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Published: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 11:45 p.m.
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DAVIDSON at WOFFORD
When: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Benjamin Johnson Arena
Records: Davidson (14-7, 9-2 Southern Conference); Wofford (8-14, 2-7)
Radio: 910 AM, 105.7 FM
Top scorers: Davidson — Jr. F De'Mon Brooks (14.0 ppg., 6.4 rpg.); Sr. F Jake Cohen (13.4 ppg, 5.4 rpg.); Sr. G Nik Cochran (10.0 ppg, 66 assists). Wofford — So. G Karl Cochran (15.5 ppg.); Fr. G Spencer Collins (11.7 ppg.); So. F Lee Skinner (10.7 ppg., 7.5 rpg.)
Notes: Wofford is in danger of falling into last place in the six-team South Division. The Terriers are a half-game ahead of The Citadel after suffering a 69-63 loss to the Bulldogs in Charleston on Thursday night. The Citadel plays today at Furman. … Wofford is 2-8 since the 56-55 upset of Xavier on Dec. 22. The wins were both at home, by 18 points against Georgia Southern and 13 points against Furman. … Wofford was dominated inside by 6-foot-8 post players Mike Groselle and P.J. Horgan of The Citadel. They combined for 40 points and 17 rebounds. … Skinner did not start against The Citadel, first time all season, but scored 12 points in 26 minutes. … Wofford, the worst-shooting team in the league, shot 39 percent and only 21 percent (5-for-24) on 3-pointers. The Citadel shot 56 percent overall with 38 points in the paint. … League favorite Davidson has a two-game lead on the College of Charleston in the South Division and on Elon in the North for the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament. … The Wildcats are coming off a 20-point victory against Samford and have won five straight since a surprising 13-point loss at Georgia Southern. Davidson has wins against Vanderbilt, West Virginia and Richmond. Among the losses are to then No. 1-ranked Duke, No. 17 Gonzaga and Drexel. … Davidson opened the Southern Conference schedule on Dec. 8 with a 63-56 win at home against Wofford. … Wofford and Davidson have played 96 times since 1910, with the Wildcats winning 72. Davidson has won four straight after losing three straight.
Next: Wofford has two more home games, next Thursday against Elon and Saturday against UNC Greensboro. It's the beginning of five straight games against North Division teams. The stretch will include games at Western Carolina and Samford, home against Chattanooga.
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When the first and only artistic director of a nearly 40-year-old dance company retires, she leaves the successor with big shoes to fill. Luckily for Troy Powell, the new artistic director for Ailey II, he's spent much of his life preparing for this role, whether he knew it at the time or not.
Powell grew up attending an inner city New York school, and was offered the opportunity of a lifetime at nine years old, when Alvin Ailey discovered him and offered him a scholarship.
"Growing up, I always listened to music and danced around my living room, but before that point, I did not think you could formalize dance," Powell said. "I discovered that I could do something I love and express myself in front of thousands. I knew that this was what I wanted to do."
Under Powell's direction, Ailey II will perform an All-Alvin Ailey program at the Vilar Performing Arts Center on Friday, kicking off the Vilar Center's 15th Anniversary season and paying homage to the brilliant choreographer and philanthropist who founded Ailey II to give young dancers a place to grow from student to professional.
The first piece of the evening was also Ailey's first - named "Blues Suite" and choreographed in 1958. Ailey's work is known for telling stories people can relate to and evoking a powerful emotional response and "Blues Suite" is no exception. Set in the fields of Alvin Ailey's southern childhood, the piece demonstrates Ailey's own struggles growing up on the edge of poverty in depression-era rural Texas. He masterfully balances humor, sorrow and humanity through heartfelt blues hymns and displays his signature theatrical choreography.
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Moving through the program and thus, through Ailey's own life, Ailey II will perform excerpts from "The Lark Ascending," "Hidden Rites" and "ISBA" before featuring two favorites of Powell's - "Escapades" and "Quintet." Choreographed in 1983 for the Aterballetto - Centro Regionale Della Danza of Italy, "Escapades" is the most recent of Ailey's works in Ailey II's Friday evening repertoire. "Escapades" is a love story told through modern/jazz music and technique, in a suite of four dances known for the grace and effortlessness with which the choreography is presented.
