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"Brown-Eyed Girl" Learns The Beat
by Paul Bass | Oct 23, 2009 11:37 am
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Posted to: The Hill, Cop of the Week
The sun was setting the other night as "Messy" rode by Congress Market on his bike. Officer Manmeet Bhagtana yelled hello.
Messy, who's 17 and in trouble with the law a lot, can't say Bhagtana's name.
Messy does know her. He waved hello, then turned the corner.
Most people Bhagtana (pictured) runs into on the beat in the Hill neighborhood either don't know or can't remember her name.
The kids on the street call her "Brown-Eyed Girl. Or they call her and her partner, Officer Mary Helland, "the two girl cops." As in: "There go the two girl cops."
Bhagtana doesn't mind. As long as they respect her—and talk with her. Whether or not (or especially if) they're in trouble. In turn, she makes sure to learn their names, their nicknames, where they hang out, even how they walk.
"As long as they recognize we're here, that's all that matters," Bhagtana said.
She has been learning about that, about how to become a trusted and respected neighborhood presence, on the 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. shift in the Hill North district. That's prime time for shootings and domestic disturbances.
Bhagtana, a 23-year-old Mumbai native who moved with her family to Queens when she was 10, worked her way through University of New Haven in order to study criminal justice. (She watched a lot of Law and Order growing up.) She graduated from the police academy last December.
Since the spring she has been assigned to the Hill, learning the ropes of community policing under the general tutelage of district manager Lt. Holly Wasilewski.
"Seeing [a woman] in a position like that, it challenges me," Bhagtana said. "It motivates me to be in a position like hers one day."
Bhagtana is learning those community policing lessons more immediately while walking the beat with partner Helland, a five-year veteran of the force. They're the New Haven force's only two-female patrol team. "We're like sisters," they said.
One of the first lessons came this May, during one of Bhagtana's first rounds with Helland. The lesson involved Messy.
"Pray For Me"
All that Bhagtana knew at first was that a teenaged boy had been shot on Howard Avenue. She and Helland (at right in photo) went to Yale-New Haven to see him.
Bhagtana watched as Messy, in obvious pain, greeted Helland.
"Come here Helland," Messy said.
"Can you pray for me, Helland?" he said. "It hurts so bad. I just want you to know."
Someone had shot Messy in the shoulder. Although he'd turn out fine, at the moment the pain was excruciating.
It turned out that Helland knew Messy so well because she'd been arresting him since he was 14.
"This kid just got shot, and he saying that to her. I'm watching him. He actually held her hand," Bhagtana recalled in a conversation this week near the substation at Congress and Hallock.
That was no isolated encounter, Bhagtana learned. Helland seemed to know everyone. People seemed to trust her, even if she'd arrested them.
Officer Helland (at right in photo) said she "never thought I'd have a relationship with these kids" when she was first assigned to a walking beat on Stevens Street five years ago. Helland is 31. A third-generation Fair Havener (her grandfather attended Strong School), she originally thought she'd become a nurse. She became a cop instead.
You get to know people better based on how you approach them, Helland said. "It doesn't have to be yelling and pulling out your nightstick."
She discovered that many kids want adults, including cops, to pay attention to them, even if that attention involves confronting them for doing wrong.
She got to know the kids partly by taking them out of town. For four summers she along with other officers brought dozens of "at risk" Hill teens to Camp Rell for a week of camping out, mile runs, sit ups, competitions, leading up to an awards ceremony with the National Guard. (The program was canceled this year due to the state budget crunch.)
Bhagtana watched another one of Helland's relationships help defuse a family dispute one night earlier this month. A woman called them to Hallock Street to report her 16 year-old daughter missing. She and the daughter had been arguing. The girl was pregnant. Mom wanted her to have an abortion. The girl didn't want to.
Helland knows the girl's father, BJ. He lives across town in Newhallville.
The people in that household, including BJ, get in trouble with the law. Bhagtana and Helland drove there. Bhagtana didn't know if BJ and his household would cooperate, let alone open the door.
The cops were welcomed inside. The daughter was there.
"I saw how [Helland] was relating to them," Bhagtana recalled. "They could have refused entry to the house."
Inside, Helland discussed the situation with the family. The girl said she couldn't productively speak one-on-one with her mother. Helland suggested that the two set up a meeting with a neutral third party. She referred them to a school-based counselor.
"I tell them, 'Today's today,'" Helland said of her approach to people like BJ or Messy when she arrests them. "'Tomorrow's another day, a clean slate.'"
Car Radar
Bhagtana also noticed how Helland gets to know not just the people, but the cars they drive—down to the license plates. When a plate number came over the radio, Helland sometimes recognize whose car it belongs to, and where to find it.
On the overnight shift, productive cases can begin with keeping tabs on cars. One night in June Helland and Bhagtana noticed the driver of a Honda with tinted windows cutting off another driver at Kossuth and Congress. The officers tried to stop the Honda. The driver refused to stop. A chase ensued.
Bhagtana was behind the wheel. She'd never chased a driver before.
