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In 1969, Taylor Stokes entered Vanderbilt as the first African American scholarship athlete to suit up for the football team. Though he had dreamed of playing in the Big 10 or at Alabama, he accepted Vanderbilt's invitation at the urging of his father.
"My father was a visionary," says Stokes, who grew up in Clarksville, Tenn., northwest of Nashville. "He knew that if African Americans were going to get ahead, they needed to have a presence at schools like Vanderbilt—and not just on the football field."
But times were different then, and Stokes says he endured frequent racial slights around campus and on the field, even after making seven extra-point kicks in one game against Ole Miss during his second season—a Vanderbilt record that stood more than two decades.
When Stokes' father died in 1971, he withdrew from Vanderbilt to run the family painting and contracting business, and ultimately became a successful businessman. Life went on, but always with something missing.
Bitter about his Vanderbilt experience, for 35 years he avoided even driving near the campus. Then a few years ago, his wife, Chandra, and some former friends and teammates encouraged him to return to campus and finish what he had started. One of those friends was prominent Nashvillian Walter Overton, BA'74, who had followed Stokes to Vanderbilt and became the first African American scholarship football player to graduate. Overton is now general manager of LP Field, home stadium for Nashville's NFL Tennessee Titans.
Receptive Vanderbilt administrators put together a plan of action for Stokes, and in 2007 he started his journey back at Vanderbilt—even beating a bout with cancer along the way. Head Football Coach Bobby Johnson saw to it that Stokes received the varsity letter jacket he'd never picked up in 1971.
On May 8, 2009, after a 40-year detour, Taylor Stokes finally crossed the Commencement stage and received his diploma, a bachelor of arts degree for an interdisciplinary major focusing on race, culture and religion. Stokes had majored in sociology his first time at Vanderbilt.
A devout Christian, Stokes next plans to pursue a master's degree in Christian counseling. He also has taught in the Clarksville school system.
"I could feel the bitterness from the past being chipped away because of the generosity and love I'd experienced," says Stokes of his return to Vanderbilt.
"How often do you get to return to the scene of your greatest tragedy, and it becomes your greatest triumph?
"I want people to see that there can be life after death, a resurrection so to speak. You can rise out of the ashes. You can return to the scene of the crime, and there can be a different outcome—an outcome of survival that allows the victim ultimately to become the victor."
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What a wonderful and triumphant story of restoration and God's Grace (see Joel 2:25-27 and Isaiah 2:4. I thank the magazine from sharing this story with us. Having graduated in 1970 (A&S) I vividly remember the student body as vigorously in support of racial equality and civil rights & against anything involving the military and the Vietnam War. It was also a time of immense popularity for Perry Wallace who graduated my Sr. year. All my peers were in awe of Perry, who courageously broke the SEC racial barrier in l966. We were proud of our school, athletic teams and athletes, even though popularity for scholarship sports was declining. In fact, Perry was voted the most popular male student on campus. I sincerely regret that there was racial prejudice expressed and experienced by Mr. Stokes. I never heard racial slurs or bigotry expressed among the student population, especially in 1969-70 when anything conventional or traditional was challenged. However, I understand that the "view from the cavalry is different from the view from the infantry". In fact, the view from Calvary is a bit different as well.August 12th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
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Randy is in his 13th year as the head coach for the women's soccer program at Cornerstone University. Coach Strawser came to Cornerstone from Westmont College (Calif.) where he served as an instructor of kinesiology and assistant soccer coach for the men's program from 1992 to 2000. Randy was head men's soccer coach at Mount Olive College (N.C.) from 1986-92.
Strawser is a 1984 graduate of Coker College (S.C.) where he earned his bachelor's degree in physical education. Strawser was an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) All-South player and was named Athlete of the Year his senior year at Coker. He earned his M.A. in health and physical education from Appalachian State University (N.C.) in 1986. He served as graduate assistant on the men's soccer team that won the Southern Conference title in 1985. Strawser holds the Advanced National Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and the "B License" from the United States Soccer Federation (USSF). Strawser was named Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2006 and Region VIII Coach of the Year in 2007. Coach Strawser has led the Golden Eagles into the NAIA Regional Tournament four times. He led the Golden Eagles to the NAIA Region VIII Championship and to their first NAIA National Championship in 2007. He has been named WHAC Coach of Character three times (2007, 2008, and 2009)
"I want to put together the best team that we possibly can with players that want to represent Christ both on and off the field. I desire for our players to grow academically, athletically and spiritually while they are in the program."
Randy is married to Dianne Strawser and has three sons (CJ, Mitchel and Jadon) and a daughter (Elisha). Randy and Dianne reside in Cascade. Dianne also coaches the girls' soccer team at East Grand Rapids H.S.
After recently graduating in May, 2012, Aimee Luurtsema begins her first season as an assistant coach for the women's soccer program. In addition to her duties with the Golden Eagles soccer team, Luurtsema is the assistant sports information director for Cornerstone athletics.
Luurtsema is a Grandville, Michigan native. She came to Cornerstone after graduating from Hudsonville Unity Christian and furthering her education and soccer career at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Before moving to the coaching ranks, Luurtsema started as a defender/forward at Liberty University for four years - earning Big South all-conference honors named to Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) all-state first team led Liberty and finished second in the Big South with 13 goals became the third player in school history to net more than 10 goals in a season paced team and finished No. 2 in the conference in total points with 31 points her junior season, making herself one of two Lady Flames to put up more than 30 points in a season earned Big South Player of the Week honors was named Big South and ECAC Player of the Week after putting up four goals and an assist became the fourth player in school history to record four goals in a single game and second to post nine points named to Big South Presidential Honor Roll all four years.
