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I could've taken my choice of going to Cleveland, or staying in Pittsburgh today. The weather in Cleveland was forecast to be very nice, with a 5% chance of rain. Pittsburgh was predicted to have a 50% chance. I had to make a decision where I was going by 1 PM. After that time passed, I wouldn't be able to make it to Cleveland by 3:30, thereby leaving me with PNC Park as my only option.
At 12:45 PM, this was the hourly weather forecast. It looked like there may have been a chance to at least get some BP in. I figured I'd save the gas and take the chance.
Wow, were they ever wrong.
It started pouring around 2:30ish, and didn't stop.
McCutchen looked into the "crowd," locked onto my location, and tossed a ball in my direction. The ball was coming in high. I had to jump up to make the catch. It was ball #1. My
streak had been preserved and extended. What a relief.
I spent the rest of the night going back and forth from right field to left field to center field (on occasion), trying to get another warm up ball.
Brandon Moss picked me out in the 6th inning and threw a ball right at me. The ball was intended for me. However, some random guy without a glove came running across the row and intercepted the ball. There was nothing I could do. Here he is:
Who sits like that at a baseball game anyway?
After the game was over (the Pirates won – finishing a sweep of the Brewers), I went down to the dugout. There, I watched the umpire toss a ball to a kid, which he dropped (the ball fell to the tunnel below and disappeared). Then, the umpire tossed a second ball to the same kid, which he also dropped down into the tunnel. What a waste. Luckily for Butterfingers, Bob Davidson came along and got one of the balls out of the tunnel and handed it to him.
I ended up with one ball, but did meet two readers of this blog after the game. I had noticed them prior to the game with their gloves and roster complete with player numbers and thinking, "They're more prepared than I am." I asked if they had snagged any balls on the day, and gave a ball away (one of the extras I bring from home) to one of the girls who had been shut out. There's nothing worse than trying for a ball all day and coming up empty.
Here's the McCutchen ball:
Which I somehow managed to screw up and number off-center. Argh.
Game: 1 ball (1 thrown)
Season: 294 balls (151 hit, 90 thrown, 53 device)
Games: 62 games (7 of which didn't have BP)
Average: 4.74 balls per game
Career: 460 balls
Streak: 77 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 12,630
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any chance youll be in cleveland friday? its my first game there, most likely..
Thanks for the ball yesterday Eric! (It happened to be my birthday, so you really made my day!!) Keep up the awesome work on your blog.
Thanks for the ball yesterday Erik! (It happened to be my birthday, so you totally made my day!!) Keep up the awesome work on your blog
Hey, Erik, I can't see the photo of the guy that intercepted that ball. Is it my computer or is it not there?
BTW, I hate when stuff like that happens.
Error on my part, I re-edited the blog, and the picture should show up.
I was planning on going, but the weather looks like its going to clear up today, so I'm planning on going to Pit instead.
Happy Birthday! You're welcome for the ball – too bad BP was canceled. Hope to see you at some future games.


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If you want to create your own 3D graphics game, you need to have a 3D graphics engine to build it on. Traditionally, your choices were limited to either programming your own graphics engine from scratch or paying a licensing fee to use another company's -- a price which typically starts out at around $100,000. But if you don't have the programming skill or money to burn, there has been a third, though relatively unknown, alternative for a while now: Crystal Space, an open-source 3D graphics engine that was created by 30-year-old Belgian programmer Jorrit Tyberghein.
Three years ago, Tyberghein wrote the first version of Crystal Space after seeing first-person shooter games like Doom and Quake and wondering how 3D graphic games like these were made. With no prior experience in graphics programming, he started by looking for information on the Internet about 3D graphics programming. Based on his personal research, he put together the first version of Crystal Space in a little over two months.
But then he had to stop developing the engine because of increasing responsibilities at his job that were taking up more of his time. "I could have let the code sit on my hard disk to rot away into oblivion," Tyberghein says. "Or, I could release it for free. I did the latter. I sent a message to some newsgroups. People could e-mail me and I would e-mail them a copy of the source."
That's how the Crystal Space community was born. Soon after Tyberghein gave away the source to Crystal Space, volunteer programmers ported the original Windows code to other platforms like DOS, Macintosh and Amiga. Interestingly, when he released Crystal Space's code to the public back then, Tyberghein wasn't aware of the term "open source" and what it meant. "I released those initial versions of Crystal Space without any license at all because I was simply not aware of the need," he says. "Now of course, I can see that Crystal Space fits very well with the open-source movement."
Yet how important is a 3D graphics software engine these days (whether it be commercial or open source), with all the advanced and powerful 3D graphics cards that are increasingly becoming standard hardware features in computers? The answer is that even with the best 3D hardware, you still need a software engine to control that hardware. There is still much to do on the engine side, such as collision detection, artificial intelligence, and simply bringing gaming elements together within a logical, coherent package.
"Even with very fast hardware, there always is a limit to what that hardware can do," Tyberghein explains. "Game demands get higher and higher. So the engine still has to do some optimization to try to limit what is sent to the hardware. Even the best hardware cannot handle millions or more polygons just by rendering them all. The engine tries to find ways to quickly determine which parts of the game's world environment are not visible and which are visible."
While Crystal Space is ideal for developing first-person games, because the engine's "camera" management is independent of the engine itself, it's equally well suited for making third-person perspective games -- something along the lines of Tomb Raider. Crystal Space is suitable for racing games and flight simulators as well, although the engine's landscape rendering needs to be improved in order to make such games comparable to a commercial product, Tyberghein admits.