"Quintet" on the other hand stands out among Ailey's works, if not for its explosive delivery, then for the tight dresses, spike heels and blonde wigs the five women wear to represent a disguise from the bad memories and emotions they've had to endure. "Quintet" covers all of the stages of emotion in life, with humor, communicating, in the words of The New York Times, "overlapping exultation and sadness with astonishing authority." Though one of Ailey's lesser-performed pieces, it remains one of his most memorable.
That is, until Friday evening's closer. His most performed, praised and remembered piece - "Revelations" - is famous for a reason. As Powell explains, Alvin Ailey was first and foremost a storyteller, and his genius existed in his ability to tell real life stories that people can relate to, through the art of dance. That was his goal - to reach people emotionally and spiritually.
"I love all of Ailey. I've performed most of his work and it has made me who I am today as an artist," Powell said. "That said, 'Revelations' is my favorite. It does something to you."
Told in three sections, "Revelations" is a journey through the grief and joy of the human soul, narrated by song-sermons and gospel/blues that have a powerful effect on the artists and audience alike. Those who have performed it say they could do so time and again and still feel transported into a different place. For the audience, whether you're witnessing "Revelations" for the first time or the hundredth, it's a piece that will move you out of your seat, singing and dancing from the opening notes through the triumphant finale.
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This is an experience familiar to some people in the Valley who witnessed excerpts from "Revelations" this past summer at the Vail International Dance Festival.
"'Wading in the Water' was one of those moments during the dance festival - it didn't matter if it was one of our seasoned fans or someone experiencing dance for the first time, this performance connected with people on a spiritual level. The music and movement, in combination, elicited a sentiment that people carried with them out of the amphitheater that night," said Martha Brassel, festival manager for the Vail International Dance Festival.
Artistic Director Powell wants audience members to make no mistakes in their presumptions of what this dance company brings to the stage.
"Ailey II was started by Mr. Ailey to give artists between 'student' and 'professional' a training ground, but the fact that this is a young company does not mean this will be a recital type of performance," he said. "These young dancers are hungry and ambitious. Every time they perform, they are reaching for a goal, and approaching their performance at the highest professional level. It's exciting to watch."
Ailey II will perform Friday night, along with two STARS (Supporting the Arts Reaching Students) performances that day, allowing Eagle County students the opportunity to experience a curriculum-based, world-class performance at the Vilar Center.
"Bringing dance where dance is not accessible was Mr. Ailey's mission, and it remains close to my heart," said Powell. "Between the two community shows and the performance on Friday night, I hope that this community enjoys us, and I'm quite sure that they will. It's a wonderful chance to get to know who Alvin Ailey is and what he was all about."
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ATLANTA -- On Friday morning, Ogeechee Riverkeeper Dianna Wedincamp decided that enough was enough. She's unhappy with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division's response with not one, but now two fish kills taking place only months apart.
The first one is now considered the largest fish kill in state history. In May 2011, more than 33,000 fish washed up dead in the Ogeechee River. Just days ago, thousands more are dying in an unrelated kill near the Richmond/Burke County line.
"EPD left us with no choice but to file this lawsuit," said Wedincamp, the Ogeechee Riverkeeper.
In September 2011, the EPD entered into a consent order with King America Finishing, a textile company in Dover, Ga. The 33,000 dead fish were all found starting half a mile down from its emission pipe into the river -- from Screven County to Chatham County. The company is required to pay back $1 million in improving the Ogeechee River. They also have to assess whether their facility needs technological upgrades.
However, the consent order does not state that King America was responsible for the kill.
"Citizens throughout the basin are simply outraged that the state not only failed to prevent this catastrophe, but is excluding those most impacted by the catastrophe at every turn. King Finishing seems to be EPD's priority, not the citizens who live, work and play along the Ogeechee River," Wedincamp said.
They say the consent order simply gives them a "free pass" to continue violating environmental regulations. They also question whether the kill would have happened if EPD had been conducting more checks of the textile plant in the first place.
Aside from this lawsuit, there is also a separate class-action lawsuit against the company itself.
