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Jericho Scott and New Haven's Little League Handicapper General
UPDATE, 7.32pm: MOVE OVER, JAY MARIOTTI. You stink anyway.
Ahh, the meritocratic American Dream. It's a beautiful thing until some moron stomps on it in the name of equity and fair play.
The term "Handicapper General" comes from a Kurt Vonnegut story called "Harrison Bergeron." It's a short glimpse of dystopia set in the year 2081 – the United States places handicaps on the most talented and the most intelligent to pull them down to the mean. Diana Moon Glampers, US Handicapper General, oversees the effort.
It's a provocative story – so engaging and so relevant that The Moving Picture Institute is releasing the short film 2081, which is, as the opening line of the story attests, the year in which "everyone was finally equal." The summary is as follows:
"Based on the short story Harrison Bergeron by celebrated author Kurt Vonnegut, 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is finally equal… The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains. It is a poetic tale of triumph and tragedy about a broken family, a brutal government, and an act of defiance that changes everything."
You can watch the trailer and sign up for updates on the film at www.finallyequal.com.
Well, Jericho Scott, a 9-year old baseball player in New Haven, CT, just got tagged by Ms. Glampers. No, he doesn't have to wear an anvil around his neck, he's just not allowed to pitch because he's too good:
"The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.
Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho's team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho's coach, Wilfred Vidro, has resigned."
That kid's got a cannon. Surely he was beaning tykes with errant pitches, right? Multiple ER trips, concussions, tear-inducing fear en route to the batter's box?
""He's never hurt any one," Vidro said. "He's on target all the time. How can you punish a kid for being too good?"
Oh. League officials, including Peter Noble, the attorney representing the league, should be ashamed of themselves, though they surely aren't.
At least the immaturity of this equality spectacle is obvious – the league has handicapped everyone by removing a challenge rather than weighing down specific talent. Then again, it's only 2008.
When we remove the greatest obstacles from sport, we remove the greatest accomplishments, too. There will never be another Miracle on Ice now that our Olympic teams use professional players. There will never be another Milan over Muncie '54 because of class-based high school athletics. Without overwhelming odds, there would be no James Braddocks or crazed court runs by Jim Valvano.
Simply put, manufacturing equality ensures that there are no miracles.
And those who are being cheated the most are the kids who are being denied a chance to play with a great player. They're being denied their own tiny miracle because some "handicapper general" thinks it's best for them.
When I played little league, another team had a dominant pitcher not unlike Jericho Scott. In one game I hit two triples off him. I don't know if we won or lost, and I'm not sure if I remember another thing from that year, but I do remember getting those hits.
Let them all play, including Jericho Scott.
UPDATE: There's a great article at the NH Register – far more detail. Check it out.
There are also takes on the following sites:
Moments in Time: Jericho Scott Is Too Good To Play Little League
FanNation | FN Magazine's Blog | Chase's Rants Vol.2: Ft Jericho Scott
9 Year-Old Jericho Scott Is So Good He Makes Teams Forfeit Games
Mediocrity must be maintained! Excellence must be discouraged
Sox & Dawgs Picking Up The Blitz Ver. 9.2
9-year old baseball player punished for being too good
Does anyone have any contact information for this league? E-mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com – thanks.
UPDATE at 10.41pm:
You can shoot an e-mail in support of all these kids to Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. at email@example.com.
31 Responses to "Jericho Scott and New Haven's Little League Handicapper General"
This is ridiculous. Face the music. Your little precious one will enjoy looking back and retelling the story of being struck out by a future major leaguer.
pathethic…. GO JERICHO!! MOW EM DOWN
Pure bigotry. I recall another incident in basketball where a young Black girl was banned from playing. We may as well go back to 1776 and put certain groups on the plantation.
I think the kid should be able to pitch. Where does it say in a rule book that a picther should pitch under 40 MPH. I do not know what league this is, but in Little League any kid that can pitch pitches. It does not restrict a kid that pitches 30 mph nor 80 or 90 mph. I sat and watch the Little League World series this past week and saw some of the best pitching I have ever seen in the program and some of the pitches were clocked in the high 70′s and low 80′s. I been a voulenteer for our league for over 30 years and I have never heard anything so stupid in my life. I say Jericho keep up the good work. Maybe in 3 years we will see you in Willamsport at the Little League World Series or something.
I love baseball and it is America's pastime; I've played baseball since I was five years old, now I watch at 34. Back in the day, coaches would coach, batters would hit and strike out, pitchers would throw fast or slow, ball or strike; but never have I seen the sport turn to this. I hated to be babied on the field, we worked hard and we played the game, win or lose. This is one those things that make us look like idiots in front of our kids and that we have lost our way. I hope to see this young man in the hall of fame.
This has the least bit to do with worrying about safety and more about winning the penent. Way to show your kids to take the easy way out and quit.
If there is a rule that exists in the by-laws that no pitch can exceed XX mph, then the kid is stuck, and it's a shame. However, if that rule doesn't exist, then I say the parents get a good lawyer and sue for his right to play (not sue for a profit folks). I don't know how the 'officials' can sleep at night making a decision such as this. Also, what about that coach that packed up his team because they didn't want to face him? What are you doing??? Did every kid want to go home? Or just the coach making a statement.
This is completely wrong in every sense. The league cannot arbitrarily change the rules mid-season because it capriciously feels that one team is superior to the next. This is sport and the nature of it is to coax greatness. What would have happened if, at the Olympics, the officials decided Micheal Phelps was to good and barred him from the friendly international competion. I understand these are children and one must carefully consider despiriting them. But sport also teaches one to accept loss as fuel for self improvement and as such should be embraced as a motivating ethos. If the league felt he was eligible to play at the begining of the season then he better damn well be eligible to finish it. I only hope these events don't make him second guess his abilities for it would be tragic if a child was to fear that their level best was suspect. Too good to play? I have never heard something so preposterous.
What are these parents thinking?! they want to ban Jericho from pitching or have him go to the next league up in age? What are they gong to do when their kid faces Jericho in the next league and he's throwing 60-70 mph? They ought to realize their kids have an opportunity to learn hitting fast fastballs at a young age which will give them an advantage as they get older and progress through the sport. Let the kid play. It is a game for kids, not for the parents to once again coddle these kids from the sometimes brutal reality of sport.
I was so disgusted that I wrote the following letter to the Mayor. I hope that you all will follow suit.
Dear Mayor DeStefano,
My name is John Grieten. I know of a little boy who needs some government help and you are the first step.
