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In going independent, did BYU settle for less than it should have or did it get all that it wanted?-- Shane Hale, Las Vegas
We won't be able to answer that question definitively until the contracts have been signed and the television dollars disclosed. Conceptually, I think BYU absolutely did the right thing for its school and its football program. Practically, I have quite a few concerns.
The school's decision was first and foremost about television -- specifically, escaping the shackles of the Mountain West's restrictive, low-rent contracts in search of more money and more exposure. I don't doubt the Cougars will achieve both. Some of the projected revenue numbers being tossed around -- as much as $10 million per year, up from a $1.5 million share in the Mountain West -- seem unrealistically high, but even just by getting four or five games a year on ESPN, the school will enjoy infinitely more exposure than it does currently. It also retains the ability to add live games to its own existing network, BYUtv. In theory, this is all a very good thing.
But now to the logistics -- most notably, who are the Cougars going to play? BYU's plan made a lot more sense back when it involved partnering with the WAC. That way, half its schedule would already be taken care of. While the Cougars could still land annual deals with natural rivals Utah, Utah State and Hawaii, they'll now be facing the daunting task of filling out those other nine or 10 games a year. The success of their new TV deals will depend on whether a network is singing up to show BYU vs. Michigan or BYU vs. Eastern Michigan. The school has already landed one notable home-and-home with Texas for 2013-14, but it's going to need three or four more like that, every year.
Which brings us to the other question: What becomes of the Cougars' BCS prospects? The biggest risk BYU is taking in all of this is that it's no longer guaranteed to see another dime from the BCS. As a Mountain West member, it collected several million dollars from Utah and TCU's appearances, and even in years when the league didn't qualify a team, it still garnered a small BCS handout. BYU also had a pretty good thing going with the Las Vegas Bowl, the league's top bowl partner, which selected the Cougars four straight years. Conference bowl contracts are locked in for the next four years, which means BYU could be playing for scraps from 2011-13.
Ultimately, though, the sport's postseason system will likely cause BYU to look wiser in the long run. The reality is, unless you're a school in one of the six BCS conferences, you're basically a handicapped FBS member. You're not privy to the roughly $20 million (and growing) each of those leagues gets to divvy up every year, and you're inherently stigmatized in the eyes of voters as a "non-BCS" team. For most schools, the only hope is to get "called up" to the bigs like Utah did. BYU, with its 60,000-seat stadium, its national championship and its Heisman, was arguably the one "non-BCS" school that had the cachet to take matters into its own hands.
If, five years from now, BYU is playing big games on big television networks at least four or five times a year, if it's playing the type of schedule that makes voters treat the Cougars no differently than they would most Pac-10 or Big 12 teams and if it's got postseason options beyond the New Mexico Bowl, then yes, it will have gotten everything it wanted. It's all possible, but there's a lot of details to be worked out.
Update: Since this column was published, BYU announced an eight-year deal with ESPN for all home games and a six-year series with Notre Dame. I'd say the Cougars are well on their way to achieving most of the aforementioned goals.
I have a lot riding on the Labor Day matchup of Boise State and Virginia Tech. My son picked Boise State to win the national championship in our annual college football wager, and my daughter is a faculty member at Virginia Tech. My question is, do the Hokies have a legitimate chance?-- Neil, Fargo, N.D.
Of course they do. The game is an absolute toss-up, regardless of what the disparity in the teams' AP rankings might suggest. (Boise State is No. 3, Virginia Tech is No. 10.) All of the pressure is on Boise. Virginia Tech can still go on to have a fine season either way, but for the Broncos, it could mean the difference between the Jan. 10 BCS Championship Game and the Jan. 9 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. This is also much more of a road game than a true neutral-site game (organizers are expecting 60,000 Hokies fans), and memories of Boise's disastrous trip east to Georgia in 2005 (a 48-13 annihilation) still linger.
From a purely football standpoint, however, we know a lot more about these Broncos than about the Hokies. They're almost the exact same team they were a year ago (20 returning starters), only older and wiser. The Hokies' high ranking is based more on potential. Their offense should be powerful, with quarterback Tyrod Taylor now a polished senior and Darren Evans returning to join Ryan Williams in the backfield -- but they did rank just 50th nationally last season. Bud Foster's defense should be stingy, because it almost always is, but he does have to replace seven starters from a year ago, including his top three sacks leaders.
These are actually two very similar programs. They both emphasize a physical, blue-collar mentality. They both want to run the ball down your throat. (For all of Kellen Moore's accolades, Boise actually ranked higher in rushing offense than passing offense last season.) They both feast on turnovers and special-teams play. It may sound simplistic, but the game will come down to which team is more physical. It's how Boise beat Oregon and TCU last year, and it's how Virginia Tech crushed Miami and Tennessee last season. I give a slight edge to the Broncos, but only because I'm more familiar with their personnel.
The NCAA has denied immediate eligibility to Jeremiah Masoli, apparently because his move to Ole Miss violates the spirit of the graduate transfer rule. Why did the NCAA let this play out for so long if it knew the whole time what would happen? Any thoughts on Masoli's chances on appeal?-- Gabe Jones, Austin, Texas
I don't know why it took it so long, other than the fact that the NCAA's staff doesn't have some sort of Ole Miss quarterback hotline. It processes a lot of eligibility situations involving a lot of players in a lot of different sports at a lot of different schools. Unfortunately, had Masoli learned his fate earlier, he could have transferred down to an FCS school and played right away. I hope Ole Miss coaches or administrators didn't lead him to believe the waiver was a formality, and I hope he was made aware of all of his options.