A number of games are currently being made with Crystal Space. Most of these are role-playing games which are being developed by volunteers under an open-source format: TimeCity, The Amateur Scrolls, and Squawk. There's also an open-source first-person shooter, Crystal Shooter, and one commercial game, 3D Ultra Minigolf (published by Sierra On-Line), that was built on an earlier version of Crystal Space. Tyberghein theorizes that many of the games being developed with Crystal Space are role-playing because the engine includes full control of one or more "camera" perspectives and initial built-in support for networking. Both of these features make it easier to develop multi-player games such as role-players.
As for how Crystal Space compares to commercial 3D graphics engines, specifically those that power Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament, Tyberghein confidently says his engine is comparable in terms of visual features but not in regard to code readiness. "Crystal Space is not finished. It is working very well already, but we still have a lot to do," he says. "I'm investigating the possibility of releasing a subset of Crystal Space that would most likely be the indoor renderer." He hopes that this subset, which generates 3D graphics similar to a commercial first-person shooter graphics engine like Quake's, can be finished and released within six months.
"In general, I think CS is much richer in features since it's not just an engine, it's a cross-platform game API," says Andrew Zabolotny, a 27-year-old programmer from St. Petersburg, Russia, who has been contributing his skills to Crystal Space's high-level coding. "It provides functions for almost anything you could need in any game. For example, it has a terrain-rendering engine. We have lots of things Quake or Unreal will never need because a first-person shooter is a very specific type of game which needs just a limited set of features."
In practical 3D game development terms, however, Thomas Hieber, who is developing Crystal Shooter, concedes that "Quake 3 is awesome. This is probably the most fantastic 3D engine currently around. Crystal Space is miles away from Quake 3 Arena in my honest opinion." But the 29-year-old software engineer from Germany doesn't think that this should stop anybody from creating great games with Crystal Space. "Take a look at Tomb Raider or Half-Life. Neither has a really great 3D engine," he says, "but they have all been successful, because of the value of their game play."
Overall, the Crystal Space 3D graphics engine was designed to be all-purpose enough to create almost any kind of game. Although it cannot be compared with other graphics programming platforms like OpenGL or Direct3D in terms of features, it has its own advantages over them. It is cross-platform, for one, so you can write code that will run equally well on Unix, Windows, OS/2, DOS, MacOS, and BeOS. A lot of thought was put into the platform independence of Crystal Space. The engine has a flexible plug-in system so that a single executable works with various renderers like OpenGL, Direct3D, and Glide. Along with the 3D API, it even has a 2D API, although, of course, the primary purpose of the engine is to produce 3D graphics. "I wrote a full-blown windowing GUI based entirely on the Crystal Space low-level API," says Zabolotny.
Crystal Space offers lots of features that are very useful if you want to create your own game under it, but its use is not limited just to game design. There are useful pieces of separate code that can be used outside of the engine in projects unrelated to gaming development: a csIniFile class (for .ini file management), an SCF (Shared Class Facility) subsystem, a csArchive class (which deals with .zip files), and a VFS (Virtual File System) subsystem.
Besides its cross-platform nature and code modularity, developers who have been working on Crystal Space in their free time cite the engine's stability (it rarely crashes), the completeness of its 3D rendering features, and a very active community of developers working on the code as other appealing reasons for working on and contributing to it.
The most significant weaknesses of Crystal Space are its lack of good collision-detection programming and its unstable API, since there are often lots of changes made to it and the source tree structure.
"In my opinion, the largest weakness for Crystal Space is its collision detection," says Hieber, who has been spending most of his time improving Crystal Space's capabilities first before working on his game, Crystal Shooter. "There is some support in it, but it is not very useful for real games. There is only static testing of object-against-object that will basically return information about where the collision occurs, if any. But there is no good support for fast moving objects."
Another complicated issue in Crystal Space is how it handles lighting. The engine supports colored static and dynamic lighting with soft shadows, but getting these to work fast under all possible game processing circumstances is a challenge, and one which CS currently doesn't completely meet, Tyberghein admits. The new PVS (Potentially Visible Set) will help address this problem, too.
As with most open-source projects, Crystal Space definitely wants and needs more programmers to contribute to its cause. At the moment Tyberghein himself is looking for people who are very skilled at programming graphic engine internals and can also think in terms of algorithms -- people who can essentially help out with perfecting the engine itself. "It is still very fundamental work that is happening in the engine," he says. "I have lots of people helping on the other parts of Crystal Space (i.e., OpenGL and Direct3D programming, Windows and Linux porting) but very few people are capable of helping me with the engine."
"In general, if we had more good programmers, we could do much more," Zabolotny says. "We primarily need people skilled in cross-platform C/C++ programming."
Porting the Crystal Space engine to a gaming console such as the Sony PlayStation is being considered right now. There are some issues, though. A major technical one is that memory on gaming consoles is generally limited, and Crystal Space is rather memory hungry. So the Crystal Space development team plans to address this.
The other issue is a legal one: For some of these gaming consoles, a developer must sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) to be able to use the software developer's kit. "To overcome this problem, we are considering putting all NDA stuff in a separate library and then letting Crystal Space use that library," Tyberghein says. "This of course limits the use of Crystal Space in an open-source way on those platforms, but at least someone would be able to write that library again and then use the engine unmodified."
So could Crystal Space, or any open-source 3D graphics engine, become as widely used as the commercial engines? Tyberghein expresses some doubts. "If you license the Quake 3 engine, then you're sure to get a quality product that will work regardless. So if you want technical support, you should NOT use a free engine," he says. "However, if you feel like you can cope with the lack of support or if funding is a problem (which is the case for many people), then an open-source engine is for you."
