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|Dec 25, 2011, 04:13 PM
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Help Me Suck Less: The Court of High Queen Isabella
Hi-diddly-ho, Civ-a-rinos!
You lot were such a big help last time (and I think we all had a pretty good time overall) that I decided to pick up where we left off last time with Professor Shaka's War Academy. Last time, we had a lot of good land, an easy early rush, and opponents who teched slowly and couldn't keep up with the war machine.
Of course, that was at Noble, where I could afford to make a few mistakes. This time, things will be more... complicated.
That's right: inspired by your comments and empowered by a few really easy victories on Prince (there were some bigger stacks, but I was able to breeze through the Pick Your Leader map that everyone was having a rough time with; I also played some offline games), we'll be moving up to Monarch this time! We've learned how to not suck; now, let's learn how to suck less!
I'll restate my threefold goal here:
1. to improve my own game
2. to help other players who are stuck at Monarch and below
3. to just have some fun with some creative writing intact and hopefully have a good time with you lot.
Just like last time, we're running Fractal with no huts and events. I've decided that each of my online games would be played with a leader from the previous game, so let's meet our contestant today. Last time, she was a tech leader who peace-vassaled to the Zulu Empire when the winds of change began blowing on the other continent, and her little-buddy-style teching helped us make a bloody mess of the peaceful Hindu Holy Land. This time, she's hoping to do better than second place. Please give a warm welcome to the High Queen, Isabella of Spain!
Yes, I forgot to take that opening screenshot that reminded us of our traits and uniques! Let's go over them!
Isabella, like Shaka, is Expansive, which nets her granary discounts, worker discounts, and a health bonus. Last time, I was criticized for not leveraging Expansive well enough to build a pool of workers to improve my land; this time, I'm hoping to make that better. Isabella is also Spiritual, allowing us to leverage civic changes as we see fit. I love this trait, and I think I'm getting better at using it, but we'll see how it stands up to the Peanut Gallery(TM).
Isabella's got a nice pair of... uniques as well. Her Conquistadors are beefed-up Cuirassiers with a bonus against melee units and defensive bonuses. I've been having a lot of success with Cuirassier spam, so this is an enticing one. Her Citadel, meanwhile, is a castle that boosts XP for siege units. Hyper-promoted Trebuchets and Cannon are often considered Is's "second" UU, but keeping them intact requires a different tech path than normal, avoiding Economics. Maybe a run toward State Property, skipping Free Market altogether?
Isabella starts with Fishing and Mysticism, which makes her a good candidate to found an early religion. AI Isabella seems to love doing that, of course, building toward Great Prophets to bulb religious techs and then building the AP. It's also the way everyone who plays Isabella on this forum tends to play her, which is why I'm inclined not to do things this way, depending on how things pan out. What do you guys think? The Shaka game ended up being driven largely by Hindu politics, but then again, diplomacy in that game was very straightforward. What do you guys want to see here?
Of course, much of that depends on the start. Can we leverage Fishing to get some early tech help?
Why yes, yes we can!
So much like last time, we're starting in the hill country. Also much like Shaka, we've got a lot of food to burn, all of it on green tiles! Of course, we'll need Ag and AH to improve those tiles, and we'll also need to move down the BW path to take advantage of the bounty we have here.
If I move the capital, I'm inclined to go 1S to put us on that river for trade routes and some levees later on. It'll also rope in that green hill to the SW while still keeping all three food sources in the BFC. Thoughts? Comments? Criticisms? Have I lost already?
Here's the save if you want to play along. Updates will likely come more slowly this time; I'm working as an editor and contributor to a short story anthology, and we're coming up on the end-of-the-year deadline. Still, I'm excited about our first Monarch game, so let's have some fun!
|Dec 25, 2011, 04:38 PM
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What Speed is it on?
Also, have you checked WB for Horse and Iron? Not much fun playing Isabella without them unless you've already achieved a strong position can win with Rifle/Cannon.
You can conquer the world with Conquistadors if you get there first. Don't use Cottages outside a Bureau Cap, focus on Farms, Mines, and Specialists.
|Dec 25, 2011, 04:58 PM
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You've identified the right four techs to key on, but you may have overlooked an important element. Which is that you have a problem - a good problem, but a problem none the less.
Your first worker is do in 10 turns.
The natural line (work your best tiles!) is Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Mining, Bronze Working. Assuming there are no pleasant surprises to the north, you've got one tile you can improve with Agriculture. Which means that your worker is going to be twiddling his thumbs for a bit.
Working the lake for extra commerce probably isn't the answer, because that disables your hammer bonus on the worker (now a 15 turn build. ick).
One possible solution is a small tech shuffle: Agriculture, Mining, Bronze Working, Animal Husbandry. You'll irrigate the corn, mine the pigs and the hill on the river, then chop until the cows come home.
Another possible solution is to punt the food - think in terms of trying to grind out an early Stonehenge, via Mining, Bronze Working, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry. Build order probably looks something like worker warrior chop worker double chop Stonehenge settler.
Your current location could make for a decent GP farm (specialist count: city +1, corn +2, cows +1 pigs +1.5, while still producing 5 hammers per turn), with some extra production that can get swapped in for infrastructure.
But that does somewhat waste the river tiles: the more likely play is to lone some of the food to satellite cities, and concentrate on running cottages.
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|Dec 25, 2011, 04:58 PM
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People who think isabella should build their game around cuirassier play should learn isabella's true strengths.
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|Dec 25, 2011, 05:02 PM
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That's a very nice capital you have there! Early game it's going to a great settler/worker pump, later on it's very likely to be your HE city.
1S is OK since you're not moving away from any resource. (there might be something 1N but you would still keep it in your capital's BFC) Another benefit of settling 1S I can see is that you'll be able to improve 5 tiles without teching BW. Not sure if that's going to help at all since delaying BW is almost always a misplay. Leevee will hardly matter IMO because if you play right you won't have to tech beyond Mil. Trad./Economics . EDIT: Ooops I forgot that you used Fractal mapscript.
The Warrior cannot really influence your settling plans so I would probably move him 1W and start scouting the surroundings. You really want to have as much land revealed as possible by the time you reach AH to see where your Horses are, if there are any. (BTW this is an advice from someone who sucks at scouting, just check my Ramesses thread)
|Dec 25, 2011, 05:04 PM
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I would not move the capital, sure it's not on river, but no biggie. 1N is probably metal, This would be a strong production spot, but can also support a few cottages. Agri->AH->Mining while exploring surroindings and building a worker. Then decide strategy. Early religion is almost always a bad move, if you need one there is always CoL.
|Dec 25, 2011, 05:16 PM
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Very good SIP location, you can get your worker in 10 turns, tech Agri + mining for the nice river ph and also mine pigs.
|Dec 25, 2011, 05:31 PM
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If there has ever been the prime example for settle in place, this is it. 1S will destroy a forest, 1N will probably settle on a resource, you're EXP with a 2H citytile and a 3H tile right away, 10 turn worker out of the gate... what more can you ask for? The only bad thing here is that your worker will idle no matter what you do. AG -> AH, and then Wheel or Mining depending on the sorroundings.
|Dec 25, 2011, 05:37 PM
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|Dec 25, 2011, 06:05 PM
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This is a learning thread--not just for me, but for other low-level players. What are Isabella's "true strengths"?
|Dec 25, 2011, 06:16 PM
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I'd guess what he's trying to say is that with SPI, you can use alot more sufficient strategies than just Conquistadors. When a "pro", in this case Mylene, says that Conquistadors are very powerful, less experienced players tend to focus all their effort on just this unit and don't wage the pros and cons. Isabella has one of the most powerful traitcombos in the game, and you can do ALOT more with it than just straight-forward conquistador facemelting.
|Dec 25, 2011, 06:30 PM
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Civic switching is simple. Caste/Pacifism in peace, Slavery/Theocracy in war. Once you get the Pyramids, by hook or by crook, use Police State until you've murdered as many people as possible with Conqs and Cavs.
