plus 4, Andy and Scott McMillin Win the 2009 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 - Off-Road.com

Andy and Scott McMillin Win the 2009 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 - Off-Road.com
Roundup: Pitt's Dixon out for 2 more weeks - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Reviews Summary for Yaesu FT-450 - eHam.net
Prison guard teaches the art of beauty - Philadelphia Daily News
WKMA 2009-2010 scholarships awarded - High Plains Journal

Andy and Scott McMillin Win the 2009 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 - Off-Road.com

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 02:21 PM PST

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In Class 1, after the All German Auto team Armin Schwarz and Martin Christense led the field for much of the race, the team of Jerry Penhall and Dan Martin moved into the lead after Schwarz had mechanical issues and maintained it to earn the Class 1 victory, finishing just 2 hours and 10 minutes behind McMillin on corrected time. Schwarz needed to finish in first place to win the overall championship, but a transmission leak took too long to repair and the team got behind and was unable to recover.

Penhall, a reputed buggy chassis builder in the off-road arena, took the Class 1 win on the same night his nephews Ryan and Connor Penhall were runners up for the overall in the motorcycle class. Schwarz was the next Class 1 vehicle to cross the line behind the Penhall, but he was over 13 minutes behind the team.

Here is a list of the unofficial finish positions and times for the class winners (by driver of record) of the 42nd running of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. The number at left indicates their overall finish.

1. Class 22: Kendall Norman, 13 hours, 27 minutes, 50 seconds

4. Trophy Truck: Andy McMillin, 14:19:50

11. Class 1: Jerry Penhall, 15:38:19

12. Class 21: Ronnie Wilson, 15:42:08

15. Class 40: Scott Myers, 16:12:31

21. Class 25: Wayne Matlock, 16:54:52

22. Class 50: Jim O'Neal, 17:03:37

27. Class 30: Mike Johnson, 17:33:44

32. Class 1-2/1600: Eric Duran, 18:10:57

34. Class 8: Juan Lopez, 18:16:30

40. Class 20: Jesus Rios, 19:00:18

47. SCORE Lite: Brent Parkhouse, 19:30:22

48. Sportsman Motorcycle: Brian Garrahan, 19:35:02

55. Class 6: Heidi Steele: 20:27:52

61. Sportsman UTV: Fred Sobke: 20:49:44

62. Class 24: Tom Wright, 20:54:14

73. Baja Challenge: Nick Baldwin, 21:42:05

75. Protruck: Rob Reinertson, 21:59:24

76. Dan Chamlee, 22:01:16

77. Stock Full: Chad Hall, 22:48:40

91. Class 5/1600: Marcos Nunez, 23:15:24

95. Sportsman Buggy: Rory Ward, 23:22:29

96. Class 5: Kevin Carr, 23:22:56

100. Class 10: Mikey Lawrence, 23:28:45

113. Class 3: Darren Skilton, 24:11:29

117. Sportsman UTV: Reid Nordin, 24:32:37

129. Class 4: Jeff Offutt, 25:44:52

155. Class 26: Reid Rutherford, 30:19:53

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Roundup: Pitt's Dixon out for 2 more weeks - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 12:48 PM PST

Pitt senior guard Jermaine Dixon will be out another two to three weeks while he rehabilitates a slow-to-heal foot injury. Dixon will miss next week's O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic in Kansas City as well as the home game against Youngstown State Nov. 28.

Pitt will play Wichita State in a semifinal game at the CBE Classsic Monday night. The winner of that game will play the winner of the No. 3 Texas-Iowa game Tuesday night. The losers will play in a consolation game Tuesday.

Dixon had surgery in September to repair a fractured bone in his foot. Another X-ray taken yesterday revealed that the fracture is healing slower than doctors had originally anticipated.

Pitt won its first three games without Dixon, Pitt's only returning starter.

• Ohio State 76, California 70: Evan Turner had 26 points and 14 rebounds, his fourth double-double in as many games, as No. 15 Ohio State beat No. 13 California in the third-place game of the 2K Sports Classic in New York.

• Tennessee 105, East Carolina 66: Scotty Hopson scored 25 points to lead the No. 10 Volunteers to a rout against East Carolina in the opening round of the Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands.

• Georgia Tech 70, George Mason 62: Teammates Gani Lawal and Derrick Favors each scored 18 points and added three blocks apiece for No. 21 Georgia Tech to lead the Yellow Jackets (2-1) past George Mason in the consolation round of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off.

