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helm of Steer Football Cannon mcwilliams has been at the head of big spring steer football for the past couple of years. This year, mcwilliams stepped into the athletic director role and attributes it all to his sports experiences up to this point.
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Peripheral Artery Disease and Wound Healing
Non-healing wounds can seem cumbersome; for some it may seem as if the wound won’t ever heal and it is just a new way of living. With the support of local healthcare services that is no longer the case. this month, Tiffany Crawford connects the effects of PAD and non-healing wounds.
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On the wings of your imagination - Escape Velocity a little bit of imagination and the love of games has resulted in a new creation for Roger Cline and his brother. Let your imagination come to life as you step into the world of Escape Velocity.
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McWilliams at the helm of Steer Football By DUSTIN POPE In West Texas football is king, and for one man, football and sports are his life. Cannon McWilliams is the head football and Athletic Director for Big Spring High School. If you follow Steers football, you know absolutely who Coach McWilliams is. As a sportswriter, I have the extraordinary opportunity to talk to these coaches daily, so I found out more about Cannon, his coaching journey, and his love of sports. He has a compelling story, one of hard work and tenacity. His enthusiasm for sports and coaching stood out to me, and just how much he cares about his athletes and students. As many of you may realize, Coach McWilliams was born with sports in his blood. His dad is Jay McWilliams, a renowned coach in his own right. Both of his grandparents were associated with either sports or education, so the young man had a genuine love for sports. Growing up, Cannon played whatever sport was in season; if it was fall, he had a football in his hands; if it was winter, it was basketball season, and if it was spring, it was baseball. So there is where his appreciation of sports started developing. With his dad as a head coach, Cannon was constantly around the field house or the fields and regularly around the individuals playing sports. That kind of lit the fire of craving to be a coach. Cannon can recall watching the satisfaction and delight his dad got out of coaching and knew that this was what he craved to do. Because his dad, Jay McWilliams, was such a valuable coach, Cannon moved around as a kid. He spent some time in Granbury, Harper, Coahoma, and then McCamey, where he completed his sports career. One tremendous benefit of going to these smaller schools is that because he was an outstanding athlete, he got to play all the various sports that the schools offered, and he did well at them. As he was performing successfully in all the sports, Cannon recognized that maybe his playing days
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were over. He figured out he wanted to be a coach and not a player anymore. His love of coaching was just too much. He just had it in his blood. So he made a tough choice and determined that he would hang up the cleats and pursue his coaching dreams. He realized how much being a coach could impact a player’s life, and he just felt that this was the ideal route for himself. So opens the coaching journey. Coach McWilliams started at Midland College and ultimately finished school at UTPB in 2010. After graduating from UTPB, Cannon found getting hired was a little more problematic than he first thought. Back then, more prominent schools had various teaching requirements than what they presently have. Finally, in about mid-July 2010, he got the call he had been awaiting for. He had his first coaching opportunity at Mertzon. For those of you who don’t realize, Mertzon is a tiny town, but nonetheless, Coach was just thrilled to have a foot in the door. He says he picked up a lot from those years at Mertzon because of how small the school was, and he was working with the junior high team at the time. He had to learn how to coach every position on the field. Being able to coach junior high, he studied the ins and outs of football. He learned not only how to coach, but how to compromise with the kids. He recounts his first year as a rollercoaster, but wouldn’t alter it for the world. The insight he gained from that first year of coaching is valuable. After his two years in Mertzon, he had a buddy by the name of Kurt Bird, who coached him in his senior year at McCamey and was the defensive coordinator at Muleshoe. Bird informed him about a job opportunity at Muleshoe. McWilliams was ready to move up to a little bigger school, so he put in his resume and was lucky enough to get the job. Cannon would coach under another legendary coach, David
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Wood, who hired him into the squad. Coach Wood is so prominent that Muleshoe eventually named the stadium they play in after him. McWilliams was like a sponge during his time under Coach Wood. Some basics that he does in his offensive attack now come from his time at Muleshoe. He has likewise taken away some things he picked up about practice. So his time at Muleshoe shaped his coaching system. Muleshoe is in the middle of nowhere, and Cannon accomplished a lot in his one year under Coach Wood, but was once again ready for a bigger school. An old roommate from college, a coach at Bellville, called him up, and let him know they had a position available as the swingman. A swingman coaches all the wide receivers. He applied and was able to obtain the job in Bellville. There he was, the WR coach, but he taught sixth-grade world geography and eighth-grade technology classes. At Bellville, he learned from another great coach in Grady Roe. Cannon stayed there for a year and, like all of his stops, gained so much more about the game of football and how to handle the children. After his year in Bellville, McWilliams received a call from one of his companions that coached in Andrews. They notified him they were going to have a secondary position open. So Cannon found his path to coaching at Andrews. He had family in Andrews and just wanted to be closer to his family, and he knew this would be the right step in his coaching career. Cannon’s career was going just like he wanted; he could work with good people, all the while learning precisely what he liked and disliked about the places he had been. He was learning the way he wanted to
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coach. After a year of learning in Andrews, McWilliams moved on.
