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Centro I Mic;higgn University Boord of Trustees
Meeting of October 18, 1972
Mt. Pleasant , Michigan
Members present; tw . ..Iomes M. Umphrey, Viee Chairman; Min P. Dee
Boersma; Dr. Roger M. Busfield, Jr.; Dr. Lloyd M. Cofer; Mr. Alfred J .
Fortil'lO; Mrs. Kotharine C. Hofstad.
Members absent: Mr. lawrence D. Rohilly, Mr . Waher W. Wightman.
AI$Oottending: tK. William 8. Boyd, President; Dr. Terrence J. Carey ,
Secretory to the Boord of Trustees and Vice President for Univet"sity Relations;
Mr . Arthur E. Ellis, Treasurer of the Boord of Trustees and Vice Prelident for
Public Affairs; Dr . Albert S. Miles, Vice President fOf Student Afrairs;
Dr. Charles J. Ping, Provost; Mr. Jerry R. Tubb5, Vice President for Business
arid Finance.
The meeting W<lS called to order at 2:01 p .m. by the Vice Choirman.
The minutes of the September 16, 1972, meeting were approved as printed .
The Boord of Trustees expressed condolences to" the fomily of John Stoveley,
Custodion, Physico I Plont, who died August 11, 1972.
It 'NOS moved by Dr. Roger Busfi eld , ~conded by Dr . lloyd Cofer, ond
cOrTied, that the fo llowil'l9 recommendotions of the odministrotion be opproved.
Retirements :
C. F. Anderson, Physician, Univenity Health Service, effective
October 16, 1972
Kenneth A. Wright, Professor, Physics, effec;t ive December 31,1972
Morion Young, Senior Sec;retory C-6, Penonnel ond Stoff Re lations
October 1B, 1972
Resignations, Term inat ions, etc.:
Pamela Allen, Secretary C- 5, Business Office
Janice Bronson, Keypunch Opero tor ST -2, Dota Processing
Mortho Chisek . In termediate Clerk Typid C- 2, Placement
Sorry Del..ou, Intermediate Clerk C- 2, Pub lic Sofety
Marilyn Gf-eenawal t , Kitchen Supervisor ST-4, Auxiliary Services
Pome lg Hcu:bcz , Head Resident AP-l, Housi ng Progroms
Wi l liam Hermes, Audio ViSUCJI Technician ST-4, Educational Madig
Sondro H<lwell . Clerk Steno C- 3, Alumni Re lgtions
Michelel Popgre l lg, Adm issions Counselor AP-4, Admissions
Kristin Plowmon, Sen ior Cieri< Steno C-4, library
Jgnet Potter. Technica l Aide ST-3, one-hc lf t ime. Acgdemic Affgirs
Margelynn Smith. Intermediote Clerk C- 2, Me-hg lf t ime , Biology
Pouline Smith , Heed Resident Coord inator AP-2, Hous ing Progroml
Victori ne So le , Clerk Typist C-I, gne-holf time , Chemistry
()ongld Sta ve ley, Publ ic Sofety Service Officer PS- I, Public Sc.fety
Roserngry Steinbach, librgry Acquisiti ons Technic ign ST-3, library
Ann Wag ley, Intermediate Cleric C-2, library
ChcJrlene Wood, Secretary C-5, Educg ti ol'lCl l Administrgtion
SInOn Young . Nurses Aide ST-l , Hea lth Service
Andrew 8edo, Adjunct Profeuor, Health Education , Winter Semester 1973;
Physic ian Universi ty Heo lth Service , 12 months , effecti ve Jonwry I, 1973
B.A. , Colby Co llege , 1943
M. D. , Boston Univenity School of Medicine , 1950
Appointments - continued
Joen Blo~t, Tempotory In5tTuctor, English, one~l f time, Fall Semester 1972
B.A., Michigcln State Uni versity, 1958
M.A., Indigno University, 1962
Rol'lClld R. Cobic, Temporary Assistont Instructor, Industrigl Education and
Technology , one - fourth time, 10 monthl, 1972-73
B. S. Ed., Cent!"(lt MichiQl:m Univenity, 1972
Donald E. Christensen, Adjunct Professor, Special Education, 10months,
B.A. , Mi chigan State University, 1950
M.D . , Western Reserve Medical School, 1958
Carole l. Croin, Temporary Instructor, Foreign I..o09\.lOges, FglI Semester 1972
B.A . , Alrng College, 1968
M.A., Universi ty of Michigcln, 1969
Scott FreCH, Adjunct Auoc;jgte Profet5Of, Home Economicl, Fomily Ufe and
Consumer Education, 10 months, lm-73
B. S., Pennsylvania State University, 1953
Sharon Hely, Temporary Instructor, English, one-fourth time, Fall Semester 1972
B.A., CenlT'ol College, 1965
M.A., Bowling Green State Univenity, 1967
Dovid Higgins, Assi stant Profeuor, Englhh, 10 monthl, Im-73
B.A., S.U.C., Brookport, New York, 1966
M.A . , Bowling Green State Unlvenity, 1968
Ph . D. , Bowling Green State University, 1971
George F. Inzer, Jr . , Temporory Instructor, Speech and Dromotic Arts,
10 monthl, 1972-73
B.A., Auburn Univenity, 1970
M.A., Centro I Michigan University , 1972
Annette Kyt le, Temporory tnshvctor, Engllilh, one-fourth time, Fall Semester 1972
B.A . , Soint Olaf College, 1964
M.S., M:mkato State College, 1968
NeJncy leBeau, Temporory Instructor, Art, five-t_tfth, time, Fall Seme1ter 1972
B.A., Michigan State University, 1966
M.A., Michigan Stat. University, 1971
Appointments - continued
Arthur J. LeTourneau, Temporory Instructor, Speciol Edocotion, one -fourth
time, Foil Semester 1972
B.S . , Central Mich igan University, 1970
Jeen lewis, Temporory Instructor, English, one-fourth time, Foil Semester 1972
B.A., Awury College, 1957
M.A., Centro I Michigan University, 1969
Helen Maxwel l, Temporory InstructOf, Eorly Childhood ond Elementory
Educotion, one- fourth time, fo il Semester 1972
B.A. , Centro I Michigan University, 1967
M.A., Central Michigan University, 1970
Connie J. Morgan , Temporary Asshtant Instructor, Speciol Education, oneholf
time, 10 months , 1972-73
B.A., Michigan Sta te University, \967
Patricio Nixon , Temporary Instrumenflll Assistant, Music, one-half time,
Fal l Semester 1972
B.M., University of Michigan, 1972
Florence E. Pingotore, Temporary Inst ructor, Special Educotion , one-fourth
time, 10 months, 1972-73
B.S., Centrol Michigan University, 19S9
M.A., Centro I Mich igan University, 1965
louis Sonker, Temporary Associote Professor, Philosophy, one-fourth time,
foil Semester 1972
B.A . , University of London , 1930
Ph . D., University of london, 1944
Richerd Sche ll , Temporory Instructor, Accounti ng , one-fotKth time, Fa ll
Semester 1972
B.S., Andrew University, 1957
M.B.A., Central Michigan University, 1970
lawrence Smith, Temporary Instructor, Eorly Childhood and Elemenfllry
Educotion, one-fourth time, Fall Semester 1972
B.S., Eastern Mich igan University, 1954
M.A., University of Michigan, 1957
Catherine Stroyon, Temporory Instructor, Eorly Childhood and Elementary
Education, one-sixth time, fall Semester 1972
B.S . E., Northern tllinois Univenity, 1941
M.A . , Columbia University, 196J
Appointments - continued
Joan Wildmon, Temporory Instructor, Music, three-fovrrhstime, fall
Semester 1972
B.M., McPho il College of Music , 1959
M.M ., McPhail College of Music, 1966
Vivian Boenma, Administrati ve Assistant AP-5, hutitutionol Development
Noncy Burch, Home Economics, laboratory Supervisor ST -5, Home Economics
Kathleen Compos, Keypunch Operator ST - 2, Octo Processing
Chozelle Diener, Intermedia te Clerk Typist C-2, three-fourths time, Controller
joAnn Gust , Personnel TrorlSOctioos Cleric C-5, Academic Affoirs
Neel Johnson , News Director AP-3, Television
Annie Mills, Rec lassifier AP-4, library
Edwgrd Noretlo, Superintendent of Mechanical and Electrical Services AP-5,
Physical Plant
Pamela Ne hon, Senior Cleric Typist C-3, Eorly Childhood and Elementary
Susan Powers, Secretary C-5, Business Office
Christi ne Rodgers, Intermediate Clerk C-2, librory
Wtc:Jry Rosevear, Cleric Steno C-3, IPCD
Thomas Tresh, Administrative Assistont AP-S , Institutional Development
Karen Turek, Clerk Steno C-3, Off Compus Education
Promotions, Rec lassifications, and So lory Adjustments:
Hans felting , from Assoc iate Professor and Temporory Acting Chohman, English,
to Associate Professor and Acting Choirmen, Engl ish, effective October 1, 1",2,
through Wtc:Jy 15, 1973.
