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The controversy over New Jersey's early release program for prison inmates reminded me of my own recent encounter with an incarcerated man getting out ahead of schedule.
I teach a weekly Bible study in an area prison, which includes both teaching the biblical text and offering inmates an opportunity to give their "testimony" – a chance to stand up and tell their classmates what God might be doing in their lives.
One night few weeks back, shortly before I was to start the lesson, one inmate got up and described how things had not gone well earlier that morning. During his trial, state officials had dropped the charges against him. But federal authorities had picked up the charges, meaning he faced a tougher legal road ahead.
The inmate (let's call him "A.J.," not his real initials) had recently become a biblical believer, and he expressed that he was having a difficult time understanding what God might be doing in his life. (Becoming a believer doesn't mean a free pass out of prison, of course, but more about that in a minute.)
A.J. was talking for about two minutes – I made a mental note to pray for him at the start of my lesson – when a guard came in and shouted out A.J.'s name.
"Yes?" A.J. asked.
The guard matter-of-factly said two words: "You're discharged."
As you might image, pandemonium broke out. Several of us started crying, and we were very excited that our brother in the faith was going home.
I mention this incident by way of offering some context to the storm that has arisen as Gov. Chris Christie has made moves to roll back a program to give some inmates an early release.
Passions have been high, especially after two inmates released months early have been accused of murder. On the one hand, those opposing any early release emphasize that inmates typically deserve their full sentences, and the public needs to be protected. Those in favor of early release emphasize its compassion toward men they believe have been rehabilitated.
In my view, something is missing from both sides of the debate. A.J.'s experience may shed some light.
When I got up to begin the lesson, I mentioned both something obvious, and something maybe not so obvious. First, the obvious: what had just happened was so dramatic that nobody was going to remember anything I taught that night.
But second – and this is a concept difficult for both biblical believers and non-believers to comprehend – God's love for each inmate who had not been released that night (everybody still in class) was as great as his love for A.J.
This is tough for inmates to embrace because, as you might imagine, many prisoners assume that God will "reward" somebody for becoming a biblical believer by tossing out the unpleasant consequences (i.e. prison) of their criminal behavior. But the biblical text doesn't teach that.
As an aside, imagine how relieved I was that A.J. was released before I prayed. If he had been released shortly afterward, imagine the clamor. The guys would have assumed that I had a "special" line to the Almighty, which of course I don't.
I don't know the circumstances of what A.J. was charged with, or why he was released. It is against prison etiquette to ask what charges an inmate is facing. It keeps us "civilians" from being rattled by what a prisoner might have done. It also keeps us from being subpoenaed because nobody accidentally "confesses" something.
(But I did check to make sure A.J. was actually being set at liberty. Sometimes, an inmate is "discharged" – released from one prison to be transferred to another facility. But no, A.J. was indeed going home.)
My hope – my prayer – is that A.J.'s new-found biblical faith carries over into the outside world. In many cases, it does not. Unfortunately, many inmates drop their faith – and, literally, their Bibles – at the prison door. In such cases, their faith has been shown to be merely a "jailhouse Jesus."
("Jailhouse Jesus" follows from the false assumption I described earlier. An inmate "gets religion" in prison. God seems to "reward" him by helping his lawyer beat the case. The inmate figures, "God got me out; what do I need God for anymore?" These are the guys we see back again.)
On the other hand, for many inmates, getting arrested and getting sent to prison is literally a heaven-sent experience. More than one inmate has told me that getting locked up literally saved his life. Guys often tell me this after they describe the several times they have been shot, in very vivid detail. It's not fun to be "in blues" (prison slang for being incarcerated), but often it's a lot safer than being outside.
From a biblical perspective, getting locked up can have a positive effect on one's life in the long run even though it's hard in the short run. Why? Because it's human nature that when things are going swimmingly – you've got a good wife and kids, you've got a job, you're not in trouble – most people figure, "I'm a good guy, so who needs God?"
But when you get locked up, it begins to dawn on you, "Hey, something's wrong. Maybe I'm not the charitable human being I imagined myself to be." As an added advantage, prison gives you plenty of time to ponder this new perspective.
This brings me to New Jersey's early release program, which evokes strong emotions on all sides. Given the violent nature of many of the crimes committed, some people adopt a "throw away the key" attitude. Others express hope that time may have changed an inmate, making it worthwhile to release him.
The question behind early release, from the state's point of view, is whether or not some inmates who have served long sentences are realistically "rehabilitated" and ready to enter the outside world.
Good question. In a limited sense, just getting older sometimes brings on a changed attitude. Age occasionally softens some of the foolishness some men exhibit in their teens and 20s. Not everybody gets wiser just because they get older, but some people (and some inmates) do.
But just getting a a lot older and a little bit wiser isn't really good enough. Rehabilitation requires a changed heart and attitude. Sometimes, during or after a stint in prison, an inmate may decide that he just really doesn't want to go back to prison, and he changes his habits accordingly. He may change without ever coming to faith.