It was during this stage that he also carried out a complete lifestyle transformation. He recognized he was overweight and wasn’t living a perfectly healthy life. So, looking for a complete change in his life, Cannon started getting into the gym and just cut out all the nasty stuff from his life. It was this important life change that brought him to his next job in Sonora. He followed one of his friends and someone he regards as a mentor: Jeff Cordel. Cordel was the Defensive Coordinator, and Cannon would be the defensive backs coach, head basketball coach, and help with the track team. Once again, as he could expand his coaching and coach different sports and football, the experience would help set Cannon up for the future. It was his time at Sonora in which his life change took full effect. Now living a fresh life, he felt this could make him a much better coach and mentor. So with a new coaching job and a whole new rejuvenated outlook on life, McWilliams made maybe one of the most noteworthy encounters of his life while in Sonora. Cannon met his future wife there. He credits his two years in Sonora to effectively transforming his viewpoint on life and his coaching philosophy. After his two seasons in Sonora, he wanted to go back to a bigger school. He saw Big Spring was hiring for an offensive coaching position. Even though he had taught mainly defense to
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this point, he interviewed for the job; during his interview, he discussed both offense and defense. He was told that there might be a defensive coordinator job open; sure enough, the AD from Big Spring offered him the defensive coordinator job a few weeks afterward. So now that he had a new job in a little bigger town, he asked his then-girlfriend to move with him, which she did. Cannon was now set in what would ultimately become his destiny. His first couple of years here in Big Spring were challenging learning a new system and conforming to new coaching styles, and the plan started taking shape. He grasped that the young kids in this town could gain so much from him and that he could be the mentor and coach he had always wanted to be. After two years of coaching the defense, the head coach moved on to a new opportunity. Mike Ritchey would be appointed the new head Athletic Director, and he named Cannon the head football coach. Cannon had ultimately accomplished it. McWilliams had his first head coaching job. He recognized it would be a demand, but did not know how tough it would be. He took all of his coaching philosophy and all he had picked up from the coaches he had worked with to establish his coaching style. This is his third year of being the head football coach; they
grew leaps and bounds last season as they concluded with a winning record and won a playoff game. It was around that time that Mike Ritchey wanted to step down as the athletic director, and Cannon, accepted the role. This was just another hat he put on; he now had head AD duties on top of all of his football obligations as the head coach. Like he has his entire life, he adapted swiftly to his new role and did an outstanding job. Now heading into his third season as the head coach, all of his arduous work is paying off as the team has had those three years to learn his coaching style and offense. This should be an exceptional season for the Steers. Cannon’s coaching journey is something we can all learn from. His neverquit attitude has gotten him to the place he is now. All of his stops and everything he has learned is eventide in how he coaches the player on the sidelines. But, what is more remarkable is that he wants to be a leader and a mentor for these kids, and that is absolutely what he is undertaking. The outlook is bright for all the Steers athletics with Coach McWilliams at the helm.
