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Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield offered today to have the city fund some public libraries and the Regional Planning Agency and asked County Mayor Jim Coppinger to consider appointing a charter study commission.
Littlefield made the offer in a letter to Coppinger, who had written him earlier this week about the coming expiration of the 45-year-old city-county sales tax agreement.
Coppinger's letter sought to work out funding for the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department, Erlanger Health Systems, Emergency Services and the Regional Planning Agency.
"The first three of these agencies were jointly supported before the expiring agreement was established and we ask that they continue to be jointly supported by our respective governments," Coppinger wrote.
Littlefield's letter said the city would fund Bicentennial Library branches in the city, the Regional Planning Agency and "some additional smaller agency responsibilities that relate specifically to the urban service needs of the city."
It said that will allow the county to "assume full responsibility" for countywide services. He noted that Hamilton County added $32 million to its reserve fund over the last four years.
Littlefield has said the agreement forces city residents to pay twice for services and has said he will let it expire next month. That will transfer more than $10 million from county coffers to the city.
Coppinger said letting the agreement lapse could cost more than two dozen agencies some funding, but the city has said it will hear budget requests from those groups.
Littlefield said that "to seek a permanent solution to recurring issues of equity and responsibility," the county and city should jointly appoint a charter study commission aimed at consolidating and improving citizen services.
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This just goes to show the Mayor Littlefield is completely out of touch with the will of the people. His political career is over (unless someone is stupid enough to apoint him to anything). As time comes closer to city council elections, his rubber stamp council members will have to answer to the voters for their support of this idiot. Hopefully, Mayor Littlefield will have his Waterloo soon, much as Napolean did. I wonder if Georgia or Alabama would let Ron Littlefield will live in exile in their state after his term is up?
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Lance Armstrong wrote a book a few years ago called It's Not About the Bike. And we get that. His story is about a journey back from cancer. But still, it is kind of, about the bike, isn't it?
The Maryland Art Place thinks so.
The nonprofit center for contemporary art, with gallery space located at Power Plant Live!, hosts the "Bike Show" next month, an exhibition "centered on the relationship between people and their bicycles."
As Baltimore's bicycling community grows, MAP is showcasing artists and pedalists involved in Charm City's evolving alternative energy culture. With philosophies around transportation influx, one of MAP's hopes for the exhibition is that it will bring together bicycling and sustainability constituents from different backgrounds, including recreation, art, transportation, community development, health, and government around a common purpose.
MAP program director Sophia Rutka said the inspiration for the show came from MAP program advisory chair Dawn Gavin. An associate professor in Drawing and Foundations at the University of Maryland College Park, professional artist and avid bicyclist, Gavin is also curating the exhibition.
Among the artists: Eric Dyer, an associate professor of Animation/Interactive Media at UMBC, will present a video short, "Copenhagen Cycles;" sculptor Joshua Wade Smith is contributing a piece and performing as well on opening night; and Chris Bishop, of award-winning Bishops Bikes, will bring several custom-built frames to the exhibition.
The opening reception, scheduled for Sept. 13, will be co-hosted by Bike Maryland. The Bike Show is sponsored by Race Pace, Bike Maryland and the Department of Transportation, Bike Baltimore.

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SANTA CLARA Only three teams have more penalties this season than the 49ers, who have 21 in just the last two games.
Of particular concern to coach Jim Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Greg Roman are the eight offensive holding penalties in the last two games that have halted drives and put quarterback Colin Kaepernick in third-and-long situations.
"That's something we've got to get a lasso around real quick," Roman said Thursday. "49ers football (is) smart, tough, opportunistic football. And penalties certainly don't fit into that equation."
The two players with the most penalties are guard Mike Iupati and special-teams player C.J. Spillman. Both have been flagged seven times, although one of Spillman's was offset.
Safety Dashon Goldson leads the team in yards penalized. He's been flagged six times for 87 yards. Goldson is ninth in the NFL in penalty yardage; cornerback Chris Culliver is 25th.
Also noteworthy are the players who haven't committed a lot of penalties.
