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Original post made by A parent, Charleston Meadows, on Jan 24, 2012
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a resident of Palo Verde
on Jan 24, 2012 at 11:14 am
Historically, Apple has had wonderful partnerships with the education sector (and significant discounts).
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 24, 2012 at 11:42 am
If you use a Mac for a week...try going back to a PC. I mean, honestly...try it. No, I'm not saying every Mac is perfect, but its so far and away better than PC's its not even funny. I'm not trying to start a "Mac vs. PC" war - because, that's just impossible. It would be like a UFC fighter taking on an injured earthworm. Even THAT would be more of a fair fight.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jan 24, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Apple gives big discounts to schools, trying to get your kids addicted on hardware that is much more expensive if you want to buy it for yourself.
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Jan 24, 2012 at 12:22 pm
We came from another district, and my kids also studied in a private school before. Never have we seen so many Apple products in those schools. In fact, never any. If Apple does give huge education discounts, why other districts didn't purchase them? Or is it because PAUSD simply has the luxury to indulge with all the tax and donation?
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Jan 24, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Does it really matter? Most software works on both Macs and PCs.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Jan 24, 2012 at 2:25 pm
I'm an old fart that started on mainframes (cards!), built kit PCs, coded in assembly, worked for years on Unix systems, moved to PCs, and was stuck with PCs (company dictate). When my last PC was so overwhelmed with what I needed it to do, I was finally able to justify tossing it out and to buy my own personal iMac. I had it for years and it never froze, choked, or blinked regardless of how many tasks were running at the same time. I never had to waste endless hours updating virus software or doing general system admin... In fact, I gave it to a friend (who is still happily using it) when I upgraded a few years ago. Expensive? Depends on how you look at it. There was no maintenance or repairs and no need to replace as early as my PCs! Hours of my time saved, priceless.
I will never, ever, ever go back. And no I don't work for Apple.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jan 24, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Most people are using pcs and bought those already,sorry,too late to waste any money on apple computers.
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 24, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Apple used to dominate education. I believe Dell took over the #1 spot in the 1990s based on price (and decent product); Apple last I checked was #2, the rest way behind. My guess is that most districts standardize on one or the other, to simplify training and support and to concentrate purchasing volume/discounts. My guess is that the switching cost would be material esp. since you'd have to train all the teachers on new hardware/OS and possibly software. It's a fair question (heck, any cost-saving question is fair), but I think this is a legitimate choice on the district's part.
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Jan 24, 2012 at 8:35 pm
From a support perspective, Apple machines are the only way to go. You might save some bucks initially buying PCs, but then you need an army of system admins to keep the bloody PCs running. Compare the cost difference with say, at least one new system admin per site and the associated salaries/benefits/retirement costs. Macs are worth every penny.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jan 24, 2012 at 8:41 pm
If you try to run database admin software,or write programming,then pc is the only way to go.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jan 24, 2012 at 9:19 pm
I always wondered, so I asked one of the tech people at my school and they told me that their manager came from a pc company. They said he initially wanted to use PCs to save money but changed his mind pretty quickly. The tech said that they spend most of their maintenance time on the few pcs they have -- they get lots of viruses. They also said the pc laptops last about two years before they start to break while the macs last five or six. Sounds like the district is making a pretty good investment to me.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jan 25, 2012 at 8:29 am
It all depends on the size of memory and processing speed and storage units. If you need to install Unix to run serious programming software,then both pcs and apple are expensive, if you just give those computers for kids to play,then simple not expensive pcs will do the work,after all you can get new things every two to three years since it has changed so quickly, just wait to see cloud computing to become main stream,then you only need e-reader for kids.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Jan 25, 2012 at 4:35 pm
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Not news; Apple and PAUSD have been in bed since at least the 80s. Hasn't the deal always been for Apple to give away (or nearly so) 100 computers to each of our middle/high schools in the hopes that 1,000 kids will gain a lifetime addiction/loyalty?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jan 25, 2012 at 8:06 pm
The majority of PAUSD kids use Macs to research subjects and write papers using Google docs. I don't think they need Unix for that.
a resident of another community
on Jan 25, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Linux can do everything needed in a school environment, and it's free.
It will run fine on old PC's that can't run Windoze 7.
Best of all, the kids won't get addicted to Apple or Microsoft.
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 25, 2012 at 11:32 pm
The buz now for schools are IPADs for each student. Not bad for research, but for writing? I only use my IPAD for email and surfing?
a resident of Barron Park
on Jan 26, 2012 at 8:17 am
"The buz now for schools are IPADs for each student. Not bad for research, but for writing? I only use my IPAD for email and surfing?"
No, basically to replace textbooks.
