President Donald Trump on May 1 signed an executive order to pull federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting imperiling America’s largest public broadcasters and hundreds of associated local and regional radio and television channels Trump’s decision makes good on weeks of threats from administration officials and Republican lawmakers toward the public media outlets Learn more: Trump signs executive order that aims to cut funding for PBS and NPR the corporation is not a federal agency subject to such directives putting the efficacy of the order into doubt The existing board of directors filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday after the president attempted to remove three of the five board members Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of CPB, released a statement Friday criticizing the decision and referring to protections afforded by Congress when it was established over 55 years ago “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority," Harrison said "Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government." The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private nonprofit corporation authorized by Congress in 1967 by the Public Broadcasting Act It was established to "encourage the growth and development of public radio and television broadcasting," asserting public media services are "valuable local community resources" for addressing national concerns and solving local problems, according to the Act CPB does not produce programming and does not own operate or control any public broadcasting stations It helps support the operations of more than 1,500 locally managed and operated public television and radio stations nationwide making it the nation’s largest source of funding for research technology and program development for public radio Each news organization and their partner stations remain fully operational as of Friday and leaders of CPB are preparing to challenge the order defended the outlet's journalism and reiterated its commitment to editorial independence in the wake of allegations of bias by the Trump administration "We will vigorously defend our right to provide essential news information and life-saving services to the American public," she said "We will challenge this Executive Order using all means available Both NPR and PBS have previously said that Trump's effort to cut their funding would disrupt essential media services and have a "devastating impact" on Americans who rely on them for credible local and national news The CPB received $525 million in federal funding in 2024. More than 70% of those dollars goes directly to local NPR and PBS stations in the form of Community Service Grants, according to a CPB fact sheet The majority of funds go to local tv and radio stations with nearly all content free for anyone to access NPR receives about 1% of its funding directly from the federal government The top 20 most popular NPR-affiliated public radio stations had on average eight million weekly listeners in 2022 with more than 130 million people watching on TV More than 16 million people tune in to PBS' website and apps each month and another 53 million watch PBS on its Digital Studios platform and on YouTube The Federal Communications Commission is mounting assorted investigations against CBS, ABC, NBC, NPR, and PBS, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists raising concerns they are politically motivated The Trump administration has labeled multiple institutions in academia and the media industry — from Harvard and Columbia universities to NPR and PBS — as being leftist Human rights advocates have raised concerns over free speech and academic freedom Kathryn Palmer is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. 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Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience Mira Got Soul of Jackson performed songs from a variety of artists and Hunter Stewart dance to Jack Curtis's Elvis tunes in front of the stage Old friends and classmates enjoy a reunion Saturday at the Stay Tuned Music Festival Wilson is also president of the Adams County Board of Supervisors Concert goers enjoy the sunshine and cool breeze while listening to music on the lawn of Dunleith Saturday Headliner for this year's music fest was Monsters of Yacht NATCHEZ — The weather cooperated for the first of what is hoped will become an annual event a cool breeze made for a pleasant afternoon and evening Historic Dunleith provided a gorgeous backdrop for a lovely Natchez lawn party Blankets and folding chairs dotted the south side of one of Natchez’s most beautiful houses while residents and visitors enjoyed five bands beginning at noon and continuing well into the night The biggest draw of the day was Natchez native Jack Curtis of Kings of Tupelo fame Monday’s SWAC college basketball lineup has lots in store Among those contests is the Southern Jaguars squaring off… Ranked squads are on the Monday college basketball schedule in two games including the Wake Forest Demon Deacons… Monday’s college basketball schedule has several interesting games including the matchup between the McNeese Cowboys and the Stephen… which includes the Tampa Bay Lightning taking on the Florida Panthers Top-25 teams will take the court across two games on Monday’s college basketball slate Adams County residents: Could you live with once-a-week garbage pick up if it would save you significantly on your monthly garbage collection bill View Results a mixed reality guitar training game for Meta Quest and certainly not because I’d just trudged through my 40th birthday entering my peak midlife crisis era I suddenly decided to learn how to play guitar My new Epiphone Les Paul arrived in two days sat down with the guitar cradled lovingly in my arms a new mixed-reality guitar learning app/game seeks to help people like me (and maybe you) learn to shred I’ve spent the last few weeks noodling around and working through the joys and frustrations of VR/MR edutainment and not just “mixed reality.” While the idea of learning an instrument in virtual reality sounds great Immerrock is a gamified training program that lets you learn at your own pace offering 100+ exercises and both long and bite-sized lessons tailored for every level of player the VR headset’s passthrough cameras show us our real-world guitar while several HUD and digital user interfaces hover in various places all around us These primarily take the shape of a hovering fretboard digital representation of our hands and fingers loaded with the most popular guitar songs ever recorded and loaded with lots of royalty-free public domain tunes At the core of the experience is what I call the “note highway,” a streaming display where colored bars representing notes stream toward you in time with the music The aim is to place your fingers on the appropriate strings and frets and strum in time with visual stimuli Numerous tools are available to help you learn You can choose the complexity of songs based on your comfort level and ability alongside adjusting the speed at which songs play There's also a series of specialized training exercises So much of learning guitar hinges on creating muscle memory subconsciously linking your brain with your fingers so that your fingers can do what they’re supposed to do without conscious input from your mind The only way to achieve this is through reps successfully putting your fingers where your eyes are looking and hitting the correct string and fret at the correct time That is so difficult to do when what you’re seeing with your eyes doesn’t match the reality of what you’re feeling with your hands the digital representation of your hand gets jittery and things feel imprecise the peripheral distortion of the headset's lenses adds another dimension of uncertainty to what we're seeing and perhaps this whole