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Meeting Street, looking south toward the Circular Church, the Mills House, and St. Michaels Church, is left virtually in ruins after the 585-day siege of Charleston. Much of the rest of the city looked the same.
On the 514th day of the siege, Charleston was quiet.
No shells would be hurled at the city that day -- Monday, Dec. 5, 1864 -- as Confederate and Union troops had called a temporary truce to exchange prisoners. It was a bureaucratic ordeal that The Mercury predicted would take two weeks to complete. And because it was announced in advance, weary residents expected that it would allow them a few days to relax.
But someone at Fort Sumter did not get word in time. That day, a sharpshooter at Sumter spotted a Union soldier at Battery Gregg who was making no effort to hide. The sharpshooter steadied his gun, took aim and fired.
The Yankee fell immediately -- wounded or killed, the newspaper did not know -- and the cease-fire was over.
Battery Gregg opened its guns on Sumter at once, the shots echoing through the city for several minutes before Union officers spotted a white flag going up at Sumter. Southern officers sent a note of apology to the battery, and the uneasy truce resumed.
Everybody in Charleston was understandably jumpy as December descended on the Lowcountry. Each day brought new reports of Sherman's march to the sea. The despised Union general was making his way southeast to Savannah, and there was little doubt he would soon capture the Georgia port. It seemed no one could stop the man who had taken Atlanta.
On Dec. 12, The Mercury reported that the Savannah Railroad's tracks had been "menaced" by Yankee shelling, cutting off Charleston's rail access to the south.
"For the present, the trains will cease to run through between the two cities."
A week later, on Dec. 20, Sherman's troops crossed the Savannah River. Two days after that, word reached Charleston that Confederate troops had abandoned the Georgia city. The next morning, Savannah's mayor rode out to greet Sherman. Hoping to avoid the fate of Atlanta, he offered to surrender in exchange for the general's promise to protect the city's property and residents.
Savannah was under Yankee rule by the day's end.
Sherman offered the city to President Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas present, but most Charleston residents feared the gift that Lincoln wanted most lay 100 miles farther up the coast.
By Christmas 1864, however, Charleston was not much of a prize. The city lay in ruins, more a result of all the fires than the shells that pounded the peninsula every week. The mail service was spotty and many residents had fled months before. Those who remained were subjected to the ever- increasing crime that infested the city.
On New Year's Eve, The Mercury recounted the numerous "outrages" that had plagued the city during the final week of 1864. Someone had fired five or six shots into a house on Bull Street; a man was mugged on Coming Street, beaten and robbed of $1,200; a free black man was knocked down on Cannon Street, stripped of his coat and $100. And then, the younger brother of the local provost marshal was assaulted by three soldiers who demanded money and "something to drink."
Perhaps the most disturbing crime occurred on Thursday, Dec. 29, when a group of soldiers attacked a Smith Street home. Around 9 p.m., five or six men in uniform tried to force their way in to the "respectable home." A lady across the street saw what was happening and called out to a servant in the house, asking if "the colonel" was home to protect them.
The slave said the "master was absent on duty" and that there was no one in the house except servants and several young women. Ultimately, the soldiers -- upset that they could not break into the house -- fired a shot through one window. The ball hit a wall and rebounded, falling at the feet of one of the young ladies.
War or no, Charleston had become a very dangerous place.
Ironclad down
On Jan. 4, The Mercury reported that Sherman had crossed into South Carolina and was near Hardeeville -- barely 80 miles south of the city.
"All the beef cattle, hogs and sheep have been driven from the Hardeeville and Grahamville sections, and are now pastured in a safe locality," the paper noted.
Sherman's men were making fine progress on their own; no one in the state wanted to help their advance by providing them with dinner.
Charleston spent January 1865 not only worried about the possibility of a pending invasion, but also the escalating crime rate. It seemed criminals were menacing the city as much as the Yankees. After a house at the corner of Coming and Wentworth streets was robbed of more than $3,000 in supplies, locals began to speculate that a group of men masquerading as Confederate soldiers were behind the rash of robbings, muggings and thefts.
"The fact that a few prowling stragglers in the garb of soldiers have been unwarrantably assuming the functions of a provost guard, stopping and robbing negroes, and in some cases, white men, has thrown discredit upon many of patrols of the bona fide provost guard," the newspaper reported. "In order therefore to prevent mistakes, we would mention that there is a genuine provost guard, relief parties from which perform the onerous duty of patrolling the streets at all hours, night and day, and the best plan for citizens and others, when challenged, will be to show their papers without delay."
As if that weren't enough, Battery Gregg resumed the shelling of Fort Sumter at 3 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 8.
Disheartening as the city's predicament had become, the fight had not gone out of Charleston completely. That week, Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr. launched a vicious assault on Confederate officials in Richmond, who were rumored to be considering a peace accord with the North -- a treaty that might include limitations on the expansion of slavery.
On the front page of The Mercury, the editor called this "lunacy" and predicted that South Carolina would fight to the bitter end.
"It was on account of encroachments upon the institution of slavery by the sectional majority of the old Union, that South Carolina seceded from that Union," Rhett wrote. "It is not at this late day, after the loss of thirty thousand of her best and bravest men in battle, that she will suffer it to be bartered away; or ground between the upper and nether mill stones, by the madness of Congress, or the counsels of shallow men elsewhere. … We want no Confederate government without our institutions. And we will have none."
South Carolina, Rhett declared, would not abandon its principles, "Sink or swim, live or die" -- with or without Virginia and the Confederate congress.
It increasingly looked as if those were the state's only two choices.
Charleston got a glimpse of what such a future might look like when The Mercury published a report out of Savannah on Jan. 14. Every man, woman and child in the Georgia city had been commanded to take an oath, the newspaper said, "not simply of neutrality, not a parol not to fight against the United States, but an oath of allegiance, not alone to the Constitution of the United States, but to the unconstitutional laws which have been passed by an abolition Congress."
Rhett's defiant words could not lift spirits in Charleston; even the destruction of a hated blockade ship didn't warrant much excitement in this winter of discontent.
On Sunday night, Jan. 15, the men at Fort Sumter watched a Union ironclad drift into and out of sight in a heavy fog. It was, by the best estimates, about 600 yards off and the troops were waiting for the boat to get a little closer before they opened fire.
Aboard the USS Patapsco, the crew was providing cover for two Union picket boats that were dragging the harbor entrance for mines. The Confederates could not see the small picket boats, only the ironclad's rounded turret.
The fog left the Patapsco as blind as the sentries at Sumter, and some of the crew were on deck taking constant soundings to make sure the boat didn't run aground. And then, about 8 p.m., the Patapsco ran into one of the submerged Confederate mines.
The explosion was muffled by the water enough that the men at Sumter did not hear it. In fact, even the crew of the Patapsco did not realize how seriously they had been damaged. But within a minute, the heavy, cumbersome boat sank into the channel. Some crew members managed to get away, but more than 60 Union sailors went down with the ship.
The sentries at Sumter would later report that they suddenly heard "a confused mingling of shouts ... and cries for mercy" that quickly died away.
It was a hollow victory for the South. Their mines had protected the harbor, but most everyone in Charleston had to wonder: for how long?
A 'reliable gentleman'?
By the end of January, Sherman was rumored to be on the move.
The Mercury reported that the general's troops had advanced to Branchville "with a considerable force of infantry." The Yankees had not made more progress, Rhett speculated, because of poor road conditions. Other reports said Union troops were in fact planning an attack on the railroad.
At the same time, Rhett granted front-page space to the rantings of a man who had recently arrived in town to tell Charlestonians about the coming "peace."
"This 'reliable gentleman,' " as The Mercury derisively called him, "has now taken up lodgings in Charleston, and can be seen any day upon the street with his mouth wide open, and his tongue going like the clapper of a town bell. Yesterday his oracles were a little more cheerful than the day before. To amuse our readers, we will give his last on the 'Peace Commission.' "
According to Rhett, the man claimed Lincoln had offered reunion, with slavery preserved on the same basis as before the war -- so long as fugitive slaves did not have to be returned, and that there would be no expansion of slavery to the territories. But Confederate President Jefferson Davis had rejected these terms, and all of Lincoln's other overtures.
