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New Balance 411 Walking Shoe - Mens
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Tired feet, tired legs? Then velcro-up a pair of theses New Balance men's 411 walking shoes and walk away the pain! Easy hook-and-loop velcro closure makes these walking shoes fit securely and much easier to get on.
- Leather and mesh upper
- Double hook-and-loop velcro closure
- Padded collar and tongue for comfort
- Fabric lining
- Cushioned insole
- ABZORB® cushioning in heel provides shock absorption
- Injection molded EVA midsole provides lightweight cushioning and shock absorption
- Walking Strike Path® stabilizes the foot through the natural gait cycle
- Textured rubber outsole for durability and traction
- Wide width available
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Stuart Weitzman Baby Minx Girls Infant Dress Shoe
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Your little baby girl will look just as adorable as you in these stylishly sweet Baby Minx dress shoes from Stuart Weitzman.
- 1 = 6wks-3 mos., 2 = 3-6 mos., 3 = 6-9 mos., 4 = 9-12 mos.
- Fabric upper with pom pom accent
- Stretch mary jane strap for secure fit
- Stretch trim around collar
- Soft fabric lining
- Synthetic sole
- Imported
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December 30, 2012
For my babygirl!
"Bought these for my 1st child who will arrive in May 2013. I am very girly but pink doesn't sit well with me. Red & Black combo is one of my favs so these were right on time. They are so cute "in person" and even though I know she won't wear them too long, every girl should own a pair of Stuart Weitzman's. They are so cute that when I posted them on IG, friends were asking me where I got them and I ended up ordering another pair for a family member's daughter. Too cute!"
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This manual presents a consolidation of current graduate school policies approved by the Graduate Council and of procedures established by the Graduate School to implement these policies. It is designed to serve both Wright State faculty and graduate students. It supersedes previous editions and should be taken as a definitive statement of the policies for graduate study.
The procedures are given in detail so that anyone will know the necessary steps to follow in undertaking a particular course of action, be it making application for graduate study, submitting or processing a petition, or requesting additions to program curricula.
Students are reminded that it is their responsibility to be aware of student-related items in this manual. Ignorance of these policies is not an acceptable justification for failure to abide by these regulations. Commonly ignored or misunderstood items include the following:
- Deadlines for submitting degree applications.
- Deadlines for thesis submission.
- The requirement to be registered in the semester that a thesis or dissertation is defended.
- The requirement that graduate assistants register and remain registered for at least six credits of graduate work per semester.
- That a student must complete all requirements for a master's degree within seven years, unless the student's specific program has a shorter time limit.
- That only 50% of degree work may be taken in non-degree status.
The Graduate School will update this manual on a regular basis, as policy changes are made by the Graduate Council or as procedural changes become necessary. In addition, interim changes in policy and procedure will be communicated to the graduate program directors. Please contact the Graduate School for information or clarification of any policy or procedural matters. The Graduate School is located in E344 Student Union at telephone number 775-2976 and our web site is www.wright.edu/gradschool/. As always, we will be glad to provide assistance.
The material in this manual has been prepared for information purposes and does not constitute a contract between students, faculty, administrators, Graduate School, Colleges/Schools, and the University. The University reserves the right to make changes in policy, regulations, and programs without notice.
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Have you ever wondered what happens to snakes in the winter? �They buy scooters and ride to Florida, but sometimes they slither down into their holes and ride trainers until the walls of their home are soaked in sweat. �The Snake is riding his bike, tirelessly training for one goal; a Spring Century. �After discussing it for a bit I've convinced him my super flat 100 mile course would be a good route for him to give it a go, so we've green lighted "Return of the Snake, 2013."
You are formally invited to ride the 101 mile route with us �on either March 2nd, the 9th or 16th. �Exact date will depend on weather and a variety of conditions. �The qualifications for the ride are simple, you need a bike, we'll be leaving from Harrisburg in the morning hours, and you'll need to be physically capable of riding 100 miles in around 8 hours. �Helmets are strongly�recommended�but we won't be wearing them.
The course will range from totally flat, to rolling hills but will not contain a single hard climb. �We will be traveling to Shawneetown, Herald, Carmi, McClanesboro, Broughton, and Eldorado, the entire route will be smooth paved roads with mostly very low traffic.
All participants will�receive�commemorative�hand printed�bandannas�with the "Return of the Snake" logo, finishers can have their�bandanna�signed by Snake himself, unless he doesn't finish, then you can sign his.
All finishers will be inducted into the 101 club where their name will live on forever with the likes of Matt Gholson and Bicycle Jimmy.
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Please drive with common sense
I've heard people joke about the expression "One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and four to go" but I don't think it's a joke any longer:
More people seem to be trying to do everything possible to beat red lights, avoid pulling over for emergency vehicles and my pet peeve, not stopping for school buses with their stop sign out and red lights flashing. Just look at the data that the city recently released about red light offenders…..
People on the road seem to have no patience or common sense anymore and they're stepping on the gas, flooring it and saying that very same expression "one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and four to go" as they do it.
Maybe it's just me and I'm overreacting but has anybody else noticed the high number of vehicles on the road being driven by drivers who just don't seem to care?
I was on my way to work the other day when I noticed a school bus stopped with its stop sign out, red lights flashing and the crossing guard out trying to escort two young children across the street.
The crossing guard and children had to jump back like 5 times to avoid getting plowed down and becoming road kill. On top of that, they had wait almost 2 minutes to safely cross the street because drivers kept ignoring the emergency flashers and stop sign.
A few minutes later, I witness this car driving down Lake Ave in front of an ambulance with its emergency system activated, sirens blasting, lights flashing, and horn blowing with the EMS driver doing everything possible to get the attention of the other driver so that they could pull over and yield the right of way but the driver kept on going and ignoring them.
Really………you expect me to believe that you couldn't hear those crazy loud sirens that can wake the dead or see those flashing strobe lights that will make you think that you're at a disco party?
Come on… I mean what the ambulance got to do to get by? Turn into a Monster Truck and drive right on top of your car?
I understand that some people maybe in a rush but dang….slow down, get out the way, follow the NYS DMV Vehicle & Traffic Law and please, oh please, drive with common sense!!!!!!


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July 15th Show: Clinical trial about a testosterone study for men 65 years or older
On the July 15th show, Dr. Glaser will be joined by Dr. Shalender Bhasin. Dr. Bhasin is a Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, and Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at Boston Medical Center. He serves as the Director of the NIA-funded Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center for Function Promoting Therapies. Dr. Bhasin is an internationally recognized endocrinologist with expertise in testosterone biology, reproductive endocrinology, and human aging. He chaired the Endocrine Society's Expert Panel for the development of Guidelines for Testosterone Therapy. He is a translational researcher, with over 195 peer-reviewed manuscripts, supported by several NIH-funded grants. He has been the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards.
The two will discuss a research study and clinical trial about a testosterone for men 65 or older. Check out the additional information below.
You may be a suitable candidate for a research study involving the effects of testosterone in aging men. Testosterone is a hormone that occurs naturally in the body and is often referred to as the 'male hormone.' It is responsible for the maintenance of muscle mass and strength, bone density, sexual function, physical energy and a sense of wellbeing. Some of these effects may decline as testosterone levels decrease in the later decades of adult life.
Dr. Bhasin and his research team at Boston University Medical Center are investigating the role of testosterone replacement therapy and its effects on health-related outcomes in older men who have low testosterone levels.
You may be eligible to participate in our research if you are a man 65 and over, have not had a heart attack within the past three months and have never had prostate cancer. If you are interested in learning more about this study and contributing to the advancement of knowledge, please call 617-414-2968.
Financial compensation is provided. The participants will undergo an extensive health evaluation and screening for prostate and heart disease. Please be aware that participation in our research is completely voluntary.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from you.
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It can be very difficult to find women in the early 19th Century – finding sources that actually give their names and genealogical details. It was common in the 19th century for genealogical sources to be brief and give only the basic information about a household in the census – or an entry in a birth register.
