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[Illinois] CMMB IGERT & M-CNTC Annual Symposium: IGERT Educational Issues Panel
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A panel of students and instructors discuss the educational issues regarding and the future of the IGERT program at Illinois.
Dr. Marni Boppart: Professor Boppart's area of professional interest involves understanding the molecular and cellular adaptations to exercise, mechanical loading, and exercise training. Counteracting the loss of skeletal muscle due to disease or aging using exercise therapy or molecular-based interventions is essential for increasing both our quality of life and examining our limits of human performance. Our research focuses on examining the role of the a7b1 integrin as a mechanosensor that regulates cellular signaling and protects against skeletal muscle injury. We are currently using a combination of in vivo and in vitro models to determine the potential role of the integrin and other extracellular matrix proteins in: mechanotransduction of cellular signaling protection from muscle disease (muscular dystrophy, cancer cachexia, insulin resistance) protection from exercise-induced muscle injury (repeat bout effect) recruitment and activation of adult stem cells aging process
Dr. Boppart holds a joint appointment at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
Dr. Lizanne DeStefano Dr. Lizanne DeStefano is the director of the I-STEM Educational Initiative, which seeks to increase the number and quality of science, technology, engineering, and math teachers who graduate from the Urbana campus, along with improving student recruitment and retention rates in science and technology-affiliated programs. Currently, besides being the director of I-STEM, she is the P-20 Council Coordinator, a Fox Family Professor, and Professor of Educational Psychology in the College of Education. She has also recently served as Executive Associate Dean for Research and Administration and Director of the Bureau of Educational Research in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. DeStefano's research interests include the evaluation and sustainability of innovative programs, multi-site initiatives, and programs serving special populations such as students with disabilities or those at risk for academic failure. Her work has been funded by numerous agencies and foundations, including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Education, the Joyce Foundation, the Lilly Foundation, Chicago Community Trust and Illinois State Board of Education. She has conducted many large-scale evaluations of programs serving children and youth, including evaluations of the implementation of IDEA, Illinois Learning Standards and early literacy professional development initiatives such as the Reading Excellence Act in Illinois and the Reading First Evaluation. Lizanne DeStefano received her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986. A former special education teacher, Dr. DeStefano trained and practiced as a clinical and school psychologist
Dr. Martha Gillette Dr. Gillette received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1976 and joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1978. She is a Professor in the Departments of Cell and Developmental Biology and Molecular and Integrative Physiology, the Colleges of Medicine and Liberal Arts and Sciences, and The Neuroscience Program at UIUC. Dr. Gillette served as Head of Cell and Developmental Biology from 1998 until 2008. She has been an Affiliate with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (Neurotech Group) since 1988, the Institute for Genomic Biology (Genomics of Neural & Behavioral Plasticity Theme) since its inception in 2003, the Department of Bioengineering, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory since 2009. Her many accomplishments were acknowledged by the University of Illinois with appointments as Alumni Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in 2004 and Center for Advanced Study Professor in 2009.
Dr. Michael Insana Michael F. Insana received his PhD in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1983. His dissertation topic was acoustic scattering and absorption in biological tissues. He was a research physicist at the FDA from 1984-1987, Professor of Radiology and Physiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center from 1987-1999, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis from 1999-2004. Currently, Mike is Professor of Bioengineering at UIUC and an affiliate faculty member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
His research focuses on the development of novel ultrasonic instrumentation and methods for imaging soft tissue microstructure, elasticity and blood flow. The goal is to understand basic mechanisms of lesion formation, disease progression, and responses to therapy. His research includes the fundamentals of imaging system design and performance evaluation, signal processing, detection and estimation. His lab uses hydrogels to develop models of visco- and poroelastic behavior of soft tissues for cancer imaging. Through collaborations with industry, Insana's lab is investigating spatio-temporal filtering for noise reduction and enhanced spatial resolution with applications in breast elasticity imaging and arterial-wall shear-stress estimation.
Mike is currently a member of the IEEE and Acoustical Society of America, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging.
Dr. Catherine Murphy Professor Murphy received two B.S. degrees, one in chemistry and one in biochemistry, from the University of Illinois in 1986. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1990. From 1990-1993, she was first an NSF and then an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. From 1993-2009 Professor Murphy was a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina. In August 2009 she joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois.
Austin Hsiao Austin Yin Kyai Hsiao is a graduate student in the Bioengineering Department and a research assistant in Professor Logan Liu's group in the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. He is currently developing a microfluidic platform for cell toxicity screening and exploring a new imaging technique for fluorescent enhancement in biological studies. Austin emigrated from Burma (Myanmar) when he was ten years old and is currently working to earn the first PhD in his family. Outside of research, he is a volunteer coordinator and the newsletter editor for the Wesley Evening Food Pantry, which serves over 10,000 people annually from Urbana-Champaign community.
Heather Huntsman Heather Huntsman obtained her bachelors from Bethel College and masters from George Washington University, and both degrees were in Exercise Science. Currently, she is a graduatestudent in the department of Kinesiology and Community Health. Working for Dr. Marni Boppart in a Molecular Muscle Physiology lab, the focus of her research is the role of the a7b1 integrin and mesenchymal-like, adult stem cells in myogenesis. Using exercise as a stimulus for muscle generation she is very interested in both microenvironment and angiogenic changes that improve muscle quality and function. By understanding the mechanisms responsible for these changes she would like to one day develop a viable stem cell therapy that can be used in an aged or diseased population to improve muscle function. Her interests outside of the lab include training for and participating in both running and triathlon races.
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Midwest Cancer Nanotechnology Traning Center (M-CNTC) Training the next generation of leaders who will define the new frontiers and applications of nanotechnology in cancer research It is known that more than 1.5 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer during 2010, and half a million have died (Cancer Statistics 2010, ACS). In spite of considerable effort, there has been limited success in reducing per capita deaths from cancer since 1950. This calls for a paradigm shift in the understanding, detection, and intervention of the evolution of cancer from a single cell to tumor scale.
In response to this challenge the M-CNTC has assembled a preeminent interdisciplinary team of researchers and educators across the University of Illinois and clinical collaborators in the Midwest to train the next generation of engineers, physical scientists, and biologists to address the challenge of understanding, managing, diagnosing, and treating cancer using the most recent advancements in nanotechnology.
Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and Bionanotechnology (CMMB-IGERT) Training the next generation of leaders who will define the new frontiers of cellular and molecular mechanics and bionanotechnology Critical experiments during the last decade show a fundamental link between the micro- and macro-mechanical environment (i.e., intracellular forces, local shear, gravitational force) and a variety of cell functionalities, their lineage, and phenotype. These findings pose the grand challenge: what is the underlying molecular mechanism that cells employ to transduce mechanical signals to biochemical pathways?
In response to this challenge the CMMB IGERT launched an interdisciplinary research effort with national and international collaborators.
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Global Dialogue Event
October 24, 2012
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
Learn skills and tools for engaging cultural differences in constructive and productive ways from Shawn Spano, professor of communication studies at San Jose State, who served as facilitator for a 2012 Global Dialogue event.
Participants include JAMK University of Applied Sciences delegates from Jyväskylä Finland, students from West Valley College and students from San Jose State. Video excerpts of the Global Dialogue event are provided.
Upcoming Dialogue
The Difficult Dialogue Program is conducting one campus dialogue this semester.
Topic: Words that Hurt
When: March 20, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Where: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library 225/229
Interested in attending? Please contact Shawn Spano at firstname.lastname@example.com
The purpose of the event is to understand the opportunities and challenges of communicating in a globally diverse and multicultural world. Dr. Shawn Spano, professor of communication studies at San José State University serves as the facilitator for the Global Dialogue Event. Students in Dr. Spano's Communication Studies course serve as facilitators for the small group discussions.
Video Segment 1: Starting the Dialogue (15:55 minutes)
Welcome remarks are given. Dr. Spano sets the context for the dialogue by stating the purpose and introducing a small group activity aimed to help the students get to know each other better. In small group discussions, the students introduce themselves in the context of this event, as well as provide additional information about themselves that are not part of this context.
Video Segment 2: Global Dialogue in a Multi-Cultural World (5:35 minutes)
Being competent and effective in communicating across cultural differences requires recognizing the diversity and complexity that is in each one of us, and being interested in understanding and exploring those differences. Dr. Spano recaps the purpose of the previous small group activity which was to learn about each other and build trust. He explains that being competent and effective in communicating across cultural differences requires recognizing the diversity (complexity) that is in each one of us and being interested in wanting to understand and explore those differences. In the next small group discussion, students will discuss the opportunities and the challenges of communicating with others who are culturally different.
Video Segment 3: Dialogue Skills, Tools and Concepts (6:42 minutes)
Dr. Spano discusses how to maximize opportunities and overcome challenges for communicating with people that are culturally different from each other. Dialogue is an ideal form of communication for embracing, engaging and learning from our diversity and differences. There are three skill sets to effective dialogue:
- Standing your ground (honest, forthright, explicit expression of your perspective). Express yourself with clarity, ownership and authencity.
- Being open to the other person (less talking, more listening, trying to understand the other person's position). Be curious, open (no judgment) to understanding and listening to the other person's position from their perspective.
- Doing both – being in dialogue means standing your ground and being open to the other person. Not one or the other but both. Shift back and forth to do both at the same time and invite the other person to do both.
Video Segment 4: Role Play Exercise (11:36 minutes)
Students role play dialogue using three short scripts. After each script, Dr. Spano facilitates a discussion about the role play and whether the dialogue was effective. For the next small group activity, all participants are asked to select a scenario and create a script for effective dialogue.
Video Segment 5: Role Play Demonstration of Scripts (12:22 minutes)
Students role play dialogue using the scripts they created.
Video Segment 6: Effective Dialogue (9:37 minutes)
Dr. Spano wraps up the event by facilitating a discussion about effective dialogue.

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Hollywood Faces A Swarm Of New Competitors
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Two recent stories illustrate the sort of threats Hollywood is facing. First, the New York Times profiles some of the many online video startups that have sprung up in the last couple of years. These sites develop a variety of different types of content and are built on a variety of different business models. Some are producing "webisodes": scripted, episodic video programs. Others are creating low-budget comedy clips to spread virally. For example, this silly clip of Will Farrell arguing with a 2-year-old has apparently racked up nearly 50 million views. At the opposite extreme, TechCrunch reports on Blowtorch, which has raised $50 million in venture capital to launch a new low-budget movie studio. The company plans to produce movies for about $5 million each, and has lined up 600 theaters near college campuses to show their movies. They're planning to solicit short films on their websites, and show the best short films on the big screen before their movies. It is, as TechCrunch puts it, "a movie company that is thinking like a cable channel": providing users with content whenever and whereever they want it, instead of trying to force users to watch content on the studio's schedule.
Now, it should be emphasized that it's far from certain that any given company will succeed. A lot of the content on these sites isn't that great. But with so many companies trying so many different approaches, it seems likely that some of them will create some hits. And if the flow of new content from Hollywood dries up, that's obviously going to create a huge opening for these sites. And once one of these companies creates a loyal following, Hollywood is going to find it awfully difficult to lure them back.


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You could say that I am a "prepper." Living here in Hawaii, we have to be prepared for hurricanes and tsunami, among other things, and the disruption of public services that can result. My father was in the military and I was a Boy Scout, so prepping is in my blood. Plus, my eldest son's good friend Darin has been a big influence on me. He is from Kauai and they seem to get it bad whenever we have a hurricane (Hilo too). So he has grown up with an awareness of the need to be prepared.
This week I purchased a really nice bugout bag. The brand doesn't matter, but the person selling it had included "SHTF BOB" in the title. It took me a while, but I finally realized what this means.
If you think about it, Karate is also something you need when the SHTF.
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See the little girl's head peaking out of the back window? You are looking at the rare, Tjorven six-seater conversion. You ever heard of a FAF that could seat six? I didn't think so.
The rear door is split; the top hinges up while the bottom drops flat. Flat like a... OH MY GOD! You know it exists. You simply know it does... (stay tuned)
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In order to recover damages, you must prove that your injury was the result of an individual's or corporation's negligence. According to the Florida Supreme Court, negligence is "the failure to use reasonable care."
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Proving Negligence
In order to win a lawsuit based on negligence, there are four things you need to establish:
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Burke Leads Remarkable Rally Over Cardsby Howard W. Hewitt • November 26, 2011 Share:
If Wabash's 2001 win over DePauw in the Monon Bell is forever "The Catch," then Saturday's improbable 29-28 playoff win over North Central should be dubbed "The Comeback."
