Wellington teams split; wrestlers place fourth; JV boys lose first; South Haven rolls
South Haven85510—28 Junior varsity girls: Wellington 49 Collegiate 18Wellington JV girls stayed undefeated.Wellington 5 16 20 8 — 49Collegiate 6 7 2 3— 18Wellington: H. Wright 14, McComb 13, Lewellen 9, Whaley 5, S. Wright 4, Fink 2, Zimmerman 2. Central15121819—64 South Haven – Lowe 7, Harris 9, Yunker 13, Cully 8, Upton 1, Byers 10, Schuster 4, Ray 10, Moreland 3.Norwich – Wallace 6, DePriest 1, Norris 3, Coleman 2, Bartel 9.Attica 42, Caldwell 32Caldwell lost a tough one when Attica outscored the Bluejays 16-4 in the fourth quarter. Caldwell was in front 28-25 going into the fourth. Norwich6131110—40 Wellington wrestlers at Marion TournamentThe Wellington wrestlers went 3-2 in the Marion Tournament placing fourth out of the 16 dual team tournament.In its second consecutive night, Wellington opened with a 42-36 victory over Douglass, then beat Riley County 46-36 and Hillsboro 60-18. At 3-0, Wellington fell to eventual tournament champion Chanute 51-24.Wellington fell to Fredonia 39-33 for fourth place.Individually, Jason Haydon at 160 pounds went 5-0. Graysen DeJarnett at 113 went 4-1, Andrew Pelkey at 138 went 4-1; Justin Bruns at 152 went 4-1. Sumner County games:Boys: Conway Springs 52, Belle Plaine 24Conway Springs improved to 4-2 with a convincing win over Belle Plaine. The Cardinals led 15-4 at the end of the first quarter and was in front 31-10 at the half. Junior varsity boys: Collegiate 61 Wellington 59The Wellington junior varsity boys have been undefeated until Friday night when Collegiate came into town.Scoring for Wellington were: Phelps 9, Daugherty 5, Baker 4, Reichenberger 6, Dunn 11, Blue 4, Albright 8. C team boys: Collegiate 60 Wellington 56Scoring for Wellington: Phelps 4, Gilmore 11, Kimzey 1, Jones 1, Blue 10, Pettegrew 12, Hyde 6, Lowe 2. Oxford: Patterson 7, Williams 2, Burkes 13, Norris 9, Catlin 2, Jones 9, Kennedy 6.Central: Hopper 2, Koppelmann 15, Lawson 15, Loewer 11, Mettling 4, Fischer 17.South Haven 65, Norwich 21South Haven romped and stomped Norwich. Central-Burden313410—30 Close Forgot password? Please put in your email: Send me my password! Close message Login This blog post All blog posts Subscribe to this blog post’s comments through… RSS Feed Subscribe via email Subscribe Subscribe to this blog’s comments through… RSS Feed Subscribe via email Subscribe Follow the discussion Comment (1) Logging you in… Close Login to IntenseDebate Or create an account Username or Email: Password: Forgot login? Cancel Login Close WordPress.com Username or Email: Password: Lost your password? Cancel Login Dashboard | Edit profile | Logout Logged in as Admin Options Disable comments for this page Save Settings Sort by: Date Rating Last Activity Loading comments… You are about to flag this comment as being inappropriate. Please explain why you are flagging this comment in the text box below and submit your report. The blog admin will be notified. Thank you for your input. 0 Vote up Vote down Proud Aunt · 399 weeks ago Love seeing that 5-0 J Haydon! Keep it up! Report Reply 0 replies · active 399 weeks ago Post a new comment Enter text right here! Comment as a Guest, or login: Login to IntenseDebate Login to WordPress.com Login to Twitter Go back Tweet this comment Connected as (Logout) Email (optional) Not displayed publicly. Name Email Website (optional) Displayed next to your comments. Not displayed publicly. If you have a website, link to it here. Posting anonymously. Tweet this comment Submit Comment Subscribe to None Replies All new comments Comments by IntenseDebate Enter text right here! Reply as a Guest, or login: Login to IntenseDebate Login to WordPress.com Login to Twitter Go back Tweet this comment Connected as (Logout) Email (optional) Not displayed publicly. Name Email Website (optional) Displayed next to your comments. Not displayed publicly. If you have a website, link to it here. Posting anonymously. Tweet this comment Cancel Submit Comment Subscribe to None Replies All new comments Oxford10121511—48 Caldwell: Webster 13, Halling 7, Whaley 5, York 3, Kendrick 2, Dierking 2. Totals 13 (3) 3-13 32.Attica: Newberry 13, Deviney 10, Ramirez 6, mcDonald 6, Woods 4, Pinkston 2, Howell 1. Totals 13 (3) 13-16 42.GirlsConway