Luurtsema has had past coaching experience from Liberty University summer soccer camps, local soccer academy, Adam Godwin Soccer Academy, year round, and started a summer local soccer camp, Thunder Foot Soccer, with Michigan State soccer graduates and high school teammates, Laura Heyboer and Jill Flietstra during the summer of 2007.
Luurtsema graduated from Liberty University in 2012 with a degree in Business and a specialization in marketing. "I am excited to see the impact that God will have in my life here, in Cornerstone athletics. I am extremely passionate about soccer and love to bring my marketing skills to the sports information side of things. I have had the privilege to become the soccer player I am today because of coaches and teammates and I am thrilled to pass my knowledge onto the players this season and look forward to the challenge."
Dan is in his 11th year as an assistant coach for Cornerstone. Coach McAllister has been involved with soccer in the Grand Rapids area at all levels. He has coached youth teams, high school teams, and college teams in the area. He was a staff Olympic development program (ODP) coach for Michigan from 1996-2009. He has served as the head coach for the West Michigan Fire Juniors U-17 and U-15 girls' teams. He is currently coaching with the Tri-Cities Soccer Club. He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the program. He holds a USSF "National C" license (#7152) and a USSF "National Youth" license (#375), and a National Youth - State Instructors Certification. He coached at Cornerstone in 2002 and 2003. He took the 2004 season off but returned to coach in 2005. He has coached various club teams over the years including Grand Rapids Area Soccer Association, West Michigan Fire Juniors, and Tri-City Strikers.
Dan is married to Renee McAllister and they reside in Grand Haven, Mich. They have four daughters (Danielle, Charise, Christina and Chelsea.
Eric is in his fifth year of coaching the goalkeepers for Cornerstone's women's team. He coached the goalkeepers in 2000 and has returned for his second stint with the women's team. He was a four year starter for and graduate of Cornerstone. He also coached the men's team in 1999 and trained both the men's and women's goalkeepers in 2008 before moving back to just the women's team in 2009. He was the head women's soccer coach at Grace College (Ind.) from 2003-2007. Coach Mikel has also coached various club teams and players in the area. He will be coaching with the Michigan Wolves of Grand Rapids this fall.
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25 November is again designated 'White Ribbon Day' by Men Working Against Violence Against Women this year.
As public anger rises over news of tax avoidance by Starbucks, the coffee giant is to face a day of nonviolent action by people opposed to government cuts.
Today (25 November 2012) is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Day has been officially recognised by the United Nations since 1999.
One of the nastier stereotypes about working class people is that they hit their children. Now, however, working class people are being blamed for not hitting their children enough. Politicians and columnists who are encouraging parents to smack their children are relying on prejudice and class stereotypes.
Colombia has failed to tackle the lack of justice for women and girl survivors during the country's long-running armed conflict, says a new report.
Violence in the home is a "violation of God's wish for humanity", the Church of Scotland has been reminded in a hard-hitting report.
The head of a London charity has returned her OBE in protest at heavy cuts to the services she runs for victims of domestic violence.
A new web resource for Catholics experiencing domestic abuse has been launched by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.
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What triggers ice ages?
by Rasmus Benestad, with contributions from Caspar & Eric
In a recent article in Climatic Change, D.G. Martinson and W.C. Pitman III discuss a new hypothesis explaining how the climate could change abruptly between ice ages and inter-glacial (warm) periods. They argue that the changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun in isolation is not sufficient to explain the estimated high rate of change, and that there must be an amplifying feedback process kicking in. The necessity for a feedback is not new, as the Swedish Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry), Svante Arrhenius, suggested already in 1896 that CO2 could act as an amplification mechanism. In addition, there is the albedo feedback, where the amount of solar radiation that is reflected back into space, scales with the area of the ice- and snow-cover. And are clouds as well as other aspects playing a role.
Martinson & Pitman III's hypothesis states that the fresh water input works in concert with the Milankovitch cycle and the albedo feedback. They conclude that 'major' terminations can only follow from glacial build-up of sufficient magnitude to isolate the Arctic, inhibiting the inflow of fresh water to the point that salinity buildup in the surface layer from slow but continuous growth of sea-ice, causes overturn of the Arctic (through the effect on the atmospheric circulation and the ocean currents). The vertical overturning brings warmer water up from below, setting conditions that are more favourable for ice metling. Salinity plays a role too, but the hypothesis does not mention variations in the greenhouse gases (GHGs). A few questions: Did Martinson and Pitman III forget this last point? Or did the GHGs only represent a minor contribution? And, could not changes in GHGs explain much of the variability? On the other hand, it sounds plausible that changes in salinity and fresh water input may affect the sea-ice formation and the deep convection. However, so far, the hypothesis proposed by Martinson and Pitman III is merely a speculation, and we are waiting to see if the hypothesis can be tested through numerical model experiments (which would require higher resolution sea-ice and ocean models than used in todays global climate models). It would be interesting to carry out experiments to assess the significance of the fresh water only, GHGs, and the combined effect.
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Hey does any body know of a SUL top that is both wind and water proof? If so what is the weight and what is it called (brand name and top name)?
You can get wind and rain resistant (Montane FeatherLite H2O and TNF Hydrogen for about 3/4 oz) however if you want waterproof I think that the TNF Triumph smock at around 5.5oz is the lightest. Don't know if this is light enough but have a look at the Montane Atomic jacket, 8 oz for the M size. Mine is an older (discontinued) smock version. It can take hours of heavy rain. They pack very small.Francohttp://www.montane.co.uk/productdetails.php?productid=197&rid=12BTW Ethan, you should try the gear forum for this one.
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http://www.integraldesigns.com/product_detail.cfm?id=763the eVent fabric is very breathable which makes it good for using as just a wind jacket. 8.9ozhttp://marmot.com/spring_2009/mens/outerwear/shells/mica_jacket/not as breathable. 7oz
I just got an Outdoor Research Zealot. X-Large 8 oz. Gore-Tex paclite. It's real nice.
