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"Please let me introduce myself. I'm Randy Miller, owner of the Colorado Daily..."
So began a letter, headlined "Dear Reader," that appeared on the front page of the March 5 Daily, a newspaper in its 109th year of serving the residents of Boulder -- and while Miller sustained a friendly tone throughout, he also made space for some horn-blowing. He stated with pride that the Daily, whose circulation is estimated at 23,000, "is the only independently owned daily newspaper on the Front Range," noted that it's "believed to be the oldest free-distribution newspaper in the United States," and claimed that it "has the highest readership in Boulder" -- a supposition calculated to nettle folks at the Boulder Daily Camera, the Daily's best-heeled competitor. Furthermore, he put a benign spin on the paper's reputation as "the official voice of the Republic of Boulder," declaring that those who agree with the statement "recognize that we're a lifestyle publication, one that fits with Boulder and increasingly with more and more people."
However, Miller left out many memorable elements of the Daily saga. He failed to mention that the paper has a history of progressivism and edginess that in the spring of 1970 inspired officials at the University of Colorado, where the Daily was born, to sever all ties to it. He decided not to recap its years as a not-for-profit publication, or its early-'80s transformation into an employee-owned operation dedicated to rattling the power structure by any journalistic means necessary. He didn't sketch out how the Daily's financial profile went from stable at the dawn of the '90s to struggling by the decade's end, and he skipped the tale of former finance director Mark Breese, whose alleged embezzlement of somewhere between $250,000 and $1 million preceded the Daily's bankruptcy and ensuing sale.
Finally, he chose not to address the sadness or apprehension felt by readers and former Daily employees over his acquisition of the paper, and for a very good reason: He says he has no knowledge of such reactions whatsoever. "Every person I've met, whether they've been a community person or an advertiser, has told me, 'We're so happy you bought the Daily,'" says Miller, whose resumé documents nearly thirty years of mainstream newspapering experience, most recently with Iowa-based Lee Enterprises. "All the comments I've gotten have been tremendously supportive."
At the same time, Miller concedes that he knew absolutely nothing about the Daily's reputation for muckraking before late last year, when he learned the publication was on the block. And he prefers to talk about its selling points -- among them, a loyal readership that includes more young people than is common for most newspapers -- rather than politics. For him, the purchase was an opportunity to settle in Colorado, a state he loves, not a way to stick it to the Man.
Nearly two months into his tenure, Miller hasn't turned the Daily upside down. There haven't been major shifts in content, and most editorial employees on staff prior to his arrival are still there, with one big exception. On April 13, Pam White, the first female editor in the Daily's history (she served from 1998 until early March, when Miller took the editor title himself and named her managing editor) tendered her resignation. Some of her reasons for leaving had nothing to do with Miller's arrival: She plans to finish a novel she's been working on since 1994, she wants to explore new journalistic territory (she just took a job at the Rocky Mountain News), and she admits to a degree of burnout when it comes to certain annual Boulder events. "There's only so many times you can cover the Conference on World Affairs without encountering some boredom," she says. But she also believes that the Daily she's known and loved may be slouching toward oblivion. As she puts it, "I think Randy is going to take the paper in a direction I didn't want to go."
She's not the only one with such trepidations. White says she's received numerous calls from members of Boulder's progressive community urging her to stay at the Daily and fight against alterations. And alterations there will be: In his front-page letter, Miller wrote, "There's no question you'll see some changes evolve at the paper."
This prospect leaves White with mixed emotions. "I'm glad the Daily's still here," she says. "I'm glad it didn't have to shut its doors, and I'm glad we found a buyer who didn't want to shut it down and sell it off -- who wanted to keep the paper running. But I was also a strong believer in the employee-owned nature of the paper, and it's been a hard thing to stand on this threshold and see that this paper I had loved for all my adult life was going to change in a way that's irreversible. I felt like somebody I loved was dying, and there was nothing I could do about it."
In the beginning, the Daily was The Silver and Gold, a publication about as radical as a politician in favor of flag and family. A mission statement printed in its first issue, September 13, 1892, revealed that it was "named for the colors of the State University" and endeavored to "represent the best interests of the institution in all its departments" to a student body of approximately 250.
This rah-rah sensibility dominated the publication for many years to come. For instance, the front page of the October 27, 1925, edition led with "Varsity Rooters Out-Cheer Utah Backers at Game," which recounted the spectacle of "more than a thousand cheering students and townspeople" who met a train carrying CU's football squad and then paraded "to the Campus Drugstore and there dispersed, thus ending the trip which Salt Lake residents said was the greatest display of school spirit that they had ever seen." In addition, The Silver and Gold regularly devoted one of its meager handful of pages to society doings, even when World War II was raging: Readers on April 14, 1942, were no doubt fascinated by an item slugged "Evva Belle Peabody Tells of Engagement to Allan Vickers." Yet substance often crept into the newspaper's editorials. Woman's suffrage was debated in advance of its becoming Colorado law in 1893, and during the 1930s, the paper supported two students who fought against fascism and Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War, much to the chagrin of the local American Legion branch.
The paper changed its moniker to the Colorado Daily in 1953, reportedly because students thought The Silver and Gold made their product sound as if it specialized in mining news. The university apparently disagrees: It launched Silver and Gold Record, a weekly that highlights the school's faculty and staff, in 1970.
By the late '50s, the Daily's independent streak had grown more prominent. Back then, editors were chosen for one-year terms by the Board of Publications, a group made up of students, faculty and staff -- an arcane system that tended to undercut continuity. But by happenstance, a series of editors eager to look beyond parochial concerns wound up in positions of power, with opinion pieces in favor of civil rights and other attendant issues becoming commonplace. In 1962, this willingness to take controversial stands led to one of the Daily's first serious run-ins with the university. According to Boulder County Commissioner Paul Danish, who was a Daily staffer at the time and still writes occasional columns for the paper, then-editor Gary Althen raised hackles by publishing his hope that CU's football team, which had been sanctioned by the NCAA the previous year for recruiting violations, would "lose tomorrow's game and every game to follow."
Individuals offended by this declaration began sifting through the Daily in search of something to use against Althen, and found an article by writer Carl Mitcham that referred to conservative Arizona senator Barry Goldwater as "a fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal."
They forwarded this to Goldwater, who then demanded an apology. Althen offered one, but that didn't prevent Denver Post cartoonist Paul Conrad, a future Pulitzer Prize winner, from portraying the Daily as a bastion for beatniks, which might have had some truth to it but still seemed insulting. Subsequently, the Rocky Mountain News reported that Mitcham, in a letter that attempted to explain his earlier salvo, dubbed ex-president Dwight Eisenhower "an old futzer." CU president Quigg Newton reacted to this curious description by canning Althen, whom he'd previously defended. Newton's action precipitated the walkout of several Daily staffers and members of the Board of Publications, yet, Danish says, "the paper managed somehow to survive."
Another major dustup occurred in 1966 over an incident involving Clancy Sheehy, a beloved Boulder eccentric who died last December at age 73. At four-foot-three, Sheehy was hardly the biggest man off campus, and he suffered from osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, which made him especially fragile. But the business he ran in Boulder's Hill district -- Clancy's Upstairs Bookstore -- was a favorite of CU attendees, partly because he allowed students to buy items on credit. Hence the uproar when he was arrested for selling indecent material after a policeman found a button on display at the shop that read "F*ck Censorship."
