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Connie is a great trader - we did a large trade and I got a ton of things I wanted. I hope to trade with her again!
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She sent me ton's of seed and was very quick at getting them out into the mail. Would trade again in a heartbeat. |
- Posted by strmywthr3 Central OH z5 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 28, 08 at 19:28
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Connie is a great trader! Thanks or all the great seeds!:^) Theresa |
I agree with all above -- received large, legibly marked trade fast -- thanks Connie! Katie GW: katie88 |
Recently completed a trade with Connie. Wonderful trader. Would trade with her again anyday! |
- Posted by lisam627_ohio_z6 Z5 OH (My Page) on Sun, Mar 29, 09 at 8:45
I would highly recommend Connie to any potential traders. We exchanged friendly communication and I received her package in just a few days. The packages were clearly marked, very generously filled and she included some very nice bonus packages that I was not expecting as well! I love everything, Connie...thanks so much for a wonderful trade. I hope we can trade again in the future! - Lisa |
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A drinking game which is believed to have originated in Australia has found its way to Cumbria.
The "Neknominate" challenge involves people filming themselves "necking" a whole pint of beer (drinking it all in one go) in the most creative way they can, uploading it to a Facebook page made specifically for the challenge and then nominating a friend to do the same thing. The person who is nominated then has 24 hours to film themselves and carry on the chain.
The challenge follows on from other internet crazes such as planking which involves people taking pictures of themselves laying flat in various unusual places.
Whilst most of the pages set up for the challenge say they do not condone illegal behaviour it has been reported that some people have filmed themselves drinking and driving and commiting other illegal acts.
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I am making Chili con Carne per the NCHFP recipe. It calls for 3 cups dried kidney beans with instructions for the preparation of the dried beans. I do not have dried kidney beans, but do have canned (commercial) kidney beans--without thickeners (I checked the label). For pressure canning purposes, is it okay to substitute the canned ones (rinsed and drained) for the dried ones? According to the Iowa extension service, one cup of dried beans = 2-3 cups cooked beans. Therefore, the substitution for 3 cups dried would be 6-9 cups of the canned beans. I plan on using the lower number (6 cups canned beans) for this recipe. Is this okay to do? My other choice is to make the Ball version of chili without beans, which I have made before. It's okay, but I wanted to try the Chili Con Carne recipe that includes beans. Thanks for your help...and suggestions. Jill |
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It is safe but honestly I wouldn't recommend it as, unlike the dried ones, they are already fully cooked. The pressure processing will make them very mushy/paste-like. It's a texture thing, not a safety thing. If you don't mind that aspect then fine. Personally I'd make the the no-beans chili and then add the beans after opening the jars. But I agree that if you decide to use them go with the lowest amount or even less. Add them just 1 can at a time until it looks like the right balance of beans. It is one of those situations where less is better than more. Dave |
Thanks Dave! I felt confident that would be the correct answer and went forward with the recipe. I now have the lovely sound of the gentle rocking of the weight in my kitchen with 7 pints of chili con carne being processed. If I'd been wrong, I would have stuck the jars in the freezer after processing and cooling down. The remainder of the batch that didn't go in the canner will be for supper tonight. I agree with the amount of beans...I think I stopped at 5 cups instead of the 6 because it just looked right and more would have been too much. I adjusted the dried seasonings a bit, using a blend from the Ball book that added cumin, red pepper, and coriander. If the beans come out a little too soft or mushy, that won't bother me at all in chili. I've done a taste test and I think I like my cooking recipe for chili better, but since I like to have some canned chili ready for instant meals, this is the way to go. I may be able to tweak the dried seasonings a bit more and get closer to the taste of my regular chili. What I notice most is the absence of garlic. I put a lot of garlic in my cooking/not canning chili recipe. I know there are some canning recipes (Ball Blue Book and Ball Complete) that do include garlic, but the recipe I used from NCHFP didn't include it. Thanks for the feedback. It is always appreciated. Jill |
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When Quinn arrives home, Huck is waiting in the shadows. Please, god, don't let him lick her face again. "You come for some more teeth?" she asks. "I came here to kill you. To put you down," he responds. But he realizes that she wanted him to catch her on camera, that she's still a Gladiator deep down. Quinn spits in his face...AND THEN THEY START MAKING OUT. You guys, I can't express in words how against this I am. In my mind, Huck is an asexual hacking machine. He has the capacity to care, sure, but not the capacity to suck face. No, Shonda, just NO. Please tell me in the comments if I'm wrong, but I get the distinct feeling I'm not wrong.
All the OPA employees converge on Liv's office at the same time to unload all their problems. Abby wants to save David from Jake. Harrison wants to figure out what Adnan is up to. Huck wants to get Quinn out of B613's clutches. But Olivia has nothing to say. Instead, she heads to the Lincoln Memorial to meet David. And instead of helping him expose Jake, she wants him to just arrest the wrong man for James' "carjacking" and get on with it. But she's not giving up on wearing her white hat altogether. "Instead of standing alone and turning this into a suicide mission, stand with me and turn this into a cause," she tells David. "Lose this battle so we can win the war." It looks like she's taking her dad's evil ways and turning them around into something positive. THIS is the Fixer Olivia we've been missing for a long time. She's done being victimized by all the evil and ready to look at the big picture and fix everyone and everything. Go, Liv, go!
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It had never occurred to me to eat a wedge of anything other than iceburg, but this lettuce is pretty tasty and was easy to find. I didn't have Zinfandel vingear, so used red wine vinegar I had on hand. All summer I had been using just EVOO on salads and completely missed how wonderful walnut oil is! I store it in the fridge and it doesn't solidify like peanut oil does. Worth the investment!
This wedge salad is simple and elegant. It is perfect for any dinner party or just a night at home. The vinaigrette goes great on an arugula and granny smith apple salad as well. One of my favorites.
Very easy and very good (especially when it accompanies a Christmas dinner where so many other dishes require time/attention). Keep the core of the lettuce intact and it maintains the wedge shape. Made with very few modifications (a little salt&pepper int he dressing; a litte heavy on the vinegar) and it was enjoyed by all. Next year I might add some craisins for a more festive look.
The vinaigrette is wonderful, a perfect compliment to the stilton. I added fresh pears, which were excellent. The lettuce did not maintain its "wedge" shape, but it was good regardless. TIP: walnut oil should be kept refrigerated to prevent it from going rancid.
Fantabulous--all the guilty pleasure of nutritionless ice berg & blue cheese with the added nutrients of real leaf lettuce! :-)
Excellent Salad. No way can you possibly obtain equally good results using a white vinegar -- gotta have the Zin. And why the heck did the first reviewer say s/he didn't like 'store bought' dressings? Does anybody else who has actually READ the recipe see anything about a store bought dressing? OMG...it's not rocket science to read a recipe before trying it...Enjoy...


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Within Lake Nicaragua, which is the largest lake in Central America, lies Isla Ometepe. It is a small island shaped like an hourglass – both sides of the hourglass being volcanoes (Concepcion on one side, Maderas on the other) joined together by a narrow isthmus.
My mom and I stayed at Totoco Ecolodge on the Maderas side of the island. It was phenomenal. The views towards Conception volcano were great in the day and spectacular at sunset. The sunsets at Totoco were one of the most impressive things I have ever seen in all my travels.
One of the tourist activities is hiking up Maderas volcano. I hired a guide (Melvin) through the lodge and we set off very early in the morning. The ascent to the summit is about 6 hours at a fast, but grueling pace. The best part of the hike was seeing the howler monkeys in the first hour while still in the lowlands. After that it is a sweaty, dirty climb up poor trails towards the top. I don't mind a tough hike when it's rewarded by great views – but in this case there isn't much to see, the trees and brush covering up any vantage points. The best view I got was when I climbed a tree and took a picture looking down towards the lake (see the photo below the monkey).
Across the isthmus, you can also climb Concepcion. I've read that it is a tough, slippery climb up a steep, shale-covered slope. You have to be in good shape. Unlike Maderas there is no vegetation – just fantastic views in every direction. It is on my agenda for the next time in these parts. More on hiking these volcanoes here.
