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TAMPA — As critical as coach Skip Holtz was initially about USF's defensive and special teams mistakes in Saturday's 52-24 win over UTEP, he said after watching game film Sunday that he might've been too hard on his players.
"It's never as bad. I think I allowed my emotions with (injured WR Terrence Mitchell) and some of the things on special teams to affect me," Holtz said. "When you win 52-24 and you walk out with a knot in your stomach, it tells you a little bit about the expectations you're building within your own program. I thought there were some great things on defense, a lot of guys flying around. I thought our front seven really played physical, played well. Made a couple of mistakes in the first half, but I thought they came back focused."
USF played without starting CB Quenton Washington, who had a lingering knee injury. Holtz said the senior captain had a virus that caused him to drop 18 pounds from Saturday to Tuesday last week. His top backup, sophomore JaQuez Jenkins, was limited to a few plays because of an injured hamstring. The hope is that both can return for Thursday's game at Pittsburgh.
Holtz's biggest frustration Saturday came from the defensive backs, but their position coach, Rick Smith, said he liked what he saw in reviewing the game, considering they played without their most experienced player.
"You take the one play George Baker gave up (a 25-yard touchdown on fourth and inches), but other than that, for his (second) start, he played really good," Smith said. "I was worried about George all week, thinking he's going to hyperventilate on me. … We get Q (Washington) back, we're going to be all right."
FEELING BETTER: Sunday brought encouraging updates on Mitchell, who was carted off and hospitalized after a helmet-to-helmet collision left him motionless in front of the USF bench. The former Hillsborough High standout was released from the hospital late Saturday night, Holtz said, and suffered a concussion but no neck injury.
"We have no idea how long that will last — he has a pretty good headache," Holtz said. "It was nice to see his smiling face. We'll proceed with extreme caution."
STARTING EARLY: Knowing this would be a short week, the staff spent an hour each day last week starting a game plan for Pittsburgh, and instead of recruiting Friday, coaches worked on the Panthers. Sunday's practice was rained out, and the Bulls will practice for the next three days.


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The Brand in your Hand…..
Reebok has launched the very first shoe customization application, allowing users to customize and buy their uniquely designed trainers right from their mobile phones.
Inside Mobile was the agency that created the application. "Your Reebok" is now available in the iPhone App Store in Britain and the United States only…..
"The strategy was to develop a mobile service that embodied the theories of long-tail marketing – mass individualization – by delivering an application that was about people and not technology or marketing," said Dusan Hamlin, managing director of Inside Mobile.
The application offers three of Reebok's most iconic silhouettes: The Freestyle, the Classic Leather and the Ventilator.
The designer/consumer can change up to 23 different areas of the shoe with a choice of 19 colors, four material options and adding personalized text. The designs can either be shared with friends or the whole world direct from the application via GPS map etc…
This isn't Reebok's first mobile initiative. Reebok launched a mobile social networking campaign to promote its Freestyle Hi model by letting targeted consumers interact with the shoe design in December 2008. The campaign let consumers design their own shoe and send it in to itsmy.com, share it with friends and put it in the background of their page, but this is the first mobile customization application that closes the sale…..
I would love to know what anyone in the U.S. or U.K. that has a chance to try the application thinks??
Those of us in lesser countries can live vicariously through you or watch the video of the app in use on YouTube..
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Microsoft gave developers a sneak peek at their new iTunes style 'Windows Store' last night in San Francisco, making the first time the new concept has been demonstrated since it was introduced at the BUILD conference in September. The Windows Store will sell "Metro-style" apps. Microsoft Metro is the design language of the "live tile" [...]


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Turning Risk into Success"- TRIS- is a course consisting of 12 lessons that shows teenagers how to start their own business. This course helps teens create a business based on something they are passionate about. The business can be a commercial enterprise or a social enterprise. The lessons were created by Dr. Curtis L. DeBerg, an award-winning university professor. After taking the course, students are eligible to participate in a SAGE Regional or National Tournament. The course can only be taught by TRIS-Certified Master Teachers. To become a Certified Master Teacher, you must attend an intensive workshop.
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A pig done ate 'em
Solomon's seal
Spring blooming woodland perennial
Think hosta -- bright shade, moderately rich soil, good drainage
Drought, slugs
if you've been reluctant to try variegation in the garden, ease yourself in with this classiest bicolored beauty of all
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I'll make this quick and to the point: If you've got a shade garden and can spare four square feet, buy five of the variegated Solomon's seal, Polygonatum odoratum 'Variegatum'. In a few years, you'll be evicting nearby squatters and spending more time on your hands and knees.
Here's a plant that draws you down to its level and makes you only wish you were that sublime. This woodland dweller is lit from within. Its airbrushed variegation works more like eyeliner than war paint, making its charm irresistible, even to those who generally shun foliage that thinks itself better than flowers.
Certainly, the leaves are the reason to grow this plant. Their airy, fine-boned grace is an enormous relief among densely textured hostas and multistained heuchera, and their stature gives weight to finely dissected dicentras and ground-hugging asarums. But the early spring flowers are far from subtle, particularly massed, when hundred of creamy bells march two by two along the leaves.
P. odoratum 'Variegatum' (a.k.a. P. odoratum var. thunbergii 'Variegatum' and P. falcatum 'Variegatum') is, in fact, made for massing, and showy enough to hold its own in a mixed border (protected from afternoon sun under a small deciduous tree). I've also seen it leading visitors through lesser-traveled part of the garden like lanterns along a path.
Clearly, this form is my favorite among the genus, but a number of others work in equally versatile ways. For a dwarf groundcover, the species P. humile rarely exceeds nine inches, small enough to occupy a swath of shade in the rock garden, where it will offer intrigue as soon as its spears break ground. The East Coast native Solomon's seal, P. biflorum, breaks like a wave in a woodland setting, arched over creeping phlox, sweet woodruff, or sheets of moss. It generally tops out at three feet and is not particularly aggressive, leaving ample room for fall bloomers to obscure its dying leaves.
If you're looking to fill space, consider the colonizing giant Solomon's seal (P. commutatum), which emerges a deceptively fragile and thin-skinned pale gray-green. It's a great, moist, edge of woodlands kind of plant that tends to gobble up the competition, making a sea of wafting, waving foliage often five to six feet high.
No biblical association accounts for why polygonatum is called Solomon's seal, but I have unearthed a couple of explanations. In the category Least Likely to Be True, it's said that when you cut into a polygonatum rhizome, the cross section looks like a six-pointed Star of David. Another theory dates from the late-sixteenth-century Herball of John Gerard, who praises the root's ability to seal broken bones "...gotten by falls or women's willfulness, in stumbling upon their hasty husbands' fists." (Wretched wenches, always in the way.)
But the most popular explanation is that the scars on the plant's rhizomes -- left by old leaf stems -- resemble an official wax seal. Only those with Solomon's wisdom know why it bears his name.
'Flore Pleno': Double-flowered
'Striatum': Also variegated, but less stunning than P. odoratum 'Variegatum'
Plant Profiles are excerpted from Plant This! by Ketzel Levine
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The Tunnel to Towers Run was created to honor the life and legacy of 9/11 hero Stephen Siller, FDNY and his 342 brothers that sacrificed their lives to save others. On September 11, 2001, 34-year old firefighter Stephen Siller took his final heroic steps as he ran with 65 lbs of gear strapped on his back through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the World Trade Center to help save others. The Tunnel to Towers Run in NYC retraces Stephen's footsteps on that fateful day. In running along his path, runners honor not only Stephen but also his firefighter brothers and all those who perished on 9/11. They will never be forgotten!
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation has extended this run into a national event and has placed Savannah, GA among other cities on its map. Proceeds from the events are used by the Foundation to support programs which honor our first responders and personnel who make extraordinary sacrifices in the line of duty, including the Building for America's Bravest program.
The 5K run will begin at 8 a.m. at Orleans Square in historic downtown Savannah, Ga., located at Barnard St. (between Perry St. and Hull Street). Registration for the Tunnel to Towers Run Savannah is available online at www.t2trun.org, www.fleetfeetsavannah.com/t2t or in person at Fleet Feet Sports Savannah, located at 3405 Waters Avenue in Savannah.