Meanwhile, the NCAA -- which is often criticized for adhering so rigidly to its rulebook, oftentimes at the expense of common sense -- should be commended for taking the stance that it did. The graduate-transfer waiver that Masoli and Ole Miss were counting on was never intended as a free-agency option for someone who got kicked off his team. It's not a "rule," it's a "waiver" -- i.e., an exception, which, as the NCAA said in its statement, "... exists to provide relief to student-athletes who transfer for academic reasons to pursue graduate studies, not to avoid disciplinary measures at the previous university."
The Masoli situation made a lot of compliance officers and other college officials around the country queasy because of the precedent it might have created. I don't know what his chances are of winning an appeal, but based on the wording of the NCAA's statement, it would likely require some sort of convincing argument that he absolutely hopes to pursue a career in Parks and Recreation Management. While I'm sure Masoli is disappointed, he doesn't have much reasonable ground to complain. The NCAA isn't saying he can't play for Ole Miss. It flat out said he's entitled to a scholarship. It's just saying he has to wait a year to compete, like virtually every other FBS transfer.
Let me just make sure I read this right -- you've picked Georgia ... GEORGIA ... to be in the Sugar Bowl and you have Florida in a non-BCS bowl. Seriously? I mean ... SERIOUSLY?!! Pray tell based on what? That means you have Georgia winning the SEC East. Ahead of Florida. Florida coming in behind Georgia. Do me a favor, print that again, because I can't believe my #@!*^%$ eyes.-- Tom, Lakeland, Fla.
Ah, bowl projections. As if it's not futile enough to attempt to predict records for 70 teams before the season, you then get to plug them into a postseason lineup that, as most of you well know, is based only partially on wins and losses.
To clarify, I do believe Florida will win the SEC East, but with at least one or two losses. That means if the Gators lose in the SEC title game, they'll have two or three losses. And after Florida fans' meager turnout to last year's Sugar Bowl, I figure the New Orleans game will take a different SEC team this year, in this case Georgia, which I project to go 10-2. Obviously, I'm making a whole lot of presumptions (most notably Alabama reaching the BCS championship game), but bowl projections are nothing if not one big presumption.
Can you explain why the Rose Bowl is obligated to take highest non-AQ team if it loses a team to the national championship game? Is it actually true? If so, why would they agree to that (was it some kind of deal that allowed them to get a favorable matchup in a past game or something)?-- Bruce McKinley, South Riding, Va.
It is indeed true. Here is the exact clause from the BCS' media guide:
For the games of January 2011 through 2014, the first year the Rose Bowl loses a team to the NCG and a team from the non-AQ group is an automatic qualifier, that non-AQ team will play in the Rose Bowl.
It was a compromise the Rose Bowl quietly and reluctantly agreed to some time back due to resentment from the other bowls over the fact that the Rose, with two conference partners, would never have to pick lower than second among at-large teams and therefore would never be stuck having to host a non-AQ team. While I'm sure some traditionalists will still vomit at the prospect of an orange-and-blue Broncos end zone, I think most of the public would enjoy seeing Boise in Pasadena more than they did that 9-3 Illinois team a few years ago. Personally, I'm still rooting for Temple.
Is there no International Bowl in Toronto this year? I've gone to all four of them so far.-- Don, Newmarket, Ontario
Wow. I hate to break this to you, Don, but the International Bowl is indeed no more. But you deserve some sort of medal for going to all four of them. At least you'll always have the memory of having attended Jim Leavitt's last game.
Pete Carroll left a team that was going to win at least 10 games. Lane Kiffin left a team that was going to win at best six games. So the question is, which coach, USC's Kiffin or Tennessee's Derek Dooley, will do more with the team he was given?-- Rick, Chattanooga
I can see why that would be a topic of interest in Chattanooga.
First of all, I think those are both realistic numbers for each team's general expectation level. However, if you read my coaches primer last week, you know I have lower expectations for the Vols (much to the indignation of several folks who sent e-mails from the Volunteer State last week). The 4-8 prediction isn't an indictment of Dooley as much as of the depleted talent level in Knoxville. A new quarterback playing behind a new offensive line, in a season when the defense is rebuilding, is not a recipe for success in the SEC. To me, he will have gotten the "most" out of his team if it wins more than two conference games.
As for Kiffin, last year he basically achieved the exact record (7-6, 4-4 SEC) I would have predicted going into the season. I believe he'll do the same with the Trojans his first year -- they won't overachieve, but they won't fall apart, either. One big advantage Kiffin has over Dooley (besides the overabundance of former five-star recruits) is a talented quarterback (Matt Barkley) with a year's experience under his belt. That's a nice piece to have when you're dealing with depth issues at a lot of other positions. That's why I have more confidence in his prospects than Dooley's going into this particular season.
Stewart, on paper WVU and Pitt are basically equal coming into the upcoming season. The Mountaineers return more starters (16 to 11) and they are both starting new quarterbacks. However, Geno Smith has actually seen meaningful playing time, unlike Tino Sunseri. Also, WVU won head-to-head a year ago. So why is Pitt getting all the preseason hype? Does the difference come down to a total lack of confidence in Bill Stewart?-- Ryan, Oak Hill, West Va.
Well when you put it that way ... it doesn't make much sense, does it?
