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The Water Environment Association of South Carolina (WEASC) has awarded a $1,500 Legacy of Learning Scholarship to University of South Carolina (USC) student Tyler Kirkland of Camden. The Legacy of Learning Scholarship was established to encourage students pursuing a career in the environmental field. Kirkland,is a rising senior majoring in chemical engineering at USC with a 3.3 grad point average.
Former Kershaw County Board of School Trustees member and Bethune resident Jim Smith addressed the board at their Tuesday meeting this week.
Baron DeKalb Elementary School has
At its June 17 meeting, the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees will vote on Phase 2 Facilities Equalization Plan Referendum Language.
The Kershaw County School District and the Kershaw County Recreation Department have partnered to offer free recreational opportunities to local youth age 12 to 18.
Thanks to members of Kershaw County's legislative delegation, South Carolina's proposed Fiscal Year 2015 state budget includes $1.5 million to expand Central Carolina Technical College's (CCTC) campus in Kershaw County. The state budget still must be approved by the governor.
The Kershaw County Board of School Trustees voted unanimously, 8-0, Tuesday night to accept a final project list for Phase 2 of the Kershaw County School District's (KCSD) facilities equalization plan (FEP). The list includes the proposed closure of Baron DeKalb (BDK), Bethune (BES) and Mt. Pisgah (MPES) elementary schools for consolidation into a North Central area elementary school.
Central Carolina Technical College President Dr. Tim Hardee has announced Spring 2014 student honors lists. This term, more than 700 students have been honored. The President's List recognizes students who were enrolled in at least 12 semester credit hours and achieved a 4.0 grade point average for the term. The Part-Time President's List recognizes students who were enrolled in 6-11 credit hours and achieved a 4.0 grade point average for the term.
For more than 100 years, the Clemson Extension Service staff has transferred science-based information to individuals and families across South Carolina. Part of the centennial celebration in Kershaw County included the planting of butterfly gardens at Bethune (BES) and Mt. Pisgah Elementary (MPE) Schools. A following celebration included awards to students participating in the Healthy Lifestyles and Environmental Conservation Clubs and the release of 100 caterpillars into the butterfly gardens.
The Kershaw County School District (KCSD) has announced its end-of-year schedule. Parents should note that there are no more school holidays between now and the end of the school year. Monday, May 26 is a regular school day to make up a day missed earlier in the school year for inclement weather.
The United Way of Kershaw County (UWKC) recently held a dinner to celebrate the mentors and mentees of its Hand in Hand mentoring program. Hand in Hand is made possible by volunteers who donate their time to spend with children from Kershaw County schools. Mentors remain with their mentees throughout their time in the program and encourage them academically.
A number of local students from Kershaw County and the surrounding area graduated from Clemson University May 9.
Karen Fitzgerald Jackson doesn't want to see her grandchildren's school close. That remains a possibility as part of proposed Phase 2 options in the Kershaw County School District's facilities equalization plan.
Wateree Elementary School (WES) fourth grade students Latham Davis, Landen Mills, and Wyatt Whitfield were all smiles on Field Day at WES.
Coastal Carolina University's spring commencement ceremony was held at Brooks Stadium on May 10, with some 1,081 candidates for undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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Kids will have to be in school on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, a day they originally thought they'd have off as a teacher work ...
Rebecca "Becky" Bean, of Camden, who serves as the communications manager for the S.C. School Boards Association, is one of 17 professional and civic ...
Patrick Davis. Alfred Mae Drakeford. Dr. Paul Joseph Sr. Dr. Janet Marshall. Thomas "Daddy Mac" McLester Sr. Austin Sheheen. These will be the people inducted ...
A Clemson student from Camden assisted a group of South Carolina homeowners and business owners to know the value of using best management practices (BMPs ...
The Citadel honored three area students with Gold Stars for outstanding academic achievement during the spring semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. They are Tony ...
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Fw-190sFw190A-8/R8 "Sturmbock" bomber killers skirt guns of one bomb group as they stalk the lead group.During World War II, the youth of both sides met in the air over Germany, each experiencing the devastating effectiveness of their opponent's weapons. Lt. Klaus Bretschneider, Staffelkapitan of the 5th Staffel of II Group of Jasgdeschwader 300, a specialized bomber destroying unit, leads his staffel past the American B-17s of the 384th Bomb Group based at Grafton Underwood, England. Flying his Focke Wulf Fw190A-8/R8, Red 1, "Rauhbutz VII" (Street Fighter), Bretschneider, with his 17 year old wingman Unteroffizier Mattaus Erhard to his right, positions his staffel to attack another targeted American unit up ahead. While the Americans faced the German 20mm and 30mm cannon of II./jg 300, these airmen faced the combined fire of 13 50 caliber machine guns amd 9,000 rounds of ammunition in each B-17 in the large American formations. Each side recognized the other as "Real Trouble"!Research for my National Air & Space Musemum B-17 mural "Fortresses under Fire" led to a continued interest in the defending German fighter units and their pilots. This painting joins other Ferris paintings of this subject.
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NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) says a reorganization that takes effect Oct. 1 will better enable it to accommodate broad changes in its mission stemming from the expanding scope of genomics research.
