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Mobula munkiana
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Mobula munkiana Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, 1987
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|The relatively recent description of this species and similarity of morphology among mobulids may account for common misidentifications of this ray.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
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|Bizzarro, J.J., Smith, W.D. & Clark, T.B.
|Kyne, P.M., Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, G., Fowler, S.L. & Compagno, L.J.V. (Shark Red List Authority)
Mobula munkiana is a recently described inshore devil ray which is known to form large aggregations. It is endemic to the Eastern Pacific from the Gulf of California, México to Peru and reaches 110 cm disc width. It is listed as Near Threatened due to its episodically high catch rates from gillnet fisheries, restricted range and low reproductive potential. The large schools, migratory nature, and demersal feeding of M. munkiana make it highly susceptible to coastal demersal gillnet fisheries throughout its range. Fishery information for this species is limited to the Gulf of California, México, where it is landed in a mixed mobulid fishery south of La Paz, México and in nearshore artisanal elasmobranch fisheries throughout the Gulf of California. A fecundity of one pup per female emphasizes the limited reproductive potential and low productivity of this species. Sporadically high landings (>60 per gillnet) in the northern Gulf of California stress the vulnerability of M. munkiana to bottomset gillnets and the extreme fluctuations in its local abundance. Life history characteristics, limited distribution, and exposure to many fisheries due to its highly migratory nature will likely result in designation of the species as Vulnerable should additional fisheries details become available.
|Range Description:
|Eastern Pacific from the Gulf of California, México to Peru, including the Galapagos, Cocos, and Malpelo Islands (Robertson and Allen 2002).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Sonora); Nicaragua; Panama; Peru
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – southeast
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|No information is available on its population biology.
|Current Population Trend:
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|Mobula munkiana is a recently described schooling species typically of shallow coastal waters, known to form large, highly mobile aggregations (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1987, 1988). Specifics of its migratory patterns are largely unknown or speculative (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1988, J. Bizzarro pers. obs).
Most of the fragmentary information available on the species is derived from the work of Notarbartolo-di-Sciara (1987, 1988) in the southern Gulf of California, México, though this species has been recently observed during artisanal fishing camp surveys throughout the Gulf of California (R. Hueter et al. unpublished data, Bizzarro 2001). Migrations are likely driven by temporal changes in water temperature with local movements presumed to be associated with the distribution and abundance of planktonic crustaceans, especially mysid shrimp (Mysidium spp.). Mysids are believed to be the dominant prey item of this species, at least during winter months. However, these conclusions are drawn from a very limited sample size (n=3) and through inference with a closely related, similar-sized mobulid from Africa (M. rochebrunei) and as such should be considered speculative (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1988, J. Bizzarro pers. obs). Gastropod shells and coral fragments have been found in stomach contents (presumed taken incidentally), indicating that unlike other eastern Pacific mobulids, benthic foraging may be common (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1988). This species may live in large aggregations consisting of several schools that move locally or regionally between prey patches. Occurrence of large schools in the northern Gulf of California are likely confined to summer months, though it has been reported in low numbers throughout the year in the southern Gulf of California (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1988, Bizzarro 2001, J. Bizzarro unpublished data). Mobula munkiana is not thought to segregate by gender, but may segregate by size (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1988). Observations and catches of the species often occur in pulses as it may be abundant in an area for only a few days and then not be observed locally for weeks or months (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1988, Villavicencio-Garayzar 1991, J. Bizzarro pers. obs). These movements have likely influenced the contrasting conclusions of M. munkiana abundance in the southern Gulf of California (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1988, Villavicencio-Garayzar 1991). Frequent benthic association of this species would also account for its irregularity in pelagic gillnet landings.
Location of copulation is unknown, but partruition has been reported in Bahía de La Paz during May and June (Villavicencio-Garayzar 1991). Although data is limited, sexual maturity of males is thought to occur at ~87cm DW based on an increase in clasper size and hardening of the clasper cartilage (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1988), with females maturing at 97cm DW (Villavicencio-Garayzar 1991). The reproductive mode is aplacental viviparity and embryos feed initially on yolk, then through absorption of enriched uterine fluid from the mother (Wourms 1977). Only the left ovary is functional and reports indicate that a maximum of one pup is estimated to be produced (Villavicencio-Garayzar 1991). Reproductive periodicity is unknown and there is no information on age and growth for this species.
Life history parameters
Age at maturity (years): Unknown.
Size at maturity (disc width): Female: 97 cm DW (Villavicencio-Garayzar 1991); Male: ~87 cm DW (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1988).
Longevity (years): Unknown.
Maximum size (disc width): 110 cm DW (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1987).
Size at birth: 35 to 36 cm DW (estimated from related species by Notarbartolo-di-Sciara (1988), verified by Villavicencio-Garayzar (1991).
Average reproductive age (years): Unknown.
Gestation time (months): Unknown.
Reproductive periodicity: Unknown.
Average annual fecundity or litter size: 1 pup/litter (Villavicencio-Garayzar 1991).
Annual rate of population increase: Unknown.
Natural mortality: Unknown.
|Major Threat(s):
Mobula munkiana is highly susceptible to demersal and pelagic gillnets due to its consistent schooling nature and benthic feeding ability. Juveniles could also be incidentally captured in trawl fisheries. The species is landed in directed artisanal elasmobranch fisheries in the Gulf of California and it is possibly taken as bycatch in many nearshore gillnet and trawl fisheries throughout its range. The relatively recent description of this species and similarity of morphology among mobulids may account for common misidentifications of this ray making it underrepresented among available records.
In northern Gulf of California artisanal fishery surveys during 1998 and 1999, M. munkiana were observed to be landed in large numbers at several camps. As catches in the more southerly camps decreased, those in the north increased, suggesting that large portions of the schools may be taken during the unknown movement patterns of this highly mobile species. The species was directly targeted during these times and dominated the elasmobranch landings (J. Bizzarro and W. Smith unpublished data, Bizzarro 2001). However, although catches consist of hundreds of individuals per day when the species is present, artisanal fishermen indicate that the presence of the ray is somewhat unpredictable.
