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I write this with the understanding that advising against drafting Calvin Johnson in your league's draft this summer is tantamount to treason among fantasy football's vast and rabid ranks.
Knowing this, I will have left the country by the time this article goes to print, and my family will have been placed into protective custody. Leave us be.
Many people won't read one word past the above headline before they turn their social media bazookas on me. They'll eviscerate me. They'll accuse me of hating the Lions and holding a deep-seated prejudice against men nicknamed for indestructible machines from distant planets.
Well, I kind of like the Lions, and I think Megatron is the coolest and most apt nickname in the history of organized sport.
But I've heard far too many people pledge to draft Johnson with their first-round pick, even if it's in the top five. Or top three. Or top one. I suspect many fantasy freaks would sell their souls to the Dark Lord for a shot at Megatron. I'd like to tell you to step away from Beelzebub, take a breath, and listen here.
Megatron is going fifth in mock drafts this summer, a whopping 11 spots ahead of the second most highly drafted wide receiver, Larry Fitzgerald, and 17 spots ahead of Wes Welker, mock drafters' third most preferred receiver.
This, fellow fantasy fiends, is too high. The wide receiver pool is far too deep this year, every-down running backs are a dying breed, and most importantly, even the mighty Megatron is not immune to mean reversion, no matter how high you are on Matthew Stafford or Detroit's league-leading 666 pass attempts last year.
Megatron vs. Math
After a 2011 season with 1,681 yards and 16 touchdowns, the NFL's mean wide receiver statistical line is rearing its hideous mathematical head, reminding you that everyone – even man-machines — is pulled back toward it without mercy.
In other words, a freakish season like Johnson had last year will likely be followed by a not-as-freakish season. Still good – fantastic, even – but not as good.
Part of projecting player stats involves pretty freaking complicated formulas that help fantasy owners account for the inevitability of reversion – or regression – toward the mean. Using a formula could show that Megatron is more likely to grab 10 touchdowns this season, and that a guy like the Steelers' Antonio Brown will score more than the measly two touchdowns he pulled down in 2011. Aaron Rodgers, according to mean reversion formula, will throw more than the six interceptions he tossed in 2011. These formulas vary from analyst to analyst, but almost all of them show that wide receiver stats are among the least predictable. Quarterbacks and tight end projections, it turns out, are the most reliable.
I'm not going to tell you which formula to apply to your 2012 draft board, but I would suggest taking a close look at Jonathon Bales' positional correlations in "Fantasy Football for Smart People," a book for which I am a total and unapologetic shill. It will help set a realistic baseline for Johnson's 2012 receptions and touchdowns. This, hopefully, will help you avoid sky-high expectations that will leave you weeping in the shower when Megatron doesn't have 18 touchdowns by Halloween.
To pretend the indefatigable Fantasy Douche didn't already break down what mean reversion could mean for Megatron would be disingenuous of me, so let me re-release the knowledge he rained down on fantasy footballers a few weeks ago.
The Douche took results from wide receivers with similar physical attributes – Fitzgerald, Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, and Andre Johnson among them – and told the numerical story of what they did a year after posting big stat lines. You'll see mean reversion lurking throughout the Douche's charts, even if some of that reversion was due in part to a devastating quarterback change (Fitzgerald from 2009 to 2010) or injury (Owens from 2004 to 2005).
Look Beyond The Machine
Your self-made Megatron Blinders have stopped you from taking an absolutely necessary look at wide receiver depth in a league that leans toward the pass more every year.
A.J. Green, a guy who football scout deity Greg Cosell dubbed a top-five NFL pass catcher, is being drafted in the third round in mock drafts. Julio Jones, Atlanta's second-year receiver who is tearing up training camp while "look[ing] like a monster," is being draft 31st on average. Brandon Lloyd, whose chemistry with Tom Brady is causing breathless beat writers to daydream of the offensive possibilities, is being drafted in the fifth round. This, dear reader, is an atrocity. Green, Jones, and Lloyd are all values at their current ADPs, and there's nothing that says those three guys could come within striking distance of Megatron's final 2012 numbers.
They might even, dare I say, top him.
There's also Percy Harvin, Demaryius Thomas, Eric Decker, Carolina's Steve Smith and a finally-healthy Jeremy Maclin – all receivers vastly undervalued in mock drafts so far this summer. Even Dez Bryant, if you can stomach the off-the-field nonsense, remains a great value.
Beware the Running Back Cliff
The projected drop-off from Megatron to fourth and fifth round sleepers isn't nearly as dramatic as the gap between the top-eight running backs and the rest of the league. Positional scarcity should be foremost on the minds of fantasy footballers this summer, and running back is far scarcer than wide receiver.
Megatron deserves to be on a positional tier of his very own, perched above the game's elite pass catchers. And no one – not even me, the one who will be tried for crimes against Megatron – would be shocked to see Johnson finish the season as fantasy's No. 1 wide receiver. I like to stack my lineup with physical freaks, and there's no one more freakish than Johnson. And if I have a bottom-three first round draft pick this summer, I'll snap up Megatron fast enough to tweak a hammy.
But you are overpaying at his current ADP, and the value of a top-tier running back like Arian Foster, Ray Rice, LeSean McCoy, Ryan Mathews, Chris Johnson or Darren McFadden should not be ignored. They will prove their value as the running back by committee approach courses through the NFL, leaving backfields with impossible-to-predict three-headed monsters and fantasy owners with ulcers, alcoholism, and swollen tear ducts.
Probably anyone drafting Johnson as a top-five pick is banking on him finishing 2012 with the same unholy stat line as he posted in 2011 – maybe even better. Take Johnson with a tail end first round draft pick, sure, but cash in your top-five lottery ticket for one of the league's few remaining non-committee running backs, or that Rodgers guy who wears the green and yellow.
I took Calvin in the 2nd round last year & obviously it panned out pretty well…I've already accepted the fact he won't be on my roster this time around.
I also took AJ Green later in the draft.
I don't know how much you put into strength of schedule, but Cincinnati has the toughest matchups for receivers this season, so projecting Green to come close to Johnson is a big stretch…
Good point about AJ Green's strength of schedule. The AFC North is not a particularly friendly place for WRs. But when Greg Cosell, the scouting whiz, says Green has the physical skills, route running ability, and toughness off the line to become the best receiver in football, I listen. Skill — and the Bengals' determination to force feed the ball to Green — could be enough to keep his numbers in the top-5 range. I would concede that his chances of topping Calvin are pretty slim.