It is not financial help that he needs; it is moral and emotional support. You see, this boy is too good at what he does and there are those who wish to exclude him because of it. He plays a sport where, under normal circumstances, everyone is encouraged to do their best and work on their weaknesses and he has done that. He played with kids his age and he is being turned away because he excels at what he does; he is fast and accurate and does his job in his position in this sport. You see, the fact that everyone has a chance at-bat in the game of baseball, everyone has an area to improve in, includes the fact that the kids this nine year-old pitches against need some extra batting practice….. is this his fault? Where is the sportsmanship in a world where a team and young boy who excels at what he does and wins is torn apart and separated for the sake of "fairness"?
These kids need to know that the world is not fair, that there will always be someone who is better than they are, and that sports is not as much about winning or losing as it is one's character and talent in playing the game.
Mayor, a little boy named Jericho Scott needs your help. The adults and administrators of the New Haven Little League need to nurture this boy's talent, not hide it away. This boy excels at what he does; Allow him to play!!!!!!!!!
If ever government guidance is needed, it is now! Everyone in this boy's governmental jurisdiction needs to get involved now, to protect this child's right to play a sport for which he qualifies in every way! Correct this injustice and give this young citizen what everyone is afforded under the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence: the right for PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, the pursuit of success! Our Laws and founding Documents do not provide for everyone being just as good at everything as everyone else; do not let this erroneous message be the standard!! It is your responsibility to protect the rights for the PURSUIT of happiness for EVERYONE, and not degredation and re-distribution of a team which excels (which already reminds me of the present tax system). I humbly submit that New Haven's government needs to do its job and restore faith that the government will provide these basic rights!
John D. Grieten
Here's something I'm wondering about.. is 40mph even that fast? I know it's fast, but is it really otherworldly? I'm not doubting the kid's greatness or anything, but 40mph isn't unheard of at that age. I remember a few kids tossing 60+mph in the 11-12 year old division on the same size diamond they're using (assuming.. they should be for the 8-10 year old age group). And sure it was scary at first but you learned to cope with it and hang in there.
I'm interested how liberally they're using the "developmental league" tag. By definition, all youth leagues are developmental. But t-ball usually starts at age 5 or so. I'd venture to guess a lot of these kids have been playing ball for a few years. Maybe it's their first time facing pitching from other players as opposed to from the coach. Even still, facing the best is a pretty efficient way to develop.
As long as Jericho's coach isn't throwing the kid's arm out, let the kid pitch.
it's fast, especially at that age, but the kids in the LLWS are a few years older than that and throwing 60+ on the same diamond. That's all I'm saying.
He's damnnn good. It's not so much about the 40mph, it's just that he's buck-nasty. That's the real sham.
Will do!
I got an automated 'out of office' message, so I sent it to his Chief of Staff as well!
Yes the sun will shine tomorrow, but this is a hill worth fighting for. I will follow his career with interest, and look forward to seeing who this young man signs with when he gets out of college!
For all you folks who don't know too much about baseball, here's a little help. 40 mph is way below average for a "good" 9 year old pitcher. I have been coaching for 8 years now and on average a 9 year old team will have at least 2-3 kids that can throw 55-60mph. The kids who throw 40 mph are the back-ups. If other kids can't hit this kid – then they are being coached poorly. Apparently, he throws very accurately. A 40 mph fastball right down the middle is what us coaches would call a "practice ball."
Folks should get this correct…. this is not Little League Baseball…. this is a "local league" and should be noted accordingly.
Regretfully – in todays highly competitive atmosphere… many parents and league officials miss the entire point of the sport.
If this team and player wants to be treated correctly and have rules that guide and protect all players — then join — Little League Baseball
Why doesn't he just play in a more competitive league? This league is for new comers to little league.
Don't assume the league is wrong, look a little deeper and at both sides. Does the kid pitch in another league? How does do in that league.
I hope mom and dad don't win a suit for emotional stress. They are the problem of america – crybabies when told that your son belongs in another league suitable for his talents and where competition matches his talent.
My son throws 52 MPH and just turned 9 years old. 40 MPH is not scary and not unhittable. There is something wrong with the story. I coach in District 14 in Connecticut and 40 MPH is nearly batting practice for a Travel Playing 9 year old. Somethings wrong with this story.
never let anyone kick you off a team just keep on playing!!!
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THE DIRTY ARMY: Nik, when I came across this today, I knew you would love to see it! Looks like you can pay to ride around in style with the Ferrari Guy! He is a true legend… how many miles you think that thing has on it?
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THE DIRTY ARMY: Mikyla Smith AKA Mikyla Miller is the dirtiest pig you will ever meet, she will do you for just about any price. She has had pretty much everything you can't think of. There is not one guy in Rideau Heights who has not tapped this. She has been an escort and sold her body pretty much her whole life. Once a whore always a whore. She has a rotted out grill with only one tooth left hahahaha but thinks she's the hottest thing going. She says she's a good mom but who has 2 kids while being on methadone and is still on the shit 4 years later, if you ask your man h's probably had her. She likes to use older men for their money and is willing to do anything for it, she has even went to jail for extorting an old man for large. Don't trust this dirty pig with your man, your daddy or your brother. Hell not even your dog.
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"Reads like a bullet train. I couldn't put it down!" - BERT LOVITT, Director of the feature film PRINCE JACK
"Nemcoff's stories cut to the chase — blistering action meets brutal reality on the way to over-the-top, big-budget finishes." – NYT Bestselling author, SCOTT SIGLER
by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
Hale doesn't really seem to notice your life has headlonged into a massive clusterfuck of sorts. Not that you ever really expect him to but in your sometimes incredibly naive way of thinking, you've been hoping he'll mention that you haven't showered, shaved, gone outside in days, or eaten much more than Cheetos from the rusted-out, hunk of junk vending machine down the hall. For Christ's sake, the least he could do is mention the haircut you'd given yourself. Though, you suppose if it was your roommate turning into a dirty, reeking, Cheeto-eating poster boy for mental patient hairstyles, you'd probably do your best to say nothing either. Truly, the funniest thing about this is that if he would just crack open one of his Psych textbooks long enough, he might even recognize this as a complete cry for help on your part.
It's around the fourth or fifth day that he finally says something about it.
"I used to call her Mitten because she smothered you and gave you absolutely no distinctive form," he tells you.
You glare daggers into his soul as he shakes his head.
"Thank you, drive through," you answer.
At this point Hale picks up the framed photo on your desk, the one you've been unable to look away from since falling into this funk—a snap of Jackie and you in better times, and frisbees it through the open window.
You yelp as if he had carved out your spleen with a wooden spoon, knowing if you weren't feeling so damned helpless you might sock him in the eye. Instead, you sit and stare at the empty space the photo of the woman you once loved had, until just now, occupied. To Hale's credit, at least he doesn't remind you that this is the second time this month you've been kicked to the curb.