The No. 9 (and now 12-0) Little Giants rallied from a late third quarter 28-7 deficit and scored a gutsy two-point conversion with a minute left to knock off the No. 6-ranked (10-2) Cardinals. Wabash advances to play Mount Union Saturday in the national quarterfinals. The game location will be officially announced Sunday afternoon but is likely to be in Alliance Ohio. Mount Union is the NCAA Div. 3 bracket's No. 1 seed.
See game photos here, here, here, here and here.
Was the game the Little Giants' best comeback ever? Consider the following:
- - Tyler Burke made his first start of the year replacing an injured Chase Belton. Two of his first three passes were intercepted and the other was incomplete.
- - Wabash had 79 yards of total offense at half time.
- - After Burke hit Wes Chamblee on a 20-yard scoring strike to open the third quarter, the Cardinals immediately responded with a 62-yard drive to push the margin to 28-7 with six minutes left in the third period.
- - After pulling to within 1 at 28-27 on a Jeff Bell 1-yard TD catch, Coach Erik Raeburn made one of gutsiest calls of his tenure. He elected to play for the win.
But getting to that play was the making of a memorable and improbable comeback against one of D3 football's best defenses.
It started with halftime adjustments by Defense Coach B.J. Hammer. The Wabash defense had allowed 128 first half rushing yards. They were able to slow that down in the second half.
Burke started the comeback aided by Wes Chamblee. He found Chamblee on a 20 yard pass to get Wabash on the board and then a 33-yard scoring strike on a fourth-and-8 to cut the margin to 28-14.
Then came one of the key plays of the game for North Central. After a 9- and 20-yard gain by the Cardinal rushing attack, Cody Buresh forced a Jordan Tassio fumble, recovered by Kyle Najar, at the Wabash 31.
"I thought we had a great drive going and would have put the game away," said North Central Coach John Thorne said. "We had a fumble, and he never fumbles."
The momentum had clearly shifted but it still wasn't easy.
North Central forced a fourth-and-12 after a sack. But Burke found a leaping Wes Chamblee at mid-field for the first down. Seven plays later Burke hit Horn for a 23-yard touchdown, 28-21, that had the sideline and Little Giant Stadium rocking.
The defense then lived up to its year-long billing and forced a quick three and out. Burke opened the series taking an 8-yard sack.
"I'd be first to tell you that I'd be nervous in that situation," he said of the final drive. "But the pain and the situation, I knew I had to step up. I had to do it for my team. We were just rolling and it felt like we had such momentum. I felt like we couldn't be stopped and that's just how we felt in the fourth quarter. We had all the confidence in the world we were going to score on that last drive."
Burke clearly was not going to be denied. Facing a fourth-and-14 at his own 29 yard line, the senior quarterback was forced out of the pocket and took off running for a 16-yard gain and first down.
"They made some adjustments in the second half, keeping a tight end and a fullback in to block," said North Central defensive tackle and Gagliardi Trophy nominee Peter Bulandr. "We got a few good shots on (Burke) in the second half, but I give him all the credit in the world. He played a great game."
Two pass completions for 12 and 13 yards to Horn moved the ball to the Cardinal 24. Wabash faced another fourth down. NCC jumped on the snap count was penalized giving Wabash another life.
Then Horn stepped up with an 18-yard catch at the 1-yard line. Burke rolled out and hit sophomore tight end Jeff Bell for the touchdown, 28-27. (In photo at right, Horn caught the ball inbounds and was trying to get it to the goal line.) (Bell celebrates the touchdown, bottom left.)
Then Raeburn decided to go for the win. The Little Giants came out of the huddle and shifted their line to the left. A North Central lineman was called off sides giving Wabash the ball at the two.
"The play we had called I thought we could get them," Raeburn said of the two-point conversion attempt. "I didn't want to go to overtime because they were running ball better than we had. I thought they'd have the advantage. We decided to go for the win. I was very confident the play we had called would work.
"Then they jumped off sides and I felt like we couldn't come back to that play because they'd already seen the shift. Then the play we had called I thought would work. We tried to throw it to Wes and he basically got tackled. Then Tyler threw it to James and he tipped it to Brady just like the way we practiced it."
Of course the last remark was accompanied by a chuckle. In a play reminiscent of that 2001 Monon Miracle tipped pass catch, Senior Brady Young was in the right place at the right time. But unlike the Monon Miracle, it was not a set play.
"The play was going to Wes, we were going to throw it in the middle," Young said. "I'm running and taking off for the corner of the end zone and I see Burke looking to the outside. He threw the ball to Krause who's right on the line. My guy goes up and hits Krause. I saw the ball was coming a little high. I was standing back there waiting on it. I was thinking if this is tipped anywhere I'm going after it. I'm going to get it. And you know, it tipped right into my hands."
The improbable Little Giant rally was complete. Wabash led 29-28 with just 52 seconds to play.
The Cardinals had a last gasp snuffed out by the Wabash defense. They got the ball on their own 18 and threatened to move into field goal range. On six plays North Central had moved the ball to their own 36. Austin Hodges secured the win when he picked off Tyler Dicken's pass at the Wabash 24.
"I'm super proud of our team, how hard they played and how they kept fighting," Raeburn said. "Even though we were down big, I'm particularly proud of this guy (pats Burke on shoulder in the post-game press conference). We've had some guys who got beat out for a starting position and they hung it up. Thank God Tyler is not one of those guys."
Burke hit 24-of 49 passes for 311 yards and four touchdowns. Wes Chamblee had a monster day with 9 catches for 147 yards, two touchdowns, and 215 all-purpose yards. Senior Jonathan Horn had an even bigger day with 13 catches for 152 yards, and a touchdown.
"The emotions are out the roof right now," Horn said. "This is what we've worked for all season long. Always means always and we showed that in the second half. We made our corrections at half time for the second half and I think we wanted it more in the end. We executed the best we could offensively, defensively, and special teams."
North Central piled up 208 yards rushing to Wabash's 92. But in the critical fourth quarter the Cardinals managed just 51 yards rushing and 25 passing.
The huge Wabash advantage came in the passing game where Burke's 311 yards dwarfed the 127 yards that five Cardinal passers accumulated.
Defensively, C.J. Gum collected 15 tackles with freshman Cody Buresh adding 9 more. Senior Kyle Najar had an outstanding day with 7 stops. Freshman A.J. Akinridbade had six stops, three of those for a Cardinal loss. Jorge Diaz-Aguilar and Jonathan Koop had five tackles apiece.


