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Editors note: How did Ohio State football become a Buckeye Nation of true believers? In a 14-part series, we explore aspects that shaped OSUs evolution from Saturday afternoon diversion to near-religious experience. Today: Chase

Not even two Heisman Trophies can bookend the regret that slides off the shelf of Archie Griffins most painful Pasadena memory, when undefeated Ohio State lost to underdog UCLA in the 1976 Rose Bowl, costing the Buckeyes a national championship.

"Thats the one that haunts me," Griffin said, grimacing more from the recollection of that 23-10 loss than from the sore back that now hampers his golf game.

The Buckeyes were ranked No. 1 in both the Associated Press and United Press International polls, had defeated the Bruins 41-20 in the Los Angeles Coliseum earlier in the season and entered the New Years Day game as two-touchdown favorites.

Yet despite coming up short again Griffin finished 1-3 in Rose Bowls, with two lost chances at national titles the former tailback would not describe 1975 as a failed season just because the Buckeyes were not voted No. 1.

"It cant be national championship or bust," he said.

It cant? Try telling that to Ohio State fans too young to recall when a successful season could be defined by a win over Michigan and playing in the Rose Bowl. These days, anything short of a College Football Playoff appearance, culminating in a national championship, leaves many fans, players and coaches feeling frustrated.

Before the Big Ten reinstituted football on Wednesday, Ohio State coach Ryan Day tweeted " we still have an opportunity to give our young men what they have worked so hard for: a chance to safely compete for a national championship this fall."

Woody Hayes did not think that way. The former OSU coach considered a national championship the outcome of a special season not the goal. Win the Big Ten and Rose Bowl and the chances of being voted poll champions were pretty good.

But there were no guarantees, which explains why Hayes and the next two Buckeyes coaches, Earle Bruce and John Cooper, focused their attention more on winning the conference than winning a national championship that was decided by media and coaches poll voters. During Hayes time, and before, voting to determine the "national champion" took place before the bowl games were played.

As Griffin explained it, "You could win your bowl game and might win the national championship, but it in the end it was still up to the voters."

Cooper learned that the hard way in 1996 the penultimate season before the Bowl Championship Series began when the Buckeyes lone blemish was a 13-9 loss to Michigan in The Slip game. Ohio State dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 in the polls, then defeated No. 2-ranked Arizona State 20-17 in the Rose Bowl.

Cooper hoped voters would bump the Buckeyes to No. 1, but OSU finished No. 2 to Florida after the Gators defeated No. 1 Florida State 52-20 in the Sugar Bowl.

"Im envious of the (playoff) system," the 83-year-old Cooper said. "I had a couple teams that, Im not saying they would have won it but they would have played for the national championship."

Cooper admitted, however, that such wishful thinking fails to consider context and a changing win-at-all-cost culture.

"Times have changed," he said. "The goal back then seemed like it was win your games, beat Michigan and go to the Rose Bowl. It used to be you win the Big Ten, youre going to play in the Rose Bowl.

"I coached at Oregon State and UCLA, and even out there the goal was to go to the Rose Bowl. Bowls were a reward for a good season. Later on, it became you had to win the Rose Bowl."

The BCS changed everything when it arrived in 1998, pitting No. 1 vs. No. 2 in a championship game that removed some subjectivity from the equation. Schools still had to be voted into the top two spots, but the title was decided on the field.

By the time Ben Hartsock arrived at Ohio State, in 1999, the tight end already had put most of the Rose Bowl mystique in his rearview mirror. He grew up listening to his father rave about "The Granddaddy of them All," but as a player, Hartsock knew there were bigger fish to fry.

"The importance of the Rose Bowl felt to me like something my dad focused on," Hartsock said. "I knew how big it was because I was raised in a house that taught that curriculum, but I transitioned away from it."

When Jim Tressel arrived at Ohio State in 2001, he immediately replaced "Rose Bowl" with "national title."

"When Tressel came in, the main focus was Michigan. It starts with beating Michigan, then winning the Big Ten and the national title," Hartsock said. "And winning the Big Ten was the only way to get to the national title. You could argue thats not the case today."

