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Kanye West explains his 'love' for Trump to Jimmy Kimmel, goes silent on whether Trump likes brown people
It was more than three minutes into Jimmy Kimmel's interview with Kanye West on Thursday's Kimmel Live before Kimmel brought up West's famously warm feelings for President Trump. Kimmel noted the strong, mixed reactions when West came out as a Trump supporter and asked if he thinks Trump is a good president. West tackled the first part, talking about choosing "love" over "fear" when he put on his MAGA hat.
"What it represented to me, it's not about policies — because I'm not a politician like that — but it represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone says," West said. "Liberals can't bully me, news can't bully me, the hip hop community, they can't bully me. Because at that point, if I'm afraid to be me, I'm no longer Ye." He added that he quite enjoys enraging people, then went on to discuss his views on slavery, being caught in a "simulation," and societal views on children, with a zinger: "We are too protective. We always don't want someone to get hurt — can you imagine me talking to my publicist before I said I'm going on TV again?"
West returned to love, and said society would be better if we treated everyone as our family, and Kimmel called that a "beautiful thought" then brought it back around to Trump. "In literal terms, there are families being torn apart at the border of this country ... as a result of what this president is doing," he said. "Whether we like his personality or not, his actions are really what matter. I mean, you so famously and powerfully said George Bush doesn't care about black people. It makes me wonder what makes you think Donald Trump does, or any people at all?" West sat silently in thought for a few seconds, Kimmel went to commercial, and they didn't discuss it again during the show. Watch below. Peter Weber
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham seems to have made up his mind about Christine Ford's testimony before it even happens
Christine Ford isn't expected to testify about her sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until Thursday — but Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) already seems to have made up his mind.
"You can't bring [her allegation] in a criminal court; you would never sue civilly; you couldn't even get a warrant," Graham said on Fox News Sunday. "What am I supposed to do? Go ahead and ruin this guy's life based on an accusation?"
"Unless there's something more, no I'm not going to ruin Judge Kavanaugh's life over this," Graham continued, before adding that Ford "should have her say" and will be "respectfully treated." Watch Graham's full interview below. Bonnie Kristian
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley broke with President Trump and many of his supporters Sunday to argue that Christine Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, "deserves respect and deserves to be heard."
"Accusers go through a lot of trauma. Some handle it one way and some handle it another way," she said on CNN's State of the Union, answering a question about Trump's tweeted response to Ford. "Regardless, it's not something we want to do to blame the accuser or try and second-guess the accuser. We don't know the situation she was going through 35 years ago. We don't know the circumstances."
Haley argued for a responsible but swift examination of Ford's claim by the Senate for the sake of both families involved. Watch an excerpt of her comments below, or read them in full here. Bonnie Kristian
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on Fox News Sunday to talk trade war, Iran, and Friday's report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has proposed ousting President Trump from office using the 25th Amendment.
"To the extent one wants to call this a trade war, we are determined to win it," Pompeo said of Trump's escalating tariffs on Chinese imports. He ignored a question from host Chris Wallace about how long the administration would maintain this course, repeating, "We're going to win it. We're going to get an outcome which forces China to behave" in accord with "fundamental principles of trade around the world, fairness, reciprocity."
Though Pompeo, like Trump, has cast U.S. tariffs as a punishment for poor behavior from Beijing, the cost of the taxes is absorbed by American consumers, not Chinese producers. China's trade surplus with the United States has hit record highs since Trump's tariff scheme began.
Turning to Iran, Pompeo pushed back on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's angry response to Saturday's attack on an Iranian military parade. "When you have a security incident at home, blaming others is an enormous mistake," Pompeo argued, calling for Tehran to focus on domestic security "rather than causing insecurity around the world."
And he slammed those, allegedly including Rosenstein, who have considered undermining the Trump administration from within. "If you can't be on the team, if you're not supporting this mission," Pompeo charged, "maybe you've got something else to do."
Watch Pompeo's full interview below. Bonnie Kristian
At least 44 people have died since Hurricane Florence made landfall in the Carolinas more than a week ago, and though the catastrophic rains have finally ceased, flooding continues to hit North Carolina especially hard.
The Cape Fear River will crest this wkd. while the Lumber River will crest again. The Neuse will rise until Mon. Additionally, new areas are flooding with little warning. Due to this, travel isn't recommended south of US 64. See flood levels https://t.co/xPLtIKVMoY #FlorenceNC pic.twitter.com/ATypLvVZTm
— NCDOT (@NCDOT) September 21, 2018
As some rivers continue to rise, tens of thousands remain without power, and many roads are still submerged or covered in debris. "I know we sound redundant, but it bears repeating," tweeted South Carolina's emergency management department. "Turn around, don't drown!"
Floodwaters have receded from Interstate 40, leaving behind a glut of dead fish. See firefighters hosing fish off the blacktop below. Bonnie Kristian
North Carolina firefighters hosed several dead fish off of Interstate 40 after Hurricane Florence pushed them out of the ocean. https://t.co/igvinEYwp1 pic.twitter.com/ikyrANQizb
— USA TODAY Video (@usatodayvideo) September 23, 2018
A new ad for Democrat David Brill, who is challenging Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) for his seat, features six people in diverse occupations arguing Gosar is "absolutely not working for his district." The twist: They're all Gosar's siblings, and they're encouraging Arizonans to vote their brother out of office.
Gosar responded on Twitter Saturday:
Not one of my siblings lives in Arizona and my opponent's policies are out of sync with what Arizona wants and the country needs. I will not be deterred from fighting for our conservative values regardless of these attacks. #az04 #MAGA2018
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) September 22, 2018
My siblings who chose to film ads against me are all liberal Democrats who hate President Trump. These disgruntled Hillary suppporters are related by blood to me but like leftists everywhere, they put political ideology before family. Stalin would be proud. #Az04 #MAGA2018
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) September 22, 2018
On a lighter note than linking his siblings to a genocidal dictator, Gosar joked he must be "Mom's favorite," as his mother supports his campaign. Thanksgiving is gonna be so awkward this year. Bonnie Kristian
The Trump administration on Saturday proposed a rule change that would make it more difficult for immigrants to receive visas and green cards if they are deemed likely to use public assistance programs.
"Under long-standing federal law, those seeking to immigrate to the United States must show they can support themselves financially," said Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a statement arguing the rule would "promote immigrant self-sufficiency and protect finite resources by ensuring that they are not likely to become burdens on American taxpayers."
The proposal will define a threshold for a total amount of assistance from programs like public housing and food stamps, and using assistance above that line will be "a heavily weighed negative factor" in the consideration of immigration status change applications, DHS said. The new rules could take effect before the end of the year.