"It was nerve-wracking," she recalled. She was thinking, "Oh gosh, I hope I don't crash!"
Fortunately, the driver was fleeing, but not speeding. The driver braked a lot, then starting back up.
Finally the Honda stopped at the intersection of Frank and Lines.
"We thought they were going to bail out of the car and start running different ways," Bhagtana recalled. She and Helland hurried to the Honda. They pulled three men out; the men didn't resist. Then Helland checked the car—and found a .32 caliber Beretta.
It turned out the gun had been used in five shootings in the Hill. And it turned out the gun wasn't registered to any of the men in the car. It was registered to a Waterbury police sergeant. After a subsequent investigation police arrested the man for alleged illegal transfers of guns and stockpiling weapons and explosives in his Westville home. (The sergeant has pleaded not guilty to the charges.)
Continuing Ed
Although out of the academy for almost a year, Bhagtana is still in some respects in school as she picks up tips from her more experienced colleagues.
"She wants to learn. She'll ask you a lot of questions," Lt. Wasilewski said. "It's refreshing. She really wants to work out here and do her job."
Hill South cops organize community events like cook-outs and, at summer's end, a giveaway of backpacks filled with school supplies. Wasilewski doesn't have to encourage Bhagtana to take part on her after-work hours. Instead, she recently had to tell Bhagtana it was OK to miss one event. "I told her, 'There'll be other events.'" A Halloween party's coming up.
Helland said Bhagtana picks up on lessons quick. One recent day a man walking down Congress Avenue spotted "the two girl cops." He slipped his hood over his head so they couldn't see his face.
"That's Digler," Baghtana told Helland. "I can tell by the way he walks."
The man was wanted for violating probation. They proceeded to place him into custody.
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posted by: New_Haven_Resident on October 23, 2009 12:43pm
For four summers she along with other officers brought dozens of �at risk� Hill teens to Camp Rell for a week of camping out, mile runs, sit ups, competitions, leading up to an awards ceremony with the National Guard. (The program was canceled this year due to the state budget crunch.)
Is sad that the city or state canceled this program, that will help our youth. Where are they getting the money from, to put nice pretty flowers around the Yale area and downtown area. Also the lights on the christmas tree that we just got yesterday. These kids are our future we are talking about. Then they wonder why there are so many kids getting hurt or shot.
posted by: Whoa on October 23, 2009 1:14pm
Whoa, where do they find these cops? She is beautiful! I wouldn't mind being arrested by her…
posted by: kamb on October 23, 2009 10:32pm
Great article. Keep up the good work.
And to NEW HAVEN RESIDENT, save your nonsense for another thread. The kids don't get to go to Camp Rell, beuause we're all feeling the pain of the ressesion, and some things have to get cut. Now these kids are going to go out and 'get shot' you say?! Stop. There's other things they can do while our tax dollars get reallocated.
posted by: leslie on October 24, 2009 2:08pm
you say it well new_haven_resident. how dare we celebrate holidays when whats necessary is forgotten. this camp was important for building relationships. luckily the hill has officer bhagtana. beautiful picture paul. but i would have edited that second part of "whoa's" comment. cmon whoa, its time we moved past your offensive objectification of women.
posted by: streever on October 24, 2009 7:27pm
Officer Bhagtana, thank you! An excellent example of community policing: I'm proud to hear about your work & see you on here. This is an excellent cop of the week piece.
Thanks NHI, and NHPD.
posted by: streever on October 24, 2009 9:01pm
Leslie: I was as OK with that comment as I was with the dozen or so comments about Lt Velleca & the male officer the week after. I don't think it's particularly harmful, although I do find the comments silly. The even-nature of it makes me feel like it might be OK.
[Editor's note: Thanks Streever & Leslie, for raising this debate. I did struggle with whether to run that comment and wasn't sure whether to post it. We did choose not to run several comment submitted for both stories that were more graphic and objectifying…]
posted by: nfjanette on October 26, 2009 12:26pm
Judging by her proven professional competence, officer Bhagtana would seem to be perfectly capable of deciding how she wishes to appear in public and how to deal with the reaction of people. If dealing with comments on the web about her appearance are the toughest challenge rather than a car chase or fighting with a suspect, I expect she would call it a good day indeed. Of course, I would not put it past some people to bicycle on the sidewalk or down the street against traffic or to jaywalk within her sight in hopes of a stern reprimand.


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12:30 P.M. – It's a cold day in Pittsburgh and I got stuck on 79 this morning behind a tractor trailer. The fans are filing into the arena and the teams are just now taking the ice for the pre-game skate.
12:31 P.M. Brooks Orpik is a game time decision today, but he is on the ice for the pre-game skate. Always an encouraging sign. Theissen is the backup for Fleury tonight.
12:49 P.M. Warm-ups are over and we're 15 minutes away from the opening festivities here. Hopefully, some of you Pens fans got a chance to watch Joe Morrow and Dominik Uher on ROOT sports last night. Uher scored a fantastic goal for Spokane and Joe Morrow's skating was on display all night long. We also got a chance to take a look at 2012 prospect Derrick Pouliot.
