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SPARKS — Spanish Springs High School senior Ryan Hopkins is no stranger to adversity. When looking back on his time in high school, Hopkins, 18, found that his perseverance and time management helped him fight through difficult times and will lead him to graduation on Saturday.
About one year ago Hopkins' father died of lung and liver cancer, leaving him and his brother to fend for themselves.
"After his death, my brother and I were living on our own in the house, dealing with all of the chores, bills, pets and household maintenance," Hopkins said. "On top of that, I had three Advanced Placement classes to work through, all while keeping a high grade point average."
Hopkins said his new responsibilities have altered his daily life, but he finds it best to keep himself busy learning different subjects of study.
"I still am troubled with the loss of my father, but find it best to keep myself busy with music, school, and my favorite: teaching myself biochemistry and organic chemistry," he said.
Hopkins' school counselor, Lara Dreelan, commented on his ability to work through personal problems.
"Ryan's ability to maintain his academics and deal with all that he had to face was amazing," she said.
Hopkins recently performed in the school's "Battle of the Bands," which he said was "the most invigorating moment of my life."
Hopkins plans to remain active, in mind, music and physicality, by continuing his education at the University of Nevada, Reno to major in organic chemistry or biochemistry. He hopes his degree will translate into becoming a strength and conditioning coach in the fight against obesity.
"I find that keeping an active mind is the best way to overcome any challenge, as it will encourage enlightened thinking and improve general intelligence," he said. "I find that I have the most fun with education when I try learning complicated things, because I then feel extremely accomplished and confident that I can learn anything I want."
Alexandria Frater
SPARKS — When Alexandria Frater arrived in Sparks, she was worried people would not understand her or that she would not fit in and would be considered an outsider. The 17-year-old from Jamaica was gladly proven wrong.
"Each and every day was a test to adjust to this new life and overcome my doubts and find the strength to believe in myself at the darkest times," she said.
Frater's 'never give up' attitude has allowed her to become accustomed to the Spanish Springs High School curriculum and her surroundings. She says she is excited to finally cross the stage Saturday as a high school graduate.
"High school is no doubt tough, but good friends can help you to stick it out and realize you have potential," she said adding some advice for working through high school. "Be open to positive change and allow yourself to make mistakes because they are the best way to learn"
Frater hopes to continue her education with a possible career path as a lawyer, realtor or FBI agent. She plans to join the Air Force and begin serving her country after Saturday's graduation.
Her school counselor, Angie Griffiths Pilkington, said that Frater's uncertainty will not hinder her ability to succeed.
"She has a positive, determined spirit I believe will serve her well in life no matter what path she chooses," Pilkington said.
Frater, who hopes to become the first person in her family to graduate from an American college, said moving to the United States has given her a new perspective on education.
"I value education because so many people don't have it and wish they did," she said. "I would be extremely remiss if I let the opportunity to learn pass me by."
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Washoe County School District has been profiling graduating high school seniors in the weeks leading up to this week's commencement ceremonies. The profiles below of two students from Spanish Springs High School are taken from the district's interviews. To read more and see videos, visit www.washoecountyschools.org/community/countdown-to-graduation.


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Who must take the WPST
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Test Fee
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If you are not able to take the test on Saturdays for religious reasons, obtain a letter from your pastor on church letterhead. You must also attach a copy of your class schedule to your WPST application. Requests not on letterhead will not be honored. Your test will be arranged for the Wednesday or Thursday before the regular test date. Specific reporting instructions will be mailed to you shortly after the registration deadline.
If you do not receive your reporting information by Monday before the regular test date, please contact the WPST office and get the information. It is your responsibility to be sure that you obtain the reporting information before the regular test date.
What to Bring with You on the Test Date
- Acceptable photo identification for the purpose of admission to this test is:
- current drivers license
- current passport
- current ID card issued by the DMV
- alien registration (green) card
- US military ID card
- 2 black or blue ink pens.
Do NOT bring pencils or erasable pens. Essays written in pencil will not be scored and essays written with erasable pens may be too difficult to read and therefore not scored.
- Student ID card for the purpose of recording your student ID number
The following are items that you cannot bring with you:
- Cell phones, pagers, alarm watches, and any other device that emits a sound are not permitted in the testing building. Any electronic device going off during the test will result in your test not being scored.
- Calculators, dictionaries, books, any papers other than this letter, backpacks, large bags, food, or drinks are not permitted in the building during testing sessions.
- No visitors are permitted in the test center, and no childcare is available.
Test Time
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If you have not received notification by the Monday of the test week, call (209) 667-3069 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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This is my build for my first serious, hell viable assassin. I would like to help me polish it a bit and check if it's indeed good enough for hell. The idea is to make a melee rogue, which is based on speed and poison.
Cobra Strike 20
Dragon Claw 20
Claw Mastery 20
Weapon Block 1
Venom 20
Rest of the skill points into Fade, for all res.
