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Jon Welner is a leading practitioner of environmental and natural resource law in California. Jon represents clients in all areas of environmental, natural resource, and land use law. His practice includes the regulation of air, water, hazardous substances, hazardous waste, radiological materials, development of contaminated properties ("Brownfields"), energy and water companies, coastal development, endangered species and other natural resources, as well as matters involving CEQA and NEPA (environmental impact reports/studies), the Williamson Act (farmland preservation), OSHA/Cal-OSHA, and Prop 65. He has special expertise in conducting legal audits and developing compliance systems, and in the early transfer and redevelopment of former military bases. Jon is frequently called upon by the media to comment on environmental and natural resource topics.
Jon is also the Chair of JMBM's Prevailing Wage Practice Group. He is recognized as one of the foremost practitioners in the State, and is frequently involved in complex and groundbreaking cases on behalf of developers, contractors, and manufacturers. Jon has been featured in the California Lawyer as one of top prevailing wage lawyers in the State.
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Jon represents clients in both administrative and judicial proceedings, including proceedings before California Air Districts, the State and Regional Water Boards, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, the California Department of Public Health, the California Department of Conservation,the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission, the Coastal Commission, the San Francisco Bay Area Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), the State Lands Commission, the California Department of Industrial Relations, U.S. EPA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, local governments, and other agencies. He has previously served as a senior official at the California Natural Resources Agency.
Jon's clients include project developers, land owners, solar companies, mining companies, concrete suppliers, oil and gas companies, hospitality companies, water utilities, automobile manufacturers, chemical manufacturers, biotechnology companies, modular building manufacturers, scrap metal recyclers, hazardous waste and solid waste landfills, local governments, and nonprofit organizations.
Jon Welner is a Member and former Chair of the Planning Commission of the Town of Tiburon, California.
J.D., Stanford Law School, 1995
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- President, Environmental Law Society, 1994-5.
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A.B., with Distinction, Political Science, Stanford University, 1989
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Find the dilation factor for each of the following dilations by finding the images of
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Find the dilation factor for each of the following dilations by finding the images of
(a) First we compute the image of each point, starting with . By the definition of the dilation, and so
Therefore the image of is itself, .
Likewise we compute the image, under the same dilation, of the point .
From this we see that the image of is .
From the definition of any dilation, it is a transformation which leaves a point fixed, and every other point P satisfies the equation for some k. Our task is to solve for k. Since we have seen that this dilation leaves the point fixed, then we want to find both the length from this point to and from it to .
The first distance is computed now, using the distance formula.
The next distance is likewise computed now.
Now that the distances are computed, we can substitute them in the equation and solve as below.
The solution could have been read straight from the fact that both the x and y components are scaled by a factor of 3, but the instructions were to compute it by this more laborious method.
(b) We repeat the steps of the previous problem, only with a new dilation. First we compute x'.
Next we compute y'.
So that again, maps to itself.
Next we compute the image of .
Similarly we compute the next coordinate.
And we see that maps, unsurprisingly, to .
Again we observe that the point is fixed and therefore we profit from calculating its distance to the pre-image and image respectively. The computation for the first was already done in part (a) and resulted in . For the second, we compute the following.
Again we substitute these in the formula which defines a dilation, which is , and thereby obtain the following solution.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sen. John J. Tassoni Jr. is planning to reintroduce legislation that would allow Rhode Island school districts to sell advertising space on school buses.
Tassoni introduced the legislation in the 2009 and 2010 General Assembly sessions, but neither of those two earlier bills made it out of Senate committee. However, an identical bill was passed by the House of Representatives two years ago.
"With school budgets being cut, with programs and important student activities being eliminated, fund-generating options of all kinds should be open for discussion," Tassoni said. "If a few ads on school buses can save a program or sport, or help give students the best education possible, I think that's an option that should be made available."
As with the 2009 and 2010 bills that he introduced, the bill Tassoni will submit in the 2012 session would restrict advertising to the outside of school buses, provided the ads don't obstruct the vision of motorists. It would also authorize school committees to negotiate with private school bus carriers regarding the content of any ads and the sharing of revenue from them.
Cranston, R.I., officials said recently that they are considering asking the General Assembly to adopt legislation approving the sale of ads on school buses. State law currently prohibits that practice. Cranston officials said selling ads on their buses has the potential of raising $300,000.
Tassoni said that his legislation would not require school districts to accept ads on school buses.
"This would be a local decision, but I think we should give local school districts the right to make that decision on their own," he said. "Some may choose not to. Others, such as Cranston, may need the additional funds these ads could generate."
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Simple surroundings and a warm welcome in the downtown area.
The Sunset House hasn't come a long way since its days as a boarding house in the early 1900s---and that's a good thing. This Queen Anne-style home was built in the mid-1800s. When proprietors Nancy and Paul Boileau had it restored just before the turn of the millennium, they maintained its original character, as well as the original boarding house sign, which hangs in the foyer. Guests can choose from four bedrooms, which are decorated in a basic style, to the point of being sparse were it not for the few thoughtfully chosen antiques in each. Notables include a vanity table in the Green Room, a rocker in the Train Room, a pretty quilt in the Blue Room and red fabric draping the bed, table and closet in the Red Room. Stays include continental breakfast. Air-conditioning is available during the warm season. Within walking distance are the Church Street Marketplace, Flynn Theater and Lake Champlain Waterfront.


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Sharp Expands Its TV Color Palette
TOKYO—While televisions have transformed from bulky and boxy to slim and sleek over the last decade, one thing hasn't changed. The basics of displaying color on TVs still derive from the same three fundamental building blocks: red, green and blue.
In what Sharp Corp. is calling a "revolutionary" breakthrough, the company says it has developed a way to add a fourth primary color, yellow, to the mix. By doing so, Sharp says its new flagship televisions—hitting the market in two months—will display more than a trillion colors, about 1,000 times more color than current models.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Sharp introduced the product with banners that read "Hello Yellow!"—though a company spokeswoman said the signs weren't a preview of its upcoming marketing campaign.
