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Two in a Row for Port
Defending champion Ellen Port, of St. Louis, defeated Susan Cohn, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., 3 and 2, in the final match Thursday to win the 52nd USGA Senior Women's Amateur Championship at CordeValle in San Martin, Calif.
The latest title for the 52-year-old Port, a high school teacher, was her sixth career USGA victory, tying Glenna Collett Vare and Hollis Stacy for fourth place on the all-time USGA women's list. Port now trails only JoAnne Gunderson Carner, who tops the women's list with eight, and Carol Semple Thompson and Anne Quast Sander, who each have seven USGA titles. Bob Jones and Tiger Woods head all players with nine championships each, while Jack Nicklaus has eight.
"I don't put myself up at their level because they're the greatest in the game at their level," said Port, who had been tied at five titles with Juli Inkster and Mickey Wright, among others. "But, I'm very blessed in what I've been able to accomplish in a short time, and I'm thrilled."
Port, who also has four U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur victories, will captain the USA Team in the 2014 Curtis Cup Match next June in her hometown.
Port took a 3-up lead through three holes on Thursday as Cohn struggled to a trio of double-bogeys, and then the pair matched pars over the next nine holes at the 5,996-yard, par-72 Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed course. "I tend to get off to a slow start for whatever reason," said Cohn, 50, who works in a golf shop.
"I don't know if it's nerves, probably. Today, I joked to myself that it's not every day that you have the Golf Channel with you on the first tee. Ellen is as sweet as can be. She is a calming influence as an opponent. But, I wasn't settled. I can't blame it on anything. I hit bad shots."
Before Port two-putted for par on the short par-3 16th hole to close out the match, perhaps her best shot was her third into the green on the 341-yard, par-4 11th. After driving into a fairway bunker, Port chose to play short and left herself 135 yards into a 20-mile-per-hour wind.
"I just said, I've got to stick this," said Port, who celebrated her birthday the first day of the championship. "I've been hitting my irons well all week, and (caddie) Carlos (Cortez) gave me great numbers all week, too. He was so quick at the yardage, there was no doubt. I took a 6 iron; I was 135 yards away into a two club wind and just knocked it down right at the flag."
"Ellen is an amazing player - I expect her to make par or better," said Cohn, who played collegiate golf at the University of North Carolina, earning four letters. "She did make amazing up and downs but somehow in my brain she is going to make a par or better and she does."
Port, now 12-0 in Senior Women's Amateur matches in the past two years, is the first player to win back-to-back championships since Diane Lang in 2005 and '06. Seven others have won in consecutive years, with Carolyn Cudone holding the record of five straight titles from 1968 through 1972.
Port receives a gold medal and custody of the Senior Women's Amateur Championship Trophy for one year. In addition, all quarterfinalists are exempt from qualifying for the 2014 USGA Senior Women's Amateur, to be played September 13-18 at Hollywood Golf Club in Deal, N.J.
The USGA Senior Women's Amateur, for players 50 years and older, is one of 13 national championships conducted annually by the United States Golf Association, 10 of which are strictly for amateurs.
The above report is courtesy of the USGA. For more information and full championship match details, visit www.usga.org.
After accepting her sixth USGA Trophy, Port met with reporters for the following interview.
MODERATOR: Ellen, congratulations, first of all, on your sixth USGA championship victory. You've joined a list of pretty prominent names like Hollis Stacy. What does it mean to win another USGA championship to you?
ELLEN PORT: Well, it means that I outlasted 135 really good golfers, and I think as I've reacquainted myself with some of my professional friends that played on the LPGA Tour, that to win, to play nine matches, to play a lot of rounds and accomplish that and still be standing at the end and then go ahead and seal the deal, it just is a great feeling. All the work that you put in over the years, I can think of some of the sand shots I hit and how well I played out of the sand this week, and it just kind of is a very rewarding feeling, it's a very fulfilling feeling, and I'm honored to be a USGA champion.
MODERATOR: As someone who is a busy high school teacher and golf coach and a mother of two kids, and you have a family life that's important to you, and you don't play a whole lot of competitive golf, how do you win national championships when your schedule is so limited?
ELLEN PORT: Yeah, I just think I rise to the occasion. I know I don't have a lot of opportunities, and so I really want to capitalize on those opportunities. It's a good question. I don't know. I mean, I think it's like, wow. But I am a competitor at heart. I love the thrill of hitting shots when they matter, and I know I did that a few times out there. And I love the spirit of amateurism. I think I'm just a true amateur at heart. I love everything about it, that you can have a well rounded life. I've always been that way. I've never specialized really in a sport. It's almost like you can have it all, and I feel like today that's how I feel.
Q. So the shot we were talking about before you came in was the shot on 11. Can you just kind of walk us through how that came about?
ELLEN PORT: Well, 11 was my nemesis all week. The first day there was no wind, and I busted it and I had a 9 iron in my hand and then the wind kicked up. The way the angles line up, I couldn't get myself to bail out left, which I was kicking myself because I hit it in the bunker. I was about three yards from having it perfect. And so then you just have to decide; that's a perfect match play scenario. Sue hit a very nice shot up there, and she has a great short game, so I'm thinking she's getting par anyway. I was on an upslope, and I could have taken my 4H because I actually love hitting that, and I felt like I could have gotten it up close to the green, but the wind was so unpredictable, and I had a big lip in front.
So I just said, let's just take it out there with a I don't know what I hit, a 7 iron or 6 iron, and hopefully I can wedge it up there. But I hit the lip. I think I didn't hit it very well. And long story short, I took it I was into the wind, and I just said, I've got to stick this, and I've been hitting my irons well all week, and Carlos gave me great numbers all week, too. He was so quick at the yardage, there was no doubt. I took a 6 iron; I was 135 yards away into a two club wind and just knocked it down right at the flag. But that's really probably the highlight and the best part of my game this week was my crisp iron play. So I really felt confident that I could get it up there close.
Q. You said your ball contact was the best thing this weekend?
ELLEN PORT: Yeah, back to Pete's thing, I have to really have quality practice time. The two things I focused on that I wasn't pleased with after the U.S. Amateur was my iron play, and Andy, my husband, was like, Ellen, that used to be the best part of your game. So I kind of did my homework. I figured out why I wasn't hitting them as crisp consistently, worked on that a little bit and always worked on my bunker play because I looked at pictures and saw how much sand was on here. So those were the two things I worked on coming into this.
Q. Were you surprised at the start that Sue made
ELLEN PORT: Nothing surprises you, and I think that's one of the reasons I play match play is I just don't get surprised. Nothing will surprise me: holing it out, a hole in one, looking like you're going to win a hole. No, I wasn't. I knew it was her first go around, and my goal was to start off really well, and I did; I started hitting the fairways, hitting good shots, and this is the kind of golf course where par is a really good score. I think getting up and down on No.2 was really super for me from that bunker. There's another example of a good bunker shot. And then I three putted on that kind of looked like she might get one back on 3, and she missed the putt.
