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There's quite a lively discussion going on in the comments section on our Web site and on Twitter over Bucky Gleason's column today on Terry Pegula and Penn State. Large parts of it are fascinating to read. (By all means, keep commenting!)
I have received several dozen Twitter replies and emails myself asking why The News pressed the Sabres to have Pegula meet with the media, or at least give some thoughts, in the wake of the crisis at his alma mater. Pegula issued a three-paragraph statement on Penn State late Thursday afternoon in the wake of the firings of football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier on Wednesday night. The News has also requested comment from Sabres chief development officer Cliff Benson, but that request has not yet been filled.
Benson, a retired accountant, faciliated Pegula's $88 million gift to Penn State and is a former finance chair and current state board member of The Second Mile, the agency founded by disgraced Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. You would think he would have something to say too, sooner rather than later.
Anyone can have any opinion they want on Pegula's statement. But I am going to make this point loud and clear right now: It is time for readers to STOP BADGERING US WITH THE THEORY PEGULA GAVE HIS MONEY TO HOCKEY AND THUS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FOOTBALL.
You are dead wrong. Did the capital letters make myself clear?
Pegula talked Penn State football with the media at the Sabres' opening press conference in September after he had attended the Penn State-Alabama game. Parts of the conversation made John Vogl's season preview story in our preview section. He is a devout Penn State FOOTBALL fan.
His gift was made at a press conference last year to Spanier, the deposed president, and he's obviously close to Tim Curley, the athletic director now accused of perjury in the case. Even if he hated football -- which he doesn't -- those facts alone make his opinion on the scandal highly relevant.
And there's this: In the last year, Pegula himself made calls on behalf of Tom Bradley, the Penn State defensive coordinator who has been named interim coach in the wake of Paterno's firing. Pegula called Temple on Bradley's behalf when Bradley was involved with the coaching job there. The Harrisburg Patriot-News also reported last year that Pegula called Pittsburgh chancellor Mark Nordenberg on behalf of Bradley when the Pitt job opened.
So Pegula obviously has a close relationship with the man who just replaced Joe Paterno. Anyone still want to say he has nothing to do with Penn State football?
So by all means, please leave any and all comments you want on Twitter, the blog, our stories, wherever. But stop saying Pegula has nothing to do with Penn State football so that's an excuse for him not to say anything about perhaps the worst scandal in the history of college sports. A scandal happening at his alma mater, where he ranks as the largest private donor in its history.
His comments are more than a little relevant.
---Mike Harrington


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Residents young and old alike flocked to the Centreville Day celebration on Saturday, enjoying a sun-splashed festival that featured a zombie-slouch fun run, free children's rides and hands-on 18th century craft demonstrations — such as butter-making and candle-dipping.
"It's gone really well," said Cheryl Repetti, event organizer. "We had the normal wrinkles at the start. But it's really great to see how people cope and work together to get things done. The crowds have been great."
The event was much bigger than last year, with a large children's play zone and more than 80 local vendors, from G&C Auto to almost all the local banks with branches in Centreville. Repetti and the main organizing group, the Friends of Historic Centreville, were diligent this year in building a bigger festival.
"Oh, yes, it's much bigger than before," said Luz Mueller, of Centreville, who brought her daughter, Ellie, 3, and family to the celebration. "We like to come every year because it's just so much fun. And we like the history. The park isn't someplace that you drive by all the time and it's good to get a chance to visit these places."
The festival was held in the 15-acre Historic Centreville Park, which is part of the Historic Centreville Overlay District, hidden behind a pair of drug stores off of Lee Highway and Route 28. The historic district was created in 1986.
The park includes historically significant Civil War encampment sites and historic homes and churches, including Mount Gilead (built in 1785) the Spindle Sears house (ordered as a kit from Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 1933) and Saint John's Church. The district also features the new Stuart-Mosby Cavalry Museum, which displays significant items from the Civil War. This year's festival marked the 220th anniversary of Centreville being recognized as a community.
Mary Eads and Shashana Courtney staffed a Southwestern Youth Association booth, offering information for youth cheerleaders. They said they had been swamped with visitors and had about run out of give-aways midway through the event.
"We've had lots of girls come through with their parents today," Courtney said. "This is a good event and this has been a great day."

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Courtesy of Carol Lewin
Courtesy of Carol Lewin
The agricultural community works hard all year, particularly in the spring, when crops are planted and livestock is giving birth to the next generation.
Maybe that's why the La Plata-Archuleta Cattlemen's Banquet is such a hot ticket each year – everyone's ready to relax and kick their heels up.
Somewhere between 275 and 300 people gathered at the Sky Ute Casino and Resort Events Center in Ignacio for a feast of prime rib – what, you expected fish? – and an event that is full of familiar traditions.
Marvin Conrad, who has the voice for radio but loved working on his ranch more, served as the master of ceremonies.
This is an event that is a must-stop for politicians and candidates, as the ag community is a powerful voice. County Commissioners Bobby Lieb and Kellie Hotter were both on hand, as were commissioner candidates Julie Westendorff and Harry Baxstrom. (There may have been more, but it was a busy evening, and my notes had a little au jus on them.)
Rep. J. Paul Brown, R-Ignacio, a sheep rancher in his day job, led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer. In an interesting twist, Brown's opponent, Mike McLachlan, the Democratic candidate for the 59th District, was also there, and it turns out his wife, Barbara, once spent some time shearing sheep in Australia. Small world.
The La Plata County Cowbelles spend a big chunk of time creating two highly coveted quilts that sport historical and working livestock brands, such as the Bar 40 or Diamond Lazy H, using brands of members of either the association or the Cowbelles. One quilt is raffled off, and this year that went to Brice Lee, whose brand the Quarter Circle Lazy J was on it.
The second is auctioned, and auctioneer Ron Dunavant kept the bidding spirited until Don Gosney, whose brand the XV Bar was embroidered on it, managed to outbid his competition and emerge as the winner.
The true winners are the students planning to pursue ag careers who will benefit from the scholarships funded by the quilt sales. Two of them were on hand to help out, the 2012 recipients Zack Riley and Courtney Gulliams. Also helping out were two lovely young ladies, La Plata County Fair Royalty Shawntell Stiner and Shaylen Garrett.
Several guests from neighboring cattlemen's association were on hand, as was state President David Mendenhall. The keynote speaker was State Brand Commissioner Chris Whitney.
Whitney gave us all some insight about the immense job brand inspectors are charged with performing, a particularly valuable lesson for townies like me and newcomers unfamiliar with the open range laws of Colorado.
While brands have existed in Colorado since it was just a territory, the brand office began registering them in 1899. The brand commission's goal is to use those brands to "protect livestock (which includes horses) from theft, illegal butchering or straying." There are currently 34,500 brands registered in the state, Whitney said, some of which are preserved as legacies of ranches no longer in the family and others which are working brands.
The brand inspectors check brands whenever there is a change of ownership or livestock is moved more than 75 miles. The 10 supervisors and 37 inspectors drove more than 1 million miles last year and performed 4.5 million inspections on the 3 million or so head of livestock.
With so much of Colorado's population of 5.1 million living in the cities on the Front Range or towns around the state, the agricultural community needs to do more educating about how the industry works, Whitney said, and I think he's right.