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Epidemiology has been defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of human health and disease. Both aspects of this definition rely heavily on statistical methods.
To study the distribution of human health and disease, knowledge and proper application of survey sampling methods, as well as questionnaire design, quality control, and database management are needed. Statisticians whose work involves the characterization of the distribution of health and disease typically work for local, state, federal, and international government institutions, such as state and local health departments, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the World Health Organization.
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To study the determinants of human health and disease, analytic epidemiologic methods are required. Methods are somewhat different, depending on whether chronic diseases or infectious diseases are under study. The latter group involves mastery of mathematical modeling techniques using differential and difference equations under deterministic and/or stochastic assumptions. The former group involves gathering knowledge and information by relying heavily on biostatistical methods such as logistic regression, Poisson regression, and survival data analysis. Case-control, cohort, and cross-sectional studies are the standard study designs for such endeavors.
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Leon Hiebert was pastor of Andover Assembly of God (Generations Church A/G) from 1989 to 2009. He is a Viet Nam veteran who spent 10 years in the US Navy most of the time as a corpsman serving with the Marine Corps. A native of Belleville, Kan., Hiebert is semi retired and lives in Andover with his wife, Sharon. He is a school bus driver for USD 385, Andover, Kansas.
Scripture: Exodus 31:6 … Also I have given skill to all the craftsmen to make everything I have commanded you:
Observation: This verse comes from God speaking to Moses. God was in the process of giving Moses the plans for building the portable tabernacle that they carried in the wilderness for 40 years. To Moses, God gave the plans; to Bezalel, Oholiab and the craftsmen God gave the skill. God did not give the skill to Moses or the plans to the craftsmen. Accomplishing God's will required they work together.
Application: I am convinced that I cannot accomplish God's will by walking and working alone. I only hinder God's plan when I insist on my independence. Freedom is important because then my choices really prove my love (or lack of love) for God. For me to use my freedom to live independent of others would show that I really do not understand the body of Christ. Only when we freely choose to walk and work in a relationship in which we lovingly submit to one another can we accomplish God's perfect will.
Prayer: Lord, I am free to love you. I am free to use the gifts you have given me for your glory and the good of others. I am free to let others use the gifts you have given them for your glory and my good. I am free to work with them in accomplishing your will. Amen
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Briercrest College and Seminary will be hosting a comprehensive accreditation visit by a team of evaluators from the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) October 7-9, 2013 to determine its compliance with the standards for accreditation. During the visit, representatives of the ABHE team will entertain comments from the public. Any members of the public interested in making a presentation regarding the College to the team should contact the College at the following telephone number (306-756-3360) or email address (email@example.com) to determine a meeting time. Persons wishing to submit third party comments related to the institution may send them to Director, Commission on Accreditation, 5850 T.G. Lee Blvd., Suite #130, Orlando, FL, 32822. Persons interested in reviewing the standards for accreditation will find them on the ABHE website at www.abhe.org. They appear under "about accreditation." The institution is subject to the "Comprehensive Integrated Standards for Institutional Accreditation."
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Ilion police and state police are investigating several larcenies from vehicles that occurred overnight between Oct. 20 and 21.
Troopers said the vehicles were entered on Ray Street, Barringer Road and Second Street in the village of Ilion and on Applewood Drive in the town of German Flatts. Several of the vehicles were unlocked and others were forcibly entered by breaking out windows, troopers said. Approximately eight vehicles were entered in Ilion and six in German Flatts.
Items stolen included money, cell phones, GPS units, hunting gear and other electronic equipment, troopers said. Most vehicles were parked in the driveways of residences, troopers said.
Those who broke into the vehicles may have been on foot with a vehicle somewhere in the vicinity, troopers said.
Anyone who may have seen anything suspicious overnight and who may have information on who is perpetrating these crimes may contact state police Senior Investigator Timothy Blaise at 866-7275 or Ilion police Investigator Jeremiah Sninchak at 894-9911.