As for gear I have no idea. I though about Trang's for +25% poison damage. Maybe Chaos claws, duress, shadow dancers, raven, bk3. I don't know what belt and helmet to chose. Amulet: highlord probably. Standard Might merc with treachery, obedience and andy. Generally, I would like to have good damage through poison. There is a problem with physical and poison immune monsters in this build, though. Your thoughts?
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I recommend browsing Maxicek's Aggressin Guide. It's DClaw based, and pretty comprehensive in the different ways to approach it.
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Thx. I overhauled it already. Tiger Strike 20 instead of Cobra Strike. Shadow Master 20, rest into Venom. Chaos on primary claw for IAS, etc.


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Ed Winter has turned his shed into Santa's Workshop. The 75-year-old Huntersville retiree has spent the past several weeks in it, rebuilding, repairing and rehabbing nearly 40 bicycles that will be handed out to children on Christmas Eve at Angels and Sparrows Soup Kitchen.
This is the second year Winter has donated bikes to the Huntersville nonprofit agency. Last year, he dropped off three bikes.
"I didn't know smiles could reach from ear to ear," he said. "It was so heartwarming. There was no doubt I was going to give more this year."
So he reached out to his members of his church at Independence Hill Baptist Church. They hung fliers and spread the word around Lake Norman: Ed needs bikes.
"Then it started," he said. "They just started pouring in."
The bikes came in faster than he could repair them. He's been able to repair about three bikes a day. And Winter is taking great pride in his work – all the bikes must meet his standards.
"They need to look as good as they did the day they came out of the shop," he said.
The Spirit Cyclist in Huntersville is selling tires, chains and other parts for the bikes to Winter at the store's cost. The store and its employees also donated three bikes. The Trek store at Northlake Mall also donated a bike and some parts.
It's "the North Meck" spirit, Angels and Sparrows founder Sandy Tilley said.
"If you tell the people of North Mecklenburg you need something," she said, "just get out of the way because they are going to give to you more than you know what to do with."
And Tilley has been good to them. Last Christmas, she passed out gifts to more than 850 children – more than 6,000 donated toys in all.
That was a bit much for the small agency, which runs totally on donations of food and money from local residents, Tilley said. She hopes to refocus this year's celebration on Lake Norman families.
To receive gifts, you must have a ticket from Angels and Sparrows. To make sure the tickets go to North Mecklenburg County needy families, she will hand out tickets to the more hundreds of families who visit Angels and Sparrows, and its food pantries, each week.
"We've been treated so well by the North Meck community," she said. "I want to make sure we're serving them totally. ... And people like Ed (Winter) and the volunteers that come here every day are what make that possible."
Winter doesn't take much of the credit. He's quick to point out the hours he puts in each day repairing the bikes pale in comparison to the number Tilley and her volunteers work each day.
"I'm just glad I could help out," he said. "That's what makes me happy. Making sure a bunch of kids have a good Christmas, that's why I do this. But Sandy really puts her heart and soul into her work. She is a Godsend."
Angels and Sparrows is still collecting toys for their Christmas party, but what Tilley really needs now is grocery store gift cards to buy fresh foods and volunteers to serve families and help out around the soup kitchen.
Winter said he will wouldn't miss the celebration.
"I have 12-inch bikes up to 26-inch bikes," he said. "For the kids and their parents. I can't wait to see the faces of these kids. It's truly an amazing site."


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Phoenix Suns: Season killers?
Originally published: Feb 20, 2013 - 12:17 pm
"Time for season's obituary?"
The loss dropped Portland to 25-29 on the season. The team has lost six straight games and is currently 3.5 games out of the Western Conference's final playoff spot. Yet while the loss stings, the reaction to it says more about the perception of the team that beat them.
Apparently no one should be losing to the Phoenix Suns.
Very ouch.
There was a stretch in the 2000s where it seemed like any team the Arizona Cardinals beat would go on to fire its coach. It was almost as if a loss to the team -- to that team -- was a sign things had completely fallen apart.
Looks like a new Valley team may have taken the baton.
At 18-36, the Suns have the worst record in the Western Conference and fifth-worst mark in the NBA. They've fired their coach, made numerous lineup changes and been involved in more than their fair share of trade rumors.
Most of which, by the way, have the Suns simply pawning off useful players in exchange for draft picks and expiring contracts. It's not about a bad team getting better; it's about a real bad team getting worse.
Congratulations, Suns, for you have become a national punch line.
You're also a polarizing issue for your fans.
On one hand, a win like the one Tuesday in Portland was excellent. Phoenix had not won there since 2008, and the performances received from players like Goran Dragic, Luis Scola and even Wesley Johnson were encouraging. But, on the other hand, the win negatively affects the Suns' draft position and helped the L.A. Lakers inch a little closer to a playoff spot.
And in case you forgot, a Lakers lottery pick would belong to the Suns, so yeah, if a win can ever actually be a loss, this one may have been it.
So where does that leave the Suns?
