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School Districts and Property Taxes in Illinois
Illinois has by far the greatest number of local governments in the nation at 6,963, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2012 Census of Governments. The vast number of local governments in Illinois is often cited as a driving factor for Illinois' high property tax rate, one of the highest in the nation, as many of the local governments are primarily funded by property taxes. A large share of these local governments consist of local school districts, which in turn typically make up the largest share of a property owner's tax bill.
While the Illinois General Assembly recently passed and Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law legislation revamping the State's school funding formula, there was not much discussion on reducing the number of school districts in Illinois. You can read more about the new evidence-based school funding formula here.
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2012 Census of Governments reports a total of 905 school districts in Illinois. The Illinois State Board of Education reported a total of 866 school districts in the 2011-12 school year. For the purposes of this blog post, Civic Federation uses school district data sourced from the Illinois State Board of Education, unless otherwise noted.
The chart below provides a comparison of the number of school systems in selected states across the nation, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau.[1] Illinois has the third highest Census-reported number of school systems in the nation with a total of 905. Only California and Texas have a slightly higher number of school systems than Illinois, but the population of those states is more than double that of Illinois. Midwest states with similar populations, such as Michigan and Ohio, both have more than 200 fewer school systems than Illinois.
The chart below displays the number of school districts and the number of schools by grade level in the six county northeastern Illinois region. According to 2017 data available from the Illinois State Board of Education, there are a total of 852 individual school districts in Illinois. Of the 102 counties in Illinois, the six county northeastern region of Illinois contains a total of 292 school districts, or approximately 34% of the total number of school districts in Illinois. Cook County has a total of 147 school districts that oversee a total of 1,163 schools. It is important to note that the public schools in Chicago make up the lion's share of the schools in Cook County with approximately 587 public and charter schools.[2] The collar counties, which consist of DuPage, Lake, McHenry, Will and Kane counties contain a total of 145 school districts that govern the operations of 813 individual schools. Of the collar counties, DuPage and Lake County have the highest number of school districts and individual schools. Interestingly Lake and McHenry County have an average of 4.1 schools per district and at the other end of the spectrum Kane County has an average of 17.7 schools per district.
The following chart summarizes the revenue sources generated to fund school districts in Illinois. The majority of public education funding is derived from local property taxes, making up 63% of local school district funding, on average.[3] Other local funding, such as fees, compose 4.6% of funding. The remainder of school district funding comes from state and federal funding sources.
The next chart shows the total property taxes levied by all taxing bodies compared to total property taxes levied by schools statewide, in Cook County, the collar counties and the rest of the State. A total of $28.7 billion in property taxes were levied statewide in 2015. Of the $28.7 billion levied statewide, nearly $18.0 billion, or 62.6% went to fund school districts. In Cook County approximately 57.5% of property taxes levied go to fund public schools. In the collar counties nearly 70% of property taxes go to fund public schools.
The following chart shows the change in the number school districts in Illinois since the 1983-84 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education. The total number of school districts in Illinois has decreased by 156, or 15.5%, from 1,008 school districts in 1983-84 to a total of 852 school districts in 2017-18. Elementary school districts have seen the largest reduction at 67 or 15.4%. Secondary education districts have seen the second largest percent decline at 22.4% or a total of 28 districts. Unit school districts have declined by a total of 13.6% or 61, from 447 districts to 386 districts.
The graph below displays the number and type of school district reorganizations in Illinois since the 1983-84 school year. Since the 1983-84 school year there have been a total of 159 school district reorganizations. The majority of school district reorganizations were consolidations and annexations and occurred primarily between the late 1980s and early 1990s. There were no school district reorganizations during the 2002-03 and 2016-17 school years.
Illinois Legislators, Governor Bruce Rauner and coalition groups such as Transform Illinois have made great strides in working to reduce barriers to local government consolidation efforts. To read more about recently passed legislation related to government consolidation and the multiplicity of local governments in Illinois see these Civic Federation blog posts here and here.
While the consolidation efforts recently signed into law focus primarily on consolidation efforts at the township and county level of government, there has not been much discussion of school district consolidation in recent years. Local residents and State and local elected officials should now focus on sensible approaches, particularly the consolidation of one-school school districts, to reduce the number of school districts in Illinois, which may have a greater impact on reducing the administrative expenses related to operating so many school districts.
You can learn more about the statutory procedures required for annexing, consolidating, or dissolving school districts and other local governments in Illinois by clicking here.
A forthcoming Civic Federation report will provide a comprehensive inventory of all local governments in Illinois.
[1] While the number of school systems vary based on the reporting agency, the U.S. Census Bureau provides a good source for comparison across states.
[2] Illinois State Board of Education, Illinois Report Card: 2015-2016, https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/SearchResult.aspx?type=city&searchText=CHICAGO (last accessed October 4, 2017).
[3] Illinois State Board of Education, Illinois Report Card: 2015-2016, State Environment, District Finances, Revenue Percentages, https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/state.aspx?stateid=IL&source=environment&source2=revenuepercentages (last accessed October 4, 2017).
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With urbanest King's Cross opening its doors to students two weeks ago, the first computer generated images of what the King's Cross Cafe might look like have been sent over to us.
A mix of soft vibrant furnishings, wood, concrete and steel mesh ceiling gives King's Cross a modern industrial feel with warmth. The type of local hang out you will happily visit for a coffee and bite to eat whilst working on your laptop. As always there will be up to 25 Mb Wi-Fi available in the cafe, and you will be able to buy hot food all day. That means Breakfast, lunch and dinner can all be had from the cafe. Although their are plenty of pastries, healthy snacks and smoothies available if coffee and a full meal isn't what you are looking for.
Each Cafe will be a reflection of the buildings surrounding areas. The cafe at urbanest Hoxton incorporates woods and colours to match its trendy leafy location. Urbanest King's Cross however, will have a modern industrial focus to match the future style and appeal of King's Cross' regeneration scheme.
We will be posting more images of the cafe soon when the designs have been finalised and fitted out in the Autumn of 2013. We will also have an opening date set, so you can be the first to come and see what its like.


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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 464 pgs / 22 color / 450 bw.
Edited by Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols, Matilda Felix, Gabriele Knapstein. Text by Gabriele Brandstetter, Brenda Danilowitz, Arnold Dreyblatt, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Matilda Felix, Mary Emma Harris, Gabriele Knapstein, Annette Jael Lehmann, Catherine Nichols, Andi Schoon, Craig Schuftan, Alice Sebrell.
Briefly out of print and quickly becoming a sought-after book, this gloriously designed and illustrated volume was first published for the exhibition An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933–1957, held at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. It remains unrivaled for its sympathetic design and fulsome documentation. A profusion of archival materials—including photographs of classes in progress and college housing with its Albers-designed furniture, and page spreads from college bulletins and issues of Robert Creeley's Black Mountain Review—is presented alongside contemporary essays. Happily back in print, Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933–1957 traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school.
The book, which will be reissued in April (Spector Books, $50) after being out of print for years, recounts how the school developed organically in western North Carolina's pastoral Blue Ridge Mountains, hosting European Jewish refugees and Bauhaus expats, among others.
FORMAT: Pbk, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 464 pgs / 22 color / 450 b&w.
Published by Spector Books/Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.


