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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Dodgers released pitcher Mark Lowe on Sunday, leaving Kevin Gregg and Peter Moylan as the remaining non-roster pitchers in camp.
Lowe had an opt-out in his contract for Monday or the Dodgers had to guarantee his $1.5 million contract. Gregg and Moylan can be sent down to the Minor Leagues, although Gregg has pitched well enough to make the club if not for the glut of pitchers on the 40-man roster.
"Having eight starting pitchers has the possibility of changing the dynamics of our bullpen," said manager Don Mattingly, hinting the club is thinking about keeping all eight, with Aaron Harang, Chris Capuano and Ted Lilly apparently looking at bullpen roles.
"Lowe didn't do anything wrong in camp. We just didn't have a spot," Mattingly said. "Gregg and Moylan, they both don't have deadlines. We had to make a decision."


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Bush didn't, Obama wouldn't, but the next president should: Call into the Oval Office the leaders of Muslim communities throughout America to say, "Because of the First Amendment, the fact that you and the people in your community practice Islam is irrelevant to us in America. Your faith is your business. What is relevant to me as leader of this nation is whether you support America or not. When all of you leave this office, you need to carry a single message to your communities: 'You are either supportive of America or working to undermine America. If you're in the latter category, you are on notice here and now that my administration will use every constitutional means available to track you, capture you, prosecute you, and imprison or deport you.' End of story. Thank you for coming. Goodbye."
Having got that off my chest, I'm about to engage in a speed round-up, because I've got about 40 articles — really good articles — to share with you.
A Cruz convert explains why. The most interesting point is that Trump started with something no other Republican has had since Reagan — vast name recognition.
Slowly catching on to the fact that Trump is the Republican Obama. I've been saying from Day 1 that Trump is a white Obama. He promises hope and change by using government power to shape America to his will. And let me say, that is my sole problem with Trump: That he's all about big government, precisely as Obama is. I find that unacceptable. Jonathan Tobin is another one who's finally figured out the whole Obama Doppelgänger thing.
Trump is a special interest candidate. And that special interest is Donald Trump.
Is the media sitting on big Trump stories? Ted Cruz thinks that there are some horrible stories to be told about Trump, which wouldn't surprise me given his sordid personal life and . . . ah . . . colorful business life. Once Trump is the candidate, says Cruz, the media will "suddenly" discover stories that make Trump unelectable. I think Cruz is right because we all know the media, don't we?
Trump's enemy list makes me like him. George Soros has given money to 187 different special interest groups that are attacking Trump. (To be honest, a lot of them are attacking Cruz too. Indeed, on Sunday, I heard a New Yorker news hour on NPR during which the speakers agreed that Cruz is the more dangerous of the two leading Republican candidates because he actually believes in the Constitution.) In other words, here's a list of 187 Soros-funded organizations that try to destroy anything conservative.
Will Trump win the nomination? Scott Elliott, an extremely astute election watcher and a man with a history of accurate election predictions, is not a Trump fan. He's therefore created the "Stop-Trump-O-Meter," which tracks the outcomes of state primaries and projects the outcome at the convention. Even if you're a Trump fan, you'll like Scott's meter, because, if you ignore the name, it tells in a clear way where the candidates stand in the Republican primary.
If you destroy the polite people, you create room for the impolite ones. Glenn Reynolds points out that the GOP, RINOS, and the Leftist media establishment did everything possible to destroy the happy, tidy, law-abiding Tea Party. Now they're horrified that destroying the Tea Party left rage in its place.
USA Today editors question Hillary's fitness for office. USA Today, in its quest to be "America's newspaper," the one read in more hotel lobbies than any other paper, is careful about taking strong partisan stands. That's why it's impressive that the editors see Hillary's penchant for secrecy, and the security-evading steps she took in pursuit of her paranoia, as a serious impediment to the presidency.

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What's the deal with Mondo Bazaar?
With so many holiday markets in town & here at the Gladstone we thought we'd have a chat with Gail Glatt, creater of Mondo Bazaar, which has been around for ten years!
Gladstone Hotel:What made you start Mondo Bazaar ten years ago and why is the Gladstone a good fit for it?
Gail Glatt: Ten years ago when I started the Mondo Bazaar market, it was frankly, all about me. My love of shopping, my love of selling and the pleasure I took in organizing events and parties. Living in downtown west, I was drawn to the Gladstone Hotel and became compelled to plan something…anything..to use that magnificent Ballroom space.
I had been hosting home kitchen sales for a number of years that included not only local artisans and designers, but entrepreneurs bringing fabulous items from distant lands. Sometimes a massage therapist friend operated out of an adjacent room to enhance the shopping experience. The events became very popular. Clearly, it was time for expansion. The first Mondo Bazaar took place in the building prior to the first major renovation, making it a particularly interesting and authentic venue.
From a one room affair with 15 vendors in the early days, to this year's two day holiday event with more than 60 booths throughout the weekend, this holiday sale has become a popular alternative to the larger artisan shows that are not always affordable or accessible to all. Admission has always been free and vendors provide items to giveaway all day long through draws…with no purchase necessary.
Gladstone Hotel: What's the best thing about Mondo Bazaar?
Gail Glatt: The real story here though is the vendors themselves. They range from first timers to those who own their own shops or exhibit in major shows. A few years ago I started a "yooth booth" section and gave free booths to kids who wanted to try their hand at selling their home made treasures. Now several of these youth have been successful enough to rent their own booth at the event. There are also vendors who who work corporate jobs by day but explore their artistic side during off hours, by putting their home made products out there. Others have found their passion unexpectedly, through travel, inspiration from others or experiences in their lives. A fantastic diversity of products and people.
Gladstone Hotel: What can people expect to find at this year's Mondo Bazaar?
Gail Glatt: Items for sale include anything from edibles, kids clothing, jewellery, body products, home décor, up-cycled clothing, ceramic, paper design – and the list goes on and on. Mostly it is a mix of eco-friendly, local and organic, with a little fair trade thrown in.
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- Speaker: Tom Jeffries, UW Department of Bacteriology
- Abstract: Woody biomass has been used as a source of fuel since before the emergence of civilization. Starting in the 17th century, the coal-fired industrial revolution greatly increased the capacity for power generation. By the 20th century, the convenience of petroleum-derived liquid fuels ushered in easy, rapid personal transportation. The resulting increases in agricultural productivity spurred rapid population growth and unprecedented prosperity to a significant fraction of the worldaEuroTMs inhabitants. The question before us today is whether such lifestyles can be maintained in the face of rapid climate change and dwindling resources.

