'No beer ... no women:' Ex-Army football coach Bobby Ross defends his recruiting trips - U.S. - Stripes
Military Academy's website, Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr. took full blame for the school's recruiting violations this year that included courting high school football players with alcohol and VIP treatment on a raucous bus ride. Report: West Point football team recruited high school athletes with booze, women The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., disciplined 20 cadets for promoting underage drinking and other misdeeds and self-reported a recruiting violation to the NCAA. Two officers were reprimanded along with a pair of coaches. Those involved, though, avoided more serious punishments, including dismissal from the academy for cadets and courts-martial for officers. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. When Army football recruits took a bus trip with head coach Bobby Ross, there was no drinking and definitely no dancing in the aisles like a trip for recruits earlier this year. Ross came out of retirement to coach the U.S. Military Academy's Black Knights from 2004 to 2006, and he did take cadets and prospects for a ride down New York's Palisades Parkway. But it wasn't for a night of unsupervised fun. The recruits, their parents and every member of Ross' coaching staff was along for the ride, he said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "There was no beer, there were no women, there was nothing like that," Ross said. "And it was supervised by the entire coaching staff." The bus trips to the Palisades Mall came under scrutiny last week after an Army report leaked toThe Gazetteshowed unsupervised high school football recruits and 20 cadets used the jaunt as an opportunity for underage drinking and raucous revelry. West Point's superintendent Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen said Sundaythat all cadets and leaders involved had been punished and that the antics of the Jan. 25 outing won't be repeated. Ross, 77, is a legend in coaching circles. But before he took to the sidelines, he was on the front lines of the Cold War with the Army's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment where he served as a lieutenant in a unit that was tasked with stopping a Soviet advance into Germany. Ross said his Army experience showed him that athletes at West Point needed to be officers first, and football players second. "I have great respect for Army athletes," he said. The leaked report said the Palisades trip dated back to Ross' tenure as coach. The same report said mall trips had few rules and no officer supervision. Ross is mad about that. "This is very damaging to my reputation," said Ross, who contacted The Gazette to set the record straight. Under him, the trips were much tamer, he said. The Palisades Mall had a Dave and Buster's franchise that was the perfect place for the coach to talk to parents and recruits. The group would get a buffet dinner and then Ross would take the stage. "I would tell them a bit about West Point," he said. "Then we would show them a film on the history of West Point." Ross may be best known for his years in the NFL. He led the San Diego Chargers to the Super Bowl and took the Detroit Lions to the playoffs. Before that, he earned top coaching honors for leading the Georgia Tech Bulldogs to a share of the National Championship in 1990. Before that, though, Ross started his coaching career by showing future officers how to win on the gridiron at the Virginia Military Institute and The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. Building a team that will have to be better on a battlefield than it is on a football field means bringing in great recruits and showing them quickly that their future is about more than touchdowns, Ross said. The trips to the Palisades Mall accomplished that goal by letting coaches tell recruits and their families about the values of West Point, he said. "I went on every bus trip," Ross said. "We would go somewhere in the neighborhood of five to seven times in the season." The hottest entertainment for the recruits was a 45 minute break to play video games at the mall, Ross said. A graduate of VMI, Ross sees his reputation as sacred. For him and his family, much of life has been about duty, honor and country. The coach's children have served - one is a 1988 graduate of the Air Force Academy. He said he wanted players who could live up to military ideals. That, he said, was more important than winning. "That's what I believe in," Ross said. "I believe in the West Point system." Ross took over the 0-13 team in 2004 after his wife talked him into the job. "She said it was my patriotic duty," he said. The Black Knights under Ross showed steady improvement on the field, but never were great. He went 9-25 in his three years. Ross re-entered retirement in 2006. "I just didn't have the energy," he said.
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What else did Sam do?! Well, we'll have to wait to find out because the conversation is put on hold when the boys find Kate. That is, they think they've found Kate when in reality, they've found Tasha, Kate's sister. When Tasha gets awayseriously boys, maybe stretch next time before getting back inthe game?Sam and Dean agree to hear Kate's story over coffee and bear hearts. Ridiculous, right?