This, my friend, is why it was tough to write this piece. Megatron is a supremely safe pick. He has a gun-slinging QB who, when in doubt, tosses up jump balls for Megatron. The offense will continue to be among the league leaders in passes in 2012. There isn't another major receiving threat who could take away significant targets. So I get it. And you have a handful of valid points.
Projections will change, as you know. Doug Martin, by the first week of September, could be projected to score 10 points MORE than MJD (of course, he'd be a top-20 pick at that point). Royster's another guy, as you pointed out, to keep an eye on. So yeah, you can snag a cheap RB in the fifth or sixth who gets 14-18 touches a game. More power to you. But in a passing league, and with the physical prowess and statistical potential of a Julio Jones (for example), I'm saying burning your top-5 pick on Megatron doesn't fit my projections right now. If you have different projections, please, by all means, roll the dice with Mega. He'll never be a bad pick.
I don't follow what you're saying in the comments here.
Why do you say Fitz (WR2, #15) could beat out Mega (WR1, #5), but it's inconceivable that Spiller (RB34, #77) could beat out Arian Foster (RB1, #1)? What is the point of this comparison?
The thesis of your article is that you should take CJ?K, Mathews, DMC, maybe MJD over Megatron. Just because you believe there are steals at WR in the 3rd/4th/5th rounds isn't necessarily reason not to take Mega. (Unless your league only starts one WR).
A better question is: AJ Green/Julio could possibly top Megatron, but could Bradshaw/Martin/FJax possibly top DMC/MJD/Chris Johnson? The answer is definitely yes. You have AJ Green at 21 points short of Megatron. Does MJD outscore D.Martin by 21 or more? I'd say it's a toss-up. Even assuming MJD's holdout doesn't last, it wouldn't shock me at all if he had 150 fewer touches this year than in 2011.
Calvin Johnson's ADP reflects that he's one of the top 5 most proven/safe picks right now. If you can tolerate more risk, you can say that #5 is too early, but it may also be the case that #8 is too late. A few long TDs is all that separates an excellent season from a ridiculous good season. Of DMC/CJ?K/MJD/Mathews/Megatron, who do you think has the best chance of putting up an outlier season? I think Mathews and Megatron are very close, and significantly ahead of the others.
I get the scarcity argument. Whenever there's scarcity, the biggest losers are the ones that chase the supply after it has dried up. It's possible the RB supply actually only goes 4 deep rather than 8. The flip side is that there are a lot of very high upside RBs late in the draft. Especially in a smaller league, there is an argument for loading up on the Gerharts and Turbins and Hillmans and Roysters, and allowing your RB slots to be the weakest, but deepest, position on your team.
This, my friend, is why it was tough to write this piece. Megatron is a supremely safe pick. He has a gun-slinging QB who, when in doubt, tosses up jump balls for Megatron. The offense will continue to be among the league leaders in passes in 2012. There isn't another major receiving threat who could take away significant targets. So I get it. And you have a handful of valid points.
Projections will change, as you know. Doug Martin, by the first week of September, could be projected to score 10 points MORE than MJD (of course, he'd be a top-20 pick at that point). Royster's another guy, as you pointed out, to keep an eye on. So yeah, you can snag a cheap RB in the fifth or sixth who gets 14-18 touches a game. More power to you. But in a passing league, and with the physical prowess and statistical potential of a Julio Jones (for example), I'm saying burning your top-5 pick on Megatron doesn't fit my projections right now. If you have different projections, please, by all means, roll the dice with Mega. He'll never be a bad pick.
I definitely agree with everything written here.
whew. witnessed two drafts today where Megatron went 5th
I would say it IS in fact inconcievable that AJ leads the league for WRs. He gets injured a lot and whats the highest spot he's ever had?
I don't find this very convincing at all. Sure, he's likely to regress somewhat, and I don't think many would argue with you on that. But he is still the only elite WR in a pass first (and second and third) offense with an elite QB. Even after regression, his baseline would be higher than any other receiver and more than justifies taking him 2-3 rounds ahead of Jones, Lloyd, or Green.
I agree that the dropoff is larger after the top runningbacks and there is no way I would take him over Foster, McCoy, and maybe Matthews. However, the other top running backs (McFadden, CJ2K, MJD, Lynch, Turner) have so many question marks that I would gladly take Megatron in the mid first and draft an RB in the next two rounds.
I agree with a good chunk of what you're saying, JeffFromTallahassee. I wouldn't dream of taking Turner or Lynch before Megatron. A late first round pick is a perfect spot to nab Johnson.
Here's the scarcity argument: I have Megatron projected for 203 points this year, Julio Jones projected for 191, Larry Fitzgerald for 190, and A.J. Green for 182. Dropping to the 3rd tier, I have Steve Smith projected for 170, for example.
So even when you get to the WR's third tier, you're talking about a 33 point difference (about 2 fantasy points per week). That just won't happen when you drop to the third and fourth tier RBs. It's not inconceivable that Julio, Lloyd, Green, Andre Johnson, or Fitzgerald could lead the league in WR fantasy points. It is inconceivable that Reggie Bush, CJ Spiller, or Shonne Greene will beat out Foster or Rice or McCoy.
how is it possible that in a world where Megatron is projected to go very, very early that no one is saying BOO to Denny?
i think this is sound advice…you shouldn't take any heat. even in an auction format where you can grab megatron AND a baller RB it's still best to spend big $ on RBs i think…


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Horizon League play is always done in pairs. Each team has a travelling partner and the norm is to play two games on the road or at home over a three day period. During the Gary Waters era at Cleveland State, the toughest road trip for any of the League foes is always the Indiana combo.
Friday night, the then-4-1 Vikings headed to take on their nemesis, Butler, at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in front of a National TV audience. As you know, the Bulldogs have been the darlings of the NCAA Tournament, making the last two National Championship games under the tutelage of wunderkind coach Brad Stevens. Since Waters took over in 2006, his teams are just 2-10 against Butler, with just one of those wins coming in Indy – the 2009 Horizon League title game.
So when the Vikes took the floor Friday night, they had plenty of payback on their mind. They lost three times to Butler last season and have the better team in 2012. They came out smokin from the start and never looked back in a hard-fought, 76-69 win, to put them in a first place tie at 5-1 with Milwaukee. The game was highly entertaining and the usually raucous Hinkle crowd was quieted early and often by the stifling Vikings defense.
