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Source: Albuquerque Journal, N.儲存M.Aug. 11--Cricket employee Pete Cordova said AT&T's planned acquisition of Cricket parent firm Leap Wireless International could help the low-cost carrier expand its services.AT&T announced its intention in mid-July to buy Leap Wireless in a $4 billion deal that would transfer all Cricket's assets and its estimated 5 million subscribers to the telecom giant. AT&T says the acquisition will allow it to "jump start" expansion into the prepaid wireless market that Cricket has helped pioneer since launching in the late 1990s.Cricket, based in San Diego, has carved a niche for itself in 35 states -- including New Mexico -- by offering an affordable, flat-rate wireless alternative for customers who pay upfront for unlimited anytime voice minutes and other mobile services.The trade-off is limited wireless access outside of urban areas like Albuquerque and fewer technology choices, said Cordova, a longtime Cricket subscriber who recently became a customer service representative at Cricket's Uptown corporate store near the Coronado Mall."I like it," Cordova said of the AT&T acquisition. "Hopefully, it will help with our coverage around the metro area and expand our coverage nationwide."That's one of the central selling points touted by AT&T as it seeks public support for the deal, which must be approved by the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice.AT&T spokesman Brad Burns said the combined company will have the scale and resources needed to better compete against other major national providers for consumers seeking low-cost, prepaid wireless plans."The result will be increased competition, better device choices, improved customer care and a significantly enhanced mobile Internet experience for consumers," Burns said in an email to the Journal .But industry analysts say it's just the latest in a steady stream of moves by large companies to acquire smaller competitors as they battle for control of the U.S. wireless market. Rather than increase competition, they say, such moves are further consolidating wireless services in the hands of just four companies -- AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint.The big four"This trend has been going on for several years, but now it's absolutely apparent that the U.S. market is consolidating into four major players and that everyone else will be snapped up by them at some point," said Jan Dawson, chief telecoms analyst at the international research firm Ovum."That means fewer options to choose from than previously, because until recently there were many smaller, regional carriers, some of which offered value and services that the big companies didn't."The four giants already control about 90 percent of the market, with the two top firms --Verizon Wireless and AT&T -- holding about 70 percent. Together, Verizon and AT&T have a little more than 200 million retail subscribers, although Verizon is slightly ahead of AT&T. Sprint trails in third place with 55 million subscribers, and T-Mobile in fourth with 43 million.Now, however, the 10 percent market share held by smaller regional carriers like Cricket is shrinking. That's because the big guys are buying them up to capture more subscribers in market segments that they ignored before, such as the prepaid arena, while in the process acquiring more spectrum -- the radio airwaves that connect mobile devices -- to add bandwidth for expansion and service improvement.Earlier this year, T-Mobile acquired Texas-based MetroPCS Communications for $1.5 billion. And in July, Sprint bought out Clearwire Corp. for $3.新蒲崗迷你倉 billion.Dawson said the large companies are targeting the prepaid market now because it's the fastest-growing consumer segment. That's because the higher-end consumer base is fairly saturated, locking the giants into a competitive scramble to pull subscribers away from each other.But there's still room for expansion among lower-income groups and among consumers who prefer the flexibility of nocontract prepaid plans."The prepaid market used to be seen as the 'poor alternative' for people who couldn't get credit," Dawson said. "But now many consumers see it as a choice, because it offers the ability to change carriers or phones more quickly while providing greater spending flexibility up or down depending on monthly budgets. Some just see more value in it."Market growingThe prepaid segment grew from about 10 percent of the market a few years ago to 22 percent in 2012, and Ovum projects it will reach 29 percent by the end of 2017, Dawson said.But as the big players jockey for prepaid market share, the smaller companies don't have the resources to compete."The regional carriers grew by targeting that space when the larger players were not, but now with the industry consolidation that we're seeing, the major carriers are taking over both the pre- and postpaid segments of the market," Dawson