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We do a lot of our video production work in Montreal, and I've always been impressed with the passion and professionalism of the production houses there. But one thing that always takes me aback is when the one of the directors or producers — who also work on world-class features — refer to our 30-second PSA or government ad as a "film".
This video, for Moelle épinière et motricité Québec, takes the idea one step further. It is a film and although a short one, it takes itself seriously with opening and closing credits, and beautiful acting and production values.
People keep talking about the death of advertising. But they're just thinking of traditional media. The fact is, advertisers are having to give up on the idea that they can steal 30 seconds of a TV viewer's attention and get used to a now in which everything — including commercials — is on-demand entertainment.
One way I explain this to non-ad people is like this: "Let me guess... you record your favourite shows, or buy them on DVD, so you can skip through the commercials. But have you ever clicked a YouTube link of a "hilarious" or "amazing" ad that someone posted on Facebook? That's the only difference. We have to earn your attention rather than ambush you for it."
This video earned my attention. Not only is it worth watching for the content, but the cause is one that got me emotionally engaged in the story. (Don't we all hate those kind of people?)
And that's why the new "advertainment" landscape is good for social issues marketers like us. When consumer advertisers get attention through a great and surprising ad, researchers often record a negative reaction when the product logo appears at the end. They feel like they're paying a price for having watched the ad.
But when the ad is for a sympathetic cause, the end is never a letdown. It provides a sense of relief because the call-to-action allows the audience to convert their emotions into positive action. It's where they go from being overwhelmed to empowered. If it's done right, anyway.
|Let's assume this product placement was unintentional.
And the best part of free online media is that there is no hard limit to the video's length. It is mostly determined by engagement and the average viewer's attention span. Even with YouTube's 10-minute-or-so cap, you could create an interactive feature-length film if you wanted, just by linking the videos together.
Recently, a colleague was questioning my use of the word "video" when he thought I should call the project an "ad" or a "spot". I'm starting to warm to "film" now, even though most of these projects are digital from end-to-end. It seems more dignified, somehow.


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Lenovo pitches two-CPU ThinkPad
'Hybrid' laptop has Intel and Qualcomm chippage
Lenovo has outed the first ThinkPad notebook with a secondary processor and operating system for fast-boot internet access.
The PC giant also unwrapped its first Ultrabook ThinkPad.
The "hybrid" ThinkPad X1, first: it's a 13.3in machine with a choice of Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 CPUs as the main chip. There's a Qualcomm dual-core processor in there too and it runs a custom version of Linux, Lenovo said.
X1 Hybrid
All that and it's only 15mm thick. It has a Gorilla Glass screen, too.
The reason for the extra OS? Users can get to their media files more quickly, and experience longer battery life, Lenovo claimed. For folk who don't do so on a phone or tablet, we guess.
Lenovo's new Ultrabook is the spritely monikered ThinkPad T430u, a 14-incher with the usual array of Intel CPU choices, Intel or Nvidia graphics, and a 1TB HDD or 128GB SSD.
Surprisingly, it's not as thin as the X1: 20mm. But it is cheaper: $849 (£548) in the States to the X1's $1599 (£1031) price. The X1 goes on sale in Q3, the Ultrabook in Q3 - presumably when Intel's next-gen 'Ivy Bridge' chips are readily available.
Lenovo will demo both laptops at next week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). ®

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I mentioned that I first visited Okinawa in 2002 and just returned from my second visit on Sunday. I began learning Karate about 1973 and am still learning!
But during this visit to Okinawa I realized something very important (at least to me). For all of my Karate life, I have tried to imitate people, usually my Sensei. Most recently, in 2002, I became a student of Sensei Katsuhiko Shinzato. To the best of my ability, I have tried to imitate his movements to the exclusion of all others. My mission has been to learn to move like him. Of course, I have not succeeded -- I cannot move like him -- but have made some progress.
Shinzato Sensei is a very challenging person to imitate. He does not stand still and is constantly refining his movements. He has told me that he feels uncomfortable watching any film of himself because he always feels that he could have done better, and may actually have modified his emphasis since the filming date.
I finally realized that it is virtually impossible for me to imitate Shinzato Sensei. I am always imitating how he was, not how he is. Even if I spend time with him, I will be outdated in just a few days.
My realization was that I should not be imitating Shinzato Sensei. Instead, I should learn the process he follows to refine his movements. I should follow the same or a similar process.
Let us say that I am at stage B. I need to move to stage C. How can I do this? I could copy someone who is at stage C, but that would be just an imitation. If, however, I follow the process of questioning, experimentation, and refinement that leads from one stage to another, then I might be able to move to stage C, and even to stages D, E, F.
There is also a big problem. If I am at stage B, the senior I learn from may actually be at stage G. If I copy him, I will get to neither stage C or G. I will probably just get confused!
Think about it. No one becomes great by imitation alone. Imitation is just an early level and can at best give us a good foundation. Anyone who who has become great has done so by his own hard work. A sensei can help us to gain a good foundation, but we have to build our own house. It is good to copy the early stages. It is practically impossible to copy the more advanced stages.
Don't get me wrong, I will still try to imitate my Sensei. If he does something, I will try my best to do it too. But I will also ask myself how I can improve myself, overcome my limitations (which change with age), move optimally, etc.?
I will try to learn the process rather than just imitate the result.
I think that this is one of the most important things I have ever realized in my Karate training.
Charles C. Goodin
Learning The Process
I mentioned that I first visited Okinawa in 2002 and just returned from my second visit on Sunday. I began learning Karate about 1973 and am still learning!
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NORTH AURORA – From an emergency vehicle show to a pet parade, this weekend's North Aurora Days will offer an array of activities.
It also is a time for friends and families to get together.
"It's like a family reunion," said Mark Gaffino, chairman of the North Aurora Days Committee that is in charge of organizing the summer festival. "You see people there that you only see once a year, and some people who have moved out of town come back for the festival."
The festival kicks off Friday and runs through Sunday. Gaffino acknowledged this year's festival is bittersweet because of the recent passing of former village trustee Max Herwig, who served as the North Aurora Days Committee chairman for many years.
North Aurora village trustees have approved a proclamation declaring Friday to be Max Herwig Day in the village. Herwig died suddenly June 4 at Edward Hospital in Naperville. He was 67.