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2012-13 NDOA Hall of Fame Inductees
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VALLEY CITY, ND (September 9, 2012) –The North Dakota Officials Association (NDOA) announces the inductees to the 2012-13 Hall of Fame as determined at its recent Board of Directors Meeting. The inductees will be recognized and receive awards at various North Dakota High School Activities Association (NDHSAA) events during the 2012-13 school year.
Inductees will be David Johnson, a long-time basketball official from Minnewaukan who officiated 38 state basketball tournaments during his illustrious career; Kim Anderson, a current football and basketball official from Dickinson who has also officiated 38 different state basketball tournaments and 9 state football championship games ; David Wenger, a retired basketball and football official from Williston that officiated 15 different state basketball tournaments and a pair of state football championship games during his 35-year career; David Rochholz, a retired wrestling official from Minot whose 37-year career (22 in North Dakota and 15 out of state) included 13 NDHSAA state wrestling tournaments; and Bill Mitchell, a retired football and basketball official from Fargo, who worked 3 state football championship games during his 40-year career in the Red River Valley Officials Association.
The NDOA has inducted 109 officials into its Hall of Fame since the inaugural class in 1965. Plaques commemorating all Hall of Fame members are housed in the North Dakota Athletic Hall of Fame, located inside the Jamestown Civic Center.


text: The first 4.5 mile trail run or a 2.5 mile trail walk through Bertram Chain of Lakes Regional Park renamed the Blazin' Thru Bertram – Phil LaVallee Memorial Run drew more than 250 registrants to the Bertram Chain of Lakes Regional Park Saturday, Sept. 14. The Monticello Cross County team showed its support for LaVallee, a 2012 Monticello High School graduate who was killed while running on a rural Wright County road. Event net proceeds from the event will go to the Friends of Bertram. (Photo by Tim Hennagir)


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After spending Thanksgiving, Christmas and his April birthday in the hospital, Izaiah Wallis is set to go home Tuesday from Rady Children's Hospital.
The two-year-old and his family are preparing for his return with attention to his continued care and the equipment he will need to keep improving.
The family will be moving into temporary housing while additional funds are raised to buy a home that will be remodeled to fit Izaiah's needs, said Linda Van Kessler-Schwartz, a friend of the family and co-founder of Passion 4 K.I.D.S., a non-profit working to raise funds for Izaiah and other children in need.
So far $36,000 has been raised toward a $350,000 home for the family. The campaign needs to reach $70,000 for a down payment to secure the home supporters have already found in Oceanside, Van Kessler-Schwartz said.
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Lower Humidity & Temperatures on Friday After Thunderstorm Passes Through
Update Friday 11 a.m.:
For our Friday, a refreshing cell of high pressure begins to move in from the northwest, dropping the humidity, creating a light north breeze, and lowering the temperatures a bit for us Friday afternoon. Overall, it will be very comfortable with highs in the upper 70s to near 80.
The weekend starts out pleasant as that same cell of high pressure settles over the region, making for sunny skies Saturday and highs in the low 80s.
Sunday looks largely dry as well, with a few more clouds mixing with the sun from time to time. High pressure will be edging offshore and making way for a cold front to move in from the west. This will bring the next chance for showers and storms on Monday and Tuesday of next week, as humidity creeps back up and highs return to the upper 80s.
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Lynchburg, VA - A strong line of severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, large hail, and frequent lightning hit the ABC 13 Viewing Area hard Thursday afternoon.
From the New River Valley to the Roanoke Valley, reports of downed trees and hail were widespread as the system moved over the mountains from the west.
The Roanoke Regional Airport measured a wind gust to 68 mph at 2:28 p.m.
Rainfall on the order of 1" in just 30 minutes was also a concern within the heavier storms.
In Bedford, intense winds toppled a tractor trailer truck onto its side on U.S. 460, according to the National Weather Service.
Viewers described tree limbs and wires flying through the air as the storms blew through.
"This was essentially a squall line of severe storms that blew through from west to east," said ABC 13 Chief Meteorologist Sean Sublette.
Trees were uprooted in Lynchburg, and those still standing had large limbs removed or snapped in half.
ABC 13 Viewers have been sending in numerous pictures of tree damage from the storms. If it is safe to do so, send your damage pics to: email@example.com to be used on-air.
AEP reported over 62,000 without power as of Thursday afternoon.
Lingering heavy storms, with gusty winds still continue for Southside Virginia, but the worst of the severe weather has passed.
- ABC 13 Meteorologist Jamey Singleton
Lynchburg, VA - A strong cold front is moving toward the ABC 13 Viewing Area today, with lines of severe thunderstorms out ahead of it.
There are already Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in effect for some, and a Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for the entire area through 7 p.m.
The main threats from the storms today will be strong, damaging winds in excess of 40 to 70 mph.
"The window for getting the severe weather will be between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m," said ABC 13 Meteorologist Lyndsay Tapases.
The Storm Prediction Center has outlined Southside Virginia in a moderate risk of severe weather, meaning there is an enhanced potential for damaging thunderstorms from Martinsville to Danville and points east and south.
The air is very unstable today, with very warm temperatures and high humidity. The combination will allow for storms to grow severe fast.
In addition, winds in the clouds are blowing fast. As rain falls through the clouds, the high winds are able to be brought down to the surface, adding to the damaging wind threat this afternoon and evening.
Stay with the ABC 13 Weather Experts for the latest on this rapidly developing weather situation.
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Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg Talk 'High School' Soundtrack [Video]
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Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa recently spoke with MTV Mixtape Daily about their upcoming High School film and soundtrack.
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Albert Collins, (born Oct. 1, 1932, Leona, Texas—died Nov. 24, 1993, Las Vegas, Nev.), U.S. blues musician who was a passionate instrumentalist and singer who became known as the "Master of the Telecaster" for the distinctively pure "icy" tone he produced from his Fender Telecaster electric guitar. Collins learned piano and guitar as a teenager in Houston, Texas, and played in local clubs as a band musician and pickup guitarist for other performers. On his first record, "The Freeze" (1958), he introduced the bare-finger plucking style and D-minor open-chord tuning that became his trademarks. He followed up with successful instrumentals, including "Defrost," "Frosty," and "Sno-Cone." In the late 1960s he moved to Los Angeles, where the blues/rock group Canned Heat helped him sign with a major record label and broaden his appeal to a young white audience. Collins added vocals in the 1970s. He won the W. C. Handy Award for best blues album for Don't Lose Your Cool (1983) and Cold Snap (1986) and captured a Grammy for Showdown (1987), recorded with Johnny Copeland and Robert Cray. Collins' other albums include Ice Pickin' (1978), Frostbite (1980), and Molten Ice (1992).
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!DNA: Haplogroup U6a, variations from the Cambridge Reference Sequence on HVR1: 16172C, 16219G, 16278T. This shows European descent, as proven by mtDNA test of Michelle Doucette (email@example.com) in Oct 2006. Edmée's mother, therefore, was not of Amerindian origin.
!PARENTS: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; [vol. 3] ENGLISH SUPPLEMENT; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 2000; p. 225. Father A. Godbout suggested (in DICTIONNAIRE DES ACADIENS, p. 477) that Pierre LEJEUNE dit Briard was Edmée & Catherine LEJEUNE's brother. But S. A. White points out that the absence of a dispensation for kindred in the marriage of a granddaughter of Pierre & a grandson of Catherine LEJEUNE (St-Servan Register 8 Jan 1760) leads to the conclusion that neither Catherine nor Edmée was Pierre's sister.
!NAME-BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Clarence-Joseph d'Entremont, HISTOIRE DU CAP-SABLE DE L'AN MIL AU TRAITE' DE PARIS; 1000-1763; 5 vols., Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981; vol. 3, p. 1121; Salt Lake LDS Family History Library, US/CAN 971.6 H2e. Continuously paged. Aimée LE JEUNE, born between 1622 and 1625, married to Francois GAUTROT.
!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, name spelled Emée LA JEUNE, age 61 years Living next door to son Claude GOTRO and Marie TERIOT and their daughter.
!CENSUS: 1693, age 71 years (sic), a widow.


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DECATUR, Ga. (CBS/AP/WGCL) Gary DeToma, a Georgia father involved in a bitter custody battle with his wife, murdered his 5-year-old-son and attempted to kill his other son, a 4-year-old, authorities said.
