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Olymbec USA LLC has acquired 40,000 square feet of land and three small shed buildings totaling 12,000 square feet at 373 W. Brooks Road through a January auction from the Estate of George E. Smith for $50,600.
Olymbec USA is an entity of Montreal-based Olymbec Corporate Group. The family-run, private real estate investment firm entered the Memphis market in 2004 with its purchase of a 500,000-square-foot distribution center in Southaven at 8800 Rostin Road.
In February 2011, Olymbec bought the 1.1 million-square-foot Space Center portfolio at 3051-3133 Tranquility Drive from Trammel Crow Co. for $7.3 million. The land and buildings at 373 W. Brooks, at the corner of Brooks and Gemini Drive, are adjacent to the Space Center facilities.
"It was really a strategic purchase to secure more land and buildings around our Space Center," said Justin Klumak, Olymbec director of acquisitions and development. "We'll probably end up knocking them down at one point. Our plan in buying it is just to clean up the area around our main entrance to our park."
In July, Olymbec purchased a 157,000-square-foot, Class C industrial warehouse at 3615 Lamar Ave. from Miami-based loan servicer LNR Partners LLC for $1.5 million. And in October, Olymbec acquired the 219,557-square-foot Brinkley Plaza at 80 Monroe Ave. from a partnership made up of entities related to local commercial real estate groups CB Richard Ellis Memphis and Loeb Properties Inc.
The acquisition brings the firm's total Memphis portfolio to about 2.5 million square feet. Klumack said Olymbec will continue to search for chances to expand its footprint here.
"It's a market that is really attractive to us and it's a market that we're looking to be very strategic in and find the right opportunities," Klumack said.
Memphis has landed on a lot of lists over the years, some of them positive, lots of them cringe-inducing for Memphians and many of them based on seemingly arbitrary findings.
Forbes' Most Miserable Cities list is one that's particularly drawn the ire of Memphians, including Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. In 2010, when the city was given a prominent spot on the list, Wharton wrote an open letter to Forbes Inc. CEO Steve Forbes in response. "The sun shines here 230 days a year," he wrote. "Memphis is a city of joy."
Memphis has been steadily slipping down the list in the years since, and this year, apparently happiness abounds. Because Memphis, for the first time in recent memory, is not on the dreaded Forbes list of miserable cities at all.
First Tennessee Bank's treasury management services have won the bank plaudits in the 2013 Phoenix-Hecht Treasury Management Quality Index in the middle market banking segment.
The top grades were awarded by senior financial executives responsible for managing their companies' bank relationships for treasury management services in categories including customer service, product features and overall relationship manager effectiveness.
It's not the first time this year First Tennessee's treasury management services have been recognized.
Earlier this year, First Tennessee won top customer satisfaction honors from Greenwich Associates in both the national and regional categories for treasury management in the 2012 Greenwich Excellence Awards for U.S. middle market and small business banking.
Wonder bread could start appearing in school lunchboxes again soon.
A person familiar with the situation says a bid by Flowers Foods to buy Wonder and several other bread brands from bankrupt Hostess was met with no competing offers. The individual requested anonymity because the auction process is private.
Hostess hasn't been making any of its cakes and breads since late November, when the company announced it was going out of business and shuttered its plants after years of financial struggles.
One of those plants that was closed in November was the Downtown Memphis Wonder Bread plant.
More than 250 workers reportedly were affected locally.
The $360 million bid by Flowers also includes Nature's Pride, Butternut, Home Pride and Merita breads.
An auction will still be held Thursday for a separate $30 million bid by Flowers for Beefsteak. The source said a competing offer for that brand was submitted by Mexico's Grupo Bimbo, which makes Thomas' English muffins and Entenmann's cakes.
Any sales would be subject to approval by a bankruptcy court on March 19.
Hostess has also picked opening bidders, known as a "stalking horse," for its snack cakes.
A joint offer from two investment firms – Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management LLC – was picked as the lead bid for Twinkies and other snack cakes. Hostess CEO Greg Rayburn has said he expects that auction to be "wild and wooly."
McKee Foods, which makes Little Debbie snack cakes, was picked as the lead bidder for Drake's cakes, which include Devil Dogs, Funny Bones and Yodels. The deadline to submit competing offers for the snack cakes isn't until mid-March.
Flowers Foods, based in Thomasville, Ga., makes Tastykakes and breads including Nature's Own.
Representatives for Flowers Food and Grupo Bimbo did not immediately return calls for comment.
Taken together, Hostess has said its six bread brands generated just under $1 billion in sales last year, with Wonder bread accounting for about half of that.
Flowers Foods, which generates about $3 billion in annual sales, said it expects the deals to add to its earning this year. The company plans to finance the deal through a mix of cash and debt.
EdR – a Memphis-based owner, developer and manager of collegiate housing – has purchased a 10 percent interest in Elauwit Networks, a Charleston, S.C.-based provider of Internet access, high-definition video and telephone service.
While the initial investment for this minority interest was nominal for EdR, it provides a variety of potential benefits including reduced network operating costs and ancillary income.
Elauwit Networks has been in the broadband and network service business since 1989 but has shifted its primary focus to the student housing industry for the last three years. The company currently serves communities owned by American Campus Communities, Landmark Properties, Campus Crest Communities and Preiss Properties, and has forecasted student housing customer growth of 90 properties by the end of 2014.
Scott P. Casey, EdR's chief technology officer, will work with Elauwit Networks CEO Barry Rubens as a board member and as co-chairman of a newly created committee to support the partnership.
EdR is a Real Estate Investment Trust that owns or manages 67 communities in 24 states with more than 37,000 beds within more than 12,500 units.
A new exhibit called "Elvis: Live from Vegas," is opening Tuesday, March 5, at Graceland and will allow audiences to experience Las Vegas through the eyes of Elvis Presley.
The exhibit will feature part of the 30-foot marquee Col. Parker had made to stand outside the New Frontier Hotel in 1956 and the first jumpsuit worn on-stage by Elvis in 1970.
Other suits in the exhibit include Elvis' Leather and Chains suit, worn in August of 1970 during his Las Vegas engagement and prominently featured in his first concert documentary "Elvis: That's The Way It Is;" Elvis' three-piece Spanish Flower suit worn in 1972 that was an alternative to one of the jumpsuits he wore in Las Vegas; Elvis' "I Got Lucky" jumpsuit that was worn in 1970 in various cities including Las Vegas, Oakland, Tampa and Los Angeles and can be seen on the cover of the 1971 "I Got Lucky" album.
Guests will also be able to view rare artifacts including hotel receipts and show memorabilia.
Orion Federal Credit Union has partnered with the Mid-South Food Bank, donating more than $1,400 and about 600 food items to the nonprofit group.
The partnership is part of Orion's community involvement program Orion Gives Back that was launched in January 2012. Each month, Orion chooses a local nonprofit to be the focus of their giving initiative. The goal is to work with the organizations and help provide for them and their needs in any way possible while creating a long-lasting partnership.
