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For the first time since 1986, the Truman Bulldog football team will play a game in the St. Louis metro area as they will step outside of conference play to travel to McKendree University in Lebanon, Ill. on Saturday afternoon.
The Bulldogs are 1-3 while the Bearcats are looking for their first win of the season while making the transition to NCAA Division II Football.
The 'Dogs are coming off a 54-30 loss to #20 Central Missouri last Saturday as all three losses this season have come against ranked opponents. Quarterback J.B. Clark threw for a season-high 304 yards with Kurt Loyd catching four passes for 113 and Dallas Grier adding eight receptions for 95 yards but the Bulldog defense allowed a season-high 571 yards by the Mule offense and touchdowns on five of their first six possessions.
McKendree is in an unfamiliar position after failing to the NAIA's fifth-ranked team, William Penn (Iowa), 21-0 in their last time out. It was only the third time since the program had been revived in 1996 that the Bearcats were shutout and first since 2008, a span of 33 games.
The Bearcats are 18-5 the last two seasons with trips each year to the NAIA playoffs but this is the first 0-3 start since the program came back in 1996 following a 46-year absence.
This is the first ever meeting between McKendree and Truman.
The last time Truman played a game in the St. Louis metro area was a two-year series with Southeast Missouri State that was played in 1985 and 1986 at Busch Memorial Stadium.
Five Things To Watch:
1 – Set The Tone Early
The Bulldogs have been outscored in the first quarter by 20 (49-29) and in the first half by 66 (115-49) through the first four games. Truman is also 4-of-13 on third down in the first quarter and 9-of-33 (27%) in the first half.
In Truman's win, they gained 156 yards in the first quarter but in the three losses they have given up on average 141 yards on defense in the first 15 minutes of play.
2 – Avoid Costly Fouls
The Bulldogs are third in the MIAA in pentaly yardage against at 57.2 yards per game, however in the last two contests, Truman has been flagged 16 times, with 5, 15-yard fouls and two on special teams. The team has had two interception returns for touchdowns negated due to the yellow flag in the last two games.
3 –Finish Drives
Truman is scoring in the redzone at a 76% clip but it's the redzone touchdowns that have eluded the offense this season. The Bulldogs have six redzone scores in 17 opportunities whereas the opposition has 13 TDs in 21 redzone chances.
Despite playing in one less game, McKendree has four redzone touchdowns in 12 chances while allowing 12 touchdowns in 14 redzone possessions.
4 – Watch For The Run
The Bearcats come into the game fairly balanced with 129 yards gained on average on the ground and 146 yards through the air, however those numbers are slightly skewed over the past five years of McKendree Football. The Bearcats have averaged 260 yards rushing and just 104 yards per game passing since 2006 and has averaged 50 rush attempts per game.
Through four games, Truman is allowing 260 yards on the ground this season after limiting opponents to 145 per game a season ago.
5 – Don't Overlook Opponent
After four grueling weeks of MIAA football, including three opponents ranked in the AFCA top 25, this will be the first non-conference game of the 2011 season. The Bearcats are 0-3 this season with two of their three defeats have come against NAIA ranked in the top five in the nation (St. Francis-Ind. at number two and William Penn-Iowa at number five).
McKendree is making the transition to Division II and will join the Great Lakes Valley in football in the coming years after two straight trips NAIA national tournament and nine in the past 14 seasons.
Defensively, the Bearcats have been stingy allowing just 297 yards per game.
Offensive Notebook:
• Senior transfer J.B. Clark completed 78-of-157 pass attempts (49.7%) for 986 yards. He is fourth in the MIAA in passing with a 227.3 per game average. His long pass is 61 yards to Kurt Loyd against Central Missouri.
• Clark passed for nearly 4,000 yards in 19 starts with 37 touchdown passes while a member of the Lehigh University (FCS) squad. He did not play in the 2010 season after recovering from an injury.
• Sophomore Conrad Schottel was 3-of-7 for 17 yards in his season debut against Northwest. For his career, Schottel is 16-of-39 and has not thrown a touchdown pass.
• Senior Harnish Ayora leads the team in rushing with a 42.2 yards per game average. He's gained 169 yards on 36 carries for a 4.7 average. For his career, Ayora has 768 yards rushing and a 3.6 yards per carry average.
• Senior Donald Harvey is second in rushing with 104 yards on 25 carries and Will Mosquera third with 91 yards on 28 attempts.
