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I've kept it very simple, so you use it like this:
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Maybe i'll add a behavior to the extension which you can attach to your ActiveRecords to automate this. But i'm hesitating because it may not catch all updates (e.g. calls to saveAttributes()).
Let me know, what you think about it.
Updated the examples for 1.1.0.
This post has been edited by Mike: 24 May 2012 - 09:50 AM


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glenn robinson iii
Unverified Voracity Announces Decisions
- al borges
- al borges i don't even know
- basketball timeouts are awful
- chad lindsay
- glenn robinson iii
- jon horford
- lolbcs
- mitch mcgary
- muhammad ali abdur-rahkman
- nba draft
- nba draft makes me forever alone
- nightmare fuel
- nik stauskas
- rappists
- the michigan difference
- the only good mascot is a terrifying mascot
- unverified voracity
The day has (mostly) come. Expect a post at about 3:35 today, as Michigan has called a press conference featuring Nik Stauskas and Glenn Robinson III at 3:30 wherein they will either announce their NBA draft futures or talk about their favorite things to put on hamburgers. Here's hoping it's the latter.
I don't think there's a huge amount of suspense with either of those two guys. Michigan is bringing in Muhammed Ali Abdur-Rahkman for an official this weekend, and now there are multiple reports that Robinson has signed with an agent or hasn't signed but is entering the draft anyway.
The suspense is with Mitch McGary, who is not announcing:
McGary's father, Tim McGary, told MLive on Monday night that his son has no intentions to partake in the press conference and is still undecided on whether he return to U-M or not.
"He's still back and forth on it," Tim McGary said.
So he's not gone; neither is he necessarily back. He has until the 27th to make that decision; the NCAA's deadline is an entirely artificial one.
The fact that he's still debating things is obviously good. It is not as good as McGary being ready to announce a return would be; it is still good. Scout's Brian Snow has reported a shift of opinion($) in the Indiana recruiting circles he pings regularly that is positive for Michigan, so there's that. Sam Webb confirmed, insofar as it is possible to confirm an opinion on a decision that clearly hasn't been made yet.
Abdur-Rahkman, 40 in white
ha no but man wouldn't that be something
he's the guy with the ball
not that I had to tell you that
Meanwhile, MAAR. If Michigan does settle on Abdur-Rahkman as a spring take I'll be satisfied; Beilein and company have proved they can ID a diamond in the rough and, like… MAAR for four years. Misspelled Smiths tie in acronym: yes please.
MAAR currently has a slate of mid-major offers after a senior season in which he averaged nearly 24 points a game for Central Catholic. Joe Stapleton's article linked above indicates the seriousness of Michigan's interest—Beilein calls him "at least three times a week"*—despite the fact that he is not just a shooter because he's not, in fact, a shooter:
Abdur-Rahkman would be a slight departure from the prototypical Michigan recruit in that he isn't known for his shooting. In fact, the graduating senior said that while his shot has improved, he made his living getting to the rim and playing great man-to-man defense.
A defensive stopper type would be welcome, and shooting can develop. If Michigan was to offer it doesn't seem like it'll take a whole lot of thought from MAAR:
"(Michigan is) definitely the top school."
Abdur-Rahkman also deviates from the Beilein model in that he's old for his class. In fact, he is literally as old as you can be and still play high school basketball in Pennsylvania:
Abdur-Rahkman turned 16 on Sept. 1 at the start of his freshman year, which means, of course, he turned 19 on Sept. 1 of this past year. The cutoff date for meeting the PIAA's age requirement is Sept. 1, meaning that had Muhammad been born on Aug. 31, he would have had to be part of the 2013 graduating class.
He'll be 20 by the time he arrives on campus. Good for immediate readiness, bad for upside. Kind of like grabbing a hockey player after a couple years of JUCO.
*[They deregulated phone calls in men's basketball, if that sounds like a violation to you. Kelvin Sampson sighs heavily at home about this.]
WELP. Here's this draft evaluation of Taylor Lewan from SBNation that discusses Taylor Lewan, who is of interest to us as a Michigan alum who is likely to go in the top half of the first round of the draft.
What a shitty offense
Uh… what?
So I wanted to focus this breakdown on Taylor Lewan, not the severe annoyance I had with the way Michigan used him. But since it was the one thing that stood out to me the most while watching Lewan play, I am going to go ahead and address it right off the bat.
Now look, I don't profess to be some kind of expert on offenses, but some things about football I just feel like should be common sense. For instance, if you have a superior blocker at left tackle, most of your help from tight ends and running backs, whether it be run blocking or pass blocking, should go to the other four guys. It should also allow you to design plays built around his athleticism to help get your skill position players free out in space. Stuff like smoke screens (WR takes one step forward then one step back to catch the ball while his blockers lead up in front of him) or really any kind of screens, counter plays (where you pull the offensive guard and tackle from one side of the center to the other side of the center) and any number of sweep plays (runs designed to get wide outside of the offensive tackle).
I didn't see much of that in the five games that I watched. Furthermore, why in the HELL did Michigan keep a tight end to Lewan's side so damn much? He obviously didn't need the help. The quarterback was right handed anyway (with bootlegs you like for the tight end to be lined up to the side of the quarterback's throwing hand), and they could have potentially had a wide receiver there instead of a tight end. It would've increased the chances of success on passing downs as well as run downs if you get the opposing defenses spread themselves out. But is that what Michigan did?
This very long blockquote is not the end of former NFL DE Stephen White's evisceration of last year's Michigan offense, despite it being a very long blockquote. I expect that White will be getting some very stern comments from the folks around here who fought the rearguard action for Team Borges with such heroic ferocity last season when I made statements like "this is stupid," "this makes no sense," and "it is bad when your tailbacks run 27 times for 27 yards."
Michigan protected Taylor Lewan with a tight end so often that it made it hard for this draft evaluator to, you know, evaluate Taylor Lewan. Meanwhile, the interior of the line was a highway to Devin Gardner's ribs. And the kicker is: the tight ends couldn't even block. Michigan was tossing away its main advantage on the line—dang good tackles—because of their philosophy about manballin' it. That's alarming, because that seems like it comes from the top. It's all well and good to be Stanford or Alabama if you can be that, but when you're on your way to dead last TFLs… probably not.
We'll see. Rubber hits the road in September.
Oh, good. Putting Chad Lindsay on 27 tickets turns out to be premature, as the Alabama transfer is getting his woo on. After his visit to Michigan he hit up Louisville and Oklahoma; this week he's headed to Cal and… Ohio State. Oh goody.
OSU lost four seniors off last year's line and can pitch Lindsay playing time, and you know there's nothing in the world Urban would like more than grabbing Lindsay away from Michigan even if he ends up sitting on the bench the whole year. Especially if he ends up sitting on the bench the whole year.
Get out of there while you still can, Chad.
This will help you feel better about the previous section. Someone's really into Amir Williams saying coach be all over his di—
For pants sake, lady, can you see a camera without reflexively extending your tongue and squinting? I submit that you cannot.
Mascot of the week. The El Paso Chihuahuas' Chico has been hanging with Eight Ball the Tiger:
Mascots should be as frightening as possible. I approve.
YUP. It's almost like arguments against a college football playoff weren't particularly good ones.
40 bowl games next year. Man, I am old enough to remember when the worthless suits who run CFB said a playoff would kill all the bowl games
— jamie mac (@justcoverblog) April 15, 2014
Our worthless suit overlords think so little of us they kept the guy who was issuing these proclamations around to issue the exact opposite proclamations.
The Michigan Difference. Michigan PhD grad makes joke about Darren Rovell on twitter.
@PFTCommenter OK, but @darrenrovell would tell you that a swastika is just a way to build your brand ppl forget that.
— neilla (@_neillam) April 8, 2014
Darren Rovell, being Darren Rovell, reports this comment to some guy at Michigan. Michigan's "informal response":
1) "Wait, so who is this guy? Is
@darrenrovell actually famous?"
2) "What did he think we were going to do? Take away your diploma?"
/sings fight song, waves tiny block M flag
I am always very careful about how I mis-state the word rapper. Ace informs me that this gentleman with Devin Gardner is noted rappist "Two Chains," but I say balderdash, I say!
COUNT THE CHAINS, "TWO CHAINS." His real name is Excessive Watches IV. He goes home and takes off all of that, sits down with a Forbes, and looks exactly like Carlton. Fact. E-fact. Also his rap song just cannot compete with the Charleston.
This has been Brian pretends he's more out of touch than he is to forestall accusations of being out of touch theater. Thank you.
Thanks, bro. Horford opens up about his decision to leave to MLive; it turns out his zen does not extend to the rest of his family:
"(Transferring) is something that my family has been trying to persuade me to do for four years," Horford said. "So I guess naturally it's always been inevitable -- when people are telling you something all the time."
I get the feeling that Horford's support system regards Horford's abilities with… uh… enthusiasm not necessarily in line with reality. The reason his playing time dropped late in the season is that he wasn't playing well. I mean… when Morgan went out I was always like WHEN CAN WE GET MORGAN BACK IN. Play better and you get more time. Or wait for Morgan to graduate and go get it like he did.
