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Beach Day At Peccole: Saturday is Beach Day at Peccole Park when the Wolf Pack hosts Fresno State at 1 p.m.  Bring your beach towel, sunscreen and come out and get your tan on while cheering on the Pack.  Concessions will be selling $1 hot dogs through the sixth inning.  One hot dog at a time, but get in line as many times as you can for these yummy dogs.

Nevada Hosts Fresno State This Weekend:
Nevada (22-18, 4-2 WAC) hosts Fresno State (17-20, 1-5 WAC) in a three-game Western Athletic Conference series this weekend at Peccole Park.  Friday’s game gets underway at 6 p.m. with first pitch set for 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
FS leads the series with the Pack 78-46 and in WAC play 34-22.  In Reno the Pack holds a 14-12 advantage in WAC games.  The Bulldogs won all four meetings played last season in Fresno, Calif.

Powers Earns 900th Victory: Nevada’s 10-5 victory over San Francisco on April 17 was the 900th for Wolf Pack head coach Gary Powers.  All of Powers wins have come in his 30 seasons directing the Nevada baseball program.  His now 902 victories ranks 21st among active NCAA I coaches.

Scorekeepers Nightmare: In back-to-back Tuesday games with Oregon State on Apr. 10 and San Francisco on Apr. 17 the teams combined to use 83 players.  In the game with Oregon State the Pack used 22 players and the Beavers 18 for a combined total of 40 Nevada used 10 pitchers and OSU six.  The Beavers won 10-7 in 10 innings.
The 40 players were surpassed in the contest with San Francisco as 43 players took the field.  Nevada once again had 22 players see action while the Dons played 21.  Each team used seven pitchers in a game won 10-5 by the Pack.
In the most recent Tuesday game with Pacific on Apr. 24 the teams combined to use 38 players.  Nevada played 21 and the Tigers 18.

Klein Named WAC Hitter of the Week: Nevada outfielder Brooks Klein has been named the Verizon Western Athletic Conference Baseball Hitter of the Week, for April 16-22.  It was the second time this season he has earned the honor.
Klein, a junior from Blue Diamond, Nev. (Western Nevada College), hit .353 (6-for-17) with five runs scored, nine RBI, two doubles, a triple and two home runs starting all four games in right field. His on-base percentage was .333 with a slugging percentage of .941. In Tuesday’s game with San Francisco, he was 1-for-5 with the lone hit being a grand slam. After going hitless in game one at Sacramento State, he had multi hits in the final two games. Saturday, Klein was 2-for-3 with two runs scored, two RBI and both hits were doubles. Sunday, he went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and three RBI. His second hit of the day was a two-run homer and the third hit was an RBI triple, helping the Pack to a win in the series finale.

Gardner Closing It Out: Senior Matt Gardner has been the Pack’s closer the last two seasons and will leave his mark on the Nevada record book when his career is completed.  Gardner’s nine saves is tied for first in the WAC and 16th nationally.  He saved the last two games of the LA Tech series and could have earned a save in all three but after two walks to start the ninth in the first game he was lifted from the game.
The nine saves are tied with Zak Basch (2003) for third best season in Nevada history.  Rico Lagattuta (1995) and Tyler Graham (2010) top the list with 10.
Gardner’s 15 career saves is tied for second in school history with Luke Drakulich (1996-99) while Rico Lagattuta’s (1993-96) 24 tops the list.

Team Notes: The Wolf Pack is 22-18 and 6-4 in its last 10 games …  The Pack have six more wins after 40 games this season, 22-18 compared to a year ago 16-24  …  Nevada’s RPI of 65 is the second highest in the WAC behind NMSU’s 20 according to the NCAA  …  Of the Pack’s 20 home runs 10 have been solo shots of which four lead off an inning  …  Nevada swept a series for the first time this year taking all three WAC games at home from LA Tech  … In Tuesday’s 15-4 victory over Pacific the Wolf Pack scored a season-high 15 runs on a season-high 20 hits, of the 20 hits nine went for extra bases, four doubles, three triples and two home runs  …  The Pack’s 36 total bases vs. Pacific (4/24) is tied with NMSU for the most in a game by a WAC team this season  …  Nevada’s 21 triples is more than twice as many as any other WAC team as New Mexico State has eight  … In the latest NCAA rankings Nevada is 12th in triples and triples per game  …  The Pack is 1-2 in extra inning contests, 8-9 in one-run games and 8-6 in games decided by five or more runs  … Nevada ranks second in hitting (.290), fourth in pitching (4.03) and fourth fielding (.970) in the WAC  … After nine WAC games Nevada is third in hitting (.277), third in ERA (3.71) and seventh in fielding (.962) in conference play  … In the preseason coaches’ poll Nevada and New Mexico State were picked to finish in a tie for fourth  … Nevada has won seven-of-10 three-game series this year  … Nevada’s eight road wins this season is more than all last year when the Pack were 6-19 away from Reno.

