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This has been an odd year for the Colorado C'thulus. Since opening their new stadium last year, their road to the Ultrabowl has been among the rockiest ever run by a team. Their victories, though consistent, have been by knife's-edge margins. Part of this, some argue, is that the restructuring of the playoff schedule to accommodate four new teams has pushed back the beginning of the football season a small but significant amount. But here at ESBN, We're inclined to think that this topsy-turvy season has been due to the new teams themselves. And as exhibit A, we submit the C'thulu's opponents: the Atlantis Ancients. Among other things, they just became the first team in history to reach the Ultra Bowl in their first season as members.
This is exactly the kind of story that draws a crowd. Deep beneath the waves, in the C'thulu's home-stadium-away-from-home, R'yleh, some 90,000 fans crowded into some 16 dimensions of exquisite gothic architecture to witness the historic showdown... and that's just the humans. Even a veteran C'thulu fan and commentator like myself can feel the excitement in the air. The archetypical battle between the seasoned veterans and the hotshot upstarts is about to be fought.
Which makes it a bit of a shame that not everyone has access to this universe to watch the game. So without further ado, here are this year's Ultrabowl highlights.
- Trouble got started immediately. The sprightliness of the Ancients on the field is as much of an oddity as their habit of playing in long flowing robes, and disconcerting enough that it drew significant attention away from the C'thulu pregame sacrifice. Not to be outdone, the C'thulus hastily modified their sacrifice so that instead of being directed at C'thulu, it was directed at one of the abominations living in a nearby dimension. The wall of enraged tentacles that emerged from the ceiling certainly got the audience's attention back, but it took the stadium operators ten minutes and two additional dead lambs to get the idea of "wrong number" across.
- In an unconfirmed act of retaliation, the ancients proceeded to douse the C'thulus with a tidal wave of water that they "accidentally" sent downfield while doing water-cast warm-ups. Since the C'thulu players are all possessed by squid-demons, however, the consensus was that this action was "mildly refreshing". Nevertheless, referees insisted that further warm-ups be restricted to actually preparing to play.
- The pregame flip was taken by the Ancients, which some said was a bad sign for the C'thulus. This view was soon silenced, however, when the C'thulus kicked the ball off into a wall. The ball entered a portal which appeared there, reemerged from the opposite wall, and got spiked down into the ground 60 yards from the kickoff zone by a huge tentacle that emerged from the ceiling. This ensured a reasonably good starting position for the C'thulus, but shovels had to be retrieved to dig the ball out of the dirt.
- The Ancients seemed unshaken, and quickly began picking up on the uncertain temper of the portals used by the C'thulus. Of particular interest was the play in which it became apparent that the ball was not actually required to appear at either the same point in space, or time. In it, a hike was interrupted because the ball hit the Ancients quarterback, Venerable Master Quizudo, squarely in the back of the head. The C'thulus then rushed the line and threw the ball into the portal, where it became the ball that hit the quarterback. Unfortunately for the C'thulus, the ancients ran the other ball around them as they did. After using a pencil and paper to work it out, the referees decided that the ball used in the resulting touchdown was the later ball and awarded a point to the Ancients.
- In another incident, one-time star rookie, and perennial fan favorite, Bernard Evisceraue, made textbook use of tendrils of darkness to heft Ancients lineman Lightkeeper Gistakep into a dungeon dimension. In the past two years, the spell has become one of his signature maneuvers, and his degree of control, despite its difficulty, has been lauded among leading necromancers. But in a shock maneuver, Gistakep caught himself by conjuring a Tidal wave, which proceeded to sweep both himself and Evisceraue into a portal being used by the C'thulus to assist in a long throw, instead. Gistakep returned two plays later riding a hideous space centipede. Evisceraue was substituted for.
- The second quarter showed increased confidence from the Ancients, and a continued deterioration of the C'thulu line. Although the ancients showed a marked weakness in making conversions, their scoring capabilities seemed on-target. But it was the C'thulu player Johnson Xeneder, who arrived from a time portal in the future to warn his team that they would lose when the Ancients raised the Guardian of the Light, which caused some fans to despair. This lead to unforeseen deaths, since despairing in R'yleh can cause manifestations of hideous dark horrors. Paramedics on standby with upbeat techno music and smiley-face-shaped stickers managed to calm some of the panic. "After you've seen someone apply a smiley face to your nose while forcing you to listen to a dance remix, dark horrors don't really seem so bad," said one audience member.
- In a move characteristic of the first half, Guardian Vazhitep levitated off the ground using the mysterious glowing Atlantian technology in his shoulderpads, and dodged a cleverly placed hole in the turf. C'thulu center Arnold Bludfahl, however, aggressively pressed the attack, surrounding Vazhitep in a tiny box of portals. The portals seem to have experienced a malfunction due to their unusual proximity, however, such that when Vazhitep cast an explosive sphere of water, it rebounded through the portals and hit Bludfahl from all directions, while Vazhitep stood carefully in the corner of the box. Technically, squids cannot drown in water, but Bludfahl made a brave attempt.
- The halftime show was provided by Pazrrmm and the Sqrggs, a zombie heavy metal band fresh off of a tour of Louisiana, where the Bonedolls owners personally hosted them. Due to their condition, they have enormous difficulty making themselves understood, but thanks to a clever choice of genre, that hasn't stopped them from reaching the top of the metal charts in the US, and third in the UK and the territory of Luna.
Things started rough, nonetheless. Their song "Zqqflkdmna grdd? (Wwreg vlllbn)" got only a tepid response from the audience, which failed to be impressed by the acrobatic displays put on by glowing nether-demons during the song. But "Hvnl mjkptrz dlvytr" was an all-out hit. Critics called the moment when Pazrrmm offered his heart to a gigantic holographic goddess "strangely moving, with an emphasis on strange". Doctors were on hand to help him put it back in, afterwards.
- Some felt that the finale of the song was ruined by the arrival of C'thulu player Johnson Xeneder, who came from the future to warn the team that the Ancients had a secret weapon called the Fountain of Rebirth, which they intended to use if cornered.
- The second half seemed to be starting out much as the first had ended. The Ancients and the C'thulus were largely stalemated in the field, with the C'thulus more consistently losing ground than the Ancients. By now, the Ancients had learned that dimensional portals could easily be tracked by shooting water through them to learn where they lead. The C'thulus began using the tactic of rearranging their portals frequently, which set back the Ancients but did not stop them. By contrast, the Ancients had great success in stopping most of the physical onslaughts by the C'thulus using water shields, which meant the defensive line was largely stagnant in the third quarter.
- C'thulu player Johnson Xeneder arrived by time portal from the future to warn the C'thulus that they would lose, but the reason was unclear because the other two versions of himself began arguing with him. The coaches called a timeout and took them aside for a quick discussion.
- With one minute left in the third quarter and the C'thulus down by seven touchdowns, media figures began polling the C'thulu coaches on the seemingly hopeless situation of the team. The coaches responded, in one unearthly chorus: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die,". Then the ceiling exploded.
- It turned out that the exploding ceiling was, in fact, returning player Bernard Evisceraue, wearing blood-red rags and trailing an army of abominations from between the stars. Unlike the misfired sacrifice near the beginning of the game, both the walls and the ceiling collapsed permanently into otherworldly gates which demonic hordes began to emerge from. The referees immediately threw a flag and pointed out that the demon army was, in fact, off sides. The coaches, however, successfully argued that they were not actually on the team roster and could be counted under the rulebook as an environmental hazard. Next week's rulebook is expected to close this loophole.
- The fourth quarter started with a seemingly refreshed team of C'thulus. Now in their element, the C'thulus began quickly recouping touchdowns by taking advantage of the apparently random motions of the pincers, eyeless heads, headless eyes, and obligatory tentacles that filled the stadium. The water casts of the Ancients faced a logistical problem because of this obstacle course. On an unrelated note, Japanese studios catering to a more adult audience are paying high prices for available footage of this quarter.
- In retaliation, Ancients linebacker Priest Shatiliya began surreptitiously raising automatons made from glowing green light, who helped guard against the worst of the flailing appendages and could carry the ball from player to player without any apparent form of propulsion. Evisceraue responded by using some kind of acquired link between his squid demon and the otherworldly abominations to smash the automata out of the air. Said tentacles also proved remarkably useful in one point conversions, which gave the C'thulus an edge over the ancients on making up the score difference. On the other hand, they accidentally smashed Xeneder, who had just manifested out of a portal from the future when a tentacle hit him. Xeneder, Xeneder, and Xeneder assisted in dragging him off the field.
- The C'thulus rapidly scored touchdown after touchdown on the Ancients, bringing the scores back into parity. The Ancients took a timeout to confer with each other, with just a couple of minutes remaining on the clock, and the C'thulus one touchdown and a two-point conversion from a tie. On the next play, the Ancients line erected an extra-strong water shield in order to enable linebacker Watcher Holdasteran the extra time for an especially complex change to the fabric of reality. Holdasteran rose up in the air, glowing oddly, and then the stadium seemed to split into several overlapping timestreams, all at once. The mesh of light left behind in the air was identified by Ancients Coaches as an experimental play called the Citadel of Many Paths.