1:02 P.M. Lights are out and we're getting ready to roll. Scratches today for the Penguins are Ben Lovejoy, Dustin Jeffrey, and Brent Johnson. For Tampa, Ryan Shannon is out of the lineup as well.
Tampa starting off with Eric Brewer, Brendan Mikkelson, Nate Thompson, Steven Stamkos, and Ryan Malone.
Pens answer with Zbynek Michalek, Brooks Orpik, Chris Kunitz, James Neal, and Evgeni Malkin.
1:04 P.M. Anthems starting now. Remember folks, Fleury has been very good in games following a shutout performance.
19:44 1st Geno kicks this one off and is held through the neutral zone with no call. Early goings looks like Malkin has the wheels ready to roll.
19:21 1st It's always interesting to watch Victor Hedman on the ice. The young power Swede has yet to really develop into what Tampa thought he might become when they drafted him.
17:10 Roloson played Staal's broken stick right into the boards to disrput the Penguins flow. No change in system for Bylsma, puck gets deep, two forwards get on it.
15:31 Pens kil off an early Tampa power-play. The Lightning never got the puck fully set up thanks in part to Pascal Dupuis and his no-nonsense approach to penalty killing. Cooke, Staal, and Dupuis all have 2 shorthanded goals this year.
13:07 1st Paul Martin with a partial breakaway on Dwayne Roloson, can't finish the play. Lots of neutral zone jousting for these teams, as to be expected with Tampa's systematic approach to defensive play.
10:40 1st Unbelievable sprawling save by Fleury on Tampa's best chance of the game. Not a lot of action from the Lightning other than that. SHots are 5 to 3 in favor of the Penguins.
9:56 1st Tampa still utilizing the 1-3-1 trap in the neutral zone. The Penguins have really come with speed on their dump-in's to put pressure on the away team's puck retrieval.
8:51 1st – PENGUINS GOAL!!!! Roloson takes a defeated looking skate after Kunitz takes a pass from Geno from the low left circle that sailed high and handcuffed Roloson. Sneaky shot by Kunitz for his 17th of the season. The Malkin line's big wheels keep on rolling. Malkin and Neal on the assists.
8:01 1st – PENGUINS GOAL!!!! Before I can even finish typing about the last play. Matt Cooke notches another tally for the Pens. The puck deflected on net and bounced. Cookie found it and battled it home in the front of the cage. No Tampa defenseman was anywhere to be found. 2-0 Penguins!
5:20 1st- PENGUINS GOAL!!!! Shorthanded tally by Jordan Staal! 3-0 Penguins. 20th goal for Staal. Hedman misplayed the puck at the point and the linesman interfered with Hedman getting back to Staal. Staal skated in with speed and beat Roloson 5 hole on a subtle wrister. The linesman, Jay Sharrers, was really catching hell from the Tampa bench and players.
3:15 1st Color me a fan of Michalek/Niskanen on the same pairing. They can both skate, and their on-ice communication seems excellent. Even at 9 shots a piece right now. Roloson's save percentage is taking a beating.
.32 1st After some sustained pressure by the Pens and a near goal by Dupuis, Tampa charges the net and Fleury again sprawls out to make a 10 Bell save. The net is dislodged and we have a faceoff to Fleury's left. The Penguins netminder really seems focused again today.
End of the first period. Penguins lead Tampa 3-0. Shots are 9-11 in favor of the Lightning
20:00 2nd The second period is underway here inside CONSOL energy center. The Penguins are looking to maintain their 3-0 lead as this game progresses. Look for the offense to get the puck deep and play 60% of their game in the Tampa zone!
15:43 2nd First Fleury chant of the night starts up. Tampa has been pouring it on here. The Pens do not have a shot this period and Tampa has made Fleury stay strong in the cage.
14:09 2nd Engelland just dropped them with Mike Angelidis. Give the decision to #5 in black.
13:53 2nd St. Louis just stopped on a breakaway by Fleury.
11:37 2nd Geno takes the puck HARD to the net all the way from the point. Crashes into Roloson. Hedman retaliates. Craig Adams comes in and starts throwing shoulders around. All 5 players from both teams in a scrum. Fans going berzerk. Geno had to be restrained by the officials.
Even up calls. Even though the Tampa infractions were a bit more egregious. And in front of the head of officiating, Stephen Walkom.
11:06 2nd There's your even up call. Penguins going on the power-play. 4 on 3 advantage here.
9:49 2nd – PENGUINS GOAL!!!! Neal made a fantastic play in his own zone, shot the puck up the wall to Sullivan, who had a beautiful give-and-go with Jordan Staal to give him his 2nd goal of the night. 4-0 Penguins.
8:37 2nd Fleury chants erupt again as MAF robs Tampa in tight once again. Seems like the Penguin netminder doesn't have an issue with all the starts he's been getting.
6:44 2nd Worth mentioning Joe Vitale's name today. The guy never stops working hard. Shots are currently 18-21 favoring Tampa. Roloson's numbers haven't gotten any better, but it looks like Tampa is about to go on the power-play as I type this.
