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For 50 years, the A.D. Bruce Religion Center has been serving UH students, faculty and staff free lunches from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday.

The center, which has 11 different ministries represented in the building, asks each depart-ment to host a lunch at least once per semester.

“We feed somewhere up to 180 to 200 students every week,” said Mike McAllister,

campus minister for the Church of Christ.McAllister, who has been at UH for fi ve

years, is responsible for nine to 13 lunches per semester on Wednesdays.

“Students don’t have home cooked meals and some of them don’t have any money,” he said. “God cares about them, so we care about them.”

His ministry has been doing this for more than 40 years and has local churches provide the meals.

“By word of mouth so many students have come here,” said Susan Maxwell, a volunteer from Kingwood Church of Christ. “We are shar-ing the love of Jesus, the food nourishes their bodies and souls.”

Hoang Long, a Spanish and pharmacy senior, has been coming to the building since he was a freshman.

“Two years ago, I saw the building, thought it was beautiful and saw people eating,” Long said. “When you’re in college anything that has the word free in it is a good thing.”

Long has also benefi ted from the diversity of the people who attend.

“There are always international students studying here, I’ve experienced new cultures and diversity and have since learned two more languages,” he said.

For other students, the interactions with others

SAFETY

Fire marshal’s o! ce updates building inspection method

The UH fi re marshal’s offi ce will no longer be taking handwritten notes while inspecting a building and has simultaneously found a way to streamline the building inspection process.

Deputy Fire Marshals Lance Wilson and Chris McDonald col-laborated on the innovative idea to enter a building’s violations directly into inspection software they developed on the iPad that uses Sharepoint and Microsoft Access.

This has helped eliminate many steps, as well as saved the depart-ment time, money and paper.

— Karishma Sakrouja

THEATER

Show to teach audience how to make lifestyles green

The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts will be present-ing “red, black and GREEN: a blues” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre.

Through multimedia visuals and performances, the show aims to get people talking about staying green and mainly focusing on how to bet-ter the environment and doing your part in the climate-change era.

For more information on this event, visit www.mitchellcenter-forarts.org.

— Bryan Dupont-Gray

AWARD

UH Law Center student wins e" ective mediation award

In recognition of his efforts to enhance Texas mediation quality and devotion to the fi eld, UH Law Center student Joseph Radler was awarded the 2011 James Gibson Award on Oct. 22 at the symposium for the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association in Austin.

Radler was nominated by UHLC Professor Tasha Willis, who praised him for working at the Civil Clinic and volunteering as mediator while still being able to fi nd time to com-plete his courses.

The award is given in honor of James W. Gibson, founder of TMCA, to individuals with impressive skills in resolving disputes and confl icts in management and also given the highest honor for mediators in Texas by the Texas Association of Media-tors. For more information on TMCA, visit www.txmca.org.

— Bryan Dupont-Gray

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UH Coogs changed the red pride to green pride on Wednes-day at the Green UH Day at Butler Plaza.

Student organizations and sup-porting groups, including Green Mountain Energy and METRO, set up in front of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library to showcase campus environmental successes

and promote green efforts by sharing tips and ideas with stu-dents as they walked to class.

“It is important to us as a department to be sustainable, but it’s also part of the University’s larger mission to be green, so we do what we can to help out,” said Marketing Coordinator of UH Dining Services Amber Arguijo.

Students were encouraged to stop at the UH Dining Services tent to make biodegradable play-dough out of flour, salt, water and food coloring.

“We wanted to do something food related and so this is some-thing that we came up with that was interactive,” Arguijo said. “We

didn’t want to just set up informa-tion about what we are doing because we do a lot of sustainable things that are more large scale.”

The UH bookstore was also part of Green UH Day as they dis-played a number of the recycled and biodegradable products avail-able for sale, including T-shirts made by the fair labor company Alta Gracia.

“Alta Gracia is a brand that promotes using fair wages and fair hours for their workers — the design of the shirt was chosen in a competition last year and was designed by a UH student, we

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Ministries provide students with free meals, religious discussions

Political activist shares her story with audience

University festivities give students information, advice on being green

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The 15th Annual Living Archives series sponsored by UH Friends of Women Studies welcomed Joanne King Herring as their guest in the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library on Oct. 25.

Herring, long-time host of KHOU’s “The Joanne King Show,” is a political activist, socialite and author best known for her work as an adviser in the Afghanistan war. This role gave her wide recognition when she was portrayed by Julia Roberts in the 2008 fi lm, “Charlie Wilson’s War.”

