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POSITION: Center
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Burnaby, BC, CAN
DRAFTED: QUE: 1987-15 overall
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (1)
NHL Foundation Player Award (1)
Conn Smythe Trophy (1)
Hart Memorial Trophy (1)
Ted Lindsay Award (1)
- Appeared in only 15 games during his 20th NHL season.
- Missed 67 contests due to injury.
- Served as team captain for the 16th consecutive season (17th season overall).
- Had points in each of his first five games, his longest scoring streak to start a season since 1999-2000 (8 games).
- Missed six of seven games, Nov. 6-22, due to a back injury.
- Did not dress on Nov. 24 at Anaheim because of a tooth infection.
- Left after one shift on Nov. 28 at Phoenix (back) and missed the final 60 games of the season.
- Placed on IR, Dec. 3 (retro to Nov. 28).
- Underwent successful surgery for a herniated disc in his back on Jan. 7.
- Ranks eighth on the NHL's all-time scoring list with 1,641 career points.
- Is 11th all-time in assists (1016) and 14th in goals (625).
Enters his 20th season in the NHL, all with the Colorado Avalanche/Quebec Nordiques…No other active player has been with the same team for a longer period of time…Will be serving as team captain for the 16th consecutive season (17th season overall), also the longest current streak in the league…Ranks eighth on the NHL's all-time scoring list with 1,629 career points…Only four players have ever recorded more points with a single franchise: Gordie Howe (1809) and Steve Yzerman (1755) with the Red Wings, Mario Lemieux with the Penguins (1723) and Wayne Gretzky with the Oilers (1669)…Sakic ranks 11th all-time in assists (1006) and 14th in goals (623)…Captained the Avalanche to the Stanley Cup championship in both 1996 and 2001…Awarded the franchise's first Hart Trophy as league MVP in 2000-01…Won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 1996…2001 Lester B. Pearson Award winner (NHLPA MVP) and 2001 Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (sportsmanship)…NHL First-Team All-Star in 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2003-04…Bud Light Plus/Minus Award in 2001…Has participated in 12 All-Star Games (13 selections), making four starts…Holds All-Star Game record for career assists with 16…Ranks third on the All-Star Game points list with 22, trailing only Gretzky (25) and Lemieux (23)…Was MVP of the 2004 All-Star Game and captained the Western Conference All-Stars in 2007…Three-time Olympian with Team Canada (1998, 2002, 2006)…MVP of 2002 Olympics after helping Canada to its first gold medal in 50 years…Captained Team Canada at the 2006 Olympics…Leads all active players in career assists and points…Ranks 12th all-time in power-play goals with 205, second among active players…Is tied for 19th all-time in game-winning goals (86)…Has recorded 470 career multi-point games, tied for the seventh most in NHL history…Has tallied at least 50 assists in 14 different seasons, tied with Paul Coffey and Marcel Dionne for the third most 50-assist campaigns in league history…Only Gretzky (18) and Ron Francis (16) have more…Has reached the 30-goal mark in a franchise-record nine different seasons…Has surpassed the 20-goal mark in 17 of his 19 seasons; one of only 10 players in NHL history to score 20 or more goals in 17 different seasons…Sakic and Gordie Howe are the only players in NHL history to reach the 100-point mark at age 37 or older…Quebec's second choice (first round, 15th overall) in the 1987 Entry Draft, Sakic is the franchise's all-time leader in nearly every statistical category, including games played (1363), goals (623), assists (1006), points (1629), power-play goals (205), short-handed goals (32) and game-winning goals (86).
Holds the NHL record for playoff overtime goals with eight…Ranks seventh all-time in both playoff goals (84) and points (188-tied)…Leads all active players in both categories…Captained the Avalanche to the Stanley Cup championship in both 1996 and 2001…Won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 1996…Since 1995-96, no other NHL player has scored more goals or recorded more points in the postseason (77 goals, 177 points)…Is tied with Claude Lemieux for third all-time in playoff game-winning goals (19)…Ranks 20th all-time in career playoff assists with 104…Colorado is 48-15 (.762) in playoff games when Sakic scores a goal and 76-31 (.710) when he records at least one point.
Despite being limited to only 44 games, still finished fifth on the team in scoring with 40 points (13g/27a)…Missed 38 games from Dec. 1 to Feb. 22 (hernia), the most action he has ever missed during his NHL career…Underwent hernia surgery on Dec. 28…Was placed on Injured Reserve, Dec. 11 (retro to Nov. 30) and activated on Feb. 24…Prior to that Sakic had played in 232 consecutive games dating back to Jan. 6, 2004…Passed Phil Esposito (1590) for eighth place on the all-time points list with a goal and an assist on Oct. 7 vs. San Jose…Sakic's goal also moved him into sole pos session of 14th on the all-time goals list with 611, passing Bobby Hull…Recorded his 15th career hat trick on Oct. 13 vs. Columbus…Only Peter Stastny (16) has more in franchise history…Assisted on Ryan Smyth's overtime game-winner for his 1,600th career point on Oct. 26 at Calgary (eighth player in NHL history to reach 1,600 points)…Scored his 203rd career power-play goal on Nov. 28 vs. Edmonton, passing Steve Yzerman (202) for 13th place all-time…Scored with 15 seconds remaining to force OT on Feb. 27 in Vancouver and tallied the deciding goal in the Avs' 3-2 shootout win…Recorded his 1,000th career assist on March 22 at Edmonton, becoming just the 11th player in NHL history to reach that mark…Scored with 5.9 seconds left to force overtime and added the shootout winner on March 28 vs. Edmonton…Collected his 1,000th point in an Avalanche sweater (since 1995-96) with an assist on April 1 at Vancouver…Scored his 205th career power-play goal on April 6 vs. Minnesota to pass Wayne Gretzky (204) for 12th place on the all-time list. PLAYOFFS: Led the Avalanche in postseason scoring with 10 points (2g/8a)…Scored his eighth career playoff overtime goal (most in NHL history) in Game One (CQF) at Minnesota on April 9…Passed Ray Bourque (180) for 10th place on the all-time playoff scoring list with a goal and one assist on April 14 vs. Minnesota…Tallied his 100th playoff assist in Game Six (CQF) vs. Minnesota on April 19…With a pair of assists on April 29 vs. Detroit, Sakic moved into eighth place on the NHL's all-time playoff scoring list with 186 points, passing Bryan Trottier (184) and Steve Yzerman (185).
