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Decision?Time: Lawmakers must act if mid-year cuts are needed
October 6, 2013
Let's hope West Virginia's economy picks up, as some analysts expect. That would mean more revenue flowing into state coffers, something needed badly to avoid yet more cutbacks in state services....
I just want to thank Sean Hannity and Majorette for bring jobs to WVa and of course, all they do for Veterans
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"Hey, why not $30?"
Sure let's limit all corporate management wages to $30/hr. Everything would be a lot cheaper. SLAM!
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WV business owners and politicians take note if you want to grow the state's economy and revenues.
Michigan fast food restaurant Moo Cluck Moo is currently paying its entry level employees double the state minimum wage of $7.49. Says co-owner Brian Parker, "We always wanted to be at $15/hr. It just feel human to do it."
Cutting WV state spending, or increase the WV minimum wage. WV it is up to you. SLAM!
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"we need Gay Marriage,"
Conservatives love Gay Marriage because it gets of the single penalty where those who are not married pay more of their incomes in taxes. Conservatives love to starve the government of money, and supporting Gay Marriage (aka marriage) does that. SLAM!
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For the last several years, Sean Hannity and the Freedom Alliance "charity" have conducted "Freedom Concerts" across America. They've told you that they are raising money to pay for the college tuition of the children of fallen soldiers and to pay severely wounded war vets. And on Friday Night, Hannity will be honored with an award for this "Outstanding Community Service by a Radio Talk Show Host" at Talkers Magazine's convention. But it's all a huge scam. In fact, less than 20%–and in two recent years, less than 7% and 4%, respectively–of the money raised by Freedom Alliance went to these causes, while millions of dollars went to expenses, including consultants and apparently to ferry the Hannity posse of family and friends in high style. And, despite Hannity's statements to the contrary on his nationally syndicated radio show, few of the children of fallen soldiers got more than $1,000-$2,000, with apparently none getting more than $6,000.Maybe he can help WV
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"Unless revenue for the remainder of the year grows at a 2.8 percent rate, the state budget will remain out of balance."
Or as my "Progressive" comrades would say, 'Time for another tax increase!'
Please note: I do not advocate for tax increases or pretty much anything else that comrades claim are "progressive"!
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Well...It's Day 5 and the sun still came up--despite having no edict from Obama or DC!
How does that continue to happen? [That was sarcasm, in case it wasn't obvious]
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"Let's hope West Virginia's economy picks up,"
Hope?? Now that is a conservative for you. Don't do anything, just hope and pray things get better. SLAM!
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Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nightsby Sir Richard Francis Burton Jack Zipes
After King Shahryar had his wife killed for cheating, he began to corrupt--then kill--one virgin a night, as revenge on womankind. Then he meets Scheherazade, who, night after night, saves her own life by telling him fantastical tales of genies, wishes, terror, and passion. Famous stories from here are Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and others. Frequent telling of sexual activities through analogy. There is a glossary at the end, which would be helpful to read before beginning. The original (supposedly) 30 volumes were later whittled down to 10 volumes, and now to one volume of the major stories and other of lesser stories.
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby A. S. Byatt Sir Richard Francis Burton
Probably this is one of the original "story within a story" book. "Arabian Nights" is a selection of stories told by a young girl on her wedding night to a price who has sworn he will kill any girl who marries him. Her clever stories keep him from murdering her night after night. This is where classic fairy tales such as "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" come from as well as moral tales and metaphors. The use of djins, magic and Eastern splendor makes "Arabian Nights" dazzle. It is a must read and a perfect counter point to western fairy tales such as "Hans Christian Anderson" and the "Brothers Grimm".
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Classic tales of the Arabian court
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Classic tales of the Arabian court
The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana: The Classic Hindu Treatise on Love and Social Conductby Sir Richard Francis Burton Vatsayana Santha Rama Rau John W. Spellman
The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrated as a literary event of highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature. Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the Kama Sutra's importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained an indispensable key to understanding it.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayanaby Sir Richard Francis Burton Margot Anand
Sir Richard F. Burton's translation of The Kama Sutra remains one of the best English interpretations of this early Indian treatise on politics, social customs, love, and intimacy. Its crisp style set a new standard for Sanskrit translation.The Kama Sutra stands uniquely as a work of psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, and sexology. It has been a celebrated classic of Indian literature for 1,700 years and a window for the West into the culture and mysticism of the East. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative text of Sir Richard F. Burton's 1883 translation. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Among the strategies that have been developed is a sustained media advertising campaign, something the University has never done before. In support of that advertising campaign, Laurie Kelley, our chief marketing officer, has produced a video that had its first appearance on TV station KGW this past Sunday evening. While brief, this video does an excellent job of highlighting some of the themes I will be discussing in my remarks today.
Thank you to all who worked on this video and the advertising campaign. I'm sure you can appreciate its high energy – not that you need additional energy here at the start of the year – and it will, we hope, convey to a wider world some of the enthusiasm and pride we all feel here on campus.
It is always energizing to greet students and faculty at the start of a new academic year. Every time I walked around the campus during the past several days I could feel the excitement in the air. Everyone – new students and old, faculty and staff – was filled with a sense that something important was about to happen, and for some students their new life seemed overwhelmingly complicated. I certainly see much of that in my own office.
It has been said that "a modern university has become like a city-state in its scope and complexity" and judging from the number and range of issues that cross my desk, especially at this time of year, I would say that is a good comparison.
Yet in spite of that complexity, in many ways the start of a new year simplifies things and organizes them around a common purpose: the intellectual and spiritual growth of our students. All of you here today are at the heart of that work and it is the work you do daily – that you will do each day of the coming year – that inspires me and energizes me.
No talk I give in the course of a year has the significance of this one, when we gather again after summers spent far afield, and we renew our purpose. And no gathering is more satisfying. This past summer I spent three weeks in Rome in 100 degree heat and humidity for the General Chapter of Holy Cross at which a number of decisions were made that are important for Holy Cross and our institutions like the University of Portland. I also spent 8 days in Australia at meetings and visiting our program there. All the while I looked forward to the chance to speak with you about our goals and our shared future. Today, my anticipation is greater than usual because, while this year poses its own unique challenges, it also offers enormous and unprecedented opportunities.
We all know that the economic downturn is taking a relentless toll in our country. Unemployment continues to be high and many of the families of our students are dealing with worsening financial circumstances. This year we had to direct additional resources to student financial aid because of their need, and we know that need will likely continue. Yet in spite of the dire financial conditions we see all around us, the University, with some needed adjustments during the past two years, is financially stable. Our budget has held steady. Our hiring freeze is a thing of the past. And we have been able to bring faculty salaries in the College of Arts and Sciences to the mean of our peer institutions.
Yet we must continue to exercise caution. We must pay close attention to our financial management lest we suddenly find ourselves caught in cross winds that we cannot control. It is imperative that we keep salaries at or above the mean. We must be able to continue to hire faculty of superb quality and provide you with the resources all of you need to grow and develop. We will have to keep close watch over the annual increases in tuition that have become a staple of University life and that affect every one of us and every one of our students. And we must be attentive to the significant required maintenance and capital improvement requirements that loom over our facilities.