3:57 2nd – PENGUINS GOAL!!!! EVGENI MALKIN! What a SNIPE!!! From all the way on the right circle along the boards, Malkin shoots and beats Roloson at a very bizarre angle! 24th goal for Geno. Assisted by Kunitz and Engelland. 5-0 Penguins!
2:59 2nd Joe Vitale suckers Mikkelsson into a fight. Vitale had a penalty coming, the Lightning were on the run, and Vitale suckered him into a fight to get a whistle and take a Tampa defenseman off the ice with him for 5 minutes.
2:32 2nd The shutout is over for Fleury. Teddy Purcell scores on a net-front scrum. 5-1 Pittsburgh.
00:00 2nd A little controversy as the period ends here. Tampa on the power-play, shot from the slot clearly hits the post, Martin St. Louis begins to slam his stick off the ice and scream at the officials. Reviewed, clearly no goal, 2nd period is over.
End of the second period. 5-1 Pittsburgh. Shots are 21-25 in favor of Tampa.
20:00 3rd Getting ready to start the 3rd period here. Tempers are high. Tampa is fired up. The Penguins need to remain on the offensive here.
15:52 3rd Lots of back and forth here. Staal and Geno got to kill the end of a penalty together and looked great in the process. Pens maintaining some possession on the Lightning right now. Shots are 24-28 Tampa.
14:10 3rd JUST PUT A #66 ON THE BACK OF HIS JERSEY. CEC breaks out in an MVP chant for the first time. Evgeni Malkin just deked through the entire Tampa 1-3-1 and beat Roloson like a rented mule. That MIGHT be the best goal I have ever seen Geno score in his career.
9:19 3rd The score remains 6-1 Pittsburgh. The arena is still buzzing here about Geno's goal. Geno took the puck in the neutral zone in the face of the full Tampa 1-3-1. He skated in, deked the entire team, and undressed Roloson a la Lemieux/Casey. REally just an amazing job by the current NHL points leader.
As I type this, Cotton Eye Joe is cued up in the CEC. The Penguins victory song.
6:18 3rd Here come the hats. Geno scores from the front of the net and completes the hat trick. His 36th goal of the year. 9th career hat trick. Methinks the NHL's leading scorer wanted to show Steven Stamkos a thing or two about leading the pack. Just an amazing night for Geno. Really a career game.
5:43 3rd MVP chants continue in the CEC. Evgeni Malkin's performance has everyone in a good mood here. 7-1 is the score and Malkin has 4 points on the night. Really just an astounding performance from the best player in the world right now.
2:26 3rd It's amazing to me that Roloson has remained in net for the Lightning this entire time. Really got shelled today. Tampa has a lot of problems heading into the playoff race, goaltending being one of them.
The game clock is expiring as we speak. Fleury makes one final save with 11.5 seconds remaining. His 31st of the night.
Who do you make 1st star here, Geno or Fleury?
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I rec'd some bulbs of rain lilies and I have no idea what their care/culture is. Anybody out there grow them? What is your opinion? Are they worthwhile in a mixed border?
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Their care and culture is pretty much zilch, at least here in zone 8 with alkaline soil. Please exuse any typos, my cat is in my lap and biting/nudging/purring mewhile I type. Here, outside of Austin, they do really well. We have alkaline soil and not a lot of rain. Since you are in zone 9 I am suspecting you get a lot of moisture? If so, put them in a dry area and forget about them. Maybe someone else from down there has a different approach? |
And, yes, they are worth while. In my opinion because they are natives and bloom. But, I think, they are nice tucked in between other perennials here and there, close to a walk or drive. Any further out and they are lost. IMO |
I have received some through our garden club plant exchanges. I have some of the white ones and also some of the pink. They have been in the garden for a year now and I'm still waiting for them to bloom. They're in full sun too. |
- Posted by prairiepaintbrush RedOak, TX z7/8 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 30, 07 at 21:50
I love the way rain lillies smell! Can't imagine what you'd need to do to them. Maybe they don't like so much water, since they are native. |
- Posted by jardineratx 9tx (My Page) on Mon, Apr 30, 07 at 22:02
I have planted them in a small narrow area, along with my freesias. Are they spring, summer or fall bloomers or do they bloom sporadically throughout the year? |
- Posted by maden_theshade 8 - Austin (My Page) on Mon, Apr 30, 07 at 22:42
I've never tried the zephrantes, but have the Cooperia and those only bloom after a rain. Only rain, not just a watering. Mine bloom all year. Most rain lilies are native to Mexico, so I wouldn't think you'd have any trouble with them in Texas. I keep mine in the H* strip, else they'd accidentally get mowed. I think tucking them amongst other plants is a great way to use them. They will bloom sporadically throughout the year, so having them mixed in makes for nice surprise displays! Saw this 'how-to' page on them...might be helpful to you: |
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I had some that I bought, probably as the little 4" pots. It was a year or two before they bloomed, but they sure were nice. |
- Posted by jeanne_texas Z 8B TX (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Wed, May 2, 07 at 10:47
I have tons of them..they are in morning sun afternoon shade and as the name implies..they bloom after a rain...because they like a moist area..I bought all of mine from Yuccado Nursery...mine have multiplied like crazy....Jeanne |
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- Posted by jardineratx 9tx (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 07 at 10:55