experience would be different on a headset with higher specs I think the tech just isn’t ready for something as fine and precise as playing guitar there’s this interesting thing that happens when learning guitar (or when hyper-focusing on any difficult task When you do it for a period of unbroken time you eventually reach a distraction-free flow state When I’m practicing guitar without distraction blissfully detached from everything but the music and my brain and body that are making it the previously noted disconnect between reality and what the app was showing me and the other reason has to do with shellfish and headsets Assuming the very best circumstances possible I’ve even hurt my toe practicing guitar (I dropped it) Then consider the additional strain of a VR headset when you’re sitting with your head tilted forward and your chin on your chest watching the fretboard and your fingers for a half hour straight Doing so with a 1.25 pound weighted headset strapped to your forehead Your spine takes on the posture of a shriveled shrimp You’re never allowed to just relax and chill and play and focus always being annoyed during a process that’s supposed to be fun and one that requires total concentration Placing my virtual fret bar exactly in the right place helped a lot Choosing a song that appealed to me helped When headsets weigh nothing (or close enough) and passthrough cameras render flawless 1:1 video of the world around us nailing barre chords as easily as we once smashed the floppy Tonka Truck buttons of our giant the screen is stable while the visuals are clean and precise Your posture won’t resemble a shellfish in distress and if my experience over the last six months is typical you’ll make far more progress with these training methods than would be achieved with Immerrock’s admittedly very cool Immerrock is available now in early access for $11.99 at the Meta Quest store. Get a weekly summary of the most important VR and AR news. Check your inbox to confirm!(it might also be in your spam folder) Unlock the full potential of UploadVR and support our independent journalism with an ad-free experience by becoming a Member. Sign up to get a weekly summary of the most important VR and AR news, straight to your inbox. In 2017, the owners of a US concert venue held a meeting Ticketmaster about securing a ticketing partner. They were surprised to be joined by a promoter from Live Nation, its massive US events owner. In the meeting, the Live Nation executive said explicitly that if the venue didn’t choose Ticketmaster, it would not stage events there. And when the venue eventually did choose a rival ticketer, Live Nation allegedly made good on its threat. Rather than getting the three or four shows a year expected, the venue instead received precisely zero. The case was one of a number uncovered by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in 2019 that allegedly showed Live Nation using its position in concert promotion to pressure venues to use its Ticketmaster subsidiary. The probe into the 15-year-old merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster led to an agreement to extend and amend decrees around the 2010 deal. But the DoJ has found that it needs to step in again. This time, the agency argues that the only remedy will be to reverse the merger entirely, accusing the entertainment giant of a level of control over the US live events industry that has cost fans, artists, rival promoters and venue operators. “It’s a shakedown,” says Jonathan Kanter, who until December was assistant attorney-general for the antitrust division of the DoJ. He has since been replaced by Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser to vice-president JD Vance. “This is a deliberate plan by Live Nation to take a core monopoly in ticketing and flank it with other powerful businesses to create a self-protecting ecosystem,” adds Kanter. “I have never seen a more popular antitrust case in my 25-year career. Fans are unhappy, venues are unhappy, and the market is stagnant.” The investigation has reinforced fears among competitors in the industry after authorities allowed the world’s largest live events business to buy the world’s largest ticket company in 2010. Most music and sports fans have little idea of how much of their night out is in the hands of Live Nation. But if the DoJ is right then they will have paid the price in higher fees and ticket prices, and in the choice of artists at their local venues. The fact that it took Oasis and Taylor Swift to get the attention of regulators worldwide is not lost on rivals in the industry who have long complained about the extent of Live Nation’s interests in the market. But in part prompted by skyrocketing ticket prices – not least for the Mancunian brothers’ reunion and Swift’s 2023-24 Eras tour – other competition authorities and lawmakers have started scrutinising the live events market more closely. Listen | 42:49British MP Liam Byrne, chair of the UK’s business and trade select committee, said that Live Nation appears to have “more arms than an octopus”. “One part of Live Nation could be dictating the price to another part of Live Nation,” he said at a committee hearing in February. “That sounds like a conspiracy.” Andrew Parsons, boss of Ticketmaster’s UK business, told MPs that Live Nation had “clear divides between how we operate on a daily basis”, and that the UK is “an incredibly competitive [ticketing] market”. Ticket prices were set by event organisers, he said, not Ticketmaster. In the US, the DoJ case has bipartisan backing – but rivals and antitrust campaigners are concerned that it may not have the same support from the new administration. What happens with Live Nation may set the tone for how the Trump White House approaches competition policy over the next four years. “This has the potential to be the largest and most important antitrust case in the US for a long time,” says Diana Moss, vice-president and director of competition policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. “We have a very traditional monopoly, but also a very modern digital monopoly.” Live Nation has rejected the DoJ allegations. It accused the previous government of ignoring “everything that is actually responsible for higher ticket prices, from increasing production costs to artist popularity, to 24/7 online ticket scalping that reveals the public’s willingness to pay far more than primary tickets cost”. The company said that it disagreed with the DoJ’s take on the 2017 incident with the US concert venue, but “the more important point is that there have been no credible allegations of anything like that happening in recent years”. Dan Wall, executive vice-president of corporate and regulatory affairs for Live Nation, describes the DoJ case as “a hodgepodge of things” that does not amount to a violation of the merger agreement. “There isn’t any one thing that they can hang their hat on,” he says. Since its takeover of Ticketmaster, Live Nation has built an enormous entertainment machine straddling large parts of the live events ecosystem, according to the DoJ and rivals, some of whom declined to be identified given their concerns over the power that the company has in the industry. Across the world, Live Nation had exclusive booking rights for or has an equity interest in 394 venues and 137 festivals in 2024, according to company filings. It promoted more than 54,000 live music and other events involving 11,000 artists. In North America, the DoJ says Live Nation controls more than 265 concert venues, including more than 60 of the top 100 US amphitheatres, and directly manages more than 400 musical artists. Its scale in the US has been replicated in markets such as the UK, where it has built up a network of subsidiaries, either wholly or partially owned, spanning venues and festivals (from Latitude to the Isle of Wight) and ticketing. The company