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BARBOURSVILLE -- The executive director of the state's regional jail system is optimistic a change in leadership means a new era for the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville.
Executive Director Joe Delong made the switch Monday, replacing jail administrator Mike Clark with the division's training director, Ron Casto. Casto will temporarily leave his post at the division's training academy in Glenville, W.Va., to serve Western Regional in an acting role until state officials complete a search for a permanent replacement.
Clark, summoned to Charleston last week while on vacation, said Delong presented him a letter Monday stating he was "relieved of (his) duties." Delong declined comment, saying Clark's departure was a personnel issue.
The switch comes amid significant staff turnover at the Barboursville facility, where an investigation regarding two abuse cases in late 2012 led to the discipline of 11 correctional officers. Most were terminated or resigned.
Delong did not link those incidents with Clark's departure, but said the investigations revealed challenges at Western Regional involving its overall environment.
Since November, Delong said he has "been very clear" in expressing concern with some activities at the facility. That is when he told lawmakers his agency was investigating the possible existence of a "buddy system" among guards, which might have led to a culture of "see nothing, hear nothing, record nothing."
"For me to sit here and say I have no worries or no concerns at Western Regional Jail, would be disingenuous," Delong said Monday. "(Those activities) have not left me with a great comfort level with all staff involved."
The 11 officers were accused of either using excessive force against inmates or covering up the alleged abuse. One inmate received broken ribs, a collapsed lung and broken vertebrae. Four other officers were accused of taking tobacco or cell phones into secured areas, acts that are violations of policy.
Delong said Monday appropriate action has been taken against correctional officers with direct involvement, however those punishments have left colleagues to work with less support and younger, less experienced officers to fill vacancies.
Casto's expertise in training will help provide consistency in the facility's transition, Delong said. Those areas include continuity in procedure, policy and proper report writing necessary to document incidents, the reasons why they occur and resulting action.
"I think Mr. Casto will be very, very good at working with staff over there to make sure that the expectations that are put forth in a training environment will be able to be efficiently carried out in the actual environment," he said.
Delong described Clark as an "at-will employee" whom he could terminate without cause, Clark said in recounting their Monday meeting.
"I'm surprised as anyone else and suspicious of why," Clark said.
Clark said he had been instructed not to become involved with an internal investigation into the abuse allegations. He thought that was an unusual move, but said he it wasn't his decision.
In regards to Casto's expertise in report writing, Clark said he had asked a long time ago for his officers to receive additional training but received no response.
Clark, a retired lieutenant with the Cabell County Sheriff's Office, took his post at the jail in November 2009.
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(Interview by Tony Snow on Fox News Sunday)
Snow: And now, we're happy to welcome Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Secretary Rumsfeld, welcome.
Rumsfeld: Thank you.
Snow: Yesterday, a submarine bursting through the Pacific Ocean -- a U.S. submarine -- splintering basically a Japanese ship. What happened?
Rumsfeld: Well, that's what the investigation will have to determine. It was a terrible tragedy, we know that. And there is still a search-and-rescue operation taking place to try to find the missing people.
The captain -- the skipper of the submarine -- has been relieved of duty, and the investigation's going forward. I've spoken to the minister of defense of Japan, Mr. Saito, and Secretary Powell has spoken to the foreign minister, and expressed the apologizes and regrets of the United States.
Snow: Wouldn't it be a better idea, at this point, maybe to think about doing some of that training a little further from shore? It was only 10 miles from the shore of Hawaii.
Rumsfeld: Certainly that issue and other issues will be examined very carefully.
Snow: All right. Coming up this week, the point of emphasis for the Bush administration is going to be national security and national defense. On the campaign trail, Vice President Dick Cheney said, help is on the way. But help doesn't mean more money, does it?
Rumsfeld: Well, it may indeed. Indeed, the president of the United States has indicated recently that he intends to have a one billion-plus pay increase for the men and women in the armed services.
What he has also said is that he would like me and the Department of Defense to undertake a defense strategy review, and a focus on quality of life issues for the men and women in the Armed Services. And we have put that in motion.
On Monday, the president will be at Fort Stewart in Georgia, and focusing on quality of life issues with the men and women.
Snow: Let's talk about some of these quality of life issues. One of them is simply the quality of the equipment. I gather the president was out at Fort McNair recently, meeting with members of the various service branches, and hearing tales. For instance, not enough spare parts for Air Force jets, not enough ammunition for Army training. There are routine equipment problems with the Navy.
Is the first point of business for this administration to make sure that we've got proper equipment for the people who are serving right now?
Rumsfeld: I think the focus has to be on quality of life for the people. The people are the heart of the Armed Services. Without the men and women that we're able to attract and retain to man the forces, then we really don't have a national defense. So, that has to be the first focus.
And readiness is a part of that, there is no question. If you're forced to cannibalize your equipment to keep some portion of it operational, that's not good for morale. That's harmful.
Snow: But you're keeping a relatively lean budget. Does it mean that right now, the business of keeping everybody fully equipped means also that you're going to have to put a halt to some weapons development that may be more costly?
Rumsfeld: Well, what it means is that the president decided to engage our brains, rather than open the taxpayers' wallets immediately. And what he wants to do is to conduct a quick, prompt review. It's not going to take years, and it's not going to take days. It will take some months. And then we will go back to the President with our recommendations as to what we believe are the priorities, and what needs to be done.
Snow: It's an old cliche in defense circles that every general is preparing to fight the last war. Are we unprepared for the challenges of the future?
Rumsfeld: Well, there's still a lot of rhetoric that sounds like the Cold War. We hear it from people across the country. They talk about the -- they talk in Cold War-think words. And "massive retaliation," and "strategic nuclear exchanges" and that type of thing.
The concern for the United States today is not a massive nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone. It doesn't exist. Russia's there. And Russia's a very different thing than the Soviet Union. We don't expect a massive attack across the North German plain with tanks and artillery pieces, and that type of thing.
Snow: So the key question then is: tanks. The kind of tanks we have right now -- vestiges of the past?
Rumsfeld: Well, I'm not going to get into specific weapons systems, Tony, because that's the purpose of this defense review. We're looking at all of those questions.
Snow: But it gets to the question. You're seeming to imply that the kind of forces we have right now really are not well suited to what the president talked about on the campaign trail, which was fast, mobile outfits in each service branch that can react across the globe swiftly.
Rumsfeld: There's no question but that speed and agility and lethality are important.
Snow: And we don't have that the way we need it right now.
Rumsfeld: Well, the word "transformation" is one we hear a lot about. We hear it in the Pentagon, we hear it in the speeches of people in the Congress. And it is important. There's no question that the United States of America needs to get arranged, so that we can effectively deter and defend against threats that are new and emerging. And they're quite different than massive land wars, or massive air wars, or nuclear exchanges and that type of thing.
