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As the seniors draw near to the end of our high school careers, we look back on everything that has been important to us over the last four years: friends, sports, school activities and our teachers.
One special benefit of attending a small school is the opportunity for students to develop mentoring relationships with teachers and receive encouragement and inspiration from them. One of the many teachers who left an impact on his students at Faith Christian High School was Mr. Keepers.
Mr. Keepers was the main junior high and high school science teacher for five years. He taught everything from eighth grade earth science to honors chemistry and was known as one of the nicest teachers on campus. His classes were fun, and he was never reluctant to stop in the hallway to give encouragement or go beyond class time to help students who were having difficulties.
When labs did not produce the right results, he taught us that it's all right if everything does not work perfectly the first time but to learn from our errors and try again. He worked hard to help us first discover and then reach toward our dreams.
In my freshman year, Mr. Keepers became a great influence in my life. That year, he was my cross country coach as well as my science teacher.
He was both kind and understanding, but he also made me set goals for myself and work my hardest to achieve them, to persevere and concentrate on improvement instead of comparing myself to others.
He also taught our running team to recognize our weaknesses and turn them into strengths. This lesson was brought home as we learned to face the inevitable hills. By the end of the year, we could use hills to our advantage and gain time by running up them while everyone else walked. Soon we realized that the exhilarating downhill sprint was worth the few seconds of intense energy required to run up the slopes.
The lessons he taught in both cross country and science were not only sports- and science-related, as he showed us by his daily example. Life gives us a choice: Will we to let our errors and life's hills slow us down, or will we persevere and overcome?
We all watched Mr. Keepers deal with some difficult personal challenges. He took each one in stride and refused to give up, no matter how trying his situation. He was determined to support his family and continue in his faith and passion for science with the attitude that it would all work out in the long run.
When he moved to another state last year, we were sorry to see him go. We all miss him very dearly, but he left a legacy by his encouragement and example to the students who had the opportunity to know him.
Katherine McLain is a senior at Faith Christian High School. Her column appears about every sixth week in Education.


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[Dawn] IN the matter of Pakistain's treatment of its religious minorities, each week brings new shame. The latest is Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. 's reaction on hearing a media report that several Hindu families from Jacobabad had chosen to emigrate to India to escape persecution: he termed the migration a "conspiracy" to defame Pakistain, ordered the FIA to investigate the situation before the travellers could be allowed to cross the border, and asked the Indian High Commission to explain why it issued visas to 250 Hindu citizens of Pakistain. This reaction was disgusting, to say the least. Pakistain has sunk so low that it can cast itself as the victim when members of one of its minority communities potentially feel so persecuted that they take the harrowing decision to leave their homeland. This 'conspiracy' may be the most perverse incarnation of Pakistain's persecution mania yet. As it turned out, the families were only travelling to India to perform a pilgrimage and plan to return to Pakistain. But it is telling enough that the rumours of mass exodus -- duly amplified by irresponsible media reporting -- were sparked by the kidnapping earlier this month of a teenage Hindu girl, a resident of Jacobabad. Read between the lines of last week's (incorrect) coverage of Hindu emigration, and a narrative emerges: of course they're leaving; why wouldn't they? The treatment meted out to minorities, including Hindus, has been poor since Partition and has become progressively worse in recent years (and before I'm inundated with reminders of the maltreatment of Moslems in India or elsewhere, let me just say that one injustice does not justify another). In present-day Pakistain, Hindus find that their faith earns no respect, their businesses are looted or boycotted and many have complained that their daughters are kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam through marriage. Just earlier this year, we witnessed the dramatics surrounding Rinkle Kumari's 'marriage'. The Supreme Court intervened to determine whether or not she had been kidnapped and forcibly converted, but could reach no clear conclusions and left it up to Kumari to decide her own fate. Kumari chose to stay with her Moslem husband, but we will never know whether hers was actually a love marriage or a forced conversion -- our society and justice system offer no opportunity for the truth of her circumstances to emerge and be upheld. Kumari's family and civil rights activists maintain that she received threats from a local parliamentarian that prevented her