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Devin Setoguchi was one of two major forward additions by the Winnipeg Jets this off-season, acquired from the Wild for a 2014 2nd round draft pick. After a season of auditioning a seemingly endless stream of players not named Kyle Wellwood for the second line RW job and settling on another former Wild (Wildling?) Antti Miettinen, GM Kevin Cheveldayoff made filling the 2RW hole a priority. But did he get the right man? Will Devin Setoguchi be a successful running mate for the Jets' young star Evander Kane?
Chemistry is a made up concept in sports that hides the processes of a workplace to assume each game or event is a spontaneous occurrence. There, I said it (albeit in the most complicated way possible). The reality is that what we see as chemistry is usually either good communication, or players thinking the game in a similar way. That's why it can be instantaneous – two players reacting to patterns in a similar way – and it can be built by talking and learning.
Still, some players are just harder to play with than others. Joe Thorton gets you the puck about as often as you can find space. Evander Kane? He likes to carry and drive, using his speed, size, and pull-in wrister to create offence in transition. Devin Setoguchi once scored 31 goals and 65 points with the former. Can he anticipate and create offence in transition enough to even keep up with the latter?
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Not knowing Setoguchi that well, my instinct about his scoring is that a huge majority if his goals came on low to high plays, that he found space in the high slot well just as soon as the defenders were forced to turn their backs to it and face their own end boards. If Kane is attacking vertically, my reasoning went on July 5th, Setoguchi isn't much help to him while floating in wait for a play off the end-boards. Sure, he'll score 12 or 15 goals, a few more on the powerplay, but a 40 point winger is hardly a coup for this management group.
I wasn't wrong about his ability to find quiet space behind defenders. Setoguchi scored 31 goals in Minnesota that weren't on empty nets or penalty shots.
- 8 came from that exact play – low to high, behind goal-line to slot 1-timer
- Another 2 where the pass came from behind the goal line to the front of the net for a clean goal (not a rebound or scrum)
- Add in lateral passes in which he sneaks into space with the defence looking the other way? 16, roughly half.
But in reviewing each of his goals in Minnesota, I found two very interesting surprises about his game. First, he is a terrific transition scorer. Without the puck he drives the net and keeps passing lanes open for his running mate. He scored 7 goals on transition as the guy without the puck, four as rebounds and three on pass receptions. As the puck carrier in transition, he scored another four. That's more than a third of his goals in transition.
Second, Seto has another go-to play in set-zone offence, rotating off the right boards, turning his body and firing a slap shot from above the faceoff dot at the top of the right circle, scoring two clean goals that way with Minnesota. Each time, he was not involved in the cycle, but supported it high along the right boards not far below the defenceman. It's a typical space in which to move to the middle in a three-man cycle, but Setoguchi treats it differently, allowing teams to put two guys in the corner to interrupt the cycle and then using their return to the middle as traffic.
(He scores two more on broken plays turned individual efforts)
Setoguchi may just find a way to support the puck and create offence when Kane carries in transition, which neither Jokinen or Miettinen could do last season.
Third man
The third man proposed for the line (and seen tonight in pre-season action) is Mark Scheifele. With the Jets 2-man forecheck, however, it's likely that we watch Setoguchi play most of his time in the F3 position – that is, the high forward in both forecheck and defending the transition game. That is precisely where Setoguchi thrives in set-zone play, finding space for his quick release while his linemates worry about puck possession. On the Wild, Matt Cullen was an expert at gaining possession along the end-boards and feeding Setoguchi. While Scheifele is yet to show us how he intends to use his filled-out frame this season, he and Kane boast the potential to muscle their way through pins and checks in a low-cycle game that could feed Setoguchi in the slot or even along the boards for him to rotate out.
It may just be the euphoria of a new season beginning, but I think Setoguchi has a good chance of fitting with Kane and supporting his transition offence game. If Scheifele can learn to use his size and puck skills to create low-high opportunities in the offensive end, the Jets' second line could be offensively dangerous.


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Hello prayfawind27,Has anyone, Flown the Ben Wilson kites and can compare the 2,
I have tried the Ben Wilson kite and it is totally different kite then the SURF kite. The Ben Wilson kite is closer to the RENEGADE model kite. The SURF is a kite all of its own made for the surf. But again I hope some one else can respond to your question. Or the best thing will be for you to get a chance to demo the SURF kite.


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Michelle Obama is becoming a regular on the "Late Show with David Letterman."
The first lady made her fourth appearance on Letterman's show Wednesday to help the late night host with his Top 10 list, a night after painting an intimate portrait of her marriage to President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention.
Just last week, Mrs. Obama made another appearance on "Late Show," her third this year, where she confessed to not watching the Republican National Convention.
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This time she provided 10 reasons why Americans should tune in to her party's big event, which culminates Thursday with President Obama taking the convention stage in Charlotte, N.C. to make the case for his re-election.
From low-fat confetti to promises of no Kiss Cam moments, here are Michelle Obama's "Top 10 Reasons to Watch the Democratic National Convention."
10) Spoiler Alert: the Democrats will nominate Barack Obama.
9) It's like having a crowded convention center right in your own living room!
8) You don't have to be a Democrat to enjoy balloons.
7) Finally, you get to see some coverage of the presidential campaign.
6) As a healthy alternative, we're using low-fat confetti.
5) If you were appearing at a national political convention, I'd watch.
4) There will be no Kiss Cam.
3) It's got to be better than what you're watching now.
2) Joe Biden says it'll be "a big 'you-know-what' deal."
And the final reason:
1) At long last, I'll reveal who I'm voting for.
To see the first lady read the Top Ten list in its entirety, check out the clip below:


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I had completely forgotten that there is a "Poltergeist" remake in the works but there is and Sam Raimi is producing the crap out of it with his Ghost House company. But who will direct!? Well according to the film's writer, David Lindsay-Abaire, Raimi will take on that role also and I for one believe him. He's got a freakin Pulitzer for F sake. Yuu going to call him a liar?
Want to see Wes Craven's "Scream" on the big screen this Halloween season? Me either but that jackass sitting across from you on the bus probably wants to so it's going to be there starting next week in selected theaters across this great nation. Just look at that guy sitting there, eating those Triscuits. God I want to punch him in the face.
I've never read a Dean Koontz book but his last name always makes me giggle like a school girl. And now I have absolutely no reason to read his book "Frankenstein Will Not Die" because the folks over at TNT are looking to turn it into a TV show. The show will be set in New Orleans and follow the famous doctor and his monster 200 years after it was created. See, if you wait long enough all written words will be turned into moving pictures.
Good news, Brian De Palma has confirmed that he is ok with Kimberly Peirce and her remake of the classic film "Carrie". I had always assumed all these people making remakes went to the original writers, directors and actors to get their approval before they even got started. Who knew.
Ever find yourself at the gas station and think, what would happen if I just turned this nozzle on the guy next to me and lite him up like a roman candle? Well this guy in Las Vegas not only thought that but he went ahead and did it. Wait you really think that sort of stuff? You might want to get help.


