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September 2008
One Swing Of The Bat
When your favorite baseball team is done playing for the year, there are many conflicting emotions/memories that accompany that harsh finality. I will get to that tomorrow, when my head is a little clearer and I'm not so disappointed. Tonight, I would just like to talk about game #163:
In the early innings, it became clear that barring a bullpen collapse, this would be a pitcher's duel right down to the end. While Blackburn dominated the Sox, the Twins could only eek out a few walks against John Danks, and those walks never amounted to any sort of threat. Perhaps an early turning point in the game occurred when, after Denard Span drew a leadoff walk in the top of the first, Alexi Casilla could not get down a sacrifice bunt and ended up hitting into a line-drive double play because of that failure (the hit-and-run was on).
The next seminal moment came in the top of the fifth, when Michael Cuddyer doubled and moved over to third on a sacrifice fly. Brendan Harris then lifted a pop to short centerfield, and Cuddyer tagged up, only to be gunned down at the plate by Ken Griffey Jr's throw and A.J. Pierzynski holding on to the ball after a collision. To be honest, I don't think I would have sent Cuddy in that situation. I attended all three Chicago-Twins contests at the Dome last week, and about the ONLY thing that impressed me about the Sox during that time was the arm strength of Griffey. He may have lost a step or two range-wise, but he still has a gun. Add to that the fact that Cuddyer isn't the fleetest of foot, and only a single would have been needed (Punto was on deck) to score him, and I would have given him the stop sign. However, I do not fault the Twins a whole lot for taking the risk, as they play an aggressive game of baseball tailored to press the defense. It took a good throw and good catch to make the play, and the Sox turned in both.
From that point, the Twins' bats were completely shut down by John Danks. I would like to tip my hat to Danks, as he pitched remarkably on three-days rest and after the Twins had hammered him all season long to that point. Nick Blackburn also pitched the game of his life, and I want to make sure to give him his due. With Blackburn during the season, it was either feast (ground balls off sinker) or famine (flat pitches = home runs/gappers). Tonight, Blackburn was "on" to nearly every batter. What ended up getting him, though, was exactly what the White Sox use to win games…the long ball. Only so many times (I don't care if you're Nick Blackburn or Johan Santana) can a pitcher go through the Dye-Thome-Konerko-Griffey gauntlet successfully. So, in the seventh inning tonight, Blackburn got tagged by Thome, which proved to be the margin of victory.
The tail-end of the contest saw good pitching by the Twins (from Jose Mijares and Joe Nathan out of the pen), but still silent bats. It amazes me how one week earlier Bobby Jenks (CHW closer) couldn't get any outs against us, but tonight he can completely shut us down.
Overall, tonight's contest was a taut, well-fought game that the Twins can come out of with their heads held high. We held the most powerful lineup in baseball to one run (and hardly any threats), but were just shut down by masterful pitching. So many times during the season I have commented that you can sometimes tell that the Twins are going to go down meekly, but I honestly didn't feel that way tonight…Danks was just on his game.
-I am going to comment on this further in later posts, but the Twins really missed the bat of Justin Morneau the last few weeks. Yes, he's been in the lineup every day, but he has been completely ineffective (as much as it pains me to say that). In the local papers over the past month, I have read again and again how Morneau was getting worn down by playing every game of the season, and perhaps that just caught up to him. It's a touchy situation (resting Justin), as he is the anchor of the lineup. But, this could just be a learning experience for Gardy, that next year at this time Morneau may NEED a little rest in order to remain effective. Over the past season, Morneau had hammered (7-9 I believe) John Danks, but tonight he looked absolutely overmatched.
-Finally, I would like to congratulate Jim Thome on his exciting moment. Over the last few years, I have generally not liked the many complainers/whiners/jerks/ that the White Sox have featured. However, I have all the respect in the world for Jim Thome. Just by watching his post-game interviews I can tell that he is a good man, good teammate, and just a good figure to root for. When I look back on the 1990s and 2000s, I considered Thome to be one of the best (factoring in steroids) power hitters of the era, right next to Manny Ramirez.
After a night of sleep, I will be back tomorrow with a more over-arching view of the 2008 Minnesota Twins season, as well as a preview of the two ALDS contests.
NLDS Predictions
With the Tigers losing to the White Sox today, the Pale Hose will now host "my" Twins tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. CT on TBS. Nick Blackburn (11-10, 4.14) will oppose John Danks (11-9, 3.47). On the season, Blackie is 2-2 with a 5.67 ERA against Chicago, while surprisingly the Twins have gone 1-1 (7.91) against Danks on the year in four of his starts. With that huge game still not solidifying the AL playoffs, I would first like to comment on the matchups in the National League's Division Series:
Brewers over
Phillies in 5: Although Philly has the definite edge in pitching (what with Hamels, Myers, and Moyer) and probably the bullpen, Milwaukee has the great equalizer: C.C. Sabathia. I think that the Brewer's pitching will be good enough to win at least one game where C.C. isn't on the mound, as their hitters are a resilient bunch. Plus, I can see Brad Lidge again folding in postseason play. That combined with two wins from Sabathia will push the Brew Crew into the NLCS.
Cubs over
Dodgers in 3: The Cubs have Ryan Dempster, Carlos Zambrano, and Rich Harden scheduled to pitch the first three games of the series. Game Over. The Dodgers may win in Derek Lowe's start, but I don't think Chad Billingsley and Hiroki Kuroda (as good as they have been in September) can wade through the deep Cubs' lineup. A Dodger victory in this series would be one of the bigger ALDS upsets in recent memory.
Tomorrow, once the AL playoff matchups are set, I will preview them. Go Twins!!
One Last Shot
At the beginning of this 2008, the Detroit Tigers were many people's consensus pick to win the AL Central division going away. With a lineup that featured Ivan Rodriguez, Placido Polanco, Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Guillen, Edgar Rentaria, Curtis Granderson, Magglio Ordonez, and Gary Sheffield (pictured above), people wondered how opposing pitchers would get through an inning against those guys, much less an entire season. Plus, young pitchers like Justin Verlander, Jeremy Bonderman, and Nate Robertson would likely take the next step in their development, while old hand Kenny Rogers and newcomer Dontrelle Willis would anchor the top of the rotation. Add in fireballing relievers Joel Zumaya and Fernando Rodney, and the Tigers would surely win at least 100 games, right?! Well, then the season started…
The Tigers got off to a 2-10 start in the regular season, and never really recovered from that shock. In late July, Detroit was 5.0 games behind the AL Central division leader, but never got any closer than that the rest of the way. The bats (as most power-laden lineups are) went through tremendous hot and cold spells, while the starting pitching was atrocious from the get-go and didn't improve much from there. Then, because of starters not going deep into games, the relievers were overworked, overstressed, and ultimately burnt out. Yesterday, the end of the MLB season for most clubs, the Tigers finished 74-87, locking in perhaps the most disappointing season in baseball history.
Yet, the Tigers aren't quite done yet…due to a rainout in Chicago earlier this month, a final game between the two clubs (being delayed by rain, fittingly, as I write this blog post) will (hopefully!) take place today, with the outcome determining the fate of the AL Central. A Tiger win will put the (my) Twins in the postseason, while a Tiger loss will set up a one-game playoff between the Twins and White Sox.
Now, one would think that the Tigers, beat up and dejected from a terrible season, would just as well want to roll over and play dead today (especially in the rainy weather). However, two factors contribute to the contest that (hopefully, being a Twins fan!) will cause the Tigers to play with a bit of passion: First, old Sock Freddy Garcia will be pitching against his former club, which always gets the juices flowing. Second, a win will move the Tigers out of last place in the division (hopping Kansas City) and, while not a huge victory, will at least not allow the pundits to call the club a last-place team.
