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Part 1: Landscape
Part2: CFB Utopia
With realignment rumors always swirling and the meetings taking place to determine a playoff format it made me want to look ahead to if/when the dust settles. This first part is simply the new college football landscape. The second part will be coming that will explain why you see 14-team major conferences instead of 12, 16, or 20. It will also explain a uniformed conference and league schedule with playoffs that is as close to college football Utopia as you can get. But that's in a couple days.
On to the new landscape of college football. I feel like there are hundreds of possibilities, but the purpose of this was to find that stabilization point or equilibrium. I don't mean every conference is equal. Quality will always go in cycles so there will always be a conference that is better, but it won't always be the same conference. I looked at realignment more as one-way diffusion, meaning every time a team moves it should make all possible next moves less likely. So a Big 12 conference with a new division of TCU, WVU, FSU, CU, GT, VT, ND and BYU would be freaking awesome, it technically doesn't make sense. That saying goes, "when everyone is special, no one is". This conference just went from great to watered down by adding some of the best programs in the country. How? Well this new conference one year may have 10 schools in the top 25 but if you go through a conference like that it means at the end of the season you have your 5 best teams with 2-4 losses each, if you're lucky. There's no way that you'll see all members stay together for more than 10 years before a group of them band together and find another home.
Major Conferences
Letter= cross-divisional rival, BOLD shows new members, * denotes AAU, ( ) research spending rank
*Showed the research spending rank because people hear about a school being in the AAU or Nebraska being kicked out but remember, AAU membership is not TOTAL research expenditure. There are many fantastic research schools that are not members of AAU. Membership focuses on where the support comes from (federal), memberships in national academies (NAS, NAE, IOM) and then faculty quality ratings, awards and citations.
Pac-12: This conference is in a unique position. They do not need the most obvious things to improve: top10 football program or top25 program in a large "eastern" market. They have terrific schools, good money (TV) and monopolize college football in the western half of the US. What this conference needs is passionate football schools to generate more enthusiasm for their product. This is something the west, when compared to the east, lack. The eastern part of the country has more programs and more avid college football fans. Welcome, Boise State and BYU. Boise's recent success as a top football team has given them an ardent fan base. Their story and success also has people all over the country interested and watching. BYU's program has a great history and with it comes a very "devote" following. The conference doesn't even need to change its divisions. Boise goes to the north, right in the backyard of Oregon and Washington. Think Boise-Oregon wont be a mean rivalry that the entire country would watch after their last meeting? Meanwhile BYU goes to the south division and sparks fly between them and now their divisional rival down the road, Utah. These two schools are exactly what the Pac-12 needs. I have no
Big 12: The rollercoaster ride ends as the conference goes from the brink of collapsing to a pillar of stability and power. With the already addition of WVU they decide to make a new division made up of previous Big East schools that will make the conference, as a whole, better in football, basketball and will give them more of a national presence. The conference gets into Florida and a great market with USF, and sets up camp at the intersection of the B1G, SEC and ACC with L'ville, Cincy, and WVU. Conference tradition is saved by keeping the original members together in one division. Only Baylor is moved to the new division. Baylor relies on Texas recruits, and they'll get another game in-state with this setup. They'll keep Texas annually by being their cross-divisional rival and swap Texas Tech for TCU and Houston. That gives them potentially 3 away games within 100 mile radius. Baylor fans and recruits should start celebrating this move now.
SEC: The conference welcomed Texas A&M and Missouri initially but all wasn't perfect. A&M was happy and eventually gained respect in the conference by winning but Missouri never felt at home and leaves to go to where they belong, the B1G. That leaves one spot open that will change one school's future forever. NCSt finally steps out of the shadow of their neighbors UNC and Duke and the SEC adds the last piece to their college football dominance in the shape of the state of North Carolina. The wolfpack aren't yet ready for SEC football but when you are the largest university in North Carolina and the only one in the SEC, they won't be lacking in high quality recruits to build a team worthy of their new conference. Old divisions are kept with NCSt taking Missouri's place and will be rivals with A&M, which restores the rivalry between Arkansas and South Carolina.