said. "For regional carriers like Cricket, it's harder and harder to compete as large carriers invade their turf."Indeed, Cricket spokesman Greg Lund said the merger made sense for his company given AT&T's financial might.AT&T has said it will retain the Cricket brand name, continue to operate through Cricket's existing distribution channels and expand Cricket's presence to additional U.S. cities."This gives Cricket its best long-term opportunity for success," Lund said.On the other hand, market consolidation eventually could eclipse consumer benefits, since low-cost, prepaid services are less profitable for the big carriers than traditional contracts, said Toni Toikka, president of the Finnish mobile diagnostics firm Alekstra Inc.Over time, that could lead to upward pressure on prices and renewed efforts to push customers into contracts."I believe that could happen and customers will suffer," Toikka said.For now, robust competition among the four big players is still driving them to offer better devices with more flexible service plans and prices."It's still a very competitive market," said Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Jenny Weaver. "Customers still have a lot of choices and options, and we have to earn their business every day."But in good part, those dynamics are driven by competitive challenges from T-Mobile and Sprint, which are aggressively fighting for market share, something they may not be able to sustain in the long-term."Those companies are not as strong as AT&T and Verizon Wireless, and I don't believe they can keep pushing prices down," Toikka said. "Eventually, I believe we'll see (the big carriers) move to more brandbased marketing that will be based less on competitive pricing and more on simply demonstrating distinctions in what they offer."In the meantime, however, the battle for market share is still raging among the big four."The smaller regional players like Cricket are steadily disappearing," Toikka said. "That's the trend, and it's an unfortunate development. But it's still a very competitive time in the wireless industry, and the market is benefitting."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) Visit the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) at .abqjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage

Source: The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.儲存Aug. 11--The Vancouver branch of the Salvation Army is experiencing empty-nest syndrome this summer.Since the Clark County Food Bank moved into a spacious new warehouse and became an independent nonprofit, its organizational parent has been figuring out how to regain some limelight and replace the money that followed its child out the door.As of July 1, the Salvation Army officially "turned over operations of what was for us the Stop Hunger Warehouse program," said business administrator Steve Rusk. Rusk said he spent the past two decades focused on growing the Stop Hunger Warehouse -- originally a tiny program adopted from Clark County, which started it but ultimately didn't feel it belonged in the food banking business -- to the point where it could stand and run on its own two feet.The Stop Hunger Warehouse eventually became the Clark County Food Bank, which raised $4.8 million and built its own building. The building opened in January 2012."This is what I've worked for for a long time, to grow the food bank so it's a stand-alone program," Rusk said. "I couldn't be more happy and proud about what the food bank is doing. We're looking forward to a good future for them."We surrendered notoriety to the food bank so they could build an organization and raise money," he said. "Over the last five years, the Salvation Army has not been seen. When I go out to speak to people now, I hear confusion about what we do. This is an opportunity for us to expand and find a new niche."Less food, more housingSalvation Army thrift stores are famous, and the money from those stores goes directly to its addiction-recovery programs -- such as the Adult Rehabilitation Center near Portland International Airport. There is no such residential Salvation Army facility in Clark County; local referrals for that sort of drug and alcohol treatment go to Portland, Rusk said.Less well known is the fact that the Salvation Army has long been in the homelessness-prevention and hunger-alleviation businesses. "Food and housing have been the two primary services we offer this community," Rusk said.The agency budget for calendar 2012 was approximately $3.1 million, Rusk said -- but three full-time and two part-time staff positions plus about $350,000 in food-assistance grants officially left the Salvation Army along with the Clark County Food Bank operation as of July 1. "About one-third of our workforce went with that program," he said.Now, the Salvation Army has downsized to a staff of 12 at two facilities -- its administrative office and church at 1500 N.E. 112th Ave. and