperations have come to a close. Cable news networks,many major newspapers and even many local newsoutlets paid very little attention to this story, however,choosing instead to eschew the story from the gracesof their front pages or leading stories in favor of moreeye-catching reports about multi-state eggcontaminations.
Really? Is that the sense of thankfulness we, as anation, exhibit to our troops nowadays? Have we reallybecome so desensitized or apathetic to the world aroundus that we, as a people, cannot put a premium on thenews that, after about $750 billion and the deaths ofalmost 4,500 servicemen and women and the injuriesof many more, this quagmire is meeting its demise andthose who faced unspeakable peril are coming home?What is wrong with us?
The more I ponder those questions, the morefrustrated and fearful I become. See, like many, I havetaken enough classes and watched and read enoughmaterial on the subject to understand that the recentwar in Iraq is paralleling the disasters of the VietnamWar more than anyone could ever have anticipated. Thealarming fact is that I am in no way referring to thebillions of dollars spent to wage the two wars or thesizable political and economic damage they caused.Instead, I am referring to the cost paid and that willcontinue to be paid by the valiant men and women whoserved their country faithfully, loyally and withoutquestion, and the families they left behind.
You see, much like their historical predecessors, these
modern troops are returning home to very little fanfare.Sure, the families and friends of these soldiers arewelcoming them home with open arms, but theircountry has more or less collectively stated that theywould rather not think about the snafu being left behindin the sands of a nation on the other side of the globe.
This probably has to do with the fact that the soldiers’return is being met with the same lackadaisical coveragethe war in which they fought received. Instead of unitingto herald their arrivals or caring about the details of thebattles left behind, we would rather watch reports aboutthe latest season of “American Idol” or stories aboutsome strung-out celebrity going to jail. Images of flag-draped coffins were never and still are not beingbroadcast or published because politicians and newsexecutives collectively feared, and still fear, that it wouldmake the public sour and tune out.
As if our combined apathy during the time of the warand in its immediate aftermath is not shameful enough,the fact is that these troops are actually coming hometo futures that are more uncertain than those whosurvived Vietnam. Funding for GI education benefits isbeing cut, dollars formerly allotted for medical care forveterans are being pulled, and programs that ensuredreturning soldiers would be able to get jobs andaffordable housing after their homecoming are beingphased out.
These actions are not just happening at the handsof the current Democratic administration. They wereactually started by the Republicans a few years beforeour last presidential election, in which Sen. John McCain,a beneficiary of all of the aforementioned entitlementsbecause of his service in Vietnam, actually put forth theidea of cutting funding even further; both parties areguilty.
Look, folks, I know that it's stereotypicallyconservatives who leap on the “Think of the Troops”bandwagon, but it is in no way a partisan belief that we,as a nation, need to wake up and pay attention to theplight of our veterans. When nations fail to recognizeand reward former troops and the families of fallen troopsfor their tireless and unwavering service, devotion andloyalty, they are failing as much as they can possibly fail.Our nation currently falls into that description. Wecan never fully pay these veterans back for their sacrifices,but it is certainly about time we start trying.
—Derek Mullins is a senior in political science. He canbe reached at [email protected].
On August 6, Microsoft bigwig Bill Gates theorizedthat traditional universities will soon be a thing of thepast.
“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll beable to find the best lectures in the world,” Gates claimedat the Techonomy conference in California. “It will bebetter than any single university.
“College, except for the parties, needs to be lessplace-based.”
Gates explained that financially, the idea of sellinga $50,000-per-year education in today’s economic
climate is laughable. Paying $200,000 for a four-year education shouldn’t be an option for parents, Gates said.“Only technology,” Gates said, “can bring that down, not just to $20,000 but to $2,000. So yes, place-based
activity in that college thing will be five times less important than it is today.”In an increasingly digital world, it’s difficult to argue with Gates’ logic. Our generation has become saturated
with Wikipedia-type minds, a generation more consumed with the speed of gathering information rather thanwith the manner in which was obtained.
Stumped on a subject? No longer do you rush to the library. Just Google your query to yield millions of potentialsolutions in seconds.
Even for a student whose major includes the phrase “electronic media,” the far-reaching effects of the Interneton everyday life continue to astound me. But never have I imagined that the web would overtake universities asthe top destination for higher education.