Herwig's family will be presented with a plaque honoring him Friday night at the festival site at Clock Tower Plaza, at Randall Road and Oak Street.
The festival will feature old favorites, including the popular emergency vehicle lights and sirens parade, which will begin at 7 p.m. Friday at the Cinemark Tinseltown USA movie theater, at 320 S. Lincolnway, North Aurora, then head north on Route 31 to John Street. The parade will go past the festival site at Clock Tower Plaza.
Some of the emergency vehicles in the parade will be featured in the Chicagoland Emergency Vehicle Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Pentair Water and Oberweis Dairy near Interstate 88 and Randall Road, North Aurora.
This is the 16th year of the event, billed as the Midwest's largest public emergency vehicle show. Organizer Dave Weaver said 200 emergency vehicles will visit North Aurora throughout the weekend.
The Kane County Sheriff's SWAT team's armored vehicle are among those vehicles that will be in the show. The SWAT team also will be involved in a demonstration at the show.
In addition, emergency personnel will be part of an extrication demonstration, and a medevac helicopter will be on display. The demonstrations will allow the public to see how firefighters and others respond in an emergency.
"I think that most of the time when there are emergencies, the public doesn't get a chance to see what is happening up close," Weaver said.
Those looking for bargains will find plenty at North Aurora Days. A community garage sale will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday. A map of garage sale locations can be found at North Aurora Days' website, www.northauroradays.com, and maps are available at several locations, including North Aurora Village Hall, 25 E. State St., and Messenger Public Library, 113 Oak St.
More than 40 households are participating in this year's community garage sale, said Sharon Harwick, who is organizing the event. Harwick, part owner of the Past and Present Shoppes in North Aurora, also is organizing the French market, now in its second year.
The French market will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in its new location in the Mooseheart Fieldhouse on Route 31 and Mooseheart Road. The market will feature more vendors than last year.
"We have 42 vendors right now," Harwick said. "Last year, we had 28. The market will feature repurposed items, woodworking, jewelry, clothing and a lot of vintage items from the '30s, '40s and '50s, things like you might find at a flea market."
For another year, the North Aurora Pet Parade is part of the festival. The parade, in its 31st year, was started by veterinarian Thomas Brooks of the Fox Valley Veterinary Clinic in North Aurora.
"I just enjoy the exposure to people and how they go about enjoying their pets," Brooks said.
Sunday's pet parade will help wrap up North Aurora Days. Over the years, Brooks has seen people enter a variety of animals, including dogs, cats, birds, iguanas, ferrets and even horses.
"I've seen just about everything and anything," Brooks said.
Judging will be limited to the first 100 entries, which must faxed or delivered by 6 p.m. Friday to the Fox Valley Veterinary Clinic, 405 Oak St. Forms are available at www.northauroradays.com.
Registration and lineup for the parade starts at 1 p.m. Sunday at the North Aurora Activity Center at the corner of Lincolnway and State Street.
At 2 p.m., participants will parade across the State Street bridge to North Island Park.


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The Nourished Kitchen by Jennifer McGruther
The angle: Forget trendy diets — it's all about eating the way our great-grandparents ate.
Recipes for right now: Pea and Radish Salad with Yogurt Chive Dressing, Skyr, Shirred Eggs with Gravlax and Asparagus, Pan-Fried Veal with Shallots, Sprouted Three-Grain Bread, Marrow Beans with Swiss Chard and Lemon, Roasted Sweet Cherry Fool
Who would enjoy this book? Anyone wanting to cook closer to home, both literally and figuratively
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: Jennifer McGruther
• Who published it: Ten Speed Press
• Number of recipes: 160
• Other highlights: The Nourished Kitchen represents balance in a time where various fad diets and lifestyle trends seem to compete daily across newsfeeds for our attention. It's a cookbook that takes Michael Pollan's directive not to eat anything "...your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food" and actually gives us a meal plan. Some of the recipes are about making things yourself — yogurt, sauerkraut, beef bone broth — while others are about putting them to use — a kombucha vinaigrette for a salad, sourdough pancakes for breakfast.
Besides recipes, Jennifer McGruther gives us lots of asides on subjects like choosing the best eggs, how to make use of bones, and using honey as a sweetener. These essays support the overall educational tone of the book and help us understand some of the thought behind the recipes.
You could call this a manual for an old-way of living that has fallen by the wayside in the past few decades — but still hip enough to engage our modern palates.
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: The Nourished Kitchen by Jennifer McGruther
• Visit the author's website: Jennifer McGruther
• More from Jenny on The Kitchn: Jenny McGruther's 5 Essentials for a Warm and Nourishing Winter Kitchen
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I've been working remotely from a home office with Mozilla since about 2010 (4 years so far) and although it has challenges I still enjoy it. You have to have some discipline and a routine. Matt Gemmell's article on this has excellent pointers on routines and setting up an isolated work space at home. I wanted to add a few things to his post...
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OMCA Family Drop-in Workshop: HistoryMakers/ScienceMakers Series
Sunday, January 19, 2014, 12–3 pm
Sunday, January 19, 2014 - 12:00pm
Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and explore the dream through hands-on science activities starting at noon. Meet Dr. Hattie Carwell for a presentation in the Lecture Hall at 1:30 pm, and learn about positive African American role models.
Included with Museum admission. Members are always free. No reservations required. All ages welcome.
Presented in collaboration with Museum of African American Technology Science Village. Black History Month programs at OMCA made possible in part by generous support from Bank of America. OMCA Family is made possible by generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.


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Vermilion County burglaries under investigation
Sheriff investigators in Vermilion County are looking into whether two people arrested this week can be connected to recent residential burglaries in northern Vermilion County.
Police report there's been an increase in burglaries in the north end of the county in recent weeks. And residential burglaries are also occurring in western Indiana.
Two people were arrested earlier this week after a sheriff's deputy spotted them leaving a rural home. And the two are suspects in the rash of burglaries, although the sheriff's department also has other suspects in some of the burglaries.
33-year-old Myrna Moore of Hoopeston, and 33-year-old Jeremiah Smith of Rossville were charged Wednesday in Vermilion County Circuit Court with residential burglary. Moore was also charged with aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, and Smith was also charged with resisting or obstructing a police officer.