Critics say the proposal is less about frugality than restricting immigration, and legal challenge is expected. "Today's announcement by the Trump administration is a backdoor, administrative end-run to substantially reduce legal immigration that, if implemented, will hurt our entire country," Todd Schulte of FWD.us told CNN. "This policy will cost the United States in the long run by limiting the contributions of hardworking immigrants who could become legal residents, and no one is better off because of it." Bonnie Kristian
Social media users responded over the weekend to President Trump's tweeted claim that if Christine Ford's alleged assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh were "as bad as she says," she'd have reported it immediately.
Using the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport, launched by actress Alyssa Milano, survivors explained why they kept silent after suffering sexual abuse:
#WhyIDidntReport. The first time it happened, I was 7. I told the first adults I came upon. They said "Oh, he's a nice old man, that's not what he meant." So when I was raped at 15, I only told my diary. When an adult read it, she accused me of having sex with an adult man.
— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) September 21, 2018
I was 17. Raped by a friend. I was confused. In denial. Afraid. His parents were richer & better connected than my parents. He was a "good" student. Ppl liked him. The only friend I told--responded w: "He wld never do that." I didn't think anyone would help me. #WhyIDidntReport https://t.co/YbCuIMg07M
— Abigail Hauslohner (@ahauslohner) September 21, 2018
I was 9 years old. A man took me away from everyone else at a birthday party and stuck his hand down my pants. He asked me if I liked it. I thought I had done something wrong. #WhyIDidntReport
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) September 22, 2018
I did, it didn't matter, I was dismissed, disparaged, & I still get blamed #WhyIDidntReport
— Daryl Hannah (@dhlovelife) September 21, 2018
It is particularly difficult for sexual assault victims to report misconduct by those in positions of power, Laura Palumbo of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center told USA Today. And the assault is "not just something that affects their life in the short-term," Palumbo said. "It also affects their life in the long-term." Bonnie Kristian


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Putting together a successful project team is like building an ice cream sundae. Both need well-chosen ingredients that will blend together deliciously.
The College of Applied Science and Technology assembled just such a project team that brought together the essential ingredients of students from each of its departments to work with graduate students from one of the top entertainment technology programs in the country.
The team then mixed in a member of the Disney Research Lab and together they are building an interactive exhibit at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival that will reflect the multifaceted components of CAST.
Back in early fall, members of the CAST dean's office and several department heads visited the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University to discuss co-op opportunities. The group met with Mk Haley, the associate executive producer of CMU-ETC and a member of the Disney Research Lab. She expanded the initial idea beyond co-ops, and the two groups put in place the current, two-quarter Ideation & Design project where students and faculty from CAST would work with Haley's graduate entertainment technology students.
Haley would direct the project team toward its idea of developing a mini-theme park exhibit that would integrate technologies and concepts taught in CAST all wrapped in the Disney philosophy of education-as-entertainment. It had a two-fold purpose: produce an interactive exhibit for the upcoming Imagine RIT festival and be a model for other multidisciplinary team projects for the future.
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible. This working relationship is a match made in heaven," says Haley.
Fast forward to winter quarter. The RIT and Carnegie Mellon group met for the first time via Skype and started on the initial project focus and storyboard.
"I think CAST can best be described as a melting pot," says Katie Lewis, a third-year nutrition major from Binghamton, N.Y. and member of the project team. "We had a ton of different ideas, but the two main ones that kept coming up were food and alternative energy."
The concept for the exhibit is a multi-station, alternative-energy-propelled, ice cream sundae-making machine. Lewis described it as big and whimsical. "It has bright colors and weird things, but it can produce something beautiful," she says.
Guests will move among the multi-station exhibit with an animated Ritchie the Tiger. Each station will be activated by a different energy source, such as solar or wind power, and feature a story told through virtual reality. Guests can select from several ingredient options for their ice cream sundaes. Additionally, they will learn more about the specific technology or practice as they add scoops and sprinkles, says Lewis.
Having a mix of right-brain, left-brain experiences and skills is essential for the intricate project. For example, Abby Holland, a fourth-year hospitality major from Jamestown, R.I., brings exceptional culinary skills to the project team as she was last year's executive chef for the annual Puttin' on the RITz dinner, the black-tie fundraiser for the college.
Another team member, Josh Harrison, a fifth-year electrical engineering technology major from Corning, N.Y., did back-to-back co-ops at Walt Disney World's Show Ride Engineering in Orlando, Fla.
"Working at Disney is a lot of fun," says Harrison. "I was able to work on some cool projects that keep the guests happy and keep the 'wow factor' alive at the Disney parks." For the CAST project, Harrison was able to share some of the Disney storytelling philosophy and experience with show design/special effect controls he learned. He was also able to add his own experiences from local theater and skills in building interactive sets for haunted houses—not that the CAST exhibit will be frightening, he adds.
The graduate mentors from CMU-ETC also bring experience in constructing multi-media projects that both entertain and educate, but most importantly demonstrate best practices for working in multi-disciplinary teams on large-scale projects, says Haley.
"With a project like this, you are combining things that may not seem connected. The project goal is to amuse, to educate, to invent something for a long life rather than just the immediate future," Haley explains.
She continually reminds the students to stretch themselves because after graduation they will be part of the development of new and innovative technologies for the future: "The top 10 jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. Children will do jobs that do not exist yet, likely with technologies that have yet to be invented," she says. "Innovation is persistence."
That innovative persistence is seeping more and more into the culture of RIT. Coupled with coursework that involves directed projects, the CMU-ETC message of outstanding products, compelling stories and a passion for innovation speaks directly to the CAST members from RIT, says Clark Hochgraf, one of four RIT faculty advisors for the project.
"Creative minds come in all shapes and sizes," says Hochgraf, an associate professor of electrical, computer and telecommunications engineering technology. "In this project, CAST students are working with people from distinctly different disciplines to build an experience that's fun and educational."
Beyond the festival, the intention is to incorporate more collaborative projects into the college's portfolio of degree programs. And with established resources like the college's engineering technology, hospitality and service leadership programs, the chances are the college will do more than wish upon a star.
"I think Disney is definitely an American icon and it implies that anything can come true if you work hard," says Lewis. "That's what we think CAST is all about—working hard but having fun at the same time."

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Police identified the pedestrian hit and killed on Highland Road on Sunday night as 75-year-old Mark Deshotels, 4508 Pine Park Drive, according to a Baton Rouge Police Department news release.
Deshotels was struck just after 8:30 p.m. by an SUV while he was trying to cross Highland Road in the 5700 block, according to the release.
Deshotels was transported by EMS to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries.
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It's safe to say the Montreal Canadiens will be jacked up tonight when they host the Boston Bruins at the Bell Centre. Not only will the Bruins' archrivals be looking to put on a show on Patrick Roy Night, but they'll also be looking for revenge after the 6-1 spanking they took from Boston at the Garden Nov. 13. The Bruins, however, are the hotter team, with wins in eight of their last nine games.