Well, you can't get mad at players and coaches for winning games. Players need to play hard and coaches need to coach to the best of their abilities. Their respective jobs are to win games, and it would be unfair to ask anything else of them.
But management, on the other hand, can make moves strictly with an eye towards the future. If that means keeping things as they are, that's fine. There is some young talent on the roster that could be a part of Phoenix's next playoff team. And if that means dumping veterans in exchange for picks or cap space, so be it. It's all about next year and beyond, not trying to salvage this season.
Because this season has been dead for a while, and no one likes a zombie.
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http://www.thebikerstore.co.uk/products/Gerbing-Heated-Insoles.html Sorted.
Seventy quid?
I think I need a bigger pair of bike shoes to get all these base layers on. I'm liking the idea of thick socks over the top of the shoe though and cutting a hole round the cleats. Then neoprene over the top of those sounds cosy.
But I'm hoping spring is round the corner.
Ges - I wear skiing gloves, £2.50 from Lidl last year, kids size so snug fitting works a treat.
My hands don't get cold at all, it's just my feet.
Don't laugh at the bigger bike shoes... commuter colleagues do that!
Doesn't matter if it's summer or winter for me - think my feet get cold 'cos their 'still' (oh yikes have I said something wrong... do proper cyclists move their feet?). Oh what a beautiful morning! Hope you're all heading out now.
I'm going to the (newish) Tri 'outlet' shop, who knows there might be a whole 60p off some nice things.
Yes I really did write 'their' instead of 'they're' (I'll suffer for that). Was still thinking of the 'human element'... colleagues.
Much better today. Toes felt slightly numb but not as cold as they have been. One pair of cycling socks, one pair of the Hobbit's ski socks and neoprene overshoes.
Think the numbness might have been due to the thickness of the socks in the shoes, so will try several pairs of thinner socks next time.
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Best Burger – Can't go wrong with this simple idea! Burgers are made with fresh meat and fresh lettuce and tomato. Great fries and shake, too.
Yumm – What else can I say that already hasn't been said! Loves it- I am craving one now ;-)
I felt happy HOUR – I can faithfully depend on getting yummy food brought to me by awesome chefs, but I would like to say Thanks to waiters also.
All in all, it is good place to hang around for colorful evening..
MANS TRUE BEST FRIEND! – At first I thought this place was a veterinary clinic for dogs. Upon further investigation and it coming to light they were serving food to humans I immediately thought something was awry! I then found out it was a restaurant specializing in the sale of hot dogs and had to indulge. Being a man on a strict diet of steamed veggies and brown rice this was against my regular course of activity. Since that day I have eaten a hot dog three times a week! This place is truly amazing. I may have gained a few pounds in recent months however its well worth it! You will know where I am coming from if you dine at this fine establishment!!!
must go for hot dog – This is soul food for the true foodie. We deicided to have hot dog last weekend. I was in line for a while then we got the stuff. I love the onion rings.. the happy hound is my favorite and the burgers are incredible too. Be prepared to stand in a line and wait a bit.
Really, i can call this place "foodie junction". :-)
Good place to eat – Six of us went. I had the Polish dog, onion rings and a Strawberry malt it was all very good. The onion rings are over priced for what you get. Two people had the corn dogs and they appeared to be overcooked. The others had hot dogs and those were very good. The best deal are the frys, they are excellent and you get a lot of them for the price. I would go back..
The Best!!! – The hot dogs, actually frankfurters, crunch when you bite into them and are so juicy inside. My personal favorite is the mustard hound. The hamburgers are big and juicy, the fries are perfect, the onion rings are delicious! All around one of my all-time favorite places!
High quality hot dogs and hamburgers.. a food snob's fast food delight! – Simply put.. this place ROCKS MY WORLD! Especially while I was pregnant ;O) The reviews that are fewer than 5 stars are obviously by people that are ok with cheap fast food.. this is soul food for the true foodie. I love the onion rings.. the happy hound is my favorite and the burgers are incredible too. Be prepared to stand in a line and wait a bit. totally worth the wait. :O)
Best Chili Cheese Dog – This place was jumpin'! I have never seen a fast food place so busy. The food comes off the grill HOT. Some in our party had the chili cheese dogs, fries and onion rings. The hot dog tasted like no other (some places it doesn't taste right this was like out of a ballpark) . The burger was very greasy but with two patties, fresh lettuce and onion who could resist this monster! The food tasted fresh. The restaurant is very small inside and not good if you have more than 4 people in your group. If you have little ones that need a high chair or have a 5th person in your party they will be in the way of the doors if the place is very busy.
Parking is tight in the lot. It might be easier to park on a side street. Awesome food. The price is good for the taste, quality and portion of the food.
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Hey, how are all you guys doing with your new toys? I just got back from my local Apple store with a 32GB model.
