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Introducing Record Matching
We're pleased to introduce today a new technology - Record Matching - that automatically finds relevant historical records for every family tree on MyHeritage!
This is an add-on feature for SuperSearch, our global search engine for historical records, that was successfully launched in June. We're very excited about Record Matching, and believe it is a breakthrough that can bring value to almost every user of MyHeritage and to people not using MyHeritage who are curious about their family history. Read the details below and we hope you'll share our excitement.
What is Record Matching?
If you're like many of us who love genealogy but don't have lots of spare time to invest in it, you'll love Record Matching. While you're busy with other things - or even sleeping - Record Matching does much of the work for you. It works behind the scenes on a new server farm set up by MyHeritage, constantly comparing every family tree on MyHeritage to more than 4 billion historical records on SuperSearch, looking for matches to bring to you. A Record Match is a document relevant to your family's history, such as a birth record of one of your ancestors, a tombstone photo of a relative in your family, or a newspaper article describing how your great-grandfather met and fell in love with your great-grandmother. Record Matches are found automatically and delivered directly to you. New discoveries await you!
What's unique about Record Matching?
Record Matching is the world's first and only technology to find family tree matches in newspaper articles, books and other free text documents, using semantic analysis. Based on the world's largest historical newspaper collection dating back to the 18th century that we have under license, relevant newspaper articles found using this technology are incredibly valuable in shedding light on the lives, personalities and achievements of our ancestors. We call it "adding color to family history".
This is done in addition to matching structured data such as birth, marriage, death and census records.
Synonyms and phonetics
Record Matching is the first technology to translate names between languages, to find documents for you even in languages different than the one your family tree is in. The technology is particularly good with synonyms and phonetics, so you can expect matches ranging from the obvious (William in record vs. Bill in the family tree) to the subtle (Alessandro in record vs. Sasha in the family tree).
Each match has a Confidence Score, ranging from half a star to five stars, indicating the likelihood that the historical record found correctly belongs to the associated individual in the family tree.
Record Matching runs periodically in order to cover new individuals recently added or edited in the family trees, and to cover new data collections of historical records that we keep adding.
As you can see, Record Matching is another great family history research tool for MyHeritage users. If your family tree is on MyHeritage, we'll continuously compare it – for free – to the billions of historical records we have, so that you'll have a better chance to make new discoveries with no effort. The technology's high level of accuracy will save time, and you won't need to do a thing except sit back, relax, go through the Record Matches we deliver to you and enjoy the discoveries they bring.
How to use Record Matches
Record Matches are calculated automatically for all family trees on MyHeritage.
When you log in and visit your family site on MyHeritage, you will see a box on the side bar listing the number of Record Matches found for you. Click it to enter the Record Matches page. You can also access this page from the "Family tree" tab in your family site.
People and Collections
The page for viewing your Record Matches allows you to go over them by person or by collection. So you can view all matches that were found for a particular person in your tree, or view all matches found for everyone in your tree in a particular collection, such as the 1940 USA census.
Click the blue buttons to view the matches in any of the collections. We call this the "collection page" and it displays all Record Matches from one collection. The information from your family tree is displayed on the left and information from the matching historical record, on the right.
Click any "Review match" button to drill-down and see the full record for any match. This is displayed in the Record page.
Record page
In the example Record Page below, the Record Match was an interesting newspaper article about a railroad engineer in the family tree. The date of death of this person was known in the family tree, but the newspaper reveals the unfortunate circumstances of his death - a coal shed explosion! This particular Record Match was found for Randy Seaver's family tree (more on this below).
Note that you can save any newspaper article image and add it to your family tree by clicking the Download icon in the bottom right corner (shaped like an arrow pointing down).
If you prefer, you can also go over your Record Matches by people, instead of by collection. To do so, click the "By people" tab in the top right corner.
Click the blue buttons to view all matches of any of the people. We call the page that will open the "person page" and it displays all Record Matches of a single individual in your family tree. Information about this individual from your family tree will be conveniently displayed on the left side, allowing you to compare it quickly to the information found in the historical records.
Person page
In the example above, the person has a match in the Social Security Death Index and another one in the 1940 USA census. Click any "Review match" button to drill-down and see the full record for any match. This is displayed in the Record Page.
Shown above is a Record Match for a person in the 1940 US census collection. Our users can click the census image to view it full-screen in our special viewer.