Nevada Wolf Pack

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George Armstrong Custer

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
George Armstrong Custer

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.
George Armstrong Custer

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
George Armstrong Custer

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
George Armstrong Custer

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
George Armstrong Custer

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The index of leading economic indicators — designed to forecast economic activity in the next three to six months — rose 0.7% in February, following a revised 0.2% increase in January. The February reading was the highest level since June 2008.

Initial claims for unemployment benefits for the week ending March 17 fell by 5,000 to 348,000, the lowest reading since February 2008. Continuing claims for the week ending March 10 fell by 9,000 to 3.35 million.

The combined construction of new single-family homes and apartments in February fell 1.1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 698,000 units, after an upwardly revised gain of 3.7% in January. The January figure was revised from 699,000 units to 706,000 units. Compared to a year ago, housing starts are up 34.7%. Applications for new building permits, seen as an indicator of future activity, rose 5.1% to an annual rate of 717,000 units.

Existing home sales fell 0.9% in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.59 million units from an upwardly revised 4.63 million units in January. The inventory of unsold homes on the market increased 4.3% to 2.43 million, a 6.4-month supply at the current sales pace, up from a 6-month supply in January.

New home sales fell 1.6% in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 313,000 units from a downwardly revised rate of 318,000 units in January. The initial January reading was 321,000. The December rate was revised higher to 336,000 units, the highest level since the economic recovery began. On a year-over-year basis, new home sales are up 11.4%. At the current sales pace, there’s a 5.8-month supply of new homes on the market.

The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted composite index of mortgage applications for the week ending March 16 fell 7.4%. Refinancing applications decreased 9.3%. Purchase volume fell 1

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Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas A. Edison

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison

I start where the last man left off.
Thomas A. Edison

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Thomas A. Edison

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New Mexico State at NEVADA
WAC leading Nevada (23-5, 11-1 WAC) hosts second place New Mexico State (22-8, 9-3 WAC) on Thursday night at 8:05 p.m.  Nevada won the first meeting with the Aggies earlier this season in Las Cruces, N.M., 68-60.  Nevada has earned a share of the 2012 WAC Championship and the Aggies will be seeking to keep their chances of earning a piece of the title alive with a victory.  NMSU trails the Pack by two games with two remaining on the WAC schedule.  The game will air live on ESPN2.  The game is a Whiteout with the first 8,500 fans receiving a free shirt.

Thursday, 8:05 p.m. PT
New Mexico State Aggies
(22-8, 9-3 WAC)
at
NEVADA WOLF PACK
(23-5, WAC: 11-1)
Lawlor Events Center (11,536)

RADIO: University of Nevada Sports Network (KUUB 94.5 FM Reno; KPLY 630 AM Reno; KELY 1230 AM Ely; KWNA 1400 AM Winnemucca; and KSVL 92.3 FM Yerington)
Ryan Radtke (play-by-play), Len Stevens (analyst) – pregame starts at 7:30 p.m.
TELEVISION: ESPN2 – Dave Flemming (play-by-play), Miles Simon (analyst)
Live stats:    Live stats link
WEB STREAMING: NevadaWolfPack.tv
SERIES HISTORY: NMSU leads the series with Nevada 19-16.  The Wolf Pack won the first meeting this season 68-60 in Las Cruces, N.M. on Jan. 26.  In Reno the Pack holds an 11-6 advantage.  Since joining the WAC for the 2000-01 season, Nevada is 10-6 against the Aggies, 6-2 in Reno.
UP NEXT: Nevada closes out the regular season on Saturday hosting Louisiana Tech at 7:05 p.m. Seniors Dario Hunt and Olek Czyz will be honored.