At the event, she discussed her new memoir, “Diplomacy and Dia-monds,” as she answered questions in an interview with Claudia Free-man, a journalist for The Houston Chronicle.

Herring said that her struggles with dyslexia for most of her child-hood shook her confi dence; she credits her father for giving her the strength to succeed.

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have an entire display of their items at the store,” said Mary Smith, a studio arts senior who works at the book store.

Green UH Day also featured eco-friendly displays from off-campus entities, with Green Mountain Energy in attendance as a contributor to the University. The company set up a display illustrating a solar panel that the company is installing at the Cen-tral Utility Plant with compactors.

Students also took advantage of the METRO booth, which brought in representatives to provide students with a Q card for half-price transportation fare and

to demonstrate how to properly secure bicycles when riding the bus.

“We are coming out today to encourage keeping the environ-ment green and we are focusing on ‘biking and riding’ with Metro; a lot of people did not know about it and we want to show them how easy it is,” METRO representative Ramona Gordon said.

To help increase involvement, Green UH Day festivities also gave students a chance to enter a raffle by completing a scavenger hunt.

“We are alerting everyone about sustainability and recycling by telling them about our organi-zation,” said Gordon Rainwater, a computer science junior.“We are also trying to use social media to get our message out.”

For more information about Green UH initiatives and events, visit the organization’s Facebook

page at http://on.fb.me/uL7O8V.

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are really important.“You get to talk about your reli-

gion and hear about other people’s (religion),” said Zaid Noor, a biol-ogy senior.

“It helps clarify

misconceptions. People that come here are open minded; they’re exposed to different cultures.”

Students also sit down with other students and have interfaith dialogues.

“We want to make it a dialogue, not a debate,” McAllister said. “Students learn what other stu-dents from other faiths actually

believe instead of what they’ve heard.

“We were looking for greater student interaction; lots of stu-dents need a good meal but also a learning experience,” he said.

The lunches served are open to people of all faiths.

“We’re not forcing someone to believe against their will,”

Mcallister said. “We invite every-one to be learners.”

The volunteers said they enjoy serving students.

“We love kids,” said Martha Mierendorf, another Church of Christ volunteer. “We feel the love.”

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“As a child I was very unat-tractive. I was tall. I was not only the tallest girl in my class, but I was the tallest child in my class,” Her-ring said. “My father didn’t forgive anybody for being ugly. I couldn’t read and write. My preschool and elementary days were very bad. I know what it’s like to have no one who is like you.”

“One time, I was riding a horse, and a snake got around me. My father told me to kill it and I was scared; I did not know how to kill it. My father told me, ‘Kill it, kill it!’ and I got a stick and hit it until it died. This is what brought me my confi dence.”

Herring received her degree at the University of Texas, but said she was not serious about her studies. She never went to her economics class, and made another student, an economics major, take the tests in her place.

“The only way I got through was through memorizing the material,” Herring said.

She married real estate devel-oper Robert King. During the marriage, she began her work in television with the “Joanne King Show,” which lasted 15 years.

“My grandmother started the Women’s Christian Mission, because she wanted a shelter for women — at the time there were only shelters for men,” she said.

“I went to the KHOU-TV sta-tion and told them stories about what had happened to some of the women, and they asked, ‘Would you like to come back?’”

Herring’s work extends far past television. She has had meetings with well-known fi gures ranging from the Duke of Windsor to former President Ronald Reagan. She has also received honors and awards for her dedication and involvement to and in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Morocco. She spoke about her life in international politics, describing her time as an honorary counsel member in Morocco and a roaming ambassador in Pakistan.

She ended the interview by answering audience questions and autographing her memoir for stu-dents and members of the public.

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A Texas judge is in trouble after a video of him allegedly beating his teenage daughter was posted on

YouTube. The video, posted by daughter Hillary Adams, allegedly shows County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams cursing, screaming and whipping the then-16-year-old girl repeatedly.

According to Hillary Adams, the video is seven years old. And in a statement made to KRIS-TV, Hil-lary says that she wants her father to seek help.

William Adams, a Rockport resident, confi rmed that he was the person in the video and told KRIS that “I have not done anything wrong other than discipline my child” and that “my life’s been made very diffi cult over this child.”