Police State is strong on Izzy because it allows 2-pop whips with Forges for Conqs.
|Dec 25, 2011, 07:12 PM
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Firstly, Merry Christmas!
Well done on upping the difficulty to monarch BTW.
Re: settler. SIP or 1S both look fine to me – although I'd marginally favour the latter to open up the levee and trade routes from sailing (even though moving sacrifices a forest and a turn) - and nab what look like 2 grassland hills (2SE and 2SW). Moving also opens up the possibility of a resource 2S of the cows (which looks unforested). If SIP, the capital could actually be either a good unit pump / HE city as Ororo mentioned, or a hammer heavy bureau capital – depending on what the surrounding land looks like. Moving to nab two grassland hills (at the expense of what look like forested plains tiles to the north) would likely make 1S a stellar [EDIT: or more obvious] HE city (with 6 hills and a levee) IMHO.
In either case, VoU's and Mylene's suggestion re: mining the pigs to avoid wasting worker turns is certainly worth considering. That said, based on what we can see, I'd probably agree with ahcos and tech agri > AH, because (i) I'd favour getting two very powerful early game tiles (pigs and cows) improved ASAP to help growth (with the pastured pigs in particular) (ii) with all that forest around, your worker will actually spend a few turns (which would otherwise be idle) walking back from the corn to the pigs (which is the tile I think follows the corn) and (iii) AH reveals if horses are around for barb defence. If the goal is to reduce wasted worker turns, I'd be more inclined to work the farmed corn and grow onto the lake (at pop 2) whilst building a warrior (that follows the worker) to eek out more commerce.
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|Dec 25, 2011, 11:56 PM
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Chapter 1
The Matriarch and the Monument
(Ho-ho-boy, Not Sucking fans. You guys are going to LOVE this game, I think. We've got some karma on our hands.)
The name of old Enrique de España is lost to history, and with just cause: he was a doddering fool who was content to allow his people--the Spanish tribe--rot and suffer at the shores of a small lake. Though he held the sacred amulet that granted immortality, he didn't seem to know what to do with it.
One winter night, just as the solstice fell, an eclipse blackened the sky, and the Spanish settlement at the shore of the lake grew black. A chill wind blew their cook fires to blackness. Late into the night, there was a dull thunk. Then silence.
When day broke, old Enrique was found dead in his tent, a pointed rock thrust into his temple. Before his body was even cold, his sixteen-year-old daughter Isabella had taken the amulet and had assumed control of the tribe.
"We settle here," she commanded. "It is time for the Spanish people to do more than exist. We must prosper." And she knelt at her father's broken body, praying that the spirits would guide him to find rest mere minutes before dragging him to the lake and casting his body out of sight.
The town of Madrid quickly set to work training workers to manage the land surrounding the encampment. Meanwhile, a troop of Spanish warriors--armed with state-of-the-art clubs--set out into the wider world. Isabella de España had said that Spain would grow beyond the mere hills, and she sought new land in which to settle her people down.
It was not long in her warriors' explorations before they encountered men of the northern hills, capable of casting barbed clubs from strange weapons at a distance! Their chief was a man of the earth, adorned in an elaborate headdress. His people were called the Lakota, and he was their patriarch: Sitting Bull.
(Oh, don't worry! It's going to get even better!)
It was not long at all before the various ways of the spirits that the superstitious Enrique had worshiped were codified into formal faiths--and not far from Spanish borders.
Isabella, though, had no time for such trivialities as religion in this time. Her people had loved Enrique, and rumors of her treachery had been no secret. Generation after generation came and went, and with each passing year, the cries grew louder. Isabella was no matriarch. Isabella was a fraud! Isabella had murdered her father and usurped leadership of the Spanish tribes!
She wanted to run them all through with rocks... or perhaps to do pacify them through other methods.
(Went Worker-Worker to start so we could get a lot of chopping done. I think I chopped one forest too many in the end, but we've at least got something nice for it! I liked VoU's idea of skipping the food in the early going--it hurt our commerce, but we've come out of it with something in return that will pay off for a long, long time.)
And still the explorations continued. More tribes arose in those days, as in the West, where the founders of the Buddhist faith enjoyed untold splendor in their forest kingdom. Their leader was a wise man but young in spirit. He welcomed Isabella to the Mayan kingdom, promising to educate her on the faith later.
(So we've got Protective Totem Pole-boosted archers north of us and resourceless spearmen to the west. Faaaaaaantastic. But no, wait! IT GETS BETTER.)
Pacal's wisdom would have intrigued Isabella more had she not--a mere year later--met a traveler from the southern lands of India. Their leader was so scientifically advanced that he had invented a cure for his own vision disorder... in 3240 BC!
Another warrior arrived from the South in those days, this man the leader of his very tribe. Isabella had tossed and turned at night hundreds of years before, dreaming of the Spanish people being enslaved to a mad despot who twisted the ways of the spirits toward his own end. When Isabella saw this very man approach her village, she did was any reasonable woman in her position would do.
She screamed. Loudly. A lot.
( )
But still the chiefs came. One final visitor came from the mountain-dwelling Celts, people who--like the Spanish--served a hard-nosed matriarch who had come to power through skullduggery and force of arms.
(So let's review.
Protective Totem Pole-buffed archers. Resourceless spearmen. Two crazed warmongers. And one tech fiend who could run away with the whole thing.
(...no Copper within immediate reach!
Yeah, this is going to be a VERY different game, methinks. )
Isabella had done much in research to improve the lives of her people, and soon her tent in Madrid was garrisoned by an honor-guard of warriors. However, still her people refused to bow before her. They had seen the chiefs coming from all four directions, and they were still unconvinced that Isabella--who despite her immortality still possessed the body of a young adult--could properly lead them. She would have to apply her knowledge to something greater, something that would unite the Spanish people as one. She needed a symbol.
Loggers in the forests of Spain were set to work chopping the forests needed to roll the great stones for this monument to Madrid.
The explorers, meanwhile, encountered the borders of the Mayan tribal lands remarkably close to Spain.
But this was of little matter. Isabella's mad directive had finally come to fruition. Thanks to the frantic woodcutting of her subjects, the great monument stood tall on the outskirts of the Spanish village--a sacred place where her people could hear the whisperings of the spirits themselves.