The Senior duo of Tre Harmon and Tim Kamcyzc showed early that this one was going to be different. Harmon hit two threes and Kamczyc added seven quick points as CSU raced out to an 18-4 lead five minutes in. As they usually do, Butler creeped back ti within four points at 26-22 and re-energized the home crowd. They were silenced on the next trip down with a triple from the most unlikely of sources, 6-9 sophomore PF Luda Ndaye. It was his first three of the season and it couldn't have come at a better time. At the half, CSU was clinging to a two-point lead and Butler seemed to carry the momentum.
A lot of it had to do with the officiating. I've seen a lot of games in my life, but I can't remember one being so one-sided in terms of fouls being called. Butler fans will tell you its because of the swarming defense CSU plays. I will tell you the refs were blowing the whistles at a ridiculous rate. The Vikings were in foul trouble all night.
The second half was no different. Within the first 10 seconds, Center Aaron Pogue was whistled for his fourth foul and Butler would tie things at 35 before the Vikings got themselves back together. Kamczyc, who is playing some of the best basketball of his career, hit a three to break the tie and then Waters, so frustrated with the officiating, got T'd up. By the Under 16 minute timeout, a Ronald Norad three and a free throw by Andrew Smith gave Butler its first lead at 41-40. CSU fans were all thinking "here we go again." But this time, things would be different.
CSU hit the Bulldogs with a 9-1 run out of the timeout with four coming from Kamczyc and five from Jeremy Montgomery, who had been held scoreless the first 19 minutes of the game. The Senior from Chicago, who played a vital role off the bench as a Freshman in the Vikings upset win over the Bulldogs in the Horizon League championship game, would take over the game. He scored 16 of his 18 points after the break, including the dagger three with just under three minutes to play to put the Vikes up nine. "I just felt good and in rhythm," Montgomery said. "I love taking those type of shots."
Waters's club would leave Hinkle victorious, despite the fact that Butler shot a whopping 42 free throws. CSU attempted 23, but none of those were taken in the final minute with Butler attempting to stretch the game. Five Vikings had four fouls.
"I told them in the locker room, they did a great job under all the adversity," Waters said. "I said: 'I'm proud of you guys. You withstood all that and did what you had to do to be successful.' "
There was really no time for celebrating since they had to go to another tough venue a day and a half later. 4-2 Valparaiso was waiting and coming off a 14-point home win over Youngstown State, a team who stunned CSU for their only conference loss to date. You could almost see this result coming a mile away.
The Vikings came out sluggish, missing their signature tough defense, and allowed Valpo to shoot the lights out on their way to a 72-66 win. From the opening tip, this one was different. Led by Center Kevin Van Wijk, the Crusaders hit their first five shots and led 10-2 before the Vikes knew what hit them.
"When you get into an offensive game like this, you either got to match it, or you have got to stop it," Waters said. "We didn't do either one."
They fought hard to get to within four at the half and trailed 29-25, but they had no answer for Van Wijk in the middle. They tried both Aaron Pogue and Anton Grady, but neither could contain the Crusader big. Throw in a dash of the Horizon League's leading scorer, Ryan Broekhoff and a strong 24 points off the bench, and the Vikings just couldn't handle Valpo's offensive explosion. They started the second half hitting six of their first seven shots and finished the game shooting a jaw-dropping 60% from the field. Van Wijk led all scorers with 23.
CSU, who was so good from deep two nights before against Butler, hit just 6-21 (28%) and it cost them dearly. Only Kamczyc really played well, leading the Vikings with 18. Harmon, Montgomery, and D'Aundray Brown were a combined 11-39 from the floor. When three of your top four scorers struggle that mightily on the road, you aren't going to come out on top, especially when the opponent hits 60% of their shots.
So the Vikings, who looked like they would be in great shape after the win at Butler, now sit in a muddled five team race at the top. Milwaukee, who visits the Wolstein Center on Saturday, leads at 6-1. CSU and Valpo are a game back at 5-2, with Youngstown State and Butler right there at 4-3.
Up next for CSU is a visit from Green Bay (7-10, 3-4) Thursday Night at 8 PM.
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A new Gartner study shows business leaders are ready to spend more money on mobile technology--specifically mobile devices and workforce applications. Even so, analysts predict " a modest compound annual growth rate of 1.3 percent for IT spending in the government and education sectors through to the end of 2017" and "75 percent of government CIO budgets flat or increasing in 2013."
The results were released following a survey of over 1,950 CIOs in both private and public sectors. It revealed that alongside increased spending on mobile technology, implementing mobile solutions is among the top 10 priorities for today's CIOs.
Gartner's figures line up with CIO Magazine's research earlier this year which showed that "IT leaders are seeing increased budgets over the next year, with an overall increase of 4.9 percent, and that mobile/wireless, outsourced IT services (including cloud) and hardware investments are on the rise."
On the surface, it appears that an expected increase in spending is based on the clear importance of mobile technology in the workplace. In reality, it might be based on something far less sexy: Mobile tech is expensive and budgets must be raised to meet the challenge.
Analysts with management consulting firm McKinsey & Company break down some of the figures for us. "The costs of the actual devices and connectivity vary but are typically between $600 and $700 annually for an iPad or comparable tablet. Included in this are infrastructure costs that include technical components such as mobile-device management, expanded e-mail capacity, and help-desk support. These costs typically total $150 to $250 annually per device. Application costs will vary greatly, depending on the number and type of applications and the way they are enabled for mobile."
When you consider that those figures are just for initial device deployment and don't include things like specialized application development or virtual desktop integration, it's easy to see how budgets need to be adjusted upward to accommodate the workforce's rapidly-changing mobile environment.
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New Orleans biotechnology company, Theodent™, is giving kids around the world a great new reason to smile: chocolate-flavored toothpaste. The company will unveil its new Theodent™ Kids chocolate-flavored toothpaste on Friday, Feb 1.
Theodent™ Kids will be available on the company's website, www.theodent.com beginning Feb. 1 and in select Whole Foods Markets beginning March 4. It sells for $9.99.
Theodent™ Kids actually tastes like chocolate, is fluoride-free and has the same cavity fighting properties as regular Theodent™, which contains Rennou™, a propriety extract from chocolate that strengthens tooth enamel. The original Theodent™ Classic toothpaste has a cool and mild minty flavor, however, Theodent™ Kids actually tastes like chocolate yet still fights cavities.
"We gave the kids exactly what they asked us for. There was an overwhelming demand for a chocolate-flavored Theodent™, so we went back to the lab to develop Theodent™ Kids, specifically formulated for young mouths," says Theodent™ President and Chief Executive Officer Arman Sadeghpour, PhD.
