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Before Serena Williams hits her first forehand winner or the first fans step onto the grounds of the Family Circle Tennis Center, bomb-sniffing dogs spend two hours scouring the facility for danger.
With the bombings at Monday's Boston Marathon that killed three people still fresh on their minds, local sporting officials spent much of Tuesday revisiting their security procedures.
Since moving the Family Circle Cup from Hilton Head to Daniel Island in 2001, the tennis tournament has had tight security measures in place.
This year the Women's Tennis Association added another level of security, hiring a full-time specialist to protect against attack. The Family Circle Cup was the first WTA tournament reviewed by the security specialist. Along with the bomb-sniffing dogs, the area directly in front of the Family Circle Stadium is closed to vehicles for at least a block to prevent an attack.
"The dogs would get here at 6 a.m. every morning and go through the entire facility — the clubhouse, the stadiums, the offices, everything," said Bob Moran, the tournament director. "The first thing we talked about (Tuesday) in our staff meeting was our security procedures. The guy that the WTA hired is very thorough, and he actually called us to go over everything again. We've got a very good plan in place."
Charleston Battery soccer team president Andrew Bell and RiverDogs baseball general manager Dave Echols lean heavily on the Charleston Police Department for their security during events.
The Battery and RiverDogs attract between 3,000 and 4,000 fans on any given night, and feel the security measures in place are sufficient.
"It's not something you like to think about," said Echols, whose minor league team plays at Riley Park. "You want to think that something like that couldn't happen in Charleston, but it's a precaution you have to take. We're constantly updating everything about our fan experience, including our security measures."
Officials with the Cooper River Bridge Run said they will be expanding security measures for next year's run.
The Bridge Run's safety procedures already had been increased and had evolved since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This year's Bridge Run had 31,449 participants, about 10,000 more than the Boston Marathon.
"Safety is our top priority," Julian Smith, the run's executive director, said in a prepared statement Tuesday. "We will be reviewing our security measures to ensure that we have the best possible plan in place and will make the necessary enhancements."
Local hospitals routinely train for attacks. Each year, local emergency preparedness officials test response times to different situations, including simulating fires, mass burn casualties and weapons of mass destruction.
The last bomb training came in 2006 as six fake bombs went off in Summerville — three fake bombs during a fake high school football game and three more as emergency responders arrived on the scene.
It was all part of a regional training exercise, one of the annual scenarios that first responders around the Lowcountry have practiced over the years.
The scenarios are intended to mimic real disasters, said Brian Fletcher, the disaster preparedness program manager at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Nearly 10,000 people participated in the 2006 bomb exercise, with 800 of them treated for fake casualties, he said. Hospital emergency rooms practiced lockdown mode.
It's important to practice, he said, because you never know when real disaster will strike.
"We're certainly watching the events from Boston unfold," Fletcher said.
"At first it's shock and chaos because you never really expect anything like that, but we're certainly prepared to respond to receive patients from an incident like that, at any time, 24 hours a day."
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control convenes a meeting of emergency responders around the Lowcountry once a month. In the meeting before this year's Cooper River Bridge Run, they discussed a coordinated response to a potential disaster, Fletcher said.
Each hospital also follows its own tailored emergency preparedness plan.
Hurricane Hugo, a Category 4 storm that struck the Charleston area in 1989, offered valuable emergency-management lessons, said Jerry Flury, director of emergency management at Roper St. Francis Healthcare.
"Our region is as prepared as it can be for a mass-casualty incident," she said.
Lauren Sausser contributed to this report.
"We're running to show The Citadel supports the victims and their families for what they're going through," said Austin Gray (red shirt), commander of the college's Golf Company. About 20 cadets ran downtown Tuesday, the day after deadly explosions rocked the Boston Marathon.×
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Chaz Bono and partner Lacey Schwimmer once again landed at the bottom of the leader board this week on Dancing with the Stars.
Despite the 18-point finish, there's a new incentive to keep Bono in the ballroom.
"God hope Chaz hangs on till next week so I can come sit in the audience & watch," his mom Cher Tweeted Monday.
So did the Burlesque star's post inspire people to keep Chaz on the show?
Keep reading to find out Tuesday's Dancing results ...
Pull out a chair for Cher! Chaz and partner Lacey Schwimmer were declared safe in the first round of eliminations. The two leading couples – Ricki Lake and Derek Hough, J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff – will also dance again.
The night's bottom three couples were Carson Kressley and Anna Trebunskaya, Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Kristin Cavallari and Mark Ballas.
In the surprising end, Cavallari and Ballas were sent packing.
"This is truly crazy," head judge Len Goodman said of the results, which prompted booing in the audience. "It's just madness."
"I'm a little surprised to be honest but I've had such a great time and it's been such an awesome experience," Cavallari, 24, said.
"I was really proud of Kristin," Ballas, 25, said. "She had great potential and she killed it last night. I'm honored to be her partner."
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|"Kakashi Hatake, the Hokage"
|(火影はたけカカシ, Hokage Hatake Kakashi)
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|Fourth Shinobi World War: Countdown
|Naruto Chapter #488
|July 7, 2011
|December 7, 2013
As the stone carver begins to carve Danzō's face in the Hokage Rock, he is told that Danzō is dead. Meanwhile, Kakashi takes Karin to the Konohagakure Intelligence Division to be questioned. Naruto gathers the Konoha 11 and tells them his decision to fight Sasuke alone, much to their frustration. After talking with the village's elders who agree that he should become Hokage, Kakashi wanders around Konoha, thinking about his future as a Hokage. Might Guy appears and challenges him to race. Kakashi ultimately wins the very close race and Guy congratulates him on becoming Hokage, claiming that from now on Kakashi will be too busy for their matches. However, Kakashi tells him that they will always be "eternal rivals" and that he is happy he is there, leaving Guy in tears. Later, as the Fire Daimyō is about to appoint Kakashi as the new Hokage, Guy bursts into the room and informs them that Tsunade has awoken from her coma. As the stone carver begins to carve Kakashi's head, he is once again stopped and informed that Tsunade will remain the Hokage, much to his frustration.
- In the previous episodes, Karin's clothes were torn and bloody on her back. In this episode, her clothes are clean.