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One of Europe's ideal-preserved medieval cities, it's romantic and pretty, with canals, cobbles, and gabled homes. It really is also small: you can stroll from one particular side of the egg-shaped and virtually automobile-free centre to the other in half an hour. And it really is stuffed complete of museums, excellent restaurants, atmospheric bars and cafes, and tempting chocolate shops - Bruges apparently has 47 chocolate makers.
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The New York Public Library's historic Rose Reading Space is one of the city's grandest architectural gems. In October, it reopened following a two year restoration. The renovation repaired cracks, reinforced structure, restored the building's iconic plaster rosettes, fixed damaged murals, and improved lighting. It's a magnificent touch-up job that you might not notice whilst reveling in the beautiful, 52-foot-tall space.


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By: Kacee Kirschvink • Senior Communications Specialist
Interns worked this past summer at Trinity River Wildlife Refuge in East Texas. They were (from left) Theresa Edwards, Andrew Miller and Devon Eldridge.
Planting thousands of trees and keeping hogs, disease and invasive plants from ruining the young forest is a tough job – especially in scorching heat and muddy conditions. But thanks to an environmental grant from Entergy Texas, Inc., the Trinity River Wildlife Refuge is able to do just that.
Entergy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and The Conservation Fund teamed up to plant more than 45,000 trees at Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge, located 45 miles northeast of Houston. Even more trees are planned for 2019.
The reforestation project is part of a two-year initiative to restore more than 100 acres of bottomland hardwood forest. It also provides funding for interns to work at the refuge, performing all types of work, from spraying weeds to protecting the seedlings from feral hogs.
"We're giving the new forest a jumpstart on the growth process," said USFWS biologist Laurie Gonzales.
Gonzales worked with three interns this past summer to care for the area while gaining a better understanding of how the refuge system works and what a future career in wildlife biology and conservation might look like.
"One of the main projects we worked on involved spraying invasive plant species out at Luce Bayou Tract," said interns and invasive species specialists Theresa Edwards and Devon Eldridge. "We have come to realize just how much work goes into restoring an ecosystem once it has been knocked out of balance."
The interns worked through the heat of the summer, garbed in long sleeves and other protective gear, to eliminate Chinese tallow and trifoliate orange from a large portion of Luce Bayou.
"After learning all about various herbicide application methods and mixtures, we set to work trying to eliminate as many of these invasive plants as possible," they said. "We would start first thing in the morning, trying to beat the heat of the day, and methodically work our way through the forests and fields, eliminating what we have come to refer to as 'our nemesis species.'"
Another part of the work involved trapping feral hogs which can severely damage the young trees by chomping on the crowns of the seedlings and rooting them up, Gonzales explained.
"By rooting up the soil, the hogs change the soil chemistry and it changes the nitrogen levels, making the invasive species more plentiful. They open up the ground and allow the invasive seeds to germinate," she explained.
Trees planted included sycamore, willow oak, swamp chestnut oak and water oak. Over their lifetime, the trees will clean the air, provide habitat for wildlife, and filter and hold water for communities along the Trinity River as it flows into the bays, estuaries and waterways of the Gulf of Mexico.
In the coming year, an additional 130 acres of trees will be planted and more interns will care for the property this summer.
"Overall, the summer was an incredible learning experience for us," said Theresa and Devon. "We will forever be grateful for this opportunity to work and interact with so many amazing people and to gain skills, experiences and knowledge that will last us throughout our lives. It has been an honor and a privilege to get to work and learn in such a beautiful place."
Thanks to a grant from another company last year, 300 acres of new trees will have been planted at the refuge by the end of 2019.
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Bulgaria is a small country located in South - East Europe, bordering Greece, Turkey, Black Sea, Romania, Serbia and Macedonia. In spite of its small size Bulgaria is rapidly gaining popularity as a tourist destination.
Why? Because of its various resources.
· Bulgaria does not have the Alps but Bulgaria's mountains are not less beautiful with their wonderfully varied landscape, alternating between rolling green meadows, ancient forests and rugged rocky terrain with dramatic peaks and gorges.
· Bulgaria is not so wild as the remote Siberia but many of the Bulgarian parks and preserves have spots equally untouched by human hand.
· Bulgaria does not have Cote d'Azur but Bulgaria's beaches are among the nicest in Europe - warm, sunny and sandy, and the Bulgarian Black Sea is safe, clean, calm and warm, with sandy gently sloping bottom.
· Bulgaria does not have the Pyramids but the oldest Bulgarian historical sites date as far back as VIIth century BC evidencing presence of Neolithic culture on the territory of present Bulgaria.
· Bulgaria is not as old as Egypt but at the time when the Bulgarian state was founded (681 AC) there were only three countries in Europe: the Western Roman (Frankish) Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) and Bulgaria.
According to the legend when God created the countries he gave each nation a special treasure but when it was time for Bulgaria the riches were finished and, being fair, God decided to give to Bulgaria a small piece of everything.
Thus Bulgaria has mountains and hills, Bulgaria has deep forests, Bulgaria has rivers and lakes, Bulgaria has the Black Sea, Bulgaria has historical, archeological and cultural sites from different epochs, Bulgaria has numerous special activity tours and destinations, Bulgaria has big ski and beach resorts, Bulgaria has small villages of stone and timber houses that have changed very little over the last few hundred years, Bulgaria has delicious cuisine and hospitable people, Bulgaria has … you name it - almost anything you are looking for in a holiday you will find in little Bulgaria.
So whether you are planning a weekend trip or your vacation, don't miss the opportunity to visit God blessed Bulgaria.


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The time has come for men to "lean in" and become full partners for increasing diversity in leadership in our corporations.
This requires moving beyond creating initiatives that become window dressing to proactive leadership actions that drive real culture change.
While we would probably all agree we've made progress relative to diversity and inclusion in the workplace, the facts stand as a reminder that we still have a long way to go. Today women earn more college degrees than men, and within the next decade, Caucasians will become a minority in the United States.
White men are promoted at significantly higher rates than women and ethnically diverse talent. Articles, papers, and studies continuously espouse the benefits of diversity in our workforce.