The Mid-South Food Bank serves more than 300 charitable feeding programs in 31 Mid-South counties in West Tennessee, East Arkansas and North Mississippi.
David N. McGriff, the director of the West Tennessee Violent Crime and Drug Task Force as well as chief investigator for the Criminal Investigative Division of the Shelby County District Attorney General's office is retiring.
McGriff has 44 years of law enforcement experience. He started in Shelby County as a criminal investigator for the prosecutor's office in 1976 and in 2007 became chief criminal investigator as well as director of the task force.
Before coming to Memphis, he had been a police officer with the Washington metropolitan police department.
McGriff is also a former supervisor of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's drug task force and a deputy commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Safety.
The Tennessee House has voted to send to the governor's desk a bill to allow the state's nearly 400,000 handgun carry permit holders to store firearms in their vehicles no matter where they are parked.
The chamber voted 72-22 to pass the measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Jeremy Faison of Cosby after rejecting a series of Democratic proposals to maintain business owners' rights to ban weapons on their property and to create exceptions for schools and colleges.
House Speaker Beth Harwell told Republican colleagues before the vote that members of the business community are "holding their nose" over property rights concerns about the measure.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has raised concerns about the measure in the past, but has not said whether he will sign the bill into law.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell 22,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 344,000, evidence that the job market may be picking up.
The four-week average of applications dropped 6,750 to 355,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.
Economists were mildly encouraged by the decline. It "suggests further healing in the labor markets," Sal Guatieri, an economist at BMO Capital Markets, said in a note to clients.
Stronger hiring is one of the reasons economists expect growth is probably picking up in 2013 after a disappointing October-December quarter, when the economy barely grew.
Weekly applications are a proxy for layoffs. When they decline, it suggests companies are cutting fewer workers and may be more willing to hire.
Applications have fallen steadily in recent weeks. The four-week average has declined almost 11 percent since November. At the same time, employers have added an average of 200,000 jobs per month from November through January. That's up from about 150,000 in the previous three months.
The drop in applications suggests companies will add more jobs in February than in January, economists said.
Heather Baugus Koury was recently named Honorary AIA for The American Institute of Architects, the highest honor bestowed on a person outside the architecture profession.
Membership is granted only if the accomplishments of the nominee are truly outstanding and of national significance. During her 10-year tenure as executive director of AIA Memphis, Koury has enhanced the chapter's programming and its involvement in community outreach programs, including the Distinguished Architects of the World speakers series, the Discovering Architecture summer day camp for high school students, and the Junior Girl Scout Architecture Badge Camp.
Also under her leadership, education grants to the chapter have increased by 500 percent.
Building on the AIA150 national initiative to encourage communities to focus on legacy projects, Koury shepherded a number of projects: the Memphis Regional Design Center, the Paul R. Williams Project and ArchiTree, an interactive genealogy of the Memphis architectural community.
She is currently working to establish a Memphis-based design alliance, complete a retrospective on the architectural history of Memphis, and create a bike tour of the city's significant architecture and historic neighborhoods.
Koury was also the 2012 recipient of the AIA Component Executive Leadership Award.
The Downtown Memphis Commission Design Review Board will discuss three major concepts at its Wednesday, March 6, meeting.
There is a construction application for Artspace Projects Inc.'s South Main Artspace Lofts, an adaptive reuse of the former United Warehouse at 138 St. Paul Ave. behind The Arcade Restaurant.
The $12.5 million project will also include the new construction of a building over what is currently a parking lot with 44 live/work spaces, as well as more than 20,000 square feet of commercial space, which includes gallery space and an outdoor arts garden and performance plaza. Construction is planned to commence in October with an expected placed-in-service date in November 2014.
Also appearing before the DRB is Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World, which has a construction application for building renovation and site improvements at The Pyramid, 1 Auction Ave., as well as an exterior signage package that includes 5,490-square-foot logos for all four sides of the structure.
The DRB also will discuss window graphics and internally-illuminated monument sign for Beale Street Landing's signage at 251 Riverside Drive. The application shows a lighted, rotating paddle wheel for Riverside Grill Sunset Bar.
The DRB meets at 4 p.m. in the DMC office, 114 N. Main St.
The Shelby County Commission approved Monday, Feb. 25, paying $239,665 in county capital funding for the local match on the $7.1 million realignment of North Parkway and Jackson Avenue at their intersection with Danny Thomas Boulevard in Uptown.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation project was a 50-50 split with the city being the local half.
The $239,665 is the latest in a series of payments of the county's part of the local match over several fiscal years totaling nearly $1.8 million.
The city of Memphis share of the local match has been $1.7 million so far with an additional $91,555 due.
The commission also approved a $88,700 contract with Allen & Hoshall Inc. to develop a facility master plan for the Shelby County Health Department.
And the body approved $42,000 in funding for acquisition and closing costs for right of ways and easements for the Woodland Hills detention basin project in the Grays Creek area. The project site is east of Houston Levee Road between Humphreys and Macon roads.
The commission also approved a resolution urging the state to improve its share of funding to the Shelby County Public Defender's office.
Meanwhile, the commission approved the appointment of eight citizens to a Juvenile Justice Consortium that is part of the settlement among Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court, county government and the U.S. Department of Justice over due process problems at the court.
The consortium is outlined in the agreement as the citizens group that will keep the community informed of the progress Juvenile Court makes in implementing the reforms.
Rick Masson has joined Caissa Public Strategy LLC as senior director, serving as a lead strategist on local and regional projects.
Masson comes to Caissa with 23 years of experience working for the city of Memphis, where his roles included finance director and chief administrative officer.
Most recently, Masson operated his own private consulting firm that specialized in strategic planning and project management services to public agencies, nonprofit organizations and private corporations active in the government sector. The firm served as a catalyst in stimulating private investment in public projects and providing solutions to budgetary and operational challenges faced by public enterprises.
Caissa, run by lawyer and former Shelby County Election Commissioner Brian Stephens, opened in January 2011. Stephens told The Daily News in September that the public strategy concept is only about 15 years old and is relatively uncommon in the South compared to areas like Washington, where firms specializing in the trade are "on every block."
Caissa will host a welcome reception for Masson on Thursday, March 7, at 5:30 p.m. at 125 S. Main St., suite 600.
Angela Choate Youngberg, an attorney with Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell PLC, is the newly elected chair of the health law section of the Tennessee Bar Association.
Youngberg leads the health law practice group at Rainey Kizer.
The state bar association's health law section focuses on increasing its members' knowledge of federal, state and local laws that impact health care professionals and facilities.
At Rainey Kizer, Youngberg maintains a diverse health law practice that includes counseling physicians, physician groups, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, nursing homes, medical equipment suppliers, nurse practitioners, imaging facilities, home health agencies, pharmacies, institutional clients, physical therapy companies, and other types of health care providers and suppliers on a variety of health care matters.