is involved in the management of bands and promotion of events, driving revenues from advertising, sponsorship and upselling to VIP seats at its venues, parking, food and beverage and merchandise sales. The DoJ describes it as a “live entertainment ecosystem” that works as “a feedback loop that inflates its fees and revenue, all at the expense of fans”. Live Nation supplies services to venues such as security via Showsec in the UK, whose accounts show it is majority owned by the US group. Food and drink often means a payday for Live Nation: it owns stakes in suppliers such as US water brand Liquid Death, CVT Soft Serve ice cream and Owen’s Craft Mixers, sold through its venues. One rival festival executive says that “they go for it all”. Live Nation boss Michael Rapino has himself described the company strategy to investors as a “flywheel”, with the concerts at the core, aiming “to get into ... high margin businesses and be competitive”. The term has been taken up by the DoJ in its allegations over a self-reinforcing model while rivals complain of a flywheel that spins ever faster to throw out money. Revenues have increased fourfold from the combined sales generated by the separate businesses pre-merger in 2010, and are double that from before the pandemic, as demand for events bounced back strongly from lockdowns in the US and UK. Shares hit an all-time high in February. Live Nation’s supporters in the industry say it is taking the financial risk for events that are often not sold out and run at a loss to the benefit of artists, who typically receive the majority of all ticketing revenue. It is doing better because the market is doing better, they add. Others argue that this is part of the business model: its power in the music industry results in higher margin operations that allow it to cross-subsidise lower margin businesses elsewhere. So through less profitable venue control, Live Nation can win deals to promote artist tours and generate high margin sponsorship and advertising revenues. The DoJ argues that control of the venue and the promotion of the artists can then help secure the ticket sales mandate. Given Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s power in concert promotions, “every live concert venue knows choosing another promoter or ticketer comes with a risk of ... losing concerts, revenue, and fans”, it said. “Live Nation’s monopoly power in primary ticketing for major concert venues in the US is demonstrated by its ability to control prices and/or exclude competition.” In the US, Ticketmaster’s exclusive agreements cover more than 75 per cent of concert ticket sales at major venues, the DoJ said. Wall says any accusation of dominance in venue ownership is “totally fictitious”. The model of combining ticketing and venue operation is also used by rivals such as AEG and CTS Eventim, he points out, with the latter leading in European event promotions and ticket sales. Live Nation operates just 4 per cent of music venues in the US, it said, and the majority of shows it promotes take place in venues owned by other companies. Every amphitheatre in the Live Nation portfolio “competes with a local arena or a local stadium, or maybe a festival”, Wall adds. When Oasis announced reunion gigs last year, few in the industry were surprised to see Live Nation listed as a co-promoter and Ticketmaster among the companies handling the sales. But it was the use of flexible pricing that provoked controversy and fresh regulatory scrutiny in the UK. Although Ticketmaster says it does not set the ticket price, the UK competition regulator last month warned that it may have breached consumer protection laws by labelling some seated tickets for Oasis as “platinum” and selling them for near 2.5 times the price of equivalent standard tickets. These tickets did not offer any additional benefits and were often located in the same area of the stadium, the Competition and Markets Authority found, with other tickets hiked without warning as soon as lower priced ones had sold out. Ticketmaster said in response that it strived “to provide the best ticketing platform through a simple, transparent and consumer-friendly experience”. For the DoJ, so-called dynamic ticketing practices where prices change depending on demand are part of the matrix of additional fees that charge profits for Live Nation “often with little visibility offered to the fan buying the ticket”. While the company’s venues and promotion business, which makes up the majority of revenues, generates margins in the low single digits, those in its ticketing business are in the high 30s and sponsorship in the 60s. Artists and executives also complain about them. In 2023, The Cure’s Robert Smith said that he was “as sickened as you all are” after tickets for a US tour that the band had tried to make affordable were laden with fees that in some cases doubled the price. Wall describes this now as “a mistake ... an oversight now being used by people to suggest that it was somehow the norm”. Ticketmaster refunded some of its fees. In Ireland, the so-called inside fee has become a common practice by Ticketmaster to generate more revenues, according to an executive from a booking agent, who declined to be named. The company had a market share of up to 90 per cent in the country, according to an investigation by the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in 2020. The cost of a ticket for the booking agent’s acts in a Dublin venue – used as the source of the artist’s cut – was €22.00, but the ticket price displayed on Ticketmaster was €25.00, on top of which €3.10 service fee was applied. This meant €6.10 of charges on a €22.00 ticket, or a 28 per cent increase, the booking agent says. “In some markets, the service fee may be an inside commission and an above face value,” says Tim Chambers, a former Ticketmaster and Live Nation senior executive who now works as an M&A consultant in the ticketing industry. Live Nation said that it and Ticketmaster “have large market shares because artists and venues prefer [our] services over others. There is nothing nefarious about that.” It also said Ticketmaster’s market share and profit margins have declined since the US merger. Wall reiterates that artists and their management, not Ticketmaster, are responsible for setting ticket prices and deciding whether to use dynamic pricing and that Ticketmaster only retained “a modest portion” of fees and service charge – which are no higher than rivals. “The ‘flywheel’ is creating 8 per cent [overall] margins. That’s not a monopoly profit,” he says. “The defining feature of a monopolist is monopoly profits derived from monopoly pricing ... Live Nation in no way fits the profile.” The question now is not just whether the DoJ can make its case, but whether the new administration has the same appetite to challenge the country’s most successful events operator as the last. In March this year, a New York court refused Live Nation’s attempt to exclude the DoJ’s claim that it coerces artists into using its concert promotion services if they want to perform at its large amphitheatres. Live Nation had argued that it is rival concert promoters who rent the venues, not the artists themselves. The judge did not agree. Live Nation has declared itself a victim of the Biden administration and its “populist urge that simply rejects how antitrust law works. Some call this ‘anti-monopoly’, but in reality it is just anti-business.” Its lobbying efforts have increased in recent years, with more than $2 million (€1.7 million) spent in 2023 and 2024 by the parent company – almost twice as much as the years previously. Live Nation said that it was “not lobbying to protect margins – in fact, many of the reforms we support, like giving artists the ability to cap resale, could actually reduce profits”. But Joe Biden’s presidential successor also clearly believes high ticket prices