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Lexington Breweries

A tale of two breweries

“It’s all about the beer” isthe tagline Country BoyBrewing co-owner DanielHarrison uses to describe themission and drive that in-spires him and co-ownersEvan Coppage and Jeff Bea-gle to create and experimentwith new beers.

Harrison shared that onany given day, one can walk

into Country Boy Brewingand sample as many as 15house crafted beers availableon tap.

The brewery’s namestems from Harrison’s three-year visit to Japan, where heand others started a blog enti-tled “Good Beer and CountryBoys,” in which they wouldwrite and document differentbeer-related findings they en-countered.

Harrison, Coppage and

Beagle pride themselves onbeing real Kentucky nativeswith real Kentucky ideals.

They are craftsmen,working with their hands anddoing their best to promoteshopping local, being organicand emulating the grassrootsfeel in all they do.

Since opening, CountryBoy Brewing has had asmany as 30 different housecrafted beers available forcustomers and continues to

expand their menu with sea-sonal selections as well.

In addition to the beersthey brew in house, they alsoserve beer from other localbreweries to promote localcamaraderie amongst brewersas well as maintaining goodrelationships with other localsin their area of expertise.

Lindley Winchester, UKgraduate student, says thatshe enjoys Country Boy

By Alex Lennon

news@kykernel.com

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Country Boy Brewing prides itself on variety

Supercomputers will help researchers work faster, smarter

PHOTO BY GENEVIEVE ADAMS | STAFFThe Glenn’s Creek Brewery, located in the Chevy Chasearea, is a full-fledged restaurant as well.

PHOTO BY ALEX HOLT | STAFFOwner Evan Coppage serves a pint to Dakota Smith andKyle Keener at Country Boy Brewing on Wednesday.

PHOTO BY ALEX HOLT | STAFFEvan Croppage, one of the owners of Country Boy Brewery, checks his hops filter for Brotherly Love IPA on Wednesday.

Adding new life tothe Chevy Chase area,Glenn’s Creek Brewery isborn.

The new business isbringing convenient jobsfor students, events forpeople of all ages and aplace for out-of-townersto experience the NFLSunday Ticket without allthe hustle and bustle of aregular sports bar.

In the hopes of hav-ing an actual brewery in-side the restaurant,Glenn’s Creek Brewerywas named in honor of acreek that is the watersource for their actualbrewery located in Wood-ford County. Yet GCBhad to compromise andinstead opened as arestaurant highlightinglocal beers purchased atbreweries in Lexingtonand Louisville.

Featuring tablesmade out of wood foundin old Kentucky barnsand booths fashioned

from vintage KentuckyBourbon Barrels, Glenn’sCreek Brewery wanted tobring in the rustic taste ofcentral Kentucky into itsdécor as well as theirbeers.

Manager, HeatherManning, deems themood of the bar asfriendly.

“As a new restauranton the block, the onething we definitely gotright was the atmos-phere,”Manning said.

Glenn’s Creek Brew-ery holds 200 craft beersand 28 beers on tap.

With 24 TV’s and abig screen, it’s hard forsports fans not to flock inevery Sunday.

GCB also plans to hosta UK postgame radio showtwice every month. Dec.

By Emily Markanich

news@kykernel.com

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Glenn’s Creek Brewery newestaddition to Chevy Chase

The University of Ken-tucky has taken another steptoward aligning itself withthe ever-changing, ever-ad-vancing world of supercom-puting.

An announcement wasgiven Monday about the sig-

nificant upgrades happening inthe university’s supercomput-ing resources.

UK senior vice provost foracademic planning, analyticsand technologies, and chief in-formation officer Vince Kellengave information on why thenew technology is importantfor the university.

“Every two years we go

back and we see how compu-tation has evolved and we tryto procure what’s been madeavailable,” he said. “So we tryto keep the hardware in whatwe call a refresh cycle everytwo years.”

Kellen also told the audi-ence about what can be gainedfrom the upgrades.

“The main benefit is more

researchers getting their workdone faster,” he said.

UK President Eli Capi-louto weighed in on the newsupercomputing systems andtheir importance in keepingthe university current.

“It’s an increasingly hyper-connected, technology-infusedworld and we’ve got to stay on

The Cats Cruiser offerssafe transportation to all UKstudents on Thursday, Fridayand Saturday nights from 9p.m. to 3 a.m.

With routes running fromRed Mile, Versailles Road andAngliana (red line) to HighStreet, Euclid and WoodlandAvenue (blue line) to Cooper,Dantzler and Elizabeth Street(purple line) and every point inbetween, students have manyways to get around campus

safely.David Collett, a driver for

the Purple/Blue line of theCats Cruisers, said he has beendoing this for almost 15 years.

“You’ll get all kinds ofpeople out on these nights,”Collett said.

Collett also said that Eliza-beth Street is the place where

he picks up the most students.As he drove, some peoplewaved at him, just to say hi,and others ran after him tryingto hail him down since theyweren’t at an actual bus stop.

“I don’t know how to getback to campus,” sophomoreKendra Dean said. “Now that Iknow about [the Cats Cruiser],

I’ll be using it all the time.”“I learned about it at fresh-

man orientation, but this is thefirst time I’m using it,” fresh-man Megan Clark said.

“It’s hot outside and thisbus is air-conditioned. I mightjust ride it for a while sinceyou said it’s free,” freshman

Coming off back-to-backlosses for only the secondtime in the last four seasons,the UK men’s basketballteam will try to right the shipTuesday night when theywelcome Samford Universityto Rupp Arena.

