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Glad you liked the cheese. I hope the pizza does well for you!
I ever offered to let him taste my pizza different times for free, but he would never taste it. NormaEdit: This is Rocco's pizzeria. http://www.eatroccos.com/index.html
Norma,It looks like you had a very good day yesterday. All of the pizzas look great including the ones you made to honor Steve and me. The Pete-zza TexItaliano pizza looks very appetizing. At first I thought that the green peppers were ordinary bell peppers. But it looks like they were jalapenos, and quite a few of them at that. I hope that that specialty pizza sells well and that the locals can handle the jalapenos. If the TexItaliano pizza doesn't sell well, my feelings won't be hurt if you discontinue it or modify it. It was a lot of fun working with you on the Buddy's reverse engineering and cloning project. I think we both learned a lot of new things. However, it still remains that PizzaHog was the moving force and inspiration for what we did. He was the pioneer. As usual, I have a few questions and observations.1. From the dough formulation posted in Reply 1084 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,21559.msg230851.html#msg230851, you indicated a dough ball size for the 4-square of 9.5 ounces. For the 8-square, you indicated a dough ball weight of 18 ounces. Since Buddy's says that it uses twice as much dough for the 8-square, was there a reason why you went with 18 ounces instead of 19 ounces?2. I assume that you used the same weights of cheese, sauce and pepperoni for the 4-squares as you have done before. Can you tell us which tomatoes you used to make the sauce and in what amounts, including any added water? As for putting down the sauce in dollops rather than pure stripes, that is often the way that I have seen it done with Buddy's pizzas, an example of which is shown at http://bp0.blogger.com/__XShj91sMpw/RlJCGZFbuCI/AAAAAAAAAk4/jIeRhr1ub-U/s1600-h/redwings_5.JPG.3. With respect to placing the pepperoni slices on top rather than under the cheese, if you feel that the locals will favor the pepperoni on top you might consider emulating a Buddy's Detroiter pizza, which has the pepperoni slices on top. As you will note from a Buddy's menu, such as the one at http://www.buddyspizza.com/documents/Carryout101.pdf, the Buddy's Detroiter pizza uses a tomato basil sauce (their so-called Tomato Basil sauce), a spice blend and shaved Parmesan cheese. Using some fresh basil in the sauce might make for a nice touch. 4. Did you like going back to the use of salt in the dough? 5. I believe that the only loose ends in this project are the Kraft's brick cheese matter, the receipt and testing of the Widmer's brick cheese, and the possibility of testing the Stanislaus Super Dolce Super Sweet, Super Heavy Pizza Sauce (http://www.stanislausfoodproducts.com/_pdfs/Super-Dolce-Pizza-Sauce.pdf).Peter
Ole Rocco jus don't know what he's missing!!
Ole Rocco's just a....Oh, nevermind!
Norma,I'm glad your customers are digging your new pizza's....the way you prepare those Buddy's clone pies is outta sight and just goes to show that you must have some pretty hip pizza people there at the Root's Market. Thanks so much for your work on this thread....
It was one of my better days yesterday in that almost everything clicked about right with the Buddys clone pizzas, with some minor problems like the hills and valley Buddys clone pizza. Do you think that dough was tempered too long and that was what caused the hill and valley pizza? If it was, then timing will be very challenging when tempering the Buddys clone dough balls. Even the Buddys clone named after Steve, which was the last dough ball used didnt have those hills and valleys. So far, (since yesterday) I know it might be possible to use the cold fermented dough balls until the evening if I am lucky. That would take me though the whole day with one dough batch.
1. As you probably know there is no rhyme or reason why I tried 18 ounces instead of 19 ounces for the 8-square pizzas, but I was just curious if that would work. I know Buddys says it uses twice as much dough for the 8-square. I dont know if I will change to 19 ounces next week or not. Do you think I should try 19 ounces for the 8-square next week?
2. No, I havent been using the same weights of cheese, sauce and pepperoni for the 4-squares as I have done before. I am into more free handing now and using less of the cheese blend than Buddys does. Since I am not a high volume pizza business like Buddys is, I have to try and use less of the cheese blend. I will have to weight what I use sometime, so I will know in the future of what to really use by weight. I used my regular market sauce made with Stanislaus Saporito Super Heavy Pizza sauce with my added ingredients and water which is a little more than 50%. I do plan on using whatever amount of pepperoni I think I need. Thanks for referencing that picture again of the Buddys pizza sauce with the dollops rather than pure stripes. That seemed to have worked well yesterday for the sag problems.
4. I dont know if I like using salt in the dough more than not using salt. The tempering and doughs handled well though. What are you thoughts on why that happened. Do you think the salt helped?
I guess Kraft doesnt produce the brick cheese anymore and I guess I never will be able to make a rollback Buddys clone pizza since I cant obtain any of the Kraft brick cheese. It makes me wonder if Kraft just produced the brick cheese for Buddys like it appears Foremost Farms does now. Fritz didnt answer my question about if Buddys did use brick cheese on their Detroit style pizza in the past. Should I try to get Fritz to find out if Buddys did use Kraft at one time, or shouldnt I bother since we know Krafts did provide Buddys with brick cheese at one time?
