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Video of Rutgers Coach Mike Rice verbally and physically abusing his players at practice drew strong reaction from leaders in Portland's coaching community.
Rutgers fired basketball coach Mike Rice on Wednesday after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs.
KGW showed the clips to OSAA executive director Tom Welter, who oversees thousands of coaches and more than 120,000 high school student athletes in Oregon.
"There's no excuse for that," said Welter. "I would like to have thought the days of physical, verbal, emotional abuse of athletes had kind of passed."
Coaches used to be more demonstrative. Many remember Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes punching an opposing player, or Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throwing a chair onto the court.
These kinds of incidents still happen – California's coach was caught on camera shoving his star player last month – but these incidents are rare, and often followed by public apologies.
The Rutgers case is different because the school president and athletic director saw the footage months ago but only fired Rice when the video was leaked to the public.
"I'm surprised he works in environments where that's acceptable," said Eric Reveno, head coach at the University of Portland.
"I have empathy for him as a person. He's a good person. I don't think he's evil at heart. You talk about that slippery slope with trying to build toughness. First time he did it, he got a good response...but at the end of the day, what we saw, it's just clear as day it's not acceptable."
On Wednesday, Rice apologized publicly.
"As I stated three months ago after I watched the video how deeply regrettable those actions (were). I also stated I was going to try to work on changing. I think I've accomplished a lot of that," Rice said. "I can't say anything right now except I'm sorry and there will never be a time where I'm going to use any of that as an excuse or there will be any excuse.
Rice is the son of Blazers announcer Mike Rice. The Blazers were asked for comment but have yet to respond.
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AHSAA Reclassification Updated For 2012-14
Classes (With Enrollment) Alignments (Football Basketball)
The Alabama High School Athletic Association reclassification for 2012-13 and 2013-14 has been updated to include Pope John Paul II Catholic High School of Huntsville, which inadvertently was omitted from the list approved by the Central Board of Control Wednesday morning.
"Pope John Paul II in Huntsville was left out," Executive Director Steve Savarese said. "They did declare their intent to play at the varsity level in the next classification period after having played at the junior varsity level the previous two years.
"The only changes that affect classifications are Chelsea moving to Class 6A, and Saint Paul's moving to Class 5A."
Adjustments to the reclassification alignments include:
· Saint Paul's Episcopal moves from Class 4A, Region 1 to Class 5A, Region 1.
· Chelsea moves from Class 5A, Region 4 to Class 6A, Region 4.
· Saraland moves from Class 5A, Region 1 to Class 5A, Region 3.
· Chilton County moves from Class 5A, Region 3 to Class 5A, Region 4.
· Andalusia moves from Class 4A, Region 2 to Class 4A, Region 1.
· Tallassee moves from Class 4A, Region 3 to Class 4A, Region 2.
· Dallas County moves from Class 4A, Region 4 to Class 4A, Region 3.
· Carbon Hill moves from Class 4A, Region 8 to Class 4A, Region 4.
· Priceville moves from Class 4A, Region 7 to Class 4A, Region 8.
· Pope John Paul II moves into Class 4A, Region 7.
Coordinators for each region will be appointed by Nov. 28. No football scheduling meetings can take place prior to this date.
Other sports alignments will be posted as they are completed.
In other Board action:
--Approved Prattville Christian Academy and Ellwood Christian Academy of Selma as new AHSAA members.
--Approved the State Volleyball Tournament financial report.
--Approved all levels of administration above 15 years in coaching in the eligibility requirements for receiving a 25-Year Special Pass.
--Welcomed new staff members Tony Stallworth, Associate Executive Director, and Alvin Briggs, Director of the Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association. They replace the retiring Joe Evans and Steve Bailey, respectively.
--Approved a proposal to adopt a C2C Schools' software program that will allow member schools more capabilities for online procedures.


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Commonwealth Journal
February 14, 2013
Downtown developers eye plan to redistribute tax revenue
Reinvested tax would be returned to projects
by Chris Harris
Commonwealth Journal
Somerset —
The agency tasked with keeping downtown Somerset alive is banking on the potential of new tax revenue to help revitalize the center of Pulaski County's commercial hub.
A Tax Increment Fina-ncing (TIF) district could be the key, according to plans unveiled by the Downtown Somerset De-velopment Corporation (DSDC) on Wednesday. The organization has initiated a study that they hope will bring millions of dollars in economic vitality to the area.
Officials are optimistic it could have an impact on the long-discussed Virginia Cinema makeover, breathing new life into the defunct downtown theater.
"It's too early to be certain about anything," said DSDC President Jamey Tilley, "but our board feels it's an avenue that should be explored."
Under a "TIF" plan, local and state governments would rebate as much as 80 percent of any new tax revenue that results from a development back to it's own certain area. This tax money would pay for infrastructure work needed to create the development.
In other words, a project like the Virginia Cinema could end up producing the kind of revenue that would allow it to pay for itself under the proposed plan. Likewise, new developments in the area around the facility could produce financing for it and overall downtown revitalization. Rather than these projects being solely paid for up front, the tax revenue generated will essentially help retroactively pay for the costs.