The perception for a few years now, based both on recruiting rankings and NFL exports, is that Pittsburgh is the most talented team in the Big East, but just hasn't put it together. The Panthers have four All-America candidates in running back Dion Lewis, receiver Jon Baldwin, defensive end Greg Romeus and tackle Jason Pinkston, whereas West Virginia really only has one household name, Noel Devine. I think if you were to ask 100 people, maybe 40 of them would remember who won the Backyard Brawl last year, but 99 remember Pitt coming within a point against Cincinnati in that winner-take-all game the first Saturday of December. And then there's the fact that the Panthers won their bowl game against North Carolina, while the Mountaineers lost theirs to Florida State.
Count me among those who don't have a lot of confidence in Coach Stew -- but I'm not a big believer in Dave Wannstedt, either. I think both teams will be about the same as they were last year, losing at least one league game they have no business losing. And the only reason either is getting more hype than Cincinnati is because of the Bearcats' coaching change. The one guy in that league I truly have confidence in at this point is Connecticut's Randy Edsall, which is a major reason I went with the Huskies as my Big East pick even though both Pitt and WVU are probably more talented.
And now, for a brief aside. I received a ton of responses to the Jersey Shore college football casting call, but none that I considered 8-for-8. So I culled together a full-cast lineup from several different e-mailers.
The Situation = Larry Scott. Always going after the hotties (Texas and Oklahoma) but usually brings home an OK-looking girl (Utah) and her grenade friend (Colorado).-- Bill, Pocatello, Idaho
Clearly Snooki is Tennessee, because she gets arrested weekly and is an unnatural shade of orange.-- Rob, Washington D.C.
Ronnie: Texas. Flirts and "creeps" with the Pac-10, but eventually returns home to the security of the Big 12 (Sammi).-- Dave, Minneapolis
Sammi = Oregon: Reinstated LeGarrette Blount (Ronnie).-- Aaron, New York City
J-Woww = Big 12. Texas! Oklahoma! You only need two assets to grab peoples' attention. Angelina = Notre Dame. No one seems to want her there, but there she is, collecting a nice, fat paycheck.-- Sean, Hartford, Conn.
Vinny = Vanderbilt. Seems to be the most level-headed member of the house, but the show wouldn't be drastically different without him.-- Mario Contreras, New York
I definitely think Pauly is Army, because both promote grenade free Americas.-- John, Worcester, Mass.
Nice work. All I have to say is, Sammi better not reinstate Blount again or I'm going to stop watching.
Stewart: What's your Appalachian State-esque pick for Week 1? See any possible earth shattering upsets on the horizon?-- Brandy, Toronto
I don't see anything quite that earth-shattering on the horizon, though there will inevitably be at least a couple of FCS over FBS victories. The most likely: Richmond giving former coach Mike London a tough start to his UVa tenure.
your bowls that u picked r nuts......i dod't think u put a lot of thought into this. AND IT SHOWS-- Lionel, Belle Chasse, La.
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Fat Joe and Remy Ma already had one of 2016's biggest surprise comebacks with "All the Way Up" featuring French Montana. It even snagged a high-profile remix by Jay Z shortly after the LEMONADE controversy. Now, they're looking to take things to the next level by not messing with the formula. To that end, the pair again recruited French Montana, this time along with latin rapper Ry So Valid for their new single "Cookin."
Joe and Remy are gearing up for the release of their joint album Platas o Plomo, Spanish for "money or bullets." The set doesn't have a release date yet, but Joe spoke very highly of the project in an interview with the RapRadar podcast back in March. "The album is the best album coming out," he said. "It should give inspiration to everybody in New York City. This shit is phenomenal. Remy's gonna be rated top. They gonna ask to see if she's the best rapper on Earth, male or female. That's how bad she's going on this album. It's so fucking incredible, when people hear this album, this shit is so fuckin' crazy. I feel like God blessed us…It's like if Snoop or Dre did a new album. Kanye and Jay Z did a new album."
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Kane Williamson has re-entered the top ten in the recent ICC Men's ODI Player Rankings, while Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma dropped down a place each.
The New Zealand skipper rose one place up from No.11 after a fine 98-ball 94 in the first ODI against India, which helped the hosts chase down 307 runs with 2.5 overs to spare. Williamson has only batted in six innings in 2022 and had not scored a fifty before his innings in Auckland, but his knock was enough for a place in the top ten ODI rankings.
His teammate Tom Latham was a gainer in the list as well, rising up ten spots to No.18 after scoring an unbeaten 145 off 104 deliveries in the same game. Latham currently has 654 rating points – his career best – and is one of three Kiwis in the top 20, with Martin Guptill positioned at No.20, with 640 rating points.
Rohit and Kohli, who have skipped the ODI series against New Zealand, both dropped down one spot each, and are currently at eight and nine, respectively. However, the India players who are on tour did manage to rise up, with Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill benefiting. Gill, who made 50 and 45* in the first two games is up three places to No.34, while Iyer, who scored 80 and continued his fine run in the format, is at No.27 after rising six places.
In the list for bowlers. Lockie Ferguson rose up to No.32 after ending the first ODI with figures of 3-59. His teammate Trent Boult, who did not feature in the series after being released from his national contract, leads the bowling charts, with 760 rating points, well-clear of second-placed Josh Hazlewood, who has 727 points.
Wanindu Hasaranga too achieved his career-best after his all-round show against Afghanistan. He made 66 in 46 and picked up two wickets in the second ODI, which helped him rise up a spot to eight and achieve his highest of 235 points.
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Her harshest critics continue their attempt to sink the "vagina kayak" artist.
In an ongoing Japanese obscenity case, Megumi Igarashi heard Monday in Tokyo District Court that prosecutors want her to pay an 800,000-yen (about $6,600) fine for transmitting images of her genitals that could be reproduced into 3D objects, artnet.com reported.