Confirming or rejecting Record Matches
You are encouraged to confirm or reject the matches as you go over them, indicating that they are correct or incorrect, respectively. This can be done in the Record pages, Collection pages and Person pages. It is helpful as a way to mark matches you have already reviewed in order to easily work your way through the matches. Confirmed matches will have a green checkmark next to them, and you can later change your mind and undo the confirmation if necessary. Incorrect matches will move out of the way and become hidden from view when you refresh the page. Your feedback on the accuracy of the matches will also help us improve the technology. As shown below, you can set the filtering options to temporarily hide confirmed matches from view, leaving only the pending (unconfirmed) matches displayed.
Before confirming a correct match, or shortly after, you are encouraged to extract the information from the match (scanned image, dates, events, facts, stories, etc) and add it to your family tree. At present this needs to be done manually in another window, as the first release of Record Matching does not include a save wizard for adding information directly from a match into the family tree on MyHeritage. This, along with an option to create a source citation in the family tree with the matching record, will be added soon in the first update of Record Matching. We recommend that you create a source citation for any piece of information that you add to your family tree from a historical record, so you and other researchers will know later on exactly where you got it from.
At the bottom of each list of matches you have the option to Confirm All or Reject all if you wish to apply these actions on all the matches displayed on the page instead of doing it individually.
Filtering Record Matches
In the Collection pages and Person pages, you can click the "Filtering options" link. The following screen will open, allowing you to control which matches are displayed.
You can use filtering to hide confirmed matches (thus showing you only pending, unconfirmed matches) and you can always bring all matches back by changing the filtering options. You can view only matches to structured records (such as vital records, census records), text records (newspapers and publications), or both. You can also request to display only matches with a minimum Confidence Score of your choice.
Confidence Scores
Record Matching is highly accurate, but its accuracy doesn't come at the price of finding fewer matches (i.e. only the obvious ones). Record Matches assesses the likelihood of each match being relevant to a family tree individual, and in the process assigns a Confidence Score for each match based on the degree of similarity of the information in the record (names, dates, facts, relationships, etc) to the information in the family tree. We have prepared an additional sub-system which we codenamed "Devil's Advocate" which goes over the matches and reduces the score or completely rejects those that contradict information in your family tree, to reduce false positives to the minimum.
This Confidence Score, which is a unique feature of MyHeritage, is displayed next to each match and ranges from half a star to five stars. You can sort matches by score on every page, or filter matches by the score and look only at higher probability matches, or extend the scope to look at all matches, likely and unlikely.
Please note an interesting conundrum: the higher the score, the less interesting the match might be! This is because a high-scoring match means that the historical record contains and matches a lot of information in the tree, hence your tree probably contains a great deal of information about this individual, so the new match may possibly not add much new information. There may be 'genealogy gold' particularly in the lower scoring matches where the system is less confident about the relevancy of the match, but that doesn't mean the match is less interesting or brings less information, rather there may not be much information in the family tree about this person to lift up the score.
Delivery of Record Matches
You can visit your family site at any time to see the Record Matches found for you, including the latest ones. In addition, we'll be sending our users a weekly email (depending on their preference) like the one shown below. The email will list new Record Matches that were found, and provide the option to review any match directly by clicking on the links provided. This is similar to the weekly email that delivers Smart Matches™. If there are no new matches to speak of, no email will be sent.
Record Matching and Smart Matching™
Record Matching augments our flagship Smart Matching™ technology. Smart Matching™ finds matches in family trees of other users, whereas Record Matching finds matches in all other (non-family-tree) historical records. The two technologies work together in a cycle that constantly pushes forward your knowledge of your family history. As you collaborate with other users and enhance your family tree using Smart Matches™, Record Matching receives more leads and information with which to find more historical records, which in turn facilitates more Smart Matches™ with other family trees. For example, when you confirm a Smart Match™ for an individual in your family tree, with an individual in another user's family tree, you are rewarded as all Record Matches found for the other individual automatically get applied to your family tree as well.
Enhancements on the way
There are many exciting sub-features and enhancements that couldn't be included in the first release and will be added by us in the next few months. These include the ability to save matches directly into the tree, highlighting of matches that add new info to the family tree, real-time matches displayed immediately whenever a new person is added to the tree, and integrating the Record Matching technology into our profile pages and Family Tree Builder genealogy software.
Please note that matches that are currently shown in profile pages and in Family Tree Builder 6.0 are not Record Matches, but are simple search results in World Vital Records. These will be replaced with real Record Matches very soon.
How much does it cost?
The new Record Matching feature runs for free for everyone who has one or more family trees on MyHeritage.