The video shows Hillary’s mother and Adams being verbally abusive, and Adams excessively beating his daughter with a belt. Hillary was beaten because she had downloaded games and multime-dia content on the family computer — something apparently forbidden in the Adams household.

“Obviously it is a very disturbing video. We in my offi ce as well as everyone on earth is taking a look at it, at this time,” said Aransas County Attor-ney Richard Bianchi to the Express-News.

We at The Daily Cougar are not experts in par-enting; however, recorded footage of a government offi cial issuing excessive corporal punishment to a defenseless child is disturbing.

Even if the incident happened more than fi ve years ago, that should not take away of the severity of Adams’ actions.

Some may argue this is a case of an abused child seeking revenge against her father by sabotaging his career — others may say it is a legitimate cry for help.

Regardless of why the video was posted and heavily circulated on the Internet, Adams deserves some type of punishment.

There are some who would argue that spanking is an appropriate way of disciplining a child, but those who do usually are not captured on camera. This video shows a man who is in charge of deliver-ing justice administering something far from that.

Judge who beat daughter should be punished

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THE DAILY COUGARE D I T O R I A L B O A R DEDITOR IN CHIEF Jack WehmanMANAGING EDITOR John BrannenNEWS EDITORS Taylor McGilvray, Julian JimenezSPORTS EDITOR Joshua SiegelLIFE & ARTS EDITOR Mary BaakOPINION EDITOR Daniel RenfrowCOPY CHIEF Natasha Faircloth

A labama’s harsh immigration law, HB56, has worked — undocu-mented immigrants are leaving the

state of Alabama in droves. Republican state legislators should congratulate

themselves on how well they have done their jobs. Perhaps they could throw themselves a banquet in celebration of their

success and feast on some, soon to be scarce, Alabama produce. Or, maybe they could all go on a scenic tour of Alabama’s farmland and look at all of the crops that are withering on their vines. These crops are withering because there is no one available to pick them. Most of Alabama’s agricultural workers are undocumented immigrants and have fl ed the state in fear of being deported.

So, if the goal of this law was for Alabama’s Latino population to decrease, then these legislators have defi nitely been successful. However, if their goal was to help Alabama’s economy recover, then these legislators have failed miserably.

According to a report by the University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, HB56 has created a shortage of 10,000 workers and could cost Alabama $40 million. Many of these workers come from Alabama’s agriculture sector, a sector that has been dominated by migrant workers for over 60 years.

According to Demetrios Papademetriou, president and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, migrant workers have always supported Alabama’s agriculture sector.

“This is a sector and an industry... that a long time ago, going back to the 1940s and probably before that was abandoned. It was abandoned to foreign workers,” Papademetriou said in an interview with The Huffi ngton Post.

However, some proponents of HB56 see the opening of Alabama’s agriculture sector to US workers as an easy way to decrease

Alabama’s 9.9 percent unemployment rate — this isn’t going to happen. Ala-bama farm owners have been extremely vocal about the inability of US citizens to work agricultural jobs. But this is not to say that some of Alabama farmers have not tried to hire legal workers.

Alabama tomato farmer Wayne Smith is one of these farmers, but he has grown disillusioned about his good-intentioned endeavor.

“People in Alabama are not going to do this. They’d work one day and then just wouldn’t show up again,” Smith said in an interview with The Associated Press, echoing the sentiments of many Alabama farmers.

Part of the problem is that on most fi eld workers get paid for the amount of produce they can pick. On Smith’s farm, this amounts to $2 for every 25-pound box of tomatoes. Smith said that someone with experience picking tomatoes can make as much as $300 a day. However, unskilled workers— American citizens— usually make far less.

Many of these workers show up for one day of work, make $25, and then decide to try a line of work that is not as backbreaking as picking produce.

“They are trying very hard,” said fellow Alabama tomato farmer, Ellen Jenkins in an interview with TheGrio.com. “They just don’t have the (skills).”

These workers don’t have the skills, and members of Alabama’s Legislature don’t have the skills. The state of Georgia imple-mented a similar immigration law earlier this year, and the same thing happened to its agriculture sector. Had Alabama legisla-tors done their homework, or maybe taken a short road trip, they would have know this would happen.

Many Alabama farmers are now having to watch their produce rot unharvested in their fi elds. If the fi eld worker shortage continues, many of these farmers will have to make the decision to plant smaller crops

next season. This will result in an additional drop in jobs.