• Senior Anthony Brown leads the receiving corps with 22 catches for 285 yards and two touchdowns. Brown is tied for second in the MIAA in receptions per game at 6.3 and 3rd in yards per game with 82.5
• The Bulldogs are 13-of-17 (76%) in redzone opportunities in 2011 with six touchdowns. Last season, the team was 80% successful in the redzone with 36 scores (25 touchdowns).
In 2009, they were just 67% in the redzone with only 16 touchdowns in 36 opportunities.
• For the season, Truman is 33% in third down situations. They are 7-of-17 (41%) in short yardage third down situations (under three yards).
• Truman is averaging 4.9 yards per play and 340.5 yards per game in total offense in 2011. The Bulldogs averaged 4.8 yards per play and 324.2 yards in 2010 and were at 4.2 and 278.0 in 2009.
• Last year the team rushed for 1,933 yards, the most by a Bulldog squad since 1997's 2,015 yards. The team has not had a 1,000 yard season rusher since Jerard Leverson in 2003 (1,012).
• The best single-game performances last year for the team were both against Nebraska-Omaha (336 rushing and 218 passing).
Defensive Notebook:
• Junior Richie Schumacher is second in Division II in tackles per game with 13.75.
He has 55 tackles after registering 61 in 2010 in 11 games. He trails conference member Alex Whitehill of Fort Hays State for both the national and conference lead in tackles (15.5/g).
• The defense had 19 takeaways in 2010 with one going for a touchdown return (Michael Elliott against Missouri Southern).
The Bulldogs offense scored on the ensuing possession on just six of those turnovers.
Truman was third in the MIAA in turnover margin. This season, the Truman defense has nine takeaways with 16 points as a result of those turnovers. Dennis Walls has an interception return for a score.
• The Bulldogs have allowed 494.2 yards in total offense by opposing teams this season and is allowing 6.5 yards per play. Last year, the Bulldogs allowed 387 per game and 5.9 per play.
• The 'Dogs have allowed 1042 yards on the ground (260.5/game) with Fort Hays State's Andre Smith posting the single-game high with 204 yards on 21 carries.
• The pass defense has given up 233 yards per game and opposing quarterbacks have completed 80-of-119 passes (67%). In 2010, the pass D allowed 242 yards per game and opposing qbs completed 59.8% of their passes.
• Opposing teams are 16-of-21 (76%) in the redzone with 13 touchdowns while last season, opponents were 36-of-42 (85.7%) with 29 touchdowns and seven field goals.
Courtesy Truman State University


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new system Thank you for your answers. I want to built up my own system for the first time. I hope its not gonna be so difficult Until now i used to work on AMD so I think its just fine to stick with their products. At the moment i am thinking of AMD A8-6600K as processor, but i am not so sure about the power consumption. I think Memory and hard disk are not the big problem to pick, but graphics card and motherboard are not yet fixed. As i understand there is a GPU already included in system, but is it fine for video editing? For the motherboard i was tending for a cheaper brand. I dont think its worth to pay for a big label at all, or do you disagree with that? My budget for all was around $500-600. @Geofrancis: I am not so much into connectivity. Standard connectors will be fine, so i can plug it on my stereo. The soundblaster looks quite ok, but i feel strange putting another soundcard in a system that already offers sound. thats why i am hoping to have good onboard sounds right away
Well if your primary video editor is GPU accelerated and that is what you mostly do, then I would go for an A10 APU like the 6800K or 5800K. The IGP on those have the power of a $70 to $90 dedicated card in most cases and personal experience (thanks to recent strides by AMD with their drivers) do a damn good job with video encoding/decoding. You can then save and add a dedicated card later. Most motherboards offer good sound and with FM2 socket, you can get their top-tier boards for under $150. I would go with GIGABYTE, ASRock, or ASUS. The board and APU will run you around $300 which leaves you plenty of room for a case, PSU, DVD burner, HDD, etc. If your software supports Intel QuickSync, I would go with an Intel build. Use the IGP for just display and use QuickSync for encoding. There is no comparison there.
GIGABYTE GA-F2A85X-UP4 - $120 AMD A10-5800K - $130 G.SKILL Sniper Series 16 GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1866MHz $130 NZXT Source 220 $40 CORSAIR Builder Series CX600 $70 Total $490 And if you are doing this right now. Almost everything there has a promo for an additional 10% to 15% off Plus $25 shipping (to my location at least) it comes to $469.75. Another $130 to spend on a HDD and cooler if you need those.