Roger Grobinski, Temporory Assistant Professor, Educationol Administration,
received Pn . D. , salary chonge only, effecti ve August V , 1972 .
Promotions, Reelouificolions, ond So lory Adjustments - continued
Stephen Norwlck, received Ph. D. , from Instructor, Geology, 10 Assistont
ProfeuOf, Geology, effective August 27, 1972.
Alon N . Rabe, received Ph.D., from Instructor, Heolth Educotion, to
Auistont Professor, Heolth Educotion, effective August 27, 1972.
lois Tedhoms, from Temporory Assistont Professor, Business Educotlon,
three-fourths time, to Temporory Assistant Professor, Business Educollon,
eleven-twelfths time, effective August 13, 1972.
Kenneth Wright, from Associote Professor, Physics, to Professor, Physics,
effective October 22, 1972.
Bo,il Zimmer, received Ph.D., from Instructor, Economics, to Auhtont
Professor, Economics, effective August 13, 1972.
Jennifer Aho to Secretory C- 5, one-nolf time, Sociology
Nora Armour to Senior Admlnlstrotive Aide ST-5, Vice President fOf
Student Affairs
Jonn 8ehinc:k to Custodion MF-3, Physico I Plont
Nelwn Cory to Electrician Apprentice MFA-3, Physico I Plont
Jomes Connotl to Journeyman tJointenonce Mechanic MF-8, Physicol Plant
Fronc:h Fedewo to Journeyman Electticion MF-8, Physicol Plant
Keith Gront to Maintenonc:e Mechanic Apprentice MFA-3, Physicol Plant
Roy Imnhort to Journeyman Boller Operolor MF-8, Physicol Plont
tv\oriorie Keene to Admlnistrotive Assistont AP-3, Registro r and Reeords
Richord Mahon to Boller Operotor Apprentice MFA-4, Physicol"Plont
Undo oVooxweli to Clerk Steno C- 3, Alumn i Relations
Woyne Miller to Auto ond Equipment Mechanic Apprentice MFA-2, Physicol Plant
Kenneth Peters to Electricion Apprentice MFA-4, Physicol Plonf
Sam .... 1 Phelps to Malntenonc:e Mechanic Apprentice MFA-3, Physico I Plont
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Promotions, Reclonificotions, ond Salary Adjustments - continued
Rex Potter to Boiler Operator Apprentice MFA-4, Physical Plant
Paul Ruiz to Administrotive Assistont for Student Organizations AP-3,
Student Affairs
Kothleen Stephenson to Clerk Steno C-3, Fine and Applied Arts
Fronk 5ytek to Mointenance Mechonlc Apprentice MFA-3, Physical Plont
Patricio Toylor to Senior Clerk 5teno C-4, one -half time, Honors Progrom
Jock Westbrook to Maintenance Mechanic App'entice MFA-4, Physical Plont
Morris Whitmore to Senior Custodion MF-5, Physico I Plant
Gero ldine Wright to Sen ior Secretory C-6, Personnel and Stoff Re lotiorl$
Robert Zuker to Generol tv\oin lenonce tv\on MF-3, Physical Plont
It wos moved by Mrs . Kothorine Hofstad, seconded by Mr. Alfred Fortino,
ond carried, thot emeritus rank be gronted to Irwin Campbell, Associate
Professor, Journolism, effective December 31, 1972 .
WHEREAS, Irwin M. Campbell hos foithfully served
Centro I Michi9CJn University ood hos contributed his
persOl'lOI and pt"ofessionollolenh to its growth and
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, Thot the Boord of Trus tees
of Centrol Michigan University, in behalf of the University
community, expresses its oppreciotion ond extends to him
Emeritus Faculty rank.
II was moved by Dr. Roger Busfield, seconded by Mr . Alfred Forti no, and
corried, thol emeri tus ronle be gran ted to Kenne th A. Wright , Professor,
Physics, effective December 3 1, 1972.
WHEREAS, Kenneth A. Wright hos faithfully served
Centrol Michi9CJn University ond hos contributed his
personal ond p'0fessionol Iolenl:! to its growth and
Emeritus Rank - continued
(Kenneth A. Wright)
8E IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, That the Boord of Trvstees
of Central Mich igan University, in behalf of the Un iversity
community, expresses il'$ appreciation and extends to him
Emeritus Faculty rank.
It wos moved by Dr. Roger Bvsrield, seconded by Mn. Katherine Hofstad,
ond carried, that the following Resolution be approved.
Dr. C. F. Andersoo
WHEREAS, from 1949 to 1972 Dr. C. F. Andenon
served a$ consulting physician for Central Michigan
Univenity athletic teams;
WHEREAS, Dr . Anderson's loyolty and interest in the
University, its athletic teollt$ and its student athletes
has been extraordinary;
AND WHEREAS, His retirement ends on era thet wi1l
long be remembered in the University's athletic history;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, Thot the Boord of TlV$tees
of Central Michigan University extends its apprecia tion
to Dr. C. F. Anderson and extends to him its best wishes
for a happy, deserved retirement.
It wos moved by Min Dee Boersma, seconded by WIt. Alfred Fortino, and
cOlTied, thot gifts received duri ng the month of September tota ling S17, 529.20
be accepted with the appreciation of the Boo rd.
• • The next meeting will be November 15, 1972, at 2 p . m.
The meeting was odjovrned 01 2:18 p.m.
~:::7 Secretary to the Boord of Trustee5
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The comments posted by sitka123 are right on the mark.
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What was your impression of the State of the Union address?
