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Welcome to International Feng Shui Awareness Day!

International Feng Shui Awareness Day (pronounced fuhng shwey) celebrates this ancient art or philosophy that was developed in China over 3,000 years ago. According to Merriam-Webster.com Feng Shui is "a Chinese system for positioning a building and the objects within a building in a way that is thought to agree with spiritual forces and to bring health and happiness". The word Feng means wind and shui means water and Chinese associate wind and water with good health. Feng Shui deals with energy flow and balance. Many people set up their homes using Feng Shui techniques so that everything is correctly aligned so they have good flows of energy.

HGTV.com has an informative article titled "The Elements of Feng Shui".

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SU QB Target Tommy DeVito to Announce Soon (nj.com; Hunt)

Rutgers quarterback offeree Tommy DeVito will make his collegiate decision some time within the next couple weeks, he told NJ.com reporter Braulio Perez.

The 6-2, 190-pound Don Bosco (Ramsey, N.J.) quarterback holds over 15 offers, including Rutgers, Maryland, Boston College, Syracuse, Temple, Bowling Green, Toledo, Yale, UPenn and others.

Rutgers is thought to be one of the schools receiving strong consideration, although the junior wouldn't confirm.

"I wouldn't want to name a top list or anything like that because I feel like it would be disrespectful to all of the other schools that have recruited me," DeVito told Perez. "The day before I commit to my school, though, I'm going call all of the other coaches and thank them for recruiting me and let them know I've made my decision."

One thing that could help Rutgers down the stretch is DeVito's relationship with former Scarlet Knight quarterback Mike Teel, his offensive coordinator at Bosco.

"Tommy does a great job getting us in and out of the right plays, and makes the throws when they count," Teel said in February. "We needed him to win us some games this year and he played his best in big moments. He is really talented and as he continues to learn to play the position, he is going to develop into being one of the top quarterbacks in the state."
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SU Football Ranked 61st in ESPN FPI, Have Nation's Eighth-Toughest Schedule (TNIAAM; Cassillo)

Among the many advanced metrics out there for college football is ESPN's Football Power Index (FPI). It's not as good as Bill Connelly's /+, but like all stat-based ratings, it's a reference point for your team and how it compares to others.

According to FPI, the Syracuse Orange are the 61st-best team in the country right now, and face the eighth-most difficult schedule. That 61st ranking puts them 13th out of 14 ACC teams (only above Virginia). But they're also within reasonable shouting distance of at least three conference schools. They outpace a nice handful of Power 5 schools, including all of your typical bottom-dwellers. #Progress

The ratings give them a projected W-L record of 4.1-7.9 (or 4-8), and a zero-percent chance to win the ACC. Much of that is due to another year of a tough schedule. The opponents that comprise said schedule:

Colgate Raiders: N/A

Louisville Cardinals: 12th (projected 9-3)

USF Bulls: 44th (projected 8-4)

Connecticut Huskies: 84th (projected 6-6)
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5 Facts About the Country Rock Superstar Coming to Syracuse (PS; Tulloch)

On Saturday, country music superstar Luke Bryan brings his international "Kill the Lights Tour" to the Carrier Dome for a show which sold outin less than three weeks.

Resale tickets are still available. A free pre-concert tailgate, with a cash bar, food for purchase and music by the TJ Sacco Band, will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel.

Not familiar with the country rock star? Here are five talking points to help you navigate conversations with country music fans.

1. Luke Bryan last performed in Syracuse in 2013.

At the 2013 New York State Fair, Bryan drew a crowd of 17,000 to the former grandstand. From our concert review: "He tossed beers to fans from a cooler onstage. He grabbed cell phones from fans and snapped selfies. He danced like he was auditioning for a fully-clothed Chippendale's position."

2. He's a longtime award show staple.

Fresh off winning the title of Country Artist of the Year at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, Bryan leads the list of finalists for the 2016 American Country Countdown Awards. The superstar is up for awards in seven total categories, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year (Kill the Lights), Song of the Year ("Strip It Down").
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http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources...opts-academic-integrity-proposal?sf23996624=1

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DI Council adopts academic integrity proposal
Alteration is first change in academic integrity approach in 33 years
April 8, 2016 12:27pmMichelle Brutlag Hosick
The Division I Council clarified the academic integrity rules for member schools and student-athletes this week in a decision that is the first legislative change to the division’s approach to academic integrity issues since 1983.