Jeanne, I'm very familiar with Yuccado...I don't live far and have gone to their spring sales. As a matter of fact, I bought some white bletilla (ground orchid) and toadlilies from them. I didn't think to look at their website for growing info on the zephranthes. I think I have them in good locations now. Thanks. Molly |
- Posted by new_in_texas 7 (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 07 at 11:02
What about from seed? I collected a bunch last year and I'm not sure what I should do with them, if anything. |
- Posted by jeanne_texas Z 8B TX (email@example.com) on Wed, May 2, 07 at 13:51
New-in-Texas...I saved alot of my rainlily seeds as well and what I didn't trade I just scattered back into my gardens..plant those little jewels...Jeanne |
- Posted by maden_theshade 8 - Austin (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 07 at 23:02
If these are the little papery black seeds, just throw them on the ground or in the grass and water them in. They don't need to be deep to sprout. Maybe 1/4" tops. |
I have heard these are poisonous to animals (dogs). I just bought some pink and white ones, but I will have to be careful and keep them in the front away from my pups. I have one dog who tries to eat everything in site and he is an aussie showdog. thanks |
- Posted by violet_kelly TX 8 B/CS (My Page) on Tue, Jun 26, 07 at 8:42
Has anyone seen yellow rainlillies? Because of all the rain, they are sprouting like crazy here in College Station. They are a really pretty golden yellow with some reddish orange tinges around the edges. So pretty! :) |
- Posted by west_texas_peg z7b TX (My Page) on Wed, Jun 27, 07 at 9:04
I have Zephyranthes drummondii (white, has outdown itself this spring with all the rain!), Zephyranthes grandiflora (pink), Zephyranthes citrina (yellow), Zephyranthes candida (white), Zephyranthes Peach Rain Lily, Zephyranthes atamasco, Habranthus robustus, and some they just called 'pink rain lily' when we swapped, just received a new one that is white with a tinge of pink and Fall bloomers are Sternbergia lutea (Southern Fall Crocus) and Rhodophiala bifida (Oxblood Lily) blooms around September. I collect the seeds and have hundreds of little Z. drummondii and dozens of little citrina plants. I use the rain lilies to edge my beds, that way I don't dig into them accidentally when they are dormant. Love these little jewels, |
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I moved into a house with a landscaped front yard which includes 5 large variegated red twig dogwood shrubs. They are about 8 feet tall. I'd like to know how much I can prune them back-I've heard everything from pruning them back to the ground to promote new growth to pruning them down to 2/3rds of their present height. I'd like to keep the shape, just shorten them a few feet! I've already pruned the dead/some older brances to the ground. Any suggestions would be great!! |
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Typically, these are left unpruned unless you want to encourage newer, more intensely colored stem growth. This can be achieved by a couple of methods: stooling or cutting back the entire plant to a predetermined - usually low to the ground - height. The second method involves removing the oldest stems each season to encourage new, replacement growth from the base. Obviously, the second method leaves most of the plant intact. You can reduce overall size by performing a modified version of the first method - cutting back the entire plant to a predetermined height of your choice. Follow proper pruning techniques (i.e., no stubs). Regrowth is fairly rapid so if you want to keep the shrubs at less than the 8-10' they typically want to grow to, you will have to repeat this process each season. |
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 30, 11 at 12:23
check out the link a shrub is a shrub .... and part of the definition.. IN MY WORLD ... is that they are all pruned thru renovation pruning ... sooo .. as such it is not important to find an article specifically addressing RTD .... as gal noted.. hack it to the ground if its bugging you .. if you want to maintain some shape.. remove 1/3 for 3 years down at the ground ... NEVER.. top it at height.. or in a few years.. you will HAVE TO cut it all to the ground ... imagine your same plant .. 6 feet taller at the height you cut it back to ... that sounds more like a recommendation of some guy who wants to come back in few years for his boat payment ... whatever you decide to do.. i doubt you will harm it.. you can barely kill them if you want.. so just go for it ... good luck ken |
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The Fall 2011 season brought out many highlights for each select team, here's a list of the most notable for each team!
U11 Boys
-Increased interest and ability to share and circulate the ball multiple times on the ground
-Increased technical proficiencies in finishing, striking a ball over distance, passing on the ground and collecting balls out of the air
-Greater understanding of what good soccer looks like
-Playing against each other in tournament final
-Two first place finishes out of three tournaments
U11 Girls
-Increased interest and ability to share and circulate the ball multiple times on the ground away from pressure
-Increased technical proficiencies in dribbling, shooting, passing on the ground and collecting balls on the ground
-Greater understanding of what good soccer looks like
-Playing in tournament finals for two consecutive tournaments
U12 Boys
-Champion- JUSC Invitational
-Increased the technical abilities of the individual player in passing, receiving, finishing, turning and taking players on.