NHGRI will carry out a key component of a strategic plan released last year when it divides its Extramural Research Program into four new divisions, and elevates to division status its offices for administration and management; and for policy, communications, and education.
Laura Lyman Rodriguez, Ph.D., will head the new Division of Policy, Communications and Education; while Executive Officer M. Janis Mullaney will lead the new Division of Management with Ellen M. Rolfes as deputy executive officer.
The Extramural Research Program will be divided into divisions of:
- Genome Sciences, which will oversee basic genomics research and technology development, as well as large-scale genome sequencing and other major activities. Jeffery A. Schloss, Ph.D., has been named director and Peter J. Good, Ph.D., deputy director.
- Genomic Medicine, which will promote efforts to advance the application of genomics to medical science and clinical care. The division will also incorporate NHGRI's current Office of Population Genomics. Teri A. Manolio, MD, Ph.D., will serve as director, and Bradley A. Ozenberger, Ph.D., deputy director.
- Genomics and Society, which will oversee an expanded program related to societal issues relevant to genomics research. The division will incorporate and extend the activities of NHGRI's Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications research program, and work to integrate various activities in these areas across the institute. Bettie J. Graham, Ph.D., is director, and Rudy O. Pozzatti, Ph.D., deputy director.
- Extramural Operations, which will manage grants management and scientific reviews, and other operational aspects of NHGRI's current Extramural Research Program. The institute's deputy director Mark Guyer, Ph.D. will lead the division on an acting basis pending completion of a search for a permanent director.
Directors and deputies will all serve in an acting capacity until the appointments are formally approved.
The reorganizational changes begin with the Oct. 1 start of the 2013 federal fiscal year, and come more than a year after NHGRI released a strategic plan, Charting a Course for Genomic Medicine from Base Pairs to Bedside. It envisioned the institute focusing on five research domains: understanding the structure of genomes; understanding the biology of genomes; understanding the biology of disease; advancing the science of medicine; and improving the effectiveness of healthcare. The plan's release was pegged to the 10th anniversary of the first analysis of the human genome sequence.
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Jim Stone, Tristan's father has been involved in boatbuilding and the marine industry in the U.K. for over 40 years. He is now based on Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada.
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UNC Basketball: How the Tar Heels Can Sustain Momentum After Louisville UpsetNovember 26, 2013
Admit it.
You didn't think the North Carolina Tar Heels had a shot at taking down the defending champion Louisville Cardinals this past Sunday. When ESPN's Jay Williams said "there is plenty of time left (for Louisville)" at halftime, you got a lump in your throat from the cold reality of his commentary.
You weren't alone. I felt it, too.
I was wondering how I could spin the loss into a positive note, no matter how the last 20 minutes played out. After all, a depleted UNC team was able to tie the game at the half, 44-44, off a buzzer-beating three-pointer by Marcus Paige.
The first half gave plenty for the Tar Heels to hang their hats on.
As it turned out, the second half brought as much optimism as the first. Carolina grabbed the lead two minutes in and never let it go, winning the title game, 93-84.
Holding that Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament trophy must have been a truly serene moment for this group of kids that had been heavily scrutinized by fans and media since the loss to Belmont. They earned that moment.
But moments like these are fleeting if a team hangs onto them for too long.
Never get too high. Never get too low. Maintain focus.
That will be the first step in North Carolina's quest for sustained momentum. The second step is more strategical.
Last week, I gave Paige the highest grade on the team for his offensive production. My only knock on the sophomore's game was his lack of aggression until the team became desperate for points. Without UNC's best shot creator, P.J. Hairston, he needed to be the guy.
Well, he was that guy this weekend, and that mentality needs to continue for the Tar Heels to be successful beyond November 24.
Paige scored 32 points on just 12 field-goal attempts in the title game, including a 3-of-5 showing from downtown—and 11-of-11 at the charity stripe. That, after posting 26 points the previous day.
By no means should anyone expect Paige to continue averaging 22.4 points, as he stands today through five games. He's going to have an off day at some point. Until that day comes, though, he needs to continue looking for his shot.
The Tar Heels have nailed 19 three-pointers this season. Seventeen have come from Paige—at a 53.1 percent clip. It's plain to see how crucial he is to the team's survival without P.J. Hairston and Leslie McDonald.
Then there was Kennedy Meeks, who must have solidified a boost in minutes—if not a start. My vote is on the latter.
Everything his teammates applauded him for in the offseason was showcased by the freshman big on Sunday.
Sneaky rebounder? Check. Tip-in specialist? Great hands? Amazing outlet passer? Check, check and check.
Meeks saw a season-high 24 minutes of action, and he rewarded coach Roy Williams with big play after big play. By my count, Meeks had at least five full-court outlet passes that ultimately buried the Cardinals. The highlight video missed at least one.
He also led the team in assists with seven.
A center.
In addition to that eye-opening stat, he produced 13 points, 12 boards and one steal. On the season, he is leading all centers by a wide margin with 0.51 points and 0.48 rebounds per minute played. It's time to settle the center debate.
Kennedy Meeks needs to start.