Viewing the matches is free in extract (some information will be hidden), but viewing the full records and their scanned images or the newspaper articles requires a Data Subscription which is the same subscription used to view records on MyHeritage SuperSearch.
For users who prefer it, pay-as-you-go credits may be purchased to view specific records in smaller quantity, in lieu of a subscription. Credits can be used to review a few matches of high interest, but if there are a great deal of interesting matches, a Data Subscription is a more economical way to review them all - see details on data subscription and credit options.
A Data Subscription provides unlimited access to all records in MyHeritage SuperSearch and to all Record Matches. Some Record Matches, are always free and viewing them does not require payment of any kind. For viewing the full records, users are referred to the free website.
Record Matches in Action
To demonstrate how effective and interesting Record Matches can be, here are some examples from the family tree of well-known genealogy expert and author of the Genea-Musings blog, Randy Seaver. We'd like to thank Randy for allowing us to use examples from his family tree in order to demonstrate the technology. Almost 4,000 Record Matches were found by MyHeritage for Randy's tree including hundreds of newspaper articles that will add a lot of color to the family history. As Randy nicely put it, he now has "a lot of work to do!"
Randy knew that Frederick Thomas Blanchard, his first cousin twice removed, had married Mary Helen Webster in 1912.
What Randy had never seen before was a 100-year-old newspaper article (see below) which showed that Dr. Frederick Blanchard was marrying his college sweetheart; they met when they were both students. The article lists his achievements, and indicates that the couple plan to make their home in a "cozily arranged bungalow"...
Like all Record Matches, this match was found automatically.
Here's another example from Randy's tree. Laura (below) has no children and not much is known about her husband.
With automatic Record Matches, Randy discovered that she was the wife of a mayor who died in a plane crash! The article also mentions that they had a son who was a judge, a fact missing in the family tree and now the door opens to find out more about this previously unknown person in the family.
Finally, here is an example of an unexpected discovery found for the family tree of MyHeritage founder & CEO, Gilad Japhet. In the tree we see his relative, Gertrude Sarah Levin, who married Solomon Deitch but little else is known about them.
The Record Match was a newspaper from Kansas in the 1930's. It includes their wedding photo. The bride is beautiful. The caption is intriguing: "Love needed no words". It turns out that the marriage service was conducted in sign-language as both were deaf mute... Another great example of how Record Matches adds color to what we know about the lives of our ancestors and relatives.
These are just a few of the thousands of Record Matches found for Randy's and Gilad's family trees, and in fact of the hundreds of millions of Record Matches that we have already found for our users, which are available as of today on MyHeritage.
Getting your Record Matches
Wondering what Record Matches we can find for you? Check your family site now to see what discoveries are already waiting for you there. If you're using our Family Tree Builder genealogy software, be sure to publish your latest family tree to your family site on MyHeritage, in order to have Record Matches calculated for you.
If no Record Matches were found for your tree yet, worry not, all you'll need is some patience. Record Matching works continuously and new data collections are added daily. We will bring the results to you automatically once found, and we are specifically working on adding data collections for non-English speaking countries.
If you're not yet a member of MyHeritage, you're more than welcome to sign up for free at MyHeritage, import your family tree or build a new one using the site's friendly tools, and receive your matches in less than 24 hours.
We're delighted to invite you to a webinar about Record Matches in which we'll go step-by-step through the process of accessing and reviewing your matches and explain how to use the information to add family members or details to your family tree. Please visit the webinar registration page.
We look forward to hearing your experiences with Record Matches and welcome your comments below.
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- Használni fogom ezt a szolgáltatást,
köszönet érte.
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Aliyahu Lewinson
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- Nagyra értékelem az új szolgáltatást és ennek a munkának kidolgozóját. Köszönet Neki.
Köszönöm az első találatot melyet ezen módszer segitségével kaptam.
További sikeres munkát kivánok Önöknek.
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- Ищу родственников деда Атвасит Бруно Иванович , который родился в Латвии ,Лифляндской губернии ,Валкского уезда ,с Новогульбинское в 1881 году, в 1916 году был ранен на фронте и отправлен в госпитль в уральский город Камышлов. Там он женился,так иостался на Урале. В 1938 году был взят по стражу,его увезли ночью. В книге памяти Свердловсой области написано ,что он расстрелен 24 октября 1938 года.Но у меня имеется справка о егореабилитации и свидетельство о смерти ,где указана дата смерти 11декабря 1943 года Диагноз Бронхиальная астма Мне хочетСветланася узнать о своем деде подробно.