Notarbartolo-di-Sciara (1988) described an active mobulid fishery operating from several artisanal fishing camps in and around Bahía la Ventana, Baja California Sur, México. Mobula munkiana, though taken, was not an abundant species in landings (9% of observed mobulid catches). Recent fieldwork in this region (June 2001), however, showed that this fishery is still active and that M. munkiana was the dominant mobulid landed, at least at the time of surveys (J. Bizzarro unpublished data). This species was landed with gillnets of 10-12", typically set at the surface, but also throughout the water column.
Mobula munkiana is not likely to be able to tolerate high catch levels, given its low reproductive potential. Increasing demand for mobulid products in Asia, which may result in increased targeting in Central America, is of great concern.
|Conservation Actions:
Additional research is needed to quantify the extent of target and non-target fisheries take for this species throughout its range. Most current information is derived from the Gulf of California, México, but this represents a very small portion of the overall range of M. munkiana. Because of its moderate to large size, schooling and migratory behavior, extremely low fecundity and large size at maturity, this species is likely highly vulnerable to fishing pressure. However, available life history information is limited and more research is required to make a more accurate assessment of the threat posed by fisheries.
In México, a moratorium on the issue of elasmobranch fishing permits was issued in 1993, but no formal management plan has been implemented for Mobula munkiana specifically or most other chondrichthyans. However, legislation is currently being developed in México to establish national elasmobranch fishery management. Elasmobranch fisheries are unmanaged throughout Central America, and attempts to regulate fisheries in Central America would greatly improve conservation of M. munkiana and other chondrichthyans.
Elasmobranch landings in México and Central America lack species-specific details with batoids broadly grouped as "manta raya". Improved clarity in catch records would provide a basis for detecting potential trends in effort and landings.
The development and implementation of management plans (national and/or regional e.g., under the FAO International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks: IPOA-Sharks) are required to facilitate the conservation and sustainable management of all chondrichthyan species in Central America.
The vulnerability of mobulids and increasing demand/catches requires urgent international conservation measures. These will need to focus on harvest and trade management.
|Bizzarro, J.J., Smith, W.D. & Clark, T.B. 2006. Mobula munkiana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T60198A12309375. . Downloaded on 20 September 2018.
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Over the weekend, the daughter of one of Mexico's government officials had her father send inspectors to shut down a restaurant that didn't give her the exact table she wanted.
Andrea Benitez, the daughter of the federal attorney general for consumer protection, Humberto Benitez Trevino, went to the Maximo Bistrot in Mexico City's trendy Roma Norte neighborhood and apparently didn't get the table she wanted or had been promised. Just hours after the incident, inspectors showed up with official "suspended" signs to punish the restaurant.
Benitez Trevino issued a statement apologizing for "the inappropriate behavior of my daughter Andrea." While he didn't explicitly say his daughter sicced the inspectors on the eatery, his apology implied she did.
"She exaggerated the situation and the officials of the Attorney General's Office for Consumer Protection, which I head, overreacted because it was my daughter," he wrote. "Immediately upon hearing of the situation, I ordered the raid (on the restaurant) suspended, to avoid any excesses."
The Economy Department, which oversees Benitez Trevino's office, said President Enrique Pena Nieto had ordered the federal comptroller's office to open an investigation into the case on Monday.
The restaurant was able to open for business on Sunday, and Benitez Trevino's office said the inspectors had suspended only two of the bistro's permits: one governing reservations and one covering liquor sales, because volume contents of bottles were not appropriately listed.
This is just the latest of several cases of perceived arrogance by the wealthy and well-connected that have caused anger recently in a country with deep class divisions.
Many people say string-pulling and influence-wielding are all too common in Mexico, where arguments with politicians' relatives often end with the threatening phrase, "You don't know who you're messing with." The difference now is that with social media, such incidents go viral and force immediate reaction.
"As a society, we are fed up with, disgusted with this," said writer Guadalupe Loaeza. "This is an attitude of the past; it doesn't fit with the times."
Pena Nieto has to be particularly careful about such incidents since his Institutional Revolutionary Party, which regained power last year after 12 years out of the presidency, had become infamous during its 1929-2000 rule for breeding an extended clan of arrogant, inexplicably wealthy politicians known as the "Revolutionary Family."
Pena Nieto's own daughter Paulina was involved in an embarrassing incident in late 2011. Reacting to social media critiques of her father, the teenager re-tweeted a comment that described people gloating over his gaffes as "the bunch of idiots who form part of the proletariat and only criticize those they envy."
Pena Nieto quickly apologized on his own Twitter account, and the daughter later wrote, "I apologize with all my heart ... I recognize what I did was wrong and I am sorry."
In 2012, the daughter of the head of Mexico's oil workers union, Carlos Romero Deschamps, posted Facebook photos of her trips to Europe aboard private jets and yachts. The photos showed her designer handbags and her three bulldogs sleeping in luxury hotels rooms.
While somewhat more muted, politicians' families continued to pull strings under the conservative National Action Party, which governed from 2000 to 2012.
"It never went away. If we recall, there were incidents like this under National Action," said Jose Antonio Crespo, a historian at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching in Mexico City, referring to government contracts handed out to the sons of former first lady Martha Sahagun in the early 2000s. "There is nepotism and political privilege in all the political parties."
Loaeza said she is confident the times are changing, in part because social media are capable of focusing a huge amount of attention, instantly, on such bad behavior.
In the latest case, diners at the restaurant photographed the inspectors' raid and posted comments on social media sites. Andrea Benitez found herself a trending topic on Twitter with her own hashtag and thousands of negative tweets.
