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Aiken, SC--When Santoine Butler left Cross Creek high school, he was hoping Gardner Webb would be the next big thing for him. It didn't work out. Now Butler is a lot close to home and boy his stock grows pretty much every time he hits the court at USC Aiken.
First and foremost he's a lot more comforatable with the Pacers. The up tempo style certainl fits his game. Watch a game and you're bound to see the high wire act butler can provide. A lot of it is to get the team going and the energy level up.
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"I certainly believe he can bigger and stronger and I think he's doing that" added Alexander "I think he's really working hard in the weight room. He's committed to being in there and getting bigger and stronger"
If you haven't seen the pacers and butler this year, they're home Thursday night against Flagler. Then head to Augusta State for the rivalry game on Saturday.


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Chuck Hagel
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Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel a member of the Republican Party, was a United States Senator from Nebraska, serving from 1997-2008. (map)
- 1 Record and controversies
- 2 Bio
- 3 Money in politics
- 4 Committees and Affiliations
- 5 More Background Data
- 6 Contact
- 7 Articles and resources
Record and controversies
Iraq War
Hagel voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in Oct. 2002.
Statements and action on the Iraq war
Statements made by Chuck Hagel:
- August 18, 2005: Hagel described the next six months as being "very critical" also stating that "within that six months' period we're going to see whether the Iraqis are really going to be capable of defending themselves." [1]
Criticism of Iraq War
On August 18, 2005, Hagel became the first Republican U.S. senator to publicly criticize the Iraq war and to call for withdrawal. He has compared the war to Vietnam, openly mocked Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes," and called for a withdrawal of troops to begin "within the next year." [1]
In November of 2005, Senator Hagel made a much-publicized statement saying "To question your government is not unpatriotic -- to not question your government is unpatriotic." This was in reference to the increasing amount of debate surrounding the Iraq War, and his assertion that the United States should withdraw its troops.
In December of 2005 in reference to Bush the GOP and the Patriot Act's erosion of civil liberties, Hagel made a much-publicized statement saying "I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president," [2]
On Friday, July 28, 2006 Hagel made another public statement against the war when he referred to it as "an absolute replay of Vietnam." In an interview with The World-Herald, Hagel stated that the Pentagon is wrong to increase the number of American troops Iraq. He also said that American soldiers had become "easy targets" in a country that has turned into "absolute anarchy."[3]
Opposition to President Bush's troop "surge"
On January 24, 2007, Sen. Joe Biden's resolution against a troop "surge" passed in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a 12-9 vote. All eleven committee Democrats supported the measure, along with Sen. Hagel. During the committee hearings, Hagel gave a passionate speech against the "surge." The following is an excerpt:
"There is no strategy. This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder. We better be as sure as you can be. And I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your people back home what you think. Don't hide anymore; none of us. That is the essence of our responsibility. And if we're not willing to do it, we're not worthy to be seated right here. We fail our country. If we don't debate this, if we don't debate this, we are not worthy of our country. We fail our country." (Watch Hagel's remarks at You Tube courtesy of TPM Muckraker)
On February 17, 2007, Hagel was one of seven Republicans to cross party lines and vote in favor of cloture on a non-binding resolution opposing the troop "surge." The measure failed 56-34.
2007 Iraq spending bill
On March 27, 2007, Hagel was one of only two Republican Senators to vote against an amendment to the Iraq supplemental spending bill that would have stripped the measure of its troop withdrawal deadline. The amendment was narrowly defeated 48-50. He was also one of two GOP Senators to vote for the final Senate version of the spending bill, which passed the Senate 51-47 on March 29. On April 26, he again was one of the two GOP Senators to vote in favor of the final bill after it went through a conference committee. The bill passed both the House and Senate, but was later vetoed by the President.
Environmental record
For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal
Criticism of the Bush administration
In January 2006, Hagel took issue with Karl Rove over controversial statements the White House advisor made concerning the mindset of Republicans and Democrats. Hagel said, "Well, I didn't like what Mr. Rove said, because it frames terrorism and the issue of terrorism and everything that goes with it, whether it's the renewal of the Patriot Act or the NSA wiretapping, in a political context." He also said that "dark clouds" are hanging over the Republican party", and "If you look at the environment and the atmospherics politically in this town, read any poll," he said, "the sixth year of a governing party usually ... is not good ... the country is tired, a lot of complications in these international issues, we're at war." [4]
Hagel further criticized the Bush administration, saying, "National security is more important than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. And to use it to try and get someone elected will ultimately end up in defeat and disaster for that political party." [5]
Hagel also showed an opposing view to the Bush administration as it pertains to the war between Israel and Hezbollah. On August 1, 2006 the Washington Post Hagereported that Hagel supported an immediate cease-fire. Hagel was quoted as saying that "The sickening slaughter on both sides must end now, President Bush must call for an immediate cease-fire. This madness must stop." [6]
On Sunday, March 25, 2007, Hagel unleashed the following criticisms of the Bush administration.
- Regarding the U.S. attorney firings controversy, he dismissed the president's conditions on the testimony of Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and two aides. He stated that "the objective here is to get to the bottom of the issue...Isn't the objective to find out the truth? Isn't the objective to be transparent and let the American people know what happened, what went wrong?" [7]
- Main article: Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy
- Regarding the Iraq War, he stated that he is "opposed to the president's current [Iraq] policy," and that "we are undermining our interests in the Middle East, we are undermining our military, we're undermining the confidence of people around the world in what we're doing." [8]
- Main article: Congressional actions on the Iraq War
- Claimed he had a lack of respect for the Constitution and separation of powers, stating that, "No president can dictate to this country, nor should he... This is a constitutional form of government. We have three equal branches of government. No president is bigger than the other two." [9]
Failure to disclose involvement with electronic voting firm
For the first ten weeks of 1996, Hagel served as chairman of American Information Systems (AIS), a voting machine company which later changed its name to ES&S. He also had holdings in the firm's parent group, McCarthy Group Inc., worth between $1 and $5 million. [10] In November 1996, Hagel was elected to the Senate, the first Republican elected from Nebraska since 1974. He came from behind twice during his run (according to polls), first against well known Republican Attorney General Don Stenberg in the primary, and then against popular Democratic Gov. (and eventual senator) Ben Nelson. In fact, one Nebraska newspaper described his victory as a "stunning upset." [11] In January 1997, the Washington Post called Hagel's victory, "the major Republican upset in the November election." [12] According to Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.org, a group aimed at "consumer protection for elections," Hagel won virtually every demographic group, including many largely African-American communities that had never before voted Republican. AIS was responsible for counting approximately 80% of the votes in the election. [13] [14] [15]
In a disclosure form filed in 1996, Hagel did not report that he was chairman of AIS during 1996 or go into detail regarding the company's underlying assets. Rather, he cited his holdings as an "excepted investment fund," which is exempt from detailed disclosure rules. [16] [17] [18]
On May 23, 1997, Victor Baird, then serving as director of the Senate Ethics Committee, sent a letter to Hagel requesting "additional, clarifying information" for the personal financial disclosure report Hagel filed. In 2002, the issue surfaced again as Charlie Matulka, Hagel's opponent for reelection, wrote to Baird requesting an investigation into Hagel's ownership in and nondisclosure of ES&S (the information remained undisclosed as of 2002). Baird replied that Matulka's complaint lacked merit and dismissed the matter. [19] [20] [21]
Under the ethics panel's regulations at the time, an "excepted investment fund" was one that was "publicly traded (or available) or widely diversified." The committee had defined a "publicly available" stock or investment as one that could be purchased on a public market or for which information was publicly available. This type of information, some contended, would typically be found in reference outlets such as Moody's Financial Services Information, Standard & Poor's register, or Barron's The Dow Jones and Financial Weekly. A 2003 search of all three by The Hill, however, revealed no references to McCarthy. In addition, a comprehensive report ordered by The Hill from Dun & Bradstreet, a leading financial information firm, indicated that McCarthy's financial information was not publicly available. Michael McCarthy, chairman of the McCarthy Group and Hagel's campaign treasurer, acknowledged that the company was not publicly traded or widely diversified, but claimed that it was publicly available nonetheless. [22] [23] [24]
On January 25th and 27th of 2003, Baird met with Hagel's office. Later on the 27th, he abruptly resigned his post, ending a sixteen year stint with the committee. Later that day, Baird's replacement, Robert Walker, changed the committee's definition of "excepted investment fund." Under the revised definition, the committee would have the ability to decide, based on the specific facts of each case, whether an investment had been made in a publicly available firm. Many argued that the new definition made it virtually impossible to determine whether Hagel, or any other legislator, must report investments in non-traded private companies. [25] [26] [27]
Soon after the change, Lou Ann Linehan, Hagel's chief of staff, denied that Hagel had ever failed to meet the Senate Ethics Committee's reporting requirements in his annual financial disclosure forms. She claimed that she was sure that at least one investment advisor and broker confirmed that McCarthy Group Inc. was publicly available. She was unable, however, to offer the name of any investment broker or advisor who consulted with Hagel or his staff on the matter. [28] [29] [30]
Hagel was born October 4, 1946 in North Platte, Nebraska. He graduated from the Brown Institute for Radio and Television in 1966 and from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1971. He served in the U.S. Army infantry, attaining the rank of Sergeant (E-5) from 1967-68 while serving during the Vietnam War. Hagel is a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, receiving the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge.