As for any particular type of games Tyberghein would personally like to see others develop under Crystal Space, he thinks there are enough people developing games right now for the engine. What he would like to see more are non-game-related applications. "The Crystal Space engine is not game specific. There is nothing inside the engine that says, 'This is only useful for games,'" he insists. "Other uses for Crystal Space could be architectural, for example, or maybe for a garden designer program. There are lots of possibilities."
But there's still that one top project he'd like to see others develop someday using his 3D graphics engine -- a 3D version of Nethack. Ironically, this fantasy role-playing game -- a classic among the open-source gaming community -- has usually eschewed fancy visuals. The latest version of this 15-year-old game, released earlier this year, continued with the tradition of rendering the game's graphics in simple ASCII characters.
"I really love Nethack, and I will always keep playing it in ASCII form. But I think that a 3D version of Nethack should be possible," Tyberghein says. "I'd really love to see that happen with Crystal Space."
Howard Wen is a freelance writer who has contributed frequently to O'Reilly Network and written for Salon.com, Playboy.com, and Wired, among others.
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Focal Length DesignsWe recently stumbled upon the work of Isaac Watson, and his line Focal Length Designs. His cuff bracelets are made from recycled camera lens parts, so this was naturally intriguing. Isaac was kind enough to answer some questions for us.
KEH: What's your profession?
IW: I wouldn't call myself a designer, or an entrepreneur, or a marketer. Just a creative, I guess. It's been a topic of hot, self-reflective debate lately. Some years ago I started a degree in graphic design, taking a few photography courses along the way, but burnt myself out physically, emotionally and financially after several years. I decided to take a break from school and regroup.
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I spent a sweltering May afternoon in a borrowed workshop grinding, filing and sanding away at a little piece of metal from a broken SLR camera lens I had found at a thrift shop. Two hours later I emerged from the shop with grime-covered hands and several minor lacerations, but I also had a couple shiny new bracelets. They were comparatively crude—scratched from a few too many slips of the metal file and dinged by a few too many mis-strikes of the hammer—but I had accomplished my goal, and I had a ball of a time in the process!
A single experiment in mimicry opened the door to a passion I never knew I had. I couldn't wait to take another stab at them!
KEH: What has the response been like?
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- Response 1: "Oh, how clever!" This usually comes from the people who don't really get it. Suburban craft show moms and such.
- Response 2: "Oh, sweet! Those are bad-ass!" This is my favorite response (naturally). I get this from designers, fashionistas, the hip photographers.
- Response 3: "OMG how could you?!" This always makes me laugh. It's usually the old school photographers that still have their AE-1 or K1000 in their closets and would never dream of getting rid of it. They're the ones that took the longest to convert to digital (not that there's anything wrong with that) and think I'm destroying their history. I can usually calm them down by assuring them that the lenses were broken to begin with or that they were obsolete parts. But really I understand that the shock stems from emotional connection to the "death of analog".
IW: In dismantling at least 30 lenses since I started, I've amassed quite the collection of optics, brackets, screws, springs, rings, aperture flaps, and all kinds of other parts. Part of my goal over the winter has been to expand my work beyond cuff bracelets. I'm currently brainstorming and collaborating with my good friend and mentor, Betsy Cross of Betsy & Iya. She's a wicked talented jewelry designer and we'll be launching our collaboration at the Crafty Wonderland Super-Colossal Spring Sale, May 1-2 at the Oregon Convention Center.
KEH: How long does your process take to make these?
IW: If I spent a good solid day in my workshop, I could emerge with ten bracelets. But that's assuming the lenses are already in pieces and I've got a good solid flow to my work. I also put a lot of time into photographing, naming and writing a "story" for each one. They are one-of-a-kind pieces, and I like giving them some kind of personality or history. I enjoy being able to connect to my customers that way, and it's a great outlet for my writing hobby.
KEH: Whats your process? What do you do with the other lens parts that aren't used for the bracelets?
IW: I'd like to say that it's as easy as slice, bend, and file, but there is so much more art that goes into it. Each piece has its own style that takes form as I work with it, and I've developed my own special techniques to add complexity to their minimalistic nature. My techniques have developed along with the bracelets, too, considering I have no formal training in jewelry-making or metal-smithing. I still do a lot of work by hand, even though I got a fancy Dremel tool for Christmas. Files and sandpaper are my friends! All the leftovers go into tubs and boxes and baggies and await brilliant ideas and collaboration as mentioned previously!
KEH: Can you size them to fit specific size wrists?
IW: Sizing depends greatly on the original diameter of the cuff and the thickness of the aluminum. Some of the metal is more flexible or more brittle than others. Most of my bracelets can be fine-tuned, but the big adjustments have to happen in the shop if the metal will accommodate it. I love doing custom work, too! Finding a raw piece and making it specifically with someone's wrist in mind is exciting, especially when I get to see their face at the unveiling! If anyone's interested in custom work, I'm happy to get in touch and discuss details!
KEH: Anything else you'd like to tell us?
IW: While I play around with my old AE-1 when I have the time and money for developing film, I don't consider myself a photographer. Most of the good photos I take are pure chance—my skills are not that greatly developed. So I would call myself more of a photographile instead.
Up until this year I had been selling my work solely through my Etsy storefront. In February, a new retail shop opened up inside an art gallery here in Portland, called Small Victories Shop. Erin, the shop owner and curator, focuses on artful and functional handmade goods for the home and body. She approached me about adding my bracelets to her collection, and is now the first brick-and-mortar shop to carry them! It's a fabulous little space and if anyone is in the Portland area, they should drop by and check it out.
I'm also the Co-Chair of a pilot project called I Heart Art: Portland. It's an art advocacy group that represents a new relationship between Etsy.com and PNCA. We're starting some really great programming here in Portland.