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Partial cloudiness early, with scattered showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon. A few storms may be severe. High 93F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%..
Partly cloudy this evening followed by increasing clouds with showers developing after midnight. Low 67F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
COLUMN: So long, Litchfield — It's been swell
By Cam Bonelli bonelli@independentreview.net
Cam Bonelli
When I was in high school, I couldn't wait to get out of the magnolia state.
I plotted my escape and dreamed of the day that I could leave. Now, finding myself 1,000 miles away and a bit far from the comforts of year-long southern summers and my family, I have decided to return home. I hate to say it because working in Litchfield has been an incredible experience.
I've enjoyed getting to be a part of Litchfield's rich history during its 150th anniversary and covering events in the town. Best of all, I get to be in Litchfield during Watercade — its crowning event. I guess you can't really say you've been a part of Litchfield if you haven't been to Watercade.
While I'm sad to go, I'll be here for one more week. To all of you who have offered kind words while I've been editor, thank you for making my job easier. Litchfield is full of wonderful people, and there's a lot to look forward to in the coming years. Don't worry — publisher Brent Schacherer will be in my stead to keep the Litchfield Independent Review in ship-shape until they can find a replacement editor. Reporter Sarv Mithaqiyan will be here to document city council and school board as well as write interesting features.
I hope that y'all can look back and enjoy the articles I've written in my time as editor of the Independent Review. It's been an incredible honor to be trusted with the news leadership at the Review and meet everyone in town. Thank you for sharing your stories and thanks for letting me share your stories with everyone.
Before I go, feel free to stop by the office before July 19 to talk or chat. I've enjoyed getting to know this place, its people and the community as a whole. Litchfield remains a special place — on the cusp of the future with the school's referendum, the wellness center and 2020 downtown highway construction to look forward to while maintaining its rich, storied past.
I'm sorry I'm going to miss everything going forward and won't be here to document it, but I'm excited for Litchfield's future. I've learned a lot during my time in Litchfield and hope that I've positively impacted your lives with stories, photos and conversations.
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June- the start of summer, wedding season and also outdoor drinking season!
Summer really is a catch-22 for us Bostonians. The weather is finally nice, so we want to take advantage of it, by packing up and heading out of the city to the beach, to the lake or even to the golf course (MJD will be so proud of me for that one 😉 ). The flip side is that this is such an amazing time of year to enjoy the city. No snow in the way to slow you down or keep you inside. There are less students in town (though there are more tourists), so the Newbury Street sidewalks are just a bit less crowded.
After our long winter, I'm fully committed to making the most of my summer, including both travelling and Beantown fun. If we're away for a weekend, I'm making that extra effort to grab dinner or drinks outside one night that week. If I'm in town for the weekend, I'm planning to spend as much of it soaking in the city as best I can. I even started making a mental bucket list of things I want to do around town this summer. Some of the things on my list include picnics, outdoor yoga classes and harborside lobster rolls… What's on your summer bucket list?
What I'm watching: The HBO Sunday Night line-up. I've said it before and I'll say it again- it's the best night of television ever! This past month Game of Thrones had me cheering, crying and at the end, kind of left me seriously depressed. I can't believe we have another year to wait for it to start up again! With True Detective starting last week, we've got another show to get engrossed in and maybe just maybe, it will help me forget about Jon Snow. #doubtful What's your favorite HBO show?
What I'm reading: Right now, I'm reading At the Water's Edge, written by Sara Gruen who wrote Water For Elephants. I'll keep you posted on how I like it. I also just got Yes Please by Amy Poehler in the mail as a gift from the Google Express team. Can't wait to get into that one! What are you reading right now?
My favorite post this month: The most viewed post this month was my photo diary from Hilton Head. This post definitely is towards the top of my list, since it was such a trip to remember! But I think I have to say the favorite posts I shared this month were my two new fashion posts (see them here and here). I've been wanting to try sharing more of my personal style so was really proud to do that in June. Did you have a favorite post?
What I'm looking forward to next month: 4th of July at the beach with family, a friend's bachelorette party, my first concert of the summer! What are you looking forward to most in July?
I love summer so much that it stresses me out! I want to make sure I am enjoying every moment so hoping for beach days, boating, and lots of gardening and grilling.


4 Disturbing Facts about Strategy: Find out Where Your Company Fits?
Earlier this month, over 200 executives attended ACETECH's One Page Plan workshops in Vancouver and in Victoria. The One Page Plan is one of the most recognized method for companies to undertake a disciplined approach to strategic thinking and execution planning.
Why so much interest in the One Page Plan?
As companies grow and bring on new employees, new issues arise and CEOs will often admit they are not getting the performance they expected from their team. One question we regularly hear from CEOs of high growth companies is "Why is it more challenging to execute on our strategy with more resources and a bigger team?" In many cases the answer may be as simple as "the team doesn't actually know what your companies strategy is".
In a nutshell, employees in the businesses surveyed simply don't know where the company wants to go. Consequently, they are unlikely to execute well on a strategy they can't articulate. By default, employees in these companies become task oriented rather than goal oriented. In this scenario, much of the brain power of the team is lost. Remember, employees are the company's most important asset. This lost opportunity that is hard to quantify, but it has a real impact on the company's ability to succeed.
So, where does your company stand?
Here is a a very simple and easy test you can do internally.
Randomly pick three people at any level in your organization.
If you get three different responses – or no response, you should consider this a wake-up call.
Clarity, Alignment, and Accountability are the three pillars of stellar execution, and there cannot be alignment and accountability without first getting clarity.
Most business simply don't invest the time to get the internal clarity they need to align the team. True, taking a full day with your management team for an off-site strategic thinking and execution planning exercise is an expensive initiative. But every CEO that does it on a regular basis will tell you. It pays off!
ACETECH's One Page Plan workshops help you and your executive get clarity and build a strategic plan that is easy to communicate to your entire organization. That way everyone can understand your goals and help you start implementing right away.
Click here to learn more about ACETECH's Growth Strategy Program.