It is imperative for the Tar Heels to start as strong as possible, and that means making some lineup changes. That change has to include Brice Johnson, who has taken Hairston's place as the emotional leader of this team.
After scoring 37 points over the weekend, Johnson is averaging 0.73 points and 0.36 rebounds per minute played. He also leads the team with seven blocks. Unfortunately, he's only averaging 20 minutes a game, due to a post-heavy roster.
In order to start both Johnson and Meeks, James Michael McAdoo would have to shift to the 3 and Nate Britt or J.P. Tokoto would end up on the bench. And though Britt had his best performance thus far against Louisville and its full-court press, starting Tokoto improves team rebounding.
No matter how the lineup is shuffled, though, it doesn't necessarily mean either of those guys will lose minutes. They shouldn't. But it's plain to see the team is at its best with Paige, Johnson and Meeks in the lineup.
If that's who Roy Williams wants on the floor to close out the game, that's who he should want to start it.
Another thing that seems to have helped over the last two games is the implementation of the zone defense. Everyone looks more comfortable than they did in the hedge-and-recover scheme, and Coach Williams can now take full advantage of his Tar Heels' length and athleticism.
This team has the talent to absolutely suffocate offenses. And the zone defense allows them to think less and react more.
That's how the Tar Heels can sustain momentum. They'll need it over the next few weeks when they face Michigan State, Kentucky and Texas.
However, the biggest mistake of all could be overlooking the UAB Blazers on December 1, who scored 55 second-half points in last year's meeting.
One game at a time, young Tar Heels.
Never get too high. Never get too low. Maintain focus.
Rollin Yeatts is the lead columnist for North Carolina Tar Heels basketball on Bleacher Report. He also hosts a weekly all-sports video podcast at TSB Sports. Visit his B/R profile for more information.


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Mary reached out and put her arm around him, pulling him close; right then it seemed as he needed a hug. They rode along silently for several minutes with nothing being said, because there were no words that needed saying. Finally she whispered, "Ye miss her, don't ye, b'y?"
"Yes, and no," he sighed. "Don't get me wrong. We were friends, not close friends. But for one night I was her lover, and that's something . . . well, I don't know how to describe it."
"It might not be my place to say," she smiled. "But I admit to some surprise that we're not sailin' to Ireland on a boat named Laurel."
"I thought about it," he admitted, not moving his head from her shoulder. "There were reasons not to do it, but that's another story."
They rode along like that for a while longer with no words passing between them. Presently his tears dried up, to be replaced with an overwhelming fatigue. Finally, he pulled away from her a little and said, "Mary, thank you. I really appreciate it."
"Ye needed it, b'y," she grinned. "An' I think ye needed it more than you'll admit."
"You're probably right," he sighed. "Look, Mary, I can barely keep my eyes open. I'm afraid I'm not being a good host, but I need to go below and lie down for a bit. Do you mind if I do?"
"Naw, go do it. It'll do ye some good. I can keep an eye on things up here for ye. Sleep as long as ye need."
"Thank you, Mary," he said as he got up, using a handhold to keep his balance. "I'm sure glad you're with me."
Matt went below and just collapsed on the cushions of the leeward bunk, not even bothering to take his foul weather gear off; he wasn't sure he had the energy to do it just then. With the excitement of the trip on him he hadn't had much sleep the night before, and the exhaustion plus the memories of Laurel were enough to do him in. He was asleep within seconds, a sound sleep like he'd never expected to get at sea with the need to get up frequently to look around.
Amazingly enough it was a dreamless sleep, or at least if he dreamed he didn't remember it. Laurel and the memories of that evening he'd spent with her had come to him often in his dreams before, and there were times that the memories of her and the promise he'd made had kept him on his course when it was tempting to take an easier way. But this time, perhaps because he was actually setting out on one of his long-held dreams, his mind stayed away from those memories.
As it turned out he slept for several hours, and felt better when he woke up. There was no strangeness to finding himself in the cabin of the Mary Sue; this was far from the first time he'd slept there, even at sea. When he woke, he felt a sudden urge to check topside, since he felt like he'd slept far too long, but after a moment he remembered that he had his unexpected companion with him. From the cabin nothing seemed too far out of place, but he still felt like he should check in on her.
He pulled himself to his feet and looked out the hatch, to see Mary just sitting on the cockpit seat with a stainless steel coffee mug in her hand. "How's it going?" he asked.
"Just fine," she told him. "The self-steerin' wouldn't hold the right course, until I finally realized the wind was skewin' a little. I reset it, and let the sheets out some. Now, everythin' is fine, but the wind is shiftin' and it's probably not done changin'. The fog is thicker than it was, I think, but it's hard to tell."
"See any other boats?"
"Not a thing. They'd have to be pretty close to see in this murk, although a while back there were some cross waves that might have been the wake of a big trawler or somethin'. No way of tellin' to be sure, though. Did ye sleep good?"
"Yeah, I think so. I guess I needed it."
"I went below a while ago to make some more coffee an' saw ye were sleepin' like a baby," she smiled. "It looked like ye were needin' it."
"Well, thanks for keeping an eye on things. Let me hit the head, then I'll come up and relieve you."