"Just look at Pena Nieto's daughters, and what a low profile they keep. They're not out in public anymore," Loaeza noted. "Mexican society is not going to put up with this anymore. Now people complain, now it becomes a scandal."
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Vijay Singh withdrew from the Wells Fargo Championship because of a sore back Wednesday, one day after the PGA Tour said it would not punish the Fijian for his admission that he used deer antler spray.
The tour said Tuesday the World Anti-Doping Agency informed it that the spray contains only small amounts of a growth hormone factor that is banned under the anti-doping policy.
The tour had been set to sanction Singh until WADA clarified its position on deer antler spray.
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"He would never ever hurt a baby," the 90-year-old woman said from the duplex where she lives on Main Street in Plaistow next to Dow and Jessica Linscott.
But authorities tell a different story, and next week the couple will likely appear in a Plaistow courtroom to answer charges of assault and neglect in a case of alleged child abuse that has sparked public outrage.
Dow, 27, and Linscott, 23, waived extradition in Florida Friday morning, clearing the way for local authorities to bring the fugitive couple back to New Hampshire.
Rockingham County Attorney James Reams said travel arrangements were being made Friday for their return.
Dow is charged with first- and second-degree assault for allegedly striking Linscott's son, James Nicholson, in the head on Nov. 1, causing a traumatic brain injury that led to seizures and other symptoms that police say went untreated two weeks later. Dow is also accused of burning the boy's wrist and fingers.
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I don't really see how it matters how much one climbs. A troll is a troll, and in this case, not a very good one. Having an outstanding climbing resume doesn't give one a free pass. I wasn't the one to clean up the thread and don't know who did, I was happy to simply ignore him. So it goes. Come out and join us next year toxo - I'm sure you'd have fun.


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April 02. 2013 8:54PM
By BOB HOOKWAY
Special to the Union Leader
LANCASTER - A Coos County Superior Court grand jury has indicted a 43-year-old Whitefield man on a charge of kidnapping and four other felony counts in connection with alleged sexual attacks on a child under age 10 in February in Whitefield.
Michael Gibson of 30 Elm St., Apartment 1, in Whitefield was also indicted on two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, one count of felonious sexual assault and a charge of witness tampering for allegedly threatening to hurt the girl if she told anyone about what happened.
Gibson is accused of confining the girl, keeping her under his control, and sexually assaulting her. The charges are class B felonies.
In other indictments handed up at its March 29 session and released Tuesday, the grand jury indicted: James Lapre, 39, of 90 Pinyon Place, Londonderry, with seven counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault between August 2007 and August 2010 in Lancaster, Gorham and Berlin. The alleged victim is a girl who was under age 11 when the reported assaults began; Lynn Perry, 41, of 59 Depot St., Lancaster, with first-degree assault and second-degree assault on Feb. 14 in Northumberland. Perry is accused of hitting a woman in the head with "a glass receptacle or mug, a hard glass object, a deadly weapon."
According to the indictments, Perry caused a severe injury to the woman's head. The woman lost consciousness, and was left her with a head cut that required sutures, according to the indictments. The charges are class A and class B felonies, respectively.


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BUNKER, MO. (KTVI) – The mother of two brothers killed in a weekend fire believes the fire started from someone cooking methamphetamine.
Charlie Dewayne Piatt was 2-years-old. His younger brother, James Jason Piatt, was 3-months-old. They both died inside their home off Highway 72 in Bunker, Mo. Bunker is about 130 miles southwest of St. Louis.
The fire started around 1:30am on Saturday. The children were inside their home with a babysitter but were unable to escape. One woman and three children were able to get out in time.
The boy's mother, Ronda Ashlock-Piatt, collapsed on Monday night as she was surrounded by more than 100 people holding hands. She regained her strength for the remainder of a candlelight vigil held on Main Street. She told Fox 2 that the person she believes cooked meth, is in custody.
The Reynolds County Sheriff said he would neither confirm nor deny Ashlock-Piatt's statement regarding meth and whether anyone was arrested. He said the investigation is still continuing.
Ashlock-Piatt encouraged anyone with information on the case to contact the Reynolds County Sheriff's Department. She also wanted to thank everyone for their support and those who tried to pull her children out of the fire.
One investigator said the children died from smoke inhalation.
A pastor who spoke during Monday's vigil encouraged everyone to provide support for the victims' family. He said he couldn't imagine losing a child, especially with the holidays around the corner.
"I don't know how to give any solace, except for the fact that they are cared about," said Pastor Chad Wisdom, Sugar Creek Grove Baptist Church.
Family friend Dawn Nall said, "We are trying with all our hearts to help this family and it's just tragic."
Anyone wanting to help pay for the boys' funeral expenses can make donations to the McSpadden Funeral Home, 610 South Main Street, Ellington, Mo 63638. The funeral home phone number is 573-663-7111.
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Team Spain moved on to the European Ladies Amateur Team Championship Final Friday with a 4.5-2.5 win over host England. Rising senior Marta Sanz and her sister, former Tiger Patricia Sanz, are on Spain's six-person roster.
In the morning doubles matches, Marta Sanz teamed up with Natalia Escuriola to down the English team of Bronte Law and Meghan Maclaren, 2-up. Sanz also competed in the afternoon singles matches, but dropped hers to Hayley Davis, 1-up.
With the win, Spain, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, moves on to the championship match against No. 8 seeded Austria. The Austrians defeated top-seeded Denmark, 4-3, in the first round and No. 5 seed Finland, 5.5-1.5, in the semifinals.
The championship match is set to begin at 2:40 a.m. CT, Saturday at the Fulford Golf Club in York, England. Live stats can be found at www.EnglandGolf.org.
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The festival kicks off on Tuesday night with a silent double feature: William McKay's cartoon classic Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) and Harry O. Hoyt's groundbreaking Lost World (1925). Considered state-of-the-art in their day, both films have been deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.