Our large freshman class, significantly improved retention, and booming enrollment pose still other challenges. Classes and residence halls are filled to their capacity and beyond. All of our faculty and staff will from time to time be heavily taxed by the additional work these students present. The bubble in our freshman class has created an imbalance in enrollment that will work its way through the University for the next four years and there will be times when it tries our resources and our patience.
But these challenges are the result of our great success. This year we had significantly more applications for the freshman class – almost 12,000 – but the number of applicants we admitted stayed the same. Yet last year we enrolled a class of 816, while this year the freshman class will number close to 890. In the language of our admissions staff, our 'yield' has improved. In addition, we had a 'wait list' of almost 1000 students, something unheard of here even five years ago! Young people are clamoring to be our students!
Another important factor is our students who return to us each year. We have increased our retention rate, and it is important for us to understand how this came about.
Two years ago about 85% of our freshmen returned as sophomores. This retention rate was below our peers and was a worrisome inconsistency with our mission and our ideals. In addition, it was a serious financial drain on the University. I appointed a Task Force, headed by Fr. Steve Rowan, to analyze our retention problem and to propose solutions. The charge given the Task Force was to recommend ways to increase freshmen retention by 5% within five years. At the end of its year of work, the Task Force proposed 39 actions to our Enrollment Management Group, headed by John Goldrick, our vice president for enrollment management and student life, and that Group began to systematically undertake those actions, foremost among which was an increased emphasis on advising. Subsequently, a team of advisors led by Matt Baasten, of our theology department, and Brenda Greiner, head of the Shepard Freshman Resource Center, went to work. I am pleased to say that their efforts have produced astonishing results: freshmen retention this year stands at 90.2% and that increase represents at least 40 more students who will continue their education here.
I suggest that these welcome phenomena – the increased yield from our applicant pool and the increased retention of our students -- mean a couple of things:
First, the University is increasingly attractive to high school graduates.
Second, the students we are admitting are more committed and more serious of purpose.
Third, the care and attention provided by our faculty and staff – always among our greatest strengths – continues to have an enormous impact.
I would like to think that this means that the University has reached a point in its history at which it can be more intentional about who it recruits and admits, and that now we might be more purposeful about how we shape our student body. We have a degree of influence that we have never before had in our 109-year history.
Added to our growing sense of mastery over our enrollment is another important, yet often overlooked matter.
Many of you will recall that in 2004 a large group of administrators, faculty and staff met for extended discussions at Kennedy School here in NE Portland. Those discussions produced a list of carefully-ordered priorities, projects that we had to undertake and complete as a University in order to realize our potential and fulfill our mission. There were 11 challenges unanimously identified as of the highest priority.
Today, six years later, it is remarkable when you realize that nine of those 11 priorities have been completed – and the remaining two are underway. We have many people to thank for all of that – our generous benefactors, and Jim Lyons, our vice president for University relations, and Bryce Strang, our associate vice president for development, most of all – for none of those 11 challenges was inexpensive. Our success at securing the funds for those projects has been nothing short of remarkable.
Because of that success, things that once seemed beyond our reach – like the expansion of our engineering facilities and our dining commons and the land mass of our campus, like the addition of new residence halls and the remodeling of others, like improved classroom technology and athletic facilities and additional student financial aid – we now take for granted as part of our daily lives and work.
The point I would like to stress about this is that the experience of establishing objectives crucial to our mission and securing the funds with which to achieve those objectives is a new experience here at the University of Portland. And when that sense of financial empowerment is combined with our growing mastery of enrollment, we have an institutional environment of self-confidence unlike any we have ever known. We now have a rare opportunity to shape our own destiny. For much of the University's history, the fundamental question was whether or not it would survive. That was followed by the recent period during which the University consolidated its gains and became excellent in selected programs and activities. Now we are asking ourselves what kind of university we want to be in the future.
This is the context in which we begin this new year and this is the cause of my great optimism and excitement about the work that lies before us. And it is my response to that question – what kind of university do we want to be? – that is the focus of my talk today.
The University of Portland attracted all of us, I think, and continues to attract us, because of its extraordinary qualities, its enormous potential, and its unique identity. That identity has been much discussed in recent years and three major themes that run through it have been articulated:
- Teaching and learning
- Faith and formation
- Service and leadership
These three themes are the very thread of the fabric of the University. They shape all that we have done in the past and will continue to give form to all that we do in the future. They are the heart and soul of our mission and of our institutional and personal lives. And they will be the guiding lights for three vital projects we are undertaking this year that separately and together will be a significant means for us to determine the kind of school we want to be. There are hundreds of tasks that will occupy us this year, and each of them is important in its own way. But in an unusual confluence of past obligations and future commitments three projects stand out above all others:
- Accreditation, which requires that we evaluate our recent past;
- Strategic Planning, which requires us to envision our future; and a
- Major Fund Raising Campaign, which offers the means by which we can realize that vision.
Accreditation offers the most immediate challenge. By the end of this calendar year we must complete a report for the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities that documents the work we have done during the past five years to implement our last strategic plan and to remain faithful to our three core themes. This report will be submitted to the NW Commission and studied by a group of visitors who will next fall spend time on campus to evaluate our progress to renew our accreditation as a private university.
With the advice and counsel of the deans and a steering committee, I have asked Tom Greene, associate provost and dean of the Graduate School, to facilitate the accreditation process and lead a team of faculty and staff that will oversee the work of accreditation. Many of you will be called upon to assist and I hope you will respond with the enthusiasm and generosity which has characterized you in the past.
The creation of a strategic plan, however, is a longer and more complex challenge and will involve still more of you for many more months. A steering committee has been at work since last year, for several months doing the preliminary preparations for this process. Br. Donald and I co-chair the committee and I have named Fr. Gerry Olinger, my executive assistant, to facilitate and manage the planning process. Subcommittees have been established that align with the three themes of our mission: teaching and learning, faith and formation, service and leadership. These subcommittees will do their work throughout this academic year and we will present a final plan for our Regents to approve at their meeting next May. The new plan will then be included with our report to the accreditors next fall. And after that, we will refer to the Plan often, using it to guide our decision-making and the allocation of our limited resources during the next five or more years.
Every successful organization has a plan for its growth and future. But while planning is always important, it is particularly crucial during times of economic challenge, when resources are more scarce and decisions more difficult. The best planning is not episodic but is continual and ongoing and my hope is that planning and assessment soon will become a natural part of our work here. Last year we completed the fifth year of a plan that was developed in 2004. That plan, in turn, was built on plans developed in the 1990s. Real and sustainable progress for the University is not the work of one or two or five years. It is the work of many years. By following a plan that is well-conceived, ambitious, flexible and realistic the University can continue its progress and realize its vision for itself.
However, our circumstances and our goals have evolved considerably during the past 5 or 6 years and the present plan we are developing must recognize that. The growth we have experienced in the past is but the prologue to the important story that is unfolding here today. This new plan cannot be an update of the previous plans but must be a new plan altogether, a fresh look at the University that will articulate the ways in which we have changed, that will set targets for the next five years and beyond, and that will establish and define the methods by which we will assess our progress.