The Cats dropped out ofthe AP Poll Monday after-noon, which, from No. 8,was the largest single-weekdrop for any team since therankings expanded to 25teams in 1990. It marks thefirst time the Cats havebeen unranked under JohnCalipari.

The losses to Notre Dameand Baylor were a bit of ashock to the young UK play-ers, many of whom quicklyexperienced their first taste ofwidespread fan displeasure.

“It was a long time com-ing,” freshman forward WillieCauley-Stein said aboutdeleting his Twitter accountlast week. “It’s all nonsenseanyway. I don’t want to lookat it anymore.”

The panic has been feltacross the fanbase since Sat-urday’s loss, which endedUK’s 54-game home winningstreak, the longest in thecountry.

Calipari held two prac-tices yesterday, something hesaid he rarely does but feltwas necessary given histeam’s current struggles.

“We changed up stuff,”Calipari said. “This teamneeds it. You’ve got to fall inlove with the gym, evenwhen we’re not in practice …Well, it’s kind of showing.”

Sophomore forward KyleWiltjer, who was 1-11 from

By David Schuhdschuh@kykernel.com

Cats aim toright the ship

UK upgrading technology

Cruisehomesafely

Cats Cruiser asafe weekendtravel option

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By Morgan Eadsmeads@kykernel.com

PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFFSamayra Shabazz (right) and Jakala Radford (left) ride the Cats Cruiser around midnight Thursday night.

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Coming off two losses, Caliparilooking for more effort

PAGE 2 | Tuesday, December 4, 2012

To get the advantage, check theday's rating: 10 is the easiest day,0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) —Today isa 7 —Be respectful, and listen toanother's cries. Provide informa-tion. Passion requires commit-ment. Maintain objectivity. Letthem know you appreciate thefeedback. Say how you feel later.Postpone travel.Taurus (April 20-May 20) —Todayis a 9 —Conditions begin toimprove, with compromiseachieved. A female sets the toneand pace. Don't ask many ques-tions. Take coaching from anexpert, and practice. It works out.Gemini (May 21-June 20) —Todayis a 7 —Misunderstandings arelikely. Nonetheless, commit toyour passions. Consult with a co-worker on a priority. Bring inmore wealth. Postpone a shop-ping trip. Enjoy what you have.Cancer (June 21-July 22) —Todayis an 8 —Contentment reigns athome. On the spot creativity is

required, and it's fun and random.Help others generate necessaryfunds from available resources.Speak from your heart.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) —Today is a9 —Intuition enters the picture.Don't push too hard. Hammer outthe details. New information dis-pels old fears. Test it before seal-ing up everything. A lovelymoment is possible.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —Today isa 5 —Your suggestions may not beimmediately accepted. Don't getintimidated. Keep planning. Therecould be a communications break-down, with temporary confusion.Postpone a celebration or finan-cial discussion.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today isa 9 —Invest in your infrastructure.Obtain the necessary materials.Don't celebrate by spendingmore. Make financial talk fun.Meticulous planning pays off. Pos-itive numbers appear on the bal-ance sheet.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Todayis an 8 —Take care not to step ontoes, and connect with the groupfor public success. It's not a good

time to question authority, unlesshiring an expert.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) —Today is an 8 —Use the energyothers generate. Don't gossipabout work. Postpone travel andexpansion. It could get tense, sorelax. Keep your head down. Getmoney for improvements now.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —Today is a 6 —Follow through onyour plan. Arguing just makes ittake longer. Minimize financialrisks and watch for hidden dan-gers. Work interferes with travel.Provide information. Enjoy localcuisine.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Todayis a 7 —Soak up information, andlet your partner do the talking.Visualize perfection. Act on prof-itable ideas. Expect a visitor youhaven't seen for some time.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) —Todayis a 6 —You can get whatever youneed, and easily avoid a mistake.You've earned some rest. Othersare drawn to you today. Bask inthe glow. Postpone an outing.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The fifth-seasonfinale — “J’ai Obtenu Cette” (I Got This)”— was not available for preview, but here’sthe story until now: Clay Morrow (Ron Perl-man) has been permanently banished fromthe club for many crimes, notably the devi-ous plot that enlisted a rival gang to performhome invasions — which would force theSAMCRO board to oust Jax (Charlie Hun-nam) as president and reinstall him.

MY SAY: Last week’s episode closedwith a shot of Charming’s newest avengingangel, Lee Toric (Donal Logue) — brother ofthe nurse whom Otto (series creator KurtSutter) brutally murdered with a crucifix —with his nose deep into a book called“Watchfiends & Rack Screams.” It’s byFrench playwright and Theater of Crueltyproponent Antonin Artaud, and from thename alone one can infer this is not bedtimereading.

But it may be a clue to the dark soul of“SOA,” a vicious series where vicious peo-ple do terrible things to one another. Overfive seasons, “Sons” has consistently fea-tured some of TV’s finest performances —

Perlman’s in particular — and quite oftenTV’s sharpest writing. But endless (and esca-lating) cycles of violence would threaten toblow any show apart, and that’s what almosthappened to “SOA” this season.

As a condition of keeping this increas-ingly insane world afloat, it sometimes fellback on the oldest convention of them all —the soap opera — which occasionally pulledthe show into places that were crazy even by“SOA” standards. In the early days, “SOA”almost demanded that you recall every twistof the plot, every bit of a character’s history.Now, it’s probably a good idea just to forgeteverything and live in the moment.

That moment, by the way, is scaryenough, while “SOA” — as usual — gotgreat performances out of newcomers, likeHarold Perrineau, Jimmy Smits and Logue.But there really is no one left here to root foror care about — Jax, in particular, has be-come just another version of Otto, with a bet-ter haircut.

