#Centennial Collegiate

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Centennial Collegiate VS (UGDSB)

"Chris offered a highly engaging, energetic and informative workshop.  He works quick, holds the attention of students from grade 9-12 and I was able to transfer the skills into units of study such as mime.  I highly recommend this workshop! "

~ Kiran Denis

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Burleson ISD Overview | Schools & Programs

Burleson Independent School District (Burleson ISD) is a public school district located in Burleson, Texas. It serves students in Johnson County and a small portion of Tarrant County, providing quality education from Pre-K to 12th grade. The district is known for its strong academic programs, innovative teaching methods, extracurricular opportunities, and commitment to student success. 

Burleson ISD emphasizes personalized learning, college and career readiness, and community involvement, making it one of the top school districts in North Texas. 

🏫 Schools in Burleson ISD 

Burleson ISD consists of 18 campuses, including: 

Elementary Schools (Pre-K – 5th Grade) 

Academy at Nola Dunn 

Bransom Elementary 

Brock Elementary 

Clinkscale Elementary 

Frazier Elementary 

Hajek Elementary 

Mound Elementary 

Norwood Environmental Science Academy 

Taylor Elementary 

Middle Schools (6th – 8th Grade) 

Hughes Middle School 

Kerr Middle School 

STEAM Middle School (focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) 

High Schools (9th – 12th Grade) 

Burleson High School 

Centennial High School 

Burleson Collegiate High School (Early College Program) 

Game Development Design School 

Alternative & Specialized Learning Campuses 

Burleson ISD REALM (Real-World Experience Applied Learning Model) 

Burleson ISD GOALS Academy (Alternative learning and credit recovery) 

Each school offers unique programs and specialized learning opportunities designed to support different student needs and career paths. 

📖 Academic Programs and Curriculum 

Burleson ISD follows Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards and offers a diverse curriculum that prepares students for college, careers, and real-world challenges. 

1️⃣ Elementary School Curriculum 

✔️ Core Subjects: Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies  ✔️ STEM & Technology Programs  ✔️ Gifted & Talented (GT) Education  ✔️ Dual Language and ESL Programs  ✔️ Fine Arts, Music, and Physical Education 

2️⃣ Middle School Curriculum 

✔️ Advanced Placement (AP) & Pre-AP Courses  ✔️ STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) Education  ✔️ Career and Technical Education (CTE) Exploratory Courses  ✔️ Foreign Language Options 

3️⃣ High School Curriculum 

✔️ Advanced Placement (AP) & Dual Credit Courses (Earn college credit)  ✔️ Early College High School (Burleson Collegiate High School)  ✔️ Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways  ✔️ Specialized STEM & Fine Arts Programs  ✔️ Internship & Work-Based Learning Opportunities 

🎓 College & Career Readiness Programs 

Burleson ISD prepares students for college, careers, and the workforce through: 

��� Burleson Collegiate High School (Early College Program) – Allows students to earn an associate degree while still in high school.  ✅ Dual Credit Programs – Students earn college credits through partnerships with Hill College & Tarrant County College.  ✅ Career & Technical Education (CTE) Pathways – Programs in healthcare, business, engineering, game design, culinary arts, and more.  ✅ Work-Based Learning & Internships – Provides hands-on career experience before graduation. 

💻 Technology & Innovation in Learning 

Burleson ISD is a leader in technology integration, ensuring students are prepared for a digital world. Key initiatives include: 

💡 1:1 Technology Program – Each student receives a Chromebook or tablet.  💡 STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) Education – Offered at STEAM Middle School & other campuses.  💡 Game Development & Design School – Prepares students for careers in gaming, programming, and digital design.  💡 Virtual Learning & Online Courses – Flexible learning options for high school students. 

🎭 Extracurricular Activities & Athletics 

Burleson ISD offers a wide range of extracurricular activities, helping students explore their interests beyond the classroom. 

🏀 Athletics (Middle & High School) 

✔️ Football 🏈  ✔️ Basketball 🏀  ✔️ Baseball & Softball ⚾🥎  ✔️ Soccer ⚽  ✔️ Volleyball 🏐  ✔️ Track & Field 🏃  ✔️ Cross Country 🏃‍♀️  ✔️ Tennis 🎾  ✔️ Golf ⛳  ✔️ Cheerleading & Dance 💃 

🎭 Fine Arts & Clubs 

🎼 Band, Choir, & Orchestra  🎭 Theater & Drama Productions  🎨 Art Competitions & Exhibitions  📚 Debate, Speech, & Academic UIL Competitions  🎮 Esports (Competitive Gaming)  🤖 Robotics & Coding Clubs  👨‍🔬 Science & Math Olympiad 

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parent & Community Engagement 

Burleson ISD believes in strong community involvement and offers: 

✅ Parent-Teacher Organizations (PTOs)  ✅ Volunteer Opportunities in schools  ✅ Community Events & Family Nights  ✅ Mentorship & Business Partnerships 

📈 School Performance & Ratings 

Burleson ISD is highly rated for its academic excellence, student growth, and innovation. 

✔️ A-Rated District by Texas Education Agency (TEA)  ✔️ High Graduation Rates (Above Texas state average)  ✔️ Recognized for STEM & Fine Arts Programs  ✔️ National Blue Ribbon School Recognition for Excellence 

📌 Key Highlights of Burleson ISD 

✔️ 18 campuses serving students from Pre-K to 12th grade  ✔️ Award-winning schools & innovative programs  ✔️ Advanced Placement (AP) & Dual Credit courses  ✔️ Career & Technical Education (CTE) pathways  ✔️ 1:1 Technology program for all students  ✔️ Strong athletics, fine arts, and extracurricular activities  ✔️ Active parent and community involvement  ✔️ A-Rated by TEA for academic excellence 

Burleson ISD is one of the best school districts in North Texas, providing high-quality education, innovative learning opportunities, and strong extracurricular programs. Whether your child is interested in STEM, Fine Arts, Sports, or Career Development, Burleson ISD offers a well-rounded education that prepares students for college, careers, and lifelong success. 

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Y−3 Presents: Fall/Winter 2023 Chapter 3

For over two decades, the partnership between adidas and Yohji Yamamoto has continued to pioneer a trailblazing approach to avant-garde sportswear. In Fall/Winter 2023, Y-3 returns to present the third chapter of its year long exploratory narrative – with the subversive label taking athletic iconography, silhouettes, and materials and recontextualising them through through the lens of Yohji Yamamoto’s renegade design vision. 

Inspired by adidas’ inimitable sporting legacy, Chapter 3’s apparel collection sees Y-3 evolve the collegiate motifs of previous seasons, for an entirely new context. Drawing on vintage varsity style lettering, an array of graphics are applied to jackets, t-shirts, and hoodies, in kettle stitch embroidery, chenille patches, puff prints, and engineered knits. A curated offering of quilted pieces, with cutlines inspired by the adidas Originals Aloxe tracksuit, completes the apparel highlights with a selection of jackets, vests, skirts, and pants.  

The footwear, meanwhile, stays true to the conceptual impetus with the Y-3 CENTENNIAL HI and Y-3 CENTENNIAL LO which reimagine a quintessential athletic footwear silhouette, in elevated material make-ups. The collection also features a continuation of the label’s exploration of signature adidas Originals archival silhouettes with updated takes on the Y-3 SUPERSTAR, Y-3 MARATHON TR, and Y-3 GAZELLE. 

The collection is then rounded out by a host of bold accessories including elevated totes, gym bags, backpacks, body bags, knit beanies, caps, and more.  