Besides the hike, our time was spent laying out by the swimming pool and enjoying the nature. I would recommend this place to anyone and I would come back here with Lissette for a more romantic kind of vacation. The food at Totoco was fantastic. One thing; bring earplugs. I couldn't believe the NOISE at night from all the bugs and animals, it was unbelievable. There is one bird, a small grey bird that seems to only appear at night, that constantly hung out right next to our lodge calling out what sounded like "fuck you", "fuck you", "fuck you" all night. I'm not kidding, that's what it sounded like. Then, when the noise from the night animals finally starts to die down close to dawn, the howler monkeys start up. There is no peace and quiet in the jungle.
Below: A few more photos of Concepcion from the Lodge
Below: the family-sized lodge at Totoco.
Heading back to the mainland on the ferry:
We only spent a week together in Nicaragua. My mother stayed on in Granada for her Spanish courses and I had to go back to work.
It's nice to have money and to be able to travel in Nicaragua. Everything is relatively cheap. Since I was travelling with my mom I booked private transport (with Oro Travel) for all our transfers. But Nicaragua is a poor country and you can't help but feel bad at times; I saw a boy who couldn't have been more than 10 on a horse tending to a herd of cattle. In Canada kids that age are playing nintendo and getting fat. Skinny horses pulling carts are still the principal mode of transport. You can see that most Nicaraguans, especially in the countryside, live a very basic existence.
A few Nicaraguans I spoke to in the travel industry expressed their frustration that Nicaragua was portrayed as a dangerous country, especially in the US (see the Bureau of Consular affairs website). In actual fact, Nicaragua is known as the safest country in Central America, safer even than Costa Rica. I never felt in danger – the flip side of few tourists is that locals aren't overwhelmed by foreigners and are so much friendlier because of that. And I always say; in the end, it's the people that make a difference between liking or disliking a place. Based on that, I would definitely come back to Nicaragua.
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One of the most important tactical RPGs of all time will return to our shores in just a few more months. With all of these great games coming out in spring, I wish I could delay Christmas.
One of the most important tactical RPGs of all time will return to our shores in just a few more months. With all of these great games coming out in spring, I wish I could delay Christmas.
sweet, i was expecting to have to wait until the end of march for it. i like February more for gaming.
Hells to the yeah, Tactics Ogre and Ys I & II Chronicles in the same month.
Now, back to The Sly Collection.
The article has been updated with some information on the game's preorder bonus.
Nice, glad we're getting the deck of tarot cards like Japan did, was already planning on pre-ordering anyways.
It's not even listed on amazon.ca yet as far as I can tell.
I'll be playing it.
Wonder if they'll have a special edition too.
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I've always wanted to play a Tactics Ogre. Suppose I'll start here. The preorder bonus might just be cool enough to warrant preordering it.
Wow.. is it a full illustrated deck (7 of cups, etc.) or just the major Arcana?
I can't wait to play the game, but I'm not sure what I would do with a tarot deck. I suppose either way it's artwork which is a good thing. I hope there's word on a collector's edition of some sort.
Not as much of an answer to your post specifically but about special editions...
If they make one for Tactics Ogre and it's going to be as lackluster as the (european) ones for FFXIII, Dissidia and Birth By Sleep then I have to question why they even bother. I mean, what you get is pretty much just previews of what would have been included if Squareenix wasn't such greedy bastards and nothing substantial. Their standard 40 to 50-something page "artbook" feels just like extensions of the manual and rarely contains any art of interest you haven't seen before, like character/enviormental sketches. Their "musical selections" are jokes and they could at least try to fill up the entire disc with 20+ something songs instead of the +/- 10 songs you actually get. What are you going to do with artcards? Especially when they are double sided so you can't even look at them all at the same time also, copyright info printed on each side obstructing the art.
The free pack-in disc for FFX was way better in every regard and guess what? They didn't charge $15 bucks extra for it. This is bull, they need need to look at XSEED and take note of how they are doing special editions cause it's practically the same but with twice as much content while the company itself is peanuts compared to Squareenix.


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The project is dealing with conservation science education offered as multi-lateral e-learning modules. Material heritage preservation is difficult to be covered in all its aspects in one institution. Furthermore, it is crucial to offer distant adult learners instruction on specific themes, and this can only be achieved by experts recruited in more than one area. The educational environment is designed as a three-fold pattern – before, during and after each course unit. In the first phase learners are prepared by having available all didactic material needed. During the frontal hours they use videoconferencing, and webcasting/archiving; and afterwards they may benefit from study material, self-assessment opportunities and a meeting point with the instructor. Linguistic issues are attended to at all instances. The e-learning platform consists of an open-source course management system, combined to a direct dialogue tool, and an open video learning system sustaining extended self-study.
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Here is my dracaena. On the left you can see it in its environment.
The right picture shows brown spots on the leave. I always water from the bottom, so these are not water spots. What do you think the problem is and what I can do about it? I water it every week and fertilize about once a month. Thanks in advance for any suggestion! |
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Kinda looks like sunburn to me. What direction does the window face? |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (My Page) on Sat, Jan 8, 11 at 16:26
Yes, eliminate water spots. Looks like a fungal or possibly fertilizer burn. You fertilize monthly...how much fertilizer do you use? Do you reduce dosage in winter? During winter, 'I halt fertilizing,' but for those who feel it's needed, 1/4-1/2-strength is best. Your Dracaena looks a good distance from the window. Is that where it's normally kept? Toni |
- Posted by davemichigan zone 6a SE Michig (My Page) on Mon, Jan 10, 11 at 17:27
Bunnygurl, the window is facing SE, so it gets a few hours of sun in the morning, but we don't get that much sun in Michigan though. Toni, I fertilize with Miracle Grow all-purpose fertilizer, 1 teaspoon in a gallon of water, once a month. I don't reduce dosage in winter because I think it is a pretty low dosage already, but I might be wrong. And yes, that is the distance/place where I normally keep that dracaena. |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (My Page) on Mon, Jan 10, 11 at 18:12
Dave, my eyesight is getting worse, I swear..I thought you had two Dracaenas, one in the window, one several feet away. LOL. Sorry I agree, a SE window, in MI, this time of year, won't cause leaf burn. How many leaves have these spots? I would remove it..it'll never revert to its original color/health. There are different reasons plants gets Brown Spot. Fungus, insects, lack of humidity. How do you care for your Dracaena other than fertilizing? Dave, fertiling is debatable. First, when a plant has problems/sick, it's said to withhold fertilizer. Second, during winter months, when days are gray, a fertilized plant is likely to grow spindly. Third, some Dracaenas are slower growing than others, especially in winter. Many go dormant. 'Like people. When we sleep, we don't eat. Same concept.' Slow growing plants are better off getting less fertilizer than fast-growing plants. PS: Your window view is beautiful. |
- Posted by pirate_girl Zone7 NYC (My Page) on Tue, Jan 11, 11 at 18:16
Hi Dave, Pls. go back & read the recommendations on the fertilizer package. I believe your amounts are incorrect & too high. It's important to follow the suggested formulations. I'm in my office now, not home, so this is from memory, but I seem to recall Miracle Grow powder (aqua blue right), suggesting the appropriate dosage something like 1/4 tsp per gallon, so from my memory, your dosage is definately too high. IMO, you should stop fertilizing since the plant is ailing & can't use it; I'd see what else is wrong & you can always go back to fertilizing come Spring. Toni, hi there, I believe it's TWO pix separated by a sliver of a thin line which apparently is too thin for you to see, but it IS there. |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (My Page) on Tue, Jan 11, 11 at 19:57
Hi Karen..how's life? Actually you're right about the fert dossage. Well, half right..lol..The box had instructions for weekly or bi-weekly and monthly fertilizing. Wkly is 1//4, monthly 1/2 teas. MG comes w/a measuring spoon for both methods. Yeah, I had to re-look at the picture...gotta get to the eye doc..ASAP. And I'm NOT joking. |
- Posted by davemichigan zone 6a SE Michig (My Page) on Tue, Jan 11, 11 at 22:36
Toni, there are about 10 leaves with spots. I have this plant for about 3 years now. It got repotted to this pot about a year ago. Since the container is small, I thought it might have used up all the nutrients in the soil, so I subconsciously tried to fertilize it a little more. Pirate_girl, I just went and checked. My fertilizer is actually not Miracle Gro as I said but Vigoro. The recommended dosage for house plant is 1 tspn / gallon if you fertize every 14 to 28 days. If you fertilize once a month, it says to double the strength. So the strength that I used seems ok. But since you all think it might be too much fertilizer, and since it is winter now, I will stop using it until spring. |
Possible fluoride toxicity? From http://www.mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/Foliage/folnotes/dracaena.htm: 1) Fluoride toxicity Symptoms - |
Here is a link that might be useful: fluoride tox in dracena
There is a lot of conjecture about what it might be, but the common issues with dracaena like under/over-watering, a high level of salts in the soil(which includes excessive fertilizing), fluoride or boron toxicity ..... all manifest themselves in leaf extremities, on tips and margins. Your symptoms have the characteristic appearance of a fungal or possibly bacterial leaf disease. There are several that commonly infect dracaena species, and I think one of them are what you are dealing with. The white center with the necrotic brown ring and yellow halo are classic symptoms of leaf spot diseases. If you are misting, stop - it will only spread the disease. I'll leave you to how you wish to handle the plant. A greenhouseman would probably tell you to remove and destroy all infected leaves and treat the plant with a fungicide - probably Daconil. There are better fungicide choices, like those containing the systemic tebuconazole (Bayer makes a few - read labels carefully and follow instructions carefully), which is approved for houseplants as long as you do the spraying outdoors. Your call, but I'm pretty sure it's a leaf-spot disease and not related to light, watering, fertilizing .... Al |
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Dear Diary Like It Matters
Nice tat.
