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UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION HOLDINGS INC
Form S-8 POS
sv8pos
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 4, 2007
POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-120108
Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-67784
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Universal Compression Holdings, Inc.
incorporation or organization) 13-3989167
4444 Brittmoore Road
(Address of Principal
Executive Offices) 77041
Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. Incentive Stock Option Plan
Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. Restricted Stock Plan
Universal Compression, Inc. 401(k) Retirement and Savings Plan
Universal Compression, Inc. Employees' Supplemental Savings Plan
Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. Restricted Stock Plan For Executive Officers
Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. Directors' Stock Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Donald C. Wayne
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Exterran Holdings, Inc.
4444 Brittmoore
(Name and address of agent for service)
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES
These Post-Effective Amendments relate to the following Registration Statements of Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. (the "Registrant").
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-120108) pertaining to the registration of 1,000,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Registrant's Incentive Stock Option Plan and 1,000,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Registrant's Restricted Stock Plan.
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-99473) pertaining to the registration of 2,000,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Registrant's Incentive Stock Option Plan, 400,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Universal Compression, Inc. 401(k) Retirement and Savings Plan and 20,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Universal Compression, Inc. Employees' Supplemental Savings Plan.
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-69504) pertaining to the registration of 100,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Universal Compression, Inc. 401(k) Retirement and Savings Plan.
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-67784) pertaining to the registration of 250,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Registrant's Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 350,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Registrant's Restricted Stock Plan for Executive Officers and 15,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Registrant's Directors' Stock Plan.
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-55260) pertaining to the registration of 1,100,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock issuable under the Registrant's Incentive Stock Option Plan.
The Registration Statements referred to above are collectively referred to as the "Registration Statements"; the Plans referred to above are collectively referred to as the "Plans."
On August 20, 2007, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 5, 2007, as amended on June 25, 2007 (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among the Registrant, Exterran Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Iliad Holdings, Inc.) ("Exterran"), Hanover Compressor Company, Ulysses Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Exterran, and Hector Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Exterran, Ulysses Sub, Inc. merged with and into the Registrant. As a result of this merger, the Registrant became a wholly owned subsidiary of Exterran. As provided in the Merger Agreement, each issued and outstanding share of the Registrant's common stock was automatically converted into the right to receive one share of Exterran common stock. The Registrant subsequently merged with and into Exterran, with Exterran surviving that merger.
In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statements to remove by means of a post-effective amendment any shares of the Registrant's common stock that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby deregisters any and all shares of common stock originally reserved for issuance under the Plans and registered under the Registration Statements listed above that remain unissued at the effective time of the mergers contemplated by the Merger Agreement.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that all the requirements for filing on Form S-8 are met and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statements on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized, in Houston, Texas on the 4th day of September 2007.
By: /s/ Donald C. Wayne
(successor to Universal Compression Holdings, Inc.)


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Tonight I started my most recent post on a different subject, but as I was writing it, my husband said that there was someone knocking on the door. When he opened the front door, there stood one of my daughter Jennifer's dearest friends.
I haven't seen or spoken with Bryant in a very, very long time. Not just in the time period since her passing, but for quite a while longer than that. He lives in Los Angeles now, and I think he has for some time.
Anyways, he had sent me a message through my Facebook account, asking if we were home right now. I was getting ready to eat dinner first, and then I planned on responding to his message.
Before I could do so, he took the chance that we might be home, and stopped by. He told me that he was here in town for the holidays, and was supposed to go back home yesterday, but couldn't leave without stopping by in person, to pay his respects. Such a beautiful, simple thing, that he took the time to do this in person.
It was a truly beautiful experience. And after we shared some memories, he asked if it would be ok for him to go into her room, to pray for her, and also for us. Then he asked one more favor…could he touch her urn, which I said was fine. He reverently touched her urn, said something quietly to her, and then lovingly kissed it.
It was so very beautiful that I had to share this. Thank you Bryant!