Officials stressed that taxpayers won't be paying anything more than they are now, with no change in the rates, and that this isn't a special taxing district of any sort. However, government agencies get new tax revenues that wouldn't exist without the new development.
Commonwealth Economics of Lexington will soon begin a study to determine if a TIF is feasible for Somerset. Commonwealth Economics President John Farris — a former Secretary of Finance for the state — has been involved with practically every TIF project in the state since the legislation enabling such an approach was formed eight years ago. (TIF funding was opened up to all Kentucky cities in 2007 after initially only being available in Louisville.)
Farris called the plan a "public-private" partnership, and a "win" for all parties involved.
"Basically, it's a redirection of tax funds, mostly sales taxes," said Farris. "The new tax revenues that result from the development are used to create the development."
Farris noted that downtown redevelopments typically feature high-cost public infrastructure and can have a hard to recouping costs, because of the nature of older buildings and other factors.
"If you wanted to put modern utilities or broadband or other infrastructure type services into the Virginia theater, that's going to have a high cost, maybe prohibitively high for a private developer," said Farris. "By using the TIF, the reimbursement of the TIF dollars feasible when it wouldn't otherwise be feasible."
DSDC Executive Director Gib Gosser said that the idea to look into a TIF grew out of a Chamber of Commerce visit to Bowling Green, Ky., last summer, where some $200 million is being spent on major improvements.
Similar TIF projects have been initiated in the Kentucky cities Louisville, Lexington, Dayton, Georgetown, and Versailles, according to the DSDC. Farris specifically noted the Red Mile redevelopment plan in Lexington and the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville as examples of TIF success stories.
Gosser specifically had the Virginia Cinema in mind when the idea of TIF funding first came on the radar — he said it's a plan the city has been working on since last June — but has seen wider potential for how the plan could help downtown Somerset.
"If successful, this (plan) could touch every building in the downtown area," said Gosser. "It's got some great potential. Everything has some stumbling blocks along the way ... but it's much, much broader than a single project. It's an entire community project."
Still, the Virginia Cinema may be the centerpiece of the plan. Since the DSDC has struggled for years to find the money to redevelop the theater, using the Virginia Cinema along with a growing number of restaurants and clubs could bring people back to the central business district where they would help produce the spending to pay for the revitalization itself.
Officials noted that in order for the plan to work and realize public sector improvements, there must be a great deal of private investment in the TIF district.
"Most of the income in a successful TIF project comes from redirecting sales tax funds that would have otherwise gone to Frankfort," said Farris. "Without some retail spending in the TIF district, there is no new sales tax revenue to pay for the improvements."
Farris said that communities respond positively to TIF set-ups when they understand the benefits. "The states often times will match the local revenue in taxes 5- or 10-to-1," he said. "So, the sales tax is the big Kahuna, sometimes generating enough dollars to help pay, whereas the local taxes are smaller.
"You're really using money that's created here in Somerset, rather than sending it to Frankfort and diverting it all over the state ... it comes right back into the area."
Farris' study will help the DSDC determine the feasibility of a TIF district, the possible boundaries, and how much money could be expected under certain conditions.
"First, you want to look at the tax generation that's going on now; that creates the baseline," said Farris. "Then you want to look at what redevelopment opportunities are, if it will fit within the statute. Also, what are the potential new revenues to come out of that? There's excitement with the new laws passed (in Somerset) with the 'wet/dry' issue that there could be some more establishments open downtown. So we're going to model that out and look at potential tax revenue sources from new entities."
Officials expect the initial phase of the work to take three months. At that time, the DSDC will decide whether or not to proceed by the response from state and local governments, which will be asked to support the concept.
Still, the DSDC has reason to be optimistic about the future of the TIF strategy.
"I think, just at first glance, (downtown Somerset) looks ripe for redevelopment," said Farris. "The Virginia is a central part of that but it won't be the only part of that. I think we've identified a five-block area we want to look at closely and see what components will be most feasible."


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My path at Loyola has ended its long loving curve in my life. Finding my way here was an adventure in miracles. Most of those miracles occurred behind my back and without my permission yet that didn't stop me from grabbing the opportunities and reaping the rewards.
One of those rewards has been this cozy little relationship with Meaning Making. When the call for writers went out, I fell all over myself sending in my submission. When Betsy Davis asked me to take over the role of editor, I couldn't say "yes" fast enough. My idea of heaven is to sit, read, talk, and write endlessly about spirituality, God, religion, faith, humans, love, and Jesus, and never stir from my laptop.
It was almost a relationship of disordered affection. What else could be more important than writing about what is meaningful in life and how to make meaning, especially during times when it appears that events are meaningless? As a pastoral counselor, I was learning to help people find what Viktor Frankl called their "will to meaning." Frankl believed, as I do, that when humans reach for more than who they believe they are and find their meaning, they become who they truly are. I was deliriously happy to find my meaning in reading and writing.