So, I say to all you Tigers now: Get those bats going, find some pitching for just one day, and knock off a team at the top of the division that is fighting to get where you wanted to go. Go Tigers!!
Wanted: AL Central Champion (Go Tigers!)
Does anybody want to win the AL Central?! As has been the case for practically the entire season, this weekend both the Twins and White Sox had opportunities to put the division in their respective back pockets, but again all that was achieved was the status quo.
Today, while Mark Buerhle turned in a much-needed good start for the Sox against Cleveland, Scott Baker pitched the Twins to a 6-0 victory over the somewhat spoiler KC Royals (who had won the first two games of the series). It was another one of those games where the Twins could not get the offense going until the later innings, and thus relied on a quality start from the starting pitcher to get the victory.
So, the next step to determining a postseason candidate from the AL Central comes tomorrow, when the Detroit Tigers and the White Sox make up a game that was rained out earlier in the month. The game time is set for 1:00 p.m. at U.S. Cellular Field. Gavin Floyd (16-8, 3.91) will start for the Sox against former ChiSock Freddy Garcia (1-1, 4.50) of Detroit. A win would set up a one-game playoff in Chicago on Tuesday, while a Pale Hose loss would give the Twins the division outright. Go Tigers!
A few notes:
-If a one-game playoff were to occur, the Twins would send Nick Blackburn (11-10, 4.14) to the mound, while the White Sox will rely on John Danks (11-9, 3.47).
-Whoever makes the playoffs, the Tampa Bay Rays will be the opponent, with the first two games scheduled for Thursday and Friday at Tropicana Field.
-In the batting champion race, Joe Mauer currently sits at .330, while nearest competitor Dustin Pedroia of the Red Sox is at .326. Essentially, Mauer would have to go 0-7 in a possible Tuesday tiebreaker to lose the title.
Being There
For all Twins fans reading this blog post, you don't need to be told the events that made the last three days so incredible for the entire Twin Cities area. I was lucky enough to be able to attend all three games, and would just like to comment on the experience of being in the Dome when everything was going down:
For the past few years, I have always been the first to say that if I don't have good tickets to a Twins game, I would rather stay home and watch it on TV. I didn't like the idea of shelling out good money to go sit in the nosebleed seats somewhere and not even be able to see where the pitches are located. However, that entire viewpoint changed beginning last Tuesday, as the energy I felt pulsing through every rivet of the Dome was enough to convince me that just being there (even if it is row 27 of 31 in the upper deck) is well worth the sacrifice of not being keen to every pitch location.
On Tuesday night, it was the excitement of the Twins swinging for the fences, as well as the first introduction of Pierzynski ("BOOOOOOOOO") and the great pitching of Scott Baker.
On Wednesday, it was watching Nick Blackburn get key outs at opportune moments, then rely on a usually sieve-like bullpen to be rock solid and hold the lead for Joe Nathan in the ninth, where Carlos Gomez may have turned in the catch of the year with his all-out sprint-and-lunge for a ball in the gap.
The climax of the entire experience, however, came on Thursday, when the Twins were handed an early 6-1 deficit. Thanks to the electric small-ball of guys like Punto, Gomez, Span, and Casilla, the Twins clawed their way back into the game. In the eighth inning, while Gomez on first and Span up to bat with the Twins trailing 6-5, Denard's triple down the left field line created a visual I will likely never forget…Gomez streaking around the bases (did he actually leave the ground at one point?!) to score the tying run. When Span and Gomez are mere footnotes in the history of Twins baseball (or, if they are lucky, get together at the old-timers tributes), I will still remember that combination.
Equally memorable was the game-winning hit from Alexi Casilla, which sent the Metrodome crowd into a frenzy the likes of which has not been seen in quite a while. It takes a good deal of excitement to get me really vocal about a game (I'm usually more of a silent, nervous observer), but I was literally jumping up and up when I saw Casilla's hit drop into center field.
The matchup between the Twins and White Sox was likely the biggest single series in Metrodome history since the Oakland/MN matchups in 1991. Much like as a six year-old boy I remember Chili Davis tripling off Dennis Eckersley and seeing a fan throw a row of toilet paper in the general vicinity of A's right-fielder Jose Canseco (I was at that game with my Dad and Grandpa), I now have a comparable experience.
So, as I settled in to watch tonight's opening tilt against the Kansas City Royals, I finally realized how much I was missing by not attending. Sure, I was privy to the location of every pitch and the analysis of the broadcasters, but at the same time I lacked that outlet for all my energy, as well as seeing the uninterrupted flight of the baseball as it sails to its ultimate destination.
Sure, the Twins had a big letdown with their big loss to KC tonight (Liriano never really gave us a chance), but the White Sox also lost to Cleveland, so everything gets rebooted and starts again tomorrow. I, for one, cannot wait!
Preview (87-73, 1st, 0.5 GA CWS): Glen Perkins (12-4, 4.50) vs. Gil Meche (13-11, 4.05). The key to this game will likely be how Perkins reacts to the extra rest he was given after being skipped in the rotation before the series with Chicago.
The Stage Is Set
Although the Twins' bats could only get going for one inning this afternoon (scoring on hits from Redmond, Everett, and Gomez, as well as a costly TB throwing error), the strong outing from Francisco Liriano (7 IP, 1 ER, 7K) was a much-needed respite for the bullpen and a huge lift for the starting rotation.
With the victory (in splitting the Rays), the Twins will now have an off day on Monday before opening the much-anticipated 3-game matchup with the Chicago White Sox. Realistically, a sweep of the ChiSox would give the Twins a good chance of winning the division, while taking two of three would at least keep them alive and kicking in the race.
Despite a horrendous stretch of baseball, the Twins have often looked like a completely different team at the Dome than they are on the road. Plus, the White Sox have always had trouble winning late-season games in Minnesota, and Tuesday's starter Javier Vazquez views the Metrodome as his own personal house of horrors.
Finally, the Twins always just seem to have a knack for coming through in a pennant race. If you believe in the concept of "intangibles", then the Twins should be favored to win this series. As always, it will come down to the starting pitching and bullpens…most importantly keeping the "Sox Bombers" inside the park.
Preview (84-72, 2nd, 2.5 GB CWS): Scott Baker (9-4, 3.69) vs. Javier Vazquez (12-14, 4.32). Vazquez has a 1-4 career ledger at the Dome, while Baker also has struggled mightily against the Sox. Both are power-style pitchers (Vazquez more so) who can rack up strikeouts but also give up the long ball.
Saved By (De)Jesus
Put simple, the Twins stunk again tonight…in nearly aspect of the game. Kevin Slowey was roughed up for 5 earned runs over four innings, while Reyes and Guerrier also had their own struggles in relief. The bats were held in check (even after loading the bases with no outs in the fourth inning) until they produced two garbage-time runs in the ninth, shortly before the raucous celebration above began.
Of course, in the division (AL Central) that nobody wants to win, the White Sox gave the Twins another reprieve when they lost in Kansas City, partly due to an inside-the-park homer from David DeJesus.
I am so disgusted by the Twins' play of late that this is all I have to say tonight. I'm not giving up until the Twins are a mathimatical impossibility to win the division, but it has been tough to watch as of late.
Preview (83-72, 2.5 GB CWS): Francisco Liriano (5-3, 3.62) vs. Andy Sonnanstine (13-7, 4.33). With Cisco on the mound, the Twins should be given a decent chance to win…if they can take advantage.
Coming Out Flat (Again)
Looking at the above picture, taken when the umpires used baseball's new instant replay system to (correctly) change a Carlos Pena double into a home run, I wonder if some of the Twins players/coaches/fans didn't feel like taking an early exit as well.
