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The first thing Pat Quinn should have done after another lame budget address was run to the grave of Abraham Lincoln and apologize for daring to quote him from the film "Lincoln."
He should then apologize individually to Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg and everyone in the Illinois phone book whose last name is "Lincoln."
Abraham Lincoln led our nation through the most difficult period in U.S. history. He unshackled the nation from slavery and presided over a Civil War that killed more than 600,000 Americans.
Pat Quinn is afraid of retired kindergarten teachers.
As usual, Quinn correctly diagnosed that pension reform is the biggest financial issue in Illinois, which is akin to diagnosing that what might be ailing a headless man is the lack of a head.
What we got Wednesday were more obvious points that anyone paying attention already knows: 1. The lack of pension reform is costing Illinois $17 million a day; 2. Within two years, Illinois will spend more paying people who don't work than it pays for education; 3. The pension system has been grossly underfunded; 4. Automatic cost-of-living raises are unsustainable; and 5. Pension recipients must pay more into the system.
Those are fairly obvious points that few disagree with. Even reasonable pension recipients understand those, in Quinn's words, "principles" of pension reform.
But based on his speech, from Quinn's perspective all he needs to do is throw out a few principles and guidelines for the Legislature, which then should pass meaningful pension reform.
"It's time for you to legislate," Quinn said.
Presumably, Quinn will just wait patiently for that legislation to magically appear on his desk even though his own party – which now has a supermajority in the Legislature – continues fiddling while Springfield burns.
House Speaker Michael Madigan isn't leading on pension reform for one reason: He doesn't want to lead on pension reform. How many Democratic legislators owe their seats to the backing of Illinois public employee unions? They probably wouldn't have a supermajority without them.
Waiting for Madigan hasn't worked and isn't going to work, which is what makes Quinn's limp leadership so maddening. You're the top executive officer in the state of Illinois and this is your state's biggest issue. Why are you off the hook?
As weird as this sounds in a state completely controlled by Democrats, the most sensible thing for Quinn to do is to sit down with Republican legislators who have less to lose and less fear of irking public employee unions to lead on pension reform.
It might have been a crazy enough idea for Abraham Lincoln, who once said, "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Ask Democrats what's absolutely off the table for them and come up with a plan to present to the Legislature.
Be the governor of the state of Illinois instead of the No. 2 guy in your own Democratic Party in the No. 1 dysfunctional state in the union. That's what Abe would have wanted.
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Thought provoking.
Unfortunately, the thoughts dont consider the reality. The train disaster is confined to the local area not so nuclear. To say the least, nuclear power production produces a waste byproduct that accumulates. The disaster that we are creating by producing such waste to pass on to our children is enormous and growing. The consequences are unknown, and yet we get small indications that are ignored daily.
Up to 1 million eventual deaths estimated from Chernobyl exposure Sweden, Finland, others concerned about risk of forest fires near disaster area.
Children now sicker than ever from Chernobyl disaster Contamination to go on for centuries to come many with heart and digestive problems.
There has been a 28 percent increase in thyroid problems in babies born after Fukushima in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.
Officials report troubling discovery at Fukushima nuclear plant: Cesium levels rocket 9,000 percent over three days in groundwater.
And the reports go on.
Deaths are counted from the dispersal of contaminants from fossil fuels, but no one tracks and admits the losses from the continuous acceptable release from nuclear power stations. Radioactivity in this world is on the rise and has been for over 50 years. Natural radioactivity should be declining.
While the number of deaths daily attributable to fossil fuels accumulate to extreme numbers, the point is missed that nuclear disaster has the real potential to deliver those same numbers in one instance. A disaster at Indian Point could literally kill millions.
So, too, the chance is small that a third of the worlds population could die from a single asteroid impact; that kind of mass extinction has already happened in this world. Just how small does that make it?
When will people wake up to the reality that the world is not in danger. We are. And radioactive waste is the biggest threat we face and we contribute to it daily in the name of money. Just how stupid are we anyway?
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Key Minnesota lawmakers are signaling a coming makeover to the Mayo Clinic expansion plan that would reduce the state's burden.
The bill was detoured Tuesday to give another House panel a chance to examine it while the Taxes Committee figures out the critical financing piece. The head of the Taxes Committee says she intends to pare down the more than $500 million state subsidy while making Rochester and Olmsted County shoulder a larger load. House Speaker Paul Thissen says asking more of the clinic's host community is "a fair discussion to have."
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Lawmakers want marijuana revenue studyBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | March 28,2014MONTPELIER More than 50 members of the House will look to amend a miscellaneous tax bill today to include a study on the revenue effects of legalizing marijuana.
The House gave preliminary approval to the annual tax bill Thursday on a 103-42 vote. Rep. Kristina Michelsen, D-Hardwick, is expected to offer an amendment to the bill today seeking the marijuana study.
Under the amendments language, the Joint Fiscal Office would be required to report back to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee on specific revenue projections.
The study must include all projected revenues expected if marijuana is legalized, including any enforcement cost savings, revenue from related income and sales tax, and any other information that would assist the committees in considering marijuana policy reform.
Michelsen will present the amendment to the Ways and Means Committee before it is considered on the House floor.
I know there are committee members who support the amendment but could not co-sponsor it because they are on the committee, she said. Im hoping the committee will approve it. It will certainly make less of a scene if they do. Its hardly a big deal having JFO do some work on this. Its a baby step, which has been the mantra around here.
The amendment calls on the Joint Fiscal Office to use the Colorado tax model for purposes of the report. Colorado imposes a 10 percent sales tax on top of the states regular sales tax and any local sales tax. Additionally, the state levies a 15 percent excise tax on marijuana on the first sale of the product from a cultivation facility. The state is projected to net more than $40 million in revenue this year.
Both Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana. Vermont, meanwhile, has decriminalized the possession of small amounts, making it a civil violation subject to a fine.
Michelsen said she believes marijuana is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, both of which are legal, regulated and taxed by the state. And income from the currently illegal sale of marijuana goes unreported.