Moore and Smith were arrested Tuesday when a deputy sheriff was patrolling and spotted two individuals getting into a van at a rural residence northeast of Bismarck. The deputy attempted to stop them, and they drove off in the van. The deputy chased the vehicle. Kaag said the suspects were throwing stolen merchandise from the van as the deputy chased them over the state line into western Indiana.
The suspects eventually led police back into Illinois east of Rossville, where officers put stop sticks in the road, flattening the tires of the van. The two continued in the van, driving through farm fields where the driver eventually lost control and wrecked.
Police reported Smith was on parole, had been arrested and charged with drug possession last week and bonded out on those charges last week. Both are being held in the Vermilion County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond.


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Do you drive a lot and want to earn $50 by testing a new Android application? State Farm is looking for 5,000 volunteers to beta test their first-of-its-kind driving app, RightLane. The app collects basic information about your driving without a plug-in device or OnStar and the first 5,000 volunteers can earn a $50 gift card for participating, and you don't have to be a State Farm customer.
Test requirements:
- Android phone with software version 4.0 or greater
- Factory-installed Bluetooth device in your vehicle
- Download the app, register, and accept the end-user license agreement
- Drive a minimum of 500 miles over a period of 25 days
(the 25 days need not be consecutive and can occur anytime within the 120-day test period.)
- Complete a short survey after you have met the driving minimum
Details about the app are limited, but this appears to be State Farm's response to Progressive's Snapshop discount. That program monitors your driving habits and then provides up to 30 percent off your rate. I don't drive that much so I won't be testing out RightLane, but it's still pretty cool to see insurance companies take advantage of Android devices to encourage better driving habbits with their customers.


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In 15 years of teaching, University of Pennsylvania classicist Peter Struck has guided perhaps a few hundred students annually in his classes on Greek and Roman mythology through the works of Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus and others â" "the oldest strands of our cultural DNA."
But if you gathered all of those tuition-paying, in-person students together, the group would pale in size compared with the 54,000 from around the world who, this fall alone, are taking his class online for free â" a "Massive Open Online Course," or MOOC, offered through a company called Coursera.
Reaching that broader audience of eager learners â" seeing students in Brazil and Thailand wrestle online with texts dating back millennia â" is thrilling. But he's not prepared to say they're getting the same educational experience.
"Where you have a back-and-forth, interrogating each other ideas, finding shades of gray in each other's ideas, I don't know how much of that you can do in a MOOC," he said. "I can measure some things students are getting out of this course, but it's nowhere near what I can do even when I teach 300 here at Penn."
A year ago, hardly anybody knew the term MOOC. But the Internet-based courses offered by elite universities through Coursera, by a consortium led by Harvard and MIT called edX, and by others, are proving wildly popular, with some classes attracting hundreds of thousands of students. In a field known for glacial change, MOOCs have landed like a meteorite in higher education, and universities are racing for a piece of the action.
The question now is what the MOOCs will ultimately achieve. Will they simply expand access to good instruction (no small thing)? Or will they truly transform higher education, at last shaking up an enterprise that's seemed incapable of improving productivity, thus dooming itself to ever-rising prices?
Much of the answer depends on the concept at the center of a string of recent MOOC announcements: course credit.
Credit's the coin of the realm in higher education, the difference between knowing something and the world recognizing that you do. Without it, students will get a little bit smarter. With it, they'll get smarter â" and enjoy faster and cheaper routes to degrees and the careers that follow.
Students are telling the MOOC developers they want credit opportunities, and with a push from funders like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the MOOCs are trying to figure out how to get it to them.
"Initially, I said it'd be three years" before MOOCs began confronting the credit issue, said MIT's Anant Agarwal, president of edX, which launched only last May and has 420,000 students signed up this fall (Coursera is approaching 2 million). "It's been months."
But making MOOC courses credit-worthy brings challenges much harder than producing even the best online lectures, from entering a state-by-state regulatory thicket to assessment. How do you grade 100,000 essays? How do you make sure students in a coffee shop in Kazakhstan aren't cheating on quizzes?
Last Tuesday, Coursera, which offers classes from 34 universities, announced the American Council on Education would begin evaluating a handful of Coursera courses and could recommend other universities accept them for credit (individual colleges ultimately decide what credits to accept). Antioch University, Excelsior College and the University of Texas system are already planning to award credit for some MOOCs.


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Although Research in Motion has been floundering lately to keep its venerable BlackBerry smartphone from going the way of the laser disc, new images of the Blackberry 10 operating system reveal a slick homage to Android and Windows Phone.
Crackberry.com has posted exclusive photos the site received Tuesday morning from what we expect is future BlackBerry marketing material. The photos for the first time confirm the existence of "tiles" or "widgets" in Blackberry 10, which will allow users to interact on a more surface level with applications such as Phone, Weather, Maps, and Music. The pictures also show revamped icons (thankfully) in the tray, and a distinctly-Windows-Phone font and visual style for the phone application. Note that the photo widgets seem to contain a live preview of the images within.
Rumors had been circulating for a few months indicating that the new BlackBerry 10 OS (formerly BBX) would actually just be a slight permutation of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet's operating system, but these photos clearly illustrate that RIM has taken the Playbook's OS a step further and also adapted it for a more mobile experience.
It is no secret that the BlackBerry line has been in dire straits for quite some time — after taking a nearly half-billion dollar write-off for the Playbook — which essentially amounted to an admission that the device had failed. With a recent estimate that Apple's App Store is worth more by itself than all of Research in Motion, the company is basically praying for a Hail Mary in the new OS. A new line of phones, beginning with the rather attractive, (if derivative) BlackBerry "London" smartphone, will either place the company squarely back in competition with the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Apple, or speed its demise.
Because Blackberry 10 phones won't be shipping until late this year, there is still the possibility of some unknown features being slipped in at the last minute. According to former CEO Mike Lazaridis, RIM is biding its time waiting for the next generation of dual-core TI OMAP5 and Qualcomm chipsets to become available for the new phones.
What's clear is that RIM simply cannot shoulder another failure such as the PlayBook. If the company is serious about reviving its consumer business (we seriously hope RIM is considering whether to abandon the consumer market entirely and focus on enterprise infrastructure) then it must make Blackberry 10 and the first wave of companion phones at least as good as they promise, and better than we expect.