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package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/micro/go-micro/client"
	"github.com/micro/go-micro/cmd"
	"github.com/micro/examples/server/handler"
	proto "github.com/micro/examples/server/proto/example"
	"github.com/micro/go-micro/registry"
	"github.com/micro/go-micro/server"

	"github.com/micro/go-os/trace"
	"golang.org/x/net/context"
)

type Ping struct{}

func (p *Ping) Pong(ctx context.Context, req *proto.Ping, rsp *proto.Pong) error {
	rq := client.NewRequest("go.micro.srv.example", "Example.Call", &proto.Request{
		Name: "John",
	})

	rp := &proto.Response{}

	// Call service
	if err := client.Call(ctx, rq, rp); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}

func main() {
	// optionally setup command line usage
	cmd.Init()

	t := trace.NewTrace()
	defer t.Close()

	srv := &registry.Service{
		Name: "go.micro.srv.example",
	}

	client.DefaultClient = client.NewClient(
		client.Wrap(
			trace.ClientWrapper(t, srv),
		),
	)

	server.DefaultServer = server.NewServer(
		server.WrapHandler(trace.HandlerWrapper(t, srv)),
	)

	// Initialise Server
	server.Init(
		server.Name("go.micro.srv.example"),
	)

	// Register Handlers
	server.Handle(
		server.NewHandler(
			new(handler.Example),
		),
	)

	server.Handle(
		server.NewHandler(
			new(Ping),
		),
	)

	// Run server
	if err := server.Run(); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

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Q: What is an AuthStateDidChangeListenerHandle? I am looking at the documentation for Firebase Auth in order to get my native iOS app's authentication to work properly. I am having some trouble logging out of my application (the signed in user is still present in the auth() instance) and I have come across this code as a possible solution to why I can't sign out, but I don't understand the purpose of fit.
What is a AuthStateDidChangeListenerHandle? Is it to help you pass the user among different view controllers or is it to sign the user out?

handle = Auth.auth().addStateDidChangeListener { (auth, user) in
  // ...
}

Auth.auth().removeStateDidChangeListener(handle!)