PICTURES: Gary DeToma, Jr. Murdered
The boys' mother, Melanie DeToma, became alarmed Monday morning when Gary DeToma failed to return the two boys to her, as per the terms of the couple's custody agreement. Police paid a visit to DeToma's suburban Atlanta home, but no one answered and the officers saw nothing out of the ordinary, said police Deputy Chief Keith Lee.
Unfortunately, on Monday afternoon, one of DeToma's co-workers went to check on him because he had failed to show up for work that day, and discovered the tragedy.
The co-worker "continued knocking, knocking and finally a 4-year-old child came to the door. The co-worker went inside and he found Mr. DeToma in a bedroom with his 5-year-old son and [the child] appeared to be deceased," Lee told WGCL.
DeToma has been charged with murder in the death of his son "Little Gary." Police say DeToma's other son, Will, was also at the apartment, but was
alive when they arrived at the home, reports CBS affiliate WGCL. DeToma is facing aggravated assault charges for allegedly attacking Will.
Neighbors knew the couple was going through a divorce and were fighting over custody of the kids, but they had no idea it would end like this.
"I just never noticed anything wrong, no problems at all," Nica Taylor, a neighbor, told WGCL.
The DeTomas had been married six years and were set to finalize a custody agreement this week.
Melanie DeToma's attorney, Blue Spruell says that a fund has been set up to help Melanie DeToma pay for expenses stemming from the murder.
Decatur First Bank is accepting donations to the fund. According to Spruell, checks can be made out to the Gary DeToma, Jr. Fund and can be mailed to 1120 Commerce Drive, Decatur, GA 30030.


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A Hanging Offense
The girl's body was slumped against the back of her bathroom door, a bedsheet knotted tightly around her neck. Instead of a warm, vibrant chocolate skin, hers was the grays and blues of impending death. Her stomach was distended, her eyes unfocused.
Joyce Robinson was the first one to spot her. The mental health technician began screaming, yelling for help, for someone to call 911. Cecilia's body fell before her; Robinson wrestled the sheet off and began CPR, with the help of other techs.
It was three days before Christmas, 1996, a little after 8 p.m., and 14-year-old Cecilia Garrett had gotten into a shouting match with other girls on her unit at the Devereux Treatment Center, a nonprofit mental health facility in League City. Told to sit by herself for a while until she calmed down, she stayed alone in a common room before deciding to go to her bedroom.
Heading down the hallway, past the nurses station, she slammed the door shut to her room and walked to her bed, where she ripped off a sheet. She knotted one end, tossed it over the top of her bathroom door, shut the door and tied the other end around her neck.
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A few minutes later, Robinson entered the room to check on Cecilia and found her hanging.
Devereux personnel hustled about, sending the other girls to their rooms. An emergency medical service team and the League City police arrived. EMS came in without an oxygen tank. A Devereux employee was finally sent to bring it in off the ambulance. For a while Cecilia's color got better, closer to normal. Then it wasn't. Finally, they decided to take her to the hospital emergency room.
About an hour later, Cecilia Garrett was pronounced dead. She'd entered Devereux as a 12-year-old just two years before. She left on a gurney.
There was no obituary or news story about Cecilia in the Galveston County Daily News or the Houston Chronicle the next day or the days after. Her body was sent back to her parents in Chicago. It was like Cecilia Garrett had never been here. It was like she'd never been at all.
The Cecilia Garrett who arrived at the Devereux treatment facility in January 1995 was, by all accounts, a troubled child: aggressive, self-destructive and a victim. A friend of her father's allegedly raped her when she was nine years old. That was the same year her adoptive father moved out, and the same year Cecilia may have started using marijuana, although her parents deny that. Cecilia would cut herself on the arms and legs and had attempted suicide by slitting her wrists. A product of the South Chicago projects, Cecilia, who was big for her age, was more than the local public school system and her parents, Gladys and Victor, could handle. She was hospitalized at Hartgrove Hospital in Chicago -- she even got an extension to stay there longer while the school district looked for someplace else to put her -- but she was running out of time.
The Devereux treatment facility in League City, Texas, is 1,000 miles away from the South Side projects Cecilia called home. Devereux sends representatives to Chicago to tout its facilities, and the Chicago school system was interested. Hartgrove Hospital was a prime feeder to Devereux, said Ron Winkler, who was a Devereux intermediary signing up clients. Cecilia's treatment would be paid for with state money doled out through the Chicago schools. This was important because her parents didn't have much of anything, not even a telephone.
But still Cecilia's parents hesitated. She would be so far away. Gladys, who'd given birth to Cecilia on September 6, 1982, and Victor, who'd adopted her and her brother on September 27, 1988, didn't like it that they wouldn't be able to see their daughter regularly. Both were afraid to fly and, in any case, didn't have the money to travel back and forth. How would family counseling take place?
But something had to happen; something had to change. Cecilia had been to school only one day in all of 1994, according to Josie Winston, case manager with Chicago's alternative schools program. "She had been in the hospital, I believe, four times, psychiatrically hospitalized in 1994; and in 1993, I'm not sure what her attendance was, but I believe that she had been a chronic truant during 1993." She hadn't actually had too many special ed services from the schools, Winston said, because she was not there. "She's wandering the streets."
Victor and Gladys Garrett themselves had a lot of problems. Their home life was tumultuous, punctuated by Victor's drinking problems and his occasional physical abuse of Gladys. Cecilia later told counselors that he hit her as well, but her father denied that. He was taken to jail once for hitting his son after a teacher called to say the boy had been disobedient in class. Cecilia had a younger sister and an older brother, and as he got older the brother was frequently in trouble because of drugs. Victor Garrett said he moved out because of his wife's adultery and because the kids would tear up the apartments they were staying in until landlords didn't want them anymore, and he was tired of moving. He got a place nearby and would visit them in the mornings. Later in 1995, Victor Garrett would begin drawing social security disability after being diagnosed with depression.
While insisting that most of Cecilia's behavior put Cecilia herself at risk, Winston also acknowledged the girl's aggressiveness, as when she kicked in the door at a friend's house. "We're talking about a child who had slashed up several people and had no remorse about it." In fact, it was Cecilia slashing her brother in the face that brought about her most recent hospitalization.
Winston agreed with the Garretts that it would be better for Cecilia to be placed close to home, where they could be involved in her treatment. Of the eight or nine facilities she contacted, Winston said, only one other than Devereux would take the preteen. An all-girls school, it had the advantage of being much closer to Chicago, but it wouldn't have any openings until later in January. In Illinois, none of the facilities was a lock-in, and as officials of those schools rejected Cecilia they told Winston they thought the girl needed long-term care in a secure facility.
Meanwhile, back at Hartgrove, Cecilia was not doing well. Even under medication the 12-year-old was extremely aggressive toward the staff and other students on the unit, Winston said. She was put in seclusion. Winston started looking for a school with a stronger psychiatric component.
In the end, with no other options readily available, Winston and the Garretts decided to trust Cecilia to Devereux, a facility known for taking on children and adolescents with all of Cecilia's problems and more.
The parents came down for a tour at Devereux's expense, momentarily overcoming their fear of flying. What they found was a mental health center divided into units, some mini-hospitals, others less restrictive. On Unit 4, to which Cecilia was assigned when she died, there were 22 patients, a mix of males and females ranging in age from 12 to 21, two to a room, the girls on one side, the boys on the other.
According to therapist Patti Thompson, Cecilia's admitting process into the Devereux hospital unit did not go smoothly:
"She spit in the doctor's face that admitted her. Her dad either tried to slap her or slapped her, called her a 'fucking bitch' and a 'ho.' "
Diagnosed as having a bipolar personality, Cecilia was heavily medicated for the first year with lithium, Haldol, Tegretol and Depakote. She was also diagnosed with a conduct disorder.
At the end of that year, Cecilia's behavior had improved and she was moved to a residential unit at Devereux. On an in-house rating scale of one to six, Cecilia was now a five and ready to begin building life skills, Devereux concluded.
But shortly after the switch, Cecilia encountered problems. At the last minute, her pass entitling her to a home visit for Christmas was canceled; her new psychiatrist said he needed more time to assess her. Her rating dropped to level two. In January 1996, according to Devereux records, Cecilia said, "My temper, I just blow up, saying the wrong thing, cutting myself, doing drugs, cutting people and hurting people."