its remaining social service operation in what used to be the Stop Hunger warehouse on Northeast 47th Avenue. The Salvation Army now occupies half the space it used to there, and Rusk said 80 to 100 needy people walk in the door there every day.Those folks are often backed up against the wall and desperate to stave off homelessness, Rusk said. His agency has routinely provided both emergency rent and utility payments as well as longer-term rental subsidies and case management for people who are looking to better their lives and build their incomes. An intensive case新蒲崗迷你倉management program the agency started in 2005 called Moving Forward Together is designed to help the chronically unemployed build their life and employment skills so they can earn their own way out of poverty."We believe that's a hallmark program and worth our long-term investment," Rusk said. "We take care of people facing an immediate need to stop evictions, but we also want to help them stabilize their lives. We want to take this program to another level."In fiscal 2010, Rusk said, driven by the federal government's infusion of stimulus money into the economy, Salvation Army housing assistance totalling $518,000 reached 518 Clark County households in one way or other. That money has peaked and dwindled significantly, Rusk said. In 2011 the Salvation Army supported 378 households with $378,000 in assistance; in 2012 the number was 302 households and $302,000.Meanwhile, he said, the need has not dwindled at all. The Salvation Army serves approximately 18,000 people per year, he said -- and that's only 10 percent of all the requests for assistance it gets.The good news, he said, is the recent approval of a new federal housing grant that will add significantly to the agency's housing assistance bottom line.Breaking the cycleAnother endeavor that Rusk is excited about is a new after-school partnership with Marrion Elementary School. The Salvation Army will bus participating children over from Marrion -- which is just a few blocks away -- to the agency headquarters on 112th Avenue, four days per week for three hours per day. There'll be snacks and meals, tutoring and homework help, and even a bit of hands-on music education, Rusk said.Rusk won an internal Salvation Army grant of $18,000 to hire a part-time coordinator and launch the program."Other Salvation Army units throughout the country have done this," he said. It'll be led by retired teachers and other volunteers who are "motivated and experienced" with kids who may be struggling in school."Through the kids, we want to build relationships with families who need our services," Rusk said. "It's a way that we can break the cycle of poverty."There's room for 25 children in the new program, Rusk said.Christian agencyAll of which raises a question: is it a problem for an overtly religious agency to provide an after-school program for students at a secular, public school? For that matter, does Rusk ever think twice about the non-Christian people who may not feel entirely comfortable asking the very Christian agency for help?"We are a Christian organization with solid Christian roots," he said. "We are not looking to compromise that. We recognize that some people will probably not come to us." He added that while some people would never take their troubles to a religious organization, others would only choose a religious organization."We offer what we offer without discrimination," he said. "That's a big deal. It packs a whole lot of meaning for us."Scott Hewitt: 360-735-4525; .twitter.com/col_nonprofits: scott.hewitt@columbian.comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) Visit The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) at .columbian.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage

Source: Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAug.迷你倉出租 11--Forty-one days and counting until the early archery deer season in Wildlife Management Unit 2B, and a short 16 weeks until the statewide rifle deer season.Every year some new hunters wait too long to take the required hunter-trapper safety course and miss out on the opportunity to hunt. Don't procrastinate. Do it now.The new classes consist of two parts, actually three -- online independent study (takes about four hours), classroom training (six to eight hours), and the actual test taken in the classroom. Students must be at least 11 years old. Register online only at .pgc.state.pa.us, click on the Hunter-Trapper Education Classes Link.The following classes are scheduled for August in Allegheny County. Check the Game Commission website for additional classes.Aug. 17 McKeesport Sportsman's Association, 3300 Jacks Run Road, White Oak 15131. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 412-754-0512, 412-271-7296.Aug. 17, Aug. 18 (separate classes) Logan's Ferry Sportsman's Club, 210 Field ClubRoad, Plum 15239. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. 