King Kong swings into action on Wednesday night. One of the most iconic movies in the history of cinema, this 1933 masterpiece features stegosaurus, apatosaurus, pteranodon and, of course, T-rex.
Science meets camp and Jurassic Park meets Gumby in 1966's One Million Years B.C. on Thursday night. Director Don Chaffey gets just about everything wrong, but Ray Harryhausen's award-winning stop action animation brings the dinosaurs to life in magnificent Technicolor.
The festival closes on Saturday with Steven Spielberg's The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) presented by The Town of Secaucus as part of its free summer movie series.
Mesozoic Movies are free and show time is 7 p.m. Gates will open at 6:45 p.m. Guests wishing to visit Field Station: Dinosaurs' exhibits prior to the movie can buy special "Twilight Tickets" for $12. Twilight Tickets are good for entrance to the park after 5 p.m. and can be purchased at the Box Office at One Dinosaur Way in Secaucus. Seating for the movies is extremely limited.


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March 12, 1947 - January 31, 2013
Middletown, NY
Donna Marie was born on March 12, 1947, the third child of John Sinclair Schmoll and Frances Johnson Schmoll, at Nyack Hospital in Nyack, NY. She died on January 31, 2013 at her home in Middletown.
Donna graduated from Tappan High School in Orangeburg, NY, Class of 1964. Married shortly thereafter, she gave birth to her son, Mark Andrew in 1965. After travelling to Europe and living in Germany for three years with her service-man husband, the family returned to the US and settled in Lawton, OK, near Fort Sill. Her daughter, Mary Ann, was born in 1970 at Fort Sill Keller Army Hospital. After graduating form the Great Plains Area Vo-Tech School of Practical Nursing, she and her children moved to Middletown. She began her career at the Letchworth Village Unit at Middletown Psychiatric Center. She continued her education while raising her children and working as an LPN. In 1980, she received an AAS degree in professional nursing from Orange County Community College and in 1991 a BA and MS in hospital management from the New School. Her jobs varied at the Psychiatric Center from LPN to RN to Nurse Administrator. She was certified as an alcoholism counselor and a basic first aid and CPR instructor.
She married Victor P. Villegas on April 19, 1988. Although Victor became increasingly disabled, they were able to travel extensively throughout the United States. He predeceased her on January 18, 2010.
Donna was a member of the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary, the B.P.O.E. #1097, the Orange County Democratic Women, the Gold Star Wives of America, and St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Donna and her sisters won first place in the Saturday Nite Women's Bowling League two years in row.
She is survived by her son, Mark Guglielmetti and his wife, Denise of Lawton, OK and her daughter, Mary Trautlein and her husband, George Christopher of Middletown; her brother, John and his wife, Barbara of Walden; and brother-in-law, Fred Villegas and his wife, Cheryl of Middletown; her sisters: Fran and her husband, Howard, JoAnne and her husband, Larry, and Kathy, all of Sebastian, FL. She is also survived by her beloved grandchildren: Mark Jr., George Xavier and Josephine; and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation hours will be from 7 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, February 3, 2013 at Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc., 130 Highland Avenue, Middletown, NY 10940. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, February 4, 2013 with Fr. Dennis Nikolic officiating, at St. Joseph's R.C. Church, 149 Cottage Street, Middletown, NY 10940. Burial will follow in the family plot in St. Joseph's Cemetery.


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This Week In Island History
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, May 30, 1913
Work on the transformer house for the electric lighting company has been commenced by Contractor Kirwin of Newport. The building, which will be a small affair, will be located near the entrance of the Clothier property at the Dumplings.
A movement is on foot to make war on the tent caterpillar, which is more numerous this year than ever before on the island. Many of the trees, especially the wild cherries, are being denuded of leaves. The improvement society has had men destroying the nests about the streets of the town proper, but as there are not sufficient funds available to extend the work outside of town, an effort headed by Dr. A.M. Mendenhall to interest the small boys to help in the work of eradicating the pest is planned.
The reduced telephone rates between the island and Newport went into effect June 1.
The summer mail schedule has gone into effect, there now being a Sunday mail and a late daily mail out.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 1, 1938
At its 184th commencement today, Columbia University will confer an honorary degree of doctor of letters on Thomas Mann, self-exiled German novelist, critic and Nobel Prize winner, who, with his wife, has taken up residence in Jamestown to remain through June. They are guests of Miss Caroline Newton, of Philadelphia, who turned over her cottage to them for the present.
From the Newport Daily News, June 4, 1938
Following a short meeting, the Boys Scouts held a track meet at the Thomas H. Clarke School Friday evening.
The pupils of the seventh and eighth grades of the Thomas H. Clarke School held a tea dance at the school Friday afternoon. There was an attendance of 50.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 2, 1963
The two sixth grades at Jamestown School visited Mystic Seaport last week.
Point View Hotel in Jamestown opened on May 29 for the season.
The Jamestown Town Council last night considered plans for a town highway barn and civic center and made known it has petitioned the Superior Court for permission to foreclose on a tax lien that would give the town clear control of 57 1/2 acres at Potter's Point.
One plan for a new town barn, including a new compressor for the fire whistle, razing the old barn and making other improvements would cost $32,000. The second plan, for a new civic center including the renovation of the Clarke School to house town departments, would cost $75,000. The third plan, calling for an expenditure of $260,000, provides $200,000 for a new civic center building and $60,000 for moving the town departments.
25 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 3, 1988
Bridge repair workers were dozing in pickup trucks on the Jamestown Bridge early this morning, despite a 24-hour-a- day contract to repair the span's deck, a motorist said today.