Bob Ewegen, a staffer at the Denver Post since the '70s, was then the Daily's editor, and he sprang to Sheehy's defense with an editorial in which he wrote that prosecuting someone for selling a button emblazoned with "F*ck Censorship" was the equivalent of saying "F*ck the Constitution." The Rocky Mountain News, which the Daily had previously lampooned in a parody issue as the Right-Wing Mountain Views, immediately leapt on these last three words (rendered in its pages as "---- the Constitution"), implying that the Daily had attacked the foundations of our democracy. Even a cursory reading of the line showed that this charge was untrue, but in the end, that didn't matter, as Ewegen acknowledges. "I quickly learned rule one of successful demagoguery," he says. "Which is, be careful about writing things your opponents can twist on you." Shortly thereafter, Ewegen responded with what he characterizes as "a heartfelt, marvelously crafted non-apology that would have made Bill Clinton proud" and braced himself for a spanking from the CU regents, including just-elected beer-empire heir Joe Coors, who once sued the Daily after cartoonist Rob Pudim drew him as a mad dog. Fortunately, other regents were friendlier to Ewegen, and he managed to escape further punishment.
But the marriage between CU and the Daily didn't last much longer. Early on, the paper had been a vocal critic of the war in Vietnam, and as the fighting escalated, so did both the Daily's rhetoric and the university's displeasure with it. At various times during the '60s, Daily staffers tired of being pressured by school officials explored the prospect of going out on their own; Ewegen says a feasibility study about the topic took place during his tenure as editor. Regents, too, were looking for a way out, especially after a 1969 Supreme Court ruling, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, made it clear that attempts to censor the paper would lead to a protracted legal battle they'd almost certainly lose. In the decision, which supported the rights of three teenagers upset by what was happening in Vietnam to wear black armbands at school, the justices decreed that "First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and expression, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students, and neither students nor teachers shed such rights at the schoolhouse gate."
In the spring of 1970, with this precedent fresh in their minds, the regents voted to cut all campus publications loose, the Daily included. One regent who opposed the proposal predicted that the Daily would soon perish, which probably would have suited Joe Coors just fine. According to onetime Daily publisher Dennis Dubé, Coors quietly funded some start-up student publications more to his liking.
But the Daily was too stubborn to die.
The last editor chosen under university rules was Timothy Lange, who wound up being the single most important figure over the next sixteen years of the Daily's life -- and some employees argue that even this statement sells him short. He's not among them: "I was just one of many people at that paper, really talented people who were working for nothing and who made it what it was," says Lange, who currently dwells in Southern California. But despite his efforts to demythologize himself, the legend persists.
Lange began writing columns for the paper in 1967, after which he became a copy editor, layout editor and, in 1970, editor of the paper as a whole. But he eagerly ditched this designation after the Daily split from CU and incorporated as a not-for-profit organization, becoming one of three titleless people who attempted to oversee editorial functions cooperatively. The paper also eschewed titles in its staff box.
Although the setup didn't last, it was symbolic of a publication that wanted to walk like it talked. So, too, were the covers of the Daily on February 5, 1971, and December 14, 1973. The former was dominated by a stark map of Southeast Asia accompanied by instructions on how to join a protest of the invasion of Cambodia and Laos at the State Capitol the next day; the latter was filled by a holiday-themed photo of the stoned-looking Daily staff beneath a marijuana-leaf graphic. Its caption said, "Peace on Earth to People."
The timing was right for this blend of militancy and youth orientation, Lange says. "Students got the right to vote in their local communities in 1971, and that totally changed Boulder. Before, it had been a moderately conservative place, fairly oriented toward the Chamber of Commerce and so on. But the students voted by tremendous margins for liberal and left-of-center candidates, and that continued for many years. So that was a watershed, and the Daily reflected it."
Synchronicity didn't necessarily translate to consistent financial success. Revenue was up and down over the next several years, and attempts to reposition the Daily as a community newspaper and not just a publication for students weren't widely embraced. Many staffers were laid off during summers, when the paper cut back its production schedule, and had to file for unemployment to survive -- a practice that was still ongoing long afterward. And even when the staff was at full strength, there was often more to do than bodies to do it. After five years of struggling under this workload, Lange left to write for a succession of area publications, including Westword. But he was cajoled into returning in 1980 after what staffers at the time describe as a "palace coup" against then-editor Jeff Morgan.
The we're-all-in-this-together management structure that helped bring about the second Lange era cut both ways, empowering employees throughout the paper yet spurring infighting capable of slowing decision-making to a crawl. But despite its drawbacks, the collectivist approach was so essential to the Daily's culture that Lange and company transformed the paper into an employee-owned business a few years later.
From that point forward, Daily workers who remained for a prescribed period (usually either two or three years) were vested with part ownership via shares in the company; this gave them the right to vote for company trustees whose primary duty was to appoint the board of directors -- and the board, in turn, was charged with choosing the publisher. (Three trustees served at any given time, while the size of the board varied from five to seven members and sometimes included non-employees chosen from the community.) Any vested employee could run for trustee or board seats without regard to department or position, meaning that the lowliest paste-up person might have more influence at times than his supervisor. In addition, staffers got to keep their shares after they left the Daily. These holders of so-called B-shares lost their voting privileges but stood to make money if the paper was ever sold for a profit.
Not that cashing in was on anyone's mind back then -- not with so much injustice in the world in need of exposing. The Lange-led Daily didn't shy away from diving into national and international stories, some of them only tangentially connected to Boulder. Lange and writer S.K. Levin wrote frequently about U.S. policy in Nicaragua and even traveled to that country to do ground-level reporting; their main local hook involved Boulder's establishment of a sister-city relationship with the Nicaraguan community of Jalapa. The pair also investigated what became the Strategic Defense Initiative (aka Star Wars), coming out with an in-depth multi-part series a month before President Ronald Reagan unveiled the program in a 1983 speech.
But Lange also found ways to take area news nationwide, as he did when he unveiled the inner workings of a Federal Emergency Management Administration civil-defense plan intended for use in the event of a nuclear strike in Boulder and many other American cities. A meeting to explain the previously secret program drew around 1,200 dumbfounded Coloradans and the folks from 60 Minutes, and led to the dropping of the entire idea everywhere. Articles like these induced Nation scribe Alexander Cockburn to declare the Daily the best leftist newspaper in the country.
Despite the soberness of these topics, however, the Daily was neither bland nor laugh-free. It developed an innovative entertainment section overseen by Jennifer Heath, who has gone on to become an author of books on a slew of subjects, and dabbled in often-self-deprecating humor courtesy of Todd Moore, who was also largely responsible for its grabby look. Moore, who's described with great affection by former colleague J. Gluckstern (now a CU film instructor and contributor to the Daily Camera) as a "fuck-you anarchist," wrote under the name Tao Jones and manned the regular feature "Tommy Tofu's Field Guide to Boulder," in which he described creatures such as "Liberal Man (Homo Pinko)": "Listen for the roar of Homo Pinko as he gathers in large herds to affect events thousands of miles away -- 'SMASH THE STATE...please.'" And that's not to mention his "Apocalypse Poll," in which readers were given the chance to predict whether the world would end in a "bang," a "whimper," or "other (please specify)."