Fortunately, my comfort zone was often challenged in the presence of other blog writers. People like Vernon, Glenda, JoAnn, Andrea, and Kate made my editorial life a dream while writing about what compels us to grow, what drives us to find meaning, and what humbles us in our humanity. In them, I found myself. In finding myself, I realized that I have to do more than mouth the witty words and write the pretty paragraphs. I have to live the lessons.
Just as I am compassionate and caring with others, I have to be the same for me. And, yet, I have learned that, no, it's not all about me. We are the manifestations of the Divine Spirit come to physical life here on planet earth. On my journey here at Loyola, I have learned that I am seeking that which I already am. I found all of me here.
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The Cassgram reports two year probation for a 19-year-old Plattsmouth man. Ryan M. Davis is spending 15 days in the Cass County Jail to start and then must follow the terms of the probation to avoid any other jail time.
Davis, who at one time had faced a Class II Felony for selling a small amount of marijuana on school grounds, received the sentence for a conviction of possession of money used in a drug transaction, a Class IV Felony. There was a plea agreement in the case.
Deputy Public Defender Julie Bear said Davis has already faced punishment outside the courtroom by losing a football scholarship to Peru State College due to the conviction. Added to that is the fact he's a convicted felon at age 19, she said.
The prosecution joined in recommending the probation.
The aggravating factor in the case is the fact the drug transaction took place in a school setting, said Cass County District Judge Randall Rehmeier.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT)-- Investigators are still trying to determine what killed a ten month-old infant shortly after noon on Sunday.
Nevaeh Campbell was found unresponsive and not breathing in a home on Cox Street around 12:30 p.m., according to the Knoxville Police Dept.
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Nevaeh's parents were identified as Jason Campbell, 35, and 20 year-old Chelsey Tyree.
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Saturday, Feb. 12; South Broadway Cultural Center (all ages, 7 p.m.): Traditional Irish music continues to gather steam here in the United States. And, in large part, it's due to the near-constant emergence of high quality solo performers and groups. Add Téada (pronounced tay-da) to the latter list. The quintet have released a pair of remarkable albums on Green Linnet since forming in 2001, but they began serious and international touring only recently.
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Barcelona's Ojos de Brujo's international debut, Bari, very nearly made my 2004 Top 20 list. This EP, featuring six remixed tracks from said record, probably won't make the 2005 list, but it's still a worthy, eclectic adventure through rumba catalana dressed as coked-up club music for steely eyed corporate sluts who like to cut loose after-hours. Almost all of the sincerity and traditional feel that made Bari so accessible has been effectively torched off by breakbeats and trippy loops, but Remezclas ... still manages to sound exotic and ready-made for the next Matrix-like film Hollywood is bound to churn out momentarily.
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Two important words emerge in the story of Noah that will echo throughout the pages of Scripture: grace (Gen. 6:8, ESV has "favor") and covenant (v. 18). In a context where the sinfulness of man is said to be …Read More
The Birth of Israel
The Scriptures have emphasized the wickedness of mankind since the time of the flood. Humanity is no different than what it was prior to the flood. For instance, the line of Ham demonstrates great selfishness and evil, and a strident …Read More
The Blood of the Covenant
One of the chief points of evangelical Christianity that was most offensive to Protestant Modernists in the great debates against Fundamentalism in the early twentieth century was the centrality of the blood of Christ for salvation. Many a would-be "sophisticated …Read More
The True Tabernacle
Both the Old Testament tabernacle and the Mosaic covenant were mere shadows of the eternal reality that in due season fulfilled and surpassed them. They were "true shadows" in that they correctly bore a relationship to that which they imaged …Read More
Of the Father's Love
As I write this article, I am reminded of the December 15, 2003 issue of the Orlando Sentinel. "CAPTURED," read the front-page headline, "feared dictator found alone in rat-infested hole." With sincere wonder, I remember gazing into the eyes of …Read More
Salvation, Past, Present, and Future
"Time past and time present are both together in time future," wrote T.S. Elliot. His rhythmic words simply and eloquently describe the ordinary flow of history. But the letter to the Hebrews presents a very different perspective on God …Read More
Redemption Accomplished
"Tradition!" sings Tevye. "Without our traditions, our lives would be as unstable as a fiddler on the roof." As the drama unfolds, this analogy turns from affirmation to lament: Tevye's daughters marry suitors disapproved by tradition, and in the …Read More
Redemption Planned
In Reformed circles, we hear much about the covenants. We are a people who place our trust in God's covenant faithfulness. We hear about the covenant of grace and the covenant of works, but we hear very little about …Read More
The Blueprint of Redemption
A persistent tradition claims that upon being mocked by a skeptic with regard to his doctrine of creation, Saint Augustine was cynically asked, "What was God doing before He created the world? Augustine's alleged reply was: "Creating hell for …Read More
The Redemption of Man
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Winning Back His Bride
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The Wake County Taxpayers Associations opposition to the Wake school bond issue is not about partisanship or the $12 per month more the average Wake homeowner would pay in property taxes. The issue is good, honest governance and fiscal accountability. We would rather the money that would pay the interest on bonds go to giving teachers more pay and better support.