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Story by Melissa Espinoza, Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Beth Boudreau and Patches
Dr. Beth Boudreau, an assistant professor of neurology, welcomes Patches' family to the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences' (CVMBS) Small Animal Hospital (SAH).
Patches, a sweet and playful dog, is visiting the SAH to be treated for a glioma, a form of cancer that grows in the brain and spinal cord. She is prepped, put under anesthesia, and sent for an MRI brain scan.
The veterinary team patiently waits for the images to load and for measurements to be taken, but the wait was worth it—Patches' brain tumor appears smaller!
Not only is this good news for Patches and her family, but it's also good news on a larger scale for Boudreau and her research team, who have been working for years to understand the tricky tumors.
Boudreau and her team of CVMBS researchers are collaborating with the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to test a new immunotherapy drug through a clinical trial.
This is important work because gliomas also occur in people and are the second-most common type of brain cancer in dogs.
Unfortunately, this type of cancer tends to have a poor prognosis—gliomas are difficult to surgically remove and traditional therapy comes with multiple side effects and a big bill. Even after a high-risk surgery to remove the tumor, plus weeks of radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy, dogs may only survive a few more months.
But Boudreau and her colleagues want to do better.
Time Is Precious
In addition to personal experiences with intracranial cancer, the research team is especially committed to finding a treatment for gliomas because of their distinctly poor prognoses.
"There are a lot of things about it—besides the short survival time and the fact that it tends to affect many younger individuals—that make it especially difficult," Boudreau said. "Anyone who's had a family member or a pet with a brain tumor has dealt with these same things to some degree—the fear, the uncertainty, the really wanting to try to do anything to get more good time.
"It might be that a quarter of their survival time is taken up with dealing with this very difficult treatment," Boudreau said. "We don't just want to extend the number of days; we want to extend the number of days that they get to spend together, having fun."
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This project started about five years ago when Dr. Jon Levine, a neurology professor and head of the CVMBS Small Animal Clinical Sciences department, made contact with MD Anderson.
"They were originally curious about this idea that dogs happen to share that tumor type with humans," Boudreau said. "We still don't know why these tumors arise."
In people, researchers analyze environmental exposures, diet factors, and immune stimulations that "might predispose or protect" certain people with respect to this type of tumor.
"Dogs share our lives so intimately that if these factors are important for people, it's not so surprising that our pets that share our lives would also get them," Boudreau said.
To learn how these tumors work and how they relate to similar human tumors, researchers analyzed a massive canine genomic dataset collected from multiple glioma samples. They found that the tumors are, indeed, molecularly similar, suggesting that the two diseases have a similar mutational, cancer-causing process.
This means that treatments could be similar, as well.
Now, the team has developed a brand-new immunotherapy drug and are conducting clinical trials with dogs at the SAH.
A Targeted Therapy
"We don't just want to extend the number of days; we want to extend the number of days that they get to spend together, having fun."
DR. BETH BOUDREAU
When a dog is diagnosed with a glioma, Boudreau will meet with pet owners to discuss treatment options and her clinical trial. If the family agrees to try the experimental drug, the procedure is scheduled.
The dog gets MRI images taken that will guide the surgeons in administering the therapy before the patient is taken to an operating room, where the Brainsight system is set up to point a needle directly at the glial tumor. A small hole is drilled into the skull so the needle can pass and then the experimental drug is injected directly into the tumor.
If recovery goes well, the dog can go home the next day. In about a month, the dog comes for a repeat MRI to assess if the tumor has decreased in size.
"With this therapy, we're trying to make tumors that do not, on their own, generate a lot of immune response and turn them into tumors that do by injecting them with this immunotherapy agent," Boudreau said. "We also have the option to repeat the injection, because, as you know, with getting a vaccine, when you're trying to stimulate the immune system, sometimes you get a better response if you do it more than once."
These clinical trials are only the beginning.
"It's really similar to what's going on with the (COVID-19) vaccine development everyone is talking a lot about," Boudreau said. "We need to establish that the drug is safe, and we need to establish that it is efficacious."
After Boudreau's data are published, her collaborators at MD Anderson can apply to test the therapy in a human clinical trial to attempt to establish the same results.
"Eventually, hopefully, we will be able to make it an approved treatment for people as well," Boudreau said. "But it's a long road."
Breed Bias
While the team's main focus is the clinical trial, Boudreau said the genetic analysis is an important piece of the project.
"Some breeds of dogs get gliomas a lot more than others. Boxers and Boston terriers are two big ones and then pit bulls," she said. "What we're trying to look at now is differences in the tumors from those breeds of dog, compared to the tumors from breeds of dog that just tend to get them sporadically."
So far, six patients have had the experimental injection and two are still enrolled. The team hopes to have answers by the time they reach 21 trials.
The Neurology team with Patches
To get to this point, the Jackson Laboratory helped analyze the genes and cell regulation of the tumors, and using this information, scientists at MD Anderson, like biochemist Dr. Mike Curran, created the test drug. The CVMBS is now doing clinical trials on the drug. If this works, researchers like MD Anderson's Dr. Amy Heimberger can help make the drug ready for people.
"The benefit of collaboration is huge because none of us could do this alone," Boudreau said. "My goal and Dr. Heimberger's goals are actually probably different. I want a way to treat this tumor in dogs, and, of course, I'm sure she'd be happy about that because she loves dogs, but her patients are people. So, it's great that we can work together.
"And then our genomic study has given us more confidence that these tumors are really very similar and will respond similarly," she said. "But in the end, what I'm hoping for is that we have something better to offer the owners because right now, we're so limited."
While, so far, the outcomes have been promising, science takes time.
"I didn't know how long these things could take and how many things can get in your way; there are so many variables," she said. "It's really a good thing that we have a lot of people working on this from different angles, because, otherwise, we would never be able to explore enough possibilities fast enough."
Grateful Looking Back, Hopeful Looking Forward
"We could not do this without our patients—our trial enrollees—and their families," Boudreau said. "I'm always surprised when they express gratitude to us, because I feel so grateful for them. When they say that in the midst of all of these other things that they're dealing with on a personal level that they want to help other dogs, too, and they want to help fight this disease, I feel like I'm meeting my people."
Because they still need at least 14 dogs to complete their trial, Boudreau said recruitment is key in this project.
"If you have a dog or know someone who has a dog, especially if it's a Boston terrier or a Boxer who has signs of something going on in his or her brain, we'd like you to come see us," she said. "Even if it's not a glioma, there might be something we can help with.
"If it does happen to be a glioma, we would love to try to help out any way we can," she said. "We have this trial, which is not widely available, and we hope that that's going to be an avenue to help some pets that wouldn't otherwise be able to get help."
Boudreau is hopeful and optimistic, much like the families that enroll their dogs in her study.
"When owners enroll, what they're looking for is something they can do, because it gives them a source of hope. When they can't do any of the other treatments but find out they can try this for their pet, I have to explain to them that it might not actually be effective; there could be complications," she said.
"But at the end of the day, the ones who sign up say they're just happy to have something they can try that gives them hope for the next day. When we send the patients home after their injection, because they're doing well enough to go home and we walk down that hallway to the front door, that makes it worth it. Every time."
Note: This story originally appeared in the Spring 2021 edition of CVMBS Today.
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Ranked amongst the Top Ten stand-ups in Britain by The Independent, Ian Stone is one of the most talented topical acts and comperes in the country. Edgy and provocative, with an easy-going manner and self-deprecating style, Ian is at great ease bantering with an audience. He's a member of the Comedy Store's critically acclaimed Cutting Edge team and received a nomination in 2012 for the Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival Awards.
He has performed all over the world and he was the first British stand-up to perform in Moscow and the first performer to appear for The Comedy Store in Mumbai.
Ian's many TV appearances include Mock The Week (BBC 2), The World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy) The Comedy Store (Ch5 & The Comedy Channel), Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC 2), The Stand-Up Show (BBC 1), Saturday Live (ITV), Live at Jongleurs (ITV), The Katy Brand Show (ITV2) and The 11 O'clock Show (CH4).
On Radio 5 Live, Ian has been a regular guest on their flagship sports panel show Fighting Talk. In 2010, he presented Christmas Up The Front, a documentary about performing comedy for the troops in Afghanistan. During the 2010 World Cup, he was part of the team that presented six shows of The Armchair World Cup and was part of the team on The Alan Davies Saturday Morning Show. He also guest presented Radio 5 Live's topical Sunday morning show The Back End of Next Week.
He has also appeared and guested on numerous shows on Radio 2 & 4 and on Absolute Radio he co-presented Rock n Roll Football with Ian Wright every Saturday afternoon throughout the football season for six years.
The show was awarded a Sony Silver Award for Best Sports Programme in 2012 and in 2015 won the Gold Award for Best Specialist Programme of the Year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards.
Most recently, Ian presented the breakfast show on LoveSport Radio.
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Terry Crews had a 'false idea' of masculinity: 'I walked around this world with my chest puffed out'