2006-07: Led the Avalanche and tied for sixth in league scoring with 100 points (36g/64a) in 82 games…Joined Gordie Howe as the only players in NHL history to eclipse the 100-point mark at age 37 or older…Howe had 103 points at the age of 40 in 1968-69…Reached the 100-point plateau for the sixth time in his career and the first time since 2000-01…Led the Avalanche in all three scoring categories…Joe's 64 assists ranked sixth in the league and equaled the third highest total of his career…Moved into ninth place on the NHL's all-time scoring list in 2006-07, passing Hall of Fame defensemen Paul Coffey and Ray Bourque…Jumped from 15th to 11th in assists, passing Stan Mikita, Larry Murphy, Al MacInnis and Doug Gilmour…Also moved from 17th to 14th in goals, leaping Dino Ciccarelli and Jari Kurri…Topped the century mark in points with a goal and two assists in the season finale against Calgary on April 8…Sakic's goal was the 610th of his career, tying Bobby Hull for 14th all time, and also his 200th power-play goal, making him just the 14th player in NHL history to score 200 PPG…Appeared in all 82 games for the second straight year and fourth time in the last six seasons…Finished tied for eighth in the league in power-play points (43) and ninth in power-play goals (16), both team highs…Led the Avs in faceoff percentage (53.1%) and ranked first among Colorado forwards in ice time (20:11)…Was the club's top scorer in every month during the season…Made his 12th appearance (13th selection) in the NHL
All-Star Game and was named a starter for the fourth time in his career…Named captain of the Western Conference All-Stars…Notched four assists to lead the West to a 12-9 victory over the East on Jan. 24 in Dallas…Sakic's four assists gave him 16 for his career, surpassing Mark Messier's All-Star record of 14…It was the seventh multi-point game for Sakic in the All-Star Game, breaking Wayne Gretzky's record of six…Recorded 20 points (5g/15a) in eight games against the Calgary Flames, the highest scoring total of any NHL player against one team in 2006-07…Sakic's 20 points tied the franchise record for most points against a single team in one season (Peter Stastny vs. Hartford in 1987-88)…Became the 11th player in NHL history to reach 1,500 points with an assist on Oct. 25 vs. Washington…Moved into 10th place on the all-time scoring list with three assists on Jan. 1 at Nashville, passing Paul Coffey (1531)…Netted his seventh regular season OT goal on Feb. 6 vs. Florida…Collected five points (2g/3a), including his 600th career goal, on Feb. 15 at Calgary…Became the 17th player in NHL history to reach 600 goals…Was named the NHL's Third Star of the Week for Feb. 12-18…Appeared in his 1,300th NHL game on Feb. 25 at Anaheim…Posted a 10-game assist streak from Feb. 6-24, tying Martin St. Louis for the longest such streak in the NHL that season…Named the NHL's Second Star of the Week for March 12-18…With an assist on March 29 at Phoenix, Sakic moved ahead of Ray Bourque (1579) for ninth place on the all-time scoring list…Scored his 609th goal on April 3 at Calgary, passing Dino Ciccarelli for 15th place all time…Was named the NHL's 'Second Star' for the final week of the regular season (April 2-8). 2005-06: Led the Avalanche in assists (55) and points (87) and tied Marek Svatos for the team lead with 32 goals…Moved from 16th to 11th on the all-time points list, from 22nd to 17th in goals and from 20th to 15th in assists…Appeared in all 82 games for the third time in the past five seasons…Racked up a career-high 60 penalty minutes…Led the team in faceoff win percentage (52.5%) and was second in shots (263)…Recorded a point in 14 consecutive road games, Oct. 8-Dec. 10, tied for the longest road scoring streak in the NHL that year…Passed Bryan Trottier for 12th place on the NHL's all-time points list with a goal on Nov. 29 at Edmonton…Converted a penalty shot on Dec. 18 at Madison Square Garden, improving to 5-for-5 all-time on penalty shots (4-for-4 in the regular season)…Played in his 1,200th NHL game on Jan. 11 vs. Montreal…Scored his 560th and 561st career goals on Jan. 24 vs. Calgary, passing Guy Lafleur (560) for 18th place in NHL history…Recorded his 900th career assist on March 12 vs. Calgary…With a four-point night on March 20 at Los Angeles, Sakic moved past Stan Mikita (1467) for 11th place on the NHL's all-time scoring list and past Trottier (901) for 15th on the all-time assist list…Scored his 574th career goal on the final day of the regular season on April 17 at Edmonton, passing Mike Bossy for 17th place all-time. PLAYOFFS: Led the Avalanche with four goals and tied Andrew Brunette for the team lead with nine points during the 2006 playoffs…Scored his NHL-record seventh playoff overtime goal in Game Two (CQF) at Dallas on April 24…Broke a tie with the legendary Maurice Richard, who scored six overtime winners in the playoffs from 1946-58…Appeared in his 155th career playoff game in Game Two (CQF) at Dallas, passing Adam Foote for the most in franchise history. 2003-04: First Team NHL All-Star in his 16th season…Tied for second in the league in scoring with 87 points…Shared the NHL lead in multi-point games with Martin St. Louis (26)…Ranked fourth in the NHL in assists (tied--54), 10th in goals (33) and eighth in power-play goals (13)…Registered a hat trick and was named MVP of the 2004 All-Star Game in Minnesota on Feb. 8…NHL/Sheraton Road Performer Award winner after leading the league with 49 points in 41 road games (22g/27a)…Tallied his 13th career hat trick Dec. 20 at Los Angeles and 14th career hat trick March 3 vs. Vancouver…Suffered a jaw injury Dec. 31 at Calgary but would miss just one game. PLAYOFFS: His seven goals and 12 points in the playoffs led the team in both categories…Registered back-to-back overtime goals in Games Four and Five of the WCSF against San Jose, becoming the first player since Chris Chelios in 1995 with the Blackhawks to score overtime goals in back-to-back playoff games…It was Sakic's fifth and sixth career playoff OT goals, tying Maurice Richard for the most in NHL history. 2002-03: Tallied his 500th career goal on Dec. 11 at Vancouver, becoming the 31st player in NHL history to reach that milestone…He became only the 13th player to score his first 500 goals with one club…Tallied natural hat trick March 13 at Columbus, all coming in the first period…First natural trick for an Avalanche or Nordiques player since 1990-91…Left the Dec. 13 contest at Edmonton with an ankle injury and missed the next nine games, snapping his consecutive GP streak at 224…Missed 15 games with a broken foot suffered Jan. 20 vs. Dallas. PLAYOFFS: Led the Avs in goals (6) and points (9)…Passed Gordie Howe for 14th place on the all time playoff goal scoring list. 2001-02: Finished the season tied for fifth in the NHL with 79 points…Ranked third in the league in assists (53)…NHL First Team All-Star…Had a career-long 18-game goal-scoring drought from Dec. 19 to Jan. 26. PLAYOFFS: Finished second on the team in scoring with 19 points, tied for third most in NHL. 2000-01: Captured the Hart Trophy as league MVP, the first player in franchise history to win the award…Also snagged the Lester B. Pearson Award (NHLPA MVP) and the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (sportsmanship)…First Team NHL All-Star…Finished second in the league in scoring with 118 points in 82 games…Potted a career high 54 goals, topping his previous best of 51 set in 1995-96…His 54 goals ranked second in the NHL behind Pavel Bure (59)…Led the league in game-winning goals (12), power-play points (46) and plus/minus (+45 - tied)…Tied for second in PP goals (19) and was fifth in assists (64)…Set a franchise mark for shots in a single-season with 332, breaking the record of 315 by Claude Lemieux in 1995-96…Established a franchise record for most three-point games in a season with 16, passing Michel Goulet's mark of 13 set in 1982-83…Became the franchise's all-time goal-scoring leader with his 457th on April 8 at Minnesota, surpassing Goulet (456). PLAYOFFS: Led the NHL in post-season goals (13), points (26) and power play goals (5-tied)…Combined with Peter Forsberg and Eric Messier for a franchise-record three fastest goals (0:38 in Game Four at Vancouver)…Left in the first period of Game Three at Los Angeles with a shoulder injury…Returned in Game Six (missed two contests)…Equaled a personal-best four point effort in Game One of the Conference Finals vs. St. Louis (2g/2a), including the franchise's first playoff penalty shot goal…Scored 24 seconds into overtime to clinch the series in Game Five vs. St. Louis…Had a team-high nine points (4g/5a) in the Stanley Cup Finals against New Jersey…Scored two goals, including the game-winner, in a 5-0 victory over the Devils in Game One (May 26)…Had a goal and one assist in Game Seven of the Finals at Pepsi Center on June 9. 1999-00: Finished first on club in points (81), assists (53), plus/minus