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Anatomy of a writer By JOEL MILLER
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So, you want to be a world class writer, an instant success. You want to be up there with Bombeck, Clancy and Bill Dance. Easy, just write the perfect story on a subject you know about. In this case it was a story of outdoor life, camping, fishing, survival, and love of nature. Then send it to the right magazine, OUTDOOR LIFE. I quickly sent it to the magazine, mistakes, strikeovers, and all. It was so great, they could put it into the style they were accustomed to. It was their magazine and they could correct all the mistakes themselves. After all, that’s what editors are for. They are paid to recognize a new genius. Much to my surprise, it was back in my mail box in ten days. Well, maybe I did need to correct my mistakes and make it look neater. It was just a hassle to rewrite the entire thing on a manual typewriter. But a budding genius has to make some concessions. Once again, I had it back in 10 days. Maybe the packaging needed to be in a particular form. I had read about the local writer’s club, so I called the number listed. The president
of the local guild said she would be glad to put me on the agenda at the next club meeting. I didn’t want local accolades, I just needed direction on how to submit. But, I made the meeting and was introduced as a visitor. They would critique my story and help me to put it into a saleable form. WHAT! My story was too good for a bunch of local writers to tear apart. To this, Mrs. White replied, “Mr. Miller, there is no such thing as a perfect article. Your article is riddled with gross mistakes. We are willing to instruct you in the correct way to write. We want to welcome you into our club and for you to learn with the rest of us. Well, maybe they were right and I could learn from locals. Two and one-half years later, I was transferred to a different city and lost interest in writing. A very sick wife and an interesting job took place of other interests. As a side note, I had written an assigned story of a personal tragedy, while in the club. It was a story of “The Waiting Room”, a story about the drama of three sisters and of myself in the waiting room of an ICU atmosphere. We shared family stories, waiting
for our individual loved one to die. It was a heartmy love for writing again. rending article that I submitted to Reader’s Digest. I now do the quarterly newsletter for our local air It had been my personal best, as I received a permuseum. I have been doing a lot of writing for the sonal note from the editor that it was a very welllocal newspaper and a local magazine. written article and would be a publishable at a later It still gives me a rush seeing my name in print. I date, but at the present time it did not fit the way the don’t confine my writing to just one type of subject. I Digest was going. not only write about life experiences, but science ficMy first published article in a local magazine was tion, short stories, and anything else that strikes my an assigned interview. I had read of a local worldfancy. I have no idea how many things I have had record holder, sail plane pilot Wally Scott. I called published. It no longer matters. I just have this love Wally and he agree to the interview. I was so proud for writing. of my accomplishment I took a copy to him. His only I have a nephew that loves to write comic strips. comment was “I didn’t know I was so elegant with For awhile, I used to send him all my published artiwords”. I had to explain that writers had the leeway cles, but this no longer matters. I have even tried to to express what sounded good, without changing introduce my 13-year-old grandson into writing, but the meaning. at 13, his mind doesn’t stay focused very long. Move ahaead 30 years. I was in the ER the other day and a nurse that While I was in the seminary at SMU, I discovered was running an EKG on me noticed I was reading a my ability to write for children. I wrote 13 stories book. She asked if I read a lot. and I said I did. The from the Bible. I titled the stories, “(Believable) Bible conversation got around to my writings. I told her I Stories for Children”. It was a composite of tonguewould love to write a novel, but I just couldn’t put in in-cheek stories that explained some of the stories all the fluff and filler it took. I usually got to the point told in the Bible that children would have trouble pretty fast, with no room for clothes descriptions, understanding. room furniture, or sky color. The book opens with the story of Adam in the GarMaybe someday, I will become famous, but at den, trying to name all the animals, birds, insects eight-six, I doubt it. So, I will just keep on writing for and fish, yet not understanding what was going on. local publications and be satisfied. “How can I give you names when I don’t even know where I came from or what I am doing here? Today I am here, but yesterday, nothing. You there, get back in line and wait your turn. You are so ugly, I think I will name you Hippopotamus. Now where did I come up with that name and who am I?” I love to make up these stories for children, but I could not find a publisher for my stories so I went the route of “vanity press” where I published my own book. For a price, there are publishing firms that will print a book, if you will do all the work, including content, pictures, and all the mistakes you leave in. My book had some success, as I had 125 books printed and I have only 15 left. Quite often, during Vacation Bible School, I would start a story and expand on it every day. It was always a big hit, as I would ask the kids where I had left off the day before, and they always knew. 1700 W. FM 700 • (432) 264-1900 For several years I have been writing grants. It brought forward