When actor and former NFL player Terry Crews declared #MeToo in a 16-part Twitter thread in 2017, it was a significant moment for the movement. Crews was one of a handful of high-profile male survivors who stood with the millions of women sharing stories of sexual violence. While Crews said his tweets were cathartic, he also said the reaction to his disclosure underscored the unique challenges male survivors face. After sharing that he was sexually assaulted by a high-level Hollywood executive, Crews was dragged online for "not being a man." He was called a "simp," told his muscle "ain't meant for nothing," and asked how he could let an "old white man" fondle him.
But Crews said when he spoke publicly about his sexual abuse and ultimately held his perpetrator accountable, it was the first time in his life he felt truly powerful. It wasn't the brute strength that propelled him on the football field or the retaliatory beating he gave his abusive father one Christmas. It wasn't the rage that spilled into his marriage or into his parenting. This power seemed to come from someplace different. It was careful, controlled, and being used for good.
In his new memoir, "Tough: My Journey To True Power," Crews challenges a masculinity that demands silence around perpetration, that's defined primarily by toughness, which Crews grew up believing was elemental, and which he now sees as manufactured. It was a masculinity he saw modeled by a father who beat his mother, by neighborhood peers who used violence to instill fear and fellow football players who treated women as property. This is the masculinity he internalized, that poisoned his relationships with his wife, his eldest children, and in many ways himself.
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"I had grown up and lived my entire adult life with a false idea of what it meant to be tough. I walked around this world with my chest puffed out, like I was the alpha male. I saw myself only as strong and powerful. In fact, I was weak and powerless, and everything I did was driven by shame, insecurity, and fear," he wrote.
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Crews' book is a searing repudiation of toxic masculine ideals – an exercise in the very vulnerability the culture suggests is the antithesis of manhood. His book delves into some of his life's most painful and shameful moments in an effort to clarify precisely how these ideals shaped his becoming. He recounts how his father rebuffed his gentle kiss on the cheek, showing him men don't express love. He shares how his burgeoning manhood became a threat to his own mother, who when he was around 11 years old demanded he pull down his pants so she could inspect his genitals for pubic hair. He talks about his addiction to pornography, which led to an episode of infidelity, threatening his relationship with his wife, which he holds most dear.
USA TODAY spoke with Crews about his book, his evolving views on masculinity, and the ways in which he still strives to be the most authentic version of himself.
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Question: This book is vulnerable, which is the core way it rejects traditional masculinity, or as some say, "toxic masculinity." What part of the book was most difficult to write or made you feel the most vulnerable?
Terry Crews: When I talked about the issue with my mother, when I was young and how she made me pull down my pants to see if I'd hit puberty. It was wild because I never envisioned actually being that transparent. It was so difficult because I love my mom and to be honest, I didn't want her to go down as having done something so heinous. But at the same time, it was abusive. This is the stuff that came out in therapy, the stuff that I really had to address.
Q: When you were growing up, showing weakness could have real consequences. It wasn't just that you felt you couldn't show weakness because that's not what a man does, you couldn't show weakness because that could make you a target. How would you advise young people who are growing up as you did to be authentically who they are, while also facing such a strong mandate in their communities to be tough?
Crews: Find your tribe and find your people. One thing that saved me was I did have my best friend and we talked things out together. We kind of parented ourselves. But I have to say a lot of my posturing was necessary. Thank God I didn't get attacked mainly because I played sports and a lot of the gangs left me alone. A lot of times you don't have a choice, especially when you're super young, but as you get older, you always can go a little farther out and that was my choice. I just would encourage people to find people at their church, find people at their school, people that they can trust. When you express the need, a lot of times that need will get met, but sitting in silence, you're guaranteed to have no help.
Q: Your dad's violence loomed large in the book, but I found his rejections of your affection to be among the most painful parts, especially the kiss you gave him when you were just a child, the way he acted as though there was something fundamentally wrong with that affection. How is your physical relationship with your son different than yours was with your father?
Crews: Oh, it's night and day. Let me tell you. I hug my son. I kiss my son. It's a really, really wonderful relationship because I am about finding out what my son wants. A few years ago, we went viral because I remember going home and my son wanted to play video games, and I didn't understand them. I was almost going to jump into that mode of, "Yeah. You kids playing those games," that old thing. But all of a sudden I realized, wait a minute, this is an opening. And so I said, "How about we build a computer together?" And my son, to this day, we never forget that. We're closer than ever.
Q: You say at one point that part of "proving you're a man" is covering up for other men, especially when they do "dumb" or harmful things. Where are you still seeing this kind of complicity around you, and do you think this cultural demand, men protecting other men, is changing?
Crews: Well, first of all, I don't hang in that circle. So lately I don't. But I felt the pull a lot in college, where four guys are going to do something and no one is going to stop them. It's about competition.
The analogy that I have is, you're standing on a beach in California and all these guys are like, "I bet you I could swim to Hawaii." And people take that challenge and they jump in the water. A wise woman is on the side going, "What are you doing?" And these guys will start swimming, but everybody drowns because you can't swim to Hawaii. You just can't.
This is what guys do and no one wants to look like the person who backed down. We've talked ourselves into this picture of ultimate manliness, being this superhero. And the biggest thing about this book is me admitting how mortal I am. Like, I'm a mortal man. Fallible. I could die. But doing these crazy things, my wife had to warn me like, "Yo, you could die doing this stuff. You punching people and jumping around. You go up on the wrong guy, it could be over." Before I wouldn't listen to my wife simply because she was a woman. And it was so ridiculous. Everything that's in this book that I learned, she was already telling me. But I wouldn't listen.
Q: What remains a challenge for you as you strive to be the most authentic version of yourself?
Crews: You think you're over things and then you hear something and you're affected. Sometimes I still feel insecure about who I am. At times I do feel scared. And if someone calls me on it, "Hey, you scared?" I immediately want to match that challenge. This is all part of the therapy. It's all part of not getting baited because you realize a lot of these things are bait and manipulative to pull you in certain directions. Now I can acknowledge when lines are being crossed. Now I can choose which way I want to go.
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Blood cancers are malignant cancers, starting in the bone marrow where produces blood. There are many types of blood cancer.
1. What are blood cancers?
Blood cancers, also known as hematologic cancers, are the cancers that affect the production and function of blood cells. Most of the blood cancers start in the bone marrow where produces blood. The cancerous cells prevent normal blood cells from performing their functions.
Leukemia: it is a white blood cells cancer, which stops them from fighting with infection. When a person has leukemia, his or her bone marrow is unable to produce enough red blood cells and platelets to supply the body's need. Leukemia can be either acute or chronic; chronic leukemia is much more dangerous and hard to be treated. It is the most common type of blood cancers.
Lymphoma: develop in lymphocytes – a type of white blood cells that fight infection. Abnormal lymphocytes can impair your immune system. This reduces your resistance to outer harmful factors.
Myeloma: is a cancer of the plasma cells. Myeloma cancers prevent normal antibodies from being produced, which result in the weakness and susceptibility to infection of your body's immune system.
2. How common are blood cancers?
Blood cancers can affect patients at any age. However, they can be managed by reducing your risk factors. Please discuss with your doctor for further information.
3. What are the symptoms of blood cancers?
Some common symptoms below will show that you may have blood cancer. Therefore, please check yourself carefully.
There may be some symptoms not listed above.
4. When should I see my doctor?
If you have any signs or symptoms listed above, especially if your parents or siblings have blood cancers, please consult with your doctor. Everyone's body acts differently. Therefore, it is always best to discuss with your doctor what is best for your situation.
1. How are blood cancers diagnosed?
If you are suspected to have blood cancers, your doctor may recommend you some cancer blood tests or other laboratory tests. The purpose of these tests is to detect cancers in other parts of your body. However, they cannot absolutely tell whether you have cancers in the blood. In addition, they only can show clues of blood cancers. If they detect an unusually large number of white blood cells, it suggests the possibility of blood cancer.
2. How are blood cancers treated?
Stem cell transplantation infuses healthy blood-forming stem cells into the body. Stem cells can be collected from the bone marrow, circulating (peripheral) blood and umbilical cord blood.
Chemotherapy is the use of anticancer drugs designed to interfere with and halt the growth of cancer cells in the body. Chemotherapy for blood cancer sometimes consists of giving several drugs together in a set regimen. It may also be given before a stem cell transplant.
Radiation therapy may be used to destroy cancer cells or to relieve pain or discomfort. It may also be given before a stem cell transplant.
1. What causes blood cancers?
Uncontrollable growth of blood cells can cause blood cancers. Normal cells in the body follow an orderly path of growth, division, and death; but blood cancerous cells do not. They do not die automatically. More seriously, these abnormal cells can spread into other areas, compress the normal blood cells and prevent them from performing their functions.
Blood cancers are a genetic tendency. Moreover, outside factors can cause this disease as well, such as exposure to radiation, exposure to harmful chemicals, and infection to Human T-cell Leukaemia virus.
2. What increases my risk for blood cancers?
Depending on the different types of blood cancers, the risk factors also vary in each one. Understanding the risk factors can help you find the best solution to prevent them from developing.
GO.CARE does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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Overview of Blood Cancer. http://www.internationaldrugmart.com/health-articles/blood-cancer-overview.shtml. Accessed July 22, 2016.