Springs 63, Belle Plaine 17Conway Springs rolled to an easy win. Conway Springs — D. Murphy 12, R. Rasmussen 12, T. Echelberry 11, R. Pauly 6, N. Oswald 6, D. Murphy 3, J. Fisher 1Belle Plaine — Q. Hervey 5, C. Throop 5, B. Gann 4, A. Johnson 4, G. Schnieder 3, T. Balsters 1C-Burden 64, Oxford 48Oxford lost its first game of the season when Central outscored Oxford 19-11 in the fourth quarter to pick up the win. Gage Burkes had 13 points in the losing cause. Oxford – Norris 9, Payne 18, Moore 8, B. Metz 7, K. Metz 1, Whitlock 2. Totals 16 (0) 13-34 45.Central-Burden – Moore 18, Beavers 4, Liebau 6, Loewer 2. Totals 8 (0) 14-25 30.Norwich 40, South Haven 28A 13-5 run in the second quarter was enough to lift Norwich to victory. Attica4111116—42 by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — The Wellington varsity girls got their first Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League Div. IV victory of the season, the boys weren’t so fortunate. The Wellington wrestling team placed fourth at a 16-team Marion Tournament. And Sumner County teams were hard at work…The roundup of Friday night’s action is as follows:Wellington vs. Collegiate: Varsity girls: Wellington 41 Collegiate 30Sydney Shields at the free throw line. She scored 5 against Wichita Collegiate.The Wellington girls broke a two-game losing streak with a spirited victory over Wichita Collegiate.Sparked by a 12-0 first-quarter output, the Crusaders held a healthy 7 to 13 point advantage the rest of the way.Senior Savannah Cornejo scored 16 points in the winning effort. Wellington is 2-2 overall hoping to get a victory at Clearwater before the Christmas break this Tuesday.Collegiate 0 13 9 8 — 30Wellington 12 10 7 12 — 41Collegiate: Skar 2, Payne 6, Dunn 13, Root 5, Hull 4. Total: 5 (4) 7-13 30.Wellington: Cornejo 16, Jenkins 7, Hefley 6, Amrein 3, Ledesma 2, Shields 5. Total: 11 (2) 13-24 40. Conway Springs — S. Echelberry 17, S. Sones 16, A. Smith 12, B. May 8, C. Ebenkamp 6, K. Morris 4Belle Plaine — K. Ast 6, B. Balzer 6, B. Balsters 5Oxford 45, Central-Burden 30 Oxford8101116—45 Belle Plaine2573—17 Belle Plaine4695—24 Norwich34104—21 Varsity boys: Collegiate 64 Wellington 44Wellington held tough with the sixth ranked Collegiate Spartans for about a half. Wellington was down 24-21 with 1:29 on the clock, but Collegiate then went on an eight-point run to end the half leading by 11.It was too much of a deficit to handle. Collegiate would outscore Wellington 15-7 in the third quarter and was up by 30 points late before Wellington went on a run to cut the deficit to 20. Marcus Phox, flopping and all, scored 26 points for Collegiate. Wellington had nine players score but none reached double figures. Trevor Nance and Logan Woodbridge both had 8.Collegiate 13 19 15 17 — 64Wellington 10 11 7 16 — 44Collegiate: Baheadpour 5, Kemmer 9, Chugg 3, Phox 26, Christian 4, Brown 2, Mann 3, Copher 6, Root 1, Larsen 3, Holt 2. Total 13 (5) 13-19 64.Wellington: T. Miles 4, Weiss 6, Becker 4, Nance 8, Woodbridge 8, Reichenberger 1, Wolff 2, Carroll 6, Peck 5. 13 (3) 9-18 44. Conway Springs23181012—63 Caldwell51584—32 South Haven19161713—65 South Haven – Barlow 4, Harris 1, Turek 3, White 8, Parks 2, Jacobs 10.Norwich – Klaver 10, Rust 11, Poe 10, Poljansek 4, Vavra 2, Stephens 3. Conway Springs15161011—52
Close Forgot password? Please put in your email: Send me my password! Close message Login This blog post All blog posts Subscribe to this blog post’s comments through… RSS Feed Subscribe via email Subscribe Subscribe to this blog’s comments through… RSS Feed Subscribe via email Subscribe Follow the discussion Comment (1) Logging you in… Close Login to IntenseDebate Or create an account Username or Email: Password: Forgot login? Cancel Login Close WordPress.com Username or Email: Password: Lost your password? Cancel Login Dashboard | Edit profile | Logout Logged in as Admin Options Disable comments for this page Save Settings Sort by: Date Rating Last Activity Loading comments… You are about to flag this comment as being inappropriate. Please explain why you are flagging this comment in the text box below and submit your report. The blog admin will be notified. Thank you for your input. -1 Vote up Vote down Student · 226 weeks ago It’s not volunteer work if we get suspended