A: When you attach a handler with Auth.auth().addStateDidChangeHandler your completion handler will get called whenever the user's authentication state changes.
The most common case of this is when the application starts. Authenticating the user requires that the Firebase SDK calls to the Firebase servers to validate the user's credentials. This may take some time, so instead of blocking your application code (which would lead to a bad user experience), your code is allowed to continue, and Firebase handles this client-to-server call in the background. Then when the call completes it calls your auth state handler with the update authentication state for the user.
You can always call Auth.auth().currentUser to get the current authentication state of the user. But if you do this at application startup, the call to the server likely hasn't completed yet, and you'll get nil back, since there isn't an authenticated user. This may be exactly what you want (for example: to display the authentication state), but sometimes you'll actually want to wait until the authentication has completed (for example: if you want to navigate to a different screen where you allow the user to enter their credentials). In the latter case you'll want to use Auth.auth().addStateDidChangeHandler to wait for the authentication to complete, to ensure you only navigate to the next screen once you're sure the state is up to date.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Democrat running for U.S. Senate tells Villagers about his plan to save Social Security
By David Towns
U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Murphy was the keynote speaker at Saturday's Democratic club meeting at Colony Cottage recreation Center. The two-term Congressman, who is now running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Marco Rubio, outlined what he believes to be the two most important challenges facing Americans today.
The first challenge Murphy addressed was income inequality which combined with income insecurity is responsible for much of the difficulties facing Americans. He indicated he would address those issues by stressing improving educational opportunities for Americans to give them the tools to advance economically. He also indicated that he would support spending on infrastructure, including transportation, and other public works suggest replacing antiquated schools.
Lauren Werman, Joe Flynn and Patrick Murphy, from left.
Murphy also believes that it is necessary to bring corporate offshore profits back to the United States so that they can be fairly taxed. He would also support the right of workers to organize as well as support increasing the minimum-wage to $15 per hour. Murphy went on to point out that had the minimum wage been indexed to the rate of inflation it would be $23 per hour today.
As a native of Key Largo, Murphy indicated that he is acutely aware of the impact of climate change on South Florida. He went on to point out that parts of Miami are regularly flooding during high tides. As this climate change increases it will have a detrimental impact on Florida's economy and therefore it must also be a priority for all elected Florida officeholders.
Murphy indicated that he would strengthen the Social Security system by raising the cap on earned income subject to tax. He indicated that single move would make Social Security solvent for the next 30-plus years. He also would be in favor of including medical expenses such as drug prescriptions in the calculations to determine cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients.
Murphy took questions from the audience. One man asked why Murphy had changed from being a registered Republican to a Democrat. Murphy indicated that the decision to invade Iraq and the rise of the Tea Party movement made him question why he could remain as a Republican. He decided to change party affiliation and run against Allen West for Congress. West had been a darling of the Tea Party. Even though Murphy was outspent 5-to-1, he managed to defeat West in 2012.
Murphy emphasized that the Middle East problems stem from deep-seated cultural and religious differences between the different populations vying for power. He favors engaging our allies in the middle east to find a political solution to the problems facing the area. He would continue to use special forces along with our allies armed forces to confront ISIS.
Sharron Chiodo and Diane Davisson were greeting those arriving for Saturday meeting at Colony Cottage Recreation Center.
In other business a new slate of officers was nominated to head the Democratic Club. They include Lynn Margolis as president, Roger Novak and Chris Staley as vice pPresidents, Jackie Davis as secretary and Paul Hausner as treasurer. Elections of officers will be at the February meeting.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Travis-CI had some staffers connect to the wrong database and truncate production tables. Needless to say this caused an outage and disrupted their business. Hopefully they didn't lose too many customers, but they certainly did not help their reputation. I'm sure there are more than a few customers trying to decide if they continue to trust the company or move their Continuous Integration (CI) processes to another platform.