One fact that many people don't understand is that Colorado has a "fence-out" law – if you don't want livestock on your land, it's up to you to fence them out.
Whitney, who's a horseman, said the change in perception of horses has caused difficulties, too. Many people perceive horses as "more like dogs than cows," he said. But the 300,000 horses in Colorado are officially considered livestock. (There are between 2.7 and 2.8 million head of cattle.)
In these days of concerns about food contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is forcing ranchers to use digital ear tags on cattle, so they can better track where a cow has been from birth to death. But brands will live on, in part because they have such a fascinating heritage, and in part because they are the fastest way to identify livestock. Besides, they're way cooler than a digital ear tag.
In one final piece of business, Davin Montoya presented the Cattlewoman of the Year to Hotter, whose maiden name was Folsom. I hope I get this right: her great-great-great-grandfather was elected as the county coroner in 1883 and great-great-grandfather was Durango's first dentist, so that's some serious La Plata County history. Folsom corner, which was at the intersection of Ninth Street and Main Avenue, was where they had their offices.
Between marrying into the Hotter ranching family and having a ranching background on both her Folsom and Cugnini sides, she's got ag in her genes. A lot of her family was at the banquet to watch her receive her honor.
The event takes a tremendous amount of work, with a huge silent auction on top of the rest of the activities. Barbara Jefferies and Peggy Beebe led an organizing committee that included Ned Jefferies (hope you're feeling better soon), Wayne and Patti Buck, Shirley Engler, Sharon Nossaman, Debbie Candelaria, Marvin and Catherine Conrad, Ski and Rose Novotney, Trish and Larry Corman, Melody Semler, Kyle Beebe, Mae Morley, Gary Everett, Sandy Young, Tom Compton, Norma Conley, Emma Shock and Jake Nossaman.
I hope Barbara Jefferies is home with her feet up recovering after two years as the first woman president of the Cattlemen's Association. She truly burst through that glass ceiling.
Once the business was done, the fun began. The High Rollers took the stage and the evening became all about two-stepping and country dancing.
Shielding their birthday candles from the rain are Sydney DeLacey, Tom Helms, Tim Martin, Beth Poremba, Mason Stewart, Paden Stewart, Jacob Clayton, Braden Lyons, Mark Mishu, Kelly Cunnion, Peter Cunnion, Janie McLaughlin, Clint Wolf, Cheryl Wiescamp, Barbara Denk, Kade Jackson, Bob Sexton, Eric Hjermstad, Richard Kippen, Collyn O'Brien, Greg Drover, Alex McLean and Virginia Pewterbaugh.
And happy 16th birthday greetings go to one of the most special people in my life, Meredith Nass.
While you're checking out all the ways to spruce up your house this weekend at the Home & Ranch Show, be sure to stop by the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Homes with Heart playhouse to buy your raffle tickets for the chance to take this darling house to your backyard – or, if you don't have space for it at your house, think what a great amenity it would be at the Girl Scout Community Garden, the Community Shelter, Manna Soup Kitchen or some other community organization's facility.
The house this year is sweet, with a removable slide, deck and even a vaulted ceiling. Durango High School students built it under the direction of Shaun Smith. Troy Dyer of Classique Homes did some professional consulting and a ton of local building suppliers chipped in with the materials, including Pro-Build, Alpine Lumber Co., and Four Corners Roofing.
The lucky winner's name will be drawn at 1 p.m. Sunday, and the playhouse will be delivered free of charge within 25 miles of Durango – to an accessible location.
Tickets are $5, and they're only selling 3,000, so the odds are way, way better than that $640 million MegaMillions jackpot a few weeks ago.
Grateful to be getting some much-needed rain for their anniversaries are Russ and Pam Turpin, Robert and Shannon Kunkel, Jim and Jane Marentette, Bill and Tamara Volz, Stan and Alice Crapo, Ray and Janie McLaughlin and Randy and Molly Bondow.
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1. Scrap.
2. Tweet and chat.
3. Do nothing with the kids. This is actually the best thing to do during me time
4. Take photos.
5. Go to Tagaytay, eat.
6. Coffee dates with friends.
7. Window-shop online.
8. Read books.
9. Work. I do this during me time most of the time.
10. Sleep.


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Money Matters
How to Handle Money in Paris
This guide answers frequently-asked questions about handling money while visiting Paris, France, including tips on using credit and debit cards, ATM machines, traveler's checks, as well as tipping guides and ways to avoid common money hassles on your Paris vacation.
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Tips on how-- and how not to-- convert your currency to Euros during your stay in Paris. From About France for Visitors.
Paris on a Budget
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The coolness quotient of computer science and engineering
Considering that employment has been growing considerably in IT, particularly compared to general employment, and that salaries are at the high end of the spectrum, it is a mystery to me why schools have not been able to attract more graduates in this field in the past few years.
I recently looked into Computing Research News' annual "Taulbee Survey," which counts each year how many undergraduates have declared computer science as their major. The latest results show that the numbers, which had started to gradually climb up in the past two years, slowed down a bit in 2010. Some 14,426 undergraduates in the United States declared computer science/computer engineering as their major for 2010-2011. This is down 1.9% from 2009, and 2009 was already well off the peak of a few years ago.
In light of this data, it appears that the labor supply for computer science and computer engineering graduates will remain tight for sometime to come. The chart below shows the actual number of computer science graduates from 1966-2008 on the left axis with the number of computer science/computer engineering-declared majors, adjusted forward for four years to reflect the length of an undergraduate degree, on the right axis. As you can see, the sharp drop-off earlier reported in computer science enrollments has started to play out in terms of current production of computer science graduates and the production of computer science BA graduates is still not accelerating at the desired levels (click chart to enlarge).
Sources: Tabulated by National Science Foundation/Division of Science Resources Statistics (NSF/SRS); data from Department of Education/National Center for Education Statistics: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Completions Survey and NSF/SR.
In the past when I have talked to the Stuart Zweben, the chair of the Computing Research Association survey committee, he mentioned that computer science lost its charm in the early 2000s. Not only was the 2001 recession led by information technology, there were also fears about those jobs being sent overseas. However, we know now that not all jobs are destined to be shipped off half way across the world. Moreover, IT came out relatively unscathed from the current recession and demand has remained strong. So why is it that an education in computer science is still not "cool"?
Let me expound my point a bit more. Over the past several years, total computer and math employment has grown at a rate roughly five times that of total U.S. employment. From 1999 through 2010, computer and math employment rose a cumulative 25.3%, whereas total employment has declined 0.1%. Even during 2009 and 2010, employment was down by just 0.1% and 0.6% y/y, respectively. Now, how's that for cool?
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics


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Republicans and Democrats at Negotiating Table on Debt Ceiling
Pain of shutdown, fear of default force both parties to hammer out a deal.
President Barack Obama and House Republicans sought a solution throughout the night to end the country's government shutdown and raise the nation's debt ceiling.
No deal had been reached by Friday morning, but top aides said progress had been made.
"No final decisions were made; however, it was a useful and productive conversation," a statement from the office of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said following the initial Thursday meeting. "The President and leaders agreed that communication should continue throughout the night. House Republicans remain committed to good faith negotiations with the president, and we are pleased there was an opportunity to sit down and begin a constructive dialogue."