Unfortunately, much of the time, much of what is advertised as rehabilitation isn't real. Rather, prison punishes inmates, (imperfectly) putting consequences to criminal behavior. Prison also protects society by removing lawbreakers from society at large.
But prison, much of the time, does not rehabilitate. Prison houses men, mostly for a long time. Some of those men get a high school education while there. Most have lots of free time. The years go by, and inmates mostly … get older. They become progressively less physically able to do bad behavior. But they don't really change.
But what about "remorse"? Surely prison produces remorse.
Remorse is simply regret at having been caught, or regret at having to suffer the consequences of one's bad behavior. But remorse is not a change in the "heart," the "orientation" as it were, of one's life.
By the way, that is why a suspect expressing "remorse" at his trial is utterly superficial, even though such nonsense is hotly debated at trials from Bernie Madoff to Melanie McGuire. Of course somebody just convicted of a crime has "remorse" – they know they are going to spend a lot of years being locked up. But there is no change of "heart" (attitude, lifestyle, moral orientation) in that "remorse."
True rehabilitation requires a change in heart and attitude, which then produces a change in behavior. Some prisoners have used various means to change their lives to the better. Unfortunately, however, many inmates never experience this change of heart. But having volunteered in a prison ministry for several years, I have discovered that those who exhibit a genuine biblical repentance have a good chance to avoid recidivism.
In a way that is often beyond words, a biblical repentance produces a change of direction – a work of God that manifests itself in a changed life.
For the inmate who discovers a biblical repentance, there are added benefits. The inmate finds peace with God, lasting beyond the grave. That God offers heaven to inmates who find a genuine biblical faith really irritates some people, who think it seems "unfair." Of course it's "unfair," but so what? God's forgiveness is always "unfair" – in the best sense.
Still, not every inmate who changes direction should be released early, in New Jersey or elsewhere. Most should not. The consequences of criminal behavior don't disappear just because somebody changes, either though a biblical faith or by simply growing up. The victim of a homicide is still dead. The sentence stands, most of the time.


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A brief bit of backstory explains how John Crichton, an astronaut from Earth, went through a wormhole and ended up on Moya, a living spaceship, with a motley group of aliens, including D'Argo Anthony Simcoe, Chiana Gigi Edgley, various puppet characters designed by the Jim Henson Company, and Aeryn Claudia Black, Crichton's love interest, who's expecting their first child. As The Peacekeeper Wars begins, our heroes find themselves in the middle of a war-to-end-all-wars between the lizard-like, implacably evil Scarrans and their rivals, the Peacekeepers. Crichton is the lynchpin in all of this, as his knowledge of "wormhole technology" is coveted by all, including his old nemesis Scorpius Wayne Pygram, who captured and tortured Crichton back in season 1 and with whom Crichton must now form an uneasy alliance against the Scarrans.
Over the course of the three-hour miniseries, we get lots of weird- and cool-looking aliens, some nice sets and special effects, plenty of battles, and lots of portentous talk about the fate of the universe--nothing especially original, but all presented with outstanding production values. There's drama and action, love and betrayal, tragedy and triumph, war and, ultimately, peace, with a suitably spectacular ending and a nod to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. With a 30-minute "making of" documentary among the DVD special features, The Peacekeeper Wars is a fitting way to end the Farscape saga. --Sam Graham


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Friday, July 18, 2008
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Man, I have been wishing for a good chunk of time to sit down and just type my thoughts away, but alas, I spent my only good chunk of time last night writing an email explaining why we have decided to pull the big kid out of the summer camp he was attending this week. That deserves its very own post, mostly so I can see if anyone else can relate to our experiences. But, since that kind of post actually requires me to think clearly, the usual commotion won't allow for that now. What I can do is ask you all to bear with me as I share yet another Story Corps piece that I literally heard minutes ago while making the kids' breakfasts. The story is about Kay Wang, and if you are at all an emotional sap like me, grab a tissue, just in case. The piece had me giggling to myself, as well as tearing up. If you're a fellow lover-of-others'-stories, you shouldn't be disappointed.
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Cruising Crusaders
STEUBENVILLE – Steve Daley has a simple recipe for success in the postseason – run the football and play good defense.
His Catholic Central squad did both in Saturday's Division VII, Region 25 quarterfinal bout with Racine Southern at Harding Stadium.
The Crusaders racked up 182 yards on the ground while their defense caused four turnovers (one was a pick six by Khalil Jones) in scoring a 35-7 victory over the Tornadoes.
With the win, Central, the region's fourth seed, earns a date next Saturday with top-seeded Glouster Trimble, a 63-0 winner over Beallsville. The location for the semifinal battle will be announced today by the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
Central, making its 11th appearance in the playoffs, improves to 9-2 and 12-9 all-time in the Ohio tournament. Southern, a newcomer to the postseason, finishes at 8-3.