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 26, 2012 at 11:52 am
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iPad is almost as good as all the other tablets. You can get a decent tablet for 99 bucks. Apple is bullet proof because it is limited in the applications it can run. PCs are open to many programs and so are also more open to crap. All in all, Apples aren't worth the premium. iTunes is O.K. and Pixar too.
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- "Fettuccine alfredo is a delicious meal, but it is wickedly unhealthy. The creamy sauce is packed with fat and calories."
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First, the NHL suspended left wing Raffi Torres for the rest of this series. Then, after their offense finally came to life with three goals against Kings goalie Jonathan Quick, San Jose lost 4-3 Thursday night to fall behind in their Western Conference semifinal series 0-2.
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"Pickles' clearing attempt hits (Jeff) Carter in the shoulder, goes out of play, and they call it a penalty. That's tough," Logan Couture said. "You could see it from the bench."
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"I liked our game," McLellan said. "We'll meet tomorrow at the rink, and I'll tell our team that. And the thing I like about our team — maybe in the past this would have bothered our group more. But with the group of guys we have now, I think we can recover from this."
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As they did Tuesday night, the Kings took a 2-0 lead, this time on a goal by Carter at 3:06 of the first period on Los Angeles' first shot of the game and a Drew Doughty power-play tally at 4:10 of the second.
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Then at 14:21, Stuart took a pass from Gomez and launched a 50-foot slap shot that a screened Quick never saw, drawing the Sharks even at 2-2 going into the third period.
And when Vlasic crashed the net to punch in a rebound off the back boards of a shot by Stuart at 8:56 of the third, things were going San Jose's way.
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Brown scored at 18:17 after Mike Richards put a shot on goal and goalie Antti Niemi couldn't cover the puck. Then at 18:39, Lewis scored after an initial shot by Tyler Toffoli to send the Staples Center crowd into a frenzy.
McLellan may have liked his team's effort, but he's also a realist and knows what lies ahead.
"Guys played their hearts out, but again, that doesn't get you wins in the playoffs," he said. "Scoring more than the other team does, and we're going to have to do that."


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That's it from us tonight, thanks for your company and be sure to grab a copy of Tuesday's Herald or check out smh.com.au for Glenn Jackson's take on the Knights' big win. And remember the SportsDay Live blog will be firing up again from 8.30am with all the latest from the world of sport. We'll be back on Thursday night to kick off round two with the Eels hosting the Bulldogs. At this point it looks like the great Alex Rowe will be in the chair for that one, but who knows what the selectors might do between now and then. Goodnight and thanks again.
That big win puts the Knights on top of the table heading into their date with Manly at Brookvale on Sunday evening. The Tigers now have to regroup and focus on their home clash with Penrith at Campbelltown Stadium on the same afternoon. Of course, the Panthers also scored a big win in round one, easily pushing aside the Raiders 32-10. Here's the ladder as it stands after week one of the season:
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10. Brisbane
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16. Wests Tigers.
Full-time. Marshall misses the conversion and the score finishes at Newcastle 42 Wests Tigers 10. A night to forget for the Tigers, who of course it must not be forgotten are still grieving the loss of young prop Mosese Fotuiaka. Our sympathies go out to his family, friends and teammates. The Tigers tonight played in a strip dedicated to the 20-year-olds memory.
80 min: Benji Marshall flicks one inside to Moltzen who makes no mistake with this one. Newcastle 42 Tigers 10 with a kick to come. The Tigers have bookended the scoring here but that's about all there is to say about their performance.
80 min: The Knights hold the Tigers up over the line again and are defending like a side two points clear rather than 36.Back to top
80 min: Farah goes from dummy-half inches out from the line but the Knights defence is wise to his ruse.
80 min: Into the final minute here at Hunter Stadium as the Tigers win a penalty. Robbie Farah looks to be down with a cramp, which does have a tendency to occur after you've made more than 40 tackles.
Looks like a push in the back from Moltzen there on Jeremy Smith and it's a no-try ruling.
77 min: Tim Moltzen is over the line for the Tigers but doesn't look particularly confident of scoring the most inconsequential try in sporting history. Or maybe he's just not amused at the moment. Can't fathom why.
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The scoreline remains Newcastle 42 Wests Tigers 6 as the fat lady begins her vocal exercises.
75 min: Kade Snowden finds the gap for the Knights but the pass is ruled forward.
74 min: Uate goes for try number four but is caught metres short.
I know more worse doesn't make sense. Please send all complaints care of B. Sessle.
72 min: It just goes from worse to .... more worse for the Tigers as they cough up possession yet again.Back to top
72 min: The Tigers go the short kick and all that results is the Knights are now 10m out. Again.
71 min: Joel Reddy is penalised for grounding the ball on his own line in attempting to return to the field of play and it will be a line drop-out for the Knights.