Having traversed Yohji Yamamoto’s homeland of Japan for the brand’s Spring/Summer 2023 campaigns, the seasonal story journeys to adidas’ mother country of Germany, to capture Berlin’s unique, energetic, and prolific creative community. Shot by local photographer, Lengua, and motion director Thyago Sainte, the stills, moving images, and short film spotlight an enigmatic cast of musical figures that call Berlin home in personally resonant locations. At once intimate and raw, the campaign features the genre-bending Nigerian-born producer, singer and songwriter, LA Timpa, the cult British musician, rapper, and producer, Tricky, the eclectic DJ and experimental musician, Mobile Girl, the Korean producer and DJ, Tobias aka Why Be, the trailblazing artist, designer, and musician Bill Kouligas, and the formidable DJ duo and co-founders of Kontinuum Productions, Dimitra and Soraya.  

Channeling a new vision for sporting inspired design, Y-3 Fall/Winter 2023 Chapter 3 is available from August 1st on adidas.com/y-3, in Y-3 stores, and through select global retailers. 

adidas.com/Y-3  #Y3   @adidasY3    Facebook.com/adidasy3 

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Edmonia Lewis: Sculptor

Sculpting has been around for centuries. The art of chipping, carving, and sanding away at various materials such as marble, granite, metal, ceramics, and so on, has played an important role in art’s history for generations. To recognize art as a whole, we must recognize the contributors to one of art’s purest forms; sculpting.

Mary Edmonia Lewis, “Wildfire,” or more commonly referred to Edmonia Lewis, was born in July of 1844 (although the information of this is inconsistent) and lived in the Albany area of New York. She often gave misinformation regarding her origin, telling various “white lies” about where she was from, how she grew up, and even her age. What we do know about her is that she spent most of her adolescents in the Newark area of New Jersey. She was born to a mixed-race woman by the name of Catherine Mike Lewis; who was of Mississauga Ojibwe and African-American descent and to an African American father (thought to be either Samuel Lewis who was Afro-Haitian or Robert Benjamin Lewis who was of Native American and African American descent).

After her parents’ death, she and her brother Samuel lived with their aunts near Niagara Falls, New York, for four years, selling Ojibwe baskets, moccasins, embroidered blouses, as well as other items to tourists, also going by her Native American name, Wildfire. When Lewis was 15 she was sent to Oberlin, Ohio, where she attended Oberlin Academy Preparatory School, then attending Oberlin Collegiate Institute, one of the first American higher-education institutes to admit women and people of different ethnicities. She boarded with Reverend John Keep and his wife in 1859 and studied art.

After college, Lewis moved to Boston in early 1864, where she began to pursue her career as a sculptor. After taking the art form more seriously, she began trying to find an instructor, with the aid of both John Keep and his wife. After three male sculptors refused to become her teacher, Edward Augustus Brackett became her sculpting instructor. Specializing in portrait busts, Brackette had many famous abolitionists as clients. After ending her time with Brackett, Lewis opened her studio to the public for the first time with a solo exhibition in 1864.

Robert Gould Shaw, 1864

Anna Quincy Waterston, 1866

Having been inspired by the lives of abolitionists during the Civil War, she used some of the most famous abolitionists of her day as subjects for her artwork. She met Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of an African-American Civil War regiment from Massachusetts, throw her connections with Brackett and created a bust of Shaw’s likeness, impressing the Shaw family, so much so, that they purchased her work. Lewis then made plaster casts of the bust and sold roughly one hundred of them for 15 dollars apiece. The bust was so popular that Anna Quincy Waterston, a poet, even wrote a poem about both Lewis and Shaw. This became her most famous work to date and the money she earned from the busts allowed her to eventually move to Rome in 1866.

“I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture, and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.” - Edmonia Lewis, Dec. 1878.

Lewis spent most of her adult career in Rome, benefiting from Italy's less pronounced racism during the time, allowing her an increased opportunity to thrive as a mixed-raced Native American and Black female artist. Living in a circle of fellow expatriate artists, Lewis established her own space, enjoyed more social, spiritual, and artistic freedom than what she previously had in the United States. She began working within the neoclassical manner, yet focusing on naturalism within themes relating to black and American Indian people. She was greatly inspired by her surroundings of the classical world and this influenced her work. While in Rome, Lewis continued to express her African-American and Native American heritage.

Old Arrow Maker, modeled 1866, carved 1872

Hiawatha, 1868

A major spike in her sculpting career was participating in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia where she created a grande 3,015-pound marble sculpture, The Death of Cleopatra; which portrayed the moment in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra in which Cleopatra allowed herself to be bitten by a poisonous asp following the loss of her crown. Having already found fame and fortune through her previous work, Lewis truly outdid herself with this particular piece at the time, having been considered  "the most remarkable piece of sculpture in the American section" of the Exposition by J. S. Ingraham, drawing thousands to view its beauty.

Lewis, in making The Death of Cleopatra, had added an innovative flair by portraying the Egyptian queen in an inelegant and disheveled manner. This was quite the departure from the normally refined and composed Victorian approach that many artists had used previously. Considering Lewis's interest in emancipation imagery it’s fitting that Lewis eliminated Cleopatra's usual companion figures of loyal slaves from her work, bringing into her own relationship with Black slavery tied to her ancestry.

“The associations between Cleopatra and a black Africa were so profound that ... any depiction of the ancient Egyptian queen had to contend with the issue of her race and the potential expectation of her blackness. Lewis' white queen gained the aura of historical accuracy through primary research without sacrificing its symbolic links to abolitionism, black Africa, or black diaspora. But what it refused to facilitate was the racial objectification of the artist's body. Lewis could not so readily become the subject of her own representation if her subject was corporeally white.”

The Death of Cleopatra, 1876

Countless people from all over the world have written about Lewis’ finest achievements, praising her raw talent and each of her delicately crafted works. A testament to Lewis's renown as, not just an artist, but as a female Native American-African American came in 1877, when former US President Ulysses S. Grant commissioned her to do his portrait, spending hours modeling for her. During and since then, her work has been involved in many prestigious exhibits and held in the world’s more recognized museums to date, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Unfortunately, as a black artist, Lewis had to be more conscious of her stylistic choices due tot he fact that she had a largely white audience who often mistook her work as self-portraiture. To avoid this, many of her female figures possess European features as Lewis had to balance her own personal identity with her artistic, national, and social identity. She was notably tired of this trying balancing act that she continuously found herself in and it showed in her work.

“It is hard to overstate the visual incongruity of the black-Native female body, let alone that identity in a sculptor, within the Roman colony. As the first black-Native sculptor of either sex to achieve international recognition within a western sculptural tradition, Lewis was a symbolic and social anomaly within a dominantly white bourgeois and aristocratic community.” Charmaine Nelson, 2007

Hailed as the first female African American and Native American sculptor, Edmonia Lewis set massive strides in the direction of progression in the art world. Forever changing the medium and setting herself as a prime example that anyone of any gender, nationality, ethnicity, and identity can achieve unimaginable triumph in their passions, Lewis will continue to receive posthumous acclaim for her innovative and reforming pieces of art and be recognized globally for as long as her intricate sculptures and the history behind them remain.

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Survivor Story: Nan Barkley Boettcher

By Christy Marx Barber (Alpha Psi Chapter alumna), Staff Writer

At National Leadership Conference 1991, then-Vice President Alumnae II Nan Barkley Boettcher listened as three non-profit organizations that hoped to become ZTA’s next national philanthropy made their “pitches” to National Council and the boards of the ZTA Foundation and Fraternity Housing Corporation. Mrs. Boettcher had a personal favorite among the three, but when it came time to choose, she cast her vote for the Race for the Cure Survivor Recognition Program, the initial focus of ZTA’s commitment to breast cancer education and awareness.

Her vote surprised a National Council member who knew of Mrs. Boettcher’s preference for the other organization. “I told her, ‘this is going to be very special—something every member can identify with’,” Mrs. Boettcher said. “It was the best choice for ZTA.” At Convention 1992, delegates voted to officially begin ZTA’s efforts in support of breast cancer education and awareness.