Please please please let me get what I want (fewer timeouts) this time. Timeouts are a scourge upon basketball, not only turning 60 seconds of clock time into a writhing eternity of nothingness but also reducing the chaos factor that a trailing team attempts to insert into the game late. On four seconds trying to inbound the ball? Timeout. Trapped in the corner? Timeout. Want to get your defense set? Timeout. Timeouts are used to prevent turnovers, keep the leading team in the lead, and let over-coaching guys in suits maintain as much control as possible. They result in two and a half hour games that mean you have to stream the first ten minutes of your game on ESPN3. They are miserable and should be almost entirely removed.
They won't be, but at least the misery of them is a thing that has reached the people who can do something about it:
Everyone agreed that one of the biggest detractions of the current game is the eternity it takes to end a close one. That is largely due to the number of timeouts granted to each team, both officially (five per team per game) and unofficially (coaches are given a minute to substitute when a player fouls out). Replay reviews are viewed as a necessary evil in the quest for the right calls, but they also add to the length of an endgame situation. Coaches cherish their control of the game and thus will be loath to surrender timeouts, but fans everywhere would embrace fewer stoppages in play – especially late in a game. The NCAA said it will begin tracking the length of games next year, as it does in football.
"Length is becoming a concern," said David Worlock, NCAA associate director of men's basketball.
You're going to begin tracking games? And you don't think there's anything wrong with the current replay setup? Argh. But yes, please, shoot timeouts into the sun. One per team per game.
An elimination of live-ball timeouts, or at least limiting those calls to players instead of coaches. This would be a move toward FIBA international rules, which allow no live-ball timeouts.
But no:
Reducing the shot clock to either 30 or 24 seconds. Brey said he is in favor, and there seems to be fairly wide support for a reduction of some kind – although there also is a concern about college hoops becoming an NBA copycat league. (Interestingly, Byrd said his Belmont team occasionally uses a 12-second shot clock in practice to force tempo and enhance conditioning.)
With zone defenses viable and the skill level generally reduced, shortening the shot clock just results in more ugly shots. 45 to 35 was necessary, but in college 35 is fine.
Etc.: Sam Mikulak in repose. PSU-M is at 7 PM on ESPN or ESPN 2. Frighentingly quick MAAR scouting video from UMHoops.
Reporter: Glenn Robinson To Enter Draft
This is the report the reporter is reporting:
Source: Michigan soph forward Glenn Robinson III has signed with an agent and will enter the NBA Draft. Press conference coming this week.
— Jake Fischer (@JakeLFischer) April 14, 2014
If you're wondering why this guy would get it first, the signed with an agent bit is the gateway there. Fischer writes for SLAM and the Boston Globe, FWIW.
Unverified Voracity Reflects
Dustin Johnston/UMHoops
Rounding up the exit. Further takes on the end of Michigan's season come from Genuinely Sarcastic:
In three of the last four seasons, Michigan's season has come down to one final shot in the dying moments. That's actually pretty astonishing when you think about it. All the chaos and moving parts of a basketball game, boiling down to one shot on three separate occasions in three separate games. All three involved different circumstances, and a Michigan program at different stages of its evolution.
Sometimes you don't appreciate you have until it's gone. Which is why I am thankful we were able to send off Jordan Morgan on a high note. Morgan is exactly what we want our players to be, tenacious, hard-working, always working to be better, and, oh yeah, a pretty damn good student to boot. To see all of the #ThanksJMo tweets after the game is to know that we didn't lose sight of what was going to end when Stauskas's last shot fell short. We know we're probably also losing some other players, and we'll deal with that when the time comes, but for now, we appreciate what we had, because it was fun. It was just fun.
INDIANAPOLIS — Moments after the game, the sun is low in the sky and Lucas Oil Stadium casts a long shadow across Indianapolis as, inside, Michigan walks off the court for the last time together. Jordan Morgan is first, well before anyone else. Glenn Robinson III gives a quick wave to the crowd and puts his head down. Nik Stauskas is emotionless. Mitch McGary, who was never getting into the game, walks off wearing the uniform his teammates have insisted he wear.
Later, Morgan, held up by his press conference, is one of the last to enter the Michigan locker room. Most of the room is composed except for Zak Irvin, who is emotional in one corner of the room, and for Morgan. He wipes his face with his sleeve and cries in front of the television cameras.
His teammates have said the loss is all the more difficult because it means they'll never play another game with Morgan. The senior doesn't know how to respond.
He pauses to wipe his eyes.
"I didn't expect it to be my last game," Morgan says.
"It's over. I don't know what else to say."
And Nick Baumgardner:
But while every team in this NCAA tournament, save for one, ends its season with a loss, they don't all end their season without regret.
This Michigan team earned the right to live -- forever -- with a clear conscience.
"You can be mad if you want," Michigan's Jon Horford said. "But if you make guys hit tough shots they don't normally hit.
"Then you shake their hand."
[Bryan Fuller]
Draft stuff. NBA draft types seem to be in consensus about Michigan's three early entry candidates: Stauskas is out the door, but the other two should return. "Should" and "will" are two very different things, of course. Also, when NBA draft types talk about these things they talk about them from the perspective of the NBA, not the player.
Disclaimers aside, NBA type on Robinson:
Projecting where Robinson could be selected in this year's NBA draft is difficult. His potential is boundless, but his play has been erratic. The scout described his prospective draft position as "all over the board for some people."
He concluded saying Robinson should return to Ann Arbor to "develop some consistency in his game."
A guy the BTN talked to:
Glenn Robinson III
Why he should stay: Should finally emerge as Michigan's star player. Showed flashes of what people expected as a sophomore, but not consistently. Should look better with Walton having a year under his belt as point guard.
Why he should leave: Teams still like his skill and athleticism. Could flourish enough in workout situations to alleviate NBA concerns.
Prediction: Stays
As I mentioned in the post a couple days ago, Robinson's clear frustration at being forced to play the 4 is something that will weigh on him. This makes Mark Donnal the most important guy on the team from GRIII's perspective. If Mitch returns Donnal is free to play the 4 for basically all of his minutes, and if he's a 25 minute or 30 minute guy that means Robinson's spending almost all of his time on the wing.
As for Mitch, there is almost universal agreement that it would be hard to take the guy in the first round with the questions about his back and relatively thin resume. McGary would have to be confident in his ability to go full McGary in draft camps this month if he was going to make a leap. Anonymous NBA guy:
If he chooses to declare for the draft, McGary's health will be "picked apart in this process" due to an injury classified only as a lower-back condition, according to the scout.
It's clear both Robinson and McGary entered the year planning that this would be their last at Michigan, and that momentum will make deciding to stay more difficult than it otherwise even if it seems like the best idea to return for both.
These days there is no withdrawal, so the dates that matter are April 16th, when the Portsmouth Invitational starts and the 27th, which is the last day to declare. GRIII and McGary will almost certainly decide by the 16th, as Portsmouth is where a lot of first or second round decisions get hashed out.
Also in draft stuff. I'm not sure if this draft blogger the BTN talked to has anything solid or if he's just guessing based on the fact that everyone flees West Lafayette, but here's the hypothetical death knell for Matt Painter's career:
A.J. Hammons
Why he should stay: Showed very little improvement in many ways from freshman to sophomore year. A dominant junior year could make him a first-round pick.
Why he should leave: Skilled big men and shot-blockers are always in demand at the NBA level and Hammons' development may have stalled at Purdue.
Prediction: Enters Draft
Tom Dienhart also predicted a Hammons departure, FWIW. I know Hammons is a frustrating dude but he's all Purdue has right now.
Other decisions the Big Ten is waiting on include Sam Dekker and (now) Frank Kaminsky at Wisconsin plus Gary Harris and Branden Dawson at MSU. Gary Parrish reported that barring a 180 in the next couple days, Harris is out the door. Dawson is a bit of a surprising name, but he's got financial issues and pretty much is what he is at this point: a 20-minutes-a-game defensive specialist.
MSU is also offering firm handshakes to potential fifth-year players Alex Guana and Russell Byrd. The latter is a little sad, since he had the highest ratio of bark to bite in the Big Ten. From the spectator's position, it's always tough to lose a guy like that.
Freshman talk. Via MGoVideo:
Canteen made a catch! And he's wearing 17. Always enjoy guys wearing oddball numbers I have no association with. Looking forward to Canteen changing it six times over the course of his career.
Wrong move, buddy. Now we're going to try and beat you. Ohio State cockiness increments yearly these days. And one day super super soon they are going to regret it, I tell you. Until then, the prospect of random OSU assistant coaches spouting off about Michigan remains. Ed Warinner:
Ed Warinner: "If you're worried about Wolverine fans, just move to Pasadena. You'll never have to deal with 'em."
— Marcus Hartman (@marcushartman) April 2, 2014
Standard message board banter. Okay. And then:
Warinner on lost playbooks in Michigan: "I heard Brady was upset because he hadn't finished coloring them."
— Marcus Hartman (@marcushartman) April 2, 2014
Wow. That's personal. I expect that from a guy named WOLVERINEKILLAH88, not so much a coach. Hoke brushed it off on WTKA today, as he is wont to do.
From the People In Charge Of Things Are Just In Charge Of Them file. Texas has a new athletic director, who is in charge of Texas. He is also an idiot.
He sees Texas as being in a unique position to grow its international brand and said it's essential to use athletics as a platform to tell the university's story.
"They shouldn't be done for junketeering purposes," Patterson said. "They should be done in a fashion that grows the profile and the interest of the university of a broad scale internationally."
