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Actor Tom Arnold, who helps stage recoveries for addicted celebrities, says he approached one of Charlie Sheen's close friends about getting help for the star. "I went to a person close to him and said, 'This guy is in serious trouble with serious drugs. We've got to help him,' " Mr. Arnold tells The New York Times. "And this person flat-out told me to my face, 'We make a lot of money from him. I can't be part of it.' That tells you everything you need to know." After two years of trying to convince Sheen to seek help, CBS finally shut down production of Two and a Half Men after the star reneged on an agreement to enter rehab. One source says Sheen used his money-making power to keep any kind of morals provision out of his CBS contract that would allow him to be fired or replaced for bad behavior.
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Army officials have said officers can expect to remain in their current rank longer going forward as the service branch begins to restructure with the ending of American combat operations in Afghanistan and a drawing down of forces.
The previous active commissioned service needed move from first lieutenant to captain -- which includes the group of about 6,000 1st lieutenants recommended for captain by selection boards that met in April -- was 42 months, according to a report in Army Times.
That time will return to 48 months, as it was before the Army grew following the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. As the Army grew, it shortened the wait time in order to meet a demand for captains and majors.
The Army is now going in reverse.
The Army, which had an authorized end strength of 562,000 in 2012, expects to be down to 520,000 by the end of the current fiscal year and to 490,000 by 2017, according to figures released by the Pentagon.
That change shortened the pin-on time to major from 11 years to 9 ½ years for an officer moving through the ranks at the same rate as his or her year group peers, the paper said. That wait time is also expected to shift back.
The April selection boards recommended promotions for the Army Competitive Category, Nurse Corps, Medical Service Corps and Medical Specialist Corps.
Maj. Gen. Richard P. Mustion, commander of Human Resources Command, told the paper that the extra six months that officers can expect to serve as first lieutenants "will provide [them] more time for professional development, experience and depth from assignment opportunities prior to promotion."
Mustion is currently visiting bases to talk about the changes in promotion changes, Army Human Resou4rces Command spokesman Roy Gall said on Friday.
In addition to longer time-in-grade, the Army has also altered the process for recommending officers for promotion.
A new Officer Evaluation Report that went into effect last December is designed to make sure officers are evaluated in line with the leadership attributes and competences of current doctrine and on the correct scale, Mustion said in January.
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ATHENS - A group of southeastern Ohio partners is collaborating to fight the illegal dumping of tires, mattresses and other household junk. It's a new approach to an old problem. And although it might be too soon to assess how well the fight is going, the cooperating participants are hopeful.
ATHENS � A group of southeastern Ohio partners is collaborating to fight the illegal dumping of tires, mattresses and other household junk.
It�s a new approach to an old problem. And although it might be too soon to assess how well the fight is going, the cooperating participants are hopeful.
�It�s a whole continuing effort,� said detective Douglas Crites of the Athens County sheriff�s office. �Everybody works together on it.�
Separate but interlacing efforts have come together in the past several years to form the collaboration.
Crites has been the sheriff�s designated environmental officer for about a year, assigned to find and clean up illegal dump sites. There are plenty. Crites finds new ones all the time, as well as recurring piles of trash at sites he had cleaned up using local prisoner work crews.
Crites works closely with the Athens City-County Health Department, regularly patrolling with public-health sanitarian Mike Cooper. Their work connects with efforts by the nonprofit organization Rural Action, the Wayne National Forest, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and others to identify and clean up illegal dump sites.
Rural Action, which works to improve life in Appalachian Ohio, has identified and mapped more than 100 illegal dump sites in the Sunday Creek and Monday Creek watersheds as part of its work to clean up streams tainted by acidic mine drainage. The watersheds cover parts of Athens, Hocking, Perry and Morgan counties.
The organization now is working to expand the map and make it interactive so it can be easily updated when spotters locate more illegal dumps.
An Ohio University student who serves on an anti-dumping working group that Rural Action established is developing a smartphone-friendly form that Crites and others could use in the field to immediately report the locations of newly discovered dumps. Rural Action also has used grant funding to erect anti-dumping billboards in Athens and Hocking counties that provide phone numbers of the county sheriffs for people to report dump sites. Radio ads are planned.
The partners also have collaborated on rounding up volunteers for organized cleanups.