The new rules establish clear and consistent guidelines for academic integrity issues and govern when such issues will be considered an NCAA violation. Decisions made by the Council are final, though the Division I Board of Directors reviews those decisions and can overturn them.

“These new rules, unanimously accepted by the Council members, will draw much brighter lines for the Division I membership in the area of academic integrity,” said Council chair James J. Phillips, vice president and director of athletics at Northwestern University. “The end result is greater accountability that begins with the school and involves the NCAA only in specific cases.”

The proposal was designed by the Division I Committee on Academics, based on work started more than two years ago by two former Division I committees, the Committee on Academic Performance and the Academic Cabinet. Roderick J. McDavis, Committee on Academics chair and president at Ohio University, said he was pleased the collective effort will result in more clarity for the students and staff in Division I.

“This legislation is the result of significant collaboration between the Division I Committee on Academics, the Committee on Infractions, the Division I Council, the Division IA Athletics Directors, the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics and the membership overall,” McDavis said. “The new rules are based on a set of core principles we value in intercollegiate athletics.”

The legislation aims to strike an appropriate balance between a school administration’s role in deciding academic integrity issues on campus and the NCAA’s collective role in reinforcing and upholding the NCAA’s core academic principles.

The new rules require schools to maintain and adhere to written academic integrity policies that apply to the entire student body. Each school determines the scope and content of its own policies, and a school must follow its policies when an academic integrity issue involving a student-athlete occurs, regardless of circumstance.

Under the new rules, only conduct that violates a school’s own academic misconduct policies could become an NCAA academic misconduct violation. Specifically, the misconduct must have resulted in a falsification of the student-athlete’s academic record, involved a school’s staff member or booster, or allowed the student to compete while ineligible.

Additionally, the proposal recognizes schools can’t predict every type of academic integrity issue that could occur. Therefore, some misconduct committed by staff members or boosters that doesn’t violate a school’s academic misconduct policies may still violate NCAA rules regulating impermissible academic assistance.

The new rule defines impermissible academic assistance as academic conduct involving a staff member or booster that falls outside of a school’s academic misconduct policies, provides a substantial impact on the student-athlete’s eligibility and is not the type of academic assistance generally available to all students.

The Council also tabled a proposal that would allow NCAA championship events to be held in states that permit gambling on college sports. In tabling the rule change, the Council noted that a policy of the NCAA Board of Governors, which oversees all three NCAA divisions, prohibits championship events from taking place in places such as Las Vegas.

The Board of Governors will review its policy to determine if greater flexibility is merited. That group meets next later this month, and the Council will take up the issue again in June.

The Council approved a proposal applicable to the Football Bowl Subdivision that would require those schools to conduct camps and clinics at their school’s facilities or at facilities regularly used for practice or competition. Additionally, FBS coaches and noncoaching staff members with responsibilities specific to football may be employed only at their school’s camps or clinics. This rule change is effective immediately.

Also at the April meeting:

• The Big Ten Conference withdrew a proposal that would have required a student who competes in men’s ice hockey to enroll in college within two years of high school graduation or lose a season of competition for each year he delayed his enrollment.
• The Council adopted a requirement that schools provide information to students who wish to transfer, including the implications of a request to transfer and a description of services and benefits that could be impacted.
• The Council deregulated electronic communication with prospective student-athletes who participate in football, cross country, track and field and swimming and diving.

 

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Is that the clincher ruling out Fort Drum?

 

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Is that the clincher ruling out Fort Drum?

I think they mean the kind of camps they hold for H S kids... don't want to give a team an advantage in recruiting like a northern school conducting a camp in some southern recruiting hot spot.

 

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I think they mean the kind of camps they hold for H S kids... don't want to give a team an advantage in recruiting like a northern school conducting a camp in some southern recruiting hot spot.

I know that was the intent, but would the rule ban doing a camp at Fort Drum?

 

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Is that the clincher ruling out Fort Drum?

Marrone used to hold summer camps for HS kids downstate.

This rule has nothing to do with holding August team training at Ft Drum.

 

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this is really an advantage for schools like the SEC that live in hotbeds with more demand and access to kids. but only a few schools were really doing much with it anyway. i think the 50 mile rule is pretty dumb though.

 

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That would be interesting. I wonder how it would work, or what options the NCAA is considering...

 

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