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A few months ago, 60 Minutes aired a series of interviews with Air Force personnel who were behind the F-35 program. All of them said more or less the same thing about the F-35: it doesn't matter if the F-35 is less powerful or doesn't handle as well as other jets, because it was built around radar superiority and being able to detect Russian and Chinese fighters before they could detect it.
If it's the case that the Russians and Chinese now have radar systems that remove that radar superiority, the F-35 now looks like even more of a gigantic waste of money.
It still might have an edge against fighters, at least for the time being. It sounds like the dual radar systems are being installed on larger surface vehicles, but there could always be a smaller version for fighters on the way. Of course, if the fighters are able to receive targeting data from the ships then it wouldn't matter (as long as that targeting data isn't being jammed).
Physics may prevent the antennas needed for long wave radar from working on fighters fast and maneuverable enough to be a threat to the F-35.
IRST is enough of a problem at mid and short ranges as is.
Arrays will be steerable enough.
Keeping them small enough to fit on ships, that's fun.
The real purpose of stealth isn't to be invisible, but is to avoid being visible enough to hit. The bird [wikipedia.org] I worked on, the HAWK missile [designation-systems.net] was a semi-active radar homing missile operating in the military portion of the x-band, 10GHzish and was 37 cm, or 14.5 inches in diameter which is about 10 wavelength in diameter which is the rule of thumb for getting enough angular resolution for to hit what your shooting at. By having to go long-wave any semi-active homer isn't going to be able to resolve the target clearly enough to really hit it, having missiles flying close misses to your aircraft is still freaky enough to make a pilots asshole tighten considerable just like you don't want a blind man throwing knives at your sound, which brings us to the other components of stealth which are not being where your expected to be and not doing what your expected to be doing.
It won't.
The F35 is the classic "it tries to do 255 things, so it does none of them well" thing. It needed rethinking for all sort of other reasons already, but by now it has too much political inertia. You'd have to get too many people to admit they made a mistake.
Wrong! The F-35 does exactly what it was designed to do very well: Provide almost half a trillion dollars in corporate welfare to the aerospace industry spread across 45 states. So what if it's not safe to fly, doesn't do what it was meant to do, and is incredibly expensive over its projected lifetime? Gotta keep Lockheed Martin, insider trading Congressional staffers and Senators, et alia, in Cadillacs and Mink coats...
Welfare to the poor: bad because it removes the incentive to improve oneself. Welfare to the rich: fantastic!
It won't. The F35 is the classic "it tries to do 255 things, so it does none of them well" thing. It needed rethinking for all sort of other reasons already, but by now it has too much political inertia. You'd have to get too many people to admit they made a mistake.
Everyone seems to not understand that that's exactly what the F35 requirements were. Unlike previous so called multi-role aircraft, which typically were designed for the Air Force and then poorly adapted to other roles, the F35 is a true Swiss army knife. The criticism seems to be heaviest for the Air Force version, probably because as I mentioned, multi-roles it replaces were initially designed for them. It cannot take on air-superiority fighters in combat, penetrate or evade advanced air defenses but that is not its role, we have specialized fighters and bombers to do that. The role I see for the Air Force F35 is to support the specialized aircraft, mop up remnants and to take over as front line fighter only when air superiority is achieved. It seems terribly expensive for that role now, but this is a Aircraft that's being designed to have the largest and longest production run in history.
fixed radar sites may detect it but those in opposing fighters may not be able to. or the fixed ones will only detect it at closer ranges and this will lessen the capabilities for opposing fighters
and fixed sites can be attacked more easily with cruise missiles
That may be well and good in the air to air role but this thing is supposed to be an attack plane too. And how long is it before the new radar tech finds its way into fighters?
how long are fighters replaced? every 20-30 years?
dog fighting isn't that big anymore. US has AWACS now to direct our fighters and attack from behind or some other optimum angle. no one sends fighters against each other for a dogfight anymore.
even the F117 could be detected in the gulf war, which is why it flew as part of huge mission packages with jamming aircraft and wild weasels
"no one sends fighters against each other for a dogfight anymore"
Every generation re-learns the falsehood of that kind of thinking at the expense of pilots and planes.
we didn't have cruise missiles in vietnam. and not sure about AWACS either.
these days we have more people "managing" the battle than the war fighters because historically most battles have been won or lost before the fighting began
Ditto. And again.
Every generation re-learns the falsehood of that kind of thinking at the expense of pilots and planes.
Not true. Only one generation made this mistake. Today, we are making the opposite mistake, believing in the dogma that dogfighting is still important, when it clearly is not.
Prior to Vietnam, missiles were supposed to make dogfighting obsolete. That was shown to be wrong in the skies over Hanoi, as well as during the 1973 Yom Kipper War. But it was only wrong because the missiles weren't good enough yet. Today, the missiles are far better, and the missiles of the future will be better still.
If a ground-based LW radar can guide the AAM, Alli the fighter is doing is getting the middle close enough.
GBLW radar can use a lot of computer power to get the middle close enough to burn the stealth, or go IR.
First off, the F-35 has forced China and Russia to commit a large amount of time and resources to try and counter it's superiority. From an economic standpoint, if you're forcing potential enemies to dedicate time and resources to try and counter your technology, it's a win. Secondly, just because Russia and China are able to develop technology to detect it doesn't mean it's useless. There are numerous other potential uses that don't involve Russian and Chinese radar.
Not if it costs 1000x more to create the technology than it does to counter it. Nor if the money to build it was borrowed in part from that potential enemy.
Developing these new radars is not a direct response to the F-35. In fact it has been known that stealth aircraft are vulnerable to this kind of detection since the late 80s, and it was used successfully to shoot them down in eastern Europe in the 90s.
These developments are just the natural progression of radar development, in a world where every new military aircraft is getting at least some stealth capabilities. I think we are likely to see a swing back the other way soon, towards massive ECM instead of t
Gee, I wouldn't be so quick to assume that the USA didn't already take such technology into account, like they didn't know or expect that changing the frequency of the radar might make detection of "stealth" aircraft possible. The F35 isn't going to be doing missions where this will matter anyway. I'd be more worried about the F22 and B2 platforms.
Having even traditional stealth like the F35 is known to have is a tactical advantage in the realms and missions they are planning to be used for. It's obvious
TL;DR: F-35 would have been picked up by British radars that came into use towards the end of World War II. So much for stealth. The funniest thing? Everybody who knows about radars has known it since day one. All stealth planes suffer from this problem. Once the wavelength approaches the facet size, the fact that the facet is smooth and "points elsewhere" doesn't matter. It produces what amounts to specular highlights.
There's a story that the USAF sent a stealth bomber to Farnborough airshow as part of the display. Apparently, the pilots were very surprised when Air Traffic Control got in touch to tell them they were doing the display over Farnham, 6 miles down the road.
What sibling said, and in addition most stealth-based aircraft carry radar reflectors in peacetime to aid ATC as a safety measure (the F-117's reflectors bolted right onto the sides.)
If it's the case that the Russians and Chinese now have radar systems that remove that radar superiority, the F-35 now looks like even more of a gigantic waste of money
The F-35 was designed to be stealthy, not stealth. It doesn't need to be undetectable, as it's not a strategic bomber, it just needs to be able to get missile lock on it's foes before they get missile lock on the F-35. That doesn't seem like to change any time soon.
While any new military project whatsoever will be ridiculed as a colossal waste of money by the left ("it doesn't cost anything to just be nice to everyone!"), the main problem with the cost of most of the recent programs is a large R&D c
That was my understanding. Particularly when coupled with lack of payload.
Like they shouldn't bother even painting the thing, as if it works as it should, no one will ever actually physically see the things anyway. Radar lock on multiple targets over the horizon. Fire missiles. Go back and reload. Repeat until nothing else is in the air but actual birds.
The enemy situation should basically be "Uh sir, we have a shit ton of missiles coming at us from out of nowhere!".
That said, I still think the F35 is a col
Preventing Russia from placing drilling platforms in Canadian waters is a use. If your enemy has air superiority, all you can do is look on angrily like Vietnam does.
Which unless they are positioned need the Canadian shoreline, near a military base F-35 is not going to be particularly useful, less so in the North, where that is more likely to happen, if anywhere. Besides, seriously, is Canada going to threaten Russian drilling platforms? That is silly.