Norma,Having followed all of your Buddy's clone dough experiments, I am inclined to think that the sagging phenomenon and the hills and valleys in the doughs may be structural factors involving the dough. Implicit in that statement is that the dough be sufficiently developed so that the gluten matrix optimally captures and retains the gases of fermentation. If there are discontinuities in the dough due to mixing and kneading, they may manifest themselves in the final crust topography in the form of hills and valleys. It is also quite possible that omitting the salt contributes to the hills and valleys, especially at high hydration values, because there is no strengthening of the gluten matrix and dough when the salt is omitted. We also shouldn't forget the matter of the degree of hydration. If the hydration is too high, and especially if there is little or no salt, you may end up with a structurally weakened dough. A long temper period can also lead to a weakened dough structure because of the large quantity of gases of fermentation and related dough expansion. Maybe with continued experimentation you will find the proper balance of all of the factors that affect the final dough structure. I thought that perhaps you wanted the 4-square to be based on 9.5 ounces of dough and the 8-square to be based on twice the 9-ounce dough ball size. Unfortunately, there is too much slack in the numbers to know what dough ball size Buddy's actually uses. Because of the low sodium numbers that I have discussed previously on several occasions, I even wondered whether Buddy's is using less than a 9-ounce dough ball weight. That would ameliorate the sodium numbers somewhat but still not enough to move the needle closer to the Buddy's sodium numbers.I have never been able to make sense out of the fat numbers given in Buddy's Nutrition facts even though Buddy's confirmed the fat numbers for the Foremost Farms brick cheese. I am suspicious enough to believe that Buddy's may be using less cheese on their pizzas than they say they do. It might have become a simple habit that they fell into and, hence, they just say that there is about two ounces of cheese per slice. If they used just 1.51 ounces of cheese per slice on average, that would be about two ounces on a rounding basis. The reduced amount of cheese would lower the sodium numbers but, as before, would not move the sodium needle enough to satisfy the Buddy's Nutrition information. In your case, I think it is prudent to use what you feel works best for your purposes at market. The same goes for the pepperoni although I sense that people like more pepperoni better than less. As noted above, it is possible that using salt in the dough strengthened the gluten structure and dough. If it were to be omitted, it might be necessary to lower the hydration value and it might become necessary for you closely monitor the tempering of the dough so that you don't end up with a dough that is billowy and with a weakened structure. Maybe the amount of yeast can be reduced also. If you and your customers are happy with salt in the dough and the taste of the finished crusts and pizzas, maybe there is no need to try to perfect a salt-free dough. As you know, I was trying to nail down what I believe Buddy's is doing based on their own Nutrition information. Peter
Norma,I think it was sufficient to just confirm that Kraft's is no longer making brick cheese for Buddy's. Brick cheese must not be a hot or large volume item. Even Foremost Farms' own website does not say much about brick cheese, such as where it is made, although a pdf spec sheet is available for their brick cheese. FYI, the brick cheese that you received from jeff v and used on your latest pizzas has 200 mg sodium per ounce; the Foremost Farms brick cheese has 180 mg sodium per ounce. The two Widmer brick cheeses are lower on the sodium content, with 140 mg sodium per ounce. I believe that the lowest sodium content I have seen for a brick cheese is 135 mg, for the County Castle brick cheese. The higher values of sodium does not mean that Buddy's is using cheese with those values. It is possible, for example, that Buddy's has asked its supplier to use less salt, which would translate into less sodium. But even at the lower sodium levels, and assuming even less cheese than 2 ounces per slice, I could not get the sodium numbers to work. That doesn't mean that Buddy's does not add any salt to its dough. I recall speaking with the corporate chef at Malnati's and asking him why some of their nutrition numbers were zero whereas the related ingredients were listed in their ingredients list. He said that the ingredients were indeed included in the dough but when the numbers were scaled down to the single dough ball size (it was their LouToGo dough), the values were so small that, under FDA regulations, they could be listed as zero. Peter
Thank you for your thoughts about the sagging phenomenon of the hills and valleys in the final Buddys clone pizza from yesterday, in that it might be structural factors involving the dough. I can understand that the dough needs to be sufficiently developed so that the gluten matrix optimally captures and retains the gases of fermentation. I wonder if I am mixing enough now since I am only using the flat beater in my Hobart mixer and really dont mix that long. I guess I have become accustomed to mixing less for my NY style doughs and that is why I try to mix less with the Buddys clone too. That might not be a good thing with a higher hydration dough with less protein in the flour too. I am not doing any stretch and folds either. I am a little bit confused on that though on what to try. At least there didnt seem to be problems with the last dough Steve tried yesterday. Hopefully, I will learn more as I go on experimenting and hopefully I wont go backward again.
I think I am going to keep the salt in the dough, because I dont want anymore problems of trying to lower the hydration and having to monitor the tempering of the dough more. I would like to offer a dough without salt, because all of the other stuff on the Buddys clone pizza along with the oil sure cant be good for people.
Did you ever think about calling that lady at Buddys that I gave the number and extension to at my one post to see if she could give you any more information? She probably would tell you everything is proprietary though. As you know I cant make any sense of the Buddys Nutrition facts, but whos to know if Buddys really follow everything with Nutrition facts, when we already know they dont measure the cheese by weight and the coarse grind pepperoni slices are very variable too in weights.
I also think I need to contact Foremost Farms again next week about their brick cheese. I forgot about PizzaHogs post, or didnt pay any attention to it at that time because I wasnt working on a Detroit style pizza, but PizzaHog posted at Reply 41 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,16820.msg164532.html#msg164532 that Zanes brother and PizzaHog did split a 40 lb. block of Foremost Farms brick cheese. I wonder now whether Foremost Farms gave me a wrong answer about if the brick cheese could be purchased in smaller amounts. PizzaHogs post was only from about a little more than a year ago, so that leads me to believe that Foremost Farms brick cheese can be purchased in 40 lb blocks.