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Grant funds supplement the regular school program. Projects help Indian children sharpen their academic skills, assisting students in becoming proficient in the core content areas, and provide students an opportunity to participate in enrichment programs that would otherwise be unavailable. Funds support such activities as after-school programs, early childhood education, tutoring, and dropout prevention.
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SportsJam: Michael Bourne = Dr. Death?
April 11, 2008. Posted by Doug Doyle.Add new comment | Filed under: baseball, dr michael, jazz 88, louis cardinals fan, michael bourne, professional wrestling, Real Life Stories, Sports Jam, st louis cardinals
When Dr. Michael Bourne talks baseball he's serious, really serious. The St. Louis Cardinals fan tell all in a recent session of SportsJam. I learned things I never knew about Michael, especially his opportunity to become involved in professional wrestling as a manager. Not hard to imagine if you think about it. Michael probably would have gone around the ring shouting "YOU, YOU" like he does during Jazz 88 membership drives!!
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If we are to be effective advocates for our students and to empower our students to transform their own lives, we must deepen, and perhaps challenge, our current beliefs about teaching and learning. As teachers we must develop within ourselves the emotional and intellectual attributes needed to understand, support, and teach our future students, and to meet their diverse needs.
Future teachers can expect to see a more diverse population of students. The MiT program prepares teachers who can draw on the strengths of students from a wide range of ethnic origins, languages, abilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. Further, these students will live in a society requiring people to engage diverse cultures through effective collaboration and creative problem-solving grounded in integrated technological skills and active use of a wide range of information resources. Thus, the MiT program will support candidates to develop as critical, reflective educators who not only care deeply about issues of race, class, poverty, and justice but are prepared to act on these issues to support student achievement.
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Comparing central Ohio neighborhoods
Central Ohio offers countless options: neighborhoods that boast homes and amenities similar to those found in pricier areas. The Dispatch sizes up homes for sale in five pairs of neighborhoods.
Westgate charm
If you're looking for: a stable Columbus neighborhood close to retail and highways and full of 1920s to '50s Cape Cods, bungalows, Craftsman, and American foursquare styles with a few Tudor and Colonial revival homes
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214 S. Sylvan Ave. The four-bedroom, one-bath, 1,300-square-foot two-story home built in 1928
features Craftsman oak details, arched window-seat alcoves and a partly finished basement.
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364 E. Kelso Rd. This three-bedroom, one-bath, 1,332-square-foot two-story home built in 1923
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Prep Baseball Roundup: Pair of 9s power Norwalk St. Paul past Mohawk
SYCAMORE – There must be something appealing to the St. Paul baseball team about the number nine. Twice Saturday, once in each game of a doubleheader at Mohawk, the Flyers put up nine in an inning. In the first game, it would be all the runs the Flyers would score, but it would be enough in a 9-5 victory. In game two, there was plenty more to come after a nine-run fourth inning as St. Paul rolled to a 20-12 win.
In the opener, Mohawk held a 4-0 lead until St. Paul plated nine runs in the third. Mitch Brown led the Warriors offense going 3 for 4 with two RBIs. Derrick Sowers had two hits and drove in two runs. Wes Shaw also had two hits.
In the second game, Mohawk had only four hits, but was able to take advantage of 12 walks. Grant Gucker and Brown each had two RBIs. Shaw, Sowers, Eric Maskey and John Riedel each had RBIs.
Mohawk falls to 5-10.
Chieftains have a good time in pro park
TOLEDO – Playing in a Triple A ballpark agreed with Hopewell-Loudon Saturday.
The Chieftains scored five runs in the fifth inning, breaking open a close game and pushing Hopewell-Loudon to a 10-2 win over Erie-Mason, a school in Michigan.
The contest took place at Fifth-Third Field, the home of the Toledo Mudhens.
Garret Sendelbach starred for the Chieftains at the plate and on the mound. He scattered three hits over six innings, allowing an unearned run and picking up the win. He also doubled in two runs and scored twice.
Logan Tyree scored twice, Eli Tooker drove in two runs for the Chieftains. Jordan Stewart singled in a run and scored.
Buckeye Central gets much-needed sweep
GREENWICH – Buckeye Central needed this.
A day after the Bucks were clubbed by Ontario, 10-0, they came back to sweep a doubleheader at South Central, 8-1 and 11-4.
Bryce Christy and Eric Wilfer each scored twice in the first game, with Grant Loy singling twice and driving in a run.
It was more than enough offense for starting pitcher Mike Blackford, who struck out eight, walked five and allowed three hits Saturday in picking up his second win of the season.
"He pitched a great game, got himself out of jams," said Buckeye Central coach Chad Jensen. "He got some big outs for us."
Anthony Shepherd took the loss on the mound for the Trojans.
In the second game, BC used a six-run third inning to distance itself from South Central. Bryce Christy and Seth Parsons led the offensive surge, each collecting two hits and driving in two runs.
Cody Roberts had three hits, driving in two for BC.
Tanner Zaebst got the win, pitching the first four innings and allowing three unearned runs. Grant Loy followed, closing out the contest with three innings of one-run relief.
Buckeye Central improved to 6-11.
The Trojans got two hits and an RBI from Chandler McCormick.
Calvert salvages split with Vanlue
Calvert had already dropped the opener of a doubleheader Saturday against Vanlue 9-6, then found itself trailing late in game two, when Vanlue broke a 1-1 tie with a run in the fifth. But the Senecas responded with two in the bottom of the frame and pulled out a 3-2 victory.
Brendan Deats, Austin Prenzlin and Austin Perry all drove in runs in the Calvert win. All three, along with Matt Iannantuono, had two-hit games.