Four years later, Mrs. Boettcher was National President when a routine mammogram during her annual physical showed a lump in her breast. The week of Thanksgiving, she learned the lump was malignant. “It scares you to death when they tell you ‘you have cancer’,” Mrs. Boettcher said. “I ran to the bookstore to buy a book on breast health and read as much as I could.”

Pictured: Mrs. Boettcher, wearing the Purple of the Fraternity as National President, with National Council at the Centennial Convention in 1998

Mrs. Boettcher had a lumpectomy and the doctors also removed all lymph nodes in her left arm. Following surgery, she had 25 radiation treatments and she took Tamoxifen, an oral chemotherapy drug, for five years. She credits ZTA with getting her through her treatments and recovery. “It’s not good to sit around and have nothing to do every day but worry about yourself,” she said. “I stayed busy with Zeta work.”

Although she was diagnosed during her second term as National President, the quiet and thoughtful leader has never shared her breast cancer story on a national ZTA stage. She enjoys participating in survivor celebrations, including the parades at Convention. “There is definitely a connection between breast cancer survivors, whether you have met them previously or not,” she said. “Survivors feel a connection, having been through similar fears and decisions.”

She has shared her story in smaller settings, including an Austin, TX Alumnae Chapter Celebration of Life luncheon where, before modeling in a fashion show, she received a “hair makeover” from celebrity stylist, José Eber. “He was flamboyantly dressed in a big cowboy hat,” she laughed. “I became a redhead. It was great fun.”

Mrs. Boettcher admires the Foundation for its commitment and ability to communicate the cause to every member. “I had never seen the joy of philanthropy in our membership prior to our change in projects,” she said. “Collegiate chapters were the real surprise to me. They threw their whole effort and creativity into it. It also ignited alumnae chapters who had done the same events for 30 years. Everyone can embrace it because they know a friend or a grandmother or a mom or an aunt who had breast cancer.”

Pictured: Mrs. Boettcher (far left) with fellow breast cancer survivors at Convention 2010

Now a survivor for 24 years, Mrs. Boettcher is a proud and staunch advocate for assessing your risk, early detection and educated awareness. Usually a soft-spoken lady who carefully measures her words, she is passionate on this subject. “All women should be diligent in keeping up with developing news about women’s health. Rely on yourself, not just your doctor. If your doctor is not keeping up with new research, you should seek out one who does. If you suspect a lump or if your family history indicates a concern for breast cancer, you should discuss it with your doctor.”

Mrs. Boettcher cherishes her years as a survivor and National President, but more importantly as a wife, sister, mother and grandmother. “I have been a lucky little gal. All said, we still lose members to breast cancer, so our outreach is definitely not over.”

Pictured: Mrs. Boettcher at the 2019 opening of the Historical and Education Center with her two daughters, her sister and her niece

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Evan Weaver Named Pac-12 Defensive Player Of The Year

Bynum, Curhan, Davis, Deng, Goode, Hawkins And Johnson Also Honored

SAN FRANCISCO – Cal senior inside linebacker Evan Weaver was named the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year in a vote of the league's coaches the Pac-12 Conference announced Tuesday. Weaver becomes the eighth Cal player to earn a Player of the Year or Co-Player of the Year honor from the conference and the fifth on the defensive side of the ball joining Chuck Muncie (1975), Ron Rivera (1983, Co-Defensive), Mike Pawlawski (1991, Co-Offensive), Deltha O'Neal (1999, Defensive), Daymeion Hughes (2006, Defensive), Marshawn Lynch (2006, Offensive) and Mychal Kendricks (2011, Defensive). "This award means a lot to me," Weaver said. "It's really special when the coaches of the teams you play against recognize what you are doing on the football field." "Evan loves football as much or more than anyone I've ever coached," Cal head coach Justin Wilcox said. "We are so proud of him for earning Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year honors and joining an elite group of players in our program's history. He has had a truly remarkable season and it is satisfying that the coaches in our conference have recognized that." Weaver was Cal's lone first-team selection while Camryn Bynum (Jr., CB) and Ashtyn Davis (Sr., S) were second-team picks. Jake Curhan (Jr., OL), Kuony Deng (Jr., ILB), Cameron Goode (Jr., OLB), Jaylinn Hawkins (Sr., S) and Zeandae Johnson (Sr., DE/DT) picked up honorable mention selections. Weaver earned his second All-Pac-12 honors after being a second-team selection in 2018. Bynum and Davis were both honorable mention picks last season, while Curhan, Deng, Goode, Hawkins and Johnson were honored for the first time in their careers.

Below are notes from the 2019 season on Cal's All-Pac-12 honorees with extended bios that also include career information available by clicking on each of their names.

Defensive Player Of The Year/First Team

Evan Weaver, ILB, 6-3, 245, Sr., 3L, Spokane, WA (Gonzaga Prep) • Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year • A national honors candidate who is a finalist for the Butkus Award®, Lott IMPACT Trophy and Senior CLASS Award, as well as a semifinalist for the Chuck Bednarik Award • A nearly unanimous first-team midseason All-American (Associated Press, Athlon Sports, CBS Sports, ESPN, The Athletic, USA Today) and named the midseason's leading candidate for Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year honors and a first-team All-Pac-12 selection by the Bay Area News Group • Has accepted an invitation to play in the 2020 Senior Bowl • Serving as one of three team season captains • Leads the nation in total tackles (school-record and career-high 173), total tackles per game (14.4), solo tackles (95) and solo tackles per game (7.9) • Has 26 more total tackles (second, Dele Harding of Illinois, 147) and 12 more solo tackles (second, Nate Landman, Colorado, 83) than anyone else in the FBS • Within 20 tackles of the all-time NCAA single-season tackle record of 193 set in 14 games by Lawrence Flugence of Texas Tech in 2002 • Has his first three career forced fumbles and ranks tied for second in the Pac-12 and tied for 20th nationally with an average of 0.25 per game while adding a career-high 10.0 tackles for loss (-36 yards), 2.5 sacks (-19 yards), three pass breakups and a career-high five quarterback hurries • Has combined with Kuony Deng (111 tackles) to form the nation's leading FBS duo with 284 tackles that is within 23 tackles of Cal's current school record of 307 by Weaver (159) and Jordan Kunaszyk (148) in 2018 • Has twice equaled Kunaszyk for the most tackles in a single game in Cal's recorded history when he had a career-high-tying 22 at Ole Miss and Utah, adding 0.5 tackles for loss (-2 yards), 0.5 sacks (-2 yards) and a career-high two quarterback hurries against the Rebels while he also had 1.0 tackle for loss (-2 yards) and a career-high-tying one forced fumble against the Utes • Has twice helped secure victories by making stops on the opponents' final offensive play, stuffing Ole Miss' John Rhys Plumlee on a QB sneak from the Cal 1-yard line as time expired to preserve the first Pac-12 victory on the road at an SEC school since 2010 and then combining with Cameron Goode to stop Stanford's Cameron Scarlett on fourth down and one from its' own 34-yard line to lift Cal to its first Big Game victory since 2009

Second Team 

Ashtyn Davis, S, 6-1, 200, R Sr., 3L, Santa Cruz, CA (Santa Cruz HS) • One of three finalists for the Burlsworth Trophy given annually to the nation's top player who began his collegiate career as a walk-on • Second-team All-Pac-12 • Earned second-team midseason All-American honors from both Athlon Sports and The Athletic, while he was also a first-team All-Pac-12 selection of the Bay Area News Group and second-team choice of SB Nation • Has accepted an invitation to play in the 2020 Senior Bowl • Started all 11 games he played in including each of the first 10 before missing the Big Game at Stanford due to injury but returning to start the season finale at UCLA • Has recorded a career-high 57 tackles to rank fourth on the team, two interceptions that he returned a team-high 31 yards, four pass breakups, six passes defended, a team-high two fumble recoveries and two forced fumbles • Fourth in the Pac-12 in per-game fumble recoveries (0.18) while he is tied for eighth in forced fumbles per game (0.18) • Leads the team with seven kick returns for 149 yards and has also seen the first action of his five-year career as a punt returner with two punt returns for 33 yards to total 213 all-purpose yards Camryn Bynum, CB, 6-0, 195, R Jr., 2L, Corona, CA (Centennial HS) • Serving as one of three season captains voted on by his teammates along with Jake Curhan and Evan Weaver • Second-team All-Pac-12 • A first-team midseason All-Pac-12 selection of SB Nation and a second-team pick of the Bay Area News Group • One of eight players and five on the defensive side of the ball to have started all 12 games • Third on the team with a career-high 59 tackles, while also picking up a career-high 3.0 tackles for loss (career-high-tying -5 yards), one interception, seven pass breakups and a team-high-tying eight passes defended