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Hobbitusz Titan Open Casket Saturday 24/07/2010, 22:41
It is not a bad deck. You should only change trey to tula, and try to change your style a bit.
Pill manipulation is a good bluff too. Expecially - pillz. Sometimes you can just throw in any of them, and remember that gil, veenyle, and hawkins don't do much damage, so don't overpill them. Dahlia is also a good bluff card, so don't hesitate to use her with only a few pills sometimes.
But if pill manipulation not seems to be working for you you can try a different concept.
That i know i have used the pill manip alot to bluff. It is just that I am well still new and need more practice and i wish i didnt save over my other deck bummer. But I want to make the deck better. I have placed in the top 5 more times than i can count but only 1st place once. I understand the concept of the deck but would like a little better damage wile keeping the deck roughly the same ability wise so i dont have to bluff as much.
I took your swap in to account now the deck is this
Gil 2
Rowdy 4
Taham 5
Dalhia 5
Hawkins 2
Smokey Cr 3
And Tula 2
Does any one else have a suggestion on changes. I.E more power same abilities. I dont know all the cards yet so anything is better than nothing.
And Dacember thanks for the support!
I am looking forward to what anyone has to say.
Please people let me get some support. If i could help you you better believe i would but right now i am asking for help. So lend a hand and help me out. There was one person willing to give an idea/suggestion. Dont let him show you all up.
as well as that deck here is another i have been trying out and could you give a few pointers on stratagy
Spiaghi 2
Eris 5
Jautya 4
Murray 3
Na Boh 2
Trinmkkt 4
Uranus 3
and Wakai 2
all41n14all Veteran Monday 26/07/2010, 00:23
The junkz/ piranas looks good as is.
the sakrohm deck can be changed a bit, im guessing this is a t1 deck not an elo deck because of uranus but if it is change trinmkkt-grinmkkt. Other than that it looks very good. You could use your blockers, (uranus and grinmkkt not spiaghi) as anti-bluffers, put them up with 2-3 pills when u play them first in the round if you feel like your opponent will pill low vs your blockers. that wil give you easy damage done and you could use eris with uranus or grinmkkt for the 2hko.


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It was Birthday Week at The Kitchn! We had some delightful treats for you, like banana cream pie milkshakes, homemade Nutty Bars (yes! like the boxed snacks, but made at home with just three ingredients), and a brilliantly retro-pink rhubarb cake. There were party snacks, like puffy fried rice crisps and empanadas with corn. And let's not forget Cinco de Mayo — we have a tall, iced glass of Rangpur Lime Margarita waiting for you right here.
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PENNY LEWIS is finally putting down roots after a lifetime of moving around. She's got everything she wants, except the settled suburban life she longs for. All she needs is the perfect guy, which means NO military men.
When Matt realizes that his old babysitter is h-o-t, he's suddenly seeing the benefits of therapy. But Penny still sees him as the bratty kid she used to babysit. Suddenly he has a new mission in life…
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I hope you guys enjoy getting to know Matt & Penny and catching up with all of the Alexander brothers. Even though Matt's last name is Simmons, by the end of this book you'll see why he's an Alexander, too. Because in the Alexander family, if we love you then you're one of us.
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Our Saturday night bingo is going over pretty well. It starts at 5 p.m. and it is .50 cents to play. Anyone is more than welcome to come and join us. Sometimes we order pizza afterwards and sometimes we have enough of other things to eat.
A mardi gras party was held on the 4th; almost everyone had on a mardi gras mask with the fancy feathers. Sandra Petersen for let us borrow those.
Harry Cheeseman celebrated his birthday by treating us with cinnamon rolls for our morning coffee.
Pastor Joel Love came for worship service on the 12th.
On the 13th Neal Allen, Ken Burdick and Jeanne Conrad came to entertain us. We enjoy music around here.
The 17th was Marlys Boege's birthday so her family surprised her with a party on the Sunday afternoon before for family and all the Westview people. Then on Monday morning she had cinnamon and pecan rolls for all of us with our morning coffee and then of course it was St. Patrick's Day so we had to party some more. Almost everyone had some green on. We played a couple of games about the Irish and then we ate again. We had crackers, sausage and cheese, shamrock sugar cookie and balarany stones. Some played cards and some just sat around to visit. That was a busy and fun day.
Corner Cafe comes a couple of times a month and Morris Inn treats us once a month so this is always a fun surprise to see what we are going to get to eat.
Cherry turnovers is what Dick Ohrt had for our morning coffee for his birthday.
This time we served chili soup, turkey sandwiches and cookies for supper on the night that Sugar & Spice came to entertain us.
Katy Holst's family brought the cookies that they had for her 70th birthday. Everyone knows thats what we do best around here is eat.
The Waterloo mothers chorus came to sing for us on the 25th. This is always a fun time and what a bunch of good singers.
Twelve of us finally got to go out for our Night Out. We had to cancel thee times because of the weather. So we traveled to Dike and ate at Slice. Even though it rained we still had a good time.
Guess this is it for this month.


