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Local Austin-area independent filmmakers! Send us your short films!
Films submitted will be nominated for inclusion in the sixth annual PBS Online Film Festival, a showcase for powerful and engaging stories from filmmakers across the country. The festival has become a popular annual online event, attracting more than 6 million video views over the past five years, as well as nominations in the Webby Awards.
Since its launch in 2012, the PBS Online Film Festival has featured diverse films from PBS member stations, Independent Lens and POV. Collaborations with public television producers, including the Center for Asian American Media, Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC), Wisconsin Media Lab and Vision Maker Media have also been included.
Submissions should be 3-15 minutes in length and can be documentary or narrative. There are no requirements about the short films having premiered elsewhere, though they should be no older than 3 years old. PBS also needs to have non-exclusive rights to stream the films on all PBS platforms, including social platform.
Austin-area filmmakers, to have your short films considered, submit the following via email to JJ Weber email@example.com with the subject line "2017 PBS Online Film Festival" by March 30th:
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Tuberville left recruits at dinner???
By Justin Renck:
Here is another story that is not UofL related, but still worth posting…
Apparently, new Cincinnati head coach Tommy Tuberville made an interesting exit from Texas Tech. While he and other coaches had at least 3 recruits out to dinner on their official visit to Texas Tech, Tuberville got up to leave. The players assumed he was going to the restroom. Um, he never came back! Then the next day he was named head coach at Cincinnati!
What an interesting way to leave! Here is the full story.

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This has been a postulate of mine for a while. It's the only rational explanation for me thinking about sex every 5 seconds - with our without sensory input.
This is a tautology. Introducing concepts that are beyond what can be scientifically experienced is useless from a scientific POV, like e.g. the concept of color is useless from the point of view of counting from one to ten.
On the other hand, the concept of color is absolutely critical from the point of view of counting from one to tan.
If you attend the symphony, they make all the vibrations that tickle the mechanical receptors in your ear. Where does the experience of enjoying the sound of the cello occur?
It's not easy finding an answer to that question. However, that may not be because the answer is difficult to find, but rather because it's the wrong question to begin with.
A bad
"I'm downloading a torrent, as the connection breaks. Looking at the screen, I register a popup describing the condition. Where does the experience of a broken connection occur?"
We're seeing a chain of systems, with a high-order intelligence at the top capable of influencing the subsystems in an abstract way
I read recently that there is a ton of processing that goes on before we "experience" things. Like when you flick your eyes around the room--you don't "see" what exists between Point A and Point B; but your eyes do. Weird.
Yes, this is a very interesting example of the parallellism of the human brain. Somewhere between the process of conscious, rational thought and the visual sense, some part of the brain might see something interesting. Only moments later will one then consiously realise that, and turn the eyes back to verify what it was, and only then comes the full realisation of what one had been seeing all along.
Building on that, to further explain my original point: the experience of listening to pleasant music is mor
Ahh, the joys of pot.
Your mind is not in your brain. Your brain is in your mind.
It's all in your head.
Anyway, in short: the mind is not
authors say that these results show that spontaneous brain activity is more than simply a physiological artifact; it helps account for some of the variability in human behavior. In that sense, they argue for a greater acceptance of the view that our brain may have some intrinsic activity that's somewhat independent of sensory input.
1. Early in the morning when I'm fresh
2. When I'm really really tired or slightly drunk and think I'm funny.
Also tend to come up with humourous ideas when I'm under pressure and mind is racing through problems -- I'll think, "Hey what if this were like so..." and the inevitable side-tracking happens. The Bob only knows how many funny things I'm come up with over the years and remember bugger all about any more. Good to know the well doesn't run dry though, there's always a fresh batch of insanity right
Do you think you're funny, or do you think other people don't think your funny because you've been drinking?
That, I think was what I referred to with the italic think. I was at the pub last evening and someone interjected a bit of humour about something I was talking about. It was a clunker, perhaps because the jester was 3, nay, 4 sheets to the wind and working on adding another.
We may think we're funny at times, but it's all subjective. Some people really are funny (frinstance a humourous book sel
First paragraph of the Neuron article (which is paraphrased in Ars Technica):
Historically, there have existed two alternate perspectives for understanding brain function (Llinas, 2001). The first conceptualizes the brain as an input-output system primarily driven by interaction with the external world. The second suggests that the brain operates on its own, intrinsically, with external factors modulating rather than determining the operation of the system. The former perspective has motivated the majority of neuroscience research, but accumulating evidence is emphasizing the importance of the latter.
Does anybody who has spent more than 2 minutes thinking about the human mind really believe that first argument? Somebody should introduce these guys to William James [yorku.ca]:
It is astonishing what havoc is wrought in psychology by admitting at the outset apparently innocent suppositions, that nevertheless contain a flaw. The bad consequences develop themselves later on, and are irremediable, being woven through the whole texture of the work. The notion that sensations, being the simplest things, are the first things to take up in psychology is one of these suppositions.
The experiment may well be scientifically interesting, but not for the reason advertised.
Does anybody who has spent more than 2 minutes thinking about the human mind really believe that first argument?
Well it's way simpler and much more deterministic. Perhaps a good first try, but, like you, I think it's not even wrong [wikipedia.org]. But I'm not a neuroscientist.....
In the sense that it is an oversimplification, useful to establish things in a word-count limited introduction, but whose primary role seems to be to lead laypeople to grotesque and frightening misapprehensions, no, neuroscientists don't believe that first argument.
It is unquestionable that there is neural activity in the absence of sensory stimuli or motor response. It is also known that this activity is not unstructured but correlated across the neuronal population (though the significance of this fact is a point of dispute). Nor does anyone assume that this activity does not have the ability to influence the response of an organism -- neuronal activity is neuronal activity.
At the same time, the paramount task of the nervous system is to process the environment around the organism and respond to it appropriately. To be successful in the natural selection sense, you cannot ignore pain, mating signals, fire, loud noises, sudden movements, etc., and when something comes up, you must be able to formulate and implement a strategy which can actually deal with the situation that stimulus describes. Sensory experience is a huge part of neural activity, and if deprived of it long enough -- so that the only activity is the spontaneous activity mentioned above -- the brain enters a degenerate state. Or, to put it another way, you go insane.
The nervous system, then, is a massively complex system which has a baseline pattern of activity, is receiving constant input from a variety of sensory organs (even when you close your eyes, or plug your ears, you receive input from them; it's just meaningless), all of which is being modulated by "supervisory systems" (e.g, the dopaminergic and serotonergic systems) that control meta-response properties such as attention, anticipation, learning, expectation, and so on. The debate can be reduced to two issues. The first is: once you have accounted for stimulus-driven activity and the effects of the higher-order supervisory systems, does the baseline activity contribute any significant fraction of the organism's final response? And if so, is the baseline activity no more than the muddled-together echo of past stimulus-driven activity rattling around the recurrent network that is the brain and can thus be regarded as simply random noise, or is it meaningful in its own right?
The paper in question [neuron.org] tries to address the first of these questions. Their results seem to demonstrate that a large fraction of the inter-trial variability in a motor task cannot be explained by known modulating factors such as attention, and thus can be attributed primarily to the baseline activity. Thus, baseline activity would appear to be a major influence on response. The second question remains open, and it is really the core of the issue. These results, however, go a long way towards making it a pressing issue.
The experiment may well be scientifically interesting, but not for the reason advertised.
The experiment is scientifically interesting, and for exactly the reasons advertised. There is a fundamental difference between neuroscience and psychology. One studies the operation of the nervous system, and the other studies the nature of the human mind. The basic element of study of neuroscience is spikes, of which you are never aware; psychology interests itself in thoughts, which (from the perspective of a neuroscientist) we can't even meaningfully define, let alone measure. Perhaps one day we might be able to unite the two, but at this point, a criticism of neuroscience based on psychological principles is no more well-founded than lambasting the mathematics of game theory because it runs afoul of sociological thought.
this is not about a fugue state or tourette's or about some novel variation on "the devil made me do it!" style legal defense
it has to with tiny variations, not large coordinated sustained activities
Perhaps variations, er, vary from person to person. Some vary widely, others very little. I recommend a massively expensive government subsidised research grant to follow this up.*
*the dribble-glass made me do it
I wish my coworkers would show some spontaneous brain activity.