"No need to be rushin', b'y. Take your time."
A few minutes later Matt was back on deck, sitting next to his red-headed companion. The diffuse light in the fog wasn't enough to tell him whether it was morning or evening. A glance at his watch revealed that he'd slept most of the afternoon. "Hey, Mary," he said. "If you'd like to catch a nap or something, now would be a good time for you to take a turn below."
"I think I might take ye up on that," she replied. "I don't think I need ta be turnin' in, but I could use a visit to the head myself. I rinsed out the dishes from lunch while ye were asleep, an' put them in that little sink in the galley."
"Good place for them," he said. "Look, we haven't talked about watches. What do you think of doing it Navy style? Four-hour watches, with two-hour dog watches changing at 1800 local time? That way neither of us will have to take the midwatch every night."
"Sounds good to me," she said. "It's about time to be changin' over on the dog watch, so why don't I take the watch below, then get us some grub? By the time the evenin' watch is over with I'll be needin' some sleep myself."
"Since I slept so much this afternoon, I'll just plan on replacing you a little early," he smiled. "Let me know when you want to turn in."
Dinner was nothing special, just canned chili with beans; while Mary cooked it, she needed some help from Matt to find some things. It tasted good to eat back out in the cockpit, along with coffee for both. As they were eating, Matt noticed that, like earlier, the self-steering vane wasn't holding them on course; that was not surprising as the gear was taking its orders from the direction of the wind. It was easy enough to adjust by resetting the vane and letting the main and jib sheets out a little more.
"If this keeps up," he commented to Mary, "It should get around abaft the beam in the next day or so, and that'll smooth the ride out quite a bit. The problem with that is if it gets too far around we're going to have to sit here and steer."
"I'm not sure I'm mindin' the idea," she said. "It got a little dull this afternoon just sittin' here. Steerin' would at least keep the mind alive."
"That's the down side to self-steering," he admitted. "It's handy if you have something else to do and often there is, but it does take away something from the dull times. It's going to be different with you here, but if I was by myself I don't know how I could have gotten along without it."
"I can see that. I suppose we'll get used to havin' it by the time we get to Ireland."
When they finished eating, Mary took the dirty dishes, rinsed them in a bucket, then went below for a while to heat some sea water to clean up, again with a few suggestions from Matt. "I still haven't quite gotten used to the fact that we're on salt water," he commented at one point. "After all, until just a few days ago all my sailing experience has been on fresh water."
"Aye, I've seen that," she smiled. "But you'll be learnin' the difference soon enough, about the time you go ta take a drink from a seawater bucket."
Dinner and the cleanup afterward ate up most of Mary's watch below, not that she appeared to mind. Soon she was settled back on the cockpit seat next to Matt. Seeing that he was in a better mood than earlier, she decided to get some conversation going again. "Ye said ye didn't want ta name this boat after your friend Laurel," she observed. "An' why might that be?"
"Oh, it's part of the larger story," he replied. "I never got that far along. But there'll be time enough to tell it over the next few weeks. I've bent your ear enough about me for one day, and I still don't know much about you."
"I'm afraid there ain't much ta be tellin' about me. At least not the story that ye have to tell."
"Maybe so," he smiled. "But there has to be something interesting about a girl on the dock who was talking to a guy she'd never met, and an hour later was setting out to sail across the Atlantic with him. I've never met anyone before who would do something like that. Well, girls, anyway. I can imagine a guy doing it, but not a girl."
"Well, ye seemed interestin', b'y," she grinned. "And I guess ye were. The idea of takin' out ta cross the ocean in this little sloop just tickled my imagination, an' I couldn't think of anythin' else I'd rather be doin'. I've always been told to grab an opportunity when it comes by since it may not come again. Like I said, I've been wantin' to see someplace other than St. John's and the South Shore now for a long time. The chance came along, so here I am."
"Yeah, but it still seems strange for a girl to take off on a trip like this with a guy she'd never met before. There had to be something in your past that would let you do that."
"Maybe so," she conceded with a smile. "I suppose my Mam and Pap both dyin' young had somethin' to do with it. Even though I was livin' with Cousin Albert in Blanche Tickle, I had to learn early to shift for myself."
"How old were you when that happened?"
"I was seven when Mam died," she related. "I guess now it was somethin' like a heart attack, but I have always thought Mam died from a broken heart. She wasn't the same after Pap was lost, that was for sure. I probably ought to tell you that we lived in a place named Ballycotton Cove, up the coast a ways from Blanche Tickle. It's a real small place, only four or five houses, no roads or cars or anythin', an' I don't remember it too well. There wasn't no school there an' I sort of remember Mam and Pap talkin' that they'd have to move someplace so I could go to school, but that must have stopped when Pap died. You were talkin' earlier about how you didn't have a lot of clear memories of some of your time in hospital, and it was sort of the same for me. All I really remember was Cousin Albert comin' to me and sayin' I was gonna be livin' with him in Blanche Tickle so I could go to school. In spite of Mam dyin', I was excited 'cause I was going to get to go to school."
"I can relate," he nodded. "Christ, when I think of the days I spent laying on my back in the hospital, getting to go back to school was about the greatest thing I could imagine."