Broadly speaking, the plan should address all of the issues that vex us and challenge us every day, issues such as:
- what it means to be a Catholic university;
- how we might relieve heavy dependence on tuition;
- how we might find and develop sources of revenue;
- how we might improve our pedagogy;
- how we might better implement technology in the classroom and elsewhere on campus;
- what the profile of our student body should look like;
- what will allow us to continue to attract students;
- what will make the University distinctive among its peers;
- how we can strengthen and enrich our curriculum;
- how can we best integrate faith and service in the life of the University;
Some schools plan as a matter of survival. Some plan in order to retrench. As I have noted, we have the luxury and rich blessing to begin our planning from a position of great strength. Our challenge now is to build on that strength and elevate our work, and the life of the University, to a new level of distinction. As always, our starting point for our discussions can be found in the commitments expressed in our mission, and our trajectory can be found in what we together envision for us as a University: to be known as a premier comprehensive Catholic university with a strong liberal arts core.
We have come far in a very short time. But if we are going to rise higher, we must take an honest look at where we stand in comparison to other fine universities, Catholic and otherwise, and think hard about how we can improve. Karen Nelson, our director of institutional research, has already begun to gather this kind of data but we must be cautious that this external scan does not lead us simply to mimic others. We must be guided by our mission. That is my challenge to you: think deeply about how we can improve in those areas in which we seek excellence: teaching and learning, faith and formation, service and learning.
Foremost among our considerations as we plan must be our concern for academic excellence. Fr. Ted Hesburgh, the legendary president of Notre Dame, once said that "piety is not a substitute for scholarship", and that thought must guide us throughout our planning. We cannot be a great Catholic university unless we are, first, a great university. We must strive to excel in teaching and learning by the standards of truly great institutions of higher learning. And we must do that while preserving and enhancing our Catholic character. So I charge you all, as we work our way through this year-long planning process, to ask yourselves two essential questions:
- What does it mean for us to be a great university?
- What does it mean for us to be a Catholic university?
What does it mean to be a great university?
An education that is rooted in the traditions of the Congregation of Holy Cross is an education that is committed to the highest level of excellence. This commitment was established by our founder, Blessed Basil Moreau. In the wake of the French Revolution Fr. Moreau knew that any schools he established had to have the highest standards and be recognized for their unquestioned excellence. Their survival in the hostile environment of post-revolutionary France depended on it. This is no less true for us today than it was for Father Moreau 175 years ago.
If our quest for excellence and distinction was simply a matter of funding every worthy proposal, our job would be very different than the one we face. For the University of Portland, an endless abundance of new resources is not available; we cannot fund new proposals indiscriminately. There are many things we can do; we just can't do them all. The way to the top for us is not a mere matter of dollars, but a matter of how to spend those dollars wisely. Strategically. Our plan must consist of focused, achievable and measurable priorities. In our planning, we must be ready to make informed, strategic and sometimes difficult decisions about which initiatives have the greatest potential to be truly excellent and to advance the University further. We must do this if we are to truly serve our mission. Again, we begin our planning for academic excellence from a position of strength.
There are about 230 Catholic colleges and universities in the United States. A recent study identified 21 of those schools as the leaders among that group, and the University of Portland was among those 21. In that group, we are a relatively small school. Only five of those 21 schools have smaller enrollment than we do. We do not have the advantages of scale that many others have. Therefore, if we are to succeed, our decisions about where and how we invest in our programs and facilities must be more discerning, more focused, more integrated. It was interesting for me to note that of those 21, only seven had students with higher SAT scores in reading, and only 10 had higher SAT scores in math. Clearly, the University is poised to step into the leading rank of Catholic colleges and universities.
One of our singular advantages is that we are a Holy Cross school. Holy Cross institutions have historically been leaders in integrated and interdisciplinary curricula, especially relating the humanities to professional education.
In addition, Holy Cross schools have always been leaders in developing student life in a way that is programmed, intentional, and interventionist. Our undergraduates learn how to live in and be responsible for a 'community'. Residentiality has become a hallmark of student life here and is the single most effective instrument we have to integrate the knowledge our students acquire. Residence life draws together the ideas and concepts of the laboratory and classroom with the realities of university life and creates a community unlike any that most students will ever live in again – a community of faith, of work, of service, and of play. Our challenge is to uncover ways for us to bend this extracurricular learning to the service of academic excellence.
Our distinctive character as a Catholic university presents us with challenges not faced by secular schools. The late pope John Paul II once said that the proper role of a Catholic university is: "Learning to think rigorously so as to act rightly and serve humanity better." This is a uniquely Catholic view of higher education. We work here not only to pass on knowledge but to cultivate moral and religious virtues in our students. This ideal guides not only our policies and practices in the Division of Student Life and the Office of Campus Ministry, but also in the theology and philosophy departments and in our core curriculum. We will serve humanity better when we help our students engage the world's greatest problems. We have done that in some very large and visible ways in recent years through such things as the Focus the Nation Conference, the Water and Justice Conference last year, and the conference on food being planned for next spring. And you do it in less visible ways every day in your classes. In our planning we must identify still more ways to have this kind of engagement.
We also will continue to pass on moral and religious virtues through the generous commitment of the priests and brothers of Holy Cross. We have about 30 Holy Cross priests and brothers living and working here this year, and a number of other religious who are not members of the Congregation. It is the highest ratio of religious to students of any of the 230 Catholic schools in the nation. The many ways our religious faculty and staff serve as role models reinforces the integration of learning and character, of college and community, of faith and life that we seek for our students. A week ago we said goodbye to Fr. Chet Prusynski, a Holy Cross priest who had served here since 1962. Pru taught courses in the School of Business, lived in residence halls, counseled and comforted generations of students for almost half a century and for all of his life as a priest. His lifetime of service to students and the University is just the latest example of the Holy Cross commitment to each of you, to our students, and to our University.
A critical component of our mission of UP as a holy Cross institution is you, lay collaborators who serve the University because you believe in what we do and what we strive to be. From the earliest days of the Congregation, Fr. Moreau envisioned Holy Cross working side by side with committed lay people to further God's work.
Our Catholic character and mission is also seen throughout our curriculum which is replete with courses where our religious and ethical commitments are highlighted. Basil Moreau himself said: "Knowledge itself does not bring about positive values, but values do influence knowledge and put it to good use." Many of you teach courses in the philosophy of religion, the history of religion, business ethics, peace studies, and environmental studies. These are obvious examples. In truth, every part of our curriculum should be informed in some way by philosophical, ethical, and theological perspectives. The president of a prestigious university recently proudly claimed that his faculty only taught facts, nothing else. We are different at the University of Portland. Moral neutrality is not something to which we aspire.
And our students want and expect to learn from our moral commitments. Recent studies done annually by UCLA show that students at universities around the country are concerned about the general lack of ethical and religious foundations as part of the their curriculum and college experience.
Whether our students are Catholic or not, their 'formation' as morally motivated men and women is one of our great purposes. This way of expressing it is unique to Holy Cross. While others may talk about 'the education of the whole person', we in Holy Cross talk about the formation of our students. Our task is to help these young men and women who come to us as searchers, give shape to their lives and character. A Holy Cross university is a Catholic intellectual community that does not lead students to decide what they want to be. Ours is a community that helps students discern who they are called to be. Our students' central concern should not be their personal identity but dedication to God and others.