Patterson reportedly has expressed interest in playing a nonconference football game in Mexico City. Another possibility Patterson acknowledged Tuesday could be a future sporting event in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
This dude already scheduled a Texas basketball game in China, but will not even consider playing Texas A&M. The goal appears to be pissing off your core fanbase as much as possible. CEO types are just emperors running around naked as the day is long these days, searching for growth at all costs like their department is a publicly traded company.
Also… "junketeering." Just keep shooting bullets into the English language until it topples, guys.
It's on. The Michigan legislature passed a bill allowing Michigan to sell alcohol for that rumored Man U/Real Madrid friendly this summer, which was followed up by an announcement there would be an announcement tomorrow. Expect them to announce a series of announcements about announcements culminating in a soccer game.
Etc.: A Brian Phillips ode to Raftery and Lundquist. Five Key Plays for Kentucky. More Morgan. Additional Morgan. DJ Wilson update.
Michigan 73, Tennessee 71
After the charge. [Dustin Johnston/UMHoops]
As it turned out, the Sweet Sixteen matchup between Michigan and Tennessee was determined by mismatches up front.
Jeronne Maymon couldn't handle Glenn Robinson III without fouling—or stay in front of any of Michigan's perimeter players—while Jordan Morgan outscored and outrebounded Jarnell Stokes, then all but sealed the victory by taking a charge when Tennessee called Stokes's number with a chance to win the game.
It started with Robinson, who opened the game with an easy blow-by against Maymon for a layup, stymied his post-up opportunity on the other end, and then drew the Tennessee big man's first foul. That set the early tone—Tennessee couldn't hang with Michigan's offense while playing two bigs, but their lack of depth meant going without one also hurt them dearly.
When Maymon checked back in, he quickly picked up his second foul on a Morgan and-one. After another stint on the bench, he allowed Caris LeVert to swoop by him for an easy two and found himself on the pine once again. Maymon would finish with two points, three rebounds—just one offensive—and four fouls in 17 minutes. Robinson scored 13 on nine shots, pulled down five boards (two off.), and held his own in the post for 39 minutes.
With Maymon neutralized, it appeared Michigan would win with ease. Tennessee's defense opened up, and the Wolverines took advantage, hitting 7-of-9 three-pointers in the first half; their 45 first-half points were the most ceded by the Volunteers all season. Uncharacteristically, the only significant category Michigan didn't win in the first half was turnovers; that'd turn out to be an omen, and not a good one.
I'll assume you watched the game, and therefore spare you the gory details of Tennessee's second-half run that, based on my Twitter feed, drove everyone not obligated to write a game recap to drink heavily. (Don't worry, I'll join you degenerates soon.) The turnovers kept coming. Nik Stauskas, who'd score 14 points on 13 shots, went cold from the outside. Jordan McRae, who finished with a game-high 24 points, kept finding his way to the basket.
A blown out of bounds call that somehow held upon review, a turnover after Robinson couldn't handle a lob to halfcourt, and another inbounds turnover when LeVert caught the ball with a foot on the line; that sequence set up the Vols, once down 15 in the second half, with the ball down just one point with nine seconds on the clock.
That's when Morgan, who led Michigan with 15 points and seven rebounds, made a play reminiscent of last year's Syracuse game. Tennessee's plan was simple: post up Stokes. That plan backfired when Morgan anticipated Stokes's drive, beat him to the spot, and planted his feet as Stokes lowered his shoulder into Morgan's chest. In the most Jordan Morgan play of them all, Michigan's lone senior drew a charge, refusing to allow his career to end on this night.
Michigan's early shooting bonanza—helped mightily by the freshman duo of Derrick Walton and Zak Irvin, who combined to hit 5-of-5 triples—allowed them to survive a late storm that they helped create with sloppy play. It wasn't pretty. A lot of it wasn't fun. But they survived.
On the backs of two of the more scrutinized players to come through this program—Morgan, too soft/untalented/unskilled to center a real contender; Robinson, too soft/one-dimensional/reliant on his athleticism to live up to his five-star billing—Michigan made the Elite Eight for the second consecutive season. In the regional final, whether they play Louisville or Kentucky, they'll face a mismatch or two; they might just create a couple themselves, too.
One Frame At A Time: Wofford & Texas
Jordan Morgan recorded his second double-double of the weekend in the most Jordan Morgan way possible: by attempting to take a charge, not getting the call, and grabbing a board anyway while he's flat on his back.
This didn't make the top ten from the weekend. Don't fret, though—Morgan still makes several appearances. For the rest of the first two rounds of the tourney in GIFs, hit the jump.
[JUMP like GRIII over Javan Felix.]
Unverified Voracity Might Be Coffee Dad
YES DO IT YES. Oversigning for the win:
I'm told #MIchigan is currently exploring the possibility of signing former #Alabama OG Chad Lindsay, who is transferring from the Tide.
— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerCBS) March 23, 2014
Knows Nussmeier, started four games for them a year ago, immediately eligible, Michigan has the room, just do it.
Are we sure he's not actually coffee dad? From John Beilein's favorited tweets:
Coffee dad. Also he favorited some random dude talking about his teams' rebounding derogatorily. John Beilein!
Thx to Mich fans for the support this week! Sweet 16 and on to Indy.Thinking about getting a nice Sub tonight. It could get crazy! Go Blue!
— John Beilein (@JohnBeilein) March 23, 2014
…is self-aware. So it's good he's not Skynet.
OH REALLY. Lost in the sea of March Madness last week was one statement from Brady Hoke that will hopefully prevent me from typing yet more spittle-flecked all-caps rants about how fifth year senior starting quarterbacks don't get benched except in the event of catastrophic injury, and sometimes not even then:
He's doing okay, (but) he's not ready to be the starter at Michigan," Hoke said Thursday. "Devin's got the most experience at that job. … But if we were starting today, (Morris) wouldn't be the guy out there."
All right then. That's settled.
"Two weeks from now? We'll see."
And the Crimson sea parted. It's that time of year again, where players either flee or are pushed from the Indiana basketball program. This time it seems more like a mutual flee/push, as two struggling players Indiana probably needs anyway are exiting. Jeremy Hollowell, one of the two large athletic Hoosiers who can't play basketball, is out the door. Austin Etherington is the other departure. Noah Vonleh already announced he's entering the draft.
With Luke Fischer's departure for Marquette in the middle of the season, Indiana has lost every player over 6'8" who saw time except for Hanner Mosquera-Perea. Meanwhile the biggest guy in their recruiting class is a 6'7" small forward.
Is it too late for James Blackmon to decommit again? Asking for a friend.
And then the other red sea parted. OSU takes a major hit with LaQuinton Ross's NBA draft declaration. They've got a terrific recruiting class coming in, and now they're really going to need it. They've lost Ross, who was 30% of their shots, Amedeo Della Valle, Aaron Craft, and Lenzelle Smith from a six seed and first-round exit.
And then everybody in the Big Ten laid out the red carpet. West Virginia shooting guard Eron Harris is transferring closer to home. Home is Indianapolis. Harris averaged 17 points a game as a sophomore, shooting 42% from two and 86% from the line. Scout's Brian Snow says Michigan will be involved($), and lord knows everyone in and around shooting-challenged Indiana will also make a run. Michigan's hoping that "closer to home" really means "away from West Virginia" since 250 versus 350 miles isn't much of a functional difference.
I'm in favor of Michigan trying to grab him. Think of him as a 2015 recruit who only gets two years before he has to go to the NBA, and oh right that just makes him like anyone else who ends up shooting the ball a lot under John Beilein.
Michigan has an open scholarship this year and it would be nice to have a couple of upperclass years to fill in those vacated by Michigan's NBA draft departure. After Harris sits out a year he would be competing on the wing with a senior Caris LeVert—maybe—and a junior Zak Irvin—maybe, along with Kam Chatman and any class of 2015 freshmen. Harris is a proven high-level player who will make a decision well before the 2015 kids will. And he'll have a year to get better under Beilein before he gets back on the court. If you can get him, get him.
[Bryan Fuller]
Open to a return. Glenn Robinson was as noncommital as everyone is when asked about entering a professional draft, but this is something good to hear:
"There have been times this year when I thought about it and heard a lot of talk and everything," Robinson said. "I just want to make the best decision, the best decision for me, because I want to play this game for a long time. So if I'm not ready, I'm not ready."
While you can't begrudge someone their desire to get paid lots of money for their skill, it does grind my gears a tiny bit when guys leave early without the prospect of a first-round pick waiting. Robinson might have fallen into that boat; it would be really easy to ignore the stuff they're saying about you this year because you were supposed to be a first rounder last year. Hopefully one of these two things happens:
- Robinson annihilates Tokyo as he drags Michigan to a national title
- Robinson plays pretty well and follows the Tim Hardaway Jr model.
Open to stay. Please hold your nose at a reference to a Michael Rosenberg-gathered quote, but it's kind of a big deal:
Jordan is so admired within the program that Alexander, another rising coach, endorses him to be the next head coach at Michigan.
"In my mind, I think he would be a great progression, when and if the time comes, when coach Beilein decides to transition on," Alexander says.
Alexander is 37, and he set a goal for himself to be a head coach by age 40. But he looks at Jordan and thinks of the Michigan football team's defensive coordinator. Says Alexander: "I would be more than willing to be (Jordan's) Greg Mattison. We want to continue to work together. I just think the world of him."
If Jordan and Alexander are both around when Beilein hangs it up, I don't know how you don't give Jordan the job after his work with Morris and Burke and Stauskas and LeVert, plus the recruiting bonafides and possible huge long-term upside. (Beilein is 61, so if he goes another five years you'd be hiring a 39-year old guy who could be around for the next 25 years.) Especially if that would mean Alexander sticks with him.