"That was a good team win," Daley said. "In the playoffs, there are two things you have to be able do – play good defense and run the ball. Do we like to throw it? Yes, but the plan going in was to test them on the outside, have them chase us a little bit, then try to hit the off-tackle inside. The kids executed what we planned out."
Southern, the region's fifth-seed got on the board first, needing six plays to move 54 yards. Quarterback Tristen Wolfe hit Colton Walters on a slant route for the eight-yard touchdown. Earlier in the drive, Wolfe and Hunter Johnson hooked up for a 32 yard gain. Trenton Deem added the extra point. The score came at the 7:20 mark of the opening period.
"That was a little bit of us settling in," Daley commented about the early Tornado score. "They didn't give us anything we hadn't seen out of them. We were not in position on a couple of plays but we got that corrected. Then, the defense stepped it up."
Central quickly responded thanks to a 42-yard Jones return on the ensuing kickoff. Starting at the Southern 48, the Crusaders needed seven plays to score. Brenton Colabella drilled a six-yard touchdown pass to Johnny DiCarlantonio, who was standing all alone in the corner of the end zone. John Paul McNamara nailed the conversion.
Both defenses stepped up following Central's tying touchdown. On its next possession, Southern lost 18 yards (17 of those stripes came thanks to Louis Fallon sacks of Wolfe). The Crusaders went three-and-out before Jimmy Joe Mort and Mark Dettorre combined to stop Southern's Tyler Barton on third-and-one forcing a Tornado punt.
Central's next touch ended in a punt and Southern took possession at its 38. On second and 13, Jones intercepted a Wolfe pass and returned it 36 yards for the go-ahead score. McNamara again added the point from placement.
Daley called Jones' pick "a turning point."
"It was huge," he added. "Making a play like that kind of got us going. That was a great play by him, it got our motor running and kind of jump started us."
Jones' defensive touchdown closed the first half scoring.
Southern, which came into the contest averaging 240 yards per game on the ground, could muster just 4 on 17 attempts during the opening 24 minutes. Chris Murphy came up big for the Central defense on the final Southern drive of the half, recording one tackle for no gain and another for a loss of two.
Stone Romano also made several key stops for the Crusaders.
"That's our team concept on defense," Daley commented. "We stress play your gaps and play your assignments. Our kids did that."
Following a scoreless third quarter, Central made it 21-7 early in the fourth, going 72 yards after Fallon recovered a Tornado fumble. All but six of the stripes came via the ground. Jones got the score on a 12-yard burst up the middle. He closely followed a huge Romano block through the hole and into the end zone. McNamara's kick was good again.
Another Southern fumble, caused by Fallon and recovered by Murphy, led to the next Central score. After a motion penalty and a yard loss on a rushing play, Colabella used play action before hitting Aleks Porreca on a go route. The senior wide receiver ran past the defender, caught the pass in full stride and crossed the goal. The pass and run covered 45 yards. McNamara drilled his fourth PAT.
"Creating turnovers throughout the game was big," Daley noted. "They allowed us to get the ball back in the hands of our offense. We stayed the course on offense and did a great job of executing the plan."
Ryan Fletcher would stop the next Tornado drive with an interception.
The game's final score came via a 13-yard run by Jones. It capped a two-play drive covering 25 yards. Central got the great field possession following another stop by its defense. McNamara booted his fifth extra point to close the scoring.
Jones paced Central's ground attack with 101 yards on 11 carries. Fletcher added 56 on six totes and Murphy 26 on just two trips.
"Our offensive line did a nice job," Daley noted. "That's a good group as far as running game goes. They (Southern) were playing real soft on us in coverage and that allowed us to open up some running lanes."
Colabella threw for 115 stripes and two scores. Porreca finished with four catches.
Southern finished with 138 passing yards and 91 on the ground. Barton who had been averaging 134 stripes per game collected just 27.


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Re: news article in the Saturday, Feb. 20, South Whidbey Record.
OK, this article didn't present the ferry system in the best possible light, regarding the utilization of the holding lanes in Mukilteo. It is obvious to me that the ferry system needs an additional person handling the traffic on the local street, but only when the ferry is being loaded.
So, a good management technique, if you don't have the money to hire such a person, would be to re-allocate the existing staff for that loading phase.
Let's say that when the ferry arrives, one of the obvious persons on the ferry that is just standing around, with no active assignment, gets assigned to leave the ferry and help with the traffic management, as a result of the expanded holding capacity. Bingo! Problem solved, and the ferry system emerges as creative.
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President Obama's call for higher subsidies for electric vehicles is likely to boost sales and help educate the market, but experts question whether it will do much to address the battery dilemma that continues to plague the cars.
Obama's pitch, made at a Daimler truck plant in North Carolina last week as part of a $4.7 billion energy proposal, calls for $2 billion of additional subsidies for EV buyers. The incentives for those purchases would jump from $7,500 per vehicle to $10,000. More importantly, the subsidies would come in the form of point-of-sale rebates, rather than tax credits.