The Spanish people united behind the new monument. Isabella had proven that her connection to the spirits was total. Spain was reborn not as the land of the long-dead Enrique, but as that of the High Queen Isabella.
(I think we lucked out here--were it not for a straight run toward BW, one of the other Mysticismish civs nearby would've beaten us. This was definitely an unorthodox way to set up shop, but I'm glad I did it, especially since we can now spend those early city turns doing something besides pumping culture.)
With Stonehenge completed and exploration now revealing much of the empty land surrounding Madrid, the High Queen consented to allowing some of her people to strike off to new lands, founding a new settlement that flew the flag of Spain.
(A look at the micro here. My goal was to get the Settler out around the same time AH finished just in case that affected the settlement decision. With no nearby copper, I figured we'd plunk down a city near a convenient herd if such a thing was possible.)
With the study of Animal Husbandry completed, Isabella searched the land for new animals. With so many tribes at hand, would she find a way to protect her people?
Indeed she would!
Isabella was pleased with this discovery; her land, it seemed, was beginning to take shape.
(All right! So here's where we stand. We have horses! We have Stonehenge! We have two workers and a Settler a turn away! We have a worker in the forests ready to chop out the next build!
I slowed the chops a bit to get the Settler out at the right time--I didn't want to have him dilly-dallying in Madrid if we didn't know where to send him. Now, though, we do!
City #2 should obviously grab the horses. City #2 will also grab a lot of crappy plains and possibly some desert, but we can still get plenty of food in there. I see two possible ideal spots. On one hand, 1E of the horses works in both the wheat and the horses quickly. It'll get a fresh water bonus, and it won't be a bad production site early in the game, with plenty of food to work those hills. On the other hand, 1NE of the horses works all the same food tiles, starts with another food tile in the inner ring (the sheep instead of the wheat), and adds the stone. The downside is that it adds three desert tiles and loses some green tiles that it can share with Madrid.
If we want to make a run at the Pyramids, then 1NE will probably be our last chance. Gandhi already has Monotheism, which means he already has Masonry. He also tends to play the builder game, so--who knows?--he may already be making a run at the 'mids!
Even so, they're a powerful wonder for a Spiritual civ. If we want them, we need to start down that path immediately. Luckily, thanks to Stonehenge, we won't need to worry about chopping a Monument in Barcelona if that's the direction we decide to go.
And, of course, any discussion of where the early hammers should go should of course be predicated on the idea that, holy crap, we are not going to be able to pull off an early rush in this game and may in fact be in trouble depending on how close everyone is. Pacal's Holkans rule out a chariot rush outright. Sitting Bull's beefy archers do as well. On the other hand, if we don't build military to rush, we're still going to have to be on the defensive, since Boudica AND Shaka are both nearby and both will be itching for a fight before long.
So we find ourselves on what may end up being a very interesting map. You guys said the last game was too easy on me? Well, here you go: my first Monarch game ever, and I find myself involved in... all this.
Save is attached. Your thoughts? Thanks!)
|Dec 26, 2011, 12:15 AM
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I had to look, it's true..normal game speed.
Oki...you have wet corn, Agri first is out of question. Ignoring your food for so long is terrible.
Chopping is no good if all your gain could have been achieved in better ways. 2 workers is also a very bad move, okay it resulted from no corn, but Isa's early problem are starting techs. There is not enough to do for your workers.
Please start over. I absolutely love your writing style, but It's no good for your gameplay to ruin a good start and not seeing how it could be played. There are different ways to start here, but what what i see is terrible or worse
|Dec 26, 2011, 12:50 AM
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My first observation is that I think you are dramatically overestimating the difficulty jump up to Monarch. Stonehenge is easy to get on Monarch. You super duper rushed for it. You weren't in the slightest danger of having an AI finish it before you.
Also, you aren't in such imminent danger that you have to delay your settler and rush animal husbandry ASAP.
And I see in the screenshot four terrain improvements for a size-2 city. That's 10 worker turns that aren't doing anything to help. I'm pretty sure you would be better off with two terrain improvements and two chops.
(whoops, you have to have 3 -- forgot you need to build 2 mines while waiting for BW)
The thing with having two early workers and fast Bronze Working is that you can get a ton of production from chops. IMO, after using VoU's fast BW plan, you should be clear-cutting until you have 3 or 4 cities and plenty of workers for them (and whatever warriors you need to ensure you can settle safely), pausing only to improve the best tiles. (e.g. to farm the wheat/rice/corn, to mine/pasture the pigs, to pasture the cows, maybe to road between cities)
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|Dec 26, 2011, 12:53 AM
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I made a save for you, so you can compare what difference corn makes.
Tried to copy as much as i could, built SH.
See how big my city is, while still getting stuffs out you want?
|Dec 26, 2011, 01:40 AM
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Here, this is my run of the Bronze Working first quick Stonehenge plan.
I get Animal Husbandry one turn later than you. I get the settler for the horses city two turns later than you....
But I have three workers, and I have already placed City #2. (I would have two warriors, but one died to a bear)
I think the main things I did differently from you were:
As for the choice of City #2, I was trying not to take advantage of your knowledge of Animal Husbandry, and my knowledge of things I scouted on my first attempt (I forgot Civ 4 crashes the computer I played it on). The particular city site was chosen because:
(for the record, if I was just playing this normally, I would not have tried this opening variation)
My intention from this point is to get the Cow and maybe pigs Pigs up and finally grow the capital as I catch up on warriors. But maybe I'd chop out another worker (and maybe even another settler) in the meanwhile.
(Why so many workers? I have a ridiculous number of things that need to be done yesterday -- I need to get those AH resources up and running, I need to get mines in place to go with city growth, I need to farm the wheat, I need to get roads connecting everything, I want to start cottage spam as soon as pottery comes up)
What are you planning to do with your great priest, by the way?
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|Dec 26, 2011, 03:45 AM
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There are exceptions, but not including units like quechuas, your game play should be influenced largely by the map. I'll make up a number and say 60-70%.
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|Dec 26, 2011, 04:04 AM
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fresh water corn is 6 yield, 3 more than a forested tile, forever. Chopping is 20 hammers in 4 turns (or you can think of it as 5 hammer per turn over 4).
So the opportunity cost of farming a corn is 5 worker turns, or 25 hammers. 9 turns after the corn is improved, the farm will overtake the chopping in yield alone.
agri-mining-ah is pretty straight forward: agriculture first is self explanatory. If you go animal husbandry next, it won't finish before your farm is finished, so your worker has to do something else. Mining will finish, in which case you can spend 5 to 10 turns mining the plains hill or pig.
The question is how many turns would you have to wait for animal husbandry to finish. You can also use 4 turns to work lake while waiting for the farm to finish (2 food 2 commerce vs 3 food) to speed up animal husbandry one turn.
Stonehenge, the question is what do you want to do with it? It does not speed up your expansion to build it first: What's faster, having a two cities, so theoretically double base production, at the cost of all later cities having to chop 30 hammer monuments if necessary, or having one city and having free monuments? So double production vs having some percentage of your cities not cost 130 hammers instead of 100.
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The other thing I learned from Jason's was that I did not have to settle when it came to a deli sandwich. There was a real difference in the quality of deli meat—if you close your eyes and eat turkey, it should taste like turkey, and beef like beef, not some watery protein flavor that could be almost any deli meat. I felt pampered and enlightened.