However to expand on that, lets say for example that is the case, it would be a better case for getting an aircraft carrier than F-35's. Even then, I am not sure how well an aircraft carrier would really function in the no
Well, the enemy pilots might well understand from longer-wave radar (even current scanning radar) there are F-35s attacking, but need to get closer to get missile lock. Meanwhile, the F-35s locked at far greater distance, already have missiles on the way, and are leaving. But you can design a missile today that would just fly close enough to the F-35s to get a, then switch to terminal guidance (it's a common design strategy, in general) - but with existing radar and F-35s, you have to be content with the
I just think spending the money on say US heavy lift globalmasters is a much better fit for Canada than F-35's.
Anyone we are likely to get in a tussle with is likely going to have little air power or technological advantage, even using our current equipment. Those that do, i.e. Russia and China etc... well the amount of F-35's we get are likely going to make little difference anyway.
If it's the case that the Russians and Chinese now have radar systems that remove that radar superiority, the F-35 now looks like even more of a gigantic waste of money
The F-35 was designed to be stealthy, not stealth. It doesn't need to be undetectable, as it's not a strategic bomber, it just needs to be able to get missile lock on it's foes before they get missile lock on the F-35. That doesn't seem like to change any time soon.
While any new military project whatsoever will be ridiculed as a colossal waste of money by the left ("it doesn't cost anything to just be nice to everyone!"), the main problem with the cost of most of the recent programs is a large R&D cost that isn't spread across enough planes/ships/whatever. I'm not the biggest fan of the F-35, but at least the idea of having one plane that will be used for many roles and by many allies keeps the per-unit cost from being insanely high - it's a wise procurement approach in a time of quickly falling defense budget.
It's no longer all about whether the F-35 can detect a Su-35, J-10, etc. with it's onboard radar first or not. Sure, being able to see the opponent on your onboard radar first is an advantage the F-35 has and it is an important one but modern fighters that operate in an integrated and networked air defense system, situational awareness can flow from many different sources these days other than just your fighter's onboard radar. The Su-35, J-10 (or whatever) can give the F-35 a very hard time if it carries I
the F-35 now looks like even more of a gigantic waste of money.
I wouldn't jump immediately to that conclusion. Every advance has some countermeasure, but just because you can build a research prototype that's somewhat (we don't know how much) effective at this, does NOT mean that all the eastern bloc air defenses around the world suddenly have that capability. It doesn't even mean they will get it within the next 20 years.
For example the longer wavelength might require large antennae and multiple fix
Anyways, stealth is far from all the F35 brings to the table. The summary criticizes it for perhaps not being a good dogfighter, but if all aircraft are easy to track, that's even more irrelevant, because something easy to track is easy to shoot down at long range.
If you're shooting at long range, why bother with a fighter when you can buy a drone for a small fraction of the pirce?
And then they are going to say that the whole purpose of the F35 was to not absorb radar waves, but absorb money waves.
Longwave radar is not new,
On modern weather radars every so called stealth plane is a sitting dug.
Well known since
Maybe so, but try to point and shoot a missile at a 600 MPH target using a weather radar that updates every 2 min. Can we say, not going to hit anything? Then figure that a weather radar station is pretty darned big and if anything goes boom it will be the transmitter.
The F117 that was lost in the Balkans NATO mission in 1999 was shot down by an S-125 modified to use longer wavelenths than the RAM paint on the aircraft would absorb. The issue has been known since then and it's very likely that the F22 and F35 low observability design characteristics have taken this into account as much as physics and material science will allow.
Other sources say, the shut down was completely random.
'Spies' used cell phones to contact forces in Serbia when the planes started in germany.
Using a simple: 'lets count down the time till they are here' method, they launched thousands ground to air missiles, and the hit was completely random.
However, your suggestion makes sense, too.
In 2005, Colonel Zoltán Dani confirmed in an interview suggested that those modifications involved using long wavelengths, allowing them to detect the aircraft when the wheel well or bomb bay doors were open.
Articles like this have been around since the 1980s and have appeared on Slashdot before in regards to practically every stealth aircraft in existence including at least the F-117 and the B2.
Here's the kicker though: The long-wave radars that can sort of track stealth aircraft aren't able to track them with the precision needed to get a missile up there to shoot one down. If an adversary already knows that you are sending planes into a general geographic region, then the long-wave radar doesn't really tell them anything that they didn't know already.
Anyone in the military who has dealt with stealth technology will tell you that "stealth" is much more than a coating or wing shape that magically makes your airplane disappear. It's a whole strategy that uses technology + suitable tactics to make stealth work in practical situations. Stealth aircraft are not completely invisible and do not have to be completely invisible to be effective.
Well said, stealth is abut controlling RF return and IR emissions and using your knowledge of your weapon system and the advisories ability to find you to your advantage. It's about having tactics to give you the most advantage out of what the technology gives you.
Definitely well known for a long time. I remember seeing an article around 1990 about one of the radar systems that I worked on in the mid-1980s as being able to track the B-2. Both systems were over the horizon radars (very long wave length; antenna arrays stretching for a mile or so). Good tracking accuracy if you looked at it as a percentage of the range but the minimum range was like 400-500 miles (not classified; characteristic of the radar) so even a 1% accuracy means at best a location within 4 or
it will be interesting to see if the F35 arrives to late to be effective
It will be interesting to see if the F35 arrives at all.
It will be interesting to see if the F35 arrives at all.
And it, probably, should not. Modern technology already does — or soon will — allow sending a "zerg rush" of remotely-operated drones to overwhelm enemy's defenses. Remotely operated by the new generations raised on video-games — and often too fat for personal fighting anyway [washingtonpost.com].
Oh, and it is not just aircraft — the same logic would apply to tanks and ships. Once you no longer need to care about the soft pink body(ies) inside the
Stealth is at heart one of most top secret technologies.
I guarantee you, that people have been trying to improve it since before the Russians realized they could do the combo long/short radar.
The real question is, will the next generation stealth technology be defeated by this method, rather than the current generation.
That, is someth
From Aviation Week
It wasn't hard for the Russians to assess the JSF's stealth performance. By 1995, everyone knew that shape was the major driver of RCS, with materials being used to control local scattering phenomena. As the JSF's target service entry date arrived, so did the Russian answer, and it was on display at the MAKS air show, held in Moscow in August.
The 55Zh6ME radar complex addresses many of the limitations of the old VHF radars. Although you see three radars—stepping down from VHF (metric) to L-band (decametric) and S-band (centimetric)—the Russians call them modules of an integrated radar system. Each unit is fitted with the Orientir satellite-navigation system, which provides a very accurate location and north reference. That should make it possible to provide sensor fusion—ensuring that when two or more of the radar units detect a target, it will show up as one in the control center.
The VHF part of the system (see photo) has a P-14-sized, 30-meter-wide antenna, but it folds onto an 8 x 8 truck. The antenna has an active, electronically scanned array, so if it gets a hit on a faint target, the array can dwell on it as the antenna rotates (or swings back and forth for a sector search). At the same time, it will cue its L-band and S-band sisters to focus on the target area like searchlight beams.
Some commentators will look at the Russian brochures, note that the reference ranges are against targets with an RCS of one square meter and observe that stealth aircraft have a far smaller RCS, which they do—in centimetric bands. Giving what was probably the least provocative answer under the circumstances, a Russian engineer notes that the Chinese DF-15 short-range ballistic missile has a 0.002 m2 RCS in X-band, but is a very non-stealthy 0.6 m2 in VHF.
Two exhibitors at MAKS were showing passive RF tracking systems. They are intended to exploit active emissions from the target but do not discriminate. Scattered energy from a radar will work just as well. The U.S. Air Force does have a modern facility for testing such bistatic radar signatures, but it was commissioned after the JSF was designed.
Of course, this sort of analysis relies on unclassified data. As the author himself states.
There may be a universe where it is smart to give your adversaries (or their armorer) 25 years' notice of exactly how you plan to render their defenses obsolete. We just don't live there.
instead, we live in a world where one must have faith that a trillion dollar weapons program has been designed correctly. How comforting.
the F117 ushered in the stealth era (after flight surface control tech caught up with Ufimtsev's paper)
it was proven to be detectable by radar before the gulf war started and it rarely went on a mission by itself. most of the missions it flew were part of large groups including jamming aircraft. it was believed that the F117 would never survive on a mission by itself because stealth was always about having a slight edge and not total domination
The lowest frequency you could use to track a target should be on the order of one that results in the target being 1/2 wavelength. Given the F35 is 16 meters long, that works out to about 10 Mhz. I highly doubt there is an effective way to absorb/deflect a radar pulse at such a low frequency (and depth of penetration) in an aircraft.