Online courses and colleges, the majority of which hardly burn holes in the pockets of students or parents,have been offered for years. One can earn a degree from his or her couch, as Homer Simpson eats doughnuts inthe background. But it’s hard to fathom a time where the Internet will offer lectures and degrees that, accordingto Gates, will be “better than any single university.” And it’s even harder to fathom high school students who arewilling to give up on the freedom of the college experience.
I’m here to theorize that the quality of a college education is more accurately measured outside the confinesof GPAs and academic transcripts. The pairing of an incoming freshman and a university is a pas de deux ofopportunity and knowledge no online lecture could replace. There are too many variables that make a true collegiateexperience priceless.
Still, Gates assesses that the lighter load on students’ wallets would be the deal-breaker; a $2,000-per-yeareducation compared to $20,000 per year. The days of expensive but historically superb universities that oncechurned out generations of geniuses could be no more. With the click of a mouse, Gates says, the same could beachieved for a fraction of the cost and the time.
Financially, Gates’ argument holds water. The current price tag on college often shuts the door for too manyAmerican high school students. But even in an era where higher education takes a toll on consumers’ pocketbooks,financial aid such as the HOPE Scholarship illustrates how a competent high-school career can translate into afour-year, in-state education that won’t break the bank. UT, for example, continues to attract stellar freshmanclasses, many of whom receive university paychecks as a result of excess scholarship funds.
But what is the price tag for a college education outside the classroom? How does one put a price on the chancefor personal freedom, the opportunity to find one’s niche and essentially carve the path for the rest of life in aplace other than home? The Internet may someday boast an ability to teach that will rival some universities, butno online education could truly overshadow the on-campus experience so popular in today’s society.
The Internet has revolutionized our world, but here’s to hoping universities aren’t on the verge of extinction.The college experience is one that hopefully won’t ever disappear.
—Zac Ellis is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Those who keep up with the news surrounding Israeland Palestine are familiar with this story.
The U.S. will encourage peace talks between thetwo nations. A terrorist attack will occur, which will endthem. After a few more terror attacks, the Israel DefenseForces will lead an operation that will kill hundreds, ifnot thousands, of Palestinians. Then, there will beinternational condemnation while the U.S. defends itsally. Because of the conflict, the government in powerwill seem impotent. It will be voted out of power, and anew government will be elected. Then, the peace talkswill start again. This should, quite honestly, be theexpected outcome of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton'spush for peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.
If we are actually serious about peace between theIsraelis and Palestinians, we need to address underlyingproblems that prevent proper negotiations.
First, on the Israeli side, a few governmental changescould move the peace process along. The Knesset is a120-member parliament. Unlike other parliamentarysystems, elections are not set and it is proportionallybased: that is, a party needs only 2 percent of the voteto gain members.
The Knesset’s setup allows small parties into thegovernment, which hinders the process, making itdifficult to gain a majority. Coalitions are often the result.Israel elects members for four-year terms, yet earlyelections are usually called because of the volatility ofpolitics.
These problems hamper the advancement of peace,because governance is nigh impossible. Israel shouldrearrange the government so that there are set electionsevery four years that cannot be called early. Furthermore,the threshold for qualification should be raised to at least5 percent, if not higher.
Admittedly, this will prevent a broader form ofrepresentation, which means parties will need tocombine. Of the 18 parties in the Knesset, several withsimilar ideologies could combine. Hadash and Laborare both socialist parties and could possibly combinewith New Movement-Meretz. Shas and United TorahJudaism are both ultra-Orthodox parties; Yisrael Beiteinuand The Jewish Home parties are right-wing nationalists.
Finally, Balad and Ta'al are the two Arab parties.The parties will have to adapt and become umbrella
parties rather than those with specifically targeted groups.These changes will allow the government to take realaction like stopping more settlements in the West Bankand Jerusalem without fear of a vote of no-confidence.
Second, Palestine should focus on actually creatinga state. This means that instead of waiting for the politicsto play out, Palestine should simply declare its statehood.The international community will have to deal withthe reality on the ground if there are actually two statesinvolved.
After the Palestinian Authority declares its statehood,it should focus on building the country from the groundup so that it has a foundation from which to negotiate.It is clear that many Palestinians resent the Israelis fortheir wealth and power. If they were on the same footing,then the Palestinians might be more willing to give onsome of the negotiating points that have hindered thepeace process.
America also needs to be willing to devote more fundsto nation-building in the country. Perhaps instead ofgiving Israel 50 percent of our foreign aid, we could givethem 45 percent and lend 5 percent to Palestinianbusinesses and business owners to help them create aproper economy.