Last year, Coach Riggs moved you from the outfield to starting shortstop. A lot of your teammates had hopes for getting to the bigs after graduation but you knew you'd never have the chops to go to the show so you were just happy not to ride pine. As a complete surprise to no one, you had a very lackluster season. You didn't quite suck but you didn't really shine either—except once.
In your inimitable way you blamed your sorry-ass excuse of a decent on-base percentage on the lack of a good bat. Everybody thought it was a steaming load, but in your gut you truly believed it. Jackie had gotten so sick of hearing about it that right before the third to last game of the season she bought you a brand new aluminum Louisville Slugger and damn if it didn't look like something King Arthur could have pulled from a stone to slay a dragon with. On the spot, you dubbed it Excalibur. Jackie threw her arms around you, kissed you and said the words that put the ping back into your swing:
"Get thee a hit and thou mayest bed a lusty wench this evening."
You went three for four that afternoon, including the triple that scored the game-winning run. You even homered in each of the last two games of the season. That damn bat made all the difference in your swing and your confidence and you treated it like some sort of holy relic by mounting it on a rack on the wall above your bed. This year, though, your mind is elsewhere and you field like someone punched a hole in your glove. At the plate you can't see the ball to save your life. When Coach Riggs pulls you aside to say he's making room for someone else on the roster until you get your head on straight, you pack your stuff and leave without saying a single word.
You're anxious as Hale leaves to get your picture from the street, thinking some wino in this crappy neighborhood has already run off with it. When Hale comes back twenty minutes later, having replaced the shattered frame with something cheap from the corner market, you snatch it from him with both hands. Your heart still sinks. Jackie a.k.a. "Mitten" had been your steady girl for most of the last twenty-six months, two weeks and three days and the fact that she'd ejected you from her life with all of the fanfare usually reserved for tossing a cigarette butt from a car window was not exactly a state secret around here anymore. Nor was the fact that she had done so because you had become one unbearably morose son of a bitch.
Made you wonder how come you were always the last to know. Never before it happens but boy if a moment of horrifying enlightenment didn't strike you between the eyes just as the words were about to spill out of her mouth. You have this crazy theory. You think your balls know and they crawl right up into your belly. They do a duck and cover and all of sudden you sense them pushing up against your gut and you know that it's all turned into a big nine-ways-to-Sunday pooch-screw. It just beat the hell out of you how they got to be so damn smart in the first place.
And that's when Hale sighs, reaches into his dresser drawer and does what he thinks would be best. He packs a very, very large bong hit for the two of you.
"A friend with weed…" he offers.
"Is a friend indeed," you shoot back. Hale grins at you and today more than ever with that poker-straight hair of his he has that Messiah look that some dudes just have. Jesus with a joint, that is. You often think your little saying is kind of stupid but you do it because it's one of those things that started four years ago and sort of stuck because tradition in a college dorm is saving twenty cases of empties so you can build a beer-can pyramid in the back of your room.
"Dude, you want more of this?" Hale passes the joint to you. "I think I've had more hits than the Rolling Stones."
You smoke for a good hour during which time you're joined by Nikko Desic—this real smart, round-shouldered, kind of pimply kid with an underdeveloped face that looks like it could have used more womb time, and your buddy Fuckin' Dan, a skinny guy who can barely put three syllables together without dropping the F-bomb like some kind of redneck Enola Gay. These are your best friends. In private, Hale often half-jokes about someday publishing a paper declaring Dan's profane condition as some sort of speech impediment or something. Right now you could care less.
At this moment, the only thing you know is that for the first time in almost a week you feel nearly human again. Somewhere just north of shit-fire awful and south of fine. You're in metamorphosis from homeless-looking, manic depressive dipshit into giggly, smiley, stoned guy and you feel your pain melt away.
To everyone's annoyance, you start to find every goddamned thing funny. You laugh like hell at the monster zit on Nikko's forehead, at a dirty cartoon titled Bi-curious George that Hale shows you, at your self-inflicted hair wound and more than anything else, you laugh at the bright orange Cheeto stains that look like they'll need to be sandblasted off your fingers. Suddenly you're engrossed, knowing there's no way whatever makes those damn things that godawful color could be anything other than exceedingly detrimental to your health. Your mind races to thoughts of wearing gloves to the dinner table when you go home so the Units don't ask why your hands sport a lovely shade of dayglow toxic-shock monkey piss. Maybe, you think, if it comes down to that you'll buy a pair of oven mitts so you can give your stepdad the finger whenever you feel like it, which incidentally is getting to be quite a lot when you're home.
In a way, you know the city is doing this to you. You're a suburban boy with soft hands. Maybe I don't belong here, you wonder. And as you feel a kind of bubbling euphoric moment of clarity, you stop laughing because of the wave of paranoia that hits you like a sucker punch.
Ten minutes ago you had gotten up to take a leak and when you came back, you were in such a rush to toke up, you forgot to put the towel back under the crack in the door to keep the smoke from leaking out into the hall. This year you couldn't even smoke cigs in this building, let alone doobage, and Hale was very adamant about the whole towel deal. Last year you watched as he got busted more times than James Brown at a wife-beating convention. So many times, in fact, the school threatened to boot his ass out entirely. His father, the ex-stuntman turned porn producer, a stocky fucker who went by the nickname "Bullet", got so pissed that he left the set of Anal Fisted Bitches With Badges 3 to come here and give Hale an earful that you could hear from your old room on the other side of the floor. The old man told him, in no uncertain terms, that if Hale got himself punted from yet another school he'd get his ass beaten Brooklyn style, whatever the hell that meant. So, like any good boy Hale swore he'd straighten up and fly right and that he'd stop smoking pot, a promise he kept for nearly six whole hours after his dad got in the Seven-series and pedaled his deluded old self back to his house in Topanga Canyon and the twenty-year old trophy wife with giant pillowy tits.
This year, Hale lives with you. You get along well but you feel fairly certain it's because you're here on scholarship and he wants his dad to think he's stopped hanging out with his burner friends. His parents buy into it — hook, line and stinker. They love you. You're on the cusp of making something of your life. Little do they know your grades are sinking, your habit is getting as bad as his lately and the two of you account for most of the narf smoked on this floor. You just have the common sense to confine most of your shaking and baking to that little park on Mulholland where you and Jackie used to go sit and watch the lights of Hollywood twinkle like a tray of jewels after a good backseat romp.