Rules of the Office
1. The boss's jokes are always funny.
2. When in doubt, see rule 1
Are you certain you want your co-workers (or are these cow-workers?) to be funny?
I worked with someone once who was silly at the most inappropriate of times. I finally hit him (just a tap) in the shoulder and insisted he be serious. I regretted hitting him, but not because he didn't deserve it.
Our whole modern world is an artifically controlled environment that is nothing like what we have evolved for.
The only thing that's dynamic about my experience at the moment is the banner ads.
The only thing that's dynamic about my experience at the moment is the banner ads.
Push your chair slowly away from the desk (use your legs). Disconnect the power cord to the computer (the black rubbery thing that is poking out of the wall).
Find the stairs - go UP them.
Find a door - go OUT the door. Keep doing this until you determine that you are out-of-doors (hint: no more roof).
Look around, walk a bit. Careful of the cars. Watch out for women - they're much more dangerous in real life.
Keep goi
Oh my God, this is so stupid. I bet people really argue about this.
Put it this way: does Linux respond to stimuli or do its own thing? Is there any experiment that could help us decide? Two people could know the entire Linux source code back to front and inside out, and the source of every application running on it, and still disagree over this stupid question. Don't these people have real and meaningful phenomena to investigate?
Wow. I belive that trying to understand the human mind is about the most important thing anybody can be doing.
If system A has a direct connection to external stimulus B, and system A moves to a non-deterministic state for at least one value of B, then A is a quantum device. (Quantum systems are the only physical systems in which true ran
If you cannot distinguish between modulation by an external cause and a change of state due to internal causes, then you can't ever know if the external exists at all. It might all be a figment of your imagination.
That's true, but I don't see why you conclude that such a system can't exist. Our brains are in a constant state of uncertainty, weighing imperfect sensory data and imperfect memories, holding contradictory possibilities in mind while waiting for further evidence, often having to make decisions b
You mean the brain is active even while I'm asleep?
I wouldn't have imagined that even in my wildest dreams...
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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Monday, August 21, 2006
First Blogpoll Roundtable
1. What's the biggest ripoff in this preseason poll? Either pick a team that's offensively over or underrated, or you can rag on a particular voter's bad pick (hey, we're all adults here, we can handle it).
Benny and I are both in agreement here when we say West Virginia. Yes, we know, we know they beat Georgia last season but it seems they're ranked as high as they are in most polls (the AP has them at #5) not because they're that good of a team but because their schedule, to be blunt, is weak. Very weak.
Since there is no playoff, a team's schedule must carry a lot of weight or there is no point in playing tough out-of-conference games. Why should Texas or Ohio State risk that early loss if neither would be punished and get the same ranking for playing, say, Louisiana Tech?
But I will give fellow Blogpoll members credit - nobody voted WVU #1 while six (oblviously drunk) AP voters did.
2. What should a preseason poll measure? Specifically, should it be a predictor of end-of-season standing (meaning that a team's schedule should be taken into account when determining a ranking), or should it merely be a barometer of talent/hype/expectations?
How can you measure something that isn't? Impossible? Well, that's "exactly" what a pre-season poll does. No games have been played and each team's roster is different than last season so it's sort of like "measuring" beauty in a talent pageant at this stage.
My feeling is pre-season polls serve not to "measure" anything but are fantastic tools to provide hype for the upcoming season. A point of debate that has us all taking (as we are today) about the sport a month or two before the first kickoff. The only problem with that, as Benny points out, is that these "tools" have a bearing on the National Title.
As such, while the preseason Blogpoll and other fan or mag polls should always be around for the "excitement" part, I believe that any polls used to determine the BCS outcome shouldn't have their first vote until three games in, enough time for any pre-season bias to be erased (yes, even though such a move would hurt perennial poll darlings like Michigan).
3. What is your biggest stretch in your preseason ballot? That is to say, which team has the best chance of making you look like an idiot for overrating them?
Obviously for us it's our #1 pick, FSU. But we freely admit that was an educated guess in this year when no team looks dominant. We didn't snub OSU for the top pick because we're Michigan fans, we didn't pick them #1 because they have only two starters back on defense. Notre Dame? Their schedule is brutal and, no offense, but their biggest "win" last season was a close loss to USC. They beat nobody (Michigan included). They are getting their pre-season hype on name value (as U-M often does). We expect to be a good team, we just don't see them as the best.
So, we picked FSU because it seemed just as logical (or illogical) as any other pick. Having said that, I think we might look mighty stupid about this pick by the end of the year (or after the first weekend).
4. What do you see as the biggest flaw in the polling system (both wire service and blogpolling)? Is polling an integral part of the great game of college football, or is it an outdated system that needs to be replaced? If you say the latter, enlighten us with your new plan.
Benny's big polling problem is that it actually affects who plays for the National Championship. My biggest problem (which is unavoidable) is that folks voting only see a small, small percentage of the teams they're voting on actually play. Hell, even in the beauty pageant mentioned above, the judges at least see all the contestants. No so in college football polls.
Having said all that, I do think they are an important and even fun part of the game. I just think, as mentioned, the polls used for BCS shouldn't start until later.
5. You're Scott Bakula, and you have the opportunity to "Quantum Leap" back in time and change any single moment in your team's history. It can be a play on the field, a hiring decision, or your school's founders deciding to build the campus in Northern Indiana, of all godforsaken places. What do you do?
Benny's "do over" would be the 2001 M-OSU game. It was Tressel's first game. If we win, we go to the Rose Bowl. The Buck's were struggling and we were playing at home. Benny feels if Michigan wins that game, the Bucks, and Tressel, don't ascend to their current heights.
My Ghost of Michigan Past is also from 2001, but from the spring. When Drew Henson left. If I could go back, I would tell Drew about how poorly things would work out for him by choosing baseball over his senior year at Michigan. But, he left and John Navarre was forced into the starting role before he was ready.
I firmly believe that if Henson stays, we beat Washington in September and Ohio State in November and many of the "Fire Lloyd" and other maize and "boo" birds aren't as loud today.
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Bo: I don't care if he is the "Rocket", kick it to him.
Bo: He can't do that again. Kick it to him.
- August 21, 2006 12:12 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
sticking w/ your theme of "recent" history (if we went back in time, i could probably come up w/ a list long enough to clog your server), i'd have to agree w/ trying to change the '01 tosu game.
however, i don't think you need to do anything too dramatic have a big impact. yeah, Henson could have been great but we still had a pretty good team that should have won the conference.
if i could, what i'd do is go back and whisper into Carr's ear "just run the damn ball". tosu only put together one drive on its own in the first half. tosu's other 16 points/scoring came off of ints/fumble by the qb in the pocket/that stupid play w/ Gonzalez at the end of the half.
if we'd have just stuck on the ground and been patient, we'd have at worse gone into half down 7-0, instead of 23-0. but we didn't. when we had trouble running, instead of commiting to the run, we tried to put it up (w/ a shaky qb and bad, windy wet weather), turned it over, and gave them 16 points.
if you look at how poor tosu's offense played in the second half, and how our O adjustments worked in the second, it would have been a much better result. we tend to forget that we came w/ in a Walker drop of winning this game anyway. if we hadn't handed them the other points, Lloyd wouldn't be in the fix he is today.
i also credit this as the beginning of the "finesse" era/mindset on offense that has plagued us 4 out of the last 5 seasons. the impatience w/ running the ball showed here and has cropped up more frequently every season.
- August 21, 2006 1:08 PM
- Yost said...
"if we went back in time, i could probably come up w/ a list long enough to clog your server"
- August 21, 2006 5:39 PM
- Kirbdaddy said...