Despite The Mercury's prominent reporting on the "reliable gentleman" and his claims, Rhett called it crazy talk.
"The situation is simple, and our destiny is plain -- the Yankees must be driven from the soil of the Confederation, or the people of the Confederate States must be driven from their own soil -- white slavery and expatriotism or independence and black slavery," Rhett wrote. "Let all men hush with the foolish talk of peace, and let there be but one watchword, from one end of the land to the other -- Fight!"
Charleston was still getting conflicting, contradictory messages from The Mercury as the second week of February 1865 began. Rumors from other parts of the country suggested the war would soon end, and no doubt many had already heard talk of the Confederate military's plans to abandon the city. And yet The Mercury, which had promoted secession and the war so fiercely, seemed unwilling to face such prospects. Rhett did not want to give up.
All of that would change within a few days.
On Friday morning, Feb. 10, between 3,000 and 4,000 Union troops landed at "Grimball's place" on James Island. The force pushed Confederate pickets back to their nearest defenses, but beyond that the fight was a stalemate. Maj. Manigault was reportedly killed in the skirmish, "but some doubt is expressed as to the correctness of this report."
The war had not only taken a toll on the city, but the newspaper, as well. That same day, when The Mercury reported that Sherman had crossed the Edisto but was allegedly headed for Augusta, Rhett announced that the paper would cease publication. At least temporarily.
In a note "To our Readers," Rhett wrote that "the interruption of railroad communication between Charleston and the interior produces a state of affairs that compels us, temporarily, to transfer the publication office of the Mercury elsewhere; and today's paper will be our last issue, for the present, in the city of Charleston."
He said the newspaper would shut down only for a few days, but in fact The Mercury would not publish again for 21 months. And by then, Charleston had changed irrevocably.
Night of horror, chaos
A few days after The Mercury halted publication, the batteries on Morris Island increased their rate of fire on the city. The Union's newest guns had a greater range than the old ones; some shells were reportedly hitting the peninsula north of Calhoun Street. Local residents had nowhere to hide, no newspaper to tell them that these attacks would pass. Charleston was quickly becoming a lost cause.
The orders, when they came, were dispatched from Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard on Feb. 14: the Confederate military was to abandon Charleston.
It took a few days to make all the preparations, and in that time Union signalmen figured out what was going on. The Confederates were reducing their rations stock, moving hospitals farther inland and inspecting wagon trains for brigades that had not moved once during the war. Yankee spotters deciphered one message sent to Sullivan's Island that read "Burn all papers before you leave."
The Confederate troops put on a show until the end. On the morning of Feb. 17, they raised a new Confederate flag over Fort Sumter. When they lowered the banner that night, the soldiers followed it out, abandoning Sumter in the dead of night.
It was, historian Milby Burton would later write, a night of "horror and chaos, undoubtedly the worst ever experienced in the history of the city." Fire, which had caused so much distress to the city during the war, would usher out the Confederacy.
In public squares, soldiers burned piles of cotton and rice to keep the supplies from Union soldiers. They also burned the bridge over the Ashley River, and blew up a huge Blakely gun on The Battery. An attempt to ignite the Arsenal -- depriving the Yankees of Southern ammunition -- failed, but troops used 20 tons of powder on the gunboats Charleston and Chicora.
Finally, the soldiers turned to the Ladies' Gunboat. The Palmetto State was burned to the waterline, a symbolic sacrifice that said, as much as anything, that Charleston was resigned to its fate. Later, some people would claim that, in the smoke rising out of the sinking gunboat, they saw the image of a palmetto tree.
Most of the fires were allowed to burn through the night. Many of the city's firefighters had fled, leaving only a couple of companies comprised of free blacks to fight the blazes. Bands of looters ran through the streets, and the people who didn't evacuate the city barricaded themselves in their homes. The horrors of war had come to their front doors.
It was the 585th day of the Siege of Charleston and by morning it would be over.
At daybreak, Union troops noted that the Confederate flag did not rise over Sumter and, upon investigation realized the fort was empty. After more than 43,000 rounds fired at the fort, the Yankees were able to retake Sumter only because the Confederates ceded it. But by then, Fort Sumter bore little resemblance to the outpost it had once been. Entire walls had been reduced to rubble, the remains of which were scattered across the man-made island.
Once the word spread, blockade ships steamed into Charleston Harbor. They found the city smoking and eerily quiet. Looters had busted out windows across the city, stealing what few valuables had remained in storefronts. When Union officers finally reached City Hall, Mayor Charles Macbeth met them outside.
Macbeth surrendered the city, and asked if the Yankees might arrest the looters and extinguish the fires.
There was no one else left in Charleston to do it.
The end
Sherman reached Columbia on the same day Confederate troops were making their final preparations to leave Charleston. The fires that destroyed the city that day would remain controversial for more than a century: Did retreating Confederates set the fires, were they accidental or did Sherman burn the city?
In April, Richmond fell, but it was merely a formality at that point. The Southern cause was lost. On April 9, a few day's shy of the war's fourth anniversary, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. Although some fighting would continue for weeks before word finally spread, the war was officially over. About 620,000 Americans had died.
Less than a week after Lee's surrender, Lincoln was assassinated in Washington by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
Union forces would occupy Charleston for more than a decade during Reconstruction, and the city would slowly come back to life. The Charleston Mercury resumed publication on Monday, Nov. 19, 1866, with Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr. at the helm. In its first editorial, the newspaper recounted the end of the war and tried to strike a tone that was alternately conciliatory and defiant in its epilogue to "40 years of effort."
"In referring to the Past, we have no desire to extenuate, to paliate, or to excuse the part that the Mercury has played in the politics of the country. We do not believe much in death-bed repentances and spasmodic reforms. We shall neither spread a lie, upon our past conduct, by avouching repentance that we do not feel, nor live a lie now by protestations that would be false. What we have done, we have done -- what we have written, we have written.
"We have failed in our cause, and we sit surrounded with the ruins of our former estate."
The Mercury would publish for two more years before shutting down in November 1868. Rhett moved on to New Orleans, where he continued in the newspaper business.
Charleston would eventually rises from the ashes, but it would take years. These old times would not be forgotten after 150 years, and probably never will.
A dismantled Blakely gun sits in the foreground of South Battery.×
The Fort Sumter the Confederates abandoned in 1865 was a shell of its former self.×
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Within his book, The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier discusses the issues that surround the bottom sixth of the world's population. Along with this, Collier attempts to provide potential solutions that could alleviate the plight of the "poorest people… [a plight] that is growing inexorably worse"[1]. One such solution that Collier presents is military intervention, in those poorer states that are failing. Although he goes into detail about the pro's and cons of restoring order, maintaining post conflict peace and protecting states from coups, he makes little effort to justify the "clear cut case for international interventionism: expelling an aggressor"[2]. For indeed, far from being a clear cut justification to utilise a nations armed forces, the last 100 years has shown that military intervention to expel an aggressor group is wrought with problems, especially if one invades without international support. This article, thus, attempts to show that far from clear cut, the only time that military intervention to expel an aggressor is justifiable is when mandated by the international community, and conducted by a coalition of willing partners. Although in doing so it would be easy to degenerate this article into a lengthy diatribe against the moral wrongs of 'policing the international community' the article will instead stick to three major issues that the invading state will incur to some extent if it decides to take on aggressor nations unilaterally. These problems being: the reduction in international, diplomatic, support for your state and the destabilization within the entire region that the conflict originates from. From this, the clear conclusion that will be drawn is that military intervention to expel aggressors is acceptable only when conducted multilaterally, where the possibility for these negative reactions to your states use of force is largely mitigated.