Contemporary biofuels made from sugars, starches and plant oils are incorporated into gasoline and diesel supply systems. Is this the best use of potential food resources, or should we look to other feedstocks? Is it desirable to use wood? What biomass is available? Is its use sustainable? What are current domestic policies and are they working? Why are we concerned about biofuels anyway? What about electrical vehicles? How much can be gained from efficiency? Which conversion technologies work? How much do they cost? These questions have been researched through large government-sponsored programs and actively debated for at least the past 35 years. Conceptually, the approach is even older.

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MINNEAPOLIS - Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (ATK), a Minnesota-based company that is one of the nation's largest aerospace and defense manufacturers, will pay $100,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's suit, Tyeastia Green applied for a job at its Eden Prairie, Minn., location, where she would provide technical or IT support for ATK executives. Although a recruiter for ATK initially told her that she had gotten the job, ATK rejected her and hired a white male instead. The EEOC contended that the reasons given by ATK for its decision were a pretext for race discrimination.
Race discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The consent decree settling the suit requires that ATK pay $100,000 to Green and engage in extensive equitable relief. Among other things, ATK is enjoined from further discriminating in hiring based on race and from retaliating against persons who oppose practices made unlawful under Title VII. It will review its workplace policies to assure that they comply with Title VII and the record- keeping laws, and, particularly, review a policy that pertains to maintenance of interview notes. It will train its entire staff on the laws against discrimination. The decree will last three years and apply to ATK's headquarters in Minnesota and in Virginia.
"We found it was clear that ATK rejected Green because of the color of her skin, and not because of her skills, and that's illegal as well as unjust," said John Hendrickson, regional attorney for the EEOC's Chicago district. "We congratulate the company for agreeing to the terms of this decree, particularly the non-monetary relief, which will protect and benefit its employees."
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The Invisible Grandparent at CES 2013
By Amy Goyer , January 10, 2013 06:34 AM
After a few days at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), I feel like I've been virtually dipped in technology. There are 1.9 million net square feet of more than 3,250 exhibitors showing off their new technologies, with some 20,000 new products launched. I've seen gadgets, gizmos and robots. Audio, video, cellular, wifi. Cars, games, toys, health supports, exercise equipment, appliances, "connected" homes, cameras and music. Some companies talk about their target audiences, including kids, teens, young adults, moms, men and women, and some even focus on products for older adults, but I can't help feeling like there is something missing. Despite the incredible array of products that could be attractive to the estimated 65 million grandparents in the U.S. alone, they are hardly mentioned, much less targeted.
My colleague Bob Stephen wrote a great post about why AARP is at CES - and the needs of grandparents are a key component. We're seeing some great products that could have intergenerational use, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of progress in tailoring or marketing them to grandparents.
A press conference I attended on "Tech and Family" highlighted a fun array of things for kids and moms and a few that seemed to be family-oriented in general. But not a one talked about specifically focusing on grandparents! I realize that my professional background makes me filter everything I see for all generations, and especially grandparents, but hey techies: grandparents are using technology too!
I actually found some great tech stuff for grandparents at CES - some of my faves are highlighted in this video and my previous blog post. But when I talked with exhibitors about their products that I know grandparents would love, grandparents almost seemed an afterthought. Some acknowledge grandparents are a good "potential" market. Others lump grandparents in with parents and don't seem to think about making products grandparent-friendly.
Those of us over age 50 are high adopters of technology - and the average age of a first-time grandparent is 48. Wake up techies - there's a big grand-audience out there for your cool stuff!
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Clues woven into Pete Bissonette's new novel Breakfast Tea & Bourbon will guide you to a hidden real treasure of $50,000.
Breakfast Tea & BourbonAfter experiencing enough losses for a lifetime, Nels Ware does not take things for granted, especially his family of friends. So when a $50,000 treasure hunt grabs his attention, he recruits them for the rollicking quest.
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A reader will find a $50,000 treasureWoven within the pages of the novel are clues leading to an actual treasure hidden in the United States worth $50,000.
Pete Bissonette and one of the stone frogs in his labyrinth, dubbed the Frogyrinth, and brought to life in Breakfast Tea & Bourbon.
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Breakfast Tea & Bourbon is an adventurous fiction novel, an intriguing puzzle and treasure hunt, and a guide for those looking for a more meaningful and joyous life.
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Sometimes, second really is best.
The July issue of Government Computer News contained a host of reviews loosely based on a section we called Core Computing. The products we tested were basically devices with processors and featured everything from a workstation to an all-in-one to tablet computers. But there was one review that raised a bit of controversy.
The iX104C5 DMSR-MIL from Xplore Technologies is a rugged tablet that is rated to perform up to the punishing specifications the 810f Mil-Std document requires. But in our testing, it didn't do so well.
The tablet itself was impressive, with a 3-megapixel camera, a 160G hard drive and 8G of DDR III memory. Combined with the Intel i7 processor, the tablet was able to achieve 750.2 on the PassMark Performance Benchmarks, which put it very high on the scale for all tablets.
Unfortunately, even though it passed every test for heat, vibration, water ingress and cold weather operation, it did very poorly in shock testing.
Shock is a fancy way of saying, "dropping the unit." Notebook PCs or tablets are dropped along a track in the GCN Lab at various heights, landing on every side of the unit. They start out with very small drops of up to 12 inches, but grow until they are falling 48 inches or more, depending on the type of device. The units land on two inches of plywood sitting over concrete as required by the 810f Mil-Std specifications, hardly a soft surface.
The iX104C5 we tested for the July review died at 24-inches, barely halfway though the shock test track. It simply refused to boot, and just displayed a black screen.
As you might imagine, the folks at Xplore were not happy with the results. We had a conference call about it, and it was revealed that one possibility for the poor results could have been a mis-seated battery.
The batteries on the iX104C5 are fairly unusual in that they form the back of the unit without any special armor over them. To install one, you need to load it carefully into the proper slot and click it into place (Step One), then tighten a latch to double-lock it (Step Two). The flaw in this rather complex system is that a battery can look like its seated in Step One, when in fact it's a little bit off. Then you can still lock down Step Two, but are essentially locking in the flaw. I don't know if this is what happened with the original iX104C5, but it seem plausible given the results.
Xplore upped the ante in asking for a re-test, claiming that its tablet could survive a drop of seven feet, three feet above Mil-Spec. And it said the tablet could do that while powered up and running, without missing a beat. We were intrigued, so we asked the company to send several units to the lab, with the one caveat being that the company pre-seat the battery so we could rule that out as a factor should the test fail again.