- In the manga, the ninja who interrupted Kakashi's meeting with the feudal lord was not Guy, it was an unknown character not seemingly of great importance to the plot.


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Classic 19th Century Text Informs Modern Herpetology
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In the course of his work studying the reptiles and amphibians of Madagascar, Associate Curator Christopher J. Raxworthy often refers to a classic 19th-century herpetological text: Erpétologie générale, by André-Marie-Constant Duméril, of the Paris Museum of Natural History.
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12 Free (Or Almost Free) Ways to Protect the Elderly
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Many of us have elderly parent, relatives or friends who we are either directly responsible for or who we try to help out whenever possible. Keeping the elderly safe and secure doesn't have to cost a whole lot. Often, simple little fixes can go a long way towards keeping them safe, healthy and protected.
- Help them pick up their house. Falls are the number one cause of accidental death and injury for the elderly. Something as simple as removing a loose throw rug, moving an extension cord out of the way or storing piles of magazines in an out-of-the-way corner can significantly reduce senior falls.
- Make simple repairs. Broken stair risers, wobbly hand rails, the old recliner with a severe lean, or anything that could cause a slip or fall should be fixed as soon as possible.
- Make sure all safety items are in working order. Test the smoke detector and add fresh batteries if needed, make sure the fire extinguisher is fully charged, and change burned out lights in order to create the safest possible environment.
- Install grab bars if needed, especially by the toilet, bathtub and maybe the bed. These are inexpensive devices that can help prevent falls. One local program in our community provides these free of charge and even installs them!
- Review their medication with them and their doctor at least every year. Some medications can have side effects that can cause dizziness or loss of balance. Other medications can have side effects when used with certain other medications. Be sure the elderly person is aware of these possibilities. Over-medication is another problem that can be helped, in part, by sorting their medications into inexpensive daily pillboxes that are sold at drug stores.
- Encourage exercise! Studies have shown that simple strength and balance exercises can greatly lessen the possibility of falls. Senior exercise classes can be found at local park department gyms, senior centers and sometimes even at local malls. Senior exercise programs can also be found on video and on TV.
- Make sure their home is secure. Install solid door locks and a "peep hole" on the front door. Take their name off of their mailbox as shysters have been known to address the elderly person by their name found on their mailbox in order to gain entrance into their homes. Also, leave a generic message on the answering machine as opposed to the frail voice of an elderly person to discourage telemarketers.
- Encourage them to have their vision checked and install nightlights if they need to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom; the inability to see clearly is another cause of falls.
- Encourage them to keep up their social life. Research shows that a healthy social life can be a boon to senior health and longevity. Check into local senior programs, senior volunteer programs and senior activities offered by local parks departments.
- Make sure they are protected financially. This may be a touchy subject but reviewing their bills, insurance coverages, and investments is a good way to head off fraud or over-billing. One elderly lady was still paying each month to rent her phone from the local phone company, which was something that had cost a lot of money and had not been required for decades! Also, be sure to have them review their credit report, which is available free of charge on an annual basis.
- Check on them frequently with a phone call, or better yet, in person to make sure things are going well. If they are prone to falling, have them wear a medic alert device.
- Review their future plans. Discuss (obviously in a tactful way) their Will, when they should stop driving, a plan for when they will need assisted living and, if possible, their funeral plans. Talking about these sensitive issues beforehand can alleviate a lot of drama and grief at the time when these plans become necessary.
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Someone's lack of clearness or honesty in a relationship, with the purposeful orientation of confusing the partner and prompting stronger affection as well as emotional dependence in him/her.
She was into head games when she did not call me for the whole week.
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That bitch got some bangin head game.
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Psychological manipulation used to confuse and deceive people. This is a famous, generations old definition for this term, as opposed to all these silly sexual definitions that have been added.
"I spent four hours at the police station, putting up with all their head games (interrogation) until they finally let me go."
"I don't like talking to (manipulative person), he's so full of head games."
"I don't like talking to (manipulative person), he's so full of head games."
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The way to describe the style of how a female gives head.
"Aw man! Her head game is tight!"
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The way a girl gives head or a dude eats her out
My girlfriend said my head game was crazy
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givin brainsz, eatin out
"hows your head game?"
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when a person makes his/her potential sex partner to graphically describe everything about the promised sexual act, and then never talk/chat back to them.
Likely used for self stimulation in chat rooms.
Likely used for self stimulation in chat rooms.
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After taking a break last summer to work on their marriage, Michael Douglas says he and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones are "doing great."
"We're very close and everything is going great," he told Gayle King in an interview for Entertainment Tonight to promote his new movie And So It Goes.
One lesson Douglas said he has learned: "You don't take love for granted."
"Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us," he said. "And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you."
In recent weeks, the couple, who've been married for more than 13 years and have two children together, have shared the red carpet together and have been spotted out on dinner dates.
Last weekend, the couple celebrated their son Dylan's bar mitzvah. Douglas apparently had a little too much fun, telling the New York Post's Page Six at an event for producer Jerry Bruckheimer that he had injured his groin.
"I'm hurting," he said. "I got carried away at my son's bar mitzvah this weekend. You know they put you up in the chairs over the top, I think something happened there."
Michael Douglas Says He's Learned Not to Take Love for Granted
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I did it, I now have ombre hair!! Ahhhh!!! What do you guys think?! I personally love it, I'm super impressed by how easy it was and how well it turned out for an at-home job ;) If you're interested, here's how I did it! (Bear in mind that I went the opposite way, going from already blonde to ombre hair...usually people go from brunette. So this will probably only work if you're a blonde!)
1. I purchased the box hair-dye Garnier Herbashine in #600 (Light Brown). This was the closest darker colour to my natural one (dark blonde). This is a semi-permanent dye which lasts 6-8 weeks with no ammonia so it's not very damaging or bad for you :)
2. I sectioned my hair into four parts, two at the front (starting right above my ears) and two at the back.
3. Starting with the back sections, I covered all the roots in hair dye and then left it to develop for 5 minutes.
4. I then applied a little more to the upper two thirds of the hair, brushing it through from root to about 2/3 of a way down to create that gradient effect. At this point, about 1/3 of your hair should be still dry and untouched. I left that to develop for another 5 minutes.