When one looks at the diplomatic preamble that preceded American intervention in Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush appears to indicate their actions will have wide ranging, positive security benefits for their international colleagues: "The United States and other nations did nothing to deserve or invite this threat. But we will do everything to defeat it."[3] Although he is correct in mentioning later in his speech that the US can rely on a coalition of willing partners in the impending violence[4], the fact that they went into war without UN Security Council clearance resulted in a largely negative response around the world. The rationale for this apparent turn around in global public opinion towards the United States, who after 9/11 had experienced great outpourings of empathy from most of the global community, appears to be most succinctly worded by Nelson Mandela, who wrote: "Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms."[5] The clear message from this piece was that unilateral intervention (for although the United States called upon other nations to support their war effort, for a large part their forces were tokens, and had little direct affect on the overall war effort) was doomed to diplomatic failure. This can be largely explained by the fact that states operating in an anarchic system, who will be inherently suspicious of competitors actions, will not be able to tolerate a state that has the capabilities and willingness to forgo any international body, and law, that it itself created. With this in mind it becomes clear that unilateral intervention is doomed to breed negative, and even hostile responses from the international community. Although nations such as the United States do not require military assistance when conducting these types of strike operations, breeding a culture of inherent distrust towards the United States will do nothing but weaken future, peaceful, US-led initiatives in the global community. For this reason, clearly unilateral intervention provides little benefit, unless mandated and authorised by the international community.
Throughout history, many interventions have been conducted in order to maintain stability within the region that they are being conducted. Indeed, this was no different for the War in Iraq, where George W. Bush alluded to the threat of a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) wielding Saddam, and the trouble that posed for the global community. However, this has largely not been the case when looking at the aftermath of most major unilateral interventions. Indeed, despite taking command of major military operations in Vietnam for the better part of 15 years, with the stated aims of containing, if not eliminating the Communist threat arising within the nation, the United States failed. Although this is not due to the policy of interventionism, the United States intervention, in hindsight made the entire region less stable, and more likely to fall to Communism. For indeed, despite being a member of an expansionist ideology, Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Communist party in Vietnam was passionately anti-Chinese, and insular thinking[6]. Thus in the wake of the US withdrawal from Vietnam, when a hostile China was threatening Vietnam from the North, Ho Chi Minh began spreading Vietnamese influence throughout South East Asia, not as a means of expanding Communism, but in order to prop up and ensure Vietnams survival in the face of a growing Chinese threat. Although this is not to say that military interventionism bred the hostility that caused the Sino-Vietnamese war, the weakening of Vietnams military capabilities did provide an opening for the Chinese to apply pressure on Vietnam, which in turn increased the likelihood, and eventually caused Vietnams direct intervention and subversive action along the Indochina Peninsula, which resulted in the manifestation of Communist governments all along the peninsula, the outcome that the United States was so passionately fighting against. A similar trend is being played out in the contemporary world, indeed with ethnic violence still sporadically erupting in Iraq, Iran is using the instability caused by the weak interim government, to strengthen its hold over the country that had for decades provided a counter balance against its own growth and power.[7] And with the potential of Iran's nuclear weapon now dominating the thinking of much of the global community, the instability in the region that allowed for Iran to adopt its Nuclear weapons program unmolested was caused largely by America's unilateral intervention in Iraq. Although it would be easy to suggest that even a multi-lateral intervention in either of the case studies mentioned would have provided a similar result, given the shared burden of the military campaign, and the feeling among the general population that the war is legal provides a sturdiness to the campaign that would provide the necessary impetus to have ensured that the defeated nation was rebuilt to acceptably strong and stable conditions. In contrast, unilateral operations are often conducted at the whim of one presidency, and completed by the next, who more often then not is concluding them in order to overcome domestic political pressure. As a result, the argument that unilateral intervention is justifiable, and useful due to the stability it creates is untenable due to the fact that it creates major instability and usually creates conditions for larger conflicts, due to the hastiness with which the campaign is wrapped up.
Clearly, a larger investigation is necessary to definitively prove the case that unilateral military intervention, without the consent of the international community, is entirely unacceptable. However, with the words provided, this article should have helped add to the international condemnation of the growing trend for larger powers to indiscriminately intervene in regional conflicts, and sovereign states. The reasoning, that this article has provided; that intervening in other nations in contravention, or without international recognition will retard larger diplomatic initiatives, and that without the longterm political willpower to stay in the nation being intervened in, will only lead to greater regional instability, stands in contrast to most of the major critics of the policy. For indeed, while Mandela and others have critiqued the U.S. intervention in Iraq on philosophical and legal grounds, this has had a rather insignificant impact on Western, and in particular, U.S. policy. However, moving the debate towards providing practical explanations for why unilateral, unendorsed, military intervention is unsuitable as a tool in international politics should hopefully see the elimination of this growing, useless, costly and bloody, policy.
Ryan Bartlett
[1]Collier, Paul. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are failing and What Can Be Done about It. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. Print.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Bush, George W. Full text: Bush's Speech: A transcript of George Bush's ultimatum speech from the Cross Hall in the White House. The Guardian, 2003. Web.
[4] Ibid.
[5]Ali, Amir. "Nelson Mandela: The U.S.A. Is a Threat to World Peace." The Article Collection of M. Amir Ali, Ph.D. Web. 28 Apr. 2012. <http://www.ilaam.net/Opinions/USAThreat.html>.
[6] Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. Penguin. P. 153. 1983. Print: "You fools! Don't you realize what it means if the Chinese remain? Don't you remember your history? The last time the Chinese came, they stayed a thousand years. The French are foreigners. They are weak. Colonialism is dying. The white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never go. As for me, I prefer to sniff French shit for five years than to eat Chinese shit for the rest of my life."
[7] Jakes, Lara. Boston News: Iranian influence seeping into Iraq. Boston Times, November 7, 2011. Web.


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The mandated Act 47 hearing Wednesday at the Devorris Downtown Center was the big chance for ordinary residents to weigh in on Altoona's recovery plan before the plan consultant begins likely revisions.
Only a handful took advantage, however, and of those, only two or three were altogether unaffiliated with city government.
Why so few ordinary people among a contingent of speakers that mainly consisted of city employees?
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Terry Merritts voices his concerns during the public commentary section of the Act 47 recovery plan hearing at the Devorris Downtown Center auditorium Wednesday evening.
"How come so few regular people come to [regular] council meetings?" City Manager Joe Weakland said afterward.
One of the few speakers unaffiliated with city government was Dave Woleslagle, a former emergency medical services worker, who was one of many who came to the aid of AMED, urging the consultant to drop its recommendation to explore the feasibility of the fire department taking over ambulance services in the city.
"I just know that AMED has done a grand job over all the years," said Woleslagle, who worked for Hollidaysburg American Legion Ambulance Service.
Another unaffiliated speaker was Don Ruggery Jr., owner of McIntyre's Candies, who lamented the city's need to resort to Act 47, praised the city's intention to get out as quickly as possible and lauded the plan's promotion of sharing municipal services.
The sooner the city gets out, the sooner he would be able to stop paying the extra earned income taxes the plan would allow, Ruggery said.
"I don't want to be paying extra taxes," Ruggery said. "That's not the way for us [the city] to keep growing."
The extra earned income taxes will allow the city to make ends meet next year and probably during the four years of the plan, which projects a cumulative deficit of $10 million by 2016, if things continue as they are.
But cost containment in worker salaries, health care and pensions and ultimately economic development initiatives like a downtown growth strategy, blight prevention and employer-assisted housing that point toward the long-term solutions the city has insisted on from the start, officials said.
Those long-term initiatives, however, should include more targeted on quality-of-life issues, such as upgrading and maintaining parks, sidewalks and streetscapes, Planning Director Lee Slusser told the consultant leaders.
Quality of life is also at risk from a plan recommendation to eliminate a pair of parks workers, partly because that would eliminate almost 10 percent of the city's snow plow crew, Public Works Director Dave Diedrich said.
The department is already short-staffed, having lost six workers in the last two years, he said.