I could go on, but our basic calling is clear: to teach values as well as competence, to understand the ethical as well as the intellectual challenges of our time, and to see the philosophical and theological implications of those challenges. Our strategic plan must help us do that.
As you do the work of developing our new strategic plan, however, it is essential that you keep in mind that our planning must be grounded in reality. It will profit us nothing if we devote a year to pursuing pie in the sky. This is why our planning is so intimately tied to the third major project that will continue to unfold this year: a comprehensive fund raising campaign.
Shortly after our last campaign ended in 2002, discussions began about ways to secure the funds for the University's needs that were unmet by that fund raising effort. And there were many. The day-long retreat at Kennedy School in 2004 that I referred to earlier accelerated those discussions and in 2005 we began to secure the gifts that allowed us to complete many projects that were among our highest priorities. We are all now enjoying the benefits of the past five years of successful fund raising.
Those years, in truth, have been the 'quiet phase' of another campaign. During this time we have approached friends with the ability to significantly help us, and many of their gifts have been directed to buildings or large physical projects such as Shiley Hall, Fields and Schoenfeldt Halls, and the Bauccio Commons. This December we will announce this new campaign to the public and will increase our efforts during the next three years, concluding in December 2013.
This new campaign has been built upon the priorities established at the Kennedy School retreat and the guidance spelled out in the 2004 Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan that we develop this year will, in turn, be tightly linked to this ongoing fund raising.
I explained earlier that the pursuit of academic excellence was our first order of business and this campaign reflects that commitment. Fully 40% of our $175 million goal is to support academic excellence, including endowed faculty positions, faculty and student development, and technology support. No university can be better than its faculty, and this campaign will help provide the resources you need to excel.
Another 25% of our goal is for student financial aid – the largest single priority of this campaign. If we are to be faithful to our mission and our vision we must be a University that welcomes a diverse student body, rich and poor alike. Thus, financial aid must continue to be our most important fund raising objective.
There is an audacity and boldness about this campaign that I hope will inspire all of you. For one thing, the dollar goal we are seeking is greater than any private school in the Northwest has ever attempted to raise.
For another, it proposes to lift the University to a new level of achievement and prestige by providing funds and endowments for those initiatives you have identified – and will continue to identify – through our planning. This campaign underscores a momentous time in the life of the University.
These three crucial projects – accreditation, strategic planning, and the comprehensive campaign – can be used to elevate the University to the highest rank of American Catholic colleges and universities. If we embrace these projects with thoughtfulness and passion we can enrich the University, our work, and the lives of our students in ways that we dared not imagine even five years ago.
Each successive generation of faculty and staff has added its own distinctive mark to the University and each has moved it beyond its previous station. Over the years the University has grown in wisdom and wealth, in size and stature because of the devotion and the energy of people like you. They met the challenges of their age with the resources that were available to them. That was their time.
This year we are being called to rise to our own challenge. The work ahead will be long and difficult but we will be guided by the Spirit and buoyed by one another. The University of Portland is a fine institution but it can – and will -- become greater still – with our efforts, the help of others, and the grace of God. Our vision is clear; our mission is unambiguous; our work lies before us.
Three essential themes. Three seminal projects. A position of strength not known before. This is our time. Let us seize it together.
Thank you all for being here today. I give you my prayers and best wishes for a fruitful, productive, and satisfying year.
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A man was killed when his speeding car went off Route 419 in Berks County and struck two trees, state police said.
The accident happened on Route 419, about a quarter-mile north of Old Route 22, in Tulpehocken Township sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Monday, but it wasn't discovered until around 6:30 a.m., police said.
The initial investigation reveals that the car was traveling at a high rate of speed when it went off the road, struck one tree and then another before coming to rest in a cornfield, police said.
The driver, identified by police as Ty Zimmerman, 28, of Tulpehocken Township, died at the scene. No one else was in the car.
Route 419 was closed in both directions for several hours while troopers investigated the accident and crews worked to remove the wrecked vehicle from the field.


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CRESSON - Summit Country Club recognized one of its most influential and supportive members this past weekend.
Jack Calandra, past club president, was honored with a life-sized bronze statue commissioned by the club's membership and dedicated on Sunday morning. The ceremony was held prior to one of the club's most popular events - the annual Jack Calandra Cup.
Calandra, 81, began golfing at Summit in 1944, a time when the nine-hole country club, and, like many others, had a much more formal atmosphere and was resistant to change.
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Summit Country Club honored Jack Calandra (left) with a life-sized bronze statue for his years of commitment to the club.
By the 1950s, Calandra, a University of Pennsylvania graduate and successful businessman, was elected to the club's board of directors. A few years later, he became the club's president.
"Myself and some of the other younger board members were considered rebels," Calandra said. "We felt strongly that the club needed to expand to 18 holes, but the older members resisted."
Soon, however, Calandra had a majority of like-minded directors who approved the major renovation project of adding nine additional holes. Calandra was the driving force behind the project, closely overseeing all aspects of construction. He would inspect all the work on a daily basis and would occasionally jump on a tractor himself to mow some of the newly planted grass.
The new nine holes opened for play in the late 1960s and brought immediate success, helping to keep the club competitive with the other area courses that had already expanded to 18 holes.
Over the years, Calandra continued to support the club in many ways but was always adamant in his desire to do so in a quiet, humble manner. Few may also know that Calandra has been one of the best golfers in club history: He has captured six club championships during his years at Summit.
Last summer, current club president Vaughn Lewis spawned the idea of honoring Calandra for his life-long commitment to Summit Country Club.
"It's hard to put into words what Jack has meant to this club," Lewis said. "He's had a love for this place that's hard to describe."
Lewis, along with club members Bernie Fabbri, P.J. Sloan and Bob Biter, formed a fund-raising committee that quickly raised sufficient funds to procure the life-sized bronze sculpture. The work was done by Snowberger Studios in Duncansville and was just recently finished
The entire project was kept a secret from Calandra until just a few weeks ago. When he was informed, the ever-humble Calandra simply said, "This really isn't necessary."
Lewis found himself in the awkward position of disagreeing with his long-time mentor.
"Yes Jack, for everything you've done for this course over the years - this is absolutely necessary," Lewis said.
A brief dedication ceremony, which included the unveiling of the statue was held Sunday morning near the club's first tee. A large crowd was on hand, including many club members and of a number of Calandra's own family. Calandra's son, Paul, took part in the ceremony.
"This club has meant so much to my father over the years," Paul Calandra said. "It's almost like part of his being."
Long-time club pro Randy Repko has known Calandra ever since he was a teenager.
"Jack has helped to take Summit Country Club to another level," Repko said. "Over the years, he's done everything possible to promote this club and to encourage all of its members."


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July 9: A Hinesville couple told police they found obscene photos of a young male on their juvenile granddaughter's computer. The juvenile reportedly had been sending messages to the young man, requesting naked photos of him.
ATLANTA - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will be releasing child abduction and other crime alerts on Twitter and Facebook accounts.
July 3: A store owner on West Oglethorpe Highway reported spotting an armed robbery suspect in his store. The suspect agreed to speak with police, who confirmed he had an active warrant in Liberty County for armed robbery. The suspect also was found to be in possession of marijuana during a subsequent search.