Thank you, thats already great stuff. At least i think i can focus on the system first. I was just browsing your recommendation and found the board for 120 dollars, too. Anyway i found alternatives that look comparable for a much lower price: The asrock FM2A85x extreme4 and the biostar hi-fi A85W. Both sell for only 90 dollars. For me that sounds like a good bargain, especially with the last one having a lot of extra features for good audio quality (Hifi Amp, Resistor, Cap and 192khz sampling according to their website). Asrocks seems to be more focused on overclocking which is not one of my interests... I understand gigabyte is a well known label, but as long as there is no objective reason to take it, i would rather save some coins if possible
If audio quality is your main concern, the last thing you want is onboard sound. The Biostar hifi is okay for gaming and one of the better onboard sound devices, it doesn't match a moderately priced sound card. Review: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Biostar/Hi-Fi_A85W/11.html
What program do you use for video editing? If you're using Premiere or any Adobe products an AMD GPU isn't going to do you much good at all, a dedicated GeForce is what you'll want. For sound quality something such as an old GeForce Audigy 2 ZS usually works fine, a lot better than integrated audio. If you're feeling like you want some insane or just producer audio gear, a used M-Audio card would work.
The audigy cards don't really work with 7 and 8 your much better with the xfi extreme oem. It's the top xfi card with all the processing for half the price
Thanks for that review. And I also thank you all for your other recommendations. For now i dont wanna think longer about that choice =) So I just came up with a fair compromise for now. I just found the Biostar A85W for 90 dollars on newegg and will see how it works. As CPU i will take the recommended AMD A10-5800K. If i still dont like the result i think there is no other motherboard that compares with better quality at all. So i will just put more bucks on the table and get one of your recommended audio cards. You will read me again in that case Based on the review and your help i dont think that i am doing a bad mistake here. Cant wait to finally see how it goes
Built up and running Hello again, i just wanted to give you an update. Thanks again for your good help here The motherboard just arrived this weekend and i spend the whole day building up the system and setting up the stuff. At least i could manage everything without reinstalling the whole system. Finally i can say its all done. I am so tired but happy Just played some rounds of crysis and for me the sound is also really great. Ask my neighbors ;D Will hand the system next week over, and, finally, i feel confident that he will like it too
Me again. Finally i handed the system over and everything went fine with it. Thanks once more for your help everyone!


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Samsung P2 or P3 - 3inch mp3 player from samsung, look it up, Cowon D2 - 50 hours battery life, has sdhc slot, 2.5 inch touch screen. EQ, and BBS and mach3bass. Iaudio 7- even more battery life but 1.8 inch screen Iriver also has a few you might like. not much more I'd honestly recommend in reality I would just say d2 the d2 is one sick player bottom line, then the p2 but only if you got some cash to let go of. also you may want to invest in a pair of headphones, I know I did and I'm pretty happy with them.
+1 on the Zune. I've loved my thing forever and a day.. A year now I've had the 1st gen, and it hasn't giving me but a problem when the firmware updated
Songbird is a much better alternative to iTunes, much lighterweight then iTunes anyways. Lots of plugins/addons for it. As for your mp3 player dilemma, It really just comes down to preference. I personally prefer the older generation iPods. I recently bought a 120gb iPod Classic for 249.99 at BestBuy. It in my opinion is much better then the touch... However if you are looking for an alternative to the iPod; Creative makes some good mp3 players. The X-Fi version are a little more hype then bang for the buck like their other players, but then again that is preference.
The zune isn't really comparable to the touch, more similar to a classic w/ fm radio and DRM out the ass (and in the current market are also overpriced compared to the ipod classic). I'm sure there's some ways to make it do what it should, but, anyway, afaik they don't make one like the touch.
But there is no DRM on the music I have for Zune... I download music from better sources. Why would you want something like the touch anyways? Touchscreens are smudgy, expensive, and just plain lame. Who needs games on their MP3 player? They have enough of those on cell phones. Myself I just paid 50$ for a Palm Centro which doubles as a 2gb MP3 player, phone, internet device with touchscreen (with stylus to not smudge it up), and lite gaming device.
Everybody has their preferences. Some people probably like the perks of the iphone and don't want to pay $70/month for the phone part. Thus, the touch.
Heh instead of the apple crowd you guys try to mosy the guy into microsoft land, makes me sick JK, anyways seriously research before you buy a player there are plenty of alternatives to the touch.
ipod touch/iphone REQUIRE itunes. i've heard Cowon is the new best you can buy. never had one though.
They do not REQUIRE iTunes, There are plugins for a lot of media applications that allow you to manage every aspect of it. Winamp, SongBird(Firefox in a media player) both do this task flawlessly, and are both fairly straight forward.
Not for the touch. I actually bought fits touch and played around with it for a good few weeks, before I decided that I was going to fix my Zune and use that again, I really didn't like it.