Being a sports fan means having very little control over a meaningless thing that can profoundly affect your life. I'm not even sure which year this started, but for 365-ish days after beating Ohio State life is a little better to live, while the same after losing to them makes life a little worse. Until recently I thought I was maybe mistaking the general depressing of age, the Cooper run having coincided with the years between the onset of puberty and the onset of responsibility. Then Courtney Avery picked off Braxton Miller and I felt 20 again.
There are few active metaphors left in entertainment for some old fashioned we're the good guys/they're the bad guys. As your focus shifts from defeating Skeletor to survival, you begin to gain perspective, which is anathema to such absolutes. In this new adult relativity, goodness is a thing you strive for, not something bestowed as a natural and obvious state. You learn too that two things opposed are rarely easy to identify as more good or less evil. We strive for a thing, they strive for a thing, this is all relative. We're for tradition, and culpability, and a really fast guy from Florida who says "WHAAAAATT?!" and will smile for anybody in the world. From all we can see, the thing they seem to be most for is them.
The last time Michigan won in Columbus it was 2000. I was about mid-way through my collegiate career, and John Cooper was nearing the end of his. I sat in the student section and fielded death threats and projectiles while Drew Henson and Marquise Walker and David Terrell played the kind of offense we always imagined they could. The fans around us started looking ready to make good on those threats, and we bolted before the end, a fresh fallen snow covering our escape.
For the first time since, I'll be returning to Ohio Stadium tomorrow. I've been advised to not make my allegiance too obvious, to not respond to the taunting, and to maybe pick up a red hat with a gray O to leave in my Michigan plated car so that I won't return to find the tires slashed and garbage in the gas tank.
There are awful awful Michigan fans out there, and wonderful people who root for Ohio State. But this is sports. It's a big, blatant, color-coded metaphor for the subtle battles we fight, including—especially—good vs. evil. Caveat relativity and caveat scale, but one program defines itself by the good it strives to achieve, and the other program defines good as itself achieving. Tomorrow during the last game of their bowl-banned season, Ohio State will be officially honoring Jim Tressel and the 2002 National Championship Team whose accomplishments might too have been erased but for the statute of limitations. It couldn't be more clear if we were eight.
Beat Ohio Stats
Not counting, you know, real life, only two things happened in the world in the last seven days: the Big Ten added two more Indianas, and Michigan prepared to play Ohio State. The former was dealt with in the diaries with grief counseling, the latter with statistics, and both were handled in this diary by Gordon that reimagines The Game since Bo if divisions (rather than… sense? tradition? goodness?) had existed all that time. The useful chart at right (click big) is by Coach Schiano and neatly sums up the results. Most of those years Michigan and Ohio State would have re-matched. Sparty would have played in 3 of the last 4.
I want to also recognize ehatch, a tempo-free fan who's been trying to apply some of those Kenpommish ideas to football. Some of the relevant among the results:
By the conventional measures Michigan has the best defense in the Big Ten. However, once we adjust for our slow tempo, we find that the defense drops to 5th. We love our defense how is that possible? I think there are a couple potential explanations: 1) Throw-God Trevor Simien and the elusive Colter -- Northwestern was Michigan's worst performance of the year. 2) Michigan always seems to have one or 2 bad drives per game regardless of how bad the offense is (Illinois need not apply). MSU, Iowa, Minnesota all had 2 long scoring drives where it was completely out of character for both them and us. And since they are so bad offensively that bad drive is enough to put them above their average. In other words, Michigan has yet to put together a full game defensively.
Emphasis on "has yet to." Like I have yet to see the new Abraham Lincoln movie. Hey defense, what're guys doing tomorrow like noon-ish?
CoachW did a common opponent comparison. He didn't give a winner for each but I will. Give Ohio a slight edge for MSU since that was on the road, give Michigan that back for shutting out Illinois, and it comes down to Nebraska and Purdue. Michigan lost big but that may not be relevant unless Bellomy becomes so again; Ohio State gave up a lot of points but blew the doors on offense and won by lots. Michigan handled Purdue, who took OSU to overtime but that's not relevant since Miller was hurt. I guess edge OSU since they picked the better game to go without the centerpiece of their offense. But the margins are awful close.
Another study by glewe showed OSU's pass defense may be within the established Garder-KILL range. Docwhoblocked got bumped from the board for his study on punts to suggest Michigan ought to have both a deep and short guy. Like Dileo is short to fair catch the bouncers, and Gallon stands deep in case there's a return possibility. Also we're returning too many kickoffs (I figured) but I've been fine trading five yards of field position for that feeling you get when Dennis Norfleet has the ball in space.
LSAClassof2000 took five diaries to put out some charts and tables of the most basic stats. They're pretty straight-up, the kind of numbers you'll see put up on TV (my bias is toward the tempo-free above), but succinct. The QB one is worth a glance if only to see the Gardner effect, and the opening chart of the defense one is useful for quoting stats like "Michigan doesn't get as many sacks but we're averaging 6 TFL a game to OSU's 5.2." You know, if you talk like that. Here's the cliff's notes:*
Table of LSAClassOf2000 Diaries This Week |
Diary | Michigan And Ohio State - 2012 | Michigan And Ohio State – Last 10 Yrs | Michigan And Ohio State - Defenses | Michigan's Rushing Game - 2001-Present | Michigan QBs - 2001 To Present |
What we learned | Both even in rush/pass split, but theirs gets a 100 more yds a game. | Our respective passing offenses have been weirdly joined at the hip from Troy Smith on. | Pretty similar until we get to sacks, where they have John Simon and we don't have John Simon. |
Holy Molk's junior/senior years rushing Batman! |
Good good good good great okay DEATH okay great good good. |
*[This section has been edited from its original. See the comments if you care.]
Buckeye etc. (non-statistical): The k.o.k.Law memories trip continues with '76 and then through the '80s. THE_KNOWLEDGE pontificates. Lanyard program progrifiates. Jonvalk wallpaperates. Blockhams burninates.
