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COLUMBIA – More than a month has passed since South Carolina's ace left-hander, Jordan Montgomery, last ascended the mound and showed why he is the backbone of the Gamecocks' rotation. It was March 1, the Friday night opener of USC's series against Clemson, and Montgomery dazzled, with three hits, nine strikeouts and two walks in eight innings.
He probably will not go that deep into a start this weekend, if he pitches at all during the Gamecocks' series at Tennessee. But USC coach Chad Holbrook continued to feel optimistic Thursday, on the eve of the series, that Montgomery would return after missing four starts, including the first three Southeastern Conference series, with an elbow bone stress reaction.
As expected, Holbrook said lefty Nolan Belcher will start tonight as he tries to build on his absurd stats from his first seven starts – a 1.57 earned-run average, 51 strikeouts and one walk in a team-high 51 2/3 innings.
Holbrook will go with righty Evan Beal on Saturday. The former setup reliever shined in his first two starts after Montgomery's injury, against Rider and Missouri. He allowed one run in a combined 12 1/3 innings in those games. In his past two starts, against Arkansas and Missouri, he allowed eight and two runs, while lasting just 3 2/3 and 3 1/3 innings.
Holbrook planned for Montgomery to play catch when USC arrived Thursday in Knoxville. "If Jordan feels good, we'll give him the ball" on Sunday, Holbrook said. Montgomery would have a conservative pitch limit.
If Montgomery is sore, the Sunday starting options are lefty Jack Wynkoop, righty Colby Holmes and lefty Adam Westmoreland, depending on if any of them are needed in relief tonight or Saturday.
Wynkoop, a freshman, took Holmes' spot in the rotation for the past two series. In Wednesday's loss at Furman, Wynkoop appeared in relief, but threw just 12 pitches. Holmes started and threw 43 in Tuesday's win over Charleston Southern, and looked unimpressive again. His senior season has been mostly a mess, and he has a 4.32 ERA, compared to 2.28 for Wynkoop.
Westmoreland, a fifth-year senior, took Beal's place as the setup man when Montgomery's injury forced Beal to start. Westmoreland has only relieved this year, but has a 0.96 ERA with 29 strikeouts and three walks in 28 innings. He hasn't thrown since Saturday against Texas A&M.
USC (23-7, 5-4 SEC) swept the Aggies and surged into the second half of its 56-game regular season. The Gamecocks still have 21 conference games remaining, and Holbrook is trying to focus his struggling players – like Holmes and freshman second baseman Max Schrock – on the opportunities that lie ahead, rather than their failures from the first half.
Schrock, whose hitting Holbrook raved about before the season, hit .212 in the first half. He opened the second by going 3 for 5 against Charleston Southern and 1 for 5 against Furman.
"I just thought of this as kind of like a new season," Schrock said after the Charleston Southern game, which began the second half. "In the previous at-bats, I was thinking about what I did before, what I did 10 at-bats ago. That just wasn't helping me."
Said Holbrook: "He's not a .212 hitter. He's a gifted hitter. He's going to put up some good numbers here. I don't have any doubt about that. I'm shocked, as well as he is (about the slow start). I think he's just been putting entirely too much pressure on himself. He's been trying to get three hits in one at-bat. He's been burdened by some of his poor at-bats."
As Holbrook prepared to get Montgomery back and make his team whole again, the coach talked to Schrock in his office before the Charleston Southern game and urged him to leave his problems behind, just as the Gamecocks swept Texas A&M right after being swept by Arkansas.
"Hey, let's wipe the slate clean," Holbrook recalled telling Schrock. "You're 0 for 0 in my book. Let's see what you hit the last 28 games of the year. Don't even look at your average. Don't pay attention to it. I'm not."

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More than 97 million votes were cast and the results are in: David Cook is the newest American Idol!
The 25-year-old bartender from Blue Springs, Mo., became the seventh American Idol Wednesday in front of more than 7,000 screaming fans at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre.
"I started this season – much to Simon's chagrin – as the word nerd and I'm absolutely at a loss for words," Cook told the crowd after hearing the news. (His love of vocabulary was highlighted in one of his earliest moments on the show.) "Thank you guys. This is amazing. Thank you."
After Ryan Seacrest announced the winner, Cook fought back tears as reality set in, but he took a moment to congratulate his final competitor, 17-year-old David Archuleta, of Murray, Utah. The two Davids hugged, and Archuleta raised his arm in congratulations to Cook.
During Tuesday's performance show, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson said that Archuleta clearly won the night. But last week, Cowell predicted that Cook would take the title. "He's done more to deserve it over the eleven weeks," Cowell said. "He's taken more risks, he's done things with certain songs that have been more interesting."
Simon even apologized to Cook just before Seacrest announced that he had won by 12 million votes.
"I want to congratulate both of you," Cowell said. "It wasn't quite so clear as we called it. In fact, David [Cook], I will take this opportunity to apologize because I think I was verging on disrespectful with you and I don't think you deserve that." To that, judge Paula Abdul gave one of several standing ovations of the night.
And there was a lot to clap about. The two-hour broadcast was jam-packed with performances from the Top 12 contestants, for American Idol Carrie Underwood, Donna Summer, ZZ Top, the Jonas Brothers, George Michael and more.
But the best performance of the night was saved for the end, when David Cook sang for the first time as the reigning American Idol, performing the winning entry in the show's songwriting competition, Regie Hamm's "The Time of My Life." Idol's Top 12 and his mother Beth Foraker and brother Andrew joined him onstage for the final moment of the seventh season.
But as Paula told both Davids, "It's odd that it's called the finale when it's anything but a final. It's the start of the destiny of your career."
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December 3, 2013, 12:56 PM
Are any of those small crossbows you see here and there any good? I see them running 20-50 bucks, are any of them decent for pest control stuff?
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They can be fun for the kids. We bought one for about $30 last Christmas that is surprisingly powerful, though the bolts are not up to more than a few shots.
They aren't really "for" anything but plinking. But there's nothing wrong with that.
December 3, 2013, 02:57 PM
I had one 20 years ago. Cheap gun show special. It worked well enough and I found some plastic bolts that seemed to hold up better. Trigger was terrible and the safety was sketchy.
Sam Cade
December 3, 2013, 05:05 PM
If it works for Wez...
