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Didn't see either match last night but it seems like Ecuador/Peru was fantastic from start to finish. Knock on wood, but it looks like a USA/Brazil quarterfinal in New York is far more likely than not at this point.

1) 1580s - last works of Tallis; Palestrina, de Lassus, Byrd, De Victoria at the height of their powers. 2) 1960s - everything came together. The folk revival continued and the blues revival began. Motown made amazing records and San Francisco put out amazing records. British Invasion, innovation in musical theater and probably the last great decade of American jazz. 3) 1860s - maybe the height of operatic composition. Wagner, Rossini, Verdi, and many others premiered great works during this prolific period in Europe.

Yeah that was a joke that didn't land. I apologize.

That's what I'd like to know. I had professors that did take-home exams, but the general rule was that they didn't care if you collaborated, but they just didn't want to see identical answers. Talk about them and discuss them, but make sure essay responses are your own. Never had an issue. I'd like to know what standard practice was supposed to be here because on first glance it seems silly to assign take-home tests and expect students not to discuss them.

Some Googling suggests that the practice of the 12-inch high grave marker is no longer generally practiced in most parts of the world. There are pictures of some Muslim cemeteries and they are littered with two-and-three-feet tall headstones. Perhaps it's gone the way of women covering their heads in Christian churches. I didn't see anything about the time restrictions in my looking, but I didn't look very hard.

I'm excited to see this re-imagining of Ghostbusters in a way that I didn't think I would be. I'm excited that it's going to have Kobe as a star. Ernie Hudson only got to play the late-comer. Good for Kobe.

Absolutely not. Every judge, in every case, at every level, will bring ideologies, biases, and personal ethics into his or her decision-making process. It is completely inevitable. If we decline to believe that a judge can interpret the law as it stands in spite of those biases, then we're abandoning the notion of what a judge is there to do. The common law is entirely dependent upon it; criminal and civil procedure are dependent upon it; even the operation of a paternity docket on a Tuesday morning in Jefferson County Family Court is dependent upon it. The revolution of American Legal Realism in the 20th century was not that we ought to recognize these ideological leanings and use them as a basis to disqualify ourselves or others, but to understand how those biases work and see them in ourselves to understand those decisions and, hopefully, make ourselves better jurists.

I hadn't read that yet. I'm not going to lie, I'd sort of been avoiding it until today. My girlfriend sent me a link to it a few days ago and I've just been sitting on it. I knew it would make me upset and angry. Even so, I wasn't prepared for the details. But it was time to read it and so I did. Everyone should read this. She touches briefly on the only part of this I feel I can speak to personally, which is the argument made by him and his representatives that this is really part of a larger discussion about the drinking culture on college campuses. Nonsense. Is heavy binge drinking a problem on college campuses in which most students are learning their bodies' and minds' reactions to alcohol for the first time and the consequences of heavy drinking? Yeah it's a problem. But I've been drunk out of my mind so many times that I couldn't even count them. By my last year of college, I spent more nights drinking than not drinking. It wasn't healthy and I'd probably do things at least a little differently if I could go back, but it's fair to say I did a lot of drinking. There were a lot of us in that boat. So here is this massive throng of affable drunks wandering around the University of Dayton -- coincidentally just a stone's throw from where this kid grew up in Oakwood (and boy do I have a lot to say about Oakwood) -- and what's interesting is that the overwhelming majority of them would never even CONSIDER doing something like this. What he did comes from somewhere else. What this guy did comes from somewhere deep and ingrained. Alcohol doesn't make you do or think things you otherwise wouldn't have in your mind. It unlocks those things within you. It lowers the inhibitions to consider the things in your mind that are already there. This came from somewhere else. Somewhere dark. Somewhere perhaps in the recesses of his mind that says "I can get what I want and the situation doesn't matter." Wherever THAT thought came from... that's what I want to find, root out, and destroy. It's a thought planted in his mind by a warped culture, I believe, an environment that allowed it to fester and reinforcement from examples he'd encountered throughout his life. Just a thought on my part, as I try to figure out where this impulse comes from. It's profoundly evil in a way that I simply don't understand. Where does it come from? It's something I thought about while reading the thread last week about the violence in Chicago and the NY Times top story last week about all the shootings in Chicago over Memorial Day. There are guns everywhere. There are cities with terrible neighborhoods and poor ghettos all over America. Something else is happening in Chicago. Where does it come from there? It's a big question. I guess it's a question we've been trying to answer for ages upon ages. But it makes me sad. And angry. And finding that answer is the only way to start to eat away at this wickedness.