B1G: Finally decides that Missouri fits too well to pass on and welcomes them with open arms. Mizzou is the flagship state university with a great academic profile and AAU membership. They are completely dedicated to their football program. And Texas fans won't be happy to hear this, but they may have had the best fan base in the conference. They'll only get better as they regularly pull in recruits from B1G areas such as Illinois, Iowa and Michigan each year. Oh and I didn't know this, but they started the "Homecoming" game. Along with the tigers come Rutgers, which may even be a better fit. Academically and culturally compatible and they also just happen to be the birth place of college football (Rutgers-Princeton 1869). They are a B1G equivalent school with a rising football and basketball program that will bring the B1G to the most important area in the nation, NYC. After getting situated for a couple seasons, don't be surprised to see Rutgers winning. They won't be the lame-duck of this conference.
ACC: In the end the ACC only loses one school and the remaining schools will probably take all of 1 day to forget about it with the arrival of Notre Dame. With the Big East dissolved, it forced Notre Dame to seek a home for its sports. And the new college football landscape gave the ACC and ND the perfect marriage. The ACC is the only conference with teams spanning the east coast, which is the most important place for Notre Dame to play along with southern California. So unless a school from Boston, New York, DC, Atlanta and Florida all join another conference, don't expect to see Notre Dame anywhere but the ACC. And those teams aren't random, but actual rivals of the Irish (BC, Pitt, Miami, GT) with two more games going to important markets; Syracuse(NY) and Maryland(DC). The ACC creates new divisions, essentially North and South, but Miami and Wake are in the northern division. Miami has more in common with those schools than the southern ones anyways and as long as their annual rivalry with FSU is kept, they will be very happy with this arrangement. On the surface it may look as if Wake Forest is getting the short end, but they really aren't. Here are some numbers to think about:
- Only 25% of enrollment (~1,100) is from NC (home games and rival Duke), 18 football players in-state
- Next 9 states with the most students enrolled are;
- Florida 285, 24 FB players (Miami is in division so will play annually)
- New Jersey 275
- Virginia 270, 5 FB players (Don't play UVA/VT annually now so no change)
- New York 239 (Syracuse)
- Pennsylvania 236 (Pittsburgh)
- Maryland 220 (UMD)
- Georgia 208, 9 FB players (Don't play GT annually now so no change)
- Massachusetts 192 (BC)
- Connecticut 170
So this shows that a large percent of the school is actually made up of northern backgrounds and football recruiting shouldn't be negatively affected. There are 5 current players from VA and 9 current players from GA, but Wake does not currently play any teams from those two states annually so you shouldn't see a decrease in potential recruits from those areas. And if you add some of the north central states like Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois that the ACC now reaches into with Notre Dame that's an additional ~300. So if you add all these up you have a student population of ~2800 or 64% from north of VA, the north central states specified and NC but only ~1000 or 24% from "Southern" states (AL, GA, KY, LA, MS, SC, TN, TX, VA). But GA, SC and VA are the only states involved in the ACC and the only one that changes is SC with the loss of Clemson on the schedule. So technically the new division would serve Wake's school and football interests more so than now. And lastly, Wake's schedule before this will be BC, MD, Cuse, Duke, FSU, Clemson, NCst... with the change they swap FSU for Miami, Clemson for ND and NCst for Pitt. No one would call this a bad thing. Wake would agree and agree with their new division.
Mid-Major Conferences
Fresno State
San Jose State
Utah State
New Mexico
Air Force
Arkansas State
Florida Atlantic
Louisiana- Lafayette
Middle Tennessee
North Texas
Western Kentucky
Colorado State
Louisiana Tech
East Carolina
San Diego State
Ball state
Bowling Green
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Miami (OH)
Northern Illinois
Western Michigan
Southern Miss
I'll post Part 2 soon, which will be conference and league model rational, scheduling, and playoff model.


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A word about drug testing
I was just told by my co-teacher that today was exam training, so I don't have to teach. A decent time to relate a recent experience that Erin and I had.