I have use the Zealot for two years now. Excellent jacket and quite breathable. Only issue is that you would not want to bushwack with it.
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Show Mitch Dobrowner a sprawling city and he will find a way of dwarfing it, by placing it in its natural context. In this photo essay, he captures Los Angeles. Text by Simon Willis
One day in 1982, Mitch Dobrowner was driving his green Toyota Corolla—"an awesome car"—north along the 405 freeway in Los Angeles. He'd been living out of the car for the previous four years, driving around photographing the grand landscapes of Arizona, New Mexico and California, and had recently settled in the city. Driving over the crest of a hill, he saw the sight which was the inspiration for the photographs on these pages—the San Fernando Valley spread out below him, surrounded by the San Gabriel Mountains. Then, while he ran an industrial-design business and raised three children, he stopped taking photographs for more than 20 years.
Pictured: "What I see in the photographs are these beautiful landscapes," says Dobrowner, who shot this Los Angeles cloudscape in 2010. "And I see what mankind has built over them—these rolling buildings. I see the gulf between the landscapes and what we've done to them"


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With the holidays approaching, everyone is looking for a nice dessert that will impress the relatives. Well look no further.
This cheesecake is a spin on the classic pumpkin pie, while still having the same flavors as the original.
Two students were honored recently in a new program called the JCTC Carrollton Campus Student of the Month Award.
DeVonna Payton and Marty Clark were honored for the months of August and Septem-ber, respectively, for outstanding academic achievement and campus involvement.
Clark enrolled at JCTC in the fall 2011 and is pursuing an associate's degree. He plans to transfer to Lindsey Wilson College to complete a bachelor's degree in human services and counseling.
The Port William Historical Society's annual Heritage Day and Fall Festival is upon us.
For the past three years, I have been in charge of the event and I have been working every year to expand its offerings. This year, with the help of the Events and Programs Committee, it has grown exponentially with a wide range of activities for the entire family.
Voters who live in the city of Ghent have a serious task before them on Nov. 6.
Nine candidates are vying for the four seats available on the city commission, for terms that will begin Jan. 1, 2013, and end Dec. 31, 2015. Only one incumbent is seeking re-election, which means there will be at least three new faces on the commission next year.
Considering the turmoil that Ghent's elected and appointed officials have faced during the past year, it should be crystal clear that voters give a lot of thought to what they really want from their city.
Now that fall is officially started and you have had a month since the first article to get the junk out of the cabinets and fridge and grocery purchases are under control, let's discuss the second half of the equation, fitness. In this installment of Health Matters, we will discuss the two major components on starting or making the most of your fitness time.
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It is no secret that drugs and alcohol can change lives. Hopefully, with all of the education and media coverage, even an elementary student can tell you that drugs are bad for you.
The effects of drug and alcohol abuse rarely affect just a single person.
From the Lexington Herald-Leader
Here's hoping Kentucky shared in the national decline in teen smoking reported recently by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
USA Today attributes an "historic drop in smoking," not just among teens but across all age groups, to a 62-cent increase in the federal cigarette tax in 2009.
Raising the federal tax to $1.01 a pack has brought in about $30 billion in new revenue to the U.S. treasury.
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Turning 65 and eligible for Medicare? Or are you on Medicare now? Then this column is for you! It's open enrollment time!
I'll bet you are being besieged with numerous solicitations!
Confused by parts A, B, C and D (and whatever other famous letters of the alphabet there may be.)
My brother Nick is turning 65 next month. He reports receiving over 40 mailings in one month. This exceeds offers he has received for credit cards!
The Port William Historical Society is an organization in motion. Our new meeting schedule, rotating between a historic game or craft, a speaker or demonstrator, and a business meeting, helps keep the meetings fresh and different. So far this year we have had Larry Jones and his arrowhead collection, made cornhusk dolls, learned how to make whimmydiddles and played whist.
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Breckenridge, CO, December 19, 2008 The DEW Tour got off to a huge start in Breckenridge Friday as Women's Ski Superpipe and Men's snowboarding competition dominated the mountain.
SIRIUS to air all men's alpine events from Kitzbuehel, Austria plus women's downhill from Cortina, Italy.
Last spring I skied with a bunch of racing buddies from the old days, the "old days" being the late Eighties and early Nineties.
In a midseason launch, K2 has introduced the T:Nine Spire, a new ski targeted for advanced and expert women skiers.
Snowboard manufacturer introduces women's specific ski style
For the 200 amateur mogul and freestyle skiers who think they have mastered the bumps, the 24th Annual Budweiser Bear Mountain Mogul Challenge on April 3-4, 2004, sets the stage where you go big-or go home.
On America's playing fields, women have fought long and hard for equal time. But on the mountain, they have always ruled.
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Here is what is in my Xclients.fvwm file
and here is the error in the make install.Code:[aschott@system11 switchdesk]$ cat Xclients.fvwm #!/bin/bash # (c) 2001 Red Hat, Inc. exec /usr/local/bin/fvwm exec /usr/local/bin/fvwm-themes-start
And I checked what the terminal says when I log in via failsafe, and do a 'fvwm && fvwm-themes-start &', and it says something about too many +'s as well. Any ideas? I did compile (I am on a RH8 box btw) with gnome support into fvwm itself.Code:/usr/local/bin/fvwm-themes-config --site --reset Warning: unknown entry [t0c0], ignoring... Incorrect line key value, not enough +'s make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 255 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/aschott/fvwm-themes-base-0.6.1' make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/aschott/fvwm-themes-base-0.6.1' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


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http://ultralightbackpacking.info/This is strange, maybe funny. I have it as a link on my own web page, but when I pull it up it leadsto a web hosting company I have never heard of.Did this URL belong to someone else in the past?Or have I been hacked?It is all so confusing '^{).