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This really worries the hell out of me. This guy doesn't sound like a crank caller. If it's happening here, it's happening everywhere.
I sent it here because there is no way of verifying the validity of the claim as well as the guy claiming to be a police officer.Anyone could call in and make outrageous claims, but with that said, drones and the amount of ammo this administration is buying is unprecedented, to not suspect our own Govt is akin to burying ones head in the sand.I no longer trust the Govt, but I'm not ready to give validity to this guy, because if it were all true, there would be far more speaking out about it, it would be an impossible secret to keep.
Okay listening to the Lt in the video I was struck by a sense of Deja Vu.1. ATF/USMS recruiting local officers, paying for equipment etc.This has been going on for years and years, it called federal tasks forces, I was one two of them in the Washington DC area, both by the FBI aimed at drugs/violence late 890's early 90's.Fastforward to the CLinton era....HEAVY recruiting by ATF, I lost several of my best detectives to ATF. they were reassigned to Baltimore...still working on inner city drug/violence but later WACO came along and we saw what the agenda was for Clinton/ATF and gun bans.I suspect Obamao is gonna bust a move on a gun ban in the way of an EO....I feel it, this will cause the reaction he wants(resistience) and the subsequent excuse to start his war against the American people...read AMERICAN PEOPLE as anyone who doesn't support him 110%.
Glenn Beck is right on this. They're PUSHING for an armed revolution. They WANT you to respond with violence. That would be a mistake. We still have the vote. If Obama and the Demonrats work to disarm the American people, we can only hope it will wake up enough to generate a revolution at the ballot box.It's no "conspiracy" that Obama has used Cloward & Piven as his blueprint to establish his Communist dictatorship in the US.


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Well, my much earned vacations just started and strangely I don´t have any game to play. There´s always a few months every year where Im left with this emotional void!
While single player games are fun (waiting for Oblivion to come out), I always want an online game to keep me interested for 1 year or more.
My latest attempt was Guild wars, which unfortunely didn´t last very long.
One of the games I had the most fun with was Jedi Academy, which I only had the chance to play because it came with my soundblaster, otherwise I would never have heard of it.
So it´s in this sense that I'm making this post. So we can talk about online games that are good but are not the popular ones like doom, half life, wow, guild wars and so on.
Well, I'll explain more about jedi academy. I think it´s the only game of it´s kind, a first person shooter where you can use force powers like lightning, grip, mind trick, and also spend years practicing saber use without learning it all.
There are lots of different game types. In CTF, you will never use your saber, and will run arround shooting people and using force powers. In siege, you will pick a custom class, like scout(sniper), jedi, heavy arms and such and try with your team to push the defending team back. There are also duel servers,power duel, free for all and so on.
Within FFA, you can find saber only servers, lugormod servers ( where you have to find stashes and deposit them, earning credits and leveling up in a chosen profession of jedi or mercenary), academy servers where you learn to play and so on.
The cons is that the game is kind old, and since it´s a user server online game, you may not be happy with how the admin handles things and find yourself often frustrated. It´s my case, I was addcited to 1 of the lugormod servers (it was the only one in my opinion with a well made map), and the admin decides it would be fun for 2 weeks to change to a christimas map with no way of leveling up. The server is empty now, people complaining on the forums, and the admin says "why are you so resistant to change?".
But since it´s the only of it´s kind, you can understand why people still invest heavily on online communities, servers, and user made mods, like Lugormod.


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Tempest wrote:It's nice to see the old guard up and about again! It's been too long!
I have a half written reply, but weekend aren't always the best for me. I've always been the odd-man out where weekends are concerned. My work week usually starts on Thurs/Friday and ends on Mon/Tues and they are night shifts. Hard to find time to write when I'm working and no access to PC when I do.
For what it's worth, which ain't much , my idea for my character was just a means for Naveen, and whoever is with her at the time, to get into Umbar by boat, if that's what she chooses to do. So in that respect, our paths would cross but not necessarily for the whole rest of the RP. How "loosely connected" were you thinking of Celebrimbor?
Strider created a sub-plot about the disappearance of Aeron's sister so that makes two different storylines heading south. Go ahead if you wish and create another one and tie it in.
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As far as loosely connected storylines that may or may not converge? If it's done right (not too loosely connected) I see no problem with it. Others may even be attracted by the idea and join you, but be careful. In Mists I think the story got bogged down partly because I got carried away with writing separate storylines and used too many characters. I did have a plan for all to mesh together but then people left and it was alot of writing to do by myself and it confused people. Oh well, live and learn.
Having written with both Shadowfax and strider before I know they have each written for more than one character at a time. The characters were not all in the same place all the time, they would meet, split up and meet again somewhere down the road, but they all had a common goal and did meet up at the end. Yes, both stories I'm referring to did come to a successful conclusion (a rare occurence in Rp writing). Plus we had alot of fun.
Celebrimbor wrote:]Also, one of the pitfalls of excessive 'group writing', besides a given inclination to posts that are too short, is that if any particular poster decides to drop out from the thread, or even simply doesn't show up for a long while, it does tend to leave those who were interacting with that person high and dry - especially if that person neglects to inform the others that they will not be posting for a while. That happened to us over in the old BELERIAND thread a few years ago. I suppose that is my main concern when so many people are signed up into one RP at once...
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865: Nanobots
Title text: I think the IETF hit the right balance with the 128 bits thing. We can fit MAC addresses in a /64 subnet, and the nanobots will only be able to devour half the planet.
Megan and Ponytail are in orbit while evil nanobots are devouring the earth in a swarm. The nanobots stop after devouring 40% of the planet. This is a take on the "gray goo" scenario in which self-replicating nanobots destroy the earth while creating more and more of themselves non-stop.
However, the nanobots are only able to destroy 40% of the planet because 40% of the earth mass = (# of IPv6 addresses) x (A few cubic microns). Without more IP addresses, the nanobots cannot continue to replicate (assuming that each nanobot must be individually addressable).
This is a joke on the shortage of IPv4 addresses. The only difference is that we are on IPv4 and the nanobots are on IPv6.
1998 is when the IPv6 Specification (RFC 2460) was published and IETF is the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- [Megan and commander are on a space station.]
- Megan: Commander! Come quick!
- Megan: It's the nanobots—
- Megan: They've STOPPED!
- Megan: They devoured 40% of the Earth, and then just ... quit! They're just sitting there!
- Megan: Why?!
- Ponytail: It's a mystery. ... unless ... What's the volume of each nanobot?
- Megan: A few cubic microns. Why?
- Ponytail: I think the year 1998 just bought us some time.
- [Earth's surface, covered in mountains of nanobots.]
- In the swarm:
- Nanobot: What do you mean, "Run out of addresses?"
- Other Nanobot: Look, we should've migrated away from IPv6 AGES ago ...
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So IPv6 gives us enough addresses to cover 40% of the earth in nanobots? I'm sold. IPv6 addresses for everyone! Davidy²²[talk] 10:01, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
The top header on this page is different from the others. It advertises that xkcd is IPv6 enabled: "xkcd.com now has IPv6 connectivity. If you can't reach it, you or your ISP have misconfigured equipment. Sadly, I now have no way to tell you." 188.8.131.52 22:13, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- The xkcd page doesn't have an IPv6 address. Has this changed since 2014? -- 126.96.36.199 14:29, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure it's a joke. 625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8 (talk) 02:22, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
- It's not a joke and the top header page is still there. The website supports IPv6 since this comic was published like the header says. And my ISP (Deutsche Telekom) still doesn't support this in 2017. The current addresses are:
- dig @22.214.171.124 A xkcd.com AAAA xkcd.com +short
- 2a04:4e42::67
- 2a04:4e42:200::67
- 2a04:4e42:400::67
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- 126.96.36.199
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- 22.214.171.124
- But this was registered in 2014 -- 2011 must have been different.--Dgbrt (talk) 20:09, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure it's a joke. 625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8 (talk) 02:22, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
I think this maybe be a reference to the scifi book "plague year" it's a good book, and it fits this comic perfectly. 188.8.131.52 10:01, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
Oh no! I think I got a multicast/link-local/unique local/other reserved address! 220.127.116.11 06:43, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
I did the math, it worked out. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28earth+volume+in+cubic+micrometers%29%2F2.5 126.96.36.199 03:29, 3 June 2020 (UTC)