The units arrived and we went to work, loading up the dropping machine, which had never been used at seven feet before. The first iX104C5 unit was powered up, though we fully expected to have to revert to others when it failed.
Bam! The unit crashed down onto the landing platform with a lot of force, putting a dent in the plywood, a dent that would begin to splinter as the tests continued. Xplore reps asked us to jump right to the seven-foot testing. They were shooting for the moon, and you have to admire their confidence. And after the first drop…the Windows screen still shined on the iX104C5. It had survived.
We continued the testing, having the tablet fall onto each corner and surface of the unit, which is 18 drops in all the way we divide the various quadrants. Each time the tablet remained powered up while it fell, something Xplore also insisted on, even though this is again tougher on a unit than the specifications require.
Once, the screen warbled a tiny bit, a hint that the battery might have lost some of its connection, but Windows stayed up. In the end, there was not even a scratch on the iX104C5, it never lost power, and we never even had to unpack the backup units.
Now, we are not into second-guessing review results. Obviously it seems as though Xplore needs to come up with a better system for holding the battery in place — to eliminate human error, if nothing else.
That said, had our review been conducted with this new iX104C5, the rugged grade would have easily been raised from a C to an A. We've never seen a unit go so far above Mil-Spec and survive.
The iX104C5 is an impressive tablet if everything is installed correctly. With these new test results in hand, we would feel comfortable certifying the iX104C5 DMSR-MIL for rugged duty anywhere in the world.
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The region's measles outbreak ended just in time as thousands upon thousands of children return to classrooms and young adults head to college. All it might have taken to turn this outbreak into an epidemic was another round of exposures with unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children gathered en masse.
Given western Wisconsin residents' proximity to the Twin Cities - center of the outbreak - the good news as well as the renewed health warnings are just as important to them as they are to Minnesotans.
On Friday, state health officials declared the outbreak that started April 11 was finally over. The wait between the last case being identified July 13 and the Aug. 25 declaration was so long because the measles incubation period is 21 days, therefore the "all clear" can't come any sooner than twice that, namely 42 days.
Here's a key fact: Of the 73 confirmed measles cases involving those age 10 and under, 71 were not vaccinated.
So we're taking one last shot at urging parents to vaccinate their children before sending them off to school. Do it for their own good.
Measles can be deadly. This outbreak sickened 79 people, mostly children, and was the largest measles outbreak in Minnesota since 1990, when three people died.
The Minnesota Department of Health said the 2017 outbreak:
• Hospitalized 22 people
• Exposed more than 8,000 people to measles
• Put up to 500 people under unofficial quarantine - they were "asked" to stay home from school, child care or work because they were potentially infectious (i.e. unvaccinated and exposed to someone infectious)
"When you consider how many people were exposed and how many were susceptible, it's clear that the interventions helped keep the outbreak from being even worse," Kris Ehresmann, Minnesota Department of Health's director of infectious disease, said in Friday's news release.
In addition to the individual suffering and medical bills, the outbreak cost taxpayers plenty. The Minnesota Department of Health estimates it spent $900,000 in staff time, expertise, laboratory capacity and outreach. The outbreak also required significant collaboration among health care systems, schools, child care centers, workplaces and public health agencies, with Hennepin County as the epicenter spending an additional $400,000.
We mustn't become complacent just because this region-thanks to high vaccination rates-so rarely encounters outbreaks of preventable diseases. Measles exists elsewhere in the world and the virus more easily finds the sick and the unvaccinated than people might like to acknowledge.
"Measles is just a plane ride away," as Ehresmann puts it.
"This outbreak showed that preventing disease requires all of us working together," Minnesota Health Commissioner Dr. Ed Ehlinger said in their joint statement. "Public health is a community, collective endeavor. It's what we as a society do together to ensure the conditions in which everyone can be healthy."
Be part of the endeavor. Vaccinate and immunize your loved ones against virulent childhood diseases. Make certain their shots are up to date and complete. You'll reduce the risks for everyone.


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Together, Mark's quarter century of Python efforts so far have helped to establish it as one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. Though no longer teaching formal classes today, he continues to advocate improvement in Python, open source, and the software field at large through his posts, programs, and books.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The Complexity of Online Digital Records
You remember don't you how we classified things? There were online records and offline records. Yes, it was that simple.
Today, the classification of online digital records is far more complex. No longer can you simply say online or digital records (digital records after all might not be online). More and more often genealogists have to pay closer attention to understand what they will find before they open a digital online record group.
Here are some of the new categories that we need to sort through.
1) Digital Image / Digital Index
These records, of course, are the Holy Grail. The record database is indexed (hopefully accurately) and there is a link to an image of the original record. If we are lucky we can also save the image to our own computers. The 1790 - 1930 US Federal Census records are a classic example of this group. In a few more months the 1940 census will join this category.
2) Digital Index / No Image
This type of record database is very helpful in letting us know whether records exist but they stop short of actually providing the records. The records may be digitized and available online from another website or they may be not be online at all. An example of this would be the Massachusetts, Petitions and Records of Naturalizations, 1906-1929 index found on Ancestry.com and the actual images found on Fold3 (though they are indexed on Fold3 as well).
3) Digital Image / No Index
These records fall into the category of "I'm so glad the images are online but wouldn't it be great if they were indexed. But I'm not complaining." There are many records sets like this on FamilySearch.org. Probate records are prime candidates for having images available but not being indexed. Illinois Probate Records, 1819-1970 are an example of this type of record. Sometimes the records are sorted by county as in this particular case and sometimes they are alphabetical or chronological. That does help narrow down the needle in a haystack but prepare yourself for a lot of work. However, the alternative of not having them online is worse.
4) Digital Index / Transcription
When I think of this category I imagine Findagrave.com where you can search the database but what you might end up with is a "memorial" with a text "transcription" (or perhaps just some information not an actual transcription) and no photograph. This kid of online record is helpful because it lets you know the record (or headstone as the case may be) exists. Also, the transcription is helpful as a starting point but in most cases you'll want to verify whether the transcription is accurate or not.
5) Online Catalogs
Let's not forget about online library or manuscript collection catalogs! This is an important resource that often gets overlooked. Many records, documents and manuscripts that are not digitized have an online presence in the form of a library catalog. The ultimate catalog is the WorldCat index. I find I rely on this more and more because it does not reflect the regional bias that my own local library network tends to show. And if I provide my local zip code, WorldCat will even more impressively tell me where to find the nearest location of the book I am looking for.
As you can see searching online is not as straight forward as it used to be. We have to be more aware of what is being provided and try not to overlook important resources like online catalogs.