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For hot breakfast, the Egg McMuffin has become a time-honored favorite, although I do remove half of the muffin. Egg whites have become all the rage, and there were some terrific ones. Starbucks and Einstein stood out since they both executed those particularly well. Others were a bit too much of a stretch and did not measure up. When I went to Dunkin' Donuts I really wanted a fresh, indulgent, I-am-worth-the-splurge doughnut and some good coffee; everything else was unnecessary to me.
Let's talk entrée salads. When operations pretossed the salad, I found the huge amount of dressing universally overshadowed the quality ingredients in the salad. In a few places, when the chicken was served cold, there was a gelatinous layer of seasoning that could be peeled off, and that eliminated all of the appeal. By and large my favorite salads were the simple fresh side salads with good dressing I could apply myself.
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I was impressed with all of the new healthier offerings that allowed me to choose a more balanced selection from day to day. I enjoyed almost all of them and only a few forgot that no one wants to sacrifice taste for healthfulness. But I was just as impressed with the right portion sizes of uncompromised favorites that made them so enjoyable. No matter where I ate, I always wanted a little splurge that hit the mark. Mostly it was french fries, ice cream, and chocolate chip cookies. Even when they were not the best I ever had, they were still really good. For over-the-top indulgence, Cold Stone Creamery is in a class of its own. But I was pleasantly surprised at Carl's Jr. when I had to go back to the counter and ask for a spoon for my shake because it was too thick to drink with a straw. Wow!


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Northwest NEWS
une 11, 2001
Not sure what to get your child's teacher? Try the gift of water
Every year, parents face the challenge: what to buy for Janie's teacher? Teachers also face a challenge:what to do with all the strange gifts they get from their students? This year, Starr Klube's sixth grade class at Sunrise Elementary is giving something that will change lives: the gift of water.
It started last year, when Klube thought of a way to channel all that goodwill toward a good cause. "I found out about WaterPartners from Lois Nelson, a parent of one of my students, and thought that helping people get safe water would be a great lesson for my students," she said. "What really struck me was that someone on this planet dies from sickness caused by impure water everytime I breathe! Clearly, the children can do something here to make a difference."
She asked Marla Smith-Nilson of WaterPartners International, a Seattle resident, to come talk to her class about WaterPartners' projects.
Then, with the assistance of Nelson, Klube organized the students and parents to donate to WaterPartners instead of buying her presents.
Nelson says, "I thought it was an excellent project, especially because my daughter and her classmates could learn about world needs beyond our backyards."
Last year, the students in Klube's class gave $335 to WaterPartners. Those funds helped people in Cololaca, Honduras, start building a safe water system. In this way, the students are giving safe water to families in developing countries, and the gift of extra closet space to their teacher.
"Most of us have more than we need," says Nelson.
The activity also helps the U.S. students appreciate their access to safe water, especially in the face of the local drought. Since it was a success last year, Klube asked Smith-Nilson to talk to this year's class, too.
Each day, an estimated 25,000 people in developing countries die of water-related diseases, and 15,000 children under the age of five die of dehydration.
Water-related disease accounts for 80 percent of all sickness in the world and claims approximately 10 million lives each year. It is easy to take for granted access to a safe supply of drinking water.Yet, more than one billion people in developing countries lack this most basic commodity, according to the World Health Organization.
WaterPartners International is a non-profit organization that addresses the water supply and sanitation needs of people living in developing countries.
They promote innovative and cost-effective community water projects that have the greatest chance for long-term success. All of the water projects WaterPartners has funded are still operating. WaterPartners works through local partners in developing countries.
They carefully seek out and support organizations that have proven their ability to facilitate quality projects at the community level. After funding the projects, they stay involved with site visits and progress reports to insure long-term sustainability.
WaterPartners International began in 1990 as a benefit dinner organized to support a safe drinking water project in Honduras.
It was founded by Gary White and Marla Smith-Nilson. Smith-Nilson is the Director of International Programs.
To date, the group has funded 49 projects benefiting more than 20,000 people.
For more information, visit their Web site at www.water.org.


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Earlier this week TIME Magazine published a "All-TIME 100 Greatest Toys" article featuring the100 most influential toys from 1923 to the present. Among the list are many great toy lines and quite a few popular ones from the 80's that we all collected. G.I. Joe is on the list too. But it is G.I. Joe from the 1960's! That is right, the original 12-inch G.I. Joe was chosen and the ARAH Joe we all love was overlooked. Now I understand they might not have wanted the same brand on the list twice, but somehow I feel that the 80's G.I. Joe was more of an influence and cultural phenomenon than the 1960's version. Am I wrong here? Is it because of my biased thinking growing up on the 80's ARAH Joes? Either way, still cool to see the brand being recognized. So what do you think?
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All that glitters has turned to gold for Team USA – 39 times (and counting!) to be exact.
But as the Summer Olympics comes to a close, here's a recap of the moments that were just as sweet as the victories.
It was the grand finale for Michael Phelps, who surpassed his title as the most-decorated Olympian of all-time when he scored the 22nd precious medal of his career Saturday as part of the American 400M-medley relay team.
First-time competitor Missy Franklin led the way last Saturday in the women's swimming medley relay, in which the team – also consisting of Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and Allison Schmitt – took home the gold and set a world record with a time of 3 minutes and 52.05 seconds.
Gabby Douglas, "The Flying Squirrel," earned another nickname when the 16-year-old scored the gymnastics all-around gold medall last Thursday: America's Sweetheart. The first African-American to take home the top prize, she called her win "a barrier-breaker."
Thursday's three-peat was "bittersweet" for the now-retired Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings, who won their third consecutive Olympic gold in the women's beach volleyball finals.
After losing to Japan at the 2011 World Cup, Team USA made a triumphant comeback Thursday when the women's soccer team prevailed 2-1.
Olympics 2012: What Was Your Favorite Gold Medal Moment?
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Manoa Campus, WSRSL CR2
A panel discussion to celebrate the life and public interest work of Justice Edward H. Nakamura. Inspired by the book "I Respectfully Dissent," by Tom Coffman. Justice Nakamura was a giant and this panel is meant to correct an educational oversight. Panelists will include author Tom Coffman who wrote "I Respectfully Dissent: A Biography of Edward H. Nakamura," Kauai Council Member Nadine Nakamura, attorney and former coworker Lowell Chun-Hoon, and Access to Justice Commission chair Dan Foley, among others. The Leni Marin Scholarship will also be awarded at this event. (Due to popular demand, this event has been moved from CR3 to the larger classroom next door - CR2.)
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Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Exhi
On October 24, 2012, Commercial Metals Company (the "Company") issued a press release (the "Press Release") announcing its financial results for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year ended August 31, 2012. A copy of the Press Release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1. The Press Release is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.02, and the foregoing description of the Press Release is qualified in its entirety by reference to this exhibit.
The Press Release contains "non-GAAP financial measures" as defined in Item 10 of Regulation S-K of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). In the Press Release, the Company has provided reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.