It is simply about the kids and the schools basic mission to give them a sound education. In 2003, when about 89 percent of students passed end-of-grade tests, Wake schools set a goal of having a 95 percent passing rate by 2008. Where are we now? As of 2012, the elementary school pass rate was 86.4 percent in math and 77.4 percent in reading. Middle school results were about the same. Only high school students showed a very slight improvement, going from about 83 percent to 87 percent.
School administrators will offer many reasons why the 95 percent goal hasnt been met changed tests, for example. However, as a friend told me, sometimes explanations are a substitute for performance. What do you do when objectives are not met? Change the subject. Talk about anything else such as construction programs.
Some Republican bond supporters appear to have just accepted the misleading statistics released by the Wake County schools central office staff, such as information from a Facilities Utilization report that the Wake school system is at 103.2 percent of long-range capacity, and 16.9 percent of students and teachers operate out of modular classrooms.
First, the 16.9 percent in modular classrooms refers to those assigned to the existing, bought-and-paid-for 1,136 modular classrooms. But the 103.2 percent capacity figure doesnt include 624 of those very same modular classrooms and the 15,251 student seats they have, as if they just did not exist. According to WCPSS, they are not part of the so-called optimum plan. So it is plain that eliminating 55 percent of existing modular units from the calculation reduces the number of students in them by roughly the same amount. You simply cannot have it both ways.
In the 103.2 percent of capacity number quoted, school administrators also do not include 1,670 classrooms (approximately 40,000 seats) that are used for support, pull outs, special education, art, etc. Advocates claim bond opponents want to use all of these for regular classrooms. Not true. But do they really need 20 percent of the space 10 classrooms per school for these activities?
In March, school staff presented an opening gambit, a must-have plan to county commissioners. It called for spending $2.2 billion and building 32 schools by 2018. It also included a renovation of Fuquay-Varina High School at a cost of $82 million. The $82 million was later revised down to $63 million due to an error.
Because the March plan was not well-received, staff presented some alternatives to the board of commissioners at an April meeting. The primary scenario called for spending $2.3 billion for 32 new schools and various upgrades. The other three scenarios offered were for less money and fewer schools. These were throw-away options as none of the three provided enough capacity to meet the enrollment forecast.
The May offering to the commissioners was a new must-have list calling for 16 new schools and various upgrades costing $939.9 million. Surprisingly, the Fuquay-Varina High School renovation was not included in this plan. The county commissioners decided to present the $810 million bond-issue requirement for this plan to the voters.
The 2013 Capital Investment Program calls for spending of $993 million. The proposed bond issue is for $810 million. We infer that Wake County schools have $183 million available without the bond issue. This is enough to do all the school renovations planned ($169 million) and put a dent in the technology upgrades ($65 million).
Advocates of the 2013 school bond issue really should do their homework.
Anthony Pecoraro of Raleigh is vice president of the Wake County Taxpayers Association.


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The quick thinking of an older sister helped to foil an attempted kidnapping. The Yuma County Sheriff's Department says the incident occurred on Monday (7) evening after a male approached the two girls, aged 17 and six, at a bus stop near the corner of May Avenue and Eighth Street and attempted to kidnap the younger sibling.
The 17-year-old hit the suspect in the face and was able to regain control of her younger sister.
The suspect is described as a white male in his mid 20s to early 30s, with blond hair, blue eyes standing from between 5'10" to 6' tall and weighing from between 175 and 200 pounds. He also has a tattoo of a bird or bat on his left arm.
Anyone with information on the supposed attacker is urged to contact the Yuma County Sheriff's Department at 928-783-4427 or your nearest local law enforcement agency.


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Storage gear is a buyer's market, but that doesn't mean every buyer is getting a great--or even a fair--price. According to Gartner Inc., the difference between disk subsystem vendor bids can be as much as 300% for comparable products. At the same time, the increased importance of software in the pricing equation, combined with new pricing models and metrics such as price per managed port, make it difficult to ascertain what even constitutes a good price.
"Hardware prices are always coming down, so the real action is with the software," says Michael Rogers, director of storage administration, TSYS Inc., a credit card processor based in Columbus, GA. This is where buyers will win or lose the pricing battle, while the basic hardware increasingly becomes a commodity.
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Although there's no magic formula, there are proven ways to get the best price on storage. The key is to resist proprietary vendor features, do business with multiple vendors and know what you must have for storage well in advance so purchases are timed appropriately. And for whatever price under negotiation, understand the true TCO. The lowest acquisition price isn't necessarily the best deal in the long term.
In a recent report titled "How to Get More for Less in Storage Procurement," Josh Krischer, vice president and research director for enterprise servers and storage at Gartner, offers tips on how storage managers can get the best price. In the report, Krischer lays down the fundamentals of negotiating with storage vendors (see "Checklist for better storage purchasing," on this page).
For example, Krischer identifies the propensity of IT organizations to overprovision their storage as a sure way of paying too much. "Do not buy excess capacity," he advises in the report, adding that "buying excess capacity inflates costs and causes faster capacity growth." (For additional information, see "Time to get organized," in the February 2004 issue of Storage.)