Don't forget Spartan Bob hosing UM in 2001. That game isn't close with Henson at QB...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
For Lack of Anything Else to Post.....Breakfast!
VWaV's Revolutionary Omelet sans sauce (tho that roasted red pepper sauce is aMAZing) but with fresh avocado. I love making this omelet and then having leftovers for breakfast for days.
Sweet Potato Latkes with warm cinnamon apples
Fried Seitan O' Greatness slices with a side of grits and millet toast
Lifestream's Hemp Waffles with organic maple syrup, walnuts, and bananas (their Flax Seed Waffle is pretty amazing as well). I love the ease of these, and they're healthy, bonus!
VWaV's Sausage Tempeh Crumbles with FYH cheeze, herbed roasted potatoes, fresh avocado, & fresh mango (this is easily a favorite of mine)
And speaking of the Fauxsage Crumbles, throwing them in some vegan gravy on top of biscuits with a side of fresh fruit? this is another I can't get enough of in the morning. Mmmmmm.
If ya think making vegan biscuits is great (I highly recommend the versions in How It All Vegan and the tip to just mix then spoon into muffin tins rather than try and roll out and cut a biscuit dough. These come out puffy and light and perfect every time and for biscuits? That's sayin somethin!)....VWaV's Fronch toast (made here with whole wheat french bread and served with organic strawberries, bananas, and maple syrup) is simply divine.
But my all time favorite is still the recipe I figured out after weekend brunching at one of my favorite restaurants. If I've said it once, I've said it a MILLION times....
Pan Seared Oatmeal. Quite possibly the most amazing and satisfying (not to mention healthy!) vegan breakfast of all time. Here's how....
Perfect Pan Seared Oatmeal
Make a Day Ahead:
Prepare one cup steel cut oats according to package directions. (MUST use steel cut and not quick cooking/rolled oats)
After removing from heat, add 1-2 T maple syrup and a bit of soy milk to make it creamier but you won't need much. You want to keep it thick.
Place in small plastic containers. (I keep my EB/Smart Balance containers for this. One cup dry will fill about two and a half tubs).
Allow to cool to room temperature in sealed containers before putting in fridge.
The Day of You'll need:
banana, sliced
dried cranberries
walnuts, chopped
balsamic vinegar glaze*
vegan margarine
Remove top from tub and dump out oatmeal. It will be one solid mass having conformed to the shape of the tub. Slice into disks about 3/4 inch thick. work quickly and carefully as it will want to turn to mush the longer it sits out of the refrigerator.
Heat margarine over medium heat in skillet. Place disc(s) of oatmeal in pan and pan sear for 4-5 min per side until golden brown and remove.
Drizzle glaze (in fancy design of your making ;) onto plate and place disc(s) on top of it. Top with walnuts, cranberries, raisins, banana and a quick drizzle of agave nectar.
Enjoy...then come back and thank me for gifting you this most amazing breakfast treat. Everyone I've fed it to is just blown away by how good this is. Thank you, 43rd Street Deli for the inspiration!
*make sure you're using a balsamic vinegar glaze. if you cannot find one you can make one by bringing regular balsamic vinegar to a boil and then until reduced down to a syrup...tho i warn you, you're entire kitchen and possibly your whole house will be overwhelmed with the smell of the acidic liquid. it's not very mild on the nose, so try and get your hands on a ready made glaze if you can.
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- Vegan*asm said...
Mmm, breakfast.. The pan seared oatmeal sounds like a neat idea. I love oatmeal, so I will have to try this. Thanks for sharing the idea!
- Johanna3 said...
your breakfast are incredible!!
- Vegan_Noodle said...
Yum.... I skipped breakfast this morning (I hate it when I do that) so viewing yours has made me very hungry indeed. I have actually really been craving oatmeal lately, I think I must try your recipe ASAP!! Everything else looks wonderful too.
- Allie said...
i could just eat breakfast all day long. while i was pregnant, i made/ate tons of breakfast foods. cereal, french toast, etc. between that and then eating baked ziti every night (during the height of my pregnancy, i was rewatching the entire sopranos collection), i'm surprised i didn't gain a zillion pounds!
- laura jesser said...
Yum... breakfast is my favorite. These dishes look absolutely delicious--enough to get me cooking on a Saturday morning, I think!
- stonielove said...
whoa your breakfast looks very appetizing :) i only cook breakfast on weekends, but i do wish i could have it every day...
- Vivacious Vegan said...
I usually just eat a slice of toast (a heavy, filling brand) for breakfast or a small bowl of cereal. However I occasionally break out of my pattern and spice it up a bit. Your oatmeal suggestion is one I will definitely have to try. I remember when you posted about it a while back but I must have forgotten about it. I don't have any steel cut oats right now but the next time I go to the store I'll pick some up because now I'm really excited about making it (who wouldn't be with that accompanying picture). :)
- VeggieGirl said...
oh my goodness look at all that delicious food!! that pan-seared oatmeal is by far my favorite :0)
- Beth said...
I love me some french toast!!!! Looks heavenly... i think my breakfast is vegan too... kashi autumn wheat and vanilla rice milk... breakfast of lazy people all over america :)
- textual bulldog said...
GORGEOUS breakfasts! i love pan seared oatmeal and i love those hemp waffles, and you posted about a million things i've been wanting to make forever. i love the biscut trick. i hadn't noticed that before.
- Vegan_Noodle said...
Oh wow!! I made the pan seared oatmeal using your recipe this morning and it was amazing! Thanks so much for posting it. I'll be posting my results likely tonight or tomorrow morning. :-)
- tippitappi said...
what an inspiration! I'll save your blog to my favourites, and read it later
Wonderful recipe! My daughter loved it. I used raspberry flavored balsamic glaze, which she loves on her salad. I put the oatmeal in starfrit tubs used for shaping and storing hamburger patties - they have separate discs so you have the oatmeal patties ready to go!


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THE Victoria Police's latest weapon against driving crimes nabbed 92 offenders in 150 minutes in Sebastopol on Thursday.
The State Highway Patrol's BlueNet vehicle combines automatic number plate recognition, in-car video and a mobile data terminal to instantly track down driving offenders.
The prototype vehicle has been in Ballarat since Christmas Day and will return to Melbourne on Monday.
While in the region, it has caught drivers with expired registrations, expired, suspended and disqualified licenses, people not using their interlock devices and speeders.
Leading Senior Constable Geoff Holland of the State Highway Patrol said they had also impounded a vehicle after they caught a repeat cancelled-licence offender.
"It has proven to be very effective," Leading Senior Constable Holland said.
"We get these offences normally but we don't get them so quickly."
The vehicle is fitted with four cameras and can be used both statically or on the move.
"It is the first fully integrated car in Australia.
"It's an exciting vehicle."
Since the car began operating just before Christmas, it has been to the Mornington Peninsula, the Surf Coast and Baw Baw.
"There's a bit of fear factor now. We have the technology now. It's not a question of if we will catch you now but when."
The vehicle worked in Ararat yesterday and caught several drink drivers, a few drug drivers, numerous suspended licenses and unregistered drivers, six speeders, a stolen car, a driver with criminal matters and a car with stolen plates.
"It's been very, very successful," Leading Senior Constable Holland said.


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USD Music Students Share Music with Ronald McDonald House
Friday, February 10, 2012
Students from the MUSC 120 Fundamentals of Music Theory class, with instructor Dr. Angela Yeung, performed for the Ronald McDonald House on Friday, November 18, 2012. Each class performed 30 minutes of music, including an original song that the students composed specially for the community outreach.
Their performance was well received by the families and the staff, and the students were invited to join in for dinner after.
Student reflections included the following:
"The project was a great learning experience, socially and academically. Moreover, it was wonderful service to the San Diego community because we were sharing the gift of music to struggling families who, I believe, really appreciated and enjoyed our entertainment. Although, to me, the most rewarding aspect of the project was the bonding experience I had with everyone in my class throughout the entire process."