State Systems Inc., a privately owned total protection company based in Memphis, has installed Green Ballast Inc.'s light ballasts in its corporate headquarters and warehouse facility at 3755 Cherry Road.
Green Ballast, led by CEO J. Adams of CB Richard Ellis Memphis, is a developer and marketer of energy efficient electronic ballasts for fluorescent fixtures in the commercial lighting industry. Green Ballast's ballasts measure and harvest available daylight to calculate and provide only the amount of needed electricity for proper lighting.
Bob McBride, president of State Systems, said in a release that using Green Ballast saves his firm 62 percent a year in lighting energy costs.
Publically traded since April, Green Ballast has added several clients to its portfolio in recent months, including Tommy Bronson Sporting Goods, Belz Enterprises and Healthcare Trust of America Inc.
Memphis-based HopeWorks Inc. is hosting its fifth annual Morning of Hope breakfast and fundraising event next month at Woodland Hills Event Center in Cordova.
The event will be held March 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the center, at 10000 Woodland Hills Drive. Bill Courtney, former volunteer head football coach of the Manassas High School football team and the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary "Undefeated" will speak at the event.
Courtney, a Memphian and chief executive officer of Classic American Hardwoods, led the Manassas High School football team to their first winning season to date in 2009.
The event will feature a gourmet breakfast provided by Sysco and musical entertainment, including a performance by HopeWorks graduate Stephanie Needham.
Tickets are $50 each or $500 per table of 10 and may be purchased online by visiting www.WhyHopeWorks.org or by calling 272-3700, ext. 107. The deadline for all ticket purchases is Feb. 25.
Memphis-based Fogelman Properties LLC has signed a lease for 12,000 square feet on the second floor of Triad Centre II, an 110,305-square-foot, Class A office building at 6060 Poplar Ave.
Fogelman Properties is relocating to Triad Centre II from its previous location at 5400 Poplar Ave., where the company has been headquartered since 1985. Founded in 1963, Fogelman Properties owns and/or manages more than 19,000 apartment communities in 14 states and is led by principals Rick Fogelman and Mark Fogelman.
Rick Fogelman said in a release that with 2013 being the 50th anniversary of Fogelman Properties, "the time was right to make this move," which will provide additional space and further growth capacity going forward.
Fogelman was represented by Kelly Truitt and Wendy Bell of the CB Richard Ellis Memphis tenant advisory group. The landlord, Highwoods Properties Inc., was represented by John Mercer.
Triad II was recently renovated, including a new entrance and lobby.
Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris, R-Collierville, has filed legislation that would create a new statewide initiative aimed at shoring up workers' job skills and addressing labor shortages among Tennessee employers.
Norris' bill creates what would be called the Labor Education Alignment Program, or LEAP. The idea is to merge traditional college coursework with technical training, allowing students at the state's technology centers and community colleges an opportunity to pair occupational training in a high-skill or high-tech industry with academic credit. Students could apply that experience toward a degree.
"I've met with a number of industries in high-tech manufacturing ready to expand in Tennessee but for a lack of qualified employees, and I know of many Tennesseans who can't afford to attend school while sacrificing a paying job," Norris said. The legislation is drafted so that student wages or other compensation won't affect eligibility for state need-based financial assistance or grants.
Norris and his staff consulted with major employers in Tennessee and other area states, as well as overseas, to study so-called "cooperative education" programs. Students are paid to learn while also applying what they learn at work for credit toward a degree. Norris said it's comparable to apprentice programs of generations past. The difference is this adds a modern higher education component to address what the state's employers want: job candidates with skills needed in today's technologically advanced workforce.
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SEIFERT & Others (Sue Peterson, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Ruth Wallis/Risque' Songs…) REVISITED
While we are still in the first month of the New Year, I thought I would call your attention to the Czech poet, Jaroslav Seifert again (Poetry Dispatch #206, the first dispatch of 2008) via Klaus (Monsieur K's) insights and excellent work at www.poetrydispatch.wordpress.com .
The archived (and greatly enhanced) version of this dispatch includes important biographical info about the Seifert, as well as photographs and a reader's contact/commentary from Prague.
The first photograph that accompanies the Seifert dispatch more than caught my breath. (Monsieur K, way over there in France, seems to be reading my mind — or senses the conditions I work in.) It is a photo of a 'busy' desk by the brilliant old Czech photographer, Josef Sudek, (1896-1976). His photographs of Prague were often compared to Atget's photographs of Paris.
I have treasured Sudek's desk photo since the first time I saw it in the 1970's. Since then, my desk (my condition here in the coop…a long way from Prague) has slowly taken on the depth and character of Sudek's famous photograph—called "The Labyrinth". Perhaps that old photo was an artistic piece of foreshadowing. Lost. Out of control. I wish it were otherwise, but there seems to be nothing I can do. I'm destined to live and write in the labyrinth.
More on Seifert and his work in a future dispatch. (More on Sudek too…but probably for print, not the net.)
It took a fair number of months, but Monsieur Klaus and I are now caught up. All the Poetry Dispatches (going back to 2005) have now been archived. What a treasure. Please consult the archives on a regular basis. Pass the site on to friends. By Monsieur K's count, it is a very active sites, thousands of hits — from all over the world. There is so much good work there. And much more to come. Stay with it…me…us.
I would also like to call your attention to please take a second look at the following recent (greatly enhanced) Poetry Dispatches in particular: Susan Peterson (A Quiet Poet in the Village), Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel (A Belated Obit) and Ruth Wallis (Risque' Songs). In each instance, you will be both informed and delighted by the added material.
So take a few minutes. Go to http://www.poetrydispatch.wordpress.com Look up Jaroslav Seifert first. Read/enjoy. Move on to Susan Peterson, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel (some great photos of her) and Ruth Wallis — both photos and old album covers of all.
Thank you all.
And thank you Klaus — for making this happen, a bigger, better, wider and wider concept on the world wide web!

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Quality Management Systems: Those Who Abandoned You May Come Home
Month after month, you review your maintenance agreement numbers and find that they are dwindling each time you look at them. The last few years may have been tough in a lot of different areas of your company, but in many cases, your service department got hit twice. First, when all those customers who renewed their maintenance agreement year after year decided not to renew their agreement last year. Then, even though you ended up paying them more service calls because their systems were not properly maintained, you got hit again because some of the parts were under extended manufacturers' warranties. You could not charge for the parts or realize a profit on them.
We May Be Part of the Problem
Did you ever think that the way you look at maintenance agreements might be part of the problem? As contractors, we tend to focus mostly on the HVAC tune-up. That's the wrong approach. It doesn't matter what trade you specialize in—the house is a home performance system. As such, it is made up of many different components, including the HVAC system, insulation, windows, doors, wiring, plumbing, and so on. These are all subsystems of the home. You know that when the entire system is properly maintained, it will cost less to operate. Your clients will use less water, have fewer drafts, draw less electricity, heat the house for less—and the list goes on and on. That needs to be a major part of your message.