Collaboration is important in impoverished southeastern Ohio, participants said.
�We�re fighting this war with the equivalent of bearskins and stone knives because we don�t have a lot of financial resources,� Cooper said. �We�ve all got something to contribute.�
There has been progress. The number of large illegal dump sites has declined in the past several years, thanks to detection and cleanup efforts, and the focus now is more on cleaning up smaller dumps, Cooper said.
Dump sites are strewn on state and federal park land and on private land, including people�s backyards.
Dumping or burning old furniture, tires, televisions and washers is a tradition that extends back through generations of families, said Crites, 52, who recalled that when he was a boy in rural Athens County, his chore was to incinerate the trash in the family�s burn barrel.
Hiring a trash hauler (Crites pays about $25 monthly at his house) and paying landfill fees (they range from $40 to $60 per pickup-truck load, Crites estimated) are costs that some people either cannot afford or don�t want to pay � the latter group including landlords cleaning out rental housing and dishonest roofers dumping shingles, Crites said.
The regional topography, including secluded hollows, stream banks and old mine entrances, lends itself to covert dumping. The dumps pose a hazard to public health and the environment. Standing water in tires � the most commonly discarded item � provides a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
�See how isolated it is?� Crites said as he prowled for dumps through thick woods and undergrowth last week. �You could dump a dead body up here and it would take days to find, it�s so isolated.�
Illegal dumping is generally a misdemeanor. It�s a felony if tires are involved.
Crites estimated that he pursues charges in court only 10 times a year because illegal-dumping cases are hard to prove.
Crites and Cooper prefer working with property owners to clean up sites, including persuading them to take their old tires to collection drives. One resident once brought in 200 scrap tires that had accumulated on his land.
Crites said he thinks the solution lies in education, in both elementary-school classrooms and in town-hall meetings he plans to convene in townships around the county.
�We�ve got to change a whole mindset of years of, �This is what we�ve always done; we�ve always thrown our stuff over the hill.� I think I can see progress.�


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2017 Hawaii School Empowerment Conference opening remarks, keynote speaker presentations and breakout sessions can now be viewed as YouTube videos:
GOVERNOR DAVID IGE: Welcome & The Future of Education for Hawaii
HAWAII BOARD OF EDUCATION CHAIRMAN LANCE MIZUMOTO: On Empowerment, Innovation & New Vision for Hawaii Department of Education
EIH PRESIDENT ROBERTA MAYOR & VICE PRESIDENT RAY L'HEUREUX: Welcome & Opening Remarks
KEYNOTE: TONY WAGNER: Creating Innovators
SANDRA HERBST: Keeping Students as the Center
Empowering Learning Communities Through Culturally Relevant Assessments
Waikiki Elementary: Creating, Imagining and Innovating for Student Success
New School Innovation Grants: A Focus Group with Governor Ige
Waipahu High School: A Model for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Kaimiloa Elemetnary: Visible Learning -- Creating a Community of Innovators
Hana High & Elementary: Neccessity is the Mother of Invention -- A Small School's Journey to Self-Empowerment
Mililani Waena: Fostering "Least Restrictive Environment" Leadership
The Kumu Hina Project: A Place in the Middle -- Hawaiian Perspective on Diversity & Inclusion
A Bold New Vision for Public Education in Hawaii
Research Partnerships for Community Empowerment & Innovation
Parents for Public Schools Hawaii: Supporting Family Engagement in School Policies & Practices
The 3nd Annual Hawaii School Empowerment Conference, "Leading, Teaching, and Learning in the Age of Innovation", was held on Saturday, January 20, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Hawaii Convention Center.
Opening welcome messages were delivered by Governor David Ige and Board of Education Chairperson, Lance Mizumoto.
Featured keynote speakers include:
Tony Wagner – "Creating Innovators"
Sandra Herbst – "Keeping Students as the Center"
There will also be breakout sessions throughout the day for discussion of public education in Hawaii.
Tony Wagner, currently serves as an Expert In Residence at Harvard University's new Innovation Lab and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute, founded by Linda Darling-Hammond in 2015. Prior to these appointments, Tony was the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, and the founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than a decade. His previous work experience includes twelve years as a high school teacher, K-8 principal, university professor in teacher education, and founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility.
