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Dec. 26, 2000
This release is available in PDF format on the UCSB men's basketball main page.
The Schedule
Game No. 9
Wednesday, December 27, 2000 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at UC Riverside Highlanders
at UCR's Student Recreation Center
Game No. 10
Saturday, December 30, 2000 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. Loyola Marymount Lions
at UCSB's Thunderdome
The Gaucho Record
On Friday, December 22 UC Santa Barbara gave St. Mary's an early Christmas gift, losing at Moraga, 71-63. The defeat to the Gaels 13 days after UCSB's last game, a heartbreaking 75-73 loss to nationally-ranked USC. To be more blunt, the Gauchos played arguably their worst game of the season following their best game. Santa Barbara enters the week with an overall record of 2-6. Since losing their home opener in overtime to USF, the Gauchos have won two of their last three games at the Thunderdome, but they are 0-4 on the road. While UCSB is winless on the road, they have not played cupcakes. The Gauchos have dropped games at Pepperdine, at BYU and at UCLA.
What About Bob?
Bob Williams is in his third season as head coach at UCSB. Last year he guided the Gauchos to a 14-14 overall record and a solid 10-6 mark in Big West play. He is the first coach in UCSB history to open his career with back-to-back seasons of .500 or better. In addition, he has led the Gauchos to a two-year record of 22-10 in league play, a winning percentage of .687, the best two-year league mark in school history. In his first season, Williams led UCSB to the Big West's Western Division championship, a 15-13 record overall and a 12-4 record in league. He was named Big West Coach of the Year in 1999. Williams has posted a 31-33 overall record. In his career, which includes stops at UC Davis and Menlo College, he now has a 220-133 record.
Gauchos On The Radio
All UC Santa Barbara men's basketball games are broadcast live on KEYT NewsRadio, 1250 AM in Santa Barbara. The legendary Randy Lee handles the play-by-play and, for most games, former UCSB player and Los Angeles Laker Don Ford, handles the color analysis.
Probable Starters - Notes
G - B.J. Ward - Leads the team with 34 assists and 12 steals.
G - LaRon Bryant - Has made only 5-of-22 three-pointers in the last three games.
F - Mark Hull - Has tallied in double-figures in six of the last seven games.
F - Juliano Jordani - Had season-high 15 points (5-of-11 FGs) and had nine rebounds. vs. SMC.
F - Mike Vukovich - Scored in double-figures two times in first 54 games. Has done so in last three.
Possible Reserves - Notes
G - Jacoby Atako - Has 26 assists and only 12 turnovers in his eight games.
G - Branduinn Fullove - Went 0-for-6 from the field in loss at St. Mary's.
G - Nick Jones - Has played ten or more minutes in seven of eight games.
F - Casey Cook - Missed all three of his field goal attempts at St. Mary's.
F - J.J. Todd - After playing in five straight games, he did not play at St. Mary's.
G - LaDonte King - Has yet to play in first eight games.
F - Adama Ndiaye - Remains sidelined with fractured ring finger on left hand.
The Tiresome Injury List
People, I must be honest with you, I am tired of talking about injuries. To my knowledge, most of the injuries suffered by Gaucho players this season have healed to the point that they can play. Unless something happened over Christmas, while was enjoying oodles of food and fun with my wife and child, the only player absent from the lineup when UCSB takes the court at UC Riverside, will be the only player who has missed every game this year, Adama Ndiaye. Three days before the season-opener at Pepperdine, Ndiaye suffered a fractured left ring finger. He had a pin placed in the injured digit and he remains in street clothes.
The Opponents
The Gauchos and UC Riverside have met six times and UCSB has won all six games. Santa Barbara and Riverside have not played since 1971 when the Gauchos won 69-66. UCSB and Loyola Marymount have played 75 times since the first meeting between the schools in 1937. LMU holds a 43-32 advantage. The Gauchos won last season in Los Angeles, 73-63.
Forget The Post-Christmas Blues
All of the presents have been opened. The food has been eaten and the pounds have been tacked on. The Christmas buildup got us all excited and now, here we are, after Christmas with a few pounds to shed and more clutter for the closet in the extra bedroom. Bah, humbug. The post-Christmas blues are upon us, right? Not if you are Bob Williams and the Gauchos. In his two-plus seasons as head coach at UCSB, Williams has found the going pretty tough in games prior to Christmas Day. Including this season, since he came on-board after a successful stint at UC Davis, the Williams-led Gauchos have recorded a pre-Christmas record of 5-20 (.200) and a post-Christmas record of 26-13 (.667). Included among the early-season losses, are defeats at the hands of USC (three times), Stanford, UCLA, BYU (twice), Pepperdine (three times) and USF (three times). In addition, in those 20 losses, four were by one-point, one was by two-points, three were by three-points and two were by four-points. Overall, 13 were by fewer than ten-points.
The Young And The Restless
Through eight games, UCSB is utilizing its underclassmen (freshmen and sophomores) at a very high rate. Freshmen have recorded 592 of the team's 1,725 total minutes, 34.3%. Sophomores have played 510 minutes, 29.6%. Combined, the UCSB underclassmen have played 1,102 minutes, 63.9% of this season's available minutes.
The Lids Returned To The Down Position
After some moderate improvement in their shooting from the field, the Gauchos suffered through a horrible second-half in their loss at St. Mary's on Friday. While UCSB shot a solid, if not holiday-worthy, 45.2% in the first half at Moraga, they slumped to a frigid 7-of-31, 22.6%, in the second half. It was easily the team's worst shooting half of the season and it gave them a game-ending 33.9% mark, the third worst mark of the season (they shot 29.4% at BYU) and it was the fourth time they had shot under 35.0% for a game. UCSB has yet to hit 50.0% of its shots in any one game. The best percentage recorded by the Gauchos this season was the 49.1% they made in a loss at UCLA. In fact, that was the only time that UCSB has shot better than 43.1% in a game this season.
Playing It Close To The Vest In Home Games
UCSB has played four home games this year and they have all been close calls. Three of the four games, in fact, have gone to overtime and one of those went triple overtime. The Gauchos are 2-2 in home games and the margins in those games have been three, three, two and seven (in overtime). The last time UCSB played three OT games in a season was in 1982-83. In 1981-82, they set a school record with four.
Three-Point Explosion Comes To A Screeching Halt
While UCSB has still made more three-point baskets than its opponents (50-49), they had easily their worst game of the season from beyond the three-point arc when they made a mere 3-of-21 in the defeat at St. Mary's. The Gauchos mark of 14.3% from three-point range was worse than the 21.4% they shot in a loss at BYU. In fact, on the year, UCSB has been pretty decent from long range even after the dismal performance at Moraga, they are shooting 32.7%. UCSB is out-shooting its opposition from three-point territory. UCSB has made 50-of-153 three-pointers, as mentioned earlier, 32.7%, while opposing teams have made only 49-of-172, a lowly 28.5%. Of Santa Barbara's 50 three-point buckets, 37 have come in the last five contests. The Gauchos made a season-high 12 (in 22 attempts) at UCLA on November 29 and then they had seven against Westmont, eight against San Diego State and seven against USC. In the first three games of the year, UCSB hit 13-of-44 from beyond the three-point arc, a mark of 29.5%. LaRon Bryant leads the team with 18 three-pointers. Mark Hull is second on the squad with 14. Eight of the nine Gauchos who have logged more than 50 minutes this season have made at least two three-pointers. Mike Vukovich is the lone exception and he has yet to attempt one and chances are if he does launch one, it will be his last. Anyway, last year UCSB set a school record with 171 three-point baskets, an average of 6.1 per game. This season, the Gauchos are averaging 6.2 per game. Last year's team made 33.5% from beyond the arc as opposed to this year's 32.7%. Finally, only six players on the 1999-2000 team made even one three-pointer as opposed to this season's eight players.
