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Introduction: Vegan Oreo Crust Cheesecake
2 Containers of Plain Tofutti Cream Cheese
1 Cup of Sugar
4 Teaspoons of fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon of salt (I used a little less)
1 Tablespoon of extra firm tofu, drained
20-22 Oreos (be careful there are only very specific types of Nabisco Oreos that are vegan-Chocolate Creme Oreos are what I used and they are vegan!)
4 Tablespoons of vegan butter
For Cheesecake:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix the cream cheese together until smooth, then add the rest of the cheesecake ingredients. I used a kitchen aide mixer but you can easily use a food processor/blender.
For Crust:
Crush the oreos in a food processor and then mix in the butter! Press in a regular glass pie pan(no need to spray)- You can also use a spring form, which may make the removal of the cheesecake for presentation easier.
Pour cheesecake over pressed oreo crust and bake for 30-40 minutes, until top is browned.
Tip: If you want to get perfect circles or any other shape, use a cookie cutter and place gently on top of cake and sprinkle topping inside of circle.
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Three layers of opportunity for Indian telecom industry in 2018
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A stricter regime is required for ensuring uniqueness of IMEIs
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Blockchain for smartphone data
Security is the last thing that comes to our minds while adopting a technology. This is an unfortunate reality of adoption of technologies, especially in this part of the world. In India three recent developments have triggered the focus of entire ecosystem towards the safety and security of data of mobile users. One was the landmark judgement pronouncing Privacy as a fundamental right.Second was MeitY writing to few Smartphone makers asking them to explain the measures they are taking to Read more..
VoLTE feature phone: Too little to augment revenues for the operators
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Operators should join hands to form intelligent mobile network in India
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Can India have 300 million installed smartphones by 2016?
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With MVNOs around, BSNL should take the carrier's role
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Is Micromax sensing the market wrong?
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Stunning two-bedroom apartment at The Central by Goodwin - Crace - ACT
No stamp duty. No home maintenance. No rates.
When you choose Goodwin, you are choosing an award-winning Canberra based not-for-profit organisation, with more than 60 years' experience and an impeccable reputation.
Modern, stylish and spacious, this second floor, north east facing two-bedroom apartment is perfect for those who are looking to right size in a vibrant community. The generous floorplan includes open plan living, dining and kitchen, as well as a study nook. The luxurious master suite features a walk-through wardrobe and large ensuite.
With a host of amazing facilities at your doorstep, The Central in Crace allows you to focus on whatever it is that you find fun and rewarding. Get involved in exciting social outings or relax with a newspaper in the stylish lounge area.
With no maintenance or chores to take up your time, you're free to do more of what you love.
Exclusive offer! $2,500 towards your moving costs and up to 6 months extended settlement.
Property features:
- Generous floor plan with approx. 99m2 of living space plus 10m2 balcony
- No stamp duty
- No rates
- No home maintenance
- Peace-of-mind with adaptability to mobility needs and emergency call system
- Bosch appliances
- Re-constituted stone benchtops
- Smart storage solutions
- Study nook
- Ensuite plus powder room
- Reverse-cycle air conditioning
- Secure lift access and no internal stairs
- Secure parking with lockable storage space
- Minutes to medical services, Gungahlin and recreational facilities
The Central facilities
- Lounge with a fireplace, TV, kitchen facilities, coffee machine and daily newspapers
- Residents' bar
- 24-hour gym with regular fitness classes
- Library and business centre with computers, internet and printers
- Events/games spaces
- Private landscaped gardens with BBQ and alfresco dining
- Lifestyle Officer who coordinates an exciting social calendar based on residents' interests.
Goodwin Aged Care Services
Goodwin is the ACT's largest and longest-standing provider of retirement villages and aged care services with four villages across Canberra, three sharing their site with Goodwin residential aged care facilities.
Goodwin is a not-for-profit unlisted Australian Public Company Limited by Guarantee. All surplus funds are reinvested into our care and accommodation services and facilities.
Goodwin is also a public benevolent institution (PBI) and is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). As a PBI, Goodwin is eligible for charity tax concessions such as company tax exemption, stamp duty exemption and payroll tax exemption.
Summary of costs
Residents enter into a Deed of Loan and Licence, which gives you the right to occupy your apartment. The Central offers two financial options so you can choose the option that best suits your personal needs and circumstances.
Prior to the commencement of each financial year Goodwin consults with the residents' committee to prepare an annual village budget and determine the monthly Recurrent Charges.
What's next?
Contact Liz, our Sales Officer to book an appointment to view our display suits and have a tour of The Central.
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Understanding the Issues: Budget Stabilization Fund
Revenue from Oklahoma state taxes is extremely volatile. In fact, Oklahoma's year-to-year change in total state tax revenues is the third highest in the nation. Nearly all other states that are heavily dependent on oil and natural gas tax revenue have created budget stabilization funds to boost state budget priorities as well as insulate them from the cyclical and volatile nature of the energy economy.
An oil and gas budget stabilization fund places a percentage of existing tax revenue from oil and natural gas production into an investment fund. Income from the fund is then placed in a state's general revenue fund every year to protect the state budget from drastic cuts in bad economic times and supplement state budget priorities in good times.
Difference Between a Budget Stabilization Fund and the State's Rainy Day Fund
State "Rainy Day Funds" are distinct and different than oil and gas budget stabilization funds. A Rainy Day Fund is designed to serve as a safety net for the state budget. It acts like a savings account for the state by capturing excess tax revenue in good time (until a maximum limit is reached) and making it available to be spent when there are revenue shortfalls.
An oil and gas budget stabilization fund operates more like a long-term endowment for a state by continuing to provide revenue every year to supplement and stabilize a state's budget. In this way, Rainy Day Funds and budget stabilization funds work together to make sure that a state has a solid fiscal foundation in both good and bad economic times.
What Other States Are Doing
Currently, eight states have an oil and gas stabilization fund. Four of those states are highlighted below.
North Dakota established their Legacy Fund in 2009. Thirty percent of total revenue derived from taxes on oil and gas production or extraction must be transferred to the Legacy Fund. As of November 30, 2018, the current balance of the Legacy Fund was $5.8 billion.
Alaska's Constitutional Budget Reserve Fund (CBRF) was established in 1990. All money received by Alaska after July 1, 1990, through resolution of mineral-related income disputes, must be deposited into the CBRF. The CBRF had a balance of $1.71 billion as of December 31, 2018.
Wyoming's Budget Reserve Account (BRA) gets its revenue from federal mineral royalties and state severance taxes. The BRA may also receive minor revenue from inheritance taxes and miscellaneous items. The BRA had a balance of $165.6 million as of December 18, 2018.
New Mexico's Tax Stabilization Reserve Fund gets its revenue from two sources. First, operating reserves exceeding 8% of the ongoing appropriations are transferred to the tax stabilization reserve fund. Second, additional funds are deposited into the tax stabilization reserve from the oil and gas emergency tax if annual revenue exceeds the five-year average income. As of March 2018, New Mexico's Tax Stabilization Reserve Fund was projected at that time to reach $15.5 million by FY 2019.
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Young, Educated and Jobless: The Struggles of India's Graduates
Recent studies show that people with degrees find it harder to land jobs than those without.
Students like Rohit Singh, 21, believe a top-notch education is their ticket to wealth, but a degree is no longer a guarantee to white collar work. Photo: Tish Sanghera/Al Jazeera.
Mumbai, India: Down a dimly-lit backstreet known locally as Study Lane in central Mumbai, India's financial capital, Rohit Singh can frequently be found poring over his textbooks. He is trying to get into an expensive Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme. And he is not alone; dozens of other students also study there, oblivious to the loud motorbikes tearing along the small road.
"If I get admitted to a good MBA college, then I'm sure I will get a better job," the Bachelor of Commerce student told Al Jazeera. "So many people are graduates these days that it's hard to see how either the private sector or the government can provide enough employment."
Singh, 21, and his friends along Study Lane feel they need to stand out in India's increasingly competitive job market, and this place offers them a chance to focus and compare notes. He also says he is escaping the distraction of his mother's TV.
But recent evidence suggests that a sterling education record is no longer the guarantee to a good job it may once have been. Poor education standards and burdensome corporate regulation are just two of the reasons why jobs remain hard to come by for India's graduates despite enviable economic growth rates.
According to a report released this year by the Azim Premji University's Centre for Sustainable Employment, people with a graduate degree are more than twice as likely to be unemployed than the national average. The findings are based on surveys of 160,000 households across the country. The report also says women are more likely to be unemployed than men.
Many of the students down Study Lane are the first ones in their families to ever go to university. Government figures show the proportion of India's 18 to 23-year-olds enrolled in higher education has more than doubled to 25.8 percent from 12.6 percent in 2004. India's government hopes this figure will rise to 30 percent by 2020.
The informal sector
Yet, unemployment remains a major hurdle for the Indian economy and became a major issue for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this month's election as he sought a second term.
