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VALSARTAN;HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE (val SAR tan; hye droe klor oh THYE a zide) is a combination of a drug that relaxes blood vessels and a diuretic. It is used to treat high blood pressure.
Take this medicine by mouth with a glass of water. Follow the directions on the prescription label. You can take it with or without food. If it upsets your stomach, take it with food. Take your medicine at regular intervals. Do not take it more often than directed. Do not stop taking except on your doctor's advice.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
changes in vision
confusion, dizziness, light headedness or fainting spells
decreased amount of urine passed
difficulty breathing or swallowing, hoarseness, or tightening of the throat
eye pain
fast or irregular heart beat, palpitations, or chest pain
muscle cramps
nausea and vomiting
redness, blistering, peeling or loosening of the skin, including inside the mouth
stomach pain
swelling of your face, lips, tongue, hands, or feet
unusual rash, bleeding or bruising, or pinpoint red spots on the skin
worsened gout pain
yellowing of the eyes or skin
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
change in sex drive or performance
barbiturates like phenobarbital
corticosteroids like prednisone
diuretics, especially triamterene, spironolactone or amiloride
medicines for diabetes
NSAIDs, medicines for pain and inflammation, like ibuprofen or naproxen
potassium salts or potassium supplements
prescription pain medicines
skeletal muscle relaxants like tubocurarine
some cholesterol lowering medicines like cholestyramine or colestipol
If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Store at room temperature between 15 and 30 degrees C (59 and 86 degrees F). Protect from moisture. Keep container tightly closed. Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date.
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
decreased urine
if you are on a special diet, like a low salt diet
immune system problems, like lupus
kidney disease
liver disease
an unusual or allergic reaction to valsartan, hydrochlorothiazide, sulfa drugs, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
pregnant or trying to get pregnant
You must visit your health care professional for regular checks on your progress. Check your blood pressure regularly while you are taking this medicine. Ask your doctor or health care professional what your blood pressure should be and when you should contact him or her. When you check your blood pressure, write down the measurements to show your doctor or health care professional.
You must not get dehydrated. Ask your doctor or health care professional how much fluid you need to drink a day. Check with him or her if you get an attack of severe diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, or if you sweat a lot. The loss of too much body fluid can make it dangerous for you to take this medicine.
Women should inform their doctor if they wish to become pregnant or think they might be pregnant. There is a potential for serious side effects to an unborn child, particularly in the second or third trimester. Talk to your health care professional or pharmacist for more information.
You may get drowsy or dizzy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs mental alertness until you know how this drug affects you. Do not stand or sit up quickly, especially if you are an older patient. This reduces the risk of dizzy or fainting spells. Alcohol can make you more drowsy and dizzy. Avoid alcoholic drinks.
This medicine may affect your blood sugar. If you have diabetes, check with your doctor or health care professional before changing the dose of your diabetic medicine.
Avoid salt substitutes unless you are told otherwise by your doctor or health care professional.
This medicine can make you more sensitive to the sun. Keep out of the sun. If you cannot avoid being in the sun, wear protective clothing and use sunscreen. Do not use sun lamps or tanning beds/booths.
Do not treat yourself for coughs, colds, or pain while you are taking this medicine without asking your doctor or health care professional for advice. Some ingredients may increase your blood pressure.
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Ducks goalies are in no fighting moodNovember 2nd, 2013, 11:27 am by ERIC STEPHENS
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The highight was playing in the Ducks' dressing room Saturday morning as it had been on various sports highlight shows throughout the night.
Two goalies fighting each other -- or one pummeling the other in this case. Philadelphia's Ray Emery, who restarted his career with the Ducks, skating across the ice to throw haymakers on Washington's Braden Holtby, who didn't want the fight and was in survival mode.
So what would the Ducks' goalies do if they saw another goalie come at them? What if it was Emery, who likes to scrap and has taken on enforcers in the past?
"I don't know," Jonas Hiller said. "Just tell him not to fight. Hopefully he has enough respect to stop."Read the rest of this entry »

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National Gallery of Australia to open gallery dedicated to the Pacific arts
Papua New Guinea, Western Highlands, Ambum Valley 'The Ambum stone' c.1500 BCE, greywacke stone, purchased 1977, collection of the National Gallery of Australia
The National Gallery of Australia will confirm its commitment to the art of the Pacific region by launching the Pacific Arts Gallery on Wednesday 18 July 2007.
The Pacific Arts Gallery, a dedicated permanent display, will open to the public showing forty works, including some of the rarest and finest traditional arts from the cultures of our nearest island neighbours.
With Australia's geographical location, historical and present connections tomany of the countries of the Pacific, especially Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Arts Gallery gives Australians a rare opportunity to view works that include spirit masks, adornments and intricately carved sculptures. Materials including stone, wood, human hair, dog teeth, whale bone and organic weavings are used to create these works for both rituals and daily living. The works themselves are touchstones that reflect upon the traditional lives of our Pacific neighbours; some tell stories of creation, some are objects to quell and instruct young men during their teenage years and some have the ability to create life or take it away.
Many of these works have been part of the Gallery's collections since its conception in the 1960s and include Pacific works which are the only examples of their kind in Australia. The sculptures, adornments, masks and architectural features which once were only of interest to scientific museums as documents to culture have, over time, become recognised in their own right as equal to masterpieces of art from any period or place in the history of humankind.
The traditional arts of the Pacific cover many countries from Papua New Guinea and The Solomon Islands to New Zealand and Hawaii. Works displayed suggest the entwined history of the pacific peoples with Australians. A sculptural representation of the heavyset, thick necked Assistant District Officer Harold Eustace Woodman is the only known pre World War II portrait of an Australian created by a Papua New Guinean.
Also displayed in the gallery are works internationally regarded for their visual force yet is little known that in their recent histories, these very same artworks helped to inspire the creativity of the influential artists and poets who owned them ― Sir Jacob Epstein, Paul Eluard and Surrealists Max Ernst and Andre Breton.
The majority of the Pacific Arts collection had remained in storage for many years until the appointment of a curator early in 2007. Now, a selection of these beautiful works that were hidden from view can be seen by visitors to the Gallery and admission is free.
On view
Wednesday 18 July 2007
Pacific Art Gallery
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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Rail operator Norfolk Southern's (NSC) preannouncement of weak third-quarter earnings has cast a pall over the entire sector Thursday. NSC is down nine percent in afternoon trading. Rail stocks CSX Corp. (CSX) 5.1, Union Pacific (UNP) and Kansas City Southern (KSU) are down anywhere from three to five percent.
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The buy-on-weakness theme is being revisited by analysts when it comes to single stocks. Here's BMO Capital's Fadi Chamoun on Norfolk Southern:
Aside from low valuation and solid productivity trends, the fundamentals underpinning the merchandise and intermodal segments remain positive. Also, utility coal has bottomed and could recover starting in 2013 assuming normal weather patterns. The outlook for export coal is poor but we have reflected weaker freight rates and carloads in our forecast. The stock has been range-bound at $68–75 due to poor visibility on coal and if it revisits the lower end of the range as a result of weaker-than-expected Q3/12, the pullback should be considered a particularly attractive buying opportunity.
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There's actually a photo of Dunn and Harang with kids on the page!
New babies, new priorities for Reds
Ross, Lohse, Dunn and Harang are balancing baseball with less sleep, more pride and joy.
By Hal McCoy
Staff Writer
Thursday, March 29, 2007
SARASOTA, Fla. When fans think of professional baseball players, they think of skills on a playing field and a rugged persona, something between The Marlboro Man and a photo in GQ.