The Hull Truth, Nothing But
Sophomore Mark Hull is leading the Gauchos in scoring through eight games at 15.6 points per game. He has been in double-figures six times in eight games, including six of the last seven games. In addition, Hull has tallied 20 points or better three times, doing so at BYU (21), at UCLA (23) and against San Diego State (21). His 23-point performance against UCLA was a career-high and it was the best offensive performance of his career in more ways than one. The 6-foot-6 swingman from Glendale made 9-of-12 shots against the Bruins, including a career-best 5-of-6 from three-point territory. In the game against San Diego State, Hull was fairly quiet in the first half, going for five points. In the second half and overtimes, he rallied, scoring 16 points, including the last seven in the third OT. Against USC, he had a similar outing, getting shutout in the first half only to bounce back with 15 in the second half, helping UCSB rally. In fact, this season, Hull has scored 47 points in the first half of games, an average of 5.9 points per first half, and 78 points in the second halves and overtimes, an average of 9.9 after the half. At St. Mary's, Hull made 5-of-8 from two-point range, but suffered through his worst three-point shooting game of the season, making only 1-of-7. Still, he has led or tied for the team-lead in scoring four times this year. Hull also easily paces UCSB in minutes played with 284, an average of 35.5 per game. He is 44 minutes ahead of the second-place Gaucho, LaRon Bryant, who has played 240 minutes.
The New And Improved Mike Vukovich
Through five games this season, junior forward Mike Vukovich had scored 27 points and grabbed 20 rebounds. In those first five games, he fouled out four times and averaged 21.6 minutes per game and hit only 39.3% from the field and 50.0% from the free throw line. In the last three games, a different Vukovich has shown up. Against San Diego State, he played a career-high 33 minutes, scored ten points and set career-bests in rebounds (13) and blocked shots (4). He made 4-of-5 shots from the field and both of his free throws. In the narrow loss to USC, he scored a career-high 18, had seven boards, hit 7-of-11 shots from the floor and 4-of-5 from the free throw line. In last week's loss at St. Mary's, he fouled out on more than one bad call, but still managed to record his third straight double-digit scoring performance, going for 12 points on 4-of-6 shooting from the floor and 2-for-2 from the free throw line. So, after scoring a total of 27 in the first five games, Vukovich has scored 40 in the last three, an average of 13.3 per game, and after pulling down a total of 20 rebounds in the first five, he has pulled down 22 in the last three, an average of 7.3 per game. Additionally, Vukovich has made 15-of-22 field goal attempts in the last three, 68.2%, and 10-of-11 free throw attempts, 90.9%. On the year, he is the only player on the roster shooting better than 50.0% overall at 51.0% and he is now third on the team in scoring at 8.4 points per game and he has moved into second-place among Gaucho rebounders at 5.2 per game. Vukovich leads the team in blocked shots with 13, an average of 1.6 per game, second in the Big West Conference. Finally, after scoring in double-figures in his first 54 games as a Gaucho (49 in his first two seasons and the first five this season), Vukovich has turned the trick in each of the last three games.
Welcome Back Juliano
There was at a minimum, one bright spot in the loss at St. Mary's and that was the reappearance of senior forward Juliano Jordani. The native of Sao Paulo, Brazil scored a season-high 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds. The 15-point performance tied his second-best total ever (he had 15 in a Big West Tournament game against Nevada last season). Additionally, Jordani blocked a pair of shots, his first two of the season and numbers two and three in his career. On the season, the 6-foot-7 Jordani is now averaging 6.0 points and a team-leading 6.4 rebounds per game. In the game at Moraga, he hit 5-of-11 shots from the field, including 5-for-10 from inside the three-point arc. In the three games prior to the one at St. Mary's, Jordani had made only 4-of-18 shots, 22.2%. He is now making 32.7% of his shots overall, 41.2% from two-point range. Jordani is shooting only 13.3% from three-point range and on the year he is 2-for-15 from beyond the arc, with both three-pointers coming in the game at UCLA. With that game excluded, he has gone 0-for-12 from three-point territory, including 0-for-7 in the last four games. His nine-rebound performance at St. Mary's marked the fourth time this year that he had produced at least that many.
Mr. Outside
With the continued absence of Adama Ndiaye, UCSB continues to struggle to find someone to give them an offensive presence inside the key. Mike Vukovich is making a pitch to become Mr. Inside and Juliano Jordani's performance at St. Mary's throws his hat into the ring, but clearly, LaRon Bryant is Mr. Outside. Bryant set his career-high with 19 points on December 6 against San Diego State. While he hit only 3-of-12 shots from three-point territory, he hit a couple of huge shots during the overtime periods. While he has struggled from beyond the three-point arc in his last two outings (2-for-10, 20.0%), he remains the team-leader in three-point baskets with 18. Bryant has now hit 18-of-49 (36.7%) from that distance. In fact, 18 of Bryant's 28 baskets (64.3%) on the season have been three-pointers. He has made at least one three-pointer in all eight games, two or more in five out of the eight games and three or more three times. The five he nailed against Westmont on December 2 was a career-high. In his two seasons, he has now made 49-of-124, 39.5%. In fact, since starting the 1999-2000 season by making only 4-of-22 shots from three-point range (18.2%), he has made 45-of-102, 44.1%. Also, in his two years, he has made 49 threes and 25 twos. Finally, in his last four games, Bryant has averaged 13.2 points per game.
Fullove's Full Plate
Freshman Branduinn Fullove made his first start as a Gaucho in the loss at St. Mary's and while he struggled offensively (0-for-6 shooting and his first scoreless outing), he did have six rebounds. While he did not have a stellar offensive game in his last outing, he was not alone and it doesn't diminish what he did his first four games. The biggest splash of Fullove's brief career came in the triple-overtime win over San Diego State. Playing three different positions, including point guard for the entire third overtime, Fullove did a little of everything. While he did not shoot well (1-for-6 from the field), he finished with a career-high-tying 13 points (including 10-for-12 from the free throw line), he had six rebounds, he had a career-high six assists and, for good measure, he blocked the first shot of his career. He followed his SDSU performance with another good outing against USC. In the game against the Trojans, Fullove logged 25 minutes, scored nine points (3-of-6 from the floor), had a pair of rebounds, two assists and another blocked shot. He seems to have bounced back from the badly sprained ankle he suffered while scoring 13 points to lead the team in the season-opener at Pepperdine. He is fourth on the team at 8.2 points per game and it would seem that he has a reasonable chance to become the first true freshman to average in double-figures for the Gauchos since Carrick DeHart did so in 1986-87. Mark Hull averaged in double-figures last year, but he was a redshirt freshman.
Point Guard Teeter-Totter
For UCSB's youthful point guard tandem of B.J. Ward (sophomore) and Jacoby Atako (freshman), the first eight games have been an up-and-down thing. Ward has started every game and he is averaging 7.4 points, 4.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.5 steals per game. Atako is averaging 4.2 points, 3.2 assists and 1.8 rebounds per game. Combined, the duo has come up with 60 assists and 42 turnovers. Ward has struggled a bit in the last three games, passing off for nine assists and producing 14 turnovers. Atako, on the year, has 26 assists and only 12 turnovers, a 2.2-to-1.0 ratio. In fact, only once this year has the freshman from Santa Monica had more turnovers than assists (four turnovers and one assist vs. Westmont).
What's Cooking?