5. Finally, I diluted the rest of the dye with some lukewarm water (shook it up a little to mix it ;) and applied that to the ends/lower third of the hair. I left this for one minute only and then jumped in the shower and washed it out! I also applied the High Shine Treatment that comes with the box dye for added silkiness :)
Here are the results!
My hair had faded from being dyed a dark blonde to this lighter shade of blonde here.
I couldn't be happier with the results!! Let me know what you think, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask either in the comments below or on Formspring/Twitter! :)
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Monica Daniels-Mika, Weld County's director of finance and administration, announced Thursday she will resign from her position with the county.
Mika, who has worked for Weld County for 20 years, will leave her position Feb. 14, according to a news release.
Mika could not be reached for comment Thursday but, according to the release, she is leaving the county to pursue a career outside of local government.
Mika started with Weld in 1993 as a county planner and worked her way up to director of planning services. She was promoted in 2007 to director of administrative services, a role which later evolved into director of finance and administration.
Jennifer Finch, spokeswoman for Weld County commissioners, said commissioners today will likely decide on a direction regarding how to fill Mika's position.
She said Mika's salary is $194,584 per year.
"The number of years Monica has spent with the county is admirable," said Weld County Commission Chairman Doug Rademacher in a statement. "She has worked closely with numerous departments on a variety of projects including the county Employee Medical Clinic and the Weld County Jail. We wish her the best in her new endeavor."


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CLEMSON — Up comes the biggest game of the season — simply because it is the next one.
WHO: Boston College (3-2, 1-1 ACC) at No. 3 Clemson (5-0, 3-0)
WHEN: Saturday, 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Memorial Stadium, Clemson
TV: ABC, ESPN2 or ESPNU
It's Dabo Swinney's philosophy (and really, the philosophy of most coaches across many sports) to focus not on the previous opponent or the one looming a couple weeks away, but the next scheduled foe.
While No. 6 Florida State (on a bye this Saturday) gets two weeks on the field to prepare for No. 3 Clemson and two weeks off the field to talk about it, the Tigers still have the formal matter of dispatching Boston College, which at 3-2 has already exceeded last year's victory total.
So, Swinney warns his players against thinking ahead to the Seminoles.
"If they do, we're gonna get beat," Swinney said on his weekly Sunday teleconference. "That's a good football team we're getting ready to play, and our mentality all year has been this is the biggest game of the year. It's no different this week."
For the second straight week and third in four games, Clemson (5-0, 3-0 ACC) faces a rebuilding program with a new head coach. Steve Addazio is similar to Syracuse's Scott Shafer with his hard-edged, tough-nosed demeanor, and his Eagles (3-2, 1-1) are undoubtedly improved from their dreadful 2012 with triumphs over Wake Forest and Army.
No, that's not the same as toppling then-No. 5 Georgia, but BC has Clemson's full attention. Or at least that of the head coach.
"We've got our hands full with Boston College. That's our only objective, is to try to get to 6-0," Swinney said, never specifically referring to Florida State in the course of his answer on the subject.
"Then we'll get ready for the next one after that, and the next one after that. If you don't stay focused on our formula and this opponent, you get beat. It's that simple. I don't anticipate that being a problem."
Home cooking on the road
Swinney noticed the packed, proud northwest corner of the Carrier Dome cheering for Clemson throughout its 49-14 drubbing of the host Orange.
"Just want to really, really thank our fans," Swinney said. "Thought we had a great contingency of Clemson folks that made a long trip up there, and I'm sure we had a lot that live up in that area that also made the effort to come. Really good to have some good support on the road like that."
This was Clemson's first football game in the state of New York.
Jenkins' pain piling up
Martin Jenkins has become a human form of the child's game Operation.
It was revealed in the preseason he has, as Swinney termed it, an "arthritic butt." His shoulder popped out in the games against Georgia and Wake Forest, which is expected to hound Jenkins throughout his junior season.
And now, count two more odd injuries for the cornerback suffered against Syracuse.
"Martin Jenkins broke his thumb, played the whole second half, his tooth broke, spit his tooth out, he's still out there playing 50-something plays," Swinney said. "We've got a lot of guys like that playing through some nicks and bumps. Appreciate their effort."
Blanks, Boulware questionable
Without further new information on the pair of hobbling defenders, safety Travis Blanks and linebacker/special teamer Ben Boulware are listed as questionable for Saturday's game at Death Valley.
Blanks injured his PCL in his knee, and Boulware hyperextended his knee at Syracuse. Team trainers indicated neither player tore any significant ligaments, and Blanks should not need surgery.
Swinney said he'd know more about their status Wednesday.
Jayron time?
Should Blanks sit out this weekend or thereafter, Clemson has begun grooming a replacement. Freshman Jayron Kearse has rotated in as the third safety along with Robert Smith the past two weeks.
"He's a special talent; it's very obvious to see. He makes mistakes, but he makes plays," Swinney said. "He covers some things up. We're very encouraged with Kearse."
Before his rookie season began, Kearse was praised as rangy, physical and long by defensive coordinator Brent Venables.
"I'm pleased with a true freshman after five games, the progress he's made. He's not afraid to stick his hat in there," Swinney said. "I think he's going to be one of those special guys to come through here if he keeps coming on."
Nothing given
An amazing statistic dug up by the Syracuse media: not one Orange true wide receiver recorded a catch Saturday.
Jenkins, Bashaud Breeland, Darius Robinson and Garry Peters were lauded by their coach for their cornerback play.
"Man, those guys are playing some good football for us," Swinney said. "We knew in our keys to the game if we were going to be able to get pressure on the quarterback, we knew we were going to have to get it from the coverage standpoint."
The Tigers recorded four sacks and four interceptions.
"We made the quarterback hold the ball," Swinney said, "and we ended up getting four sacks, and those were coverage sacks."


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Renting A Car With Debit Card
Some friends and I were recently discussing rental car strategies, one of them was planning a vacation to Hawaii, when the subject of debit cards came up. None of us had ever rented a car with a debit card before (we did begin our personal finance development in the era of free and cheap credit after all!) and that was the only card my friend had! To be honest, I didn't think it mattered if the card was a credit card or a debit card (and I erroneously said so!), but I was wrong.