- At this point, the action became a little hard to follow. Depending on what angle you watched the game from, either the Ancients raised a giant made of illuminated water and ice, flooded the field with an endless wellspring of sanctified water to drive back the abominations summoned by the C'thulus, or crafted their hydro shields into outsized cleavers to push back the offensive onslaught of the C'thulus. Xeneder was observed to have been thrown into the origination point of the citadel of light in multiple universes. When the dust settled, however, and the referees from the nine identifiable universes conferred, it was found that the C'thulus had gained a net of exactly one touchdown and a two point conversion in the mess. With the teams officially tied, the game entered sudden death.
- The Ancients and the C'thulus ended up squaring off exactly at the fifty-yard line following the kick. The ancients, in a final moment of last-minute desperation, clad themselves in a matrix of light as they prepared to go on the offensive for the final time. The C'thulu players responded by extending their tentacles into a body-encompassing ghastly grey-green mass and squirming into position on the line.
- As the fans predicted, the C'thulus used their favored endgame tactic of twisting the stadium through the bowels of time and space, but since the entire stadium was already encompassed by gigantic otherworldly portals, this also twisted the alternate universes as well. The hydro-shielding of the Ancients was no match for resulting arcane feedback, which caused the field to collapse into chaos. The center of the field could only be tenuously said to exist at this point. But the C'thulus, being naturally adapted to chaos, managed to outmaneuver their opponents in the unforeseen circumstances, and push for the touchdown. Master Quizudo barely escaped the scrum and was beginning to prepare a tidal wave that would, had it been cast, likely have pushed C'thulu Safety Wagner Greybone away from the endzone. His plans were preempted, however, when Johnson Xeneder appeared out of thin air and fell on his head.
Thus it is that after one of the hardest-fought games in the history of the Ultrabowl, the C'thulus have narrowly escaped with their fourth Ultrabowl win. The win is not without a price, however. Commentators widely agree that this year has seen the birth of what will surely be one of the most bitter rivalries in all of football. And, as is becoming standard in the modern era of the Ultrabowl, the new stadium in R'yleh will have to be closed until someone can figure out how to stop otherworldly abominations from leaking in. There have even been reports of kidnapped players, including Johnson Xeneder, although the C'thulus told his family "not to worry, they have spares". On a related note, this year's MVP slot was narrowly taken by Evisceraue, though some argued that Xeneder's cumulative mediocrity added up to a somewhat higher value.
How will future games between these two opponents play out? Tune in next year, and find out. Thank you, and good night.


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Torres, Graff Win 2004 Pac-10 Conference Medal
June 4, 2004
June 4, 2004
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Men's tennis player Ruben Torres and women's water polo goalie Kelly Graff have been awarded the 2003-04 Pac-10 Medal, announced conference commissioner Tom Hansen on Wednesday, June 2.
The annual award is given to an outstanding male and female student-athlete at each of the 10 conference institutions. The honors are awarded based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.
The Conference Medal winners will be honored at the State Farm Pride of the Pac-10 Luncheon held in Los Angeles in conjunction with the Pac-10 Men's Basketball Tournament next March. Following are the 2003-04 awardees:
2003-04 Pacific-10 Conference Medal Winners

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The Obama administration announced in a U.S. Treasury Department blog on July 2 that it is delaying enforcement of the mandate until Jan. 1, 2015. It was scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2014.
"We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively," Mark J. Mazur, assistant secretary for tax policy, wrote in the blog. "We recognize that the vast majority of businesses that will need to do this reporting already provide health insurance to their workers, and we want to make sure it is easy for others to do so."
The delay does not affect other PPACA provisions, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said in a July 8 notice. "This transition relief will provide additional time for input from employers and other reporting entities in an effort to simplify information reporting consistent with effective implementation of the law," the IRS said, adding it "also is intended to provide employers, insurers, and other providers of minimum essential coverage time to adapt their health coverage and reporting systems."
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/// Convofy: Can a Nifty Demo Become a Real Productivity Helper? Take Two. [NetworkEffect]
You can get pretty far with a snazzy demo video–register hundreds of thousands of sign-ups and raise funding–but those do not make a business. That was the experience of Scrybe , which made a fancy browser-based calendar that worked offline, winning much interest after posting a preview video on YouTube in 2006. Now it's 2011, and the company is trying to repeat the trick with better results. Scrybe has spent the last few years creating a corporate collaboration platform called Convofy , as well as another preview video to show off its nifty features. There's no offline component this time, but there is a business model. Convofy is a bit like a social interface for Google Docs or an alternative to corporate social networks like Yammer that goes beyond status messages to help people collaborate on documents, research and to-do lists
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Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts Should Move Up To CBS' NFL No. 2 Team
CBS Sports has always been a conservative division. The unit's management is judicious about talent changes, prizes stability throughout its ranks, and has opted to watch from the sidelines as ESPN, Fox Sports and NBC Sports engage in a Pac-Man-like pursuit for television sports rights.
But the retirement of NFL analyst Dan Dierdorf-- he called his last game on Saturday with New England's win over Indianapolis -- gives CBS Sports an opportunity for forward-thinking change that will also reward NFL viewers:
It's time to move Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts up to the network's No. 2 team.
"I happen to agree with you," said an executive at a competing network who works on the NFL. "Ian Eagle is a true pro, calls a great game and has more personality than he's given credit for. Dan Fouts has always been underrated. But I bet they pursue someone new and pair them with [Greg] Gumbel as No. 2 team."
That would be a mistake. I can make a compelling argument that Eagle and Fouts on talent and chemistry alone could be the No. 1 team at CBS, but the network is heavily invested in Jim Nantz as its lead announcer across multiple sports and the same with Phil Simms as its primary NFL voice. Such a suggestion would not be based in reality.
But as a No. 2 team, Eagle and Fouts would be a significant upgrade for CBS. They call an excellent game, use humor in their broadcast as well as any NFL broadcast team, and thankfully dial down on overhyping players and coaches. They also have experience in the booth -- Eagle and Fouts have worked 68 games together-- and finely tuned chemistry with director Suzanne Smith and producer Bob Mansbach. Moving them up to No. 2 -- which means more people in the country would view their work including the playoffs -- would also strengthen CBS's No. 3 team, which would feature Gumbel and a new partner finding chemistry. CBS already has the deepest roster of NFL game announcers and game analysts and this would only amplify that.
CBS Sports management, not surprisingly, offered little on its future staffing plans. Contacted on Saturday afternoon by SI.com, a CBS spokeswoman said, "We will assess our lineup at the conclusion of this season and make a decision for next season in the coming months."
The Noise Report
SI.com examines some of the more notable sports media stories of the past week.
1. SI.com can report that next year's college football playoff games on ESPN will include elements of the "Megacast" that viewers experienced last week with Florida State's last-minute win over Auburn.
"I am certain you will see it again in the context of the college football playoff, but what applications and what specific differentiating presentations is very much what we will talk about in the coming weeks," said Burke Magnus, ESPN Senior Vice President of College Sports Programming. "Obviously some things worked and some things did not, but we were very happy with the result."
ESPN used six of its television platforms as well as audio and digital outlets for the Jan. 6 telecast to present a smorgasbord of viewing options. What stood out most for me -- along with an excellent game production on ESPN -- was the "BCS Film Room" on ESPNEWS featuring Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin, Boston College coach Steve Addazio, Pitt coach Paul Chryst, and ESPN analysts Matt Millen, Chris Spielman and (a really good) Tom Luginbill providing X-and-O analysis of the game from a film room equipped with multiple camera angles and touchscreens. It was smart television, minimally produced, and every competitor should attempt to duplicate the concept. The only minor complaint I heard in social media was the screen the coaches were watching the game on should have been given larger space on the viewer's screen. Otherwise, it was one of the rare debut products by ESPN that produced near universal acclaim. ESPN staffers Mike Diesenhof, Bill Graff and Brian Ryder produced the Film Room platform while Vic Delouriero and Phil Skender served as directors.
"My takeaway tracked pretty consistent with what the feedback was from both critics and fans through social media and other places," Magnus said. "I thought Film Room was the most mature, most advanced, smartest execution. Some of the other things even down to the miniscule add-ons like Spider-Cam was great. The whole thing was done under the banner of take some risks and chances, see what happens, and maybe we will learn something. We didn't go in predicting everything would be a success and I could have predicted in my core some of the things that would fall flat. We did not do it to go 10-for-10. We went in thinking if we went 5-for-10 it would be a good night and I think we did even a little better than that."
I asked Magnus if viewers should expect other major events to get a Megacast treatment. He said the network will be judicious and will research what elements worked and did not work (Title Talk, for instance). He brought up the possibility of the World Cup Final from Brazil as well as the NBA Finals.
"What is next, who knows?" Magnus said. "But something talked about has been the World Cup final. Is the NBA Finals the same thing? I don't know. It's different in a series environment but it has the right magnitude. The general sense is we learned a lot and there are absolute things we can apply but let's be judicious about how we throw around the Megacast."
1a. The ESPN telecast averaged 25,572,000 viewers. When the Megacast elements were added from ESPN2 and ESPNNEWS (the other platforms do not get rated), the game drew 26,061,000 viewers. ESPN said WatchESPN (ESPN3) generated 773,000 unique viewers for viewers across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPN3 and ESPN Goal Line collectively.
1b. ESPN's airing of the five BCS bowl games averaged 16,549,000 viewers, up nine percent (15,131,000) over last year's BCS games.