The 1800 – 1840 census – only named one person in the entire family – the head of the household – while that could have been a single woman who never married or was widowed – it was most often the husband. Most American's men and women were not named in the census.
Birth and church registers often record brief information – with entries like:
1812 July 28. A son, to Walter Hickenlooper.
What was the son's or the mother's name?
So researchers become experts in tracking down records that give more information – that fill in the missing details of our family trees.
Genealogists write me all the time with their success stories in finding their elusive ancestors using GenealogyBank.
GenealogyBank is particularly strong on pre-1850 newspapers – with over 1,300 titles.
GenealogyBank has over 3,700 newspapers – that range from 1690 to today ….. you can find the details about women in GenealogyBank – information that is just not in the census and often not found in other early 19th century sources. Newspapers you just won't find on other sites.
I have been working on my Brundage line and documenting all of the grandparents; aunts and cousins in Westchester, New York and the family members that have spread across the country.
I found this Brundage obituary notice (Hudson River (NY) Chronicle 8 Oct 1839) that illustrates the point –
In the 1820 Census – John Brundage is living in Bedford, NY – with his wife (unnamed) and family. By the 1840 census – neither one of them was listed. Why?
This obituary article tells us that John has died and that his "widow" – Rachael Brundage died on 26 Sep 1839 at age "about 44 years" – well before the 1840 census. I now knew what had happened to them.
Clue #1 – Name: Rachael Brundage: a widow of John Brundage; her age; her date & place of death
Clue #2 – Name of husband: John Brundage – and that he had predeceased her
In addition to the details about Rachael & John Brundage – the article has two other obituaries.
Look at the facts that we find about these women: Harriet Sutherland and Deborah Cornwell.
Harriet Sutherland
The article tells us that Harriet Sutherland died on 25 Sep 1839 at "Middle Patent" – (North Castle, NY) – the widow of John Sutherland. It gives her age as "aged about 46 years".
Clue #1 – Name: Harriet Sutherland: a widow of John Sutherland; her age; her date & place of death
Clue #2 – Name of husband: John Sutherland- and that he had predeceased her
And in the third obituary in this article we learn that "Miss Deborah Cornwell, daughter of the late Jonathan Cornwell" died 6 Sep 1839 in Henrietta, Monroe County, NY at the "fiftieth year of her age" and that she was "formerly of New Castle (NY)."
Clue #1 – Name: Deborah Cornwell: a daughter of Jonathan Cornwell; her age; her date & place of death; that she formerly lived in New Castle, NY.
Clue #2 – Name of father: Jonathan Cornwell- and that he had predeceased her
It can be difficult to find a good woman in the early 19th century – but newspapers are a terrific source and GenealogyBank has more of them than you will find anywere else.
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Buying a Kindle Fire confirms one editor's view on the future of m-commerce.
I am on fire, in more ways than one. First, I just purchased a Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon.com Inc. Second, that brings my mobile device count up to three—an iPhone, an iPad and a Kindle Fire. Third, that brings my form factor count up to three—small (3.5-inch screen, 4.9 ounces), medium (7-inch screen, 14.6 ounces) and large (9.7-inch screen, 1.44 pounds). And fourth, that brings my mobile platform count up to two—Apple's iOS and Google Inc.'s Android. I've got all my bases covered. (And please, don't say what about BlackBerry and Windows. BlackBerry is dead in the water, and Windows is too late to the game.)
I bought the Kindle Fire in part to expand my horizons when it comes to experience with mobile platforms. I'm an Apple loyalist to the core, but I wanted an Android in my arsenal. I also bought the Kindle Fire because, frankly, I just had to have one. The device is that cool. Not to mention the fact that I've been reading Kindle e-books for years using the free Kindle app on my iPhone and iPad, and the Kindle Fire is the best form factor for reading e-books.
What I find myself doing is using the iPhone anywhere and everywhere, using the iPad at home on the couch and at work, and using the Kindle Fire during the commute and at home on the couch and in bed. But the Kindle Fire added a new twist to my mobile activities: My shopping is drifting to the Fire. (I should make clear that I'm a loyal customer of Amazon.com.)
What the Kindle Fire confirms for me is that Amazon.com will remain the top mobile retailer for many years to come, to say the least. It's No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Mobile Commerce Top 300, having raked in $2 billion in 2011 through its m-commerce site, tablet site, and various smartphone and tablet apps. It's achieved this success through constant innovation using mobile technology. And the Kindle Fire is the perfect example of how Amazon will stay on top.
It came ready for me out of the box. I bought it online on the desktop site, and obviously Amazon knew it was me. Unbelievably, it came out of the box saying "Bill's Kindle" on the screen, asked me to confirm a couple of facts about myself, and then it was ready for one-touch buying. I immediately had a shopping machine in my hands. The Amazon Kindle App is an elegant and efficient program optimized for that 7-inch screen that allows you to browse and search so easily—and buy even more easily with one-touch buying. Once you've got a Kindle in your hand, Amazon's got you. You're going to shop on that device. And you're going to buy merchandise from them.
Amazon has not released Kindle Fire sales figures, saying only that sales for all Kindle devices grew 177% in the nine-week period ending Dec. 31, 2011, compared with the same period the year prior. It says the Kindle Fire was its best-selling product among all products on the site during that same 2011 period. Research firm IDC says Amazon sold 4.7 million Kindle Fire devices—just the Fire, not the whole line of Kindles—in Q4 2011, its debut quarter. By comparison, Apple says it sold 15.4 million iPads in Q4 2011. The Kindle Fire truly is on fire, even if it can't quite match the iPad's scorching sales figures.
When a web-only retailer can reach out and grab consumers with hardware that for shopping replaces the desktop and the smartphone, it's an amazing achievement. All I can say is, you better make sure you have an efficient and cool Android app for all those Kindle Fire users. They're going to be getting very used to shopping on that device through Amazon.com. And when they want to shop at other favorite retailers, those retailers better be in the Amazon Appstore.
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Steve Madden Fringer Flag Tote
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It's a fringe revolution! Be a part of the latest trend with this Steve Madden BFringer Flag Tote. This bag is stylish and practical, with plenty of space and pockets for everything you need, day or night.
- Faux leather fringe tote
- Top snap closure
- Rolled handles with 9" drop
- Adjustable shoulder strap with 18" drop
- Fabric lining with zipper pocket and two slip pockets
- Dimensions 14" x 1" x 14"
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Last year I went with my family to the Disney on Ice show, which was fantastic. The music, choreography, lighting and everything about is made is a super show for all the family. It was kind of expensive for us all to go, but, as a family day out it was worth every penny. Ok, it might not be every adult's cup of tea, but for the kids it's great.
Here's hoping to go again this years over the Christmas holiday period. Last year we went to see Frozen, not sure what the show is this year, but we will be booking tickets for definite.


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Bruder Caterpillar Wheel Loader is a replica of the real thing. It comes with a removable rear coupling, detachable front shovel and fully functional loading arm among other features, making it versatile. It'll encourage kids to discover and explore its multi-functional parts.
Why You'll Love It: Construction made fun with a full featured loader.
Age: 3 years and up
Playing is not an end in itself, but lets children make experiences in the adult world which they can use for their own development. In line with this principle, BRUDER products are developed as "model-sized toys." Model-sized to encourage children to imitate real life in the form of role plays; functional to help them understand the technical backgrounds by allowing them to "grasp by grabbing."
It is thanks to our high-quality products as well as our know-how that we rank among today's leading manufacturers of plastic toy vehicles in Europe. Our utilization of resources is based on the principle of sustainability. Our in-house recycling loop and our energy-saving production process combined with our customer service who can provide spare parts for the repairs of our toy vehicles make our products particularly durable.
The great strength of BRUDER Spielwaren lies in its innovation when it comes to developing and manufacturing new toys with the functionality for which BRUDER is so well known.Everything - from the initial ideal to production and marketing - is done under one roof at BRUDER's principal offices in Furth, Germany.