Perhaps the most unsung member of the current freshman class has been 6-foot-8 Casey Cook. Branduinn Fullove and Jacoby Atako entered the season with high expectations, but Cook entered the year as the number four guy in the frontcourt. With the injury to Adama Ndiaye, however, that has all changed. While Cook has yet to heat up from the field (14-of-53, 26.4.0%), his overall game has been good. He is averaging 4.8 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. In the narrow loss to USC, Cook scored a career-high ten points, pulled down seven rebounds and had one steal. Since going scoreless with two rebounds in the opener at Pepperdine, he has averaged 6.0 points and 5.2 rebounds per game. Cook has scored six or more points four times and he has pulled down five or more rebounds four times including each of the last two and he had a season-high nine boards vs. USF.
The End Of A Short Era
When freshman Branduinn Fullove started in place of junior Mike Vukovich at St. Mary's, it was the first change in UCSB's starting lineup this season. In the first seven games, the Gaucho starters were B.J. Ward, LaRon Bryant, Mark Hull, Juliano Jordani and Vukovich. Fullove got the nod at St. Mary's because the 6-foot-9 Vukovich had suffered from a case of the flu and missed two days of practice prior to the game.
No Block Party
With the absence of Adama Ndiaye, UCSB is hard-pressed to find many blocked shots. They have 19 in eight games. In contrast, the opponents have 43. UCSB has had more blocks than its opponent one time this season.


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(I would have added to cookiebaker's thread but I don't want to take away from her problem)
Riley has an aggression problem. We have had her 3 weeks now and she is still fighting to be top dog. When she bites and we scold her (we've said NO!, squirted lemon juice in her mouth, ignored her, walked away, pushed her away, yelled OUCH really loudly, tried to make her sit instead, given her a distraction or toy and holding her mouth shut. We even tried flipping her on her back, standing over her and saying no and/or growling at her.) A lot of the times she growls back and won't stop fighting and resisting. She lunges at our faces and bites us all over.. she's giving me welts on my arms and even drew a tiny bit of blood today. I'm afraid that shes becoming too aggressive.. she will never back down. She bares her teeth and growls and runs back for more no matter how much you disipline her. If she was an adult dog she'd have to go away probably because she would be labeled vicious (IMO anyway). Most of the time if she gets "unreasonable" (i call it ATTACKING) we put her in her cage and ignore her until she wakes up from a nap.
We've called her breeder (who suggested the flipping them over thing and our vet suggested the lemon squirting in the mouth but both seem to aggravate her more.) She's only 10 weeks old and 13 lbs but she thinks she deserves to be top dog. It doesn't help that most of our friends dogs are shy and run away from her (though today she played with a playful dog).
oh yeah.. and today she was attacking me so bad while I was sitting on the floor that I took her and pushed her off of me pretty hard so she slid about 6 ft away. I think she was very surprised but she didn't bite me for a while. Now that is a last resort but we need to lay down the law here.. she should not still be fighting for dominance. We are very assertive and firm with her and she has been socialized very well.. someone is with her or playing with her 24/7.
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Protesters against Cargill Inc.'s palm oil operations had good timing Thursday. As they dangled from a downtown Minneapolis skyway, a palm industry consortium had just reprimanded a Cargill palm oil supplier for its environmental practices in Indonesian rain forests.
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, which counts Minnetonka-based Cargill as a member, said Thursday that PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology had violated the industry code on sustainable palm oil production. If Sinar Mas doesn't come into compliance with the code, it could lose its membership in the group.
The decision marks the first time the six-year-old palm oil roundtable has found a major member in serious violation of its rules, said Rolf Skar of the advocacy group Greenpeace. He said the roundtable's ruling may also put pressure on Cargill to reduce its ties to Sinar Mas.
Burger King, Nestle, Unilever and Kraft Foods have already broken ties with the Indonesian company over concerns about its treatment of rain forests.
In a statement, Cargill said the roundtable's decision shows it is upholding its commitment to certify palm oil producers for sustainable development practices. Cargill also said it's important to work with Sinar Mas and all of its suppliers toward meeting sustainability goals, which include things like not clearing certain high-value forests.
Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, and Cargill is one of the globe's big palm oil players. It owns two palm plantations in Indonesia and operates 12 palm oil refineries around the world, sourcing some of its supply from other palm oil producers, including Sinar Mas.
In protest of Cargill's relationship with Sinar Mas, four members of the advocacy group Rainforest Action Network climbed onto the exterior of a skyway between a parking ramp and the Grain Exchange building near City Hall. About 8 a.m., they unfurled banners and dangled about 20 feet above the ground for a little less than two hours.
The four dangling protesters and a support person atop the skyway were arrested as police and fire personnel brought down the banners, Rainforest Action Network spokeswoman Margaret Swink said.
Those arrested were hanging protesters Willow Cordes-Eklund, 26, Minneapolis; Shea Schachameyer, Milwaukee, 26; Carling Sothoron, 23, Upper Marlboro, Md.; and Laughlin Barker, 22, of Santa Fe, N.M. The fifth person arrested, Alexander Lundberg, 26, of Minneapolis, was on top of the skyway.
They are accused of several misdemeanors, among them obstruction of the legal process, obstruction of traffic and trespassing, said police Sgt. Bill Palmer.
In May, several protesters from Rainforest Action Network locked themselves to a staircase inside Cargill's headquarters, also in opposition to the company's palm oil operation. Cargill says it's a leader in sustainable palm oil development, and spokesman Pete Stoddart said Thursday the company is committed to "stopping deforestation."
In July, Cargill announced it's teaming up with the World Wildlife Fund to do an environmental sustainability assessment of its palm oil suppliers in Indonesia, including Sinar Mas.
One of the world's largest palm oil producers, environmental activists began to criticize Sinar Mas after Greenpeace in December accused it of deforestation. In August, Sinar Mas announced an independent third-party audit refuted Greenpeace's allegations. But soon thereafter, the auditor announced that Sinar Mas mispresented its findings and that, among other things, Sinar Mas had violated Indonesian forest management law.
Cargill said in a statement Thursday that Sinar Mas "has made commitments to take corrective actions following its independent audit and we have made it clear that we are looking to see timely action and progress on these."
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Thanks guys. He has signed with the White Sox and will go back to being a starter. He reports to AAA Charlotte tomorrow and will be back in Louisville soon since they're in the same league!
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At the party, Taylor asks Brooke if she wants to tell them, or should she? Brooke stays quiet. Katie says Taylor should leave. Taylor says, "She slept with him." Bill protests and Katie lashes out at Taylor for her paranoia about Brooke. Eric tries to get Tay to leave, but she refuses. "Brooke and Bill had an affair and she got pregnant." Brooke denies being pregnant. Katie asks Taylor if she's been drinking. Taylor says it's better that she comes to terms with this with family there for support. Katie rants at Taylor, who challenges her to ask her sister if she miscarried Bill's baby. Katie says it's absurd and impossible. Taylor keeps prompting Katie to ask her. Bill growls at Eric to get Taylor out. Katie screams at Taylor that this is an all-time low for her. Taylor argues that the 'lowest low' is that it was when she was in the hospital that they betrayed her. Katie turns to Brooke and tearfully urges her to just say she's lying, and she'll believe her. Brooke sobs and turns away. Bill says Katie's name. She smacks him across the face. Hope pleads with Brooke to say it didn't happen. Katie viciously orders everyone out of her house. Only Brooke and Bill stay. Katie recalls Brooke warning her not to push Bill away or she'd lose him. "You're so sick. You're both so sick!" She repeatedly asks, "How could you do this to me?"
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Starring Nathan Lane and Bill Irwin, Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot comes to life once again. First taking the stage in 1953, this classic play has seen many interesting versions in its lifetime. Waiting for Godot is the story of Vladimir and Estragon who are waiting for Godot and must find ways to occupy their time. This play is full of wit, poetry and a search for meaning.