PizzaHog also said in the above post that Detroit style pizza have changed over the time and he commented that those changes for whatever reasons always resulted in less he thought. PizzaHog also said his last Buddys pizza was a disappointment. I wonder what is happening in Detroit in their Detroit style pizzas.
On a facebook page I am on that pizza is also experimented with some, (including other foods) I think I found something that was said that was interesting to me.The one commenter said.But what it is - is marketing. I grew up in Detroit. There is no "Detroit style" pizza except what this guy declares it is. No 'historical background' involved.I asked the commenter if she had ever been to Buddys or Shields.She said:Yes to Buddy's and Shields. What I meant by my comment is only that the phrase "Detroit-style" is not actually used much around Detroit. At Buddy's, they call it "original square pizza" and at Shields it's "award-winning deep dish pizza". I prefer Buddy's to Shields, but both of them are too bready and too greasy for my personal taste.
It makes wonder why the commenter said that Buddys pizzas are bready and if they really are. I thought the half baked Buddys pizza I purchase was a little on the denser side than what I have been experimenting with, but then I also though maybe Steve and I didnt do the rest of the bake right on the half baked Buddys pizza.
I also have to watch how I put the dough balls in the steel pan in the deli case. My shelves on my deli case are slanting shelves, so some of the dough balls slid to the one side of the steel pan. I need to put the one end of the steel pan on the ledge of the slating shelves so the dough balls will stay in the middle of the steel pans. I also think I am oiling my steel pans too much with Canola oil and will have to try less Canola oil next week. Norma
I also told Steve I wanted the name a pizza after him and asked him if he would come up with a name and dressings for a Buddys clone pizza. Steve named his pizza Marco Pollo. The Marco Pollo Buddys clone pizza was also very good. Many customers stopped to say how good it looked. I will let Steve post if he wants to in what dressings were used for his Marco Pollo Buddys clone pizza. I didnt know what kind of pizza Steve was going to come up with and he brought the extra dressings yesterday and we just used my dough and cheese blends. When Steve wrote out his sign he mistakenly put Marco Polo on the sign, but the sign should have read Evs Marco Pollo.Steve used the dough ball with the poppy seeds on to watch how that dough ball fermented. The poppy seeds were measured at 9:30 AM and at 3:10 PM. The dough ball was used about 5:30 PM to make Evs Marco Pollo Buddys clone pizza. Norma
Bobby Flay was at market sometime, but I am trying to find out when he was there from market people. I saw someone post different links on facebook about Bobby Flay being at Roots, but cant find that episode on the Food Network to watch it, or find when he was there. I think Bobby Flay was at the roast beef food stand eating their roast beef sandwiches. Norma
Norma,As you know, making a dough in a home environment with a standard stand mixer is different than making dough in a commercial setting using a commercial mixer. Sometime, you might try making a Buddy's clone dough batch at market, or maybe a small test batch at home, that uses a longer knead time, to more fully develop the gluten structure.Peter
Norma,I would say that the Facebook commentor is correct and is consistent with what shuboyle (Jeff) said at Reply 590 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,21559.msg226080.html#msg226080. At the same time, it looks like the Detroit Style Pizza Co is trying to popularize that style of pizza outside of the Detroit area by changing its name. You can see that objective at the Via 313 website at http://via313.com/style ("Spread the Revolution") and similarly at the Brown Dog Pizza in Telluride CO at http://www.browndogpizza.net/story.php. The term "bready" is so general and vague that I wouldn't know what meaning to attach to it. The "greasy" complaint is a fairly common one, especially if a 4-square pizza contains a half-pound of brick cheese with a high fat content. Peter
Norma,As you know, making a dough in a home environment with a standard stand mixer is different than making dough in a commercial setting using a commercial mixer. Sometime, you might try making a Buddy's clone dough batch at market, or maybe a small test batch at home, that uses a longer knead time, to more fully develop the gluten structure. That would not be unusual for a high hydration dough and need not penalize the finished crust and crumb in terms of airiness or texture. See, for example, the dough and pizza described at https://sites.google.com/site/hollosyt/quickrusticciabattapizza. My recollection is that the hydration of the dough described in that article was around 90% or so but the principles might be the same for a dough with a hydration of around 71%, but with a shorter total knead time.Interestingly, Buddy's often touts its pizzas as being healthy and, in so doing, often mentions that their dough contains no oil or sugar, both of which have become villains in certain health and nutrition circles. However, if Buddy's is using no salt in its dough, or very little salt, it has not touted that fact even though salt content of foods has been under attack for many years. Knowing that people often equate no salt with no taste, I am not sure that I would tell people that the dough has no salt either. Also, since there are people out there, like you and me, who are trying to reverse engineer and clone their dough, telling the world that there is little or no salt in their dough would not be a good idea. It is very difficult to frame highly technical matters as though they are coming from a typical consumer. Ordinary consumers do not try to determine how much cheese and sauce is used on pizzas, including the brands of those ingredients, and then do all kinds of calculations to determine if any salt is used in