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Many of you have made partial truths about this SOU. He has never stopped campaigning. Nor has he stopped lying. Every times he has said 'this is a investment in our future' actually means higher taxes. Taking money for fewer and fewer people to give to an ever larger grope of people who do not produce/work. As most of you know he was re-elected by a very slim margin. And some election results are still in question. How does the military lose a majority of the absentee ballots before the election? How does a republican ahead by 1-15% minutes before the poles close and lose by 10%? The Senate has not conducted the business it was elected to do for the last several years – the budget. Instead they have become brainless lemmings. They are told to vote one way the party way regardless of what happens to the country. Congress is doing a little better but not by much. Pelosi still has the idea that her way is the best way and 95% of the democrats vote without thinking. They want to destroy our country as we know it. More power to the central government less power at the state and local level. Every time they start a program (with all the best of intentions-- that sounds good anyway) are very poorly thought out and the execution is worse. In the 30's & 40 it was SSN great for a few year until the politicians starting. Then in the 60s by the Johnson administration poorly thought out under funded by billions. I don't want to go on this rant. Needless to say we have to many losers in Washington, they don't study their own history, so they keep repeating the same mistakes over and over. And they swear that this time will be different. The only thing that will be different will be less money in our pockets and more of our freedoms will be lost.
We need to stop using private corp Storm troops to fight our wars, we need a draft to be sure congress ofspring also fight in our wars, not married national guard.
We need a ceiling price on gasoline.
We need to deport felons instead of supporting them in jails.
We need a Labor party to represent workers.
We need to close the Fed Bank it supports Corperate Socialism.
We need to make the Stock Exchange to pay dividends, not Bonuses.
I feel we need to tariff all goods entering the Country to bring back Manufacturing & creat jobs , opertunity and technology nnd debit payment.
We need to limit imigration (migration), one million per year exceeds other countreies, they allow twenty or thirty thousand, we dont need imigrants, in the 30's we deported everyone we could to provide jobs for our people.
It seems like a lot of comments are being based on listening to only Fox News. It kind of reminds me of the folks at Romney HQ chanting Fox, Fox, Fox on election night because they didn't like the fact that CNN was calling the race for Obama. He can't be campaigning after all, because he has already been elected twice.
If the president failed at anything in his first term it was in not understanding just how recalcitrant the GOP has become since the common sense of Ronald Regan was replaced by the agenda of the neocons. The publicly stated primary goal of the GOP was to make Obama a one term President, at any cost. In spite of this, the naive young man from Hawaii actually tried to make compromises and has, in fact, moved more to the right politically than any Democrat in history.
I for one am glad that he told the nation that he will use executive orders to accomplish essential government functions rather than letting a minority of extremists hold the entire country hostage.
No spending cuts... just a decrease in the rate of increase. More programs we don't need or want, but we'll end up paying for them anyway. When is anyone in Washington going to open their eyes to the reality that you can't fix a problem by throwing money at it. If Congress truly wants to fix the state this Country is in, they need to get out of the way and let Main Street do what they do best... work, raise money, open businesses and create real jobs, not governmental agencies.
Just more promises that will never be fulfilled. Spend more money we don't have and destroy the Armed Forces. Obama's My way or the Highway attitude has got to go if America is to survive. His Majesty must realize he is NOT a King and become a President which leads to America's recovery.
I can sum it up in one word. POPPYCOCK !
Winston Churchill best sum up Obama's
hope and change program long ago.When he said,
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.."
Spend, spend, spend- nothing new here to see, just more fodder for the low information voters. Worst point was the minimum wage increase to $9.00. Just a cursory look at historical data shows that every time the minimum wage was raised, youth unemployment climbed- and street violence increased. Obama has no idea how the economy works. Every increase in the cost of doing business gets passed on to the customer, increasing the COL, and according to him, the minimum wage should be tied to that index- thus creating a circular trap that further decays the economic engine that is the entrepreneurial spirit of the Americans.
Read carefully what Cicero said:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. BUT IT CANNOT SURVIVE TREASON FROM WITHIN. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But THE TRAITOR MOVES AMONGST THOSE WITHIN THE GATE FREELY, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of GOVERNMENT itself. FOR THE TRAITOR APPEARS NOT A TRAITOR; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, HE APPEALS TO THE BASENESS THAT LIES DEEP IN THE HEARTS OF ALL MEN. HE ROTS THE SOUL OF A NATION, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A MURDERER IS LESS TO FEAR. THE TRAITOR IS THE PLAGUE."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
Attributed. 58 BC, Speech in the Roman Senate
I haven't been able to believe the last several Presidents that we have had. They, both sides, promise some good sensible things but then little of that actually happens. What happens is that those who pay off the government get what they want, and those of us who just pay for government get the shaft. Both parties are killing this nation, but doing the rest of the world a favor. We are taking their unemployed, their overflow populations, their criminals and we are giving other countries foreign aid, military protection and more. Our leaders truly believes they are the world's government. They spend more time in congress talking about what they are going to do for other countries in the world and this means less time on the huge problems here. By the way why are we policing the world, when we can't even police our own nation? Did those other countries vote for this? Do they pay taxes to support it? Excuse me we can't afford it so we borrow the money to pay for it. Our leaders clearly have enlarged their responsibilites beyond the Constitutions limits. Its time to take care of business at home; if both parties are not up to it then why vote for them; its just more of the same failure with a different party name on it.
I don't know what State of the Union message BEACHBOYRON listened to but it sure wasn't the one I watched!
Lies, lies and more lies fro this president!
I simply cannot trust anything he says to have any validity.
The economy is the #1 most important issue he should be addressing and he's not! Spending is out of control and more revenue (TAXES) won't fix it without very deep and long term consequences.
The President and his administration, with too many other congresspersons, seem to be hell bent to grow Government by trampling our Constitution, saddling our economy-growing middle class with more taxes, reduction of benefits and increased spending. It is high time that We the People of the United States demand job performance worth of the several Offices and of their having been ELECTED TO OFFICE.
It is a matter of Public Record that more than a few of Our Forefathers,including General, then first President George Washington refused to accept pay a,d benefits for their Service to our fledgling Nation. Many sacrificed life and livelihood, as well as family, for the sake of our Independence, Constitution, Amendments and Bill of Rights. My daily prayer to the same God Whom out forefathers trusted for their decisions AFTER preaching and prayer (which activities lasted for HOURS before the opening or DAILY business) is for Congress to search and listen for God's Guidance and to be strong enough, with enough fortitude, to stand behind decisions to guide our once great Nation back onto the Godly path she once trod.
AMEN and AMEN!
It was what I expected. A lot of outright lies.We simply cannot create a society that takes from some to give to others. It has never worked before and will not work now. We have to live within our means and we must remain strong in our defense. I am tired of this president, who talks a good game, but then does everything in his power to bring this country down.
How sad. The nation's leaders acting like jerks. The VP looked drunk and Boehner was bored and partisan. How wonderful it would be to have adult leadership not self interested members of a kleptocracy. Gridlock is a nice term for politicians only working for the wealthy donors. From the minority we get a token over his head. Billionaires are calling for a fairer tax system where they pay their fair share. Will they get it? No way. Bring home our troops and stop the nation building and arrogant drone strikes. If Russia was doing that we would be on the verge of war.
I'm an independent voter so I don't have an axe to grind in either direction. The country is split in two so whatever the President does is either applauded or gets gets a negative reaction. The man did get elected so he will be President for 4 more years. The real truth is everything is somewhere in the middle. I'm interested in the country moving forward. In a democratic republic you win some and lose some. Sitting around waiting for your individual to get elected doesn't do the country any good as we have seen. We have to deal with reality and the people have spoken in an election whether we like it or not.
