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Woody Williams was pounded in 2.2 innings, allowing six runs on eight hits and two walks. The right-hander, on a rehab assignment from San Diego, had not allowed a hit in three innings of work for Lake Elsinore on June 21.
Tim Stauffer piggybacked Williams, coming on in the third to get the final out with a runner on base. He would give up four runs, three earned, on nine hits and a walk in 5.1 innings of work. The right-hander served up two long balls and has given up five over his last three games. It is the third time this year he has yielded a multi-homer game. It is also the sixth time this year he has given up eight hits or more in a game. While the opposition is hitting .299 off him this year, he has limited hitters to a .235 mark with runners in scoring position.
Bobby Hill went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI, his sixth multi-hit game in 14 June contests. The second baseman is hitting .352 for the month with 19 hits in 54 at bats. He has an RBI in five of his last seven games and is hitting .289 with runners in scoring position. Hill has batted in six different positions within the lineup, finding his most success when he hits ninth in the order. He is hitting .421 in ten games from the nine spot.
Mobile lost game one 2-0 to Montgomery (Devil Rays), lost game two 6-3
With both teams tossing blanks through five it became a contest of who would blink first. That happened in the sixth when Mike Ekstrom was touched for two runs – the lone runs of the game. He ended his night with a complete game, tossing the full six innings, giving up five hits and not walking a batter to take his second loss in as many starts for Mobile. He has, however, given up just three earned runs, five total, in his two outings, and has surrendered five earned runs over his last six starts dating back to his time with Lake Elsinore.
Mobile managed just two hits in the front half of the doubleheader, one apiece for Drew Macias and Stephen Smitherman. Both had identical lines in the second game, ending their nights with three hits in five at bats. Macias added an RBI, his eighth in the last six games. He is 8-for-18 over that span.
Bubba Nelson came on with two inherited runners on base in the fifth inning of game two and allowed both to score as well as two of his own while not recording an out. He gave up three walks, tying a season-high, and a double before exiting the game with his fifth loss. He came into the game with a 0.90 ERA over the month of June and had given up runs in three of his last 14 appearances. He also had a 1.86 ERA as a reliever this season for Mobile with a .201 average against.
Lake Elsinore had the night off
Fort Wayne won 10-3 over Lansing (Blue Jays)
Matt Bush got his first hit of the year, a single that drove in a run in the fourth inning and added another knock in four at bats. He had begun the year 0-for-7 at the dish as he comes back from a broken leg. Bush hit .221 with 100 hits in 453 at bats in 126 games for Fort Wayne last year. The shortstop has not made an error this year in five games after making 38 errors last year.
The hot hitting for Nick Hundley continued on Monday as the catcher collected two hits in four trips, knocking in four runs. He extended his hitting streak to 14 games in the process, the top mark in the system this year after surpassing the mark of 13 by teammate Seth Johnston. His four RBI's are the highest mark of the season for the catcher with the only other time he knocked in that many coming on July 7, 2005 while with Eugene. In his last 13 games, Hundley is hitting .396 with 17 RBI's.
Fabian Jimenez walked a season-high six but ended his night with two runs allowed over seven innings of work, the second time this year he has gone seven. He yielded four hits and struck out two, evening his record at 5-5. Jimenez won five games over 27 games, 26 starts, last season. The left-hander has walked four or more in six of his 13 starts. He has limited the opposition to 14 hits in 67 at bats with runners in scoring position.
Eugene lost 6-4 to Spokane (Rangers)
Ernesto Frieri got his first start of the year and recorded all three of his first inning outs by way of the strikeout, although an unearned run did cross the dish. His night ended after 3.2 innings with four runs, three earned, on four hits and a walk on his ledger. He surrendered a homer, something he hadn't done in 46.1 innings with Peoria last season – although he did give up one blast in his 3.1 innings with Lake Elsinore. He has not given up more than one jack in any year, including the 2003 and 2004 seasons. The right-hander has given up eight runs, four earned, in 9.1 innings over two leagues this year.
Casey Smith was perfect on the night, going 3-for-3 with two walks, giving him five hits and four walks through four games. It was the first time in his professional career that he has reached base five times in the same game. The first baseman reached base 16 times in 25 games last year with Eugene and never reached base more than twice in the same game. After hitting .357 with 11 extra base hits and 18 RBI's in 21 games for the AZL Padres, Smith hit .101 for the Emeralds.
Nick Tucci, a 24th round selection in this year's draft out of Uconn, made his fifth relief appearance of the year, giving up a hit but not allowing a run. The right-hander has given up a hit in each of his appearances this year but has yet to surrender a run in 5.2 innings. An All-Big East First Team selection, Tucci won nine games for the Huskies, posting a 3.67 ERA over 83.1 innings in his return from Tommy John surgery the year before. He won nine straight games during one stretch of the season.
AZL Padres lost 14-9 to AZL Athletics
Tyler Mead, a 17th round pick out of Skyview (Wash.) High School made his system debut, tossing 3.2 innings of two run ball on five hits and three walks while striking out three. Mead was 5-3 with a 3.55 ERA this past season. An All-GHSL selection, the right-hander struck out 49 in 51.1 innings while walking 24. The opposition hit .253 off him. "Raw high school kid with life in his arm," Grady Fuson, the Padres' vice president of scouting and player development, said after he was selected in the 2006 MLB Draft.
After getting out of a jam, stranding two inherited runners in the fourth, Pascual Juan would not punch another out onto his card for the day. He faced five batters in the fifth and all reached base and eventually scored. He gave up two hits, walked two, hit a batter, and tossed a wild pitch. Juan, 20, had a 2.97 ERA in 39.1 innings with the DSL Padres last year. We walked 20 and struck out 28 with the opposition hitting .278 off him. Pitching coach Dave Rajisch, in Peoria to mentor those in extended spring and who stay on with the squad, has raved about his potential.
Outfielder Yancarlo Angulo notched his first hit stateside and ended the day in perfection, going 1-for-1 with a run scored, an RBI and four walks. He earned an outfield assist when he gunned the ball to Ali Solis who made the relay throw to get the runner at third. Angulo hit .218 last year for the DSL Padres with 22 hits in 101 at bats over 38 games. He scored 17 runs, showed some patience with 20 walks and whiffed 32 times. He also stole nine bags in 13 attempts.


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WOODINVILLE crushed the Kangs 15-6, 15-10, 15-9. Junior Jenny Chong had 4 aces and 17 digs; junior Sara Warner posted 15 kills and 2 blocks; and sophomore Beth Groove had 6 kills and 3 digs.
The Falcons beat Bellevue 16-14, 15-12, 10-15, 12-15, 15-9.
Boys Tennis
WOODINVILLE crushed Eastlake 5-4 with wins in singles by senior Chris Yorks (3-6, 6-0, 7-6), senior Adam Ford (6-2, 6-1), and sophomore Sina Nazemi (6-3, 6-2). Doubles wins included Ford and Yorks (3-6, 6-3, 14-12), and Chris Ross and Craig Wolfe (6-2, 7-6, 11-9). The Falcons are 2-5 on the season.
Girls swimming
Oct. 2:
WOODINVILLE upended Lake Washington 97-89, with Falcon wins in six events. Sara Schmede took the 50 free (25.77) and the 100 breaststroke (1:11.55). Megan Dunlop took first in the 100 backstroke (1:06.93). Megan Ternowski won the 100 free (59.80). Stacy Rapp took first in diving (138.15). Schmede, Ternowski, Laura Warner, and Hillary Bingman combined to win the 200 free relay (1:51.51). The Falcons are 3-2 on the season and 1-0 in the division.