I usually advise against the use of debit cards because the card is linked directly to your bank account. One erroneous or fraudulent charge can have a cascading effect that generates an avalanche of fees and penalties. I've read and heard many a story of a dozen insufficient fund fees and low balance fees following some key-in error, it's terrible.
Anyway, it turns out that renting a car with a debit card is a big pain in the ass. The reason is because your "credit limit" is really the funds within your account, unlike with a typical credit card. The end result is that many companies will tack on a "reasonable premium" to cover the rental period and potential overages such as fuel and damage to the vehicle.
For your convenience, here are the policies of major companies:
- Hertz: You can reserve a car with a VISA/MC debit card and a hold will be placed for an "estimated amount of the rental charges plus a reasonable amount to cover any incidental charge." No mention of what "reasonable amount" means though.
- Enterprise: Policies appear to vary from location to location so you'll have to call the rental site for actual requirements.
- Budget: Again, like Enterprise, some locations accept them and some don't. Under 25 can't use a debit card though. The ones allow debit cards require a hold for the estimated charges plus the greater of 25% or $300 (or $500 in the Northeast and North Central regions).
- National, Alamo: These companies are both owned by Vanguard Car Rental USA Inc. so they have the same policy of allowing debit cards.
- Avis: They allow debit cards and they will put a hold for the estimated rental charges with a minimum of $500. If you don't spend $500, the balance will be returned but may take up to two weeks!
- Dollar: They allow debit cards and will put a hold for the estimated amount of the rental plus 15% or a "minimum amount," which isn't specified. In that General Policies page, it's section F. Credit Qualifications/requirement.
- Thrifty: Some locations will allow debit cards and may require a "debit card check and credit inquiry screening," whatever that means. The debit card must also be a VISA/MC debit card, anything else isn't accepted.
As you can see, using a debit card is a bit of a pain and sometimes the hold can last up to two weeks after the rental! That's a very long time.
My advice? Get a credit card with auto rental liability insurance and use it to rent your car. The card provides some supplemental insurance, you don't have to deal with debit card hassles, and maybe you earn a few points along the way.


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Dr. Ernie Barber, PAg, PEng, is currently serving as the Interim Provost and Vice-President Academic for the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Barber has a long and distinguished career at the University of Saskatchewan. He served as the Managing Director of the Global Institute for Food Security (2013-2014), Dean, College of Engineering for three years (2010-2013), as Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning (2008-2010), Acting Provost and Vice-President Academic (2007-2008), Dean of the College of Agriculture and Bioresources (1999-2007), and Head of the Department of Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering, College of Engineering (1994-1999).
A graduate of the University of Alberta (BSc 1972 and MSc 1974) and the University of Guelph (PhD 2001), Dr. Barber began his professional career in 1974 with the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture as a specialist in engineering for livestock production, including farmstead planning, animal housing systems and waste management. He successfully led the development and implementation of a system for industry self-policing of pollution and nuisance problems. In 1981, he joined the University of Saskatchewan in the College of Engineering where his research focused on heating and ventilating equipment and controls, livestock transport, design and testing of technology for improving air quality in livestock buildings, and quantifying the impact of indoor quality on agricultural workers, animals and the environment. His scholarly work has been characterized by a deep commitment to interdisciplinarity and industry relevance and he is a strong proponent for the integration of teaching, research and community engagement.
Dr. Barber has taught undergraduate and graduate students and was honoured with several teaching excellence awards, as well as being named professor of the year by students in both agriculture and engineering. He has received four awards from the Canadian Society for Biological Engineering, and was named a fellow of the Society in 2001. More recently, he received the U of S Students' Union Doug Favel Spirit Award.


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Tyra Banks is taking the adage "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" one step further.
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Audie Award Nominee, Mystery, 2013
Lars Kepler returns with a piercing, best-selling sequel to The Hypnotist.
After spellbinding audiences in The Hypnotist, Detective Inspector Joona Linna is back in The Nightmare, an internationally best-selling Swedish thriller published to critical acclaim in dozens of countries. As the Swedish newspaper Arbetarbladet put it, "The reader is ready to sell his own soul for the opportunity to read this book without interruption, in one sitting."
On a summer night, police recover the body of a young woman from an abandoned pleasure boat drifting around the Stockholm archipelago. Her lungs are filled with brackish water, and the forensics team is sure that she drowned. Why, then, is the pleasure boat still afloat, and why are there no traces of water on her clothes or body?
The next day, a man turns up dead in his state apartment in Stockholm, hanging from a lamp hook. All signs point to suicide, but the room has a high ceiling, and there's not a single piece of furniture around—nothing to climb on. Joona Linna begins to piece together the two mysteries, but the logistics are a mere prelude to a dizzying and dangerous course of events.
At its core, the most frightening aspect of The Nightmare isn't its gruesome crimes—it's the dark psychology of its characters, who show us how blind we are to our own motives.
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I rate as follows: 5 Stars = Loved it. 4 Stars = Really liked it. 3 Stars = Liked it. 2 Stars = Didn't like it. 1 Star = Hated it.
"A Tale of Two Authors"
I learned after finishing this book that the author listed is actually a pen name for a pair of authors that write together. I found that interesting, because while 90% of the book was a well written crime mystery that I enjoyed very much, the other 10% was comprised of short sections and sub-plots that seemed to come completely from left field. One event was so bizarre I had to wonder if it had been written as an inside joke that inadvertently made it into the final version.
While most of the issues weren't that dramatic, there seemed to be a dissident chord running throughout the plot, right up to the end. After learning about the dual authors, I wondered if that fact might explain the dueling voices in the story.
Except for that issue, I really enjoyed this book. You just have to be ready to overlook a few scenes that don't fit the rest of the narrative. If you can do that, you'll be rewarded with some interesting characters and a solid mystery.
"What's all the fuss about?"
I don't understand the rave reviews "Lars Kepler" gets (off Audible). Like several of the other reviewers, I found this book and The Hypnotist as well to be awkwardly written and creepy, not in a good way. I hate mysteries told in the present tense, as if Joona Linna is always and forever engaged in each particular moment of the action, but that's a prejudice of mine others might not have. However, the writing is just poor, the characters are flat, the is no sense of place, no texture to the novel. The events are so contrived that it's just impossible to engage with the story. I finished them both, but it was a chore rather than a pleasure.
"Did they take turns?"