(+30) and shots (242)…Recorded his 1,000th career point with an assist on Chris Dingman's goal at 12:03 of the second period on Dec. 27 vs. St. Louis…Became the 56th player in NHL history to reach the 1000-point mark, the 14th to do so with one franchise…Compiled a career-best 14-game point streak from Feb. 29-March 29 (16g/11a)…On March 23 at Phoenix, Sakic notched his ninth career hat trick, scored his 400th career goal and became the all-time franchise leader in points with 1,049…Missed a total of 19 games in November and December due to a rib cartilage injury…Equaled career-best with a seven-game goal streak March 2-14 (11g)…Named NHL Player of the Month for March after tallying 15 goals, including two hat tricks, and 11 assists with a +15 rating in 13 games. PLAYOFFS: Moved into first place on the franchise's all-time playoff lists (games played, goals, assists, points)…Finished tied with Milan Hejduk and Ray Bourque for fourth on Avs in scoring (2g/7a)…Notched his 100th career playoff point in Game Five (CSF) vs. Detroit. 1998-99: Posted his fourth career 40-goal season with 41 (sixth-best in NHL)…Was second on the team and fifth in the league in both points (96) and assists (55)…Tied for the league lead with five short-handed goals…Scored SH goals in three consecutive games, Oct. 15-24, one shy of NHL record set by Dave Reid with Toronto in 1990…Recorded his second career fighting major on March 20 vs. Chicago (Doug Gilmour)…His other was Feb. 28, 1990 vs. Toronto (Gary Leeman). PLAYOFFS: Points in 11 of 19 playoff games…Equaled franchise mark of 12 points in a series (3g/9a) against San Jose. 1997-98: Finished third on the team in scoring (63) despite missing significant time due to injury…Injured his knee on Feb. 18 during the Olympics, forcing him to miss 18 games…Returned April 4 at St. Louis. PLAYOFFS: Served a one-game suspension in Game One vs. Edmonton (CQF)…Became the franchise's all-time leader in postseason goals with his 35th career playoff tally on April 26 (Michel Goulet 34)…Notched his third career playoff OT goal in Game Three at Edmonton on April 28. 1996-97: Finished second on the Avalanche in points (74) and assists (52)…Returned on Feb. 18 vs. Boston after suffering a deep laceration on his left calf muscle on Jan. 4 vs. Philadelphia (missed 17 games)…Recorded a career-high six points on Oct. 15 vs. Edmonton (1g/5a)…Named NHL Player of the Week for Oct. 14-20, collecting nine points (3g/6a) in three games. PLAYOFFS: Second in the NHL in points with 25…Led the NHL in assists (17) and power-play points (12)…Tallied at least one point in 13 of 17 playoff games…Had an eight game point/assist streak April 16-May 4 (3g/13a)…Led the Avs with 12 points in the Chicago series, tying a franchise record for the most points in a series (Peter Stastny in 1982 vs. Boston). 1995-96: Set a career high and finished third in the NHL with 120 points…Had multiple points in 36 games…Tied John Leclair for sixth in the NHL in goals with 51…Was eighth in the league in assists (69) and fourth in power-play points (50). PLAYOFFS: Awarded the 1996 Conn Smythe Trophy after helping the Avalanche to its first Stanley Cup…Led the league with 18 goals and 34 points during the postseason…Sakic's 18 goals were the third most in NHL playoff history, just one shy of the record set by Reggie Leach in 1976 and equaled by Jari Kurri in 1985…Set an NHL playoff record with six game-winning goals; a mark that has since been broken by Brad Richards in 2004…League leader in power play goals (6), assists (10) and points (16)…Had a seven-game goal streak from April 22-May 8 (10g)…Tallied the game-winning goal at 4:33 of the third overtime period in Game Four at Chicago on May 8…Recorded his second career playoff hat trick on April 25 vs. Vancouver, which included the game-winning goal at 0:51 of the first overtime…Tied a Stanley Cup Finals record with four assists in Game Two vs. Florida on June 6. 1994-95: Led Quebec and was fourth in the NHL in scoring with 62 points in 47 games…Was third in the league in assists (43). 1993-94: Played in all 84 games and led the Nordiques with 92 points. 1992-93: Led the Nordiques with 48 goals and topped the 100-point plateau for the third time…Scored a career-high 20 power-play goals. 1991-92: Ranked first on Quebec with 65 assists and 94 points. 1990-91: Finished seventh in the NHL with 109 points…Led the Nordiques in points, goals (48) and assists (61). 1989-90: Played in 80 games during his second season in the league, tallying 102 points. 1988-89: Made his NHL debut on Oct. 6 vs. Hartford and picked up his first assist/point…Scored his first career goal Oct. 8 vs. New Jersey. 1987-88: Won the WHL scoring title with 160 points and also led the league with 78 goals for Swift Current…1988 Canadian Major Junior Player of the Year and WHL Player of the Year. 1985-86: Made his pro debut with Burnaby and scored 83 goals in 80 games.
Has represented Canada at seven international competitions, including three Olympics (1998, 2002, 2006)…Served as captain of the Canadian Olympic Team at the 2006 Winter Games in Torino, Italy…Played in all six games, recording a goal and two assists…Named MVP of the 2002 Olympics after helping Canada to its first gold medal in 50 years…Led Team Canada with seven points (4g/3a) during the tournament, including two goals in the gold medal game against the United States…Played in four games for Canada during the 1998 Olympics in Nagano but was injured prior to Canada's semifinal loss to the Czech Republic…Helped Canada win the gold medal at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, leading the team with four goals…Won gold with Team Canada at the 1988 IIHF World Junior Championship…Led Canada in scoring (6g/5a) at the 1991 IIHF World Championship…Tied for second on the team in scoring (4g/3a) at the 1994 World Championship as Canada captured gold for the first time since 1961.
Joe and his wife, Debbie, have three children: Mitchell (12) and twins Chase and Kamryn (8)…Joe and Debbie are active with the Food Bank of the Rockies charity…Joe hosts his own charity golf tournament to benefit the Food Bank every summer in Denver…Was awarded the 2007 NHL Foundation Player Award in recognition of his commitment and service to charities in his community…During the 2005-06 season, he served as team representative for the "Tyson Foods Lift Up America" campaign working with Food Bank of the Rockies to distribute 35,000 pounds of food and 12,000 teddy bears to 40 non-profit organizations throughout Colorado…1998 M.A.C. (Most Assists with Children) Award winner…Contributes time and resources to numerous Colorado Avalanche youth hockey programs…Has worn #19 since Pee-Wee hockey…Boyhood Idol: Wayne Gretzky…Brother, Brian, played center for the Flint Generals (CHL)…An avid golfer, Joe competes in the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in Lake Tahoe every summer…Lists Augusta National as his favorite golf course.


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Here's the typical cycle of our blog since the Sharks knocked the Wings out of the playoffs:
1) We post something. In general, the post has zero relevance to anything current, and sometimes isn't even about hockey. I'm not saying that's bad. In fact, that's sort of our thing, I guess.
2) Then we don't post anything for a few weeks. During that time, we get a few emails and comments nudging us awake. I stress "few"; ain't like we mainstream. Still reppin' those working class dial-up Internet-ers. Always hood. (I like to think of Blogspot as the East Detroit of blog domains. Enjoy your new roach-free digs, Production Line.)
3) Once I feel guilty enough (because, after all, I really enjoy writing .... when I don't write for a while, I feel like I've done myself some strange disservice ..... whatever, I'm weird) I post something else.
The last part has weighed on my mind a little bit and has made me slow down lately. I don't have the same desire to do this as when I started, and I don't want to be half-assing it. So I'm going to take an indefinite break until I get it back. This is by no means a retirement, and isn't a goodbye. But rather than continue to ignore the blog for weeks at a time, I wanted to give this heads up before any "post something or I'll kill you" comments start showing up again.
There's no timetable for a return. I appreciate the pretend friendships that I've formed through this site and it is for that reason that I'm not going Brett Favre on you. This isn't a permanent farewell only to change my mind a month later. This is just a "see you later".
So, see you later, everyone.

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I have a new "problem" this year. I'm coaching an 11-12 year old baseball team that my 12 y/o son plays for. He will be my #1 pitcher. Our league follows "modified LL rules". One of the modification is that we still go by innings pitched, not pitch count. A pitcher can only throw 6 innings per week. And the required days of rest depends on the number of innings pitched. I will be keeping track of the number of pitches thrown, just to make sure none of my pitchers over do it.
My "problem" is that my son will also be playing on a travel team this season. He was primarily selected to be a catcher, but I think they will want to use him as a pitcher. Should I stick to limiting him to 6 innings per week? Or is there a higher limit that I should apply. This is our first year with a travel team, playing in tournaments, so any advice would be appreciated.
If your league limits pitchers by innings so be it, follow their rules.
That said, I'd still limit the pitchers by number of pitches thrown.
If a kid throws 75 pitches in 6 innings or 75 pitches in 3 innings his arm pretty much needs the same amount of rest.
I would hope that if he throws 75 pitches in 3 innings you aren't going to let him continue and throw 150 pitches in 6 innings just because the league allows him to pitch 6 innings.
You can use the LL guidance on pitches and rest or you can do a Yahoo/Google Search and find other "recommended" guidelines, but the bottom line, rest should be based on the number of pitches thrown not the number of inings pitched (in my opinion).
You are correct that I will still follow the pitch count guideline, not the innings guideline. Chances are that if a kid is throwing 75 pitches in 3 innings, I would have pulled him long before the 75th pitch.
I am just looking for any guidance from coaches/parents who have had boys play on multiple teams and how they handled it.
You follow whatever pitch count/rest requirement you feel is the right one to use (be it LLs or ASMIs or another one).
If he's pitching in multiple leagues/on multiple teams, you just make sure, based on the last day he pitched and how many pitches he threw, that he gets the needed rest before he pitches again.