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I am looking for relatives of my grandfather Atvasit I. Bruno, who was born in Latvia, Livonia, Valka district, with Novogulbinskoe in 1881, in 1916 he was wounded at the front and sent to the Ural city gospitl Kamyshlov. There he married, so iostalsya the Urals. In 1938 he was taken to prison, he was taken at night. In the book of memory Sverdlovsoy subject have already written that he be shot goda.No October 24, 1938 I have a certificate of egoreabilitatsii and death certificate where the date of death 11dekabrya 1943 Diagnosis Asthma hochetSvetlanasya I know about his grandfather detail.
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They went on to have 8 children. Mum was 3rd to last.
Regards June Thomson (Snell).
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Mion Ines Giuseppina N.18/7/1897 married to Boldrini Umberto N.1894
Mion Maria Anna N. 13/7/1893 married to Piovesan Enrico
Also any details of descendants of Domenica Caldato N. 1820? married to Mion (detto Mionetto) Antonio Andrea N.5/10/1816 at Vascon di Carbonera Venetia
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Caves and Caverns
News about Caves and Caverns, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Jan. 30, 2016
Op-Ed article by author David Roberts argues against dubbing Henry Worlsey, who died while trying to traverse Antarctica unsupported, one of great world explorers, despite momentous task he almost achieved; calls attention to true explorers abroad in world today, those exploring caves and underwater grottoes, as they truly are navigating areas that have never been mapped. MORE
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Jane Perlez travel article describes visit to remote Dunhuang caves in northwestern China; man-made caverns are filled with Buddhist art from fourth to 14th century. MORE
Apr. 25, 2015
France's Culture Ministry constructs $59 million replica of ancient prehistoric artworks discovered in Chauvet cave; replica, now open to the public in nearby cave, will allow visitors to experience wonder of explorers who first found the rock paintings. MORE
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Oct. 9, 2014
Researchers report in journal Nature that paintings of hands and animals in seven limestone caves on Indonesian island Sulawesi may be as old as the earliest European cave art; archaeologists of human origins say the new findings are spectacular and, in at least one sense, unexpected; Sulawesi's cave art, first described in the 1950s, had previously been dismissed as no more than 10,000 years old. MORE
Aug. 31, 2014
Michael Bananav travel article on exploring the lava tubes at El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico; caves are completely undeveloped with no established trails and no lights so a headlamp and hardhat is a must. MORE
Jun. 20, 2014
Berchtesgaden Journal; physicist and seasoned explorer Johann Westhauser was struck in the head by a rock 3,766 feet below the surface in Germany's deepest cave on June 8, and 728 people helped rescue him; rescue effort took 11 days to carry him out of cave, when he was flown to a hospital. MORE
Mar. 2, 2014
Kenan Christiansen travel articles says tours of Mammoth Cave's rambling passages have been given since before the Civil War and Bransford family has led them from the time its guides were slaves; notes Jerry Bransford is fifth-generation guide with National Park Service. MORE
Aug. 26, 2013
Profile of John Ackerman, successful businessman who has become largest private cave owner in Minnesota and perhaps country; some accuse Ackerman of land snatching and gold prospecting, while others say he is a fierce protector of underground wilderness. MORE
Mar. 24, 2013
Uncountable number of Syrian families are waiting out violence in caves excavated during Roman times; they live a grim existence, trying to eat, stay warm and dry, all while listening for sounds of incoming planes and artillery shells; caves have been restored to modern use because their thick walls offer a chance of survival to a population under fire. MORE
Dec. 16, 2012
Brazilian mining giant Vale is pushing forward with expansion of one of world's largest iron-ore mining complexes, project that will destroy dozens of caves that are treasured by scholars; caves contain spectacular mineral wealth, but also offer coveted insight into what may be earliest known stages of human settlement in world's largest tropical rain forest. MORE
Jun. 15, 2012
Research, led by Alistair W G Pike of the University of Bristol in England, published online in journal Science, finds that paintings on cave walls in northwestern Spain are far older than previously thought, in some cases more than 40,000 years old; findings raise the possibility that Neanderthals, or even modern humans, were the artists. MORE
Nov. 8, 2011
Study published online in journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences determines that spotted horses painted 25,000 years ago in Peche-Merle cave in France were realistic depictions of animals that coexisted with the artists; question of whether or not such paintings contain abstractions has long divided archaeologists. MORE
Oct. 9, 2011
Northern Thailand town of Pai, set amid caves and natural streams, manages to elude the nearby encroachment of modern tourism. MORE
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Researchers Find Fish That Walks the Way Land Vertebrates Do
In a cave in Thailand, scientists discovered a parallel to one of evolution's signature events: the transition from sea to land.