In February, the Business Standard newspaper published a report that it said was based on leaked government figures showing that unemployment had hit a 45-year high of 6.1 percent. Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley first said the figures were "not final" and later described the report as "disinformation". But many analysts say the data supports anecdotal evidence.
One of the main reasons graduates and people with postgraduate degrees find it hard to land jobs is the large size of the so-called informal economy, analysts say.
The majority of Indians work without formal contracts. File photo: Amit Dave/Reuters
More than 80 percent of Indians work in jobs without regular pay or social benefits, according to the International Labour Organization. In the cities, they are employed as street vendors, construction workers and in mom-and-pop shops, or as labourers on farms and in fields. The World Bank says agriculture accounts for 42 percent of the workforce.
Analysts such as Amit Basole, head of the Centre for Sustainable Employment and an author of the Azim Premji University survey, told Al Jazeera that insufficient job creation in the private sector has meant that the growth of high-skilled jobs has lagged behind that of the overall economy.
The failure to develop a large manufacturing base has been a "big disappointment", he added, explaining that such industries could have generated jobs "across the skill spectrum" and absorbed "huge increases on the supply side of the labour market".
Jayati Ghosh, an economics professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi said India has lagged behind places like South Korea, Taiwan and China, where governments have invested heavily in manufacturing, infrastructure and providing companies with access to credit.
'Openly unemployed'
Graduates are also becoming more selective. Rising expectations mean many graduates are holding out for jobs that match their qualifications, Ghosh told Al Jazeera.
"As you get higher up the education scale, people are more willing to be 'openly unemployed'. If there's no jobs available and you've done your BA degree, you're not going to then become a rickshaw driver. It doesn't make sense for them," she said.
For those graduates who decide to take up low-skilled work, the competition can be intense. The government remains a major source of such jobs. In a recent case reported by Indian media, nearly a third of the 93,000 applicants for 62 police courier jobs in the state of Uttar Pradesh had doctorates.
Government jobs provide security, benefits, and relatively good pay. Minimum salaries are currently set at 18,000 rupees ($259) a month, while 67 percent of the workforce earn less than 10,000 rupees ($144).
But for graduates like Singh, that's not good enough. He says he wants to work for a multinational company, which he hopes will pay more than the 30,000-40,000 rupees ($430-$575) monthly wage his father earned.
But even if he succeeds in earning his MBA from a local university, future employers may still question the quality of his education.
In a recent survey by Aspiring Minds, a skills assessment and research firm, employers said 80 percent of Indian engineering graduates did not meet the minimum requirements of the companies looking to hire them. Many such firms say prospective candidates lack sufficient industry experience because their courses are too theoretical.
Poorly-trained teachers, an exam system that rewards rote learning and teaching institutions that don't meet the needs of industry, are some of the reasons graduates face a skills deficit, says Varun Aggarwal, cofounder of Aspiring Minds.
"Few graduates have done internships or heard an industry talk and few professors discuss industry applications for the skills they teach," Aggarwal told Al Jazeera. "We found over 90 percent of engineering graduates are not even able to write ten lines of code," a major reason why many large companies are investing in sizeable training campuses and three- to six-month long bridging courses.
The government has tried to offer alternatives to the typical college or university route through skilling and vocational training programmes like the National Skill Development Corporation and Skill India scheme. But with a lack of available data and follow-up surveys, experts have found it difficult to assess their effect.
"We do know, however, that the emphasis has been on meeting targets and pushing people through the programme, with no clarity on them securing jobs or gaining employable skills," says Basole of the Centre for Sustainable Employment.
Despite the odds apparently being stacked against him, Singh remains optimistic that an MBA and good old-fashioned hard work are his tickets out of the backstreets of Mumbai. "My father has always told me one thing - whatever you do, do it well and you will be fine," he said.
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By Lady Aurelia
Before You Make a Bid
There is a lot of work that goes into planning an SCA event. No two events are the same and may require different ingredients. If you are thinking of becoming an autocrat (that's the person who runs the event), here are some things to think about, as you get ready to make your bid for the event.
The Site
By far the hardest part of autocrating an event is finding a place to host it. You might be able to use a site we've used for an event before, or you might have an idea about a totally new site. When you find a site, consider these questions:
- Where is it?
- Is alcohol allowed?
- Are pets allowed?
- Are open flames (candles) allowed?
- Is it accessible to people with mobility issues?
- Is camping permitted?
- Are there any other site restrictions or things people should know about?
Time and Date
When is your event taking place? Is it a one day event or a weekend long event? Check with the East Kingdom calendar to make sure that your event doesn't take place at the same time as other local events or big kingdom events. Once you've tentatively chosen a date, it's also polite to check with nearby seneschals to see if they've got an event in the planning stages for the same weekend. Your event still might conflict with something else, but it's best to give your event the best chance of being successful.
Budget – Expenses
An event budget is essential for yourself, to see if you're proposing a realistic event, and it's also required in order to get approval from the shire's Financial Committee. Is this event something that the Shire can afford? Are you spending money wisely? Are you forgetting things you might need? The more you think of early on, the smoother things will run. Here are some expenses you should have on your budget (this is by no means a complete list):
- Site rental cost
- Food (if applicable)
- Site Tokens
- Cleaning supplies (garbage bags, toilet paper, etc)
- Prizes for competitions
- Signs (if the Shire doesn't already have)
Budget – Income from Attendees
Of course, you need to be thinking about the people that are going to be coming to your event, and paying for the privilege. How many people do you expect to attend? What are you planning on charging them for the site fee? Is there a different fee if they are doing dayboard? What about feast? Will you offer a discount for children? What about having a family rate cap? Remember, you also have to charge non-SCA members a $5 surcharge on top of the site fee (unless they have a discounted fee due to being ages 17 and under). When calculating your budget, think about how many people you would need to attend in order to break even in your expenses for the event. Sometimes, a site is just too expensive for the number of people expected to attend the event.
It's also possible to have an event site fee "by donation" and then charge a separate feast fee if you're having a feast. (The feast fee should only cover the feast expenses; it's not permitted to engineer the site costs into a separate feast fee.) By-donation events work best with inexpensive sites, to lessen the risks of not breaking even.
A huge component of any event is the food. It can be one of the most memorable parts of any event. But, that being said, do not feel obligated to have food at your event. If it's a day event, many autocrats will make the decision to not have a feast (dinner) or not have a dayboard (lunch). It is OK to tell people that they are responsible for feeding themselves, but it changes the "feel" of your event.
Head Cook: If you do want to provide a feast, or a dayboard, you will need a Head Cook. They are in charge of all things food, though they still report to the autocrat. Working together, you and the Head Cook will plan the menu and the budget for it, and the Head Cook will create the food, or delegate the cooking of the dishes, while keeping the food costs as low as possible. Being a Head Cook is a huge task. If you don't have anyone up for the challenge, maybe you shouldn't provide a specially cooked feast or dayboard at your event.
Feast, Dayboard, Pot-Luck, or no food at all? A good alternative to a full blown feast is a dayboard. Dayboards are usually a smaller buffet-style meal, served mid-day. The cost for the dayboard is often included in the site fee, but it's possible to charge for the dayboard separately (in which case, you can use tickets or some other system to determine who has paid and who hasn't). The dayboards at events can range from being snacks to a full blown feast. It is up to your budget and what the Head Cook feels capable of doing. For a feast, there is usually a separate charge from the site fee. Ultimately it's up to you to decide how or if you want food to be provided at your event.
One way that you are going to get people to come to your event is the activities you choose to do. Is the event a feast and it's centered around dinner? Better find a Head Cook. Will there be fighting, fencing, or archery? If so, you're going to need a Marshal in Charge to run things and make sure everything is by the book. Is there going to be an Arts and Science aspect? Do you want to have a table of exhibits, or maybe competitions? Who's going to judge it? Do you want to have classes? You will need a class coordinator who will find teachers to teach those classes. How about children? How will you entertain them? Lastly, how will you schedule everything, and let people at the event know when things are happening?
You can't run an event all by yourself. You're going to need a lot of help. Once you identify your core group of volunteers, they can tell you what other volunteers they might need in order to be successful running their portion of the event. The number of volunteers you might need to run an event is something you should take into consideration during the planning stages. Our little Shire might not have enough people power on its own. You might have to call on our neighboring groups. Is this something you are willing to do? Is it something that our groups can help with? If not, think about downsizing.
So now you've done all of this and you're ready to propose an event to the Seneschal and Exchequer. (see below) Our Shire officers will take it into consideration and get back to you. Not quite ready to submit it? Feel free to contact the Seneschal or any other officers with any questions you might have. We're here to help.
Make a Bid!
Send your bid details to the seneschal, exchequer, and deputy exchequer. Answer these questions:
. Proposed name, date, and location of event:
. Autocrat's name and email:
. Describe your overall vision for the event:
. Site details: Capacity, handicapped accessible, camping or no, alcohol policy, parking availability, are tables and chairs provided, is kitchen available, etc.