In addition, if Palestine is a recognized state, it willgain member status in international organizations likethe United Nations. It can also work towards free tradeagreements with other countries, specifically its Araballies.
This would only be the beginning of the peace process.There are still many, many contentious issues that areat play, including borders, settlements, terrorism, rightof return and water rights. However, these changes woulddramatically increase the chances of a settlement reachedthrough diplomacy.
One must only look at the current problem. If BenjaminNetanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, tried to freezesettlements, the Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu parties wouldremove themselves from his coalition. But if he does notbegin talks soon, Defense Minister and Head of LaborEhud Barak, has threatened to remove his party fromthe coalition.
Stability on both sides is necessary for proper reform.No one can expect peace between the two countries ifthey are both plagued by insecurity. Since peace talkscontinuously fail, it is time to fix the underlying problemsfirst, so real peace can be achieved.
—Treston Wheat is a senior in history and politicalscience. He can be reached at [email protected]
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BAGHDAD— Lt. Ryan Alexander stands thigh-deep in a dark grove of reeds and palm trees, huntingfor rockets. Officially, the U.S. combat role in Iraq is ending this month, but Alexander and his platoon areunder orders to keep insurgents from using the south Baghdad field as a hiding place for Katyushas.
“We're going to be doing this as long as they tell us,” Alexander said in a near-whisper in the steamy pre-dawn air, his machine gun slung over his shoulder. Behind him, Iraqi Lt. Wassan Fadah Hussein had hishandgun out and ready for action.
In the near distance came a gunshot. “Sounded like a little boom,” Alexander drawled.The number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq dipped Tuesday to 49,700, dropping below the 50,000 threshold ahead
of the end-of-the-month deadline set by President Barack Obama. But the war is not yet over for the remain-ing troops, who will continue to put themselves in danger on counterterror raids and other high-risk mis-sions that aren't called combat but can be just as deadly.
Until the end of 2011, U.S. troops will mostly focus on training Iraqi soldiers and police to take over thenation's still-shaky security. They will counsel Iraqi officials on how to endear themselves to their citizens,whether through handing out soccer balls to kids or building irrigation systems for farmers.
But they will also still be on security patrols — like the one that Iraqi police said was hit by a roadsidebomb Tuesday in the southern city of Basra, with no casualties immediately reported. And they will still bedying — the 4,416th U.S. soldier to die in Iraq was killed in a Basra rocket attack earlier this week.
In an attempt to end what he once termed "a dumb war," Obama ordered all but 50,000 troops to leaveIraq by Aug. 31. Those left behind will no longer be allowed to go on combat missions without being joinedby Iraqi forces.
Much of that change was already put into effect last summer. A security agreement between Baghdadand Washington stopped U.S.-only patrols and raids in Iraqi cities, where most of the threat exists, after June30, 2009. That same agreement requires all U.S. troops to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011.
“As far as boots on the ground, mainly it's Iraqis doing the work,” said Gen. Ali Gadaun, commander ofIraq's troop operations. “Of course, the Iraqis want to see this day coming, that their forces are in charge ofthe country and in charge of their security.”
In Massachusetts, where the president was on vacation, White House counterterrorism chief JohnBrennan called the drawdown in U.S. troops a “truly remarkable achievement.” He noted that the milestonehad been reached a week ahead of schedule and represented a drop of 94,000 troops on Obama's watch.
But Brennan acknowledged that the Iraqis still face sizable challenges, including forming a stable govern-ment and preventing terrorist bombings. “There's still more progress that needs to be made inside of Iraqto ensure that security is going to prevail throughout the country and is going to be enduring,” he said.
Over 20,000 American soldiers in Iraq have been assigned to “advise and assist brigades” and will con-tinue patrols and training exercises with Iraqis. Fewer than 5,000 are special forces who will team up withIraqi troops on counterterror raids and other high-risk missions.
The rest of the 50,000 — about half of the U.S. force in Iraq — are high-ranking officers and headquar-ters staff who mostly will be planning military strategy through the final withdrawal.
Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, leaves Sept. 1 after more than five years there.“There is still danger. There are still going to be people who attack our forces. We all know that,” Odierno
said Tuesday. Odierno said he worries that Congress next month will cut funding requests — from about$2 billion to $1 billion — intended to help Iraq secure itself from foreign threats.