The plan should call for "liquidation of assets" like the water and sewer systems and Council Chambers, suggested Austin's Market proprietor Wilson Saguban, who plans to run for City Council.
That's a better alternative than raising taxes, which will drive people away, he said.
The plan should include a look at the fire department, according to Terry Merritts, a former school teacher and the father of a city police officer. The department could consist of a core of paid full-time firefighters supplemented by part-timers and volunteers - a setup that would minimize or eliminate overtime, he said.
Such a plan wouldn't work for the police, because few if any would volunteer, he predicted.
The consultant team had a hard task, given attitudes like that of a county official who recently asked retired city employee Paul Bottenfield, "Let's face it, who wants to live in the city," Bottenfield told the consultants.
He has invested $40,000 in his house, but it has been broken into three times in 10 years, he said.
"I see a neighborhood in decline," he said.
Those who comment on issues in forums like Wednesday's tend to be passionate about their own concerns, without considering the whole context, said John Espenshade, the consultant team leader.
Sometimes, they also tend not to see the details of recommendations - like those that call merely for exploring or investigating the possibility of change, he said.
Employees and others may fear those recommendations, but rational discussions about it often lead to valuable insights and important changes, he said.
Among the suggestions in 27 pages of cricital comments submitted by city staff is to keep the opt-out incentive payments for workers who don't join the city's healthcare plan -- for example, because their spouse's plan is better.
But at 40 percent of the city's premium, it's more costly than with most organizations, she said.
She doesn't share city officials' fear that eliminating the payment would be counter-productive.
The city would benefit if as few as one in four workers opted in, because the three who didn't would eliminate 120 percent of a premium payment -- more than making up for the fourth worker who comes back in.
And with the city requiring a co-share of premium from workers nowadays, workers wouldn't likely come back into the plan just to avoid the feeling of losing out.
The team plans to consider all the verbal and written comments from the hearing and other written comments that have come in since the plan's filing Nov. 13, Espenshade said.
Based on Act 47 guidelines, the team has until Dec. 7 to produce a final plan. Council will consider the plan for adoption Dec. 19. The city is scheduled to go to Blair County Court Dec. 21 for approval on the increase in earned income taxes and the property tax millage slate.
Council can reject the plan, but coming up with its own alternative and then getting state Department of Community and Economic Development approval before the end of the year would be challenging, even if the city's plan consists of the consultant's with changes the city wants.
The main issue is getting the EIT hikes approved before year-end, because otherwise, the city would forfeit the right to collect them until June, which would put the 2013 budget in jeopardy, officials have said.
Mirror Staff Writer William Kibler is at 949-7038.


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Beyoncé: Did She Lip-Sync the 'Star-Spangled Banner' at Inauguration?
The pop star, 31, wowed the crowd of about 800,000 people during Monday's presidential Inauguration with her powerful rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner."
But it wasn't a live performance, according to a Marine Corps Band spokesperson, who says the band wasn't playing and Beyoncé was lip-syncing to her own voice.
"We all know Beyoncé can sing," Kristin Dubois, Master Sgt. of the U.S. Marine Corps Band, told ABC News on Tuesday. "We all know the Marine Corps Band can play. We do not know why she decided to go with the pre-recorded music at the last minute."
Dubois adds that the band performed live to accompany the other acts, including Kelly Clarkson, but was specifically asked not to play during Beyoncé's performance. PEOPLE has confirmed that Clarkson indeed performed live.
However, the story isn't so cut-and-dried. "There was no opportunity for Ms. Knowles-Carter to rehearse with the Marine Band before the Inauguration so it was determined that a live performance by the band was ill-advised for such a high-profile event," Capt. Gregory A. Wolf, media officer from the Pentagon, said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
Regarding Beyoncé's performance, Wolf said, "No one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or pre-recorded."
Wolf says that as a regular practice, each piece of music scheduled for performance during the Inauguration is pre-recorded in case it's needed for extenuating circumstances such as freezing temperatures or equipment failure.
In video of Beyoncé's performance, it's unclear if she was singing live along with the pre-recorded track.
A rep for the star has not returned a request for comment.


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Sophomore Jama Sharp led four Hatters in double figures with 16 points as the Stetson women's basketball team defeated Georgia Southern 70-39 in the first game of the 2012 Hatter Classic Tuesday afternoon at the Edmunds Center.
The Hatters (6-4) held the Eagles (1-6) to just one point over the final 10 minutes and earned their first 30-point victory over a Division I opponent since 1989.
"I thought our defense was real good for a full 40 minutes," Stetson head coach Lynn Bria said. "Georgia Southern is a scrappy team, they play hard, and in the first half they shot 60 percent from behind the arc, and I wasn't pleased with that. I felt like in the second half we needed to get out more on their shooters. But we did a great job rebounding throughout the game."
After a slow start for both teams, senior Ashley Dennis came off the bench and hit a pair of three-pointers to spark Stetson to a 15-9 lead. The Hatters would extend the lead to 12 on a steal and lay-up by Victoria McGowan, and a three-pointer by Sharp in the closing seconds of the half put Stetson ahead by 14 at the break.
In the first five minutes of the second half, sophomore C.J. Coddington had two steals at half court that she turned into fastbreak lay-ups, helping Stetson extend the lead to 51-32 at the 15:09 mark.
"I just had to get up and pressure the ball," Coddington said. "Our defense is really a team effort, we all have to apply pressure and rebound."
Georgia Southern's last field goal came from Anna Claire Knight at the 10:41 mark, and the Eagles managed just one free throw the rest of the way.
Sharp finished the game 7-for-10 from the floor to raise her season field goal percentage to .530.
"We work on shooting a lot in the fall, and I really made it my goal this year to get shots up and improve from last year," Sharp said. "It's really of matter of getting myself into a good position where my teammates can get me the ball."
McGowan joined Sharp in double figures with 15 points, adding eight rebounds, and six assists. Dennis scored 12 points on 5-of-10 shooting, and Cherisse Burris collected 11 points and six rebounds.
"I thought Ashley Dennis was the player of the game on both ends of the floor," Bria said. "She took good shots, she played very good defensively for us. She's always been a kind of a garbage player. She takes charges she gets loose balls. She has saved her best for her senior year. She plays within herself and is just a great team player."
With the large lead, the Hatters were able to utilize the bench throughout the second half. No Stetson starter played over 28 minutes.
"We needed some other players to log some minutes," Bria said. "We are going to need them in conference. The season gets to be really long, and to be able to play nine, 10, 11, or 12 players would be nice. So I was very happy to be able to put some other people in the game."
The Hatters shot 52 percent from the floor and outrebounded the Eagles 38-26.
In the second game Tuesday, Bethune-Cookman defeated UNC Asheville 74-57.
The Hatters will face UNC Asheville at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. A video broadcast will be available for free on HatterVision.
Notes: Stetson's last 30-point win over a Division I opponent came on Feb. 4, 1989 vs. UCF. Stetson did defeat Saint Leo (DII) 73-37 in 2010 ... The Hatters have won nine straight and 21 of their last 22 games at home ... Janelle Mills is now tied for sixth in school history with 65 career blocks ... Victoria McGowan has recorded at least one assist in 40 straight games ... The Hatters improved to 6-0 when holding opponents to under 70 points.


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So why is the Prius stolen so infrequently? The obvious answer would be that the car is too slow for an effective getaway. But perhaps car thieves just don't shop at Whole Foods, or maybe the thrill of stealing a car is diminished somewhat when it's something so dorky. That is, until you consider that the 1991 Camry and the 2000 Dodge Caravan are two of the most-stolen cars in America, and neither of them are likely to be labeled as "badass". No, the actual reason is a question of practicality. Quite a lot of stolen cars are hacked apart for parts, and so it makes the most sense to steal cars which sell in big numbers, as these are the ones with parts that are in demand and easy to unload quickly. As popular as the Prius is for a hybrid, it's not Camry popular.