Not often does anybody think about their personal lives, what they do and how they think when they are away from the ballpark.
Yes, they are husbands. Yes, they are fathers.
In fact, four members of the Cincinnati Reds became fathers for the first time last winter, turning them into babbling goo-goo and gah-gah guys when they talk about their offspring.
To a man, they talk about a change of lifestyle and a change of priorities, whether it be Adam Dunn, David Ross, Aaron Harang or Kyle Lohse who all became first-time fathers during the off-season.
Dunn's wife, Rachel, gave birth to a boy, Brady in November, and Dunn beams as if he went 10 straight games without a strikeout.
"Change my lifestyle? You bet," he said. "I spend a lot more time at home. I enjoy it a lot more than I thought I would. I always liked to be out doing things. I just liked to be on the go, period. Do stuff. I didn't know how I'd handle staying home and being Mr. Mom. But it has worked out well and I've enjoyed it a lot."
Dunn remembers nodding his head but paying little attention when people told him lifestyles change with an infant's arrival.
"People always said it would change your outlook on life and I said, 'Yeah, whatever. It's just another person in your house,' " Dunn said. "But if anyone is a believer, I sure am. It has put things in perspective for me. You have a long day at work and you come home and he is sitting there laughing at you and it makes it pretty easy. Nothing is so bad after that."
Ross' wife, Hyla, gave birth to Landri in February, and he says sleep-deprivation comes with the territory.
"A lot less sleep," confirmed Ross. "And your priorities are a little different. On off days I give my wife a break, rather than me go play golf or do something with the guys. I hang out with the baby, because I don't get to see her that much. Give the wife a break because she is always on lockdown with the baby. Of course, she's breast-feeding, so there isn't much I can do there."
Ross, too, says trouble at the ballpark takes on lesser importance once he drives out of the parking lot.
"You have a bad day at the plate or in the game and you come home and she starts smiling at you," he said. "That makes things different. It is definitely a change in a lot of ways and everybody told me it would be.
"But it's so great, just amazing. The best blessing I ever had," Ross said. "You have more respect for mothers women, mothers, childbirth. Raising a child is a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week job. I get to come to work and hang out with the guys, but they're busy 24-7."
Lohse's wife, Gabrielle, gave birth to Kameron in January, and he had trouble expressing what first-time fatherhood is like.
"It's, uh, you can't begin to explain it, but you get that nine-month prep period where you don't get to do the things you used to do," said Lohse. "Once the baby comes, it's the greatest thing in the world, but it's the craziest time, especially the first one. Babies don't come with a handbook on what you're supposed to do. But the whole thing is a pretty cool experience."
Harang's wife, Jennifer, gave birth to Addison in October and Harang, a man of few syllables, bubbles over when talking about the baby.
"You don't go out to dinner any more, or very often," he said, and for a guy 6-foot-6 and 270 pounds, that's an inhumane sacrifice. "You have to be picky where you go, too. You have to come up with a pattern to do things after you feed her. When you feed 'em every three hours, you have to think about six hours ahead, just in case.
"At least she sleeps through the night and we're lucky with that. Her last feeding is 9:30, 10 o'clock and she'll usually go down and sleep until 8:30 to 10. She's a sleeper."
As with the other new fathers, Harang is now able to leave bad vibrations in his clubhouse locker.
"When you go home and see that smile she gives you, that smile every day, you don't think about anything else," said Harang. "You see that smile in the morning and afternoon.
"I could have the worst day on the mound, give up a ton of runs, but I go home and see that smile and, well, she doesn't think anything different about me."
Sounds like a four-way tie for Father of the Year.
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By The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi State University will offer $6,000 scholarships, over four years, to all winners of the Mississippi Economic Council's Student-Teacher Achievement Recognition program.
MSU President Mark Keenum announced the plan Thursday at MEC's annual Capital Day meeting in Jackson.
"We want to see our best and brightest students in Mississippi stay in Mississippi," Keenum said.
STAR award winners must score at least 25 on the ACT college test and have grades averaging 93 or above in selected subjects. Keenum says such students already qualify for at least $12,000 in aid over four years at MSU. Combined with the $6,000, that covers at least $18,000 of MSU's $25,000 in-state tuition over four years. Room, board, books and other expenses cost more.
MSU requires students to maintain a 3.0 grade point average to keep their scholarships each year.
More than 300 Mississippi high schools name a STAR award winner each year, but MEC provides scholarships to only the 20 highest-ranked winners in the state. The top winner statewide gets $24,000, while the runner-up gets $20,000 and the No. 3 finisher gets $16,000. But the remaining 17 highest-ranked students receive only $500 awards.
"It's really exciting to have some tangible additional scholarships," said David Gates, the president of Atmos Energy Corp.'s Mississippi unit and the head of MEC's scholarship fund. "The top ones get recognized but not all of them do."


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Chris and Jay were soo heitmannized after the game, they jumped the fence and charged the field.
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Spring fire season officially starts
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. - Although it may seem too cold, spring fire season is actually underway and some local firefighters have tips to stay safe.
This time of year the grass and leaves are usually much drier and when it's windy, the risk for the fire spreading is high.
Chief Eric Wilson with the Sullivan County Volunteer Fire Department says it's important to have a 300 to 500 foot radius around your fire and always check the weather. "If you plan on burning, check the forecast. If it looks like it's going to be a nice day and the wind isn't going to be blowing real bad, and we're supposed to get some rain that afternoon. That will probably be a good day to try to burn," added Chief Wilson.
A burning permit is required in Tennessee. In Virginia, it's against the law to burn brush before 4pm.
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The three Douglas County schools that landed on the 2012 U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools ranking are nowhere to be found on the 2013 list, but principals say it's not a reflection of performance or cause for alarm.
"We want to make sure our school shows up in that (ranking), so it's definitely disappointing," said Highlands Ranch High School Principal Jerry Goings. "But it's definitely not a reflection of our data."
In 2012, Highlands Ranch, Rock Canyon and Mountain Vista all were among the top 1,000 among almost 5,000 top-performing schools nationwide. Rock Canyon ranked 296th, Highlands Ranch 523rd and Mountain Vista 621st.
Those schools didn't make the 2013 national list, and also weren't ranked on U.S. News' state-by-state breakdown of best schools.
Rock Canyon Principal Andy Abner believes the vital statistic relates to the performance of the school's least advantaged students — minority students and those receiving free or reduced lunch. They are a relatively small percentage of the student body in an affluent, 92 percent Caucasian county, but part of U.S. News' ranking hinges on whether their performance matches the state average.
Abner said the school works to meet the needs of students who fall into those categories.
"At the same time, it's our smallest population of students," he said. "I would say it's less than 5 percent.
"In my opinion, Rock Canyon did not decline from one year to the next. Our ACT scores actually went up. Our AP (Advanced Placement) numbers went up."
Goings said HRHS statistics are similar, with record numbers of students taking and passing AP tests, high state testing scores and other reliable indicators of high performance.
"We've been on both U.S. News and Newsweek's list multiple years and multiple back-to-back years because we've always held strong AP scores and AP participation," he said. "And we've always done well on our state testing."
Douglas County School Board President John Carson said the district analyzed its own data.
"We went through the actual objective criteria, which was reading, math and college proficiency," he said. "When you use those numbers, every one of our high schools would be higher than most of the schools that are on that list.
"It's a different rating system than was used in the past, and it appears to be motivated by politics in some way — injecting race and economics into the formula."