Boys Golf
Sept. 30:
WOODINVILLE topped Redmond 389-402 at Echo Falls Country Club. Sean Peterson had the low score for the Falcons, shooting a 72, followed by Mason Thompson's 74 and Griffin Frye's 79. Ryan Carlton and Aaron Stewart both shot 82 and Jeremy Taylor shot a 90.
Oct. 1:
WOODINVILLE brought back the win after a 398-398 tie, edging out Juanita last week when Mason Thompson birdied on the first hole of the sudden-death playoff. Medalist for the match was Aaron Stewart with 73, followed by Peterson's 74, Thompson's 85, Frye's 78, Carlton's 88, and Putz's 90.
Oct. 2:
The Falcons stung Lake Washington with their 378-393 win with Shawn Peterson shooting a 71, Mason Thompson a 72, Aaron Stewart a 72, Griffin Frye 77, Ryan Carlton 86, and Justin Putz 96. This was WOODINVILLE's third straight win in the week.

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LOCK HAVEN - A defamation suit filed by Lock Haven University Athletic Director Sharon E. Taylor has, in its roots, an ardent enthusiasm for all things sports.
The direction of athletics at LHU, a program under intense scrutiny by alumni, athletes, supporters and others, appears to have sparked a battle royal between a local group and Taylor.
Whether the actions of Preserve the Legacy of Wrestling (PLOW), the local group in question, overstepped the bounds of civil law is now a matter for the courts.
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What is clear from the legal action, filed earlier this month, is Taylor's desire to preserve her reputation against intense criticism, coupled with a local group's strong desire for change in the LHU athletic program.
The evidence of those two contrasting viewpoints can be found in a 58-page document filed in the Clinton County Court of Common Pleas.
The spark that, from court documents, appears to have lit the fuse in the long-smoldering debate, was a document called "Lock Haven University Athletics, At a Crossroads."
In a "who we are" segment, PLOW said it was comprised of alumni and former students.
In that document, PLOW complained of a "completely deteriorated" football program culminating in a winless season, a breakdown in leadership within the athletic department, a less than competitive wrestling program, problems with fundraising for sports, the elimination of a men's swimming team, and the "horribly ill-timed and inhumane cancellation" of the university's baseball season on the eve of a playoff run.
The document also called for Taylor to be replaced.
The principle parties in the complaint:
n Plaintiff Sharon Taylor, 524 Park Ave., Lock Haven, who filed the complaint against:
n Austin Shanfelter, of 16845 Fox Den, Fort Myers, Fla.
n Ronald Bowes, of 220 W. Water St., Lock Haven.
n Neil Turner, of 510 E. Guardlock Drive, Lock Haven.
n Thane Turner, of 222 Deer Field Lane, Lock Haven.
n Jerry Swope, of 857 W. Bald Eagle St., Lock Haven.
n Todd Bartley, general manager of ESPN 104.1, 210 Market St., Suite 207, Williamsport
n Preserve the Legacy of Wrestling (PLOW), an organization comprised of Lock Haven University alumni, former student athletes and community members.
PLOW was formed as an organization about May 2009 with the stated purpose to ensure the continued success of Lock Haven University athletic programs, particularly the wrestling program.
PLOW and its leadership, Shanfelter, Bowes, the Turners, Swope and Bartley were critical of the Lock Haven University athletic department and Taylor.
The suit alleges the defendants have published and distributed literature containing numerous defamatory falsities and inaccuracies in order to portray the plaintiff in a negative light and to accomplish the organization's ultimate goal of forcing the plaintiff out of her position as athletic director.
The suit alleges PLOW and the individual defendants have also used various media outlets, including ESPN Radio and The Express, as a means for publishing and disseminating their defamatory statements about Taylor.
The Crossroads Pamphlet
The Crossroads pamphlet was created and distributed by PLOW and titled "Lock Haven University Athletics in a Crossroads."
Published on or about July 12, 2009, it was distributed to the PLOW membership and appeared on PLOW's Web site.
The pamphlet described what PLOW and its members viewed as problems with the Lock Haven University wrestling program and the athletics department in general.
Taylor alleges that in the Crossroads, were "a multitude of misstatements and outright lies" about Taylor and her performance as athletic director.
The alleged libelous statements:
n The Crossroads publication stated "$140,000 in donations was lost because alumni feel the athletic director has not provided direction in athletic program."
n The publication states "There also is an ongoing question about a shortfall of approximately $20,000 in student government funds that were directed to the football program. No one can seem to account for this money," suggesting that these funds have in some way been misappropriated.
n The publication states a student-athlete, Landis Wright, reported NCAA regulation violations to Taylor, and, as a result, the student-athlete's scholarship was revoked.
n The publication states the men's swimming team coach filed a lawsuit against Lock Haven University and the athletic director for wrongful termination following the elimination of the men's swimming program.
n The publication states some sports at Lock Haven University are failing due to a lack of support on part of the athletic director.
According to the legal filing, the statements were false because:
n There is nothing to substantiate any loss in donations was in any way attributable to Taylor.
n There was no shortfall funds for the football program.
n No NCAA regulation violations were reported to Taylor by Landis Wright or anyone acting on his behalf. Wright's failure to receive a scholarship was due to his refusal to properly sign all paperwork which was a prerequisite to participating in the wrestling program. Wright appeared in Taylor's office on two occasions for the purpose of signing said paperwork. On both occasions, Wright's father had written statements on the documents such as "signed under duress." Upon review by Lock Haven University's legal counsel, the paperwork was rejected, and the deadline for completing the paperwork and joining the team lapsed.
n No lawsuit has been filed against Lock Haven University or its athletic director by the former men's swimming team coach. In fact, this program was eliminated over 33 years ago, in 1976, due to a lack of student participation.
n No "failures" of any sports programs are attributable to Taylor. Instead, a number of factors influence the success of each program, including, coaching, recruiting, and the ability to generate funds for the program.
The 'Viewpoint' article:
On Oct. 28, 2009 an op-ed page article appeared in The Express entitled "Time for change in LHU athletic department is at hand." The submission was authored by Shanfelter and Swope.
The article criticized Taylor and her performance as athletic director and concluded Taylor should be replaced. The lawsuit says in doing so, the defendants made several false and defamatory allegations against Taylor, including:
n Stating "the athletic director said she is considering dropping the wrestling program to Division II status." This allegation is false.
n Suggesting allegations of NCAA violations were improperly investigated under Taylor's direction. Taylor claims all allegations of NCAA violations during her tenure as athletic director have been handled through the process that is the standard procedure established by the NCAA: through an internal investigation and report.
The 'Emergency Update'
On Oct. 28, 2009, PLOW released an "Emergency Update" bulletin, which was published and disseminated by David La Torre, the owner of a public relations firm in Harrisburg.