Honorable Mention

Jake Curhan, OL, 6-6, 335, R Jr., 2L, Larkspur, CA (Redwood HS) • Serving as one of three season captains voted on by his teammates along with Camryn Bynum and Evan Weaver • A first-team midseason All-Pac-12 selection of SB Nation and a second-team pick of the Bay Area News Group • One of eight players and five on the defensive side of the ball to have started all 12 games with each of his starts at right tackle • Has played a key role on an offense that has committed only 13 turnovers thru 12 games, two less than the 15 miscues in 2016 that are the fewest in school history with Cal committing only nine turnovers in its last 11 contests after a season-high four in the opener against UC Davis including four games in which the Golden Bears did not turn the ball over a single time including in back-to-back wins at Washington and against North Texas, as well as a victory at Stanford and a loss at Utah • Has one tackle against Washington State Kuony Deng, ILB, 6-6, 220, R Jr., JC, Aldie, VA (Independence CC/Virginia Military Institute/John Champe HS) • A first-team midseason All-Pac-12 selection of the Bay Area News Group • One of eight players and five on the defensive side of the ball to have started all 12 games • Second on the team with 111 tackles, while adding 7.5 tackles for loss (-27 yards), 3.0 sacks (-12 yards), a team-high eight pass breakups, a team-high-tying eight passes defended, four quarterback hurries and one fumble recovery • Has combined with Evan Weaver (173 tackles) to form the nation's leading FBS duo with 284 tackles that is within 23 tackles of Cal's current school record at 307 by Weaver (159) and Jordan Kunaszyk (148) in 2018 • Ranks among the Pac-12 and NCAA leaders in per game total tackles (4th Pac-12, T24th NCAA) Cameron Goode, OLB, 6-3, 235, R Jr., 1L, Spring, TX (Klein Collins HS) • Has career highs of 11 games played and starts while missing one contest due to injury • Has career highs of 49 tackles, 13.0 tackles for loss (-73 yards), 8.5 sacks (-59 yards) and six quarterback hurries with all but the tackles also team highs • Ranks second in the Pac-12 with his 1.18 tackles for loss per game, while his per-game sack average of 0.77 is third • Also has a career-high-tying one forced fumble and one pass breakup • Has at least 2.0 tackles for loss five times, at least 1.0 on seven occasions and at least 0.5 on eight • Has at least 1.0 sack six times including a career-high-tying 2.0 in each of his final two regular-season contests at Stanford and UCLA Jaylinn Hawkins, S, 6-2, 210, R Sr., 3L, Buena Park, CA (Buena Park HS) • One of eight players and five on the defensive side of the ball to have started all 12 games • Has registered career highs of 50 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss (-10 yards), 2.0 sacks (career-high -6 yards), two forced fumbles and 47 kick return yards on a pair of kick returns • Also has a team-high-tying two interceptions that he has returned for 17 yards to give him 64 all-purpose yards, two pass breakups and four passes defended Zeandae Johnson, DE/DT, 6-4, 290, R Sr., 2L, Fresno, CA (Central HS) • Has played in all 12 games including a career-high 11 starts and contributed 26 tackles, 3.0 tackles for loss (-17 yards), 2.5 sacks (-17 yards), one pass breakup and five quarterback hurries with all but the tackles for loss career highs

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Thursday, 19th September 2019 – Voegtlinshoffen, Colmar

Voegtlinshoffen is a tiny village which is not one of the half-timbered confections that so many Alsace villages are, because most of those were destroyed in the course of the Thirty Years’ War and rebuilt afterwards in a more simple style. What is does have is a site that provides stunning views across the Rhine and beyond to the Black Forest and, on clear days, the Alps. What is does have are some excellent wines, including the Hatchbourg grand cru, and it was that which brought us to the village on another gloriously sunny day.

We’d begun with a delicious breakfast (including a glass of crémant) at the Hostellerie le Marechal, and then checked the car to see if anything had fallen off after our encounter with the ironwork the day before (nothing seemed to have done, but there was a rattle that suggested the exhaust system might have been compromised) so we undertook the 15 minute drive to Voegtlinshoffen and the cellar visit organised by the hotel for us.

We were going to see a specialist in the crémant on offer at breakfast, Joseph Cattin, where the family have been making wine since 1720. It all started with François Cattin, who was Swiss, and who settled in the village where he was also a builder. They are 11 generations in now and still going strong as one of the largest family owned vineyards in Alsace.

In 1850 they shifted to wine making exclusively, with Joseph taking over the family-owned Estate just as phylloxera hit at the end of the 19th century. Joseph dedicated his time to finding was to fight this plague, becoming a pioneer of Alsacien viticulture. Meanwhile his brother headed off to Paris and set up a restaurant called La Cigogne (the Stork) which served Alsacien gastronomy to well heeled Parisians and foreign guests, acting as a shop front for the wines his brother was making.

Almost a century later the 10th generation modernised the estate and started worldwide exports of their products. It’s now being run by Jacques Cattin Junior, who has been in charge of winemaking since 2007, and his wife Anaïs, who runs the international sales department. What they now have is a fantastic range of wines, and a modern winery that includes a rooftop bar where you can try the wines alongside plates of charcuterie and cheeses. We were taken round by the charming Marianne, who showed us around the original winery, where we could see both the old wooden barrels and the hyper-modern temperature controlled stainless steel tanks.

They even have pipes running under the road to enables the grapes to be crushed on one side of the road in what looks like the original building, and then run straight into the stainless steel tanks in the building on the other side of the road! It’s a most impressive set-up and the wines they produce reflect that.

After our visit, and an explanation of many of the processes, we sat down with Marianne to try a number of wines. Even using the spittoon, after we got through it seemed like a good idea to get something to eat, and where better than the rooftop bar, the Belvedere, with its phenomenal views over the surrounding landscape. It would also give us the opportunity to discuss which of the wines we’d tried we actually wanted to buy.

A plate of charcuterie and cheese later (and a free glass of wine with lunch) and we were ready to shop. 6 boxes of wine later we were helped to load the car (after a swift unload to make sure everything went in in the right order) and presented with a bottle of wine that Marianne said was her favourite crémant to add to the haul we’d paid for. We were liking this free wine thing! We were ready to pick our way carefully back to Colmar for the rest of the day.

Having dropped the car back in the car park, we headed into town to hunt down the Tourist Information office to see what information we could pick up. We kept on getting sidetracked though because Colmar is jaw-droppingly lovely and there were oddities round every corner, like the giant soft toy gingerbread man! At least we understood that gingerbread is very much an Alsace thing. There are those who claim that the crusaders brought it back to Europe, but how true that is I have no idea. Also that the Chinese started it, with Mi-Kong (“honey bread), a delicacy made from wheat flour and honey, fragranced with aromatic plants and baked in the oven. Whatever the case, Alsaciens like it, and it’s everywhere, even made into liquers and spirits that can be added to crémant to make a kir!