• Michigan State 75, Toledo 62: Draymond Green had 15 points to lead the No. 2 Spartans to a win against the visiting Rockets. The game was a regional matchup in the Legends Classic.

• Purdue 74, South Dakota State 63: E'Twaun Moore scored 22 points as the No. 7 Boilermakers beat the Jackrabbits in the first round of the Paradise Jam.

• Michigan 77, Houston Baptist 55: Manny Harris scored 25 points, and DeShawn Sims added 22 to help the No. 15 Wolverines beat the visiting Huskies.

• Clemson 89, UNC Greensboro 67: Trevor Booker scored a season-high 17 points, as the No. 22 Tigers routed the host Huskies.

• Maryland 82, New Hampshire 55: Landon Milbourne scored a career-high 24 points, as the host No. 25 Terrapins cruised past New Hampshire.

• Tulane 63, Penn State 60: Kevin Sims made a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 19 seconds to play and the Green Wave held on to beat the Nittany Lions in the second round of the Charleston Classic at Carolina First Arena. Talor Battle led Penn State (2-2) with 17 points.

• Detroit 71, Robert Morris 59: Thomas Kennedy scored 19 points and had four steals in the Titan's win against the Colonials in the 2K Sports Classic in Albany, N.Y. Rob Robinson had 14 points for the Colonials (0-3).

• Connecticut 87, Holy Cross 34: Maya Moore scored 21 points, Tina Charles added 18 and the top-ranked Huskies coasted to its 42nd consecutive victory at Holy Cross.

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Reviews Summary for Yaesu FT-450 - eHam.net

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 11:37 AM PST

Not too long ago I upgraded to general, and wanted a good HF radio for around $500-600. I had been flip-flopping between the IC-718 and the FT-450 until I found a very good used FT-450 for a good price. I am far more than satisfied with the FT-450. I can't say it's better than the IC-718 since I never played with one. But, with the auto tuner and 6M, it does have a bit of an edge IMO over the IC-718. The audio is very nice, it hears very well, and has a very light footprint on my desk.

The only cons I can think of are some of the options that are buried within the menu. It doesn't bother me that much since I run it along side HRD, and I can change them in a flash. But, if you're running the radio solo, trying to change the TX power isn't just the turn of a knob. It's not horrible, but, not mind numbing easy/convenient. Speaking of knobs, the one con that I had heard from many was the size of the main tuning knob. It really isn't as bad as I was expecting, and so far, hasn't been an issue. I would rather have the large display and a smaller knob, than a large knob taking up a lot of real estate on the radio.

All in all, it's a great radio for a greenhorn HF guy like myself.

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Prison guard teaches the art of beauty - Philadelphia Daily News

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 12:19 PM PST

Whether at her 6-year-old daughter's gymnastics class or on a Caribbean vacation with a girlfriend, Jackie Wescott inevitably ends up chatting with somebody. But she hesitates when the conversation turns to work because Wescott's job takes some explaining.

"When I tell them what I do, they get all confused," says Wescott, 30, of Clementon. "They ask if I'm a cosmetologist, why don't I work in a salon?"

In a crisp, standard-issue navy-blue uniform with her hair pulled back in a fashionable bundle of tresses, Wescott reports each day as a corrections officer to the county jail in downtown Camden.

But instead of watching for contraband and breaking up fights, Wescott teaches male and female inmates how to style and color hair and give facial massages, manicures, and pedicures - procedures she sometimes lets them practice on her.

Sitting behind her desk in the jail's ground-floor salon, Wescott pointed at one of her favorite students, George Lopez, a 38-year-old recovering drug addict who has been in and out of jail for 23 years, and said with a laugh, "George gave me a foot bath three weeks ago. He did a nice job."

Lopez, who said he had been clean since getting locked up nine months ago, chuckled to himself and continued working on the hair-styling techniques that he and his classmates need to master to earn their cosmetology licenses - the goal of the program once the inmates are released.

This sort of relaxed exchange is fairly typical. Wescott, whose older brother served time in prison, says that during class she tries to take on the role of teacher rather than corrections officer, a distinction that blurs when one of the students mouths off, and Wescott tells him they will discuss his behavior later.

"I have my outside voice and my inside voice," she said. "I really am trying to create a school atmosphere in here. I want them to be comfortable. We talk a lot. You hear all about what's going on on the cell block, their parents, their girlfriends, the other girl, the other, other girl."