Theodent™ introduced its revolutionary cocoa-based toothpaste a year ago. "Now we have the best of both worlds - a toothpaste with an active ingredient derived from chocolate that tastes like chocolate as well," Dr. Sadeghpour said.
Theodent™ Kids is gentler than Theodent™ Classic and its luxury counterpart Theodent™ 300. "Children have more sensitive palates. Their enamel tissue is softer and not as mineralized so they don't need the stronger cleansing that adult enamel does," he said.
"Theodent™ Kids is safe enough for children to ingest. The same cannot be said of controversial fluoride which is unsafe for consumption in large quantities," said Theodent Chief Scientific Officer Tetsuo Nakamoto, DDS, Ph.D., whose team developed Theodent's active ingredient, Rennou™. Rennou™ causes the calcium and phosphorus that is contained in human saliva to stimulate new enamel growth. Rennou™ was discovered by a team of New Orleans researchers who found that it catalyzed the growth of microscopic unit crystals of the tooth enamel to grow larger, resulting in significantly stronger teeth. Dr. Sadeghpour confirmed that the cocoa extract was even more effective than fluoride on human teeth as part of his doctoral research at Tulane University. The technology is patented and available only in Theodent™ oral care products.


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Sheila Tabakoff, Papers, 1970
MAY 4 COLLECTION -- Box 59
Finding Aid
Prepared by Scott L. Bills, August 15, 1980; Updated by Penny White, June 2013.
1 cubic foot (1 record storage box and 3 oversize folders)
Physical Location: 12th floor
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Professor Sheila Tabakoff donated her materials to the Kent State University Archives on March 19, 1980.
Professor Tabakoff was an instructor in the School of Art at Kent State University in May of 1970. After the shootings of May 4, the University was closed by court injunction, and it remained closed for the duration of the spring quarter. Special arrangements were subsequently made in each academic department for students to complete coursework. In the case of the Art Department, mimeographed letters were sent to students' home addresses offering them alternate ways either to receive partial credit or withdraw from the course. In large part, this collection consists of the student responses to the forms that she sent out in the weeks following the shootings.
Professor Tabakoff sent not only academic information but also included informational items and her own commentary on the Kent State situation. She wrote, "It is my personal hope that you will use this period to reexamine your beliefs and aspirations, and to question the direction and policies of your university and your country." She urged her students to contact groups of other Kent State students which had gathered at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve. When the University would eventually reopen, she hoped it would be as a "vanguard of modern education."
Folder one contains, for the most part, intrauniversity memos and mailings; folder two contains the forms and letters which Professor Tabakoff sent out to her students. The student responses have been arranged alphabetically. Responses not including full names have been placed together in folder fourteen. Several items, including a May 1970 issue of the Cleveland underground newspaper Burning River and a poster by the Cambridge Strike Committee, were oversized. They can be located in the horizontal file (hf).
This collection will be of value to researchers examining student and faculty attitudes in the period following May 4, 1970. Students returning their forms often wrote notes concerning the shootings and their feelings on the closing of the University. Interesting as well are materials in folder eighteen which indicate faculty sentiments within the School of Art. Individual items of interest are the Kent State Faculty Resolution of May 5, 1970 (folder nineteen); the May 18 and May 22 issues of the Kent Strike Paper (folder twenty-seven); and informational leaflets from Kent students at Oberlin College (folder twenty-one).
Professor Tabakoff has kindly donated to the Kent State University Archives whatever property and literary rights that she possesses in this collection.
Folder -- Contents
- Correspondence, general: May 11, 1970-May 27, 1970
- Correspondence, Tabakoff to students: May 12, 1970-May 27, 1970. NOTE: Includes Tabakoff commentary on Kent State situation
- Correspondence, students: A-C
- Correspondence, students: D-F
- Correspondence, students: G
- Correspondence, students: H
- Correspondence, students: J-L
- Correspondence, students: M-N
- Correspondence, students: O-Q
- Correspondence, students: R
- Correspondence, students: S
- Correspondence, students: T-V
- Correspondence, students: W-Z
- Correspondence, students: unidentified
- Correspondence, students: unmatched envelopes
- Class rosters for Art Survey 180 and Art History 111, [RESTRICTED]
- Subject file, School of Art Faculty. NOTE: Includes faculty letter to Robert White, May 11, 1970; and faculty letter to students, May 13, 1970
- Agenda, American Association of University Professors, Kent State Chapter, Executive Committee meeting: May 28, 1970
- Resolution, Kent State Faculty: May 5, 1970
- Monthly Calendar, Kent State University: June 1970
- Leaflets, Kent State University community in Exile: May 1970. NOTE: Includes the "Oberlin Proposals"
- Leaflets/Flyers, miscellaneous
- Newsletters, Official Bulletin (Kent State University): May 13, 1970; May 20, 1970
- Newsletter, For Your Information (Kent State University): May 17, 1970
- Newsletters, National Strike Information Center: May 7, 1970; May 11, 1970
- Newsletters, National Strike Information Center: May 12, 1970 (shelved in 12th floor map case)
- Newspaper, Burning River: May 13-May 27, 1970 (shelved in 12th floor map case)
- Newspapers, Kent Strike Paper: May 18, 1970; May 22, 1970
- Newspaper clippings
- Miscellaneous items: undated
- Poster: "The Struggle Has Just Begun ...," Cambridge Student Strike Committee: [summer?] 1970 (shelved in 12th floor map case)


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Sunday, January 13, 2013
Happy, Happy "2013" New Years to you all............Wow, it's been a minute since I've blogged or have been on SparkPeople..........I have my reasons........seems like everyone's computer in Michigan decided to just breakdown all at the same time................My mom's just flat out quit working and my sister dropped her laptop right after getting it out of the shop the same day...........coincidence or what??????
Anyhoo, let me first confess, I was a bad, bad girl when I went home (12/25/12), I gained back 5lbs of the 8lbs I lost, but I had the best time ever, and I really mean �ever�...........I cooked and drank every day until I came back to Florida (1/9/2013).............but, it was all good and I "did not" beat myself up over it.........
The pic above is what I took as soon as I got home��........what I really wanted to take a pic of, was, my mom in tears because me and my daughter was home for the Christmas holiday since 2009 and she had no idea we were coming��.that was a �priceless� moment and I say this because I made my mom cry twice this year (her birthday and now, Christmas)�..lol�..I thought I was going to get cussed out, I wasn�t expecting tears��so, needless to say that got me and my daughter crying���..we are so mush, mush!!!!
