Barmore is hoping to erase '94 Tech coach still reminded of last-second loss in final - tribunedigital-baltimoresun
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Louisiana Tech coach Leon Barmore has two NCAA championship trophies -- as many as any women's coach not named Pat Summitt, but he's haunted by the one that got away.
That would be the 1994 title, won by North Carolina on a buzzer-beating three-pointer by Charlotte Smith -- perhaps the most dramatic shot in women's tournament history.
"Listen, I thought this would come up earlier than it did," said Barmore, after last night's 84-65 win over North Carolina State to earn the Lady Techsters a berth in tomorrow night's national championship game.
"That was the most hurtful thing that has happened to me in my coaching career, and I would appreciate it if I didn't have to relive that event. It took me a long time to get over it."
On the play, Barmore, leading 59-57 with 00.7 left, designed a defense concentrated on All-America guard Tonya Sampson down low. But Smith, the niece of former Wolfpack great David Thompson, was left wide open behind the three-point line, where she had hit only 28 percent of her shots that season.
Smith hit the shot and gave the Tar Heels their only national title. Barmore will get his sixth chance for a championship tomorrow.
"I will concentrate on winning this next game. What happened in 1994 will not be a factor to me one bit," said Barmore.
While being named to the Kodak All-America team for a second straight year, Old Dominion senior point guard Ticha Penicheiro tried her best to hide her disappointment that the Lady Monarchs weren't playing in last night's national semifinal.
"Sometimes N.C. State pops into my head, and I could be thinking about it, but why have any negative thoughts that will ruin my weekend?" said Penicheiro.
Though she had enough credits to graduate, Penicheiro, a 5-foot-11 native of Portugal, returned for her senior year to try to lead Old Dominion back to the Final Four. The Lady Monarchs lost to Tennessee in the 1997 championship game, and received the No. 1 seed in the East this year, but lost to North Carolina State in the regional semifinal.
Such is the case with SHOR American Seafood Grill at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach. It opened a little over a year ago and features simple fresh ingredients. Its motto, written on a chalkboard on one wall, says, "Thoughtfully sourced. Carefully served."
The room is large and pleasant, in tones of gray with white accents. I would call the décor casual chic. There is a large outdoor patio in the front with lots of pretty vegetation and another outdoor dining area in the back looking out on the lovely gardens.
The menu leans heavily on seafood, but steaks and chicken are also available. I was very impressed with the quality of the mussels, which are from the Carlsbad Aquafarm. The mussels were small, tender and sweet. Having been braised in beer, they lounged in a delicious tomato sauce infused with garlic and lightly cooked onions and were heightened with bits of spicy sausage. They were accompanied by a mini baguette for sopping up the luscious broth.
Starters include Pacific oysters, baked oysters and shrimp cocktail. The cooked appetizers feature calamari and blackened shrimp, to name a couple, and, of course, there are soups and salads. Brandy-laced lobster bisque sounded tasty.
My favorite dining partner had American blue crab cakes that were a combination of minced crab and breadcrumbs dotted with nice, big pieces of crab. Peppery arugula lay on top, and the cakes rested on spicy remoulade sauce. A very good avocado relish with a spicy chipotle sauce was served on the side.
Our waiter recommended the scallops, and I was glad he did. Four big, beautiful diver scallops were perfectly cooked and served moist with a delicate brown coat of porcini dust. A sweet balsamic glaze provided the finishing touch. They were seated on silky smoked potato puree, which was dotted with fresh corn kernels and bits of crisp bacon.
My dining companion made his selection from the "Grill 'em and fire 'em" category of the menu. This section offers three different steaks, three different fish and one chicken breast to choose from. Diners can then select the seasonings and choose from among eight different sauces.
You might choose the cilantro garlic rub for your steak. Then pair it with house-made steak sauce or Bearnaise. The old bay seasoning and carrot ginger sauce would be nice with fish.