The cosmetology course began in 2003 as part of the jail's larger vocational training program, offering an alternative to GED courses and auto-repair instruction. In each four-month session, six students submit to a combination of book and practical instruction, with plenty of willing heads to practice on in the form of corrections officers and fellow inmates happy to get a free haircut.

For each session, Wescott gets 40 to 50 applicants and puts them through a reading and writing assessment before interviewing them to determine whether they are "just trying to get off the block."

For much of his adult life, Walker Clinton, 28, earned a living selling crack cocaine in downtown Camden. He took home about $500 on a good day, he said, but most of that money would go to clothes and the PCP and cocaine habit he developed when he started dealing.

Earlier this year, Clinton was selling on the street outside his house when the police rolled up.

"I was high on PCP when I was arrested," he said.

Like others in Wescott's class, who are awaiting trial or who will go before parole boards in the next couple of years, Clinton said he had reformed himself and planned to give up his old lifestyle.

"There's a lady my mom knows in Cherry Hill who wants to hire me when I get out," Clinton said. "I want to be a hair colorist. You can get $150 a head. I wish I would have figured this out a long time ago instead of sitting on the corners."

With every new class, Wescott hears the same stories. And though she has her share of successes and a list of salons and barbershops willing to hire her students, she said she was fully aware of the statistical reality: Many of them will end up back in jail.

Wescott recently heard that a student who left the cosmetology program early when she was released had just returned to jail and wanted back into the class.

"You ask what happened and they say, 'Ah, I fell off,' " Wescott said. "You hear it all the time, and you say, 'You said that last time.' "

Not one to discourage an eager pupil, Wescott said she planned to teach the student again.

Raised in South Jersey with her four brothers and sisters, Wescott graduated from high school and promptly enrolled in the correction officers academy in Delaware.

Her brother had gone to prison the previous year on drug-dealing charges, but Wescott isn't one to reflect on the implications, explaining, "I was just young. I wanted to explore."

Within a few months she was homesick and returned to New Jersey to enroll in cosmetology school.

She worked at a salon in Blackwood for five years, but when she became pregnant with her daughter in 2003, she decided she needed a job with benefits. A return to corrections seemed like the right move.

When she heard about the cosmetology program, she enrolled in a course to get her teaching license, and after two years of working the cell blocks, attending night classes, and raising an infant daughter, Wescott was the jail's new cosmetology teacher.

In four years of teaching, she says, she never had so much as a fight break out and had to throw only one student out of class – "because he wanted to be the teacher."

This latest class is set to graduate in December, when some of the inmates will return to their normal jailhouse routines of working out or playing dominoes, and others, like Clinton, will transfer to a state facility to serve out their sentences.

Lopez, awaiting trial on a charge of drug possession with intent to distribute, said that when he gets out, he plans to get his cosmetology license and "get married to my girl and live happily ever after. That's how the story goes, right?"

In a moment of levity, Lopez recently suggested to Wescott that she buy a building for all her former students to open salons, in effect recreating the class atmosphere in the outside world.

As Wescott recounts the story, she can't help but laugh.

"When they leave, I say, 'Good work. I hope I don't see you again.' "

Contact staff writer James Osborne at 856-779-3876 or jaosborne@phillynews.com.

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WKMA 2009-2010 scholarships awarded - High Plains Journal

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:18 AM PST

WKMA 2009-2010 scholarships awarded

Kansas

Western Kansas Manufacturers Association, sponsor of the 3i Show, is pleased to announce the awarding of scholarships to the following students for the 2009-2010 school year. Congratulations to the following recipients:

$500 scholarship recipients

Barton County Community College scholarship awarded to Katherine Turner. Katherine graduated from Larned High School and plans to major in business.

Garden City Community College scholarship awarded to Tyler Burrows. Tyler graduated from Garden City High School and plans to major in engineering or business administration.

Seward County Community College scholarship awarded to Gerardo Ruvalcaba. Gerardo graduated from Hugoton High School is enrolled in the auto body repair program.

$700 scholarship recipients

Kansas State University scholarship awarded to Samantha Shirley. Samantha graduated from Dodge City High School and plans to major in business administration.

University of Kansas scholarship awarded to Derek Ellis. Derek graduated from Great Bend High School and plans to major in mechanical engineering.

Scholarship funds are still available at Colby Community College, Dodge City Community College, North Central Kansas Technical College, Northwest Kansas Technical School and Fort Hays State University. Qualifying students are residents of western Kansas who have graduated from a western Kansas high school. Scholarship applications should be made directly through the individual school's financial aid or scholarship department.

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