"We need to invest in technology that will help us use less oil in our cars and our trucks, in our buildings and our factories," Obama told the autoworkers at the plant. "That's the only solution to the challenge."
The EV aspect of the proposal may be the most important single piece. It was unveiled less than a week after General Motors announced it was temporarily halting production of the Chevy Volt due to flagging sales. Government agencies say higher subsidies are likely to motivate EV buyers, which in turn would enhance economies of scale. A White House press release said economies of scale would make "electric vehicles as affordable and convenient to own and operate as gasoline-powered vehicles by the end of the decade."
Industry experts said the proposed subsidy increase would likely boost sales. The biggest reason for that involves public misconceptions about EVs.
"Our research has shown that, on average, people expect to pay about $24,000 for a plug-in vehicle," Dave Hurst, senior analyst at Pike Research, told us. "Clearly, that's a big difference from what they really cost. So an additional $2,500 incentive is going to help."
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There has been extensive research even considering grid loss, battery loss, and any in between loss an EV is still more efficient. The problem is not CO2 footprint. It's heavy metal Footprint. The reason why EV's are not reasonable is expense of the entire lifecycle. It's still cheaper to use Gasoline. And with some key scientist putting their careers in the line saying that CO2 is not a problem. I will stick to old tech. So far there has been a panic driven economy mostly forced by key public speakers (al gore any one?).
Ignorance is Bliss ChriSharek...
Average car uses 50USD a week. for 52 Weeks it costs 2600 USD. Considering that your car was 20K USD more than average car then it will take you 7.69years to make back the money assuming u don't pay for a single penny. Now consider the 3Cents per mile. at 11000 miles per year average that is roughly 330USD. So in reality you only benefit 2270USD a year that is 8.8years to pay back that extra mark up. Will your battery pack survive that long? Will you need to spend another 5k to 10k on batteries? How long before major electrical circuits start breaking down because of the conditions that they operate under? How much will maintenance be? Don't forget to maintain a vehicle of this technological level requires people with some background in troubleshooting electrical systems. This group of techs is rare and in very short supply.
So to sum it up.... Yes being ignorant is good.
FYI my crappy old technology Toyota Corolla that spends 15Cents a mile only cost me 16k USD, have spent tops 500Dollars the last 8 years to maintain and I have a bill of roughly 1500USD a year on fuel. Let me know when you catch up to me. Also I own my car and I don't pay interest because it was cheap enough to purchase straight out.


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It is a generally recognized fact that fully drained or partially drained piping systems are far more susceptible to corrosion than those containing treated water, or even untreated water. Given a moist environment in combination with the presence of abundant air and oxygen, partially drained pipe has been documented to corrode at a rate two to ten times that of other water filled pipe of the same type, and located within the same circulating system. Condenser or open water systems clearly suffer the greatest in Northern climates where draining is often unavoidable. In cases where condenser water piping is drained down within the interior of a building to protect it from freezing, it is common to measure significantly higher corrosion rates at the rooftop or outside level. In those cases, roof level piping will require replacement many decades before the remainder of the system. The buckets of iron oxide and scale typically removed from strainers, condenser heads, and heat exchanger tubes at every spring start-up are partially the result of such higher off-season corrosion activity.
Corrosion coupon racks, typically the only form of corrosion monitoring used, cannot be employed at the most vulnerable area of drained down pipe due to a lack of water flow. They are rarely installed in outdoor or at roof level locations. Of course, corrosion at the outer surface of the exposed rooftop pipe will also occur if not properly coated, insulated, and protected - a common maintenance problem often identified as a contributing factor to an overall higher measured corrosion rate. However, it is most often the pipe's interior, having been totally or partially drained over many years, which places the system at greatest risk of advanced failure.
The below comparison of wall thickness measurements and estimated corrosion rates, taken from an actual 1996 ultrasonic piping investigation of a New York City commercial property, clearly illustrates the differences which, to some degree, always exists between drained and filled piping within the same condenser water system. In this example, the left side of the page represents test results taken from an ultrasonic evaluation of a section of 18 in. extra heavy condenser water pipe located in the sub-basement mechanical equipment room area of a 42 story New York City office building, and never drained of chemically treated water. The right side of the page represents the same exact pipe at the 30th floor outdoor shaftway, where it has been drained every year during its five month winter season. The pipe is the same in all respects - having been extra ASTM A 53 seamless heavy stock with an initially specified wall thickness of 0.500 in., a solid history of excellent water treatment maintenance, and having been in service for 45 years. Descriptions of the various charts and bar graphs precede each set of report data.
In a direct comparison of current wall thickness measurements, test results show significantly lower remaining pipe metal at the drained test site, shown below to the right. Also, the greater deviation between thickness measurements at the drained piping illustrates the much higher level of pitting activity at that location. Please note the differing scales for wall thickness at the left side of each graph - required due to the large difference in wall thickness.