They May Not Really Be Gone
The past few years were rough for most people. Your customers were all reconsidering where they spent their money. For many, that meant that they did not renew their maintenance agreement with your company, even though they recognized the value that it (and your company) provides. It was all about calculated risks for your customers. They were gambling that their system could go one year without a checkup. Once their financial picture improves, they will probably be back—if you give them a bit of encouragement.
Now Is the Time to Be Talking!
Now is the time to reconnect with these customers who opted to drop out of your maintenance agreement program. We are fast approaching the new heating season, and a reminder will bring some of these lost customers back into the fold. Send them a letter letting them know that you want them back. Offer a "returning customer" discount. Remind them of the benefits of owning a maintenance agreement; remind them that a properly maintained system works better. Keep in mind that many of your customers who did not renew their agreements over the last couple of years may even be embarrassed that they dropped the program. They may simply need an invitation to come back.
Improve Your Payment Options … and Your Work Flow
This is a great time to change your payment options. Offering monthly payments can ease the hit on your customers' cash flow. It's much easier to handle $22 per month than it is to cough up $266. You're always looking for ways to level out your cash flow. Why wouldn't your customers want to do the same thing?
Offering monthly payment terms for your maintenance agreements has other benefits. Let's look at a few of them.
Better cash flow. If you allow your customers to pay monthly, you'll have a steady stream of revenue coming in every month. Level out some of those cash flow peaks and valleys.
Fewer cancellations. State in your agreement that after the first year, the monthly payment program will remain in effect until the customer decides to opt out. You will find that most customers will keep the program in place indefinitely. All you have to do is continue to call and schedule their checkups.
More-effective scheduling. Your maintenance agreement program is limited by your ability to schedule checkups on a regular basis. You know how it goes—you called every customer at least three times to schedule a checkup and you never got a call back. You owe them the checkup because they paid for it; you struggle with the fact that you collected the money but can't provide the service. At best, it is not uncommon to get a response from, and schedule a checkup for, only about 70% of customers who pay annually. But for customers who pay monthly, the response rate goes up to 93%. Do the math. How much does it cost to have your staff call your customers over and over only to leave another message?
Automate the Process
Talk to your credit card processor and sign up for automated recurring billing (ARB). Most processors provide this service. If yours doesn't, consider finding one who does. With ARB, you simply log into your account on the processor's web site and set up a subscription for your customer. For example, you tell the system that you want to charge your customer $22 on the first of every month for the next 12 months, or until you manually cancel the subscription. Once this is done, the system will automatically charge the customer on the assigned day and send you an e-mail with the confirmation number. I recommend that you set all of your charges to the same one or two days each month. That way, you have to post payments to account on just one or two days, as opposed to doing a few each day.
The economy is slowly healing, and step-by-step, our industry is moving ahead. It's time to bring back those customers who were forced to drop out of your maintenance agreement program during the recession. Welcome them by extending the invitation and making it easy to return.
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Remembering Earle Richard Henriquez-Gil, Sr.
Museum Founding & Charter Member & Trustee
December 24, 1928 – June 8, 2007
Copyright 2007 by Steven P. Hepler
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|In 1959, while visiting the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway (VBR) in Piney River, VA, Earle and his son, Earl, Jr. climbed into the cab of rusting VBR locomotive No. 6 that was parked on the "scrap track", forlornly sleeping out her final days. Earle said to his son, "...this engine will never run again..." After taking several photos of the old locomotive, they left the property and made their way back to New Jersey. VBR No. 6 was originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1907 for the Southern Railway as their No. 385. The locomotive was a classic early-20th Century 2-8-0 "Consolidation" fast freight engine. It had come to the Virginia Blue Ridge in 1952 where she labored in local freight service for several more years before being retired.
|On a return trip to the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway early in 1963, Earle noted that No. 6 (385) was still on the property and had yet to be scrapped. Through the rust and decay, Earle saw a true American- built beauty, worthy of being saved and restored to operation. Earle eventually purchased the old locomotive and had it shipped to the Morristown & Erie Railroad at Morristown, NJ where he renumbered the engine back to its original "385". Within three months of delivery, Earle had completely overhauled the locomotive (including the conversion from coal to oil firing), and on September 21, 1963, No. 385 was operating once again under its own steam. When the men of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway saw the subsequent photographs of the restored 385, they could hardly believe that it was their Old No. 6 back in operation again. They were so impressed that for the next several years, the annual VBR Company calendar proudly featured their former engine operating "up North" on the Morris County Central.
|On May 9, 1965, No. 385 departed Whippany, bound for Morristown with the first trainload of revenue passengers on the Morris County Central Railroad. After a very successful first season, Earle returned to the Virginia Blue Ridge in late-1965 and purchased their locomotive No. 5, an 0-6-0 switching engine built by the American Locomotive Company in November 1942 as U.S. Army No. 4039.
|No. 4039 came to the VBR in 1947 and hauled freight until August 1963 when she too was retired. Earle renumbered his second locomotive back to its original "4039". In the late-Summer of 1966 the "new" MCC locomotive was back in operation, working alongside No. 385, pulling passengers out of Whippany. The MCC's reputation became established in Whippany as a wonderful place for people of all ages to visit. The clean, family-friendly atmosphere reflected Earle's leadership and characteristics. With the assistance of his loyal crew of company directors, employees and volunteers, the Morris County Central continually grew, amassing a fine collection of locomotives and rolling stock. Each year, returning visitors would see something different at the site...whether a newly-acquired piece of equipment or some improvement to the property or in the type of entertainment provided to the public.
Final Run of the Morris County Central, 12-14-80
|Though the future looked promising for the MCC at Newfoundland, the economics and the recurring gasoline shortages of the late-1970's brought an end to the Morris County Central. Earle Gil's dream and consuming passion ended its days as an operating railroad on December 14, 1980.
|The MCC had come to a close, but Earle did not sit idle. He was a founder, Charter Member and Trustee of the Whippany Railway Museum, where he could be found on weekends, lending his talents and expertise. He was equally at home working onboard the train, conversing with passengers, selling tickets, or most of the time, busily working to restore or repair a car or engine in the the Museum's collection.
Extremely gifted, he was one of those individuals that could create nearly anything that he set his mind to. He became an expert at wood crafting and found the work relaxing and profitable...selling many of his creations at local craft shows and markets.
|Earle could produce nearly any number of items from lumber. He built full-size, "four-poster" Victorian-style beds for friends and acquaintances...rebuilt sofas, chairs and other unique items...all in his fully-equipped home machine shop.