the dough. If I had to guess, the Hunt boys at Via 313, having lived in the Detroit area, where PizzaHog also lives, were perhaps testing out the Foremost Farms brick cheese that perhaps was reasonably available in the Detroit area. As we have discovered, there really aren't that many suppliers who can provide commercial quantities of brick cheese to multiple end users, such as Buddy's, Loui's, Shield's, Tony's, etc. Just as Klausie's had trouble sourcing good brick cheese in Raleigh, others outside of the Midwest may also have problems getting good brick cheese locally. As has been widely reported in the press, Detroit has been suffering for some time, economically, politically and otherwise. Operating successfully and profitably in such an environment, and also in an environment where the prices of pizza ingredients has been rising quite dramatically, just as we have experienced with our own pizza ingredients, can be extremely challenging. So, looking for cheaper substitutes and cost cutting as much as possible may be behind the lowered quality of the end products. Also, consumers may have less disposable income to spend on pizza, so cheapening the product may be needed to keep existing customers.Peter
Norma,Can't you just put a piece of dowel or something under the lower end of the pan to prop it up to level?I like the butter-flavored Crisco to oil my pans for Detroit pizza. What I especially like is that it sticks to the sides of the pan, all the way to the top of the crust. Finished pizzas slide right out. I suppose you could use plain Crisco if you don't like the butter taste, but I actually think the butter adds another flavor note.Gene
Norma,What were the temperature and bake time on those pizzas? They look very good. Also, what kind of oven?Gene
Why don't you challenge Bobby Flay to a Throwdown? http://www.foodnetwork.com/throwdown-with-bobby-flay/index.htmlGene
You might want to try my modified Jim Lahey method. Mix the dough just enough to combine all the ingredients - i.e., all of the flour incorporated into the water - perhaps reduce the amount of yeast and then let it rise at room temperature until doubled, about 18 hours. You can then refrigerate it if you want.In the finished dough, the gluten seems pretty strong to me, yet easy to spread in the pan, but I need to try "panning" some room temperature dough to see whether the method or the refrigerator temperature accounts for the good spreadability.Gene


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Jackson County Central, the No. 1 team in Class A, defeated Marshall 47-24 in the opening match, winning five of the first six matches. The Tigers' lone win in the stretch was by Kesmond Willert, who took a 7-0 decision over Ryker Vanderwoude at 113 pounds.
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"The Worthington one we kind of got shell-shocked right away," Bouwman said. "They pinned our first three kids and we fell in an 18-point hole. Nick Erbes wrestled a good match against the fourth-ranked kid at 120 but the other guy pinned him in the end."
JCC 47, Marshall 24
106-Dalton Wagner (JCC) tech. fall Dylan Dulas, 12-8
113-Kesmond Willert (M) dec. Ryker Vanderwoude, 7-0
120-Jordan Biehne (JCC) tech. fall Nick Erbes, 18-3
126-Cambron Henning (JCC) tech. fall Matt Facile, 22-5
132-Eliot Jurries (JCC) tech. fall Riley Roth, 23-8
138-Luke Pygman (JCC) pinned Brent Breczinski, 3:49
145-Ramzi Gregoire (M) won by forfeit
152-Pagen Moore (JCC) pinned Jarrett Louwagie, 2:42
160-James VanWesten (JCC) won by forfeit
170-Keegan Moore (JCC) dec. Campbell Hofstetter, 12-6
182-Brendon Appel (M) pinned Caleb Will, 3:00
195-Jared Holland (M) dec. John Marker, 16-11
220-Jack Ziemer (JCC) pinned Abdirzak Mohamed, 0:10
285-Austin Nath (M) pinned Nate Horn, 0:41
Worthington 45, Marshall 27
106-Hser Eh Pwae (W) pinned Dulas, 0:51
113-Hser Moo Pwae (W) pinned Willert, 0:47
120-Anthony Luft (W) pinned Erbes, 5:57
126-Facile (M) pinned Jeffrey Camacho, 1:17
132-Roth (M) pinned Cody Michelson, 3:00
138-Vince Riley (W) dec. Breczinski, 7-3
145-Gregoire (M) pinned King Saenz, 3:38
152-Joey Mills (W) dec. Louwagie, 6-4
160-Terrance Gray (W) won by forfeit
170-Zach Kempema (W) pinned Appel, 1:23
182-Hofstetter (M) dec. Blake Schroeder, 6-1
195-Joe Pavelko (W) dec. Holland, 7-2
220-Peter Abraham (W) pinned Mohamed, 0:40
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rotor vs z2
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i cam up with that idea. "spire shack and shoot" i just got one today and it feeds just as well as a rotor, its simpler to take apart and holds more paint
When it to rotor/z2/spire its all personal preference. I have a rotor and I absolutely love it. But I'm thinking of giving the spire a try. The cool thing about the spire is if for whatever reason you hopper goes down you can just pull out the drive train and use it as a shake and shoot. For instance say your batteries die and nobody has extras just switch your gun to semi auto pull out the spires drive train and you day is saved. Plus if you put virtue board in your gun they are gonna come out with a kit where the spire will operate wirelessly instead of of by vibration. I don't think we are too far off from our first virtue gun.
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It's a matter of what you look for in a hopper. I've used both of them and like what each have to offer. Both of them will work perfectly fine on the field.
The Rotor:
- Super simple, idiot proof design. (Less maintenance. You can take it apart in less than 30 seconds.)
- Durable as hell. (Both are very very durable but the Rotor takes a slight edge just because you don't really need to worry about a fried board.)
- Add a Speedfeed + lid attachment. This makes it the ideal choice for rainy days.
- Much more efficient on batteries.
- Customizable colors
The Z2:
- Sound-activated, more reliable feeding. (You'll notice less jams.)
- Automatic anti-jam (If it detects a jam it will un-jam itself for you.)
- Customizable settings (You can adjust the speed and sound of how it feeds.)