Hugs, tears and a lot of jokes and stories flowed freely Saturday night at Club Stewart, where Lt. Danny Pittman's retirement party drew hundreds of well-wishers.
The Terrell Mill Pond fire in Hinesville that was sparked June 28 by a lightning strike is 100 percent contained, according to information provided by Nicole Hawk, public affairs specialist for the USDA Forest Service.
Georgia Forestry Commission Long County Ranger Paul Robertson was terminated by the commission Monday.
ATLANTA - Weather forecasters say more above-average temperatures are in store for Georgia, with a heat advisory issued for much of the state and an excessive heat warning in effect in some southeastern areas.
The Armstrong Atlantic State University Police Department will offer a Rape Aggression Defense class for women 18 and older. The 12-hour program will be split into three sessions July 17, 24, and 31 from 2-6 p.m. Training will take place in the Hinesville YMCA at 201 Mary Lou Drive.
July 6
A Georgia Forestry Commission employee, who is a suspect in an arson investigation, has been placed on leave.
The Hinesville fire near Terrell Mill Pond that temporarily closed Ga. Highway 196 earlier this week is about
June 29: A resident of Independence Place told police his bicycle, worth $560, was stolen from his apartment. He told officers the apartment may have been left unsecured but he did not know who could have taken the bike.
FOLKSTON - Fire information officials at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge say the Honey Prairie Fire continues to burn, and a new blaze has been identified.
REIDSVILLE - Authorities say two Georgia Department of Natural Resources rangers and a fisherman rescued two boys and their father from the Ohoopee River.
Despite weekend efforts by Georgia Forestry rangers to control a fire that has been burning in a peat moss bog near Ga. Highway 196 since Tuesday, a thick plume of smoke blanketed the heavily used road, bringing visibility to zero at times and prompting officials to temporarily close the highway.
A 28-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a fire Sunday that damaged the New and Not Shop in Hinesville.
A Long County school bus driver was arrested for DUI shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday while on her way to pick up students, according ...
The following incidents are taken from recent Hinesville Police Department reports:
A Hinesville family of five was displaced Monday night when a fire heavily damaged their Whisper Lane home.
A Flemington man involved in an armed stand-off with police in October 2013 entered into a plea agreement in Liberty County Superior Court Monday.
A Hinesville family was displaced Monday night when a fire heavily damaged their Whisper Lane home.
The driver charged in the hit-and-run death of Midway native Ethan Pringle has been granted bond in Jasper County, South Carolina, Superior Court.
Coastal Georgia could get as much as seven inches of rain by Friday from the quickly-risen Tropical Storm Julia.
The back tires of a school bus from Joseph Martin Elementary School, carrying students slid into a ditch Tuesday afternoon.
The man allegedly responsible for the hit-and-run death of Midway resident Ethan Pringle, 26, has been arrested, according to South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl ...
From Hinesville Police Department reports:
A Midway man, Ethan Pringle, 26, was killed by a hit-and-run driver early Saturday, according to South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Matt Southern.
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It's so hot at the Australian Open that you can gently warm an egg.
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Even babies can develop tooth decay if good feeding habits aren't practiced. Putting a baby to sleep with a bottle might be convenient, but can harm the baby's teeth. When the sugars from juice or milk remain on a baby's teeth for hours, they can eat away at the enamel, creating a condition known as bottle mouth. Pocked, pitted, or discolored front teeth are signs of bottle mouth. Severe cases result in cavities and the need to pull all of the front teeth until the permanent ones grow in.
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Mike Windwalker, D.V.M., came home early from work, pulling into his driveway in his battered brown van, practically a veterinary clinic on wheels. It had been a busy but short day, allowing him to leave his assistants in charge of the kennels and point himself toward a relaxing late afternoon and evening.
A well-earned bit of relaxation, considering he rarely enjoyed a day off. Not that he minded his workload. In fact he loved it because it gave him scant time to think about all the things missing in his life. And the animals he spent his time with, if not all of their owners, didn't give a damn that he was a "redskin," a full-blooded Cheyenne, an escapee from the rez.
He climbed out of the van, feeling a little stiff from an unusual encounter that morning with a bovine. The animal had been half insane but worth enough money that the rancher wanted to be sure there wasn't some treatment for the steer. In the process, he'd been kicked, although not too badly, nearly bittenthank God he'd dodged that oneand had wrestled with twelve hundred pounds of maddened muscle while trying to get a blood sample.
He'd guessed it was rabies to begin with, but the rancher had been insistent. In the end, however, he'd simply had to put the animal down, over strenuous objections, with the flat statement that he wasn't going to risk his own life or anyone else's when the diagnosis was damn near written all over the steer.
He'd left with the body of the steer and dropped it off in his cooler so that tomorrow he could remove the brain and spinal cord to send to the state lab.
Fun day, stubborn client, and now he ached all over. Yet he still felt a lot of sympathy for the rancher, who, like most in his business, was running on a margin so small that losing one steer, just one, could be a terrifying prospect.
The only thing that had made the guy stand back and let Mike put the animal down was the possibility that if he kept that steer around, he might wind up with a sick herdthe only catastrophe worse than losing a single animal.
Mike tossed his head, causing his inky hair to fall back from his face. Despite local opinions about Native Americans, he defiantly wore his hair long. Let 'em stare. His heritage was stamped on his face, and his hair was the crowning glory. Usually he tied it back with a beaded band, but today when he left work, he'd discarded the band. His scalp was grateful.
"Hi, Dr. Windwalker!"
The light, youthful voice called to him from the house next door, and he turned to see Colleen Carmody sitting in her wheelchair on the large front porch. The Carmodys had moved in a little over a month ago, and he'd shared a few brief conversations with thirteen-year-old Colleen, who was incurably cheerful and friendly. He'd even spoken to her mother Delia, or Del, a few times, but he tried to keep the contact to a minimum. He didn't want any trouble, and he certainly didn't want to cause any to the Carmodys. He knew his place; it had been beaten into him.
"You're home early," Colleen said with a wide, welcoming smile.
He couldn't be rude to that girl, not for anybody's sake. From inside the house he heard a banging, indicating that Colleen's mother was busy at the restoration work she did to support herself and her daughter. "Yeah," he replied, without approaching. "And I need it. I had a hard morning."
"What happened?" Colleen asked.
"A very sick steer would have liked to kill me. I didn't let him, but he almost won the fight."
The girl giggled, a delightful sound, and rolled her chair across the porch so she was a little closer. Her red hair caught some of the spring sunlight that filtered through the leaves before it crept under the porch roof, and flamed. "You don't look like you did so bad."
"That's because my bruises are under my pants. I figure I'll look like a piece of modern art in a day or two."
Another giggle answered him. "How's your day been?" he asked. Nope, no way could he be rude to that child.
He watched, feeling a twinge of concern as he saw the girl's smile vanish. "Colleen?" Something must be wrong.
"It's nothing," the girl said. "I just don't like this house."
"Why not?"
She hesitated, then said in a rush, "I feel like there's something else in there. I hear things. It's creepy!"
