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After months of debate, the Lehigh Valley Zoo won $185,000 in annual funding for three years from Lehigh County commissioners Wednesday night.
The 5-3 vote in favor of that annual subsidy followed an unsuccessful attempt to delay action on the issue until late January.
The three commissioners who voted no wanted time to develop an alternative plan, which would have given the zoo less money from the county.
After the vote Richard Molchany, president and CEO of the non-profit Lehigh Valley Zoological Society, said the majority of commissioners voted to benefit residents, who consider the zoo a major attribute of living in the county.
"I'm very happy, it's a good day," said Molchany.
"The county commissioners supported quality of life by supporting the zoo."
Several zoo supporters at the lightly-attended meeting applauded the commissioners' action.
The debate over funding for the zoo has been going on since April.
"Your bison give birth faster than this, don't they?" County Executive-elect Tom Muller asked Molchany after the vote.
Molchany did not address commissioners before their vote, but later said the average accredited U.S. zoo gets 40 percent of its revenue from public subsidies. "We're down to eight or nine percent."
Voting to fund the zoo at $185,000 for three years were Commissioners Thomas Creighton, Percy Dougherty, David Jones, Dan McCarthy and Brad Osborne.
"The subsidy request is reasonable," said McCarthy. "It is much less than it had been in years past."
Voting against $185,000 for three years were Commissioners Vic Mazziotti, Lisa Scheller and Michael Schware. They wanted the amount of county funding to the zoo to decrease to $125,000 in 2015 and to
$65,000 in 2016.
"I do support the zoo," said Scheller, president of the nine commissioners, "but I don't support it completely on the taxpayers' expense. We're facing a huge budget deficit.
"The zoo is doing well financially. They're even expanding and adding exhibits. Mr. Molchany has done an excellent job growing the zoo's revenues."
McCarthy said the small zoo has become a victim of its own success. He said in the past county commissioners told the zoo's operators "to raise money, get a healthy balance sheet, get some good reserves and get on your feet. Well, they've done that. And now we say 'because you've done all that, we have to rethink a subsidy to you'."
Absent from the meeting was Commissioner Scott Ott.
Ott's vote might have changed the outcome significantly, when Schware made a motion to defer any action on the zoo until the commissioners' second meeting in January.
That motion failed by a 4-4 vote. Ott consistently votes with Schware, Mazziotti and Scheller.
One commissioner gasped in surprise when Dougherty joined the other three in voting to defer.
At least three of the four wanted the time to put together an alternate bill with annually decreasing funding. Mazziotti said the proposal before commissioners could not be modified Wednesday night to incorporate such annual reductions.
Schware said there was no need for immediate action because $185,000 for the zoo already has been approved as part of the 2014 county budget.
"We have the time to make this right," said Schware. "We need to have the will to do so and to do right by the taxpayers."
When Schware asked the county's administration if it would be willing to work on another revision, Muller, who is now the county's director of administration and becomes executive next month, made it clear he is not. "My administration is done working on the alternatives on this."
Later Muller said the possibility of reaching agreement on any set of numbers in late January was "somewhere beyond unlikely."
The executive-elect said the amount of time that he, Molchany, current Executive Matthew Croslis and deceased former county Executive William Hansell "have spent on this issue is astounding, given its low financial impact."
Muller said more than $110 million of the county's $362 million budget for 2014 comes from taxpayers. He said the amount of money being debated for zoo funding is less than two-tenths of one percent of that $110 million.
He said county government should be focusing on the big issues, "not spending over eight months on a subject that is as small as this one."
He acknowledged it is not a small issue to the zoological society.
After the vote, Molchany said he does not know if the zoo can become self-sufficient by the end of 2016, should the county commissioners vote to end all support in the future..
Schware argued the county's subsidy should decrease each year "in light of the zoo's financial success."
He said on Oct. 31, at the end of the zoo's fiscal year, it had a cash balance of about $750,000, "which is far in excess of what they've had in prior years" and "far in excess of what is being asked for from the county."
"At the same time, the county's financial picture is not looking very good," continued Schware. "Unless something changes, we're going to be looking at giving a tax hike to the taxpayers of Lehigh County. We need to consider not only the zoo's need but, most of all, the taxpayers. The taxpayers of this county cannot afford a tax hike. We need to do everything possible to avoid that."
After the meeting, Muller said he does not buy into Schware's "the-sky-is-falling position."
The three years of county funding for the zoo was a compromise to an initial proposal by Croslis, which would have ensured funding for the next six years: $185,000 a year from 2014 to 2016, then $150,000 from 2017 through 2019.
Dougherty, one of the co-sponsors of that six-year proposal, withdrew his support Wednesday night. Osborne, the other sponsor, recommended withdrawing that bill.
When no other commissioners offered to sponsor it, Scheller announced it was withdrawn.
The approved, three-year bill was sponsored by Dougherty and Creighton.
Dougherty called it a good compromise.
The three-year funding plan does include built-in reductions in the annual $185,000 subsidy, if audits show improvement in the zoo's cash balance at the end of each year. Those reductions range from $15,000 to $35,000, depending on how much that cash balance increases.
The accredited zoo is in the heart of the 1,100-acre Trexler Nature Preserve, located in North Whitehall Township just west of Schnecksville.
Not in dispute is an additional $92,500 provided each year for the care of the county's bison, elk and Palomino horses that live in Trexler Nature Preserve, which is owned by the county.


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Miller blasts OF to .500
OLD FORT – Sammy Miller belted her first-career home run, and scored twice to power Old Fort to a 5-2 win over Genoa.
The game was scoreless into the fifth inning when Genoa got on the board. But Old Fort countered with four in the bottom of the frame.
Mackenzie Ward went 3 for 3 with a double and two RBIs for the Stockaders, who evened up their season mark at 3-3. Allison Adelsperger also drove in two.
Alyssa Pence picked up the win in the circle.
Blue Jackets stay unbeaten
MOUNT BLANCHARD – New Riegel had as many home runs and Riverdale had hits Thursday, as the Blue Jackets went on the road and blasted the Falcons, 17-3, in five innings.
Home runs came off the bats of Taylor Kirian and Kara Scherger, who each drove in three on the afternoon with Scherger adding a double.
Morgan Noftz helped pace the Blue Jacket attack, going 3 for 4 with a double, three RBIs and four runs scored. Taylor Arbogast doubled, tripled, scored and drove in three. Hailey Theis was 4 for 4, tripling, driving in a run and scoring three times.
Also for New Riegel (6-0), Lauren Zoeller had two RBIs, Leah Bouillon scored three times and Brittany Gillig, Gidge Elchert and Haley Hoepf all added runs.
TC drops NOL opener
Columbian dropped its Northern Ohio League opener to Willard, 21-4 Thursday.
In the loss, the Tornadoes got RBIs from Macey Shock, Brittany DuMonte, Hannah Hupp and Bre Coffman. Shock, Autum Kuzma and Sierra Shope had two-hit days, with Shock adding a triple. Sam Gaietto doubled and scored a run.
SW breaks into win column
VAN BUREN – Mikayla Gilliland scored three times and Meghan Reiter struck out eight Thursday to key St. Wendelin's 5-1 win over Van Buren.
Gilliland went 3 for 4 with a triple for the Mohawks (1-3), who earned their first win.
Reiter scattered five hits and a walk, and weathered three errors by her team. She also singled and scored.
Krystal Krout added a single and two RBIs and Edy Mowrey singled twice and knocked in a run.
Losing pitcher Nichole Miller also fanned eight, and she went 3 for 4 for the Black Knights with a run and double.
Erin Neall doubled and drove in Miller.
BC holds off Wynford
BUCYRUS – The day couldn't have started off much better for Buckeye Central, as it posted six runs in the top of the first. But any thoughts of an early afternoon and a blowout win were premature as Wynford rallied back getting within one, 6-5, by the end of the second inning.
But Buckeye Central didn't fold and held off the Royals for a 9-7 North Central Conference win.
Skylar Johnson had a pair of triples, drove home two runs and scored for the Bucks (4-1, 2-0). Morgan Wurm doubled, singled, scored, had two RBIs and was the game's winning pitcher, striking out six.
Maddie Fagan, Sierra Hanes and Hailey Hildebrand also had RBIs.
Wynford drops to 0-7, 0-2.
Errors trip Senecas
MONROEVILLE – Monroeville snapped a 3-3 tie with three runs in the bottom of the third Thursday and held off Calvert from there for a 7-5 win.
The Eagles (3-3) took a 3-0 lead in the second, but Calvert knotted the score in the top of the third.
The Senecas (1-2) got within 6-5 with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth, but Monroeville tacked on a run in the bottom of the frame.
Gabby Bennett (0-1) took the loss, giving up one earned run in the first three innings. Calvert committed five errors.
Nichole Bickley drove in three runs and doubled twice for Calvert. Taylor Ritzler and Nicole Fretz each singled twice and Kate Brickner had two runs and a single.
Rams find win late
CRESTLINE – It took extra innings but Upper Sandusky pulled out a victory, beating Crestline 10-8.
Down by two going into the seventh inning Upper Sandusky tallied two runs to tie things up.
Both teams were held scoreless in the following two innings, but the Rams came up with two more runs in the 10th inning to put the game away.
Justeen Searfoss had a single and two runs scored for the Rams, Katie Taylor had two singles and two runs while Kalene Johnson had two singles and two runs. Maranda Stansbery had a single, a triple, and one run, Kelsi Knapp had three singles and one run, Sara Gier had a single and one run, and Adrianna Frey added one run. Gier was the games winning pitcher giving up four hits and striking out one.