There was an artisans’ market going on in the former Customs House (the Koifhus) which detained us for a while, both looking at what was on offer and getting a look inside the building. It was planned in 1433, and the current building dates to 1480 and two more buildings were added in the 16th century. The condition of the building in the 19th century was so poor that it came close to being demoloshed, but instead it was restored in the late 1890s, when a turret and glazed tiles were added. It was renovated again in 2002 to replace the Renaissance style sandstone balustrade which was removed in 1976. It was used as a warehouse and as a place of taxation for imported and exported goods as well as for meetings of the representatives of the Décapole, the federation of the 10 imperial cities of Alsace. Today it was being used to display a range of attractive good including some glassware that really caught my eye.

We stopped off to look at the collegiate church of Saint Martin. It dominates the square on which it sits and is as impressive inside as outside. The building itself was constructed between 1235 and 1365 and is a brilliant example of Gothic architecture in Alsace. Needless to say with a city as closely packed as Colmar is, there have been frequent fires, and in 1572 the framework of the south tower and all the roofs were destroyed, so what you can see now is much more modern. It has also undergone several restorations, the most recent in 1982 which gave the archaeologists a chance to have root around. They found foundations of a 1000 year old church as well as traces of extensions from the 11th and 12th centuries.

It’s an interesting church and there are a number of features that are quite surprising to the modern visitor, including the anti-semitic and downright offensive so-called “Judensäue, a testament to the troubled history of the Jews in Alsace, that came to a ghastly climax in 1349, when they were accused of causing plague by poisoning the wells. On February 14 several hundred Jews were massacred during the Strasbourg pogrom and any remaining Jews were forbidden to settle in the town, being reminded every evening at 10 o’clock by a bell and a municipal herald blowing the “Grüselhorn” that they had to leave. I’m guessing the only reason they stayed in the surrounding towns was the lack of anywhere else they could go, if the prevailing attitude was so vile.

The interior is quite plain, having lost a lot of its furniture during the French Revolution, but it does still have one of the many Baroque organs built by Johann Andreas Silbermann that are everywhere in the region. There are also a nubmer of medieval altars and statues, and a rare Gothic stained glass window of a beardless Christ. The Isenmann altarpiece, of which more in another post, was originally here as well. In 1462 the municipal painter Caspar Isenmann was commissioned to paint a set of panels dedicated to the life of Christ and he completed the word in three years. In 1720 the altar was removed and the paintings were dispersed. The seven surviving panels have been in the Unterlinden Museum since 1853.

We eventually made it to the Tourist Information Office were we realised that for what we wanted to do, the Colmar City Card was actually a good deal. It was €32 each for seven days and gave you access to all the museums (six of them, and you could visit as often as you wanted) as well a trip on one of the tourist trains and a boat trip. We went for it, and then decided we’d have a gentle ride round town on the tourist train straight away. I know some people think they’re a waste of effort but I find them a useful way of getting my bearings, as well as a good excuse to have a sit down…

Afterwards we decided that we had time for one of the museums. We opted for the Musée Bartholdi.

It’s a museum dedicated to the French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, the man who designed the Statue of Liberty, among other colossal works. The house was his birthplace and is full of works by him. These include a lot of preparatory models for monuments that are actually in Colmar, many of which we would find during our stay. I hadn’t realised he also put forward a design for the fountain on the Quinconces in Bordeaux, and the museum had a model for one of the horses to prove it. What’s there is insane enough. Lord knows what he would have built given half a chance.

Bartholdi served in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 as a squadron leader of the National Guard, and possibly as a liaison officer to Italian General Giuseppe Garibaldi. As an officer, he took part in the defense of Colmar from Germany, and after the Alsace’s defeat he constructed a number of monuments celebrating French heroism in the defence against Germany. One of those projects was the Lion of Belfort, which is huge. He didn’t do anything by halves, it seems.

Then in 1871 he he went to the United States where he suggested the idea of a massive statue to be given by the French to the Americans in honor of the centennial of American independence. The result was “Liberty, Illuminating the World” as she’s more correctly known. There were lots of items telling the story of the design and construction, though sadly most of it is in French with no translation into any other languages. This seemed a bit of a shame, really, as it was fine for people like me, but I’m pretty sure a lot of visitors won’t be able to read French and could probably do with some help to understand exactly what was going on.

We stepped back out later having learned something new, which is never a bad thing. It was time though to quit for the day and go back to the hotel for dinner. The area round the hotel was looking especially lovely so we decided we’d step out from the hotel to look for an aperitif later on.

Travel 2019 – Alsace and Baden, Day 7, Voegtlinshoffen, Colmar Thursday, 19th September 2019 - Voegtlinshoffen, Colmar Voegtlinshoffen is a tiny village which is not one of the half-timbered confections that so many Alsace villages are, because most of those were destroyed in the course of the Thirty Years’ War and rebuilt afterwards in a more simple style.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Icemen, ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Winnipeg Jets and American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose announced that the team has agreed to terms with forward Jakob Reichert from the 2019-20 season.

Reichert registered 15 points (5-10a) in 45 games during his rookie campaign with Adirondack last season. The 25-year-old forward logged 11 points during his four collegiate seasons at Bowling Green State University from 2014-18.

Reichert was acquired by the Icemen from Adirondack on June 13 as part of a future considerations trade made last season that sent forward Dylan Walchuk to the Thunder.  The Langley, British Columbia native totaled 116 points (50g-86a) in four BCHL seasons (2010-2014) with the Merritt Centennials and Langley Rivermen.

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Happy Founder’s Day!

185 years ago on December 3, 1833, the Oberlin Collegiate Institute (changed to Oberlin College in 1850) opened for its first class. While the campus has changed quite a bit since the partial view of Oberlin was painted in 1838, the progressive thought that founders John J. Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart (pictured in the plaster bas-relief above) instilled in the early college and community is still demonstrated today.

On Oberlin’s Centennial in 1933, Oberlin College professors Lynds Jones and Robert E. Brown (pictured in the image of the log cabin above) constructed a replica of the cabin of Oberlin colonist Peter Pindar Pease. The buildings in the background show just how much the campus and town changed in 100 years! To see even more about the changing environment and campus buildings, check out the Architecture at Oberlin College digital exhibit, where you can see 185 years of history right at your fingertips.

For more information on the founding of Oberlin College, please visit these related links and contact the Archives staff for any other questions!

A History of Oberlin College from its Founding to the Civil War by Robert S. Fletcher: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6453410M/A_history_of_Oberlin_College_from_its_foundation_through_the_civil_war John Frederick Oberlin online exhibit: http://www2.oberlin.edu/archive/oberlins_namesake/index.html Covenant of the Oberlin Colony: http://www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/Documents/Oberlin_Covenant.html

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Relocating To Dallas

Dallas is considered a family-friendly city, which is also robust and business-friendly. In 1849 Dallas County was created and named after George Mifflin Dallas , supporter of the annexation of Texas and vice president of the United States under James Knox Polk The city of Dallas is thought to be named after either the vice president or his brother, Alexander James Dallas , a commander of the U.S. Navy's Gulf of Mexico squadron. 

John Neely Bryan, looking for a good trading post to serve Native Americans and settlers, first surveyed the Dallas area in 1839, perhaps drawn by the intersection of Caddo trails at one of the few natural fords for hundreds of miles along the wide Trinity floodplain Bryan also knew that the planned Preston Trail was to run near the ford — the north-south route and the ford at Bryan's Bluff became more important when the United States annexed Texas in 1845.

Beginning in downtown Dallas, visitors can see Dallas founder John Neely Bryan's log cabin at Founder's Plaza, wander through the city's historic districts, enjoy a shopping excursion among the shops and stores located in the underground network of downtown office buildings, or seek out merchandise at Neiman-Marcus department store, which maintains a unique fifth-floor museum.