I have to say, I'm enjoying the 3G to 3GS upgrade much more than I ever enjoyed the 2G to 3G upgrade. First of all, the new iPhone is a LOT faster doing pretty much everything, they're not kidding about that. I knew things would be a little peppier, but I was amazed at how fast all my stuff synced over, and how much smoother the entire phone software is. If you've ever used the iPhone simulator and noticed that animations were much more fluid than those on the actual hardware, that's what the iPhone 3GS is like now.
The oleophobic screen stays pretty clean, and it also feels much nicer on your finger.
Voice control works, seems like kind of a gimmick if you ask me, but I've never really felt a need for it either.
The camera is really nice. Macro mode is something that I've wanted for a long time, and to finally get it is great. The video camera is pretty high quality compared to other cell phones, I'd say just shy of FlipVideo level, perhaps equal to FV in good conditions, which is more than enough IMHO. In poor light conditions, the framerate drops to about 15fps, and occasionally the video will stutter as the phone does something else in the background. If you're outside on a sunny day, video is amazingly fluid and very high quality. If you're indoors and lighting is good, you'll probably be satisfied with the results as well save some occasional hiccups. Low light performance is great for a cell phone camera, don't get me wrong, but don't expect dedicated camcorder level results.
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Gov. Paul LePage listens to Paul Landry, owner of Fish Bones American Grill, talk to the media about the governor's plan to pay back the hospital debt by leveraging future liquor sale revenue. The news conference took place at Roopers Beverage in Auburn on Friday.
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Last year, the state's share was about $8.5 million. Gerry Reid, the state's director of alcoholic beverages and lottery operations, has estimated that Maine could collect as much as $45 million each year by renegotiating the contract.
In addition to borrowing against future liquor revenue to pay the hospitals now, LePage's bill would lower the cost of some liquor in Maine to help the state be more competitive with New Hampshire. The governor said it also would help retailers "be a little more . . . profitable."
LePage tried to shore up support for the bill Friday, first from Steve Roop, who owns Roopers Beverage and other liquor stores in the area, and later from Laird Covey, president of Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, which will be paid $51 million if the governor's deal is approved.
"It's very urgent for us," Covey said after the governor finished an hour-long tour of the hospital. "It's been an issue for 10 years."
Covey called the governor's proposal a "concrete plan" to pay down the debt immediately. He said he has not seen any other ideas.
Sen. Seth Goodall, D-Richmond, has sponsored a competing liquor bill that will be heard Monday. Like the governor's proposal, it would allow private firms to bid on a 10-year contract.
Unlike LePage's plan, it would require the winner to make an upfront payment and would not earmark revenue for specific uses.
While Democrats continue to criticize the governor for his tactics, LePage said, "I've tried everything with those guys. They simply don't want to deal."
Asked why he didn't propose the bill when he had a more sympathetic legislature -- he had Republican majorities in the House and Senate for his first two years as governor -- LePage responded, "When did I have that?"
Staff Writer Eric Russell can be contacted at 791-6344 or at
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Gov. Paul LePage hugs supporter Laurie Steele after speaking to the media during his visit to Roopers Beverage in Auburn on Friday.
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The Minnesota Twins, originally targeted for termination before the start of this season by Commissioner Selig, have held on to first place in the American League Central, while the Montreal Expos, the other Dead Team Walking, were for a time leading or nearly leading the frail National League East. With things as they are, this counts as great—or semi-ironic, reverse-popular great—news for the commissioner, whose own club, the Milwaukee Brewers (operated for the present by his daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb), is in the cellar of the N.L. Central. The Brewers, who play in a new stadium, Miller Park, built at taxpayers' expense, are not on Selig's schedule for possible "contraction," as the end of franchise life is euphemistically known.
Meantime, in another part of town, John Rocker, the hyper ex-Braves, ex-Indians reliever and No. 7 line subway critic, was briefly dispatched to the minors by his latest club, the Texas Rangers, after compiling a 9.53 earned-run average. "No! He was?" exclaimed Mets manager Bobby Valentine on being told the news. Mike Cameron, an outfielder with the Seattle Mariners, hit four home runs in one game, against the White Sox, becoming the eleventh man in modern baseball to pull off this feat. Lou Gehrig was the first. The Chicago pitchers responsible for the homers—Jon Rauch and Jim Parque—who'd thrown Cameron two fat pitches apiece, were dispatched to the minors after the game. Elsewhere, another pitcher, the Reds' Jose Rijo—perhaps remembered as the M.V.P. of the 1990 World Series—won his first game in seven years (against the Cubs, on April 21st), after enduring five surgeries and a six-year absence from the majors.
Earlier in our story, Jeffrey Loria, the New York art-dealer owner of the Expos (who drew an average 7,935 spectators per home game last year), was permitted to trade up for a different low-interest (fans, not loans) club, the Florida Marlins. The Montreal front office, decimated by the transaction, is now staffed by Major League Baseball employees; this qualifies the 'Spos' new skipper, Frank Robinson, as the first commander of a baseball protectorate. Meantime, Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, the World Champion Arizona Diamondbacks' stellar starting duo last year (they went 21-6 and 22-6, respectively), started up where they left off, and stood at a cumulative 14-2 at last count. Johnson, pitching against the Colorado Rockies in his fifth start, gave up two hits and struck out seventeen. Three of his last four pitches were timed at a hundred miles an hour.