"It was for me, b'y. 'Course, it didn't turn out to be the happiest experience, but I had no way of tellin' that at the time. All that came later. I remember gettin' on Albert's bummer so's he could take me to Blanche Tickle so I could go to school, and I was so excited I was almost peein' my pants. Now, I knew Albert, not real well, he was related to Pap somehow an' I guess that was about all I ever knew. He didn't have a wife, never had, an' he lived by himself. Lookin' back on it, I have to say that he must have had a real good heart to take on a little girl like me, but the truth of it was that he didn't have much idea of what to do with me. Truth was, he could remember what it was like ta be a boy, so that was pretty much how he treated me. I can't remember if I even owned a dress at that time, but if I did I don't remember wearin' it."
Matt laughed out loud and said, "I'll bet you don't own one now, either."
"Had one for a while up till a couple years ago, but I gave it away 'cause I never wore it much, b'y. The way I move around here an' again, I don't have need for more stuff to own than I have ta. Somehow I didn't look like me when I had it on, so I didn't mind the losin' it. Sides, I never had much of a place to go to wear it."
"You know, you could be right," he smiled at the picture his imagination was presenting. "But somehow, I think it would be fun to see you in a dress sometime."
"'Twouldn't be on a boat, that's for sure b'y," she laughed, then went on. "Anyway, it weren't so much that I wore trousers all the time that set me apart from the other girls at school, 'cause none of 'em wore dresses much, but most of them at least some, in the springtime and early fall. Little places like Blanche Tickle tend to be pretty close. They don't always get along with outsiders well, an' it goes right on down to the youngsters. There were times I got to play with some of the other kids a little, but it sometimes was pretty much them against me, if you follow."
"I sure do," he nodded. "It was pretty much like that when I went back to the sixth grade when all of my friends were in the seventh. I was an outsider, and I never really cracked the wall of strangeness."
"It still had to have been pretty different," she related. "'Specially because I often wasn't around the other kiddies. See, in a little place like Blanche Tickle the boys are often helpin' out on the fishin' boats at an early age. Now, like I said, Albert had never got married. Most times it was just him and his bummer out fishin', and he didn't have anyone to leave me with, so more often than not I was out with him, at least in the summer. I wasn't playin' with dolls or nothin' like that, either; I was doin' the best I could to help him out. It may have not been very much, but there always seemed like there was somethin' to do. Truth be told, b'y, I soon found out that I'd rather be out with him where I had a friend, rather than stayin' back in Blanche Tickle by myself."
"You know," he said thoughtfully as he shifted his position a little, "That sounds just a little like how it was with Uncle Jake back up at Winchester Harbor."
"Aye, probably was a little now that you mention it, although it would seem likely that there were more things different than there were the same, mostly because all the time I knew Albert, he was right on the edge of bein' broke. We never was starvin', but I got awful tired of boiled cod after a while. Somehow, he managed to hang on, an' we never went hungry, but there were times it was awful close. Now, we were poor, there wasn't no doubt about it, but Albert was a happy man, and he always was good natured. I suppose I picked up a bit of it from him."
"You do seem to have a pretty good smile and look on the bright side of thing," he said, realizing that he was beginning to understand her a little. "It was one of the first things I noticed about you. I take it that being poor didn't help you a lot in school."
"School, well, it was school, and it was just somethin' I had to do, b'y," she shrugged. "Now ye have ta understand, while I grew up poor, it wasn't that much worse than anyone else in Blanche Tickle. It's a fishin' village, and when the catches were good people had a little more money, but most people weren't a lot better off than Albert and I, at least most of the time. It wasn't like I was a poor girl in the middle of a bunch of rich kids, it was just that most of the others were only slightly less poor than I was. It was more just my bein' the outsider than it was anythin' else. I don't want to make you think I was sad or angry or anythin' 'cause I didn't know much better. If ye'd asked me at the age of, oh, eleven or twelve, I'd probably have told ye that I was pretty happy."
"I'd say you still are," he grinned.
"Aye, I can look back an' say I probably learned somethin' from that, b'y," she nodded. "In some ways school was just fine. Now, like I said, I'd never been to school before I was brought to Blanche Tickle, so when I started in grade one I was a year or two behind the other kiddies my age. But the school was all a one-room school from grades one through six, an' I was so excited to finally be in school I paid a lot of attention. I learned to read right quick, and by the time I got done with my first year, I'd pretty well caught up with the kids a year older, so the next year they started me in grade three. I had to work at first to keep up, but with me in grade three it meant that there was no one in grade two, so the teacher didn't have to do much extra. That helped me to catch up some."
"One-room schools are long gone where I grew up, except for special situations," he commented. "But now and then I've talked to some older folks who went to them, and they said they liked them just fine."