Player to Watch: Obviously, if he gets the start, goaltender Carey Price will try to be at his peak with possibly the NHL's greatest goaltender ever in the house for his number retirement ceremony. Price was 5-0 in the regular season against the Bruins as a rookie last year. But then the Bruins solved him in the postseason and this year, obviously got to him during their one win over Montreal. Price on the season is 9-4-1 with a 2.51 goals-against average.
What they're writing: The Gazette's Pat Hickey reports on what will now be an extended absence by Montreal defenseman Mike Komisarek.
Quotable: Bruins defenseman Aaron Ward has been front and center during the renewal of one of hockey's hottest rivalries. He's ready for an emotional night that will test the Bruins' resolve.
"We're going to be faced with adversity," Ward said after the Bruins' win over Florida Friday. "When you're retiring a jersey, I think that process will take over an hour. So the onus is on the older guys to hopefully … keep the guys focused. Because an hour is a long time to wait, and we talked about what happened at the start of the year with the (season-opening) game in Colorado. It was a long time to wait so we've got to learn from our mistakes in the past and really prepare for this game."


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Drawing Food & Snapn Food: New Books Help You Document Your Dinner
Drawing Food: A Journal
• Who wrote it: Claudia Pearson
• Who published it: Chronicle Books
• Highlights: We love illustrator Claudia Pearson's tea towels, calendars, and totes featuring seasonal fruits and vegetables. Now she's encouraging others to pick up a pencil and explore the shapes, colors, and textures of food. "There is no right or wrong way to draw," Pearson says, and this guided sketchbook is really an invitation to slow down, set aside some "me" time, and have fun.
In the first part of the journal, Pearson shares techniques for drawing fruits and vegetables, meats and dairy, bread and sweets, and kitchen objects. The second half of the book contains an entire year's worth of weekly prompts such as "in the farmers' market right now," "a recipe I made this week," and "my favorite pots and pans." We can just imagine how much fun it would be to flip through at the end of the year.
• Who would enjoy this book? food lovers and artists of all ages and skill levels; would also make a great gift with a set of drawing pencils
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Drawing Food: A Journal
• Visit the author's website: Claudia Pearson
Snapn Food: Delicious Food Photography in a Snap
• Who wrote it: Paul O'Hanlon and Kelly Kingman
• Who published it: Darren Rowse/Digital Photography School
• Highlights: Want to get started or improve your food photography? Whether you're shooting with a fancy digital camera or a cell phone, this mini-guide will help you capture beautiful and interesting images at home and on location.
Authors Paul O'Hanlon and Kelly Kingman have lots of experience in professional photography and food, yet their tips and techniques are accessible enough for anyone to understand and implement. Topics in the 38-page PDF include basic gear, food photography styles, lighting, props, angles, composition, styling, and more. Easy to read and packed with information, this is something you can immediately put to use and then return to time and again.
• Who would enjoy this book? people who enjoy (or want to get started) photographing the food they cook or eat, bloggers, food business owners
Find the book at SnapnGuides: Snapn Food: Delicious Food Photography in a Snap
• Visit the authors' websites: Beacon Lightworks & Kelly Kingman Media
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Last Updated on Saturday, 15 August 2009 21:41 Written by Deb Egenberger Saturday, 15 August 2009 21:36
Opening 31st year at GHS
Gothenburg High School cross country and track coach Steve Reeves was among 53 Nebraska high school coaches who received Career Milestone honors during the annual Nebraska Coaches Association multi-sports clinic in Lincoln in July.
Reeves, a GHS graduate, is beginning his 32nd year as a coach with 31 years at Gothenburg.
He was honored by NCA for his service in boys track, receiving a Level III gold certificate for accumulating at least 600 points in an individual sport.
Reeves has coached multiple all-class state gold medal winners as well as numerous Class B event winners at the boys state track meet.
He also led the Gothenburg boys to a state team title in 2003 and had teams earn state runner-up trophies in 1978 and 1981.
In addition to boys track, Reeves now also coaches the Swede girls track team as well as having coached the high school and junior high girls and boys cross country teams throughout his career.
The Swede girls cross country team won the state title in 1994 and 1999 with state runner-up finishes in 2000, '01 and '02.
The boys cross country team achieved state runner-up status in 1985, 1994, 2002 and 2008.


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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) developed an integrated resource plan in 2011 that recommended a strategic direction that focuses on a diverse, balanced mix of energy sources. A key element of this plan was to initiate an energy-efficient demand-response (DR) program capable of providing up to 2,600 MW of peak demand reductions through demand-side management. The DR component can be used to alleviate financial constraints associated with serving the load or for maintaining reliability, and to provide ancillary services in the balancing authority (BA) area.
Utilities normally call on their DR programs on an hours-ahead or day-ahead basis because of forecasted system load or market conditions. Since small temperature errors or unexpected thunderstorm activity can dramatically impact the system load and necessity of calling on the DR resource, TVA has focused on reducing the notification period so these important decisions can be made close to the time DR is needed to maximize value.
TVA exercises its DR programs for both economic and reliability curtailments through an internally developed demand-response management system (DRMS), which provides the system operator with the necessary information and tools to manage a diverse portfolio of DR resources effectively. These products are viewed as virtual power plants, integrated into the daily resource plan, and are dispatchable by the BA.
DR as a Virtual Power Plant
TVA dispatches resources, from the least to most expensive, based on the load requirements. This dispatchable stack is managed by an application called the block pricing compendium, which provides the BA with a quick overview of the generation resources that should be called on to increase or decrease as the load rises and falls. Units with low operating costs, such as hydroelectric and nuclear resources, are typically at the bottom of the stack with more expensive coal-fired plants and combustion turbines (gas and oil) at the top.
Current TVA Demand Response Portfolio
|Reserve preservation
|Curtailment of large commercial and industrial (C&I) customers upon 30-minute notice
|Instantaneous response
|Instantaneous curtailment of customers with discrete blocks of nonconforming load (greater than 50 MW), such as an arc furnace
|Dispatchable voltage regulation
|Day-ahead notification to power distributors to reduce load via voltage reduction (This product is the principle component of a smart grid pilot with 16 participating distributors nominating some 168 MW.)