Have I overlooked any categories? Can you throw anything else into the mix?
Continue to Part 2 for a look at the levels of complexity within individual online records and the difficulty it presents in extracting information.
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Not sure this is a different category, but what about the "snippets" on google books? Or e-books and pdf books that are images that are every-word searchable.ReplyDelete
I think I would classify them as either #1 or #3 depending on whether the books are searchable. Some books don't have searchable pdfs but luckily they do have the printed index in the back of the book which we can just read. So for me these would still fit into the categories above.
How about 'born digital' records? For example, current phone books might qualify, I know a lot of current government documents going to archives now are, all sorts of membership databases that may one day become genealogy resources. There would be lots of other examples that will become more relevant to genealogy over time.ReplyDeleteReplies
If you can go to site and search for the name as in a phone book then I don't see any difference with a site like ancestry.com. It's the individual types of records that I'm breaking down rather than the types of websites that hold the records. For me it's whether the records are searchable and whether we can see the original document content or not. Government documents would print from the original software (word processor or whatever) to pdf. I imagine that phone books are they same way in that they are created in a database and instead of sending the database to print on paper they are now just creating searchable databases online. But you're right, that one might be another category because we are no longer viewing an image of the original printed version but simply viewing the raw data. We might lose something in that. I'll have to think about that one more!
In which category would you place cousin bait blogs and personal family websites? I've come across a few that delivered original content that can't be found anywhere else.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm not really sure whether to give them their own category or whether to lump them in with #4. I think they probably should be in their own category because in my own experience they are presenting *some* of the records (the ones that relate to their own family) rather than an entire record group as with the Ancestry.com and FamilySearch. In a way personal sites are very much (though smaller) like Findagrave.com because they are limited to what volunteers choose to put online rather than consistently contributing all records for a cemetery.Delete


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Hot Rod Prodigy
Talbert Goldman literally grew up around cars. His father, Mike, has been building cars in their backyard shop for most of Talbert's 15-year-old life. When he was around nine, Talbert showed interest in an old '48 Stude that had been sitting out back. The truck had been in the family for years, having belonged to Talbert's maternal grandfather, Charles Talbert. Mike had talked Charles, his future father-in-law, out of the truck more than 20 years ago and used it for several years after making it roadworthy. Mike parked the truck prior to marrying Sherry, and there it sat until a 9-year-old Talbert became interested in it. Mike told Talbert that the truck would be his as soon as he was able to tackle the task of rebuilding it himself. At 14, Talbert made a false start on the project, quickly realizing just how difficult it would be. He spent the following year planning and drawing his dream truck and finally, in February 2001, at age 15, he was ready to see the project through to completion. Sure, his father helped him with some of the larger tasks—like setting up the suspension—but Talbert did all of the actual work ‰ himself, from cutting and welding the boxing plates into the framerails, to narrowing and installing the '59 Chevy dash, to painting everything on the truck himself.
Talbert fit all of this work in with the rest of the daily activities that consume a typical teenager's life: school, football practice, chores, homework, girls, and so on. He set his goal for completion to coincide with the start of the NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky, in August 2001, where he planned the truck's debut. As the date drew near, Talbert found himself a little behind schedule and began to worry about reaching his goal. With two weeks left and the truck far from complete, Talbert's mom and sister, Natalie, left town for two weeks, leaving Talbert with just the opportunity he needed. Throwing the clock out the window, Talbert and Mike thrashed until well past midnight most weeknights, as well as pulling all-nighters in the shop on weekends. Thursday morning (the opening day of the Nationals) came and the Goldman boys found themselves tightening the final bolt at 5 a.m.
They loaded the truck on a trailer for the quick trip to the muffler shop for exhaust and then a front-end alignment. Thursday afternoon, they returned home, packed, and immediately left for Louisville, driving all night to arrive Friday morning. Although Talbert looked mighty weary when we bumped into him in the Vintage Air Under 21 Corral at the Nats—where he garnered a Posies' Pick—his excitement and enthusiasm told the real story. When asked if it was all worth it, his response was a resounding "Yes!" We definitely agree.
Drivetrain: The engine is a 350 that Mike pulled out of a client's car while swapping in a ZZ4. Realizing that Talbert needed an engine, Mike offered to buy it, but when Jerome Bradford found out that it was for Talbert's truck, he donated it to the project. Talbert graciously accepted the offer, though he changed a few things to fit the theme of his project. Originally built by Bradford, the engine has a Weiand intake topped by an Edelbrock 600-cfm carb and HEI ignition. Talbert added chrome-plated finned valve covers and a '49 Caddy air cleaner and installed low-mount brackets for the alternator and A/C compressor. Mr. Bradford also donated the attached TH350 transmission, as his car received an overdrive unit. Talbert ended up paying back the karma points by prepping and painting Bradford's new motor and trans in return. Talbert's motor blats through factory manifolds and twice-pipes with a pair of 14-inch glasspacks installed by PeeWee's Mufflers in Meridian, Mississippi.
Chassis:Talbert Goldman boxed the rails with ¼-inch steel plate and installed a Fatman MII front crossmember, donated by Brent Vandervort of Fatman Fabrications. Talbert finished off the front suspension with Fatman tubular upper control arms and anti-sway bar as well as factory MII lower arms, springs, and spindles. Disc brakes from Master Power Brakes bring the hauler to a safe stop. Out back, Talbert C-notched the frame and installed a pair of Mazda pickup leaf springs mounted high and inside the framerails with a '69 Camaro posi rear turning 3.42:1 gears and factory drum brakes. A Master Power Brakes power booster is mounted with a remote-fill master cylinder and a custom aluminum remote reservoir.
Wheels & Tires: All four corners roll on 15×8 Coker chromed smoothies mounted with 235/70-15 BFGoodrich Silvertown widewalls from Coker Tire.
Body: Talbert did all of the bodywork himself, welding in patch panels where necessary, filling the fuel neck hole in the cab and getting the entire thing straight and ready for paint. The nose of the truck remains stock with rechromed bumpers, while out back are a pair of repop '50 Pontiac taillights with blue dots. The polished stainless fuel tank from Rock Valley Tanks was relocated to inside the bed and is an aftermarket piece intended for a '32 Ford.
Paint: Talbert sprayed his truck with PPG K-93 catalyzed primer that he tinted with Super Red Concept.