"Well, I liked it just fine, 'cause I didn't know anythin' different. When I finished grade six, I went on to grade seven in what we called the high school. It was a different building, but right next to the other one, and the kids were all the same as I'd known all along. It still had only one teacher, but a different one, but things really hadn't changed much. By then, most of the boys were helpin' out on the fishin' boats when they were out of school, and once in a while one or two of the girls besides me, but none of them were doin' it as much as I was. See, in a place like Blanche Tickle things don't change much over the years. The boys were mostly expected to be fishin' when they grew up, and the girls were supposed to wait on the shore, have a family, an' the like. There ain't a processin' plant at Blanche Tickle, but in other South Shore towns where there is one the girls often work in them. Albert always had to sell his catch in a town up the coast where there was one, an' I got to know it pretty well. I never much liked the processin' plant, and always figured I'd rather be fishin' than workin' in one."
"Hard work?"
"Aye, it is. I've had to work in one or another every now and then, but every time I have, I've always been lookin' for the chance to do somethin' else, b'y. It stinks to high heaven, not that a fishin' boat can't get a little smelly now and again. It's noisy, and it's borin', doin' the same thing time after time for hours on end. It can be a tough life on a fishin' boat but at least it's interestin' most of the time. I won't say that I'd do anythin' other than workin' in a processin' plant 'cause there's some things even worse, but I always figured that there was somethin' better, too."
"As I recall, you said you didn't make it all the way through high school."
"Naw, I didn't," she shook her head. "Not that I wouldn't have liked to, but things didn't work out right. Albert, well, about the time I was eleven or twelve he started not feelin' good, an' had trouble breathin'. At first it wasn't too bad and he could grit it out, an' it helped that I was bigger an' could be more help to him. He just got worse and worse, and finally, the winter I was in grade eleven he was so sick he couldn't go out in the bummer no more. Finally he had to sell it, not that he got much out of it, and the next thing you knew he was in hospital in St. John's, an' I was pretty much out in the cold. I lived by myself in his house for a while gettin' by one way an' another, an' it did get a little hungry for me at times then."
"You couldn't get welfare or assistance or whatever they call it there?"
"I could have," she shook her head. "But I didn't. I was probably a little dumb about that, but I can be as independent as anyone else from the South Shore, b'y. 'Sides, I was worried the government would want to stick me in some foster home in St. John's, an' I really didn't want that, so I just hung on. I got a little help from some of the neighbors, and there was an old skiff Albert had given up on that I could go out in the harbor and do a little hand-linein' when I wasn't tryin' to keep it afloat. Just when things seemed like they was worse, I'd catch a fish or two and I'd be all right for a while longer. It wasn't till them times was over with that I really realized I could have gotten assistance from the government, and by then it was too late."
"But you stuck it out," he nodded, again impressed with the grit of this girl.
"For a while," she replied. "I finished up my grade, but if I started the next one, there weren't no way I could make it all the way through the final year, so one day I got a ride on a fishin' boat that was headed up to St. John's so I could go see him. Well, the skipper knew me a little an' knew I knew what I was doin'. He had a hand sick, his brother or somethin', I don't remember now, and asked me if I could fill in for a while. The pay wasn't too bad, but by the time his brother came back it was too late for me to go back to school in Blanche Tickle or anywhere else to get that final year, so I just didn't. Since then, it's been one job or another, doin' what I could, sometimes at sea, more often not. I've kept hopin' I could find somethin' I could stay with, but it hasn't happened yet. I'm in no rush, though. There are some advantages to not bein' tied to a job and such, b'y, 'cause ye never know when some guy in a little boat is going to come along and ask me to go to Ireland with him. That way, there ain't reason to say no."
"I'm still impressed with the way you made a snap decision to go with a stranger like you did, but I guess I'm just as glad. Out of curiosity, what happened to Albert's house?"
"I kept it up for him the best I could in hope that he'd be able to come back to it someday, but he never did," she sighed. "It was all he had left by then, and he left it to me when he died. It ain't a shack or anythin', but it's very small, an' it's in good shape and clean. I've tried to keep it that way. Every now and then I get the chance to rent it out to someone for a while, like last summer I rented it to a Yank artist guy who spent the summer makin' paintin's. Most of the time it sits empty, although now and again if I'm not doin' anythin' else and have a few loonies in my pocket, I'll go down and just live there for a spell. I still have some friends in Blanche Tickle, although I'll always be an outsider. If I was to get married and live there, my kiddies might be considered locals, or they might not. My grandchildren, though, they might pass the test. Even though I'm an outsider, Blanche Tickle is still home to me, and I'll always consider myself a Blanche Tickle girl."


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- Mar 5, 2005Ruben (et al)
It is true that Matheron's theory is based on no
distributional assumptions. In fact, there is no
requirement for the distribution to be the same at
every location in the study area.
The necessity for using traditional geostatistical
theory is that the 'difference between two values'
should have a common distribution for a specified
distance (and possibly direction). The form of this
distribution is irrelevant but it needs to possess a
mean and variance.
The problem lies not with the theory but with the
practice. If you have the whole 'realisation' you can
calculate the true average and variance and the shape
of each distribution is irrelevant. If you have only a
few samples, then you can only find estimates for the
means and variances at each distance.
If the underlying distribution is highly skewed then,
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samples, regular sampling locations), your estimate of
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average of the samples included in the particular
estimate. There was a huge amount of debate about this
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such as kriging on skewed samples. All of Sichel's
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fact that local averaging is not sensible when your
data has a coefficient of variation greater than
around 1.