70 min: Well, not really, but a wee amount of argy-bargy results from that penalty being awarded to the Knights, and besides, I haven't had a chance to use the stink icon yet. Fire up, lads.
69 min: Kurt Gidley adds another two points. Newcastle 42 Tigers 6.
The Tigers' previous biggest loss in the opening round was in 2005 when they went down 28-12 in the season opener. Of course, they went on to win the premiership that year, but that will be the furthest thing from their minds right now. All smiles from Jarrod Mullen on the sideline suggesting that injury may not be too serious.Back to top
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Buehrle nets elusive 'W' as Toronto sweeps Boston
Blue Jays win fifth straight as Navarro drives in three
BOSTON --- Even if they're not the best indication of pitching performance, wins can be elusive when a pitcher is in a funk, and it's a relief to finally get one. That's been the case for Mark Buehrle, who had not picked up a victory since June 1 entering Wednesday night's start in Boston.
But recently, there have been few better antidotes for that problem than facing the Red Sox. So behind another strong offensive performance, the Blue Jays downed Boston, 6-1, at Fenway Park to complete a three-game sweep and get Buehrle his 11th victory. Toronto has now won its last five games and eight of its last nine.
"He needed that a little bit, for your psyche," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "I don't care how good you've been. How long you've been in the game. It's still good to see a 'W' with your starting pitcher up there."
Dioner Navarro went 3-for-4 with three RBIs to lead a Blue Jays offense that scored 24 runs during the sweep. Jose Reyes and Melky Cabrera both scored twice.
Buehrle allowed one run on six hits over 6 2/3 innings before exiting with two men on in the seventh. Aaron Loup struck out Brock Holt to end that frame. Buehrle walked one and struck out two, throwing 100 pitches.
Buehrle started the season red-hot, winning 10 of his first 12 starts. Most statistics suggested he wasn't actually pitching at that level, and over the last two months, he began to regress. He posted a 4.83 ERA and rough .312/.356/.489 slash line against in his nine starts between wins.
"I try to stay even-keel whether I'm doing good or bad," Buehrle said. "But there are times when you go out there and get your butt handed to you a few times --- there's a thought in the back of your mind, like 'Am I done? Can I still get it done?' … Maybe it's myself driving myself crazy, but this definitely feels good."
The Blue Jays cushioned Buehrle's lead plenty in the fifth when Anthony Gose walked, stole second and scored after a throw to first on Reyes' sac bunt got past Holt at first. Navarro singled home Reyes, then Juan Francisco's high, infield chopper brought Cabrera across.
Red Sox starter Brandon Workman walked Reyes and Cabrera to start the game, and both eventually scored thanks to a single by Navarro and a fielder's choice by Francisco. Workman threw in place of Jon Lester, who was scratched from his Wednesday start because of uncertainty leading up to the non-waiver Trade Deadline.
Workman struggled to find his command all night. He allowed four walks, four hits and five runs --- although just two were earned --- over five innings. He struck out two.
"Combination of free passes and a couple of extra outs, and they were able to bunch some base hits, a couple of seeing-eye base hits, that contributed to the six runs given up," said Red Sox manager John Farrell, whose team made a pair of errors in the loss.
Boston's lone run came in the fifth when Xander Bogaerts doubled to start the inning, then scored when Christian Vazquez hit a ground-rule double over the right-center field wall. The club scored just four runs in the series.
The Red Sox have struggled all season and of late, dropping eight of their last nine --- six of those to Toronto. They lost their 60th game of the year Wednesday and fell 12 games below .500. In 2013, Boston lost its 60th game on Sept. 17.
The Blue Jays, like any team over the course of a 162-game season, have had ups and downs. The club lost eight of 10 heading into the All-Star break, but have won 10 of 13 out of it.
Navarro credited "the little things" --- throwing and catching, executing bunts, avoiding outs on the basepaths --- for the success. Gibbons pointed to overall execution and insists that despite picking up those 10 wins against the struggling Rangers, the Yankees and the Red Sox, his team is playing good baseball.
"I don't care who you're playing," Gibbons said. "Big league teams, man."
Regardless, Toronto is now nine games over .500 and three games ahead of the Yankees and Mariners for the American League's second Wild Card spot. Most of this ground has been made up without Edwin Encarnacion, Brett Lawrie and Adam Lind, who have all been out for more than three weeks; Lawrie since June 22.
"We're playing really good right now," Navarro said. "We just gotta keep doing it."
"We've been getting a lot from everybody," Gibbons said. "… They're all pitching in and they're all doing a heck of a job."
Buehrle said Saturday against the Yankees, when the Blue Jays snapped a 17-game losing streak at Yankee Stadium, he had a good feeling about where the team was heading. Toronto turned that feeling into a series win against New York and a sweep of Boston.