"It was great to see everyone use their creativity to come up with ways to improve the songs and add their own style to it. I had a great time writing the original song...For me personally this experience really pushed me past my comfort zone, which I think was great for me to grow as a musician."
"I really enjoyed the group project of performing at the McDonald House…. The project also allowed me to get to know my classmates better and learn about them."
"The Ronald McDonald House members seemed to enjoy our music and I appreciated their kindness towards us after we performed. I forgot how much I enjoyed performing."
"I don't know about the rest of my group but I can say that I had a blast…. I thank you for this truly humbling opportunity and experience."
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After two months of delays, SpaceX says it will launch six second-generation Orbcomm communications satellites July 14 atop a Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida.
The launch of New Jersey-based Orbcomm's six OG2 satellites has been repeatedly delayed due to technical and weather-related setbacks, beginning with a Falcon 9 first-stage helium leak that pushed the initial May 10 launch date to early June.
In a June 22 statement, the Hawthorne, Calif.-based company said it would postpone a launch attempt planned for that day until July 24 due to a technical issue that SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell later said involved a thrust vector control actuator on the Falcon 9's first stage. On June 23, the company said it would postpone the launch until the first week of July.
"We saw during some preflight checkouts on Sunday morning some issues with the thrust vector control actuator on the first stage," Shotwell told The John Batchelor Show, a radio program that was co-hosted by David Livingston of The Space Show June 25. "It's likely something we could have flown through during flight, but what we wanted to do was basically just be super careful and we actually wanted to go in and check the second-stage actuator as well."
Shotwell did not indicate whether the issue had been resolved, but said the company is now targeting mid-July for the launch.
"July 14 and 15, I think, are the dates we requested from the range," she said, adding that the U.S. Air Force's eastern range had not confirmed the dates.
"The range does want to go on a two-week maintenance shutdown," she said. "We couldn't guarantee that we'd be able to fly in the next few days or so so we said look, you shut down, you do your maintenance, we don't want to put that off, and in the meantime we'll obviously spend more time examining the rocket and doing everything we possibly can to make sure this flight is successful."
After SpaceX fans and journalists publicly berated the company for failing to webcast a June 21 launch attempt that was scrubbed due to poor weather, Shotwell suggested the practice of live-streaming Falcon 9 launches would continue.
"I don't think we're changing our plan. We were moving away from the webcast format that we had before, to get to kind of a higher-tech feel," she said. "We were just going to transition away. Saturday's launch, even though we obviously attempted it, the weather looked like we would not be able to fly Saturday. So we thought, of the one day we could take to transition, maybe we can take that time and transition on that Saturday."
However, the day of the launch, SpaceX spokeswoman Emily Shanklin wrote in an email to spaceflightnow.com:
"We've actually been ready to move away from the webcasts for awhile. It takes a lot of resources but the main reason is these launches are becoming more routine and the full webcast isn't really appropriate anymore."
Just to be clear, Shanklin was referring to SpaceX's status as a new entrant to the global commercial launch market. But after just two commercial missions – the SES-8 communications satellite launched in December 2013, followed by Thaicom-6 for Bangkok-based Thaicom in January – SpaceX launches are anything but routine.
In addition, journalists at the Cape for the June 21 launch attempt reported that SpaceX media representatives were not available to answer questions regarding the June 21 launch attempt, and that U.S. Air Force officials with the 45th Space Wing handled media.
As a result, in response to a barrage of criticism that followed on social media, Shotwell said, "public opinion was pretty strong on that point. They like the webcast, or they certainly like us to live-stream."
Nonetheless, while Shotwell said the company was prepared to live-stream the June 22 attempt – the one that was scrubbed owing to a balky thrust vector control actuator – she did not say whether SpaceX plans to webcast the July 14 launch.
"You know, it's always easy to jump to some nefarious plot for any circumstance that looks odd, but in this case it was simply we were moving away from that specific format anyhow," she said.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - This fall's third "Mic'd Up Monday's" with
The Dawgs will take place live on Monday, Dec. 3, at Crankers
Restaurant and Brewery in downtown Big Rapids.
The event will include a live radio coaches show on Sunny 97.3 FM and the Bulldog Sports Network. Fans are invited out for dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. (ET) with the live radio show airing from 6-7 p.m. from inside the popular location.
Bulldog coaches, staff members and student-athletes will be featured on the show and in attendance to interact with fans, alumni and friends during the special evening event. Fans will have an opportunity to order directly on their own from the normal dinner menu and eat dinner while listening to the live show from inside the facility.
The third show of the fall will cover Bulldog Hockey along with men's and women's basketball in addition to volleyball among others during the 60-minute production. Discussion will include a recap of the weekend hockey series versus Michigan, upcoming basketball home contests along with coverage of the volleyball team's run in the NCAA Tournament.
In addition to tuning in live on Sunny 97.3 FM, the show will also be aired live on the Bulldog Sports Network multimedia portal at FerrisStateBulldogs.com for those fans not able to be in attendance.
Monday's event will be the final one of the fall semester with the possibility of additional shows added to the lineup later this year.
Come out and enjoy the great food, meet the Dawgs and listen live!
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Big Rapids, Mich. - This fall's third "Mic'd Up Monday's" with
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Dean Victor Hansen teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and Prosecutorial Ethics at New England Law | Boston. Before joining the New England Law faculty in 2005, he served a 20-year career in the Army, most of that time as a JAG Corps officer. In his last military assignment he served as a regional defense counsel for the United States Army Trial Defense Service. His previous assignments include work as a military prosecutor and supervising prosecutor. He has been involved in military capital litigation as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. He also served as an associate professor of law at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, VA. He is the author of several articles and books on criminal and military law, evidence, and national security issues, and is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
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The Value of the Military Commissions Act as Non-Judicial Precedent in the Context of Litigation Over National Security Policymaking,
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Croatia Reborn
The face of Franjo Tudjman has turned a horrible gangrene yellow. What is surprising is that Tudjman, the man who led Croatia to independence in 1991, died only last December. Yet no one seems to care that the photograph of the father of the nation that hangs in the lobby of Zagreb's grand Esplanade Hotel is deteriorating so rapidly that soon you won't be able to make out his features at all.
Croats talk of the "change of atmosphere." In fact, ever since Tudjman's death and the collapse of his party, the once all-powerful Croatian Democratic Union, the HDZ, in January's elections, Croatia has begun a transformation little short of a quiet revolution. Whether it will complete the transformation is another question.
"Secret Agent Bak here…. I hear you'll be seeing two journalists tomorrow. In fact they are eating and drinking with me now," says Ivan Zvonimir Cicak. A nationalist dissident under communism and tireless human rights activist for the last ten years, he lies back on his couch, laughs, and tries to fix a time for his friend the new president of Croatia, Stipe Mesic, to come to his house for a barbecue. Cicak says to us: "The President sends you his regards."
We are in Cicak's hilltop house in Celine, a village in the hills close to the Slovene border. A Croatian television crew has just left. "Ha!" Cicak says. "They didn't visit for ten years and now they are here every day!" Meanwhile, on the phone, Stipe Mesic, at the presidential palace, is receiving an earful from Cicak, who is concerned about a government measure to ban the public display of symbols of the Nazi-quisling or Ustasha state which ruled Croatia from 1941 to 1945. "Listen Stipe," he says, "once you start, where do you stop? You'll have to do [Serbian] Chetnik symbols, Yugoslav ones, Communist ones…. It's better to fight them with arguments than by banning things."
Stipe Mesic, in office since February, has some presidential experience. In fact he was once the president of another country, although the problems he faced then were rather different. He was the last president of the old Yugoslavia. During the awful summer of 1991, as Croatia began its slide into war, interminable meetings were held in the vast airport-like Federation Palace in Belgrade. Unlike Slobodan Milosevic, then the president of Serbia—and now the president of what remains of Yugoslavia—Mesic would slip outside for a cigarette and a joke with the journalists, who were being devoured by mosquitoes and trying to find out what was going on from the waitresses serving tea.