. Food: which meal/meals will be provided? Who is in charge of the food?
. Expenses: list all known expenses including site fees, food, and necessary supplies.
. Income: list expected attendance. What is the fee for adults, for teens, and for younger children? (Remember that we charge an extra $5 for nonmember adults, but we have to send that money away, so it doesn't count against our expenses.)
Events we are looking for Bids on:
Birthday Bash 2019 (Fall)
Rules for Autocrats
There are some (honestly, a lot!) of rules and regulations when you decide to be an autocrat, and you and the shire can get in trouble if you don't know them. This is important additional reading for future autocrats: Rules and Information for Event Autocrats.


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The Benefits of Chia Seeds.
My research on chia seeds shows that they are one of the true superfoods with many health benefits. These tiny little seeds have become very popular in recent years. Due to this popularity, I decided to find out how these seeds affect your health.
- When you soak chia seeds they absorb the liquid and form a gel. This gel when eaten helps keep you full, thus limiting the amount of food you consume. It helps stop binges, so they are good for staying on a diet.
- Chia seeds are a complete plant-based protein: this means they contain all 9 omega fatty acids, Our body can't produce all of these.
- They are prebiotic, which makes them very beneficial to the health of your digestive tract. Prebiotics are necessary for probiotics to work properly.
- These tiny seeds are high in Omega-3 Fatty Acids which is an essential nutrient to keep your skin looking young. It helps with skin regeneration at any age.
- Containing 19-23% protein by weight, they have more protein than any other seeds.
- The seeds contain 30% of your daily requirement of Calcium and 30% of daily Magnesium requirement. These are both critical to your bone health. Your system is constantly getting rid of 'bad' bone cells and rebuilding new cells. Osteoporosis is caused when the bad cells are removed, but you do not have the nutrients to rebuild new stronger cells. I won't go into the molecular biological systems that do this, but they do require proper nutrition to function.
- Chia seeds when soaked form a gel, this substance helps block the absorption of carbohydrates. Helping you feel full longer. The carbs are digested slowly, keeping your system from absorbing the sugars in carbs too quickly, this helps to regulate your blood sugar levels.
- They absorb nine-time their weight in liquids, keeping you hydrated.
- If you have heart disease, blurred vision, or suffer from numbness, studies show that alpha-linolenic can help. Chia seeds have this in a greater amount than any other seeds or grains.
- Trace amounts of all B Vitamins can be found in these seeds. Larger percentages of B-1 Thiamine 29%, B-2 Riboflavin 2% and B-3 Niacin 13%, are also present.
- 100 g or 3.5 oz of Chia seeds contain more Calcium than an 8 oz glass of milk.
- Chia seeds are high in fibre 100 g, have 34.4 g of fibre.
- Baran which has been depleted from our soil, it is essential to obtain it through food sources such as chia seeds. All our cells are constantly being replaced. Baran is necessary for the utilization of calcium, magnesium, phosphorus. These are needed for our bone and muscle growth. Baran also helps maintain estrogen levels.
Daily Intake of Chia Seeds
The recommended amount of Chia Seeds is 1-6 TBS/day. However, research shows that you should start with a tsp/day and increase this amount slowly. Every week or two you could increase the amount. Listen to your body, if you have any problems on a higher level drop back to the previous level. Do not feel you have to follow the 1-6 TBS/day. These are only recommendations.
Problems with taking Chia Seeds
Chia seeds which have been soaked offer very few problems. It is not recommended that you eat dry seeds, as they can absorb the saliva in your mouth and throat and cause choking.
Constipation, gas, or diarrhea may also be problems consult your Dr. Af you experience any of these symptoms.
People Who Should Not Take Chia Seeds
If you have any of these conditions consult your Doctor first.
Diabetics – an adjustment to your medication and/or diet may be required.
People on Blood Thinners – Chia Seeds are a natural Blood Thinner.
People on Blood Pressure Medication – Chia Seeds lower blood pressure.
If you have low blood pressure. These seeds may lower your blood pressure too much.


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7 "60 Second" Stretches to Cure a Stiff Neck NOW-Pain Relief Exercises
Hi folks, I'm Bob Shrupp, physical
therapist. Brad Heineck,physical therapist. Together, we are the most famous physical
therapist on the internet. In our opinion of course Bob.. Seven Brad. That number we
really love. Seven, 60 second pain relief exercises for a stiff neck Nobody has
time anymore to do anything, do they? Right. So it's like a quick, quick, quick,
da-da-da. but you know something Bob, seven, you
know why we picked the number seven? I'm just waiting to hear. The number seven is
complete. Is it really? That's complete. There's seven days in a week there's
seven candles on the candelabra. There's seven as they come. Where does he come up
with this stuff? I learned that from a 90 year old gentleman and he was very
knowledgeable, and believe me, if he said it, it's true. All right, well ,we have
seven people here waiting right now that are new to our Channel please take a
second to subscribe to us. We provide a video on how to stay healthy. Videos on
how to stay healthy, pain free and we upload every day, also once seven of you go over
to Facebook and like us because Brad and I as children, this is really sad, we're not
liked, and now we're. There might be seven people who did like me though Bob. That'd
be a lot If I sat down with a piece of paper. Including your dog. Let's get on with the exercises. These are the exercises
we're going to do for cervica,l or start with the upper neck, right? Right. Okay,
you've got neck stiffness, I'm talking about stiffness. We're not talking about
pain or symptoms that run down the arm. You might have pain and stiffness up in
the neck. Neck or up in shoulder. Yeah, if you've got stuff going down in your arm
that's, that, we're not going to treat that here. That's more of a McKenzie thing You
may want to watch one of our McKenzie videos. Right. McKenzie. Yup, for arm pain we've got lots of videos.
They know how to find us Bob. Yeah okay, so we're talking about the neck here, and
should we get closer? Yeah, we should get closer.
I had, I had my little red pointer but I lost it. So here we ,we got a little
rubber – Yeah, what is all that about? Well, that's another video Bob. Here you go.
Here's your pointer. Oh, all right. so man I am just all thumbs today. So we're
talking about the neck. Now, if you look at the neck we got seven cervical
vertebrae and the top two are responsible for 50% of our head movement,
right to left.Yeah. So there's a lot going on up here ,and that, as therapists
that helps us decide how we're going to treat,so we're gonna give you a quick
overview of that. Yeah, so generally, if I see someone comes in, and they have a neck
that's not turning very well, I look at the C1 C2. Right. By the way, you kinda missed
something Brad here. There's seven cervical spine. Didn't I say that? Yeah
but that goes along with our number seven. Precisely. What a segue huh? so anyways if you
have if you're finding that you're turning like this, chances are you've got
some tight muscles up it here. In the upper upper cervical spine. Right.
But if you can turn your head like 45 degrees each direction and then
you're turning your body, you're probably loose up in here but you had a lot of
tight muscles in the lower cervical or the lower neck. He's tight to
the left. Yeah, we're gonna work on him. Let's go after him.
Maybe we better save his his treatment for later Bob. All right .we'll let,we'll
let Gumby take care of him for now. He looks hungry. All right what's the first one
Brad? Okay, first one. That's not my favorite chair. First thing we want to do
just, maybe the muscles are tight back there, for whatever reason. We've
done this before, but you're gonna go up just below the ox but that's the bone
right here ,go down and when you start to feel some muscle there you're gonna work
that and we're gonna splay it out, like this. He's pulling his fingers apart. Right. Pulling his
fingers apart, and well ,you know, if you sit a lot, and you're on the computer a
lot, and your heads forward like this these muscles tighten up. Yup. And so it
works out really good to go ahead and do that splaying massage and also little
circles. Yeah, there we go, and you're gonna get in
there and you'll know, I mean you might feel one side is more tender than the
other you'll feel a knot in there. You're gonna, you're gonna spend more time on
that side. It's hard to believe somebody would not like this, I mean it always feels good
even when you don't have anything going on. Right.It feels good right now. It's better to have somebody
else do it for you. Sixty seconds is up Bob. We gotta go to number two..
Okay. Our famous chin tucks. In like this.
Looking at it from the back we're going in and we're stretching. We're not going down.