from leaving her husband. While the mystery around Kumari's circumstances endures, human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... groups report up to 25 instances of forced conversions each month. Also earlier this year, controversy erupted around the historic Gorakhnath Temple in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, which was vandalised three times within two months. On the third attempt, the vandals were able to remove idols and burn pictures, leaving the Hindu community to wonder how hard it was for the authorities to provide security for their temple. The incident was a tragic case of one step forward, two steps back: the attacks occurred barely months after the Peshawar High Court ordered that the 160-year-old temple, which had been closed since Partition, be reopened. In addition to such incidents, hatred against Hindus is enshrined in our public school curriculum. Government-issued textbooks repeatedly describe Hindus as intrinsically cruel and unjust, the eternal enemies of Islam. To add injury to insult, our proliferating private media has decided that nothing can be more entertaining than the live, on-air conversion of a young Hindu man to Islam (or an inaccurately reported story about Hindus migrating, when they were only travelling to India for a pilgrimage -- no doubt, this uproar will make life even more difficult for the Sindhi and Baloch Hindus on their return). It probably doesn't help matters that the mere possibility that Hindus might travel to India and complain about Pakistain -- or, horror of horrors, deliver the ultimate snub by choosing to emigrate -- can provoke a high-level FIA investigation and lead to the seven-hour-long detention at Wagah border of more than 250 Hindus, all equipped with required travel documentation. Need I go on? In this context, how could Malik possibly suggest that an 'external' factor may have prompted a decision by Pakistain's Hindus to leave the country? How far can we push our state of denial? This incident has made Pakistain seem simultaneously ridiculous and brutal in the eyes of the world. It has also reminded those who favour closer India-Pakistain ties just how tentative recent gains in the bilateral relationship are given the chronic paranoia that afflicts the powers that be. Confronted with the possibility of a mass exodus by one of Pakistain's religious minorities, the best President Asif Ali Ten PercentZardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... could do was constitute a three-member parliamentary committee to visit Hindus across Sindh to express solidarity and order local authorities to submit a report on the grievances of the Hindu community (as if these need any further documentation). Rather than waste time and energy on barely cosmetic measures, why not form a committee to revise all anti-minority sections of the public school curriculum? Or arrest some leaders of beturbanned goon organizations who routinely incite hatred and violence against all Pakistain's religious minorities? Or deploy some enlightened holy mans to preach tolerance and genuine Islamic values of acceptance and coexistence in multi-faith communities? The only conspiracy against Pakistain is the one being hatched by politicians who lack the strength, vision and credibility to bring about genuine social and economic reform in this country. |
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Perugia Tourist Attractions
SituationPerugia, capital of its province and of the region of Umbria, lies on a hill between the Trasimenian Sea and the Tiber valley.
Piazza IV Novembre
Fontana Maggiore
The main square of Perugia is the picturesque Piazza IV Novembre, in the center of which is the Fontana Maggiore (1277-80), one of the most beautiful fountains of the period, with reliefs by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano. On the west side of the square is the Archbishop's Palace with the Museum of Natural History, and beyond it the vaulting of the so-called Maestaå delle Volte, a relic of the Palazzo del Podestaå which was burned down in 1534. From the Piazza IV Novembre the medieval Via delle Volte runs to the Piazza Fortebraccio.
San Lorenzo
On the north side of the Piazza IV Novembre in Perugia stands the cathedral of San Lorenzo, a 15th century Gothic hall-church, with an unfinished facade. On the steps leading up to the entrance, to the left, is a bronze statue of Pope Julius III (1555). Inside there are fine choir-stalls (1486-91) and a banner depicting a view of Perugia.
Museo Capitolare
The Museo Capitolare to the left of the cathedral houses sculpture, valuable missals and pictures, including a "Madonna Enthroned" by Signorelli.
San Severo
East of the cathedral the church of San Severo contains a fresco by Raphael (1505), the Trinity.
Palazzo dei Priori
On the south side of the cathedral in Perugia is the Palazzo dei Priori, also known as the Palazzo Comunale (Town Hall), a massive building in Italian Gothic style (1293 and 1333), with its main front on the Corso Vannucci. On the side facing the Piazza IV Novembre are a griffin (the heraldic emblem of Perugia), a 14th century bronze lion, and chains, all of which commemorate a victory over the Sienese in 1358. On the first floor of the palace, which is entered through the richly decorated main doorway in the Corso, is the splendid Sala dei Notari, on the second floor the Municipal Library (150,000 volumes).