Igarashi used the digital campaign to create sculptures, cell phone cases and other souvenirs. Perhaps her most noteworthy project was a kayak:
According to Japan Today, she was arrested in July and December of 2014 for sending the 3D scans to paying recipients. The artist, who also calls herself Rokudenashiko ("good-for-nothing kid"), said in court the artwork was not "salacious," Japan Today reported.
"Having created works that defy the (existing) image associated with genitalia, I cannot agree with my arrest," she said, per the Japan Times.
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Through her art, she says, she hopes to make "pussy more casual and pop."
The court's decision whether she violated obscenity laws is expected May 9. An earlier HuffPost report noted that the maximum sentence for distributing obscene objects is two years in prison and/or a fine of up to 2.5 million yen.
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VIJAYAWADA: While use of sedition law, is now a point of debate, it was widely invoked during the Indian freedom struggle. Within Andhra Pradesh, it was first applied in Bapatla, recalled representatives of Forum for Better Bapatla (FBB) while celebrating the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav here on Sunday.
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Sai Babu said Basavaiah appealed to the High Court wherein the defence lawyer was Andhra Kesari Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu. Public prosecutor T. Richmond argued for the British government. Then Bapatla Postmaster was invited as a witness for the prosecution. Hearings in the case came to an end on December 21,1909. Judges Ralf Benson and Abdul Rehman reduced Basavaiah's sentence by two years.
The FBB secretary said after Independence, the Government of India honoured Basavaiah by including his name among "Who is Who of Freedom Struggle in Andhra Pradesh". Sai Babu underlined that the people of Bapatla played a quite significant role right through the Indian Freedom Struggle by launching a series of freedom protests and agitations till India attained Independence....


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I've been blessed to have hosted "Business Matters" on WFMZ-TV for over 15 years. I've interviewed presidents, secretaries of state, governors, millionaires, and more.
Biden, Gingrich, Clinton, Wolf, Andretti, Toomey, Casey … too many to count. How's that for name dropping?
I've done shows in prisons, gymnasiums, hotel rooms, gorgeous arenas, theaters, and even in a locker room. All this with NO journalism degree. Heck, how about NO degree at all!
This is just a crazy example of just how you never know where your professional journey — actually your life's journey — will take you. I've learned the hard way that when it seems it's hardest to hold on, if you do, something good just may be around the corner. Life has its ups and downs and, sorry to say, you're gonna experience both.
More and more people tell me "I can't watch the news anymore" or for that matter, any news-focused shows. Everyone seems to have an angle and everyone seems pretty sure they're right. Throw in COVID, and we're just tired of it all. That's why I've decided the country needs a little more love and a little less mean-spirited critical judgment.
So, as a reminder of how wonderfully flawed, yet full of potential, we all are, here's a few of my life's ups and downs. I'll try to do them in a somewhat chronological order:
- In fourth grade, I was loving every minute of being a St. Catherine's choir boy for the impeccable, straight from Italy, very cool Father della Picca. Today, although I still love and believe in God, I rarely attend church.
- In sixth grade, I was in honor school at good old Sheridan Elementary. I was part of a class with the brightest and the best. I ultimately graduated from William Allen High School in the bottom 10th of my class. How's that for progress?
- In 10th and 11th grade, I started junior and varsity football for the William Allen Canaries. As a first-string senior, I quit after three games. What? Why? That decision has haunted me for many, many years. Oftentimes, I'd awake from a nightmare that the locker room door was locked or I couldn't find my helmet. All keeping me from getting into the game. Never quit anything if at all possible.
- I spent most of my life in a nice home in West Allentown. During my senior year, we were forced to leave our nine-person longtime family home with the crisis of my dad's business bankruptcy, and crammed into a way too small apartment.
- In 1980, I received Allentown's Human Relations Award. I'm now aware I have so much work to do in the diversity, equity and inclusion arena that I'm not even close to any kind of award. You see, today we thankfully have far superior standards in that area.
- I've been athletically thin, then spent years in the obese category. Having lost 50 pounds, I'm now lighter and I'm rejoicing to be in the "overweight" category. Wait ... is that a good thing?
- I'm president of the country's sixth-largest chamber, yet could never actually focus enough to finish my associates and/or undergrad degrees.
- I've been on the front page over the years of this wonderful, storied newspaper for many good things. Additionally, I've hit the front page on a not-so-wonderful FBI list.
Here's my point. I love my job. I love my family. I love my community. I love my life. I've learned over my 69 years that I'm very human and very flawed. I'm not gonna stop trying to be better. I'm going to humble myself and admit failure and just try harder.
And I'm going to try especially hard not to judge. Because I'm flawed, and who am I to judge? I was sculpted out of great successes and object failures. I'm gonna try my very human best to love all you where you're at, because we need it now more than ever.
I'm not gonna lie. I especially have a soft spot for you "not so perfect life" types. You, who hit rock bottom or close to it and somehow pulled yourself up. You who didn't have a safety net but somehow crawled out of the deep abyss to reach your success.
We're all so full of potential. Filled with greatness on a scale large and small. Greatness to our family, our work, our community, to our country.
So don't give up. Like with this pandemic we're crawling out from under, bit by bit. Better days are ahead, and we need you. We need your skills, we need your Lehigh Valley work ethic. And hey, if you can throw in a little understanding love, we'll take it. Heaven knows we need it!
Tony Iannelli is president and CEO of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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motivation tips for players
Talk to any teacher and they'll tell you that motivating children is the one of the hardest parts of their job.