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- Jim Sterba: Wildlife more and more encroaching on our space, and we into theirs
- A bear mauled a woman in Florida neighborhood; deer-vehicle accidents kill
- Sterba: Conflicts between people and wild animals will rise as they lose fear of us
- We indulge them, he says, but we should be reinstilling their fear
Fear is a terrible thing to waste. Yet modern Americans have squandered it as a tool for managing burgeoning populations of wildlife.
A woman is in the hospital after she was mauled by a bear while walking in her central Florida neighborhood on Monday. Authorities caught a 75- to 100-pound yearling, but think the larger predator bear is still on the prowl.
Tom Shupe thinks black bears have a people problem. He's a state wildlife biologist once responsible for dealing with growing bear-vs.-people conflicts in central Florida.
I spent time with Shupe while researching the book "Nature Wars." He explained that perpetually hungry black bears need plenty of food habitat. Parents disown yearlings, forcing them to find new space. As their populations grow, they spread out, often from the Ocala National Forest south into the swampy sprawl of Greater Orlando.
Trouble starts when a bear turns up in a backyard. Instead of scaring it away, too many people say: "Oh, isn't he cute. Let's toss him a cookie. Get the camera." Thus begins a photo collection of "Our Bear."
But it's the beginning of the end for that bear, because the people are teaching it to associate the smell of people with food. The bear comes back for more. Soon it's breaking into the house. The people call 911: "Do something about your bear."
Shupe arrives, darts the bear and moves it 100 miles. But the bear has learned people equals food, and does it again. After three strikes, the bear is shot -- euthanized. But it's not the bear's fault. It's the people's fault.
Deer are eating our gardens and spreading ticks that cause Lyme disease; coyotes are killing our pets; turkeys are chasing our children to school; and geese have overrun our soccer fields because they don't fear us. And we have done all sorts of things to help them lose their natural fear.
People say our conflicts with wild creatures are our fault because we encroached on their habitat. True, but only half the story. Many species encroached right back. Why? Because our habitat is better than theirs. Ours can sustain many more of them than their un-peopled landscape.
We put out all sorts of food for them: lawns, gardens, shrubbery, birdseed, grill grease, garbage, dumpster waste. We offer water: Air-conditioner drip pans are water fountains for raccoons. Edges and hiding places are homes: A coyote can have a litter of pups in that brush behind your garbage and you won't know it. And we offer protection from predators, mainly ourselves.
The results are mounting in people-vs.-wildlife conflicts. We should be celebrating a conservation success story that is unique on the planet. Instead, we demonize elegant creatures and fight over what to do, or not to do, about too much of a good thing.
How did this happen? How did we turn this story into such a mess? In a nutshell:
Over the last century and half, forests grew back on abandoned farmland; a century ago we ended commercial hunting and began restoring wild bird and animal populations. Since World War II we sprawled out into suburbs and exurbs -- something early conservationists didn't imagine.
The 2000 census showed that for the first time, an absolute majority of the population lived neither in cities nor on working farms but in the vast sprawl zone in between. That's where family farms were a century ago. Today, it's full of trees and filling with wildlife. We've become forest people -- yet we spend 90% of our time indoors. There we get most of our nature on digital screens, where wild creatures are often portrayed as pets performing all sorts of antics.
Research suggests that the white-tailed deer's biggest predator since the last Ice Age has been man. But sprawl man has largely gotten out of the predation business. He doesn't hunt and doesn't want others to hunt around him. He's peppered the landscape with hunting restrictions and enacted all sorts of laws against hunting, firearms discharges, even bow-and-arrow use in some places.
What this means is that in just the last few decades, for the first time in 11,000 years, huge swaths of the whitetail's historic range -- the Eastern United States -- have been put off-limits to its biggest predators. No wonder deer have burgeoned out of control.
In Massachusetts, for example, it's illegal to discharge a firearm within 150 feet of a hard-surfaced road or within 500 feet of an occupied dwelling without the occupants' written permission -- often not easy to get. Those two laws alone put almost two-thirds of the state effectively off-limits to hunting.
Lots of states have similar restrictions and most were imposed in the name of safety. Guns kill 31,500 people annually in the United States, but hunters are relatively safe. Estimates say about 100 people die in hunting accidents, mainly in cases of mistaken identity. These days, deer kill more than twice that many, both in deer-vehicle crashes and when drivers swerve into a tree or an oncoming vehicle. These accidents hospitalize another 30,000 people. Don't swerve: Hit the deer.
Overabundant white-tails, meanwhile, do enormous damage to the landscape, and not just gardens and shrubbery. They are ruining our forests by eating their understories so trees can't regenerate. No seedlings. No places for understory birds and the insects they feed their newborn.
Black bears are shy and docile creatures motivated by hunger and fear, but they, like deer, beavers, turkeys, waterfowl and others, were almost wiped out in the United States by the end of the 19th century. Daniel and Rebecca Boone reportedly killed 155 of them in one season in Kentucky. With protection, they slowly came back in the 20th century, to about 750,000 in 2002 and perhaps a million or more today.
Between 1900 and 2009, black bears killed 63 people -- 86% were in the last 40 years. Why the increase? More bears and more denatured people living in the same habitat. Birdseed sellers now refer to wild birds as "outdoor pets," helping to condition people to think that putting out food for wild animals is an act of kindness. It isn't.
Food and no fear have turned many normally nocturnal wild creatures diurnal. They hang out among us in the daytime.
Nuisance wildlife control people say tossing rocks at coyotes would help reinstill their fear of people. Instead, I've known people to toss them dog biscuits. Carrying a stick or a golf club is enough to deter wild turkeys, mail carriers tell me. Bear-proofing your garbage cans and taking down your birdfeeders in spring are no-brainers.
Conflicts between people and wild animals will continue to rise as both populations grow into one another. There are all sorts of ways to mitigate them, both lethal and nonlethal. Some work better than others. Reinstilling their fear will help. Feeding them won't.
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The Cuban Missile
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy (1917-63) notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security. Following this news, many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. However, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's (1894-1971) offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.
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Giving role players enough starts part of Reds' plan
PITTSBURGH -- On Wednesday, Roger Bernadina started in left field in place of Ryan Ludwick. On Thursday, Chris Heisey started in center field to spell Billy Hamilton.
Reds manager Bryan Price believes it's crucial for both role players to get at-bats.
"Really, these are our two key bench components," Price said on Thursday. "Heisey and Bernadina are our late-game bench bats -- one right-handed and one left-handed. We can't expect them to perform in these big moments late in the game if they don't get some regular at-bats as a starter.
"With our outfield, it's hard to find playing time for the bench players. But I'm just trying to do my best to keep them fresh."
Price has done his best to rest other players as well. Ramon Santiago started at shortstop for Zack Cozart and backup catcher Brayan Pena has gotten starts, even with Devin Mesoraco on a hitting tear.
Only Joey Votto, Todd Frazier and Brandon Phillips have played in all 22 games for Cincinnati.
"I went into the season with a pretty fair understanding of what I wanted to do as far as resting some of our players," Price said. "I feel like it's important that these guys get adequate rest throughout the season. I don't think we'll have anybody who plays 162 games."