National Gallery of Umbria
The Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria contains paintings by Perugino and Pinturicchio, Benedetto Bonfiglio (d. 1496), Bartolomeo Caporali (d. about 1509), and other artists, sculptures by di Cambio, di Duccio, etc., and a small majolica collection. The Sala del Collegio della Mercanzia is also worth a visit.
Collegio del Cambio
Only a few yards from the Palazzo dei Priori is the Collegio del Cambio, the old Exchange, the audience chamber of which is decorated with frescoes by Perugino.
Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo
Southeast of the Piazza IV Novembre is the Piazza Matteotti, built on massive substructures, some of which date from the Etruscan period. On the east side of the square are the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo (1472-81) and the Old University (1453-83).
Arco d'Augusto
A short distance north of the cathedral the Arco d'Augusto, one of the Etruscan town gates, bears an inscription. "Augusta Perusia", dating from the Roman period.
Palazzo Gallenga Stuart
In Piazza Fortebraccio in Perugia, outside the gate, the Palazzo Gallenga Stuart (18th century) now houses the University for Foreigners (language courses and introductory courses to Italian history, art and literature).
From Piazza Fortebraccio the Corso Garibaldi runs northwest, passing the church of Sant'Agostino, to the Porta Sant'Angelo. To the north of this gate is the church of Sant'Arcangelo, a round church (fifth-sixth century) of great architectural interest, with sixteen ancient columns in the nave.
Oratorio di San Bernardino
From the Corso Vannucci Via dei Priori, entered through an archway under the Palazzo Comunale, runs west past the medieval Torre degli Sciri and the little Renaissance church of the Madonna della Luce to the Piazza di San Francesco, in which, straight ahead, is the Oratorio di San Bernardino, with a magnificent facade of colored marble and terracotta (by Agostino di Duccio, 1457-61).
Corso Vanucci, Perugia's main street, leads south from the Town Hall to the Piazza Italia, in which stands the Prefecture, built on the site of the Papal citadel, demolished in 1860. From the terrace on the south side there are magnificent views of the Umbrian plain, with Assisi, Spello, Foligno and Trevi, and of the Tiber valley.
Porta Marzia
From the Piazza Italia Via Marzia leads southeast past the substructures of the former citadel to the Porta Marzia, at the beginning of the lower town, a remnant of one of the Etruscan town gates.
Rocca Paolina
Here is the entrance to what is left of the old 16th century fortress, the Rocca Paolina (escalator to the lower town). Beyond this in Viale dell'Indipendenza, is the little Gothic church of Sant'Ercolano (1297-1326).
San Domenico
Continue along Corso Cavour to the church of San Domenico, a brick structure begun in 1305 and altered in 1621-34, with a huge Gothic window and the tomb of Pope Benedict XI (1304).
National Archeological Museum of Umbria
In the monastery adjoining San Domenico is the Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell'Umbria, with Roman and Etruscan antiquities, including the Cippus Perusianus, one of the longest known Etruscan inscriptions.Its collection includes funerary urns, Etruscan and Roma bronzes, and jewelry.
Porta San Pietro
Corso Cavour ends at the finely decorated Porta San Pietro, the inner gate of which dates from the 14th century and the outer gate from the 15th century.
San Pietro
Outside the Porta San Pietro in Perugia, in Borgo XX Giugno (on the left), we find the fine church of San Pietro, an early Christian structure rebuilt in the 12th century, containing eighteen ancient columns, beautiful choir-stalls (1535) and many pictures of the early Umbrian school and of the 17th century. To the southwest of the church, extending to the Porta San Constanzo, lies the Giardino del Frontone (views).
Exchange Building
The Exchange Building is a notable building in downtown Perugia. It was built in the 15th Century for the money-changers and inside you will find famous frescoes by Perugino and his pupils.
Hypogeum is located just a few kilometers southeast of Perugia. The cemetery dates back to the second century BC and is comprised of an atrium and nine burial chambers.
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Wuzhou City, an excellent tourist city that enjoys a nation wide fame all over China, is surrounded by mountains and waters with the city connected with the river. Furthermore, it shares both the scenery of the mountains but also the scenery of the river. The fresh air and the enchanting scenery make the city an enjoyable water and mountain city that is honored to be "the Museum City of Sotto Portico in China" and "the City of Artificial Bijou in the World". In addition, it has the name of "the East Gate of Guangxi Province" and "the Back Garden of Canton, Hong Kong and Macao".