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UPDATE Visual Arts SW/TX PCA/ACA
The Visual Arts Area of the SW/TX PCA/ACA seeks research in all aspects of visual art concerning the American experience, past and present. Relevant media may include photography, painting, drawing, graphic design, sculpture, mixed media works and installations, video, digital media, special collections, online collections, public art, maps, printmaking and lithography, and more.
Papers related to this year's theme of "popular/American culture(s) in a global context" are especially encouraged, as are papers related to our conference's home in the American West / Southwest.
Some topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Regionalism and regional styles (California Impressionism, the Northwest School, etc.)
- Various periods and styles (modernism, Surrealism, etc.)
- Politics and art (New Deal art, etc.)
- Artists' colonies
- Depictions of women, minorities, "the other," etc.
- Women artists, minority artists, etc.
- Depictions of America by foreigners
- Portraiture and representation
The submission deadline for the SW/TX PCA/ACA is November 16, 2012. All presenters must enter their own information and proposals into the conference database: conference2013.swtxpca.org. Email questions regarding the Visual Arts Area to area chair Victoria Grieve (Dept of History, Utah State University) at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Professors, independent scholars, teachers, and professionals are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are particularly welcome at the conference, which offers awards for the best graduate papers. Please note that the SW/TX PCA/ACA does not generally accept previously presented or published papers. Further, it permits only one presentation per person per year. The conference features numerous individual subject areas, each with its own Area Chair, and each typically including multiple conference panels. Therefore, please consult the area list on the SW/TX PCA/ACA website to determine whether the Visual Arts area is the appropriate area to receive your proposal.
Information about our areas of study, graduate student awards, conference travel, lodging, and the organization can be found at http://www.swtxpca.org
Victoria M. Grieve
Associate Professor of History
Utah State University


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HIBRIA is releasing its new album named THE SKULL COLLECTORS:
The album has 9 songs and brings HIBRIA connected to their roots but in a more contemporary approach, resulting in a blasting raging album made to energize, from the beginning to the end, whoever listens to it.
The band members who recorded its worldwide acclaimed debut album DEFYING THE RULES remained the same, excepting the drummer replaced by the ex-roadie of the band, Eduardo Baldo. Once again, the album was produced by guitar and bass players Diego Kasper and Marco Panichi.
They've brought the powerful vocals of Iuri Sanson to new stages and highlighted the complex rhythm riffs and arrangements developed by guitar players Abel Camargo and Diego Kasper up to the face of the listeners. Drums and Bass guitar were in charge of delivering a consistently heavy and loud rhythm section to support the strong melodies developed by the lead musicians.
HIBRIA's new CD was mixed and mastered in Germany by ACHIM KÖHLER. His previous works have made him the appointed person to deal with the different moods of the album. Achim has worked with bands from different styles such as Amon Amarth, Sodom, Pink Cream 69 and Brainstorm. He was also responsible for the mixing and mastering of the album Devil's Ground from Primal Fear, and he has done a consistent remastering work on several Death Metal CDs, mainly from the record label Nuclear Blast.
The lyrics of the album explore the path crossed by a man who achieves his dream on becoming an air force pilot but later on, leaded by his ambition and vanity, joins a mercenary group. He then looses a partner in a trap set up by a rival group and becomes charged for that. Dominated by his wish for revenge, he falls into self-destruction meanwhile he is confined in a bunker with his past remembrances.
The Heavy Metal band HIBRIA from Brazil has been recognized worldwide, both by the media and the audience, after the release of its debut album DEFYING THE RULES.
The quality of the compositions, the technical skills and accuracy of the musicians on their instruments were highlighted, as well as the Band performance in live concerts.
The album DEFYING THE RULES was mixed and mastered in Hamburg, Germany, by the well-known producer Piet Sielck.
DEFYING THE RULES brought the melodic lines from the 80's, the speed from the 90's and the 2000's musicians skills.
The album was released in 2004 in Japan and in Germany and in 2005 in Brazil, USA, Canada, Eastern Europe, Russia, Baltic States, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and China.
Key Facts on DEFYING THE RULES:
Whiplash.net/Brazil - In 2008, the website visitors chose the band for 3 consecutive years among the 10 best of Brasil, a result achieved only by the bands Angra, Sepultura, Shaaman, Dr. Sin and Torture Squad.
Tokyopop/USA - Inclusion of 2 songs on the Soundtrack of the comic novel "A Midnight Opera" - February 2007.
HMV/Japan - Best Seller in the Heavy Metal Category during 6 consecutive weeks on the retailing stores HMV in Japan.
Line Up:
Luri Sanson (Vocals)
Abel Camargo (Guitars)
Diego Kasper (Guitars)
Marco Panichi (Bass)
Eduardo Baldo (Drums)
1997 Metal Heart CD (Selfproduced)
1999 Against The Facless CD (Selfproduced)
2001 Steel Lord on Wheels Single (Selfproduced)
2004 Defying The Rules CD (Remedy Records)
2009 The Skull Collectors CD (Remedy Records)
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Charles J. "Chuck" Carpenedo
WAKEFIELD, Mich. — Charles J. "Chuck" Carpenedo, 86, of Bessemer, died Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in Wakefield. He was born March 14, 1927, in Bessemer, son of the late Peter and Ann (Montesi) Carpenedo.
He grew up in Bessemer and attended Bessemer schools, graduating from the A.D. Johnston High School with the class of 1944. He was drafted into the U.S. Navy. Following his discharge, he returned to Bessemer.
On July 8, 1950, he was united in marriage with Betty A. Certano at St. Sebastian Catholic Church in Bessemer by Father Harris. Chuck and Betty then moved to southern California, where Chuck drove truck and used his GI Bill to attend aircraft mechanics' school.
He worked for North American Rockwell and Rockadyne Corporation. He eventually became crew leader. He worked on the Apollo rockets, which took the U.S. astronauts to the moon.
In 1965, the family moved back to Bessemer, where Chuck and Betty joined C & M Oil Company to take over his father's share of the partnership. In 1980, the Carpenedos took over sole ownership of C & M, and their children Jim and Dee joined the company. Chuck was part of the family business until his retirement in 1989.
Chuck enjoyed music, and he played his trumpet in several dance bands and in Marty's Goldenaires. He and Betty loved to dance whenever they could. They also traveled with senior tour groups to many parts of the country.
They were active members of the Paisano Club, and Chuck was an officer in the club.
A gracious host, Chuck enjoyed family celebrations and was concerned that everyone was comfortable and well fed.
He is survived by his wife, Betty, of Bessemer; his son Jim (Shirley) of Bessemer; his daughter, Dee, of Bessemer; two granddaughters, Susan of San Francisco, Calif., and Karen of Mauston, Wisc .; a brother, John (Lee) of San Jose, Calif .; a sister, Nancy (Carlton) Gotta-Rudolph of Ironwood; and a niece and three nephews.
In addition to his parents, Chuck was preceded in death by a brother, Julius.
Cremation has taken place at the Range Crematory in Hurley.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, at 11 a.m. at St. Sebastian Catholic Church in Bessemer. Father Ben Hasse will be the celebrant. A luncheon will follow in the church hall. The family will receive friends on Thursday from 10 a.m. until the time of the Mass.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in Chuck's memory are preferred to the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, 200 First St. SW, FF2-700, Rochester, MN 55905.
Arrangements are by Range Funeral Service and Crematory, Ketola-Burla Funeral Home.


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Fire supression ordinance triggers early debate
March 26, 2013
Debate concerning a proposal that would require the installation of fire prevention systems in new single- and multi-family in Cape Coral became heated Monday with officials even wrangling over......