Our contract here required us to take a drug test, specifically a urine-sample based test. We were driven to the hospital last Wednesday, pissed in cups, and had blood drawn for HIV/AIDS. We weren't concerned about passing either test.
Last Friday, a nurse came to school to get another urine sample from us. There was some problem with the previous test, but we were told not to worry. Maybe it was too diluted, I don't know. We gave them another sample and didn't think twice about it.
On Monday, our co-teacher pulled us aside and told us that we had failed the drug test, specifically the heroin/methadone test. She was shocked, and believed us when we said it must be a false positive.
Erin and I have both been taking a few different over-the-counter and prescription drugs. I've been using pepto-bismal for stomach problems, ibuprofen and acetaminophen for headaches, and diphenhydramine (benadryl, Sominex) for trouble sleeping. Erin has also been taking Sominex occasionally, and both of us had taken it Thursday night (before giving the second sample) We knew of another EPIK teacher that also failed his drug test after taking Tylenol PM (also diphenhydramine).
I decided it was time for some research. After an hour of searching medical journals, I had a few articles that mentioned false positives on the EMIT immunoassay test from diphenhydramine. I printed them out, showed them to our co-teacher, and arranged to take another test.
Our test is tomorrow (Friday) morning. I last took Sominex on Sunday night, so I should be in the clear. But needless to say, this entire escapade has been embarrassing. So here is some advice for anyone taking a drug test for employment:
- Do your homework! Find out what type of test they will be using, and study potential cross-reacting compounds (substances that could cause false-positives)
- Find out the next step after a positive test. For federal jobs in the US, the law mandates that positive EMIT tests be followed by a gas chromatography test, to rule out false-positives. This is obviously not the case in Korea, and could have caused serious problems for us. Insist on follow-up testing, if possible.
- Prepare your personal information. Make a list of everything you've taken in the past month. This should include prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications and any vitamins or supplements. Google-search for potential cross-reacting compounds. Bring the medications and prescriptions to the test with you. Print and bring any information relating to false-positives.
- Consider speaking to an attorney. I don't have one and can't afford one, so this was out of the question. Thankfully, our employer is willing to work with us. This won't be the case everywhere, and a false-positive can cause serious professional and financial damage. It never hurts to know the law.
I didn't have a strong opinion about workplace drug testing before this, but that has changed. I grant that it is necessary in certain situations, but policy needs to be crafted carefully. The real problem is that accurate tests like gas chromatography are expensive. Businesses are much more likely to spend a few dollars on something like EMIT than a couple hundred on a GC test. More likely than not, it will be on YOU to protect yourself.
A final note, watch for faulty information. A Google-search on these topics turns up thousands of shady pages written by stoners looking to pass a test. Most of the info is either hopeful or paranoid. Look for scholarly sources.
I'll let you know how the next test turns out.
7 Responses to "A word about drug testing"
Josh Maxwell on
September 10th, 2008 8:31 pm
Great Blog post. I am going to bookmark and read more often. I love the Blog template
Lois on
September 11th, 2008 6:51 pm
Evening Mike (here anyway). Who would have thought something we use so easily could cause problems for you. Good luck today!
Clay on
September 11th, 2008 7:01 pm
That's crazy…good advice though. I remember my high school was throwing around the idea of drug testing everyone involved in basically anything, but then figured out that yeah, it'd be crazy expensive.
And because I miss discussing crazy things found online:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2807838577_83cbed0126_o.jpg?t=1053139 (kinda NSFW at the bottom)
mike.sapak on
September 11th, 2008 7:40 pm
@Lois: I know, what a mess! We'll have the new results by 4:30pm today.
@Clay: I guess mass drug testing sounds good on paper, but the logistics are a nightmare. Especially when anybody taking Benadryl or Sudafed shows up as a smack/speed user.
For my less-geeky readers, NSFW = Not Safe For Work.
Sasha on
September 11th, 2008 8:27 pm
hahaha this made me giggle. but only because you didn't get sent home. How absurd… hope you guys are having a freakin blast otherwise..
mike.sapak on
September 11th, 2008 8:40 pm
@Sasha: Don't speak too soon; we haven't got the new results yet. Are you in Peru now?