There are still enough Prii (Toyota's word, not mine) on the road that there is a demand for parts, but Prius owners tend to use the dealership for service more than independent shops, and dealerships are less likely to buy their parts from chop shops. The parts on the Prius are more or less entirely unique too, so they couldn't be sold in order to be fitted to a different car. Then there is the complexity of the hybrid system, and the fact that disassembling the Prius is much more complicated than it is with a regular car. Having now gone into what is possibly a suspicious amount of detail on this subject, I'll let you draw your own conclusions from here. The report, after all, doesn't speculate much on why this phenomenon is happening, they simply reported that it's happening. They did go on to say in which states the Prius is stolen the most, but these are also those where it sells the best, and unsurprisingly, California is at the top of the list.


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This is the second of an eight-part series previewing the NFL draft on April 25-27.
Today's installment: wide receivers.
By Mark Gaughan
NFL scouts will have to make a good projection into the future when evaluating the most talented receiver in the draft.
The University of Tennessee's Cordarrelle Patterson is an All-Pro talent in a big body. However, he enters the NFL after just one year of major college football.
"I think he's taking your breath away with the ability to make plays, especially after he gets the ball in his hands," said Mike Mayock, NFL Network draft analyst. "He's a special talent. The problem is he's got one year of Division I experience after two years at a junior college. That's a red flag for me, especially at the wide receiver position. There are a bunch of those guys that have failed over the past 20 years."
Patterson, who just turned 21, is 6-foot-2 and 216 pounds. He posted elite testing numbers at the NFL Scouting Combine by running the 40-yard dash in 4.42 seconds and going 37 inches in the vertical jump.
He probably is the best option for the Buffalo Bills if they want to take a game-breaking receiver with the eighth overall pick. The Bills have a big need at receiver. However, the Bills have not favored one-year wonders since Buddy Nix took over the scouting operation in 2010.
"Patterson just has enormous talent," said Mel Kiper, ESPN draft analyst. "Incredible athletic ability. He showcased it in a number of games. He was a little raw coming in."
Kiper agrees with many other analysts that Patterson will be taken higher in the first round than his on-field production might warrant.
"He gets pushed up because of where he can be two, three years from now," Kiper said.
Patterson, whose name is pronounced Core-dare-uhl, spent two years producing big numbers for Hutchinson Community College in Kansas. He was pushed into a starting role to start the season at Tennessee because Vols wideout Da'Rick Rogers was kicked off the team for failing drug tests.
In the first three games, Patterson had 17 catches for 239 yards, including a strong game against Florida. The next five games he averaged just two catches a game and never topped 31 receiving yards. Then he had a 219-yard outing against a bad Troy defense. He finished the season with 46 catches for 778 yards and five TDs.
Patterson's highlight tape is impressive. He is explosive after the catch, can get deep down the sideline and makes strong plays on the ball in the air.
As usual, there are a lot of capable receivers in the draft. At least 20 wideouts have been picked in the first five rounds 13 years in a row.
California's Keenan Allen, the half-brother of former University at Buffalo QB Zach Maynard, is a quality outside receiver and a sure-fire first rounder. No. 8 overall might be a bit high for him.
West Virginia slot receiver Tavon Austin is 5-8 and ran a 4.34-second 40. He will go in the first round.
If the Bills want a receiver with the 42nd overall pick, in the second round, they should have some good options.
Southern Cal's Robert Woods is a smooth, proven player who is a bit comparable to ex-Bill Peerless Price. Louisiana Tech's Quinton Patton is an outside receiver with size who draws some comparisons with NFL star Anquan Boldin. Clemson's DeAndre Hopkins is an athlete with strength and good hands. He doesn't have great speed. Tennessee's Justin Hunter is big (6-4) and fast (4.44) and needs to get a bit stronger. Baylor's Terrance Williams is an outside "No. 2" receiver with good size who comes from the Bears' limited, spread system. He caught 202 passes for his career and had a big senior season even without Robert Griffin III.
Receivers who could go in the late second or early third rounds include (with their 40-yard times): Oregon State's 189-pound Markus Wheaton (4.45), Texas A&M slot receiver Ryan Swope (4.34), Marshall's 6-3 Aaron Dobson (4.44) and Rogers (4.52).
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1. Cordarrelle Patterson*, Tennessee 6-2 216
2. Keenan Allen*, California 6-2 206
3. Tavon Austin, West Virginia 5-8 174
4. Robert Woods*, Southern Cal 6-0 201
5. DeAndre Hopkins*, Clemson 6-1 214
6. Quinton Patton, Louisiana Tech 6-0 204
7. Terrance Williams, Baylor 6-2 208
8. Justin Hunter*, Tennessee 6-4, 196
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The Drive Thru wasn't the first store of its kind in Tiffin in the early 1970s, but it was close.
Owner Russ Eborg is celebrating the business's 40th anniversary today.
"There was one other one in town at the time," he said. "At one point there were seven drive-throughs in Tiffin. Now there are three."
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Russ Eborg (left), owner of The Drive Thru, jokes with customer Adonis Humphrey Thursday afternoon.
Eborg credits the longevity of The Drive Thru, located at 205 S. Sandusky St., to its good location and to customer service.
"That and good help," he said.
Assistant Manager Anna Reiter has been with the company since January 2000.
"Anna has been a godsend," he said. "She takes care of all my hiring, training and scheduling."
In addition to full-time workers Eborg and Reiter, the store employs about a dozen part-time people.
The store opened in 1971, and Eborg's mother, Doris, purchased it in 1973.
"That's where the 40 years comes in," he said.
A few months after it opened, he returned to Tiffin from Chicago to help his mother with the store.
After he graduated from Columbian in 1967, he had attended a technical school in Chicago to earn an associate's degree in industrial engineering, "which I never used," he said. He stayed for several years.
"I think she wanted to get me out of Chicago," Eborg said. "I think that was what that was all about."
So, in winter 1973 he returned to Tiffin.
"I was a go-fer when I started here," he said. But within a few months, the manager left, and then the assistant manager left.
Eborg said he had gained some retail experience working at Armanetti liquor store in Chicago, and he drew on the experience when he became manager.
"One of the guys there took me under his wing so to speak," he said. "He taught me about wine."
After 40 years at the same location, Eborg said it's surprising how little has changed. The building looks much the same as it did then.
But the products are different.
"The types of grocery items have changed," he said. "And the beverage line has just exploded with all the craft beers, energy drinks and a hundred kinds of water."
The store also carries cigarettes, snacks and groceries such as bread and milk. He said he's noticed a decrease in tobacco sales due to smoking laws and price increases.
Becoming a lottery agent was a boost to business, he said.
"We're a full-service lottery agent," he said. "We carry all the games that are available. When we started there was one instant ticket. Now there are 50-some. We carry the ones customers ask for most."
"Schools actually do receive quite a bit of money from the lottery," he said. "Unfortunately, it's not a big percentage of the expenses."
Through the years, Eborg said the biggest change has been is the rise of "craft beers," or small-batch beers from micro-breweries.
"Sometimes a guy will just get an idea that he wants to create a beer, either at home or at a micro-brewery," he said. Great Lakes Brewing Co. and Sam Adams are two examples.
"Once that category started to explode, everybody wanted to get into it," he said.
He said there are some customers who visit every week to investigate whatever is new.
"It used to be we carried two or three imported beers and that was about it," he said. "Now we have a whole cooler devoted to it."
Although products change, he said attention to customers does not.
"The one constant thing we always believed in is customer service," he said. "The average customer probably spends about 30 seconds in the drive-through - unless they can't make up their mind."
Although the cash registers used to track numbers of customers, Eborg said they don't any more.
"As an outside guess, I'd say we're in the 300-400 range on a normal weekday, and considerably higher than that on Fridays and Saturdays," he said.
He said his business wasn't hurt when the recession hit in 2008; not in the beginning anyway.
"Recessions are funny in the beer business," he said. "People don't really acknowledge about how bad things are. The beer business will hold on.
