Mediaboss Marketing

I think closure is the right word for it. NDSU President Dean Bresciani, Athletic Director Gene Taylor and head football coach Craig Bohl held a press conference last Tuesday that they hope will put an end to the voter fraud fiasco that took the Bison program by storm.

The situation died down in the media after a couple weeks of bashing, but sparked back up after the 10 players pleaded guilty in their court appearance last week. The three NDSU honchos did a great job with their press conference that I believe will put the situation at rest, as it should be.

Bresciani issued a written explanation, Taylor apologized for his remarks after the CSU game and Bohl suspended starting running back Sam Ojuri for one game and gave his reasoning for doing so. They each fielded questions from the media and then walked out of the room and out of the situation.

Sports are funny, really. Off the field issues usually draw more attention from media than on field performances. Thats just the nature of the media beast, I suppose. NDSU should realize this, considering the football team had plenty of legal issues just a few years ago.

But this situation had a new dimension. No one ever expected football players to be involved in a voter fraud case. I dont think the college officials, coaches, or even the media really knew how to handle it. Taylor and Bohl decided to let it play out. Some agreed and some didnt.

Once the court handed out the punishment-- almost a year of unsupervised probation and hours of community service-- I think many may have realized the media coverage on the situation went overboard. NDSU was more known

for the voter fraud case than defending National Champions for a few weeks.

The entire football program was the target of criticism. They were ambushed with insults and ridicules. Looking back, was it too harsh? I mean, many jumped to conclusions and threw their opinions out to the public right away.

Letting the situation play out probably enhanced these criticisms. But finally, a press conference with a final statement was held. Explanations were given, questions were answered, and the University as a whole is moving on. Everyone else should follow these mens lead.

The players will serve their punishments with the law and within the team. The school officials handled the situation their way and stuck to it. The team as a whole hasnt shown any signs of distraction on the field. Not much more can be asked for.

See more here:
Search the Archives

By Cathy Yamsuan Philippine Daily Inquirer

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

Just when everyone thought the smoke had cleared, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV have gone at it again.

This time, Enrile said he would bare the truth about Trillanes during next years campaigna move the Senate President believes would cost his young colleague his reelection bid.

Trillanes, in turn, dared the chambers oldest member to attend a seminar on public policy he was willing to conduct after Enrile accused him of copying an old bill on the countrys baselines territory that Enrile had authored.

The word war that began three weeks ago was apparently rekindled by rumors that Trillanes was behind a white paper that was circulated last week listing Senate reporters allegedly on the take from Enrile.

Hard copies of the list were left in the Senate press office.

Trillanes denied any hand in the anonymously penned charge sheet in a phone conversation with the Philippine Daily Inquirer Thursday.

I did not do that, he said, after learning that he was the prime suspect behind the paper.

Trillanes also called other Senate reporters to deny that he was behind the white paper.

Original post:
Enrile, Trillanes resume word war

My computer runs Windows XP and I have Word 2003. I can read PDF files, but I need to be able to convert Word docs into PDF format, and vice versa. There seems to be a bewildering array of downloads on offer, and I'm a bit wary of trying them.

Look no further than a freeware program called PDF Creator (http://goo.gl/ntC1E) and it works with any Windows application that uses the printer. To create a PDF all you have to do is go to Print on the programs file menu, select PDFCreator on the list of installed printers and click OK. A few seconds later your newly-created PDF appears in your default viewer. Going the other way, i.e. converting PDFs into Word documents is even easier. In your PDF viewer select Text or Edit mode, highlight the text you want to import and press Ctrl + C (copy). Open a blank Word document and press Ctrl + V (paste). This may not work if the PDF has been protected or if your PDF viewer doesnt support text capture, in which case try Foxit Reader; its also free and youll find a link to the download at: http://goo.gl/bRKr6

See the rest here:
How do I convert Word documents into PDFs?

Series note: The Storm conducted exit interviews on Thursday, giving me the opportunity to ask players everything from views on their season to fashion and hair tips. I'll post conversations from each in the upcoming days. Centers Ewelina Kobryn (Poland) and Ann Wauters (Belgium) won't be featured due to their quick return home. Here's a conversation with co-captain Lauren Jackson, who missed 25 WNBA games due to preparing for the London Olympics with her Australian national team and suffering from a re-occurring hamstring injury.

Q: What's your plan injury-wise when you return home? Lauren Jackson: I'm going to go home and get rehab on my back and stuff and yeah, get better. In Australia, because I play in Canberra where the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) is, they have a history of getting me right. Of getting my body right because it's just a focus on core and everything like that. When I go overseas to Europe, that's not the focus even though it should be. I feel pretty confident that it'll be good.

Q: And you feel confident you'll be back next season? You are under contract. Jackson: Yep.

Q: Over the last few years, how have you felt about being surrounded by older veterans even as you age? Jackson: This year's weird. To be honest. It still doesn't feel like it happened at the moment. Obviously we just played and we trained a little bit, but I didn't really spend any time with anyone. It was sort of come in and get ready to play. I didn't really get to hang out or anything. But it was good. Tina (Thompson) has got so much experience. I played with Katie (Smith) last year and she's very intense, she's good. Obviously it was different without Swin (Cash) and Ash (Robinson) in there. But that's just the evolution of sport.