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Lakeland Community College: Disciplining of Professor for Religious Speech
December 5, 2003
Lakeland Community College removed a professor of moral philosophy from his classes as punishment for refusing to hide his religious identity from students. The college threatened Dr. James Tuttle, who espouses traditional Catholic beliefs, with dismissal because he made statements on his syllabi and in class that disclosed his religious faith and how that shaped his personal philosophy. He is suing the school in response to its unconstitutional actions. Dr. Tuttle is represented by Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP, with the public campaign to defend Dr. Tuttle's rights coordinated by FIRE, which first brought Dr. Tuttle's case to national attention.» Read More
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Saying He Was Punished for Revealing His Faith, Adjunct Sues Ohio College
July 26, 2004
An adjunct professor of philosophy at Lakeland Community College has sued the Ohio college, saying it violated his First Amendment rights when it punished him for disclosing his religious beliefs to students in class. James G. Tuttle had taught at the college, which is outside Cleveland, for four years when a student complained, in the spring of 2003, to James L. Brown, dean of the division of arts and humanities, that Mr. Tuttle had referred to his Roman Catholic faith too often. Mr. Tuttle said this month that he was then stripped of his seniority, had his course load reduced, […]» Read More
Professor charges anti-Catholic bias
July 8, 2004
By Deb McCrown at The Washington Times A college philosophy instructor says he filed a lawsuit in federal court after school administrators punished him for telling students that his personal philosophy is based on his Catholic faith. The complaint states that administrators at Lakeland Community College outside Cleveland stripped James Tuttle of his seniority, reduced his teaching load and salary, and failed to renew his contract after a student complained about Mr. Tuttle's comments in class and disclaimer on his course syllabus, on which the teacher identifies himself as "a Catholic Christian philosopher and theologian." Mr. Tuttle, who filed the […]» Read More
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A philosophy professor at Lakeland Community College near Cleveland, Ohio, has been removed from his post for not disguising his deeply held Catholic beliefs, reports the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. FIRE says James Tuttle's troubles began in May 2003 when a student complained to administrators that the professor mentioned his Catholic beliefs too often in class and suggested that he needed "counseling for tolerance." Following the complaint, Dr. Tuttle added disclaimers to the syllabi of two of his classes informing students that the professor was "a committed Catholic Christian philosopher and theologian." He also encouraged students who […]» Read More
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Bible Studies: Not So Bad After All
March 14, 2006
FIRE's press release today announces a tremendous victory for religious liberty throughout the 13 schools in the University of Wisconsin System. Since last November, the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC) has been under attack for a policy that banned RAs from leading Bible studies—or studies of any other holy book—in their dorm rooms, on the grounds that open religious practice might make RAs less "approachable." After six months of pressure from FIRE, the UW system's Board of Regents finally settled the controversy on Friday by approving a policy that gives RAs the right to "participate in, organize, and lead any […]» Read More
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July 12, 2004
In a lawsuit that's shining a spotlight on the role of religion in higher education, an Ohio community college philosophy professor says administrators punished him because he made a point of disclosing his Catholic beliefs in the classroom.While the college hasn't presented its side of the story yet, it appears that the case will pit the professor's freedom of speech against the school's right to control its staff. There's a larger question too, one that will be debated outside the court system: Even if it's legal, should educators ever tell students about their faith?One national organization has already jumped into […]» Read More
Philosophy Professor, Punished for Disclosing Religious Beliefs, Sues College
June 30, 2004
CLEVELAND, OH,—A philosophy professor who was punished for disclosing his religious viewpoint to students has filed suit against Lakeland Community College in Ohio. Professor James Tuttle was disciplined by the administration and later stripped of his classes for making statements on his syllabi and in class lectures that referenced his religious faith and how it shaped his personal philosophy. Dr. Tuttle is represented by Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP. The public campaign to defend Dr. Tuttle's rights has been coordinated by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which first brought Dr. Tuttle's case to national attention earlier this […]» Read More
A Heretic in Academe
March 18, 2004
In March of last year, philosophy professor James Tuttle received a complaint that had been forwarded by his superior at Lakeland Community College in Ohio. The student letter-writer charged that Prof. Tuttle had made comments she deemed offensive to women and gays, and that he'd also shown signs of hostility to Muslim women. "I feel," she wrote, "as if I have been crushed, and forced to endure views that I do not agree with . . . we are supposed to be learning philosophy." But the main problem, the letter stressed, was the professor's excessive reference to his religion — […]» Read More
Religion in class sparks conflict
February 6, 2004
A Lakeland Community College professor says his teaching duties were reduced as punishment for disclosing his religion to his students during class.James Tuttle of Willoughby, a part-time instructor for 41/2 years, claims that the college's dean of arts and humanities gave him only one class to teach in fall 2003 instead of the three he expected. He said he was further punished when he was given the last pick of classes for this spring, leaving only logic classes which he chose not to teach. Lakeland President Morris Beverage Jr. said that Tuttle was not being punished and that religion was […]» Read More


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Last Sunday afternoon, Thanksgiving weekend, I was out for a walk in Perth taking some of the photographs I collected over my five days there. I was also slipping away from the family in order to listen to a radio program which included brief comments I had made by phone as invited by the producers.
CBC Radio's Tapestry was airing the second part of a series called Coping and at about 15:49 into the program I am heard introducing myself, then speaking of how my bipolar II diagnosis was an "A ha!" moment for me in the context of living as a survivor of childhood trauma, addiction recovery, and living with HIV/AIDS since 1989.
I also said that the bipolar II diagnosis has allowed me "to have a little more compassion for myself" and, in turn, with others with mental health issues with whom I can more easily and comfortably empathize and suppress my self-criticism.
"I live on," I said, "and live on in curiosity".
The reason I felt I had to head off to my favourite café, rather than invite my family to listen to the program with me, is that they are not all up-to-speed on my bipolar II diagnosis nor, in some cases, the sexual abuse. In the case of my mother, I have withheld these because I have judged that she has had more than enough to deal with. Whether it is worth the secrecy may be another matter entirely.
Fast forward to my weekly group therapy yesterday, which I had missed due to travel last week and being ill the week before. It followed on the heels of my check-in with my psychiatrist in the same hospital during which I confessed that, due to financial problems over the past little while, I had been unable to pay my quarterly prescription co-pay of about $100 and had, therefore tapered myself off my medications – re-starting at the end of September after more than a month when my finances were back in limited order.
He urged me to be in touch with him should I ever run into trouble again (I had even bluffed my way through an appointment with him during the crisis) and to keep in mind that relapses could be very serious.
Off to group therapy I went where I broke down crying as I reviewed the past couple of months and spoke of the shame I felt in being short of money. It was of my own doing, I judge, because I had sought sexual release time and time again with the click of my TV remote at $9.99 plus tax per viewing. (More shame.) The financing – no worries until the bill arrives – was as seductive as any of the pay-per-view characters. There were equal amounts of shame in having dug myself into a financial hole, putting my health at serious risk, and the mental condition which I dared not speak of with my loved ones – despite all of their support for me in every other area of my life which many other families might not be able to tolerate.
I did manage to tell my family, as we packed down a splendid turkey dinner, that I had lost ten pounds in the past little while. What went left unsaid was how much less I had been eating and why.
What could I have done differently?