724-335-1005, 412-795-1022.Steelhead fly tyingInstructor Bill Nagle's intermediate four-week program includes tying egg, nymph and s儲存倉reamer patterns and how to fish them. Materials and equipment provided. Free. Reservations required. L.L. Bean, Ross Park Mall. First class is 7 p.m. Wednesday. 888-552-5571.Bone collectorsMike Waddell, Nick Mundt and Travis Turner of the Outdoors Channel TV show "Bone Collector" will talk shop at free seminars from noon to 2 p.m. Friday at the opening of Dick's Sporting Goods' first Field & Stream store, specializing in gear for hunting, fishing, camping and the outdoors. Located at 100 Cranberry Square Drive, Cranberry. The store has no affiliation with Field & Stream magazine.Tiger muskiesIn July, the state Fish and Boat Commission stocked 17,700 tiger muskie fingerlings at Keystone Lake, Armstrong County.Ginseng harvestThe season for collecting wild ginseng, for personal or commercial use, has been shortened. A release from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Forestry, said the move was "designed to protect the species." The new harvest season is Sept. 1 through Nov. 30.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Visit the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at .post-gazette.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉沙田

Source: The Salina Journal, Kan.self storageAug. 11--In the space of four months, Mary Douglass single-handedly went through thousands of historic photographs, scanned more than 400 and ended up with a final selection of just more than 200 photos to be placed in a 128-page book.Then she had to write short essays for each of the photos, which covered 150 years of downtown Salina history.For Douglass, the project wasn't that difficult. Actually, she said it was fun."I've been a historian for more than 40 years," said Douglass, who has been an architectural historian for the city of Salina and a curator at the Smoky Hill Museum. "In 40 years, I've done research for most of these pictures already."Douglass also has been a professional genealogist, a heritage preservation consultant for the Kansas Humanities Council and has chaired the Salina Heritage Commission and served as a Saline County Planning and Zoning commissioner.In February, Douglass was hired by Arcadia Publishing to write and collect photographs for a book to be called "Salina's Historic Downtown." The Charleston, S.C.-based publishing company has created an "Images of America" series celebrating the histories of neighborhoods, towns and cities in the U.S.Using archival photos and texts mostly written by local citizens, the series presents distinctive stories that helped shape the character of the communities."Salina's Historic Downtown" is intended to be a companion book to "Salina: 1858-2008," a history of the city compiled by the Salina History Book Committee led by Judy Lilly, former Kansas librarian at the Salina Public Library. That book was published in 2008 for Salina's Sesquicentennial.Available in SalinaDouglass doesn't know how she was picked to compile the follow-up book."They sent me an email out of the blue," she said. "Maybe Judy or somebody at the museum recommended me."Douglass finished the book in late June and received her first copies a month later. The book officially was released July 29 and can be found at several Salina retail locations for a list price of $21.99.Douglass will sign copies of the book from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Smoky Hill Museum Store, 211 W. Iron. She also will sign books from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 24 at the Salina Public Library, 301 W. Elm.Public library archivesAll the historical photos used in the book were found in the archives at the Salina Public Library's Campbell Room of Kansas Research."I don't know how many weeks I spent here scanning photos," she said.The original town of Salina was 320 acres that stre迷你倉ched from North to South streets and from Ninth to Front streets east and west, Douglass said."I kept the photos within those perimeters except for two," she said. "Salina's original dugout home was behind what is now Comcare on Elm street, and the original Asbury Hospital was on the south side of South street."Douglass said she mostly was searching for photos of people and "things that are no longer here, a good human interest story I could tell off that picture."Following the publisher's request, Douglass said most of the photos predate the World War II era.Banks, hotels, millsPhotos include the original Saline County Courthouse at Ninth and Elm; Gebhart Hardware, 110 N. Santa Fe; Salina Waterworks, 401 S. Fifth; the federal building at the southwest corner of Iron and Seventh; Planters State Bank, 111 N. Santa Fe; Lee Warren Milling Company, 346 N. Seventh; Shellabarger Mill, 511 N. Santa Fe; Memorial Hall, 410 W. Ash; The Warren Hotel, 219 W. Ash; Tony's Little Italy, a restaurant on the 200 block of South