Cecilia's new doctor was Mohammad Saeed, who was to achieve some measure of fame in June 2001 for his involvement in the case of Andrea Yates, the Houston mother who drowned her five children in the family bathtub. Saeed had taken Yates off the medication she'd been on shortly before the time she grew increasingly psychotic and killed her children.
In Cecilia's case, Saeed dropped her from the medication she'd been receiving as well. He concluded that the earlier diagnosis of bipolar personality was incorrect, that instead she was suffering from a conduct disorder and a narcissistic personality disorder.
Early in 1996, Cecilia and a new girl who'd entered the Devereux program teamed up to sexually attack a smaller girl on the unit. The victim's parents reported the case to police, and then Devereux operations director Melba Lindberg reported it to the state. Devereux told Cecilia to write up a statement without any legal representation; she was prosecuted and listed as a juvenile sex offender and was required to meet monthly with a probation officer. In the space of 30 days, Cecilia's rating level once again dropped, this time from a five to a one.
There were two reports of Cecilia being sexually abused at Devereux. On one occasion it was alleged she was fondled under her blouse; on another, a male patient reportedly put his hands down her pants.
Cecilia was able to bounce back from her drop to a level one, learning to take care of herself better. In May 1996 she was finally allowed a weeklong visit home that included Mother's Day. In September 1996 she was named student of the month at Devereux, and in October she was given a level six, the highest rating.
By fall 1996, Cecilia and her parents expected her to be moved back to Chicago, not yet ready for their home but to a nearby group home. In a letter dated October 8, 1996, she wrote her father, urging him to stay on a sober path: "I miss you when I went home. I could tell you were proud of the way I changed. I was proud of you too. You not an alcohlic (sic) no more. I'm so proud of you." She wrote a separate letter to her mother that day, saying, "Momma these white folks be down here saying Cecilia's mother isn't working in therapy don't put your self on the spot o.k." She wrote to the Chicago school district and to Devereux officials. An October 17, 1996, letter was passed on from the clinical team to Jean Brown, the Chicago case manager assigned to handle Devereux placements. Cecilia asked when she would be leaving. "I almost been here for 2 yrs. And that's a lot." She concluded the letter with a PS saying she was watching cartoons.
When the time came for the annual reapplication for funding with the Illinois State Board of Education, which was granted, Brown noted that Cecilia was in the ninth grade, not on any medications, not having any behavioral problems in class, but that she still had trouble understanding what others said to her and in expressing herself and was emotionally delayed for her age.
Brown took the information from Devereux and processed it into the reports she was making to Chicago and the state. When Cecilia reached a level six, she noted that, but also that Cecilia was having "increased difficulties following directions and demonstrating appropriate relationship with peers."
Later in October, Cecilia got word that instead of being done by January, her case had been reassessed and now July 1997 was her new target release date.
Again, a scheduled Christmas pass was denied at the last minute. The level six rating she'd attained in October was a two by December. She exposed herself in PE class. She had a kicking fight with another girl, punched a boy and was physically restrained on December 10. She was put on room restriction for four days, which meant she couldn't talk with fellow patients.
After her pass was pulled and a few days before she died, Cecilia made a distraught call to Jean Brown in Chicago. Cecilia cried and raged, saying they'd lied to her. Robinson, who stood by her side during the call, said she was "screaming and fussing and she wasn't going to live to see Christmas and she didn't want to be here anymore.
"I had to end the phone call and get her under control," Robinson said.
Two years after their daughter's death, in December 1998, the Garretts filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Galveston County against Devereux, psychiatrist Mohammad Saeed, therapist Patti Thompson, then-operations director Melba Lindberg, family services representative Ron Winkler, staff psychiatrist Isabela Iovino and then-unit manager Jeff Kennedy. They asked for actual damages of not more than $10 million and punitive damages in the maximum amount allowed by law.
"I think this young lady essentially was being warehoused," said James Doyle, who became the lead attorney for the Garretts. "I don't think it makes any sense for her to have received this type of hospitalization and therapy over a thousand miles away from her home and family."
According to the lawsuit, when Devereux found out there were additional funds to be had, "defendants falsely and fraudulently re-characterized Cecilia's condition and subsequently manipulated her environment, her treatment and her emotional stability such that she became increasingly depressed Her holiday trip home was canceled owing to her worsening emotional condition, whether real, manufactured or concocted."
"Our contentions are that they pushed her buttons and they had encouraged staff to be critical in terms of their assessments," said Doyle, of the firm Doyle, Restrepo, Harvin & Robbins.
Cecilia's condition worsened and "she was once again a substantial risk for suicide," the lawsuit says. She started giving away her belongings, was moody, isolated, depressed and crying. Although Devereux promotes itself as offering specialized care for suicidal patents, these procedures were ignored or avoided in Cecilia's case, the suit says.
The night of her death, Cecilia was allowed to leave a group session unattended in an agitated state. Defendants ordered observers to stay put rather than follow her, the suit says. She was found dead a short time later.
Besides failing to protect her, the lawsuit alleges that the defendants "knowingly attempted to conceal the causes and circumstances of Cecilia's death to discourage independent investigation and to avoid liability."
The Garretts contend that records were changed to indicate more care was being taken with Cecilia in the days leading up to her death than actually was the case. Robinson says she was told to backdate records to show that Cecilia was on suicide precautions, which she refused to do.
Devereux officials and fellow defendants deny backdating or falsifying any of Cecilia's treatment records or telling anyone else to do so. They point out that Robinson has an ax to grind, having filed a lawsuit against Devereux after the center fired her. Another former employee, Hernandez Miller, who was fired, also said he was asked to falsify records in Cecilia's case. He also filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against Devereux following his dismissal.
The center denies leaning on Cecilia in any way in order to make her act out. Devereux says that it had no indication that Cecilia was suicidal, that any moroseness she was showing before her death was just part and parcel of the normal teenage condition. While the Garretts contend that Cecilia's own writings show she was suicidal, Devereux personnel say they wouldn't have looked at her private journal. Dr. Joan S. Anderson, another witness for Devereux, also said she wouldn't have been concerned about suicide in Cecilia's case, even based on her journal, saying that "teenagers typically write morbid stuff." She said she would have put her on close observation. She testified she thought Devereux was doing its job.
As for giving away possessions, Devereux personnel maintained that Cecilia gave no more than she normally did.
In her deposition, mental health technician Tundalayea "Cissy" Palmer testified that Cecilia told her she didn't care if she lost her pass and said it wasn't unusual since kids would sometimes jeopardize their passes if "they really didn't want to go or had mixed feelings about going."
Cecilia knew she wasn't going to be able to go back home, Palmer said. Asked why, Palmer responded: "Home environment, the issues with her brother I think she knew that her parents couldn't provide for her." At the same time, Palmer described Cecilia as "one of our least behavioral kids she maintained at least a level four most of the time and exhibited appropriate behavior most of the time." She said Cecilia grew up a lot at Devereux, "changing her clothing and the makeup and increasing her hygiene."
Devereux's position is it did everything it possibly could to help Cecilia.
Even a nonprofit like Devereux needs funds to keep going. From the depositions filed in Cecilia's case, it appears Devereux was experiencing some financial difficulties, even with the expensive fees it was charging.
When Saeed started with Devereux he was being paid $120,000 a year for his work on Unit 4, where Cecilia ended up. In addition he was paid by the hour for work he did on another unit with individual patients. Over time, Saeed said, the $120,000 had decreased to somewhere in the $70,000 range.
In a letter to Gail Atkinson in October 1995, Saeed wrote, "You mentioned that Devereux Hospital in League City is still suffering from financial and administrative difficulties."
In another communication with Devereux about his compensation, Saeed wrote, "Here I would like to remind that the staffing of RN [registered nurses] and LVN [licensed vocational nurses] has been and remains a serious problem on Unit 4 and 5." He also wrote: "Use of float pool nurses poses the problem of inconsistency, which is detrimental to the care of the patients Nursing staff tells me we need at least a charge nurse and medication nurse at all times."
Family services liaison Ron Winkler said Chicago and other school districts across the country knew Devereux's full rates, which were about $10,000 a month. Josie Winston said that while in the past Devereux had required additional funding, in Cecilia's case it was willing to accept what the Illinois State Board of Education would pay for her care.
Winkler said Chicago would have about ten kids at any time in Devereux's Texas facilities. Jean Brown, the Chicago case manager assigned to handle Devereux placements, estimated the average number at 14. Based on $10,000 a month, Chicago would be paying just under $1.7 million a year to Devereux.
