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Welcome to National Bird Day!

Why National Bird Day?
  • The beauty, songs, and flight of birds have long been sources of human inspiration.
  • Today, nearly 12 percent of the world's 9,800 bird species may face extinction within the next century, including nearly one-third of the world's 330 parrot species.
  • Birds are sentinel species whose plight serves as barometer of ecosystem health and alert system for detecting global environmental ills.
  • Many of the world's parrots and songbirds are threatened with extinction due to pressures from the illegal pet trade, disease, and habitat loss.
  • Public awareness and education about the physical and behavioral needs of birds can go far in improving the welfare of the millions of birds kept in captivity.
  • The survival and well-being of the world's birds depends upon public education and support for conservation.

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Orange Watch: ACC flexes its bowl game muscles with Syracuse on outside looking in - The Juice Online (The juice; Bierman)

Item: The ACC went a robust 8-3 in the just concluded bowl schedule, beating teams from four different conferences (SEC (3), Big Ten (3), Big 12, and AAC), and only the Orange, Duke and Virginia were absent from the fun. With the college football season winding down to next Monday night’s CFP championship game rematch at Tampa between Clemson and Alabama (8:30 p.m. ET / ESPN – plus other ESPN channels with niche coverage), the Tigers will not only look to plant the conference flag down as the best in the country, but also look to put the cherry on top of their eight year program building under Dabo Swinney by becoming the first team to the win the title the year after falling in the championship game since Florida State in 1999.

It’s hard to argue that the ACC isn’t the best top-to-bottom conference nationally in basketball, lacrosse, and who’s not to say now football for that matter (the SEC had one more bowl team than the ACC and is 6-6 in the bowls), and that has not bode well for Syracuse during this 2016-17 sports calendar.

Not only was the football team among the aforementioned one of only three in the league not to go to postseason play, but there’s the potential of losing ground on the recruiting front to the likes of Boston College, N.C. State, and Wake Forest, all bowl game victors.

» Related: What would the reaction be if a Syracuse player sat out a bowl game?

The basketball team, sitting at a mind-boggling 8-6, 0-1 heading into tonight’s home game against 11-2, 1-0 Miami (7:00 p.m. ET / ACCRSNs), will be fighting for each of the remaining 17 games to preserve the ongoing NCAA record 48 year streak of not having a losing season, while the lacrosse team, about to get underway with pre-season practice, is gunning for its first national title of this decade, wondering perhaps if it’s an omen that the championship weekend is returning to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., site of the last 2008 and ’09 championships.
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http://www.thedailynole.com/news/2017/01/04/column-acc-arrived-football-conference/ (Dailynole.com; Ferguson)

Fans of Florida State, Clemson or Virginia Tech don’t usually pound their chances over accomplishments of other schools who happen to play in the same conference. The good news is that at least for the time being, they shouldn’t have to listen to others do it either.

That’s because as a football league, the Atlantic Coast Conference has arrived. During bowl season, the ACC went 8-3 with two New Year’s Six wins and Clemson sits just one victory away from being the second team in four years from the ACC to claim a national championship.

While fans of ACC schools have rarely been one to boast about their conference’s dominance, one could make the argument that it was because they couldn’t. Upon the fall of Florida State’s dominance after 14 straight top 5 finishes, the ACC was the laughing stock of the major conferences.

From 2000-11, the conference regularly saw its schools defeated at the hands of others in the non-conference. During that stretch, the ACC also went 1-12 in BCS bowls.

The biggest conference-pride boasters have traditionally been SEC fans. The Southeastern Conference has the nation’s premier power in Alabama and has had a school claim a national championship in eight of the last 10 years entering the year which included seven straight from 2006-12.

This year, the Big Ten had a tendency to beat their chests a little more. The 14-team conference has four of the top eight teams in the current AP Poll — all of whom played in New Year’s Six bowls.
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Who can save the CNY film hub? State seeks partner to breathe life into $15M studio (PS; Knauss)

DeWitt, N.Y. -- New York officials are looking for someone to take over operation of a film production facility near Syracuse that cost state taxpayers $15 million but failed to generate high-tech movie jobs as promised.

Empire State Development Corp., the state's economic development agency, is looking for a strategic partner to run the Central New York film hub in DeWitt.

State officials are looking for someone to fill the 52,000-square-foot building with filmmakers and production workers, something the state has been unable to do. Only one job has been created out of 350 that were promised.
"If we can take the asset and find good strategic partners, I think we'll better position that asset to have positive economic impact locally,'' said Howard Zemsky, president and CEO of Empire State Development.

Empire State Development recently took control of the film hub and other facilities in the wake of a corruption probe that touched both Cor Development Co., which built the facility, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which owns it.
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Coaches Film Room Features Five Coaches; Forgoes Most Commercial Breaks
The popular Coaches Film Room (ESPNEWS) is back with a new wrinkle: Limited commercial breaks. During some breaks in the action on the other networks, ESPNEWS will stay with the Bristol, Conn., based production as the coaches provide in-depth analysis from a film room equipped with multiple camera angles, clicker technology and telestration – like last year during this Deshaun Watson TD throw.

This year’s coaches include:

  • Dino Babers (Syracuse)
  • PJ Fleck (Western Michigan)
  • Mark Helfrich (former Oregon head coach)
  • Mike MacIntrye (Colorado)
  • Matt Rhule (Baylor)
Brian Griese, ESPN college football analyst and national championship winning quarterback with Michigan (1997), joins the coaches to add his insight.

Additional coaches may be added
 
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