Dave,Nope, never heard of it. A company called eNom owns the domain. They're in Bellevue WA. Check here later for more info. The server seems to be down right now.Robert
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Marriage certificate for grade schoolers
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Is it me, or does the San Francisco "souvenir" marriage certificate look like it was designed for grade schoolers?
"Look, Mom! I got 'most likely to stay together' on my marriage test!"
An official marriage record costs $14 and must be ordered by mail. Still, it would be nice to leave City Hall with something you'd actually want to keep!


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The Jack Benny ProgramJack Takes Boat to Hawaii - Season 14, Episode 9 - 26 Nov. 1963 - Hawaiians are thrilled to sing Aloha to stingy Jack Benny, who gets only 1 lei, while a fellow passenger is covered with them. The romantic atmosphere of the Pacific cruise back to L.A. overwhelms Jack, who envisions a zoftig blonde passenger as Jayne Mansfield. Jayne breathes "You're Just Too Marvelous," to love-struck Jack.
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Police in England and Wales are to be given new guidance on dealing with outbreaks of disorder on the streets, in the wake of last week's rioting, reports the BBC.
Home Secretary, Theresa May has asked for new advice on use of officers and tactics after several cities were hit.
She has said police initially deployed too few officers and that some appeared "reluctant" to use robust tactics.
In a speech later, she is also due to say last week's riots make the case for police reform more urgent than ever.
Mrs May's speech in London is expected to provoke further conflict with senior officers over the government's planned 20% police funding cuts and plans for directly elected officials to oversee police forces.
In a separate speech, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is to announce probation officers will be told to recommend community payback sentences for those convicted over the riots but not jailed. This would see them help to clean-up the areas they had damaged.
In her speech, Mrs May will announce that clearer guidance will be issued to chief constables about the number of officers that should be deployed during outbreaks of disorder and what kind of tactics can be used.
Advice will also be given on how many officers should be given public order training and when it is appropriate for other forces to provide help, known as "mutual aid".
The Inspectorate of Constabulary has been approached to help draw up the guidance. Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Denis O'Connor warned earlier this year that more than two in five forces were unprepared to help police major protests.
Mrs May is also expected to praise officers who put themselves at risk during the riots. "We owe all police officers a debt of gratitude," she will say.
"One thing is clear: the experience of the last 10 days makes the case for police reform more urgent than ever."
Police last week defended their handling of the riots, rejecting suggestions from Mrs May and Prime Minister David Cameron that restoration of calm had been due to political intervention.
Cameron: "Social problems that have been festering for decades have exploded in our face"
Clegg is due to say in his speech later that rioters not given custodial sentences will be made to help clean up the areas they damaged and "look their victims in the eye".
The Ministry of Justice will instruct probation officers to recommend community payback sentences for those convicted over the riots but not jailed.
"They should have to see for themselves the consequences of their actions and they should be put to work cleaning up the damage and destruction they have caused so they don't do it again," he will say.
Meanwhile, the courts and tribunals service said legal advisers in court were advising magistrates to "consider whether their powers of punishment are sufficient in dealing with some cases arising from the recent disorder".
"All advice is given in open court and the parties are entitled to comment," a spokesperson said.
But the Judicial Office has denied that judges had been directed to jail everyone guilty of offences during last week's disorder.
"The senior judiciary has given no directive in relation to sentencing for offences committed during the recent widespread public disorder," a spokesperson said.
"When passing sentences judges consider many factors, including the punishment of offenders, the reduction of crime by deterrence, and the need to protect the public."
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On Monday, David Cameron said those demanding he reverse plans to cut police funding, which critics argue will see thousands of police lost from the front line, were "missing the point".
He said more officers were needed on the streets and pledged to cut bureaucracy.
Cameron said the disorder that had spread from London to parts of the East and West Midlands, Merseyside, Bristol, Manchester and Gloucester had put tackling "broken society" back at the top of his agenda.
Labour leader Ed Miliband accused Cameron of reaching for "shallow and superficial answers" rather than lasting solutions and called for a "national conversation" about the causes of the riots.
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Longtime representatives Tom Azinger and John Ellem did not file for re-election.
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Rasbert Turner, STAR Writer
Former special Sergeant Peter Murphy has been charged in connection with the shooting of a female more than a week ago.
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What I learned in Scout School
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
October 18, 2010
It's not very often that I would go so far as to dedicate a column on this website to discuss something I would prefer not to discuss in public: myself. But for the benefit of the readers and the overall credibility of this site, it's time to make a rare exception to the rule.
I have recently returned from two weeks in Arizona, having completed the Major League Baseball Scout Development Program, or in street slang, "Scout School."
Not everyone can get in and not everyone does get in. You need a strong reference from inside the industry. In my case, I had several, far beyond the area scout level. Some might think that I write this site by the seat of my pants. These people have never walked where I have in this game. Those who I have built great relationships with, in part because of this site, know how dedicated I am to doing this right. One thing you have to understand about scouting is that no two methodologies for collecting information are exactly alike and no two opinions are always alike. The reason is that there are no two baseball players exactly alike.
What has to be in common is a strong grounding in the basics, but it is my opinion that in the baseball industry as whole, there are those who make this much harder than it is. The scout school tries to get it back to basics, and for that, they've got my respect.
The most frequent question anyone asks a scout, myself included, is what do you look for in a player. The scout school teaches something I have long adhered too – you want to like players. Part of this, I believe, is that you have to respect how difficult this game is. That means if the guy is fringe, you've got to like him for what he is. If I say fringe to a young player, chances are he'll think I'm ripping him, when the reality is that five years down the road he might find out that being fringy isn't easy and you can still make money in the process.