Competitors are quick to downplay Sharp's technology. They say more colors don't necessarily result in better picture quality or improved color accuracy. Sharp disagrees, saying it can now accurately reproduce colors difficult to capture on conventional liquid-crystal-display TVs, such as the metallic gold of brass instruments and the emerald blue of a tropical ocean.
Selling a new TV technology can be tricky. As displays have improved, TV makers are challenged with trying to explain to consumers the benefit of innovations that aren't obvious to the naked eye. In recent years, LCD-TV makers have increased frame rates, or hertz, to smooth out fast-moving images. But that's been a harder sell than more obvious improvements like a thinner screen.
Color quality is also subjective, without an industry benchmark for comparison. Some consumers prefer TVs to render vivid colors even though they may not necessarily capture the truest color.
"This going to require some education and demonstration or else most people will say 'I don't know what more color does for me,'" says Paul Semenza, a senior vice president at research firm DisplaySearch.
With its television-market share outside of Japan sinking, Sharp is taking the unprecedented step of introducing the new televisions in the U.S. and Europe before its launch in Japan, where it dominates the market. The sets, to be sold under Sharp's Aquos brand, will go on sale in March in North America and Europe, and later this year in Japan.
Outside of Japan, Sharp has lost its footing, struggling to keep pace with the relentless price cuts of discount brands like Vizio Inc. It has also given ground to market leader Samsung Electronics Co., which has struck gold by creating a new subcategory of TVs branded as LED-TVs, or ultrathin LCD televisions, named for the type of backlights they use.
In North America, Sharp's market share of flat-panel-TV shipments fell to 4.8% in the first three quarters of 2009 from 8.7% in 2007, according to Austin, Texas, research firm DisplaySearch. Sharp's European market share fell to 3.1% from 4.8% in 2007, while its market share in Japan has held steady at 37.3%.
"We think we can recoup some of the market share we lost with this new technology," Sharp President Mikio Katayama said at a recent meeting with reporters. "We think we can make North America and Europe into growth markets."
Sharp's technological breakthrough stems from a new LCD panel using four-color filters, adding yellow to the standard red, green and blue, for each of the millions of dots on the screen. It also uses an image processor to convert video and allow its televisions to show images in colors beyond what a normal camera can record.
Samsung, the world's biggest television maker, said it has worked on adding yellow as a fourth primary color since 2004. However, it has held off on adopting the TV technology because it didn't create enough of an improvement to warrant an overhaul of its production process.
Hyun Suk Kim, a senior vice president of research and development at Samsung's display business, said it has opted to focus on refining its color accuracy instead of just widening its range of colors because a video camera can only capture a "limited amount of color."
The test for Sharp will be whether it can charge more for the technology and avoid the margin-killing price competition that drove it to post its first annual loss in nearly 60 years in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. Sharp says the TVs, which incorporate the company's new LCD-panel technology that makes its screens brighter while draining less energy, will range from $1,800 for 40-inch sets to $4,000 for a 60-inch size. Its current high-end 40-inch model sells for $1,400, and its 60-inch model sells for $3,000.
While its marketing plans for the new televisions aren't finalized, Sharp says it doesn't plan to sell the new sets at mass retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. It will instead look to work closely with specialty electronics shops such as Sixth Avenue Electronics and P.C. Richard & Son.


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Three students enrolled in the Weaver Child Development Center at Malone University have been named winners for their age group in the Stark County District Library's 13th Annual Poetry Contest.
They are: Maggie DeLap, daughter of Brian and Andrea DeLap, a third grader from Canton
Kobe Byler, son of Joyce Byler and Doug Byler, a third grader from Canton
Alex Zuckett, son of John and Wendy Zuckett, a second grader from Jackson Township
All three are students of Mrs. Carol Parks and will receive a book of poetry for their efforts.
The children were invited to read their works at a Poetry Café on May 17 at the Stark County Library, main branch.
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One of the three mothers of the harpy race. Originally a beautiful, winged maiden, over time she degenerated into a winged monster with the face of an old woman. Her name means "The Dark", and she is also known as Podarge ("Fleet Foot"). She is normally found on dungeon level 15, and moves quickly. Killing this intelligent evil creature is worth 2000 experience points for a 1st level character. She usually appears with escorts. She may breathe darkness; 1 time in 6. She has an armor rating of 45 and a life rating of 190. She can bash down doors. She cannot be frightened. She resists electricity, cold and darkness. She is fairly observant of intruders, which she may notice from 350 feet. She may carry one or two good objects or treasures. She can bite to attack with damage 2d7, claw to blind with damage 2d5, and claw to blind with damage 2d5. (EyAngband 0.5.2)
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Nap Lajoie Signed Autograph Album Page
Starting Bid - $200, Sold For - $1,058
Unlined sheet, discovered in the legendary autograph album compiled by Dr. John O'Meara in the 1930s, signed by Hall of Fame second baseman Napoleon Lajoie. (The original near-complete album is also offered in this auction; please see the lot description for full details.) The black fountain-pen signature has been boldly scripted, grading '9,' and Lajoie has noted the date of the signing below his name, 'Sept 20th /33.' This sheet was included, loose, in O'Meara's autograph album, but it is not original to the album. Although we will never know the precise circumstances under which this signature was obtained by O'Meara, we can be sure that it was one of the few times during the 1930s that he encountered a player of Lajoie's stature without having his album handy. He did, however, have Lajoie sign this sheet, and he later simply tucked it in the pages of the album. Like most of the signatures in the O'Meara album collection, this is a particularly extraordinary and magnificent example. The sheet (5.5 x 4.25 inches) has a single light vertical fold and a few extremely light wrinkles. In Very Good to Excellent condition. Encapsulated by Beckett Grading Services in conjunction with James Spence Authentication. LOA from James Spence/JSA. Reserve $200. Estimate $300+. SOLD FOR $1,058
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I think he's implying that he likes british officers more than you TLC, bobbies is a word for british police.
bobbies? LMAO like bobbie brown or bobby kenedy? which 2 bobbies are you implying?Originally Posted by Mau
I think he's implying that he likes british officers more than you TLC, bobbies is a word for british police.