Interior: OK, you caught him. Talbert farmed out the upholstery to Bill Harold of Antioch Auto Trim in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Harold built a custom bench into the cab and covered it with tan ultra leather; the door panels and carpet match. The dash came from a '59 Impala and was narrowed to fit by Talbert; a set of Dolphin gauges fill the holes. Mike Goldman handled the installation of the EZ Wire harness. An ididit column mounts a Lokar arm and is topped by a tan-rimmed LeCarra steering wheel. A JVC head unit provides tunes through a set of Alpine speakers while a Vintage Air system provides a cool breeze.


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[Pages 407-417]
Translated by Mindle Crystel Gross and Dr. Sonia Kovitz
With appreciation for the assistance of Dr. Simon Civjan
of the Tsivyans originally from Dvinsk, Latvia
*This piece was written for the book Lite several months prior to the author's death. He died in 1945 at age 62.There was a region on the Dvina River with Kurland on one bank, Vitebsk District on the other, and Kovno District beyonda region populated by a special type of Jew, neither Kurlander nor Litvak, but a combination of both. I will call them the Kurlander Litvaks. Since the events of the last quarter-century mixed all types of Jews together, the Kurlander Litvaks, no matter their number, must be described as a memorial.
On the west this region embraced Riga and on the east, Dinaburg (Denenburg, Dvinsk) and included the following towns: the twin towns Yakobshtat-Kraytsburg with the Dvina flowing between; Livenhof (Libemuze) located 25 viorst upriver on the Dvina [Russian: 1 viorst = 2/3 mile]; and Shtakmanshof (Dankere) located 25 viorst downriver. Fifty viorst from Riga midway along the road was Friedrichshtadt (Nayre), the circuit capital [county seat]. I myself am a Yakobshtater, Borukh Avraham Vaynroyb, with my true name son of Abba Sheftl der furman [drayman]. Yakobshtat is thus for me the center of the world and the region. [After emigrating from Latvia in 1911, Vaynroyb became a literary critic and essayist in New York under the pen name B. Rivkin.]
How old was the town? In the old marketplace, which strangely was called the new marketplace, a large stone was mounted, and on it was engraved a year from the 13th century when a battle took place and German knights perished. This stone was their memorial. In the old market (or the new-old market) a corner area of green houses, with verandas decked with woven branches and leaves, served as a reminder of the Germans of old. Located behind these was the town's lustgarten [German: recreation park]. Near the Dvina, surrounded by huge old trees, stood a barred tower, taller than the treesan abandoned military watchtower.
It is clear that the two townsYakobshtat-Kraytsburgwere founded on account of highway robbery and the strategic location. A viorst or two below the twin cities, the Dvina was humped or bent in the shape of a knee through the rapidsa narrow rocky descending slope over which the waters were eternally rushing, noisy and turbulent. Above the rapids the river spread out broadly between the two towns, and one had to squint to see the other side. In the spring when the river would flood the rapids, maykes, layves [types of boats], occasionally large steamers, and countless rafts would pass through freely. In the summertime the rafts had to stop, especially on the Yakobshtat side where the riverbank was flatter, to wait for the river-pilot to help them navigate the narrow crevices between the underwater-falls. In the deep waters a steamer, along with two boats with rudders and a ferry (pulled either by a steamer or a rope stretched across the river) made the twin towns into one. And this was of course especially true in the winter, when the Dvina froze.
As I now suppose, the two towns occupied an outstanding strategic position for conducting battles. Kraytsburg and its town center wound its way uphill. Two viorst beyond Yakobshtat, running the length of the town, stretched a chain of small hills, upon one of which the Jewish cemetery was located. I have proof that many a serious battle was waged in the vicinity of Yakobshtat: during the first world war, Yakobshtat was a permanent center of conflict and when Hitler marched into Soviet Russia, Yakobshtat had the dubious honor of being the first to be mentioned in the cables. And even stronger proof: in the center of town between the four synagogues there was an ancient military cemetery called Vienna, which served as a lustgarten for the kheder yinglekh [little boys of elementary Hebrew school age] in their free time. They dug in the sand and found skulls and entire skeletons, which they would examine with terror in their hearts while studying the anatomy of the human body. Afterwards, to revive themselves, they made little whistles from the soft willow branches so that they could proclaim their cheerfulness to the entire town. The beautiful bright highway to Riga lifted the heart and led to baronial courtyards and estates. The gloomy Grimik highway to Dinaburg led to a suburb of Brod inhabited by Vanya's [Russians], where the criminals of the entire region were from. All the other gray and sandy roads out of town led to Latvian villages.
And now to my main interestthe Jews, the Kurlander Litvaks. The population of Yakobshtat, more than half of which was Jewish, numbered approximately 8,000. Kraytsburg was a little smaller, but with a larger number of Jews. (Kraytsburg was in Vitebsk District, where Jews were permitted to live.) Jews occupied the town's center, the main street, and the side streets. The outskirts of town, which were constantly expanding, were occupied by Latvians, Russians and some Poles. Large houses and orchards, entire courtyardsbelonging to Germans, wealthier Russians, and Latvianswere found throughout the length and breadth of the town.
Jews were the owners of large dry-goods stores, haberdasheries and hardware stores, and many were grain and flax merchants. Most important of all were the timber and lumber merchants who spent weeks and months in Tukum and in Riga. There were two match factories in Yakobshtat, which were owned by Jews. The main food suppliers for the Jewish shopkeepers and brokers were the two markets held during the week. Then there were the Jewish artisans: tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, cabinet-makers, tinsmiths, glaziers, blacksmiths, watchmakers and goldsmiths. There were many Jewish draymen with lightweight coaches on springs for passengers and heavier wagons for bigger loads. The station was located on the opposite side of the Dvina, about three or four viorst beyond Kraytsburg. Germans were the owners of the brewery and the two millsthe steam mill and the windmill. The pharmacist was German, as were the carpet-makers, bricklayers, printer, butcher, saddlemaker, and turner. The turner was an evil person, a Hitlerist for Hitler, who would start fights. But the maker of pipe organs, a gem of a person, also was German and he truly loved the Jews. The Germanized Latvians were bad, but the Russified Latvians were even worse, by nature true traitors. Most of the time the Latvian villagers and the Jews lived well together. One winter, my uncle, a peddlar, got rich. He became practically a soykher [merchant, businessman] when his sacks of grain and pelts burst open and took an entire winter to dry. What happened? He found favor with a Latvian farm-owner [who bought the lot].