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application. However, real life isn't so tidy at the
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Rose Bowl 2010: 10 Things To Know About Wisconsin vs. TCU
The BCS Bowl matchups are official, and, as expected, Big Ten co-champ Wisconsin will take on undefeated TCU of the Mountain West Conference in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.
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TCU: Horned Frogs Dance With the Big Boys
While the upcoming Rose Bowl may not be TCU's first-ever BCS bowl berth, it will certainly be the most important football game in the program's history since beating Carnegie Mellon in the 1939 Sugar Bowl to cap an 11-0 season and an AP National Championship.
The Horned Frogs have certainly fallen off a bit in terms of prestige since the days of Davey O'Brien and, more recently, the dissolution of the Southwest Conference.
The Fort Worth-based school has spent the last 14 years wandering the college football landscape for a permanent home. With a scheduled move to the Big East scheduled for 2012, the Horned Frogs will have played in four different conferences since the Big Eight and the SWC joined forces while leaving TCU out of the picture.
Now, Gary Patterson's squad has a chance to establish itself among the elite before joining a BCS conference.
And not like last year, when TCU was pitted against Boise State, another BCS outsider, in what turned out to be something of a ho-hum Fiesta Bowl.
This time around, the Frogs will have the opportunity to earn the respect of the college football world against Wisconsin, a traditional Big Ten powerhouse, on arguably the biggest stage the sport has to offer.
Just the sort of once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity that TCU is unlikely to get again, even as (and perhaps due to being) a member of the Big East.
Wisconsin: Party Like It's 1999
Wisconsin, on the other hand, has an established history playing in the Rose Bowl, though the Badgers haven't reached the grand daddy of them all since 2000.
Those were the glory days of the Wisconsin football program, when Barry Alvarez roamed the sidelines as Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne ran over helpless defenders on the field.
In fourth-ranked Wisconsin's 17-9 victory over 22nd-ranked Stanford–the Badgers' second consecutive Rose Bowl victory–"The Dayne Train" became the first Big Ten player ever to take home multiple Rose Bowl Game MVP honors, a distinction that only three others have shared–Washington's Bob Schloredt, USC's Charles White and Texas' Vince Young.
Since then, the Badgers have maintained a consistent winning tradition, though they've fallen short of winning the Big Ten and reaching a BCS bowl until this year.
Alvarez resigned as head coach in 2005, handing off the reigns of the program to Bret Bielema while staying on as the school's athletic director.
Now, in his fifth year on the job, Bielema has the Badgers primed for their first trip to Pasadena in more than a decade.
TCU: All About Defense
If there's anything that Gary Patterson's Horned Frogs are known for, it's defense.
And for good reason. TCU is tops in the nation in four separate defensive categories–total defense, scoring defense, pass efficiency defense, and pass defense–while coming in at a lowly third in rush defense.
The Frogs employ an innovative 4-2-5 scheme, which relies on speed more than size and strength to smother and frustrate its opponents. Star linebacker Tank Carder and defensive tackle Cory Grant make this unit the nation's stingiest across the board.
In other words, it's tough to do much of anything offensively against the Horned Frogs' D.
Wisconsin: The Tailback Trifecta
It's tough to pity the Badgers in their task of scoring against the Horned Frogs' defense when considering the weapons that Bret Bielema's bunch has to work with.
More specifically, Wisconsin sports arguably the most talented stable of 'backs in the country.
The group is headlined by junior John Clay, a 6'1", 255-pound bruiser, who accumulated 936 yards and 13 touchdowns in the team's first nine games before missing the better part of the last three due to injury.
Without Clay, the Badgers' ground game continued to roll, putting up 70 points against Northwestern and an astonishing 83 points against Indiana.
Those astounding point totals came largely on the backs of sophomore Montee Ball (864 yards, 17 touchdowns) and freshman James White (1,029 yards, 14 touchdowns), who will likely share ball-carrying duties with Clay for Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.
If the Horned Frogs were ever to be fearful of another team's running attack, it would be in this game.
TCU: Andy Dalton, Winning Incarnate
One guy who'll be lucky enough not to deal with Wisconsin's three-headed monster face-to-face is TCU quarterback Andy Dalton.
The senior from Katy, Texas has a career record of 41-8, including a 24-1 mark over the last two seasons.
Dalton's collegiate resume also features 70 touchdown passes and more than 10,000 passing yards, placing him in good company among the greatest quarterbacks in Horned Frogs history, alongside the likes of Sammy Baugh and Davey O'Brien.
Not bad for a guy who has never gotten the recognition he deserves as one of the nation's most prolific passers.
Wisconsin: Scott Tolzien vs. the Frogs
As great as Dalton has been for TCU, Wisconsin's quarterback is far from a slouch, even by comparison.
Scott Tolzien may not be the four-year starter that Dalton is, but he is a senior nonetheless with ample experience playing in big games.
With such a potent stable of running backs behind him, Tolzien has done everything the Badgers have needed of him, throwing for 2,300 yards and 16 touchdowns en route to a 169.80 efficiency rating this season.