Certainly I could have flagged the financial problem with not only my psychiatrist but also my doctor and pharmacist. Heaven and earth might have been moved to make sure I had my meds. Instead I chose, in shame, to deal with it myself – the same faulty self-reliance that got me through the rough years as a kid.
I could have told friends what was going on. It would not have been too tough to borrow a hundred bucks for my meds.
No doubt I could spend time, honestly, openly and, more constructively, out of isolation with friends.


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Location: West Village, New York City
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What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home? When you live in a rental, there is usually very little you can do about bathrooms and kitchens. The bathroom in my unit was very basic, with white tile everywhere. Certainly better than many I've seen, but still very bland. Unusually, the door to the bathroom opens outwards, but I was able to turn that to my advantage, using Teak outdoor deck tile to cover the floor to the bathroom. In order to limit the amount of custom-cutting needed, I used black river rock to fill in the spaces around the pedestal sink and toilet. This creates a spa-like feel in the bathroom and contrasts nicely against the white porcelain. Taking some extra paint from the living area and painting the cleanest wall (to allow for easy painting and re-painting when I leave) a dark color increases the contrast. When living in a tiny one-room place, it helps to have or create the illusion of other rooms. By turning the bathroom into a spa, I can leave the door open and it doesn't reveal a boring bathroom but an interesting and serene addition to the overall space.
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What was one of the biggest challenges you faced in furnishing your small home? In NYC, you sometimes find you have to sacrifice some things (or everything) to a good location. When I found this studio in the West Village, the trade-off was the near total lack of natural light and the awkward arrangement that allowed for a 30" high ventilation shaft to cut across the middle of the wall through the studio to exhaust in the air shaft. In addition to the single window, there were also no light fixtures whatsoever in the main living area. The closets were custom built into the area under the ventilation shaft, with a lofted storage area above. The solution was to highlight the unusual architecture and use lots of varied lighting to brighten the space. Painting a blue stripe along the air-vent and straight across to the window helped to draw the eye along and past it. Painting the doors below a dark charcoal and changing the hardware allowed the closets to visually disappear. Running plug-in track lighting across the ceiling allowed us to get light into every corner. In the loft space above the air vent, modular storage gives the look of built in bookcases, with halogen under-cabinet lighting repurposed into up-lighting behind. While it would have been great to install a library-track ladder, it would have been very expensive and obviously impractical for a rental. A $50 ladder from IKEA fits the purpose and budget nicely, and allows access to the bookcases above, turning an unfortunate architectural aspect into a deliberate feature. Installing picture ledges along the air vent finishes off the look. Theses changes were simple to implement, requiring a trip to Home Depot (paint and lighting) and IKEA (shelving and closet hardware), with the entire project completed the weekend I moved in.
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No, Angry Birds Is Not Costing $1.5 Billion In Lost Productivity
from the can-we-get-the-mighty-eagle-to-smash-this-ridiculousness? dept
But, of course, this is ridiculous. While I have no doubt that there are some people who get sucked into playing Angry Birds and don't get their work done, that's an issue for that employer and that employee. It's not Angry Birds causing the lack of productivity. It's the employee. The bigger issue, of course, is the basic assumption here that hours equals productivity. If so, you could equally argue that commuting and sleeping are massive killers of productivity, because that's also time that is spent not working. While it does depend on the type of job, many jobs do not involve a constant level of productivity. In fact, many jobs have ebbs and flows of productivity, and that's a good thing. Letting someone play Angry Birds to clear their mind for a bit could, conceivably be good for productivity. What if they're struggling with a hard problem and working on it just isn't getting anything done... but taking a break and starting again clears things up?
Considering that other studies have shown that trusting your employees to do their jobs creates happier, more loyal and more productive workforces, perhaps we shouldn't be so worried about people playing Angry Birds, rather than going out for a smoke or hanging out at the water cooler. If they get their job done, they're productive.


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Wayland releases President's/Dean's lists
PLAINVIEW - Wayland Baptist University has released its honor roll lists for the fall, 2003 semester. The Dean's List is made up of students who maintained a grade-point average of 3.5-3.9 for the semester while the President's List is reserved for those students who completed the semester with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
The Dean's List included Deborah Alcozer, Kristen Allen, Tammy Baker, Sonya Britton, Camy Brunson, Jennifer Castaneda, Cody Castillo, Rose Chavez, Christina Cox-Lujan, Rocio Exparza, Mark Franklin, Jesus Garcia, Tina Garza, Andrea Gregory, Jennifer Herrin, Staci Hutto, Kelsie Jackson, Alisa Lackey, Lara Manley, Billie Martinez, Marie Martinez, Marla McNutt, Jessica Ogden, Meagan Schantz, Isaias Solorzano, Jennifer Sullivan, Jonathan Sullivan, Brenda Tijerina, Resa Uptergrove, Laura Valles, Pollie Varner, Loori Wilkins and Herminia Zuniga, all of Plainview.
Lubbock residents making the Dean's List were: Jimmy Cannon, Joann Holloway, Erin Luckie, LeAudra McKay, Crista Sheumaker, Gabrielle Unfred and Yvette Ysasaga.
Amarillo students on the Dean's List were: Cami Alling, Brandon Burrows, Brandon Chancler, Micah Garvey, Sarah Gatlin, Addie Lee, Joey Parsons, Chance Perkins and Ariel Smeaton.
Also on the Dean's List were: Sarah Alaway and Lacy Barrett of Perryton, Lisa Angel of Wylie, Ashley Applewhite of Olney, Noelia Balderas, Jolee Fletcher and Shanna Jackson of Lockney, James Barnes of Tulia, Jennifer Baumann of San Antonio, Curtis Beeman and Jared McCarthick of Lovington, N.M., Cassie Birkenfeld of Nazareth, Kourtney Boswell, Christopher Styne and Anne Weaver of Dumas, Melissa Branch of Barbados, Curtis Broome of Estes Park, Colo., Katherine Butler and Raymundo Carreon, Katye Mansdoerfer, Joshua Ulibarri and Adam Wainio of Albuquerque, Joshua Caballero of Floydada, Nathan Carson of Sweetwater, Kelsey Charron, Jessica Milligan, Janelle Power and Doug Warren of Pampa, Jerod Clopton of O'Donnell, Cara Coffey of Weatherford, Christa Condron of Graham, Christopher Cox of Canadian, Roxanne Davis of Fort Defiance, Ariz.,Amanda Day of Granbury, Matthew DeFehr of British Columbia, Brandon Douglas of Breckenridge, Kelley Dunn of Bledsoe, Heath Ferguson of Lamesa, Jason Flick and Karrie Peoples of Kress, Patrick Ford of Bryson, Andra French, Brandi French and Amy Rice of Dalhart, Kathryn Froelich of Sublette, Kan., and Mindee Gillaspie of Spearman.