1c. The top-rated TV markets for ESPN for the BCS title game: 1. Birmingham; 2. Jacksonville; 3. Knoxville; 4. Atlanta; 5. Orlando; 6. Tampa-St. Petersburg; 7. Memphis; 8. Greenville, S.C.; 9. Nashville; 10. Charlotte.
1d. ESPN said its 29 bowl telecasts averaged 5,959,000 viewers, an increase of nine percent (vs. 5,468,000) over last year.
1e. Sports Business Daily media reporter John Ourand reports the SEC Network will cost distributors within SEC country $1.30 per subscriber.
2. ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas has worked the NBA Draft for the past 11 years but he has never been part of an NBA broadcast. That will change this Friday when Bilas joins Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy for the call of the Clippers-Knicks on ESPN. Immediately after the game, Bilas will take a car to Philadelphia to be part of the ESPN College GameDay basketball show at the Palestra prior to Temple-LaSalle on ESPN2 at noon. ((NBA analyst Tim Legler will be the analyst for that game.) It's part of an ESPN broadcasting stunt that will have Van Gundy also joining Bilas and Sean McDonough for North Carolina at Virginia at 7 p.m. ET on Jan. 20.
"I'm not going to pretend I am a longtime NBA expert," said Bilas, "but I watch the game, I love it and I have learned a lot watching it. For me the real fun of this is going to be less about the NBA versus college and more about getting to hang out with Breen and Van Gundy."
Bilas said ESPN basketball executives floated the idea to him not too long ago and he was immediately interested. He enjoyed his time with Van Gundy at the NBA Draft and said that when Stan Van Gundy, Jeff's brother, was coaching Orlando, Stan would often text Jeff during the telecast. Those texts included critique of Jeff ("Shut up, you don't even know who this guy is") and insider information ("Whoever we draft, just say we targeted him and were glad he was still available").
2a. Bilas said he would relish the opportunity, like Van Gundy, to one day serve as the sideline reporter for a game involving Spurs coach Greg Popovich.
"That would be on my bucket list along with climbing Everest," Bilas said. "I would love that. When Van Gundy and Popovich hugged, it brought tears to my eyes, kind of like Old Yeller. It was Barbara Walters-esque of Jeff to get that emotion out of his subject."
3. If you are curious about how many viewers each of the football-airing networks (CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC and NFL Network) networks drew this year and the highest-rated cities for the NFL, I did a ratings piece for The MMQB.
3a. Sports Business Daily media reporter John Ourand reported on Sunday night that the NFL is talking to television networks about selling a package of Thursday night games. Ourand ranked Turner as the favorite for the package The NFL Network would still keep some of the Thursday Night games.
3b. Nice work by CBS Sports producer Charlie Bloom to track down Joe Buck, Al Michaels, Bob Costas, Dick Enberg, former NFL teammates (Conrad Dobler, Jim Hart) and CBS talent such as Verne Lundquist and Lesley Visser for an NFL Today tribute piece to Dierdorf.
3c. "Physically it's just hard for me to travel 20 weeks a year and do my job the right way," Dierdorf said last week. "I tell everybody, I'm retiring but I'm not expiring. I've got to find something to do. I love the NFL, and I love the game of football. Whether it's radio just something that doesn't involve me having to go to the airport every Thursday or Friday and be gone for three or four days. I'm going to find something to do and you haven't heard the last of me I hope."
3d. Here's ESPN NFL analyst Trent Dilfer on Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel: "Watching his game tape, the only quarterback I can compare him to from an instinct standpoint is Brett Favre. Johnny Manziel has eyes in the back of his head. He flat-out sees stuff that other people don't see, and that's why he's special."
3e. The Broncos-Patriots game drew 26.5 million viewers for NBC's Sunday Night Football on Nov. 24, the 14th-most watched game of the regular season. That viewership number will nearly double come this Sunday when the two meet for the AFC Championship.
4. ESPN made the inevitable official by naming Ian Darke as its lead play-by-play commentator for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Darke will call the Brazil vs. Croatia opening match on June 12 in Sao Paulo, the World Cup final, and every match of the U.S. Men's National Team during the tournament (June 12 -- July 13).
4a. The network also announced that it had parted ways with iconic soccer gamecaller Martin Tyler ahead of the 2014 World Cup. Tyler called 18 of the 64 matches at the 2010 World Cup for ESPN including the tournament opener, the final and all matches played by England. "Following World Cup 2010 Ian Darke made a long term commitment to ESPN," Tyler said in statement. "That commitment deserves to be rewarded by Ian being the lead commentator at World Cup 2014 for ESPN. With that in mind, it was only right and proper for me to offer to stand down from ESPN's broadcast of the tournament next year. I'm sure that Ian and ESPN will enjoy a very successful tournament."
Tyler is the lead football voice for the London-based Sky Sports, which is part of the Fox family. I asked Fox Sports this week how interested they would be in using Tyler for their 2018 World Cup coverage. "Martin Tyler is already a fixture on Fox Sports 1 via our UEFA Champions League and FA Cup coverage," said a Fox Sports spokesperson. "We recognize him in a class of his own when it comes to international soccer coverage."
4b. ESPN Films will premiere a new series in April called "30 for 30: Soccer Stories." The series will include a mix of standalone feature-length and 30-minute-long documentary films on soccer.
5. As a general rule, I'm not a fan of sports broadcasters getting assigned events where family members are competing. Why? It puts the broadcaster in a near-impossible position with viewers. But this occurrence has happened so often, whether former ABC Sports analyst Bob Greise calling son Brian's games, Fox's NASCAR analyst Darrell Waltrip announcing brother Michael's races or Bill Walton calling his son's college basketball games, that I'm no longer a hardliner on the issue. If the broadcaster is professional -- such as ESPN's Van Gundy when he called brother Stan's games during the 2009 NBA Finals -- the broadcast is usually fine.
ESPN's Jon Gruden now enters this world with his brother Jay becoming the head coach of the Washington Redskins. Yes, Jon Gruden called two Bengals games in 2013 when Jay was an assistant with that team, but this is an entirely different scenario given announcers are far more likely to discuss a head coach than an assistant. There's also the very real issue of the production meetings with coaches prior to the game. Should Gruden recuse himself from that week's production meetings out of respect to the opposing teams? I think he should. But he should also stay on the broadcast. Here's the ESPN take on it: "Jon is our Monday Night Football analyst. If we have the Redskins, he will call the games. We will be transparent about their relationship. Jon is a professional and will call the games objectively."
6. The news that ESPN personality Dan Le Batard ceded his Baseball Hall of Fame ballot to Deadspin readers was debated robustly last week, especially by Le Batard's television and radio network who no doubt were gleeful at the click-worthy controversy. (The vanilla response from ESPN was amusing if only for attempting to pass the buck to the Miami Herald.) Here's views (all different) from Deadspin's Tim Marchman, Fox Sports baseball insider Ken Rosenthal, CBS Sports columnist Gregg Doyel, NBC Sports' Craig Calcaterra and Awful Announcing's Andrew Bucholtz on the journalistic implications. And here was my assessment.
7. Sports stories of note this week:
•Brilliant piece by the Washington Post's Tom Boswell on Greg Maddux.
•WRBD.com's Eric Crawford nailed it on Bobby Petrino getting hired by Louisville.
•SI's Tom Verducci had a blistering piece on Alex Rodriguez.
•USA Today's George Schroeder went behind the scenes of FSU-Auburn with Gus Malzahn and the Tigers.
•Fun story by Alan Siegel on some NHL Draft hijinks from the former PR director of the Buffalo Sabres.
•Dennis Rodman's CNN interview reworked into an nWo ad.
•SI's Jon Wertheim on the strange journey of tennis player Camila Giorgi.
•The world of competitive electric football: Nice work by Alex Prewitt of the Washington Post.
•The Score's Dustin Parkes on his journey into sports writing.
•Says a Washington Post op-ed: The NFL Should Let Its Players Smoke Pot.
Non-sports pieces of note:
•The New Yorker's Maria Konnikova on the problems with an open office.
•Brilliant public service journalism from Shawn Boburg of The Record (N.J.) on the New Jersey bridge closings.
•Buzzfeed's Charlie Warzel, on dropping all his Twitter follows.
•CNN reporter Sara Ganim's investigation on literacy and college athletes is worth reading.
8. ESPN tennis analyst Darren Cahill offered some interesting thoughts last week on how to improve the tennis viewing experience on television. His network will air more than 100 hours of the Australian Open and 500-plus hours on Watch ESPN over the next two weeks.
"I would reinforce the time between points and I would make a start time an exact start time," Cahill said. "If players were scheduled on court for a 2:00 p.m. start, I would make the first ball being played 2:01 or 2:02. Players would have to be on court at 1:57 doing their warmups. I would make it when people tune in, they know the first ball was hit at 2:00. I think there's so much lead time from the start, middle to the finish of tennis, it's dead TV to a large degree. Obviously people have shorter attention spans because they have so many options on television. You have to make tennis reliable and attractive to people."