A team now can fail to win its regular-season conference championship and still win a national title, as Alabama did in 2011 (BCS) and 2017 (College Football Playoff). The playoff selection committee emphasizes that its only mission is to choose the four best teams.

Left unsaid is the reality that any team outside the top four and any bowl outside the two semifinals and championship game becomes an afterthought.

Its now all about making the playoff. Ohio State coach Urban Meyer in 2014 even gave a name to the quest: The Chase.

That doesnt mean coaches minimize conference championships. Meyer stressed in 2014 that "we wake up every day to compete for championships in November." But those conference titles are more a means to an end than the ultimate goal. In Ohio States case, the first job is to win the Big Ten East Division, which gets you into the conference championship game, then win in Indianapolis to hopefully earn a playoff berth.

As for the players, todays Buckeyes are more aware of the drive for a national championship than their predecessors. With 24/7 sports media, tuning out the playoff noise is impossible.

Of course, some things never change, no matter the ultimate goal.

In early August, when the Big Ten was adjusting its schedules to eliminate nonconference games during the coronavirus pandemic, OSU quarterback Justin Fields tweeted, "I dont care when we play Michigan, I just want to play them and beat the brakes off them."

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Grey's Anatomywill be returning on the same night as Station 19 with a two-hour premiere and an epic crossover event on Thursday, Nov. 12, and TV Guide has an exclusive teaser of these COVID-19 episodes. Respective series stars Ellen Pompeo and Jaina Lee Ortiz provide the voiceover for the teaser trailer that will officially premiere Sunday night during the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards. While there's no new footage from the respective shows in the clip, the actresses emphasize how doctors and first responders have been on the front lines of the pandemic and tease, "Sometimes, we all need saving," which is the tagline for Grey's Anatomy Season 17. It sounds like we need to be worried.

When we last left off with both crews, Andy (Ortiz) had just found out on Station 19 that her mom hadn't actually died when she was a little girl, but had instead left her and her father. Meanwhile on Grey's, Meredith had managed to save Richard (James Pickens Jr.) thanks to a miraculous last-minute diagnosis from DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti), but it spurred him to admit something was wrong. That's not to mention all the Teddy (Kim Raver) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) drama... We have a lot to figure out when these shows return. Luckily, it's only a few weeks away!

The Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy crossover event begins Thursday, Nov. 12 at 8/7c.

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Fans know that Shameless is an American drama series. It is a comedy show thats created by John Wells. The first streak of Shameless appeared on January 9, 2011, on Showtime. Additionally, this drama show is dependent upon a British collection of an identical name.

That is Shameless by Paul Abbott. Anyway, the series includes the casts set with William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum in the number one function. The storyline of the humor show by Showtime is organized from the South Side of Chicago. Additionally, it is listed all through the town, just as in Los Angeles.

The series, incomplete have 10 outstanding seasons to watch. Furthermore, on September 9, 2018, the period of the series was delivered. Around that time, the comedy collection, Shameless, turned into the longest-running series.

Even after a 10 season run with no break, the showrunners are not tired. In January this season, it was declared that Shameless would return for one final season. We might have watched the 11th season already if it wasnt for the COVID-19 catastrophe. Plans were to release the show in the summer of 2020, but its been postponed to 2021.

The production was supposed to begin on the 19th of March, as said by Shameless celebrity Emma Kenney. However, it had to almost all other shows and films in the line of stopped production due to this COVID crisis.

Rumour has it that the series has resumed the creation, we have not received an official upgrade yet. To be precise, September 8th is the famous date of continued production. However, Shameless season 11 is expected to release from the summer of 2021.

The series portrays the low-income family of Frank Gallagher, who is a single dad raising six children. The majority of the time, he spends his afternoon being drunk or getting into a misadventures, while his children learn how to take care of themselves. His daughter Fiona takes care of the home.

Shameless is one of the famous American Comedy series and expected to launch its eleventh and last season shortly. The show is ranked among the top ten most popular collections of all time. It has received positive reviews from the audience and has been a successful show.

Reportedly, the Season 11 will be the concluding season. While this series fans are sad about that, its also likely to be quite exciting to see what happens from the previous season and how it will end.