Q. Let me take you to a couple other holes besides 11, and if we can just work through them. 6, 9 and 11 were really key par saves.
ELLEN PORT: Oh, yeah.
Q. If she was going to have any opening at all, those kind of slammed the door on her. Take us through 6.
ELLEN PORT: Right.
Q. Where you had that downhill chip that you left short.
ELLEN PORT: Right, that's the par 5. That's another one where I put myself in a bad spot with the drive and hit a really nice iron shot out of the bunker, and we were in between clubs, and I was in between clubs all that was the hardest part was managing the wind and the uphill and how the ball was going to respond, and I pulled it a little bit. And then I just had that tricky downhill, and the grass grabbed it. I was just barely trying to get it on, and I didn't get it on far enough, and that was a key putt. I felt like I could have birdied 7 and 8, so it was kind of a trade off. I didn't make my birdie putts when I put them six, 10 feet, 12 feet, they were lipping out, but the trade off was making a key putt on 5.
And then you said 9. 9 was just a hard driving hole for me. Again, I just came off 8, which you have to hit that straight, and 9 just always, if I hit it too far right I'd be blocked by the tree, and then you're kind of thinking, the left comes in pretty quick. I went ahead with a 3 wood and fanned it out there. Luckily I had confidence that I could hit that up over that tree. Again, it goes back to the confidence in the irons, and I could have hit the middle, and I got it in the bunker and I hit a nice bunker shot. She hit a beautiful shot in. Sue hit a great shot, but that green is really firm, and when I saw it hit the middle of the green I said, That's not going to stay on. So that gave me a little ray of hope, and I made a nice little four footer to halve the hole when it looked like she was going to win that.
Q. And I saw off the 11th tee you were really surprised that that tee shot went into the bunker.
ELLEN PORT: Yeah, like I said, I'd been hitting it really well, and I guess I didn't hit it as well as I thought and there was more wind. But I guess I didn't see it drift right, which what I've been doing. It was at least holding its line. Looking back I was a little mad that I didn't take a 3 wood and go out to the left bunker. 12, she made a great two putt to stay in it there. I thought I might get one back. She didn't make any mistakes. She was pretty consistent, and I had to really pull the reins in a little bit because my adrenaline when you're 3 up with an early lead, I think that might have been my biggest thing that I'm proud of that I didn't let down or I didn't start thinking I'm 3 up with whatever to go. I think it's really easy to start doing that. I think sometimes it's harder to start off with a three hole lead and then kind of see it dwindle. That's a really depressing thing, when you see a lead dwindle, and so that's why 11 was really key.
Q. You played 14 really well after losing 13 with the three putts.
ELLEN PORT: Yes, 14 was really good. That iron was probably my favorite iron because she hit a nice shot. She was almost ready to get on the green because she didn't hit a good drive. That was another 6 iron. I'm like, really, I'm hitting a 6 iron 135 yards downhill. I had to just trust, and that's where Carlos came in with getting the right numbers and knowing my game. He assessed it very quickly, and I kind of carved it. I pictured that shot and pulled it off perfectly, and that's one that almost was a birdie, but I missed that putt.
Q. How far did you hit your drive on 15?
ELLEN PORT: 15 was good. 15 I had 145 to it. I took a 7 iron, and I just stomped on it. I had a little tiny downhill, kind of sidehill lie, and I got fortunate there because I hit it a little left, I wanted to be right, and it stayed up on the green, and she made a great birdie there. But yeah, I hit that, I was about 145. And that was another one that I was just glad I made that decision because I could have held back and laid back with a 4H or something, even my 5 wood. I said, no, I birdied that once. The pin was front. If the pin was back I might have been a little although my ball ended up back. I was really happy with that drive. That was a key drive coming down. And then my putt on the end was not an easy putt, and so I was that was a bad iron swing. I kind of left it out.
Q. You weren't aiming out there?
ELLEN PORT: No, I was aimed a little left of that, but I was in between clubs, and I knew if I hit it well, and sometimes the wind knocks it down, but I knew you didn't want to land it like she did and it would go over. So you were in between this, and I think sometimes then you forget to hit it because you're so like, what do I hit, what do I hit.
Q. Do you hire routinely hire local caddies when you play in a USGA tournament?
ELLEN PORT: Not it varies, it just varies. My husband will caddie for me when I come, but I just know that if you have a good caddie and they do have a local caddie who knows the greens, and this club does, it is an asset. I want a good caddie, and I was laughing that I've won four out of five times that I've been in California. I was like, California has really been good to me, and at the 2000 Mid Am I had a young man who was an excellent caddie, and he'd say hit it here and I'd say yes, and confirm. We were usually on the if it's a caddie who knows the golf course on the greens, I think it's a huge asset.
Q. How did you connect with
ELLEN PORT: Just called and asked for a caddie. You just call and say I want a club caddie, and I said, Give me a good one.
Q. Did you say, I'm the defending champion, give me a good one?
ELLEN PORT: No, I did not, purposely, because I did not want to use that card. But around here they know. That's what I said; I'm like, you're kidding, you even know that I'm a defending champion? The guy emailed and said, yes, we'll get you a caddie, but he said, don't you think it's a little advantage for the defending champion to get a good caddie, and I said, absolutely not.
Q. So then the first day you had
ELLEN PORT: Yep.
Q. Crazy.
ELLEN PORT: Yep, that was my fault. You learn more from your mistakes, and that was my lack of it was just a weird situation.
Q. But you didn't know he had even gotten a ride?
ELLEN PORT: No, and he didn't know, and I was just asking him to get it because I'm sure it was wet, and his shoes were waterproof. But long story short, it's a great lesson because you have to take care of business. You have to read everything. You have to be overcautious and careful about communicating. And so for me it's always a wake up call because I just do some crazy things sometimes. I'm a reminder that you just never can be too careful and dot your Is and cross your Ts.
Q. So on the 18th you found out about the
ELLEN PORT: Yeah, before I left the scoring tent, yeah.
Q. And then what was your conversation with him like after that?
ELLEN PORT: I just was mad at myself because I'm responsible, and I then when I thought through the logistics, exactly how it all came down, that I was trying to be courteous by not spiking up the greens and asking him, and the funnies thing, and he was doing what every caddie should do, and that's doing exactly what your player wants you to do, and he was going to get to that parking lot and change those shoes, and if I had known the lay of the land and thought about it, it would have been no way do you have time to go out to the parking lot.
But I had even forgotten I'd asked him to go change his shoes. It's so funny. I'm like, where is he? And so we played, and I had completely forgotten about it because that's the way I am. I get a little so anyway, that was kind of a non issue, but it really kind of fired me up a little bit to say, you know what, you've got to take responsibility for what you're doing, and you didn't hit the ball well off the tee so go take responsibility and get your game together, you know, because really that shouldn't have been an 80. If I would have hit the ball where I should have, it should have been a 72, and I was probably more mad about my score than that. I was more mad about how I played, put it that way. The caddie thing had nothing to do with it.