|Third-party aggregation
|30-minute notification to demand service providers that aggregate load from medium and small C&I customers
|5-minute response
|Curtailment of large C&I customers upon 5-minute notice
|60-minute response
|Curtailment of large C&I customers upon 60-minute notice
Future TVA Demand Response Portfolio
|Direct load control - C&I EnerNOC
|Direct load control of C&I customers for economic (40 hours) and emergency (unlimited) dispatch with a 30-minute notification
|Direct load control - residential and small commercial
|Smart grid pilot with 13 PLCs controlling air conditioning and water heating with 100 maximum call hours, 2- to 6-hour daily event period, and day-ahead notification
|Critical peak price
|Smart grid pilot program using pricing signals to determine load control capability; currently under review
|Low-impact demand response
|Direct load control program targeting commercial customers with building energy management systems already installed with 30-minute notification, 2- to 4-hour events, 200-hour maximum for economic, unlimited for reliability
|28.5 (estimate)
|Conservation voltage regulation
|CVR will deliver roughly 2.2% energy reduction, 3% demand reduction and 7% reactive demand reduction on each installed feeder; active 24/7/365
|Residential premise energy management
|Using programmable communicating thermostats and in-home displays, communicate peak demand events with 2 to 6 hours, day-ahead notice, 250-hour economic call limit
|0.6 summer 0.8 winter
|Residential and commercial shift and store
|Program will shift off TVA's time-of-use demand in both winter and summer with 2 to 5 hours during peak months, 4 to 6 hours during transition months, and a minimum of 1,320 hours; store control in the afternoon and evening is distributed from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. every day
|C&I premise energy management
|Same conditions as residential PEM but with C&I as target
For DR to be viewed as a virtual power plant by the BA, it needs to be viewed within the same context as other resources so it will be used as load increases. This brings DR into the operational realm and optimizes its value as a true power plant and not just a day-ahead resource. To include DR as a dispatchable resource, the costs for each product must be calculated by TVA's power trading organization and coded in the DRMS.
In 2011, TVA evaluated the various DRMSs available on the market. It became evident these systems were designed for day-ahead, economic-based DR programs and not for implementing DR as an operational virtual power plant. To meet its vision for DR implementation, TVA decided to develop a custom solution using TVA personnel. To date, TVA has implemented several of the functional highlights:
Integration between the DRMS, BA and power trading
Near-real-time view of current load by product
Calculation of curtailable load
Event history of DR participant performance
Integration with telephony notification system
Post-operative financial evaluation of DR events
Mobile view of system and products.
Integration of Tools
The DRMS automates coordination functions between the BA and power trading. All reliability curtailments in TVA are initiated by the BA, while economic curtailments are approved by the BA but executed by the power trading organization. When power trading schedules a day-ahead economic curtailment in the DRMS, a request-for-approval window immediately appears on one of the BA displays. The BA can approve, cancel or acknowledge the request using the DRMS. Once an event is approved by the BA, it automatically goes into scheduled status, and the DRMS initiates notifications and monitors the actual load during the event.
Near-Real-Time View
The BA needs a near-real-time view of load available for curtailment to operate DR as a true virtual power plant. The DRMS real-time monitor uses four sources of data to obtain real-time or near-real-time information:
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Most large TVA customers have SCADA measurements that are sent to the TVA SCADA system every two seconds and passed into the DRMS.
Inter-control center communications protocol (ICCP). All customers who sign up for the dispatchable voltage regulation product are required to transmit their current load (by feeder) to TVA through their ICCP connection. This information is then passed to the DRMS.
Meter data management (MDM). DR customers who do not have SCADA or ICCP connectivity have their billing meter interrogated every 15 minutes and passed to the DRMS.
Load forecast. If the SCADA, ICCP or MDM data does not come in on schedule, the DRMS uses the customer's load forecast as a proxy for the actual load.
Calculation of Curtailable Load
Prior to implementing the DRMS, the BA had only a rough estimate of megawatts available to interrupt. TVA DR products are designed to meld TVA system needs with customer operational attributes, which creates complex business rules for curtailment. These complex rules compounded establishing an interruptible load estimate.
Since the DRMS brings in near-real-time data, the actual number of curtailable megawatts for each customer can be calculated at any point in time. For DR events, the curtailable megawatt would use the actual customer's load and the appropriate contractual baseline. For future DR events, it would use the customer's load forecast.
In practice, the DRMS calculation for curtailable megawatts has been very accurate, based on event actualities. This accurate forecast has given TVA's power operations and energy trading group confidence in the DRMS forecasts for curtailable load and makes DR credible as an actual virtual power plant.
Integration with Telephony Notification System
To manage the multiple DR products with reduced curtailment notification periods, an automated curtailment system was needed. TVA's DRMS performs telephone notifications to all DR customers at the start and end of each event using an on-site third-party voice XML notification server. The notification system accepts voice XML as an input, which is generated by the DRMS. The actual messages are typed into the DRMS and use placeholders to fill in specific DR event information, such as product name and event start and end times. In addition to telephone notification, the DRMS also will send text messages and e-mails to customers.
While the current system uses the telephone as the primary means for DR event notification, a new standard called open automated demand-response (OpenADR) eventually will be integrated into the DRMS. The DRMS will function as an OpenADR server, communicating directly with third-party OpenADR clients at the customer sites.
Post-Op Financial Evaluation
The DRMS is able to calculate the impact to TVA of each event because all economic factors (for example, current system cost, curtailment amount, contract prices and DR credits) are fed into the DRMS from other sources. The DRMS displays this value by event, customer and product, allowing management to evaluate the benefit of each DR product to TVA. This provides immediate feedback on the effective use of DR for each event.
As TVA took to the road to market the products, the logical next step was to develop a mobile version of the DR as well as a view of the entire TVA system. With that vision a reality, the teams can now not only talk about products but show them in real time within the mobile power system summary application. Anyone with an iPad or iPhone and the necessary security privileges can see a real-time view of the system, refreshed every 10 seconds.
Fulfilling the Vision
TVA's vision of becoming one of the nation's leading providers of clean, affordable power serves as inspiration for daily work at TVA. TVA is using DR as a true virtual power plant to fulfill this vision while building on the 12th year of 99.999% reliability. DR provides a win-win opportunity for TVA and its customers. Options exist for customers to lower their electric power bill by providing operational benefits to the TVA system while continuing to receive top-tier reliability.
DR products provide tools for daily system operation, which make them an integral part of TVA's strategic direction for load management. Load management is a key component of the integrated resource plan as a low-cost method for offsetting load growth. DR, along with energy efficiency and wholesale/retail rates, provides TVA the vehicle to achieve its integrated resource plan of clean energy targets and fulfill its vision.
Clay DeLoach ([email protected]) is the senior manager of operations applications for TVA, where he has worked for 18 years. His team supports all control center software applications used by the Systems Operations Center and the Reliability Operations Centers. This application portfolio consists of more than 100 custom and vendor applications including the Demand Response Management Portal, SCADA and the Advanced Power Applications suite of tools.
Charles E. (Butch) Massey ([email protected]) is the director of demand-side pricing for TVA and a 32-year veteran of the electric power industry. His experience covers generation, distribution, transmission, demand response and pricing. Massey currently serves on the Association of Demand Response and Smart Grid board of directors and participates in other national organizations.
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A smart phone application to be publicly demonstrated next week could let emergency 911 operators take control of phones at the scene of an incident to gather medical data from victims.
A caller can place his smart phone on a victim's torso, and the emergency operator can view the victim's breaths per minute, gauging whether or not the caller should start CPR.
The victim himself, if physically able, can transmit vital-sign information to emergency responders.