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NARRATOR: Hi, Im Antonio Campos, and Im the director of The Devil All the Time. So were about 2/3 of the way into the movie, were entering the third act. And Arvin has been spying on this preacher and has figured out that he did something to his stepsister. And so he is coming to get revenge. And one of the things I wanted to convey in this scene is that Arvin isnt a killer. He comes in with the intent of killing him, and in the moment when hes going to shoot, he gets nervous and he sits down, and hes got to muster up the courage to go through with the act. Hes a violent kid, but hes not a killer yet. And so what I wanted to do is I wanted to try and give you two perspectives in this scene, one from the perspective of Teagardin talking to this young man thats come in. You got time for a sinner? Who wants to confess, get something off his chest, and the other, in close up on Arvins face, where we are with Arvin, where were with him, were seeing that hes nervous, and that hes a little anxious. Ive done lustful acts. So we get this angle here, this close-up angle, and thats where were in it with him, and we get to see into his eyes. And then theres the frontal angle, and the frontal, were withholding his eyes. Were seeing it the way that Teagardin sees him. The other thing there is this little technical thing is Teagardin has seen Arvin in church with his grandmother and with his stepsister, but with his hat on, and the angle that hes looking at him, he cant quite identify him. So thats the other reason why this wardrobe was really important for the scene. This is, by far, my favorite scene in the whole movie. And I was so excited for these two characters to come together. And for this force of good and this force of evil to finally meet. And its the beginning of what becomes Arvin coming up against a lot of different evil forces in the story. Its a very long scene, so we really wanted you to feel every single beat. And so this scene took about I think we edited this scene on and off for about nine months. One day I got this girl in my truck and I drove her out to the sticks, and I had my way with her. [SIGHS] She put up a fight? No. And it was really about trying to capture every single detail that these two great actors gave us. I really think that Tom Holland is the greatest actor of his generation. And I think hes so natural, and he conveys such a wonderful humanity, but still manages to capture this kind of danger. And that Rob Pattinson is this kind of mad genius, and you dont know what hes going to give you on the day. And so I had this wonderful footage to work with. And it was really about trying to nail every little micro expression, every gesture. And by doing that, we create this kind of we start building up the tension to the point where then Arvin stands up and, with standing up, he reveals his eyes and reveals his identity to Teagardin. Ive been watching your every move for the last couple weeks. You cant get enough of that Reaster girl, can you? Is that how you did my Lenora, too? And this kind of face off, here, was really this is where it kind of, like, really finely tuned the editing to make sure that every little gesture, once the gun revealed itself, is dangerous for Teagardin. Dont do anything youll regret, son. Why dont you put the gun down, and we can talk all about it? So we really wanted to highlight each beat, and feel every time that Tom gets worked up and Teagardin gets scared. In the sound design, here, you really hear the rattle of the gun. It was just like this this Reaster girl. You get the shake of Arvins hand through the sound of the gun rattling, which is one of these things that we didnt plan on, but when we got into the mix, you really kind of you realize you needed a sound to convey that sort of nervousness, to heighten the nervousness. soul too? Look, I I didnt have nothing to do with that. And then you get this sort of, like, this anger building up. So now Arvin, who came into the scene so, so nervous to go through with the act, is now getting angrier and angrier and angrier. And hes building up the courage to either shoot or not shoot. We dont know yet. We dont know if hes going to change his mind, if Teagardins going to manage to talk his way out of it. I aint going to take the blame for no bastard child. It would ruin me, man. My wife is the editor, Sophia Subercaseaux. She and I always loved every one of Robs deliveries here. She was delusional. Shes crazy. Thats it. Or she was just lonely.

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BOSTON, Sept. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Surprises abound in the new IDTechEx Research report, "Supercapacitor Markets, Technology Roadmap, Opportunities 2021-2041". In 2010, there were no Chinese manufacturers in the top ten supercapacitor manufacturers. In 2020, 40% of them are Chinese. This has been achieved by world-class R&D, being in one of the largest markets globally, strong investment and government support including protective trading. However, China is not leading in capacitor-supercapacitor hybrids where the USA saw a $7 million follow on order recently.

Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx advises, "Supercapacitor manufacturers used to be divided into those making small ones for electronics and those that also made similar flat or cylindrical formats for electrical engineering such as the archetypal 2.7V 3000F cylinder. No longer. A considerable market for even large supercapacitors is rapidly emerging. The first big success with large ones is boxed car stop-starters at around 20Wh, with over five million sold. The number of automakers going for that fit-and-forget, grab more electricity, waste less electricity proposition still increases. The natural extension of this logic is the newly committed adoption of larger supercapacitors for peak-shaving and acceleration boosting at 30-100Wh across the batteries in mild hybrid cars then full hybrid then totally replacing the lithium-ion battery if pure electric cars have not destroyed the hybrid car business by then."

The new large versions appear in trains at 1kWh and 1MWh appears as hospital and data center uninterruptable power supplies that double for peak shaving. It is a long way from small supercapacitors usually made to standards, easy to make and mostly commoditized at prices of 1 cent/F or less. IDTechEx counts 89% of supercapacitor manufacturers making them though Panasonic recently exited. 37% of these are in China because it exports them strongly, its share of the supercapacitor value demand being only 27% because of its giveaway pricing and lateness into car stop-start.

An exception to the commoditization is small supercapacitors in the form of battery-supercapacitor hybrids BSH, aerospace and military ones working at 150C, capacitor-supercapacitor hybrids beating tantalum electrolytics on ripple and one fifth to one tenth of the size and weight and ones in odd formats such as to go in a watch or smart card. Those working at 85C, -40C and 3V as single cells are less common and in demand.

Battery-supercapacitor hybrids (BSH) are almost always lithium-ion capacitors. They offer higher energy density often with effectively infinite cycle life and better charge retention than pure supercapacitors. Energy density several times that of pure EDLC supercapacitors. There is almost always confined to small units for electronics. IDTechEx measures that 24% of supercapacitor manufacturers now have a BSH range and of those 32% are made in China, where they are most successful commercially. China leads the world here, partly because they have so many large BSHs.

Several companies declare their supercapacitors to be "graphene" as a badge of honor. It can mean non-flammable, relatively non-toxic, no use of the volatile, toxic carcinogen acetonitrile, valuably improved series resistance, better voltage and energy density in a pure EDLC all good things justifying a higher price.

Raghu Das adds, "IDTechEx measures that 8.75% of supercapacitor manufacturers now offer graphene versions, up from zero ten years ago. 43% of the manufacturers using graphene are in China so they are ahead in numbers, though certainly not in graphene supercapacitor research, much of which is aimed at the massive emerging market for replacing lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries with highest energy density of 100Wh/kg or more. In research, this is usually achieved by boosted pseudocapacitance though some perfect the technology of the newly commercial 100 Wh/kg lithium-ion supercapacitors. 33% of supercapacitor material research graphene-centric followed by carbon nanotubes then metal organic frameworks."

Large supercapacitors are more difficult to make, more profitable and represent the majority of the addressable market 2021-2041. Unlike small ones, they typically come with integral power electronics for optimal safe operation, microprocessors for intelligent response, often cooling systems. 47.5% of supercapacitor manufacturers now claim to make them, up from few in the past. However, many of those are barely in the business, their web entries being more of a wish list that reality. 34% of these are in China no dominance though it is coming up fast in this respect. This is assisted by the fact that a disproportionate amount of the demand for large supercapacitors is in China with the Government requesting that all parts of trains, buses etc. be made in China. On the other hand, China is badly behind in researching supercapacitor bodywork, smart skin and other radical advances scoped in the IDTechEx Research report, "Supercapacitor Materials and Formats 2020-2040".

Raghu Das predicts, "Acquisitions and mergers will continue. One billion dollar supercapacitor businesses may be created by 2045. If the addressable markets we have analyzed are strongly penetrated, then it will be much earlier. Given past disappointments, our upside forecast currently stands at $7 billion in 2041."