The reviewer who said this was a "Tale of Two Authors" had it right. I would add one word to that review: "Tale of Two LAZY Authors."
It's like one of them was charged with Plot A (and c, and d) and the other one with Plot B (and e and f) -- and then they got together on a weekend to try to figure out how all the pieces would come together in one novel. Aside from the out-of-left-field incident (I am pretty sure I know which one the reviewer is referring to) that the "Tale of Two Authors" reviewer is talking about, there is a HUGE coincidence where a character from story-line A happens to have this long-abandoned talent (due to tragic circumstances which you are told about in sub-plot e) that just happens to solve a key puzzle piece. Strangely enough, he is ALSO in a position to take action on the matter! The funny thing is that the detectives keep reiterating how they don't believe in coincidences. Well, the authors certainly hope that YOU do!
The actual "writing" itself isn't bad, but the novel gets worse and worse. There is actually one police briefing where you are told EVERYTHING that the police has uncovered up to that point (but that you know ALREADY, because you've been reading the stupid novel!). Was that for us or for the other half of Lars Keplar? (So that she/he would not have to endure the novel up to that point -- like you just had to do.)
Also, if you are one of those mystery fans who likes to "figure things out" along with the detectives, forget it. There is no way you could do that in this novel. MAJOR "clues" are just dumped on you after the fact. (Here you were, trying to figure out why X was killed when, 50 pages later, the reason comes out of nowhere...There were not even hints!)
I gave the story two stars because I DID finish it (I reserve 1-star reviews for the ones where I cannot even manage that). I think that was in a large part due to the reader.
He was great, making you almost feel like you were listening to a foreign language.
I am a huge fan of Scandinavian mysteries -- and even liked The Hypnotist (did not love it) -- but I will scratch this pair off my list unless the next book garners stellar reviews.
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The proper pronunciation of every name and location I would never have been able to articulate on my own.
Joona Linna. The man is complex - brilliant, brave, mysterious, tenacious, and deeply damaged.
The last sentences of the book were my favorite because it set the stage for what I know is going to be another excellent story.
In the interest of staying spoiler free, I'm just going to say it was when Axel learned exactly where that spare part would have come from.
Can't wait for book number three!
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"Finn super detective Joona Lina is at it again!"
This is another fast and furiously paced thriller with multiple, unexpected twists and turns and a little bit of everything thrown in for good measure. This may not be the best thriller I have ever read but it sure was fun reading it. Like chocolate and James Bond, a guilty pleasure.
Yes, I listened to Bramhall narrate another work by the same author. He was perfect on both.
This is the perfect book if you want quick, fast entertainment that does not require or can stand close examination; there is a handsome, brooding, super smart hero-detective with an equally outstanding female partner, international intrigue, paid assassins, blackmail, etc. I really wanted to finish this in one sitting and had a great time listening.
"Good story--great narration"
This is the second Kepler book I have listened to and Mark Bramhall is one of my favorite narrators now. He is a great storyteller and shifts effortlessly from giving us the voice of the italian mobster, to an adolescent swedish girl of limited capacity to the main character of Joona Lina who has a rich and gravelly voice. Wonderful narrative technique and compelling storytelling.
It is very interesting to have the crime story set in Sweden as a wonderful change of pace from American crime fiction.
"Riveting Story"
I'm sure reading the book would be a joy too, but it was great to have such an engaging audio book to pass the time when sitting in traffic!
The plot was fast moving and there was one turn after another.
"A Symphony of Death"
Another great story by Lars Kepler, a pen name. The authors are a man and a woman. Nightmare is truly what its name implies. A wonderful boat trip takes a very wrong turn and will have you on the edge of your seat. Penelope is one hell of a woman, in my opinion and you'll see that as the story progresses. Joona Linna, an investigator, is the main character of the book and has an amazing aptitude for solving cases. Yes, he has secrets of his own too. If you enjoyed this book, try "The Fire Witness", another Lars Kepler novel.
"just excellent"
it is right up there in the top few.
it's more an overall thing. keplar builds characters slowly and realistically, weaves in lots of careful detail, keeps the action going, keeps you guessing and anxious to know what comes next. the narrator is terrific!!! he doesn't sound silly when he shifts his voice to represent a woman or child, is expressive and dynamic, but never overwhelming. he becomes part of the story just perfectly.
They're all done very well, but I like the main character, Joona Linna, best. He gives the character a certain gravitas with his performance.
I wouldn't.
Get this book. You won't regret it. I started on these Nordic detective books through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I have listened to more different authors than I can easily rattle off. This book is the best of the bunch - better than Larsson's series.
"Not a procedural"
Suspend your common sense. Some of the action depends on people being truly idiots. The multimillionaire psychotic is a little hackneyed to say the least.
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For the first four games of the 2013 season, Stetson junior Robert Bruce stayed in the dugout and waited for his opportunity.
Over the last eight games, with regular playing time, Bruce is making in increasingly difficult for Stetson (9-7) to take his name out of the lineup.
On Friday night, in a 3-2 victory over Fairfield at Melching Field, Bruce delivered three more hits, scored a run, drove in a run and prevented a run from scoring with laser throw to home to help the Hatters earn their fourth consecutive victory.
"He is maturing, and a lot of it is confidence," Stetson coach Pete Dunn said of Bruce. "He is getting a chance to play regularly now after sitting the bench early in the year and he is taking advantage of it. He has really cut his strikeouts down, that is the big thing. I'd still consider him to be a pull hitter, but he will go to left field, like he did tonight on the base hit to drive in the run."
Bruce capped a two-run second for the Hatters with his two-out RBI single down the left-field line. The second inning started with a leadoff double by James Rasmussen, who was followed by Garrett Russini with an RBI single.
Fairfield (3-8) got a run back against Stetson starting pitcher Josh Powers (1-2) in the third inning. Rob LoPinto led off the frame with a double and scored on a single by Mike Bennett. It was the only run Powers would allow through six innings of work despite allowing eight hits.
"After we took him out, I told him that even though he didn't have his best stuff out there, he ground it out," Dunn said. "That is what good pitchers do. They can certainly win when they have their best stuff, but they have to find a way to win when they don't have their best stuff."