After the exhilarating late-inning win on Thursday night, one would think that the Twins would come out fired up and ready to rock. Unfortunately, no one relayed that sentiment to starter Nick Blackburn, who got pounded for six runs over the first inning and one third before being removed. Faced with that large deficit, the Twins' bats could not muster any of last night's magic, only scoring in the sixth inning on a Joe Mauer sacrifice fly.
Any more technical details about the game would just be depressing.
-Just when I thought that the Twins finally had their bullpen sorted out, now the starting pitchers stink. Maddening. Blackburn and Perkins have been horrible as of late, and I read in the Minneapolis Star Tribune today that Perkins' spot will likely be skipped due to Monday's off-day.
Preview (83-71, 2.5 GB CWS): Kevin Slowey (12-10, 3.66) vs. Scott Kazmir (11-7, 3.50). Slowey has been my favorite guy to watch all season (because he reminds me so much of old stalwart Brad Radke), so I am looking forward to seeing him try to pick up a crucial late-season win tomorrow.
The Little Everett Who Could
Coming off a terrible sweep at the hands of the Cleveland Indians, the Twins needed to play well in this series in order to stay within striking distance of the division-leading White Sox. Although not all aspects of the Twins' game clicked tonight, they did manage to escape with one of the craziest wins of the season. Both the Twins and Rays A1 and A2 in home runs given up, and that proved to be a key theme in this game:
Right away in the top of the first inning, Jason Kubel clubbed a three-run dinger to give the Twins the lead and a bit of excitement. However, Perkins didn't even make it out of his half of the first, surrendering two two-run home runs (to Longoria and Navarro) as well as a Gabe Gross run scoring double as the Rays took a 5-3 lead.
Joe Mauer singled in Alexi Casilla (more on him later) to move the Twins to within one, but both Carlos Pena and Evan Longoria (#2 on the night for him) homered in the fourth to pull out in front 7-4.
Another Mauer singled (scoring Gomez and Span) moved the Twins to within a run once again, but Longoria's third homer of the contest made the score 8-6 in favor of the home team. Remarkably, however, this was only the beginning of the game's craziness.
After being shut down by Troy Percival in the eighth, the Twins began to build a rally off Rays closer Dan Wheeler in the top of the ninth when Span hacked a seeing-eye single to short. The next batter, Casilla, proceed to take Wheeler deep (and out!) to right to tie the game. Immediately following that, Mauer doubled to deep center field and Morneau was intentionally walked, bringing Trevor Miller into the game to presumably pitch to Jason Kubel. In a very strategic move, although one that could have severely backfired, Gardy sent in Adam Everett to pinch-bunt. With everyone in the stadium knowing the Everett would be dropping one down, he did exactly that…and saw it barely roll foul. Then, after milking a 2-1 count, Everett squared around early to sacrifice…and promptly pulled back, put a mighty swing on the ball, and launched it deep off the left field wall to score Mauer and give the Twins a 9-8 lead!
By the time the dust settled on that remarkable ninth inning, Delmon Young and Matt Tolbert had driven in two more runs, giving Joe Nathan a 11-8 lead that he protected 1-2-3 in the ninth. What a game!!
-On one hand, the Twins have to be extremely disappointed with Perkins' "start" (if you can even call it that) tonight as well as his performance as of late. On the other hand, a comeback win is something the Twins have not enjoyed for awhile, so that has to help the clubhouse morale.
-I had a vision tonight of Alexi Casilla (with that long, looping swing of his) hitting a two-run jack in that ninth inning…I really did see it in my mind before it happened!!
-As the AL Central stands right now, I still have to give the division title to our boys. I think we will at least split with Tampa Bay, but the only thing that could throw a wrench in my prediction is if the White Sox go to Kansas City and unpack their brooms or something like that. I still stand by my word that if the Twins can take the division lead by winning two of three from the White Sox next week, we will do so. I will be attending the Tuesday night ChiSox confrontation, and I'm starting to get pumped up about it already!
Preview (83-70, 2nd, 1.5 GB CWS): Nick Blackburn (10-9, 3,89) vs. Edwin Jackson (11-11, 4.33). Who would have thought during Spring Training 2008 that the Minnesota Twins and Tampa Bay Rays would be fighting for division titles on two consecutive nationally televised games (Fri: ESPN, Sat: FOX)?!
Muscled Out Of The Jake
With the Minnesota Twins fighting for a playoff berth in the final few weeks of this season, a visit to Cleveland to face the lowly Indians seemed to be a blessing. Three days later, it has turned into a curse.
Last night (Tuesday), the Twins fell behind 8-1 when the Indians uncharacteristically pounded Francisco Liriano. However, thanks to the great pitching of Boof Bonser (quite a phrase there, eh?!), the Twins mounted a furious comeback and eventually took the lead 9-8. Of course, in typical Twins fashion of late, reliever Eddie Guardado gave up a dinger to Grady Sizemore to tie the contest, then Joe Nathan surrendered a three-run bomb to Victor Martinez for the walk-off Indian victory.
Tonight, the Indians again out-muscled the Twins. After Minnesota took a 2-0 lead in the early innings (partially due to a homer of our own, from Carlos Gomez), both Jhonny Peralta and Travis "Pronk" Hafner homered off Baker in the fourth inning to tie the score.
The Tribe took a brief lead in the fifth when Shin-Soo Choo doubled in a run, but Morneau's sacrifice out tied things up in the seventh.
In the bottom of the seventh, with a runner on third and two outs, Ron Gardenhire removed Jose Mijares from the game and summoned the beleaguered Matt Guerrier, whose ERA is now hovering dangerously close to the 5.00 mark. Guerrier promptly gave up one double, then another, to give the Indians a 6-4 that they would not relinquish.
Thus, the brooms came out in Cleveland.
-The most pertinent comment coming out of this game is why in the world did Gardy take Jose Mijares out of the game in favor of the seemingly lost Guerrier?! Mijares had been setting down the Cleveland batters pretty easily, and the only reason a runner was on third was because of mistake from Joe Mauer (throw to second) and Denard Span (ball trickled by him). Add to that Guerrier's terrible second half and it really makes me scratch my head.
-Does anyone really want to win the AL Central?! Over the past month, each team (Twins and White Sox) in contention for the crown have played terribly spotty baseball, with chances to bury the competitor nearly ever week. Unfortunately, the Twins have been a bit worse and thus are still in second place.
Preview (82-70, 2nd, 2.5 GB CWS): Glen Perkins (12-4, 4.40) vs. James Shields (13-8, 3.50). In years past, a trip to Tropicana Field (is that still even what it is called?!) was a vacation. This year, with the Rays fighting tooth and nail with the Red Sox for the AL East title, it will be anything but. The Twins' job over this four-game series is to absolutely not lose any ground on the White Sox, while realistically they need to gain a game on the Pale Hose to give themselves more than a prayer. The good news: Scott Kazmir is the only lefty the Twins' bats will have to face in the series. Also, playing in their dumpy dome might recollect some of our own home field advantage!


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Junior Marie Jacquet has earned All-Pac-12 women's rowing honors.
Seven UCLA rowers have secured Pac-12 All-Academic acclaim.
Five rowers are training to compete at the U-23 World Championships.
Marie Jacquet has earned first-team CRCA All-Region 5 honors.
No. 20 UCLA registered a sixth-place finish at Pac-12 Championships.
No. 20 UCLA will compete at the Pac-12 Championships this Sunday.
UCLA's Carol Bower and Jan Palchikoff have earned All-Century status.
No. 20 UCLA dropped a dual meet to No. 12 USC on Saturday.
UCLA's women's rowing team will face crosstown rival USC on Saturday.
UCLA's rowing team raced four boats Sunday at the Clemson Invite.
UCLA's varsity eight posted two second-place finishes at Clemson.