The speech was good I would say but like any speech a President makes it is up to Congress to act. One thing Congress has done is sit on their hands doing mostly nothing and just go from one crisis to another because many are more interested in taking down the President than they are in helping their country. Probably why the President did get elected and many voters saw right through what was going on. Many lived in some fantasy world thinking Romney would just walk into the White House because the previous 4 years were difficult ones. Considering where President Obama started from and the resistance he ran into he did a fairly good job. I think the speech was positive and like all speeches a bit political too.
beachboyron, Congress hasn't just been sitting on their hands as you stated. For the majority of the time, they've been trying to stop the downward spiral that this Country has been placed into. But to do this, you need to remove the disease not treat the symptoms. Once the disease is removed, the symptoms will go away as well. The re-election occurred due to the fact that America has gone from a 'producing' Country to one that imports everything. This reduces the number of available high value, high salary jobs. With the flood of illegal immigrants across our swiss cheese like border, those jobs that are still available go to those who are willing to work for a lower salary. Virtually any employer will hire an individual at a lower payrate, so that there is more money left in his/her pocket to sink back into keeping his business afloat. The number of Americans that are on some form of Government assistance has sky-rocketed in the last four years. The 'low information' voter is always going to vote for the one that promises them more money and benefits for not having to work harder to earn it.
The President laid out a plan to create a Utopia Nation without a way to pay for it. Those who may be inspired by his oratory quickly forget that Utopia costs money and we are already well over our heads in debt.
The SOTU speech was nothing more than a campaign speech retread filled with half-truths and outright lies.
POTUS laid out the traditional Statist wishlist and falsely claimed his intended increased spending was not going to increase the deficit one bit. He falsely named Republicans as to blame for the impending sequestration when it was his idea in the first place. He falsely claimed Republicans were at fault for the economy when his Democrat aministration has increased the deficit more in his first four years than every other President in history combined, failed to require the Democrat controlled Senate provide a budget, as required by law, despite having the Republican controlled House of Representatives submitting their budget every year every year.
All in all, the President's SOTU speech was just more of the same old lies and petulance he has attempted to sell as a SOTU every year since being elected. Even Obama understands just how disengenuous his SOTU address was because were it factually believable and not advocating Statist infringment upon the US Constitution he wouldn't hae to immediately depart to campaign to get people to believe in and support his lies.
It was the same old tax and spend program that he promoted the last 4 years. He just got a tax increase and now wants more
Nothing we haven't heard from day one. One exception the socialist movemnet went into high gear. He will run rampant over the Congress without help through the TO many priveleges given his office. With GOP being history who will stop him.
This was not a "State of the Union" address. Ir was a campaign speech, which we have haerd over and over.
I have been watching "State of the Union" addresses for over fifty (50) years and this was the worst ever.
Me, too, Charles. I felt I could have gotten more out of Sesame Street.
..My thoughts following O's speech ~ Sad but true............
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President."
..My thoughts following O's speech ~ Sad but true............
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President."


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The Redwood Falls Farmers Market is scheduled to begin the 2013 season tomorrow. The first day of the farmers market begins at 2 p.m. and continues until 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot at Bridge and Washington streets in downtown Red-wood Falls.
According to Mike Roach, farmers market coodinator, many of the vendors from the past are returning this year, adding there are also a few new vendors setting up.
Everything from canned goods to fresh vegetables, as well as baked goods are going to be available to those who visit the farmers market.
Much of what is going to be available in terms of fresh produce is based on the time of the season, Roach explained, as early farmers market dates are likely going to include some of the colder crops, such as lettuces and radishes.
The farmers market is going to be open now through sometime in late October, with events held every Tuesday from 2 until 5:30 p.m. and every Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon.
Roach said there is always room for additional vendors, and the cost to take part as a vendor is $25 for the whole season.
The public is encouraged to come out this Tuesday and throughout the summer and fall to check out what area producers have to offer.
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Why nobody waits for the fat lady anymore
I was even more disturbed by the Premiership table on the BBC Sport website. I am told that this now updates automatically as matches are going on. This meant that they were showing Spurs at the top of the table with nine points seconds before the final whistle had gone at Upton Park. I know it would have taken somebody even more pessimistic than me to think that England and Spurs weren't about to win but there's something not quite right about this habit of spending emotional capital before it has been gained. It reminds me of the flat feeling you get if you open a birthday present as soon as it arrives, rather than waiting for the big day. All media is acutely aware of the fact that they're only one of thousands of different ways of getting information and therefore their natural reaction is to make sure they're the first with the news, even if it hasn't quite happened yet. Witness OK's Jade Goody "tribute issue" which went on sale before the poor woman had died. I fear this is the way of the future.
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- Handsome P. Wonderful said...
I look forward to the first time the 'jumping the gun' goes spectacularly wrong ("cricket world hails triumphant Australian 250 last wicket stand!").
- 9:13 am
Happened with Michael Jackson's death in an even more widespread fashion - the "thousand amateurs" requiring Wikipedia to shut its doors.
But it is one good remaining reason to actually attend live events nowadays!
- 10:48 am
- Smithylad said...
We were following TMS on the radio and Sky Sports on the TV. Wickets happened on the radio seconds before they happened on Sky.
I think I am right in saying both cable and radio signals travel at the speed of light, so the delay must be in the time it takes encode and decode video signals. Either that, or the BBC's technicians are that little bit sharper than those at Sky.
- 11:53 am
- Dan W said...
Seems to be happening more in all forms of journalism. Bloomberg published something about Steve Jobs being dead a while back and didn't the Standard website run something about the Lockerbie bomber being refused release last week, incorrectly? It's going to keep happening as news outlets write various outcomes of situations before they happen to have the news as quickly as it happens.
At journalism college, we had a talk from someone from Bloomberg who told us with great pride that they had published the news about Manchester winning the super casino contract story 0.4 seconds faster than any of their rivals. Joy.
- 12:09 pm
- johnlyons121 said...
Would you count this as part of the same media impatience to present a resolution of sporting endeavour which is still actually going on?
A headline on the BBC Sport website following Liverpool's home defeat against Aston Villa:
"Title bid not over, says Benitez".
So Liverpool's manager has felt moved to react to people ruling out his boys for the title after all of three games. One of which Liverpool won.
- 1:07 am
- Inky Fingers said...
Three words: 'Dewey Defeats Truman'.
- 7:56 am
- ds said...
It's only the way of the future if we allow it to be so. If enough of us develop a type of loud and public aversion to not waiting for the fat lady perhaps, just perhaps, sopmeone miught actually notice.
I personally have an aversion to showing the permier league table now. The first weekend was hilarious: Arsenal top after beating Everton. Well, who'd have thought? The table is barely worth even loking at until around 7 or 8 games in, when the anomalous early results start to get corrected
- 10:44 am
- hesspartacus said...
While matches are in progress the BBC's Premiership table shows league positions based on current scores.
If West Ham had equalised the table would have changed.
That is all.
- 8:32 am


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New Work by the Dufala Brothers
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The Dufala Brothers design and fabricate wildly awkward and absurd versions of domestic spaces and consumer goods using recycled materials. Some of their prior constructions include a house made out of chainlink fencing and a fiberglass furniture suite. In these and other works, the artists take efficiency to an extreme level, suggesting highly contradictory designs for survival and comfort.
For the DCCA, the Dufalas construct an original, site-specific sculptural installation that responds to the existing ventilation system of the gallery. A vertical tower made of ductwork normally used in heating and cooling systems, the sculpture is crafted from salvaged materials found at Revolution Recovery, a Philadelphia-based recycling company. According to the artists, the ductwork arrived at the recycling center as an agglutination of miscellaneous and demolished HVAC systems that they then collected and repurposed.
Part dollhouse, part shantytown, the structure suggests both a domestic and industrial space configured with multiple parts with openings that allow viewers to peer into a seemingly cramped living area. Emphasizing infrastructure over livability, the Dufala Brothers' puzzle of interconnected conduit would seem inhospitable to any tenant. A wry commentary on our desire for technological progress at the expense of true convenience and efficiency, the artists reframe familiar HVAC ventilation as a strangely suffocating system.