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Huh, really? 'Cause I could have sworn she said that she decides what can go in a thread or not. So, since she decides what goes in there, she can post as much porn as she wants in that thread, even though the rules say otherwise? xDOriginally Posted by Taills
She doesn't decide. The rules do, if I'm not mistaken.
Nope! I believe she meant that because she's a mod, she knows the rules.Originally Posted by Kumoriken
And the rules say to search, and if there's a topic that has a certain subject you want to post about, or already has an item posted that you want to discuss, to post there, or it's considered something along the lines of spam. ^.^Originally Posted by Taills
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Otters' winning streak snapped at 10
GUELPH, Ontario-- The Gueph Storm had the Erie Otters right where they wanted them.
Away from Erie Insurance Arena.
The Otters, who entered Sunday having won 10 straight games overall and 18 straight at home, fell for the first time since late November 5-0 Sunday before a crowd of 4,748 at the Sleeman Centre.
Erie (29-5-1-1) was shut out for the first time this season.
Guelph (24-7-2-1) needed less than 4 minutes to break a scoreless tie.
Robby Fabbri staked the Storm to a 1-0 lead which stood into the second period despite the Otters being outshot 15-4 over the first 20 minutes.
Scott Kosmachuk then netted his first of the night 14 minutes into the second before the Storm put the game away with three straight goals in the final period.
The Otters were last held scorless on Dec. 8, 2012, by Guelph at Erie. The Otters' last loss was 4-1 to London on Nov. 22.
In addition to Erie's win streak, Dane Fox's franchise-record goal streak also came to an end at 10 games, breaking Brad Boyes' previous mark of nine games with a goal.
The Otters will enter their winter break in first place in the Midwest Division six points ahead of London, which defeated Kingston 6-4 Sunday. Erie next plays Dec. 28 at Kitchener.


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That's nice, your still scared floyd "what if I lose" Mayweather
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floyd is blatently avoiding the fight i dont understand how his fans can not see it im fan of both mayweather and pacquiao but the its clear to see whos doing the ducking! i recently watched the hagler hearns legendary nights and i cant remember which guy who said it but he said that both hagler and hearns WANTED the fight to show how GREAT they actually were,they craved for it.now in this scenario i see only one who wants to show how great he really is.
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Floyd is the ultimate troll and people getting mad lol
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You trolls make me laugh. We all know that Pac cant make his own deals without Arums seal of approval. So to me Pac saying he will take 45% is him just grandstanding. Hes a politican playing politics. What we do know is in 2009 Floyd put a real offer on the table, 50/50 split with ODST up to 14 days, and Pacs team pulled out. When someone passes on an offer like that that tells me they dont want the fight.
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I crack the **** up every time when Mayweather speaks the thread is immediately followed by a gang of Floyd haters. Most times the same ones. They can't WAIT to pounce on whatever he says. Lol
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Pac will always be remembered for taking any fight & stay active while at it... floyd on the other hand makes excuses & waits until fighters are on the decline to fight them... LAME.. Floyd is the real ducker here.
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Now its 2012, No one from team Pacquaio takes anything that clown mayweather has to say seriously and neither does 90% of the boxing world anymore. The 10% that do well that group speaks for itself.
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The funeral arrangements for the three crew members killed in a medical helicopter crash last Thursday have been set.
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The pilot, Eddy Sizemore, paramedic Lee Dobbs and nurse Jesse Jones all died when the plane crashed in Clay County. The crash marked the first deadly accident in the past six years for Air Evac Lifeteam.
The visitation and funeral for Jesse Jones will be held tomorrow in Bell County.
Both Sizemore and Dobbs will be laid to rest in London. Sizemore's funeral will be Tuesday and Dobbs' funeral will be on Thursday.
Federal officials are still investigating the crash.
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Some of the best hitters in the area, such as West Ranch's Jake Bernards, Hart's Devin Rodriguez and Valencia's Christian Lopes, all start their quest to finish atop the Foothill League today.
When it's all said and done, there are bound to be plenty of offensive outbursts, but it may be the team that finds the most pitching that winds up the winner.
Saugus, which finished third last year, returns an experienced senior class that would like to mirror the school's girls soccer team, which finished third in the Foothill League before making a run to a CIF Championship.
"I'd be lying if I said our goal is anything but winning a league championship," said Saugus head John Maggiora. "Still, when you see a team do what our girls soccer team did you know that if you can just get in then you have a chance, and we plan on finding a way to get that chance."
Saugus' playoff hopes took a hit when two-time team MVP and four-year varsity player Zach Vincej broke his left hand over a month ago. The Centurion shortstop hopes to play in the field for the Foothill League opener, but doctors still have not cleared him to pick up a bat.
Fellow seniors Stefan Cordes, Aaron Hooper and Brett Piper had to pick up the offensive slack with Vincej out, while Kyle Hooper and Darren Schweitzer carried the load on the mound.
"These guys have really come together as a group," Maggiora said. "There are no egos in the group."
Valencia is coming off a season in which it won its fair share of close games. The Vikings finished in second place and just two games out of first, largely due to the play of shortstop Christian Lopes.
The sophomore, who played for the U-16 U.S. National Team in the offseason, hit .408 with 10 homers in his freshman campaign.
"Christian is one of the best players in the state," said Valencia head coach Jared Snyder. "Having him at the top of our order is a huge plus for us."
Another positive for the Viking offense is right fielder Dylan Jones, who plans to attend the University of Oregon to continue his career after his senior season and is coming off a second-team all-CIF campaign.
"Most of the other teams are older than us," Snyder said. "As long as we can stay away from making youthful mistakes and our pitching comes through then we should be good."
Sophomores David Hausman and Quincy Quintero will be asked to anchor the Valencia pitching staff.
"Hausman and Quintero are young, but they are more confident than a lot of guys who are older than them that I've seen," Snyder said.
Snyder also likes the tough makeup of his team.
"We have a couple players like (center fielder/relief pitcher) Dominick Solley and (catcher) Alex Bishop that bring a football mentality to the diamond," Snyder said. "That toughness will be key for us because we know it's going to be a fight to get into the top three."
For West Ranch, 2009 could be the year the Wildcats not only break into the playoffs, but also take home the title.