Private Sector
According to Hagel's Senate biography, he has extensive experience in the corporate world "Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Hagel worked in the private sector as the President of McCarthy & Co., an investment banking firm based in Omaha, Nebraska, and served as Chairman of the Board of American Information Systems (AIS). Before joining McCarthy & Co., Hagel was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Private Sector Council (PSC) in Washington, D.C., Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations (G-7 Summit) and President and Chief Executive Officer of the World USO.
"In the mid-1980's, Hagel co-founded VANGUARD Cellular Systems, Inc., a publicly traded corporation. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated Hagel to serve as Deputy Administrator of the Veterans Administration, a nomination confirmed by the United States Senate. Hagel also served as Deputy Commissioner General of the United States for the 1982 World's Fair. From 1977 through 1980, Hagel was Manager of Government Affairs for The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Washington, D.C. From 1971 to 1977, he was Administrative Assistant to Congressman John Y. McCollister (R-Nebraska). Beginning in 1969, Hagel worked as a newscaster and talk show host with radio stations KBON and KLNG in Omaha, Nebraska...
"Hagel has served on the Board of Trustees Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust and as Chairman of the $240 million Agent Orange Settlement Fund...Among the institutions for which Hagel serves as a Board or Advisory Committee member are: the Institute of Politics at Harvard University; International Republican Institute; the German Marshall Fund's Trade and Poverty Forum; the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute; the Private Sector Council; the Ripon Society; the American Red Cross; Bread for the World; and the Council on Foreign Relations. Hagel is a Trustee at Bellevue University and Hastings College. Hagel is co-chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Corporate Council.
"In the mid-1980's, Hagel co-founded VANGUARD Cellular Systems, Inc., a publicly traded corporation. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated Hagel to serve as Deputy Administrator of the Veterans Administration, a nomination confirmed by the United States Senate. Hagel also served as Deputy Commissioner General of the United States for the 1982 World's Fair. From 1977 through 1980, Hagel was Manager of Government Affairs for The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Washington, D.C. From 1971 to 1977, he was Administrative Assistant to Congressman John Y. McCollister (R-Nebraska). Beginning in 1969, Hagel worked as a newscaster and talk show host with radio stations KBON and KLNG in Omaha, Nebraska."[31]
Hagel is the former CEO of American Information Systems Inc. (AIS), which changed its name to Electronic Systems & Software (ES&S) in 1997. Voting machines made by AIS have been the focus of intense scrutiny since the 2000 Presidential election due to their alleged susceptibility to fraud and tampering.
Senate Career
In 1996, Hagel ran for the US Senate against Ben Nelson, who was the governor of Nebraska at the time. Although many people believed he had no chance of winning, he won an upset, receiving 54% of the votes (Nelson was elected to Nebraska's other Senate seat in 2000). Six years later in 2002, Hagel overwhelmingly won re-election with over 83% of the vote, the largest margin of victory in any statewide race in Nebraska history.
Hagel is often characterized as a political maverick, similar to fellow Vietnam War veteran Republican Senator John McCain. In the 2000 Presidential election, Hagel was considered "a key advocate for the Bush campaign, and with his experience on the Senate Commerce Committee focusing on telecommunications and trade."[32] More recently, Hagel has been critical of the Bush administration's international policy and on framing national security isues along party lines.[33]
In 2000, Hagel was considered as a Vice Presidential running mate for George W. Bush, though he was co-chairman of John McCain's bid for the Republican nomination.(Cached A.P. story, "Vice President Chuck Hagel?" May 27, 2000)
In June of 1999, Hagel attended the annual Bilderberg meeting in Sintra, Portugal. [34]
Presidential bid 2008
In May 2007, Sen. Hagel met with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, over what could become an independent ticket for the presidency. When asked Hagel said, "It's a great country to think about a New York boy and a Nebraska boy to be teamed up leading this nation".[2]
Retirement from politics
On September 10, 2007, Hagel announced that he would not seek a third term in the Senate, and that he would also not be running for President in 2008. He stated, "I will not seek a third term in the United States Senate, nor do I intend to be a candidate for any office in 2008. It has been my greatest honor and privilege to serve my country and represent my fellow Nebraskans in the U.S. Senate. My family and I will be forever grateful for this opportunity and the trust placed in me by the people of Nebraska. It has enriched all of us."[3]
Money in politics
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- Revolving door profile for Chuck Hagel from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
- 2006 privately funded travel profile for Chuck Hagel from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
- Personal finance profile for Chuck Hagel from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
Committees and Affiliations
Committee assignments in the 110th Congress (2007-2008)
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Subcommittee on African Affairs
- Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Subcommittee on Near East and South and Central Asian Affairs
- Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
- Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions - Ranking Member
Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions
- Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance
- Subcommittee on Securities and Investment - Chair
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Subcommittee on International Economic Policy Export and Trade Promotion - Chair
- Subcommittee on European Affairs
- Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Coalitions and Caucuses
- Deputy Whip, Republican Caucus (1996-present).
- Former chair, Senate Global Climate Change Observer Group
- Former chair, Senate Oversight Task Force
- Co-chairman, Congressional-Executive Commission on China
- NATO Observer Group
Boards and other Affiliations
Hagel serves on the Board or Advisory Committee[35] of the following:
- Institute of Politics at Harvard University
- International Republican Institute
- International Board, U.S./Middle East Project [4]
- German Marshall Fund's Trade and Poverty Forum
- Eisenhower World Affairs Institute
- Private Sector Council
- Ripon Society
- American Red Cross
- Bread for the World
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Trustee at Bellevue University and Hastings College
- Co-chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Corporate Council
- Member of the Aspen Strategy Group
- Trustee, Meridian International Center
- Director, Ploughshares Fund [5]
- Advisory Board, Global Strategy Forum [6]
More Background Data
Wikipedia also has an article on Chuck Hagel. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.
DC Office:
248 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-2704
Web Email
District Office- Kearney:
4111 Fourth Avenue, Suite 26
Kearney, NE 68845
Phone: 308-236-7602
Phone: 308-236-7501
Fax: 308-236-7473
District Office- Lincoln:
294 Federal Building
100 Centennial Mall North
Lincoln, NE 68508
Phone: 402-476-1400
Fax: 402-476-0605
District Office- Omaha:
11301 Davenport Street, Suite 2
Omaha, NE 68154
Phone: 402-758-8981
Fax: 402-758-9165
District Office- Scottsbluff:
115 Railway Street, Suite C102
Scottsbluff, NE 69361
Phone: 308-632-6032
Fax: 308-632-6295
Articles and resources
- Official website.