Barry Bonds, who hit a record seventy-three home runs last year, smacked two on the Giants' Opening Day, and two more the next afternoon. That same week, a teammate, second baseman Jeff Kent, came off the disabled list, after nearly being fined thirty-seven thousand dollars per missed game by the Giants for violating a risk clause in his contract while incurring a pre-season wrist injury. Kent said he'd hurt himself while washing his truck, but eyewitnesses came forward to say they'd seen him crash while doing wheelies on his Harley. Thirty-seven thousand multiplied by a hundred and sixty-two games equals Kent's salary of six million bucks—which remained intact when the Giants' front office, like Tony Soprano the dad, lost its nerve at the last instant and forgave.
And, only recently, the Post contributed the tingling headline "MR. MET vs TALIBAN" . . . "Baseball mascot stationed at Gitmo." Mr. Met, the Mets' roving macrocephalic, had just celebrated his fortieth year on the job, at a Sunday date against the Expos, without any announcement that his inner self, an Army Reserve major named Lee Reynolds, was no longer with us, having been called up for duty at Guantánamo Bay. More on Mr. Met later.My plan to spend a lot more time with the Mets this season has been rewarded, sort of. Once again, I have come to see that uncertainty and reversal are the everyday flavor of the game—a truth obscured or forgotten when you hang around the Yankees. Last year, the Mets were second worst in batting in the National League, worst in runs scored and slugging average, and first, in a close contest, in ennui. All that would end with their expensive off-season acquisition of Mo Vaughn, the eminent ex-Angels and ex-Red Sox first baseman-slugger, and the perennial All Star Robbie Alomar, by consensus the best second baseman of our epoch. The infield, where Edgardo Alfonzo had been shifted from second base to third, would be the Mets' best in a long time. The starting pitching, according to my winter Mets party line, was up in the air, given the three new starters Pedro Astacio, Jeff D'Amico, and Shawn Estes, who all came intriguingly decked out in accomplishment and physical frailty. The bullpen was a serious concern, given the continuing disablement of its archducal lefty, John Franco, after an elbow repair in December. Defense—well, no worry there, at least. The swift Roger Cedeño and the burgeoning (how long can you say "promising"?) Jay Payton, in center, would catch everything airborne, and perhaps even steal some bases at last.
Well, no: cancel the above. These Mets assumptions—every one of them—have turned out to be wrong. Mo Vaughn and Robbie Alomar have yet to get untracked at the plate, at this writing or waiting. (Some of Mo's missing power has been attributed to his swinging a bat that was two or three ounces heavier than he thought it was: a baseball first, to me.) Cedeño circling and staggering under a long fly ball and then missing the catch and Payton mindlessly popping up on the first pitch have gnawed their way into my Mets consciousness, like Seaver's fastball and Mookie Wilson's hopper. The infield has been grotesquely awful in stretches and presumably cannot do worse: the club's forty-six errors are the most in either league. The starting pitchers, by contrast, have been sound and can be counted—if you count the right way—among the better staffs around. In the pen, David Weathers, Grant Roberts, Scott Strickland, and Armando Benitez have proved hostile and unflappable. With a dog's breakfast of team stats like this, the Mets couldn't be expected to win—except that they won just enough to stay in first place in their division for two weeks running.
Nothing about these Mets remains true for long, which is why you watch them in action with a riveted and memorizing anxiety: Mo's glowering gaze at the pitcher from behind the parapet of his right shoulder; Mo signing autographs for the Baha Men R. & B. group, with his low-pulled cap pushing out his ears; Al Leiter's midgame clenched jaw and clenched mind; Joe McEwing's balletic hoppings in the batter's box, where he starts and finishes his swing on tiptoe; Alomar's scary backhand flips of the ball from out of his glove; Mike Piazza's cockily tilted helmet and ticking calm when he's up at bat; Pedro Astacio waggling his drooping right hand on the mound like a fishing lure as he looks in for the sign; and Edgardo Alfonzo (the Met of Mets, to me) dropping the head of his bat on the away pitch and smoothly redirecting the ball—this time, anyway—for a single into right field. If you find all this in your mind's eye at three-forty-five in the morning, you've renewed your license as a Mets fan and can come back the next day.
Ordóñez had slammed his mitt—a black Wilson A2000 model—against the clubhouse wall after the game, and then snipped the laces out of it with a pair of trainer's scissors, making sure it would never clank again. This was more revenge than mojo, since he shifts to a fresh mitt every couple of weeks. Mo Vaughn and John Valentin, by contrast, have played with the same gloves for eight or nine years now—"I like things comfortable," Mo said—and the mitts feel as if there's more pine tar than leather to them by now. When Valentin let me grab hold of his for a minute, in the clubhouse, it grabbed me back.