Moore's adventures are notorious. On one occasion, he and a photographer decided they wanted to take a photo of Rocky Flats and drove onto the facility's grounds to get one without asking permission; they wound up spread-eagled on the ground surrounded by armed men in black commando outfits. On another, he penned an editorial, later published as a letter, about a suspicious fire at a fraternity house that convinced Boulder authorities and frat boys alike that the letter's mysterious author, identified as "T. Moore," was a female arsonist. "I remember standing at a cash machine and these two guys behind me were talking about what they were going to do when they got ahold of this bull dyke T. Moore," he says.
But his most infamous accomplishment was 1984's anti-Reagan issue. There's some disagreement over who sparked this notion: Moore says the idea came from singer Gil Scott-Heron, while Marty Durlin, Moore's former spouse and a onetime Daily staffer (she's presently station manager at Boulder public radio station KGNU), believes the responsible party was poet Amiri Baraka. (Both Scott-Heron and Baraka contributed to the issue.) Moreover, support for an all-editorial edition in advance of the 1984 election, in which Reagan's main competitor was Democratic candidate Walter Mondale, wasn't universal, with some employees fearing the concept would damage the Daily's future credibility. But the stone-throwers eventually won out, and on November 5, 1984, the Daily unleashed "Ronald Reagan: A Commentary."
Viewed from a distance of seventeen years, some of the anti-Reagan issue's content seems a bit curious. S.K. Levin's somber piece about Reagan's military buildup ages well, as does Durlin's personal commentary about the dearth of worthy candidates, but they're juxtaposed with wackiness like Nan De Grove's "What's in the Stars for Reagan, Mondale?," an attempt to analyze the election via astrology. ("Mondale's Sagittarius planets all fall near the ascendant in the United States chart, which indicate he could help the country recover some of its lost idealism...") But what hasn't dated are the incendiary graphics: a smiling Reagan dressed as Darth Vader, a poster of two elephants mating labeled "The Making of a Republican," and a doctored photo showing a football placekicker about to boot Reagan's head. This last image prompted a memorable moment for Moore: "These guys threatened to beat the hell out of me because it was their friend's leg kicking it."
That was hardly the only negative reaction. Numerous Daily sources swear that ad revenue plummeted 40 percent after the issue, but Lange, who by then had added publisher duties to his editorial responsibilities, says that's not so: Only a few advertisers bailed. Yet university conservatives voiced their disapproval in larger numbers. Pam White, who started contributing to the Daily in 1984 and holds the distinction of having written a pro-choice article for the Reagan edition that was withheld because it was "too extreme even for us," tells the tale. "I was sitting at my desk when a bunch of campus Republicans barged in with armloads of the paper that they'd picked up from all over town -- and they threw them on the floor and called us 'fucking communists' and spewed profanity and otherwise demonstrated their commitment to the First Amendment. I always thought that was funny."
So, too, does Mike O'Keefe, a Daily staffer who also worked on the Reagan edition -- but his view of the project as a whole is a measured one. "Compared to all the really great stories the Daily did, a lot of the anti-Reagan issue was bad journalism," says O'Keefe, who went on to work at Westword and is now a sportswriter at the New York Daily News. "But now I look at where we are today, with another Bush in the White House, and I think, 'We were right.' You know? We were right."
The following year, Lange received a job offer from the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. He turned it down because he was in the middle of overseeing several capital improvements at the Daily. But when the Herald Examiner phoned again in early 1986, he was more receptive. The improvements at the Daily had been made, and, he notes, "I was 39 years old and had been in that small circle of journalism in Boulder for a long time. I thought I'd done as much as I could do at the place, and I felt I was leaving it in good hands."
That was clearly true from a financial standpoint. Dennis Dubé, hired at the Daily in 1981, succeeded Lange as publisher and ushered in an eight-year period of expansion and relative prosperity. Even setbacks such as the flop of a Daily spinoff called the Boulder Courier, a home-delivered weekly paper edited by Paul Danish that wound up $50,000 in the red after just six months, didn't prove fatal. "It was a rough and tumble time in the market," says Dubé, who is currently on the faculty of the CU journalism school. "Growth was flat in real estate and everything else. But the Daily still did well in that environment."
Editorial changes were more controversial. Replacing Lange as editor was Clint Talbot, who started at the Daily as a reporter in 1984 and is now a columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera. Talbot quickly shifted priorities. "I had a couple of things I thought were important," he says. "One was to get back to our roots journalistically. We existed because of the university campus, but our campus coverage seemed to be sort of secondary at that time. So I wanted to focus on things relevant to the university's students. And the second thing was to try to make sure, to whatever extent practicable, that we kept opinions on the opinion pages. I'm not averse to opinions; I do it for a living. But I thought there was too much opinionizing in the news columns and also in the graphics."
That was a shot across the bow for Todd Moore, who didn't last long under the new regime. He was philosophically at odds with Talbot, who, in his opinion, "writes like he's pounding on the piano with a frozen mackerel. He doesn't hear the music in the words." The end finally came after Moore arrived at the office one day to discover that the decorations he'd put on the wall over his desk had been taken down and replaced by a world map; afterward, he says, "I went to Dennis Dubé and lit up on him about basically selling our souls for advertising revenue. And he fired me for insubordination."
But Moore, who ran a widely admired, now-defunct newspaper in Illinois for several years and is currently working at a Boulder garden store, didn't leave quietly. In a scorching goodbye letter, he wrote, "What's wrong with making a newspaper interesting, exciting, personal and possibly even (horrors!) subjective? For all the freeze-dried, short-term bullshit that passes as news in this town, the Daily has in the past provided an antidote. But nobody's saying much about the Daily these days. And that's because we're not saying, or doing, anything of interest."
This opinion was shared by many veterans of Lange's reign; numerous folks loyal to his way departed by their own choice or were pink-slipped. But those who came later tend to portray the Talbot Daily in much more positive terms and point out that it still had its eccentricities. Luke Cyphers, now a colleague of O'Keefe's in the New York Daily News sports department, remembers a sentence that appeared on the copy-editing test he took in 1987: "The problem of teen pregnancy is mounting."
"When I read that, I thought, 'Somebody has a sense of humor here,'" Cyphers says. But serious journalism was produced as well, including a Cyphers story that turned into one of the Daily's biggest-ever scoops: the revelation that then-CU basketball coach Tom Miller was, in Cyphers's words, "Bobby Knight-ing some of his players." The story was directly responsible for Miller being placed on notice by CU in June 1988; he was fired in 1990.
Bronson Hilliard, a communications consultant who also worked at the Daily under Talbot, thinks local reporting of this kind was of more use to Boulderites than the sort of journalism that preceded it. "My problem with Tim Lange's stewardship of the paper was that it was one-dimensionally focused on international politics and dismantling the Reagan revolution," he says. "Ideologically, I didn't have a problem with that. But from a practical standpoint, they really soft-pedaled local news. You could read about Nicaragua every single day and still not know what was going on in Boulder."