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The Android app, being developed at the University of North Texas with National Science Foundation funding, will be unveiled at the National Emergency Number Association conference in Charlotte, N.C. Remotely controlling a device's cameras and accessing medical vital signs data collected by the app could help an operator make faster, smarter decisions.
The app currently is in the development stage. It will have to undergo testing in a hospital environment and gain Food and Drug Administration approval before being made available.
If approved — and if the public safety answering points (PSAPs) that handle 911 calls can implement the technology needed to use the app — it could help leverage the growing computing and communications power of consumer mobile devices to put information into the hands of dispatchers to ensure a timely response to emergencies, said Ram Dantu, professor at UNT's Computer Science and Engineering Department.
The application is part of a broader effort to integrate smart phone technology into the nation's 911 system. The Federal Communications Commission currently requires cellular service providers to give location information for emergency calls to PSAPs. Through its Next Generation 911 program FCC is trying to incorporate a full range of mobile- and Internet-based technologies into the emergency system, enabling the use of text, video, images and other digital data by PSAPs.
"Most emergency calls are made by cell phone" today, said Henning Schulzrinne, chief technology officer for the FCC and chair of Columbia University's Computer Science Department.
He said as many as 70 percent of 911 calls are made by cell phone and that about 35 percent of the U.S. population now has no landline phone. This shift presents both challenges and opportunities for the emergency call system.
The primary challenge is accurately locating the source of cellular and voice over IP calls, so that they can be routed to the proper PSAP and dispatchers will know where to send help. Carriers using network tools and GPS can provide pretty accurate location information for calls made outside, but calls made from inside buildings are harder to locate. Vertical location is a particular challenge, since GPS can only locate a device to within about 60 feet vertically, Schulzrinne said. "That's a big problem."
The opportunities lie in the possibility of gathering more information through the growing functionality of smart phones and mobile devices. Cameras and microphones, and the computing power to analyze data provided by them, could help provide remote operators with greater situational awareness during emergencies.
The UNT app was demonstrated for the press by Dantu and Schulzrinne. With console software and an Internet connection, a PSAP operator could take control of a caller's phone using the app, much like a help desk operator can remotely take over a desktop for troubleshooting. The operator could access live video, controlling zoom and exposure, to see an emergency scene and assess the medical condition of a victim. Vital signs such as breathing, heart rate and blood pressure could be gathered from the microphone and light sensors on the phone and displayed on the operator's screen.
The operator would direct the caller in gathering the data and the caller would have to enable the operator's remote control for the session. This opt-in requirement offers a compromise to provide some assurance of privacy and security while enabling the gathering of data. The initial application is being developed for the Android operating system. If successful, it could be ported to the iPhone.
"All of these tools rely on reliable connection to the Internet," Schulzrinne said. Using live video probably would require a high-speed 4G connection, while the biomedical portions probably could use slower 3G, WiFi or cellular data connections.
This is not a big problem on the user's end because of the growing availability of high-speed wireless coverage. Carriers estimate that in 2014 4G service could be available to 98 percent of the U.S. population. But there could be a challenge on the back end.
"Unfortunately, not all PSAPs have IP connections to the call-taker," Schulzrinne said. "We have about 6,000 PSAPs" in about 3,000 counties. Getting connectivity and the needed operator training for the application in thousands of state and local jurisdictions will be a challenge. "It's a large and complicated system."
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Chip, I think that might be why we don't hear of this being utilized 3 years after this posting.
There Is now how ever software that can give the location of the phone to with in a few yards.
As a call center agent for a ride share company I often need to call for tow rucks for disabled vans.
Many times our road side assistance provider can pinpoint a vehicle when the driver is not exactly sure 'where' they are on a long road in the dark. I find that VERY encouraging. No real invasion of privacy. It's not different than an address popping up on a screen when I call the local 911.
Now to be sure the phone connects to the proper center based on the location and not the tower.
Precious mins can be reduced in response time.
Your naivety is quaint Chip. If you believe that the government can't and won't do that now, let alone the whole hacker forum devoted to watching people on their smart phones and laptop cameras,the whole point of Snowden releasing his info is lost on you...
RFID readers in all public areas, and subcutaneous transponder chips fitted to all newborn children are next? Sorry, no, I will NOT carry any device that can be activated without my knowledge or consent.
What if the operator turned on the light/flash for the camera and this caused the caller to be detected and harmed?
This is a really neat idea and can probably save lives sooner instead of later.
We as the end users have to demand controls on these kinds of concepts. This has to be something that is turned on and control given specifically to whomever. If Dispatch can flip a switch and gain control of my phone without my intervention or permission then, and pardon the cynicism, an unscrupulous law enforcement agency can do the same thing. I am not saying that some government agency *would* do that but why should we make it easy for them if they ever *did* do that.
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Why does this wiki exist, who is running it, and why isn't data from wiki.debian.net, which is until now used by the debian developers, migrated here? As far as I know the guy running wiki.debian.net wrote somewhere that he'd be happy to give wiki.debian.net's data away to the debian people... (asks and says HenningSprang)
regarding the w.d.n material: the copyright states Michael Ivey and DebianWiki do not claim ownership of the words you write.. So, there is ambiguity over whether Michael has the right to give the data away -- JonDowland
To the best of my understanding, the problem is that it isn't trivial to migrate kwiki to moin moin -- but if someone comes up with a data.tar.gz or whatever it takes to unpack in wiki.debian.org containing the wiki.debian.net data, I think it isn't a problem to do the migration. Anyway, about who runs the wiki, this wiki is run by DSA, Debian's System Administration. ["Jeroen"]
All you had to do was ask. http://wiki.debian.net/~ivey/debwiki.tgz should work. Let me know if you need anything else. As an aside: even though I have been asking the DSA to take over the Wiki for over a year...it would have been nice if someone had let me know it was happening. -- MichaelIvey (PS: Could someone keep us posted on the MigrationStatus)
I (?DavidRichardBell) am now starting to restructure this wiki and integrate the content from my own resources, and wiki.debian.net
I request that nobody integrates material here from any wiki with an unclear or DSFG-incompatible licencing terms until ?WikiLicencingTerms are resolved. -- JonDowland
RobertStoffers has his own moin-based wiki at http://www.debianguide.org and is intrested in working together. Thoughts?
I would like to point out that some of us use the Debian wiki for day-to-day user support and for purposes like organising real-life meetings. These things have deadlines. If wiki.debian.net remains locked while we're also encouraged not to duplicate pages to this wiki, and while time is spent on licensing, merging, and conversion with no apparent schedule and little apparent plan; then we will probably be forced to move those things to yet a third wiki. That would suck. Please do bear in mind that the wiki is a mission critical resource that some of us strongly rely on. (And thanks for providing it.) -- JoeyHess
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Nearly a year ago, we wrote about the travails of Alaina Giordano, the woman battling Stage 4 breast cancer who lost physical custody of her children due to a judge ruling that her illness made her an unfit parent. Alaina's ex-husband—Kane Snyder—moved from North Carolina to Chicago to take a job with Sears after graduating business school, and the children were ordered to relocate with him. Although Alaina was unemployed, moving to be closer to her kids was complicated by the fact that she was part of a Duke University clinical trial with a trusted and established medical team—one whom she spent years researching for her cancer care.