For more information on this report, please visit http://www.IDTechEx.com/supercaps or for the full portfolio of research available from IDTechEx please visit http://www.IDTechEx.com/Research.

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How the rookie team of Joe Morris, Jason Roth and Gabe Prewitt helped post a record handle of $55.3 million at the Columbus, OH track an increase of more than $35 million (and 184 per cent) from 2019.

by Bob Roberts

It almost figures. In a year in which only a sprinkling of fans were on hand to watch the Hambletonian and none will be allowed to take in the Little Brown Jug, another track in central Ohio first with no fans in the stands and then with just a handful of them shattered every wagering record in its 62-year history.

Until this spring, the futuristic-looking Scioto Downs, which opened in 1959 and lost a photo-finish to the St. Lawrence Seaway as a nominee for Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement, has been a perennial also-ran in the race for North American simulcast dollars.

That all changed when the first-year team of senior vice-president of racing Joe Morris, racing secretary Jason Roth and director of racing Gabe Prewitt put their heads together and turned Scioto Downs into a major player in the signal export business.

In 2019, Scioto Downs totaled $19.5 million in wagering dollars over 90 race dates for an average of $216,666 a program.

This year, it took in $55.3 million over 82 days and nights of betting for an average of $674,390.What made for such a dramatic increase?

Were a new team and we went through things and tried to do whats best for the horsemen and the horseplayer, said Prewitt. Of course, we were lucky to get the jump on the competition.

Scioto Downs COVID-19-delayed opening on May 22 made the south Columbus oval the first track in North America to welcome back pari-mutuel racing.

It allowed us to get our product out there, especially to people that had not previous seen Scioto racing, said Prewitt. It also helped that everybody wanted to enter and race with us. We had a seven to 10 day jump on the competition.

Scioto Downs took full advantage of their calendar advantage by opening with 12 consecutive handles of over $1 million.

Prewitt employed another and rather unique yardstick for measuring success.

I knew we were making an impact when I heard 15 different pronunciations of Scioto the first week of the meeting. There were a lot of new players.

He said that in Morris giving him the green light to try new things, and with Roth putting together attractive racing cards that bettors embraced, the season was off and pacing.

Gabe is a bright guy, Morris told Harness Racing Update. Hes already established a substantial audience for our racing product.

Prewitt focused on managing post times, constructing a wagering menu that attracted fire power, and staying on top of social media.

Scioto Downs kicked off the season with free past performances and live video on its website, as well as placing some of its races on the TVG network.

When the first weekend of racing was over, Scioto had posted its second, third and fourth highest handles in track history.

We revamped the betting menu, completely. We created several carryover opportunities for players, said Prewitt. And my thing is the scheduling of races. Its very important to get your races in the right spots.

Prewitt said he would position himself in a room he called the dungeon (actually the basement tote room) where he would monitor the signals from up to 12 different tracks.

I did everything I could to stay off major signals, he said. I was always looking for a good spot for us, even thinking three or four races down the card. Its like playing poker every night. Youre zigging and zagging to position your races. I learned by watching Dave Bianconi (vice-president of racing at Northfield Park). Hes the best at it.

Sciotos all-time single card betting record ($1.2 million in 1996) fell twice this past season, first with a handle of $1.6 million on May 28, and then $2.09 million seven days later. On the year, there were 15 $1 million handles.

The season was so great that it took Scioto Downs only 17 programs to top the $19.5 million it collected in wagers in all of 2019.

Prewitt pounded the Twitter world each racing night when betting updates and carryover teasers under the banner of #Senditin Army.

He also paired with track announcer Barry Vicroy to handicap the races, not only giving selections, pointing out hot (or cold) drivers and trainers, and studying the odds board for underlays and overlays.

We tried to add to the broadcast, offering horseplayers what they couldnt find on the program pages, said Prewitt. Barry has been around long time. He knows Scioto and its horsemen.

Prewitt knows the pressure will be on next year to maintain or increase Scioto Downs numbers.

Hopefully, well have a few tricks up our sleeves, he said. I think we should do a half-million every time we turn on the lights and race. So, if we race 90 nights, thats a $45 million. And well build on it from there, as we grow the brand.

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