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Observations on British and American English
by an American linguist in the UK
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
--George Bernard Shaw
BrE = British English
AmE = American English
OED=Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edn. [1989], unless otherwise noted)
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
While RateMyProfessors is used in the UK, the name doesn't quite work, since at most UK universities, only a small proportion of the faculty is/are professors. I won't go into the full range of academic ranks, since they do vary some from university to university, but typically the entry-level position for an academic is Lecturer, and Professor is the highest rank. But whoever takes the teaching role for a course is the course's tutor. Another role one can take is that of personal tutor, a term which is being replaced at my university by academic advisor, and which at my US undergraduate university was simply called advisor: the role in which one gives guidance (and pastoral care) to a student with respect to their overall academic development, rather than just for a particular course/class/module (whatever you want to call it).
In most American universities, the entry level for academics is Assistant Professor, then there's Associate Professor, then full Professor. All of these people are called Professor. So, in the US, I was Professor Lynneguist, but in the UK, I'm just Doctor Lynneguist. In the US, a student might ask another Who's your biology professor? But in the UK, one would ask Who's your tutor for biology?
In AmE, a tutor is generally understood to provide private tuition. (That sounds ambiguous in AmE, since tuition in America usually refers to (BrE) school/university fees. Tutors provide tutoring or tutelage--not fees!) When I was a (BrE) postgrad/(AmE) grad student, I was a logic tutor for student athletes--meaning I helped them understand the lectures that had gone over their heads. In the UK I am a tutor in that I am the person getting paid and doing most of the talking in the classroom--the one whose lectures might go over the students' heads. The (American) RateMyTutor site is about people who provide private lessons to school children.
That reminds me of another thing... Lesson in AmE most often refers to the kind of thing that a private tutor might do. One has piano lessons and flying lessons, etc. School teachers make lesson plans, and may refer to the mathematical part of the day as the math(s) lesson, but once the (AmE) students/(BrE) pupils are old enough to have different teachers for different lessons, the lessons tend not to be referred to as lessons in AmE, but instead are called classes. (This ends up being ambiguous, as the class could be the activity or the group of students.) I thus find it strange when my BrE-speaking students refer to my lectures or seminars as lessons (as in: Could you send me the notes from yesterday's lesson? I had to miss it because my housemate was having her poodle dyed and the bath flooded and ruined my bus ticket so I had to stay at home and watch Countdown instead.). It sounds oddly childish to my ear.
As of this moment, no one has bothered to rate me on that professor-rating site. I simultaneously consider myself lucky and feel a little hurt.
P.S. A second-hand addition to the Canadian count: someone else wondered to Better Half whether I was Canadian. We're now into double-digit Canadian count.
18 comments:
- John Cowan said...
The closest match for BrE tutor seems to me to be AmE instructor, as that is not a rank but a functional description. Not one much used by students, though; it appears on course listings.
- 28 June, 2007 00:37
- TasmanSea said...
Having moved from a New Zealand university to a US one, these are exactly the kinds of terms that I find hardest to consistently use American English for. To be extra confusing, it sounds like the word "tutor" is used in a different way in NZ to how it is used in either US or UK English. In NZ, a tutor is a graduate student / postgrad who provides some kind of supplemental teaching to that given by the lecturer. In psychology at least, this is not a role that seems to exist in the US. NZ tutors take the students for a tutorial (in the arts) or a lab (in the sciences), usually once per week that includes some kind of practical exercise or discussion of course material. There is then a teaching assistant (TA) who is the kind of head tutor and organizes the tutors and does some admin stuff for the course.
What in the US would be called an advisor, being the person who oversees your NZ English = thesis, US English = dissertation research, we call a supervisor in NZ, I have never learnt to refer to my NZ supervisor as my "advisor"... an advisor sounds like someone a king has that tells them whether to invade or not.
I would never call a lecture a "lesson"... here they call them classes, which is kind of ambiguous because it is used to refer to both the entire semester-long undertaking, and to an individual meeting of the students and lecturer. I guess they are me discussion-based than lecturers in the strict sense, so that word isn't all that appropriate.
- 28 June, 2007 02:25
- steph said...
With all this education stuff, I am reminded that I say, "When I finished school (AmE), I moved to Amsterdam." What I mean is university, but for a long long time I said college (AmE).