Santa Fe that inspired Tony's Pizza; and a number of downtown Salina churches, schools and stores.There also are a number of photos documenting major Salina floods of 1915, 1938 and 1951, and a shot of a streetcar that once ran up and down Santa Fe.A structured formatDouglass said the publishing company has a set structure for their "Images of America" series from which she could not deviate."You have to fit your writing style into a very structured format of a big series," she said. "All the books are 128 pages and a certain number of chapters. It has to be between 8,000 and 18,000 words and between 120 and 240 photographs."When finished, Douglass sent Arcadia both a hard copy and an electronic copy of her book, which they quickly took to press, she said."They're set up to mass produce these things," she said. "There's very little they changed or edited, although we did argue about a couple of photographs."Ordinary peopleDouglass is proud of the finished product. She said the books tell stories of ordinary people living ordinary lives rather than focusing on presidents, royalty and world leaders."That's why I like these books," she said. "I'm writing grassroots, eyewitness history about ordinary people that don't usually get their histories written."-- Reporter Gary Demuth can be reached at 822-1405 or by email at gdemuth@salina.com.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Salina Journal (Salina, Kan.) Visit The Salina Journal (Salina, Kan.) at .saljournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services文件倉

Source: The Roanoke Times, Va.迷你倉出租Aug. 11--The plump local peaches with their velveteen skin looked too good for LaRue Dickerson to pass up on a blistering July afternoon.After picking up his 2-year-old daughter, Lynessa, from the Total Action for Progress HeadStart preschool on Shenandoah Avenue in Roanoke, Dickerson, 30, stopped at a farm stand outside the school and bought his family some fruit to supplement the tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and peas he grows."Peaches is one of their favorites," he said. "We don't do candy or gum."In the past, families like the Dickersons had to travel to downtown Roanoke to find a selection of local fruits and vegetables. This summer, there are seven markets located across the city, from an urban farm on 10th Street in northwest to a parking garage in south Roanoke.As accessibility to local foods has become less of a hurdle, so has affordability. Thanks to state and federal grants and private contributions, the number of markets able to accept (and in many cases, double) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits keeps swelling.Carilion Clinic has not only provided funding for SNAP at farmers markets, it is making it easier for its own employees to buy local food by offering payroll deduction to purchase farm shares.Vickie Riggins, an employee in the information technology department at Carilion, picks up a box of fruit at a market outside Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital every week. She said she probably wouldn't have bought a farm share if it hadn't been for the company's offer."The payroll deduction has made it really attractive," she said, "because you can budget for it."Locals supporting localsAcross the country, the number of farmers markets has gone from 2,000 to 8,000 over the past 13 years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In Virginia, the number has jumped to 230 this year from 88 in 2006 -- a 160 percent increase.Part of the growth can be attributed to an effort to set up farmers markets in "food deserts," or neighborhoods that do not have easy access to healthy food.The West End Community Market, a seasonal market in its third year, was the first to open in a low-income neighborhood in Roanoke. It was started in 2010 by the nonprofit Local Environmental Agriculture Project (LEAP), which also manages the Grandin Village Community Market.When the West End market began, LEAP director Brent Cochran said he saw room for similar markets in other city neighborhoods. This year, that vision has taken the form of two new farm stands, the TAP HeadStart Community Market at the Brand Hardin Simms center on Shenandoah Avenue, where Dickerson bought his peaches, and the Lick Run Community Market at Lick Run Farm, an urban farm on 10th Street.LEAP calls these "LEAP-frog markets," which means they piggy back on the nonprofit's existing infrastructure. For example, instead of asking time-starved farmers to work the TAP market, Cochran gathers part of what they bring to the West End market on Tuesdays and takes it to the TAP center, which holds its market the same day."You already have people coming to town," he said, "so we aggregate and take it to a different location."Because LEAP has already been set up to accept SNAP benefits, it shares its equipment (namely, a point-of-sale card-scanning device) with all of its markets, extending the