Now as hockey coaches and parents, you would think that we were immune from these struggles with motivation. After all, hockey is a lot more fun than Algebra and every young player wants to get to the NHL, right?
Sadly, whether you blame it on technology, pop-culture, or adolescence, today's coaches and parents are fighting the same motivation battles that are being waged by teachers in the classroom.
Modern-day athletes are fueled by the constant bombardment of instant gratification and external motivation, and many coaches are left scratching their heads as they try to figure out how to get the most of out of their players.
Fortunately, you don't have to fight this battle alone, because we have compiled a list of tried-and-true tips for effectively motivating your athletes.
Tip # 1 – Consider Your Level
Personal motivation stems from what an individual athlete hopes to achieve from their playing experience. Something like earning a college-scholarship may be very motivating for competitive athletes or high school aged players, but it may be very far outside the minds of younger recreational league players.
It's important that coaches consider the age and ability of their athletes when deciding which motivational techniques will be most effective. In order to be meaningful, motivational techniques should align with a player's developmental age, ability level and their individual goals. By considering these factors, coaches and parents can select motivational techniques that best fit the needs of their individual athletes.
Tip #2 – Know What Motivates Them
It may sound simple, but knowing your player(s) is one of the strongest ways that you can figure out how to best motivate them. Every player is going to be different, and each is going to have their own unique way of mentally approaching the game. Using a one-size fits all approach for motivation is ineffective and will often leave you feeling like you are spinning your wheels as a coach or parent.
Some players want more playing time while others measure their success in goals scored. If you're lucky, you have at least a few youth athletes that buy into a team first mentality and measure success with wins. Whatever it may be, you should be having different conversations with each individual player about achieving their own personal goals.
By getting to know your players, learning their interests, their goals, and what "makes them tick" you can individually tailor your motivation tactics to ensure that you get the most out of each athlete.
Tip #3 – Set "SMART" Team And Individual Goals
Goal-setting is one of the most powerful techniques for increasing individual and team motivation. Since everyone loves a good acronym in sports, this one should help you with a good plan.
To get the most out of this activity be sure to help your athletes set S.M.A.R.T. goals for themselves:
Specific – People often set goals that are far too general or open ended. Encourage your athletes to be clear and direct about what they want to achieve, because this increases the likelihood that they will be successful.
Measurable – Strong goals are ones that can clearly be assessed. Ensure that your athletes have a definitive way of knowing if a specific goal was reached, or if they have to make some modifications moving forward.
Achievable – We all want our athletes to shoot for the stars, but when it comes to goal-setting they need to make sure that their goals are realistic for their age, ability level, and effort.
Relevant – Athletes' lives are constantly evolving and being influenced by ever-changing factors. Encourage your players to set goals that are important to them, and that make sense given their current life experiences.
Timely – Assigning a due-date to goals significantly increases the likelihood that they will be achieved. Work with players to develop short-range, mid-range, and long-range goals that fit their life objectives and schedules.
Tip #4 – Communicate Effectively
Setting SMART goals for your players is a critical part of keeping them motivated and engaged, but effectively communicating these goals is just as important. We sometimes assume that our players automatically understand what we want, even when that's not the case.
Don't assume that all of your players heard something the first time you told them…or the second…or the third.
Important concepts need to be ever present in your communication.
You can't overdo this or it will be information overload. Prioritize the lessons that your young hockey players need to learn and communicate the most important ones to them every day. The less important ones on a less frequent basis.
It is an accepted principle in marketing that a buyer needs to see a brand at least 7 times before they buy. You are asking your players to buy into your concepts, so there is a similar thing going on there.
Be sure to take the time to carefully communicate all of your expectations to your players. Consider using both individual and team meetings as a way to keep players engaged in the process. Also remember that not all players process information the same way, so try to use both written and verbal feedback to account for different learning styles.
Tip #5 – Allow Players To Grow Through Failure
Sometimes the biggest motivational mistake we make as coaches and parents is not giving our players room to fail.
While adversity is never an easy thing to experience, failure is often necessary in order for personal growth. We often try to shield our players from failure, with the unintended consequence of limiting their growth and development. Rather than learn to step out of their comfort zone, players in these situations will begin to avoid failure at all cost.
If all someone is allowed to experience is success, then they never seek out new skills or seek to improve the ones they have. Simply put, a youth athlete may never learn anything at all from success.
The greatest teacher, failure is.
It's important to create an environment where players aren't afraid to fail. Teach team that failure is an important and necessary part of getting better and use failure as a teachable-moment to aid in development.
This article was originally written by and posted on www.startplayinghockey.com. You can continue reading it here: https://www.startplayinghockey.com/motivating-youth-hockey-players/


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Dr. Thant Myint-U, an exceptionally outstanding historian, beautifully records the history of his ancestral homeland, Myanmar (Burma), with analytical clarity from a global perspective. Based on his own experiences in United Nations peace-building operations in Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia, he is now engaged in efforts, in cooperation with the national government, to further peace in his own country.
Dr. Thant Myint-U was born in 1966 in New York City. After graduating from Harvard University, he enrolled at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, from which he received a Master's Degree in International Relations and International Economics. From 1992, he was involved in peace-building activities in Cambodia and Bosnia-Herzegovina with the United Nations. In 1996, he received his Ph.D. in Modern History from the University of Cambridge.