9. ESPN NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy blasted the group of ex-players who joined Dennis Rodman in North Korea during a segment on SiriusXM NBA Radio with Frank Isola and Jerry Stackhouse. Said Van Gundy: "First of all, if Dennis Rodman calls you with a plan are you saying, 'I'm in'? And the second part is when you hear North Korea, if you have any understanding of world events, that would give you pause to say, 'Uh, maybe not.' The [NBA] Commissioner [David Stern], it is too bad he has to address them going over there. And Rodman's press conference, when you're drunk I guess you do some crazy things. But that one was as crazy as you could imagine. But those other guys, they're going to take heat for it and I hope they have a good answer for why they followed Rodman over on this. I just hope they don't think they were following Mandela [trying to go] into a country to try to use sport to bring people together."
10. NBC announced last week that Nancy Kerrigan, who won a silver medal in figure skating at the 1994 Lillehammer Games, has joined NBC Olympics for its 2014 Olympic Winter Games coverage in Sochi. The network said Kerrigan will serve as a figure skating analyst for NBC and NBCSN and appear on Today, Access Hollywood and E! Worth noting is Kerrigan agreed to talk exclusively with NBC (and not ESPN) for a documentary about what happened to her 20 years ago when she was attacked by an associate of Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
10a. NBC's drew 4.1 million viewers for the U.S. Ladies Figure Skating Championship, up 24 percent last year (avg. of 3.3 million viewers).
10b. Esquire Television will air 10-week series called "Horseplayers" which will focus on racing handicapping tournament competitors.
10c. Fox Sports hired Mark Loomis as its lead producer for all its golf event production and all studio programming. Fox Sports and Fox Sports 1 will air the U.S. Open, U.S. Women's Open and U.S. Senior Open Championships, as well as the USGA's national amateur championships and other live content, beginning in 2015 through 2026.
10d. The recent NBC Olympics hire Sal Masekela, far more an advocate for X Games sports than reporter of them, took a big Twitter swing at Bob Costas after Costas opined (a tad too flippantly) on the new Olympic sport of slopestyle in a yukfest with Matt Lauer on Today. "The president of the IOC should be Johnny Knoxville because basically this stuff is just Jackass stuff that they invented, and called Olympic sports," Costas said. That prompted Masekela to unload on Costas before the inevitable deleting of the tweets when the higher-ups at NBC Sports got involved. Said an NBC spokesperson:
"It was a misunderstanding which was quickly resolved."
10e. The Golf Channel averaged 108,000 viewers in 2013, the most-watched year in the 19-year history of the network and a 14 percent increase over last year.
10f. NBC and NBC Sports Network hired former Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. crew chief Steve Letarte to be an analyst on its NASCAR coverage beginning in 2015. Letarte joins fellow analyst Jeff Burtoan and race announcer Rick Allen.
10g. Bill Conlin, a longtime Philadelphia sports writer and frequent ESPN Sports Reporters panelist, died at 79.
10h. File this away: CBS Sports radio host Jim Rome owns a horse (Shared Belief) that could be a serious Kentucky Derby threat later this year:
10i. The new Sunday Night Baseball team of announcer Dan Shulman, analysts John Kruk and Curt Schilling and reporter Buster Olney debut on March 30 at 8:00 p.m. on ESPN with coverage of the Dodgers at Padres. The following day, ESPN and ESPN 2 will air four games including the Mariners debut of Robinson Cano as Seattle plays Los Angeles at 10:00 p.m. on ESPN.
10j. An exchange from last Thursday's TNT's Inside The NBA:
Analyst Charles Barkley on the Knicks: "The Knicks aren't a good team."
Host Ernie Johnson: "Are they getting better?"
Barkley: "They can only get so good."
10k. I asked SI.com's sports law expert, Michael McMann, to offer his thoughts on sports impact of the upcoming ABC vs. Aereo case:
Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear ABC v. Aereo, a case that could radically change sports broadcasting. Major television networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and PBS, have joined together to sue Aereo, a technology company that provides paying subscribers with antennas to receive and record live streamed broadcasts on their computers, tablets, AppleTVs and other devices. Aereo is only available in 10 markets—Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Miami, New York City and Salt Lake City— and, depending on the market, provides between 15 and 50 channels, none of which are sports channels. Aereo's controversy stems from the fact that it does not pay fees to stream (retransmit) network programming. The networks contend that Aereo is essentially stealing their copyright-protected broadcasts for profit. So far, federal judges have sided with Aereo, mainly because copyright protection for broadcasts only extends to "public performances" and Aereo's streams are individualized for each subscriber. If you think Aereo is exploiting a loophole in copyright law, you're not alone.
Sports fans should pay close attention to this case. The NFL and Major League Baseball have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the networks. The two leagues insist that Aereo is "eroding the value of one of [their] most important assets": copyrights in live game broadcasts. The leagues contend that by streaming NFL and MLB games, Aereo damages the exclusivity of live game broadcasts and thus reduces the amount of money leagues can attract for licensing contracts. DirecTV and Verizon, for example, would likely offer leagues less money to broadcast their games if customers can use Aereo to watch those same games. The leagues ominously warn that if Aereo is ruled lawful, they will eventually shift all of their game broadcasts to cable stations outside of Aereo's reach. The NFL estimates that 90 percent of its broadcasts are on free over-the-air TV stations, such as NBC, CBS and Fox. A shift of all games to cable TV would be great news for ESPN and perhaps also Fox Sports 1 and the NBC Sports Network, but it would deny fans who do not pay for cable. It would also be bad news for the NFL and MLB products on NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox.
While the leagues' threat is to be taken seriously, there are legal reasons to doubt that the NFL would actually carry through on it. The NFL is a beneficiary of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, which exempts the four major leagues from violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act in their national television contracts. The exemption, however, only extends to "sponsored broadcasting" of games, an expression interpreted to mean free over-the-air TV. By moving all of its games to cable, the NFL would lose the exemption's protection and open itself up to years of antitrust litigation. Baseball is in a different position because of its historical exemption from antitrust law, but that exemption has been limited over the years. The nine Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments this spring and issue an opinion later in the year.


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There are very few pitchers in baseball who look forward to facing young Marlins star Giancarlo Stanton. The 22-year-old outfielder is hitting .292 this season with 22 homers and 66 RBI. Whenever an opponent gets the opportunity to pitch around him, they almost always cash in. This leads to some tricky lineup decisions for Ozzie Guillen, who has recently been criticized for not giving Stanton enough protection.
"I need the (expletive) FBI to protect that guy because anyone on this (expletive) team, he can't," Guillen said earlier this week according to the Sun Sentinel. "No one. I need the DEA, the FBI and a swat team to protect him."
Stanton was intentionally walked twice on Sunday against the Rockies while hitting in front of Donnie Murphy. He was 5-for-12 with three home runs and five RBI in the first three games of the series when hitting in front of Donovan Solano and rookie Rob Brantly. Guillen's argument is that Murphy is a better hitter than Solano and Brantly, which proves that the so-called "protection" has nothing to do with the outcome.
"Why you not protecting Stanton?" Guillen said. "Wait a minute. Did you see him hit three home runs…and you don't know who was behind him? Now (Sunday) he walked twice and I think Murphy is a little bit better than Solano and the kid. That's why people think they know about baseball and they're full of (expletive). They make a (expletive) excuse to second guess the manager."
While the person a player is hitting in front of certainly affects the pitches he sees in some way, Ozzie's point is that it is more situational than anything. If runners are on second and third there's a good chance Stanton is getting walked regardless of who is on deck. While he may only know how to explain himself in typically graceful Ozzie fashion, I tend to agree with Guillen that people are overreacting.
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Tiger's Retreat Underscores the Problems at the PlayersRick Horrow and Karla Swatek
When asked to comment on the recent and untimely death of Spanish golfing great Seve Ballesteros, 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell responded, "Apparently, God needed a short-game lesson."
After dropping out of the 2011 Players Championship today because of a leg injury, Tiger Woods could also use some divine intervention five months into the 2011 PGA season. As the former champ continues his slump, it is the specter of Ballesteros and the surging European Tour that hangs over TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Are American golf fans still on board? Apparently, and they're teeing it up as much as they're TiVoing it up. According to PGA Performance Trak, total rounds played are up 6.6 percent for the year through March, and overall golf fee revenue is up 4.5 percent.
"Over the first three months of this year, the golf industry has continued to demonstrate both its stability and resiliency. The numbers we are seeing so far in 2011 are ones I am sure many small businesses today would be thrilled to have," says Joe Steranka, chief executive of the Professional Golfers Association of America. "Golf is an important part of millions of lives in our country because it's fun, it takes people outside to healthy environs, and provides those special times with friends and family that we value so strongly today."
At TPC Sawgrass, however, the lack of Players Championship participation by such prominent European Tour members as Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood has tongues wagging in the media tents and corporate chalets, as does this just-released PGA Tour statistic: Woods, who has 14 major championships and 71 PGA Tour wins under his webbed belt, has dropped to No. 8 in the world golf rankings. At No. 1 is England's Paul Casey, who has zero major wins … and just one PGA Tour victory.
The Players Championships: Major or Minor?