I've done this before. Not shut down a company, but I have actually truncated a production table by mistake. Well, not TRUNCATE, I mean, who runs that. But I have run a DELETE without a WHERE clause and killed a lookup table in a production database. Fortunately I had a copy of the table elsewhere and could rebuild it in minutes. Only a few customers had their work interrupted and only for a portion of our system. The point is that I've been a very good DBA, with a lot of success and experience, and I still make mistakes.
Often this type of mistakes comes about because we get busy, and we keep connections open to different systems. When we might be developing code against a schema that is close to production, it's easy to forget which database we're working on. Someone calls with a problem or we fight a fire, and we run some code. We fix the issue, stress bleeds away and we go back to work, but forget to switch connections or tabs. Then we run some code that would be fine in development, but causes issues in production.
SSMS has colors for a connection. SQL Prompt has tab coloring by system and database, as do some other products., which can help, but it isn't perfect. One thing I've found with colors is that if I use them constantly, my mind starts to filter out the color. I don't always realize the outline of the tab is a different color. This is especially true if I have the need to switch back and forth between both production and non-production systems. I've tried running two instances of SSMS, which helps, but at times I'll forget which one I'm working with and make a connection to a production server from a non-production instance of SSMS.
Ultimately, we need to be careful. I know one friend that has no access to production and must hop through an RDP session and connect to a production database. However, if you run your RDP session in full screen, how often would you forget that you're in the SSMS on the hop system and not in SSMS on your local machine.
I don't know if there's a good solution. Many of the convenience features that make life easier, like reconnecting tabs when I restart SSMS are great, however, they can compromise security and safety. I don't know if there is a good solution, but I'd certainly like more checks against ad hoc issues occurring in production systems. Maybe some sort of lock against certain instances that prevents destructive execution on certain instances or databases without some confirmation. I love SQL Prompt preventing me from running code without WHERE clauses, but that isn't always enough. At least not for me.
Can't even say how many times this bit me back in the day. The color-coding was a great idea when it was introduced, but it never changed when you changed connections. That definitely led me to run queries against Prod thinking that it was a Dev instance because the color never changed.
SSMS Toolspack remedied that and added more functionality as well. The query history function alone made a huge difference to me as I spent a good portion of my time writing ad-hoc queries. Many of them were similar, but different enough where trying to save any given one would have led to a lot of scripts to manage.
The color coding has apparently been fixed in later versions of SSMS, but I'll admit to still being wary and even tweaking my layout so the server name/db are more prominent.
Yeah, there are issues with some tools. I like how Prompt matches an instance/db and color codes that. I'm sure SSMS Toolpack works well as Mladen would be careful here. The main concern I have is that nothing is foolproof. It's not that we aren't careful, but we get busy, or stressed, and it's easy to make a mistake. Having things run through a pipeline is ultimately the best solution I know of.
I pretty much agree about pipelines – just harder to do that when you have a lot of ad-hoc queries to run for updates and such. Mladen's product was out before Red-Gate added this to SQL Prompt and I'll admit I don't use it quite as much now w/ the easier options in Red-Gate, but it was _really_ helpful when it first came out. All of my "Prod" connections were some variation of red, while the other major environments got some gentler color coding.
I didn't hit the "run against wrong environment" often, but with the colors not changing when you changed connections it was a lot easier to miss that I was on the wrong server if I counted on the colors to tell me that. I was a bit more cautious before that feature, but still would miss the connection details from time to time.
I think the idea is that you move updates to the app or you set them in a separate pipeline that can be approved to run quickly. That gives you audits and ensures you don't run dev stuff in the wrong environment.