affordability quotient.Community support for LEAP has included funding from the Roanoke law firm of Glenn Feldmann Darby Goodlatte and from Carilion Clinic, which this year donated $10,000 to match SNAP dollars.It's the second such grant from Carilion Clinic, which last year gave the Roanoke City Farmers Market $5,000 that it is still using this summer. Marie Webb, senior director of community outreach for the hospital system, said it is a company goal to help fund projects that promote general wellness within the community."Carilion is the biggest beast in town and they're throwing their weight behind these initiatives," Cochran said, "which I think is pretty cool."Changes for the betterWhen Riggins picked up her box of fruit at the Carilion Clinic Farmers Table on a recent Thursday afternoon, she opened it to find two varieties of apples, as well as peaches and blueberries.Riggins said she bought the fruit share this year because it forces儲存倉her to eat healthier every week or risk losing money on the investment.In addition, she said, "You know it's not going to be shipped from a long distance, and you know they aren't going to put a bunch of chemicals on it."A Floyd-based consortium of local growers called Good Food-Good People provides the fruit, vegetable and egg shares through its Community Shared Agriculture program. The cost of the shares, which can be several hundred dollars, are deducted from participating Carilion employees' paychecks over 12 pay periods.The CSA was available last year, but "it struggled," said Aaron Harris-Boush, a planning analyst for Carilion who helped organize the local food program. Since the company offered payroll deduction this year, he said, Good Food-Good People has had to bring two trucks.The CSA, which was also advertised to residents of the nearby South Roanoke neighborhood, sold 177 shares this year, for a total of $64,495. Of those 177 shares, 92 were purchased by Carilion employees, Harris-Boush said.Good Food-Good People also sets up the farmers table at the Riverwalk Parking Garage outside Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. The table, which is loaded each week with fruit, vegetables, cheeses, meat and other products, is open to everyone -- not just Carilion employees."I think it's the most beautiful of all the market sites, by the river," wrote Tenley Weaver of Good Food-Good People in an email. "We are really grateful to Carilion for providing this lovely space for what has become a brisk market and CSA site."Every market day, the hospital's Mountain View Cafe prepares a recipe that calls for seasonal ingredients and has recipe cards printed. The cards are available at the cafe and at the market stand."It's convenient and it's more or less for the health of my family," said Roseanna Webb, 24. "And I don't know what a lot of this stuff is, so it forces me to learn."Webb, who works in hospital's Central Sterile Supply department, said she and her family have been exposed to kholrabi, a funny-looking root vegetable they thought tasted like fried potatoes, and rhubarb, which she made into a pie using one of the recipe suggestions."That was written down permanently in my recipe book," she said.Making it knownEven the historic Roanoke City Farmers Market, which started in 1882 and is open daily, is branching out.For the past two years, Downtown Roanoke Inc., which manages the market, has organized a "pop-up market" one evening per week during the summer. Last year, it was at the Kirk Family YMCA in downtown Roanoke. This year, the pop-up market happens every Thursday at River's Edge Sports Complex on Reserve Avenue.Market manager Tracie Hughes said she chose River's Edge because the area is shady and has ample parking for both customers and the food trucks that sell meals there.She said the first few weeks of the event have been successful and the number of participating vendors has risen from five to eight.Between existing markets, LEAP-frog markets and the pop-up markets, Roanokers have plenty of opportunities to buy from local farmers. But it remains to be seen whether all of the markets will flourish.Rick Williams, who bought the overgrown, trash-infested property on 10th Street and turned it into Lick Run Farm, is struggling to generate interest in a new market. He has fresh produce to sell that was grown in his garden or at other Southwest Virginia farms, but his Sunday market has had a slow start.Cochran is familiar with the situation."I guarantee there are people within a one-block radius that don't know the market exists," he said. "It takes years to get there. The best advice I can give him is you've got to show up every day at the same time."I think that's 90 percent of the battle."Williams said he watches neighbors "pacing back and forth 20 times a day" to the convenience store next door, and wonders how to make his products more attractive than the "horrible" food they buy there."We have a few fanatically loyal customers, so there are people who are very, very happy that we are here," Williams said. "Not as many as I'd like, but that's OK, it's very gratifying."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Va.) Visit The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Va.) at .roanoke.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉沙田