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Brewing because it is a "laidback, relaxed place where youcan go to get some good beer."

Country Boy Brewing op-erates with a staff of nine, in-

cluding the three owners.“It fit the zoning require-

ments necessary for a brewery,the location is close to down-town and to UK’s campus andit’s just a 10 minute walk toRupp Arena,” Harrison saidregarding the Chair Avenue lo-cation.

Harrison also noted that

what makes Country BoyBrewing different from otherlocal breweries is that theytake risks, have creative stylesof brewing and are constantlyexperimenting with newrecipes.

For more informationabout Country Boy Brewingvisit countryboybrewing.com.

COUNTRYContinued from page 1

16 will be their first show.For those costumers who

aren’t big sports fans, GCBhas you covered. Mondaysare trivia nights and on Sat-urday nights GCB has localbands perform.

All day, every day thebrewery has an eight-for-

eight deal where you can geteight dishes for $8. And let’snot forget about happy hourevery Monday through Fri-day from 4 – 7 p.m., with $2off all appetizers and $1.50off all draft beers.

With their tenth week ofbeing open starting thisweek, Glenn’s is currentlyhiring consistently.

“College students aremore than welcome to fillout an application,” co-own-

er, T.J. Gordon said.In trying to produce a

Kentucky brand on such afresh, innovative restaurant,manager Heather Manninghopes to hire “enthusiasticpeople who support Kentuckyand know about the region.”

Glenn’s Creek Breweryis located on East HighStreet in the Chevy Chasearea if you want to try out aburger, a local beer and per-haps even a new job.

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the cutting edge,” he said.President Capilouto also

said the technology willhelp UK move forward inresearch.

“We cannot overstatethe importance of this tech-nology,” he said. “We can-not move forward, we can-not be positioned to recruitand retain world class facul-ty and researchers if we donot have this capacity.”

The system will give theuniversity a competitiveedge, President Capiloutosaid.

“It leverages us, itstrengthens us to get thenext awards and to recruitthat next group of best and

brightest students,” he said.Clinical information

specialist of public relationsKeith Hautala said in anemail the supercomputingtechnologies will not exclu-sively benefit researchers,but students as well.

“Students benefit fromhaving world-class scien-tists as their teachers andmentors. There are alsoplentiful opportunities forundergraduate and graduateresearch at UK,” he said.“There’s really a tremen-dous amount of exciting re-search being done across alldisciplines here on campus,and there are plenty of waysthat students can plug intothat and benefit from it.”

Hautala said the tech-nology is important to com-plete research in medicine,physics and agriculture as

well.“This type of research is

impossible without the com-puting resources to handlevery large sets of data,” hesaid. “The supercomputercan do in minutes whatwould take even the mostpowerful desktop computerweeks, months, or evenyears.”

The university receiveda grant to contribute to theupgrades in supercomputingtechnologies.

The NSF Cyber Infra-structure grant is for $1 mil-lion and will be applied toobtaining important soft-ware, Hautala said.

“It will be used to de-ploy software-defined net-working, which gives re-searchers more direct, dy-namic control over the flowof data,” he said.

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Sally Chamness said. “Ididn’t know about it, but Ithink it’s a great way for stu-dents to safely get around.The routes are very conven-ient.”

“We have friends that liveon Red Mile Road and thereare buses that run out there(the red line of Cats Cruisers)so we don’t have to walk.

Red Miles is not exactly thesafest place around campus,”sophomore Ebony Davis said.

“Not only are the routesconvenient, but the days andtimes it runs are very conven-ient, too,” sophomore JessicaHinkle said. “[UK StudentGovernment] knows that a lotof people go out and party onThursday, Friday and Satur-day nights and 3 a.m. is lateenough that they can stay outand have a good time and stillhave a safe way to get home.”

...they canstay out and

have a good time andstill have a safe wayto get home.”

JESSICA HINKLEUK sophomore

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Art education classeshave put a new spin on thecliché in their exhibit atAwesome Inc. on MainStreet, which houses agallery for exhibits of stu-dent artists.

Dr. George Szekely, AreaHead of Art Education atThe University of Kentucky,has 22 students that willhave their art on display. Hisfocuses in class are child’splay, basic design and unin-hibited creativity with ob-jects and are displayed along

the walls of the gallery. In class, Szekely has en-

couraged students to remi-nisce on the playing of theirchildhood days. He encour-ages his students to learn toplay with children.

“The more you make be-lieve, pretend, fantasize, themore natural it becomes,”Szekely said.

Displayed beyond the tipof his finger was a tablehosting many lampshades.This table stood representa-tive of a lamp store, whichthe artist acted out in Szeke-ly’s class. Within the exhibit,the roots of childhood are

fashioned around the room.“The first designs chil-

dren love are their teddybears,” Szekely said.

He discussed the designof setting the table as a childand crafting imaginaryscenes in the food. Although,playing with food was dis-couraged, Szekely points outthat it too is design.

Around the gallery is thedisplay of a living room de-signed for a doll, tracks de-signed for toy cars andkitchens designed and craft-ed from felt.

“Anyone can design any-thing if they put their mind

to it. I’m an interior designmajor and I did a food ex-hibit,” first year graduatestudent Sabrina Mason said.“I don’t have to just do inte-rior design and I can do any-thing I want to do—makethe things I have alwayswanted to make.”

Each work is a display ofthe basic designs childrenknow well and are fascinatedwith. The works depict thereflection on the childhoodsof the artists learning to beteachers, “artist-teachers” asSzekely would call them.

This plays on what stu-dent Bryan Reinholdt hopeswill be taken away from theexhibit.