U.S. News said that about 40 percent of the schools on last year's list didn't make the 2013 list. It cites changes in relative performance on state tests, including performance of least advantaged students, and changes in performance on college-level work among possible reasons schools fell off the top ranking.


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Scotland made heavy work of their second World Cup win on Wednesday, labouring to a 15-6 victory over Georgia in Invercargill.
Scotland made heavy work of their second World Cup win on Wednesday, labouring to a 15-6 win over Georgia in Invercargill in probably the worst game so far in the 2011 World Cup.
Four penalties and a drop-goal from Dan Parks were enough to hand Scotland four pool points in a try-less encounter in wet conditions.
After struggling to get the better of Romania in their opening fixture on Saturday, Scotland once again failed to impress against a side playing rather negative rugby.
Opportunities were not lacking for Scotland, but their poor execution suggests that they will struggle to make the quarter-finals.
Georgia's tactics were exactly what we expected: It was all about using the grunt of the pack, taking Scotland on up front and doing everything in their power to disrupt Scottish possession.
And it worked. Scotland were always going to try use their superior backs to stretch the big Eastern Europeans wide and they had the majority of the possession to do so. But the Scots' handling let them down more often that not.
Scotland held a 9-3 lead at the end of a first-half highlighted by some thundering tackles from the Georgians and some poor kicking by both sides.
Scotland were forced into a late change when hooker Scott Lawson pulled out after suffering from a tight calf muscle in training. Ross Ford was called into the first-team to replace Lawson, with Dougie Hall coming onto the replacements' bench.
If Andy Robinson's team were in any doubt they were in for a stern contest, it was clear they had a battle on their hands when Georgia took the lead at the end of the first quarter.
Fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili smashed over a penalty from half-way to give the underdogs their first points of the tournament.
Scotland got onto the scoreboard when Parks landed his second attempt at goal. The pivot put the Scots ahead on 33 minutes before slotting a drop-goal just before the break to leave his team 9-3 ahead as the protagonists headed for the changing rooms.
It was much the same story in the second period and the crowd had to wait until the 71st minute to see the first points – again from Parks's boot.
Georgia replied almost immediately but a late three-pointer from Parks secured the win for Scotland.
Man of the match: Not too many impressive performances but Kelly Brown worked tirelessly at the breakdown.
Moment of the match: The anthems? Not much to write home about here. Dan Parks's drop-goal summed up what was a frustrating night for Scotland. Unable to breach the Georgian defence, they had to advance three points at a time.
The scorers:
For Scotland:
Pens: Parks 4
Drop: Parks
For Georgia:
Pens: Kvirikashvili 2
Scotland: 15 Rory Lamont, 14 Max Evans, 13 Nick De Luca, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Sean Lamont, 10 Dan Parks, 9 Rory Lawson (captain), 8 Kelly Brown, 7 Ross Rennie, 6 Al Strokosch, 5 Jim Hamilton, 4 Nathan Hines, 3 Euan Murray, 2 Ross Ford, 1 Allan Jacobsen.
Replacements: 16 Dougie Hall, 17 Geoff Cross, 18 Alasdair Dickinson, 19 Richie Gray, 20 Richie Vernon, 21 Chris Cusiter, 22 Chris Paterson.
Georgia: 15 Revaz Gigauri, 14 Irakli Machkhaneli, 13 David Kacharava, 12 Tedo Zibzibadze, 11 Alexander Todua, 10 Merab Kvirikashvili, 9 Irakli Abuseridze (capt), 8 Dimitri Basilaia, 7 Mamuka Gorgodze, 6 Shalva Sutiashvili, 5 Vakhtang Maisuradze, 4 Levan Datunashvili, 3 David Zirakashvili, 2 Jaba Bregvadze, 1 David Khinchagishvili.
Replacements: 16 Akvsenti Giorgadze, 17 David Kubriashvilini, 18 Giorgi Chkhaidze, 19 Viktor Kolelishvili, 20 Bidzina Samkharadze, 21 Lasha Khmaladze, 22 Malkhaz Urjukashvili.
Venue: Rugby Park Stadium, Invercargill
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Simon McDowell (Ireland), Tim Hayes (Wales)
Television match official: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)


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"You don't have the team's buy-in," CEO Mike Morford fires back, adding that Stowell's plan is risky and lacks consensus.
It's high noon, and the senior team at Altrec.com, an e-commerce startup that sells outdoor and travel gear, is having it out. But instead of sitting in a climate-controlled conference room at its Bellevue, Washington headquarters, the 10-member team is standing knee-deep in Idaho's lower Salmon River.
The team is three days into a 75-mile rafting descent of the Salmon, one of the wildest, most rapids-choked waterways in the lower 48. Within the towering desert-canyon walls, the July temperature is 100 degrees and rising. A few ominous miles downstream roars the Slide, which at high water is the largest rapids in North America. If the quarrel — which is about a portage Stowell wants to make, not a $1 million business deal — continues unabated, the team will have to run the Slide after dark.
In every way imaginable — on the river and in the marketplace — the heat is cranked for Altrec. In the eat-or-be-eaten world of e-commerce, Altrec must grow big and grow fast. To do so, it must execute a plan of action at a murderous pace in the coming months. On its to-do list: Find a major investment partner, launch an all-out national-branding campaign, overhaul its Web site, and outsmart two other gear-hawking Internet startups.
But its biggest challenge is to meld a battle-hardened senior team out of a collection of talented but untested players. Of the 10 people here, 6 were hired within the past six months — 2 within the past five weeks. The newcomers hail from a wide range of companies, such as Nintendo of America and Eddie Bauer. On paper, this cross-pollination of talent should yield a new and evolved creation. In practice, nobody knows one another — much less how to work together.
Ultimately, the members of Altrec's senior team put themselves on this white water for one reason: They have to. The trip down the river, they hope, will force them into becoming a cohesive team. If it doesn't, they're roadkill.
A little unnervingly, this week's training program is a lot like the Altrec team itself: untested but wildly promising. An adventure-based corporate outing, in itself, is nothing out of the ordinary. Experiential education specialists like Pecos River and Outward Bound have been training corporate teams in outdoor settings for decades. What's new here is that this program is laser-targeted toward business. Altrec hired Seattle-based AlfresCo (a program-management consulting firm), which has allied itself with Project Adventure (one of the leading adventure-based consulting companies) and a pool of top expeditionary outfitters, including O.A.R.S. (Outdoor Adventure River Specialists), the white-water experts who are guiding this trip down the lower Salmon.
The basic concept behind this collaborative venture is straightforward: Let the guides guide and the consultants consult. Project Adventure's Moe Carrick, 37, this trip's facilitator, is a senior consultant whose clients include Starbucks, Nintendo, and Sprint PCS. In the two months preceding this trip, Carrick has met with Altrec's leadership team, completed a comprehensive needs assessment to tease out specific learning goals, and prescribed an expedition: a four-day shoot through the Salmon's churning white water.
In Altrec's case, choosing a bad-ass white-water trip over, say, a breezy cycling tour of Sonoma's vineyards makes sense. In the marketplace, Altrec must navigate a minefield of known and unknown hazards. On the river, they'll need to blast through 10-foot-high waves and dodge punishing, boat-sucking hydraulics. They must adapt to a watery environment that's always moving and changing. In addition, they must complete a five-day trip in just four days.
Between the rapids and the portages, the team will tackle equally tough challenges: Who will fill critical support roles in the organization? Who will call the shots? How do they get beyond the polite, getting-to-know-you stage, so they can give one another no-holds-barred feedback? How can they build the kind of trust that will enable them to make independent, rapid-fire decisions?