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FIU 41, Akron 38, OT: Jake Medlock threw for 209 yards and rushed for 141 to beat the visiting Zips (0-2) in overtime. Jack Griffin kicked a 41-yarder to win it for Florida International (1-1).
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Everyone has one of those days at times—you reach the end and wonder where all your time went. Worse, you realize you haven't done anything productive at all. And worse still, some of us can look back not just to days, but months or longer periods.
With increasing regularity I have heard the following message in a number of ways from a variety of sources: the key to producing is to… produce! In the context of research, the academic world has long used the phrase "publish or perish." In the realm of design, my architecture studio instructor would tell me to crank out ten iterations of an idea by the next morning—quantity, not quality. Merlin Mann spoke about the distinction between doing and thinking about doing. Seth Godin, in a talk he gave at the NYC Jelly at the Brooklyn Treehouse, said that today we are not faced with a scarcity of ideas, production capability, marketing opportunities, or capital, but an an ability to "ship," i.e. get work done and out the door. In the new book on the psychology of focus, Rapt, Gallagher argues that an increase in distractions has lead to a decrease in the ability to focus, and without steady focus we are unable to finish work.
So why has this become a recurring theme so recently? Perhaps it is an increased sensitivity to the message due to a period of declining output. Going back farther, I would pin it to the massive and sudden increase in the volume and availability of content, tools, and ideas on the internet. The same system that has catalyzed so much creative work and research in recent years has also sapped the ability of so many to create. I believe it works in several different ways.
First, it is easier than ever to simply waste inordinate amounts of time passively consuming content or talking to friends and acquaintances. We can still feel productive because we are learning, experiencing new things, and forming connections. Secondly, we waste more time than ever deciding what to do and how to do it. With so many new mediums, ideas, forms of expression, tools, platforms, and methods, it easier than ever to get distracted. Lastly, the quality and complexity of things being created today is greater than ever. Much of this is due to the availability of information, increased refinement of tools, and increased collaboration, bringing together the strength of disparate components in symphony. Viewed in the wrong way, as competition rather than inspiration, great work can be demoralizing.
How do you overcome the problem of production? Over the course of a long drive with long-time friend and software developer Jeff, we both agreed that setting deadlines and sticking to them is critical—the shorter the better. When you give yourself too much time to complete something, you will end up second-guessing yourself and spending far too much time thinking about process, rather than doing work. Time spent will expand to fill the time given. Try giving yourself one day to create something rather than one week, knowing in advance you will probably have to throw it away. You will learn more, gain momentum, and start to realize you're better equipped than you thought. Additionally, try to schedule work with someone else in advance. This may mean working with a partner or "foolishly" committing to a project you don't feel quite ready for. Either way, you're helping your future self avoid weaseling out. Lastly, turn down the volume on distractions. Limit your exposure to media streams, social bookmarking sites, RSS feed readers, and the like to once a week or less to limit the factors of distraction and demoralization. Instead, turn to first inspirations—the world around you.


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It's my mum's birthday today, bless her I asked her if there was anything she would really like ' jeans Laura, I need some jeans'. I love that I've become my mum's personal shopper and stylist over the years, so I ordered her some jeans and some tops to keep her happy. Me and my mum are so different, she doesn't care about things like that she would rather sleep than go shopping. I'm the other way, you have trouble keeping me away from shops!
So excited for London Fashion week, I have one invite so far (clearly I'm loved) but to be honest invites or not I love the whole buzz of it. It's a chance to see cool, creative street style and also to have a nice caught up with my blog pals. I went on a bit of a mad spend this month, mainly with vouchers from Christmas and my birthday so not too bad.
Headband & Bracelet: eBay
Jumper: H&M (old)
Snood & Boots: Primark
Coat: Charity shop
Bag: Matalan
I need to clam it down now, as come spring/summer I won't be able to shop for anything because I will have now room. I got a few bit's and bobs in the sale which I will share with you soon, as I've not done a haul post in forever! I think out of all the sales going on, ASOS has been the best they have had really cool dresses etc and you have got to love free delivery and return! It's chilly now in London, so I'm living in this Primark snood it's just so warm and I love the pattern.
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Hall of Fame Coach Serbay Still Has Fire in His Belly
James Monroe High School Coach Richard Serbay was inducted into the James Monroe High School Hall of Fame on June 1. He's got four state championships for the school and loves coaching.