Perhaps instead of scaring undocumented farm workers out of their state, Alabama legislators should simply increase the amount of H-2A, guest worker programs. This would allow undocumented farm workers to legally work in Alabama’s fi elds. Farmers would lose some money in housing costs if this were to happen, but this small loss would be far better than simply letting their produce rot in their fi elds.

Daniel Renfrow is a senior anthropology and print journalism double major and may be reached at [email protected].

Fields of plentyAlabama’s harsh immigration law has forced workers out, % elds go unharvested

If the goal of this law was for Alabama’s Latino

population to decrease, then these legislators have de! nitely been successful. However, if their goal was to help Alabama’s economy recover, then these legislators have failed miserably.”

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O ver the last few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to get out of Washington and

talk with folks across the country about how we can create jobs and

get our economy growing faster.

This is a tough time for a lot of Americans –

especially young people. You’ve come of age at a time of profound change. The world has gotten more connected, but it’s also gotten more competitive. And for decades, too many of our institu-tions – from Washington to Wall Street – failed to adapt, culminat-ing in the worst financial crisis and recession since the Great Depression.

For the last three years, we’ve worked to stabilize the economy, and we’ve made some progress. But we still have a long way to go. And now, as you’re getting ready to head out into the world, many of you are watching your friends and classmates struggle to find work. You’re wondering what’s in store for your future, and I know that can be scary.

The truth is, the economic problems we face today didn’t happen overnight, and they won’t be solved overnight. But the fact that you’re investing in your education right now tells me that you believe in the future of America. You want to be a part of it. And you know that there are steps we can take right now to put Americans back to work and give our economy a boost.

The problem is, there are some in Washington who just don’t share that sense of urgency.

That’s why it’s been so disap-pointing to see Republicans in Congress block jobs bills from going forward – bills that inde-pendent economists say could create millions of jobs though the kinds of proposals supported by Democrats and Republicans in the past.

Now, the best way to attack our economic challenges and put hundreds of thousands of

people back to work is through bold action in Congress. That’s why I’m going to keep demanding that Members of Congress to vote on common-sense, paid-for jobs proposals. And I hope you’ll send them a message to do the right thing for your future, and the future of our country.

But we can’t wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won’t act, I will. That’s why, I’ve announced a new policy that will help families whose home values have fallen refinance their mortgages and save thousands of dollars. We made it easier for veterans to get jobs putting their skills to work in hospitals and community health centers.

And at the University of Colo-rado at Denver, I announced steps we’re taking to make college more affordable and to make it even easier for students like you to get out of debt faster.

Michelle and I know what it feels like to leave school with a mountain of debt. We didn’t come from wealthy families. By the time we both graduated from law school, we had about $120,000 worth of debt between us.

And even though we were lucky enough to land good jobs with steady incomes, it still took us almost 10 years to fi nally pay it all off. It wasn’t easy.

Living with that much debt forces you to make some tough choices.

And when a big chunk of every paycheck goes towards student loans, it isn’t just painful for you – it’s painful to our economy and harmful to our recovery.

That’s why we’re making changes that will give about 1.6 million students the ability to cap their loan payments at 10 percent of their income starting next year.

We’re also going to take steps to help you consolidate your loans so that instead of making multiple payments to multiple lenders every month, you only have to make one payment a month at a better inter-est rate.

We can’t wait: Helping manage student loan debt

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FOOTBALL

Road contest at UAB next test for UHJohn BrannenTHE DAILY COUGAR

The comfort of the Cougars’ three-game homestand is over.

Three of the last four games on the schedule will be played away from Robertson Stadium, and UH will control its own destiny on the road.

“It has been forever since we played on the road,” quarterback Case Keenum said. “We haven’t played great on the road when you look at the past few games but I think we’re at a different point in the season. Teams grow and change as you grow.”

The No. 14 Cougars (8-0, 4-0 Conference USA) have had plenty of learning experiences to grow from.

Come-from-behind victories against Louisiana Tech and UTEP on the road and the defense’s grow-ing pains have built some character to a team often considered to be offense-oriented.

“Even from my time in high school we always started the year as a relatively inexperienced team, but by the time you got to playoffs you’re a new team,” Keenum said. “A lot of guys on the team pretty much have a whole season of expe-rience under their belt now. We’ve grown and matured as a team.

“We’ve gotten better at dealing

with changeups as far as having to deal with playing on Saturdays and Thursdays. It’s all about adapting to change and new environments.”