These next set of pics are of my mom and children����another priceless moment����.during my stay I went to the Casino on at least 4 occasions and won big money 3 of those days that I went, I�m not sure if my mom was my lucky charm, but between the two of us, of those 3 days we walked away with $1,520 with my mom winning the most. The first day I went I took $20 won $150 and gave it all back�..but those last three days I left with everything I won���feeling that the �2013� year would be mines to take����..
Now, unfortunately, I will have to take 2 steps backwards to move 3 steps forward����I will be going back to Michigan for at least 5 months, not longer than 6 months to help one of my siblings�..he is currently going through a nasty divorce and his youngest child was dropped on his plate (he has been wanting this) so, my job is to be nanny aunt w/pay for the next several months, until I can interview and hire a full time caregiver, who will be able to assist my brother for this long haul. I�ve always told any of my siblings that if they need me, I would return to help them until they could get back on their feet. This will help me in so many ways, 1) by not currently working and my unemployment running out this week, I will get paid weekly, 2) he has brought me a vehicle and will help me to finish paying on a vehicle violation that has been digging in my side for a few years now, so I can get my license here in Florida, and lastly, 3) I can get some delinquent bills paid up���.So, so much for staying away from the cold weather in Michigan brrrrrrrr and grrrrrrrrrrr�
And, these last set of pics are me and my children���we had so much fun together up until my daughter had to go back home to work for that damn Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck���..but, on the other hand, spending the rest of my time with the my son was awesome, because I was able to catch up on all that he was going through��..Since, I left Michigan (2009), my son has been on his own (he�s 22 yrs old now)�living with my mom and helping out�����.he is still with mom and she said she wouldn�t have it any other way����..he pays what he�s supposed to every month, he works hard, and she said she just loves his company���.my son is silly as all get out, he has always been the one who could always make me smile when I was having a piss poor day������now he does that for my mom����.I even went shopping with him for the very first time (another story for another blog---I have never been a shopper, so mom and sister were the shopaholics and handled all of my shopping for my kids and me) and he wouldn�t let me spend any money on myself. At that time, I saw that I had raised him right and he was more of a productive citizen than ever����..without the help of his father, I did the damn thing and I can pat myself on the back!!!!!!!!
Anyhoo, enough of my bragging and talking about home, I thought I would share and let everyone know that I am still here, just didn�t have a computer during that time���..So, I wish all of you a happy and prosperous �2013� New Year�����..
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Happy new year to you too! I am making a promise that this will be my year. I have another 68 pounds to go to get to my second goal, so I am still working on goal #1, Lose 50 pounds. I have lost 42 but keep regaining the same 4-5 pounds every two weeks. I really need to get a hold on BOREDOM eating.
And I am unemployed too! Can I come to Michigan and nanny out?? LOL. Actually, I am going to get a wonderful opportunity after August as my BFF is having her first child, and she knows NOTHING about children. This shoudl be fodder for many jokes of bad taste for the rest of her child's life. And I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Congratulatins for making your mommy cry... it's a special gift that we can give them!
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Glad you and your family had a beautiful and fun-filled holiday season. I think it's wonderful how you and your brother are able to help each other out in your time of need. Happy New Year to you and your family, and best wishes for whatever you hope to accomplish this year. Hope you have a beautiful week. Love the pics.
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Countdown to 21.12.12: Enhanced Awareness
It's been crazy. The truth is too much to take for some people! Some are so lost on the human material illusion that they fall for the experience hook line and sinker.
Now is the time to reconnect with our spiritual selves. I can say that with almost certainty. It's that time. That crossroads in our evolutionary paths. And it's not just because its 2012 and all that. It just seems to be coincidental. Either by design or crazy accident, it matters not. Something significant really is afoot.
Something is no longer the same. The vibrational fabric of our physical nature has changed. Awareness is very much different to how it was. It is being felt and experienced on many different ways by people all over the world and in different walks of life.
And it's a simple fact that I feel like I'm on the crest of the wave with this change in awareness ...I'm in a front line position with the type of work I do and the life I lead. It's been felt just the same by other sensitives walking the path. There are significant numbers of people now waking up from their somnambulist state and finding their lives are no longer the sane. They feel something is afoot too.
The question here is how far up the materialism pyramid does this new awareness reach?
How are the very academic and analytic humans feeling it? How is it manifesting in their lives??
And how are THEY feeling it? They who control us. The minority who ride us like a wheel. They who users as slaves? How are they feeling the change in tension on our leash? They are aware that is for sure. It has been prepared for with all the toxins in air, water and food. With all the attempted hot wiring of our DNA and bodies ...
How are they feeling this shift in awareness I wonder? I sense fear and panic in truth. The cornerstones of their pyramid are being pushed. It won't be long until it all comes crashing down!
The next question mark is ...those who see earth and all of its inhabitants as their commodity ...how are they seeing all of this? Is earth becoming a liability I wonder? What are they planning to do about it? Further genetic modification of the slave race or destruction of the atmosphere we so desperately need to exist on this vibration?
It's an awareness point Iam visiting at the moment. It's all about consequences. What lies ahead? Evolvement, modification or destruction? Will we mere human slaves ever know the answer?


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Flanked by pretty shrubs and climbing bougainvillea, the Galeana makes a peaceful retreat. Perfectly located only 20 metres from Platanias Beach, stunning seaviews can be enjoyed from here, whilst shops, tavernas and bars are all close at hand, with disco-bars and the resort's night-life within 500 metres.
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Single Person Swim Pass $45.00
Family Swim Pass (3 People) $125.00
Additional Family Member: $25.00
Passes available at I.D office located in the Kiwanis Youth Center
Must provide proof of residency in order to obtain seasonal pass
*NON-EXPIRED Town of West Seneca ID Cards Required for entry
|Adult (18+) Resident
|$ 3.00
|Child (4 - 17) Resident
|$ 2.00
|Child (4 and Under) Resident
|Resident Active Duty Military / Veterans
|Senior (60+) Resident
|$ 6.00
|Single Swim Pass Resident
|$ 45.00
|Family Swim Pass (3 Persons)
|$ 125.00
|Additional Family Member
|$ 25.00
Bi-Centennial Pool Admission Regulations
- A Town of West Seneca photo ID card is required to be admitted for use of the pool.
- A photo ID card entitles the holder to Town Resident Rates.