December 3, 2013, 06:46 PM
Mostly my crossbow is used to launch thin trailing cords over tree tops to string long wire radio antennas for field day camp outings. However, when launched from a crossbow pistol, well made fiberglass / aluminum bolts with razor sharp broad heads are effective for small and intermediate sized game at distances up to 25 yards or so, provided one first becomes proficient. For small game such as birds and tree rats I prefer a blow gun.
December 4, 2013, 07:05 PM
I use them (with a modified bolt and attached reel) for carp fishing.
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December 5, 2013, 01:29 AM
Sam ... Hahahahaha!!!
December 6, 2013, 02:12 PM
In the past week we had a double murder/ suicide (domestic type) where the press info stated that the father used a small crossbow to kill his wife and daughter before later taking his own life the hard way (slashed his own throat...). What wasn't mentioned was the make/model of the crossbow used... This occurred here in Florida -I'd be interested to find out what size crossbow was used if anyone has that info...
December 6, 2013, 05:10 PM
taking his own life the hard way (slashed his own throat...)Not to belabor a grisly point, but that is indeed ... REALLY ... the hard way.
December 6, 2013, 06:13 PM
I was on the scene towards the end of my career at a boyfriend/ boyfriend dispute that turned bloody (serious understatement)... The one with all the knife wounds was still flopping around on the floor when I arrived, and to make things truly urban... was an AIDS patient so the officers on the scene were being extremely cautious with him.
Funny thing, after he expired and the investigation was complete it turned out that the stabbing victim (with somewhere between 10 and 20 wounds that I could see) was actually a suicide in the heat of the argument with his live in. Not what I'd have expected at all. I'm sure every cop has these kind of horror stories.... glad I'm no longer in that world.
December 8, 2013, 10:50 AM
I'd be interested to find out what size crossbow was used if anyone has that info...
There is a mini-crossbow shown in the report of the incident,
which appears to be an 80lb model.
Dirty Bob
December 12, 2013, 11:13 PM
The big limitation is that the tiny limbs just can't store all that much energy. I think of the Wez mini crossbow as just a movie thing. Scale it up a bit, though, and you would probably start getting big improvemants in performance in a hurry.
Dirty Bob
December 13, 2013, 05:35 PM
I used to sit in my kayak and shoot carp to use as bait. It was usually a near-contact shot. I've never shot one of these at anything except a target at more than five yards.
CA Raider
December 14, 2013, 04:40 PM
lemay .. didn't didn't need to know that. TMI. :-)
yeah I'm sure all cops have horror stories like those.
that's why many cops come to hate knives. can't really blame them.
December 15, 2013, 03:03 PM
yes, it's a horror story -but with a point (if you'll excuse the feeble pun...). I was at the end of a 22 year career, thought I'd seen it all (more fool me), and never would have guessed on that scene that the terrible wounds I was looking at were self-inflicted.
That was the entire story and the reason I told it. I've actually seen far worse and will never speak about most of it to anyone... There's a reason that most of the cops I've known werent very keen on their kids entering that line of work.
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Fire protection officials from Windsor, Severance and Johnstown said Wednesday they are concerned about a change to Weld County's ambulance code that could keep them from contracting with another provider.
Weld County commissioners approved the first reading of the code change, which would give them "exclusive purview" of ambulance providers wishing to do business in the county and would establish a tiered licensing system. Fire authorities in the western part of the county said response times in their districts have been rising, and they would like free rein to find ambulance providers that could get to life-threatening situations more quickly.
"My concern is anything that would jeopardize our ability to work with our regional partners," said Herb Brady, chief of Windsor-Severance Fire Rescue.
The public hearing follows a denial from the county last Friday for an offer from University of Colorado Health to provide ambulance services. The agency has been in negotiations with Windsor-Severance Fire Rescue since November.
In a Tribune column earlier this month, chief executive officer of Banner Health/North Colorado Medical Center, Rick Sutton, said Banner had proposed performance standards in a contract with Windsor-Severance that are higher than previous agreements.
Benji Kitagawa, director of medical services for Weld County, said the changes proposed in the code change had moved him to resign from his position.
"In April, commissioners made comments that they would like to get out of the business of EMS ... Why are they in the business of EMS today?" Kitagawa said.
Steve Main, manager of Poudre Valley EMS, which is now under UCH, said he was concerned that commissioners' full control of ambulance contracts would bring uncertainty to providers with each new election and would allow the board to screen the open market.
"I also feel it would be possible to steer the tiers of services toward existing providers," Main said.
The three levels of service in the code distinguish between primary care, transport of patients and standby service.
Commissioners questioned the fire districts' authority to contract ambulance services that fell in unincorporated Weld County, asking each district to look into their codes, which might have changed when they were incorporated.
Brady said he worries the same thing will happen to smaller communities in Weld County that have happened to towns near Longmont, Boulder and Colorado Springs. When larger cities contract their own deals with ambulance providers, as Greeley did with Banner by requiring at least three ambulances in the city at all times, resources are drawn away from smaller communities, hiking up response times, he said.
Stephanie Buchholtz, president of the board of directors for Windsor-Severance, said Weld County's average response time of
8 minutes will likely rise in her district if they do not find a provider that can respond to emergencies when ambulances are tied up in Greeley.
"I have a responsibility to make sure that ambulance service does not take 20 minutes when someone has a cardiac arrest," she said.
Many who spoke at the meeting agreed to meet with commissioners to explain the needs of their districts before the second reading of the code change.
"Every firehouse wants an ambulance — we understand that," said Weld Commission chairman Sean Conway.
He said some of the code change has been surrounded by misconception. Commissioners will still seek a recommendation from the director of public health on ambulance licensing, and the tiered code change is necessary because of the new federal health care law, Conway said.
Brady said Windsor-Severance has been caught between health care providers fighting for patients.
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The new assistant pastor of worship and youth at Calvary Bible Church in Lewistown, Henderson began his adult life as an electronics technician in his home state of Georgia.
About a decade ago, Henderson said, the youth pastor at his church approached him about leading worship for some church services, and he agreed.
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Two years later, his worship music led him to a youth conference. There, he said, God called him to become a minister.
So Henderson moved north to Virginia to attend Liberty University, where he later earned a bachelor's degree in worship.
In September of 2011, Henderson felt God's push to move north again, this time to Calvary Bible in Lewistown.
His first few months in Lewistown have been a time of adapting to the church's traditions and discovering the congregation's needs, Henderson said.