"People don't like bad news," he said. "They might even tip an extra one."
The delay lasts for nine months to a year, he said.
"But then things get really tight and it really sets in," he said. "We are just now starting to see us getting out of this one."
Through the years, Eborg said he remembers a few interesting happenings - a few accidents and several break-ins.
One day he was called back to the store soon after arriving home. He returned to find a young man sitting in his trunk with his head hanging down.
His vehicle had hit an ice cream freezer, knocking it off its legs.
"We had half gallons of ice cream laying all over the place," he said.
Another time he got called back to the store to find a customer had a mishap with a ladder in the back of a pickup truck.
"The ladder hit my sign over the back door," he said. "Not only did it bust the hell out of my sign, but it pushed the ladder out the bottom of his tailgate."
Several break-ins he would rather not remember, especially one more than 10 years ago.
"I actually got held up one day in here," he said. "I looked up to see a barrel of a gun about that far from my nose," indicating a few inches away. "They didn't catch him."
Another night a neighbor heard loud noises coming from the back room and called police.
"They took off, but they beat the hell out of the hinges on my safe trying to get into it," he said.
But most days are pleasant and he enjoys talking and laughing with customers.
He sees a bright future for drive-throughs.
"I don't think they're going to change," he said. "I think they're still going to exist because of the convenience. It's easy to stop and get milk and bread and baked goods."
He said 95-96 percent of the business goes through the drive-through but there's a walk-in store also.
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Penn State's annual tradition of introducing each outgoing senior while he runs through Beaver Stadium one final time will not only have special meaning for those wishing fond farewells for Michael Mauti, Michael Zordich, Matt McGloin and the rest, it will have special meaning for Nittany Lion fans with Lycoming County ties.
Saturday's game against Wisconsin is also the last game with the program for safety Jacob Fagnano, who has seen playing time any walk-on from Williamsport High School would love to have. It's also the last game for Jamie Van Fleet from Loyalsock who also joined the program in 2008 as a walk-on, but whose career ended with a spring practice knee injury.
Fagnano didn't have much time to think about that before this week - he was too busy contributing at both safety positions and special teams before earning his first career start last Saturday vs. Indiana. But now that the time is here, and with the 7-4 Nittany Lions having no postseason plans because of NCAA probation, now is especially the time to soak in every last buckling of the chinstrap.
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"It has hit me in moments, probably hardest after walking off the field (against Indiana)," said Fagnano. "It was really hard, up until now I'd been focusing on Indiana, Indiana. I didn't realize how big of a situation I was in."
Both Fagnano and Van Fleet grew into this situation. Countless people enroll at big schools like Penn State planning to walk onto the football team. Some dream of being the big star they're convinced they were meant to be but somehow Division I coaches overlooked their talents. Others want only an opportunity to test their talents at the biggest school that will take them, and others enroll at a school because that's where they wanted to go, and if football works out, even better.
Put Fagnano in the last group. He grew up a Penn State fan and was set on going to school there. He eventually found his way onto special teams coverage with Van Fleet before seeing increased time at safety. He entered fall practice atop the depth chart at strong safety before Stephen Obeng-Agyapong won the job, but Fagnano's determination and versatility, not to mention ability, earned him regular playing time in the defensive backfield and earning a start at free safety last week when Stephon Morris was injured.
This path has allowed Fagnano to see quite a bit. He went from being wowed by veteran receivers Deon Butler and Derrick Williams as a freshman, to trying to cover breakout star Allen Robinson this fall.
"He's got a nose for the ball and is a great playmaker," said Fagnano. "I know when I see him line up in the slot in practice it's only going to make me better."
Fagnano has 33 tackles entering Saturday's game, tied for ninth on the team with Obeng-Agyapong and defensive end Sean Stanley. He is an economics major on track to graduate in December. He had six tackles in 2011 and eight in 2010, his first season of in-game action.
Van Fleet's playing career ended a few months ago, yet he still appears in the same 2012 senior class photo with Fagnano, Mauti, and everyone else who endured the last 12 months of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, Joe Paterno's firing and death, NCAA sanctions, and a new start under head coach Bill O'Brien. Van Fleet, who played in every game from 2009-11, had his most notable moment when he returned a blocked punt 21 yards for a touchdown to give Penn State the lead for good in a 2010 game vs. Indiana at FedEx Field. He is a landscape contracting major and is also graduating in December after earning Academic All-Big Ten honors.
"It's really hard to put into words, in my opinion, what this senior class means to this football program, to this athletic department, and this university," said O'Brien. "At the age of 21, 22, some of them 23 years old; that's pretty heavy stuff and you can't say enough about them. I think people have to understand within those walls over there at the football building these guys will always mean a lot to this football program."


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Jury selection is underway in the trial of a man accused of shooting a fellow Weld County field worker to death more than 16 years ago.
On Aug. 25, 1997, Francisco Gasca was working in an onion field near Platteville when he was called to the side of the field and shot eight times.
Workers who witnessed the shooting, near Colo. 66 and Weld County Road 19, told Weld County Sheriff's Office investigators that Consuelo Zavala and his father Antonio Caudillo-Zavala had approached Gasca before Consuelo Zavala fired multiple shots.
Deputies arrested Antonio Caudillo-Zavala shortly after the shooting and he told them he dropped his son off and didn't know where he was.
Consuelo Zavala was arrested in September of 2012 — more than 15 years later — at the U.S.-Mexico border as he tried to re-enter Arizona.
Witnesses told investigators that the shooting was a continuation of an earlier altercation. According to an arrest affidavit, several people said they saw Consuelo Zavala fire several shots, hitting Gasca, and then fire several more as Gasca lay in a ditch.
Antonio Caudillo-Zavala told investigators he also had a handgun during the shooting. He was charged with being an accessory to a crime, a felony to which he pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
Consuelo Zavala faces one count of first-degree murder, and his trial is set to last 10 days.


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TRUCKEE, Calif. - Shaun White will host Northstar California Resort's 40th Birthday Bash on Saturday, Dec. 22.
The event takes place 40 years to the day the resort opened for skiing for the first time.
"Northstar has certainly changed over the years, maturing into a destination resort that is recognized for providing great service and a complete destination mountain resort experience in North Lake Tahoe," said Bill Rock, chief operating officer of Northstar. "We're excited to have reached this milestone, and to have Shaun here to celebrate it with our guests."
Kids ages 7 and older signed up for the Burton Snowboard Academy on Dec. 22 will be treated to a special visit from White during their lesson. Those interested in participating in the clinic are invited to sign up in advance on a first-come, first-served basis.
The lesson includes a Burton snowboard rental, all-day coaching and an all-day, limited-access lift ticket providing access to beginner lifts and terrain.
Live music performances will feature "Forget the Roses" from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the deck of the Lodge at Big Springs (mid-mountain), and "Mustache Harbor" on the Village Stage (Village at Northstar) from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
White and Rock will lead the crowd in a complimentary sparkling cider and s'more toast at 4 p.m. in the Village at Northstar, followed by a 70's costume contest at 4:15 p.m., and an apres ski party at Tavern 6330' in the Village from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. featuring a 70's ski theme, special apres menu and a DJ.


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HOOVER, Ala. — He's not really a college football player, is he? Johnny Manziel is a 30-year-old actor playing a Heisman Trophy-winning celebrity who tweets racy photos from all around the country and gets into atypical trending trouble.
Because no actual quarterback wins the Heisman as a freshman, shows up at SEC Media Days to say he "feels like Justin Bieber" and says — as the Manziel character did Wednesday — "Speculation of me being too hungover last week at the Manning Passing Academy was absolutely incorrect."
Ah, but the new suit was impressively real and, evidently, so is this Manziel reality show.
"I'm still a 20-year-old college kid," the Texas A&M rock star repeated during his trumpeted visit to Hoover.
No smart-aleck grins.
No formal apologies, either.
But Manziel's off-field mistakes are enough to make you wonder. How long he will last at Texas A&M?