From the Newport Daily News, June 6, 1988
Some Newport bound commuters, expecting traffic delays on the Jamestown Bridge, arrived early for work this morning when they discovered no one working on the bridge. Beginning Tuesday, repair work on the 48-year-old span, which caused massive traffic backups last week, will be conducted 12 hours a day instead of round the clock.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press, June 4, 1998
The Town Council called an emergency session Sunday evening to act on the state Department of Transportation's lack of communication with Jamestown regarding its plans for further work on Southwest Avenue.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, June 5, 2003
Less restrictive water regulations now in effect: It looks like
it will be a good growing summer for local gardeners and a clean July for boats, cars and houses, but a green lawn season only to the extent that nature prevails. That is the season's outlook for the town's 1,520 water customers. "Protect Jamestown's rural character" is the opening line of the comprehensive plan, which is the document that the town's government is supposed to follow.


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Nine points were scored in the final 46 seconds of regulation to tie a first-round regional tournament game between the Lady Vandals and Greenville at 50 on Monday night, but the Lady Comets made several free throws in overtime to secure a 64-60 victory.
With 1:05 left in regulation, senior Amy Walton committed the seventh team foul for Vandalia, and one Greenville free throw gave the Lady Comets a three-point lead.
A gelding named in tribute to a late St. Elmo man is making quite an impression on followers of harness racing.
St. Elmo Hero, a 5-year-old horse named after lifelong St. Elmo resident John Nessa, recently earned his 23rd win in 23 starts at the Complex Series finals at the Meadowlands in Rutherford, N.J., on Jan. 29.
In those 23 races since July 14, St. Elmo Hero has earned almost $200,000, and his breeder and former owner, Carl Becker owner of Fair Meadow Farm in Altamont, said the horse could win $1 million in 2011.
SHELBYVILLE – Vandalia junior Levi Ulmer earned his 100th career victory in helping the Vandal wrestling team earn its 17th straight regional championship on Saturday.
Ulmer, ranked No. 4 among 171-pound Illinois wrestlers, earned the milestone victory against Carlyle senior Brett Dieters in the semifinals of Vandalia's victory to become one of just a handful of the school's wrestlers to reach the mark as a junior.
SHELBYVILLE -- Justin Hill, C.J. Runkel and Daniel Edwards all won individual regional championships to help Vandalia win its 17th straight regional title on Saturday.
Levi Ulmer earned his 100th career win in the semifinals and lost to the No. 2 ranked wrestler in the state in the championship bout.
A full story will appear in Thursday's edition of The Leader-Union.
The Vandalia High School wrestlers are at the Shelbyville Regional Tournament. The finals begin at 1 p.m.
A decision on the Vandalia High School boys basketball game (6 p.m. start against Marquette Catholic) has yet to be made. We will bring that information when it becomes available.
The Vandalia Eighth-Grade Volleyball Tournament was canceled.
Please continnue to check back through the day for more cancellation updates.
The following Vandalia athletic events have been canceled for Thursday, Feb. 3
•Boys basketball against Altamont is canceled and rescheduled for Feb. 17.
•Junior high volleyball against Pana is canceled.
The following St. Elmo athletic events have been canceled for Thursday, Feb. 3:
Vandal 8th-graders win tournament
For the first time on Saturday, the Vandalia Junior High eighth-grade volleyball team won the Edwardsville Tournament.
In the first game, the Lady Vandals beat St. Norberts, 25-14, 25-16. Jessica Sullens had 12 points and five service aces, and Kadi Metzger had five points and four service aces.
In the second game, the Lady Vandals beat Edwardsville Liberty, 25-17, 19-25, 15-13. Jori Wagner had nine points, and Ali Sasse had eight points and four service aces.
Tuesday's boys basketball game at Pana was canceled due to inclement weather. It was rescheduled for Monday.
The boys are scheduled to play on Thursday against Altamont, but the weather may force that game to be canceled, as well. Game cancellations are posted on www.leaderunion.com as soon as they are announced.
The Vandals also host Marquette Catholic on Saturday at 6 p.m. and play at South Central on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Tuesday's Lady Vandals basketball game at Greenville was canceled due to inclement weather.
Ramsey struggled to a 0-4 mark at the Christ Our Rock Lutheran Tournament last week.
Senior Blake Hadley was named to the all-tournament team.
Hadley led the Rams with 20 points last Friday against Patoka, but Warriors senior Blake Budds matched him shot-for-shot with 21 points during Patoka's 61-39 win.
Ramsey started and finished the game slowly, trailing 28-17 at halftime and allowing Patoka 21 fourth-quarter points, while scoring just seven of its own.
After his team lost to Sandoval to open the Christ Our Rock Lutheran Tournament last Monday, Mulberry Grove coach Chris Johnson said he believed his team could win its next three games in the tournament.
He was almost right, as the Aces defeated Ramsey and the host, and only losing to Patoka by two points.
In the end, Mulberry Grove finished in second place, and senior Harley Steed had been named to the all-tournament team.
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The Dark Horse
Herman Cain, the pizza magnate who would be president—the first in a series of Slate looks at the 2012 candidates.
Herman Cain's political career began when he defeated Bill Clinton on live television. If you missed it—and it was 17 years ago—it happened when the president was making one of the last blitzes for his health care reform plan, and was holding town-hall-style meetings to explain how mandating employer-based coverage would work.
Cain got a question in. He'd been a turnaround artist at Pillsbury, working with Burger King, and in 1986 he'd been put in command of the failing Godfather's Pizza franchise. He saved it with triage, closing 250 of around 800 restaurants, before leading an investor group that bought the franchise and put him in charge. By the time he met Clinton, he had been elected president of the National Restaurant Association. This explained some of his confidence as he lit into his president.
"On behalf of all of those business owners that are in a situation similar to mine," asked Cain, "my question is, quite simply, if I'm forced to do this what will I tell those people whose jobs I will have to eliminate?"