Other Dean's List students were: Donna Gleason of Edgewood, N.M., Dee-Ann Gooding of St. Georges, Grenada, Bridget Hancock of Booker, Ashlee Hester of Nocona, Alyssa Hill of Sunray, Blair-Marie Hipple of Marfa, Kaci Holcomb of Roswell, Kelli Howard of Midland, Joe Hoyle of Perryton, Heather Hurt of Irving, Kyle Igo of Whiteface, Malissa Johnston and JaLissa King of Portales, N.M., Jennifer Jones of Artesia, N.M., Miho Komatsu of Yamagata, Japan, Candice Lasiter of Clovis, N.M., Cinthya Leija of Idalou, Britany Lewis of Borger, Brittany Lindsey of Haskell, Jessica Lynch of White Deer, Joel Magallan and Rosa Padilla of Hale Center, Jeana McLaughlin of Wichita Falls, James Moss of Tahoka, Shawn Noggler of Canyon, Melissa O'Brien of Lander, Wyo., Emily Oshel of Santa Fe, N.M., Jose Perez of Panhandle.
Completing the Dean's List are Zane Porter of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., Eleah Posey and Keitha Tyler of Brownfield, Dustin Rauch of Carlsbad, N.M., Kaci Risser of Matador, Anna Robersberger of Fairbanks, Alaska., Andy Scott of Muleshoe, Micah Shuler of Fort Worth, Donna Webb of Floydada, Maryanna Willis of Lakewood, Colo., Russell Wilson of Coleman and Matthew Wyatt of Andrews.
Making the President's List for the fall semester were: Aaron Borden, Pierre Brown, Erika Bryant, Erin Bryant, Tonja Edens, James Estes, Sara Gowman, Amy Grisham, Emilianna Hart, Kristin Hinze, James Jenkins, Lisa Jennings, Robin Marlar, David Mojica, Brenda Moreno, Jason Morgan, Jennifer Riley, Katherine Smith, Tyler Topper, Andrea Turner, Michael-Shane Varner, Kimberly Villanueva and Joe Michael Waller all of Plainview.
Lubbock residents named to the President's List were: Melissa Almsted, Kyle Cummings, Rachel Merrill, Joel O'Hair, Amber Sutton and Eric Teague.
Other students named to the President's List were: Michelle Ackerman of Springer, N.M., Angela Aleman and Salina Elliott of Floydada, Joshua Allen and Abby Holmes of Hobbs, N.M., Bryan Anderson of Anchorage, Brittany Ayers of Odessa, Sarah Barbre of Shallowater, Billy Boone of Abilene, Nate Bridges of Levelland, Andrea Brown, Lindsey King, Leigha Messer and Ragan Spradling of Amarillo, Shanna Buck, Maegan Dyer, Amanda Dyson, Tandi Laos and Kevin Schaub of Pampa, Stefanie Buckland of Friendswood, Laura Conrad and Stacy Teague of Albuquerque, Daniel Coutinho and Maureen Coutinho of Comoros, Africa, Stephanie DeVuyst of Nuevo, Calif., Juli Earley of Hale Center, Adam Gibbs of Canyon, Laura Gillaspie of Spearman, Elisabeth Good of Pharr, April Gunter and Stephanie Rejino of Olton, Jessica Haill of Tijeras, Jeremy Harris and Joshua Harris of Gruver, Jennifer Harrison and Martin Ortega of Midland, Cassandra Hill of Smyer, Crystal Holloway of Uvalde, Kris Jennings of Perryton, Noel Keener of Lake Havasu City, and Leann Knight of Jal.
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Not so smart phone
A couple of days ago I picked it up one evening and it was stone cold dead. Pulling the battery made no difference so I dropped it into the multimedia base and when it came to life it showed the battery was at 0%. The phone sleeps in the multimedia base so it is always fully charged and there is normally 60% left by the evening unless I've been running some GPS applications, which for just this reason I don't. How odd.
The next day after a full charge the phone appeared to be OK. A couple of hours later I scrolled to the page where the Gmail app lives and its icon had changed to a box with a gear wheel in front of it. When I tried to run it I got a message "Application not installed." Even odder.
I tried the tech support guy's standard fix which is to switch it off and then switch it on again. To my relief this did the trick. The Gmail icon was back again and the app seemed to be working normally. Until this morning.
When I got up I was surprised that the phone wasn't winking its green light at me to show there was email waiting. Had no-one at all commented to my blog? After breakfast I turned on the shack PC and lo and behold there were 4 messages in my inbox. The phone still showed nothing. Eventually I checked the account settings and every one of my Google accounts had the "Synchronize Gmail" setting turned off. How very peculiar.
I turned sync on again and the phone is checking my mail as normal. But I just wonder what it's going to do next?
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Posted: Mar 20, 2012 9:21 pm
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I really hate it when I find a TB or Geocoin in a cache and then I get home and it says it was in a different cache or something. That happened the other day when we found crackerjackie's new cache, Old Soldiers Never Die. We saw a TB and a Geocoin and when we got home it said they were not even in that cache. Tell me what you think about this.
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You have to allow some time for people to log the movement. Beyond that, yes, there are times where TBs are not logged properly at all.
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I picked up Hippie Racing Bus #2 TB today that was last logged into a British Columbia cache on March 11, 2011, over a year ago.
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One thing that sometimes happens is Cachers will pick up a trackable while on a trip and shove it in their kit intending to log it as picked up. Later, they arrive at another cache, drop a trackable and leave. Turns out the trackable was the one they hadn't logged as picked up and they didn't record the number.