Romero just disqualified following a second yellow. And just like that a huge part of the Paraguayan attack will have to sit out Saturday's game against the USA.

What a night. It's amazing how different a game looks when you're the team that gets the early goal rather than the team that gives one up.

No changes for USA. Exact same eleven. In truth, the fact that there's no change is, in itself, a change. At least he's letting the back four play together again.

Absolutely. Win or it's over. Nervous for how our guys will perform, but nights like this are why I fell in love with this game.

Oh that's brutal. Is there a more disappointing athletics program in the country? Massive underachievers in basketball and football as well.

I hate these midseason friendlies. Louisville played one last August and our starting right winger got hurt and missed four massive games during the stretch run of the season in which the team as a whole played pretty poorly. Enjoy it though. For reasons passing understanding, it'll be the club's best attended game of the season. Even better than in the playoffs. You'll never know why.

I agree. He brought Nagbe and Pulisic in at the same time on Friday and I can't help but wonder if that's a preview for tonight. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see Jones and Wood take a seat in favor of those two at the start. I think he'll leave everyone else the same at the start.

Those haircuts where the sides of the heads are almost shaved down and the top is really long and styled up. It will be completely laughable in a couple decades. There are nine million dudes that look like this rolling around in the Over the Rhine neighborhood these days. The bartender at your trendy OTR restaurant probably looks like this dude.

This has proven true. I only caught bits and pieces of Game 4, but the Sharks won out against St. Louis and other western opponents that weren't especially quick. They were completely unprepared for that level of intensity in the first two games and don't have what it takes to come back.

An especially happy birthday to one of the members of our small handful of dedicated soccer supporters here on BGP. Have a great day, Mex.

Definitely looking like their No. 1 ranking. It's an embarrassment of riches when you can send Gonzalo Higuain to the bench and replace him with Sergio Aguero. That was the best game I've seen so far in the tournament. Might be able to make a case that those are the two best teams in the field right now (despite the impressive performance from Mexico).

I don't understand. Do you have one of the original posts?

That's awesome, UKMF. Congratulations.

The foolishness with the judges this week would've been so easy to avoid -- or at least to clean up. Instead he doubled down. I just don't know what he's thinking at any given moment.

The best thing LeBron could do for his hope of getting more rings is convince Gilbert to offer the world to Golden State's General Manager and have him come to Cleveland. The draft involves luck as well as planning but the Draymond Green pick looks brilliant. And the pickup of Igoudala last season seems downright inspired. The role players are the difference for Golden State. You can somehow hold down Curry and Thompson but still some guy like Livingston or Barbosa can manage to get points on not a few possessions. It's impressive. Barbosa scored 10 points off 5-7 shooting in just 18 minutes last night. And if you're a Cleveland fan, maybe you just shrug your shoulders and thing "What do you do?" when Green goes 5-8 from the three.

Really looking forward to Argentina-Chile tonight. Has the potential to be the best game of the first round but if the tournament so far has been any indication, there's really only been one good game and it was the Mexico/Uruguay match yesterday. I really don't like that the teams expected to finish first and second in every single group are meeting on the first match day. Why not vary it a little so we don't get stuff like Brazil and Ecuador basically kicking it back and forth for a while knowing they both plan to go full throttle against Peru and Haiti?

Louisville went down a man late first half tonight with the score tied 1-1. So of course City scored three in the second half and won 4-3 on the road in Orlando. :lol2: What a ridiculous game that was.