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Hello all, I am back from my trip to Munich and Berlin and ready to get back to our history. One thing I want to mention that in September of 2008 we were grateful to have a new Assistant Artistic Director and Pianist in the person of Daniel Hooper. Now onto 2009.
Love Bites Pop Rocks, February 6, 7 and 13, The Women's Building. We were 25 strong for these shows. The theme of this Love Bites was LGCSF sings Top 40 hits of bitterness and betrayal. The show on Feb. 13 was a special Adults Only show. We opened with "Love Stinks" and the solos, duets and trios sang "Before He Cheats" "Mr. Valentine's Dead", "The More You Ignore Me," and ended the first half with a song by Eric Lane Barnes called "I Do," which was our ode to gay marriage. The big finale for these shows was Desperately Seeking Love Bites: A Madonna Retrospective which was created by Carolyn Eidson and Stephanie better known as Fifi and Fannie. The songs in this medley were "Love Don't Live Here Anymore," "Live to Tell," "Express Yourself" and "Vogue." Carolyn was an excellent Madonna and the chorus wore cone breasts and vogued. We had lots of fun with this.
LGCSF Sings - Because We Can!, April 3 and 4, Theatre Rhinoceros. This was a concert of the best of our season with some surprises. This was another chance for our soloists, duets and trios to shine along with several full chorus songs. Some of the highlights were two songs from "Wicked," "Popular" and "What is This Feeling?" The first half ended with the chorus singing "Bonse Aba," "Harriet Tubman," and "Such a Nice Brisket" by Jack Curtis Dubowsky. The second half featured several songs by Eric Lane Barnes. They were "Caffeine Overload Polka," "Bittersweet Tango," "Lambscapes: Historical Settings of Mary and Her Lamb," and we finished with "More I Cannot Wish You" with Remy Timbrook soloing. It was good to revisit these songs.
2009 Pride Concert: Let's Get Loud!, June 25 and 26, First Unitarian Church. LGCSF and the Freedom Band were co-hosts for this Pride concert. Our special guests were SFGMC and two of their small ensembles, The Lollipop Guild and Vocal Minority. This was a celebration of SFGMC on their 30 years of singing and sharing their music with the world. It was also the 30th anniversary of The Lollipop Guild making it the longest running small ensemble in GALA Choruses. The concert opened with the Freedom Band playing two songs. Next up was Vocal Minority and then SFGMC and the first half ended with two songs featuring all three ensembles, "Love Has Always Been Our Song," and "The Promise of Living." The second half started with The Lollipop Guild, then more music from the Freedom Band and then we did our set - "Bonse Aba," "Parade," "I Do," and "More I Cannot Wish You." The concert ended with all of us performing "I Am What I Am." This was another great two nights of shared music and being with our fellow musicians for this Pride concert.
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The U.S. took care of business in its World Cup qualifier, and Christian Pulisic and Sacha Kljestan made statements off the bench.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines — The U.S. slammed St. Vincent and the Grenadines 6-0 in a World Cup qualifier here on Friday behind goals from Bobby Wood, Jozy Altidore, Matt Besler, Christian Pulisic (two) and Sacha Kljestan.
The easy win against a team made up mostly of semi-pros meant the U.S. moved closer to a berth in the 10-game final-round Hexagonal of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. After Trinidad and Tobago tied Guatemala later on Friday, the only way the U.S. won't earn a berth is if it loses to Trinidad and Tobago in its next qualifier and Guatemala both defeats St. Vincent and the Grenadines and makes up a 12-goal difference with the U.S.
The U.S. took a little while to get going on Friday, but Wood's smooth (almost effortless) curling finish gave the Americans the lead in the 28th minute, and goals quickly followed in succession by Besler and Altidore (from the penalty spot) for a 3-0 halftime lead. Pulisic and Kljestan came off the bench and polished off the rout, with each assisting the other for the final three tallies.
Yes, Vincy was pretty bad, and yes, he came on with fresh legs against a dead opponent, but it's hard not to be excited about Pulisic, the 17-year-old Dortmund prospect who looked good again on Friday. Wearing the U.S. No. 10 jersey at senior level for the first time (and certainly not the last), Pulisic earned those digits after coming on as a second-half sub.
He took a pass from Kljestan expertly and finished with ease for a 4-0 lead, and then Pulisic returned the favor to feed Kljestan for goal No. 5. His second goal came in added time for 6-0, a lovely, pinpoint shot from the top of the box. Pulisic's quality is apparent the second he joins the game. He just knows where to be, what to do and how to do it with his technical ability.
It would be a just reward to get his first U.S. start in Tuesday's game against Trinidad and Tobago.
On the day that Besler's wife, Amanda, gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Parker, Besler scored the first international goal of his career. Fittingly, he also remembered to do the "rocking the cradle" goal celebration, though one wonders if Besler practices goal celebrations before games, having scored just three in his 206-game MLS career.
His goal came after a set play in which club teammate Graham Zusi lofted a free kick into the box, only for a Vincy defender to head the ball to Besler, who finished like he has scored more goals in his career. You could say that Besler took full advantage of his chance to start with the absence of John Brooks: The U.S. defense also kept a clean sheet.
DeAndre Yedlin earned a yellow card and will be suspended for the next game, so look for Yedlin to fly back to join his new club, Newcastle United, as soon as possible.
With there still being stakes for Tuesday's game—winning the group, which would set up a November hex date at home vs. Mexico—look for Michael Bradley and probably Michael Orozco to return from being suspended for Friday's game. Nor would it be surprising if Besler returned home on Saturday to be with his family after the birth of his daughter.