The state has legalized medical marijuana. We have decriminalized small amounts of marijuana last session. So, I think steps have been taken, and I think the most logical one has not been taken, and that is legalize, regulate and tax, she said.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairwoman Janet Ancel, D-Calais, said she had not reviewed the amendment as of Thursday afternoon. She expected her committee to review the proposal and vote on whether it is favorable to the bill.
Ancel said she worried Colorados system is too new to result in any meaningful data.
My first reaction is that Im very interested in what happens in Colorado and Washington, she said. It makes more sense to me to let those efforts mature a bit.
Rep. Patti Komline, R-Dorset, said she will absolutely vote in favor of the amendment in committee. However, she, too, thinks it may be early to get complete data showing trends.
In Colorado its a novelty, Komline said. Whatever we get up front is going to be bigger than what it is as time goes on.
Komline said she views the amendment as a first step toward legalizing marijuana in Vermont, an idea she is leaning toward. That will likely happen in the next legislative biennium, she said.
I feel like its a battle that weve lost as a country and I think other states are doing it now. Im surprised we werent the first since were the first in so many things. I just think its like Prohibition. We werent successful there, and its time to take this money away from the cartels and regulate it, Komline said.
Lawmakers will need to address several issues before legalization is approved, according to Komline.
I do have concerns about people just coming into the state for that. Im not sure thats tourism that we want, but I think other states are going to be looking to do the same thing, she said.
Gov. Peter Shumlin, who has maintained that he does not yet support legalization of marijuana in Vermont, said Thursday at an unrelated news conference that he is not opposed to the study.
If the Legislature thinks thats the right thing to do it doesnt upset me, the governor said.
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LONDON -- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, CNN anchor Piers Morgan and the entire British newspaper industry are braced for their very own judgment day.
Thursday will see the publication of a report by a major U.K. inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal. It will likely be one of the most important days in the history of the country's newspapers.
Early reports suggest that the findings will be "excoriating." In the language of the British tabloid press, the U.K.'s journalists are set to get "a bloody good kicking."
Led by a judge, Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry was set up after journalists, mostly from the now-closed News of the World, were accused of listening to people's cell-phone messages to gain stories. The paper – owned by Murdoch's News Corporation -- even allegedly "hacked" the voicemail of a murdered schoolgirl.
News Corporation – home of Fox News, the National Geographic Channel, 20th Century Fox, and a host of newspapers -- appears to be back on its feet, recently buying into the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network.
But if Lord Justice Leveson chooses to launch a high-profile attack on the Murdoch's business practices then the multinational media giant could find itself facing another round of bad publicity.
Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against former News of the World editor Andy Coulson and former News International executive Rebekah Brooks for their alleged involvement in Britain's phone-hacking scandal. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports from London.
UK PM's ex-aide, Murdoch protege face charges in phone-hacking scandal
What the Leveson inquiry looked at included what Murdoch's son James, who was then head of News Corporation's British newspaper arm, did and didn't know about phone hacking. It went on to question the Murdochs' relations with British politicians.
It even asked whether the political support of Murdoch newspapers had been leveraged to gain commercial advantage for the Murdochs' television networks. Rupert Murdoch told the inquiry that such a suggestion was unfair – he had "never asked a prime minister for anything," he said.
Morgan will also be looking anxiously across the Atlantic to see what the Leveson inquiry concludes.
At the end of his evidence in December, Morgan, who was once editor of the News of the World and then the rival Mirror, said he felt like a rock star "confronted with a back catalog of all his worst hits."
"He made no fatal admission, but the cumulative effect of shifty denials and self-contradictions was awful," wrote British commentator Michael White in the Guardian, the newspaper which uncovered the phone-hacking scandal.
Former UK PM accuses Murdoch of misleading inquiry into phone-hack scandal
But what matters now is what Leveson has to say. Morgan and the Murdochs await the judge's verdict.
The British media will concentrate on the proposals for regulation of the newspaper industry.
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Piers Morgan, former editor of the Mirror newspaper, and Rebekah Brooks, ex-editor of the Sun.
But during the inquiry there was one issue that Lord Justice Leveson himself called "the elephant in the room" -- the Internet.
Rupert Murdoch not 'a fit person' to run major company, UK lawmakers say
While the inquiry was still collecting evidence, two stories emerged that suggest Britain is no longer the home of the worst excesses of tabloid journalism.
First, U.S.-based website TMZ published pictures of Prince Harry cavorting naked with girls in a Las Vegas hotel room. Then a French magazine printed topless photographs of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, which were taken with a long lens while she was on holiday.
Prince William, Kate 'hugely saddened' by publication of topless photos
The pictures could be seen by anyone with a computer. And neither was reproduced by a British newspaper, except for News Corporation tabloid The Sun, which published the Harry snaps after days of consideration.
Cameras are swarming Prince Harry once again, as he steps out for the first time since his Las Vegas photo scandal, but this time they are catching him doing good works, visiting sick children and appearing at the Paralympics. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
Little wonder that The Economist described the Internet as "A naked challenge to Lord Leveson."
The Internet is awash with stories about the duchess, many of which are entirely speculative or plain wrong.
Clearly criminal wrongdoing by journalists will continue to be investigated. Charges against a list of Murdoch journalists await a court hearing. But when it comes to regulation -- Leveson's main focus -- the Internet poses a challenge.
If Leveson ignores it and regulates British newspapers alone, he may shackle them to an increasingly insignificant existence amid falling sales. But if he proposes shutting down websites, he could be accused of trying to introduce China-style censorship laws.
Many will view it as a battle for the future of free speech in Britain.
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Those of you who know me personally know that my obsessive-compulsive disorder has no boundaries. You know that I am a stickler for preparation, execution, reflection.
Today, as I prepare to make my way up to the North Side to watch the Cardinals battle the Cubs, I realize that this could be the end. I'm not hoping for it; but I am prepared for it.
So, if the Cub fans really do make good on their threats to my livelihood, I have prepared the following:
Arizona via Slough, you can have my collection of Allison Stokke pictures.
Prince of New York, you can have my first edition copy of Moneyball and my Jay Mariotti signed photograph of Ozzie Guillen kissing some random guy.