The scout school does pay attention to deciding what role that player fills, and I think that's important also. Too much, especially with young players, it is about 'This Guy Will Be a Star.' The reality is that most players will not be stars, but there is nothing wrong with being a solid pro. We had 10 former big leaguers in my class. Some were All-Stars and most were not. Some played for 20 years and spent a fraction of that in the big leagues. I have a long history with a lot of ballplayers. You'll never get me to say a guy was horseshit because he played for 10 years and spent 10 days in the big leagues. Not now, not ever.
The players you scout today are the players you befriend tomorrow. In our clinic, we saw two catchers. I liked one and my instructor liked the other. He wanted his guy because he liked his flexibility and low targets. He thought he had a more compact swing. I wanted my guy because I thought he had strong hands to catch velocity and set very quiet targets. They threw the same. My guy was also a left-handed bat. Both these guys, we agree, are back-up types. Most of your big league backup catchers have one tool – the defense – and it's what gets them and keeps them there. We have two different opinions, but we agree on the role. And notice who we were debating here – a backup catcher! Not if this guy will be Yogi Berra or Mike Piazza. We're saying what we like about two fringe guys, we're not trashing him for being fringe, and we're seeing a role for him in the major leagues. One of us will be right and maybe we'll both be right. It doesn't really matter other than for sportsmanship and war stories. As I say about players, 'They will tell us who they are going to be.'
I think one of the general public's misconceptions about scouting is that somehow all we do is watch good players. Trust me, this is not the case. Real scouting is about taking the majority of the baseball playing population who can actually play and rather than simply sorting them into groups, to find those guys who profile as major league contributors. As a general rule of thumb, another Baseball Beginnings scouting-ism, "The younger the player, the harder he is to predict."
The scouting school teaches something I've long known here at Beginnings: The better the player, the easier he is to write up. Now, take a look at your baseball scouting media. Then go into the real baseball world. There is a disconnect between the way baseball is and the way people who cover baseball scouting think it is. It's always been one of my goals for Beginnings to be the bridge between the way it is and the way it's seen.
This leads me to another point. The scouting school preached a number of things that I agreed with in terms of scouting protocol. In short – make up your own mind and stick to it. Nothing makes people more scared than scouting. It's true. George Genovese taught me that if you make a mistake, let it be your mistake. You can put 65 guys in a room and tell them to pick the best two guys on the field and you might get 35 different answers. Today, with modern young scouts running in blue-jeans clad packs, carpooling, clinging to each other, gossiping, guys with absolutely no clue how to conduct themselves at an amateur baseball game, the desire for conformity strikes me as a form of peer pressure. It's not supposed to be about safety in numbers. It's supposed to be about having the guts to believe in your guy – and keeping your mouth shut about it in the process. But I'm not sure enough teams feel the same way I do anymore.
I was sitting on a bus coming back from one of our games. The guy next to me asked me a question about a player. I told him, sorry, can't help. He said, "I wasn't going to cheat." I told him, sorry. Call me old school. If you want to be a consensus thinker in baseball, you can do it, but not with me. Bob Zuk taught me a long time ago that loose lips sink ships.
Bad evaluations also sink careers, but it is dangerous to be so reclusive that one doesn't study other aspects. The scout school is here to teach basic grading mechanics, and in this, I think they are excellent. The basic principal is that this is all about comparative judgment. I have long since been working with grades passed down to me from within the business. What I learned is that I am absolutely correct in the way I look at players. I did pick up some fine-tuning devices. Boiling the guy down to 140 characters is an art form. A modern scouting report is a molecular-level look at the guy. You can always learn something new, and yes, I did find some new things to put in my tool bag even after years and years of going to games. For that I am thankful.
I think the biggest problem baseball faces today is that everything has to be defined by a number. You can grade out a guy's OFP and he's not always that guy. Likewise, you can take a guy with great statistics in some league or other and he is not that guy either. So what do we have here?
Yes, the war between scouts and stats still exists. I think there is fault in blind devotion to both sides, and I say that as someone who believes in the observable first. Million dollar mistakes are made in baseball because they are made too quickly – one might assume a player has less value than he really has by reaching a statistical conclusion just as one might give up on an infielder's arm before that last throw across the diamond. Trust me, mistakes are made on ballplayers all the time, and it's because people stop looking for anything beyond the obvious.
The scout school's purpose is not to fan those flames, but you know where their loyalty lies. Likewise, there were many people in my group who I am sure have never sniffed a high school or junior college game. Your palm pilot-blackberry-iphone-droid-what-is-it-called-this-week can't teach you how to walk up to the coach, crack a smile and drop an f-bomb, tell the guy his field looks nice, and ask for his lineup card. Likewise, no scouting school can teach you to drift off to the side cages to see the soft-toss swings before the game. If there's no BP, don't you think you want to see the swings? I did. My classmates took cover under the sun. Not me. I wear boots and 50-proof sunscreen for a reason.
I saw one guy with a swing I liked but he didn't start. He got in the game later and hit a double to straightaway center field in his only at-bat. Winner: boots and sunscreen.
Nothing teaches you that except passion and attention to detail, as anyone who thinks baseball success is built by waiting for it to happen will not have success in any aspect of this game. You have to go to baseball. It may find you, but you have to go to it.
I give the scout school credit. They tell you from day one that they can't teach you all you need to know in two weeks. Dirt scouts know it takes time. I respect them for that. Look at me. I'm an author with a degree in anthropology and yet I can't get enough of this. Why? Every day teaches me something new. The baseball industry is about corporate conformity and the cookie cutter – everything has to look the same and it has to be the same. It is run by billionaires who couldn't find a ballplayer if you locked them in a room with Willie Mays. They want numbers and data, and the more this game tries to weed out the human element, the more mistakes it makes.