Some years ago, a tourist wandering around a huge wine-storage facility in Bordeaux discovered a sign on a section of it that said “Good Enough for America.” When this discovery hit the news, American wine consumers were outraged, and the consequences for the French winemakers were dire. It is never a good idea to disrespect your customer.
Recently some very sophisticated New York publishing folk changed the label on a book from “Fiction” to “Memoir” without feeling the need to change a word of the text. The results in this case were many weeks on the bestseller lists, but also litigation alleging fraud and personal damage.
Every year, I receive dozens of books labeled “True Fiction” to consider for distribution by Independent Publishers Group. These go straight into the trash, because the very idea of true fiction seems to me oxymoronic.
But truth is tricky. Suppose you want to publish a biography of a famous politician. Your book asserts the following: he was born on a particular date and in a particular place; he gave a great speech that made his career; his mistress was in the audience; he ruthlessly exploited her.
These assertions move stepwise from simple matters of fact to much more complex issues. Truth becomes harder to arrive at objectively with each step. Date and place of birth are checkable facts. The exploited mistress is another matter.
For decades now the English and history departments of our colleges and universities have been dominated by the set of ideas (emanating from France, I am afraid) called postmodernism.
Since postmodernism asserts that truth is “culturally conditioned,” all questions of truth—if you accept the strong version of the theory—are relative to particular societies or groups, or even individuals. Objective truth is out of our reach.
There is something to this theory. The truth about that mistress is probably culturally conditioned. Different groups have different ideas about what constitutes the exploitation of women.
But the fact that truth is often hard to find does not, in my view, absolve us as publishers (or as individuals) from doing the best we can to find it.
It would be wonderful if every independent publisher had a fact-checking staff. We don’t, and we won’t. The expense would be greater than all the other costs of editing and printing a book.
Still, there are some practical, affordable things we can do. We can tell our authors that it is their responsibility to recheck all facts—many authors think we will do that work for them—and make sure they do it. And we should remind authors that inaccuracies, even unimportant inaccuracies, will be discovered by reviewers and used to undermine the credibility of the text as a whole.
But by far the most important thing we can do is work only with authors who have the appropriate credentials or experience to handle to the topics about which they are writing. It is not enough that a book is in some sense interesting or plausible, or that there is an audience of the credulous out there large enough to ensure its success. Or that the book asserts a proposition that is true only in the sense that people would like it to be true. Far too many independent publishers succumb to such temptations, even when they know better.
Yet here again there are serious practical difficulties. Highly credentialed authors are expensive, usually too expensive. And a very large part of the value of the independent press comes from its ability to contribute new voices to the cultural dialog. Why not let a thousand voices contend? Surely readers can distinguish between the true and the false.
And besides, what is the damage done? Kids used to say, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” Books are just words. Any night of the week you can hear political pundits on TV hurling ill-considered opinions and insults at each other, and no real harm is done. The point for the participants, and the audience, is to have a good emotional workout. Truth is beside the point.
The problem with this view is that words do have consequences, in the long run greater consequences than sticks or stones. Readers of bogus cancer-cure books avoid real treatment and die. Children are hurt by stupid child-rearing manuals. There is growing evidence that terrorists do a lot of reading.
Which brings us, as does any discussion of anything, to the Internet. In recent memory, a series of gatekeepers watched over the quality of books. Publishers, wholesalers, distributors, and booksellers made a point of dealing only in books that met certain standards of quality.
These standards were not codified or consistent, and their application had more to do with maintaining credibility for a business than with abstract notions about the value of truth. Nonetheless, these gatekeepers kept a lot of junk off booksellers’ shelves.
The world of Internet bookselling could not be more different. The Internet ethos and business model eschew, reject, and despise gatekeeping. Any object that quacks like a book can be found online. It is an experiment in radical democracy. So what if many thousands of these titles are abject trash. Let the readers vote with their mouses! As for those grumpy old gatekeepers, off with their heads! This is exciting stuff, but in the long run it will not do. The body politic has an immune system, even if it sometimes takes a decade to kick in. In the early days of television, Johnson could sell any amount of wax by showing a pretty housewife admiring her reflection in her kitchen floor. This sort of thing does not work anymore.