For the Museum, his talents were immeasurable. In late-2003, using early 20th Century diagrams from the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), Earle first built a recreation of a 1911 Railroad Crossing Watchbox. This was followed in 2004 by a wonderful replica of a 1905 PRR Scale House, which serves as the Museum's Ticket Office. A reproduction of a 1909 PRR lineside Telephone Booth was also created in 2004. In September 2006, while in the midst of a grueling six-month round of chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Earle kept active by building a 20' x 24' garage for the Museum's 1948 International Coal Delivery Truck. The garage perfectly compliments the Museum's 1904 Freight House in style and construction.
|For the better part of 2004 – 2006, Earle led a group of capable volunteers in a renewed effort to complete the interior restoration of the wood work on the Museum's former Central Railroad of New Jersey "Commuter Club Car" 'Jersey Coast'. This work involved finding the proper materials to match what remained of the original, but heavily-damaged inlaid-wood that is a feature of the car. Earle selected the types and grades of lumber required to replace what had been destroyed by vandals and the elements. Through Earle's efforts, the other members of the restoration crew were able to follow behind him, and replicate the original 1927 interior paint and stain tints. All 40 window frames in the car were fashioned from mahogany by Earle in his home workshop.
|As if Earle's passion for railroading were not enough, late in life he discovered yet another interest and started to amass a fine collection of vintage farm equipment, including tractors, Amish buggies, buck-board wagons and a restored, operating antique pick-up truck.
|But it is the Morris County Central Railroad that will be his legacy. Though the Railroad and its creator are no longer with us, the MCC is remembered as a highly-respected example of what a conscientious group of individuals, led by a true visionary could accomplish. Armed with moderate resources and good taste, the MCC excelled in the efforts to preserve historic railroad equipment and present to the public a bit of bygone Americana.
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|In the closing sequence of "The Rise and Fall of the Morris County Central Railroad", Earle is once again featured, and gives his final thoughts and memories of the MCC:
""We did a lot of school work – Cub Scout work, Boy Scouts. So, there's a lot of small kids that never rode a train or much less saw one that finally were able to have that happen to them. It kind of chokes me up a little bit..."
(there is a slight pause as Earle collects himself, but then comes on strong as he finishes his thought)
"It's a part of Americana, and if you don't have people that are willing to take a chance and do it – work on a dream – then nothing would ever happen."


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Man behind anti-Muslim film denies probation violations
LOS ANGELES - The California man behind the anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East denied Wednesday he violated terms of his probation for a 2010 bank fraud conviction by using aliases and lying about his role in the movie.
Mark Basseley Youssef, 55, made a brief appearance in a courtroom packed with media and quietly repeated "deny" when all eight probation violation allegations were read by U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder, who scheduled an evidentiary hearing for Nov. 9.
None of the alleged violations have to do with the content of the movie or whether Youssef was the one who posted to YouTube the 14-minute trailer for "Innocence of Muslims," which depicts Mohammad as a religious fraud, womanizer and pedophile. Federal authorities are seeking two years in prison for Youssef, who remains in custody and held without bail.
Youssef fled his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos and went into hiding when violence erupted in Egypt on Sept. 11. The violence spread, killing dozens, and enraged Muslims have demanded severe punishment for Youssef, with a Pakistani Cabinet minister offering $100,000 to anyone who kills him.
"My client was not the cause of the violence in the Middle East," attorney Steven Seiden said after the hearing.
"Clearly, it was pre-planned and it was just an excuse and a trigger point to have more violence."
The First Amendment offers broad protections for filmmaking and other forms of expression. Jody Armour, a professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, said he is troubled that the government went after Youssef only after the movie caused outrage in the Middle East.
"They are saying we aren't going after him on the content, but the reason you are zeroing in on this other behavior is because he was somebody who published a film that caused a violent reaction in another part of the world," Armour said. "That's why there's almost this kind of a dog-whistle quality by this maneuver by the government."
Federal prosecutors did not comment after the hearing.
Youssef was convicted of bank fraud in 2010 and sentenced to 21 months in prison. Authorities said Youssef used more than a dozen aliases and opened about 60 bank accounts and had more than 600 credit and debit cards to conduct the check fraud scheme.
After Youssef was freed, he was barred from using computers or the Internet for five years without approval from his probation officer. He also wasn't supposed to use any name other than his true legal name without the prior written approval of his probation officer.
At least three names have been associated with Youssef since the film trailer surfaced - Sam Bacile, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and Youssef. Bacile was the name attached to the YouTube account that posted the video
Court documents show Youssef legally changed his name from Nakoula in 2002, though when he was tried he identified himself as Nakoula. He wanted the name change because he believed Nakoula sounded like a girl's name, according to court documents.
Among the violations Youssef denied Wednesday were using "Nakoula" as his name throughout his bank fraud case, obtaining a fraudulent California driver's license and telling federal authorities that his role in the film was limited to writing the script. Prosecutors have previously said there is evidence showing Youssef had a larger role in the film, but they declined to elaborate.
Seiden explained that Youssef denied all allegations on procedural grounds.
"People go to court all the time and plead not guilty and then later on things transpire in the case as things are known," Seiden said when asked why his client denied he changed his name. "We'll see how this plays out on Nov. 9."
Prosecutors recently sought transcripts from a pair of 2009 hearings in the bank fraud case where Youssef told two judges that his true name was Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Legal experts said giving a false name to a judge could spell trouble for Youssef on the probation violation allegations and result in new charges since he made the statement about his name before he was sentenced.
"If he was under oath when he lied about his name, it's perjury," said Lawrence Rosenthal, a constitutional and criminal law professor at Chapman University School of Law. "If he was not under oath but if giving the false name somehow was going to interfere with the effective administration of justice," then it would also be a crime.


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The cost of turkey and trimmings? Mostly unchanged
(AP) – Here's another reason to be thankful this holiday season _ the cost of putting Thanksgiving dinner on the table is down slightly from last year.
But don't bank on those savings for any big Black Friday splurges. The average Turkey Day dinner will cost $49.04, or just 44 cents less this year than it did in 2012. And while every penny counts, if you need to do any traveling to belly up to the big meal, increases in airline and train tickets mean that 44 cents won't get you very far.
The good news is that after some steep price hikes during the economic downturn about five years ago, food prices have remained mostly stable this year. It's a welcome change from 2011, when the cost of Thanksgiving dinner jumped $5.73, up from $43.47 in 2010, according to the annual informal survey of consumer grocery prices performed by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
The group estimates the cost by averaging non-sale food prices around the country based on feeding 10 people a meal of turkey, bread stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls with butter, peas, cranberries, carrots and celery, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, and coffee and milk. And yes, their estimates account for the need for those all-important leftovers.
The credit for this year's slight drop in price goes to stable commodity and fuel prices, both strong drivers of the prices consumers pay at the store, says Ricky Volpe, a research economist with the USDA's Economic Research Service. He says overall grocery prices are down about one-tenth of a percent since January.
One exception _ poultry. Though the Farm Bureau didn't detect a price increase in turkey since last year (they actually found the price for a 16-pound bird down 47 cents), Volpe says consumers shouldn't be surprised if that component of the meal jumps as much as 5 percent over last year. Higher demand and feed prices are to blame.