I've known this since the 1980s... I highly doubt that I'm in any way unique. I expect there are a number of spread spectrum 30-50 Mhz radars out there, just for catching "st
it will be interesting to see if the F35 arrives to late to (sic) be effective against other countries with advanced radar systems
The F35 is a joke of an airplane.
It's a wishlist of everything compiled by senior brass, and structured in such a way as to foist off the R&D costs onto partner nations.
The F35 is, and always was, a terrible idea, overly ambitious, and a plan to put everything possible into an aircraft.
It's a giant sink hole of money which the US sucked other countries into considering as an
I'm surprised most countries have't told the F35 program to go jump off a pier and go find an actual plane which exists and can be flown today.
What would you suggest that is not already 20 years out of date? Remember you need to cover air superiority, ground attack, carrier based, and VTOL. All of these types of aircraft in the US inventory are getting very long in the tooth (with the possible exception of the f22). You can use as many different aircraft as you like. It is very easy to give a simple solution without actually solving the problem.
Remember you need to cover air superiority, ground attack, carrier based, and VTOL
Yeah, that was the wishlist. And a pony, and an ice-cream, and a red rider BB gun with a compass in the stock.
That was the American wishlist. This was not the requirements of the client states who got suckered into this program.
At the time this was being peddled round, many other countries could have used aircraft from other countries, or even older existing US aircraft to meet their needs.
What does the US do for their solut
This was not the requirements of the client states who got suckered into this program.
The requirement of many "client states" is that they, since they will generally be deployed along side other nations and almost always the US, use the same parts and maintenance equipment as the US. It is a huge advantage to be able to borrow parts and equipment from other squadrons.
or even older existing US aircraft to meet their needs.
Do you mean the aircraft that will no longer be built or supported by US industry after the US moves to the F-35? Replacing an obsolete aircraft with a slightly less obsolete aircraft is not an upgrade?
Again, what aircraft would
Hundreds of billions of dollars, and it's obsolete and useless before it even gets out the hangar.
That stealth technology is vulnerable to long-wave radar is old, old news. I believe that the Aussies' Jindalee (JORN) radar has shown this a long time. Also, back in the 90s, the Russians claimed that there is no stealth for wavelengths longer than 30 cm (1 GHz) AFAIR.
Now the obvious problem is that it's not easy to make a compact radar for a long wavelength but if you can steer a missile close enough with a cumbersome radar then other sensors on the missile might finish the job off. Other sensor technolog
The F117 may have been in a golden age for stealth technology, it will be interesting to see if the F35 arrives to late to be effective against other countries with advanced radar systems."
Is it just me or "to late to be" sounds odd?
Knowing an aircraft is present is one thing, being able to shoot it down is quite another matter. You can't use these low-frequency radars in fighter aircraft or missiles, because the antenna size would be too large. So you have to use a ground station to guide your fighters to an intercept point, and get close enough to use either IR missiles or get close enough for HF radar to work. But by then your non-stealthy fighter will be far inside the detection range of the F-35 and will have gotten a couple of mi
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Teaching runs in family
Teaching is a long-standing tradition in Jean Turner's family.
The Wapakoneta Elementary School teacher, who recently retired after 35 years, said her grandmother taught in the Buckland building when it was new. It's the same place Turner started her career.
Other family members through the years have followed suit, with some continuing to teach in the area.
As for why Turner pursued a teaching career, she said she loves helping children learn, especially those who may struggle.
"I love to watch kids' faces light up when they get it and understand, especially kids who have difficulty learning things because they have to work the hardest," Turner said. "It's worth all the struggles to hear them say, 'I really love to read,' when all of a sudden they get it after all their hard work."
Turner said with those struggling students she has worked with most recently, as a teacher she had to understand where they were coming from, that they weren't going to be the children who stick their hands up all the time and may have some discipline problems.
She underwent her own training and classes to best help those students and with them every day she would exercise in the morning, drink lots of water and suck on mints — some techniques recommended to her — among other ideas.
Through the years, Turner taught kindergarten, first, second, and pre-second grades, in addition to Title I reading, with years spent at Centennial and Wapakoneta elementary schools in addition to Buckland.
Turner said second-grade was her favorite because when she told a joke, they got it.
"At that age, they are sponges and took in everything, and they were still young enough to think I knew everything," Turner said.
She wasn't planning to retire when she did, but with changes at the state and local level, she decided it was time.
"If that hadn't happened, I wouldn't have," Turner said of retirement.
While she has plans to fill her days, Turner said she will miss the children and hearing them say "Hi Mrs. Turner" in the halls as well as adult staff members, who have become good friends.
"I think I'm going to miss it a lot, but I will be subbing, although that will be completely different because it won't be mine anymore," Turner said.
Originally from Kossuth, Turner now lives on a farm east of Waynesfield that has been in her husband, Steve's, family for three generations.
The two of them plan to spend some of her new found free time together, as they continue to help advise the Waynesfield All-Around Livestock 4-H Club, which they have been active in — him for 40 years and her for 36. Turner continues to attend 4-H camp every year with the children and spend time during summer months helping them get their projects ready for the fair.
Although Jean and her husband began taking less active roles several years ago, now that their son, Kevin, and his wife, Amy, are advisers, and their grandchildren, Brooke, Caleb and Emily, are getting ready to become 4-H members themselves, the proud grandparents expect to be as involved as ever.
Turner also is starring as the Cowardly Lion in Waynesfield Goshen Muchinippi Community Theater's performance of The Wizard of Oz at the end of the month. It is her fourth year to act in such a performance and something she enjoys.
She and her husband also plan to travel to Hawaii this winter.

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ALMA, Kan. (AP) _ A former Kansas state arson investigator is sentenced to 32 months in prison for soliciting sex from a teenager.
Richard Blevins of Maple Hill had pleaded no contest in Waubansee County District Court to aggravated indecent solicitation of a child younger than 14. Blevins agreed to the plea in exchange for dismissal of four counts each of rape and aggravated indecent liberties with a child.
County Attorney Norbert Marek said at the sentencing Monday that the judge didn't grant probation because Blevins has never accepted responsibility for his actions. Marek said the plea deal made it possible for the teenager to avoid having to testify at trial.
Blevins was an arson investigator with the Kansas State Fire Marshal's Office for 22 years, and retired after criminal charges were filed in 2007.
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Council members unhappy with Zito Media service
Members of city council announced during their Monday evening meeting that they were recently informed by Zito Media that rates will be increasing as of April 1. According to a letter sent to the city by Zito Media, the company plans to adjust its rates for its Classic Cable service, High Speed Data service and for certain premium channels. The letter from Zito Media states that, "effective that date, the rate for Classic Cable service will be $47.25, an increase of $1.77. The rate for High Speed Data service will be $31.95, an increase of $1.44. The rates for HBO, Starz, Cinemax, and Showtime will each increase by $1.00."Councilman Denny Nero remarked that he was unhappy that the company plans to increase its rates, especially after hearing about issues that area residents have been having with the service. Councilman Dick Dornisch added that while an increase was understandable, he too was bothered by the continuous criticism the service has received from residents. "There doesn't seem to be much resolution to any of that," Dornisch said of the complaints. "And then there comes along on top of all that an increase, which makes it a bit more distasteful." Mayor Sally Geyer inquired whether the city has the option to look at other cable television providers when Zito Media's contract expires. Council members responded that while the city does have the option to invite other cable television providers to come in, it is no guarantee that any will or that their rates will be lower. "Usually their rates are much higher, the ones that usually come in," Nero said. Nero noted that council still needs to meet with Zito Media to discuss service issues, adding that council has already sent the company one letter regarding the matter. Two residents also addressed council regarding the issue of Zito Media's continued poor service. Fred Haas explained to council that he has been having continuous issues with Zito Media's cable television service. "I've been having all kinds of trouble with [Zito Media]. There are bars that are going across my screen and then it goes out blank," Haas said. "I've called them up and told them about it eight or 10 times and they said Thursday they are going to come out and put a new machine in for my place."Council members encouraged Haas to also send Zito Media a letter detailing the issues so that there was a paper trail. City Solicitor Mark Jacob also indicated that Haas should contact City Manager Dave Greene if Zito Media fails to show up Thursday to correct the problem. Jacob also suggested that Haas put his complaints in writing."Under the franchise agreement [with Zito Media], that triggers a special process in there," Jacob said.


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2. Blue Oyster Cult - Burning for You
3. Joan Jett - I Love Rock & Roll
Theme: Joan of Arc. The French soldier who was burned at the stake was canonized (became a saint) on this day in 1920.