"Well, wait a minute," said Clinton, attempting a charm offensive. "Let's ask—let's talk a minute about what you would have to do." The employer mandate would add only 2 percent to Cain's costs, Clinton argued, and Cain could just charge more for pizza.
"I'm a satisfied customer, I'd keep buying from you."
"Mr. President," said Cain, "with all due respect, your calculation on what the impact would do, quite honestly, is incorrect."
Conservatives treated the Cain mutiny like a bootleg from a Bob Dylan/George Harrison jam session, passed from fan to fan. Rush Limbaugh played the clip on his short-lived TV show. Cain's senator, Paul Coverdell, called him a "profile in courage." Newt Gingrich praised Cain and, after Republicans won Congress in the fall, gave him a slot on a flat-tax study group.
That didn't pan out—a representative of fellow panel member Pete DuPont said he "doesn't remember enough of what they worked on and spoke about to do an interview." But Jack Kemp made a pilgrimage to Omaha to meet the man who called himself The Hermanator—a name he has now trademarked—and bring him into the Republican Party. "Here's a black guy," Kemp told reporter Ceci Connolly after he was nominated for vice president in 1996, "who stands up with the voice of Othello, the looks of a football player, the English of Oxfordian quality and the courage of a lion."
No surprise that he stuck with the GOP after treatment like that. He co-chaired the 2000 Steve Forbes campaign, ran for U.S. Senate in Georgia (he came in second to now-Sen. Johnny Isakson, pointing out that, while he got half as many votes, he "came within two percentage points of getting into a run-off"), and launched a radio talk show and political column. Last week Cain launched a presidential exploratory committee, becoming the first Republican candidate of the 2012 race. He did 15 launch interviews and got the polite coverage afforded to a dark horse. "Cain didn't seem particularly plugged into the day to day of politics," observed Politico's Ben Smith.
That's the oddity of the Cain campaign: He's a man out of time. In the 1990s and 2000s, there was no easy way to transition from The Man Who Invented the Hot Slice into politics. In 2011, the Republican electorate wants to hear from anyone who's not a politician. That's what they say, anyway.
"The political landscape has changed dramatically because of the citizens' movement spurred by the Tea Party movement," Cain told me in an interview, giving me the elevator pitch for why he couldn't win a GOP Senate primary in 2004 but can win a presidential primary now. "Based upon me being very active in that citizens movement, talking to dozens and dozens and dozens of Tea Party rallies, events, conferences all over this country, I believe that people have a better attitude for an unconventional candidate—someone who's more of a problem-solver than a politician."
He's right about the Tea Party. When Cain speaks at conservative conferences and Tea Party rallies, he gets bigger crowds than members of Congress, and only slightly smaller crowds than Fox News hosts. He was invited to join the board of Tea Party Patriots, declining in part because he was thinking about this presidential bid, and he was a spokesman for Ginni Thomas' "Liberty Central." At the October 2010 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention in Richmond, I saw football-jersey-style T-shirts displaying names of those who might run for president this year: Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, and Herman Cain. When no other Republican wanted to talk about 2012, Cain would walk into speeches introduced by a heavily produced video, a highlight reel of his other speeches.
What sort of speech do they get? What do they get when they tune into Cain's radio show? It's a mash-up of Dale Carnegie-esque leadership talk and conservative talk about the Constitution, the socialism of Barack Obama, and the rest of the Democrats' crimes against the individual. His speech in Richmond was a perfect example. "The tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals," said Cain. "The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach for." It could be the case against Marx, or it could be one of those weekend-long conferences on self-actualization.
This might be because Cain has spent as much time writing and talking about business skills as he's spent talking about politics. He's penned three books, one of which is a standard political epistle, but two of which— Leadership Is Common Sense and Speak As a Leader: Develop the Better Speaker in You—fit snugly on the shelf next to Tony Robbins. Foolish people, he argues, avoid the "A, B, and C factors" that drag them down and pivot to "the D, E, and F factors—the world might appreciate the D, E, and F of something instead of another A, B and C of everything." When I talked to Cain, he accused the Obama administration of falling in that trap as it fumbled from crisis to crisis. "He picked the wrong experts!" said Cain. "Good grief! The wrong experts!"
In his book on public speaking, written after he'd done years of get-motivated speeches, he analyzed his turnaround at Godfather's in terms that sound exactly like what he, and every other Tea Party star, wants to do to Washington. "We discovered that what our loyal customers wanted most was a consistent original crust with their choice of ten different toppings made to order," he wrote. "So we eliminated the other crusts and concentrated on original product … the entire organization was then self-motivated to produce quality consistently, having identified and removed the biggest barrier to do so—too many crusts!"
When I talked to Cain, he put every issue into this framework. Asked about foreign policy, which he doesn't talk about much in speeches, he identified a problem—weakness and slow decision-making—and proposed a solution: gathering up leaders.
"I support the surge in Afghanistan but I would have sent those troops earlier than the president sent them," said Cain. "I don't know, because I'm not privy to all of the intelligence, if we can win in Afghanistan. If we can, then I would have never announced a withdrawal date. And so the first thing that I'd do [if elected] is summon the experts to find out can we win. If the answer is yes, what is it going to take? And I'm not going to broadcast it to our enemies as to when we're going to get out of there."
He restated this, to be clear about how much he saw his job as handing out tasks to smart people. "If the experts—the generals, the joint chiefs of staff—if they believe we can win, I'm not going to tear up the plan they give me," he said. "I'm going to execute the plan. If we can't win, I want to know what we can do to exit with dignity out of that country."
Cain spent some more time explaining his view of the war on terror—"we're going to be in this war forever" —and the Iraq War. "The people of Iraq, they wanted to become a democracy," he said. "If they did not want to become a democracy, I do not think President Bush forced it upon them. Once it was clear that they wanted to become a democracy, President Bush pledged to help them do that. I know enough from the reports that I've read that this is something the Iraqi people wanted."