According to the legal action, the bulletin again targeted Taylor and her performance as athletic director, contained a multitude of false and defamatory statements about Taylor, including the following:
n The publication said Taylor has informed new wrestling coach Robbie Waller, as well as the men's and women's basketball coaches, their programs would receive no university funding for scholarships next year. "We believe this directly contradicts her promise to Waller that scholarships would be fully funded by the university for two years... It is very apparent the athletic director did the old 'bait and switch' to Robbie Waller to get him to take the job in order to cover the program's shortfalls under her watch."
n The publication also stated "Now the coaches are being told they have to raise the money (for scholarships) themselves."
n Finally, the publication alleged Taylor, at the same time, was "preparing to establish the women's field hockey team into a new conference (resulting in significant additional expenses related to travel)" and "this is a true example of the athletic director's unequal treatment history."
Those statements were false, the suit alleges, due to the following:
n Taylor never made any promises to Robbie Weller, nor to any other coach, that the university would fully fund scholarships. The established protocol at Lock Haven University (is) coaches are responsible for securing a substantial portion of the funds for their program's scholarships... Instead, this is the procedure which has been in place at the university for years.
n The change in conference for the women's field hockey team is actually expected to result in a reduction in expenditures for the university. Moreover, Taylor, throughout her tenure with the university, has never displayed an "unequal treatment history" with regard to the funding of athletic programs.
The LHU Foundation
In late October 2009, PLOW released a publication entitled "LHU Foundation Creates Special Fund," which was published and disseminated by La Torre.
The publication said Taylor since rescinded her promise to fully fund scholarships in the wrestling program for two years. "We have heard from a lot of former LHU wrestlers who previously didn't participate in PLOW, but are now prepared to help us with our cause."
Again, the suit alleges, Taylor never promised full university funding for wrestling scholarships, and the statement by PLOW was made in an attempt to portray Taylor in a negative light and to make it appear that she is untrustworthy and dishonest.
ESPN Radio
Todd Bartley, general manager of ESPN Radio, Williamsport is a "member" of PLOW "and/or has been actively involved in the PLOW organization from its inception," the suit alleges.
According to the legal action, Bartley, in his role at ESPN radio, has used the station as an outlet to disseminate the false information provided by PLOW.
Bartley has allowed his name and that of ESPN to be associated with the public effort to discredit Taylor, the suit alleges.
Concurrent with with those actions, the suit says, ESPN has published on its Web site www.espnwilliamsport.com, a document entitled "Taylor and LHU Lose Another Court Battle."
The article was based on a press release from a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania by Joseph Patrick Guerriero against Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
The legal action said Taylor is not and never was a party to the lawsuit. "Bartley and/or ESPN embellished the headline for the purpose of discrediting Taylor to falsely attribute the involvement in the lawsuit to her," the suit alleges.
There are seven specific counts based upon the information above.
Five allege libel, one asks for damages due to the "infliction of emotional distress," and a final action alleges a conspiracy among the defendants.
In each count, the plaintiff alleges:
n False statements were made with full knowledge that they were false and with reckless disregard as to whether they were false.
By spreading false information concerning Taylor and the performance of her job duties, the defendants intentionally and improperly damaged Taylor's good name and reputation.
There is no privilege or justification for the conduct.
n The statements about Taylor's conduct and character adversely affect her fitness for her profession.
n The actions as described above were intentional, willful, and wanton, and they were made with actual malice. Each count request the court enter judgment in her favor and against defendants setting damages in excess of $50,000, "as well as punitive damages, and order any other such relief as the Court deems just and proper under the circumstances, including interest and costs of litigation."
The action was filed on Taylor's behalf by attorney Kathleen V. Yurchak of State College.


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Farewell, Cathy, We Knew Thee Too WellKJ Dell'Antonia
Did you love it? Did you loathe it? DId you love it and then learn to loathe it? You can't possibly have missed it. 34 years, 30 books, and countless unfortunate mugs, greeting cards and refrigerator doors later, Cathy Guisewite, creator of the "Cathy" comic strip, is calling it quits.
She wants to spend more time with her family. She's tired of deadlines. And it's true that with the strip still running in 1700 newspapers (I'm frankly a little surprised there still are 1700 newspapers), no one can say she's not still a success. But is it possible that we can finally admit that Cathy jumped the shark in about 1989, and never looked back? (And, in spite of countless shopping trips, never changed her wardrobe much, either.)
I actually adore the "funnies," I grew up on the daily strips in the paper and they were the first thing I read on newsprint. My family was one that cut them out, hung them on bulletin boards and handed them off to one another as tiny talismans. If you gave someone a really good, really relevant comic, you were essentially saying "I get you."
If you handed someone a "Cathy" comic, you were pretty much saying just the opposite. "I like to think that 'Cathy' is the voice for women who can't say, 'I feel stupid about something silly, but it still really ruined my day," Guisewite told the Chicago Tribune in an interview about the end of the "Cathy" strip, planned for October. In the same interview, she admitted to preferring to write about stereotypes about women like their feelings about weight, style and commitment.
Unfortunately, for many women, "stupid" and "silly" came closer to describing the way they felt about the character than about the things that happened during their day. It might be true that we struggle with trying on bathing suits, ice cream cravings and men who don't call or, since Cathy's marriage to longtime boyfriend Irving in 2004, husbands who hog the remote. But we—ok, I— don't want to read about them anymore, or if we do, we would prefer not to read the exact same joke we read on the same subject in the same forum this time last year. Focusing on stereotypes may be fun, but it's also repetitive. Cathy had its moments (particularly on the topic of mother-daughter relationships) but it worked best in small doses. If you could read it only during some relevant, brief period of your life, it might have stayed fresh, the way Seventeen magazine feels new to each group of 14-year-olds, who cast it aside the instant they reach its title age.
But read regularly over the course of 34 years (and I probably came close; with the exception of my decade in New York I've always flipped to the comics at least once a week in every town I've lived in, and even in New York I sought them out whenever an appropriate paper came my way) Cathy palled, and once she became something sent to me occasionally by my tone-deaf grandmother, I came to resent her continued flailing, incompetent existence. She never changed, never grew, never kicked the bathing suit saleswoman in the shin and just bought something she felt good in. Even her dog was more canny. I might feel hapless some days, but I never felt like I needed an equally hapless alter-ego.
I prefer For Better or For Worse, whose characters grow and change with time and the times, even now that it's in flashback mode. I miss Bloom County, I miss Calvin and Hobbes. And for true comic art, for change and growth and literary but biting story lines, one comic strip, Doonesbury, is always on point. I won't miss Cathy. In fact, I'm glad to see her go. But when Garry Trudeau hangs up Mike Doonesbury's hat, I'll mourn.


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A couple more bad lines and a couple more cheesy special effectsand Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest could easily have been remembered as the "Showgirls" of action pictures.
One earful of the "touching" scene between United States Marshal John Kruger (Arnold) and important computer disk-holding person Lee Cullen (Vanessa Williams) causes the kind of shakes usually reserved for devoted alcoholics. After John has saved Lee from certain death, he consoles her during the burning of her credit cards and driver's license. Says Arnold, pointing to Lee's heart, "What you are is in here and no one can take that away from you." Thanks for showing us that human side, Arnold -- Zsa Zsa Gabor couldn't have delivered that line any better.
Presumably, director Charles Russell got $100 million to do this picture because he was lucky enough to fall into a pile of doo named Jim Carrey and helm "The Mask." Prior to that he had directed such enduring classics as "A Nightmare on Elm Street III" and "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." If the producers were searching for quantity over quality they certainly got what they paid for. Arnold's fall out of a plane looks a hell of a lot like "Drop Zone." Then there's the shooting out of an aquarium scene from "Mission Impossible." When a lovable Italian sidekick hooks up with Arnold, the movie suddenly becomes "Lethal Weapon 3." Arnold walks into a gay bar: "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." Vanessa dangles from Arnold's bulging arm: "True Lies." Arnold explodes up from underneath the floor: "Rambo: First Blood Part II." You get the picture(s).