Sandra Herbst, is a noted system leader author, speaker, and consultant with over 20 years of experience in education. Sandra has facilitated professional learning in schools, districts, and organizations across North America in the areas of leadership, curriculum development, instruction, assessments, and evaluation.
About the Education Institute of Hawaii: What We Want to Accomplish
The Education Institute of Hawaii seeks to transform public education through school empowerment.
An empowered school is one with a visionary leader who encourages creativity, collaboration and risk-taking to achieve common goals. With empowerment comes accountability and responsibility for student success.
We want empowered principals and teachers in creative, collaborative, innovative schools where students thrive and excel, and common goals are achieved.
EIH is a catalyst for school transformation. The current top-down, one size fits all system of public education is broken. We believe that each school community should have the power, resources and responsibility to ensure that students thrive.
We want to transform the philosophy and approach to leadership at every level in the public school system.
EIH believes that lasting change in public education comes only when schools and communities together take full ownership for creating excellence in teaching and learning.
EIH believes that it is important to put student assessment in the proper perspective.
EIH believe in more transparency in education.
Conference Sponsorship: This 3rd Annual School Empowerment Conference is presented by the Education Institute of Hawaii (HEI) in partnership with the Hawaii Center for Instructional Leadership. The conference is made possible by a generous grant from the Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation.
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Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was born and lived most of his life in Philadelphia. He was the first child of Caroline Cowperthwait Eakins, a woman of English and Dutch descent, and Benjamin Eakins, a writing master and calligraphy teacher of Scots-Irish ancestry. Benjamin Eakins grew up on a farm in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the son of a weaver. He was successful in his chosen profession, and moved to Philadelphia in the early 1840s to raise his family. Thomas Eakins observed his father at work and by twelve demonstrated skill in precise line drawing, perspective, and the use of a grid to lay out a careful design, skills he later applied to his art.
He was an athletic child who enjoyed rowing, ice skating, swimming, wrestling, sailing, and gymnastics-activities he later painted and encouraged in his students. Eakins attended Central High School, the premier public school for applied science and arts in the city, where he excelled in mechanical drawing. He studied drawing and anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts beginning in 1861, and attended courses in anatomy and dissection at Jefferson Medical College from 1864-65. For a while, he followed his father's profession and was listed in city directories as a "writing teacher". His scientific interest in the human body led him to consider becoming a surgeon. Eakins then studied art in Europe from 1866 to 1870, notably in Paris with Jean-Leon Gerome, being only the second American pupil of the French realist painter famous as a master of Orientalism. He also attended the atelier of Leon Bonnat, a realist painter who emphasized anatomical preciseness, a method adapted by Eakins. While studying at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he seems to have taken scant interest in the new Impressionist movement, nor was he impressed by what he perceived as the classical pretensions of the French Academy. A letter home to his father in 1868 made his aesthetic clear:
"She [the female nude] is the most beautiful thing there is in the world except a naked man, but I never yet saw a study of one exhibited ... It would be a godsend to see a fine man model painted in the studio with the bare walls, alongside of the smiling smirking goddesses of waxy complexion amidst the delicious arsenic green trees and gentle wax flowers & purling streams running melodious up & down the hills especially up. I hate affectation."
Already at age 24, "Nudity and verity were linked with an unusual closeness in his mind." Yet his desire for truthfulness was more expansive, and the letters home to Philadelphia reveal a passion for realism that included, but was not limited to, the study of the figure.
A trip to Spain for six months confirmed his admiration for the realism of artists such as Diego Velazquez and Jusepe de Ribera. In Seville in 1870 he painted Carmelita Requena, a portrait of a seven year old gypsy dancer more freely and colorfully painted than his Paris studies. That same year he attempted his first large oil painting, A Street Scene in Seville, wherein he first dealt with the complications of a scene observed outside the studio. Although he failed to matriculate and showed no works in the salons, Eakins succeeded in absorbing the techniques and methods of French and Spanish masters, and he began to formulate his artistic vision which he demonstrated in his first major painting upon his return to America. "I shall seek to achieve my broad effect from the very beginning," he declared.