Guest Privileges
1. Anyone without a Town of West Seneca ID card is considered a guest.
2. Residents of the Town of West seneca who wish to bring in a guest must follow the
procedure outlined below:
- Guest must be accompanied by a resident 14 or older of the Town of West Seneca who holds a valid ID card.
- Guests must pay the guest fee.
- Guests have to sign in the "Guest Book" at each visit
- Guest privileges may be restricted on days when the pool is full or near capacity, to ensure space for West Seneca Residents.
Subject to Restrictions
- Children 14 years of age and under must be accompanied by an adult, in the water.
- Life Guards are responsible for having persons removed from the pool if they do not conform with all rules and regulations, including state and local health laws.
New This Year! Mommy & Me for ages 24 - 48 months. Click Here for more information.
Children must be at least 6 years old by August to participate in Summer Swim Lessons
- Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday at the Bi-Centennial Pool
- If any class is cancelled, it will be made up and classes may run past the allotted time frame
- Every week until August 6th & 7th
- Classes are held 10:00 am - 12:50 pm for about 50 minutes each
- All classes are offered at 10 AM, 11 AM & 12 O'Clock
- Once a maximum number of students is reached, that class will be closed
- Each level needs a minumun of 6 students to take place
- Parents & Guardians are not permitted to be on the pool deck during instruction, however the spray pool will be open during swim lessons for observation of lessons. Adults are also allowed to observe lessons outside of the fenced area around the pool
Cost for swimming lessons is $35.00 for Residents & $45.00 for Non-Residents
Level 1 - Age 6+
Helps participants feel comfortable in the water. Each child will develop the skills essential for pool safety and a sense of awareness in the aquatic setting and have a solid foundation of the front crawl and floats.
Level 2
Gives participants success with fundamental skills. Will begin to develop independence in the water and a better understanding of aquatic safety. In addition to the skills learned in Levl 1, students will have a foundation established for both front and back crawl.
Level 3
Builds on the skills in Level 2 through additional guided practice in deeper water. Students will have a foundation established for front & back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke. Students will also begin to develop diving skills.
Level 4
Develops confidence in the skills learned and improves other aquatic skills. In addition to the skills established in Level 3, students will learn the butterfly stroke and improve on diving skills.
Level 5 (Class combined with level 6 course)
Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes and diving skills.
Level 6 (Class combined with level 5 course)
Refines the strokes so participants swim them with ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater distances.
Students will receive a swim card upon successful completion of each level.
Lifeguard Training
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The Town of West Seneca is pleased to be offering the American Red Cross Lifeguard Training program for the 2014 summer season.
The class will run for approx. 8 classes from 9 am -12 pm at the Kiwanis Youth Center & Bi-Centennial Pool.
In order to participate in the Lifeguard training course all participants must meet the following prerequisites & skill assessments:
1.Must be 15 years old on or before the final scheduled session of this course.
2.Swim 300 yards continuously demonstrating breath control and rhythmic breathing. Candidates may swim using the front crawl, breaststroke or a combination of both but swimming on the back or side is not allowed. Swim goggles may be used.
3.Tread water for 2 minutes using only the legs. Candidates should place their hands under the armpits, or above the water.
4.Complete a timed event within 1 minute, 40 seconds:
- Starting in the water, swim 20 yards. The face may be in or out of the water.
- Swim goggles are not allowed.
- Surface dive, feet-first or head-first, to a depth of 7 to 10 feet to retrieve a 10-pound object.
- Return to the surface and swim 20 yards on the back to return to the starting point with both hands holding the object and keeping the face at or near the surface so they are able to get a breath.
- Candidates should not swim the distance under water. Exit the water without using a ladder or steps.
Costs for Lifeguard Training:
$50.00 - registration fee
$150.00 - course fee (paid only after candidates complete the above skill assessments)
For more information on the Lifeguard Training course, please click on the attachments at the bottom left of this page.
West Seneca Recreation offers Aqua Buddies for developmentally disabled children ages 6-12. In this class students will be able to explore the water with our instructors and develop a better awareness to the aquatic setting.
All instruction will take place in the shallow end and with experienced instructors.
Cost for Aqua Buddies
$35.00 - Resident with valid Town ID Card
$45.00 - Non Resident
Tuesdays & Thursdays
This will be a non-instructional time block set aside for only seniors as well as for those who wish to swim laps.
Lap Lanes will be in place to accomindate lap swimmers as well as an open area for those who wish to simply enjoy the pool.
*To qualify for Senior Swim you must show a VALID TOWN OF WEST SENECA SENIOR ID CARD. NO OTHER FORM OF IDENTIFICATION WILL BE ACCEPTED.
*Lap Swim is open to any resident who meets the open swim guidelines for entry. Please refer to Summer_Open_Swim for more information.
**Lap Swim admission will be the same as Open Swim.
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Documentarian Kirby Dick has been compared to photographer Diane Arbus in the way he prefers to open the camera lens to the pained, the freakish and the inexplicable that exists on the margins of everyday life. Over the course of his career, Dick's subjects have included people dying of cancer in a Los Angeles hospice, sexual surrogates in the employ of psychotherapists, actual freak show performers and Vegas showgirls. He also once followed around French philosopher Jacques Derrida for a documentary that attained cult status the moment the 70-year old deconstructionist was forced to entertain questions about Seinfeld. For his latest film, the Academy-award nominated director sets out to answer a simple question: Who actually sits on the film ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America? What qualifies them to rate films? What are their names?
Turns out it's not so simple. The MPAA guards that information so jealously that in This Film is Not Yet Rated, Dick is almost immediately reduced to hiring a professional private investigator to sit outside the gates of the organization's Encino compound and wait for someone to enter or exit. A few telephoto lenses and license plates later, Dick is off on a quest to not only explore the identities of the board members, but also to pull back the shroud of secrecy surrounding the MPAA's practices and its indelible bond to the Hollywood studios. Cinematical spoke to Dick, in town to do press for the movie:
Some of the early festival reviews of this film rounded on you for not proposing a lot of solutions to what you view as the deficiencies of the MPAA. Did you feel it was your job to point a way forward, or were you satisfied with just shining a light on problems with the organization? What's your response to that criticism?