Iraqis themselves are mixed on whether they feel their security forces are ready to protect them. Severalinterviewed Tuesday said they believe the U.S. will continue to control Iraq for years to come — even ifthrough aid and politics instead of its military.
“The Iraqi people feel the Americans will occupy Iraq forever and will not leave easily after sacrificing bytheir soldiers and spending billions of dollars in their operations,” said Salih Mahir, a 22-year old universitystudent who lives in north Baghdad.
In his first tour in Iraq in 2007, Capt. Rory McGovern walked through splattered human brains and othercarnage on patrol in the then-Sunni insurgency stronghold of Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad. Now he helpstrain Iraqi police to scan Baghdad streets for snipers and supplies local cops with water filters and soccerballs to hand out in the poorest neighborhoods.
McGovern is one of about 560 soldiers at Joint Security Station Loyalty in eastern Baghdad who over-see an area nearly twice the size of Manhattan and a population close to that of Los Angeles.
Just months ago, 10 times as many U.S. soldiers were patrolling the area. Now the job is largely left to anIraqi federal police force of about 16,000 officers whom McGovern and other soldiers are trying to train. Forthe most part, McGovern said, the Iraqi police seem to get it.
“We can't just leave without making sure that we see it to a sustainable end and our Iraqi security part-ners can confidently say, ‘We got it, thanks,’” said McGovern, a company commander with the 1st Brigade,3rd Infantry Division. "We owe it to everybody who put in blood, sweat and tears, and if we do it right, thenit's absolutely worth it."
U.S. Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said Iraq's military is largely looking to the U.S. to supply it with bomb dis-posal teams and intelligence from spy planes. Iraq's fledgling air force has few planes to collect intelligenceand is far from ready to protect the nation's skies from invaders.
The border has been a focus for the 3rd Infantry's 3rd Brigade in Iraq's southern Wasit province that abutsIran. But instead of jumping in to fix problems at the Zurbatiya border crossing, U.S. soldiers have had tolearn to step back and see how Iraqi guards handle it themselves.
It is often a teeth-gritting task. A scale that was supposed to weigh cargo coming across the border hassat broken for months, since the day it was first used. Explosives scanners similarly have sat unrepaired orgone unused.
Brigade commander Col. Pete Jones jokes about mastering the pros and cons of drip irrigation versusflooding farming fields in Wasit's dry, barren landscape. He said his troops have not been on any raids orengaged on any shoot-outs with insurgents since they got there last fall.
“It's a different fight than what the soldiers thought it was going to be,” Jones said.His soldiers are allowed under the security agreement to use any means necessary to protect themselves
under attack. And they sometimes team up with Iraqis for "force protection" patrols to safeguard U.S. bases.Technically, Alexander and his 1st Brigade platoon were on a force protection patrol when they left JSS
Loyalty shortly after 1 a.m. for the two-mile march with about a dozen Iraqis through dark fields and a neigh-borhood where Shiite militia leaders live. But it carried all the danger of a combat mission.
“It's not over,” Alexander told his men before they headed out. “If all combat forces are out of Iraq, if I'mthe enemy, then I'm going to test you. We're going to let them know we're here. And we're not going any-where.”
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Associated PressCHICAGO— Two gators in the Chicago River. One
strolling down a Massachusetts street. Another inbustling New York City. And that's just in the past fewweeks.
From North Dakota to Indiana, alligators are showingup far from their traditional southern habitats — includ-ing a 3-footer captured Tuesday in the Chicago River.
But experts say it's not the latest sign of global warm-ing. Instead the creatures almost certainly were pets thatescaped or were dumped by their owners.
“People buy them as pets and then they get too big andat some point they decide they just can't deal with it,”said Kent Vliet, an alligator expert from the University ofFlorida who tracks media reports about the reptiles.
In the past three years, he said, there have been atleast 100 instances of alligators showing up in more than15 states where they're not native. North Carolina is thefarthest north that alligators are found naturally, Vlietsaid.
A 3-foot-long, collar-wearing alligator was found
Sunday strolling down a street in Brockton, Mass. OnMonday, a 2-foot-long gator was spotted under a car inNew York City. In fact, since spring, gators also have beenfound in Fargo, N.D., eastern Missouri, upstate New York,rural Indiana, Ohio and a Detroit suburb.
After being spotted by boaters on Sunday, Chicago'srogue gator drew scores of gawkers to the banks of theriver. It peered from the water at the people staring backthrough binoculars, and swam away when a duck got tooclose.