Play hardball with vendor negotiation
Anybody can play hardball and negotiate the best price for an individual piece of storage equipment. However, you don't necessarily gain much in terms of the overall cost of your storage infrastructure. To negotiate the best storage prices consistently and effectively, it's important to write an enterprise storage plan.
"Most enterprises aren't just buying storage just once a year," says Randy Kerns, senior analyst, The Evaluator Group, Greenwood Village, CO. Storage infrastructures are refreshed at least twice a year as companies buy and retire storage. This pattern must be part of the storage negotiation process.
"You need to have a buying cycle and a plan that identifies storage turnover and growth," Kerns says. Try to buy when the vendor is closing out a quarter or a financial year. In particular, publicly held storage companies are very susceptible to negotiating pressure as the financial quarter or year closes--a point when they are scrambling to post attractive sales figures.
The enterprise storage plan also allows the company to use the warranty period to maximum advantage. Storage vendors are increasingly offering three-year hardware warranties. After the warranty, the customer pays the annual maintenance fee, usually 15% to 18% of the acquisition cost. "It's best to acquire and retire storage to coincide with the warranty," says Kerns.
"Thirty-six months of free maintenance is a common practice for enterprise storage vendors' hardware. Free maintenance for software is 12 months, but you can negotiate for more," says Krischer. After the free maintenance period, vendors typically charge 1% to 1.5% of the list price per month.
Replacing the hardware after three years is a no-brainer: With the same money or even less, you can buy better storage. It's harder to determine the optimal time to replace software, however. "You have to develop an expert practice just around storage procurement," says Kerns.
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Closer to home, are a couple of petitions asking for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food as well as a petition to prevent the FDA to regulate premium cigars. At last count, more than 30,500 people had digitally signed that petition. There also was a petition, garnering a little slower support, requesting that the state of Louisiana be allowed to peacefully withdraw from the United States of America and create its own new government.
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The men and their crew are gone now — the same men who were here two weeks ago pruning my backyard trees, removing three of them and grinding down their stumps. I hate when that has to happen. I love my trees. I wish the men and their crew weren't coming back today to take down and grind up the big Maple in my front yard. "It'll give you a lot more light when it's gone," one of them said. "You'll like it." He was wrong. I didn't want more light. I wanted my Maple tree.
"We'll grind down the stump and all those invasive roots," said the younger one, "tear out its heart and soul so nothing comes back ... smooth the ground level all around ... you'll never know it had been there."
But of course I would know. He looked stunned when I suggested he could have said that some other way, but the older one understood and ducked his head. "I hate to have to take them out, too," he mumbled, "but this one's diseased. It's a goner." I liked him better after that. I liked both of them in the end — the burly, black-bearded dad and his identical son — and trusted them to leave my tree its dignity if not its life.
My admiration for trees began in the wooded area of the New Westminster municipality just down Kingsway southeast of Vancouver BC in my seventh year. I spent days sharing secrets with that dusky grove of trees behind the cabin where we lived. Once my eyes grew accustomed to the shadows, I could lose myself in their surprises for hours, watching camouflaged lizards dart in jumps and starts up and down tree trunks, changing color to match the bark they clung to.
You don't take trees for granted if you've loved them in your youth ... if you've spent long summer afternoons cradled in the arms of your aunt's towering cherry tree winding its glistening threads of sap round and around a Y twig, admiring the web you've created; popping the ripest of the bright red fruit into your mouth; ignoring your aunt's pleas to, "Get yourself down here this instant before you fall and break your neck!"
I doubt you can love a tree properly if you didn't make their acquaintance early in life, if instead you spent your seventh year caught up in the tele-frenzy of "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Phineas and Ferb" and the like. I wonder if one day legions of tele-frenzied adults will still value the secrets they shared with their cartoon characters as much as I value the secrets a lifetime of trees has shared with me.
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Every once in a while, Pittsburg girls basketball coach Kim Peterson-O'Bray reminds her players that they were picked to finish fifth in the conference.
"Honestly, I don't pay any attention to polls, standings or rankings," Peterson-O'Bray said. "But I do tell the girls, because I think it can serve more as a motivation for them. During conditioning or a tough part in practice, I will throw out a comment to the girls in reference to us being picked fifth."
The motivation has served the Dragons well as they have opened the season 5-0 overall and 3-0 in the SEK. Now, Pittsburg is faced with a key league game as its hosts the Labette County Grizzlies (4-2, 4-0 SEK) tonight at Pittsburg High School.
And there is no shortage of motivation. Not only would a win against Labette County put the Dragons in the driver's seat of the SEK race, it also would be a bit of a milestone for Pittsburg's coach. Despite finishing 17-5 in Peterson-O'Bray's first season, Pittsburg failed to beat the Grizzlies in two tries. Labette County was the only SEK team the Dragons didn't beat at least once last season.
"There's some motivation there," Peterson-O'Bray said. "And it will be our first home game since being back from the break.
"They are always good. They have a great coach and a great program. Even in what is thought to be their down years, they always manage to end up being around the top of the pack. They are very scrappy and very well coached."
The Dragons are working to become a program like Labette that will be competitive every year. Pittsburg is on the right track as Peterson-O'Bray helped the team improve by 12 wins in her first season.