Those who considered themselves true Kurlander Jews were the ones who had settled in Kurland prior to the early '80s, I believe before 1882. They were the yakhsonim [Jewish nobility]. Only they had the legal right to reside in Kurland. It was easier to study the Kurlander Jews among the balebatim [middle-class householders], since they constituted this type. Originally there were several kinds. One kind came from authentic Kurland near the Baltic Sea, from the towns of Tukum and Hoznput that lay between Riga, Mitave, Libave, and Vindave. The second kindoriginating in White Russia and Kovno Districtcame mainly from Ponevezh and Birzh. Artisans, peddlars and teachers arrived. Also, naturally, came those who were lured by the lumber business on the Dvina. On rafts and because of rafts they came. In Yakobshtat-Kraytsburg they intermingled, influencing each other in character, behavior, and language, yet retaining the signs of their origins.
The original Kurlanders were the Yoelsons, Mayersons, Lilientals, Rozentals, Talerozes, and Koblentses. Even in America I can recognize authentic Kurlandersby their heavy yet soft, fleshy noses from which seems to hang suspended five pood [200 pounds] of German self-importance and pomp, swollen with haughtiness towards the Litvaks. Ongeblozene indikes [puffed-up turkeys] is the nickname the Litvaks gave them. There in their Hoznput they spoke daitchmerish [Germanicized Yiddish], a kind of cavalier's German. The Litvaks were the Markushevitches, Komenetskis, Levitases and Lurias: rich as Korakh, yet democratic by nature. Even when stuffed to the gills with money, they let it be known that their origins are of the people. Even the sharp, keen-witted gemora-kop [talmud-heads] behave like proste khay-vekayims [plain and ordinary folks]. When these two types intermingled, an ideal democratism emerged. Picture democratic yahudim [German Jews] whose behavior is refined, modest, and friendly towards the poor!
The influence of the Litvaks was so widespread that all the shuls [synagogues] davened [prayed] using hasidic prayerbooks. Even in the private shul of the grandest and richest German Jew, Leytse Taleroz, they davened in the manner of ari hakodesh [the Holy Ari, Itzak Luria of Safed, 16th century mystic kabbalist]. All the shuls had small annexes called khabadnitses [Chabad, name of the Lubavitcher hasidic movement, is the Hebrew acronym for Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge], but no one studied Chabad there, rather the poor folk had separate kriyas [readings from the Torah] there so they could have their own aliyas [honor of being called up to bless the Torah reading]. Even the craftsmen's shul prayed with German-democratic-hasidic pomp. It was only the butchers who remained stubborn. Their little butchers' shul was the only misnagdishe one [opposed to hasidism]. The town was hasidic even though no one ever traveled to a hasidic rebbe other than the Lurias, who were originally from Birzh, relatives of Yehudah Leyb Zosnitz. No rebbe ever visited Yakobshtat.
The Kurlander influence on the Litvaks was felt mainly in the way of life at home, in home etiquette and its effect on the youth. Therefore I must return to the true Germans who were the original residents of the town. The Petersburg government was then in the process of Russifying the Baltic provinces. The German officials and magistrate had only recently been replaced by a Russian police administration and judicial system. As a kheder boy, I would see a shande-vagon [shaming cart] with a criminal tied to a raised seat being driven to the shandeslup [pillory] in the field where the soldiers were drilled. This happened in my time when the state school was converted to a six-grade Russian public school. In community affairs, however, the Germans still played a large role. The new officialsthe inspector, the prison overseer, and the lawyerwere Germans who spoke Russian haltingly, carefully pondering every word. Also on the Jewish side the recent transition from German to Russian was still very apparent: the director of the Jewish school, a landsman [Jew from the same locale], spoke Russian with a terrible Jewish-German accent. By the way, a typical Kurlander Litvak, a poor yeshiva student, learned German while studying Hegel's philosophy and following Hegel, justified the giving and taking of interest. He insisted that his students learn dikduk [Hebrew grammar] and taught them the Bible using the [German] Biblical Commentary of Moses Mendelsohn [translator of the Torah into German and founder of the haskalah (enlightenment) movement to bring modern European knowledge to traditional Judaism].
In the middle class private homes, German still held full sway. The children were sent to Russian gimnazyes [high schools] in Riga and Mitave. In the Riga Polytechnic School of Dorpat University and in private homes, German was after all a sign of education, and tsum viderzehn [Yiddish adaptation of the German phrase until we meet again] and vilkomen [welcome] were heard spoken in fine style and seen inscribed over doorways, when the gracious lady of the house returned from the resort town of Doblen [Dobele, located near Mitava]. For the original Kurlander, German was exclusively the language spoken at home even by those who understood and were able to speak Yiddish. German set the social tone for both good and bad. Middle-class daughters traveled to Riga and brought back news of the wonders of the German operas that they had seen: The Jews, The Huguenots, and Vasco de Gama, in which an akrent [vessel] (a ship, that is) had sailed onto the very stage.
The slender blonde German frauleins served as examples for the middle-class Jewish daughters, and that is how these Jewish daughters felt and behaved, like genteel and dreamy baronesses, like bewitched princesses. And that is how they appeared in the eyes of the dreamy young men who were infatuated with these Jewish princesses.
Even madness took place in German. A young deranged boy, when asked to recite Schiller and Goethe, did so by heart, both backwards and forwards. And two spinster sisters from a formerly rich but now impoverished family, even in their melancholy were clever and delicate and had fine feelings [English in original], were poetesses with whom it was a delight to speak. The young men were deranged because of their unrequited romantic hunger for the love of the baronesses.
All of these good and bad influences entered into the psychological makeup of the Kurlander Litvaks. It was as if the recently arrived Litvaks, succumbing to the effect of the Kurlanders, were injected with a drop of baronial fantasy, indeed should have been vaccinated against baronial fantasy. While remaining democrats, they now thought much more highly of themselves. Because of their large numbers, they were able to prevail upon the established Kurlanders to relax their conceited attitude just a little, and become more mentshlekh, mild, and sensible. And so they arrived at a balance. There was even a difference between the balebatim of Yakobshtat and of Kraytsburg. Those in Kraytsburg unashamedly looked up to those in Yakobshtat. Yet there was a still greater difference between the Kraytsburg balebatim and the proste khay-vekayim [plain and ordinary] balebatim from the other Litvak towns.
The character of the Kurlander Litvak was reflected even in the faces of the Yakobshtat rabbis. Did you know or did you hear of Rabbi [Mordechai] Nurock, the community activist, politician, deputy of the Duma, and mizrakhi [Zionist group] leader? Nu, I knew him to be a gentle young man. His father was a rabbi in Yakobshtat. With his stately appearance and fine character, with his tolerance and spiritual aura, he was granted authority by all classes of Jews in Yakobshtat. And the common folk, not only the balebatim, were no less Kurlander Litvaks, but without the German books and the German pomp. The folk received in no small measure a dose of baronial fantasy through direct contact. Not all barons lived in palaces. Barons sometimes even hung around rubbish heaps, drunken and destitute. Once my father and his team of harnessed horses drove around just such a drunken baronchik for hours. Instead of paying my father, the baronchik insulted him: You dirty Jew! Who do you think you're demanding money from? My father hit him with a drayman's resounding smack right in his baronial mug. He immediately sobered up and handed his silver watch to my father as payment. This was the first watch whose tick-tock helped me fall asleep, and this is how I received my own drop of baronial fantasy.