We're not going up. we're going straight back yeah like I was gonna do that to Bob's
face, okay. But you can see it pulls and gently stretches those
same muscles we just massaged okay? This is a great one to do throughout the day,
because one, not only does it, it's good to get the neck moving ,but two, it
realigns you, where you're supposed to be. Ears are supposed to be over the
shoulders. All right. And so, when you're if you're finding yourself like this, and
the ears are lined up with my thighs. Right. You need to readjust and get it
back into position. All about posture. The next one is, this one is, if this feels
good you make a fist, okay? You know we've might turn fist up like this. Yep,
so the thumb would go down, but you gotta get the thumb back in there. Yeah. Okay, put it
in here, right above your sternum, and underneath your chin and then just
gently grab here, and we're gonna use that for a little fulcrum and we're
gonna I wonder if they can hear you Brad. So he's using it as a fulcrum, the idea here
by the way, you can, you can overdo this so be very gentle with this because you
can get a lot of stress on the upper neck with this but this can help loosen
up and almost gives a little bit of traction, doesn't it? Yup a little bit. You're only going to do this, if it feels good. If it doesn't feel good, you don't do it.
good you don't do it right yeah okay the O.K. Next one is rotations. We're going to
work on rotation, particularly, if there's one direction and you can see that this
one goes about to here and this one is normal, taking a nice towel roll like
this or if you happen to have the Yoga strap, yoga strap that works really nice
as well. Any products we talk about or recommend, they're always in our
description below in the Amazon products Yep. So. Yep, there we go, and this is a one
where I like to do the crisscross. So yeah, what he did is, okay I got my right
hand and left hand I'm actually gonna switch them and now I got the right hand
on the left strap on the and left hand on the right strap and I'm pulling down on
this one. Right. That's just kind of an anchor is what I tell people. And then I go
across like this. Actually on this one Brad, I actually like to the strap better,
because this strap really can get on different levels. Sure. This is, cause if you
look it's getting the whole neck which is fine. Yup. I definitely would try
this. Yup, but if you want to get a little more advanced, now I can go a
little bit lower even, and do it again. But notice, he's always going across the jaw bone. Not
across the neck like this. That will cut off breathing and we like to breathe,, so.
Air is good. Okay, so you can work both directions. Now, if you're in
that situation where you can turn here and then it get 's stiff, it's more than
likely the lower neck. We're gonna start out with again some soft tissue work. You
can get it back with your hands. It's kind of hard to reach back there unless
you've got excessively long forearms and fingers. If you have a hook cane like
this or you grab a theracane or we got the Back knobber here. The back knobber, yep.
And we're going to get back to those muscles and you're just gonna work them.
You'll find that you'll get on a trigger point and a lot of times I just like to
hold pressure there for up to 30 seconds and typically it's gonna feel like it
hurts so good and then it actually feels better and when they say it releases
after about 30 seconds and when you're done it feels like oh boy, that helped.
then you know you're doing the right thing. I like to do it a little bit
differently. I like to get on the spot and I like to do movement with the neck
while you're doing it, and I find out which one helps. So let's say I put it on the
spot let's say you have a knot there. I might try chin tucks. I might try
rotations. Yup. And I might do side bending. Right.
I'm gonna see which one seems to take the pain away. Right. If there's one I'm
gonna keep doing it. So usually, I try side bending toward the pain first. Okay.
So, I'll go like this and I'll go I'll keep doing it it's like oh that is
starting to feel better then I know I'm on to something ,so. Yeah. I'd like to do
the combination of both. Right ,so there's a couple options and you do what works
best for you so yeah. We're trying to give you tools. Yeah. Okay Bob you
probably' want to try this, because once again we're gonna work with chin
tucks because that also works the lower neck as well as the upper and after
you do five or ten of those, then we're gonna do extensions and this is really
nice to have a kind of warming up. And then you know you could start off like
Brad likes to do, like down like this. Yep. My neck just cracked a little. There you go, and I
tell you if this is one of those things like you can go back a little further
and it feels better when you have the support here, then you're gonna continue
to work it. If for some reason it hurts or gives you pain down your arm, you stop
all these and then it's a different treatment. Again, why I like the strap for
this one now, is now I can work my way up. Sure. And again or work my way
down. And I work,and I like it, when I do it that way then I like to have it my
thumbs right here and my eyes are following the thumb. Yep. I'm not going
like this. I'm going like this. This is a different way of doing, it as opposed to
doing like this. Yep. You do. Follow the thumbs or the little bunny ears. I don't
know. Whatever you want to make it. So, the next one very similar to the previous
upper neck work, again, we're doing the rotatation. We're doing the rotation.
Sometimes, I may pull over down here. It seems to emphasize lower on the neck and
that's up to the individual. I hope I can, My mic is working here. So, I'm not
gonna spend a lot of time with that because we have just done that. Yeah., we already did it, yeah. And
the last one this is a kind of a fun one because when this one works it works
really well and it's not that hard.I think you should show them on the spine-first Brad. Let's do that. Got your
little pen? Yeah, yeah I guess the red one too. So there's, these little bumps are
called spinous processes and. So you can feel them on
your neck, if you feel back there you'll, that's what you're feeling is those
bumps. Right. There's always a big one that's, that's C7 like right here. What you
do is, you're gonna grab with that and you're gonna actually pull and help the
spine move and get it moving and we're actually doing this through your skin, so
it's a little, you don't get a good grip on it like you do on the spine but I've
had a lot of success with this in the clinic with people. And it's an
experiment again, because you'll grab onto the spine and then maybe have them
turn. Right. And if that goes ow, ow, that makes it worse, stop. Right. Then you might try
going up a little higher a little lower grab the spine above it and move it. Can
you see that Lonnie, where I'm I'm gonna rotate to the right and I'm pulling me
to the left right so I'm pulling this way and it's pretty subtle, and this
should feel better like, oh man that feels good and I can rotate more. You're
right on. If it hurts just forget about it. Just forget about it, yeah. Forget about it. Those are
some good hints Brad, and I think you did well.
Remember, Brad and I, we haven't said this in a while. Yeah. Remember Brad and I can fix
just about anything. Except a broken heart. Okay. But we continue to work at
it. There it is. Thanks. you


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A Basketball State
Posted on December 8, 2016 Leave a Comment
Last night, Butler lost on the road at Indiana State, becoming the first ranked opponent to get beaten by the Sycamores in 10 tries. The last? Notre Dame in 2013, on the home floor of the Irish. Notre Dame and Indiana State haven't place since. It's likely now that the same will be true for the Bulldogs.
In a state that claims a sport as one of its most treasured exports, how the institutions that foster much of that love and history have arrived at not playing each other is both sad and understandable. Butler's presence in the game last night was almost a lose-lose. By losing, it assures the Bulldogs of a questionable (I won't call it bad, yet) loss on paper, when analyzed, without much context, by the NCAA Selection Committee. Had they won, it would have been an overlooked W far removed from the "quality win" column the committee salivates over.
Nothing above is a knock on either program. It is a product of the system by which we field a tournament of 68 teams – the ultimate measuring stick of a program's annual success. For Butler, a team that was clamoring for the power teams of the state to play two decades ago, a power move against such games is likely coming. It's good business.
But we, as fans, don't care about that business. We like our basketball homegrown. My fondest memories as a Butler fan (with radio/TV commitments, there are few) are road trips to Muncie, Terre Haute, Evansville and others at the beginning of the season to cheer on my team. Walking into a hostile environment to be that minority roar from the rafters. The talk was certainly trashy, but it ended with a high five after the game. Respect. We were different, but the same.
Aside from Indiana beating North Carolina, the two greatest men's college basketball games played inside the state's border this season have been last night in Terre Haute and Fort Wayne's win over the Hoosiers last month. If Indiana and Butler fans can put on objective glasses for a moment, they could see what those wins did to keep basketball fresh, relevant and attainable at all four corners of the state.
Those games shouldn't deter schools from playing each other. If anything, it should make them more prevalent. Will it happen? Probably not, but if it does, why not have it look something like this:
Indiana Major Basketball Programs (4) – Butler, Indiana, Notre Dame & Purdue
Indiana Mid-Major Basketball Programs (6) – Ball State, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indiana State, IUPUI, Valparaiso
[Before I get killed by my Crusader & Horizon League fans, let's be honest – This categorization is fair, especially when it comes to tournament success, budgets, conference affiliation and rational thought]
Major vs. Major Scheduling
Thanks to the forward-thinking folks at the Crossroad Classic, and the fans showing up to produce money too good for the schools to ignore, this is already done, and is awesome.
Mid-Major vs. Mid-Major Scheduling
To a large extent, this already takes place. Valpo has games against both Ball State and Indiana State this year. IUPUI plays Ball State and the Jaguars have had series with others. There are also a couple of conference foes. But, all of it is contingent on staffs securing these deals. Let's take care of that for them!
Every year, each team on this list plays four games against others, two on the road, two at home, rotated the following year for four true home-and-home series.
Major vs. Mid-Major Scheduling
This may require legislative intervention or even an act of God, but for the sake of the sport, let's make it work! To the credit of all the schools, there are games this decade, but not to the level fans would want. Forcing all six mid-major teams may be difficult, so I settled on a random rotation of four games in a four-year span:
Every year, each Major team will play four games against Mid-Major opponents, three at home and one on the road. It's a four-year agreement that winds up being a 3-for-1 for the Mid-Major.
Keep something in mind before you think the idea is crazy: Other states mandate this happen. Wisconsin plays Green Bay and Milwaukee. The Iowa schools rotate annually.