Only one 49ers wide receiver, Kyle Williams, has been flagged this year. Tight end Vernon Davis, who has played virtually every snap and who was notorious for false starts early in his career, also has not been penalized. First-time starter Alex Boone, who never played guard before this season, has been called for only one penalty.
Steel beaming Most of the steel on the 49ers' new stadium is in place, and the team celebrated the milestone with a "topping out" ceremony in which two steel beams were placed at the highest point in the stadium.
Jack Hill, the project executive for the stadium, said the venue is 28 percent complete and the steel section is 90 percent finished. Soon the workers who have been part of that phase will be replaced by workers who specialize in other areas.
"We're reaching the point where we're kind of seeing the end of one phase," Hill said. "We thought it would be a good time to celebrate that."
The two steel beams were painted gold and signed by members of the 49ers including coaches and players as well as the construction workers.
The stadium is scheduled to open in 2014.
Injuries Cornerback Tarell Brown (hamstring) returned to practice on a limited basis, but receiver Mario Manningham (shoulder) missed his second day.
If Manningham is unable to play Sunday, first-round pick A.J. Jenkins could see his first action of the season.
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If your insulation has a great U value on paper but in practice it doesn't seem to be doing its job , then you're about to discover that U values are only half the picture and why you need the double act of U values and Airtghtedness in your home, office or building for that truly "Bali" Beachouse feeling of warmth and dryness
Let's get the basics covered first; U values are a handy way to simplify what can be a fairly black art. "U" values are a measure of thermal resistance. In other words, a U value rating will give you some idea as to how 'difficult' that insulation will make it for heat or indeed cold passing through it, for a given depth of that insulation. To avoid freezing, in the winter you want to keep the heat in and in a baking summer you dont want your home or office becoming like an oven. The better the U value per inch or mm depth of insulation (the lower the figure) the better your home, office or building will retain its temperature. In the USA they use an R value system which is kinda like the reverse of U values, so the higher the R value the better the insulating abilities.
Simple so far? Well here's where the plot thickens. You see a U value is not a real world figure. Its measured in a laboratory and lots of people with pointy heads and lots of letters after their names, write whats know as 'protocols' or proceedural reports as to how they achieved these test results. Now you would be surprised to discover that a lot of insulation types achieved great U values from these laboratory tests, under strict laboratory conditions i.e. pretty much as near non real world conditions as you could imagine. We're not suggesting that these scientists have deliberately done a bad job. Hey, it must be very difficult in fact design just one test thats able to provide a 'universal' value system applicable to dozens and dozens of different types of insulations , but its you the end user that shells out for insulation that you thought would do the job, only to find out afterwards that in the real world, that insulation is not performing.
Let us give you an example. Its blowing a force 5 outside your home and the humidity in the air is 85%, and you have cavity walls and a standard, typical ventilated attic space . Would you want an insulation in your attic that couldnt handle air movement across it, or lost most of its of its U values if it got damp? Would you want an insulation that sagged when it got damp and compressed down so it became ineffective as an insulation? Well the shocking news is that there are many insulation types out there that achieved excellent U values from lab tests, but cant repeat those results in the real world, of your attic, walls or floors.
What's needed is an insulation that tough, rugged, wont sag , compress, and yet retain its thermal resiistance properties over time. You need and insulation that forms an airthight seal , in situ, in your attic walls and flloors. You want an insulation that will shrug of water, rain, and moisture and will literally cold shoulder force 10 gales into touch. You want all this and a reassuring lifetime warranty. You want Fusion Spray In Place Insulation Foam becasue you never want to second guess the most important element of your enjoyment and satisfaction in your home, office or building.
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But wait there's one more potential 'pothole' when it comes to comparing U values. There are some insulation brochures out there, that while not being misleading are perhaps a little economical with the facts e.g. Some brochures and literature quote a U value for say a 100mm insulation panel and it looks great.