- Senator Hagel on the issues
- Congressional biography.
- Chuck Hagel profile, NNDB.
- Chuck Hagel for President in 2008 - unofficial site.
- United States Senate Public Financial Disclosure for New Employee and Candidate Reports: Chuck Hagel, 1995.
- See how you compare to Chuck Hagel
Related SourceWatch articles
Articles by Chuck Hagel
- "Leaving Iraq, Honorably," Washington Post, November 26, 2006.
Articles about Chuck Hagel
- Lynn Lande, "Elections in America - Assume Crooks are in Control," CommonDreams.org, September 16, 2002.
- Alexander Bolton, "Hagel's ethics filings pose disclosure issue," TheHill.com, January 29, 2003.
- Farhad Manjoo, "Hacking Democracy," Salon.com, February 20, 2003.
- Adam Cohen. "Editorial Observer; The Results Are in and the Winner Is . . . or Maybe Not." New York Times, February 29, 2004.
- Bev Harris, "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century," Blackboxvoting.org, 2004.
- Chuck Hagel, "A Christmas Present, and Past," Washington Post, December 21, 2005.
- Joseph Lelyveld, "The Heartland Dissident," New York Times Magazine February 12, 2006.
- Jake Thompson, "Hagel calls Iraq 'replay of Vietnam'," World-Herald Bureau, July 29, 2006.
- Peter Baker and Robin Wright, "As Bush Outlines Cease-Fire Terms, U.N. Talks Stall," Washington Post, August 1, 2006.
- Melanie, "Why Doesn't Fox Call Chuck Hagel a 'Cut & Runner'?" News Hounds, August 1, 2006.
- John Nichols, "Chuck Hagel: Opposition Senator," The Nation (Common Dreams), August 3, 2006.
- Arianna Huffington, "Will Chuck Hagel's positions poise him for the White House?" The Huffington Post (News Net Nebraska), August 17, 2006.
- Transcript: "Sen. Chuck Hagel on 'FOX News Sunday'" (August 20, 2006), Fox News, August 21, 2006.
- Editorial: "Four weeks of war proved Hagel's point," JournalStar.com (Lincoln, NE), August 21, 2006.
- "Nebraska's Chuck Hagel says U.S. influence slipping in Iraq. 'Iran Probably Has More Influence In Iraq Than We Do'...," News Net Nebraska, August 20, 2006.
- Justin Raimondo, "Right Hook. Conservatives rebel against the War Party," antiwar.com, August 28, 2006.
- John Nichols, "A Republican Takes the Lead on Iraq," The Nation, November 27, 2006. re Exit Strategy from Iraq
- Payson Schwin, "Hagel Says Cheney Criticism Is 'Complete Nonsense'," Think Progress, January 21, 2007. re opposition to McCain doctrine
- Charles P. Pierce, "'Before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment.' Chuck Hagel's historic moment, and what it means for a declining presidency," Esquire, March 7, 2007.
- Klaus Marre, "Hagel sharply criticizes Bush administration," Hill News, March 25, 2007.
- "Hagel-Bloomberg In '08? You Never Know. Senator Says Today's GOP Is Not The Party He Joined; Considers An Independent Ticket In '08," Face the Nation/CBS News, May 13, 2007. re New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
- E.J. Dionne Jr., "Hagel's Waiting Game," Washington Post, May 13, 2007. See 2006 Vote Ratings. Senate Composite Scores, National Journal. Note: Hagel is more conservative than John McCain and Sam Brownback.
- "From CQ Today: Hagel Hints at Independent Bid for White House in 2008," Congressional Quarterly (New York Times), May 14, 2007.
- Chris Cillizza, "Hagel Continues Flirtation With Independent Bid," The Fix Blog / Washington Post, May 14, 2007.
Local blogs and discussion sites
Corresponding article on Wikipedia and Cause Caller. (If Cause Caller link does not work, pick from its list of senators and representatives.)
|Current Office: U.S. Senate
|111th Congress
|Leadership Position:
|Committees Chaired:
Ranking Member On:
|110th Congress
|Leadership Position:
|Committees Chaired:
Ranking Member On:
Deputy Whip of the Republican Caucus (1996-2009), Former chair of the Senate Global Climate Change Observer Group, Former chair of the Senate Oversight Task Force, Co-chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, NATO Observer Group
|Committees: Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs, Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs/Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs/Subcommittee on Housing Transportation and Community Development, Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs/Subcommittee on Securities Insurance and Investment, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations/Subcommittee on African Affairs, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations/Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations/Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance Economic Affairs and International Environmental Protection, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations/Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
|Congressional Career
|First Elected to Current Office:
November 5, 1996
|First Took Current Office:
January 7, 1997
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January 3, 2009
|Freshman Member?
|Previous Political Work?
Veterans Administration, Deputy Administrator
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Date of Birth: October 4, 1946
- ↑ "Hagel: Iraq growing more like Vietnam," CNN, August 18, 2005.
- ↑ Klaus Marre, "Hagel hints at independent White House bid," The Hill, May 13, 2007.
- ↑ Aaron Blake, "Hagel bows out of politics," The Hill, September 10, 2007.
- ↑ International Board, U.S./Middle East Project, accessed October 25, 2009.
- ↑ Directors, Ploughshares Fund, accessed April 19, 2010.
- ↑ Global Strategy Forum Advisors, organizational web page, accessed July 2, 2012.


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Media Awareness Network, Media and Digital Literacy in the 21st Century
Matthew Johnson is Media Education Specialist with Media Awareness Network, a Canadian non-profit that has been pioneering the development of media and digital literacy programs. You can find them on the web at www.media-awareness.ca.
As education specialist, Matthew creates resources for educators, parents and community groups. He is the designer of Passport to the Internet, Media Network's comprehensive digital literacy tutorial and the writer of their Talk Media blog. He has presented on topics as varied as the effect of media violence on children, video game addiction, alcohol advertising, children's use of new media and the moral dimensions of computer games.
He is interviewed by Dan Leshem, program manager of the Holocaust Denial On Trial website. For more information please visit us at www.hdot.org. This podcast is underwritten by the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.Q. [Leshem]
I wonder if you could begin by telling us a little bit about who you are and what your background is, and then also who Media Awareness is, and what your role is within the organization?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Sure! Well, I'm a media education specialist for the Media Awareness Network, and what that means is that primarily I develop resources that are used by teachers and parents and also community groups to help educate young people about media issues, and also to help them develop media skills. I'll talk more about that in a moment.
As far as my background is concerned, I was a teacher. I taught high school for a little under ten years. Then I also have some experience in the media industry. I worked in television, and a little bit in radio, which is how I wound up here.
Media Awareness Network is a non-profit Canadian organization. It actually started life as part of the Canadian National Film Board, but spun off into a separate organization not connected to the government, some time ago. And our mission is to ensure that children and youth have the necessary skills to understand and actively engage with media.Q. [Leshem]
That's very interesting. Can you tell us a little bit about why one would need to educate youth about interacting with media?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Well, partly because media is such a big part of all of our lives, and particularly a part of young people's lives. We know that young people spend more time consuming media than doing almost anything else. It is a tremendously important part of their experience. And it's important that young people, and people in general, not be passive consumers of media. That people be able to question what they encounter, be able to treat it critically, and not necessarily accept what they're getting from media directly.Q. [Leshem]
Can you tell us a little bit, in general terms again, what do you mean by media.A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Well really we include all the mass media and our work has covered almost every medium you can consider. Obviously a big part of our work in recent years has had to do with the Internet, and other new media such as cell phones, because that's just been such a growth area for media. Computer games as well are something we've done a lot of work in. But also a lot of our work has had to with TV and movies, and also issues that are relevant to more than one medium. So for instance we've done a great deal of work around diversity representation, which of course is relevant to nearly all mass media. We've done a lot work around gender representations and body image, which again touches nearly all of the mass media.Q. [Leshem]
But why would education about the media be so important since it's something that we all consume daily and seem to consume fairly well? What is it that you're trying to point out?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Well as they say, what's important is that everyone, and in particular youth be critical consumers, of media. And that is to say that we're not just accepting what we see, but that we're able to question it, and we're able to understand some of the decisions that went into its creation. We're able to question the assumptions that are communicated by media. So, for instance, turning to the point just raised about body image, we know that young people, both men and women, are tremendously affected in terms of their self-image by what they see in the media. We know that exposure to idealized forms, to idealized bodies, hurts young peoples' self-esteem and increases the risks that they will be dissatisfied with themselves, and increases the risks that they will engage in unhealthful practices. Things like anorexia, things like bulimia, or steroid abuse.