Dallas and the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area is a sprawling metropolis, making it pretty difficult to get around without a car, but the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system—locals call it "the dart"—is surprisingly convenient, particularly in the Uptown and Downtown neighborhoods. These areas have seen a boom o new people relocating according to the Discount Moving Companies servicing the area

The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to seven major league sports teams: the Dallas Cowboys (National Football League), Dallas Mavericks (National Basketball Association), Texas Rangers (Major League Baseball), Dallas Stars (National Hockey League), FC Dallas (Major League Soccer), Dallas Wings (Women's National Basketball Association), and the Dallas Rattlers ( Major League Lacrosse ).

Other Fair Park museums include: Hall of State, built in 1936 and home to the Dallas Historical Society; The Science Place, featuring science exhibits, a planetarium, and IMAX theater; The Age of Steam Railroad Museum, a collection of railroad locomotives; the African American Museum; Texas Discovery Gardens; and The Women's Museum.

Dallas's flagship park is Fair Park Built in 1936 for the Worlds Fair and the Texas Centennial Exposition , Fair Park is the world's largest collection of Art Deco exhibit buildings, art, and sculptures; Fair Park is also home to the State Fair of Texas , the largest state fair in the United States.

At Six Flags, a Texas version of California's Disneyland located between Dallas and Fort Worth, are reenacted incidents from the state's colorful history under the flags of Spain, France, Mexico, the Texas Republic, the United States, and the Confederacy.

The Dallas Cowboys have 21 former members enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame including Herb Adderley, Troy Aikman, Larry Allen, Lance Alworth, Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett, Forrest Gregg, Bob Hayes, Michael Irvin, Tom Landry, Bob Lilly, Tommy McDonald, Bill Parcells, Mel Renfro, Deion Sanders, Tex Schramm, Emmitt Smith, Jackie Smith, Roger Staubach, Randy White, and Rayfield Wright.

The Dallas-Fort-Worth metro has an estimated 70,000 Russian-speakers (as of November 6, 2012 63 ) mostly immigrants from the former Soviet Bloc Included in this population are Russians , Russian Jews , Ukrainians , Belarusians , Moldavians , Uzbek , Kirghiz , and others.

The Dallas Communications Complex, a multimillion-dollar film production center developed by Dallas real estate magnate Trammell Crow, includes a 15,000-square-foot soundstage and has been the site for the filming of several major motion pictures and television specials.

A nearby French utopian settlement called La Réunion founded in 1855 disbanded within a few years, but some of the colony's tradesmen and artisans settled in Dallas, distinguishing the young town (incorporated in 1856) from similar agricultural trade centers across North Texas.

Everyone’s favorite 24/7 snack destination, 7-Eleven, got its start in Dallas as an outgrowth of an ice-selling operation; in addition to blocks of ice, the Southland Ice Company began selling grocery staple items like milk and eggs to customers in 1927. The company moved into selling gasoline in 1928, eventually adding more goods and services as time went on. The Slurpee, originally known as the icee, and its attendant brain freeze was unleashed on customers in 1965.

Doc Holliday is most famous for his role as a gun-slinging dude who was part of the gun fight at the O.K. Corral, but Holliday (né John Henry Holliday) was also a professional dentist before his gambling habits got the best of him. Before buddying up with Wyatt Earp, he worked as a practicing dentist in downtown Dallas.

The State Fair of Texas, where the annual 16-day exposition draws nearly 3 million people, also serves as an amusement park and civic center. Founded in 1886, it was completely altered in 1936 for the Texas Centennial. The Park was enlarged and landscaped, and modern buildings were erected around a central lagoon. Located there are the Museum of Natural History, the Aquarium, the Dallas Garden Center, the Hall of State, the Health and Science Museum, and the Cotton Bowl. The Bowl was the site of SMU's home football games and was home to the postseason collegiate classic; the university built a new stadium for their team in 2009. In 2010 the venue for the Cotton Bowl was changed to Cowboys Stadium.  Dallas is also a hub for many Long Distance Moving Companies as it is centrally located between the east and west coasts largest cities.

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Some concert fun from the bands at Centennial CVI. They are awesome. #music #jazz #guelph #grade12 (at Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrWT5FiAJqk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pzepm2bkjxto

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A Zeta True: Anne Winnes Redmond

Our theme for the 2018–2020 biennium is Be Zetas True. During this first year of the biennium, the 120th year of ZTA, we will introduce a dozen Zetas—one for each decade—who epitomize what it means to “Be Zetas True.” Find all their stories here.

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By Christy Marx Barber, Staff Writer (Alpha Psi Chapter alumna)

Imagine it’s 16 years after your Initiation into Zeta Tau Alpha and a pledge sister calls to ask for a favor. Would you say “yes?” Of course, because Zeta. But how would you answer if you knew “yes” would lead to a 55-year commitment?

Anne Winnes Redmond took that call in 1947 and said yes to her Beta Theta Chapter (Franklin College) sister, Helen Winton Jenkins. “Jenks” was Secretary-Treasurer at the time and was in search of a National Service Chairman. Anne accepted and remained in that position until 2002, when National Council gave her the title of National Service Chairman Emerita.

The friendship between Anne and Jenks went back to when they were freshmen in 1930. In those early days of the Great Depression, new members of sororities at Franklin College waited a year to be initiated so they could save up to pay initiation fees ($10 at the time) and purchase their badges. Anne’s opal badge that she kept for her entire life cost $9 in 1931.

Pictured: Anne (second row, far right) poses with her collegiate chapter

Like Jenks, Anne rarely said “no” to Zeta Tau Alpha. Becky Hainsworth Kirwan, who has served as National President and ZTA Foundation President, said this about Anne in a 2000 Themis story: “Anne is the type of person who is always working behind the scenes as well as in front of the scenes, taking on any and all jobs that have to be done.”

In front of the scenes, Anne’s enthusiasm motivated our chapters to support the Easter Seals Society and ARC. In 1992, ZTA’s commitment to service took a personal turn for her. Anne’s mother had passed away from breast cancer and Anne was a 25-year survivor herself when the Foundation adopted breast cancer education and awareness as ZTA’s national philanthropy.

Anne also added her sense of humor during many Convention Fun Nights, portraying Queen Elizabeth while wearing a crown, long gloves, a royal gown, and of course, carrying a large handbag and giving the royal wave.

Pictured: Anne in her Queen Elizabeth costume at Convention

Behind the scenes, during a time when Themis was short-staffed, Anne used her expertise as a high school English and Latin teacher to help edit and proofread.

ZTA recognized Anne’s lifelong commitment with the Honor Ring in 1948, the Certificate of Merit in 1973, the Order of the Shield in 1981 and the 75-year White Violet Charm in 2006.

In 1998, at ZTA’s Centennial Convention, National Council named the Collegiate Service Award after Anne. “You have motivated our collegians as well as our alumnae to support our service work, not only with monetary donations but with hands-on giving,” said then-National President Nan Barkley Boettcher. “We are proud to have you leading us as we aid in the early detection, and hopefully, the eventual eradication of breast cancer.” She also received the coveted Repeater Award in 1998 for attending 27 Conventions.

Pictured: Anne receives the Repeater Award during Convention 1998

Anne passed away Nov. 17, 2006. Generations of Zetas remember her fondly when they see the Queen of England waving on the news or when they pin on a pink ribbon. Anne’s wit, smile and long and fierce commitment to service inspire us all to #BeZetaTrue.

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TTT 10.14.2020 Zoomed out? Join us as we shape alternatives at Youth Voices and NowComment

Here are 10 or 11 reasons for joining us on Teachers Teaching Teachers https://teachersteachingteachers.org on Wednesday evening, October 14th at 9E/8C/7M/6P.