The women's rowing team will compete in the Clemson Invitational.

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Utah has interesting history of executions
Gardner will be only the third inmate to die by firing squad since 1976
SALT LAKE CITY — Ronnie Lee Gardner is scheduled to be put to death by firing squad just after midnight. He will become only the seventh person executed in Utah since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 and the third in the state, and the country, to die by firing squad.
While the method of execution is garnering as much publicity as the death row inmate himself, there was a time in Utah when a firing squad execution wasn't uncommon at all. In fact, there have been occasions where two people were executed at the same time by firing squads, sitting side by side.
Utah's history is filled with stories of execution folklore, many of which sound appropriately reminiscent of the Old West from which they came.
Not including Gardner, there have been 50 people executed in Utah since 1847 — 41 by firing squad, six by hanging and four by lethal injection. Utah has never executed a woman, nor has it ever had a woman on death row. If prosecutors in Davis County convict Stephanie Sloop and seek the death penalty, she could become the first. Sloop is charged with capital murder in the death of her 6-year-old son, Ethan Stacy.
Twice, Utah has had double executions with two men dying at the same time, and twice the state has had two executions on the same day with the inmates dying separately.
On May 11, 1956, Melvin Braasch and LeRoy Sullivan were executed while sitting side-by-side. Two sets of five-member firing squads were used. The inmates were allowed to have wine during their final meals.
It was also in 1956 that Utah had its last hanging.
No one under the age of 18 has been executed in Utah, although three people under the age of 20 have been put to death.
Weber State University criminal justice professor L. Kay Gillespie is the foremost leading authority on death row in Utah and the history of executions in the state. He has conducted countless hours of interviews with death row inmates and done extensive research into the history of the death penalty in Utah. His book, "The Unforgiven, Utah's Executed Men" looks into details about the history of executions in Utah.
Gardner has been on death row for nearly 25 years. By comparison, Robert Sutton of Tooele was executed just eight days after killing a man in 1866. In 1912, the Salt Lake Telegram wrote a story complaining about the amount of time it was taking between a homicide and the execution of the suspect — which at that point was two years.
"No wonder the public forgot what he is being shot for and cared less," the newspaper wrote.
The first two men to be officially executed in Utah were killed in 1854. Two Native Americans were hanged at the Jordan River Bridge for killing two young boys. The location of the execution was not released publicly so as not to attract a big crowd.
In 1868, one of Utah's youngest inmates was executed. Chauncey W. Millard, 18, was put to death by firing squad. Legend has it that just before dying, he sold his body to a surgeon for a bag of candy, which he was still eating from when he was placed in the execution chair and shot.
One of the more infamous executions was of John D. Lee on March 23, 1877. Lee was brought back to the site of his alleged crime, the Mountain Meadow Massacre, and was shot to death while sitting on top of his coffin which he fell back into after being shot.
His final words, according to Gillespie, were: "Center on my heart boys. Don't mangle my body."
That same year, executioners were left with an interesting predicament when the firing squad didn't kill the death row inmate right away.
Wallace Wilkerson had a paper target pinned to his chest. He was not blindfolded or tied down to a chair. After he was shot, he immediately stood up, walked two feet and fell to his side saying, "They've missed it."
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Running The Numbers On Vista With every month that ticks by before Windows Vista arrives, Microsoft needs to fill the white space with reassurances to companies that an upgrade will be worth their time and money. On Friday, Microsoft released new total-cost-of-ownership figures--the overall price tag of installing, running, and supporting its upcoming operating system--that show the best-managed IT shops could save as much as $340 per PC each year they run Vista, compared with today's Windows XP system. Any payback numbers
Down To Business: What They Didn't Say At The HP Hearings More important than the details of 'pretexting" and other transgressions are what the three-week saga tells us about the composition and priorities of the board, as well as the stuff of its new chairman
Businesses Seek Security In Windows Vista With only two months (barring further delays) until Windows Vista is due for business availability, InformationWeek surveyed 672 business technology managers to gauge their plans for the operating system. Microsoft should be happy to know that 39% of the businesses we surveyed plan to upgrade to Vista within the first year of availability. The top reason? Security, what else?
IT Confidential: Mac Vista: IT Private Eye What goes around comes around in Silicon City, and personal data is the coin of the realm.
An HP Blow-By-Blow As soon as Patricia Dunn walked into Room 2123 of the Rayburn Building here on Capitol Hill, camera shutters went off like machine guns, all directed at the former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman, her curt dark hair, and her beige pantsuit. But the throngs of paparazzi stalking dark- and beige-suited business types alike before (and during, especially at the short lunch break) today's congressional hearings on Hewlett-Packard's probes into boardroom leaks and so-called "
To Boldly Go Where No Mascara-Wearing Captain Has Gone Before We'll forgive you if you want to start Cory Doctorow's latest column with the last paragraph on the second page. That's where Cory starts to talk about how Hollywood is unprepared to deliver video that takes advantage of the new high-definition TV screens. Most existing video looks terrible in high-def, and directors don't know how to use the new medium correctly. I laughed out loud at Cory's
Consumer Tech In IT? Why Not? This notion of consumer-meets-corporate isn't new, of course. An InformationWeek cover story from March talked about how companies can tap into the energy of consumer technologies from MP3 players to cell phones. Mostly this hasn't happened; security concerns and tightened IT budgets, not to mention good-old-fashioned fear of the unknown, have conspired against this. But the wall between the two is sta
Consumers Hanging Up On Indian Tech Support Many U.S. businesses are improving productivity and profitability by outsourcing routine functions to low-cost countries like India and China. But AT&T's plan to bring home some 2,000 customer service positions shows that not all forms of offshoring are created equally.
IDF: Intel Finds Energy Efficiency Religion It may not have been as dramatic as Saul's Road to Damascus conversion, but getting hit upside the head by rival Advanced Micro Devices the past two years must have helped Intel see the light, and now Intel has belatedly become a full convert to the religion of energy efficiency.
Opinion: High-Definition Video--Bad For Consumers, Bad For Hollywood Digital rights management gadgetry has turned high-definition video into a lumbering dinosaur that consumers won't want to buy. And a good thing, too--because Hollywood doesn't know what to do with HD, says Cory Doctorow.
'Greatest Software' Story Triggers An Outpouring Of Recollections When the story "What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?" appeared Aug. 14, it set off an explosion of memories from those involved in the early stages of computing. For example, one responder asked, "Do you recall the big board of the IBM 407 key punch processor into which the red, green, blue and yellow wires--each a different length--were inserted?" Hey, I may have learned to program with IBM punch cards, but I don't go back to wires-through-a-board.
HP Sponsors Privacy Award The International Association of Privacy Professionals and HP are sponsoring the 2006 IAPP Innovation Awards to recognize "three organizations that demonstrate high levels of integration of privacy protection throughout their entire business process." Yes, HP, the company that hired outside security firms to violate the privacy of its bo
The Good, The Bad, And The Implausible: More Predictions About The Impact Of Technology On The Future Of Society A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reflects strong disagreement over whether technology is good for humankind. Interestingly, the 742 handpicked "technology thinkers and stakeholders" who responded to the survey were largely in agreement about the ways that technology will evolve. But they contradicted each other about how this evolution will impact society in 2020.
Down To Business: HP Investigation: Two-Ring Circus With each new allegation of board impropriety, the stakes get greater for the technology company--and for the politicos who aim to extract its full PR value. Get ready for the greatest show on earth.
IT Confidential: The Government Giveth And Taketh Away In Terms Of Privacy The courts are finally overruling Internet access and getting practical about the obscurity of personal data contained in legal documents.