And as you toke it up with your pals in your room with what is probably half the floor getting ripped on the second hand smoke leaking out from the crack under the door, you look around and see nobody else has noticed the missing towel. You tell yourself if you can just put the damn thing back where it belongs, it's no harm, no foul, no big damn deal. You reach down into your crotch to check, and to your relief the boys are where they belong. Rock on, brother. Rock on.
As soon as Hale hits off the bong, you reach over to grab the towel and immediately see the thin shaft of light from underneath the door broken by the tree-trunk shadows of a large pair of combat boots on the other side. And even before the heavy knock on the door comes you know exactly that it's the last person on this whole spinning rock that you want to see right now.
Richard "Bo" Boyd, the Resident Assistant on your floor, is without a single iota of doubt, the epitome of low-voltage social reject Marine ROTC attracts on this campus. About guys like Bo, Hale has a theory he's dubbed the teenie weenie syndrome. Men with little dicks grow up over-aggressively trying to measure up against other males. Pity is that even though women can see right through this gross overcompensation, they get drawn to this type of mate because of how easily they can control him by letting him believe he's just as big as anyone else. The often overlooked and sad part of the whole damn thing is that if the woman remains unsatisfied sexually, she may decide to hunt down an extracurricular larger organ. Thus threatening her mate's newly found status of manhood and he in turn vents his aggressions on her. Deep down, you often think if Hale would ever get around to actually writing his thesis it would be about reducing domestic violence by making men less angry at their own dicks.
The school year didn't start with Bo or else you would have transferred to the newly co-ed girls' college down the street. In the Fall, when you moved in to find Becky Aldredge as the R.A.—kind of cute, kind of a chub-chub and a little bit granola around the edges—you all figured you had it made in the shade. You figured a little fiirting with the Beckster would ensure never getting busted for squat.
Well, if you had known that any right-minded man trying to wink at a feminist lesbian was apt to get his dick kicked in the dirt, you would have nixed the idea from the get go. Turned out the Beckster thought the four of you were goofing on her and got her panties all knotted in a bunch. Next thing you know, Hale was getting busted regularly and the simple easygoing life you'd worked so hard to attain had gone the way of the hot comb.
Two weeks before Christmas break and you were on the prowl at this Theta Delt party in Westwood and lo and behold, there was Becky's girlfriend hanging out looking like she was hoping someone would go and talk her up. Now, unlike the Beckster, this chick was borderline hot—nice frame and a slow gap-toothed smile on the marginal side of sexy. Nothing to break your arm writing home about but in the general all-around, not too shabby and there wasn't a straight man in attendance who hadn't done much worse at one time or another. You figured all the drunken frat jerks would be crawling all over her, right? Well, all the Theta Delts knew she batted the other side of the plate and everyone there was trying their best to score at least one last party lay before break. So, as a result, the Beckster's girl was flying solo.
You pooled your cash and came up with close to a hundred bucks and Nikko tossed it to one of his buds from the basketball team to go over and start flirting with her. Hale whipped out a camera phone and after an hour of googly eyes and a few more jello shots you became the proud owners of a snapshot of Becky's honey pie jamming her tongue down the throat of one of the biggest black dudes you'd ever seen in your life.
You end up in such a rush to get back to your room to e-mail it to the Wicked Bitch of the West Dorm that you actually miss the best part of the whole damn evening. It turned out that Nikko's buddy, Wallace, took Becky's girlfriend back to the jock dorm and gave her the time until the wee hours of the morning.
Becky found the picture in her e-mail the next day and went positively apeshit. They broke up, Beckster swallowed a handful of OxyContin, and after a long night of puking her guts out in the infirmary she went back home to Idaho and to the best of anyone's knowledge. No one had seen hide nor hairy leg of her since. "It just goes to show you," Hale had said as her taxi pulled away. "Pussy makes you crazy no matter who you are."
As the pounding on your door continues, Dan whispers, "Oh shit, it's Major fuckin' Dick!" and Hale bursts out giggling, blowing a mouthful of smoke right in your face. The laughter is completely contagious because Nikko and Dan can't help giggling like drunken ten-year old girls. Not you though. What you get is a major case of the jumpies that old Bo is going to hand you some noise about your orange-stained fingers or your shitty homemade haircut. You realize then, pot does some very weird stuff to you sometimes.
"I said, open this goddammed door right now! I'm going to write up the whole bunch of you misfit motherfuckers!"
Hearing the chuckling through the door was pissing Bo off even more because he starts barking it now, just like the way they teach when you're up to your ass in a river full of piranhas and God-knows-what and you have to give an order to all the other automatons in the platoon. In a whisper, Hale dares somebody to ask through the door if Semper Fi comes from ancient Latin for I am a fucking robot.
But you're still gaping at the shadows of Bo's shoes under the crack in the door when Hale calls your name, waking you out of your paranoid trance. You are completely sober again. That sinking feeling of depression has come back like a bad check.
"Scott, open the door," Hale says again.
You look over at him while Nikko just shrugs his shoulders back in a calm way that makes you think if you were to take his pulse right then and there it would barely break sixty.
Yours on the other hand beats like a dance club kick drum and you start to feel it in your temples. You reach over and turn the knob and the door slams open, crashing against the wall and startling all of you. Bo stands there for a second, puts his hands on his hips and does his best General Patton tight-ass walk into the room.
And this is the point where Hale unfortunately decides to show off his finely honed sarcasm.
"Can I help you?" he asks, doing his best impression of someone who never gave a shit about anything even remotely authoritarian.
Bo squints at him the way you'd look at a dog turd stuck to the bottom of your shoe. Then, making absolutely sure that he has eye contact with all of you, he blurts: "You little rat-fucks are big-time busted."
The word hangs in the air like a stale odor and you can tell Bo is enjoying this far too much and you absolutely begin to hate his stupid jarhead guts for it. Right then, you get this feeling deep down inside that nothing good can possibly come out of all of this.
Your balls know.
Duck and cover.
"Now, I don't know what kind of bullshit Little Miss Muffdive let you jerks get away with but let me be the first to inform you that it won't be tolerated any longer. You little dopers make me sick. I'm not about to let this go down on my watch, especially by little stoner faggots like you!"
He works his way up to a cadence and you suddenly become aware of the need to go pee again. Major Dick looks at you with those crazy eyes of his and you feel your boys decide to go hibernate for the winter.
"Congratulations," he growls at you. "It looks like you'll end up with this whole room to yourself after they kick your loser roommate out of school."
You steal a glance at Hale but he just keeps his poker face.
"That is, if they let you keep your scholarship." Bo knows he has your full and undivided attention.
"Tell you what. I'm even going to confiscate your stash so you little drug addicts won't be lighting up until after they boot all of your asses out," he adds, and that becomes enough to loosen up Nikko's tongue.
"Hey man, you can't do that!"