"I believe my biggest goal is for the student to learn to make their faith their own," Henderson said.
Along with his other duties, he still sings and plays guitar, bass, drums and keyboard. His enthusiasm for music is evident by looking at his office walls. They are splattered with band posters, musical instruments, photos and more.
Though his life's focus is on ministry now, Henderson said he still uses his training in electronics - this time it's for musical instruments and church acoustics.
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Researchers from VIB, KU Leuven, UGent, and Harvard report that they have succeeded in reconstructing DNA and proteins from prehistoric yeast cells. This made it possible to determine how genes developed and evolved into their current form over more than 100 million years.
"These results provide answers to an argument frequently used by opponents of the theory of evolution: the chance of the occurrence of a new characteristic, [i.e., a functional new segment of DNA] from scratch is similar to the chance of a modern jumbo jet assembling spontaneously from a few pieces of scrap metal," said Kevin Verstrepen, from VIB/KU Leuven. "Many scientists have proposed that the new functional DNA does not appear out of thin air, but is built up gradually from a copy of an existing segment of functional DNA. By reconstructing a piece of prehistoric DNA that was copied several times during evolution, we were able to investigate the changes that occur in each of the copies and which gradually lead to new functions."
An important unanswered question in Darwin's theory of evolution is how new characteristics seem to appear out of nowhere. Such innovations appear to contradict the principle of gradual change, in which existing characteristics slowly evolve into another form. Yet scientists, who understand that many "inventions" took place during the evolution of life, do not know which processes form the basis of this evolutionary innovation.
One of the biggest problems is that virtually no prehistoric DNA sequences or proteins have been conserved, so that it is not possible to examine how these ancient versions differ from the current versions. This prevents the understanding of how new sections of DNA and new proteins developed.
Using a combination of the latest techniques in biology, the scientists Karin Voordeckers, Chris Brown, and Kevin Verstrepen from VIB in Leuven, together with Steven Maere (VIB/UGent), succeeded in rebuilding the DNA and proteins of prehistoric yeast cells.
"We used sequence reconstruction algorithms to predict the DNA sequence of ancestral genes from dozens of present-day DNA sequences," explained Maere. "This enabled us to rebuild the corresponding ancestral proteins."
According to Voordeckers, "We searched very specifically for how the yeast adapted to break down various sources of sugar. We found that the primal gene that codes for the protein for the digestion of maltose was copied a number of times during evolution. The DNA of some copies changed slightly, resulting in new proteins that could break down different sugars. By modeling these changes in the corresponding proteins, we now understand how just a few changes in the DNA can lead to the development of new activity in the corresponding proteins."
The scientists think that this type of duplication of the DNA often forms the basis of the emergence of apparently new proteins. In other words, the jumbo jet is gradually built from a copy of an existing airplane. The research appears online today in PLoS Biology.
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Deborah McElwain Rapp has made fewer regular stops in Niagara Falls in the years since her parents died.
But even now , the city where she grew up is still influencing her passion for water that gave her life its current focus of love and adventure, and soon a 4,000-mile sailing trip from the Caribbean.
It all started last summer when Rapp, 63, married John Rapp, a fellow boater she met online, as they sailed the outer harbor on the Spirit of Buffalo, a replica of an old-fashioned schooner.
Their plan of a new life together included selling their individual boats – her racing sailboat and his motor boat – and buying a new one they could use to travel and explore the tropics and Great Lakes.
As a racer of sailboats for 34 years, Rapp's boating life included the three years she spent living on her last boat while it was docked in the outer harbor after her divorce a few years ago.
Her childhood home of Niagara Falls gets part of the credit, she said.
"I think when you grow up around so much water, it becomes a part of your comfort level. That is, you seek it out wherever you go, because it is familiar and reassuring to be near," she said recapping an email conversation. "When I travel, the river and lake or ocean is the first place I want to visit. Like your favorite childhood meals, the water is 'comfort food' for the soul."
She bought her first sailboat in 1976, years after buying a calendar with a picture of a boat and tropical island. "I saw that picture and I visualized myself in that spot," she said. "It's corny and goofy and stupid, but that's the truth. That calendar sat on the wall until it became our life. I truly believe in visualization. I visualized my life exactly as it is today, and it has become beyond my wildest dreams."
About a week after her sailboat wedding, her visualizations kept working as the couple's first married adventure began when they left for the British Virgin Islands to start shopping for a big new sailboat, which they found 200 miles away on the island of Antigua.
When their 44-foot sloop needed repairs and upgrades, their boat-finding honeymoon turned into a four-month Caribbean adventure, ending in October when they left their new boat parked in Grenada, 75 miles north of South America. They flew home and will return to pick it after the ski season ends. Lately, Rapp, a retired public affairs coordinator from the state Office of Developmental Disabilities, has been teaching skiing part time at Holiday Valley with her husband. At end of March, the Rapps will fly down to pick up their boat and spend about six months slowly bringing it to New York.
What did you get out of last year's trip?
It was a 24/7 chance, every minute of every day to get to know each other. I married the right guy. He didn't turn out to be as perfect as I thought he was, and I'm sure he felt the same about me.
How did it affect your marriage?
We learned more about each other in four months than people do in four years. We found out how each other would be in some rough situations. One of them was when the main sail got stuck while we were out sailing. It got stuck heading into the harbor. It got stuck in the mast. We had to send the other person on the boat to the top of the mast while I was under sail. He had to stay up there 45 minutes .
We learned how we can act together in an emergency. What things we communicated well to each other and ways we didn't. I thought he understood more than he did. I had to exercise my patience, which is not my strength. I'm getting better at it.
What's next for you, your husband and the boat?
We are flying back to Grenada on March 26 and starting the 4,000-mile adventure back to Buffalo, and this will mean taking several multi-day overnight passages. You leave one city and you sail three days until you get to the next point of land.
How do you feel about that?
Apprehensive, but we will hire extra crew to go with us. I think what John and I are developing, for one thing, better communication. We're starting to understand the little nuances about each other that will help us. It won't all be sunset sailing along a coconut-fringed beach ...
We learned that we can overcome all those things because we have a very deep love for each other. We can let go of the little stuff and put the marriage on top of it, making it more important. Our love overcame those things. All those ups and downs. Now we truly believe we can do anything together.
What is the boat's name?