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To see the olms in Postojna Cave, you'll need to take an underground train. But you might be rewarded with a glimpse of their crystal clear eggs.
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Some Hunter-Gatherers Had a Taste for Tortoises, Study Says
In a cave near Tel Aviv, researchers found evidence of what the inhabitants ate more than 400,000 years ago.
February 2, 2016, Tuesday
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Henry Worsley and the Undiscovered Earth
A polar explorer's death raises a question: What does exploration mean today?
January 30, 2016, Saturday
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Scout Leader Is Attacked by a Bear
A New Jersey man who was hiking with three Boy Scouts at Split Rock Reservoir was treated for injuries to his scalp and legs after a black bear pulled him into a cave.
December 21, 2015, Monday
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Frozen Lion Cubs Still Have Their Fur 12,000 Years Later
Two long extinct cave lions were discovered in the Siberian permafrost.
November 23, 2015, Monday
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1,000 Years of Art at the Edge of the Gobi Desert
Almost 500 caves in the far reaches of western China are filled with Buddhist art dating from the fourth to the 14th centuries.
October 18, 2015, Sunday
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Homo Naledi, New Species in Human Lineage, Is Found in South African Cave
A cave in South Africa yielded the discovery of a previously unidentified member of the early human lineage — Homo naledi, a hominin species who seem to have buried their dead.
September 11, 2015, Friday
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A Chinese Drought Weather Report Written on Cave Walls
The inscriptions inside Dayu Cave in the Qinling Mountains describe the effects of seven droughts between 1520 and 1920.
August 18, 2015, Tuesday
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Deep Below Croatia Lurks a New Species of Centipede
The species, named after the Greek god of the underworld, lives some 3,600 feet underground.
July 7, 2015, Tuesday
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A Complicated Rescue
A man fell deep inside a cave in Spain, suffering such serious injuries that neither he nor his friends could get him out.
Video of Man Rescued From German Cave
Rescuers from Bavaria's Mountain Rescue Service carefully extracted an injured explorer through a series of shafts and tunnels after he was trapped for more than 11 days.
A Restoration Puzzle
In China's Yungang Grottoes, a team is battling to restore ancient Buddhist artifacts broken by vandals and ravaged by pollution.
'A Trip to Mammoth Cave, Ky.'
In 1864, James Fowler Rusling, a Union soldier and abolitionist, published a pamphlet recounting his experiences in the cave as well as an interview he conducted with Materson Bransford, the slave who served as his guide.
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awesome, yessss, perfect, I like all the new features
Still no iterators???
Do they live in 2003? C# had it since .Net 2.0.
Can't they just buy VB-to-C# converter and duct-tape it between VB and C# compilers? It they don't have money to buy the converter I'll donate.
The video resolution is so poor that makes it a pain trying to follow the demos. Please make it a little better
or else you are wasting a very good effort. The audio is very low. Microphones should near speakers to avoid
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Men's Volleyball Travels to George Mason and Princeton
MUNCIE, Ind. - The No. 15 Ball State men's volleyball team heads on the road this weekend to take on George Mason and Princeton. The Cardinals are coming off an exciting 3-2 win at then-No. 14 IPFW which propelled them into the AVCA Coaches Poll. Sophomore outside hitter Marcin Niemczewski was named the Sport Sports Imports/AVCA Division I-II Men's National Player of the Week while junior libero David Ryan Vander Meer earned MIVA Defensive Player of the Week honors.
Scouting Ball State
The Cardinals (3-3) are coming off an exciting 3-2 thriller over then-No. 14 IPFW in Fort Wayne, Ind. Three Cardinals earned double-doubles on the night led by sophomore outside hitter Marcin Niemczewski who had a near triple double with 22 kills, 16 digs and eight blocks (all career highs). Junior outside attacker Shane Witmer had 10 kills and 10 digs while senior setter Graham McIlvaine tallied 49 assists and 10 digs.
Ball State is ranked seventh in the nation with its 2.93 blocks per set average with Matt Leske with the eight-best average in the country at 1.38. Marcin Niemczewski is 10th in the nation in kills per set at 3.85.
Scouting George Mason
The Patriots are 2-2 on the season having most recently defeated Barton 3-1. Outside hitters Radoslav Popov and Jack Wilson lead the offense for George Mason with 47 and 46 kills each this season. Libero Dave Lucas heads up the digging category with 32 this year, although there are six Patriots who have double-digit digs on the season. Middle blockers Hunter Stevens, Graham Gresham and Dom Edgley all overage over one block per set on the year led by Stevens whose 1.57 blocks per set average is the third-best in the nation.