James Monroe High School football coach Richard Serbay has had a memorable year.
On June 1, he was inducted into the James Monroe High School Hall of Fame.
"Coach Serbay is the most recognized person in reference to The James Monroe High School," said John B. Gordon III, the school's principal, who started the Hall of Fame two years ago. "The students love him, the community respects him, and his opponents fear him."
In another special recognition, the school's yearbook was dedicated to Serbay this year, an honor that Serbay said was just as satisfying as his induction into the school's Hall of Fame.
"It felt really good for the kids to think about me like that," he said during an interview Tuesday. "I was real proud of that."
At the Hall of Fame induction at Cannon Ridge Golf Course, Serbay's son, Sammy, 22, gave the introduction for his father. Serbay has been coaching for James Monroe since 1982 and he likes to tell people that his teams have won 4 and 3/4ths state championships because last year his football players came so close. Up by two points with less than two minutes to play, Brookville High School came back to kick a game-winning field goal to win 34-33, a heartbreaking loss for the Yellow Jackets.
"We came so close, 20, 30 seconds," he said. "We had that game won and we let it slip through our fingers."
Serbay said some one of his most memorable seasons was in 2005-06 when his No. 4 seed underdog Yellow Jackets knocked off the first and second seeds to win regionals. His son played center on that team. In the 2005 region final, James Monroe beat York 54–41 in a wild shootout.
"It was one of the most exciting games I've ever coached in," Serbay said. "What a great game that was."
Also inducted on June 1 were Hogie Garnett, Dennis Dodson, Michelle Nichols and Beth Richard. Serbay praised Principal Gordon for starting the Hall of Fame at the school.
"It is one of the best things we've ever done. Our principal, Dr. Gordon, stepped up and got it started," Serbay said. "There are so many wonderful athletes and people who went to school here who deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. I wish we could just put more than five in each year."
At 62, Serbay said he still has the fire in his belly to coach.
"I love coaching," he said. "I get so excited every July and August when a new batch of kids come in and we try to mold them into a team. That's such a great challenge."
Lamont Johnson
9:31 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Good job Coach. I really would like to have read about your success ratio off the field with the young men you have mentored
I.E football players college entry, community services etc.
Good luck this year, keep them under 20.


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Faith Alone - August 5, 2012
But you, dear friends, build yourselves up
in your most holy faith
and pray in the Holy Spirit.
Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
to bring you to eternal life
Jude 1:20-21
All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lefting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn't life up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer as scarecrows in the garden are like people. The name and appearance might be there, but the essence is missing.
Jerome confirmed this truth about prayer when he wrote about an early church leader named Agathon. Agathaon lived in the desert for thirty years and carried a stone in his mouth so that he would learn to stay quiet. But how did he pray? In his heart, undoubtedly. This is the kind of prayer god like the best. In fact, this is the only kind of prayer God regards and wants. But hearing the words helps us to think about what we're saying and helps us pray correctly. We should consider our spoken words to be like a trumpet, drum, organ, or other kind of sound that moves our hearts and lifts them up to God.
We shouldn't attempt to pray without words, relying on our own hearts, unless we are well trained spritually and skilled in removing stray thoughts from our minds. Otherwise, the devil will lead us astray and quickly destroy the prayers in our hearts. So we should cling to the words and let them lift us up - lift us until our feathers grow and we're able to soar high without the help of words.


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Researchers are looking at the antidepressant drug duloxetine, known commercially as Cymbalta, to relieve relieve painful tingling feelings caused by chemotherapy in 59 percent of patients.
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy is a common side effect of certain chemotherapy drugs. The tingling feeling -- usually felt in the toes, feet, fingers and hands -- can be uncomfortable for many patients, but for about 30 percent of patients, it's a painful sensation. Previous studies have found no reliable way to treat this type of pain.
In the first clinical trial to use Cymbalta, which will be presented Tuesday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, researchers looked at 231 patients who reported painful neuropathy after receiving the chemotherapy drugs oxaliplatin or paclitaxel.
Patients were randomly assigned to receive duloxetine or a placebo for five weeks. They were asked to report on their pain levels weekly throughout the study.
The researchers found that 59 percent of patients who received duloxetine reported reduced pain, while only 39 percent of those taking placebo did.