Kiran Chaudhuri, Harvest Collegiate High School, New York, New York

Paul Hankins, Silver Spring High School, Sellersburg, Indiana

Jessica Hernandez-Speer, P.U.L.S.E. High School, Bronx, New York

Janet Ilko, Health Sciences High School and Middle College, San Diego, California

Anna Maine, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, California

Natalia Navarro, Orange Cove High School, Orange Cove, California

Dawn Reed, Okemos High School, Okemos, Michigan

Sam Reed, The U School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Chris Sloan and Bryan Jeffreys, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City, Utah

Caleb Wohlust, Endeavor Academy High School, Centennial, Colorado

We are building what danah boyd describes as "networked publics" with our students on Youth Voices https://youthvoices.live/books and NowComment https://nowcomment.com/groups/literature

Networked publics are publics that are restructured by networked technologies. As such, they are simultaneously (1) the space constructed through networked technologies and (2) the imagined collective that emerges as a result of the intersection of people, technology, and practice. Networked publics serve many of the same functions as other types of publics – they allow people to gather for social, cultural, and civic purposes and they help people connect with a world beyond their close friends and family. While networked publics share much in common with other types of publics, the ways in which technology structures them introduces distinct affordances that shape how people engage with these environments. The properties of bits – as distinct from atoms – introduce new possibilities for interaction. As a result, new dynamics emerge that shape participation.  

Later in the same article, boyd describes the affordances of digital discourse. Is this what is happening in our video-conferenced classrooms? We have the tools, experience, and commitment to build more powerful environments for learning on Youth Voices and NowComment:

The content of networked publics is made out of bits. Both self-expressions and interactions between people produce bit-based content in networked publics. Because of properties of bits, bits are easier to store, distribute, and search than atoms. Four affordances that emerge out of the properties of bits play a significant role in configuring networked publics: 

• Persistence: online expressions are automatically recorded and archived. • Replicability: content made out of bits can be duplicated. • Scalability: the potential visibility of content in networked publics is great. • Searchability: content in networked publics can be accessed through search. 

danah boyd. (2010). "Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances,Dynamics, and Implications." In Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (ed. Zizi Papacharissi), pp. 39-58.

It's amazing to see the different pieces of work happening in our network. We will share what our students are doing and what we are beginning to imagine they can do together on Youth Voices and NowComment.

Please plan to join us at https://teachersteachingteachers.org on Wednesday evening, October 14 at 9E/8C/7M6P.

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“Training observers for captive balloons. Just about to go up; moving the balloon over to a clear space to avoid a possible collision with trees or buildings, at the Collegiate Balloon School in Rockville, Conn.” Oct. 27, 1917

File Unit: Balloons - Schools, 1917 - 1918. Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918. Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952

More questions about World War I?  See our WW1 #AnswerTime from earlier this month!

Uncover more World War I Centennial Resources at the National Archives

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A complete history of Vontaze Burfict being reckless

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Vontaze Burfict’s history of not caring about the well-being of others started long before he ever reached the NFL.

Linebacker Vontaze Burfict is exactly what every NFL team wanted from a middle linebacker about 40 or 50 years ago. Players like Dick Butkus and Jack Lambert had reputations as mean and scary enforcers who didn’t just make tackles, but attempted to set the tone for anybody who dared to go to the middle of the field.

Highlight reels showed clothesline tackles, helmet-to-helmet hits, and boasted about the rough and tough linebackers of lore.

But the best linebackers of football today are those who can channel the aggression and violence of the game without crossing the line. That’s something that Burfict has struggled with.

In seven NFL seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, Burfict racked up over $4.5 million in career fines and forfeited pay. In March 2019, after unsuccessful attempts to trade Burfict, the Bengals released the linebacker. He was only a free agent for a day, which is surprising — largely because his play has dropped off, but also because of his reckless play.

The Raiders signed him to a one-year deal and in Oakland he quickly ingratiated himself and became a team captain. It lasted just four games before an egregious hit earned him a suspension for the final 12 games of the 2019 season. The punishment was upheld after an appeal by Burfict.

That suspension was the result to a lengthy history of dangerous play that lost Burfict any semblance of the benefit of the doubt.

What incident resulted in Burfict’s 2019 suspension?

His most recent infraction got him ejected from a Week 4 game against the Colts and cost him the rest of the 2019 season. He dove headfirst into tight end Jack Doyle, colliding with a huge helmet-to-helmet hit.

Vontaze Burfict was ejected via replay for lowering the helmet to initiate contact pic.twitter.com/Tp3sukvneh

— Fᴏᴏᴛʙᴀʟʟ Zᴇʙʀᴀs (@footballzebras) September 29, 2019

The NFL vice president of football operations John Runyan cited Burfict’s history as the reason for handing down the longest suspension in league history for an in-game offense.

Vontaze Burfict suspended for remainder of 2019 season for violations of unnecessary roughness rules. pic.twitter.com/oSMl2iSRNW

— Michael Signora (@NFLfootballinfo) September 30, 2019

The previous record for a suspension for dangerous play was Albert Haynesworth’s five-week suspension for stomping the head of offensive lineman Andre Gurode. The discipline for Burfict is unprecedented, but it’s not unexpected given his propensity for over-the-line conduct.

Vontaze Burfict has always been a dangerous football player

There’s nothing new about Burfict’s play; it earned him a reputation all the way back in high school.

Corona Centennial High School (2005-2009)

The top two recruits in the state of California on just about everyone’s rankings for the class of 2009 were Burfict and Mater Dei quarterback Matt Barkley. The pair of five-star prospects met for games against each other as both juniors and seniors, and it certainly appeared as though Burfict aimed to hit Barkley in the knees in one of those games.

Years later, Barkley held a grudge over Burfict’s play in high school and accused him of attempting to injure him.

"He's a dirty player," Barkley told the Los Angeles Times before the two were set to meet in a game in college. "His switch is always on. And it's not a good switch."

Burfict’s targeting of Barkley especially raised eyebrows because both players were committed to USC. The linebacker later made a last second switch to Arizona State on National Signing Day.

Arizona State University (2009-2012)

Burfict quickly developed a reputation for being a destroyer of worlds at ASU. In his first college game, Burfict demolished Idaho State quarterback Russell Hill, and a couple of weeks later, he made a pair of huge stops against No. 21 Georgia late in the game.

The second stop was an impressive dive over the line of scrimmage on fourth down that came right after Burfict shoved the ref and almost gave up a free first down:

Burfict finished the year with Pac-10 Defensive Freshman of the Year honors, but he quickly developed a reputation for personal fouls. By midseason, he was already told to rein it in after drawing three personal fouls in an October game against Washington.

"He got carried away," ASU coach Dennis Erickson told the Arizona Republic. "That's how he is, but he's got to control it. I love his intensity. I don't want to slow his intensity down because it's contagious for the rest of the players, for the fans and for everybody involved in the program. But he's got to be smart, and I know he will."

He never got around to being smart. Burfict kept on crushing opposing players and drawing personal fouls every step of the way. Even in practice, Burfict was a problem.

“There were more practice fights in Vontaze’s years than I’ve seen in (current coach) Todd Graham’s entire four years at ASU,” Chris Karpman of Sun Devil Source told the Press Enterprise in January. “I think in the first week after he’d been cleared academically as a freshman, he was in a fight every day of practice that following week.”

Sporting News dubbed Burfict “The Meanest Man in College Football” in 2011, but Erickson was forced to bench the linebacker a few times — sometimes unsuccessfully.

“I know one thing,” Oregon State coach Mike Riley told Sporting News. “Somebody is taking a blow every play (Burfict is) on the field.”

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images

Burfict entered the 2012 NFL Draft after his junior season, finishing his collegiate career with 22 personal fouls in 37 games with the Sun Devils.

Cincinnati Bengals (2012-2016)

Despite first-team All-American honors as a sophomore in 2010, Burfict’s declining play as a junior, concerns about his lack of discipline, a failed drug test at the NFL Combine, and poor testing times all combined to boot him from the 2012 NFL draft entirely.

“I watched three tapes and really didn’t like him as a football player,” NFL Network’s Mike Mayock said a week before the draft. “I think he’s a nondraftable kid. For me, he’s a free agent.”