Ashley on
September 17th, 2008 4:00 pm
lol, heroine. I bet you were about shitting your pants when you heard you failed. miss you.
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CHARLESTON — So, just how did the Mahomet-Seymour 3,200-meter relay team run so fast during the preliminary round of the IHSA Class 2A state track and field meet Friday at Eastern Illinois' O'Brien Stadium?
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CHARLESTON — When talking about the "haves" and the "have nots," Tuscola High School has an interesting assortment of runners.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- ValueVision Media (Nasdaq:VVTV) is trading at unusually high volume Friday with four million shares changing hands. It is currently at 7.8 times its average daily volume and trading down 26 cents (-3.2%) at $7.93 as of four p.m. ET. ValueVision Media has a market cap of $394.3 million and is part of the services sector and retail industry. Shares are up 34% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. ValueVision Media, Inc., a multi-media retailer, engages in marketing, selling, and distributing its products directly to consumers through various digital platforms. TheStreet Ratings rates ValueVision Media as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, weak operating cash flow and feeble growth in its earnings per share. You can view the full ValueVision Media Ratings Report. See all heavy volume stocks in our stocks moving on unusual volume list or get investment ideas from our investment research center. Interested in other stocks that are falling on unusually high volume? Get free SMS text alerts sent to you when the action happens by texting HVDOWN to 95370 or select from multiple alert options.
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NBC: Hey That Lincoln Movie Reminds Us of How Great Obama Is
In yet another facile example of the Old Media equating President Obama's presidency to the greatness of Abraham Lincoln's, NBC News correspondent Kevin Tibbles used the occasion of the opening of the new Lincoln movie helmed by Director Steven Spielberg to do just that.
On Saturday's NBC Nightly News, Tibbles reported on the opening of a movie that has widespread Oscar buzz, Spielberg's Lincoln a project that was more than a decade in the making.
Tibbles goes to the director himself who gives us a line about why he wanted to do a movie about Abe Lincoln, our 16th President.
"Lincoln advocated things that we hold dear today. He advocated that government can be a positive force for the good of all people," Spielberg said.
Then Kevin Tibbles kicks into high gear his facile equating of Lincoln and Obama.
"No coincidence, perhaps, the film opens the week America's 21st century President won re-election in difficult times fraught with partisan bickering. Times in which many ask, what would Lincoln do?"
No coincidence the movie came out close to the election? More like it's no coincidence that it came out just before Oscar season begins.
But to compare Lincoln's turbulent times to Obama's is the most idiotic, partisan blather that can be imagined. To say that Lincoln's day was merely "difficult times fraught with partisan bickering" seems a bit of a soft selling of a civil war where hundreds of thousands were killed. Common "bickering," I think, is a bit less virulent than a shooting war, wouldn't you think? Lincoln came to office in the midst of war, was re-elected during that war, and faced the decision of whether or not to free millions of human being from chattel slavery. I'd say his day makes Obama's trials seem trivial by comparison.
After all, Obama's entire re-election milieu is a mess of his own making. There is no great civil war, no immediate question of the elimination of the forced servitude of a great number of Americans, and much of the "partisan bickering" is due to Obama's own recalcitrance over actually reaching across the aisle to work with the opposition.
It is just absurd to act as if Obama's political climate is somehow comparable to Lincoln's. Ah, but we need to make Obama into a great American hero, don't we? So logic and truth need not apply.
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Heparin is given subcutaneously, meaning it is injected into the body in an area such as the abdomen, and also given intravenously (IV).
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Heparin dosages vary widely from patient to patient and are dependent upon the use of the medication. Small amounts can be added to IV fluids to keep an IV line flowing freely; larger amounts may be injected several times a day to prevent clotting. IV heparin is titrated, or adjusted, according to lab results, so the dose is unique to the patient.
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A: The LAFD will not permit commercial or amateur rebroadcast of its audio without formal permission. Because of the potential harm from corrupt audio (intentional or otherwise), we insist that any audio be up to our technical standard and come directly from the consoles at our Dispatch Center.