But many may have the thought Pittsburg would take a step back this season as indicated by the preseason poll prediction. After all, the Dragons did graduate a talented senior class, including 6-foot-2 all-stater Skyler Muff.
"We don't have another Skyler Muff who is 6-2, but we do have several girls who are strong," Peterson-O'Bray said. "We are just trying to play fundamental basketball."
The team concept has worked early in the season with senior Lizzy Willis playing a key role for the Dragons. She is averaging in double figures in points and has been a force on the boards.
"Lizzy rebounds like crazy," Peterson-O'Bray said. "She's one of those players who just does it all for us. She's a good communicator and leader."
Senior Alaura Short is reaching a new level as a scorer. She has scored at least 20 points in three of the five games this season and registered a career-high 27 points in a win against Class 4A-foe Girard.
"This year, she is coming into her own," Peterson-O'Bray said. "Last year she played more of a guard but has transitioned inside. She's about 5-8, but she's really strong and has a nice left hand. She can finish with her right or left. She's more comfortable around the basket than she was last year as a guard. It has been a great fit for her and for our team."
Pittsburg also will benefit from the return of senior Brianna Maxwell, who didn't play before the holiday break because of a knee injury. In addition to the seniors, the Dragons have a strong mix of young players, including sophomore point guard Katy Short and four freshmen who suit up for the varsity.
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My current state is a mixture of spreadsheets, wikis, documents, and dated folders for my input/configuration and output files and bzr version control for code.
I am relatively new to programming that requires this level of documentation, and I would like to find a better, more coherent approach.
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Bruce Springsteen, in the abstract, is just the kind of guy my little New Jersey hometown schooled me to despise. Born seventy-seven days apart, raised maybe fifty miles apart, this beatified greaser and I grew up sharing little more than what came over AM radio. In Mountain Lakes, a community of 4000, we had a word for people like Bruce: Newarkylanders. The urban canker of Newark-Elizabeth was their state capital, but they lived and played along the boardwalked Jersey shore. They wore those shoulder-strap undershirts some people called "guinea-T's"; we called them "Newarkys." They drove muscle cars and worked in garages and metal shops. They ate meatball subs made of cat parts for lunch, and after work they shouted at their moms, cruised the drive-ins, punched each other out and balled their girlfriends in backseats.
Our contempt for Newarkylanders cut almost as deep as our fear of them. We looked on them as prisoners, a subclass that would not get the college degrees and Country Squires we were marked for. But we realized that prisoners sometimes bust out of their cages with a special vengefulness. The fear was as real as a black Chevy rumbling down your tree-lined block, and inside are six guys with baseball bats and tire irons.
Bruce Springsteen has seen all this from the inside, he's seen the gates swing shut, he's watched people turning the locks on their own cages. You can hear it in his music, a music with shack-town roots; paradoxically, it saved him from that life. I could not have heard his songs, especially the early, wordier ones, and expect our meeting to boil down to the wracking Jersey nightmare of Joe College vs. Joe Greaser.
While even among his ardent fans there are people who say Springsteen has gone to the well too many times for his favorite themes of cars, girls and the night, watching him perform the new songs, I came to believe he really was battering at new riddles: marriage, work and how people in America turn themselves into ghosts.
I would come to understand that this jubilant rock & roll cock of the walk never had cut it as Joe Greaser, that what had fathered his obsessiveness was doing time as a runty, bad-complected kid whom the nuns, girls and greaser had taken turns having no use for. There is finally something irrevocably lonely and restless about him. He's never claimed any different Springsteen wants to inspire by example – the example of a trashed and resurrected American spirit. "You ask me if there's any one thing in particular," said E Street Band pianist Roy Bittan when we talked about Springsteen's commitment. "There's too many things in particular. He's older and wiser, but he never strays from his basic values. He cares as much, more, about the losers than the winners. He's so unlike everything you think a real successful rock star would be."
Springsteen comes down the ramp at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and looks down the empty corridor: "No autographs," he says in his characteristic parched cackle. "No autographs, please."
This is exactly what he never says, of course, and when the tour party breaches the corridor's double doors, he greets a pack of young, denim-jacketed guys familiarly. Some are holding copies of The River released just this day and headed very quickly for Number One. As the entourage loads itself into a string of station wagons, a kid who has been hanging at the edge of the pack tells Bruce about a friend who's critically ill in a local hospital. Bruce tells the kid to get his friend's name to him through the record company. Doors are slamming and engines gunning. It's bitter cold. Just another stranger, I think.
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Thirty-eight hours later, after performing "Out in the Street" onstage at the St. Paul Civic Center, Springsteen halts the show. "I met a bunch of guys at the airport yesterday coming in. One told me he had a friend who was sick. If that fella who told me his friend was sick will come to the side of the stage during the break, I got something for your friend backstage."
After the kid appeared, and was duly loaded up with autographed mementos, I pondered the gesture. Springsteen could have scribbled his good wishes on an album at the airport and been done with it. But he had left the benediction to be arranged in public. There's a lot of showman in Springsteen, and not a little preacher. Why had he let the anonymous kid slip so close to being forgotten, then given him his last rock & roll rites before the crowd?