He looked from her to the two-story, clapboard house, and the blank eyes of the windows. Old house. Plenty of rot, no doubt, and maybe raccoons or mice. But something else Some feeling he tried to shove away, because at least around here he had to be one hundred percent a man of science and bury instincts honed throughout his youth by people who believed in spirits and the sentience of even the very rocks.
"Rats?" he suggested. "Raccoons?"
"Mom checked. That's what she thinks it is."
He nodded, his gaze returning to the child. "She's probably right. But you don't think so?"
Colleen shrugged. "She didn't find anything."
"Ah." He tried a small smile. "Then maybe some mice got into the walls. They can be so hard to find once they do that."
"Yeah. That's what Mom said, too." Colleen gave another small shrug, seeming a bit embarrassed now. "I know she's probably right, but it's creepy anyway. Especially late at night."
"That would creep me out, too," he said sympathetically, letting his barriers down just a shade. "Scratching and banging from something you can't see Nah, I wouldn't like that either."
That elicited a smile from Colleen. "You're kinda okay, Dr. Windwalker."
"Just call me Mike." He was about to say goodbye and head into his own house when the screen door behind Colleen squeaked open and a woman poked her head out.
"Colleen? Did you call me?" Then, as she saw Mike, "Oh! Hi, Dr. Windwalker."
"Just Mike." He felt nearly embarrassed that he'd kept such a distance since they moved in that they didn't even feel free to call him by his first name. Of course, he was only protecting himself and them.
Del Carmody stepped out onto the porch with a smile. And once again he felt the impact of her beauty. Black Irish to the bone, she didn't have her daughter's flaming hair but instead hair much like his, the color of a raven's wing, only shinier and finer. The impact was heightened by intense blue eyes and milky Irish skin. Right now she looked a little dusty, but that didn't detract one iota from a body that even in jeans and a loose work shirt sans sleeves showed a perfect shape, the kind of shape only a woman could achieve from hard physical labor. The kind of shape that had always drawn him, more muscular than average but still curved in all the right ways. And that smile of hers.
Things he really shouldn't notice. Couldn't afford to notice. But he saw them all anyway.
"Mike," she acknowledged, still smiling. "Didn't mean to interrupt you guys, but I heard Colleen's voice and wondered if she needed something."
"I was just telling Doctor I mean Mike, about the mice in the house."
"The noises." Del nodded, looking at her daughter with a flicker of concern. Clearly she cared that her daughter was frightened, even if the explanation had to be utterly benign. A loving mother.
"Mice in the walls can be a beast to get rid of," he volunteered.
"Tell me about it," Del said. She came farther onto the porch and leaned against the railing. "That's where they must be because I can't find any sign of them in the attic. I just hope I can get rid of them before one dies inside a wall."
"That'll make the place uninhabitable for a while," he agreed. He felt awkward, standing so far away in his driveway, knowing the neighborly thing would be to approach. But he didn't approach white folks readily anymore. Hadn't since he was eighteen. If they came to him in a friendly fashion, fine. But he never made the first overture. And this situation, with a widow and her daughter, could cause exactly the kind of mess he'd been avoiding his entire adult life.
Awkward to stand at a distance, even more awkward to just walk away. Needless rudeness did him no favors, but then neither did unwanted friendliness. He'd given up sighing over reality years ago, though. The West was the West, and people here still harbored old hatreds.
He didn't feel sorry for himself. Others, he believed, had it far worse. But he was well aware that he was always on a tightrope, at least in this part of the country. It hadn't been so bad back east where he'd gone to veterinary school, but here memories were long. On both sides, if he were to be honest about it.
"I hope that all my sawing and banging isn't driving you nuts," Del said.
He allowed himself a faint smile. "Not at all. I'm usually at work during the hours you're banging away. How's it going?"
"Well, the place was in worse shape than I guessed when I looked it over before I bought it. A lot of hidden problems. But it's coming along."
"A lot of rot?"
Her blue eyes met his openly, tired but smiling. "Oh, of course. Worse than I anticipated. When I started pulling out the old plaster, I found some of the studs were in pretty bad shape, and the lath behind the plaster isn't so great either."
"It's a shame you have to replace the plaster at all."
"I know." She turned toward him, facing him. An open posture. "They don't build them like that anymore. It's killing me to have to put in drywall, but plastering would be a bigger headache than I want to buy, especially since I may have to replace all of it. I guess the roof must have leaked into the walls at some point, for a long time." She looked back at the house and then smiled at him. "This job is always an adventure."
"So's Mike's," Colleen offered. "A steer tried to kill him."
Del's eyebrows, perfectly arched, lifted. "Why in the world would a steer do that?"
"I'm pretty sure he was rabid. He got in a few kicks, but I dodged well enough that the damage is minor."
Colleen giggled. "He said he's going to look like modern art."
Del's smile widened and she chuckled. "Ouch. There are days that leave me looking that way, too."
He turned his mind away from inevitable thoughts about what might lie under her clothing, bruised and unbruised.
"How would a steer become rabid?" Del asked.
"The same way you or I could. A bite from an infected animal. I'll look for the marks when I start the necropsy tomorrow, but it could have been anything from a raccoon to a wolf."
Colleen spoke. "I bet the rancher thinks it was a wolf. They hate the wolves."
"Yes, they do." And entirely too much so, though Mike could understand their reasoning. For his own part, he prized the return of wolves to the area, both culturally and scientifically. "But it could have been something else. A rabid animal will bite just about anything regardless of size. And it's my job to find out."
"I hope it was a bat or something else," Colleen said. "I like wolves."
"I do, too." Really. Because if he found a wolf bite on the animal, there might well be other infected wolves, and the hunt would begin. Considering that as near as anyone could tell there was still only a single pack on Thunder Mountain, that would be a tragedy, both for the wolves and the ecology.
Del straightened a bit. "You must be tired," she said to him. "Don't let us keep you in your driveway."
She smiled, but instead of feeling grateful for her concern, he felt dismissed. "Thanks," he said, trying to keep a pleasant tone. "Nice chatting." Then he turned and started toward his door.
And on his back he could feel the eyes of two white women, forbidden territory.
Del watched Mike Windwalker stride away to his door, thinking he was an extremely attractive man, from his face to those narrow hips cased in worn denim. And she liked the coppery color of his skin, such a contrast to her own ghastly paleness. All her life she wished she could tan rather than freckle. Ah, well, she wasn't in the market for a man, any man.
Then she looked down at her daughter. "You getting hungry?"
"Could be." Colleen grinned.
"How hungry?"
"Um " Colleen pretended to think it over. "Just teensy hungry right now. Big hungry comes later."
"Fair enough." She reached for the grips on the back of the wheelchair and heard an immediate protest.
"Mom! I can do it myself."
Del had to smile. Colleen's independence and upbeat attitude always made her smile except when it made her cry for what her daughter had lost. "Okay, okay. I'll just get the door."
"I want chips!"
"Whole-grain pretzels."
"Sheesh, Mom, I have a growing brain. I need the fat."
"Smarty pants."
"I learned it in biology."
"You learn too much in biology."
