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Dodger Pitchers and Catchers and then some have reported!
Happy New Season everyone! Pitchers and Catchers have reported!! Woohoo!!!
Now is a new count! 11 day and 20 hours before the first Spring Training game!
Yesterday I was going to go to MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton but I got sick😦. Southern University (Baton Rouge, La) was playing against my sister college Cal State Northridge. And in the second game Bethune-Cookman University was playing against UCLA. Anyone catch the games on MLB Network?
Rod Carew, Don Newcombe and Frank Robinson threw out the first pitches.
Today it will be
1 p.m.: Cal State Northridge vs. UCLA
2 p.m.: Southern University vs. Bethune-Cookman
Yesterday it was a beautiful day and today is still a beautiful day after rains last night and this morning.
Here is a picture from Jon Soo Hoo. His caption: What awaits the Dodgers at the end of the rainbow this season?
Here is another pic: "Catchers and Catchers reporting" Russell Martin and Brad Ausmus are looking good!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!
Thank you Jon! You are the best!!
So this transplanted Red Sox fan at work wanted to bet me that Manny will show up late to Spring Training. Guess what? He is already reported so come Monday I will collect on the bet!!
The pitcher that is late reporting is Ron Belisario as he again has trouble with his visa.
Happy P&C Day! Happy Sunday!
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Spring Training and Visa problems…they go hand in hand LOL!!
Feel Better!!!
Don Newcombe is still stylish…ain't he?
Congrats on your big day, Emma. I know you must be excited. And I'm glad Manny showed up so you can collect on your bet (plus maybe it means he'll have a good season).
Isn't that the truth! For Belly is the second year in a row. His DUI does not help.
And Mike, Don Newcombe is always stylish!
Yeah, I sure hope that Manny has a gooooood season.
Thanks, for the comment, Emma. I hope you really do get to collect on that bet!
My buddy that is carpooling with me to Spring Training is a Dodgers fan, too, so we're going to Camelback Ranch. Since you've been there, do you know if you can access the berm/lawn area with any ticket? We have infield seats but I want to at least go back there and check it out. Also, what's the schedule like for a one o'clock game? BP first? Workout first then BP after the game? THANKS!
Yes, you can walk all around including the berm area. You know we get breakfast and head there about 8 AM and there are people in there already. Remember the Dodgers and White Sox share the facility. I like getting there as early a possible and head to where the minor leaguers are playing. You might want to check my posts from back in March last year.
Is it just me or are more folks arriving early this year? I think there's a great sense of unfinished business from last year maybe and it's getting folks out to Arizona even earlier than they usually would.
The bet about Manny is a funny one. For a man so integral to Boston's only 2 world championships in the last 90 years it's strange that the fans have soured so much on him.
What did Manny do in those 6 playoff series in 2004 and 2007? Oh, he just went 37 for 96 (0.385 AVG) with 29 RBI in 28 games. That's all. What a bum…
I guess the same can be said about Jeff Kent though he couldn't quite get the Giants a championship. The way fans booed him was terrible considering they would have kissed their trip to the World Series goodbye without Kent's MVP caliber season.
I noticed the same that more players other P&C are reporting early. Our outfield is complete at Camelback! Is like they can't wait to show up or they fell they have a lot ot prove.
I was not the one that suggested the bet. It was the guy. He sits infront of me. He sent me the following IM after I showed him a picture of Manny at Camelback "you win, dam it, why isnt manny being manny." LOL! Yeah, he sure performed for Boston!
That is right Aducker, The Giants would not have so close to having a championship without Kent there. I think if he did not become a Dodger then they would not have been so hard on him. But we like the Giants empty throphy case!


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NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE PLEASANT GROVE CITY COUNCIL Notice is hereby given that the Pleasant Grove City Council will hold a regular meeting at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 in City Council Chambers, 86 East 100 South, Pleasant Grove, Utah. This is a public meeting and anyone interested is invited to attend and comment. AMENDED AGENDA 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. OPENING REMARKS 4. APPROVAL OF MEETING'S AGENDA 5. CONSENT ITEMS: (Consent items are only those which have been discussed beforehand, are non-controversial and do not require further discussion) a. City Council and Work Session Minutes: City Council Minutes for April 2, 2013 b. To consider for approval paid vouchers for (April 23, 2013) 6. OPEN SESSION 7. BUSINESS: a. The Utah Mothers Association of the American Mothers, Inc. to recognize Jill Bigelow, Melissa Finch and 5th Grade Essay winner Ricky Fassbinder for their outstanding achievements. Presenter: Deanne Taylor, Utah Mothers Association Chair b. Introduction of new employees. c. Continued Public Hearing to consider for adoption of the proposed Parks & Recreation Impact Fee Facilities Plans, Ordinance (3013-11) containing proposed revisions to Pleasant Grove City Code regarding Impact Fees, and updates to the affected impact fees charged by Pleasant Grove City; and providing for an effective date. (Continued from the April 16, 2013 meeting.) Presenter: Director Lundell d. Public Hearing to consider for adoption an Ordinance (2013-12) the request of Scott Bishop to rezone a portion of Lot 7 in the Canyon Brook Subdivision from an RR (Rural Residential) Zone to R1-20 (Single Family Residential) Zone located at approx. 359 West 2900 North (MANILA NEIGHBORHOOD) Presenter: Director Young e. To consider the request of Three S LLC for a 4-lot final plat called Walker Landing located at approx. 140 South 600 East in an R1-7 (Single Family Residential) Zone. (OLD FORT NEIGHBORHOOD) Presenter: Director Young f. To consider for adoption an Ordinance (2013-13) amending Title 1 Chapter 7A Subsection 3B "Filing for Elective Office and Filing Fees" of the Pleasant Grove Municipal Code to provide for amended filing dates pursuant to recent changes in the election laws of the State of Utah and providing for an effective date. Presenter: Attorney Petersen g. To consider for adoption an Ordinance (2013-14) enacting temporary zoning regulations regulating the approval of new subdivision plans in a specified area of the Grove Zone, Interchange District for specified land uses; prohibiting the approval of new project plans for land uses that do not further the purpose and objectives of the District, specifically, prohibiting new projects proposing only commercial office as a sole use or a primary use and limiting new projects to those incorporating a mix of commercial office with commercial retail land uses and providing for an effective date. h. To consider for adoption a Resolution (2013-012) tentatively adopting the Pleasant Grove City budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2014, which includes the Pleasant Grove Redevelopment Agency tentative Budget; and providing for an effective date. Presenter: Finance Director Dean Lundell i. To consider for adoption a Resolution (2013-013) authorizing the Mayor to sign a ground lease agreement with Barnard PG, LLC, providing for a five year lease of five acres of real property owned by Pleasant Grove City and providing for an effective date. Presenter: Administrator Darrington j. To consider for adoption a Resolution (2013-014) authorizing the Mayor to sign an amendment to the site lease agreement with T-Mobile West LLC, to extend the option period for the lease of real property to construct a wireless communication tower and providing for an effective date. Presenter: Attorney Petersen k. To consider for adoption a Resolution (2013-015) authorizing the Pleasant Grove City Parks and Recreation Department Director to submit application for the 2013 Utah County Commission Municipal Recreation Grant for improvements to be made to recreational facilities throughout the City; and providing for an effective date. Presenter: Director Giles l. Discussion on the penalty for violating the pressurized irrigation ordinance and possible ordinance amendment increasing the penalty fee. Presenter: Administrator Darrington m. Discussion on Memorandum of Understanding regarding contracting dispatch services. Presenter: Scott Darrington n. Presentation of the proposed Pleasant Grove Parks and Recreation Master Plan. Presenter: Director Young 8. NEIGHBORHOOD AND STAFF BUSINESS 9. MAYOR AND COUNCIL BUSINESS 10. SIGNING OF PLATS: 11. REVIEW CALENDAR 12. 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Disapprove!August 04,2014According to the latest Gallup poll, 80 percent of Americans disapprove of the performance of Congress, which has just embarked upon a five-week recess. Fifteen percent of Americans approve of Congress performance, according to Gallup, while 5 percent have no opinion on the matter.