Mahayana. It means, in Buddhist scripture, great vehicle. The Mahayana is the Buddhist scripture that leads you to enlightenment. The boat is going to be our great vehicle to find out more about ourselves, our relationship and the depths of our spiritual understanding.
You spent weeks in two islands – Antigua and Saint Martin – waiting longer than you expected for work on your new boat to finish?
One day in U.S. time equals two weeks in island time. They'd say, "Oh yeah, we'll get done tomorrow." We'd see it completed in two weeks. Americans want things done immediately.
Island time, they take their time. They do it right. We have the perfect boat now. The boat of our dreams.
After boat friends told you to slow down and explore, you extended your trip by taking a detour south. This included a stop in Dominica to find a friend of a friend, a woman whose address was "on the top a mountain, near a red shack"?
We found her. You wouldn't believe how we did it: By talking to people on the beach. We climbed up this mountain in a pickup truck. It took us forever to get there, but we found her. We can't believe we survived the ride. She had grapefruit trees and coconut trees and avocados as big as your head. She just lived on this little platform.
Is there a lesson in that?
The lesson is to abandon your plan and go with the flow. Our plan was not to stop in Dominica. At the last second we decided to anyway, just to take an adventure and find this mystery woman named Chitah. We took a shot in the dark and it paid off.
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This is the year Buffalo takes off. We know because the fuse has already been lit and there's no way to stomp it out. How long the flight continues after this year will depend upon the determination of government and civic leaders not to let the momentum slacken.
The story on today's front page, leading into The Buffalo News' 2013 Prospectus sections, lays out what is occurring before our eyes: More than $1 billion in construction projects are planned in Buffalo or have already been completed. Yes, Buffalo, N.Y. – a.k.a the City That Couldn't – is in the midst of a revival that even 10 years ago few could have predicted.
It's something for all of Western New York to celebrate and, for that matter, all New Yorkers, whose income taxes have long helped to prop up this struggling city.
The list of projects is breathtaking for Buffalonians unused to development. Progress on the waterfront is due in large part to Rep. Brian Higgins' insistence that the 2007 relicensing of the Niagara Power Project include money to help redevelop Buffalo's misused resource.
With that infusion of cash and the creation of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp., the possibility of progress became a reality. Today, the site of the old War Memorial Auditorium is being transformed into canals. The development will include retail, office and restaurant space. There will be skating on the canals in the winter.
Two indoor ice rinks are planned for the Webster Block just north of First Niagara Center. The Buffalo Sabres are working on that development, which also includes a hotel and indoor parking.
Meanwhile, the former Donovan State Office Building is taking shape into a Courtyard by Marriott hotel and offices for the Phillips Lytle law firm.
But that was only the start. A couple of blocks north, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is burgeoning with developments by the University at Buffalo, Catholic Health System, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Kaleida Health. The sleek new Gates Vascular Institute opened there last year. To the east, between downtown and the Larkin District, more projects are in the works. It's a startling and hopeful time for a city that had taken a beating with the long decline of manufacturing in Western New York.
The question, going forward, is how to keep up the pace when the current crop of projects is completed. Opportunities and threats abound.
The most critical need, long term, is to fix education in Buffalo. Young adults and empty-nesters are moving back to Buffalo in droves, but families with children still aren't much interested. Why would they be? The district's schools are under-performing, its graduation rates are pitiful and its dysfunctional labor relations frequently block necessary reforms. Yet, a family-friendly city has to be the goal for anyone who wants Buffalo's neighborhoods – and its tax base – to thrive.
The arrival in Buffalo of the nonprofit Say Yes to Education, with its promise of a free college education to those who graduate high school, could be a turning point. So could the appointment of Pamela C. Brown as superintendent. But it's not enough to assume the necessary changes will take place.
Violence and absenteeism need to be radically decreased. The School Board needs an injection of professionalism. The Buffalo Teachers Federation needs to look for ways to cooperate in improving education, rather than acting as a bystander to the accident it helped to create.
More immediate to Buffalo's long-term prospects is for government and private-sector leaders to deal with the virtual emptying of the HSBC tower. The Canadian Consulate is gone. HSBC Bank has announced plans to move out this year. Phillips Lytle will move out once its new building is ready. The threat to Buffalo's real estate rental market posed by that glut of office space is severe.
One possible tool in that challenge is Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's "Buffalo billion." It is worth considering the possibilities of using some of that money to help bring new tenants into the building or repurpose it as a mixed-use project.
City leaders also need to keep pressing for an increase in the maximum benefit of the state's historic tax credit. Cuomo has proposed renewing it this year, but only at the current maximum of $5 million, which is insufficient to allow work to begin on some complex projects, including the restoration of the old AM&A's store on Main Street. For now, that project might also benefit from some of the Buffalo billion, but long term, and as an improving state economy allows, the tax credit itself should be increased to the proposed $12 million maximum.
It is critical for Buffalo to build on the momentum that is pulsing through this city – not only for the sake of the local economy, but to ensure the decades-long sense of futility that has pervaded Buffalo for decades is truly dead and buried. Look around. This is no long the City That Couldn't. It's the City That Does.


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The final report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health concluded that the nation's mental health system was "in shambles", and proposed a set of guidelines designed to fundamentally re-invent mental health care. The urgent tone of the report has inspired an outpouring of
This is another way of saying that our unwavering insistence on inclusion, validation, and respect over the last generation has not been in vain. A review of the recent system-change literature reveals that our ideas, and our ideals, inform many of the papers and proposals currently in circulation. Chief among these is a concept, staggering in its potential to revolutionize mental health care service delivery, called "True North."
In navigation, true north defines an ordinal point determined with reference to the earth's axis, rather than its magnetic poles. Synonymous with "accurate", "legitimate", "trustworthy", this term signifies an absolute reality rather than something which is manifest or assumed. A craft navigating by true north will unfailingly find its intended destination. In health reform, True North stands for an unerring guidance point in system transformation. Donald Berwick, the originator of this metaphor, proposes that in planning for reform, "the experience of consumers and families and
Rarely do we get a more telling correction, or subliminal analysis, suggesting why the mental health system veered so far off course. If the truth be told about ourperceptions right now, the most significant feature of our realityis that so few people know anything about it. How many times have we heard families and consumers say that no one can possibly fathom the excruciating dislocation of mental illness, until it has actually happened to them or to someone they love? The late Senator Paul Wellstone observed that most Americans learn about mental illness only through "intense involuntary immersion in it." Most others are oblivious to the enormous pain and trauma of this passage, and remain totally unaware of the tragic insufficiencies of our nation's response to it.