You're about to place an order but then you read the small print at the bottom of the page (and we're talking 7 font small print here), and you notice that the U values quoted are in fact "typical as built U values" In other words they have calculated the plasterboard, the plaster, the insulation, the typical two course cavity block construction and the typical 20mm of external render that would be on that wall.
Hey why not include that cat sitting on the window cill as well?
So in practice their insulation seems to be performing spectacularly well , but not so well when you subtract the other materials they have thrown in. So the moral of the story is ,
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Former prime minister Ehud Olmert slammed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday night, but remained coy about his political future as sources continued to say he is unlikely to run for the 19th Knesset.
According to Olmert, "none of the deadlines that appeared in the press are correct. Someone made up the idea that I will decide by this weekend. I still don't know."
Olmert appeared amused at the bevy of reporters attending his speech at Tel Aviv University's Institute for Applied Diplomacy, saying "the Israeli press is serious. They heard there is a speech on military law in Israel, and they don't want to miss one word!" As the press gathered around him, the former prime minister told them to smile and relax.
"All of this suspense is embarrassing," Olmert said. "Everything will come in its time."
Sources close to Olmert said on Monday that he is unlikely to return to politics after the State Attorney's Office decided last week to appeal his acquittal in corruption cases.
Still, the former prime minister did not hide his opinion of Netanyahu.
"The Netanyahu government is all talk; at least I acted," Olmert said. "On a practical level, this government needs to be improved. It knows how to speak, but less how to do things."
Olmert refused to answer questions about possibly running with Tzipi Livni, Maybe make it who replaced Olmert as Kadima leader in 2008.
Earlier Monday, Livni met with Histadrut chairman Ofer Eini, sparking rumors that she may run for the second spot on Labor's list.
Livni would not comment on the meeting, but Channel 2 reported that she does not want to be number two, and, should she return to politics, will found a new party.
Sources close to Eini said the meeting was probably an attempt by him to put pressure on Labor leader Shelly Yacimovich since their relations have soured.


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Column: Don't turn a fawn's nap into a 'fawn-napping'!
Deer aren't typical bank customers, so when employees at the Kenwood US Bank found a fawn curled up in the middle of their drive-through, they called Wildwoods.By: Elyse Hornstein, For the Budgeteer News
Deer aren't typical bank customers, so when employees at the Kenwood US Bank found a fawn curled up in the middle of their drive-through, they called Wildwoods.
When we arrived, we found a young fawn on the pavement, with its mother nowhere in sight. Though bank staff had encircled the fawn with traffic cones, cars were still uncomfortably close.
When we approached, the fawn lurched to its feet and began to call for its mother. As we gently picked it up to move it a few feet away to a safer location, its mother emerged from the bushes. We waited until she was closer (so the fawn would run toward her rather than toward traffic), then set the baby down. The fawn ran to her and the two trotted off toward the quiet lawns of Dodge Avenue.
While this fawn's location was unusual, the situation is not. Each spring, our nonprofit receives hundreds of calls from people worried about the fawns they find alone in their yards or in the woods. However, out of the many calls we get every spring, only a handful of fawns truly need help.
So why are these babies alone?
In late May and early June, whitetail does in our area give birth to fawns, who can stand and walk within minutes of birth. However, for their first 6 weeks, fawns are not fast enough to outrun predators. During those first weeks, mom parks her babies in what she thinks is a safe spot, relying on the fawn's spotted coat and its initial lack of scent to hide it as it lies still and waits for her.
The doe comes back every 5-6 hours to feed her babies, then leaves again to forage. She deliberately stays away from her fawns when she's not nursing them so that she won't draw predators to them. So most lone fawns are not abandoned at all; mother usually is within earshot, munching away while her baby rests.
How can you tell if a fawn is in trouble? Sometimes it's easy. If it's obviously injured (bleeding, limping, etc.), or if you've seen it get attacked by a dog or cat, it needs help. If it's next to a dead doe, it is orphaned and needs help. If it is unresponsive, lying on its side, it needs help.
In any of these instances, please call a wildlife rehabilitator, and be ready to pick the fawn up and bring it to them. And never, ever feed a fawn unless directed to do so by a wildlife rehabilitator.