We firmly believe any re-broadcast of LAFD radio signals without formal permission to be a violation of Federal Law. If you are aware of any person or organization that may be doing so, please notify them of our sincere concern. We suggest you report any suspected violation of this law to both our City Attorney and the Department of Justice via e-mail.
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A: Our Dispatch Center can provide an authentic digital quality signal directly to a dedicated high-capacity webserver in real-time. With the use of a supervised and secure webserver, there is lesser chance that our listeners will experience the many technical and listening problems that routinely plague amateur sites using unattended scanner radios. We also won't play pranks, charge a subscription fee, subject you to annoying advertisements or violate your privacy.
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A: The computers that host the City of LA and LAFD websites have been updated to allow streaming media. While this feature is presently restricted to broadcasts of the City Council, the addition of this hardware brings us one giant step closer to going live with streaming content. Still, our Department faces significant fiscal challenges, and it is not clear when discretionary funds might become available to fully implement our plans.
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Coming off a sub-par performance in the month of December, the Nugs now have more losses than the Spurs and are in danger of falling behind the Suns and Blazers in the standings as well. With the latest news that Chauncey may not be ready to return from injury for the Jazz game, the upcoming week presents a critical point in the season with two important decisions to be carefully considered.
First is the Chucky Atkins trade exception, worth $3.2 million. It expires on January 7th. When the Iverson exception worth $7.4 million expired on November 3rd, the Nuggets were in the midst of the best start in franchise history and didn't appear to have any glaring roster weaknesses. Since then we have seen the effects of injury on this team. Keep in mind the Nuggets don't have to use the whole $3.2 million amount. The exception can be used to acquire players of any salary up to that amount. So once it expires, the Nuggets will have lost some flexibility as a tax team and be left with a $3.6 million exception from the Steven Hunter trade which expires next August. The Hunter exception is more valuable, but if the Nuggets plan on making a smaller, under the radar move to bring in some help - they should probably think about using some of the Atkins exception. I have said all along a trade will not help, which brings me to the next important deadline.
George Karl has turned down 1-year and 2-year extension offers to remain coaching the Nuggets. Apparently they do not want to guarantee a third year and GK is looking for long term security. As Chris Tomasson reported, negotiations with Karl have been ongoing for months and both sides are working with the first of they year as soft deadline. Next week if the Nuggets do not raise their offer to Karl, both sides should walk away from negotiations and leave it for next season. In my mind it's a distraction for everyone as long as the decision remains in limbo.
I won't repeat what I have said already, in my mind a trade will only bring another would-be contributor to a front row seat with the likes of Balkman and Graham. Maybe a roster shakeup would bring about some change in philosophy that would extend the rotation. My fear is that Kenyon, Nene, and Melo are playing way too many minutes this early. Getting some front-line help either from existing personnel or a trade would certainly not hurt. Either way, for Stan the Man and our front office, winning this year should remain the focus. And any money spent next week would be best used in pursuit of that. What say you?


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The votes are in, and both the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens and Pioneers basketball teams are picked to finish in the middle of the pack within the revamped Sooner Athletic Conference. In a vote of the SAC's head coaches, the Flying Queens are picked in a tie for fourth place while the Pioneers are seen as sixth in the 11-team league.
In the women's poll, Oklahoma City University is the rock-solid pick to win the conference crown. The Stars have won or shared every regular-season conference title since 2009.
The Stars received the maximum score of 100, gathering 10 of 11 first-place votes. Coaches were not permitted to vote for their own school.
"We are honored and humbled that our conference has respect for our program to rank us No. 1 in the preseason poll," said OCU Coach Latricia Trammell. "We have one of the best conferences in the country, and to be a part of the SAC and to go against the teams and coaches that represent our conference is not an easy task. We have a special team this season, and we are striving to live up to the expectations that we have set for ourselves."
Oklahoma Baptist is the runner-up with the remaining first-place vote at 87 points, while John Brown is third in the rankings with 77 points.