They've really got to do something about this. Urban Meyer on the packaged play trend and its acceleration:
The second-level zone read has his attention. In the traditional zone read, the quarterback reads the defensive end to dictate whether he'll hand off or run. In this version, the quarterback is reading the linebacker.
"That's going to not disappear," Meyer says. "It's even in the NFL now. The NFL doesn't give you three yards."
College does -- as in, officials allow linemen to get up to three yards downfield before a throw. After following up with other coaches on this concept, one popular play is to throw a slant to the open space if the linebacker goes inside to cover the run, knowing linemen are already headed downfield to block.
This has started to become comical. Last year in the Michigan-Air Force game, two Air Force OL had in fact engaged defenders six yards downfield on a pass play without a call. Either get rid of the illegal man downfield rule or enforce it. But pick one.
Etc.: Glasgow's issue was a "driving-related offense," which seems pretty likely to be one particular driving-related offense unless they've got some really strict new rules about using your turn signal.
Derrick Green getting slimmer. Jim Tressel's CV doesn't include anything about sweatervests. Bo bracket. Pistons to chase Izzo because owner is MSU grad. No idea why MSU NBA owners want to wreck their alma mater's program but fine by me.

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Diabetes Health
Eat More Legumes for Better Diabetes Control
If you have type 2 diabetes, you probably already know that you need to keep a close eye on what you eat. Certain foods can affect how well you manage your condition. A recent study suggests people with diabetes should try adding more legumes to their diet. Researchers found that eating more of them may lower blood sugar and blood pressure levels.
Loving legumes
Legumes are foods that include beans, lentils, and chickpeas. Such foods are naturally high in protein and fiber - two components that may boost heart health. Legumes are also rated low on the glycemic index, which measures the amount of sugar in a food. Eating foods on the low end of the index may help control diabetes better.
"Legumes, which we always thought were good for the heart, actually are good for the heart in ways we didn't expect," says lead researcher David Jenkins, M.D., at the University of Toronto. Among people with diabetes, "not only did their glucose control become better, but - and this surprised us - it had a significant effect on blood pressure."
For the study, researchers had 121 people eat either 1 cup of legumes or 1 cup of whole-wheat foods a day. After about three months, researchers noted both groups saw a drop in blood sugar and blood pressure levels. But those eating legumes had the most improvement in both levels.
Focusing on a better diet
Experts stress that people with diabetes should focus on a healthy diet. Legumes can certainly play a part in that, even if you can't eat a cup a day. Other studies have suggested that legumes can lower the risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even cancer.
"Legumes will do well for you," says Dr. Jenkins. "They will help you keep your blood pressure down and your blood glucose under control. They can help you keep your cholesterol down, too."
This study was published in a recent issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study was partially funded by the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, a nonprofit organization representing legume growers in Canada.
Always talk with your health care provider to find out more information.
Online Resources
(Our Organization is not responsible for the content of Internet sites.)
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - Diabetes and Diet
American Diabetes Association - Food and Fitness
National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse - What I need to know about Eating and Diabetes
December 2012
A Healthy Lifestyle for Type 2 Diabetes
Following a healthy meal plan and getting regular physical activity can help you control your blood sugar and stave off complications. Here are some healthy living tips from the American Diabetes Association:
Always talk with your health care provider to find out more information.


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Senate panel looks at making gun list secret
By The Associated Press
This article was published February 5, 2013 at 7:48 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK A Senate committee is considering whether to make secret the list of Arkansans permitted to carry concealed handguns.
Republican Sen. Bruce Holland of Greenwood planned Tuesday to present to the Senate State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee his legislation exempting the concealed-carry information from the state's Freedom of Information Act.
Current law allows only the names and ZIP codes of permit holders to be released.
The current law is the result of a compromise struck in 2009 after legislators originally backed making the entire list secret.
Holland says he filed his proposal in response to a New York newspaper that published the names and addresses of permit holders last year after the Connecticut school massacre.
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Sarah Brightman plans International Space Station gig
Soprano evidently did lose heart to a Starship Trooper
Posted in Science, 10th October 2012 15:28 GMT
Singer Sarah Brightman has announced she's off to the International Space Station, from where she'll become "the first professional musician to sing from space".
The classical superstar, 52, is the best-selling soprano in history, so she's obviously not short of the few quid it will cost to be lifted heavenwards atop a Soyuz rocket, ahead of a 10-day stay aboard the orbiting outpost.
Brightman is also an UNESCO Artist for Peace Ambassador, and "sees life on board the space station – which requires the mindful, shared consumption of resources and a clear and unwavering focus on sustainability – as a model for how we might better inhabit our planet".
She also intends to use her jaunt to "advance education and empower the role of girls and women in science and technology in an effort to help close the gender gap in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields".
In a press release from extraterrestrial travel agent Space Adventures, which arranged the trip, Brightman said: "I don't think of myself as a dreamer. Rather, I am a dream chaser. I hope that I can encourage others to take inspiration from my journey both to chase down their own dreams and to help fulfill the important UNESCO mandate to promote peace and sustainable development on Earth and from space. I am determined that this journey can reach out to be a force for good, a catalyst for some of the dreams and aims of others that resonate with me."
Those of you who imagine a quinquagenarian chanteuse may not have the Right Stuff are directed to a statement by Alexey Krasnov, Head of Piloted Programs Department at Russian space agency Roscosmos, who clarified: "I am pleased to announce that Sarah Brightman has been selected to participate in our spaceflight training program. This past July, Ms Brightman completed and passed all of the required medical and physical evaluations; she's fit and mentally prepared for our spaceflight training program."
Just when Brightman will blast off has not yet been scheduled. You can follow the progress of here "extraordinary journey" right here.
What's also unclear is just what ditty she'll be singing from space. We're sure she's considering something suitably profound, but would like to send a request for I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, which was a hit for Brightman and dance troupe Hot Gossip when she was a slip of a lass back in 1978...
Yes indeed. We too want to "feel that galactic thrill".®


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Stepping through the door into Weirdo Records can drop an unprepared visitor right into the middle of conversation about obscure synthesizers, upcoming noise shows, or '70s pop from Cambodia. The Central Square space is tiny — barely 100 square feet — with shelves full of records, CDs, and even VHS tapes that leave just a few feet of standing space between customers.
Presiding over the shop, perched at a computer behind the back desk, is owner Angela Sawyer. One recent afternoon, a young couple browsed, asking about what had happened to early psych stars the 13th Floor Elevators, while a third customer wondered about Brazilian guitar fuzz bands. Sawyer recommended the recent documentary on Elevators frontman Roky Erikson and discussed "fish bowl bands" that seem built to re-create ultra-specific sounds in rock history. One customer interrupted her. "Whoa, there's a band called Los Yetis? I have to get this!" He added it to an armful of goods.
Sawyer has been a consummate record-store clerk in Boston for more than 20 years, working the register at beloved wax emporiums like In Your Ear, Twisted Village, Cheap-O Records, Looney Tunes, Pipeline, and Record Hog. She began running Weirdo as an online business out of her house in 2007, inviting those obsessed with obscure music into the fold (and often into her bedroom, which served as a showroom with official office hours). A little over a year later, she expanded to a true storefront.
Its size belies its importance. Weirdo carries only about 10,000 titles, organized on shelves with labels like "Easy Listening Outsider Square," "Blues Roots and Pre-War," "Funny Shaped Stuff," and, simply, "Sun Ra." It's a carefully curated musical hub full of bizarre records, a welcoming place for the city's music hunters and cozy, weekly live performances.
This weekend, her storefront is celebrating its fourth anniversary with a gonzo party at O'Brien's Pub. In true Weirdo form, the show will bring together a wild variety of bands (Baltimore's Horse Lords, Boston noise-punks Guerilla Toss, Funeral Cone, and the free improv of Deleuzer). Even truer to Weirdo are the friendships the bill represents.
"I'm really grateful to people around town who've made things work," says Sawyer. "Around the country, Boston has a superficial reputation for people who are cold and grumpy. That's fine — that's why I moved here! But once you get down to people who have a common narrow interest like avant-garde music, it's really friendly. I don't care if you've got a third arm growing out of your head — if you like this music, we're friends. That's all it takes."
Longtime customer Michael Rosenstein first began shopping with Sawyer in the '90s when she was at Twisted Village. With a devouring appetite for music — he's written about it for publications such as Dusted and Cadence — he spent hours among records with Sawyer.
"From the beginning, she just had this encyclopedic knowledge of just everything in music," Rosenstein says. "When we first met, I was deep into free jazz and European free improv music, and Angela turned me on to these newer noise acts like Hair Police and Wolf Eyes."
Rosenstein, like many longtime customers, has become a collaborator with Sawyer, who has stayed busy outside the shop in a number of live music projects (Exusamwa, Duck That!, Preggy Peggy, and the Lazy Babymakers). Feeling like his listening was in a rut, Rosenstein took to performing to learn how to analyze recordings from a new point of view. His first ever performance was at Weirdo.
Though she's often in the role of ringleader, Sawyer treats the shop and its shows as a privilege. "The way I interact with people and my ability to connect with them is because of those records. That's probably sad," she says with a self-deprecating laugh. "But it's great that I get to do it! I'm not giving that up anytime soon."