However, you might save a bit of cash on gas when you head to the grocer to get your turkey. At the moment, drivers are paying about 25 cents less per gallon than they were a year ago, with a national average of $3.19, according to travel tracker AAA. And while the group hasn't issued a prediction for gas prices the week of Thanksgiving, they say that in recent years prices generally have dropped in the weeks leading up to the holiday.
Need another reason to drive? The average domestic airfare is up 9.5 percent from last Thanksgiving to $313, according to the Airlines Reporting Corp., which tracks tickets sold by online and by traditional travel agencies. Meanwhile, Amtrak prices in September (the most recent month for which data were available) were up more than 4 percent over a year ago.
Consumers won't be able to do much about the cost of travel, but there's always plenty of ways to spend less _ and a lot more _ on food.
The Farm Bureau estimate budgets $2.18 for a dozen brown-and-serve dinner rolls. But if you're willing break out a recipe and bake your own, a home cook could cut almost a dollar off that price. On the flip side, if you'd prefer to leave the cooking to others and purchase a ready-to-eat meal from a grocer, expect to pay a premium for the convenience, maybe $75 or more.
Likewise, if your tastes lean to the organic or heirloom end of the food spectrum, you won't find turkey for $1.36 a pound as the Farm Bureau did. Budgeting two or three times that is a safer bet.
And since it's impossible to escape holiday creep, we might as well break the bad news about your Christmas roast. Beef prices are at or near record highs this year, so you can expect to pay as much as 2.5 percent more than last year for that succulent rib roast you've been waiting all year for.
AP Travel Editor Beth J. Harpaz and AP Airlines Reporter Scott Mayerowitz contributed to this report.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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Hillsdale tennis maintains hot start
HILLSDALE — The strong start to the season continues for the Hillsdale High School girls tennis team.
The Hornets remained unbeaten on the season Thursday with a 6-2 victory over the Onsted Wildcats in a Southern Michigan Independent Tennis League match.
Hillsdale (3-0, 2-0 SMITL) won three of the four singles flights and three of the four doubles matches for the win.
Ten days after suffering a injury, Alexis Michael returned to the lineup and posted a win at No. 1 singles. Michael defeated Onsted's Riley VanSickle 6-3, 6-3. Jamee Thompson gave the Hornets a win at No. 2 singles, defeating Madison Overby 6-1, 6-3, while Nicole Thompson beat Onsted's Holly Pennington 6-2, 6-3 at No. 3 singles.
The Hornets' No. 1 doubles team of Lauren Allen and Jenna Holland posted a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Ireland McDonald and Morgan Beyer. Breeann Kies and Hannah Dykhouse gave Hillsdale a win at No. 2 doubles, defeating Brianne McKeon and Kelsey Robinson 6-1, 6-3. The team of Lisa Curby and Jorey Lambright posted a 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Onsted's Celene Vena and Meagan Koepfle.
Monica Warner recorded a win at No. 4 singles and the No. 4 doubles team of Carolyn DeJonge and Elaina Robinson posted the victories for Onsted (4-4, 1-2 SMITL).
The Hornets will host Leslie today in a makeup match from last week.
Prep Soccer
Quincy 2, Jonesville 0
The Jonesville High School girls soccer team was shut down offensively Thursday in a road loss to the Quincy Orioles.
Both of the Orioles' goals came in the first half. Mackenzie Moore opened the scoring on a corner kick 15 minutes into the game, then Liz Counterman converted a cross from Angelica Sussex at the 18-minute mark, giving Quincy a 2-0 lead.
Jonesville (1-5) had its chances to get back in the game, but rang three shots off the goalpost.
Hannah Smith and Kaitlyn Mapes were credited by Jonesville coach Mike Hunter for their strong defensive play in the contest.
The Comets will compete Saturday in the Jesse Tran Tournament at Hillsdale.
Prep Softball
Pittsford at Homer (DH)
The Pittsford High School softball team was swept in Thursday's non-conference doubleheader, falling to the Homer Trojans 8-0 and 15-0.
Ashley Culbert took the pitching loss in the first game, allowing seven hits while striking out 10 and walking six. Katie Saunders, Amanda Simon and Culbert had the only three hits in the game for Pittsford (3-4).
Morgan Schrom and Mikayla Bontrager each had a hit for the Wildcats in the nightcap. Danielle McLoth allowed nine hits and walked seven and took the loss in the circle.
The Wildcats will visit Colon today for a Southern Central Athletic Association doubleheader.


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- Applicable Date – XX16 XXX (Mar 16 – Aug 16)
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Wrist: Klienbock's Disease
I got an MRI because my doctor suspected a TFCC tear in my wrist. The imaging showed a perforation in the TFCC and avascular necrosis of the lunate bone (possibly Kienbock's Disease). Three months later, the necrosis still showed on the MRI but I had no symptoms. When I asked my doc about getting back into climbing, he said "I hate climbers."
I got an MRI because my doctor suspected a TFCC tear in my wrist. The imaging showed a perforation in the TFCC and avascular necrosis of the lunate bone (possibly Kienbock's Disease). Three months later, the necrosis still showed on the MRI but I had no symptoms. When I asked my doc about getting back into climbing, he said "I hate climbers." Backtracking, he then said, "I just hate climbing. We aren't made for climbing. You should feel lucky you were able to climb for four years without injury. If you continue to climb, you will always have pain." I started climbing a few weeks ago and get an achy feeling in the ulna side of my wrist, which lasts a day or two. Crack climbing the last two weekends at Index seems to p-off my wrist the most. —Christy Galitsky | Rock and Ice Forum
"Uncommon things are uncommon." That's what they told us in school. Repeatedly. That is, headaches are rarely brain tumors. If you have Keinbocks, I will be surprised. Why? Because it's uncommon. But if you do have it, your bone is dying and you're not yet done with it. Pooh! Climbing is going to be less fun, if any at all. That said, the diagnosis is not confirmed so let's just keep that in the wings.
"You're lucky you lasted that long"—I couldn't agree more. I wish I had some ninja skills like yours. Four years injury-free would be a record for me and virtually every climber I know. Consider this injury a rite of passage, and not least of all a celebration that you have been trying hard!
"If you continue to climb, you will always have pain"—definitely true, though it may or may not be in your wrist. Crack climbers have the pain tolerance of those who operate in a world of fear and jammed flesh. Scare tactics? Your doctor might as well try to bluff a professional poker player with a pair of UNO cards.
The pain you have on the pinky side of your wrist is most likely related to the TFCC. That the MRI only demonstrated a perforation a) does not dictate the amount of pain you should have, and b) is not necessarily true—there could be more damage than the MRI suggests.
That it's painful after crack climbing is predictable. I would try some gently overhanging face climbing and see how that goes. Crimping will probably be better than open handing.