Later Mesic wrote a book called How We Destroyed Yugoslavia. Unlike Tudjman, the new Croatian president has a highly developed sense of humor. One has to wonder whether his next book might be called The Laughs in the Tudjman Tapes.
When he took office in February Mesic…
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University News
Emergency Management Students Get Hands-On Experience in Harrisburg; Field Project Assists Southern IL Community Hit by Leap Day Tornado
October 29, 2013
MACOMB, IL — For Western Illinois University emergency management major Hannah Beasley, a recent field trip to Harrisburg, IL—the southern Illinois community that, on Leap Day 2012, experienced an EF-4 level tornado, the largest natural disaster in Illinois last year—was more than just a way to complete an assignment or take part in an experiential class project. For Beasley (who is from Linden, CA, but grew up in a mobile home in Kentucky), thinking of the terror Southern Illinoisans experienced that February 29 reminded of her own childhood experiences involving tornado activity.
"Going to Harrisburg was a very personal assignment for me because I grew up in a trailer in Kentucky. We had no storm shelter to go to when the sirens sounded, and I remember sitting in the bathtub with my sisters with our bike helmets on, scared to death because we had nowhere else to go," Beasley explained. "Having community shelters so the less fortunate can be shielded from the storm is something I support with all that I am."
Beasley was part of a group of eight students WIU Emergency Management Professor Jack Rozdilsky took to Harrisburg to provide them with hands-on disaster field experience and to assist the Harrisburg community with disaster recovery. The students were not only there to experience the conditions of a natural disaster site, but they were also there to help examine and analyze possible locations for tornado shelters.
Rozdilsky said the concepts covered in the field project are based on his qualitative study, "Disaster Management with Limited Local Resources: The 2012 Illinois Leap Day EF-4 Tornado" published earlier this year. (His research was funded by a grant from the University of Colorado Natural Hazards Center through its Quick Response Grant Program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. It is available online as Quick Response Report #233 at www.colorado.edu/hazards/research/qr/qrpubs10s.html.) He also presented his findings at the National Tornado Summit last March. The findings, he noted, will help provide small, rural, oftentimes economically challenged, communities—such as Harrisburg, with a population of around 9,000, and many communities in the state and across the Midwest—with helpful information about how to manage future tornado disasters.
One of several journeys he has made for his ongoing Leap Day EF-4 Tornado research, Rozdilsky's Oct. 17-18 trip with his emergency management students provided them with the opportunity to visit with staff at the Saline County Emergency Management Agency (SCEMA) during week 85 of the recovery effort.
"The Leap Day Tornado hit the ground with a force of 175-180 miles per hour, left eight people dead, injured many others and damaged close to 450 homes. After the disaster, a need was identified to develop community tornado shelters at public facilities where mass gatherings take place, such as fairgrounds or sports facilities," Rozdilsky explained. "The students gathered information related to the creation of shelters and field sites where they could potentially be built. It's possible, next year, the tornado shelters the students were planning may be placed in the community as a part of a mitigation project," he added.
Nick Swope, a graduate student in health sciences (public health) who accompanied Rozdilsky and the emergency management students, said having the opportunity to see the recovery effort first hand is extremely beneficial.
"During our visit, Saline County Emergency Manager Allan Ninness also took us through the incident and response process, where we learned how Harrisburg undertook setting up security areas, placing restroom facilities, managing volunteers and processing and allocating donations," he said. "There is absolutely no substitute for field experience. You get so many little bits of wisdom, for example, like using colored wristbands to organize volunteers. Things like that are so small, are so very practical, but won't necessarily be found in a textbook or pamphlet."
Beasley echoes Swope's feelings about having the opportunity to participate in field experiences such as the one in Harrisburg.
"We learn a great deal in our classes, but one can only learn so much in the classroom. There comes a point in one's education it becomes necessary to have hands-on, practical learning you can only get in the field, especially in our line of work," Beasley said. "Everything you see and hear at emergency management field sites provides you with a chance to learn and grow, for you to take that information with you and use it in your future. You learn from what others have done right, or you may learn that you need to try something different and learn from that, as well."
For more information, contact Rozdilsky at (309) 298-1621 or via email at email@example.com. Learn more about WIU's emergency management bachelor's degree program—one of only 15 of its type in the U.S.—
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Quite how Hull City did not take three points from this game only heaven and Robert Koren know. In fairness to the Slovenian midfielder his astonishing first-half miss from no more than six yards was one of a series of good chances spurned by the Tigers, but that was minimal consolation to their manager, Steve Bruce.
"We couldn't have played any better, especially in the first half, but it's getting a little bit familiar, creating chances and not taking them," said Bruce, whose side had 19 attempts on target. "We were easily the better side and we have nothing to fear in this league, but a team is only as good as its strikers and it's obviously a concern."
Both these sides came into the game on the back of unexpected defeats, Crystal Palace at Leeds and Hull at home to Burnley, but whereas the Palace manager, Ian Holloway, simply replaced the suspended top scorer Glenn Murray with Jermaine Easter, Bruce shook up both team and formation.
Had he included a recognised striker in his line-up he might have been rewarded for his readiness to innovate because Hull, playing with three centre-backs and five, sometimes six in midfield, completely dominated the first half. The wing-backs Ahmed Elmohamady and the Manchester United loanee Robbie Brady repeatedly found space on the flanks, and Brady's first cross in the second minute should have been turned in by either Koren or David Meyler. Both somehow failed to connect.
Palace responded with a Yannick Bolasie shot well saved by City's goalkeeper, David Stockdale, but that was pretty much the last that was seen of the visitors as an attacking force until the last five minutes of the game. Passing the ball neatly and quickly through midfield, Hull created a series of opportunities, but with Sone Aluko, a midfielder, playing as the spearhead, lacked a natural finisher.
It seemed as well then that the best opportunity not just of the half but quite probably of the season should have fallen to Koren. With Palace's goalkeeper, Julián Speroni, already dragged out of position, all the Slovenian had to do was to direct the ball on target – but somehow he turned it over the bar.
Stephen Quinn shot just wide both before and after half-time, and Koren saw another close-range effort blocked by Speroni before Bruce, not before time, sent on two recognised forwards in Nick Proschwitz and Aaron McLean.
McLean duly brought a fine save out of Speroni, but Palace had begun to make occasional forays upfield, and with two minutes remaining were presented with a glorious chance to steal the win when Elmohamady's weak back pass left Bolasie with only Stockdale to beat. But he too dragged his shot wide, and in the final minute of added time Wilfried Zaha broke through only to see his close-range attempt blocked by Stockdale.
"We didn't get to grips with their shape in the first half but we were more imposing in the second," said Holloway.
"It took a long time for Wilf [Zaha] to get out of the shackles they put him in and almost win it for us, but that was two pretty good teams out there and you have to give Hull credit, they managed to nullify us up to a point.
"It was a pretty decent game that could have gone either way, and I'm more than happy to take something out of it."


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A 54-year-old male patient is undergoing the surgical removal of a cancerous lung tumor. The procedure is moving along smoothly until the surgical team encounters unexpected vascular bleeding. All of a sudden, the situation is emergent, and the lead thoracic surgeon calls in a cardiac surgery team to assist.
To those involved, everything about this impending crisis is real – from the communication to the palpable anxiety in the room. In reality, the whole scenario is staged. The thoracic surgeon is an actor, and the 54-year-old male patient is actually a full-featured mannequin simulator.
Massachusetts General Hospital's cardiac surgical teams are currently participating in these lifelike operating room simulations, a training regimen designed to reduce medical errors by drilling staff in emergent situations. At the Center for Medical Simulation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, eight to 10 people from various clinical disciplines work through the simulations as a team then analyze the clinical and behavioral aspects of the performance.
