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Welcome to National Buy a Musical Instrument Day!
Each year on May 22 we observe National Buy a Musical Instrument Day. The day is all about playing music. If you are a musician, it might be time for a new instrument. Maybe you can learn to play a second or third one. If you have never played an instrument before, National Buy A Musical Instrument Day might be the motivation you need to start.
National Buy a Musical Instrument Day is not just for school-aged children. This observation is for people of all ages. Grandpa can play his ukelele while the grandkids play the drums, trombone, and flute. Together they can all make terrific music!
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Friend reveals new details on Chris Gedney's death on HBO brain-injury story (PS; Mink)
New details about former Syracuse football All-American Chris Gedney's death will be mentioned Tuesday night on an HBO show examining the NFL concussion settlement finalized last year.
HBO correspondent Jon Frankel, a Syracuse University alumnus who struck up a friendship with Gedney over the last few years, says Gedney committed suicide after recognizing something was wrong with his brain, leading to depression and other behavior issues.
Frankel said Monday afternoon in an interview with Syracuse.com that Gedney's family informed him of the cause of death and approved the decision to discuss it on the air.
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Whit Babcock Q&A, Part I: ACC Network expectations, legalized sports gambling and replacing Michigan on the football schedule (roanoke.com; Bitter)
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AB: What is the latest on the ACC Network, which will launch in August of 2019? Is it full systems go at this point?
WB: It has been. And the ACC has been optimistic, but just good to get updated with that. We’re meeting more with ESPN and it’s moving along in a way that we’re all really pleased with, but it’s still at a point that we don’t know of exact numbers and all that. That will depend on distribution. But the thing that we talked about a few years ago is now in a year and a couple months. So it’s coming on. It can’t get here fast enough.
AB: How are your preparations going for that? Has construction on the studios started?
WB: I don’t believe it’s started down there, but it will be in the south end zone down there, down in the media room. A lot of the structure is in place. And out of that $9-10 million for the studio, I think a million or a million and a half is construction and all the rest is equipment. But we’re starting to get all of our people in place. We’ll have about 10 new employees to operate that. And we were very fortunate to have the team that we have now in Hokie Vision, but we hired back a couple of Hokies who had gone and worked at the SEC Network in Arkansas. They were two guys that had worked in our Hokie Vision that went off. So we’re pleased with it. But it’s a major undertaking and we have really good people working on that right now.
AB: That $10 million figure is higher than you originally anticipated.
WB: It was. Yes. And actually, I don’t know that we will spend that much. The Board of Visitors just gave us the ability to that. So hopefully we don’t have to go that high. But yes, it was a little higher, once we really drilled down on it with what it truly cost our SEC counterparts and all that. We kind of had an idea of that. But hopefully the network goes so well that the money we spent to get it off the ground, it will take us a year or two or three to pay it off.
AB: What kind of expectations do you go into that with initially? I assume you’d try to be somewhat conservative with expectations. And you’ve seen the Big Ten pulling back a little bit in terms of its distribution in out-of-state markets. Do you go in with a number in mind of what you expect to get out of this thing?
WB: Yes and no. Of course we see what the Big Ten numbers and the SEC, and to close that gap on that line item is huge. So anything is better. But yeah, I think I probably have a couple figures bouncing around in my head. But the ACC has always cautioned us on that. The performers will start to get built more as these satellite renegotiations come up.
AB: Do you plan a figure into the 2019 budget or is that kind of a bonus whatever revenue it produces?
WB: The ACC gave us some preliminary performer numbers on distribution. And so far, from what I understand, we’re at or better than that. But no, they’ve been very careful not to give us a number. But they also know we pay attention to what the Big Ten and SEC do. So I just want it to be as successful as possible to help recruiting. The revenue will certainly help. But that one line item, as you probably know, I think it’s public info, but the ACC distributed about $28 million per school with their revenue sharing, and the Big Ten and SEC, I think, were between $40 and $50 million. So we don’t need to be the best funded, but we sure would like to close the gap on that.
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Learn about SU’s Red-tailed Hawks at May 30 Presentation by Wildlife Rehabilitator Cindy Page (syr.edu; McLaughlin)
The Syracuse University campus is fortunate to be home to a pair of red-tailed hawks, one of North America’s most widespread and common hawks. The pair is currently raising three chicks in their nest located on the east side of Lyman Hall. The chicks will fledge soon and grace us with their presence across campus for the next several months.
Local wildlife rehabilitator Cindy Page will give a talk about these amazing birds of prey on May 30, 2018 from 2-3 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in Bird Library. Her presentation will include a live demonstration with her educational red-tailed hawk.
Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided. For additional information, contact DeAnn Buss at dmbuss.