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My friend and I came up with a few good ones today. I googled the phrase, and only came up with Christians using it to (very poorly) mock atheism. Let's show 'em how it's done.
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You know you're an atheist when you only thank your front line when you score a touchdown.
When you are singing but avoid the religious words!.
yeah!! :)
...when you refuse to trade reason for utter madness.
There was a pretty funny one I saw somewhere else "You know you're and Atheist when "god" is something you say on your back, not your knees."
Hell, yes!
When him/her get a hold of a religious book the first thing they do it's to write: WARNING THIS BOOK IS A WORK OF FICTION, everywhere possible.
You know your an atheist when hear little difference between PRAY and PREY.
You know your an atheist when you use the word Jebus as an exclamation.
You know you're an atheist when satisfying sexual desires does not make you feel guilty.


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Ever wondered what it's like to be an amoeba? A tropical plant? A cockroach? Classic Cars West is pleased to announce our opening exhibition for 2018. Things Change is a collection of stop motion videos and large-scale sculpture works by Oakland artist Lauren Corden from 2014-present.
Corden's papier mâché and exaggerated soft-sculptures will create an immersive make-believe environment, while her stop-motion video work reveals detailed and humorous views of the unseen processes of daily life.
With a blend of scientific observation and synthetic creativity, household objects take on a new life beyond their conventional uses. Fridge scraps and collected junk play out the roles of decomposition, and loose yarn becomes duplicating chromosomes. In her video works, the comfortable distance of a camera lens will allow the viewer to explore some of the subtle horrors of the familiar as it becomes the unfamiliar.
Corden's larger-than-life sculptures are drawn from these video works, and will transform the gallery space into a fantastic escape from reality. However, this escape is into the infra-real, where shifts in scale and perspective renew our fascination with what surrounds us.
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Your most important asset is YOURSELF! It's your own body, and without a healthy one, it will limit what the rest of your life can be. I just want everyone to make sure to make your own physical fitness a priortity. If your body is feeling strong, your mind and heart will feel strong as well. Nobody should ever neglect their own health at the expense of an easy, fast-food meal, or diet pill. So much scientific evidence shows the advantages of spending a few extra minutes on a home cooked meal and a solid expecise plan. I have been a cook for many years, including working for Hershey Entertainment & Resorts and can give you advice on easy and healthy cooking! Please use resources that are available and willing to reach out to you, and that includes me. I am certified and experienced as both a cook and personal trainer and want to pass on as much knowledge as I can to the public. If you're reading this and have any questions about health, nutrition, healthy cooking, etc. please contact me at email@example.com. Live a healthy life!
It's been awhile since I posted anything here. I've been very busy with work and many of life's other responsibilities. One thing that has remained consistent is my own workout ethic. That ethic is something I wish to continue to bring to members of the community. It is my belief that any person of any age can fit in some sort of effective exercise into their day's routine. If you only have 20 minutes of spare time, you can get a tremendous amount of exercise in that time. If you are someone like me you will do that on your own almost everyday of the week. If you are someone who would rather use that time to veg out in front of the tube or eat a snack that you know you shouldn't have, maybe it's time to seek out a professional on how you can be more healthy. That's where a personal trainer comes into play. I want to be an available resource for advice, motivation, and education. Feel free to use me as a professional contact for advice or get involved in personal training and we will work together to get you on the path to a healthy lifestyle that fits your needs.
Just wanted to give a public forewarning for any who may be thinking of do something in the woods. I've heard through word of mouth of multiple copperhead sightings and a dog that was bit, so just be on the lookout if your out enjoying the wilderness. Usually they hang out in rocky areas, so just keep an eye out. Was just mountain biking and didn't see any, but when ur cruising down a mountain at 20 mph it's kind of hard to notice much of anything besides what to avoid crashing into ;)
Just some food for thought on footwear. I recently purchased a pair of running shoes, whereas previously I had been doing my running in some run-of-the-mill cross-trainers. What a difference it makes! My cross-trainers were fine, but it has come to my attention that having a pair of shoes that allow your feet to contour naturally to the surface beneath has great implication when doing long distance running. Inadequate footwear can lead to any number of injuries including overuse injuries due to improper running technique that can be caused because of the footwear you have. Running barefoot really is the best option, but I would never expect anyone to run barefoot down a trail or road. Having the pair of shoes that fit your feet and their natural movement is the way to go to avoid problems with long distance running down the road (and yes, I did intend for that to be a little pun). Always remember to do your stretching, too, as that will also help to avoid some commons ailments tht come with long-distance running. For more info on footwear, there are some really great websites out there that you can find through searches, and local, independently owned shoe stores generally will have friendly and helpful service reps that can help with any questions.
Some of these hot, humid days we've had have reminded me of the importance of adjusting your routine in extreme weather. Your body takes about two weeks to adjust to excessive heat combined with high humidity. This means you may have tailor down your intensity on these days and remember to drink about 10 oz of water before your workout and drink to replace sweat afterwards or as you go (i.e., for everyone ounce of bodyweight lost, drink 1 oz of water). Just remember that exercising in high heat and humidity can lead to heat exhaustion or even heat stroke in some cases. Some common signs of heat exhaustion would include headache, undue fatigue, cramps, and nausea. So just remember to take it easy those first couple of workouts in the heat and your body will begin to adjust, and don't forget to drink water and cool down after the workout.
Some great weather we've had around Boiling Springs lately. Went for a long run at Springville Meadows/South Middleton Park trail last night. Gotta love seeing all the people and animals out and about along the trail and park and having such a great resource to use for recreation in our community.


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If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to Heaven
And bring you home again.
~Author Unknown
Here I go again Umstead 100 this will be my 4th time I have run it. Hope to get another sub 24 there. I love this race the people are awesome and it is a true test since you run a lot it's not like the mountain 100's I run where you get rest breaks. You have to make sure not to go out to fast since it is flat that's hard.
I plan to enjoy this run I will be thinking of my Mom and running for her since the race will be on the 9th anniversary of her death.
I will use her positive attitude and love of life to get me through.
I love and miss you Mom.
I paced Linda McFadden last weekend at Buffalo 100 that was fun. It was very cold but she did awesome as always.
Ok I would love it if you all sent me positive vibes during my run I will need them. Thanks xoxo
From my Mom............