When only 15 percent of the people think youre doing your job representing them in Washington, walking away from that job for a month cant make things worse, can it?
But its not like there are no important issues on Washingtons agenda for those few weeks.
To cite just two, there is the controversial immigration crisis on our southern border, and there are real fears that the nations infrastructure roads, bridges and underground pipes of various kinds may be in danger of crumbling.
But to some on Capitol Hill, resolving these issues appears to be of far less importance than punishing President Barack Obama for his penchant for issuing executive orders, a tactic he resorts to with sufficient frequency to enrage his critics.
I take executive action only when we have a serious problem, a serious issue, and Congress chooses to do nothing, the president explained at the end of June. America cannot wait forever for them to act.
Therefore, Obama continued, Im beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress.
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There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action, the GOP leadership declared, to secure our borders and ensure these children are returned swiftly and safely to their countries.
This was said even though many House Republicans are predisposed to portray this president a Democrat as a power-grabber who is dangerously indifferent to the provisions of the Constitution.
Their evidence: Obama has issued 182 executive orders since moving into the Oval Office six years ago. Thats proof, the more vocal Republicans would have us believe, that this president is virtually out of control.
The problem for Obamas critics, however, is that they havent done their homework.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs mismanages its program for rating disabled veterans as "unemployable," according to a new report by congressional auditors.
Because of weak oversight of Individual Unemployability (IU) benefits, some veterans get more compensation than warranted, and the VA is ineffective in moving seriously disabled veterans toward productive working lives, the Government Accountability Office has found.
Overall, the process VA uses to determine whether veterans are unemployable lacks integrity, GAO decided after 15 months of study. Its May 30 report says VA criteria, guidance and procedures for awarding such benefits "do not ensure that IU decisions are well supported."
The number of disabled veterans rated IU and the cost of their benefits have risen sharply in recent years. From fiscal 1996 through 2005, veterans rated unemployable tripled from 71,000 to 220,000. In the same period, IU payments jumped from $857 million a year to $3.1 billion.
The "marked increase" is troublesome, GAO suggests, because it has occurred "at a time when advances in medicine and technology, along with labor market changes, have provided greater opportunity for people with disabilities to seek and maintain employment."
The 54-page report has been much anticipated by members of the Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission, which is conducting the first major review of veterans' disability benefits in 50 years. The commission, which will deliver a final report to Congress by October 2007, has listed among its priorities a finding on whether IU benefits need reform.
Veterans with injuries or ailments tied to time in service can receive tax-free VA compensation. Amounts vary based on the severity of disabilities, which are rated on a scale of 0 to 100 percent in increments of 10.
Veterans rated 60 to 90 percent disabled still can qualify for compensation at the 100 percent level if they are deemed to be unemployable and therefore qualify for the IU designation.
Almost half of all veterans with 60 to 90 percent currently receive the IU benefits. It means a significant pop in payments. Based on VA disability compensation rates effective for most of 2006, 100-percent disabled veterans and those with the IU designations who with no dependents draw $2,393 a month. By contrast, veterans rated 60 percent receive $873 a month and the scale slides to $1,436 a month for 90 percent disabled.
So a 60-percent disabled veterans designated IU will receive an additional $18,240 a year. The disparity widens even more if veterans have spouses or dependent children.
GAO estimates the added lifetime value of IU designation for a 20-year-old, 60-percent disabled veteran is more than $460,000, in 2005 dollars. If a veteran doesn't gain IU status until age 75, says GAO, the lifetime compensation still would jump by $89,000 to $142,000, depending on disability rating and life expectancy.
Why the spike in IU determinations? Appearing before the benefits commission last year, VA officials blamed a 1999 decision to stop requiring IU veterans to complete a form each year to verify that they remain unemployed or earning incomes below the poverty level. VA began asking IU veterans to complete the forms again last September.
One senior VA official also told the commission that awarding IU status was a way for rating specialists to help clear a rising backlog of claims.
The GAO report, however, points to more systemic problems with how IU benefits are administered. It suggests the VA is less conscientious than either the Social Security Administration or private sector disability plans in monitoring employability and encouraging beneficiaries to return to work.