The Bengals scooped up Burfict as a free agent, and it immediately paid off with the rookie starting 14 games and leading the team in tackles with 127. The Bengals finished No. 6 in total defense but allowed 2.4 more yards per play when Burfict was off the field. Yet, he managed to go the whole year without a fine.

He earned a $20 million extension in 2014, but Burfict reverted to his former self, racking up personal fouls and fines that have since come to define his play, despite the fact that he’s one of the NFL’s better linebackers.

Sept. 22, 2013

Burfict got his first fine in the NFL for hitting Green Bay Packers tight end Ryan Taylor in a not so nice place.

Taylor was penalized during the game, but the NFL gave Burfict a $10,000 fine after replays showed what made Taylor so mad in the first place.

Burfict also received a $21,000 fine in the same game for a hit on James Jones that drew a flag because the Packers receiver was deemed defenseless.

Burfict made up for it later in the game when he told Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer to change a play call on the final drive of the game.

"He wanted to call one play and I said, 'Coach, that's not going to work,' Burfict told Bengals.com. “Let's just go base and hopefully we get [Aaron] Rodgers to start scrambling and we plaster their guys and it worked."

Rodgers threw a pass on fourth down that was tipped by Bengals defensive end Michael Johnson, sealing a 34-30 win for the Bengals.

Oct. 13, 2013

Officials called three 15-yard penalties on Burfict in a game against the Buffalo Bills, but he only received a $7,875 fine for a facemask on running back Fred Jackson.

Oct. 27, 2013

Burfict earned another $21,000 fine about a month later when he speared New York Jets wide receiver Stephen Hill with his helmet. It upped his 2013 fine total to $59,875 — a huge chunk of his modest $480,000 base salary in the second year of his undrafted contract.

Oct. 12, 2014

The only fine of the 2014 season for Burfict was a $25,000 penalty for twisting the ankles of both Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and Panthers tight end Greg Olsen.

Both Newton and Olsen dealt with ankle injuries earlier in the season, and Olsen argued that Burfict should be suspended for his actions.

"In instances like that that are so clearly premeditated, that he had in his mind that if he had those opportunities that he was going to try to attack guys' legs, but guys who are coming off ankle problems specifically, there's no room for it," Olsen told the Charlotte Observer.

"Guys like that don't learn from that stuff. He's been fined 100 times for head-hunting and he did it to (Panthers receiver) Kelvin (Benjamin) again."

Benjamin suffered a concussion on the final play from scrimmage for the Panthers when Burfict hit him, but the tackle did not draw a flag.

Nov. 1, 2015

Burfict’s bad blood with the Steelers really boiled over in a Week 8 game between two teams jockeying for a playoff position. The linebacker made a tackle on running back Le’Veon Bell that forced him to have season-ending knee surgery, and players on the Steelers — including offensive lineman Ramon Foster — said that Burfict celebrated the injury.

"If you're on the field with him, you know what I mean by that," Foster said, via Chris Adamski of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "They'll play it off; he'll act dumb about it. But you don't run across the field hyped, celebrating, jumping up and down when a guy goes down like that."

After the game, Burfict insisted he didn’t celebrate the injury and said he’s friends with Bell off the field.

Dec. 13, 2015

At the next meeting between the teams, Burfict and James Harrison got after each other in pregame warm-ups, but that was just the beginning of the feud between the teams.

Burfict earned fines for three separate plays — two unnecessary roughness penalties and a hit low on Roethlisberger — totaling $69,454. The hit on Roethlisberger drew the most attention as it appeared the linebacker made an effort to dive at the quarterback’s knees, although Burfict said he was pushed.

"He said ‘I got pushed into you, my bad,'" Roethlisberger told 93.7 The Fan two days later. "I turned my phone on afterwards and one of the texts I got from a former player and a friend of mine says, ‘How is this not a fine or a penalty by Burfict?' and he showed me the clip of it. And since then I have seen the clip, and I don't buy that he was pushed. You know, I think that he definitely was diving in low and going for my legs."

The play did not draw a flag, but it was still one of the three plays that resulted in a huge fine for Burfict.

Jan. 9, 2016

Years of Burfict being a stellar linebacker, but also a player seemingly out for blood, culminated in a single game that seemed to be a microcosm of his entire football life.

First, Burfict injured Roethlisberger on a perfectly legal sack that forced the quarterback to be carted off the field. He eventually returned to the game, despite suffering a shoulder injury that seemed to clearly hinder his play.

Then Burfict appeared to seal the game for the Bengals by intercepting a pass from Landry Jones with 1:36 remaining, seemingly icing the team’s 16-15 lead.

But the Bengals fumbled the ball right back to the Steelers, and Roethlisberger re-entered the game with the chance to set up a game-winning field goal. Pittsburgh eventually got that field goal, and it was due to a vicious, head-hunting hit delivered by Burfict on Antonio Brown that drew a 15-yard penalty.

A 15-yard penalty was given to Adam “Pacman” Jones in the chaos that followed, and the Steelers hit a chip shot to win. Burfict was suspended three games for the hit that concussed Brown and knocked him out of the Steelers’ next playoff game.

With Roethlisberger dealing with a shoulder injury and Brown out of action, the Steelers lost 23-16 to the Denver Broncos.

Oct. 16, 2016

After sitting out the first three games of the 2016 season, Burfict’s first fine of the year came in the third game when he was docked $75,000 for stomping on New England Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount.

Fresh off a suspension for a reckless play, the hefty fine made sense given the linebacker’s history. But it also seemed odd that it wouldn’t draw another suspension for a player clearly on a short leash.

It also bears questioning if another player would have been punished, as replay seemed to show no stomp happened at all.

Nov. 20, 2016

His next regular season fine came after he flipped double fingers to the Buffalo crowd in a Week 11 loss to the Bills.

Video of #Bengals LB Vontaze "Dirtfict" Burfict giving the double middle finger to fans during #Bills loss https://t.co/UqTKqlsdXV

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) November 20, 2016

Burfict was fined $12,154 for the middle fingers, upping his mammoth career total.

August 2017

In training camp, Burfict started a brawl with his own team when he tackled running back Gio Bernard by diving at his knees. Bernard had just resumed practicing again after recovering from his ACL tear the year before.

In Cincinnati’s second preseason game, Burfict took down Chiefs fullback Anthony Sherman with a big hit while he was running a passing route. The league has a new rule against just such a move this season, and Burfict was suspended five games, but had the punishment reduced to three games after an appeal.

November 2017

Burfict was ejected from a game against the Titans for contact with an official. Cameras never showed what the interaction was that got him tossed, but it came after a questionable late hit call that frustrated the linebacker.

He walked off the field holding up the money sign a la Johnny Manziel. Burfict wasn’t fined for the incident.

March 2018

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that Burfict received a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s performance enhancing drug policy. In April, he lost an appeal of the punishment and the suspension was upheld.

Oct. 14, 2018

After his return from suspension, it took Burfict just two games to get back into trouble. Three different tackles made by Burfict against the Steelers came under review by the NFL, including an elbow to the helmet of Antonio Brown — reminiscent of the hit in January 2016 that created controversy.

He didn’t receive another suspension for the hit, but he did get a $112,000 fine — the largest of his career.

Sept. 29, 2019

Burfict played three clean games for the Raiders before getting in trouble again for a violent helmet-to-helmet collision with Colts tight end Jack Doyle. It resulted in a suspension for the remainder of the 2019 season (12 games). Burfict was reinstated in the 2020 offseason and will be eligible to sign with a team during free agency.

In his eight seasons in the NFL, and even long before that, Vontaze Burfict has toed the line between violent linebacker and out-of-control player with malicious intent.

His history as a repeat offender in the NFL already resulted in a suspension and has upped his fine totals to far beyond the numbers of the average NFL player. No other player is in jeopardy of serious ramifications for a single personal foul, but Burfict has reached that point.

Maybe in another era, Burfict’s disregard for the well-being of his opponents would have been revered. But it has meant trouble more often than not for the linebacker during his career.