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Confused yet? Let me clear it up for you. Friend, and fellow cigar blogger Matt of Matt's Cigar Journal is participating in the Ride for Kids benefiting Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States and he needs a little help making his $3000 dollar goal.
If you've been following my blog very long, you know I like a good charity. And it's been a while since I threw in with Team Hanselman's crusade against diabetes. So when I heard a fellow brother of the leaf was putting together some money for another good cause, I was interested in helping out. And when I heard that by donating you have a chance to win a box of Opus X, Perdomos, Camachos or Hoyo de Monterreys, it was a no brainer.
It works like this. If you donate $10 by April 25th, and follow the instructions on Matt's announcement, you get one entry into the drawing for one of the boxes. $20 gets you in twice, as you might expect, but then things get even more interesting. Using a complicated secret algorithm known only to himself, Matt will give you seven entries for $50, nine for $70 and a whopping 14 for $100. (By "secret complicated algorithm", I mean I haven't taken the time to figure out how it works. It looks like a heck of a deal, so I'm not questioning it!)
In summary, there's a bunch of reasons to scratch together a Hamilton (or a Benjamin!)
- You help fight Pediatric Brain Tumors. Which is a serious warm fuzzy. (Karma, people!)
- You might win a box of fantastic cigars.
- Your contribution is tax deductible!
- You might keep me from winning a box of cigars! (I know that this is a priority for some of you out there!)
So grab your ten-spots and head over and give. You don't want me winning that box of Opuses, do you? (You know if I do, there'll be no tolerating me.)
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Smart Talks
Smart Talks is an occasional series produced by Project Information Literacy (PIL). PIL hosts interviews with leading experts about PIL's findings and their thoughts about the challenges of finding information and conducting research in the digital age. Smart Talks are open-access; no permission is required from PIL for re-use, since each publication has a Creative Commons license.
Featured Interview
Kyle Jones: The Datafied Student and the Ethics of Learning Analytics
Big Data can be used by higher education institutions with the best intentions to "improve services to increase retention." But this can come "at the expense of creating a pretty significant surveillance system. As a former librarian and now an LIS educator focused on information ethics and policy, Kyle Jones has published widely on the ethical dimensions of using student data in higher education. We spoke with the writer and educator in October 2019 about his work in learning analytics and why he thinks it's important to balance the value of privacy against the benefits of predictive analytics. (Interview posted: October 14, 2019)
Mike Caulfield: Truth is in the Network
With an aim of "radically rethinking how information literacy is taught," Mike Caulfield has reached thousands of students through his work as the director of Blended and Networked Learning at Washington State University Vancouver. He also directs the Digital Polarization Initiative (Digipo), a cross-institutional initiative to improve civic discourse by developing digital literacy skills in college undergraduates as part of the American Democracy Project. We spoke with the blogger and author in May 2019 about making good decisions in an era when information is abundant and attention is scarce. (Interview posted: May 31, 2019)
Shyam Sundar: Interactive Media, Bandwagon, FOMO, and Engagement with AV and VR
With a background in engineering and journalism, Shyam Sundar has a fascination with people's responses to media and the affordances of technology. We spoke with the Penn State Distinguished Professor and co-director of the Media Effects Research Lab in February 2018 to discuss how people are adapting to a parade of changing technologies. (Interview posted: March 19, 2018)
Renee Hobbs: Media and Meaning-Making in the Fake News Age
Long before "fake news" became a household word, Renee Hobbs was developing media literacy curricula programs for U.S. classrooms. What set her work apart from other educators was her interest in how students – and teachers – acquire and develop media literacy competencies. In December 2017, we caught up with Renee to ask her about how media literacy and digital literacy have evolved, and why these two competencies are essential life skills in the digital age. (Interview posted: January 30, 2018)
Robert Lue: Forging the New Frontier of Teaching and Learning
Rob Lue knows Harvard University from both sides of the classroom. As an early advocate of online education and MOOCs, Rob became the first faculty director of HarvardX in 2012, a position that he still holds. Undeniably, Rob is an innovative educator -- this makes it all the more fitting that he has been the Faculty Director of Harvard's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning since 2013. We caught up with Rob in September 2017 and asked him how teaching is changing, and why engagement in college classrooms is more important to teaching and learning than ever before. (Interview posted: November 16, 2017)
P. Takis Metaxas: Separating Truth from Lies
Is it a hoax, a conspiracy theory, a viral meme? Can you tell real information from fake? Meet P. Takis Metaxas. Takis is a professor of computer science at Wellesley College whose research helps users answer these questions to avoid the dangers of online fraud and deception in what many have begun to call the "post-truth era." As his research continues to take on new significance, we asked Takis about the rising tide of fake news, the impact of social media on disinformation for political gain, and ways of navigating the ever-changing information landscape of the digital age. (Interview posted: February 21, 2017)
Joan Lippincott: Libraries as the Intellectual Crossroads of a Campus
Joan Lippincott knows the challenges academic libraries face. Serving as Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), she has worked extensively with librarians and developed the gold standard for leadership programs in academic libraries. We interviewed Joan in October 2016 to discuss library learning spaces and how those spaces drive the transformation of curriculum across campuses everywhere. (Interview posted: December 6, 2016)
Mary-Ann Winkelmes: Transparency in Teaching and Learning
Mary-Ann Winkelmes has posed some of the most important questions in higher education today. As the director of the Transparency in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Project, she urges faculty to think about how they teach by asking their students to think about how they learn. We interviewed Mary-Ann in August 2015 to discuss teaching and learning, and how greater intentionality can deepen student learning and boost student success. (Interview posted: September 2, 2015)
Dan Rothstein: The Necessity of Asking Questions
Dan Rothstein, Luz Santana, and colleagues created the Right Question Institute over 20 years ago as they began to develop a strategy for helping people in low-income communities learn to advocate for themselves. We interviewed him in April 2015 to ask about how necessary it is for lifelong learners to be able to develop and ask the "right questions." (Interview posted: April 21, 2015)
S. Craig Watkins: The Promise of Connected Learning
In the next minute, 433,000 tweets will be composed and shared, up from 278,000 in 2013. Who are these tweeters and how are they accessing this space in the digital world? Sociologist S. Craig Watkins is drawn to these questions and we interviewed him in February 2015 to ask about the growing role social media plays in youth culture and how to harness its power in the classroom. (Interview posted: March 5, 2015)
Zach Sims: Learning Real Life Skills That Matter
Zach Sims co-founded Codecademy after dropping out of Columbia University during his junior year. Codecademy is premised on the idea that everyone can — and should — learn how to code. Now with over 25 million users worldwide, Codecademy is offering free classes in programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, and markup languages like HTML and CSS — "hard, employable skills" for today's workplace. (Interview posted: January 12, 2015)
Sari Feldman: Making Public Libraries More Relevant Than Ever
Sari Feldman has run one of the best and busiest libraries in the nation for more than 10 years as the executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library. We interviewed Sari in August 2014, asking her about how she believes public libraries can collaborate and keep themselves relevant to users in a time of turbulent and inevitable change. (Interview posted: September 3, 2014)
Katie Davis: Who is the Learner of Tomorrow?
Katie Davis is an assistant professor at the University of Washington's iSchool, a researcher, and co-author (with Howard Gardner) of the acclaimed, "The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World." She investigates the role of digital technologies in the academic, social, and moral lives of today's youth, bringing this research into practice with educators, parents, business leaders, and policymakers throughout the U.S. We interviewed Katie in June 2014 to discuss how technology is changing the nature of learning, for better and for worse. (Interview posted: June 10, 2014)
Eric Gordon: How Games Promote Lifelong Learning and Civic Engagement
Eric Gordon studies civic media, mediated cities, and playful engagement as an associate professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston and as Executive Director of the Engagement Lab. We talked to him about his investigations into games and social media and asked, "Can playing a game lead to civic change?" (Interview posted: May 1, 2014)
David Conley: Deconstructing College Readiness
David Conley is a policy analyst and professor of educational policy and leadership at the University of Oregon. We asked him what it means to be college ready today and how students can acquire research skills for succeeding in college and their careers. (Interview posted: December 5, 2013)
Cathy Davidson: How Disruption and Distraction are Remaking Learning
Cathy is an author, professor at Duke University, and co-founder of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory). We asked her why distraction and disruption help to re-envision the K-20 classroom and learning and how "collaborative thinking" drives individuals' motivation and creativity in both education and the workplace. (Interview posted: February 25, 2014)
Char Booth: A DIY Approach to Re-Imagining Libraries
Char Booth is an inspirational academic librarian at Claremont Colleges (CA), who integrates design, Web 2.0 learning technologies, and pedagogy and produces stand-up-and-take-notice results. We asked her about generating ideas for using new learning technologies for expanding students' access to information as users and contributors. (Interview posted: September 27, 2013)
Howie Schneider: Navigating the Rising Tide of News
At a time when YouTube users upload 48 hours of video and Twitter users send over 10,000 tweets each minute, how can students wade through this flood of information to become discerning consumers of the news? We asked Howie Schneider, a veteran newsman, about teaching the nation's first course on News Literacy at the Journalism School at Stony Brook University. (Interview posted: June 4, 2013)
Peter Suber: The Imperative of Open Access
Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, is the undisputed authority on open access. He is also the unofficial, though widely acknowledged, leader of the worldwide movement to make published scholarly works—books and journals—open access, so they are "digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions." (Interview posted: March 27, 2012)
Ken Bain: Deep Learning and Pursuing Questions That Are Important, Intriguing, or Just Beautiful
Ken Bain is the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of the District of Columbia and a Professor of History and Urban Education. He is an acclaimed educator who has lectured at over 300 universities and founded and directed four major teaching and learning centers. In this PIL interview, we talked to Ken about his latest book, What the Best College Students Do (Harvard University Press, 2012) and "reframing the very nature of education." (Interview posted: October 10, 2012)
Barbara Fister: Playing for Keeps: Rethinking How Research is Taught to Today's College Students
Barbara Fister is a Professor and Academic Librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College, a small liberal arts college near Minneapolis. In this PIL interview, we talked to Barbara about why the research paper is a flawed pedagogical practice but continues to be assigned, and what rethinking of research as "play" may mean to teaching today's college students. (Interview posted: July 26, 2012)
David Weinberger: Why Networked Knowledge Makes Us Smarter Than Before
David Weinberger, a senior researcher and Co-Director of Library Innovation Lab at Harvard, is a leading thinker about the impact of the Internet on society, markets, and the production of knowledge. We talked to David about his latest book, Too Big to Know (Basic Books, 2012), and what the rise of networked knowledge means for educators, librarians, print publishing and the very act of knowing, itself. (Interview posted: April 20, 2012)
Jeffrey Schnapp: Envisioning Biblotheca 2.0: One of the Most Exciting Design Tasks of Our Era
Jeffrey Schnapp, a cultural historian and pioneer in digital humanities who is faculty at Harvard, co-teaches a seminar in the architecture school on the past, present, and future of libraries. In this PIL interview, we talked to Jeffrey about what we can learn from the design of libraries from a course talk to in the architecture school about libraries, the "physicality of space," and the tangible elements, as envisioned by design students and librarians, that could be central to the library of the future. (Interview posted: January 18, 2012)
Russell Poldrack: May I Have Your Attention? The Brain, Multitasking, and Information Overload
Dr. Russell Poldrack, a renowned neuroscientist, who heads the Imaging Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin where he and his team use MRI scanners with the inordinate power to study the human brain, multitasking, learning ability, and the effects of information overload. In this PIL interview, we talked to Russ about new discoveries about the effects of multitasking on the human brain and the capacity for "deep learning." (Interview posted: October 12, 2011)
Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Moore Howard: Unraveling the Citation Trail
Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Moore Howard direct The Citation Project, a national study providing open access empirical data about how college students use sources when writing papers for composition courses. In PIL's interview, the researchers say of their latest results: "If your focus is on procedure and correct format, these papers are a great success. But if you look at this another way and remember for most of us, 'research' is about the discovery of new information and ideas, and synthesis of those ideas into deeper understanding, the majority of the papers failed." (Interview posted: August 16, 2011)
Lee Rainie: Why New Media are Becoming Your New Neighborhood
Lee Rainie has headed up the Pew's Internet & American Life Project since it's inception in 2000. He and his colleagues conduct large-scale periodic surveys, which both scholars and the press often rely on to stay current and monitor the impact of the Internet and other new media on life in America. In this PIL interview, Lee talks about the impact of new media on "collaborative learning" in the academy, which studies Lee has always wanted to do at Pew, but has not, and the seismic changes to social order caused by what he calls the "new operating system." (Interview posted: June 8, 2011)
Nicholas Carr: The Age of Perpetual Distraction
Nick Carr is an author and blogger who has written three books about the impact of technology on society, culture and business. In this PIL Interview, Nick discusses what the "intellectual ethic" of the screen is, and how much it differs from the intellectual ethic of the book. He also discusses an incipient anti-Net backlash, which is a "tiny eddy in the broader cultural current." (Interview posted: April 4, 2011)
Howard Rheingold: Crap Detection 101: Required Coursework
Howard Rheingold has been a chronicler of the political, cultural, and social impact of new technologies for almost two decades. In this PIL interview, Howard discusses what he calls "the myth of the digital native," the use of social media in learning environments, and what digital literacy has come to mean for preparing students in the 21st century. (Interview posted: January 3, 2011)
Dale Dougherty: Web 2.0 and the Social Context of Learning
Dale Dougherty, co-founder of O'Reilly Media, first coined the phrase "Web 2.0" in 2004. In this PIL interview, Dale discusses the impact of Web 2.0 capabilities on education, especially how information is shared, knowledge is created, and learning occurs and what it means to educators, students, and publishers. (Interview posted: November 1, 2010)
John Palfrey: Rethinking Plagiarism in the Digital Age?
John Palfrey, co-director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is the co-author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (2008). In this PIL interview, John discusses the changing nature of plagiarism, policy implications, and the rise of the "copy and paste culture" on campuses. (Interview posted: September 1, 2010)
Andrea Lunsford: Writing and the Profound Revolution in Access
Andrea Lunsford, the director of Stanford University's Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), is the force behind the "Stanford Study of Writing," a longitudinal study that investigates how today's students write, including everything in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions. In this PIL interviews, Andrea discusses how college students integrate writing with research and learn the process of critical inquiry. ((Interview posted: July 12, 2010)
Peter Morville: Search and the Paradox of Choice
Peter Morville co-authored the IA Bible--"Information Architecture for the World Web" (1998) back when most of us were still learning HTML. In this PIL interview, Peter discusses "the relationship between search, learning, and decision making," and why difficulties arise with the search process. (Interview posted: June 1, 2010)