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. Washington (AFP) - App in hand, Jack Plater-Zyberk has delivered caviar, condoms, chicken nuggets, cases of beer and even a little black dress. And he can get it to you within an hour. Plater-Zyberk, who maneuvers his 1992 BMW through Washington streets, is one of an estimated 5,000 independent contractors in the US for Postmates, an online service and smartphone app which delivers anything from lunchtime tacos to late-night diapers. "For me, it's like being a superhero," said Plater-Zyberk, who uses Postmates to supplement his income as a fill-in attorney. "When you get hot shawarma and pizza to people at 3:00 am, they're happy to see you." With Postmates and other start-ups offering quick delivery of meals, groceries and other items, the online world is delivering again, more than a decade after the spectacular collapse of the major players in the space. In the 2.0 version of online delivery, things are different. Most Americans have high-speed Internet at home, and smartphones as they move around. View gallery Jack Plater-Zyberk, a freelance delivery driver for Postmates, responds to a customer request on his The new startups are looking to avoid the mistakes of dot-com busts like Webvan and Kozmo, which invested heavily in warehouses and hired large numbers of staff before going bankrupt. - 'City is our warehouse' - "The city is our warehouse," said Bastian Lehmann, co-founder of Postmates, which claims to have the largest US on-demand delivery fleet for groceries, meals and a range of other merchandise. All dropped off within 60 minutes. Postmates, which has raised $23 million, uses independent deliverers, known as "postmates," who like the flexibility of choosing their work shifts, Lehmann explained. "We have a lot of students or people who have another part-time job. We have artists, musicians," he said. "There are people who are looking for a job that gives them this flexibility." Grocery delivery firm Instacart, which has raised $55 million, expects revenue to grow tenfold this year, and is now in 15 cities with 1,000 "personal shoppers," who are also independent contractors. View gallery Stephan Grigioni (L), courier community manager, and Yohan Ferdinando, operations manager, work at t "We've had to invest very little in infrastructure outside our technology platform," said Instacart general manager Heather Wake. Instacart has partnerships with big grocery chains like Whole Foods and Costco and touts its large selection and personalized service. "Our personal shoppers are trained in grocery selection," Wake said. "We can respond to the customer, so if someone wants bananas that are a little bit brown we can accommodate that." Companies in the food and grocery e-commerce and delivery industry raised nearly $486 million in 109 deals globally in the 12 months ending in June, up 51 percent from a year earlier, according to the venture capital blog CB Insights. In the US market, some $545 million was pumped into the food delivery space in the 18 months to September, excluding restaurant delivery, according to Rosenheim Advisors, which tracks food tech startups. That includes the reported $90 million acquisition of food delivery group Caviar by Square. "People are a lot more comfortable ordering online than they were 10 or 15 years ago, and that is important for something as personal as food," said Brita Rosenheim, who leads Rosenheim Advisors. An Amazon Fresh truck arrives at a warehouse in Inglewood, California, on June 27, 2013 (AFP Photo/K "Across the board you're seeing growth in these categories -- grocery delivery, meal delivery, meal kits." The research firm BI Intelligence estimates that same-day deliveries will generate $100 million in 20 US cities this year, and that the market will grow to $2 billion by 2016 and $4 billion by 2018. - Hungry for takeout - The fast-growing segment of restaurant delivery services include startups like GrubHub, which raised $200 million in a public stock offering, and Foodler. "Americans spend about $9 billion a year on takeout from independently owned restaurants, so this is a huge opportunity," Abby Hunt, a GrubHub spokeswoman, told AFP. "And 90 percent of those orders are still placed with a phone and paper method, so it's very inefficient." GrubHub is "the leading company in this space," according to Hunt, citing the company's links to 30,000 restaurants in the United States and in the British capital London. Hunt says most deliveries are handled by restaurants themselves, and that GrubHub allows them to add sales with little extra cost. Even as startups multiply, established firms are looking to get a piece of the action. The taxi app Uber has launched deliveries in some cities, either using cars or bike messengers, for meals and other items. The biggest challenges may be coming from industry heavyweights Amazon and Google, both of which have begun offering same-day grocery delivery. The "Amazon Fresh" service for groceries and local shops -- currently in just a few West Coast locations and New York -- is expected to expand further. Google Express in October added Boston, Chicago and Washington for same-day delivery service for groceries, books, sporting goods and other items in partnership with local retailers. "Our idea was to make shopping your favorite local stores as easy and fast as shopping online," said Google's Brian Elliott. But startups like Instacart and Postmates say they can be more nimble, offering more personal service and a wider selection of goods, including fresh foods. Plater-Zyberk noted that when a customer wanted a "little black dress," he took pictures of three items and emailed them to the woman to allow her to choose.