are a concern. Earlier this year, Donald Trump signed an executive order to crack down on touts buying up tickets and selling at higher prices on the secondary market. “I didn’t know too much about it, but I checked it out, and this is a big problem,” said the president, revealing the order alongside musician Kid Rock in the Oval Office. Live Nation says it supports the order. The DoJ found that Ticketmaster accounted for nearly a third of ticket resales in 2022, although critics of the company are concerned that the focus on resales could detract from the focus on the primary sale of tickets. Analysts are also not convinced that the DoJ will have enough, not just to prove a dominant position, but to also demonstrate that this has been used for anticompetitive practices. A note from JPMorgan last year said that there was “a real possibility that [Live Nation] comes out of this a winner”. Live Nation CFO Joe Berchtold said on a recent earnings call the company was “hopeful that we’ll see a return to the more traditional antitrust approach, where the agencies have generally tried to find ways to solve problems with targeted remedies that minimise government intervention in the marketplace”. He added that “at least some parts of the case reflect a much more interventionist philosophy than you’d expect from a Republican administration”. But many in the industry remain confident that the DoJ’s case will continue, given its bipartisan support in Congress and from dozens of US states. Brian Hess, of the US non-profit group the Sports Fans Coalition, which advocates for consumer rights, notes that Kanter’s replacement at the agency, Slater, “is a pretty strong advocate of antitrust enforcement”. He points to an assertive stance against Big Tech, and argues that Ticketmaster too “is just a very big tech company that happens to sell tickets. 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A wide Nordic river, melting snow still lining its banks, meanders peacefully through a pristine forest of spruce and pine When Den stora älgvandringen – variously translated as The Great Moose Migration or The Great Elk Trek – first aired on the public broadcaster SVT’s on-demand platform in 2019 This year, who knows? Given the state of the world, a three-week-long, round-the-clock live stream of a few hundred moose gingerly crossing the Ångerman River in northern Sweden to reach their summer pastures could be just what viewers need The show’s latest edition launched a full week early on Tuesday because of warmer than usual spring weather. “There are a lot of moose about,” the producer, Stefan Edlund, told SVT had already laid most of their 20,000 meters of cables and positioned their 30-plus remote video and night vision cameras The crew control more than 30 remote video and night vision cameras from a control room in Umeå because the show’s fans are more than ready said she had stocked up on coffee and pre-cooked meals for the duration so she did not miss a moment who is in a Facebook group of 76,000-plus viewers told the Associated Press she loved the thought that there were “about a million people” watching “all saying about the same thing: ‘Go on said he had been known to be late for class while the show was on SVT set up preparations in Junsele Photograph: SVT/APThe show – and its success – are part of a growing trend for “slow television” that some argue was pioneered by the late US pop artist Andy Warhol whose 1964 film Sleep showed the poet John Giorno sleeping for five hours and 20 minutes the concept took off with the Norwegian broadcaster NRK’s pre-recorded Bergensbanen a seven-hour train journey from Bergen to Oslo with archive footage to enliven time spent in the line’s 182 tunnels About 20% of Norway’s population tuned in at least once to that roughly half the country’s 5.5 million people watched at least some of NRK’s coverage – live and non-stop this time – of a 134-hour sea voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes Since then the broadcaster has aired at least one slow TV show a year including 18 hours of salmon swimming upstream 24 hours of academic lectures on the constitution and a 12-hour knitting marathon Free weekly newsletterThe most pressing stories and debates for Europeans – from identity to economics to the environment Slow TV shows something happening at the rate it is experienced rather than speeded up through plotting and editing seems to lie precisely in the soothing absence of staged tension and drama nothing spectacular is happening,” said Annette Hill a professor of media and communications at Jönköping University in Sweden “But something very beautiful is happening in that minute-by-minute moment.” Just occasionally, of course, stuff does happen. SVT even sends a push alert when the first moose shows up on The Great Moose Migration, and runs an on-screen counter showing how many have managed to cross the river, which is wide and can be perilous. Last year, the programme’s cameras captured 87 making it safely across. Some do get into difficulties. Undeniably, though, viewers are, most of the time, staring at sky, water and trees. Maybe a duck or two. Wait, is that a moose? Is it wrong to tune out?What really mattersIn a world with too much noise and too little context We don’t flood you with panic-inducing headlines or race to be first We focus on being useful to you — breaking down the news in ways that inform We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today It feels very tempting to cocoon myself in relaxing hobbies to spare my mental health by Sigal Samuel I’ve been avoiding news about the current political situation I haven’t totally buried my head in the sand; I still get some info from others and the stuff that leaks into my social media (which I’ve also been using less) and stuff like John Oliver and focusing on my hobbies and the people around me have seriously helped But obviously I do feel a bit guilty about it I see people constantly talking about how everyone needs to help as much as they can about how apathy and resulting inaction is exactly what people in power want I guess my dilemma is that question: By choosing to take a break Part of me knows that I probably can’t help very effectively if my mental health is terrible but another part of me knows that the world won’t pause with me I think your question is fundamentally about attention We usually think of attention as a cognitive resource you could say it’s the prerequisite for all ethical action “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,” the 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil wrote She argued that it’s only by deeply paying attention to others that we can develop the capacity to understand what it’s really like to be them because it requires you to see a suffering person not just as “a specimen from the social category labeled ‘unfortunate,’ but as a man who was one day stamped with a special mark by affliction.” In other words you don’t get “the pleasure of feeling the distance between him and oneself” — you have to recognize that you’re a vulnerable creature and tragedy could befall you just as easily as it’s befallen the suffering person in front of you when you “pay attention,” you really are paying something You pay with your own sense of invulnerability Engaging this way costs you dearly — that’s why it’s the “purest form of generosity.” Doing this is hard enough even in the best of circumstances we live in an era when our capacity for attention is under attack Modern technology has given us a glut of information, constantly streaming in from all over the world. There’s too much to pay attention to, so we live in an exhausted state of information overload. That’s even truer at a time when politicians intentionally “flood the zone” with a ceaseless flow of new initiatives Plus, as I’ve written before, digital tech is designed to fragment our