Even in the midst of his troubles, Ordóñez continued to pull off dazzlingly difficult plays, including his patented stretching dive to the right, when he reaches across his body to backhand a scorching drive and at the same time drops to his right knee or extends the leg full-length, like a dancer flying into a split. This brings him to a skidding halt, with his body rising and turning in the same motion for the throw across the diamond; the left leg has trailed a fraction, opening his upper body enough to allow some steam on the peg. Nothing in modern baseball is prettier than this. It was the easier stuff that was giving him fits, that extra beat of time which told him and the rest of us how hard the work is after all.
These peewee fans enjoyed some between-inning gambollings by Mr. Met and a bunch of visiting mascots—the Phillie Phanatic, the Oakland white elephant, the Pirates' parrot, the Padres' tonsured friar, and others—here to help celebrate his ostensible fortieth anniversary. But I date back to the Polo Grounds era with this club, and recall Mr. Met's predecessor, a beagle named Homer—a dog, I mean, and not a parade float. I am no fan of the Queens icon, holding that a stitched and grinning white ball is not the face of fun, but this time withheld complaint and even joined in speculative conversations about him in our loge sector. None of us knew as yet that the anima of Mr. Met was elsewhere, serving his country. But had not Mr. Met been known to add a tactful yarmulke to his getup in the past, on High Holy Day games? (I thought not.) And were these warmhearted visiting mascots the real thing, flown in for the afternoon from their distant home fields around the league, or were they untrained local talent, mere walk-ons under those outsized heads? (I took the cynical second view.) I didn't know it, but the same Santa debate was being argued up in the first-base-side mezzanine at this very moment, by my Mets-fan friend Gerry and his ten-year-old son, Guy, who was shocked at his father's suggestion that the mascot co-celebrants were not on the up and up. When the game ended—the Mets won it, 6-4—and they went home, someone turned on the Dodgers-Padres game, over ESPN, and there was the Padres' Swinging Friar shaking his belly on Pacific Coast time. "Oh, Daad!" Guy said, crestfallen.
I was back among the grownups the next evening—well, back in the press box—for the best entertainment of the young season, an extended docudrama against the Atlanta Braves, unexpectedly captured by the Mets, 7-6, in twelve. The Braves have eaten the Mets' lunch in recent years, while on the way to their brilliant run of ten straight post-season appearances, but this year's edition has proved fallible and just now stood last in the National League East. The game, in any case, suspended speculation with its own news. Shawn Estes, the Mets lefty starter, was rocked for two homers and five runs in the second inning but permitted by Bobby Valentine to stay on through the fifth, while he recaptured his poise and his curveball. Mike Piazza had led off the Mets' second inning with a homer to dead center field, and then did it again, farther and deeper, to start off the seventh. Doubles by Edgardo Alfonzo and Jeromy Burnitz now trimmed the Atlanta lead to 6-3, and Ordóñez, ordered to bunt on the first pitch, delivered Burnitz from third base on a delicious squeeze, with the runner crossing the plate untouched and no play at any base. "LetsgoMets!" . . . "LetsgoMets!" and here came John Valentin, up to bat in place of the pitcher, with a tying two-run shot, barely over the wall and a foot or two inside the left-field foul pole: his first pinch-hit homer in a ten-years-plus career. Stuff like this should be saved for September.
The Mets bullpen flingers had matters their way by now—they combined with Estes for what became a nine-inning midgame shutout, in fact—but Braves manager Bobby Cox slipped out of a pickle in the tenth, when he ordered a startling intentional pass to the dangerous Alfonzo, moving the winning run up to third base, before Jeromy Burnitz struck out to end the threat. The same situation came up again in the twelfth—you could hear the fans yammering about the coincidence—as Alfonzo again stepped in with runners at first and second. But this time Cox was down to a rookie pitcher named Gryboski, who could not be trusted to work with the bases loaded; Alfonzo rapped his third pitch to right-center for a single and the game.
Readers who infer a continuous cheering and optimism in the stands throughout this long test don't understand Mets fans. When Armando Benitez, the large fireballer, came on in the tenth, he was welcomed with the low, round noises of discontent. Benitez was the best closer in the league last year, with forty-three saves and the Rolaids Relief Man award to prove it. Standing on the mound with his head tilted back a fraction, he stares down at the batter as if through reading glasses, and then delivers serious heat. He is affable in the clubhouse, but too often (for me, at least) appears to be drawing upon a boyish optimism while at work; even when he's in serious difficulties you can see him checking out the illuminated, second-deck sign in short right field as it flashes the m.p.h. of his latest delivery. Benitez blew three saves along the way last year, two of them in critical late-season games against the Braves, hence the pitiless reminders. Here, in the unfamiliar role of holder, he held for his two innings, surrendering a bare single, and gave way to Scott Strickland, who got the win. Bobby Valentine is impatient with the Shea fans' disloyalty to Armando—"The intelligence level could be greater," he once muttered about them. On another day, he pointed out that the Giants didn't make the playoffs last year, either, and that their closer, Robb Nen, blew seven saves. "What would happen if he was our guy?" Bobby said, shuddering.