Regarding your lunate, it's a wait-and-see game. If there is further necrosis of the bone you will have a real problem. I assume Captain Tactless has said you need to come back at some point in the near future. I would certainly follow up with him, but keep in mind that not all specialists understand or have compassion for sports people. If it worsens get a second opinion.
In 1910 the observant Dr. Robert Kienbock, sans x-ray machine, told his charismatic assistant that he had discovered a new disease. She was enthralled, or at least pretended to be. Encouraged, Bob described the collapse and fragmentation of the lunate, one of the carpal bones in the wrist, due to what he believed was avascular necrosis (bone death resulting from disrupted blood supply). They married and had four children, all Oompa Loompas.
It is thought that an injury to the wrist, which can be as minor as a sprain, pinches or severs the blood supply, but in a significant portion of cases no injury event can be identified. Progression of the disease is virtually always treated with surgery unless you are an Oompa Loompa, in which case it is microsurgery.


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6 Responses to "The Situation of "Winners" and "Losers""
October 29, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I enjoyed reading the post, but I'm afraid you are attempting to explain a phenomenon that does not exist. In fact, comparing the two men who are the subject of your post, anyone who listens to the mainstream sports media would be shocked to learn that A-Rod has actually been a very capable postseason performer. Some statistics:
Career Regular Season Stats (Presented in the common form: batting average/on-base percentage/slugging percentage/OPS (on-base plus slugging, which is the best single basic statistic to determine a hitters worth). I use these stats because they are the most useful basic statistics in determining a hitter's performance):
Manny – .313/.409/.593/1.002
A-Rod – .306/.389/.578/.967
Both are clearly excellent hitters (league average during their careers has been about .270/.340/.430/.770). Taking into account the effects of their home stadiums, for his career Manny has been about 54% better than league average at the plate (25th all time, 4th among active players) and A-Rod has been 47% above league average (41st all time, 7th among active players).
Now, on to the postseason. Postseason hitting statistics as a whole are lower than regular season statistics due to the high quality of pitching among postseason teams and the cold weather of October. Here are their career postseason numbers:
Manny – .269/.376/.513/.889
A-Rod – .279/.361/.483/.844
As the statistics show, the two men have enjoyed similar success in the postseason over their careers. Considering the lower levels of performance across the board in the postseason, both are still far above average hitters. Manny does have a slight edge at the plate, but considering A-Rod's above average defense at shortstop and third base and Manny's slightly below average defense in left field, they have been about equally valuable in postseason play over their entire careers.
The statistics you link to in this post are a prime example of "cherry-picking" statistics. If you take any stretch of a players career favorable to your argument, you can make stats say anything. Looking at career stats however gives a larger, more reliable sample size. In fact, here are their stats from the fateul 2004 ALCS where the Red Sox finally overcame the Yankees in the postseason:
A-Rod – .258/.378/.516/.894
Manny – .300/.400/.333/.733
Just looking at the numbers, A-Rod actually outperformed Manny in this series. Has A-Rod had poor postseason series? Absolutely. So has every player who has any significant number of series played. Even the great David Ortiz, widely regaled for his postseason exploits, once put up the following line in a postseason series (2003 ALDS against Oakland): .095/.174/.143/.317.
The problem is, many in the media have a problem differentiating between individual and team success in the playoffs. The Yankees failure to win a World Series since A-Rod's arrival is a failure of the team, not of A-Rod personally. This year's Yankees-Indians series is a perfect example of this phenomenon. A-Rod was once again blamed for the Yankees postseason failure. Forgetting the fact that the Yankees would not have been in the playoffs if not for A-Rod's fantastic regular season, A-Rod was perceived to have another poor postseason. A-Rod's stats for the series: .267/.353/.467/.820.
His performance was right in line with his otherwise excellent postseason career. The Yankees problem in this series was not A-Rod's failure. Two other numbers tell the story of why the Yankees fell to the Cleveland Indians: 5.89 and 19.06. Those numbers were the ERAs of the Yankee pitching staff for the series and their ace Chien-Ming Wang respectively. The team's inability to keep runs off the scoreboard far outweighed its ability to put runs on it.
November 3, 2007 at 12:14 pm
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September 10, 2008 at 6:40 am
Very interesting article, The scientific aspects you covered, were great fro someone like me that is not a sports "Fan"
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Interview: Hazel Findlay Climbs Freerider (5.12d) on El Cap
Hazel Findlay has just got down from another free ascent of El Capitan, having climbed Freerider (5.12d) over three days with American James 'Big Fall' Lucas. This is Findlay's third free ascent of El Capitan, having freed Golden Gate (5.13a) in 2011 and Pre-Muir Wall (5.13c/d) in 2012.
Hazel Findlay has just got down from another free ascent of El Capitan, having climbed Freerider (5.12d) over three days with American James 'Big Fall' Lucas. This is Findlay's third free ascent of El Capitan, having freed Golden Gate (5.13a) in 2011 and Pre-Muir Wall (5.13c/d) in 2012.
Findlay and Lucas abbed the route last Wednesday, stashing water and a haulbag along the way to allow them to keep hauling at a minimum and enjoyment at a maximum. After a rest day, they started off up the wall at 4.30am, to allow them to climb the dreaded Monster Offwidth before the route came into the sun. After two more days on the wall they topped out, with Findlay having freed every pitch and Lucas just missing out on a free ascent due to hanging on the rope once on two separate pitches.
Duncan Campbell asked Findlay a few questions about her recent ascent of Freerider:
Duncan: Freerider contains a number of notorious pitches, worst of all, the Monster Offwidth. What was the crux for you?
Findlay: The crux is supposed to be the 5.13a boulder problem. It took me a few tries which wouldn't have been stressful if it wasn't for the impending sun coming around the corner to spoil everything. The holds are small or slopey and it's pretty hard to do it in the sun. But really the crux for me was not getting too tired on all the wide cracks. Doing the Monster on the first day having already climbed 12 pitches felt hard and then the upper quarter of the route has a lot of wide 5.10 which are all nails.
Duncan: In what style did you free it? Were you and Lucas swinging leads?
Findlay: We swung leads for the most part, but I ended up leading the Monster because we fell getting in to it and then James lead the Scotty Burk (the last offwidth) because I thought I'd throw up if I saw another wide crack.
Duncan: Have you got any plans for the rest of your time in Yosemite?
Findlay: Not sure what's next, partners are running pretty thin for me in the valley now, so I'll just climb what I can with who I can. I always have fun on El Cap. Tomorrow I'm trying the Nose in a day with Hans Florine, should be fun! Maybe we'll beat the bisexual speed record (if he is willing to haul me)
Duncan: Did it all go to plan or did you have some uncertain moments?
Findlay: If I'm honest our ascent was an assisted ascent. Both James and I aren't the most organized of folk, and on day two found ourselves with dead batteries for one of our head torches. One of our friends happened to be trying Freerider in a day and gave us his batteries. It may sound like a minor detail but with the California sun, you have to climb a lot in the dark, which is pretty hard without a headtorch – so thanks to Walker and Eliot for saving our bacon!