focus, which degrades our capacity for moral attention — the capacity to notice the morally salient features of a given situation so that we can respond appropriately Just think of all the times you’ve seen an article in your Facebook feed about anguished people desperate for help — starving children in Yemen say — only to get distracted by a funny meme that appears right above it Fill out this anonymous form or email sigal.samuel@vox.com The problem isn’t just that our attention is limited and fragmented — it’s also that we don’t know how to manage the attention we do have. As the tech ethicist James Williams writes “the main risk information abundance poses is not that one’s attention will be occupied or used up by information…but rather that one will lose control over one’s attentional processes.” The abundance of blocks raining down on your screen is not the problem — given enough time The problem is that they fall at an increasing speed It’s the same with a constant firehose of news Being subjected to that torrent can leave you confused and ultimately just desperate to get away from the flood Instead of trying to take in as much info as possible we should try to take in info in a way that serves the real goal: enhancing That’s why some thinkers nowadays talk about the importance of reclaiming “attentional sovereignty.” You need to be able to direct your attentional resources deliberately If you strategically withdraw from an overwhelming information environment that’s not necessarily a failure of civic duty It can be an exercise of your agency that ultimately helps you engage with the news more meaningfully that’s specifically designed to update you on the most important news of the day so you can tune out all the extra noise It’s also important to consider not only how you’re going to withdraw attention from the news You mention spending more time on hobbies and the people around you But be careful not to cocoon yourself exclusively in the realm of the personal — a privilege many people don’t have Though you shouldn’t engage with the political realm 24/7 One valuable thing you can do is devote some time to training your moral attention. There are lots of ways to do that, from reading literature (as philosopher Martha Nussbaum recommends) to meditating (as the Buddhists recommend) I’ve personally benefited from both those techniques but one thing I like about meditation is that you can do it in real time even while you’re reading the news it doesn’t have to be only a thing you do instead of news consumption — it can be a practice that changes how you pay attention to the news I find it hard to read the news because it’s painful to see stories of people suffering — I end up feeling what’s usually called “compassion fatigue.” But I’ve learned that’s actually a misnomer It should really be called “empathy fatigue.” Compassion and empathy are not the same thing, even though we often conflate the concepts. Empathy is when you share the feelings of other people. If other people are feeling pain, you feel pain which is more about feeling warmth toward a suffering person and being motivated to help them Practicing compassion both makes us happier and helps us make other people happier In a study published in 2013 at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig researchers put volunteers in a brain scanner showed them gruesome videos of people suffering and asked them to empathize with the sufferers The fMRI showed activated neural circuits centered around the insula in our cerebral cortex — exactly the circuits that get activated when we’re in pain ourselves Compare that with what happened when the researchers took a different group of volunteers and gave them eight hours of training in compassion A totally different set of brain circuits lit up: those for love and warmth Though empathy is useful for getting us to notice other people’s pain it can ultimately cause us to tune out to help alleviate our own feelings of distress Amazingly, compassion — because it fosters positive feelings — actually attenuates the empathetic distress that can cause burnout, as neuroscientist Tania Singer has demonstrated in her lab practicing compassion both makes us happier and helps us make other people happier In fact, one fMRI study showed that in very experienced practitioners — think Tibetan yogis — compassion meditation that involves wishing for people to be free from suffering actually triggers activity in the brain’s motor centers preparing the practitioners’ bodies to physically move in order to help whoever is suffering even as they’re still lying in the brain scanner how can you practice compassion while reading the news A simple Tibetan Buddhist technique called Tonglen meditation trains you to be present with suffering instead of turning away from it. It’s a multistep process when done as a formal sitting meditation but if you’re doing it after reading a news story you can take just a few seconds to do the core practice you let yourself come into contact with the pain of someone you see in the news imagine that you’re breathing in their pain it won’t help the suffering people you read about we’re training ourselves to stay present with someone’s suffering instead of resorting to “the pleasure of feeling the distance between him and oneself,” as Weil put it And we’re training our capacity for moral attention so that we can then help others in real life you try to do so while practicing compassion you’ll leave feeling like those Tibetan yogis in the brain scanner: energized to help others out in the world we're unwavering in our commitment to covering the issues that matter most to you — threats to democracy and the rising polarization across this country accessible journalism that empowers you to stay informed and engaged in shaping our world you directly strengthen our ability to deliver in-depth independent reporting that drives meaningful change MembershipMonthlyAnnualOne-time$5/month$10/month$25/month$50/monthOther$50/year$100/year$150/year$200/yearOther$25$50$100$250OtherJoin for $10/monthWe accept credit card complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them Sorry, a robot is probably a safer driver than most humans. 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From Over-Excitement to Medical Issues, Experts Break Down the Reasons Dogs Tremble BirdsAll BirdsCockatooChickenParrotThe 150 Best Bird Names Best Pet Chicken Breeds for Beginners (& Those to Avoid) Home/Pet NewsCockatoo ‘Dances Better Than Any Human’ While Vibing to Catchy TuneThis Cockatoo could teach a dance class Cockatoos make such fun pets for so many reasons but it's hard not to put “good at dancing” at the very top It's just so funny to see them bust a move and some seem to have a real talent for it That includes the Cockatoo in the video below He doesn't need to be told to catch a vibe — he's already there We’re unable to load this content right now View directly on TikTok This footage comes to us from @solomon_the_cockatoo on TikTok who showed what happens when Solomon really gets in the groove he's timing his moves perfectly to a remix of “Sexy and I Know it,” and he's head bobbing with the best of them Are we sure he wasn't a human in a past life So many people are loving Solomon's dancing including plenty who were willing to admit that he's a better dancer than they are as humans It's true — Solomon could out dance me any day of the week Patel and his team discovered that birds can even predict the timing of the beat of a song and it takes no special training for them to have this ability “It’s actually a complex cognitive act that involves choosing among different types of possible movement options It’s exactly how we think of human dancing,” Patel told the Harvard Gazette adding that there also seems to be a social component to dancing for Snowball In the end, it seems clear that Cockatoos really