In his first masterpiece, The Making of Modern Burma (2000), he argues that Burmese national identity and the framework of Burma as a modern nation-state came into being from the late 19th century during British colonial rule. His brilliant analysis has provoked much discussion in this field. In his next work, The River of Lost Footsteps (2006), he describes the history of Burma from multiple angles, tracing the footsteps of various Burmese people, including those of his own family. His latest work, Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia (2011), reviews the history of Myanmar as a country situated between two rising powers—China and India—from the viewpoints of people at the bottom of the social pyramid and those living in remote regions close to international borders. In this book, he uses his own characteristic dynamism to narrate the history of Myanmar, moving freely between the past, present, and future. The book has been translated into Japanese and won the 26th Asia Pacific Award Special Prize (sponsored by the Asian Affairs Research Council and Mainichi Newspapers) in 2014.
As a historian, Dr. Thant Myint-U has a unique perspective as well as his own original writing style. Born as a grandson of the third UN Secretary-General, U Thant, he first set foot in his ancestral homeland when he was eight years old to attend his grandfather's funeral. From then, he has frequently returned during holidays with his parents. Through this he has been able to see society and listen to people with his own curious eyes and sensitive ears. Evoking such simple but unforgettable firsthand learnings, he writes accessible history, echoing the unknown, unrecorded, but precious experiences of ordinary people.
In 2010, Dr. Thant Myint-U relocated his work base from the United States to Yangon, Myanmar. In 2012, he established an NGO, the Yangon Heritage Trust, to preserve priceless historic buildings in the city. He has served the City of Yangon as an advisor for sustainable urban planning and has also been appointed a member of the National Economic and Social Advisory Council for President U Thein Sein and a senior advisor to the Myanmar Peace Centre. In this capacity, Dr. Thant Myint-U was heavily involved in the process of the cease-fire agreement between the national government and various ethnic groups in March 2015.
Given the above accomplishments, Dr. Thant Myint-U is not only a distinguished historian, highly appreciated in the academic community, but also a great public intellectual of Asia and of the world. He has been able to connect with a wide range of people, including top government officials, in order to tackle the challenges of his society and of the international community. In a global sense he has gained respect through his Vice Chairmanship of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on South-East Asia, and through his public lectures such as the one he gave at the United Nations University in Tokyo, promoting intensive dialogue with young people in 2014.
Myanmar is the focus of Asia today. What sort of future is in store for the people of Myanmar? How will they open up their society to the wave of globalization? How will they manage future development? After decades of isolation there are obviously tremendous challenges for them and numerous tasks to be overcome. At this crucial moment in history, however, Dr. Thant Myint-U appears as a leading historian and intellectual, narrating the voices of the people of Myanmar and connecting them with the wider international community. With his unique and distinguished contribution to Asian and human society, Dr. Thant Myint-U is a truly worthy recipient of the Grand Prize of the Fukuoka Prize.


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: April 24-25, 2021 (????)
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I uploaded the f9dasm compatible info files for Color Baseball, Buzzard Bait, and ASA to GitHub.
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Lesson P9 - 16 color Bitmap Drawing on the TRS-80 CoCo 3
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CoCo-2 Repair Guide 1 - A Subscriber's Coco Garbled Video! TRS-80 Color Computer video fix
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The first public release of the new, updated Technical Reference manual for NitrOS-9 Level II/EOU (up to and including features in the upcoming Beta 6) is now available on the EOU Documentation page
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Pipes - For the Tandy Color Computers 1, 2, 3 and Dragon.
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CoCo 3 Video Poker by CoCoBros
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this is gonna sound *different* - as instead of using 4 SIN wavs, i chose to use 2 squares, 1 saw and 1 triangle
Procedurally Generated Retrocomputer Emulators
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Want disk drives with only a cable? | Drivewire 3 | Up to 4 virtual drives on your Coco 1, 2 or 3
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On Simpson's Rule: Inspired by the "INTEGRATE" program in TRS-80 Color Computer Programs
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Working on a game Warren's World: The Lost Colony for the MC-10
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Guy finds Tandy 1000 monitor in the woods. CM5 with vintage moss
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New SD cartridge for the MC-10 (MCX-32 SD)
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Latest CoCoBan VLOG
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Save Spock: Battle At Vulcan
(Jim Gerrie)
Improving on QBasic's Random Number Generator
(Chris Wellons)
Compressing BASIC DATA with Base-64 – part 1
(Allen Huffman)
Compressing BASIC DATA with Base-64 – part 2
I made this Doodle Jump clone about a year ago and you can download it here: http://matchygames.itch.io/jumpy
(Mat Chy)
I did a small update on rsdostool and i also wanted to showcase my new semi 8 graphics drawing tool that im working on.
(Sheldon MacDonald)
Dragon Tools is a collection of tools for working with the Dragon family of 1980s home computers from a Windows environment.
(Rolf Michelsen)
So, this month is a bit of "taking stock" of where I've been, where I am, and where I am going.
(Robert Murphey)
It compiles! 'It' is a Pascal program from Motorola to translate 6809 assembly code to 68000, going by the name of 'trans09'.
(Joel Ewy)
Key Debounce Delay POKEs
(Jim Gerrie)
Retail entrepreneurs buy twice-bankrupt RadioShack with plans for online revival
(Aisha Al-Muslim @ The Wall Street Journal)
This Month In CoCo History -- November 1983 (1:01:52)
Feedback (1:04:28)
"Not enough Jim Gerrie in your last episode. You missed:
and you missed the bell on your last post about me. Seriously, though, good show. Nice to hear folks are visiting the Halibag in Trenton. Thanks for the coverage." -- Jim Gerrie
"I am hoping my next blog update to AX2 Nostromo will really make it clearer what I have been doing and where I am vs. where its going..." -- Robert Murphey
"Congrats, may you have 150k more of good times 🙂" -- Chris Luckey
"wow, very nice! Congratulations and keep them coming 🙂" -- Paulo Garcia
What is your prefered CoCo game controller?