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VanEli Aleece Wedge Pump
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Create a sleek and sophisticated look in the Aleece by VanEli. This pump will pair perfectly with your favorite slacks and dress up any outfit whether wearing for work or weekends!
- Color-block suede upper
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- 2¾" covered heel
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- Inability of the tiny hairs inside the ear to remove fluid and infection
- Poor squeezing function within the eustachian tube
- Narrow eustachian tube—in infants
- Adenoid tissue blocking eustachian tube—in children
- Swollen nasal secretions that cause a blockage
- Tumors—in adults
Risk Factors
- Nasal congestion from an allergy
- Cold or other upper respiratory infection
- Ear or sinus infections
- Environmental allergies
- Children with large adenoids
- Activities with large, rapid altitude changes, such as flying in an airplane or scuba diving
- Presence of obstructing tumors in the nasopharynx
- Feeling of fullness or clogging in the ear
- Discomfort or pain in the ear
- Hearing loss
- Ringing in the ear
- A sensation of spinning known as vertigo
- Symptoms that cannot be relieved by swallowing, yawning, or chewing
- Pain if the blockage results in an infection
- Tympanogram
- Audiogram
- Swallowing, yawning, or chewing gum to relieve the pressure
- Clearing your ears by breathing in and then gently breathing out while holding your nostrils and mouth closed
- Blowing up balloons or inflation devices
- Oral antihistamines if allergies are present
- Nasal steroids to relieve nasal congestion and swelling to enable the eustachian tube to open
- Pain medications such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen
- Brief (3 days or less) use of nasal or oral decongestants
- Treat allergies as advised by your doctor.
- Avoid flying in an airplane or going scuba diving if you have allergies or a cold.
When flying:
- Use decongestants or antihistamines if you have an allergy or a cold.
- Yawn or chew gum. Encourage swallowing by sucking on hard candy or drinking water.
- When taking off and landing, clear your ears by breathing in and then gently breathing out while holding your nostrils and mouth closed.
- Try special earplugs that slowly equalize the pressure in your ear. These earplugs can be found at drugstores and airports.
American Hearing Research Foundation http://www.american-hearing.org
Family Doctor—American Academy of Family Physicians http://familydoctor.org
Canadian Academy of Audiology http://www.canadianaudiology.ca
The Canadian Hearing Society http://www.chs.ca
Barotrauma. American Hearing Research Foundation website. Available at: http://american-hearing.org/disorders/barotrauma. Updated October 2012. Accessed September 17, 2015.
Eustachian tube dysfunction. McKinley Health Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign website. Available at: http://www.mckinley.uiuc.edu/handouts/eustachian%5Ftube%5Fdysfunction/eustachian%5Ftube%5Fdysfunction.html. Accessed September 17, 2015.
Eustachian tube dysfunction. Patient website. Available at: http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Eustachian-Tube-Dysfunction.htm. Updated February 24, 2015. Accessed September 17, 2015.
General information about nasopharyngeal cancer. National Cancer Institute website. Available at: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/nasopharyngeal/Patient. Updated August 12, 2015. Accessed September 17, 2015.
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By Gretchen Steele
Now that most hunting seasons have come to close, many of us want to stay in the woods and keep our scouting, tracking, patterning, and stalking skills intact. One of the best ways to do this is to hunt with a camera.
These days, my work as an outdoor communicator finds me hunting with a camera more days than I hunt with a gun or a bow. Rarely a day goes by that I am not in the field, with a pack full of cameras and lenses, my shooting sticks strapped on to use as camera rests. Thanks to the high quality and durability of the Próis line one worry I don't have is that of durable, well fitting, technical outdoor clothing. Whether I am lying in a snow covered field photographing incoming geese or sweltering in the swamps photographing snakes, salamanders, and wading birds; Próis has me covered. Literally.
Many hunters and outdoor enthusiasts ask me how to improve their wildlife photos. The short simple answer is treat it like hunting. Just like hunting with a firearm or bow, hunting with a camera requires many of the same skills. Whether I am putting a trophy on the wall or an image of that big buck, the process is the same.
Good wildlife photos don't just happen – it takes time and effort. Here are a few tips to help you improve your wildlife photos.
Scout – Scout, scout and scout some more. You can't photograph the creatures if you can't find them. The added advantage to hunting with a camera is that one can access areas that are closed to hunting. Burn the boot leather, and figure out where that flock of turkeys is roosting, when they come down, where they are strutting.
Pattern – Pattern the creatures that you wish to photograph. Learn their habits, watch them long enough to know when and where they usually feed, drink, and bed down. Soon you will know that every evening just before sunset the elk come down out of the trees to a meadow pool to drink and eat sweet fresh grass.
Stalking – Yes, wildlife photographers routinely use long focal length lenses, but often the cost and sheer need for a pack mule to haul around those giant heavy weight lenses makes the need to get close and fill the frame an often utilized skill. Just as a bow hunter needs to close the distance, so does a wildlife photographer. The same methods that you employ as a spot and stalk hunter are exactly what you will use when it is a camera in your hands versus a bow.
Concealment – we all know that concealment is key when hunting. This is no different when hunting with a camera. Thanks to the camouflage patterns offered by Próis I can stay well concealed in a variety of settings. Conceal that camera too. My cameras and lenses have camo covers that keep the glaring white of Canon L series lenses from blinding everything in the neighborhood. My black camera bodies and lenses will stick out like a sore thumb in a snowy cornfield, so again, don't just camouflage yourself, camo up that camera as well.
Use a blind – Like it or not, just hunkering down in brush pile, the tall grass, or a clump of cedars won't always work. I've spent just as many hours in a blind with a camera (I'm inclined to think more actually) as I have with a bow or gun. Just like a day in the blind hunting, some days I leave with cards full of images, the photographers version of tagging out; sometimes I come home with odd shots of the mouse in the corner, a mockingbird in a nearby tree and way too many of my boots.
Learn to call – Just like calling in the geese, the ducks, the turkeys to get them within in shooting range – I need them to be in camera range. Being able to use a range of different calls effectively will work well to bring the creatures in close. Using calls can also be an aid for enticing the creature to "look at the camera".
By the time the cute babies from spring have grown into gangly teenagers, and the rest of the hunting community is ramping up for the next season, I have often become part of the landscape to the animals around me. They are accustomed to my scent, they are accustomed to my presence, and in many cases they have come to trust me. One would think I would use this to my advantage as a hunter.
Tempting as it might be, I try to not hunt the areas where the animals trust me the most. That just seems patently unfair. Instead, since I have been out there every day of the off season watching, patterning, and clicking away I still have a pretty good idea of where the best hunting will be.
Do my skills as a hunter make me a better wildlife photographer? Or perhaps my skills as a wildlife photographer make me a better hunter? I say neither – the skill set is essentially the same.


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Why the web will be the global gaming platform
One meme that will happily be put to rest at the upcoming Game Developers Conference is if HTML5 can handle gaming. The answer will be a resounding "YES"! Whether on desktop or mobile, HTML5 has made great strides and is … Continue reading


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Dion Phaneuf and Jake Gardiner, comparing matchups
Cam Charron
July 24 2012 08:12AM
I might need to preface everything I say about Jake Gardiner thusly: I think he's a talented, exciting defenceman who will be a good Top Four option in the NHL one day. The other thing I need to say is that it just won't be now.
Young defencemen, particularly those who score a few pretty goals (such as the one after the jump), have a way of making us dream. The harsh reality is that defencemen develop a little slower than forwards and their actual impact on an NHL team won't be felt for some time.
Again, here are Gardiner's advanced numbers for this last season via Behind the Net:
|Corsi ON
|Rel QoC
|Jake Gardiner
(Team rank out of 7)
(Team rank doesn't include Jay Rosehill)
"Corsi ON" indicates that when Gardiner was on the ice, the Leafs had 0.28 more shot attempts (shots on goal, misses and blocks) per 60 minutes directed at the other team's net than against. That only includes 5-on-5. But as the other two numbers show, this is not as impressive as it looks. For starters, Gardiner started 56% of his shifts in the offensive zone and played the second weakest competition the opposition had to offer, so we'd expect positive possession from Gardiner.