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VATICAN CITY (CNA)—Although he is the only person in the world to have the job of preaching to the Pope, Father Raniero Cantalamessa sees his work as simply delivering the message of the Gospel.
"It is actually a very simple ministry, because the Pope at that moment is just a listener among other listeners," the Italian Capuchin Franciscan priest told CNA.
"In fact, it's really the Pope who gives the sermon to the rest of the Church by listening to the meditation of a very simple priest of the Catholic Church."
Father Cantalamessa, 77, has been the official preacher to the Papal Household since 1980. His job consists of giving a meditation every Friday of Lent and Advent to the senior members of the Roman Curia, which includes the Pope.
All told, he has been preaching to Pope Benedict, who was previously prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for 31 years.
"He was always in the first row. And preaching while the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is right in front of you is quite challenging, I assure you," he said.
Father Cantalamessa said that the weight of preaching for the Pope is lightened by the fact that he knows he is "not supposed to give my philosophical system, but the message of the Gospel."
As each liturgical season for preaching approaches, he selects a theme for his sermons.
This Advent he is focusing on the four different historical stages of Christian evangelization. He sees the first phase as occurring in the earliest centuries of the Church, the second when the Roman Empire fell, and the third coinciding with the discovery of the New World. The fourth stage is "the present one, where the target is more the secularized Western world than the usual mission countries."
"In the past, the role for evangelization was more entrusted to bishops, pastors, monks, religious people," he explained. Since the Second Vatican Council, "the laity have taken their role as part of the evangelization."
"They really do the New Evangelization in the field, going into the streets and preaching to people on a person-to-person basis," Father Cantalamessa said, likening the situation to the early Church, when there "were no specialized official missionaries," and "every Christian was a missionary."
While laypeople "usually cannot do what I do, preach to crowds, to clergy," they can meet people in everyday life, "whom we cannot reach, and invite them and transmit to them with gentleness our reasons for hope," the papal preacher said.
As part of his Advent reflections this year, he plans to remind the Papal Household that "laypeople were the only people present at the birth of Jesus," such as the shepherds and Wise Men.
"So this was symbolic that the first who came and spread the news about the birth of Jesus were laypeople."
Father Cantalamessa likes to conclude his Advent sermons by directing people "toward Christmas, mentioning sometimes the role of Mary," whom he describes as "the star of evangelization."
The "miracle of Christmas," he reflected, "is that, in Jesus, God achieves great goals through very small means: a baby," contrary to the expectation and demands of humanity.
"Only faith in Jesus can change every defeat into a victory. I am fully convinced of that."
Thank you for your fine article about evangelization. Certainly, Fr. Cantalamessa is one of the foremost Catholic Evangelists in the world. As a fellow Evangelist, I'd like his view on the following questions:
What is evangelization;
What is new about the "New Evangelization," and
What would be a good job description for a Catholic Evangelist.
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Housing needed
Gary Munkhoff says in his letter (June 22) that he and others stopped affordable housing in Cascade Locks; he's correct, they fought it and fought it until Columbia Cascade Housing Corp. finally gave up on the project.
Mr. Munkhoff refers to a project under way: That project is for seniors only; it won't help keep younger people with children in Cascade Locks.
One of the things that happens when you have a dearth of housing is it becomes expensive and hard to find. That's happened in Cascade Locks. The young people with children who would normally find affordable housing attractive and within their means have to live elsewhere; consequently we have fewer children in town, and fewer children meant the closing of two of our schools.
That also means that businesses are less likely to settle here as they want places for workers to live and good local schools to attend, and so it goes; you start moving backward and it becomes more difficult to make positive change.
Rob Brostoff
Cascade Locks
Sign up for Relay team
With a week to go it is not too late to sign up for Relay for Life! Our last meeting is Tuesday, July 12, at the Valley Christian Church, 975 Indian Creek Road, Hood River.
The team meeting is 5:30-6:30 p.m. The planning committee meeting is 6:30-7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.
You can register at the meeting, online at www.relayforlife.org/columbiagorgeor or at the Relay. You can also contact Veronica Moline, team development chair, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 541-490-1722.
We hope to see everyone at this community event held at the Hood River County Fairgrounds, 3020 Wy'east Road, in Odell.
Robert D. Reeves Sr.
Media/publicity chair
Hood River
Recall in order?
Responsible government is supposed to protect the citizens it is elected to serve. It was during the tenure of our first full-time (recently resigned) fire chief that our new fire hall was constructed, antiquated equipment updated, training for volunteers was vastly increased and improved, the certification process increased and the morale of the department was ameliorated.
The recent decision to punish the fire department by reducing the chief's salary by more than 40 percent (other city employees were reduced by only 10 percent) smacks of personal vendetta.
This vote was not a move in favor of fire protection for the community. The city council has succeeded in humiliating and demoralizing our volunteer fire fighters to the point where fewer and fewer of them show up for an emergency call.
The elected officials at the City of Cascade Locks who voted to do this did so without any backup plan right in the middle of peak fire season. It is interesting to note that those on the council who voted to do this are some of the very same people who publicly opposed the construction of the new fire hall in the first place.
This is irresponsible government at its worst. Certainly a recall is in order. The citizens of Cascade Locks deserve better.
Chaplain (Maj.) Patrick Stuart, USAR (Ret.)
Cascade Locks
Historical headstone
Thank you for publishing the article on the Coe headstone replacement project. Since that time, we received a donation from the Hood River County Historical Society to replace our sign (over $300!).
Thank you to the community for helping us to preserve Oregon history. Future projects include a new irrigation system and an updated website.
Donations can be sent to 1235 Tucker Road, Hood River, OR 97031. We are online at www.mountain-viewmemorial.org and Facebook; and now have an eBlog for those who want to learn more about this historic property.
Tim Farrell, president
Mountain View Memorial Inc.
Hood River
CL facts disputed
In his letter of July 2, with its inflammatory title of "Destruction by council," never mind that Rob Brostoff chooses to forget facts. A fact like the new city planner is not a full-time hire, saving us money.
Let's not mention the fact that the fire chief chose to resign only the chief position, assigning himself to assistant chief and talking to the Hood River News reporter prior to resigning via email at 11 p.m., so we really haven't lost a paramedic.
Let's just concentrate on the purported letter signed by 110 citizens. He says they were requesting full funding of the fire and ambulance department. Maybe so; but that letter has never been presented to the council or to the other 900 citizens of our town.
Perhaps a couple of commiserating members of the council have seen it. I know others have not. You can check that out for yourself; every agenda and council packet is available to all citizens on the Cascade Locks website.
Mr. Brostoff insults our current council and the budget committee by indicating that they don't care. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whether or not they had a choice would be the better attitude.
I agree that actions do have consequences, as the entire town is discovering regarding past actions of the resignees and the last council.
Katelin Stuart
Cascade Locks
FISH thanks supporters
This past year, the media appropriately highlighted the dwindling reserves of food banks and the heightened need of clients who receive emergency food supplies. As economic uncertainty continues, Hood River County FISH food bank continues to serve many new clients visiting our four distribution sites. Hood River County, as always, provided generous gifts of food items and cash donations to purchase needed foods.
We are lucky to live in a county that recognizes that food insecurity and hunger are not acceptable - a county that supports FISH food bank. In 2010, FISH distributed emergency food to 4,115 families, representing 14,031 adults and children.
We are grateful to all the churches, individuals, businesses, United Way, schools, community groups, hospital, scout troops, postal workers, benefit dances, musical performances, and over 350 volunteers who have enabled us to operate under the auspices of GEM (Gorge Ecumenical Ministries).
FISH is committed to meeting the needs of those suffering from food insecurity in the Hood River, Parkdale, Mid-Valley, Cascade Locks and Mosier areas. Thanks to all who have donated time, money or food. We could not do this without your unfailing support.
Thank you on behalf of everyone whose lives you have touched with your generosity - because no one should be hungry.
Marianne Durkan and FISH food bank steering committee
Becky Bugge
Hood River
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WATCH // The Luyas Perform "Talking Mountain" for Out of Town FilmsPosted by katie on November 19th, 2012
The Luyas met with Philadelphia's Out Of Town Films during CMJ for one of their many live sessions. Filmed in the basement of an old loft somewhere in Greenpoint, the video features The Luyas performing "Talking Mountain." It is a track off their recently released album, Animator.
You can also check out the audio from The Luyas' live CMJ session at the Fred Perry Artist Lounge / Stratosphere Sound Recording Studios. InSound has an exclusive download – you'll find it HERE.