Coming off a 6-9 Foothill League campaign that saw West Ranch finish fourth, the Wildcats return two-time Foothill League first-teamer Jake Bernards at first base, along with shortstop Cal Vogelsang and Casey Watkins at third.
The trio will bat in the top three spots of the Wildcat order.
"We want to get those guys up as much as possible, so we figure why not put them at the top of the order?" said West Ranch coach Casey Burrill. "Like most of the Foothill League teams we have a lot of offense, but we're looking for pitching depth so I anticipate we might have some 18-16 games, and I might have a few more gray hairs when we are done."
Burrill will rely on left-hander Trevor Fredrickson and sophomore righty Ryan Keller to keep his coif from prematurely aging. The duo figures to start a large portion of the Wildcats' games.
"Our pitching has been better than we thought it was going to be," Burrill said. "We think Keller could be a guy that makes a big impact for us."
Hart will also rely on its offense this season in a quest to defend its 2008 title.
The Indians have a much different look than the team that went 14-1 in the Foothill League last year.
"We lost a dozen guys from last year's team so we know 2008 doesn't mean anything now," said Hart head coach Jim Ozella. "We have a proud tradition here so we know what we have to do, but we also know in this league it is going to be a battle to make it to make the playoffs."
The Indians return first baseman Devin Rodriguez, who brings a school-record 28-game hit streak into league play, and third baseman-turned-catcher Trevor Brown will provide the pop in the heart of the order. Both players are also committed to going to Pac-10 schools next year with Rodriguez headed to UC-Berkeley and Brown planning to attend UCLA.
"This will be the second year we bat Devin in the four hole," Ozella said. "We rely on him to drive in a lot runs for us, and Trevor is a very athletic guy that we used in center field his sophomore year, third base his junior and now we're going to put him behind the plate because he has a great arm."
When Brown isn't catching, he will be using his arm on the mound, where he'll anchor Hart's three-man staff. Junior right-hander Josh Wagner and sophomore lefty Garrett Gooding will round out the rotation.
"Obviously, we don't want the kid to get hurt so going with three pitchers was for the best," Ozella said. "Josh and Garrett have both pitched well and are making strides."
Injuries have already hurt the Indians this year. Outfielder Cade Krueter is likely to miss the entire season with a shoulder injury, and C.J. Millar fouled a ball off his foot in the first inning of a Tuesday doubleheader, which left him questionable for Friday's Foothill League opener.
"We have gotten a lot thrown at us already this season," Ozella said.
It will be a fight for Canyon head coach Adam Schulhofer in his first year back with the Cowboys.
The Cowboys, coming off a fifth-place finish, hope Schulhofer can guide Canyon to more than the three wins in league play it tallied in 2008.
Seniors Robert Wright and Donnie Young are slated to lead the Cowboy staff, which Schulhofer looks at as a major factor in deciding whether the Cowboys can improve on last year's 3-12 league mark.
"We need to find ways to pitch out of jams," Schulhofer said. "There is a lot that we just haven't quite been able to put together. We're still trying to find a way to get the big hits and make routine plays."
When Wright isn't on the mound he will anchor the offense and catch, while third baseman Kyle Pressman figures to be a key cog in the Cowboy lineup.
"We only have three guys with real varsity experience," Schilhofer said, "This is going to be a new experience for a lot of these guys. We just have to find ways to capitalize on the opportunities we have."
Golden Valley will look to new head coach Scott Drootin to take the opportunity to turn around a program that did not tally a Foothill League victory last year.
Drootin has entered similar situations at Calabasas, Chaminade and Newbury Park, where he won a total of seven titles during a decade and a half of coaching.
"I like being in a rebuilding situation," Drootin said. "It's rewarding to be able to watch a program grow and to win somewhere where the fans aren't used to winning."
The Grizzlies only return four seniors, left-handed pitcher Nick Rhoades, outfielder Chris Smith, utility player Phillip Anderson and first baseman Brandon Kaufman.
"Nick has really improved over the winter and Brandon is the guy we are going to rely on in the middle of the order," Drootin said. "Our seniors are a big part of helping our younger guys learns how to play the game the right way."
The league openers feature Valencia visiting Saugus, Hart traveling to West Ranch and Golden Valley hosting Canyon. All three games start at 3:15 p.m. today.


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If Fort Lewis College was looking to wake up its football fanbase after an 0-10 season, it may have found the ideal way to do it.
John L. Smith, most recently the interim head coach at Arkansas, was announced as the 12th head coach of the Skyhawks Wednesday, effective March 1.
Smith will replace Cesar Rivas-Sandoval, who was 6-25 in three years at the helm before resigning last week.
Smith brings 19 years of head-coaching experience at the Division I level and 40-plus years of overall coaching experience to Durango. Most recently, he was not retained as interim boss at Arkansas after the Razorbacks stumbled to a 4-8 record after beginning the season ranked in the top 10. He took over that job after the dismissal of Bobby Petrino and eventually was replaced by former Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema.
His overall head coaching record is 136-93, with stops at Arkansas, Michigan State, Louisville, Utah State and Idaho, and his teams qualified for seven bowl games in his stops. He also was head coach at Weber State for nearly four months but didn�t coach a game before taking over at Arkansas.
Absolutely critical to the process was Smith�s relationship with FLC president Dene Kay Thomas and athletic director Gary Hunter. Hunter hired Smith for his first head coaching job at Idaho on New Year�s Eve 1988, and Thomas closely worked with both men as an academic dean, creating the kind of friendships that helped land a longtime Division I coach at a foundering DII program. And after so many years in the business, Smith said it�s nice to work with people he enjoys in a comfortable environment.
�If I didn�t know Dene Thomas, if I didn�t know Gary Hunter, it certainly would never have happened,� Smith said.
�We�re 24 years in the road, and I probably visited with him once a month for the last 20 years,� Hunter said. �And I kept track. ... When it looked like we might be making a change here, I just said, �John L., we can�t even remotely pay you the kind of money offered to be a (Division I) position or head coach, but what I can offer you is a beautiful environment and fun environment, and come on over and take a look.��
For Hunter and Thomas, Smith�s hire was the kind of coup that could illustrate to administration, boosters and fans they are serious about getting the football program on the same level as FLC�s other successful sports.