"It's hard to explain, but there was just a feeling," Buehrle said. "Whatever it was … That game, it feels like it's carried over."
Steven Petrella is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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SCOTLAND - A stroke of luck; One in a million shot; Pure chance: All cliches that can be used to describe how one Florida airman found his wife in Scotland from his base in Afghanistan.
Airman Dan Corman's family was on vacation in Scotland. Corman knew some of the historic locations his family would be visiting. So, he decided to scour the internet and search for web cams set up at those sites.
To Corman's surprise, he found his wife almost at the exact moment when she was walking into the frame of the web cam at Eilean Donan castle.
Corman told The Scottish Sun he knew the woman was his wife because of her blue jacket. Seconds later, he recognized his daughter's bright pink jacket.
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Corman went on to explain how he was seeing the family he missed so much. His wife brought his two daughters back into the view of the camera and they waved at him, according to The Sun.
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The most striking thing about the market action today was its randomness. Yesterday the buyers seemed particularly anxious to buy, but today they were indifferent and the market drifted aimlessly. The good news is that it bounced back nicely from the poor open and from an early afternoon dip, but the lack of energy made trading very challenging.
The pattern of alternating days of strength and weakness continues, although the downside pressure wasn't quite as pronounced today. It doesn't make any sense, but today's action is a good setup for a strong day tomorrow.
So far, the choppy action has not compromised the overall uptrend since the first of the year, but you have to wonder if lack of progress may lead to more profit-taking. There's still good support, but the lack of quality leadership and the narrow momentum makes it feel like further upside is going to be difficult. I'd feel better if I had more long setups to choose from, but I feel like I have to force things to put money to work. We still have a supply of new highs, but most of the movers are thinner stocks.
Something dramatic in either direction would be nice at this point. We need to shake things up and have greater movement to make for better trading. I'll even take some panic selling if it produces stronger emotions.
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Collingwood and Hawthorn presidents Eddie McGuire and Andrew Newbold both took umbrage at Carter's stinging attack on the wealthy clubs after he said the Cats had been "screwed" by the rich clubs - Collingwood, Hawthorn and West Coast - who bullied the AFL into a sweetheart deal for the rich that unfairly punished the middle-class clubs.
McGuire said Carter, as a former AFL commissioner who had authored a paper on equalisation, was "becoming a Hall of Fame hypocrite" for whining about being asked to help fund equalisation.
"He used to lecture every club about the independence of the AFL, yet as soon as he gets back to club land he is singing and dancing and screaming and carrying on," McGuire said.
"He wrote the manifesto on equalisation [when on the AFL Commission] and as soon as he has to put his hand in his pocket, suddenly he goes all cold on the idea ... he [complains that he has] to put his hand in his pocket for $300,000 after everything the AFL competition has done to help Geelong ... that is an insult to everybody else."
McGuire said the Cats had been able to significantly improve their financial position because the AFL - and the state and federal governments - had significantly funded the reconstruction of Symonds Stadium, which had thus created "a revenue stream that will go on forever".
"The question might be better asked why are they [Geelong] are only in the middle class, not in the top class as it is," McGuire said on Triple M.
Under the new equalisation measures in which clubs will be taxed on profit, Geelong will be hit with a $300,000 tax bill. But a cap of $500,000 on the maximum amount of tax a club has to pay on its profit means the richer clubs that achieve significantly higher profits will be proportionally contributing a far lower amount.
Newbold said the criticism from Carter and the language used was "unstatesmanlike" and inappropriate, and his comments about the equalisation simplistic and unfair.
"It's the first year of this. We don't even know what the profits will be in 2014 and 2015. For him to come out and whinge at the beginning of year one is unstatesmanlike. You can't go from no tax at all to uncapped tax," Newbold said.
"This is a completely changed landscape. It is a seismic shift; we have introduced a tax for the first time on clubs and I think it would have been unfair to have gone from nothing to completely uncapped.
"Colin must have been out of the room in Adelaide when we discussed this in detail over more than three hours. The only thing that changed between the meeting in Adelaide and the meeting two weeks ago is that in the second meeting we got the figures and suddenly Colin is up in arms about it. He never said anything in Adelaide."
Newbold said no club would be happy with the equalisation measures – the poorer clubs felt it was not generous enough, the richer clubs that it punished their success and the middle class clubs that the burden fell unfairly on them.
"At some point you have to put aside your own selfish point of view and look at the code as a whole. I thought that might have been something Colin understood from his time on the commission.
"I also thought his comments were fairly disrespectful to Brendon Gale who was on the equalisation committee and was one of the representatives of the middle-class clubs that Colin talks about being screwed.
"Brendon was on the committee on a the trip to the US. I think Colin has been disrespectful of Brendon's role in this."