Article originally posted on UKclimbing.com. Additional reporting by Andrew Hewitt.


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GAYLORD — St. Ignace had to hold off a big comeback from the Posen Vikings and 6-foot-1 junior center Korynn Hincka Thursday night.
The Saints withstood a career-high 40 points from Hincka and turned back the Vikings 74-68 in a Class D regional championship girls basketball game at Gaylord High School.
Sarah Cullip delivered a career-best 26 points and also grabbed 14 rebounds for the Saints. Abbey Ostman contributed 17 points and 20 rebounds, while Kelley Wright had 10 points, six steals and six assists, and Emily Hinsman had nine points for the Saints.
"Both teams played hard and it took everything we had to win it," St. Ignace coach Dorene Ingalls said. "This was the first game in awhile that we had to grind one out.
"Hincka is everything she was said to be," Ingalls said. "She's Megatron. She can catch anything near her, and once she gets the ball close to the basket, there is no stopping her."
The Saints led 40-24 at halftime, but the Vikings stormed back in the third quarter with a 30-18 burst.
Hincka scored 22 points in the third, and was 12-of-13 from the free throw line during that stretch as the Vikings closed within 58-53 heading to the fourth quarter. Posen got as close as three points and was within four twice within the last five minutes. Hinsman made the plays at the finish for the Saints, scoring the final five points over the final one and a half minutes.
It took contributions from throughout the lineup for the state's No. 1-ranked Saints.
"Sarah Cullip really stepped up her game," Ingalls said. "They (Vikings) were getting out on our shooters, so it left the middle of the defense open. Sarah was able to do a lot of damage in the paint.
"Margo Brown hit a big three in the fourth quarter, and Emily made some big shots at the end," Ingalls said.
Bev Bednarski scored 11 points for the Vikings, who finish 23-1.
St. Ignace (24-0) advances to play Forest Park (22-1) in the quarterfinals Tuesday at Escanaba High School.
POSEN — Hincka 40, Couture 7, Meyers 8, Bednarski 11. FT: 14-18; F: 15; 3PFG: 6 (Bednarski 3, Couture 2, Meyers 1).
ST. IGNACE — Wright 10, Cullip 26, Hinsman 9, LaVake 5, Ostman 17, Chambers 2, Brown 5. FT: 8-17; F: 18; 3PFG: 4 (Wright 2, LaVake 1, Brown 1).


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AFRICANGLOBE – Three weeks before they go to the polls, millions of Kenyans watched and listened to the nation's first-ever presidential debate, with the two front-running candidates trading barbs over the looming trial of one of them in the International Criminal Court.
Morning talk shows in Nairobi on Tuesday were still buzzing about the previous night's debate – broadcast live on Kenya's TV and radio stations – among eight presidential candidates who stood behind sleek, futuristic podiums. Much of the focus was on the two front-runners: Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding father, faces crimes against humanity charges at the ICC.
The charges against Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto relate to violence that killed more than 1,000 people after the last elections in 2007. The violence was sparked by a dispute over who won the presidency – Odinga, then an opposition leader, or President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking a second term. A peace deal allowed Odinga to become prime minister in a coalition government.
Kenyatta's trial is scheduled to start in April in The Hague, but he insisted during the debate that it won't hinder his ability to run the country if he's elected president on March 4. The ICC prosecutor says the trial may last for years.
"If the people of Kenya do decide to vote for me as their president, I will be able to handle the issue of clearing my name while ensuring the business of government continues and our manifesto and agenda for Kenya is implemented," Kenyatta said.
But Odinga said the country cannot be governed remotely, and quipped that running a government on Skype from The Hague would be tough to manage.
During the debate, moderators as well as other candidates asked questions. An audience of about 200 people also questioned the candidates. Local media reported that millions tuned in to the live broadcast.
Monday's debate covered a range of other issues, from the role ethnic affiliation plays in the distribution of jobs and resources – and which is cited as a major cause of problems in Kenya – to corruption in government, to education and health care.
All eight presidential candidates promised to concede if they lose the elections and to use the judiciary to resolve any issues that arise.
A second debate is set for February 25.
Kenyatta is charged with crimes against humanity for alleged involvement in the murder, forcible deportation, persecution and rape of supporters of Odinga after the 2007 vote. Ruto, a former education minister, faces charges of murder, forcible deportation and persecution of supporters of Kibaki.
Despite supporting rival camps during the 2007 vote, they are now on the same ticket.


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The Arab trader argument is my name for an argument white Americans often use to defend the evil they do in the world. It goes like this: if white Americans do something evil and terrible it is all right – or at least not all that bad – so long as they can find at least one example from world history of someone else doing the same thing. Thus the Atlantic slave trade was not so bad because Arabs traders sold slaves too!
See how it works? Pretty cool trick.
The thing is utterly morally bankrupt. It is the everyone-does-it argument that we tried when we were eight . Our mothers did not buy it then and it does not work now – except maybe for the morally blind.
But that is just what many white Americans seem to be: morally blind. They know the evil that is done in their name, not just in the past but even now, but they do not want to see it. And when they are faced with it, they try to excuse it with stuff like this.
Maybe moral blindness leads to morally broken thinking – or is it the other way round?
It would be like if I robbed a bank and then said, "People rob banks all the time, what is the big deal?" Or if I slept with someone's wife and I said, "Your wife had an affair two years ago. See! I am not that bad. Why are you angry at me?"
Do you see how shameless this kind of argument is?
It amazes me that anyone even tries it, for two reasons:
- That anyone would waste more than two seconds trying to excuse something so clearly evil, like the slave trade, the Japanese American prison camps, racism, etc.
- That they would try to use such a bad argument with a straight face and not see just how bad it is.
But they do it.
It seems to bring comfort to them, but that comfort is completely one-sided. It brings no comfort to those who have to suffer their evil. Like when the Jews were being sent to the death camps, did it bring any comfort to them to know that the Turks killed over a million Armenians?
Forms of this argument:
- This is the way we have always done it
- Blacks do it too
- Blacks are racist too
- There will always be racists
Right and wrong are not determined or proved by what everyone does, much less by what some people do, like Arab traders. That would just excuse everyone to sink to the lowest, meanest, most evil levels of behaviour.
A simple and far better way to determine right and wrong, without getting deep into religion or philosophy, is the Golden Rule, which is not "Do unto others as some others have done", as the Arab trader argument would have it, but "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Acts of racism fail this test by their very nature.
See also:
- How to tell if a commenter is white
- blame-shifting
- white innocence
- Apple-pie America – more on American moral blindness
- The slave trade was immoral – also brings up the Arab trader argument
- Pam Peters: The Cambridge Guide to English Usage – come to think of it, this everyone-does-it approach is applied even to English usage. Maybe it is not just a disingenous argument but a way of thinking!


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