Proper WiFi. homebrew apps, can download apps. Pretty customisable firmware (in relation to the Zune).
But terrible software, lesser sound quality, and a really horrible interface. If you want a good MP3 player, rather than a do-all device, avoid Apple and their cheap junk at all costs.
The Zune software is terrible in comparison to iTunes. I really liked iTunes, so much easier to organise your music, however it's video capabilities were far from.....half-decent. Only ever found 2 of my video files, Zune finds and converts them all on the fly. Lesser sound quality, DEFINATELY, the bass is weak compared to the Zune, it just sounds "meatier" on the Zune. The interface is "nice", but that's it. Things seemed to be in odd places you'd never think to look...maybe it's just me though heh.
I actually hate Itunes, I load up Zune, tell it where the music I like is, and just drag and drop. It's simple, easy, and efficient.
Same with iTunes actually, one thing that did annoy me, it took 7 hours to add my entire music collection (over 200Gb honestly). It takes 1 and a half with Zune.


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After seeing the Witcher Happy Hour, I went out to go get this game. I've thus far only done one playthrough and yes the game has its ups and downs, like any game really. There is only one thing that I'd like to say that stood out as a massive negative for the game and want to warn those who read the quest logs during and after each quest. I'm going to be kinda vague as not to give any spoilers.
The game actually spoils itself. I've only had this a few times during my playthrough, but on one specific one it really almost ruined and spoiled one of my next playthroughs' major plot points will be. At the very end of the story I was reading a journal entry and it gave me information that, to my knowledge, I would have never been able to guess on my own without having gone down a different choice path.
I hope that I'm wrong here and just missed information that was given to me on those occasions but I'm pretty thorough with my log reading/information gathering. If I'm not wrong, I really hope they address this issue in a future patch.
If I was 13 I'd want this game for all the boobehs
I think if anything, Skyrim is defiantly the better option. At the most, you will beat this game in just under two weeks (not really much). I myself have already brought and own this game for quite some time now and already, I am practically done with it ($60 is a bit too much for about a week's worth of time).
To be quite blunt, you can get the same thrills from various other action games (like Devil May Cry, or heck, even Dark Souls, etc). It is a pretty cool game but quite generic and nothing very special, especially by today's standards. A game like Skyrim is truly a monumental leap towards breaking boundaries on the limitations of modern technology. Also, Skyrim has more creativity with much more realistic versions of mythology.
In many ways, there is even more depth due to the fact that it is more true to a role playing game (which is what RPG stands for). A game like Skyrim is design to immerse players into its wondrous world (it is like living in a new world). Not to mention, it is juxtaposed in well written stories and plot lines that could last you well over a year with just one save game alone (well worth its price). The story of Skyrim is just as good (if not perhaps better) than this near anime/Fable like story from this game (especially if you have the comprehension to perceive such complexities and perhaps know about at least The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion which may give you a broader insight of their universe). Overall, Skyrim is by no means a slacker to its story or writing as many of today's video games do (which only makes it all the more better considering the amount of content in Skyrim which is truly beyond expectation).
Story wise, The Witcher 2 is pretty decent but far from superb or deep (not all that different from many others like it). It sort of anckers in too close to somewhat of an anime/medieval like story (except a more Scottish take on such a story). For whatever reason, the world just felt too close to that of Dragon Age and/or a giddier version of Fable as well, which didn't help this game at all (it almost made me want to put down the controller due to such familiarities, practically standardized action and non-special attributes). it is also a bit too quirky, corny, and in many ways, doltishly silly (mainly with the characterizations of most of the characters in the game). However, there are many ways the story may go, but quite honestly, they just don't seem quite fascinating enough nor really worth the time to actually play it again (especially with other potentially good or great games coming out soon). Sure, with politics, it is just fine, but Mass Effect or even Fable (mainly the third) has basically done that just as well (if not better). If anything, you are better off just getting Kingdoms of Amalur.
Basically, it is really just the basic boss battles (which is dramatically similar to other we have seen from action games) and very standardized (by modern times) action combat(which is not all that special) that makes up the bulk of this game (which honestly, is hardly different from almost any other action game today). Practically, there isn't much else that this game honestly offers that would make someone pay the full price. Also, this game is not breaking boundaries by any stretch of the imagination.
My opinion, it is a game that is best to get when it is going for maybe $30 or so (it's pretty cool, but just not worth over 60% of a hundred dollar bill...).
By the way, it is my day off and I am sorry if I am replying too early (I am sort of a workaholic with no work on the moment or even for the rest of the day...).