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everytime i connect my tamagotchis and have tamababies, the two tamagotchis that are born are always the same sex! Is it some kind of fluke that i always get two of the same gender, or was the Tamagotchi Connexion/Connection programmed that way?
please get back to me if you know the answer
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fluke i have had one of eac a couple of times before
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Cuts to Careers in Teaching program at Hercules High could mean fewer opportunities for students
By Theresa Harrington
Friday, August 2nd, 2013 at 8:02 pm in Education, Walnut Creek School District.
The Careers in Teaching program at Hercules High has garnered widespread attention, including a front page story in this newspaper on Friday that featured student Camille Winfield, who is blind, working as a Teacher Cadet with Hanna Ranch Elementary students.
But Winfield and teacher Sarah Creeley, who has mentored several Teacher Cadets over the past decade, told the West Contra Costa school board on July 24 they were concerned that cuts to the class from three sections to one could limit opportunities for future Hercules High students.
"I cannot exaggerate the power of the connections that are made by these Hercules High School Teacher Cadets who go into their own community to help children, at times revisiting their own former classrooms," Creeley said. "It seems as though the Hercules High School administration, with the support of the school board, is trying to push out this class by cutting it down to one section despite continued high enrollment since its inception."
Creeley pointed out that Hercules High teacher Janet Headington won the prestigious Warren Eukel Teacher Trust award in 2009 for her work with students in the program. Winfield won a 2013 Regional Occupational Program award of excellence for her work with Creeley's students as a Teacher Cadet. And Justin Jones, another Teacher Cadet in her class, was named 2013 "Youth in the Year" in Hercules, Creeley said.
"This is a program that has garnered many awards," she concluded. "Whatever you can do to bring it back up to three sections would be very much appreciated."
Winfield said the children showed her love every day, when she worked in their classroom.
"Some of them have told me that they would love to be Teacher Cadets when they are older," Winfield said. "It's just upsetting to me to know that the experience could go away."
Creeley added that Winfield gave a powerful presentation about what it is like to be blind to third- fourth- and fifth-graders at Hanna Ranch Elementary.
"That never would have happened if we hadn't had the teacher cadets," she said.
Creeley has also sent a letter to this newspaper expressing fears that the program is in jeopardy. The 2013 Hercules Educator of the Year, she wrote, is Michelle Thibault, who teaches at Hercules Middle School and is a former high school Teacher Cadet.
"I hope that the leaders of Hercules High School will listen to our Hercules community leaders and students," Creeley wrote, "and return this exceptional Hercules High School program to three classes to help Hercules children!"
In response to an e-mail from another Hercules resident about this issue, West Contra Costa school board President Madeline Kronenberg wrote that "the program was still in effect, although the specific scheduling had changed."
"The program is not being removed," she wrote, "and in fact, in our strategic plan we are highlighting the need for the district to expand the direction of this type of program district-wide…"
Creeley fears the rest of the district's gain could be Hercules High School's loss. In an e-mail to Kronenberg, wrote that the scheduling change amounted to one class of 40 students, even though 85 students expressed interest in enrolling.
"If you hope to start other Teacher Cadet programs in other high schools, I am all for it," Creeley wrote. "I have seen first hand how powerful this program is. Hercules must not be punished by losing our Teacher Cadet program and teacher to another school."
Trustee Todd Groves, who was elected in November after pledging to try to mend rifts between Hercules residents and the district and give more autonomy to schools, also responded to Creeley's concerns in an e-mail.
"The board is charged with policy setting at the highest level," he wrote. "I personally favored allowing sites more flexibility as a campaign pledge. I will look further into the issue, but cannot promise any outcome."
Do you think the district should cut the number of Teacher Cadets at Hercules High, while starting up the program at other schools?
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Attorney General Lockyer Announces Expansion of Roadside Devices to Help Prosecute Drunk Drivers
10 UC and CSU Police Departments Will Receive Portable Instruments For Breath Testing
(SACRAMENTO) – California Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced the Bureau of Forensic Services (BFS) in partnership with the Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and law enforcement agencies will increase the number of Evidentiary Portable Alcohol System (EPAS) instruments provided to more than 400 participating law enforcement agencies in 39 counties and expand services to include the support of existing alcohol awareness programs on college campuses within the BFS service areas.
"In 2002, more than 350 people between the ages of 18 and 24 were killed in alcohol involved collisions statewide," Lockyer said. "Alcohol and driving are a lethal combination, and law enforcement will continue to do everything possible to reduce the number of these tragic and preventable deaths. The expansion of the EPAS program will improve law enforcement's ability to detect drunk drivers and get them off the road."
The EPAS instrument uses new technology to combine the traditional preliminary alcohol screening device and the immobile evidential breath test instrument into one self-powered, self-contained portable unit. The devices meet requirements set by the California Department of Health Services for admissible court evidence.
"This is cutting-edge technology that gives officers the ability to conduct an evidential blood alcohol concentration (BAC) test at the time of a traffic stop," said Sunne Wright McPeak, Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency which awarded the grant through the Office of Traffic Safety. "As a result, officers are kept on the street protecting citizens and lives are saved."
Prior to using EPAS units, officers who suspected a driver was over the legal BAC level were required to transport the suspect to a separate facility for an evidential blood or breath test that could be used in court. In some remote counties, the time between field screening and testing at a stationary unit can be an hour or more, which can result in BAC values that do not reflect the level of intoxication at the time of the traffic stop.
The EPAS units consist of a palm-sized computer, a magnetic card reader, a printer, and the Draeger Alcotest 7410 Plus breath-testing instrument. Utilizing chemical fuel cell technology, 800 of the units, maintained by the Department of Justice's (DOJ) forensic labs, have already replaced 125 stationary alcohol testing instruments currently in use.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2003, 32% of drivers across the United States involved in fatal collisions with BAC levels of .08 or higher were between the ages of 21 and 24. NHTSA also reported California had 1,626 traffic fatalities involving alcohol which represents 39% of the states' traffic fatalities for 2003.
EPAS was developed for the DOJ and is being funded through a grant from the Office of Traffic Safety, through the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. More information is available at http://ag.ca.gov/bfs/content/epas.htm
BFS service areas that utilize EPAS instruments include the counties of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Plumas, Riverside, San Benito, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Yolo and Yuba.


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Mayor asks for help to get Google high-speed internet
March 23, 2010
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon have issued an urgent call to action to the Pittsburgh community to help convince Google to bring its new ultra high-speed broadband network to Pittsburgh.
If Pittsburgh is chosen, the network will deliver Internet speeds more than 100-times faster than what most Americans have access to today.
"Google wants to be sure that the communities it selects to install this new ultrafast network are excited about the project and prepared to help the company explore the potential of this revolutionary resource," Mayor Ravenstahl said. "We know that's the case here in Pittsburgh and that we are ready, willing, and able. But we need local residents, companies and organizations to help make that absolutely clear to Google. We're urging everyone to go to http://www.pittsburghgoesgoog-le.com and nominate Pittsburgh for this project right now."
Information on exactly how this ultra-high speed network would transform Pittsburgh – from the education and medical benefits, to the residential consumer benefits and economic development – are available at the site. Many cities already have expressed eagerness to participate in this highly competitive new program.
"Every City knows that this designation would be the ultimate game-changer, spurring economic development wherever the network is built. Google has given us until March 26 to submit our proposal, so we have nine days to use our new website to communicate to them just how much Pittsburghers are ready, willing and able," Mr. Ravenstahl continued.
Through the website, individuals and organizations can submit a comment, leave a voicemail or upload a video with their messages of support and ideas for how an ultrafast network could be used. Businesses and organizations are urged to submit their logos for display on the site.