He also challenged the idea that Collingwood and Hawthorn had hijacked the debate from being about compensating poorer clubs and into taxing clubs.
"Hawthorn and Collingwood were the last people advocating taxation. It was not hijacked by us, we never wanted taxation.
"We were talking about stadia arrangements, membership numbers. Who is he saying hijacked the agenda and put taxation on the table? It wasn't us, why would we advocate for that?"
McGuire also challenged Carter and other club presidents such as Giants chairman Tony Shepherd - who until recently was the president of the Business Council of Australia and is the head of Tony Abbott's Commission of Audit. As businessmen they operated as fierce capitalists yet pleaded a socialist philosophy when it suited them as club presidents arguing for a bigger hand out from the AFL, he said.


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It's hard to say how much kidney function a person can lose without needing special treatment, because it depends largely on the underlying disease that causes the kidney problem. With diabetes, for instance, it's very important for a person to take meds and be closely monitored, because that's the best way to prevent the kidney disease from occurring in the first place, or from becoming worse. In general, a person can probably lose at least half of their kidney function without requiring special treatment; but again, treatment of the underlying disease, such as hypertension, lupus, or diabetes, is the most important thing to protect the remaining kidney function.
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This is a WW1 Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) that was awarded to an Army pilot. The DSC is the second highest award for valor, behind the Medal of Honor.
This DSC is engraved to "W.J. Hoover" of the "27 Aero Squadron". The engraving is not official as these were originally presented without engraved names in WW1. It was jeweler done after presentation but its style is of the period.
LT Hoover was awarded the DSC for his actions on 2 JUL 1918 in battle with the Richthofen Circus (about 3 months after the Red Baron's death):
"The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant (Air Service) William J. Hoover, United States Army Air Service, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 27th Aero Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group, U.S. Army Air Service, A.E.F., near Verdilly, France, 2 July 1918. On the morning of July 2 First Lieutenant Hoover's flight patrol encountered the famous Richthofen circus. Lieutenant Hoover was simultaneously attacked by three of the enemy and cut off from his comrades. By skillfully maneuvering he avoided the effects of their concentrated fire and fearlessly attacked the three. Although his machine was seriously damaged, he killed one of the enemy pilots and destroyed his plane, drove down another, apparently out of control, and chased the third far into its own lines. He then continued the patrol until shortage of gasoline forced him to return."
LT Hoover was credited with a total of three aerial victories (2 for this action) during the war.


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ive played a few but can only remember west park and channahon??
so what other good ones are there? i think one of my brothers friends helped build highland, and he said that one is tuff.
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It was just reported on WISH 8....
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You'd think they'd have it up on the Fever website. I gues this means The Star scooped the webmaster.
The Indiana Fever didn't go far to find their next coach.
Lin Dunn, who spent the past four seasons as an assistant, will be introduced at 4:30 p.m. today as the Fever's head coach, according to a person in the WNBA office. She will replace Brian Winters, who was let go in late October.
This will be Dunn's second stint as a WNBA head coach. She was 33-63 in three seasons with Seattle.
Prior to that, she coached Purdue for nine seasons and led the Boilermakers to the 1994 Final Four.
When I told Kegboy she's been hired he said he'd never go to another game even if they won the Championship. Pretty damning commentary from someone who played in Purdue's pep band.
i'm happy for the lady, but being at a game it would probably look and sound like paula dean was running the team.
Bull ****!!!"A Lin Dunn team will never quit," he said.
That being said, my problems with this hire have nothing to do with her coaching ability (though I don't think she's very good.) Let's just say there were reasons why she was fired, and why the documentation of her wrongful termination suit against Purdue are sealed.
My extreme distaste for Dunn aside, it doesn't speak well for a program where they let a coach go 2 months after the season ends, wait another 2 months, then promote an assistant.
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I don't understand or particularly like this move.
If they were going to hire yet another former Purdue coach they should have hired Carolyn Peck...or for that matter maybe Gene Keady.
Unless what you're talking about ISN'T her boinking her players.
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Does hiring the assistant coach count as a new voice? I'm thinking some one is boinking some one.
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"'Only.'" Woevre was amused. "Someday you'll explain to me how that's possible. Seeing that, on the face of it, all mathematics leads, doesn't it, sooner or later, to some kind of human suffering."
I didn't think it was that common knowledge. People in band knew because one of our Profs lived next to her.
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Wow...I didn't know either, but I don't follow Purdue and never have really follwed women's basketball before the ABL and shortly later the WNBA.
I could sort of understand the wanting to go in a different direction because they felt that Winters was comming up short, or even other reasons that I don't know, but when they hired Dunn, I was rather shocked and extreamly unimpressed.