Q. Can you change the subject and look ahead to the Curtis Cup? Have you been doing any looking as far as girls that are women that are going to be
ELLEN PORT: Yep, yep, I'm all eyes and all ears. I'm watching every event, the USGA is, and there's so many wonderful players. It's been really fun to pay more attention. I haven't really followed other players. I'm always playing. I'm not usually worried about how everybody else is doing. So it's been really fun to have the role of captain and watch some of these players and start looking for what kind of what we're looking for to represent the USGA.
Q. I don't suppose there are any names that you could put out, any
ELLEN PORT: Well, I really can't at this time, no, but I think everybody you go look at the world golf rankings and you go look at who's the top women in the country, amateur players, and they're all in the running, and there's so many like I said, I'm already ready to make the team be ten and not eight. I'll let it know that's how I feel, that I'm going to have to leave people off this team that I would love to have on this team.
Q. People may not know you went to the Walker Cup, though, to look at some details that a captain would look at.
ELLEN PORT: Yeah, it kind of got me excited. September has been a crazy month, and I really haven't practiced. I went to the Walker Cup with my husband and I had a great time and supported them there, and then got a plane the same day I went home and went down to the fall preview and watched some of the top players at the big tournament in Tulsa for two days and then came home and tended to business with my own golf team, which I've deserted for a week, but hopefully they're handling things pretty well with my absence.
Q. And you lost your father in law; is that right?
ELLEN PORT: Yep, on Monday the 16th, and he had been going a little bit downhill, and we knew it could be any day, and it happened then. You know, he's a great man. He's my inspiration. He's the greatest man I've ever known. My husband's best friend he'll say. So that was hard, and I went back and forth, we just kind of looked at the timing of it, and I said, if we're going to have the funeral in the next three or four days, I'm not going, and if we decide to push it back, then it'll be up to debate whether I go. Kind of the wind was out of my sail, and every morning I'd wake up and talk to Andy about it and say, Honey, I really don't feel like going. And then after he kind of came to peace with Pop being gone and the initial he's like, no, you've got to go. We're having this in a week and a half, and you go out and everybody is fine. What are we going to do now?
Q. When is the funeral?
ELLEN PORT: Tomorrow.
Q. This big trophy thing, you keep that for a year?
ELLEN PORT: Get that for a year, uh huh.
Q. Do they ship it for you?
ELLEN PORT: Uh huh, they engrave it and they ship it, and then I've got to keep it clean.
Q. Do you drink out of it?
ELLEN PORT: I might this one. I think we're going to have a party and I might drink out of it. It's usually filled with candy. That's usually what I do.
Q. You did have a birthday?
ELLEN PORT: I had a birthday while I was out here. This is really the Mid Am, I won the Mid Am in 2011 over my birthday, and then had my birthday here, so it was really a great week, mixed week I should say. But it's a great thing to win because that would have meant that's what Andy wanted me to do, and that's what Pop would have wanted me to do.
Q. What day was your birthday?
ELLEN PORT: 21st of September, 52.
Q. And the 52nd Senior Women's Amateur.
ELLEN PORT: Oh, that kind of has a nice ring.
Q. You said your father in law was one of the greatest men you've ever known.
ELLEN PORT: Yes.
Q. What were one or two things that maybe you picked up from him over the years about anything?
ELLEN PORT: Serve others. He was a giver. And use your talents to God's glory, and that's what he did. Yep.
Q. Is he a golfer?
ELLEN PORT: He isn't. He is not a golfer, no. But man, he wouldn't let me get away with anything. I'd come home and go tell him and I'd hem and haw about how I got in my own way, and he'd say, well, why did you do that? You need to quit doing that. I'm like, it's not that easy, Pop. You've never played golf. I don't care. You need to quit doing that. You need to go win. He was just a very simple, humble man, very humble man.
MODERATOR: Fourth on the all time win list at the USGA. That's got to be something you hang your hat on.
ELLEN PORT: Yeah, but I don't put myself up at their level because they're the greatest in the game at their level. But I'm very blessed in what I've been able to accomplish in a short time, and I'm thrilled.
MODERATOR: Congratulations.
The transcript for the above interview is courtesy of ASAP Sports.
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Chief's Counsel
Mandatory Arrest Statutes – Are They Really Mandatory?
By Karen J. Kruger, Counsel, Maryland Chiefs of Police Association, Baltimore, Maryland; and Board Member at Large, Legal Officers' Section
new statute in Maryland directs that "An officer shall arrest with or without a warrant and take into custody a person who the officer has probable cause to believe is in violation of an interim, temporary, or final protective order [for domestic violence] in effect at the time of the violation."1 Training guidelines instruct officers that "You have no discretion about whether or not to arrest a respondent...You must arrest, whether [a] condition [of the Order] is violated in your presence ... or a violation is called to your attention as having occurred ... and you have probable cause to believe that the violation did occur as alleged..."2
Enactment of this statute and the issuance of the training guidelines instigated lively discussion among law enforcement professionals about the meaning of this mandatory arrest provision in light of the holding of the United States Supreme Court in Town of Castle Rock, Colorado v. Gonzales.3 The Castle Rock case illustrates the terrible tragedy of domestic violence in this country but realistically recognizes the role that law enforcement has in preventing these tragedies must often be limited.
The Supreme Court Excuses Police Non-Compliance with Mandatory Arrest Statute
A state court in Colorado had issued to Ms. Gonzales a restraining order requiring her estranged husband to remain at all times at least 100 yards from the home in which she and the couple's three daughters resided. After a few weeks, the husband, allegedly without notifying the wife, took the daughters while they were playing outside the home and killed them. The wife filed, under 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983, a suit alleging that the local town had violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the town's police officers, acting pursuant to official policy or custom, had failed to respond to the wife's repeated reports over several hours that her husband had taken the three children in violation of her restraining order.
Ms. Gonzales' claims were based, in large part, on the Colorado statute directing that law enforcement officers "shall use every reasonable means to enforce a protection order" (or even "shall arrest . . . or . . . seek a warrant"),4 which she characterized as a "mandatory legislative command" with which the officers failed to comply. This failure, she contended, deprived her of due process of law, specifically, a protected property interest in enforcement of her restraining order.5
The Supreme Court held that Ms. Gonzales did not, for purposes of the due process clause, have a property interest in police enforcement of the restraining order—and, therefore, even under the facts that she alleged, the police officers had not violated her procedural due process rights by failing to respond to her requests that the police enforce the order. The Court determined that Colorado law did not really make enforcement of restraining orders mandatory, as the state had not created a personal entitlement to such enforcement; and it was not clear that an individual entitlement to enforcement of a restraining order could constitute a "property" interest for purposes of the due process clause.