Given the above hypothetical, we could arrive at the following non-conference schedules:
Indiana – Butler (N), Ball State (H), Evansville (H), IUPUI (H), Valparaiso (A)
Butler – Indiana (N), Indiana State (A), Fort Wayne (H), Ball State (H), IUPUI (H)
IUPUI – Purdue (H), Butler (A), Indiana (A), Notre Dame (A), Ball State (H), Indiana State (H), Valparaiso (A), Evansville (A)
Valparaiso – Indiana (H), Purdue (A), Notre Dame (A), IUPUI (H), Ball State (H), Fort Wayne (A), Evansville (A)
So on, and so on and so on…
To be fair, Valparaiso in 2016-17 may have scheduled better than what this provides. Having an all-everything player and recent run of success gets you more invitations, but would a home game against IUPUI be better than Chicago State? Would a road game to Mackey Arena be better than Oregon at the end of it all?
For the big schools, you'd hope season ticket holders in Bloomington would appreciate Ball State more than Houston Baptist. Wouldn't Fort Wayne be a better draw at Hinkle than Central Arkansas?
It's not going to happen, but it feels more attainable than not. Who's with me?!
Dare to be Great
Posted on August 23, 2016 Leave a Comment
When I was younger, I wanted to grow up and be Joel Cornette. It is an odd statement considering that Joel was six months younger than me. But, as my life advanced and our paths continued to cross, I realized how true that was. I also realized how wrong I was. I couldn't be Joel Cornette. Not even close.
I stopped growing when I was 13, stuck in a six-foot frame that I felt was destined for greater heights. I was the post player at so many Butler Basketball camps that kept improving, kept scrapping, kept fighting and kept falling in love with Hinkle Fieldhouse. While I was raised an IU fan, the Hoosiers had a roll-call list of legends. I wanted to be the one who transformed a hometown school. Never shy of a microphone or conversation, I wanted to be the brash, outspoken big who changed a program. Sound familiar? Instead, I got to be witness to (and document) the one who did it far better than I ever dreamed I could.
Last Tuesday, my daughter was home sick with a fever. She threw up all over my polo shirt during breakfast. Frustrated and somewhat frantic, I headed upstairs to change, grabbing the first navy blue shirt I could find. It was emblazoned with the Butler logo. Within minutes of putting it on, my phone rang. It was as if the Butler fabric that connects us all just knew.
Joel Cornette was a person who you couldn't avoid. He wouldn't let it happen. Higher powers, it seems, wouldn't let it happen. Through all the radio interviews, games, newspaper articles and ways basketball united us as classmates on parallel paths, there was a humanness to Joel's relationships with people that made him the most approachable 6-10 superstar in college. Today, the Butler Way has become a brand almost bigger than the school itself. The principals that guide the philosophy adorn walls, are mailed in campaign brochures and have crept their way into every department and class of the university. Over a decade ago, it didn't need to be in lights, or even written, it was just done. The inherent belief in a higher standard of action and expectations was a mutually shared way of life. Whether it was basketball players or broadcasters, we just knew. Stay humble, show passion, uplift those around you and be grateful for that opportunity. It took losing Joel to realize how much we lived in his example. Beyond the speeches, his leadership was as much non-verbal as it was the opposite.
Even as peers, I looked up to Joel, but didn't realize it until we got to work together. When his time at Iowa came to an end and he dipped his toe in the broadcasting water, being able to be a true teammate of his was a dream come true. He made you want to be better than you thought you could be. I'll always remember our first game together. It was at Valparaiso. In walks Joel to the bathroom while I am putting makeup on my face.
"Are you serious, bro?" he asked, to open our first interaction in five years or so.
"Welcome to a new ballgame," I fired back.
He was just uncomfortable enough that I felt equal to a guy who had always been unflappable. After we taped our first opening segment, he gave me a look that was equal parts terror about his performance and admiration on what I did for a living. I was finally a teammate of Joel Cornette. The little kid in me was satisfied.
We spent a few years on the Horizon League road together. We became competitive about dropping information into broadcasts, making the other laugh or finding ways to bust each others' chops (me on his free-throw shooting, him on my affinity for hair product) on air without earning the ire of our producers. As a Butler guy, I could be message-board fodder for fans around the league. With Joel as my analyst, nobody cared what school I was from.
I knew his heart wasn't totally into broadcasting (and landing at Priority Sports was the absolute best thing), but we had fun. I learned a ton about basketball from him, and worked more games with him than anybody in my career. But, getting to know him more as a person will, ultimately, be the best thing that ever happened.
When my wife and I got married 12 years ago, we attended premarital counseling sessions. Among the many lessons we learned was the concept of the Circles in your life. At the core, you and your spouse are the inner circle, which should demand the most focus. Just beyond that, the circle with your children. Family next, and so forth. As we get older, the focus continues to shift more inward, towards those center circles because time is so valuable.
Joel Cornette was the rare person who could permeate all of his circles. It didn't matter who you were, where you lived or how you met, it was one giant circle for him. That's not a learned skill, or the product of intense dedication. That's an inherent trait of a remarkable person. In the wake of his passing, the overwhelming lesson has been to not take your relationships for granted, but I don't think any of us are truly capable of bridging every gap. Joel was.
At his Celebration of Life yesterday, Jordan Cornette told the remarkable story of Joel's seemingly divine reach from Heaven during a dinner on Sunday. I'll be the first to admit that I struggle with faith in such acts, but the emotion of the day always has you longing that the smile is, indeed, shining down on us.
Trying to escape my own emotions, and terrified by the passing of a fellow 35-year-old, I hit the road to go for my first run in over six months. Lumpy and out of shape, I took my aging Golden Retriever, Grace, with me, knowing she couldn't do more than a mile anyway with her bad hips. After over a mile of running, and with Jordan's story on my mind, neither of us was breaking down. I smiled, looked down at my dog and said 'Grace, are you okay?' She looked right up at me, stared for 2 seconds, turned and sprinted ahead faster. Two miles. Three miles. I looked up to the sky and shook my head.
Dare to be Great.
When my kids grow up, I want them to be Joel Cornette.
Team Golf > Individual Golf
Posted on July 26, 2016 Leave a Comment
Last weekend, I won my club championship. It was an honor. It was validating. It was exciting. It had drama. It felt empty?
A week before, I competed in a Member-Guest at my friend's home club. We grinded, ended up in a winner-take-all match to win our flight and lipped out a putt on the last green that would've clinched the points needed for victory. For two middle-aged men clinging to the limited moments of competition, it was gut wrenching. Eight days later, I got my own individual glory. It didn't come close to filling the void.
While I sought redemption individually, the best women golfers in the world were putting on, arguably, one of the best shows of golf all year. The International Crown was sensational. It featured the best performance in a losing role (Mel Reid's 1-on-2 near miss against Japan), tremendous action and a USA victory that felt cathartic for a country needing a confidence boost to its roster. In a golfing summer where every golf schedule is crammed with tournaments, the LPGA provided something different, yet awesome: Team Golf.
"I think it's pretty cool that we can be a part of a team that it's the top four golfers for your country," Gerina Piller said afterwards. "To be one of those four is pretty special for me, and obviously always playing for your country is just — just gives me chills to think about."
Watching Team USA win, coupled with my inability to find full satisfaction in an individual triumph brought me back to the Olympics. Golf will have a seat at the biggest sports table in the world in two weeks. Will anybody care?
The defection of the game's best male players has cast a dark shadow over the future of the sport at the games, and the viability of the competition in Rio. I contend that the fears of crime, mosquitos and bacteria have merit in small doses, but are a mere smokescreen to the larger issue: players don't see the value and aren't inspired to play. You can't blame them. I only wonder if a true team format could fix it.
Outside of the four major championships in golf, the overwhelming favorite event for fans to watch is the Ryder Cup. For me, the most exciting golf I ever witnessed outside of a major was the NCAA Men's Golf Championships. What do both have in common? Team.
Playing for one's self is good theatre. Relying on one's self for the result of a team is a psychological thriller. My hope is that we see more aspects of team golf, perhaps even in 2020 at the Tokyo Olympics.
"I think the Olympics are bigger than any golf tournament on the planet," Stacy Lewis recently said. "It's bigger than the Masters. It's bigger than the U.S. Open. It's bigger than the Women's Open. It's the biggest thing out there, and I want to be a part of that. I want to be around the other athletes and see what makes them great and go cheer on the other U.S. Olympic athletes."
It may not be bigger, but it could be. Give them partners. Give them something even greater to play for. Watch how much fun that becomes.
The First Step
Posted on April 8, 2016 Leave a Comment
A casual visit to Kent Sterling's radio show today to talk about the Masters quickly detoured into a broader conversation on the broadcasting business and my path in it. I commented about how I find more young broadcasters seeking out advice from an 'old sage' like me these days. I find it funny because when they ask 'how can I do what you do?', I find myself responding, "I still don't think I'm doing what I set out to do."
It often boils down to the first step. Not the first big break. The first step. And that I can answer, because I didn't do it. So, if you want to know the key to making it as an aspiring broadcaster, here it is: Do everything you can. Broadcast whatever you can. Move to a place where that opportunity exists the most. Learn to love improving. Get reps. Lots of reps. And never lose sight of enjoying the art of broadcasting.