ABOUT THE NEW MEXICO STATE AGGIES - The New Mexico State Aggies are 22-8 overall and 9-3 in Western Athletic Conference play under fifth-year head coach Marvin Menzies.  The Aggies are two games back of the Wolf Pack in second place in the conference standings with two games remaining on the conference schedule.  Menzies is 98-66 at NMSU and 50-26 in WAC play.
The Aggies boast three scorers averaging double figures and are led by the top scorer and rebounder in the conference in 6-6 senior forward Wendell McKines.  McKines averages a double-double scoring 18.4 points and grabs 10.5 rebounds per game.  From the field he is shooting 46 percent and 32.4 from behind the arc.  In the first meeting he scored 15 points and had eight rebounds.
Senior guard Hernst Laroche (6-1) is scoring 12.2 points per game and averages a team-high 3.7 assists per outing.  Laroche scored a game-high 21 points in the first meeting in Las Cruces.  Aggie senior Hamidu Rahman (6-11) is scoring 10.8 points per game and averages 6.2 rebounds which ranks eighth in the WAC.  Daniel Mullings, a 6-1 freshman guard is averaging nine points per game and was named WAC Player of the Week after averaging 19 points in two wins last week.  Mullings recorded a triple-double against Hawai`i finishing with 28 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.
NMSU averages a WAC best 78.8 points per game and allows 68.3.  On the glass the Aggies outrebound opponents by 8.1 per game, 39.9-31.8.  From the field they shoot 47.7 percent and hold opponents to 42.6 percent shooting.  From behind the arc NMSU shoots 32.5 percent as do opponents.  The Aggies has attempted 923 free throws, 349 more than their opponents, 574.  NMSU is shooting 66.3 percent from the field.

LAST GAME: Nevada Earns A Piece Of WAC Title After Triple Overtime Thriller At Fresno State
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – Olek Czyz scored 25 points and Dario Hunt added 20 points and 15 rebounds as Nevada outlasted Fresno State 79-76 in triple overtime Saturday night.
Czyz’s putback with 55.3 seconds remaining in the third overtime and Deonte Burton’s free throws with 21.4 seconds left helped Nevada (23-5, 11-1 Western Athletic) clinch a share of the conference regular-season title.
Kevin Foster scored a career-high 20 points for Fresno State (13-17, 3-9), and Jonathan Wills added 19 points and 10 rebounds.
The Bulldogs inbounded the ball with 1.5 seconds left but couldn’t get off a shot before the final buzzer ended the 55-minute contest.
The game featured 19 ties and 32 lead changes.

TRIPLE OVERTIME NUMBERS - Nevada’s triple overtime game at Fresno State is just the second in the history for the Wolf Pack.  The first was a 58-57 loss to Montana State during the 1947-48 season.
Four of Nevada’s starters played career highs in minutes with senior forward Dario Hunt logging 53 of a possible 55 minutes in the game.  Olek Czyz (49), Malik Story (48) and Deonte Burton (45) each played 45 minutes or more.
Steven Shepp (53) and Tyler Johnson (52) each played over 50 minutes for the Bulldogs. When the game ended three FS players had fouled out and three others had four fouls.  No Pack player had fouled out but Czyz and Jerry Evans, Jr. had four each.  The FS bench scored 27 and Nevada’s Jordan Finn accounted for the Pack’s bench scoring one point in the first half.
The two teams combined to attempt 131 shots.  The Pack were 25-of-60 and FS went 25-of-71.  Nevada attempted 42 free throws and made 26.  The Bulldogs were good on 21-of-28 attempts.  There were 52 fouls called, 23 against the Wolf Pack and 29 were charge to FS.  The Pack grabbed 47 rebounds and FS 50.

THURSDAY WHITEOUT – Thursday’s game with New Mexico State is a Whiteout with the first 8,500 fans receiving a free shirt to turn Lawlor Events Center white for ESPN2.  Game time is set for 8:05 p.m.

NEVADA EARNS A SHARE OF ITS SIXTH WAC REGULAR SEASON TITLE - Nevada earned a share of its sixth Western Athletic Conference Championship after defeating Fresno State 79-76 in triple overtime last Saturday.  A win in either of last two games would earn the Pack its fourth outright title.
The Wolf Pack’s last title came in 2008.  The Pack has won six of the last nine WAC titles.  Head coach David Carter has been associated with all six, five as an assistant.
Of the previous five titles, two have were shared in 2004 and 2008.  The 2005, 2006, and 2007 titles were outright.

BALANCING ACT - Nevada has used a balanced scoring attack all season to post a 23-5 record.  The Pack is the only current WAC team that has four players averaging in double figures led by its backcourt duo of Deonte Burton and Malik Story.  Burton is scoring 15.3 points per game and Story 14.3.  The senior front court of Olek Czyz and Dario Hunt are averaging 13.7 and 10.3 points respectively.  The Pack’s fifth starter, Jerry Evans, Jr. is scoring 6.6 points per game.
At Hawai`i all five starters scored in double figures.  Burton led the way with 20 points with Story close behind with 19 points.  Czyz and Hunt each had 15 points while Evans scored all 13 of his points in the second half.
The five starters combine to average 60.1 of Nevada’s 71.1 points per game.  Of the 1,991 points scored this season 1,683 come from the Pack starters, 84.5 percent.  On the year 12 times four players scored in double digits and there was the one game of five reaching double digits at Hawai`i.