The respectable Germans frequently related well to the Jewish common folk. My grandfather, Efrayim Vaynrib, was employed in a German brewery. The pipe organ master and the German owner of the largest food business trusted my father with thousands of rubles, and one should add that the German magistrate had more trust in the Jews than in the Latvians. I have a nice story to tell in connection with this. At the marketplace while waiting for a passenger, my father saw three drunken Latvians bullying a young boy who one week earlier had become an orphan, and this was his first outing with his father's team of horses. My father's heart went out to the young boy, so he grabbed a pole from his wagon and started to batter the three goyim [non-Jews] and laid them out half-dead on the cobblestones. My father was sentenced to serve a week in jail, but a year passed and the inspector, a German, left my father alone. After all, he knew that my father had been right. Another year passed and he began demanding his due, such as: Abba Sheftl, how much longer? The district is hounding me to deatha Jew has been sentenced and hasn't served his time. My father begged to be excused: When do I have the time? Then a little boy died in our town, and the inspector showed up: Come, Abba Sheftl, after all, you have to sit anyway so you will sit shiva [seven day mourning period] with me. He took my father's talis [prayer shawl] and tefillin [phylacteries] and left. My father followed. In the daytime my father would daven and recite tehillim [Psalms]. At night he would come home. This is how he served his week's sentence.
Since I'm familiar with draymen, I have a suspicion that baronial fantasy would overtake them by way of a baronial horse. Whenever there was a capricous horse with a nik [Latvian: contrary streak], a drayman would buy it dirt-cheap from the baron. My father did the same. And it would take time before such a riding horse could be broken into a drafthorse.
Here's a story that's told. Once there was a blacksmith, a relative of ours, who lived on the road to Brod, the nest of Russian bandits, but he wasn't afraid of them. He was a big, strong man and so were his associates. This blacksmith was one of the first to leave Yakobshtat and travel to America. He had a baronial fantasy: he purchased a baronial horse, forged a large half-covered wagon in which he packed all his bed linens and household articles, and with his wife and daughters he planned to travel to Hamburg in it. But as soon as he tried to hitch the horse to the wagon, when he set the harness in place the horse took off at a wild gallop over fields, woods and hills. Hundreds of people began to chase after. They were on the verge of catching him when the horse devilishly jumped right over all the fences. The smith's journey to America was delayed by a full day.
I believe, so far as I can determine, that the Kurlander Litvak is not just my own invention. Whether of the class of balebatim or of the folk, he had a clearly recognizable type of face. But my strongest evidence is the melding of Kurlander and Litvak that resulted in a distinctive fused Yiddish, free both of daitchmerisms [Germanicisms] and Slavicisms. It is a litvish [Lithuanian Yiddish] that doesn't mix sh and s. A litvish based on clear logic and German grammar. This is the tongue used formerly in Kobrin and Hirshkan, both of Vitebsk District, purified of words mixing together Yiddish and Russian such as: stramgolovoy [proud or stiff-necked], gazlovoy [thievish], oyskorenien [uprooted], tseshtazhen [false honor]. The nearest approach to this Yiddish can be found among the Tsivyans [large branch of Latvian Jews] who, I know not how, wandered once upon a time to Danker (Shtakmanshof), and in the speech of Dr. [Max] Weinreich. This Yiddish must have originated in German Kurland, but was most likely ceremonially immersed in our Dvina. This Yiddish has its own special idioms and sayings, which deserve to be collected and accepted into general usage. I intend to collect more of them. For now, here is a deposit.
di dvina brent! [the Dvina is burning!]an expression among kheder yinglekh [little boys of elementary Hebrew school age] that sets off a stampede.
kholem-noz [dreamer]
a knip ton biz men derzen riga [a pinch that will make you see Riga]
verfel [dice] for dreydel [Chanukah top]
shnoyflen for fonfen [to snuffle or mumble]
nik [capricious, unruly], mayzlekh [mousy, timid] referring to horses
sulia [sap of a birch tree]
ankera small vessel for Passover mead that is sealed with a shpunt [bung].
a mensh a gornisht [a nothing, nobody]a shtrund [from Italian il stronzo]
kankeres for trantes [rags]
shtrimlinga small smoked fish resembling a shproten [sprat]
ent zikh for enlekh zayn [resemble]
druml [little drum]a tea-kettle made of sheet metal, wide at the bottom, narrow at the top, used to cook tea or coffee.
arayndrumlen in kop arayn [to drum something into one's head]. Elsewhere people say: er hot zikh eyngedrumelt.
ankreytik [susceptible]in Kovno this means susceptible to illness, but for us a susceptible dama [Russian: lady] is a lady who makes a fuss.
As an additional example I will give the family surname Vaynrebe, which Galicia and Lodz made more Jewish as Vaynrib and our Yakobshtat made more Jewish as Vaynroyb.
One's very own accent with one's very own shtikl loshn [bit of a language]that is an achievement. But even greater feats were expected from the Kurland Litvaks. The fact is, the Litvak was the prime achiever of all our movements. A plain and simple Litvak, particularly a Litvak with baronial fantasy, absolutely had to excel. Though it isn't really so. Kurlander lita was the place of origin of all them. In addition to the Tsivyans and Dr. Weinreich, there were Lilliput'n (Kretshmar) and Rakhel Luria (Roza Vulf), both of whom, much like the Tsivyans, wandered to Dankere; and Dovid Druk from Kraytsburg; and Grinbloy, a Yakobshtater. (Rakhel Luria and Grinbloy are already in the World of Truth.) Can you see the signs of baronial fantasy in all of them?
Kraytsburg, more litvish by a hair, excelled over Yakobshtat. All the movements came to Yakobshtat from Dinaburg and Riga by way of Kraytsburg. The Kraytsburger Dovid Druk, my first socialist agitator, came from Riga as an iskrovetz [follower of Iskra, The Spark, an early Marxist Russian newspaper founded in 1900].
And Dankere surpassed Kraytsburg. The first Russian revolution [1905] originated in the Latvian Forest Brothers movement. The Stalfer brother and sister risked their lives. I still regret to this day that my Russian brochure on collectivism and individualism was without my knowledge translated into Latvian and the Forest Brothers were arrested for it.