"We've incorporated different forms of technology and social media on the website to make it easy for Pittsburgh residents, businesses and community groups to show their support for bringing the Google network to Pittsburgh," said Director Howard A. Stern, the City's chief information officer.
"Pittsburgh has the intellectual bandwidth to complement Google's networking infrastructure," said Mr. Cohon. "Google recognizes that Carnegie Mellon and our fellow universities here are pipelines for talent and wellsprings of innovation in engineering, policy, business, the sciences, computer science, and the arts. I think what Google will learn in the coming weeks is that this entire community is similarly focused on the future."
The City of Pittsburgh proposal to Google is being developed with significant input from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the Pittsburgh Public Schools. The presence of innovative organizations demonstrates that the city has both a demand for new networking capacity for education, research and entertainment, and a wealth of ideas for creating new applications that take advantage of the network's unparalleled speed. The city also boasts excellent underlying infrastructure and a government that will aggressively clear any remaining obstacles to a new network.
The Google Fiber for Communities program, announced February 10, would deploy and test fiber optic networks to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people in the United States. The networks would deliver Internet speeds of one gigabit per second, more than 100 times faster than the speeds typically available to Americans today. Google will pay to install and operate the networks and would charge consumers competitive rates for Internet service.


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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia -- Julia Mancuso, the winningest women's alpine skier in U.S. Olympic history, didn't need extra inspiration Monday to begin her fourth Winter Olympics.
But the mercurial ski racer from Squaw Valley carried something special into the super combined event at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center: the death of her maternal grandfather.
"He's in the heavens now, so I'm looking up to him right now," she said after securing a surprising bronze medal in the downhill-slalom race that showcases the world's most versatile skiers.
"This is for my grandpa."
Mancuso, 29, has dedicated the Sochi Games to Denny Tuffanelli, a Bay Area physician who died a year ago at age 83.
But as her competitors know, watch out for Super Jules when it comes to the big events.
"The Olympics is really my redemption and the moment when I can make my season better," Mancuso said.
She came to Sochi with a questionable resume from the World Cup season. Just like Mancuso did the previous two Olympics.
But racing in spring-like conditions that she loves, Mancuso quickly looked like a different racer tearing through the morning downhill with the segment's fastest time. Four hours later, she had her first slalom race in a year.
Mancuso scratched her way to the podium against seasoned technical skiers. Only Maria Hoefl-Reisch of Germany -- a three-time gold medalist -- and Nicole Hosp of Austria could beat her.
Mancuso missed the silver medal by .13 of a second, and held off Slovenia's Tina Maze for the bronze by .10 of a second.
The performance could propel Mancuso to another level of stardom after spending her career in the shadow of Lindsey Vonn, whose injured knee kept her out of the Sochi Games.
For the first time, Mancuso has the stage to herself. She showed Monday she knows what to do with it.
Mancuso won two silver medals at the Vancouver Games to become the first American woman to earn three Olympic medals in alpine skiing. Now she has four -- and counting.
The women's downhill is scheduled Wednesday and the Californian brimming with confidence is among the favorites now.
To put her four Olympic medals into context, Picabo Street and Vonn, the names most associated with U.S. ski racing, each have two.
"Julia does this at Olympics," said Mammoth's Stacey Cook, who skied off course in the downhill to end her day. "You can't count her out in anything."
And yet, almost everyone did just that before the Sochi Games. Mancuso struggled so much she stepped off the tour in December to regroup in Lake Tahoe. Part of the problem involved boots and skis. She finally realized to let it go and just ski.
"I've always just had that real belief that I can do it," Mancuso said. With "everyone being a little skeptical and knowing in my heart that I can do it was kind of like crossing the finish line and say, 'See, it works.' Believing in yourself really works."
After the downhill, Mancuso plans to ski the Super-G on Saturday and the giant slalom on Feb. 18.
By now the ski world should expect something special from the free spirit who once raced with a tiara.
Eight years ago in Turin, Italy, Mancuso won a gold medal in the giant slalom to earn the only alpine hardware for the U.S. women's team.
She has won only seven World Cup races in 15 years, but has five World Championship medals to go with those shiny Olympic medallions.
Yet, many had doubts about the slalom segment Monday. Considering her meager showing in the technical event, it was understandable.
Mancuso had raced 15 slaloms since Vancouver. Her best finish was 20th. She failed to finish five times and didn't qualify to the finals six other times.
But there was Mancuso deep in concentration at the slalom starting gate, orange helmet buried in her lap. She told herself to stay calm. "Ski with your heart, Julia."
"And I skied my heart out," Mancuso said. "That was really tough. I knew I just had to give my best shot. It sure didn't feel good. I definitely had moments in my mind where I was thinking this is not going to be good enough."
As she made the final plunge across the finish line, Mancuso realized she had done it again.
Just another Olympic moment for her to enjoy.


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WASHINGTON — C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general of the United States who started the government's public discussion of AIDS during the Reagan administration, died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H. He was 96.
A spokeswoman for the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth confirmed his death but did not disclose the cause.
Koop was the most recognized surgeon general of the 20th century. He almost always appeared in the epauleted and ribboned blue or white uniform denoting his leadership of the commissioned corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. With his mustacheless beard, deep voice and grim expression, he looked like a Civil War admiral or, as some cartoonists suggested, a refugee from a Gilbert and Sullivan musical.
The theatrical appearance, however, masked a fierce self-confidence, an unyielding commitment to professional excellence, and a willingness to challenge the expectations of his patrons.
A 64-year-old retired pediatric surgeon at the time Ronald Reagan nominated him in 1981, Koop had no formal public-health training. His chief credential was that he was a socially conservative, devout Christian physician who had written a popular treatise against abortion. His confirmation took eight months. Few people expected him to talk about homosexuality, anal intercourse, condoms and intravenous drug use when almost nobody else in the Reagan administration would even utter the word "AIDS."
Koop, however, believed information was the most useful weapon against HIV at a time when there was little treatment for the infection and widespread fear that it might soon threaten the general population. In May 1988, he mailed a seven-page brochure, "Understanding AIDS," to all 107 million households in the country.
"He was a guy who surprised everybody," said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who was Koop's chief tutor in AIDS matters and became a close friend. "People expected one thing and they not only got another thing, they got someone who was amazingly effective."
Among AIDS activists Koop became an unlikely hero, although some came to think that his sexually explicit talk tended to further stigmatize gay men.
"Most of us thought that a huge part of how the crisis grew exponentially was that those in power chose to ignore it for as long as they could," recalled Peter Staley, a founding member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. "He was the only person in that administration who spoke the truth when it came to AIDS."
Koop was also a tireless campaigner against tobacco. As surgeon general, he released a report in 1982 that attributed 30 percent of all cancer deaths to smoking. He wrote that nicotine was as addictive as heroin, warned against the hazards of secondhand smoke and updated the warning labels on cigarette packs.
Michael Fiore, founder of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, once said Koop's reports on smoking "totally changed the landscape" of tobacco control.
He was among the last survivors of a small generation of American doctors forced by World War II into highly responsible roles at very young ages. After the war, many became academic physicians and researchers who helped fuel the explosion of medical therapeutics in the second half of the 20th century. In Koop's case, the new frontier was pediatric surgery, a specialty that barely existed when he entered it. He became one of the half-dozen leading practitioners in the world.
Charles Everett Koop, an only child, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Oct. 14, 1916. His father, who did not finish high school, was an officer at a bank. His mother occasionally assisted in at-home surgical operations in the neighborhood by administering anesthesia — a task the surgeon often farmed out to a responsible bystander. His paternal grandparents lived with his family, and his maternal grandparents and many cousins lived nearby.
Koop claimed he first expressed a desire to become a surgeon when he was 6 years old.