The legend sitting in the back of the classroom always used to teach that you should get up and say today is the day you find a big leaguer. He hung up his tweed sports coat a few years ago, but he's right. If you can't learn something new every day, then you can't find big leaguers when they are kids. His fleet of dirt baseball scouts work hard for 50 weeks out of the year, then gather for two weeks in a controlled environment to teach many people who will never dig for a living the way they have. Some area scouts will never like them because they don't have to sign players, but that's just old scouting fear, the grim reaper looking over the shoulder. That, too, is part of scouting. Find me a scout who isn't scared for his job and I'll show you a liar every time.
I mentioned earlier that jobs are lost over first-round picks. This is true. The scout school doesn't offer a glimpse into the dark side, and I know this is by design, because they care about their profession and they know they will always be under appreciated. They did, albeit inadvertently, show you how one gets a player shoved down one's throat. There's no way they meant for this to be malicious, but consider: in one exercise you are asked to pick a corner and a middle infielder to report on. What happens when the best corner is playing up the middle?
So the guy you should write up as the corner becomes the middle, and you have to write him up, because if you don't turn him in, you look like an idiot. So that takes the true middle infielders out of it and you get left with a bunch of slow-bodied corners. So if given the choice between slow bodied former college corners who might have showed better than live-bodied high school corners who might not have showed but are playing pro ball at an age when the other guys I can pick from were begging for college fall ball at-bats, who do you think I'm going to take? I'll take the 18-year old who can't make contact over the 22-year old who can't make contact. Thank you very much. If I had my choice, I'd have taken the corner playing in the middle and the best middle of the middles.
It wasn't the scout school's fault and I'm not mad, but this is what happens in the real world. The scout wants one player and the organization says, no, you have to take another. The scout school was not being a bully here, they needed some framework, and I got that. Let me give you an example of what they don't teach and what goes on in the real world. This is the stuff that is too hardcore for them to teach, and I don't blame them for not touching it.
A scout's team has a top ten pick and has seen a college pitcher he wants numerous times. They have all the medicals, they have seen 6 or 7 starts, they have a vast scouting history back to the previous summer, and the kid checks out. The boss comes in, sees three innings, then goes to see a guy throw hard for one inning in another part of the country and says he wants the guy who threw hard for one inning.
The scout fights for his guy and gets shot down. Had the guy who wanted the pitcher who threw hard for one inning been willing to read the diligent reports from the area guys, he'd know that the guy has had medicals since he was 17. But no! Why should you listen to others when you have power, and that's how baseball mistakes are made. As a wise baseball man likes to tell me, "John, there are a lot of horses asses in this game!"
The real injustice is when the scout gets fired for picking the player he was made to pick, not for the player he wanted to pick who turned out to be the better player. This happens all the time – scouts often take the bullet for someone else's mistake, which is not to say scouts are flawless. They are humans guessing on kids. It's a tough racket.
All of this leads me back to the original question: What do I look for in a player?
Scouting school simplifies it. Tools. Yes, I agree. But…
I look for that which I cannot give him. I cannot give him soft hands, I cannot give him a fast and loose arm, I cannot give him strong hands, I cannot give him coordination, I cannot give him great speed, I cannot give him athletic ability. If he has these things, I can also not give him passion and desire. I cannot give him patience and conviction. I cannot give him the aptitude to learn and adjust. I cannot give him the heart to use his tools. Sometimes talent overcomes these shortcomings, but for 99.99 percent of ballplayers, it won't.
So what do I look for? What I cannot give him.
John Klima was a member of the 24th class of the Major League Scouting Bureau Scouting Development Program in Fall, 2010.
One Response to "What I learned in Scout School"
As a fan who enjoys prospect analysis, congratulations on an exceptional article. I've enjoyed reading your reports for over a year. There is a depth and breadth to your analysis which translates into respect. Others in your profession lack this.
I believe the prospect "experts" from the more well-known websites are merely brokers of information – professional scouting reports. They then add a few quotes and catch phases and it evolves into their own "analysis."
I hope your work receives a forum like the MLB Network. When talented people receive more focus, the imposters receive less focus. Plus raising the bar never hurts any profession. In the meantime, continue the fine work.
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Designed by Oiva Toikka for Iittala, the Kastehelmi series is now an iconic product line within the brand. Finnish for "dewdrop," the Kastehelmi evolved from a technical challenge—Toikka used the glass droplets to cover joint marks left on the surface of pressed glass pieces. Although the technique originally began with functional intentions, the distinctive look made the Kastehelmi series a popular range of glassware that can either be used in coordination with other Kastehelmi products, or as singular accents. The Kastehelmi Bowl features the iconic dewdrop design, and can either be used for soup, cereal, or salads, or can be used as a snack bowl.
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Located in the medina in the Kasbah region, the Riad Mandalay offers spacious suites and a traditional atmosphere, near the Saadian tombs. It is just 10 minutes from Jamaâ El Fna Square.This authentic riad offers comfortable rooms with with free Wi-Fi access, free breakfast, air conditioning and en suite facilities. They are all decorated with typical Moroccan details including a Tadelakt bathroom.For optimum relaxation guests can enjoy the swimming pool, hot tub, hammam and fitness centre. Massages are available upon reservation. There is also a large living room with fireplace and bar, and games are provided.The Riad Mandalay offers international and Moroccan cuisine on site, and provides excellent service and help with organising local tours, car rental and excursions. ...read more
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Spring has sprung here at Smith and the temp continues to rise. Conditions this time of year can be great when you know what is good at the right time. Usually when the weather heats up the options are on Monkey Face, the backside of Smith, the Aggro Gully, and last but not least, the fantastic basalt gorge. The basalt climbs at Smith offer some great technique work and a full body workout. After spending time in the Smith gorge you feel comfortable smearing on just about anything, climbing above some tiny gear, and fighting through some great off-widths.