Snow: Well, if we don't have to worry about nuclear exchanges, why is missile defense important?
Rumsfeld: Well, I didn't say we don't have to worry about things. It isn't this or that. It's really a broader range of threats and concerns, and therefore a deterrence.
The goal isn't to win a war. The goal is to be so capable of winning a war that you don't have to fight it -- that you dissuade and deter people from engaging in mischief that they otherwise might do.
Missile defense, it seems to me, is very reasonable. And what we know is that with the end of the Cold War, proliferation has spread these technologies and weapons of mass destruction around the globe. Any president, looking at his responsibility as commander-in-chief, would have to say that a policy that is designed to keep the American people totally vulnerable does not make much sense.
Snow: So the question is, was the missile defense plan adopted by President Clinton such a defensive scheme -- one that keeps us vulnerable?
Rumsfeld: What I am going to be doing, and am doing, is to take a good hard look at all the different ways we can manage to deal with relatively small numbers of ballistic missiles, with weapons of mass destruction, regardless of where they come from, and regardless of whether it was accidental, or unintentional, or intentional. That's what this system is designed --
It threatens no one. And it should be of concern to no one, including the Russians or the Chinese, unless someone has an intention of doing damage to other people.
Snow: The president said during the campaign that he was going to offer amendments to the ABM Treaty, which as you pointed out, was signed with the Soviets in 1972.
Rumsfeld: Right.
Snow: It's been seen as the greatest bar to doing any large-scale or flexible missile defense. The president has said if the Russians would not accept the amendments, he would go ahead and serve notice that we're going to get out of the treaty and go ahead with missile defense. Is that still the administration position?
Rumsfeld: Well, the president's not changed his words or his mind. What we are going to do is reviewing the various ways that we can deal with this problem, making a recommendation to the president and his national security team.
And to the extent that it fits within, or doesn't fit within, the president and Secretary Powell then have to make judgments. And we'll have time to consult with our allies, and to consult with our friends around the world. And obviously, to engage in discussions with the Russians.
Snow: How soon should we begin deploying missile defense?
Rumsfeld: Well, it seems to missile defense ought to be deployed at that point where we have fashioned a program that makes the most sense for us and for our friends and allies. We're not in this alone. And second, that the technologies evolve in a way that we can be reasonably confident.
Now, the argument against every weapons system almost in history is -- the first argument is that it cost too much. And the next argument is that it won't work. And the next argument is that it will work so well, that it will be destabilizing.
Well, we're hearing all of that now. But that would have been true of anything.
Snow: What do you mean? It would have been true of anything that -- those arguments would have been --
Rumsfeld: -- Those arguments, they would have made the same arguments against every weapon system known to man. So I don't particularly find them very valid.
Snow: President Reagan promised to share Strategic Defense Initiative technology with all countries. Will we share that technology? Will we make that offer to share it with other nations?
Rumsfeld: We certainly do -- we already are working with several nations on the subject of missile defense. And obviously, you do not want major differences in the vulnerability of the United States and our allies in Western Europe, for example.
Snow: Now, one of the other threats emerging is so-called transnational terrorism, people like Osama bin Laden. How do we fight them?
Rumsfeld: Well, that's true. It is a very serious problem. And if one thinks of all of the so-called asymmetrical threats -- the kinds of things people would do, or threaten doing, rather than to try to contest Western armies, navies and air forces, which doesn't work, obviously. The Gulf War proved that.
Terrorism, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, cyberwarfare, information warfare. These are all things that are cheaper than land wars, and where the technologies are currently available. And the United States has to recognize those emerging threats, and see that we're arranged so that we are not subject to nuclear or terrorist blackmail.
Snow: We have talked about -- and also, President Bush has talked about -- swift and decisive responses to those who harm Americans. Say Osama bin Laden or somebody like that orders a strike. Would it be appropriate for a president to revise policy and to go ahead and approve assassination attempts against such people?
Rumsfeld: That's not a subject that I -- that has been addressed with the new national security team that President Bush has assembled.
Snow: There's a member of Congress, Bob Barr of Georgia, who says he's going to introduce a bill that would lift the assassination ban. Would you support or oppose it?
Rumsfeld: It's not for me to support or oppose, Tony. It's for the president of the United States. Obviously, it would lead to -- were such a bill to pass the House and the Senate, and come down to the president for consideration, it would then be a subject of discussion by the president with his national security team, and I would participate fully in the discussion.
Snow: Is Iraq a nuclear threat?
Rumsfeld: Iraq is probably not a nuclear threat at the present time. There's no question but that its nuclear capabilities were well advanced, and much farther advanced than Western intelligence capabilities knew. And we were very fortunate that the Israelis went in some time before, and took out their nuclear capability.
Because in the Gulf War, information was developed to show that the Iraqis were quite close to having a nuclear capability, and there's no question but that he has that desire. He's got an enormous appetite for nuclear, and chemical and biological weapons. And he's spent a lot of money on it.
Snow: That being the case, we're going to spend $4 million trying to help internal opposition to Saddam Hussein. Are training troops?
Rumsfeld: The subject of Iraq is something that the national security -- the Bush National Security Council team has discussed. The president's interested in the subject, as to how Saddam Hussein can be deterred and dissuaded from continuing to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Secretary Powell is leaving very soon for the Middle East, and will be discussing the subject with our friends and allies in the region and with the coalition members. And the president's not made any new announcements on the subject.
Snow: Isn't it safe to say we want him out of power?
Rumsfeld: Well, I think the Congress has passed legislation that suggests that a regime change in Iraq would be desirable.
Snow: Final question. What do we know about the USS Cole? Are we close to getting the people responsible?
Rumsfeld: The investigation's going forward, and you never know how close you are till it's over. And the investigation's still underway.
Snow: So, stories out of Yemen right now may be a little overblown, saying that they're closing in on the guy?
Rumsfeld: You know, it's not over till it's over.
Snow: (Laughs.) All right. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, thanks so much. Artfully done.


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Pirates converting a pitching prospect to an everyday player
Jun 4, 2012, 8:49 AM EDT
The Pirates' 2010 second round draft pick is a guy named Stetson Allie. He's a pitcher with 100 m.p.h. gas who has a bit of a control problem. And by "a bit" I mean "a massive, horrible control problem." So the Pirates are trying something:
The Pirates are converting high-priced prospect Stetson Allie from pitcher to hitter, the Tribune-Review has learned … Neal Huntington, the Pirates' general manager, said the change was made "recently." No new position was specified, but Allie played third base in high school.