Flair for the Dramatic, you can have what's left in my bank account, which you should then donate to the Yankees, because everyone knows the Yankees are hurting for cash.
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The Yanks only take the big bucks… and I don't think the $200 in your bank account qualifies… lol jk🙂
No offence but I'm kinda hoping you die pretty soon. Is that wrong?
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Two mass shootings in the same year was too much violence for Americans to take.
Aurora, Colo., was a punch in the face. Sandy Hook Elementary School, a kick in the gut.
Everyone from proud NRA members to President Barack Obama is extremely bothered by what happened on July 20 and Dec. 14. They were the worst days of 2012 and among the worst days this generation has seen.
First, we ask "why?" But as usual, we're dissatisfied with the answers when it comes to these tragedies. What explanation could we hope for? Would any explanation make sense?
The natural progression leads us next to questions of what could have been done to stop the killings. What's more troubling is the fact that answers to those less-abstract questions are often just as difficult to answer.
President Obama on Wednesday signed 23 executive orders related to gun violence – most of which have to do with background checks – and urged Congress to take further steps. There's bound to be some controversy, but criticism that stringent background checks shouldn't be required to purchase firearms isn't worthy of much debate.
In his words, the president is responding to the "epidemic of gun violence." Yet, despite these large national tragedies, rates of violent crime have been steadily dropping in the United States for the past several years.
Epidemic or not, innocent people should never be murdered by gun violence, knife violence, blunt instrument violence or any other kind of violence. But they will be. An innocent person will be killed today, tomorrow and the next day.
So whether the motivation is an overall decrease in shooting deaths or a tragedy that grips the entire nation, politicians – and in this case, I don't think most of the motivation is misplaced – want to prevent more incidents of violence.
Would more thorough background checks have prevented James Holmes from killing 12 people in a Colorado movie theater? Maybe. Maybe not. He bought the weapons legally. And at least two of the guns Holmes used aren't even part of the larger discussion on what weapons to ban.
And what about Adam Lanza? The guns he used were his mother's. Again, two of them were fairly standard handguns in addition to the semi-automatic rifle. Ironically, the law allowed Lanza to carry a rifle, which was the main weapon used in the killings, but not handguns.
Reportedly, Lanza reloaded several times. Would it have made much difference in an elementary school if he reloaded 10-round clips or the 30-round clips he used?
What we had in both cases were the most extreme actions imaginable by two individuals. It's hard to imagine what laws might have affected their actions at all. What kind of person could commit such acts? Certainly not one who is worried about violating weapons laws.
Societies need laws, and we have many. But it's going to be very difficult to create societal laws based on the extreme actions of two individuals.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but we should be realistic in our expectations.
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This course surveys the basic principles of economic theory with a special emphasis on applications of economics to practical problems. Use of supply and demand analysis enables the student to better understand how the market system works. Included among other issues to be covered are inflation, unemployment, pollution, heath care, international trade, and income distribution. May not take ECN 100 after ECN 250 or 252. Core: Social Science.
ECN 210 History of Economic Thought (3.00)
An examination of economic thought with major concentration on the selected writings of economists from the mercantilists through the early 20th century, such as Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Marx, Veblen, Keynes, and Schumpeter. Core: Humanities.
ECN 241 Business and Economics Statistics (3.00)
This course is designed to provide students with the ability to apply and interpret descriptive and inferential procedures, probability distributions, statistical sampling and design, hypothesis testing, and regression. Primary objectives are to improve the statistical capabilities of students as well as their abilities to apply statistical concepts in a business setting. Students may not receive credit for both ECN 241 and PSY 250. Same as: BUS 241. Core: Mathematics.
ECN 250 Microeconomic Principles (3.00)
Introduction to the theory of consumer choice, social and individual welfare, the behavior of business firms under pure competition and monopoly, and applied microeconomic topics. Core: Social Science.
ECN 252 Macroeconomic Principles (3.00)
Introduction to macroeconomic theory, with emphasis on factors which explain changes in national income, unemployment, and inflation. Other topics include money and banking, and fiscal and monetary policies. Core: Social Science.
ECN 290 Special Topics: Contemporary Issues in Economics (1.00-3.00)
Topics vary depending on student interest and faculty expertise. Topics and prerequisites are announced in advance and placed in the course schedule. May be taken more than once with different content.
ECN 297 Internship (0.00-9.00)
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ECN 299 Independent Study (1.00-9.00)
Instructor consent required.
ECN 310 Economics of Sports (3.00)
This course will analyze and explains the industry of sports from an economics perspective. Topics covered will include league competitiveness and collusion, what factors determine franchise profitability and market value, and how central are these issues to owner's decision making, revenue-sharing, player compensation, salary caps, free agency, antitrust issues surrounding both professional and collegiate athletics, as well as the economics of sports stadiums and arenas.
ECN 320 Industrial Structure and Public Policy (3.00)
An application of microeconomics which involves analysis of the structure, conduct, and performance of firms within industries. The empirical evidence and economic theory relating to pricing practices and policies under various market structures is also examined. Special emphasis is placed on the theory and precedents in U.S. anti-trust policy and the problems associated with the regulation of industry.
ECN 324 International Political Economy (3.00)
Analyses of the problems and prospects challenging the global community at a time of political and economic change through the study of the roles of industrialized countries, former socialist bloc states, and the Third World. Attention is given to the interplay of political and economic power as components of planetary well-being. Same as: PSC 324. ACR: Intercultural.
ECN 330 Labor Economics (3.00)
The economic theory and policy pertaining to the market for labor. Stress on how the market determines employment and income and how human resources contribute to individual and national economic welfare.
ECN 340 International Economics (3.00)
The theory of international trade and the behavior of international institutions. Examination of how trade, trade restrictions, and international monetary systems affect domestic business and economic prospects.
ECN 350 Public Finance and Social Welfare (3.00)
An examination of the economic role of the public sector in the United States with an emphasis on theory and policy analysis of the effects of government spending and taxation. Topics include the role of government intervention in the market, the tax system, income redistribution programs, social security, and deficit financing, among other current policy issues.
ECN 360 Money and Banking (3.00)
An examination of the function of money, credit, and financial institutions in the U.S. economy, and an analysis of Federal Reserve policy and its impact on the macroeconomy.