Source: The Wisconsin State JournalAug.迷你倉出租 11--In the University of Wisconsin's first few fall practices, the coaches stayed close to the huddle, making sure the plays were being called correctly.They started moving farther away over the weekend, however, and by Monday's open-to-the-public scrimmage they should be out of the photo entirely."We're at the point now," offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig said, "where we need to step back and watch the players play."That goes double for the quarterbacks. Or triple. Or maybe even quadruple.No. 1 on the camp to-do list for new UW coach Gary Andersen is to select a starting quarterback. Andersen has publicly nominated three candidates -- holdovers Curt Phillips and Joel Stave and junior college transfer Tanner McEvoy -- in the race, though freshman Bart Houston has displayed such a strong arm in camp that some observers are wondering if he could get in the mix, too.With the exception of McEvoy, who didn't dive into the playbook until he arrived for summer workouts, none of the quarterbacks has a skill set that fits totally the style of offense Andersen ran at Utah State. All have their strengths, however, and for the most part the completion percentage has been uncommonly high during the first week of camp.The quarterbacks are being graded daily, but the two scrimmages should be important milestones in the quarterback derby. Until then, the coaches will wait for one of them to separate himself from the others, something that hasn't happened yet.Since no one knows who will win the job, let's look at what Andersen and Ludwig are seeking in a quarterback and compare it to the strengths and weaknesses of each player. That might yield some clues as to who will come out on top.Andersen's ideal quarterback "can beat you with his arm, his mind and his legs. I think that carries over to a lot of positions. If you've got a tremendous athlete who doesn't really think too well in the moment and can't react, it's a negative. But it's even more of a highlighted situation, I believe, when you come to quarterbacks. If they can do all three of those, it becomes very difficult to defend that quarterback."So what's the most important attribute to Andersen, the arm, the legs or the mind?"I would definitely say, his mind first," he said. "Every quarterback thinks he can throw it and make the throws and some quarterbacks run faster than others, but you've got to have the mental mindset to gain the respect of your team, your players and your coaches. If you don't have that first, you really have no chance, no matter how fast you can run or how well you can throw it."The most important factors for Ludwig, who came to UW from San Diego State, are "the ability to consistently move the offense and repetitive accuracy." But he, too, apprecia儲存倉es a quarterback who can move."An athletic quarterback adds a dimension to the game," Ludwig said. "You don't have to always have the perfect play because the guy's going to get out of a lot of things that may not have gone just the way you wanted them to. So there's a real advantage to having a guy that can make a play with his feet."So far, the quarterbacks have been pretty much as advertised.Though he doesn't have the arm strength of the others, Phillips is another year removed from his third major knee surgery and is throwing and moving better than he did last year. As a sixth-year senior, he is the best decision-maker of the group. Stave throws by far the best deep ball of the four and looks very confident, but the sophomore still struggles to make something happen when forced to move his feet in or out of the pocket. McEvoy has a low release point on his throws but is tall and has a strong arm. He shines when he breaks the pocket because he is fast and nimble as Phillips was before his knee problems surfaced.Houston, who missed almost all of his redshirt freshman season following shoulder surgery, might be too raw to start right away but has shown he can make all the throws."He was a lot better the first day of fall camp than he was the last day of spring practice," Ludwig said. "He has much quicker feet. He's changed his body a little bit over the summer and that's really helped his quickness. And there's not many people that can throw it as hard or as far as he can. He's got to tighten up who he's throwing it to."With Houston seemingly a year away from seriously challenging for the starting spot, that leaves Phillips, Stave and McEvoy in the mix. Here is Ludwig's assessment of those three after a handful of practices:"Curt brings so much to the table