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NIH Director Francis Collins doesn't understand the problem with CAM
As the sole cancer surgeon among our stable of Science-Based Medicine (SBM) bloggers, I'm probably the most irritated at the infiltration of pseudoscience into academia (or, as we sometimes like to call it, quackademic medicine) in the realm of cancer. Part of the reason, of course, is that cancer is so common and that the consequences of adding pseudoscience to cancer therapy are among the most devastating. Witness, for instance, the use of Gonzalez therapy to treat pancreatic cancer, a form of quackery that harms patients and resulted in incredibly unethical and disastrous clinical trial of Gonzalez quackery versus chemotherapy whose results were entirely predictable, given the lack of prior plausibility of the treatment: Gonzalez protocol patients did worse, with no evidence that the therapy impacted the natural history of the disease and the Gonzalez patients scoring lower on quality of life measures. Or look at what happens when patients with breast cancer choose quackery over science-based therapy.
I realize that "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) or, what quackademics like to call it now, "integrative medicine" (IM) is meant to refer to "integrating" alternative therapies into SBM or "complementing" SBM with a touch of the ol' woo, but I could never manage to understand how "integrating" quackery with SBM would do anything but weaken the scientific foundation of medicine. Moreover, weakening those foundations would have more consequences than just "humanizing" medicine; weaker scientific standards would allow not just ancient quackery like traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into academia, but it would also provide an opening for drug and device companies to promote their wares under less rigorous requirements for evidence. There's also perhaps a touch of personal embarrassment involved. After all, oncology and cancer surgery tend to be specialties that are the most steeped in science. If I had to rank specialties for how science-based they are, I'd certainly put oncology near the top, which is why I tend to come down so hard on "integrative oncology" and, even worse, "naturopathic oncology."
Consequently, I was doubly disturbed several months ago when I learned that the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, had agreed to be the keynote speaker at the Eight International Society for Integrative Oncology Conference in Cleveland, OH. I say "doubly" disturbed because it disturbed me that Francis Collins would agree to speak at such a function and, perhaps even more, because the host institution was Case Western Reserve University, the institution where I both completed my surgery residency and my PhD in Physiology and Biophysics. Sadly, it now appears that my old stomping grounds at University Hospitals has been thoroughly infiltrated with quackademic medicine, as evidenced by this clinical trial of reiki for psoriasis that's making the rounds of news services and the offering of acupuncture, reiki, and even reflexology at various UH facilities through the University Hospitals Connor Integrative Medicine Network. Let me tell you, there was none of this pseudoscience going on when I finished my residency there in 1996. Seeing it there now provokes a reaction in me not unlike Sylvester Junior's reaction when his father Sylvester embarrasses him, particularly when I noted that the director of the CWRU Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Stanton L. Gerson, was to give one of the keynote talks, entitled, "The Future of Integrative Oncology." (Hint for those of you not familiar with classic Looney Tunes cartoons: A paper bag is involved.) I guess that by expressing my extreme disappointment and embarrassment that the institution where I learned to become a surgeon has during the last 15 years gone woo, I've probably just killed any opportunity I might have to work at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center ever again. Oh, well, add it to the list, along with Beth Israel and my alma mater the University of Michigan.)
Back when I first learned about it, I thought about blogging the meeting, but without much concrete to go on, given the copious other SBM-related topics to blog about, all I could do was to write a critical open letter to Dr. Collins about his decision to accept the offer to be the keynote speaker at the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO). Then yesterday I saw popping up in my e-mail a notice from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), along with a link to a story in its publication The ASCO Post entitled NIH Director Calls for Rigorous Evaluation of Integrative Medicine to Provide Evidence of Efficacy.
Et tu, Dr. Collins?


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- Heat and mass transfer at high speed filtration in porous media and packed beds
- Author(s)
- Gorin, A.
- Abstract
- Packed beds composed of spherical balls are used for the study of transfer processes in porous media at turbulent filtration. The paper summarizes the development of a physical modelling of transfer processes in packed beds. It is shown that the available quantitative measurements of structural characteristics of infiltrated flow in packed beds such as the near-wall zone velocity and temperature profiles and velocity pulsation spectra follow the similarity laws of turbulent separated flows that have been developed by the author and are represented in the first part of the paper. These facts supported by visual observations of flow patterns in packed beds from various authors allow implementing the analogy between transfer processes mechanism in turbulent separated flows and convective transfer processes in near-wall zone of surfaces embedded in grainy layers, or ducts filled with packed bed, at high Reynolds numbers. This approach has resulted in the asymptotic heat and mass transfer law. The universal character of the heat and mass transfer law for the surfaces embedded in grainy layer is confirmed by the author's data and data from many other studies.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Sarawak Campus. School of Engineering, Computing and Science
- Source
- Defect and Diffusion Forum: Recent Advances in Mass Transport in Materials, Vol. 322 (Mar 2012), pp. 195-210
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0204 Condensed Matter Physics; 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural); 0912 Materials Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Heat and mass transfer; Packed beds; Porous media; Turbulent filtration; Turbulent separated flows
- Publisher
- Trans Tech Publications
- 1012-0386
- 9783037853856, 3037853859
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- Copyright © (2012) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
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|Cliff Warner
|Altoona, Iowa
2011-12�started all 35 games for the Defenders and averaged 31.5 minutes per game�scored 13.4 points per game and handed out 4.3 assist per game�converted 90-191 three-point shots for 47.1 percent success�had a season high 31 points against Morningside on January 25�handed out a career high 13 assists against Concordia on January 7�named first team all-GPAC�earned honorable mention All-American honors from the NAIA�named to the 2012 NAIA Division II National Tournament All-Tournament team�led the Defenders in scoring 10 times.
2010-2011�started 19 games for the Defenders after transferring in at the semester break�scored 11.6 points and dished off over four assists per game with 2.5 rebounds�earned all-GPAC second team honors� score in double figures 12 times�had a season high 22 points in an overtime win over Hastings February 12�assisted on a season high 12 baskets in a win over Doane on February 19�
Pre-Dordt�was a three-year starter at Pella Christian High School in Pella, Iowa, where he helped the Eagles to state tournament berths in 2008 and 2009. Pella Christian was the state runner-up in Class 2A in 2009�averaged 20 points, 3.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 2.9 steals per game while earning all-state and all-conference honors during his senior season�was a two-time all-tournament selection at the Iowa High School State Tournament�averaged 15.4 points and 5.8 assists per game while converting 37 percent of his three-point tries throughout his career.. was red-shirted at the University of South Dakota for the 2009-2010 season as the Coyotes went 22-10 and appeared in one game in the first semester of the 2010-2011 season before transferring.
|Dustin Douma
|Sioux Center, Iowa
2011-12�played in six varsity games�averaged 6.7 points per game for the Dordt junior varsity.