Essentially, the Court recognized that there is a "deep-rooted ... law enforcement discretion, even in the presence of seemingly mandatory legislative commands."6 Indeed, Justice Scalia noted that there is "[a] well established tradition of police discretion [that] has long coexisted with apparently mandatory arrest statutes."7
In Castle Rock the court made two important observations – one, that the Colorado domestic violence statute was "not perceptibly more mandatory than [for instance] the …statute that has long told municipal chiefs of police that they 'shall pursue and arrest any person fleeing from justice… and that they shall apprehend any person in the act of committing any offense…'"8 and two, that the statute did not necessarily give the "respondent an entitlement to enforcement of the mandate."9 The Supreme Court ruled that Colorado simply had not given to Ms. Gonzales—or any individual person—a statutory entitlement to enforcement of a restraining order. In fact, such an entitlement would be very unusual in light of the public duty doctrine.10
An Egregious Failure to Protect May Lead to Liability
In Okin v. Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson Police Dept.,11 a New York court recently examined the public duty doctrine in the context of its state statute that calls for mandatory arrest in domestic violence cases. Noting that "[a]s a general matter…a State's failure to protect an individual against private violence simply does not constitute a violation of the Due Process Clause,"12 this court did recognize that if the officers' failure to take action had in some way "assisted in creating or increasing the danger to the victim," due process rights may indeed be implicated, and the officers might be liable to her.13
In this case, the court held Ms. Okin would be required to prove that the conduct of the village police was "so egregious, so outrageous, that it may fairly be said to shock the contemporary conscience." The appellate court did find here that there were facts in the record that could show that because the officers knew of "[t]he serious and unique risks and concerns of a domestic violence situation"14 and yet failed to take action, that evidence might amount to the deliberate indifference that "is the requisite state of mind for showing…conduct [that] shocks the conscience."15 Thus, if Ms. Okin could make such a showing at trial, the officers might be found liable to her.
Law enforcement officers must, therefore, be attentive to mandatory arrest statutes in whatever context they arise; many are found in the domestic violence context.16 As we see in the Castle Rock case, seemingly mandatory commands to arrest do not divest law enforcement officers of the discretion to choose not to arrest. However, in Okin, we see that an abuse of that discretion to the point of deliberate indifference may result in civil liability.
Statutes Cannot Abrogate Police Discretion
Agencies should train officers in the proper exercise of discretion and help them be prepared to explain and document the decisions they make in mandatory arrest situations. Among the conditions that might exist to explain why an arrest was not made include the following:
Domestic violence has long been, and will continue to be, a social problem18 for which law enforcement must be part of the solution. Legislatures seek to aid victims by enacting mandatory arrest statutes, but given the complexity of police work, such mandates must have exceptions. Realistically, law enforcement officers cannot protect all citizens from all dangers, try as they might. It would be patently unfair and untenable to the functioning of the profession to hold officers liable for failing to comply with every so-called mandatory command, regardless of the circumstances. Yet, they must act responsibly, in good faith, and without negligence, and, for that, they need guidance of the type discussed here. ■
1MD Code Ann., Family Law Art., sec. 4-509(b), eff. 10/01/2009. In Maryland, a person may be subject to arrest if he/she violates a protective order by failing to (1) refrain from abusing or threatening the petitioner; (2) refrain from contacting or harassing the petitioner; (3) refrain from entering the petitioner's residence; (4) vacate the residence; (5) stay away from petitioner's employment, school, or temporary residence; and (6) surrender any firearms in his/her possession and refrain from possessing any firearm during the effective term of the order.2Governor's Family Violence Council Firearm Surrender Task Force: Law Enforcement Instructional Guide—2009 Update (October 1, 2009), 2, http://www.goccp.maryland.gov/victim/FVC/Law-Enforcement-Instructional-Guide-2009-Update.pdf (accessed October 23, 2009).3Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005).4Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 18-6-803.5(3)(a), (b).5Gonzales v. City of Castle Rock, 366 F. 3d 1093 (10th Cir. 2004).6Gonzalez, 545 U.S. at 760, citing Chicago v. Morales, 527 U.S. 41, 47, n. 2 (1999) (involving an ordinance that said police officer "shall order" persons to disperse under certain circumstances; noting that the "Court rejected out of hand the possibility that 'the mandatory language of the ordinance… afford[ed] the police no discretion...It is, the Court proclaimed simply common sense that all police officers must use some discretion in deciding when and where to enforce city ordinances.'"7Gonzalez, 545 U.S. at 760.8Id. at 762.9Id. at 765, noting that "the benefit of having someone else arrested does not generally trigger a due process claim"; Id. at 768, n. 10.10Karen J. Kruger, Chief's Counsel, "Duty to All, Duty to No One: Examining the Public Duty Doctrine and Its Exceptions," The Police Chief 74 (May 2007): 10–11; see also Donaldson v. Seattle, 65 Wn. App. 661, 667 (1992) (where statute creates government duty to protect particular individuals, liability for negligence may lie if the statute was violated and the injured party was one of the persons entitled to protection).11Okin v. Vill. of Cornwall-on-Hudson Police Dept., 577 F.3d 415 (2d Cir. N.Y. 2009).12Id. at 428; The court recognized that "mandatory arrest statutes, like the one passed in New York, were passed in many states in the 1980s and 1990s to address severe problems of recidivism and slow police response to domestic violence calls." Id. at 432, n. 10.13Id., quoting Deshaney v. Winnebago County Dept. of Soc. Svcs., 489 U.S. 189, 197 (1989); See also Smith v. McCarthy, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 746 (4th Cir. 2009) (no duty to individual to investigate and prosecute alleged police officer misconduct).14Okin, 577 F.3d at 431, quoting County of Sacramento v. Lewis, 523 U.S. 833, 847, n. 8 (1998).15Okin, 577 F.3d at 432.16See for example, La. Rev. Stat. Ann., Title 14, sec. 79(E); Mo. Ann. Stat. sec. 455.085(5); In re Amendments to the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, 717 So.2d 914, 918 (Fla. S. Ct. 1998) (requiring arrest of noncustodial parent who refuses to return children to custodial parent); see also 84 Op. Atty Gen. 105 (Md. 1999); and Donaldson v. Seattle, 65 Wn. App. 661 (1992) (officers had no mandatory duty to arrest murderer who was subject to domestic "no contact" order).17See Matican v. City of New York, 524 F.3d 151, 155 (2d Cir. 2008) (decision not to arrest drug dealer given competing obligations of own safety and that of informant).18Nicole M. Questor, "Refusing to Remove an Obstacle to the Remedy: The Supreme Court's Ruling in Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales Continues to Deny Domestic Violence Victims Meaningful Recourse," Akron Law Review 40, no. 2 (2007): 391–434, http://www.uakron.edu/law/lawreview/v40/docs/Quester402.pdf (accessed October 24, 2009).Top
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The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue team is looking for a lost hiker in Angel's Rest.
The hiker, Simon Kaine, 25, of Milwaukie, called 911 at about 2 p.m. Monday saying he and his dog were lost. Kaine described the area he was in as a ravine and told authorities he had been trying to work his way out for about an hour, the sheriff's office said.