If you go for story then The Witcher beats Skyrim hands down. Skyrims strength was exploration and roleplaying as such its story took a back seat (not that some of the quest lines weren't enjoyable I'm thinking of the Werewolves and the Dark Brotherhood).
While I admittedly haven't played Skyrim yet ($60 is a lot of money), I'm thinking I'd like The Witcher 2 more because of it's more condensed world and deeper story. That's one reason I prefer JRPG (ones like Persona 4, not Final Fantasy 13, though 13 really isn't that bad)
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Paul Moakley, Deputy Photo Editor of Time Magazine Paul Moakley has been the deputy photo editor of TIME since 2010. He covers national news and special projects such as Person of the Year. Previously he was senior photo editor at Newsweek and photo editor of PDN (Photo District News). Moakley is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as a photographer and filmmaker. He lives at the Alice Austen House Museum, home of one of America's earliest photographers, as caretaker and curator of the museum. Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/author/moakley76/#ixzz2JJlBNuDk
Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post
Craig F. Walker joined the staff of The Denver Post in 1998 and has covered a broad range of stories including the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States military, post-traumatic stress disorder, the Occupy movement and daily life in Colorado.
Raised in York, Pennsylvania, Craig graduated from the Rhode Island School of Photography and began his career working for the Marlborough Enterprise and the Berkshire Eagle in Massachusetts.
In 2010, Craig's photo essay Ian Fisher: American Soldier, an "intimate portrait of a teenager who joins the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq, poignantly searching for meaning and manhood," won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. Craig's work was exhibited at The International Photojournalism Festival of Perpignan in 2010.
In 2012, Craig was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for Welcome Home, The Story of Scott Ostrom, a "compassionate chronicle of an honorably discharged veteran, home from Iraq and struggling with a severe case of post-traumatic stress, images that enable viewers to better grasp a national issue." Craig was also named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International competition.
Craig's photography has also been honored by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, Harry Chapin Media Awards, National Press Photographer's Association Best of Photojournalism Contest, Pictures of the Year International, National Headliner's Awards, Unicef Photo of the Year Contest, American Society of News Editors and Society of News Design.
Craig now lives in Littleton, Colorado with his wife, Jamie Cotten, and their son, Quinn.
Lois Raimondo, University of Missouri-Columbia) Assistant Professor, Shott Chair of Journalism
Lois Raimondo, the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism's Shott Chair of Journalism, is an international award-winning journalist. Before joining the School of Journalism faculty, Raimondo most recently worked as a staff photographer at The Washington Post. Prior to her 10 years at the Post, she worked as a freelance photographer and writer and spent four years as chief photographer for The Associated Press bureau in Hanoi, Vietnam. Raimondo's work has appeared in such publications as National Geographic, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Newsweek and Time. Raimondo's journalism, both pictures and words, has received national and international recognition. In 2005, Raimondo was awarded the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to report on the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Pakistan. She spent the year working in Baluchistan and Waziristan. Raimondo was also awarded the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 2002 for her front-line reporting from the war in Afghanistan. The award committee cited both her photographic and written reports from the field. In 1998, Raimondo was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a New York Newsday series on corruption in the Mitchell Lama Housing Projects. Her photographic work has also received White House News Photographers Association awards, National Press Photographers Association awards and the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. Raimondo, a native of Rocky Point, N.Y., began her journalism career in 1982 as a sound technician, producer and interpreter for CBS News in Beijing, China. She holds two master's degrees, one in news-editorial from the University of Missouri-Columbia and one in comparative literature (Chinese and Japanese) from Indiana University. READ MORE: http://journalism.wvu.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/lois_raimondo
National Eyes of History Contest Judging
David Hume Kennerly
David Hume Kennerly, a producer of Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book, won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the Vietnam War and went on to become President Gerald R. Ford's personal White House photographer. Kennerly has been a photographer for Newsweek, Time & Life, and George magazines. American Photo Magazine named Kennerly "One of the 100 Most Important People in Photography." He also authored the definitive photographic volume on President Gerald Ford, Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. Kennerly is on the Board of Trustees of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation and the Atlanta Board of Visitors of the Savannah College of Art and Design. His archive is housed at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas, Austin. Kennerly, an Emmy-nominated film producer, is currently producing a four-hour documentary for The Discovery Channel about White House chiefs of staff, titled "The Presidents' Gatekeepers," which will air in the Spring of 2013. Kennerly has had exhibitions of his work at galleries and museums around the world, including the Smithsonian and The Annenberg Center for Photography. He has had five books of his work published, Shooter, Photo Op, Seinoff: The Final Days of Seinfeld, Photo du Jour, and Extraordinary Circumstances. READ MORE: http://www.kennerly.com/about.php
Jeff J. Mitchell Getty Images Staff Photographer, Scotland, UK
Jeff Mitchell was born in Milton, Scotland in 1970. Jeff Has been a photographer for 19 years starting out on the Helnsburgh Advertiser and progressing to the Edinburgh Evening News and Glasgow Herald, he also worked for Reuters before taking up a staff position for Getty Images in 2006 , as a news photographer based in Scotland.