The other issue is "total pitches in a year/year round play" and in that case, the recommendation is he gets "some time off/does not pitch all year round."
This might shed light on the discussion of pitch counts
Besides following the rules, it depends on the kid. Generally kids throw too little and pitch too much. Too many pitches for the average kid might be just getting warmed up for a kid on an Alan Jaeger or Ron Wolforth throwing program. It's true that over use is the big problem. But that's specific to the kid depending on his mechanics, genes and level of conditioning.
Most leagues not associated with Little League International follow the general "Innings Pitched" rule and, in my opinion, are doing it wrong. My oldest son was in Little League the first year they instituted the Pitch Count rule. Most coaches thought of it as a burden at the time. One more thing to do during a game. I haven't stopped using their Pitch Count rules and it has been 4 years since my kids have played in a Little League sanctioned league.
There is one point that a lot of parents and coaches are missing regarding pitching. The CATCHER. Frequently, a manager will use the same player to pitch and catch in the same game. I plan my line-up to avoid this for one simple reason:
The catcher is making just as many throws as the catcher. Granted, they may not be thrown as hard every time as the pitcher pitches but the fact that the player is making that throw, especially after pitching, will fatigue their arm.
Now factor in that the player has just thrown 40-50-60 or more pitches, the same player moves to catcher and is going to throw the ball another 40-50-60 or more times back to the pitchers mound. I think that you can see where I am going.
My recommendation for pitch counts for any player is to use the Little League International guidelines for the number of pitches allowed and required rest between pitching in a game. And I recommend coaches not to use the same player to pitch and catch in the same game.
"I am just looking for any guidance from coaches/parents who have had boys play on multiple teams and how they handled it."
Both of my sons have played on both in house LL teams and travel teams at the same time. The biggest thing I can suggest is to coordinate with both coaches as to when you kid will be used to pitch and then follow the LL guidelines for total pitches and rest. I talked to both coaches prior to the season and let them know the situation. I also asked that they try to give me a couple of days notice if they were planning on pitching my kid. I know things change on a game by game basis but at least this gave me a way to try to keep things under control. I will also say I was somewhat flexiable in following the pitching guidelines. If my kid was schedule for 3 days rest and we were playing later in the day on day 2 I would let him pitch for an inning or tow if needed. There were other times where I knew he would be eligble to pitch but he was complaining of soreness in his arm that I would not let him pitch. It does at times cause some conflicts with his coaches put as his parent I need to ensure his well being. I've always been in a good position where I know both coaches personally and they know Im just looking out for my kid. As mentioned the key to all this is communication. Now its to the point that the coaches for both my kids ask prior to the game if he is avaliable to pitch.
Dan: The other thing to consider about catcher/pitcher in the same game is the player's legs!
Catching tires the legs.
Catch for 4 or 5 innings and your legs get tired.
Then, you move from catcher to pitcher and guess what, because your legs are tired you pitch more with your arms which is a bad thing.
Tired legs are NOT a good thing to have when you are pitching.
LL has a pitcher to catcher rule AND a catcher to pitcher rule - both of which I think are good rules.
Hi Doug, You probably know that each kid is different and each should be looked at differently. My son is a junior in High school this year and has been playing baseball since he was 4. Like most sports practice is more important than games, this is a hard with LL, everyone wants to jump in and play games. I never let my son pitch more than 2 innings during the local season, for travel, (we did not play travel till the end of the season here) we would stretch that to 3 innings. 50 pitches during a game should be more than enough to get an Idea weather your practice is paying off. We throw more at home than during games by far. A good long toss program is the most important thing you can do this spring. Get his arm in shape and keep it strong. Your goal is to get him ready to play at the next level, if that is babe ruth or teeners, you need to be working on skill development. To go and mow down all the 12 year olds at a tournament is not our goal. My son is 16 years old, Last year he had a couple of games he needed to pitch a little deeper into the game and was able to, due to good conditioning and not over throwing as a Little Leaguer, throw 125 pitches and no hurt him self. He has 4 pitches, great mechanics, and can make ajustments on his own now. Teach your son to pitch, practice, 4 times more than you play, (sit on a bucket it help the knees not get so tired) and your son will grow up to have a long and fun baseball experience Have a great season! Jon
The only part of the LL catcher to pitcher rule that I, and other locals, do not (like) agree with. [But who cares!}
That part being a catcher is charged with catching a full inning having only caught one pitch in any given inning.
One pitch = One inning, how often does that actually happen for a catcher?
Heck, if you have a very good pitcher, four full innings might only be 30-40 pitches.
On the other hand, if the pitching is bad a catcher might catch 30-40 pitches in 2 innings and 50-60 in 3.
So, by the rule, the kid who caught 30-40 pitches can't go in to pitch but the kid that caught 50-60 can!
The problem with a one size fits all rule is that it fits some cases better than others.
The solution could be to use "pitches caught" instead of innings - does anyone really want to go down that road?
Not a question of......."how often does that actually happen for a catcher?"
Point is: the rule, as wriitten, would ALLOW it to happen. Be it a one pitch thrown to the 1st batter of a 4th inning--batter out, or on base as a result of that pitch If it's the catcher's 4th "PART" of an inning behind the plate, he cannot be used as pitcher that day. That one-pitch DQ'ing him!!
Your scenarios ----[pitches thrown/innings examples]---points out the potential absurdities of the rule. as written.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in total agreement with the catcher to pitcher rule-----and reason why it was implemented.
Just don't like the "PART" we are discussing.
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1A representative: a union rep
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- And that's more or less what University of Alberta student union reps were confronted with last Friday when they came to work to find a blank wall where a mural used to be.
- Workers say they never see union reps, even when they phone repeatedly.
1.1A sales representative: area sales reps
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- Throughout the process, sales reps take notes about their conversations, looking for anything that can help refine their pitch, or be of use in direct mail campaigns or at trade shows.
- Because the freshest sales statistics are readily available, the company's sales reps are more accountable - and much more likely to compete with one another.
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verb (reps, repping, repped)[no object]
Act as a sales representative: at eighteen she was working for her dad, repping on the road
Late 19th century: abbreviation.
Words that rhyme with repcep, Dieppe, hep, misstep, outstep, pep, prep, schlepp, skep, step, steppe, strep
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noun[mass noun] informal
1Repertory: once, when I was in rep, I learned Iago in three days
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- While the neglected plays of lesser dramatists of the period have been celebrated in recent years, the comedies of Sheridan, once the staple of every rep company, have dipped in popularity.
- Which is why the Royal Exchange decided to do it in rep with a Chekov.
1.1 [count noun] A repertory theatre or company: [in names]: the Birmingham Rep
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- This tour, with its Royal Ballet dancers and works from the company's rep, will fit nicely into his CV.
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A fabric with a ribbed surface, used in curtains and upholstery.
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- The new cravat, a satin and twill model from Brooks Brothers, will replace his old one, a classic repp tie, also from Brooks Brothers.
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Short for reputation. I don't know why caffeine's suddenly got such a bad rep
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(In bodybuilding) a repetition of a set of exercises: complete all reps on one leg and then change over
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Unison File Synchronizer
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix (including OS X) and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
Required OS: 10.5
Tags: synchronization , backup
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Great software. I'm pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to set up powerful multi-machine syncing. And it's free. Thank you!
I apologize for hogging bandwidth here, but it seems worth emphasizing that Unison is just a fantastic program. I use it almost daily. After years of hype about the glorious future world of network computing, I've become cynical over how hard it still is, how often, just to get two devices to see each other over a local network, and how dangerous automated back-up stuff can still be. The effectiveness of Unison is spooky: it works the way the hype said everything would. It's like finding you can download a free jetpack.
janglinus: you are definitely right, we should document this. In the meantime, clicking on any entry will give you some information in the bottom that detail the states of both files, which could help you figure out what the changes are. Here is a quick description of the icons:
circle filled with blue: changed file
circle filled with gray: unchanged file
gray circle filled with white: absent file (it is not there and was not there before)
green circle with plus: new file (it is there and was not there before)
red circle with x: deleted file (it is not there but was there before)
~: permission change (they are orthogonal to contents change)
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The 2.27 beta seems to work fine in Leopard. I was still using 2.24, which I thought was the latest version available here when I posted. Anyway, now the only problem I have is that the upgraded Mac GUI doesn't seem to be documented. It looks great, but I wish I knew what it all meant. It's mostly self-explanatory, but it actually took me a little while to be sure that left/right still meant local/remote. And I still can't find out what all the little circular icons mean. I think they indicate what kinds of discrepancies exist, with 'x' meaning a file has been deleted, and + meaning it has been created. But the blue dot and the tilde have me baffled.
janglinus: what version did you use? Did you try the 2.27.47 beta? Or the text version?