Many observers have attributed this cluelessness to the social distance (actually social isolation) imposed on those stigmatized by brain disorders. However, relatively few cite the drastic impact of professional and academic mis-direction affirmed throughout most of the 20th century. The claim that mental illnesses derive from poor parenting and/or weak character suggests that the source of our trouble is more a private failing than a legitimate national concern; such a view from authorities in the mental health field deeply anesthetized the moral awareness of civic responsibility in the public mind. Furthermore, this same mistaken certainty
In 1995, NAMI-Vermont developed and piloted the Provider Education Program in each of the state's ten public mental health agencies. This training model specifically targeted agency line staff -- the yeoman workers who provide most of the day-to-day services to consumers and their families. Many of these direct care providers have no prior education or training in clinical interventions of any kind; they comprise a segment of the mental health workforce estimated at 40 percent of public agency clinic staff, and 60 percent of patient care staff in county and state psychiatric hospitals. We invited this group to undergo intense voluntary immersion into the private universe of families and consumers, promising that this experience would help them to offer what we needed most -- an understanding, empathetic, well-informed partner to work with us toward recovery.
Setting our compass squarely on True North: we trained NAMI family members, consumers, and providers to teach the course in teams of five. They vowed to come to class prepared to reveal every raw emotion, personal truth and unedited response to mental illness, relating to the course content, as a core part of the curriculum. Operating from our no-fault educational mantra that "You Can't Know What No One Has Told You", we opened the door to our subjective, often chaotic world. We trusted that in ten weeks of working through the course together, the cumulative accounts of our lived experience with mental illness would tap into a
Since 1997, NAMI organizations in 20 states and the Province of Ontario, Canada, have joined in to offer the program. Over 750 consumers have been trained as teachers, and over 9,000 staff members have taken the course. From every quarter we hear from providers that our
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Dr. Masters co-founded wunderground in 1995. He flew with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990. Co-blogging with him: Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:31 PM GMT on August 12, 2012
The remains of Tropical Depression Seven brought heavy rains to Trinidad on Saturday, unleashing flooding and mudslides that killed two people and left two others missing in Diego Martin. The storm is headed westward at 20 mph across the Caribbean, but high wind shear of 15 - 25 knots should prevent the system from regenerating. None of the reliable models forecasts that TD 7 will regenerate, and the storm should arrive in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday. In their 8 am Tropical Weather Outlook, NHC gave ex-TD 7 a 10% chance of becoming a tropical depression by Tuesday morning.
Figure 1. An analysis of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) from 8 am EDT August 12, 2012. Very dry air from the Sahara (yellow and orange colors) surrounds the tropical wave designated 93L in the Central Atlantic. Image credit: University of Wisconsin CIMSS and NOAA/Hurricane Research Division.
A large tropical wave(Invest 93L) is located in the Central Atlantic about 700 miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands. Satellite loops show a pronounced spin to the atmosphere at mid levels, but little in the way of heavy thunderstorm activity. The latest Saharan Air Layer Analysis from the University of Wisconsin shows that 93L is surrounded by a large area of dry air from the Sahara, which has infiltrated into the storm. This dry air will be a significant impediment to development, as the 8 am EDT run of the SHIPS model predicts that mid-levels of the atmosphere will remain very dry during the next four days. None of the reliable computer models develop 93L during the coming five days, and the storm is expected to move west-northwest and then north, recurving well to the east of Bermuda. In their 8 am Tropical Weather Outlook, NHC gave 93L a 10% chance of becoming a tropical depression by Tuesday morning. The GFS model is predicting 93L will develop into a tropical depression in about a week, once the storm recurves and begins heading northeast. At this point, it does not appear 93L will trouble any land areas.
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Second Sunday on King Street has been an unqualified success. The first cousin to Second Sunday, though, is Summerville's Third Thursday. The neighboring county of Dorchester might have figured out a way to even outdo its Holy City relative.
Now in its fourth year, Third Thursday transforms the town's historic district into a community party. The Third Thursday of each month, stores stay open until 8 p.m., and the space surrounding Hutchinson Square fills with art and entertainment.
As I pulled off Main Street on the third Thursday of last month, a bell near Town Hall struck five times. Every parking spot in Hutchinson Square already was taken.
The red neon "open" light brightly welcomed those entering the Single Smile Cafe. Manager Ed Fonvielle said that Third Thursdays had tripled their business.
Outside, on the back of a flatbed trailer, an Elvis impersonator was setting up for a performance. Around the corner, two ukeleles and a strum bucket trio known as the Charleston Hot Shots were performing outside People, Places and Quilts.
Rain or shine
The largest crowds definitely turn out between March and October. Bad weather might keep people away, but the only time the entertainers pull the plug is when it rains. Nobody wants a short circuit surprise on Short Central Avenue.
The DREAM organization runs this show. That acronym stands for Downtown Restoration Enhancement and Management. Jan Hursey of DREAM says the original concept was to promote businesses.
At Guerin's Pharmacy, Shelby Coward tells me it gets so busy that "we can't keep enough hot dogs in the steamer." According to the sign, a hot dog costs $1.75. So the event is fulfilling DREAM's mission, and more.
Readers of the Summerville Journal Scene recently called Third Thursday the Best Free Entertainment Venue. When all you have to do is show up, "free" is an attractive price point.
Some Thursdays have a theme, but not always. Some nights there are jugglers, other nights there are hula hoopers. Are you starting to get the feel for what Thursdays in Summerville are all about?
Homespun hospitality
As I casually walked past a few storefronts, I could hear Elvis crooning in the distance. At the same time, there were people in rocking chairs, watching the world amble along. As Elvis wondered "Are You Lonesome Tonight?," the artists and chefs, the shop owners and jugglers all moved in time to their own rhythm.
It's hard to quantify why Third Thursday works — it just does. It's the same concept as Charleston's Second Sunday, but it has a distinctly different vibe. It's OK to like both. One's in the afternoon and the other is in the evening. Both are kid- and dog-friendly. You can find a good time at either location.
Kinda depends on what you're looking for, or whom.
Third Thursday is definitely a nice way to get an early start on the weekend. Based on its popularity, Third Thursday is not playing second fiddle to Second Sunday; it's just playing in a different location to a different audience.