"We look at how the team responds to problems and how they work together to make the surgery more effective," says Arvind Agnihotri, MD, director of Cardiac Surgery Quality Improvement at Mass General Hospital.
The cardiac team's simulations are modeled after those done in other high-stress, high-risk fields, such as the airline industry and the military. A few years ago, Dr. Agnihotri had the idea of modeling cardiac OR training after the drills done in these fields because the principles of the situations can be similar.
"Our goal is to gather knowledge from these other industries about team performance," explains Dr. Agnihotri. "If we can look at how people in other high performance industries work together in high stress situations, we can improve our own responses."
Much like the airline industry, Dr. Agnihotri believes that cardiac OR teams can learn from drills for practice specific scenarios that, while rare, may occur during a procedure. The drills can also encourage behaviors that improve quality and safety, such as repeating back instructions and taking procedural timeouts. The Center for Medical Simulation proved to be in ideal location to bring the drill to life because of its highly-realistic simulation environment.
"Day after day nothing unusual happens, but the day that something does happen those practice drills may prove critical," says Dr. Agnihotri.
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It was a heavy technology night at the Skyline Board of Education meeting as the Board considered the school going paperless and voted to expand Sawyer Virtual Academy to add K-5 grades making the academy a K-12 school.
The Board is going paperless at their July meeting. At the Monday night meeting the board got a taste of what it will be like for the students when Skyline Technical Coordinator Kim Ghumm brought in iPads for each member and walked them through several possible plans on how to get iPads and minis into the hands of students using the iPads.
The Board made it clear they want the technology available to the students. Now they must decide how to implement getting the technology into students hands, said Mike Sanders, Skyline Superintendent.
Several plans were presented but the most popular plan was in the 2013-2014 school year to provide students in 5-8 with iPad 3s and 9-12 with iPad minis.
Funds to pay for the new equipment can come out of the text book fund since the iPads and minis will take the place of text books.
With over $78,000 in the text book fund and an additional $22,000 to $23,000 coming into the fund each year from the state plus about the same from Rural Educational Assistance Program, the school can cover the cost of the equipment without having to touch the Local Option Budget.
The school is also in touch with the Goodland school district about purchasing their refurbished iPad 3s at a $350 savings for just $149 apiece, Sanders said.
This is not yet mandated and the board is seeking feedback from teachers and patrons before they vote on the matter.
On another technology field, the Board voted to expand the Sawyer Virtual Academy to include grades K-5 making the academy a K-12 school.
Julie Ewing, Sawyer Virtual Academy director, said the new students would use the Culvert program that provides all the materials necessary for the student for the entire year.
The materials are not cheap at $2,100 per student per year. But the base student aid would easily cover the cost of the program so the district would cover the cost of the materials, Ewing said.
The program has a very intense curriculum but Ewing is a certified teacher qualified to handle the program.
Parents would have to have some training and students would be accountable to the parents and the district.
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8 years in LIRR scandal for Dr. Peter Ajemian
A federal judge on Friday sentenced Dr. Peter Ajemian, one of the doctors at the center of the Long Island Rail Road disability scandal, to 8 years in prison and scolded him for using his medical training as a tool of fraud and criminality.
"Dr. Ajemian corrupted the license publicly granted to him to practice medicine," said Manhattan U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero. ". . . He provided physician's services not to restore patients to good health or prevent sickness, but to turn able-bodied employees into fully pensioned annuitants falsely afflicted by certified lifetime disabilities."
Ajemian, 64, of Garden City and formerly of Syosset, pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy. He was described by prosecutors as the "linchpin" of a decadelong scheme to falsely certify hundreds of able-bodied LIRR retirees as unable to work so they could collect disability payments from the federal Railroad Retirement Board. Left unchecked, the scheme would have allegedly cost $1 billion.
Before a courtroom filled with his wife, son and about 20 friends, Ajemian, a tall, white-haired orthopedist supported by a cane, did not apologize and told the judge that he was proud of every part of a career he spent helping patients except for the final chapter.
"It is a matter of sincere regret that my career should have come to the end that it has, as I find myself before your honor today," the doctor said.
Ajemian was accused of being the most prolific of three physicians prosecutors say were "doctors for sale" who ran disability mills for LIRR workers planning to retire. He certified 734 retirees as disabled, 94 percent of those he saw, the judge said, earning $2.5 million for himself, while his patients got more than $90 million for disabilities but continued to play sports and engage in physical labor after retiring.
In court filings, Ajemian argued that abuses of the disability program were widely known, and lax management at the LIRR and the railroad board bore heavy responsibility for the extent of the scandal. He said he was being "scapegoated" -- a familiar theme among the 23 retirees and others who have pleaded guilty so far, with few expressing remorse.
Marrero said management ineptitude did not mitigate Ajemian's guilt and accused him of taking responsibility "with fingers crossed."
"If in fact the culture among the employer, the employees and unions at the LIRR . . . existed as the pool of potential corruption his remarks now suggest, rather than trying to clean it up he essentially chose to jump in it, and to prescribe its toxic waters to others," Marrero said.
The judge said Ajemian also ill-served his patients, who "went to him as healthy, if misguided, patients and came out as unindicted co-conspirators."
Ajemian declined to comment after the sentencing. He is one of 32 doctors, retirees and others who have been charged, and prosecutors say the investigation is continuing.


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Ernest Borel announced this week its national brand alliance and sponsorship agreement with USA Dance, Inc., the National Governing Body for DanceSport.
USA Dance, a member the U.S. Olympic Committee and the World DanceSport Federation, is a leading DanceSport association with 174 social dance chapters throughout the country with the primary mission to support America's DanceSport athletes by providing the highest level of ballroom and Latin competitive dance and training opportunities and to support the global movement to bring DanceSport to the Olympic Games.
In early 2012, Ernest Borel became a national sponsor of USA Dance and the organization's Star Quality Awards, judged and presented at the USA Dance National DanceSport Championships by Carrie Ann Inaba from ABC's "Dancing With The Stars."
"Actually, the timing couldn't be better," Ernest Borel Global Sales and Marketing Director Pietro Meloni said. "Ernest Borel has returned to America in celebration of the traditions that launched and have sustained our company's brand for a century and a half, but most apparently, the Ernest Borel brand association comes at a time when dance is the great dynamic, inspiring mass audiences throughout America, and around the world."
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Rudisill's 5 RBIs helps Hickory end losing skid
Hickory Post 48 overcame an early deficit on the road Thursday to end a three-game losing skid with a 12-11 victory against Waynesville.
Post 48 (4-3, 3-2) trailed 4-0 early, but scored three runs in the third inning and six in the sixth inning to pull ahead and go on to win.
Aaron Rudisill led Hickory with two hits, including a home run, and dorve in five RBIs.
Post 48 center fielder Phillip Carroll added three hits, including a two-run homer.
Zach Jarrett, Jordan Eckard and Matt Johnson also had two hits apiece for Hickory.
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by 21st CCLC Administrators
Last week we provided an article for our Y 21st CCLC in The Bowling Green Times, advertising our parent/adult education series of classes to be offered on the evenings of March 5, March 12, and March 19 (all Tuesday evenings, 6 to 7:45 p.m.).
The classes will be offered at Bowling Green, Clopton, and Louisiana on a two program per night rotation for the three weeks. Each site will offer all six classes over the three Tuesday nights. The schedule was in last week's paper. In addition to that all K-6 children in Pike County took home a flier providing all the information.
We feel the classes being presented by people in the community with expertise on the topics represent a wide range of topics with information that should prove to be valuable and useful. The topics cover money management, parenting, teenage at-risk factors, school counseling, college planning and school meal programs. For example, many parents are asking questions about the types of food in our school lunch programs that are being served and the portions provided. The school food service directors in each district will be available to answer those questions.