Eakins's first works upon his return from Europe included a large group of rowing scenes, eleven oils and watercolors in all, of which the first and most famous is The Champion Single Sculling, known also as Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871). Both his subject and his technique drew attention. His selection of a contemporary sport was "a shock to the artistic conventionalities of the city". Eakins placed himself in the painting, in a scull behind Schmitt, his name inscribed on the boat.
Typically, the work entailed critical observation of the painting's subject, as well as preparatory drawings of the figure and perspective plans of the scull in the water. Its preparation and composition indicates the importance of Eakins' academic training in Paris. It was a completely original conception, true to Eakins' firsthand experience, and an almost startlingly successful image for the artist, who had struggled with his first outdoor composition less than a year before. His first known sale was the watercolor 'The Sculler' (1874). Most critics judged the rowing pictures successful and auspicious, but after the initial flourish, Eakins never revisited the subject of rowing and went on to other sports themes.
At the same time that he made these initial ventures into outdoor themes, Eakins produced a series of domestic Victorian interiors, often with his father, his sisters or friends as the subjects. 'Home Scene' (1871), 'Elizabeth at the Piano' (1875), 'The Chess Players' (1876) , and 'Elizabeth Crowell and her Dog' (1874), each dark in tonality, focus on the unsentimental characterization of individuals adopting natural attitudes in their homes. It was in this vein that in 1872 he painted his first large scale portrait, 'Kathrin', in which the subject, Kathrin Crowell, is seen in dim light, playing with a kitten. In 1874 Eakins and Crowell became engaged, they were still engaged five years later, when Crowell died of meningitis in 1879.
"I will never have to give up painting, for even now I could paint heads good enough to make a living anywhere in America."
For Eakins, portraiture held little interest as a means of fashionable idealization or even simple verisimilitude--it provided the opportunity to reveal the character of an individual through the modeling of solid anatomical form. This meant that, notwithstanding his youthful optimism, he would never be a commercially successful portrait painter. Few commissions came his way. But his total output of some two hundred and fifty portraits is characterized by "an uncompromising search for the unique human being".
Often this search for individuality required that the subject be painted in their working environment. His Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand (1874) was a prelude to what many consider his most important work. In The Gross Clinic (1875), a renowned Philadelphia surgeon, Dr. Samuel D. Gross, is seen presiding over an operation to remove part of a diseased bone from a patient's thigh. Gross lectures in an amphitheater crowded with students at Jefferson Medical College. Eakins spent nearly a year on the painting, again choosing a novel subject, the discipline of modern surgery, in which Philadelphia was in the forefront. He initiated the project and may have had the goal of a grand work befitting a showing at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Though rejected for the Art Gallery, the painting was shown on the centennial grounds at an exhibit of a U.S. Army Post Hospital. In sharp contrast, The Chess Players was accepted by the Committee and was much admired at the Centennial Exhibition, and critically praised.
In 1876, Eakins completed a portrait of Dr. John Brinton, surgeon of the Philadelphia Hospital, and famed for his Civil War service. Done in a 'dignified', more informal setting than The Gross Clinic, it was a personal favorite of Eakins, and The Art Journal proclaimed "it is in every respect a more favorable example of this artist's abilities than his much-talked-of composition representing a dissecting room." Other outstanding examples of his portraits include The Agnew Clinic (1889), Eakins' most important commission and largest painting, which depicted another eminent American surgeon, Dr. David Hayes Agnew, performing a mastectomy, The Dean's Roll Call (1899), featuring Dr. James W. Holland, and Professor Leslie W. Miller (1901), portraits of educators standing as if addressing an audience, Frank Hamilton Cushing (ca. 1895), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuni pueblo, Professor Henry A. Rowland (1897), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field, Antiquated Music (1900), in which Mrs. William D. Frismuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments, and The Concert Singer (1890-92), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing "O rest in the Lord", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth. In order to replicate the proper deployment of a baton, Eakins enlisted an orchestra conductor to pose for the hand seen in the lower left-hand corner of the painting.
Of Eakins' later portraits, many took as their subjects women who were friends or students. Unlike most portrayals of women at the time, they are devoid of glamor and idealization. For Letitia Wilson Jordan (1888), Eakins painted the sitter wearing the same evening dress in which he had seen her at a party. She is a substantial presence, a vision quite different from the era's fashionable portraiture. So, too, his portrait of Maud Cook (1895), where the obvious beauty of the subject is noted with "a stark objectivity".