Where Did HP Cross The Line? It's been another week of revelations about Hewlett-Packard's investigation into media leaks. Another week of unflattering details about illicit spying tactics, phony personas to dupe the press, and even e-mail tampering. With everything that HP reportedly did in its zealous probe to find a media leak, exactly where did company executives cross the line? How big is the gray area of what's legal and what's ethical? And what's just way over the line?
Quad Core Should Be In Intel Developer Forum Spotlight Expect quad-core microprocessors to be heard from early and often at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) next week in San Francisco. Intel could even further accelerate the timeline for the industry's first quad-core x86 microprocessors with a formal introduction in front of press and friends. After getting strong reviews for its recently introduced Core architecture-based processors for both PCs and servers, Intel may see an opportunity to seize momentum from rival Advanced Micro Devices.
Broadband On A Budget High-speed broadband has finally overtaken dial-up Internet access. According to a recent report by JD Power and Associates, 56% of residential ISP customers are now using broadband connections for applications such as Googling for the latest on Cameron Diaz, viewing online videos, and blogging about their pet dogs'
If E-Voting Is A Gamble, Could Web-Based Voting Be In The Cards? This election season, you may be one of the approximately 60 million American voters who will be casting a vote using new computerized systems at your local polling place. However, in the future, you might be casting your vote using your home PC and the Internet. That's what some U.S. election officials predict.
Is Time Warner Finally 'Getting' The Internet? Time Warner seems to be finally putting its six-year-old AOL merger debacle behind it, thanks to recent aggressive moves to promote a new Web strategy.
Citizendium To Be Professional Wikipedia Larry Sanger, one of the principal founders of the Wikipedia public encyclopedia project, has recently announced the establishment of a project called Citizendium. The latter is expected to be managed by authoritative experts within a field and will rely heavily on formal partnerships, which stands in sharp contrast against the Wikipedia model of being a free-for-all where content can be edited by any and all comers.
Cool Meets Clunky: Motorola's Deal For Bar-Code Reader Symbol Motorola has been pushing for more sales from business, taking solid steps like helping developers include enterprise search functions on wireless handhelds. But for most businesses, Motorola is just a really big company with a supercool cell phone. Motorola's deal to buy Symbol for $3.9 billion in cash marks a leap ahead for its enterprise ambitions.
Outsourcing No Threat To Tech Jobs, Survey Says Unemployed computer professionals are quick to blame their situation on the so-called offshoring of U.S. tech jobs to low-wage countries like India and China. But a new survey of corporate CIOs shows that spending on foreign tech labor by American businesses is miniscule.


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Program History: 2013-2014
In 2013-2014 40 theater companies participated in Shakespeare in American Communities, providing high-school and middle-school students in underserved schools and communities throughout the United States exposure to high quality, professional productions of Shakespeare's plays. Participating theater companies received matching grants to help support performances and educational activities in their communities, states, or regions for students from at least ten schools.
2013-2014 Statistics
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|Communities reached
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|Total children reached
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Participating theater companies
- A Noise Within (Glendale, CA)
- Actors' Shakespeare Project (Somerville, MA)
- African-American Shakespeare Company (San Francisco, CA)
- Alabama Shakespeare Festival (Montgomery, AL)
- American Shakespeare Center (Staunton, VA)
- American Players Theatre (Spring Green, WI)
- Aquila Theatre Company (New York NY)
- Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (Bloomsburg, PA)
- California Shakespeare Theater (Berkeley, CA)
- Classic Stage Company (New York NY)
- Denver Center Theatre Company (Denver, CO)
- Epic Theatre Ensemble (New York, NY)
- First Stage (Milwaukee, WI)
- Folger Theatre (Washington, DC)
- Great Lakes Theater (Cleveland, OH)
- Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis, MN
- Hartford Stage Company (Hartford, CT)
- Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Cold Spring, NY)
- Kansas City Repertory Theatre (Kansas City, MO)
- Lincoln Center Theater (New York, NY)
- Olney Theatre Center, National Players (Olney, MD)
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, OR)
- Orlando Shakespeare Theater (Orlando, FL)
- PlayMakers Repertory Company (Chapel Hill, NC)
- Portland Center Stage (Portland, OR)
- San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (San Francisco, CA)
- Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (Pawtucket, RI)
- Seattle Shakespeare Company (Seattle, WA)
- Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, MA)
- Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
- Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, DC)
- Tennesse Shakespeare Company (Germantown, TN)
- The Acting Company (New York, NY)
- The Nashville Shakespeare Festival (Nashville, TN)
- The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (Center Valley, PA)
- The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Madison, NJ)
- The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum (Topanga, CA)
- Theater at Monmouth (Monmouth, ME)
- Theatre for a New Audience (New York, NY)
- Utah Shakespeare Festival (Cedar City, UT)


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Masks are a traditional part of the Mardi Gras celebration. The tradition of wearing a mask during Mardi Gras allowed wearers to escape society and class constraints. When wearing a mask, carnival goers were free to be whomever they wanted to be, and mingle with whatever class they desired to mingle with. There are many styles of masks; some cover the entire face, and some cover the eyes.
The pictured decoration is a beginning sewing project. To makeit, you will need:
Satin fabric
Sequins or other trims
Plastic Christmas tree tinsel
Small metal rings
Stiff plastic such as an election sign
Draw a pattern for the mask. Trace the shape onto a piece of stiff plastic, such as an election sign. I used a laminated piece of card stock, and it wasn't quite stiff enough. Don't use cardboard, because the fibers will absorb moisture in the air, and cause mildew. Cut out the shapes with a razor knife or jig saw.
Add a three quarters of an inch to the pattern for a seam allowance. Cut two shapes from satin fabric. The nylon fabric used to make flags will also work. Don't use cotton fabric because it will fade and mildew.
Decorate one of the shapes with eye holes cut from a different color of fabric. Zig Zag around the edges. Add sequins or other trims, making sure that the trim is well away from the seam.
Find the center of the other piece by folding it in half. Tack a small ring to the fabric to make a hanger. A loop of ribbon can be substituted for the ring if desired.
Pin the two fabric pieces together right sides facing. Sew a half inch seam along the bottom edge. Leave the entire top edge open. Clip the curves and turn right side out. Press the seams flat with an iron.
Insert the plastic piece. If the fabric isn't pulled tight enough, or if you want the mask to be curved, add crumpled plastic grocery sacks or plastic Easter grass for stuffing.
Turn in the cut edges of the fabric, and pin in place. Tuck some tinsel into the seam if desired. Top stitch close to the edge, starting at one corner, and going all the way around the mask.
For more information about Mardi Gras traditions, and to see examples of masks, see http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/news/news/mardi-gras-masks-are-tradition.html
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Tonight was the big premiere of "My Five Wives" on TLC. On March 9, fans got to see this new show and meet Brady and his five wives. It made a lot of fans wonder if their show "Sister Wives" had been canceled already or what happened to it.
Kody Brown answered a fan on Twitter tonight. He did say that he was watching the show and that he is friends with the Darger family. He obviously seemed very happy with the fact that they got their own show and wasn't upset by it at all.
So far there is no news out if "Sister Wives" has been picked up for another season, but it did air the last finale a few weeks ago. TLC normally is really slow about letting fans know if shows are coming back again or not. That means that right now you should expect to see the Brown family again. They have not been officially canceled or renewed though.
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From Exhibition: Congress and the War of 1812 Part 1 A More Perfect Union
In the 1950s the United States and the Soviet Union both began programs for manned and unmanned scientific missions into space. Spurred by the Soviets' successful 1957 launch of the unmanned Sputnik 1 satellite, Congress initiated the U.S. civilian space program. Winning the space race became a political, scientific, and security priority, intensified after President John F. Kennedy and Congress set a national goal of being first to send an astronaut to the moon.