"Shut your suck, fucknut. Maybe you haven't noticed it from your little drug-induced haze over there but there isn't a soul on this floor right now but you scumbags and me. That means I could throw all of you down the fucking elevator shaft and say it was a weirdo tragic accident or some little stoner faggot suicide pact. Since I'm in a good mood, I'm just going to take your precious little dope down to the can myself and before I flush it, I'm going to drop my pants and take a great big crap all over it."
You all flinch as Bo's fleshy paw shoots out to grab your weed off the desk behind Nikko's head.
"Just what I thought, just a bunch of little pussy-boys," he says, crunching the rolled up baggie in his fist like Custer taking a Cherokee scalp.
As he turns on his heels and walks out, your hope that he makes it halfway to Neptune before anyone says anything gets shattered by Dan.
"Fuckin' dick," he mutters underneath his breath.
As Bo stops in his tracks, you swallow hard. "What did you say?" Bo barks as he snaps around on his heels.
Bo stands there, milking it to the point of sheer agony.
"What'd you say, fuckstain?" Bo's nostrils flare and it flashes into your head that he has at least three inches and no less than sixty pounds over any of you. Wiping up a room full of pot-smoking smartasses is probably stepping into wet dream territory for him.
Dan stands up, and you want to punch him in the mouth for getting you all in way deeper shit than you were in already.
He looks Bo square in the eye. "I was fuckin' wondering. If your parents got a divorce, would they still be considered cousins?"
You expect instant Hiroshima, but what Bo does scares you even more. He snorts, takes one step into your room and shuts the door behind him. Without a word he makes it very clear how this is going to be a very private ass-kicking for all of you.
"It's about to get busier than a pair of jumper cables at a Puerto Rican wedding in here." Bo grunts, puts his hand on Nikko's face and shoves him into your dresser, knocking over the newly re-framed picture of you and Jackie taken at the beach last summer. Helplessly, you watch as Jackie and you hit the floor and as the glass breaks, you suddenly want so badly to be on that beach with her, drinking margaritas and making love in the chest high water instead of facing the ugly prospect of a mouth full of broken chiclets.
You don't know how long you space out but when you turn around, Bo has Dan in a choke hold. Dan's face starts to turn purple and Hale tries to pry Bo's thick arms away with one hand while pushing his face back with the other. When you see Bo grinning like the Cheshire Cat after a blowjob, something inside you finally rages like a furnace.
"Do something!" Hale turns to you. The sudden blast of adrenaline feels like heroin jacking through your veins. A dry lump the size of Mexico fills your throat.
"Fucking do something!" Hale screams again and in one flash you know how to make it all go away. You know how to take control of the situation, make the yelling subside and bring back the calming sense of silence you now miss so much.
Your eyes dart to the relic mounted over your bed. Without a sound you feel the world stop turning as your fingers wrap around its handle.
You take a breath. You close your eyes.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet ) -- U.S. stock futures are basically flat Wednesday morning as investors wait for the announcement from the two-day FOMC meeting today. The Fed is expected to enact something called "Operation Twist" -- a tactic of selling short term debt and buying longer-term debt -- in order to bend the yield curve and hopefully keep borrowing costs low.
With the Fed Funds rate still sitting at 0, the central bank has to get creative to find ways to try to stimulate the economy. Watch for the announcement at 2:15 p.m. ET.
The big question for traders is: How will the market react to "Operation Twist?"
The infamous QE2 sparked a 7-month stock market rally that saw few significant corrections, but over the course of a week at the beginning of August, nearly all of those gains were wiped out. It seems reasonable that the market will not react as kindly to another round of stimulus given the ramifications of the last go-round. After a week long run up, could we be in for a "buy the rumor, sell the news" type scenario?The other major headline of the day is Europe, specifically Greece. With large coupon payments due this week, Greece has been forced into talks with its European counterparts over another tranche of aid. At each turn, leaders and representatives from the "Troika" have noted progress in the discussions, but an accord has not yet been met. European markets were green earlier in their trading sessions, but have begun to unravel on the lack of a deal. The bond markets are still telling investors that a Greek default seems to be inevitable. From a stock-specific standpoint, continue narrowing your focus onto sectors showing relative strength and weakness. If you want to buy the dips in the market, focus on the big cap tech leaders like Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN). Amazon was leading the pack for most of last week, but this week Apple has been the strongest stock on our board. The stock exploded Monday despite a down market and extended significantly higher again yesterday before pulling in sharply with the rest of the market. Even trading above $400, Apple remains fundamentally undervalued.
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Updated: 10/16/2013 - Democratic leader Harry Reid says Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan deal to avoid default and end the government shutdown
Updated: 10/16/2013 - Democratic leader Harry Reid says Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan deal to avoid default and end the government shutdown
Updated: 10/15/2013 - The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippines is climbing.
Posted: 10/15/2013 - A Massachusetts high school senior is in trouble for what she says was an effort to help a drunken friend.
Updated: 10/15/2013 - A deal may be in the works to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling temporarily.
Posted: 10/15/2013 - A new study shows a possible link between high levels of a chemical found in some manufactured products and miscarriage.
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Updated: 10/14/2013 - Next year, Social Security checks will see the smallest hike in almost 40 years.
Posted: 10/10/2013 - An Internet search on the words "rational insanity" had been done on a computer belonging to James Holmes.
Posted: 10/10/2013 - Ohio officials say two prison guards falsified logs documenting their observation of kidnapper Ariel Castro.
Posted: 10/10/2013 - A report finds the U.S. government's aggressive prosecution of leaks and efforts to control information are having a chilling effect on journalists.
Posted: 10/10/2013 - The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits jumped by 66,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 374,000.
Posted: 10/10/2013 - South Korea has cut off beef imports from a Colorado meat-packing plant after finding a controversial growth enhancer in the meat.
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Posted: 10/09/2013 - Millions of Americans will see a drop in their food stamps benefit next month as a temporary increase expires.
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The Kardashian Kard is kaput.
Kim, Khloe and Kourtney's much-hyped prepaid debit card has been dumped over allegations that it contains several hidden fees that may be illegal.
This afternoon, legal counsel for the Kardashians' corporation, Dash Dolls, LLC, sent a "notice of termination" to the companies behind the Kard, ending the endorsement deal after the fees controversy surfaced.
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I was raised in a household of atheists. My parents were card-carrying members of the American Communist Party, and therefore the atheism in my household was quite close to the militant anti-theism of the so-called "new atheists".
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I was raised in a household of atheists. My parents were card-carrying members of the American Communist Party, and therefore the atheism in my household was quite close to the militant anti-theism of the so-called "new atheists".
