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  1. USF is a private school. UCSF is part of the Cal system.
  2. You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."
  3. Always heard that Title 9 killed off baseball and wrestling.
  4. UT-area bar Cain & Abel's closing at end of month; owner says bar will relocate soon Matthew Odam Austin American-Statesman 0:15 1:54 The bulldozers are coming for iconic University of Texas watering hole Cain & Abel’s sooner than owner Ellis Winstanley expected. But Winstanley already has the next chapter plotted out for his bar. The bar at 2313 Rio Grande St., that Winstanley has owned since 2002, will close at the end of month. Winstanley says he already has a new location locked. While he won’t share the location yet, Winstanley says he expects the new Cain & Abel’s to be open before the original closes at the end of April. “It is moving, 100%,” Winstanley told the American-Statesman. Winstanley has known since last summer, when the land on which his bar sits was sold, that he would eventually have to shutter. He just didn’t think it would come so soon, telling the American-Statesman last year that he estimated he had a couple of years left. More restaurant news:Veracruz All Natural owners opening restaurant in Mueller next week “I made my own assumptions based on the speed at which site plans move, which is usually a year to two years,” Winstanley said. “I guess when the tax man is going to get a whole bunch of extra taxes, they get a 300-foot tower built pretty quick.” Permits filed with the City of Austin indicate that demolition on the site that will be cleared for a 30-story student housing building will begin at the end of the month. Winstanley claims that Travis County taxing authorities and city officials desirous of more property tax income have been forcing the issue of redevelopment, which he says has led to the demise of his restaurants and others such as Hill’s Cafe. The two lots on which Cain & Abel’s and its required parking lot sit occupy about 1/3 of an acre and were appraised around $2 million last year, according to county records, with estimated taxes of about $40,000. By comparison, the nearby 18-story apartment building Inspire on 22nd sits on .3 acres and is appraised at $71 million, which led to an estimated $1.4 million in tax dollars. Cain & Abel’s opened in January 1991, taking the place of a bar called Abel Moses that existed on the site from 1980 to 1989. Winstanley said he believes the property was home to two separate bars, Bevo’s and the West Side Tap Room in the 1970s.
  5. James proving that Lars is replaceable.
  6. Agree. They also skip over the whole part of the story where Phil and George Raveling fuck over Sonny. Sole Man is one of my favorite 30 for 30 episodes.
  7. And then you feel something down by your feet It's me, it's JB, I'm suckin' upon your toes We don't mind suckin' on toes Good luck finding a boyfriend who sucks toes, oh Having sex with me and KG Now you're talking double team, supreme
  8. Always wondered if this was an homage to Auntie Mame.
  9. hanging Symbols and the Swastika Chilocco Indian Agricultural School basketball team 1908-09 Symbols serve as a significant way to express identity within society. Crosses generally identify someone as a Christian, a hammer and sickle as a communist, and black and white houndstooth as a University of Alabama fan. Of course, that simple equation provides an arena for significant competition about exactly which symbol represents which ideas. The apparent incongruency of Native Americans wearing swastikas on their basketball uniforms (Chilocco Indian Agricultural School in Oklahoma, 1908) derives from the assumption that symbols have a defined meaning. As with identity labels generally, the meanings of symbols like the swastika shift over time, and seldom does a symbol have only one meaning. The swastika is one symbol whose meaning is particularly contested today. In Europe and the United States, the swastika has become intimately tied to Nazi ideology since the Nazi party adopted it in 1920. Its use predates that adoption by millennia, found in artifacts from in North America, the Iranian plateau, South Asia, and various other locations. The meanings and explanations for these various appearances of the symbol are uncertain, but are generally assumed to be auspicious. (A 1933 pamphlet provides an interesting account of its presumed prehistorical meanings.) In regions such as South and East Asia (and among those who identify with those areas), the symbol is frequently used today not to convey a Nazi identity but as an auspicious symbol. While the Nazi swastika typically is right-facing, people in various parts of Asia display swastikas turned in either direction, often depending on the aesthetics of its creator and the context of its application. With globalization, the swastika has become a point of contention. People in Europe and the Americas who use the symbol feel compelled to explain their use of the swastika to distance themselves from Nazi ideology. The standard line is that the swastika is an ancient, auspicious symbol that Hitler misused. When some in the EU proposed banning the swastika, groups of immigrants primarily from India campaigned against the ban. Ramesh Kallidia of the Hindu Forum of Britain reportedly asserted, “The swastika has been around for 5,000 years as a symbol of peace. This is exactly the opposite of how it was used by Hitler.” While the swastika has apparently been used for millennia, though not always labeled with that Sanskrit-derived name, the narrative of pure origins and corruption homogenizes a complex symbol, assuming a singular, true meaning. Having no intrinsic content, the meanings of symbols, like identity labels, are constructed socially. Reading a meaning back into history or across communities misses that lack of inherent content. Therefore, both those who assume that any use of the swastika reflects Nazi ideology and those who assert that Hitler corrupted a positive ancient symbol construct a consistent meaning for the symbol that ignores the malleability of symbols How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it Published 23 October 2014 Share IMAGE SOURCE,STEVEN HELLER By Mukti Jain Campion Kiev In the Western world the swastika is synonymous with fascism, but it goes back thousands of years and has been used as a symbol of good fortune in almost every culture in the world. As more evidence emerges of its long pre-Nazi history in Europe, can this ancient sign ever shake off its evil associations? In the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit, swastika means "well-being". The symbol has been used by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains for millennia and is commonly assumed to be an Indian sign. Early Western travellers to Asia were inspired by its positive and ancient associations and started using it back home. By the beginning of the 20th Century there was a huge fad for the swastika as a benign good luck symbol. In his book The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption? US graphic design writer Steven Heller shows how it was enthusiastically adopted in the West as an architectural motif, on advertising and product design. IMAGE SOURCE,STEVEN HELLER Image caption, 20th Century fad: Fruit packaging, a Coca-Cola pendant, and a pack of cards, all from the US "Coca-Cola used it. Carlsberg used it on their beer bottles. The Boy Scouts adopted it and the Girls' Club of America called their magazine Swastika. They would even send out swastika badges to their young readers as a prize for selling copies of the magazine," he says. It was used by American military units during World War One and it could be seen on RAF planes as late as 1939. Most of these benign uses came to a halt in the 1930s as the Nazis rose to power in Germany. The Nazi use of the swastika stems from the work of 19th Century German scholars translating old Indian texts, who noticed similarities between their own language and Sanskrit. They concluded that Indians and Germans must have had a shared ancestry and imagined a race of white god-like warriors they called Aryans.
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