Pre-Dordt�scored 9.4 points per game and made 36 percent of his three-point shots as a senior at Western Christian�handed out 2.8 assists and had 1.8 steals per game while earning all-Lakes Conference honors�averaged 10.7 points per game while handing out 35 assists as a junior and helped Western Christian to a Iowa High School State Tournament title� converted 67-153 three-point attempts for 43.8 percent success�played in two consecutive state title games in 2010 and 2011.
|Nathan Rindels
|Boulder, Colorado
Pre-Dordt� Rindels averaged 20.3 points per game last year with 4.5 assists, 6.8 rebounds and 2.1 steals while helping Faith Christian (Colorado) to a fifth straight state title�earned first team all state honors twice.
|Austin Katje
|Orange City, Iowa
2011-12� played in 32 games and averaged 27 minutes a game�averaged 9.9 points per game�converted 60-160 three-point attempts for 37.5 percent success�earned all-GPAC honorable mention�had a season high 16 points against Briar Cliff on December 17.
2010-2011�only player on the Dordt roster to start all 31 games for the Defenders�earned all-GPAC honorable mention as a freshman�converted 11.2 points per game while grabbing 4.0 rebounds�made 65-162 three-point attempts for 40.1 percent success�scored double figures 18 times�had a season high 21 points on three different occasions�handed off five assists in a win over William Penn on November 23�grabbed nine rebounds in an overtime win over Sioux Falls on February 9�
Pre-Dordt� averaged 15.8 points per game for Unity Christian High School (Iowa) with 7.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game�.converted 36.5 percent of his three-point tries�was named most valuable player at the Iowa Goalsetter�s All-Star Game�earned all-conference and all-district honors in 2009 and 2010�averaged 16.4 points per game with six rebounds and two assists during his junior season and he averaged 13 points per game as a sophomore.
|Shawn Keizer
|Sioux Center, Iowa
2011-12�played 16 minutes per game in all 35 games�converted 37.9 percent of his three-point shots�averaged 3.7 points per game�was named the A. O. Duer Award winner by the NAIA in June�named NAIA Scholar Athlete.
2010-2011�one of five players to appear in all 31 games for the Defenders�made 42 percent of his three-point tries and averaged 4.9 points per game with 2.2 rebounds�went for 19 points in a road win over Hastings on January 22�
2009-2010�played in 30 games for the Defenders, starting 29 and averaged 8.7 points per game while converting 46-123 three-pointers and grabbing an average of 3.6 rebounds per game�had a season high 28 points against Valley City State and dished out seven assists against Doane on February 20�
Pre-Dordt�Keizer helped Western to a Class 2A Iowa High School State Tournament Championship in 2008 and a third place finish in the 2009 tournament. He averaged 17.9 points per game as a senior with 6.2 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 1.3 steals per game. He knocked down 15.2 points per game as a junior while grabbing 6.5 rebounds and averaging 4.5 assists and 1.1 steals. Western was a combined 51-5 in the two years Keizer was with the Wolfpack. Keizer had 1,323 career points, 557 rebounds and 373 assists. Keizer was named First-Team All-State by the Iowa Newspaper Association in 2009 and was a Second-Team pick in 2008. He also claimed Second-Team All-State honors from the Des Moines Register this season and was a two-time All-Northwest Iowa pick by the Sioux City Journal. He was named All-District and All-Lakes Conference twice and was included on the All-Northwest Iowa Review First-Team as a senior after taking second team honors in 2008.
|Trevor Wolterstorff
|Sioux Center, Iowa
2011-12�started all 35 games�averaged 31 minutes per game and led the team in scoring with a 14.9 points per game average�grabbed 5.2 rebounds per contest and converted 59 percent of his field goal attempts�had a career high 42 points against Trinity Christian on November 12 and grabbed a season high ten rebounds in a National Tournament win over Cal-Maritime on March 7�led the team in scoring in 10 games and in rebounds eight times�earned NAIA second team All-American honors�finalist for the Emil Liston NAIA award�was on the post-season first team All-GPAC squad�ranks 6th all-time in scoring at Dordt with 1459 points and is 18th in rebounding with 519�named NAIA Scholar-Athlete.
2010-2011�played in and started 29 games�converted 52.5 percent of his field goal tries with 16.0 points per game and 5.3 rebounds�assisted on a little over two baskets per game�earned all-GPAC first team honors and third team honors all-American honors from the NAIA�scored over 20 points in 13 games�had a season high 30 points against Concordia on January 8, 2011�took down a season high 13 rebounds in a win over Mayville State on December 30�handed out a personal best eight assists in an overtime loss to Mayville State on October 29.
2009-2010�led the Defenders in scoring with a 15.8 points per game average and was tops on the team in rebounds with a 6.0 average�.made 51.6 percent of his shots from the floor�.recorded double digit scoring in 26 of 30 games played and went over 20 points seven times�had a season high 25 points against Briar Cliff on February 3 and pulled down 11 rebounds in a playoff game with Hastings�.earned 2nd team all-GPAC notice.
Pre-Dordt�Helped Western Christian (Iowa) to a pair of Class 2A State Championships in 2007 and 2008 and a third place finish at the state tournament in 2009. Wolterstorff averaged 18.8 points per game this season with five rebounds, 3.3 assists and made 56.7 percent of his field goal tries. He was named to the all-tournament team in all three state appearances and is the all-time leading scorer at Western Christian with 1592. Wolterstorff was a rare four-year starter at Western and was named to the Iowa Newspaper Association first-team all-state in 2008 and 2009 and was a second-team pick in 2007.
|Kyle Lindbergh
|Margate, Florida
2011-12�played in 34 games and averaged 24 minutes per game�averaged 8.2 points per game and a team high 6.8 rebounds per game�led the team in blocked shots with 39 and was the co-leader in steals with 50�converted 50.8 percent of his field goals�had a season high 21 points against William Penn on November 10�took down a career high 16 rebounds against Morningside on December 14�earned second team honors from the Great Plains Athletic Conference�named the 2012 GPAC Defensive Player of the Year.