- 28 June, 2007 06:29
- lynneguist said...
Tasmansea--the role that you're referring to as supervisor would be called supervisor in the British and American universities I've attended too, though advisor might be used as well in AmE universities. The role that I'm referring to as advisor has nothing to do with theses/dissertations--it's for undergraduate students only, and it's the person who helps the student choose elective courses, discuss career opportunities, and such like. What you're calling a tutor would be a demonstrator at my current university, but a teaching assistant at most US universities.
Steph, we covered the school issue back here, if you're interested.
- 28 June, 2007 09:34
- maxwheeler said...
When UK university students talk of "lessons" (recte classes, lectures, seminars) they are using a term familiar to them from primary and secondary education. Most, I guess, know it's not quite right, and I've often heard students correct themselves over it.
- 28 June, 2007 11:49
- Chris said...
There's also the Oxbridge/Durham complication, where "tutor" means something else entirely, ie a person (usually a BrE professor) who leads a "tutorial" class of up to a dozen or so students. This is in addition to lecture courses.
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- 28 June, 2007 14:41
- lynneguist said...
The use of tutor for other kinds of university instructors (particularly seminar instructors) is undoubtedly a hold-over from the old days when tutorials were how higher education worked throughout Britain. Now with more universities and more students, the tutorial is a rare beast.
Incidentally, another difference to mention here is seminar to refer to small-group teaching (preferably with lots of student discussion). In the US this is often called a discussion section. Seminar is used in both countries to refer to other things that seminar refers to...
- 28 June, 2007 15:49
Maxwheeler has it right for the UK I think ... "lessons" is a relatively new usage (10 yrs?) associated with a large increase in student numbers. See also "uni" (ugh).
- 28 June, 2007 16:57
Perhaps it would not be out of place to mention the ambiguity that can surround the phrase "taking a class". In the US it seems to mean attending a class as a student - in the UK it could also mean teaching a class. I confused a teacher at an art school where I was doing (BrE)voluntary/(AmE)volunteer work, by asking him if he took many classes at the school.
- 28 June, 2007 17:18
"lesson" at uni level is one I hadn't heard. Ugh. As you can see, I quite like "uni" - Australian experience. Most of the attempts I've seen to rationalise uni patois seem to me wrong. For example, I read an American account explaining how traditionally (where? when?) a University could give degrees but a College couldn't. But for the first couple of centuries of its existence the University of Edinburgh was also referred to as "The Tounis College". I believe that the two parts of the University of Aberdeen were originally separate degree-awarding Universities called King's College and Marischall College.
- 28 June, 2007 18:19
- Kim said...
The lesson thing reminds me of a time I was in high school, and friends of mine were in the school play. They referred to "play practice" but the drama teacher/director corrected them - they had rehearsal.
I actually came over to tell you about today's Language Log, which features a political cartoon from Britain, and explains BrE pronunciation of various words beginning with "f" such as "fork", with the r not being pronounced.
- 28 June, 2007 18:57
- Troy said...
The terms that we use in Australia (or at least my part of Australia) are a bit different. The entire semester-long series of classes is referred to by the university admin people as a course but by everyone else as a subject, mainly because the Vice-Chancellors in this State wanted to make our terminology consistent with what they present as 'international' usage, but no-one else is actually inclined to.
Actual classes are either lectures or tutorials (or sometimes labs, etc.) Lectures are exactly what they sound like and tutorials are group discussions varying between 10 to 30 students, in my experience. The person who teaches the lectures is always called the lecturer and only the people who teach tutorials are called tutors.
I've never heard any uni classes described as lessons (that sounds like high school to me). I would be most likely to say, 'I have to go to a lecture' or 'I have to go to a tute' but 'I have to go to a class' would be OK, too.
- 29 June, 2007 05:42
- lynneguist said...
Troy, that sounds like the terminology that we used in South Africa--though we called them tuts rather than tutes.
- 29 June, 2007 11:30
- Eloise said...
The NZ role of 'tutor' seems to be equivalent to what my (AmE) university called TAs -- for Teaching Assistants. Sort of a helper-to-the-course's-instructor post, reimbursed at a minimal kind of rate. TAs grade quizzes, often do paperwork, and if there is a 'discussion' section or a 'lab' section to the course (instead of just lectures, which are mostly done by the main instructor), the TA runs those.