Rationalizing Rutgersyland. History was made this week when Delany became the first commissioner to voluntarily add teams that weaken the average strength of his conference (oakapple). Course nobody around here believes wants to admit that these guys are so utterly out of touch and/or incompetent as to grab a couple of debtors for the Weak-ass Woody Division, flip Illinois to the Bo, and spend the next 14 years trying to convince New Yorkers to care. Gameboy says it's about TV markets, and shows us the numbers he thinks the Big Ten was looking at. Turtleboy talked about the scheduling situations that large conferences create.
This last got me thinking about another reason Maryland and Rutgers might become a net benefit to the conference: they can be trusted to lose. If you figure they pretty much have to go to 9 conference games now, a few extra Indiana's on the road could go a long way toward making the top of the conference look more Top Ten-ish and playoff-viable (see: SEC this year and how the top half has capitalized on beating up the wretched bottom half).
[Jump, then Weeklies, then lots of Ohio and expansion carping on the boards]
Expansion Reaction Roundup
Blogs of record from each Big Ten team and a bonus.
Crimson Quarry (Indiana):
For all the talk about footprint and media markets and academic standing, the Big Ten is an athletic conference. The Penn State and Nebraska additions made sense for athletics. These moves, if they happen, will best be understood as a cash grab. I'll certainly welcome these schools if it happens, but at first blush I'm not thrilled.
Bucky's Fifth Quarter (Wisconsin):
I've heard plenty of people say, "Get over it! This is the new age of college athletics." And yes, for better or worse we're moving into a new era.
With that being said, I'll firmly stand on the side saying that, yet again, money and greed are the evils that us into this "new era" of college athletics.
Hammer and Rails (Purdue):
I only see this as an absolutely shameless cash grab for the conference that is already printing money with its own TV network. At least the addition of Nebraska made sense. This really doesn't. We're shaking everything up to add a horrible basketball program and decent football program plus one with an awful football program and a basketball program that had a good run 10 years ago.
Land Grant Holy Land (OSU):
The Big Ten isn't quitting on their arbitrary, silly, and frankly pretentious divisional realignment and divisional names…. but instead we get more constant reminders about what Jim Delany thinks about basically all Big Ten sports fans, writers, and alums.
[AFTER THE JUMP: Penn State is okay with it. Everyone else?]
Unverified Voracity Et Al
The Michigan Difference. From the Iowa game:
et al
I will take this radio host's opinion and trust it because that's what I want to do. Gene Smith just stopped by the local sports talk radio station and said the following things:
Gene "probably leaning to playing more conference games considering the amount of teams we are at"
And said this as well, paraphrased:
Gene was emphatic that preserving that game is job one. Good news as far as Im concerned.
And the guy doing the interview got this impression:
Get the feeling talking to Gene just now that OSU and Michigan in same division will be a likely endgame.
At least there's one guy maybe trying to do the thing that makes sense. Good job… Gene Smith? We have reached a strange place indeed.
Mitigating damage. We've heard this before only to have it beaten back by the need to squeeze every penny out, but if they don't expand the conference schedule now come on man:
After announcing the addition of Maryland to the league Monday, Big Ten commissioner said during a national teleconference that the league's conference football schedule could increase to nine games, and the league's basketball slate could jump up to as many as 20 contests for each team.
"I think more games is on the table," Delany said. "One of the reasons we stayed at 11 (members) and stayed at 12 is because we love to play each other more, not less."
My wacky idea for the basketball schedule is to play everybody once, draw a line in the middle, and then play six more with the top teams facing off and the bottom teams facing off. Never happen, but it would at least make the regular season title a nonrandom event based heavily on who you didn't play.
Meanwhile, a nine game conference schedule in football with the current protected rivalry setup would mean teams played opponents in the other division 33% of the time. Better than twice every twelve years; still less than is necessary to support any true rivalry with the opposite divisions.
Guaransheed! Mark Dantonio:
"When we win Saturday -- and I'll say when -- we'll be a 6-6 football team, not climbing out of the cellar as a 2-10 football team," Dantonio said.
Would you like to backtrack like whoah, though?
It sure sounded like a guarantee. So I asked Dantonio later on the Big Ten coaches' call whether he was, in fact, guaranteeing a victory.
"I don't guarantee anything," he said. "I'm saying that's the mindset we bring when we come."
Aw man just roll with it.
The hate. MVictors has created a grid of hate.
I assume that ending the losing streak has cooled off some of the Penn State hate; when I went in 2006 I would have classified that as orange. Also, Illinois should be red for them and green for us—when my wife, an Illinois undergrad not too up on sports, came to Michigan for her PhD she was under the impression that Michigan was Illinois's primary rival.
Meanwhile, fire up Rutgers and Maryland versions: all Big Ten teams totally indifferent towards them, Maryland and Rutgers getting continually more pissed off that Big Ten fans would like to see their universities vanish from the planet.
This is not about TV? Delany:
Delany said that, in his opinion, too much has been made about the move to add Rutgers as a pure cable television play. He emphasized how difficult it will be to integrate the Big Ten Network into the lucrative New York and New Jersey market.
"It's a difficult business," he said. "It's not always successful. You have to be good and lucky and hardworking at it. People treat it as if there's a no-risk assessment. There's always a risk. This initiative has risk. If it was so easy why didn't it happen a long time ago?"
Delany said the media has a perception that growing into cable homes in the East and mid-Atlantic regions is easy. He strongly disagrees with that notion.
"It's not that way," he said. "We went a year with the Big Ten Network without distributing in core areas. We decided we wanted to do that we did it and hung together. We'll have discussion with people."
Hmmm. I am not sure this is the best idea I have ever heard.
How will we spend the money? This is the saddest thing I've read about all of this, a post from On The Banks about what they'll do with all the money:
That being said, staff raises and respectable budget should be in order all around.
Yes. Get The Picture takes apart an annoying Andy Staples article:
This is Staples' blessing of the situation:
None of us grew up with Ohio State-Maryland or Michigan-Rutgers. This is different, and different is always scary. But the Big Ten saw a chance to add value, and Maryland saw a chance to make more money in a time of economic uncertainty. This marriage may not square with your idea of which teams should or shouldn't play in the Big Ten, but in this economy, none of us should be criticizing a school for making a sound fiscal choice.
It's not that it's scary. It's that it's boring. It's like shopping for an insurance policy instead of a new car. We're fans. We don't give a rat's ass about our schools making sound fiscal choices. (Just ask Tennessee fans about that right now.)
This is soul-numbing. And it's been done in such an in-your-face way that it won't even be worth making an effort to laugh the next time Delany has the stones to invoke tradition when he talks about the television programming he schedules, er… conference he leads.
Money is a zero-sum game. It can only be used on the facilities treadmill and coach salary treadmill. It does nothing for the people the money actually comes from, especially when the richest conference in the country goes out and hires Jerry Kill and Danny Hope and Tim Beckman.
The overwhelming feeling of adding Rutgers and Maryland is boredom. No one is going to wake up the morning their team plays either of those schools and do anything but shrug, and as the expansion continues that will spread to other teams. Michigan State and Wisconsin have a nice thing going; now they don't meet for four years. In the future there won't even be a way for those nice things to get going, because oh God Rutgers is on the schedule again.
More on the dissolution of the bundle empire. Conveniently timed SBJ article:
Nobody thinks that the World Series or NBA Finals will be on YouTube any time soon. But top executives with MLB and the NBA said they've seen increased interest from digital media companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple in recent months.
"They are sniffing around," said MLB's Brosnan, who just negotiated media deals with ESPN, Fox and Turner. "Pay-TV services are never secure, but with TV Everywhere starting to gain some traction, pay TV is looking like it's building a model that might have some traction and will be here to stay."
Stern, whose NBA is in the fifth year of eight-year media rights deals with ESPN and Turner, said he anticipates a time when digital media companies place a bet on sports rights in the same way that Fox Sports invested in the NFL in 1994.