�I�ve had a number of boosters, fans and supporters indicate ... �You know, we just don�t see a commitment to football, and we think this can be a good football community.� ... We certainly hope now that this is an indication that we�re serious,� Hunter said. �John L. certainly is.�
Contract terms have yet to be set, but Hunter said Rivas made in the neighborhood of $67,000 per year and said he hopes to pay Smith a bit more than that figure.
Getting back to more of a grass-roots style of coaching greatly appealed to Smith and was a factor in his decision to come to Durango instead of seeking more lucrative coordinator or head coaching opportunities at a larger institution.
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Last week, Governor John Kasich announced that Wilmington will host his 2015 State of the State address. While Ohio governors have traditionally given their State of the State at the capitol, the address has been held outside of Columbus since 2012. This led me to wonder about education in the cities that have hosted the address ever since Governor Kasich has taken it on the road. The cities are Steubenville (2012), Lima (2013), Medina (2014), and Wilmington (2015). Here's a quick look at the education in these four Ohio towns, district only, since just Lima has brick-and-mortar charters (two of them). As you'll notice, Medina and Steubenville have relatively strong student achievement, while Lima lags behind. Given the sluggish student performance in Lima, it is of particular concern that the district does not have a single A-rated school along the Ohio's value-added measure, which estimates the academic impact of schools measured as achievement gains tracked over time.
Student Enrollment (left) and % Economic Disadvantage (right), 2013-14
Medina City Schools is by far the largest and most affluent of these school districts. Lima and Steubenville are of similar size and...
Chances are, you've heard something in the past year about test mania. Everyone from superintendents to parents to retired educators has an opinion; even Secretary of Education Arne Duncan suggested tests and test prep are dominating schools. Given all this attention, one might assume that students spend hundreds of hours each year taking tests—perhaps even more time than they spend actually learning. A recent report from Ohio Schools' Superintendent Richard Ross paints a very different picture.
The report, required by state law, reveals that Ohio students spend, on average, almost twenty hours taking standardized tests during the school year. (This doesn't include teacher-designed tests, but does include state tests.) Twenty hours is a good chunk of time, but when one considers that the school year in Ohio is about 1,080 hours total (it varies by district and grade level), that means testing only takes up about 2 percent of the year. (Report results show that students spend approximately fifteen additional hours practicing for tests, but this additional time only raises the total percentage to 3 percent).
Regardless of this small percentage, critics of standardized testing make some valid points. No one wants quality, in-depth learning...
In spring 2013, Ohio policymakers approved a two-year, $250 million investment aimed at spurring innovation in public schools. Known as the Straight A Fund, this competitive grant program has since catalyzed sixty new projects throughout the state, many of which are joint ventures between schools, vocational centers, ESCs, colleges, and businesses.
As a member of the grant advisory committee, I gained a firsthand view of the exciting projects happening around the state, everything from "fab labs" (a computer center outfitted with computer-aided drawing software and 3-D printers), outdoor greenhouses, and robotics workshops. Those who are interested in these projects should plan to attend this conference in Columbus on February 5.
In the upcoming legislative session, lawmakers should continue to invest in innovation by reauthorizing the Straight A Fund. At the same time, the legislature should also consider a few alterations that could give an even stronger boost to the most innovative project ideas. The suggestions are as follows:
Remove the cost-reduction mandate.
A small provision in the Straight A legislation required grantees to show "verifiable, credible, and permanent" cost reductions that would result from the grant. As a result, applications were evaluated significantly on...
Today marks the start of National School Choice Week. Across the country, over 11,000 events will take place from the intimate (school open houses and homeschool how-to sessions) to the enormous (Capitol Rallies across the country); from our own gathering to online events. It is one week of the year during which the focus is on the benefits parents and children gain from having the opportunity to choose the school that best fits their needs.
School choice in Ohio comes in many forms, including public charter schools, private schools (and voucher programs that help needy students pay private tuition), open enrollment, STEM schools, vocational centers, post-secondary enrollment options, and home schooling. Among these choice options, charter schools have clearly become the most prominent feature of Ohio's school-choice environment; they educate over 120,000 students, many of whom come from low-income families.
Given the high profile of charter schools, it is worth pausing on School Choice Week to honor the very best of Ohio's charter schools. The table below is an honor roll of Ohio charter schools. It displays twenty-two charter schools that were ranked in the top ten percent in either the state's performance-index score (student achievement) or value-added-index...
If you could redesign a city's education system from scratch, what would it look like? In New Orleans, a terrible tragedy created the need to do just that. Today, education in the city bears very little resemblance to what existed ten years ago. School types, locations, information systems, and application processes are now almost entirely market-driven to give parents the information they need and the schools they want. The unprecedented landscape change in New Orleans has also given rise to a unique opportunity to study school choice in "revealed preferences": what schools parents actually choose, and not just what they claim to want in a survey, when they must make a choice. The new report from Education Research Alliance for New Orleans compares choice data from immediately pre-Katrina with data collected two different years post-Katrina, as additional information and options settled into place over time. First the good news: After Katrina, the lowest-income families had greater access to schools with high test scores, average test scores increased across all students in the city, and even school bus transportation systems expanded (there's no choice if you can't get there). However, very-low-income families were less likely to choose schools with high...


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Twilight author Stephenie Meyer tells fans that "torches and pitchforks" won't be necessary in dealing with Chris Weitz, the new director who will helm the sequel to the wildly popular vampire franchise.
"I'm excited to work with Chris and I think he brings a lot to the table," Meyer writes in a post on her Web site aimed at calming the fears of fans upset that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke won't be back for the next movie.
Weitz, who has directed About a Boy and The Golden Compass, was tapped last week to replace Hardwicke in directing the sequel, New Moon.
"I've had the chance to talk to Chris, and I can tell you that he is excited by the story and eager to keep the movie as close to the book as possible," says Meyer, who is responding to the "worry and speculation" she's read on fan message boards.
"He is also very aware of you, the fans, and wants to keep you all extremely happy," she assures Twilighters.