if we don’t show up. No excused absences either Report Reply 0 replies · active 226 weeks ago Post a new comment Enter text right here! Comment as a Guest, or login: Login to IntenseDebate Login to WordPress.com Login to Twitter Go back Tweet this comment Connected as (Logout) Email (optional) Not displayed publicly. Name Email Website (optional) Displayed next to your comments. Not displayed publicly. If you have a website, link to it here. Posting anonymously. Tweet this comment Submit Comment Subscribe to None Replies All new comments Comments by IntenseDebate Enter text right here! Reply as a Guest, or login: Login to IntenseDebate Login to WordPress.com Login to Twitter Go back Tweet this comment Connected as (Logout) Email (optional) Not displayed publicly. Name Email Website (optional) Displayed next to your comments. Not displayed publicly. If you have a website, link to it here. Posting anonymously. Tweet this comment Cancel Submit Comment Subscribe to None Replies All new comments by Amber Schmitz, Sumner Newscow — As Service Day fast approaches, the Wellington High School Leadership Class is gearing up for the event, which is set for Wednesday, April 13.“This will be our fifth year of Service Day,” said Karla Defore, instructor. “Leadership students have been responsible to plan it for four of those years.”Defore said the prep work is extensive.“Just the logistics of transportation is something like the moon landing, haha,” Defore said.The class is seeking participation from the public. They are in need of meaningful service that can be performed by students, while supervised by WHS teachers. There are about 40 teachers, so locations are needed where at least 10 students can serve. There will be approximately 400 sophomore through senior students in the community and 125 freshmen students at the high school.“First, we need places to serve,” Defore said.All locations need to provide three hours of service, from about 8:15-11 a.m., for 8-25 students. WHS teachers will provide supervision for all students. A description of the work to be performed, how many volunteers you can host will need to be provided, and know that all supplies needed will be provided by the location. When students choose their location, there is no guarantee that this service will be performed. Non-profit organizations will be given preference.“Secondly, we are in need of contributions,” Defore said. “Each meal cost only 25 cents. We would like to top last year’s mark.”Last year, students packaged 5,000 macaroni and cheese meals through the Outreach Program for use in the community. Some of those meals were distributed through the Meals on Wheels for Kids Summer Program, while others were given to the Wellington Food Bank. Donations may be sent to Wellington High School Leadership Class, 1700 E.16th, Wellington, Kansas 67152.Service Day was started several years ago, and students were able to perform volunteer service for the community.“We feel it teaches students the value of community and their role in making our town a great place to live,” Defore said.For more information, please email Karla Defore kdefore@usd353.com, or leave a message with the WHS office at 326.4310.Follow us on Twitter.
Facebook just escalated its ongoing tension with President Trump.On Wednesday, the social media company said it had removed a post from the president’s page for containing false claims about the coronavirus.The post was comprised of a video of an interview the president gave to Fox News on Wednesday morning.“This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,” Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said in a statement Wednesday evening.pic.twitter.com/wxCTuk4GdP— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2020 He added that the specific comments that went against Facebook’s rules were Trump’s false claims about children being nearly immune to the virus.The same clip was posted to Twitter by the Trump campaign, which was then shared from the president’s main account.Although this is not the first time that Facebook has removed content from the president’s page, it is the first time a removal has been due to its COVID-19 misinformation rules.Neither the president nor the White House have issued a response yet to Facebook’s action.