The problem for the BTN model is not going to be actual fans signing up to pay but increasing numbers of sports-indifferent cord-cutters who opt out of subsidizing sports fans and just Netflix/Hulu/whatever everything. The current model is going to be the newspaper business in short order here, wheezing out a decline.
The 60 Minutes thing. It is here:
And there is a bonus thing.
Oh right Ohio State. This could have waited a week maybe, Mr. Delany? Articles from Maize and Go Blue and two from Eleven Warriors, one on the New War, the other on Goebels past and present.
Etc.: Fake conversations with Jim Delany are about to become a cottage industry. Penn State loses Tim Frazier for the year, which just obliterates them. They were outscored 53-24 by Akron in the second half after Frazier went out. He'll be back next year. Weinreb bombs everything. The Iowa game from the Hawkeye perspective.
Big Ten Expansion: Bargaining Phase Part II
Okay okay okay you guys I've got it
Michigan State
Ohio State
Penn State
*ineligible for championship game, plays all games against coastal division
Expansion Mailbag: About Expansion
this song is exactly like adding Rutgers and Maryland because it is waste and terrible and has pointy hair
A side note: the poll from late Sunday is running 83-17 against Rutgers and Maryland.
Ok, so I find this Maryland/Rutgers thing agitating from a tradition standpoint and pointless from a $$$ standpoint. Michigan, Ohio State and PSU probably have the lion's share of CFB fans here in NYC already.
While meanwhile BTN is on the basic sports tier for $3.95 or something so anyone who wants it (and a ton of people who just want Fox Soccer or whatever) already has it.
The one group BTN _could_ conceivably seize in this area is Notre Dame fans. If this is a play to strangle ND's other avenues (ACC, Big East, with Big 12 already raided for Nebraska), it starts making a little more financial sense and becomes more palatable from a tradition standpoint.
Have you heard any rumblings to that effect? If that were in fact the idea, would you get behind it more?
Ben. You are a crazy bastard. Snatching one team from a 14 team conference that can immediately consider a near-equivalent—possibly an upgrade!—in UConn or Louisville is nowhere near destabilizing enough to do anything to Notre Dame, an institution looking saner by the minute for opting out of this conference business.
In fact, I would be infinitely happier with Louisville than either of the selected teams. You can drive there, they are the biggest thing in the city that is not a horse, and they are at least as good as Maryland in basketball with more promise in football.
What do you think the Irish fanbase's reaction to the Big Ten's Semisonic move was? I'll tell you:
- gales of laughter
- yet more gales of laughter
- that point after gales and gales of laughter where everything's petering out and you can't summon the oxygen to continue but you have that lovely, blissful aftertaste of laughing at everything for so long
- a silent prayer of thanks for Notre Dame's obstinate insistence at independence even if it requires playing a bunch of middling ACC teams each year
- oh my god the Big Ten voluntarily sucked up a middling ACC team and Rutgers
- gales of laughter
- ad infinitum
Notre Dame's avenues are broad and gilt-lined. As long as they can assemble a schedule that can get them into a four-team (and possibly expanding) playoff, they can tell anyone they want to FOAD.
Let me start by saying I hate the addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten. They're crappy teams with insubstantial fanbases who've pretty much never been good. It's clear the decision for them to jump ship from the ACC (Or Big East, or whatever) to the Big Ten is based on a desire to make more money, as the Big Ten can afford them more money. Assuming that's true, do you think that increase in revenue can help them to eventually become better teams?
The obvious answer is no, you can't just throw money at a program and magically solve it's problems. But one can't deny the correlation between successful football programs and the endowments of those universities. Maybe Delany's thought is that he can grow Rutgers and Maryland's program into respectability over the course of time. During that time, he has new television markets he can get revenue from (theoretically), and new fanbases to own. I don't know, that's honestly the best explanation I can think of. Your insight, as always, is appreciated.
Ah. I see you are also in the bargaining phase. Welcome. It is slightly nicer here than depression.
I don't see how it happens. Loyal fanbases are built with wins or boredom. The fundamental problem with the awesome TV markets of Maryland and Rutgers is they are occupied with everything else in the world. The only way either of those programs is ever going to be anything more than they are right now is by beating M and OSU, or at least playing them with major stakes. That doesn't look like it'll happen, and the instant any of those teams falls off the map whatever bandwagon has assembled will dissolve into one of the other eight-six available teams. At best you're looking at an Iowa/MSU/Northwestern thing where they pop up to be interesting two years in a decade.
I think the chances of building something at Louisville would have been much greater, academics be damned, TV markets be damned. The city of Louisville doesn't have two pro teams in every sport sucking up all the oxygen.
Not to make this even worse, but with the way the BTN contracts with cable operators are set up, adding Rutgers will NOT (at least initially) require cable operators to launch BTN on expanded basic in the New York market. The addition of schools is set up on a state-by-state basis, meaning that Rutgers will require a move of BTN to expanded basic in New Jersey ONLY (half of New Jersey already should have BTN on basic b/c Phili market is considered part of Big 10 core footprint. Big 10 core footprint is all states with Big 10 schools plus the Philadelphia and St. Louis markets).
Some caveats: If a cable operator in New York market already carries BTN on a sports tier, and has a contract up for renewal soon, you can bet the Big 10/FOX will force BTN onto expanded basic. And if a cable operator doesn't carry BTN at all, you can also bet the Big 10/Fox will require expanded basic carriage if the operator wants to launch it.
That said, it could be a bit awkward to see Rutgers come in and BTN not go into New York City TVs, at least initially. PR-wise, the hit might be rough, although this is already a garbage idea anyway.
-credible anon guy
You did make it worse. Actually, wait. Michigan is putting a quarter billion dollars into nonrevenue sports. I don't care about money. I will never, ever again say "this will put the Big Ten on good footing relative to other conferences." I'm done.
dog groomin'
I became a CF fan 10 years ago because I got tired of the NFL and was attracted to the tradition and pageantry of CF. I love the big stadia filled with young fans and the regional rivalries with trophy games like the Paul Bunyon ax and the Bowl games. Now it appears that CF is trying to become the NFL-Lite with super conferences that are destroying ancient rivalries and playoffs that threaten the bowls. Now we have two mediocre teams added to the Big Ten that will do nothing for the conference on the field. At some point don't you think that CF fans like myself ( and I am sure there are many like me) will become turned off, that any new fans will be offset by those like me who, if we want to watch the NFL, will simply watch the real thing?
Yes. This is the most irritating thing about the band of folks who tell you "no you just don't get it, this is about the future." This is a short-term money grab based on nothing else but the possibility of putting a cable TV channel on some homes that do not already have a cable TV channel.
The problem is that in five to ten years when some modicum of financial benefit is being realized—and that will be a boost on the order of 10%, not 100%—people will have ever-fatter internet pipes and start bailing on cable for internet streaming. Watch what happens in Kansas City now that Google fiber is in place. The ability to bilk old ladies out of a dollar a month because they want to watch Matlock marathons is rapidly ending. The Big Ten Network will be an ephemeral bridge between an era when gatekeepers kept all the things and one where epic bandwidth means you get only what you want—you pay only for what you want—always.
Once the cable barriers come down, as they inevitably will, this comes down to committed diehards per school. How many people will pay you specifically instead of allow themselves to be roped into an expensive package of channels they largely don't care for but have no choice about?
Maryland has several, but not many compared to most Big Ten schools. Rutgers has one, he's a nice guy, he is @ruscoop. I don't think that's enough.
For this short-term gain, you dilute the long-standing rivalries, the decades-long narratives, the very heart of the thing that differentiates college football from all the other things competing for attention. It's the same thing Brandon has done to Michigan Stadium—in an effort to make its appeal the same as everything else he has sacrificed anything unique about it that might make one love it.
There are still things to love about college football—I mean, Denard—but increasingly they are surrounded by crap that you tolerate. The future is the niche, even at macro scales, and broadening out your product to be a Midwestern sports Two and a Half Men is a losing idea created by men with no imagination who rely on spreadsheets to create the future.