Fawns who are wandering around calling for mom may be orphaned, but please call a wildlife rehabilitator before taking action. We will ask you certain questions about the fawn, and may ask you to keep an eye on it for several hours, just to be sure its mom isn't returning, before we ask you to bring it to us.
If you find a fawn in unsafe location, such as the middle of the road, you may pick it up and move it to the side of the road. Never move it more than a dozen feet or so. After you've moved it, make it lie down and then leave it. If it is still in the same location the following morning, call a wildlife rehabilitator.
The most important thing anyone who spots a lone fawn should remember is that this animal will not make a good pet. While cute and seemingly docile, fawns are wild animals not suited to living with people, and keeping them is against the law. The deer's best chance of survival is with its mother.
For more information on wildlife and how you can help, please visit our website: www.wildwoodsrehab.org
Elyse Hornstein studied journalism at Ithaca College. Currently she works for Wildwoods, an animal rehabilitation group based in Duluth.
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The History of New York Public Transportation: Recap
Just because it's underground, doesn't mean you shouldn't dress up. It is train travel, after all. (June 1959, photographer Stan Wayman, courtesy Life Google images)
Thanks for listening in on our several-part series of podcasts on the history of New York City public transportation. We're moving on to other topics -- although I'm not quite done with the subway (more on that next week).
You can download any of the shows from iTunes or other podcasting services, or straight from the links below:
Part One: Staten Island Ferry
A look at the earliest forms of transportation in New York harbor, with a focus on the early ferry services from Staten Island
Blog: Staten Island Ferry, its story, from sail to steam
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Part Two: New York's Elevated Railroads
Starting with the introduction of horse-drawn streetcars and omnibuses to the innovation of elevated trains running along four avenues in Manhattan and in various parts of Brooklyn
Blog: New York's Elevated Railroads; Journey to a spectacular world of steam trains along the avenues
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Part Three: Cable Cars, Trolleys and Monorails
Electrified trolley cars became the most common form of travel in New York starting in the 1890s and into the new century. Find out why they succeeded and why two other forms -- cable cars and monorails -- did not.
Blog: Cable cars, trolleys and monorails; Moving around on New York's transportation options
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Part Four: New York City Subway, Part 1: Birth of the IRT
The story of the very first subway which went nowhere (Alfred Ely Beach and his pneumatic tube train) and the one that eventually did (August Belmont and the Interborough Rapid Transit).
Blog: The New York City Subway and the Creation of the IRT
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Part Five: New York City Subway, Part 2: By The Numbers (And Letters)
The surprisingly difficult attempt to expand the subway system and the curious public/private partnership which got it done. Plus: the history of the future of the Second Avenue subway line
Blog: Modern history of the New York Subway: Expansion from the 1-2-3, A-B-C, Second Avenue and beyond
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Last night I stumbled across a documentary probably made in the late 80s, early 90s, on the history of the subway. And as I watched, I kept remembering tidbits from your podcast. The 45 minute documentary didn't cover nearly as much as you did! But now the podcasts are back on my ipod to listen to again!
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NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Employment Trends Index™ (ETI) increased in November. The index now stands at 115.21, up from 113.64 (a downward revision) in October. The ETI figure for November is 5.3 percent higher than a year ago.
"Largely a reflection of the 16-day government shutdown, October's apparent decline in the Employment Trends Index was more than reversed by the large November increase," said Gad Levanon, Director of Macroeconomic Research at The Conference Board. "Despite disappointing consumer-demand growth in recent quarters, the ETI is still signaling solid employment growth in the months ahead."
November's increase in the ETI was driven by positive contributions from all eight of its components. From the largest positive contributor to the smallest, these were: Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance, Percentage of Firms With Positions Not Able to Fill Right Now, Ratio of Involuntarily Part-time to All Part-time Workers, Industrial Production, Real Manufacturing and Trade Sales, Number of Temporary Employees, Consumer Confidence Survey® Percentage of Respondents Who Say They Find "Jobs Hard to Get," and Job Openings.