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Bouba/kiki effect
The bouba/kiki effect is a non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. This effect was first observed by German-American psychologist Wolfgang Köhler in 1929.[1] In psychological experiments, first conducted on the island of Tenerife (in which the primary language is Spanish), Köhler showed forms similar to those shown at the right and asked participants which shape was called "takete" and which was called "baluba" ("maluma" in the 1947 version). Although not explicitly stated, Köhler implies that there was a strong preference to pair the jagged shape with "takete" and the rounded shape with "baluba".[2]
In 2001, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward Hubbard repeated Köhler's experiment using the words "kiki" and "bouba" and asked American college undergraduates and Tamil speakers in India "Which of these shapes is bouba and which is kiki?" In both groups, 95% to 98% selected the curvy shape as "bouba" and the jagged one as "kiki", suggesting that the human brain somehow attaches abstract meanings to the shapes and sounds in a consistent way.[3][not in citation given] Recent work by Daphne Maurer and colleagues shows that even children as young as 2 1/2 years old (too young to read) may show this effect as well.[4]
Ramachandran and Hubbard suggest that the kiki/bouba effect has implications for the evolution of language, because it suggests that the naming of objects is not completely arbitrary.[3][page needed] The rounded shape may most commonly be named "bouba" because the mouth makes a more rounded shape to produce that sound while a more taut, angular mouth shape is needed to make the sound "kiki".[citation needed] Alternatively, the distinction may be between coronal or dorsal consonants like /k/ and labial consonants like /b/.[citation needed] The presence of these "synesthesia-like mappings" suggest that this effect might be the neurological basis for sound symbolism, in which sounds are non-arbitrarily mapped to objects and events in the world.[citation needed]
More recently research indicated that the effect may be a case of ideasthesia.[5] Ideasthesia (alternative spelling ideaesthesia) is defined as a phenomenon in which activations of concepts (inducers) evoke perception-like experiences (concurrents). The name comes from the Greek idea and aisthesis, meaning "sensing concepts" or "sensing ideas", and was introduced by Danko Nikolić.
Individuals who have autism do not show as strong a preference. Where typically developing individuals agree with the standard result 88% of the time, individuals with autism agree only 56% of the time.[6]
- ^ Köhler, W (1929). Gestalt Psychology. New York: Liveright.
- ^ Köhler, W (1947). Gestalt Psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Liveright. p. 224.
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From the Department of Geriatrics (Drs Kagansky and Levy) and the Metabolic Service (Dr Knobler), Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, and the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
Ischemic stroke is a leading cause of death and long-term disability, and hyperglycemia is believed to aggravate cerebral ischemia.
To review animal and human studies on the relationship between hyperglycemia and brain ischemia that elucidate some of the mechanisms for the deleterious effect of hyperglycemia. To discuss present and future clinical recommendations for glucose control.
Computerized data sources and published indexes and articles from 1976 through 2000 were searched for human studies that evaluated the association between stroke and hyperglycemia, and studies focused on experimental models of hyperglycemic animals with focal and global brain ischemia.
Most human studies have shown that in acute stroke, admission hyperglycemia in patients with or without diabetes is associated with a worse clinical outcome than in patients without hyperglycemia. This association is more consistent in the nonlacunar type of stroke. Animal studies support these findings by showing both in global and in focal postischemic models that hyperglycemia exaggerates the following damaging processes: intracellular acidosis, accumulation of extracellular glutamate, brain edema formation, blood-brain barrier disruption, and tendency for hemorrhagic transformation. Insulin treatment of hyperglycemic animals was found to have a beneficial effect in focal and global brain ischemia, which may be mediated by the glucose-reduction effect or by a direct neuroprotection.
Most studies show the deleterious effect of early hyperglycemia, especially in patients with nonlacunar focal or global ischemia. Clinical trials of intensive insulin treatment are needed. Meanwhile simple measures to avoid excessive hyperglycemia are recommended.
DIABETES MELLITUS is associated with increased risk of stroke and coronary heart disease and remains an independent risk factor for both after adjusting for other known risk factors.1- 3 Many studies have shown that patients with diabetes have a less favorable course than those without following myocardial infarction (MI).4,5 Furthermore, stress hyperglycemia in patients without diabetes was found to be associated with increased in-hospital mortality after MI.6 The Diabetes and Insulin-Glucose Infusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction (DIGAMI) Study has recently provided compelling evidence that achieving euglycemia during acute MI resulted in a significant reduction of long-term mortality.7 These results have revolutionized the standard care of patients with diabetes and acute MI.
Stroke, the most prevalent disabling disorder in western countries,8 and MI have many similarities. Hyperglycemia has also been associated with worse outcome of ischemic stroke in many human and animal studies. However the associations between diabetes, hyperglycemia, and hyperglycemic control and stroke outcome are still controversial issues. In addition, there are no established guidelines based on controlled studies that define optimal glucose control during acute brain ischemia. These issues will be discussed in this review.
Several studies9- 12 showed that patients with diabetes who develop stroke have a less favorable outcome than those without; however, a few other studies did not confirm these findings.13,14 Interestingly, most studies, including large trials, have shown that admission hyperglycemia is a risk factor for poor outcome following focal and global cerebral ischemia.15- 19 Weir et al17 performed a long-term follow-up of 750 nondiabetic patients with acute stroke and, after adjusting for age, sex, type of stroke, smoking, and blood pressure, admission hyperglycemia remained a significant independent predictor of long-term higher mortality and morbidity. Data from a multicenter trial (ORG 10172 in acute Stroke Treatment [TOAST]) that included 1259 patients found that in patients with nonlacunar stroke, higher blood glucose levels were associated with worse outcome at 3 months.18 Adjustments for age, stroke severity on admission, other vascular risk factors, and diabetes mellitus did not alter this result. One possibility is that these studies may have included patients with undiagnosed diabetes, and some smaller studies support this possibility by performing additional laboratory tests for glycosylated hemoglobin showing that prestroke hyperglycemia was a predictor of worse outcome.9,10 Other studies, which did not confirm these findings, suggested that admission hyperglycemia is a marker of extensive brain damage leading to a greater increase in stress hormones resulting in hyperglycemia.13,19,20 However, van Kooten et al,21 who also found a significant association between hyperglycemia on admission and stroke outcome, did not find a correlation between catecholamine and glucose levels, implying that increased stress was not responsible for the hyperglycemia. In conclusion, although the association between admission hyperglycemia and worse outcome in acute stroke has been shown in most studies, it is still unclear whether it is related to diabetes (diagnosed or undiagnosed previously) or to a stress reaction.