2010-2011�played in all 31 Dordt games and started 16�averaged 8.9 points per game with 5.0 rebounds�converted 52 percent of his field goals�scored in double figures 12 times�scored a season high 20 points in the GPAC Title Game against Sioux Falls�took down a season high nine rebounds on two occasions�
Pre-Dordt�competed for Coral Springs Christian High School in Coral Springs, Florida� averaged 19 points and ten rebounds per game in 2009-2010 and was a first team all-Broward County pick� made 56 percent of his shots from the floor and ended his career with a school record 652 rebounds�averaged 15 points, ten rebounds and three blocked shots per game as a junior�was named his team�s most valuable player and mvp of the Embry Riddle camp all-star game�was a 2008-2009 all-conference honoree and he was member of a basketball team that qualified for AAU Nationals.
|Jordan De Boer
|Hudsonville, Michigan
Pre-Dordt�.played for the Calvin College junior varsity in 2011-12�graduated Covenant Christian (Michigan) and averaged 14.7 points per game with 3.0 assists and 3.7 rebounds per contest with 2.7 steals.
|Tyler Wolterstorff
|Sioux Center, Iowa
2011-12�played in 33 games and averaged 15 minutes per appearance�converted 4.3 points per game took down 2.2 rebounds per outing.
Pre-Dordt �averaged 18.3 points, six rebounds and 3.5 assists in 2009-2010 and had similar numbers in 2010-2011 for the Western Christian Wolfpack with averages of 19.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists�helped Western to a state title in 2010 and a title runner-up finish in 2011�earned first-team all-state honors in 2010 and 2011 and was named to the all-tournament team at both the 2010 and 2011 state tournaments.
|Aaron Van Vugt
|Orange City, Iowa
2011-12�averaged 13.6 points per game in 18 junior varsity contests�
Pre-Dordt�earned all-conference honors in 2011 when he averaged 16.5 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 2.0 steals for Unity Christian (Iowa).
|Jordan Vogel
|Rock Valley, Iowa
2011-12�started all 35 games�played 25 minutes a game and scored 13.1 points per game and took down 6.7 rebounds per contest and blocked 34 shots�earned second team honors from the Great Plains Athletic Conference�enters ths season ranked 16th all-time at Dordt College in rebounds�led the team in scoring seven times and in rebounds 13 times�had a season high 22 points against Northwestern on February 1 and took down a season high 15 rebounds against Concordia on February 22.
2010-2011�played in 29 games and started 18�played 22 minutes a game and scored 10.1 points per game with a team high 6.1 rebounds per contest�converted 59.5 percent of his shots from the field�earned honorable mention all-GPAC honors�scored in double figures 18 times�scored a season high 20 points against Mayville State on December 30, 2010.
2009-2010�.Played over 16 minutes a game in his first season with the Defenders and made 58.4 percent of his shots while averaging 5.9 points and 4.1 rebounds per game. Had a season high 19 points against Hastings on January 16 and recorded double digit points and rebounds in a win over Dana in the playoffs.
Pre-Dordt�Averaged 10.5 points, seven rebounds and three blocked shots per game for the Western Christian (Iowa) Wolfpack and helped them to a 2009 Class 2A Consolation Championship at the Iowa High School State Tournament. Vogel was named an all-Lakes Conference Second-Team member in 2009 and made 65 percent of his shots from the floor. Vogel averaged 5.2 points and 3.8 rebounds per game in a reserve role for the Wolfpack in 2007-2008 when they won a state title.
|Rees Beaver
|Sioux Center, Iowa
2011-12�played in eight varsity games�averaged 14.4 points per game in 17 junior varsity contests.
Pre-Dordt� averaged 15.8 points per game as a senior at Sioux Center High School while earning all-Siouxland Conference honors�converted 46 percent of his field goals attempted and averaged 3.8 rebounds per game while handing out 1.8 assists per game�Beaver earned second team all-Siouxland Conference honors as a junior while averaging 11.8 points per game with 3.1 rebounds and made 35.1 percent of his three-point shots�three-year regular who averaged 10.6 points per game with 2.9 rebounds during his sophomore season while making 39.7 percent of his three-point shots.
|Elliott Christians
|Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Pre-Dordt�averaged 9.6 points per game with 6.4 rebounds per game while making 49.2 percent of his field goals for Cedar Rapids Kennedy (Iowa)�also averaged 1.3 steals, 1.5 blocks and 1.0 assists per game and was named honorable mention all-metro and all-conference.
|David Den Herder
|Sioux Center, Iowa
2011-12�averaged 14.9 points per game in 18 junior varsity games.
Pre-Dordt�, averaged 6.3 points and 3.8 rebounds per game as a junior in helping Western to the Class 2A state tournament title and scored 7.3 points per game with 6.1 rebounds in 2011 when the Wolfpack was the Class 2A runner-up.
|Chris Sievers
|Huxley, Iowa
2011-12� played in 35 games and averaged 20 minutes a game�converted 62.7 percent of his field goals while averaging 11.5 points per game with 4.5 rebounds�had a career high 34 points in a win over Doane on February 18�took down a season high 12 rebounds against Midland on December 12�earned all-GPAC second team honors.
2010-2011�played in 29 games and started 20�averaged 7.2 pointers per game with 3.0 rebounds and converted nearly 60 percent of his field goal tries�dumped in a career best 19 points against William Penn on November 23.
2009-2010�played in 23 games for the Defenders with a 2.4 scoring average�scored a season high 15 points against Hastings on February 25.
Pre-Dordt�Averaged 10.6 points, 8.4 rebounds with 2.3 assists while making 54 percent of his field goal tries this season. Earned first-team all-conference and all-district honors for the Ballard (Iowa) Bombers. Sievers helped Ballard to a conference runner-up finish and a district championship along with a #10 state ranking in Class 3A.
Head Coach: Ross Douma
Assistant Coaches: Derek Keizer, Brent Van Maanen, and Kyle Hiemstra
Athletic Director: Glenn Bouma
Sports Information Director: Mike Byker


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She was born in Waco on April 20, 1929 to the late Edward and Carrie Bland Gentry.
Bertha is survived by her two daughters, Gladys Edwards and Faye White; son, Leonard Perry Sr.; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by son, Norman Perry; sisters, Eddie Mae Perry and Marlene Green.
A wake will be held from 6 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 at Grace Funeral Home in Goliad. Funeral Services will be 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 at Fannin Street United Methodist Church with Reverend Anthony Franklin officiating. Burial will follow in Lott Cemetery.