Recently a publisher asked me if it was all right to put phony reviews (by the author’s mother, brother-in-law, etc.) for her titles on Amazon. “After all, everyone is doing it,” she assured me. Everyone is doing it, but I suggested she instead send real reviews to IPG so we could put them up on the Internet bookselling sites. Let’s be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. At some point, the American public will wise up.
But will it wise up before serious damage is done? Every time a foolish, dishonest, or sloppy book is sold, a customer is disappointed and disrespected. This is bad business. It damages the status of The Book as an especially reliable source of knowledge. We have a venerable and enormously valuable brand to protect. “Good enough” is not good enough for books or Bordeaux.
The Los Alamitos Unified School District's student population remains predominantly white, although the percentage has dipped for the third straight year as the number of Latino students continues to grow. Whites comprise 76% of the student population, down by 1% from the last school year and 3% from the 1991-92 school year, according to statistics released by the school district last week.
For the 600 students at predominantly black Southern University who crowded into an assembly hall for a rally here, the issue on the table was their future in a state governed by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. But what filled the air Wednesday afternoon was the past, lingering in sharp, precise images they are too young to remember: riding in the back of the bus, drawing water from a fountain marked Colored, fearing to disdain a man wearing a sheet.
Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Vietnamese-born former ethics teacher and Catholic seminarian, last winter surprised and delighted Republicans by defeating a longtime incumbent in a heavily Democratic congressional district in Louisiana. He provided another surprise -- but probably no delight -- to his party on Saturday when he became the lone Republican to vote for the healthcare bill pushed by President Obama. "I have always said that I would put aside partisan wrangling to do the business of the people," Cao said in a statement posted on his website.
Louisiana Election Puts White Conservatives in Serious Bind : Politics: Republicans who have opposed Democrat Edwards for years now have no middle ground. Many are loath to vote for Duke, some will.
Beverly Sylvester would rather vote for a scoundrel than for David Duke. That is why she said she will vote for Edwin W. Edwards in the Louisiana governor's race on Saturday. David Duke, the Republican candidate, is a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, former Nazi sympathizer and a one-term member of the state House of Representatives.
Democrat Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, riding an eleventh-hour surge in support and fending off a political upstart, was elected Louisiana's first female governor Saturday, dashing Republicans' hopes for a sweep of governor's seats in the Deep South. Blanco, 60, a conservative Democrat, seventh-generation Louisianan and lieutenant governor for the last eight years, becomes the seventh woman governor in the nation.
Democrat Edwin W. Edwards crushed former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke on Saturday to win a Louisiana governor's election keenly watched around the nation as a referendum on race relations and voter discontent. With 99% of the precincts reporting, Edwards, a three-time former governor, defeated Duke, a Republican state representative, by 61% to 39%. The vote totals were Edwards 1,061,233, Duke 681,278. More than 78% of Louisiana's 2.
Record Vote May Cap Louisiana Turmoil : Election: Key to today's raucous gubernatorial contest is expected to be ballots of white voters who have little stomach for either Duke or Edwards.
It is decision day in Louisiana. Across the state, voters are expected to turn out in record numbers today to settle the gubernatorial race between former Democratic Gov. Edwin W. Edwards and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke--an election whose reverberations will be felt around the nation, if not the world. After a raucous campaign that has simultaneously riveted and revolted a state accustomed to extravagant elections, surveys conducted earlier this week gave Edwards the lead.
Football fans familiar with pro football's first 72 years divide into two groups when evaluating the last decade or so in the NFL. There are those who call it an era of mediocrity. And there are those who say that football is better than ever. Some support for the second view came the other day from the editors of Pro Football Weekly, who rated nine 1990s players as certain Hall of Famers in future voting.
Just four years after former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke galvanized Louisiana with a close run for governor, people woke up Sunday to a new political day--a runoff featuring the first black candidate since Reconstruction. Experts gave Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields virtually no chance of winning the governor's mansion when he faces state Sen. Mike Foster on Nov. 18.