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Taking Migrations from Madness to Gladness
by Jenn Sramek
For every new and amazing Drupal application we build, there is almost always a corresponding data migration. This major aspect of enterprise projects can involve complex business and data analysis, detailed data mapping, migration from multiple third-party data and analytics sources, test migrations, and data validation.
Data is always an area where our clients have much more expertise than we could hope to gain during a standard professional services engagement, so they are heavily involved in this aspect of the project, including planning, validating test migrations, signoff of final plans, and especially, final data validation. And, this is often a relatively new area for people on the team in terms of their participation. With all of these forces at plat, and looming deadlines throughout, it can be a struggle to accurately plan and set expectations, and it can be even more complex in situations where many business units are coming together under a single, shared platform.
So, how do you plan for all of this?
Know what you are getting into.
Before you Begin: Clean Data
Do whatever you can to clean up the data you have if you are migrating to a new platform. Data structure is created over time, (sometimes over a long time and multiple systems) and it may require some effort to find owners for all the data you have. Find the people within your organization who know the data. Their signoff is important in deciding where to draw the lines on what to migrate (and what not to).
Once you have found those people:
- Delete or archive old or unused content. This can reduce data "cruft" and will make the work of migration easier, but also eases the effort of data validation for you.
- Purge expired and outdated user accounts. Migration can be seen as an opportunity to update the user base to only active accounts, or can be seen as a way to welcome inactive users back. Determine your path forward, and update user content accordingly, purging outdated or duplicate accounts before moving to the new system.
- Review roles and permissions and consider which are actually used. Developing a new user role and permissions system is almost certainly a part of the work of the new site development, and hidden complexity lies in too many user roles, having unused roles, or duplicate roles. It also complicates data validation and increases the cost of QA overall. Streamline as much as possible.
- Gain as much knowledge as possible about what your data means. It is eventually going to be necessary for your team to know exactly what each field of data represents, and whether or not you want to migrate it to the new site. If you wait to start this process until development begins it can draw out the migration schedule. The more (or more complex) your data, the longer this process can take. Get as much of a head start as possible before the development team is engaged.
The Migration Team
The migration team is responsible for ensuring that your data moves to the new platform as seamlessly as possible. This team is made up on members of both client and development teams:
- Client - Project/Program Manager(s) - help keep the activities of migration in sync with development, help to ensure timely signoff of incremental milestones in migration.
- Client - Product Owner - owns the final data migration plan signoff, including confirming what not to migrate. Owns the final signoff of the final, completed migration or migration script, depending on project scope.
- Client - Data or Business Analyst - owns the handoff of technical details about migration to the migration specialist. The person in this role helps to define why each piece of data is used, and its role in critical business functions of the website. They ensure that no critical data is lost, and may work with the client team internally to identify and map data.
- Client - Data Validation Team - these may be those responsible for specific business units, community moderators, or other experts in your data. Their role is knowing the data intimately enough to execute test cases and determine their validity and completeness. Those in this role should be interacting with your data as a regular part of their daily work, making validation much more precise, and much easier.
- Acquia - Engagement Manager - a management expert at Acquia responsible for overall project coordination and success, and coordinating between client and Acquia teams, but also possibly third-party data providers, other vendors related to migration activities, and managing the on-time achievement of milestones.
- Migration Specialist - a technical expert at Acquia responsible for the execution of the migration planning and development tasks through final signoff.
- Site Architect - a technical site development expert at Acquia, who coordinates closely with the migration team to ensure technical alignment (the correct field types are developed and configured to "capture" the data correctly and the site architecture retains relationships between data elements).
Migration Planning
Migration cannot begin the moment the project begins, because there are development dependencies. The content types and fields must be developed before the content can be migrated into them. Critical things to consider in planning are as follows:
- It is never too early to start source data cleanup!
- Enable access to data by the migration team as soon as possible in the project schedule.
- Consider the priority of different data types, and plan for development of those aspects of the site first, followed by less critical items.
- Consider that migration can be done incrementally, but this greatly expands the time is takes to validate (from the client team) so an effort should be made to consider the scope of validation work when planning.
- Care should be taken to consider the sunset date of any currently used applications you may be migrating from. It is unwise to run the project schedule up to the day the old system contract ends, because it removes the ability to review the data in the context of the old platform, which can make validation difficult.
Initial and Ongoing Data Sharing
The first act of the Migration Specialist is to gain full access to your data for their initial evaluation. This may include the following:
- Assess the size of the database - How long does it take to transmit/copy? How many of each content type are there?
- Initial assessment of data quality - Is the data consistent among similar content? Is the data model standard? Is this a known system we have worked with before, and what knowledge can we leverage toward this effort.
It is best to accomplish the step of initial data sharing as soon as possible at the start of an engagement, to allow for security clearance (often required) and the setup of a secure environment for migration work. In addition to general access, there are a few special considerations:
- Making sure that your data can be shared securely with your development team, and if there is internal or external security certification, that any requirements for secure data handling have been met.
- Arranging a means for regular, secure dumps of data from your current provider(s) to your development team. This is especially important if you are dealing with large amounts of changing data.
Unpacking the Data
Unpacking and understanding the data from the old system(s) and mapping it to the new is the shared work of the migration team and the client team. They answer the question, "What does all this mean?" and help retain as much meaning as possible as the data is mapped to the new system. This can involve several activities, all of which need to be planned for:
- Data cleanup (see above) - Sometimes in all this dumping and analysis, what comes up is the need to clean up the data before it is migrated. Accomplishing this before migration may reduce cost be decreasing old, edge cases in the data, by minimizing the amount and kind of data to be migrated, and by reducing the amount of time it takes to validate the data on the client side.
- The need to bring in other people - Sometimes it becomes clear that there is data that nobody on the team knows about. They may not know its importance, what role is plays in relation to other data, or whether or not other groups might use the data. This calls for more inclusion of data owners, to ensure that their data is migrated as needed and nothing is left behind that is critical.
- Adjustments to scope may be needed if something (including additional content types, higher volume of data, for example) is discovered in the data that does not map to scope.
Data Mapping and Signoff
Data mapping can be the most tedious part of the migration process as it involves a great deal of back and forth, client involvement, and small adjustments. In our approach to migration:
- We begin by mapping our initial data analysis into a shared spreadsheet that allows the Migration Specialist and the client team to work together to indicate into which specific content type and field each piece of data must be migrated. This spreadsheet includes all of the data fields in the sytem(s) you are migrating from, and all of the content types and fields that have been planned for the new system.
- As part of this process, the client determines which specific fields will not be migrated. This may be because they represent old data, old content types that will not be re-created, or data that is not business critical.
- This process completes with client signoff on the scope of migration and the destination of each data field. This defines the final scope of data migration, even if it differs from the original scope, so this may require adjustment to the scope document.
- The Migration Specialist will use the signed off migration planning document to develop the code and scripts to accomplish the migration.
Initial Test Migrations and Signoff
The Migration Specialist may execute many test migrations (full or complete) before you will see results of an initial migration. During this time, they may be configuring and adjusting the code using the migrate module (which we typically use as the basis for migrations), testing scripts to combine or separate data fields, and essentially getting the migration script to come as close as possible to migrating all fields correctly.
Once they are substantially complete, you will be invited to review the initial test migration. Some adjustment can be made to the migration plan based on the results of this initial migration (adjusting the destination or source fields for certain data, adjusting field labels to be more clear and other small adjustments based on added clarity gained from being able to see the data in place. Major changes at this stage may lead to scope additions, so the results of this step should be discussed in detail to document any adjustments that are in scope, and any items coming up that might require additional scope.
Incremental Migrations
In the case of rapid development, sites with a large amount of data that continues to be updated as development is underway, or high-risk migrations, this work may be split up into incremental migrations. These may be organized around the development schedule for specific content types and fields, the development of interface elements that enable or aid in data validation, or the date on which specific data becomes available for migration. The general plan for whether the migration is incremental or addressed in a test-migrations-followed-by-final-migration manner should be put in place during initial planning. This incremental approach may allow more flexibility for the development team, but may require more time of the data validation team on the client side, since the validation is broken up into phases.
Final Migration and Signoff
Once we gain signoff on either test migration(s) or the series of incremental migrations (depending on the project), the Migration Specialist plans to execute the final content migration. For sites that are newly launching, or replacing existing sites, this may be followed with one or more differential migrations, to bring over content that may have been posted on the old site during cutover. It is recommended that for sites that are re-launching, the old site is put in read-only mode during cutover to reduce the risk of lost content, and to avoid end-user confusion and frustration over what they may experience as "temporarily missing" content.
Signoff occurs after the client team has reviewed the final migration on production after the last migration effort has occurred. At signoff, the migration is considered complete, and the migration specialist may leave the development team entirely, or be available for consultation as needed, depending on the specific situation.
If you are working with multiple departments or agencies moving toward a shared platform, or are working with a very large amount of data and therefore a very large data validation team, please review Joshua Smith's excellent blog post about how to leverage a special advisory group or committee to support this high-risk aspect of the effort.


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I would like to identify the occurences (index) of an arbitrary value within a Vector. The values I wish to identify will be close to but may not be exactly equal to this value.