Angel's Rest is a popular place to hike and features views that overlook the Columbia River Gorge.
Kaine told the sheriff's office he did not go up the Angel's Rest trail but took a small trail about 30 feet down from his car, which was parked in the overflow lot.
The sheriff's office deployed its Trail Hornet Rescue Team and search units. Deputies were able to get Kaine's cellphone GPS reading.
Search and Rescue Units were deployed at about 5:30 p.m., and deputies have intermittent phone contact with Kaine through his cell phone. Kaine told deputies he does not have any more food or water and is not carrying any emergency supplies with him.
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Big Ten Sheds Offensively Challenged Reputation
January 15th, 2013| by Lost Lettermen
By Chris Mahr
During the 2000 Final Four, any potential appeal — present or otherwise — that Big Ten basketball could have held for me nearly died.
Befitting the fact that it was played on April Fool's Day, the game between Michigan State and Wisconsin was a complete joke. A combination of smothering defense and inept offense resulted in a 19–17 halftime score. Anyone watching that game will never forget it, although they probably wish they could. I know I do.
"We're trying to make it a game of basketball skills, not a weight-room contest," then-Kansas coach Roy Williams later said in criticizing the brand of basketball on display that night.
Any for many years thereafter, that "weight-room" reputation of Big Ten basketball continued unabated. Defense was tantamount, and that resulted in unsightly games with winning teams scoring between 50–65 points per game to determine conference supremacy. Contenders such as Wisconsin, Iowa, Purdue and (to a smaller extent) Michigan State tried clutching, grabbing and clanking their way to victory.
Mercifully, that ethos appears to be going the way of the dodo. And it's not just the eyes of viewers that stand to benefit, but the conference as a whole.
The Big Ten can boast six teams in the AP Top 25 rankings released on Monday: No. 2 Indiana, No. 5 Michigan, No. 9 Minnesota, No. 11 Ohio State, No. 18 Michigan State and No. 23 Illinois. The Big East is the only other conference with four or more.
Offense is a big, big reason why the Big Ten is such a prominent part of the top 25. Among the six aforementioned teams, only Illinois (61st with 73.9 PPG) and Michigan State (117th with 70.3 PPG) rank outside the national Top 50 in scoring. Indiana (87.1 PPG) is the highest scoring team in the country.
The Big Ten's best teams aren't just scoring a lot of points, they're looking good doing so. The Hoosiers have five players averaging double figures in scoring and are shooting an astounding 51.1% from the field as a team. The Wolverines aren't far behind, at 50.8% shooting, and feature a squad of talented all-around players running John Beilein's motion offense to near perfection.
Most tellingly, after years of being defined by scraps for loose balls on the floor and seemingly endless chases for rebounds, Big Ten basketball is being highlighted by plays that take place above the rim. Cases in point: Minnesota's Rodney Williams (first video below) and Illinois' Brandon Paul (second).
That's how fans want to see basketball played. For the Big Ten, that's how basketball should be played. Particularly if they want to snap a decade-long championship drought.
That 2000 Michigan State team who went toe-to-toe with Wisconsin in what could be the worst Final Four game ever played was the Big Ten's last national champion. While four of the conference's teams — Indiana (2002), Illinois (2005), Ohio State (2007) and MSU again (2009) — have made it to the title game since then, none have won.
It's a self-evident concept (some would say Madden-esque), but teams that win it all are ones that score more points than their opponents. When you are as offensively challenged as the Big Ten was for much of the 2000s, that adage is a lot easier said than done.
But no longer. Big Ten teams can not only score more compared to years past, they're also among the nation's best at doing so. That bodes well in advance of March Madness, where recent champions have most often than not won it with dynamic, multi-faceted offenses.
"The Dynamic Offenses of Big Ten Basketball." Unlike that unwatchable 2000 Final Four game, it's not a joke.
Chris Mahr is the managing editor of Lost Lettermen. His column appears Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can follow him on Twitter at @CMahrtian.
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College football fans got everything they wanted and then some out of Week 6, with three games pitting Top 15 teams against one another, a couple of shocking upsets and an overtime thriller. That has led to some inevitable changes in this week's AP and USA Today coaches' polls.
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WBFF Diva Bikini Model Kylie Conroy
Kylie Rae Conroy
Medical Student at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
5'7" 135 lbs
Where do you live?
Kansas City, MO. Soon to be Philadelphia, PA for my 3rd and 4th year clinical rotations.
What are your athletic achievements and competition history?
NCAA Division I Collegiate Softball, Baylor University (3yrs), Loyola Marymount University (1yr)
· Big XII Conference First Team All-Academic (2005, 2006)
· 2nd Team All West Coast Conference (2007)
2-Time Creekview High School Female Athlete of the Year (Volleyball, Softball, Swimming, Track)
· Set district and school records in pole vault, discus, and several swimming events
Competition History:
At my 1st competition in March, The Arnold Amateur in Columbus, OH, I received 7th Place Bikini E
What or who inspires you to compete?
My future patients inspire me. I hope to be an example for them that achieving a healthy lifestyle is possible no matter what time intensive challenges you may face in your life. Most of the morbidity and mortality in North America today is primarily related to lifestyle choices, i.e. obesity, tobacco use, etc. I hope to be a source of inspiration and knowledge for my patients regarding health and fitness, not just another person preaching to them in the "do as I say, not as I do" kind of way.
I am also inspired each day, with each workout, by people like Josiah Viera, who are limited by disability and/or disease, yet don't let it stand in the way of participating in the sports that they love.
What excites you most about competing with the WBFF?
Paul Dillett and the entire WBFF organization have created something very special here. This will be my 1st show with the WBFF, and I am very excited because I know this federation is going to continue its journey up, up, up. The organization is full of quality, respectable athletes required to always be on their game. It seems like the opportunities are endless with the support and promotion of the WBFF, and I am so thankful to be able to take part in this show.
What are your future goals?
My passions in life are medicine and fitness. With respect to medicine, my goal is to continue on my journey in becoming a caring and competent physician. I haven't quite decided on my specialty yet, but it will likely involve sports medicine. My future aspirations the fitness industry are to continue to compete and work on my physique, earn my pro card, and become a published fitness model and writer. I would like to blend medicine and fitness together by becoming a medical contributor to various fitness publications. As a competitor and physician in training, I believe I can bring something very unique to the fitness world, and I am very excited to see what lies ahead. My ultimate goal however is to remain balanced, maintaining a healthy mind, body and spirit and to serve others by helping them do the same.
What obstacles have you overcome to achieve your goals?
Medical school and getting ready to take first set of medical boards next month are huge time hoarders. There are days when I spend 12 hours in the library, so when it comes time for my workout I am very thankful for the break. If you would have asked me a year ago, I would have never thought I could commit to the life of a competitor and pursue these goals while still in med school. My 1st was a big adjustment, and I only made it to the gym maybe twice a month. I went from the best shape of my life as a college athlete, to the worst in a matter of 9 months. I felt like I was sacrificing my health to learn how to care for the health of others. However, this past fall, through the inspiration of my mother that all changed.