Enjoy your audio and video, but get out and see The Luyas live! Full tour schedule and ticket links available on our tour listings page.


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Corky, Zeroue, Lee Flowers, and Charred Scott! Remember these guys?
Get on the Bus and RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Effing classic.....this guy brought attitude to the offense!
6 games....focus Nation....6 games.....until the march to the Super Bowl.....focus Nation
Part of this is at the end of the Bengals Wild Card video, but not the Peezy yelling at the Bengals fans part...my favorite Peezy moment.


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Colorado Springs residents had campaigned to bring the Academy to their city since 1949, when the first Academy Site Selection Board was formed. The Colorado Springs Committee presented this brochure (and many others) to the Site Selection Commission to convince the members to choose their city. As one reporter stated in July 1954, "It was neither politics nor propaganda that brought the United States Air Force Academy to Colorado, but the excellence of the site and the quiet persistence of Colorado Springs leaders who had been working on the project for six years."1
Questions for Illustration 1
1. Why were Colorado Springs residents anxious to have the Air Force Academy in their area? (Refer back to Reading 3, if necessary.)
2. Based on the illustration, what features of Colorado Springs did the committee try to emphasize?
3. What do you think the image of the cadets was intended to convey?
4. Look up the words "booster" and "boosterism." Do you think this brochure cover is an example of boosterism? Explain your answer.
1 Christian Science Monitor, July 1954. As quoted in George V. Fagan, The Air Force Academy: An Illustrated History (Boulder, Col.: Johnson Books, 1988), 48.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) – Due to federal budget cuts, airport control towers could go dark overnight in Milwaukee or close altogether at eight regional Wisconsin airports. The Federal Aviation Administration says overnight air-traffic control shifts could be eliminated at Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport. The control towers could close outright at smaller airports in Eau Claire, Janesville, Kenosha, La Crosse, Milwaukee, Mosinee, Oshkosh and Waukesha. Airport officials have until Wednesday to make their cases to be kept open. The FAA will issue a final closure list on March 18. The closures would begin about April 7, unless negotiations in Washington head off the cuts. If the towers are unstaffed, pilots would have to coordinate takeoffs and landings themselves via radio and visual contact, as they do now at night when towers aren't open.
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AUSTIN - The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) recently held a regularly scheduled Commission meeting on January 14, 2014, at its Austin office.
The following cattle rules were adopted during the Commission meeting and will go into effect on Tuesday, February 4, 2014:
Chapter 50, Animal Disease Traceability, Cattle Identification: This amendment establishes identification requirements for adult cattle being sold within the state of Texas. The rule states that all adult breeding cattle, except cattle going directly to slaughter, shall be permanently identified within seven days of change of ownership. Untagged adult cattle have seven days after purchase to be delivered to a slaughter facility, resold through a livestock market, or have acceptable permanent official identification applied. Slaughter type cattle that will be put on feed prior to slaughter shall also be permanently identified within seven days of purchase.
- Chapter 38, Trichomoniasis, Test Exceptions: This rule allows untested adult bulls to be purchased without a current Trich test, if moved under TAHC permit with official permanent identification. TAHC inspectors will permit untested bulls from a market to either a feeding facility, another sale barn (if the intent is to resell it), or to another physical location given by the buyer. The permit will expire seven days from the date of issuance. The bull cannot be commingled with female cattle during the seven days. At the end of the seven days the buyer must agree to have the bull tested, resold through a livestock market, or deliver it to a slaughter facility.
Chapter 41, Fever Ticks, New Authorized Treatments: These amendments add new treatment options for the cattle fever tick and expands the TAHC's authority to inspect and treat deer on premises adjacent to infected pastures.
- Chapter 51, Entry Requirements, Trichomoniasis: The rule changes the Trich entry requirements to allow Texas bulls participating in out of state "bull station feeding trials" to return to their Texas farm of origin without a Trich test, if they were maintained in a controlled environment without any contact with female cattle while out of state.
Other rules that were adopted were:
Chapter 47, Authorized Personnel: This new chapter sets the standards for personnel who perform work in any TAHC regulatory program. It will require a person (both veterinarians and non-veterinarians) to be authorized by the commission in order to engage in an activity that is part of a state or federal disease control or eradication program for animals.
Chapter 57, Poultry, Indemnity: This rule authorizes the TAHC to depopulate diseased poultry if necessary, and to compensate the poultry owners when applicable.
To view details of all the rules that were adopted, visit http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/regs/code.html .
A number of potential new rules were also proposed for adoption at the January 14 meeting. The TAHC will be accepting public comments on those proposed rules for 30 days beginning January 31. A detailed explanation of the rule proposals will be available on the TAHC website at http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/regs/proposals.html .
Founded in 1893, the Texas Animal Health Commission works to protect the health of all Texas livestock, including: cattle, swine, poultry, sheep, goats, equine animals, and exotic livestock.


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Retired LA Kings Trainer Pete Demers Recalls Record-Breaking, Injury-Filled Seasons, 2001-02 to 2005-06
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FROZEN ROYALTY EXCLUSIVE: It was not so long ago that the Los Angeles Kings dressing room and training room might have looked more like a hospital ward than anything else. After all, back in 2002-03 and 2003-04, they set unofficial records for man-games lost to injury. Retired head athletic trainer Pete Demers had to treat all those injuries, and Frozen Royalty takes a long, hard look back at those disastrous seasons, as well as more of Demers' thoughts on the mechanics of injuries, their treatment, and their prevention. Part ten of a series.
LOS ANGELES — Right wing Ziggy Palffy displayed great skill and speed when he played for the Los Angeles Kings from 1999-2000 to 2003-04.
Right wing Adam Deadmarsh was hard-nosed, physical, and was a very talented, determined, intense player for the Kings from 2000-01 to 2003-04. Read more of this post


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Why have electric cars run into so many roadblocks over the years? Recent news about exploding batteries has left many potential consumers wary, but electric vehicle (or EV) converts say those reports are exaggerations.
It was over a decade ago that General Motors first produced - and then eradicated - a limited number of EV1 vehicles, a story documented by Chris Paine in his 2006 film Who Killed the Electric Car. But now, the situation is different, and there are an estimated 8,500 electric cars on the road in the U.S. alone. Chris Paine is back, with a film called Revenge of the Electric Car , and AZPM's Andrea Kelly has the interview...
Revenge of the Electric Car begins a run at The Loft Cinema on Friday, December 9th. Director Chris Paine will be attending a screening followed by a Q & A on opening night at 7 pm.
Additionally, here is a list of some additional electric vehicle (EV) resources:
- TEVA2 is Tucson's chapter of the Electric Auto Association, and is composed of EV enthusiasts who – primarily, but not exclusively – convert older existing gasoline cars to electric power. A recent article in the online publication EV World took a closer look at Tusconan Jerry Asher's commitment to EV cars.
The Pima Association of Governments is coordinating efforts with The Tucson Clean Cities Program, The U.S. Department of Energy and ECOtality North America to provide a local infrastructure of public EV charging stations.
Among the first modern commercially available EV to become available here was the Nissan Leaf, which arrived in late 2010. One year later it is estimated that there are around 300 Leafs operating on the streets of Tucson.
Tucson was among 29 cities across the United States that participated in "National Plug In Day" on October 16, 2011. The grass roots EV awareness event, which is anticipated to occur annually, was spearheaded by Plug In America.
There are many national and internationally based EV news websites keeping up with the latest information, including a blog run by New York Times correspondent Brad Berman called Plug In Cars.com.
Special thanks to AZPM's Ben Nead for his research and involvement with this article and interview.
The Loft Cinema is an underwriter of Arizona Public Media.


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The Effects of Education on Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation Success and Perceived Organizational Performance
The aim of study is to define education activities which must be taken into consideration while implementing successfully the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software package system in the organization. To analyze the effect of education on the implementation success of ERP systems and organizational performance, the data obtained from 236 firms via mail survey were analyzed using regression. Findings obtained from analysis showed that (1) an increase in education activities increased the implementation success of ERP. (2) Education had a significant effect statistically on perceived organizational performance. (3) An increase in the implementation success of ERP increased the organizational performance significantly and (4) when the implementation success of ERP together with education were taken into consideration in explaining the perceived organizational performance; the variables such as the implementation success of ERP, were significantly meaningful.
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Yes life is built on learning and questions about ourselves. At 26 I wish I knew my secretor status and had a SWAMI.