For example having obtained the vector [Vector,t] = lsim(G,u,t) I would like to identify those points where the Vector assumedly intersects a horizontal line of given amplitude plot([X1 X2],[Y1 Y1])
I can obtain the first value quite simply with something along the lines of
[index value] = min(abs(abs(Vector) - abs(arbitrary_value)))
The find function is of some assitance however it requires that the arbitrary value equals the value of an element within the Vector exactly. Hence Idxs = find(A==MinValue) does not return a value within proximity of the intersection (or any point for that matter)
I thought I might be able to scrape by with a for loop i.e.
for i = 1:length(Vector)
if (Vector(i) - arbitrary_value) < tolerance index(k) = i; Value(k) = y(i); k = k+1; end end
however it is far from an attractive or precise solution.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
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tolerance = 1e-3; ii = abs(Vector - arbitrary_value) < tolerance;
Value = Vector(ii); index = find(ii);
ADD variant
t = vin - av; idx = cellfun(@(x)strfind(sign(t(:).'),x),{0,[-1 1],[1 -1]},'un',0); x0 = bsxfun(@plus,[idx{2:end}],(0:1)'); [~,ii] = min(abs(t(x0))); iout = sort([[idx{1}],x0(sub2ind(size(x0),ii,1:size(x0,2)))]); index = vin(iout);
Hi Andrei, thank you for that. much tidier. With regards to the respective points of intersection, depending on the value of 'tolerance' I either obtain numerous points around certain crossings or fail to obtain other crossings altogeather. If I could obtain one index per point of intersection that would be most helpful
See ADD part in my answer.
Superb. Many thanks for your assitance
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GATES MILLS, Ohio — Gilmour's girls basketball team didn't waste anytime jumping out to a big lead against Maple Heights on Wednesday, outscoring the Mustangs, 28-4, in the first quarter of the Lancers' 70-24 win.
Kelly Harrington led Gilmour, ranked No. 22 in the cleveland.com Top 25 poll, with 20 points and she hit a school-record six three-pointers.
Jess Janota scored 16 points and Emily Kelley added 11 for Gilmour. Maple Heights' Ammaarah Williams had a team-high six points.


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Saturday, as night falls on Reser and OSU's 26-game non-conference win streak at home vanishes in the gloom .. what we filed for tomorrow's print edition.
CORVALLIS – Amid the gloom of Oregon State's first non-conference loss at home since Sept. 7, 1996, wide receiver James Rodgers put it out there for his teammates.
"This is a key week for us,'' said Rodgers, after the Beavers had been beaten 28-18 by No. 17 Cincinnati in front of 41,909 at Reser Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
"We can go forwards, or we can go backward.''
In a game where the momentum seemed to shift series by series – with the exception of an awful second quarter by OSU – the Beavers may have ultimately lost because the officials decided Bearcats' receiver D.J. Woods could not go forward any longer.
OSU had rallied after trailing 21-8 at halftime, and had come within three, at 21-18, when the Beavers' Justin Kahut kicked a 23-yard field goal with 13:22 left.
On the Bearcats' next series, on a second-and-10 call from the OSU 44, Cincinnati quarterback Tony Pike completed a pass to Woods, who was gang-tackled and stripped of the ball by OSU middle linebacker David Pa'aluhi with Beavers' linebacker Keith Pankey recovering around the UC 40.
Obviously, a huge play if it goes OSU's way, but officials ruled Woods was "down by forward progress'' and with most of the crowd at Reser booing its lungs out, Pike proceeded to take the Bearcats down for a clinching touchdown, throwing a 19-yard TD pass to wide receiver Mardy Gilyard.
"I looked at the defense they were playing,'' said Gilyard, "and I was like, 'it's over.' "
There were way too many OSU miscues – penalties, poor play calls, lack of attention to detail, etc. – for the Beavers to pick out one call as the reason the program's 26-game non-conference winning streak at home is now history.
But the Pa'aluhi strip of Woods did come up, again and again, during post-game interviews.
"You've got to respect the call,'' said OSU linebacker Keaton Kristick, whose second-half interception gave the offense one of its many chances to take the lead.
"It wasn't a fumble (according to the officials). … that was good for them, and not so good for us,'' said Kristick.
OSU cornerback Tim Clark said afterwards, "it's not about the calls. It should never come down to one call. That game should not have been that close.''
Still, most of the OSU players thought it was a fumble, and Beavers' coach Mike Riley also seemed fairly certain that his team should have gotten the ball.
It might have changed everything.
Or it might have changed nothing.
"What I was told, was the momentum of the runner had been stopped and he was being pushed backwards,'' said Riley, who sounded skeptical.
There were stretches, especially early, when Oregon State throttled the Bearcats' vaunted no-huddle, two-minute drill offense.
There were also stretches where Pike and Co. rolled up and down the field.
Clark said OSU's defensive performance "was mediocre.''
That was probably too harsh, but Cincinnati did have 408 yards of total offense and the 6-foot-6 Pike was a cool customer under fire, darting away from the OSU rush time and again as he completed 31 of 49 passes for 332 yards and two touchdowns.
"He was very composed,'' said Kristick.
While Pike was composed, the Beavers were hit and miss on offense with their own senior quarterback.
Sean Canfield was 29-for-45 for 240 yards and no touchdowns, with one interception.
Canfield, looking bruised and battered and wearing a band-aid on his nose, described the quick Bearcats' defense as "instinctive, and heady.''
Canfield came into the game leading the nation in passing percentage, but Cincinnati was all over him, taking advantage of some mistakes by the OSU offensive line.
Jacquizz Rodgers, who didn't seem to have any problems with his sore ankle, was nonetheless limited to just 3.7 yards per carry.
For much of the afternoon, brother James Rodgers was OSU's biggest weapon.
He had 67 yards rushing, caught 11 passes for 90 yards, and had three good kickoff returns.
"When we were balanced (between run and pass), we moved the ball,'' said Jacquizz Rodgers.
When the Beavers weren't balanced, it was ugly.
Canfield, on his back, saw more cloudy skies than a TV weatherman in the second quarter.
"We were just very sloppy,'' said Canfield.
Cincinnati had five first-half sacks, and by halftime it seemed the Bearcats' defense was in total control - until OSU went 80 yards on its first possession of the second half to make it a 21-15 game.
On a day when OSU kept exchanging field goals for potential touchdowns after drives fizzled, the crusher might have come at the start of the fourth quarter with the Beavers first-and-goal at the Cincinnati 5. First, Jacquizz Rodgers was buried for a four-yard loss on the same running play he scored on in the third quarter
Then a swing pass to him lost five more yards.
First-and-goal turned into third-and goal from the 14.
"No excuses,'' said Riley. "That was horrible.''
A missed block, an errant read by Canfield, and suddenly what looked like a sure touchdown – and a possible 22-21 OSU lead - turned into the Kahut field goal.
Same thing happened twice in the first quarter while the OSU defense was stuffing Cincinnati's no-huddle, which means the Beavers kicked away at least 12 points.
Riley said later it, "should have been a better game than it was'' but he also praised the nationally-ranked Bearcats for coming into Reser and taking care of business.
OSU had talked about redemption, and yes, even vengeance in the days before the game, remembering a 34-3 loss at Cincinnati in 2007.
This was closer, but Clark said the vibe in the locker room wasn't so much different. "Nobody wants to have this feeling after a game,'' he said. "It's disappointing, a missed opportunity. … we could have done something big (today).''
Instead, the Beavers go into their Pacific 10 Conference opener against Arizona coming off a frustrating loss. The film session on Sunday will be solemn, said Riley.
"We'll look back at a lot of stuff and not like it,'' he said.
Did D.J. Woods fumble? It's irrevelant now.
As James Rodgers said, it's move forward, or go backwards.
Note: There was a ghastly sequence where OSU right tackle Mike Remmers had to come out of the game, and two different substitutes - Geoff Garner and Colin Kelly - tried to hold off the Cincy pass rush. This was during the time the Bearcats, no afraid of the run, were pinning their ears back. We asked Riley if Remmers got hurt, and he said, ''his shoe fell apart.'' ... I asked Riley if that was a Nike shoe, and he immediately answered, with mock indignance, ''certainly not. They don't fall apart.''
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June 19, 2013 at 11:47am
If my kids were home… These people would have been staring down the barrel of a legal sawed off 12 guage shotgun. I would ask them politely to leave my property and let them know that if they tried to enter my residence that my 00 buck shot would cut them in half. If you want to protest me that is your right but do it at my public office or at a public appearance and quit harrassing my family.
June 19, 2013 at 10:32am
"Apathy is the glove which evil slips its hand" ~ Bodie Thoene
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June 13, 2013 at 1:06pm
We need to wake up and realize that they are training their children for war… I suggest you train your children to be able to handle firearms of all sorts and better be ready to pull the trigger when the ***** hits the fan. Because its coming… its only a matter of time.
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May 17, 2013 at 10:18am
Does anyone believe that Keaton would be prepared tho fight these types of monsters? To dismiss them and say in the long run the people eating human hearts would be better? You sir are nieve at best.
May 17, 2013 at 10:13am
LMAO!!!! Well done
In reply to CWPrequired's comment on the story Was It Against Uniform Protocol for the Marine to Hold Obama's Umbrella?
February 7, 2013 at 1:10pm
February 6, 2013 at 10:53am
A man who grants himself this type of power… Is not planning on relenquishing that power nor the Presidency. AMERICANS we are in SERIOUS TROUBLE.
February 5, 2013 at 1:36pm
Also Squid you can provide NO historical evidence that Constantine created the Holy Catholic Church… Constantine simply LEGALIZED Catholicism (Christianity).