- Rip drive (You can manually un-jam/feed your paint in case it runs out of battery or something goes wrong. Also, the rip drive is much better at un-jamming paint than the Rotor's fin switch... If your Rotor breaks down or runs out of battery you'll have a hard time feeding it manually.)
- Easier and faster to switch lids back and forth.
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Birth Date: June 24, 1977
Joined Team: January 1999
MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2012 - Pan American Cup (Gold). 2010 – Pan American Cup (Bronze Medal)…FIVB World Grand Prix (Gold Medal)...Tour of Brazil...FIVB World Championship (Fourth). 2009 – Tour of Egypt…Pan American Cup (Fourth); FIVB World Championship Qualification Tournament – NORCECA Pool G (Gold)…FIVB World Grand Prix (Ninth)…Final Four Intercontinental Cup (Silver)...NORCECA Continental Championship (Fourth). 2008 – Pan American Cup (Fifth Place)...U.S. Olympic Team Exhibition for Volleyball versus Brazil...FIVB World Grand Prix (Fourth Place)...Olympic Games (Silver Medal). 2007 - FIVB World Cup (Bronze Medal). 2004 – Montreux Volley Masters (Silver Medal)…World Grand Prix (Bronze Medal)…Olympic Games (Fifth Place). 2003 – Montreux Volley Masters…Russia Tournament…Pan American Cup (Gold Medal)…World Grand Prix (Bronze Medal)…NORCECA Zone Championships (Gold Medal)…Texas Tour…World Cup (Bronze Medal). 2002 – Montreux Volley Masters…Russia Tour…Utah Tour vs. Italy…World Grand Prix (sixth place)…Italy Tour…World Championships (Silver Medal). 2001 – Montreux Volley Masters…World Championships Qualifying (first place)…World Grand Prix (first place)…NORCECA (first place)…World Grand Champions Cup. 2000 – BCV VolleyMasters...Grand Prix...Japan Tour...NIKE Americas' Volleyball Challenge...Olympic Games (fourth place)...Russia Trip. 1999 – Australia Trip...Brazil Tour...BCV Volley Masters...Japan Tour...NORCECA Championships...Pan American Games...World Cup.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2012 – Made her official return to international competition at the 2012 Pan American Cup following a devastating accident in April 2011...Played in six sets as a defensive specialist, turning in two digs. 2011 – Has not competed in 2011 due to recovery from injuries suffered in a bus accident in Brazil while competing for her professional club team, which resulted in 36 days spent in hospitals in Brazil and California. 2010 – Averaged 3.32 digs per set while serving as libero during six of the seven matches at the Pan American Cup…Recorded 12 digs in three-set win over Puerto Rico on June 19…Averaged 4.13 digs per set at FIVB World Grand Prix while playing 39 of 52 possible sets at libero helping USA to the gold medal…Averaged 6.00 digs per set against Italy on Aug. 13 and 6.33 digs against Japan on Aug. 29…During FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round, ranked as the tournament's third-best digger with 2.26 digs per set…Averaged 2.59 digs per set in four matches of Tour of Brazil…Selected as Best Libero of the FIVB World Championship after averaging 7.13 digs and excellent service receptions per set in 11 matches (0.93 higher average than second-place finisher)…Led the Best Digger category at the World Championship with 4.85 digs per set, or 1.30 digs per set higher than second-place finisher…Reached 20 digs or more in five of 11 matches at the World Championship. 2009 – Played in 88 sets during 2009, second most on the team, compiling a 2.31 dig average…Played in six sets during two-match tour of Egypt resulting in two victories…Tallied five digs versus Egypt on April 10…Played four sets during the Pan American Cup, producing nine digs for a 2.25 average…Designated U.S. libero for FIVB World Championship Qualification Tournament – NORCECA Pool G…Helped U.S. win gold and berth into 2010 FIVB World Championship after earning Best Libero, Best Digger and Best Receiver at qualifying tournament…Averaged 5.00 digs per set at the qualifying tournament, in addition to a 75.90 pass/receive success percent in the Best Libero category…Turned in 18 excellent service receptions on 36 attempts in the qualifying tournament… Libero for the second two preliminary weekends of the FIVB World Grand Prix totaling six matches and 25 sets…Averaged 2.12 digs per set, including 13 digs in a three-set loss to Germany on Aug. 9…Shared libero duties at the Final Four Intercontinental Cup leading to a silver medal…Tallied 25 digs versus Dominican Republic in Final Four semifinal match on Sept. 12, followed by 12 digs versus Brazil in gold-medal match on Sept. 13…Tallied 59 digs in 24 sets for 2.46 dig average at NORCECA Continental Championship…Averaged three digs or more in three of six matches during NORCECA Championship. 2008 – Ranked third in the Pan American Cup Best Digger category with 1.73 digs per set...Turned in a 55 percent positive serve receive percentage on 85 attempts as teams served away from her at the Pan American Cup...Served as the tournament libero for the Pan American Cup, but missed the final match due to illness...Designated as the libero versus Brazil on June 13 and June 14...Recorded 15 digs versus Brazil in June 13 victory, followed by nine digs in June 14 loss...Served as designated libero for FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round after missing all of preliminary rounds...Ranked third in World Grand Prix Final Round in digs per set with 3.00...Totaled 20 digs versus Italy on July 12 and 17 digs versus China on July 13...Played in 11 sets during Olympic Games as the defensive specialist in critical late set situations, helping the USA to a silver medal in the event...In limited time on the court, averaged 0.55 digs per set and provided a 55 percent excellent serve reception percent. 