[READ: Walsh: A Glimmer of Hope as Obama, GOP Talk]
Time is of the essence, however, for the nation and the GOP's fragile brand.
In less than one week, on Oct. 17, Congress will need to increase the nation's borrowing limit to stave off a default. And the support for the GOP's political tactics is waning.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday night showed 53 percent of Americans were blaming Republicans while just 31 percent thought the president was responsible for the fiscal impasse. The numbers showed an even more dire political situation for Republicans than the shutdowns of 1995 and 1996. The same poll conducted in 1996 found that 44 percent of the American people blamed Republicans in Congress and 33 percent blamed President Bill Clinton.
Today, just 21 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the tea party, the conservative wing of the GOP that led the charge to dismantle, defund or delay Obamacare, even if that meant shutting down the government to keep the fight brewing.
[READ: Shutdown Could Give Democrats the House Back]
Among the plans being debated at the White House this morning is the one brought forward by Boehner Thursday morning that would temporarily increase the debt ceiling for six weeks, giving the Republicans and Democrats more time to negotiate a broader deficit reduction plan that included a mix of tax cuts and reforms to entitlement programs.
However, the GOP plan would keep the government closed, something Democrats said they would like to see reopened as soon as possible. Democrats including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Calif., were cool on the plan, saying that a longer-term debt ceiling would be preferred over a shorter-term solution.
"I think we should go at least one year so that there is some certainty in the markets and that every six weeks people don't have to wonder if the United States of America is going to stand by its full faith and credit," Pelosi said about raising the debt ceiling.
The federal government now enters its 11th day of being shut down, which means thousands of government workers remain locked off the job, most research at the National Institute of Health has been suspended, farmers are not able to deposit USDA checks during their fall harvest, national parks remain closed, among other things.
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Cuddyer signing "totally unnecessary"
by, 06-19-2012 at 12:30 PM (971 Views)
I hear lots of griping about the lack of starters. I think Terry Ryan has put a more professional team on the field with smart moves. Sure they won't win the central, but I believe TR will assemble more pitchers in the offseason.
Even other writers think so


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Breaking It Down: Joey Rhattigan's coach likened his running style to that of a train. Folks on the sideline in the second half of Neuqua Valley's 44-33 victory over Bolingbrook in the second round of the Class 8A football playoffs on Friday night were comparing him to A-Train. That's what fans called Mike Alstott during his collegiate heyday at Purdue.
Alstott went on to become an All-Pro with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Where is Rhattigan headed? To places Neuqua Valley never has been to before, that's for sure.
Rhattigan rushed for 345 yards on 26 carries and scored five touchdowns in the Wildcats' thrilling fourth-quarter comeback win over Bolingbrook. He also tossed a two-point conversion pass to Dylan Andrew as Neuqua Valley set a single-season record for victories (11) and advanced into the third round of the IHSA football playoffs for the first time in school history.
Patch's MVP: Joey Rhattigan, 6-0, 201, senior, running back. He rushed for 345 yards on 26 carries. He scored on runs of 22, 84, 7, 5 and 53 yards. His 5-yard TD run put Neuqua Valley ahead 34-33 with 3:14 remaining. Then, he tossed a two-point conversion pass to Dylan Andrew to up the margin to 36-33. Rhattigan carried Bolingbrook defenders on his back much of the night.
Neuqua Valley Stat Pack: Joey Rhattigan (345 yards rushing, 26 carries, 5 TDs), Dylan Andrew (2-for-7 passing, 59 yards, 1 touchdown), Dennis Thurow (interception with 2:21 left), Mikey Dudek (2 catches, 59 yards, 1 TD).
Bolingbrook Stat Pack: Aaron Bailey (210 yards rushing, 31 carries, 3 TDs; 7-of-17 passing, 75 yards, 1 TD), Jaden Huff (17 carries, 81 yards, 1 TD), Brandon Lewis (2 catches, 9 yards, 1 TD).
Quotable I: "I know," Neuqua Valley coach Bill Ellinghaus said of the Wildcats running Rhattigan again and again and again. "He's really good. It makes my job easy."
Quotable II: "We got a little out of synch, to be honest with you, in the first half," Neuqua Valley coach Bill Ellinghaus said. "We came out and threw that one pick. And we wanted to get right back to running Joey (Rhattigan) again. He was feeling it."
Quotable III: "We felt like our line was (moving Bolingbrook's defensive front) straight up the middle, and, then, our counter was real big for us," Neuqua Valley coach Bill Ellinghaus said, noting how Rhattigan carried tacklers, too. "I coached him up on that on Tuesday. I said, 'Carry those guys in.' He's an absolute tank. They called him the bus when he was growing up. And I call him a train right now. He's tough to stop."
Quotable IV: "I think it goes with our team motto—and that's finish," Neuqua Valley running back Joey Rhattigan said. "If you get close to the end zone, I'm going to give it all I've got to get in there. And I know my teammates are helping, pushing me through that pile."
Quotable V: "I know exactly who he is," Neuqua Valley's Joey Rhattigan said of Mike Alstott. "He was a tough runner. I actually grew up watching him. He was one of my idols. To be compared to him is pretty overwhelming to me. It seems like it was just a blink of an eye and I was that freshman coming in, and I could never have dreamed of this. So, it feels good."
Quotable VI: "He's a powerful runner," Bolingbrook linebacker Emile Wisdom said of Rhattigan. "He keeps his feet going. You think he stops like he's taking a break, but he's not taking a break. I tried to tackle and strip the ball out. But he holds the ball like no other. That was his baby."
Team Records: Neuqua Valley is 11-0. Bolingbrook finished 8-3.
What's Next: Neuqua Valley faces Waubonsie Valley or Oak Park-River Forest in Round 3 of the Class 8A playoffs on Nov. 9 or Nov. 10. Waubonsie takes on Oak Park at 1 p.m. Saturday (Nov. 3).
Scores of Interest: Mount Carmel 41, Simeon 6; Downers Grove North 29, Thornton 13; Benet Academy 28, Oswego 13. For more football playoff results, go to IHSA ScoreZone.


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Couch potato cache
A couch potato cache (also known as an "armchair cache") is a cache that can be logged from the comfort of your own home, without actually going anywhere. They are often virtual caches with verification questions that can be answered through internet research.
Couch potato logs violate the Geocaching.com guidelines, which state:
- A virtual cache is an existing, permanent landmark of a unique nature. The seeker must answer a question from the landmark and verify to the cache owner that he was physically at the location.
This requirement/expectation has been in the guidelines since July 2002.
Owners of virtual caches are expected to check regularly for bogus logs and delete them. They are also encouraged to tighten the verification if necessary to avoid further abuse (e.g., by requiring a photo, in addition to requiring answers to questions). If the owner of a virtual cache continues to allow it to be abused with bogus couch potato logs, then the local reviewer may archive it.
See also
- MissJenn's post to the Groundspeak Forums
- res2100's list of Couch Potato Geocaches


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April 21, 2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida State sand volleyball team wrapped up the regular season on Saturday at the Seminole Sand Volleyball Complex in familiar fashion.
The Seminoles dominated the competition.