- 30 June, 2007 04:00
- Howard said...
Lynne wrote:
> It sounds oddly childish to my ear. [Calling lectures/seminars "lessons".]
In a similar way the American habit of calling university "school" sounds oddly childish to British ears like my own.
(While there are degree-giving places that in fact call themselves "School", such as the London School of Economics or the School of Oriental and African Studies, no-one actually refers to those august institutions as "school".)
- 01 July, 2007 00:48
- terrycollmann said...
To add to the confusion, some UK universities, like Sussex are divided up into schools ...
- 03 July, 2007 18:15
What I hate is "uni" as an abbreviation for "university". I concede it's an efficient abbreviation, saving three syllables, but the word is ugly and childish. In Ireland we used to say "college" as the Americans do, but the excrescence seems to have spread from Australia via the UK, probably through university students distancing themselves from the lesser ITs (institutes of technology).
Regarding titles and roles, in Irish universities we have tutorials and tutors [postgrads] as well as lectures and lecturers [faculty]. The grades I think are junior lecturer - senior lecturer - associate professor - professor.
- 05 July, 2007 23:10
Harvard College, probably affected by a sort of Anglophilism, offers undergraduate tutorials in fields of concentration (called majors in most other universities). Students meet individually or in small groups with tutors (graduate students), and are expected to be more outspoken or creative than in regular (discussion) sections. The sections, in turn, are led by what used to be called section men, but which are now called section persons.
At most other universities, sections are led by teaching assistants or teaching fellows, and there are no turors or tutorials. At one university where I studied in the early 70s, we were all changed over the summer from teaching fellows to teaching assistants (or the other way around) so that the university could charge us higher fees without violating its written agreements.
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PHOENIX -- The A's carried as many as five left-handers in the bullpen last year, and they used them to great advantage.
Looking at 2013, the question is whether the A's can afford to even keep three. Even if they can wedge a trio of lefty relievers onto the final 25-man roster, there will be some shocks when the ultimate decisions on which ones to keep come down.
The A's have one of the best crops of left-handed relievers in recent memory, pitchers who would be locks to make the big-league club in another organization.
Hideki Okajima is the latest of those. He signed a minor-league contract with an invitation to the big-league camp in the first days of spring training.
"I never looked at the roster when I was coming here," Okajima said. "I was just happy for the chance to pitch again in America. In Boston there was never left-handed depth like this. I know it's going to be tough (making the team), but it's the same for us all."
It seems likely that Sean Doolittle and Jerry Blevins, the only lefty who was with the club all last season, are the only locks for the A's left-handed relief corps.
Other lefties in the mix include Travis Blackley, Jordan Norberto, Pedro Figueroa and Garrett Olson.
"Doolittle has that power arm you look for," pitching coach Curt Young said. "Blevins is more of a classic lefty; he can go a couple of innings, or he can match up with one tough lefty hitter. You love that versatility.
"Figueroa has come back from Tommy John surgery throwing strikes and he was good for us even though he rode the train from Sacramento to Oakland. Norberto has tremendous stuff. Olson came here looking to impress, and we're learning what he can do. And Okajima has that great deceptive motion and screwball. He had one bad year (in 2010), but he was one of the guys who helped Boston win a World Series (2007), and that means something.''
The good news for the A's is that Okajima and Olson are on minor-league contracts, so they can be kept in the organization even if they don't make the final 25. Among the rest, only Blackley is out of options, meaning Oakland can send the others to the minors without fear of losing them.
Or the A's can make a trade.
"It's too early for us to have to worry about making any kind of decision," general manager Billy Beane said. "But I am never going to worry about being in the position of having too many good players. There are a lot of good candidates."
The A's have one more year calling Phoenix Municipal Stadium home before making the switch. Oakland has been calling Muni home since 1982, but the A's were the original tenant when HoHoKam opened in 1978.
Starter Bartolo Colon gave up four runs in the first inning and another in the second. He didn't walk anyone but yielded five hits, including a solo homer to account Kansas City's run in the second.