Brian Gruss pitched Calvert to the win, scattering nine hits over seven innings.
In the opener, Calvert doubled up Vanlue in the hit category, but couldn't translate them into runs. Calvert left nine runners on base.
Derek Herzog had three hits and an RBI. Jacob Zimmerman, Jesse Gase and Sam Palm also drove in runs. All three also had two hits.
Bulldogs sweep Blue Jackets
NEW RIEGEL – Columbus Grove came out swinging during a doubleheader Saturday at New Riegel. The Bulldogs posted an 11-4 in the opener, and followed that up with a 14-4 victory.
In the opener, Brandyn Reinhart had three RBIs and Brady Hall brought in the other Blue Jacket run. Reinhart and Aaron Acree doubled in the game.
In game two, the Bulldogs opened up with four runs in the first and closed out the game with six in the fifth.
John Zoeller had two RBIs for the Blue Jackets. Hall and Austin Mathias also drove in runs.
Fostoria splits at Lucadello
FOSTORIA – Fostoria let one slip away in the first game at the Tony Lucadello Tournament, but responded in the second game to end the day with a split.
Fostoria built a 7-0 lead on North Baltimore after three innings, but saw it evaporate by the time the Redmen came to bat in the fifth.
Ten Fostoria walks played a key role in North Baltimore's 10-9 win.
Alex Jackson had three hits for Fostoria and Robbie Crotty had two.
The Redmen came back against Arcadia and opened up a 4-0 lead after the first inning. There would be no comeback this time as the lead increased to 14-2 by the end of the third and the game ending 15-5.
Casey Kitchen, Anthony Dean and Hunter Abell all homered for the Redmen with Abell's being a grand slam. Lance Smith picked up the win on the mound.
Columbian goes the distance for a win
VAN BUREN – After dropping the day's first game 10-1 to Van Buren, Columbian needed a late rally avoid a sweep. Trailing 8-5 in the top of the seventh, Columbian rallied for four, but saw the Black Knights come back to force extra innings.
The teams ended up going the distance of a pro game. Columbian put up a five-spot in the ninth and scored a 14-11 victory.
Michael Rohrbach went 3 for 5 with a double and four RBIs to pace the Tornadoes. Chandler Hoover added two base hits and three RBIs. Jeff Crawford, Taylor Warner, Bubba Miller, Aaron Sostaric, Vince Anway and Garrett Bean all picked up RBIs. Nate Hoyda picked up the win in relief.
In the opener, Columbian's lone run came in the fifth inning when Bryce Lonsway drove in Tyler Schwartz.
Tigers offense comes up big at New London
NEW LONDON – Seneca East jumped out to a lead in the first inning of each of its games Saturday, and went on to sweep New London 12-4 and 8-4.
Dan Bartley had a big day for the Tigers. In the first game he doubled, scored and drove in a run, and in the second he doubled twice, scored twice and drove in a pair.
Caudill had an excellent game one with four hits, three runs and two RBIs. He also won the first game on the mound, improving to 4-0. Mason McWilliams (4-1) won game two.
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And that was legal, too, because lawmakers also passed what is called the "Merry Christmas" bill allowing students to utter religious statements without fear of litigation.
Bee County superintendents welcome the former with reservations and expressed indifference about the other.
Gov. Rick Perry signed both bills into law during a special session.
House Bill 5 reduces the number of end-of-semester tests from 15 to five for high school students. Superintendents statewide favored a different piece of legislation, House Bill 2836, which would have lowered the testing requirements also for elementary and middle school students. Although both houses passed it, Perry vetoed it.
House Bill 5 "will allow us to maintain focus on what our teachers do best, teaching content, not necessarily being focused on the way it is tested," says Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District Superintendent, Dr. Brett Belmarez. "But I wish we could have carried the same efforts to grades three through eight, which Perry vetoed."
Still, "this was a very important bill," says Beeville Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Sue Thomas. "It's going to be a big boost for our students."
The STAAR end of semester tests, and their high failure rate, have been a statewide issue since students began taking them last year. House Bill 5 is result of a parental and school district backlash to overhaul the testing system that has created an environment where teaching for the tests overrides all other academic concerns.
An equally significant aspect of the bill, she says, is a revised graduation plan for students that nudges the focus away from the concept of every student is attending a four-year college.
The bill still requires students to take a foundation of courses, but gives them more flexibility to chose electives.
"A student who wishes to go into business as a welder or a chef can chose electives for those goals. It gives them a little leeway. Not every student needs to take calculus," she says.
"It has more of a workforce preparation in it," Belmarez says. "This not only will benefit our young people in Skidmore but all students in the state. It will help students focus on potential jobs and future careers in the oil and gas industry, too."
Neither superintendent buys the argument that the new testing rules represent a dumbing down of standards.
"Oh, there already are charges about that," Thomas says. "I'm still waiting for one of those critics to take one of those tests and see if they pass it. Kids in the fourth and fifth grade now are responsible for material that is light-years beyond what their parents got in high school."
Belmarez agrees.
"Just because you have reduced testing doesn't mean you dumb down schools. I won't agree with that statement one bit. We're going to have the same educators educating with the same vigor and the same relevance. I challenge any elected official to walk into any high school in Texas and find if anything has been dumbed down."
The new standards should take effect this fall, although Thomas warns that the Texas Education Agency has not yet distributed guidelines that reflect the testing changes.
While the new bill will affect all county high school students, superintendents privately question if the "Merry Christmas" bill will affect anything.
"I still say 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Hanukkah,'" Thomas says. "We start all our board meetings with an invocation. This has not been an issue here."