ECN 370 Economic Growth and Development (3.00)
This course will analyze and explain various reasons why some countries are rich and some countries poor. Topics covered will include comparative economic development, poverty and inequality, economic growth theory, factor accumulation, technology, the role of the government and NGO's, culture, geography, and institutions, among others. We will discuss how these factors are related and contribute to the overall success of failure of a country's attempt to develop and grow its economy.
ECN 390 Special Topics: Contemporary Issues in Economics (1.00-3.00)
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ECN 397 Internship (0.00-9.00)
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An economic analysis of consumers, firms, and markets. Consumer theory includes indifference curve analysis with selected applications related to a wide range of consumer behavior. The costs and revenue decisions of the firm are analyzed within the context of standard assumptions about economic behavior.
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Have you ever listened to a song and thought, "I bet if someone stripped away all the music, this singer would sound like a cheese grater scraping against another cheese grater, but the second cheese grater is sentient and screaming"? And then, because you hate yourself, wondered if there was a way to hear the singer's studio-recorded voice all by itself? Well, you can, you masochistic weirdo!
There are tons of incredible vocal tracks available on the Internet. Listen in awe as Elvis sings "In the Ghetto." Feel like you're sitting next to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury as they sing "Under Pressure." Get floored by the cacophonous vocals on "Bohemian Rhapsody." Listen to Outkast be amazing on the vocal track for "Bombs Over Baghdad." Listen to the grungy harmonies on "No Excuses" by Alice in Chains, or listen to the incredible harmonies on "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys (and while you're at it, listen to the barbershop quartet version from BioShock Infinite).
There's tons of amazing tracks out there, and I can't turn any of them into jokes. So, here are some famous singers sounding like shit when you lay bare their vocals.
4Julian Casablancas from the Strokes Singing "Reptilia"
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If you've ever wondered what the guy from the Strokes would sound like if he were performing while something in his body was rupturing, well, here's the isolated vocal track from "Reptilia":
If that's Julian Casablancas without the "man shouting while trapped in a treasure chest" effect they put on his voice in the original song, even he wouldn't have received a passing score singing his own song in Rock Band. He'd be stuck on his own song forever, then he'd get pissed and return the whole rig to GameStop for eight bucks.
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"Or you can put it toward a pre-order for whatever shit game we're shoving down your throat."
In the unmixed track, he wavers between being the third runner-up in a Dean Martin sound-alike competition held in a small village in India where no one has heard of Dean Martin and being in the midst of a post-breakup whiskey-fueled mental breakdown. In the fully produced version on the album, all of this is cleverly masked by the state-of-the-art Pringles can he sings through. The producers took some fairly ear-grating vocals, then added some distortion effects to make them sound worse, thus tricking us into thinking the purposefully bad vocals were a stylistic choice. They raised the bar by lowering it. Clever.
3Steve Harwell from Smash Mouth Singing "Days Like These"
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For a short time in the early 2000s, we politely listened to Smash Mouth's few hit singles, but then as a species we decided we'd had enough new Smash Mouth songs for one millennium, so we stopped. There are probably a bunch of fully released Smash Mouth songs you've never heard, but there's one you've never heard because the band never released it, and it didn't become public until it was leaked onto YouTube. It was called "Days Like These," and in it, lead singer Steve Harwell (yes, his name really is Steve and not Bodacious Riptide or '67 Chevy Sunburn, as he should be named) recorded the vocal track and, well, that's pretty much as far as they got, I guess.
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Pictured: Mr. Board Wax Bowling Shirt, lead singer of Smash Mouth.
The song is all about being a regular dude who likes his friends and the sun and whatever else was in Mr. Riptide's eye line as he soaked in a Jacuzzi filled with Corona. If spiky hair with frosted tips could sing, it would sound like this:
With music, Smash Mouth songs sound like a Kidz Bop cover of a Smash Mouth song. Without the music, it's just a cartoon dog with a backward baseball cap yelling at you about contentment. This track is made even more wonderfully bad by the fact that this is the only version that exists. There's no track with the vocals and instrumental together that it can be compared to. All we have is what appears to be the result of someone secretly recording the idly sung tune of a SoCal surfer bro as he shat in a public toilet along Venice Beach.
"C'mon, Riptide! Deliver like a winner!"
It's almost awkward; it feels private. This was probably a thing Bodacious sang out loud in his car with the windows rolled up after a particularly chill afternoon where all of his success suddenly hit him. "Holy shit," he probably thought. "I've had number one singles and I'm financially secure for life. Life is good. Hey, now that no one's around, let me sing a song about it."
Songs sung in private should never see the light of day. It's like looking through your childhood notebooks and seeing a picture essay about how you wanted to be a dinosaur when you grew up. Cute, but that shit's getting tucked under a mattress for eternity.


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Holy sh!t Brewer is shooting 42% from the 3 point line, who would of ever imagined that.
Can he maintain the hot shooting? so far so good.. i think he can if he continues to work at it.
Is Novak worth the contract we gave him? Nope Novak is a one trick pony.
Would i keep Novak over Brewer? Definitely...
1- Novak is the best 3 point shooter in the NBA ( debatable statement ) but to me he is.
2-Novak has a very quick/ efficient release and helps open up the floor
3- We will have a log jam at the 2 when shump returns ( Jr, shump, Brewer, white.. kidd might still see some time at the 2 spot even when shump returns
4- I love the discount double check
5- Jr + Novak = instant offense off the bench.
Can you find another 3 point specialist in the NBA? of course you can.. will his shooting be up to par with Novak? probably not.
If we didn't already have Shumpert who when healthy is a better defender than Brewer and clearly has more of an upside to his game, then maybe i'd consider keeping Brewer over Novak
However i'd love to see Brewer in a knicks uniform next season for the extra depth... but the way he's playing he's probably a goner next season + he will get more playing time elsewhere.... if he stays he's playing behind Shump and Jr and receiving very limited mins.. unless woody brings him off the bench with the second unit and slides Novak to the 4 and Brewer to the 3.