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French duo The Limiñanas swim in groovy waters. Maybe it's the baritone spoken French vocals that lead off the album, or maybe it's the floppy '60s bass tone, the 12-string guitars and sitar sounds, but this record immediately shows that it shares DNA with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's musical efforts. There's a heavy dose of spaghetti Western and garage rock, too, and it lifts off the ground thanks to Marie Limiñana's singing, which is about as chic as motoring around Paris on your scooter smoking a Gauloise.
The whole thing sounds like the soundtrack to a French New Wave film that's probably too cool to actually exist. The lyrics don't offer anything groundbreaking, but they're full of hipster references to European and American pop culture of decades ago, offered in French, English, and Italian. The Limiñanas are in fact the Limiñanas—Lio and Marie—and the pair somehow crafted this sprawling, multi-instrumental work at home. Though this beautifully realized album possesses its fair share of downbeat melancholy, it's the kind of melancholy that crosses over into pure sonic pleasure. It's hard to choose a standout—the album morphs and evolves, crossing at will the borders between pop, rock and world music, all the while staying true to its retro French roots. This is best employed when you need to cast a spell of cinema verité angst or drive across the plains in search of a fistful of dollars.


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Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge and other natural areas in Portland are important to migrating birds for nesting, wintering, resting, and re-fueling. See birds hailing from as far away as Argentina in Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, the City of Portland's first designated Migratory Bird Park. This is a free festival for the whole family to celebrate International Migratory Bird Day.


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Posted: Friday, June 13, 2008Department: Emergency Management
The Forsyth County Local Emergency Planning Committee is seeking sponsors for Emergency Preparedness Night with the Warthogs on Friday, Aug. 22.
The event brings together non-profit organizations, businesses that assist in emergencies, and local law-enforcement, fire, and rescue agencies to encourage residents to be prepared for an emergency. It includes equipment displays, information booths and demonstrations before and during the Warthogs' game at historic Ernie Shore Field.
Sponsors will have their organization prominently identified in special event areas. They also will have their name or logo on the T-shirt printed for the event, will receive free admission tickets and T-shirts, and have the option of setting up a display at the event.
Sponsorships are available for $1,000, $500 or $250. For more information, contact the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Office of Emergency Management at 661-6440.
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Petr Cech believes Chelsea are good enough to retain the Champions League this season, but they must be at their very best to win Europe's biggest prize.
Nick Powell has admitted it would be a 'dream' to represent Manchester United in the Champions League ahead of their opening match against Galatasaray.
Liverpool striker Fabio Borini insists he will hit the goals trail at Anfield, and has been putting in extra time on the training ground to make sure he's a success.
Thomas Vermaelen has played down Arsenal's 2-1 win over Montpellier in the Champions League, insisting the Gunners' performance in France was 'not great'.
Spurs face competition from Inter Milan if they wish to renew their interest in Giuseppe Rossi this summer, with the Italian giants preparing a New Year offer for the player.
And finally, Jose Mourinho has been quick to stick the knife in over Real Madrid's 3-2 win against Manchester City, claiming that his side deserved victory after Cristiano Ronaldo's injury-time strike.
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Offering new thoughts on the photographic portrait and its larger role in contemporary culture, this symposium brings together perspectives from a contemporary artist, two curators, and a critic.
Dr. Amy Galpin, Colin Westerbeck, Dulce Pinzón, and Ty Burr will discuss Arnold Newman's immense contribution to the concept of the environmental portrait, and offer new thoughts on photographic portraiture. In conjunction with Arnold Newman: Masterclass and Summer Break 2013, a 10-day festival of contemporary art and culture.
Dr. Amy Galpin, Associate Curator, Art of the Americas, will introduce Arnold Newman: Masterclass and Arnold Newman: In Context, offering insight into the unique relationship between Newman's photographs and works from the Museum's Permanent Collection.
Colin Westerbeck will contextualize the work and career of Arnold Newman within the larger history of photographic portraiture. Westerbeck was Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago for seventeen years, before moving to Los Angeles in 2003.
Artist Dulce Pinzón will discuss her recent photographic series The Real Story of Superheroes (pictured left). Portions of this series are displayed in Double Portraits, an intervention into the Permanent Collection, presented in conjunction with Summer Break.
Ty Burr will discuss the nature of the moving photographic image; discussing the transformation from stage-based acting to film and the birth of celebrity—detailing the complex relationship between audience and celebrity over the last century. Burr is a film critic at the Boston Globe and author of the acclaimed cultural history Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame (Pantheon/Anchor, 2012).
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JUPITER, Fla. -- Chet Lemon spent 16
years in the major leagues and knows how fragile a pitcher's arm can be. That's
why he thought it was time to pull the plug on the final game of the WWBA World
Championship Monday afternoon.
Ultimately, everyone agreed with
Chet Lemon's Juice and the Dirtbags
were locked in a 3-3 tie after eight innings of a scheduled seven-inning
game when Lemon took charge and campaigned to have the contest declared a
deadlock. The Dirtbags and Perfect Game USA agreed.
The Juice, who had to win a play-in
game to make the playoffs, were playing their ninth game in four days. The
Dirtbags were playing their eighth game in five days, and the
Dirtbags used Dylan Dickens for three innings in relief in the
championship game Monday afternoon after Dickens had thrown a complete
seven-inning game in the semifinals Monday morning.
For his part, Lemon used Luke Weaver
for 3 1/3 innings in relief in the championship game after Weaver had thrown a
complete seven-inning game on Saturday.
"I hold my breath when I have
kids out there like that," Lemon said.
Lemon said he was afraid somebody
would get hurt, on either team.
"All it takes is one
pitch," he remarked. "And what am I going to look like? I'm
going to look like a fool later on when they say, 'Why did you let that kid go
out there and throw that many pitches?'"
Lemon conferred with Dirtbags Coach
Andy Partin about the situation in the seventh inning, comparing notes on
their pitching staffs. After the eighth inning, the coaches conferred with the
umpires and with Perfect Game officials before everyone agreed to let the game
end in a tie.
"If we're really trying to do
the right thing, I think it was the right decision," Partin said.
The Dirtbags sent a new pitcher to
the mound for the top of the ninth inning and were prepared to keep playing,
but Lemon felt strongly that the game should be stopped.
"It's probably not what
everybody wanted to do, it's probably not what everybody wanted to see,"
Partin said. "We probably could have kept going and they could have kept
going, but it (ending the game) is probably the right thing to do.
Chet Lemon, man," Partin remarked, saluting his opponent. "That
guy played in the big leagues. I grew up watching that guy play. I'm just in
awe that I'm over there talking to him."
Players from
both sides mingled during the 10-minute delay while the situation was being
discussed after the bottom of the eighth inning. They lauged and joked
with each other near home plate, then the players and coaches from
both teams posed together in a big group for pictures after the
decision to stop the game was made.
teams wanted to win, but they accepted the tie.
wasn't too happy," said Weaver, "but they fought as hard as we
pitched 10 innings on Monday, counting seven in the semifnals and three more in
the finals. He also pitched in relief on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and threw
a total of 14 1/3 innings in five games over the course of four days.
pitched the sixth, seventh and eighth innings for the Dirtbags in the finals,
but that was going to be it.
legs were starting to give out, so they were going to a different
pitcher," he said. "I wanted to win. But, I'm happy."
Rivera went 4-for-4 for Chet Lemon's Juice in the finals with three singles, a
double, a stolen base and an RBI. Josh Delph went 2-for-3 for the Juice with a
triple and sacrifice fly.
Russell and D.C. Arendas had two hits apiece for the Dirtbags.


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The Dolphins passing game is in trouble and not just because inexperienced quarterback Chad Henne is taking over this week.
The Dolphins passing game the first three weeks of the season is ranked 30th in the NFL, averaging a paltry 155.7 yards per game. The Dolphins have only four pass plays of 20 yards or more and only St. Louis has fewer. The Dolphins have zero pass plays of 40-yards or more and that ties them with eight teams for the fewest.
It is no small wonder the Dolphins are struggling now because in today's high-flying NFL, where most teams throw more than they run, the Dolphins aren't throwing the football very well.
Many people believe that will change with Henne at quarterback because he has a strong arm that Chad Pennington did not even before he went on the injured reserve list Tuesday.
I've been telling you and will continue repeating it -- yelling from the mountain tops if I must -- that Miami's receiver corps is more the issue than the QB.
I gave the rundown of Miami's receivers yesterday and intend to do so again today to make more clear to you why this group is not good enough to give the Dolphins an excellent pass offense.
Look at it from a scout's perspective. As Nick Saban used to say, every position has "critical factors" that a scout should weigh to decide if a player can play the position successfully. Since there are no perfect players, no one achieves all the critical factors. But the blue chip players come close.