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Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most in need—and least likely to pay. She knows a successful midwifery practice must be built on a foundation of openness and trust—but the secrets Patience is keeping are far too intimate and fragile for her to ever let anyone in.
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"The Midwife of Hope River...is still on my mind days after finishing. From start to satisfying conclusion, it is a beautifully imagined novel, a marvel of a debut, rich with fully realized characters and events. This is one I'll read again, more slowly next time." — Johanna Moran, author of The Wives of Henry Oades
"As always when writing of birth, the bleakest of times can be transformed by the power and beauty of birth...the moments of joy between new parents and their baby, between the mothers and the midwife, and between the midwife and her young assistant, light up the pages. Amen baby!" — Penny Armstrong, CNM, author of A Midwife's Story and A Wise Birth
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Ackman Shorting Herbalife, Calls Company 'Pyramid Scheme'
Bill Ackman is betting against Herbalife.
The hedge-fund manager says he's been shorting Herbalife, a maker of nutrition and weight-control products, for months, while calling the company a "pyramid scheme."
The news, earlier reported by CNBC, sent the stock tumbling. It tripped a single-stock circuit breaker on the way down before recently falling about 12% to $37.30.
Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, is scheduled to speak at an event for the Ira Sohn Conference, which regularly holds high-profile gatherings where investors share their ideas. He plans to outline why he is betting the company's stock price will fall.
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Herbalife was in the news earlier this year after another hedge-fund manager, David Einhorn, asked pointed questions about the company's financials during an earnings call in early May.
Einhorn is known for taking short positions in companies, although he hasn't disclosed whether he is shorting Herbalife.
Einhorn, of Greenlight Capital, asked specific questions pertaining to how Herbalife quantifies distributors, consumers and other clients. Einhorn also asked the company why it stopped disclosing the percentage break-down among its distributors.
At that time, Herbalife said Einhorn's questions were "elementary" and "raised no new subjects or concerns."
In mid-August, news broke that the SEC had questioned Herbalife over its disclosures on sales by distributors, the same types of questions that Einhorn had lobbed to the company earlier this year.
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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Friday, Aug. 10, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Deputies are looking for a man pretending to be one of them after he allegedly pulled over a woman and stole her license.
Patricia Wiggins is still on edge.
"I got a baseball bat, a pool stick and a sledge hammer," the young mother said.
She also brought an ax into her home after a fake cop pulled her over last week.
"I got scared. Really scared," Wiggins said.
Wiggins was driving home last Friday night when she said an officer pulled her over along Deans Bridge Road.
"A car blue-lighted me and pulled me over," she said.
At first glance, Wiggins thought a Richmond County deputy pulled her over.
"The uniform was all black. It had the black button-up shirt," she said.
At the time, she didn't realize that Richmond County deputies don't wear black uniformed shirts.
Wiggins also noticed the patrol car.
"It looked like a silver and black Richmond County thing, except the decal was faded," she said.
The man in uniform asked her if she knew she speeding, then asked for a Breathalyzer. She took the test and passed.
She began to think something wasn't right when she says the officer suddenly hopped back into his car with her license and sped off.
"(He) busted a u-turn and went back towards Gordon Highway," Wiggins said.
Wiggins called dispatch who told her that they did not have a record of an officer pulling her over.
She filled out an incident report, but she didn't began to really worry until a few days later.
"My license shows up here at this address when my address is not on my license," she said.
Wiggins is not sure how the fake cop figured out where she lives, but somehow her stolen ID ended up in her mailbox.
"That can be one of the worst crimes committed, if someone uses false pretenses and plays himself out to be a police officer. A lot of the public is trusting," said Lt. Blaise Dresser.
Richmond County deputies are investigating to find the impersonating officer.
Dresser advices the public to always pull over for blue lights.
However, if you suspect the person pulling you isn't a real officer, then make sure you pull over in a safe public place and turn on your hazards. Also, check out the officer's badge because it will show his or her department. If you are still unsure, call 911 and ask dispatch whether they have an officer pulling you over.


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Is Samsung Moving Away from Apple or Moving Closer?
Tech industry watchers took notice of a recent media report that Samsung Electronics was cutting back on some components including liquid crystal displays for Apple, an idea that Samsung rebutted. Teardown reports of Apple's new iPad Mini last week revealed that Apple still relies on Samsung for key parts.
But Samsung has turned more circumspect about new reports that Apple may cut back on another part of their supplier-customer relationship: its reliance on Samsung to build the logic chips it designs to run the basic functions of its iPads, iPods and iPhones.
South Korean newspapers last Friday, citing anonymous sources, said Samsung is slowing down plans to build a new factory for logic chips in Hwaseong, a suburb of Seoul, because of fears that Apple may not be buying chips from it. Samsung in June announced plans for the factory, with an estimated cost in the $4 billion to $5.5 billion range, with a target for production to start in the first half of 2014.
DigiTimes, the Taiwan-based tech newspaper, said that Samsung rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, also known as TSMC, is expected to secure its first orders from Apple to build logic chips. Samsung didn't deny this one – though it didn't confirm it either. TSMC has declined to comment on the matter, while an Apple representative wasn't immediately reachable for comment.
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SAN JOSE -- You've probably never heard of Earthquakes newcomer Jean-Baptiste Pierazzi, but he is a legend in Ajaccio, on the island of Corsica.
The center midfielder was captain of AC Ajaccio in Ligue I, the top league in France, before realizing his American dream.
"Since I was a little child I've always wanted to live in the United States," Pierazzi said through an interpreter. "I've visited America. I know the country, and I've always enjoyed it. This is the time to come here.
"I'm at a moment where MLS is on the way up. It's a new chapter in my life and a time to make a different kind of history for myself."
He's played all 179 games of his professional career for his small hometown club, dating to 2006. Understandably, the people of Corsica, a French island in the Mediterranean Sea, were jolted when they learned he was leaving.
"For them, it was a big thing to lose their player," said Quakes assistant coach Nick Dasovic, who translated for Pierazzi. "But again, they welcomed him. I read the tweets: 'Good luck. We wish you all the best.' So he's left the club at a good moment."
Pierazzi recently told France Football that the United States always fascinated him and that he began learning English months before any conversations with the Earthquakes because he was tired of struggling with the language in visits to the country.
"Everything happens very quickly in (MLS)," Pierazzi told France Football. "When Americans want something, they know what it takes to get it. Since the arrival of (David) Beckham and (Thierry) Henry, it is insane. The stadiums are new, they are always full, and the level of play has improved."
The Quakes are delighted the 28-year-old Corsican has come in the prime of his career. The club will head to Tucson, Ariz., on Monday for its second week of preseason training, with scrimmages scheduled against Seattle on Wednesday and Houston on Saturday.
Pierazzi is the first top-level player from France to come to MLS in his prime, according to Paul Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Soccer America. Others were either on the downside of their careers or couldn't catch on back home.
Right on Pierazzi's heels, French midfielder Vincent Nogueira, 26, captain of FC Sochaux-Montbeliard of Ligue 1, was signed by the Philadelphia Union last week.
Pierazzi believes his move will inspire others to come.
"From me coming here at this age, it's going to entice even the younger Europeans to come into the league, because it's obviously a league that's globally quite accepted right now," said Pierazzi, who signed with San Jose on Jan. 7.
Pierazzi had helped AC Ajaccio move up to the first division in France, but the club is currently facing relegation.
He has appreciated how welcoming the Quakes have been, and his new teammates have noticed his sharpness, fresh off his season in France.