When my mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor it really put life into perspective for me. I missed a great deal of school to be with her during her treatment. During that time, I found it was possible to still remain successful in school while taking time out in my life for other important things. My mom always loved watching me compete in sports, so what better way to get back in shape and give her something to be proud of than to train for and participate in my first fitness competition? During her recovery, I began my training in December and competed in the Arnold Amateur in March, placing 7th. The fleur de lies I have embellished on the back of my competition suit is in my mother's honor. (She was born and raised in New Orleans.)
My classmates think I'm crazy for taking all of this on, and I can't train as much as I would like to, but I am finding a way to make it work. Everyone faces challenges in life, but if you want something bad enough there is no amount of work that is too much and no obstacle too great….go after it, because you never know what you can achieve!
Anyone you would like to thank who has been a part of your fitness journey?
Dad, for instilling the principles of a solid work ethic within me at a young age. Mom, for always being my greatest fan. My husband Mark, who has been supportive every step of the way. Also, my new sponsor Cathy Savage Fitness and the entire Savage sisterhood.
How can people find out more about you?
You can see more of my story at: http://cathysavage.com/ray-of-light/aprils-ray-of-light-kylie-rae-conroy/
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Mamou ladies use big inning to advance
By: LANCE REED
Sports Editor
The Mamou Lady Demons earned a first-round victory over the Lakeside Lady Warriors Tuesday. The Mamou girls used a three-run third inning to take the momentum. The win keeps the local girls on track to make it back to the state tournament again this year. They will travel to DeQuincy tomorrow to meet the Lady Tigers who beat Loyola 5-2 Tuesday night.
The Lady Warriors scored in the top of the first inning. Two singles and a sacrifice allowed Lakeside to gain their only lead of the game. Mamou senior pitcher Sadie Fontenot battled back and gave her team a chance to win the game. Fontenot went all seven innings. She allowed just three hits and fanned eight batters in the process.
Mamou tied the game in the bottom of the second inning. Amanda Fontenot walked and later crossed the dish on a single from Amelia Soileau. The Lady Demons were far from done after they tied the game. Three more runs crossed the plate in their next trip to the plate.
Mollie Duplechain got the inning started with a leadoff triple. She found the plate on a double from Katy Landreneau. Amy Fontenot (3-4, RBI) drove home Landreneau with her first of three hits. Sadie Fontenot helped her cause in the inning. She singled to left field and scored Amy Fontenot, making it a 4-1 ball game.
Fontenot the Lady Demons remained in the driver's seat. Lakeside found the plate one more time in the top of the fifth inning. The Lady Warriors scored on a fielder's choice combined with a passed ball and a single.
Mamou answered back quickly in the bottom of the fifth frame. Courtney Tate and Amanda Fontenot hit back-to-back singles. Both runners moved over into scoring position on a sacrifice from Kristie Soileau. Amelia Soileau's fielder's choice pushed Tate home, making it a 5-2 ball game.
Mamou and DeQuincy will do battle tomorrow at 5 p.m.


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Pill Might Limit Smoking DamageJanuary 15th, 2009 by Perry
This is an exciting step. Biochemists at Boston University are getting close to creating a pill that might help people fight the damage caused from smoking cigarettes.
By identifying microRNAs which help rebuild cells damaged by smoking, scientists hope to stimulate the growth of these cells.
Avum Spira, the spearhead of this research, summed up the projects potential:
We might be able to alter the host's response to tobacco smoke so that it is a protective one.
Bouyed by the discovery of mir-218, a microRNA which helps control cell growth in the area, scientists are confident there will soon be a pill which will help smokers regrow lost cells. It could also lead to a test that tells smokers exactly how much damage they've inflicted on their own lungs. Either way, more knowledge in this area is much needed, and could positively affect the lives of millions of Americans.
We'll keep you posted.
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Obama's Vague Stance on SmokingDecember 19th, 2008 by Perry
Straight from Obamablunt.com, here's a great picture of the president-elect from his youth smoking a cigarette. In recent interviews, the president's cigarrette-smoking habit has come under scrutiny, especially in light of a no-smoking policy in the White House since the Clinton administration. That gave us all the opportunity we need to justify posting this picture.
On Obama's Change.gov website, the soon-to-be president addressed the issue of marijuana legalization:
President-elect Obama is not in favor of the legalization of marijuana.
Update: Looks like our friends over @ CelebStoner got the jump on Lisa Jack's 1980 shots of Barack Obama, his fancy hat and what looks like a cigarette. Good find.
Smoking Ban Makes No Difference in Big AppleOctober 24th, 2008 by Perry
Stepped up enforcement just doesn't seem to be doing the job in New York, as more patrons are complaining more frequently about smoking ban violations, and owners are being fined more often. Health department inspectors have taken to sneakier tactics to catch violators, like late-night inspections. And while fines are steadily increasing, the problem is either getting ignored or pushed underground depending on who you ask in the street.
While smoky bars still exist, some smokers insist they are by no means easy to find.
Mark Benkes was smoking outside a bar on the Lower East Side on a recent night, and he perhaps put it best: "You'll find people doing blow more openly than smoking."
The Sun RipDecember 27th, 2006 by Alex
Many companies are tackling the quest to make smoking pot as healthy and tasty as possible. We've got natural gas lighters, vape lighters and more vaporizer designs than anyone can remember.
In the end, there's on true method that the others just can't touch – the sun rip.
It's not an available option all the time, but when you have the chance I suggest you give it a shot. All you need is a clear sky, a magnifying glass and a nice summer day.
It tastes better, it's healthier and you get to tell people that you're in tune with nature. That's what I call a win-win situation.
King Size Smoking GreenAugust 9th, 2006 by Alex
It's hard to have anything negative to say about these papers. Personally, they are one of my absolute favorites. You don't always need special scents and added taste to have a really high-quality session.
King Size Smoking BlueJuly 25th, 2006 by Alex


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Helmer-scribe Nick Love adapts Brit cult series
LONDON — Brit rapper Ben Drew, also known as Plan B, has been cast alongside Ray Winstone in helmer-scribe Nick Love's ("The Football Factory") feature adaptation of 1970s Brit cult TV series "The Sweeney."
Drew and Winstone will play Flying Squad detectives George Carter and Jack Regan respectively in the pic, which is being modernized and set in present-day Blighty.
Story is co-written by "Trainspotting" scribe John Hodge and Love, who also directs.
Pic is produced by London-based shingle-distrib Vertigo Films and skedded to begin lensing in the autumn.
Drew, who was last seen in "Harry Brown" alongside Michael Caine, is in post on his directorial debut "Ill Manors," a product of Film London's low-budget Microwave scheme.