You should read the letters of Saint Ignatious of Antioch who was taught by the Apostle John… He would disagree with you on the time that the Holy Catholic Church was formed…
February 5, 2013 at 1:30pm
We see that Simon the Zealot being from Cana, and a 'brethren' or 'brother' of the Christ. Let's go to John's Gospel, chapter 2. Mary and Our Lord are invited to a wedding there. So, close business associates, maybe, of Joseph from the carpentry trade, or more likely – family, or brethren, relatives, are having this wedding. Like, maybe the Holy Family had actual kinfolk in Cana, be they cousins, in-laws, nephews, aunts, uncles, all of which are routinely called 'brethren'.
Remember what Mary said to the servants? She told them to 'Do as He says.'
Think about that a second? What would give this humble woman from Nazareth any position to so speak to the servants of someone else in an entirely different town, at their wedding? The simplest and most easily understood answer would be – she is a family relation to those giving the wedding feast..
So Simon is from Cana, and a 'brother' of the Lord! He's not a sibling though, but very likely related. And James, Joseph and Jude all have the same father and mother, and it is not Joseph and the Virgin Mary, but their mother is named Mary and called the sister of Jesus' mother Mary. Even here 'sister' may not mean blood sibling, or we have two sisters with the same name in the same family.
Again it all goes back to reading the Holy Bible in Context
February 5, 2013 at 1:28pm
Look up John 19:25 at http://www.blueletterbible.org/ and click the 'C' icon (for the Strong's Concordance), then click the Strong's number for the name Cleophas. It comes up "father of James the less, the husband of Mary the sister of the mother of Jesus."
Did you get that? That Mary, who was the mother of James the less, and of Joseph, from Mark 15:40, is the wife of Cleophas, the father of James the less, and she is called the 'sister' of Our Lord's mother – Mary!
So, two of the four 'brothers' have been identified as the children of parents other than Joseph and the Virgin Mary. Of the brothers named, that still leaves Jude and Simon. Next, Jude:
Acts 1:13 "…James, the son of Alphaeus , and Simon Zelo'tes, and Jude the brother of James…"
There goes Jude out of the mix! Matter of fact, Jude says the same in his own epistle:
Jude 1:1 "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James…" (emphasis added)
Lastly, Simon. Simon, called the Zealot, is identified as coming from Cana, not Nazareth as were Joseph, Mary and the Christ!
Luke 6:15 "and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot,"
Mark 3:18 "Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean…"
Matt 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
February 5, 2013 at 1:26pm
@ Squid…
There are only four brethren of Jesus named in the Gospels:
Matthew 13:55 "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?"
Mark 6:2-3 – "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?"
Let's begin with James. There are two men named James among the disciples. One, of course, is the brother of John and the son of Zebedee. This cannot be him then. So, this is the other James, called in Scripture James the less:
Mark 15:40: "There were also women looking on afar off: among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less, and of Joseph, and Salome."
So James is indeed the son of a woman named Mary. Not only that, but Joseph is his brother. That's two of the four, right? Then, in Matthew, reciting the names of the twelve:
Matt 10:3: "…'James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddeus."
This too is talking of James the less, as the other James, son of Zebedee, is spoken of in the previous verse. Alphaeus is this James' father, not Joseph, the husband of Mary, mother of the Lord.
Now go to John also speaking of those witnessing the Crucifixion:
John 19:25: "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother (Mary) and His mothers sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene."
Continued in the Next Post…
February 5, 2013 at 1:01pm
The "Myth" that the Church chained Bibles so that no one could read them gets similar treatment from both sides. Non-Catholics hear that the Church chained Bibles so that no one could read them and it sounds provocative. Catholics say it never happened. But it did happen. That the Church chained Bibles is not a myth. The Church absolutely chained Bibles, but they did it for the same reason the post office chains the pens to the table – so that they don't get stolen! Bibles were hand copied, and very valuable, and no one could read a Bible if it was stolen so the Church chained them to the table just like the post office chains pens; not to prevent people from using them but so that everyone can use them.
February 5, 2013 at 1:00pm
that Catholics would kill or imprison anyone that had a Bible is not true… But the Church did ban the Bible in certain locations. But the ban was temporary and location specific and it is greatly misunderstood.
There was one place, I believe it was somewhere in France (working from memory here), where heretics were teaching that physical creation was evil and the spirit was good. These heretics were using the Bible to teach this heresy and were using Sacred Scripture to encourage people to commit suicide. The church rightly clamped down and the ban was lifted when the controversy subsided.
There was another occasion some time in the middle ages, where people were using the Bible to teach that all oaths were evil. The feudal society of that time was based on oaths. Oaths of allegiance were what held communities together under a ruler who provided protection for his subjects. People started renouncing their oaths of alliegiance and it led to riots and food shortages. In order to quiet the social unrest caused by those who were interpreting scripture incorrectly and teaching error, the Church made an effort to stop public use of Bibles. Once order was restored, the ban was lifted. The ban was an act of mercy for a suffering population.
February 5, 2013 at 12:48pm
I would like to apologize for painting with broad strokes… I should have said certain sects in the Evangelical world.
February 5, 2013 at 12:41pm
When did Catholic's not respect your rights?
February 5, 2013 at 12:38pm
Evangelicals (Which i assume you are since you so blatently stated the Preists are servants of satan… Judging these mens faith and their hearts with your fake piety and "Christian" charity and love.) have a bad habit of taking scripture out of context… Scripture needs to be read in the context of the audience they were writing to THEN and now. Also read in context of the chapter then in contexet of the Letter then on a larger scale of the Bible. Remember there was NO New Testament when these Letters where written. That wasn't compiled until those (as you say) satan worshiping Preists in the Catholic Church compiled it for you.
Picking and choosing what to read and how i can twist it to fit MY beleifs is what librals do… Come on man you are better than that.
February 5, 2013 at 12:05pm
The pretribulation Rapture is the MOST unbiblical peice of fiction that was ever made up in the 1800′s. Unbelievable that so many people beleive this garbage…. Jesus has a SECOND coming… not a Third nor a 1 and a half time… TWICE!!!!
And if you enjoy reading your Bible… Thank a Catholic
July 30, 2012 at 10:40am
Actually God did ride the back of a donkey…
Anyone heard of Palm Sunday? Matthew 21:1-11
February 3, 2012 at 11:43am
This is the same Eddie Long who happens to live in a 10,000 square foot home and drives a $350,000 bentley! He takes his parishoners money and gets EXTREMELY RICH off the backs of his congregation. I have seen this man before and the ego on him is unbelievable. The SELF proclaimed bishop gave himself this title. Eddie Long made the "Top 10 preachers who are absolutely loaded article". This is NOT the message of the TRUE Christian faith. These "megachurch" pastors who live in palaces while their congregants for the most part live in poverty. This is NOT what the tithe is suppossed to be for!!! They have become the modern day Ciaphas getting MEGA RICH off God while preaching but NOT walking what they preach. But hey you know once saved always saved!!! Just like the Bible says… just say the sinners prayer and there is nothing else to be done… Oh wait the Bible doesn't say that never mind but it does say…James 2:14-26
February 3, 2012 at 11:14am
This is the same Eddie Long who happens to live in a 10,000 square foot home and drives a $350,000 bentley! He takes his parishoners money and gets EXTREMELY RICH off the backs of his congregation. I have seen this man before and the ego on him is unbelievable. The SELF proclaimed bishop gave himself this title. Eddie Long made the "Top 10 preachers who are absolutely loaded article". This is NOT the message of the TRUE Christian faith. These "megachurch" pastors who live in palaces while their congregants for the most part live in poverty. This is NOT what the tithe is suppossed to be for!!! They have become the modern day Ciaphas getting MEGA RICH off God while preaching but NOT walking what they preach. But hey you know once saved always saved!!! Just like the Bible says… just say the sinners prayer and there is nothing else to be done… Oh wait the Bible doesn't say that never mind but it does say…James 2:14-26
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Pulling the Plug on Legacy Log Management
When it comes to log management today, CSOs have been left in the lurch. According to a new IDG Research Services survey, organizations are poised to "rip and replace" legacy technology to get a better handle on compliance and security. This paper includes key research findings and strategies to overcome this legacy challenge.
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LANCASTER - All of the L-L League girls' basketball previews have been posted.
Now it's time to make the section-by-section predictions.
Don't go running off to Vegas with these picks.
But heading into Friday's season openers, here's how things might shake down come early February ...
MANHEIM TOWNSHIP - Blue Streaks won the last two titles with 16-0 marks. Thinking they have a great shot at an undefeated threepeat.
HEMPFIELD - Black Knights always seem to find a way. Says here they will again.
WARWICK - Like the upward tick the Warriors have been taking.
McCASKEY - Time for the Tornado to get back into the thick of things.
PENN MANOR - If things fall into place, could be your Section 1 sleeper.
CEDAR CREST - Rebuilding continues in Falcons' camp. Getting closer.
SOLANCO - A lot of changes in Quarryville, but still enough left in the tank to make it four section crowns in a row.
EPHRATA - Hearing nothing but great things about the Mountaineers.
COCALICO - Expecting the Eagles to soar up the charts this season.
ELIZABETHTOWN -Bears will still be in the mix.
LEBANON - A lot of young pups; could be a year away, but could also surprise.
CONESTOGA VALLEY - Only way to go is up for the Bucks. But the calvary is coming, so be patient.
NORTHERN LEBANON - Time is now for the Vikings, who have the ingredients to produce a winner.
LAMPETER-STRASBURG - Pioneers will definitely push. If NL stumbles, L-S will be ready to pounce.
MANHEIM CENTRAL - Bit of an overhaul for the Barons, but the cupboard isn't bare. Central will challenge.