Maybe the biggest difference is the small, hometown atmosphere that permeates this three- to four-block space. Handshakes and "how ya doin'?" constantly are offered.
A handmade crafts store, Downtown Crossings, goes the extra mile in laying out the welcome mat. Hung on the hinges of the front entrance is — what else? — a screen door.
It might be worth a visit to Summerville on an upcoming Third Thursday. My best guess, though, is that they treat you close to the same way every day of the week.
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3 Kinds of People That Need to Go Away
#1. People Who Are Too Arrogant to Argue
If you ask most people to picture an arrogant person, they will get an image of some opinionated guy, confidently laying out his beliefs like gospel for all to hear. Lots of people don't care much for that. They like quieter folks. And it's true that there are some quiet people out there who are humble. Of course, some are just riddled with so much insecurity that they would never dream of expressing their thoughts and feelings out loud. But there is a third category of reserved people who are not meek, humble or even unsure of themselves. And even though you'll never see them getting down into the muck of contrary opinions, they are not without strong points of view. These are the people who are simply too arrogant to even think of arguing with you.
"Right. That's interesting that you think that. I have a different point of view I won't be sharing with you."
Oddly, because they speak quietly or not at all, some people view them as mature or responsible. If you force them to speak, you'll get some sort of beleaguered drawl designed not to test the validity of their point of view against a focus group of people, but to shut down any further inquiry. I find these people more obnoxious, overbearing and, most of all, insufferably arrogant than any loudmouths pontificating their beliefs for all to hear.
Why? Well, let's start by realizing there are two reasons for expressing an opinion. Yes, for some (like dictators, I guess), expressing opinions is about bullying others into believing you, but that's hardly the rule. Many people express opinions to elucidate, to validate and even to test the accuracy of their own beliefs. Certainly, for myself, expressing opinions is meant to be the start of a conversation. Speaking with conviction is not synonymous with closing down conversation. Some of the best moments of being alive are having someone change your mind. And in the process of debate, even subtle disagreements can refine your analysis, making your own beliefs clearer to you. It is a basis of interaction. Unless your opinions are only didactic and you simply do not want to hear a response, expressing opinions can be an act of humility. The speaker is saying I care enough about you to tell you something and I'm interested enough that I believe there's a possibility there is something you might teach me. Maybe that explains why I create opinionated, sometimes vitriolic stuff for the Net, but still wade through the comments it generates on the chance someone can teach me something.
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But why wouldn't someone take the time to argue? Often, it's because their mind is already made up. They simply do not believe there is anything that another can teach them. They have formed their views and have no desire to test it against another person. Maybe they do have people they respect, a trusted cadre of advisers, but if they're not arguing with you, then you know for sure you're not one of them. You don't rate. They have nothing to learn from you. So who's more overbearingly arrogant and obnoxious: the guy spouting his beliefs at you or the dude who wouldn't even think to bother to respond to yours?
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INDIANAPOLIS � Denver�s old man, Andre Miller, can still deliver a decisive knockout punch when needed.
Indiana found out the hard way Friday night.
The 36-year-old guard played like a revitalized All-Star, scoring eight of his 15 points during a decisive 10-0 run to send the Nuggets past the Pacers 92-89. Miller had a hand in all of the points during the late flurry � making three baskets and two free throws and dishing out an assist on the only basket he didn�t score.
�He knows how to get shots down the stretch better than some of our other guys, some of our younger guys,� coach George Karl said. �He was running the pick-and-roll actions better than anyone all game long, and he just has that old-man knack, that old-school knack.�
For one night, at least, Miller rekindled images from the days he was one of the league�s most feared guards.
This time, the oldest player on the league�s third-youngest team, showed his teammates that a combination of poise, leadership and clutch play will trump big names and flashy plays every time.
No, Miller didn�t produce the biggest numbers for Denver (10-10).
JaVale McGee had a season-high 20 points, 16 in the first half, and eight rebounds. Corey Brewer matched his season-high with 20 points, too, on a night only two Denver starters reached double figures � Kosta Koufos with 12 points and Andre Iguodala with 10.
But Miller delivered the scoring punch when Denver needed it most.
�We just want to keep providing some stability, some energy, so hopefully, it can carry over into the games,� Miller said as he walked out of the locker room.
Indiana (10-10) was looking for its first three-game winning streak this season and had a chance to force overtime when George Hill blocked Ty Lawson�s shot from the left corner with 8.8 seconds to go. Hill grabbed the loose ball and sprinted up the court, but rather than call timeout to set up a play, Hill circled around and threw up an off-balance 3-pointer that bounced off the side of the rim as the buzzer sounded.
Hill finished with 15 points on a night all five Pacers starters scored in double figures. Paul George finished with 22, including four 3s. David West had 18 points and 11 rebounds, Roy Hibbert had 10 points and nine rebounds, and Lance Stephenson had 12 points.
Afterward, Hill said perhaps he should have called the timeout. Coach Frank Vogel disagreed.
�In a scramble situation, that�s where you get your most open looks,� Vogel said.
Either way, it wasn�t good enough against the feisty Nuggets and suddenly revitalized Miller.
The Nuggets overcame Indiana�s fast start, which put them in a 10-point hole less than four minutes into the game, took the lead early in the second quarter and stayed in control for most of the game.
But after leading for most of the next 2-plus quarters, Miller re-emerged when Indiana charged back.
�He�s drinking from the fountain of youth,� point guard Ty Lawson said. �He was coming down and getting buckets, getting assists, he�s playing well for us. He�s winning games for us.�
Exhibit A came Friday night in a city where Denver has won seven of its last nine and in a series in which the Nuggets have won 13 of the last 16.
Midway through the fourth quarter, it looked like the Nuggets would hold on again as they scored seven consecutive points to rebuild an 80-74 lead.
Indiana answered with Stephenson�s layup, a three-point play from Hill and a free throw from Hibbert to tie the score at 82 with 3:52 to go. Twenty seconds later, George hit a 3-pointer, giving Indiana the lead and sending the crowd into a frenzy.
But after a timeout, Miller took control.
He started the run with two free throws, then scored on a layup and hit a 15-footer. After feeding McGee for a dunk, he closed the run with a 14-foot pullup shot to make it 92-85 with 1:01 to play.