The Portrait of Miss Amelia C. Van Buren (ca. 1890), a friend and former pupil, suggests the melancholy of a complex personality, and has been called "the finest of all American portraits". Even Susan Macdowell Eakins, a strong painter and former student who married Eakins in 1884, was not sentimentalized: despite its richness of color, The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog (ca. 1884-89) is a penetratingly candid portrait.
Some of his most vivid portraits resulted from a late series done for the Catholic clergy, which included paintings of a cardinal, archbishops, bishops, and monsignors. As usual, most of the sitters were engaged at Eakins' request, and were given the portraits when Eakins had completed them. In portraits of His Eminence Sebastiano Cardinal Martinelli (1902), Archbishop William Henry Elder (1903), and Monsignor James P. Turner (ca. 1906), Eakins took advantage of the brilliant vestments of the offices to animate the compositions in a way not possible in his other male portraits.
Deeply affected by his dismissal from the Academy, Eakins's later career focused on portraiture. His steadfast insistence on his own vision of realism, in addition to his notoriety from his school scandals, combined to impact his income negatively in later years. Even as he approached these portraits with the skill of a highly trained anatomist, what is most noteworthy is the intense psychological presence of his sitters. However, it was precisely for this reason that his portraits were often rejected by the sitters or their families. As a result, Eakins came to rely on his friends and family members to model for portraits. His portrait of Walt Whitman (1887-1888) was the poet's favorite.
Eakins married Susan Hannah MacDowell, one of his students at the Academy, in 1884. She was the fifth of eight children of a Philadelphia engraver, well known in the artistic community.
She was 25 when Eakins met her at the Hazeltine Gallery where "The Gross Clinic" was being exhibited in 1875. Unlike many, she was impressed by the controversial painting and she decided to study with him at the Academy, which she attended for 6 years, adopting a sober, realistic style similar to her teacher's. She was an outstanding student and winner of the Mary Smith prize for the best painting by a matriculating woman artist.
After their marriage, she only painted sporadically and spent most of her time supporting her husband's career, entertaining guests and students, and faithfully backing him in his difficult times with the Academy, even when some members of her family aligned against Eakins.
She and Eakins both shared a passion for photography, both as photographers and subjects, and employed it as a tool for their art. She also posed nude for many of his photos and took images of him. Both had separate studios in their home.
After his death in 1916, she returned to painting, adding considerably to her output right up to the 1930s, in a style that became warmer, looser, and brighter in tone. She died in 1938. Thirty-five years after her death, in 1973, she had her first one-woman exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.


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Texans' Barwin saw a different type of life growing up in Detroit
DETROIT - For Christmas last year, Texans outside linebacker Connor Barwin wanted only one thing. He asked his mother to find him photographs of the basketball team he played with as a child in a program called REACH.
Margaret Barwin dug out and framed two photos. One photo was of Connor with his teammates - five of them black and only Connor white - sitting on the edge of the family pool. Another photo was of Connor with his hair tightly braided into cornrows. Wanting to fit in, he had begged his mother to let him get those.
"I took them out about three days later because I couldn't move my eyebrows," said Connor, still known for his wild hairdos.
He joined REACH because his youth basketball coaches saw athletic talent in a kid who was dominating in his suburban neighborhood. They all recognized the competition in Hazel Park wouldn't make him better and suggested Tom Barwin take his son, then in fourth grade, to a man named Virgil Phillips on the other side of 8 Mile Road, the dividing line in the racially segregated Detroit metro area. The basketball would challenge him athletically, and Phillips would push him.
So the elder Barwin took his son into a neighborhood where kids had to worry about how they'd eat, where kids were killed on the streets, and where playing basketball might literally have saved lives.
This year, Barwin gets to be home in Detroit for Thanksgiving thanks to the Texans' playing the Lions here Thursday. He was - and is - close with his family, but from fourth grade until high school, he developed a second family of kids whose lives were dramatically different from his.
"Where Connor comes from, they don't do it like we do it on this side of 8 Mile," Phillips said. "8 Mile divides his city from our city. I consider him a Detroiter because he's a rock throw away from Detroit. … He was unorthodox, but I think that's why his dad brought him to me."