Funding concerns are echoed in Joyce Robinson's account of what was going on at Devereux. Although Cecilia was originally scheduled for discharge around Christmas, in October Thompson told the staff that the Illinois State Board of Education had come up with additional funding and Cecilia didn't need to leave. Robinson said therapist Thompson told a group of staffers to "push her buttons because she was a high level." Robinson said this was not an unusual instruction from Thompson for different kids.
In another meeting, operations director Lindberg made an overhead presentation, telling them, "they had lost millions of dollars because of Medicare or Medicaid," Robinson said. They were told to "chart more negative to stop charting more positively because the agencies aren't paying for kids to be here that are doing so great. Then they don't need to be here," Robinson said.
On the night of December 22, the girls were in a common room and began talking in what Joyce Robinson considered a sexually inappropriate manner. They were talking about "jacking off boys," she said, so she sent them to their rooms.
Cissy Palmer was the mental health technician working with the group that night. She had been out at a store, and when she returned, Robinson told her what had happened. Palmer called them out for a community meeting.
As soon as they assembled, Palmer said, the girls began attacking Cecilia for telling Thompson about their private comments in her private therapy session earlier that day. They also reportedly said that Thompson had been passing this information on to other girls. Tempers escalated.
"I could see that Cecilia was the focal point. She was real upset with them, wouldn't accept direction to stop cursing from me." Palmer said she asked Cecilia if she wanted some quiet time and she said yes, while continuing to curse and call the other girls bitches and whores. The group left the room, sat outside the door and then got snacks. Palmer went in to ask if she felt better and Cecilia said no. After a while, Cecilia went to her room without saying anything more to the girls. Palmer said she went to the nurses station to tell Thompson what had happened and Robinson was there as well. After that, Palmer went to the boys' side of the unit to relieve a worker there.
Ten minutes later, Palmer said, she heard Robinson scream her name.
Joyce Robinson's account differs from those of Palmer and Patti Thompson. According to Robinson, the girl stomped off to her room and Robinson attempted to go after her but was stopped by Thompson, who told her, "Let her stew," and by Palmer, who waved her off from the day room. Both Palmer and Thompson deny doing this.
Robinson was getting ready to leave, but Cecilia's roommate was headed for her room, so she decided to go with her. She walked into the dark room and saw Cecilia's bed all torn up. There was a light under the bathroom door. Robinson turned around and put the roommate out because she couldn't see Cecilia. She pushed the bathroom door open, which was hard to do because Cecilia's weight was against it. When she finally shoved the door open, Robinson said, Cecilia's body fell in front of her.
It wasn't until August 1997 that Gladys and Victor Garrett got Cecilia's death summary report from Devereux. Saeed said he was behind on his paperwork.
Therapist Patti Thompson and Cecilia may not have been a good match. Joan Anderson, reviewing the files, said she felt that Cecilia liked Thompson in general, but that there were times when she was very angry with her.
Saeed said he talked with Thompson about how to deal with Cecilia because of her size, which made her appear older than she was.
Thompson said Cecilia would write her notes, then tell her to tear them up. She wrote poetry about death. "Cecilia had a somewhat hopeless feeling about her future at times in terms of would she make it," Thompson said.
Thompson apparently had problems meeting some state standards. For instance, in the year after Cecilia's death, Thompson, who was the therapist for half the unit, or 11 clients, did not provide any individual therapy for another patient for a six-week period in late 1997, which resulted in a citation for noncompliance with the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.
At another point, other employees accused Thompson of falsely documenting that she was providing therapy when she was actually at her chiropractor.
Psychiatrist Aaron Fink, who reviewed Cecilia's case files for the plaintiffs, said Thompson provided substandard care to Cecilia because she failed to recognize her intellectual limitations.
Thompson wasn't the only Devereux employee to attract complaints in the late '90s. Unit manager Jeff Kennedy didn't have the proper certification to be in that job. TDPRS notified Devereux that it was in noncompliance because of his lack of qualifications. He was moved laterally to another position after Cecilia's death.
On another occasion Kennedy got in trouble for spraying water on a sleeping client to wake him up. According to a document from the state licensing department, "Mr. Kennedy did admit that he used poor judgment." Yet when asked about it in his deposition, Kennedy said he could not recall the incident.
Melba Lindberg, despite being Devereux's director of operations, said in her deposition that she was unaware that Kennedy had been accused of spraying anyone with water.
Lindberg herself was cited by the state for failing to report two suicide attempts in April 1996, one a patient who slit a wrist and another who attempted to hang himself with a bedsheet over a door, just as Cecilia would do eight months later. Lindberg insisted these were not "major" attempts at suicide and thus didn't need to be reported to the state. She was instructed otherwise.
She was investigated by the Texas Department of Health after employees filed complaints about her.
Devereux had an adult patient who died by hanging himself using a door in the year before Cecilia's death. Following this, Gail Atkinson said, some policies and procedures were changed, such as when kids could go to the bathroom and when doors could be locked, so there would be better supervision. Robinson had suggested cutting the tops off the internal doors, but that wasn't done. The fire marshal said that would violate fire codes, Atkinson said, adding, "There are many other ways that a person can hang themselves other than the door." The group also discussed throwaway gowns and sheets that would tear easily, but Atkinson said that upon talking to a number of people they decided that wouldn't be effective.
League City police reports for 1995 and 1996 show repeated calls -- more than 100 a year -- to Devereux. Some were prank 911 calls, but others included repeated claims of assault and sexual assault, as well as reports of missing persons.
Despite this, Devereux doesn't appear to have a reputation for problems in the community at large. Some of that may be owing to its influential board of directors, which in 2002 included the following from the economic development side: Tom Brooker, a developer with the South Shore Harbour Development Corporation; Jim Reinhartsen, head of the Clear Lake Area Economic Development Foundation; Tedd Olkowski, head of the Galveston County Alliance; and Doug Frazier, with economic development for the city of League City. Law enforcement showed itself on the board as well, with Pat Bittner, assistant chief of police in League City, and Gean Leonard, Galveston County sheriff.
Joyce Robinson is a crucial figure in the Cecilia Garrett story. In one of her letters home, Cecilia complained that "it's hard trying to live off these white people rules." Robinson, a fellow African-American, said Cecilia called her "Mom" and felt comfortable with her. In her deposition, Robinson was positive about Cecilia's future; she said she felt Cecilia was working hard to overcome her background and make something of herself.
But the picture of Robinson painted in the depositions is a mixed one. According to Melba Lindberg, Robinson was at best an average worker. Thompson testified that Robinson lied regularly, misappropriated the kids' money when parents would send it to them and used Devereux's tax ID number to buy items for herself when she took the kids on shopping trips and other outings. She was accused of stealing patient forms. All of which Robinson denied.
Executive director Atkinson said Robinson was a good employee sometimes but that she purchased items at Circuit City using Devereux's tax-exempt status. She said Robinson was frequently missing from her job in the classroom and that she was often in the kitchen cooking food when she was supposed to be elsewhere on the unit.
At the same time, after Cecilia's death, Devereux sent Robinson as one of its two representatives to the girl's funeral in Chicago.
Devereux discharged Robinson a year after Cecilia's death, saying her job performance was below par. Robinson said she was being retaliated against and that Devereux didn't cut her any slack when she incurred emotional problems because of Cecilia's death. In December 1997, Robinson sought psychiatric counseling. "I had to start taking a bunch of medication just so I could function," she said. She kept seeing Cecilia's death over and over in her sleep.
In any lawsuit involving a death, there's a postmortem of experts assembled by both sides -- in this case, independent psychiatrists were tapped.
Scoring a big one for Devereux, none of the psychiatric experts thought Cecilia should have been placed on suicide precautions right before her death based upon the reading of her charts. In the depositions, the Garretts' attorneys attempted to show that those charts didn't reveal everything that was going on with Cecilia, pointing to her journal as evidence.
Dr. Richard B. Pesikoff, testifying for Devereux, has spent more than 30 years training psychiatrists at Baylor College of Medicine. He said he didn't see anything that would indicate suicide in Cecilia's record, only that she was aggressive and would attack people. He agreed with Saeed that Cecilia was not suicidal and said Saeed was right to take her off her bipolar medication.