Grace Funeral Home, Goliad in charge of arrangements, Buddy Zavesky, Director.


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Acid washing BOD bottles
How often is it appropriate to acid wash BOD bottles? Normally I would acid wash every 3 to 4 months with hydrochloric ACS grade. I use liquinox to wash after use. Anyone have a view?
We wash our BOD bottles once a month with NoChromix added to concentrated sulfuric acid.
The frequency of acid washing depends on what your blanks are doing.
If your blanks are normally 0.1 or less (that's not a typo...I didn't mean to say 0.2), I would advise acid washing when, 1) your bottles have a visible scum that can't be removed in normal washing, or, 2) when your blanks start to creep upward.
If your blanks are normally 0.2 and sometimes higher, you can try acid washing, but if that doesn't bring the blank down, your problem is probably something other than dirty bottles.
My experience in assessing literally hundreds of labs doing BOD is that dirty bottles are seldom the cause of high blanks, the reason being that people pay so much attention to it. More often than not, high blanks are caused by the choice of source water (e.g., distilled, DI, RO) used to prepare dilution water.
Back when I was in the lab every day I only acid-washed the bottles when they still had water droplets inside after the distilled water rinse AND the droplets remained after a second Liquinox wash and rinse.
I heard that WEF finally allowed non-members to create an account, so I broke down and came back and registered.
My take on this is that you shouldn't ever have to acid wash the bottles because you should be using the disposable bottles anyway. If you are so worried that your normal hot water/soap cleaning isn't getting everything out, how convinced are you that you are adequately removing all traces of your acid wash? The time and equipment used cleaning and worrying about the cleanliness of the bottles is well worth the approximately $0.70 per bottle. Check out Environmental Express (www.envexp.com) for ordering information. I think they will even send you a free sample pack to try out. No, I have no connection to them and receive no compensation for talking them up. I do believe in promoting products and companies that I am impressed with and these guys definitely fit the bill.
I think that an $8 BOD bottle is a good investment as long as the lab is not having any problems with their blanks. The only time we would use disposable BOD bottles is for special BOD studies where we do not want to purchase a lot of additional glass bottles to store after the study is over.
We have some BOD bottles that are probably 30 years old or more. We have to wash other glassware, beakers and cylinders, so it does not add that much time to the schedule. We use a dishwasher with DI water rinse and do not have any blank problems.
If you were only doing BOD and TSS it might be more cost effective to use disposable BOD bottles. Checking the pH of a few BOD bottles after acid washing does not consume much time as we check the dilution water pH anyway. Glass saves much plastic in the landfill as I would be concerned about recycling without deactivating patogens prior to disposal.
Hi Perry,
I appreciate your comment that blank problems are probably due to source water. We have a two mixed beds and carbon tank (US Filter)treating the source water which is public water from deep wells. We have persistent blank problems. Disposable bottles helped a little. However, it seems the source water is the problem. In your book you suggest that purchased distilled water may be used. Do you have other comments that might help? Thank you, Carl Addy
Hi, Carl! In the book, I suggest trying "steam distilled" water if
all else fails. Sounds like double talk, doesn't it! All distilled
water goes through a steam phase, but to be advertised as "steam
distilled" it goes through much more than that. It is distilled at
higher than normal atmospheric pressure, goes through RO and
deionization, and filtration at the micron level. As far as I know, it
is the purest water available to the general public...it's used routinely by the medical, dental, photography, and other professions needing extra-pure water. If supermarkets
in town don't sell it, ask if they can order it. They will look at you
like you're crazy at first, but explain what it is and they might be
willing to call their water distributor. Appendix B of the book lists
some suppliers in the northwest where it is available for only a few cents more per gallon than "regular" distilled water.
steam distilled, distilled water works for you, then you have a choice
to make...keep buying it, or upgrade your reagent grade water system in
the lab. The problem is, I don't know what to recommend for a system upgrade. Lot's of things will get through a DI column, but a charcoal filter usually gets what's left as long as you change your beds as recommended.
Good luck!
Here again, it's a crying shame that all the old posts are gone. This subject was vetted thoroughly on the old forum.
We finally switched to disposable bottles, and everyone in the lab is glad we did. They're recyclable and cheap. Our central stores orders them by the pallet load.
BTW: Is anybody else ticked at this annoying text box that's too small and has to have that idiotic scroll bar across the bottom? Grrr.
Oh, spam bombs are making their way into various forum postings. I've alerted the Forum.
I use 300ml BOD bottles. just wondering how much Sulfuric Acid acs grade per bottle?and do you fill the rest of the bottle up with distilled water? Or just rinse a small amount of the acid concentrate around in the bottle until it is completly covered .this(later method) is actually how I used to do it but went to contrex det. just thought i'd acid wash ever so often. thank for the help in advance.
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Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, a longtime civil-rights activist who helped draft the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is facing criticism that he usually has not had to endure. Union activists are calling him a "corporate shill." One African-American commentator was even more vicious: "How many more times will other Andys and Amoses of our black business-class leadership betray us?"
A shill? Young has spent his career supporting union causes. And how nasty to compare a civil-rights leader to the characters portrayed on "Amos 'N Andy," the 1950s television series that was taken off the air for its Uncle-Tomish portrayal of black people.
What is Young's crime? He has become chairman of a Wal-Mart-funded group called Working Families for Wal-Mart, which rebuts the attacks on the company that come from unions and liberal activists.
Union activists say the company pays relatively low wages and offers a relatively modest amount of benefits. Somehow, Wal-Mart, which offers decent jobs and low-cost products that benefit many poorer people, is depicted as a foe of the poor.
"I like to fight poverty," Young told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "For almost 10 years, I've been using in my sermon message that fighting poverty is good business, and I've used Wal-Mart as an example." He said "a family can save $2,300 a year by shopping at Wal-Mart." And he told another newspaper the issue of health insurance is "disingenuous," given that it is mostly a problem for the elderly and poor as opposed to working people.
The unions want to stop the construction of new Wal-Marts and force unionization on the company, not out of some concern for the poor, but because of their desire to reduce nonunion competition or create new members for themselves. If Wal-Mart were forced to offer much higher wages and benefits, then it would not be able to hire as many people or offer its products at such low prices. People without much experience can get decent jobs at Wal-Mart, whereas union jobs are harder to come by.