are dancing to the music they're listening to and it's just one more thing that makes them such amazing pets 🐶 SIGN UP to get “pawsitivity” delivered right to your inbox with inspiring & entertaining stories about our furry & feathered friends🐾🐾 LLC and respective content providers on this website Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website Dr. Al Puerini and Don Culp are here to tell us about Tune In and Tune Up which is an organization which helps musicians and musician personal with medical and behavioral issues The next fundraiser will be on June 7th in Scituate, RI – “Alstock Music Festival” for more information on the group and how to get tickets to the festival or find services that can be utilized check out the website. Keep your hats on…Ryan Miller’s solo homer in the third inning of game one propelled the Buckeyes to an early 3-0 lead But Michigan would rebound to score eleven over the final six innings to win An early 3-run lead in game one proved not to be enough…and the familiar issue of walks and hit batsmen in the second game extended the Buckeyes misery to 3-22 in the Big Ten OH – The sun did shine a bit on Bill Davis Stadium on Sunday enough for the Buckeyes to build an early 3-0 lead in the first game of their get-away day doubleheader with Michigan and just enough to wash out that 3-0 lead with Michigan rallies to score 3 in the fourth inning Eventually they would add two more runs in the eighth to take the first game Starting pitcher Gavin Kuzniewski gave the Buckeyes his best three-inning outing in five starts with three scoreless while the Buckeyes supported him with a leadoff homer by Ryan Miller in the bottom of the third They followed with a single by Maddix Simpson and a walk to Matt Graveline…followed by single from Tyler Pettorini and Lee Ellis that drove in Simpson and Graveline…3-0 OSU’s Hunter Shaw pitched 3.1 innings of relief that familiar tune and the official ‘walk-up’ music of the 2025 season Kuzniewski came back out in the fourth as a lesser version himself gave up the lead when a throwing error by Lee Ellis allowed Michigan its foot in the door…and watched Michigan take the lead for good in the fifth on with a pair of doubles and an RBI single Hoping to get three additional outs from his starter Justin Haire left Kuzniewski in for the sixth hoping to get those outs and an RBI single (five hits in the inning) to stretch the lead to 9-4 Hunter Shaw relieved Kuzniewski with two outs in the fifth and proceeded to pitch 3.1 innings leaving the bases loaded in the third and men on second and third in the fourth for want of a two-out hit is a proud sponsor of area sports on Press Pros The second game began beyond 7 pm after a three-hour delay due to storms and lightning the name of the tune was the familiar refrain of walks by starter Jake Michalak whose four in the first two innings helped prompt a 3-0 start by Michigan Despite the walks and a pair of hit batsmen Michalak did deliver a competitive five-inning outing in which he allowed just 5 hits and a two-run homer in the fifth by designated hitter Keegan O’Hearn saw him exit the game after the fifth trailing 5-0 Starter Jake Michal pitched competitively for five innings but 5 walks and a pair of hit batsmen marred his outing Lefthander Sahil Patel came on in the sixth to make his first appearance of the weekend but immediately became initiated with a solo home run by Michigan’s Mitch Voit walking 4 and hitting a batter while allowing 8 runs on 6 hits over 2.1 innings The Buckeyes did score three times in the bottom of the seventh to cut the Michigan margin to 9-3 at that point but Patel would allow 4 more runs in the top of the eighth The Buckeyes could not answer in the bottom of the inning and Michigan would gain the sweep of the series with their second run-rule decision of the weekend 13-3 it marked the sixth series sweep suffered for the season the Buckeyes were outscored by their TTUN rivals on alumni weekend by a total of 47-8 After a Tuesday evening non-conference game with Ohio University on Tuesday the Buckeyes will travel to Chicago next weekend for a three-game series with Northwestern We have your next truck,and we have it in stock © PressProsMagazine.com, All Rights Reserved. | Site Map | Terms of Use | Website Designed by Marketing Essentials. SearchSearchThursday atMaroon and White Tune Up Regina HarrisPhoto by: Jacob OrrBlazers Battle Weather at Maroon and White Tune Up5/3/2025 11:30:00 AM | Women's Track & Field STARKVILLE - Battling the weather all weekend UAB Track & Field competed in the Maroon and White Tune Up in Starkville The team endured a three hour weather delay as heavy thunderstorms moved through the Starkville area on Friday In the high jump, Hope Foster and Olivia Beard each jumped 1.60m This is the third consecutive meet Beard has reached this mark and the third straight meet Foster has jumped at least 1.60m Regina Harris clocked a time of 57.51 in the 400m Mya McDanal placed third in the Javelin Throw For the second consecutive week, Noelle Hambrick finished with a mark of 3.70m in the Pole Vault. Hambrick placed second in the event this weekend. Victoria Freeland came in at 3.55m Birthe Franck-Petersen narrowly missed her PR/school record in the Shot Put The Blazers return to action in two weeks as the Green and Gold compete in the American Conference Outdoor Championships hosted by Charlotte and heat sheets will be posted at a later time atUSD Tune Up Lanham Breaks 400-Meter Program Record at USD Tune Up5/3/2025 5:14:00 PM | Track and Field Tory Lanham ran a time of 47.14 in his first official collegiate 400-meter dash Lanham and Perez-Vela's season-bests were also personal records as well two of which came in the 4x400-meter relay races the Roos nabbed second place with a time of 3:15.56 less than one second shy of the hometown Coyotes The women's team also came in second in their 4x400-meter relay only trailing South Dakota by under three seconds for first place making it the best collective 4x400-meter relay outing for Kansas City this season The Roos final regular season meet commences next weekend at the Arkansas Twilight back in Fayetteville By on May 5, 2025No Comment BTPL now in tune for youth thanks to grant added by on May 5, 2025View all posts by Shelby Stewart → and website in this browser for the next time I comment Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here There are currently no upcoming/recent events Thanks for visiting compiled by The Guardian’s puzzle editor (and Stereolab superfan) Alan Connor the tune stands on its own so grab it now as a free download while you count the days until you can marinate in the album as a whole when it drops on May 23 via Warp Records Anne Litt shares her take on the week in KCRW music FLASH SALE: Snag The OG Black Zip-Up designed by LA artist Chuy Hartman— inspired by the 24/7 service we provide to the LA community ends tonight Get the latest from KCRW in your inbox 3x a week Thanks for visiting GET TICKETS TO SEE REIGN FC TAKE ON PORTLAND THORNS FC ON APRIL 18 Our website utilizes cookies to guarantee you receive the optimal browsing experience. 