He does do this:
But it's at the expense of the Leafs putting a No. 5 defenceman in the No. 3 slot. It's good that the team has found a lot of easy minutes for Gardiner to play, but that puts a tremendous burden on the top pairing for the Leafs.
An article written by Eric. T at our sister website NHLNumbers.com yesterday on the real impact of quality of competition numbers, concluding the following:
These competition metrics provide valuable insight into what a coach thinks of a player and how he tries to use them, but in practice they do not show differences large enough to have significant impact on the player's results.
What, for instance, is the difference between Gardiner's -.3 Rel QoC and Dion Phaneuf's +1.4 Rel QoC? Eric suggests that "such small corrections are scarcely worth the effort" but I disagree with this in principle.
Without taking quality of competition into account and correcting Corsi for only zone starts, that would lead one to the conclusion that the Leafs were better with John-Michael Liles on the ice than with Dion Phaneuf. That's despite Phaneuf being on the ice for many of the tough match ups.
Consider Jason Spezza, who I consider to be the top offensive talent in the Northeast Division. The Leafs faced Spezza's Ottawa Senators six times this season. Splitting up how much time Spezza played against Phaneuf, Gardiner or Liles is critical, as well as their third- and fourth-line centre men, Zack Smith and Zenon Konopka:
You can see here that Phaneuf played an hour of even strength time against Spezza, compared to Gardiner's 16 minutes and Liles' 20. This is tremendously important when deducing a player's impact. Gardiner played the majority of his Ottawa minutes against Zack Smith, Phaneuf played against Spezza.
The Senators have the puck 50.2% of the time when Smith is on the ice without Gardiner. The Senators have the puck 53.4% of the time with Spezza on the ice when he isn't matching up against Phaneuf. I think the distinction is important, perhaps not so much in telling whether a defenceman is a good two-way talent, but in determining his overall level of importance to the team.
Eric does go on to say that these match ups do determine Corsi rates over fairly small samples, like shot quality, they're determined over the span of a game, or six, but if the coach is successful at getting the best match ups for his team, I think you'll see a much larger effect. A lot of the top offensive talent isn't necessarily the best possession talent:
|Goals For
|Goals For
|Goals For
In every year of the Behind the Net era, Spezza is dominant when it comes to "goals for per 60 minutes" but not Corsi. He's a little more average there and was even beaten by Smith in 2011. Over a run of years like this, I'm quite certain that the shots taken by the Ottawa Senators with Spezza on the ice have a much better chance of going in than when Smith is.
David Johnson at Hockey Analysis frequently uses goals for and against in his analysis. Here at the Leafs Nation and many other blogs that frequently use advanced analytics, we tend to use Corsi rates a little more often because there are more Corsi events than goals. I think a mix of the two is required, goals for on offence, Corsi on defence, to determine how strong a player truly is.
For Gardiner, as much as I like him, his ability to drive play is lacking, and he doesn't play against top offensive talent. The first half of the season will be very important for him in establishing exactly where he fits in the lineup. I don't think the Leafs will continue to be able to get him 17 minutes a night against the third and fourth lines of the world, which is what makes him successful.
He will improve this season, I'm sure, but by how much? The Leafs have a No. 1 defenceman, but after that, they have a No. 3 playing as a No. 2, a No. 5 playing as a No. 3 and so on. They still need to acquire another top talent to push everybody down the depth chart and into the minutes they can appropriately handle as NHL defencemen.
The biggest flaw in this analysis... Phaneuf was partnered with the Leafs' best defensive d-man most of the year. Gardiner was usually partnered with their worst defensive d-man. The overrating of Phaneuf must stop. He is NOT a legitimate #1 d-man. On any team.
July 24 2012, 09:52AM
Phaneuf rules. And I think people are expecting too much from Gardiner. I'd like to see him compared to other rookie D-men from last season.
I read something recently (and feel some shame that I can't remember where it was from so I can source it) that QoT seemed to have a greater impact than QoC.
If that's the case, does that not make Gardiner look quite a bit better than the numbers above? I may be wrong on this but I think his QoT was abysmal last season.
July 24 2012, 08:26PM
What about GF/60 for Gardiner? How does he compare in that respect (the way you compared Spezza and Smith)?
I was surprised during Burke presser he said the areas that the leafs needed to improve are 1C, Goaltending and size. No mention of the need to improve defence. And no clue what they are missing because GA (and even shots against or corsi) show that the problem is not just goaltending.
I tend to think - management and Burke feels the problem is goaltending and not both goaltending and defence.
I read something recently (and feel some shame that I can't remember where it was from so I can source it) that QoT seemed to have a greater impact than QoC.
If that's the case, does that not make Gardiner look quite a bit better than the numbers above? I may be wrong on this but I think his QoT was abysmal last season.
I think QoT has more of an impact than QoC for sure. It's just that QoT is so circular. By generating a Corsi event for, you're impacting the Corsi scores of all five opponents, and hence impacting your own QoC. But you only see the same opponent, at most, for ~5% of your ice time. A consistent line might play 1/3 of the time together, so during that time each Corsi event gets counted double for QoT calculating purposes. You don't have the benefit of a huge sample of teammates to, more or less, drown out that circularity, like QoC has.
Great article. The Leafs are in an interesting situation due to what you mentioned above. But they also have guys who play tough minutes playing on their offsides. Phanuef is better playing on the let (his natural side). But they didn't have another 'tough mins' d-man to play the right side, so he shifted over while Gunnar stayed on the left.
In todays NHL, not many players can effectively play on their offside. The games to fast. Parise said they specifically targeted this weakness in the Flyers defense - as they also had to many guys playing on their offsides.
Anywhoo, interesting stuff.
July 25 2012, 08:02AM
I don't get it, Cam. I'm happy to agree that QoC matters. Fine. Also, Gardiner got sheltered. As he should have - being a rookie right out of the NCAA, and one of the lightest defencemen in the league.
But. He also played with a terrible set of team-mates. What is the point of not showing his QofT? I'll repost them here from the column the other day, along with a bit of text:
"Gardiner had really weak team-mates, with a Relative QofTeam-mate of -0.516. This was the weakest set of team-mates amongst Leaf defenders, and the 15th weakest set of team-mates of all defenders (over 70 games) in the entire League.
Gardiner -.0.516 Dion -0.043 Liles +0.212 Schenn +0.257 Franson +0.389 Komisarek +0.682 Gunnar +0.730
And again, I'm happy to consider Corsi. I think it's important. But why not also consider Goals? I mean, immediately below the Gardiner discussion, you bring them in to discuss Spezza.... but in an article nominally about Gardiner, you exclude them?
Which is odd, because he has easily he highest Goals For per 60 minutes ice-time of all Leaf defencemen, and amongst the highest in the league. e.g. Jake was 2.95 versus Dion at 2.21 and Lilies at 2.03.
And again, in terms of Goals For in 5 versus 5 Close situations, Gardiner played great, generating almost TWICE as many goals as Dion, Gunnar or Liles.
Gardiner 1.165 -> the 2nd best in NHL for defenders >500 minutes Schenn 1.03 Gunnar 0.694 Dion 0.693 Liles 0.559
And to compare with the rest of the league:
Keith 1.107 Karlsson 1.105 Lidstrom 0.966 Chara 0.900 Weber 0.858 Doughty 0.661
And again, as per the other day, even on DEFENCE, in these 5v5 Close, zone adjusted situations, Gardiner was better than Gunnar, and not that far from Dion (the best defender.) In a league-wide comparison, he also did quite well - better than many big names.