The original classic TV show "The Sweeney" was created by Ian Kennedy Martin, and toplined John Thaw as Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as George Carter.
It aired on ITV from 1975-1978.


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The English Premier League season is almost 10 games old.
With this amount of games past, there has been patterns formed, headlines made and dreams shaken.
The person most responsible for the success and failure each Premier League club, is its manager
From Steve Kean to Kenny Dalglish, there is a story behind each manager. We have a sufficient sample size of their ideas and management abilities, so let's subject them to the same scrutiny the clubs they are in charge of are subjected.
This is a ranking of the 20 EPL managers, based on performances with the club, where they stand with their fan bases and headlines they have made.


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Andrew J. Rudnick, a key figure in Western New York's economic development efforts for the past 28 years, will retire in June as president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership.
Possibly the most visible business spokesman in local history, Rudnick presided over the merger of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce and Greater Buffalo Development Foundation in 1992 to create upstate New York's biggest and most influential business advocacy organization. He said Tuesday he will relocate to the Gulf Coast in his native Alabama, while Partnership officials indicated they will hire a major recruiting firm to conduct a national search for his successor.
"It's time – my head, heart and bones tell me that," said Rudnick, known for his trademark bow tie and, until recently, a bushy moustache. "Moreover, I sincerely believe this organization and the regional employer community we serve are at a particularly positive point to undergo a leadership change."
During a wide-ranging interview in his Main Street office, Rudnick, 65, pointed to a host of accomplishments. They all resulted, he said, from the efforts of a city still struggling to emerge from its industrial past. While not always successful, he said Buffalo and Western New York are on the cusp of embracing an "eds and meds" economy that increasingly revolves around institutions like the University at Buffalo and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
"There is an optimism here at the opposite end of the spectrum from the mid- to late-1980s," he said, explaining that associates at his former home in Houston gave him a "you're moving to Buffalo?" look when he first accepted his new post in 1986.
"Now, Buffalo is much more cosmopolitan; our business is increasingly tied to the rest of the world," he said. "And figuratively, we are much less 'bigoted' than we used to be. We are much more open to people of different sizes and shapes and backgrounds."
"I think the community is doing a lot better economically and educationally," he added. "Things that got started 10 to 15 years ago are beginning to pay off now."
Tim C. Loftis, a partner in the Jaeckle, Fleishmann and Mugel law firm who is Partnership chairman, pointed to Rudnick's role in major economic initiatives such as SUNY 2020 and resurrecting historic downtown properties. Under Rudnick, he said, the Partnership has "brought value to the table."
"Andrew has, in so many ways, been the heart, soul and brains of our organization since its inception, and his presence will be sorely missed," he said in an email to Partnership members.
Rudnick acknowledges that he has earned a cadre of critics who remain unimpressed with the area's pace of progress and the continued loss of employers and population. Some, like 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl P. Paladino, conducted public campaigns against him, even listing him with other "predators" on a Niagara Thruway billboard.
Rudnick said he takes the barbs in stride as Buffalo and Western New York continue to make the transition from heavy industry and dependence on public-sector jobs. But he also said the area has come a long way from the dark days of major industrial shutdowns.
"I am proud of this organization, its members, staff and supporters," he said. "I would match it against any metro in the country, and we didn't start in a good place, given the history that preceded."
With an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a master's from Columbia and a doctorate from the University of Alabama, Rudnick was recruited from a Houston economic development association by the "Group of 18," an informal organization of powerful businessmen who, at the time, expressed little faith in the area's elected leadership.
Within a few years, he was instrumental in combining the "macro" goals of the Greater Buffalo Development Foundation with the "micro" functions of the old Chamber, similar to efforts in Cleveland, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh.
"Once the merger occurred, it was like it made sense forever," he said. "I believe it's worked."
In the two decades since, Rudnick said, the Partnership has commanded "clout, respect and attention," especially from state and local government. That resulted in major state investment in places like the emerging Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, he said, which is expected to someday employ 17,000 people.
"The business community and private sector [are] being listened to," he said. "We speak in a unified, smart voice that is not shrill but based on fact and thoughtfulness."
"And the respect is there because we stayed with the issues," he added.
Rudnick said the Partnership was instrumental in lobbying for the new Buffalo Niagara International Airport and low-cost carriers in cooperation with elected officials and the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority. He said new initiatives designed to keep low-cost hydropower in Western New York also proved successful, while the Unshackle Upstate program that works with other economic development groups outside New York City has produced an "enormous effect."
But Rudnick seems most proud that the area started marketing its cross-border relationship with Southern Ontario. He credited the late Patricia O. Rehak, former Partnership vice president, with developing the concept.
"We have a few unique attractions as a region, but our border location may be most important," he said. "This organization believes we should exploit everything we do cross-border; it will benefit us in so many ways in the future. It's our edge."
After 28 years of studying the area's strengths and weaknesses, Rudnick said problems remain.
"We are still a mid-sized American metro without a lot of home-based corporations. We are not Houston, New York, Chicago or Los Angeles," he said. "Add to that a lingering recession, and how to maintain momentum in the midst of all that is a huge challenge."
Loftis said he will lead a search committee that includes several past Partnership presidents, including Robert B. Wilmers, chairman of M&T Bank; Robert T. Brady, chairman of Moog Inc.; Louis P. Ciminelli, chairman of LPCiminell Inc.; Jonathan A. Dandes, president of Rich Baseball Operations; and Anna Marie Cellino, president of National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. The Partnership also will hire Korn-Ferry International to conduct the search process to replace Rudnick.
"We're looking for the best available candidate – period," Loftis said. "It could be somebody locally or somebody from Kalamazoo.
"But this organization has been a critical part of the momentum of this community," he added. "One way to maintain that is to find the most talented person we can."
Rudnick said he plans to take it easy for a while after leaving Buffalo in June but would not rule out returning to the workforce – possibly as a teacher.
As others of his generation also leave, he challenges their successors to continue the work.
"We have to build that next generation and have them care," he said, "and have them engage."
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Hey, so I've been looking around for a hard (non-nylon) holster for my Beretta so I have something more reliable for IDPA, but stuff is hard to find for the 92a1. Does anyone have experience with kydex holsters? Does anyone (preferably in Portland-area Oregon) do them for around $50?


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Editor's note: For complete coverage from this year's Voodoofest including photos, videos and live blogs from the festival, visit www.nola.com/voodoofest/.
Around 1969, self-styled local missionary and folk artist Sister Gertrude Morgan recorded an album of traditional spirituals called "Let's Make a Record." Released through Preservation Hall, it consisted of 48 minutes of raw, unadorned voice, tambourine and testifying.
Friday, at the end of the opening day of Voodoo Experience X in City Park, Morgan's music will be the subject of a tribute by Preservation Hall creative director Ben Jaffe and an unlikely collaborator.
In 2005, Philadelphia hip-hop DJ and producer King Britt crafted "King Britt Presents Sister Gertrude Morgan." The sleek, contemporary club record is built on the bones of the obscure album Morgan recorded in New Orleans nearly 40 years ago.