Barwin says no team or coach he played for before or since affected his personality and his athletic ability more than the years he spent playing basketball in that blighted neighborhood Phillips was trying to change. Barwin says without it he might not have become the caliber of athlete who could play professional sports. He also says it had a profound impact on how he saw the world, contributing to his strong political views.
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"I remember first crossing into Detroit and that area and remembering how bad it was," Barwin said. "I remember walking down the hall to the gym with my dad, being the only white people in the building and everybody kind of looking and Virge just yelling, 'Hey, hey come here,' and my dad just leaving a minute later.
"And then, it was just like, 'What am I doing here?' Before I knew it, I played basketball for three hours. … I was 10 years old, 9 years old. I think just the way that they welcomed me immediately made me feel comfortable being there."
Phillips said there weren't many white kids who took part in his basketball program, and even fewer had parents who were comfortable leaving their children with him. The Barwins never had any qualms. They liked Phillips and the work he was doing, and they liked the kids he coached.
"They really welcomed anyone," said Margaret Barwin. "All you had to do was walk through the door."
"Unless you got in trouble," Tom added.
Phillips checked everybody's report card when they came to play - no report card, no basketball. He treated all the boys like he treated his two sons and wanted to make sure they were attending school.
He couldn't save everybody. Sometimes the gym would be closed because Phillips was at a funeral for one of the children, Tom said.
"I remember kids having to stay at the church overnight," Connor said. "We were so young that we didn't get involved with it, obviously. They were always talking about kids not going to school; we always had to bring our report cards in. Some kids were 10 years old, and they didn't even go to school. You could just tell kids didn't have the basic things that kids need when they showed up. Virge was trying to feed all of us because they weren't getting fed at home."
The first time Barwin saw a gun was when he slept over at the home of one of his basketball friends. They walked around Detroit together, then went back to his house where his brother sat on the porch with a pistol in his pants. The two young boys played basketball outside until midnight.
There were sleepovers at Barwin's house, too. One day he came home to find a driveway full of bikes he didn't recognize. Some of his teammates had biked three miles to the Barwins' home, snuck into the backyard and gone for a swim.
In a city known for its racial tension and segregation, Barwin's social world was unique. His mother remembers one car ride when her son told her why he had so much fun playing with REACH.
"He said, 'You know why I like it so much?' " Margaret said. " 'Because they don't treat me like I'm white. We just play.' "
As a child, Connor didn't understand what was happening in his friends' lives much. As he got older, he began to understand.
"He got to see firsthand some of the unfairness in our society," Tom said. "Most of it due to historic racism, patterns of segregation and concentrated poverty."
Connor is outspoken about his liberal political leanings. He once posted on Twitter: "If I were any further to the left they'd call me Billy Cundiff." He believes his experiences with REACH impacted his political views.
"I think it definitely did," Barwin said. "Just the way Virge brought all those kids in, I saw how important and influential he was with people. Those kids never really had a fair shot. It obviously had an affect on me and the opinions that I have now."
Lasting impression
Today, most of the windows are covered in plywood or smashed on the building that was once a Catholic church named St. Rita's.
The bricks remain intact, as do the decorative columns that once gave it a stately appearance. There is occasional graffiti on the building, sometimes an RIP in remembrance of someone. The church is beside the St. Rita's school, which is beside the convent, which is beside the gymnasium where the REACH Legends used to play.
"I had a son born at 19," Phillips said. "I said, 'Oh shoot. I gotta be doing something that he can benefit from.' My father wasn't connected. Connor has his; I didn't. I wanted to be that to my son.
"I wanted to start a youth program where I can coach kids and mentor kids and help them deal with some of the things that I had dealt with as a youngster that nobody really attended to."
Phillips worked at Chrysler, but he got laid off with a severance check. He took that money and used it to start up REACH, which stands for religion-education-athletics-character-hope. The first practice had eight kids, thrown together by word of mouth.
His wife worked to help pay their bills so he could put his income toward running the program at St. Rita's.
"The priest said, 'I'll give you a chance. If you blow it, I'll shut it down,' " Phillips said. "I had that gym for 30 years."
He only left when the church shut down and became part of the pattern of deterioration that has consumed Detroit.