People hold clearly discordant points of view, and it would be dishonest to ignore the conflict. Yet some voices emphasize the dissonance without any note of harmony to put it in context. Too often, science and faith becomes a hostile battle of worldviews, sounding angry, dissonant chords even among fellow Christians. But civil, gracious dialogue is possible.
In this series, U.S. Navy Commander Mike Beidler shares his own personal journey from accepting young-earth creationism to embracing evolutionary creationism.
Gregg Davidson and Ken Wolgemuth seek to remove the stumbling block of the Genesis flood in this four part series. Though many believe in an ancient world-wide flood, the evidence given does not hold up to geological scrutiny, but points rather to something regional instead. It is their hope that Christians will not walk away from faith in Christ simply because a global flood is not supported by science. Looking at natural phenomena like the Grand Canyon, salt beds, and fossil deposits, they reveal reasons for these deposits and structures while showing that their origin did not stem from a violent flood that covered the planet.
"I flatter myself," Hume triumphantly proclaimed, "that I have discovered an argument . . . which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures."
In this talk, Professor Plantinga addresses the fact that many contemporary thinkers—including many theologians—believe that God cannot perform miracles, providentially guide history, or interact in the lives of people, as these activities would be contrary to science. Plantinga, on the other hand, makes the case that this popular view is mistaken; excluding divine action in the world is not a central feature of natural science itself, but a philosophical or theological preference that has been added on to science (and can just as readily be removed). Plantinga concludes that it is completely logical to accept the miracles of the Bible and support contemporary science.
Does God need to supernaturally "intervene" in order to bring about the diversity of life that we observe today? Is that kind of action different from God's ordinary action? We begin our three-part series with Robert John Russell's description of how views of divine action have changed throughout history, excerpted from his book Cosmology: From Alpha to Omega. Part 2 addresses why "intervention" in the natural world is a problem philosophically, theologically, and scientifically; and Part 3 explains Russell's own theory of divine action in the natural world.
We think that God created all living organisms, including humans, through the evolutionary process. But acceptance of creation through evolution does not mean that we reject the notion of a miracle-working God. On the contrary...
I found myself in a very awkward situation. On the one hand I was a follower of Jesus Christ who loved the Bible, knew that it was God's Word, and, therefore, not full of lies. However, I also was someone who had loved science for many years and was planning on pursuing a career in research...
In this series, Bob Jones University graduate David Buller recounts his spiritual and intellectual journey in which he came to a deeper understanding of the metaphorical nature of the Genesis creation account and no longer views evolution as contradictory to God's Word. It is the story of a courageous and truth-seeking heart.
In this series, Dennis Venema describes his personal journey that took him away from the Intelligent Design arguments toward the evolutionary creation worldview. Through careful and honest research, he discovered ID scientific reasoning to be analogy-based, in sharp contrast to evolutionary science, which was supported by concrete data. After accepting this view, God's presence ever strengthened him as he explored the compatibility between the Bible and God's creative mechanism.
Sometimes Christians and non-Christians alike fall into thinking that God is only active in creation when there are miraculous violations of natural laws.
As a child, I started reading the Bible as soon as I could and I made my decision for Jesus wholeheartedly at the age of nine. Nurtured in an "all Christian environment," I knew little else. But certain questions tended to nag at me.
In this five section series, Ard Louis explores the relationship between science and miracles. He indicates the self-imposed limitations of science to discover knowledge while warning against the God-of-the-Gaps explanations. Then, he explains the two types of miracles seen in Scripture: those that are divine timing and those that are violations of the natural. Overall, God sustains natural processes, but, as the master composer, he has the ability to perform miracles as well.
By all accounts, my faith should have perished the moment I started asking questions about faith and science. All my life I'd been taught that I had to choose—between believing the Bible and believing my science book, between honoring God and embracing evolution.
In this short series, Brian Godawa relates his personal journey from faith in instantaneous creation to gradual evolution. He initially held the scientific six-day model of creation after reading The Genesis Flood, thinking this to be the plainest reading one could have. However, he quickly realized that his "simple" reading was biased by his 20th century, westernized culture that thought in scientific terms. Ultimately, the Bible is inerrant on matters of faith, life and God, but there are cultural barriers threaded throughout the text that must be overcome with proper hermeneutics.
Outside of my family and my personal relationship with God, there is nothing in recent years that has shaped me more profoundly than the Sunday School class I teach. It all began ten years ago, when I was asked to do a three week series on biology and faith.
The three part series, written by Paul Seely, explores the scientific validity of the Flood in Genesis. He offers the approximate date of the flood according to Scripture, and then looks at various lines of evidence that contradict the idea of a global flood at that time. In light of other Mesopotamian flood stories, scholars conclude that the flood was local at best. In the end, he suggests that this story primarily reveals theological truths from a limited scientific understanding of natural events.
I'm a conservative evangelical. When I became a Christian fourteen years ago, I not only embraced profound new spiritual perspectives, but inherited a host of new scientific views: the earth was young, macro-evolution was false, and to affirm the contrary was to discredit the Bible and even the Gospel.
Many evangelicals believe that Young Earth Creationism is the only authentic, biblical way for Christians to understand origins, and that until the advent of Darwin's theory of evolution, it was the only view held by Christians. However, in this excerpt from Saving Darwin, Karl Giberson explains that Young Earth Creationism's origins are surprisingly recent.


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I became legit, got a kitchen and started doing some farmer's markets however the kitchen rental is $25/hour, that on top of ingredients and theoretically paying myself there is no way I can make enough and have reasonable prices without having crazy high prices. A cottage license would have been a beter way to go, but I have a dog. A friend of mine in DC (I'm in Oregon) said the way she and a lot of other people get started is to rent a kitchen for a few hours a month but do most of the making at home. I have a dog, or else I would have gone the cottage route. Her suggestion was to do it at home to start and just keep the dog out of the kitchen while I'm chocolating and use the kitchen for a few hours each month for appearances. I don't like breaking rules/laws... Any thoughts? I have a plan to propose a partnership with a local bakery/candy shop, but I need to make some samples before I meet with the owner...
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I know that there are no pets allowed, that is why I did not go the cottage license route. I will look into some other rental options, I'm in a smaller city so there are a lot fewer options than say, Portland or Eugene.
You're thinking the right thoughts. Kitchen rentals are very expensive. Great for catering, bad for a small unit cost like a chocolatier. We were in that boat. First we used church kitchens and also found banquet halls worked. We also made a partnership like you with a local baker, since they only use their kitchen in off hours.
If you have a garage you can convert that..
Other thoughts... if you have a Small Business Development & Technology center in your local (community) college those often have incubator kitchens along with courses to help get everything above board.