FSU picked up a pair of 5-0 victories, dropping just one set, over UAB and FAU to finish 15-0 in dual matches in 2012.
The Garnet and Gold have one event left in the inaugural collegiate season next weekend - the first-ever Collegiate Sand Volleyball National Championships in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Saturday's doubleheader was a great tune-up for the Noles.
"We finally figured out our strongest lineup, and the team played fantastic today," head coach Danalee Corso said. "It's a great way to walk into the national championships. We're ready as long as everybody can stay healthy. I think we'll be even better after a few days of practice next week.
Before the match, Florida State honored seniors Jekaterina Stepanova and Visnja Djurdjevic and graduate student Caitlin Haworth, who will cap their careers as Seminoles in Gulf Shores.
"Kate, Visnja and Caitlin all played awesome today," Corso said. "They all bring so much maturity to our matches and our team as a whole. It will be hard to fill their shoes. That's how it goes. Hopefully our younger players will step it up."
Stepanova teamed with freshman Jace Pardon at the No. 2 spot to easily pick up wins over UAB (21-13, 21-10) and FAU (21-10, 21-11). The pair is the No. 5 seed in the pairs portion of the national championship and has a sterling 37-6 record on the season, including a 13-0 mark in duals.
"It was exciting, but it also was bittersweet because it was my last match as a Seminole at home," Stepanova said. "It was good to pick up a couple of victories before Nationals." Djurdjevic paired with freshman Stephanie Pellitteri for the first time this season, and the duo grabbed straight set victories versus the Blazers (21-12, 21-7) and Owls (21-10, 21-10) on Court 3. Djurdjevic went 15-0 in dual matches this season.
Haworth and her partner, senior Mallory Kiley (who is expected to compete next year as a graduate student), may have been the competition's most dominant duo on Court 4, handling UAB's Ally Slaughter and Kate Morrell (21-10, 21-12) before annihilating FAU's Lauren Jones and Chandler Hatton (21-6, 21-12).
"Today was extremely exciting," Haworth said. "Mallory and I came ready to play. We took charge right away. This was my last home game at FSU and it was exciting to win our matches decisively."
Florida State's No. 1 pair of junior Aurora Newgard and sophomore Brittany Tiegs improved to 45-6-1 on the season with victories over UAB's top tandem of Heather Thomas and Kirsten Gallagher (21-9, 21-10) and FAU's No. 1 team of Joanne Marras Tate and Alessia Pizzocheri (21-13, 21-12).
The only set FSU dropped on the day came on Court 5 against UAB. Junior Fatma Yilidirm and Jeassica McGregor lost the second set to the Blazers' Michele Simmons and Becca Howard, but won the match - 21-16, 17-21, 15-4. The FSU duo followed that match by hammering FAU's fifth squad, 21-4, 21-17.
In Saturday's third match, UAB edged FAU, 3-2, as the game came down to the third set on Court 2.
The Seminoles travel to Gulf Shores on Wednesday and will begin competition on Friday with pool play for the 16-team pairs championship. In addition to Stepanova and Pardon competing in that portion of the weekend, Newgard and Tiegs are the favorites, earning the one-seed.
The team championship will be decided by a double-elimination bracket on Saturday. Long Beach State, Pepperdine and College of Charleston will also be battling for the team title.
The national championships wrap up next Sunday, April 29, with pairs championship bracket.
For the latest news and updates on the FSU sand volleyball team follow the Seminoles on Twitter at @FSU_SVB.
Florida State/UAB/FAU Tri-Match at the Seminole Sand Volleyball Complex in Tallahassee, Fla. - April 21, 2012 Results
Match 1 Florida State 5, UAB 0 Court 1: Newgard/Tiegs (FSU) def. Thomas/Gallagher (UAB) - 21-9, 21-10 Court 2: Stepanova/Pardon (FSU) def. Fairbanks/Hirini (UAB) - 21-13, 21-10 Court 3: Djurdjevic/Pellitteri (FSU) def. Serley/McCallum (UAB) - 21-12, 21-7 Court 4: Kiley/Haworth (FSU) def. Slaughter/Morrell (UAB) - 21-10, 21-12 Court 5: McGregor/Yildirim (FSU) def. Simmons/Howard (UAB) - 21-16, 17-21, 15-4
Match 2 Florida State 5, FAU 0 Court 1: Newgard/Tiegs (FSU) def. Marras Tate/Pizzocheri (FAU) - 21-13, 21-12 Court 2: Stepanova/Pardon (FSU) def. Sataric/Vega (FAU) - 21-10, 21-11 Court 3: Djurdjevic/Pellitteri (FSU) def. Arboleda/Stoll (FAU) - 21-10, 21-10 Court 4: Kiley/Haworth (FSU) def. Jones/Hatton (FAU) - 21-6, 21-12 Court 5: McGregor/Yildirim (FSU) def. Nightingale/Pereira (FAU) - 21-4, 21-17
Match 3 UAB 3, FAU 2 Court 1: Marras Tate/Pizzocheri (FAU) def. Thomas/Gallagher (UAB) - 21-16, 21-13 Court 2: Fairbanks/Hirini (UAB) def. Sataric/Vega (FAU) - 21-8, 17-21, 15-9 Court 3: Arboleda/Stoll (FAU) def. Serley McCallum (UAB) - 18-21, 22-20, 15-11 Court 4: Slaughter/Morrell (UAB) def. Jones/Hatton (FAU) - 21-11, 21-12 Court 5: Simmons/Howard (UAB) def. Nightingale/Pereira (FAU) - 21-16, 21-11
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Saturday, March 03, 2007Valparaiso never trailed Saturday afternoon on its way to its 20th victory of the season for just the fifth time in school history as the Crusaders defeated Southern Utah 60-45 in the quarterfinals of the Mid-Continent Conference Tournament at John Q. Hammons Arena in Tulsa, Okla.
With the victory, the Crusaders match their third highest victory total in school history improving to 20-10 on the year.
Valpo, the tournament's second seed, jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead only to have the Thunderbirds cut the Crusader advantage to one, 12-11, with 12:02 to play in the half.
The Crusaders defense clamped down, holding the Thunderbirds scoreless for more than eight minutes while going on a 14-0 run, keyed by three triples from Carrie Myers (Stickleyville, Va./Lee H.S.) to increase the lead to 26-11 at the four minute mark of the half.
Betsy Rietema's (Grand Rapids, Mich./Christian H.S.) eight-footer as the horn went off sent the Crusaders into the locker room with a 32-18 advantage.
Valpo got on the boards in the first half, especially offensively, holding a 27-14 edge. The Crusaders had 11 offensive rebounds, led by Rietema's five. Defensively, Valpo held Southern Utah to just 25.9% shooting in the opening 20 minutes of play.
A 13-0 run triggered by triples from Myers, Rietema, and Agnieszka Kulaga (Tarnow, Poland/I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace H.S.) gave Valpo a 47-21 lead with 12:27 to play in the game.
Southern Utah cut into the Brown and Gold lead with a 12-2 run to close within 16, 51-35 with eight minutes to play, but Valpo would not allow the Thunderbirds to get any closer on their way to registering the victory and moving into the tournament semifinals for the fifth time in six years.