In the kitchen, which was still awaiting renovations, the dust layered everything. No way to avoid it at this stage of restoration, so Del grabbed a wet rag and wiped down just enough of it to feed her daughter some pretzels without all the plaster dust. In other parts of the house, near open windows, big fans tried to suck dust out of the house. They helped but not entirely. Just as the plastic she hung over the door to the kitchen didn't completely prevent the dust from getting in.
As she was wiping around the sink, she noticed the window beside it was unlocked. She paused, wondering how that had happened. She never opened the windows in here because she didn't want to create a draft that would suck the dust in around the edges of the plastic.
Damn, she couldn't remember. For all she knew it had been unlocked for weeks or more. She might have done it in the way she did so many things, while thinking of something else. Except, she wouldn't have closed it without locking it again, would she?
Hell. As forgetful as she seemed to be getting lately, it was silly even to wonder about it. Maybe one of the workmen or deliverymen had opened it briefly.
Sighing, she reached out to flip the lock closed.
"What do you want to drink?" she asked after she'd put a couple of large pretzels on a plate.
Del faced her daughter. "You do this to drive me crazy, right?"
Colleen giggled. "No." But the way she giggled had given lie to her denial.
Del laughed herself. "You know what's in the fridge."
"Yeah. Darn it. Wouldn't you know I'd have a health freak for a mom?"
"Such a curse." But Del couldn't help feeling a pang. Her daughter wanted the same simple things every other kid her age wanted. Having to take extra care about her weight because her activities were limited only made it harder for both of them. "Okay," she said.


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Emotional Hazard in a Power-to-take Experiment
Ronald Bosman
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Frans van Winden
University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)
The Economic Journal, Vol. 112, pp. 147-169, 2002
In this experimental study of a two player power-to-take game, players earn an income in an individual effort task preceding the game. The game has two stages. First, one player can claim any part of the other's income (take rate). Then, the latter player can respond by destroying own income. We focus on how emotions influence responses and show: (1) a higher take rate increases (decreases) intensity of negative (positive) emotions; (2) negative emotions drive destruction; (3) at high emotional intensity, responders destroy everything; (4) expectations affect the probability of punishment. Emotional hazard is identified as a new source of efficiency costs.
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Ohio State Patrol Lt. Brian Holt that initially he did not expect Kenneth B. Hamrick, 59, 2766 Kinsman Road N.W., North Bloomfield, to survive.
"But at this point it looks like he will," Holt said.
Hamrick was transported by helicopter to St. Elizabeth's Health Center after shooting himself in the head, troopers confirmed. Law enforcement officials had negotiated with Hickman, who barricaded himself in the home after police came to serve him with an arrest warrant for an outstanding OVI charge.
State Route 87 in North Bloomfield was shutdown at about 7 a.m. after law enforcement became involved in a stand-off with the man inside his home.
Officials said a special response team task force was serving the misdemeanor warrant at his home between state Route 45 and state Route 534, when he came to the door with a gun.
Officers took cover and the man barricaded himself in the home, officials said. Negotiators and an armored truck were called. Officials said after four hours of negotiations, they heard a gunshot and sent a remote-controlled robot with a camera inside the home.
Holt said the man was found unresponsive after he shot himself. Holt said OSP had planned to withhold Hamrick's name until notifying family because troopers thought he wasn't going to survive.


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Grant: When it comes to new Ranger Brandon Webb, expect little (or nothing)
ARLINGTON - In their third try at rescuing the wrecked career of an injured free-agent starting pitcher, the Rangers may have figured out how to produce a performance that exceeds their expectations.
It goes like this: Expect nothing.
And with that we present the Rangers' newest starter: Brandon Webb, whose signing was formally announced Monday after a week in which it was the second-worst kept sports secret in Arlington.
This is not to say the signing of Webb, who will turn 32 in May, was a waste of $3 million. On the contrary, this could be as brilliant a deal as last winter's signings of Colby Lewis and Vladimir Guerrero. There is only one caveat: The Rangers must enter this marriage expecting nothing in return.
After failures with fliers on oft-injured Jason Jennings and then Rich Harden, the Rangers appear to have a better handle on this whole Rehab Roulette.
The Rangers aren't counting on Webb to be the Cy Young winner he was in 2006. They aren't counting on him for 150 innings as they did with Harden last year. They aren't even penciling him into the opening day rotation as they did with Jennings in 2008.
"I think it is all about the individual," general manager Jon Daniels said Monday. "We'd love for him to be ready, but we aren't going to rush anything."
This is the only way to proceed with such cases. Open up a guy's shoulder or elbow and you might as well sentence him to a 12-15 (months) in rehab prison. He's not going to be any good to anybody before that and, if he's ever going to recover his effectiveness, it probably won't happen until sometime after 18 months.
It has been 17 months since Webb's shoulder was reconstructed in Arlington by Rangers team orthopedist Dr. Keith Meister.
He threw some in October, but that was to show people he was pain free and nothing more. His velocity during a four innings of Instructional League outings ranged between 82-85 mph, which didn't wow anybody. His motion wasn't exactly smooth either, but he was pain free.
When he gets up on a mound to prepare for spring training, he'll be right at the 18-month mark. If he's going to make a comeback, the timing is right.
Contrast that to the Jennings situation. The Rangers guaranteed him $4 million barely four months after he had a tendon near his elbow repaired. Despite a lukewarm spring, he ended up as the No. 3 starter in the rotation barely seven months after surgery. It wasn't until another year had passed that the Rangers got anything resembling production out of Jennings, and then it was as a reliever.
There are a couple of huge differences in the situations. First, there is the rehab time. Then, there is the type of surgery: repair (Jennings) vs. reconstruction (Webb). With pitchers, reconstruction is more likely to lead to a return to effectiveness, though the rehab period is longer, than repair. With a cracked engine block, you are better off rebuilding the whole engine, even if it is going to take more time.
And finally - perhaps most importantly - there are those expectations. Or the lack of them. In Jennings' case, the Rangers were looking for a way to work him into the opening day rotation because they didn't have any other options. Same with Harden, whose lack of velocity and command the Rangers tried to wave off until it started happening in regular-season games.
Webb's signing doesn't mean Michael Kirkman or Derek Holland or Eric Hurley are automatically headed to the minors. It won't be surprising if he doesn't open the season on the active roster while he continues to search for the zip on his sinking fastball. It won't be surprising if the Rangers add another arm to the rotation mix, even if they go out and re-engage Tampa Bay about Matt Garza.
The Rangers are continuing to go about their business as if they have no concrete expectations for Webb.
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CHARLES TOWN - Get ready for big hair, legwarmers and Members Only jackets Friday night at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races.
Cover band M80 will be performing as part of the casino's "Boogie Nights" series of events, and that means it will be a night filled primarily with '80s hits. Lead vocalist Jane Train said in a recent interview with The Journal that the band plays songs from artists such as Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses and Madonna, though they also stretch their boundaries and play crowd favorites by artists such as Sir Mix-A-Lot and Nine Inch Nails.
"We're just a really high-energy band that jumps around a lot," Train said when asked to describe the band. "We're just about encouraging people to sing along and dance."
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M80, from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., will bring an evening of '80s favorites to the H Lounge at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races on Friday night as part of the casino's 'Boogie Nights' series.