“It's not scary,” 8-year-old Caleb Berry said Monday.“It was a baby and it wasn't eating anything.”
The alligator eluded capture and apparently ignoredtraps baited with raw chicken until Tuesday, when a vol-unteer from the Chicago Herpetological Society was ableto snare it with a net. Three weeks ago, the volunteercaptured a 2 1/2-foot gator in the same area.
Vliet said such small alligators don't pose much of athreat to humans — preferring to dine on fish, snails,crayfish, frogs and small snakes — though they probablywould bite if handled.
“It's not like it's going to hunt you down,” he said.
The greater risk is to the reptiles, which probablywouldn't survive long in northern climates, experts said.
“The animal is going to die a slow death,” saidFranklin Percival, a wildlife biologist for the U.S.Geological Survey in Florida who says alligators mostoften are abandoned when they reach 3 feet or so and“people wonder why they made the early decision” to buythem.
“Ecologically, it's not responsible and maybe ethicallyit is not a good idea, either,” Percival said.
Alligators can be kept as pets in some states as long asthe owner gets the proper permits, though some munici-palities — like New York City — ban them outright.Illinois stopped issuing such permits three years agobecause of problems with illegal ownership and peoplereleasing unwanted pets, said Joe Kath, endangeredspecies manager for the state Department of NaturalResources.
Cherie Travis, executive director of Chicago AnimalCare and Control, said owning an alligator is a bad idea.
“No one in Illinois needs to own an alligator. Period,”Travis said.
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BEIRUT— Lebanese Shiite and Sunnigroups traded machine gun fire and grenadesin Beirut on Tuesday, killing three people andwounding several others just blocks from abusy downtown packed with tourists at thistime of year.
Lebanese soldiers cordoned off the area andprevented journalists from entering, but thecrackle of sniper fire and popping of rocket pro-pelled grenades was audible for hours.
Gunmen stood on the corners and peeringdown alleyways in the neighborhood whilefamilies ran for cover. Ambulances rushed tothe scene and an elderly man was loaded into astretcher clutching his neck, while another wascovered in blood and not moving.
The shootout erupted between the ShiiteHezbollah and the conservative Sunni Al-Ahbash group following a fight outside amosque in the mixed residential area of BourjAbu Haidar security officials said.
A joint statement issued later by the twogroups said the incident resulted from an “per-sonal dispute and has no political or sectarianbackground.”
It said the two sides agreed to immediatelyput an end to their differences and end allarmed presence on the street.
The officials said Mohammed Fawaz, aHezbollah official from the area, and his aide,
Munzer Hadi, were killed in the clashes alongwith Fawaz Omeirat of Al-Ahbash.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymi-ty in line with regulations.
Angry fighters later set fire to a mosque inthe nearby neighborhood of Basta, accordingto an AP photographer.
Salah, a 40-year-old who did not wish to givehis last name, said he was inside the Bourj AbuHaidar mosque when he heard a commotionoutside and people screaming, “Calm down.”
Then 20 minutes later, he heard gunshotsand bullets slamming into the mosque. “Theywere shooting at the mosque. I think these peo-ple are crazy. They must have gone home toget their friends,” he said.
Salah stayed inside with others before flee-ing during a lull in the fighting.
The clashes took place as Hezbollah leaderSheik Hassan Nasrallah addressed supporters,calling for increased military assistance for theLebanese army from Iran and its Arab neigh-bors.
It was the worst clash since May 2008, whenHezbollah gunmen swept through Sunni neigh-borhoods of Beirut after the pro-Western gov-ernment tried to dismantle the group'stelecommunications network.
The fighting at the time brought the coun-try to the brink of a new civil war.
Alligator sightings increase in North U.S.
Lebanese gunmen exchange fire
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Associated Press
NASHVILLE — EverythingKenny Chesney needed toknow about dominatingcountry music, he learnedfrom football.
Whether he's firing up thetour bus or heading into thestudio, he uses the principleshe learned while playing atGibbs High School outsideKnoxville. This epiphanycame to Chesney while hewas recording for his latestalbum, “Hemingway'sWhiskey,” and eventuallygrew into the documentaryfilm “Boys of Fall,” whichairs on ESPN this Sunday.
“It's no different if you'replaying football, if you're onthe road like I am, if you'rerunning a company,”Chesney said. “Everybody'sgot to work together if theywant to achieve somethingthat's special.”