Former state Rep. David Vitter was elected to succeed Bob Livingston in Congress, winning a close election over former Gov. Dave Treen. With 99% of the precincts reporting, Vitter got 51% to Treen's 49%. The two solidly conservative Republican lawyers, both veteran politicians, struggled to point out their differences after they were the top finishers in a field of nine in a May 1 primary.
Patrick J. Buchanan on Wednesday became the second major GOP presidential candidate to refuse to sign an Iowa Republican Party pledge to boycott Louisiana's caucuses. The pledge is part of the Iowa GOP's effort to protect the state's status as host of the first presidential caucuses. State party officials had set Wednesday as the deadline for presidential hopefuls to sign a pledge to boycott Louisiana unless it rescheduled its caucuses to follow Iowa's. The Louisiana caucuses are set for Feb.
Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster won a second term Saturday, becoming the second member of his family to usher in a new century as governor. The state's unique open primary system pits all candidates against one another in one primary race, regardless of party. If no one wins more than half the votes, the top two candidates go into a runoff. Foster, a Republican, received well over half, easily besting his 11 challengers. His top-running challenger, Rep.
Two death threats, both signed "KKK," against a Louisiana Supreme Court candidate and a campaign supporter are considered "very serious" and are being investigated as hate crimes, an FBI spokeswoman said. Democrat Bill Quigley, a teacher at Loyola University Law School who volunteers as a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, said he received the threat Thursday.
After months of partisan wrangling, the Senate Rules Committee affirmed the election of Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu and voted, 16 to 0, to end an inquiry that had disrupted Senate business. The committee cited evidence of "some irregularities and isolated incidences of fraud" in Landrieu's close November 1996 win over Republican Woody Jenkins--but not enough to justify reversing the outcome.
Democrats on the Senate committee investigating allegations of voting irregularities in last year's Louisiana Senate election withdrew from the probe. Sen. Wendell H. Ford of Kentucky, ranking Democrat on the Senate Rules Committee, said members of his party view the investigation as partisan. The probe stems from complaints of fraud and corruption filed by the GOP loser in the election, Woody Jenkins, who lost to Democrat Mary Landrieu by 5,788 votes.
Records show dead people voted for Democrat Mary Landrieu for senator, part of a pattern of widespread election law fraud, a political education group charged. A national Democratic group called it a conspiracy theory of "wild accusations." Leaders of the Voting Integrity Project Inc. said they had confirmed some of the allegations made by Republican Woody Jenkins, who lost the Nov. 5 election to Landrieu by 6,000 votes, and urged the Senate and FBI to investigate.
Unexpected Vote in Louisiana Seen as New Sign of Discontent : Politics: Johnston's narrow primary victory joins warning shots fired at incumbents earlier in other states as anger rises among constituents.
For incumbents, this continues to be the year of living dangerously. On Saturday in Louisiana, three-term Democratic Sen. J. Bennett Johnston narrowly escaped a stunning challenge from state Rep. David Duke--an improbable opponent, whose political baggage included service as the grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, ties to neo-Nazi and other anti-Semitic groups, fabrication of a war record in Vietnam and embarrassing disclosures that he had once authored a sex manual for women.
Republican state Rep. Woody Jenkins, who opposes all abortions and wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, capped a remarkable surge Saturday by finishing first in Louisiana's Senate primary. Former state Treasurer Mary Landrieu edged a fellow Democrat for the second spot in a November runoff. Jenkins had appeared destined for a third-place finish as recently as a week ago, when polls suggested the GOP might be shut out of the runoff altogether.
Patrick J. Buchanan got the official Republican presidential campaign off to an astounding start Tuesday by defeating Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas in Louisiana's caucuses--an arena that Gramm, himself, had fashioned in the hopes of jump-starting his own campaign. The victory allows Buchanan to present himself as the preeminent conservative challenger to the current front-runners, magazine publisher Steve Forbes and Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas.