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Alaina's mother has also been speaking with Kane's mother and the two grandmothers are hatching a plan for the children to visit during their summer vacation, which starts in five weeks. But Alaina's doctor has determined that she may only have until June. "There may not be five weeks. You can't wait a week here or there when time is running out," said the spokesperson.
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Of course he's going to develop into a nice top center, but it'll take time.
I think people need to stop comparing Hodgson and Kassian. Yes, if you compare both of them as "projects" you can do so but keep in mind this year Pahlsson was acquired to replace Hodgson, and Kassian was a project that Gillis and Co. want to develop in place of Hodgson.


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About seven years ago, the Texas Rangers handed the Padres two gifts, each of them invaluable, over a period of six months: first, in 2005, a summer trade that freed San Diego of Phil Nevin, whom the Padres, limited by Nevin's bloated contract, reputation for churlishness and ability to veto a trade to several teams, had been trying to jettison for years; second, six months later, a stunningly lopsided swap of talent that put two emerging, low-cost stars, Adrian Gonzalez and Chris Young, in Padres uniforms. Each move prompted celebrations among Padres executives, led by general manager Kevin Towers. The Padres, fortified as if with a magic wand, responded to each transaction by winning the National League West. The Padres had never won division titles in consecutive years. They haven't since. Had Towers diverted a case of champagne from each division-clinching celebration to Arlington, Texas, the baseball gods wouldn't have called foul.
The Rangers aren't anybody's fool these days. Visiting San Diego for the first time, they entered the recent series against the Padres as the sport's best team, as listed by Baseball-Reference.com's rankings that combine run differential and strength of schedule. The Padres, meantime, stood 30th out of 30. The pedigrees played out on the field, the Rangers winning all three games. Ron Washington's team departed Petco Park with a 43-27 record, best in the majors.
Readers of this blog's Pink Pony Scouts Chat knew the Texas talent ran deep going into the season.
"Minor leagues and majors, they're loaded, unbelievably loaded," said one scout in late March. "And they did not have a player on their 40-man roster who was out of options. How unusual is that? They have pitching. They have infielders. They have outfielders. If anybody gets hurt, they've got young people ready to step right in with a better than ordinary chance to have success."
A recent check of the franchise's Double-A affiliate validated the scout's bullishness about the farm system. Two elite prospects, shortstop Jurickson Profar and third baseman Mike Olt, are having monstrous seasons for the front-running Frisco Roughriders (42-29) of the Texas League.
A West Coast Bias hat tip goes out to Rangers GM Jon Daniels, who as a rookie GM in March 2006 candidly answered my pointed questions about why he had traded Gonzalez and Young, in return for pitching that seemed in decline. I again met Daniels during the first of his team's consecutive trips to the World Series, in 2010 at San Francisco, and came away impressed. Daniel said he entered the GM job with an appreciation for good scouting. As a GM, his regard for scouting and the value of players' intangibles had only grown, he said.
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To the Padres, there is a lollipop born every minute. They no longer have Gonzales (with the Red Sox) and Young (with the Mets). I doubt if half the team will be around next year with trades and players departing for bigger bucks. The Padres will need better bats. Like instead of leaving RISP, they drive them in. Instead of taking measly called third strikes, they swing the bats.ReplyDelete
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Google Chrome Frame is not a replacement for the Trident engine, but rather an opt-in plugin; web developers can add a meta tag to their web pages which makes sure the pages in question will be rendered with the Chrome engine instead of Trident. Using some JavaScript magic, web developers can prompt users to install Chrome Frame.
As was to be expected, Microsoft isn't all too pleased. They decided to use the ol' scare-'m tactic, and claim it makes Internet Explorer less secure. "With Internet Explorer 8, we made significant advancements and updates to make the browser safer for our customers," a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars Technica, "Given the security issues with plugins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plugin has doubled the attach area for malware and malicious scripts. This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take."
This statement needs some explaining, especially the part where Microsoft says Google Chrome "in particular" has security issues. According to Ars, they are referring to when Chrome was first released, and it contained a few widely publicised security issues, which were quickly fixed. These days, Chrome is quite secure, was the only browser left standing in the pwn2own contest (for whatever that's worth), and security experts claim the sandboxing technology is hard to break out of.
The part about plugins being a security issue are of course true, as stuff like Flash has often seen extensive exploits. However, there are not a whole lot of Chrome exploits out there, and even if there are, those are for Chrome - not Chrome in conjunction with Internet Explorer. In addition, what about Silverlight? Flash? Those are plugins too.
All in all, Redmond had to say something, so they decided to take this route. I personally doubt Chrome Frame will make much of a real-world splash, but I also believe that's not really what Google was after; this is a publicity issue, a public slap in the face of Microsoft.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has laid out his mission as an uncle: protect the newest member of his family, and make sure Britain's little prince has fun.
Harry told reporters at a charity event in London on Thursday that when he met Prince George, the new baby "was crying his eyes out, as all babies do."
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Marie Isabelle Baker, 93, of North Platte, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2007, at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte.
Services were held on Monday, Jan. 8, at Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev. Bob Payne officiating. Burial was at the Farnam Cemetery.
Baker was born on Dec. 18, 1913, at Farnam, to Thomas and Morna Eggleston Crampton. She was a farmer's daughter and raised a farmer's family.
She had enjoyed life and spring's purple flowers and being quietly there for those in need, according to family members.
Baker was preceded in death by: her parents; two sisters; a daughter, Joan; two grandchildren.
Survivors include: her husband of nearly 71 years, Lawrence Roy Baker of North Platte; her children—Cecil (Rosie) Baker of Ruskin, Sherry (Merle) Lind of North Platte, Jim (Pat) Baker of Farnam and Gary (Debby) Baker of North Platte; 12 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
A memorial has been established.
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BERKELEY -- To borrow a team joke, the theme of Monday's shells-only practice for the California football team was, 'Go go Gadget linebacker!'
The young man that the Bears affectionately call 'Gadget' -- freshman outside linebacker Chris McCain -- was in the backfield almost as much as the quarterbacks, as he pulled into the lead for the starting weak side linebacker spot, ahead of sophomore Dan Camporeale.
Click "It's been a couple months since spring ball and I really thought from the first play, that I didn't even really do that well," said McCain, who's gained about 20 pounds since arriving in Berkeley. Here to view this Link."I saw plays that I could have done a lot better, but I feel, from spring ball, I feel like a new man. I feel like spring ball was just a process, where I came in and was still learning the playbook. Now that I've got the playbook down, I know my assignments better. I know what to do now.