"These drugs don't work in everyone. The good news is it worked in the majority of patients. We need to figure out who are the responders. If we can predict who they are, we can target the treatment to the people it's going to work for," said lead study author Ellen M. Lavoie Smith, Ph.D., APRN, AOCN, assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing and a researcher at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Duloxetine has previously been shown to help relieve painful diabetic neuropathy. This type of antidepressant is believed to work on pain by increasing neurotransmitters that interrupt pain signals to the brain.
In this study, participants received a half dose of duloxetine – 30 milligrams a day - the first week before ramping up to a full dose of 60 mg daily for four more weeks. Few severe side effects were reported with this approach. The most common side effect was fatigue.
Treating painful peripheral neuropathy is critical because the condition can lead doctors to limit the patient's chemotherapy dose if the pain becomes too severe.
"In addition to improving symptoms and quality of life, treating peripheral neuropathy pain potentially improves quantity of life if it helps patients avoid decreasing their chemotherapy medications," Smith said.
Often, Smith adds, patients avoid telling their doctors about pain because they do not want their chemotherapy dose decreased. "Patients make this trade-off sometimes: They don't want to give up the chemotherapy and decide they'd rather have this pain. That's a terrible trade off to make," she added.


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by Phil Sexton
February 21, 2012
Midwest Central and Delavan claim titles in the 4th Annual PORTA Glory Days!
Midwest Central defeated Sangamon Valley, Sacred Heart Griffin and Fairbury Prairie Central to meet up in the championship game of the Open Age Tournament against last years defending champion Pittsfield. Midwest Central placed four players in double figures and were led by Ryan Burks' 29 points as they defeated Pittsfield by a score of 79-66.
Pittsfield climbed back to the championship game despite having last year's scoring leader, Keenan Yelliott, out with a knee injury suffered last week. Pittsfield overcame challenges from Marissa, PORTA #1 and Havana to play for the championship. Joe Womble's 22 points paced Pittsfield with Jordan Cawthon and Chris Critchelow contributed 11 points each.
Fairbury Prairie Central defeated Havana 105-67 to take 3rd place while Lewistown knocked off Williamsville 70-68 to take 5th place. Carrollton who lost it's opening game to Williamsville fought through the loser's bracket with wins over Waverly, Marissa and North Greene to claim the consolation championship.
The five team 35> round robin tournament saw a repeat performance as Delavan went 4-0 and repeated as champion. Chandlerville finished 2nd with their only loss being a 61-56 defeat to Delavan. Winchester finished 2-2 to take 3rd place while Havana went 1-3 and Athens 0-4.
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The mother with the pram was the only uninterested person in Liardet Street, Port Melbourne, yesterday as this double-fronted terrace sold for $805,000. Photo: Nick McGrath
Another big day, another average result. Melbourne's clearance rate was 66 per cent for the 806 auction results so far reported to the Real Estate Institute of Victoria.
The outcome of another 126 scheduled sales has not yet been reported, while 20 auctions were postponed or cancelled by vendors.
This marks the fourth week in a row where the clearance rate has seemingly stabilised in the low-to-mid 60 per cent range after an initially weak opening in late January and early February.
A well-balanced auction market is typically considered to post clearance rates of 65 to 75 per cent.
Would-be buyers and mortgage holders were also given a reprieve this week when the Reserve Bank chose to hold off increasing the official cash interest rate.
Vendors, on the other hand, took a hit with the release of the latest property price figures from RP Data-Rismark.
The group reports the city's median house value dropped 1.2 per cent over the three months to January. Units fell 4.2 per cent over the quarter.
Still, despite the weakness of the recent performance, the Melbourne market has sustained a nominally positive level of growth in house values (4 per cent) and unit values (2.2 per cent) in the year to January, which can't be said of many of the other capital cities.
House values fell 2 per cent in Canberra, 3.4 per cent in Brisbane and 4.3 per cent in Perth over that time. Values rose 1.7 per cent in Sydney, 2.5 per cent in Adelaide, and 6.7 per cent in Darwin.
In the apartment market, falls of 0.1 per cent to 5.2 per cent were seen in Adelaide, Darwin, Perth and Brisbane. Sydney was up 4.3 per cent and Canberra up 5.1 per cent. That growth has remained positive in some cities is thanks in no small part to the unusually strong opening quarter of 2010 being included in this 12-month reporting period.