"Stetson was one of the few athletes in each draft to be considered a prospect as a pitcher and as a hitter," Huntington said Sunday night from Bradenton, Fla. "We believed his highest upside was as a pitcher. We obviously were very pleased to sign him as a pitcher. Since then, we've faced some challenges with him as a pitcher."
Challenges defined: Last season, in 26 innings, he walked 29 and gave up another 20 hits. He also struck out 28 guys in those 26 innings. In two-thirds of an inning this season, across two games, Allie walked eight dudes. He has been shut down for over a month as a result, with the Pirates trying to remake his delivery. That's apparently not working, thus the change.
When I think about prospect conversion projects I can't help but think of another Pirate: John Van Benschoten, who the Pirates drafted in the first round in 2001. He was an incredible power hitting prospect, leading all of college baseball in home runs during his final year at Kent State. He was also the team's closer, and the Pirates figured that they'd make him a pitcher in their system. From what I remember at the time, no other team pictured him as a pitcher and if he had fallen below the eighth overall pick that year, someone would have snagged him as an outfielder.
Van Benschoten made the bigs as a pitcher, but probably wouldn't have in any other organization. He was a disaster in his time in the majors and his career fizzled out due to torn labrums and other such nastiness. In what seemed like a taunt from some alternate universe, Van Benschoten hit a home run in his second big league game.
These are obviously different circumstances. The Pirates organization of 2012 is not the Pirates organization of 2001. And, unlike, Van Benschoten, Allie was given a chance to do what folks expected him to do before failing and, eventually, conversion. But even if this is the right move, it solidifies the Pirates in my mind as The Team That Converts Early Round Prospects. And that's not something you hear about too often.
- mcsnide - Jun 4, 2012 at 9:00 AM
In the opposite direction, in the late 80s, the Pirates had a first base prospect who couldn't hit and was told he'd never get above AA. So he went out and taught himself the knuckleball, and we all the know the rest of Tim Wakefield's story. Always love it when a guy can reinvent himself. Good luck to Van Benshcoten.
- mcsnide - Jun 4, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Er, good luck to Allie. I'd call for an edit function, but I really need is a "pay better attention" function.
- cur68 - Jun 4, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Oh, I been needing one of those functions for a while now. If you can find one, lemme know.
- dwaynehosey - Jun 4, 2012 at 9:02 AM
In the early nineties the Pirates converted a light-hitting infielder to a knuckle-ball pitcher who ended up with 200 major league wins.
- redguy12588 - Jun 4, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Gotta admit Craig, as a Pirate fan, my mind went to Van Benschoten as well. Still, I can't blame the Pirates for changing course with him, he would have been drafted high as well as a hitter, and the Pirates need some more hitting prospects, he's still like 19-20, so plenty of time left for him to learn.
- istillbelieveinblue - Jun 4, 2012 at 9:32 AM
The Cubs have had decent luck converting catchers into pitchers. (Randy Wells, Carlos Marmol).
- jwbiii - Jun 4, 2012 at 10:03 AM
A Rick Ankiel outcome isn't a bad thing.
- addictedzone - Jun 4, 2012 at 10:30 AM
At least this kid had the problem from day one and they make that switch before putting him on the mound in a big game. Ankiel along with Mark Wohlers were maybe the most painful things to watch for me in baseball memory.
- tmohr - Jun 4, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Given that he can't find home plate from 60 feet, I advise the fans behind first base to bring their gloves.
- florida76 - Jun 4, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Second round draft choices are different in baseball as compared with football, especially when you're talking about high school players. Many teams misfire when projecting 17-18 year old kids, the key is to limit the number of mistakes, while acquiring talent in other rounds of the draft as well. Pujols was a 10th round pick, as incredible as it sounds.
- hermanbates - Jun 4, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Pujols was a thirteenth round draft choice. Which, actually, I believe strengthens your argument.
- drewzducks - Jun 4, 2012 at 12:03 PM
I thought Daniel Bard "pitched" for the Red Sox?
- hushbrother - Jun 4, 2012 at 1:15 PM
IIRC Allie was the Bucs' top pick of the second round. $2.2 million seems like a lot for a second round pick. Signing him to such a large deal may have, in a way, been the organization's signal that they were going to aggressively start trying to build through the farm system. Specifically, it was Huntington's signal that, come hell or high water, this was how he was going to build a team, and perhaps it took a heroic amount of persuading on his part toward notoriously cheap Bucs ownership to make them agree to it. And now that Allie looks to be a bust, are trying to salvage something out of him, even if it means he becomes nothing more than a bench player.
Not good, but not a crippling break for the organization either. Now, if Cole and Taillon go down the same path, then there's a problem.
- jwbiii - Jun 4, 2012 at 3:43 PM
Allie was indeed a second round pick, #51 overall. Baseball America had him as the #8 prospect. He had a commitment to North Carolina and slipped due to signability issues. Delino DeShields, the actual #8 pick, got $2.125M and Matt Harvey at #7 got $2.625M, so Allie got paid what his value was considered to be.
It will be interesting to see how this kind of dynamic plays out with the new draft bonus cap rules.
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2013 The new Distinguished Warfare Medal recognizes the changing face of conflict in the 21st century, said Juliet Beyler, the acting director of officer and enlisted personnel management in the Pentagon.
Beyler said in an interview that technological developments on the battlefield have changed the way service members fight.
"The services all came forward and said there are people … who are doing incredible things and we wanted the ability to recognize them for those things," she said.
There are no existing awards that adequately recognize the contributions these service members make. Examples of the actions that would be recognized by the new medal include a service member who is involved in a cyber attack on a specific military target.
"That would be someone possibly who would be eligible for this award," Beyler said.
Another possible recipient would be an unmanned aerial vehicle operator who takes out a specific military target. "Another example might be a service member who is orchestrating and moving troops on a battlefield, but perhaps, is not physically present, but does something that contributes in some extraordinary way to the battle," Beyler said.
Each service secretary is going to develop the specific procedures for who is eligible to receive the award. The service member has to have direct hands-on employment in order to be eligible. Combatant commanders must certify the impacts of the action before the award is forwarded to the service secretary for approval. The service secretaries are the approving authorities and those authorities cannot be delegated, Beyler said.
"This is for direct impacts," she said. "There are other meritorious awards that recognize service over a period of time -- this [award] is intended to recognize specific impacts on the battlefield."
The criteria for the award is akin to that of the Distinguished Flying Cross. "The Distinguished Flying Cross is for a single impact, a single incident, and the Distinguished Warfare [Medal] is designed to address a single incident," she said.
The award's precedence is what is making the award controversial. Many veterans' service organizations object that the award will have a higher precedence than the Bronze Star Medal.