Also on Saturday, local folk-rock faves Tallahassee throw down their "Birthday Show," celebrating five years in action for the band and leader Brian Barthelmes, who formed the group after a stint in the NFL with the New England Patriots. The band's gruff front-porch personality and loping tunes of wide-open reflection have found a welcoming audience here, and it has friends Last Good Tooth, Diamond Doves (which is releasing a CD), and Hollis Brown along for the party. . . . Feb. 7 brings us to the Middle East for the latest from Boston alt-pop outfit Westland, whose new "Intimacy Without Intricacy" packs a dozen highly orchestrated punches a minute. The five-piece band weaves soaring vocal harmonies and bashing drums together with wall-of-sound guitars and glimmering end-of-the-world keyboards into an indestructible basket of pop-rock. It's bringing along Halfway to Avalon, Gone by Daylight, Silhouette Rising, and DJ Lincoln. . . . Finally, Feb. 9 at Brighton Music Hall brings us the long-awaited new record from roots-rockers Kingsley Flood, who've blown up on the acclaim for last year's "Colder Still," with its rollicking modern juke-joint beats, moaning fiddles, road-weary vocals, and potent mix of rockabilly and spaghetti-western guitars. They're with Velah and Air Traffic Controller.Matt Parish can be reached at mattparish@


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Q&A with Bob and Nicole Springer of Spot on Square
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I am pleased to introduce the newest baby and kid furniture line to be added to our site: Spot on Square. Co-founders, Bob and Nicole Springer bring a clean and calm collection to the scene, keeping unnecessary noise away from your child's treasured space.
The Hiya series, a nickname given to Bob and Nicole's son by his twin sister, conveys a childlike sense of purity, simplicity and sustainability. Enjoy!
Where did the name Spot on Square come from?
Our son was drawing on the driveway with chalk. He had drawn a square with a circle in it. When I asked him about it he referred to as the spot in the square. Nicole and I thought this was great graphically and began to think about how we could use it. After a bit of thought we came up with Spot On Square. We felt that this was a good fit being a bit of a play on words yet it was quite playful at the same time.
Bob, you appear to have quite an extensive industrial design background. Tell us about your experiences and how has it evolved into to starting Spot on Square? How about being a father, how has this played a role?
I had the opportunity as an undergrad student to be an understudy to an eccentric Finnish designer named Stefan Lindfors. During this time I worked on a number of furniture projects and gained a love for furniture design. My time since has been primarily in a corporate environment. Read the rest of this entry »


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Attorney General Lockyer Releases Statewide Crime Statistics
California's overall 1998 crime rate down for seventh straight year.
(Long Beach) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today released comprehensive crime statistics for 1998 and announced that the overall crime rate in California decreased for the seventh consecutive year.
The California Department of Justice "Crime and Delinquency, 1998 Advance Release" report includes crimes and arrests reported by all law enforcement jurisdictions in the state, and adult felony dispositions reported by police, sheriffs, prosecutors and courts.
Highlights of the report include:
* From 1997 to 1998, the California Crime Index, or CCI, which includes reported violent crimes of homicide, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault, and property crimes of burglary and motor vehicle theft, decreased 13.0 percent in rate per 100,000 population.
* Violent crimes decreased 12.2 percent in rate from 1997 to 1998.
* Homicides and robberies both decreased more than 16 percent in rate during 1998.
* Property crimes decreased 13.4 percent in rate from 1997 to 1998.
* Overall, the arrest rate per 100,000 at risk population was down 1.1 percent from 1997 to 1998; the felony arrest for adults decreased 5.1 percent, and the felony arrest rate for juveniles dropped 6.6 percent during the same period.
Lockyer released the report during a speech to the California District Attorneys' Association at their Summer Conference in Long Beach, California.
"The fact that California's crime rate continues to fall is encouraging news after the recent school shootings in Colorado and Georgia," Lockyer said. "I believe a number of factors have contributed to the falling crime rates, including tougher penalties for criminals enacted during recent years, expansion of community policing programs and California's flourishing economy."
In light of the positive statistical trends of the past decade, Lockyer cautioned that now was not the time to become complacent in the fight against crime, the effort to reduce gun violence and the campaign to improve prevention programs if we are to ensure continued success.
"Each day in this country an average of 13 children are killed by gun violence in homicides, suicides or unintentional shootings," Lockyer said. "It is more important than ever to identify at-risk youth earlier and intervene in their lives before violence can erupt. By helping our troubled kids today we can prevent them from becoming the criminals of tomorrow."
The Crime and Delinquency, 1998 Advance Release is available on the Attorney General's website at http://caag.state.ca.us/cjsc. The publication contains data reported to the Department of Justice for the calendar year 1998. It compares reported crime rates per 100,000 in population for the periods 1997 and 1998. Earlier this year, a preliminary crime report was released by the Department of Justice which summarized crime rates for the 76 jurisdictions with a population of 100,000 or more that represent 65 percent of the state's total population. The Advance Release includes crime data from all law enforcement jurisdictions in the state.


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Senior running back Akili Taylor led a charge of three Ready players named to the first team of the Associated Press Division VI all-Ohio football team.
Senior running back Akili Taylor led a charge of three Ready players named to the first team of the Associated Press Division VI all-Ohio football team.
Taylor, who rushed for 1,992 yards and 28 touchdowns in helping Ready to the state semifinals, was named co-player of the year with Haviland Wayne Trace quarterback Colby Speice.
Linebacker Matthew Finkler of Kirtland and lineman Colt Pettit of Hamler Patrick Henry shared the defensive honor.
Joining Taylor on the first team were Ready teammates Brady Taylor, an offensive lineman, and Alvin Knox, a linebacker; offensive lineman Brenden Jurden of Newark Catholic; and punter Tyler Kohman of Columbus Academy.
Jim Stoyle, who guided Centerburg to its first undefeated regular season since 1976, was one of four coaches of the year.
Three players for Danville made first team in Division VII: Quarterback Ridge Durbin, defensive lineman Conway Baldridge and defensive back Austin Morehouse were joined by defensive back Tre Roberts of Grove City Christian and punter Robert King of Harvest Prep.
A.J. Ouellette of Covington, Nick Allison of Berlin Center Western Reserve, Konner Standley of Glouster Trimble and Tyler Jettinghoff of Delphos St. John�s were offensive players of the year. The top defensive honor went to Jacob Koons of Trimble and Jacob Kunkler of Maria Stein Marion Local.
Coaches of the year were Paul Kanzigg of Beallsville, Robert Mahaney of Ashland Mapleton and Tim Goodwin of Marion Local.Mr. Football
Dante Booker Jr., a linebacker at Akron�s St. Vincent-St. Mary and an Ohio State recruit, was named the 27th winner of the Ohio Associated Press Mr. Football award, given to the best high-school player in the state.
The 6-foot-4, 220-pound senior had 871/2 tackles in the regular season, including 18 for loss. He also was a force at tight end while leading St. Vincent-St. Mary to a No. 1 ranking in the AP�s regular-season poll, a perfect season and a spot in tonight�s Division III state title game.
As primarily a defensive player, Booker is a rare Mr. Football honoree.
Others considered for the award included Westerville Central quarterback Jared Drake.
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INVESTIGATION: PPAC Bosses Make Millions from Secret Companies
Monday, March 31, 2014
IRS filings for PPAC identify three related organizations—Professional Facilities Management, Inc., PFM, LLC, and Professional Facilities Operations, LLC, all state-registered businesses headquartered at PPAC's office on 220 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence. One of the three, Professional Facilities Management, for which Singleton is also president, pays the rest of his salary, according to a spokesperson. However, the IRS filings do not specify how many hours, if any, he worked for the other companies. Singleton also has repeatedly refused to disclose his ownership interest in the companies.
In 2010, he was paid $191,123 by PPAC, again working 60 hours a week for PPAC. His outside income was at least $396,000, according to IRS Form 990, which nonprofit tax-exempt organizations like PPAC must file annually with the IRS. (Click here, here, and here to see the forms for each of the three years.)
Tax expert questions PPAC IRS filings
The hours PPAC reports on its IRS filings should only be for the nonprofit, according to the instructions on Form 990. Marcus Owens, an attorney with Caplin & Drysdale, a Washington, DC-based law firm, confirmed that the hours reported should not include any time spent working for other businesses, even if they are related to the nonprofit. Owens, who worked for the IRS for 25 years and ran its tax-exempt division for a decade, said that any hours worked for a related organization should be listed on a separate form.
That means that, based upon its IRS filings, PPAC is claiming Singleton is working 60 hours a week exclusively for PPAC, before any time devoted to the related organizations.
Owens said there could be any number of explanations for how Singleton could earn about $200,000 annually from PPAC working 60 hours a week plus another $500,000 from other work. "You could see it as an error in filling out the form," Owen said. "Or you could view it as an effort to disguise the compensation they get."
PPAC dodges questions
GoLocalProv submitted a series of questions to PPAC officials. Most went unaddressed. (Click here for the full list). Instead a PPAC spokesperson sent the following response:
"The relationship between the not-for-profit Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) and its wholly owned for-profit subsidiary Professional Facilities Management (PFM), showcases the benefit of a board thinking in an entrepreneurial and innovative way to catapult the reputation of a local theater into one that is respected on a national stage," said Arianne Corrente Lynch, spokesperson for PPAC/PFM.