Chesney's documentarystarted out as a simple videoshoot for the single, “TheBoys of Fall.” He followedfriend and New OrleansSaints coach Sean Payton tothe coach's hometown inNaperville, Ill., wherePayton gave the season-opening pregame speech lastyear to his old high school
team.It was a special experi-
ence and Chesney started tothink about all the sportsfigures he has becomefriends with over the years.
“That's when I thought itmight be cool for me, in myyear off I took from theroad, to go around and talkto these people and see whatwe get,” Chesney said. “Itended up being one of thebest journeys of my life, andI think one of the mostimportant things I've donein my career to this point.”
Chesney's journey tookhim to places likeHattiesburg, Miss., wherehe had barbecue at BrettFavre's house, Tuscaloosa,Ala., and Austin, Texas. Hemet with the giants of thegame — Bill Parcells,Peyton Manning, NickSaban, Bobby Bowden, JohnMadden — but also spenttime filming pee wee playersin Nashville.
There were fun moments:“John Madden cooked whatis the equivalent ofThanksgiving and Christmasdinner together for us. Hetold me when I walked inthere, ‘When it comes tocooking I can take BrettFavre to the woodshed.’”
But he also came awaywith experiences that had a
larger impact on him thanhe could ever imagine.
“Listening to thoseguys talk about the heartof and the emotions andeverything that goes intoloving people and livinglife and trying to get themost out of it and how itall relates to football, itstops and makes you thinkand look at your own life,”Chesney said. “And some-times I'm too busy. I don'tdo that.”
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Football inspires country career
L eb a n o n h a s a h i s t o r y o f d e a d l y s e c t a r i a n s t r i f e . Te n s i o n s h ave b e e n r u n n i n gh i g h i n re c e n t we eks ov e r s i g n s a U. N. t r i b u n a l c o u l d i n d i c t H e z b o l l a h i n t h e 2 0 0 5k i l l i n g o f f o r m e r P r i m e M i n i s t e r R a f i k H a r i r i .
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A l - A h b a s h , o r t h e A s s o c i at i o n o f I s l a m i c C h a r i t a b l e P ro j e c t s , i s a d e e p l y c o n s e r -vat i ve Mu s l i m g ro u p a n d a r i va l t o m a n y o t h e r S u n n i g ro u p s i n t h e c o u n t r y, i n c l u d -i n g H a r i r i ' s Fu t u re m ove m e n t a n d t h e h a rd l i n e I s l a m i c Gro u p .
T h e g ro u p ' s n a m e ro s e t o p ro m i n e n c e i n t h e wa ke o f H a r i r i ' s a s s a s s i n at i o n . Twos e n i o r o f f i c i a l s f ro m t h e g ro u p we re d e t a i n e d f o r a b o u t f o u r ye a rs o n s u s p i c i o n o fi nvo l ve m e n t i n t h e k i l l i n g , b u t we re l at e r re l e a s e d .
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The members of Mumford & Sons came togeth-er in 2007, and since have shared a common pur-pose: to make music that matters without takingthemselves too seriously. The four young menfrom West have fire in their bellies, romance intheir hearts and rapture in their masterful voic-es. They are staunch friends Marcus Mumford,Country Winston, Ben Lovett and Ted Dwanewho bring their music to us with the passion andpride of an old-fashioned, much-cherished, fami-ly business.
They create a gutsy, old-time sound that mar-ries the magic of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Youngwith the might of Kings Of Leon, and theirincredible energy draws us in quickly to their cir-cle of songs, to the warmth of their stories andto their magical community of misty-eyed men.
The four friends were playing a number ofinstruments in various bands in Londonthroughout the summer of 2007. They were unit-ed to perform impromptu renditions of Marcusearliest attempts at songwriting in front ofcrowds of friends in sweaty, underground folknights in the capital. They bonded over theirlove of country, bluegrass and folk, and decidedto make music that sounded loud, proud andlive, taking music that could often be pretty anddelicate and fill it with enthusiasm, courage andconfidence.
“It was a very exciting time, and though we
loved it and were in awe of the music going onaround us, we didn’t consider ourselves con-tenders in the pretty daunting London musicscene. There was never any idea of competition,just pure enjoyment,” says Marcus. They lovedlive music so much that they would practice theirsets on pavements outside the venues and alsoact as backing musicians for the peers withwhom they played.
This sense of playing music for the love of ithas continued as the main theme through theband’s short history. They booked their firstrehearsals in the late autumn of 2007.