With CU and Boulder spotlighted in the news hole and with the entertainment section, assembled by Leland Rucker, preserving the paper's high standards, the Daily flourished even after Dennis Dubé turned over the publisher's job to longtimer Cindy Dziekan in 1989. But in the mid-'90s, competition from new publications such as the Boulder Weekly added external pressure to the ever-present internal sort. Debate over the notion of buying a building relatively distant from downtown Boulder caused schisms as well. "Financially, it was an excellent move," says Dziekan, a certified public accountant in Boulder, "but I felt that management wasn't comfortable with supporting me on some of the decisions that needed to be made."
Dziekan says she left the Daily on her own; others argue that she jumped before she was pushed. But what's indisputable is that in 1995, Chris Harburg, who'd joined the Daily ten years earlier as an entry-level typesetter and later moved up to production director, was handed the publisher's mantle.
Under Harburg, the Daily took possession of the building that Dziekan had coveted, at 5505 Central Avenue -- a transaction that Harburg, who now lives in Pittsburgh, defends as fiscally farsighted. But it couldn't prevent advertising revenue from dwindling over the next few years. One idea to offset this downturn was to purchase a printing press, which was done in the summer of 1998 -- and even though Harburg confirms that it wasn't kept busy enough on outside printing jobs to come close to paying for itself, she believes that the revenue stream it created helped the Daily stay afloat a year longer than it otherwise might have. But increased scrutiny was also directed at the paper's editorial side in general, and Talbot in particular. Shortly after Talbot was recognized as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series of editorials he'd written about a Boulder County gang-rape trial, Pam White, who returned to the Daily in the early '90s following a several-year absence, was put in day-to-day command of the newsroom, with Talbot receiving the new title of "executive editor" as compensation.
This gesture failed to prevent future disagreements, however, and in August 1998, Talbot quit. But just before he did so, Harburg mentioned to him that she was exploring the possibility of selling the paper. In 1999, Harburg listed the paper with a newspaper broker without informing the staff (she says she took this course because a potential buyer wouldn't tender an offer until she did) and initiated an attempt to buy back B-shares from former employees. Many ex-workers interpreted this as preparation for an impending sale, and although some took the cash (most who did got a few hundred dollars), others held onto their shares out of nostalgia or because they anticipated a windfall.
Little did they know that, because of the bankruptcy, their shares would wind up being about as valuable as Confederate money.
After becoming publisher, Harburg, who says she's "pretty weak on the financial side," knew she needed someone to do the Daily's books. So she called a Boulder temporary agency and asked that some accounting pros be sent to her office. "I didn't even know what to ask them," she confesses, but she still got the sense that of the candidates who appeared, Mark Breese was the one who most obviously knew what he was doing. In Harburg's mind, "He was just what we needed. Too bad he wasn't honest."
How Breese might respond to that depiction is an open question, since his whereabouts are unknown. But there was plenty that Harburg didn't know about him. Documents on file at the Colorado State Board of Accountancy show that on November 17, 1988, Breese was stripped of his permit to practice as a certified public accountant after admitting that in 1987 he had "converted for his personal benefit funds belonging to H.W. Joint Venture in an amount exceeding $20,000 by means of his unauthorized issuance of checks" payable to himself. The previous July, Breese also had been accused of four additional counts involving embezzlement of another $40,000-plus from other businesses.
The accountancy board order gave Breese the chance to reapply for his CPA certificate in five years, but the state board has no record of him having done so. At the time of his hiring by the Daily, he was not a licensed accountant in Colorado, yet no one at the paper knew it, because no one bothered to investigate his background. This astonishing lapse was compounded when Harburg and company let Breese, the newly christened financial director, set up a bookkeeping system in which he handled funds without any oversight whatsoever. "When we were beginning to wonder about him, I started talking to people, and they told me, 'What he's doing isn't standard accounting procedure,'" Harburg says. "And I had no clue, because I didn't even know what standard accounting procedures were." To confuse matters further, Breese had risen to become president of the Daily's board of directors, meaning that this underling of Harburg's was also, in a very real sense, her boss.
Several Daily sources say Harburg's investigation into Breese began only after he, in his role as board president, began pushing for a performance review of her. But Harburg insists that her suspicions were piqued after twenty dollars turned up missing from a cash box in late 1999 -- an account corroborated by Pamela Rodriguez, who served as office manager and classified-advertising manager during her three years at the Daily. "The only people who had access to that cash box were Mark, [accounts payable manager] Dave Fritz and me -- and I knew Dave and I didn't take it," says Rodriguez. "That's when I told Chris, 'We've got a serious problem.'" Harburg spent weeks quietly making copies of Breese's books on the weekends, when he wasn't around -- and Rodriguez says what she found during these and subsequent investigations was disquieting. "There'd be checks listed in the checkbook as being for $230, and we'd get the checks back from the bank and they'd be for $2,500, made out to Mark Breese."
Harburg eventually confronted Breese, but without getting the police involved. "We were desperate for cash," she says, "and the only way to get any right away was a civil lawsuit." In the end, Breese, who'd been canned by this point, agreed to settle for $252,000 -- but the only money he's put toward that amount thus far is $29,000 he forked over from the sale of his house in Lafayette shortly before vanishing. Once he decamped, the Daily had a team of so-called forensic accountants pore through the financial records in the hope of triggering criminal charges against Breese. But the paper didn't get this data to the Boulder Police Department until January 2001, and Detective Jeff Kithcart, the investigator on the case, says "the material is still being reviewed." He declines to speculate how long this process will take, but doubts that an arrest warrant for Breese is imminent.
Harburg left the Daily in May for Pennsylvania, where her husband had just landed a new job, and Russell Puls, a veteran of the Rocky Mountain News, took over as publisher amid cautious optimism. But while ad revenue began edging upward, it couldn't keep pace with a gusher of red ink. Bank loans on the building and the printing press had been cross-collateralized, making lending institutions unhappy, and Breese's previous failure to keep up with payroll taxes miffed the IRS. In late November, the Daily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing a debt whose $2 million size far outstripped its assets; the value of the building and the press, on which the paper was still paying, was put at around $1.5 million.
The only way for the paper to avoid liquidation was to find a buyer, and it did. While Randy Miller's offer of around $2.3 million was far below the asking price of $3.9 million, it was deemed good enough under the circumstances. The closing was delayed for two days, and was reportedly contentious -- a claim Miller denies. But on February 28, he took possession of his new baby.
The employee-owned Daily was no more.
As soon as Miller arrived at the Daily, the nasty rumors started coming -- the worst of which was that he'd callously sacked a mentally handicapped man who had handled the paper's recycling for years, leaving the poor, befuddled guy in tears. But the truth turned out to be considerably less Dickensian: Unbeknownst to Miller, an employee who'd misinterpreted something the new owner had said told the man he would be fired. The staff was on the verge of a revolt when Miller learned of the mixup and reinstated the man.
Others weren't so fortunate. Russell Puls and Dave Fritz were promptly disappeared (Miller has hired his own financial team), and so were a couple of designers and a sports editor. But the other editorial types were retained, giving White hope that she'd be able to continue on her mission to remake the Daily in the image established by Timothy Lange. Granted, some critics felt she was a long way from achieving this objective, but there's no denying that the Daily broke some impressive stories under her command. The biggest scalp the paper claimed belonged to ex-CU president John Buechner, who resigned after the paper drew back the curtains on his problematic connections to university consultant Fran Raudenbush. More recently, the Daily was the first area publication to hint that the death earlier this year of Brittney Chambers was caused by water intoxication, not an overdose of the drug Ecstasy, which she had ingested. "All the other papers were talking about it in terms of overdosing," White maintains. "But there were enough of us in that room who've done enough drugs to say, 'We don't think so.'"