Myers led the Crusaders with 14 points, including 4-of-8 shooting from long range, while Kulaga added 13 points and four assists. For Kulaga, it was her highest scoring game since November 30. Sarah Ott (Chippewa Falls, Wis./Chippewa Falls H.S.) added 11 points, scoring in double figures for the first time since late January.
Rietema and Tamra Braun (Savage, Minn./Prior Lake H.S.) each grabbed a game high 12 rebounds for the Crusaders as Valpo outboarded Southern Utah 47-34.
Julie Stradling led Southern Utah (9-20) with 11 points while Cash Connors added nine points. As a team, the seventh-seeded Thunderbirds shot just 29.3% from the floor on the afternoon.
Valparaiso, winners of six in a row, its longest winning streak since the 2001-2002 season, will return to the court on Monday afternoon for its semifinal game against the winner of Sunday's quarterfinal between third-seeded Oral Roberts and number six seed UMKC. Valpo won both meetings against each school this season. Tip-off is set for 2:30 p.m. with all the action carried live on WVUR (95.1-FM, Valparaiso) and online at www.valpo.edu/athletics.
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Toyota Motor believes its fiscal year profit can triple from what it earned in a year ago when an earthquake halted the Japanese economy.
Toyota predicts it can earn 860 billion yen ($9.3 billion), from $283.6 billion yen ($3.1 billion) a year earlier. This is an increased from an earlier forecast of 780 billion yen ($8.5 billion). The greater profit signals that Toyota, the world's biggest-selling carmaker, is well on its way toward recovery.
In the October to December period, Toyota earned 99.9 billion yen ($1.1 billion), up 23% from a year earlier. Sales gained 9% to 5.3 trillion yen ($58 billion).
A weakening yen should also help Toyota in the coming months. New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to start policies that reduces the yen's strength and establish recovery and inflationary target before allowing the currency to appreciate—a weak yen aids exports like Toyota by increasing the value of foreign earnings.
Shares of New York-listed Toyota rose 2.1% in pre-market trading. The manufacturer makes such models as the Pyrius hybrid and the Lexus luxury line.
Toyota's sales have been improving both in the United States and Asia. Despite concerns about massive recalls, its brand has maintained a reputation for quality, and the carmaker expects to sell 8.85 million vehicles in the fiscal year, above an earlier forecast of 8.75 million from strong North American sales. It once again beat chief U.S. competitor General Motors to be the world's top carmaker last year.
The second largest Japanese carmaker, Nissan, reports Friday. Honda Motor already lowered its profit forecast, blaming Chinese exports. Mitshubishi has said its profit is up 27% through December from a year ago.
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Homer Lloyd Gifford was born March 15, 1943 at the family home in Harmon, Oklahoma to Homer Lee and Thelma Faye (McClung) Gifford. He passed from this life on July 13, 2013 at Integris Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was 70 at the time of his death.
Lloyd grew up in the Follett and Higgins, Texas area. He attended school in both towns and graduated with the Class of 1962 from Higgins High School. While in high school he worked for Vester Smith and Bill Schultz doing ranch work. Shortly after graduation he attended the Oklahoma Ferrier College at Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Lloyd was preceded in death by his parents, Homer Lee and Thelma Faye Gifford; brother-in-law, George Sunderland and one nephew. He is survived by his beloved wife, Carol of the home; daughters, Marlene Myers and husband David of Woodward, Oklahoma and Darlene Walker and husband Chad of Canadian, Texas; grandchildren, Chance and Gracen Walker of Canadian, Texas and one step-grandson, Jonathan Myers of Woodward, Oklahoma; sisters, Thelma Sunderland of Bethany, Oklahoma, Wilma Dettinger and husband Robert of Onalaska, Wisconsin and Etta Baumgartner and husband Raymond of Woodward, Oklahoma; mother-in-law Helen Horner Bratten of Woodward, OK; several nieces, nephews and a life time of friends.
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The quarterback-needy Buffalo Bills were among the teams that went to West Virginia University today to watch Geno Smith work out. Afterward, Smith announced he will visit the Bills on March 22.
Smith is considered the best quarterback in this year's draft. When the Bills are on the clock with the No. 8 pick, there's a decent chance Smith still will be on the board.
Given the Bills' decision to release Ryan Fitzpatrick on Tuesday, leaving them with no quarterbacks who wore an NFL uniform last season, analysts are scrutinizing Smith as the Bills' franchise guy.
NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks and ESPN Insider columnist Chris Sprow (in separate pieces) examined the Bills' best options: draft Smith; wait until the late first round or early second round; pick up a veteran via trade or in free agency.
The Kansas City Chiefs cut Matt Cassel today (update: he signed with the Minnesota Vikings), and the Arizona Cardinals are expected to dump Kevin Kolb. Jason Campbell also is a free agent. The Tennessee Titans and Seattle Seahawks might trade Matt Hasselbeck and Matt Flynn.
But if the Bills had their druthers, they would draft a franchise quarterback they can groom and count on for years to come. Whether this is the year to make that commitment is debatable. Next year's draft class looks more appealing.
Tuesday on the Press Coverage blog, I posted a video in which ESPN draft magnate Mel Kiper muses whether Smith is deserving of top-10 attention.
Brooks made a case for Smith as being worthy of Buffalo's hot pursuit.
"He is an efficient pocket passer with the arm talent to make all of the throws in a pro-style offense. Whether it's the deep comeback thrown from the hash to the opposite sideline or the go-route tossed down the boundary, Smith has shown he can make accurate passes with zip or touch. Additionally, he's shown he can throw comfortably from the pocket following traditional three-, five- and seven-step drops, or catch, reset and fire after fielding a shotgun snap."
Brooks also urged Bills General Manager Buddy Nix to do whatever possible to get ahead of the Cardinals at No. 7.
"Critics definitely will take the Bills to task for giving up valuable draft picks to make a trade up the board," Brooks wrote, "but at this point, can Buffalo risk missing out on the top quarterback in this year's draft class?"
Sprow went the other way. He advised the Bills to eschew a quarterback with the eighth pick and go with a veteran.
"There's plenty of presumption Buffalo will take a QB at No. 8 overall in the draft," Sprow wrote. "But they shouldn't, and should instead borrow a method quietly used all over the league.
"It's called locking in some assurance and saving some money."
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RALEIGH — Police found Devin Dee Goode on Thursday and charged him with six counts of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with a shooting spree in a city street one morning in June.
Arrest warrants say that Goode fired an AK-47-type rifle outside 804 Cooper Road about 10:30 a.m. on June 23 after a domestic dispute with Shannon Signal.
Bullets hit Signals car and cars occupied by five other people, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said.
Some shots also went into a house across the street, Sughrue said.
No one was hit, however.
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The Ronnie Lane benefit show, an ad hoc agglomeration of Sixties British guitar stars and heavy friends, arrived in San Francisco on December 1st, settling into the 12,500-seat Cow Palace for a three-night charity stand for multiple-sclerosis research. Predictably, the backstage scene for those three concerts was a New Waver's nightmare. There, lolling among the potted shrubs and old Fillmore posters arrayed around the blue-carpeted guest enclosure, with Japanese lanterns and helium balloons bobbling gaily overhead — there, looking for all the world as though they had a right to go on sucking up air, were the ancient likes of Boz Scaggs and Carlos Santana and Wavy Gravy and even Michael Lang, the dimple-cheeked cherub who brought you (or your parents) Woodstock. And whenever it seemed that the uncoolness quotient reached a peak, somebody like Neal Schon of Journey would come strutting through the gate and further thicken the Old Wave ambiance.