Please don't mourn for me
I'm still here, though you don't see.
I'm right by your side each night and day
And within your heart I long to stay.
My body is gone but I'm always near
I'm everything you feel, see and hear.
My spirit is free but I'll never depart
As long as you keep me alive in your heart.
I'll never wander out of your sight.
I'm the brightest star on a warm summer night.
I'll never go beyond your reach
I'm the warm, moist sand when you walk on the beach.
I'm the colourful leaves when winter comes 'round
And the pure white snow that blankets the ground.
I'm the beautiful flowers of which you're so fond.
The clear cool water in a quiet pond.
I'm the first bright blossom you see in the spring.
The first shiny raindrop that storm clouds bring.
I'm the first ray of light when the sun starts to shine
And you see that the face in the moon is mine.
When you start thinking there's no one to love you
Talk to me and I will listen.
I'll whisper my answer through the leaves on the trees.
And you'll feel my presence in the soft summer breeze.
I'm the hot salty tears that flow when you weep
And the beautiful dreams that come while you sleep
I'm the smile you see on a stranger's face
Just look for me………
I'm every place!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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You got it Catra. I'll send all my positive vibes during your run. I know you will do great.
- mi55ter said...
Best of luck at Umstead, Catra!
- CherryDeGrassi said...
Good luck this weekend and I hope you get your sub-24!
- Jamie Elyse said...
you go girl!!
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Sure, it's fun to hate her. She's a dance mom to a high-priced horse. She crowed about her "real marriage" to Mitt during her RNC speech, which would count as a homophobic dog whistle if it weren't loud enough for everyone to hear. She wears thousand-dollar t-shirts and still manages to dress like a modern-day June Cleaver. And this Fall she's taken to saying bafflingly tone-deaf things to reporters, like that she has "concern" for her husband's "mental well-being" should he actually have to serve as president.
But all snark aside, why should we care about Ann Romney? The answers may seem obvious: If her husband is elected, she'll surely have the ear of the President of the United States in ways most cabinet members only dream of. She provides a window into a strange and often inscrutable candidate. And of course, the campaign has designated her a surrogate, so who are we to argue?
But none of these answers stand up to scrutiny. Governors and Senators often have wives who surely influence them in myriad ways. As for giving us insight into the candidate, what exactly do we learn from Ann Romney about Mitt, except that he seems capable of human emotion toward her, and that neither one of them is in possession of a particularly fine-tuned political ear?
It's true that the campaign has been pushing her as a surrogate, even writing confidential memos about how best to deploy her. The same is true of Michelle Obama, who's been a popular and effective spokesperson for her husband since the 2008 campaign. I'm far from immune to her charms. Whether she's doing the dougie with schoolchildren, digging in the White Hourse garden, or giving hilarious side-eye to her daughters during the president's speech at the DNC, I'm almost always happier for a bit of our First Lady. And I'm sure that's the idea. If you like someone's spouse or partner, don't you like them a little better, too? First Ladies have become the hammer in presidential campaigns' likability toolbox.
But likeability itself is completely out-of-control as a political factor. I'd much rather have a president who can manage Hillary's now-cliché 3 a.m. phone call than one who's fun to have a beer with. The rise of likability as a core metric is inexorably tied to the rise of American anti-intellectualism. And the rise of First Ladies as emissaries of likability brings with it a healthy dose of retro sexism as well—sexism that has consequences even for those of us who'll never even dream of redecorating the White House.
The wives of presidential candidates weren't always such prominent campaigners. The (potential) First Lady convention address, for example, only dates back to Barbara Bush's speech in 1992. That election was a watershed year for redefining the role of the potential president's wife, in part because we'd never seen a potential First Lady like Hillary before. She was a rorschach test for a country still rearranging itself in the wake of the feminist second wave, and no one—not even the Clintons—understood which rules could be changed, and which were still third rails of gender performance. How could it not be confusing? Even in Arkansas, even in the '80s, Hillary Clinton was able to practice law while her husband governed, a scenario that became so threatening when translated to a run for the White House it gave rise to the now-traditional First Lady Bake-Off.
The formula that's developed since then requires a sort of advanced math: A First Lady candidate can be a certain amount "modern" as long as she's at least as invested in performing traditional femininity.
If this has the ring of the familiar, it's because the First Lady contest is the highest expression of our tumultuous relationship with American Womanhood itself. On Shonda Rhimes' Revenge-meets-West Wing show Scandal, First Lady Mellie is pregnant with what the networks are all obsessively calling "America's Baby." Here in the reality-TV smash we call presidential elections, all potential First Ladies (or in the case of Michelle, current) are auditioning for the role of America's Wife. She has to be smart, but not smarter than her husband. Pretty, but not too sexual. She should be politically savvy enough not to, say, publicly question her husband's mental fitness to serve, but not so political that voters think she'll influence her husband's decisions. (This is a ridiculous delusion. Of course she'll have influence. But as Hillary learned in that legendary election, when Bill began his campaign by saying voters would get "two for the price of one" and spent the rest of the campaign—and a lot of his presidency—trying to walk that offer back, admitting a candidate values his wife's political opinion is tantamount to cutting off his balls on live television.) She has to be ambitious on behalf of the country, but limit her own personal ambitions to motherhood, hosting parties, and baking better cookies than the other First-Ladies-In-Waiting.
It's the Have It All trap on megadoses of estrogen. Of course it is. The Have It All trap is designed to keep women eating our own—and each others'—tails, allowing men, who aren't ever expected to Have It All, to stay in power. And who's a bigger threat to the ultimate seat of power than an unencumbered, genuinely feminist First Lady?
We needn't worry about that with Ann Romney, who spent her precious primetime air at the RNC regaling us with the story of how Mitt wooed her at a high school dance, and telling women that the structural inequalities we face are both inevitable, and what make us awesome. The retro appeal of rich, white, preppy, matronly Ann leaves her free to go off-script and indulge in weird and angry outbursts, like the time she told conservative critics to "stop it" because "This is hard and ... it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt's qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country." Meanwhile, her approval ratings soar. We don't have to wonder what would happen if Michelle Obama (a younger black woman who first met her husband as his boss) did anything similar: We've seen the attacks on her over much less since 2008. For better and worse, her performance at this year's DNC, in which she—and the video package that introduced her—erased her professional achievements and proclaimed that her "most important title is still 'Mom-in-Chief'" is the both canniest thing she could have done, and, as many pointed out, strong and subversive in its own right. If the First Lady is America's Wife, having a black woman as our ur-mom is already downright transformational.