"I still need to put on a little more weight, but I feel a lot stronger and a lot faster. I feel like I'm doing what the coaches ask me to do, whatever they want me to do, I feel I'm getting the job done. I just have to continue to eat right, continue to study the playbook and get bigger, stronger and faster."
One thing McCain doesn't need to work on improving is his range. The 6-foot-6 defender's arms are so long that head coach Jeff Tedford likened him to extend-o-armed Inspector Gadget.
"I think he's doing OK. He's so wiry. There's been players who've been built big like that that are wiry, but just good football players. He's got leverage. He's got long limbs," Tedford said. "I call him 'Gadget.' His arms, you try to throw it in the flat or do something, he'll be right there, you think you have him, and then zoom, there goes that arm and bam, he knocks it down. He's got really long arms and he really knows how to use his hands to keep leverage."
Early during the first set of team periods, McCain blew by second-string left tackle Bill Tyndall -- working with the first unit in place of Mitchell Schwartz, still sidelined with a balky hamstring -- to sack second-string sophomore quarterback Allan Bridgford.
One play later, fellow North Carolinian Gabe King dropped starting tailback Isi Sofele for a loss, and that was just the beginning of the defensive dominance.
"Real fast. It was great," Tedford said of the tempo. "We put some pads on them, a lot of people making plays on both sides of the ball. It was an excellent practice."
Several plays later, youngsters Mustafa Jalil and Brennan Scarlett got into the mix, teaming up for a sack on senior Brock Mansion.
"They're doing good, but one of the things is that they're playing with the fours. Sometimes those offensive guys don't know who they're blocking, so it's a little bit more sophisticated offensively and defensively, we're just putting things in," Tedford said of his young defenders. "But, they're playing hard. They're running and they're doing a good job. I'm really pleased with the effort and the energy. We had a long practice today, and sustained it all the way through. I thought their energy was great."
Tedford has been impressed with Scarlett and Moala, to say the least, but he reserved a bit of enthusiasm for when he gets to see how they perform in full pads.
"We'll see. What they've shown so far, they look like what's advertised," Tedford said. "Scarlett reminds me of Cameron Jordan, the way he can run, his arms, he can get off the ball, he can run."
McCain stepped up to stop physical running back C.J. Anderson, Scarlett stuffed newcomer Darren Ervin, and the trio of Jalil, Viliami Moala and Puka Lopa plowed the way for a sack on fellow 2011 classmate Kyle Boehm at the hands of freshman linebacker Nathan Broussard. That was followed up by walk-on transfer tailback Mike Manuel getting blasted for a loss by Jalil and Lopa, and a sack on Boehm by Moala on the next two plays. Clearly, the defense was in rare form.
"Moala, I don't think we've ever seen anyone here like Moala," Tedford said. "[Brandon] Mebane, we've had some good guys here, but Moala, just, he holds point so well. Now, when we actually get in pads and get after the legs, Wednesday, we'll play real football."
During the second set of team drills, defensive back Kameron Jackson came up with a 42-yard interception return for a touchdown on a pass from Boehm. Both Jackson and McClure flashed at times on the day, but did show their youth upon occasion. Freshman safety Avery Walls displayed no fear in sniffing out a couple of plays in the backfield and applying pressure, and stuck his nose right into the fray with some of the bigger wide receivers and tight ends during one-on-one drills.
"Stefan looks to be a special guy right now," Tedford said. "He's done a great job in coverage and he's very competitive. He's really stood out. Avery's doing a real nice job, a real nice job. Those two will play. I would say, right now, those two will play."
To put a nice big bow on the day, McCain sniffed out a double reverse to childhood friend Keenan Allen in the final team period.
"It's all about being patient," McCain said. "Coach [Kenwick] Thompson tells us if our outside man blocks down, just be patient, make sure nothing crosses your face, and if anything crosses your face, that's your man. I just had to make sure I was patient and didn't over-run the play, because I know that's what they like to do, they do a little tricky here and there, but I felt good. Stopping Keenan is really not that easy. You saw the juke move he put on the DB, so stopping Keenan is not easy at all. For me, getting Keenan, it feels like being back at practice [in high school]. I've stopped Keenan maybe one or two times in practice, but other than that, there's no chance. Back in high school, no chance. No chance at all."
The defensive dominance underscored the absence of speedy wide out Kaelin Clay, who underwent knee surgery on Monday to clean up some meniscus damage in his knee, incurred on the first day of fall camp.
"Kaelin Clay had surgery today. He had a minor meniscus that they trimmed up, and so we're thinking that's good news, actually. As far as we know right now, it's shorter than longer. It could be a three-week thing. He could possibly be back for the first game," Tedford said. "It wasn't a repair. It was just, I guess, I'm not a doctor, but I guess what they say is, if you need to stitch it up, that's a repair. If you just need to trim it, it's just going in and fixing it. Like a haircut. You trim a little bit off the edges, a little bit off the top."
The primary beneficiaries of Clay's absence were Coleman Edmond and a pair of walk-ons in Bryce McGovern and Jackson Bouza. Edmond continued to make a strong case for playing time, even when Clay returns, snatching several clutch grabs while going up against the top defensive unit and in one-on-ones, came up with a nice turn-around catch to beat defensive back D.J. Campbell. Edmond also showed off some good judgment and speed in kickoff return drills, though there were no defenders in place during the period.
Towards the middle of practice, Edmond hauled in a five-yard completion from Mansion and fought off hard-nosed Adrian Lee to retain possession. The senior did, however, fall victim to true freshman corner Stefan McClure, who showed great anticipation and instincts in hitting Edmond right as a pass from Bridgford arrived to force the incompletion.
In the backfield, Tedford acknowledged the absence in camp of tailback Trajuan Briggs. Briggs, who battled lingering injuries last season, still has yet to regain his pre-surgery form after breaking his leg during his senior year of high school, and likely is the first victim of the logjam at the tailback position.
"Not in camp. Wasn't one of the 105," Tedford said. "We have seven tailbacks in camp, and we've got to look at the young guys."
Behind Sofele, No. 2 back Covaughn DeBoskie-Johnson, who dropped about 10 pounds since spring ball, seemed back to his old self, ripped off several big runs against the top defensive unit. During one particular rumble late in practice, DeBoskie-Johnson, hit the hole hard, spun off a defender and gained about eight yards after contact.
The one back at the forefront of most observers' minds, though, was true freshman Brendan Bigelow. During kickoff return drills alongside Manuel, Ervin, freshman tailback Daniel Lasco and freshman defensive backs McClure and Joel Willis, Bigelow ran very smoothly and effortlessly, bobbing, weaving, making cuts and changing direction. Bigelow even saw a handful of snaps with the first unit, though did make several mistakes, capped off by a goal-line fumble that ended practice.