Wayland tied with SAC newcomer Texas Wesleyan for fourth in the rankings with 69 points, followed by St. Gregory's in sixth at 50. Mid-America Christian is picked seventh at 47, followed by USAO with 39, Southwestern Assemblies of God with 26, Northwood with 23 and Southwestern Christian with 18 points. SAGU, Northwood and Southwestern Christian also are newcomers to the conference.
On the men's side, a three-way split of the 11 first-place votes saw OBU come out as the narrow favorite.
The Bison had six of 11 first-place votes for 94 points after a 25-8 season. Defending NAIA runner-up Southwestern Assemblies of God claimed four first-place votes and finished with 92 points, while 2013 SAC champion John Brown got the remaining first-place vote and is third with 83 points in the poll.
"I think that shows that nobody has any idea how this is going to play out," said OBU Coach Doug Tolin. "The level of competition hasn't dropped off at all, but nobody can tell who is going to win this thing."
OCU claimed the fourth spot in the poll with 70 points, followed by Texas Wesleyan at 64 and Wayland at 51. Mid-America Christian is seventh at 49 and USAO eighth with 43 points, followed by St. Gregory's in ninth with 23 points, Southwestern Christian in 10th with 20 points and Northwood in 11th with 16 points.
Prior to the start of their seasons, the Pioneers and Flying Queens will be featured in "Hutch Hysteria," to be held at 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10 in Hutcherson Center. The event will include player introductions, fun games and free giveaways.
Third-year coach Matt Garnett's Pioneers open the season on Oct. 29 at home against Barclay College while first-year coach Alesha Robertson's Flying Queens, after a scrimmage against South Plains College and Western Texas College at LCU's Rip Griffin Center on Oct. 29, open at home Nov. 2 against Huston-Tillotson.
The SAC Tournament will be held in March at OBU.
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Team Pts.
1. Oklahoma City (10) 100
2. Oklahoma Baptist (1) 87
3. John Brown 77
4. (T) Texas Wesleyan 69
4. (T) Wayland Baptist 69
6. St. Gregory's 50
7. Mid-America Christian 47
9. SW Assemblies of God 26
10. Northwood 18
11. SW Christian 18
SAC Preseason Coaches' Poll (Men)
Team Pts.
1. Oklahoma Baptist (6) 94
2. SW Assemblies of God (4) 92
3. John Brown (1) 83
4. Oklahoma City 70
5. Texas Wesleyan 64
6. Wayland Baptist 51
7. Mid-America Christian 49
9. St. Gregory's 23
10. SW Christian 20
11. Northwood 16
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (10/12/09) — The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has named Sheldon M. Palefsky, CIC, of Columbia Insurance Group as its 2009 Company Representative of the Year. The award was presented on October 3, 2009 during a ceremony in San Diego, California held in conjunction with a national PIA board of directors meeting.
"Our winner brings a special perspective to his responsibilities," said PIA National Vice President/Treasurer Brian Marino. "He was an independent agent before becoming a company representative. Sheldon Palefsky has raised the bar for all marketing representatives, demonstrating the highest degree of professionalism and dedication to the success of independent insurance agents".
Mr. Palefsky is the Branch Marketing Manager for the Atlanta Branch of Columbia Insurance Group. He is a native of Savannah, Georgia and a graduate of the University of Georgia. He is very active in the statewide Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia association.
The criteria used to select Sheldon as PIA National Company Representative of the Year includes his professional experience, assistance given to agents, technical knowledge and demonstrated awareness of industry problems and market conditions. His contributions to the industry through participation in PIA and other insurance organizations were also considered, as was his contributions to serving the public and his community.
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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – There's a new effort to help the homeless population here in Lubbock as it continues to grow.
It's noon on Tuesday at First United Methodist Church on Broadway as a couple hundred people gather for a free lunch. "Lost my job, lost the apartment, so I'm back out here again," said Brad Wheelis.
Wheelis knows the streets of Lubbock all too well. He has been homeless off and on for the last two and a half years. "This is not me, this is no life for no one," he said.