-Increased tactical understanding in playing different positions and the role that each position requires
-Gained insight as a squad of playing "soccer"; connecting, dynamic and possession oriented soccer
-Developing a strong technical base that enables individual success in the game
-More than competitive in league play, won far more than tied and lost.
-Players faced adversity with a fighting spirit
U12 Girls
-Competitive in the three 8v8 tournaments (two first places and one second place)
-Competitive in IPSL league matches vs U12G and U12B teams
-Improved individual and team ability to circulate ball in order to keep possession and open opposition defenses
-Improved ability to work in small groups to attack and defend
-Good practice and game attitude. Overall players come ready to practice, play and compete hard
U13 Boys
-Competitive in most of IPSL league matches
-Competitive at two last Tournaments
-Improved individual and team ability to circulate ball in order to keep possession and open opposition defenses
-Improved individual ball striking and finishing technique
-Good practice and game attitude. Overall players come ready to practice, play and compete hard.
U13 Girls
-Champion- Just For Girls Tournament
-Improved possession and ideas on how and when to get to goal
-Improved ability to organize defensive team shape quickly and efficiently
-Improved mental and physical approach to training and establishing better training habits
U14 Boys
-Finalist- NSC Fall Cup
-Finalist– Heartland Invitational Tournament
-Increased level of understanding in positioning and game strategy at an MRL level
-Increased level of passion for competition, not just passion for game
-Increased level of commitment to soccer sport specific development
-Increased number of ODP participants and pool players
U14 Girls Nike
-Increased ability to connect and keep possession with 8-10 passes, moving us from one part of the field to another
-Better understanding and implementation of high pressure defending and cues of good times for this to occur
-Ball-winning, challenging for 50-50 balls and tackling
U14 Girls Swoosh
-Improved ideas on when and how to get to goal and score
-Improving ways to manage games and finding ways to 'come back' after giving up a goal
-Improved team shape defensively especially against varying styles of attack from opposing teams
U15 Boys
-Champions- JUSC Boys Tournament
-Finalist- Halloween Havoc Soccer Tournament
-Undefeated IPSL season.
-Increased ability to make adjustments and improvements during game
-Became united as a team
U15 Girls
-Champions- St. Louis Scott Gallagher Friendlies
-Finalist- U15 Girls - Iowa State Cup
-Increased attacking urgency and willingness to push game at opponents backline to get behind and create goal scoring chances
-Increased gamesmanship and ways to hold lead, come from behind and strategize at a more mature and competitive level
-Increased speed of transition and decreased the moments players "shut-off"/ lost focus
-Much greater sense of "TEAM" and commitment to playing for teammates
U16 Girls
-Finalist- U16 Girls, Iowa State Cup
-Increased ability to recognize-in each game- valuable/dangerous spaces that was available for us as a way to get into the attack
-Improved runs off the ball to help the game and provide multiple options to the player on the ball
-Winning 4 games at the CSI Tournament with more sophistication to our system and style than any other team we played
U17 Boys
-Champions– Heartland Invitational Tournament
-Finished the season strong— 5 wins in last 6 games.
-Greater development of team leaders
-Competed strong with each and every team during fall season
U18 Girls
-Finalist- JUSC Invitational
-Won more games than lost and tied
-Continued to develop technically and tactically
-Successfully played a possession style of soccer
-Embodied a "team" aspect in playing with younger players in an older league
-Played through adversity having a limited number of players rostered and/or healthy
-Excelled in understanding of playing "soccer" rather than kick-ball
-Demonstrated the ability to play direct and indirect soccer


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One of the central issues in ecclesiology today concerns what makes an ecclesiology "adequate" or "sufficient" enough to do the perceived work that an ecclesiology is supposed to do within an encompassing theological vision. For example in With the Grain of the Universe, Stanley Hauerwas makes the following comment about Barth's ecclesiology: "If the world is not necessarily lost without the church, then it is by now means clear what difference the church makes for how we understand the way the world is and, given the way the world is, how we must live." (p. 193) This comment is related to his overall question directed towards Barth, namely "whether or not Barth's ecclesiology is sufficient to sustain the witness that he thought was intrinsic to Christianity." (p. 39)
This whole way of putting the matter raises an important question: What exactly makes an ecclesiology "sufficient"? Hauerwas's comments here imply two things. First, that ecclesiology must be able to sustain a certain form of the church's witness. Second, that the church must somehow be ontologically necessary to the world's salvation if it is to have significance. Here, I think Hauerwas leaves himself open to critique on the issue of Christology. Is his quest for an adequate ecclesiology — a vision of the church that is able to address the problems facing the church in modernity — leading him to improperly conflate the theological roles of Jesus Christ and his gathered community?
Think on the sentence from Hauerwas above. What sense does it make for us to speak of an ecclesiology being sufficient to sustain the witness of the church? Does not the church's witness rely solely on the Messiah who is the One witnessed to? Surely the church's own self-understanding and self-articulation will always be inadequate to sustain the witness to which Christians are called by the Crucified and Risen Lord who calls us to follow him, leading us where we did not wish to go. Rowan Williams offers precisely the right corrective to any vision that would too easily assimilate Jesus and his community of followers in his helpful portrayal of the Resurrected Christ who appears and disappears, who cannot be held onto, but who always lies beyond the grasp of those he calls.