The market needs jobs at all levels. To target lower-level jobs because they don't pay as much as higher level jobs is absurd. Any company should be free to offer jobs at any wage. No one puts a gun to anyone's head to accept a job there.
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The Art of Irony, Backstabbing & Hopelessness
"Don't give up, don't ever give up."
— Jim Valvano (1946 -1993)
Jimmy V is rolling in his grave.
On Thursday, in what became a Red State Blue State first, my once respected colleague and amicable opponent Allen Krause, officially gave up on his beloved Detroit Tigers. Though they're only 7.5 games back of the first place White Sox, Mr. Krause could not help but revert back to his status quo of negativity, sighting that the Tigers' outlandish payroll and futile mediocrity was just too much — an endeavor he hadn't the heart nor the patience to endure. It caused shockwaves throughout baseball, causing these guys to say:
Congratulations, Mr. Krause, on joining the dishonorable ranks of fellow traitors Judas, Benedict Arnold and Jim Edmonds.
Honestly, this really shouldn't be all that surprising to me; but in an odd sort of way, it is. We are US Americans. US Americans don't give up. We never give up.
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, did we sulk and cry and feel sorry for ourselves?
Down three games to none in the 2004 ALCS, did the Boston Red Sox give up against the Evil Empire simply because the odds against them winning were next to none?
And what about the spirit of US Americans after 9/11, the Bush administration, a flailing economy, tarnished foreign policies and an ill-conceived war of shadow chasing? Did we all just throw our hands up in the air and 'throw in the towel'?
When one loses hope — when he loses his identity, his affiliation for that which brings him joy — when he loses his propensity for positivism and forces his bleak outlook on the world using the headline Keep Ya Head Up, we — those who remain steadfast in our patriotic alliances to all things good — have no choice but to denounce and reject both the negativity monger and his infectious ideas.
You fooled me, Mr. Krause. You had me thinking you were with the Tigers all the way — unconditionally. Yes, you fooled me. You know, they have an old saying in Tennessee…
For future reference, Mr. Krause, if you're gonna bail on your team, do us all a favor and please refrain from disgracing the hip-hop legend that is Tupac. He doesn't deserve to be associated with your hapless despondency.
Because of you, he's probably rolling around in his grave too. And by "grave" I do mean the champagne room in the back of a Las Vegas hot spot.
Oh yeah, he'll be back.
I believe.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Not down with the whole "Evil Empire" reference. The Evil Empire is Wal-Mart, not the New York Yankees.
Haha. Sorry NMYF (still don't know your real name – what is it?), it's a little inside joke thing with Allen and I. He's a big Yankee hater so I throw that in there every once in a while… that's what the media likes to call them anyway.
I actually like the "Evil Empire" tag [makes the Yanks sound mean, which is fine by me]… not so big on the picture though.
And HA, love the quote in the Cabrera/Renteria pic.
I don't blame Allen. If I were a Tiger fan [never] I would've thrown in the towel a while ago. If the Yanks fall one more game behind in the Wild Card [two tops] I might throw in the towel too.
Oh and Pac is actually here in NY in the back of a club downing a bottle of Smirnoff. Jk jk.🙂


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PhD Program: Concentration in Research Ethics
Students enrolled in the PhD program in health care ethics may take 15 hours of coursework with an emphasis on research ethics and write a dissertation (12 credits) in research ethics to develop expertise in the area of human research ethics. The concentration requirements are outlined below:
HCE-603 (3 credits): Applied Methods in Health Care Ethics or HCE-604 (3 credits): Interdisciplinary Research in Health Care Ethics
Concentration students will focus their paper in the are of human subjects research. [Note: Both courses are required for the PhD program. Students in the Human Research concentration would be required to focus on research ethics in at least one of the two classes.]
HCE-639 (3 credits): Special Topics: Research Ethics seminar
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Cougars prey on large mammals such as moose, deer, elk and stray wolves and can often go for long periods of time without food. Cougars are also well known for their amazing ability to jump up to 30ft.
Cougars tend to have between 1 and 4 cubs, generally during the spring and summer time when the adult cougars are hunting well again after the harsh winters. A cougar typically lives until its about 20 years old.
Due to the cougars vast range, the cougar is known in different places by different names. Until the late 1990s there were thought to be 32 different species of cougar inhabiting both North and South America. Recent studies however, have shown that the DNA of the majority of the 32 cougar species was too similar. There are therefore only 5 different species of cougar found on the American continent.
Today the cougar is only found in parts of Florida in North East America and the cougars range on the west coast has been dramatically reduced by human interference. The cougar is most commonly found in the Canadian Rockies and the more mountainous regions of Southern Mexico.


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Becoming a Guinness World Record holder is quite the feat.
Check out these famous faces who have a Guinness World Record with their name on it.
"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek holds the world record for most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter (same program). June 13, 2014, marked Trebek's 6,829th episode on the long-running show.
Calvin Harris. The Scottish DJ passed Michael Jackson to be officially recognized as having Most Top 10 hits on UK singles chart from one album.
Taylor Swift. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was the fastest selling digital single, climbing to No. 1 on the iTunes' singles sales chart just 50 minutes after it was released on 14 August 2012.
Taylor Swift also earned a place in the "World Record" book by being the First solo female with two million-selling weeks on US album charts. She is the only female singer to notch up two million-selling weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.
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- Biodegradable Mg-Zr-Ca alloys for bone implant materials
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- Li, Y. C.; Wong, C. S.; Wen, C.; Hodgson, P. D.
- Abstract
- Mg‐Zr‐Ca alloys were developed for new biodegradable bone implant materials. The microstructure and mechanical property of the Mg‐xZr‐yCa [x = 0·5, 1·0% and y = 1·0, 2·0% (wt-% hereafter)] alloys were characterised by optical microscopy, compressive and hardness tests. The in vitro cytotoxicity of the alloys was assessed using osteoblast-like SaOS2 cells. The corrosion behaviour of these alloys was evaluated by soaking the alloys in simulated body fluid (SBF) and modified minimum essential medium (MMEM). Results indicated that the mechanical properties of the Mg‐Zr‐Ca are in the range of the mechanical properties of natural bone. The corrosion rate and biocompatibility decreases with the increase in the Ca content in the Mg‐Zr‐Ca alloys. The solutions of SBF and MMEM with the immersion of the Mg‐Zr‐Ca alloys show strong alkalisation. The Zr addition to the Mg‐Zr‐Ca alloys leads to an increase in the corrosion resistance, compressive strength and the ductility of the alloys, and a decrease in the elastic modulus of the Mg‐Zr‐Ca alloys.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
- Source
- Materials Technology, Vol. 27, no. 1 (Feb 2012), pp. 49-51
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0912 Materials Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Biodegradability; Bone implant materials; Calcium; Corrosion properties; Cytotoxicity; Magnesium; Mechanical properties; Mg-Zr-Ca alloy; Zirconium
- Publisher
- Maney Publishing
- 1066-7857
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- Copyright © 2012 W. S. Maney & Son Ltd.