I mean, who's crazy here: the fans who were generally okay with the additions of Penn State and Nebraska or the men who added nonentities the entire league has to fly to so they could get a TV channel in some extra homes?
I can't tell if Rutgers has a D1 hockey program. If not, doesn't that scuttle B1G hockey? IIRC, the B1G by-law requires half of the conferences schools to field a D1 roster in order to have in conference competition in a given sport.
They do not. Neither does Maryland. Neither will add hockey any time soon because they are still crawling out from massive piles of debt, which should make you think about who is using who here. Note that most other ACC programs are doing just fine financially, and Maryland would not be interested in moving from the conference they were a charter member of except for the fact that they have bungled everything so badly they need the Big Ten's money. That's our prize.
It won't affect Big Ten hockey for the same reason that this is happening in the first place: the BTN needs content and the BTHC provides it. The most interesting impact this thing may have on college hockey is that if UConn is the pick for the ACC, they'll be one program away from having to launch an ACC hockey conference. [HT: BC Interruption.]
I'd actually be in favor of that; the best way to get college hockey to expand is to break up the ice-floes that are 12 team conferences and provide inviting homes for startups large and small.
Regarding Big Ten expansion in general, and adding Maryland and Rutgers (lol, wut?) specifically.
Also, and somewhat random, am I making a correct observation that OSU has the easiest road to the CCG for the foreseeable future? Outside of Michigan, who else can legitimately challenge them on a consistent basis? PSU, with the scholarship reductions will most likely bottom out some point soon. Wisconsin is coached by Bielema ('nuff said right?) who likes to run the ball with no timeouts left down a score late in the fourth and then again when it's 3rd and 7 in overtime. Then you factor in general superiority in coaching and players and it really adds up to a frequent cakewalk to Indy. (Obviously not everything is written in stone, but just playing the odds, yuck).
I don't know Meyer's health condition, but it really seems like he's the kind of guy who likes to win and he'll do what it takes to make it as easy as possible i.e. leave the SEC where his teams started to decline post-Tebow, to the weaker Big Ten with Miller already on the roster.
Well, our collective freakout about the divisions may be premature. Delany said some business about not having anything predetermined at the moment, and while anything that comes from an executive has to be taken with a grain of salt… let's latch on to that super hard you guys.
The Big Ten needs to stop looking at Penn State as some sort of historical juggernaut and consider what it's done since entering the league. I had to go back to a 2011 revision of Joe Paterno's wikipedia page to get this, but here is PSU's record against the four Big Ten teams (along with Nebraska) that were considered plus programs when they put these divisions together:
- Wisconsin: 6-7
- Iowa: 7-9
- Ohio State: 7-13
- Michigan: 6-10
They're 0-2 against Nebraska; their game against Wisconsin is pending.
The vast bulk of the results were compiled before Joe Paterno was hurled from his pedestal and Penn State was hit with the most serious NCAA sanctions since SMU. At best they are a Wisconsin/Iowa equivalent.
Yeah, Michigan and Ohio State are likely to be the best two programs in the league over a long period of time but in any given year the best program from the Nebraska/Wisconsin/Iowa/Illinois* group is going to be a stiff test. A hypothetical division with M/OSU/PSU versus the hate parallelogram is
- winner of A/A/B program fight versus
- winner of A-/B/B program fight
It is less than ideal, but this is a conference that just added Maryland and Rutgers. In terms of less-than-ideal situations it is far from the least ideal. It is a lot more intriguing than a division in which Wisconsin/OSU is the championship game for the next decade.
*[Illinois is good sometimes. I know it's weird.]
Hokepoints: Expansion Universalis, In Rapacitas
Click big-itates. Three! Three references to Europa Universalis in the history of one blog, ah ah ah!
Depending on what hour you are reading this, Brian is somewhere on the Kübler-Ross chain between coming up with 20-team divisions sans Purdue, and emulating an otter. Since this thing is happening despite the sentiment expressed in our totally scientific internet poll, I thought maybe being, like, informative…?
Tell 'em what they've won, Jim:
+'s: Lacrosse power, soccer power, unique mascot, fits academic profile, unlikely to upset anyone's national title hopes.
-'s: Not a power in anything but sports nobody cares about. Almost Indiana in football. Were on their way to mid-majordom.
The School: Founded in 1856. Those who know their Morrill Act history could guess one sentence before you did that it's a land-grant school (Michigan State, Penn State). Original name: Maryland Agricultural College, later Maryland State College. They're AAU members, and about the same size as Michigan or Purdue. Academically they're solidly in the Purdue/Ohio State midpoint of the conference, although they only got super serious about being a research institution since the '60s so their endowment—$791 million—is easily last among the current conference, and only a tenth of Michigan's. They're also a system school—sharing a degree with UMD-Baltimore and an affiliation with a bunch of other in-state schools—so I don't know if the CIC plans on sharing dollars with just the flagship campus, College Park and Baltimore, or the whole system.
Important alumni: Jim Henson and Larry David. Sugar daddy: Kevin Plank of Under Amour.
Colors: Red and white or yellow and black are good enough color schemes for most corn-fed Midwesterners, but marshaling of arms in English heraldry has no concept of clashing, thus the Terps are liable to favor any of those from George Calvert in any combination. They've been known to take the field looking like an unholy abomination of leftover Iowa running back parts and Rex Burkhead, or in maroon and chrome, or lattice bodices and cloaks of animal skins.
Mascot: A terrapin, or "terp" for short. It means turtle.
Athletics: Here's a guy answering my query on their SBNation blog:
Basketball school (right now like 80-20, but when we rebound in fball it's more like 60-40). We hate Duke as much as you hate anything in your life. If something big happens we riot. A great deal of our fanbase already hates PSU, so yea, we can hate them for ya.
Really good at Msoccer (good womens), great at lax and field hockey. Womens basketball too
We don't dress funny, you just dress like some 80 year old man with a hideous fashion sense and call it tradition.Our college Bball atmosphere is way better than fball, but we do have Stefon Diggs who is likely god himself
Emphasis on the hating Duke. In re lacrosse: the ACC's deal was similar to the Big East's, where they belonged to other conferences but the few schools who had programs played each other [EDIT: they had a conference, but didn't send a champion]. They're immediately the best lacrosse school in the conference. Women's lacrosse is probably the best in the country.
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The Artists
Anna Volkmann
16 years old, Lake Forest, Illinois
Anna is thrilled to be starting her second season with Extensions Dance Company. Joining this company has enabled her to share her art with all types of audiences; from the experienced dance critic to those who might not otherwise experience the art form. Anna is a junior at Lake Forest High School where she is a leader with Student to Student, Link Crew, a Wellness for Life teaching assistant, and a proud member of Scout Nation. Anna started her dance training at age 3 at Jenny's Dance Centre (JDC) in Green Oaks, IL under the direction of Jenny Campbell and assistant director Amy Cardamone. At age 10, Anna joined the JDC competition team where she performed at many regional and national competitions and conventions for 5 years. She has attended summer programs at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Houston Ballet, River North Dance Chicago Teen Intensive, and various workshops at Extensions. Anna currently takes regular weekly classes at Extensions with Lizzie Mackenzie, Ben Wardell, Sean Rozanski, Mike Gosney, Ahmad Simmons and Melanie Hortin. She would like to thank her friends and family for all of their love and support throughout the years, and to Lauren and the Extensions family for the great experiences, past, present and future. She would especially like to thank Lizzie for this opportunity, her never-ending support and for pushing her to her fullest capability, as a dancer and as a person.
Annie Wyman
14 years old, Naperville, Illinois
Annie Wyman is currently a Freshman in High School. This is her third year dancing with the wonderful artists of Extensions. In the summer of 2013, Annie attended Interlochen Arts Camp for 6 weeks as a dance major. In her free time Annie enjoys playing piano and guitar.
Along with her training at Extensions, Annie takes classes at studios close to her home in the western suburbs. Annie is so grateful to be dancing with Extensions for another year. She would like to thank her family, Lizzie and her lovely Extensions family for helping her grow as a person and an artist.