It just screams cheap, local hire to me. It doesn't seem like a move you'd make after having the coach and talent to get you close, but not over the hump.
In other words, it sounds like PR/bs...
As for the extracuriculars, I'm shocked....that I didn't know since this is common knowledge.
...Still "flying casual"
She was boinking her players? Ugh. And we think the Pacers have image issues.
LOL at boinking also.
This sucks.
We fired what seemed to be a halfway decent coach and hired, from what I can deduce here, a borderline sex predator whose cumulative record with her last team ranged around 30 games under .500
Kinda like the WNBA's Isiah Thomas.
Yeah, it was common knowledge for me, at least. These were always great office jokes to mix in when we were ragging on Kristy Curry.
Eh, I didn't know about all that "boinking" stuff, sounds kinda creepy.
I was confused about why they let go of Coach Winters, he wasn't a bad coach.
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Why don't one of the 3 or 4 of you who knows the story tell everyone because if you read the other posts it isn't "common knowledge." Give us some details please!
Strangly enough, the IU Women's coach from the same time period (who happened to be male), ended up not only hiring a former player of his at his next job, but marrying her soon thereafter. He then committed suicide a few years after that.
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She's a rug muncher???? No way!!
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ARLINGTON -- When it rains, it pours. That's exactly what Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said Sunday morning before Texas' game against the Indians.
Daniels was referring to the news that first baseman Mitch Moreland will undergo left ankle reconstructive surgery and is projected to be sidelined for three months. Meanwhile, his most obvious replacement, Jim Adduci, jammed an already hurt finger in Triple-A on Saturday night. Donnie Murphy took over Moreland's duties at first on Sunday.
The storm continued to pour in the fifth inning for the Rangers when second baseman Rougned Odor exited with a sprained right shoulder during a 3-2 loss to the Indians at Globe Life Park.
Odor was injured in the fifth after he led off the frame with a single and tried to slide back into first on a pickoff throw from catcher Yan Gomes. He was replaced by Luis Sardinas and is listed as day to day. He will undergo further evaluation on Monday.
"He never slid," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "He made a move to go back, and his shoulder came out -- never slid."
The Rangers took a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning after back-to-back singles from Adrian Beltre and Alex Rios sparked the offense. Chris Gimenez then walked, and Beltre was out at home on a grounder by Leonys Martin. But with the bases loaded, Rios scored on a wild pitch from Indians starter Justin Masterson during Murphy's at-bat.
Despite the one wild pitch, Indians manager Terry Francona was pleased with his starting pitcher's outing.
"There's some really dangerous hitters there," Francona said. "But out of the windup, I thought it was the best stuff he's had maybe all year. That was really encouraging."
Cleveland tied it in the fifth. Lonnie Chisenhall led off the inning with a single. Two batters later, David Murphy singled to left field, and then Michael Bourn walked. An Asdrubal Cabrera single to center field scored Chisenhall.
Cleveland pulled ahead for good in the sixth. Ryan Raburn singled to score Gomes. Chisenhall advanced to third on a throwing error by Martin and scored on sacrifice fly from Murphy to make it 3-1.
The Rangers scored behind the bats of Beltre and Rios again in the sixth when Beltre doubled to right field and Rios tripled to center. That made the score 3-2, but the Rangers were unable to rally in the ninth.
Rangers starter Joe Saunders left after 5 1/3 innings, allowing seven hits, three runs (two earned) and four walks with no strikeouts. Masterson left after 5 2/3 frames. He gave up two runs and two walks to go along with six strikeouts.
"It was one of those weird starts. I felt good early on and then kind of got shakier as the game went on with my command," Saunders said. "Working through jams, getting out of jams and trying to get deeper into the ballgame, trying to save the bullpen a little bit -- that's going to be the goal from here on out. No excuse, you've just got to get guys out."
Washington said that he's never had a season like this one as a manager, dealing with all of the injuries. As of Sunday, the Rangers had 12 players on the disabled list, not counting Moreland or Odor.
But he maintained that his team still has to come in with the same mentality each day.
"I don't want to seem like I don't care, but we've got 98 ballgames to play. I've got to focus on the games that we're playing right now with the personnel I have right now," Washington said. "I do believe this personnel -- if we can get consistent -- can win us some ballgames."
Saunders echoed that sentiment, but did question when the injuries were going to let up.
"This is unbelievable. It's mind-boggling, actually. I've never seen anything like this," Saunders said. "Human nature thinks we get a break every once in a while."
But that wasn't the case Sunday.
Grace Raynor is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This year's installment of the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association's future leaders program aims for a California twist.
This fall marks the third year of the Emerging Leader Development Program that helps cultivate future leaders for the Sunshine State's produce industry.