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Patrick Murphy is always looking for ways to make teaching easier.
"I show up and try to make English and Literature interesting to kids," said Murphy, who teaches at Fremont High School in West Ogden, Utah.
Murphy, also known as the "Alpha Nerd," headed a Comic-Con panel Sunday designed to help teachers help make curriculum for sci-fi literature classes. Murphy's decision to pitch a sci-fi lit class was based upon a simple revelation.
"I took a sci-fi lit class in college," he said, "and it was the first class I actually liked. After teaching 'The Scarlet Letter' for the first time, I apologized to my students and promised never to teach it again."
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New Hampshire's Executive Council has confirmed Perry Plummer to a full term as director of the Homeland Security and Management Department.
Plummer, who was nominated by Gov. Maggie Hassan, had been serving as acting director since Jan. 3.
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May 30, 2013, 09:43 PM #23
Summer will be over soon. A lot of people will stop posting. Some will eventually get bored after a couple of years and find a new hobby and take up something else like base jumping, aircraft ownership, square dancing or competitive cöck gobbling and find some other website to annoy with their banality. Or they'll figure it out once their egos no longer needs so much stroking. Either way, meh, they don't surf where I surf.
You'll always have guys who want to argue about chemtrails, gmos, politics, cars or dolphin rape (this last one might actually be surf related). They drop in, kook out and then fall off; the front page that is.
Surfing is cyclic, in my life time I've seen its popularity wax and wane, just like all fads. Cepriano was saying the other day "I started surfing in 2002 and there's a lot more people now than then" (or something like that, sorry if I misquoted you Cep). I got a bit of a chuckle out of that, right before I ran out of fingers and toes to count on. 12 years is a long time in some respects and a blink of the eye in others. Anyway he's right, there are probably more surfers now than 12 years ago, I dunno. It was crowded then, it's crowded now. It's been crowded for as long I've been surfing; except when it's not.
Este es mi primer día. Homer Simpson gave me my mantra.
It is what it is.
Give it 5 or 10 years and the worm will turn man, keep the faith; it'll fall out of fashion once again (it's happened before). And, there will always be those who understand that it's not just a sport, a hobby, a great form of exercise or a fun way to spend an afternoon.
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May 30, 2013, 10:48 PM #24
It was your decision to bring scrutiny to my personal and professional life based of thin slices of my time expenditure as indicated by an online forum.
Three words back at you, but we will have fun and make this a puzzle since you like the suspense of trying to figure out answers that are meaningless to your life.
Three words similar in composition to those three you used: "_ _ _ _ _ _ yourself"
May 30, 2013, 10:50 PM #25
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May 30, 2013, 10:56 PM #26
May 30, 2013, 10:57 PM #27
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May 30, 2013, 11:04 PM #28
To the "holier than thou" crowd (it seems to be replicating itself in number here):
Take a look at the origin of these threads that seem to so very much irk you. Then look at the elements that progress them into mutated, off-topic horsecrap.
This thread was geared towards a topic of ocean hydrodynamics that is very much appropriate for a surfing forum. The original post has zero aim or attention towards anyone's outside life or ego.
Any one of a number of subsequent posts immediately derailed the content from said objective and decayed it into the cesspool that most web forums quickly become.
There's clear irony in the claims from these posters that "their surfing forum" is being infected with waste, when they are sowing the seeds of hate, tilling the soil with derision, and harvesting the crap themselves.
May 30, 2013, 11:13 PM #29
Ha, this guy really can't fight the battles he picks. I wonder who castrated him, his mother years ago or his lovely significant other in the current day.
You are a sad, shell of a boy, crackedinri. To not shoulder the weight of the situations you provoke, have a chance to avoid through a humorous response by your intended target diverting from and not engaging the conflict (earlier in this thread), provoke once again, get responded to privately instead of publicly (because your decisions shouldn't be anyone else's problem on here), then try and cower behind your fellow narrow-minded brethren.
Yes, people. We live in a society where what you say and do has consequences. Even if this presidential regime and nation says how you decide to act is not your fault.