"He's really calm on the ball," Quakes wing Shea Salinas said. "It's impressive. You can tell he already has an idea of what he wants to do with the ball as soon as he gets it. ... I'm excited to start playing with him."
Quakes coach Mark Watson has no complaints about Pierazzi so far.
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Definition of bird's-eye in English:
1 [usually as modifier] Any of a number of plants with small flowers that have contrasting petals and centres.
- (also bird's-eye primrose) A primrose with yellow-centred purple flowers (Primula farinosa, family Primulaceae). (also bird's-eye speedwell) North American term for germander speedwell.
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- Bird's-eye primrose is a diminutive plant.
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- Bird's-eye refers to the color pattern of the flowers.
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I wasn't sure where to post this, as I am a new runner, 51, and a penguin, but I thought I would share my first 10k experience with all of you. This 10K was a benefit called London's run who was a little girl that died from Leukemia. I only mention this because every ¾ to 1 mile, there was a large photograph on the course of a child and or their family accompanied by a motivational or inspirational saying. I started running in June of 10, and figured I was ready for this run; although I hadn't been able to train the last few weeks, so I was really nervous about the race. I arrived early, and the course was farm roads around a large farm, and I had only previously run on pavement. You really had to pay attention to the dirt roads, as there were ruts, rocks, and uneven sections; it wasn't bad, just my inexperience with this type of course. It was 38 degrees around the race start, which I consider really cold here in AZ. I warmed up and wore a long sleeve dri-max long sleeve t-shirt, with a short sleeve dri-max over it, shorts, gloves, and a beanie. They had a personal trainer warm up those that were interested, so I joined in and felt really good. The race started, and I wanted to make sure that I really watched my pace with the lack of running prior to. I usually run an 11:30ish pace, and the next thing I knew I was around 10:20. Whoa Nellie; pulled back the pace and settled in for the run. Mile 1 came, and a water station was there, but I didn't feel the need to hydrate, so kept running. Throughout the course, they had volunteers that were cheering sections, which was awesome. Mile 2 and it felt like the temp went up 40 degrees, so off came the gloves and the beanie. Mile 3 came and went, still feeling good. Mile 3 was the next water station, and I walked it in order to get a drink, as I haven't figured that part out yet. My experience in my 5ks was either I wore the water or choke on it, so I had a drink and back to running. I hit mile 4 and was starting to get a little tired, but every sign I saw made my challenge seem very inconsequential, so I kept running at my pace. Mile 5 was the next water station, and they had Gatorade, which was the best drink I think I have ever had, walked through the stop and back to the race. After the turn at mile 5, you could see the finish line way off in the distance, and you could hear the cheering; which made the rest of the run effortless. I came across the line at 1:11:58, which was an 11:34 pace. My goal was an 11:30 pace, so I am very pleased with my performance. The staff and the volunteers were outstanding at this race, kudos to them for an outstanding event. I couldn't have imagined 7 months ago that I would be running this far or this long. I think I will run another 10k in March, and then perhaps on to half marathon training. Sorry for the long post, just had an excellent day and thought I would share it with my fellow runners.
Good job! That sounds like a good run, good race.
Sounds like you had a good race but I hate those races where you can see the finish line off in the distance as it reminds me just how far left I have to go! I much prefer the races where you turn a corner and out of no where the finish line appears!
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Thanks for sharing your experience here--very motivational for other penguins like myself!
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I like reading stories like this, Congrats on your race and thanks for sharing!
Congrats. There's nothing like crossing that finish line. Especially when you are running a new distance for the 1st time.
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I love your story!
I am 52 years old and started running in 2007 to lose weight, so far I have lost 60 pounds. I ran my first 5K and 10K in 2007. In 2008 I ran my first 1/2 marathon and full marathon. I am training for my 4th full marathon in April, The Southern Indiana Classic at Evansville, Indiana. I have started a blog to document my progress.
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Thanks for sharing! Looking to do my first 10k this summer and keeping this story in the back of my mind during the cold dreary days will be very encouraging.
Thank for Sharing! I always love hearing other peoples success stories, and get so much motivation from these threads!
Thanks everyone for the comments and encouragement. I apologize for not repsonding sooner, but I have been unable to post here for some reason since I started this thread. Switched browsers, so perhaps this will work?
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I dont know if anyone else has this. I have this month had lower back pain so bad i wish i could have changed my lower back for another. It was so unconfortable is was stupid, it last the day my cb ovulation smily face came up and has only know calmed down. Phew i never had it like that before other months it has been there slightly but nothing like this month i wonder why it was different?
I am not taking anything no more as i was winding myself up getting the negatives every month so if i didnt have a daily reminder taking the vits.
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I've had it a few times , this month I had it from the friday afternoon and all day saturday ,I couldn't get comfortable at all with it it was very low just at the top of my tail bone and I realised it was probably ov related because I also had bad bloating , a headache and had ewcm on the friday your ovaries can swell a fair bit around ov time and your tubes swell as well and unfortunately that can press on certain nerves in that area and cause low back pain , maybe you had a two egg month so your ovaries were a bit more swollen ,the fluid from the follicle can also irritate the inside of your abdomen so if you were asleep when ov happened then it might irritate the back of it and trigger back pain as you have more nerves at the back or it could just be one of those things that there's no explaination for
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I did wonder if it was the case. It is funny how you never notice things before and now i know my body better than ever. That would be scary if two eggs are being released this month aqs my mother dream would be true with me having twins. It is in the family and im the only one who hasnt had children yet.


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This seems to have disappeared without much of a trace. The domain (zigzig.com) expired and the last version is nowhere to be found.
This looks like a nice GUI. Not too many options. However, it seems to use it's own version of SVN, which is ahead of OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). This makes it useless to me.
ZigVersion is not freeware -- but it does have a free license for non-commercial use.
I'm currently trying it out and it seems pretty good -- and a bit simpler than svnX. Anyone else have feedback about the app itself and why you like/dislike it?
I've been using CVS for a few years, and a year or two ago made the transition to learning Subversion. At their heart, they both apply the same version control principles. The buzz around Subversion is more because it deals with many of the problems people feel are crippling CVS. There's nothing spectacular about Subversion.
And about setting it up, I've yet to find a GUI for Subversion that's so complete, a user can get away without having to revert to the commandline. I use ZigVersion for managing my Google Code repository, as well as TextMate's built-in Subversion bundle, but I'm constantly reverting to the Terminal for more direct Subversion control. Its inevitable. :) I'd recommend finding a good Subverison tutorial, and start exploring the software as if it were a command-line only tool. Once you've got the hang of the commandline tool, using these GUI applications will feel more intuitive.
Gee. I don't know whether it's my 5th or 10th time that I try to set up my own Subversion server... I must say, this is not for people with weak nerves.
What a complicated mess. And interestingly, I hear Subversion is meant to be an improved and simpler flavor of CSV. I wonder how complicated the older version control systems were...
Granted, I realize of course that it's not for the faint minded, with Subversion, but all the buzzing about "Subversion", "SVN", "check the repository" and somesuch things that you stumble by, all over the place, makes you a tiny bit curious to try it out yourself. Too bad, I think this might be the end of my curiousness in Subversion for now... It's not for anyone else than full-fledged programmers, preferably belonging to the gray haired generation, who wears bottle glasses and keep dusty tomes on machine code in their bookshelves.
Does it have to be this difficult to start version controlling?