The critical factors for receivers?
They need great hands: A receiver is nothing if he cannot grasp and hold on to the football.
They need great speed: A receiver must be able to threaten the defense and not only close distance between himself and a backpedaling DB, but then create separation from that DB.
They need great quickness: A receiver must be able to turn and change direction quickly.
They need great ball skills: A receiver must be able to come down with the football when it is in the air and he is being challenged for it by another player, or often, two other players.
They need football intelligence: A receiver must be smart enough to learn the offense, learn the philosophy behind the passing game, learn defenses and recognize coverages. Then he must put all those together instantly on the field -- sometimes before the snap -- so he can adjust and overcome situations accordingly.
They need toughness: Football is a blood sport and everyone has to gut things out at one point or another. A receiver needs to stay on the field when he's hurt. He needs to be willing to block, because a great blocking receiver can turn 12-yard running plays into 62-yard running plays. He needs to be willing to expose his body against bigger players across the middle of the field when necessary.
So let's go to the elite, the best of the best, and see how that kind of player sizes up. Let's break down Andre Johnson, who I believe is among the best if not the best WR in the NFL today. He's also a fellow alumnus of Miami High and the U so I have to show him respect for that.
Hands? Johnson has good hands. Yes, he's had a couple of fumbles in his career, but never more than one per season. He typically catches with his hands and not his body and when the ball touches his hands, it typically sticks.
Speed? Johnson runs in the low 4.4s He has no issue getting behind defenders. He never gets caught from behind.
Quickness: Despite his size, he can change direction and it does not take him forever to get started, something a certain Miami receiver has issues with.
Ball skills: Seldom is there a ball in the air that he must fight for, that he doesn't claim. Ask Yeremiah Bell about that one on that fateful fourth-down play last year.
Football intelligence: The Hurricanes ran a pro-style passing game and he had no problems picking it up. The Texans run a fairly complex pass game and Johnson is nails at recognizing adjustments and blitzes. He gets it.
Toughness: Johnson has had some injury issues, but not lately. The guy is 225 pounds of chiseled flesh that imitates granite. His downfield blocking is one reason rookie Steve Slaton gained 1,282 yards last season. And yes, Johnson goes across the middle and often initiates the contact with defenders.
So that's the breakdown of an elite guy. Now let me give the breakdown of Miami's top three receivers so you can understand why the Dolphins are struggling with their passing game and desperately need upgrading here.
Ted Ginn Jr.
Hands: Good until this year, but lately inconsistent. He dropped two touchdowns vs. Indianapolis, including the game-winner and let two balls get into his body, rather than catching them with his hands vs. San Diego. Those resulted in drops. So this season he's average here at best.
Speed: Ginn has elite speed and easily breezes through the 4.3 range. But it takes him a while to get going. He's a long-strider.
Quickness: Very little here. Ginn doesn't change direction like, say, Davone Bess. Study them together. The gulf in quickness between them is startling.
Ball skills: Offensive coordinator Dan Henning said something telling last week when he claimed Ginn would come down with the game-winner vs. Indy "five out of 10 times." You want a receiver who is better than 50 percent. You want 70-80 percent.
Football intelligence: We are in Year 3 and Ginn is said to still be perfecting the art of running routes. Enough said.
Toughness: If you've seen him play, I don't need to say anything here, you know the deal.
Davone Bess
Hands: The guy caught 293 passes in three seasons at Hawaii. He had 54 catches as a rookie and there was never a complaint about how he caught the ball. Great!
Speed: Bess is a 4.6 to 4.7 guy in the 40-yard dash. And that is the reason he's not an elite receiver. He will catch every ball and make somebody miss. But he can't run away from defenders.
Quickness: I just told you he'll make somebody miss. That's because he can change directions on a dime. Very good.
Ball skills: Above average in that Bess comes down with his fair share of contested passes.
Football Intelligence: Ace again. He's human and he misses some reads, but the guy knows to find an open area in the defense.
Toughness: Bess was a street kid, so he obviously doesn't back down from people. But his size limits his blocking. He's got the want-to, though.
Greg Camarillo
Hands: Ace here. Camarillo will catch the balls he's expected to catch and catch some balls that are improbable catches.
Speed: The big flaw again. He ran a 4.6 on a really, really good day before his knee surgery. He won't often get caught from behind, but he's not often behind the defense to test that.
Quickness: OK but not great. Camarillo can change direction but he is taller and lankier so it takes a millisecond longer to get that body moving in a different direction.
Ball skills: While there is no defining catch over a defender that I can remember, neither can I remember a moment Camarillo failed to come down with a catch he had a chance to make. So good enough.
Toughness: He never stops. He's always chugging. He fought back from a serious knee injury and is starting again in less than one year. And he has the desire to block and isn't afraid to run routes across the middle.
There you have it. Miami's top three receivers have traits that keep them on the roster and make them effective in some situations. They are all complementary players. But none is elite. And none is likely to become elite because they all lack important critical factors for that to happen.
Miami needs to add one elite receiver to this group of complementary players to turn this receiver corps from average or below average to very, very good.


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For more infomation, see Wiki page for Champaign-Urbana
Rantoul to be dispatched by METCAD (6/24/14) Link
Satellite jail uses a TRBO low-power repeater on 453.300 while the downtown jail is using TRBO simplex on 453.300.
*453.3 Repeater, Color Code=8 - heard "Green", "Level 2", "Utinesil check" (5/14/14, may be other codes in use)
*KSB219 licensed for 154.77 mobiles (NFM at Urbana, Sheriff)
For more information about severe weather scanning in Champaign County, see the Champaign-Urbana wiki page.
Arrow Medical Services / Carle Arrow Ambulance:
Carle Arrow Ambulance, based in Champaign, IL operated by/under the direction of Carle Foundation Hospital (Urbana, IL), the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and Level 3 Perinatal / Neonatal Center . Arrow is a 911 Responding, ALS (1 ILS volunteer unit), Metropolitan & Rural, Hospital Based, Private & Non-for-Profit Ambulance Service.
Serving the emergency needs of Champaign, Dewitt, and Douglas Counties with postings in Champaign/Urbana, Sadorus, Tuscola, Villa Grove, and Farmer City with a Paramedic first responder is stationed 24/7 with Cornbelt Fire Protection District (Mahomet).
Providing Emergency Medical Services to the Citizens of Champaign, Urbana & Bondville fire protection areas by assignment of Medic Response Zones, which rotate monthly.
Primary EMS transporting provider in Champaign, Douglas, and Dewitt Counties to the following Fire Departments / Districts: Broadlands/Longview Carroll, Cornbelt, Edgescott, Sadorus/Ivesdale, Philo, Pesotum, Sidney, St. Joseph, Tolono, Atwood, Camargo, Farmer City, Newman, Tuscola, and Villa Grove.
Each ambulance is ALS, staffed with minimum of one Paramedic and one EMT-B. The ambulance in Sadorus is staffed with at least one EMT-I & EMT-B with personnel provided by Sadorus/Ivesdale Fire.
The company has 12 ambulances at this time: 8275, 8276, 8277, 8278, 8279, 8281, 8282, 8283, 8284, 8285, 8286, 8287. 2 Command Units: 8210 staffed by the Director and 8230 staffed by "Badge 3". Special Service Vehicles: 8291 an ALS equipped stretcher transporting golf cart for U of I sports events & other standby's as well as 8292 which is the Large Incident/Relief Mobile Clinic, responds primarily for working fires in Champaign and adjoining counties. Arrow also operates two wheelchair units 8221 and 8222 that are used for hospital discharge units to take wheelchair bound people home after hospital stays.
Airlife 1:
Carle Foundation Hospital and ARCH Air Medical Service, Inc. have come together to offer emergency air medical transportation services to east central Illinois. The 18-member flight crew consists of experienced EMS pilots, physicians, critical care flight registered nurses, obstetrical and neonatal nurses, and critical care flight paramedics. AirLife currently operates one twin engine Eurocopter BK-117 with a travel speed of 150 miles per hour. They are dispatched jointly through ARCH in Saint Louis and AMSEC in Champaign.