Stetson had a chance to pad the lead in the third when the Hatters loaded the bases with no one out, but Fairfield starter Mike Wallace (1-1) got out of the jam with a ground ball back to the mound, a strikeout and a fly ball.
"That has been a problem for us all year," Dunn said. "We have to keep working at it. We had a chance to distance ourselves and didn't do it."
The Hatters did add what turned out to be a big run in the fourth when Bruce reached on a one-out double and scored on a fly ball to left that was misplayed into a two-base error.
Powers overcame a bases loaded jam of his own in the sixth inning after a pair of Stags reached on infield singles and then a walk loaded the bases with no one out. It was Bruce who then turned in the play of the game when he hauled in a fly ball off the bat of Dean Sadik and then unleashed a strike to the plate to cut down Ryan Plourde trying to score.
The Hatters went to the pen in relief of Powers in the seventh inning and immediately got into trouble. Redshirt freshman Tyler Warmoth allowed three walks and an infield single to plate a run and load the bases.
"We battled through some adversity, but that adversity was self-inflicted," Dunn said. "We went out there and walked three in one inning. Joe Dye went out there in relief of Warmoth and got the one guy he faced and then Cameron Griffin came in to get the lefty. They did what they had to do and we wiggled our way out of it."
Freshman Kevin Fagan pitched the final two innings for Stetson, allowing just one infield hit, to record his first save.
Bruce finished with three of the Hatters' seven hits in the game while Anthony Jajjar, Jack Giannini and Sadik had two hits each for the Stags.
The Hatters will come back on Saturday with a day-night double-header against Fairfield looking to add to their modest four-game win streak.
The day will include a pair of special events. Prior to the opening game at 1 p.m., Stetson will honor the 2007 Hatters team with Atlantic Sun Conference championship rings. The group won the regular season A-Sun title, but did not get rings at the time because of an athletics department policy that mandated only conference tournament championship teams were to receive rings.
"It has been a long time in coming but, unfortunately, we aren't going to have the majority of the team back," Dunn said. "It is a great tribute to an awfully good team. We won the regular season in strong fashion and received an at large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Since then, the policy has been changed and these guys are going to get what they so richly deserve."
The nightcap game, scheduled for a 7 p.m. start, will be the Hatters' first "Pink Game" for breast cancer awareness. Fans who come to the game wearing pink will receive a $5 general admission ticket and the team will wear special caps with pink lettering.
"We have guys on this team who have had family members fight and beat cancer, and I think that everyone knows someone somewhere who has dealt with cancer," Dunn said. "We want to do our part to make people more aware of the fight against that disease. This is the first Pink Game we will play and I hope that we can do it on an annual basis."


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Noah: Give it to Mommy! She can fix anything!
Me, after picking Noah up from school: What are you going to do in class tomorrow?
Noah: Teacher says we're gonna art!
LOL you gotta love kids and the things they say. Too funny :)
Hope you're having a terrific day :)
My boys aren't sure that I can fix anything. It's always "leave it for dad when he gets home from work".
When Monte was little is was always "Dad can glue it".
Thats so cute, I love the things kids say!ReplyDelete
They are so precious. I really enjoy getting to art myself! Hope to see you all as soon as I'm better!ReplyDelete
I love that you write down those funny phrases they say! they are so innocent and sweet!ReplyDelete
That is SOOOO cute. I think even to this day I'm convinced my mom and dad can fix anything :)ReplyDelete
That's so sweet, Stephanie... Your boys must be so proud of you. Being a mom makes you creative and must-be-capable-to-do-anything :).
Wishing you a great day!
Interesting title for the blog. I think so true of most parents. However, knowing that we will at some point or another I think it's more important to teach our kids how to deal with it and finding our strength to get past it.
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CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. - Sean Peabody is a weapons expert who dodged a bullet.The comedian underwent three surgeries for colon cancer. Not only did he shed 65 pounds from the whole ordeal, he has used his position as a public speaker to educate men about their health."Most guys don't know 70 percent of men die with either prostate or colon-related stuff," said Peabody, who once taught gunnery school in the Marines.Peabody in October celebrated his one-year anniversary being cancer-free. He is coming to Tahoe next week for another special date: the six-year anniversary of Wayne Wright's Tahoe Comedy North. Peabody will headline the 8:30 p.m. show Thursday, March 7, in the Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room.Peabody performed at one of Tahoe Comedy North's first shows on the patio at the River Ranch Lodge. While laughter, indifference or anger are typical audience responses, Peabody witnessed something for the first time: terror. A bear had wandered up from the river and sauntered up to the comedian."I made the bear laugh and he waved to me," Peabody said. "He just threw me off guard because I wasn't expecting a bear to be behind me."
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will make his second trip to New Hampshire in two months, this time to raise money for the state Republican Party, WMUR Political Scoop has learned.
Christie will appear at a skybox during a New Hampshire Fishercats minor league baseball game. The fundraiser, dubbed "Home Run to Victory 2014", is scheduled for July 31 at 6pm.
Ticket prices begin at $45 and include admission to the game. If you pay $2,500 you can watch the game with Christie. There are different sponsorship levels in between.
The host committee has a lot of major names in the Granite State that Christie would surely like to get to know better. They include: U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, former Gov. John H. Sununu, former Ambassador Joseph and Augusta Petrone, Republican National Committeeman Steve Duprey, Joanne Devine, Dan Donovan, Michael Boyle, Beverly Bruce, Bill Greiner, Jim Merrill, Brian Mikol and Richard Pease.
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Hopefully with his defensive side he'll be better than Hudler one day
What an insult to Tatar!
Seriuosly though, I would like to see him get 25-30 goals someday. He has been solid, but he isn't showing me much offense yet. I guess it has to do with playing on the 3rd line, but I hope he shows some more than what he has already. I would hope that he would take Franzine's place on Z's line and get a chance like Brunner has been given. I am ready for the kids to take over... (although deep in side I still believe if there is a trade, Tatar will be a part of it...)


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Cloud Gate, Millennium Park
Sarah & I had plans to do something on the beautiful that was yester day and so we decided to go to the park. And why not just go all out and go to The Park.
and eventually left behind on a restaurant table causing the End Of The World to Gray for about ten seconds.
It's awesome when we can drive into the city and enjoy the day and then be home in time for the bigkids to get off the bus, make dinner (and even bake cookies) and finish laundry and you know, be Mom.