The Cougars ninth opponent is Alabama-Birmingham (1-6, 1-4), and a win would mark the best start in program history. The Blazers are led head coach Neil Callaway, who is in his fifth year at UAB.

UAB owns a 4-3 overall record against UH and are 3-1 when play-ing at Legion Field. The last time the two teams met, the Cougars won 45-20 in 2008 at Robertson Stadium, giving head coach Kevin Sumlin a 1-0 record against the Blazers.

Not much has gone right for UAB this season.

The Blazers dropped their first six games, beat Central Florida 26-24 for their first win and returned to their losing ways last weekend with a 59-14 loss to Marshall.

The Cougars were ranked No. 13 in the latest BCS standings. Keenum is coming off back-to-back games where he shattered the NCAA total offense and touchdown records.

Five days after playing UAB, the Cougars will head east to New Orleans to play Tulane. Both UAB and the Green Wave may be at the bottom of the C-USA standings, but they are still mandatory obstacles to clear if the Cougars want to stay

in contention.“We try not to look at the big

picture too much,” Keenum said. “We obviously know that there is something special out there, but a lot of these guys were around in 2009 when we got up pretty high in the rankings and fell off towards the end of the year.

“We know that was fun, but we

also know there is a lot more out there. We’ve been to this point and fell off so we know the importance of taking it one week at a time and we know the importance of winning. That’s what’s important to us. In August, we felt like we were going to be a good football team and we still feel that way. Our goal of winning the conference

championship is still in front of us and that’s what we wanted at the beginning of the year.”

The game will be televised on CBS Sports Network and will be broadcast on 790 AM. Kickoff is slated for 6 p.m. in Birmingham, Ala.

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Senior linebacker Marcus McGraw and the Cougars (8-0, 4-0 Conference USA) will defend their spotless record against the UAB Blaz-ers at Legion Field on Saturday in Birmingham, Ala. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/The Daily Cougar

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From the moment Natalie Keck boarded the flight en route to Houston after UH’s loss to UTEP on Sunday, a single thought gave her enthusiasm in the wake of the Cougar’s snapped six-match win-ning streak.

“I just remembered — wow, we’re still undefeated at home. It’s a great place to bounce back from last weekend, win these two matches and move on.” Keck said.

When UH (16-7, 9-4 Conference USA) welcomes Marshall to the Athletics/Alumni Center Friday, the Thundering Herd will encounter a Cougar team currently unbeaten at home.

After a slew of gritty five-set battles, come-from-behind victo-ries and the occasional three-set sweep, the Cougars have managed to hold serve in nine out of nine attempts to put them in second place in C-USA.

“We love playing at home,”

middle blocker Lucy Charuk said. “It’s definitely a confidence boost for us.

“The fact that we are undefeated here gives us more encouragement to play hard, and keep it that way. We’re more comfortable here, and we’re more confident here. So that definitely gives us a huge advantage over whoever we’re playing.”

Entering the matchup, the Cou-gars have spent the week zeroed in on the largest contributor to their losses to Central Florida and UTEP — the mental game.

“It’s definitely a mental thing for us,” Charuk said. “It’s one thing we struggled at during the beginning of the season. We haven’t had the problem in the last couple of weeks, so the losses were kind of a step back for us. But we’ve looked at the weekend, learned from it and we’re going to move on and get better.”

In their dominating perfor-mances against Rice, UAB and UTEP, the Cougars displayed a knack for coming through in big moments.

For a team that has reeled off two five-plus-match-winning streaks, the key to topping visiting

Freshman setter Caitlin Ogletree ranks fourth in Conference USA in assists, averaging a team-high 10.88 per set. | Joshua Siegel/The Daily Cougar

Cougars take on Marshall in pair of matches

VOLLEYBALL

Home cooking could be recipe for success

BIG EAST

Cougars should take the plunge

No one knows what the Big East will look in a few days, let a lone in 2013, or if it will retain its BCS Automatic Qualifying status after all conferences are up for review follow-

ing next season.Regardless, the

University should join the Big East in

whatever form is takes on.In a unanimous vote on Tuesday,

the presidents of Big East schools agreed to extend formal invitations to unnamed schools for both full and football-only membership.

The Associated Press and the Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday that UH is one of the schools that will receive an invitation.

Big East commissioner John Marianatto said that he would like this part of the expansion process to be resolved in the next week or so.