His maternal grandfather used to take him to Coney Island. In a conversation in 2007, Koop said this was not only for the entertainment, but also to teach the boy how to spot hustlers and grifters. He recalled an unusual sideshow — a display of premature infants in incubators, attended by nurses from the New York Foundling Hospital.
"I often thought how much of my life I spent with my hands in one of those incubators," he said. "Every time I would go and work on a baby, in the beginning, I'd have these reminiscences of Coney Island, where I first saw them."
Koop attended Dartmouth College on a football scholarship but had to give up the sport after suffering an eye injury. He majored in zoology and graduated in 1937. That fall he entered Cornell University's Medical College, in New York City.
He graduated in 1941 and did an internship in Philadelphia before starting surgical training at the University of Pennsylvania. By the time his residency began, six months after the Pearl Harbor attack, much of the surgical staff had entered military service.
That left a large amount of work to the surgical residents, and Koop proved to be an unusually skilled and energetic one. Within six weeks of starting on July 1, 1942, he was removing gallbladders and doing unassisted partial resections of stomachs — his supervisors notified but not present.
Although he was married, and by 1944 a father as well, he spent nearly all his time at the hospital. He estimated that he did as many operations in four years as residents do in "seven or eight years — there was nobody around to do the surgery."
He also did much of the work on a project assigned to Penn by the War Department to study the use of liquid gelatin as a substitute for blood plasma for the treatment of shock in battlefield casualties.
"I took to that investigational work very readily," recalled Koop, who ultimately wrote a thesis and earned a doctor of science degree for the research. "I was my own guinea pig. I would operate after having lost 1,000 ccs of blood and taken 500 ccs of gelatin, and then recorded all my vital signs. I have probably taken my body weight in gelatin, intravenously."
He and another Penn doctor were scheduled to run a clinical trial of the plasma substitute in China. Five days before they were to leave, however, the Army told them it wanted military physicians to run the study. Koop and his colleague unpacked their bags. The airplane carrying the Army researchers disappeared over the Atlantic.
After the war ended, the surgeon in chief at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania suggested that Koop take a job as the head of surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. When he assumed the position in January 1946, he was not yet 30.
At the time, general surgeons, or specialty surgeons such as urologists, operated on infants and children without specific training in how their anatomy and physiology differed from adults. The only pediatric surgery program in the country was in Boston. Operations on newborns were rare and mortality was high.
"I went to the Children's Hospital to do pediatric surgery. I spent the first 18 months doing pediatric anesthesia — trying to get rid of the barriers that were making it impossible to get living babies out of the operating room," Koop said in 2007.
Often there wasn't even appropriate equipment. Before an operation on a newborn, he and the anesthesiologist would make a tube for the windpipe by cutting the smallest urine catheter down to size, filing the edges smooth with an emery board, and then inserting a wire and boiling it to get the desired curvature.
Koop insisted that his team provide all the postoperative care to surgical patients, much to the consternation of pediatricians at CHOP old enough to be his father. In 1956, he created what was reputedly the first neonatal surgical intensive care unit in the country.
Over four decades of practice, he improved the technique for hernia repairs (and did 17,000 of them). He developed a correction for a congenital defect known as esophageal atresia, and a method for draining fluid from the brain into the abdomen for infants with hydrocephalus. He separated several sets of conjoined twins, including, in 1977, a pair joined at the heart in which only one baby could be saved. He trained dozens of pediatric surgeons who went on to head departments elsewhere.
After retiring as surgeon general in 1989, Koop lectured, wrote an autobiography, and in the 1990s with other investors established a website, DrKoop.com, that provided medical information. The enterprise proved an embarrassment, however, when it turned out some of the information was paid advertising. It no longer exists.
President Bill Clinton awarded Koop the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995. In recent years, he was a scholar at an institute that bears his name at Dartmouth Medical School. Its purpose is "promoting the health and well-being of all people."
Koop's wife of 67 years, the former Elizabeth Flanagan, died in 2007. She had worked as a secretary to support the couple while her husband was in medical school.
Survivors include his wife, the former Cora Hogue, whom he married in 2010; three children from his first marriage, Allen Koop, the Rev. Norman Koop and Elizabeth Thompson; and eight grandchildren.
A son from his first marriage, David Koop, was killed in a mountaineering accident in New Hampshire in 1968 when he was a 20-year-old student at Dartmouth. Koop and his first wife later wrote a book, "Sometimes Mountains Move," about their experience of grieving in the hope it might help other parents who had lost children.


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(on the team's injuries coming out of the Indianapolis game) "Let me go through the injuries first. We had a few more than I thought after the game.
(on if QB Case Keenum's thumb injury will cause him to change quarterbacks) "Well, we'll have to wait and see. We'll see what they say from the MRI and see what the doctors say and see what he's able to do. But it's certainly a concern on the quarterback when it's right (his) right hand, thumb. But we'll just have to wait and see what he can do on Wednesday in practice."
(on if there is anything more he can do to address the team's penalty issues after addressing them last week) "Well, we're going to continue to that. Not everything is taken care of in one week. We have a whole offseason, a whole training camp to put a team together and then to say well, in one week all of the sudden you're going to change everything. That's not really realistic. I was hoping that we would do better. Unfortunately, some of the penalties we had in practice carried over to the game. We had the players—if they had a penalty in practice, we took them out of the practice and set them on the side. Kind of a timeout. Something to embarrass them a little bit. We're going to continue to do that. We've got to cut down on penalties."
(on if the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Indianapolis T Gosder Cherilus had on DE J.J. Watt was enough) "That's up to the League. I don't really get into those things as far as trying to punish a player or not. The League sees all those things. They evaluate every penalty in a game and they fine people for whatever penalties they deem correct. I'm not going to overstep the League there on that."
(on facing Denver Broncos QB Peyton Manning this week) "Obviously, a great, great challenge for our defense. What more can you say about him besides being the all-time, all-time quarterback. He's having a tremendous year, one of the greatest years ever. So it's going to be a big challenge for us. We're going to have to step up our defensive play and especially our pass defense, which we really feel strong about our pass defense. It will be a big challenge for them anyway, though. They're the number one offense in the league. Not just him, but their whole offense, their offensive line, their running backs. They move the ball better than anybody in the league. I think we're fourth now in people moving the ball on us. It's a big challenge."
(on if he was happy with the effort from everyone yesterday) "Yeah, I thought we had a good effort. We didn't execute very well. Our first drive was disappointing defensively. I thought the rest of the game, they moved the ball their second drive, but we intercepted. And then the rest of the game, we played pretty well. They had the ball three times in our territory starting a drive and they didn't make a first down on two of those and kicked field goals. And then another one, they made one first down and kicked a field goal. When the pressure was on, I thought we played pretty well in those areas. The second half, we gave up three points. Offensively, we didn't have as good a game."
(on saying yesterday that he needed to go back and look at what QB Case Keenum struggled with and what he saw when he looked again) "Yeah, he had a rough game as far as overall. I think we have to go back again and I talked to the offense about it today, we've got to go back to see the things that he's done well because he had some games and had some plays that he's made. He's made good plays and done well with them. We have to go back and go with those and eliminate the ones that he's not doing well. Sometimes a young quarterback, sometimes they have to hit rock bottom a little bit to bounce back up. I've seen it happen. Some of them don't bounce back up and aren't good, and don't end up good quarterbacks. This is a rough time that he's going through. We'll see what he does."
(on QB Case Keenum saying he knows what he's doing wrong and that he isn't able to figure out how to fix it) "Yeah, he's a great kid. I think he takes the blame for everything, certainly. But we've got to help him in all of that. He saw the blitzes when they were coming. But seeing blitzes and getting rid of the football is different than just seeing them. That and reading coverages is not an easy process, especially for a young quarterback to know exactly where to go with even though he goes through it over and over and over in his meetings and so forth and we practice those things. We've just got to find the things that he really does well and we've got to stick with those because we've got to move the football."