Despite NBC's best efforts to hype the event to the hilt, most PGA Tour pros, when polled, don't consider the Players Championship to be the equivalent of golf's four stated Majors, giving it lesser status while acknowledging it is several steps above run-of-the-mill PGA Tour events. This continued lack of respect for the Tour's flagship event, adjacent to PGA Tour headquarters, takes former PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beman by surprise. The Players "might have approached the status of the four tournaments currently accepted as major championships sooner," Beman told the Florida Times-Union, "I think it's taken longer than I thought it would take. … I felt that it would have a little higher status with every player in the world, so that no player, regardless of what his agent said to him, would ever consider stepping aside."
The Players was one of Beman's babies, and he has to be pleased with its current purse of $9.5 million and winning share of $1.71 million. That sum would likely be much lower without the groundwork that Beman laid: When he first became PGA Tour Commissioner in 1974, the total purse for the entire year was $8 million. When he retired in 1994, annual Tour prize money had grown to roughly $100 million (which subsequently almost tripled to $276 million in 2010).
Since the tournament's move from late March to May four years ago, tournament organizers have continually upgraded the facility to provide more and more amenities for fans. The tournament has nearly doubled the number of restrooms on the course and multiplied the number of "cooling stations" where patrons can escape Florida's sweltering mid-May heat. One major fan-backed change this year at the 18th hole: Confined bleachers have been removed, and patrons can now sit on airy, grassy banks called "the Bluff."
The Politics of Golf
The other major change to the Players Championship this year is the inclusion of two-day World Golf Hall of Fame inductions to kick off the week-long tournament festivities. On Monday, at the St. Johns County Convention Center in St. Augustine and carried live by the Golf Channel, the World Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2011 was honored. It comprises golfers Ernie Els, Jumbo Ozaki, the late Jock Hutchinson, and Doug Ford, now the oldest living Masters champion, and also includes late CBS Sports Producer Frank Chirkinian and former U.S. President George H.W. Bush.
Bush, an avid recreational golfer, was honored for his chairmanship of golf's First Tee program from 1997 until earlier this year. Under his tenure, more than 4.7 million youngsters were assisted through the organization's wide array of programs.
America's 41st Commander-in-Chief probably wouldn't hesitate to step up to the challenge posed to President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner by Golf Digest. Leading up to next month's U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Maryland, editors of that publication have called on representatives of the President and the congressman to play a bipartisan round together as a demonstration of unity. Both are avid golfers—although the single-digit handicap Boehner would have to give the 16-24 index Obama a few strokes—who have reportedly been trying to schedule a round together for months. "We think it would be good for them and good for this country," said Golf Digest Editor-in-Chief Jerry Tarde. To further prove the point, the publication has printed up 10,000 Obama-Boehner "Let's Play Golf" buttons to distribute around the U.S. Open tournament.
Finally, a likely summertime political struggle: Not on board with the PGA Tour's proposed changes to golf's end-of-season qualifying process are an elite group of pros who attended a presentation in New Orleans two weeks ago. The proposal includes a "three-event, season-ending series mixing Tour players outside the top 125 in earnings with the top 50 Nationwide Tour finishers," according to GolfWeek, as well as adjusting Q-School to award Nationwide cards alone. The revised qualifying proposal "has received preliminary approval from the Tour's Policy Board, but the board must vote on it again before the proposal can be finalized."
Our Tour vs. Their Tour(s)
Further clouding the decisions of international golf pros about how much time to spend on America's PGA Tour are increasing can't-say-no opportunities overseas. In 2012, South Africa will hold its first World Golf Championship event, known as the Tournament of Hope, which, by offering prize money of $10 million, is the richest tournament in international golf. The five-year agreement to host the event was cemented after meetings at the Masters between South Africa's Sunshine Tour Commissioner, the PGA Tour, and the International Federation of PGA Tours. Its philanthropic focus will be on increasing awareness of HIV/AIDS and poverty in Africa.
The Asian Tour, meanwhile—a proving ground for such pros as Y.E. Yang and K.J. Choi before they made a name for themselves in the U.S.—is expanding its reach via a new agreement with Golf Channel.
The deal was completed by Asian Tour Media, a new joint venture between the tour and the Asia-Pacific division of Britain's IMG Media. The 12-year contract covers all aspects of the TV broadcast, from production and talent to the tour's TV distribution, which encompasses 420 million households across 130 countries and includes such partners as Sky Sports in the U.K., Fox in Australia, ESPN in India, and networks that carry the tour in China, Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East.
The new Golf Channel deal will mark the Asian Tour's first regular TV exposure in North America by airing a one-hour package of highlights each week during the 21-tournament Asian Tour season, from February to November. IMG executives are hoping that the Asian Tour arrangement mirrors the success of European Tour Productions, which it formed in the early 1990s and which now churns out more than 700 hours of programming each year.
Also announced by Golf Channel this week: The irrepressible David Feherty, 14-year CBS Sports veteran and former PGA Tour and European Tour pro, will premier his own prime-time show on the cable network next month. Feherty is the first original Golf Channel series created since it became a member of the NBC Sports Group following NBCUniversal's acquisition by Comcast (CMCSA) in January. The Northern Ireland native claims that no topic is off-limits, the show will include interviews with people outside the golf world, and he is "interested in looking at the periphery of events."
A final word on Feherty's former European Tour colleague Ballesteros: As reported by Yahoo Sports' Jay Busbee, in the wake of Ballesteros's death, a movement is building to change the European Tour logo from the silhouette of six-time British Open champion Harry Vardon to Ballesteros's image. While the Vardon logo is only two years old, Busbee notes that Ballesteros, "more than any other golfer, built the European Tour into what it is now." As four of world golf's top five rankings are currently held by European Tour players, as three of the last four Majors champions hail from the European tour, and as the Ryder Cup, a Ballesteros stronghold, is firmly in the hands of the Euros, perhaps it is indeed time to give the Spaniard his indelible due.


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Re: st: Chi2 test on weighted data
Steve Samuels <email@example.com>
Re: st: Chi2 test on weighted data
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:07:42 -0400
Annelies replied to me privately that the situation is essentially what
Stas has surmised. She is well aware that the weighted chi-squre test is
suboptimal. But a study protocol, written by others, prescribed it. We
can only hope that she can convince the collaborators to accept the
better test.
The major argument might be: they cannot trust a nominally "significant"
chi-square p-value, because the better p-value will
be larger.
On Sep 22, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Stas Kolenikov wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Steve Samuels <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Let me make this clear: the "uncorrected" chi square is the ordinary chi
> square statistic, but with weighted cell proportions in stead of raw
> proportions. Details are given in the manual.
> If you used the uncorrected chi square statistic produced in your
> example, you would have P = 0.11, compared to the more accurate P =
> 0.19. So now you have me curious: Why does this project "need" a test
> whose p-value is known to be bad?
I imagine that Annelies' client may only know the name "chi-square
test for contingency tables". If they knew this as an "independence
test", and knew that the chi-square was an asymptotic approximation,
they probably would not have cared about what distribution it is
related to in the software, as long as this is the standard practice
in the field (and what Stata offers here indeed is).
Annelies would need to read upon Rao-Scott corrections:
http://www.citeulike.org/user/ctacmo/article/8922395. I am sure these
references are also in the [SVY] manual.
-- Stas Kolenikov, PhD, PStat (SSC) :: http://stas.kolenikov.name
-- Senior Survey Statistician, Abt SRBI :: work email kolenikovs at
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-- Opinions stated in this email are mine only, and do not reflect the
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> Actually, -svy: tab- also shows the uncorrected, weighted, Pearson chi square statistic. It's not appropriate for doing a "chi square test", but there it is.
> Steve
> The Design-based F produced by -svy tab- _is_ a corrected weighted Pearson chi square statistic. But because of the complex sampling design, the distribution of the uncorrected version is not chi square. To get a valid p-value, the chi square statistic is converted to an F statistic. For details and references, see the manual entry for "svy: tabulate twoway".
> Steve
> On Sep 20, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Dr. Annelies Blom wrote:
> Dear Steve, dear all,
> Thank you very much for your answer. I was aware of the svy commands. However,
> the command does not support the chi2 option. When I estimate the table without
> the chi2 option, I do get a chi2 estimate, however, according to the output this
> estimate is "uncorrected". I assume that this means that the weightt is not
> taken into account, right?
> Stata does calculate a " Design-based F", however, for this project I need the
> chi2.
> The output for the tests looks as follows:
> Pearson:
> Uncorrected chi2(4) = 7.5233
> Design-based F(3.97, 18286.26)= 1.5275 P = 0.1916
> Does anyone know whether I am just misinterpreting the output or how to get
> Stata to deliver weighted chi2 estimates?
> Best,
> Annelies
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:32:27 -0400
> From: Steve Samuels <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Subject: Re: st: Chi2 test on weighted data
> Hello, Annelies. Welcome to Statalist!
> The command you are seeking is "svy tabulate", and you might have found
> it by typing "help survey tabulate". For valid test results, you must first
> specify the survey design with -svyset-. Typing "help survey" will introduce
> Stata's survey capabilities. There are a number of contributed survey commands,
> so ask
> if you need functionality that the built-in commands do not provide.
> Steve
> On Sep 10, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Prof. Annelies Blom wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have a quick question which I just don't seem to be able to solve.
> I would like to perform a chi2 test on whether two categorical variable are
> related. My data are survey data and contain a design weight. Thus, I gathered
> that I should use pweights. However, I cannot find any command that lets me
> perform a chi2 test on pweighted data.