Facebook88Tweet0Pin0Submitted by Geoffrey Ankeney, MD, Family Practice, Kaiser Permanente Olympia Medical CenterI strongly recommend you get your flu shot. This is because, although I don’t know what it feels like to be run over by a herd of wooly mammoths, I think I have a good idea thanks to the flu.I once claimed a required flu shot was against my religion, which isn’t exactly trueunless by ‘religion’ you mean, “I believe needles hurt.” But that year I did end up on the list of objectors and, lucky me, I didn’t have to get the shot.Then, surprise! I got the flu a few months later.I honestly think I’d have preferred the mammoth stampede. The first symptoms attacked suddenly. My body ached, everywhere. Toes, waist, forehead. Heck, I think my eyelashes hurt.All these guys had to protect them from illness was armor. We have the flu shot.Not long after, the fever and sore throat arrived. Advil barely helped, and swallowing the pills gave the distinct impression of swallowing thistles. Or fishhooks.In a moment of miserable circumspection, I realized that uncontrollable shivering (the next in the march of symptoms) when every square millimeter of my body ached beyond reason, is an experience that deserves a place in the Tower of London’s Torture Museum.Speaking of Medieval suffering, the flu has been killing people for a long time. Hippocrates described it 2400 years ago. We know of a bad outbreak in 1580 where around 8000 people died in Rome and wiped out numerous surrounding villages.And, of course, Spain is where the great pandemic of 1918 started (nobody’s fault, we’re all friends here) and killed something in the 50-100 million people range. That’s the entire death toll of World War II, just to give a little scope to the devastation. Even today, nearly 500,000 people globally die every year from influenza.How is it that what amounts to little more than a bad cold becomes such a killer? All kinds of ways, but the flu is particularly adept at damaging lung tissue, allowing a very quick morph into pneumonia. Also, the immune system can react so harshly to the infection that severe sepsis develops, which can quickly become lethal.Aside from the ‘religion’ thing, I also avoided the vaccine because it’s only a prediction by the CDC of which flu strain would arrive in the upcoming winter. Their predictions can be only half-right. Why get it?The reason is because even a half-right vaccine will soften the blow of a flu infection. What’s more, even if you don’t die from the flu, lots of people around you don’t have the Ninja skills of your immune system; they’re praying nobody throws the virus their way. What gives you a miserable week can kill someone’s kid.These days, I get my flu shot every year. Sometimes I’ll get a second one, as penance for the year I skipped. (I’m kidding. I still hate needles.) Pretty much everyone is eligible with a few exceptions. And yes, there are risks, but they’re minor and improbable.So even with the few risks, just go get the flu shot. The alternatives are far worse.
LITTLEROCK – Just about everything in the High Desert has changed since Lin Parker began his coaching career as an Antelope Valley High assistant in 1966. As the sparsely populated desert countryside has given way to new homes, restaurant chains, neon lights and booming growth, the stubbornly old-school Parker has remained one of the area’ few remaining constants. That link to the past is about to end. Parker, a direct descendent of some of the region’s earliest settlers in the late 19th century, concludes a 40-year coaching career and a three-year stint at Littlerock – the seventh high school for which he’s coached – when the Lobos play host Antelope Valley tonight at 7. The types of victories that are reflected on scoreboards and box scores have become scarce at Littlerock for various reasons, including lack of enrollment and discipline issues. Four players were taken off the team three weeks ago for non-football reasons. Last week, four others were declared academically ineligible. Littlerock (3-6 overall, 1-4 Golden League) ended a 16-game losing streak with a 9-7 victory over Boron in Week 2. The Lobos’ 50-3 rout of Knight on Oct. 28 was its first Golden League win since 2002. Parker, who has 165 career victories, has had to find wins teaching what he considers valuable life lessons. “When you don’t get a whole bunch of wins to hang your hat on, you’ve got to talk to them about how to behave and what it means to be a grown man and not just a teenage punk,” Parker said. Beneath a crusty exterior, by all accounts, is a coach. “People have this image of Parker as this gruff, old-time coach, and the truth is he does demand a lot of you, but he also gives a lot in return,” said Rosamond coach Kevin Rizer, an assistant under Parker at Highland who followed Parker to Rosamond in 2002. Said Littlerock senior tight end/defensive tackle Ryan Cambaliza: “He understands why we lose. It’s hard for him, it’s hard for everybody here, but he understands it.” Parker leaves a program at Littlerock he said has been his most enjoyable coaching experience, mostly because the players give what they’ve got knowing they’re unlikely to receive any tangible rewards for their efforts. “It’s certainly not the scenery,” he said, pointing to the barren hillsides that surround the campus. Parker won’t completely rule out a return to coaching. He’s attracted to the possibility of helping out a small school near the cabin he owns in Kernville, where he’ll pursue his favorite hobbies: hunting, fishing and baking bread. Baking bread? “It’s not something most coaches do,” Parker said. “I have this starter thing for sourdough my aunt gave me 40 years ago, and I’ve kept it going.” He hopes the players he’s reached out to over the years will do the same with some of the life lessons he’s tried to instill in them. “Hopefully, these kids will say when it’s all over Thursday night that it was a valuable experience for them,” he said, “and, whatever happens on the field, that they’re happy they got the chance to play.” Gideon Rubin, (818) 713-3607 gideon.rubin@dailynews.com 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREWalnut’s Malik Khouzam voted Southern California Boys Athlete of the Week Parker, who turned 62 Wednesday and is eligible for full retirement benefits, cited fatigue as a primary factor in leaving the only career he’s known. “I’m tired of driving home tired,” Parker said. “It wasn’t always like that. I used to have energy; I used to mow my lawn when I got home. Now my feet hurt when I get home.” Parker’s coaching accomplishments include being Caltech’s now-defunct program’s all-time winningest coach. He started Highland’s program, led it to league titles in 1996 and 1999 and a Southern Section Div. II semifinal appearance in 1996, but was unceremoniously dismissed in 2001 after 13 years at the school. He took over the Littlerock program in 2003 after a year at Rosamond. 