Pesikoff countered the criticism of Devereux for housing males and females on the same unit, explaining that most psychiatric treatment programs are coed. He questioned, however, the inclusion of patients older than 18 on the same unit with 12-year-olds.
Psychiatrist Jay Tarnow also agreed that the diagnosis of bipolar was incorrect. This was proved, he said, by the fact that the bipolar medicines weren't effective with her. He said he agreed that she suffered from conduct disorder and said post-traumatic stress disorder was also likely present.
Both Tarnow and Pesikoff said Devereux had basically done its job, an opinion not shared by plaintiffs' witness Aaron Fink. Psychiatrist Fink said Devereux should be closed or reformed.
There was a documented history of suicide attempts by Cecilia, Fink said. She was placed on suicide precautions at Devereux when she was moved from acute hospital care to the residential program, he said. In March 1995 she was on suicide precautions, and there are references in her charts that she expressed suicidal thoughts, Fink said.
Still, asked if he would have had Cecilia on suicide precautions in December 1996, Fink said no. From the records late in her stay, he said, he saw none of the indications he needed.
Fink said he found "the general clinical care provided to Cecilia was poor." There was a lack of documentation, and Saeed was signing off on cases months after the reports were generated. He said there had been "superficial and incomplete evaluation of her clinical condition" and "failure to obtain previous psychiatric records."
There was a lack of coordination between units and no evidence that Saeed had talked to the psychiatrist who treated Cecilia for her first year at Devereux, Fink said. He also called the supervision of the treatment team "inadequate."
Because of poor clinical care, Fink said, Cecilia's "hospitalization and treatment was unnecessarily extended, which led to her increased frustration, increased feeling of hopelessness and ultimately contributed to her suicide. She couldn't have killed herself at Devereux if she had been discharged earlier."
Fink said Saeed didn't know his patient, not when he made reference to Cecilia as being bright, despite having a documented IQ of 87. Also, there's a conclusion that Cecilia didn't have a drug problem despite a history of that in her charts, Fink said.
Fink said he thought Cecilia had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, with which none of the other psychiatrists agreed. He called Saeed's diagnosis of conduct disorder incomplete.
He criticized the fact that it took progress reports three or four months to get to the parents. Devereux has maintained that Gladys Garrett would either be late or entirely miss scheduled family therapy phone calls. After a while, she began making the calls from Josie Winston's office. Fink said Devereux should have set this up from the start, since it knew the Garretts didn't have a phone.
The atmosphere at the Devereux unit was a negative one that only reinforced poor behavior tendencies, Fink said. "There was a lot of sexual acting out on the unit with very poor supervision," he said. One patient set a fire, and many children ran away from the facility, he said. While sexual acting out isn't unique to Devereux, Fink said, the TDPRS made note of the degree to which it was happening in League City.
Gail Atkinson, executive director of Devereux in Texas, did not renew Saeed's contract on June 21, 2001, which was the morning after Andrea Yates's children died. She insisted in her deposition that one had nothing to do with the other, that she had been planning for two months before not to renew his contract and had already engaged another doctor. She said Saeed had previously refused to sign his contract, that he wanted more money. She'd also learned that he was building his private practice in Dickinson "and I was worried that he was leaving us."
Chicago's Josie Winston in her deposition said that "there has been success with sending students to Devereux." She thought that Devereux would help Cecilia learn how to behave in school, to focus, to relate to authority figures, to stop the physical aggression toward other kids. She thought that Cecilia, armed with all these new behaviors, would eventually leave Devereux for a less restrictive environment and eventually earn a high school diploma.
Cecilia's death, Winston said, "was very, very traumatic for all of us. We've never had a child -- never lost a child."
Whatever their flaws, Gladys and Victor Garrett wanted Cecilia home. Gladys Garrett repeatedly asked Devereux and Jean Brown of Chicago about that. What they didn't realize was that because Cecilia wasn't committed to the institution, she could have come home anytime. In a poem written October 4, 1996, Cecilia said: "God please take me away / take me to a better place where I can stay."
Jean Brown called Cecilia's death tragic. At the time of her deposition in December 2000, she said she hadn't sent any Chicago children to Devereux since then.
Asked earlier this month if Devereux in League City was still receiving Chicago public school children, a Devereux spokeswoman said it was. In May of last year, a 17-year-old South Dakota female patient hanged herself at the Devereux center in Colorado. Asked how many deaths there have been at Devereux facilities in 13 states, the spokeswoman said that information was confidential.
In his deposition, Saeed recalled that when he was at Devereux, there was hardly any patient with a local residence. "I think most of these children come from faraway places."
Gladys and Victor Garrett are divorced now. They came together to Houston in late February. That's when Cecilia's case was settled -- February 28, 2003, more than six years after her death -- for an undisclosed amount. The money wasn't disbursed till the second week of April.
Because of the settlement, those involved in the case say they cannot talk about any part of it. (Comments from attorney Doyle in this article were made before they settled.)
So the question of how much Cecilia Garrett's life was worth remains a secret held by a small group of people.
How much Cecilia's life was valued, of course, remains an entirely different enigma.
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A Man Is a Man
I love hateful, embittered old musicians who have nothing good to say about anyone
or anything. I particularly love CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN because, at 75, he's had plenty of time to get all twisted up inside and mean as a pit viper. I also love Gatemouth Brown because he has absolutely ruled the world of American music for about 50 years, to very little reward or popular acclaim. You, too, would be all twisted and bitter in Brown's position. I'm all twisted and bitter for him.
Brown's past two albums, American Music Texas Style and Gate Swings, are two absolutely perfect collections of Texas swing and jump blues from one of the creators of the form. Yet you don't see the zoot suit brigade flocking to Brown's shows; his albums don't sell platinum. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy sells platinum. Gate don't like it; I don't either. It's a sin and a shame.
As legend has it (a legend Gate confirms), Brown's career began when T-Bone Walker took ill and left the stage one night in Houston in 1947. Brown picked up the stricken musician's guitar, brought the house down, and hasn't looked back since.
The classic blues/R&B label Peacock Records was founded in the '50s specifically to record Brown. He led the house band on the '60s black music showcase program The Beat!!! He's won a Grammy among seven nominations and earned a closetful of W.C. Handy Awards. Guitarists ranging from Albert Collins, Johnny "Guitar" Watson and even Frank Zappa have cited him as a prime influence.