Odds that Manziel makes it to the season opener: 10-1.
So much has happened to Manziel since SEC Media Days a year ago when head coach Kevin Sumlin barely mentioned his name.
Manziel became Johnny Football, beat Alabama, won the Heisman.
He also showed off casino winnings, shoved a graduate assistant coach, tweeted that he "can't wait" to leave College Station after getting a parking ticket and on Monday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from a 2012 fight near campus that involved "mutual combat."
The Manning mess
Forced to explain his sudden departure from a camp instructor role at the Manning Passing Academy last week, Manziel said he "simply overslept" and wasn't sent home by former NFL and Ole Miss quarterback Archie Manning.
"I just had a busy schedule in July," he explained. "Probably bit off more than I could chew."
But the Kerrville, Tex., native said he met with counselors at Texas A&M after the Manning flap to discuss "stuff I was struggling with."
Manziel seems focused on football. He was asked about the rematch with Alabama on Sept. 14.
"I'm preparing for Rice," Manziel answered. "We have two games before we play Alabama."
Odds that Manziel makes it through the 2013 season: 5-1.
The Heisman is a very heavy trophy for a marked man, on and off the field.
"It's one of those things you don't really understand until you deal with it," Manziel said.
He is the only freshman ever to win the prestigious award.
"Nobody — not me, not Texas A&M — knew what to prepare for," Manziel said.
'I'm not Tebow'
Every SEC team will over-prepare for Manziel, trying to figure out how to stop a 6-1, 200-pound guy that threw for 3,706 yards and rushed for 1,410 yards last season. Meanwhile, Manziel must adjust to new offensive coordinator Clarence McKinney after Kliff Kingsbury beat out Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris for the head coach job at Texas Tech.
Odds that Manziel is still around for the 2014 game at South Carolina: Even.
A lot can happen before the Aggies come to Columbia next season for a game matching the SEC's newest permanent rivalry partners. Manziel is a redshirt sophomore this year and could opt for the NFL, or fumble his opportunities.
Tim Tebow managed to navigate college and celebrity after winning the 2007 Heisman as a sophomore.
But, as Manziel stressed Wednesday, "I'm not Tebow."
He has exchanged voice mails with Tebow, the former Florida and current New England Patriots quarterback, as recently as last week.
"Really would like to have the chance (to talk to Tebow)," Manziel said. "Tebow's a guy I really look up to."
Sumlin acknowledged that Manziel "has made some mistakes" but put some spin on Manziel becoming a "celebrity quarterback."
"I don't know that that's the worst thing that could happen," Sumlin said. "It might be the worst thing for some people. It was a good thing for me and Texas A&M."
It's a good sign if Manziel is back at SEC Media Days next July.
Bad sign: He's repeating what he said this July.
"I want to learn from my mistakes," Manziel said Wednesday. "I don't want to make the same mistakes twice."
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The Cubs five-game win streak doesn't make it to six and and the loss coupled with the Cardinals win over the Dodgers, drops the Cubs back to second place. Ryan Dempster returned from the disabled list and was nothing short of awful. 5 IP, 9 H, 3 K and 5 ER, 6 total and the error was his own. But at least he didn't walk anyone! With the Cubs catching a huge break when Roy Oswalt left in the second inning with a back injury, the Cubs just needed some decent pitching to stay in this one and they sure didn't get it from Dempster or the bullpen.
Armchair Managing: The Cubs first comeback started in the fourth when Wesley Wright just completely lost it and missed the strike zone on 10 straight pitches and quite a few more before and after as well. He walked the bases loaded on two occasions with a sacrifice fly in-between and with lefty Mike Fontenot in the original lineup with Oswalt starting, Lou went to the bench early and called on Reed Johnson to pinch-hit and he came through with a 2-out, 2-run single. Then a nicely executed double steal put runners on 2nd/3rd but also gave the Astros the opportunity to intentionally walk Koyie Hill and force Lou's hand with Dempster due up. Lou didn't take the bait and let Dempster hit and he naturally struck out. If you're already going for the big inning by pinch-hitting for Fontenot, I think you have to do the same with Dempster there. And if Lou called for the double steal, he basically ended the Cubs inning if he wasn't going to pinch-hit for Dempster, since you know Cooper would walk Hill there. This all leads me to believe that Lou is a terrible chess player. Dempster then rewarded Lou's faith by giving up a 2-run HR in the top of the fifth that gave the Astros a 6-3 lead.
Ramirez's three-run dinger int he bottom of the fifth neutralized the damage though and then the bullpen proceeded to flush the game and first place with it.
Half-Ass Parachat Recap:
- Miggy's 3-run HR in the first
- well it looked like a HR, sac fly instead
- Debating Top 10 defensive plays of the decade
- Was Giambi safe?
- no
- Was Giambi safe?
- laughing at the Astros misfortune with Roy Oswalt
- Valverde with Fulchino is delicious
- Transmission's date with his sister
- Following Buehrle's quest for back-to-back perfectos and congratulations on the new record...now go die!
- "Ryan Dempster is NOT pitching a perfect game" - Ryno
- Finding Trans a date on craigslist
- We wouldn't have to do this if you weren't having dates with your sister.
- I get bored doing the Parachat recap...
- stupid blackout rules, bring Trans back to us
And congratulations to the Angel Fan Wife on being married to me for 8 years...I imagine it's been just as insufferable as being a Cub fan sometime over the last 100. Lots of expectations, but neither of us deliver....
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I rarely pull the "I just knew it" card, but I just knew when Lou failed to ph for Dempster that he was going to suck in the next 1/2 inning.
I'm more upset with the Dodgers though. What's the point of best record in the league you bastards? At least the Nats are embarrassing the Brewers.
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Congrats Rob G.
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Interestingly we just had our 8-year anniversary one week ago, too.
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Congrats to you both. What is year 8, macaroni art?
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another Astro pitcher out, not just oswalt and hawkins...
Astros reliever Wesley Wright was diagnosed with dehydration after being rushed to the hospital following Houston's 11-6 win over the Chicago Cubs.
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That is simply unbelievable. How is it even possible for a baseball player to suffer from dehydration? It was an 82 degree night game, no less. Not exactly the Gobi Desert out there.
I've played basketball for 3-4 hours at a time and managed to not get rushed to the hospital. This idiot pitches 3 innings, and can't just take a couple sips of Gatorade?
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Didn't Z have problems with dehydration because he was messing with the Red Bulls and not drinking water/gatorade?
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Oswalt flying to Houston Wednesday to be checked out by Drs. Doesn't look good.
It's unclear if Oswalt must head to the disabled list, but he acknowledged Tuesday night that he likely will miss at least one start.
"I'm not going to do anything strenuous, but moving around, it's not too bad," Oswalt said. "I knew I shouldn't stay out there and blow it all the way out."
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I was flipping the dial last night and Dye hit a homer to put Sox up 1-0, and Stoney was recapping "with that blast Jermaine Dye has put the Cubs...I mean White Sox up one to nothing." Nervous laughter.
Hawk made an angry chuckle noise and went back to the game.
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A few moments before, Hawk had mentioned the score at Wrigley. No doubt that had something to with Stone forgetting where he was.
"Niagra Falls"
"Slowly I turned....."
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This was a "Sacrificial Lamb" game. I realize it - however unfortunate I felt that the cards lined up that I had to be there for this one. However, the baseball gods gave a break to the Cubs when Oswalt got pulled. What had me furious was KNOWING in advance that Demp was going to throw no more than 80 or so pitches, and since he was up to 68 when his AB came up with the bases juiced, what the fuck is the difference in pulling him there, as ROB G states?
So - you're going to wast a go-ahead scenario to save 13-15 pitches for the bullpen?
This is one more reason why I will be happy when Lou does not return next year.
That is just OLD.
Not mentioned: Bourne's game-saving catch on Theriot which would have put the Cubs ahead 7-6 at the time. He had an All-Star night on us.