She added: "Mr. Singleton serves as President to both PPAC and PFM. In 2012, he earned a salary of $207,000 from the not-for-profit PPAC as president. The remainder of his compensation is derived from the for-profit corporation PFM. PFM manages, programs, consults, and acts as owner-representatives for nine performing arts facilities across eight states. Mr. Singleton's overall compensation has been determined by Abruzzo Associates, a firm that conducts compensation studies for arts organizations throughout the country, to be 'fair and reasonable' and commensurate with industry standards."
Lynch declined to provide any documentation of Abruzzo Associates' analysis and officials at the company did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.
PPAC president's salary above peers
In Rhode Island, the next largest performing arts nonprofit not affiliated with PPAC is the Trinity Repertory Theater, also in downtown Providence. Its highest paid employee earned $181,883 with no income from related organizations in 2011, the latest available year. Likewise, the top position at the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket fetches $125,830 a year as of 2012.
When his outside income is included, Singleton's salary also exceeds other comparable nonprofits in the Northeast. The president and CEO of the Wang Theatre in Boston earned $482,912, all of which came from a related organization, according to that nonprofit's 990 Form filed for 2012. In New York City, the Shubert Theatre's top-paid employee earned $334,743 for the same year.
The typical top administrator for a performing arts centers or performing companies with budgets ranging from $10 million to just under $25 million—the category in which PPAC falls—earned $273,107 in 2011, to a salary survey the national Association of Performing Arts Presenters provided upon request to GoLocalProv. The top administrator for the largest category of organizations surveyed—those with budgets exceeding $25 million—typically earned $357,000 annual. The maximum reported salary was $580,000, according to the survey.
Ultimately, in order to gauge whether Singleton's compensation is reasonable, Owens said one would need to review his qualifications, the nature and duty of the job, and any required special skills needed for the position. "For all we know, he is working a like a dog and earning every penny of it," Owens said. "But then I spent 25 years [in] the IRS and I'm very cynical."
PPAC revenues declined by $6 million
Norbert Mongeon, Jr., the director of finance for PPAC, earned a total of $370,607 in 2012. But more than half of that—$246,338—came from an unidentified "related organization." Alan J. Chile, PPAC's general manager, had a total compensation of $249,038, with $146,312, coming from an outside source. Like Singleton, both Mongeon and Chile reportedly work 60 hours a week for PPAC, according to its IRS filings.
PPAC had $13.8 million in revenues in 2012. That was about $6 million less than the previous year.
Despite the decline in revenue, Singleton's total compensation in 2012 actually increased by $13,679 over the $781,920 he was paid in salary and benefits in 2011. Nearly half of his 2012 compensation—a reported $382,000—was a "bonus" or "incentive" pay from a related organization. His base pay for PPAC that year was $207,138, slightly more than his base pay from the related organization, which was $141,000. (Singleton also received roughly a combined $60,000 in retirement pay, deferred pay, and non-taxable benefits that year.)
PPAC also ran an apparent operating deficit of $183,336 in 2012. For the previous year, the comparable loss was $1.1 million, according to IRS filings.
Probing PPAC's business relationships
Embattled former House Speaker Gordon Fox—who resigned his leadership position earlier this month after federal and state law enforcement officers raided his office and home—is also still listed as a board member. There has been no public announcement that he has resigned his position with PPAC.
IRS filings show that PPAC owns Professional Facilities Management. That business, in turn, owns two others, PFM, LLC, and Professional Facilities Operations, LLC. All three are headquartered on Weybosset Street. And Singleton, along with PPAC's finance director, Norbert Mongeon, is listed as a manager and director for the two LLCs, according to filings with the Rhode Island Secretary of State. The most recently available annual report does not disclose Singleton's position as president of the third business, Professional Facilities Management.
Those filings indicate in only the barest terms possible what the other three businesses do. Professional Facilities Management manages entertainment venues and provides booking services. According to the company's Web site, it manages nine other venues all over the country, ranging from Prescott, Arizona to Fort Meyers, Florida. That leaves two other businesses: Professional Facilities Operations, which is described as only a "management company" and PFM, which manages the Veterans Auditorium, according to annual reports filed with the state Secretary of State.
The precise nature of the relationship between PPAC and its three affiliated businesses remains unclear. A local attorney listed as the registered agent for all three businesses, Cameron Colby, said he could not comment on its relationship with PPAC, saying the information was confidential. He also declined a request for a copy of any contracts between PPAC and the other companies.
Nonprofits can own for-profits, a practice that became more common after changes in nonprofit tax law in the 1960s, according to Owens. There also is no rule that the owned businesses be smaller than the nonprofit—as appears to the case with PPAC, a single-venue nonprofit, which owns Professional Facilities Management, which has about nine venues.
"Like any industry, the arts are looking for creative ways to sustain themselves," Thomas said. "There are members who run multiple venues. There are many different solutions and business models that exist in the performing arts industry." Thomas declined to comment on the specifics of PPAC, saying she needed more information.
States seek to limit nonprofit salaries
Across the country, compensation of nonprofit CEOs has become controversial in recent years, according to a report in the Boston-based Nonprofit Quarterly. Some states have considered capping the pay of top executives at $1 million for those nonprofits that receive government funding, according to the report. (Forbes magazine has suggested even $1 million is too much, citing legislative efforts in Florida and Massachusetts to limit compensation at $129,972 and $500,000, respectively.)
PPAC has received at least one federal grant, a reported $1 million for facilities improvements in 2004, according to a federal grants database.
But PPAC may have received additional federal arts funds via state agencies. Last May, Rhode Island's Congressional delegation announced a $675,300 partnership grant was awarded to the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts which in turn would redistribute those funds in support of "Rhode Island organizations that contribute to the cultural and economic development of the state through the arts." A press release stressing the benefits of the grant included mention of PPAC.
Stephen Beale can be reached at [email protected] Follow him on Twitter @bealenews
Related Slideshow: PPAC Staff Salaries
Top executives at the Providence Performing Arts Center are compensated in the high six figures, with some earning more than half of their salaries from related businesses, even as PPAC officials claim to work 60 hours a week exclusively for PPAC. Below is listed the highest paid executives, their positions, compensation, and reported hours, based upon a review of the nonprofits IRS 990 Forms over a three-year period, from 2010 to 2012, the latest available year.
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The Windows Store is your source for apps and games that work with HoloLens. When you go to the Store on your HoloLens, any apps you see there will run on it.
Apps on HoloLens use either 2D view or holographic view. Apps with 2D view look like windows and can be placed all around you. Apps that use holographic view surround you and become the only app you see.
Get apps
Open the Windows Store from the Start menu. Then browse for apps and games, or use your voice to search—select the microphone on the HoloLens keyboard and start talking.
To download apps, you'll need to be signed in with a Microsoft account. To buy them, you'll need a payment method associated with the Microsoft account you use on your HoloLens. To set up a payment method, go to account.microsoft.com and select Payment & billing > Payment options > Add a payment option.
Find your apps
Once you've installed an app, you'll find it in the All apps list—bloom to go to Start, then select All apps . Keep apps handy by pinning them to Start.
App updates are automatic, and they're free.
To purchase apps in the Store, the billing address for your payment method must match the country or region your HoloLens is set to.
Some apps may not be available in all countries and regions.


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A Corpus-based Study of the Misuse of Tenses in the English Composition of Chinese College Students
Chinese Students' English has its own characteristics. It is of significance to analyze and study these characteristics. The paper uses the corpus approach to study the misuse of tenses in Chinese College students' CET-4 compositions of the sub-corpus of "Non-major College Students" in the Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC). Nine types of misuse are identified, and analysis is made of the causes of each type. It is found that the misuse of tenses in Chinese college students' English compositions is mainly in the simple present tense and the simple past tense; the wrong collocation of tenses is mostly in the kind of complex sentence with the main clause and subordinate clause both indicating the future action and the subordinate clause using the simple present tense; as for the two special words "could" and "would" with both declarative and subjunctive usages, Chinese students often get confused and misuse them; students have vague understanding of the time concept indicated by the different tenses. Based on the analysis, the author tentatively provide some interpretations for these mistakes: many problems exist in the teaching of grammar in Chinese English teaching, and the teaching of tenses is not systematic and the focus of teaching and tests is not in accordance with the actual uses of tenses; students are affected by inter-lingual transfer and intra-lingual transfer when making English sentences. At last, some suggestions are offered by the author for the teaching of tenses: teachers should combine systematic teaching of tenses with the teaching of tenses in actual contexts and students should try to write English compositions using different tenses.
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Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois was selected as one of only six councils nationwide to pilot two varieties of Girl Scout snack bars during this year's Girl Scout Cookie Program.
Tagalongs Snack Bars feature rolled oats, cereal flakes, and chocolaty granola combined with peanut butter chips. Double Dutch Snack Bars are made of rolled oats, cereal flakes, and granola, sprinkled with dark chocolate chips and a chocolaty drizzle.
The snack bars are packaged five to a box.
New this year are redesigned cookie boxes that capture the spirit of today's Girl Scout, including what girls do in Girl Scouting, girls' unique stories, the five skills girls learn from the cookie program, and ways for former Girl Scouts to reconnect with the organization.
GSNI also will participate in the "Super Six" program where girls will offer the six top-selling varieties of Girl Scout cookies, as opposed to the traditional eight. Successfully tested, Super Six provides a much easier inventory experience for GSNI's cookie volunteers.