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Disc golf is fun for me on many levels --- athletic competition, design and educational principals related to landscape architecture, the mental requirements it demands of you, similarities to my childhood love of golf and best yet…promotion. Golf is fascinating to me, but to many it's boring. I feel bad that they think its boring to watch or incredibly frustrating to play, but does EVERYONE know what the sport of golf is, right? Pretty much, yes. Can the same be said about disc golf? "What, you mean Frisbee golf?" Sure, I guess. It's actually called disc golf though --- and you'll like it. It never really struck me that I loved promotion, I just did it. I heard a band I loved and I'd go tell all my friends about it because it was so much fun and so good that I wouldn't want anyone missing out on it. I didn't want anyone to miss out on anything fun, simple as that. I went to more and more music as I promoted more and more bands. I'd get free tickets to shows, but it was never about that. It was me not wanting my friends to miss out on the fun. It was about promoting a band because that's what they want to do it and I wanted to do my part in making sure that it was a reality. Promotion was always natural because there was always something fun going on. The deeper into the music scene I went, the more fun I found.
Now I've found my most recent, endless promotion: disc golf. How many people know about disc golf? A lot. How many are OBSESSED with it? A lot. How many don't even know what disc golf is? More than both those a lots put together. Sad, isn't it? Disc golf is a sport I will play until the day I die. I literally mean that with ever fiber on my being. The fastest growing demographic of disc golf players is seniors --- and they're turning out in record numbers! Disc golf rocks! If you know me, I'm not a tattoo guy. I'm tall, skinny, have a beard and like disc golf, music and excel spreadsheets --- a tattoo on me would be awkward. I would get a disc golf related tattoo, though, and it would be amazing. Constant promotion! Haha, now that I read that I think promotion is the reason I'd get the tattoo, but it wouldn't --- it would be because the sport is fun and I love everything about it. You should too.
My growing love of disc golf over the past 6 years was taken to another level when I spent multiple days at The Vibram Open at Maple Hill in Leicester, MA. This was the last National Tour Event on the 2011 Professional Disc Golf Association's (PDGA) schedule and the majority of the world's top pros were going to be in attendance --- all of this a little over an hour from my house in Amherst. I was going to be viewing my first PDGA tournament through the eyes of my new company, Explore Disc Golf. Explore Disc Golf is me using my Master's in Landscape Architecture, and fusing it with my knack for promotion and my connections within the music industry over the last 9 or so years. If there is only one thing I took from my graduate work in Landscape Architecture, it would be DOCUMENT EVERYTHING --- and I did. I took pictures of everything from tee pads and baskets to porter pottie locations, vending and tee time sheets. What a wonderful weekend it was!
When I pulled in, the family vibe was very apparent. I was parked by the Tournament Director's mother, and pointed in the direction of the clubhouse where I walked around to check out some of the discs before heading over to check out some of the vending. I was expecting at least half a dozen vendors, but this weekend there were only a couple, Ten Down Disc Golf from Maine and Bachnein Disc Golf from Vermont. Some of the vendors were also dotted throughout the course to provide hospitality to players, while trying to catch some tee shirt and disc sales as well. The only other set up I saw was at the first tee where a large tent was erected to attract patrons over to the tee. The tent and small trailer go from event to event promoting the sport of disc golf, but the first thing I wondered was, "why is this at a disc golf tournament and not at a music festival?" I get it --- it's a disc golf tournament, but don't the few hundred people in attendance already know about or play disc golf? Why not take this massive tent and portable baskets to a 25,000 music festival or a beach on a beautiful, yet calm day. Well that's exactly what Explore Disc Golf is going to do!
After getting my bearings , I decided to go find the first Super Group of the day. I got a late start to my day, but found the group of Nate Doss, David Feldberg, Will Schusterick and Paul Ullibari on the 7th hole. I followed these guys until the 15th hole, where I would follow the other Super Group of the day, which included Nikko Locastro, Avery Jenkins and two others I can't remember. I apologize for not knowing everyone's name, but this was my first tournament and I don't really know the players that well. The name thing was actually one of the first flaws I saw in the system. We are trying to promote this sport, but what about the common person who has no idea who the #1 player in the world is? At a Professional Golfer's Association (PGA) Tour event, there are handouts that have a breakdown of each group. Each player has a color next to his name, and his caddy is wearing that color with his name on it. That makes it easy. Nikko Locastro (Blue) --- oh look at that guy in a blue bib that says Locastro handing that guy a disc; that must be Nikko Locastro. Done, problem solved. I'm not trying to be harsh; I'm just trying to help the sport. I was bummed when I had no idea who I was watching, but then again I was thrilled I could walk right up to someone and bump fists with them after they threw 600' bomb over water and sat it next to the pin just like they envisioned it. Ridiculousness.
Unless you have seen professional disc golfers play, you have no idea what you're missing out on. It took me less than 10 minutes to start laughing uncontrollably, and even tearing up a bit. That's what I did when I saw Zach Deputy for the first time in 2007. The same thing happened when I saw Rubblebucket in 2007, as it did when I saw Australian-based sensations OKA in Nova Scotia in July of this summer. It's all I know how to do when I see something I can't believe. I just have to laugh and cry --- and take pictures. The reason I get all weird is because I know I'm seeing the future right in front of me. I was formerly a Tour Manager for a nationally touring band, and went through college seeing music 3-5 times a week. I don't drink and I don't do drugs --- but when I see the FUTURE --- I lose it. Zach Deputy and Rubblebucket have one of the fastest growth rates of bands I've ever seen. OKA will destroy the U.S. music scene in less than 5 years. And disc golf? There is just so much goodness already in place, but still TONS of opportunity. I'm a nerdy, attention-to-detail guy and there is so much missing in the sport. These guys are INCREDIBLY talented, and once I really saw it in person, I almost couldn't take it.
The one thing I really took from my time watching these players is the confidence they putt with. I remember watching David Feldberg putt on the island green of the 9th hole --- he had a downhill putt of about 25' with water less than 10' beyond the basket. He doesn't see the water --- he sees individual chains. The guy strokes it and smiles as he walks back to his bag and onto the 10th hole. Unreal! They aren't limping these putts in either. The disc is going UP as it hits the chains. I usually throw a pancake putt in there so it's high enough to give myself a chance to float it in, but if I miss, it's not wet. I really think anyone can throw the Big D. That's just technique and torque, but putting is where the money is made and championships are won.