"I only use the original analog hockey pucks. It's a big part of the Color Computer experience for me." -- Peter Cetenski
"Gravis analog joystick is my go to controller on the CoCo. It has nice arcade style buttons which can each be configured independently as button 1 or 2. It also has self centering and free floating modes. My second favourite is the Deluxe joystick, as it was my favourite as a teenager." -- David Kroeker
"Depends on the game. In most cases I prefer the Deluxe Joystick (Two Button), then the original black joysticks." -- David Ladd
Listener Question of the Month -- What else should we be covering?
Host Discussion -- How to deal with deadbeat sellers? (1:14:14)
Interview w/ Joe Scinta (1:28:42)
Tech Segment -- Binary Coded Decimal (1:56:45)
Neil's Corner -- Review of Jumpy (02:19:41)
Parting Thoughts (02:22:22)
"Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!
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As organizations continue to move their enterprise data into cloud data warehouses and as data generation and consumption from multiple sources continues to explode, the ability to provide access to data for sophisticated modeling is critical. AtScale's Cloud OLAP capabilities make data accessible and readily available for mission-critical AI and BI workloads.
"AtScale 2020.5 is a game changer for our customers and the enterprise," said Christopher Lynch, Executive Chairman and CEO of AtScale. "Now more than ever, companies are speaking to the needs of their data analysts. With our latest release, our Cloud OLAP capabilities make data accessible and analysis-ready, expanding support for running analytics in the cloud and making modern BI scalable."
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WynnBET has early market access to Massachusetts and Ohio as well, but those states still need to legalize online sports betting before WynnBET becomes available.


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By: Ashley McCubbin
When John Hunter Nemechek took the checkered flag at Pocono Raceway, it marked his fourth win of 2021. He also won the inner team bet with the boss.
Kyle Busch is allowed to run five NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races a season, and Nemechek wanted to get the upper hand on the boss to prove his ability. All those events complete, and he did so, scoring three while Busch got the other two.
While Nemechek bragged about beating Busch post-race on Saturday, he's also the first to thank the boss for their success.
"I think Kyle has definitely been a huge help with that," Nemechek told NEWS FROM THE PITS. "Any time he is behind the wheel, he is always asking for more and trying to get better. For myself, being able to have him as a boss, friend, someone that I can ask questions and pick his brain about, I feel like he's the type of guy that will shoot you straight, tell you how it is whether you like it or not. I really like that as if I mess up, I want to be told that I messed up, I need to do a better job and that fuels me.
"For me, it's doing whatever it takes to get better but there's a lot of hard working people at Kyle Busch Motorsports and in the Toyota R&D Camp that put in the time and effort to make the program as successful as it has been."
Currently boosting an 86-point lead over Ben Rhodes, it's easy to see why Nemechek is the favorite for the championship. However, that doesn't mean he isn't looking for ways to improve.
"I think we've been really consistent," he offered. "We just need to continue pushing and looking to get better. I think overall the biggest thing for us is just continuing to improve our equipment and trying to continue to get better. Everyone at Kyle Busch Motorsports is working really hard. We're all pushing for more, so hopefully we have a lot more to come before the playoffs start and once the playoffs start.
"I know leading the points right now can buy us the points lead going into the playoffs, and hopefully we can maintain that to get this championship."
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Gimli is a friendly portside town in Manitoba, Canada. It is great for loitering in and camping outside of town limits.
Hitchhiking out
South towards Winnipeg (via #8 Highway)
Most North-South traffic is on Highway #8, which is 1 mile West of the Highway #9 which goes through Gimli. Since "commuters don't take the #9 seriously," you should go to the #8. From Centre St. & 7 Ave. (Highway #9), walk North to 5 St. and walk/hitch West from here, where its considered the Highway #231, until you reach Highway #8. Hang out at the merging lane a few steps South.
If you are looking to catch traffic heading through Gimli and departing from Gimli, you should supposedly go further South on the Highway 8, as Gimli traffic usually heads South out of town on the Highway #9 before driving West to the Highway #8. Details are not confirmed.


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Sure, Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters blows up bimonthly. And yes, most of its "professors" spend their time fighting robot behemoths. But if you're a teenage mutant, Professor X's learning institution is still the best place for you. Just make sure to avoid the following unpleasant courses:
Loving Your Lesser Powers: You're Okay Even Though They're Better
Not every mutant can fly, control the weather, or use telekinesis — some can just hold their breath for, like, four minutes. This class hopes to make "mutant-ish" students feel better about themselves with simple rescue scenarios involving yelling at people to get out of a burning building or recalling enough details about a 7/11 robbery to tell the police.
Learn Just Enough Math to Tip at Restaurants
The problem with schools like Xavier's is that while you discover how to use your powers, you don't learn a damn thing about math or reading. This sees students graduating without any real world skills. But this course teaches them just enough addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to figure out what to leave a waiter.
Don't Use Your Gifts to Cut in Line: How Not to be a Mutant A-hole
How often does a mutant win an argument by simply blowing up the other person's head? This course illustrates that with great power comes a great need to sometimes mumble angrily to yourself and just deal with the situation. Whether it's NOT creating a sharknado because Meryl didn't invite you to her outdoor birthday party or NOT using mind control to force the TV announcer to read your Lotto numbers, students will learn to feel bad about ever using their gifts for anything except helping humans or escaping the school when it blows up again.