"There's not much people can count on today," says Springsteen. "Everything has been so faithless, and people have been shown such disrespect. You want to show people that somehow, that somewhere, somebody can…I guess you just don't want to let them down. That's probably why we come out and play every night, there's that fear, 'cause then nothin' works, nothin' makes sense. As long as one thing does, if there can be just one thing that goes against what you see all around you, then you know that things that goes against what you see all around you, then you know that things can be different. Mainly, it's important to have that passion for living, to somehow get it from someplace."
The inescapable cliché about faith is that it can always be doubted. That's the thing about Springsteen – if you pay any attention at all, his lyrics and his every stance will force you into a corner where you must decide whether you believe him or not. I had to believe he wasn't staging the benediction to pump up his image – in the tradition of Babe Ruth socking a homer for a dying child – but for the kid himself. Not to say "rise and walk," but to offer something tangible – the momentary, empathetic suffering of this captive crowd of 15,000. And although most are in their wild age, perhaps some of them might even learn a little charity themselves.
Accuse Springsteen of being a "star" and he'll flick his hand like he's just been splashed with pigeon shit. He is eager to point out that he has the better deal in the meeting place between fan and star.
"I think the one feeling that's most unique to this job, the best part of the whole thing, is meeting someone like this guy I met the other night who had been on a bus ten hours. He's twenty-one years old, and he just grabs hold of me. We're in a room crowded with people. He's cryin', and he does't care. He says, 'It's my birthday,' and I ask, 'How old are you?"' He says, 'I'm twenty-one, and this is the most important thing in my life.' And you know they're not kidding when they say it, because you look in their faces and they're so full of emotion.
"You meet somebody, and it's like an open well. In ten minutes I'll know more about him than his mother and father do, and maybe his best friend. All the things it usually takes for people to know each other just go away, because there's this feeling that it's so fleeting. They tell you the thing that's most important to them right away. It's a sobering thing, because you know that somewhere you did something that meant something to them. It's just a real raw, emotional thing; it's like the cleanest thing you ever felt. You have a communication, a feeling, and I don't know, you just gotta love the guy. If you don't, there's something the matter with you.
"And it ain't some starry-eyed thing, and it ain't some Hollywood thing, and it ain't some celebrity thing. This guy, he loves you, and what's more, he knows you in a certain way. That's the thing that makes me strong. I get strong when I meet somebody like that."
There is an obsessiveness to Springsteen – the underside of his manic onstage energy – that can be a little scary. It seems to spring from flash fires that ignite in his very detailed memory. "There ain't a note I play onstage," he says late one night, "that can't be traced directly back to my mother and father."
We're riding in a rented Winnebago, rocking back and forth in icy crosswinds on a six-hour drive from Pittsburgh to Rochester, New York. We had started the drive at three a.m., an hour Springsteen takes to like a pup going for a walk. Still buzzed from a show that closed with Elvis Presley's "Mystery Train," he merrily salts some fried chicken and picks up a remembrance. "It was a real classic little town I grew up in, very intent on maintaining the status quo. Everything was looked at as a threat, kids were looked at as a nuisance and a threat. And when you're a kid, your parents become fixtures, like a sofa in the living room, and you take for granted what they do." He lets out one of his oddly mournful laughs. "My father used to drive around in his car, and it would not go in reverse. Heh. I remember pushing it backward; that was just something you did, you didn't even think it was strange."
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Like other 50cc scooters, both versions are limited to a top speed of 30 miles per hour. The gas tank holds 1.3 gallons. Vento did not publish a mileage estimate for either model, but, given the scooter's dry weight (without gasoline or oil) of 143 pounds, a rider could reasonably expect to his or her gas dollars to stretch. Powered by an air-cooled, two-stroke single-cylinder engine, both models have carburetors rather than fuel injectors, which might cut down slightly on the fuel economy. The LI has an SOHC valve configuration; the G5T has a reed valve setup. No one who rides a 50cc scooter should expect fast acceleration; these two little machines have 4.9 horsepower and 6.8 lb. ft. torque, which is about average for their class. The belt-driven continuously variable transmission puts the Zips squarely in the twist-and-go category; a young rider does not need to learn a complicated shifting pattern. Remote, keyless ignition is standard.
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---- — PLUM ISLAND — The latest storm to strike Plum Island proved to be a knockout blow for two Annapolis Way homes, which will be torn down later this morning after suffering catastrophic damage during yesterday's ferocious morning high tide.
The houses at 37 and 41 Annapolis Way were each condemned after high seas washed away the dune from underneath them, compromising their foundations and rendering them a danger to the public. Three other houses suffered significant structural damage in the storm and at least a dozen were left teetering perilously close to the edge.
The house at 41 Annapolis Way suffered the worst fate, toppling over the edge shortly after yesterday's 8:30 a.m. high tide hit. It sat at a 45-degree angle, half on the dune and half on the beach, with wreckage and personal belongings spilling out into the waves that lashed at it.