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Peripheral Artery Disease and Wound Healing By TIFFANY CRAWFORD Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) is a condition that develops when the arteries that supply blood to the internal organs, arms and legs become completely or partially blocked. This blockage is caused by fatty plaque deposits that harden arteries, called atherosclerosis, and greatly reduces blood flow. PAD affects nearly 10 million people in the United States, especially those over 65 years of age. PAD increases the risks of hard-to-heal wounds and associated lower-limb amputations by negatively impacting circulation and reducing blood flow to and from the legs. “PAD is largely under-recognized, and amputation rates associated with this disease remain unnecessarily high,” said Tiffany Crawford, Wound Care Director. “That’s why we at Scenic Mountain Medical Center are proud to support the White Sock Campaign and join the other clinicians on the front lines of care to advocate for accurate diagnosis and timely treatment of patients suffering from the side effects of PAD. We also encourage everyone to be proactive in their own leg health by knowing the risk factors, classic warning signs and to ask their doctor to check their feet for signs of PAD. I am proud to join the SALSAL in wearing one white sock in honor of amputees, and stand in unison with the clinical community, and people of Big Spring and Howard County to raise awareness of this important initiative and we do this with the hopes of making a significant difference in the lives of people living with or impacted by loved ones with PAD.” The Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine identifies these risk factors for developing PAD: Age above 65 years Diabetes Excessive weight Family history of artery disease High blood pressure High cholesterol Heart disease Smoking
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Up to 25 percent of those with advanced PAD will experience an amputation within one year due to a non-healing wound. Although the long-term effects of PAD are serious, an astonishing 40 percent of people with PAD do not experience any symptoms. The Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine can also perform non-invasive tests to diagnose and accurately treat PAD. An ankle-brachial index (ABI) test is painless and easy, and compares the blood pressure reading in the ankles with the blood pressure reading in the arms. An ABI can help diagnose PAD, but it cannot identify which arteries are narrowed or blocked. A Doppler ultrasound test may be done to see which artery or arteries are blocked. If you are at risk for PAD, do not dismiss leg pain as part of growing old and seek care if you have these symptoms: Pain or cramps in the back of your leg while walking or exercising. These pains or cramps go away when the walking or exercising stops. Pain in the feet or legs while resting or that wakes you from sleep. Decreased or no hair growth on the feet or legs. Lower legs and feet that are cool to touch or that have shiny skin. Legs and feet that appear pale when raised and bluish/purplish when hanging down. Weak or absent pulses in the feet Numbness or tingling in the feet and legs. A sore or wound on your toes, legs or feet that does not heal. People who are at risk for PAD should call the Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine if they develop a wound. Specialized care provided by the Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine can reduce healing times, increase healing rates and significantly lower amputation risks. For more information on identifying PAD and treating chronic or infected wounds, contact the Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine located at 1501 W 11th place, suite 106 or call (432) 268-5370.
“Art of the Object By KAY SMITH
For many artists, the appeal of the still life genre is its accessibility as objects around the home or outdoors are plenty. Gather a few or more items to paint, setting them up near your work station, or leaving them as is naturally is fairly easy. These unending possibilities offer many arrangements that are unique to you and to your style. In the picture shown, I had removed several colored glass vases from our mantel to a table nearby while I put new succulents in their place. No special order, just a resting spot until finding them a storage bin. With the table lamp on, light shone inside and outside the vases creating bold and exciting colors. After snapping an iPhone photo I then cropped silk flowers, a leopard princess phone, and ceramic vase out of the picture plane to focus on the vases as their own still life. The result was amazing. Still life items shouldn't be limited to drawing up a grocery shopping list of a couple apples, four roses, three cucumbers, bananas, oranges, etc. Those items should be more personal, the essence of a life - a stilled life if you will. In other words, still life paintings should not be boring and they should tell a story in order to be appealing not only to you, the painter, but to anyone viewing your works. In conclusion, still life should convey the art of the object, and not be boring or predictable. Creating them presents possibilities that are endless. Try seeing items around you as if they could be a grouping subject for a future work then get busy. You just might make a very engaging painting that is totally personal yet speaks to everyone a universal language. Visit Brushworks at 2106 Scurry or online www.kaysmith.artspan.com Living Magazine
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On the wings of your imagination Escape Velocity By ROGER CLINE The situation is not one from our experience, but from our imagination. We’re on the Spaceship Daedalus, flying through the uncharted regions of deep space, when the unthinkable happens. What is it? It’s not that important. There are a plethora of things that can go wrong in space. Maybe an asteroid hits the spaceship. Perhaps there’s a fire in the mess hall. A rogue A.I., or an enemy off the port bow. The important part? We’re all going to die unless we make an unplanned landing on that unexplored planet over there. The planet’s name is Xorak. It has terrain and life forms as varied as those on any planet we’ve seen, including Earth. Most of it is hostile to outsiders. And we’re going down. That’s the setup of the new board game Escape Velocity created and illustrated over the last few years by my brother, Martin Cline, and it’s a little bit different from most of the board games you’re used to. For one, the board isn’t a solid sheet of wood or cardboard. Players construct the board – representing the surface of the alien planet – as they play. At the start of the game, the “board” consists of a single hexagon in the middle of the table, representing the area – the crater – where the Daedalus crashed. As characters explore the area around the crash site, the players will add more hexagons to create a map of the surface of Xorak. Spaces can represent mountains, plains, lakes, and more dangerous features like volcanoes, caves and alien cities. Another difference from most board games is that players aren’t playing against the other players – they’re working with them. It’s a concept called a “cooperative” board game, because your goal is to cooperate with the other players to beat the situation set up by the game itself. In
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the case of Escape Velocity, the players have to cooperatively explore the planet Xorak, acquire resources, repair the Daedalus, and escape with all hands on board...before any of the crew die. It’s a tall order, but it can be done.