The information in this Item 2.02 of Form 8-K, including the exhibit, shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, and is not incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.
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Backlog a priority | Brad Wall says the province depends on exports and wants immediate action to improve rail service
Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall has thrown his support behind recently announced federal initiatives aimed at improving rail service for agricultural shippers.
Wall told the 2014 Saskatchewan Agriculture Trade Summit in Sask-atoon that a record harvest is straining the transportation system.
He said the Saskatchewan government supports Ottawa's efforts to enhance the grain-monitoring program and increase the amount of information that railways are required to provide on grain movement and car spotting performance.
However, more action is needed to clear up a backlog of grain that is waiting to be moved to port from western Canadian farms and prairie terminals, he added.
"The success and growth of our agriculture industry and province depends on getting our products to port to be shipped throughout the world," Wall said.
"We fully support the federal government in any measures they can take to address this situation (and) … we recognize efforts are underway to develop a long-term plan for the future, as we anticipate these larger crops will become the norm.
"However, further action is necessary to clear up the immediate backlog as soon as possible. We will continue to work to find a solution with stakeholders, including the federal government, grain companies, railways and port authorities."
Insufficient grain movement and railway performance have emerged as key issues this winter as farmers and grain companies attempt to market last year's record harvest.
Federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz recently announced that Ottawa will support steps proposed by the Crop Logistics Working Group aimed at improving the performance of the crop supply chain.
Among other measures, the Grain Monitoring Program will be ex-panded, new railway performance measurements will be implemented and railways will be required to supply performance data more frequently.
The new reporting requirements will produce weekly data on:
- Railway order fulfillment
- Weekly car orders placed by grain companies
- Weekly car orders accepted by railways
- Weekly car orders actually filled by railways
- Weekly cancellations of orders
Changes to the grain monitoring program will also require railways to provide:
- Expanded weekly data on hopper car fleet size in service
- Weekly hopper car unloads by port
- Hopper car arrivals, dwell times and unload times at port
- Western Canadian grain traffic volumes, loaded transit times and cycle times to various destinations
- U.S. grain traffic to western Canadian destinations
- Western Canadian grain traffic shipped to port in containers
Meanwhile, prairie farm groups continue to apply pressure on Ottawa to take steps aimed at improving rail service for agricultural shippers.
The Alberta Federation of Agriculture, the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and Manitoba's Keystone Agricultural Producers have requested a meeting with federal transport minister Lisa Raitt to discuss rail service, grain delivery bottlenecks and shortcomings of the Fair Rail Freight Service Act, which Parliament passed last summer.
And in Ottawa, CropLife Canada president Ted Menzies, who is a former Alberta farmer and Conservative cabinet minister, told members of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association that supply chain deficiencies are having a major impact on Canada's reputation as a reliable supplier of agricultural products.
"The economic leaders in this country need to understand that this is going to be a huge impact to us," Menzies told the organization's annual convention in Ottawa Feb. 4.
"Our overall credibility of being a reliable supplier of food products is on the line."
Roxane Marchand, a Transport Canada spokesperson, told media that the government continues to monitor the effectiveness of the freight service legislation.
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De Niro, Bankrupt Art Gallery Settle Artwork Dispute
The artwork of a scandal-ridden Manhatten gallery will go on the auction block late this year, but six paintings and drawings by Robert De Niro Sr. won't be among them.
That's because Robert De Niro Jr., the actor, won his quest to recover six pieces of art by his late father from Salander-O'Reilly Galleries LLC, the art gallery that filed for bankruptcy protection in late 2007 amid accusations it was selling art it hadn't paid for.
As Bankruptcy Beat has previously reported, the younger De Niro sought to recover such works as "Girl With Figured Scarf" and "Nude Still Life" on the grounds that the artwork didn't belong to the liquidating gallery but to him, as his father's heir. But the gallery disputed De Niro's ownership claim for most of the artwork. Under a settlement that won bankruptcy court approval March 4, De Niro will get the art, as long as the "Raging Bull" and "Meet the Parents" star pays the gallery $14,000.
Paving the way for De Niro and the gallery to settle their differences, a bankruptcy judge in January confirmed a plan divvying up the proceeds of the gallery's liquidation among its creditors. The plan assured those who were fighting the gallery for ownership of artwork that those pieces wouldn't be sold until the ownership question was answered.
De Niro's father, who died in 1993 of cancer, was famous in his own right, winning critical acclaim and running with what his son termed a "bohemian" crowd – he counted Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams among his friends. De Niro Sr.'s works are included in the collections of several prestigious museums, like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. His paintings also hang on his son's walls, which now, thanks to the settlement, may be getting a bit more crowded.


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Your Sports Calendar, May 5
- The Allegheny College Gator Baseball Camp will take place June 10-12 for athletes ages 6-14. Cost is $100. For more information, contact Brandon Crum at (814) 332-2960 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Iroquois Little League will host an 8-under coach-pitch tournament June 29. No Travel teams. Cost is $65 per team. For more information, contact Adam Majczyk at (814) 566-3280 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
- The Jamestown Tigers baseball team will host the Tigers' Slugfest by the Lake tournament July 12-14. The tournament will be for two age groups: 18-and-under and 16-and-under. Cost is $600 per team, with baseballs and umpire fees included ($100 discount if signed up and paid by May 31). For more information, call Coach Joe Spoto at (716)-499-2137 or email email@example.com.
- Penn State Behrend's baseball coaching staff and players will conduct two camps. The first camp will take place July 29 to Aug. 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for ages 6-11. The second camp will take place Aug. 5-9 for ages 11-16. Cost is $160. For more information, call Paul Benim at (814) 898-6838.
- Senior Legion tryouts will take place at area locations. Tryouts for the Albion team, which encompasses the General McLane and Northwestern school districts, will take place at Northwestern High School May 12 and 19 at 1 p.m. For more information, contact John Light at 873-5207. Tryouts for the Millcreek team, encompassing and held at McDowell High School, will take place May 12 and 19 at 1 p.m. Contact Tom Hansen at 873-6570 for more information. Tryouts for Post 11, which encompasses the Erie westside, will take place at Brabender Field on W. 21st St. and Baur Lane May 11 and May 19 at 1 p.m. For more information contact John Davis at 270-300-6922 or Adam Snider at 323-7955. The Waterford team includes the Fort LeBoeuf, Seneca and Union City school districts. Tryouts will take place at Fort LeBoeuf High School May 11 and May 19 at 6 p.m. For more information, contact Terry Hibbard at 440-6156. The Wesleyville team includes the Harbor Creek, Iroquois and North East school districts and will take place at Harbor Creek High School on May 12 and May 19 at 1 p.m. For more information, contact Marty Barclay at 882-4267. The West County team will encompass the Fairview and Girard school districts and tryouts will be held at Fairview High School May 12 and May 19 at 1 p.m. For more information, contact Joe Spinelli at 881-5809 or Craig MIller at 392-4818. Players must attend both tryouts and must go to the tryout for their area.
- Family First Sports Park will host summer day youth basketball camps for boys and girls. The camps will start in June. For more information, call Ron Stahon at (814) 572-1287.