with his veteran presence. He's got a lot of savvy to him. As his rehabilitation continues, his athleticism has increased. So I'm seeing a lot of good things and he's throwing the ball with a very high degree of accuracy. Joel has quickened his feet through the course of the summer. He's doing a lot of good things, really settling down into our terminology and the new tweaks or the new parts of the system. I feel really good about him and what he's doing and the presence that he has in the huddle. ... Tanner's new to the system. He's in catch-up mode, but he's doing a lot of good things and he is a super athlete with a live arm."Feel free to search in there for clues as to who will be the starter. At this point, though, even the coaches aren't sure.Contact Tom Oates at toates@madison.com or 608-252-6172.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wis.) Visit The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wis.) at .wisconsinstatejournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉沙田

Source: Albuquerque Journal, N.self storageM.Aug. 10--At any given time, there are between 40,000 and 50,000 people on the University of New Mexico campus.And there are 31 university police officers to protect them.Police chief Kathy Guimond says that like any other police department, UNM's could always use more officers. But she's grateful to have this many, especially because this many is four more officers than she had last year. The department got a nearly $200,000 budget increase for this fiscal year, for a total of about $2.9 million for the year.Still, the tremendous growth in on-campus student housing, including Lobo Village in South Campus, coupled with increased enrollment, has posed new challenges for the small department. The department has a total of 41 employees, including Guimond and support staff."One of the things we try to do that we do with everything and especially with the budget is plan ahead. So what we're trying to do is forecast where are things going," Guimond said.UNM police responded to more than 7,500 calls between Jan. 1 and June 30 this year. In 2012, officers responded to fewer than 6,350 calls in the same time period.President Bob Frank says despite the small police force and heavy foot traffic, UNM is very safe."It is a haven among us. ... We think carefully about how we make this the safest environment for our students, our faculty and our staff," Frank said.Added Guimond: "We are very lucky with respect to violent crime on campus and crimes against persons. ... I don't want to give people a false sense of security that it never happens, because it can and that potential is always there, with awareness, by the way, being the best preventative thing we have."The bulk of UNM police reports concern property, and not violent, crimes. For example, in 2011 there were 57 reported vehicle thefts, 20 drug arrests and 19 burglaries, data show. There were 10 reported aggravated assaults and tw迷你倉 reported rapes.With the exception of burglaries, those figures don't differ greatly from 2004, when there were three reported rapes, 45 vehicle thefts, 33 burglaries and six aggravated assaults. Numbers for this year and last year were not available. But three high profile attacks on women early this year caught the community's attention.In one incident, a woman who had been running at Johnson Field was assaulted by two men. A week later, a woman was groped while walking near Castetter Hall. And in the third case, a professor was beaten while trying to help a drunken man. The man was charged with three counts of misdemeanor battery. He has pleaded not guilty, according to court records.The university responded by hosting a series of forums, and, later, self-defense workshops. Police have made no arrests on the two sexual assault incidents, a spokesman said.Another major concern is the growing South Campus, where about 900 students live in Lobo Village. South Campus also includes the Pit and other sports arenas, along with offices.It's not just the increase in calls from that area but also the amount of time it takes to get there from main campus that is worrisome for Guimond. She says there aren't any plans for a substation in the area, but that could become an option as UNM develops more vacant land there.The department will tackle its most time-consuming crimes with a new online program for reporting property offenses. It is to go live before the semester starts on Aug. 19."It's one less call that the officer would have to respond to," Guimond said. "It gives immediate service to the public and to the students. It helps us become a little bit more efficient."Journal staff writer PatrickLohmann contributed to thisreport.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) Visit the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) at .abqjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services文件倉

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