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Google vs. Google On Wireless Net Neutrality
from the we-were-for-it-before-we-were-against-it deptWhile I still think that uproar over Google and Verizon's
On the flip side, Google is trying to defend itself against these attacks by pushing back on a few points. Unfortunately for Google, there's a wonderful search engine called Google, which can be used to dig up things said by a company called Google in the past. Over at Broadband Reports, Karl Bode has noted some of the... changing sentiment of Google policy lawyer Richard Whitt. For example, in the latest blog post defending the Verizon
First, the wireless market is more competitive than the wireline market, given that consumers typically have more than just two providers to choose from. Second, because wireless networks employ airwaves, rather than wires, and share constrained capacity among many users, these carriers need to manage their networks more actively. Third, network and device openness is now beginning to take off as a significant business model in this space.But... here's the very same Richard Whitt in 2007 (pdf), making the argument that mobile providers were already abusing mobile networks and required more openness:
wireless providers block many common Internet applications and services outright, frequently do not allow network attachment of any device but their own, and reserve the right to terminate service arbitrarily for using other services that do not conform to a short and vaguely-defined listAs Bode notes, nothing has magically changed to make this competitive market any better. Instead, what's changed is Google's heavy investment in the mobile space:
So what changed? Google did. In 2007, Android wasn't a major mobile OS, and Google didn't have multi-billion-dollar wireless advertising relationships with Verizon and AT&T. You'll also recall that Google had hopes of bypassing the carrier retail experience completely -- hopes that flamed out rather spectacularly with the death of the Nexus One and their online phone store. The policy shift is clear and indisputable, as is the motivation: Google doesn't want consumer protections (be they privacy, or network neutrality) to impact wireless ad revenues.Again, none of this should be seen as a surprise, but just a reminder that, in the end, Google is going to do what it believes is best for Google. There's nothing wrong with that -- it's just that, in the past, Google tended to realize that what was best for consumers was also best for Google. Now... it doesn't seem quite as sure of that. I think this is generally a mistake that Google may come to regret. Even if this
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
The Art of the Bookstore Talk
For her prepared remarks, she described how she came to the topic; she then used anecdotes from one of the chapters to illustrate the book's themes. It was a coherent and engaging presentation of a complicated project. What really left me in awe, though, was her acrobatic performance in the Q&A session, which was like a mix of guerrilla warfare and sketch comedy.
One attendee, for example, urged her to say more about a specific piece of data. He wanted the minutiae. The very next questioner took the conversation in the opposite direction and asked her a variant of the "objectivity question": How could she purport to take a neutral stance on the very controversial issues in her book, and wasn't it her duty, as an educator, to provide moral and ethical guidance to her readers? (Unsatisfied with her answer, he posed the same challenge twice more.) A third questioner was determined to pull her out of the several decades the book covered and back to "the beginning of time," or at least "ancient Egypt." Several audience members pressed her to predict the future (causing the other historians in the audience to squirm). She responded, I thought, with grace and conviction: she took each question seriously; she did not allow the Q&A to become a debate; and when she refused to go down a particular path, she explained why.
I imagine this is more of an art than a science, but I wondered whether you all had useful tips for this type of talk. Do you engage questions that you consider far outside the scope of your project? Do you opine on current events? When you give a talk to non-academic audiences, how do you understand your role?
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- Maureen Ogle said...
Both the "art" and the "science" of such talks come w/practice. But the foundation is this: if you know your topic, you won't have any problems handling whatever the audience throws your way. And the willing the speaker is to say "That's outside my specific area of expertise, but my educated assessment, based on what I do know is ..." will endear the audience AND build its trust.
I speak, by the way, as an escapee from academia, but one who now takes my area of expertise (history) to general audiences. My advice to anyone venturing into these waters is: speak briefly and then turn the event over to the audience. Their questions will make for a FAR more interesting event than your solo talk.
- June 9, 2010 at 4:27:00 PM EDT
I recently read a blog entry written by a U.S. historian on just this topic. She pointed to some of the differences between book talks for a general audience as opposed to an academic one. Anyone interested in how to approach the book talk would certainly find her comments helpful: http://www.historiann.com/2010/05/22/book-readings-your-audience-and-successful-self-promotion/
- June 10, 2010 at 6:45:00 PM EDT