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SearchSearchThursday, May 1Starkville, MS11 a.m.UAB Gabby WashingtonPhoto by: Jacob OrrBlazers Head to Starkville for Maroon and White Tune Up4/30/2025 11:45:00 AM | Women's Track & Field BIRMINGHAM - UAB Track & Field travels to Starkville Mississippi on Thursday to compete in the Maroon and White Tune Up hosted by Mississippi State The two-day event will take place at the Carl Maddox Track & Field Complex Birthe Franck-Petersen competed in the Shot Put and progressed with each throw Noelle Hambrick and Victoria Freeland represented the Green and Gold in the Pole Vault Hambrick tied her Outdoor PR with a mark of 3.70 Sangie Lincoln-Velez clocked her PR in the 1500m for the second consecutive week Hope Foster marked her Outdoor season-best in the High Jump finishing at 1.66m Jasmine Dereje placed 8th out of 48 runners in the 400m Hurdles The sophomore finished with a time of 59.54 May 4 for an afternoon kickoff against New York City FC English Local Radio: iHeart Media ESPN 1530 Spanish Local Radio: La Mega 101.5 FM FC Cincinnati Social Media: X/Twitter, Instagram and Facebook FC Cincinnati Official Mobile App: iOS and Android Existing and new Apple TV+ subscribers also have access to the match Sunday for no additional cost Sign up for MLS Season Pass The Official Spanish Radio Broadcast Home of FC Cincinnati – La Mega Cincinnati 101.5 FM – will carry the match with Gustavo Luques and José Romero on the call on La Mega 101.5 FM For a full list of Pub Partners and for more information on the program, visit FCCincinnati.com/Matchday/Pub-Partners FC Cincinnati fans will see previews and analysis of the club’s next opponents vsDuke Twilight Jourdon Break Program Records in Final Tune-Up Before ACCs5/4/2025 10:44:00 PM | Track and Field While Douglass and Jourdon broke program records sophomore Hunter Jones claimed victory in the 3,000-meter Steeplechase with a time of 8:46.86 Thanks for visiting We are sharing a special set of Parks Edition episodes as we gear up for Season 2 Whether you are planning your next adventure or just want a behind-the-scenes look at Raleigh Parks Listen, learn, and get inspired just in time for a season full of outdoor fun.Listen Now Cara McLeod Raleigh Parks Marketingcara.mcleod@raleighnc.gov  This feedback widget is not intended for customer service issues This feedback is reviewed monthly to help us improve our site. For immediate customer service please refer to our staff directory. Kansas City Preps for USD Tune Up5/1/2025 2:14:00 PM | Track and Field Roos will send a short crew to Vermillion to compete in two-day meet at the home of a conference foe Following a busy weekend for Kansas City Track & Field at the John McDonnell Invite in Fayetteville and Rock Chalk Classic in Lawrence for the USD Tune-Up hosted by Summit League opponent South Dakota this Friday and Saturday Last weekend, Kansas City saw five athletes set new personal records at the John McDonnell Invite including M.J. Foster and Alanie Rivera's 1:53.13 and 2:12.73 800-meter dash times respectively the Roos discovered newfound success in the distance events at the Rock Chalk Classic Thanks for visiting Thanks for visiting Thanks for visiting Sam Debatin graduated from OHIO with a degree in art history but rather than pursuing a career as museum curator he has been working as a freelance piano tuner since his graduation in 2022 and the pandemic was happening when I was in college and it was a thing I could do because it was pretty solitary.” “What I think is special about what Chris does is he has the University as a resource and because of that he also has time as a resource so we were able to really go slow with a lot of stuff…we had time to go back use it as a learning experience and there’s plenty of room to experiment that way,” Debatin said By spending ample time honing the technical skills of piano tuning Debatin has been able to shift his focus to the philosophical aspects of the job “(Chris) often talks about the circle of refinement,” Debatin said “When you tune a piano…everything you do is slightly affecting everything else…by the time you get to the end everything you’ve done has affected everything that you did at the beginning…if you’re open to it it gives you a lot of food for thought about applying on a micro-scale what you do every day to how the world actually works.” As a way of paying Purdy’s teachings forward to teach a masterclass for the current piano technician students The core of Debatin’s class was a summation of his takeaways from the Yamaha Headquarters of Training and in general the Japanese technician’s approach to pianos tends to be that speed yields accuracy and efficiency yields accuracy,” Debatin said what I tried to teach about…is what exactly that process looks like in real life from start to finish.” music majors currently learning from Purdy are gaining incredibly valuable lessons in not only tuning the piano “I think I’ve definitely gained a deeper understanding of the instrument by working on it all the time so even though I can’t play super well there are things I pick up on that I definitely wouldn’t have before,” Debatin said Although Debatin believes music majors in particular can benefit from learning piano tuning he is also living proof of how piano tuning thrives in interdisciplinary settings “Each one informs the other,” Debatin said “I studied art history and the piano plays a huge role in the history of the development of music…Getting context for what you’re doing is really cool this is the thing I was just learning about when I was reading,’ but then on the other end of it you get a very material hands-on perspective for when you’re reading things.” Debatin is based in Pittsburgh and said he enjoys meeting new clients and getting a glimpse into their home as well as the process of getting to know each individual piano and attacking the tuning process from a different angle each time I know right away that I’m probably going to have to spend most of my time there getting it back into tune,” he said “If it’s a piano that I’ve seen five times already and I only tuned six months ago I know I’m probably not going to have to spend that much time on tuning and I can spend more time getting it to feel really nice getting it to respond well to people playing it so it really comes down to the context of the piano.” Debatin has serviced pianos in Columbus and Pittsburgh and has landed a job tuning pianos for the internationally known festival as well as continually pursue new opportunities that arise within his field “There are a lot of jobs that are not so kind or are very unfulfilling or just feel exploitative and this career for me so far has been very accommodating in a lot of ways.” © 2025 Ohio University Thanks for visiting ! access content via the FT Edit page on FT.com and receive the FT Edit newsletter This is the story of how one engineer’s trained ears are shaping Nissan’s next generation of in-vehicle sound. Patrick Dennis is a good listener Countless hours of listening to music in cars homes and concert halls have enabled him to precisely tune automotive speakers His official title is principal engineer for audio sound quality Dennis has spent nearly 20 years at Nissan technical center in North America helping to shape the sound of Nissan vehicles across the line-up He also lends his tuning expertise to select Infiniti models the audio team is dedicated to making sound systems the best they can be “It’s not that my ears are naturally better than anyone else’s; it’s that I’ve been trained to identify certain things in the music that other people might not be able to catch,” he says the best part of the job is the moment he realizes the team has achieved the desired tuning “You have to work with the system to get it to pop,” Dennis says And you can’t wait for the customer to experience it too.” “We want the customers to feel like they’re at a live show Providing a high-quality listening experience in an environment with many other noises comes with challenges “A car is not an ideal space for an audio system You’re competing with noise from the powertrain car speakers are often mounted away from a passenger’s ears – for example Nissan has used technology that enables the audio teams to precisely direct the music so it feels closer to the listener “We can now manipulate sound to give it the best quality possible, even with just a few speakers,” Dennis says. An example of this is the use of the Bose personal plus audio system in the Nissan Kicks where speakers are mounted in the headrests to enable an immersive experience Software also plays a role