Knuckling into those questions will mean holding late-night feedback sessions by campfire. They will forge a six-month game plan for their company. And there will be follow-up: The team will continue to revisit, in conversations back at the office, the takeaways and lessons learned on this odyssey down the Salmon. At least that's the plan.
To get a firsthand look at this experiment in warp-speed team-building, I grabbed my water sandals, entered the unwired void of Green Canyon, and claimed a berth on one of the two Altrec paddle rafts putting in at Hammer Creek. Our flotilla would include three more rafts that carry supplies, five river guides, and a waterproofed library, ranging from the writings of Peter Senge to those of Max DePree. Herewith is a survival guide to extreme team building — on the river and off.
The Put-In
The part of the team-building adventure in which the guide counts heads and asks one very important question: "Is everybody on board?''
Day One, the Red Lion Hotel, Lewiston, Idaho. At 7:30 on the evening of the launch, Carrick, energized and athletic looking, ushers us into a closet-size room off the lobby for the first of our daily briefings. Each leader gets a 28-page booklet that covers session goals and outlines the theory to come. Juxtaposed to the abstract is the reality — namely, the five O.A.R.S. river guides, a pile of dry bags to house our camping gear, and metal "ammo'' boxes for stuff that we don't want squashed. David Geller, 36, Altrec's chief technology officer, takes one look at the intimate setting and moans: "Is this where we have the group hug?"
Anything touchy-feely raises everyone's guard. But a report on the river mitigates the threat that political correctness will take over. The lower Salmon is running abnormally high, says head guide Chris Quinn. The possibility that a boat will hit some big white water and flip is very, very real.
In an introductory exercise that follows Quinn's update, Carrick asks each of us to tell the team something about ourselves that everyone should know. Encouragingly, nobody holds back. Geller says he doesn't much care for outdoor recreation and isn't sure why they're here, given the hellish workload they've left behind. Raymond Calvert, the finance director, admits he can't swim. "I'm not proud of it, but there you go,'' he says.
Twelve hours later, we're heading into Roller-Coaster Rapids. Our boater's guide describes the Class-II turbulence as a "long string of big, fun waves.'' Quinn suggests that the team swim Roller-Coaster. Calvert looks dumbfounded, but he suddenly leaps overboard with his life jacket on and shoots the rapids with everyone else. As Calvert clambers back on board, the group whoops and raises its paddles in a river-style salute. But Calvert shushes them: "Did you notice that I never let go of the boat?''
Later, Carrick says she's not surprised that Calvert didn't have enough self-confidence to let go. Teams in a hurry confront a catch-22 dilemma: You can't build a team without trust, and you can't build trust without time — or at least until you're confident that everyone will deliver in the clutch. Of course, none of the Altreckers has been around long enough to know who'll come through and who won't. On the upside, they are being pushed — on the river and off — and are apt to find out soon enough.
High Turbulence
The part of the adventure in which the question is raised: "If I'm doomed to work with teammates who don't know what they're doing, when do I save myself?"
Day Two, midmorning at Killer Goat Beach. Good news: Because of yesterday's high, fast water, we traveled 19 miles with just a half-day's work. Today, with eight hours of paddling ahead of us, we might double that time. Carrick, however, tosses up a deliberate speed bump. The guides are under new orders: Each Altrec team member will take longer, more independent turns as paddle captain. Each must read the river, chart a course, and instruct the crew as to when to paddle forward — and when to hold on.
Carrick's exercise aims to get at the nub of Altrec's decision-making problems. A major issue is Morford, 29, the company's well-liked CEO. He asks for gobs of input and gives every indication of being a consensus builder. But he isn't. He tries to delegate but can't quite fully trust individuals to execute. The result? Confusion, frustration, and frequent delays. The company, like a poorly steered raft, is pinwheeling through a turbulent marketplace, in danger of dumping at any moment.
But now, as they take turns at the helm and attempt to steer these rafts through raging white water, Altreckers will have the chance to prove that they can lead. For the moment, Morford loses the reins: He's just another paddling grunt.
In large part, the exercise goes well. The day's designated leaders are ecstatic to be at the helm. The others get to see, in a larger-than-work situation, whether their teammates really can take charge. Calvert's turn, for example, is fairly typical. He has his good points: He's confident, enthusiastic, and eager to kick the other boat's ass. But he also has some weaknesses: He tends to overwork his crew, steer erratically, and miss the signals that his teammates are occasionally terrified.
But what strikes Carrick as the most telling take-away aren't the miscues. It's that Calvert, like the others, is unaware of how his leadership style affects the rest of the team. On the flip side, team members aren't doing the leaders any favors by withholding gloves-off feedback. Later, at the evening's campfire session (where the day's leaders are reviewed), the make-nice atmosphere prevails. In fact, Calvert's captaincy is regaled. But the stress of holding back is gnawing at people.
That night, Morford lies awake nearly until dawn; his heart is racing for reasons he only vaguely understands. Mostly, he's got this feeling that the team will sink or swim because of one person: him. He's the leader, but he's not letting others lead — and nobody's calling him on it.
The bottom line, says Carrick: "Everyone thinks they need to build teams. Often, they need to build leaders."
The Portage
The part of the adventure in which you ask yourself, "Is conflict resolution all that it's cracked up to be?"
Day Three, Wapshilla Rapids sandbar. It's dawn, and the temperature is already nearing 100 degrees. We have 24 hours to reach the take-out — which is 30 miles away. A few miles downstream is the notorious Slide. But first, a potentially backbreaking portage awaits us. There's no real reason for the portage; it's a team reason, says Carrick. The idea: Put the decision makers in a tough spot, and see how the group responds.
The tough spot is this: Run Wapshilla Rapids, take out at the nearest sandbar downstream, then carry two of the boats and the gear back to the original starting point, upstream of the rapids.
The team's run-through of Wapshilla is textbook. The rest is anything but. The disagreement kicks off when Shannon Stowell, 31, and Chris Doyle, 34, the day's designated leaders, return from scouting a portage route. Stowell and Doyle announce that they've hatched the safest, most viable plan: The team will bushwhack with the boats, heading briefly inland through briar and prickly pear cactus back upstream. They say the other option, lining the rafts upstream with ropes and scrambling across the boulder-filled shoreline, is too risky.
Morford catches Chris Quinn, the head guide, rolling his eyes at the plan. So Morford tells Stowell that he doesn't have the team's buy-in. But no one else is criticizing the plan. For Stowell, what's missing is what's always missing when push comes to shove: Morford's buy-in. The mood sours; the battling starts in earnest, first about the portage, then about deals gone bad.
"This is just like that cable-channel deal,'' says Stowell, starting to boil over. "You said I had decision-making authority. So you let me get 99% of the way to closing it, and then you said it wasn't my decision to make, and you killed it.''
Morford retorts that he did what he had to do, and that if he'd been kept in the loop, he wouldn't have had to put the last-minute kibosh on the deal.
"Kept in the loop?" Stowell fumes. "You gave me every indication that you didn't want to be kept in the loop." In the case of the portage, Stowell continues, "we told everyone that we were going to scout and that all were welcome. You could have come with us, but instead you chose to sit on the beach.''
"The way I see it, you didn't come back to discuss what you found,'' Morford responds, wondering whatever happened to consensus. "You came to tell us what we were gonna do.''