I waited for opportunities to come to me. They had when I was an "amateur," why wouldn't they when I was working in it? Don't get me wrong, I gained marriage, family, children and a greater appreciation for work ethic by forging a non-traditional path as a young freelancer in a big market, but I know it cost me professionally.
I wouldn't change a thing. But, if I am being honest when a 21-year-old asks me how to make it, that's what I've come to realize. Go! Don't look back. Seize any opportunity, because it won't be looking to seize you.
Why We Work
Posted on November 30, 2015 Leave a Comment
The debate that is raging about the NCAA and its treatment of college athletes is becoming as polarized as our nation's run towards electing a new leader. On one side, athletes are victimized, exploited and spit out by a money-hungry system that uses them to advance their own brand. On the other side, athletes should be more thankful for a free education and just be quiet. Like most polarizing issues, I (and the rest of America) reside somewhere in the middle. I lean closer to the NCAA on most issues, but believe no athlete should have his/her likeness or name used to make money he/she doesn't receive. I believe there is an imbalance in the system, but determining who benefits and who doesn't would only make it worse. And, most notably, I don't think people have any clue what the NCAA is doing with "all that money…"
I've had the pleasure of broadcasting NCAA championships since they decided to start putting them on the Internet. Next fall will mark the 10-year anniversary of that endeavor. I've been witness to dozens of championships at all levels and in all sports, where athletes no different than the star QB at Alabama give everything they have to compete. How are those sports and championships supported? It all trickles down so that other athletes have a chance.
That chance even includes selection shows. I can't remember my first, but I can't wait to host my next! What? you didn't know that Division II Women's Volleyball had a selection show?! Well, they do, and the teams react in a way you may find familiar. This is why I work:
The Keyboard is Mightier
Posted on November 3, 2015 Leave a Comment
Last week was depressing for me. It marked the too-soon end of an entity that I felt represented everything that was right about journalism in the Internet age. ESPN elected to pull the plug on Grantland, shelving a cutting-edge site that embraced long-form journalism alongside opinion, discussion and multimedia. I've been fortunate to cross a number of milestones off of my professional bucket list, but one will never be realized now. I wanted to write for Grantland one day, and fully regret never taking the time to send along some stuff.
Instead, I'll continue being too wordy for my friends over at Golf News Net, and spreading the great stories of work being done by folks here in Indianapolis.
The 2015 NBA-Tour Draft
Posted on June 26, 2015 Leave a Comment
Today is my favorite non-sport event, sports-related activity of the year. The NBA Draft is intoxicating. It is the one day a year when 30 fanbases expect immediate impact. Unlike any other professional sports league, the NBA draft offers instant gratification. The first round is over quickly (no second or third day, i.e. NFL) and provides top picking teams with immediate starters (see you in 5-6 years, i.e. MLB). It also regularly delivers the most movement during the night, when trades abound.
It's a night when New York Knick fans will 'boo,' San Antonio fans will nod in intellectually arrogant unison and Minnesota will position itself for another lottery run in 2016. To sum it all up: Emotions run the gambit, and I live off its exhaust.
Silly season activities like these in sports are the one thing lacking in golf. While fantasy has allowed us to create our own rooting interest from week to week, we don't identify loyalties beyond unknown personality connections with players. What if professional golf was a team sport? How would golfers get drafted?
The rules: Only golfers under the age of 30 were considered. I tried to take the traits of the player to match with a particular golfer, so this is not a perfect exercise in who the top 14 young golfers would be should we hold an actual draft.
1. Karl-Anthony Towns is Jordan Spieth – In October of last year, it was hard to imagine a scenario where Jahlil Okafor wasn't the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. He had every established tool that would translate to a phenomenal career as a pro. At the same time, in golf, Rory McIlroy was unbeatable, holder of the last 2 majors played, annihilator of every tee shot with a reckless abandon. What has happened since then? Our ability to think, that's what. The next two majors have been won by Spieth, who, like Towns, appears loaded with an arsenal of tools and potential (anybody notice the bulges under those Under Armour shirts? Once doughy, now defined). Okafor-Ilroy has done nothing to diminish his spot at the top, but the newer kid on the block is the freight train running downhill.
Spieth's Tremendous Upside Potential (T.U.P.) – 19 Majors and the greatest American golfer of all time
2. D'Angelo Russell is Rickie Fowler – Wait a second? Did Rory just drop to #3 in our ridiculous exercise? Yes, but only to keep the hypothetical going. Many scouts pegged Russell as having more star potential than Okafor. After winning the Players, Rickie was absurdly inserted into a number of "big three" conversations with Jordan and Rory. We want Rickie to be a superstar as much as the Lakers want D'Angelo to do the same. And, if there was a town that would draft Rickie ahead of Rory, it would be Hollywood. The similarities don't end there. Both are significantly more polished than their age would suggest. (Rickie is only 5 months older than Rory; easy to forget that)
Fowler's T.U.P. – Hall of Famer, 3+ majors, 1 billion flat-billed hats sold and a litter of tan-skinned children who invent a new extreme sport involving skateboards and 2-irons.
3. Jahlil Okafor is Rory McIlroy – Jahlil Okafor was the best player in college entering his freshman season, averaged 17 & 8, led his team to a national championship and said all of the right things along the way. And he slipped to #3 in the draft. Why? The top of the mountain is coated with teflon. You can't stay long before we find a way to slip you off. Rory has had 2 dominant stretches in his young career, the second even better than the first. When 2015 began, the discussion wasn't "will somebody challenge him for #1," it was "how far can Rory extend his advantage?" When he arrived back in the states, he MC'd at Honda. Going for the CGS, a backdoor top 5 followed. We explore the missed cuts at Wentworth and Royal County Down more than his dismantling of Quail Hollow. Why? Because we demand perfection from our #1. Spieth is that perfect now. Rory is, well, underrated?
McIlroy's T.U.P. – 19 majors and the greatest European golfer of all time
4. Kristaps Porzingis is Tony Finau – LENGTH! POTENTIAL! These two are athletic soul mates. I'll even stretch Finau's Samoan lineage to lump him into our "international" pool of prospects. Scouts are drooling over the Latvian for his measurables (he can touch the top of the backboard with his kneecap!!!!) and soft touch, and don't we do the same with Finau? We dig the long ball and the potential it has to deliver Finau to the winner's circle. Like Porzingis, he has proven himself on the stages just below the Big Show, but we still secretly wonder if those tools will truly translate into a promising career.
Finau's T.U.P. – 20 years of Tour Card, 5-10 wins, 0 herniated discs
5. Mario Hezonja is Brooks Koepka – This analogy was perfect a year ago. Hezonja, by all accounts, was the best shooter in the draft. Koepka, by all accounts, was the best American not on Tour. Both have proven their worth on the second-biggest stage in their respective sports. Both are sneaky explosive.
Koepka's T.U.P. – Multiple majors, multi-lingual
6. Willie Cauley-Stein is Patrick Reed – Tell me those two couldn't fill a conversation for a few hours. I actually want both of these guys to combine forces to become the greatest super-athlete personality of the 21st Century. Look at Patrick Trilly Reedstein the wrong way, and you will feel the wrath of a small army. Cauley-Stein is all defense, and Reed knows only offense on the course. Willie protects the rim, while Reed can't protect his image. Join forces now, fellas!
Reed's T.U.P. – 3 majors by his 30th birthday and a lifetime supply of Prilosec
7. Emmanuel Mudiay is Hideki Matsuyama – The Asian connection (Mudiay prepping a year cashing checks in China) aside, both guys ooze with potential in grown-man frames that have you forgetting how young each really is. But, each are drafted with a significant question mark. Folks wonder about Mudiay's outside shot as much as I wonder about Matsuyama's ability to make a 7-footer with the pressure on.
Matsuyama's T.U.P. – 5 majors, 15 Tour wins, 20 Dunlop Phoenix Open wins, foreword in Ryo Ishikawa's Autobiography
8. Stanley Johnson is Patrick Rodgers – Both are big. Both can dunk. Both can score. Both are slated to do big things, but you just don't know at this stage. At this spot in the lottery, it could be big or bust.
Rodgers' T.U.P. – Major champion, greatest golfer from Indiana
9. Frank Kaminsky is Jason Day – Both are old for the sake of this exercise. With each, you know what you are going to get, but that leaves us without the hope of what is still unknown. For Frank the Tank, that means the Hornets have to live knowing Kaminsky will never be explosive or likely guard anybody without help. For fans of Jason Day, he's given you everything but the major. After vertigo likely cost him another golden chance, we now wonder if the ceiling has been touched. He's still ONLY 27, but doesn't it feel older?