�They came out and really brought it up a level, and it kind of took us some time to adjust to that,� George said. �By that time, they kind of found something, letting Andre Miller attack and find guys.�
George answered with his fourth 3, and Stephenson cut the deficit to three by making 1 of 2 free throws with 29.9 seconds left.
Miller and the Nuggets didn�t let Indiana get any closer.
�I�ve played with him for two years,� Iguodala said of Miller. �And I�ve seen that calm about him before when it�s needed, especially for a team like ours with some youth.�
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Buckhannon River Watershed Association has been recognized by the West Virginia Watershed Network for its accomplishments in improving watershed health through its outreach and education efforts.
On Sept. 8, the Buckhannon River Watershed Association was awarded an Outreach and Education award during the 14th annual Watershed Celebration Day at Tornado.
Members of this watershed group are very active and proud to share their accomplishments with their community. They have produced a color brochure describing their organizations, as well as two well-received newsletters during the past year. These publications, as well as brochures dealing with sedimentation, nonpoint source pollution and the disposal of unused medicines, are available at all public meetings, local businesses, the Upshur County Courthouse and the Buckhannon city building. In addition, copies of the newsletters are sent to more than 100 families and businesses, and are available at the numerous events in which the group participates in within their community.
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Its education and outreach activities were again visible this year at the West Virginia Strawberry Festival, where the Watershed Association co-sponsored a canoe race held in its namesake river.
The group's members also set up a display table at the annual Maple Syrup Festival in Pickens, the Go Green Convention in Buckhannon and the Intern Fair at West Virginia Wesleyan College. The association also coordinated a major undertaking between Buckhannon-Upshur High School and West Virginia Wesleyan College, which involved more than 50 high school students sampling water near their homes, then bringing the samples to school and analyzing them.
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5 Things You Can Learn about India from Their Action Movies
#5. Physics Need Not Apply
First of all, I should clarify that this movie, Enthiran -- a three-hour musical epic halfway between Bicentennial Man and RoboCop -- is a Tamil film. That's a region in Southern India with many of their own unique beliefs and styles, and it's a very different thing than Bollywood. For example, while both Bollywood and Tamil place a lot of filmic importance on music and dance, the latter places equal importance on the kick-to-flight ratio of dudes with shitty mustaches. Seriously, you can't pass the salt in a Tamil movie without accidentally sending somebody's creepy uncle hurtling through a window.
For example, here's one of the disposable slapstick comedy characters getting fist-catapulted across the room in the very first scene:
That's how the movie introduces itself: by launching a series of screaming tech support missiles across the room. And you'd better suspend that disbelief from the ceiling, friend, because Enthiran is going to spend the rest of its run time taking wild, blind swings at it with a bat. Tamil cinema in general thinks that the laws of physics are for frail, weak men who lack enough cushioning bloat to take a good beating, and Enthiran is their God-king. It makes sense: You work as a dishwasher in a busy restaurant all day, you sure as shit don't want to do the dishes when you come home. Well, the hard sciences are a booming industry in India, so when they head out to the movies, the last thing they want to do is understand some bullshit kinetics.
Think I'm exaggerating? Here's the main character being Frisbee'd into the roof by a malignant android that looks like a cross between Wayne Newton and Pepe Le Pew:
You know how you can always tell when a tech manual has been outsourced to India because, while it's obvious that they have a firm grasp on the English language, there's some bizarre flourish hidden in every other sentence that simply defies understanding? Well, Enthiran has taught me that the same thing applies to physics: In India, slapping isn't just an insult, but an economic method of travel, probably because somebody fucked up the translation on Newton's Laws of Motion.
#4. Time Holds No Meaning
Enthiran is a hell of a long movie. Like I said, it's a three-hour musical epic, and as we all know, adding the term "musical" to anything makes it at least four relative hours longer. But even the term "epic" is not doing this monumental bastard any sort of justice, because in addition to the unwieldy run time, there isn't a single slack nanosecond in Enthiran. Characters move fast, talk fast and walk fast, and if you want crap like atmosphere or time to process, then you're a disappointment to your grandparents; why can't you be more like Ishwar? He has two doctorates, three jobs and four ulcers, and he just turned 12.
Every shot in Enthiran watches like a blind editor came in and chopped the first and last third off of the scene, regardless of consequence. The movie switches locations before you realized the conversation ended, and new characters pop in for lines, even though you had no idea they were in the room in the first place, or else they leave the scene entirely and the film doesn't bother to show you. The end result is the implication that this entire society has mastered the art of teleportation, but mostly just use it to nag each other across a span of continents.
"W-wait ... what? I was just on a beach. Where the fuck did you come from? WHERE AM I RIGHT NOW!?"
So when I say it's a three-hour epic, you need to understand that means three Tamil hours, which translate to American chronology in roughly the same ratio as dog years. This is 20 hours of movie shoved into 168 frantic minutes. Watching Enthiran is like learning kung fu in The Matrix; there's just no way this much information should be delivered to your brain that quickly. It's unnatural, and there are sure to be repercussions. So if you make it all the way to the end and you find yourself hemorrhaging cerebrally, or that some of your loved ones have long since died, try to take some solace in the knowledge that there was truly no more efficient delivery system for bloated Indian men getting kicked in the groin by the Terminator.
#3. Love Like You've Never Been Hurt, Rape Like Nobody's Watching
There's only one main female character in Enthiran, Sana, and she has two jobs: to be compared (not always favorably) to foodstuffs via song, and to almost get raped. Seriously, every musical number insists she's an overripe kumquat or mayonnaise in chocolate, and for every single one of her actions there is an equal but opposite attempted gangbang. She's nearly assaulted by the Indian Backstreet Boys, a cult that worships boomboxes, a mildly retarded farmer -- even the titular robot character gets in on the action, and the movie makes it explicitly, repeatedly clear that he was not built with a penis. At that point, he's just raping her on principle.
Please don't mistake me here: I am absolutely not saying that rape is anything less than a direly serious matter, I'm just saying that nobody told this movie that. If Enthiran is to be believed, then Indian life is like a perverse Harlan Ellison story:
I have no dick, and I must ...
But it's the scene with the dimwitted farmer that really hammers home how casually rape is doled out in the universe of Enthiran. That guy is on screen for two minutes, tops, and roughly a minute and a half of that time is him being adorably dumb and bashful:
The other 30 seconds is him trying to molest the main character. There's literally no segue there -- the transformation from harmless comic relief to sexual criminal was apparently in one of those scenes the blind editor lopped off, because this character flips from Barney Fife to Nils Bjurman in the nanoseconds between manic jump cuts. Luckily, Sana escapes unscathed with the male lead, and they both enjoy an uproarious laugh about the sexual assault, not 15 seconds after they've escaped it.