Now the rest of the team jumps into the fray. Don Pickering, 28, who never favored the overland plan and wanted the leaders to line the rafts up the shoreline, backs Morford. Debbie Steinberg-Kuntz, 29, VP of merchandising, tells Pickering to butt out. Steinberg-Kuntz isn't one to get in someone's face, but Pickering, himself, raises sore issues. His exact role at the company — he's coprincipal with Morford and his title is executive strategist — is a tension-loaded mystery.
"You went on the scout, you made your case to Shannon and Chris, and you were overruled,'' Steinberg-Kuntz tells him. "You agreed to the decision, but now that there are others who agree with you, you want to reopen the discussion. And that's not right.''
Round and round they go. They're not really arguing about the portage; the quarrel is about who leads and who follows. It's about delegating versus consensus building. It's about their inability to trust one another fully. But at least — at last — they're not holding back.
Ultimately, the matter is left to the day's leaders. After consulting with guide Chris Quinn, who says they'll have to deflate all of the boats to prevent a potential puncture in the scrub, Stowell and Doyle decide that half the group should hike the luggage, and the other half should line the boats upstream. Ironically, the portage is a cinch, taking only 30 minutes.
As for the blowup, nobody knows exactly what to make of it. People are sure that it needed to happen, but it's impossible to say how and when the roles and leadership issues will be addressed. They certainly don't have the luxury of dealing with it right now. The Slide is only 30 minutes away. "We can't close the loop on everything,'' says Carrick, "but we can keep moving.''
The Slide
The part of the adventure in which total immersion is no longer just a concept.
Day Three, early afternoon. From the start, shooting these rapids has loomed as the trip's most-feared event. At the prolonged scout, Quinn pronounces the rapids particularly "flippy.'' The final two waves look diabolical. One faces upstream; the other crashes in from the side at a 90-degree angle.
Until now, this journey downriver had been a metaphor for competing in the Internet economy. Now the trip is just plain scary. A few people ask to ride in the supply boats, which are bigger and less prone to flip. Chris Doyle, a new father who stopped rock climbing after a friend's death several years ago, painstakingly assesses the risk and decides to stay in a paddle raft.
As it turns out, Doyle's boat — the last one through — is the one that flips. The crash is spectacular, with the 18-foot boat rising straight up, then toppling over. Doyle is still paddling when the boat plummets from a height of a story and a half. Everyone is dumped, and the white water takes each teammate on a different underwater trajectory. Geller and Tim Shannon, 36, another of the most recent hires, pop up almost instantly. Doyle and Pickering are pulled into the deep and have their sandals ripped off.
"I started to panic, so I began to count underwater,'' says Doyle, who recalled the guides saying a bad dunk might last a few seconds at most. "When I got to 10, I got scared.''
Ten minutes later, it's all over. Led by the guides, the rest of the Altrec team swiftly swings into action, pulling swimmers and gear into the intact raft. Everybody is okay. In fact, everybody is more than okay. If the portage temporarily tore the team apart, the spill brought them back together. There are no epiphanies per se, just the knowledge that they took on something that was bigger than all of them, and they all survived.
The Takeout
The part of the journey in which the real-world adventure begins.
Day Four, a mile away from the takeout at Heller Bar. In the boat and on the beach, Carrick pushes the team to produce an action plan for the first day back at the office. If they don't come up with specific goals, the team building will have begun and ended on the lower Salmon.
What emerges are two items: First, the team devises a plan to scrutinize the current and future roles at Altrec. The tension centers on Pickering. He revised the company's business plan and helped recruit top industry talent. But people can't figure out what he's doing now, or what influence he has on their day-to-day work. Before the trip, neither Morford nor Pickering, who are friends, has had much motivation to resolve what's obviously a prickly situation.
But hours before takeout, the two announce that they'll use an upcoming business trip to hash out the problem. Another team will brainstorm a job description to fill the current leadership void.
As for the second item, the group will begin to draft a road map of four critical team-building areas: decision making, communication, feedback, and respect. Perhaps their most impressive work is how they've zeroed in on decision making. Heading the six-part series of norms: "We trust people to make and own their decisions.''
"Sometimes this group needs to be a team, and sometimes it doesn't," concludes Carrick. "But what the group members always need to be are leaders who are also strong team members.''
After taking on big-time rapids and a turbulent team, Mike Morford can't wait to find a safe harbor back at the office. But he says he's bringing back one big lesson to Bellevue: Leverage, don't cripple, the team's strength. He has assembled a group of aggressive decision makers, and sometimes it's best to skip the consensus building and get out of their way. If it took four days in Idaho to learn that lesson, then hell, they were four days well spent.
Overall, the group is happy with the trip's outcome, but no one hazards a prediction of the river experiment's outcome. Geller, the tech guy who four days ago announced that he gets all the outdoor recreation he needs while mowing his lawn, admits he's glad he made the trip. He got to see people step up and perform in a very public way. But, Geller points out, people still have plenty of proving to do. In six months, if this group of star soloists has found a way to be a team, he'll never say another bad thing about the great outdoors. And that's a promise.
Todd Balf (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a Fast Company contributing editor. Visit altrec.com (www.altrec.com), Project Adventure (www.adventureinbusiness.com), O.A.R.S. (www.oars.com), and AlfresCo (www.alfresco.com) on the Web.
Action Item: Off-Site Site
If you're interested in setting up an adventure-based off-site for your organization, check out the Experiential Training and Development Consortium, a group of adventure-oriented training consultants. The consortium comprises 28 companies that banded together last year and created deep (Definition, Ethics, and Exemplary Practices), which is the first standards and ethics document for the corporate adventure-training market. Visit the Web site, and you'll find companies that adhere to those standards.
Coordinates: Experiential Training and Development Consortium, www.etdconsortium.com
Sidebar: Extreme Lessons
Erick Soderstrom
Title: VP of marketing at Altrec
Previously: Director of advertising and consumer communications at Nintendo of America
The Impact: "Right after we got back from the river, we had a major meeting about Web-site enhancements. As soon as we sat down, about four or five people looked around and said, 'I don't need to be in on this.' And they left. They realized that by leaving us alone to hash out any problems, they were shortening the discussion by a factor of three.
"That sort of awareness is the biggest insight that came out of the trip. There's a time and a place for building consensus. But there's also a time to let people with core competencies run their part of the process. We needed to learn that."
Coordinates: Erick Soderstrom, email@example.com
Cathryn Buchanan
Title: Altrec's senior content producer
Previously: Senior Web producer for National Geographic
The Impact: "Before the trip, I wasn't really sure where I stood in the leadership team. I was hesitant about asking for money and for staff resources. But I felt that I got a vote of confidence on the river. Basically, the message from the rest of the team was, 'We value your work and your vision.'
"Since the trip, I've been a lot more assertive in our weekly strategy meetings. For example, we have a big project we're trying to pull off, and at our last meeting I just said, 'I need our design team to make this project a top priority next month.' I never would have pushed that hard before.''
Coordinates: Cathryn Buchanan, email@example.com
Chris Doyle
Title: Altrec's VP of public relations
Previously: Head of public relations for Eddie Bauer
The Impact: "The first week back from the Salmon, our leadership team met to write a job description for the position of COO that needed to be filled. We discussed that role extensively during the trip, and we felt an urgent need to move on it. We used the feedback skills we'd practiced on the river to create a pretty powerful document. Now CEO Mike Morford and executive strategist Don Pickering have some tangible feedback to work with.
"The most amazing thing is that it took us only 45 minutes to write that job description. That's it. It was the best meeting any of us could remember having.''