So what we're seeing here is that MOST of the seeming failure of Gardiner as a defenceman came in situations where the Leafs were trailing, and he was being called on to try and salvage the situation - i.e. play run and gun. Here are the figures, goals against per 20, 5v5, Close, zone adjusted:
Dion 0.773 Liles 0.804 Gardiner 0.858 Gunnar 0.875 Schenn 1.163 (3rd worst in NHL defence playing >500 such minutes)
And we see Keith 1.107 Karlsson .903 Keith .992 Chara .852 Lidstrom .773 Doughty .635 Weber .572
So, again, I reach the same conclusions. Absolutely, Gardiner has to improve on defence. Absolutely, he got a boost from positive zone starts, and absolutely, he faced weaker competition.
But. He did so with weak team-mates. And yet, when the game was close, he scored like crazy, while playing not bad defence.
And mostly, what we see as his "bad defence" turns out to have been on NON 5 v 5 close situations - i.e. when games entered their late stages, and the Leafs were well behind, and it fell to him to try and run and gun - that more goals against got scored.
"I think a mix of the two is required, goals for on offence, Corsi on defence, to determine how strong a player truly is."
I am willing to accept this. I do think skaters can influence shot quality against, but it is difficult to quantify and probably pretty minimal for the majority of players.
If we sort Leaf defensemen by 5v5 ZS adjusted OppGF20 (which is the average of all opposing players GF20 weighted by TOI against) we see the following:
Phaneuf: 0.823 Gunnarsson: 0.814 Komisarek: 0.789 Liles: 0.782 Gardiner: 0.780 Schenn: 0.767 Franson: 0.763
(See http://stats.hockeyanalysis.com/ratings.php?disp=1&db=201112&sit=f10&pos=defense&minutes=500&teamid=28&type=goal&sort=OPPF20&sortdir=DESC)
Clearly Phaneuf and Gunnarsson were use against the toughest opponents offensively and Franson and Schenn were somewhat sheltered.
Phaneuf and Gunnarsson's OppGF20 are on par with Regehr (0.820) and Sekera(0.818) in Buffalo but below that of Gorges (0.839) and Subban (0.836) in Montreal. Surprisingly Chara's OppGF20 is only 0.808 but that is in part due to the fact that he didn't have to play against the Bruins who were clearly the best offensive team in the NE division. Strangely Kuba(0.803) had the toughest OppGF20 in Ottawa. It doesn't seem Ottawa employed a defense matchup system I guess in large part because they didn't have a reliable shut down tandem.
July 25 2012, 08:46AM
I think Burke addressed the need to improve the defense by trading Schenn. He was definitely a defensive drag on the team.
July 25 2012, 09:54AM
@Cam Charron
"Gardiner's teammates got dragged down by tough minutes when they were without him."
I am not sure I can accept this. Gardiner's most frequent defense partners were Schenn and Franson and by almost any metric those two were the most sheltered Leaf defensemen. Schenn and Franson were the only two Leaf defensemen that had a lower ZS adjusted 5v5 OppGF20 than Gardiner (i.e. when not playing with Gardiner they played against even weaker opposition). Gardiner also had the lowest OppFA20 indicating no Leaf defenseman played against tougher defensive opponents while Franson and Schenn were 5th and 6th (ahead of only Komisarek).
July 25 2012, 11:40AM
@Cam. Actually, when you look at the WOWY page you linked to, it pretty clearly shows that not only did Gardiner's performance fall when paired with Schenn, but it soared when paired with Dion.
Even more important, Gardiner dramatically raised the performance of ALL of the higher-end Toronto players he was paired with, from Dion (who went from 49% chances for when apart from Gardiner to 61% chances for with him)... through the Kessel line (up by 3%)... and even moreso, with the Grabbo line (which went from 50% chances for to 56%.)
There is far more positive in these stats than negative. Gardiner may have a down year, but I'm not convinced it's because he's really bad at defence.
Also, when it comes to offensive defencemen, their development curve is a bit different I believe. That i, their offense tends to show up relatively quickly, while learning defence - as for most defencemen - takes longer.
@David Johnson
So who should be the Leafs top 4?
July 26 2012, 07:23AM
@Top Shelf
Phaneuf-Gunnarsson definitely top pair. Gardiner I think deserves to be on second pair but I don't know who goes with him. A nice 2-way defenseman would be good but the Leafs don't have a second Gunnarsson. There are no good options really. If Carlyle can refocus Komisarek maybe Komisarek is the guy. I am crossing my fingers that Komisarek does better in a more defensive oriented system. If he wanted to make it a more pure offensive paring Franson could be the guy. The third pairing is Liles and whoever doesn't play with Gardiner. Liles and Franson actually played fairly well together last year so they might be a good fit. Holzer will likely be the 7th defenseman but depending on how well Franson and Komisarek play (and injuries) might get a fair bit of time in the line up.
If I had my guess, the pairings would be Phaneuf-Gunnarsson, Gardiner-Komisarek, Liles-Franson with Holzer as 7th defenseman. Blacker could get some time with the Leafs too as an injury fill in.


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Thank you, Mr. Cleaver. It appears there is a congressman willing to help out, and I could be wrong here, that doesn't even represent our area. (What is our congressional district now, anyway?)
As opposed, I reckon, to the one we have that supposedly represents us, but is too busy campaigning for her cronies to bother.
-- Posted by Smart Dog on Wed, Jul 18, 2012, at 8:23 AM
Should have "cash rented" all the land this year...huh? Im sure you got crop insurance!
-- Posted by willie makit on Wed, Jul 18, 2012, at 10:26 AM
Well, actually, I do have all my ground cash rented this year.
-- Posted by Smart Dog on Wed, Jul 18, 2012, at 11:32 AM
Hello, HELLO? Vickie? VICKIE? Ms. Hartzler where are you?
-- Posted by Oklahoma Reader on Wed, Jul 18, 2012, at 11:51 AM
The City of Marshall made a huge mistake this year! Should have cash rented their property.
-- Posted by willie makit on Wed, Jul 18, 2012, at 1:54 PM
You know Willie, I am inclined to agree with you.
The investment, and deposit of municipal funds is by law always placed in the traditionally more secure locations. That is of course to minimize possibilities of loss. The accepted penalty for doing so is minimal increase in return.
It would also behoove municipalities, whether compelled by law, or not, to treat income producing assets in the same prudent, conservative manner, and stay with the sure thing.
If you can't ante up deposits for a crap shoot, you shouldn't be able to throw assets in a crap game. Farmers will be the first to tell you that farming is a crap shoot.
Yeah Willie, they screwed up.
-- Posted by Oklahoma Reader on Wed, Jul 18, 2012, at 4:57 PM
Farming should come with one of those SEC Warnings.
"Past performance is no guarantee of future returns."
A couple of record harvest years, and everybody was busy having a financial hay-day. Now, not so much.
My pops always said that you better plan on loosing your whole investment in a crop once every 10 years, at least, if you want to stay in the farming biz.
-- Posted by Smart Dog on Thu, Jul 19, 2012, at 12:01 PM
With "taxpayers" money...the City should take the low risk option!
-- Posted by willie makit on Thu, Jul 19, 2012, at 12:12 PM
Smart Dog - Cleaver is our congressman - since the re-districting took place. The 5th district inludes most of the KC metro area plus counties along the river as far as Saline County.
-- Posted by zeke on Fri, Jul 20, 2012, at 1:50 PM
I may now become religous so I can thank God for saving us from Vicky.
I believe Cleaver, who we didn't even vote for, has made more trips to Saline County than she.
Also, his blogs seem to speak more to issues that actually affect us, rather than spewing party line glittering generalities about reasons to hate the federal government and Obama.
So far, I am impressed with Mr. Cleaver, who I knew almost nothing about before.
-- Posted by Smart Dog on Fri, Jul 20, 2012, at 2:21 PM
Yup you guys luckily fell in with a congressional representative that doesn't just sit around waiting for instruction from party elites before doing for, or saying anything to the people that are nominally those represented.
It should open some eyes, and ease the majorities regret that Ike is gone.