Russell, despite his $100 million price tag, chooses to lean heavily on a host of laughably primitive special effects. Not a moment goes by that an action sequence isn't marred by the glow of a blue screen. To top it all off, when Arnold shoots out the aquarium, gigantic "Jurassic Park" turds emerge and begin munching bad guys. When you realize they're supposed to be alligators, it's somewhat disappointing. A man-eating turd could have been Russell's lone creative contribution to film history.
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EAST LIVERPOOL - With some cleaning up, the former Riverview Florist property on Parkway will be "a gem" that offers "a lot of potential" for development, according to the head of the city's Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) which now has control of the property.
City Council had voted previously to transfer the 80-plus acres to the CIC so it can be prepared for future development. A CIC member had suggested the transfer, saying the entity has the money to develop the property.
At a meeting Thursday, the CIC's board of trustees voted unanimously, with three of the 17 members absent, to accept the transfer.
President Sam Scafide said he and planning Director Bill Cowan had walked the property just prior to the meeting. Saying it was his first time seeing the property, Scafide said, "At first, I was discouraged, but, if cleaned up, it's a gem. It has a lot of potential."
Scafide said it is surprising the number of garages on the property and the good condition they are in, saying, "You've got a (potential) welding shop right there."
Member Chuck Wade, also a city council member, agreed, saying, "This could be the start of a new beginning for this property."
Scafide cautioned that development will take place in stages, with the CIC not spending $40,000 or $50,000 at one time.
"I'd never allow the CIC checkbook to be depleted," Scafide said.
Cowan said he appreciated council's trust in the CIC, saying, "Council's backs have been against the wall due to financial constraints" when it comes to having funds to clean up and develop the property, which was annexed into the city.
Mayor Jim Swoger, also a CIC member, said, "We probably should be paying on this property another 20 years, but by the grace of God, we're not. He must have a purpose."
The $1.3 million purchase of the property was finalized with the help of the CIC, which borrowed $445,000 from 1st National Community Bank and loaned $95,000 of its own funds to the city.
The city, in turn, was able to pay the remainder and repay the loan to the CIC, with a combination of mineral rights revenue and $1 million repaid from the water department for a project the city had funded. The water department was able to repay the city due to a $6.6 million award from a successful lawsuit against the Buckeye Water District.
The CIC's priority will be making sure the proper security measures are implemented at the property, then starting some cleanup, including mowing.
To that end, Cowan asked the CIC to consider approving earmarking money for cutting grass and necessary locks and hardware for security, and the board agreed to spend up to $1,500.


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My Little Mr. Independent
( In this picture: wearing layers on the freezing high hills of Mt. Tabor Park, Portland, OR)
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Super cute photos! Love your skirt and heels! Your son is adorable!ReplyDelete
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Your son's so cute!
Haha, and great houndstooth print skirt <3
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Your son is adorable and stylish like his mom! I can only imagine how wonderful it must be to be a mom.ReplyDelete
You look so beautiful in this ensemble - LOVING your shoes! :)ReplyDelete
oh gosh how adorable is your little man!!!! and very fashion ;) and your outfit, houndstooth is one of my alltime favourite patterns! you look classy and gorgous at same!ReplyDelete
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Your son is so cute! And btw, I love your shoesReplyDelete
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Great vintage finds! These are the cutest pics I have ever seen! The 2nd to last one is my favorite. I love your shoes as well. In my culture which I consider to be african american culture, a lot of boys grow up very close to their mothers. They have a special bond. We call them Momma's boys. lol Now all the grown men compare their girlfriends to their Mothers. :) This is a special time, get all the hugs and kisses from him while you can. :) I never remember sleeping with my Mom but when I was a young girl I slept with my Dad when he came to visit.
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Beautiful look, I really like your blouse and shoes! Wonderful pictures, so emotional and lovely!! U're such a sweet tandem!:)ReplyDelete
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Everytime you write about your son, I can FEEL the love you have for him. It comes across so strongly. A fantastic mother. :) Btw, such a classy outfit! The bow blouse, long coat and wow, those heels! Those are veryyyy high. ;)ReplyDelete
Your son has grown so much and he's still just as cute! I too grew up in a culture where it was ok for children to sleep with their mom. I'm not sure how we will be when we start a family, but I know our child/children will sleep with me every now and then. I love your skirt and your hairstyle. I really should go vintage shopping some day, I just have to find the courage to look. :)ReplyDelete
I love what you did with your hair. i always want to you to wear the big hair ala Winehouse i think you can pull off a beehive!ReplyDelete
You skirt steals the scene (am a fan of houndstooth) matching your sexy heels!
~ I cant imagine how you feel being a mother and the feeling of you seeing your baby grow up becoming independent, must be sad yet very fulfilling.


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Like most American Expats in Paris, there are times when I crave things you can only get back home. BBQ, buffalo wings, a corn beef special, and a great burger all come to mind.
You can get burgers in Paris of course and will find them on just about every menu, but they're usually average at best and rarely great. So, when I heard about a burger truck that was being launched by a Californian who studied at the French cooking school Ferrandi, I couldn't wait to try it. Maybe, finally, we'd have great burgers in Paris.
So tonight in the rain, I took my step son to try what I hoped would be a real American burger, at a food truck no less which tweets their location by Twitter (and Facebook) everyday.
The verdict? Amazing. Homemade toasted rolls and freshly ground beef made for a particularly juicy burger with just the right amount of fat*. I had the blue cheese burger with caramelized onions, bleu d'auvergne and port wine sauce which was outstanding. My French guy had the classic with cheddar, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and mayo. These burgers kicked-ass compared to the burgers you normally get in Paris. The fries were unfortunately cold and soggy by the time I got home, but it was clear that these were hand-cut fries and not frozen, another sin most places in Paris make.
I was even a little bit proud eating my burger which proved that Americans can show the French a thing or two in the kitchen, at least when it comes to burgers. I can't wait to return for their braised pork sandwich, onion rings and macaroni and cheese.
You can find out where they'll be next, by following @LeCamionQuiFume on Twitter or Facebook or go to their website: www.lecamionquifume.com.
Le Camion Qui Fume
Opening times and location: @LeCamionQuiFume
Burger: 8 €; 10 € for a burger and fries
*This is technically not the first food truck in Paris since there are trucks all over making crêpes, but to my knowledge it's the first that changes location on a daily basis, using social media to inform clients.
**Beef in France is typically grass-fed and extremely lean which may explain part of the French paradox, but it doesn't make for a very good burger. Ground beef, or steak haché as its called here, is typically only 5 % fat in France, whereas most good burgers in the US are made with ground chuck-which is 20% fat.


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Motherhood put to the test
In the end, the quest for permanent homes is not so simple
Part 3 of 3
It is early spring 2010. In a few minutes, Tae and Shakiem will arrive for an extended unsupervised visit with their mother. They will be with Brandy for a week. She says she is exhausted already. A drug addict for more than two decades, Brandy has been clean for about a year - since March 2009 - but lately, night after night, she says, she dreams she is using again.
"Nightmares," she says.