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013
2013 Perfect Game High School Baseball Preview Index
For a moment, and it was fleeting to be sure, Mike Brooks became a man able to speak only a single syllable. Brooks had just been told of a chart published by
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that showed the state of Washington ranked sixth among all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, British Columbia and Ontario for having the most high school prospects selected in the first three rounds of the MLB First-Year Player Draft since 2003.
The usual suspects were at the top of the list. California led the way with 103, followed by Florida (83), Texas (56), Georgia (45) and Puerto Rico (14). And then, right behind the Puerto Ricans and just ahead of baseball "hotbeds" Arizona and Oklahoma (11 each) was Washington with 13. Oregon and Wyoming, with one selection each, were the only other states from the PG High School Northwest Region on the list.
"Wow," was the only word Brooks uttered when he was told the numbers early this week. And he uttered that "Wow" word three times.
"It's funny because years ago Washington was kind of considered back-country," Brooks said after collecting his thoughts. "That's primarily because the weather here is really difficult … but in the last 10 or 15 years there's been a lot of these indoor training facilities that have opened up, and most of them are opened by the select baseball programs that have multiple teams and kids will start as young as 12 or even younger. These indoor facilities are pretty high-tech – they've got fancy pitching machines and a lot other things."
Brooks, who calls Puyallup, Wash., home, was drafted by the Minnesota Twins out of West Covina (Calif.) High School in 1968. He went on to an eight-year professional career in the Twins and Cleveland Indians organizations, and earned a spot on the Twins' big-league roster in both 1970 and 1972.
He has been coaching elite Northwest-area teams since 2000 and owns and operates the Diamond Players Baseball Training and Development Academy in Puyallup. His specialties are hitting and infield instruction.
"I do baseball the year around," he said. "It's my identity; it's what I do."
Brooks coached Team Northwest squads at all four Perfect Game World Series events (17u, 16u, 15u, 14u) last summer and has been a keen observer of the high school talent the state of Washington has produced.
In the 10-year time frame
Baseball America
used for its study, Washington's first experience with high school prospects taken in the first three rounds of the draft came in 2004. Outfielder K.C. Herren from Auburn (Wash.) High School was taken in the second round with the 51
overall pick by the Texas Rangers. Using the 93
pick in the third round, the Seattle Mariners chose Woodinville (Wash.) HS outfielder Matt Tuiasosopo.
Two years later, outfielder Travis Snider from Jackson HS in Everett was a first round selection with the 14
pick by the Toronto Blue Jays, and outfielder Stephen Englund from Bellevue (Wash.) HS went in the second round (70th) to the Washington Nationals. Interestingly, Renton, Wash., native Tim Lincecum was taken with the 10th pick in the first round by the San Francisco Giants in 2006, but because Lincecum was drafted out of the University of Washington, his name wasn't included in
The state's preps really hit the big time in 2010, thanks to some fine work by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' scouting department. The Rays took outfielder Josh Sale from Bishop Blanchet HS in Seattle with the 17
overall pick of the first round and then plucked outfielder Drew Vettleson from Central Kitsap HS in Silverdale as a first round supplemental pick (42
overall). They then made Ryan Brett (Highline HS, Burien) a third round pick with the 98
overall selection.
One year later, in 2011, the Rays struck again when they used another supplemental first round pick to snag left-hander Blake Snell from Shorewood HS in Shoreline.
"That was a strong group of kids," Brooks said of the 2010 and 2011 classes. "They're buddies, they know each other, they work out together. I don't why they all ended up with Rays; their scout just did a better job. The other scouts all saw those kids … but, I don't know, the Rays guy did a great job. Everybody else had a chance for those kids, too."
Washington produced high school first round and supplemental first round picks in 2012: catcher Clint Coulter from Union HS in Camas was selected by the Milwaukee Brewers with the 27
pick and right-hander Mitch Gueller from West HS in Chehalis was taken by the Philadelphia Phillies with the 54th pick.