But whether we're Team Michelle or Team Ann, playing the First Lady game gives it strength, which hurts the rest of us who have much less access to It All than either of them. It also continues to gender the presidency. How are we to take female candidates seriously when the only women we see headlining the Big Show are defanged by design? And what of the First Husband? If he's too powerful, he risks upstaging his wife. But if he's deferential, we'll call him lady-names, and her a ball-buster. (Bill Clinton can hardly be a test-case for what a First Husband should be like. But it is intriguing to note the glee many on the left seemed to take in feminizing Marcus Bachman.) And what of leaders who've never married? Does the lack of a spouse render you unfit to lead? What of (gasp!) leaders who don't identify as either male or female? It's admittedly impossible to imagine them getting elected president in my lifetime. Perhaps it's too obvious to belabor, but the Ken-and-Barbie rules cut off "non-traditional" candidates who might be able to envision a truly new path for the country.
We're all human: Of course we're going to be curious about the spouses of our most powerful politicians, and of course the campaigns are going to try to take advantage of our curiosity. But let's try to recognize that strategy for what it is: an advantage that they're taking from us. It's too late to take it back this time, but there's always 2016.


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- Call to order
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- Approval of minutes from October 13, 2010
Guest Presentations
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- Acadiana Lafayette Contingency
- Executive Directors Report
Treasurers Report
- Update on BP funds
- Guest Presentations
New Business
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- Social Media update- Zehnder
- Letters to board members who have more than 3 consecutive absences
- Elections of Executive Board for 2011-2012
- Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute/Sub Committee discussion (Executive, Funding, Legislative, Education and Marketing).
- National Seafood Marketing Coalition
- Boston Seafood Show
- Set Next Meeting
- Adjourn
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I agree. All the other data is quite questionable. I mean who cares how big is the library or some other data that can easily be fudged. I suppose you could include student/faculty ratio and maybe one or two other factors. But student quality should be the strongest factor.
Coxless,Just a little FYI. Don't just look at the LSAT scores posted on LSAC. Iowa has to accept close to 50% in state students, which brings down their LSAT scores. I was told directly by a member of the admissions committee that it is MUCH MUCH harder to get in if you are from out of state. I don't have the specific numbers, so take it for what it's worth.
Imo, the only thing that *really* matters when choosing a school (rankings-wise) is the employment stats from the school.


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With Nicolas Sarkozy's ratings down, a trip to an agricultural fair to mingle with salt-of-the-earth French people makes good political sense. Unless their president blasts one of them in a fit of vulgarity, which he did.
"Buzz off, you idiot," is a charitable translation of what Mr. Sarkozy said to a man in the crowd who refused to shake his hand – a moment that hit top YouTube views in a run-up to local elections here.
In France, the amazing Sarkozy saga continues, as his approval rating falls like an ill-prepared cake. Only 36 percent of French people now support their dynamic president, who many joke is more popular in the US and Britain, than in France itself. But there's also a debate starting about whether his foreign relations may be the next to take a blow.
Rather than covering Sarkozy's efforts to reform France and improve its standing on the world stage, however, the French media are focused on how such a formidable politician, whose strength is public relations, can make so many damaging gaffes and inexplicable miscalculations in his own promotion.
In recent weeks Sarkozy has veered from one PR crisis to another – retreated in a fight over taxi reform, sued a well-regarded magazine that published a text message he allegedly sent his former wife, fired a loyal spokesman, and ordered that each 10-year-old pupil in public school study a child lost in the Holocaust – dividing educators, intellectuals, and the French Jewish community.
With approval ratings in a free fall, Sarkozy abruptly addressed the nation last week. But many French tuning in failed to detect a crisis, other than Sarkozy's own. This week, the farm-show outburst – too vulgar to translate even for the French press – is sharing headlines with French film star Marion Cotillard, who won best actress at the Oscars on Sunday.
(Sarkozy Monday stopped short of an apology for blasting a member of the farm crowd who said he didn't want to get "dirty" by touching Sarkozy. "Just because you are president doesn't mean you become a doormat," Sarkozy told a forum in Le Parisien. "That said, I would have done better not to reply to him.")
Last spring, Sarkozy's thunderous promise was to create "la rupture" in France – reform the socialist economy, shake the bureaucracy, put the stick about. Now, la rupture itself is in danger of rupturing, with French who voted for him grumbling they don't see much change. One of few dramatic reversals is a successful Jan. 1 ban on smoking in cafes and restaurants – a plan Sarkozy inherited.
Somewhat lost in the Sarkozy saga – which includes a whirlwind courtship and marriage to supermodel Carla Bruni – is how the president has ended France's diplomatic isolation, and his skill in bringing a wide range of figures, even opposition party members, into his cabinet.
But that's not curbing widespread chat in the newly smoke-free cafes.
"I just want him to stop talking for a few weeks, and do something," says Christophe, who lives in the Paris suburb of Neuilly, a traditional Sarkozy stronghold.
"He's talking too fast, and not really thinking enough," says a former Palace adviser. "He threw out ideas on Shoah [Holocaust], a deeply sensitive issue, the same way he would talk about a problem of industry. He's talking about bombs and Iran [in an August speech to French diplomats] too easily."
Some analysts say that low approval ratings can be salutary. Sarkozy's "rupture" was too ambitious, they argue, and French must face this. To do so may force Sarkozy to fight for reform from a more realistic standpoint, they say.
Meanwhile, Franco-German relations continue to decline over a perception that Sarkozy is not consultative enough; he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have very different styles and approaches. French initiatives on a Mediterranean Union have proceeded with little German input, sources say. According to political commentator Bernard Getta, the midlevel working lunches traditionally held between the Germans and French keep being postponed.
One career Socialist now working in Sarkozy's government says that Sarkozy's domestic image isn't relevant in foreign affairs. But he adds a plump caveat: "He [Sarkozy] is a good leader; he can mobilize the party well. I don't care about the daily mistakes, if he shouts at someone. But we are starting to worry about his concept of Europe. How well is he bringing France into Europe, and how strong is his concept of international relations as he negotiates hard details? This we are worrying about."
Analysts say the Elysée Palace is losing political leverage as the indefatigable Sarkozy's glitzy persona seems to clash in the media and the French mind with the job he was elected for.