So it's important that young people be aware of the effects that the media can have and be able to engage with them critically, because we know this has an effect on peoples' attitudes, on people's beliefs, and on people's health.Q. [Leshem]
Excellent, thank you. You referred just now to some empirical data, some study about findings related to young people and body image issues. What other kinds of empirical research do you guys refer to or use, or even what other types of research do you guys conduct, to find out what issues arise out of media exposure?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Well we keep very close tabs on all kinds of research that is being done about the effects of media all around the world because it's very important to us that our work be based on the most current, and the most accurate and comprehensive, research that's available. So we really do make a point of keeping up with research on media effects, effects of media violence, effects on body image, and so on.
In terms of our own research, we're not able to do as much of it as we'd like. But we have engaged in one long-term project, that is the Young Canadians In A Wired World survey, that's a multi-phase project. Phase I was in 2001, and Phase II was in 2005, and we're currently undergoing Phase III. And what it essentially is, is to try to get a sense of the Internet landscape in which particularly Canadian youth are participating. So, getting a sense of what young people are doing online and how they feel about it. What positive experiences they're encountering, what negative experiences they're encountering, what they would like to know about the Internet, what skills they feel they have and feel they need to have and don't have, and they're experiences in particular with the Internet at school and what they would like to know about the Internet at school.Q. [Leshem]
Do you find that, transitioning a little bit to discussing education in general, do you find that new media is penetrating the classroom context more? Are more classrooms using the Internet and all types of media to teach?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Yes and no. Certainly some aspects of it have already received a great deal of penetration. I know here in Canada, for instance, there was over the course of the 1990s a tremendous effort to get every school in Canada wired to the Internet. And as a result almost every school in Canada has computers that are Internet capable. And what that's meant is that young people turn overwhelmingly to the Internet to do any kind of school research.
We found when we did our study that students preferred the Internet to any other source of information by a factor of roughly nine to one. So you can see that when we talk about a lot of traditional schoolwork that students do it's now carried out almost exclusively over the Internet. At the same time the use of some other technologies that have been adopted by youth are very slow to get into the classroom. So things like making use of social networking, the use of wikis and other kind of collaborative software and websites, is slow to be finding its way into the classroom.Q. [Leshem]
And do you think it's important that it find its way there?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Well I think teachers... obviously you don't want to bring technology in just for its own sake. And you don't want to bring things in just because youth are using it. But at the same time when there's a technology, or when there's an interface, we might say a medium, that young people are embracing strongly it makes sense to try to use that to get to kids. I mean, when we have young people who increasingly spend a great deal of their time, of their lives, outside of class online, sticking exclusively to some of the traditional means of teaching seems kind of counter productive.
Now that doesn't mean that young people should be allowed to use Facebook or MySpace during class time necessarily, but a lot of the habits of collaboration, a lot of the skills that young people are using online, can be effectively transferred to the classroom. So for instance, in something that might traditionally be done as group work in a class where everyone's sitting around a table and someone's, you know, maybe taking notes on a pad of paper, this is an experience that young people are much more likely to have encountered either collaborating through a social networking site or collaborating through a piece of wiki software.Q. [Leshem]
Thinking about the Internet and the increased use by young people, as you say, even when they're asked where would they go for research, do you feel that the Internet presents different challenges than other types of media?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
In some ways, yes. I mean, no source of information is perfect. I can tell you, for instance, that my local public library has probably a dozen books on the healing powers of crystals. So even sending kids to a library is no guarantee that they're going to get reliable information. But at the same time one of the strengths of the Internet, as a means of expression, is also one of its weaknesses as a source of information. And that is how easy it is to publish something online. And of course recent trends in the Internet, in new environments on the Internet, have made publication even easier than they once were.
So, what it means is that there is a great deal of information available of course online. But a lot of it is not necessarily reliable. Some of it is simply mistaken. Some of it is intentionally misinforming. And some of it is simply opinion. And young people don't necessarily have the skills to distinguish fact from opinion.Q. [Leshem]
Can you explain a little bit what you mean by these new methods of publication and how it gets easier and easier?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Sure. Well one example that I've already mentioned is Wikipedia. Now, Wikipedia has something of a bad rap with teachers. I've known quite a few teachers who refuse to let students use it as a source, and I think that's an overreaction. There's certainly ways that one can use Wikipedia, or a Wikipedia article, because each article properly speaking is a separate source. There are ways in which you can use it responsibly as a source of information. But students and teachers have to learn how to do that because Wikipedia of course is crowd-authored. Not only is it not originally authored by necessarily an expert on the subject, but since in the time since a Wikipedia article was created it might have been modified by any number of people. And obviously that raises a concern that shows us that each Wikipedia article has to be judged individually and that we have to look carefully for the clues that are going to indicate whether or not this is a reliable source. And in fact we recently added to our free lesson library on our website a lesson that deals specifically with using Wikipedia in the classroom.
Another example of course would be blogging software. So for instance Google runs a service called Blogger where, for free, anyone can have a blog, and they have quite professional looking templates set up, and you can put on this blog whatever content you want really. And if you want to present your blog as being a source of information you can do so. And again, a student who doesn't have the skills to authenticate information they find online isn't going to be able to tell whether someone is really providing accurate information or whether they're simply expressing their opinion.Q. [Leshem]
So what are the skills you think are necessary in order to evaluate Internet content, and at the same time, what sort of resources do you have on your site? You mentioned one that can help people to analyze information, whether it's text or images or audio clips or YouTube videos, it's all information that they're finding on the Internet, it seems.A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Well, the fundamental skill is critical thinking. All of us in the media age, and again youth in particular, have to approach any source of information critically. It's important that we not simply accept anything as an authority, that we question whatever we encounter. And there are a number of skills that attach to that.
So for instance, particularly when it comes to online sources, we can do things such as doing research on an author, and certainly if there's no author given or if we can't get any information on the author, that's a big clue that something may not be reliable. We can find what other sites link to a site through a very simple search. On almost any search engine you can do a link search. And so for instance, if you find that the other sites linking to that site are themselves reliable sources, let's say you're doing research about cancer and you find that the source is linked to by the American Cancer Society, you find this is perhaps a reliable source. On the other hand, if you find that all of the links to something are from sources that have the same point of view, or perhaps are commercial sites, then that's going to be a knock against it.
Students can learn to keep an eye on when something was created and how often it was updated. And again there are easy technical ways of, little tricks for doing that. And in particular, students can learn, and this is something that applies to all media, not just online media, students can learn to look for the telltales of bias. So for instance they can look for things like the use of loaded or emotional language. They can look for opinion statements and learn to differentiate opinion from facts. And they can look for other kinds of manipulative tricks like uses of imagery or, as I say, logical fallacies that try to manipulate the reader.
This is a big part of our online resources. A lot of our online resources have to do with different kinds of critical thinking, whether it's critical thinking in terms of evaluating information, or whether it's critical thinking when dealing with media images, again such as images of minorities, images of men or women, and so on. We've also developed a number of interactive resources, some of which are licensed resources and some of which are available free through the website that teach young people a variety of digital literacy skills.