Q: So do you even feel like you connected? Jackson: Yeah, it's just bizarre because I only came for 10 games. I don't know how many games I played. But Tina and I have been friends for a long time and I'm good friends with the girls that have all been here, so it was just getting back into playing. It was different. It just feels like, for me cause I haven't been here for the whole season, it doesn't feel real. But I think that's just because it's been a very bizarre year. There have been lost of highs, lots of lows. When I was (playing) in Spain, I thought about how long this year was going to be. And now this year is over. It's really weird that it's all still happened and at the moment I'm kind of like, 'What happened?'

Q: Was coming mid-season more difficult than you expected? Jackson: Absolutely. Yes, very much so. I'm not sure if I'll play in anymore Olympic Games or anything like that, but I'm not sure it'll happen like that ever again. Last year I made a commitment to the Australian Olympic team and that was something I had to do for me. It was my last go-round. I don't regret it. But it was very difficult.

Q: In the future, if you decided to play for the Olympic team, you'd skip the WNBA season altogether? Jackson: I probably would do what I did in 2008 or 2004, which is probably miss one or two games and then go to the Olympics and then comeback rather than miss an entire (chunk of the season). I wouldn't do that. Only because I've learned from mistakes. But, like I said, I don't know if I'm going to go another time around (Olympics). It's four years away.

Q: How have you seen Camille Little develop? She was a constant while you were gone. Jackson: Camille, from when she first came to now, she's developed a lot. But she was always just special. She always just did the little things, got rebounds, could play good defense. That was just her game. She did the dirty work. Now, she's developed offensively and she's a great teammate. It's fun watching her.

Q: She was cute in pointing out the fact that she gets to say she knows Lauren Jackson because you're not the type to just make friends with anyone. How do you react to that sentiment? Jackson: She said that? Three of my closest friends are on this team -- Camille, T (Tanisha Wright) and Sue (Bird). To be able to have those friendships is so very special. It doesn't matter what happens, they're always going to be there. With Camille, T and Sue, it developed over a period of time. It wasn't like we were instant friends. It gives me shivers thinking about how our friendship has evolved and how close we are. I'm lucky, I'm fortunate that I have them as friends and teammates as well because it's definitely something that motivates me to want to get better and next year play better because I want to be everything to those guys. It's weird, but I'm very fortunate to have them in my life.

Q: That sounds very sweet. How many close fiends do you have in Australia? Jackson: I've got a lot of different friends. I've got basketball friends. I've got my school friends and the people I grew up with, you know, Katrina Hibbert is one of my best friends. And then my family. I don't have a lot of friends, but people I do have in my life, they're the most important things to me.

See the original post:
Storm Exit Interviews: The word from Lauren Jackson

Contact: Leo Clarke, Director of Media Relations, Angelico Press, 616-304-3405, lclarke@angelicopress.com

TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 8, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Angelico Press is proud to announce the publication of 'Beauty in the Word, Rethinking the Foundations of Education,' a remarkable new work by Stratford Caldecott.

Leo Clarke, Director of Media Relations, says: "When we published Stratford's 'All Things Made New' last fall, we were excited to learn that he was already at work on a book that would consider 'What is a good education, and what is it for?'. Now, in 'Beauty in the Word,' Stratford answers those questions by shining a fresh light on the three arts of language in a marvelous recasting of the Trivium whereby Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric are explored as Remembering, Thinking, and Communicating. These are the foundational steps every student must take towards conversion of heart and mind. If your concern is for the true meaning of education for your children, here is the place to begin."

Stratford Caldecott is an editor of the English edition of 'Magnificat' and editor of both 'Second Spring' and 'Humanum.' In addition to 'Beauty in the Word' and 'All Things Made New: The Mysteries of the World in Christ,' his books include 'The Seven Sacraments: Entering the Mysteries of God' (Crossroad, 2006), and 'Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education' (Brazos, 2009). He lives in Oxford.

Anthony Esolen, Professor of English at Providence College and prolific author on Western culture, wrote the Foreword to 'Beauty.' He notes that the Trivium, as portrayed by Caldecott, "is an education that penetrates the heart and mind with light" and that, in 'Beauty,' Caldecott beckons us 'to ascend with him at last and see, once more, the stars."

Early reviews of 'Beauty in the Word' are uniformly excellent. For example, Aidan Nichols, O.P., author of 'Redeeming Beauty,' says, "'Beauty in the Word' is the fruit of a lifetime's thinking about the relation between faith and life. Those responsible for new initiatives in Catholic schooling have a chance to recreate the inner spirit of education and not just its outer frame. They will not easily find a program more inspirational than the one presented here." And Catherine Pickstock, University of Cambridge, adds, "Stratford Caldecott's words about beauty are themselves beautiful, and also wise; learned and also arresting. He offers a rare combination of intelligence and profound vision, yet combines this with accessibility and luminous transparency."

Stratford Caldecott's 'Beauty in the Word' (ISBN 978-1-62138-004-7, $14.95/9.95) is now available at http://www.amazon.com or through http://www.angelicopress.com.

Angelico Press publishes books and ebooks that share the riches of Catholic intellectual, cultural, and spiritual life. Our catalog ranges from Aquinas to Chesterton, from Wolfgang Smith to Jean-Claude Larchet. We look to present the fullness of the Church's tradition in ways not commonly found, and to publish affordable, quality books that offer avenues of insight for inquiring minds of all ages and backgrounds. For more information, visit our website or email us at info@angelicopress.com.

Originally posted here:
Angelico Press Announces the Publication of 'BEAUTY In The Word,' A New Book on Education by Stratford Caldecott