Despite the uncertainty and vola-tility of the conference, and college

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Rest assured, if you gather 100 chefs and ask them how to prepare a steak, you will get 100 different recipes. That being said, this is my philosophy and method of prepara-tion when it comes to preparing and presenting my favorite food of all time: steak.

We begin with the cut of meat. Everyone knows the classics; fi let mignon, ribeye, prime rib, New York strip, Porterhouse and T-bone steaks.

One defi ning characteristic all of these cuts have in common is their gentle usage. The less the animal stretched those muscles in life, the more tender they will be after butchering.

This brings me to my next point: marbling, which is the formation of fat inside the muscle — not the bits of chewy fat found on the edges of

the steak. Before you cook a steak you should see little pockets of fat throughout the red fl esh with the appearance of marble — hence the name. Just know that the more mar-bling, the juicier and more tender the fi nished product will be.

Next comes the seasoning, the most important aspect of cooking a steak. Seasoning can raise steak to rock star status on cloud nine or send it crashing and burning, comparable to a culinary version of the Titanic or The Hindenburg blimp.

All you need is salt and pepper. I like using coarse salt or sea salt for the crust-like texture it gives the seared fl esh. Do away with the spe-cial steak seasonings, steak sauces, hollandaise and ketchup; they will just mask the natural fl avors of the beef. I am going to go ahead and say this about steak and ketchup: Anyone who eats steak with ketchup should be locked up for steak abuse and anyone who allows it should be tried as an accomplice — but I digress.

When it comes to cooking a steak, depending on how you like it you will just need a sauté pan or grill for searing the meat and an oven to fi n-ish it off; if you like your steak rare to raw in the middle you will not need an oven.

You want to let the cooking surface get to be smoking hot before putting the steak on. If you don’t hear a sizzle, there won’t be a sear. If you are grilling, cranking the heat up is key to getting nice grill marks. Once you have a pleasant sear on the steak, it’s ready for the oven.

I recommend getting an oven-safe sauté pan to make the stove-to-oven transition as easy as possible. Have your oven pre-heated to about 400 degrees before you throw the steak in. Depending on the thickness of your steak, the cook time will vary, so keep an eye on the steak.

After your steak is cooked to your liking, place it on the cutting board and wait about four or fi ve minutes to allow the juices to rest. If you have ever had a steak bleed all over your plate it is because it was not rested properly.

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When it comes to fitness, every-one is under the impression that they have the key — the absolute solution to achieve any weight or bench-pressing goal.

Some people claim you should bulk up and eat tons of food to build muscle; some claim you should build muscle while losing body fat through altering your carbohydrate and fat intake. But the problem is that these solutions don’t always work for the average student that is juggling classes, work and a social life.

Only through self-application can one find what works best for them. However, before anything can change, you should start with nutrition.

Nutrition alone can have a dramatic affect on your physique. It can increase your muscle size or decrease body fat, and it can give you far more energy and even boost one’s overall well-being. Knowing the best, high-quality foods to eat and when to eat them can reap tremendous rewards to the novice trainer or even an elite athlete wanting to prepare for an upcom-ing competition.

When trying to get into shape for the first time, it’s best to start by changing your diet. Training is not superior to nutrition, nutrition is not superior to training, and nei-ther is superior to the body’s ability to recover from the two — all are part of an equation that help your body adapt to physical activity.

Here are 10 ways to improve the outcome of your training sessions.

1. Using a reverse grip when doing presses for the chest engages the chest by more than 30 percent in comparison to standard incline bench press.

2. Add variety and change your posture in order to sufficiently target and stress various locations of the muscle fibers. Such changes can include changing hand placement, changing the angle of a bench, or spacing of one’s feet when squatting.

3. One of the best diet approaches is simply to get a moderate to high amount of lean

protein, moderate to high amount of carbs and moderate to very low amount of fat. When you are aim-ing for size, increase the amount of carbs; when trying to burn fat, simply lower your carb intake throughout the day.

4. Dumbbell presses are superior for chest development as opposed to barbell presses, simply because the range of motion allows your arms to move in a plane that is ideal for better isolation of the pectoral fibers as opposed to incorporation of the deltoids or shoulders.

5. If you’re losing steam in your workouts, Music can have a positive effect on your mood when training. Similarly, ballet stretches can assist your muscle in recover-ing and growing.