Our biggest one, most recently, is called A Passport To The Internet, and that's an interactive program for students in grades four to eight that teaches a wide variety of digital literacy skills, including authentication of online information, but also teaches them about managing online relationships, teaches them about ethical online behavior, privacy management, and in particular recognizing commercial environments online. That's one area where we found students really don't employ a critical spirit, is when they encounter commercial material.
As an example, one of the most successful forms of advertising online is what are called advergames, and these are computer games that are essentially advertising. So you're playing the computer game and you may be, instead of controlling some other character, you're controlling Lucky the Leprechaun, and instead of collecting whatever is your power-ups you're collecting Lucky Charms. And these are sites where essentially young people will play for half an hour or an hour, being exposed to these branding images and this advertising material. And what we found in our survey was that a large number of young people didn't consider these to be advertising because they saw the surface of it, which was the game. And they weren't able to look beyond that and see that they were in fact advertising. So this is an example of how young people really need to bring a critical spirit, to bring critical thinking, to the experiences they encounter online.Q. [Leshem]
One of what I found to be the most effective presentations on your site had to do with online hate, and this is something that occurs to me ‐ however similar the Internet might be to other forms of media, it seems that it has a particular... that something about its ability, as you say, to self-publish and also in the ways that new sites like Blogger let self-published sites look a lot like sites that are well resourced or well funded, but there seems to be something about the Internet that allows it to become something of a breeding ground for hate in a way that if we're talking about books or, as you're talking about, corporate advertising; corporate advertising has encoded cues about how we should look and how we should act, but the kind of hate one encounters online seems to be of a very different order.A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
I agree, and there are a number of reasons why this is. Part of it again goes back, as you say, to the ease of publishing online. Obviously it's much cheaper to publish and distribute online than it is in the physical world, and so it's a lot easier for hate groups to get their message out in this way. It's also easier for them to create what we call stealth hate sites. That is, sites that disguise their hate message until readers have gotten fairly invested in them.
So for instance there is a site that pretends to be about Dr. Martin Luther King, and it has a URL that makes it sound quite official. There's no hint from the URL or from the title of the site that in fact it is a front for a white supremacist organization and that the site is being used to spread quite hateful misinformation about Martin Luther King. So that's an example of how the ease of publishing and the ability to make something that looks tolerably professional on the Internet allows hate groups to spread their message in a way they couldn't, or that would have been much more difficult.
It also makes it possible for hate groups to stay under the radar in a way that is more difficult than in the offline. So, frequently parents don't necessarily have a clear sense of what their young people are doing online, so if you have printed hate paraphernalia, for instance, their parents are likely to see it fairly quickly and be aware of what it is. But encountering hate material online, particularly stealth hate material, is likely to go under the radar.
Similarly with schools because a lot research has found that the filters that schools employ, while they're very good at blocking sexual material, don't do a very good job necessarily of blocking hate material.
There's also the fact that the Internet can be used for what's called narrowcasting. So of course in traditional media the strategy has always been broadcasting ‐ trying to reach as many people as possible. But hate groups are aware that some people are particularly vulnerable. We know that young people who feel marginalized in particular are the ones who are the most vulnerable to hate messages. And so hate groups are able to target their message directly to the most vulnerable people by taking the messages to the online environments where marginalized young people like to visit.
And finally there is the concern of course of what we call the online culture of cruelty, and that is the notion that everything is a joke online, and that there's a certain amount of criticism against anyone online who sort of tries to take things seriously, and there is a great deal of effort made online to shock people, particularly by young people. So when you go for instance to some sites like newgrounds or ebaumsworld where there are videos or simple computer games that are created by users, you see a lot of it is created very much with the intent to shock. And some of it is tremendously shocking. And it's very easy to slide from something that is created simply to shock and offend out of a desire to shock and offend into something that is communicating hate speech.Q. [Leshem]
And it seems that given this propensity of the Internet to surprise you at any moment with hate speech, it seems like young people must be getting exposed at a much earlier age to this type of messaging than they would otherwise have been. Since as you say it's very hard to control where one goes on the Internet, much harder than to control which books someone reads, or magazines.A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Well, one of the skills in fact that we try to teach, particularly to young students, is to control where you go on the Internet, because in fact there are a lot of ways of making sure you don't end up in a place that you didn't want to end up. Some of the most fundamental web skills that we teach are for instance creating effective searches and learning how to judge a link before you click on it. These may seem like simple skills, but our research and my own experience as a teacher has show me that young people, even as late as high school, don't really necessarily have the skill to judge a link when they encounter it. They just follow it and if it doesn't pan out they go back. So that's why some of our resources are devoted to teaching this kind of skill.
I don't know whether young people are encountering hate material younger than they once did, mostly because I don't really have a baseline to compare it to. But I would certainly tend to think that more young people are encountering hate speech than once did, and I would say our research bears that. We know that in our survey two out of ten young people told us that they had encountered it intentionally or unintentionally, and five percent of our sample told us that they had consciously visited a hate site.Q. [Leshem]
What jumps out at me, as a question about that response though, is how many visited hate sites that they never recognized as hate sites?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Well that's a good question, and certainly some of our resources do deal with this. One of our lessons on our website in our free lesson library is titled "Teaching Zack To Think," and it's based on a true story about a young man who was doing research on the Holocaust, and found himself on what was in fact a Holocaust denial site, but he didn't recognize it for what it was and obviously he got a bit of a shock when he brought this material into class. And we use that as essentially a teachable moment in order to help young people understand what kinds of critical thinking skills and attitudes they need to bring to material they encounter online.Q. [Leshem]
As we've referred so much to your site during this podcast, I wonder if you could just give us the URL and sort of, from a navigation standpoint, point us to some of the resources we've discussed?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Sure. Well it's media-awareness.ca. The .ca ending is the Canada code, obviously. And when you first encounter the site you're given the choice between English and French because we are a bilingual organization; as much as possible we create our resources in French and English. And if you go to the English side of the site you'll see on the front page links to some of our permanent resources. So for instance our blog is on the right hand side, links to a number of our other resources, and in the main column you'll see a number of resources that we're choosing to highlight. So I believe at the moment we have our resources for fighting cyber-bullying highlighted and we usually have a number of resources of that kind that we choose to highlight due to some event, either in the news or an international month, or day, or what have you.
Up at the top of this home page you have a choice between the teachers' section or the parents' section. The teachers' section leads to the lesson library, which is searchable either by topic or by grade, or both. And the parents' section covers a wide variety of topics that are of interest to parents, things again such as media stereotyping, violence in media, and so on. I believe on the left side (I don't have it in front of me at the moment), down the left side of the home page I have links to our educational games and also links to our research. So young Canadians In A Wired World is downloadable for free, both parts from the site, and it's, as I say, unfortunately a couple of years out of date, but it still provides our best information on what young Canadians are doing online.Q. [Leshem]
Excellent. I have another question; perhaps it's speculative. It can be our final question. I wonder, first of all, to what extent are you guys an online-only organization? I've noticed that it seems like you co-sponsor a couple events in the real world, but I wonder to what extent the choice to be online primarily or solely was intentional, and how important do you think it is for you to be online as opposed to distributing pamphlets in schools, and stuff like that?A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Well, our online presence really is sort of a measure of how we've evolved. We've found that it really is the easiest way for us to get our materials into schools and into the hands of parents. We do have a physical presence. I, and a number of other people here, travel fairly extensively, bringing our materials to particularly teacher conferences, and some other conferences around the world; particularly around Canada, but also in other countries. So for instance one of our Co-Executive Directors, Jane Tallim, recently testified in front of U.S. Congress last month for the Federal Online Safety Institute, I think it was (I forget what the 'I' stands for).