AMSEC – Arrow Medical Services Emergency Communications:
Working in conjunction with METCAD (Champaign County PSAP), CENCOM (Dewitt County PSAP), and "Douglas" (Douglas County PSAP), AMSEC telecommunicators are tasked with the gathering of information related to a pending medical call provided by the PSAP/Private Caller, pinpointing its location, dispatching the appropriate unit, and support of units responding to an emergency call. All AMSEC telecommunicators are National Academy of Emergency Dispatch, Emergency Medical Dispatch Trained/Certified to provide private line callers the same experience as calling 9-1-1. Primary means of communication is a base Motorola Centracom which allows monitoring/speaking on Arrow Ops 1(MDICE), Arrow CU/Airlife Paging (UHF), and Arrow Douglas Talk/Paging (UHF), and Champaign County Fire Paging which is simulcast on Arrow Paging Channel (VHF). All units have individual dual tones which allows AMSEC to open their station/unit Minitor V.
Arrow uses MDICE FIRE OPS 1 or FIREGROUND channels to communicate with METCAD for calls in Champaign County. ARROW OPS 1 used as primary talk channel for all units and AMSEC.
Provides medical support during many University of Illinois events
The Pro unit at Savoy changes twice a day. Pro works 12 hr days so a new unit comes in at shift change. At any one time 4 of their units are just parked in the bay at Pro Central in Champaign.
Posts 1 unit at Pro Central (Neil and Springfield), 1 unit at Savoy Fire, 1 unit at Rantoul PD/Fire, 1 unit at Champaign 4 or Urbana 1 (depends on the month Arrow and Pro trade Champaign (Medic 4) and Urbana (Medic 1) response areas on the 15th of each month)
EMS Units: 3P41 thru 3P48 (Plates 6 716 01 - 6 716 08) Type III ALS
700 units - Champaign PD Patrol 900 units - Champaign PD Supervisors
As of 9/29/07 Champaign PD now uses the MDICE TRS exclusively (no UHF)
The Champaign Park District has migrated their operations from the City of Champaign TRS to a conventional repeater on 856.7375 with multiple PL tones as well as a VHF frequency.
*151.095 131.8 PL - Paging Tones/voice heard in Thomasboro, hard-to-hear, mobile extenders? (3/25/15)
WQPZ343 - 154.9275 Base/Mobile (11K for EMA - 4 mobiles)
heard 154.13 82.5 PL page for Broadlands Fire (not sure who it was dispatched by)
Ambulance service provided by Arrow Ambulance
Gifford EMA - WQRS200 - 151.3775 Base/Mobile (NFM)
Gifford Fire Protection District
EMS by Arrow Medical Services
Mahomet Police Department
*Can communicate with Piatt County deputies on 155.595R 131.8 PL
Corn Belt Fire Protection District (Mahomet)
Serves Mahomet and the surrounding areas (west of Champaign). An Arrow Ambulance paramedic is stationed and responds with CBFPD.
Police coverage is provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Dept - on the MDICE TRS {Beat 17}
Police coverage is provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Dept - now on MDICE TRS (formerly on 453.15R 118.8 PL) {Beat 10}
EMS coverage by PRO Ambulance
Police coverage is provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Dept - on MDICE TRS {Beat 18}
Police coverage is provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Deptartment -on MDICE TRS
*Units IDs in the 140s
*EMS by Arrow Medical Services
*WQVH525 - 452.2 Repeater (at Jr High/Elementary); 50-40wt 461.525, 463.4, 461.7, 464.05 (NFM/DMR) {new 1/15}
--TG=1011313, RIDs=7, 20 (dispatcher), 22 (unit) transit/bus ops, 28
--TG=2001, RIDs= 1241, 121
*WNJS671 also 467.1875 10-4wt Portables (NFM)
*WQVE668 - new 1/15 - 120-4wt on 451.6125, 456.6125, 451.6625, 452.4125, 457.9875, 456.5625 (NFM/DMR)
*WQLP627 - Bomb Robot 460.3375, 465.3375 Mobiles (NFM/9K30F1D), Video Link on WQLK804 2468.5 (2M40W7D)
Police Units: IDs 100s-Patrol Units, 200-Supervisors
*UIUC fire coverage is provided by Urbana and Champaign Fire Departments on the MDICE TRS. Most of the coverage is from Urbana Station 4 located at 1105 W. Gregory. Willard Airport - See Airports
*WQPG896 1 mobile/8 pagers (NFM Digital) on 467.2125, 467.3875
*Newman Foundation - Student Housing - WPYT628 - Mobiles on 451.625 (NFM)
*Bromley Hall Inc - Residence Hall - WQSS886 - 462.4375 10-4wt Portables (NFM)
*Illini Union - 6/14 FCC Modification to WQTZ312 - Deleting 452.2375 Repeater, adding 464.8875 (DMR) (in use 1/15)
**Existing on license - 461.8375, 462.0125 (CC=2 heard in De Land 6/24/14) Repeaters (DMR)
WQVC488 - 453.5875 - Abbott Power Plant - Repeater (DMR)
WQUW455 - adding 463.7625 Repeater (NFM/DMR) in 2017
The following frequencies are used during other Division of Intercollegiate Athletics (DIA) events too. More info about Memorial Stadium and other U of I sporting events can be found at the Illini Sports wiki page.
*WQKZ473 also licensed for mobiles on 451.7125, 452.0875, 452.8375, 452.8675, 452.7125
For more information regarding scanning at U of I sporting events, see the Champaign-Urbana wiki page.


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Bronson advances to Bailey Park Tuesday
After a marathon 10 inning semifinal, the Bronson softball team defeated Hartford 11-0 to take the Region 22 title Saturday.
With the win, the Lady Vikings return to the quarterfinals. Their last appearance was in 2009.
"Like I told them, I'm sick of winning districts and losing at the regionals," coach Becky Gray said.
Bronson earned a berth in the finals with a 2-1 win over Niles Brandywine in 10 innings.
"We made some real bonehead mistakes on the bases, thankfully they didn't cost us," Gray said. "I'm proud of the way we came back, we didn't give up, we found a way to score that run.
"We don't have to be perfect, we just need to have one more run and that's what we figured out a way to do," Gray added.
The game winner came off the bat of Kinslea Blouin in the top of the 10th, a solo home run to left center.
"I had been struggling all day and I told myself I needed to go out there and get a hit," Blouin said. "That was the happiest moment I had...ever."
Blouin also made several key plays at third base robbing Bobcat batters of potential extra base hits.
Starting pitcher Skyler Sobeski struck out all three batters in the bottom of the 10th.
"I knew I had to keep going, I couldn't give up," Sobeski said. "I had a good feeling as the game went on we would score that winning run."
The Bobcats took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth.
The Lady Vikings tied the game in their last at bat.
With one out Allie Smith walked and moved to second on a base hit by Lauren Cary. After a passed ball, both runners moved up.
Smith scored on a sacrifice fly by Kassidy Bystry.
Gray called her team together in the dugout at the start of the 10th.
"I told them to take one pitch at a time, not to let the gravity of the game overtake them. It's you against the pitcher. One pitch, one good swing," Gray said. "I think they were pressing a little so I wanted to calm them down a little."
Both Blouin and Cary had two hits, Scheenks and Sobeski had one hit each.
Sobeski scattered four hits, while striking out 13 in 10 innings.
In the finals Bronson ended the Indians' season in six innings.
The Lady Vikings took a 1-0 lead after their first at bat. Kassidy Bystry doubled, moved to third on an error and scored on a sacrifice fly by Kelsey Scheenks.
Bronson added three more in the top of the third and put the game away with seven in the top of the sixth.
Getting the win, tossing a one-hitter was Lindsey Sikorski. She had five strikeouts.
"It's nice to have two quality pitchers, I don't think I've ever had that problem before, deciding on who I'm going to throw," Gray said. "It's nice to know that I have both of them and both of them are equally likely to pitch a ball game and they both did a great job today."
Blouin had the big bat in the finals with a bases loaded triple in the top of the sixth. Sobeski get the inning rolling with a solo home run to center. Blouin ended the game with five RBI on two hits. Sobeski drove in three with three hits.
Scheenks knocked in two runs with a hit and Grace Pyles had a run scoring hit.
Bystry had two hits, Cary and Kelsey Robinson both had a hit.
"We hit the ball better, which made everything else a little easier," Gray said. "We came out and attacked the ball."
Hartford advanced with 5-3 come-from-behind win over Parchment in the first game of the day.
Down 3-0 heading into the top of the seventh, the Indians plated five runs.
"That is a testament to the power of our lineup," Hartford coach Heidi Macias said. "The girls can put hits together, normally can put hits together and score some runs. Unfortunately Bronson shut us down."
Bronson will take on Dundee Tuesday at Bailey Park in Battle Creek. Dundee defeated Napoleon 15-0 in three innings to win the Blissfield Regional.