As the Voodoo Experience opens its 10th festival with a world-class lineup of rock and rap, the unconventional marriage of an idiosyncratic New Orleans folk artist dead nearly 30 years, a hip-hop DJ from Philly and the organization charged with preserving traditional New Orleans jazz represents an increasingly important niche for Voodoo.
Since its 1999 inception, the Voodoo Experience has included some local acts alongside such national headliners as Stone Temple Pilots and Nine Inch Nails. But after Hurricane Katrina, Voodoo scrapped a tent devoted to techno music and beefed up its presentation of indigenous music. Three of Voodoo's six stages now favor homegrown acts.
Britt, Jaffe, and a band of Philadelphia and New Orleans musicians plan to re-create "King Britt Presents Sister Gertrude" today at 9:15 p.m. on Voodoo's WWOZ/SoCo Stage. The multimedia show amounts to a literal mash-up of Voodoo's ideals: a thoroughly contemporary project with a thoroughly eccentric New Orleanian at its core.
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Even in the French Quarter of the 1960s, Sister Gertrude Morgan stood out.
Born in 1900 in Alabama, she arrived in New Orleans in 1939 and, after what she described as a divine calling, commenced preaching on the streets. A subsequent vision prompted her to proclaim herself the bride of Christ and dress in a white nurse's uniform, the better to heal humanity.
She conducted Sunday services in her house. Her primitive, evocative paintings -- rendered on cardboard, recycled frames or whatever else was at hand -- often contained biblical passages.
Along the way she befriended Larry Borenstein, owner of the St. Peter Street art gallery that later became Preservation Hall, and Allan Jaffe, Ben's father and Preservation Hall's founder.
The senior Jaffe and Borenstein pressed 500 copies of the original "Let's Make a Record." If Morgan happened to be hanging around Preservation Hall when somebody bought one, she would custom-paint it.
Since her death in 1980, Morgan's status in art circles has skyrocketed. The prestigious American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan hosted a retrospective of her work in 2004. Her paintings, when available, sell for thousands of dollars.
After Ben Jaffe assumed stewardship of Preservation Hall in the 1990s, he started reissuing recordings from the hall's archives. A repackaged "Let's Make a Record" came out in 2004. The cover depicts a Morgan self-portrait inscribed with, "Lord, I don't want to be buried in the storm."
"It's not for everybody," Jaffe said. "It's for your hard-core music listener.
"For me, it's difficult to listen to for other reasons. She had a huge role in my life. It brings back a lot of memories."
As a young boy, Jaffe spent many Sundays on his father's lap in Morgan's Lower 9th Ward home as she evangelized and sang. Her former house now sits cockeyed on a neighboring property, courtesy of the torrent that poured through the ruptured Industrial Canal wall during Katrina.
In 2006, the Historic District Landmarks Commission nominated it for landmark status, saying it has historic and cultural significance -- even as the city tagged it for demolition. So far, the "Do Not Demolish" request spray-painted on an outside wall has been honored.
Whenever he needs a spiritual recharge, Jaffe makes a pilgrimage to the overgrown plot with its concrete stoop-to-nowhere. His affection for Morgan runs deep. Five of her paintings hang in the breakfast nook of his Faubourg Marigny home; more decorate the den. He has bought several from fans while traveling with the Preservation Hall band.
"It's a weird way to collect," he said. "But especially after the storm, I thought that it was important to bring them back to New Orleans."
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Jaffe is not the only one to be inspired by Morgan's music.
As a boy, King Britt soaked up his parents' jazz and funk records. He later broke out of Philadelphia as the DJ for hip-hop fusion band Digable Planets. As a producer, he has remixed music by Radiohead, Miles Davis, Tori Amos, Paula Cole, Macy Gray, Zap Mama and dozens more.
He was stuck in a creative rut when a friend passed along a copy of Sister Gertrude's reissued "Let's Make a Record."
"It is the purest singing I'd heard in a long time," Britt said. "She had no training, but so much heart -- it makes you listen. She approaches things in a pure way."
He was initially reluctant to alter it. "My first impression was, 'We can't touch this. This is sacred music.' " But he soon envisioned building contemporary arrangements around the sparse recordings, fleshing out her voice and tambourine with programmed beats, drums, guitars and keyboards.
He pitched the idea to Jaffe, who was "extremely skeptical" but ultimately gave his blessing. "We approached it as if Sister was in the studio with us," Britt said. "Some days we felt like she was."
Jaffe was "immediately blown away" by the results. "It's totally not what I would have done. He went somewhere else with it, which is why I like it so much. I don't know anybody else who could have done it."
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Rope-A-Dope Records released "King Britt Presents Sister Gertrude Morgan" in the summer of 2005. Weeks later, Katrina temporarily knocked Preservation Hall, and New Orleans, out of commission.
Consequently, the album passed largely unnoticed in New Orleans, even as Britt and his band performed the project across Europe.
Jaffe still dreamed of bringing it to Morgan's hometown. He persuaded Stephen Rehage, the Voodoo Experience's founder and producer, to attend Britt's Sister Gertrude show in New York's Central Park.
"Ben has a way of selling you on whatever he's working on, because he's so passionate about it," Rehage said. "It was pretty amazing, and people gave it a standing ovation. I think it's going to be a highlight of Voodoo."
Tonight's tribute will feature Jaffe on tuba and bass, Preservation Hall vocalist Clint Maedgen, trumpeter Mark Braud and drummer Joe Lastie, plus Britt at the turntables mixing Morgan's vintage vocals around the live band, as animations of her paintings play across a large screen.
That the nearby New Orleans Museum of Art has exhibited Morgan's art makes Voodoo an appropriate venue, Jaffe said.
"To do it in City Park in the shadow of the art museum is really important," he said. "During her life, her art would not have been in the museum.
"Her message transcends any one setting. It was more important to her to get her message out to as many people as possible, by any means necessary. Her life is honored by this project."
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McClain was among those who remained in the street to impede the flow of traffic and yelled "F--- the police!" to the crowd. One of the officers started after McClain, twice ordering him to stop.
McClain, who had not yet been recognized by police, responded, "You told me to walk and I'm walking," according to police.
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The January arrest came days before he purchased a home in Madison for more than $1 million.
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GM is exiting Chapter 11 just 40 days after entering the process, even quicker than cross-town rival Chrysler. But in order to do so, GM has announced 4,000 job cuts.
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"The Zionist presence on even one centimeter of Palestinian land is dangerous," Ahmadinejad said, adding "don't blame me later; this is how I see things."
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Already at 40% with 3 weeks to go!
With one week under our belt we are already at 40% of our funding goal! What amazing progress. Thanks so much for your support and we are honored to have... Read more
10% in 24hrs!
We are just coming up on 24hrs since the project was launched and we are already at almost 10% funded. We are on a great pace. Thanks again for your... Read more