“It’s the process of both

making art and also being aneducator. Notice that they takesimilar paths, finding a profes-sion as an artist-teacher, notjust an art teacher.”

Among the designs, theuninhibited creativity is inte-grated. The students inSzekely’s classes are encour-aged to make the art room awelcoming place. A collec-tion of items from the sideof the road, yard sales andthrift stores are cherished inthese art education classes.

“It is about playing withthese things, taking themapart and seeing what theycan be,” Szekely said.

Parts and pieces of thingsthrown away can be observedtaking on a new form in this

exhibition. “Objects havemany lives if we auditionthem,” Szekely said.

The exhibition will beopen for one more week at348 Main Street in down-town Lexington, there is nocharge to view the exhibit.In the viewing, you can re-live childhood play, viewconcepts of basic design andrelish in the uninhibited cre-ativity of the students.

All the works stand forthemselves in reiteratingwhat Szekely has tried toteach his artist-teachers.

“Ultimately we want toteach kids that they canbring anything to the artroom and you won’t tellthem it’s trash.”

By Laura Stradernews@kykernel.com

Art classes portray child imaginationDowntown exhibit displays unusual designs

Go Green. Recycle this Kernel.

The lawn separating theUK’s Main Building fromSouth Limestone was illu-minated Monday night bythe candles of 75 studentsand community membersconcerned about workers’rights.

The student organization,United Students AgainstSweatshops (USAS), hosted acandlelight vigil for sweatshopworkers to kick off their sec-ond campaign.

The organization hasachieved its goal of increasingthe UK's products sold fromAlta Gracia. Alta Gracia is aunionized factory with work-ing conditions actively betterthan those of other clothingfactories.

Now the group has set itssights on a different goal, con-vincing the UK administrationto affiliate the university withthe Worker Rights Consor-tium.

WRC provides accounta-bility for universities and helpsthem become aware of theconditions the workers whoprovide their merchandise en-dure.

Alli Sehon, anthropologysenior and USAS member,called for those in attendanceto write UK President EliCapilouto and ask him to sup-port affiliation with the WRC.

The university is alreadyaffiliated with an organiza-

tion known as the Fair LaborAssociation, but Spanish andsustainability junior andUSAS member SamanthaMeador says this is not suffi-cient.

Meador stated the FLA isnot transparent and does notallow for student and commu-nity involvement the wayWRC does, a fact she sayscould affect how accountablethe group is.

“We’re not necessarilyasking for the university tostart over and unaffiliated withthe FLA, but to affiliate withthe WRC additionally,”Meador said.

Student speaker, psycholo-gy sophomore and USASmember Brock Meade alsomentioned ways the WRCcould be more beneficial toworker’s rights and the univer-sity.

“Unlike the Fair Labor As-sociation, the Worker’s RightsConsortium allows workers tobe interviewed outside of theirwork place,” he said.

This allows for more accu-rate accounts of working con-ditions when the fear is re-moved from telling the truth,Meade said.

Former sweatshop workerof Honduras and current direc-tor of Lexington Fashion Col-laborative Soreyda Benedit-Begley also spoke at the vigil.

Benedit- Begley recountedsome of her experiences in thesweatshops of Honduras.

She told about the need

for her to work to help sup-port her family at the age offourteen and how people,girls mostly, would line upoutside factories and beg tobe chosen for work.

“Fourteen-year-olds hereshout for Justin Beiber, four-teen-year-olds there shout toget a job,” Benedit-Begleysaid.

She said in a place wheremoney was so scarce, thesmall wages of the sweatshopsseemed like a lot.

“I actually wanted to leaveschool to work in those placesbecause I was like, yeah, I’mmaking money,” Benedit-Beg-ley said.

The work day, generallyspanning from seven in themorning to ten at night wasfull of stress and expectationscausing workers to skip lunchand breaks, she said.

“There is always a contin-uous pressure, if you were notkeeping up you could befired,” Benedit-Begeley said.

Since coming to Lexing-ton about 13 years ago, Bened-it-Begely has become involvedwith fashion—not just theglamour of it, she says, but thebackground of how things aremade.

One student said the pro-gram was a motivation to act.

“I think hearing fromSoreyda was very striking forme,” said Delia Gibbs, psy-chology and Spanish senior.“Hearing first-hand her ac-counts was very powerful.”

By Morgan Eads

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This week in the NBA, itwas Rajon Rondo that onceagain made national attention.Rondo’s streak of more than10 assists in consecutivegames ended by default due toa Wednesday night scufflewith the Brooklyn Nets’ KrisHumphries.

The shoving battle led tothe ejection of Rondo and wasfollowed by a two-game sus-pension for the Celtics pointguard.

“Rondo and I talked and Ithink Rondo is not happy withthe fact that he’s not there onthis team in the next twogames,” Ainge said Friday toThe Boston Globe. “I thinkthat’s the most importantthing. Rondo’s a very emo-tional player, he’s a toughcompetitor.”

One former UK star whohas started to emerge this sea-son is Houston Rockets powerforward Patrick Patterson.

In week five alone, Patter-son averaged 23 points overthree games and solidifiedhimself as a legitimate threatfrom 3-point range, makingsix of 12 from deep.

“My teammates are look-ing for me,” Patterson toldJonathan Feigen of UltimateRockets. “If I’m knockingthem down, I’m going to keepshooting them. My teammateshaving that confidence, pass-ing to me when I’m on theperimeter, makes me want toshoot it more.”

Patterson’s teammate, Ter-

rence Jones, was assigned tothe NBA DevelopmentalLeague on Friday after receiv-ing limited playing time forthe Rockets throughout thefirst month of the season.