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Research and Markets: European Beer Market Report 2014 - Analysis and Forecast to 2020 - Yahoo Finance
The event, in conjunction with the St. Paul Winter Carnival, is Jan. 24 at the Minnesota State Fair's Mighty Midway. The Winter Carnival runs Jan. 22 to Feb. 1. The Beer Dabbler will have more than 150 breweries, winter activities as well as a heated coliseum for festivalgoers to warm up.
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New wave of online delivery gains momentum - Yahoo News
. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren brought her brand of populist politics back to Kentucky on Tuesday to campaign for Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes one week before voters go to the polls in one of the country's most closely watched Senate races. Warren, making her second trip to Kentucky this election season, jumped between full throated attack mode against Republican policies and soft stories of how her janitor father helped her family "make it into a middle class that America's labor unions built." "There is no better fighter for America's middle class, for America's working people, than Alison Lundergan Grimes," Warren said, citing Grimes' support of raising the minimum wage. "Alison is willing to fight back and better yet, Alison is willing to fight forward." The rally at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers attracted steel workers, teamsters, firefighters and communication workers who sipped beer in plastic cups and listened to Warren, the first in a lineup of political stars visiting Kentucky in the final week of the contentious campaign. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will campaign with Sen. Mitch McConnell on Wednesday, and Hillary Rodham Clinton will stump for Grimes on Saturday. Stephen Piercey, a 32-year-old UPS worker and a steward in the Teamsters union, said he supports Grimes because she opposes right to work legislation that would allow companies to hire nonunion workers, which he said would weaken the labor union's ability to bargain for its members. "We've got outstanding health care, I got a pension I'll have one day, I make good money on the hour," he said. "All of those things combined give me a quality of life I wouldn't be able to have if I didn't have a union." View gallery Kentucky democratic senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes listens as Massachusetts Senator El McConnell, the Senate minority leader, made his pitch for Kentucky's working families in Campbellsville on Tuesday, where he campaigned with country music singer Lee Greenwood at a company that makes clothes for the military. In 2012, Federal Prison Industries, a government-owned corporation that provides jobs to federal prison inmates, sought to bid on the military contract that officials at Campbellsville Apparel said would have threatened their business. After pressure from McConnell, Federal Prison Industries decided not to bid on the contract. "He's kept our jobs open," said Beverly Brown, 44, who has worked at Campbellsville Apparel for 15 years. "He's kind of been out there helping us as working people." McConnell briefly mentioned his efforts to help the company, but spent most of his time telling the crowd about how, despite his 30 years in the Senate, he is the candidate of change in this race while Grimes is just "a new face to vote for the president's agenda." "Change is not about how new you are, change is about where you want to go and I want to change America," McConnell said. Grimes, who has refused to say whether she voted for President Barack Obama, has said she would not answer to the president if elected. Tuesday, she called Kentucky's Senate election "a revolution," asking for union workers to help "take back Washington." "It is labor that has lifted millions out of poverty and it is labor that will help us grow the middle class," Grimes said. Politics & Government
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