(on Defensive Backs Coach Vance Joseph handling the duties of calling the defensive plays)
"Yeah, he did a real good job. Like I said, the first series we weren't happy with and we had another penalty, an interference call that I still don't agree with. And we'll see what the league says about it, but that gave them a touchdown. It gave them 20 yards and gave them the ball at the 1-yard line. We'll find out what the league says about that, but, like I said, three times they had the ball in our territory and scored nine points without really moving the ball at all. Of course, two points wasn't on the defense, so that's 11 out of the 25 points right there."
(on if there is any concern that RB Ben Tate and CB Johnathan Joseph won't play this week)
"Well, I mean, I don't know right now. It's hard for me to answer that. I think Johnathan (Joseph) was more sore and the CT scan will tell us more on (Ben) Tate."
(on if he expects TE
"You know, I don't know. I don't know the answer to that one. We thought he might practice last week, but he wasn't able to. So I think it's still a 'might situation' this week as far as him practicing.
(on his assessment of the offense as a whole after watching tape)
"It's like our offense overall. We just didn't move the ball well enough overall. I think there were individuals certainly that played well, but it's a group effort. When you only score three points, it's hard to say, 'Well, we had a great game.'"


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The Membership Relations Committee is happy to showcase some ArkGeo Geocachers through the "Geocacher Profile". The committee thought Morgan O'Neal aka drmo913 should be the next cacher to be in the spotlight.
What is your geocaching name?
My geocaching name is drMo913 (pronounced doctor mo)
How did you choose your handle?
Mo is a nickname I've had for years. It's from my first and last initials. The dr is a carry over from college. I played in a weekly poker night with my friends. I had ran across a book of poker legends. One such legend could be summed up with the phrase "don't play poker with a guy named doc". My friends jokingly called me "doctor mo". And the 913 is my birthday.
How long have you been geocaching?
I started geocaching in June of 2008.
How did you find your first Geocache, and which one was it?
The first geocache I found was Magnolia at Chestnut (http://coord.info/GC17W2J). My wife and I found it without a GPS because we didn't have one at the time. We studied the website for a few days before we became brave enough to go on the hunt. Once we were there, it took us 30 minutes to locate that little guy. The funny part was that I had held the cache in my hand a number of times and ignored it because I thought it was a pine cone of some sort......in a Magnolia tree.
Who usually goes with you when you go caching?
My wife (smilin4God) is my usual companion. Often JasonDDickerson and WednesdayAdams are tagging along or driving the cachemobile.
How long will you work on puzzle caches before you give up?
I don't give up. Unfortunately, there are not many close puzzle caches.
What town/areas have you most enjoyed caching in?
I've loved caching in Michigan. I grew up there as a kid and finding caches there brings back a lot of memories of doing things with the family.
Do you do paperless caching?
Generally. Unless it's a puzzle cache.
What kind of geocaching rig do you use?
It depends. We use a Garmin Colorado 400t, a Magellan Explorist, an iPhone 4 and an iPhone 5. The Colorado has been my goto since the beginning, but all 4 see a lot of use.
Why would you recommend anyone else to take up geocaching?
The fun and the people. I love playing games and being outdoors, and I love making friends with people from all walks of life.
Where are you originally from?
I was born in Flint, Mi. I moved to Columbia, TN when I was 10. I've lived in Arkansas since 1996.
In what states have you geocached?
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Michigan, Texas, Mississippi, Indiana, Alabama, Illinois, & Missouri.
What was your first event ever attended?
Clarksville or Cacheville 2009 (http://coord.info/GC1JZG9)
How many caches have you found?
My profile says 864, but my wife has recently reminded me that I have another 15 or so caches that I need to log.
Which type of cache container do you prefer over the rest?
The unusual.
What was the most famous cache that you have found?
"And Jesus Wept" (http://coord.info/GC7051). This is a virtual cache locacted by the OKC Bombing Memorial. I would encourage everyone to tour that museum some day.
Do you use disposable batteries or rechargeable batteries?
Disposable. I have rechargeable, but I keep misplacing the charger.
Do you enjoy hiding or finding more as your part of the hobby?
I enjoy the finding.
Do you have a personal goal in mind when you make a hide?
In years past, my goal was to make the cache as tricky as possible to find it. More recently, my goal has changed to make the caches more of a pleasant experience for the cacher.
What is you favorite type of cache hide?
I love well designed multi's. It makes me feel that I've accomplished something.
Out of all your hides, what are your personal favorites that you take pride in?
My favorite is The Golden Greek: Our Man JZ (http://coord.info/GC2D7P4). It's my favorite because I hid the cache in honor of a friend, it was hidden with friends, and it's been a tricky hide for a number of people to find despite the cache itself is pretty straight-forward.
What do you think the proper hide to find ratio should be to keep the sport fresh?
How did you end up getting into this wacky hobby?
I read an article covering the Otterspoon cache at Beaver Fork Park outside of Conway, AR in 2006 or 2007. Then I met a friend who goes by Deezer at church who was a geocacher. On July 4th, 2008, Deezer and his Geezer, his father, took me out geocaching for my first real geocaching trip. We grabbed around 15 caches. That evening, my wife and I went shopping and purchased our Garmin Colorado.
What's your favorite geocache?
Lift Station #10 (http://coord.info/GCMEQM) in Clarksville, AR.
If money was no object, where would you like to go geocaching?
I would love to go caching in Oregan/Washington. Especially, if I could grab a Starbucks drink at "the" Starbucks.
Do you like geocaching by yourself or in a group?
A group is so much more fun. Sometimes it's hard to look ridiculous when you are by yourself.
How many First to Finds do you have?
um... I know I have a few, but I don't keep track of it.
Maybe 3?
Are you a First to Find person who is always set on go and if so, how many miles out do you have your settings on to get notifications?
LOL. Nope. I do have notifications set out to 30 miles, but I seldom grab the FTF.
Do you have any other hobbies besides geocaching?
I play guitar (acoustic and bass), and I've been tinkering around with woodworking.


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Public invited to open house at fire station
Newton Fire Station No. 3 invites the public to an open house Sunday, Oct. 7 at 3 p.m.
The open house is to show the public that station No. 3 serves the public with new renovations.
To read more of this story, pick up the weekend print edition of Catawba County's community newspaper, The Observer News Enterprise, at newsstands throughout the county.


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Submission + - Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio
cartechboy writes: We've seen Tesla run into regulatory issues in Texas. And North Carolina. This time, it's Ohio, where car dealers are playing an entertainingly brazen brand of hardball. The Ohio Dealers Association is backing an anti-Tesla amendment to Ohio Senate Bill 137--which turns out to be an unrelated, uncontroversial proposal about drivers moving left when they see emergency vehicles (The bill is headed for adoption.) The sudden and subtle amendment would ban Tesla from selling its electric cars directly to customers, who place their orders online with the company after learning about the Model S in company-owned stores. A hearing on the amendment was suddenly scheduled for today; Tesla is fighting back by outlining the economic benefits to Ohio--after taking some legislators for a ride in the Model S (a Tesla tactic that has worked before).


text: The new safety tables bring the total number of transportation indicators tracked by BTS to 27. Indicators are drawn from BTS and other sources to provide timely, easily accessible information for the transportation community. BTS also updated tables that contain information on transportation and the economy, fuel prices, passenger and freight traffic, transportation costs to users and system performance. Multimodal Transportation Indicators are available at: http://www.bts.gov/publications/multimodal_transportation_indicators/ .