Wheelis sleeps outside at night and struggles to find work during the day. "I'm out looking for a job on days I'm not too hot, because when you are out looking for a job and you are all sweaty, I mean who is even going to bother handing you an application when your shirt is soaked with sweat," he said.
And people like Wheelis are exactly who Pandy Bell wants to help. "The need is there, it's apparent. You can go anywhere in Lubbock especially around Mahon Library and see the evidence of that," said Bell.
Bell is the director of the Lubbock Rescue Mission, a brand new non profit organization that is working towards building the Hub City a new homeless facility. A facility that will have GED classes, work search programs, and case managers on site that can help identify their needs and address them.
"I know there are a lot people out there that want to resolve this situation or at least help the ones that do want to have a better life," said Bell.
Bell knows first hand what being homeless is all about. She lost her job and home while living in Colorado and it was a program like the Lubbock Rescue Mission that got her back on her feet. "That's why I'm here trying to do this because everybody deserves a chance and everybody has value and a purpose for living and that's the message that I'm going to bring," said Bell.
Not just a hand out, but a hand up, which may be all that people like Wheelis really need.
The Lubbock Rescue Mission does need the support of the community to get the facility up and running. This Saturday the organization will offer their very first event to benefit the homeless. It will be at Overton Park from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. There will be barbeque, music, and ministry, and a silent auction will be held.
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Council to press ahead with college talks on proposed Grenoble Road development (From thisisoxfordshire)
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Oxford City Council to press ahead with college talks on proposed Grenoble Road development
9:10am Friday 4th July 2014 in News By Damian Fantato, Council Reporter, also covering Oxford city centre. Call me on 01865 425429
COUNCILLORS last night agreed to start discussions with a college over major development in the Green Belt south-east of Oxford.
Oxford City Council has long-held ambitions to develop the land south of Grenoble Road which it owns, together with Magdalen College. But the site, which could accommodate up to 4,000 homes, sits in the Green Belt and in South Oxfordshire.
The city council's executive board last night agreed to start discussions with the college about forming a partnership to bring the development forward.
David Edward, the council's executive director for regeneration and housing, said: "Recent discussions have confirmed in principle that the partners wish to progress an urban extension in this area.
"The partners now propose to develop a formal agreement which would share the costs, risks, financial benefits and set out a programme."
South Oxfordshire District Council is currently updating its local plan following a housing study which found that the district needs 15,500 homes by 2031 – with Oxford needing 28,000 by the same year.
The city council hopes to make a submission to SODC's local plan which will allow the scheme to go ahead.
The site, mostly owned by Magdalen College, could be used for an extension of Oxford Science Park which the college owns.
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12:14pm Fri 4 Jul 14
HomerSimpsonDoh says...
4:33pm Fri 4 Jul 14
EMBOX2 says...
HomerSimpsonDoh wrote:That is someone else's problem; namely the County Council.
And where is all the traffic going to go? It's already queued from Grenoble Road to Tescos roundabout at peak times now????
Buck, passed.
9:03pm Fri 4 Jul 14
Jameslouis says...
I will be making an appeal to the high court to stop the Oxford city council from building on Green Belt Land, the law is here to protect us from corrupt Oxford city councils and suspicious deals with universities.
The appeal will be applied for next week
9:13pm Fri 4 Jul 14
Jameslouis says...
9:26pm Fri 4 Jul 14
Jameslouis says...
11:55am Sat 5 Jul 14
Chris Henderson says...
How about if they offer to only take the value of the land as Agricultural land, leaving about an extra £1million per hectare for infrastructure and social housing. Then maybe the proposal might be worth considering.
12:00pm Sat 5 Jul 14
Andrew:Oxford says...
Jameslouis wrote:I think you are confused...
I think the Oxford city council have got ahead of itself as they do not own the land, South Oxford shire District Council own the land.
I will be making an appeal to the high court to stop the Oxford city council from building on Green Belt Land, the law is here to protect us from corrupt Oxford city councils and suspicious deals with universities.
The appeal will be applied for next week
Parts of the land are owned by the City Council, other elements of the land are owned by Magdalen College.
The land just happens to be in the South Oxfordshire district council area of the UK.