- Family First Sports Park is organizing adult men's and women's summer leagues, with games played on Monday and Wednesday nights. The league will begin play near the end of May. Cost is $225, plus the referee fee. For more information, contact Ron Stahon at 572-1287.
- The Starbound Elite 8 basketball tournament for boys grades 6-8 will be played May 18-19 in at the McGuffey Center in Youngstown, Ohio. Fee is $100 per team. For more information, call (740) 215-0406.
- Family First Sports Park will hold an instructional academy for men and women who want to become basketball referees. The academy will start May 29 and run each week through June 26. Fee is $100. To reserve a spot in the academy, call Ron Stahon at 572-1287.
- Harbor Creek boys basketball will host a camp for boys in grades 2-9 from June 10-14 at Harbor Creek Junior and Senior High Schools. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to noon and costs $60, with a camp T-shirt included. For more information, contact Jason Dolak at 460-9777 or by email at email@example.com.
- Girard boys basketball coach Darrin Mayes and his staff will conduct three boys summer camps. The first camp, for boys entering grades 3-6, will take place June 10-14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the first four days, and 9 a.m. to noon the final day. Cost is $75 for those who register by June 1, $80 after. The second camp, for boys entering grades 7-10, will take place June 17-21 and will meet from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. the first four days, 9 a.m. to noon the final day. Cost is $65 before June 1, $70 after. The final camp, for boys in grades K-2, will take place July 8-11 from 9 to 11 a.m. each day. Cost is $25 before June 1, $30 after. The first two camps will take place at Girard High School and the final camp will take place at Elk Valley Elementary School gymnasium. For more information, call (814) 323-2558 or (814) 774-5607, Ext. 6440. Mail registration forms to Darrin Mayes, 10604 S. Edgewood Drive, Lake City, PA 16423.
- Gannon University is hosting four girls basketball skill camps this summer. Fundamental Camp I (June 17-20 $110, grades 3-9), Fundamental Camp II (July 30-Aug. 2 $110, grades 3-9), Post Camp (Aug. 2-3 $85, commuter, $110, overnight, grades 6-12), and Shooting Camp (June 24-27, $85, grades 6-12). The Gannon women's basketball staff will run the camps with current and former Gannon players. For more information, call (814)871-5811 or visit gannonsports.com.
- McDowell boys basketball coach Kevin O'Connor will conduct summer camps at McDowell High School for Erie County boys heading into grades K-9 next year. The first camp, for boys in grades 3-6, will take place June 17-21, and the second camp, for boys in grades 7-9, will take place June 24-28. Both camps will go from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. A third camp, for boys in kindergarten through grade 2, will take place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. July 22-25. To register, e-mail O'Connor at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call (814) 490-7121.
- Gannon University men's basketball is hosting a high school varsity basketball team camp June 21-22. Cost is $350 for both days. For more information, visit gannonsports.com and go to the men's basketball web page, or call assistant coach Kraig Hetz at (814) 431-9576.
- The Grandview Basketball Camp will take place June 23-26 at Penn State Behrend for boys entering grades five through 12. Dave Niland, men's basketball head coach at Penn State Behrend, and Pat Flaherty, assistant men's coach at Behrend, will direct the camp. For more information, visit www.grandviewbasketballcamp.com or call Niland at (814) 898-6398.
- Villa Maria Academy will host two week-long girls skills camps June 24-27. The camp for girls entering grades 4-6 will run from 9 a.m. to noon and the camp for girls entering grades 7-9 will run from 1-4 p.m. Cost is $80, which includes a T-shirt. Villa Maria coach Doug Chuzie will run the camps and will be assisted by Villa staff as well as current and former players. For more information, visit www.prep-villa.com or call Chuzie at (814) 490-3643.
- The Mercyhurst Prep boys basketball camp will take place June 24-28 for boys entering grades 5-9. Cost is $100 and includes a camp T-shirt. For more information or for a brochure, contact coach Sean Baer at firstname.lastname@example.com or at (814) 323-5968.
- The Mercyhurst Prep girls basketball camp will take place June 10-13 from 6 to 9 p.m. for girls entering grades 6-8. Cost is $60. The camp is run by Mercyhurst Prep coach Dan Perfetto. For more information, call 434-2681.
- The Earth Road Bike Tour, consisting of a 20-mile or 40-mile ride, will take place May 19 at 1 p.m. at Peek'n Peak. There also will be a 11/4-mile uphill time trial up twisting switchback roads for title of King of the Mountain. For more information, call (716) 355-4141, Ext. 7154.
-Family First Sports Park is organizing a men's flag football league to begin this month. Cost is $350. To register a team, call Ron Stahon at (814) 572-1287.
- There will be a free athletic training open house May 23 and May 28 at 7 p.m. at Lewis Fitness and Performance, 2220 W. 50th St., Erie. The seminar will be hosted by Geoff Lewis (Lewis Fitness and Performance) and John Davis (JD Sports Academy). To register, contact Geoff at (814) 440-8108 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or John at (270) 300-6922 or email@example.com.
- Penn State Behrend will host an intermediate golf session Tuesdays and Thursdays from June 4-25. All sessions will take place from 6-8 p.m. at Gospel Hill Golf Course. Cost is $105. To register, call (814) 898-6240 or (814) 898-6180.
- The ninth annual Millcreek Community Hospital Golf Scholarship Classic will be played Aug. 8 at Lake Shore Country Club. The event will begin with shotgun starts at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Cost is $700 for a foursome, $175 for a single. Registration deadline is Aug. 1. For more information, contact Marty Kelly at (814) 868-8227 or e-mail email@example.com.
- Looking for substitute golfers for a Tuesday morning, two-person team in a senior league at Orchard Ponds. Start times begin at 7:50 a.m. For more information, call Dennis Manendo at (814) 825-9411.
- Family First Sports Park is organizing a co-ed summer outdoor soccer league. Games will be played Tuesday nights. To join the league, call Erika Stahon at 572-1287.
- The Polish Sharpshooter softball team will host the 12th annual CJF Memorial Tournament May 17-19 at Harborcreek Fields. Entry fee is $280. For more information, call Gene at (814) 899-0585.
- The Penn State Behrend swim coach will conduct a Little Lions camp for ages 6-10 and a technique camp for ages 11-17. The Little Lions camp will take place July 8-12 from 9 a.m. to noon. Cost is $85. The technique camp will take place June 10-14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $120. For more information, call Jen Wallace at (814) 898-7147.
Track and field
- The Penn State Behrend track and field coaches and players will conduct a speed developing camp either Aug. 6 or 8 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for boys and girls in grades 7-12. Cost is $45. For more information, call Greg Cooper at (814) 898-6239.
The Your Sports calendar is published Mondays in the Erie Times-News. Community members are invited to submit information to email@example.com or Your Sports, Sports Department, Erie Times-News, 205 W. 12th St., Erie, PA 16534, or fax to (814) 870-1808. Free notices will be published as many as two times. Please submit notices no later than the Friday before publication is desired. Additional listings can be purchased from the Times-News classified advertising department, (814) 456-7021.


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Two men were arrested Tuesday at the Park Lane Apartments, 4301 S.W. 49th Ave., following an investigation that yielded methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana, along with stolen merchandise.