These are not the issues that got Cain into politics, though. He won that first debate because he was discussing the business he spent his life working with. He eased into electoral politics after mastering public speaking. When Cain doesn't know something, he studies. He trusts the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Media Research Center, and research from Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Tax Reform. (He supports replacing the income tax with the national consumption Fair Tax.) Is it enough for a Republican presidential candidate to hit Iowa and South Carolina and New Hampshire—he's been to all of them—conversant in the work of the think tanks?
Cain is going to try. He likes to open speeches with a joke at President Obama's expense. He'll recite the opening words of the Declaration of Independence by memory, then he'll point out that he didn't need a teleprompter to do it. He said he had a better grasp on reality than Bill Clinton. Does he have a better grasp of facts than Barack Obama?
"I have been studying this stuff," said Cain. "Now, about the president." His thinks on this. "I try to be nice. This president, I don't think, can discuss any of the things that he says in speeches deeper than on the surface. I can go two and three deep on trying to help people understand where we're coming from, because I've been studying these issues for years."


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After the wakeup call from Mission Control, the song "Good Morning Starshine," in recognition of the early morning deploy of the spherical-shaped, mirror-covered STARSHINE satellite. Students on Earth will use changes in the orbit of the highly reflective satellite to calculate the density of the earth's atmosphere throughout the projected 8 months that the 19-inch diameter satellite will remain in orbit. More than 25,000 students from 18 countries are participating in the project.
Before the crew deploys STARSHINE from a small canister in the payload bay, however, the crew will ready Discovery for the return home by testing the aero surfaces on the wings and tail, as well as the small steering jets to ensure their health to support reentry and landing activities Saturday night into Sunday morning. These checkouts are routinely done the day before the shuttle is scheduled to return home.
There currently are two landing opportunities at the Kennedy Space Center Sunday. For the first, Commander Kent Rominger would fire Discovery's braking rockets Saturday evening at 11:54 p.m. CDT and land at the Shuttle Landing Facility at 1:02 a.m. Sunday. The second landing opportunity is about an hour and a half later 2:38 a.m. This will be the 11th night landing for the shuttle program (five previously at Edwards AFB, Calif., and five at KSC). Weather forecasters predict favorable conditions for landing with a chance of developing rain showers. Based on that, landing support will only be called in for support in Florida.
In and around landing preparations and the STARSHINE deploy, the crew will stow all equipment used throughout the mission.
The next STS-96 mission status report will be issued at about 6 a.m. Saturday or as developments warrant.


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This is a pretty cool concept in my opinion. It's quite the interesting caching server (or sequence of caching servers) that are open for anyone to use. http://www.coralcdn.org/
I only came across this because someone replied on the nmap-dev mailing list that this could be a great way for Irongeek to distribute his nmap tutorials without hogging his bandwidth. It's also a great way for anyone else wanting to share large files with the community. You simply attach .nyud.net:8090 to the end of any website and it'll access it through one of the caching servers. This could have gone in security as it also doubles as a proxy, but I decided to place it here instead. Using Irongeek's Your IP page along with the .nyud.net:8090 added on causes the following to be displayed.Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a $50/month cable modem.
Publishing through Coral is as simple as appending a short string to the hostname of objects' URLs; a peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating caching proxies, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server. Sites that run Coral automatically replicate content as a side effect of users accessing it, improving its availability. Using modern peer-to-peer indexing techniques, Coral will efficiently find a cached object if it exists anywhere in the network, requiring that it use the origin server only to initially fetch the object once.
This is quite obviously not my information. Anyways.. it is quite interesting and felt it worth sharing since searches for Coral on the site didn't bring up anything related.Info obtained by PHP on the server:
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John Eric Goff, the chair of the physics department at Lynchburg College, explains the science of the 2014 World Cup soccer ball. The Adidas Brazuca is expected to perform better than the version used in South Africa in 2010.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block.
If you think a soccer ball is just a soccer ball, think again. We're going to kick around the Brazuca. It's the official match ball of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It's made by Adidas. It took years of development and testing to get it ready, and FIFA officials can only hope it avoids the scorn heaped on the much-maligned and erratic 2010 World Cup ball, the Jabulani. Lynchburg College physicist John Eric Goff has been studying aerodynamic wind tunnel tests of the new Brazuca ball.
JOHN ERIC GOFF: I started analyzing the data and creating some trajectory models. And we now have a pretty good understanding of what the Brazuca ball is going to do, and it looks a lot better than the Jabulani.
BLOCK: Yeah. Well, let's go back just a bit to that 2010 World Cup ball, the Jabulani. Goalkeepers at the time, said this: It's dreadful, like a beach ball goes all over the place, a catastrophe. They hated it. So what was going on aerodynamically with that ball that now that they're hoping they fixed?
GOFF: So a lot of us probably kicked around a soccer ball that had 32 panels on it, kind of the traditional, the 20 hexagons, the 12 pentagons. The Jabulani ball only had 8 panels. It was intentionally textured by Adidas. And what happened was they didn't count on the fact that the drag crisis - where you have this drop in the drag coefficient on the ball - took place at speed scene on the soccer pitch all the time, these intermediate speeds of between about 30 and 55 miles an hour was this region where you're going to get a knuckling effect on the Jabalani ball. And that's been corrected with the Brazuca ball.
BLOCK: And when you say knuckling effect, what are you talking about?
GOFF: So if a ball is kicked with very little spin, think of a knuckleball in baseball, you can get air flowing over part of the ball where it's rougher than another part of the ball on, say, the opposite side where it's smooth. Think of the seams on a baseball versus the smooth part. That leads to different float characters around ball, and you can get sideways forces. And that's what we refer to as the knuckle effect.