We should not be distracted by a mere record, though. The news about Bonds is that he plays every day and still does it almost better than anyone else. Arriving at Shea, he was batting a league-leading .391, and also stood first in on-base percentage and slugging average—and walks. Bases on balls are boring, but they have become a daily reality for Bonds now, a dangling spear in his flank. Last year, he broke an ancient mark held by Babe Ruth when he walked a hundred and seventy-seven times, but with fifty free passes to date he'll surpass that and then some; more than a third of his trips to the plate this year end in a free pass. Well-known batters get two or three good pitches to swing at in every game, but whatever Barry does at the plate these days comes on a far leaner menu.
The walks were on his mind during a pre-game press conference, when he said that all those early free trips this year had made it tougher to get his earlyseason swing adjusted. "This is probably the hardest thing I've gone through in my career," he went on. "But I have the mentality and the focus to withstand it." He said he was happy that the Giants had been in strong contention in recent years—if they'd been in last place it would have been devastating. Team-play references are reflexive P.R. for star players these days, but Bonds here unexpectedly began talking about Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson's work in the World Series last fall, which he called the greatest pitching performance he'd ever seen. "But if Gonzalez doesn't get that hit"—in the bottom of the ninth inning of the last game—"they would have lost. Their team won that World Series. . . . There's no one person in baseball."
Pressed about the Aaron record, Bonds said, "I don't have enough games in my body to get there. I don't have enough years with a hundred and seventy walks to get there."
Bonds had his cap on backward during the press conference, above that jewelled-cross earring, and he spoke in the softly or grandly self-assured way that has irritated writers and fans throughout his career. Some baseball people I know believe that the accolade of "best player in baseball" widely bestowed upon Ken Griffey, Jr., a few years back was an intentional insult to Bonds, who has been persistently disliked and underrated. But there's been an almost tectonic shift in view about him, which arises less from his maturity than from the at last acknowledged evidence that in him we have a dedicated team player, a superior outfielder and base stealer, and a four-time Most Valuable Player who must be placed among the handful of best players who ever lived. Bobby Valentine, responding to a question about Bonds's presumed use of steroids in reaching his present strength and size, said, "Did they shoot steroids in his eyes?" And he brought up another tall left fielder, named Williams, and said, "If there's one of those two that's a little better than the other . . . well, my goodness."
Friends of mine who resist such talk get to hear my favorite Bonds record. When he steals fourteen more bases—he'll get around to this, for sure—he will take sole possession of the 500 Homers plus 500 Stolen Bases Club. (It's always called a "club," for some reason; think of this one as the Porcellian.) He is already in the 400 HRs-400 SBs Club, of course: he's the only one there. You have to go back to the 300 Homers-300 Stolen Bases frat, down the street, to find him some company. There are three other members—Andre Dawson, Willie Mays, and Barry's father, Bobby Bonds.
Bonds, stepping up to the plate with no one aboard in the very first inning of the Giants' three-game visit, evoked the customary emotions. Batting left, he crowds the plate, and, with his long legs and fashionably long pants (they now engulf his shoetops, thanks to little elastic straps that slip over his spikes), expectant shoulders, and slightly choked-up, forwardly thrumming black bat, vacuums the available air from the moment. Almost visible were his records and his seventeen years in the majors; as one baseball guy said, "He's seen every pitch in history." Boos fell upon him—from apprehension or as character-comment—but they weren't as loud as those that followed the one, two, three, four straight balls now handed down by Mets starter Steve Trachsel. None of the pitches came near the strike zone; there was no attempt by Trachsel to disguise what was going on. He would take his chances with the rest of the Giants' order, but Barry was too tough to mess with. This was modern, high-scoring baseball, when single runs don't matter as much as they did in Babe Ruth's day. Get used to it.
Bonds drew four more walks and a plunk on the side (another form of free pass) across the remainder of this game and the next two, while the Giants finished their sweep and at last knocked the Mets out of first place. Bonds's only hit of the series was a solo homer against Pedro Astacio in the finale—a short-stroke flick of the bat that sent the ball over the left-center-field wall—which began a three-run game-tying rally by the Giants. I was watching via television, and while the Mets commentators made much of this dinger and an earlier Mo Vaughn shot off the scoreboard, nobody said anything about a walk to Bonds in his next at-bat beyond oohing over Astacio's first fling, high and inside, which put Barry in the dirt. None of the next three pitches came close to the strike zone, and the walk moved up a prior base runner, Rich Aurilia, who soon became the winning run. Bonds was unperturbed by the knockdown. "Who's winning?" he said to the reporters in the clubhouse."That's all that matters." It was the only visit to Shea that the Giants and Bonds will make this year, but, thanks to interleague play, he will be unexpectedly on view at Yankee Stadium on June 7th, 8th, and 9th—back for the bullfight or the baseball.