Smith Spring - Tim Garland
I always find the time in between harder projects allows me to do some great obscure routes that require techniques not typical of Smith's more popular climbs. After putting together an ascent of Jerry Moffatt's Jam Master Jay(bouldery 13d) route I have been exploring the park and getting my gear head refined. I love working on my weaknesses. I suck at bouldering, which is why I worked on Jam Master, and I suck at off-width climbing, which is why I have been spending some time on the basalt. Throwing in a Big Bro and pushing up a #5 while fighting to go up inside a crack requires more commitment then anything else. In the next month I am looking forward to struggling up some more wide cracks, finishing some longer routes, and getting ready to hit the road for summer.


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Funeral service will be held 11 am Tuesday, January 14,
2014 in the Minton Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow
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Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
Cora was born March 29, 1939 in Lariat, Texas to Cecil
and Myrtle Atchley. She grew up in Lariat and attended Farwell
High School where she was a trombone player in the
band, a twirler and a basketball player. After a long career
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Survivors include her children, Steve Lesly and his wife, Karie of Fritch; daughter, Cindy
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Top Five Musical Moments With Huell Howser
3. Polka Piano
If for some reason you'd ever seen or heard of an instrument like the one played by Joe Rinaudo before watching it on "California's Gold," chances are you're probably a weirdo. But the fact that somebody as absurdly curious as Howser could bring this guy and his music to our attention makes us all the more thankful that we chose this show over whatever boring football game was on television that day. If this clip of polka piano isn't hilarious enough, wait till you hear this version spliced with Guns N Roses' "Sweet Child O Mine." Simply breath taking.
2. Fumbling Around Coachella
Here are two things that go well together...SoCal's hippest music festival and a wacky senior citizen from the Nashville. But we'll be damned if he can't distill the vibe of Coachella to it's most key elements. Case in point, this quote from his 2008 story on the Indio festival: "It's just a beautiful, beautiful feeling here. Everybody is mellow and kind of chilling out here waiting for the particular group that they're here to listen to. It's all good."
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He may have been from the South, but we doubt there will ever be anyone more pro-California than Howser. And while your initial reaction might be to cringe at a slick music video produced by one of the world's most remarkably unslick men, it's good to see Howser, with his undying love of the Golden State, get even an ounce of the glossy shine, production value and back up singers he rightfully deserves.
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Better late than never, Dan Joyce just released this light hearted behind the scenes look at last year's awesome Round 3 of the JDM Allstars drift championship at Wembley. There's not much actual driving but it's great to see the drivers relaxed and having a laugh, which is what drifting should be about. Having FUN!
For 2010 I'll be trying my best to get up and down the country armed with my camera to bring you all the latest UK drift action here on MotorMavens. Starting with the JDM Allstars 2010 season kicking off on April 17th – 18th in Manchester, with what's going to be one of the biggest and most exciting rounds to date!
Here's to an awesome 2010!
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Vienna University of Technology
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The Vienna University of Technology (German: Technische Universität Wien) is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute", it currently has about 26,200 students (19% foreign students/30% women), eight facilities and about 4,000 staff members (1,800 academics). The university's teaching and research is focused on engineering and natural sciences. In 2014, US News ranked Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology as number 14 in Europe, equaling number 3 within German speaking universities. [1]
Notable faculty and alumni[edit]
- Siegfried Becher (1806–1873), professor of economics
- Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860–1939), Hungarian mechanical engineer
- Christian Andreas Doppler, (1803–1853), Austrian mathematician and physicist
- Hugo Ehrlich (1879–1936), Croatian architect
- Paul Eisler (1907–1992), inventor of the printed circuit
- Tillman Gerngross, Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, leading entrepreneur and bioengineer, founder of GlycoFi and Adimab
- Princess Marie-Therese of Hohenberg, Austrian architect and princess (born 1972)
- Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austrian locomotive designer and engineer
- Karl Gölsdorf (1861–1916), Austrian engineer and locomotive designer
- Edmund Hlawka (1916-2009), Austrian mathematician
- Ingeborg Hochmair (born 1953), electrical engineer, developed the first microelectronic, multi-channel cochlear implant
- Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), inventor of the Kaplan turbine
- Leon Kellner, grammarian, Shakespearean, and Zionist
- Hermann Knoflacher (born 1940), Austrian engineer
- Benno Mengele (1898–1971), Austrian electrical engineer
- Milutin Milanković (1879–1958), Serbian geophysicist and civil engineer
- Yordan Milanov (1867–1932), one of the leading Bulgarian architects from the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
- Richard von Mises (1883–1953), scientist
- Hubert Petschnigg (1913–1997), architect (completed his studies at TU Graz)
- Ferdinand Piëch (born 1937), Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who is currently the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group
- Herman Potočnik (1892–1929), Slovene space pioneer
- Alfred Preis (1911–1993), designer of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor
- Zvonimir Richtmann (1901–1941), Croatian physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist
- Peter Schattschneider (1950), Austrian physicist
- Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887–1953), early Modern architect
- Paul Schneider-Esleben (1915–2005), visiting professor of architecture
- Edo Šen (1877–1949), Croatian architect
- Camillo Sitte (1843-1903), Austrian architect
- Peter Skalicky (born 1941), rector of the Vienna University of Technology from 1991-2011
- Irfan Skiljan, author of the image viewer software Irfanview
- Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), Austrian mathematician
- Gottfried Ungerboeck (1940), inventor of trellis modulation, IBM Fellow
- Milan Vidmar (1885-1962), Slovene electrical engineer
- Hannspeter Winter (1941-2006), Austrian plasma physicist
- Heinz Zemanek (1920-2014), Austrian computer pioneer
The University hosted the IFIUS World Interuniversity Games in October 2007.