Brandy's sons - Tae is 12 and Shakiem is 10 - are among the more than 2,000 Milwaukee County children who, because of abuse or neglect, have been removed from their families and placed in out-of-home care by the state-run Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare. The brothers have been in and out of foster care for most of their lives and have moved from one home to another more than a dozen times.
The bureau is moving Tae and Shakiem toward reunification with their mom. They've been reunified with their mother before.
Both times, the reunification failed.
"Insanity," Brandy says before the boys arrive, "is repeating the same thing and expecting different results.
"Here I am. Repeating."
Not quite, though, she hopes.
Eager to show the bureau her ability to be the boys' mother, to demonstrate what child welfare workers call "protective capacity," she attends a 12-step program; she meets with a parenting aide who watches her interact with her kids; she sees a family therapist; she meets with a support group of other women who, like her, have graduated from the drug treatment program at Meta House; she takes an evening parenting class; she goes to group therapy; she goes to individual therapy; she brings the boys to their therapy sessions; she meets with a sponsor, clean now for 17 years.
In the spaces between, she faces down her addiction with prayer and meditation. Her struggle makes her cry, and she cries when she thinks about the years that have already been lost.
"I've learned," she says, "to feel pain without needing to numb it."
Brandy has done more than fight her addiction. She has been an advocate for her sons.
A few months earlier, the boys ran away from their foster home and to an aunt's house, claiming they were being physically abused by their foster father and his son. The aunt brought the boys to the police. Police returned them to their foster home.
Furious, Brandy filed a citizen complaint against the officers. She pressed for and succeeded in having the boys moved to a new foster home. She obtained restraining orders and injunctions against the former foster parent and his son.
As Brandy shoulders more responsibility for her sons, her anxiety deepens.
She is particularly worried about Tae, who is having trouble both at home and at school.
In recent weeks, during overnight visits to her home, he has twice tried to run back to his foster home.
"I can imagine his fear," she says. "Is this lady going to act right? Is she going to stay away from the crack?"
Denice arrives at her mother's apartment.
Her second birthday is in August, just a few months away, and Denice is a small package of unmitigated joy wherever she goes, whomever she's with.
She wears a pink shirt, a beaming smile and five barrettes, red, white, blue, pink and yellow. She is accompanied by a visitation worker, whose job is to make sure the two-hour visit is safe and to observe how the toddler interacts with her mother, Danettea.
Denice runs to her mother and hugs her legs.
Danettea picks her up and gives the giggling child a kiss and a squeeze.
Denice's brothers, ages 8 and 4, are also visiting. Removed by the bureau after allegations of physical abuse, they live with an aunt. Danettea denies the allegations. Her sons, who are also awaiting reunification or adoption, have visitation workers.
Danettea, who is 26, lives on the south side in a three-bedroom apartment with her boyfriend, Vergil, a 42-year-old who spent three years in prison on a drug conviction.
They have a son, born in October 2009. They share their apartment with two of Vergil's daughters - one is 16, the other is 9 - and with his 16-year-old's daughter, who is 2.
Denice, who was born with traces of marijuana in her system, has lived with adoptive foster parents Ann and C.J. her entire life. Ann and C.J.'s desire to adopt Denice has persisted through the discouragements and heartache of a system they say has bent over backward to protect Danettea's parental rights at the cost of Denice's need for the permanent home they offer her.
Danettea, who has never had an unsupervised visit with her daughter, wants Denice back. She says she can provide the stability Denice needs, but that the bureau, which she believes unfairly took her away, is not going to give her back.
"I don't know how it is that I am fit to have my infant - who is the most defenseless - but can't have my other kids," Danettea says.
"I don't think they have any intention of giving my children back."
Vergil is trying to help get the children back. He used his time in prison to teach himself law. On Danettea's behalf, he filed a federal lawsuit, replete with spelling and grammar errors, alleging the removal of her children by the bureau was unconstitutional and demanding their immediate return.
Vergil's mistrust of the child welfare system is profound.
"I would like to inform you that I will not speak with you or any oneelse in regards to (Danettea's) CaseI will not and canttrust your organization who's job is to destroy functional families as we all ready no)," he writes in a letter to Denice's caseworker, Laura Reitz.
"I have no trust in you or anyone else in your organization, you have twisted facts and the truth."
Vergil's legal efforts have thus far gone nowhere, other than to raise the question to Denice's caseworker and supervisor of whether Danettea is acting in her children's behalf or in thrall to her boyfriend.
Vergil's influence on Danettea was a factor in why her court-appointed lawyer quit in March.
In a motion to withdraw, Jon LaMendola listed among his reasons "requests by the client's significant other, (Vergil), to file motions that Attorney LaMendola believes are frivolous."
Presiding Children's Court Judge Marshall Murray raised this concern - Danettea's dependence on Vergil - during a hearing in which he appointed a new attorney, John Miller.
"You need to start listening to yourself," Murray warned.
"I am listening to myself," Danettea replied.
Murray peered over his glasses.
Danettea was requesting more visitations with her children and that at least some of them be unsupervised. Assistant District Attorney Beth Zirgibel, bureau caseworker Reitz and guardian ad litem Isa Gonzalez-Zayas were all recommending that the state terminate Danettea's parental rights and permanently place Denice with Ann and C.J. and Denice's brothers with an aunt.
While reunification remained a possibility, and the termination of parental rights, or TPR, was on hold to give Danettea a chance to prove herself, Murray considered it cruel to increase Denice's visits with her mother if that relationship was destined to be dissolved. It was up to Danettea to deepen the court's optimism in reunification.
And the way to do that was to cooperate with people who had recommended she lose permanent custody of her daughter.
"The only thing that will turn the court around," Murray told her, "is for me to think it is in the child's best interest to be reunified with you.
"You are walking a tightrope here."
Danettea left the courtroom discouraged, in the company of Vergil and of an aunt who had been at the hospital when Denice was born and taken from her custody.
The aunt wore a T-shirt that said, "All stressed out and nobody to choke."
Brandy's apartment, which feels dark and airless, brightens the moment Tae and Shakiem arrive for their weeklong visit.
There's hugging and kissing and joshing around, but it isn't long before Brandy gets serious.
It is critical to her that the boys understand that Brandy is, first and foremost, their mother. And Brandy believes that means, first and foremost, keeping them in line.
Shakiem vanishes to a room to play video games while Brandy, who had gotten a call from the boys' school that day, chews out Tae for arguing with his teacher.
"That's a whole month of doing dishes," she tells him.
Tae doesn't look at her.
"Am I understood?"
"Yes," he says quietly.
"Yes, what?"
"Yes, ma'am."
Tae's mood grows considerably darker. Brandy has a new pair of sneakers for him. He doesn't much care for them. She's made him a snack. He doesn't want to eat it. He wants to go outside and make friends. Brandy doesn't trust the friends he'll make at the public housing complex. She's watched kids his age from her apartment window. She'd rather he stayed inside.
Tae sits on the living room couch and sulks.
Brandy goes into the kitchen. She leans against the refrigerator, her back to the door to the living room. She looks out the window, toward a tree in the courtyard below. The sight of trees, she says, comforts her. They remind her, she says, "there is life elsewhere, that all that is, is not just here."
Tae can see his mother from his spot on the couch. He goes into the kitchen. He is already approaching her height. He wraps his arms around his mother's shoulders, and Brandy rests her head on his young arms.