Franco's tears and toughness came as no surprise. A five-ten (at best) lefty reliever and stopper, he has compiled eighteen years in the majors and four hundred and twenty-two saves on attitude and a cutter. No fastball. He's a local guy all the way, the son of a city sanitation worker and a product of Lafayette High and St. John's University. Watching him at work all this time—he came aboard the Mets in 1990—you understood always that he would be only just good enough for the crisis at hand. Even when he closed the deal—got rid of the last batter of the day on a changeup and came down off the mound yelling and punching the air—he looked more human than triumphant: a Met like the rest of us, living out his wildest dream. Catching him again here, perhaps for the thousandth time, I saw that his snapping dark eyes, the cool little head loll, the tongue that rolls out in the middle of a laugh, the dismissive "Naah!," and the rest—clean-line haircut and a downturned dark mustache—were all New York, but of a kind we know better now than we used to. He's a firefighter.
Franco decided to have the operation and hopes to rejoin the Mets by July or August next year. I hope he can do it, too, but I wish even more that he'd stop now and let himself up a little. Grant Roberts, a twenty-four-year-old bullpen teammate of Franco's, said, "I've loved just seeing him here every day," which is my thought exactly. My Mets friends Gerry and Barbara and Peter and Brooke and my wife, Carol, and I will talk about Franco in the stands at Shea, while things go from worse to worse. The other day, Alomar and Ordóñez pulled off a breathtaking play behind second base against the Colorado Rockies—a behind-the-back flip from Robbie to the outstretched Rey. Two innings later, Ordóñez made a throwing error, and then Alomar threw a routine double-play toss past Mo Vaughn at first. Vaughn, Mike Piazza, and Edgardo Alfonzo, the heart of the order, recently combined for one hit in twenty-six at-bats. The Mets have lost eight of nine games, to reach the .500 level: official mediocrity.
Baseball weirdness abounds—the Marlins drew a home crowd of 5,461 the day they took over first place in the N.L. East—and attendance is seriously down in nine big-league cities. Maybe gloomy Bud Selig is right. Everybody wants to see a winner but we only want a win. Baseball at Shea gives you a lot of between-time, and we're working on Mr. Met's love life, and our all-time team made up of players with girls' names—Pete Rose, Mark Grace, Babe Ruth, and this guy on the Brewers Mark Loretta, and the rest—and what do you suppose happens to marriages that begin with those scoreboard proposals: "Cheryl Will You Marry Me?" Let's go, Mo. ♦


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The council plans on spending a nearly identical amount during the 2014 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
The budget is virtually unchanged from last year's budget, said Weaver Mayor Wayne Willis, except for a repayment on a loan that will pay for public works equipment as well as improvements to the city's park and several roads.
"I think we're finally going to be able to get done some of the things that needed to be done several years ago, but have been put off," Willis said. "I'm really excited about our future."
The biggest expenditures in the approved budget are for the water and police departments, receiving $995,000 and $712,000 respectively. Water fees are also projected to be the city's biggest moneymaker with an income of $844,000.
The council on Tuesday also approved moving $70,000 from the city's general fund to pay bills and payroll in November and December. Willis said the transfer was necessary for the "lean months" before the city begins collecting business licenses and insurance in January.
"I'm hoping this is the last October we'll have to do this," Willis said. "I think with this budget we'll be in good shape next year."
The $70,000 will be replaced in the general fund on March 1.
The 2014 budget contains a line item for the Fire Department, and despite a request to the Calhoun County Volunteer Firefighters Association to accept Weaver as a member, the council said Tuesday they still expect to be funding the department next year. Councilman Tim McRae said he didn't "anticipate a lot of support" from the association on Weaver's request due to the diluted tax money the other 10 departments in the association would receive if Weaver was accepted.
"And we totally understand that," McRae said. "We wouldn't to give up that money either if it was the other way around."
The association will vote on accepting Weaver Fire Department at its next meeting on Oct. 7.
In other business, the council:
• Approved zoning new annexed land at Heroes American Bar and Grille and Smokin' Joes Discount Tobacco as business districts.
• Appointed Councilman Mike Warren as the council's representative on the Weaver Planning Commission.
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Report: Tony Gonzalez strongly considering returning to the Atlanta Falcons
Rumors have swirled all offseason that veteran Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez is seriously considering retirement after a 16-year career, but those plans may be put on hold according to a new report.
Sources close to the Falcons have told Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports they are "cautiously optimistic" Gonzalez will return for the 2013 season.
Sources close to Gonzalez, an unrestricted free agent, said he is contemplating a return at the right price, provided he can miss some or all of training camp this summer.
"He will come back if they pay him $7 million and he doesn't have to do training camp," said one Falcons player familiar with Gonzalez's thinking.
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Gonzalez, the second-leading receiver in NFL history, had a very productive 2013 season, catching 93 passes for 930 yards and eight touchdowns.