"The award is directly below the Distinguished Flying Cross," Beyler said. "Awards for valor -- the Medal of Honor, the service Crosses and the Silver Star -- are all higher in precedence that the Distinguished Warfare Medal and will remain so."
The vast majority of Bronze Star Medals are not awarded for valor, she said. Only 2.4 percent of Bronze Stars are given with a V device connoting a valor award. Depending on the service, the V-device can also be awarded with commendation medals.
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Emari Fleming, Tom Mckoon, Mykel Williams, of Northern Vance High School, and Deon Smith, of Southern Vance High School, were selected to participate in the 2013 Tar Heel Boys' State and Girls' State programs this summer.
Fleming attended the Tar Heel Girls' State program. Smith, Mckoon and Williams attended the Tar heel Boys' State program.
The Girls' and Boys' State programs, sponsored by the American Legion, are designed for high school juniors. Participants attend a week-long residential camp and attend several workshops in which they study principles of government at the city, county and state levels.
Objectives of the program include: to improve citizenship for present and future generations of Tar Heels; to develop civic leadership and pride in American citizenship; to arouse an interest in the detailed study of our government; to arouse in young citizens a determination to maintain the form of government; and to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation.


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COLUMBIA — A Senate panel will discuss a bill that would do away with concealed weapons permits in South Carolina.
The open carry bill scheduled for discussion Wednesday would let anyone legally allowed to own a weapon to carry it in public.
Currently, anyone who wants to carry a gun in public has to have a permit and keep it concealed. It takes at least eight hours of training to get permission to carry a concealed weapon.
Supporters of the bill have held four public meetings around the state. They say a concealed weapon permit is an extra unnecessary step when the constitution allows people to have guns.
Owners could still ban guns from their private businesses, and gun owners would need permission to take a weapon into someone else's home.
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OADM167 Basic Applications of Microsoft Outlook
Department of Business Studies: Office Administration
- I. Course Number and Title
- OADM167 Basic Applications of Microsoft Outlook
- II. Number of Credits
- 1 credit
- III. Minimum Number of Instructional Minutes Per Semester
- 1000
- IV. Prerequisites
- None
- Corequisites
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- V. Other Pertinent Information
Keyboarding skills and Windows familiarity recommended.
This course is offered only in the TOTAL Lab.
- VI. Catalog Course Description
- This course is designed for students wishing to master the fundamentals of Microsoft Outlook to compose and send emails, schedule appointments and meetings, manage contact information and tasks, and use notes.
- VII. Required Course Content and Direction
Learning Goals:
- Course Students will
- compose and send email messages;
- schedule appointments and meetings;
- demonstrate an understanding of contact information and tasks; and
- demonstrate an understanding of the use of notes, files, and folders.
- Core (if applicable) This course is not included in the Core.
Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities:
- setting up Outlook
- organizing Outlook contacts
- maintaining the Outlook calendar
- recording tasks and writing notes
- managing Outlook files and folders
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- Course The assessment of course learning goals is based on tests and a final applications project.
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- February
- Bearcats Barely Lose to Whitworth in Season Finale, 77-73
Women's Basketball | Saturday, February 26, 2005
Bearcats Barely Lose to Whitworth in Season Finale, 77-73
SALEM, OR — It may have been the finale for the Willamette University women's basketball team, but it was also a sign of things to come as the Bearcats fell in their final game of the season, 77-73, to the Northwest Conference's second place team, the Whitworth Pirates.
Vanessa Wyffels, who will lead Division III women's basketball in field goal percentage, scored 23 points and grabbed 13 rebounds. The junior hit 10-11 shots from the field as she continues to hover around the 74% shooting mark for the season.
Freshman Julia Short scored a career-high 24 points to lead the Bearcats in scoring. Jennifer Bell hit for 16 and Laura Payne chipped in with 11 points and five assists.
As they did in Salem earlier this year, the Bearcats took the early lead on Whitworth. This time the Bearcats scored the first 12 points and had the lead as high as 22-9 before the Pirates came back to trail by just a point at 32-31. The Bearcts held on to a 46-41 halftime lead.
Julia Short drained a three-pointer to give Willamette a 51-45 lead early in the second half, but then the Bucs took control with a 17-0 run. Three seniors playing in their final home game, Tiffany Speer, Sarah Shogren and Dani Bielec scored all 17 of the points. Bielec finished the run with a three-pointer that gave the Bucs a 62-51 lead with 14:15 to play.
The Bearcats fought back to pull within 3 at the 4:38 mark after a Short jumper. But Whitworth scored the next four points and made their free throws down the stretch to hold off the upset-minded Bearcats.
For Willamette, which played the top teams in the NWC tough all season, the season ends at 8-17 with an improving 5-11 mark in the NWC. Coach Tom Steers will bring back his entire team next season.
For the 22-3 Pirates, they await the DIII tournament selection on Sunday as they seek an at-large bid to the tournament. The University of Puget Sound wins the NWC this season.


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- March 1, 1867
During the mid-1800s one visitor called Nebraska's prairies "fat indeed compared to your New England pine plains." Today nearly 95 percent of the land is in farms and ranches. In the Sand Hills many spreads are so large that herds are tracked from the air. Corn and soybeans cover rolling eastern prairies; wheat grows on the drier central and western plains. The Ogallala aquifer irrigates corn, sugar beets, and alfalfa. More than a third of Nebraskans live in Omaha and Lincoln.
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Junior (2012):Played in all 21 games, making six starts ... scored three goals and recorded two assists for eight toal points ... took 22 total shots, 14 of which were on goal ... played in 870 minutes ...key contributor to 2012 team that won a school record 17 games.
Sophomore (2011): Played in all 19 games with six starting appearances ... scored three goals, including the game winner against Oral Roberts (8/28/11) ... also scored the tying goal against Louisiana Tech (9/8/11) ... took 19 shots, 10 of which were on goal ... played 895 minutes for the Ladyjacks.
Freshman (2010): Played in 12 games, starting two of them ... scored one goal against UTEP (9/3/10) ... Recorded an assist in the team's 3-1 win at Houston Baptist (9/12/10) ... Took 22 shots, nine on goal ... Played 628 minutes.