The bill, which does not alter existing law, is designed to assure school districts they may display religious scenes —such as a manger — or symbols without fear of litigation.
It also provides that students may wish each other "Merry Christmas" instead of the generic "Happy Holidays."
Belmarez's assessment of the bill?
"I think it was a convenient way to create a distraction away from the education bill Perry vetoed. I have to tip my hat to the distraction it created. The bill concerns issues that were not significant to the issues we were tackling this year."
His ambivalence is echoed both by the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission in Austin and watchdog agencies in Washington.
"The issue was not one we had on our radar," says Steve Reeves, the director of public policy for the commission.
"There just didn't seem to be a lot of policy 'meat' there."
Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, says the Merry Christmas bill is more about politics than protection.
Noting that many of the concerns in the bill already are allowed, Walker says "It's a political procedure to solve problems that don't exist. I'm at a loss to see what is critical other than doing something that is politically popular."
That the bill is without substance is the opinion of the Washington-based Americans United for the Separation of Church and State Executive Director Barry Lynn.
"What the governor of Texas thinks the law is," he says, "does not mean the law is that way. Laws that are written like this tend to be difficult to challenge on their face but easy to challenge in multiple ways when they are applied in individual cases."
Under existing law, he says, students already had permission to say "Merry Christmas" and schools are allowed to display manger scenes, as long as the activities are not proselytizing or can be construed as official endorsement of a religion.
"These are 'feel good' bills," Lynn says. "I'm sure the governor feels good about it, but if he thinks this ends the controversy or ends the discussion, he is whistling past a legal graveyard."
Still, the Rev. Larry McRorey, Beeville United Methodist Church pastor, sees a positive side to it.
"The bill is promoting discussion. Any time we can bring religion of God into the public arena, we all benefit. We're a Christian nation — even if we don't act like it."
Bill Clough is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 122, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bizarre incident at McDonald's drive-thru leads to woman being charged
MARTINSBURG – A bizarre incident at a McDonald's drive-thru in Martinsburg involving a bare-breasted woman and caramel led to the woman being arraigned Friday on warrants charging her with indecent exposure and providing false information to a police officer.
Sarah Lee Linaburg, 32, of Evans Run Drive, Martinsburg, was later released from custody after posting $6,000 bail.
According to court records, at about 12:06 a.m. April 27, the West Virginia State Police responded to the McDonald's on Apple Harvest Drive after an employee of the fast food restaurant called 911 and asked to speak with law enforcement about an incident that occurred at the drive-thru window.
The employee told police that while working at the drive-thru window, a man driving a purple Chrysler 300 pulled up to the window and ordered food.
After paying for the food, the man asked the employee for an extra cup of caramel for his coffee. When she handed the driver a cup of caramel, a woman in the vehicle's passenger seat took her shirt off while the driver put the caramel on her chest, records show.
The driver allegedly licked the caramel off her before driving away, records show.
The employee provided police with the vehicle's license plate number, and a trooper reviewed surveillance video footage of the drive-thru. Police couldn't identify the driver and the surveillance video footage didn't capture what occurred in the vehicle, records show.
The address listed on the vehicle's registration was traced back to Linaburg's home.
The next morning, troopers saw a purple Chrysler 300 in the driveway of the residence. The license plate number matched the one provided to police by the McDonald's employee, records show.
Linaburg told police the car was hers, but claimed she was at home sleeping when the alleged incident occurred. Police obtained a picture of her and returned to the McDonald's, where the employee who reported the incident identified the woman in the photo as the same woman she saw at the drive-thru window the previous night.
– Staff writer Edward Marshall can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 182.


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The military murder trial of Airman Basic Edward M. Novak for the October 2004 death of his wife is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. Monday at the Cannon Air Force Base courthouse.
Kimberly S. Novak, 20, was found dead Oct. 28, 2004, in the military housing unit the couple shared on base at Cannon. Military officials said she died of blunt force trauma to the head and neck.
Novak has been held in confinement at Cannon since he was charged March 21, 2006.
He could face life in prison if convicted.
A member of the 712th Maintenance Squadron Provisional, Novak was charged with pre-meditated murder under Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
A pre-trial investigation held under Article 32 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice concluded there was sufficient cause to believe a crime was committed.
Defense attorneys alleged Kimberly Novak may have been the mistaken target of retaliation against a witness in an unrelated homicide trial during an earlier evidence hearing.
Novak is serving a two-year, five-month sentence for child neglect and received a bad conduct discharge from the military.


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VSEA's reinstated director charts new courseBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | July 28,2013
MitchellMONTPELIER In his first interview since being reinstated as director of the Vermont State Employees Association, embattled union head Mark Mitchell says hes eager to continue steering the 5,000-member organization in a new direction.
Mitchell lost his post in late June when undisclosed allegations leveled by two VSEA staff members prompted the board of trustees to terminate his contract. That decision came after an hours-long executive session Mitchell was barred from attending.
The move elicited sharp criticism from union members. Days later, the board revoked its termination and placed Mitchell on paid administrative leave pending an internal probe.
Last week, the same board that voted to oust the VSEA director welcomed him back, and announced that the two staff attorneys who led the charge against Mitchell were leaving the organization.
Theres a vigorous debate going on within our union about the best approach to achieve the results our members are asking us to work with them toward, Mitchell said in an interview Friday at VSEA headquarters in Montpelier. I think what happened over the past few weeks is the result of that.
Mitchell said the trustees asked him not to discuss either the allegations against him or the particulars of their resolution. VSEA President John Reese wasnt available for comment Friday or Saturday.
Mitchell, however, said the episode wont affect his ability to deliver on an agenda that aims to broaden the reach and power of the states second-largest union.