6. Using supersets is a great way to add intensity in one’s work-outs. Training opposing muscles loosens you up and allows one to be stronger in both muscles.

7. Train intelligently and efficiently. Aim to be done with training within one hour if pos-sible — otherwise a nasty little hormone called cortisol will nega-tively affect your workouts if you train for too long.

8. Testosterone is the king of muscle growth. Testosterone is what separates the huge muscle men from the aesthetic beauty of a model. Men produce high amounts of testosterone, which gives them a natural advantage in rapid growth of muscle tissue.

9. Try to cut down on the intake of saturated fat; focus on mono- and poly-saturated fats like avocados, olive oil and nuts. Too much saturated fat can increase the storage of fat on one’s physique. Healthy fats can assist with much-needed functions in the body such as hormonal production.

10. Also fuel up on the body’s most needed resource — water. It is the most abundant product in your body and therefore should always be replaced. Keeping your body hydrated will improve your health, appearance and overall well-being.

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And we want to start giving students a simple fact sheet called “Know Before You Owe” so you can have all the information you need to make your own decision about paying for college. That’s something Michelle and I wish we had.

These changes will make a real difference for millions of Americans. We’ll help more young people figure out how to afford college.

We’ll put more money in your pocket after you graduate. We’ll make it easier to buy a house or save for retirement.

And we’ll give our economy a boost at a time when it desper-ately needs it.

That’s not just important for our country right now – it’s

important for our future. Michelle and I are where we are today because our college education gave us a chance. Our parents and their generation worked and sac-rificed to hand down the dream of opportunity to us.

Now it’s our turn. That dream of opportunity is what I want for my daughters, and for all of you. And even in these tough times, we are going to make that dream real once again.

In the weeks ahead, I’m going to keep doing everything in my power to make a difference for the American people — including young people like you.

Because here in America, when we find a problem, we fix it. When we face a challenge, we meet it. We don’t wait. And I hope you’ll join me.

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The perfect steak isn’t rocket scienceJorge PorrasTHE DAILY COUGAR

Rest assured, if you gather 100 chefs and ask them how to prepare a steak, you will get 100 different recipes. That being said, this is my philosophy and method of prepara-tion when it comes to preparing and presenting my favorite food of all time: steak.

We begin with the cut of meat. Everyone knows the classics; fi let mignon, ribeye, prime rib, New York strip, Porterhouse and T-bone steaks.

One defi ning characteristic all of these cuts have in common is their gentle usage. The less the animal stretched those muscles in life, the more tender they will be after butchering.

This brings me to my next point: marbling, which is the formation of fat inside the muscle — not the bits of chewy fat found on the edges of

the steak. Before you cook a steak you should see little pockets of fat throughout the red fl esh with the appearance of marble — hence the name. Just know that the more mar-bling, the juicier and more tender the fi nished product will be.

Next comes the seasoning, the most important aspect of cooking a steak. Seasoning can raise steak to rock star status on cloud nine or send it crashing and burning, comparable to a culinary version of the Titanic or The Hindenburg blimp.

All you need is salt and pepper. I like using coarse salt or sea salt for the crust-like texture it gives the seared fl esh. Do away with the spe-cial steak seasonings, steak sauces, hollandaise and ketchup; they will just mask the natural fl avors of the beef. I am going to go ahead and say this about steak and ketchup: Anyone who eats steak with ketchup should be locked up for steak abuse and anyone who allows it should be tried as an accomplice — but I digress.

When it comes to cooking a steak, depending on how you like it you will just need a sauté pan or grill for searing the meat and an oven to fi n-ish it off; if you like your steak rare to raw in the middle you will not need an oven.

You want to let the cooking surface get to be smoking hot before putting the steak on. If you don’t hear a sizzle, there won’t be a sear. If you are grilling, cranking the heat up is key to getting nice grill marks. Once you have a pleasant sear on the steak, it’s ready for the oven.

I recommend getting an oven-safe sauté pan to make the stove-to-oven transition as easy as possible. Have your oven pre-heated to about 400 degrees before you throw the steak in. Depending on the thickness of your steak, the cook time will vary, so keep an eye on the steak.

After your steak is cooked to your liking, place it on the cutting board and wait about four or fi ve minutes to allow the juices to rest. If you have ever had a steak bleed all over your plate it is because it was not rested properly.

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Marshall will be the ability to keep composure during pressure situations.