Series with George Mason
Ball State leads George Mason in the all-time series between the two squads 40-26. The series between both schools dates back to the 1980 season. The teams last met in the 2012 season and the squads split their regular season match ups with George Mason taking the last meeting 19-25, 25-17, 25-23, 21-25, 14-16 in Muncie. Ball State is 12-10 at George Mason.
Scouting Princeton
The Tigers are 0-2 on the year having dropped contests to California Baptist and Concordia this year. This weekend will mark the first weekend of competition at Princeton's home Dillon Gym. In the two matches this season Pat Schwagler and Devin Stearns have tallied 29 and 26 kills each. Schwagler is dangerous at the service line as he has knocked in seven service aces so far on the year for a 0.88 aces per set average which ranks third in the nation. Princeton puts up 3.31 blocks per set with five Tigers averaging over one block per set led by Junior Oboh whose 1.38 blocks per set average puts him ninth in the country.
Series with Princeton
Saturday's match marks only the fifth time these two schools have played each other. The first meeting between the two programs ended in a tie during the 1977 season. Ball State has won the other three matches with the most recent win coming in the 2011 season when the Cardinals earned a 25-18, 25-14, 25-16 win at Princeton.
Record Watching
Senior setter Graham McIlvaine has moved to seventh in program history in career assists after his 49 assists performance against IPFW. Heading into the match Friday McIlvaine has 2,193 career assists moving past Dave Carlson (2005-06) who finished his career with 2,153 assists. McIlvaine is 121 assists away from surpassing Jeff Robertson (1997-2000) who finished his career with 2,313 assists.
National Recognition - Feb, 4, 2014
Sophomore outside hitter Marcin Niemczewski was named Sports Imports/American Volleyball Coaches Association Division I-II Men's National Player of the Week while junior libero David Ryan Vander Meer earned MIVA Defensive Player of the Week honors.
Niemczewski is just the second MIVA player to earn national player of the week accolades this season, and is the first Ball State men's volleyball player to earn the AVCA's top weekly honor since Ethan Pheister picked it up during the 2010 season. The award marks the 13th time a BSU student-athlete has been recognized as the AVCA National Player of the Week.
Vander Meer earns the MIVA nod for the first time in his career and he is the first Cardinal to be recognized by the conference this season. The junior got under a career-high 22 digs against the Mastodons which was the first time a BSU men's volleyball player had over 20 digs since Billy Ebel tallied 20 against Grand Canyon on Jan. 21, 2010.
Career Nights in Fort Wayne
Three Cardinals earned double doubles against the Mastodons on Jan. 31 and 11 career bests were set on the night. Marcin Niemczewski led the way earning career-highs in kills (22), attempts (50), assists (2), digs (16), assisted blocks (7) and total blocks (1). Matt Leske was credited with a career-high 10 assisted blocks and finished with a career-best 12 total blocks. Shane Witmer and Graham McIlvaine finished with career-highs in attack attempts with 35 and 13, respectively.
The Doctor Is In
Junior libero David Ryan Vander Meer got under a career-high 22 digs against then-No. 14 IPFW. The junior passed 29 balls on the night committing only one error. Vander Meer has 88 passes this year for a .932 reception percentage.
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"In the chaos of holiday celebrations, it is easy to forget safety," says Molly Hall, executive director of the Safe Electricity program. "Before the celebrations begin, take time to decorate safely."
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Campus to Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. on January 23
Sharon, Pa.—Penn State Shenango will hold its annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration with guest speaker Preacher Moss from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, January 23 in the Great Hall located on Penn Avenue in downtown Sharon, Pa. The event is free and open to the public.
Preacher Moss is clearly the new prototype for the comedian of these times and the times to come. A writer for "The Damon Wayans Show" and "Saturday Night Live," his comedy stylings are distinguished for being sculptured out of the everyday relevance of life and the rare glimpses of truth we value as reality. He is intellectual, yet humble. He is charismatic and dynamic, but does not have to demand great attention or time because his audiences come to cooperatively listen, laugh and in "special" moments, reflect. Truly this is a rare combination. He is more than a comedian, priding himself on being just a man. Viewed, respected and revered as a man of the people, his words carry life and just as importantly, they carry laughter.