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Calum Anderson Waters (born 10 March 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for Scottish Championship club Greenock Morton, on loan from Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock. Waters has previously played for Celtic, Dumbarton, Alloa Athletic, Sligo Rovers and St Mirren.

Club career
Born in Glasgow, Waters started his career with Celtic playing regularly for their development side. He played in Celtic's 5–2 win over Rangers in the Scottish Youth Cup final on 21 May 2015.

He joined Scottish Championship side Dumbarton on loan in July 2015, and made his senior debut for the club in a 3–2 victory over Morton on 25 July 2015. He scored his first senior goal in a 5–0 Scottish Cup victory over Alloa, and also provided an assist for the fifth goal.

He joined Alloa Athletic in May 2016 after leaving Celtic. He scored his first goal for the club – the winner – against Ross County in the Scottish League Cup.

Waters signed for Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock in June 2017. He was loaned to Irish club Sligo Rovers in February 2018, on a deal due to run until 10 June. Waters was loaned to St Mirren in August 2019.

On 4 February 2023, Waters joined Scottish Championship club Greenock Morton on loan until the end of the season.

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Living people
Association football defenders
Celtic F.C. players
Dumbarton F.C. players
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Alloa Athletic F.C. players
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Sligo Rovers F.C. players
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Greenock Morton F.C. players
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New fuel economy standards proposed in 2011 by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation could create 570,000 jobs between 2017 and 2030, according to a report released today by the BlueGreen Alliance.
The report was produced in association with the Sierra Club, the United Auto Workers, the National Resources Defense Council, and the American Council for an Energy- Efficient Economy, and can be found here.
And that's why the unions have supported new fuel standards.
"Production of fuel efficient vehicles is good for jobs in the U.S…Jobs are being created by bringing new technology into production," said UAW International Representative Brad Markell today.
These smart regulations create a pathway for more private investment, will decrease harmful greenhouse gas emissions, increase national security by reducing dependence on foreign oil (by an amount equal to today's combined imports from Saudi Arabia and Iraq), and serve as a model of job creation and environmental awareness for other industries.
ACEEE's Nadel said the new fuel standards will increase American GDP by $75 billion annually, without even counting the benefits of pollution reduction, decreases in dependence on foreign oil, and increased export potential. Though he admitted that some jobs in the energy sector could be lost due to decreased fuel demands, a net increase in jobs in other sectors would make up for the shift.
In fact, even though new, more efficient vehicles will be more expensive than those currently marketed, savings from fuel efficiency will outweigh that cost by a factor of two.