Brianna Noe
13 years old, Aurora, Illinois
Brianna Noe is currently a eighth grader at Granger Middle School and a third-year member of Extensions Dance Company. Since taking her first dance class at the Naperville YMCA at age 3, she has never wavered in her love and passion for dance. Brianna danced on performing groups for both Steps Dance Center and Midwest Edge Dance Academy prior to joining Extensions Dance Company. Brianna has participated in many competitions and conventions, earning scholarships at JUMP, Hollywood Vibe, and NUVO. Brianna trains at Extensions Dance Center and Steps Dance Center in Naperville. During the past year, she has also enjoyed taking master classes taught by Monique Haley, Michael Snipe and the River North Dance Company faculty. She was also accepted into the inaugural River North Teen Summer Intensive in Chicago. Brianna would like to thank Lizzie for being such an amazing Artistic Director and pushing her to always strive to do her best and make a difference in everything she does. Brianna would also like to thank the entire Extensions family for serving as such an inspiration to her.
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain."
Francesca Robbs
15 years old, Naperville, Illinois
Francesca Robbs is a sophomore at Neuqua Valley High School and has been dancing since the age of three. This will be her first year performing with Extensions Dance Company. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of the Extensions family. Francesca was a member of The Inspire School of Dance for seven years under the direction of teacher/choreographer Anne Forrest. While at Inspire, Francesca had the privilege of training under many great teachers including Kelly Hill, Margaret Palmer, Sara Bibik, Hanna Brictson, Kevin Familiara, Christian Vincent, Joey Dowling, Jennifer Hamilton and Lauran Adams. She is very thankful for the wonderful training that these teachers provided. Francesca has participated in many competition/conventions throughout the country. She captured a National title as Junior Magic Performer of the Year with LA Dance Magic as well as earning scholarships at many regional competitions with LADM, NYCDA, NUVO and Hollywood Vibe. Francesca has participated in the River North Weekend and Summer Intensives. In addition to training at Extensions Dance Center, Francesca takes classes at Steps Dance Center, Integrity School of Dance, Visceral Dance Center and The Academy of Dance Arts. When Francesca isn't dancing, she enjoys traveling and playing golf. She would like to thank Lizzie and her teammates for welcoming her with open arms to her new dance family. She is looking forward to new opportunities and developing as an artist this year.
Gianna Hagnell
16 years old, Lake Bluff, Illinois
Gianna is a Junior at Woodlands Academy of The Sacred Heart in Lake Forest. This will be her second year at Extensions Dance Co. She started dancing at the age of 3 and hasn't stopped since. She performed in the Joffrey Ballet's production of the Nutcracker at the Auditorium Theatre. Previously, she was a member of the Lake Forest Dance Academy's Prelude Dance Theatre for two years. She danced the part of an Arabian doll in the Moscow Ballets Great Russian Nutcracker at the Rosemont Theatre. She has been the recipient of several dance awards and scholarships. Her summers have been spent at the Joffrey Ballet, two years at the Houston Ballet's Summer Intensive Program in Houston, Texas, and last summer in New York with the Bolshoi Ballet's summer intensive. When not dancing she enjoys photography, her dog, community service and hanging out with her friends and family. She feels so blessed to be under the direction of Lizzie Mackenzie and dancing with such a dedicated, supportive and talented group of friends.
Grayson Coulter
18 years old, Galena, Illinois
Grayson first began Irish dancing at the age of eight with The Mayer School of Irish Dance under the direction of Mary Mayer. She instantly fell in love with dance and knew she wanted to pursue it as a career. By age twelve she moved to Chicago with her Aunt and began her training in International Latin and Standard with Peter Minkov and Yulia Kornilova. She then decided to start taking classes in Ballet and Jazz under the direction of Ted Jackson. By age fourteen, she was attending the Chicago Academy for the Arts and study with Randy Duncan. Over the summers she also attended Alvin Ailey and The Joffrey in New York for her summer intensives. This is her first year with Extensions and she is absolutely loving it! She feels so blessed to be a part of such an amazing company and group of artists. She would like to thank Lizzie for being so supportive and pushing her to limits she didn't even know she could be pushed to. She is so grateful for this incredible opportunity and is not taking a second for granted!
Isabella Buscaglia
14 years old, Chicago, Illinois
Isabella Buscaglia began studying with Lizzie in the fall of 2010 and joined Extensions Dance Company in the fall of 2011. This is her second season. Izzy has been dancing since she was three years old, spending nine years with Chicago Dance and Music Academy, where she was amember of the Allegro Performance Company. She has studied and performed at numerous venues in the Midwest, including the Cecchetti Council of America's summer program in Holland, MI, and participates in workshops and intensives in the Chicagoland area,including classes at Extensions Dance Center and Visceral Dance Center. Izzy continues to be thrilled to be a member of Extensions and appreciates the opportunityto perform and learn with such wonderful dancers and instructors. She truly feels that Extensions is her home away from home and considers herself lucky to be forming long-lasting relationships with all the Extensionsdancers, past and present. Izzy is extremely grateful to Lizzie for her continued confidence and care in her as a student and as a person. Izzy also is grateful to her family and friends for all of their support.
Jordan Ryder
16 years old, Lincolnshire, Illinois
Jordan Ryder is a junior at Adlai E. Stevenson High School and this is her first year with Extensions Dance Company. She started her dance career at the age of three and soon realized that this is what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. Jordan began at Marcia's Dance Studio and transferred to Lomastro Performing Arts Academy multiple years later and continues to take classes there now. She was also on the Mélange Dance Company and part of the Concert Dance Class at Stevenson High School. Jordan has had the opportunity to spend her summers at the Joffrey Ballet's Summer Intensive in 2011, multiple Hubbard Street and River North workshops, and Point Part Universities Summer Intensive Program in 2013. She would like to thank Lizzie for giving her this amazing opportunity and is looking forward to starting her next adventure with Extensions by continuing to grow as a dancer and being able to pursue her passion.
Karina Sanchez
16 years old, Chicago, Illinois
This is Karina's second year with the Extensions family, and she cannot be more excited to continue to grow as an artist and as a teammate this coming season! Karina began dancing at the age of three and is a sophomore at Trinity High School. Prior to becoming a member of Extensions, Karina trained with many teachers and choreographers such as Kate Jablonski as a member of Beyond Words Dance Company for two years, and Jay and Connie Fagan at The Dance Workshop in Orland Park. Currently, she is studying with Lizzie MacKenzie, Ben Wardell, Sean Rozanski, Mike Gosney, Ahmad Simmons, and Melanie Hortin at Extensions Dance Center. As a member of Beyond Words in 2012, Karina was chosen to be a part of the ensemble for Laura Marling's music video "I Was Just A Card." This was produced by EMI Records and directed by Kate Jablonski and Brian Lipchik. Karina admires all of her teachers for always being so nurturing and pushing her to be the best dancer they could possible. Karina also admires and looks up to her older sister Lorena, who just two years ago graduated from Extensions Dance Company herself. She would like to thank her parents for being so committed to her and supporting their kids and their passion for dance. Karina would especially love to thank Lizzie and Lauren for being such nurturing role models and friends that will forever have a huge place in her heart!
Meg McNultyDalaly
15 years old, Plainfield, Illinois
Meg McNulty, a sophomore at Joliet Catholic Academy, began her dance training in her Plainfield hometown at the age of three. Now fifteen, Meg has had the pleasure of working with many renowned artists including Jackie Ford, Missy Ridgway, Mia Michaels, Destiny Rodgers, and Ricky Ruiz. Meg had spent the past few years on Perseverance Dance Company and attending various conventions before competing as an independent, winning numerous scholarships and awards. Apart from dancing, Meg loves taking art and English courses at her school, her passion for creativity and expression shining through many aspects of her life. Meg is thrilled and honored to work with the amazing Lizzie Mackenzie and to be a part of Extensions Dance Company!