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Update after several weeks of daily use: it still works great. It does, quite rarely, crash or disconnect without obvious cause. But after experiencing this now half a dozen times, I have had no adverse consequences. Just connect again and finish the sync, and everything's fine.
I have just started using this, but so far it works great. It's amazingly fast, for what it does, especially after the first time with a new profile. Setting up a profile requires some TextEdit on your .prf file, which doesn't seem to be possible through the GUI. But there are some nice tutorials on the web, and it's really pretty simple.
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A 43-year-old Stockton man was arrested on suspicion of murder Friday morning following a single-car rollover accident that killed his twin brother, authorities said.
The accident occurred about 2:40 a.m. on French Camp Road just west of Jack Tone Road in an unincorporated part of San Joaquin County, the California Highway Patrol said.
Dan Stevens, 43, of Stockton was driving west on French Camp Road at an undetermined speed when he lost control of his 1989 Chevrolet Silverado pickup, authorities said. The truck veered onto the north shoulder and then onto the south shoulder before rolling over a number of times, police said.
Both occupants of the vehicle were wearing seat belts, but Stevens' twin brother, David Stevens of San Leandro, died in the crash, authorities said.
Alcohol was believed to be a factor, the CHP said. Dan Stevens was arrested on suspicion of murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving with a license suspended for drunken driving and driving under the influence, authorities said. He was being held without bail at the San Joaquin County Jail.
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Justin Salter, who has cerebral palsy, is asking for your help to gain the votes needed to buy a new van. (WRDW-TV / May 9, 2012)
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EVANS, Ga. -- It's a chance to help a local high school student continue his mission of educating others.
Earlier this year, News 12 introduced you to 17-year-old NASCAR fan Justin Salter, a Greenbrier student suffering from cerebral palsy.
Salter and his mother, Heloise Salter, are loading up the family van.
"It would really help to be able to have that dependable transportation," she said.
But the Salters' van is just about on its last leg.
"Did you say that mom has ran the tires off your van like a NASCAR?" his mother joked with him.
In support of National Mobility Awareness Month, a Florida company is saluting local heroes with a contest for a shiny, new, handicapped-accessible van.
"They're not cheap; 12 years ago my van was about $45,000, and now they're about $70,000," his mother said. "We had to write a letter indicating why we thought Justin was a local hero in this area."
And Salter is a hero to a lot of local students. He travels around to schools in the area teaching others about his life and his battle.
"He just shines, his smile, and he loves people, and he just wants to be a part of the group," his mother described. "Although he has cerebral palsy, and he has limitations, it doesn't stop him from being able to live a life that's full."
Three families will win new vans, and the Salters hope they're one of them.
"Right now, Justin has nearly 4,000 votes and there's a lot of competition out there. There's hundreds of people who've entered this contest," his mother said.
But don't just take mom's word for it -- with the help of a computer, Salter will tell you himself.
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The top 10 percent of contestants will move on to phase two of the contest. Voting ends Sunday. Click here to vote for Salter. Make sure to enter promo code "739."
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Publication Acceptance Date: April 2, 2012
Publication Date: June 1, 2012
Citation: Tilley, M., Miller, R.A., and Chen, Y.R. 2012. Wheat breeding and quality evaluation in the U.S. In: Cauvain, S. P. editor. Bread Making: Improving Quality. 2nd edition. Cambridge, UK: Woodhead Publishing Limited. p.216-236. Technical Abstract: The United States of America (U.S.) annually produces about 10% of the world wheat crop. Although wheat ranks third in terms of production value among field crops, behind maize and soybeans, it is the major U.S. cereal grain for export and domestic consumption. As such wheat is the most valuable food crop and the major export crop of the U.S., with about 50% entering the export market. This chapter discusses the US wheat classification and grading, wheat breeding objectives related to major agronomic and end-use quality parameters and the contribution of wheat quality laboratories to varietal improvement. The different quality indices and tests for grain characteristics (test weight, kernel hardness, weight and size, and protein, moisture and ash contents), milling characteristics (flour yield and milling score), flour characteristics, dough characteristics (mixing properties), and internal and external characteristics of bread are described, as well as the different techniques used in predicting the breadmaking quality of wheat. Future trends and resources are highlighted.


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A Newton County woman received minor injuries Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash just west of Granby.
Julie R. Weding, 50, of Granby, was traveling northbound on Missouri 59 and U.S. 60, four miles west of Granby, when her 1995 Isuzu was struck from behind by a 2006 Honda, driven by Roscoe S. Eatherly, 67 of Branson West.
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A single-vehicle crash in Newton County resulted in minor injuries for a Joplin man.
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The Hit List is a simple, yet sophisticated application to manage the daily chaos of your modern life. Based on the simple concept of making lists, The Hit List lets you plan, forget, then act when the time is right.
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Wow⢠I've been pretty happy with OmniFocus, but after trying this app, I'm seriously considering switching, and it isn't even out of beta yet.
I love the tabs, the card view, the smart folders, the familiar 'Mac-like' sidebar, the priority ratings, etc., etc. ⦠The whole GUI is excellent.
Buying it via MacHeist now, but won't try it until it has an iPhone app.
Tried OmniFocus and it was too heavy for my workflow. I liked Things a lot, but still my GTD flow was not good. Then I tried The Hit List and fell in love; been using it constantly. The plus regarding Things is the UI and shortcuts integration... other than that they are very similar.
Now I'm impatiently waiting for the iPhone version to come out.
This app is awesome. Switched over from Taskpaper.
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Aside from the cost and some specific UI decisions, there is one simple issue for me: why would I want a todo list that can only be accessed on one computer?
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Four candidates are seeking three available seats on the Marietta City Board of Education.
Incumbents Don Atkins, Karen Burton and Wendy Myers are each running for second terms on the board, while local businessman John Lehman is looking to unseat one of them. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5
Don Atkins
Atkins, 73, worked for 13 years in the Partners in Education program with schools in Wood County while he was employed by Ames True Temper and was involved in Marietta City Schools when his daughter, Jennifer, attended. He served three years as the Harmar Elementary PTO president. He said he'd like to serve another term on the board to see projects started under his watch through to completion, including providing the latest technology for teachers and students.
"I'm in it for the kids," Atkins said. "We're in a technology world, and we need to have our students ready to go into that world."
That does present some challenges besides just being able to afford the right equipment.
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Don Atkins
Age: 73.
Residence: 127 Mound St., Marietta.
Family: wife, Judy; daughter, Jennifer.
Occupation: retired.
Past offices: appointed in 2010, elected to fill unexpired term in 2011.
Karen Burton
Age: 74.
Residence: 507 Warren St., Marietta.
Family: son, Rusell; grandsons, Mac and Henry.
Occupation: Retired teacher.
Past offices: Elected to board in 2009.
John Lehman
Age: 52.
Residence: 177 Stanleyville Road, Whipple.
Family: wife, Lori; three teenage children.
Occupation: president, Alliance Industries Inc.
Past offices: first run for office; member; Washington State Community College Board of Trustees; chairman, advisory board for the McDonough Leadership Center at Marietta College.
Wendy Myers
Age: 43.
Residence: 406 Fourth St., Marietta.
Family: Husband, Todd; daughters, Madeline, Anna-Claire and Isabelle.
Occupation: owner, Mitcham Group Apartments (holdings in Belpre, Canton and Marietta).
Past offices: appointed to board in 2008, elected to full term in 2009.
"We're going to have to find some way to address ... students who cannot afford computers," Atkins said.
Atkins said he's been actively involved in the district's Building Bridges to Careers (BBC) initiative that is looking to revive the Partners in Education concept and working with businesses to tie what students are learning in with the needs and experiences of local employers.
While he acknowledges "there's always room for improvement" academically, Atkins said the state report card unfairly compares the local district to far wealthier ones that can obtain whatever resources they need to help students.
"I don't think it's fair to grade us in here against a school like that," he said.