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While the field of physics doesn't usually receive a whole lot of headline ink or cable news airtime, you may have heard of this year's possible discovery of the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is a particle that has eluded and tantalized scientists for decades; its detection could change the world of physics.
How important would a confirmation of the Higgs boson existence be? Some media savvy scientists call it the "God particle."
While many not-attention-starved researchers think that's a misnomer, the particle is still crucial to our understanding of the physical laws of the universe.
Basically, the Higgs boson might be the key to understanding how matter attains mass.
Cue the terrible joke about a priest changing his name to Higgs so he could be better at giving mass.
The subatomic particle was detected by scientists using the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland—a massive particle accelerator with a circumference of 17 miles. Protons were smashed together and, in the resulting wreckage, physicists believe they detected the never-before-seen particle. They announced the exciting discovery in early July.
What the Higgs boson actually is, unfortunately, is somewhat hard to explain (complicated by the fact that there might actually be several Higgs bosons).
Scientists define a boson as a force carrier, something that can allow particles to exert force onto each other. Bosons cause a balloon to stick to a wall after you rub it on your hair—the balloon and the wall are actually exchanging particles, bosons known as photons that have no mass but transmit electromagnetic force.
"In the 1960s, Peter Higgs and some of his contemporaries worked out a mathematical way of predicting the mass of a particle by its interaction with what became known as the Higgs field," says physicist Jonas Mureika. "In a nutshell, when different massless particles come in contact with the Higgs field, they 'stick' to it to varying degrees. Each of the particles then acquires a different mass. The Higgs mechanism helps us predict how much mass will be distributed to each of these particles."
"It's not really the Higgs boson that confers mass on other particles, but the field of force from which the boson is made," Tom Siegfried of Science News writes. "Particles that interact with the Higgs field acquire mass because the field resists change in their state of motion; such resistance is inertia, the hallmark of mass."
The vast majority of the mass of everything we experience is made of the protons and neutrons in atoms, which are made of subatomic particles known as quarks. Just a sliver of the total mass of quarks is caused by the Higgs field, but, theoretically, it's this field that gives the quarks any mass at all to start with.
And this is why physicists are excited.
As Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of the laboratory that operates the LHC, claims: "The properties of this boson might open up a window into the DNA of the universe."


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WARREN - Matt Kleese, a fourth-generation oil and gas industry businessman, learned from his grandfather years ago that everything comes around twice.
That's why Kleese, vice president of operations for Warren-based Kleese Development Associates, said Wednesday he isn't fretting yet over word this week that one of Trumbull County's most active drillers, Halcon Resources, has pulled its rigs from the county with no immediate plans to return.
Kleese's company, which operates about a half-dozen injection wells and about 70 production wells, is contracted with Halcon to continue hauling the company's oilfield waste, known as brine, from its local wells. Halcon has four wells producing in Trumbull and Mahoning counties along with one other drilled and awaiting production in each of the two counties.
"What I am being told by their representatives that I work with in the field is basically they have enough (wells) right now, and they are going to monitor it and keep it as an option. It's not very uncommon to do that. A lot of companies do that," Kleese said. "They will drill three or four or five wells, let them produce for a couple years and then go back to that."
Joseph Stanislaw, an independent senior adviser on energy and sustainability who founded JAS Group LLC, a Boston-based advisory firm, also predicts that, in time, Trumbull County drilling will resume. The nagging question, though: When?
Stanislaw is a Champion native and a 1967 graduate of Champion High School. He is an adviser to the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions.
Like any business, successful drilling is all about covering costs, he said.
"They are looking for the resources to cover the costs. We have to be in the right place with the resources we have," Stanislaw said by phone Wednesday from his Boston office. "It's going to come back. When? I couldn't tell you the exact point in time. They are looking for higher potential for quick recovery." And while drillers like Halcon are hydraulically fracturing in other shale plays that might offer higher production levels at a lower cost, they will be perfecting technology that they then may be able to apply to areas where the shale may be more difficult to access, he said. Industry experts have said the northern part of the Utica Shale is thinner and more difficult to access. "In the short term it's bad, but they are going to come back," Stanislaw said.
He noted that the option also exists for the mineral rights to be sold to a new driller, and even that would not necessarily be bad for the land owner.
That's because smaller drillers may have less overhead and may be better able to absorb the expenses of drilling in a more challenging location. All in all, unconventional drilling into a shale play like the Utica allows drillers to move quickly.
"They can go to the next hot spot quickly. They can move quickly. They are very nimble. That's what's different about the shale industry. This is a very different game. You can't do it overnight, but you can do it pretty quick," Stanislaw said.
In the meantime, local companies related to the drilling industry say Halcon's decision won't affect their business plan.
Andrew Blocksom, president of Patriot Water Treatment in Warren, which treats brine water as part of the disposal process, said his business is unaffected by the decision, largely because its operations cover a much larger, three-state area. "It's sad, but we will always evolve and make things work," Blocksom said Wednesday. "No one knows what else is down the road or what technology is around the corner."
Sarah Barczyk, manager, community relations and stakeholder outreach for the Columbia Pipeline Group, an arm of NiSource, which operates a natural gas processing plant in Springfield, Mahoning County, likewise said her company is not affected by natural gas production in Trumbull County.
"We are confident the Utica will yield the results that we had expected," she said Wednesday, noting the company's operations focus on Mahoning and Columbiana counties, along with Lawrence and Mercer counties in Pennsylvania. She said she is not aware of any commercial negotiations with Trumbull County producers to utilize the NiSource gathering or processing system.
Kleese also said his business would not suffer from the drilling slowdown. "People that are in this industry, we are going to be fine. The same thing happened in the '70s and '80s. Everything always comes around twice. My grandfather told me that years ago," Kleese said. "I think things will work out in the end."


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Chloe Green, left, and Marc Anthony arrive at the 56th annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, in Los Angeles.
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T&F Heads to Western Michigans Jack Shaw Classic
MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State outdoor track & field team heads to Kalamazoo, Mich. Friday for Mid American Conference foe Western Michigan's annual Jack Shaw Classic from the Kanley Track & Field Complex.