The below calculations are based upon the average of all recorded ultrasonic wall thickness measurements illustrated above. Differences in average measured pipe thickness, corrosion rate, and remaining pipe life are dramatic. As shown, the annual draining of this system has actually increased the average corrosion rate of the roof level piping four times that of the rest of the system. As a result, the lifetime of the piping has been reduced by nearly ten fold!
The below tables show the same basic set of calculations as in Comparison # 2, except that they are based upon the lowest measured wall thickness value of each set. Such data represents a weak link or worst case scenario, and offers an estimate of when the most aggressive corrosion activity will deteriorate the piping past its safe recommended limit. Shown below, differences in corrosion rate, percentage of loss, and retirement date are even more pronounced. In fact, the minimum wall thickness of the constantly filled pipe significantly exceeds the standard specifications of any new pipe installed today, while the upper pipe exists at nearly half that value.
While the original pipe wall thickness and minimum allowable thickness values remain constant for both test locations, a major difference is obvious in the amount of pipe wall remaining. For the subject property, ultrasonic testing indicated that the minimum measured pipe wall thickness of the drained piping is nearing its minimum allowable safe operating limit. Yet the water filled pipe offers almost unlimited remaining service.
The below graph is based upon data taken from a separate ultrasonic investigation of a 37 floor condenser water piping system at a downtown New York City office building. The blue line represents the average corrosion rate based upon all wall thickness measurements; the red line represents the highest corrosion rate based upon the lowest individual wall thickness. Since the condenser piping was installed exposed to the elements within an outside stairway, it had been drained completely to the bottom for all 39 prior winter seasons.
Ultrasonic thickness testing was performed at the roof and at each floor down to the basement. As expected, testing showed a high corrosion and pitting condition throughout most areas. When the test results were sorted based upon the physical floor location, highest to lowest, we found a clear trend - with noticeably higher corrosion and pitting activity at the upper areas of the pipe, and the only low and uniform examples of corrosion found at the lowest 4-5 floors. Similar to many past investigations of drained vs. filled pipe, an almost 10 to 1 relationship was shown to exist.
Although the entire piping system was drained, the higher loss of pipe wall thickness at the upper floors was attributed to the abundance of fresh air and oxygen migrating through the cooling tower openings and down the risers. The lowest sections of pipe, as expected, showed the lowest corrosion activity for the exact opposite reason. Similar results have been found in many other CVI investigations, as well as by other investigators.
There are currently only four feasible methods toward reduce the corrosion rate within a piping system which is partially or fully drained over any period. One or more may apply depending upon conditions.
The easiest, though least effective measure, is to greatly increase the level of the standard chemical inhibitor just prior to draining. This theoretically leaves a heavier coating of rust protection on the piping to provide partial protection against oxidation while drained. In reality, CVI has found little benefit through this action, and most properties which do follow such procedures generally still find an excessive corrosion loss at drained pipe locations.Most water treatment companies offer special lay-up inhibitors, although it is difficult to judge their effectiveness in the field. We have never failed to identify far greater corrosion activity at a roof location regardless of the form of standard lay-up chemical treatment provided.
A second and extremely effective method is to introduce a supplemental chemical rust inhibitor specifically formulated for the purpose of preventing corrosion during lay-up periods. Numerous formulations exist, including the newest development of powders called Vapor Corrosion Inhibitors (VCI). These gas producing products place a protective and penetrating layer of corrosion inhibitor on the surface of the metal to provide virtually total corrosion control for up to two years. They require a general, though not airtight, sealing of the piping system in order to allow the protective element to sublime, that is - move from solid directly to gaseous phase and then migrate throughout the piping.
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A third rarely used, but effective method, is to fill the empty system with a blanket of nitrogen gas, displacing the air and oxygen, and stopping the corrosion process almost entirely. Its effectiveness relies upon being able to drive all air from the system to replace it with only nitrogen.This procedure requires an airtight piping system - which may be difficult to achieve at the cooling tower end - the area most in need. It is rarely used in HVAC applications.
Since corrosion cannot continue without a presence of moisture, reducing that moisture content below a certain dew point will inevitably stop or substantially lower all corrosion losses. Drying, however, is often difficult due to the physical configuration of a piping system, and especially for open systems at the cooling tower itself, which would require temporary closure.
Areas of the system containing larger reservoirs of water can take months to dry. For clamped piping system, substantial water will remain at all horizontal lines due to the groove which raises an internal bump trapping water along the bottom. Vertical risers are therefore the easiest to address most effectively. Drying can be accomplished by one or a combination of heating, desiccant use, or the introduction of heated super dry air to -100 °F into the system. Custom configured equipment is available.
An extremely important step prior to any lay-up procedure is to chemically clean and sterilize the entire system. By removing unwanted rust, dirt, and microbiological matter, the above inhibitor methods will work much more effectively due to the increased amount of contact between the chemical inhibitor and base metal.
High corrosion and pitting rates present a significant threat to every building or plant property which drains its piping for even short intervals. Most often, that wall loss is not recognized until a failure occurs, or interest to learn the source of start-up deposits is raised. It is a problem often not addressed due to a combination of non-awareness, physical difficulty, questionable effectiveness of result, and an expenditure benefitting only a potentially limited amount to the overall piping system.