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I think Syracuse, as currently composed, has a Sweet 16 ceiling. However, if they get Southerland back, then they are a legitimate Final Four contender. Although I believe that, in the long run, replacement Jerami Grant is a better prospect, Dirty (Southerland's nickname) is at once SU's best outside threat and best defensive forward, so his absence is hurting them on both ends of the floor. Even when his shot is not falling, he changes the way opponents defend the Orange and open up the floor for MCW, Trich and Fair. On the defensive side, he has the best rotations at the back of the zone and his quickness makes him a great secondary defender, often coming from the weak side to block shots. With him out of action, the Orange not only lose those skills, but they are playing extended minutes with a very short bench.
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The Emery County Historical Society heard from Tom McCourt of Wellington about the last of the Robber Roost Outlaws. Ray Wareham brought to the meeting and displayed a large picture enclosed in glass of the Robbers Roost Gang with photos of Butch Cassidy and his gang. That was not however the subject of the meeting this night.
McCourt has written five books and one of those is about Moab's Bill Tibbetts the last of the Robbers Roost Outlaws. McCourt also writes a column in the Sun Advocate under the heading of "The Wasatch Behind."
Ben Grimes after leading the Pledge of Allegiance introduced McCourt by telling a little of his background and history. McCourt is a legend in Wellington. His father and grandfather worked in the coal mines. His father was also a Carbon County deputy sheriff for several years. Grimes said. "Tom and I worked together for about 23 years at the Placer Mining Company. Tom worked in the lab. When Tom was a teenager he was hired at the Nutter Ranch in Nine Mile Canyon to work for a couple of years. That is where he learned to love the Indians, the Fremont culture and all the Indian things in Nine Mile. Then he was drafted into the Army. He scored so high on the tests the Military gave him that they asked him if he wanted to attend Officer Candidate School and become an officer. Second Lt. McCourt was sent to Vietnam as a forward observer with a life expectancy of about eight days. When he arrived home from Vietnam he went to the University of Utah. Because of his interest in Indian culture, Tom received a degree in anthropology. Then Tom decided he would rather eat than be an anthropologist, so he went to work in the coal mines. Tom has accomplished many things. He has written five books and is working on another book. Two of the books are about his life at the Nutter Ranch and about his experiences in Vietnam. Tom was also a Bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a time. In Tom's articles in the Sun Advocate he has a favorite uncle called Uncle Spud. Tom seeks his advice on many things and Uncle Spud is a very wise man."
McCourt thanked Ben for the kind words and said, "We have been friends for a long time. I love your country over here. I have spent a lot of time in Emery County. I grew up in Wellington. I live South of Price now. Jeanie and I have a couple of acres, with a horse and a dog. We love the San Rafael Swell. I love the people in Emery County. I love to come here and see that you have a prayer before a meeting like this. To see that you honor the flag and you are the salt of the earth. I enjoy being with you and wish the whole world could be more like the people here.
"I always wanted to be a cowboy and I had the privilege of working for Virginia Nutter when the Nutter Ranch was the largest known, privately owned, cattle ranch in Utah. They sent me out there when I was just a 16 year old kid. I do not think Virginia realized who she had hired until I showed up. I weighed about 100 pounds a little shorter than I am now. She wouldn't let me go up on the mountains with the cowboys, but she made me stay at the ranch and haul hay, where she could keep an eye on me. It was a great experience. The cowboys were always teasing me that Virginia was going to adopt me. She didn't have any children of her own. The cowboys would say, she is going to adopt you and you will inherit this whole ranch and me and Joe can retire right here and you can take care of us.
"Years later when I finally had the opportunity to write, I wrote the story of my experiences at the Nutter Ranch. That was the first book I wrote, it is about the summers I spent at the Nutter Ranch in Nine Mile. I was working with some of the meanest, crustiest old cowboys that ever happened. I tell everyone that I grew up in 90 days. It was a great experience, though, I learned a lot of things.
"It was because of the Nutter Ranch book I was able to write the book I'm going to talk about tonight. The last of the Robbers Roost Outlaws. This is such a wonderful country, and has such a wonderful history. Carbon, Grand, San Juan and Emery counties are every bit as historical as the scenery is spectacular. The old Spanish Trail, that early pioneers in this country traveled, the traders, the cowboys, the sheep herders and all this history is fascinating. In Emery County you have some real good stories like the Swasey's and other early settlers. There are a lot of books that need to be written about these people.
"I have written about Moab, and part of my background goes back to the 1950s, when we were prospecting for uranium. I got to see Glenn Canyon before the lake was there. My grandparents lived at the little town in Black Canyon. It was on the east side of the river near the river ferry. At one time there were 200 people living there. My grandmother ran the boardinghouse and my grandfather and three of my uncles worked at the uranium mill. I was just a little boy 6 or 7 years old when I was allowed to go down and stay with my grandmother in Black Canyon. To me as a kid it was a beautiful, wonderful place. I wrote a book about Black Canyon this was my second book. Later a book company contacted me and wanted a history written about Moab for the tourists so I wrote it.
"While I was in Moab during a book event and selling books I was also a speaker on the agenda. When I finished my speech an older gentleman came up to me who knew my uncle Jack Winn, in his hands was a big stack of papers, photographs, diaries and stuff. He said, 'I've collected photos also written works, and we have been 15 years trying to find someone to write my father's story.' He said you know enough about horses, cowboys and this desert that you can write this story.
"I told him I would look into it. His name was Ray Tibbetts. Later I discovered he was a past county commissioner from Grand County and he had been an old-time lawman, he had been a cowboy, owned a store and he was quite a prominent citizen. Until this time I had never heard of his dad, Bill Tibbetts. I took his collection of materials home and after a couple of weeks I finally started looking through the stuff. I couldn't believe this wasn't already made into a movie. It was just a very fascinating story. We published this book last March and it is going like a grass fire in Southern Colorado. This is by far the best book I've ever published," said McCourt.
The main character in the above mentioned book, that McCourt wanted the Historical Society to hear about in this meeting was Bill Tibbetts, Ray's father and Bill's adventures as the Last of the Robbers Roost Outlaws.
"Of course I, Tom McCourt, had to go down into the desert to see most of these places with Ray Tibbetts as my guide. We made two or three trips down into the desert and the Robbers Roost country. We had a lot of fun. Being an author I had to go into the country to get a feel for it. Ray is pushing 80 but he is in great shape and a fun guy. He knows all of the stories. He had been in a lot of these places as a kid. I gained a lot of valuable information about his father from Ray.
"This book, 'The Last of The Robbers Roost Outlaws', is about a real man that lived and died in the Moab country. My book covers a time that is not well documented in literature. We have many Western stories about the 1870s, the 1880s, and 1890s, right up to Butch Cassidy in the early 1900s. This book covers the 1920s. That is a gap of time not well written about. We need to record these histories and the stories from that period of time for future reference.
"Here we have a story about the second and third generation of pioneers in this country. I learned an awful lot while putting this book together. From the old newspaper clippings, many diaries and stories that came our way, from that era, we get a more complete picture of that history.
"When the pioneers first came into this part of Utah, the land was free. Pioneers could go out and settle any good spot they could find, the first generation took up all the good spots. Then we had people still coming into the area and by the time the second and third generations of the pioneers arrived, all the good places were taken. People were still trying to make a living off of the land because that is all they knew. We had no manufacturing, we had a few mines and not much else. Everyone was into farming, ranching and mining. There were also stores to support those industries. The second and third generation of pioneers had a hard time adapting and had a hard time finding a place to make a living. In addition the population continued increasing dramatically.
"Something else was happening that should be researched, the climate was changing. Only a few people like me, who have heard stories from old-timers talking about how tall the grass used to grow. up to the saddle stirrups. It used to rain more here. The winters are not like they used to be either, we used to get snow. Some of the little washes were creeks with water running most of the time. Beginning in about 1915-1918 the area started to dry up. So we are in a real dry down cycle now. In 1912 to about 1918, dry farming was going on in the Cisco Desert above Moab. There once were towns on the desert such as Danish Flat, Cisco and Mars. There was also a town called Valley City, and even the town of Woodside.