Atkins also takes issue with the state school-funding system, which he said is "throwing a lot of red tape on us" that is costing additional money and diverting public funds to private and charter schools. While he appreciates the work of nonprofit, local schools like St. Mary and St. John Central, he opposes state funds going to for-profit entities.
Karen Burton
After 39 years as a teacher, 34 of them teaching first-grade at Barlow-Vincent Elementary, Burton, 74, enjoys dealing with schools and being a board member.
"I'm pleased with the direction our schools are going now, and I want them to continue in that direction," she said.
Burton, who has two grandchildren attending Marietta schools, said the positive steps the district has taken in recent years include adding Chinese as a foreign language in addition to Spanish and the emphasis on career readiness through the BBC initiative and a new class added for sophomores at the high school. But she'd also like to see more courses offered, including another foreign language and electives like photography to draw students' interest.
"We need to continue to try to improve the curriculum and offer more classes, which of course takes money," Burton said.
Burton said she's not sure where that money would come from, because she doesn't want "to tax the people to death." The district is seeing increases in state funding of 6.25 percent this year and 10.5 percent next year, but Burton said that system still needs to be improved.
"(Funding) needs to be equal all over the state of Ohio," she said. "We aren't exactly poor, but we don't have a lot of industry anymore. ... I think we need to pressure our representatives and so forth to get busy on that."
Burton said her background in education is a strength she brings to the board.
"I usually get along well with people. I'm willing to listen. I don't think we should make promises we can't keep," she said. "We are not a factory. We deal with people."
John Lehman
The president of Alliance Industries Inc., a company that is a holder and affiliate of municipal and environmental equipment manufacturers, service providers and retail entities in several U.S. cities as well as in China and Latin America, Lehman, 52, wants to bring his business experience to the board.
"We need to take a detailed look at how well we are serving our 'clients,' our students, and we must clearly understand what quality of 'end product' - a properly-educated high school graduate - we are 'producing,'" he said.
Lehman said he believes the board needs to take a more hands-on approach to overseeing the school system.
"By no metric have our results been acceptable in recent years, as evidenced by the subpar scores given to us by the state of Ohio recently," he said. "The board is responsible for ensuring that an engaged, energized, results-oriented administration is in place and achieving at a high level the goals and objectives that the board sets out for them."
The latest state report card, the first step in a transition to new, more rigorous standards, gave the district no higher than a C in the eight categories that were assigned letter grades. Individual schools posted some As and Bs.
Lehman said state funding of schools needs improved, but people outside the region often fail to recognize the different challenges facing a district in rural Appalachia compared to other parts of the state.
"We are going to be, largely, on our own for the foreseeable future," he said. "I believe we need to look at more involvement of volunteers throughout the school system so as to take some of the pressure off of and to augment the permanent teachers and staff."
Lehman pointed to the recently added weight room at the high school, funded entirely by donations, and said similar projects could be accomplished with the leadership of the board. Promoting charitable organizations like the Marietta High School Alumni and Friends Foundation and the Tiger Foundation Lehman and his wife started would be an asset, he said.
Wendy Myers
A member of the board for five years, Myers, 43, said she can look at things from the perspective of a businesswoman, mother and teacher. She's the owner of Mitcham Group Apartments, has three school-age daughters and has been an instructor in research writing and English at Marietta College, West Virginia University-Parkersburg and Marshall University's Point Pleasant, W.Va., campus, occasionally having high school students in her classes.
"So I know some of the challenges you face with students and motivating them," she said. "Since I have kids in the system, I definitely have a vested interest."
Myers said the board has made progress from a technological standpoint, employing Beachwood-based Smart Solutions as its IT coordinator.
Technology is "a huge area of our district that has never been budgeted for and never been planned for," she said. "Now we have a plan to actually bring in computers. Every year, something's getting refreshed."
Myers wants to see a similar approach taken with the district's facility needs.
Another challenge on the horizon is implementation of the new federal health care law. The district is facing a $2 million penalty because it offers employees what's considered a "higher end" plan, Myers said. That means employees will likely see increasing costs and decreasing benefits.
"Even when our teachers weren't getting raises, they knew they had a great health plan," Myers said.
Finding enough money to do what needs to be done remains a challenge for the district, but Myers said taxpayers eased that burden by approving operating and permanent improvement levies in recent years.
"We're fortunate in that way, but we do spend a lot less per kid than other areas with a bigger tax base," she said.


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Undergraduate Tuition and Fees will Increase 3.8 Percent
February 17, 2012
Room, board, tuition and fees for traditional undergraduate resident students at Lindenwood University will increase 3.8 percent in the fall of 2012 to $22,180 per year from their 2011 level of $21,360 per year.
Lindenwood's Board of Directors approved the increase at its meeting on Friday, Feb. 10. Lindenwood President James D. Evans said the increase is necessary because of rising costs of operation and stressed that the school works hard to keep increases at a minimum. He also pointed out that a Lindenwood education is still a bargain, particularly considering steep increases currently being considered at Missouri's public universities.
Students in Lindenwood's accelerated evening program, LCIE, will see a 4.3 percent tuition increase. Starting in the summer 2012 quarter, the cost of a nine-hour cluster of undergraduate courses will be $3,060 per quarter, and the cost of a nine-hour cluster of graduate courses will be $3,708.
Lindenwood University, founded in 1827, is an independent liberal arts university offering more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in diverse areas of study in traditional and accelerated formats. Lindenwood operates residential campuses in historic St. Charles, Mo., and Belleville, Ill., as well as extension sites throughout the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.
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I Volume 4 Number 21 RONAN PARENTS TALK WITH BOARD Ronan: "We are not opposed to sharing Indian education programs with white students", Ronan Johnson 0' Malley Committee Chairman, Tom "Bear-head" Swaney told the District 30 School Board Feb. 17. "On the contrary", he added, "we want you and your children to understand the customs and laws which govern us". Swaney and 15 members of the Indian parents advisory committee appeared before the board in an effor to restore JOM and TITLE IV Indian Education Act programs to the school. In January, the board had issued a statement cancelling all federally sponsored Indian Education programs from the Ronan School system. The statement attributed "racial discrimination" in the programs as the reason for its decision to no longer accept contracts involving the parent's committee. Swaney, acting as spokesman for the committee, noted that discrimination in such forms as special education for handicapped children, already existed in the Ronan School and all other schools. He said that Indians also represent educationally disadvantaged situation in schools and pointed out that special programs (Cont. on page 2 - JOM) i NEW MOON OF THE GOOSE FLIGHT March 1,1975 1—777 >> ', . ?j rgfy^r- RESERVATION JOM COMMITTEES MEET ON RONAN SITUATION St.Ignatius: ..."The Ronan School has thrown us a challenge and the way we deal with that challenge is going to affect the culture of Indian Education on this reservation." That is the way Tom "Bear-head" Swaney characterized a move by the Ronan School board to do away with Indian Education Programs at the Ronan School. Swaney, Chairman of the Ronan Johnson O'Malley Indian Education committee, was among 150 persons who braved snow and sub-zero temperatures to attend a reservation-wide meeting in St.Ignatius Feb. 5. The meeting was hurridly called late in January to discuss a controversial move by the Ronan School Board to eliminate all JOM and other federally financed Indian Education programs from the school system. The Ronan School Board, earlier in January, had issued a policy statement rejecting community controlled Indian Education programs because they require "an identification of students by race". Swaney lashed out at the board's use of race as a reason for dropping the programs, saying "When it is convenient for them to call us Indians, they call us Indians but when it doesn't suit them to have Indian students, they call us something else". "My kids", he emphasised, "are full time Indians." Swaney recounted the developments that led up to the rift between the Ronan School board and the community JOM committee. He said that some friction between the board and the committee had existed for several years, but said it began to boil last summer when the board hired four non-Indian students to conduct an Indian vocational career assessment project. Swaney said that initially two Indian students were also hired and by summer's end only one remained with the project. "As if it was not bad enough having affluent white kids taking jobs away from Indians", Swaney added, "they also made a mockery of the whole project by interviewing BIA employees and Indian NYC kids...what kind of career evaluations are they going to develop with subjects like that?". Swaney said that the situation boiled over late last year when the committee complained to the board about the way the elementary school councelor's position was being handled. Cathy Dupuis, the Title IV (Indian Education Act) counselor explained that her job was changed from Indian student counseled to special education counselor. Miss Dupuis, a tribal member with a masters degree in educational counseling, said (Cont. on page 2 - MEETING) JOB CORPS TO GO CO-ED Ronan: Will the Kicking Horse Manpower Training Center change its name to "Person-power" Training Center? Will the students remain "Jobcorps-men" or will they be called " Jobpeople"? These are questions which will have to be resolved when the Tribally operated facility near Ronan goes co-educational next month. According to Tribal Secretary Fred Houle Jr., the U.S. Department of Labor is expected to approve the concept of a co-educational training center this month, later. House said the Department, which contracts with the tribe for the operation of the Kicking Horse Center, will also approve a budget modification to pay JOB CORPS) (Cont. on page 6 -
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Living at Home Block Nurse Program (LAHBNP) volunteer Lynn Holmstrom says she loves delivering flowers for the annual LAHBNP Konfetty Rose fundraiser.