(Visited 1,003 times, 1 visits today)FacebookTwitterPinterestSave分享0 A biology professor who came out of a Darwinian communist country explodes origin-of-life speculation with real world facts about genetic repair mechanisms.The Latest OOL FollyScientific materialists are prone to wild speculation as they concoct implausible scenarios for the origin of life. Why? Because they allow no competition from non-Darwinists. If you are not a scientific materialist, or if you subscribe to theories of causation beyond the Stuff Happens Law of sheer dumb luck, you are out of luck, as far as getting your ideas published in the science journals. For this reason, the secular media get away with loony ideas such as the following:Meteorites may have brought building blocks of life to Earth (McMaster University Daily News). This hypothesis of special delivery of “building blocks of life” by meteorites into pools of sterile water that underwent wetting-and-drying cycles was published in PNAS., where they invent the acronym WLP to stand for Darwin’s “warm little ponds”. Words cannot describe how foolish this hypothesis is for those who know the facts of molecular biology, but readers are coaxed to get all excited by the media’s enthusiasm:Life on Earth began somewhere between 3.7 and 4.5 billion years ago, after meteorites splashed down and leached essential elements into warm little ponds, say scientists at McMaster University and the Max Planck Institute in Germany.Their calculations suggest that wet and dry cycles bonded basic molecular building blocks in the ponds’ nutrient-rich broth into self-replicating RNA molecules that constituted the first genetic code for life on the planet….“No one’s actually run the calculation before,” says Pearce. “This is a pretty big beginning. It’s pretty exciting.”Life on Earth May Have Started with a Cosmic Splash (Space.com). “A new study bolsters the theory that the chemical origins of life on Earth were midwifed by meteorites that delivered essential building blocks from space.” Actual human midwives came a few billion years later, according to the Darwin cult.Evidence suggests life on Earth started after meteorites splashed into warm little ponds (Astrobiology Magazine). “Though the “warm little ponds” concept has been around since Darwin, the researchers have now proven its plausibility through numerous evidence-based calculations.” See Illustra’s Origin clips for a more realistic view about ‘plausibility’.Their scenario relies on the myth of progress. Researchers assume that building blocks somehow ‘want’ to build themselves up into living entities, starting with a simple RNA molecule that can replicate itself. Replicators in the ‘RNA World’ may be crude at first, but in Darwin Fantasyland, they will ‘want’ to get better over time. Natural selection is Tinker Bell’s magic wand for ratcheting up the success rate. What they fail to remember is that (1) Known RNA replicators are best at cutting themselves up, not getting more complex (and no, they don’t ‘want’ to get better at it – they want to fall apart), and (2) Without accurate replication from the beginning, ‘error catastrophe’ sets in, destroying any gains. Here is a dose of realism to shame these imagineers back to the real world.A Quick AnswerThe anonymous biology professor that we quoted in our September 20 article had this to say about real-world biology:Now, as far as the wonder of biochemistry, I wonder if I may be just briefly permitted to add to your wonderful description of the beginning. And that is that every cell in our body, every single day of our life, sustains more than 20,000 lesions to the DNA. So the question is not just, “How did life originate?” but “How is life even possible?”. And these 20,000 lesions, by the way, are merely from endogenous causes. It’s like working in the kitchen: you get a little wet, you’re a little burnt, a little cut, this, that, and the other. If you work in the garage, same thing: you always have to have a box of bandages somewhere nearby handy, for a very simple reason, because you expect it, you are going to sustain some injury.Similarly, on a molecular level, every cell sustains 20,000 lesions every single day of our lives, to its DNA. So the question is, “How is it possible for life to even be maintained?” And that necessitates a fully-developed repair machinery that is already in place when you begin with life in order to maintain the integrity of the DNA. When that repair mechanism fails for whatever reason—and it is a very elaborate one (some records say that the most modest bacterium has more than 200 repair mechanisms in play at all times)—are we getting the sense of the complexity of this? So it’s not sufficient to get just a ‘replicator’. You have to have the repair shop for it. And then you have to have all the repair tools, and the repairmen, in order to maintain this thing from falling apart. And people who for whatever reason have lost some of these repair mechanisms, they display many of the repair disorders that result from that.Jonathan Wells was present when the professor made these comments. He added,One thing I would add as a molecular biologist/embryologist is that even if you have all this stuff you’re talking about (and you need it to survive), there’s more on top of that. For example, when the DNA is transcribed into RNA, the RNA, or the protein from it, has to go to a certain place in the cell to do its job. That spatial information is not in the DNA. So there are whole other levels of codes. There’s the bioelectric