High School: A four-year starter at Fort Bend Austin High ... served as team captain her senior year, despite injury ... team went undefeated in district play to win the league title in 2010 ... a three-time selection to the First-Team All-District 23-5A squad ... named district Newcomer of the Year as a freshman ... took league MVP honors in each of the last two seasons ... named to Dynamo/Adidas Best XI as a sophomore and junior ... named to TASCO All-Region team two straight seasons and TASCO All-State team as a junior ... named 2008 U17 Girls Player of the Year by Kickoff Soccer Magazine ... named to Houston Chronicle First Team in 2008 and 2009 ... named First-Team All-Area by ESPN's Rise Magazine in 2009 ... led district in scoring in both 2008 and 2009 ... scored 27 goals with 21 assists as a junior to earn team's Offensive MVP ... had 70 goals and 38 assists in career heading into senior season ... team captain as both a junior and senior ... also competed in cross country each of her last three years ... earned school's academic excellence award four straight years ... graduated among school's top 10 percent ... a member of National Honor Society ... played club soccer for Albion Hurricanes 92G Blue since 2007 ... earned spot in South Texas ODP Pool in 2008 and played on South Texas ODP State Team that year ... attended Region III ODP Camp in 2008. Personal: Daughter of Adriana and Daniel Salazar ... nursing major.


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This review is from: Solo Organ Wks (Audio CD)
Bach's organ works place incredible demands on the performer, both physically (consider the endurance it takes to play the massive Toccata in F major), technically (the Trio Sonatas, among many others), and interpretationally. Peter Hurford triumphantly meets those demands in a spectacular set of recordings.
To those who are doubters: listen to the (in)famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, that overplayed warhorse. Hurford brings to it an electricity that makes you feel you are hearing it for the first time again. He also has an amazing ear for registrations, one of the most underestimated difficulties of an organist's art, never wearying the ear, but using a wide palette of colors. [Bach himself was widely known for his innovative registrational practices. Contemporaries remarked that when he was testing organs he would pull combinations of stops that they were certain would sound badly together, only to find that he had created an entirely new sound. Thus, creative registrations should not offend purists in any way.]
Hurford's approach to these works obviously takes into consideration, but is certainly not bound by, historically informed performing practices. His phrasing is immaculate, and consistently interesting. In all, this is a stunning accomplishment.
GET THIS WHILE IT REMAINS AVAILABLE. The classical recording industry is in trouble, and the deletions axe is constantly falling. Large, expensive sets like this are sure to go. While the price itself appears high, it is really very reasonable, running under $8 per disc.
5.0 out of 5 stars The nearest you will get to Bach without a time machine!,
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I grew up on Helmut Walsha, then on to Ton Koopman on Novalis. Then I realised I ought to expand my collection. The box set arrived, and I cranked up the tubes a sat back. I have to say it was a shock. Initially I was a bit disappointed. The timing was quite different, the pieces I knew so well were lighter, more airy. I listened on and into the night, and found my initial reaction was unfounded. Peter Hurford has, I truly believe, got to the heart of the pieces, the detail is remarkable, the playing so natural, the emotion just pours out of the speakers.
Treble details flows out across the room like I have never heard, and the big pipes rumble beneath the set, and all retaining a remarkable church acoustic.
Forget all that has gone before, buy it and listen, but don't stay up to late!
5.0 out of 5 stars Peter Hurford gives incisive readings,
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Peter Hurford's traversal of the entire organ literature for London Decca is truly one of the greatest recorded achievements. All of the performances in this seventeen-disc set are immaculately played and perfectly performed. His vision, technicality, and sensibility make him a sensitive and authoritative interpreter of J.S. Bach's organ works. The records are mostly digital, crystal clear, and quite powerful. Hurford's command of his technique is astounding. I cannot stress how important this set truly is. I HIGHLY recommend buying this compilation. At about 8 dollars a CD, this is most certainly a steal.
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Heard you moved to my city, been years, yet you never reached out to me,
We were best friends for long, guess that doesn't mean anything to thee
I don't expect you to go out of your way since you decided alone to move on,
And trust me I am so happy that you and your chic are still going strong
But some tiny part of me, just hoped for a fresh start to our thing,
I don't know how awkward would it be but I'll not unnecessarily cling
I'll not be anxious if we don't really hit it off, there'll still be some comfort of untying a messy knot,
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Virginia Beach, Va. – Beach police say 38-year-old Crystal McBride sexually abused 4 under-age boys inside her home off Waverly Drive.
Police say McBride's boyfriend, 39-year-old James Owens Jr. bought alcohol for the boys who are just 13 to 14 years old.
"Blown away," says Jon Tari, who knows the couple and lived in down the street. "They seemed like nice people. Shocked."
"I look back now and I'm not surprised," says Michele Paciello, who used to be friends with McBride. "But I'm still like is this really happening."
Paciello says she did not appreciate how McBride acted around her teenage son.
"I just didn't think it was appropriate for a 30-year-old woman to dress like that and act very flirtatious and going a little overboard sometimes and that's when I kind of eased my way out of the friendship."
Investigators say the abuse happened twice, once in late March and a second time earlier this month.
The boys would come over to visit McBride and drink. The alcohol was provided by Owens, according to police.
It was a parent of one of the boys that reported it and through an investigation, the other three victims were discovered.
"She's a nice person and I think she's just really looking for attention," Paciello says. "I think it really revolved around her looking for attention."
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How can you prove that 1 = 0.999999999999999999....?
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1 is .99 rounded. The more nines you get, the closer to one you will be. However, 1 will never exactly each 0.99999999, no matter how many nines you add. You will get closer and closer until the differnece is so minimal that you decide to call it 1.
Well... but can you also see it this way?
0.9999... = 1
x = 0.9999...
10x = 9.9999...
10x - x = 9.9999... - 0.9999... (becuase x = 0.9999...)
9x = 9
Try this:
0.9999... /= 1
10x = 9.9999...
10x = 9+x = 9.999...
From your line:
10x - x = 9.9999... - 0.9999...
the next line 9x=9 does not follow. It should be
10x = 9.999....
(1) You might also consider that 1/3+1/3+1/3=1 or .333333...+.33333...+.33333...=1.
Note that we are saying that .99999...=1 exactly, not approximately.
You will encounter other proofs using other ideas as you go through school: the sum of an infinite series, the limit of an infinite sequence, etc...
If you disagree that .99999999....=1, you have some company in the math world, though not much. Look up infinitesimals and you will find a fascinating history of a school of thought that differs from mainstream mathematics.
It look like a infinite decimal
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There's nothing like getting battle tested to get yourself ready for war. The Arkoma Mustangs football team will get just that tonight.
The Mustangs will be in a four-way scrimmage beginning at 6:30 p.m. tonight in Broken Arrow against host Summit Christian, Dewar and Welch.
"We're going to get tested," Arkoma Coach Mark Weatherton said. "Dewar is in the top 10 in Class B. Welch is knocking on the door of being in the top 10. Summit Christian was a good team last year. They're all pretty good Class B teams, so we're going to get tested Thursday night. I'm excited to get up there and see what happens."