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
President John F. Kennedy, "Urgent National Needs" Speech, May 25, 1961
President John F. Kennedy Presents His "Urgent National Needs" Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, May 25, 1961
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North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong-un, have remained inaccessible to the world -- inaccessible to everyone except for Vice founder Shane Smith, that is. In 2013, Smith masterminded a plan to film his HBO news show in North Korea by using Dennis Rodman and members of the Harlem Globetrotters as bait for the basketball-loving supreme leader. "Basketball Diplomacy" was only one such stunt in the ballsy, transformative series, and it came about in the same year that Rupert Murdoch agreed to invest $70 million in Vice Media, which Ad Age just called "Publishing Company of the Year." Smith has come a long way from his punk days.
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Even when I was a realist illustrator in the late 70's I wanted to copy him. I loved his signature and later I found out Michael Doret helped out on Doug's design when he shared studio space with Doug and Charles White III. Michael designed the "Blippo" Type on the Manhattan Yellow Pages above.
Scans (2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 24) courtesy of the Doug Johnson Museum @ Realraum Berlin.
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Plans for the site, farmland to the north of Barnsley Road, will also a residential development of 35 houses.
Aldi says the store is part of their ongoing commitment to the district as their large distribution centre on Commercial Road, Goldthorpe, which brings with it 400 jobs is due to open in early 2015.
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newly revived state PAC recently reported that it received $250,000 from embattled House Speaker Tom Craddick on January 10—one day before it contributed $150,000 of that money to three House Democrats who back Craddick as speaker. "The speaker donated money to the PAC because it's a bipartisan PAC with a bipartisan board," a Craddick spokesman told the Houston Chronicle several days after the so-called Texas Jobs PAC made this disclosure.1 "He believes supporting candidates who work across the aisle is good for Texas."
This blasé description by the speaker's spokesman does not do justice to these remarkable transactions. The $250,000 that Craddick gave to Texas Jobs PAC is the largest expenditure that his campaign ever made. Similarly, the $50,000 checks that Texas Jobs wrote to the three Demo-Craddick representatives were twice the size of any contribution that these lawmakers previously received. In its short life, the Texas Jobs PAC has redefined just how special "special interests" can be.
Over the past eight years, the Craddick campaign made 16 other whopper expenditures ranging from $25,000 to $200,000. The $250,000 that Craddick gave to Texas Jobs PAC exceeds, for example, the five huge checks totaling $235,000 that Craddick gave to the Craddick-aligned Stars Over Texas PAC. Craddick also gave two large checks totaling $80,000 to Texas Opportunity PAC, which lobbyist Mike Toomey used in 2006 to help six Craddick allies in the House confront tough primary challenges.
Craddick's largest previous expenditure was a payment of $200,000. That 2005 check probably paid for the radio ads Craddick ran defending his controversial handling of school-finance legislation.2
Craddick's campaign also wrote four large checks totaling $131,197 to two law firms. As a result of the Texas Jobs PAC transactions, one of the firms—Minton Burton Foster & Collins—again is defending Craddick from allegations that he broke state laws governing speaker races. Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle previously declined to file charges against the speaker after investigating his ties to the now-indicted Texans for a Republican Majority PAC (TRMPAC). Texans For Public Justice filed a complaint with Earle this week accusing Craddick and Texas Jobs PAC of violating election laws.
The $50,000 checks that Texas Jobs PAC wrote also were unprecedented for their recipients: Democratic Reps. Kevin Bailey, Kino Flores and Aaron Pena. These contributions that the PAC made with Craddick's funds were twice the size of any check previously received by the three Craddick loyalists.
The largest check that Rep. Kino Flores of Palmview previously reported was $25,000 from the doctor-financed Border Health PAC in 2004. Edinburg Rep. Aaron Pena's largest check had been a $25,000 contribution in 2004 from the trial-lawyer-funded Texans for Insurance Reform.
Before this year, the largest donation that Houston Rep. Kevin Bailey received was the $15,000 that the Texas Trial Lawyers PAC gave him in 2006. Then, on the same wondrous day this January, Bailey suddenly received $50,000 from Texas Jobs PAC and $25,000 from Texans for Lawsuit Reform. Four days later Bailey landed $20,000 from low-income housing developer Dwayne Henson, a recurring Bailey supporter.
The Craddick spokesman's explanation that Craddick gave $250,000 to Texas Jobs "because it's a bipartisan PAC with a bipartisan board" also merits parsing. The degree of partisanship exhibited by the PAC has little to do with whether or not Craddick violated the so-called speaker's law. A speaker candidate seeking House votes cannot afford to discriminate. But the issue does cut to questions about the PAC's independence and about Craddick's intent in making the contribution.
When Texas Jobs wrote the three $50,000 checks on January 11, the only funds that the PAC had to spend had come from the Republican speaker the day before. The PAC immediately moved more than half of this money to three of Craddick's Democratic loyalists in the House. At that point, Texas Jobs PAC was "bipartisan" in that all of its funding came from a Republican official while all of its expenditures benefited Craddick Democrats.
Clearly other PACs both receive and distribute funds on a bipartisan basis. What prompted Craddick to suddenly pour the largest campaign check of his career into an empty vessel, which—the next day—forwarded most of Craddick's money to three Democrats whom Craddick desperately wants to keep in the House? At least one other Craddick Democrat turned down Texas Jobs PAC's overtures; Austin Rep. Dawnna Dukes did not want to be branded with taking $50,000 of Craddick money.3
In the two weeks after Texas Jobs PAC moved $150,000 of Craddick's money, the PAC received $82,000 more from seven donors who kicked in between $1,000 and $25,000 apiece. Most of these donors are known Craddick allies. Collectively they have provided $579,200 in support to the speaker through: the Craddick campaign, Stars Over Texas, the Texas Opportunity PAC and the now-indicted Texans for a Republican Majority PAC.
Their ranks include the lobby firm of Mike Toomey, who helped coordinate the efforts of TRMPAC, the Texas Association of Business and Texans for Lawsuit Reform to establish a GOP House majority in 2002. TRMPAC fundraisers also solicited now-retired Compass Bank executive Charles McMahen in 2002. Four days later that bank's PAC gave $22,000 to House candidates on TRMPAC's slate.
Two days after he resigned as chair of Grande Communications this January, James Mansour contributed $25,000 to Texas Jobs PAC. Mansour long has been James Leininger's right-hand man in the school-voucher war. Mansour was the No. 2 donor to Leininger's Texans for School Choice PAC, which poured $155,880 into eight GOP House races in 2006. In fact, 81 percent of this voucher money went to Martha Wong and George Antuna—whose losses to Democrats undermined Craddick's tenuous base.
Together these seven Texas Jobs PAC donors invested more than $8 million in Texas' 2006 election cycle, with 74 percent of this money going to Republicans, 20 percent going to ostensibly bipartisan PACs and 6 percent going to Democrats.
To be sure, these aggregate numbers are skewed by Houston mega-donor Bob Perry. Yet all of the Texas Jobs PAC donors gave at least twice as much to Republicans as they did to Democrats. Indeed, Charles McMahen and James Mansour collectively spent $165,850 without directly giving a Democrat a dime. To date, Texas Jobs PAC has raised overwhelmingly Republican funds, distributing them to that rare breed known as Craddick Democrats.
The smallest donor identified by Texas Jobs PAC is Rio Grande City doctor Antonio Falcon, whom the PAC lists as one of its five financial decision makers. (Quorum Report recently delved into the background of another one of these decision makers: conservative operative James Cardle.)4
Falcon spent $23,875 on Texas' 2006 elections. With 23 percent of this money going to Democrats, Falcon has the most bipartisan profile of the Texas Jobs donors. Falcon's bipartisanship has an interesting geographical divide. His GOP contributions mostly benefited statewide officeholders, whereas his Democratic contributions overwhelmingly went to the Democratic incumbents who control South Texas. The exception to this pattern is the money that Falcon has given to the local Hidalgo County Republican Party.