Jones’ stint with the RioGrande Valley Vipers did notlast long. The rookie forwardaveraged nearly 23 points and18 rebounds in just two games.Jones has since been calledback up to his original Rocketsteam.

DeAndre Liggins, whowas sent down to the D-League last week, was reas-signed to his Oklahoma CityThunder team for their Satur-day night win against the An-thony Davis-less New OrleansHornets.

Liggins played 7 minutesin the game scoring 3 pointsand grabbing 2 rebounds forthe Thunder.

Davis has played just sixgames in his rookie season andis likely out for at least anotherweek as he continues to rehabhis ankle.

“I think he’s a week awayfrom us thinking about himramping up his conditioning;let alone playing,'' Hornetshead coach Monty Williamstold The Times Picayune. "SoI just think it's still far off.''

Doron Lamb was an im-portant piece for UK’s 2012national championship team.Now, after a slow start, therookie guard seems to haveplayed himself into a role forthe Milwaukee Bucks as hehas played over 15 minutes ineach of their last four games.

Lamb played a pivotal

role in the Bucks’ win overdivisional rival ChicagoBulls. The Bucks foundthemselves in a 27-pointdeficit during the third quar-ter, but Lamb and the secondunit rallied and came up witha 93-92 victory.

"He did a great job," veter-an teammate Mike Dunleavysaid of Lamb’s play. "He has away about him; he doesn't getsped up. The moment is nevertoo big for him. He just comesin there and plays his game of-fensively and defensively."

Jodie Meeks is anotherformer Cat who is beginningto advance his play this sea-son. The shooting guard cameinto this NBA season withhigh expectations as a shooterin the Los Angeles Lakers’second unit.

Meeks seemed to havefound his stroke during theLakers Friday night winagainst the Nuggets.

He finished with 21 pointsin 17 minutes off the bench.All of Meeks’ points camefrom long range as he shot 7-8from beyond the 3-point arc.

Former Cats in action thisweek include Eric Bledsoe,whose L.A. Clippers teamtakes on the Dallas MavericksWedneday. Josh Harrelson ofthe Miami Heat will meet hisformer team, the New YorkKnicks, on Thursday. On Fri-day, Rondo returns to action asthe Celtics battle the Philadel-phia 76ers, and former team-mates Jodie Meeks and DeAn-dre Liggins will meet whenthe Lakers take on the Thun-der.

By Nick Jonesnjones@kykernel.com

NBA recap: Rondo falls short of record

PHOTO BY HARRY E. WALKER | MCTBoston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo jumps over and avoids Washington Wizards forward MartellWebster in the second half of their game on Nov. 3. Rondo was ejected for fighting on Wednesday.

STAFF FILE PHOTOJoker Phillips will become an assistant coach at Florida on Thursday.

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFIsaiah Austin guards sophomore Kyle Wiltjer in Saturday’s game at Rupp Arena.

After firing former headcoach Joker Phillips, the UKfootball program has movedforward, announcing Mark

Stoops asnew headcoach tomuch fan-fare in aSundaynews con-ference.Now itlooks as ifthe manwith thepink slip isready tomove on as

well — and ata familiar conference foe.

Phillips will join Universi-ty of Florida head coach WillMuschamp’s staff as wide re-ceivers’ coach and recruitingcoordinator, the website Foot-ballscoop.com reported Mon-day. Florida made the an-nouncement official later thatafternoon.

Thursday is expected tobe Phillips’ first day at theGators’ office, and he willlikely be part of the Gators’game-planning for their Sugar

Bowl matchup against theLouisville Cardinals — ateam he is somewhat familiarwith, you could say.

The hire is an interestingone, to say the least. Phillipswill now be tasked with help-ing defeat his former team,both on the field and in re-cruits’ living rooms.

Cats fans will still see himon the sidelines during SECgames, decked out in blue andwhite — only now there willbe a dash of orange thrown in.

A lot of the initial fan re-action could very well beanger toward Phillips. A turn-coat, they’ll call him. Howcan a UK guy take a positionwith a team that has routinelymade a mockery of his almamater, they’ll ask.

But that isn’t fair. Don’tbe they guy who broke upwith his girlfriend, then hassomething to say about hernew flame. That guy is awful.

The only reasonable reac-tion is to be happy forPhillips. Joker, it is universallyagreed, is one of the goodguys in college football. Hedoesn’t cheat. He cares abouthis players.

Wishing he’d wind up infootball oblivion, coordinatingsome offense unheard of bymost of the civilized world, isspiteful and ridiculous. He isnot the sole reason for UKfootball’s struggles, and he puthis heart and soul into a pro-gram he had been apart of fordecades.

I hope that UK footballfans have more sense thanwishing ill on a native son try-ing to move on from what isundoubtedly as tough a timeas he’s ever faced. The graceand integrity Joker displayedduring the exit process hasearned him some measure ofunderstanding.

I hope that when Floridavisits Commonwealth Stadi-um on Sept. 28, 2013, fanswill welcome Joker homewith a standing ovation, agreeting well deserved consid-ering all he invested duringhis time as a player and coachhere in Lexington.

It seems Phillips wasn’tcut out to be a head coach, es-pecially at a historically foot-ball-challenged school. Hisnew position suits him better;he can focus on his strengths

rather than trying to managean entire team’s weaknesses.

Plus, recruiting players ina region fertile with footballtalent to a school with a pres-tigious history will be a lotless stressful than the toughsell of getting star players toKentucky.

Phillips told fans duringhis last season at UK thatonce he was no longer coach-ing the Wildcats, he’d be oneof them — a fan. Joker’s po-tential success at Floridawon’t necessarily prevent UKfrom achieving its goals. I’msure he is still rooting for theteam he’s loved his whole life.It won’t hurt to root for him,as well.