"My uncle Mike Peterson lived in Woodside, as a little boy and we have photographs of beautiful wheatfields at Woodside, that area is like the back side of the moon now. Mike always said it used to rain more frequently out there, we had water. But that has all changed. The climate change being talked about, is not something new. It is a cyclical thing and we are still in that down cycle.
"For the pioneers who first came here in the 1870s and 1880s, came in the good times. There was rain, there was grass. It was a very different desert than we have now. All of those little towns on the Cisco Desert have dried up and gone away. There isn't a trace of Valley City. All that remains is an old cellar out on the desert. Enid Johnson who used to run the auction yard in Price, grew up in Danish Flat above Cisco below I-70. She told the story of dry farming vegetables there near Cisco. You can't even water a rabbit, there now, that is how it has changed over the years.
"In our story we have the second generation of pioneers trying to find a spot. The population is increasing, all the good places are taken and they are experiencing this drought or climate change. All of the cattle and sheep that were brought into this country are there and the water is drying up. This created some real conflicts over resources. In those days a lot of the creeks dried up, and the grass didn't come back. A good example is Crescent Creek some of you know where North Wash is near Lake Powell. In the early days, people called that Crescent Creek. It does not run water year-round anymore. So it is not a creek, it is a wash.
James William (Bill) Tibbetts was born in March 23, 1898 in a log cabin in LaSalle, Utah. The story of his birth is interesting. His mother was alone in a cold cabin 40 miles from the nearest doctor, when her 18 year old brother, Ephraim Moore, comes by to see her. He ended up having to deliver the baby while her husband was away herding cows. It shows you how these pioneer women suffered without access to doctors or hospitals.
"Bill served in World War I and came home in 1919. Not knowing how to do anything else he decided to go into the cattle business. His father had been in the cattle business. However Bill found all the range was taken. This was before the Taylor Grazing Act and the range was free and anyone could run cattle or sheep on the range.
"We had a lot of conflicts here in these Utah valleys. If you were tough enough, mean enough and forceful enough you could still make a living running cows. But you had to run off your competition. Anyone who was nice and polite usually did not make it in that business. It was a real war out there for water and grass. This was getting worse every year.
"Bill Tibbetts teamed up with his uncle Ephriam Moore from Moab. They bought 100 cows and then found the most desolate place they could find out on the desert. Land that no one had claimed or was using. They went out to the Ladder Right Basin which is on a big ledge East of Hanksville. They were trying to operate out of Moab and ride all the way down there to take care of the cattle. That's usually a 50 mile trip back and forth carrying groceries. As the ground dried up they had a couple of choices, they could either go out of business or put up a fight.
"They took their cows and pushed them in on some of the best grazing ground in the West and took on anyone that wanted to wrestle about it. The real story in the book is about this small range war on the Big Flat and up on Island in The Sky where Dead Horse Point is.
"Bill Tibbetts later told his family of the events that happened during this range war and his trouble with the Moab sheriff. The sheriff was telling the newspaper his side of the story, and in the book we included a parallel of what the sheriff said and what Bill Tibbetts said. The entertaining part is that they are not the same story.
"Bill wasn't an angel, but he wasn't the complete outlaw that they made him out to be either. To make this story short, Bill got crosswise of the law and ended up fleeing on horseback down to Robbers Roost in 1924 with his cousin Tom Perkins. They got away from the sheriff and his posse, crossed the Green River and ended up out on the Roost. They were in Butch Cassidy's old stomping grounds. They stayed out there for a year and the sheriff was not able to catch them. Finally, Ephraim Moore told them the sheriff was going to hire an airplane to look for them. This caused them to decide it was time to vacate the area. At night they caught a freight train out of Thompson for Kansas where they worked on a farm. Later, they went to Oklahoma. There Bill became a famous rodeo rider known as Cowboy Jim Lee. It was in Oklahoma that Bill met and married his wife, Jewel. Bill waited out the statute of limitations before coming back to Moab and becoming known as a respectable citizen. This book the 'Last Of The Robbers Roost Outlaws' captures the essence of a time not well documented in our history," concluded McCourt. The Emery County Historical Society thanked Tom for sharing this bit of Utah history with them.


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Eldon Holmes, one of Emery County's resident artists recently completed a project for Jan Petersen, director of the Museum of the San Rafael. Petersen recently retired from the museum, but stayed on to see this project through.
Her idea was to install large metal sculptures of the more famous petroglyphs in this area on the outside walls of the museum building. Holmes was recruited to do the metal work and install the pieces on the building. Armed with drawings of the five most popular and recognizable petroglyphs, he went to work on the more than life sized sculptures.
To fund the project, Petersen applied for and was granted the funds from the Utah State Office of Museum Services. "This has been one of my most favorite projects," said Petersen. "I couldn't leave before it was done."
Holmes, his wife Vicky, his son Kyle Holmes, and a friend Justin Bernard were involved with the installation of the petroglyphs on the walls of the museum.
Another fun thing the Museum is starting is the Joseph Venus coloring contest. Venus has published five coloring books and the Museum staff has chosen a picture for the children to color in a contest that will run until Aug. 4. Venus will be on hand to judge the contest and award the prizes. There are three age groups for the contest: five-six; seven-nine; and 10-12.
Children in these age groups are welcome to come into the Museum during business hours to color their entry into the contest. There will be cash and ribbon prizes awarded.


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The remodeled ICCR depot features an etched granite memorial wall and various artifacts of military memorabilia.
Illinois Oilfield Museum & Resource Center
One of only seven of its kind in the nation, this museum at Oblong Park highlights an industry that revolutionized the country.
The only Moravian church in the state was built by German settlers in Southern Illinois.
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This memorial commemorates the crossing of the Lincoln Family from Indiana to Illinois in early March of 1830.
Fort Lamotte is a construction of a civilian style early 19th century American fort, featuring a two story block house and small log cabin. Construction began in spring of 2007 with all volunteer labor, donations of materials by various people and businesses. The block house is mainly constructed of popular logs as is the cabin. Local hickory was used for the cantilever logs, between 1st and 2nd stories with a puncheon 2nd story floor and persimmon trusses. The stockade walls are of locally grown hedge and black locust. This is the third fort to bear the name Lamotte.
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Gallaudet makes its point loud and clear
This season, espnW will take a journey across America, bringing you an in-depth look at 16 women's college basketball programs -- our Sweet 16. We'll begin the first week of the season and conclude just before the conference tournaments. We'll visit powerhouse schools and those off the beaten path, programs that are emerging and those that were there from the beginning. At the end of these 16 weeks, we hope you'll have a true flavor of Hoops Across America.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The game had already begun for Dan Arabie by the time students began strolling into the gym. Resplendent in his Gallaudet University sweatshirt and wide grin, Arabie stood five bleacher rows up from the floor, his hand in the grasp of his sign language interpreter. He was rapt.
At 51, the former postal worker is among the 95 percent of the Gallaudet University undergraduate population that is either deaf or profoundly hard of hearing. Arabie is also blind, making sign language his portal to the world, each gliding motion of a hand holding his creating a word or phrase. Around him students chatted in rapid-fire signed conversations as the Bison women's basketball team completed pregame warm-ups. Penn State-Berks players were among the few in the gym who could hear the music roaring from large speakers, the thud of basketballs against hardwood, the visiting coaching staff attempting to communicate through the din.
"It's not loud to me," Gallaudet coach Brendan Stern later said, joking.
Many in the stands and on the court this day had found fellowship and commonality for the first time when they walked through the iron gates of Gallaudet -- the only university of its type nationally, according to school literature -- in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate the deaf and hard of hearing. Many of them became something other than "the deaf kid" for the first time at Gallaudet, they say. Some found what has become known on campus as their "deaf identity" and an entry point into a network with which they will commune for the rest of their lives. Others came to learn skills to compete in a "hearing world" that often feels patronizing, sometimes without even realizing it.