code; there’s the membrane code; the sugar code—all in addition to the DNA. So life is really wondrous.So unless materialists invent the repair kit alongside the replicator, the replicator falls apart within the first few iterations. Hear the professor’s comments on ID the Future, 9/18/17.And that’s just the beginning of woes for the secularist. Follow our “Origin of Life” category for mountains of evidence we have shared for 16 years now that destroys any unguided scenario for the origin of life, including the ‘RNA World’ joke.For more problems with Darwinian theory, read this book.We need to get angry at these charlatans and their enablers in the media. How much longer can we endure their shenanigans? Remember, too, that the entire Darwinian edifice (the House of Cards), with all its amoral, wicked baggage rests on this foundation of sand. Stop letting them get away with it!
Share Facebook Twitter Google + LinkedIn Pinterest Frost Arrived as Harvest ContinuedTemperatures continued to cool down as frost appeared throughout much of the State last week according to Cheryl Turner, State Statistician, USDA NASS, Ohio Field Office. There were 5.1 days suitable for fieldwork in Ohio during the week ending October 21. The rain held off again this week and soils continued to dry out to adequate levels. Corn harvest continued to outpace the 5-year average. Soybean harvest moved ahead 15 percentage points, but lagged behind the 5-year average. The frost on the 18th and 19th signaled the end of the growing season for many. Corn condition increased slightly from 82 percent rated good to excellent condition last week to 83 percent this week. Soybean condition remained the same at 79 percent rated in good to excellent condition last week and this week. Other late season fieldwork included installing drain tile, fall tillage, and cutting and baling hay. Winter wheat planting and emergence continued slightly behind the 5-year pace. The average moisture content of corn harvested last week was 18 percent and the average for soybeans was 14 percent.Click here to read the full report.
Orson Wells, considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, constantly struggled to finance his projects. His films were masterpieces, but he had a reputation for going over budget and not bringing his investors a return. He made only fourteen feature films in his long career.Roger Corman, his contemporary, directed fifty-five films. He actually wrote a book called How I Made 100 Films in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime. I’m not saying you should shoot movies like Roger Corman instead of Orson Wells, but if Wells had approached filmmaking more like Corman, we might have another dozen Orson Wells masterpieces.Let’s consider a more modern example. This video fails on almost every level as a film . . .The lighting is terrible, the framing, the set, the quality the audio — this is almost a textbook example of how not to make a video. But Gary Vee made a thousand episodes of this show, and it sold a boatload of wine. His videos turned a $3 million-a-year wine store into a $60 million-a-year wine store. He launched a digital media firm and has a net worth of $160 million.Film is a powerful art form, and there is nothing wrong with art for art’s sake. But the bottom line is that if you want to get paid to make films, your films need to make someone money.That person might be you. You can make money uploading films to YouTube, but only if someone watching clicks on an ad that plays next to your films and ends up buying that product. (Alternatively, you can use your YouTube videos to sell products of your own.)It used to be that no one could really know if commercials changed people’s behavior. If you spent money on an ad, and something increased in sales, was that cause or correlation?In the age of Facebook and Google ads, advertisers are privy to much more information. Companies track click-through rates — and pretty much everything else.If you want to make money making films, and turn it into a career, I would encourage you to help your clients understand the best ways to use your skills to enrich themselves, because that is the only way you’re going to keep doing what you love.Cover image via gnepphoto.Looking for more on the film and video industries? Check out these articles.First-Time Filmmakers: How Do You Build a Cast Without a Budget?The Four Most Dangerous and Avoidable Accidents on a Film Set10k Vs 100k Vs 500k: Feature Film Budgets ComparedThe History and Power of Sound Design in the Film IndustryFilmmaking Fads and Trends: Don’t Let Them Bother You There is only one way to make money as a filmmaker and the vast majority of filmmakers don’t understand what it is. So, what is the answer?Some think that if they get good enough technically, or if their work is brave or beautiful or sensitive, they will be successful. Others are certain that if they’re simply a better filmmaker than someone else, and they know someone who makes money, they are certain to succeed. They’re both wrong.There is only one way to make money as a filmmaker, and that’s to make money for the people you’re working for. Film is so expensive that almost no one can afford to make films for fun, and if they can, they can’t do it for long.The films you make need to cause people to open their wallets. They need to buy tickets or DVDs or downloads, or donate to a cause, or buy what you’re advertising. If your films don’t make people money, even if that someone is you, you aren’t going to take that chance again.