2007 – Played in 21 sets at the FIVB World Cup as a late set defensive specialist. Totaled 19 digs for 0.70 digs per set. 2004 – Helped U.S. to silver medal at Montreux Volley Masters…Averaged 3.87 digs per set in leading Team USA to bronze at the World Grand Prix…Finished third in the Best Digger Category and fifth in Best Libero category at Grand Prix…Made second Olympic Games appearance as the Team USA libero. Earned Best Digger award at Olympic Games. 2003 – Helped the United States earn a bronze medal at the 2003 World Cup and a berth in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece…On the season she led the United States in digs (533) and digs per set (3.46)…Earned "Best Digger" honors at the Montreux Volley Masters. 2002 – Won a silver medal at the 2002 Women's Volleyball World Championships…One of the world's best at her position…Played professionally for Starfin Ravenna in Italy's Serie A1. 2001 – Earned the Best Libero award at the Montreux Volley Masters after dominating both the serve-receive and digging statistical categories…Named the Best Digger at the World Grand Prix…Earned the Best Receiver award NORCECA Championships…Captured the Best Digger award at the season-ending World Grand Champions Cup…Played professionally for Mirabilandia Teodora Ravenna in Italy's Serie A1. 2000 – Finished as the team leader in digs (553) for the second consecutive year…Named best Libero at the NIKE Americas' Volleyball Challenge, helping Team USA qualify for the 2000 Sydney Olympics...Averaged 4.5 digs per game on the Japan Tour...Led the team with 68 digs and a 2.42 passing average on the Russia Trip…Was the leading digger at the BCV Volley Masters with 43 digs...Named Best Receiver at the Grand Prix, where she led the team with 133 digs…Placed second at the Olympic Games with 123 digs, including a career-high 26 against Korea in the five-set quarterfinal victory…Posted her 1,000th career dig in the bronze-medal match against Brazil. 1999 – Saw her first international playing time on the Australia Trip…Named best receiver at the BCV Volley Masters, and placed third in digging...Sparked the Americans' defense on the Japan Tour, recording a career-high 22 digs in the June 30 match...Team's primary passer and defensive player on the bronze-medal winning Pan American Games squad...Helped the Americans earn a three-match sweep of Brazil with 39 digs in 12 games...Tallied 53 digs en route to earning the best digger award at the NORCECA Championship...Recorded a team-high 153 digs at the World Cup...Recorded a team-high 456 digs.
COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS: 1998 – American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Second-Team All-American...AVCA All-District 5...First-Team All-Big 12...Led the team in kills (4.74) and digs per game (4.37)...Finished the season ranked No. 9 in the country in digs per game...MVP of the All Sport Challenge. 1997 – AVCA Second-Team All-American...Asics/Volleyball Honorable Mention All-America...AVCA All-District 5...First-Team All-Big 12...MVP of the Georgia Invitational...Led the team and ranked second in the conference in digs per game (3.80). 1996 – AVCA All-District 5...Named team defensive player of the year...Led the Big 12 in digs per game with a 4.01 average...Set a school record with 24 digs in a three-game loss to Michigan State in the NCAA tournament...Posted a career-high 30 kills in a victory over nationally-ranked Loyola Marymount. 1995 – Saw action in 29-of-30 matches as a true freshman...Led the team in kills in four matches and in digs three times.
PERSONAL: Born Stacy Denise Sykora on June 24, 1977, in Fort Worth, Texas...Parents are Ed Sykora and Sherian Richards…Also has two older sisters: Kim and Keri Sykora…Graduated from Burleson High School (Texas) in 1995 and majored in sports management at Texas A&M…Three-sport athlete at Texas A&M as she participated in track (1995-96) and basketball (1996-97) in addition to volleyball…Won Southwest Conference heptathlon championship in 1996 while at Texas A&M…Named a finalist for 2011 Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year…Hobbies include art and music with Dolly Parton being her favorite musical artist…Favorite movies are Dark Crystal and Beast Master…Favorite foods are sushi and Mexican…Favorite sport to watch is football and favorite team is Dallas Cowboys…Enjoys watching Cartoon Network…Admires Kerri Walsh most because she is an amazing player, but best of all, is an amazing and caring person…Happiest moment in life was making the national team and happiest moment in sports was defeating Korea in the 2000 Olympic Games.
Getting to Know Stacy Sykora
What are the top songs in your iPod?
Everything you can imagine, I guess you can say that I "collect music", from all over the world and I have over 100GB of it….
What kind of car do you drive?
Land Rover and a Harley Davison
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Art, Music, Video editing and basically anything to do with a computer…
What do you envision doing as a career after competing for the national team?
Becoming a famous moving star….Just Kidding, I really don't know, I am still a kid and never really want to grow up
Other than family, who would you like to invite to complete a dinner foursome (individuals can be dead or alive)?
Angelina Jolie, Gia Marie Carangi, Jim Carey and Steven King
Where would you like to spend a week's vacation?
Driving my motorcycle in Texas
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Modena, Italy
What is your favorite room in your house and why?
Right now, in Italy, the living room because it is the biggest
What is the one luxury item that you could not do without?
My computer
Rank the following types of television programs in order you like best: Reality TV, crime dramas, game shows, sit-coms, music television, cable news, sports.
sports, crime dramas, music television, game shows, sit-coms, reality TV, cable news,
What is your favorite television program?
I don't watch much TV but here in Italy, I like Walker, Texas Ranger, you should see them speak Italian it is great!