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Going Beneath The Surface: How Leaders Can Strategically Use Assessments To Facilitate Employee And Team Growth
12 Biz Dev Leaders Discuss The Benefits Of Working With PR Agencies
Six Reasons Why Companies Will Continue To Collaborate With PR Firms
New To Coaching? Here Are 14 Things Seasoned Experts Think You Should Know
How To Increase The Visibility Of Your Marketing Team
4 Ways To Set Yourself Up For Success In 2023
How To Structure A Marketing Team For SaaS: 5 Time-Tested Approaches
Improving The Customer Waiting Experience With Transparent Communication
Three Benefits Of Applying Nonconscious Research To Your Marketing Strategy
Elizabeth Edwards
Forbes Agency Council
Elizabeth Edwards is founder & president of Volume & 11th Octave - integrated communication based on the science of human behavior.
Jul 25, 2018, 07:15am EDT |
In today's hyper-connected environment, we're swimming in brand messaging at every turn. Consequently, our minds are discovering ways to tune it all out. This creates an increasingly urgent need for anyone in communications to understand the minds of the customers and markets they serve.
Historically, brand communication has been considered an art, with little science to back up general assumptions. Marketers have relied on past experience and even intuition to understand customers' preferences, and research methods have been limited to those dating back more than 80 years, such as surveys and focus groups. But as the price of medical imaging technology decreases, more researchers and marketers are using it for modern research, which shows that a great deal of decision-making occurs apart from conscious awareness and is influenced by factors unknown to the decision maker.
As the founder of two communications agencies based on the science of human behavior, I've seen how effective this nonconscious research can be when communicating with customers. In this article, I'll set the foundation for why this type of research is important and what it's capable of.
Understanding Nonconscious Research
Behavior research is helping us better understand ourselves as well as evolving consumer behavior patterns. And it's not unusual for us to measure an increase in returns of more than four times with this science.
Fascinating neuroscience research continues to tell us how our brains work and provide accurate cues that can help us map communication approaches to ensure brand goals are exceeded. For example:
It can help navigate product changes.
Our subconscious has a way of influencing our thoughts, actions and behaviors in a way we can't tap into on a conscious level. While focus groups and surveys can certainly help understand what consumers are looking for on a basic level, many times, the answers are skewed by what people think they want versus what actually influences them.
Nonconscious research has the ability to tap into consumers' innate motivators. For example, as part of a major redesign of labels and in-store signage, Campbell Soup Company commissioned Merchant Mechanics, a nonconscious research firm, to study consumer reactions. By measuring brain activity, eye tracking and more, the research studied everything from pictures of bowls of soup to logo design.
While the research yielded a lot of insights, one takeaway was that consumers were more positively tuned in to soup labels that pictured a bowl of soup with steam rising from it. They also discovered that showing a variety of different types of bowls and spoons on shelf signage brought an increase in positive consumer sentiment and attention and led to more brand purchases. It's no surprise then that Campbell's applied this information to their branding efforts, tapping into an emotional component that customers may not even be able to explain themselves.
It can help communicate with consumers more effectively.
Understanding how people think -- about themselves and the world -- is a huge advantage for brands. These fundamental understandings can help marketers pinpoint how to approach their target audiences.
As a marketer, you're probably familiar with the contemporary practice of using only buyer personas to help identify target audiences and predict behavior. However, according to research on "fixed" and "fluid" mindsets, using buyer personas alone has recently come under scrutiny.
According to science, every human being among a persona has both a fixed and fluid mindset residing within their brain on different issues. For context, someone with a fixed mindset believes that certain basic qualities, such as intelligence or talent level, are static and unchangeable. A fluid mindset believes these basic qualities can be strengthened and developed.
Science says to stop wasting your time convincing audiences whose mindsets are fixed. Instead, identify where change can occur (where their fluid mindset exists) and use that to gain their attention and build from that common ground.
For example, let's look at AI marketing. There are many people with a degree of a fixed mindset who are concerned that the potential negatives of AI may outweigh its benefits. For an AI brand to successfully engage personas with varying degrees of this mindset, messages should at first be limited to the basic topics where you and your audience's minds align.
Let's say one benefit of your AI is that it leads to saving water. Rather than telling your fixed mindset audiences about the awesomeness of how your technology works, limit yourself to the mutual benefit you both care about. Concentrate communication on those areas alone. Review your brand from the outside looking in. Does your marketing and PR position you as an uber-technological AI company, or is your overall brand presentation being done in a way that will engage the maximum range of mindsets?
Without setting a strategy for the fixed and fluid mindsets for each persona, communication efforts are likely to not achieve the desired effect because of the backfire effect, which tells us that evidence against an entrenched belief is not only not going to sway our opinions, it will entrench them even deeper.
It can help develop brand messaging.
Marketing is rooted in psychology, and a big part of crafting your brand messaging has to do with understanding your target consumers' behaviors and habits: What motivates them to buy? What grabs their attention? And how can you position your brand in a way that not only stays true to your brand voice and mission but also creates brand trust?
By understanding the human condition on a deeper level, marketers can gain more solid ground on how to best communicate with their audience. For example, in a study intended to identify how "fake news" is perceived by citizens of varying political stripes, Protobrand found that fake news is increasingly becoming a misnomer -- more people use it to describe news with which they disagree, rather than news that fails to follow journalistic standards.
This observation confirms even further the power of the backfire effect. Understanding this tendency enables us to develop a strategy for speaking with audiences about topics where there are likely to have fixed mindsets against the subject.
It is time to reevaluate what you once knew about marketing, communication and public relations. The key to the future is in precision campaigns designed with the use of behavioral science and neuroscience to create a competitive advantage. Those who ignore this opportunity will, over the coming years, find themselves struggling to compete.
There is more to know about your customers and about ourselves. And the keys to that knowledge lie within the research and findings from those learning about us from the inside-out.
Forbes Agency Council is an invitation-only community for executives in successful public relations, media strategy, creative and advertising agencies. Do I qualify?