Mitchell said the union had atrophied in recent years as membership plummeted from a peak of 7,000 in 2007, a decline hastened by layoffs under the administration of Gov. James Douglas. As a result, Mitchell said, the union narrowed its focus and turned its attention away from the kinds of workplace issues for which it was originally designed.
What the VSEA became was a shop that was able to deliver on individual representation of folks that were individually in trouble for one reason or another, or under investigation by their managers, Mitchell said.
But if there was an issue of I didnt get a promotion, my boss isnt being fair, its too cold in the office, we dont have enough space to spread out our maps to do our job the union did not generally have the capacity to address those kinds of issues that werent specifically about a worker being threatened with their job, he said.
That culture has begun to change, as evidenced recently by Agency of Education employees who went public with their criticism of a move to Barre after management, according to Mitchell, failed to involve rank-and-file workers in the decision-making process.
He credited the unions newly enhanced presence in the workplace with emboldening and empowering employees who previously might not have felt comfortable raising their voices.
Under my direction and the direction of President John Reese, this union is to be member-led and it is to encourage and foster member involvement, Mitchell said. That takes a different kind of work, a different kind of approach to working with members, and I would say a different perspective on union work than what was here before.
The activist organizing model he brings Mitchell worked with the California Nurses Association prior to coming to the VSEA in late 2011 isnt for everyone, as he said he warned people when he arrived here.
I told the elected leaders of the VSEA that staff is going to step up and participate in this or theyre going to decide that its not for them and move on to something else, Mitchell said. Its a new standard of internal behavior, and some people are going to be comfortable with that and some people arent.
Mitchells departing accusers, attorneys Abigail Winters and Michael Casey, are leaving voluntarily and amicably, according to a short press release from the board last week announcing Mitchells reinstatement.
Mitchell said he doesnt anticipate that any other VSEA staff will be leaving. But a series of contested elections for positions on the 17-member board of trustees could result in turnover in the unions governing body.
Mitchell said he doesnt think internal strife at the union has compromised its seat at the negotiating table, where the VSEAs seven units are in the midst of contract talks with the Shumlin administration.
I think we have an administration that is going to listen very carefully to what our members are proposing, and we expect there to be an agreement in relatively short order, Mitchell said.
Once thats accomplished, he said, hell begin working to swell ranks. The proposed budget to members this September will include a healthy allocation for external organizing courting new members.
In addition to ongoing efforts to enroll deputy states attorneys and sheriffs support staff, Mitchell said hell target the fields of mental health and higher education.
Vermont issues tens of millions of dollars in contracts annually to nonprofit agencies that administer taxpayer-funded programs on behalf of the state. Mitchell said much of that work was formerly performed by state employees.
Over the years hundreds of jobs have been contracted out at substandard wages with no benefits and no retirement security, Mitchell said. So those are workers (to whom) we could bring an immediate benefit, giving them at least a voice at the table and a voice at the Statehouse to make sure those contracts being entered into by state of Vermont more respectfully recognize the work they are doing.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER A new report from a commission that studied the cost, availability and quality of... Full StoryVermont fish hatchery changes focus, looks inland
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An official in Beloit says about 65 have been quarantined after a suspicious envelope was delivered to a health clinic and at least 11 will be taken to a hospital.
Beth Jacobson is the assistant to the city manager of Beloit. She says a man hand-delivered an envelope containing powder to the Beloit Area Community Health Center on Wednesday morning. Employees called 911 after three people who handled the envelope experienced burning and discomfort in their eyes and noses.
Jacobson says a hazardous material team quarantined 60 to 65 patients and employees. Eleven people are being decontaminated on scene and will be transported to a hospital.
Jacobson says the state's 54th Civil Support Team will test the substance.
Authorities are trying to identify the man who delivered the envelope.


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The NBA announced Wednesday that the regular season will tip off Oct. 28 with the defending champion San Antonio Spurs playing host to the Dallas Mavericks. The other opening night game on TNT is the Los Angeles Lakers taking on the Houston Rockets.
James' first game in his return to the Cavaliers after four years and two titles with the Heat will be at home on Oct. 30 against the New York Knicks. The Oklahoma City Thunder face the Los Angeles Clippers in the TNT nightcap.
The Cavs and Spurs meet in Cleveland on Nov. 19 and in San Antonio on March 12.
The league schedule includes an extended weeklong All-Star break that will allow players who participate in the festivities a chance for a few days of rest.
The anticipated return of guard Derrick Rose from his second serious knee injury to the Chicago Bulls is scheduled for Oct. 29 in a game against the Knicks in New York.
Christmas Day games begin at noon ET on ESPN when the Knicks square off against the Washington Wizards at Madison Square Garden. The Spurs host the Thunder in a rematch of the 2014 Western Conference Finals, followed by the Cavaliers against the Heat, the Lakers taking on the Chicago Bulls and former Lakers center Pau Gasol, and the Golden State Warriors going up against the Clippers in Los Angeles.
ESPN will televise a Nov. 11 game between the Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves in Mexico City.


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April 10, 2013 —
There are various reasons a child may wind up in the Sullivan County Foster Care System. For instance, a parent may be incarcerated, or the child may have delinquency issues. Whatever the reason, when a child enters the system, he or she must sometimes be housed out of the county.
During a wide-ranging discussion at the government center on April 4, Randy Parker, the commissioner of the Division of Health and Family Services, told lawmakers, "The object is, and this is nationally and statewide, that all the regulations, rules, requirements are to maintain that child in their own home with their mom or dad. When the office or the court deems that is no longer safe, you are then obligated, regulated, mandated to look at the least restrictive, most family-like setting."