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Perseus, the celestial hero, strides boldly across the northeastern sky on autumn evenings. The constellation stands close to the horizon as night falls, and high overhead in the hours after midnight. The figure is outlined by three streamers of stars that intersect at Perseus's bellybutton — the constellation's brightest star, Mirfak.
It doesn't just look bright in our sky, though. Mirfak is one of the brightest stars in our region of the galaxy — thousands of times brighter than the Sun. That great brilliance makes the star easily visible across more than 550 light-years of space.
If you look around Mirfak, especially with binoculars, you'll see a good sprinkling of fainter stars. Most of those stars are siblings of Mirfak — they're all members of a cluster of about 150 to 200 stars. All of the stars in the cluster were born about 60 million years ago, from a single giant cloud of gas and dust.
One way astronomers deduce the birthday of the cluster's stars is by looking at Mirfak, which is the cluster's brightest and heaviest member. Such stars live relatively short lives, and Mirfak is getting close to the end of that lifespan. So the fact that it's still around puts an upper limit on the age of the entire cluster.
While Mirfak is the brightest star in Perseus, it's not the most famous. That honor goes to a star known as the demon — from a name that it shares with a villain from Batman. We'll have more about that tomorrow.
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The Trentonian (http://www.trentonian.com)
Monday, June 2, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Seager homered, tripled twice and doubled, leading Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners past the Yankees 10-2 Monday night.
Hernandez (8-1) won his fifth straight start to match a career high. The Mariners broke open a game of odd bounces with a four-run seventh inning, and Seager hit a three-run homer in the ninth.
Robinson Cano was again relentlessly booed by Yankees fans, this time in a makeup of a game washed out April 30. In the lineup after sitting four straight with a bruised left hand, he went 1 for 3 with two walks. The former New York second baseman drew a mocking cheer when he was caught too far off first by David Phelps (1-3).
Seattle, which won games at Yankee Stadium on April 29 and May 1, took all three games in New York for the first time since sweeping three in 2002. The Mariners have won three straight overall.
Seager became the first major leaguer to hit two triples and at least one homer and one double since Hal Breeden for Montreal in 1973, STATS said. The last AL player to do it was Hoot Evers for Detroit in 1950.
Seager scored three runs and drove in three. One of his triples was the result of a rare mental mistake by Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter.
Seager hit a blooper down the line that bounced off the glove of sliding left fielder Brett Gardner. Jeter was also giving chase and had a chance to make the catch off the deflection, but couldn't come up with it.
With his back to third base umpire Brian Gorman, Jeter did not see the fair signal and he corralled the ball in foul territory and continued to jog several steps toward the corner. He looked surprised when he turned, and his throw to third was too late.
Phelps hollered "throw the ball!" as Seager headed to third. After the play was over, Jeter could be seen on television saying "I thought it was foul" as he walked back to the infield.
The Yankees missed Hernandez in April because of the rainout and they certainly wished they had not faced the Mariners' ace Monday. King Felix has been on quite a roll.
The 2010 AL Cy Young Award winner has not lost in nine starts dating to April 21. He was touched for two runs in the fourth when he kicked out his foot and redirected Ichiro Suzuki's grounder up the middle for a two-run single.
Hernandez gave up eight hits and two runs in seven innings. He struck out eight without allowing a walk. Hernandez last won five starts in a row in 2009.
Seager homered with two outs off Alfredo Aceves in the ninth three batters after Michael Saunders hit a home run.
Brad Miller had a two-run single with the bases loaded in the seventh to give Seattle a 4-2 lead and chase Phelps. Saunders added a two-run single off Matt Thornton.
NOTES: Yankees RF Carlos Beltran (right elbow bone spurs) went 0 for 3 as the designated hitter in an extended spring training game against the Phillies in Clearwater, Florida. Beltran said elbow felt good. ... Yankees C Francisco Cervelli (right hamstring strain) went 1 for 2 with a double and walk in his third extended spring training game. ... The Mariners will fly about 6,000 miles on this three-city road trip. ... Triple Crown hopeful California Chrome's Jockey, Victor Espinoza, and Alan Sherman, the son of 77-year-old trainer Art Sherman and his top assistant, threw out ceremonial first pitches.


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It'd be useless for us to mention that an authentic Moxie Car, believed to be the last such original promotional vehicle in existence, is coming to a Florida show late this month, without explaining first what Moxie is. Basically, it's one of the longest-surviving carbonated soft drinks in America, first created in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1876. It's still around today, almost exclusively in New England. While Moxie comes in a bright orange can, perhaps making you think it's similar to Orange Crush or Fanta, our own Matt Litwin assures us it tastes more like cough syrup.
Nevertheless, Moxie has a determined connection to the world of old cars, having commissioned a fleet of six Moxie Mobiles between the wars, in which cars were shorn of their stock bodywork and then fitted with the effigy of a stallion, astride which the driver worked the steering and other controls. Last year, Mecum offered a replica Moxie Mobile, made with the beverage company's permission, at its big auction in Indianapolis. It was a faux Rolls-Royce powered by a 5.0-liter Ford V-8. The one above, appearing from November 29 to December 2 at the 18th annual Vintage Weekend in Key Largo, Florida, is reportedly the real deal. It was originally commissioned by Moxie in 1928 and built on a La Salle chassis. The car has spent some time of late in a New Hampshire museum. Other car-related activities will include a presentation by Chuck Schwager, who'll talk about his run in the revived Peking to Paris race with a 1949 Cadillac.
The Vintage Weekend takes place at the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, south of Miami at the start of the Florida Keys. Its geography allows it uniqueness among vehicular events, in that it combines historic cars, vintage aircraft and boats in the same locale. The Ocean Reef Club has its own airport, so one exhibit will be the Barbie III, the last flying H-model version of the B-25 Mitchell bomber made during World War II by North American. Not only that, it's the only one equipped with a vicious 75mm cannon mounted it its nose, which turned Barbie III into a close air support platform, not just a bomber. Rides aboard the plane can be reserved. Also on display will be the Honey Fitz, the newly restored 92-foot motor yacht used by John F. Kennedy during his presidency, and named for his grandfather, a fabled Boston mayor. For more information, visit OceanReef.com.
There is a '28 or '29 Buick-based Moxie mobile that has been a regular participant in Cruzin' White Lake in West Michigan the last few years. I have no idea whether it's an original or a replica, but it certainly *looks* original.
"Tastes like cough syrup" is a compliment. I would describe the flavor as Dr.Pepper with ear wax.
Frank Morton Archer was the imaginative promotional force behind The Moxie Company. In 1916, he concocted an idea whereby a small car chassis would be fitted with a life-size horse mannequin, upon which a driver dressed as a fox hunter would operate the controls. Archer obtained a chain-driven 1914 Trumbull from distributor Joseph E. Green Company, in Boston, MA. (Although the Trumbull was introduced at the tail end of the American cyclecar craze, and its diminutive proportions put it into the cyclecar class, it was more correctly considered a quality light car.) In constructing his first Moxiemobile, Archer discarded the handsome black roadster body with its small tool compartment at the rear and installed a flat platform carrying a paper mache horse—a display piece from an equestrian supply store. He removed the horse's legs from above knees down to make it shorter. The car's steering column extended up through the horse's chest to emerge at the nape of the neck, just in front of the saddle. The "hunter" held the steering wheel in lieu of reigns, and foot pedals were repositioned so that a series of pivots and levers allowed the operator to accelerate and brake with his feet in the stirrups. The first Moxiemobile was a rousing success. Not only did it make a number of appearances in the Boston area, including the 1917 Boston Automobile Show, but it was duplicated in miniature form. Parents bought hundreds of tin Moxiemobile toys, each lithographed in red or blue, for their boys and girls. Unfortunately, the lightweight Trumbull chassis proved too narrow and top heavy to be safe, so Archer hired Miles Harold Carpenter—a participant in the aborted Wichita Falls Cyclecar Company—to build the first full-size Moxiemobile on a discarded Dort Speedster chassis. Over the next twenty years, similar units were built on used Essex, Rolls-Royce and LaSalle chassis, the latter of which is shown here. The LaSalle version is fully twice the length of the original Trumbull Moxiemobile, and no doubt three or four times heavier.
This URL will take you to the original 1916 patent filing for Frank Archer's Trumbull-based Moxiemobile: http://www.google.com/patents/USD50373?pg=PA3&dq=%22frank+m+archer%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LvCsUIneDcTKiwLc6IC4BA&ved=0CEEQ6wEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
During the depths of the Great Depression, Archer modified his Moxiemobile idea, choosing to mount the horses on a less costly trailer chassis instead of motorized chassis, as evidenced in this 1933 patent application: http://www.google.com/patents/USD99323?pg=PA3&dq=%22frank+m+archer%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=APGsUNXOBYSxyQG-toHoBA&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false
Spent three years on Cape Cod in the Coast Guard during the 70s (yeah.. tough duty) and actually knew a few (very few) people who liked Moxie. Me? I'd sooner drink furniture polish.
The next oldest soft drink still around is not Coke or Pepsi, but Dr. Pepper.
The inspiration for the flavor of Red Bull…ugh!
You Got Moxie Kid!
Great view from the "rumble seat" area…
That looks just like the car that showed up at our cruise night,in South Lyon Michigan,this summer. It was owned by the owner-founder of Reliable Trucking. He sat in the back seat while his son drove. As for the B 25, I had the pleasure of flying in the Barbie III this year in Florida. That was my Christmas present from my wife.