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- ^ "Search Top World Universities, p2 - US News Best Global Universities". usnews.com. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
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The war over oil and gas leasing on federal lands in Colorado is heading toward another battle as the Bureau of Land Management gets set for its May lease sale.
The BLM is only offering just three parcels for bid at its May 9th auction, but all three are being "protested" by conservation groups, which are also prodding the bureau to do more planning before offering leases.
One tussle is over the use of a master leasing plan, a reform tool adopted by Obama administration. Colorado BLM officials say they have one for the lease area – conservation groups say they don't.
The three parcels covering 2,245 acres are in north central part of the state, known as North Park. It is trout and sage grouse country and the parcels have drawn official challenges, called protests, from the National Wildlife Federation and Trout Unlimited.
While the number of lease protests have dropped across the West, in large part due to a set of leasing reforms initiated by former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in 2010, almost every parcel put up for auction in Colorado draws a protest.
Most of the objections in the May sale focus on the out-dated "resource management plan," or RMP, that is being used to identify parcels for lease.
The plan for the bureau's Kremmling office was done in 1984, with some updates in 1991. While the plan is now under revision, it is still being used as the basis for the lease sale.
An outdated resource plan was the major objection to BLM's proposed February lease sale of 20,000 acres in Delta County's North Fork Valley. The BLM decided to drop the parcels from the sale, pending revision of the region's RMP.
The Kremmling plant is "sorely in need of revision," the National Wildlife Federation and the Colorado Wildlife Federation said in their protest – pointing out that much of the plan is 28 years-old.
"This continued piecemeal leasing undermines any real planning," said Michael Saul, a National Wildlife Federation attorney.
BLM officials say that they are required to offer leases and that the bureau policy is that until it's replaced a resource plan is in forced and has to be used.
"We've taken a very conservative approach in Colorado, but it is not feasible for us, unless policy changes for the bureau, to say that we are not going to lease when an RMP is being revised," said Steven Hall, a bureau spokesman.
Still, environmental advocates say that the Colorado BLM has not taken full advantage of the tools in the leasing reforms promoted by former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar – especially master leasing plans. The reforms were put int place in an after to balance competing interests over the West's public lands.
The master leasing plan, or MLP, is designed to provide some coordinated management for an area within the resource management plan that has received interest from operators.
"We've pressed for a MLP for North Park and BLM has included master-leasing-plan-like language, but I wouldn't say it's an MLP," said Bill Dvorak, a National Wildlife Federation public lands organizer and a river rafting guide.
BLM officials insist that the appendix at the very back of the draft RMP is a master leasing plan.
"Colorado is just not taking advantage of this tool the way other Western states are," said Nada Culver, an attorney with the Wilderness Society.
To underscore the Colorado plan's limitations, the Wilderness Society compared it to the master leasing plans done by BLM as part of the Lander, Wyoming and the Moab, Utah resource management plans.
The Wyoming and Utah plans include elements such as defined boundaries, identification of parcels that will be deferred in some scenarios, and clearer mitigation steps.
"For whatever reason Colorado just won't follow what other western states are doing," The Wilderness Society's Culver said. "It is very frustrating and very mystifying."
BLM officials say that the Kremmling master leasing plan is still a work in in progress. "When you look at the plan in the final RMP it will be more detailed," BLM's Hall said.


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During this period, several changes in management and control of the various resort properties occurred. SPM of Myrtle Beach assumed management of the Fox Hunt timeshare units. Shell Vacation Resorts invested in Fox Hunt, purchased 300 weeks and added Fox Hunt to their worldwide network.
The Fairway Forest area continues to be managed by Sapphire Management Company.
Wyndham downsized and now manages only the Mountain Laurel timeshare units. Sapphire Valley Resort Amenities are owned by and managed by the Sapphire Valley Master Association. As previously mentioned, this Association represents the various individual Property Owners Associations.
Today, Sapphire Valley is a thriving resort with full time residents, 2nd home retirees and vacationers enjoying both new amenities, restaurants, and clubs as well as million year old mountains, waterfalls and hiking trails..
The Sapphire Valley Master Association began construction in early 2011 of their new management offices that will also serve as the new Red Bird Pro Shop.
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If you want to control speed of a small 12 volt DC motor. Before will see others circuit. I introduces this circuit as figure that show below. They is simple circuit because used a little piece of component. By has a Nand gate Digital cmos IC number CD4011 is main of circuit. Which it is determined to works in the PWM model so has high It is highly effective, Low power consumption
– By using VR1 adjust the speed as needed.
– and use two transistors are TIP41 and BC548 are connected in a Darlington makes drive current can be high.
– We should hold a heat sink at TIP41 due to it heat when they are applied.
– While motor function, may be a reverse current, it must put Diode D1-1N4148 to prevent this circuit.
This circuit we bring to use with AC Line power so has T1 to reduce a voltage down into 12V, then AC current flow through to D1-D4 to the full wave rectifier into DC current and there is C1 filter to DCV that smooth so well, ready to use in the 12 volt DC motor controller. But if you want use it with 12 volt battery, you can remove this section go out.
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But if you want circuit that a good than this circuit. see these circuits.
PWM Control Speed 12V Motor for power dc motor of 12V to 24V motor using TL494.
This circuit is not design PCB. If you do not want to design own PCB. Or use universal PCB Board that difficult.
I would recommend more DIY KIT below…
DC12V DC24V DC36V DC48V DC52V PWM DC Motor Speed Controller Driver
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This circuit use IC-555 popular IC timer and FET is durable better than transistors