Amarillo Police Department's Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Unit was seeking a Randall County fugitive wanted on a possession of a controlled substance charge, when the investigation led officers to the apartment complex. Officers located the individual, David Scholz, 32, along with a second man, Aaron Albright, 27, who had four outstanding municipal warrants, police said.
Officers used a police K-9 unit to investigate the vehicle and found a black bag that contained narcotics, police said, yielding 20 grams of methamphetamine and one ounce of marijuana.
A search warrant was issued for the apartment the pair had been in, and officers found 60 grams of methamphetamine and five grams of cocaine, police said.
Police said officers also found several stolen electronic devices and a semi-automatic pistol thought to be stolen in the apartment.
The two men were transported to Randall County Jail, where Scholz was booked on a charge of manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana in a drug-free zone and his outstanding narcotics warrant, and Albright was booked on his outstanding warrants, police said.


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Ben Golliver of SI.com on Thunder draft needs: "The Thunder face the possible departure of Thabo Sefolosha this summer and also must plan further into the future, as Kendrick Perkins finally comes off the books after next season and 33-year-old Nick Collison gets closer to winding down a stellar career. Perhaps even more pressing, Reggie Jackson's impending free agency will force the Thunder's hand and could wind up costing a pretty penny if they want to keep their talented sixth man. The good news: Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka are so good that the Thunder should be a strong championship contender even as the cast around them does some rotation. That's especially true because Oklahoma City looks to have nailed their 2013 first-round pick by snagging Steven Adams, who looks like he will be occupying a starting job sooner rather than later."
Anthony Slater on Andre Roberson: "Depends on his development and who the Thunder bring in this offseason, but I think it'll be expanded some. There's even a small chance, with Thabo Sefolosha expected to be gone, that Roberson starts. Scott Brooks likes defensive-minded players surrounding his stars at tip-off. But his future in the league as a rotation player depends on that shot. It's gotta at least get to the point where teams aren't completely backing off, begging him to take it."
Dario Saric is going to stay in Europe for two years.
Matt Moore of CBSSports.com on draft options: "Adreian Payne could fall here. There are concerns about how he adapts to a new system. He would be a pretty great pick up, even if they have Serge Ibaka. Payne could help balance their scoring off the bench. Michigan center Mitch McGary has gained a lot of momentum the past few weeks precisely because of the lack of options. He hasn't worked out for teams and has a back issue. But he also has the best skill set of any big here. Patric Young is a major reach, but he's also got more polish and has been part of a winning environment. He's a hard worker who's matured through the same time span he's fallen from a lottery pick to a likely second rounder."
Per Marc Stein: "Hearing: Knicks have explored possibility of swapping Iman Shumpert for late first-round pick heading into Thursday's draft."
Austin Ainge: "I personally was not working here. But I was in college and I was in the draft room, and they would have taken Durant. I did have some inside information there."
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Seven national champions return to the mats this yearSeven national champions will return to win individual titles this year at the 2006 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships which will be held in Oklahoma City, Okla. Of those seven, six won their titles last year.
Four of those six wrestled for Oklahoma State - Zack Esposito (149 lbs.), Johny Hendricks (165), Jake Rosholt (197) and Steve Mocco (285). Both Rosholt and Mocco will be going for their third individual titles this year, which would put them in some very elite company. Hendricks is the only non-senior looking to win another title this year.
Another of the defending champions, 141-pound Teyon Ware of Oklahoma, will also be going for his third NCAA crown. In other words, any talk of winning an NCAA individual or team title this year will go through the state of Oklahoma.
The other NCAA champions returning this year are Joe Dubuque of Indiana (125) and Troy Letters of Lehigh (165).
There are hundreds of young wrestlers and new faces, including 59 other All-Americans, who are hungry for a championship title. With the NCAA Championships less than six months away, the champions of last year now must prove themselves all over again. Following is a weight-by-weight breakdown of this year's NCAA Division I action.
125 lbs.
Dubuque, a senior, was a surprise champion last year, blowing through a very deep field to win the title. However, the top five placewinners from this weight class all return this year, including the two wrestlers most people thought would be in the title match last year, juniors Sam Hazewinkel of Oklahoma and Nick Simmons of Michigan State.
With this slate of wrestlers, one competitor people will continue to overlook will be senior Kyle Ott of Illinois, who has lost in the NCAA finals the last two years. Everyone saw last year what Ott could do for a full year while healthy. He will have to go through one of the deepest weight classes in the country, however, to get to the top of the podium this year.
Junior Matt Valenti of Pennsylvania and sophomore Coleman Scott of Oklahoma State could also figure into the mix at 125.
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Dubuque; 2) Ott; 3) Hazewinkel; 4) Simmons
133 lbs.
Shawn Bunch of Edinboro lost in a close finals match last year, but he returns for his senior season looking for his first title. Big Ten foes Mack Reiter of Minnesota, a sophomore, and Tom Clum of Wisconsin, a senior, will also contend for titles this year, both in the conference and in the nation.
Returning is junior Darrell Vasquez of Cal Poly, who missed all of last season with an illness. Vasquez placed fourth in the NCAA Championships two years ago. If Vasquez can return to that form of two years ago, he may earn the top ranking before the season is over.
Two other All-Americans return at this weight - senior Evan Sola of North Carolina and junior Drew Headlee of Pittsburgh
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Bunch; 2) Clum; 3) Vasquez; 4) Reiter
141 lbs.
The eight All-Americans from last year all return this year at 141 lbs., which should make this one of the more fun weight classes in the nation. Ware has won two titles already, and will want his third following his senior season. However, senior Nate Gallick of Iowa State gave Ware some epic battles last season, losing to the Sooner in the NCAA finals.
Another senior, Cory Cooperman of Lehigh, has slowly moved up the national ladder, placing third in the country last year.
Juniors Michael Keefe of Tennessee-Chattanooga and Andy Simmons of Michigan State placed fifth and sixth last year, respectively. Both wrestlers had strong seasons, but also showed at times they weren't quite to the level of the top three at this weight class. Another off-season of training may have changed that.
Two wrestlers had breakout seasons as freshmen and will look to elude the sophomore jinx, Daniel Frishkorn of Oklahoma State and Josh Churella of Michigan.
Cassio Pero of Illinois, a junior, surprised many when he placed seventh at the NCAA Championships. There will be pressure on him this year to repeat that performance.
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Ware; 2) Gallick; 3) Cooperman; 4) Frishkorn
149 lbs.
Esposito broke through last year and easily won the NCAA title. Like Jesse Jantzen before him, Esposito is a heavy favorite to win the title as a senior as well.
Jon Masa of Hofstra, a senior, placed third last year. He has had expectations of placing high the last two years, as has senior Ty Eustice of Iowa. They may have to overcome surging sophomore Eric Tannenbaum of Michigan, who has begun to close the gap some on Esposito.
Junior Matt Storniolo of Oklahoma and sophomore Jeff Ecklof of Pittsburgh will also be much improved this season after posting All-American finishes last year.
Mark DiSalvo of Central Michigan, also a senior, placed eighth in the nation last year in his first year being 100 percent healthy.