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WASHINGTON -- The House passed a $17.6 billion NASA 2013 budget Thursday with $1.45 billion for a rocket being developed in Huntsville, but President Obama is threatening to veto it.
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, voted for the budget, but criticized a late amendment that took $126 million from NASA to support community policing. "I was pleased enough to vote for it," Brooks said, "but not as pleased as I would have been" without the amendment. Brooks said 81 percent of Republicans in the House voted against the amendment, but 74 percent of Democrats voted for it.
It had appeared NASA might get a break this year from several years of fighting over money and mission. Budgets passed by committees in the Senate and House weren't far apart, as Washington numbers go, and an agreement was in place with the White House on NASA's top priorities. The full Senate has not yet considered NASA funding.
Those priorities are a new heavy-lift rocket being designed and developed at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center, financial support for the International Space Station, completion of the James Webb Space Telescope, and continued funding to develop a commercial space industry.
Obama threatened Monday to veto the House budget the includes NASA because he said it violated an agreement over spending limits reached between Congress and the White House last summer. The White House also said the House bit cut funding for commercial space development by $300 million from Obama's request. And the White House didn't like a provision in the House funding committee's report saying NASA should select one commercial provider and one backup for taxpayer support, not the four competing companies currently being funded. NASA has agreements now with Boeing., SpaceX, Sierra Nevada Corp., and Blue Origin.


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SARANAC LAKE - A group of Saranac Lake Central School District administrators and school board members met for two hours Tuesday morning to start going over the district's bullying and harassment policies.
Last month, a middle-school girl who had been bullied all year because of her race had her possessions in her backpack broken and a racial slur written on a Petrova Middle School sidewalk with her deodorant. It took the school more than a week to wash it off.
District officials were widely criticized afterward for not being more responsive to complaints over the course of the year. Superintendent Gerald Goldman and school board President Deb Lennon and Vice President Darren Dalton wrote a letter to the Enterprise, published Tuesday, apologizing, saying the district failed in its responsibility to protect the girl and promising to do better.
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Susan Rdzanek, left, who was elected in May, takes her oath of office as a Saranac Lake Central School Board member Tuesday evening. To her right, district clerk Christine Fransen administers the oath. Debra Lennon and Darren Dalton were also unanimously re-elected board president and vice president, respectively, and sworn in after Rdzanek.
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At Tuesday's morning meeting, the group discussed the existing bullying and harassment policies "to make sure they were explicit," Goldman said. "I don't think that review is exhaustive. I think we'll come back to that."
The group also looked at reporting policies and procedures, Goldman said, and discussed the problem from a "social dynamic, in terms of people are sometimes reluctant to disclose bullying."
The group discussed ways to encourage people to come forward when someone else is being harassed or bullied, and ways to promote the "communication that we need in order to get involved in this early, before these things kind of spiral out of control for kids," Goldman said.
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The group also discussed better ways to teach acceptance of diversity and differences, and that some members of the community and staff members who belong to minority groups have volunteered to help.
The group will continue to meet over the summer, and Goldman said he would like to reach out to include more district staff.
Two members of the public, Jon Vinograd and Arden Kleffmann, both of Saranac Lake, spoke at Tuesday evening's school board organizational meeting. Vinograd said the district needs a plan with specific goals and target dates to revise its policies to make sure students are protected from bullying.
"Those are strong and commendable words," he said, referring to the letter. "You need to put them into a 'plan of corrective action,'" a term used when he was working at Sunmount.
Vinograd also said it is important the school board be involved in the process as well as administrators.
Kleffman said the district needs to do more to prevent bullying and teach tolerance.
The district already had policies established for reporting bullying, and school board policies and the student code of conduct forbid it. School Board Vice President Darren Dalton, who has two daughters at the middle school, said his daughters have told him of instances where bullying was reported and the system worked, citing one story of Facebook-related harassment.
At the same time, Dalton said, the district needs to do more.
"It's a very disturbing and troubling issue, and it's one that we're addressing," Dalton said.
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I was so proud of this meal — mostly because 20 minutes before it was plated I had no idea what I was going to make for dinner — really ZERO. Not that tacos are exactly a revolutionary idea for a family meal, but the speed and satisfaction quotient here outweighed any issues I had with the novelty. As usual, my six-year-old filled her taco shell with only cheese — but the rest of us went to town. — Jenny
1 avocado, halved and chunked
1/2 vine tomato, chopped or a handful of grape tomatoes, halved
2 to 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
lime juice from 1/2 lime
2 teaspoons very thinly sliced and chopped red onion
salt to taste
2 spicy sausage links (I used pork, but you can use chicken, too)
2 tablespoons salsa verde or enchillada sauce
1 14-ounce can black beans
1/2 cup sharp cheddar, shaved or shredded
lime wedges
sour cream
6-8 hard taco shells (such as Trader Joe's organic)
Preheat oven to 425. Make guacamole by smushing all the ingredients together until it reaches a chunky, just blended consistency. Place on table.