> For example: tabulate does not allow the pweight option and, moreover, does only
> allow frequency weights in combination with the chi2 analysis.
> What am I missing?
> Best,
> Annelies
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The cast of upcoming drama To The Beautiful You met the media for its press conference on August 13.
The boys (Minho, Lee Hyun Woo, Suh Joon Young, Hwang Kwang Hee and Kang Ha Heul) all appeared trendy and wore the same white and red pin in their chest, Sulli opted to wear boyish shirt and pants while Kim Ji Won looked pretty with her white dress.
During the press conference, To The Beautiful You also launched its 9 minutes long preview.
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A 25-year-old Blenheim man is facing drunk driving charges after he was arrested in Leamington Thursday night.
Ontario Provincial Police said the man was stopped on Highway 3 near County Road 31 around 8:55 p.m.
Franz Friessen, 25, of Blenheim is facing charges of impaired driving and exceeding a breathalyzer.
He has been released from police custody and will appear in a Leamington court next month.
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Mountain Mediators are going strong in their 80s
John Scroggs, 81, Peggy Smith, 84, and Lee Finger, 82, are anything but average senior citizens.
Rather than enjoy the quiet years of retirement, the three oldest members of Mountain Mediation Services have opted to get in the middle of arguments, disagreements and legal disputes.
Why are they still doing this at such an advanced age?
"Why?" said Scroggs. "We ask that ourselves sometimes."
"We just haven't gotten around to stopping," said Smith. "Keeps us off the streets."
Tucked away inside the Haywood County Justice Center, Mountain Mediation Services, a 501c nonprofit, gives people a different way to solve their problems.
Mediation uses neutral third parties to help clients resolve disagreements in the workplace, at home or in the neighborhood. Mediators are trained volunteers from the community. They do not take sides, decide who is right or wrong, or give advice. They guide clients through the process of identifying the issues, exploring possible solutions and deciding which solutions will work.
Mountain Mediation Services serves the residents of Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Swain counties, plus those who live on the Qualla Boundary. With so much territory to cover, the "Haywood Horribles," as they call themselves, stay busy. Combined, Scroggs, Smith and Finger have 50 years of experience and have closed over 2,800 cases.
Scroggs has been a mediator since 1996. Originally from Cherokee County, he worked for the paper mill for over 40 years; he spent 15 years during that time working with the United Paper Workers Union.
Smith began became a mediator in 1999. She's from Yancey County, but lived and worked for a law office in Connecticut for many years.
Finger is the only native of Haywood County. Originally from Maggie Valley, he was a member of the management at Dayco before retiring and joining the mediators in 1997.
Anyone who is willing to go through the training and volunteer their time can become a mediator. There are extensive initial training sessions and continuing education seminars.
All in a day's work
Scroggs will go to court, look at the docket and try to identify possible cases — misdemeanors like harassing phone calls, communicating threats and the like.
"Then we talk to the prosecutor's office, and if it looks like a promising mediation, then someone will interview the people involved, both sides, and see if they're willing to sit down and mediate," said Scroggs.
"It's a heck of a lot cheaper to run things through mediation than to run it through the system," said Finger.
Every case they settle out of court saves thousdands of dollars. The team members have a good relationship with the district attorney and the clerks.
"If they refer us a case, they know pretty well that we're not going screw it up," said Scroggs.
The majority of their cases are referred from the Haywood County criminal magistrate. And in an attempt to keep the court system from getting clogged, a new law from Raleigh now allows certain types of cases to be referred directly to the mediators.
They do not handle felonies or child and domestic abuse cases.
Of the cases that are referred to them, 25 percent will refuse mediation and insist on going to court. Of those that agree to mediation, the three have a 90 percent success rate.
"We meet with the parties separately at the beginning because many time they will tell us things that will help us resolve the problem that they aren't willing to say with other party there," said Smith. "And we're very careful. We assure them that whatever they tell us will not be repeated to the other party. It's all strictly confidential. And we find out what their problem is. Then we get them together and try to get them to talk about where they want to, what they want. And we always, always stress that whatever they work out is fine, but the children are our primary concern. We want the children taken care of. And sometimes it takes one session, sometimes it takes four session."
"Part of our responsibility is to do family mediations, things like divorces, child custody and etc," said Finger. "If children are involved, we always try to make sure that they realize that [the children] the No. 1 priority in whatever they're talking about."
The mediators do not arrange for divorces; instead, they arrange for the separating couple to figure out and agree with what they want.
"Many times if they agree on something, we draw up a document, not a legal document, but one they can take to a lawyer; they don't have to have separate lawyers. Not all lawyers will agree to that, but some do," said Smith.
The mediators usually work in pairs, especially when it comes to marital disputes. In those cases, both a man and woman mediator will participate so the clients don't feel like the mediators are taking sides based on gender. Often, the male party will speak to the male mediator and the women party will speak to the woman mediator.
"The most satisfying or the most disappointing is family cases," said Scroggs.
"Oh yes. If they don't work, family situations are really unhappy," said Smith.
"What clouds the issue are children — when to pick them up and drop them off, etc," said Scroggs. "And in-laws. Mothers-in-law can be tough. Sisters-in-law are even meaner. I've had to get between them, and they've argued around my belly."
In addition to their normal caseload, the mediators will also visit Haywood County schools.
"We have a wonderful time at the schools," said Smith. "We go to the middle schools twice a year and conduct classes on conflict resolution and how to handle bullies."
They also mediate disputes between students and faculty.
"We have a contract with the school system," said Scroggs. "If they have a problem, we get there as quick as we can."
"John and I had quite a long series of going to the schools in other counties, mainly into Cherokee, for truancy investigations," said Smith. "Now they've all had budget cuts and they don't do that anymore. It's a shame. It's needed. Most of the cases, if the child is over fourth or fifth grade, we talk to the kids and we're very blunt — 'What's your problem? Why don't you go to school?' Answers include, 'My mama doesn't get me up." One lady was quite blunt with us and told us 'I don't like to get up in the morning.'"
"In that case, the school gave the kid an alarm clock," said Scroggs. "The kid would set it and he would wake his mother up. He was 7-years old."
Finger feels the mediators do the most good in juvenile court.
"I've always felt that we've benefitted the juvy court the most," said Finger. "It gives you an opportunity to touch the feelings of kids, and maybe you can restart some kid and keep them out of the courtroom and expose them to some stuff they aren't exposed to normally."
Like a lot of nonprofits, the mediators are "hurting for a budget," according to Finger. When Mountain Mediation Services was first established in the 1990s, their budget allowed them to provide mediation services for free.
About three years ago, the budget was slashed, and the mediators have to make up their budget with fees. One mediation session costs $100, but that's a small fee when compared to the thousands of dollars it takes to go through the court system. Additional funding comes from the towns in the county and from United Way.
Despite monetary issues, Scroggs still finds great enjoyment in what he does.
"The answer to why I still do it has changed over the years," said Scroggs. "At first, it was wanting to help people. I've spent the biggest part of my adult life representing people. But now it's the challenge."
For more information about Mountain Mediation Services, call 452-0240, or visit www.mountainmediation.org.


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BlackRock's Money Funds Have Sold Vulnerable TreasuriesChristopher Condon
BlackRock Inc. joined the two biggest providers of money-market mutual funds in reducing holdings of the riskiest U.S. Treasury maturities as investors stepped up withdrawals across the industry.
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, today followed Fidelity Investments and JPMorgan Chase & Co. in declaring its money funds free of the debt most likely to be affected by a default as the U.S. government approaches its borrowing limit. Investors pulled more cash yesterday from institutional government-only money funds than in any day in more than two years, according to research firm Crane Data LLC in Westborough, Massachusetts.
"We continue to take prudent actions in preparation for all potential outcomes, despite our belief that Congress and the president will likely act to prevent a U.S. default," Tara McDonnell, a spokeswoman for New York-based BlackRock, said today in an e-mailed statement.
President Barack Obama and House Republican leaders moved yesterday toward an agreement to extend the nation's borrowing authority as they remained at odds over terms for ending the partial government shutdown. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio yesterday said he would offer as soon as today a measure to postpone a potential U.S. default to Nov. 22 from Oct. 17.
'Big Drop'
Assets in U.S. money funds that buy almost exclusively debt backed by the federal government fell by $7.4 billion yesterday, or 2.3 percent, the largest decline since July 29, 2011, shortly before a resolution to the last debt ceiling crisis. Investors withdrew $9.4 billion on that day, according to Crane Data.
"It's definitely a big drop," Peter Crane, president of Crane Data, said in an e-mail. "A debt deal can't happen soon enough at this point. A few more days of this and you'll begin to see forced selling" of assets by money funds.
Assets in all U.S. money funds fell $28.7 billion, or 1.1 percent, in the past seven days, according to the firm's data.
Money funds can cope with a short-term default in U.S. Treasuries as long as it doesn't trigger significant investor flight, Fitch Ratings said in an Oct. 9 report. Fitch cited evidence that fund companies had reduced holdings in maturities most likely to be affected by a default and had boosted their level of assets that could be quickly converted into cash and returned to withdrawing investors.
Federated Investors
"We have not seen unusual increases in redemptions," BlackRock's McDonnell said. "We have been in communication with our clients to ensure they understand our approach."