The band formed in 2004, Train said, during some "down time" after she got off a tour as a member of Liz Phair's band. She was doing some jingle and acting work, but it wasn't making ends meet.
She was approached by a friend in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to work at his bar during karaoke nights - and it was there where the seeds for M80 were sown.
"Now, we actually play that bar," Train laughed. "We play everywhere."
M80's tour of "everywhere" over the past nine years has included several hundred performances up and down the East Coast, as well as shows for American troops including one at Guantanamo Bay and another special New Year's Eve show in Greenland.
Train said performing for the troops is an "amazing" opportunity. The group has another show for the military planned this New Year's Eve in Germany.
"What an amazing thing, to give their whole life for protecting the U.S. and keeping world peace - that's quite a job," she said. "I wish we could (perform for troops) more often, but there are a lot of bands in line to do that."
When not on the road, Train said she doesn't often listen to '80s music, though. She said her favorite band is Sevendust - and, in fact, she is preparing to release a solo CD, "Diary," that was co-written by Clint Lowery of the metal band.
However, she said, it's often impossible to avoid the iconic decade of music. It's played in department stores, waiting rooms, television commercials - everywhere.
When asked why people have such strong ties to the music of the '80s, Train said it's difficult to narrow it down. One thing's for sure: even three decades later, it hasn't gone away.
"There's something so fun and cheesy about the '80s," she said. "And there are so many different sounds - you have the synth pop of Human League, and then you have bands like Guns N' Roses. I have no idea what it is, but people love it."
And now as the head of an '80s cover band, Train gets the joy of seeing people loving it on the dance floor while she's leading the sing-along.
"They hear the beginning of 'Sweet Child O' Mine' and they just lose it, but these are the same people who lose it over 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,'" she said. "And I'm definitely still having a lot of fun doing this, this many years later."
M80's show in the H Lounge at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races will begin at 9 p.m. Friday. Admission is free to all casino guests over the age of 21.
For more information on M80, visit www.m80band.com. For more on Train's solo CD, "Diary," visit www.facebook.com/janetraindiary. For information about upcoming shows in the H Lounge, visit www.hollywoodcasinoatcharlestown.com.


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Dear Abby: As the executive director of the Hearing Loss Association of America, may I suggest that "Mortified at the Dinner Table," who wrote about her in-laws' poor hearing even with hearing aids, connect with one of our 200-plus local HLAA chapters at www.hearingloss.org. These member-led groups offer emotional support, camaraderie, communication strategies and techniques for living with hearing loss, both for people who have hearing loss as well as their families and friends. Most chapters also share information about assistive listening devices that link via a telecoil found in most modern hearing aids that could greatly enhance her in-laws' hearing around the dinner table.
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Dear Abby: Many people who wear hearing aids find noisy environments problematic. As people age, their ability to understand can be difficult even with hearing aids. — Audiologist in Pennsylvania
Dear Abby: My 91-year-old mother is hard of hearing. I take her out to dinner once a week.
I don't worry about what people around us are thinking. It doesn't matter what she wants to talk about. I'm just glad she's able to get out and converse with others. The conversations at tables near us are sometimes so obnoxious that I'm glad my mother can't hear them. People are normally very courteous about helping me with her. — Judy in Arizona
Dear Abby: Your advice to "Mortified" was certainly not taking into account the other diners' feelings that this writer was so admirably describing! Everyone around that table paid for — and deserves — to have a pleasant dining experience too. This includes not being subjected to others' cellphone conversations, unruly children or excessively loud conversations regardless of their content. — Marianne in Washington
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Mercer Island Council sends Tent City rules back for final changes
Last Tuesday's City Council meeting was a long one.
At the top of the agenda: the much-disputed and long-awaited Temporary Encampment Ordinance, which dictates the legalities behind any temporary encampment — including Tent City 4, the roving homeless camp put on by the nonprofit organization SHARE/WHEEL which spent three months on Mercer Island in 2008 — planning to reside within city boundaries.
In addition to dozens of Island citizens, several residents of Tent City 4, currently being hosted by the First United Methodist Church in Bellevue, attended the packed Jan. 19 meeting.
Most of those who spoke were concerned with "overly restrictive" and "constitutionally questionable" stipulations in the ordinance, which was up for its first reading before Councilmembers. Such issues included: questions on warrant and sex offender checks by Mercer Island police; the requirement for all residents to provide government-issued identification; provisions on when residents may return to past sites in the Island; and the requirement that an application for residency must be submitted at least 90 days before moving in, among others.
"We have serious concerns with the ordinance," said current Tent City 4 resident Bruce Thomas, citing the provision that "the city shall not grant a permit for a temporary encampment that is proposed to commence on a lot or lots within one-half mile of any lot(s) that contained a temporary encampment within the last 18 months."
"You can't do that," Thomas said. "You can't limit a church's right to practice religion just because it's close to another church."
Citing the provision that "an application must be submitted at least 90 days prior to opening a temporary encampment," Tent City 4 resident, who goes by the name Shy, argued that 90 days was an unreasonable amount of time.
"This seems a bit far in advance. It only takes 10 days to get the application done," he said.
Others protested the fact that youth under age 18 are prohibited from spending the night at the site.
"Under extenuating circumstances, if mom or dad comes in with a child for shelter; we'd like to have them stay," said Tent City 4 resident Jack Ackson.
Indeed, the Council felt that the residents' concerns were legitimate. However, when developing the ordinance, city staff was asked to place a high priority on safety and security — reflecting Island residents' main concern with the homeless camp.
"We feel that we've balanced [a church's] constitutional right to freedom of expression with the public's concern for safety," said Adam Cooper, chair of the Tent City 4 planning commission. "Two large concerns were: one, Tent City resident identification. We agreed with public input that government-issued ID is not too onerous a form to conduct. The second concern is that [temporary encampments] could not return within 12 months to a site within one mile. We changed this to 18 months and a site within one-half of a mile so that churches next door to each other can host Tent City after one another."
After hearing from Island residents — half of whom expressed support for Tent City 4, while the rest explained individual concerns regarding neighborhood disturbance and safety — and Tent City members, the City Council began thoroughly questioning the stipulations set forth in the draft ordinance.
"I was glad to hear someone bring the 90-day issue up. I think we can work with the number of days here," said Councilmember Mike Grady. "And the random warrant and sex offender checks — this is a slippery slope that warrants more legal analysis. I'm not at all comfortable with that."
Grady inquired about the requirement that "an applicant conduct an informal public meeting to inform citizens about a proposed temporary encampment."
"Who facilitates this meeting and what role does the public have in this meeting?" He asked.
Councilmember Steve Litzow added to Grady's comment.
"A very big issue with the last Tent City was that the public meetings were very chaotic, so I'd like more stringency on this," he said.
After nearly three hours, Councilmembers voted to send the document back to city staff so that they may loosen several of the stipulations brought up during the Council meeting. Staff will return to the City Council with the edited draft ordinance on Feb. 1, when it will receive a second reading.
A full copy of the Temporary Encampments Ordinance can be downloaded from the City Council's Jan. 19 agenda, available on the city Web site: www.mercergov.org. For a history of Tent City 4 on Mercer Island, visit the Reporter's archive at www.mi-reporter.com.
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