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Belen Meadows Healthcare and Rehabilitation wins national award
Belen Meadows Healthcare and Rehabiliation has been recognized as a 2010 recipient of the Bronze — Commitment to Quality, National Quality Award presented by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living, a trade organization with about 11,000 members nationwide.
This year, 701 nursing homes and assisted living communities from across the nation applied for the Bronze Quality Award, and Belen Meadows Healthcare and Rehabilitation was one of more than 450 organizations to receive the award.
The award will be presented to Belen Meadows Healthcare and Rehabilitation during AHCA/NCAL's 61st Annual Convention and Exposition, Oct. 10-13, in Long Beach, Calif.
"The commitment to quality designated by this award is a key first step to developing systematic, sustainable, person-centered care and services," stated Bruce Yarwood, President and CEO of AHCA/NCAL. "We congratulate Belen Meadows Healthcare and Rehabilitaion on this achievement."
Implemented by AHCA/NCAL in 1996, the National Quality Award Program is based on the core values and criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program. It provides a pathway for providers of long-term and post-acute care services to journey towards performance excellence.
Facilities begin their quality journey at the Bronze level where they are asked to develop an organizational profile including vision and mission statements, an awareness of their environment and customers' expectations.
Bronze applicants are also asked to demonstrate their ability to improve a process. At the Bronze level, formerly know as the Step I Award, applications are reviewed by examiners who have received special training to qualify as judges for the award program.
Belen Meadows Healthcare and Rehabilitaion may now move forward in developing approaches and achieving performance levels that meet the criteria required for the Silver – Achievement in Quality award. The final step in the journey is the Gold – Excellence in Quality award, which requires them to address the Baldrige Program's Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence in its entirety.


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The Standard hotels are our primary hotel choices in this location, though availability is not guaranteed. If a given hotel is not available for your tour date, we will reserve you a room at a hotel of similar appeal and quality in the same area.
Located on the edge of Paracas Bay and surrounded by the Paracas National Reserve, La Hacienda welcomes guests into a refuge of peace and tranquility. With spacious accommodations, a spectacular swimming pool, numerous dining options and marvelous views of the bay, guests will enjoy the beauty and hospitality of La Hacienda.
Located on the coast south of Lima, Pisco originally prospered because of its nearby vineyards. The town eventually gave its name to Peru's Brandy which was later used as the most important ingredient of the world - famed "Pisco Sour".
Welcome to beautiful Paracas Beach and the Hilton Paracas hotel. Spacious, modern and luxurious Hilton Paracas offers suite accommodations near one of the most interesting and richest ecosystems in the world, the desert peninsula of Paracas on the south coast of Peru encompasses Paracas National Reserve.


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For more than three decades, Wayne Fields has been an academic, a professor of English at Washington University. He does not write academic prose, not even in his most footnoted work. Immune to cant and jargon, Fields writes nimble, lyrical sentences, no less philosophical or provocative for being lucid and musical. Images, drawn from nature but far more than natural, glide through his prose and tell their own stories: "Wheat, at once water and fire, rippled before a west wind, but the trees, already in leaf this far south, did not move and stood a dark host on the distant hills." His book-length work, including an autobiographical meditation (What the River Knows), a collection of short fiction (The Past Leads a Life of Its Own) and a scholarly treatise on presidential rhetoric (Union of Words) share what Yeats called "a lonely impulse of delight": a visceral pleasure in the power of language and ideas -- to make readers see, question and deeply consider what it means to be alive.


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After a few delays caused by extreme weather and equipment issues, the race to the South Pole officially started today at 13:35 GMT (around 8:35 EST AM). Taking with them our favorite Swede, Alexander Skarsgård.
In celebration of the start to the challenge, Walking With the Wounded shared these pictures from the starting line on their Facebook page (and twitter).
Due to the extreme weather, the starting point was moved closer to the pole to keep ahead of it. Even with this adjustment, the teams have a long (and bitter) trek ahead of them
We wish all teams a safe journey…. and go Team USA!
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99-yard punt return takes Triton to 5-0
Triton 27, Gray's Creek 21
Juwan Thompson returned a Gray's Creek punt 99 yards for a touchdown with 2:15 left for what stood up as the winning touchdown for Triton (5-0) at home in Erwin Friday night.
Gray's Creek (2-3) led 21-13 going to the fourth quarter. DeAngelo Harris scored on a 38-yard touchdown run with 3:08 left in the game. The Hawk defense forced a three-and-out and a Bear punt, leading to Thompson's touchdown.
The Hawks totaled 238 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns. Senior Zach Wade led the Hawk running game with 10 carries for 113 yards. Senior linebacker Brad Miller led Triton's defense with 14 tackles and 1.5 sacks.
Triton will play its last non-conference game of the regular season on Friday, at Rocky Mount at 7:30 p.m.
Gray's Creek will open its Cape Fear Valley slate at Lee County at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Eastern Randolph 17, Jordan-Matthews 16
Eastern Randolph (2-3) avenged a one-point Jet victory last season with a one-point win Friday night.
Eastern Randolph scored the go-ahead touchdown with 3:44 remaining, coming back from what was a 16-7 Jet lead late in the third quarter. The Wildcats blocked a 43-yard Jet field goal attempt with 0:14 remaining.
For the Jets, Tre' Jones scored a touchdown with a 7-yard run in the second quarter. Josh Hudson passed to Jackson Rogers for an 11-yard touchdown to give the Jets a 16-7 lead with two minutes to play in the third quarter.
The Jets hit the road to Western Harnett for a 7:30 p.m. kick on Friday.
West Montgomery 56, North Moore 14
West Montgomery (4-1, 2-0) made it two Yadkin Valley Conference wins and 124 points scored in two weeks in Robbins Friday night.
The Mustangs (0-5, 0-2) will travel to face North Stanly (3-1, 1-0) in a YVC game at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Albemarle 79, Chatham Central 0
Albemarle (3-2, 2-0) romped out to a 56-0 halftime lead on the visiting Bears for an easy YVC win Friday night.
Albemarle totaled 331 rushing yards and better than 11 yards per carry. Senior Kevin McKinney carried eight times for 140 yards and two touchdowns.
The Bears (1-4, 0-2) will host East Montgomery for a conference game at 7:30 p.m. Friday.


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HANOVER TOWNSHIP — A new facility held a grand opening for their business in Luzerne County.
Mann Lake is one of the largest beekeeping companies in the country and on Saturday, they opened a new home in the Hanover Industrial Park in Wilkes-Barre.
This new location will be the shipping point for equipment and bees for the entire east coast and Europe.
The manager at Mann Lake says hundreds of thousands of people in Pennsylvania are picking up beekeeping as a hobby and it continues to grow.