The week's exodus is a fraction of the $310 billion pulled from money funds in the week after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, causing a loss at the Reserve Primary Fund and setting off a panic that helped freeze global short-term debt.
Federated Investors Inc., the third-biggest provider, said it stuck with maturities other firms were selling, convinced that the White House and Republicans would reach a deal to avert a default.
"We continue to hold Treasury securities that mature in the upcoming weeks and are confident that they represent no threat to the liquidity or stability of the portfolio," Meghan McAndrew, a Federated spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.
U.S. money funds held about $475 billion in Treasury securities as of Aug. 31, and an additional $156 billion in repurchase agreements collateralized by Treasuries. About $74 billion in Treasuries held by money funds matures from Oct. 24 to Nov. 15, Crane Data estimates.
Money-market funds give millions of households, companies and other institutions a low-risk parking spot for cash and channel $2.6 trillion to issuers of short-term debt including the U.S. government, financial institutions and other corporations.


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For Latinos, Immigration More Personal than Political, Poll Says
But Latinos still listen closely to what candidates say about immigration.
A new Fox News Latino poll conducted of 1,200 likely Latino voters nationwide, under the direction of Latin Insights, shows that they care most about the economy when it comes to the presidential race.
Nearly 50 percent said jobs and the economy were the top issues for them - a markedly smaller group, 12 percent, consider immigration a top issue when choosing the President.
But immigration - and the tenor of discussions on the campaign trail about immigrants - clearly matters a lot to Latinos on a personal level. Indeed, for many Latinos, immigration is personal.
Nearly half of these U.S. citizens take offense at the term "illegal immigrant," some seven percent are neutral on the phrase.
More than half of the respondents say they feel U.S. immigration policy is too strict. And an overwhelming majority - 85 percent - would like to see undocumented immigrants have a chance to legalize their status.
A huge percentage, 82 percent, believe undocumented immigrants do work that Americans will not do. They feel the undocumented workers help expand the economy.
An overwhelming majority --nine out of ten-- also supports the DREAM Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants brought as children to gain legal U.S. residency if they attend college or join the military.
As President, Obama has not delivered on immigration reform, to the chagrin of many Latinos who have complained that he did not push the matter with the same drive and zeal that he did, say, healthcare reform.
Nonetheless, a majority of voters said in the poll that, if they were to vote now, they'd choose Obama over any of the Republican candidates, who all have taken hard-line stances on immigration and English as the official language.
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As an African American Male, i'll be so happy this November when Obama get the hell out of the white house , the next President should run him, the DREAM Act, an those illegals immigrants out of the country, down in the banana republic, by the way, let him take his boys with him Al Sharpson, Jessie Jackson, an all the rest of his henchmens.
Posted Mar 11 2012
How can Obama "promise" immigration reform (amnesty) when ordinary citizens and legal immigrants are against it?
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ----- The UAB football team practiced for 15 periods on Thursday, as the Blazers finished preparations for their game at Mississippi State.
The Blazers' final practice of the week, went longer than previous Thursday practices as head coach Neil Callaway and his team rehearsed and finished up their game plan for the third meeting between the two teams in four years.
"It was a good day today," Callaway said. "We just changed it today and spent more time on the field, rather than the meeting rooms. I thought it would be more beneficial to us and help us eliminate some of the mistakes that we have been making."
Callaway also said that even though more players have been sidelined by injuries this week, that it hadn't really effected how the Blazers' practice has been.
"I think we had a good Tuesday," Callaway said. "I thought it was the best Tuesday we've had. Wednesday wasn't what you wanted, but it was a normal Wednesday, and then I thought today was good."
Callaway also announced that senior Sam Hunt, sophomore Julian Smith, and junior Kevin Sanders will be the game captains on Saturday. UAB (1-3, 0-1 C-USA) and Mississippi State (3-2, 1-2 SEC) will kick off at 1:30 p.m. CT at Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field in Starkville, Miss.
Radio coverage of the game can be heard on the Blazers' ISP Sports Network flagship station WUHT 107.7 FM. The broadcast can also be heard on affiliates WIQR 1410 AM in Montgomery, WTRB 98.3 FM in Talladega and WACT 1420 AM in Tuscaloosa.


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Oil prices sink as U.S. and allies agree to tap stockpiles - latimes.com
A surprise move to tap government oil reserves could slash painfully high gasoline prices this summer and give the U.S. economy a much-needed boost, but the rare action underscores the challenge posed by the weakening recovery.
The price of oil tumbled Thursday after the U.S. and other industrialized countries, citing the loss of oil from Libya, said they would release 60 million barrels of crude from emergency stockpiles and sell it on the energy markets over the next 30 days. Half of the oil is to come from the U.S. government's Strategic Petroleum Reserve on the Gulf Coast.


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Working with Web Pages in Dreamweaver 8
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Introduction and Preparation
In this tutorial you will be creating a fictitious book selling web site. Because the web pages
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1. creating a folder which will contain your web pages and images. If you will be working
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o Every file name must be unique
o Use lowercased letters
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Interesting ancient temples
All of these temples can be visited in one day from Malang by public transport and with the addition of ojeks if you want to speed things up.
Candi Singosari
Candi Singosari is a pretty temple located about 12 kilometres north of Malang built in the early 14th century to commemorate the death of Kertanegara, the last king of the Singosari dynasty who according to legend died in 1292. The temple itself climbs to a height of 15 metres and cuts an impressive figure in an otherwise uninteresting village street. Restoration commenced in 1934 and concluded in 1936.
Candi Singosari is easily accessible by public transport from the Arjosari bus terminal, five kilometres north of town. Light green angkot with the letters LA ply the route from Arjosari to Singosari regularly for 2,000 rupiah and can drop you off outside the Indomaret which sits on the corner of the main road and the road to Candi Singosari. The temple is 300 metres along this road and can't be missed. Walk a further 200 metres to reach a pair of plump four-metre tall dwarapala statues adorned in skull earrings and serpents, arguably as impressive as the main temple. Both the temple and dwarapala require a 2,000 rupiah donation for entry.
For onward travel, angkots leave from the nearby market on the main road 500 metres south of the Candi Singosari turn off.
Candi Sumberawan
Dating from the 14th century, this part restored/part rebuilt Buddhist stupa sits in the middle of a forest in the village of Toyomarto six kilometres up from Singosari in the foothills of Mount Arjuna. It's a mildly interesting site, but probably isn't worth the hassle of getting to if you are using angkots only – use of an ojek or private vehicle is recommended.
Royal blue angkots depart for Sumberawan from the Singosari market (2,500 rupiah) only when there are enough passengers. Early in the day, this usually means they depart every 45 minutes. Angkots will drop you off at the path leading to the temple, which runs alongside an irrigation ditch for about 500 metres. Ojeks will take passengers here and back from the market in Singosari for 20,000 rupiah.
Candi Jago
Discovered in 1928 by the Dutch, Candi Jago is a temple of both Hindu and Buddhist significance located 24 kilometres southeast of the Arjosari bus terminal in the town of Tumpang. The temple is the largest and most impressive of those surrounding Malang and features an abundance of intricate reliefs depicting stories such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata. It's possible to climb this temple and get a decent view of the surrounding town.
From the Arjosari bus terminal, catch a white Tumpang-bound angkot for 5,000 rupiah. It will drop you off on the corner of Jalan Wisnuwardana across from the mosque. It is not necessary to catch one of the horse and carts for the 300 metre journey up Jalan Wisnuwardana to the temple.
Candi Kidal
Candi Kidal is a very impressive Hindu/Buddhist temple located a further seven kilometres from Candi Jago. It was built in 1248 as a burial shrine to King Anusapati and to this day remains a stunning example of East Javanese design from that period, with intricate decorations adorning many of the surfaces. It's a temple certainly worth the considerable effort of visiting.
Angkots depart from the Tumpang market for 2,000 rupiah, 200 metres east of the turn off to Candi Jago, but only when full. This can pose problems later in the day when fewer passengers wish to travel along this route. An ojek can be hired for 20,000 rupiah for the return journey and is probably the most practical option for independent travellers.
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I grew up through the 80s and 90s incorrectly pronouncing these games. As a young child I was actually a very good reader and speller - even as a first grader I had no problem with titles for the 5200 like Countermeasure or Centipede, but I managed to have the games on this list completely wrong. Around 1996 or so the internet began to inform me of my ignorance.


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Jennifer Hudson and her sister, Julia Hudson, have released a statement after William Balfour, was found guilty in the murders of their relatives.
"We have many people to thank but our first thank you is to God, always. We are so grateful to prosecutors James McKay, Jennifer Bagby and Veryl Gambino and State's Attorney Anita Alvarez and her team for their dedication and tireless work from the beginning," the sisters said in their statement, released to Access Hollywood on Friday evening.
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"We have the best police department and they have been with us every step of the way," their statement continued, referring to Chicago's finest. "We thank all of the State's witnesses who came forward on our behalf."
The sisters added their thanks to those around the world who have supported the family in the wake of the October 2008 tragedy.
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"We have felt the love and support from people all over the world and we're very grateful. We want to extend a prayer from the Hudson family to the Balfour family. We have all suffered terrible loss in this tragedy. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them (2 Corinthian 4:3-4). It is our prayer that the Lord will forgive Mr. Balfour of these heinous acts and bring his heart into repentance someday," the statement concluded.