Denice's visit to her mother's home lasts two hours.
It is hardly enough time for Danettea to oil and braid Denice's hair and to feed everyone frozen pizzas. A 50-inch flat screen television - purchased with the insurance proceeds of a fire at their previous apartment - remains on the whole time.
The expected chaos that is an apartment filled with seven children - including an infant and two toddlers - comes to a halt when it is time for Denice to leave.
Denice, who has been smiling for almost two hours, is smiling still as she waves goodbye.
While the visit appears to have gone well, Danettea does not see how, with no more than twice-weekly supervised visits, she will be able to demonstrate that she has addressed the issues listed in a court document filed in June:
Danettea "does not demonstrate impulse control . . . does not act in a self-controlled manner . . . uses her money carelessly . . . is not self-aware.
"(Danettea) does not understand cause and effect . . . is unable to articulate why forms of physical punishment are inappropriate . . . does not discuss the safety of her children . . . is not able to meet her own emotional needs. (Danettea's) behaviors change from passive to aggressive quickly."
Implicit in the effort to safely reunify children with troubled parents is the belief that, given the appropriate support, people for the sake of their children can change.
It is the belief, in the case of Tae and Shakiem, that a mother with a 20-year history of emotional trouble and drug addiction can change.
It is the belief, in the case of Denice, that a mother who thinks it is not her but rather the system that is dysfunctional can change.
Perfection is not the goal.
The hope is that these parents can change just enough, that they can sufficiently deepen their protective capacities, that they keep their children safe and meet their basic needs.
The irony is the instability and uncertainty children such as Tae, Shakiem and Denice must endure while they wait.
Tae and Shakiem have been waiting more than a decade to be home.
Denice, though she has lived with a stable foster family since birth, may not stay there.
Their childhood grows shorter with every passing day, week, month and year.
On June 11, 2010 - a month after their extended visit - Brandy is officially reunified with her two sons for a third time.
Tae, who after an altercation with a teacher has been suspended for the last week of the school year, bakes Shakiem a cake while he waits for his brother to come home.
Tae has reservations.
He had at first, through his own attorney, objected to reunification. Then he changed his mind.
Tae sits on the living room couch in the sweltering heat wearing a wool-lined cap with earflaps. It is midafternoon and Brandy, still in her nightgown, sits in a chair across from him.
Brandy takes deep pride in keeping her house clean. A sign at the door asks visitors to remove their shoes. But today, the off-white living room carpet, normally immaculate, is scuffed and dirty.
"I have been moving through all these foster homes seems like all my life," Tae says.
"Once we came back home for a month and had to go back to foster care," he says.
"I can't even count how many homes we've lived in. I can't even count how many schools we've been to."
Tae pulls the cap down so that Brandy can't see his face.
Foster parents C.J. and Ann celebrate Denice's second birthday.
C.J.'s mom is there. Ann's mom is there. Friends and people they work with come.
Denice knows she's the star of the show, and equipped with new and powerful word - "No!" - she laughingly refuses to give anyone a birthday hug or kiss.
They eat on the back deck beneath a blue sky. Denice, who seems to never stop smiling, alternates sitting in the lap of the only man she has known as her father and the only woman she has known as her mother.
There is no talk today of what has passed in the previous year: the thrill Ann and C.J. felt when it seemed they were on the verge of becoming Denice's adoptive family. The terrible time of confusion when they did not know whether she would remain with them or go live with her mother.
While adoption remains Denice's primary goal, a year has passed since the termination of Danettea's parental rights was referred to the court and eight months since the TPR was put on hold while the bureau pursued reunification.
Ann and C.J. do not know whether they will be required someday to give her up. In the meantime, they will care for her as if she were their own.
To Ann and C.J., she is their own. They do not know what the future holds, except this: They love her and they will always love her.
They have learned what good foster parents learn about permanency: The love they give is permanent.
Denice, wearing a rainbow-colored dress, stands by a yellow sandbox. C.J. is grilling turkey hot dogs and turkey sausages. He watches her.
"Where's the birthday girl?" he says.
Denice looks up and smiles.
The bureau removes Tae and Shakiem from Brandy's home on July 12, one month and one day after their reunification.
Tae tells his caseworker, according to court documents, that Brandy threatened to kill him and that she punched him several times because he failed to do his chores. He says he pulled a knife on her when Brandy prevented him from leaving.
Tae and Shakiem return to their previous foster home. A change-in-placement hearing is scheduled for Aug. 3 before Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Karen Christenson.
Brandy and her boyfriend - the father of her youngest son - wait outside the courtroom for the hearing to begin. She admits she is using again, but does not elaborate on what it is she is using. The boys are not at the courthouse.
"It wasn't what I expected," she says.
The hearing was to begin at 10 a.m. It is now 11:18 a.m.
Seventy-eight minutes. Brandy won't wait any longer.
She tells a clerk she is leaving.
She leaves.


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Josh Zeid had to find some way to stay loose during the bottom of the third inning Tuesday night at Bowman Field.
The Williamsport starting pitcher spent about 30 minutes on the bench during that fateful inning as he waited for his next chance to go on the mound to throw. Turns out the best way to keep himself loose and warm was provided by the Crosscutters' offense.
Zeid continually got up to high five his teammates after scoring runs - nine of them in all - in the third inning as the Cutters spotted the big right-hander a 13-run lead before eventually beating the Staten Island Yankees, 20-4, last night in the opener of a key three-game series.
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Darin Ruf of the Crosscutters gets a bump at home after scoring one of his team's nine third-inning runs Tuesday at Bowman Field.
Williamsport scored a season-high in runs, matched a season-high in hits (19) and hit six triples, three courtesy of Carl Uhl in the offensive thrashing of a Yankees team that led the New York-Penn League in ERA (2.14) coming into the game. Eight of the Cutters' nine starting hitters recorded a hit, with only Evan Porter failing to pick one up.
"Every at-bat felt contagious, hit after hit after hit," said Cutters third baseman Anthony Hewitt who hit his fourth home run of the year. "Seeing everyone hit, it was like we were seeing a different team."
"I was happy because they kept at it and kept getting their at-bats," Cutters manager Chris Truby said. "They didn't sit on a lead and just get through the game. Every at-bat counts and they took every one serious. That's what I like to see."
The Cutters have been prone this year to getting an early lead and turning it over to a pitching staff that has been absolutely brilliant. That was far from the case Tuesday night as they scored four in the first, nine in the third, two in the fourth and five in the fifth.
Williamsport led 20-0, and leadoff hitter Zach Collier was 4-for-5 with four RBI before Staten Island even got through its lineup a second time.
Hewitt hit a two-out, two-strike, two-run home run in the first inning when it looked like Yankees starter Matt Richardson could wiggle out of the inning having given up just two runs. And with two runs already scored in the third, Darin Ruf hit a two-out, two-strike, two-run home run off Richardson that really kicked the nine-run inning into gear.
The Cutters sent 13 batters to the plate in the third. Uhl was 2-for-2 in the inning with a pair of triples and an RBI. Leandro Castro was 2-for-2 with a triple and two RBI.
"We had a good approach and we got good pitches and didn't miss them," said Hewitt, who hit a hanging breaking ball over the left-field fence for his fourth homer of the season. "We were hitting mistakes and just having fun."
"Both those home runs were huge because it wasn't to start an inning," Uhl said. "They were hit when we already had scored a few. So those were just adding on to the momentum."