After all, the split hasproved beneficial for both par-ties. UK has a new coach whois injecting life into a programthought to be dead in the wa-ter. Stoops’ plan for successhas season ticket sales surgingand optimism at a record high.

Now that the JokerPhillips era at UK is over,both the man and the team arein position for success, some-thing neither has seen in sometime.

Phillips to Florida: UK fans should support ex-coach

Florida State defensiveends coach D.J. Eliot hasagreed to become the UK de-fensive coordinator, accordingto Pete Roussel of Coach-ingsearch.com.

A UK Athleticsspokesman said the schoolcould not confirm any hiringsper school policy.

Eliot would be the firstaddition to new head coachMark Stoops' initial staff.Eliot coached at Florida Stateunder Stoops as the defensiveends coach, arriving at FloridaState in 2010, as did new UKhead coach Mark Stoops.

Eliot coached All-ACCFirst Team linemen BjoernWerner and Cornelius Carra-dine the past three seasons.Werner was also named the2012 ACC Defensive Playerof the Year. FSU allowed itsopponents to run for an aver-

age of just 2.35 yards per car-ry in 2012, which led the na-tion.

Prior to his time with theSeminoles, Eliot coached atRice, where he served as de-fensive line coach and recruit-ing coordinator from 2007 to2009.

Eliot was a part of the2002 Miami (Fla.) coachingstaff as a graduate assistant.Also on that staff was Stoops,who served as the Hurricanes'secondary coach from 2001 to2003.

Eliot played at Wyomingfrom 1995 to 1997 at line-backer before injuries forcedhim into a student assistantrole his senior season.

Eliot's experience led himto a graduate assistant role in1999.

Stoops to bringEliot from FSU

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the field Saturday, was in the gym getting shotsup before practice, his shirt already soaked withsweat.

“That’s a good sign,” Calipari said. “We needsome other guys to do it. That’s the scary part.”

Sophomore guard Ryan Harrow played sig-nificant time at point guard on Saturday. Caliparisaid he hopes Harrow continues to progress whileplaying the other guards alongside.

“He’s got to play winning basketball,”Calipari said. “I want Jarrod (Polson) to fightand hold the spot. I’ve played with all kinds ofdifferent point guards; the game is a little dif-ferent.”

Freshman guard Archie Goodwin, who hadbeen used exclusively at the point guard in thefirst six games, is ready to potentially move backto shooting guard.

“I feel comfortable playing the two a littlemore because it’s my natural position,” Good-win said. “Ryan is definitely going to help usas soon as he gets in the groove of things. It isgoing to make the game a lot easier for a lot ofus because he is a great facilitator and a greatplayer.”

Samford enters the game Tuesday with a 2-7record, having lost their last six games. The Bull-dogs lost to Louisville 80-54 and recently lost toFlorida Gulf Coast by 24.

The game is scheduled to tip at 7 p.m. andwill be broadcast on Fox Sports South.

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When I chose to be a historymajor in college, I confused theidea of choosing a subject of

study with a dis-cipline. I hadfirst thought ofinternational re-lations, havingbeen a part ofModel UnitedNations in highschool andmarking myweeks with theLos AngelesTimes’ “WorldReport” section.I had also been

strongly influenced by my highschool history teacher, who hadalmost completed his PhD andtaught us what “historiography”meant. Looking back twentyyears later, I realize that my un-derstanding then was shallow; Iknew that historiography wasabout schools of thought, but Ididn’t really know how a historianconducted research, nor how hecame to conclusions.

As a freshman I stumbled intoa program called “Directed Stud-ies,” a year-long six-course se-quence on the great books of theWestern world. In “Literature”we started with Homer, in “Phi-losophy” with Plato, and in “His-tory and Politics” we began withHerodotus. We read a book aweek in each course, with twoweeks for selections from theBible. Each course featured onelecture and two recitations aweek; the latter were led by pro-fessors and the former rotatedamong them according to theirfield of specialization. The hun-dred students selected for “Di-

rected Suicide” wrote one paper aweek, rotating among the threecourses. To this day I associatethe coffee at Bruegger’s Bagelswith a Thursday nearly all-nighter.

But by the end of the year Iwas no closer to choosing a sub-ject, though I did discover that Iliked to read texts. Like 20 per-cent of my class, I chose to majorin history, but I did so because Ithought that with history I didn’thave to choose. I could, after all,study the history of anything: Thehistory of science, the history ofmusic or the history of ideas. Andso I plunged merrily into my edu-cation, each summer thumbing thecourse catalog in great anticipa-tion, but ultimately choosingcourses in intellectual history, orfollowing the professors whoseteaching style I liked. I didchoose electives, but with the ex-ception of calculus (which Ithought necessary to being an ed-ucated person) and music theory(in which I learned that beingtone-deaf means that you fail witha B). I mostly took languagecourses. It never occurred to methat I was getting very lopsided; Iwas drinking from the firehose ofhistory, and it mattered little that Iwouldn’t have been able to recog-nize its close cousins in anthropol-ogy or sociology.

Confusing subject with disci-pline, then, is the thing I regretmost about my college education.What I didn’t understand is that adiscipline — like history — is notjust about stuff to know (or evenreally cool stories from the past),it is a way of knowing. A disci-pline is a method of inquiry: His-tory is an approach to askingquestions, of doing research, of

drawing conclusions based on the-ories and research. At Yale wehad nothing like UK’s gatewaycourse of “History 301” whichteaches our undergraduates themethods of history, or the cap-stone class of “History 499,”which cumulates in an original re-search paper. In the same waythat my generation was supposedto absorb grammar by reading(rather than diagramming sen-tences), history majors at Yalewere supposed to figure out howto do history by reading historybooks. But in the same way thatthe former approach to grammarhas failed, the osmosis method tobecoming an historian was woe-fully incomplete. If we can teachthe gateway and capstone courses(and teach them well) our majorsshould walk away with the sensethat a discipline is both knowl-edge and knowing.