The degree to which the Texas Jobs PAC is bipartisan or not has little to do with whether or not Speaker Craddick violated Texas' speaker law. Yet the strong Republican bent of its donors suggests that it was no accident that this PAC has acted like an arm of the Craddick campaign. As Quorum wrote, "The claim that Tom Craddick wrote his biggest contribution check ($250,000) out of his own campaign fund to be spent on races to be determined later, by an anonymous board, defies belief." To date, the only job that Texas Jobs PAC has shown any interest in is that of the Speaker of the House.
Link to Political Profiles of Texas Jobs PAC Donors
Texans for Public Justice. February 14, 2008.


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The "Free" Web vs. the Library's Electronic Resources
Why use the Library's Web site when you can search Google?
Search engines, such as Google, look throughout the internet for information available through the World Wide Web. Most of the content which search engines locate can be viewed freely by anyone with a connection to the internet.
The "free" Web can be a great place to start when you are looking for information. Governments, universities, and various non-profit organizations often place information on their Web sites. But along with these types of Web sites, you also can find pages that were created for completely different reasons (many of which are not altruistic).
Commercial Web sites, personal Web logs (blogs), and discussion groups can be informative and entertaining, but they often do not provide the type of peer-reviewed information which is best for academic research.
Beyond the results of a Web search, there is a vast amount of quality material available through the internet--but only for a fee or subscription.
The Library's Electronic Resources--The Basics
Publishers need to protect their proprietary and copyrighted information, therefore they will not put it up freely on the internet. Just as music publishers do not want you to download music off the internet for free (in violation of copyright), print publishers do not want their materials distributed without some sort of control or compensation.
To protect themselves, publishers often provide access to their material from their own Web site only for a fee. Many newspapers, for example, will provide past articles online for a few dollars each. Other publishers may protect their material by provide online access to these items only through certain information providers (or vendors). These information providers will charge institutions or individuals for access rights to this information through their various electronic resources.
To support the academic needs of the University, the Library currently subscribes to over 400 electronic resources. These electronic resources or databases provide access to online books, journal articles, dissertations, newspapers, and other materials such as images or sound recordings.
Library databases are only accessible through the campus network, so they are not freely available to the public. However, you can access them off-campus via the connectivity package or campus proxy server.
Why should I use the materials in these electronic resources for my research?
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Chelsea, 13 April 1859.
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I never had an acquaintance of the name of Lalor or Lawlor:3 Lr, I perceive, means a 'T. Carlyle'4 (often confused with me by mistake and otherwise) who died a year or two ago, as Irvingite 'Angel,' or some such title, out at Albury5 in Mr Drummond's precircincts:6 he had aspired towards various things,—a hardheaded, ambitious fanatical mortal; who used to call me Antichrist, or at least one of the Antichrists, and perhaps rather liked me notwithstanding.
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Sonic Foundry Partners with InfoComm International to Webcast Largest AV Tradeshow in the World
Mediasite Events to webcast select sessions and training at InfoComm 2012 in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoComm Booth #C9141 -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the trusted market leader for lecture capture, enterprise and event webcasting, today announced as part of its annual partnership with InfoComm International, the company's Mediasite platform will be used to webcast InfoComm 2012 this week in addition to several other InfoComm events throughout the year.
InfoComm 2012, which takes place June 9 to 15, is the largest and most comprehensive pro-AV event in the world with more than 34,000 AV professionals from over 90 countries and more than 925 exhibitors attending. The industry convenes at InfoComm every year to learn about what's next in AV and information communications and showcase over 10,000 products and applications, the largest collection of newly released AV products found anywhere in the world.
Mediasite will be used to webcast select InfoComm Manufacturers' Training Sessions, the keynote on Tuesday, June 12 and the Conferencing Pavilion Education Stage June 13 to 14. These on-demand webcasts will help attendees earn Renewal Units and provide access for those who don't have time during the show to attend educational sessions.
While this is the biggest annual event for InfoComm International, a nonprofit association serving the professional AV communications industry worldwide, the association also hosts roundtables and conferences throughout the year for industry leaders. Mediasite Events is webcasting several meetings in 2012 to support InfoComm's goal of bringing its educational programs to new online audiences, including:


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Original Pete's Restaurant Review: This regional chain features quality food in a casual, family-friendly setting. The Italian-inspired menu offers everything from salads to sandwiches, burgers to pasta, even steak, ribs and chicken. But, the name of the game is pizza, and Pete's serves a number of traditional and unique creations, such as the barbecue chicken and Italian garlic with linguiça, sausage and feta. Wash it down with one of Pete's private-label beers or local wines, all of which are sold by the glass.
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The Hoover-born singer and "American Idol" winner will be at Boutwell Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. to discuss his book, "Heart Full of Soul: An Inspirational Memoir About Finding Your Voice and Finding Your Way." It's set for release July 10 by Crown publishers.
General admission tickets are $37.50 through Ticketmaster. They include an autographed copy of the book. VIP tickets are $100 at www.kidone.org. They include an autographed book and seating close to the stage.
Proceeds will go to Kid One Transport, a nonprofit agency that provides rides for needy children and expectant mothers who have medical appointments. Hicks' appearance here is sponsored by the Alabama Booksmith and Fox 6.


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How to Apply for Prospective Students
How to Apply for Financial Aid
(New Students)
The following steps are for those students who are completing the process prior to the 2017-18 financial aid year. The process to apply for financial aid for 2017-18 is still being developed. Once the process is finalized, we will update the steps below. In the meantime, you can find some preliminary information about what is prompting these changes at the following link.
Information about the 2017-18 processing changes.
All students should follow the steps below to apply for financial assistance. International students, please note Step 5 for an additional option to apply.
Indicate your Application for Admission that you intend to apply for financial aid. There is no separate Carleton form to apply for financial aid.
Set up and maintain your own personal financial aid file. Make and keep copies of all forms, information, and communications with Carleton and any other agencies. If something becomes lost or misplaced, you will have the information available to resubmit easily.
Complete the College Board/College Scholarship Service's (CSS) Financial Aid Profile application for school year 2016-2017. You may complete the Profile online here. When you complete the Profile, list Carleton College's code 6081 on the Profile so we will receive the results. The Profile collects more detailed information so Carleton can more accurately calculate a family's need and eligibility for aid from Carleton. There is a fee required to complete the Profile. Fee waiver eligibility is calculated automatically by College Board when completing the Profile and is based on family income.
- Fall Early Decision candidates should complete and submit the Profile by November 15, 2015 using actual 2014 income figures or estimated 2015 income figures. You may start completing the 2016-17 Profile as early as October 1, 2015.
- Winter Early Decision candidates should complete and submit the Profile by January 15, 2016 using actual 2015 income figures or estimates if necessary.
- Regular Decision candidates should complete and submit the Profile by February 15, 2016. Regular Decision candidates are encouraged to use 2015 income figures. If you cannot complete your 2015 taxes, please use estimated 2015 income figures.
- Transfer candidates should complete and submit the Profile by March 31, 2016.
After you submit your Profile Application, you can access your Profile Acknowledgement at the College Board website at any time. The Acknowledgement is your record of the data submitted on the Profile and where the results are being sent. Carleton recommends printing your Acknowledgement and keeping it in your personal financial aid file (see Step 2).
If you need to change any of your Profile Application information, make corrections on your Acknowledgement and send a photocopy directly to Carleton. Do NOT send corrections to the College Board; they will not process your corrections.