QUEENSLAND GIRLS WIN FINAL Qld made a clean sweep of Secondary divisions in 2004 when the Girls 15 Years defeated NSW in an old fashioned Grand Final, which featured some desperate defence, committed driving, and intelligent ball play and phase options. Qld had had five players under injury clouds entering the game, including their Co-Captains and chief playmakers Ali Briggenshaw and Samantha Hopkin, so the game was always going to be a hard fought slugfest for the Queenslanders who have now sent Coach Craig Slavin and QSST broke with strapping tape bills. NSW had a lot to work on following their 5 -2 loss to Qld in the round game on Wednesday, and to their credit they took a leaf out of their 15 Years Boys books and fought Qld in the trenches with great commitment in gaining field position and repelling the Qld roll which was so integral to Queensland’s attacking platform during the tournament. NSW got off to the best start possible when Anna Prowse gave the Qld defence the slip close out from the shoreline to find Sarah Hopkins diving low to open the game with a great touchdown only 3 minutes into the contest. Qld were stung into action and Ash Cook kick started the Qld attack with a switching movement which saw Genevieve LaCaze scoot from half in second phase then dish off a great ball into the hole for local girl Jaya Callinan to draw the defence and allow Cook to square the account at 1-1. The action was then end to end with both teams creating chances and not being able to seal the deal with a much-needed touchdown. For NSW Cobie Morgan, Stephanie Halpin, and Sarah Hopkins were causing more problems for the Qld defence than Damir Dokic at a grand slam. Queensland’s Ali Briggenshaw, Genevieve LaCaze, and Kristy `K-Mart’ Brennan countered for the home side with several inspired pieces of play which built pressure and kept Qld right in the contest. Right before half time NSW lynchpin Cobie Morgan got her feet caught in the ruck close to the line, however, the referee was unsighted and was willing to give NSW the changeover. Morgan showed great sportsmanship and gave herself up, and the referee then correctly awarded Qld the tap which was taken quickly and moved to Qld’s Ali Briggenshaw who managed to get on the outside of the defence and slide over. NSW’s Ellyse Perry made an honest `No’ call to confirm the touchdown for Briggenshaw, and Qld went to their water bottles with a 2 -1 lead. One minute after resumption, it was that girl Ali Briggenshaw, again in the thick of the action producing the magic when her team needed it. The lanky playmaker did it all herself to take the defence on close out and dive over low to take the Queenslanders out to a 3 -1 lead. NSW was not going to go away and six minutes later, Stephanie Halpin, who had been probing away for the Blues, produced a sensational cut-out pass for speedster Cara Zaremski to dot down and reduce the deficit to 3 -2 with plenty of time remaining on the clock. Stephanie Halpin, contributing wholeheartedly in attack and defence for the Blues once again raised a special effort, this time against the run of play and in shades of the Boys 15 Years game, she nabbed an Intercept and raced away, diving over to lock the game up at 3 – 3. The last five minutes was an absorbing battle with the big guns on either team trading shots at each other. Hopkin, Morgan, and Halpin for NSW left it all out there on the park as they threw the kitchen sink and everything in it at Qld. Briggenshaw, Sam Hopkins and Toni Tupuihi kept firing salvos back to let the Blues know that they were going to battle it out to the death with their arch rivals. A good passing movement found Tupihi in space she drew the NSW defender and the composed and skilful Ash Cook put Jaya Callinan over for the money ball and a decisive 4 -3 lead with one minute left on the clock. NSW tried desperately to jag the equaliser, but it was not to be, and fittingly Player of the Final and Qld Co-captain Ali Briggenshaw thwarted NSW’s last attacking shot with the full time siren reverberating in the background. Qld Coach Craig Slavin claimed his third title in a row as Coach and was pleased with the courageous display his walking wounded mustered, but felt they did not play a particularly good game in the final, “I’m proud of the determined way they got through the final, but we didn’t do the little things as well as possible and made life a bit hard for ourselves… finals are funny, the pressure is one thing and dealing with that is important, you just hope the players hold on to enough of the game plan to stay on track and we did. NSW played great and full credit to them.” Slavin was proud of all his troops but singled out his Co-Captains Briggenshaw and Hopkin for praise in the way they led and directed the team and to defensive