If this is the same one (and given the numbers built, it must be), calling it's New Hampshire home a "museum" is a compliment. It is more like a sideshow of a sideshow. It was at the Clark's Trading Post which is famous for its bear show. To give you an idea of the place, I think the "museum" was across the way from Merlin's Magic House where the entire attraction is that the walls start moving to the tune of Roll Over Beethoven.
It was the soft drink that slugger Ted Williams endorsed in the 1940s and 1950s. "Ya gotta have Moxie." was one of their ad slogans. We used to drink when we were kids. The local soda bottler was also a Moxie distributor. Would I drink it now? Uhh…maybe..
"It's useless to mention…an authentic Moxie car…without first explaining what Moxie is." Who doesn't know what Moxie is?! // If you don't like Moxie, that's fine; that just means you are not a New Englander. You probably also don't like cold, unpredictable winters, rocky soil, poor road signage and people who won't give you directions. // I always have a six pack on hand. No one ever asks for it it, but I always have it on hand.
Didn't SIA do an article on this car years ago?
For whatever the reason,MAD Magazine used to scatter the MOXIE logo around the margins of some of its issues in the late 50s/early 60s. At the time, we didn't know what Moxie was, but I dug that lightning-bolt shaped "X"!
Therefore, [again, for whatever the reason] I carved the logo on a linoleum block, printed up little bumper-sticker looking things, and before long me and a friend had stapled and distributed "Moxie" all over Shadyside and Bellaire, Ohio!
Ten years later, you could still see a faded one here and there on a telephone pole. Why? It's what adolescents DO. Especially when you're living in a boring little town.
Oh yea, when I finally tasted it…..well, not THAT bad, but Dr. Pepper had the better idea.
Moxie is to Coke, what scotch is to bourbon.
Moxie tastes like fermented pine tar soap, while scotch tastes like fermented Listerine.
As a result, Moxie drinkers think that they're as sophisticated as scotch drinkers claim to be.
Us bourbon and Coke drinkers however, know better than to consume something that just plain tastes bad.
I think you should stop drinking cheap scotch.
Actually, I should stop drinking. I see too many things like Moxie cars.
Never a truer statement, Stu!!
Bizarre. I'd buy the thing, get rid of all the Moxie, and convert the Rolls back to a Rolls.
You mean the La Salle back to a La Salle?
Moxie is definitely something one must have or acquire a taste for. I have many pleasant memories of enjoying Moxie as a youngster and still look forward to enjoying Moxie whenever I am in Maine. It is something people either love or hate. You should plan on attending the Moxie days in Lisbon Maine complete with a parade featuring antique cars and everything Moxie from ice cream on.
I don't know who is passing off the Moxie Car pictured as the real deal, but it is most certainly NOT an original Moxie Mobile. This is the second of four Moxie Mobiles built with company permission by my father, Wil Markey , in Dallastown PA. Three have been sold to various collectors and the fourth he still owns and shows around the country. There is reportedly one original out there, but no one has seen proof of it in many years. The most blatant clew is the fiberglass horse, originals were wood, and many many details are different on these later models. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who is interested in details.
Today's Moxie is pretty good, but not up to the original IMO. Try it as a float or add milk for a "shake". There aren't many "tonics" around that are that versitile. Comparing Moxie to Coke is like comparing Guinness to Bud Lite.
See http://www.wingo.com/newick/moxie/index.html
For Moxie Phil Welds' race boat in which he delivered a hold full of Moxie to the start of the OSTAR (single handed race from Plymouth to Newport.
Trivia: The name of MAD magazine's "What me worry?" kid is Alfred E. Neuman. His girl friend's name was Moxie Kafinowski, if a remember correctly from my days of enjoying the mag some 50 years ago!


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No you don't. Just keep using old releases. :P
I could do that I guess but as an experienced SMF user... I'd look like a fool running anything but RC4 or 1.1.11
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The failure of the Olympic Long Jump champion, Greg Rutherford, in the qualifying round at the World Championships has focused attention once again on what was the most controversial of selections for the GB Team for Moscow.
To recap, Greg Rutherford was selected as the only entrant for Team GB ahead of Chris Tomlinson, neither having attained the rather excessive "A" qualifying standard of 8.25m, but both having surpassed the "B" mark.
Only one of them could go, and both had been performing at similar levels this year, but Rutherford was injured five weeks prior to the World Championships, whereas Tomlinson was fit. The Olympic champion was obviously selected, much to Tomlinson's chagrin.
In the Moscow qualifying round, Rutherford finished 14th with a leap of 7.87m, almost half a metre down on his (and Tomlinson's) PB.
An extra two centimetres would have gained qualification, but Rutherford clearly wasn't in the sort of form that saw him strike Olympic gold last year.
The injury wasn't affecting him on the day however, according to Rutherford, but the lead in has hardly been ideal for him from a training point of view.
It is easy to see Tomlinson's point that the Olympic champion was selected based on reputation rather than the more immediate circumstances, a point he made angrily on Twitter in the wake of Rutherford's performance.
Rutherford's argument is that he has beaten Tomlinson more often than not, he has the big competition track record, and he jumps further more regularly.
The key for me comes down to the rather high, or should I say long, standard set by the IAAF for this year's Long Jump entry.
8.25m does seem a tad excessive in the current era. Last year's Olympics was won with a jump not too much further than that, and it's a long time since jumps edging towards nine metres have been a regular sight.
So was that really a suitable "A" standard in comparison to other events? I think not.
On the other hand, both Rutherford and Tomlinson are capable of beating that standard, and had one or both of them done so this season, then no debate would have been required. Put simply – achieve the standard, and get yourself on the team without discussion.
It is also intriguing to make a comparison between Rutherford's situation and that of fellow 'Super Saturday' gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill. Both were injured in the build up to Moscow, but Ennis-Hill decided not to go if she couldn't be competitive.
The situations are slightly different in that Rutherford isn't a stand-out performer in his event like Ennis-Hill undoubtedly is, and so a poor performance from her may have been bigger news.
Then again she wasn't going to be taking a place that someone else could have had.
It is a really tough one, and Rutherford and Tomlinson are so closely matched which just makes things harder. Frankly whoever had been chosen, there would have been criticism.
But it's unfortunate for all concerned that Rutherford didn't perform better as it only served to make the whole situation worse.
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In the midst of his "An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion," John Wesley shares with his reader an example of his typical manner of preaching to sinners. It is too long to reproduce in whole here (and my fingers would get too weary), but here is my take on the gist of it.
He starts with the experiences — might we say "felt needs" — of the sinner. He speaks of the restless heart and the heaviness that even laughter cannot mask. He speaks of the twinges of guilt and fear the sinner feels when his or her mind turns to eternity. And for those who insist there is no "hereafter" he broods upon the awful significance of oblivion at the end of life. By these and other means he seeks to stir up anxiety about death and dissatisfaction with life lived without any thought of eternity.
And then the message turns.
O let not the poor wisdom of man any longer exalt itself before the wisdom of God! You have fled from him long enough; at length, suffer your eyes to be opened by Him that made them. You want rest to your soul. Ask it of Him who giveth to all men liberally …
The moves are obvious and even predictable, but this makes them no less effective. Wesley certainly was the means by which many sinners were converted. His method, as I see it here, was to zero in on the unsettled souls of the hearers and to unsettle them even more. He tried to cut through the defenses we have against the big questions of life and existence. And once he had stirred up fear and anxiety — which are the natural outcome of talking about death to those doomed to die — he offered Christ. Having explained the disease, he provided the cure.
The first move strikes me as the pivotal one. In my own preaching, at least, I find stirring up anxiety and fear of God a trial. Even in general terms, people don't like to hear that they are not inside the kingdom. And in our culture that has made "comfort" its hallmark, getting people to experience anxiety of any kind is both difficult and unwelcome.
Nonetheless, I want to take a lesson from Wesley here. I certainly want to preach and teach in ways that lead to life. Maybe his methods do not fit our day, but I know I could learn to do this better.


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NEWBERRY, S.C. – The No. 33 nationally ranked Coker men's tennis team picked up its sixth consecutive win with a 9-0 victory over Newberry College on Tuesday (Apr. 1) in South Atlantic Conference action. The win moves Coker to 8-6 overall and 8-1 in conference play.
Coker had the brooms out early as they swept the doubles portion of play with scores of 8-3, 8-2 and 8-4, respectively. Andre Staab's 7-6, 3-6, 10-8 victory at No. 1 singles would be the Navy and Yellow's toughest win on the afternoon. Tom Sizeland notched a 6-3, 6-2 victory at No. 2 singles, while William Marrafao won at No. 3 singles with a score of 6-0, 6-4. Martin Moncayo continued his solid conference play with a 6-2, 6-3 win and Zach Grooms captured a 6-4, 6-3 win for the Cobras at No. 6 singles. The easiest win of the day would come at No. 4 singles as James Corfield found the win column when his match was retired.
With their wins, the trio of Sizeland, Staab and Moncayo each improved to 9-0 in SAC competition and have overall win streaks of 12, seven and six, respectively. The duo of Marrafao and Corfield also have six-match win streaks of their own and sport 8-1 and 7-2 conference records, respectively.
The Cobras will return to action on Saturday (Apr. 5) when they take on Shaw University in a non-conference tilt. The match is scheduled for a 2 p.m. start at the Coker tennis courts.
Release written by Coker sports information graduate assistant Sharod Williams.