Currently, for example, Sarkozy is defending an order that French officials override a constitutional court's authority on treatment of multiple-offender criminals. Yet this serious issue plays second media fiddle an upcoming court appearance of Cécilia Sarkozy, who divorced Sarkozy last fall, in a libel suit brought by Mr. Sarkozy. The first of its kind by a French president, it targets Le Nouvel Observateur magazine, which published a text message which they alleged he had written to his ex-wife days before his recent marriage to Ms. Bruni. It said, "If you come back, I'll cancel it all."


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FamilySearch Wiki:Objetivos y temas apropiados
|This page explains a policy, a widely accepted standard that all contributors should normally follow.
Please visit the talk page to add comments or suggestions for further development of the policy.
FamilySearch Wiki is...
FamilySearch Wiki is a tool people can use to learn how to find their ancestors. It offers information on how to find, use, and analyze records of genealogical value. The site's content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate researchers, and experts.[1]Some suitable types of content for the wiki are:
- Instructions on how to find, use, and analyze records that are genealogically useful.
- Historical definitions of legal terms, occupations, and other terms that are useful to genealogists.
- Images of records used as examples of the kind of information a type of record will bear.
FamilySearch Wiki is not...
- A place to post (or find) information about a specific ancestor.
- A place to post data sets and genealogical records, such as obituaries, military histories, or transcriptions of record sources.
- A collection of product reviews.
- An advertising medium for products or services.
- A world encyclopedia of holidays and family traditions. Those which affect family history records or research methods are mentioned under specific countries.
- A place to publicly post internal policies or contact information of the Family History Department, or any other LDS Church affiliate.
- A repository of knowledge regarding the use of FamilySearch products.
- A place to survey users, solicit feedback or collect suggestions regarding the development of products other than this wiki.
- A place to post religious doctrine or advocate or criticize religious practices.
- A place to post images of LDS temples.
- Further information: FamilySearch Wiki:Try another wiki for suggestions of other places on the Internet to post the information you want to share.
Limited Topics
Some topics which should be included can detract from the site's purpose if covered in unnecessary depth:
- History of a place.
- Geographic information.
- Military history which influenced the creation or location of genealogical records.
- Case studies useful for teaching genealogical methodology.[2]
- Methods of citing genealogical sources.
- Power usage of an important computer application's features in finding or analyzing genealogical records.
- Use of computer hardware in genealogy.
- Lists of Family History Library materials derived from the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC). The wiki isn't meant to replicate the FHLC. However, when a FHLC entry fails to provide enough information for patrons to be able to use a resource, the wiki, like the in-house Registers at the FHL, can complement the FHLC entry.
- Information on specific repositories. The wiki is not intended to replicate the catalogs of other repositories, but it can be helpful to provide a general description of the major collections of a library or archive. To what extent should the wiki include information on a specific library or archive and its collection?
- Information on genealogical groups, such as genealogical societies, companies, or non profit organizations. Although the wiki is not intended to replicate, for instance, the catalog of a genealogical society's library, it can be helpful to list certain facts about a genealogical society. Which facts are appropriate and which are not?
Writings on the topics above can easily become bloated. For instance, while some kinds of geographic information can help genealogists learn where their ancestors may have migrated, others have little or no bearing on genealogy. When writing on any topic, then, the best rule of thumb is to ask "Have I made a good case as to how this information helps someone find, use, or analyze genealogical records?"
Items for Discussion
The community should discuss whether we want the site to include the following items:
- Social networking. What are the possible applications/manifestations/values of social networking in genealogy, and which ones should we enable/disallow?
- Predictions. There is value to what the future of genealogy will and should bring. To what extent should it be covered on this site?
- Long lists of Websites. What is long? Assuming we don't want to replicate Cyndislist, what limits should govern us in adding links?
- Limited-visibility content. Content that only members of a certain workgroup can see.
- Long lists of Family History Library materials that are not viewable on the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC). For instance, thousands of Greek films are in the FHL's collection, but are not viewable on the catalog. Should these be listed on the wiki?
- Alternate place names. Taken to its terminus, an effort to identify and post alternate place names becomes a names authority table. What should this site's limit be?
- World Records Manager. Taken to its terminus, an effort to identify the best records to satisfy research objectives in any country in any time period using sources from anywhere becomes a catalog of all the world's genealogical records. What should our limits be?
- Name studies, lists of common names for an area, or guidance as to the geographic distribution of names.
- Locality-centric research advice. To what extent should the wiki give advice to patrons based on where/how they access records? Should we give advice on satisfying research objective X in Library Y? How will localized advice be navigated, searched, and identified by title?
- Political information relating to genealogy, such as a bill that will restrict access to a record collection, or a move to purge a library's genealogical collection.
- ↑ Today FamilySearch Wiki's beginner content is quite sparse. Therefore, we will add research guidance, otherwise known as resolution flows or reference interviews, to enable beginners to find good research advice without having to know genealogical methodology or lingo. We will achieve this in a low-tech fashion without having to code anything new in the application.
- ↑ While some readers find case studies to be quite enlightening, many regard them simply as the best cure for insomnia. Inasmuch as case studies can quickly bloat an article, it is often best to cover a case study in a separate article rather than add it to a general page on, say, Pennsylvania Vital Records.
See also
- {{Content}} - Maintenance template to flag articles with possible inappropriate content.


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Senior Finishes Fifth in the 800-Meter Run
DES MOINES, Iowa – Senior Kate Grace was named a first-team All-American after her fifth-place performance in the national final of the 800-meter run at the NCAA Division I Championship on Friday. Grace has earned three previous All-America nods, most recently at the 2011 Indoor NCAA Division I Championship in March.
The United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association assigns the first-team honor to all athletes who earn team points during the meet, or who reach an eight-entrant final. Athletes named to the second-team place from ninth to 16th in the final of their events. Honorable mention All-Americans are those who participated in the final of their event but did not place in the top 16 competitors.
Grace finished fifth in the nation in the 800-meter final in 2:04.22. This year marked her highest finish at an NCAA Championship; she had previously finished seventh in the same event at the 2010 outdoor championship. Grace's time of 2:03.41 to qualify for this year's championship in Des Moines, Iowa, is a school record. She almost bested that mark in the semi-finals, running 2:03.48 to enter the national final with the second-fastest seed. No other Yale athlete has ever broken 2:05 in the event.