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Lou bends over backwards to get his starters five innings and a chance to notch a win. Chess pieces don't have pride, feelings, agents, etc.
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Then he pinch hits for an actual hitter, and uses a third player to replace Fontenot defensively then he double switches in Hoffpauir even though the pitcher he put in would have never come up, and Hoffpauir's defense in right costs us a run or two. Then he puts in Heilman to put out a fire, even though Heilman has been the worst guy on the team doing that this year. Finally, in the 9th, all of his pinch hitters used, in part because he used 3 for one at bat (2 on) when not using any for a different at bat (pitcher up bases loaded), and we need a walk, so he sends up Big Z, who is just about the least likely guy to take a walk on the team.
Without a doubt the worst in game managerial performance by this guy since he was here.
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"then he double switches in Hoffpauir even though the pitcher he put in would have never come up."
Hoffpauir was the third batter in the Cubs next half-inning. Guzman had only faced one batter and was going to stay in the game.
Lou tends not to overmanage, but sometimes he yanks guys punitively. It was out of character for Lou to pinch hit for a starting second-baseman early in the game, but I assume he was pissed at Fontenot for the missed bunt the night before. And Bradley got the hook (in favor of Hoffpauir) after another terrible left-handed at-bat in the bottom of the fifth. He came out in the top of the sixth.
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You're right on that first part. So after he fucked up by leaving Dempster in, the next stupid thing Lou did was taking out Marshall, which he meant he had to use 3 players instead of 2. Hey Lou, the game is 6-6 in 6 innings and you just had a 13 inning game the night before. Try not to burn 2 players in single at bats. It's just simple math.
"It was out of character for Lou to pinch hit for a starting second-baseman early in the game, but I assume he was pissed at Fontenot for the missed bunt the night before."
If he was mad at him for the night before he should have started Blanco or Baker, not burned through his bench before the 7th inning was over.
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By the end of the game we had used 4 guys for the 2nd basemen slot. Lou made a lot of decisions that went against the common sense in the game, and not a single one of them paid off.
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Espn-1000 radio said Cubs calling up Mitch Atkins for a fresh arm in the bullpen, not confirmed elsewhere yet...nor the other roater move...they did interview Samardzija so I doubt he's going to Iowa
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Smardizjia makes the most sense, but since Stevens is probably not going to pitch today, I would guess he's the guy.
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Confirmed by Sullivan, Stevens down, Atkins up.
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TRN: Do the Houton fans believe they are playing way over their heads, or do they expect this post-asg hot streak?
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The knowledgeable ones know what's going on. The casual ones are sure they're in for another 50 win second half.
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Half-Ass Parachat Recap...
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from the I-Cubs site:
Aaron Miles is with the Cubs on his second Major League rehab assignment of the year Miles has been on Chicago's disabled list since June 21st with a hyperextended right elbow. He joined the I-Cubs on July 16th and is batting .213 (10-for-47) with four doubles, four RBI, and three runs scored 11 games on this rehab stint.
Question: what is the limit allowed (if any) for a mlb rehab assignment? Somewhere I recall it's in the 2-3 week range and Miles is at 13 days now.
also noted in BJ Ryan's outing.. Pitches 11- Strikes 5. Kind of odd but innocuous considering a 5 pitch walk.
He got a fly out (3 pitches, 2-0 count), walk (on 5 pitches), double play (3 pitches, 0-2 count)
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lineup, via len and bob twitter...
RJohnson (CF), Theriot, DLee, ARam, Bradley, Soriano, Baker, Hill and Wells
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Johnson, with his .325 OBP, has no business leading off.
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But he does have a .382 OBP against LHP this year, and a .405 OBP against lefties in 2006-2008. So he's actually a pretty good leadoff hitter when a lefty is on the mound.
Pirates / Seattle deal
The Mariners traded Ronny Cedeno, Jeff Clement and 3 minor leaguers to the Pirates for Jack Wilson and Ian Snell.
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Sorry Pirates, just because Ronny can't hit doesn't make him a good defender.
Glad to see him back in the division ... I just wish it was for St. Louis or Milwaukee.
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yahoo (Edes/Brown) reporting Phillies "on verge" of getting Cliff Lee from Tribe thus changing the landscape for Halliday
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Bruce Miles comments on Mitch Atkins suckitude and...
B.J. Ryan apparently topped out at about 87 mph last night in his Iowa debut.
and the wind is blowing in at wrigley today
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Can he catch? He'd look mighty good in the Cubs lineup right about now.
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Rosenthal reporting Tribe/Phils agree to trade...
Cliff Lee and Ben Francisco to Philly for Jason Knapp, Carlos Carrasco, Jason Donald and Lou Marson. The teams still have to examine medical records for the deal to go through.
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Four of the six starters the Cubs could expect to face in a first round playoff series are now left handed.
Wonder if this inspires the Cubs to look at doing something a little bigger than adding a reliever. It's hard to argue, even healthy, that we're better than the 3rd best team in the league now.
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Nice start!!
Bet by next inning Hampton grabs his elbow like Rodney Dangerfield in "Caddy Shack"
Oooh!Oooh! Its broken.
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Typical f'ing Cubs.
Score a touchdown the first time on offense, then miss the extra point.
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PAT in the 2nd inning.
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6 spot!
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Shit. We went to the wrong game last night.
- sigh -
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G spot?
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Box score says Fukudome subbed in for Johnson.... Johnson injured?
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MLB Gameday calls it a "foot/ankle" injury.
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Fouled a ball off his foot.
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Aramis Ramirez is a beast. And since Fonzie is going to hit now, it's cool that he can do it with guys on base.
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I <3 Mike Hampton.
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Seems like a good time to stick Fox in a catcher... Give Hill a breather...
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Can't. What do you do if Fox gets hurt? Marmol?
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... or Wells, once he's done pitching... Has that ever happened?
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I think I read that either Baker or Fonty can be used in an emergency.
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I always find this a very bizarre "conventional wisdom" argument.
No stats, but I am willing to bet that in less than 5% of MLB games does a catcher leave the game due to injury (or, in Michael Barrett's case, get tossed for punching a prick). Maybe less than 1%.
With a 10-0 lead, on a warm, humid day, with a catcher who has caught every game for weeks, I'd be willing to roll the dice that Fox wouldn't get injured so badly he would need to leave the game in the last 2 innings. If he came up to bat, tell him not to swing so he won't foul a ball off his foot.
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Yeah, and it seems to me that Hill might be more likely to get hurt, just from fatigue...
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Sword meet Mike Hampton
Mike Hampton meet sword
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Cubs outfielder Reed Johnson had to leave Wednesday's game because of a bruised left foot, likely suffered after fouling a ball off of it during the Cubs' six-run first inning against the Houston Astros.
Johnson, who entered the game batting .248, had singled to lead off the first for the Cubs, kicking off a six-run inning. He flied out to center to end the first.
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Orioles DL Rich Hill with shoulder tendonitis...can a knee scope be far behind?
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As some of the Baltimore media said, Hill's got tendinitis between the ears.
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All we need is to bring in Marmol to close the 8th and 9th and this will be a great vitory!!!
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Won't this be the right situation for Adkins?
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Gameday has two of the four balls just pitched to Fonty as well within the strike zone...
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Monday it had four pitches showing as borderline strikes... on an intentional walk.
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What should I be happier about the 12 runs scored or the 0 runs allowed?
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How about the emergence of Randy Wells as the staff ACE?
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Be happiest about the difference between the two. : )
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Milton went an entire game without striking out and got robbed of an RBI double, and Koyie Hill is up to a blistering .206 batting average with his two hits today.
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I tip my cap to Koye -- catching every game, a day game after a night game, and he gets 2 hits.
"When the hell is this offense gogin to score some......why won't they move Soriano down in the....Soriano can't hit with runners in scoring....they can't expect A-Ram to come back and be the same..."
Aw, forget it.
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Reed Johnson...broken foot, out at least a month
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Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.


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