There are various levels of foster care, with graduated degrees of restriction and cost, generally with the more restrictive being the more costly. The least restrictive is a foster care home in the county, and the most restrictive is called a secure residential facility. A bit of controversy arose several months ago when Parker began to "step down" children from more highly restrictive facilities to less restrictive ones, which in some cases meant moving the child from one facility to another.
There are about 77 children currently in the system. Parker said, "We have more than half of our population in something other than the least restrictive, most family-like setting, so we have kids all over the state at very high levels of care. On 44 kids, we were spending $5 million, on the remainder of the kids we are spending $220,000 with our local foster homes, which we've not given an increase to in five years."
Material prepared for the presentation said it is detrimental for children to have extended placement in the more restrictive residential facilities, which can lead to "long-term negative effects." Parker said the county has a desperate need for more foster care homes.
Parker reported he and the deputy commissioner have communicated with some of the facilities and said, "The first step is to get the kids out of the residential facilities, step them down to group homes and therapeutic foster homes with the goal of, by the end of the school year, having them back at home in Sullivan County, or in a foster home in Sullivan County."
Another concern that had been brought forward by Sandy Shaddock, business agent for Teamsters Local 445, which represents many county employees, was that Parker had not renewed contracts with many of the facilities that had previously provided foster care residency.
Parker explained that in going over the contracts, it was discovered that 21 of them had not been utilized in the past three years, and that continuing the contracts led to a lot of administrative work in an office that previously had five employees, but because of cutbacks now has only one employee. He noted that should the need arise, he has the authority to renew any of the contracts if necessary.
Legislator Cindy Gieger said that made "perfect sense."
Legislator Jonathan Rouis said he is in favor of saving money whenever possible, but in this case it should be done with "an abundance of caution." He said, "I don't ever want it to be the position… that we placed somebody, in an effort to save money, in the wrong setting, and didn't provide" the necessary resources to the department for the proper placement.


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I am posting here to actually help my best friend. Being a mom of twins and having breastfed them, I know it can be very frustrating but I told here someone has to have an idea on what to do. So here I am.
My friend just had baby #4 (last week)and has BF alll her children but this one is the most challenging. Her little girl was born with Downs Syndrome. She is still in the hospital and is having some latching issues. So my friend is pumping every 2 hrs when she is away from her but she only gets 1oz on each side. She said she isn't having any let down at all. She isn't engorged yet but her breast are very full. She has had probelms before with no let down but it would resolve on its own eventually. But she never had to pump either and her other kids were healthy.
She has spoken to a # of Lactation Consultants and nobody seems to know what to do. SHe has tried all the relaxing things, heat, massage, etc and it doesn't help. She is so upset (which doesn't help) more so about the let down then the DS itself. I just want to help anyway I can and since she is so busy I thought I would try here. I also emailed our local LLL but I haven't recieved anything back yet.
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GU's Gonzales named best pitcher
Gonzaga University junior-to-be Marco Gonzales, benched while suffering through a horrendous 1-for-17 hitting slump in non-exhibition games, showed there's nothing wrong with his left arm as he pitched the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team to the bronze medal of Honkbal Week Sunday, earning Best Pitcher honors for the tourney.
He went eight innings, allowed six hits, one earned run, walked none and struck out nine as the CNT downed the host The Netherlands 4-3 to finish third. Cuba downed Puerto Rico 4-2 for the Honkbal Week. Honkbal is Dutch for baseball.
Gonzales picked up his second win in the tournament, downing Japan 4-1 in the CNT's first game of the event, going seven innings and striking out 10. The native of Fort Collins, Colo., posted a 1.20 ERA, led the tournament in strikeouts with 19, tied for the tourney lead with 15.0 innings pitched, was one of four pitchers to win two games and walked just two batters.
The Netherlands jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the top of the third. Shaldimar Daantji doubled and scored on Michael Duursma single. Gonzales retired 16 of the next 17 batters, and the one batter to reach base via a leadoff single in the fifth was picked off second after advancing on an infield grounder. It was Gonzales' second pickoff in the tournament.
The CNT scored once in the fifth, twice in the sixth and once in the seventh to build a 3-1 lead. The Netherlands scored twice in the ninth off a pair of CNT relievers.
The tournament concluded play for the CNT this summer. Gonzales went 3-0 on the mound in four appearances with a 2.82 ERA. He had a six-inning no decision in a game against Cuba in Havana prior to departing for The Netherlands. He fanned 29 and walked just five in 22.1 innings.
At the plate was a different story for the first baseman, who was 6-for-11 prior to heading for Cuba. He went 1-for-17 over an eight-game span to finish 7-for-28 in non-exhibition games for a .250 average with a double and four RBI.
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Participation in Adult Education [United States]: Demographics for May 1969 and May 1972 (ICPSR 2288)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
This survey collected information on participants and nonparticipants in adult and continuing education activities throughout the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Conducted by the Bureau of the Census as part of the May 1969 and May 1972 Current Population Surveys (ICPSR 7935 and 7996), the adult education survey collected information on the respondent's age, race, sex, regular years of school completed, family income, work experience, occupation, veteran status, marital status, relationship to head of household, number of children in household, and geographic and urban/rural nature of area of residence. The socioeconomic and demographic information can be linked to data on adult education activities in PARTICIPATION IN ADULT EDUCATION, 1969: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 2287) and PARTICIPATION IN ADULT EDUCATION, 1972: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 2289).
Series: Adult Education Surveys Series
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United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. Participation in Adult Education [United States]: Demographics for May 1969 and May 1972. ICPSR02288-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02288.v2
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