This month's honor is her fourth time as an All-American across two events. Grace was second-team All-American at the 2011 Indoor Championship, where she finished 13th in the one mile run. She was also a first-team All-American her sophomore year, when she placed eighth in the 800-meter run indoors, and her junior year, when she was seventh in the 800-meter run outdoors.
Grace was also selected by the USTFCCCA as the Northeast Regional Division I Athlete of the Year.
The full release is available here.
Report by Natalie Villa '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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Monday, January 27, 2014
The United States Bankruptcy Court Clerk's Office for the Northern District of Texas will be closed Monday, February 17, 2014, in observance of Presidents' Day.
The closing of the Clerk's office will not affect the court's electronic filing system, which will remain available during this time. For emergency filings, please refer to After-Hours Emergency Filing Procedures.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers put together two long first-half scoring drives and then leaned on their defense to carry them the rest of the way to a 14-10 victory over Case Western Reserve University.
The win, in the first game between Wittenberg and Case Western since the Spartans left the North Coast Athletic Conference in 2000, was the Tigers' ninth in 10 all-time meetings with Case Western. More importantly, it moved the Tigers to 4-0 on the 2012 season, despite playing three games in their first four on the road.
Case Western, which actually outgained Wittenberg 339-263 in the game, lost for the third straight time to fall to 2-3 overall on the season. The Spartans had not lost three in a row since 2006.
Wittenberg, which came into the game averaging 459 yards of total offense, was held to just 45 yards in six second half possessions. However, the Tiger defense was up to the task, holding Case Western to three points while forcing two turnovers and then making stops on fourth in Case Western's last two possessions.
Perhaps the biggest play of the game was turned in by senior defensive lineman Justin Bartlett (Washington, Pa./McGuffey) and junior linebacker Spencer Leno (Massillon, Ohio/Massillon), who led both teams with a career-best 17 tackles in the game. They teamed up to throw Case Western running back Manny Sicre for a loss of one yard at the Wittenberg 20-yard-line with 2:58 remaining in the game and the Tigers clinging to a four-point lead.
The Tigers opened the scoring with a six-yard touchdown run by junior quarterback Reed Florence (South Charleston, Ohio/Southeastern). His score at the 7:44 mark of the first quarter capped a 10-play, 80-yard drive.
After Case Western tied the game at 7:34 of the second quarter, the Tigers moved back in front on a 16-yard touchdown pass from Florence to junior Brendon Cunningham (Kettering, Ohio/Fairmont) with 1:50 left in the first half to cap Wittenberg's most efficient drive of the game that covered 74 yards in just seven plays and 1:02 off the clock.
Florence finished with 181 yards passing and 36 yards rushing. Most importantly, he did not take a sack and did not throw an interception in the game, Cunningham finished with 62 yards on six receptions and sophomore tailback Will Stocker (Cincinnati, Ohio/Turpin) added 49 yards on the ground on 16 carries.
In addition to Leno's sterling performance, two other Tigers finished in double figures for tackles. Junior linebacker Kyle Sanning (Fairborn, Ohio/Tecumseh) added a career-high 14 stops to go along with a forced fumble and junior linebacker Evan Killilea (Columbus, Ohio/DeSales) was outstanding as well with 13 tackles, a forced fumble and a sack. He shared that sack with junior defensive lineman Josh Montgomery (Reynoldsburg, Ohio/Reynoldsburg), who was credited with one and half sacks in the game.


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CLERMONT, Fla. – Fresh off a split with WPI in its New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) opener, the MIT softball team traveled to Florida for its annual Spring Break trip. The Engineers had their chances in a number of games but were only able to come home with one win, a 9-1 triumph over Grinnell on Monday afternoon.
In its first game of the southern swing, the Cardinal and Gray took on D'Youville College. After a three-run first by the Spartans, Tech responded with four runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning. Emily Creedon drew a leadoff walk and eventually came home on a double-steal. Starting pitcher, Jessica Iacobucci drove in a pair of runs and was knocked in by Leah Alpert's base hit. The score would remain 4-3 until the seventh inning, as MIT came within one out of starting its spring break off on the right foot. Shannon Evans led off with a base hit and came home on a Danielle Phillips triple. Kristie Ryan reached base on an infield hit and stole second before Shannon Sutton eventually brought home the winning runs with a two-out single. Nydia Ruleman walked to give MIT hope in the home half of the seventh but pinch-runner Maia Bageant was doubled off first after a line drive to end the game.
The disappointment from game one carried over to the Engineers' second game of the day against St. Thomas, as the Tommies struck for nine runs in the first inning en route to a 10-1 win.
The Tech bats came alive on Monday, March 21 as the Cardinal and Gray exploded for 11 hits and nine runs to defeat Grinnell, 9-1. Keri Dixon reached base all four times in the game, scored twice and drove in four runs during the win. Jessica Oleinik picked up the win in the circle, throwing five innings while giving up just five hits and striking out four.
MIT's rally against New Paltz St. came up short on Tuesday afternoon, as the Engineers fell, 9-7. After spotting the Hawks a 5-0 lead through three innings, Tech started to rally, with seven runs over the final four frames. Ruleman and Oleinik drove in runs with a pair of doubles during a four-run fourth to pull MIT within one at 7-6. After New Paltz plated two more in the sixth, the Engineers tried to mount one final comeback in the final stanza. Emily Creedon drew a leadoff walk and was driven in by Jenny Li before Iacobucci grounded out with the tying runs aboard. Oleinik went three-for-four with a pair of RBI's in the loss and Ruleman reached base four times, scoring twice.
The Engineers suffered 6-1 and 7-2 setbacks to the University of Scranton and Mount Vernon Nazarene, respectively, before finishing their trip with a pitchers' duel against Mount Mercy College. Despite allowing just three hits over six innings, Iacobucci was the hard-luck loser during a 2-1 defeat. Trailing 2-0 in the fifth inning, Katie Harrington was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on Dixon's single. Harrington then had a chance to play the role of hero in the sixth, as she came to the plate with runners on second and third, but was retired on a grounder to short to end the threat. MIT was set down in order in the seventh inning to close out its trip with a ledger of one win and seven losses.
The Cardinal and Gray will return to New England and conference play this weekend with a pair of NEWMAC doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday. Tech hosts Babson College on Friday, March 25 at 3:00 p.m. and takes on Smith College at Briggs Field on Saturday at noon.