Assignments have varied over the years from covering the recent London Olympics and World Cup in Africa for FIFA, travelling on the Labour battle bus during the 2010 general election following Gordon Brown and features like Lairg Lamb sale the largest one day sale in Europe and Up Helly AA Viking festival on the Shetland Isles.
He has also been involved in many UK international news stories such as the Diamond Jubilee the recent Royal Wedding as well as funerals of Princess Diana and the Queen Mother, the Foot and Mouth outbreak and the multiple murder of 16 school children at Dunblane primary in March of 1996.
He has been recognized with a number of awards: Including World Press Photo – 1st Place Nature and Environment Stories, Two times winner of the British Picture Editor Awards Photographer of the Year.
Two times winner of the British Picture Editor Awards Sports Photographer of the Year, British Picture Editor Awards Royal Photographer of the year, British Picture Editor Awards Business and Industry Photographer of the Year.
Two times winner of the Nikon Regional Photographer of the year, Two times winner of the British Press Gazette regional press photographer of the year, Scottish Sports Photographer of the year 2006 and 2011 Scottish Press Awards News Photographer of Year.
Jeff currently lives in Alexandria with his wife Lyn and two sons Final aged nine and Callum aged six.
Stokes Young Executive Producer for Multimedia at NBCNews.com
Stokes Young is the Executive Producer for Multimedia at NBCNews.com. He started this role in January of 2012. Young leads the teams responsible for production and programming of all video and still photography on NBCNews.com properties. Young, who attended Deep Strings College and graduated from the University of Michigan, began his career as an assistant at the Black Star photo agency. He has since been a multimedia producer for the msnbc.com business team, the east coast supervising multimedia producer at msnbc.com, director of editorial assignments at Corbis, a video producer at MSN Video, and the director of video at msnbc.com. Young lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn, New York.
New Media Contest Judging Pierre Kattar, chair, Freelance
Geri Migielicz Geri is the Lorrey I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism at Stanford University, teaching multimedia in the Graduate Program in Journalism. She has served as visiting faculty at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and has been an instructor and advisory board member for the Stan Kalish Workshop. Migielicz has also been faculty at the Missouri Photo Workshop, and a presenter at workshops held by the Society of Newspaper Design, the National Press Photographers Association [NPPA] and the regional chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences. She has a B.J. from the Missouri School of Journalism and did graduate studies in journalism at Ohio University.
Geri is co-founder and executive editor of Story4, (www.story4.org) a multimedia production studio, specializing in short documentaries for the web. She was Director of Photography at the San Jose Mercury News from 1993 to 2009. Under Geri's tenure, the Mercury News won major national awards for photo editing and for multimedia, making the paper a destination for the leading talent in the photojournalism industry because of its innovation in web and print storytelling.
Geri was executive producer of a 2007 national News and Documentary Emmy Award-winning web documentary, Uprooted, for mercurynews.com. She worked on the team leading the coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake that won a 1990 Pulitzer Prize in general news reporting for the Mercury News. She also edited the paper's coverage of California's recall election, a 2003 Pulitzer finalist in Feature Photography. Geri was a 2004-5 Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where she studied multimedia narratives.
She has served as a judge for the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, NPPA's Best of Photojournalism awards and College Photographer of the Year International.
Mike Schmidt
Mike Schmidt is a Digital Art Director with 12+ years creating interactive experiences and multimedia content working in various industries including: journalism, advocacy, broadcast, public relations, education and even a little advertising. He spent the last two years as Associate Creative Director of the experimental iPad news publication The Daily, where he joined forces with a talented team of reporters, editors, artists, designers, illustrators, videographers and photographers to develop content on a brand new interactive platform.
Career highlights include: adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication; freelance designer for The New York Times' Olympics coverage; bootcamp instructor at the NPPA's Multimedia Immersion; web designer for the Alexia Foundation; motion designer for The Open Society Institute; judge for the Society of News Design multimedia competition; animation specialist for the Institute for Science Learning, and producer/editor/director/designer of "Hip-Hop Nation" on NBC. He is regularly working on interactive, video and motion design projects through his personal studio, Mohawk Street. Mike Schmidt thrives on collaborative mayhem, high fives, creative problem solving, building stuff, strong coffee, and long walks in the park with his highly social rescue pup in Brooklyn.