Remove the skins from sausages and brown the meat over medium heat in a skillet, breaking up the meat with a fork. Once the sausage is almost cooked through, add sauce or salsa and keep stirring until cooked through.
Heat beans in a small saucepan.
Bake tacos in preheated oven 2 to 3 minutes.
Plate sausages, beans, cheese, lime wedges, and sour cream in bowls and cutting boards on table with guacamole. Serve each diner two taco shells and have them customize their fillings at the table.


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By Frank Gerace 9:12pm, March 28, 2012A bill sponsored by state Senate President Pro Tem Tony DeLuca would take craft distilleries out of the brew pub in Delaware.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday voted to send the measure to the full Senate, which is expected to vote on it next week.
Dogfish Head Brewery owner Sam Calagione says the bill would not only eliminate the requirement that craft distilleries operate in brew pubs, it would permit on-site tastings like those held at breweries and wineries, which could make the distilleries tourist attractions.
Craft distillers say the brew pub restriction limits their ability to bottle and distribute their products.
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- Applying nitrogen to citrus at the best time
- Nitrogen requirements
- By keeping nitrogen as a nutrient and not a pollutant, the tree, the grower's profit and the environment will all come out looking a lot better in 2011.
Nitrogen requirements
What would be the nitrogen requirement per acre of a grove of 25-year-old drip–irrigated Washington navel orange trees on Carrizo rootstocks that yield 650 cartons/acre of fruit? If we assume good irrigation efficiency and scheduling, growers who apply the bulk of their nitrogen through frequent but small injections of fertilizer through the irrigation system (six or more times through the season) with the rest applied foliarly, may maintain tree health, high fruit yield and quality of mature navels with as little as 80 pounds of actual nitrogen per acre.
Those who apply nitrogen foliarly and then split the remaining nitrogen application among two or three fertigations will probably require a total of 100 to 125 pounds of actual nitrogen per acre for mid-season and late navels and only 80 to 100 pounds for the relatively non-vigorous early navels. The use of significantly more nitrogen than this to maintain leaf nitrogen levels in the 2.4 to 2.6% range would suggest deep leaching of nitrogen through excessive irrigation may be occurring either through poor water scheduling or poor water distribution uniformity within the orchard.
Past research by Drs. Lund and Arpaia with the University of California have shown that relying totally on foliar application of nitrogen will produce a tree with a thin leaf canopy. Application of nitrogen in furrow irrigated citrus is usually less efficient than with low-volume systems and annual nitrogen application rates may climb to 200 or more pounds per acre.
In spring flush leaves, some empirical data suggests that each tenth of a percent of leaf nitrogen by dry-weight over and above 2.5 percent nitrogen is equivalent to the storage of approximately 10-15 pounds per acre of nitrogen in the trees. Trees in an efficiently irrigated high-yielding orchard in which leaves produced in the spring are analyzed and test 2.5 in September, will probably require about 120 lbs of nitrogen per acre the following season to produce a good yield and maintain 2.5% of nitrogen by dry weight in leaves the following fall when retested.
Trees in an orchard in which spring flush leaves test 3.0% in September, will probably require a total seasonal nitrogen application of only 60 lb/acre the following season to produce a good yield of fruit and maintain leaf-nitrogen content of 2.4 - 2.6% when sampled that fall. Conversely, trees whose leaf tissue contains only 2.0% leaf nitrogen in the fall will probably require approximately 180 lbs of nitrogen per acre to bring leaf levels to 2.4 - 2.6% the following year.
In some areas, well water can supply a significant amount of the nitrogen requirement, and growers should know the nitrogen content of their irrigation water. Nitrogen stored in the soil or present in organic amendments can substitute for chemical sources. However, some organic amendments can be sufficiently low in nitrogen (as those derived from yard waste) that their microbial degradation can actually induce a temporary nitrogen deficiency in a grove that would otherwise have sufficient nitrogen.
One of the biggest problems encountered by growers producing certified organic citrus is maintaining nitrogen nutrition. Fish oil, compost, and organic liquids that meet certification requirements, and that have high nitrogen to carbon ratios, are some of the products used by organic growers to meet tree nitrogen needs.
Critical levels for leaf-nitrogen for some varieties of citrus, like the grapefruits, pummelos, pummelo x grapefruit hybrids and the mandarins do not exist. The high-yielding grapefruits and their pummelo cousins and crosses, appear to have slightly higher nitrogen requirements than oranges, probably as a result of their vigorous vegetative growth habits and prolific yielding characteristics.
Trees of equivalent age will generally have a higher nitrogen requirement if grown on a vigorous rough lemon rootstock, for example, than if grown on trifoliate rootstock. Likewise anything that reduces tree growth and yield, such as water stress, late-stage rootstock/scion incompatibility, shallow soils, disease, or severe insect infestations, will reduce nitrogen requirements.