BLOCK: OK, so that's the - that's what was going on with the Jabulani, those wacky, erratic flight patterns. So now you've tested the new ball, the 2014 ball, what did you find? Have they fixed it?
GOFF: So the Brazuca now has the drag crisis at a much lower speed, meaning the intermediate kicks - the really strong, the powerful kicks - are all going to be past this drug drag crisis. So I would not anticipate the kind of knuckling effects that you would see back in 2010.
BLOCK: OK. So at those lower speeds, lower kick speeds that you're talking about, that's where you might see a problem in this World Cup.
GOFF: That's right. And we also had the ball oriented at different locations to check the uniformity of the ball. And the reason this ball is so much better is it has a seam length that's about 68 percent longer than the Jabulani. It makes for a much more uniform ball. You see the same aerodynamics as you turn the ball. Jabulani, you could turn it 90 degrees and see a very different drag profile.
BLOCK: So I'm thinking that this summer if you watch the World Cup, you're going to be paying really close attention to the spin of that ball and this drag crisis that you're talking about.
GOFF: Absolutely. Especially the kicks with very little spin, I'm going to be interested to see if there's much knuckling at all as they start spinning. Then we get these great banana kicks that you see from the corners and nice curves from free kicks.
BLOCK: Professor Goff, thanks so much for talking to us about the World Cup Brazuca ball. Appreciate it.
GOFF: It was a pleasure speaking to you, Melissa.
BLOCK: That's John Eric Goff. He is professor of physics at Lynchburg College and author of the book "Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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LA Galaxy Academy product Haji Wright has been called up for the U.S. Under-17's roster for the upcoming 2013 Nike International Friendlies.
U.S. U-17 head coach Richie Williams' 20-man group will face Portugal on Monday before matches against England on Dec. 11 and Brazil on Dec. 13 at the Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood, Florida. It is Wright's second inclusion in the U.S. U-17 roster in less than a month as he took part in the nation's U-17's friendlies with Canada in November.
The roster includes eight players from California.
The complete roster is below...
GOALKEEPERS (2): William Pulisic (Richmond Strikers; Mechanicsville, Va.), Kevin Silva (PDA; Bethlehem, Pa.)
DEFENDERS (7): Hugo Arellano (Chivas USA Academy; Norwalk, Calif.), Daniel Barbir (Unattached; Allentown, Pa.), George Braima (Crew Soccer Academy; Columbus, Ohio), Edwin Lara (unattached; San Leandro, Calif.), John Nelson (Internationals; Medina, Ohio), Matthew Olosunde (New York Red Bulls Academy; Trenton, N.J.), Alexis Velela (San Diego Surf; San Diego, Calif.)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Eric Calvillo (Real So Cal; Palmdale, Calif.), Luca De La Torre (Fulham; San Diego, Calif.), Thomas McCabe (PDA; South Orange, N.J.), Logan Panchot (St. Louis Scott Gallagher Missouri; St. Louis, Mo), Brian Zelaya (De Anza Force; San Mateo, Calif.), Alejandro Zendejas (FC Dallas Academy; El Paso, Texas)
FORWARDS (5): Pierre Da Silva (New York Soccer Club; Port Chester, N.Y.), Joe Gallardo (Monterrey FC; San Diego, Calif.), Joshua Perez (unattached; La Habra, Calif.), Christian Pulisic (PA Classics; Hershey, Pa.), Haji Wright (LA Galaxy Academy); Los Angeles, Calif.


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Jerry Starek (left) at the Alumni Association Pre-Game Party in San Diego in 2012.
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The Alumni Association is pleased to announce the creation of two new scholarships for 2013-14.
Gerald M. Starek Family Alumni Association Scholarships
At a time when rising tuition is making it tougher for good students to go to college, an alumnus has stepped forward with a generous gift.
Gerald M. Starek, '63 Accounting and Finance, has made a $2.5 million commitment to establish the Gerald M. Starek Family Athletics Scholarship Endowment and the Gerald M. Starek Family Alumni Association Scholarship Endowment supporting students and student-athletes majoring in accounting and finance.
Up to four scholarships of $7,500 each will be awarded annually through the Alumni Association and recipients will be eligible to receive the scholarship for four years. Because the funding includes cash gifts and a bequest, the scholarships will be available beginning this fall through the SJSU Financial Aid and Scholarship Office.
"I was the oldest of eight kids and the first to graduate from college," Starek said. "I could not have gone to SJSU if tuition was as high as it is now. With this gift, I can help students, who otherwise couldn't afford college, receive a great education at SJSU like I did."
Starek found his top-tier experience at San Jose State well positioned him to compete and succeed upon entering the accounting and finance field and throughout his career as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He founded Silicon Valley Group Inc., a supplier of automated wafer processing equipment for the semiconductor industry.
After taking the company public in 1983, he moved on to serve on the boards of many public and private companies. His hobbies include traveling, golfing, fly fishing, scuba diving and attending collegiate athletics events.
"I am grateful to be able to support students and student-athletes," he said. "Since I was able to receive an outstanding education at SJSU at a very minimal cost, I would like to give students today the same opportunity."
Phyllis and Alan Simpkins Alumni Leadership Award
The Alumni Association Board of Directors created a new award for 2013-14 to honor the memory of Phyllis and Alan Simpkins. Together, the Simpkins provided extraordinary leadership and vision for the university and a virtually unparalleled level of support.
The $5,000 award will be given to an incoming freshman with a 3.5 GPA and demonstrated leadership qualities in school, community and/or home life. The application will be available through the STARS in the Financial Aid and Scholarship Office with a mid-April deadline to apply.


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He definitely hasn't been amazing by any stretch, but I trust Rex too much to give up on Wilson 3 games in.
McKnight definitely was a miss, but it still made sense, sorta. Tanny was trying to keep us under the "cap" just in case for next year, and we wouldn't have gotten everyone else we got, or resigned everyone else if we kept Leon.