in reducing external noise active sound management uses an interior microphone to identify low-frequency engine sounds and neutralize them with sound waves of the opposite frequency This works similarly to noise-canceling headphones Partners such as Bose, Fender and Klipsch work closely with Nissan throughout the vehicle-development process positioning speakers and adjusting them for metrics like treble Engineers monitor the sound with equipment and their ears making small tweaks until the sound is just right Dennis notes that a larger speaker count is what makes the biggest difference when it comes to audio experience Nissan audio engineers are currently collaborating with brands on systems that will debut in model year 2028 and beyond including next-gen EVs and future flagship SUVs Dennis and his team fine-tune the sound system for each vehicle’s unique interior This is an edited version of an article that first appeared on Nissan Stories USA In related news, BMW has recently revealed its rolling testbed vehicle for drivetrain and dynamics management technology developed for the Neue Klasse, stating that the next-gen vehicles’ Heart of Joy central computer works 10 times faster than conventional systems. 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Both events will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Owen Brady will compete in the steeplechase at 4:40 p.m He currently ranks sixth in the conference Noah Johnson and Riley Jackson will represent the men in the 1500m. Nedgine Morancy will compete in the long jump and triple jump for the Penguins Kenzy Beckett will get things started for the women's running events, as she competes in the 1500m at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. The women's pole vault squad are set to compete in full at 11 a.m. on day two. Kalli Knoble will represent the women in the high jump at noon Thanks for visiting getting a proper tune-up on an old bicycle could mean the difference between a smooth ride or the walk of shame back to the car who owns Tandem Connection located along the Montour Trail in Cecil Township said riders should perform their own checks – inspecting the frame tires and other components – before heading out for the first ride of the season But it’s usually good to also have a professional inspection and tune-up which his shop will do by looking at the bike frame drivetrain and brakes for a relatively affordable price “You don’t want to head out for a ride before having this done,” Poe said “Being proactive instead of reactive about your bike maintenance will prevent many headaches We see many people walking their bikes into the shop with issues after being on the trail for the first time … Walking your bike back to your vehicle for a mile or more is no fun.” His location directly next to the trailhead parking lot not far from the Southpointe/Henderson exit of Interstate 79 in Washington County means he sees many walk-up customers who tried going out for the first time but quickly turned around with problems Most tune-ups help with brake or gearing problems but the work on a functioning bike can also help to improve the ride and save money in the end “Many of our customers have told me over the years that after having their bike tuned up it rides like a brand-new bike,” Poe said “Over the last 13 years we have seen it all Some upfront care and maintenance with continued check over the summer can go a long way for a successful riding season.” Bike shops across the region have been slammed in recent weeks as the warmer weather has arrived and more bicyclists have taken to the trails said the lack of use during the off-season can be rough on a bicycle with dry rotted tires and jammed gears being the biggest culprits “Something really overlooked is chain wear An overhaul is well worth the money of keeping your bike in shape.” Wilderness Voyageurs has two bike rental locations with the main store across the Youghiogheny River near Falls City Pub and the “bike shack” along the Great Allegheny Passage across the street from the train station visitors center which is the main mechanical repair location that just opened last week and is available for riders through the end of September is prepared to fix “acute emergencies” such as flat tires and gearing issues but workers there can perform more extensive repairs and tune-ups as well “We’re set up to handle that person coming off the trail with a flat or (broken) derailers or that acute emergency,” Martin said “We also have a back of the house set-up for bigger jobs.” If riders aren’t sure what their bike needs for the season Trek Bikes on Route 19 in McMurray offers free safety checks and repair estimates without an appointment “Customers can roll them in any time a Trek shop is open,” Lackner said of the brand which has six locations across the Pittsburgh region “They can do a safety check or get a higher level of service it’s very easy for us to get a quick look at their bike.” Lackner suggests annual inspections and tune-ups to ensure all the “safety points” of the bike are properly torqued and secure But he said riders can do their own simple tasks each year such as washing their bikes and using bicycle-grade lubricant on the sprocket and gears to keep their rig rolling especially in Western Pennsylvania with all the crushed limestone trails we have,” Lackner said With so many great trails – such as the Montour and Panhandle in Washington and Allegheny counties the GAP and Sheepskin in Fayette County and the Greene River Trail in Greene County – there are many options for riders to get back on that bicycle “We’re in such close proximity of the Montour and Panhandle so there are some awesome options for riders,” Lackner said alluding to his bike shop’s location in Peters Township saying residents in this region are fortunate to have such a robust trail system right in their backyard “The beauty of the GAP and other trails is they’re free,” Martin said If you have an account and are registered for online access sign in with your email address and password below Never been a subscriber and want to subscribe Copyright © Herald-Standard | Contact | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy “All I know is that we will be hosting a four- team district play-off starting on Wednesday (May 7) and that we will be playing and at-large team in the first game but right now I can’t tell you who that team will be,” said Coach Beasley and in the first game of the state championship best of three series if we are fortunate enough to make it to the AA finals.” Against Colleton County the teams were tied after six innings at 5-5 (At this point Coach Beasley replaced Terrapin in the circle with Grubbs she received a loud ovation from the Barnwell fans at the game.) For the game Barnwell had six hits led by O’Berry who had two hits and one RBI and Corley had one hit and four RBI’s Walker scored a run and produced two RBI’s In the circle Terrapin allowed two earned runs while striking out three Grubbs picked up the save with a solid performance Terrapin is 4-0 having worked 17 innings in the circle with 18 K’s and she has an ERA of 1.65 Grubbs is at 4-1 with 35 K’s in 24.2 innings of work Colleton County comes into the play-offs with an incredible .414 team batting average Holmes leads the way at .607 including 31 RBI’s Eversole is next at .571 with 22 RBI’s followed by Sanders at .527 including 33 RBI’s and four homers Gerard is at .519 and 22 RBI’s entering the AAAA play-offs while Oxner is at .500 with three RBI’s Cochran is at .360 with 20 RBI’s and Miller is hitting .356 with 14 RBI’s The Cougars are le din the circle by Gerard and Sanders Gerard comes into the play-offs with a 7-1 record with 96 K’s in 60 innings of work with a 1.40 ERA Sanders is 5-2 with 67 K’s in 40 innings pitched and she has a 2.45 ERA All Rights Reserved | The High School Sports Report 1986-2021