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Esposito; 2) Masa; 3) Tannenbaum; 4) Eustice
157 lbs.
Iowa's Joe Johnston, like Eustice, had been the subject of a lot of criticism from wrestling fans after not made an impact at the NCAA Championships. That was until last year, when he earned a spot in the NCAA Finals.
Alex Tirapelle of Illinois, a senior who was in the NCAA finals in 2003, did not even place last year. However, he has been consistently good throughout his career, and there is no reason to believe he won't contend for a title this year.
Senior Dustin Manotti of Cornell, and NCAA runner-up at 149 lbs. last year, moves up in weight this year. He will make this a much more exciting weight class while also bringing some more offensive action to the mats.
Trent Paulson of Iowa State, a junior, broke out last year and placed fourth in the nation. If he is able to stay injury free, he should do well again this year, but technically he is still a little behind some of the top wrestlers in this weight class.
Seniors Matt Lebe of West Virginia and Chris Horning of Clarion along with junior Brian Stith of Arizona State will also look to improve on their All-American finishes from last season. Sophomore Brandon Becker of Indiana is another name to watch at this weight.
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Johnston; 2) Tirapelle; 3) Manotti; 4) Paulson
165 lbs.
This weight class is getting a makeover this year, as NCAA runner-up Mark Perry of Iowa will move up in weight and Matt Pell of Missouri will move down two weights. But the two constants remain - Hendricks and Letters, who both have NCAA titles to their names.
Pell placed seventh last year at 184, but this summer wrestled freestyle at 163 and has decided to stay down. He has good size for a 184-pounder, so his strength may help him to dominate his opponents at this weight. It will be interesting to see how Hendricks and Letters, both smaller than Pell, handle his size.
Seniors Ryan Churella of Michigan and Matt Nagel of Minnesota should not be forgotten. These are two really steady performers who are capable of winning big matches. Look for both of these wrestlers in the late rounds of next year's NCAA Championships.
Juniors Travis Paulson of Iowa State and Matt Palmer of Columbia have stood on the All-American podium as well.
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Hendricks; 2) Letters; 3) Churella; 4) Pell
174 lbs.
Missouri junior Ben Askren has been waiting two years to become the top dog at this weight class. This year, Askren will get to compete with everyone aiming for him, something that seems to motivate him.
Perry, a sophomore, moved up in weight this year. He bulked up over the off-season. Last year in the NCAA finals, it appeared as though he was dominated physically, so it will be interesting to see how he handles the size and strength of larger opponents.
Sophomore Jake Herbert of Northwestern placed third last year as a freshman. He is good enough to place a couple of spots higher, and if anyone can wrestle in Askren's style, it is Perry and Herbert.
Senior Joe Mazzurco helped Cornell finish high again at the NCAA Championships last year. With a weight class getting deeper right in front of him, he has somewhat been forgotten already. Mazzurco is big and strong, and his contrasting style compared to the other top wrestlers here could be just what gets him to the top this year.
Travis Frick of Lehigh will drop down in weight for his senior season after placing eighth in the country at 184 lbs. last year.
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Askren; 2) Herbert; 3) Perry; 4) Mazzurco
184 lbs.
This will be one of the tougher weight classes to figure out all season long. Pretty much anyone in the top 12 in the country is capable of beating each other, which won't make things easy on the seeding committee for the NCAA Championships.
Eric Bradley of Penn State and Paul Bradley of Iowa are the two highest returning placewinners here, finishing fourth and fifth, respectively. Both are seniors and have had some good battles with each other as well. Expect more of the same this year.
Junior Kurt Backes of Iowa State placed seventh two years ago in the NCAA Championships. He has struggled throughout his career in the postseason. His coaches will hope that changes this year.
Senior Pete Friedl of Illinois moved up in weight this year after placing fourth at 174 lbs. last year. He should do well at what is a wide-open weight class this year.
Ben Wissel of Purdue will also look to get back on the All-American podium as will Shane Webster of Oregon, who placed sixth in 2003 at 174.
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Eric Bradley; 2) Paul Bradley; 3) Friedl; 4) Backes
197 lbs.
Rosholt has won two NCAA titles. After the regular season of his freshman year, most wrestling critics would have thought he would be lucky to even reach one NCAA finals. He had possibly his most dominant season last year, and with some of the top competition gone, he will be a heavy favorite to win the title this year.
Nebraska senior B.J. Padden has had a solid career as well, and he finally broke into the top eight last year. He has a lot of strength, and his win over Rosholt in the Big XII finals last year proves he can win an NCAA title.
Two sophomores should finish high this year - Joel Flaggert of Oklahoma and Wynn Michalak of Central Michigan. They placed fourth and sixth, respectively, as freshmen last year and made a huge impact.
Phil Davis of Penn State, a sophomore, and Ryan Flaherty of Wisconsin, a senior, will look to improve on their All-American finishes as well. Seniors Ryan Bader of Arizona State and Kyle Cerminara of Buffalo earned All-American honors in 2004.
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Rosholt; 2) Padden; 3) Flaggert; 4) Michalak
285 lbs.
Mocco has controlled this weight class in his last two collegiate years. Last year, he was given a run for his money by then-sophomore Cole Konrad of Minnesota, who is very tall and has continued to get more and more lean. He also gave Mocco a good battle at the World Team Trials in freestyle this year.
Seniors Greg Wagner of Michigan and Cain Velasquez of Arizona State are the only two other returning All-Americans at heavyweight. Both are athletic heavyweights, but neither has made a good run at Mocco and may have a tough time doing the same with Konrad this year as well.
Sophomores Dustin Fox of Northwestern and Matt Fields of Iowa have put their names into the mix for this year.
Pre-Season Top Four: 1) Mocco; 2) Konrad; 3) Wagner; 4) Velasquez


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Though St. Louis does have a No-Trade Clause, it seems like a given (though not guaranteed) that he'd approve a move to the Rangers. He'd stay east, move to a team that theoretically should be contending in the next couple of years, and would be reunited with Tortorella and Richards. St. Louis has been linked to the Rangers in the past.
St. Louis has an astounding 37 points in 28 games so far this season. Of course, pretty much anyone on Stamkos' line is going to put up gaudy assist numbers, but he is still a quality offensive player despite his age. It's unknown if the Lightning have any interest in moving St. Louis or if St. Louis is open to it. And who knows what the asking price would be. But should St. Louis and the Lightning reach the decision that a trade makes sense and St. Louis has a short trade list that includes the Rangers, rendering his market pretty weak, the stars could perhaps align for Sather to make a difference-making move without breaking the bank to make it happen.
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The goal of Brooks' treatment is to provide both immediate short-term care and long-term assistance to patients struggling with various diagnoses, injuries, or speech barriers.
By developing an individualized plan of care, Brooks will optimize each patient's overall progress.
"I am excited to be back in my hometown," said Brooks. "I have received a remarkably warm welcome and look forward to treating the patients of this community."
Jersey Shore Hospital offers speech therapy for a wide range of disabilities/disorders in all ages and populations. Brittany Brooks is seeing patients Monday through Friday at Jersey Shore Hospital located on 1020 Thompson St., Jersey Shore.
Call 570-398-3111 to set up an appointment.