A major difficulty in investigating the role of diabetes and hyperglycemia in acute stroke is the heterogeneous nature of diabetes/hyperglycemia in regard to the site of ischemia, the degree of vasculopathy, and the state of reperfusion. For example, in the TOAST trial, higher admission blood glucose levels were associated with worse outcome in nonlacunar strokes.18 In lacunar strokes, the relationship between hyperglycemia and outcome was inconsistent and differed between those who did and did not receive a low-molecular-weight heparinoid. These observations may be related to the findings in animal models of focal ischemia: in models with reperfusion, hyperglycemia increased infarct size, while in animals without reperfusion, hyperglycemia seemed to have no adverse effect and might even have been beneficial.22- 24 These findings may be owing to less blood reaching the territory of the end arteries—insufficient blood to cause lactate accumulation and acidosis.22,23 Under these conditions hyperglycemia might even be beneficial in maintaining energy metabolism.24 End-artery infarctions resemble lacunar strokes, which are very common in patients with diabetes.25 Therefore, studies aimed at evaluating the effect of hyperglycemia on stroke outcome but that do not separate lacunar from nonlacunar strokes may be misleading.
The correlation between hyperglycemia and occurrence of hemorrhagic strokes or hemorrhagic transformations of ischemic strokes is also controversial. Some studies point toward lower frequency of intracerebral hemorrhages in patients with diabetes. In the Copenhagen Stroke Study,15 intracerebral hemorrhages were 6 times less frequent in patients with diabetes than in those without. Other smaller studies found that hyperglycemia and diabetes may be associated with an increased incidence of hemorrhagic transformation of ischemic infarcts.26,27 Hyperglycemia was found to be the only independent predictor of intracerebral hemorrhage in a study of 138 patients with ischemic stroke treated with tissue plasminogen activator.28 Serum glucose levels higher than 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) were associated with a 25% symptomatic hemorrhage rate.28
Animal studies have the advantage of controlling parameters such as timing of hyperglycemia, site of ischemia, and state of perfusion, and they provide strong evidence that acute hyperglycemia has a detrimental effect on ischemic brain damage.29- 33 Mayer and Yamaguchi29 were the first to show that acute hyperglycemia in monkeys accentuated hypoxic-ischemic brain damage. In their study, the hyperglycemic animals suffered greater neurological deficit with extensive brain damage and widespread necrosis involving the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, brainstem, and cerebellum than nonhyperglycemic animals.29 Pulsinelli et al30 described severe neuropathological changes with brain edema in ischemic brains of hyperglycemic rats. In another study of rats with experimental global brain ischemia, acute hyperglycemia was associated with extensive lesions in the neocortex and striatum compared with only mild damage in normoglycemic rats.31 Hyperglycemic rats had a marked reduction in neuronal counts compared with the normoglycemic animals, with prominent changes in the vascular endothelium and perivascular reactive microglia. These data suggest that the detrimental influence of hyperglycemia is initially mediated by an action on the vascular endothelium leading to widespread foci of infarction and neuronal loss.31 In animals with focal ischemia, the results are less consistent; however, hyperglycemia has been shown to increase brain damage in models with temporary ischemia and reperfusion.32,33
Animal models elucidated some of the mechanisms of the deleterious effects of hyperglycemia on the brain. The most consistent finding in animal studies is the correlation between hyperglycemia and acidosis.34- 36 During an ischemic event, local increase in anaerobic glycolysis leads to intracellular acidosis occurring shortly after the ischemic insult. Animals with acute hyperglycemia developed the most acidic mean cortical pH as well as higher cerebral lactate concentration, leading to an increase in neuronal and glial damage.34- 36 Enhanced acidosis may exaggerate ischemic damage by mechanisms such as increasing free-radical formation, perturbing intracellular signal transduction, and activating endonucleases.35 A direct effect of lactic acid accumulation has been proposed, based on studies in which injection of lactic acid into the cerebral cortex led to histological changes resembling ischemic infarction.37,38
The second mechanism that links hyperglycemia to increased brain damage is the effect of hyperglycemia on excitatory amino acids. It has been established that excitatory amino acids, notably glutamate, play a central role in neuronal death by activation of postsynaptic glutamate receptors, particularly N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors.39- 41 This activation leads to an excessive influx of calcium through ion channels, mitochondrial injury, and eventual cell death. Recently, it was shown in hyperglycemic rats that the rise in extracellular glutamate concentrations following forebrain ischemia was more pronounced than in normoglycemic animals. The difference was observed in the neocortical regions of the brain and correlated with exaggerated cell damage.42
Hyperglycemia in animal models of brain ischemia was found to exaggerate edema formation,30,43 blood-brain barrier injury,44 and hemorrhagic transformation of the infarct. In a model of middle cerebral artery occlusion, a 5-fold increase in hemorrhagic infarct and a 25-fold increase in extensive hemorrhages were observed in hyperglycemic cats compared with the normoglycemic animals.45
The "ischemic penumbra" is the region surrounding a focal cerebral infarct showing selective neuronal damage with loss of electrical activity while retaining some metabolic viability.46 This area might be rescued by improving the metabolic milieu and arresting the ischemic cascade.47 An accumulating body of evidence derived from animal models shows that during acute focal and global ischemia, insulin therapy reduces ischemic brain damage and may be neuroprotective.48- 55 In a model of forebrain ischemia in rats, insulin not only reduced histological injury but improved neurobehavioral outcome.49,50
It is still unclear whether this effect is due only to the effect of insulin on reducing glucose levels or is a direct effect.48 In a global ischemic model, it was found that insulin has an effect in reducing neuronal necrosis in the major brain regions regardless of its effect on glucose levels.51 In addition, insulin, and to a lesser extent insulinlike growth factor 1 (IGF-1), reduced ischemic damage when injected directly into the brain ventricles.52 Therefore, it was suggested that in transient global ischemia, insulin and IGF-1 have a direct neuroprotective effect on central nervous system parenchyma. In contrast to global ischemia, in focal ischemia most of the neuroprotective effects of insulin are due to its effect on glucose levels, and administration of a glucose infusion concomitant with insulin abolished most of its effect.53 In minimizing acute brain ischemia, insulin may also have a beneficial synergistic effect when, for example, used concomitantly with dizocilpine, a noncompetitive NMDA antagonist.54 A study comparing treatment of diabetic rats during acute ischemic events with dizocilpine alone or with a combination of dizocilpine and insulin found an additive neuroprotective effect.54
We do not yet have the results from controlled clinical trials evaluating the effect of insulin in stroke. Recently, a randomized clinical controlled trial (The Glucose Insulin in Stroke Trial [GIST]) was started.55 This study is designed to determine whether glucose-potassium-insulin infusion and maintaining euglycemia in patients with acute stroke and mild to moderate hyperglycemia can improve outcome.