Here in New York there is now a Yakobshtat-Kraytsburg landsmanshaft [society of Jews from the same locale]. Its founder was a KraytsburgerAvraham Baronfrom the bakers' union. In Avraham Baron can one see a sign of baronial fantasyeven in his name! There was in the society a Mr. [Solomon] Katzen from the large family of Katzens from Yakobshatand he was an even greater baron with fantasiesa relief-activist, a delegate, always engaged in plans and projectsbut I don't hear from him. I suspect that the most active of all in theYakobshtat-Kraytsburg society are neither the Yakobshtaters nor the Kraytsburgers but the mekhutonim [relations] of their eydems [sons-in-law] and shvogers [brothers-in-law]. May their yikhus [pedigree] be inscribed along with the Yakobshtat-Kraytsburgers. Wake up, Yakobshtat-Kraytsburg, and row toward New York! And where is Libemuze? And where is Nayre?
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I only have one so it is easy to just get him to do what I am doing, pull out the kitchen set while I clean the kitchen or cook, "fold" his playclothes, while I am folding laundry - who cares if it means they are shoved into the drawer all a mess, I hang anything I care about. I get him to color or craft while I study. But it is always a struggle. They never really have the attention span that I need to finish a job. Mostly I tell him that if he wants to hang around with me he has to do what I am doing and otherwise he needs to entertain himself with his toys. It gets better around three, but even at five my son follows me around. Sometimes it has helped if he us being really demanding of my attention if I stop and play with him for a bit, I just explain that I will play for half an hour but then he needs to let me get something done, sometimes that is what my son needs, just to know that he is as important as the chores and then he will give me space. That doesn't always work for me either though! If you do figure out the magic solution (you know besides duct taping them to a wall). Make sure you share it lol
Here's a tip: Your child is with you. He knows you love him, and that you are there for him. You are teaching him life skills by showing him what you do to take care of the house and the people in it. He also needs to learn to play by himself. Preschool, nursery and other play groups (where you can go do your thing for a few hours) is a great way to refocus him/her, learn new skills and that MOM or DAD will be there when they get home. A good balance. Don't forget that each age is special and you need to be mostly engaged with them through each age, not just "present" in the room while you keep one eye on them. They absorb their early learning through their parents, as well as learning to treat others the way you treat them. It seems like you are doing a great job! :) Pat Nickerson (ECE)


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I think I had senioritis as a Junior in high school~can any one else relate?
It's getting to be that time of year when Seniors are feeling the senioritis bug biting pretty hard. Do whatever it takes to avoid this disease-it can really hurt your chances of success in college. Did you know that colleges do "take-backs?" They do-trust me.
Seniors get accepted to colleges during the fall of their senior year and then kinda sit back and enjoy Senior year not realizing that when you graduate, colleges get your final transcript from your high school. We see how bad senioritis really is…we see the low grades, dropped course or fluffy senior years. Evidence at UWGB shows that students whose gpa drops or they drop courses senior year tend to do poorly when they come to UWGB. So we have gotten a little tougher with senioritis victims- it's called rescinding admissions (AKA: take-back).
So I know the senioritis disease is catchy and spreading in your high school. Avoid it. Do whatever you can to finish your senior year well. Trust me, you will be glad you did.
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP went toe-to-toe with back-to-back NCAA Tournament participant Utah State only to ultimately succumb, 1-0, at University Field Friday evening. Kyle Dibb used a quality strike to put the Aggies (3-0-0) on the board at 46:55, and the visitors held on despite the Miners (2-1-0) enjoying advantages in both shots (13-5) and corner kicks (5-2).
A big factor in the match was the play of USU netminder Jeannie Woller, who notched her third clean sheet of the year after turning away five shots on target. Woller had some help, though, too from her stop troops. Miner sophomore Lauren Katada bested Woller with a header in the 69th minute, but as the ball was about to cross the line the Aggies' Jessica Hoskin-Killpack cleared it out of harms' way to the chagrin of the capacity crowd.
Miner GK Sarah Dilling was solid throughout the tilt, recording a trio of stops. The lone blemish was on the shot by Dibbs, which came on a partial breakaway after Jayne Robinson threaded the needle.
"We played well tonight but soccer is a game of chances and we didn't finish our chances," UTEP head coach Kevin Cross said. "We made a mistake, and they capitalized on us. That was the difference in the game, but we played pretty good soccer overall."
There was an aggressive mindset from the kickoff, with the Orange and Blue generating several good opportunities within the first 10 minutes of the match. Senior Jade Babcock tested Woller 20 seconds into the tilt, but the visiting netminder came up with the stop. The rebound ricocheted to redshirt-freshman Aleah Davis, who misfired high over the net.
In the fourth minute a good sequence of passes led to Azia Nicholson being all alone just inside the 18, but her shot whistled high. Three minutes later the senior had a chance at atonement, with a bouncing ball giving her a great look deep in the box. Woller stood her ground well, however, fighting off the point-blank blast.
Play settled down a bit following the early flurry, with the Aggies' shape improving. UTEP earned a corner in the 19th minute, but Gina Soto's redirection off the service was high.
The Aggies' initial look came in at 29:57, with a weak header by Karlee Campbell easily gobbled up by Dilling.
The Orange and Blue applied good pressure late in period, resulting in a free kick from the corner. Freshman Nicole Lindsay served a promising ball into the box but Woller did well to punch it clear.
The scoreless battle was broken up by Dibb early on in the second half, with a good thru ball setting up her alone in space. She took a dribble and managed to sneak the shot past a diving Dilling and just inside the right post at 46:55.
The Orange and Blue regrouped well after the defensive breakdown, and really controlled the contest from that point on. Babcock provided a great rip off a free kick only to have Woller dive to her right for the save in the 59th minute. The rebound tantalized the Orange and Blue faithful by laying loose in the area for a couple of seconds before the USU defense finally cleared it away.
Hannah Nicholson generated perhaps the second-best scoring chance of the contest 10 minutes later. The freshman used some fancy dribbling to create space and then rocketed the ball toward upper 90's country with her left foot. Woller timed her leap perfectly, though, and punched it up over the net.
UTEP appeared destined to tie it up two minutes later, with Katada's header sailing past Woller. It bounced right in front of the line before the USU defense was able to stop it on the line and then send it away.
UTEP will look to get back on track when it plays host to Abilene Christian University at 1 p.m. MT Sunday.
Courtsey of Mark Brunner
Associate Director UTEP Media Relations