It's not unlike the way Birmingham City Council own the land they are in the process of selling in Old Headington - in the Oxford City Council area of the UK.
It might be worth your while to thoroughly examine ownership of the land in question prior to commiting your life savings to legal route.
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Robinson, in conjunction with the BCCA, the Ice Vault and the participating schools, made the decision to get ahead of the snow and not have players, coaches and fans left wondering if the game would be played on Wednesday night. The safety of those traveling to the game made it an easy decision.
A capacity crowd is expected for this highly anticipated matchup between the consensus two best teams in Bergen County. Keep in mind that, for what it's worth, the two met in a preseason scrimmage, one in which Ramsey emerged victorious. How much bearing that has con Thursday remains to be seen, but it should be an intense and up and down the ice game between two teams expected to be playing in their respective state group finals in the Prudential Center come March 9.


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No, not the Oregon D. I am asking if we should respect the OSU defense. Personally, I am a little tired of hearing, "You have never seen a defense like ours," as the only argument for why the Buckeyes will win. Sure, they have some gaudy statistics but shouldn't we consider the level of competition they built those stats against?
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I am only looking at scoring offense and defense here because nobody ever won a game by racking up yards.
Ohio State's defense was the 5th best scoring D in the country this year, giving up only 12.17 points per game. Very impressive on the face of it. Oregon, by comparison, gave up 23.58 per game for the 52nd best defense in the country. We already know that the overall strength of schedule is heavily tilted in Oregon's favor (7 vs. 61 according to Jeff Sagarin). However, we can look a little closer at the offenses tOSU put up such stellar numbers on.
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Navy 60
Toledo 41
Illinois 82
Indiana 84
Wisconsin 21
Purdue 56
Minn. 98
N. Mex. St. 120 (and you thought Washington State was bad!)
Penn St. 41
Iowa 86
Michigan 45
For an average of 66.5
On the flip side, Oregon's #7 scoring offense has seen the #15 and #19 defense in the country as well as #118 (WSU). The average of the scoring defense ranks that Oregon built that record on: 50.83. So no, Oregon hasn't seen a defense quite like tOSU's, but over the course of the season they played better defenses week in and week out than the offenses tOSU's defense played.


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Genetic mutation related to thyroid hormones may play part in mesotheliomaThe cutting edge of mesothelioma research is genetic sequencing. This method analyzes the effect that asbestos exposure has on DNA - namely, it can help scientists understand which points in the human genome are most vulnerable to fiber-induced mutations and which are most likely to lead to pleural disease.
For example, a new study out of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has revealed that a gene associated with thyroid hormone receptors may, if damaged by asbestos, play a role in the development of respiratory malignancy.
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The investigation itself took place in UCSF's Thoracic Oncology Laboratory and its Comprehensive Cancer Center, thanks in part to funding provided by the Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Fernandez, Lyons, Greenwood, Harley and Oberman Foundation.
Using sophisticated gene sequencing techniques, the researchers found an unusual (but telling) mutation in the DNA of a man with extensive thoracic malignancies. The patient's genes had been damaged in a region that controls TSHR, or the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor.
What do thyroid hormones have to do with mesothelioma and other respiratory cancers? Directly, not much - but indirectly, this receptor is tightly linked to pleural disease.
That's because the TSHRs on respiratory cells can bind with NK2 homeobox 1 (NKX2-1), also known as thyroid transcription factor 1. NKX2-1 is a protein that helps control the transcription of the DNA and maintains thyroid and lung cell growth.
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However, the team noted that TSHR mutations, while clinically significant, aren't too common.
"Our observed mutation frequency of TSHR is ~1 percent (1/96) in lung adenocarcinoma patients, which suggests that mutation of TSHR is not a major event in lung carcinogenesis generally," the group explained. However, "when considering a significant overexpression of TSHR in tumor compared to matched normal samples, TSHR protein, not DNA or mRNA, may be used for either diagnostic or therapeutic purpose."
Such advancements give hope to the thousands of Americans suffering from mesothelioma. Each year, 3,000 adults in the U.S. are diagnosed with the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.
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