All 13 of the Washington high school prospects chosen in the first three rounds between 2003 and 2012 participated in Perfect Game events while preps. Outfielder Kyrell Hudson, a graduate of Evergreen HS in Vancouver, Wash., who the Phillies selected in the third round of the 2009 draft, played in the 2008 Perfect Game All-American Classic and at the 2008 Perfect Game National Showcase.
Sale was at the 2009 PG All-American Classic and the' 09 PG National; Vettleson joined him at the '09 PG National. Herren, the 2004 second-rounder, participated at the 2003 PG National. The product keeps getting better and better.
"Right now the high schools are starting up and it's really difficult, and not many of the fields have FieldTurf, so it's really difficult for the kids to be outside," Brooks said. "But the kids are getting tons of swings – I think our hitters are as advanced as hitters anywhere in the country just because they get so many indoor swings in the winter and they can hit live or off the machines."
There is a flip-side to that, in Brooks' view.
"The one area where we've fallen behind a little bit is in our pitching," he said. "There haven't been a lot of pitchers drafted high … and I don't know what to attribute that to other than the fact that we're not outside throwing often. We don't have a lot of kids that are in the 90s where you'll see some states that have a lot of high school kids throwing in the 90s where we might have two or three in the whole Northwest."
The current group of high school seniors, juniors and sophomores (classes of 2013, '14, '15) that will populate the playing fields in Washington should continue the flow of talent into the first three rounds of the draft. There is no better place to start the conversation then with a couple of 2012 PG All-Americans: catcher Reese McGuire from Kentwood HS in Kent and right-hander Dustin Driver from Wenatchee (Wash.) HS.
McGuire is ranked the No. 10 overall prospect in the 2013 high school class and the No. 13 overall prospect in the 2013 draft class. The University of San Diego signee starred at the 2012 PG National Showcase in addition to performing at the PG All-American Classic, and is projected as a can't-miss first-rounder.
Driver is ranked the No. 17 overall 2013 prep prospect and the No. 36 overall prospect in the 2013 draft class who also did the double at the PG National and the PG All-American Classic. He is viewed as a first-round or first-round supplemental type of guy.
"Looking at it over the years, I think it's probably about par for the course," Brooks said of the 2013 class. "McGuire is getting a lot of attention and I think he'll go really high. Driver, I think the same."
The top three Washington prospects in the class of 2014 – and five of the top six – are all pitchers, disputing Brooks' contention of a lack of quality arms. The top gun is Lake Stevens (Wash.) HS right-hander Branden Kelliher, a San Diego commit ranked 52
nationally. East Valley HS right-hander Gage Burland is a Gonzaga commit who is ranked 147th nationally.
The most prominent 2015 prospect in the state is catcher/right-hander Brendan Illies from Puyallup HS, who played for Brooks and Team Northwest at both the 17u and 15u Perfect Game World Series' last summer. Both of those teams advanced to the semifinals rounds of the prestigious tournaments and raised some eyebrows in the process.
"It's something new every time going to those events and playing against the best of the best," Illies said while playing at the 15u PGWS. "It's really all I want to do – I want to go far and I want to play hard against the best. Getting that experience as much as possible and having the chance of playing against those guys is just amazing."
Brooks always expects his Team Northwest squads to be competitive on the national stage.
"I'm extremely impressed with the talent that we have up here," he said. "When I see us play against some of those other national powerhouses and we do well, it just shows that our kids can compete. It's really just been the last 10 or 15 years that that's really developed; I don't know if it's the water or what, but the kids can play. I think it's just going to get stronger.
"Perfect Game has a lot to do with this, to tell you the truth," he continued. "For awhile there … the kids up here just didn't seem as aware of Perfect Game and lately because we've tried to promote Perfect Game and the benefits our kids have gotten by participating, and more and more the kids are getting motivated by that.
"It's part of the trend at these national events where they know all the scouts are going to see them, all the college coaches are going to see them, and the value of the scholarships and some of the pro contracts has motivated the parents to get going."
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