THE TRAGEDY of the public hearing regarding Maitland residents' opposition to the Battaglia project -- an office-housing complex on the south side of the Maitland interchange of Interstate 4 -- was the abuse of democracy.
All Orange County commissioners, with the exception of Lou Treadway, had the courtesy to look at and listen to each person who spoke.
What is sad is to hear a commissioner tell his constituents publicly, ''I don't care what you think of me.'' Perhaps Treadway has forgotten that our votes helped get him elected and our taxes go toward his salary. Arrogance is such a disease.
If he cannot represent the majority of his constituents on a county level there is no chance of his being responsive on any political level.
Seattle SuperSonics center Jack Sikma, 30, was traded Tuesday to the Milwaukee Bucks. The Sonics, in exchange, will receive Alton Lister, 27, and Milwaukee's first-round draft choices in 1987 and 1989 for Sikma and the Sonics' 1987 and 1989 second-round draft picks, the SuperSonics said. The trade assures the Sonics of five first-round draft picks over the next three years, said Bob Whitsitt, Sonics president. Whitsitt called the trade ''the first move in rebuilding the team.'' Sikma was not present at a news conference to announce the trade. He had asked two months ago to be traded, saying he wanted to play on a team with a chance to win an NBA championship.
ATLANTA — TOM OFFENBURGER, 52, aide to Mayor Andrew Young and former spokesman for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died Wednesday of heart disease. Offenburger worked for U.S. News and World Report for 10 years before becoming SCLC's public relations director in 1966. Young, at that time, worked for the SCLC, which was directed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial service will be 3 p.m. Friday, July 27, at the Petoskey First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. David Behling will officiate.
Karl was born May 23, 1917, in Petoskey, son of Carl and Johanna Buettner. He grew up in Petoskey and graduated with Petoskey High School class of 1935 and attended Davenport College.
Karl was a staff sergeant with the 314th Regiment, 79th Division, during World War II. He was inducted into the Army June 11, 1942, and honorably discharged Oct. 13, 1945.
After his father's death in March of 1937, Karl returned to Petoskey to run the family business, The Palace Cigar Store. He owned and operated the cigar store until he was drafted. Upon his discharge, he returned to Petoskey and married Virginia E. Meyer on Jan. 6, 1946. Later that year, he offered Bob McMaster, his sister, Virginia's, fiancé, a partnership in the business. Karl later sold the cigar store to Bob and worked at PUMCO for a short time. In 1962, Karl opened The Clothes Post with his partner, Burt Chickering. Upon his retirement in 1974, Karl and Virginia continued to enjoy their summers at their Walloon Lake home and winters in Florida and Arizona.
Karl was a member of the Petoskey First Presbyterian Church from 1931 until his death, and was an elder of the church in the 1960s.
Karl is survived by his companion and special friend, Marita Abdoo, of Sun City, Ariz.; his daughters, Christina (Fred) Rice of Petoskey, and Karen (Charles) Pruitt of Holt; four grandchildren, Virginia and Ric Rice of Petoskey and Tazi and Chad Pruitt of Holt; sister, Virginia McMaster, of Petoskey; and niece and nephew, Joanna and Bob McMaster.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Hospice of the Straits, 122 South St., Cheboygan, Mich. 49721.
Scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine are experimenting with stem cell injections as a treatment for severe peripheral artery disease. The disease, which affects an estimated 10 million Americans, is caused by clogging and hardening of arteries in the legs and other parts of the body away from the heart. The resulting poor circulation causes pain, sores and ulcers and even leads to amputations, although about half of people with PAD have no symptoms. Lead investigator Dr. Michael Murphy, an assistant professor of surgery, said patients in the trial will receive injections of stem cells extracted from their own bone marrow. It's hoped that the injections will spur growth of new blood vessels and restore blood flow to diseased tissue, Murphy said. The trial at IU, however, is intended mainly to prove that the procedure, pioneered in animals, is safe for people.