What is your favorite movie?
The Dark Crystal, Beast Master and Gia
What is your favorite book?
Ummmmmm, I don't read
Who is the funniest player on the women's national team?
I laugh at them all :)
Who is the most under-rated player on the women's national team?
Robyn Ah-Mow Santos and Lindsey Berg
Are you a morning person, afternoon person or night person?
What is your pre-match ritual?
Visualize, elevate the legs, write down my goals, listen to music and dance
On an airplane, would you rather, sleep, read, work on a computer or talk with the person sitting next to you?
Work on the computer and talk
What is the best thing about competing on the USA Women's National Team?
Doing the thing I love and loving doing it with the people I love
What is your favorite volleyball drill?
Any defensive drill
What sport would you be competing in if not for volleyball?
HMMMMMMM….Basketball, Heptathlon, Triathlon or a Soccer Goalie….
Who is your favorite athlete?
Flo Jo
What is your favorite food?
Sushi or Mexican
What is your favorite restaurant to eat at?
Casa Rodriguez in Bryan, Texas or Sushi Town in Las Palmas, Spain
How many different languages can you converse in?
Italian and Spanish but I understand a lot of similar languages
What was your favorite subject in school?
What is your fondest child-hood memory?
I have so many, story telling is my life so to have to choose one right now, I would say, making commercials and a workout video with my friends in Burleson and honestly thinking I was gonna make it big one day on the big screen, I just recently watched them, yep, embarrassing
What fad were you involved in during junior high school that many would be surprised to learn?
Good Ole High Bangs, mine could stop the wind in its tracks
If you could see any musical act or performer (dead or alive) in concert, who would it be?
Michael Jackson
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing that you would buy or pay for?
Everything my family members ever wanted
If you could live as one other person (celebrity or not) for one day, who would it be?
Bin Laden, so when the day was over I would tell George where he is hiding :)
If you could have one super power, what would it be?
To stop, start, reverse and fast forward time
If a movie was made about your life, which actor or actress would you want to play you?
Angelina Jolie
If you were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you take with you?
My house with full plumbing and everything it has in it in Vegas. A plane with a pilot so I can leave when I wanted and a Super Wal-Mart
If you could live in another time period for a week, which one would you choose?
The Future, so I can bring back the ideas of the future and invent them first and be a millionaire
If you could be on the cover of one magazine, which one would you choose?
I don't really know magazines but I would say Vogue, I guess
What three words would you use to describe yourself?
Unique, misunderstood, square
What is your favorite holiday?
I don't really like holidays but I like the post-halloween candy sells
What is your favorite season – winter, spring, summer or fall?
What is one off-the-court talent that you have?
What was the most defining moment in your life?
Coming back to the National Team
What are your most prized possessions?
My Motorcycle and House
What is your motto?
Keep Dreaming, No Excuses No Regrets…Life is Short, you never know what the next second is gonna bring so Live
What reality show (American Idol, the Apprentice, the Real World, Survivor, Big Brother, etc.) would you be best on?
I think I could make a clean sweep :)
What is your pet peeve?
Napkins on teeth
What communication tool do you use most often – text messaging, talking on the cell phone or e-mail?
Text messaging.
Posted and updated: Dec. 5, 2012
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By STEPHEN NOHLGREN
Published May 17, 2007
Claiming that sales agents are misleading seniors about private Medicare plans, several state insurance commissioners asked Congress on Wednesday for more power to crack down.
"Right now I have more authority to deal with pet insurance than I do with seniors in Medicare plans, " Oklahoma Commissioner Kim Holland told a hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Lack of state control has led to "virtual lawlessness in Oklahoma."
Georgia has arrested agents for forging signatures and signing up dead people, said insurance regulator Sherry Mowell.
Florida officials did not testify but said in interviews that abuse has also been widespread here.
"People go to free lunches and sign in and put down their Social Security number and all of a sudden they find themselves switched (into a private plan) and they don't know how it happened, " said Ann Whiting, counselor for Florida's SHINE program, which helps seniors with insurance issues.
People discover the truth when their regular doctor refuses to treat them or when they can't fill a prescription that is not on the plan's formulary, Whiting said.
"We tell them, if they go to a free lunch, do not to put down their Social Security number, " she said.
Whiting, one of SHINE's counselors in Pinellas and Pasco counties, said she fielded two or three sales complaints a week during the early part of this year.
One woman went to a health fair and stopped by a Medicare plan's booth, Whiting said. "The agent said, 'Please sign this. If you don't sign, my boss won't accept that I talked to you.' She didn't read it and she was signing herself up."
Particularly vulnerable are poor older and disabled people on Medicaid and Medicare. They have no Part B Medicare premiums, no deductibles and very low co-payments for services - as long as they stay on traditional Medicare. On many private plans, they can end up paying $30 every time they see a doctor.
Kathryn DeLong helps poor residents of St. Petersburg's Lutheran Apartments navigate Medicare and other social services.
"After the whole plan fiasco, I don't let insurance people in the building anymore. They call and ask to make a presentation and I say 'We don't need any more talk about insurance, ' " she said.
One resident signed up for a new product called "private fee for service, " where plans pay doctors and hospitals on a per-visit basis, rather than having an HMO-like network.
An agent told the resident "he could see any doctor or go to any hospital and any pharmacy he chose, " DeLong said. Unfortunately, many health care providers won't accept those payments.
"His bills were not getting paid. He could not get his prescriptions filled, and lo and behold, he found out he could not go to any of his providers."