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And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I’m consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don’t go as far as I did on those two times.
Mary Tyler Moore

And that’s what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.
Mary Tyler Moore

And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it’s attached to this finger and that’s what will keep it there. And I’m looking up at it, so there’s no question but that that beret is going to fly.
Mary Tyler Moore

And then Dick called and said, I’m going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I’m cheating on Laura.
Mary Tyler Moore

But I’m very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.
Mary Tyler Moore

I don’t know how to do the other, so I won’t even consider television until the audience’s taste changes.
Mary Tyler Moore

I just like the continue doing what I’ve been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn’t hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I’ll be a very happy person.
Mary Tyler Moore

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn’t call it fear, but it’s an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I’m able to do that.
Mary Tyler Moore

I live in New York simply because I don’t know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.
Mary Tyler Moore

Assessing property boundaries is both an art and a science. Disputes regarding property boundaries can arise for a number of reasons. Properties can be difficult to survey. Rough terrain and human error may lead to miscalculation. Older boundaries may have been determined with poor instrumentation.

One common boundary-related problem occurs when a gap of land — known in the surveying industry as a hiatus — is found between properties and does not belong to either party. These gaps, as well as boundary overlaps, tend to occur when properties are resurveyed and discrepancies are found in either a subsequent survey (the junior survey) or with the original survey (the senior survey).

The federal courts have settled many property boundary disputes. Over time, established procedures have evolved for resolving these discrepancies.

In U.S. v. Weyerhaeuser Company (1967), the 9th Circuit Court decided that discrepancies in surveys did not matter and that the original monuments — the permanently placed survey markers in the ground — marked the boundary, and any resulting hiatus was deemed public land. The courts have consistently determined that hiatus land shall remain in the public domain.

Cases regarding overlaps are more complicated. Courts have consistently said that when two officially accepted surveys conflict, and the result is an overlap, the survey that is senior in time takes precedent.

When it comes to court cases involving property rights, the concept of “first in time, first in right” is firmly established. In Wirth v. Branson (1878), the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that once a property had been patented — title of ownership confirmed by the government — the government cannot convey that land to any second party.

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http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2012/1/kobayashi-bags-new-twinkie-eating-record-on-wendy-williams-show/

Speed eating legend Takeru Kobayashi has set a new record, this time setting a new benchmark for the most Twinkies eaten in one minute.

The Japanese competitive eater managed to scoff 14 of the cream filled sponge cakes on set of the Wendy Williams Show in New York, USA earlier today.

Today’s record adds to Kobayashi’s five other Guinness World Record titles (Fastest time to eat a bowl of pasta, most hamburgers eaten in three minutes, most hot dogs eaten in 12 minutes, most hot dogs eaten in 3 minutes, and most meatballs eaten in one minute).

Mortgage rates were back to hitting record lows again, pushing housing affordability even higher to home buyers, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly mortgage market survey. For the sixth consecutive week, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, the most popular choice among buyers, has averaged below 4 percent — unheard of until a few weeks ago.

“Mortgage rates eased slightly this week to all-time record lows following mixed indicators in the labor market,” Frank Nothaft, chief economist at Freddie Mac, said in a statement. The economy added 1.6 million jobs in 2011 — the highest number since 2006 — but overall unemployment still remains high, Nothaft noted.

Here’s a closer look at rates and the new record lows they posted for the week ending Jan. 12:

• 30-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged 3.89 percent, with an average 0.7 point, reaching a new all-time low. Previously, 30-year mortgages’ record low was last week’s 3.91 percent average. A year ago at this time, 30-year rates averaged 4.71 percent.
• 15-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged 3.16 percent, with an average 0.8 point, dropping from last week’s 3.23 percent average. Last year at this time, 15-year rates averaged 4.08 percent.
• 5-year adjustable-rate mortgages: averaged 2.82 percent, with an average 0.7 point, dropping from last week’s 2.86 percent average. Last year at this time, 5-year ARMs averaged 3.72 percent.
• 1-year ARMs: averaged 2.76 percent, with an average 0.6 point, this week, falling from last week’s 2.80 percent average. A year ago, 1-year ARMs averaged 3.23 percent.

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I’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.
Bear Bryant

I’m happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would’ve been good.
Bear Bryant

I’ve had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
Bear Bryant

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn’t recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
Bear Bryant

It’s been years since I’ve had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I’ve just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
Bear Bryant

Nearly every coach I’ve talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don’t know if that’s right.
Bear Bryant

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.
Bear Bryant

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
Bear Bryant