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Shhhh ... It's quiet around Eagles punter Cameron Johnston (and that's a great thing!)
On a typical practice day, Jake Elliott, Cameron Johnston, and Rick Lovato walk off the field and disappear.
They arrive together and they leave together. The "operation" is all for one and one for all. When it's time to jump back into the practice scene, they emerge from the NovaCare Complex to get their kicking game on.
But who notices? This year, not many. It's quiet on the special teams front for the Eagles, and that's great news. Elliott in his third season here and is an established placekicker with range and consistency and ice in his veins. Lovato has become a make-it-good every time long snapper by working tirelessly at his craft. And Johnston? Well, all Johnston has done is earn every bit of confidence from the coaching staff by building his consistency over the years to the point where he's the only punter in this camp and … he's … not … a … story.
Not a story?
That's remarkable.
"Thank you. I'll take that," Johnston said, laughing. "I don't really think about it, of course. I'm here to do my best job every day. I know that the guys upstairs are always keeping their eyes open with every position. If I'm not doing my job, I'm going to know about it."
There isn't a peep to say about the Eagles' kicking game, which is remarkable in the NFL. The team has made the transition over the years – remember how tough it was to find consistency at placekicker after David Akers left? – and the new operation is humming smoothly.
Johnston's story is one that blends talent with hard work and dedication. After an All-American career at Ohio State, Johnston signed on with the Eagles as a rookie free agent in 2017 to challenge Donnie Jones for the punting job. Johnston showed enormous promise, but not enough to unseat Jones for the job. After the Super Bowl LII victory, Jones retired from the NFL (he has since unretired and is in Los Angeles with the Chargers) and the Eagles turned to Johnston.
Last spring, Johnston was very much a work in progress. He kept pushing and working and perfecting his technique and by the time the 2018 preseason rolled around, Johnston was booming his kicks, improving his direction, and fine-tuning his touch.
He won the job.
"Yeah, that was a great feeling but you don't ever get too comfortable in this profession and you can never be perfect," Johnston said. "When I was here two years ago, it was a great learning experience. Donnie is such a great punter who has seen everything in the NFL. I felt I improved every day, but it wasn't enough. I just kept working at it. I felt I had the talent, but I had to be more consistent with my technique and with my performance."
At Ohio State, Johnston did what many college kickers do to take advantage of the rules there – he took a few steps to his right before kicking the football essentially on the run. In college, the players on the punting team can release downfield prior to when the ball is kicked, so those two or three steps gave the coverage team time to get down the field.
Nobody is taking steps in the NFL. The goal is to get the football kicked as quickly as possible.
"It was a bit of a difference from college to the NFL, but once I got here it became a matter of refining my technique," Johnston said. "I've worked hard at it, and having Rick snapping it on point every time, it's made such a huge difference. We're working really well together."
Johnston also serves as the holder for Elliott on field goals and he's gained a huge level of comfort with the job responsibilities. This is a well-oiled machine that is ready for the regular season. Johnston kicks every other day in Training Camp – 14 punts in the practices plus another couple of dozen on the side – and Elliott does the same. The workload isn't insane, but the demand for perfection sure is.
In his first NFL season, all Johnston did was set an Eagles record for both gross punting average (48.1 yards) and net punting average (42.7 yards), ranking third and fourth in the entire NFL in those categories, respectively.
He thinks he has improved since then.
And that's why the dozens of reporters who cover the Eagles on a daily basis don't spend much time around Johnston. There isn't any drama here, folks.
"I guess that's the way we like it," Johnston said. "We're just out there doing our jobs, so maybe it's boring. We have a lot of time to make sure we recover – get in the cold tub and things like that. Basically, when we're not kicking, we like to stay out of the way. We don't want anyone to worry about us. We're going to do our jobs and make sure we take care of what we can control. After that, there's no point in worrying about what we can't control."
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Research Central APA Coverage: Carus and Dewey Lectures
Central APA Coverage: Carus and Dewey Lectures
By Nathan Eckstrand
In beginning my coverage of the 2016 APA Central Division Meeting, I am focusing on the themes I saw represented in the major lectures given at the conference. In particular, I will concentrate on Claudia Card's Carus Lectures and Charles Mills' Dewey Lecture. As those who know the work of Card and Mills are aware, both share an interest in social philosophy. Mills has written extensively about race, and Card about feminism and LGBT studies.
More than the topical similarity of their lectures, I was struck by the thematic concern they each shared on the question of returning agency to oppressed peoples. All three talks emphasized that one of the goals of their theory is to show how resistance to the evil forces of racism, homophobia, and abuse, is possible.
Card's introductory lecture, "Surviving Homophobia," illustrates this point by first clarifying what happens when one encounters hostility toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. According to Card, the term "homophobia" is unable to fully explain what is going on with the anti-gay rhetoric and actions found throughout society. A phobia is typically described as an irrational fear—such as a fear of heights or open spaces—but is this really what occurs when one sees hate speech directed toward gays? While elements of fear may be involved in the production of hate speech, one does not see such speech aimed at spiders or clowns. Card claims such descriptions of anti-gay rhetoric and actions medicalizes these behaviors, presenting them as unavoidable and the people who engage in them as not responsible for their effects. It ignores that what is really being internalized is not fear, per se, but hostility.
Card's alternative formulation is to think about anti-gay rhetoric and actions as creating an evil environment. When people write something vicious about lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, or gay individuals, they produce an atmosphere which encourages us to internalize hatred of LGBT individuals. This hostility proliferates through an emotional echoing, whereby we begin to take up and enact the same behaviors and actions that produce the evil environment in the first place. This is why so few people are willing to speak out against anti-gay individuals—there is a feeling that such individuals are accepted within their own society, and that speaking out against them would be like speaking out against nature itself.
The way forward is to treat homophobia as something that is still present. As Card puts it, people do not survive homophobia in the sense of living past it. Instead, one can be said to survive it in the sense of remaining viable in its presence. Card concludes that an important way of resisting homophobia is to engage in political activism, since it turns the evil environment into something that can benefit you and your society.
Charles Mills talked in the Dewey Lecture about how he uses the Western Liberal tradition, responsible for the oppression of black individuals, against itself. The purpose of this is not to overturn liberalism, but to show how those within the liberal tradition should support the work of Black Radicalism. The ontology of liberalism has proven itself to be problematic, inasmuch as its assumption of equality has in the past prevented society from seeing the oppression of other racial groups. Yet as Mills shows, it can be recast so as to reveal the hierarchy entrenched in liberal societies like America, while at the same time providing the tools to overcome this hierarchy.
In explaining the trajectory that brought him to this project, Mills explores his Jamaican upbringing, and his education at the University of Toronto. His experiences led him to several revelations, the first of which was how philosophy as a discipline was lacking in satisfactory theories of emancipation. Seeing the birth of many radical emancipatory philosophies in Jamaica—in contrast with the considerable whiteness of the philosophical field—Mills came to the conclusion that any theory of social justice must include race at its very center. Theories of justice that exclude race only perpetuate the problems under the guise of removing them. The next revelation that Mills describes was his experience of race as he transitioned from Jamaican society to society in Canada and the United States. In Jamaica, Mills's family was relatively privileged, and he was considered not black, but brown. It was not until he left Jamaica that he discovered that racial categories are not fixed, and that in other countries he is considered black. This led to the realization that a key aspect of racial thought must be to show how the question of who counts as a person is not something immediately obvious, but is produced through epistemological structures. With this in mind, it becomes possible to see how philosophies of the past have produced society—and their conception of the individuals who compose it—as white.
Mills, like Card, concludes with some thoughts on emancipation. First, he argues that ideal theory often hides oppression, and so philosophy should move to a model of non-ideal theory that is defined by corrective, rather than distributive, justice. Second, he says that Marxism, in its analytical formulation, can provide some tools to help us think through this problem, inasmuch as it is not focused on what the best society will look like, but on how to address the problems of the past. The best way of overcoming racism is not to think about how, in a perfect society, racism will not exist, but to confront the problem head-on with philosophies that treat race as a central, not a marginal, problem.
We can now see how Card and Mills are both working toward emancipation, albeit from different perspectives, and on different issues. What they both emphasize is that change is possible, but only through confronting the problems and dealing with them. Philosophy has a duty to discuss these problems, for it carries a share of the blame in creating them. What specific actions philosophers should take, both thinkers leave open, though perhaps the best way of describing it comes from Card herself. In the second Carus lecture, entitled "Gratitude to the Decent Rescuer," Card described how fairness requires that someone who has experienced good luck rescue those who need it, but that fairness does not require that you rescue any particular individuals. Rather, the duty is imperfect and open, meaning that each and every person must wrestle with how best to instantiate it.
Given how much work still needs to be done to eliminate racism and homophobia from our society, there seems to be an imperfect duty, which falls to all of us, to address these problems. Card and Mills are working to inspire philosophers to accept this duty and develop a plan to apply it in their own lives.
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