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My mother's mother was Della (Riffle) Wymer. She was a very small stature woman. I can remember going squirrel hunting with her when she was in her late 70s. She was a very humble person who always made do with what she had.
Grandma lived by herself after my grandfather died. She always raised a garden and canned everything that she could. She never worked at a public job, that I know of. Her only income was social security which was very meager.
I remember growing up, that when we would go visit you could always count on cornbread being in the cupboard. She was the best cornbread maker I know. I always loved it when she would fix it and homemade applesauce for a meal. It was the best.
Grandma made lots of quilts, mostly hand sewn. My daughter Heather still has the baby quilt that she made for her when she was born. It is pretty tattered, but still means a great deal to her.
Grandma used to walk from her place on on Three Lick to Orlando to help her sister Josephine Beckner. If times could be more like then, people were so much more family oriented.
Above right is Della (Riffle) Wymer.
Left is Della's husband Marion "Tucker" Wymer, probably in the 1940s.
Right is Della's sister Josie (Riffle) Beckner, probably in the 1960s.
Below left is Della's mom Dona (Blake) Riffle.
Della grew up on Posey Run, with seven brothers and sisters at the very beginning of the 1900s. Her folks were Charles Lee and Donna (Blake) Riffle.
Della may not have been large, but her husband Tucker, his given name was Marion Furman Wyman, was one of the tallest fellows in Orlando. Uncle Zeke listed Tucker among the ten tallest men in Orlando. He also mentioned Tucker's skill groundhog hunting. His grand-daughter Peggy recalls that, like so many men of thiat era, Tucker workd his farm but he also had a paycheck job. He worked for the Highway Department.
Front:Jason Floyd Posey, Eric Marshall Ramey, Jeremy Junior Smith
Back:Karri Lea Smith Riddle, Heather Nicole Ramey Lantz, Rebecca Dawn Posey
There is a nice photo of Marion Wymer in the Nov '06 entry Making Hay on Oil Creek
I to have fond memories of my grandmother Della Riffle Wymer.My husband,children and i were visiting her one day,my son Jeremy was about 2 years old and had the prettiest blonde hair which hung in curls.Grandma was always scolding my husband Junior and i about when were we gonna get that baby's hair cut.So the next day my husband took Jeremy to get his first haircut.We stopped by to visit grandma on the way home.You talk about someone gettng a good scolding,Junior and i got one ,grandma had a fit because we cut all that baby's curls off.I also remember her cornbread,it was the best.My favorite was her applesauce pie.YUMMY!!!