“A combination of things let us down last weekend,” Charuk said. “We couldn’t put a full game together. We would have a string of good plays, then one person would take a break, then another would.

“It was hard for us to put it all together, and put the teams away when we’re all on the same page.”

Marshall streaks into matchupThe Thundering Herd will

make the trip to Houston claim-ing one of the weakest road records, 1-7, among C-USA

schools, but has recently shown signs of life as they enter the home stretch of the season.

With the stellar play of freshman setter Sammie Bain, Marshall currently owns a three-match win streak, topping SMU, Southern Miss. and Tulane for their latest victories.

Bain currently ranks seventh in C-USA in assists with 9.65 per set.

“Last weekend I feel like we were individually playing, and not playing as a team,” Keck said. “So staying together and working for each other is something we’ll have to do.

“We can’t be selfish, or work for ourselves. That’s what’s important for us to remember.”

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athletics in general, this is a move that the University must make.

A conference featuring No. 13 UH, No. 5 Boise State, SMU, UCF, Army, Navy and current Big East holdovers UConn, Cincinnati, Louisville, Rutgers and South Florida beats the leftovers of Conference USA and the TCU and Boise-less Mountain West Confernce.

Even if West Virginia is successful in jumping ship to the Big 12 without waiting the requisite 27 months, this new pieced together conference doesn’t look so bad. It’s not the SEC, but it’s an incredible upgrade over C-USA.

From a fi nancial standpoint, this new zombie Big East could be in

prime position to land a very large TV deal.

According to Business Week, the Big East turned down a nine-year, $1 billion deal with ESPN — all of the other AQ conferences have deals for at least $1 billion. The Pac-12 received a $3-billion deal from ESPN and Fox earlier this year.

With the other fi ve AQ confer-ences locked into deals or set to begin new deals, the Big East would be the only conference on the market for the networks to compete for and gobble up.

And even if this all falls apart or the Big East were to lose its AQ status, UH would be in a much better position searching for a new home coming from the Big East than a depleted C-USA.

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sudokuHow to play Each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9; and each set of 3-by-3 boxes must also contain the numbers 1 to 9.

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ACROSS 1 Crowning points 6 Slight advantages 11 Boozing or babbling

binge 14 “If I do ___ myself” 15 Like lips that sink ships 16 Word in a tied score 17 Overwrought writing 19 One in a zillion? 20 Vanquish, as a dragon 21 Alpha, beta and

gamma 22 Thirteen, to a baker 24 Faux ___ (social

misstep) 25 Heavenly garden on

earth 27 A sheri! carries one 31 Estimates too highly 36 Loves to pieces 38 Type of maniac 39 Entertainer Martha 40 Shy person 43 Stir up, as muddy water 44 Bird in the bush? 45 “Mama” Cass 46 Enthusiastically praised 49 South American plain 50 Ferber or O’Brien 51 “Ands” or “buts”

alternatives 53 Mexican artist Kahlo 56 Cousin of a canvasback 58 Result of cogitating,

sometimes 62 It’s not free of charge 63 Boiled holiday treat 66 Kitchen invader 67 Singer Mel (“The Velvet

Fog”) 68 Stan’s partner 69 The “way” of the East 70 Asparagus unit 71 Joins metallic parts

DOWN 1 Slithering killers 2 Embryonic membrane 3 “___ Breckenridge” 4 Annual cable sports

award 5 “Do re mi fa ___ ...” 6 City on the Rio Grande 7 “Finding Nemo” " sh 8 Zero on the scoreboard 9 Letter with a double

curve

10 Planter’s device 11 Basie’s music 12 Opposite of windward 13 Sheltered valley 18 “Good Feelings” time

period 23 Doing really well 24 Ball-shaped hammer

part 26 Chau! eured 27 Iraq seaport 28 Like some committees 29 Type of Greek column 30 Like some cheese

sandwiches 32 Event location 33 Sylvester’s co-star,

more than once 34 “Keep your ___ the

ball!” 35 Bench-clearing

altercation 37 Yarn purchase 41 Childish 42 Societal woes 47 Adjusts to one’s

situation

48 Something needed for a change

52 Winter health woe 53 Italian auto maker 54 Gossip columnist

Barrett 55 Avid about 57 She plays Harry’s friend

Hermione 58 Type of curiosity or

speculation 59 Type of pickle 60 “Idylls of the King” lady 61 Ripens 64 Take a bough? 65 Average name?

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