While Tom Nee's residence at 37 Annapolis Way was still standing, virtually all the engineering that had been to shore up the house after it was damaged by the Blizzard of 2013 was gone.
"We couldn't anticipate a storm like this coming and doing the damage that it did," said Sam Joslin, Newbury's Building Inspector. "So that work was for naught and the house is in worse shape than it was prior to repairs."
Yesterday's storm was the latest in a string of devastating storms to hit Plum Island over the past few months, including Hurricane Sandy, a surprisingly strong December storm, and then the blizzard.
Bob Connors, who lives between the two houses at 39 Annapolis Way, said he couldn't recall Plum Island ever experiencing this many storms in such quick succession, and it's taking its toll.
"I don't think the storm is as bad [as the Blizzard], but we have a fully compromised coastal dune system now so we have absolutely no storm protection," Connors said. "So these homes are at risk at every tide."
The ruined house at 41 Annapolis Way was owned by Steve and Lucy Bandoian, who are spending the winter in Florida and were not home when the house fell. It was built in 1981 and was valued at $168,900, according to town assessor records. It replaced a building that was damaged during the Blizzard of '78.
The home was one of about seven that has been previously posted as unstable by the building inspector. It had been teetering on the edge all morning, and Kevin Baez, one of Connor's employees, was there the moment the house began to fall.
"I was down between the railings taking pictures because there was an overhang and the ocean was coming up underneath it, and before my eyes it just went," Baez said. "It's something you hate to see happen, and it's tough to see. It's not something you see everyday, it was pretty amazing."
The other houses that suffered structural damage were at 31 Annapolis Way and 36 and 38 Fordham Way. Joslin said the town would need to assess the situation at those houses before determining whether or not they could be saved.
With so many homes at risk of falling over the dune's edge, Newbury Police declared a local state of emergency and announced that they would be closing the beach from Center Island southwards towards blue, the Inn on the Beach for the foreseeable future in order to keep residents safe.
Chief Michael Reilly said officers would be patrolling the beach and warned that anyone caught on the beach would be subject to criminal charges of trespassing.
"We have structures that are ready to tumble, we have debris in the water, we want to keep as many people off the beach as possible," Reilly said. "I know this weekend is going to be a beautiful weekend, so it's going to be difficult to try and keep people off the beach, and we're hoping the public will help us."
Police and National Guard troops restricted access to Annapolis Way after the house collapsed, and after the tide receded some vulnerable homeowners tried shoring up their homes in any way they could. Many expressed frustration that they hadn't gotten the chance to earlier.
"We have proposed many solutions, all privately funded, and we just continue to hit roadblock after roadblock [from the state and federal agencies]," Connors said shortly after high tide. "The result is we're probably going to have seven homes structurally damaged or lost today on top of what we already had."
Connors said time has run out for the Plum Island homeowners and measures need to be taken immediately to protect the homes that remain. State Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, has been a vocal proponent of helping beachfront homeowners protect their property, and he called on other state and federal officials to take action.
"Its clear that up and down the coast, homes, property and infrastructure have been in jeopardy, it's time that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts takes a serious look at all the tools that are available," Tarr said. "We don't want to have another home like that, and we want to be proactive and not reactive to the extent that we can."
Tarr added that all affected homeowners should do whatever they need to do to protect their home in the short term, and he would work with the Department of Environmental Protection to make sure the laws are either complied with or changed.
Prior to the Blizzard, Annapolis Way homeowners have paid to install "coir bags" along the waterside of their properties. These 40-foot-long sandbags form a protective wall against the surf. The wall of sandbags was about a quarter mile long, but the bags took a beating in yesterday's storm, and in some areas they were left in tatters.
The 200-yard stretch of homes along Annapolis Way have borne the brunt of erosion problems over the past several months. Two years ago, a home about 50 yards north of 41 Annapolis Way was demolished when the dune underneath it was compromised and its concrete foundation began to fall apart. Another home was built on the same lot, though not as close to the dune edge.
However in recent weeks, the erosion problem has started to migrate southward, along Fordham Way to the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. In all, there are about two dozen seaside homes that have seen their waterside dunes severely eroded by recent storms.
Annapolis Way is located about 100 yards south of the Beach Center. Five years ago, it was the Beach Center and the dunes stretching 300 yards north of it that were taking a severe pounding. The federal and state governments spent $5.1 million to pump in sand to that stretch of beach, as well as a section of Salisbury Beach. The project stabilized the erosion problem at the Beach Center, however the problem simply shifted to the south.
Some believe that the presence of a sandbar offshore plays the crucial role in determining where erosion occurs. A narrow sandbar, located about 100 to 200 yards offshore, stretches along the northern end of the island. It ends just north of Annapolis Way. Areas that are behind the sandbar have seen their beach grow, while areas that are not protected by the sandbar have been suffering some of the worst erosion.


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He was 56-year-old Mark James Hateley of Los Angeles, said Lt. Joe Bale of the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
The headless body was discovered at around 3 p.m. Monday and that same night Culver City Police Lt. Randy Vickrey said the investigator determined the death was a suicide. He said it was apparently death by hanging.
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