Abandoned buildings are common in Detroit, a city whose population dropped 25 percent from 2000 to 2010, according to census data. Detroit is now smaller than Austin.
"Some of the blight and deterioration is still unbelievable when you're from here," said Tom, a former city manager of Detroit suburbs. "This is a slow-moving situation that's been under way for decades."
Hard times
As the city's resources dwindled over time, so did the recreational centers that would have served Detroit children.
According to city data, Detroit had 40 recreational centers at its peak, and they began closing in the early 1990s, right around the time when Tom took his son to play at St. Rita's. Now there are only 13 city-run recreational centers - about one for every 60,000 Detroiters.
"It's more important now than when I was coming up," said Jeff Haye, who is 39 and played for Phillips' REACH team as a child. Haye now has two sons of his own who play there.
"When I was coming up, we had the rec center," Haye said. "Now there's no rec centers. Now I've got my sons here mainly because Virge is family to me, but also because ain't nowhere else I can take them."
When Barwin played, there weren't many parents who watched practices. The racial makeup of Phillips' program hasn't changed, but the location has, and so has the parental involvement.
When St. Rita's closed, the program moved to a youth center a few blocks away. Six fathers, all of whom went through the program themselves, watched this week as their kids raced up and down the court.
But even when parents weren't there, Phillips created a family atmosphere. It's part of what Barwin loved so much about going.


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Welcome to the website of the Las Vegas Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity, Inc! The Las Vegas Alumni Chapter has been serving the Las Vegas community since September of 1964. We have established a rich tradition of service to our youth and community. We welcome new brothers and inactive brothers to renew your interest and "Come Home to Kappa". We invite you to learn more about our programs and hope that you will be inspired to join us in service!
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This year the Las Vegas Alumni Chapter along with UNLV's undergraduate (Theta Sigma) Chapter hosted our 6th Annual "Shop with a KAPPA" event in an effort to provide disadvantage youth in the community with Christmas presents during the holiday season. The chapter(s) raised over $10,000, which allowed 100 children to receive a $100 gift card to shop at their local Walmart store. The organizations and schools that participated this year were the Rainbow Dreams Academy, Aggassi Prep. Academy, Boys Town and the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority and the Ronald McDonald House.
The Shop with a KAPPA takes place throughout the Western Province of Kappa Alpha Psi. The event was held in several other cities such as: Anchorage/Fairbanks, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Jose/Palo Alto to name a few. This years contributions exceeded $25,000 and since we began the program we have taken in over $105,300 in donations. Please visit www.shopwithakappa.com to view pictures.
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2 28-oz cans San Marzano whole tomatoes, diced, strained
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4 cloves garlic, minced
4 shallots, finely chopped
1/2 cup white wine
1 chicken bouillon cube
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1/8 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
4 fresh basil leaves
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Freshly grated Parmesan cheese
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STUPID PIGEONS I HATE THEM!! they eat my bread, they eat my soup, they eat everything. HATE HATE HATE Stupid pigeons ruined my day. They stole my hat, they look like rats, they flew on my head and took my hat! I threw some stones at them but they flew away!
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I collect dead pigeons in my closet and they are bloody but it makes me happy to see dead pigeons!! I want all pigeons to die and I will take all the dead pigeons and hang them up in my room on the wall!! And every night before I go to sleep I will look at the dead pigeons and think that there are no more pigeons anymore!!
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Oh yeah, sometimes I go to this restaurant near my house and they serve roasted pigeon. But some dumb organization called the American Birding Association had a protest and the restaurant closed down. And now it's a Burger King!!
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On Wednesday, June 26, Cameron Esposito ended a set in her new home of Los Angeles by saying, "Thanks a lot, Supreme Court, for burning all of my material." That was the day SCOTUS handed down two decisions that are bright spots in a session that undermined other civil rights protections, repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and letting stand a lower-court ruling that California's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
But Esposito will take marriage equality over jokes any day. She's been going HAM on the dumb, mean attitudes and arguments against it. "I have gotten more honest and angrier on stage," Esposito told me in a recent e-mail, "and audiences have been angrier along with me."
Since moving to LA last fall, she's been hosting Put Your Hands Together, a weekly stand-up showcase at the UCB Theatre, featuring the likes of Jenny Slate, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Aziz Ansari (it's also available as a podcast).