"We've had people come and say 'I'm the only beekeeper in the area' and after that happens I have 10 more come in and say the same thing. They all end up being within two miles of each other, so it's amazing," said manager Frank Licata.
The manager of the facility says the most frequently asked questions among beekeepers is "do you get stung."
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Name: Paul Kimbrough
Gender: Male
Nicknames: Polly Wog, Polly Pocket, Freight Train, Weezie, PK, Kimby
Date of Birth: November 30, 1986
Where were you born: Salt Lake City
Current Location: Victor, ID
Hobbies: Climbing, fishing, backpacking, gardening, biking
Motto: Live everyday like it could be your last
Discipline: What's that? Ha ha, Telemark skiing
My passion for skiing started when my adventurous parents strapped skis to my feet at the age of two and lowered me down the neighborhood sledding slope. I grew up in nature's playground; spending winters in Utah and summers in Grand Teton National Park: skiing, fly fishing, kayaking, climbing, and backpacking. My love of the outdoors lead me to study Environmental Education at Western Washington University where I shaped my life around telemark skiing.
Continuing a seasonal lifestyle, I finished my degree going to school in the summer and taking winters off to surf the coveted Cascade Concrete of nearby Mt. Baker. From washing dishes at The Alta Lodge to taking tourists sea kayaking in the San Juan Islands, I'm willing to do just about anything to support my habit. Jake Sakson and I will be running the second annual Beartooth Basin Big Mtn. Telemark Camp this June to share our experience and love for the sport with the next generation of freeheel rippers. I will also be working as a whitewater raft guide and bartender through the summer so I can continue to spend my winters playing in the snow.
Favorite SCARPA product: T-Race
What other SCARPA product do you use: I'm a big fan of SCARPA climbing shoes and approach shoes,; the Instinct S is my favorite sport climbing shoe for steep technical routes.
Your biggest influence growing up: Probably my parents, they raised me with a passion for experiencing and learning from the mountains, rivers, and deserts.
Biggest idol in your sport growing up: I didn't grow up telemark skiing, so I would have to say Eric Pollard was my most prominent ski influence.
What age did you start skiing: I started skiing at the age of two, and switched to freeheel skiing at 19.
How would you describe your style: Smooth
What can't you live without: Water and love
What keeps you motivated: I'm most motivated by the energy of youth in the sport. The young kids entering into telemark are so enthusiastic and excited to learn and have fun; they really motivate me to keep trying new things and to continue pushing myself.
If you could be a super hero who: Spider-Man of course. He can climb anything, shoot webs and swing around. What's cooler than that?
Guilty pleasure song: Row Row Row Your Boat
Strangest medical issue: Asthma or Migraine headaches
Favorite junk food: Chips
Favorite post activity drink: Coconut water
Best excuse to skip training: What's training?
Go-to dance move: The Wave
Favorite ice cream: Coconut gelato
Coffee or tea: Coffee
What do you do on off days: Work, climb, garden, play with my dog Hank
Last movie to make you cry: Guys don't cry
Favorite classic movie: Pulp Fiction
What's on your ipod: My ipod is broken, but lots of Reggae, Bluegrass, Hip Hop, and Classic Rock
Hidden talent/party trick: Shooting pennies or bottle caps at light speed and with precision accuracy
What kind of car do you drive: 1998 Subaru Forester with over 220,000mi, when it's running
Personal Blog: Beans & Rice Freeride
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So Percussion is excited to have received a 2015 CMA Classical Commissioning grant to commission Paul Lansky! The piece will be written for mostly unpitched percussion, having been inspired by Paul's electronic masterpiece "Table's Clear", which featured sounds he recorded at his kitchen table with his children.
We are honored and excited to be recipents of CMA's 2015 Classical Commissiong Grant! Composer Alex Mincek will be writing a substansial new piece for our piano percussion quartet instrumentation to be premiered as part of Miller Theatre's "Composer Portraits" Series on February 25th, 2016. We could not be more thrilled!
PREMIERE: RighteousGIRLS Perform Pascal Le Boeuf's "GIRLS" off 'gathering blue' on New Focus Recordings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjKp8xb3LZc
Quintet of the Americas will present The Melting Pot, concerts on June 9 at The Salvation Army in Jackson Heights and June 11 at Catholic Charities Bayside Senior Center in Bayside, NY, with music by Daniel Ott, Valerie Coleman, Xinyan Li, Stuart Balcomb, Mohammed Fairouz, Ljova, Gunther Schuller and Carlos Franzetti.


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May 24, 2011 - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. – Aquinas College announces today that Juan Olivarez, Ph.D., has accepted the position as president of Aquinas College. The news was formally announced today at a press conference at Holmdene Manor on the college's campus. Dr. Olivarez, 61, becomes the school's seventh president in 125 years, succeeding C. Edward Balog, Ph.D, who in January announced he will retire on June 30 of this year after serving five years as president at the private, Catholic college.
"Aquinas College is excited to have Dr. Olivarez return to our campus and lead us into our 125 year tradition of providing students of all backgrounds with the opportunity to develop in body, mind, and spirit," says Aquinas College Board of Trustees Chairman Monsignor William Duncan. "We are confident that Dr. Olivarez will continue to build upon the initiatives begun by Dr. Balog to take our college to the next level of service to our students and our community."
Immediately after January's retirement announcement by Balog, the board commissioned a Presidential Search Committee that was comprised of representatives from the trustees, alumni, student senate, faculty and staff. Dr. Olivarez was unanimously recommended to the Board of Trustees, which met on May 23 to entertain the recommendation and voted Dr. Olivarez, a 1971 graduate of Aquinas, as its seventh president.
"The Presidential Search Committee was charged with seeking to identify a candidate who reflects the values of our institution and possesses the qualities of leadership required to fulfill our college's mission," says Aquinas College trustee and search committee chairman Donald Burns. "We found all that in Dr. Olivarez and feel very comfortable saying he is uniquely capable of guiding Aquinas into the future."
"I am thrilled to come back home to lead Aquinas College into the next phase," says Dr. Olivarez, who for the past three years had served as president and CEO of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation. "I graduated from here, I met my wife here and we've stayed connected over the years, so I have a strong affinity for Aquinas. As I've said before, Aquinas changed my life."
Prior to the Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Dr. Olivarez served for nine years as the president of Grand Rapids Community College. Although content with his role at the Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Dr. Olivarez was pulled by the opportunity to re-engage with his alma mater and higher education, a profession in which he has spent the majority of his career. Olivarez continues to maintain various civic and community leadership positions on both local and national levels. Olivarez's community involvement credentials were an important consideration as the college evaluated his candidacy.