"Mainly, just the, everything that we have in right now already in three days, you don't want to overwhelm them," Tedford said of the young tailbacks. "We put [Bigelow] in every now and then, but we're really trying to put him through a lot of drill work to make sure he's physically ready to go, and he's doing a nice job there. Right now, we haven't been able to, it seems like when he's been in, the ball's been on the ground and he's kind of gone the wrong way a time or two. Right now, we still need to bring him along. When we get pads on, we need to orchestrate some things in order to get him the ball and let him see what he's going to do."
During the opening period, Tedford audibly praised the pass-catching abilities of Ervin and DeBoskie-Johnson, and immediately afterward, Sofele made an eye-popping one-handed leaping grab. Team periods saw all of the tailbacks split wide at one point or another. Bigelow saw one pass thrown his way from starting quarterback Zach Maynard, but the freshman slipped off the line and saw the pass sail out in front of him and out of bounds.
Maynard had an uneven day, at times showing off his unique escape dimension and solid decision-making, and at others taking off to run a bit too soon and throwing a several errant passes.
After Maynard struggled early with handoffs -- Boehm proved to be the most adept at the drill, given his experience as an option-type quarterback -- the junior transfer from Buffalo ripped off a nifty five-yard keeper up the middle and deftly drew the defense in with several fake handoffs. Though Maynard delivered several zingers over the middle to tight ends Anthony Miller and Spencer Hagan, during late-practice red zone drills, he found himself the victim of sophomore cornerback Steve Williams, who sniffed out a pass to Miller in the end zone and broke up a would-be 20-yard touchdown, with McCain applying pressure in the backfield. Two plays later, Williams nearly picked off Maynard on a low wobbler.
Showing some veteran poise, Maynard got defensive tackle Aaron Tipoti to bite on a hard count, drawing an offsides call.
On the next series, it was Hinder's turn to show off the wheels, as he gained five yards on a broken play, weaving past several defenders.
While Maynard's delivery was a bit slow, he did uncork several long bombs, though it was Mansion who completed some of the most impressive passes of the day downfield, hitting both Allen and senior Marvin Jones for a pair of 40-yard strikes.
"We're getting better every day. I thought there were some really special things that were going on today," Tedford said of his quarterbacks. "I thought the more Zach practices, the more he knows what he's doing, he's got more zip on his ball and his timing is just getting better and better every day. He's really doing a nice job. Really doing a great job. Really, you take those three -- him and Bridge and Brock -- those guys are getting better every single day. They're doing some good things, so I've been pleased. We're not perfect, by any means, but we're learning and I'm pleased with the progress of the quarterbacks."
Allen was typically stellar on Monday during all phases of practice. After dropping two passes on one-on-one curl routes early on, Allen dialed in, burning his defender on an inside turn to gain a good chunk of yards after the catch during the first set of team drills, then pulling away from his defender to haul in the 40-yard strike from Mansion. During the second-to-last set of team work, Allen hauled in a pass underneath, planted and spun away from safety C.J. Moncrease -- playing in place of banged up starter Sean Cattouse, laid up with a tight hamstring -- leaving the senior defensive back in the dust for a big gain.
Jones also showed off some extra speed, regularly gaining separation on his routes and showing a new, nasty physical side as he was able to wrest several contested catches away from defenders.
Of particular note on the receiving side were McGovern and Bouza.
"He made a couple catches," Tedford said wryly of Bouza, eventually breaking into a smile. "He's been doing a good job.
Bouza continued his strong camp after a stellar spring, not dropping a single pass during team drills. He hauled in a solid 10-yard-plus gain on a short pass from Mansion during early team work, followed that up with a 15-yard reception from Bridgford, then got the better of physical safety Walls during one-on-one work. Bouza out-battled McClure on a well-placed throw by redshirt freshman signal-caller Austin Hinder and made a sliding sideline catch during the middle portion of practice. Right before the team shifted to kickoff returns, McGovern left Jackson out to dry, coming up with an easy catch over the middle in one-on-ones.
McGovern proved to be a fearless receiver and a go-to option for all five quarterbacks in just about every situation.
"Bryce McGovern is doing a nice job," Tedford said. "He will probably get some more reps now. He's doing a nice job, picking it up real well. He's really earning everybody's respect right now."
Tedford said that McGovern will "absolutely" be considered for playing time during his true freshman season.
Also making noise was converted wide receiver Hagan, who has emerged as the No. 2 tight end behind Miller with Spencer Ladner still on the shelf.
Along with freshman tight end Richard Rodgers -- who showed off nice strides, soft hands and just sheer size -- Hagan was the most prolific tight end target on the day, and got some time with the first unit.
Senior wide receiver Michael Calvin had a good day, going up for several hotly-contested balls and showing much-improved hands.
Camp Notes
While Hinder showed some indecision upon occasion, he still has the quickest release among the quarterbacks. His decision-making has advanced since spring, and he looked to be far more comfortable in the pocket, with his pump fakes coming in second only to Maynard at times. He shows a keen knack for improvisation.
At times, Hinder outshined some of the other passers, but Tedford said that his youth and inexperience would make it tough for him to jump into the top three, even with a strong camp.
"I think anything's possible, but right now, those guys, those two have much more experience. Their experience is outweighing things right now with the other two young guys [Hinder and Boehm]," Tedford said. "It would probably only happen [in camp]. We still have to see how camp goes. It's still early in camp. Right now, those top three are pretty set. It would probably take someone getting injured for him to move up into the top three, just because of experience and running the offense. Those guys have been around longer and they're more experienced. He's going to be a fine player one day, but it's moving a little fast for him right now. Again, every day, soon we just won't be able to get five quarterbacks reps. Soon, it's going to be, Zach's going to get more of them, and then Bridge and Brock are going to get the next portion and the other guys won't get any really."
-- Ladner did some light jogging, clad in workout shorts and a team shirt. He's moving closer and closer to returning.
-- Bridgford has shortened his delivery some, but still had several passes batted down because of his windup, including a would-be red zone touchdown to Allen. He took the bulk of second team snaps and seems to be the firm No. 2 as of now.
-- Wide receiver Kaulin Krebs was sidelined with a hamstring issue.
-- Anderson toughed out the third day with a shoulder injury, and showed no hesitation going headlong into the fray to mix it up with some of the more physical defensive linemen.
"He's doing real well, real well. Good size, skilled, has good hands," Tedford said. "Things are moving a little fast right now, but he's competing hard. He hit his shoulder yesterday a little bit, and still bounced up and came back. He's got a little AC sprain right now in his shoulder, but he went down to the ground to get a ball, made a great effort and kind of jammed his shoulder into the ground, but it was great effort to catch it."


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I'll give it a shot, but honestly, Halo doesn't really seem like the best video game to adapt to TV.
I don't want to think about TV, damnit. I watch Youtube videos more than I watch actual shows on my cable box.