And when Esposito returns to Chicago to headline at the Hideout, you can reap another reward from the deaths of DOMA and Proposition 8: a happier comic and her self-titled Freedom Fest in honor of the birthday of our nation, God bless it. Comic Rhea Butler—who also moved to LA last year—opens.


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Although the data stored on the computers affected is not in a human-readable format, it does contain names, addresses, birthdates, social security numbers, treatment records, and insurance data. All of the evidence indicates that no patient data was viewed or copied and that the hackers' sole objective was to collect a ransom from APP in order to allow us to decrypt and regain access to the files.
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Eugene Czolij is a partner. He handles cases involving the insolvency of major corporations with international implications and deals with creditors and debtors rights, corporate and commercial litigation, oppression remedies and class action suits.
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- LL.L., Université de Montréal, 1981
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Justin Goldberg
Asked in an interview what he most sought to achieve in poetry, Larry Levis once claimed, "I'm trying to stop Time."1
With its wild yet masterfully fluid leaps across dates and locales inscribed within the instant a bomb detonates, his sequence "The Perfection of Solitude" strikes me as the very fruit of these labors.
In the opening stanzas, Levis acknowledges Time's incessant drumbeat, asserting that "no one is ever at home inside a name," and "the word home // Has a bomb ticking inside it." Later, he confronts this reality, exhibiting the quality he said a poet may, at best, aspire to – "To ask something with the unbelievable honesty of a man who is about to vanish from the world"2 – when he poses the compact and baffling, "And this?":
And this? This is the most unscrupulous thing of all.
These scratchings all night,
These inquiries because you are not there, have
become, simply, you, white paper
Desiring the darkening effects of ink until, late at
night, it is black trees, White snow. A winter landscape, & the hush when I
come back to it as bitter & serene
As coffee, solitude, the first snow grazing the streets.
It is pure, the way cruelty is pure.
I swear I'd give the whole thing up for you.3
Here we witness the poet conquering the "swirl and vortex" of solitude, climbing out of himself to possess the same indifference to Time as "a winter landscape." Again and again, I'm floored by the humility, bravery, and beauty of this transfiguration: it is the moment Levis described elsewhere as being "not an escape … (but) an insistence upon human ecstasy."4 His work insists upon not merely his own, but especially our "ecstasy," which is to say, Levis does "give the whole thing up for (us)."
1. From Christopher Buckley's essay, "Elegy: Larry Levis — An Appreciation" in A Condition of the Spirit.
2. From an interview by David Wojahn in The Gazer Within.
3. "The Perfection of Solitude" in The Widening Spell of the Leaves. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.
4. From "Some Notes on the Gazer Within," in The Gazer Within.
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by Larry Levis
From The Perfection of Solitude
One of my pastimes then was savoring the casual emptiness of
names, any name,
Even the name of that stranger I said over & over in bed until her
Slipped itself from all moorings, & her body became like wind
stirring itself,
Until, free finally of its name, it would do anything.
And the next time I called her by another name, deliberately,
just to see…
And repeated the name over & over until her body belonged to no
one, to neither
One of us. It came to the same thing: without a name, the body
could be anyone's,
Open to any suggestion.
This was the petty blasphemy I flirted with, the wind gusting
over the empty tables.
I was learning how Guilt, feeding on the Body of Its Host, grows
finally wise.
Which is another way of saying it grows terrified of anything as
As Itself, & then is simply mute, the shore of a lake clouding over.
Then it is best to go home. * * *
From Beginnings, aB Intraby Justin Goldberg
I search the dark places
of dreams
to know you better,
It's far too late
to ask you what they mean,
but I touch
your bedroom door
listen for footsteps
on the hardwood floor.
The house is silent
you lie fast asleep.
Lift your head now
from the crater in the pillow
where it rests, rise and hear
what I've uncovered.
When we wake,
we will face each other
like strangers
hold our tongues
beneath the table.
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From the poem sequence "The Perfection of Solitude" from The Selected Levis, selected by David St. John. Copyright © 2000. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
From Speaking Past the Tongue selected by Henri Cole for the PSA New York Chapbook Fellowship competition. All Rights Reserved.


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