Armed with sincerity, intellect and rare comedic ability, Preacher Moss is the "End of Racism" Comedy and Lecture Tour. "Speaking on Truth," Moss has been playing to the hearts and minds of college students and administrators all over the country. With his insight on "racial understanding vs. racial interaction" he has quickly become the funniest social commentator on the college scene today.
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ATTICA - Tiffin Police Department Officer Jake DeMonte and K9 Andy made a special visit to Seneca East Local Schools' first graders Friday.
DeMonte came to speak to the kids about what police dogs do and what the department uses them for.
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Tiffin Police Officer Jake DeMonte shows first graders at Seneca East skills K9 Andy can do during a demonstration at the school Friday.
DeMonte, Andy's handler, had to learn how to speak Dutch in order to command Andy. That means he is the only one who can control Andy, he told students.
During the demonstration, DeMonte showed the children commands and how fast Andy can run.
The visit was prompted after the Seneca East first graders learned about the importance of rules in and out of the classroom and how important it is to follow the law, Seneca East teacher Renee Bridgford said.
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Dr. Josh Brokaw | Assistant Professor of Biology
Since his days as an undergraduate at ACU, Dr. Josh Brokaw has been interested in exploring how humans impact the planet on which we live.
It is very gratifying to work at a job where searching for truth and doing the right thing can be considered primary objectives.
His research in the field of ecology led him full circle back to ACU, where he now teaches plant biology and ecology classes and works to raise awareness on campus about the value of caring for the environment.
"By studying ecology we simply try to better understand what we ourselves are doing in the ecosystems that we now dominate," he says. "My approach to environmental protection recognizes that humans have and will continue to change ecosystems. However, as stewards of creation, we must attempt to understand the change that we cause and be prepared to modify our behaviors when those changes are found to be unacceptable."
After graduating from ACU in 2001 with a B.S. in environmental science, Brokaw went on to earn an M.S. in botany at Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. at Washington State University. He returned to ACU as an assistant professor of biology in the fall of 2009.
Since his arrival at ACU, he has taught numerous biology classes and serves as a member of the planning committee for the annual ACU Undergraduate Research Festival and the Math-Science Research Council.
Stewards of creation
Brokaw's own research continues to focus on ecology.
"Ecology reminds us that the study of biology is not distinct from any human endeavor, academic or non-academic, because humans are always a part of an ecosystem," he says.
Brokaw works with students and faculty to organize recycling awareness. He also involves students in his research on environmental protection.
"When I teach classes like Biology: Human Perspective, I feel it is critical to go beyond discussion of human biology in the narrowest sense to provide a richer perspective of how we interact with and depend on the world around us," Brokaw says.
Living with the land
On his own time, Brokaw acts on his research and knowledge by emulating the land ethic supported by Aldo Leopold in his book A Sand County Almanac.
"Previous management practices in the shinnery oak scrubland, such as clear cutting and garbage burial, have favored soil erosion and introduction of invasive plant species," Brokaw says. "I am continuing to work toward restoration of a sustainable mixture of native vegetation that can serve as a teaching lab and site for undergraduate research in the future."
Brokaw will soon begin researching soil bioremediation in tall grass prairie affected by a crude oil spill. Dr. Kim Pamplin, chair of the chemistry department, will partner with him in the research.
Brokaw is grateful for the focus ACU puts on things he values in his life and work.
"It is very gratifying to work at a job where searching for truth and doing the right thing can be considered primary objectives," he says. "I still greatly depend on and appreciate my senior faculty mentors who are available for advice when the tasks ahead start to look overwhelming. It is also comforting to be part of a community that upholds commitment to faith as a chief virtue."
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Erie County property taxes will go up, and jobs will be cut under a proposed budget that County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz plans to unveil today.
Poloncarz will ask county legislators to increase property taxes by 3.4 percent while making cuts throughout county government that will include 10 layoffs and the elimination of 53 vacant jobs to offset rising expenses and decreasing revenue.
Without the tax increase, Poloncarz said, the county would have had to severely cut back on services such as libraries, arts and cultural funding and sheriff's road patrols to make up for an $8 million deficit that remained after his staff trimmed vacant jobs and other budget lines.
"If we were to try to do $8 million of additional job cuts, it would have destroyed county government as we know it," Poloncarz said. "Of the services that we control, we would have had to cut into the Parks Department, which is already cut to the bone. We would have had to cut into the Highway Department."
Instead, Poloncarz is proposing a $1.38 billion general fund budget that increases spending by 2.1 percent but relies on increased taxes, budget cuts and surplus funds to balance the plan without reducing several services that he made central to his campaign last year. The budget includes $326.3 million in sales tax revenue the county collects but passes on to local governments and schools.