"It's just so much fun to deliver the roses because of the responses you get. I've even had tears because the people have been so touched by it," she said.
The LAHBNP offers services that help to keep local seniors living in their homes, whether it be through grocery purchase and delivery, transportation services, minor home repair, or other means.
"This is our largest, most effective fundraiser" said Holmstrom. "Community support is essential to keep the program running. Roses are often purchased for family members, co-workers and other friends and loved ones."
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"Shake It Up!," the hit musical-comedy that co-stars Oakland native Zendaya, has been canceled by the Disney Channel.
The series, which also features Bella Thorne, will conclude its run after its current third season, with the final episodes set to air this summer and the fall.
"Shake It Up," which debuted in 2010 to an impressive average of 6.2 million viewers, is pegged to a pair of best friends who star on their local TV dance program.
The cancellation might be surprising, given that "Shake It Up" still pulls in robust ratings -- ranking No. 1 among children 6-11 and 9-14 -- but the Disney Channel tends to end some shows before the decline sets in.
It's certainly not the end for Zendaya. The talented 16-year-old, who recently finished second on "Dancing With the Stars," has signed on to star in a Disney Channel original movie based on the book "Boys Are Dogs." Meanwhile, her debut album, with Hollywood Records, is set to debut in September.
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Winning the Southern Cascade League title seemed like a pretty bold goal this spring considering the recent history of the Cascade Christian...
NORTH BEND — Crater turned in a respectable showing with six placers to highlight the local contingent at the Army Strong Coast Classic wrestling tournament at North Bend High.
Roseburg secured seven top-five showings, including three runners-up, to win the two-day event with a 215.5 total over Crook County, which was second at 197.
Setting the pace for the Comets were 138-pounder Nate Walters and 145-pounder Dillon Ulrey, who each placed third. Crater finished sixth overall in the 33-team field with 141.5 points.
Walters especially had to work hard for his showing after losing his first match on Friday to Brady Andersen of Dallas, 8-4. He responded with two straight second-period pins, a narrow 7-6 win over Eagle Point's Sherman Hammond and a pin in 1:29 over Thurston's Avery Caird to put himself in contention. A 5-0 decision over Roseburg's Cameron Mesa put Walters in contention and he sealed his comeback with a pin of Churchill's Max Thomas at 3:11 in the third-place final.
Ulrey's path wasn't quite as unusual as his teammate, with the 145-pounder advancing to the championship semifinals before falling short 6-4 in overtime to David Douglas' Vagif Afrasov. Ulrey scored a 3-2 decision over Hood River Valley's Andrew DeHart in the consolation bracket and earned third place on an injury forfeit by Redmond's Chance Lindquist.
Crater also picked up fourth-place showings from Morgan Walters (132) and Derrick Turituri (285), while Tyler Thomas (126) and Jarrett Baker (220) each placed sixth.
North Medford secured two fourth-place runs by Austin Mitchell (113) and Reid Shipley (170) and a sixth-place showing by Henry Cox at 106 to finish 12th overall.
Casey Coulter of Grants Pass (120) and Gabe Miller of Illinois Valley (138) were the only locals to advance to the championship finals, with Coulter earning the title with a 5-0 win over Matt Hofenbredl of Dallas and Miller securing his crown with a 6-3 decision over Crook County's Collbran Meeker.
The Cavemen also picked up a sixth-place effort by Kjell Thorsen at 152 to finish with two placers.
Hidden Valley's Brad Hyatt finished third at 220 with a pin over Thurston's Lucas Anthony in 1:32, and Eagle Point's James McCoy had to settle for fourth at 152 with an injury forfeit against Evergreen's Tekwon Wallace in the third-place final. McCoy was a tough-luck loser to Wyatt Passantino of Dallas in the championship semifinals, 6-5.
Roseburg's Brody Faas (145), Ian Thomas (160) and Tyler Otis (182) placed second, with third-place showings by Chad Jones (120) and Cole Van Anrooy (126). Placing fifth for the Indians were Peyton Mesa (132) and Teran Reedy (195).
TEAM SCORES — Roseburg 215.5, Crook County 197, Churchill 163, David Douglas 161, Dallas 144, Crater 141.5, Redmond 127, Hillsboro 120.5, Cleveland 90, Evergreen 87, Sandy 86, North Medford 83.5, Marshfield 80, Grants Pass 79, Canby 73, Century 70, Illinois Valley 69, Coquille 61, Hood River Valley 59.5, West Albany 54.5, Eagle Point 53.5, Thurston 48, Newberg 39, Phoenix 38, Clackamas 38, West Salem 34.5, South Eugene 30, Hidden Valley 28, North Bend 26, Gresham 25, Willamette 22, Brookings-Harbor 13, Woodburn 4.
NORTH SWEEPS — The North Medford swimming teams used their depth to overtake Crater in a Southwest Conference meet at the Rogue Valley Family YMCA.
The Black Tornado boys topped the Comets 105-56, while the North girls cruised to a 122-43 victory.
North's Brad Olson captured first in the 200-yard freestyle race with a time of 2 minutes, 15.64 seconds and teammate Bryant Almanza earned top honors in the 100 breaststroke (1:09.27). Each swam legs on the winning 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay squads.
For Crater, Ben Briesmeister secured first in the 200 individual medley (2:24.18) and 100 butterfly (1:04.37).
On the girls side, North's Grace Jovanovic picked up victories in the 200 IM (2:19.44) and 100 fly (1:01.91), while Natalie Orozco claimed first in the 50 free (29.26) and 100 free (1:04.21) and Lauren Hunter in the 200 free (2:09.80) and 100 back (1:04.10).
TEAM SCORES — North Medford 105, Crater 56.
200 MEDLEY RELAY — 1, North Medford (Reid Gibson, Bryant Almanza, Geoff Pine, Brad Olson), 1:56.88; 200 FREE — 1, Brad Olson, NM, 2:15.64; 200 IM — 1, Ben Briesmeister, C, 2:24.18; 50 FREE — 1, Jack Cowan, NM, 26.44; 100 FLY — 1, Ben Briesmeister, C, 1:04.37; 100 FREE — 1, Gage Reddington, C, 1:04.09; 500 FREE — 1, Geoff Pine, NM, 6:13.45; 200 FREE RELAY — 1, North Medford (Brad Olson, Jack Cowan, Reid Gibson, Bryant Almanza), 1:40.72; 100 BACK — 1, Reid Gibson, NM, 1:06.83; 100 BREAST — 1, Bryant Almanza, NM, 1:09.27; 400 FREE RELAY — 1, Crater (Mathew Young, Nick Roady, Steen Rasmussen, Ben Briesmeister), 4:15.32.
TEAM SCORES — North Medford 122, Crater 43.
200 MEDLEY RELAY — 1, North Medford (Lauren Hunter, Grace Jovanovic, Carly Freda, Rayna Carson), 2:02.22; 200 FREE — 1, Lauren Hunter, NM, 2:09.80; 200 IM — 1, Grace Jovanovic, NM, 2:19.44; 50 FREE — 1, Natalie Orozco, NM, 29.26; 100 FLY — 1, Grace Jovanovic, NM, 1:01.91; 100 FREE — 1, Natalie Orozco, NM, 1:04.21; 500 FREE — 1, Carly Freda, NM, 6:39.58; 200 FREE RELAY — 1, North Medford (Lauren Hunter, Carly Freda, Rayna Carson, Grace Jovanovic), 1:54.59; 100 BACK — 1, Lauren Hunter, NM, 1:04.10; 100 BREAST — 1, Monica Godfrey, NM, 1:31.23; 400 FREE RELAY — 1, Crater (Danielle Payne, Ashley Dippel, Sierra Gerhard, Savanna Schreiner), 5:07.86.