GARDEN SPOT - Going to slide the Spartans up a couple of notches. Sleeper alert.
ELCO - Will also hang a sleeper alert tag on the Raiders.
DONEGAL - Baby steps, Mount Joy. Baby steps.
LANCASTER CATHOLIC - Absolutely, positively l-o-a-d-e-d.
ANNVILLE-CLEONA - Stepping outside the box a bit here; Dutchmen have a nice nucleus, and there was a lot of turnover - three new coaches, a lot of departed seniors - in Section 4.
LEBANON CATHOLIC - Beavers will also be in line for that No. 2 slot.
COLUMBIA - Some good athletes here; Tide will surprise.
PEQUEA VALLEY - Keep an eye on Kinzers the next couple of seasons; going to be some buzz there.
LANCASTER MENNONITE - Blazers lost some key kids; might take a step back.
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Aviation Scholarships
Montana is very fortunate to have many generous individuals and organizations that believe in promoting aviation by offering monetary assistance to qualified persons. The Aeronautics Division assists in administering some of these scholarships and encourages participation. The scholarships are offered to Montanans to help defray costs of education (i.e., flight instruction, A&P, etc.) and will be presented during the 2016 Montana Aviation Conference in Helena.
- A Love of Aviation (ALOA) Scholarship
- An anonymous donor established this scholarship of $250 in 1997 and in 2010 two more anonymous donors contributed an additional $250 each creating a $750 scholarship.
- AOM Flight Training Scholarship
- AOM has established this $500 scholarship to financially assist a student pilot in obtaining their private pilot certificate.
- Blue Goose First Generation Flight Scholarship
- Blue Goose Aviation is proud to give our First Generation Scholarship to a deserving person in Montana. The scholarship is for someone who does not have another pilot in the family. This year the scholarship will be a $1,000 value to be flown at Blue Goose Aviation in Polson, MT (either 5 hours dual in our Cessna 182 or 8 hours dual in our Cessna 150). We would like all applicants to follow the application procedures set forth by the MDT Aeronautics Division plus answer these two questions.
- What aviation certificates or ratings do you have at this time and what type of training would you like to do with this scholarship? (i.e. private license, basic aircraft control, mountain flying checkout, instrument training, etc.)
- How would this scholarship and training help you towards your future aviation goals?
- Bob Redding Memorial Scholarship
- EAA Chapter 57 in Billings is offering a scholarship in memory of Bob Redding who was a lifetime advocate of general and experimental aviation. Building aircraft was as important to Bob as flying them and, given his tenure as a college math professor, so was education. Consequently, this $500 scholarship is offered to those working towards their A & P license, first generation pilot training, or any post-secondary STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) degree.
- EAA Missoula Chapter 517 Scholarship
- EAA Chapter 517 in Missoula will provide THREE $1,000 scholarships in 2016. One will be for a post-solo student; one for a second year A&P student; and one to be used for any type of aviation career training.
- Edwards Jet Center Scholarship
- Edwards Jet Center a full-service fixed based operator and Part 135 charter operator based at Logan International Airport in Billings is offering a $500 scholarship to help defray the costs of flight instruction.
- Montana Antique Aircraft Association (MAAA) Scholarship
- MAAA is offering a $1,000 scholarship to help defray the costs of flight instruction.
- MPA Air Safety and Education Foundation (MPA ASEF) Flight Training Scholarship
- This $1,000 scholarship is open to an active pilot who has considerable interest in aviation and is seeking advanced flight training or pursuing a profession in aviation. Applicant must be a Montana resident.
- Montana Pilots Association (MPA) Junior Pilot Scholarship
- The recipient of this $1,000 scholarship is chosen for outstanding interest in aviation, citizenship in their community and demonstrated academic achievement. The recipient must be a Montana resident and previously soloed. Preference is given to younger applicants who are new pilots or pursuing a profession in aviation.
- Parrott Family Scholarship
- The Parrott Family offers a $1,000 scholarship to be used over a one-year period for pilot training programs for students enrolled in the Rocky Mountain College (RMC) aviation program. The funds may be used for tuition in the RMC aviation program, and/or flight training expenses leading to a Private, Commercial, or Flight Instructor Certificate, and may include Instrument and Multiengine simulator training, and the purchase of aviation related materials and related supplies.
- Theresa (Nistler) Colley Scholarship
- Mountain AirDance Flight Training (Jeanne MacPherson and Bill Gallea) and Vetter Aviation (Brent and Rosie Vetter) offer this $1,000 scholarship in memory of Theresa (Nistler) Colley who passed away from leukemia in February, 2012. Theresa loved flying and was working toward her private pilot certificate. This scholarship will be awarded to a student pilot who is working on getting their private pilot rating.
- Vigilante Hangar Scholarship
- the Vigilante Hangar of the Montana Pilots Association is sponsoring the 1st annual Flight Instructor Scholarship. The Scholarship in the amount of $650 will be awarded to an instrument rated commercial pilot who is pursuing an initial CFI rating.
How to Apply
Awarding of the scholarships are based on a letter explaining the reasons for applying; future career goals; past aviation experience; (if any); and outstanding achievements.
The same letter can be used but applicant must submit one copy addressed to each individual scholarship.
Each letter must include your mailing address and daytime phone number.
If you are awarded a scholarship, your photo will appear in the 2016 Montana Aviation Conference Program. Please include a photo with your letter of interest for this purpose (only one photo is necessary).
Letters must be postmarked on or before January 2, 2017.
Mail your letters to:
Montana Aeronautics Division
PO Box 200507
Helena, MT 59620-0507
Call 406-444-2506 for more information.


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MARQUETTE - If Marquette wants to be the best, it has to beat the best.
The Redmen came close to pulling off that feat after falling to Menominee 5-3 in a high school boys tennis meet at home on Tuesday afternoon.
MSHS won the top three flights in singles, but couldn't bolster it with any doubles wins to lose to the team that won the Kingsford Invitational on Saturday facing probably the two other best teams in the Upper Peninsula, Negaunee and the host Flivvers.
"We're getting more good play," Marquette coach Charlie Drury said. "We're gaining more experience all the time with our young doubles teams and we continue to get good play out of our singles."
The Redmen winners included junior Josh Downs at No. 1 singles, a 6-4, 6-2 win over Davey Luplow; senior Matt Collins at No. 2 singles, a 6-2, 6-1 victory past Nate Anttila; and junior Noah Gannon at No. 3 singles, a 7-6 (8-6), 6-1 win over Devon Barley.
Menominee scored straight-sets victories in the five flights it won, the closest being at No. 2 doubles, where the Maroons' Chad Schuelke and Nate Gunderson slipped past MSHS juniors Alex Brown and Ben Wright, 6-4, 6-3.
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Prep boys tennis
Menominee 5, Marquette 3
At Marquette
SINGLES - No. 1 - Josh Downs (MQT) def. Davey Luplow, 6-4, 6-2; No. 2 - Matt Collins (MQT) def. Nate Anttila, 6-2, 6-1; No. 3 - Noah Gannon (MQT) def. Devon Barley, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1; No. 4 - Nathan Nowack (MEN) def. Justin Flood, 6-3, 6-3.
DOUBLES - No. 1 - Ryan Woods/Caleb Kleiman (MEN) def. Mike Mlsna/Mike Wiitala, 6-4, 6-0; No. 2 - Chad Schuelke/Nate Gunderson (MEN) def. Alex Brown/Ben Wright, 6-4, 6-3; No. 3 - Nick Cattani/Jon Anttila (MEN) def. Dakota Riopelle/Noah Heichel, 6-0, 6-0; No. 4 - Aaron Maas/Adam Nolde (MEN) def. Patrick Bulinski/Connor Laitinen, 6-2, 6-1.
Westwood 5, Munising 3
At Ishpeming
SINGLES - No. 1 - Noah Ackerman (M) def. Quinn LeRoy, 6-2, 6-1; No. 2 - Michael Ostlund (W) def. Joel Schramm, 6-0, 7-5; No. 3 - Jacob Schramm (M) def. Shawn McIntyre, 6-2, 6-1; No. 4 - Brett Fredrickson (W) def. Anders Busk, 6-1, 6-3.
DOUBLES - No. 1 - Chase Nebel/Ian McInnis (M) def. Derek Wing/Andrew Duquette, 6-4, 7-5; No. 2 - Mitch Messing/Tristen Vitale (W) def. Joel Werner/Trevor Witty, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5); No. 3 - Nathen Nelson/Jake Kierzek (W) def. Nick Cercone/Mike Graves, 6-0, 6-1; No. 4 - Brandon Benda/Tyler Harvala (W) def. Evan Cromell/Jared Immel, 6-2, 6-0.
Negaunee 6, West Iron County 2
At Iron River
SINGLES - No. 1 - Ryan Rogers (WIC) def. Parker Bowman, 1-6, 6-4, 6-0; No. 2 - Ryan Syrjala (N) def. Andrew Peterson, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; No. 3 - Adam Newby (WIC) def. Eric Hurst, 7-6, 7-6; No. 4 - Ben Luke (N) def. Zane Sarafiny, 6-0, 6-2.
DOUBLES - No. 1 - Doug Lindblom/Michael Anderson (N) def. Aren Newby/Max Maloney, 6-0, 6-0; No. 2 - Alex Roth/Stephen Trawick (N) def. Tristan Nelson/Ryan Peterson, 6-0, 6-0; No. 3 - Anthony Moyle/Rob Loy (N) def. Erick Upperstrom/Ben Wiegand, 6-1, 6-0; No. 4 - Kolton Klein/Jacob Paupore (N) def. Mike Ivey/Seth Mi
The Redmen keep busy the rest of the week, going to West Iron County at 4:45 p.m. today, hosting Westwood at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and playing throughout the morning and afternoon at the Negaunee Invitational on Saturday.