The only thing that sustains our witness is the object of our witness, Jesus Christ, the ascended Lord of history. To attempt to look inward, to our own moral effort, or ways of narrating our identity as the ecclesial community for the power to sustain us in our mission, is to compromise it already. Or, to put it in Pauline idiom, "Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who made us adequate as servants. . ." (2 Cor 3:5-6a).
Whatever it means to measure what makes an adequate ecclesiology, it cannot be its conceptual resources for securing a persisting vision and identity for ourselves. Indeed the very attempt to make such visions of identity secure constitute a preeminent temptation for the church. The church is called to embrace a posture of foolish dislocation, of sojourning vulnerability that eschews attempts to find its sustenance within any resources of its own. The church is called, not to recognize the granduer of itself, of its narrative, of its gifts as the sustaining architecture of its witness. Rather the church is called to recognizes its vacuity, its fundamental emptiness, and only so to become an open vessel for the fullness of the Spirit's Pentecostal presence which engrafts us ever and again into the singularity of Christ's transformation of history in the cross and resurrection. The only way to determine ecclesiological sufficiency is on the basis of this Christocentric theological definition.


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Would Republican Dino Rossi really lower the state's minimum wage by $1.50 an hour if elected governor? That's the claim in an aggressive spate of ads from Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire's campaign. But the ads distort Rossi's comments.
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Would Republican Dino Rossi really lower the state's minimum wage by $1.50 an hour if elected governor?
That's the claim in an aggressive spate of ads from Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire's campaign, which selectively quote Rossi from a debate last month to suggest he'd pursue an across-the-board cut in the state minimum wage.
But the ads distort Rossi's comments. He was answering a question about a "stair-step training wage" for some new workers and insists he was talking only about teenagers. In his final debate with Gregoire this month, Rossi explicitly pledged not to lower the minimum wage for "any adult."
"The ads are untrue and the governor knows it," said Rossi spokeswoman Jill Strait.
Nevertheless, the ads have continued, featuring a cast of adult minimum-wage workers, including an 80-year-old man, to argue "we can't trust Dino Rossi."
Democrats insist the ads are accurate. "To me it's semantics. If you support any wage that's a dollar-fifty less than the minimum wage, you support lowering the minimum wage," said Gregoire spokesman Aaron Toso.
While he says he won't pursue a cut, Rossi does have a record of opposing increases in Washington's minimum wage — the highest in the nation — saying it hurts businesses.
And the ads are accurate when they quote Rossi saying during the debate that the minimum wage was never meant to be a "family wage."
Now $8.07 an hour, the state minimum wage will rise to $8.55 an hour in January. Voters approved an initiative in 1998 to automatically raise the wage each year to keep pace with inflation. Fourteen- and 15-year-olds can be paid 85 percent of that.
As a state lawmaker, Rossi supported a "trigger bill" that would have frozen those automatic raises when the state's unemployment rate rises above the national unemployment rate.
Rossi is also endorsed by groups, including the Washington Farm Bureau and Washington Restaurant Association, that have opposed minimum-wage increases.
The current campaign flap began during the Sept. 25 debate sponsored by the Association of Washington Business.
A Yakima theater owner asked whether Rossi or Gregoire would support "a stair-step training wage which would begin $1.50 less than the minimum wage and then ramp up from there."
Rossi noted his support for the "trigger bill" and said the rising minimum wage is hurting some businesses.
"Would I be open to some of these ideas? You bet. Especially a training wage. You think about how many young people are being cheated out of their first job. Getting the idea of going to work and fulfilling a task and being paid for it. That's a very good thing."
He added: "Minimum wage is really your first job. How many people stay at minimum wage? Not very long. It's not meant to be a family wage, it's meant to be an entry-level wage. I think it should be looked at as such."
Answering the same question, Gregoire rejected any changes to the minimum wage.
"There are plenty of folks who are in those minimum-wage jobs who have families to support, and I want to stand with them and make sure they are able to succeed in life and be able to raise their families," she said.
The person who posed the question was Kathi Mercy, whose family owns three movie theaters in Yakima.
In a phone interview this week, Mercy said her theaters employ 100 people, mostly teenagers earning minimum wage. She said she was interested in a training wage for the first 30 days or so for new teen workers, who often arrive for their first job with few skills.
"These kids come here and they don't know diddly squat," Mercy said, yet they get paid the same as other teens who have already been trained.
Mercy said the profit margins of theaters are already thin, and because of the increases in the minimum wage, she is now considering whether she can raise ticket or concession prices without losing customers. Mercy said she may have to consider layoffs or hiring fewer teens in the next year.
Even if Rossi wanted to cut the minimum wage, the Democratic majorities of the state House and Senate won't let it happen, said Anthony Anton, president of the Washington Restaurant Association, which has complained the looming increase will hurt restaurants.