Coordinates: Chris Doyle, email@example.com
Sidebar: Instant Off-Site
For those do-it-yourselfers, Project Adventure's senior consultant Moe Carrick offers three packing tips for team building in the wild.
Bring a good field guide: a cutting-edge business manifesto for putting a spark in campfire conversations.
Recent regulars in Carrick's pack: Peter Senge's "The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations" (Currency Doubleday, $35), "Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace" by Gordon MacKenzie (Viking, $22), and "A Simpler Way" by Margaret J. Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers (Berrett-Koehler, $19.95).
Bring contingency gear.
For this adventure, the "contingency gear" is a few props for getting a team to act like a team. Call them team-building accelerants. Standard to Carrick's kit are four to six loops of rope. These are used in a game called "Mergers," which explores paradigm shifts in thinking. For another game, which tests a team's ability to innovate, she has a stopwatch, a 75-foot rope, and 30 rubber dots. These items can be purchased through Project Adventure, which (thankfully) also provides instructions on how to use them.
Bring a plastic bag and a journal.
The bag is for keeping your journal dry. The journal is for recording insights and epiphanies — or at least a few action items.
Coordinates: Moe Carrick, email@example.com
Sidebar: Indoor Off-Site
The upside of an adventure off-site is that you get away for a few days. The downside: You lose a few days. If time is the deal killer, an alternative to a real adventure is a simulated one.
InCourage's Team Everest is a facilitated, multimedia experience where groups of any size can measure their decision-making prowess against the world's most dangerous mountain. Codesigned by consultant Tim Dixon, 34, and leading mountaineers, Team Everest is a half-day, on-site team-building program that re-creates actual scenarios from a 1986 Canadian expedition, in which the first North American woman attempted to reach the summit.
At four different cruxes in the expedition, teams have to make critical decisions that will either propel them farther up the mountain or bury them in their tracks. "This isn't a video game," says Dixon, a partner at InCourage, a Georgetown, Ontario company whose clients include Sony, Nortel Networks, and Allied- Signal. "You're looking at real pictures, you're encountering real events, and you're making life-and-death decisions."
The simulation's goal is not to spawn macho mountain climbers but to force team-based decision making amid information overload, aggressive deadlines, and big, bad setbacks. InCourage also has other adventure-oriented off-sites in such far-flung places as China, Canada, and the Virgin Islands.
Coordinates: InCourage, www.incourage.com
A version of this article appeared in the November 1999 issue of Fast Company magazine.


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*kyaaaaa!!!* atlast!!! we will get to see young kakashi in his 13's(?!) (correct me if im wrong but if my brain is correct he became jounin at the age of 13).
finally, YOINDAIME will have a dubber!!! (playing him in Playstation without a voice is very boring schet!!!)
at first I thought, "hey isn't Turn Back the Pendulum a Gaiden of Bleach? why is Kakashi dont have one!!! damn it!!!" finally it's his time to show of!!! maybe in Naruto Shippuuden Omake, Naruto will blab like Ichigo about something like "hey im the lead of this anime, why i'm having a time off! and its Kakashi-sensei taking over?!" *laugh*
i wish Naruto have something like "Shinagami Illustrated Picture", I really like that portion of Bleach!
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Hopefully they show lots of Minato action. I'd like to see him FTG an army of ninjas. (Also can't wait to see Obito get owned by a boulder )
And as someone else pointed out .... this is MUCH better than fillers
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I wonder how they'll do Kakashi's voice... come to think of it, I wonder how Minato's voice will be too. Obito and Rin I'm not as concerned about.
Hopefully its well animated. @Thsv I'm sure they won't show Yondaime vs the rock 50, sadly =[.
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Adam Driver was nominated for Girls though.
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Must be Lena Headey. She's right, of course. Peter Dinklage needs to take his sour ass and go home. May this be his last nomination.ReplyCancel
Dunham. Headey don't have to write lines for her cast mates. Dunham's bitterness grows when she is forced to write for them, because that garbage show is her ego feed.ReplyCancel
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Professor Spars With Tree-Hating, Gnome-Like Congressman at Hearing
Alaska Congressman Don Young, who has trouble showing up for work, actually rode his snowmobile all the way to Washington to attend Friday's House Natural Resources Committee hearing and say swear words, most notably in the direction of fancy historian Douglas Brinkley.
Brinkley, who's a professor at Rice University and an author (Teddy Roosevelt and Hurricane Katrina are two of his covered subjects), attended the committee hearing in order to promote national monument status for various Alaskan natural wonders that Young and like-minded Congressfolks are always trying to destroy. All his fancy professor-talking agitated Young, who called Brinkley "Dr. Rice" and referred to his testimony as "garbage." And then Brinkley became agitated:
"It's Dr. Brinkley, Rice is a university, and I know you went to Yuba Community College and couldn't graduate . . ." Brinkley shot back.
A fiery Young then interrupted Brinkley, saying: "'I'll call you anything I want to call you when you sit in that (witness) chair. You just be quiet."
"You don't own me," Brinkley replied. "I pay your salary. I work for the private sector and you work for the taxpayers."
Committee chair Doc Hastings then threatened to toss Brinkley from the meeting if he didn't follow the rules, even though we're not entirely sure Brinkley broke any rules. He described Young's use of "Dr. Rice" as a "faux pas"—pronouncing it "foo pas" in the right-wing Republican style. Some order was restored. But Young wasn't done venting—calling people who visit Alaska's national wildlife refuge to go camping "an elitist group," and attacking Brinkley for working at a university:
And what hurts me the most as you sit there in the Rice University, when the people support drilling for their good and for the good of this nation, as a college professor in an ivory tower you can go up there and camp and spend your time. And I hope you spend a lot of money.
And then he yelled at Brinkley some more and admitted that he was "really pissed," and then Hastings yelled at Brinkley for being "disrespectful," and then everyone wondered why taxmen are more popular than Congress.


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SHS HOOPS - The Sheridan high school basketball teams open up conference play tonight the Lady Broncs will play at Cheyenne South and Laramie tomorrow while the Broncs will play at home.
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GENERALS / LADY GENERALS HOOPS - The Sheridan college Generals and Lady Generals swept games from Dawson community college Wednesday night.
The Lady Generals blew out the Bucs 75-42 to run their current winning streak to eight in a row.
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Buffalo High School's boys' swim team was in Rawlins and Cheyenne last weekend, winning the Rawlins meet and finishing in the top tier of mostly 4A schools in Cheyenne.
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SC HOOPS - The Generals and Lady Generals host more conference action tonight against Dawson Community college. Game times are at 5:30 and 7:30 both games will be broadcast live on our sister station 95.9 FM.
The Lady Generals have won seven in a row and remain unbeaten in conference play.
The Generals have ended a two game losing streak and won their last two including Saturday's road win at 9th ranked Western Wyoming.
The Sheridan Rampage won the 6th grade boys division of the Trailhead Classic Basketball Tournament in Billings last weekend.
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Auditor general releases findings of Reading School District audit
READING, Pa. - Pennsylvania's auditor general traveled to Reading on Friday with a strong message for the Reading School District: "Get your house in order and do it now."
Auditor General Eugene DePasquale released results of his audit of the school district during a news conference outside the state office building in downtown Reading.
The audit, DePasquale said, found significant incidents of noncompliance with state laws and administrative procedures.
"To be direct, the Reading School District has failed. It has failed the children of the city and it has failed the taxpayers," Depasquale said.
Specifically, auditors found that the Reading School District:
- Failed to effectively educate the district's students to achieve targeted graduation and academic performance.