Day's T.U.P. – Breaks the major seal, settles below Rory/Spieth as #3 for a while, surpasses Greg Norman's major haul
10. Justise Winslow is Justin Thomas – Like Winslow is lost in the shadow of Okafor, Thomas has been lost a bit in the wake of his classmate, and friend, Spieth, who (we should remember) Thomas bested for all major awards in their one shared year of college. The upside for both here is huge, and the explosiveness is apropos given what Thomas gets out of his small frame. Winslow could be a perennial All-Star or gone by the end of his rookie deal. Thomas could be top 10 in the world and a 20+ Tour winner, or in traction five years from now.
Thomas' T.U.P. – See above
11. Myles Turner is Billy Horschel – Oozing with the goods that have been flashed to us in spurts, this isn't a perfect comparison, but the flash-in-the-pan potential exists here. Not to say that Billy will be off the Tour, but his time at the front is relegated to small stretches when he gets hot. Turner is the young guy who shows flashes and needs to develop consistency. If either (or both) grew to exhibit that explosiveness each and every day, it would. be. On!!
Horschel's T.U.P. – Major winner, Hall of Famer, best quote on tour for 20 years and example of transparent emotion
12. Trey Lyles is Victor Dubuisson – I'm not sold on either, both in game and personal mystery. They flash enough athletic skill and victory to make you believe something greater is coming, but you would never fully invest because you have that feeling words can't describe. Nope, not for me.
Dubuisson's T.U.P. – Major winner, after which he gives a 20-minute monologue on what makes him tick
13. Devin Booker is Harris English – Booker was drafted in the lottery. I watched Kentucky maybe 10-12 times this past season and don't remember a single play involving Booker. That's not to say that he didn't score, or wasn't any good, but you were mesmerized by the size and versatility of Towns, the playmaking of Ulis, the combustibility of the Harrisons, the how-does-he-score-that-slow ness of Lyles, etc. Booker was along for the ride, playing his role and not worried about his future earnings. That sums up my perception of English, who I pegged since college of being a star on Tour. He's won. Twice. Got inside the top 40 in the world too. But, we've stalled, as if lost under the weight of an age group loaded with star power. Booker talked like a young man ready for his time at the front. I only hope English is poised to follow suit.
English's T.U.P. – Multiple Ryder Cup teams, more lime green pants and top winner of the Georgia Mafia
14. Cameron Payne is Ollie Schneiderjans – Four-year college lottery picks are almost as rare as four-year stud golfers these days, so let's link these two together. I'm not sure how quickly Ollie will follow his classmates (listed at 1, 8 and 10 on this list) to the Tour, but he was the top amateur in the world last year for a reason. Like Payne, Schneiderjans is a bit crafty and unconventional (strong grip, throwback swing), but with the seasoning of college, he's conditioned to handle the grind ahead.
Schneiderjans' T.U.P. – Tour winner and developer of "The Ollie" instructional series on YouTube
I love the NBA Draft!
Full Time
Posted on May 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
Young broadcasters often ask me, 'How can I do what you do?' My answer has often been quick and unexpected: "Get a Job."
Being a freelance broadcaster doesn't mean that you are exclusively a broadcaster. In an ever-expanding industry that provides increased opportunities to call sports, the work is there but the livelihood in many cases is not. Working 9-to-5 affords many the luxury of also "working" 7-to-9 that night. That was the path that I chose when graduating from college and deciding to pursue my dream in the unconventional way.
In 2006, as my broadcasting career was at a crossroads, I was also in pursuit of a new "day job" that would provide balance. Somewhat serendipitously, I stumbled across an opening at the headquarters of my Fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi. From alumni development to communications and, for the last three years, in a part-time role as manager of the quarterly publication, I've worked for Phi Psi for nearly a decade.
This wouldn't have been possible without incredible co-workers and bosses, including Shawn Collinsworth, who hired me under the promise that he would support me in my pursuit of a full-time broadcasting career. He never wavered from that promise, affording me the opportunity to work from the road as my travel for broadcasts turned extensive over the past five years.
Choosing between two full-time jobs, even if one is your dream, is never easy. Double salaries are nice, and the people are better. Now, the time has come for me to say goodbye to a great partnership. I will still write on a freelance basis, as I do for a few other clients. Without Phi Psi, I wouldn't be the broadcaster I am today. Thanks for the memories!
Posted on February 14, 2015 Leave a Comment
In 2007, the NCAA started inviting select members of the media, in various forms, to participate in a mock selection of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. In 2007, I added another item to my bucket list. Eight years later, it was checked off this week, as I had the pleasure of joining some of the country's preeminent college basketball writers, broadcasters and bloggers. We made a bracket. It was our baby. If the NCAA Tournament started on February 13th, I think we nailed it.
But, that's not the point. Despite some heated conversations at the table about who belonged and what makes a tournament team, the real value was seeing how the committee goes through the process of creating the world's most interesting bracket. The procedures, the technology and the scope were all impressive.
I would consider myself an NCAA apologist. Unlike some in the room, I had no agenda to 'out' the organization on perceived bias or systematic inefficiencies. As somebody who has hosted dozen of selection shows (for the NCAA), I respect the challenge of those tasked with giving schools a shot at a championship. Call it blind faith, but I think they do the best any of us could do. But, how do they do it? A few things stood out:
1) The process is so extensive and so organized, it becomes impossible for any committee member to view a team by name. While we talk about Duke, Indiana, Notre Dame, etc., after hours of staring at screens, the name of the school is rendered simply to a cue to look at a resume.
Within that, choosing teams to make the field is exhaustive. At the start, the committee ranks every team. Each team is either identified as an at-large selection (a team that you think is a lock to be in), under consideration (worthy of discussion to make the tournament) or nothing (better luck next year). With 10 members on the committee, it takes 80% of the at-large vote to immediately make the tournament (we slotted 17) and 30% of the consideration vote to make the discussion list (we identified 45).
Those 45 teams took forever to whittle down. Each committee member then lists his/her top 8 from the consideration list. The consensus top 8 is then given to each committee member to rank, 1 thru 8, and the consensus top 4 are then slotted into the at-large list we established from the beginning. Oh, and we discuss teams at every juncture. Rinse, repeat, until you fill the field.
The 'list 8, rank 8' process is also used to seed teams once they are in the at-large list. While it's the same process, it also offers a break from picking teams. Shifting back and forth is really helpful, especially as the resumes get worse. It helped to talk about really good teams for a few minutes before sorting through the muck.
2) The technology and information available is tremendous – I'm jealous of the committee. What they get to stare at for five days in March is like Christmas mated with the 4th of July for a college hoops fan. Ask to see two teams compared, boom, the magic NCAA Fairy Statmother pops them up together on the screen for all to see. What, you have four teams you want to see? There's a Nitty Gritty report for that. My favorite: Hover your cursor over a particular stat (say, road record) for a team you're comparing, and it highlights all those instances for every team you have pulled up.
3) It's an objectively subjective process – I brought this up to a committee member, but I thought the numbers in front of us were skewed, in that most of the stats were all related to wins. Top 50 wins, no less. I don't have a problem with that. Who you beat is more important than who you may have lost to. That doesn't mean that losses didn't hurt a team, but wins were valued more. That was a question I had going in.
Strength of schedule was also big, and teams (I'm looking at you, Notre Dame, Ohio State and West Virginia) who didn't bother to schedule in the non-conference schedule were skewered in moments.
Then there was the dreaded 'eye test.' It was mentioned so much during football season that I figured it was used, but to what extent? It turns out, a lot. It's important. Once our mock committee heard that, we never went back.
So, which one means more? There is no correct answer. You want one? There isn't one. And, you know what, it's okay. There were good discussions between two teams, but with a room full of knowledgeable people, criteria was never a sticking point. There is no wrong answer. And, believe it or not, almost all cases have a clear cut "winner" in resume.
It should be noted that there are also several ah-ha moments that just slap you in the face. Oklahoma's resume was crazy good. And then you have to ask yourself, "Is Oklahoma a 2 seed?" I still don't know how to answer it.
4) Bracketing is about geography. No really, it's about geography – Remember that cool technology part? Once you have teams seeded, it's time to send them somewhere. Highlight the top seeded team and each geographic location is shown on screen with the total miles from that school's campus to the venue. The NCAA want fans and schools able to make it. There were complications (conference conflicts, rematches, etc.), and I don't want to simplify a process that took over an hour, but it really felt simple. Pick team, find closest venue, slot and continue.
This is where the age-old bias argument comes in. And, of all aspects of the selection process, it couldn't be further from the truth here. I actually thought to myself, it is infinitely harder to create a biased situation on purpose than do what is actually done.
I wanted to write about certain teams, or scenarios (we had 3 Pac-12 teams in the First Four; don't ask), but it really meant nothing for our exercise. It's about the process. The committee will be questioned on Selection Sunday. Somebody will feel offended. What will be my response? Go beat somebody.
Best Picture in Golf
Posted on January 16, 2015 Leave a Comment
Yesterday on PGA Tour Pregame on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio, in honor of the Academy Award Nominations, I solicited feedback from the listeners to add to my own list (6 of my 7 were suggested by callers; great minds…) and come up with the ultimate showdown vote off of The Best Picture in Golf.