specialist Lizzie Campbell and young guns Ash Cook and Kristy Brennan who showed tremendous aptitude for the big game occasion. Game Go to Girl – Ali Briggenshaw, but NSW Cobie Morgan and Stephanie Halpin were right there as well, great talents who I’m sure we’ll continue to hear a lot more from in the future. Last game completed, trophies won and lost, shirts signed and swapped, `Macca’s’ to be eaten, tents packed up for the last time (how heavy were they?) injuries, sunburn and raspy voices to treat, but hopefully more smiles than cries and a lot of great memories to talk about in the years to come. Thanks to all players, coaches, parents, referees and officials who have contributed to these reports, the future of our game are these young people who have proven themselves to be quality representatives of the game on and off the field of play. Written by Karley Banks 31 October 2004.
Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ) has provided $4.5 million to further boost the operations of the Government’s national school-feeding programme, which will supply an additional 1,500 meals for students. Story Highlights The money was officially handed over to Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) during a ceremony at the National Heroes Circle offices of the Education Ministry on Wednesday (March 14). He noted that the initiative, which represents good corporate citizenship, will go a far way in advancing the Ministry’s effort to provide greater support to students in need of nutritious meals, many of whom depend on the State to provide the only substantial meal they receive daily. Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ) has provided $4.5 million to further boost the operations of the Government’s national school-feeding programme, which will supply an additional 1,500 meals for students.The funds will facilitate the provision of meals for the remainder of the academic year, which ends in June 2018.The money was officially handed over to Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) during a ceremony at the National Heroes Circle offices of the Education Ministry on Wednesday (March 14).Portfolio Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, welcomed the donation, noting that it will significantly help to fill gaps in the feeding programme, particularly at the early-childhood level.He noted that the initiative, which represents good corporate citizenship, will go a far way in advancing the Ministry’s effort to provide greater support to students in need of nutritious meals, many of whom depend on the State to provide the only substantial meal they receive daily.The Minister said this partnership with ROJ will ensure that more children attending school are provided with the appropriate nutrition that will improve their educational outcomes.Minister Reid also praised State Minister in the Ministry, Hon. Floyd Green, who requested assistance with boosting the programme to support more children, for forging the partnership with ROJ.For his part, Mr. Green noted that the Ministry has been working to expand the scope of the programme, by increasing the number of products that are provided in the system.“That is why this injection will help us to do just that… . We’re now going into the final semester of the year, and this will enable NPL to roll out more products,” he said.In the meantime, Marketing Director for ROJ, Tina Matalon, said the entity’s support to the school-feeding programme, is “a small but worthy contribution…which will make a difference in providing the nutrition that (children need)”.“We don’t think any child should go to school hungry. We do believe that all children need proper nutrition and proper meals to be able to learn. As an organisation that feeds the nation, we want to make sure we do our part to feed the students,” she said.Mrs. Matalon further informed that this support represents the first step in the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Jamaica ‘Add Hope’ initiative.Add Hope is an international initiative by KFC’s parent company, Yum International, which collects donations in-store to fund meals for undernourished children.Mrs. Matalon noted that the ROJ is currently in discussion with the Education Ministry to launch a second phase of the programme in September 2018. The second phase will enable KFC customers to donate part proceeds from select menu items towards the school-feeding programme.NPL, which is responsible for the production and distribution of meals to schools under the national nutrition programme, currently provides approximately 300,000 students in more than 800 schools with breakfast and/or lunch each week.They include youngsters on the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), and others deemed vulnerable.