This particular Sunday afternoon, they came to watch a women's basketball team that became something of a national sensation last season, going 24-4 and advancing to the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time since 1999.
For the players, they've come to prove that basketball, as first-year coach Stern says, is a "universal language," and that a lack of hearing is no disability with the proper amount of heart and effort. Increasingly, they are making their point, loud and clear.
A final instruction in sign from Stern. All hands in the center of the huddle. Three quick downward pumps. Silence.
Communication is key
Stern, 29, paces the Gallaudet sideline impatiently. Though the Bison have been in control throughout the game, eventually winning 85-55, he continues to detect mistakes in a rebuilt version of last year's groundbreaking squad.
"I am young and I'm inexperienced, but I say to our players, we share a lot of things in common," he said later through an interpreter. "We just grow together."
Although this would be his team's most complete effort of the season, the group was far from a finished product. But efforts like this one eventually could help keep the season from becoming an entire rebuilding project. The transition is about more than new players. Gallaudet went five years between conference wins before Kevin Cook, a former WNBA and international coach, was hired in 2006 as the Bison's first full-time women's coach. But Cook resigned last summer, as he dealt, according to reports, with Parkinson's disease and the death of his sister. Cook has since taken a job as an assistant with the Winthrop (S.C.) University women's team.
Stern, who played on the Bison's men's team and was an assistant for them the past three years, was backpacking in Colombia when he learned of Cook's departure. He was crestfallen, he said.
"My first thought was 'No!' " Stern said. "KC was really wonderful for Gallaudet, and I'd seen how much the program has grown under KC and I was really sad to hear he was leaving. It's really impossible to replace him. But later, talking with my girlfriend and people who are really close to me, I saw it as an opportunity."
Stern, who is fully deaf, stomps when he has a point to make during games. The reverberations or the sight of it usually is enough to catch at least one of his players' attention. At home, he joked, he stomps and flashes lights, but the latter isn't an option in the Field House. Cook had full hearing capacity and had learned some sign language, communicating with his team during games with an interpreter. On Stern's version of the Bison, the varying levels of hearing capacity -- from completely deaf to those wearing hearing aids -- and proficiency with sign language make uniformity of communication a challenge.
"The hardest part is to communicate with the players on the floor," he said. "That's why I always put increased emphasis on getting the team together on a dead ball, so I can relay my instructions and what defense we're going in next. I can't give advice on the fly. I think that's our biggest disadvantage.
"Also, I think the players we get here at Gallaudet, we're as athletic as any other player in the country, but their understanding of the game and their skills are often different from other players because of communication or the lack thereof they got growing up."
Of Stern's five assistant coaches, only Richard Butcher is hearing, which helps in passing messages from officials, who seem lenient in enforcing the length of timeouts or understanding why a Gallaudet player extended play slightly through the blast of a whistle.
"We touch a lot. We read hands a lot," Stephanie Weiss, a sophomore guard from Wellington, Fla., said through a sign interpreter. "We are always looking for each other. We always have to be looking all around the court.
"Sometimes it is frustrating. I grew up in the hearing world and I have always used my voice on the court and everyone always heard me, and here it is different. I fit in here, though. We make it work."
Sustaining success at Gallaudet would seem be a difficult task, as the pool of deaf athletes skilled enough to play intercollegiate basketball is finite when compared with the hearing.
"I often get two different types of players," Stern said. "I have some players who, like me, have said from when they were young that they want to come to Gallaudet, and I have other types of players who have never heard of Gallaudet or feel nervous about coming to Gallaudet.
"My selling point for those players I try to explain that Gallaudet is a very special place not because you discover your deaf identity. You come actually and you finally become not deaf."
Universal language
There is a quietly intimidating nature to the Gallaudet gym, an otherwise nondescript hall in a plain brick building labeled simply as "Field House." The cheerleaders, stationed by a set of double doors near a basket, don't actually cheer with their voices, but sign encouragement to the crowd. The gym, when the music is squelched, can become so quiet that the rustling of pompoms is clearly audible. There is an occasional whoop from Stern or a fan, but most approval is signified with a shaking of hands in the air.
The environment can unnerve opposing coaches or players, although they are loath to admit it. Communication among visiting players dwindles.
"The freshmen, of course we try to get them prepared for what is going to happen," PSU-Berks coach Tim Coleman said. "As far as the atmosphere, you just have to prepare them for it. It is kind of hard to get used to. It is odd, yes."
Even coaches appear to become timid, or at least overly aware of their volume against such a silent backdrop, like someone caught yelling something embarrassing when a crowd unexpectedly goes quiet.
"No way, no way!" Coleman barked at an official. "She can't dip her shoulder!"
Then as the brief murmur of noise regains the room, he mutters, "That's terrible."
Five students sitting on the bottom of the bleachers sign to each other, cracking each other up.
The balance between respect and patronization is a tricky one. Sophomore point guard Britny Latham, who grew up in a mostly hearing family and learned to lip-read, sometimes stuns opposing players by responding when they talk trash during games. And a compliment from a foe almost always mentions the team's deafness as something the Bison had overcome. But Gallaudet players don't see their state of hearing as something to overcome. It is a natural state of being.
"We're special. We're deaf," Weiss said. "The hearing world can look down on us and say, 'They're deaf. They can't do anything,' but that's not true at all. We're all really the same and because of that view, that is our advantage as well. We're proving them wrong."
Gallaudet doesn't so much produce alumni as it does disciples. Founded in 1864, the school is considered bilingual because classes are taught in American Sign Language and English. It offers a myriad of Bachelor of Arts and Science degrees.
Guests at the gate are met by a security guard who is deaf, as are the older gentleman and the college kid behind the snack-bar counter. There is a sense of ownership here. It's not that Gallaudet is unfriendly to those from the hearing world, but it is clear that the northeast D.C. campus has a definite purpose.
University president Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz, who is deaf, watched the men's and women's games, taking in the spectacle not of deaf undergrads overcoming something, but college kids being college kids.
"The only thing that makes Gallaudet unique," he wrote on a notepad in reply to a question, "is that the students have full access to communication, language and culture. This is where students can have a meaningful college life experience. Where else can a deaf student become captain of the basketball team, president of the student body government, editor of the school newspaper or have a lead role in a play?"
There was no other place but Gallaudet for Stern, who attended school for the hard of hearing until his senior year of high school in California, then transferred to a large hearing school. Though he said he benefited from the experience, he was clearly transformed by enrolling the next year at Gallaudet. He graduated from Gallaudet in 2006.
"I was the 'deaf guy'," he said of his senior year in high school. "'Hey, there's the deaf guy on the basketball team!' That was my identity. But when I came to Gallaudet, I was the slow point guard guy who ran an underground newspaper in his spare time. That was my identity here, and I had a choice in determining who I wanted to be here at Gallaudet, and that is a luxury for deaf people. Everyone else takes that for granted."
Dan Arabie doesn't. A postal worker for 20 years, the 51-year-old father of four, stepfather of two and grandfather of three was born deaf and forced into disability retirement from the Postal Service after losing his sight in the late 1990s. He enrolled at Gallaudet where he is now pursuing a psychology degree with the hope, he said "to work as counselor to assist disabled citizens to live happily from sadness." He rarely misses a Bison game and is a regular at other local sporting events. Robin Shannon and Jill Owens take turns sitting next to Arabie, the tactile interpreters guiding his hands through a virtual play-by-play. He misses nothing.
"He can remember what it was like to go to a game and see a game," said Owens, who even signed a Rihanna song for Arabie during a timeout. "We do play-by-play. We can tell him what the crowd thinks, what the other coaches are saying."
Victory secured, Arabie applauds in sign language as the Bison and PSU-Berks slap hands. The Gallaudet players hustle back to their locker room chattering quickly in sign language about basketball, the universal language.


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