DeLong declined to identify the agents or companies involved.
Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation has received 148 complaints about Medicare sales, mostly since late 2006, said investigations chief Barry Lanier.
"The most common pattern is people not realizing they are disenrolling" from traditional Medicare, he said. "All it takes is a signature."
With most insurance, states can hold companies responsible for agent conduct. But when Congress rewrote Medicare law three years ago, the federal government got sole authority over how private plans conduct sales.
States can sanction agents but not companies. Like state regulators who testified Wednesday, Florida insurance regulators would like more power to regulate companies when sales abuses become a pattern, said senior economist Ray Spudeki.
"We don't like the idea of Florida consumers being taken advantage of, " Spudeki said.
Sen. Herb Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the aging committee, said he would draft legislation to expand state authority. "This is simply unacceptable, " he said.
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Medicare HMOs have been around for decades. Because the government pays private plans up to 19 percent more per person than on traditional Medicare, HMOs often provide extra benefits like eyeglasses and hearing aids.
Recently, new types of private plans have complicated Medicare's landscape, including drug plans, PPOs and the new "private fee-for-service" plans.
In addition, Medicare now locks people into their choice for most of the year. In the past, people could switch back to traditional Medicare within weeks if a private plan displeased them.
That change created a marketplace where agents could earn sizable commissions, because anyone who signed up could be stuck until the end of the year.
Abby Block, director of Medicare's Center for Beneficiary Choices, told the senators that "the vast majority" of people are satisfied with their private plans, which now cover one-fifth of the people on Medicare.
She acknowledged that sales abuses have occurred, but said the federal government needs to maintain its oversight. Next year, she said, Medicare will require "specific, unambiguous language in all marketing materials" that describe what private plans cover and don't cover.
Companies also will have to call everyone who signs up, to make sure they understand their plan and really want it.
"We believe very strongly we need to get this under control, " Block said. "But I don't want to see the whole program disparaged because of the behavior of some bad apples."
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- To report sales abuses, contact the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation consumer hotline at 1-800-342-2762.
- People who have been enrolled in a private Medicare plan through fraud or deceit may seek a special waiver to switch out of that plan, even after regular enrollment has closed. Call Medicare at 1-800-633-4227 and ask for an agent. If the person answering does not know about this appeal process, insist on talking to a supervisor.
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Gruenebaum Not Feeling Slighted By Snub
The Columbus Dispatch - July 26, 2012 01:23 PM
Andy Gruenebaum would rather not talk about the MLS all-star game. Not because he's bitter or upset about not being named to the squad, but because he's basically tired of hearing people tell him he was snubbed.
One day after the league's all-stars defeated Chelsea 3-2, Gruenebaum went through the paces during a hot training session at the Crew's facility in Obetz. Just like when he was not initially named to the squad, the goalkeeper downplayed the situation.
"I'm actually over it," he said. "I've been over it for a while now. I'm really just sick of hearing about it. It didn't happen for me and it didn't happen for a lot of people. There were a lot of deserving players who didn't get the nod either. I want to continue to play well. It's more about if I play well then I think the team has a good shot at winning, just like anybody on the team. If they play well and contribute to the team then that's all I care about, getting results and seeing this team into the playoffs. That's all that matters to me."
In his first full season as the Crew's starter, Gruenebaum's numbers are certainly comparable to the goalkeepers named to the squad. His 65 saves are third-best in the league behind goalkeepers with at least three more games than him while his save percentage of .760 is tops among goalkeepers who have played more than 10 matches. His goals-against average of 1.06 would have been second-best among the goalkeepers selected to the squad, behind Jimmy Nielsen (0.90).
It marked the second straight season the Crew has not had a player on the roster.
"We're all disappointed," defender Josh Williams said. "We think Andy's stood on his head this year. I don't know what more he could have done. The guy's been unreal. As far as us not being represented at the all-star game, I think it's a joke. We feel very disrespected. One national TV game and it seems like everyone else is playing every week. As a club I know everybody feels very disrespected by that. To not be represented the last two years is a joke, I think."
Added head coach Robert Warzycha: "I wish that he was one of the all-stars. There's no question he's been playing well and had some very good games. I'm disappointed he wasn't selected."
Gruenebaum said he feels his teammates are disappointed on his behalf.
"I think (they are) a little bit because it reflects on them as well," he said. "I can't take credit for anything. It's a team sport and you live and die by what the guy does next to you. That's why it's important to have that chemistry and I think we have that."
Vukovic out
Left back Nemanja Vukovic will miss the next four weeks with a sprained left ankle suffered in Tuesday's 2-1 exhibition win against English Premier League foe Stoke City. Williams is the new starter at the position and apparently constitutes the depth chart as well.
"I have Josh Williams, so I'm good," Warzycha said. "I don't need anybody behind him. As long as he's still healthy I'm fine."
In other injury news, Chad Marshall and Milovan Mirosevic were both active when training was open to the media today while Danny O'Rourke worked on the sideline with the training staff.
No Frano
Because I've been asked about this since Bernardo Anor went out with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, I asked Warzycha if the club had considered bringing back the recently cut Shaun Francis.
"It's not about bringing Frano back," he said. "You'd have to waive somebody to bring him back. Who would that be? We have rules that you can't waive anybody after July 1, so that's it. I can't waive anybody anymore, so even if I wanted to (bring him back) I wouldn't have room. It's not about bringing Frano back. He's a good player. He got an opportunity to stay longer with the club and he declined. He didn't sign an extension. If he would, he probably would still be here."