The meet will start at 4:15 p.m. with the field events, while the running events begin at 6:55 p.m. Ball State enters the meet after posting seven event victories Saturday at Miami's RedHawk Invitational from the George L. Rider Track.
In the sprint events, Jordan McMillan (Portland, Ind./Jay County) posted a win in the 100m dash with a time of 12.80, while Thekla Lorenz (Hamburg, Germany) earned a victory in the 400m hurdles (1:02.32).
MaryKate Mellen (Michigan City, Ind./Michigan City) finished first in the 1500m run (4:37.17) and Caitlynn Edon (New Palestine, Ind./New Palestine) tallied a win in the 5000 run (18:09.10).
In the field events, Haley Austin (Avon, Ind./Avon High) leaped to a height of 5-1.75 for first place in the high jump, while Christina Crawford (Belleville, Mich./Romulus) placed first in the long jump (17-4.75/5.30m).
Additional top performances for the Cardinals include a victory in the javelin throw (106-9/32.53m) and eighth-place finish in the hammer throw (138-5/42.20m) by Jorden Traver (Lafayette, Ind./Harrison).
Overall, Ball State's student-athletes are ranked in the top-20 in this week's MAC Rankings a total of 21 times.


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Spring is here. Rec lacrosse is here. So why is there still snow on the ground?
The next wave of Turf fields is the automatic 24 hour heating system that melts the snow and absorbs the rain right away….haha, Just kidding…
Every year due to global warming we say the same thing. I have been encouraged to see the nets out in the backyards and the kids dusting off their Spring's best clothing to get ready for the season.
With the exception of the summer lax tryouts (I will get back to that one in a minute), or a 1 hour indoor league, there ain't much laxin' going on here on the left coast.
I will say that on my way to have dinner at the Mountain Lakes Club in Lakes which I am a member of, those youngins are shooting in snow suits, hats, boots etc…all year round.
Maybe that's why they have been dominating youth lacrosse in this area and even taking it to Delbarton (their private school arch rival). Or maybe, part of it is the philosophy…hhhmmmm well, Lakes is public and has been unique in having a summer program limited to their own called Laker Futures. The official, un official Delbarton feeding program is Patriot Lacrosse.
It seems like if you or a male sib goes there or is going there, you basically make the team.
To round out their roster, they hold a series of $40 a head tryouts in November to fill a few sports (if any), but they don't tell you that. They tell you that all spots are available (not true), and that you have to be at a tryout to be considered (also not true) and they will only take you for a position you tryout for (again not true).
But- the owners become rich, the hype (which is becoming less and less each year) creates the demand and yet more and more parents become more disappointed at the apathetic communication and utter arrogance of youth Lacrosse grades 5-8; some 4th graders make it too.
Kudos to Mountain Lakes for showing that in public school, program and committment doesn't carry the tag of $25,000 per year tuition.


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Thursday, August 28, 2014
The stated purpose of a new bell and bus schedule for Dorchester District Two is to advance academic achievement for all students, but some district parents are skeptical particularly over the high school schedule.
Parents and teachers filled most of the seats in Newington Elementarys media center Aug. 27 to participate in the first community meeting to discuss the proposed bell schedule changes for the start and end times to the school day.
After the presentation, parent Lisa Shindler said the proposed bell schedule would have a negative effect on her daughters senior year because of her after-school activities.
Her daughter, a junior at Ashley Ridge High School, has volleyball practice after school, and she also volunteers.
Shindler told The Summerville Journal Scene she plans to attend more of the community meetings about the bell schedule, and hopes by the end of all the sessions the district will have gathered more information.
I think they were open to the questions, but Im not sure if they resolved any of my questions, she said.
Parents couldnt directly ask questions but instead were given the opportunity to write down questions and concerns on cards and submit them to be read aloud by school officials.
A selection of district principals joined Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Sean Alford in giving the presentation to parents on the benefits of changing the bell schedule.
This is a topic we have discussed as an organization for a while, Alford said. We had the opportunity in an administrative meeting with over 70 of the districts leaders in when we began to talk, analyze and collaborate and came to the consensus that as it relates to our current bell schedule, we needed to do something different.
The proposed schedule calls for high school hours to run from 9:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.; middle schools from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.; and elementary schools from 7:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Currently, high school starts at 7:25 a.m. and ends at 2:55 p.m.; middle school starts at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m.; and elementary hours are 7:25 a.m. to 2:10 p.m.
The new schedule also has high school students being dropped off via bus at 9 a.m. instead of 6:15 a.m. Middle schools bus drop-off time would remain at 8 a.m. and elementary schools would remain at 7 a.m.
Any changes would take effect in the 2015-2016 school year.
DD2s presentation described a decrease traffic congestion, increase in the number of available buses and improved morning bus pick-up times if the district is able to change the bus schedule. The district says the proposed schedule would allow high school students more sleep, thereby improving their school performance.
Many of the parents questions revolved around the high school start times, particularly with how the new bell schedule would affect students who work or participate in extracurriculars after school.
Alford said as far as after-school jobs are concerned, DD2 offers school work programs, apprenticeships, internships and shadowing experiences that the district would rather have students participate in. He said community members are willing to support student work schedules.
We would like to be able to route students in that directions, he said. We are increasing the number of students participating in apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities and internships.
One of the presentation slides said the new bell schedule could provide opportunities for morning and afternoon practices, and should have minimal impact to game schedules.
Alford assured parents and teachers who attended the meeting that nothing is set in stone.
No decisions have been made, our mind is not made up, he said.
Cecilia Wilburn-Davis, fifth grade teacher at Newington Elementary and also a district parent, said she felt better about the new schedule after attending the meeting.
Wilburn-Daviss daughter Aminah Davis is a junior at Ashley Ridge and a cheerleader. Wilburn-Davis is concerned about her daughter having later evenings, but said the new schedule might allow her daughter more sleep.
I think Im less opposed to it now than I was before, Wilburn-Davis said.
Her daughter, however, disagreed, saying she likes getting through school earlier in the day. Id rather get it over with in the morning, she said. Maybe for a freshman coming into it, itd be normal. For me this is not familiar.
DD2 officials said the slideshow from Aug. 27s presentation will be posted on the districts website.
The next community meeting will be at Ashley Ridge High School on Sept. 9, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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