"Our selection process was based on a detailed candidate profile that had been developed by input from the board of trustees, alumni, faculty, staff, students and community leaders," Burns notes. "Dr. Olivarez met and exceeded every requirement, namely his commitment to our Catholic Dominican heritage and proven track record of higher education financial stewardship and fundraising abilities."
"Thanks to the outstanding leadership of Dr. Balog, Aquinas College enters its 125th year stronger than ever," adds Monsignor Duncan. "We have complete confidence that Dr. Olivarez can guide us forward by providing strong educational leadership and community engagement."
After serving first as Provost and then an interim president, Dr. C. Edward Balog became president of Aquinas in 2007 and in January 2011 announced his intention to retire upon completion of the College's fiscal year, June 30, 2011.
Like most tuition-driven institutions, Aquinas sees a number of opportunities for future growth and improvement. Each of the college's last five fiscal years has resulted in a surplus, although considerable fiscal discipline has been required to meet that goal in the recent economic climate. The college has enrolled record freshman classes each of those years, and has improved its retention rate. The college continues to pursue a long-term, integrated institutional plan to increase enrollment and generate new resources through private giving.
As the region's only Catholic college, along with its rich tradition of quality academic programs and education of the whole person, Aquinas is a regional jewel. A major focus for the new president will be to represent the college in a manner that will enhance its presence in and service to the region.
Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids in 1886, Aquinas has a Catholic heritage in the Dominican traditions of study, prayer, service and community.
The College is named for St. Thomas Aquinas, a 13th century Dominican scholar and teacher considered to be one of the most brilliant minds of his time and one of the most influential thinkers in the history of the Catholic Church. St. Thomas stressed the importance of having an open mind and open heart and continuously learning from our life experiences. Throughout the years, the Aquinas community has continued to foster a learning environment centered on these principles.


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My current work focuses on the production ecology of forests, and on forest restoration ecology in the Rocky Mountains. I'm also working on a variety of synthesis projects, including Biology of Temperate Forests for Oxford University Press.
The latest in Production Ecology of Forests
The growth of a tree or a forest depends on the supply of resources (light, water, nutrients) available in the environment, the proportion of available resources obtained, the efficiency of harnessing resources to drive photosynthesis, and the partitioning of photosynthates into various tree parts (including stemwood). This production ecology approach allows for quantitative tests of ideas. For example, if a tree or forest has a higher capture of sunlight, will it use the sunlight more efficiently or less efficiently in producing wood? It might seem to intuitively obvious that a tree or a forest capturing very little light would need to be especially frugal and efficient at using the light, yet we hypothesized in various studies that trees and forests capturing more light (or water, or nutrients) actually use the resources more efficiently.
This graph summarizes the pattern of growth, light use, and efficiency of light use for Eucalyptus trees. Not surprisingly, larger trees (to the right on the X axis) grew faster than smaller trees. An 80th percentile tree grew at a rate of about 150 g of stemwood per day, compared to 65 g of stemwood growth for a 40th percentile tree. The same trees used 170 and 90 MJ of sunlight to produce the wood; this difference in light use is smaller than the difference in growth, so the larger tree not only used more light, they used it more efficiently (producing 0.9 g of wood per MJ of light) than the smaller tree (0.4 g of wood/MJ of light): (Binkley, D., J.L. Stape, W.L. Bauerle, and M.G. Ryan. 2010. Explaining growth of individual trees: Light interception and efficiency of light use by Eucalyptus at four sites in Brazil. Forest Ecology and Management 259:1704-1713.)
The same pattern tends to apply at the level of forests; forests that intercept more light tend to use the light more efficiently in producing wood. We still don't know how much of this efficiency difference relates to total photosynthesis (Gross Primary Production) and how much depends on partitioning carbohyrates to wood versus other tissue. The forest may grow faster than another forest, because of landscape location (bottom of a hill versus a ridge), species composition, or silvicultural treatments. Does faster growth of a forest typically result from increased resource use, or from higher efficiency of resource use? The answer is "yes"; both factors in the production ecology equation commonly are higher for faster growing forests. Intriguingly, it's rare (or non-existent) for the efficiency of resource use to decline as the rate of use goes up: (Binkley, D. 2010. Understanding the role resource use efficiency in determining the growth of trees and forests. In: Forests in Development: A vital balance. In press.)
These patterns of growth and use and efficiency of resources lead to fasicnating patterns of dominance within forests. We've developed a quantitative approach to mesuring dominance in forests, and some hypotheses about patterns through stand development. Fascinatingly, some forests have lined up nicely with the hypothesis, and others have not (for reasons we can't (yet) explain).
Recent publications on these and related topics:
The Latest in Forest restoration in the Rocky Mountains
Forests have two rates of change: so slow that it takes decades for us to notice, and so rapidly that it must be someone's fault! A century of heavy grazing and fire suppression have dramatically changed the structure and composition of some forests in the Rocky Mountains, but these driving factors and responses vary greatly among forests. We've done a variety of research projects to determine how much forests changed in the past two centuries, providing an intellegent starting point for discussions about forests of the future.
Was Aldo Leopold right about the Kaibab deer herd? A central paradigm in wildlife ecology is that predation is a good thing for prey species: predation limits the population of the prey, and keeps the prey from overpopulating and devastating the habitat. This appealing idea was advocated by Aldo Leopold, and he used the classic story of the Kaibab deer herd as an illustration. The wolves, lions, and coyotes on the Kaibab Plateau were decimated by government hunters after the plateau was established as a game preserve -- and Leopold tells the story that the deer population exploded, the range was degraded, and the deer population crashed below the level that could have been sustained with a healthy amount of sustained predation. We challenged this idea by determining the cohort structure of aspen across the Plateau. High populations of starving deer should have prevented the establishment of aspen during the 1920s; if we found a sizable cohort from that period, Leopold's story would have to be wrong. Our descriptive and experimental investigations supported the idea of a major deer explosion in the 1920s – but also a much fuller story of long-term changes on the Plateau:
Mountainside Stewardship on the Uncompahgre Plateau: The UP is one of the Colorado's most beautiful areas, with conifer forests changing across landscapes, mixed with abundant aspen trees and occassional meadows. These forests have probably changed substantially in the past century, but by how much, and where? We're working with a place-based collaborative group, the Uncompahgre Plateau Project (http://www.upproject.org) to understand forest dynamics of the past as way to inform our choices about forests of the future. The idea of mountainside stewardship developed as a way to facilitate (and fund) restoration activities at lower elevations, while generating wood products, revenue, and patches of younger forests at higher elevations. We've worked with volunteers to conduct "forensic ecology" assessments on the Plateau, and on-going projects will characterize the history and current condition of aspen across the Plateau.Recent publications on these and related topics:


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