If you have questions or problems with the PROFILE, you can reach College Board at 305-420-3670 or e-mail email@example.com.
NOTE: International students may skip to Step 5.
Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for school year 2016-17. The FAFSA is available after January 1 of the year you will be entering college. Apply online with FAFSA on the Web. List Carleton College's school code 002340 so we will receive the results.
The FAFSA is a required document used to determine a student's eligibility for federal aid, such as the Pell Grant, Direct Stafford or Perkins loans, student employment, etc. Any federal aid you qualify for will be incorporated into your aid award from Carleton.
If your federal tax returns have already been submitted to the IRS when you are completing the FAFSA, please agree to the IRS data retrieval when prompted to automatically fill in tax information. This will help to avoid additional information requests to complete the federal financial aid application process.
If you have questions or problems with your FAFSA, call 800-4FEDAID (800-433-3243).
(International Students only)
International students are also required to complete Certification of Finances.
International students may choose to complete the free International Student Financial Aid Application or complete the College Board/College Scholarship Service's (CSS) Financial Aid Profile (Step 3). No matter which option is chosen, all international students must complete the Certification of Finances form and send it directly to Carleton College.
Important Note for International Students: Financial assistance is secured at the time of your entry to Carleton. Given the limited funding available to international students, we will NOT consider new applications for aid once you have enrolled. You should make your plans for attendance at Carleton with the financial aid you have been awarded for your first year. International students awarded assistance can assume that level of aid will continue during the four years at Carleton. However, you should not assume that increased aid will be available in subsequent years. With this in mind, aid applications after the first year are not required. But, the Certification of Finances is required each year to renew your visa status.
Additional Information:
If a student's biological or adoptive parents are separated, divorced or were never married, the custodial parent (the parent with whom the student lives most of the time) and step-parent (if applicable) should complete both the Profile and FAFSA. The non-custodial parent will complete the College Board's Non-custodial Profile. The College Board will send the student an email that details the requirement. The student will be directed to share the email with the non-custodial parent. Carleton assumes the noncustodial parent will contribute toward a student's college costs to the extent that is reasonable.
Parents who are self-employed or own a business or farm will be asked for business or farm information on the Profile. The Office of Student Financial Services may contact you if additional information is needed.
New students are normally notified of an initial financial aid decision at the time they are offered admission to Carleton if the appropriate forms, as previously listed, are on file prior to the mailing of the admissions decision. Awards are finalized in the summer once students have made their enrollment deposit and income figures are verified with actual tax returns. Significant discrepancies may cause a change to the initial award. However, in most cases, the final award will be the same as the initial award. Carleton reserves the right to request copies of tax returns directly from the IRS.
Outside scholarships (assistance from sources other than Carleton) must be reported to the Office of Student Financial Services in writing. Since financial need is determined by considering all sources of assistance, outside awards must be reviewed even after the initial aid award has been issued. It is the College's policy to remain within a student's calculated need and allow outside awards to lower the self-help (loan or work) portion of the aid award.
Renewal of Aid:
Financial aid forms must be completed each year the student is enrolled at Carleton to update a family's financial situation. Students and their families may assume that the College will continue to provide comparable assistance for subsequent years assuming the family's financial circumstances remain constant. If those circumstances change dramatically, financial aid may also change. It will be the College's objective to keep aid awards as stable as possible over a student's years of attendance. Financial aid is not automatically renewable and students and parents must apply each year they are seeking assistance. The priority deadline for subsequent years is the first day of spring term classes.
All of us in the Office of Admissions and the Office of Student Financial Services are here to help you complete the process of applying for financial aid with as little stress and difficulty as possible. Please contact us if you encounter problems or have questions.
- Financial Aid Overview
- How to Apply for Prospective Students
- Types of Aid
- 2015-2016 Aid Awards
- Navigating Your Financial Aid Award
- Frequently Asked Questions
- College Board IDOC Service
- GI Bill/Yellow Ribbon Benefits
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Difficulties with Speech
Speech refers to the processes associated with the production and perception of sounds used in spoken language.
Difficulties with Speech - adjustments to practice
Speech refers to the processes associated with the production and perception of sounds used in spoken language.
Many skills are required for speech and language to effectively develop and there are many ways in which speech development can go wrong. Some people may have difficulty in moving the muscles that control speech; others can't understand how a conversation works or the meaning of a sentence. Some people can't understand or use language whatsoever. There are different terms to describe different types of difficulty - including:
- phonological difficulties;
- articulation difficulties;
- verbal dyspraxia;
- dysarthria;
- semantic pragmatic disorder;
- Asperger's Syndrome;
- selective mutism.
Most people will overcome their difficulties with the right help, but 1 in 500 will have severe or long-term difficulties.
Stuttering is a problem that interferes with fluent speech. A person who stutters may repeat the first part of a word (as in wa-wa-wa-water) or hold a single sound for a long time (as in caaaaaaake). Some people who stutter have trouble getting sounds out altogether. Stuttering is complex and it can affect speech in many different ways. One of the most frustrating features about stammering is its variability. The problem can fluctuate from mild to severe depending on the situation, the time of day or for some other unidentifiable reason. It is different for each person.
Articulation refers to movements of the articulators – tongue, soft palate, jaws, teeth, lips. Problems with any of these lead to an articulation disorder affecting intelligibility to varying degrees. Articulation disorders encompass a wide range of errors people can make when talking e.g., substituting a "w" for an "r" ("wabbit" for "rabbit"), omitting sounds ("cool" for "school"), or adding sounds to words ("pinanio" for "piano") are examples of articulation errors.
Lisping refers to specific substitution involving the letters "s" and "z." A person who lisps replaces those sounds with "th."
Apraxia (dyspraxia), also known as oral-motor speech disorder, is a problem with motor coordination or motor planning. A person with this speech problem has difficulty moving the muscles and structures necessary to form speech sounds into words.
Difficulties with Speech - adjustments to practice
These strategies are suggestions for inclusive teaching and training. This list should not be considered exhaustive and it is important to remember that all learners are individuals, and good practice for one person may not necessarily be good practice for another. If you have any good practice that you would like to add to this list, please email your suggestions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Environmental Factors
- Some speech impairments are affected by a person's emotional state. Speech is clearer when a person is confident and relaxed, and this is one of the most important factors to consider when communicating with people with speech difficulties. Make tutorials etc. relaxed and informal.
Learning Resources
- Consider using a communication board (with letters and words on it) or a computer with a speech synthesiser.
Course Delivery
- Initially ask questions that only need a short answer. However, avoid questions that required only yes or no answers, as these can appear patronising.
- Listen closely to what learners say; always respond to the content of what someone is saying, and do not be misled by the style of delivery.
- Allow time for learners to make their contributions.
- People with communication difficulties may well find group work challenging and stressful. Ensure not to exclude learners with speech difficulties from group activities, and manage the pace of the discussion to ensure other learners do not interrupt inappropriately.
- If the learner finds speaking in public particularly difficult and it exacerbates their problems, it may be preferable to allow them to record an oral presentation in advance to playback during a teaching session.
General Guidance
- Establish whether a learner who experiences communication difficulties has established a successful alternative system of communication, for example: using an assistant to act as communicator.
- Just because a person has difficulties speaking this does not mean that they have problems with hearing or comprehension so speak to people naturally.
- When it is difficult to understand learners, keep calm, watch their lips, and take account of facial expressions and body language. Try to avoid guessing or completing sentences for them, unless learners want this, to speed communication. Always check with the individual.
- Ask people to repeat what has been said if it is difficult to understand. Repeat back to them to confirm understanding.
- Be tactful and sensitive. Individuals may have previously had a negative educational experience which has resulted in poor self confidence.
- People with speech impairments are likely to find telephone calls difficult. Email may be a more useful method of communication.
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