The Twin Pike Y 21st CCLC programs at all of the elementary schools in our county would like to appeal to all of our parents to take a look at the programs and go to one or more of the sites March 5, 12, or 19 and take part in the classes. The times, once again, are 6 to 7:45 p.m. each night. Any parent in any of the districts is more than welcome to attend any night at whichever school site they desire. We appreciate RSVP's but simply showing up is acceptable. All sites plan to serve snacks between programs (6:45 to 7 p.m.) and attendance prizes, including $25 gas cards will be drawn for.
For additional information, or to register, you may call:
Bowling Green/Frankford- (573) 324-9991
Louisiana- (573) 754-0270
Clopton- (573) 242-3546, ext. 416
(573) 485-2488, ext. 416
Y 21st CCLC Office- (573) 754-4999
Reminder – parents at Frankford and BONCL that 21st CCLC staff members from their schools will also be participating and they are all invited to attend any of the sites.


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MT. PROSPECT – I don't remember the Morris Daily Herald ever covering the girls tennis state final tournament, but in my 11 years here, we've never had multiple Morris entrants at once.
And so I went Oct. 24 – first to Hersey High School, to watch Morris singles player Megan Davy in action, and then to Prospect High, where I caught the end of the third doubles match for Monica Davy and Leah Lines and the entirety of the fourth.
I can say with more certainty than in the past that we've already covered the tennis itself, so I won't go into details about what happened on the court. But there were a few nuggets that I wasn't able to work into my state coverage that I think are very much worth sharing.
One is the relationship between Monica Davy, a junior, and her freshman sister, Megan. Because she went 0-2, Megan was able to watch her sister in action, which she told me she was unable to do when Monica competed at state as a sophomore.
"I couldn't miss school," Megan said.
The fact that the Davys were at different sites, and that Monica and her partner played four matches in a little more than six hours, prevented Monica from getting to see her sister in action.
"Unfortunately, I didn't and I really wish I could have," Monica said. "I heard she had two really tough matches. Megan is such a great player, and I really think that when she's a senior, everybody better look out. I couldn't be more proud of her."
Other members of Megan's family did get to see her play at state.
"This is just gonna be like any other family reunion," Megan said prior to state. "But then we get to play tennis and be competitive at the same time."
The distance that separated the Davys when they played was only a few miles, but it was more than the few feet that separated them for most of the season.
"I'll never forget this high school year where I get to look down at the court next to me and she's playing right there. It's a really great feeling," Monica said.
Until state, I hadn't realized the Redskins' made purposeful alterations to their schedule this season. On the Saturdays in September, they played in quadrangular meets at St. Viator and Palatine, an invitational at Lemont and at Lincoln-Way Central with Tinley Park. In 2012, they had no Saturday events scheduled in September.
"I think those quads that we did throughout the season really helped them because we've already basically done something like this," Morris coach Becky Ortega said. "Pretend like it's another quad, just to take some of the pressure off."
Lines said the beefed-up schedule is partly responsible for she and Monica Davy going 2-2 at state after they were 1-2 the year prior.
"I knew this competition was gonna be extra good, and I know that playing in our Saturday tournaments this year really helped, because we faced better competition then and it helped us to win that extra match at state," Lines said.


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Sunday, January 17, 2010
One Last At Bat
This decision has not been an easy one. Nor is it one that I have come to quickly. As some of you can attest, I have wrestled with future of the site for the last several years. While no single reason has brought Big Ten Hardball to an end, one central theme binds all the issues together -- change.
It is clear to me that it's time for change for both the blog and myself. For the blog, the growing media coverage of Big Ten baseball programs -- from the institutions themselves to the Big Ten Network to an expanding force of national media and local bloggers -- has made it evident that Big Ten Hardball needs to evolve.
What is equally clear, and here's where the change I need personally jumps in, is that some of the passion I had to pursue this game on a daily basis has faded. After five years of being, in effect, a beat writer for ten teams, I could use a break.
I explored a number of options before deciding to close up shop. I considered everything from writing less frequently to asking some of my blogging allies to join BTH and bring new perspective, energy and carry some of the workload. During those discussions, we pondered merging this blog with another or having me leave this site and write elsewhere. Occasionally, I contemplated starting an entirely new blog.
However, I found it difficult to commit to any of the alternatives. I realized any decision I would make would be a half-hearted one. That wouldn't be fair to anyone. Instead, the best option, although the hardest one for me, is to close the doors at Big Ten Hardball.
While I am bringing BTH to an end, I'm not shutting the door on the college baseball world. You will still see me around the ballpark. I'm also going to continue to check my email, so you can always contact me there. Who knows? If the right circumstances arise, I might be back writing about college baseball someday. (A few who were forewarned of my decision are already trying to push me back in.)
It's been a tremendous five years. This experience has been far greater than I could have ever imagined. Much, if not all, of that is because of you -- those who have interacted in some way with Big Ten Hardball and it's author. I thank you all.
11 comments:
- Jon Marthaler said...
I have quite enjoyed reading, and I'll miss BTH very much. It's the one place I could count on as a central repository of the news that I wanted, without the nationwide filler I didn't.
Good luck to you in moving on - and thank you for your work. I hope you know how much readers appreciated it.
(Do let us all know if you ever go elsewhere, too.)
- Brian P. Foley said...
I started my site around the same time that this site started up. I have always thought of this as my sister site and Brian has been a great guy whenever I needed some Big Ten help. Now I really don't know where I am going to go for Big Ten News and Notes anymore.
Brian, As you know, the door is always open on my site now.
Brian P. Foley
Editor of The College Baseball Blog
- Bill said...
Brian - it is with a sad heart that I hear of the closing of BTH. You were truely one of the biggest proponents of not only baseball in the Big Ten but northern baseball overall. Your views (and rants) will be deeply missed. But I will see you around a ball park this Spring.
- NewHoosierFan said...
I have thoroughly enjoyed your blog over the past year and am EXTREMELY saddened that we no longer will be able to enjoy clicking on the BTH link to see what's new. However, being a former Navy guy, I wish you fair winds and following seas in the future. Rest assured that if you choose to return, you will find at least one follower!!
You've done a fabulous service for Big 10 Baseball and helped introduce me to all the great talent that exists in the Midwest.
--Ross Dickerson
- nelshopp said...
I echo all the other sentiments expressed. I will miss BTH. You are truly a great resource for Big Ten Baseball.
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- Joanna said...
Brian, I just saw this post. So sorry to see you closing up shop. I've always enjoyed reading your perspective on things. Good luck as you move forward. And, do let me know if you start writing elsewhere.
Joanna (Hook 'em!)
- neo said...
Thanks for all your insights and passion for Big Ten Baseball. This site was on a regular bookmark from Feb to June. Your site's departure leaves a big hole in the B10 baseball news. In writing a blog for my company, I appreciate the time and energy required to create and maintain a quality product. Thanks again and good luck.
- Andrew said...
BTH was one of the first college baseball sites I found. I really enjoyed reading your blog.
- Brian said...
My sincere thanks to all for the kind words -- both here and in e-mail fashion.
- BaseballBucks33 said...
Brian, thanks for all you have done for Big Ten baseball,you run a great blog and you will be missed a lot around here. Take care of your self and maybe i will see you around Buckeye country sometime.


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Quite a day for NFL sacks.
Seven coaches and five general managers were fired Monday in a flurry of pink slips that were delivered the day after the regular season ended.
There could be more, but so far the sent-packing scorecard looks like this:
Andy Reid in Philadelphia, Lovie Smith in Chicago, and Ken Whisenhunt in Arizona, all coaches who took teams to the Super Bowl, Norv Turner in San Diego, Pat Shurmur in Cleveland, Romeo Crennel in Kansas City, and Chan Gailey in Buffalo.
Three teams made it a clean sweep, saying goodbye to the GM along with the coach — San Diego (A.J. Smith), Cleveland (Tom Heckert), Arizona (Rod Graves). General managers also were fired in Jacksonville (Gene Smith) and in New York (Mike Tannenbaum), where Rex Ryan held onto his coaching job with the Jets despite a losing record.