- Failed its core mission to educate children and properly handle taxpayer funds because of ineffective management and school board oversight.
- Failed to maintain a stable upper management (The district had four superintendents since July 2005).
- Failed to have policies and procedures in place to oversee its accounting process, which resulted in the erroneous double recording of the receipt of $15.6 million in basic education funding in 2011; an inability to know what bills were paid or unpaid and multiple budget errors resulting in significant variances that left the district unable to manage its accounts or determine purposes of expenditures.
- Failed to have proper password update procedures in place to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive computer files.
- Failed to obtain timely updates of an agreement with pertinent police departments regarding jurisdiction over procedures to be followed in case of an incident on school property.
- Failed to properly monitor professional employee certifications, which may result in possible state subsidy forfeiture.
"I want to make it clear -- these problems are not the fault of students or teachers," DePasquale said. "The responsibility for this debacle lies squarely upon the shoulders of the school board and many in the administration."
DePasquale unveiled a list of six recommended policy and procedural changes for the school district to make in an effort to resolve the issues uncovered by the audit.
- Complete and institute an action plan to ensure that schools have adequate resources and procedures in place to enable students to meet academic goals and graduation rates.
- Immediately prepare and adopt accounting and documentation procedures for reconciling cash receipts and revenue accounts.
- Hold management accountable for properly implementing the school board's policies and regularly monitor management's performance while the school board encourages and supports the stability of the management team.
- Implement security controls for the district's computer records, including student and other sensitive information.
- Update on a timely basis all agreements with law enforcement and first-responder organizations to ensure a coordinated and effective response to any safety emergencies.
DePasquale said his auditing team will stay on top of the district and return to Reading in six months to make sure corrective actions have been made.
"The situation is shameful and unfortunate, but action is needed now," DePasquale said. "It will not be turned around immediately, and I'm sure even with every effort and everyone doing everything, it will take time, but the kids of this district, the job growth of this district, the health of this district and the future economy of Berks County depend on this happening now."
Pa. Sen. Judy Schwank and Reps. Tom Caltagirone and Mark Rozzi, who stood by the auditor general's side during the news conference, sent a letter to DePasquale in January, asking him to take a close look at the district's finances.
In the letter, they cited the $15 million "accounting shortfall" as being the latest in "a series of disturbing problems that have plagued the district."
The lawmakers spoke out again Friday in response to DePasquale releasing his report.
"Unfortunately, mismanagement continues to be as much a part of the Reading School District as reading, writing and arithmetic," said Caltagirone. "Our kids – the students who walk the halls of every Reading School District elementary, middle, intermediate unit, and high school – must return to be the central focus of how this district performs beginning today."
"The fact that the auditor general, who is Pennsylvania's independent watchdog, is pointing to the further evidence of insufficient governance policies is more evidence that the Reading School District needs to get its act together and the board needs to get down to working for the best interests of the children," Schwank said.
The lawmakers cited a January 2012 report by then-Auditor General Jack Wagner, which found that 14 of the district's teachers had been working with improper certification; the district did not properly account or retain records for grant receipts and expenditures; and weaknesses in vendor computer databases could allow for unauthorized changes that could not be tracked.
The Reading School District superintendent, Carlida Purcell, released a statement in response to the auditor general's findings.
"The auditor's report is certainly not good news, however, we continue to be committed to leading change, leading learning and transforming our district for students success," Purcell said. "It will take a lot of hard work, but it is crucial that we develop a real sense of teamwork and governance for the sake of our students."
The Reading Education Association, the union that represents the district's nearly 1,200 teachers, also responded to the auditor general's findings on Friday.
"We have repeatedly proclaimed that, while teachers must be held accountable for student success, those who make policies and decisions affecting our schools must also be held accountable for providing the resources necessary to attain that success," said Bryan Sanguinito, president, REA.
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- Warm weather in Berks means time for ice cream
- District 3 Wrestling: AAA and AA semifinal roundup
- Walker guides Red Knights into district semis in final game at Geigle
- Thunder strikes Royals on the road, 4-2
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- Woman loses more than half her body weight after 140-pound mass is removed
- Al Boscov's daughters, lifelong friend to speak at service
- Warm weather in Berks means time for ice cream
- Union Township woman accused of stealing from Parent Teacher Association
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Report: Multiple Teams Interested in Melky Cabrera
Melky Cabrera is looking more and more like he will not be with the San Francisco Giants next season.
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Labels: melky cabrera, mlb, mlb free agency, san francisco giants
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Golden State Warriors: Andrew Bogut Likely To Miss More Time Than Expected
Through five games this season, the Warriors have three wins, two losses and two players injured and out for significant time. That is 0.4 players injured per game -- not a good start to the season, by any means.
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Labels: andrew bogut, golden state warriors, mark jackson, nba
Raiders: #PalmersFault Gets Trending on Twitter
I am writing this post and it is all #PalmersFault, at least according to some knowledgable Raiders fans this past week.
The Raiders lost to the Buccaneers, and the fans responded with a hashtag that set the Twitter world ablaze -- in sort of a sarcastic manner.
The Raiders lost to the Buccaneers, and the fans responded with a hashtag that set the Twitter world ablaze -- in sort of a sarcastic manner.
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Labels: #palmersfault, carson palmer, nfl, oakland raiders
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Sabean: San Francisco Giants Keeping Hunter Pence, Brian Wilson A 'Wait-and-See'
With the accolades of a World Series victory also comes the burden of players with newly-acquired World Series rings that want money now. Angel Pagan fits into that category rather nicely this offseason.
However, Hunter Pence is another story as he heads into arbitration with the Giants. The arbitration year could score him nearly $13 million next season, after rather disappointing production since the move to San Francisco.
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Labels: brian sabean, brian wilson, hunter pence, mlb, san francisco giants
Giants Prospect Andrew Susac Goes on Republican Rant After Presidential Election
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Report: San Francisco Giants World Series Parade Cost $225K
According to the SF Examiner, the total cost of putting on the parade was $225,000. However, the hoopla that went on around the parade was the most significant cost of the day. The confetti and
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Labels: giants parade, nfl, san francisco giants
Thursday, November 1, 2012
San Francisco Giants Redefine Baseball's Winning Formula
The ultimate smack in the face is the San Francisco Giants going into every round of the 2010 playoffs as underdogs, then going into the playoffs two years later as underdogs once again.
In 2012, the Giants smacked back and won their second World Series title in three years -- a feat not accomplished by a National League team since the Cincinnati Reds' Big Red Machine.
Major League Baseball, take notice -- the Giants know something the rest of you do not.
If 2010 hinted at the new winning formula in baseball, then in 2012 it made its definitive case.
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Labels: 2012 world series, mlb, san francisco giants
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Curry, Warriors Agree to 4-Year Contract Extension
The Warriors and Curry agreed to a four-year contract extension on Wednesday worth $44 million, according to Bay Area News Group's Marcus Thompson III.
Posted by semmler22 at 9:20 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
San Francisco Giants' Righetti, Evans Could Be Elsewhere in 2013
In a period of time that should see Angel Pagan get a monster deal, Marco Scutaro getting a one or two-year deal worth more now with an NLCS MVP in his pocket and Hunter Pence arbitration-eligible, Giants's management may also be facing some tough decisions.
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Labels: bobby evans, dave righetti, mlb, san francisco giants
Monday, October 29, 2012
49ers Video: Dashon Goldson Beheads Early Doucet
In the 49ers' butt-whooping of the Cardinals on national television, Goldson made a hit that could make any sports fan cringe -- although you may want to watch it once or seventeen times.