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Like some people who get woken up as the sun is rising by an insistent dog needing to go outside, author Kaya McLaren gets woken up by words, pushing at her just as persistently, urging her out of bed and to her computer.
"My stories sometimes come to me in the early morning hours," she said. "When I'm able to wake up slowly, I have great clarity and the ideas come right on out."
Likewise, if she hits a wall while writing, McLaren heads back under the covers.
"I take a nap, and while I'm sleeping, my brain works it out," she said. "I wake up clear and ready. I love that. Productive sleeping. I'm all about multi-tasking."
The Washington state resident is in town today for an author meet and greet at the Bookworm of Edwards. Her third book, "How I Came to Sparkle Again," was released Oct. 2 and she's been on the road ever since. Much of the book takes place in a fictional Colorado ski town called Sparkle where two women and one girl are all mourning or searching for love in their own way.
Vail Daily: How did you come up with the story line of three women who are all grieving and looking for healing?
Kaya McLaren: I don't do grief well. Not at all. I get really attached to people, pets, and situations. I work out a lot of my own stuff through writing fiction. Or, at least I try to.
VD: Is Sparkle based on any particular town?
KM: No. In my mind it's a little bit Telluride, a little Crystal Mountain, and little Pagosa/Wolf Creek.
VD: What is the most common thing you hear from people regarding the novel?
KM: Here in Colorado, everyone is saying that they love that there's finally a book about them. In ski resort towns, booksellers are so excited to not only have a book locals will love, but to have the perfect vacation book to offer tourists. They say the setting is distinct, but the issues are universal. Men and women alike have told me it made them cry and then the next moment made them cry from laughing so hard.
VD: Where do you live? And are you still a teacher?
KM: At the moment, I'm living outside of Cle Elum, Wash., where all the wildfires are burning. I grew up in Washington State. I lived and taught on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation a few years ago, and after driving through there a few days ago, resolved to move back to the Lumberton-Chama-Pagosa region at some point in my future - at least for three seasons a year. I do love Eastern Washington summers (well, when it's not on fire), but the icy snow and dark, foggy winter situation is not remotely adequate. Not remotely.
I'm on a one-semester leave of absence from teaching right now. I teach third and fourth grade in Easton, a district with about 70 kids. It's like family. I love that part of it, and I love having the opportunity to laugh every day. The national teacher witch hunt thing really gets me down, though. We teachers aren't the problem; we're the solution.
VD: Are you working on something new?
KM: I just finished writing "The Embers," my fourth book, which is about six women who save each other while they try to save a summer camp. And this fifth book, "The De Vine Winery and Goat Ranch," is coming to me now. It's going to take place in northern New Mexico, the land of milagros.
VD: What have you read lately that really got under your skin?
KM: When I write, I have to be careful about reading because other people's finished books are stronger and louder than the books coming out of me. I find myself thinking about books I've read instead of my own stories. So novels are treats that I indulge in when I'm not writing. While I'm writing, I like to read poetry and non-fiction. Lately, I've been reading "For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics" and "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking." In my really indulgent moments, I'll pick up my favorite book of all-time, Linda Hogan's "Solar Storms," and treat myself to a few pages. Sometimes I read it out loud, just to taste her beautiful words.
VD: What advice do you have for someone who wants to be a writer? And for someone who wants to get a book published?
KM: Write to entertain yourself. Write the book you want to read. And understand that getting published is a lot like dating. Just because someone is looking for something different doesn't mean you're not a catch.


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Art Basel Unveils Hong Kong Plans
HONG KONG — The city's top art fair is getting bigger, richer and sleeker. The reason: The world is paying attention, organizers say.
Art Basel today announced the gallery lineup for its new Hong Kong fair in May, with 48 new galleries that have never shown works in the city before. It has also invested more money into reshaping the show's architecture and design, and recruited a new team of VIP managers to make sure the world's biggest collectors find what they want.
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Owned by MCH Group, Art Basel runs art fairs in Basel, Switzerland and Miami Beach, Fla., and has been around since 1970. Last year it took over the management of Art HK, Hong Kong's premier international art fair, established in 2007.
This May, the Hong Kong fair will be staged under the new name Art Basel, marking the first time the event is run by the new Switzerland-based organizers.
The greatest difference between the new fair from the old? A brighter spotlight.
"The most important thing that Art Basel brings is increased international profile," said Magnus Renfrew, Asia director for the fair. He previously directed Art HK.
Content and programming at Art Basel's new edition in Hong Kong will look similar to Art HK, including a main Galleries section featuring established galleries from around the world; a section dedicated to Asian curatorial projects developed for the fair; an area for solo and two-person shows from emerging artists; a curated selection of large-scale sculptures and installations; and a program of talks and panel discussions with cultural figures.
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Marc Spiegler, Art Basel's director, noted that Art Basel will feature more discussions and lectures by artists and curators than in previous Art HK programs. He also said there are plans for expanding the programming of public art in Hong Kong, though those plans have yet to be confirmed.
"Hong Kong is so different from Basel or Miami," Mr. Spiegler said. "It's so busy and vibrant. Most public art installations would disappear in the public landscape here. We're still working on it."
With 245 galleries participating, the fair will be comparable in size to Art Basel in Miami Beach, which hosted 257 galleries in December. More than 600 galleries applied for a booth at the Hong Kong fair, which will be housed at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in the city's Wan Chai district.
The fair's lineup includes galleries from 35 countries from around the world, including Russia, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina. The galleries participating in Hong Kong for the first time include Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. from New York, Wentrup from Berlin and Galeria Pedro Cera from Lisbon.
Mr. Spiegler said he has witnessed a shift among collectors, with many in the West "really curious" about what's being produced in Asia.
"When I started at Art Basel [in 2007], there was a focus on the auction gods – the four Chinese painters that were valued at auctions," he said, referring to the dominance of artists such as Yue Minjun and Zhang Xiaogang. He noted that collectors are now "looking at others, like artists from Japan from the 1960s, for example."
What's more, in a global world, traditional boundaries may be disintegrating.
"There's no question today's serious international collector is looking at Asia," Mr. Spiegler said. "The notion of collecting by continent is outmoded. And Asian collectors are looking beyond borders, too."


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Sociedad Estatal Correos y Telégrafos, S.A., also known as Correos, has been providing postal services across Spain for more than 300 years. However, because of the recent steady decline in traditional postal services usage, Correos realized it needed to create a business proposition that would appeal to citizens and businesses alike. Correos ultimately found a way to add value to Internet-based communications and began working to create a highly secure e-mail service that includes data encryption and time stamps, so users could receive certification that a message had arrived at its destination.
(Image courtesy: Correos) Correos needed to provide up to 140,000 mailboxes for citizens and businesses to send e-mail and attachments to government offices. The technology behind the new ?Electronic Post Box? service Apartado Postal Electrónico (APE), had to be reliable and scalable enough to handle new offerings in addition to being expertly managed to maximize performance. Correos looked at several IT solution providers but ultimately selected Sun because it was able to guarantee the reliability of the e-mail service.
With the support of Sun Professional Services, Correos developed and implemented a fully redundant data storage and backup platform. A Sun Fire T2000 and a Sun Fire T1000 server, both featuring UltraSPARC T1 processor technology and running the Solaris 10 Operating System, work as load balancers on the front end. Sun Fire V490 and Sun Fire V890 servers, running backup software, sit at the back end of the platform. Two Sun StorageTek 6540 arrays store e-mail data, which is archived onto a Sun StorageTek SL500 modular library system. Finally, to maximize availability, Sun Professional Services deployed Solaris Cluster software to protect the integrity of the application data and services across the cluster's nodes.
Today, APE is delivering a secure and reliable e-mail service to citizens, companies, and government offices throughout Spain. With the Sun-based storage infrastructure, Correos is providing 5 MB worth of storage for its 140,000 mailboxes. Correos also has peace of mind knowing that the infrastructure is protected by a Sun Spectrum Platinum support plan and storage and backup systems are being well maintained by Sun Remote Operations Management. José Marcelino Pérez, e-business manager at Correos says: ?APE and Sun technology are helping Correos meet the challenges of a transition from paper correspondence to Internet-based communication.?
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