- Research Projects
Developing biodegradable magnesium alloys for implant materials, AISRF/BF030031
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Lot 338: DAVID MURRAY SMITH R.B.A., R.W.S. Evening Trees and River'. Atmospheric oil on milled board, riverscape view. Signed lower left. In a good giltwood frame, 23.5cm x 34cm.(211 views)
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She was preceded in death by her husband Larry Dugan.
Survivor's include d her step-mother Lola McLeister of Lancaster,Calif; son Danny McLeister of Refugio; four brothers, Tommy (Librada) McLeister Jr. of Angleton, Timothy Dean of Danbury, Clifton Lynch of Lancaster, Calif. and Calvin Lynch of Minnesota; Grand children Danika McLeister,Drianna McLeister,Michaela Rodriguez,Kamryn Diaz,Ruby Rodriguez,Issac Adams; two nieces, Alex and Jessica McLeister.
Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 at Moore Funeral Home Chapel.
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The purchase of San Patricio Publishing Company will include the newspapers San Patricio County News, Portland News and Mathis News.
This makes eight for the Beeville company which also owns the Beeville Bee-Picayune, Goliad Advance-Guard, Karnes Countywide, The Progress (covering Live Oak and McMullen counties) and the Refugio County Press.
Chip Latcham, co-publisher in Beeville, said, "We believe they fit our model of regional newspapers providing hyper local coverage of their communities. Up until now, we've added one newspaper at a time to the group, so this brings some additional challenges, but we are blessed to have a great team and are looking forward to ramping up our coverage and products."
Jeff Latcham, co-publisher, said, "The communities of Taft, Odem, Mathis, Sinton and Portland, no doubt, will wonder how their papers will be changing.
"That's a good thing. Good community newspapers are owned by the community itself; we're just fortunate enough to be the caretakers. When readers talk about their 'hometown newspaper,' it means something."
The Latchams, fourth-generation publishers, purchased San Patricio Publishing from James F. "Jim" Tracy Jr. and John Henry Tracy, also brothers.
"Having Chip and Jeff Latcham take over the legacy that my brother and I have continued from our parents and grandparents was a big factor in our decision to sell," Jim Tracy said. "We feel confident they will serve our readership with honesty and integrity."
The Tracys and Latchams are families which parallel one another in many ways, which includes many years of friendship that started with their respective parents, according to Jim Tracy.
"Change is always something we, as individuals, have to deal with in life, and this decision to step aside has been in the works for a while," Jim Tracy said. "It's time to pass the baton to publishers that are on top of the printing media industry, who are innovative and have a deep concern for the small communities they already serve."
John Henry Tracy said, "We wanted to entrust our business to people who hold the same values we do."
Chip Latcham said, "We are grateful to John and James Tracy for entrusting us with these three newspapers. Their family and ours have known each other for years, and we look forward to working with the wonderful people of San Patricio County."
The Latchams both agree that hometown papers should reflect the communities they serve and be responsive to the readers—something that will continue with these three newspapers.
Chip Latcham said,
"We just want to make sure we report both sides of the story and let the community find its solutions. That approach has guided us through the years and led the South Texas Press Association to honor our late parents by naming the annual community service award after them."
Becoming part of Beeville Publishing Co. means drastic digital advancements for the readers in San Patricio County.
Jeff Latcham said, "We'll be adding San Patricio news and content to our regional website, www.mySouTex.com, as well as our Twitter feeds and Facebook pages. We'll be offering digital subscriptions in the future that will allow subscribers instant delivery by email rather than waiting for the mail each week.
"Among the changes we'll add immediately, we'll enhance the classified ads for these papers by putting them online at www.mySouTex.com for more readership at no extra charge."
History of San Patricio Publishing
The San Patricio County News was originally founded in 1908, with Dave Odem as president, W.E. Haisley as vice-president and Ray L. Carter as editor.
In 1925, the Martin Brothers owned the paper before selling it to John Lloyd Tracy of Robstown and L.R. Ables of Gatesville in April 1937.
One month later, Tracy and his wife, Ruby Garner, bought out Ables' share of the company. James F. Tracy, Sr., returned from WWII, and entered into the business with his father in 1946.
A year later, James Tracy, Sr. purchased his father's interest in the paper. He and his wife, Helen, owned and operated the newspaper until 1971, when the family purchased the Portland News, Mathis News, Taft Tribune and Odem-Edroy Times, forming the company San Patricio Publishing Co., Inc.
It was at this time that Tracy's sons, James F. "Jim", Jr. and John Henry joined the company's staff.
The Tracy brothers continued to operate the company, even after James Tracy, Sr. passed away in 1983, becoming the only stockholders in the corporation alongside their mother, Helen Tracy, and officially became the owners of San Patricio Publishing in 2004.


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The buzz
Calling all gardners.
There's an organization out to do a bee census of sorts and they want your help.
YourGardenShow.com is asking gardners and any other nature lovers to spent July 18 counting bees.
It's part of a nationwide effort to help researchers address the global bee crisis and uncover why our nation's most important pollinators appear to be disappearing.
Here's a link with more information:
Rummage around
The Trinity United Methodist annual Summer Rummage Sale is 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at 1320 West 21st.
Information: 762-3115.
Ride 'em
The New Mexico High School Rodeo Finals continue at 9 a.m. today through Sunday at Curry County Events Center.
It's the state's best teen cowboys and cowgirls competing for top honors.
Information: http://nmhighschoolrodeo.com
A kicking good time
The Clovis Wildcat Youth Soccer Camp is 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday at


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Mar 13, 2012
Jacquelene Bennett
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