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Q: How do I make this MIPS program run? Ok, so I have this program, but I have no idea how to make it run well.
I have a bidimensional array that is stored as an unidimensional array. I chose to read it column by column instead of line by line. I have to take the maximum number out of every column and add it to a sum and then print the sum. Instead of 14 it prints 0.
.data
array: .word 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 4, 6, 8
n: .word 3
m: .word 3
s: .word 0
i: .word 0
max: .word 0
nr: .word 0

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main:
  li $a0, 0
  lw $t2, n
  lw $t3, m
  mul $t1,$t2,$t3
  lw $t4, max
  lw $t6, s
  lw $t0, i
  lw $t7, nr

  pas1:
  bge $t0, $t1, end
  lw $t5, array($t0)
  blt $t4, $t5, pas2
  j pas3

  pas2:
  move $t4, $t5
  addi $t7, $t7, 4

  pas3:
  beq $t7, $t2, pas4
  addi $t0, $t0, 4
  j pas1

  pas4:
  add $t6, $t6, $t4
  li $t4, 0
  li $t7, 0
  addi $t0, $t0, 4
  j pas1

  end:
  li $v0, 1
  la $a0, ($t6)
  syscall

  li $v0,10
  syscall


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was originally a wheelwright and joinery business started around 1912 by James Wetherell (Great Uncle of the current owner).
At that time, when a death occurred in the village the local joiner would make the coffin and carry out the funeral.
John Eric Severs, nephew of James Wetherell, came to Little Hale as a fourteen year old apprentice in 1935.
After the death of his Uncle, Eric continued the business concentrating more on the funeral side of the business due to an increase in the number of services he was asked to undertake. Eric's son, John, joined the business in 1983, taking over the running of it in 1986.
He is one of only a few traditional funeral directors locally who are skilled at making a coffin from scratch.
John married Emma in 1988 and they have successfully run the business together ever since, with a new office and Chapel of Rest
being built in recent years.
J.E. Severs Funeral Service Ltd prides itself on looking after families and doing all they can to help ease the stress
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Wise Central rally comes up short against Va. High
JOHNNY WILSON Sports Correspondent • Sep 13, 2018 at 10:41 PM
BRISTOL, Va. — Wise Central fought valiantly after a frightful start, but Virginia High simply had too much for the Warriors in a VHSL 2A non-district football game Thursday night at Gene Malcolm Stadium.
Jamie Lathrop threw three touchdown passes and Virginia High spread the wealth offensively as the Bearcats came away with a 41-27 victory.
Virginia High led 27-7 at halftime and then held on for dear life after Wise Central drew within a touchdown with less than two minutes to play.
"At any time we're playing six freshmen and three sophomores. Gosh, we grew up a bunch tonight," said Wise Central coach Luke Owens. "Too many missed opportunities in the first half and that pick six — or this is a different ballgame."
BLAZING START
Virginia High (3-1) needed just five plays to score twice within the first five minutes. With Lathrop hitting Hunter Wright on a 35-yard scoring toss and then connecting with Austin Davidson on an 8-yard strike, the Bearcats led 13-0 before Wise Central (1-2) could record a first down.
Lathrop completed his first 10 passes and finished with a 12-of-16 effort for 156 yards and the three scores.
"Their quarterback did a great job," Owens said.
The senior's other TD pass went to Wright, a 12-yard hookup that made it a 20-7 game early in the second quarter.
BIG PLAY
Davidson turned in the biggest play of the game late in the second quarter, picking off an Isaiah McAmis pass and running 75 yards to the end zone. The impact play provided the Bearcats with their 20-point halftime advantage.
"We played well in spurts," Virginia High coach Michael Crist said. "Tremendous at times and not so tremendous at other times. It's on me to get these kids to give us a full 48 minutes."
WARRIORS RALLY
Wise Central still trailed 27-7 early in the fourth quarter when the Warriors made a charge, only to come up just shy.
McAmis scored on a short run and C.J. Crabtree added his second TD plunge of the night to cut the Bearcats' lead to 34-20.
The Warriors then recovered an onside kick, leading to a 20-yard touchdown pass from McAmis to Ethan Mullins with 1:50 remaining.
A second onside kick didn't work out, however, and Virginia High tacked on a clinching touchdown when Stevie Thomas ran it in from the 26 in the final minute.
Thomas, who also scored on a 7-yard run early in the fourth, led all ball carriers with 137 yards.
"He has a chance to be special," Crist said of his speedy freshman.