Richard "Koci" Hernandez Richard "Koci" Hernandez is a national Emmy® award-winning video and multimedia producer who worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations and was awarded a national Emmy® award for the New Approaches to Documentary category. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Wired Magazine and international magazines.
Video Photography and Editing Contest Judging Pege Gilgannon, chair, WJLA-TV ABC7 VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY JUDGES
Lisa Berglund
Lisa Berglund is an award winning videographer, editor, producer and storyteller.
For over 50 years, the National Press Photographers Association has awarded its Photographer of the Year to the finest in the nation. Lisa was the first and only woman videographer to receive this honor.
Lisa's work with corporations, international news and non-profit organizations has given her powerful professional experience – including shooting, producing, and editing news, marketing and promotional videos, documentaries, PSA's and music videos.
Lisa specializes in working in some of the most remote corners of the world, because she feels strongly about giving voice to people who are rarely heard. She has worked in over 25 countries, including Angola, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, India, and Ecuador. Lisa is also a sought after teacher and coach. She consults for the E.W. Scripps Company, helping more than 400 working journalists become better visual storytellers. She is a presenter at the National Press Photographers' News Video Workshop, and has taught at the Poynter Institute, and numerous schools and universities.
Lisa is featured in a book highlighting news photography: Roll – Shooting TV News – Views From Behind the Lens.
She is the owner of Gold Dog Media, and lives with her two amazing dogs (and ornery cat) in Washington State.
Greg Freeman
My career started in 1985 at a small News Station in Chico California and 3 years later I found myself in Los Angeles California. I have been in the Television business for over 28 years. I am still as passionate about being a DP and Director today as I was when I started in this business and in many ways even more. I have had a very divers career over the years working with ABC, NBC, CBS Networks on different TV shows and News magazine programs as well as the Cable Networks such as the Food Network, Animal Planet, National Geographic, MTV, History Channel and being the DP and director on TV Commercials and working with fortune 500 companies. I have held many positions over the years from Producer, Writer, Editor but my passion and talent really comes out when I am the Director of Photography and Director on a project. I have won many Emmys, Promax Awards and Telly's over the years. I have been freelance most of my career and started a Television Production Company Freeman Productions in 1997. Freeman Productions as a company has branched out in crewing TV shows (mostly reality and docudrama shows) and being located in the San Francisco Bay Area produces promotional, training and marketing videos for the high tech industry as well as fortune 500 companies. I have been blessed with so many different opportunities in my career in fact I just shot the behind the scenes of the World Series for MLB with the San Francisco Giants. This business is a wealth of opportunities you just need to take a chance and walk through the door.
Fletcher Johnson
Fletcher Johnson is a 1979 Graduate of Howard University and started at the ABC News Washington Bureau in 1983. He began extensive political coverage with the Jesse Jackson campaign in 1988. Thereafter he covered both the George Bush and Bill Clinton campaigns in 1992. He was assigned to the White House from 1989 to 1993. In 93' he left the White House in order to work extensively with Nightline and had been a principal photographer for the broadcast through 2006. His work for Nightline has offered many opportunities to travel overseas. Including, Goma, Zaire in 1994 for the exodus from Rwanda.Tirana, Albania for the conflict in the Balkans. Moscow, Russia for Nightline's 20th Anniversary. Haifa, Israel in 2006 for the border war with Lebanon. Iraq in 2003, 04, and most recently in February of 2007. He resumed covering politics in 2008 and was assigned the Barack Obama campaign. Mr. Johnson has twice been the recipient of the Cameraman of the Year award from the White House News Photographers Association. His work in Albania won him a National Emmy for spot news covering an Apache helicopter crash during a training exercise. He has also won numerous awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, National Press Photographers Association, and National Headliners.
He has judged for the Boston Press Photographers, National Press Photographers Association, and the National Emmy's.
Amanda Dennis
Amanda Dennis is an award-winning video editor from Connecticut. While in high school, she was an intern at her hometown's television station and months after graduating, she began working at News 12 Connecticut. Three years after working as the evening editor, she returned to college. In 2012, Amanda was recognized as the NPPA Editor of the Year. She is proud to have accomplished many goals at a young age and is inspired by her late father who worked in television his entire life. Shawn Montano
Shawn Montano is one passionate video editor. Shawn has been editing video for over 15 years in 6 different newsrooms and in the freelance world. Shawn is the only person ever to win the title of Video Editor of the Year for the National Press Photographers Association 4 times. Shawn loves talking editing (don't get him started). He loves talking editing so much he now passes on his knowledge in the classroom instead of the newsroom. Shawn teaches Video Editing, Videography, Photoshop and Social Media at Front Range Community College in Longmont Colorado. Shawn's favorite saying, "The best edit is one that is never seen." Shawn also has a blog called the Edit Foundry in which he teaches viddo editing to anyone who has the time to read.