Remodeling a bathroom is one of the most common home improvement projects because homeowners prefer a toilet and bath area where they can relax from a difficult day's work. Be aware that whatever fixtures, accessories and furniture you wish to add to your bathroom should add warmth and relaxation to the room. Many of us have increased the amount of time we spend in the bathroom and because of this require extra space; here are some points to consider before you start remodeling and enlarging a bathroom.
Focus on your walls, ceiling and tiles because these three items can greatly influence the outcome of your project. The materials you will buy largely depend on your budget. For people who have a budget of $200 or less, you can easily give a new life to your bathroom by doing the work by yourself and focusing on the walls, ceiling and accessories.
Since you only have a few dollars to spare, you need to choose on the color or theme you want to implement for the ceiling or walls. People who can not do the work themselves should consult a contractor. Make sure you get quotes for the work from several contractors.
Of course, to be successful, you need to design your remodeling project just right before you swing a single hammer. With all things in bathroom remodeling design, if you design with an eye for common sense and space, you will be successful in your attempt to create a room that's both stylish and functional. When you decide where smaller fixtures, such as the towel rack or even the toilet paper roll, go in the bathroom remodeling design, keep in mind that they should go in places that are sensible.
Once again going back to function over form. The towel rack might look nice by the door, but if it's out of arm's reach of the bathtub, then you won't be happy whenever you get out of the shower, for example.
The first entry that should go into your bathroom remodeling planner is a floor plan of your new bathroom with all of the correct dimensions included. You can complete this on paper, or by buying software that is specifically for this purpose. In addition to the major work, also listed on your bathroom remodeling check list would be any components, such as cabinets, fixtures and countertops.
Once you have determined the exact cost of your project using the bathroom remodeling check list, you should budget another 10 percent of the total cost for contingencies. For instance, when you are cutting out the wall for a latest fixture you accidentally cut through a water pipe and your new drywall is ruined. The contingency budget can pay to replace the cut pipe as perfectly as the ruined drywall.
Finally, even the budget in a room as small as the bath can get out of control if a plan is not set and adhered to. Your bathroom remodeling planner should include a budget of the necessary materials and the labor that will be required. With a comprehensive bathroom remodeling planner, you will be on your way to purchasing the job done right.
You should not really attempt to do a job that is more technical than your abilities. In the long run, the contractor will have to come in and fix it which will cost more money. If your remodeling project is more complicated than painting and replacing the light fixtures, it is probably in your best interest to hire a contractor.
The problem, of course, is where to find a good contractor. The best place to look for a bathroom remodeling contractor is to ask friends, coworkers, and neighbors who have had remodeling work done recently. Next, call all of the contractors on the list and show them what needs to be done. It is appropriate and important to ask for references. Check with some of the references and find out what they liked and didn't like. Bathroom remodeling contractors get work by their previous work. If they aren't good, they won't have very much work to do.
Once you have decided on the right contractor and the right price, the topic of payment will soon come up. Ask the contractor how long the project will take and how much is the labor. In most cases, people don't want to pay the contractor before the work is started. If payment is made before any work has started, the incentive to finish the project will have been lost. Some contractors may want to buy the materials themselves so there is much to talk about with the contractor.
While your contractor is responsible for remodeling a bathroom, it is your responsibility to ensure all materials have been delivered. Before starting the project, inspect all items and accessories. To prevent delays, ensure that all deliveries are complete. Once the job is finished to your satisfaction, make the remainder of the payment in a timely fashion.
You can now take your first relaxing shower and enjoy the long-term benefits of the investment you made. There is no greater joy to a homeowner then to remodel and enlarge a special room such as the bathroom. So, enjoy every minute of it by following a plan and finding a good contractor.
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Author Resource:-> nike tn pas cher www.ralphlaurenpaschers.eu Steve Dolan has undertaken extensive home remodelling over the past 10 years. Learn how to take on remodelling projects Home Remodelling and DIY and redo your bathroom Bathroom Decorating and Remodelling