Williamsport had six hits with two strikes last night. Five went for extra bases.
Both homers were hit with two strikes, Castro had an RBI triple, and Jeremy Barnes had an RBI double with two strikes, and Uhl led off the third with a triple.
"You try to shorten up a little bit. But just because you shorten up with two strikes doesn't mean you can't hit a ball hard," Uhl said. "If they make a mistake, you can still capitalize on it."
And there was Zeid, spotted a 4-0 lead after one inning, a 13-0 lead after three, and 20-0 after five. He never lost focus.
Instead, he and catcher Sebastian Valle (2-for-3, 2 RBI) continually called pitches to pound the strike zone. Zeid threw 72 percent of his pitches for strikes after the first inning. He walked just one batter and that was the first one of the game.
"You know, baserunners just make the game go longer and gives them a chance to get back in the game," Zeid said. "Me and Valle were working on getting the ball down and making the defense get the out. I wasn't trying to strike everyone out."
With their seventh win in nine games, Williamsport remained just 2 games behind Mahoning Valley for first place in the Pinckney Division. It also increased its lead in the wild card standings over Staten Island to two games.
"Hopefully we didn't burn out," Uhl said. "Hopefully we have some hits and runs left in us. I hope we can come out with the same approach (Wednesday) and are able to make them pay for fastballs they leave over the plate again."


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1975: an important year.
The fall of Saigon signaled the end of the Vietnam War. A pilot episode of "Starsky and Hutch" featured actor Richard Ward as an African-American boss of white Americans for the first time on TV.
But for then-Penn State undergraduate student John Breen, it was President Gerald Ford's signing of a law ensuring "free and appropriate" education for children with disabilities that made 1975 remarkable.
"It was a juncture of how society cared for its most vulnerable people," said Breen, a licensed psychologist with a doctorate degree who serves as a school psychologist for Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8.
The law, known today as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, enabled children nationwide to return to their home communities from institutions. Children in state hospitals such as the ones in Ebensburg, Cresson and Somerset began attending public schools.
Over time, individualized special education plans were available to a broad range of children as psychologists and educators became increasingly aware of previously unobvious learning disabilities.
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Special education students
The 2010-11 school year enrollments and percent of those in special education programs:
SchoolSpecial education students
Altoona Area1,523 (19.1 percent)
Hollidaysburg Area421 (12 percent)
Tyrone Area323 (16.6 percent)
Spring Cove299 (16.4 percent)
Williamsburg Community
School District131 (24 percent)
Claysburg-Kimmel120 (13.7 percent)
Bellwood-Antis98 (7.8 percent)
Source: Bureau of Special Education,
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Nearly four decades after IDEIA was passed, less than 19 percent of Altoona Area School District's enrollment is for special education. And it's a struggle to keep special education students in school.
State: Reduce the rate
The state Bureau of Special Education audited the district last year. The result: District administrators were advised to take steps to reduce the dropout rate for students with disabilities enrolled in special education.
The dropout rate has been rising since the 2009-10 school year, when 29 students with special education plans were reported to have dropped out for a 23 percent dropout rate among special education students.
"It's a big deal to me if one student drops out," special education advocate Debbie Detrich said. She is the chairwoman of the Right to Education Task Force No. 8, serving special education students in Blair, Cambria, Bedford and Somerset counties.
In 2010-11, the latest state data available, the dropout rate for special education students ages 14 to 21 increased to 29 percent at Altoona. The state's average for that school year: 10.9 percent. Altoona's overall dropout rate is 2.12 percent or 76 of 3,585 students in grades 7 through 12.
Aside from Altoona, special education enrollment in Blair County school districts is no greater than Hollidaysburg Area's 421 students and dropouts so few that the state does not list the number to protect the children's identities in their communities.
Altoona Area's special education dropout rate, coupled with a higher-than-state-average population of students with disabilities recorded by the bureau, sets Altoona apart from other districts in the county and the state.
Altoona, with about 8,000 students, has a students-with-disabilities population just shy of 19 percent, or 1,484 students, compared with the state average of 15.2 percent.
The bureau has required the district to improve its evaluation process to ensure children are accurately diagnosed for special education.
"Since Altoona school district's figures are higher than the state average, the adviser required the district to review its pre-referral procedures and assessment practices to ensure accurate evaluation practices," state Education Department spokesman Tim Eller said.
Students 'properly placed'
While district spokeswoman Paula Foreman said there is always room for improvement, administrators believe their evaluation process is accurate.
"Without a doubt, all students are properly placed," Assistant Superintendent Mary Lou Ray said. "The first level of the screening process is the teacher and principal who try ways to change academic or behavioral problems before they are put into special education. If the strategies don't work, we do testing with a psychologist. Then a definitive determination is made by the psychologist after observance in the classroom."
For the 2010-11 school year, a majority of Altoona students enrolled in special education were students with a specific learning disability (42 percent), but 10 percent of the district's special education enrollment are students with chronic emotional disorders that disrupt their learning, 9 percent of students were enrolled for speech and language impairment, 8 percent are enrolled for autism and 15 percent are enrolled for mental retardation.
In 2010-11, special education enrollment at Altoona was higher: 1,523, according to state figures. The decrease, administrators believe, reflects the fluctuating nature of enrollment, not tighter disability screening, Foreman said.
Screening is the same at all districts, Detrich said.
Anti-dropout plan developed
Altoona administrators said they are unsure of reasons for the dropout rate, but an improvement plan is on record with the state, Eller said.
"The department encourages the district to address the dropout rate through transition planning, transition activities and community based activities. However, the school district does develop the plan, not the department," he said.
The district's special education parental advisory committee and special education department held an agency fair earlier this month to introduce families to services assisting students with disabilities transition from high school to the local workforce and college.
The Arc of Blair County has implemented an after-school reading program to diminish dropouts among special education students, said Executive Director Maria Brandt.
"When children have trouble reading, everything else crumbles," Brandt said. "A majority of the students who come to us are from Altoona."
In the 1970s, Breen was a houseparent at a community living arrangement operated by a chapter of the state's Mental Health and Mental Retardation agency. It was a home in Lewistown for children, who were once required to be institutionalized for life in state hospitals with large unsterile day rooms.
"There were dozens and dozens of kids all mixed together in institutions. It wasn't a wholesome place," Breen said.
Breen said not all institutionalized children had severe disabilities. He was surprised to see some children in institutions who were high-functioning.
Children statewide transitioned from institutions to small group homes in their families' neighborhoods, such as the one where Breen worked, and eventually moved back into their families' homes.
"At small group homes, we did things like eat dinner together. The goal was to get them back with their families," Breen said.
When special education law was passed in the 1970s, America's societal backdrop included an acceleration in divorce rates, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
'Dysfunction' at home
In general, Altoona administrators believe part of the district's special education dropout rate is for lack of family support.
"We encourage the student from many different levels - counselor, principal, teacher - to stick it out and earn their high school diploma," Ray said. "But unfortunately, those efforts don't always work.
"Many students do not have the family support component encouraging them to stay in school. In fact, for some students, it is quite the opposite, where they are encouraged by parents to sign out when they turn 17."
Dysfunctional home life can lead children with mental and emotional disorders to the juvenile system, Blair County Juvenile Probation Office Supervisor Jon Frank said.