Although results from controlled clinical trials assessing insulin therapy in patients with stroke are still lacking, the data presented from animal experimental studies and human observational studies advocate the need for avoiding early hyperglycemia in patients with nonlacunar stroke and global ischemia. It is therefore advisable to preclude administration of intravenous dextrose-containing solutions during the first 24 hours of hospitalization. In accord with this suggestion, the current American Heart Association guidelines state that during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, drugs should be given in non–glucose-containing solutions to avoid worsening of the neurological outcome.56 In addition, glucocorticoids should be given only if clearly indicated and under close monitoring to avoid hyperglycemia. When treating hyperglycemia with insulin, care should be taken to ensure that hypoglycemia is prevented, as it can also cause brain damage.57 Until further data are available, it is difficult to define the optimal glucose concentrations. The GIST55 evaluated the safety of 24 hours of glucose-insulin infusion with the aim of keeping glucose levels between 72 and 126 mg/dL (4 and 7 mmol/L). This study showed that lowering plasma glucose levels was safe without significant risk of hypoglycemia or 4-week excess mortality. However, until further results prove the effectivness of this approach, it cannot be regarded as standard practice. A reasonable target in most cases is to lower blood glucose levels to between 100 and 200 mg/dL (5.5 and 11 mmol/L).58 The decision whether to treat the individual patient intensively with insulin, aiming at normalizition of blood glucose levels, has also to take into account the clinical setting, ie, the ability of the medical staff to provide frequent glucose monitoring.
Accepted for publication April 3, 2001.
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Guinea: Literacy programme aims to raise women from poverty
05 September 2003
Some 30,000 Guinean women are set to benefit from a three-year literacy campaign launched during celebrations to mark Guinean Women's Day on 27 August.
Minister for Women, Child and Social Welfare Hadja Mariama Aribot launched the campaign to promote culture, literacy and job training for women, Inter Press Service (IPS) reported.
The campaign theme is "Women's Struggle Against Poverty Through Learning How To Read".
Some 62 percent of Guineans, in a population of eight million, are illiterate; of these, 80 percent are women, IPS reported.
Apart from an illiteracy problem at national level, there are disparities between Guinea's four regions - with the lowest illiteracy rate in the Lower Guinea.
"Illiteracy among women is the reason why certain traditional customs, such as female genital mutilation persist. Prostitution and the exploitation of women are often due to ignorance," Aribot said.
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PLUM - In the postseason, extra chances equal elimination.
The young Bellwood-Antis girls basketball team learned that lesson Friday night.
Burrell took advantage of bonus opportunities to post a 65-46 win over the Lady Blue Devils in a PIAA Class AA first-round game at Plum High School.
"They killed us on the glass. We had them down for over 40 second-chance points. That's just too many," Bellwood-Antis coach Jim Swaney said. "Between the second-chance points and we committed six turnovers above the foul line, which led to easy layups, that's 45 or 46 that you're handing them. In a game like this, it'll kill you and it killed us tonight."
The Lady Buccaneers (23-3) take on Sharpsville, a 38-32 winner over Brookville, in Tuesday's second round at a time and site to be determined by the PIAA.
"It's always nice to have the opportunity to keep playing," Burrell coach Meighan Ziemianski said. "After that last loss (55-19 to Bishop Canevin in District 7 semifinals), we had a bad taste in our mouths. We definitely didn't want to end on that note, for sure."
Bellwood Antis (24-3) struggled to find its offensive rhythm in the first quarter, but only trailed 10-6.
"We took a lot of first shots off the pass and things we haven't done all year, but we did tonight," Swaney said. "They are kids. Their effort is there; we are still very young and we'll learn from it and get better."
The Lady Blue Devils' defense provided a spark as their full-court press wreaked havoc and created some easy baskets off turnovers. That jolt fueled Bellwood-Antis to a 16-14 lead when Bailey Swogger completed her three-point play with 5:07 left in the first half.
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In the frame, the Lady Blue Devils got within three points, 38-35, on a Lindsey Mercer hoop, but Erika Finn answered with a trey to push the margin to five.
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Lady Buccaneers sophomore point guard Sydney Bordonaro led all scorers with 27 points.
"She was killing us. She is a very good player. She was hurting us with her penetration," Swaney said. "She probably also had six or seven assists to go with that point total. She certainly broke us down defensively and hurt us with her shot and her passing ability."
Katy Leamer paced Bellwood-Antis with 16 points. Ana Hollen added 12, while Swogger finished with nine.
"We have great kids and they play hard. It just wasn't meant to be tonight. We'll bounce back from that. We're young," Swaney said. "We're going to miss our seniors, Lindsey Mercer and Katy Leamer, immensely. They are great seniors and leaders. With some seniors, when they leave your program, you worry about them. With those two, I don't have to worry about them. They are solid kids and even better people than they are players.
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BURRELL (65): Manga 2 0-0 4, Cercone 1 1-1 3, Bordonaro 11 4-4 27, Oddis 3 0-0 6, Myers 6 4-8 16, Finn 3 2-4 9. Totals 26 11-17 65.
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