This year's championship was won by Nate Doss. Nate had just picked up his third World Championship five weeks prior in Santa Cruz, CA before trekking across the United States to win the year's final NT event. I watched this guy for two full rounds and he was solid as a rock. I think over the two days I watched, he had two bogies, maybe three. If you saw this course, that fact would rock your world. He avoids the high highs and low lows. He doesn't get pissed when he messes up; he fixes it. He doesn't celebrate when he makes birdies; he marches to the next tee. It was such a pleasure to watch him play because he was almost robotic. There's something to be said about playing with no emotion and ice in your veins. Like I said previously; all this on the PDGA Tour in related back to the PGA Tour. Some of my favorite golfers are the most boring --- not calling Nate Doss' playing boring, but it was methodical. I distinctly remember him kicking a small rock on the 10th hole on his final road, and after a massive 500'+ drive over water and between trees, his disc nestled up next to the basket on the 16th hole where he tapped in his birdie and gave a mini fist pump before marching on. You should have seen this drive on 16 --- a huge carry over water, skirting between trees as it crossed land and before carrying another 100' or so up to the pin before it came to rest for a kick in birdie. And all he did was a mini fist pump? He just locked down the tourney! I would have jumped in the fucking pond in early celebration! Did I mention he almost aced 17?
Not knowing or ever speaking to Nate, he seems like a great face to promote the sport through. Avoid the high highs and low lows, one stroke at a time, every shot counts, bogeys are easier to get back than doubles --- all that stuff. Too many people get all caught up in the fact that they just made a double bogey and they lose their concentration. Then when they lose by one shot at the end of the round, it's the end of the world. If they stayed focused after that double and didn't compound it with another bogey on the next hole, they would be tied at the end of the round and going into a playoff instead of losing by one. Sorry to break off on a weird scenario there, but it's true to the game, and true to how Nate plays. The three other players that played together in the Super Group on day one were some of my favorites as well. As enjoyable as following around the lead card on the last day was, day one really stole the show for me. I really enjoyed watching were Ullibari, Feldberg and Schusterick as much as I enjoyed Doss. The thing I remember most about watching these guys --- Schusterick in particular --- is the fact that they don't step when they throw their mid range shots. They anchor their front foot into the ground and just uncoil on it. Uphill shots of 300' with an anchored foot are no problem for these guys, as you could imagine.
To make this sport and tournament even cooler, there were dozens of other activities planned to round out this high profile event. There were putting competitions, accuracy challenges, long distance drives, speed contests, match play challenges, ultimate showcases, pie eating contests and more. These guys are very driven and very competitive, but they do enjoy the laid back atmosphere that the sport is based around. It seems that the disc golf community is very close and very supportive. I wish I could have spent more time at The Vibram Open, but I enjoyed every minute I had. I can only wait for more tournaments and more exposure for the sport. My advice to readers is the next time you think or hear about disc golf, look up a course with a 5k loop or playground nearby. Tons of information can be found out about particular disc golf courses on on www.discgolfcoursereview.com. When you do finally find that perfect course --- go over to the 5k loop and take a walk or even branch off on some holes and use the fairway as a hiking trail. Maybe you'll find hikers, dog walkers or off road BMX bikers. See how disc golf fits into the landscape with almost no visual impact whatsoever and think about how well it connects on-site features. Disc golf can be enjoyed on so many levels --- from the spectator to the promoter to the player. Go out and give it a try, I promise you will have just found a recreational opportunity that you will enjoy for the rest of your life.


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A rosary was recited on Monday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. at Moore Funeral Home Chapel.
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The Referee and TJ have seen an incident at the time and acted on what they saw - Bailey's contact with Radford is obviously up for debate even with the hindsight of video replay. Radford clearly punched Bailey several times, which is a red card offence. Not too much wrong with what happened on the field, hence what's it got to do with Stuart Cummings?
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I initially consulted a family physician, who administered blood testing. I was discouraged when these tests showed no disorder, because I certainly didn't feel healthy! I went to a rheumatologist, but felt I received a cursory diagnosis. I wanted to avoid conventional pain medications, because I feel fatigued when I use them.
I also sought help from a rehabilitation center. An MD who specialized in pain management worked with me there, and the center also offered some information and encouragement about complementary therapies. After researching practitioners, I tried a number of complementary therapies, including diet [9]modification, acupuncture [10], shiatsu [11] massage, vial-based allergy testing, mind-body exercise [12] regimes such as yoga [13] and Tai Chi, homeopathy [14], and more. With the exception of acupuncture, which I personally found detrimental, most of the therapies were benign. They were helpful, but not necessarily healing. I am currently working with a myofascial pain relief massage therapist, and am feeling some relief from that treatment.
I think the biggest decision I have had to make throughout my healthcare journey was to take control [1] of my own situation. I had to determine whether I was going to be defined by my conditions, or if I was going to be in charge. I feel that neither conventional nor complementary medicine is necessarily patient-centered. To address this, I have really asserted myself in all healthcare settings. Patients have to be their own best advocate. This decision has changed my life.
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/navigate-healthcare-system/why-do-i-need-take-charge
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/anxiety-depression
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/arthritis
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/migraine
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/traditional-chinese-medicine
[6] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/anxiety
[7] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/headaches
[8] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/create-healthy-lifestyle/stress-mastery
[9] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/create-healthy-lifestyle/diet-nutrition
[10] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/acupuncture
[11] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/shiatsu
[12] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/what-are-mind-body-therapies
[13] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/yoga
[14] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/homeopathy


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BIXBY, Irene Frances, 83, of Follansbee, WV, passed away on Sunday, January 27, 2013, at Valley Haven Geriatric Center, Beech Bottom, WV.
She was born on February 27, 1929, in Steubenville, OH. She was the daughter of the late Roy and Victoria (Borkowski) McCombs.