So my advice for you istwofold.

First, explore as much as youcan. Take a class in an unfamiliardiscipline with the goal of learn-ing how it asks questions. Does itbuild models? Does it engage inparticipant observation? Does itdesign surveys? Years hence, youshould be able to read a maga-zine’s summary of research andevaluate whether you think the ev-idence stands on its own.

And second, once you returnto your own disciplinary fold,choose your major because youlove the subject and because ofthe lens it gives you.

Denise Y. Ho is assistant pro-fessor of history in the College ofArts and Sciences. This is thefourth of an occasional series onbeing an undergraduate.

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Black Friday: Tales of grabs,shouts, and violence.

Hordes of crazed mothers,teens, and shopping fanatics lin-ing up in the cold temperaturesat the crack of dawn.

Sound like a euphoric atmos-phere? Not exactly.

This year, however, I willing-ly participated in the Black Fri-day madness.

As Thanksgiving Day cameto a close, I buckled up in mybeat-up Camry and drove off toWalmart with this shopping listin mind: $9.44 5-quart crock pot,$10 coffee maker, and anythingelse that seemed like a reason-able deal.

As I entered the store, im-ages of Keeneland on openingday rushed to my mind--- Wal-mart was PACKED!

Person after person waited inline with their overflowing cartsof electronics, clothes and appli-ances.

Aisles in the store were al-most stripped clean as peoplesnagged the sale items and pro-tected them as if it was a new-born baby with multiple softspots.

After searching through pilesand dodging the masses I finallyspotted one of the items on my

short list-- the coffee maker.Wooh whooo!

I'm not going to ignore thetruth that a feeling of extremeaccomplishment filled my bodyas I reached for the cube of sav-ings.

That box must have switchedon a hidden "Black Fridaymode" in myself, as I suddenlywanted to fill my arms withEVERYTHING that was markeddown.

A $6.99 pajama set? $20video camera? $60 Paula Deenpots and pans collection?

As I found myself crouchedto the floor, squashed betweentwo strangers and diggingthrough a mess of DVDs, thatswitch seemed to flicker.

Am I turning into one ofthem?!

The switch flipped off whenI reasoned with myself and feltcompletely guilty. I don't NEEDany of this.

My mind changed channelsfrom opening day to starvingchildren all over the world. Tofamilies who can't pay their rent.To mothers who can't afford tosend their young ones for med-ical attention when severely sick.

Is Black Friday a collectionof superficial Americans, igno-rant to the struggles of those allover the world? Or merely an ef-fect of the current recession(with this being the only timethey can afford such luxuries)?

Olivia Jones is a journalismfreshman. Emailopinions@kykernel.com.

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WASHINGTON — A Republi-can proposal Monday to shave $2.2trillion off projected budget deficitssets up a fiscal-cliff showdown withthe White House because the planincludes reductions in the very taxrates that Democrats seek to raise.

The Obama administration’sopening offer sought to raise $1.6trillion in taxes over 10 years, muchof it from higher income-tax rateson the wealthy. Republican leadersin the House of Representativescountered Monday with their ownoffer, saying their plan would raise$800 billion in new tax revenues butbasing that on cuts in tax rates cou-pled with limits on deductions thatwould make more income taxable.

The plan, contained in a three-page letter signed by seven HouseRepublican leaders, is a counterofferto last week’s Obama administrationproposal. Aimed at jump-startingstalled talks, the proposal insteadsharpens the battle lines with justfour weeks to go until temporary taxcuts expire for all Americans andautomatic spending reductions startgoing into effect.

The Republican offer included:—$1.2 trillion cut from project-

ed spending over the comingdecade.

—$800 billion in new tax rev-enues.

—$200 billion from changes toa wide variety of federal programs

that might include new ways of cal-culating cost-of-living increases.

No money is included for eco-nomic stimulus; the Obama plansought $50 billion in one year. Noris any mention made of increasingthe nation’s debt limit.

That’s significant, because theWhite House is seeking an easierway to approve increases that allownew debt to be issued to cover exist-ing obligations. The federal govern-ment is expected to start bumpingup against the $16.3 trillion debtceiling late this month, and extraor-dinary measures to move moneyaround could buy another twomonths, three at most, before theUnited States defaults on some ofthe debt it owes, absent establish-ment of a new ceiling.

The White House panned theproposal as unbalanced.

“In fact, it actually promises tolower rates for the wealthy andsticks the middle class with thebill,” White House spokesman DanPfeiffer said in a statement. “Whilethe president is willing to compro-mise to get a significant, balanceddeal and believes that compromiseis readily available to Congress, heis not willing to compromise on theprinciples of fairness and balancethat include asking the wealthiest topay higher rates.”

House Speaker John Boehner,R-Ohio, argued Monday that theWhite House offer “couldn’t passthe House and couldn’t pass theSenate.”

The $800 billion in tax revenue,which Republicans contend is a sig-nificant concession, wouldn’t beachieved through higher tax rates,“which we continue to oppose andwill not agree to in order to protectsmall businesses and our economy,”the House Republicans’ letter said.

“Instead, new revenue would begenerated through pro-growth taxreform that closes special interestloopholes and deductions whilelowering rates,” they argued.