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Today's Forecast
Here is today's forecast, according to the National Weather Service
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between noon and 5 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 78. Calm wind becoming east southeast around five mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between one-tenth and one-quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. East wind around five mph becoming west northwest in the evening. New rainfall amounts of less than one-tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Everybody cheer — Fremont County is no longer in a drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor's latest reading that was released Thursday morning with information taken Tuesday, 60 percent of Colorado is outside of drought conditions, and that includes Fremont County.
Peggy Perales is a meteorologist for the National Weather Service based in Pueblo. She said Cañon City has received about 15.7 inches so far in 2014, and that already has surpassed the 30-year average of 13 inches. In 2013, the city received just only 11.95 inches.
Much of neighboring Pueblo and Saguache counties are still in droughts. To the south, Custer County isn't in drought status, but Huerfano County, south of Custer, is still in one.
"Yes, it's good news, but to your east, west and south, everyone is still in drought status," Perales said. "For you guys, the next time they do this could change. Right now, you're doing fine, but you're still pretty precarious because it's a new thing."
A chunk of Kiowa County is still in "D4 status," which means it's in an exceptional drought, and smaller portions of Bent, Otero and Crowley counties are in D4. That's one step further than D3, which is considered an extreme drought.
About 60 percent of Colorado is listed out of the drought. At this time in 2013, the entire state was in some stage of drought.
The recent rainfall in Fremont County didn't factor into the Drought Monitor's latest conclusions because the soil sample data already had been collected. As of Thursday morning, Cañon City has received 0.6 inches of precipitation since Tuesday. Most of that (0.5 inches) was overnight Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
The rainy conditions should ease up this afternoon, Perales said. Through the weekend, we'll only have about a 10 percent chance of rain, she said, but that will be more of a scattered thunderstorms type of condition rather than the recent weather system that has seemed to sit on top of the area and slowly dump water.


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I'm a graduate of Buena Vista University but grew up in northeast Iowa and spent my summers in northern Minnesota. I love spending time outdoors and playing for the Des Moines Women's Rugby Club.


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From the moment we entered the Civic Opera House, there was a different feeling. The lobby was unembellished, there were fewer people and everyone was directed to Aisle 6. The Second City Guide to the Opera currently at the Civic Opera House through June 30th brings a new perspective to opera. Patrons walk right past all those seats that are valued so highly they are willed from generation to generation and move to the steps and on to the stage. Once on the stage, it would be easy to believe you are at The Second City. There are the little tables, a few lounge chairs and couches, the signature three chairs on stage and a large wait staff dressed in tee shirts that look like tuxedos. Patrons were enthralled.
Looking around, there was a broad mix of people, young and old, some who knew opera and those who didn't, some had been to Second City and others had not. There were visitors from Florida escaping a convention. Seated next to me was Kirtan, a young engineer who has only lived in Chicago three years. He and his wife have been wanting to come to the opera, but which one? He said about attending this performance, "I thought it was a fun way to learn about the opera!" "It's comedy-club ambiance on the stage of the Civic Opera House," says Lyric Opera general director Anthony Freud.
Fun, it was. Some acts were so funny I was almost in tears. It seemed that Lyric captured the feeling of The Second City and that The Second City in their typical style while skewering opera, found its essence.
Some highlights included a clarification of the "Overature", "Intermission" and "Finale" all with appropriately hysterical lyrics and antics. The eight performers included six from Second City and two from Lyric who mixed it up with everyone singing and spoofing. Second City ensemble members are Joey Bland*, Molly Brennan, Lilli-Anne Brown, Beth Melewski*, Tim Ryder, and Timothy Sniffen*. Billy Bungeroth* is director, Jesse Case* is music director and writer, and Kate James* and Timothy Sniffen* are writers. Singers from Lyric are mezzo-soprano Lauren Curnow and tenor Bernard Holcomb*, both former members of the Ryan Opera Center. (*participated in the January show). Lyric Opera Orchestra musicians violinist John Macfarlane (who also played the January show) and cellist Laura Deming and were a wonderful addition to the show.
My favorite parts included Tim Ryder as Arnold Schoenberg, an improv opera based on a young couple who met at a Lyric Opera fund raiser, and the song about "Operaland" as a place to enter another world. And this is the essence of opera, is it not? And if you, too, want to escape to "Operaland" don't let this great show get leave without seeing it.
This 23-show summer series is the first series of its kind ever at the Civic Opera House. Seating is general admission with three tiers: Prima Donna ($75), Tenor ($45), Bass ($35). Capacity is approximately 350. Prima Donna patrons are seated in lounge-style seating. Tenor patrons will be seated at cabaret-style tables, and Bass patrons will be on risers. Full bar selection and light savories prepared by Jewell Events Catering are available starting 75 minutes before the show starts, with beverage and light food service continuing throughout the evening.
The Second City Guide to the Opera lasts approximately two hours, including a 20-minute intermission. Shows are Thursdays through Mondays, and start at 7:30pm except on Saturdays, which begin at 7:00pm. It contains some adult content—parental guidance suggested and many of the shows are sold out.
House lights illuminate the Ardis Krainik Theatre for more than an hour before each performance so patrons can take pictures from the stage and enjoy the beautiful Art-Deco space while waiting for the show to begin. Souvenir pilsner glasses will be available for purchase.
The Pedersen Room Restaurant at Lyric will have dinner seating 90 minutes before each show; reservations are not required but are encouraged to guarantee seating.
For general ticket sales and information, call 312.332-2244 or click
These performances of The Second City Guide to the Opera are presented by PNC Bank. The Civic Opera House is located at Madison Street and Wacker Drive. Tickets $35-$75. General Admission (GA) onstage seating—first-come, first-seated. Prices subject to change.The Pedersen Room Restaurant at Lyric will have dinner seating 90 minutes before each show; reservations are not required but are encouraged to guarantee seating.
Photos:Todd Rosenberg unless otherwise indicated
Addendum: You never know how a great idea will develop. Renée Fleming's inspiration to have Lyric Opera of Chicago mix it up with The Second City resulted in a wildly successful collaborative show, The Second City Guide to the Opera. The relationship between the two companies has developed into a collaboration that has extended into other areas, to mutual benefit. Starting in May, two instructors from The Second City began holding weekly improvisation classes with ensemble members of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, the professional artist-development program at Lyric Opera of Chicago. The instructors are Tim Sniffen, one of the writers and performers in The Second City Guide to the Opera, and Anne Libera, director of comedy studies for Second City's program with Columbia College. "They love what they're learning and how it greatly benefits them as performers," says Dan Novak, director of the Ryan Opera Center. "It's also bringing them closer as a group." Novak noted that it's The Second City's first workshop with opera singers. "This is why you do these collaborations – the benefits keep evolving."
Through the partnership between Lyric Unlimited and The Second City, a small group of high-school voice students have been invited to attend a special workshop designed just for them this month. They will learn essential improv techniques and how to apply these new skills to their current music training, increasing and enhancing their communication abilities onstage and offstage. In addition, participating students will have the opportunity to learn from the artists and staff involved in bringing this unusual combination of art forms together. PNC Bank is making this workshop possible and free of cost to participating students.