"We're going after strategic cuts," Poloncarz said. "We're going after it with a scalpel, not with a hatchet, like had been done in the past."
Those cuts include 63 jobs, most of which are vacant, and expense lines such as travel or consulting that have gone unspent in recent years.
The cuts, however, weren't enough to make up for a number of financial pressures facing the county, including:
• A requirement by the State Commission of Correction that the county add 33 jobs at the county jails next year as part of a plan to increase staffing levels by 2015. In addition, the county must add two mental health professionals under a settlement with the Department of Justice over the condition of the jails.
• Increased expenses for health care, pension and Medicaid payments.
• A loss of property tax revenue, as the assessed value of local properties decreased due to a number of large commercial property owners who have successfully challenged their tax assessments.
While Poloncarz spared the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library from budget cuts, he did not answer the call of a public campaign led by library system leaders for $3.6 million more for the libraries next year to restore hours and programs. Instead, Poloncarz has proposed a $300,000 increase for the library budget, bringing the total county support for the system to $22.2 million.
"We heard from the public," Poloncarz said. "They said, 'We want our libraries.' We said, 'We can't give the libraries $25 million without destroying so many other services in county government.' It's just impossible, but we are giving them more money than we did last year."
Poloncarz framed the proposed tax increase as a trade-off for keeping services such as libraries, arts and cultural funding, rodent control and road patrols in the budget. Of the roughly $1 billion the county spends each year, about 90 percent of it is on mandated services such as Medicaid and welfare programs, over which the county has little or no control.
"If we did not do the tax increase, because we've got $8 million to cut out of county government – we control only 10 percent of our budget, and it's everything that we want – we would have seen library funding reduced," Poloncarz said. "We would have seen arts and cultural funding reduced. We would have seen everything I talked about being cut."
The county executive has proposed a tax rate of $5.21 for every $1,000 of the assessed value of a home. At that rate, homeowners with a house assessed at $100,000 would see their county property tax bill increase $18, to $521 – a tax increase the county executive describes as $1.50 per month for the owner of a $100,000 house.
"I think, if you ask people, 'Can you afford $1.50 per month to ensure your libraries and all these things are funded?' they would say yes," Poloncarz said. "That's what we're asking the people of Erie County."
The proposed increase in the county tax levy is within a state-imposed tax cap that went into effect last year.
In addition to the tax increase, Poloncarz's proposal relies on $5.4 million of the county's fund balance, or surplus funds left over from prior years' budgets. The county currently has a surplus of about $83 million – money that was built up with the help of federal stimulus dollars over the last three years and that could be difficult to replenish once it is spent. Poloncarz said he hopes to wean the county budget off those funds by 2014.
The spending plan does not address the potential for new union contracts for county employees who are working under expired agreements. A proposal negotiated earlier this year with the county's largest union, the Civil Service Employees Association, was voted down by its membership.
Poloncarz will also propose borrowing nearly $40 million for large-scale projects, including $5 million for building maintenance and equipment at Erie Community College, $2.6 million to renovate a closed county health clinic on Broadway in Buffalo, annual maintenance to Ralph Wilson Stadium required under the current lease and upgrades to roads, parks and other county-owned facilities, including the Botanical Gardens.
While Poloncarz has proposed a tax increase, the decision of whether to accept that proposal and the spending plan lies in the hands of county legislators. They will spend the next two months reviewing the document and proposing changes before the budget is finalized in December.
County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz has proposed a $1.38 billion general fund budget for 2013. Here's a look at how the money would be spent and how the budget would change from 2012, if county legislators approve it.
Personnel: $187.3 million 0.34 percent
Fringe benefits: $126.8 million 15.63 percent
Supplies and repairs: $9.7 million -0.67 percent
Sales tax distributed to local governments: $326.3 million 3.49 percent
Contractual expenses: $131.4 million 3.38 percent
Medicaid payments for ECMC: $16.2 million No change
Social services: $402.6 million 2.89 percent
Developmental and special education programs: $68.9 million 1.33 percent
Transfers to road fund, ECC and other funds: $40.2 million -3.25 percent
Debt payments: $54.6 million -12.79 percent
Other expenses: $20.9 million 2.98 percent
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Air travel: how has it changed since 9/11?
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Flying now is a lot different than it was before Sept.11. Not only did the government and airlines introduce a rash of new policies right after the attacks, but subsequent attack attempts and economic downturns altered flying too. Find out more about these changes, tips for getting through security and what is allowed on an airplane.