So we do have a significant offline presence, but it primarily consists of Mnet staff. In terms of reaching the most people possible we do find that the benefits of online distribution really outweigh any of the drawbacks. We have produced some material in print; particularly we have a pamphlet called Media Education, Make It Happen, which is an introduction to media education for teachers, parents, and school administrators. And indeed we were involved in getting media education made part of the official curricula of all the Canadian provinces and territories. So Media Education, Make It Happen was an outreach program following that. And we've done a few other printed materials.
And, as you say, we do sponsor a few events. Once a year we sponsor, or we organize, an event, which is called Media Literacy Week. And that's an event where we partner with a wide variety of other organizations. Some are organizations from the media industry, some are parent organizations, community organizations, governments, and so on, to bring a focus onto media literacy.Q. [Leshem]
Excellent. Well, I want to thank you very much for the time you spent with us.A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Thank you.Q. [Leshem]
And, keep up the good work on the site.A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]
Thanks very much.Q. [Leshem]
Bye.A. [Media Network, Matthew Johnson]


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oh man, how do you keep a life so organized? ya know i love emacs and lisp but i'm bogging down on planner. :-(
i guess i like spontainity and surprises! :-)
Some people look at my website and think I'm organized. I have no idea what gives them that impression. Maybe it's the color-coded task list. Yes, yes, that must be it.
Regular readers will notice, however, that I procrastinate as much as anyone else. Just check my website tomorrow and see which tasks still aren't done. ;) In fact, if you look at the linked pages, you'll find lots of tasks I haven't even scheduled.
I guess I procrastinate in an organized manner. ;) Planner lets me do that. It doesn't guilt-trip me into productivity or nag me to do things. Rather, it helps me keep track of the things I'd like to eventually get around to doing, and it occasionally reminds me that I should do some of those things soon.
Planner makes working fun. I love seeing crossed-off tasks on my Planner. When I break things down into tiny little pieces and cross them off my list, it feels good. On the other hand, if I don't manage to cross off anything on my list, that means I had either made progress on at least one task or had fun doing something unexpected. <grin>
I love surprises, too. Today I had lunch with Clair and Madj at Greenbelt. Totally unplanned--actually, I was just planning to sleep in--but totally, totally fun. Then my mom and I went to a wedding in Alabang, and that was surprisingly wonderful and sweet... =)
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ALAMEDA -- Raiders wide receiver Denarius Moore, coming off his least productive performance this season, said it isn't all quarterback Carson Palmer's fault that the two have had trouble connecting.
"All the blame is not on him," Moore said Wednesday. "Lately there's been times where I was wide open and dropped a couple of passes, and times where I didn't get off a release or my timing was off."
Moore leads Raiders wide receivers with 35 receptions for 584 yards and five touchdowns but had just one catch for 9 yards against New Orleans on Sunday.
In recent games, some Palmer-to-Moore passes have been way off the mark, with the quarterback expecting one thing but getting another.
Palmer said Monday the problem was his and that, as a veteran player, he needed to sort out the problem and learn what Moore was thinking.
Moore said the relationship between quarterback and receiver still is developing.
"It's like having twins out there," Moore said. "You have to know what the other person is feeling or doing, just that mindset."
Coach Dennis Allen said the responsibility rests with more than just Palmer and Moore.
"All of us need to look internally at what we need to do to make this thing work," Allen said. "There's a growing-up process, and Denarius is still continuing to grow, and he's continuing to get better."
Moore was limited in practice with a tight hamstring, an injury that neither he nor Allen considered serious.
"Don't read too much into that," Bergstrom said. "I know I'm eligible, but that's like saying a really ugly guy is an eligible bachelor. It doesn't mean a whole lot."
Bergstrom, a third-round pick out of Utah, thought he did an "adequate" job in his most extensive playing time but lamented a holding penalty he said could have been avoided.
"We just didn't feel he was a fit for us moving forward," Allen said.
Allen said the open roster spot probably will be filled by a practice squad player.
"What I'm trying to do is we're worried about the Oakland Raiders, and that's where I am right now," said Jackson, referring to the Bengals-Raiders matchup Sunday. "Try to take it just one step at a time. Whatever the future holds, it holds. I can't worry about it at this point."
Running backs Darren McFadden (ankle), Mike Goodson (ankle) and defensive tackle Richard Seymour (hamstring) did not participate.
For more on the Raiders, visit the Inside the Oakland Raiders blog at ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders. Follow Jerry McDonald on twitter at Twitter.com/Jerrymcd.


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Two Thursday games await Clemson football team in '13
Tigers to face three top-10 teams in 2013
Published: Monday, February 25, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 12:33 a.m.
Clemson will play two Thursday night games, including hosting one for the first time in more than 11 years, and compete against three schools ranked among last year's final top 10 during this season's football schedule officially released Monday by the ACC.
Aug. 31 — Georgia
Sept. 7 — S.C. State
Sept. 14 — Open
Sept. 19* — At N.C. State
Sept. 28 — Wake Forest
Oct. 5 — At Syracuse
Oct. 12 — Boston College
Oct. 19 — Florida State
Oct. 26 — At Maryland
Nov. 2 — At Virginia
Nov. 9 — Open
Nov. 14* — Georgia Tech
Nov. 23 — The Citadel
Nov. 30 — At South Carolina
*Thursday night ESPN games
The Tigers open the season Aug. 31 at home against Georgia and close it Nov. 30 at South Carolina, a pair of SEC squads who finished ranked in the top 10 this past season. They also host last year's top-10 Florida State on Oct. 19. Clemson hasn't played Georgia since losing consecutive season-openers in 2002-03.
The Thursday evening matchups to be nationally televised by ESPN are Sept. 19 at North Carolina State and Nov. 14 when Georgia Tech visits Death Valley. The last time Clemson hosted a Thursday night affair was Oct. 25, 2002 when the Tigers were blasted 38-6 by North Carolina State. This marks only the third time in history a Thursday night game has been held at Clemson and the second time (2002) the school has played on Thursday night twice in one season.
"Having a Thursday night nationally televised home football game on ESPN will be a tremendous positive for the university," athletic director Dan Radakovich said in a release. "As the only football game on television that night, we will have an opportunity to showcase our football and athletics program as well as our university community.
"All of us within the department of athletics understand the complexities of playing host to a Thursday night game and the challenges it presents for many on campus, including professors with afternoon classes. We will work with president Jim Barker, university administrators and the appointed team to make the event a wonderful example of what Clemson University can do."
Clemson follows Georgia with South Carolina State at home and then a bye week allows for 12 days of preparation for the ACC opener against N.C. State. Last year's matchup with the Wolfpack saw the two teams combine for the second-most points ever in a Clemson game in the Tigers' 62-48 victory. Clemson has won eight of the past nine against N.C. State, but the lone loss came in its previous visit to Raleigh in 2011.
After a two-game road swing at Maryland and Virginia, Clemson has a second bye week that again allows for a 12-day preparation leading up to its second Thursday night game with Georgia Tech. It's the Yellow Jackets' second consecutive season playing at Clemson and no team has visited Death Valley two years in a row since 1993-94.
With the two Thursday games and a 14-week time span for the regular season, Clemson will have the oddity of not playing on four Saturdays (Sept. 14 and 21, Nov. 9 and 16). The Oct. 21 and Nov. 9 dates also have South Carolina off as well meaning there will be two Saturdays neither of the state's two biggest programs will be in action.
"Thursday night games bring great exposure to your program and I am glad we do not have a quick turnaround in either situation," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said in a statement. "It's always exciting to get the schedule and plan out the season. It will be a challenging schedule from top to bottom with three teams that finished in the top 10 last year and those teams should be top 10 again this year."
The Tigers play Oct. 5 at the Carrier Dome in the first ACC game for Syracuse and second time the two schools have met with the initial game at the Jan. 1, 1996 Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., which was won by Syracuse. Clemson won both games it had last year in a dome, defeating Auburn and LSU in the Georgia Dome.