I have one hint, though, which lead me a little bit further, regarding how to install a local Subversion repository:
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GYPSUM - Eagle Valley girls basketball has opened 4A Slope play the last two seasons with 1-4 and 0-5 records, so 2-0 to begin 2012-13 would be much better,
The Devils made it so with a fourth-quarter comeback to nip Rifle, 40-39, Saturday afternoon on the heels of a 50-48 victory Friday night in Glenwood Springs.
"Absolutely amazing. They're just such hard workers," Devils coach Sam Bartlett said. "I can't say enough about them. Every single person stepped up in that game. They all played a role. ... We played a lot of close games this summer, and we were on the losing end of a lot of games. I told them they were going to get over the hump."
The Bears led 31-28 with 2:53 left in the game when Eagle Valley's Megan Asmussen hit a huge 3 to tie it. Madeline Lounsberry stopped Rifle's next possession with a steal and Lauren Thorpe raced down the court for a layup and the lead.
Lounsberry sank two free throws for a 35-31 advantage. She ended up with a team high 14 points. Rifle's Joey Kuheim and Lounsberry traded buckets and the Devils' nudged their lead up to 38-36 with 11.6 seconds to go. Rifle hoped to inbound the ball, but the Devils' Mariel Gutierrez read the play all the way, stealing the pass and heading right to basket for two. That four-point lead ended up being critical as Rifle's Chante Church, who lead all scorers with 18, hit a 3 at the buzzer.
"All I wanted to do was take the ball away from them," Gutierrez said. "She saw the player on the other side of the court. She turned and I saw it."
With the win, the Devils are 5-2, while the Bears fell to 3-3 (and 1-1 in the 4A Slope).
"I told them that we played our game in the second half defensively and on the boards, which I didn't feel we did in the first half," Rifle coach Rick Schmitz said. "It got us back in the game. It gave us a chance to win at the end. A key point in the second half was we were up three and they got a stop and they scored. That seemed to give them some momentum. We had our chances."
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Eagle Valley boys basketball was one of the preseason contenders in the 4A Slope and Saturday's 61-34 rout of Rifle did nothing to dispel that status.
The Devils started with a 10-0 run and led 35-6 at the half on their way to a 2-0 start in the Slope.
"The guys played well tonight. I hope they had fun," first-year coach Jim Bair said. "Rifle's a good basketball team, big physical kids. They always put good athletes on the court."
And while Bair has clearly read the coach cliche handbook, the Devils looked very sharp Saturday with familiar faces and new ones. Center Travis Edgar is new to Eagle Valley basketball, but seems a perfect fit. His early putback got the Devils going. Familiar faces Sam Lounsberry and Ayren Hart added scores and point-guard Juan Baca (Mr. Pocket Schedule) drilled a 3, and the Devils were off to the races.
"It was a big change, but everyone bought in, and committed," said Hart, who led the Devils with 19 in limited playing time.
With Eagle Valley up comfortably, Bair used his bench early and often, while Rifle was left to figure out what happened.
"We were unbelievably bad. I think Eagle had a lot to do with that. They're really good," Rifle coach Roger Walters said. "At the same time, our level of focus, our level of execution was so poor. I didn't have them prepared. It is early, so hopefully, we can get them prepared a little bit better."
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About 24,000 customers of Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative, based in Seminole, have been notified that CVEC is looking at a one-year study to consider consolidation or joint operations with a similar-sized cooperative to reduce the impact of future electricity increases on members.
The CVEC Board of Trustees has begun discussions with Central Rural Electric Cooperative, a 22,000 member co-op based in Stillwater, about solutions to offer rate stability for members through cost sharing of their cooperative and utility services.
"There's a wide gamut of possibilities there," said George Hand, general manager of CVEC, adding any decision would require a vote of the membership in both cooperatives.
"In the long run, it will be the members' decision," he said.
Hand said the financial outlook for future energy looks tremendous for customers, so both cooperatives are looking at the study and how joint operations could "reduce the impact of future increases."
During CVEC's annual meeting scheduled Sept. 14, the collaboration of "Build our Energy Future Together" will be discussed, but the study process itself is expected to take as long as a year, Hand said.
The letter received by customers notes that CVEC and CREC have not made any decision "other than to explore the potential opportunities for CVEC and CREC that working together could create."
Hand, who said both co-ops are very similar in size and have close rates, said any such consolidation would have to "be a benefit to customers or it won't happen."
Benefits of working together also would provide more combined resources when electric service is disrupted from weather-related events, Hand said, from ice storms to severe weather.
"Today we are both financially strong — good electric systems with good customer base," he said.
If boards of both co-ops decide to pursue the idea, any consolidation would require approval by members from both coops as stated by law. A 5 percent total of the member base would be needed to constitute a quorum for such a meeting, Hand said, and a two-thirds majority of yes votes would be needed to proceed.
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Adcetris consists of three parts: the chimeric IgG1 antibody cAC10, specific for human CD30, the microtubule-disrupting agent monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE), and a protease-cleavable linker that covalently attaches MMAE to cAC10 (1). Before the approval of Adcetris this year, the only other ADC approved by FDA was Mylotarg (gemtuzumab ozogamicin), approved more than 10 years ago in 2000. The drug, an anti-CD33 mAb conjugated to the cytotoxin calicheamicin, was developed by Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) and was granted accelerated approval in 2000 but was voluntarily withdrawn by Pfizer in 2010 because a required Phase III trial failed to demonstrate a survival advantage for Mylotarg plus chemotherapy compared with chemotherapy alone. Despite this setback, there are several ADCs currently in development, with more than 15 in Phase I development and several compounds from Roche and Pfizer in late-stage clinical trials. In the decade that has elapsed between the first ADC approval and the second, advances in the understanding of cancer biology, lessons learned from the development of mAbs as therapeutics, and better methods for linking small molecules to mAbs have coalesced to advance ADCs into the forefront of new therapies.The most active area of development for this class of therapeutics has been oncology, where a mAb serves to target the therapy to cancer cells while a potent small-molecule chemotherapeutic provides the cell-killing efficacy. Both mAbs and small-molecule chemotherapeutics are used individually as cancer therapies, but an ADC is designed to overcome the limitations of each. MAbs are highly specific, but as therapeutics have demonstrated only modest efficacy and often are used in combination with a conventional chemotherapy. Chemotherapeutics are highly toxic, but nonspecific, and so suffer from poor side-effect profiles and dose-limiting toxicities. In combination, the ADC serves to keep the chemotherapuetic bound until it reaches the cancer cell, thereby limiting its ability to interact with nontargeted tissues and therefore limiting nonspecific toxicity (2).
The concept of an ADC is not a new one, but creating a clinically successful one has been challenging. For the therapeutic to work well, each of the parts—the antibody, the toxin, and the linker that holds them together—must be carefully considered.
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In general, mAbs as therapeutics are selected to have high affinity for the targeted antigen and high selectivity. Other desirable properties in an antibody include long circulation times, immune-effector functions, and tumor-suppressing activity (2). When choosing the antigen, it is important that it be expressed at high levels in the tissue of interest to maximize the amount of ADC bound by the tumor, but at low levels elsewhere in the body to minimize off-target toxicity. Moreover, it is thought that internalization of the ADC is important for its effectiveness. Many of the chemical-linking strategies used to construct ADCs rely on conditions found inside a cell, either in the cytoplasm or in the lysosome, to release the active agent (3).