On Friday, a jury in Chicago convicted Balfour of murdering the Oscar winner's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.
At the time of the 2008 murders, Balfour was the estranged husband of Julia Hudson.
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Latin Grill: Sultry and Simple Food for Red-Hot Dinners and Parties by Rafael Palomino, includes recipes like Grilled Sweet Plantains, Abuelita Style; Grilled Arepas with Farmer's Cheese (or Queso Blanco); and Grilled Chorizo (Colombian Sausage with Ají Rojo).
Servings: 4
It's not just because of my heritage that I love Colombian sausage! Maybe it's the combination of garlic, green onions, cumin, and cilantro. These spices manage to find their way into many of my dishes, but that's understandable: their flavors bring back great childhood memories for me and they're delicious. Here I've combined their flavor with my interpretation of a traditional Colombian salsa: ají rojo. The sauce—which is great on top of everything from chips to yuca—is easy to prepare, and it's great to keep on hand for other grilled meat dishes.
In a large bowl, combine the onion, lime juice, tomato, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. Add the chile, chives, and cilantro and stir well. Let the mixture sit for at least 15 minutes. (This can be done several hours ahead of time; keep it in the refrigerator and bring it to room temperature just before serving.)
Light a fire in a charcoal or gas grill. Cook the sausages, turning every couple of minutes, until cooked through, about 10 minutes. (The grilling time will vary depending on the thickness of the sausages.) Remove the sausages from the grill and place them on a chopping board. Slice each sausage into rounds (on a slight angle) and place on a platter, or onto four plates. Top with the ají rojo and serve.
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Indeed - some useful pointers there.
Sure wish I was as good as him on the steel, every time
This is a discussion on Training Video! within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; May have been posted before, I don't know? It's a good video and would be benificial to watch, this was the first time I saw ...
May have been posted before, I don't know? It's a good video and would be benificial to watch, this was the first time I saw this one and couldn't hurt to post it for others starting out or new to hand guns.
Todd Jarrett on how to properly hold a hand gun!
Train and train hard, you might not get a second chance to make a first impression!
I vote for Monica Lewinsky's Ex-Boyfriend's Wife for President.....Not!
Indeed - some useful pointers there.
Sure wish I was as good as him on the steel, every time
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
Great vid. Thanks for the post! Now I have something to try on dry fire tomorrow!
"You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know" - T.R.
<----My LT was unhappy that I did not have my PASS-Tag at that fire. But I found the body so he said he would overlook it. :)
Good post. The tips were were very useful for me.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the weaponry to make the difference.
Twas the way that I learned over 30 years ago, nothing new but indeed a good video for those who have picked up bad habbits.
"The sword dose not cause the murder, and the maker of the sword dose not bear sin" Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac 11th century
Thanks for the link, I wish i had a job like Todd, someone to pay me to shoot all day. Must be pure torture for him,lol
Enjoyed it, and thanks for the videos...
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Very nice! now i know what im doing wrong. I cant get that rapid fire like that. the recoil was killing my re-sight.. hmmm might have to take the laptop out to the range and watch that again heheh.
I carry because I care.
"An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject."
"Cling to the Father and His Holy name, and don't go riding on the Long Black Train" - Josh Turner
Thanks Ti.
"The pistol, learn it well, carry it always ..." ~ Jeff Cooper
"Terrorists: They hated you yesterday, they hate you today, and they will hate you tomorrow.
End the cycle of hatred, dont give them a tomorrow."
Great Video i just wish i could shoot that good and that fast


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jonnygothispen wrote: So maybe the only gamble worth taking is turning up the heat in advance as long as it's followed by more heat.
As Kenny Rogers said, you got to know when to hold and when to fold. The Supreme Court is largely immune from political pressure. The president certainly can't effectively apply "heat" directly to the Court.
Devil is in the details. I totally agree with the president attacking the Supreme Court's taking away health care from 30M people on partisian lines. But the heat should be on Republican politicians, remind voters that election have consequences. By seeming to attack the court institutionally before they've rendered a decision, Obama loses some of the aura of his bully pulpit.


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Wednesday, April 13
• Oro Valley Councilman Bill Garner will host Council on Your Corner. Details: 10–11 a.m.; Izzi's Café, on the patio; 12985 N. Oracle Rd.; 229-4700.
Thursday, April 14
• The Oro Valley Stormwater Utility Commission meets for special session. Details: 6-9 p.m.; Calle Concordia Conference Room, 680 W. Calle Concordia; 229-4700.
• The Oracle School District governing board meets. Details: 6:30 p.m.; 725 N. Carpenter Dr.; 896-3070.
• The Marana Unified School District governing board meets. Details: 7 p.m.; Marana Municipal Complex, 11555 W. Civic Center Dr.; 682-4774.
Friday, April 15
• The Metropolitan Pima Alliance holds its monthly breakfast. Details: 7:15-9 a.m.; Tucson Association of Realtors, 2445 N. Tucson Blvd.; $35, $25 members; www.mpaaz.org.
Saturday, April 16
• State Representative Peggy Judd holds a Conversations with Arizona Leaders session. Details: 1-2:30 p.m.; Wheeler Taft Abbett Branch Library, 7800 N. Schisler Dr.; 594-5200.
Monday, April 18
• Pima Council on Aging provides information and referral service on issues concerning older people. Details: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Dr.; free; 229-5300.
Tuesday, April 19
• The Pima County Board of Supervisors meets. Details: 9 a.m.; Supervisor's hearing room, first floor, Pima County Administration Building, 130 W. Congress St.; 740-8126.
• The non-partisan Coffee Party of NW Tucson meets. Details: 1-3 p.m.; Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Dr.; 575-1743.
• The Marana Town Council meets. Details: 7 p.m.; Marana Municipal Complex Council Chambers, 11555 W. Civic Center Dr.; 682-3401.
• The Pima County Young Republicans hold their monthly social with speaker Ward 6 Councilman Steve Kozachik. Details: 7 p.m.; Fronimos Greek Café, 3242 E. Speedway Blvd.; www.pimayrs.com.
Wednesday, April 20
• The Oro Valley Town Council meets. Details: 6-9 p.m.; Council Chambers, 11000 N. La Cañada Dr.; 229-4700.
Thursday, April 21
• The Foothills Democratic Forum discusses the topic Immigration: Challenges and Solutions with guest speakers Jennifer Allen from Border Action Network, Sunnyside School District Assistant Superintendent Steve Holmes, and UA Law School Professor Andy Silverman. Details: 5:30-7 p.m.; Skyline Country Club, 5200 E. St. Andrews; $15; 261-8143.
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Gervaise's saint's day fell on the 19th of June. On such occasions, the Coupeaus
always made a grand display; they feasted till they were as round as balls, and their
stomachs were filled for the rest of the week. There was a complete clear out of all the
money they had. The moment there were a few sous in the house they went in gorging.
They invented saints for those days which the almanac had not provided with any, just
for the sake of giving themselves a pretext for gormandizing. Virginie highly
commended Gervaise for stuffing herself with all sorts of savory dishes. When one has
a husband who turns all he can lay hands on into drink, it's good to line one's stomach
well, and not to let everything go off in liquids. Since the money would disappear
anyway, surely it was better to pay it to the butcher. Gervaise used that excuse to justify
overeating, saying it was Coupeau's fault if they could no longer save a sou. She had
grown considerably fatter, and she limped more than before because her leg, now
swollen with fat, seemed to be getting gradually shorter.
That year they talked about her saint's day a good month beforehand. They thought of
dishes and smacked their lips in advance. All the shop had a confounded longing to
junket. They wanted a merry-making of the right sort—something out of the ordinary
and highly successful. One does not have so many opportunities for enjoyment. What
most troubled the laundress was to decide whom to invite; she wished to have twelve
persons at table, no more, no less. She, her husband, mother Coupeau, and Madame
Lerat, already made four members of the family. She would also have the Goujets and
the Poissons. Originally, she had decided not to invite her workwomen, Madame Putois
and Clemence, so as not to make them too familiar; but as the projected feast was
being constantly spoken of in their presence, and their mouths watered, she ended by
telling them to come. Four and four, eight, and two are ten. Then, wishing particularly to
have twelve, she became reconciled with the Lorilleuxs, who for some time past had
been hovering around her; at least it was agreed that the Lorilleuxs should come to
dinner, and that peace should be made with glasses in hand. You really shouldn't keep
family quarrels going forever. When the Boches heard that a reconciliation was planned,
they also sought to make up with Gervaise, and so they had to be invited to the dinner
too. That would make fourteen, not counting the children. Never before had she given
such a large dinner and the thought frightened and excited her at the same time.
The saint's day happened to fall on a Monday. It was a piece of luck. Gervaise counted
on the Sunday afternoon to begin the cooking. On the Saturday, whilst the workwomen
hurried with their work, there was a long discussion in the shop with the view of finally
deciding upon what the feast should consist of. For three weeks past one thing alone
had been chosen—a fat roast goose. There was a gluttonous look on every face
whenever it was mentioned. The goose was even already bought. Mother Coupeau
went and fetched it to let Clemence and Madame Putois feel its weight. And they
uttered all kinds of exclamations; it looked such an enormous bird, with its rough skin all
swelled out with yellow fat.