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Press Releases
of the people on hemp bill
For Immediate Release
Monday, March 11, 2013
For more information contact:
Holly VonLuehrte
(502) 573-0450
FRANKFORT, Ky. After House Speaker Greg Stumbo proudly declared the hemp bill dead, arguing that Senate Bill 50 could not be moved from the Rules Committee to the House floor for a vote, Agriculture Commissioner James Comer ripped the Speaker on his latest attempt to block the bill.
Speaker Stumbo is a tone-deaf, one-man band trying to kill the only jobs bill this session, Comer said. This bill has come to symbolize everything wrong with Frankfort, and I hope Stumbos fellow Democrats recognize the backlash that will result if they follow their leader on this one.
House Republican Leader Jeff Hoover drew attention to the hypocrisy of Speaker Stumbos latest procedural argument and noted that Democrat leadership had moved several other bills from the Rules Committee to the House floor for a vote. Stumbo then passed the buck to House Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins by stating that Adkins suspended the rules for the other bills. Hoover finished by asking Stumbo if Adkins could do the same for SB 50, and Stumbo acknowledged that he could.
SB 50, the industrial hemp legislation sponsored by Sen. Paul Hornback, establishes an administrative framework for industrial hemp production, which will help Kentuckys congressional delegation as it seeks a federal waiver allowing Kentucky to become the first state to grow the crop. The bill passed the Senate 31-6. U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, and Congressmen John Yarmuth and Thomas Massie have offered bipartisan support for SB 50, and numerous other Democrat legislators support the bill.
Never has such a popular bill received such overwhelming bipartisan support, Comer said. I remain hopeful that Speaker Stumbo will come to his senses and realize that a hollow political victory for himself does nothing but hurt his caucus.
The legislature has one more day to vote on legislation before the veto days begin.


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The More You Know
March 1, 2011
All my friends, even the ones I've known since middle school, have said they don't really know me so I thought I'd do this "The More You Know" thing where every now and then I'll post something about myself. It might not always be serious or of the utmost importance, but it's something.
I HATE the texture of fresh apples and pears so much. I will NOT eat them. I've tried to get over it but the feeling of the fruit against my teeth gives me goosebumps.
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Here's a round-up of updates concerning stories and issues covered previously by The Wild Hunt.
Martha Coakley and the Fells Acre Case: In a historic upset, Republican candidate Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat left vacant by Ted Kennedy's death, defeating Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, who many initially saw as a sure thing. The media, and many politicians, are ruminating on how it all happened. While some are debating whether Brown's win was a referendum on Obama's presidency, others are saying that the reasons were very local. Columnist Carey Roberts claims that Coakley's ties to the infamous Fells Acre ritual abuse case damaged her chances far more than the national political media are willing to credit.
"This legal travesty did not attract national attention until last Fall. At that point, Coakley held a nearly insurmountable 30-point lead over her Republican challenger. Then Ann Coulter devoted her December 9 column to the case, calling it the "second-most notorious witch trial in Massachusetts history" and charging Coakley had "kept a clearly innocent man in prison in order to advance her political career." A month later, Dorothy Rabinowitz delivered the coup de grace. Recounting in the Wall Street Journal how prosecutors cast Gerald as the chief predator, "his gender qualifying him, in their view, as the best choice for the role," Rabinowitz adjudged the superfluous prosecution was "powerful testimony to the mind and capacities of this aspirant to a Senate seat." The Rabinowitz editorial was published on January 14. The same day a Suffolk University poll spotted Brown a 4-point lead over Martha Coakley. And when the ballots were tallied nearly a week later, Scott Brown had defeated Coakley by a resounding five-point margin."
The Fells Acre case was also mentioned in electoral postmortems at The Huffington Post (who called her "doomed from the start") and The New American. As for Coakley, what are her plans? Why, she's going to run for reelection as Attorney General. Which makes me wonder, will outrage over the Amiraults carry over to the Fall elections? Or will we be content to forget? For all of my past coverage of Martha Coakley, click here.
Those Christian Gun Sights: Since the story broke earlier this week, controversy and commentary has been raging over a military contractor, Trijicon, that had been inserting Bible references into its serial numbers. These sights had apparently been used by some military commanders to hammer home the uniquely magical Christian-ness of the weapons, and their effectiveness in killing non-Christians. Now the company says it will stop inserting the Biblical references, and will provide means for existing sights to modified.
"Trijicon has proudly served the U.S. military for more than two decades, and our decision to offer to voluntarily remove these references is both prudent and appropriate," said Stephen Bindon, Trijicon president and CEO in a statement. "We want to thank the Department of Defense for the opportunity to work with them and will move as quickly as possible to provide the modification kits for deployment overseas."
While some in the military defended the Bible references, or didn't see what the fuss was about, others, most notably General David Petraeus, called the sights "distrubing" and a "serious concern".
Jessica Orsini Sets Her Sights on Another Term: The Columbia Daily Tribune notes that Jessica Orsini, Alderwoman, 3rd Ward, City of Centralia, Missouri, will be running unopposed for another term.
"Filing for the April 6 school board and municipal election ballots in Boone County ended at 5 p.m. yesterday … Centralia Board of Aldermen: Third Ward Alderwoman Jessica Orsini and First Ward Alderwoman Catherine Simmons are unopposed for re-election."
Orsini, in addition to being one of only two openly transgendered elected officials, is also a Hellenic polytheistic reconstructionist. So it looks like we'll continue to have two openly Pagan elected officials in America for a while longer. For more on Orsini, check out Tony Mierzwicki's interview with her at Witchvox.
More Stupid Things Being Said About Vodou: Mark Krikorian, at National Review Online, joined the growing "it's all Voodoo's fault" chorus yesterday with this rousing endorsement of colonialism.
"My guess is that Haiti's so screwed up because it wasn't colonized long enough … A major indicator of how superficial is the overlay of French culture in Haiti is the strength of paganism, in the form of voodoo — the French just weren't around long enough to suppress it, to the detriment of Haitians."
Yes, if only they had been under the heel of the French for a bit longer, because we all know how well colonialism worked out for the Native Americans. Do these commentators actually read what they write before it gets posted? I wonder. For all my coverage of Vodou in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, click here.


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Milwaukee root beer brewer adds adult beverage to lineup
Sprecher Brewing creates alcoholic root beer
Milwaukee's Sprecher Brewery is not only Made In Wisconsin, it's taking its famous root beer and kicking it up a notch.
Brewery president Jeff Hamilton said the company is putting an adult spin on a flavor many grew up with.
Sprecher has created a malted version of its famous root beer for adults only.
Four years in the making, Hamilton said many people ask what took so long to come up with an alcoholic root beer.
"It would seem obvious that we would do something like this," he said. "But the chemistry involved is quite complex."
This is Sprecher's first go at a malted product, so Hamilton said tweaks to the brew will be made.
"I'm gonna try it," said Sherri Goodwin of Milwaukee. "I'm not a big beer fan, but I really love their root beer."
And that is the reaction that Hamilton is hoping for as they look to reinvent their brand with "Bootlegger's Bourbon Barrel."
While Sprecher's flavors spread to 24 different states, the company seeks to keep its ingredients and materials as close to home as possible. The glass bottles come from Burlington, honey from Germantown and the malt from Chilton.
"All the major ingredients for our products we try to source locally," Hamilton said. "That's a big thing for us."
And it appears to be important to customers, as well.
"I really like to support the local breweries," Goodwin said. "If I'm going to buy a soda, I'd rather honestly buy something local than Coca-Cola."
Sprecher has grown from one man to 52 employees in its 30 years, and the company is proud to be Made In Wisconsin.