Westwood 5, Munising 3
In Ishpeming Township, the host Patriots survived surrendering matches at the No. 1 flights in singles and doubles with quality play at other flights.
That included Westwood freshman Brett Fredrickson winning at No. 4 singles, a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Munising sophomore Anders Busk, and senior Michael Ostlund at No. 2 singles, a 6-0, 7-5 win over junior Joel Schramm.
"Brett is playing very steady as a freshmen in his first year of tennis," WHS coach Chris Jackson said. "He is getting better every time he plays.
"Michael made some great adjustments to come back in his second set to close out his match."
The Patriots also got wins from juniors Mitch Messing at Tresten Vitale at No. 2 doubles, juniors Nathen Nelson and Jake Kierzek at No. 3 doubles and sophomore Brandon Benda and senior Tyler Harvala at No. 4 doubles.
Munising was a winner at No. 1 singles with senior Noah Ackerman, No. 1 doubles with senior Chase Nebel and sophomore Ian McInnis, and No. 3 singles with senior Jacob Schramm.
Negaunee 6,
West Iron County 2
At Iron River, the visiting Miners blew through doubles losing just two games total while splitting in singles to improve to 5-0-1.
Negaunee got singles victories from junior Ryan Syrjala at No. 2 and sophomore Ben Luke at No. 4 to make its doubles domination stand up.
"Ryan has put together a nice string of matches and it seems he's more confident than a week ago," Miners coach Kyle Saari said.
The No. 1 tandem of seniors Doug Lindblom and Michael Anderson and No. 2 pair of sophomore Alex Roth and senior Stephen Trawick each recorded 6-0, 6-0 victories, while No. 3 juniors Anthony Moyle and Rob Loy along with No. 4 senior Kolton Klein and sophomore Jacob Paupore each lost one game all match.
The Miners jump back into action with a 4 p.m. home meet vs. Iron Mountain today before hosting the Negaunee Invitational all day Saturday.


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Political science students conduct online poll of peers
Nov. 6, 2012
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President Barack Obama outpolled former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney 47 percent to 42 percent among Maryville College students, Maryville College students in the Political Science 321: The American Political Process class announced last night as they released the findings of their survey on the eve of the 2012 presidential election.
"Students in the class had mixed reactions to the results," said Dr. Mark O'Gorman, associate professor of political science at Maryville College and instructor of PLS321. "Some students were not surprised, given that college-aged students have historically sided with Obama. Other students were surprised, given that many MC students have East Tennessee roots, a politically conservative part of the state, if not the nation."
Economic issues dominated the responses to questions that asked what issue -- or issues -- were most important to students in guiding their vote on Election Day.
"We asked issue questions two different ways," O'Gorman said. "One question asked students to pick all the issues, among a menu of choices, that most impacted their vote this year. Another question asked student respondents to state what one issue was their most important issue this year. In both cases, economic issues were far and away the top choices. In the single-issue question, no other issue received half of the votes of economic issues."
The class reported abortion/planned parenthood was the second most salient issue. Education, student loans and health care rounded out the top issues.
According to the responses from the survey, the MC student body was equally divided between conservative, moderate and liberal ideologies, as well as party affiliation.
While television news was the most important means of obtaining election news among MC student respondents, it is clear that social media and the internet were important venues from which 17- to 22-year-old college students received their 2012 election information.
"We have conducted this online poll in every even-numbered fall for the past decade," O'Gorman said. "I have been amazed by how much social media like YouTube and Spotify, Internet news stories and social networking like Twitter and Facebook gain in influence, to the point they all but dominate the results. Television news was still the top vote getter, but just by five percentage points. I wonder if this is the last election-year survey that 'traditional' TV will be the dominant news source for MC students."
The closeness of the national vote was reflective in the results, as were some disconnects in MC student responses. For example, O'Gorman described how one PLS321 student noticed that foreign policy or national security were not important issues chosen by respondents as important in guiding their vote. The student thought this interesting, given that this poll was active for four days in late October, immediately after the third presidential debate, which was focused on foreign policy.
Students were slightly more dissatisfied with President Obama's performance than satisfied, and polled about equal as to their satisfaction, or not, with the Patient Protection Act, the health care plan known by its nickname "Obamacare."
"Students saw the closeness of the results between Romney and Obama and asked to look at crosstabs to see if they could discern how the undecided students would break in their preference for the president," O'Gorman said.
He said factoring in the undecided did close the gap in Romney's favor, but President Obama still came out ahead.
"I begged and pleaded with them to 'Make the Call' and say who would win the election," O'Gorman said with a smile. "They correctly reminded me what they had learned earlier – that online polls are fraught with uncertainty, and one with this sample size needs to have its results taken, and used, with great care."
"However, I do think they 'got it,'" O'Gorman added. "When I asked them to call the election based upon this one poll, at least three students looked wide eyed at me and said they didn't want that pressure -- that presenting results representing a much larger population has a lot of pressure associated with it.
"My response to them in class to these comments was this: Welcome to the world of election-year polling."
Twenty-six percent of the Maryville College student body participated in this online poll. The entire poll was taken via an online course management system MC faculty and students use to communicate and exchange documents related to courses on campus. The students in PLS321 wish to thank Dr. Steven James, who manages the course management system and who gave the class access to an online survey tool used only for faculty and administrators. They also wish to thank Mark Fugate and his MC Information Technology team for making this online survey available via the Internet.
"Tomorrow night should be quite a night," O'Gorman predicted.
Maryville College is ideally situated in Maryville, Tenn., between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Knoxville, the state's third largest city. Founded in 1819, it is the 12th oldest institution of higher learning in the South and maintains an affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Known for offering its students a rigorous and highly personal experience that includes an undergraduate research requirement, Maryville College is a nationally ranked institution of higher learning that successfully joins the liberal arts and professional preparation. Total enrollment for the fall 2016 semester is 1,198.


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NORTH ROYALTON The North Royalton school board re-elected Dr. John Kelly board president at its Jan. 14 meeting.
The board also elected Anne Reinkober to another year as vice present.
"For me, the past year was one of nervous apprehension taking on the role of board president in my first year on the board," said Kelly, who thanked the school district's administrators for their cooperation. "I would also like to thank my fellow board members for their understanding as I learned the nuances of this position."
Kelly said he feels the current board developed a process of working together over the past year that has been effective, and he is proud of the results.
"My goal for 2013 is to build on that foundation and provide an opportunity for even better discussions and decision making as we move ahead," he said.
In nominating Reinkober, Kelly said she brings a calm and reasoned approach to the board, along with experience and an analytical mind.
Reinkober has been with the school board since 2008.
"Personally, she has been an advisor, an incredible resource, and many times a guardian angel to me over the past year," said Kelly.
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Gary Holtzman, Democratic Committeeman for District 1:6 (wherever that is), was kind enough to let Hoboken Now know about a fundraiser/acceptance speech watching party at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28 at Willie McBrides at 7 p.m..
He writes:
"The Hoboken Municipal Democratic Committee will be having a low-dollar [$25] fundraiser at Willie McBrides to benefit the HMDC on Thursday, August 28th, the night of Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention in Denver. Please RSVP at the link below if you'd like to attend and tell all your friends and neighbors. This will be a great social occasion, and a good way to start funding our general election activities here in Hoboken. "I hope to see many of you there, and I look forward to a successful event."Here's the link to sign up.
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Today marks four years since Zack and I got married. Four isn't an especially momentous number, of course–unless you count horsemen of the apocalypse or number of Beatles or something. No one talks about good things coming in fours, or going on a cruise for your fourth anniversary. No one's lucky number is four. It's a quiet number, and ordinary, and it's well-lived-in enough in a marriage so that you know what you've signed up for but early enough that, in most cases, you've got the vast majority of life together before you.
There are enough blog posts about marriage that I'm reticent to write this one, and I don't know if I have anything terribly new to say. But so much of the discussion around marriage (that I've read, at least) gathers around the extremes–marriage is wonderful, a fairy-tale, the ultimate expression of romance that mirrors Christ and the church; or, marriage is difficult, strained, full of conflict and compromise and tiptoeing around the other person. Both of these camps would have you believe the other one is selling you a bill of goods, that marriage either should be easy or should be full of conflict, that a healthy marriage looks this way or that way. And there is a thread of truth in what these folks have to say, but there is more truth in what remains unsaid.
Marriage is hard, to be sure. At least, it is for us, especially in the first year. I've written here about how I deal with anxiety–I have ever since I can remember–and getting married, even to someone as wonderful as Zack, did not do me any favors in the anxiety department. There were so many significant changes that went along with getting married, and change of any kind is not my favorite thing.
Marriage is also remarkably fun. It is crazy to me that we don't have to say goodbye at the end of the day, that we can watch "Breaking Bad" in bed until midnight and no one is going to tell us not to. We can go out to dinner together, get drinks and play cribbage at a bar on a Thursday, drive out to the ocean, sit at home and read…We make each other laugh in our weirdness, which I think is one of the secrets of marriage: find someone who is weird in the same way you are weird.