She was a former employee of the Hub Department Store in Steubenville, OH; a homemaker; and a member of the Follansbee Presbyterian Church.
In addition to her parents, Irene was preceded in death by her husband, Rodrick Bixby; a son, Steven Bixby; and a sister, Eleanor Smith.
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Establishing a career in financial services requires a huge investment of time, effort and money in acquiring your education, experience and contacts. To make your career progress easier, don't neglect how you package that expertise.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has described personal brand as "what people say about you when you are not in the room". If this is true, then it begs the question: how can you manage your brand when you can't control what people think about you? The answer is to consider how you come across to other people and what you can do to shape their perception of you. Appearance is an important part of this.
The key to sending out the right message is knowing what you want it to be in the first place. Once you know what that is, stand in front of a mirror dressed ready for work and ask yourself: "Dressed like this, am I communicating the message I want?"
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Ohio steel head fishing info
I am planning a fly trip to some where I have not fished and have been very interested in an Ohio steel head fishing trip. I also checked out the post by kytroutbummin and there Ohio trip. Awesome pictures looks like you had a great time.
I have a couple of questions.
1. Is September and fall a good time to go?
2. What weight fly rod and line do you use what flies dos any one recommend?
3. Are there any guides in the area that any one would recommend?
Any info and comments would be greatly appreciated.
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Redfish - Come on up, there are very few things as exciting as having a Steelie make those runs. To answer your questions -
1 - The "London" strain starts coming in in September and stays over the winter. The "Manistee" strain run starts in March and both are gone at the end of April, beginning of May. Fall is a great time.
2 - I would recommend nothing less than a 9 foot, 6wt, with an 8 being a great choice. I know some go up to a 9 or 10, but I can't see that being necessary.
3 - http://www.madriveroutfitters.com/default.aspx OR
The first is the site for our local fly shop. These guys really know what they are doing and I am sure they can hook you up with a good guide.
Tallman is Graham Stokes, who also works at Mad River. I have taken classes with Graham and been guided by him for LM. Good guy and good guide.
Tips - Nymphing is a primary fishing style. High sticking with and without a float will catch you most fish. Bring some good polarized specs as sight fishing is also big. I wear breathable waders with 3-4 breathable layers underneath. It do get cold. Check the Mad River page for successful Erie Tributary flies, but #4 to #10 Wooly Buggers (black, brown, olive, & white), Rummel's Mini-Buggers, Jim's Lil Bugger, Egg patterns, and some Hare's Ears should do the trick. Let me know if you need other info.
To Miss Nancy - she hated fishing, but loved a fisherman.
Thanks buckeye
I realy appreciate the info. It is just the kind of stuff I was looking for. I would not mind meeting you some time. If you are every in the towsend area let me know I would like to fish the mountain streams with you.
September in my opinion is very unpredictable for ohio tribs. Both for water levels and SH runs. I have caught fish as early as August 15th but generally do not expect to hit consistent fishing until october when rain is a litlle more plenitful. If you target the east side streams (Grand, Chagrin, Conneaut), you can always drive 30 minutes further East to PA if water/fishing conditions in ohio are not favorable. PA is combat fishing at its finest and I prefer ohio where you can get some solitude but If you are driving from TN it would be good to have a back up plan if fishing in Ohio during the early fall.
I have not used a guide since I use to live in the area, but have heard good things about Mad Rivers as BR suggested. However, In my opinion, a guide is not neccesary since most of the access areas are well pulicized and there are several sites that can get you pointed in the right areas (Imho).
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I agree with Steelnuttz, to be sure of fish being there I would shoot for the end of October, beginning of November as an early time. I had my best day ever on October 30 of last year. Plus, the weather can be spectacular at that time of year.
I have to disagree with him on the guide. Unless you have done this kind of fishing, I think a guide would be very helpful. I was well into my second season before I could spot fish. Reading water and casting to a spot you think will produce works okay, and is rewarding when you do pull a fish out. But sight fishing is sure a lot of fun, and can be very frustrating. There's nothing like casting to a fish, hitting him on the nose and watching the take, or the refusal. The water is easy to access and the Cleveland Metro Park system is really something.
I'll be looking at retirement in less than a year and Townsend is a place I would love to fish. I may take you up on the invite.
To Miss Nancy - she hated fishing, but loved a fisherman.
hey redfish im from the erie pa area and have fished for the steelies alot i used my 8ft 6wght you will need a very light tippet 6x works well wolly buggers always produced well but alot of guys are using nymps now the west erie county tribs fish very well but you will be dealing with alot of people these fish are easily spooked you will see up to 20 or more fish in a whole 2ft and up and they will run from your fly its frustrating early morning before the streams get to packed usally end of sept and into oct the steelies will start to run first cold snap with rain will start the run but if the lake is calm good fishing is had rt near the mouths of the streams if you want to know more detail on the erie streams shoot me an email also check out this web site fisherie.com you will find some useful info if you can find some post from the fall and winter hope this helped a little
Buckeye, I will be in Lima Ohio for Thanksgiving. I was hoping to take a rod up there and look for some of those SH waters. Anything near the Lima area? I have read about several fisheries up near the lake outside of Sandusky, but thats almost 2 hours from Lima.
Any advice?
GK - You picked an area of the state that I am not familiar with. Try going to this site -
http://www.ohiogamefishing.com/ and click on the "Main Forum Index".
They have a board that divides the state into 5 areas, with the NW being one of them. That would be your best bet for info.
To Miss Nancy - she hated fishing, but loved a fisherman.
Do you know how fishing has been so far this year?
GrannyKnott ,
I'm from Lima . No . Their is quarry near Bluffton that has trout . Most of Steelhead i know is up by Cedar point amusement park.
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A 13-pound tumor has successfully been removed from a man's face.
Stefan Zoleik, from Slovakia, has been living with a rare condition called Madelung disease, which caused fat fibers to grow uncontrollably across his face, according to Reuters.
A tumor developed, which stretched across the lower portion of his face, below his chin and from ear to ear.
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History of the Peace Corps in China
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|Since 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries, more than 182,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 138 countries all over the globe.