But you wouldn't know prices were on the slide based on many of the auction results reported yesterday. About 250 people were at the auction of 9 Derby Street, Collingwood: a two-bedroom Victorian terrace that sold for $763,000 after being declared on the market at $650,000 — or $113,000 above expectations.
Biggin & Scott reports that nine bidders fought over the property, which had been quoted at $580,000 to $630,000.
In Kensington, four bidders pushed the price of 4 Hopetoun Street $52,000 above its reserve, the two-bedroom weatherboard selling for $827,000. Hocking Stuart quoted it at $730,000-$800,000.
At the top end, a renovated Edwardian at 34 Airlie Avenue in Prahran East attracted three bidders and sold for $2,505,000, according to an observer. Jellis Craig, who quoted the property at $2.3 million to $2.5 million, declared it on the market at $2.47 million.
Competition was fierce over 66 Claremont Avenue in Malvern, with Bennison Mackinnon declaring the four-bedroom property on the market at $3.3 million, but four bidders pushed the sale price to $3.7 million. "People were bidding in $100,000 rises," said Greg Sinclair, of Greg Sinclair Property. "Sometimes you can't stop a runaway train."
One buyer running late for the auction of 5 Gaynor Court in Malvern drove straight into the middle of the action, literally. The Federation house opened at $2.6 million. Abercromby's had declared it on the market at $2,625,000, but bidding was beginning to slow at around the $2.68 million mark.
"The hammer was poised to go down and suddenly a car pulled up on the wrong side of the road and out jumped someone who shouted, 'Stop, stop! Where's the bidding?' " said Catherine Cashmore, of JPP Buyer Advocates.
"It had been going up in $1000 rises, but he put in a bid of $2.7 million and the game was on again." But one of the original bidders wouldn't accept defeat, knocking out the late entry at $2,743,000.
In Seddon, a two-bedroom unit at 8/251 Nicholson Street opened on a vendor bid of $350,000. Three bidders pushed the price to $378,000 before it passed in, according to Peter Rogozik Property Consulting. Nelson Alexander quoted it at $350,000 to $375,000. It sold later for $383,000.
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I have so much to comment about yesterday and yesterday's blog.
Speaking of yesterday and day light savings time, my body was not ready for one or more of the following things:
1. The cold weather of Northern New York
2. Actual college work
3. The ripple effect of daylight savings time? Does anyone else think that you feel more effects the day after?
And yes, each of you can come down to VA and to the beach for a blogger meet up and we can have an America's Next Top Model party. I would love it..I would invite you all to upstate NY right now but it's cold and I don't want you to hate me too much.
Speaking of ANTM, someone found my blog yesterday by typing in Reina's eyebrows. Whoever you are, we are already BFFS.
Okay I'm done let's move to today.
Anywho now that I'm back at school I could finally use my giant waffle maker and coconut.
I do not recall which blog I read last week that reminded me to have a dark chocolate coconut waffle so if it was yours please let me know. With that being said-I was super excited to try it out. It was unnecessary to buy a huge thing of coconut for the week I was going to be home.
I just added ¼ cup of shredded coconut to my basic recipe!
½ cup flour
1 egg
1 tsp baking powder
¼ cup dark cocoa powder
¼ cup shredded coconut
You could probably use coconut milk as well-but that will be my next adventure. I always look chocolate waffle pictures…don't they just make you want to eat them up? HA.
Both math courses were hard to pay attention and seemed to take forever. That is what happens the week after a break I suppose. Especially since it's pi day today, did you forget?
After class, I could finally have a quiche from Dexter's and I chose Asparagus! They also had crab but I wasn't ready for crab in my quiche. I got a quinoa and lima bean side salad. Can you say nom? Seriously-I'm becoming obsessed.
Since it was such a lovely day today, I ran outdoors. I'm supposed to run outside as much as possible versus the treadmill and since I had to do my laundry as well-I chose my laundry running route.
Incase you wondered, the washers at my school take exactly minutes to cycle through 1 loud. This route takes me anywhere between 36-40 minutes to run and starts from the laundry room. It kind of kills two birds with one stone ha.
The run went pretty well but I could feel the quiche in the pit of my stomach. So needless to say it was difficult-but my heels felt good and for me that's all that matters right now.
Questions for you:
1. Where do your running routes start?
2. What did you have for breakfast today?
You know-you aren't allowed to tell me you didn't have anything for breakfast.