In some instances, developers have been able to leverage experience gained through the development of mAb therapies to create their ADC. Trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) is an ADC in Phase III, which combines trastuzumab, (Herceptin), which targets human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) receptors in breast and stomach cancer, with a maytansine derivative DM1, a small-molecule cytotoxin that binds to tubulin to prevent microtubule formation, through a nonreducible bis-maleimido-trixyethylene glycol linker (4). Trastuzumab was developed by Genentech (now part of Roche) and was approved by FDA in 1998 for use in women with metastatic breast cancer who have tumors that overexpress the HER2 protein. The maytansine derivative DM1 and linking technology were developed by ImmunoGen. In the case of the ADC trastuzumab emtansine, developers were able to use a target that had already been validated and a well-characterized antibody with a known safety and efficacy profile as the starting point for an ADC.


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That was a fun NCAA tournament to watch -- wholly unpredictable, entertaining games, interesting stars and drama everywhere.
Now that it's over and UConn is the champion, we can look back at the whole breadth of this year's tournament and say, yeah, that was worth watching. Kevin Ollie, Shabazz Napier and the rest of the Huskies were nervy, highly skilled, gutsy and very deserving.
However... it all did play out quite randomly, from a statistical and five-months-of-games point of view, and when the men's basketball national championship result is subjected to so much randomness that makes any time you might've spent watching the actual men's basketball regular season seem relatively worthless.
And it does not create much appetite for the 2014-15 college hoops regular season, I must say.
Because this year's tournament was the full expansion of the general worrying sense that the championship is decided in a manner that is totally separate from whatever happened in the regular season, which isn't quite ideal for any sport.
For instance, in its last regular-season game, UConn lost 81-48 in Louisville.
UConn also was swept by SMU -- which did not make the tournament -- lost at Houston and lost at home to Stanford.
What did any of that mean once the tournament started? Nothing, nothing at all.
You want your regular season to mean something. Doesn't have to mean almost everything, and you build playoffs to make sure they have the most drama.
We can all have our qualms about the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB regular seasons, and all the times a team struggled through the regular season, barely made the playoffs, then knifed through the postseason after catching a hot spell.
—Interestingly, the NBA is the league that always gets the complaints about a "meaningless" regular season, yet that's the league that almost always sees No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 regular-season seeds end up in the final round.
—The last time a team seeded lower than third in a conference made it to the NBA finals was when the Knicks -- the East's No. 8 -- lost to San Antonio in the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season.
—The last time a team seeded lower than third in a conference won an NBA title was in 1995 when Houston -- the West's No. 6 -- beat Orlando in the finals.
—Fans love the NFL regular season, yet the league has seen No. 4 Baltimore win the Super Bowl after the 2012 season, the No. 4 NY Giants win it after the 2011 season and the No. 6 Packers win it after the 2010 season.
—The NFL has found a way for its regular-season to matter while the postseason remains unpredictable... and still connected to the events of the regular season.
—Now the NFL regular season is a survival test of some major consequence all in itself. You have to push through the 16-game gauntlet in a somewhat stronger way than most of your competitors to earn the right to get hot in the postseason.
—One of the arguments against adding more and more teams -- though we all know the NFL will keep adding, because that means more money and the NFL never says no to more money -- is that each time you add more teams you cheapen the regular season and add the possibility that a mediocre team just gets red-hot in the postseason without really deserving that chance.
—I think college football has had the best regular season in sports -- talk about each game being relevant. That's why I always point out that the playoff system might weaken the significance of September/October games, but obviously college football is probably strong enough that it doesn't matter, presuming the playoffs are done right.
—We'll see about that.
Anyway, back to college hoops...
You don't want 30+ games before mid-March for Duke, Arizona, North Carolina, UConn, Kentucky, Stanford and all the rest to essentially turn into a dreary four-month preseason, full of shots and fouls and whistles and rebounds that don't actually translate to anything that happens once the tournament begins.
And college basketball got there this year, it seems like.
As Jon Wilner wrote at the start of the tournament, there are severe concerns about the growing insignificance of the regular season in college hoops, and that was before a No. 7 seed that played a lackluster regular season toppled a No. 8 seed that had a lackluster regular season for the national title.
I've written about the new randomness of March Madness and threw out various possible reasons -- the one-and-done phenomenon, the poor shooting fundamentals of many teams and maybe just the general shrinking attention span all-around.
One point I made on Twitter: You want free-throw shooting to matter? UConn won a national title last night in large part because it made its free throws last night and throughout the tournament, and Kentucky lost that game in large part because it couldn't make its free throws.
That matters.
For all those reasons and I'm sure many more, in this era, the college basketball regular season is just a long precursor.
It isn't a true eliminator (the way it is for the NFL and MLB), because any decent team from a major conference is going to get in.
It isn't a great predictor because we just saw UConn and Kentucky motor through the field with regular-season profiles that very much suggested that they shouldn't have been able to do that.
And I don't want to over-react, because if one year the new randomness gives us a 7 vs. 8 in the final, next year it could randomly give us two 1s in the final... and people will say, hey, what's the problem?
I think there's a problem, and it's not with the tournament. It's with the lost relevance of the regular season.
Unless you're just looking at it as an NBA developmental league, and I keep getting told that college basketball is above that.
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Sip and slide: Palo Alto's uber-popular SliderBar is heading to Berkeley, bringing its menu of tasty three-bite burgers, Belgian fries (with 13 dipping sauces!) and swanky sips, including craft beer and wine on tap. Grand opening festivities are slated for Saturday -- 1,000 complimentary sliders, people!
-- at Ashwani Dhawan's newest eatery, the third in what's turning out to be a cool little Bay Area chain.
Wondering what's between those artisanal buns? The new Berkeley eatery (2124 Center St., www.sliderbarusa.com) will be showing off some of SliderBar's best-loved little burgers, including The Old Timer (Niman Ranch beef), Please &Q's (pulled pork), and the Magic Mushroom (balsamic-marinated portobellos, onion rings and swiss). Genius move: They do brunch sliders, too. Dhawan is introducing a few new menu items for the blue-and-gold crowd, including a meatball slider, and a Red & Gold, which includes corned beef, sauerkraut and "gold sauce." The Red slider is a nod to the San Francisco 49ers and not, you know, that school in Palo Alto.
Go Bears: While we're on the topic of Cal, football season starts Aug. 31 and FIVE at Berkeley's Hotel Shattuck Plaza is gearing up for the influx of fans. New exec chef Stephane Tonnelier is working on suitable blue-and-gold offerings, including pregame bear claws and bear-itos and postgame Golden Bear cocktails, plus libations that honor the opposing team, starting with a Purple Haze for the Northwestern Wildcats. Tonnelier hails from San Francisco's award-winning Boulevard, where he was executive sous chef. His résumé also includes stints in the kitchens of Paris' Hotel George V, Michelin-starred Copenhague and Flora Danica. Tonnelier will unveil his new, seasonal, modern American menu later this fall, but don't worry about those Golden Bear cocktails disappearing anytime soon. Cheering for Cal is a FIVE tradition. Details: 2086 Allston Way; www.five-berkeley.com.
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phataccino wrote: Asomugha to the Eagles...didn't see that coming after they traded for Rodgers-Cromartie. I wonder if that means they'll flip Rodgers-Cromartie. I can't imagine they deal Samuel. Could Rodgers-Cromartie move to safety?
Limbs wrote: Whoa. Is he even still in the league?
And on second thought, I'm happy it looks like the Lions won't go for Samuel.
adic wrote: Fuggin Tom Cable, Loosing Zach Miller's gonna hurt... Hopefully we can sign Kevin Boss...


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Blogger and activist Yoani Sanchez, of Cuba, speaks during a news conference at the Freedom Tower of Miami Dade College, Monday, April 1, 2013, in Miami. Sanchez has gained thousands of followers worldwide for her candid descriptions of modern life in Cuba on her blog Generation Y. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)