I know, because I've done it! LOL
Or the other one, where a small trackable tucks itself into a fold at the bottom of your backback and you think you've lost it. Only to find it months later when you're cleaning out the bag.
Done that one too!
But yes, as Ertyu says, sometimes people need time to log their trackable. I've had trackables grabbed from me before I've had a chance to actually drop them at the event I was at simply because the other cachers got home to their computers before I did.
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Another possible reason why a TB is not where it is supposed to be is one that has happened to my lonely little bug.
The finder of it (when I contacted him) did indeed move the bug on to another cache, but before he got around to logging his caches (a bunch of them, apparently), his list of finds went missing. I don't know if he was using a paperless method or a papered hunt. Now, sadly, he has no means of saying which cache it is in (or which caches he has found).
Oh well. Perhaps it will turn up, but hopefully whoever finds it won't be too upset that it is where it shouldn't be.
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Nunavut Taidy wrote:
...Perhaps it will turn up, but hopefully whoever finds it won't be too upset that it is where it shouldn't be.
Wonders never cease!
My little ole TB turned up at a Portage La Prairie cache the other week a fter being "lost" from its first cache. Now its spending time up in Alaska. Sent a note of thanks to the finder/mover, and a second note to the original finder in the hopes that knowing where it was found might help him rebuild his logs. Happy Trails!
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I just picked up a trackable in the Grand Beach area on the weekend. I couldn't believe it, but there hasn't been any logs on it for over 4 years. Hopefully now it will be logged regularly.
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It happens - I have a MIA trackable. It has gone underground once before and surfaced elsewhere. The only thing that I hope is it shows up sometime/somewhere and starts its mission again. On the other side I do try to log trackables as soon as possible and them move them along, or just note the sighting. I fully admit that I am not good at logging a sighting since I tend to forget (on the good side I didn't move the item).
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I have had several requests in the past from owners to confirm that their trackable item was actually in one of my caches, or if I saw it in a recent cache.
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Rutgers, 5-6 with no wins against a ranked team, went into its final game knowing a win would earn the Scarlet Knights a bowl date at Yankee Stadium against Notre Dame.
Northern Illinois, 12-0 and with the most wins in the nation the last four years, went into the Mid-American Conference title game knowing a loss would send the Huskies far down the undercard into anonymity on the bowl schedule.
Rutgers does indeed get to play Notre Dame.
No. 24 NIU plays an 8-5 Utah State team that has won two bowl games in school history.
The much-maligned (and soon-to-be late) BCS was actually a friend to college football outsiders, giving their best teams a shot to beat Alabama (Utah), Oklahoma (Boise State) and Wisconsin (TCU) in the biggest bowls, and giving NIU a crack at Florida State in last year's Orange Bowl.
But if a MAC team can't force its way into a BCS bowl, it has no chance to play a team from the two most powerful Midwest leagues - the Big 10 and Big 12 - or even the SEC or Pac-12.
"Those teams don't want to play us," said Dave Clawson, who left for Wake Forest after his Bowling Green Falcons ended NIU's BCS hopes in the MAC title game. "If a BCS AQ team plays a MAC team in a bowl game, they feel they have everything to lose and nothing to gain. It's much safer to play each other."
Twenty-three SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 teams play in bowls this year. Only one plays a team from a non-AQ league: The SEC's Mississippi State (6-6) plays Rice (10-3) of Conference-USA.
The MAC has done a great job of adding bowl tie-ins in recent years, but they are with other non-AQ leagues. Only Bowling Green (10-3, 7-1 MAC) plays an AQ team this year, taking on Pittsburgh (6-6, 3-5 ACC) Thursday.
Ohio (7-5, 4-4) played East Carolina (9-3, 6-2 C-USA), but the other three teams not only play other non-AQ teams, they play non-AQ teams with worse records: NIU vs. Utah State; Ball State (10-2) vs. Arkansas State (7-5, 5-2 Sun Belt) and Buffalo (8-4) vs. San Diego State (7-5, 6-2 Mountain West).
The Mountain West has a good deal going with its neighbors. Fresno State (11-1), the team NIU had been battling for that BCS shot, gets to play No. 25 USC (9-4), while Boise State (8-4) plays Oregon State (6-6) and Colorado State (7-6) plays Washington State (6-6). They get to not only play teams from a very respected conference, they get to play teams with similar records.
The MAC, which has been rated as strong as the Mountain West this year, peaked with a deal where its champion used to play the seventh-place team from the Big Ten in the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl.
But that matchup is gone. And it's not coming back.
"Politics play a big part in college football," said NIU safety Jimmie Ward, a third-team All-American. "We're looked at like the little guys. That's why everybody in the MAC plays with a chip on their shoulder. I will be rooting for those MAC teams when they play another conference, it doesn't matter what conference it is.
"Hopefully, we'll get a couple of tie-in bowls or something, bigger bowls and all that, but the bowl we're going to now is decent. It will be fun, too."
NIU, which stayed home with a 10-2 record and wins over Alabama, Maryland and Iowa State in 2003, will never complain about any bowl invitation. The Huskies say all the right things about playing Utah State.
"If you can't have fun playing a game like this, you probably shouldn't be playing the game," coach Rod Carey said.
And Utah State is thrilled to play NIU and, in particular, face Huskie quarterback Jordan Lynch, who finished third and seventh in the Heisman Trophy voting the last two years.
"You play college football to play the best athletes in the nation, and he is one of the best," Utah State linebacker Jake Doughty said.
You also play to get noticed. That's why Utah State joined the Mountain West.
"We knew that we were gong to be on bigger platforms nationally," Utah State coach Matt Wells said.
As for NIU, well, at least the Huskies had a Heisman candidate.
"That's a once-in-a-lifetime deal," Wells said.
This is NIU's sixth consecutive bowl game. But only one of those six games was against a ranked foe; their Orange Bowl trip, which was the only BCS bid in MAC history.
So, as long as NIU remains in the MAC, measuring themselves in a bowl game against the nation's best on a bigger platform will be a none-in-a-lifetime deal unless the Huskies make it all the way to one of college football's six biggest bowl games. The new "access bowl" is the MAC's only chance to play a ranked team in a bowl, or even a mid-level team from one of the nation's four best conferences.
That's wrong, but that's the way it is and it's not about to change.
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