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Yet Brown is more than a guitarist and more than a mere bluesman. He rips on fiddle, mandolin and harp as well as guitar, and his genre-bending music has included heavy doses of jazz, hillbilly and Cajun. You get the distinct feeling he has returned to his swing roots recently just to put the white boys in their place. Brown is among the featured performers at this week's Long Beach Blues Festival (he appears Saturday). He recently spoke to me about all that which sucks
ON FAKE SWING MUSICIANS: "They don't know how to blow those instruments. I don't care for it; they're not doing nothing. They're too busy trying to copy from what they heard. And they are all pushing in to see me, see what's going on. They're beginning to wake up to what I'm doing, which is what they should have been listening to all along. All these people they push to be superstars don't be doing a damn thing. They don't give me the same displays they give these other people. And yet, the audiences love my music all over the world, wherever I go. It's sickening to me. But I don't let it stop me." ON FAKE TEXAS BLUES MUSICIANS: "I tried to create something that nobody else has never did. A lot of these guys from Texas talk about Texas music, but I mean, that's just a label. They get with that Delta blues and Chicago blues. They get that old funky-type beat, and that's what they push, and they think that's Texas music? Naw. To me, it's the beat I use. The drummer playing one . . . two . . . one-two on that bass drum, and the bass is walking on it. It's just a unique sound, that's all. I heard some white band in Florida the other night trying to copy my rhythm-pattern line, and they didn't know how to do it." ON BEING LABELED A "BLUESMAN:" "Oh, man, that's America. They try to keep a black man in blues or jazz. They don't acknowledge a man is a man, and he can do anything he wants to do if he wants to do it. My first music was Cajun, country and bluegrass—wasn't no goddamn blues. I didn't know nothing about no blues. It pisses you off when that's the only category they wanna put you in: blues and jazz. Just like Alligator Records—that's why I had to leave them. They talking about hardcore blues players. They wanna swing me in there, and I don't wanna be there. Blues, jazz, country, Cajun, bluegrass . . . everything is in there. That's what I do—that's right." ON THE BEAT!!!: "I gave a lot of people their start on that show. That was the first all-black TV show ever to hit anywhere in America. And I understand the Klansmen closed it down because, well, I don't know, for whatever fucked-up reason it was. It pisses me off to see America so goddamn stupid. They think all a black man can do is three things: play blues and jazz and be an athlete. That shit is still going on today." ON AMERICA'S LOVE OF SPORTS: "I can't stand sports. Basketball: they get just the worst-looking, fucked-up people they can and put 'em up there to look like . . . I don't know what they look like. Football players: I just can't stand that shit. I can't stand sports. You never see them showing a black in one of them race cars, but they got 'em out there. You never see 'em showing a black person in rodeo. They got 'em out there. That pisses me off about America when they do that shit." ON TEXAS BLUES GUITAR GOD T-BONE WALKER: "He dropped his guitar, I picked it up, and I invented this tune in E natural called 'Gatemouth Boogie.' I made $15 in 15 minutes. That was big money then—1947, the Bronze Teacup in Houston. He come back and took his guitar away from me and never let me touch it again. He was very hostile toward me, but it didn't matter. We never got close. Blues —that's all he played. He played a bounce blues and slow blues. Very negative—he hated all women; a woman never did treat him right and all that. I couldn't get into that man, and today, I still can't get into that." ON JAZZ TRUMPETER NICHOLAS PAYTON: "He was on a show with me the other day, and it was a goddamn shame the way he [showboated]. I even told the producer, 'It's a goddamn shame the way you let these people dominate the shows.' They call it having themselves a jam session. Payton was in my dressing room afterward, and I said, 'I'll tell you what, a jam session become a traffic jam.' It really pissed me off. That's why I don't like to jam with nobody. I don't give a damn who they are. Years ago, people would know how to jam. Nowadays, these young people are just up there trying to cut throats. But they only cutting they own throat 'cause they ain't doing a damn thing but making noise. It was terrible! People call me up for a jam or a finale or whatever they want to call it; I get sick to my stomach. People ask me, 'Gate, will you sit in with me?' Hell, no! I don't know what you doing, you don't know what I'm doing, now you just sit up there and do your show and carry your own weight, and that's the way it is. You don't crash my show, and I won't crash yours. Don't ask me to come rescue your ass." ON THE BLUES HARP: "When I quit enjoying playing an instrument, I don't play it no more. That's why I quit playing the harmonica. Every son of a bitch I know goes out and buys one, not only making music stores rich, but they also come irritating me and everybody in the audience with their harp blowing in people's ears. Assholes! I got so pissed-off I called my office and told them I want a stipulation in my contract that all harmonicas be checked at the door, and if they get caught playing one, they be 86ed. And I quit playing it myself. You believe that stopped it." ON THE FINE ART OF BEING ORNERY: "Ornery? Well, I've been known to be called that. I'm just honest." ON WHAT MAKES HIM HAPPY: "My music makes me happy. That and my tobacco." Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown performs on Saturday at the 20th annual Long Beach Blues Festival, Cal State Long Beach Athletic Field, Long Beach, (562) 985-1686. Sat.-Mon. Gates open 9 a.m. each day; music starts at 11 a.m. Call for ticket prices, information on special package deals and a complete lineup.
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A Lawndale man is accused of shooting a gun at a vehicle carrying his girlfriend and another woman over the weekend near the Lincoln-Catawba line, deputies said.
Mickey Gene Mellon, 46, of 245 Boyles Road, allegedly fired shots at a Jeep Cherokee just before 5 p.m. Saturday on Hulls Grove Church Road in Vale.
The Sheriff's Office said deputies located a handgun they believe was used in the incident inside the suspect's residence on Tuesday.
Deputies said Mellon had been traveling in a gold mini-van, chasing the Jeep during the incident.
Three different witnesses, whom deputies said lived between N.C. 27 West and the Lincoln-Catawba line, called the Sheriff's Office Saturday and reported having heard shots fired in the area.
While deputies said they responded to the calls and searched the area, they failed to find anything in connection with the incident.
However, the Communications Center received word shortly after that a Jeep with a similar description had wrecked in the area on Zonnie Schronce Road, the Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies later determined the address of the Jeep's owner to be a home on the 6700 block of Jake Seagle Road, according to an agency press release.
Officers said they did not locate any bullet holes or other evidence inside the Jeep that a gun had been fired.
Mellon was placed Tuesday in the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center under a $10,000 secured bond and remains behind bars.
He also maintains at least two felony drug-related convictions from 1999 regarding two separate instances, one each in Catawba and Cleveland County, the North Carolina Department of Correction website showed.
Detective Jon Propst headed the investigation.
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Auburn Mayor Linda Blechinger returned from the National League of Cities' Congress of Cities and Exposition in Phoenix this weekend with organization's national Women in Municipal Government Leadership Award.
The award recognizes female leaders who have implemented creative and innovative programs to help their citizens and those who have reached out to mentor other female leaders.
Blechinger was one of a group of female elected officials who, in 2010, formed the Georgia Municipal/Legislative Women's Caucus to assist newly elected women transition into a new world that is still male dominated, according to the nomination statement she submitted to the National League of Cities.
Blechinger was elected to the mayor's post in 2007. She recently ran for re-election without opposition, and her second term will start Jan. 1.


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Posted on Wednesday, October 9, 2013
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The Westminster College Titans Football team will battle the Carnegie Mellon Tartans at the Homecoming game Saturday, Oct. 12, while honoring a young boy who is fighting a battle of his own. During the coin toss the team will announce 12-year-old Joseph Clark of Meadville, who is battling cancer, as an honorary team member and captain.
Joseph has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. In June Joseph was struck with a debilitating and nausea inducing headache. Doctors discovered a tumor and Joseph was life-flighted to Pittsburgh where surgery was performed the next day.
Since then he has endured 42 rounds of chemotherapy, 33 days of radiation, and four weeks of rehab after a stroke left him paralyzed on his left side. The tumor is gone for now and rehab has helped Joseph walk again, but he is beginning another round of treatment that will require chemotherapy five days out of each month for a year. He will also have to have MRIs every three months.
"He is strong and a fighter. He is determined," said Joseph's mother, Lori Clark. "He has a 10 percent chance, but as far as we are concerned, he will be the miracle."
The Titan Football team was made aware of Joseph's cancer by Kip Haas, Titan Sports Hall of Fame Coach. She learned of Joseph's cancer through his grandmother, Carol Wyman, and asked Titan Head Coach Jeff Hand if he would donate an autographed football to Clark. Hand and the Westminster College Football Leadership Council (WCFBLC) decided to do much more than that.
"After sharing Joe's circumstance and the request for the autographed ball with the staff and the WCFBLC we decided it would be best if we could invite Joe to campus if he was able and willing," Hand said.
Additionally, Joseph, a sports fan, will be dressed in a Nike Titan Football replica game jersey during the Homecoming game and will get to meet the football players.
"The team will be meeting Joe at practice on Friday afternoon in hopes that they brighten his day and get him excited about being a part of the game Saturday, as well as for the team to see how brave the 12-year-old must be," Hand said.
"The Titan Football program and its student athletes believe firmly in giving back through service to the local communities and youth. We want to extend a warm welcome to Joe this homecoming," Hand continued.
"This is a blessing. There are so many good people in the world," Clark said. "We appreciate them doing this for him - and us."
The Homecoming game will begin at 1 p.m. at Memorial Field.
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Oh dear. Dd and I had a long texting conversation. She wants to break up with her boyfriend of a year, but she feels bad because his best friend/roommate just took off and moved out on him this week. But bf is annoying the bejeebers out of her, and it does sound like the relationship has run it's course.
I told her to just be kind and don't say anything harsh. I think she wanted confirmation that she's not being the most horrible person in the world.
Luckily she knew I was kidding when I said she should just ghost him.
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The Saturdays singer Una Healy won't be too pleased when she runs across photos of her fiance, rugby player Ben Foden,stripping naked in a naughty Barcelona sex club.
Foden, who is to marry Healy in just a few weeks, is shown dancing with his boxers and pants down as he is surrounded by strippers at the Bagdad Sex Club.
The eyewitness that recognized the rugby star revealed, "Ben and three other lads were on a rotating stage with this topless girl in the middle. Another girl reached in and pulled down his jeans and boxer shorts. Ben waggled his crown jewels at everyone. There was a lot of laughter and cheering. In fairness I think he then maybe thought better of it and covered his parts up".