With articles like these running alongside other first-rate stories such as investigative reporter Terje Langeland's ongoing series about dog labs at the CU medical school, the Miller-controlled Daily didn't differ substantially from the employee-owned one. But White says she began to get the sense that that wouldn't be the case for much longer. First, she says, Miller issued a length limit on editorials and decreed that they shouldn't jump from one page to another, as White's frequently did. Then, she goes on, he returned from a private meeting with assorted University of Colorado representatives to say that "perhaps I was being unfair to CU and giving things a negative slant on purpose, which really pissed me off." She adds that Miller admonished her to not be so "rude" to potential sources in the future, which she interpreted as a request for her to be a less aggressive journalist -- "and he also told me that it was time for him to get more involved in editorial. Which meant to me it was time to go."
Miller sticks to generalities when discussing White's departure, but he does point out that her final editorial, an April 13 effort built around an interview with Native American prisoner and cause célèbre Leonard Peltier, filled an entire page, making it considerably longer than most pieces of its kind. He also confirms that "since I got here, I've been setting up meetings with people at CU and in the community to introduce myself and meet them, and I am still in the process of doing that." And he adds that he will be keeping a closer eye on editorial matters in the future.
But in his view, this represents a natural progression, not something sinister. "I wanted to take my first month or so to observe what we do here and get to know people at the paper and in the community before I presume to make any changes," he says, adding, "Everyone I've met is very fond of the newspaper and reads it widely -- and folks in the community seem very excited about the Daily having a stable ownership structure and an owner with experience in journalism."
Miller certainly stacks up well in this last respect. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, graduated from the University of Missouri's acclaimed journalism school, and in the early '70s bought a tiny weekly newspaper, the Marceline Press, in Marceline, Missouri, population 2,500. Upon discovering that most of his readers were seniors, he redesigned the paper, moving from eight columns to four and enlarging the print -- a simple but effective solution that brought him to the attention of people at the Kansas City Star, where he became graphics director. After serving in a similar role at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he moved to the Denver Post around the time the paper was purchased by L.A.-based Times Mirror. Rich Clarkson, for whom Miller worked at the Post, has nothing but compliments for him: "He's extremely talented, and not just in the areas of newspaper design and editing, but also in management and advertising. He covers all the bases."
Next, Miller jumped to the Detroit Free Press, where he served as deputy managing editor; several years later, he was chosen to be vice president of the Detroit Newspaper Agency, the organization that handles the business aspects of Detroit's joint-operating agreement, just as the Denver Newspaper Agency does here. That was followed by a stint as publisher of a daily in Battle Creek, Michigan, and, in 1997, an executive post with Lee Enterprises, keeping an eye on publications of several descriptions (dailies, weeklies, shoppers) in Nebraska, Montana and the Dakotas. But the traveling involved made Miller realize that he'd rather stay in one place. "My wife and I always wanted to get back to Colorado at this phase in our life. So when I heard about the Daily being for sale, it seemed perfect."
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Still, he's largely keeping his vision of the paper to himself -- for now, anyway. "I wouldn't want to try to be really specific about the kinds of changes we're going to make," he says. "They'll work themselves out over time. But in general, I think the Daily needs to be true to its heritage, to its roots, which is as an alternative daily newspaper about Boulder. It needs to focus on Boulder County and the interests and needs of the readership here. And it needs to be a true alternative. We don't want to be just another daily."
No one's described it that way in the past. Indeed, the Daily has a unique reputation that's been spread by alumni in Colorado (the Rocky Mountain News's Jerd Smith and Debra Melani are two of many area journalists with ties to the paper) and beyond (sportswriter Doug Looney's credits include Sports Illustrated and the Christian Science Monitor; Rich Mauer shared in a 1989 Pulitzer Prize earned at the Anchorage Daily News). Such Daily veterans tend to look back on their years there with the sort of affection that's exceedingly rare in a profession known for its cynicism -- and even those who've been gone for ages don't like the idea of it losing the spark that keeps it burning in their imaginations. "When I was there, you couldn't get a sense of what Boulder was, in all its eclectic glory, by just reading the Daily Camera," says Steve Rinehart, an assistant city editor for the Anchorage Daily News who left the Daily in 1988. "Boulder's such an amazing, strange place, and I'd like to think the Daily would always reflect it."
Will it? There are as many opinions on that as there are opinion-givers. Former publisher Dubé is encouraged by the Miller Daily's first month-plus. "Eyebrows have been up waiting to see what happens, and people are wondering, 'Is the Daily going to be what it really is, or is this another publisher coming in with some grand vision of being the other Daily Camera?'" he says. "One of these paths leads to success, and the other path has some dubious logic about it -- but so far, it looks like Randy knows what he's doing." As for Timothy Lange, who went from the Herald Examiner to the L.A. Times syndicate and is now working on a hush-hush TV and Internet project, he laments the structural shift: "The thing that gets me the most is the loss of employee ownership. That the employees were bosses in the way they were made the Daily, warts and all, close to unique in American newspapers. And now the employees no longer have a structured voice. I find that sad." And Jennifer Heath feels that the Daily's glory days are long gone no matter what Miller does. "This might be me being a disappointed mommy, but since Tim left, I never again saw in it the energy and the intelligence and the thoughtfulness, and also the inspiration and the originality, that it once had," she says. "All that's left is the myth."
Paul Danish falls somewhere between these extremes. "Of course it's the end of an era," he says. "But it's also the beginning of another one. That's the nice thing about newspapers. As long as it's alive, there's always another edition."


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Oilers sign Oscar Klefbom to 3 year Entry Level Contract + MacTavish stuff..
The Edmonton Oilers and Oscar Klefbom have agreed to terms on a 3-year entry level contract. No financial terms have been announced yet, but all bets are that he'll received $925,000 + signing bonuses… putting him somewhere in the $1.5M range for cap hit. This is great news.
In other news, Craig MacTavish had a great quote that I loved: "like the 17,000 fans, I'd like to see us improve the back end and our veterans need to respond." Ahhh lovely. The way I see it, he's coached here and knows how shitty it can be when your GM is too busy overpaying aging goaltenders to sign key players such as faceoff specialists. MacTavish should empathize more with the new coach and greatly understand their needs, and hopefully help react to those needs a lot quicker.

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Learn more about spiders, their origins and how they are classified.
Australia's spider fauna
Australia's described spider fauna consists of about 2000 species.
- Bird-dropping spider, Celaenia excavata
- Black House Spider, Badumna insignis
- Carrai Cave Spider, Progradungula carraiensis
- Comb-footed Platform Spider, Achaearanea mundula
- Cupboard Spiders, Steatoda sp.
- Daddy-long-legs Spider, Pholcus phalangioides
- Flower Spiders, Diaea sp.