"Anymore, there are a lot of children receiving behavior-based services who trickle into our system. If things aren't working out in home, then we check out foster homes, relatives, anything to keep children out of the juvenile facility," he said.
There is most likely no specific factor to blame for the district's dropout rate for special education students with disabilities, Detrich said.
"The problem is not all on the students. It's not all the district, and it's not all the parents," she said.
As Altoona continues efforts to improve its disabilities evaluation process for students, Detrich said the district's focus should be serving those with special needs.
"I don't care what the state average is," Detrich said. "If state numbers say we should have eight students with disabilities and we have 10 students with disabilities, then those 10 are going to get the services. That is how I look at it."
Mirror Staff Writer Russ O'Reilly is at 946-7435.


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Can you guess how Stephen Elop addressed the employees that Microsoft is giving the pink slip to?
0. phoneArena 18 Jul 2014, 05:08 posted on
Among yesterday's burst of news that came out straight from Microsoft, one story in particular came with a higher amount of dismal and will surely affect a large number of people...
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22. veer.d (Posts: 88; Member since: 12 Jul 2013)
ELOP must be among who will get fired.........
30. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
More like buttkick this trojan
23. veer.d (Posts: 88; Member since: 12 Jul 2013)
ELOP must be among who will get fired.........
27. fanboy1974 (Posts: 1345; Member since: 12 Nov 2011)
Free Nokia 520/521 for everyone?
32. ryq24 (Posts: 724; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Who wants to read that long letter especially when you are getting fired?
36. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
I wonder if he is reading all of our comments?
70. corporateJP (Posts: 2431; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
I wish he would.
I also wish he'd come to my house (without all his lame security guards), I'd give him an Irish cocktail on the house...
33. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
I'd understand M$ if the majority was their own personnel.
But 12500 from 18000 are former Nokia members.
That's disgusting.
F*ck you, M$, even Sammy wouldn't do things like this.
35. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
Well said
48. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
And you felt the need to bring Samsung here... You literally are the troll of the year.
49. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
S-Hut up S-Murfette.
You don't know Sammy.
42. LikeMyself (Posts: 438; Member since: 23 Sep 2013)
Is that a pig in the title picture?
43. billgates (banned) (Posts: 555; Member since: 29 May 2014)
Lol he does need some fitness
71. corporateJP (Posts: 2431; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
You mean he doesn't get enough of a workout on you?
44. Diego! (Posts: 575; Member since: 15 Jun 2009)
I hope and pray he will be among the 18000 people Microsoft wants to fire. He really deserves it. What a jerk!
45. Loubielou (Posts: 508; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)
If Microsoft can Employ a Stupid Person like Mr Elop,then they will never be Succesful anytime,He must have loads of Money an Microsoft are so Scared off giving him the Sack,Is Time at Nokia just should he didn"t want to Please Consumers but just the Microsoft Board by Just Downgrading Nokia to its Lowest Value as that what is Target was so Microsoft could act like heroes an Overtake Nokia,Apple produce phones an pcs to please consumers but Microsoft can"t do the Same even though they think there as good as Apple
72. corporateJP (Posts: 2431; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
Microsoft is on life support right now, all this is proof.
Even the Roman Empire fell...
46. superfans (Posts: 155; Member since: 30 Jul 2012)
How about slash 30% of your pay check so at least 5% of the employes get to keep the jobs. MxxxxrFxxxxr...
52. PhoneCritic (Posts: 691; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)
I agree. If any company claims to be so caring about its customers and employees/humanity period why not share the burden and slash Elops and The new CEO's compensation so that a percentage of hard working front-line employees can keep their minimum wage jobs. All corporations disgust me when they treat their most precious resource (people ) like garbage yet give their CEO's and Boards huge compensation and golden parachutes. This goes for Google, Apple, IBM, Microsoft Oracal, HP, etc... As far as I am concerned when a company is not doing good don't take it out on the common worker who is doing what he is told to do. take it out on the board of directors, the CEO, CFO,COO etc.. cut their pay. Arrrggggg this part of capitalism burns me up
51. iampayne (Posts: 322; Member since: 12 Aug 2013)
The people upset with this obviously don't understand how a company works so you should get over it. People get fire Its called the price of doing business. Yes its sad but its reality stop whinning. If I lost my job tomorrow I would suck it up and look for a new one simple as that.
54. PhoneCritic (Posts: 691; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)
Today you can only do that so much. Times have changed an People have become more deprave. It used to be that a company was very loyal to its works who were in turn loyal to their company. You could work for the same company for 30 years and retire with the gold watch or pen and a great pension. companies were not that driven by as much greed we see today and the pressures of stock holder demanding instant profits. Companies like Pepsi, Coke, Ford, GM, Standard oil, Johnson and Johnson, American Airlines, TWA, Sears and Roebucks, etc.. Had one CEO and a board ( no COO, or CTO) tiles and not a revolving door of young hotshots who come in and raid the company of its profits based on their exuberant compensation packages and even if they drove the company to the ground get a multi-million dollar golden parachute. No. every CEO got their start in the company by starting out in the mail room and moving up through the ranks in every single department in the company so that they were aware of what the common work went through- they became friends with the front line workers and understood they were their most valuable assets. those days are gone and were left with these guys that come from college with MBAs heading straight to the top and destroying company and peoples lives.
73. corporateJP (Posts: 2431; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
A degree of any sort does not automatically insinuate intelligence, common sense, or real-world experience, it just shows somebody spent a bunch of money for a piece of paper. People sometimes laugh at this, but there's plenty of proof in the ashes of multiple companies.
65. ZPM101 (Posts: 28; Member since: 12 Apr 2010)
I couldn't agree more!
77. ManusImperceptus (Posts: 724; Member since: 10 Jun 2014)
Of course you would; everyone would do that, considering there's no alternative. Still doesn't mean it's a good decision...
57. mariosraptor (Posts: 125; Member since: 15 Mar 2012)
62. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
I wonder where Rodney is guys....?
58. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
I hate that evil GRIND smile feel sorry for those lost their jobs at NOKIA and now MS
76. ManusImperceptus (Posts: 724; Member since: 10 Jun 2014)
"Nokia focused on hardware; MS don't give a s**t about hardware"... Not the best of messages for potential customers!
79. Roynz (Posts: 3; Member since: 26 Apr 2014)
remember proverbial everything it touches turns gold..MS is opposite of it.
took Hotmail - turned crap
took Skype- forces you to crease MS account
Launched Surface- prices it premium but does it really appeal?
Launched Outlook email- still antiquated full email typing everytime and scrolling down is so messy.
Windows phone- yeah try forcing your software and see what you get ..both hardware and software will sink.
office365- so you want to get yearly payment from me??? cloud is not there yet!!
XP- we can't help sorry upgrade to one which majority hates- I want pc not a tablet so stop converting my pc to tablet.
there are still more...but you get the drift
83. medicci37 (Posts: 1278; Member since: 19 Nov 2011)
Sucks that the people at the bottom have to suffer for the arrogance & stubborn incompetence of the people at the top once again


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The state legislature passed the bill on Monday and Gov. Dave Heineman, R-Neb., has promised to sign the measure into law.
Legislators also passed a measure banning abortions after 20 weeks, noting a baby can feel pain at that stage of development.
Pro-life supporters say the law's requirements are in keeping with other medical procedures where patients are screened for potential problems.
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Still, pro-choice groups will likely challenge both laws in court.
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