Ben and Una, 30, have dated for three years and welcomed a daughter, Aoife, last month.
Foden tweeted earlier this month that he was suffering after the stag party, writing, "Just back from my Stag in Barcelona with @tomfoden @geoheler and Co . . . Ooouucchhhh great couple of days but good to be home! #familytime.'
Una has also remained silent on her Twitter today.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Officials of the South Carolina Emergency Preparedness Division (SCEPD) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have scheduled a meeting for Horry County government officials and representatives of qualified private non-profit agencies regarding application for disaster assistance made available under President Clinton's disaster declarations.
The Horry County applicant briefing for local officials will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, October 1 in Horry County Council Chambers at 103 Elm Street in Conway.
"This briefing has been arranged to clarify the federal assistance application process, administrative and funding requirements and infrastructure program eligibility criteria," explained Stan McKinney, State Coordinating Officer. Following the briefing, a team of state and federal inspectors will be available to make arrangements with local officials for the verification of eligible project costs.
Prior to Hurricane Floyd's landfall, President Clinton signed a declaration releasing emergency federal funds to 27 South Carolina counties to cover the costs of debris removal and emergency services necessary to meet immediate human needs, protect property and insure public health and safety. In his major disaster declaration issued Sept. 21and amended on Sept. 28, the President confirmed that nine of those counties - Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Georgetown, Horry, Jasper, Marion and Williamsburg - will receive additional assistance with the restoration of damaged public facilities such as roads, bridges and utilities. Funds may also be provided to eligible private non-profit organizations in these counties for the repair of damaged facilities. Grants are provided on a 75% federal, 25% non-federal cost sharing basis.
In addition, the state and local governments can apply for federal funds on a cost-shared basis to complete approved projects that can reduce future disaster risks. "As the water recedes along the South Carolina coast," said Federal Coordinating Officer Larry Bailey, "we will be looking at a variety of measures that might be taken to keep this from happening again as part of our Project Impact initiative."
Through Project Impact: Building Disaster Resistant Communities, FEMA is working with communities across the country to reduce the impact that hurricanes have on people's lives. This major mitigation effort, initiated by Director James Lee Witt in 1997, expands the agency's focus beyond simply responding when disaster strikes to planning for the prevention of future disaster-related damage and loss.


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Rantoul man arrested for attempted murder in Florida
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RANTOUL — A Rantoul man was arrested Friday for allegedly trying to kill his own girlfriend, who had been in a medically induced coma in a Florida hospital and unidentified for almost a month.
Shawn P. O'Bryan, 38, remained in the Champaign County Jail in Urbana Saturday, held without bond on a warrant out of Suwannee County, Florida, for the attempted murder of Shannon M. Wrench, 34, also of Rantoul.
Rantoul police Sgt. Marcus Beach said it wasn't until earlier this week that authorities even learned the identity of the severely injured Wrench through fingerprints.
Badly beaten, Wrench was found about 10 a.m. on Monday, July 16, on the side of a rural county road off U.S. 90 near Live Oak, Fla., which is in northern Florida about mid-way between Tallahassee and Jacksonville.
"A passerby saw a leg protruding from bushes off the road. When the sheriff got there, they found who we now know to be Shannon Wrench, unconscious and not responsive about 80 feet off the roadway. She had no identification on her. She had a severe head injury and multiple abrasions and bruises," said Beach, who has actively worked the case with Florida authorities since Wednesday.
Wrench was airlifted to a University of Florida hospital in Gainesville, Beach said, where medical authorities put her in a coma to assist her recovery while police set about trying to learn her identity.
"They had no idea who she was. They submitted her fingerprints to AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) and also put out flyers in the area trying to identify who she was. They didn't have any luck. No one was able to identify her until Wednesday, Aug. 8, when they got the fingerprint results back," said Beach.
Learning she was from Rantoul, Suwannee County sheriff's investigators contacted Beach Wednesday to see if Rantoul police had had contact with her or her family members. Beach learned that in May, Wrench had been involved in a traffic stop in Rantoul in a Dodge Durango sport utility vehicle. They also found the name of a former boyfriend of hers through a separate police contact.
Based on that information, Beach interviewed the former boyfriend in Rantoul, who reported he had last seen Wrench around the first of July in Rantoul. Her SUV was loaded with personal items and she told him that she was moving to Florida. That man also identified O'Bryan as Wrench's current boyfriend.
Police then went to O'Bryan's house and found the Dodge Durango - which registered to both her and O'Bryan - in the back of the house. Working with the Florida authorities, Beach said Rantoul police obtained a search warrant for the SUV and interviewed O'Bryan. They talked with him but did not have probable cause to arrest him on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Aug. 9, Wrench regained consciousness and was able to talk to police.
"She was able to verify that she was with Shawn and he was the one that injured her," said Beach, declining to go into specifics of what she said. He did say that the beating occurred in the rural location where she was found.
Florida authorities then obtained the warrant for O'Bryan's arrest on Friday and Rantoul police arrested him at his home in the 600 block of St. Andrews Circle about 4:15 p.m. without incident.
Beach said O'Bryan on Wednesday had asked for a lawyer so police did not interview him further after his arrest Friday.
He said Wrench and O'Bryan were planning to move to Florida together to find work. O'Bryan apparently is from the area in Florida where she was found.
O'Bryan is expected to appear before a Champaign County judge Monday to address the question of his extradition to Florida.
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The female victim was also from Rantoul, IL. Her name is Shannon Wrench, she was in such severe condition - unresponsive, and badly beaten, then left for dead, that they had her in a medically induced coma since she was found around July 16th, she had been either drug or managed herself to get off of the roadway, it was estimated she had been in that location for a day, before a passerby spotted her leg and investigated. There were also tire marks - it is likely he tried to run her over with the vehicle. Google Jane Doe in Florida for more details and updates.
Following the lead of TallahasseeGirl, I looked up your cousins name online. I truly hope she finds full recovery from what was done to her. The crime committed against her was horrible, and I'm glad that that authorities worked hard to identify her. When I read that the people in the area held a candlelight vigil for her, it reminded me that complete strangers can show a level of care and love that is amazing. I'm glad to know that people were willing to pull for her while she was in a coma. I hope the News-Gazette will follow up on the story and share more about what happened to her.
I am in West Virginia! And have been following this case since Shannon was found! We search all over trying to find out who she was! I am glad Shannon has found her family and they caught the horriable guy who did this to her! We are trying to get together and send Giftcards and other things Shannon may need! God Bless you Shannon! I am praying you continue to get better and get to go home with your family soon! You have so many people who really care about you!
Guest book for Shannon http://janedoesuwanneecountyflorida.webstarts.com/index.html?r=201207041...
I don't think anyone really knew until this light was shed. Shannon was a waitress at a good restaurant here in town(Rantoul). Once two and two were added together about who this was, I'm still awestruck. Shannon has always been an awesome person to me. This just really hit too super close to home. I hope O'Bryan gets 10 years for each single day that Shannon was in a coma. No death penalty please Florida. There are more just punishments than the easy way out. Ya just sit down and think "this woman served me and my family snd friends coffee for years.." and a few months later you read that she was left for dead by a man who was supposed to love and protect her... Like a piece of deer meat left laying in the bushes off of a highway. Anonymity being no more, Shannon, if u read this, it's Mike, friend of Brian (I know u remember him!!!), I would like to place myself in the long line of hugs due to you when u get back to Rantoul. I'm for a good portion emotionless.. At least I keep to myself... But this really struck an emotional tone. Please get better!! Praying for the best for you and welcome wishes should you come back to Rantoul.
Suwannee County's finest did not allow Shannon to be swept under any rug. and as for the groups they are both for the support of Shannon, one the smaller one is there to comply with the family's wishes where as the other group is more into digging information on Shannon and posting it all over cyber world.
It might be helpful for people to remember that my cousin Shannon is a crime victim who is unable to speak for herself. Meanwhile people are posting links with photos and information about her all over without any thought of her interests or wishes. It was one thing to show her picture around to try and identify her. It's completely another to treat her information no better that Shawn Patrick O'Bryan did. Shannon is a real person with real feeling and real people who love her. People who watched her grow up. Please respect her privacy.