To those of you shooting your mouths off to people you don't know behind the guise of an internet forum handle: go to Bridgeport, CT and say anything like this out loud to the commoners of that town, who you likewise know nothing about and who've done nothing to insult or harm you. Come back to us and report the results.
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EL CERRITO -- Jabari Bird scored 20 points as the visiting Salesian High boys basketball team used a 17-1 run bridging the second and third quarters to earn a 61-48 Tri-County Athletic League Rock Division win over El Cerrito on Tuesday.
El Cerrito (16-8, 6-2 TCAL Rock) was able to hang with the top team in Northern California for a quarter, taking a 13-12 lead after one. However, the Gauchos were not able to fully take advantage of sloppy ball-handling by Salesian (19-3, 8-0), which committed turnovers on four of its first five possessions in the game.
The Pride finished with nine turnovers in the first quarter and 31 in the game.
"Those empty possessions," lamented El Cerrito coach Michael Booker. "We'd get steals, we'd get deflections and we'd come down here and we'd miss a layup, we'd miss a jumper. Empty possessions equal scores for them.
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Salesian coach Bill Mellis also had some laments — 31 of them specifically.
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CariblueOpen-air restaurant with sea view. Adjacent plaza with tiny lights strung overhead for occasional after-dark dancing. Gazebo for occasional live entertainment, including dinnertime jazz. Breakfast and themed-lunch buffets. À la carte dinner service except for weekly casual-dress Caribbean buffet. Dinner menu changes daily. À la carte dinner dress code: No jeans, shorts, tee-shirts, athletic shoes, or beach sandals.
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Oshkosh Corp., parent of Bradenton's Pierce Manufacturing, reported a 20 percent leap in fiscal first-quarter net income and boosted its guidance for the full year.
For the three months ended Dec. 31, Oshkosh earned $46.5 million, or 51 cents per share, up from $38.9 million, or 42 cents per share, in the 2011 quarter. Adjusted profit came to 60 cents per share.
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Near the end of his first season at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi, pitcher Jacob Dorris talked to baseball head coach Scott Malone and pitching coach Marty Smith about his upcoming experience in the Northwoods League (NWL) on the La Crosse Loggers. The coaches told him to take the last couple of weeks of the season off and get ready to pitch in one of the toughest collegiate leagues in the nation.
Having an up-and-down year in his first season of college baseball, Dorris had to find his game again in the NWL as part of the Loggers, and do so a long way from home.
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After starting pitcher Jesse Holiday pitched the first seven innings without surrendering a hit, Dorris was given the ball for the final two frames. Staked to a 10-0 lead, Dorris opened both the eighth and ninth innings by walking a batter, but he would go on to record the next three outs in each to preserve just the second no-hitter in La Crosse history.
"It was an exciting experience," said Dorris. "The game wasn't close as far as the score goes, but it was just fun to pick up our pitcher who played so well all day. It was fun to be a part of history, but my main concern was to come into the game and take care of our starter."
For the Islanders reliever, it was perhaps the most memorable game amid a memorable season in the summer league. Already named an NWL All-Star, Dorris leads the league with 71 strikeouts against just 21 walks and sports a 2.49 ERA in 47 innings over 21 appearances. In the all-star game, he pitched one inning and fanned two-of-three batters faced from the North Division team.
"It's been a great summer," said Dorris. "I came up here, learned a lot and got to pitch a lot of innings. It is a great league; there are excellent players on all of the teams, and good quality hitters all around. The stats are great, but I was not here to worry about stats, just here to learn and get better everyday."
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i love my king 800 stone.
I think one of my buddies has a broken king 800, would there be any success in trying to make and use finger stones out of it?
Yeah I agree with Jacob, I've had mixed luck with this.
There's a King Neo 800 that Tools from Japan sells. Is this a different stone altogether? The description says "more of a ceramic stone".
Who else sells King stones?
Dave would certainly be vendor of choice for those in the states. And this is his sub-forum. Kind of tacky to be looking for shopping advice here.
Older and wider..
Not only a great stone but the Fact that it comes in the big block version is a huge plus (pun intended), it's a great stone to work with. I would say it would be my "if you could only have one stone" stone