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Report: Golden State Warriors Were Interested in James Harden
Grantland.com's Zach Lowe is reporting that the Golden State Warriors were also involved in some minor negotiations with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Labels: golden state warriors, james harden, nba, nba trade rumors
49ers' New Santa Clara Stadium Promises To Be NFL's Smartest
ESPN is reporting that the Santa Clara stadium that is expected to cost around $1.2 billion is going to be the most technologically savvy venue the sports world as ever seen.
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Labels: new santa clara stadium, nfl, san francisco 49ers
San Francisco Giants' Ron Wotus Candidate For Colorado Rockies Manager
One whisper was actually mentioned a couple days ago, as Giants bench coach Ron Wotus has emerged as a candidate for the Colorado Rockies
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Labels: colorado rockies, mlb, ron wotus, san francisco giants
Thursday, October 25, 2012
2012 World Series: Bumgarner Deals in San Francisco Giants' Game 2 Victory
The greatest offense the MLB had to offer in 2012 has been completely shut down through the first two games of the World Series.
They've been shut down not by the top pitching staff in all of baseball, but by a team whose biggest weakness heading into the World Series was arguably their starting pitching.
A left-for-dead Barry Zito and a struggling Madison Bumgarner have sent the favored Detroit Tigers into a 2-0 hole to start the World Series.
Bumgarner did the damage in Game 2 on Thursday night.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
2012 World Series: Sandoval in the Zone in San Francisco Giants' Game 1 Win
In a strange way, the San Francisco Giants shocked the world on Wednesday night.
They took Game 1 of the World Series, and proved a lot of critics, analysts and experts wrong in the process.
The storyline centered on the based god Justin Verlander?
However, Pablo Sandoval was very much existent -- approaching Babe Ruth status with three home runs, two of which were off probable Cy Young winner Verlander.
The Giants played Wednesday night's Game 1 exactly how they needed to. No one expected them to win with Verlander on the mound and a week lineup to boot in a pitcher's ballpark. Yet, San Francisco got the job done 8-3, taking a 1-0 series lead.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Berkman Calls Hunter Pence Broken Bat Hit 'Illegal,' Thinks Tigers Will Win World Series
After the St. Louis Cardinals were defeated for the third straight game in a row on their way to giving up a World Series birth, injured Cardinal Lance Berkman shared his thoughts on Hunter Pence's all-out strange base hit past shortstop Pete Kozma on Monday night.
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2012 World Series: Exploring the San Francisco Giants' DH Possibilities
Through grit and determination the San Francisco Giants are headed to the World Series, although those two characteristics could easily be replaced with luck and sheer magic that every World Series contender holds this time of year.
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Labels: 2012 world series, mlb, pablo sandoval, san francisco giants
Monday, October 22, 2012
Brian Sabean Brushes Off Tim Lincecum Trade Rumors
The talk got started after an article by the Boston Globe's Nick Cafardo speculated that Lincecum would be traded by the San Francisco Giants.
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Labels: brian sabean, mlb, nlcs, san francisco giants, tim lincecum
49ers: Pete Carroll Responds to Jim Harbaugh's Complaints to NFL
He went as far as to complain to the NFL about it.
Harbaugh claimed cornerbacks Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner were maybe a little too physical with his wide receivers.
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Labels: nfl, pete carroll, san francisco 49ers, seattle seahawks
NBA Votes Klay Thompson 'Most Likely to Have Breakout Season'
Thompson received 13.3% of the votes, while Kyrie Irving and Kawhi Leonard each received 10% of the votes.
Last season, James Harden was given the preseason honor after receiving 21.4% of the vote.
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Labels: golden state warriors, klay thompson, nba
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Golden State Warriors: Stephen Curry Tweets "Ankle Will Be Fine"
Curry dove for a ball amid a scrum vs. Portland and had his ankle rolled over by one of the players involved. However, Curry tweeted that he is doing fine.
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Stephen Curry Injures Ankle .... Again .... in Golden State Warriors Preseason Game
Stop me when you have heard this before.
Stephen Curry hurt his .......
Too easy.
Curry rolled his surgically repaired ankle in a preseason game on Friday night in Portland and did not return.
He played in just 26 games last season because of the fragile ankles his career has seemed to be plagued with.
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
San Jose Sharks Take To Twitter Explaining Reality of NHL Lockout
With commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHL offering the NHLPA a 50/50 revenue split on Wednesday, the concern turned to the players and why they had not accepted an offer they have stood by for the entirety of the whole ordeal.
Ryane Clowe and Logan Couture were quick to explain the reality of the situation via Twitter Thursday.
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Residents Against Warriors' San Francisco Arena Plans, Project's Cost Revealed, etc.
A big week for the Golden State Warriors' proposed San Francisco arena was followed by some expected backlash.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
49ers' New Santa Clara Stadium A Finalist For Super Bowls 50 and 51
With the blueprints for the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium in Santa Clara came the promise of a Super Bowl at the location in the near future.
Sure enough, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Tuesday that San Francisco was a finalist for Super Bowl 50 in 2016.
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Golden State Warriors Unveil New San Francisco Arena Images
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Candlestick Park Stabbing: Police Arrest Involved 49ers Fans
If the fans of Candlestick Park did not have a bad reputation already, they do now.
Police have arrested the two men involved in a stabbing outside Candlestick Park before the 49ers vs. Giants game on Sunday.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
NLCS: Giants announce Bumgarner, Vogelsong Starters in Games 1 and 2
The Giants were presumably docked in Cincinnati waiting to know where they would be playing in the NLCS.
They found out they would be heading home to start the series on Sunday.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
49ers' Brandon Jacobs Frustrated in San Francisco?
Now would be the time for Brandon Jacobs to inquire about his playing time.
He is set to go up against his former team -- a team he won the Super Bowl with last season, and the same team he was released by in the offseason.
However, Jacobs has not touched the field in the 2012 regular season with the 49ers.
If you ask head coach Jim Harbaugh, he would say that Jacobs has battled some injuries and the team wants him to be 100%.
But anyone with a logical bone in their body knows that Jacobs is ready to go and could have played in any of the last three weeks' games if he had to.
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San Francisco Giants: Taking A Look at the Starting Rotation in NLCS
The San Francisco Giants became the first team in MLB history to claim victory in a five-game series by winning three straight games on the road, and now the waiting begins.
If the Nationals take down the Cardinals at home in Game 5 Friday night, then the Giants will travel to Washington D.C. to play the first two games of the series.
If St. Louis takes down the Nationals, then the Giants start at AT&T Park in front of a home crowd ready to welcome home a team they never saw win in the 2012 NLDS.
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Did You Know? Countdown to Halloween (10/30)
Did You Know?
Facts, Figures & Folklore
About Halloween
Oct 30 : 01 day till Halloween
Did you know that October 30th (today!) is Candy Corn Day?
Candy corn is one of the most popular Halloween treats.
Did you know that more than 35 million pounds of candy corn will be manufactured this year?
That's equal to some 9 billion pieces of corn, enough to circle the moon 21 times if laid out end-to-end.
BTW – one serving of candy corn contains 140 calories and no grams of fat
The holiday of Halloween dates back to the Dark Ages. Once truly spooky traditions have morphed over the years into much more light-hearted (but still mischievous) celebrations. Here is a fun look at some of the facts and folklore that describe how All Hallows Eve came to be celebrated as Halloween. Join us for a new Did You Know? each day as we count down to Halloween.
Halloween will be celebrated on Sunday October 31st.
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