Earlier groups toured California production regions and the next class, which begins at the Sept. 22-25 FFVA convention in Amelia Island, Fla., plans to involve some of its California peers in a Florida visit.
Members of the Irvine, Calif.-based Western Growers' Future Volunteer Leaders program plan to tour Florida production regions in late January alongside the dozen Florida young people involved in the leadership program.
In June, members of the second Florida class toured Salinas Valley production operations including Tanimura & Antle and Mann Packing Co. Inc.
The group learned more about crops most weren't that familiar with, including garlic and lettuce, said Sonia Tighe, executive director of the Florida Specialty Crop Foundation, which administers the leadership program.
The infusion of their California peers, who are in that program's second class, should help further broaden the Floridians' knowledge as they learn more about other parts of the produce industry, she said.
"If I had a chance when I was younger to mix and mingle with someone from California and had those relationships to carry forward into my career, how incredible would that have been?" Tighe said.
"I know at the places the class visited (in Florida), the people in those operations were very encouraged by the energy, the potential and the caliber of young professionals they see that are invested in this industry."
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The mix of the class's ages and geographies and the trip to California opened the eyes of Ian Bessell, the Wellington, Fla.-based director of business development of food safety for produce for Henderson, Colo., food safety material supplier Birko.
"There was a perception we would go to California and it would be dramatically different from Florida," Bessell said.
"In some ways it is but in other ways it wasn't. A lot of the issues are similar as people talked about water, labor, food safety concerns, land use and regulatory issues. The crops, soil type and weather may be different, but the producers there feel a lot of the same pressures."
Derek Orsenigo, production manager with Orsenigo Farms Inc. and Growers Management in Belle Glade, Fla., said talking with the grower-shippers at the 15 California operations the group visited impressed the class.
"The scale there's so much bigger. It makes Florida look small," Orsenigo said.
"They're the biggest player and politically, they're ahead of the curve. We caught a glimpse of what may soon trickle over to the rest of the country in terms of labor and environmental impacts, good, bad and otherwise."
Networking benefits proved most valuable for Amber Kosinsky, director of marketing for Wish Farms, Plant City, Fla.
"Some of our group are on the farm all day while others are in offices working in research and ag finance, so you can sometimes get tunnel vision," Kosinsky said.
Group members learned how instrumental produce is across the state at all levels.
While competitors, they work in the same business through different roles in their companies.
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Linda Ballou, a 1960 North Platte High School graduate who received a "distinguished alumni" award from the high school in 2009, is under criminal investigation in Florida for fraud.
Until recently, Ballou was the chief executive officer of the PARK Foundation of Sarasota, Fla, which she founded in June 2011.
PARK stands for Prescription Addiction Really Kills. Ostensibly, it is has the goal of increasing awareness of and combating prescription drug abuse.
But Ballou, 70, cited fraudulent medical and academic experience and posed as a doctor as she courted donors, according to a Sarasota Herald Tribune newspaper report.
Ballou has long referred to herself as Dr. Ballou.
In a filmed interview with the Herald Tribune that is published on the Internet, Ballou admitted that her doctorate is from Strassford University or Stafford University. Both places are regarded as diploma mills fake universities that issue certificates of degrees for a fee according to online reports as well as the Sarasota newspaper.
In an interview with the Bulletin in 2009, before Ballou received her North Platte award, she talked at length about her accomplishments. She said she was raised by a great-grandmother with help from extended family and friends.
I was given up for adoption at when I was one-year old, she said. My great-grandmother, who was born in the late 1800s, adopted me.
Ballou, whose maiden name was Kirkpatrick, said she studied drama and music in high school as well as in college, and at age 15, still in high school, she worked as a nurses aide at St. Marys Hospital, thus beginning a career in nursing.
She told the Bulletin she later earned an RN degree in California the first of a multitude of degrees and professional licenses.
In recounting her achievements, she said that in 1965, she moved her three children to Los Angeles where she worked as a critical care, surgical nurse. She said she worked in both intensive care and delivery rooms, and also spent four years as an emergency room nurse. She said she also worked in a burn center as well as a terminal cancer research center. And, she said she was later a nursing supervisor at a psychiatric facility.
But when questioned by the Sarasota newspaper, she admitted she was never a Registered Nurse, but only a certified nurse assistant -- a nurse's aide. Nurse assistants normally work under RNs as well as LPNs (licensed practical nurses.)
Ballou also told the Bulletin that in 1973, still working as a nurse, she started working in sales and marketing. After a year of training with the Atlantic Richfield company, she said she took charge of 50 service stations and car washes on the West Coast, and eventually became a wholesale dealer for STP oil and fuel additives. She said she advanced to management in that job, where she got to be in a pit crew with Mario Andretti and Richard Petty, as some of her perks.