- Foliage Webbing Spider
- Fringed Jumping Spider, Portia fimbriata
- Ground spiders
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- Badge Huntsman Spiders, Neosparassus sp.
- Jumping spiders
- Lynx Spider
- Magnificent Spider
- Sydney Funnel-web Spider, Atrax robustus
- Net-casting Spiders
- Rufous Net-casting Spider
- Garden Orb Weaving Spiders
- Golden Orb Weaving Spiders, Nephila sp.
- Silver Orb Weaving Spiders
- Redback Spider, Latrodectus hasselti
- Red-headed Mouse Spider, Missulena occatoria
- Sac Spiders
- Slater-eating Spider
- Spotted Ground Spiders
- St Andrew's Cross Spider, Argiope keyserlingi
- Tasmanian Cave Spider
- Trapdoor Spiders
- Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider, Misgolas villosus
- Triangular Spiders, Arkys sp.
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Managing alarms effectively
Many SCADA systems have built-in features that can be used to improve alarm handling, operator response times, and root cause analysis
Has managing alarms at your facility become a problem? Are operators missing critical alarms that could lead to unscheduled downtime or incidents because they're inundated with too many low-priority alarms? Once alarms are acknowledged, does it take too long to find the root cause?
Conditions change continually in a manufacturing or process plant. Some changes are routine, such as when a motor stops or starts in response to normal operations. Others can be mission critical, such as a temperature rising above maximum limit. Operators are constantly monitoring conditions to prevent problems and achieve maximum efficiency and productivity.
Benefits of using an alarm management system include:
- Ensure critical alarms get a timely response
- Avoid operator fatigue from too many low-level alarms
- Send real-time data to operators for immediate response
- Get detailed information from alarm worksheets
- Identify root causes quickly through alarm filters with string tags.
The introduction of computer-based SCADA systems and the great technological leaps that followed have significantly reduced the cost of alarming, making it almost free to add an alarm point. Most plants are controlled by one or more automation systems, and these systems provide a wealth of data to the SCADA system, data that can be used to monitor nearly every aspect of a plant's operation. With modern automation and SCADA systems, alarms can be added to a screen without incurring the expense of adding a hardwired alarm point and a panel-mounted indicating device.
While nearly free alarms can provide great benefits, care must be taken in SCADA system design each time an alarm point is added. For example, adding too many alarms can create alarm fatigue for operators who may be distracted by low-priority items at the expense of identifying the root cause problem.
A SCADA system should clearly show appropriate alarms indicating possible problems, but it shouldn't cry wolf for every routine change in plant operations. It's easy to blame the SCADA system for alarm overload and other alarm-related issues, but it's only a tool. Plant personnel need to use this tool correctly by selecting and implementing systems that avoid alarm overload while making sure critical events are addressed in a timely fashion.
Creating an alarm management system
The key to preventing alarm flooding from distracting operators is a proper design of the SCADA system, specifically its alarm handling features. A well-designed system will prioritize alarms to prevent serious alarms from being overlooked as a result of an alarm overload involving a large number of low-priority alarms. It will also offer other advantages, such as the ability to more easily diagnose the root cause of a problem.
The first step in designing a SCADA alarm system is developing a comprehensive plan that determines alarm criteria. This design step should be accomplished with a team consisting of plant operators, plant engineers, and others who have a deep understanding of how the plant actually works. This team will determine and document:
- How alarms should be prioritized
- What type of operator intervention is required for each alarm
- How much time should be allowed for an operator to respond to an alarm
- Operator alarm handling and escalation procedures
- How to structure the system to handle various routine alarms.
The importance of alarm limits in configuration
Most modern SCADA systems are PC-based, and the selected system should include built-in features to allow low-cost and straightforward implementation of an effective alarm management regime. A properly designed SCADA-based alarm management system should help operators distinguish between high-priority and low-priority alarms, respond properly to each alarm, and quickly determine alarm root cause. The alarm management system should contain tools to implement these features—including, but not limited to, configurable alarm limits, alarm displays, and most importantly, filters.
When selecting a new SCADA system it's important to look for features that will make it possible to prioritize alarms and messages by setting limits and providing sorting capabilities. Creating worksheets with alarm limits is one of the best ways to begin the alarm management process. Alarm limits define high and low values along with deviation set points, creating betting alarm management by helping operators to quickly determine the alarm priority with a glance at the screen.
These alarm limits can be properties of tags, and shouldn't count against the total number of tags in the SCADA system. This is important as SCADA software is often priced based on total tags.
For example, a tag can be created called "Temperature" that has a setpoint value of 100 degrees. The HiLimit tag property might be set at 110 degrees, and the LoLimit tag property might be set at 90 degrees.
When creating alarm limits, some or all of the following items are typically included:
- HiLimit, the first high alarm point reached on an increasing value
- HiHiLimit, the second high alarm point reached on an increasing value, indicating an escalating condition
- LoLimit, the first low alarm point reached on a decreasing value
- LoLoLimit, the second low alarm point reached on a decreasing value, indicating an escalating condition
- DevSetpoint (Deviation), the allowable deviation or variation above and below the desired setpoint
- Dev+Limit, the allowable deviation plus the alarm limit
- Dev-Limit, the allowable deviation minus the alarm limit
- DeviationDeadband, the range through which a deviation can occur without initiating an alarm.
There are many ways to set alarm limits and display them. Alarm limits can be set for each of the items listed above, and more. Alarm limits can be displayed on SCADA screens using numerical values, or via graphical representations such as sliders. With many SCADA systems, alarm limits can also be saved in separate worksheets with tag names, making it easy to view and adjust settings as necessary.
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Terry Richardson Captures Frank Ocean & Odd Future [Photos]
World-renowed photographer Terry Richardson captured some candid shots of the eccentric members of Odd Future in his studio. Tyler, the Creator, Frank Ocean, Earl Sweatshirt, Hodgy Beats, and more posed for the lens with their best face.
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China Moves Oil Rig From Contested Waters
Move Could Provide Opening for Beijing and Hanoi to Repair Relations
China is moving a drilling rig out of South China Sea waters claimed by both China and Vietnam, easing a two-month standoff that sparked deadly riots in Vietnam and tense encounters between Chinese and Vietnamese vessels.
The move could provide an opening for Beijing and Hanoi to repair relations and comes as the U.S. steps up criticism of China's efforts to enforce its claims to the strategically important sea. But China's government said its companies still had the right to explore the contested waters, raising the possibility...


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CADIZ, Spain (AP) — Small and medium-sized companies in Latin America could play a key role in strengthening and consolidating the region's economic growth, which this year will slow down for the first time in nearly a decade, two international organizations said Friday.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said in their report that small and medium enterprises, or SMEs, account for 99 percent of businesses in the region and employ 67 percent of workers but their contributions to GDP and productivity remain low.
The report said large firms in Latin America have productivity levels six times higher than those of SMEs. In more developed economies, they are only 2.4 times more productive.
"Greater coordination is needed to help SMEs overcome obstacles in terms of access to financing, human capital and innovation," said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria in a statement before launching the report at an Iberoamerican Summit in this southern Spanish city.
The report said a common problem for such companies was their inability to scale up production and specialize.