Conspicuous by their understandable absence from this frolic were any of the leading young members of San Francisco's flourishing new-music community. Why should they come? Why should they care? Guitar stars? Sixties superheroes? These kids suffered through the superannuated scene for most of their young lives — remember the Seventies? That music just doesn't speak to them. And if it did, it would have nothing to say. Right?
Jeff Beck is thirty-nine now, but he doesn't look appreciably different than he did in the Sixties, when he was breaking guitar barriers with the Yardbirds or having those celebrated wrangles with Rod Stewart in the Jeff Beck Group. He is standing off to one side of the backstage artists' lounge, his eyes fixed on a giant video screen and his mouth slightly agape with admiration. The squirming, sweat-soaked image up on the screen is that of Eric Clapton, relayed via closed-circuit transmission from the stage out front. Clapton is fronting a very solid band that includes bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones and drummer Kenney Jones of the Who, and they are leaning into a spirited rendition of the old Freddie King hit, "Have You Ever Loved a Woman?" As Clapton calls out a key change and suddenly bends back to pluck a bunch of blue notes out of a D chord high up on the neck of his guitar, Beck can only wag his head in appreciation. "Great," he mutters, as Clapton sails off above the shuffling rhythm. "Fucking great — there's nobody can touch him on that stuff." Clapton's guitar crests on a sparkling spray of notes, then tunnels back down into the song as he shouts out another verse in his hoarse, imploring voice. "He's having the time of his life," says Jeff Beck, beaming.
As the song ends, Beck stoops down to show something to Ronnie Lane, the one-time Small Faces bassist, who's seated in a wheelchair by his side. It's a Polaroid snapshot of a glitter-clad groupie who showed up at one of the two Dallas shows that kicked off this brief benefit tour, which has united Beck and Clapton and a host of other Sixties rock icons for the first time in their onstage careers. Ronnie gets a kick out of the picture, and Jeff ruffles his hair with obvious affection, then disappears up the stairs to the second-floor dressing rooms to prepare for his own set.
Lane turns his attention back to the video screen, where Clapton's long fingers are once again flying over the frets of his Stratocaster. Ronnie's own hands lie limply in his lap, but he follows each slurred note and hammered string with the appreciative eyes of a man who once played pretty fair guitar himself, back in the old days. Suddenly, someone is sliding an actual guitar onto Ronnie's lap; it's Boo Oldfield, his girlfriend and tireless aide-de-camp. She's brought him a vintage Chet Atkins-model Gretsch, a real beauty. Someone on the other side of the room is offering it around for sale. Ronnie smiles and, with considerable concentration, brings his left hand slowly up to the fretboard and lays his fingers lightly across the strings. It's as much as he can manage, but it feels wonderful, just holding a guitar again. He hugs it to his chest and stares back up at the video screen, where Clapton has been joined by Joe Cocker. Great, soulful singer, Joe. And Eric and Bill and Charlie — such beautiful players. Ronnie's face is suddenly filled, as it often is these days, with a heart-swelling mixture of warmth and wonderment. "To think that my having something so negative . . . could result in something so positive," he says. Up on the screen, Joe Cocker closes his eyes and starts to sing "Worried Life Blues."
Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a terrifying disease; no secondhand summation of its ravages can convey the horror of it more vividly than an encounter with one of its victims. Lane's extraordinary spirit in the face of this cruelly crippling affliction has had a galvanizing effect on his many musician friends. They are all around forty now, famous "survivors," as it's inevitably put, from the first British rock generation to be touched by brilliance. All share a common grounding in the blues, but were often portrayed as pop "rivals" in the Sixties and have rarely, if ever, come together as musicians. In pursuing the style of music they learned to love as kids, they have achieved often astonishing degrees of commercial and artistic success — only to watch that popular esteem (if not their long-running bank accounts) dwindle and sometimes disappear as times change and fashions fly by. Some have been undone by drink or drugs, others by puzzling personal quirks. They have been through the mill, and probably thought they had seen it all. Then they saw Ronnie Lane. Here was one of their own generation cut down like a weed in what is generally thought to be the prime of life. It was a chilling experience. Bill Wyman, who once recruited the Small Faces from an adjoining studio to play on his "In Another Land" track on the Satanic Majesties album, recalls encountering Lane at a 1981 Stones show.
"I was shocked to see him in that condition," Wyman says. "I'd heard he wasn't well, but you never really realize how afflicted people are until you actually see them again. I mean, you remember them as they were."
"I first found out Ronnie was sick when I visited Eric," says Jeff Beck. "I just happened to call on him, and the phone rang and it was Ronnie. They were on the phone for a long time, and I started thinking, 'Come on, Eric.' But then when he hung up, he told me. He said, 'Ronnie's really, really bad.'"
But how could they help, when doctors were at considerable pains to reassure Ronnie that no help was possible? In the end, they had but one gift to give: although their careers may no longer be powered by the passionate ambition that had fueled their early fame, their commitment to the spirit of music — music as they understood it, which is to say blues-based guitar-band music — remains undiminished even in deepening middle age. Their gift would be music — music to battle this damnable disease and, maybe, to beat back the night that was fast enshadowing their own mortal turf. Music, in short, for life.
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RATHOLE, Tenn. — Made it.
Got a ride back to the hotel Thursday night after the Clippers' collapse, the final 10 yards covered on foot in a dash to the door. It was touch and go, but bravery won out.
RATHOLE, Tenn. — Made it.
Got a ride back to the hotel Thursday night after the Clippers' collapse, the final 10 yards covered on foot in a dash to the door. It was touch and go, but bravery won out.
On Friday, there was daylight here. So I took a break from the Memphis email threats to walk the streets while I could. Right away I noticed someone else looking over his shoulder with every step he was taking.
I won't say it was a friendly face, but it was a familiar one: Henry Bibby, the former UCLA great, USC turncoat and now an assistant coach for the Grizzlies.
I've heard that Bibby is nothing like the cold, combative ogre who coached basketball at USC, and that maybe he even deserves another chance to run a program.
That would suggest a total transformation, and Bibby not only agreed, but said he welcomed such a change.
Right away he was happy, charming and personable, and I don't ever remember dealing with that guy. He began by recruiting my help to get him another shot coaching kids, and as you can see, he's a good recruiter.
Ask him anything, he said, no matter how negative it might be — like I wouldn't do so anyway.
He made no excuses when answering, whether the subject was his troubled relationship with his son, Mike Garrett's influence on him, or his own stoic approach to coaching.
He said he takes the blame for anything gone wrong. Then he mentioned John Wooden's name with reverence, and if the Grizzlies go on to defeat the Clippers why wouldn't someone take a longer look at him?
But I want the Clippers to win, and so good luck to Bibby working for the Grizzlies the rest of his life.
I told him I had just motivated Jamal Crawford because I think he's the guy who can swing everything in the Clippers' favor.
"We agree; he's the guy we're worried about," Bibby said, while also making it sound as if they are worried no longer.