Melanie Dalaly
17 years old, Naperville, Illinois
When Melanie entered the dance world at the age of five, she already envisioned herself becoming a professional dancer... this still holds true today. She is currently a Senior at Neuqua Valley High School and is in her fourth year with Extensions. She loves training in such an open environment that allows her to grow, and is ecstatic for what is to come. Throughout the years, she has been honored to receive instruction from people such as Lizzie MacKenzie, Kelly Brunk, Kelly Hill, Harrison MacEldowney, Margaret Palmer, Eddy Ocampo, Kate Jablonski, and Sara Bibik. She has also loved training at Extensions Dance Center, Visceral Dance Center and Steps Dance Center. During the past couple of years, she has been honored to be recognized regionally at dance performances and has received a scholarship from the prestigious River North Chicago Dance Company. She also visited New York this past summer having the honor of receiving an Outstanding Dancer scholarship through NYCDA to compete for the national title. Another highlight of the past summer was attending River North's College/Pro intensive. Melanie is happy to be given so many incredible opportunities and her love for dance grows more each day. She would also like to thank Lizzie for her guidance, inspiration, and friendship.
Mia Hagnell
Mia is a Sophomore at Woodlands Academy of The Sacred Heart in Lake Forest. This is her first year on Extensions Dance Co. Mia started out dancing at Lake Forest Dance Academy Prelude dance theater. She performed in the Party scene and as a harlequin Doll in Moscow Ballets Great Russian Nutcracker at the Rosemont Theatre. She was a previous member of LoMastro's Performing Arts Academy and last year was a member of Evanston's Dance Ensemble. She spent two summers on scholarship in New York at the Joffrey Ballet school. Last summer she attended Ballet Austin's Summer Intensive in Austin Texas. She is so excited to have the opportunity to work under Lizzie MacKenzie and dance with such an amazing group of dancers. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends when not dancing, and is thankful for their love and support.
Peyton Kuhlman
15 years old, Willowbrook, Illinois
Peyton's dance training began at Impact Dance Studio in LaGrange under the direction of Diane Fotino. While at Impact, Peyton performed in many competitions and was awarded scholarships from Adrenaline and Dupree Dance. Peyton's passion for dance has motivated her to explore and discover all that she can be. Extensions is an incredible group of young artists, who are committed to not only reaching their individual potentials, but who encourage and respect all those around them. Peyton is honored and excited to be a part of this community! Peyton continues to train at Extensions Dance Center and Steps Dance Center in Naperville.
Lizzie inspires Peyton not only through her gift of dance, but has taught her the importance of giving. Peyton is so grateful to her for seeing her potential and allowing her to be part of such an awesome group!
Vicky Cancelliere
16 years old, Plainfield, Illinois
Vicky Cancelliere is a junior at Plainfield North High School and has been dancing for 9 years. This will be her 4rd year dancing as a member of Extensions Dance Company. She feels so fortunate to be dancing under the direction and inspiration of Lizzie Mackenzie, and would like to thank Lizzie for recognizing and cultivating her love of dance. Vicky takes regular classes at Extensions Dance Center and Steps Dance Center. In the summer of 2011, Vicky was given the opportunity to represent the USA as part of Dmanagement's "Performing in Chicago" International Ballet workshop. She performed in their productions of "Giselle" and "Don Quixote" alongside cast members of the Joffrey Ballet, The Milwaukee Ballet and The American Ballet Theatre. This past summer, Vicky attended the Milwaukee Ballet Summer Program for 6 weeks, and was a part of their show, "Emergence". Vicky is excited to continue growing as a dancer and looks forward to another exciting year with her Extensions Dance family!
Vilija Meacham-Chavez
12 years old, Elmwood Park, Illinois
Vilija Meacham Chavez began dancing at the age of 3. In addition the her classes at Extensions Dance Center, she has studied ballet and jazz at the Joffrey school, tap at Hit Factory Tap Program under Martin Bronson, Tristan Bruns and Zada Cheeks and hip hop under Evelyn Rice at Visceral Dance Studio. She continues training in hip hop at Hubbard Street under Shannon Johnson. She has attended Joffrey's 2 week and 3 week summer intensives and twice performed as a toy soldier in Ballet Legere's Nutcracker. With Extensions, she has had oppotunities she never thought possible. Competitions, conventions and numerous performances. She is extrememly excited to continue her path with Extensions!


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No, gun control won't necessarily reduce gun violence significantly. That depends on implementation and how it's enforced.
However, fewer guns on the street WILL reduce gun violence.
I know you like people to repeat themselves over and over - and yet ignore them.
Like you're doing now by being a fool and talking about proof all over again. We're not talking about objective proof - because you can't prove anything like this with certainty. You can, however, use your brain as a human being - and recognise the excessively obvious support for this concept of fewer guns = fewer gun related incidents. That's basic logic using a series of facts as the proof you're looking for.
So, yeah, you're being very clearly a fool - that's clear enough.
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In any other year, we'd have our Game of the Year winner locked down before the end of August, but with the likes of Skyrim hitting shelves in the next few months, Deus Ex is in for a fight, and a sneak, and a bit of a chat, and a punch-up, and whatever else you fancy doing, really.
It begins with conspiracy - a shadowy organisation attacks Sarif Industries, kills nine tenths of their research staff and leaves their security specialist, Adam Jensen, broken and dying. Jensen's body is rebuilt with Sarif's own military-grade augmentation technology and he finds himself on the tail of the men who killed his ex-girlfriend and turned him into a mechanical man.
The pre-credits tutorial sets the stage for almost 30 hours in Human Revolution's take on 2027. It's the most credible videogame world since BioShock's Rapture - every location telling a story about what happened before you arrived and what might happen when you leave.
Over those 30 hours not one minute is wasted; Human Revolution never takes your time for granted and never bogs you down with busy work. In every city hub there are half a dozen side-missions to complete alongside the main missions; you'll be tasked with recovering evidence from a body in a police station's morgue, but find yourself taking down a corrupt cop, investigating your ex-girlfriend's disappearance, stealing weapons from gangland territory, and doing anything but the job at hand. Every mission plays differently, and every mission can be played however you want.
Deus Ex encourages you towards stealth with enemies who can blow Jensen away in just two or three shots, but if you'd rather treat it as a shooter, it's down with that. When you find yourself forced into a firefight every fully upgradeable weapon packs a punch and the enemy AI puts up a tremendous fight, moving a couple of men to flank while the rest suppress as a group.
Augment your armour and electromagnetic shielding, install a rebreather to cope with gas grenades, and improve your arms to takedown two enemies at a time and you'll become an unstoppable killing machine. And who doesn't want that?
If you'd rather go sneaky you can install a cloaking system, look through walls, mark targets, and dampen the sound of footsteps to move through the game like a ghost. In those same levels where you can throw down and shootout, you'll find room to hide, sneak, and use your augmentations to your advantage. You can rack up a bodycount in the hundreds, or collect an Achievement for not killing a single soul.
Human Revolution is a proper RPG where you have a real choice about everything you do. You'll make decisions you'll have to think about for minutes at a time, weighing the possibilities; you'll break your zero-kill streak and murder people because they deserved it rather than because the game forced you; you'll risk your life and the lives of others to save characters you've genuinely come to like.
It's a game filled with branching paths where every decision feels like a decisive moment, and a game where the results are always satisfying no matter what path you take.
But we've seen this before, after a fashion. Back in 2000, the original Deus Ex changed everything. With help from System Shock 2, it forged a template the best developers would crib from for the next decade. That game wasn't a great shooter or a great stealth game, the AI was thick, combat was lightweight, and stealth was often as much about exploitation as skill.
Somehow though, even with those problems, the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. Human Revolution, however, has no caveats; it is a great shooter, it is a great stealth game, and those parts come together to make it a great RPG.
It's a once-in a-generation kind of game, and the first game in a decade to do everything the original Deus Ex did, and to do almost all of it better.
Want a second or third opinion? Read PSM3's Deus Ex: Human Revolution review and Xbox World's Deus Ex: Human Revolution review for verdicts on the console versions.
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