“As soon as we sat down together, just thefour of us, we knew we had become a band(because) what came out was unique to us fouras individuals,” says Lovett.
Out of this session came their first bandsongs, “Awake My Soul” and “White BlankPage,” highlights on their debut album. As soonas they had their first rough cluster of songs,they hit the road and chased the friendly livereception they got all over the country.
Word spread quickly of the band’s phenome-nal live show as the Sons toured extensivelythroughout 2008; from a barge-tour of theThames with eight other acts, through to anisland-hopping tour of the Scottish highlandsand a triumphant set at Glastonbury in June,they sold out London's Luminaire in July, onlyhalf a year after they got together. A trilogy ofbeautiful 10" EPs and the band’s first Americantour followed in support of Laura Marling and
Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit. With each release, the music of Mumford &
Sons got brighter, bolder and brawnier, with anincreasing focus on their impassioned and inti-mate lyrics.
“What we write about is real, and we sing andplay our instruments more passionately cos wefeel like we need to. We love honest music,” saysWinston.
Their success continued to build, too, withtwo glorious benchmarks being their place onthe BBC Sound Of 2009 Poll shortlist and theirLondon ICA show selling out in 24 hours.
When it came time to record their debutalbum, the band enlisted producer Markus Dravs(Arcade Fire, Bjork), who saw crossover poten-tial in the Sons. He took them to the legendaryEastcote Studios where Arctic Monkeys, BrianEno, Tindersticks and Laura Marling havehoned their music on its vintage equipment;made the band buy good instruments; set thema daily routine; and encouraged them to try andwork even more instinctively, to strengthen theiralready-powerful musical personality.
"He wanted us just to sound like us," explainsBen. "He talked about us working on our music'smost jubilant and melancholic moments, andmake them even more evocative. And over thosefour weeks, everything came together."
The album begins with the title track, "SighNo More," a statement of intent that referencesthe romantic language of Shakespeare's “MuchAdo About Nothing.” Amongst darkly reflective
tracks such as "Thistle & Weeds" and balladslike "White Blank Page" and "Winter Winds andRoll Away Your Stone," by contrast, show theband's sprightlier side, the rollicking banjo of theformer conjuring up stormy weather that "littersLondon with lonely hearts;” the latter, a fabuloushoedown about a man unsuccessfully filling thehole in his soul.
As the album moves on, this fervor never dies."Little Lion Man" a track that Zane Lowe namedthe “Hottest Record In The World Today” on arecent Radio 1 show, is a rampage about regretand unresolved heartbreak. And finally, after awild lashing out in the murderous fable of "DustBowl Dance,” “After The Storm” arrives, theonly track Mumford and Sons wrote in the stu-dio, away from the live stage they knew so well.It stands an incredibly moving final track to anincredibly moving album the story of a manscared of what's behind and what's before andcreates a considered conclusion to the band’sepic debut album.
Mumford & Sons’ live reputation precedesthem, which fans experienced firsthand at the2010 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Feelthe fire in your belly and the romance in yourheart as you listen, let your voice break into rap-ture and you too sigh no more.
Mumford & Sons will play the Valarium withCadillac Sky and King Charles Monday,November 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advanceand $20 at the door.
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Who says the jerseys don’tmatter?
College football jerseys andhelmets are the substance of aschool’s appearance, the brandof a sharp team. Some may beflashier than others, such as theUniversity of Miami’s, while oth-ers more conservative, like theNebraska Cornhuskers’.
Either way, there is more to aschool’s get-up than meets theeye.
Think for a second of a fewteams in college football that youlike; perhaps you followed themgrowing up as a kid — And thenask yourself if the team’s jerseysor helmets had anything to dowith it. From Ohio State’s tradi-tion of buckeye helmet stickersto — dare I mention — USC’sbright, sunny colors, each teambrings to the table its ownunique jersey style and appear-ance that embodies theirschool’s heritage.
Call them tradition, call themthreads, call them irrelevant, callthem what you’d like. Jerseys area reflection of a college footballprogram’s past and a symbol of aschool’s tradition, as well as itscurrent status.
Take Penn State for example.The team wears a very lacklus-ter, plain blue jersey with plainwhite pants and a boring, plainwhite helmet with a blue stripedown the center that shouts “oldschool.” This traditional, orrather too traditional look, repre-sents its program to a T.