"The governor's-race debate is moot," Anton said. "I would like $1 million tomorrow and no one is gonna give it to me, either. No one is going to lower the base minimum wage by $1.50."
But minimum-wage backers say they're still wary of backdoor efforts to cut the minimum wage, such as the "trigger bill" Rossi has supported.
"I think experience has shown that Washington's strong minimum wage has been a good thing for our economy," said Marilyn Watkins, policy director for the Economic Opportunity Institute, who noted that employment in restaurants has grown at a faster rate than the general economy over the last several years.
Jennifer Fulton, a married waitress with two children who earns minimum wage plus tips at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, said she was insulted by Rossi's claim the minimum wage was not a "family wage."
Even if Rossi is not proposing an across-the-board cut in the wage, Fulton said, his "training wage" idea could be dangerous.
"There is nothing stopping my boss from laying us off or firing us to get someone at a cheaper wage," she said.
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Confidence men know that their victim — "the mark" as he has been called — is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long gone.
So part of the confidence racket is creating a period of uncertainty, during which the victim is not yet sure of what is happening. This delaying process has been called "cooling out the mark."
The same principle applies in politics. When the accusations that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton first surfaced, he flatly denied them all. Then, as the months passed, the truth came out — but slowly, bit by bit. One of Clinton's own White House aides later called it "telling the truth slowly."
By the time the whole truth came out, it was called "old news," and the clever phrase now was that we should "move on."
It was a successful "cooling out" of the public, keeping them in uncertainty so long that, by the time the whole truth came out, there was no longer the same outrage as if the truth had suddenly come out all at once. Without the support of an outraged public, the impeachment of President Clinton fizzled out in the Senate.
We are currently seeing another "cooling out" process, growing out of the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11 this year.
The belated release of State Department emails shows that the Obama administration knew, while the attack on the American consulate was still underway, that it was a coordinated, armed terrorist attack. They were getting reports from those inside the consulate who were under attack, as well as surveillance pictures from a camera on an American drone overhead.
About an hour before the attack, the scene outside was calm enough for the American ambassador to accompany a Turkish official to the gates of the consulate to say goodbye. This could hardly have happened if there were protesting mobs there.
Why then did both President Obama and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice keep repeating the story that this was a spontaneous protest riot against an anti-Islamic video in America?
The White House knew the facts — but they knew that the voting public did not. And it mattered hugely whether the facts became known to the public before or after the election. What the White House needed was a process of "cooling out" the voters, keeping them distracted or in uncertainty as long as possible.
Not only did the Obama administration keep repeating the false story about an anti-Islamic video being the cause of a riot that turned violent, the man who produced that video was tracked down and arrested, creating a media distraction.
All this kept the video story front and center, with the actions and inactions of the Obama administration kept in the background.
The White House had to know that it was only a matter of time before the truth would come out. But time was what mattered, with an election close at hand. The longer they could stretch out the period of distraction and uncertainty — "cooling out" the voters — the better. Once the confidence man in the White House was reelected, it would be politically irrelevant what facts came out.
As the Obama administration's video story began to slowly unravel, their earlier misstatements were blamed on "the fog of war" that initially obscures many events. But there was no such "fog of war" in this case. The Obama administration knew what was happening while it was happening.
They didn't know all the details — and we may never know all the details — but they knew enough to know that this was no protest demonstration that got out of hand.
From the time it took office, the Obama administration has sought to suppress the very concept of a "war on terror" or the terrorists' war on us. The painful farce of calling the Fort Hood murders "workplace violence," instead of a terrorist attack in our midst, shows how far the Obama administration would go to downplay the dangers of Islamic extremist terrorism.
The killing of Osama bin Laden fed the pretense that the terrorism threat had been beaten. But the terrorists' attack in Libya exposed that fraud — and required another fraud to try to "cool out" the voters until after election day.
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...as his transgendered friends enjoy trampling the rights & morals of the rest of us:
Absolutely disgusting; welcome to Obama's America. If the vote goes his way, expect to enjoy more of this...
so complacent that we blindly accept this and move on? Now POTUS is visiting the distressed areas from Sandy and coming across as this caring and compassionate leader. Where was that caring and compassion for our people we as a government had put into harm's way? I bet POTUS gets on his knees each and every night and thanks the good Lord for Sandy--with the storm taking the attention away from the fiasco in Bengazi, Obama can come out smelling like a rose. Sad thing is there will be so many impressed about this faux caring that they will go to the polls and vote for him. Four more years of this man is scaring me to death. Why are they not bringing this whole situation to the forefront before election day? I know most of the media is biased but what about our senators and reps and other national leaders? Is there no one to speak out loud and clear for those who died needlessly?
1 Laziness
2 We are out gunned
3 Apathy
4 Laziness
We best start leaning next years baseball "pre game song"
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we had but gave away last night?
Whose broad government reach's did bring
O'er throw of our Constitution
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our Liberty was gone.
O yes , that star-spangled banner still waves
O'er the land of the apathic and the home of the slave!
All Hail Our Dear Leader His Majesty of no Failure Obama !!
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