And while Tolzien won't necessarily have to match Dalton toss for toss in order for Wisconsin to come away with a win on New Year's Day, he just may have to do more than simply hand the ball off to the law firm of Clay, Ball, and White.
TCU: Dressed For Success Against the BCS
Aside from all of the obvious benefits of playing in the Rose Bowl, TCU will have the opportunity to quiet critics like Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee, who claim that schools from less prestigious conferences don't deserve to play in high profile bowl games against BCS competition.
Not that the Horned Frogs haven't fared well against big conference competition already.
TCU carries with it into the Rose Bowl a 15-3 mark against BCS conference schools since 2002, including wins against Oregon State of the Pac-10 and rival Baylor of the Big 12 just this year.
Though those wins admittedly came against middling BCS competition, TCU's overall record against such teams speaks for itself.
More importantly, it shows that the Horned Frogs can play with the big kids, so to speak.
And, of course, a win over Wisconsin would serve as an emphatic middle finger to Gee and the Buckeyes, who lost 31-18 to the Badgers this season.
Wisconsin: Proving Its Rose Bowl Berth Worth
Wisconsin certainly has plenty to prove in the Rose Bowl as well.
The Badgers shared the 2010 Big Ten title with Ohio State and Michigan State, but nabbed the conference's automatic Rose Bowl berth by virtue of finishing the season with the highest BCS ranking of the three.
Such has been met with some controversy by Buckeye and Spartan fans, and rightfully so.
After all, why should the Badgers, and not either of the other two, play in Pasadena when all three have identical 11-1 records, including 7-1 marks in the Big Ten?
The Badgers will need a win in the Rose Bowl to prove that the Big Ten did, indeed, send its best team to represent it in the biggest of games.
Otherwise, there will be streams of "what if's" flooding the airwaves from Columbus and East Lansing for days, if not weeks, on end.
Gary Patterson vs. Bret Bielema: A Tale Of Two Coaches
As far as the head-to-head matchup is concerned, both teams will be led into the game by highly successful coaches with very different styles.
On the one hand is Bret Bielema, who has amassed a 49-15 record at Wisconsin, including a 2-2 mark in bowl games, since taking over for coaching legend Barry Alvarez in 2006.
As an alumnus of the University of Iowa football program and a former assistant coach for the Hawkeyes from 1993 until 2001, Bielema brings with him a strong Big Ten pedigree. His team reflects this history, playing the type of smash mouth football with a power running game that's indicative of the conference's storied history.
Gary Patterson, on the other hand, comes from a somewhat less prestigious coaching background, having been an assistant coach at schools like Kansas State and New Mexico before landing the defensive coordinator gig at TCU.
Patterson took over as the Horned Frogs' head coach in 2000 after Dennis Franchione took off for Alabama and hasn't looked back since. In that span, Patterson's teams have posted seven 10-win seasons and 97 wins overall, making him the second winningest coach in the program's 114 year history.
TCU's success under Patterson has been predicated on defense, an area in which the Horned Frogs' head coach has proven to be an innovator with his unusual but extremely effective 4-2-5 scheme.
In short, this game should make for a rather intriguing meeting of the minds in Pasadena.
The Numbers Suggest a Close Game
On the field, this edition of the Rose Bowl Game should be about as evenly matched as one could hope for.
For the first time since Texas and USC played for the BCS National Championship, the Rose Bowl will play host to two top-5 teams who boast a combined 19 consecutive wins.
On paper, TCU would seem to have the advantage, with the nation's most dominant defense, while Wisconsin's talented backfield and experience in big games may tilt the scales in the Badgers' favor.
However, perhaps no single fact conveys just how close the game might be than this:
Both teams have scored exactly 520 points this season, meaning that both teams average 43.33 points per game–tied for fourth most in the country.
And while neither team is likely to light up the scoreboard in such a fashion on New Year's Day, those watching can certainly expect a close and entertaining game nonetheless.


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When I truly worship God in spirit and in truth, I bring myself into the right relationship with God. I experience His Presence in new ways, I tap into His power, and I learn to know Him better and trust Him more. A vibrant and real worship life is part of having a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
Book: The Air I Breathe – Louie Giglio
Study/DVD: Passion Talk Series - Louie Giglio
Media: A Biblical Theology of Worship Podcast Episode - Scotty Smith
Experience: Make Sunday mornings at Cornerstone a priority
Book: The Knowledge of the Holy – A.W. Tozer
Study/DVD: The Way of a Worshiper Bible Study and DVD – Buddy Owens
Media: Blogging and resources of Bob Kauflin and Sovereign Grace
Experience: This is Our God DVD
Book: Engaging with God – David Peterson
Study/DVD: Alleluia Series – Robert Webber
Media: R.C. Sproul Worship resource
Experience: Serving on the worship team
Other Resources
Books: The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship - A.W. Tozer; Whatever Happened to Worship - A.W. Tozer; The Way of a Worshiper - Buddy Owens; Worship by the Book - D.A. Carson; Worship Evangelism - Sally Morgenthaler
Study/DVD: The Complete Library of Christian Worship - Robert Webber
Media: Theology of Worship podcast - Erwin McManus; David G Peterson Resources
Experience: Revealing Jesus CD/DVD set