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In March 1988, the Chinese foreign minister and then-Secretary of State George Shultz agreed in principle to place Peace Corps Volunteers in China. A year later, an exchange of letters signed by the U.S. ambassador and the secretary general of the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE) and the Peace Corps opened the way to establish a Peace Corps post in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province.
In June 1989, the first group of trainees for Peace Corps/ China began training in the United States. However, following the Tiananmen Square incident, the training was canceled; the China program was temporarily suspended and the trainees were offered assignments in other countries.
The first group of 18 Peace Corps Volunteers to be sent to China arrived for their training in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, in June 1993. Following training in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), Chinese language, and cross-cultural issues, the 18 trainees swore-in as Volunteers in August 1993. They were posted to Sichuan Province, which at that time also included what later became the separate political entity known as the municipality of Chongqing. This group was viewed by the Chinese as a two-year experiment to determine whether Peace Corps was appropriate for China. Those Volunteers completed their service and returned to the United States on schedule in the summer of 1995. The Peace Corps country agreement was not signed until June 29, 1998.
In 1999, the Peace Corps program moved in Guizhou Province. In 2000, the program moved into Gansu Province. The Chinese government decided to hive off what became known as the Municipality of Chongqing in 1997. This change in political status had the effect of creating a fourth political jurisdiction in which the Peace Corps operates. In April 2003 the Peace Corps pulled out of China during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis. Volunteers returned to China in July 2004. From the start of the program in 1993 through September 2006, there have been 287 Peace Corps Volunteers who have served in China. As of September 2006, there were 104 Peace Corps Volunteers serving in-country.
Since the Peace Corps began work in China in 1993 up until the present time TEFL has been the main program area. From 2000 until 2006, the Peace Corps also had an environmental education program.
At the national level, the Peace Corps comes under the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), which is affiliated with the Ministry of Education. CEAIE is the largest non–governmental organization (NGO) in international educational exchange in China. Founded in 1981, CEAIE has a mission of promoting Chinese educational development and enhancing understanding and friendship between Chinese and international educational communities through international exchange and cooperation. Since its establishment, it has developed cooperative linkages with more than 100 educational organizations and institutions in approximately 30 countries and regions.


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What would life be like without football?
"It would be dark. And lonely. And boring," Northwest Herald sports columnist Tom Musick writes in our prep football preview special section, which will publish in Wednesday's editions.
Thankfully, life without prep football ends Friday night, when all of our area high school teams play their first games of the 2013 regular season (with the exception of Alden-Hebron, which kicks off Saturday.)
As usual, the Northwest Herald and our prep sports website, McHenryCountySports.com, have the season covered.
The 36-page prep preview section offers a sneak peek at all 19 area football teams we cover. We profile five key players to watch, provide rosters, schedules and so much more.
This edition also explores the serious issue of head injuries related to football, and how local coaches and players are adapting to calls for a safer sport. From the pro level all the way down to youth leagues, there's been a heightened awareness about repeated head trauma and the impact football collisions have on players' long-term mental health. It's a necessary discussion, and changes to the game were inevitable.
Some pundits have argued that lawsuits surrounding these injuries eventually will kill the sport as we know it.
I don't believe that. Football is as much a part of American life as turkey on Thanksgiving and presents on Christmas.
It will endure, and we'll be there to cover every aspect of it.
At McHenryCountySports.com, prep reporter/videographer Les Johnson visited all 19 training camps and put together video vignettes of each of the teams, complete with player and coach interviews. You can watch them online now and through the beginning of the season.
Here's what else area football fans have to look forward to:
• Friday Night Live returns. Johnson will be joined by Northwest Herald sports editor Jon Styf each Friday night calling our game of the week, webcast live at McHenryCountySports.com. The webcast team will be inside Crystal Lake South's new press box this week for the Gators' opener against Marian Central. The webcast begins about 7 p.m.
• Be sure to check out Fastest Four Minutes beginning Saturday mornings at McHenryCountySports.com. We'll have highlights from four local games, and provide stats and analysis from around the county.
• New this year will be an ongoing, behind-the-scenes look at Huntley High School's football program. Head coach John Hart agreed to give sportswriter Jeff Arnold insider access so we can explore all that goes into preparing for Friday nights.
• Our readers can pick local games each week against Styf, Johnson, Arnold and senior sportswriter Joe Stevenson in our Prep Football Pickem contest. Log on to McHenryCountySports.com, scroll down a little and look for the link on the right to register and begin playing.
We're looking forward to an exciting season of prep football. We hope you are, too.
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Help needed: Pioneer Center for Human Services is looking for a church partner to house the area's homeless Monday nights during the fall and winter.
Because McHenry County does not have a full-time, overnight homeless shelter, Pioneer and its homeless services division, PADS, partners with area churches from Oct. 1 through April 30 each year to provide food and shelter to the area's homeless from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Each of seven churches takes one night a week. Pioneer is covered Tuesdays through Sundays, but it needs help Mondays.
Church partners have volunteers start about 5 p.m. on their respective day to start preparing the night's meal. Overnight guests arrive about 7 p.m. Pioneer provides the transportation.
Partner churches provide at least one head volunteer to be a site manager, and then other volunteers to staff through the night. The church also provides a hot dinner, breakfast and a sack lunch for all individuals staying at the site.
Pioneer provides case manager support to the churches.
The church site ideally would be able to sleep 70 men, women and children. If that is too large for a new church too handle, Pioneer has a church that is able to host about 30 women and children on Monday nights, so the new church could host 40 men.
Any area church that is interested, please call Pioneer's chief development officer, Christin Kruse, at 815-759-7114.
We, and the area's homeless, greatly appreciate all who help.
• Dan McCaleb of Crystal Lake is group editor of Shaw Media's suburban publications, which include the Northwest Herald. He also is a member of the Pioneer Center's Board of Directors. He can be reached at 815-526-4603, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Dan_McCaleb.


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Friday, January 04, 2013
Traces of Reading Left by a Historian of Science
Further adventures in an academic's library. Once again we can begin to piece together his reading practices and predilections. These notes come from his undergraduate years as an engineering student.
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