"Hahaha, you should've seen the look on your face when he tried to forcibly penetrate you!"


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Friday, October 11, 2013
A pair of teams looking for their third win of the season will meet in The Swamp Friday.
Ashley Ridge (2-4) opens Region 8-AAAA play by hosting Colleton County (2-4) at 7:30 p.m.
"Colleton County is much improved," Ashley Ridge coach Kenny Walker said. "We scrimmaged them earlier in the summer so both teams are familiar with one another. They have some athletic skill players so defensively we will have to tackle well in space."
Second-year Cougar coach Chris Collins seems to have Colleton County moving in the right direction. The Cougars were blown out by Top 10 teams Goose Creek and Stratford, but all their other games were very competitive and the Cougars have already doubled their win total from last season.
Colleton County returned seven starters on offense including quarterback Ramon Hall and running back Tyler Williams. The team only returned three starters on defense, but it has a leader up front in returning nose guard Shamar Simmons as well as an anchor for its secondary with free safety Kelson Crosby returning.
Wins haven't come easy for either team, but both have some momentum entering this week's game.
Colleton County is coming off a 34-20 win over Cane Bay last week. Hall tossed four touchdown passes and ran for another to power the Cougars. He finished 14 of 29 for 178 yards through the air as the Cougars ended up with 424 yards of total offense.
The Cougars other win came over Wando on Sept. 13. The 40-37 victory snapped a 36-game losing streak for the Cougars.
Ashley Ridge is coming off consecutive wins. On Sept. 27 the Swamp Foxes defeated Cane Bay 27-20 and last week they defeated West Florence 20-0.
"To travel 2 hours to a stadium most of us have not been to before and play a team that was in the state semi-finals last year and to come away with a win is a credit to our players," Walker said. "Against Colleton, we will have to continue to limit penalties and turnovers on offense and keep the chains moving like we were able to do last week."
Junior Swamp Fox tailback Tyler Garland had 32 carries for 167 yards and a rushing touchdown and made three receptions for 68 yards and two TDs in the game. Ashley Ridge quarterback Chandler Avenel completed 9 of 13 pass attempts for 155 yards.
Walker said his defense had its best game of the season at West Florence.
Colleton County is averaging 24 points per game this season while yielding 37.6 points. Ashley Ridge is averaging 23 points a game while yielding 30.5.
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ANTES FORT - The Antes Fort Fire Hall saw a number of hunters and those interested in the outdoors as it kicked off the first day of bear rifle season Saturday.
"I just love it out in the woods and being able to beat (the bears) at their own game," said Keith McDermit, of Woodward Township, after bringing in his first bear of the season.
As the day went on, pickup truck after pickup truck backed into the designated stall for the state Game Commission to be able to weigh, tag and gather other information about the bear.
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Rob Shirey, above, a game lands maintenance worker, prepares a bear to be weighed at the Antes Fort Fire Hall during the first day of bear season Saturday.
Although it was "chilly" for some out hunting, Robert Cooper, who goes out for bear season every year, said he enjoyed the weather.
"It was nice," he said. "Beautiful out there today."
And while for most hunters going out for bear season was a familiar routine, Nathan Martz, of Bloomsburg, was able to get his first bear with his father, Kevin, hunting with him.
Nathan said he was "pretty excited" about getting his first bear and added that he shot it with a gun he won the week before in a raffle.
"I have been pretty lucky so far this year," he said.
And being able to share the experience with his son was also a special experience, his father said.
"I was as proud as a peacock," he said. "I was just glad he got a shot at one.".
The father and son were hunting out of Buckhorn hunting camp, and Kevin Martz was sure there would be some celebrating later on in the day.
"We're going back to the cabin and everyone's waiting for us," he said. "It's going to be a good night."
McDermit said he enjoys being out in the woods by himself. He added that he doesn't have any specific tricks to strategies but "stumbles along" and hopes "for the best."
But as the hunters brought their kills in one after the other, their arrivals were not without fanfare. Community members gathered along the sides of the weigh station and sat on bleachers to see what was brought in.
Matt Lupton, of Avis, brought his four-year old son Mazden to see the bears.
"He wanted to see the bears. His pap is a big hunter," Lupton said.
Lupton said he comes from an outdoors family and Mazden can't wait until he's able to tag along on the hunting trips.
"He wants to hunt," Lupton said. "He has that mind set, so bringing him in here keeps him interested."
And although hunters and spectators, alike, were worried about the kill, the game commission was more interested in what the bear could tell it about the area's bear population.
One aspect of a bear that game commission officials look for is if it has mange - a bald patch of dry skin, which is caused by mites.
Lisa Williams, biologist with the Bureau of Wildlife Management, explained that if they see a bear with mange come in, they will take a patch of skin along with a blood sample.
By asking the location where every bear was killed as it comes into the weigh station, the game commission is able to learn about the area's population.
Cliff Guindon, wildlife conservation officer supervisor, said mange wasn't too bad in the Antes Fort area, but he said Lycoming County has seen cases of it.
Every bear that comes in has a tooth pulled to find the age of it and has its weight, sex and whether its an adult or juvenile recorded.
"It's good to know from year to year what the harvest looks like," Williams said.
Williams said they "slice and dice" the data to get every bit of information they can.
"It all kind of builds to our biological picture of our bear population," she said.
Williams added that they keep the public updated on the weights of the bears for the hunters' "bragging rights."
"That's bragging rights," she said. "They all like to talk about how big their bears are."


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Cane Bay vs. StratfordApril 23, 2014
Description: Cane Bay and Stratford wrapped up the Region 7-AAAA slate on Wednesday at SHS. (Photos Rob Gantt).
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HIV stands for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and is the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). It is a virus that attacks the immune system.
Over time, and without treatment, HIV gradually destroys the body's defenses against disease, leaving it vulnerable to many infections and cancers that do not normally develop.
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AIDS is a late stage of HIV disease. By the time of an AIDS diagnosis, HIV has already seriously damaged the body's immune system. Often, a person living with AIDS will already have had life-threatening infections or cancers.
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