Talk to your local SBA and SCORE as well. Their networks can be invaluable and put you in touch with others that if not help directly might help sleuth out a solution.
Much luck! We remember the pain all too well!
There is no garage, but I have thought about building a separate structure kitchen someday, I'd need to figure out how much that would cost... glad I'm not alone in my struggle and also in wanting to follow the rules!
My opinion for what it's worth - if you were doing wood-working and got caught without the proper license, etc I don't think it would hurt you that much. But you're making food. If you get caught breaking health laws most people probably won't hear or care about the details, and it could really damage your reputation. So I would recommend against the "fake it till you make it" approach in terms of using your house.
I like your idea of sharing space with a local bakery/kitchen, and I think that situation occurs more often than people realize. Have you heard of "Danny Macaroons"? As I recall, this is pretty much how he started his business. It helped that he didn't need specialty equipment or much storage space.
Of course then the question arises of how much that situation would cost compared to the $25/hour you are spending now. Perhaps you can get the space for "free" in exchange for providing the current business with chocolate, or some of your product, or something they need that you can make? If not, what you might think about is finding out how much it would cost to have a contractor build something that separates your kitchen from the rest of your house enough to satisfy cottage license requirements. As I'm sure you realize, there are rarely any easy answers when the budget is tight. Good luck.
Exactly. I don't want to break the laws with things people eat. I need to contact the owner of the candy/bakery shop but I want to make some samples of things to take her and then we can talk about how we could have a mutually beneficial relationship, especially if I make stuff for the shop and then can use the kitchen in off hours at no fee. I have no money to build a separate kitchen on my lot but it's something I've been thinking about doing, someday. For now I'm pretty limited to outside kitchens.
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Jonathan Bloch specializes in the evolution of vertebrates following the extinction of the dinosaurs. He has conducted paleontological fieldwork in Egypt, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Colombia, Panama, and throughout North America. Together with Carlos Jaramillo, Jonathan led collecting expeditions to the Cerrejon coal mine, where multiple new species were discovered, including the world's largest snake, Titanoboa.
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Also Present:
Mr. Daniel Guimond, Mr.=
Viger, Mr. John Lavallee, Mr. Robert Sherman, Mr. Gregory Farris, Ms.
Town Administrator Tom = Gaydos, Forestry Committee: Deborah Waters, Paul Gagnon and Gayle Plouffe
Mr. Larry Hall, Mr. Ken= Dunne
Fire Station – The amount to be raised is TBD. Mr. Gaydos noted that a super majo= rity (60%) vote would be needed for the article to pass. He said the price was being held u= p for now; the Selectmen had asked that a number of aspects of the station be reviewed. They were also look= ing to have a guaranteed maximum price by the contractor.
Mr. Lavallee asked how th= e Board was expected to vote if there was no price. Mr. Gaydos said he was getting the= price as fast as he could. Mr. Glea= son said the Selectmen had asked Mr. Gaydos to look at the pricing and several variations; they weren't prepared to commit to the $3.9 million. He believed they would come back p= rior to reconsideration; the article was a place holder to let the Board know th= ey would be coming forward with something.&nb= sp; Mr. Viger hoped to vote on the article prior to reconsideration. He asked if the design had changed= . Mr. Gaydos replied that the design= may change in a few minor areas and summarized what those changes would be. Mr. Viger said they had known abou= t the station since March and questioned why they didn't have a number befo= re now. Mr. Gaydos stated that t= hey would be provided with a guaranteed maximum price. He said Trident Corp. was working = with the architect and engineer who were getting together with the builders, Eck= man Construction; the price would be coming from Eckman.
Mr. Guimond said he couldn't vote on something without a dollar figure.
Tallant Road / Willow Street Capital Reserve Fund - $100,000 for the Willow Street Bridge replacement identified by the state as being substandard and eligible for 8= 0% grant reimbursement. The fund currently has approximately $124,000. Mr. Gaydos explained that the bridge had been deteriorating over the years. The Planning Director = was working with the state to get on an expedited plan that would be four or fi= ve years from now. The Town will= need approximately $400,000-$500,000.
Mr. Ducharme asked if the= re was any way the state could pull the 80% away. Mr. Gaydos said the bridge m= oney was based on gas taxes, so the state was committed to it.
Ms. Diack asked if the br= idge was currently on the state's ten year plan. Mr. Gaydos answered no.
There was further discuss= ion regarding the actions being taken to try to get the bridge on the stateR= 17;s list and the importance of having funding in place.
Highway Block Grant - $281,000 to be raised and offset by state grant for the repair, maintenance and upgrading of Town roads. No money to be raised by taxation.= Mr. Gaydos said the final figure w= ould probably be received in December. = span>
Forest Maintenance Fund – raise $45,000 for forest maintenance and stewardship. = The funds are produced from forest harvesting, not property taxes. Ms. Deb Waters presented the warra= nt article. She said the program= they were working on would make the care and maintenance of the Town forest land= and conservation areas self sustaining and self funded. The Forestry Committee has a long-= range plan for Town and conservation land, which Ms. Waters and Mr. Gagnon outlined.
Mr. Guimond asked that a =
copy of
the forestry budget be forwarded to the Board. He asked for the current balance o=
f the
account. Ms. Waters said ther=
e was
$159,000 in the account (as of
Mr. Lavallee questioned w= hat type of work could be done with $25,000 for maintenance. Mr. Waters said the amount was an estimate (for three areas); they needed to a survey, blaze the boundaries a= nd do site work. Mr. Lavallee as= ked if there was a plan for what the revenues would be. Ms. Waters answered yes; they beli= eved the revenues over a ten year period would break even. Mr. Lavallee asked what was encumb= ered in the $19,000 (spent/voted) for 2010.&nbs= p; Ms. Waters said they would provide the Board with their projected bu= dget and the amount that had been spent.
Mr. Viger asked what rema=
ined in
the bond authorized a few years ago.
Mr. Gagnon stated there was approximately $1.65 million remaining.
He noted there was also approximat=
$380,000 in the current use fund.
Mr. Viger asked if there was a time limit on the bond. Mr. Gagnon answered no. Mr. Viger questioned if there were=
parcels they were interested in purchasing within the next year. Mr. Gagnon answered yes.