KD: I did make a significant effort to get that in. The film itself had a very complex structure, with all these multiple elements, but I think in retrospect I would have worked even harder to try to get that in. Because I definitely have a strong opinion on that. What I'd like to see first and foremost is that the ratings system get out information about what the content is in films. That is one thing that the MPAA claims it's doing, but it's doing a very poor job of. I would like to see a concise but comprehensive list of the content of a film, whether its sex, violence, nudity, or drug use, so that parents can make the decision as to whether they want their child to see the film, and not have ten anonymous parents in Los Angeles make that decision for them. I'd like to see a professional system. One of the surprising things was how unprofessional this process was. There are no written standards. The raters receive no training whatsoever. There are no media experts or psychologists, unlike in Europe where it is professionalized. Also unlike in Europe, there's no transparency to the system. We should know who the raters are and we should know how the process works. In Europe everyone knows who these people are and they do their job just fine.em>
Elaborate on what kind of 'training' you would like to see these raters undergo. Because there's certainly a school of thought that says 'I'm glad the MPAA is just counting up 'f-words' and breasts like Screenit.com, instead of performing some half-assed psychological evaluation on a film and then conjuring up a rating based on that.' To do that would be just as controversial and possibly more opaque, wouldn't it?
KD: That's a very good question. First of all, one has to develop some professional standards and methodology even to list content. There has to be some training for that even at Screenit.com. But the training becomes more important if they're actually applying ratings to films and age-based restrictions to films, because then you're making decisions as to the potentially harmful effects of films to adolescents. All of that is content dependent. You have to have a certain media literacy to be able to make those decisions. Someone who has no background in media studies ... I mean, I think there's an argument for having some parents on the board, and maybe that's their only qualification. I can see accepting that, but those people have to be trained. And finally, on the NC-17 rating, I think there should be another rating between NC-17 and R. All the films I focused on in my film and all these art films that are now getting the NC-17 because of sex and violence -- those should fall into this new category. They should be separated from pornography.
So what should get the NC-17? An overt sexual fantasy film with non-stop nudity like Showgirls?
KD: I don't even think Showgirls. I mean, it's sexual. Showgirls is not going to have any real damaging effect on an adolescent. I'm talking about pornography, or really, really, violent, violent films. Those should be the ones. I would accept the restriction that no one under 18 could get into those films. But films like Showgirls or The Cooler -- these are films where it's up to the parent to let their child see. There have been many studies done on the impact of sex on the behavior of adolescents and there's really no evidence -- and this is pornography we're talking about -- there's no evidence that even pornography negatively influences adolescents. There's no reason to be restricting adolescents across the country, but if parents want to restrict their children, that's their right.
Do you think the MPAA's power is naturally on the wane, as a result of general trends in technology and culture? This isn't 1948, when two-thirds of the U.S. population would show up at the movie theater on the weekend. Movies carry nothing like that kind of cultural weight anymore, and all signs point to a continued slide into deeper irrelevancy, at least where the mass culture is concerned. If the MPAA wants to chug along with its antiquated conventions and hand out its ratings, then so what?
KD: Well, I actually think the MPAA would prefer that there be no rating system at all. But if there is going to be one, they want to control it. They want to make sure their films get the least restrictive rating possible and get out to the widest possible marketplace. Right now, they make films that target adolescents and adolescents respond to violence. That's why you see violent films getting off with very easy ratings. Their competition is independent films and porn films. Films with more mature themes and films with sexual, adult material -- those films get the NC-17 rating. The MPAA has set up a system that it controls, that allows its films to get out to a very wide audience and prevents the competition's films from getting out to a wide audience. So it's not so much an issue of power in this regard. If there's no rating system the MPAA doesn't care, but whatever rating there is, the MPAA wants to control it.
Now, the fact that there's now a DVD marketplace where they don't apply the same ratings, even though its the same distributors, is an indication of the hypocrisy. But even more so, the fact that they can make a film R-rated and then release it on DVD as an NC-17 or an X-rated film -- this setup allows them to sell the same film twice to the same filmgoer. In some ways, it doubles their marketplace, or increases it substantially. They're benefitting monetarily from this rating system rather than addressing the hypocrisy of having one arm of their company insist that they can only release a film as 'R' and then turning around with the other arm and releasing the film as NC-17. So that's another reason they don't want things to change.
So let's say there's no nationwide ratings board, and that authority is devolved to local jurisdictions. What obstacles would that present? There's the famous example of Dallas, before the MPAA came about, which was very restrictive in terms of what could be screened inside Dallas city limits and what couldn't. What if the alternative to the MPAA leaves people in Nowhere, Kansas unable to see any mildly controversial film at a public theater?
KD: Well, okay. The least restrictive rating that the Dallas rating board used was a rating that prevented children under 16 from entering a movie. That is less restrictive than the MPAA's NC-17 rating. So if the MPAA is arguing that it prevents worse censorship, well, in fact censorship was not as bad as what the MPAA [currently] engages in. So I think that's a very bogus claim. It's true that there were a number of ratings boards operating, but nowhere near as many films were restricted. They weren't restricted as substantially as they are by the MPAA.
Tell me a film of the last few years that you think was grossly misrated by the MPAA, and maybe lost its economic viability as a result of that.
KD: A Dirty Shame, by John Waters. This is a film that has really no sex in it, and it should really have been rated R. And if it had been rated R, it would have been responded to by audiences much the same way Team America was, where a comic filmmaker is making a film with ribald sex and pushing the envelope. I think it would have done much better. I think the NC-17 rating hurt it substantially. Also But I'm A Cheerleader by Jamie Babbit, even though she ended up taking an 'R', the fact that that was rated NC-17 was outrageous. It was obviously rated that because it was a story about two girls who went to a sexual reorientation camp and fell in love. There was one masturbation scene. She's masturbating and her hand is obscured and her clothes are on. There's a very short shot of her hand over her crotch and then it moves up to her face. That gets an NC-17 rating, while in American Pie a boy is masturbating with a pie and that gets an R rating. That's a clear case of homophobia in the ratings system, and there are dozens and dozens of examples.
Did you approach any filmmakers to interview for this project who turned you down out of fear of reprisals by the MPAA?
KD: Yeah, there were many independent filmmakers who really supported the project but who were afraid to talk to me because they were afraid that if they were seen in this film their future films might be rated more harshly by the ratings board. Some were even afraid of being branded troublemakers within Hollywood. And within the studio system, no one would speak to me on the record even though there was a great deal of support within the creative community for this film and a great deal of antipathy toward the ratings system.
What kind of oversight can the public exercise if the MPAA acts inappropriately? I'm thinking in particular of a scene in your film where Matt Stone claims to have received extensive notes on how to edit a studio film to avoid an NC-17, while receiving no notes at all for an independent film. If those kinds of shenanigans are really going on, then it's extremely problematic. It borders on a kind of civil rights violation where artists are concerned.