The winner between Clemson/Florida State has gone on to win the ACC Atlantic Division each of the past four years, including each taking an ACC Championship the past two seasons. The Tigers have beaten the Seminoles five consecutive times at Death Valley. Florida State has a bye week prior to this season's game.
Clemson will look to snap a four-game losing streak against rival South Carolina in Columbia on Nov. 10 one week after hosting The Citadel in its final regular-season home game. It's the first time the Tigers will play a non-conference game the week before meeting USC since 1979 when they played Notre Dame. The Gamecocks host Coastal Carolina the prior week.
Special game-day designations such as homecoming, parents' day and military appreciation day have yet to be determined.
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This is a first time players course at best. I give Story City kudos for putting in a DG course, but this one is a joke. Holes are too short and easy to birdy (if you play everything a par 3). The best part about this course is hole 7 I believe where you have to tee off accross the Skunk River, but it is only about 50 to 60 feet, so you really don't even need a dese drive off of it to pass the water. The first time I played this course I got a -5 on this 9 hole course.
Bottom line: It is an easy course that is too short and can be played in about 20 min with 2 ppl.


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A new study has some grim news for the majority of unmarried couples in the United States. According to researchers at the University of Denver, couples who live together before marrying have a higher chance of divorcing than those who wait to be married or engaged. The research team estimates that at least 70 percent of couples in the U.S. live together before marriage.
It has previously been thought that living together can be a good test run for marriage; however, another study conducted by the same team found that living together solely for this reason leads to the most problems. Lead author of the study, Galena Rhoades, explains why:
"We think that some couples who move in together without a clear commitment to marriage may wind up sliding into marriage partly because they are already cohabitating."
The researchers conducted telephone surveys of more than 1,000 married men and women between ages 18 and 34 who had been married within the past ten years. As part of the survey, the team asked questions about relationship satisfaction, dedication, and divorce potential.
According to the study's findings, approximately 43% of couples surveyed lived together before getting married or engaged. These couples reported considerably lower relationship satisfaction, dedication, self-confidence, and greater divorce potential than those who waited to cohabitate until they were engaged (16.4%) or married (40.5%).
This study was published in the February issue of the Journal of Family Psychology. Rhoades' study examining the reasons couples decide to move-in together can be found in the February issue of the Journal of Family Issues.


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How do I scale a drawing without altering the dimensions? (It's totally awesome that this works how it does anyway!)
For example if a dimension measures 150mm before scaling and 200mm after scaling, how can I keep the re-scaled drawing to stay at 150mm?
It's probably really simple, and in fact I think I've worked a way round the problem already- but I'm working now in industry and I'm using QCad (one of PTC's many worldwide offices is in the Science park over the road from here- howabout that for QCad Kudos, Andrew?? ), and these drawings have to be on my boss's desktop by Thursday this week.
Tom (now with BSc (Hons) and still armed with QCad!)


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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:
As the global uncertainties that started in the summer of 2011 continued in the last quarter of the year, Gottexs fourth quarter (Q4) results ended up being - unsurprisingly - tepid.
Gottex Fund Management Holdings Ltd, a Swiss-listed independent global alternative asset management group that offers funds of hedge funds, single hedge funds and multi-asset endowment style portfolios, has just issued its trading statement for Q4-2011.
Its flagship market neutral strategies returned "nearly flat results", 2% to 3% ahead of their benchmarks; the HFRI FoF Conservative Index (-3.67% for 2011) and the HFRI FoF Composite Index (-5.56% in 2011) respectively. These strategies now manage $3.28bn, 13% less than Q3s $3.77bn.
Gottexs alternative credit strategy, a diversified fixed income portfolio offering higher yields with lower correlation to the general fixed income market, was up 3.8% for the year (since inception in Feb-11). The Constellar multi-strategies returned +3.4%. This "puts both strategies in the top quartile of fund of hedge funds tables for the year," said Chairman and CEO Joachim Gottschalk.
The Hennessee Fixed Income Index was up 3.6% and the HFRI Multi-Strategy Index was down 1.7% in 2011.
Investor appetite remains low and asset flows remain slow in Q4. Gottexs total fee-earning assets were $7.34bn; consisting of $5.6bn in AuM and GSS (Gottex Solutions Services) assets of $1.74b......................
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"We're looking for strategies that are institutional in quality, have an asymm
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Singapore-based asset management firm APS Asset Management said that its APS China A Share (Cayman) Fund rose 1.46% gross in July and 1.59% in 2Q (-6.38% YTD), outperforming its benchmarks, the Shanghai A-Share Stock
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: The Panama Papers leak in April, along with the earlier Luxembourg Leaks, the HSBC files and others, repeatedly raised a question that has been waiting to be answered for some time, but especially since Western governments started chasing runaway money to fil
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: A court in the Cayman Islands on Tuesday has appointed an outside liquidator to assist in unwinding Platinum Partners Cayman-based hedge fund Value Arbitrage Fund (International) Limited, the offshore version of Platinum's flagship hedge fund offering.
In a
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Hong Kongs market regulator Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded and fined Morgan Stanley Hong Kong Securities Limited (MSHK)
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Our outlook calls for low returns by historical standards for traditional asset classes over the medium term. Looking backward, we have experienced higher levels of equity market volatility in the past year with notable
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: FinTech is still a relatively young industry and players still do not know what realized default rates will be if there is a strong recession, said Tristan Grué, the CEO and founder of online lending marketplace Bolden during the latest
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: It's no secret that investors had a hard time with investment performance in 2015 and data for foundations was no better. According to data from the 2015 Council on FoundationsCommonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundation
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:
It was recently reported that hedge funds are agreeing to hurdle rates to alleviate the sting of underperformance, but several sources show that hurdle rates in the US have not increased, nor are there more hedge funds agreeing to include hurdle rates in the
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The valuation of UK-based FinTechs after the Brexit vote can be questionable, said Philippe Paquet, managing director of Paris-based specialty investment manager NewAlpha Asset Management during the lat
In the week ending 18 August, 2016, it was reported that hedge funds are increasingly agreeing to hurdle rates which would be becoming the norm and more creative. While many investors are unh
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: At the end of July, Olaf Carlson-Wee, the first employee at Andreessen Horowitz-backed bitcoin exchange Coinbase, resigned his position as Head of Special Projects in order to start his own blockchain focused hedge fund. The news sent ripples through the cryptoc
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:
Asset management companies have been implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, as not all employees necessarily want to carry around a company smartphone or tablet. But employees need to know of the risks of using their own devices for work purpos
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Hedge funds that charge the low and high fees stuff often provide better returns than "those sort of mid-fee investments", said Keith Haydon, chief investment officer of Man FRM. (Alternative) investment managers who charge high fees would often provide the most int
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Last month, Quantopian received investments from Point72 Ventures, the new venture capital arm of Steven Cohens Point72 Asset Management.
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Investors must come to terms with the problems of investing in hedge funds via a very small team by looking at it in terms of contribution in risk terms, stated Keith Haydon, CIO of Man FRM, during the latest
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Compliance concerns are driving more business decisions at hedge funds than ever before, according to the results of a survey done by Cipperman Compliance Services and hosted by Opalesque. Survey findings suggest that hedge fund managers overwhelmingly expect in
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Endowments and foundations are taking a hard look at their investments and in some cases, hedge funds may not make the cut, according to a new survey from Boston-based investment consultants NEPC. NEPC published the results of its second quarter Endowment and Fo
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The Netherlands-based asset manager Saemor Capital said it remains cautious on European equity markets and continues to be neutrally positioned in its multi-factor model, with political risk rising and global equity
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: A new series on technology providers that assist asset allocators.
Laurent Favre, founder and CEO of technology provider AlternativeSoft, observes that now investors demand full participation in their portfolio construction.