"Tony Allen," he continued. "He's such a great defender and he is doing a great job."
"But he can't cover all the Clippers' guards at the same time," I told Bibby.
"Nobody else is doing anything," Bibby said. "And Chris Paul is waiting until the fourth quarter to get going."
No question Bibby knows his basketball.
I've had the same running argument with Paul. I've told him he needs to be more aggressive from the start, while he says it's his job to get his teammates going.
I have reminded him, "Where would you be in your career if you stopped listening to me?"
I'm sure that will change how he thinks.
Then I sat down with Crawford and got the same "we're a team" mumbo jumbo. Good to know all the Clippers will be playing golf together soon as a team.
This team needs Crawford going nuts.
Earlier this season, I referred to Jamal as Kobe Crawford. He's not here to pass; he's here to score and put on a show. And when he gets going, he breaks games open.
"I believe a team wins or loses as a group," he said. Blah, blah, blah.
He has a tattoo behind his left ear that says it all: Gifted.
But he has struggled at times in this series, even disappearing for entire halves. He has to do better.
The Clippers agree. Coach Vinny Del Negro spent time after Friday's workout showing Crawford how to evade Memphis pressure.
"I expect more from myself," Crawford said. "But we've done it by committee all season long, and within that we all have our moments."
I want more moments. This season began with a hotly contested game against Memphis, and Crawford was the difference, coming off the bench to electrify Staples Center.
The rest of the bench followed his energetic lead and the first half of the season belonged to the Clippers.
"I honestly feel like I'm just hitting my prime," he said.
He's 33 but didn't play much early in his career. "I'm excited about growing with this team," he said.
For the Clippers to grow, they must beat Memphis and move on to the next round. Kobe Crawford can make that happen.
He didn't get the All-Star attention he deserved, and finished second in sixth-man-of-the-year balloting, so I told him if the Clippers fail to beat Memphis it will be his fault as well.
I'm big on inspiration.
"Nothing wrong with that," he said before throwing out a challenge to Page 2: "Nobody puts more pressure on me than I do. I expect myself to be really good."
Then how about now, beginning with Game 4?


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The educators will be recognized by the Alameda County Office of Education at its annual Teacher of the Year Award ceremony, in which two candidates will be selected to as Teachers of the Year for the county and move forward to compete for the California Teacher of the Year title.
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By Guinn Sweet
"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed," states the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court has ruled that this right is not limited to a connection with an organized state militia.
In today's news, the breach, or near-breach of this right is being threatened because of the horrendous outbreak of maniacal behavior of a number of recent "wild men" who are running rampant over our constitutional and God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, by multiple killings of peaceful, law-abiding citizens, children in our schools, and anyone else who may fall beneath their vengeful wills.
I have never been a gun-lover, while living my life with guns in whatever and wherever residence I have found myself. Colon was, for years, an avid deer-hunter, bringing their bodies home on the fenders and running boards of his vehicles. His first "kill" is memorialized on our wall, just inside the front door, by a massive 8-point mounting of the deer's head. Alongside, is framed a picture of that kill, with Colon proudly displaying the carcass in Estancia, NM. He was only 16 years old. It was his aim, every year following (except for his Navy service during WWII), to repeat that effort, which he did until he became too old to do so.
During the time of our marriage years, there was a gun (a deer rifle) in our closet, that was used to produce a kill. That rifle was kept safely from misuse and bad judgement for all those many years, except for the one time I removed it from its hiding place to "get rid" of a rabidly voracious animal in our front yard. The resulting "kick-back" which assaulted my shoulder, initially, and my entire body ultimately, was almost unbearable, and certainly lesson-teaching to me. I never picked up a gun again. (The dog ran away, untouched.)


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With each kill, I grow wiser, and with added wisdom, I grow stronger.
The Assassin
For a man like Artemis Entreri, lives hold little value.
The Drow
For the dark elf mercenary Jarlaxle, the only currency is power.
The malevolent Crystal Shard's influence on Jarlaxle intensifies until even his own drow agents grow fearful of its terrifying intentions. When Bregan D'aerthe itself begins to turn on him, the mercenary will be forced to find a savior in the assassin he's come to enslave.
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RCEMS employs 15 full time Paramedics and 6 EMT-Is who work a 24 hour shift schedule (3 days out of 5 then 4 days off). A staff of 20 part time Paramedics and EMTs are employed to staff open schedule time.
RCEMS is equipped with 4 ALS units at the primary station located on Claflin Rd. and 1 unit at the fire station on Poyntz Ave., plus 4 support vehicles, two all-terrain patient vehicles for events, and one ALS and one BLS first response vehicle stationed in the northern half of the county.
RCEMS averages over 11.5 calls per day with an average of 4,200 calls per year. The Manhattan community is largely comprised of college students who attend Kansas State University and military personnel stationed at Fort Riley, located just west of the city. The total population served is 73,000.
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The joy of watching ideas win.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 275 pages, $24.95
If ever you were going to judge a book by the reaction to it, an excellent candidate would be Moneyball, reporter Michael Lewis' terrific and brisk account of how a long-simmering and mostly amateur analytical revolution was finally acknowledged, embraced, and ruthlessly implemented by a Major League Baseball executive: Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane. It's a tale of what happens when an energetic manager realizes that "the pursuit of truth [is], suddenly, the key to success," and that the possessors of this truth are outsiders shunned by the rigid hierarchy and insular mind-set that has dominated an industry for a century. You don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy the story and thrill to its non-sporting implications.
Beane is the most visible and successful proponent of a new school of baseball thought and scientific analysis that for the last quarter century has been demonstrating, in voluminous detail and with caustic wit, that much of what you've always known about the national pastime is just plain bunk. Dependable "clutch hitters"? They basically don't exist, study after "sabermetric" study has shown. (Sabermetrics, a word coined by the discipline's revered popularizer, Bill James, is derived from the Society for American Baseball Research.) Pitching and defense win championships, right? They don't without good offense, James and others have shown. Are minor league and college statistics meaningless predictors of major league value, especially when compared to eyewitness observation? Actually, something much closer to the opposite is true.
Not surprisingly, some professional dispensers of these leathery, increasingly insupportable clichés have issued denunciations of Moneyball so laughably distant from the sabermetricians' treasured scientific method that they inadvertently added fuel to the statheads' rapidly spreading fire.
Hall of Fame second baseman turned dull broadcaster Joe Morgan repeatedly criticized Billy Beane for having the nerve to write such a book, even though, um, Beane didn't. ESPN.com columnist Ralph Wiley suggested that Bill James had a possibly racial anti-Rickey Henderson motive for disparaging reckless base stealing 20 years ago. Actually, James has spilled more ink defending Henderson's greatness than any writer I'm aware of. Toronto Star baseball writers Richard Griffin and Geoff Baker, who have been railing against Moneyball all summer (Toronto Blue Jays General Manager J.P. Ricciardi is a former protégé of Beane), both suggested that sabermetrics has helped transform their team into the "White Jays" -- a bunch of boring, slow-footed Caucasians good mainly for drawing walks and hitting home runs. "Ricciardi along with Oakland's Billy Beane and other new-wavers believe in building offence through patience at the plate and taking no chances on the bases," Griffin wrote. "That's a pre-WWII style of play. Under those criteria, Jackie Robinson could not have played in the majors." This is pure nonsense; Robinson is a stat geek favorite for his high-percentage base stealing, vastly underrated defense, and high walk rates, in addition to his barrier-breaking courage.