The White House’s proposalseeks to raise $600 billion over adecade by eliminating tax deduc-tions, and $960 billion over 10 yearsby raising marginal tax rates for thetop 2 percent of income earners.

It was unclear whether the Re-publican plan could raise $800 bil-lion by lowering tax rates whilecurbing deductions so more incomewould be taxed.

“The bottom line is that withoutdetails you can’t say much of any-thing. You can say yes, there areways you can lower rates and get ridof preferences and bring in $800 bil-lion,” said Roberton Williams, asenior fellow at the Tax Policy Cen-ter, a research center run by the cen-trist Urban Institute and the center-left Brookings Institution.

If itemized income-tax deduc-tions were capped at $50,000, thatcould result in about $750 billion innew revenue over 10 years, he said,about what Boehner proposes. If de-ductions were capped at $25,000, anumber floated by the Mitt Romney

campaign, it could yield more than$1.3 trillion over 10 years, Williamssaid.

“Could it be done? Yes. Specificparameters would drive it one wayor the other,” he said. “Withoutmore details, it’s really impossibleto say whether it actually meets thecriteria.”

The $1.2 trillion in proposedspending cuts includes $300 billionin savings on discretionary pro-grams, or spending that Congressand the White House can controlmore easily. Such programs usuallyinclude education, housing andtransportation.

The other $900 billion wouldcome from so-called mandatory pro-grams and health care, presumablyMedicare, Medicaid and other pro-grams in which spending is oftensubject to automatic formulas.

The GOP plan wasn’t specific,although the letter to the presidentnoted that a House-passed budgetresolution assumes “enactment ofstructural Medicare reform.” TheWhite House hasn’t been too specif-ic, either, and that’s troubling tobudget watchdog groups.

“The big deal is health carespending,” Alice Rivlin, a formerFederal Reserve vice chairman, saidMonday.

Rivlin and former New MexicoRepublican Sen. Pete Domenici,who headed the Senate BudgetCommittee during past tax deals, of-fered an updated version of a planthey co-authored at the Bipartisan

Policy Center. Their plan includesgraphics showing that health carespending is the driver of the nation’sfiscal problems, and both rapped theadministration for not spelling outmore clearly what it envisions formandatory spending programs.

“You can’t get to a solution un-less you do entitlement reform,”said Domenici, now an elder states-men.

The Republicans haven’t pub-licly worked out the process for ap-proving any of their proposals.Some presumably would be passedbefore Dec. 31, when the Bush-eratax cuts are due to expire and auto-matic spending cuts totaling $109billion are to take effect in January.Other pieces would be passed later,though the two sides would be ex-pected to create a framework forconsideration.

“What we’re putting forth is acredible plan that deserves consider-ation from the White House,”Boehner said.

In the Senate, where Republi-cans haven’t offered a plan, Minori-ty Leader Mitch McConnell of Ken-tucky was sympathetic to the Houseoffer.

“While the president hasn’tmoved an inch away from his ef-forts to please his radical left-wingbase, the speaker has consistentlyshown a good-faith effort to findcommon ground and a realistic ap-proach to solving the very real eco-nomic problems facing our coun-try,” McConnell said.

GOP counter for Democrats on fiscal cliffBy David Lightman and Kevin G. Hall

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Former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jo-van Belcher’s name appears on at least threepolice reports released by University of Maineofficials on Monday.

In April 2006, which was Belcher’s fresh-man year, he was upset over a woman andpunched a dormitory window, according to offi-cials.

In February 2007, officers responded to anoise complaint involving Belcher and his girl-friend and “a discussion outside his room.”

Belcher on Saturday fatally shot KasandraPerkins, whom he met in Kansas City and wasthe mother of their 3-month-old daughter, andlater committed suicide with a handgun at the

Chiefs practice facility.“I was told Belcher was upset over a girl

and punched a window out,” states the Univer-sity of Maine police report on the April 1, 2006incident. “There was a lot of blood outside ofthe west entrance and in the lobby” of An-droscoggin Hall.

“I noticed the window to the interior,ground floor door, to the center stairwell, bro-ken out,” the report continues. Belcher had topay restitution.

One of Belcher’s former teammates, MikeBrusko, who played for the Black Bears during2005-08, said the incident involved some intox-ication and bad judgment.

“I have at least two or three other friendswho have done exactly the same thing,” Bruskotold The Bangor Daily News. “I know all of

them, and I would only have ever attributed thatto a bad decision that was influenced by alco-hol.

“He wasn’t the only person drinking thatnight. I’ve made a hundred decisions like thatthat I’d like to take back. Nobody ever wouldhave taken that incident and turned it into somesort of foreshadowing of what he would (ulti-mately) do.”

A third report — a request by Belcher to belet into a building — was found during an in-quiry Saturday evening by The Bangor DailyNews.

While in college, Belcher participated in afor-credit class called Male Athletes Against Vi-olence during the fall semester in 2007, accord-ing to a statement that was issued by the univer-sity in response to a request for an interview

with Sandra L. Caron, professor of family rela-tions and human sexuality.

“MAAV is an effort to involve men so thatwe can begin to understand that violence is verymuch a ‘man’s issue,’” the statement said.

The university statement said the studentswho enroll are typically varsity athletes.

During his time at the University of Maine,Belcher also participated in the Big BrothersBig Sisters organization in Greater Bangor. Inthat capacity, Belcher spent time with some lo-cal youths who were in need of a male rolemodel.

“I often saw Jovan with underprivilegedkids,” Brusko said. “I can remember himbringing kids around the football facility andshowing them around and being a mentor tothem.”

Belcher had history of legal issues in collegeBy Randy Covitz

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