Whether you've just bought a boat or you're unhappy with your current boat insurance policy, there are many aspects of boat insurance that you're probably unaware of. There are some excellent boat insurance policies out there that offer great coverage for reasonable prices. But there are also some very lousy boat insurance policies that are very limited. Before you shop around for boat insurance, there's a few things you need to know about what to look for in a boat insurance policy. Here's a list of the key points you need to be aware of.
Exclusive boat insurance policies are 9 times out of 10 better than any boat insurance policy that is attached onto a homeowners policy. This one is by far the most important. Although there are some exceptions, most homeowners policies that allow boat insurance endorsements or attachments generally provide lousy coverage. To learn more about this, see my article: 10 Ways to tell a Good Boat Insurance Policy from a Bad one.
Although boat insurance coverage is very similar to the coverages offered on an auto insurance policy, the way these coverages are priced are very different. Understand that the risk of you filing a claim on a boat is far less than it is of you filing a claim for auto insurance. Because of that, rates for the same types of coverage are going to be much lower for boat insurance than for auto insurance. One of the biggest mistakes you can make when buying boat insurance is using the same mentality as you would if you were shopping for auto insurance. Take the time to get a good look at the coverages offered and also look at the higher increments of coverage, as their most likely going to be far less costly than you might have anticipated.
Trailer coverage. Any good boat insurance policy should also offer decent coverage for the trailer. But the fact is, many boat insurance companies offer lousy coverage on the trailer, or no coverage at all. Coverage on trailers are generally very inexpensive. So pay attention to the price versus the value you have in the trailer. Because in most cases it's going to be fairly cheap to insure it also.
Contents coverage. A good boat insurance policy will offer coverage on contents. Some policies will even offer free coverage up to a certain amount, and give you the option to purchase more if you wish. This includes things such as fishing equipment, navigation equipment, stereo equipment, or just generally tricking your boat out. If you have spent a good deal of money for things like this, it only makes sense to insure it.
Liability coverage. Again going back to my point of comparing boat insurance to auto insurance liability coverage.... boat insurance is inexpensive in comparison. So always at least take a peek at the next highest levels of coverage. You may be amazed at how much little extra it costs. But another key point that a good boat insurance policy should have is coverage for fuel spillage and clean up. This has become a big problem for some boaters. If you're at fault in a boating accident and there's a fuel leakage, you will most likely be held responsible for those costs. Many boat insurance policies will not cover it. The same thing also goes for debris removal. You may be held responsible but yet your policy may not cover it. Both are a must-have for any liability part of a boat insurance policy. Make sure you have it!
For new boats, a good boat insurance policy will offer some sort of gap insurance or total loss protection coverage. Boats are just like automobiles in that they depreciate very quickly. In fact, the first year a boat usually depreciates around 10%. And if gap or total loss insurance offers coverage beyond one year, the boat will continue to depreciate about 6 to 8% a year for the next several years. Because of this, if you were to have a total loss, there's a very good chance you could become upside down on your loan if you financed a brand-new boat. Gap insurance and total loss coverage is one of the few areas where it's exactly like auto insurance in that it's a no-brainer to have if your motor vehicle is new enough to qualify for it.
whether or not towing coverage applies in the event that your boat breaks down or if it only applies when there's been an accident?
do you pay up front for the towing and get reimbursed later vs. being covered on the spot?
the maximum dollar amount the coverage offers.
Summary: The difference between one boat insurance policy to the next can be drastically different. Be sure to find out exactly what coverage you're getting. And always check to see how much higher levels of different coverages will cost (in many cases, it's next to nothing).
Have fun. Be safe, and enjoy this year's boat season!