It said access to finance was another obstacle, pointing out that only 12 percent of total credit in the region goes to these firms, compared with 25 percent in developed countries, which the OECD monitors. The report noted that SMEs are often charged much higher interest rates than large firms by commercial banks.
Economic growth in Latin America is forecast to ease from 4.4 percent last year to 3.2 percent in 2012, according to the report. Growth is then expected to accelerate again to 4 percent in 2013.
The two organizations said Latin America's outlook remains relatively positive, but is exposed to uncertainty in the global economy.
The Iberoamerican summit brings Latin American leaders together with those of Spain and Portugal, two countries badly hit by Europe's economic crisis. Spain is in its second recession in three years and has a 25 percent unemployment rate, while Portugal is one of four eurozone countries to have received a sovereign bailout.
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What to Do If a Loved One Has Been Hurt or Killed in an Oilfield Accident in Odessa, TX
No parent, spouse, or child in Odessa, TX wants to go through the process of having to bury a loved one due to a preventable accident, but unfortunately, incidents do happen and they can change the course of a family's life forever. This is particularly true for family members who have a loved one working in the booming Texas oilfield industry, a job that has very high risks for severe injuries and fatalities.
Find a Odessa Lawyer Who Understands Your Case
The days and weeks immediately after an oilfield accident are difficult; the loved one may have to go through surgery, may not be able to get through the day without significant help or pain medication, or may not be able to return to work. Families grieving the loss of a loved one killed in such an accident will not know where to turn. One of the most important things you can do during this time is to reach out to an experienced oilfield accident lawyer. The attorney can tell you more about your next steps, whether your family member is injured or has passed away.
Collect As Much Evidence As Possible
Gathering evidence is crucial in an oilfield accident claim. The right Odessa, TX oil field accident attorney should have experience helping other clients with a comprehensive evaluation of the evidence, including pictures or videos from the scene, medical records, insight from expert witnesses, and more. Given that the outcome of a personal injury claim or wrongful death claim can have such an impact on survivors, it's imperative to find an attorney you can trust as soon as possible after the accident occurs.
Don't Agree to Anything without an Attorney
One of the other important things to remember after an accident is to avoid making any decisions or signing any paperwork until you have had the opportunity to speak with your lawyer. The employer and the insurance company may want to encourage you to accept a settlement or sign a release as soon as possible. In these situations, they are counting on your lack of knowledge about your rights and will likely present a low settlement offer that seems tempting in the moment.
In the days and weeks right after an accident, you might not fully understand the value of your claim whether it's for an injury or for a wrongful death. Don't sign anything or agree to any terms with the other side until your lawyer has told you more. You could compromise the integrity of your claim without an experienced Odessa, TX oilfield accident lawyer.


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I'm looking for something I can put boiled water in, in the morning, sit it on my desk and use as a source of water hot enough for herbal tea most of the day.0
Not push-button, but best for your purposes.
The Thermos beverage dispenser keeps hot water warm for 8-10 hrs, and has a push button on top:
I have owned a variety of insulated coffee mugs and bottles over the years. The ones from Nissan/Thermos are good, but the best in the bunch are from Highwave (highwave.com). The JoeMo TC Tea mug (amazon.com link) is the best pushbutton vacuum tea mug in the land. They sell all sorts of interesting glass, steel, and stoneware products for water, coffee, tea, beer, and wine. The only loser is their LED Light mug: the light works, but it's a really cruddy design. All of their mugs and bottles are top-notch.
Are you talking about the kind that plug in?
I misunderstood your request the first time....
You seem to be talking about an Airpot. Those are typically used to dispense coffee, but hot water should work fine, too.
Zojirushi makes some products that are specifically designed to heat and then dispense hot water all day long. They are designed to have hot water instantly available at a precise temperature. The "hybrid water boiler and warmer" models have vacuum insulation and are very energy-efficient. They're also pretty fantastically expensive ($150 and up), so I don't know if that's your cup of tea.
Zojirushi also makes the airpots. If you have a good source of boiling water and don't care about the water temperature slowly dropping during the day, those should work fine.
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The Beauty of the Basics, and Radical Innovations, at Christopher-Clark Fine Art
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Often regarded as the first Impressionist, Camille Pissarro is known both for his revelatory plein air landscape pictures, such as in The Path to Les Puilleaux, Pontoise (1881), and for mentoring artists including Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. Pisarro himself was inspired by the rural scenes of Realists Jean Francois Millet and Gustave Courbet. He also received artistic guidance from Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, who instructed him in outdoor painting after Pissarro's move to Paris in 1855. Pissarro, however, placed greater emphasis than Corot on spontaneity, saying "paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression." From 1885-1889 Pisarro worked with Divisionist artists Paul Signac and Georges Seurat, but their meticulous method proved too rigid for Pissarro, who felt that it could not capture the movement and randomness of nature.
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The par-3 17th at TPC Sawgrass with its island green is one of the most famous holes in golf and certainly makes for fun television viewing. With so many tee shots ending up in the water, the 17th could upstage even Tiger Woods as the biggest draw at the Players Championship this week.
But is Pete Dye's 132-yard 17th a good golf hole?
Yes and no, say NBC's Johnny Miller and Golf Channel's Nick Faldo and Brandel Chamblee.
"I like it to cover," Miller told the T&G in a conference call. "I didn't like it to play."
Miller said the courses he grew up playing in the San Francisco area didn't have water.
"So when I got on water holes," he said, "I had a tough time with those holes."
Miller considers the 17th a stiff test of nerves at times, but not always.
"Sometimes it plays real easy," he said, "and if there's no wind or if it's a little bit of a fade wind where guys can play that little baby draw, it gets pretty easy. But if it comes off the right side, if it comes from the east where guys are throwing it out there and trying to hold it or ride the wind, it's a brutal hole. It's fun to see in the wind how it plays and just the disaster, and the heroics, too."
Faldo said he likes 17 because it's the hole you think about before you drive in the gate. Chamblee agreed that when he played Sawgrass, he woke up thinking about 17.
"But if I had an execution in the afternoon," Chamblee said, "I wake up thinking about that, too. I don't necessarily think that would be a good thing."
Chamblee doesn't like the hole because he thinks it comes too late in the round.
"I think it has the potential," he said, "to play too much of a role for the quality of the hole. It's 130 yards and Johnny's right, sometimes it's an absolute nothing short iron when the wind is not blowing. But when the wind is blowing, there is too much luck involved in the shot and too much of the penalty for a miss."
"Don't be a party pooper," Miller interjected.
Chamblee ignored Miller and continued to rip 17. He believes the Players Championship deserves to be considered a major championship, but he thinks the 17th hole is one reason it's not.
"There's a contrived part of that 17th hole," Chamblee said, "that makes it great TV, that makes it great drama, that I think just makes the feel of the golf course quirky. The rest of the golf course is fabulous. But, like Johnny, I love watching it as an analyst."
Of the 50 cameras that NBC and Golf Channel will use during their 22 hours of live coverage today through Sunday, 11 will be located on the 17th hole. That's the most used for any hole in golf.
Faldo said when he played Sawgrass, he used to head to the end of the range and hit 50 9-iron shots to a tiny practice green to prepare for the 17th.