Singleness and marriage, especially in the Christian world and with the church, are not easy things to talk about well. The temptation is often to ignore one and concentrate on the other, to extol the virtues of marriage and families while not quite sure what to say about being single. And I guess what I want to say is that they are not so different from one another, being married and being single, when it comes to the kind of person you are. Marriage, after the wedding is over and your relatives go home, is remarkably normal. If you were impatient and funny and pale before you got married, you'll be impatient and funny and pale after you say "I do." You'll just have someone else around to be the target of your impatience, to laugh at your jokes, to hug you or hear you complain about the seven hundredth sunburn you've gotten. Marriage isn't a catalyst for change in your life any more than a new job is–it might call for new habits or routines, but actual inner change has always been work between a person and God. Marriage doesn't change that.
To be authentic about marriage doesn't mean painting a bleak picture, nor does it mean making it out to be some magic happiness pill. It's a simple faithfulness in good and bad. It is a source of endless joy and delight, and difficulty and change. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made, but only because I met Zack–a person unlike me in so many ways, in the best ways, and the person who challenges me most in the world. It isn't perfect, and it isn't terrible, and it is that normalcy that makes marriage what it is. Nothing more, nothing less.
Two good books on the topic, by the way:
Gary Thomas, Sacred Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed


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I think giffgaff should offer higher giga-bags maybe something like 5GB 10GB and 15GB Giga-bagsStatus: Not For Us
I was wondering why giffgaff didn't do higher GB Giga-bags for the higher user?
good idea, i personally think giffgaff would have thought about this before releasing the GIGA-BAGS, and that theres a reason they kept it at 3GB,maybe because they dont want to enroll too many goodybags or that they think its enough, bit i would be 99% sure they thought about how much data to put into the GIGA-BAGS before releasing them to buy .
I think I read somewhere where gg stated that if everyone used all the data in the new gigabags, gg would lose money on them.
So for a larger gigabag which would presumably need to have a cheaper or same cost per MB as the 3GB product - well it seems likely that a 15GB product would get mostly used (otherwise why buy such a large data allowance) and therefore could cost gg money?
Very good idea however I imagine how it wil lwork is this. They'll use the current gigbags, judge to see how many people go over, and by how much, and use this to gauge how much of a marktet there is in higher end ones
I'd be very surprised if they didn't do that.
But I think as they monitor usage so much, they'll probably intoroduce them asap if they become needed.
I think the current gigabags are all well and good. Though in my opinion, they need one or two extra ones for the heavy data users.
I would like to see perhaps two, between 5GB and 10GB, or maybe even just 5GB and 7GB gigabags?
I will add my support to this idea, and keep my fingers crossed for the future...
Though, I get the feeling gigabags of this size are absent for a very good reason. In that, they don't want people to use anymore data than they already provide, by the very generous goodybag offers.
In my case I think giffgaff should have a better negotiator when buying bulk data allowance from above, aka re-distribuor bulk buys I assume, correct me if i am wrong...


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April 21, 2009, 9:45 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- "We won't reduce ROTC courses," Colonel Chen Kuo-ching said yesterday. Chen, who heads the Reserve Officers Traing Corps section at National Taiwan University (NTU), lamented only four instructors, including himself, are now left to teach an estimated 9,700 "cadets."
When the ROTC training was first offered in the 1960s, there were altogether 48 instructors, all of them on active service. The Ministry of Education has slashed the training courses over the years. Though severely undermanned, Colonel Chen said, his ROTC section would manage to offer at least four courses to all those undergraduate students who sign up.
Together with a brief course of military training they received in high school, a college graduate with four ROTC courses completed may have their military service reduced by one month.
That's why the ROTC training is still quite popular in colleges and universities. The fact, however, is that the courses offered, unlike those in U.S. universities, are not to prepare students to become officers when they are conscripted.
"Well," Colonel Chen said, "each of us will have to instruct more than 300 students per course." "We'll do our best," he promised.
National Taiwan University is the only institute of higher learning in Taiwan to phase out ROTC training, which is considered "a symbol of autocracy" even by the education ministry.
Other universities keep more than 10 ROTC instructors each.


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Merrill Wallace Chase, (born Sept. 17, 1905, Providence, R.I.—died Jan. 5, 2004, New York, N.Y.) American immunologist who , discovered the importance of white blood cells in the human immune system. Previous to his work, the scientific community believed that humoral immunity, which involves antibodies, constituted the body's only defense against disease. In the early 1940s, however, Chase found that he could not transfer immunity to tuberculosis from one guinea pig to another by using antibodies in blood serum. When he transferred white blood cells, he successfully immunized the animal and thus identified the second branch of the immune system, cell-mediated immunity. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.


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Anchor Store Eyes Mall; Parking Still Problem at Courthouse
More than a year ago – in November 2011 – we revealed here the possibility that negotiations were virtually completed for bringing a large retail establishment as an anchor store to the Ohio Valley Mall.
Several clues to that development included the fact that the website of the Cafaro Co. of Youngstown, owners of the mall, contained a big spread on Boscov's, a firm that had its beginning in Reading, Pa. in 1911 and now has 40 stores operating in four other states besides Pennsylvania.
But plans to locate the store here apparently stalled and while the information on the shopping firm's website disappeared, it was known that negotiations to hopefully bring the store to the mall at some future date continued.
That was confirmed just recently by one of the top Cafaro officials. During the grand opening of the renovated mall in November, Anthony Cafaro Jr., co-president of the firm, took a minute from his busy schedule for a brief conversation with me. In answer to my questions on the mall's future, Cafaro confirmed that Boscov's is one of the firms with which talks have been continuing to bring the new business to the mall.
Then about a month prior to the Christmas holiday, Lashley Tractor Sales was notified that after the first of the year the farm equipment display in its outlet just two doors from the Sears store, would be relocated to a vacant spot on the Macy's court.
With its departure as well as the closing of the Salvation Army outlet, there would be three large, adjoining vacant stores and that immediately brought on reports that a large retailer would be moving into the mall and occupying all three of those spaces.
Asked about that possibility, mall manager George Diab commented, "There might be but I don't know"
Right after the holidays, Levin Furniture Store, which opened in the mall on a temporary basis in 2009 in the space that had been occupied since the mall opened for business by JCPenny, let it be known that it was being displaced by an anchor store and would be closing its doors. There were indications the new store would not only be occupying the Levin space but also the three vacant spaces near the Sears store.
On Friday when Levin's was jammed with bargain seekers, I managed to corner store manager Casey McCreary about future plans. He indicated there is a possibility the store would not be leaving the mall. "I don't know what they (Cafaro) have in mind for us," McCreary said. But he indicated the mall officials "are trying to find a place for us." He added, "We have to be out by the end of the month."
A special executive session of the Belmont County Commission on Thursday came to an end without any decision being made in the case of Robin Marshall, who was relieved of her duties as 911 director and placed on paid administrative leave pending completion of an investigation over her disciplining of a 911 employee.
"We took no action," explained commission President Chuck Probst following the executive session that also was attended by the county human resources director Christine Palmer. The commission's attorney for the case, Mark Lucas of Columbus, was involved in the meeting via telephone.
A short time after that session ended, the commissioners went back into executive session and the only report afterwards was that they would be meeting in another executive session on Friday at 2 p.m. to discuss the personnel matter.
The Marshall case involves her discipling a 911 dispatcher after the commissioners had told her to avoid such action because the employee had left her position at the 911 office in an attempt to possibly save an accident victim's life and the 911 office remained staffed by two other dispatchers.
Even with a newly paved, well-lined and marked parking area completed behind the Belmont County courthouse, the parking situation has not improved a bit. In fact, it is more of a problem now than before.
That's because the new lots – one bordering Newell Avenue and the other adjoining it immediately behind the courthouse – have painted lines allowing the same amount of space for each vehicle parked there. Before the drivers parked as close together as possible, thus allowing for a few more cars in the lots.
A count I made of the cars in the two lots before construction was started to correct a collapsing wall and establish a paved parking area, showed there were a total of 83 cars parked in the two areas.
Now in the completed lots there are 13 fewer parking spaces. In the area next to the courthouse, 47 drivers will find places to park – eight fewer than the 55 previously. In the area next to Newell Avenue where a wall has been constructed to correct a slippage, just 23 spaces are available. Previously as many as 28 cars were able to squeeze into the lot even with the earth slip problem.
Soon after the lots were opened, I mentioned to Commissioner Matt Coffland, who championed the cause of establishing the new, paved lots, that the lots are fine but there is still a serious lack of parking facilities. His reply was that "at least we're legal now."
The parking issue was brought to the attention of the commissioners again at their first meeting of the new year by Pultney Township trustee Franklin Shaffer, who regularly attends every meeting of the commission. He detailed his problem of finding a parking place anywhere in the immediate vicinity of the courthouse.
Not only were the off-street parking areas filled but just about every onstreet parking space was likewise filled. He expressed disappointment over the fact that an empty lot owned by the commissioners directly across Newell Avenue from the former Thoburn Church building that is now a county office building had a chain linked fence in place to keep cars from using the grassy turf. Commissioners noted drivers were not only parking there illegally but also causing damage by tearing up the turf.
Shaffer was primarily concerned that some elderly people or someone with a physical impairment of some kind who might want to attend a commission meeting would have difficulty or be denied because of the parking situation. "I'm not concerned about myself but there are people who might not be able to handle the long walk," Shaffer noted.
Another problem has developed as some drivers are partially blocking the street leading from Newell Avenue to the courthouse, creating a somewhat hazardous condition. Commissioner Ginny Favede said St. Clairsville Police Chief Martin Kendzora has been notified and will be erecting no parking signs in the area.