The search for replacements began almost immediately, with big-name former coaches such as Jon Gruden, Bill Cowher, and Tony Dungy surfacing as potential candidates, along with hot but obscure coordinators such as Mike Zimmer, Mike McCoy, and Gus Bradley. And Jon Gruden's younger brother, Jay.
Also in the mix will be some of the coaches who lost their jobs Monday as well as college coaches Chip Kelly of Oregon and Bill O'Brien of Penn State. Maybe even Nick Saban, although leaving Alabama for the NFL is a long shot.
Reid was the longest tenured of the coaches, removed after 14 seasons and a Super Bowl appearance in February 2005 — a loss to the Patriots.
Smith spent nine seasons with the Bears, leading them to the Super Bowl in the 2006 season — a loss to the Indianapolis Colts.
Turner now has been fired as head coach by three teams. San Diego won the AFC West from 2006-09, but didn't make the postseason the last three years.
''Both Norv and A.J. are consummate NFL professionals, and they understand that in this league, the bottom line is winning,'' Chargers president Dean Spanos said in a statement.
Whisenhunt was fired after six seasons, including taking the Cardinals to a Super Bowl loss to Pittsburgh after the 2008 season. He had more wins than any other coach in Cardinals history, going 45-51, and has one year worth about $5.5 million left on his contract. Graves had been with Arizona for 16 years, nine in his current position. Gailey was dumped after three seasons with the Bills; Shurmur after two; and Crennel had one full season with the Chiefs.
In Tennessee, Mike Munchak will be back as Titans coach for a third season but chief operating officer Mike Reinfeldt is out after the franchise's second 6-10 season in three years.
Reid took over a 3-13 Eagles team in 1999, drafted Donovan McNabb with the No. 2 overall pick, and quickly turned the franchise into a title contender. He led them to a run of four straight NFC Championship games, a streak that ended with a trip to the NFL title game. But the team hasn't won a playoff game since 2008 and after last season's 8-8 finish, owner Jeffrey Lurie said he was looking for improvement this year. Instead, it was even worse. The Eagles finished 4-12.
''When you have a season like that, it's embarrassing. It's personally crushing to me and it's terrible,'' Lurie said. He said he respects Reid and plans to stay friends with him, ''but, it is time for the Eagles to move in a new direction.''
Earlier, PhiladelphiaEagles.com posted video of Lurie and Reid addressing employees, who gave Reid a big ovation. Lurie handed him a game ball.
''I have a hard time standing before people without a few boos involved. But I'm taking it, I'm taking it all in,'' Reid said. ''These have been the greatest 14 years of my life.''
He added: ''Sometimes change is good. I know the next guy that comes in will be phenomenal. The ultimate goal is a Super Bowl. Everybody in this room, I wish you a big ring on the finger in the near future. Hail to the Eagles, baby.''
Shurmur went 9-23 in his two seasons with the Browns, who will embark on yet another offseason of change — the only constant in more than a decade of futility. Cleveland has lost at least 11 games in each of the past five seasons and made the playoffs just once since returning to the NFL as an expansion team in 1999.
Crennel took over with three games left in the 2011 season after GM Scott Pioli fired Todd Haley. Kansas City will have the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft as a result of having one of the worst seasons in its 53-year history. The only other time the Chiefs finished 2-14 was 2008, the year before Pioli was hired.
Gailey, the former Dallas Cowboys coach, compiled a 16-32 record in his three seasons in Buffalo, never doing better than 6-10.
Smith and the Bears went 10-6 this season and just missed a playoff spot. But Chicago started 7-1 and has struggled to put together a productive offense throughout Smith's tenure. His record was 81-63 with the Bears, and he took them to one Super Bowl loss and to one NFC Championship game defeat.
The AP, citing a person familiar with the situation, reported that McCoy, the Broncos offensive coordinator, will interview with the Bears and Cardinals this week. McCoy, who interviewed with the Dolphins last year after retooling Denver's offense to fit Tim Tebow's skill set, burnished his head coaching credentials this season while helping guide Peyton Manning through his comeback season.
Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill wasted no time in identifying possible replacements, saying at a Monday news conference that the team had reached out to Reid and received permission to interview McCoy.
Another assistant who will likely get some interest is Bruce Arians, who went 9-3 as the Colts' interim coach this season.
''Obviously, he's earned any phone call he gets, he's earned that right,'' Colts coach Chuck Pagano said of Arians, who replaced him for 12 games while Pagano underwent chemotherapy for leukemia.
''And let me just say this, we do not want to lose Bruce Arians. We know who he is and what he's meant to this football team.''


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WRLWC2017 Week 1 squads
THE rise of women's Rugby League is set to reach new levels on an international scale, with the 12 matches of the historic 2017 Rugby League Women's World Cup kicking off tomorrow (Thursday) in Sydney to be broadcast on free-to-air television in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Match Report:
Cedars make the Roos earn their win
AUSTRALIA, the world champions came into this match as massive favourites and were expected to rack up a cricket score against Lebanon. However the Cedars backed up their stunning performance against England last week with another great effort, restricting Australia to just 4 tries in 75 minutes before letting a pair of quick tries in at the end of the game.


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Shia LaBeouf pulls out of Broadway debut
Shia LaBeouf is pulling the plug on his Broadway debut.
The star of the "Transformers" franchise had been slated to appear opposite Alec Baldwin in "Orphans" but producers said Wednesday that LaBeouf would not be continuing "due to creative differences."
The play by Lyle Kessler, which premiered in 1983, tells the story of two orphaned brothers living in a decrepit Philadelphia row house who decide to kidnap a wealthy man. LaBeouf played one brother and Baldwin the target.
"Orphans" opens March 19 at the Schoenfeld Theatre, directed by Daniel Sullivan. Producers said an announcement on LaBeouf's replacement would be made soon.
LaBeouf, whose films include "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," was most recently seen in John Hillcoat's crime drama "Lawless."
Jane Lynch to star on Broadway in 'Annie'
Jane Lynch has something to be gleeful about -- she's about to make her Broadway debut.
The "Glee" star said Wednesday she'll be replacing Tony Award-winning actress Katie Finneran as the evil orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the current revival of "Annie."
Lynch, a veteran of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, will play Hannigan for eight weeks from May 16 through July 14. Finneran will depart to film a new NBC comedy series with Michael J. Fox.
Lynch has an Emmy and Golden Globe for playing the track-suited, glee-club-hating cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on "Glee." Her film credits include "Wreck-It Ralph," "Three Stooges," "The 40 Year old Virgin" and "A Mighty Wind."
Fergie and husband Duhamel study up on parenting
Actor Josh Duhamel and his wife, Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie, have already started doing their homework as they prepare to welcome their first child.
Duhamel tells the Associated Press the couple is "very excited" and that friends and family are passing on pregnancy advice.
He says Fergie is reading "What to Expect When You're Expecting," while he has started "The Expectant Father."
Duhamel adds: "There's not a lot of pictures, though. I like a book with pictures."
Fergie, the 37-year-old whose real name is Stacy Ferguson, married Duhamel in 2009. Their baby is due this summer.
Duhamel, 40, has appeared in the "Transformers" films and can be seen in romantic drama "Safe Haven."
Autopsy confirms Mindy McCready's death as suicide
Authorities in Arkansas say preliminary autopsy results confirm country music singer Mindy McCready's death was a suicide.
The Cleburne County sheriff said in a statement Wednesday that preliminary autopsy results from Arkansas' state crime lab show McCready's death was a suicide from a single gunshot wound to the head.
Investigators have said McCready apparently shot and killed her late boyfriend's dog before she turned the gun on herself Sunday at her home in Heber Springs, Ark. Authorities found McCready's body and the dog on the front porch where her longtime boyfriend, musician David Wilson, died last month of a gunshot wound to the head.
Authorities are investigating Wilson's death as a suicide but they haven't determined an official cause of death yet.