Ballou said she also had a career in entertainment. Besides raising five children, she said shed performed in nightclubs as well as cruise ships, radio, television and films, and developed a two-hour, one-woman show called, Thats Entertainment with music, dancing and comedy a Broadway cabaret-style program.
Ballou said her work in business continued at the same time. She founded Great Life Financial Group, Inc., in 1994, an insurance company specializing in long-term care, final expenses, wills, trusts and safe alternatives to the stock market.
Ten years later, she and her husband Richard moved the corporation to Sarasota, Fla.
And, she said she founded a subsidiary company, Great Life Educational Academy, designed to educate and train insurance professionals.
Our agents can obtain a franchise without a fee, she told the Bulletin in January 2009, just a few months after the international banking system nearly collapsed in late 2008.
We put them (the agents) through a training class, and they have a stream of business that they never had before, she said.
Soon after Ballou received North Platte's distinguished alumni award, an anonymous telephone caller told the Bulletin that she had been involved in a Ponzi scheme in Florida. A check of records showed that eight years earlier in 2000-01, she was investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for taking part in a multistate Ponzi scheme that allegedly bilked investors out of $2.7 million. But the investigation was inconclusive, and the charges were dropped after Ballou and her co-workers agreed to settle, without either denying or admitting guilt.
Recently, when the Herald Tribune asked Ballou about those accusations, she said she was the one who alerted authorities to the scheme.
As recently as December, Ballou returned to North Platte to try to persuade the North Platte School District to adopt the PARK course of study, which she said would help students avoid prescription drug abuse. She said her course included candlelight vigils to educate the public.
She appeared before school staff in December, and in Sarasota she told people that North Platte is an example of a school district that uses her curriculum.
Despite her claim, her curriculum is not utilized, Associate Superintendent Tami Eshleman said.
Eshleman said there has been no contact between the district and Ballou since December.
A video of parts of her presentation in North Platte, plus a television interview with KNOP, are available online on You Tube.
Ballou has also drawn the ire of a North Platte business that has struggled for several months to collect a bill from her, according to an office employee who asked not to be named. After a lot of back and forth communications, Ballou finally made some $50-a-month payments on a bill that is in the thousands of dollars, the employee said.
As part of PARKs work in Sarasota, Ballou urged an independent filmmaker to produce a one-hour documentary film about prescription drug abuse.
Just as the film was about to be shown (at $50 a ticket fundraiser for PARK), the Herald Tribune broke the news of Ballous phony credentials, and the film was shelved. The producer told the Herald Tribune that Ballou owes his company about $10,000 for the film, and even though his heart was in the movie and combating prescription drug abuse, he didn't want to have anything more to do with Ballou.
After the Herald Tribunes report, Ballou reportedly closed the PARK office and took down its facebook page, which was filled with links to pages that have ties to North Platte.
The list of people who have apparently been fooled by Ballou is noteworthy. PARKs board of directors included two prominent attorneys and a certified public accountant, the Herald-Tribune reported.
The Sarasota police started a criminal investigation in late April. Detective Jack Carter was in charge of the investigation, the Herald Tribune reported. Carter could be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
This report was first published in the Bulletin's June 26 print edition. To see reports about Ballou in the Sarasota Herald Tribune, click HERE and enter Linda Ballou's name in the search bar.
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The St. Francis High girls water polo team wouldn't be denied this time.
The Lancers, who went home disappointed from the last two Central Coast Section Division I finals, returned to school with the championship trophy Saturday.
The Lancers beat Leland 8-3 in the title game at the Santa Clara International Swim Center.
"For our seniors, this was a long awaited accomplishment as we had lost our previous two appearances in the CCS finals," St. Francis assistant coach Erin Inkster said. "They are so proud to leave behind the legacy of a championship."
The top-seeded Lancers (25-4) led 4-0 at halftime.
Junior Courtney Batcheller and senior Brittany Kirwan scored two goals each for the Lancers.
Goalie Katherine Moore made 10 saves and "had a tremendous game," Inkster said. "She was on point with all of her blocks. I was really impressed with her quick reactions and leg strength."
Moore got some help from fellow junior Sami Strutner, whom Inkster called "our defensive shut-down player."
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Mountain View's stellar season came to an end in the CCS Division I semifinals, in which top seed Bellarmine prevailed 16-12.
"It was a pretty close game going into the second half," said coach Gabor Sarusi, whose fifth-seeded Spartans entered the third quarter tied with the Bells at 8. "We gave them a good run for their money."
But the third belonged to Bellarmine, which pulled away with a 5-2 run.
Michael Magee and Rey Castillo finished with four goals each for Mountain View (21-5).
In the division's other semifinal, second-seeded St. Francis (13-16) fell 11-10 to No. 2 Menlo-Atherton.