This is not a movie discussion, but rather a discussion of what is the best visual image of golf. The debate was friendly and incredibly diverse because, let's face it, there is no wrong answer. Personally, I think standing on the tee of the 18th at my home course is one of the best framed views in golf that I've played, but I am extremely biased and nobody could pick it out of a lineup if they tried:
So, in thinking about the Best Picture in all of golf, I felt that it had to be both beautiful (stunning or regal) AND recognizable. It's why, to me, the 18th at St. Andrews has to be on the list. The hole itself is a tarmac, but it has one magical little bridge, and encompasses a walk unlike any other in golf. While there are prettier holes in the old country, there aren't many that conjure up as much emotion. Perhaps you love the intensity and stadium quality of the island green, or the exposed brute simplicity of the 7th at Pebble.
So, without further ado, here are the seven choices (randomized) for you to vote on as 'Best Picture' in golf:


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Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Dogs – Foods & Making a Long Term Plan
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Working side by side with parents, we strive to provide nourishing activities for your child's mind and body. We listen to the needs of parents and students, and are committed to ethically accommodating. Therefore, we've developed our learning center to provide a multitude of programs that cater personally to every family.
But more than just a learning center, we hope to make our academy another place your child can call "home." Our classrooms are filled with curious objects and fun games to spark their creativity, and our adept teachers and aides will happily help them find the knowledge they so readily seek.


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AngularJS vs Meteor
AngularJS and Meteor have been popping up on our radar more and more often and I think it's about time we did a brief run down of why we like each one and when/when we won't use them.
First of all these are both javascript frameworks so we won't delve in to JS specifics, we'll just talk about the frameworks themselves
The best thing about Meteor is it has 2 way binding which means if someone updates a piece of data, it is reflected everywhere else the app is running. You can actually just watch the app running and without doing anything (such as swiping to refresh) values can change right on your screen. Perfect for a live chat app perhaps. This means Meteor apps are real-time, pretty cool.
I touched on this before but the next best thing about Meteor is it covers the client and server side, so you can write client and server side code in your Meteor app and just specify where you'd like it to run. So, if you have some information or API Keys for example you don't want passed to the browser, they can remain secure on the server but still live in the same app.
Lastly, Meteor comes with a Mongo database right out of the box, this is pretty cool when you are building a self contained app and want to get something up and running quickly. It also stores a copy of the database on the client side for faster data access.
The best thing about AngularJS is it is separate from the server, it's used as a client side framework only but also has rapid development in mind.
The next best thing about AngularJS is Dependancy Injection, this basically means you just pass in instances of variables whenever you need them such as $scope for view scope or $http when you need access to the HTTP Networking class. It's sold as a really cool concept but really it's a new name on an old idea. However it does make development faster as you don't have to think about the details about what you're injecting you just use it. This gives you easy access to a lot of powerful classes.
AngularJS is an easy to understand MVC framework. If you're just starting out using MVC or an MVC guru it's really easy to jump around an AngularJS project and figure out where things are.
When we'd use Meteor
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When we'd use AngularJS
This is normally a pretty easy question to answer for us. If we have data available and just want a way to display it, then AngularJS is ideal. Let's take the case of creating a weather website or mobile app. There are a lot of meteorological sites out there which expose their data via an API. We don't need to worry about the data on our site or our mobile app, we just need to display it. AngularJS can easily pull the data from the API and allow you full control over the display. We normally integrate AngularJS in with Ionic which but AngularJS controls the DOM.
So, if you are creating a piece of web software looking to display, filter and allow for data interaction and don't need to worry about server side data storage then AngularJS would be a good choice.
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Most people, when they hear that our tops are made from 100% merino wool, panic. They will ask but how do you wash merino wool? Oh it will shrink, I don't have time to wash wool separately. It will get ruined. So I wanted to write a short blog post on the best way to care for your merino wool product. It's easier than you might think. I've also added some tips on how to extend the life of your merino wool garment
How to wash merino wool garments
The first thing to note is that your merino top won't actually need to be washed all that often. They are fairly stain resistant and can often just be spot washed in the sink.
When you do need to wash your top there are just a few golden rules.
· You just need to make sure it goes on a delicate or hand wash cycle in the machine no higher than 30 degrees.
· Line dry your merino, or lay it flat; merino wool dries really fast.
· NEVER tumble dry, your top will shrink.
How to extend the life of your merino wool garment
As well as the golden rules to get the best out of your top and ensure it lasts forever I also recommend the following:
· Don't use fabric conditioner. While it won't ruin the look and feel of the product it can reduce the merinos effectiveness at regulating temperature as it clogs up the wool fibres.
· Use a mild non-biological detergent where possible, I recommend NikWax products.
· Pilling will occur in all wool products over time. You can avoid pilling by handwashing or using the delicate cycle on your machine.
· Be careful with jewellery & zips etc as they can snag causing holes. If this happens just contact me and I will send you a free merino wool patch, or the hole can simply be stitched up.
If cared for properly there should be no signs of shrinkage. However, exposure to high temperatures will cause garments to shrink. Overall the benefits of merino wool clothing for children outweigh the time it takes to look after my products, some simple steps will ensure your product lasts a very long time.


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Coherus looks to disrupt Amgen's $4B Neulasta franchise as analysts look for a deep discount on its copycat price
Despite being the runner-up in the race to a US approval for a biosimilar of Neulasta, analysts are watching to see if little Coherus could gain quick traction if they sell theirs at a big discount to Mylan's rival.
On Friday, Coherus said it had secured the FDA's nod for a copycat version of Amgen's blockbuster product — coming second to Mylan $MYL and Indian partner Biocon in the race to market a biosimilar for Neulasta in the more lucrative US market. Coherus' biosimilar, Udencya, was granted European approval in September.
Neulasta, which is used to thwart infections in cancer patients, accounted for nearly a fifth of Amgen's net product sales in the third quarter, bringing in about $1.05 billion but this approval has added more pressure to the drug's already weakening revenue outlook. Meanwhile, Novartis $NVS is also planning to resubmit an application to market its once-rejected Neulasta biosimlar next year.
Outside of the US, Neulasta only represents a roughly $500 million opportunity, which mean the core focus is on the significantly more lucrative $4 billion US market and even modest penetration with this asset alone could meaningfully stem Coherus' cash burn — and/or potentially lead to profitability, said Cowen analyst Ken Cacciatore in a note. "Even at a 40%+ price discount, only 10% of the market would allow Coherus…to turn cash-flow breakeven while still supporting a robust development pipeline."
The FDA approval for Coherus' Udencya comes later than expected as the regulator declined to approve the drug last June, asking the company to conduct a re-analysis of existing data with a more sensitive assay. Details on the drug's commercialization plan will be provided on the company's Nov. 8 quarterly earnings call, the Redwood City, California-based company said in a statement.
"The list price of Neulasta has nearly tripled since approval in 2002 and now represents a $4 billion annual cost burden in the U.S…and Udenyca will play an important role in curbing that spend when launched," said Coherus chief Denny Lanfear.
In Coherus' second quarter conference call in August, senior VP of marketing Jim Hassard noted that the list price of Neulasta is about $6200 per pre-filled syringe, and its average selling price — as published by CMS — is about $4200. Mylan came to the market with a price that is about 6% lower than the average selling price, he said, and analysts concurred that Mylan's launch had thus been fairly anemic due to its modest discount.
Overall, Coherus management has indicated Udencya could be in a position to capture roughly 10-20% of the current US market following the first full year of launch, noted Cowen's Cacciatore. "Although there still remains some controversy about potential penetration rates and pricing/contracting strategies, we believe this is a reasonable expectation. We continue to find it difficult to believe that if the supply is consistent, and if there is a perception that the quality of the product is high, that there will not be meaningful share that would be willing to move to a significantly discounted product (40% +)."
Although Coherus' pricing strategy is unclear, they have been in active discussion with payers and other stakeholders, and appear to have more than enough supply in place in tandem with a manufacturing capacity that is powered to support a market share of 28%, Leerink's Geoffrey Porges wrote in a note, adding that another perceived advantage Coherus has is that all its products are manufactured in the US, unlike Mylan's Neulasta copycat Fulphila that is made by Biocon in India.
"Coherus also learned the lesson from Amgen to provide billing and co-pay assistance to physicians and patients, respectively, and is aiming to match the 'white glove' service Amgen provides…they could contribute to greater-than-expected early share gains for Coherus, should they match Amgen's sales support," he said.
Amgen last year sued Coherus, accusing the company of a massive conspiracy by poaching its employees and spurring them to use their trade secrets to stimulate the development of Coherus' slate of biosimilars. Lanfear previously served as Amgen's VP of market development, while Coherus' chief scientific officer and chief technical officer have also both worked at Amgen. Coherus denied the charges.
Coherus' shares were up about 5.7% in premarket trading on Monday.


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