The coach, Joe Paterno, is 83years old and didn’t see changein his program until he let hisassistants finally take over mostof the coaching a few years ago.Add 811 all-time wins, sixthmost in NCAA history, and alegendary coach who plans tostay in his position into the mix,and you have a program thatshows no signs of changing.
Then notice Oregon, if youhaven’t already. Their heinousNike jersey combinations areharder to guess than how theteam will actually play, flauntingfour different helmets last sea-son and sporting duck wings onthe shoulders of an all-white jer-sey in its season opener.Oregon’s jerseys change nightly,and they portray a program witha flashy, West Coast style of playand an unconvential spreadoffense comfortably.
But the jersey does more fora football team than portray its
attributes and traditions. It canimpact a team’s play, too.
The entire nation witnessedthis phenomenon last year onHalloween night when SouthCarolina came to town to facethe Vols in Knoxville.
The rumor was spreading likewildfire on message boards,amongst students and facultyand even the players themselves:“The Vols are pulling out blackjerseys this Saturday.”
But this is UT! What aboutthe tradition, the orange and theold white helmets?
The wounded Volunteerswere 3-4 on the year, coming offa heart-breaking two-point lossto then No. 2-ranked Alabama.The team was going to need alittle something extra to defeatthe 22nd-ranked Gamecocks atnight. The answer was notgoing to be drawn up with X’sand O’s, and it certainly was notgoing to be the passing gameeither.
And in a stunning display,with the roar of an utterly sur-prised crowd that had seenorange during pregame warm-ups, the Volunteers ran throughthe T in a way they hadn’t all sea-son: in black and with the gamealready won.
What happened that nightwas both methodical and beauti-ful. The Vols, clad in black,forced turnovers all over thefield in front of an ear-shatteringcrowd for most of the first quar-ter. South Carolina was rattledfrom the gates and never had achance.
Mother Nature even grantedher approval of the jersey switch-a-roo with a light drizzle, caus-ing Stephen Garcia and Co. tohandle the football like it was ahot turkey, fresh out of the oven.All this can be accredited to theenergy and momentum createdwhen the players took the fieldin their tantalizing new uni-forms.
Unfortunately for UT fans,the black jerseys were intro-duced during the Kiffin regime,and it doesn’t look like thenewest coach is looking tochange any tradition here, sodon’t look for them on the fieldagain anytime soon.
Regardless, Tennessee’s allorange jerseys with whiteorange-striped bottoms are asclassy and traditional as anyfootball suit in America, and Ithink it’s safe to say that they’rehere to stay.
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Staff Reports
"Vol Calls," the official statewide call-inradio show for UT athletics, kicks off its23rd season this week with a newWednesday-night time slot for the 2010 foot-ball season. The one-hour show airs at 8p.m. Eastern time (7 p.m. Central) from theTexas Roadhouse location across from WestTown Mall in Knoxville.
The new move fromMonday to Wednesdaynight provides more focusand more up-to-date analy-sis on Tennessee's upcom-ing football game andallows UT head coachDerek Dooley to be on siteand in attendance toanswer questions for mostof the shows during football season.
Bob Kesling, voice of the TennesseeVolunteers and UT's director of broadcast-ing, serves as the show's host and is joinedby Vol Network veteran Brent Hubbs toanswer questions and provide insight intoTennessee athletics. Once football seasongets underway, Coach Dooley will appear on-site at the Texas Roadhouse during gameweeks to answer questions and take calls forapproximately 30 minutes. Kesling, Hubbs
and Coach Dooley will be joined by formerVol standouts like Tim Priest, Jeff Francisand Pat Ryan, among others, as rotating spe-cial guests.
"Vol Calls" is the exclusive radio programwhere Tennessee fans can call in and talkwith the head coaches of the Vols and LadyVols. Fans can place a "Vol Call" anywhere inthe United States by dialing 1-800-688-8657,or Tennessee customers of Verizon can dial
#TENN. Patrons at theTexas Roadhouse may aska question in person andwill have the opportunityto register for prizes andtickets to UT home foot-ball games. Listeners alsomay submit questions inthe coming weeks bygoing to UTsports.com.
"Vol Calls" runs for 35 straight weeksfrom Aug. 25 to April 21. Once football sea-son concludes, the show moves back to itstraditional Monday night slot to betteraccommodate basketball season. The pro-gram can be heard on approximately 70 sta-tions that make up the Vol Radio Networkacross the state of Tennessee and theSoutheast. The weekly program also can beheard online for free each week throughUTsports.com.