Seeking Success Elsewhere: For When You Don't Make the X-Men Team
Not every student at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is gifted enough to join the X-Men. This class will prepare eventual graduates for finding a new career in a world that will fear and despise them. Employment opportunities include "Continuously Winning Bar Bets" and "Continuously Winning Bar Fights for Money" and… not a lot else. Students leave with the realization that they're mostly going to smell like tap beer for the rest of their lives.
Cowering: For When You Can't Afford Medical Bills
Being a mutant often means being brave, but it doesn't have to mean being stupid. This course teaches students how to run away screaming from danger, or just say, "Hell no" whenever Magneto, Apocalypse, or a purse-snatcher shows up. In the end, they won't feel proud, but they will feel relieved they didn't blow their life's savings on an ER visit.
What class would you be ashamed to take if you lived in the X-Men-verse? Let us know on Twitter @Smosh!


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NAB Urges Stations To Run 'Hurricane Ike' PSAs
September 16, 2008 at 12:43 PM (PT)
With radio broadcasters traveling to TEXAS this week for the annual NAB RADIO SHOW in AUSTIN, NAB is distributing a special radio public service announcement nationwide, urging listeners to make a donation to the AMERICAN RED CROSS DISASTER RELEASE FUND to boost recovery efforts from HURRICANE IKE.
NAB Pres./CEO DAVID K. REHR sent an email to radio stations across AMERICA TODAY urging radio broadcasters to unite in a massive PSA campaign aimed at boosting the recovery efforts.
"We salute the broadcasters in hurricane-affected areas who have risked their personal safety to stay on air throughout the storm and continue serving their communities with vital information," wrote REHR. "As thousands of radio broadcasters gather in AUSTIN this week for the annual NAB RADIO SHOW, this type of roadblock is a great way to give back and demonstrate the amazing power of radio in disaster relief efforts."
The PSA, emailed to radio stations across America today, is available for download on the NAB's Web site dedicated to public service -- NABSpotCenter.com. The PSA will also be made available to attendees of the NAB RADIO SHOW in AUSTIN.


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Chords are the landscape upon which all other song components sit. That's reason enough to focus on the importance of chords.
Download "The Essential Secrets of Songwriting" 6-ebook bundle, and open your eyes to the principles of great songwriting.
If you check out the most-read posts from the past day and the past week on this songwriting blog, you'd find the following stats: 4 of the 5 most-read posts from yesterday, and 9 of the 10 most-read posts from the past week, pertain to chord progressions.
Let's assume that most people look for the things they believe they need: you aren't going to look for socks in your drawer if you don't need socks. That means at least 90% of songwriters believe that the problems with their songs stem from a problem with chords.
Why do songwriters home in so quickly on chord progressions as being the main problem with their songwriting? Why do chord progressions get so much attention?
In a sense, getting a good chord progression is easy: keep the tonic chord as a vital anchor, where all the chords work their way back to that chord. And use lots of root movement of 4ths and 5ths, and you've probably got chords that will do just fine.
And yet, 4 of the 7 ebooks I've written on songwriting pertain directly to chord progressions, and how to get them to work. So obviously I believe that getting chord progressions to work is rather important.
I believe chords get so much attention because chords act as a landscape above which most other song components reside. A bad line of lyric can be easily fixed, given enough time and experimenting. The same with a bad bit of melody. But a bad chord progression has a way of making everything seem wrong. It's hard to get anything to sound right if there's a problem with the chords.
As far as determining the cause of the problems with most songwriters' chords, there are many potential issues, but here are 3 of the most likely culprits:
- Your progressions don't have a strong harmonic goal. A harmonic goal means that one chord stands above the others as being the tonic – the chord that represents "home." A progression like this works well: C Am Dm G C, but a progression like the following one is lacking that vital aspect of direction: C Bb Em Bdim C.
- Your progressions don't use enough root movement of 4ths or 5ths. When adjacent chords use roots that are a 4th or 5th away from each other, the progression sounds more predictable, and stronger. In general, you want those 4ths and 5ths to be more prevalent toward the end of a progression. That's why C Bb Em Bdim C sounds clumsy. The roots of Em to Bdim are a 5th apart, but Bdim to C is more difficult to get to work.
- Your chord progressions are too long. If you check most songs in the pop genres of pop, rock, folk and country, you'll notice that most use 4 or 5 chords in any one progression. Songs that use longer ones risk sounding like aimless wandering. It can be done, and I've written about songs in the past that use almost 20 chords in one progression. But generally speaking, the longer a progression is, the trickier it is to keep a strong sense of tonic.
To properly analyze your progressions and make sure they're working for you, try the following diagnostic steps:
- Play just the bass notes of the chords in your progression. The bass notes should give you a somewhat predictable and pleasant line.
- Using a slow tempo, play the chords simply by strumming each chord once, then move on to the next chord. If it sounds awkward or strained, you've got problems that probably relate to points #1 and #2 above.
- Pause randomly on any chord as you play through the progression. Most (not all) of the time, you should be able to predict what the next chord "should" be. A sense of predictability is rarely a bad thing in chord progressions.
Written by Gary Ewer. Follow on Twitter. "The Essential Secrets of Songwriting" 6-eBook Bundle looks at songwriting from every angle, and has been used by thousands of songwriters. How to use chords, write melodies, and craft winning lyrics. (And you'll receive a FREE copy of "From Amateur to Ace: Writing Songs Like a Pro.")


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