During the game, each player takes on the role of a different member of Xorak, so they’ll probably be headed that way to investigate the of the Daedalus’ crew. There are 13 different crew members planned landing. so far. Probably seven will be issued with the game when it’s first reEach turn, the first player will draw a card to determine whether to leased, then the others will be issued in small expansion sets – along put more intelligent Xorakians on the board, and which direction to with other content – over time. Some of the characters include the Daedalus’ captain, Isa Riggs; Engineer Cornelius Wright; and Pilot Glen Wang. Each character has different skills and abilities, from planning, communications and science; to combat, engineering, and design, along with many others. Each character has his or her own deck of cards representing those skills – along with weapons, equipment, vehicles and resources – which are then played to deal with the challenges the game presents. When you run out of cards, don’t worry. Just reshuffle your discard pile and start again. Players can add new cards to their decks when they discover new items or learn new skills. So how does the game challenge the players? Well, whenever a player explores a new space, that space comes with instructions on what to do when you explore it. Most of the time that will involve drawing cards from different decks depending on what kind of terrain the space represents and how far it is from the Daedalus’ original landing crater. It’s assumed in the game that the impact of the spaceship cleared some of the threats from its immediate vicinity, either by destroying them or scaring them off. Conversely, the crash represented an “interesting” 501 N. Birdwell Ln. • Big Spring • (432) 267-7781 event to some of the more intelligent denizens Living Magazine 13
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move them. Xorakians that meet up through this movement join together into a group and move as one. Players who meet Xorakians have a choice to make. Xorakian’s initial instinct is to attack, so unless the players make quick use of skills or equipment, there’s going to be conflict. Alternatively, the players can attempt to communicate and negotiate with the aliens, but that’s always a tense and uncertain prospect. If negotiations turn south chances are the players will initially fare well against the planet’s inhabitants. The Xorakians have some technology, but aren’t as well-equipped as the spacefaring crew of the Daedalus. But, as might be expected on an entire world of aliens, the Xorakians’ strength is in numbers. If the players kill the unfriendly denizens of Xorak, the aliens will get more and more unfriendly. Each Xorakian killed moves a marker on a track which increases the frequency and number of new Xorakians who appear on the board, like ants swarming when their hill is kicked. The idea for Escape Velocity arose out of a series of discussions between Marty and I. We both grew up as lovers of games of all sorts. We have played board games, card
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games, roleplaying games, and even a few video games here and there. He lives in Seattle, Wash., but we keep in touch by phone and internet, and games are one of the main things we find to talk about to bring us closer together. Over the years, we’ve talked about several ideas for games, knocking around various rules mechanics to drive a game along. The ideas behind Escape Velocity – exploring a random environment outward from a fixed point, cooperative play and giving players a “toolbox” of skills and equipment that they use to each solve problems generated by the game – seemed fresh at the time we started discussing them. Although some games have come along that incorporate some of the
ideas we discussed, I think Escape Velocity will combine ideas that will provide deep, interactive gameplay experience. Although he’s definitely done the lion’s share of the work on Escape Velocity, I’ve personally loved the discussions we’ve had back and orth over the phone about the game, kicking around ideas and seeing the fantastic art he’s come up with. The experience has brought us closer together. I’m looking forward to playing Escape Velocity with him, and to a future of more games designed, created, and published.
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