The future is
The loss of AIFMD passporting rights that enable UK-based alternative fund managers to market products across the EU has been one of the industrys main concerns since the Brexit vote. Tim Thornton, COO, Fund Services, MUFG Investor Services, explores potential implications.
"Whether t
By Michael S. Young, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder Mediatrix Capital
Sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) is enhancing the Forex investment approach with next generation algorithmic systems that are able to perform human tasks such as visual perception and multi-input decision-mak
This article was authored by Logica Capital Advisers, Los Angeles.
Investors use hedge funds (HFs) for a variety of reasons, including diversification and improved risk adjusted returns. However, our observation has shown that HFs carry some misconceptions about their benefits. We hav
By: Michael G. Tannenbaum
Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) have become increasingly popular as an attractive cross-border investment fund product. UCITS funds are readily sold in the European Union under its harmonized regulatory regime, allowing member n
Authored by partners at global law firm Dechert LLP.
The voters have spoken. Britain will (absent any new deals) leave the EU.
Under the EU Treaty, the exit process should take at least two years. During this two-year period, UK-base
Institutional investors should undertake a quantitative analysis of their hedge fund investments long-term contribution to overall portfolio efficiency, rather than basing their asset allocation strategies on a short-term comparison with equity benchmarks.
This is the conclusion of a new resea
By Eric Anderson, Managing Partner & Head of Investment Solutions at Milltrust International LLP
Since the beginning of the year, Emerging Market equities have outperformed Developed Market equities, Emerging Market currencies have outperformed the US Dollar, Emerging Market local currency gover
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Activist investors are relatively new but very influential players in international capital markets.
Activist investors are shareholders at publicly traded companies who attempt to affect change in an organization either by directly appealing to, or puttin
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Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Hedge funds investing in Latin America posted strong gains through mid-2016, reversing declines in four of the past five years, including the last three years, to lead all areas of hedge fund performance through the first half of 2016, according to the latest HFR Em
From Asianinvestor.net: More flows are likely into insurance-linked strategies, private equity and trend-following strategies/CTAs, given the benefits of such investments, argues LGT Capital Partners.
Despite the numerous quantitative easing programs and bailouts of recent years, the quest for
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Near Term Trend: PositiveFridays Close: 1.13023 (- .24 pips)UPDATE: Three weeks ago we noted the Euro hit a low of 1.09520 which was just above our implied support region of 1.09000.Subsequently the Euro rebounded 2 ½ big figures toward the 1.12000 region within five trading sessions. In spite of this, we noted at that time; Key resistance at the 1.12800 region should act to contain any further advancement by the Euro (due to slope of the line that resistance region is now 1.13250). Currently Euro is abutting up against that region. Will resistance hold?
Near Term Trend: Positive
Fridays Close: 1.13023 (- .24 pips)
UPDATE: Three weeks ago we noted the Euro hit a low of 1.09520 which was just above our implied support region of 1.09000.
Subsequently the Euro rebounded 2 ½ big figures toward the 1.12000 region within five trading sessions. In spite of this, we noted at that time; Key resistance at the 1.12800 region should act to contain any further advancement by the Euro (due to slope of the line that resistance region is now 1.13250). Currently Euro is abutting up against that region. Will resistance hold?


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VAIL - KZYR Radio announced Wednesday the inaugural Old-Fashioned Christmas to be held on three Friday afternoons in December, sparking the holiday spirit leading up to the Christmas season. The special holiday events will begin at 4 p.m. and will be held at the Riverwalk at Edwards. Each Friday will feature unique traditions sure to inspire holiday cheer for all ages.
"The Vail Valley is such a magical place to spend the holidays," said Tony Mauro, KZYR station director. "People from around the world come to our community to celebrate, and with the diversity of restaurants and merchants right here in Riverwalk, it's the perfect place to get everyone involved in a fun way."
On Friday, 10 holiday windows will be revealed, kicking off the event. The windows are designed and painted by local artists vying for prize money donated by Riverwalk merchants. "One of the most popular attractions in New York City are the holiday windows and we wanted to bring a little slice of that Big Apple tradition here," Mauro said.
Also on Friday, the Kitchen Collage will host its annual Cookie Contest where people are asked to drop off a dozen of their best holiday delectables from noon to 5 p.m. to be entered in the judging.
The first Fruit Cake Open will be held on Dec. 14 and members of the entire community are encouraged to participate in the contest. "The idea of the Fruit Cake Open is to debunk the myth that fruit cake is bad," said Riverwalk community manager Todd Williams. "We know there are some delicious secret family recipes - or maybe even new creations - out there and we're aiming to put a new name on fruit cake by pitting them against each other and having a panel of judges vote on their favorite."
The final Friday of the event, Dec. 21, will include a visit from the big guy himself, Santa Claus and the Riverwalk Community tree lighting, along with holiday book reading at The Bookworm. Christmas carolers and holiday treats will abound for all three weeks of the Old-Fashioned Christmas.
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Fluffhead starts off like 2/13/87s version, with only Fluff's Travels added to the end of the piece. The Fire is really very solid, with great Trey shred. Suzy is particularly slow and lazy, with all of the instrumental sections led by Page and his electronic piano. Dear Mrs. Reagan may feature an additional vocalist although uncredited in the setlists.
A super slow Camel Walk contains some really funky Page effects. Back Porch has some nice work from the whole band, but doesn't compare to the ripping 8/21/87 version. Blue Monk is a short jazz tune, but it sounds like there's some trombone in there from Fish after Trey introduces them as '3/4 of the Bob Dylan band". One can hear Mike and Fish playing and some horn noise. I guess we'll never know.
Clod is super slow with no real exploration. Lushington is the highlight of the show, really. A near-perfect version, definitely worth listening to if you want to hear a good version of the song. After a false start, Peaches is pretty standard for the time, as is Boogie On. I like Mike's activity in Ya Mar and the playful way the band approaches the song for the first time. Page plays with a 'steel drum' tone, which is actually kind of good and I wonder why he doesn't resurrect it.
I love this version of Corinna. Nice and slow. That really is the theme of this show. Dog Log and Alumni round this show out, but slow is the key to the evening.
A nice Lushington and soulful Corinna highlight this show filled with songs that never made it fully into rotation in the 90's.


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With news that No. 1 wide receiver Michael Crabtree suffered a potentially season-ending Achilles injury Tuesday, the 49ers are in a pinch to replace the 85 receptions for 1,105 yards and nine touchdowns Crabtree amassed in 2012. Here is a look at how the receivers from last year that still are on the roster performed:
Mario Manningham: He caught 42 passes for 449 yards and one touchdown before he suffered a season-ending knee injury.
Kyle Williams: He caught 14 passes for 212 yards and one touchdown before he was sidelined by a season-ending knee injury.
A.J. Jenkins: The first-round draft pick failed to catch any passes during his rookie season.
Chad Hall: He didn't catch any passes last season and played sparingly.
Ricardo Lockette: He didn't catch any passes last season, his first with the 49ers. He has caught two passes for 105 yards and one touchdown during his two-year NFL career.
Joe Hastings: He has not caught a pass in a regular-season game.
Fortunately for the 49ers, they get Manningham and Williams back, to go with the additions of veterans Anquan Boldin and Marlon Moore and rookies Quinton Patton and Chuck Jacobs. Here's what those four new players bring to the mix:
Anquan Boldin: He caught 65 passes for 921 yards and four touchdowns for the Baltimore Ravens last season. He also played a starring role in the Ravens' run to a Super Bowl title, including an impressive showing against the 49ers in the Super Bowl.
Marlon Moore: He caught six passes for 116 yards and one touchdown for the Miami Dolphins last season. He has 12 receptions for 244 yards and two touchdowns during his three NFL seasons.
Quinton Patton: The 49ers have high expectations for Patton, a fourth-round draft pick. Those expectations probably will be heightened in light of Crabtree's injury.
Chuck Jacobs: He is one of two rookie wide receivers on the 90-man roster, though he is a long-shot to make the 53-man roster.