"I hit all sorts of little knockdown shots," he said, "and hooks and fades to hold it against the wind, and when you get up there, it's amazing. There are a few holes where you even think about how high you tee it up. You don't want to tee it up too high because you might hit it too hard and it won't get there and then you can't get carried away — takes one hop and goes over the back. It gets your attention, and it's only a (130)-yard shot. It's a good golf hole."
Once you reach the 17th green, you're not finished. NBC golf producer Tommy Roy said 52.7 percent of the golfers in the Players have had at least one three-putt on the 17th green since 1992. Two ridges split the green into three areas. The front left part is small and difficult to hold. If the pin is tucked to the right, the water comes into play even more. The back part of the green slopes away from you, but not as much as it once did.
"You hit the wrong section," Miller said, "if it's in the front (and) you hit the back left, then you have a tough 2-putt. And if you go in the back right and you're chicken and you leave it short left, it's an impossible putt."
Miller believes the difficult tee shot and putts make the 17th a complete test.
"I know Brandel's feelings, but it is not going to go away," Miller said
"No, it's not," Chamblee said, "and like I said I enjoy watching it, I really do. As an analyst, I'm on the edge of my chair."
Just like the television viewers.
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The Homeland Security Department is focused on recruiting and hiring cybersecurity personnel. It tripled the number of professionals working in the National Cybersecurity Division in fiscal 2009 and doubled it again last year.
But that still brings the number of cybersecurity professionals working in the division to only 220.
"We just don't have enough people yet," Philip Reitinger, deputy undersecretary in the National Protection and Programs Directorate, said Thursday at a forum on workforce development hosted in Washington by Deloitte. "This is going to be a continuing challenge for us."
DHS has been recruiting from other agencies as well as from the private sector, but Reitinger called that a "zero sum game," because there are not enough trained professionals coming into the field to meet demand. "There are not enough people to go around."
The problem has been recognized for several years and a number of public-private initiatives are under way to identify students with the proper interests and abilities in high school or even earlier, and to provide them with educational opportunities and career paths.
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Several high school and collegiate cybersecurity competitions are flourishing, and the University of Maryland University College has established three cybersecurity degree programs to help fill the demand for tens of thousands of professionals in Maryland, which is home not only to the National Security Agency but also to the Pentagon's new Cyber Command.
It will be two to 12 years or even more before these new pipelines begin supplying significant numbers of new workers, however. In the meantime, the federal government is at a disadvantage in this market because of its recruiting and hiring practices.
"The current federal process is a disincentive to come in" to government work, said James Lewis, director of the technology and public policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He said the problem was not limited to cybersecurity. "It's a larger workforce problem."
Reitinger agreed. "Hiring in the federal government has to be modernized across the board," he said.
DHS has obtained waivers from the Office of Personnel Management to use greater flexibility in its hiring process and has experimented with techniques, such as a virtual job fair conducted online. But this cannot make up for the lack of a trained workforce produced by strong science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs.
"This is a glaring weakness here in the United States," said Jake Olcott, counsel to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. "Our STEM educational system is not working well right now."
Colleges and universities have offered computer science programs since the days of punch cards, but the integration of computer science with security, law, law enforcement, government policy and all things cyber is only just getting under way.
"Professionalization" is key to developing a cyber workforce, Lewis said. "We need a more disciplined approach."
There are plenty of training and certification programs available, but Lewis said there is no correlation between certification and job performance. Better ways are needed to assess competence and performance.
"We need to move cyber more toward science," Reitinger said, in order to replace the guesswork and blind assumptions that dominate much of the field today with documented, quantifiable and testable knowledge.
One of the leaders in this effort is the UMUC, where three bachelor's and master's degree programs are being offered for the first time this fall.
"We have taken it on as a critical priority," said UMUC President Susan C. Aldridge. The programs were announced earlier this year in response to efforts to establish Maryland as a cybersecurity hub.
One of the drivers for the program is the school's work with the Defense Department, providing educational programs for military personnel.
The degree programs were created with input from industry to provide practical and theoretical training. The bachelor's degree in cybersecurity will require 120 credits, including 33 credits of coursework in the major, and is being offered both completely online or in a combination of online study and on-site instruction. Master's degrees are being offered in cybersecurity and cybersecurity policy, each of which will require 36 credits of coursework offered in six six-credit online courses. Students also must complete internship programs.
The University of Maryland also announced this week the creation of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, a multi-disciplinary educational and research and development center. Educators from engineering and computer sciences, as well as from non-technical disciplines, including business, public policy and economics, will work with the private sector to produce technology and services that can be commercialized.
Aldridge said UMUC's cybersecurity programs are not waiting for students to arrive through the usual educational pipeline. "We can't just take traditional students," she said. The average age of students enrolled in the program is 32.
The Navy, which recently stood up its 10th Fleet as a cyber command, is not waiting on college programs to recruit personnel, said Kevin C. Cooley, the fleet command's information officer.
"We're trying to attract young men and women who have just finished high school," he said. Recruiting tech-savvy youngsters takes some innovation. Cooley said he and others experienced an "old person's revelation" when it dawned on them they would have to go outside the usual channels to attract the people they needed. The Navy is relying more on its digital presence, using tools such as Facebook and other social media to communicate.
Reitinger said government has one advantage in recruiting critical technical skills. Many government workers accept the lower pay and lack of flexibility because they see the work as a public service in a mission critical area, he said.
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Boy, the government cannot win, people complain about taxes!!! Yet no one wants to work for the government, because the wages are not competitive. Sounds to me, like another case of wanting your cake and eating too. You want the government to provide all the services, such as protection from crime, terrorists and services, yet you want it for free!! No, I do not work for the government either, it is just plain common sense, nothing is free!! To quote a a gentleman I work with, "There is nothing common, about common sense". I am sure there are a lot of people who have been out of work and looking for a job, would be thankful to have a pay check.
This is one of the things that happens when you don't create career paths. There are people already employed by the federal government with technical skills but no idea what kinds of cerfications and trainings they need to take them to the next level. I worked for a bank before becoming a fed and I knew exactly what classes/certifications I needed to advance to other positions.
The problem with the USG finding good IT security talent as commented here by other commenters is largely correct. The hiring practices for these positions seems very poor at best, and the other not mentioned reason I can think of is that a significant number of IT security folks that I works with and have for many years just plain don't trust government administration managers or the D.C. political atmosphere in which most of these positions are located.
The USG Cyber Security efforts has the same problem that US National Soccer has - the best players do not play for the home team. What prevents the US NATL Soccer team from fielding the best team is that rising to national team ranks is based upon who can afford the personal and professional costs, and more importantly who they are connected to; the best US soccer players remain undiscovered because the process excludes them. The USG GSA contract and hiring process is gamed for large DIB who provide "computing securely cheaply" (which is openly debatable). Why would an Intel or Security pro take a 15K to 50K paycut to sit in endless meetings and read tea leaves for feckless round-shouldered beetle-like bureaucrats, instead of being on the tip of the spear. As a result, you don't get the best in GOV computer security, just like US soccer - the best team never surfaces.
"Frankly the pay sucks. I was offered a fed position as a contractor, but I would of had to take a pay cut, then my pay would of been capped, except for the cost of living raise." But but but Rush Limbaugh says we're all overpaid!!! Hardly, if unemployed IT pros are turning their noses up at Federal jobs.
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