The first man to serve as the full time manager of the James Carnes Center on Roscoe Road about three miles west of St. Clairsville, has left to accept another position. Chris Orris of Steubenville admitted he had second thoughts about leaving but said his new job offer was too good to pass up.
"I enjoyed working at the center. I liked the job and I liked the board. I wasn't actively looking for another job but this position came along and I could not pass it up," Orris stated. "We had a good year at the center but as fast as the money came in it went out to keep up with expenses." That was one of the reasons the Belmont County Tourism County granted the center funds to pay Orris' salary.
Although he will be involved in work elsewhere, Orris offered to help out in the future if some big event was planned at the center and help was needed. Orris became manager in July 2010.
A "changing of the guard" will be taking place at the Belmont County courthouse on Monday when the president's gavel will be passed from commission President Chuck Probst to Ginny Favede, who has been serving as the vice president during the past year. It is part of the reorganization called for in the Ohio Revised Code and will take place at 10 a.m. Monday. Commissioner Matt Coffland will assume the vice presidency.
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The quest for a Stanley Cup centers on team cohesion and consistency. Each squad is only as good as the sum of its parts.
But when the outcome of a momentum-swinging game is hanging in the balance, superstars must rise to the occasion. It's a requirement that comes with the moniker.
A first round filled with tightly contested series, featuring 17 overtime outcomes, left eight teams standing on hockey's greatest stage. Some star players helped propel their organization one step closer to a title, while others were left by the wayside wondering what went wrong.
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The 2016 CQ World-Wide 160-Meter Contest
CW: 2200Z January 29 to 2200Z January 31
SSB: 2200Z February 26 to 2200Z February 28
I. OBJECTIVE: For amateurs around the world to contact other amateurs in as many U.S. states, Canadian provinces, and countries as possible utilizing the 160 meter band.
For Single Operator Assisted Only:
A new rule is added to allow the use of one and only one remote receiver located within 100KM of the main transmitter site. WebSDRs are OK, but must be located within the 100KM limit. The rule is designed to accommodate new technology, and for those who experience high noise levels at the transmitting site. Anyone found using a remote receiver outside the limit will be subject to Disqualification.
For all categories:
The main site is defined as all transmitters, receivers, and antennas must be located on the same contiguous property. If the property is not contiguous, then all equipment must fall within a 1500 meter radius. All antennas must be connected by wires to the main station. This rule applies to all entrants.
The use of any
Remote operation for categories other than Single Operator Unassisted is permitted under the following conditions:
The use of any receiver located away from the main site is strictly prohibited.
The use of a separate receiver at the remote control location is prohibited.
Any receiver linked via the Internet or RF not physically located at the main site is strictly prohibited.
If the remote station is located in another DXCC entity, it is required to comply with all local country regulations.
Operating time: Each contest is 48 hours long and starts at 2200Z. Single operator stations may only operate 30 out of the 48 hours.
(A)Single Operator: One person performs all of the operating, logging, and spotting functions. Maximum operating time is 30 hours. Passive spotting is NOT allowed. (See definition of passive spotting functions below.) Only one transmitted signal is allowed at any moment in time. Maximum power is 1500 watts total output.
(B)Single Operator/Low Power: Same as (A) with the exception that the output power shall not exceed 150 watts. Stations in this category compete with other Low Power stations only.
(C)QRP: Same as (A) with the exception that the output power shall not exceed 5 watts. Stations in this category compete with other QRP stations only. Note there is no Assisted category for QRP entrants.
(D)Single Operator Assisted: HIGH POWER ONLY. Same as (A) with the following exceptions: The use of passive spotting IS allowed. (See definition of passive spotting functions below.); The use of one and only one remote receiver within 100 KM of the transmitter site is allowed.
Passive Spotting is defined as (but not limited to):
DX spotting nets or QSO alerting assistance of any kind.
Any device or person that provides frequency and callsign information of any station during the contest period. This includes band skimmers or similar devices. Passive spotting does NOT include band scopes, SDR receivers, or the like, which provide no information about the signal other than its presence, which is allowed in all categories.
IV. Exchange: RS(T) and state for U.S., province for Canada, and CQ Zone for DX. Note: Zones are location indicators only and do not count for multipliers.
V. Multiplier:
U.S. States: (48 contiguous states); U.S. District of Columbia (DC) (1)
Canadian Provinces: (14) VO1, VO2, NB, NS, PEI (VY2), VE2, VE3, VE4, VE5, VE6, VE7, VE8 (NWT), VY1 (YUK), VYØ. Note VO1 and VO2 are separate due to tradition.
DXCC plus WAE countries: WAE: IT, GM (Shetland Islands), JW (Bear island), TA1 (European Turkey), 4U1VIC, Z6 Kosova.
VI. Points:
Contacts with stations in own country: 2 points.
Contacts with other countries on same continent: 5 points.
Contacts with other continents: 10 points
Maritime mobile contacts count 5 points. There is no multiplier value for a maritime mobile contact.
VII. SCORING: All
VIII. Awards: Certificates will be awarded to the top scorers in each class (see provisions under classes) by state, Canadian area, and DX country.
IX. Club Competition: Any club that submits at least three logs may enter the Club Competition. The name of the club must be clearly identified under club competition on the summary sheet, or summary portion of the Cabrillo log. Please make sure all entrants from your club use the same club name (spelled the same) in the Cabrillo entry.
The new deadline for log submissions is 5 days from the end of the contest. For CW this is 2200z Feb 5, 2016. For SSB this is 2200z Mar 4, 2016.
The submission of Cabrillo Logs is highly encouraged. Please submit CQ WW 160 Meter Contest logs via
You can view the current list of logs received at <www.cq160.com>.
Mailing deadline (postmark) for CW entries is February 5, 2016; for SSB entries March 4, 2016. Mail all paper/disk logs to: CQ 160 Meter Contest, 25 Newbridge Road, Hicksville, NY 11801 USA. Indicate CW or SSB on the envelope.
For hardship cases that require more time for log submission, send an
Cabrillo formatted logs are received by a log processing robot. If your log has been submitted correctly, the robot will reply with an
Be sure to send in paper and diskette based logs early to ensure receipt by the deadlines. Unreadable paper logs will be classified as check logs.
XI. Penalties and Disqualification: Logs will be
Report file outputs showing final score calculations will be available for all entrants after the results are published. The decisions of the CQ WW 160 Contest Committee are final.


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A.A. Norton, P.A. Gilman (National Center for Atmospheric Research, HAO), C.J. Henney (National Solar Observatory), P.S. Cally (Monash University)
A magnetic tipping instability of the tachocline toroidal field has been predicted (Cally et al., 2003) that could produce a toroidal field tipped with respect to the equatorial axis. One result of a tipped toroidal band is the eruption of magnetic flux over a range of latitudes from the same toroidal ring. The longitudinal dependence of this flux emergence would contribute to non-axisymmetry of the whole flux emergence pattern by giving it a longitudinal wavenumber m=1 dependence. We search for evidence (or lack thereof) of a tipped toroidal field for some phases of the solar cycle by examining the dominant latitude of emerging flux as a function of longitude. We use the existing observational data from Kitt Peak synoptic Carrington Rotation magnetograms to identify the location of strong flux, independently in each hemisphere, and test whether the location of the flux reveals a pattern compatible with the tipping instability m=1.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Never fear, true believers!
Four-day passes to the New York Comic Con sold out on the convention's website in less than an hour. But there's still a chance to buy three-day passes and single-day passes, which will go on sale Thursday at noon.
If past years are any indication, the three-day passes will sell out fast, while the one-day tickets will remain available for a few days at least. Don't wait too long, though.
The convention runs at the Javits Center in Manhattan from Oct. 9 through 12.
Last week, I shared a story about my favorite moment from a past comic convention, and a few of you responded with stories of your own -- and, in one case, images of some very cool personalized drawings by Batman co-creator Bob Kane.
So this time, we're asking something different: Which comic book series or storylines are you currently reading and why? What's your favorite current comic book? What's your favorite comic book story of all time?
Right now, I'm reading "Saga," by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, and "Fatale," by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
Saga's one of the best things going in comics today -- a wild space opera about star-crossed lovers trying to raise a baby while being pursued by one of the oddest ensembles of aliens and enemies ever put to ink.
And Fatale, which ends next month, mixes pulp noir with the cosmic dread of H.P. Lovecraft. Brubaker, for those of you who don't know the name, redefined Marvel's "Captain America" during his eight-year run on the title, creating the "Winter Soldier" character in the process.
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Tim Gonzalez, a senior golfer, was one of 11 Felician College student-athletes honored as 2014 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars by the Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine.
Each winner must be a non-freshman who competes in an intercollegiate sport, maintains a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.20, and is active on his/her campus or in the community.
The Tottenville graduate sports a 3.45 GPA in accounting at the Rutherford, N.J., school.


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The Yankees are struggling in the standings but still financial powerhouses.
They're the fourth most valuable sports franchise in the world at $2.5 billion, according to Forbes, which ranked the top 50. It's the same spot Forbes ranked them in 2013, when they were reportedly worth a paltry $2.3 billion.
The Yankees were behind European soccer franchises No. 1 Real Madrid at $3.44 billion; No. 2 Barcelona at $3.2 billion; and No. 3 Manchester United at $2.81 billion.
But the Yankees were just ahead of the fifth-place Dallas Cowboys, who were were worth $2.3 billion.
Despite the size of their bank statements, the Yankees have been outplayed by their smaller-market foes. They're five games behind the American League East-leading Orioles.
The Mets didn't make the list.