In a later column, Griffin branded the Society for American Baseball Research a "cult." Tracy Ringolsby, longtime diamond columnist for the Rocky Mountain News and Baseball America, trashed Moneyball as a "one-sided, poorly researched piece of literature," written by a man with "limited knowledge of baseball" who failed to appreciate the evidence of Beane's shortcomings. "Heck," Ringolsby triumphantly announced, "the A's haven't even been to the World Series in the Billy Beane era."
Of course, neither have 21 other teams (out of a possible 30) since Beane was hired in 1997. But there are other factors in evaluating an organization's performance. For instance, since the beginning of 2000, only one other major league club has won more regular season games than Oakland (the Seattle Mariners, who have just one more win), and the A's have achieved this despite being restricted by one of the smallest budgets in baseball. Oakland's payroll for the 2003 season, when the team made its fourth consecutive trip to the playoffs, was $49 million; that's $10 million less than the Detroit Tigers, who this year set the American League record for losses in a season. Industry wide, the average annual payroll is around $75 million; the New York Yankees, who barely squeaked by the A's in the 2000 and 2001 playoffs, spend $180 million, more than three times as much.
Lewis, a gifted writer best known for his 1989 Wall Street memoir Liar's Poker, wanted to figure out just how David was managing to compete with Goliath, year after year. What he discovered was the first-ever baseball organization to rip up more than 100 years' worth of tradition by adopting, from the owner's box down to the lowest minor league scout, a total organizational approach based on the principles and information hashed out in the thriving and mostly ignored subculture of baseball analysis. Working in a comparatively small city and saddled with a lousy stadium, the A's were financially desperate enough to consider radical measures for finding quality players grossly undervalued by the market. Sandy Alderson, a rare baseball outsider turned general manager who ran the mostly successful franchise through most of the 1980s and '90s, had been an early enthusiast of sabermetrics, and he sprinkled his organization with people open to its ideas. But it wasn't until the team ownership changed in 1995 that his budget mandate became grim enough to accelerate the process. That's when he gave one of his new hires, an intellectually restless young ex-player named Billy Beane, a stack of Baseball Abstracts, the seminal annual books authored from 1977 through 1988 by Bill James.
Being introduced to James' contrarian and original writing -- not unlike encountering Moneyball for the first time -- can permanently alter one's brain chemistry. Lewis himself experienced the phenomenon after Billy Beane lent him his old Abstracts. "What stunned me," the author told the stat geek site BaseballPrimer.com, "was the literary eloquence of Bill James. I was absolutely astonished.... I could not believe that I didn't know who this man was. I was just astonished by it. It was a combination of the clarity of the thought and the joy of the way it's expressed. It just seemed totally original and fresh to me."
James, a night watchman at a pork and beans factory, sold 75 of his first Abstract, a stapled, mimeographed sheet full of new statistical curios: average length of games by individual umpire, attendance by pitcher, etc. His figures were flavored with the occasional verbal dart. In the 1982 Abstract, for instance, he had this to say about Dave Parker: "There is no doubt about it: It is hard to play baseball well when you're fat." Or on Duane Kuiper, in the same edition: "It's absolutely incredible that a player this bad could be given 3000 at bats in the major leagues."
Jabs aside, James' formulas and stubbornly sensible observations began seeping into the consciousness of the game, especially after the book was picked up by Ballantine and became an annual bestseller. The object of offense was scoring runs while preventing outs, and by far the two most important factors in scoring runs were the ability to get on base (measure by on-base percentage) and the ability to advance runners (slugging percentage). Batting average, just a component of both, was vastly overrated when compared to drawing walks and hitting for power; 1970s catcher Gene Tenace, with his low batting average and high walk numbers, was never considered the offensive equivalent of his singles-hitting counterpart Manny Sanguillen, when in fact Tenace was his run-producing superior by a wide margin. The effects of individual ballparks distorted statistics more than most people realized. Hitters in Fenway Park and Wrigley Field were overrated, as were pitchers in the Astrodome and Dodger Stadium. Positions on defense were aligned on an invisible spectrum, with the more challenging middle-infield spots on the left (where offense wasn't so important), first basemen and designated hitters on the right. (As James was making these observations, teams were still employing singles-hitting first basemen with mediocre batting averages; that no longer happens.) The average peak performance of hitters was at age 27, not 30 as was once commonly thought.
On and on it went -- and still goes: James' 2002 book Win Shares may lead to brand new ways of evaluating defensive performance. James always had a perversely attractive tough-love approach to his readers -- and to his own conclusions, which he happily ripped up and denounced, year after year, as new information or thinking came to light. He railed against the inadequacy of stats gathering and helped create a grassroots organization to fill in the many blanks in the average box score. "There was something bracing about the way he did it -- his passion, his humor, his intolerance of stupidity, his preference for leaving an honest mess for others to clean up rather than a tidy lie for them to admire -- that inspired others to join his cause," Lewis writes.
The historical context, too, played in sabermetrics's favor. "When Bill James published his 1977 Baseball Abstract two changes were about to occur that would make his questions not only more answerable but also more valuable," Lewis writes. "First came radical advances in computer technology: This dramatically reduced the cost of compiling and analyzing vast amounts of baseball data. Then came the boom in baseball players' salaries: This dramatically raised the benefits of having such knowledge."
Beane had extra incentive to be open to James and this new cottage industry of intellectual property: Beane himself was precisely the type of player that baseball insiders overvalued. Compared favorably to his organization mate Darryl Strawberry, Beane was a lovely athlete with all "five tools" -- the ability to hit for average, hit for power, run, field, and throw. Yet he was a big league failure, partly because of his inability to control the strike zone as a batter. "The new, outsider's view of baseball was all about exposing the illusions created by the insiders on the field," Lewis writes. "Billy Beane had himself been one of those illusions."
Beane is also (still) an imposing physical specimen, who can and does command respect and even fear in a macho clubhouse. This, Lewis shows, became crucial in his ability to ram a bunch of stat nerd ideas down the throats of players, coaches, and scouts. Though Lewis has called Moneyball "the story of an idea" (the idea being sabermetric thought), in fact it's the story of the temperamental, bull-headed revolutionary who was able to impose this idea on an unwilling host and take advantage of his market's irrationalities. It's a management tale and morality fable, which may be why the book has been so popular among Wall Street traders and Web geeks. I know at least two people who, after reading the book, decided to rethink their entire mental approaches to life.
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Sharks setto swim again
The Decatur County Sharks swim team is set to begin practicing again on Monday Aug. 19. There will be a free two-week trial period Aug. 19-30, so now is the time to try it out!
The Sharks are a USA Swimming swim team led by head coach Josh Hawkins and is now in its second full season.
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Women's volleyball league offered
The Decatur County Parks and Recreation Department is offering a women's volleyball league set to begin on Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Rosters and the team entry fee of $190 must be turned in to the Parks Department office no later than Tuesday, Aug. 20. Player fees of $10 for in-county players and $15 for out-of-county players must be paid prior to the first match.