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JAHI CHIKWENDIU Jahi Chikwendiu wanted to be practical, but in the end his passion for photojournalism won out. After earning his undergraduate degree in mathematics and a master's degree in math education from the University of Kentucky, Jahi was set to start a career as a high school math instructor. In fact, he taught for a year, enjoying the everyday challenges of being an educator. But when the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, the local newspaper where he freelanced during that first teacher's summer off, called to offer him a full-time staff position, he couldn't say no. Three months later Jahi was named 1998 Photographer of the Year by the Kentucky News Photographer's Association (KNPA). In another two years, he would join the staff of The Washington Post, where he's been a staff photographer since January of 2001. Since joining the Washington Post, Chikwendiu has worked on a variety of stories that include a coming-of-age story about 9/11 Marines, the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, AIDS and poverty in Kenya, genocide in Darfur, night-commuting children in Northern Uganda, cluster bomb victims in South Lebanon, Sudanese refugees in Egypt, DC Public Schools' broken system, and Iraqi refugees who have fled the country since the 2003 invasion. Chikwendiu spent the first three months of 2009 in Africa covering the Barack Obama inauguration from the Kenyan home village of the US president's father and other stories in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, and South Sudan. After starting the year of 2011 covering South Sudan's referendum (vote) to secede from the north of Sudan, Jahi has spent this year covering stories such as the suspicion of Muslims since 9/11/2001, a small town in NJ welcoming home the body of a young soldier killed in war, and a DC transitional safe-house for young people who are LGBT (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender) along with other local DC and national stories. Jahi has spent 2012 covering a variety of stories that include an autistic boy's need for extra educational assistance, a father with a shady past stepping up to care for his five children, the new face of Iraq after the withdrawal of the U.S. military after a decade of invasion and occupation, and the aftermath of the massacre in Newtown, CT. Chikwendiu's work has been recognized by such organizations as White House News Photographers Association, National Press Photographers Association, Pictures of the Year international, World Press Photo, National Association of Black Journalists, Overseas Press Club, Harry Chapman Media Awards, Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards, Kentucky News Photographers Association, Atlanta Photojournalism Seminars, Northern- and Southern-Short Courses, among others.
After graduating from Syracuse University in 1989, Linda worked as a photographer for several newspapers in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Ohio. She worked as a picture editor and assignments editor during her three years at The Washington Times. In 1999, Linda joined Knight Ridder/Tribune (KRT), the second largest wire service in the United States. KRT became McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT) in 2006. Since 2007, Linda has been MCT's Senior Photo Editor, where she handles all the photos for the McClatchy Washington Bureau's regional, national and foreign correspondents. Linda is a member of the White House News Photographers Association and National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). She has served on the Board of the NPPA's Board and was its Director or Associate Director for over 10 years. Linda is married with two children and lives in Bethesda, MD.
ALLISON SHELLEY Allison Shelley is a freelance documentary photographer and multimedia creator. Former staff photographer for the Washington Times and previously director of photography for Education Week newspaper, Allison now focuses her work internationally, concentrating on maternal health issues affecting young women. Based in Haiti from early 2010, her photography has been featured in publications such as Time magazine, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, Der Speigel, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Paris Match, and the Guardian. Allison is co-founder/co-director of the 250-member non-profit Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW). Her work has received awards and/or financial support from the National Press Photographers Association, the Society for News Design, the White House News Photographers Association (including the WHNPA Project Grant to support photo and film reportage on the issue of young motherhood in eastern India) and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (for her current project on maternal health and human rights in western Nepal).
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When I was a kid, one of my favorite snacks were frozen pierogi. I would slide down the frozen food aisle, pop open the glass door and grab a bag of Mrs. T's frozen potato dumplings. At that time, I had no idea that pierogis were traditional Polish delicacies or even that what I was eating had a true connection to another culture different than mine. I just knew that the creamy potatoes in a half moon of soft dough tasted good with applesauce and sour cream. Fast forward 20 years, and I've just had pierogis again following a long break from my childhood favorites. Amir and I decided to explore the making of pierogis for this month's Ethnic Exploration. There may have been one small snafu, but after a second go 'round, we got it just right.
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