KD: I agree with you. It's very egregious, and if the system were transparent they couldn't get away with that. If you knew why ratings were given for particular films and if the filmmakers knew -- if all of this was made public -- then they couldn't do this. This is one of the reasons they insist on this incredible secrecy. It's not because this is so important -- we're not talking about national security here. They argue that the reason for the secrecy is to keep the raters isolated or immune from industry influence, but the only people who influence them are people within the studios because those are the only people who have contact with them. Heads of production and post-production supervisors have contact with these raters, often on a weekly basis and over many years. They develop relationships. And like Matt Stone said, they are able to get the information about what they need to do to get their film rated a particular way. They are able to influence these raters and sometimes even influence their votes.
These days, when you hear about directors re-submitting their films to the MPAA to receive a harsher rating than the one originally given, the whole thing starts to seem like a time-waster and a farce, doesn't it?
KD: Yeah, I think it is really a farce when you see people gaming the system like that. In principle, I don't really have an objection to that, but I have an objection to the fact that none of this is done with transparency. If a filmmaker, for whatever reason, decides he wants to edit more objectionable content into his film, that's the filmmakers' right, as long as its transparent in terms of how it goes through the ratings process, because the public has a right to know.
Anything else you'd like to add? Any message you want to get across that we didn't touch on?
KD: Well, one thing is that there's a petition on the IFC website that you can go to and sign. We're going to be delivering these petitions to the MPAA. That would be one thing. Another thing would be that Hollywood listens to money. They read those box office reports. They'll know that if a lot of people see this movie, then they must be outraged by the system. I hope they'd then be compelled to respond with at least some changes.
Okay, last question. Do you know who holds the lease on that big, fancy MPAA building on Ventura Blvd.?
KD: You know, I don't. We may have done some research on that, but I do not know.


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Spring is only three weeks away! On today's fresh app list, Oscars Trivia keeps you buzzing about the big show, Hiking Diary preares you for spring hikes, and Eye Color Booth Pro turns your photos into eye-popping wonders.
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Did you get enough of the Academy Awards last night? Didn't think so. Keep the red carpet rolling onward with this trivia app.
Find multiple-choice questions on award winning and nominated movies, actors, actresses, and directors. Photos of stars will help jog your memory. The app tracks the score of your current round of questions and your best ever score.
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Spring will be sprung soon enough. Get ready for the great outdoors by downloading this adventure app.
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Brain Science
WWU faculty and students explore the depths of the mind
Story by Mary Lane Gallagher
Jon Bale explains that the clear liquid hes carefully dripping into a glass test tube in the laboratory contains neurotransmitters, the chemicals that allow brain cells to communicate with each other.
Working on a research project studying brain neurochemistry with Associate Professor of Psychology Janet Finlay, Bale is getting important research experience for a student who aspires to become a neurologist.
But Bale knows the real beneficiary of his long hours in the lab are people with schizophrenia, like those he once met while accompanying a doctor treating psychiatric patients.
Those troubled by hallucinations could find relief with medication, Bale saw. But medicine didnt seem to alleviate other symptoms like extreme emotional detachment or disorientation even though, as he says, they can be just as debilitating.
Finlay is most interested in these so-called cognitive symptoms of the disease, which also include loss of short-term memory and attention deficits, all of which can make it impossible for people to live on their own. And those are the symptoms shes targeting with her research.
In this lab, were working on (research) that can go on to help people, Bale says. Its a very real experience for me.
Finlay, Bale and other student researchers are studying the anatomy of the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that governs high-level reasoning and helps us navigate social interactions. Theyre studying structural abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex and their link to the symptoms of schizophrenia.
Dozens of WWU students like Bale are working alongside faculty researchers in WWUs four-year-old Behavioral Neuroscience program, an interdisciplinary effort of the Psychology and Biology departments.
While neuroscience programs are common at large research-oriented universities, its rare to find a program like this at a university like Western, where undergraduate education is the focus, says Finlay, the programs director.
I have worked with more undergraduates in the lab in one quarter at Western than I did in 10 years at the University of Pittsburgh, Finlay says. At large universities such as the University of Pittsburgh, she says, the emphasis is generally on training graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
At WWU, each faculty member in the Behavioral Neuroscience program is conducting research with the help of up to 10 undergraduate research assistants. That means students leave WWU better prepared for doctoral programs, medical school and jobs in the biomedical research field, she says.
Finlay says the goal of the program is to train undergraduates in the four cornerstones of brain science: physiology, chemistry, behavioral analysis and anatomy. Faculty research areas range from schizophrenia and brain injury to memory and addiction.
Shes proud of the faculty whove come to the program. Many have impressive research experience: Assistant Professor Jackie Rose, for example, published an article this year in the prestigious neuroscience journal Neuron.
Other faculty members include Professor Roger Anderson, associate professors Mike Mana and Jeff Grimm, and assistant professors Jose Serrano-Moreno, Heather Van Epps and Kelly Jantzen.
I just cant believe the faculty weve been able to bring together, Finlay says.
Behavioral Neuroscience got an important boost from the state Legislature in 2007, when they provided some enhanced funding for the program partly to promote the states biomedical research industry.
And just as importantly, Finlay says, students got excited about studying brains, too, drawn to a field that combines biology, chemistry and psychology. The program started small and remains selective, with 17 students now working toward a Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Neuroscience.
All the students felt like they had discovered the area themselves, Finlay says.
Take John Harkness (09), who calls himself an ultimate success story for General University Requirements. Harkness was interested in business, or perhaps philosophy, when he took a Psychology 101 class for a GUR.
He found his home.
Fascinated with the possibility of studying both human behavior and the biology and chemistry of the brain, Harkness applied to become one of the first Behavioral Neuroscience majors soon after the program began in 2005.
He asked Grimm for advice on getting involved in research, and Grimm suggested Harkness stop by his lab to see for himself. Harkness soon worked with Grimm to explore the brain science behind sugar cravings, co-authoring a paper with Grimm and presenting research at several conferences.
Harkness also co-founded a student club, Neuroscience Research Driven Students, or NeRDS.
Now a doctoral student in neuroscience at Oregon Health Sciences University, Harkness returned to WWU this fall to present his research at the annual Pacific Northwest Chapters meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held at Western for the first time this year.
Finlay was delighted that colleagues from both the Seattle and Vancouver/Victoria regions selected WWU as the place to gather.
Its one more indication Western is on the map as far as neuroscience goes, she says. I think people will be surprised at what weve become.