Mr. Farris asked if they = were reviewing buildable properties. Mr. Gagnon said there was a property being reviewed now that had an appraisal indicating it was not buildable. He said it was hard for him to comment at this time because he didn't ha= ve a purchase and sales agreement. Mr. Farris recalled when the warrant was presented to the Town the idea was to acquire properties that would normally be built as houses. Mr. Gagnon said that was correct.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Mr. Farris said some of the things purchased seemed to not be buildable. Mr. Gagnon commented that the buildable land cost more. He discussed some of the properties purchased and noted he had a chart indicating how many (house) lots had been proposed for each, the percen= t of wetlands and what was paid per acre. He provided a copy of the chart and will e-mail a copy to the Board.= Mr. Gagnon mentioned the firs= t time around it was expensive to open the properties up and harvest them, but once the logging yards and roads were put in, the second time around should be m= ore revenue and less expense.
School Resource Officer - $39,815 to hire/equip a School Resour= ce Officer from July – December 2011, after which the position, if appro= ved, would be funded through the Police Department Operating Budget. If the article is passed, the Poli= ce Operating Budget will be reduced by $5365 eliminating the DARE Officer.
Mr. Gaydos commented that= the article narrowly lost last year. He said the Police Chief and the Selectmen believed it was a worthy project and was needed in Town. During the summer the officer continued to work with young people and would fill in shifts; it was a year-round position.
Mr. Guimond asked if the = expenses could be shared with the School Department. Mr. Gaydos said because of the nat= ure of the job, the School Resource Officer would need to report to the Police Chief.
Mr. Lavallee asked for clarification/breakdown of the requested amount. Mr. Gaydos explained how the money= would be broken out. Next year the = total cost would be approximately $73,000. Mr. Lavallee asked if the School had requested the position. Mr. Gaydos said the School was in = favor of the officer. Mr. Ducharme = said the School was in favor of the position, but had not requested it. Mr. Viger pointed out that a perce= ntage of the requested figure represented non-recurring costs.
Mr. Viger asked what the = $5365 represented that would come out of the budget if the School Resource Officer was approved. Mr. Gaydos stat= ed the amount was for the DARE program, a substitute for the School Resource Offic= er, and would come out if the School Resource Officer was approved. The Police Chief convinced the Sel= ectmen of the fact that the School Resource Officer was far more effective than the DARE program.
Mr. Farris understood tha= t the School Resource Officer may be pulled to cover shifts in the summer and questioned if the same would happen during the school year. Mr. Gaydos said it would be at the Police Chief's discretion. &nbs= p; He believed there were times during the school year that the officer could be pulled, such as during school vacation. He commented that their primary fu= nction was to work in the schools and to maintain a relationship with the young pe= ople when school was not in session.
Compensated Absence Fund - $100,0= 00 to be placed in a Compensated Absence Trust Fund. The money shall come from the year= end unreserved fund balance and have no impact on tax rate. Mr. Gaydos said the article was at= the recommendation of the Selectmen and Budget Committee to start allocating mo= ney back into the fund. Mr. Guimo= nd asked what the present liability was. Mr. Gaydos said it was approximately $800,000. Mr. Guimond asked for the fundR= 17;s balance. Mr. Gaydos said ther= e was approximately $61,000.
Mr. Viger asked if verbia= ge could be added to indicate that the money would go against the $800,000 shortfall. Mr. Gaydos said it= could be done; the liability of $800,000 could be added.
Muldoon Second Egress - $130,000 to construct a second egress f=
Mr. Farris questioned if = parking would be allowed on the new road. Mr. Gleason said it would only be 20ft. wide. Mr. Gaydos said the road would not= be for parking.
Mr. Lavallee asked how the
traffic pattern would be designed, such as to enter from
In looking at the plan, M= r. Viger asked where the playground equipment was located. Mr. Gaydos described the location o= f the playground. Mr. Gleason provi= ded further clarification.
The Board concluded their= review of the proposed warrant articles. = span>
There was a brief discuss= ion regarding the upcoming schedule.
(Lavallee/Sher= man) To adjourn the meeting.
(8-0-0) The motion carried.
The meeting was adjourned at approximately .
= &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = Respectfully submitted,
= &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = Charity A. Landry Willis
= &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = Recording Secretary = p>
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Don White of Troy Elementary District 30-C in Plainfield was named Friday as the new superintendent for Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181.
White was presented with a three-year contract at a base salary of $232,500 and begins work May 27 in District 181.
White was chosen from a field of 43 applicants, six of whom were interviewed by the District 181 Board. White was recruited for the position. The district used the services of professional search firm BWP & Associates in the process of finding a replacement for Schuster.
"We had great candidates; it was a very tough decision," board President Marty Turek said. "There are three who quickly rose to the top."
Turek said White had all the qualities the board was seeking, and more experience than some other candidates.
"He has great leadership skills and great knowledge of curriculum and technology," Turek said. "He's a guy of action. He's a great communicator and a great listener, and he gets input from all of the stakeholders."
In addition with being impressed with District 181 itself, White said he was drawn here because of good things within the community.
"There's a key interest in making the schools the best they could be," he said.
White said his first priority as superintendent would be to fill positions being vacated with the resignations of Kevin Russell, assistant superintendent of learning, and Doug Eccarius, assistant superintendent of human resources, both of whom are leaving June 30.
He also is aware of the building issues at Hinsdale Middle School, which has had mold and roof problems.
"I want to make sure we're doing what needs to be done with all of the facilities in the district," White said.
An administrator in Illinois schools since 1991, White has held several education leadership positions. He has worked since July 2007 at Troy District 30-C, a district with seven schools and about 4,500 students. He previously worked as superintendent for Pekin Elementary District 108 and Pleasant Plains Unit School District 8.
He also has experience as an administrator and teacher in Champaign Unit District 4, LeRoy Unit District 2, Dwight Elementary District 3, and Mahomet-Seymour Unit District 3.
"I have had the opportunity to work with many teachers and principals, and together we have been able to impact the learning process for children, right in the classroom," he said.
White said he enjoyed the interview process in District 181.
"I felt a connection to the district and was made very comfortable in conversations with the board and other district leaders," he said. "It was also clear that my core values were a good match to the board and the organization as a whole."
White holds a doctorate from Illinois State University with a superintendent's endorsement, a master of education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a bachelor of science in education from Western Illinois University.
He has served in a number of service and community organizations, including chambers of commerce, Kiwanis and the United Way of Will County. He has held leadership roles in many professional organizations, such as the Illinois Association of School Administrators, where he has served as a mentor, a professional development committee representative, and chair facilitator of the School for Advanced Leadership.
Among other honors and awards, White earned the Illinois Association of School Administrators Service to Education Award in 2007 and 2012.
White has been married for 32 years to Lori, a registered nurse. They have two grown children, one grandson, and a second grandchild due in June.
He will replace Renee Schuster, who announced her resignation Feb. 10. Schuster is stepping down June 30 to return to the St. Louis area, where she has family. Schuster began work as superintendent in District 181 July 1, 2010.


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