By keeping nitrogen as a nutrient and not a pollutant, the tree, the grower's profit and the environment will all come out looking a lot better in 2011.


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Published: 05/06/2014
NEW NAME — The Century Council last month announced it has changed its name to the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility. As was The Century Council, FAAR is funded by America's leading distillers: Bacardi, Beam, Brown-Forman, Constellation Brands, Diageo, Hood River Distillers and Pernod Ricard. FAAR also retains its purpose of fighting drunken driving and underage drinking. "Our mission to lead the fight against drunk driving and underage drinking is stronger than ever," said Ralph Blackman, FAAR president and CEO.


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Monte Real Vacation Packages
Monte Real is a great place to base yourself in Northern Lisboa - Leiria as some of the city's most popular attractions are close. Among the most popular attractions here are the marvelous Sao Pedro De Muel Lighthouse and the fantastic Sao Pedro De Muel Beach. Two more worthwhile attractions that are close by Monte Real are Batalha Monastery and the Sao Jorge Chapel.
Monte Real offers some interesting cultural attractions within easy reach that make great places to visit. There are plenty of excellent places where you can spend a few hours such as Wax Museum in Fatima and Apparitions Museum.
Destinations such as Fatima Basilica in Fatima, Leiria Castle in Leiria and the Porto de Mos Castle in Batalha are well worth visiting during your time in Monte Real. For a relaxing change of pace, pay a visit to the area's holy places, such as the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Fatima and the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima.
Sports fanatics vacationing in Monte Real should get tickets for Dr. Magalhaes Pessoa Stadium, Leiria to see the U.D. Leiria doing battle with visiting teams. On weekends the area around the stadium becomes a sea of white and red, as crowds gather to support their beloved team.
Finding somewhere handy to rest your head around the Monte Real area is a breeze. Check out the rooms, rates and amenities at the Hotel Santa Maria, Fatima, the Hotel Estrela de Fatima, or the Dom Goncalo Hotel & Spa, Fatima.


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Whitney Young's (Ill.) star center had the biggest performance of the tournament with 26 points, seven rebounds and three blocks while shooting an efficient 13-for-17 from the field. Following the game, teammates and coaches alike gave Okafor a ringing endorsement and said -- emphatically -- that the No. 2 ranking is too low.
"Jahlil, I feel like, is the best player in the nation," said Paul White, Okafor's teammate. "Nobody can guard him one-on-one. So when that double team or triple team does come it definitely opens it up."
His coach, Tyrone Slaughter, shared that sentiment.
"I know that [Okafor is the best player], he's talking about what he thinks, I'll talk about what I know," Slaughter said. "If you have to stick him one-on-one there is no one person who can do it. Other good players in this country you can defend them one-on-one, the people that are in the conversation they have been defended one-on-one. There is no one individual that can defend him one-on-one.
"Fundamentally, I can say without equivocation that he is the best player in the nation."
A product of the competitive Chicago basketball scene, Okafor has developed a tough, back-to-the-basket game that has few equals in this era of basketball. While many post players are straying from the paint, Okafor owns it.
Okafor is so talented and so feared that he actually draws defenders away from Whitney Young's talented wing players Paul White and L.J. Peak -- two top 60 players in the class of 2014. Okafor managed two assists while passing out of double teams and his passing is an underrated part of a game with few holes.
"We would like to see him block more shots," said Slaughter of where he can improve. "We'd like to see him rebound out of the area more, but to his defense the reason why that doesn't happen to the extent we'd like to see it is because he plays extended minutes... so we take some of the good with the bad."
More than anything -- more than the minutes or the the points or the rebounds -- Okafor is a calming, steadying force for Whitney Young. Whenever they need a stop or a basket they know that Okafor will come through for them.
And that is why he is considered "without equivocation" the best player in the country by his coach and teammates.


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DETROIT, MI -- Gov. Rick Snyder initially gave a one-word response to news that a federal judge had stayed lawsuits challenging Detroit's bankruptcy filing: "Good."
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes in his Wednesday ruling said the decision to bring all issues related to the historic Chapter 9 proceedings into his courtroom will make the process quicker and more efficient.
Snyder, after his initial, brief response, said the same.
"One of the benefits of the bankruptcy process is you can hopefully consolidate all these lawsuits into one place in a much more organized, thoughtful fashion," Snyder said
"If we hadn't gone into bankruptcy, we would have had not just a couple lawsuits, but, literally, creditors all over could be filing in courts all over the United States dragging this thing on, making it difficult, wasting resources from the important question of better services to citizens... This allows us to go to bankruptcy court, have one judge to deal with it in an effective, thoughtful way."
Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr with the governor's approval filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on July 18 after years of budget cuts, months of state intervention and weeks of negotiations with debt holders and unions failed to bring significant relief to the city's estimated $18 billion in long-term obligations.
The Wednesday ruling allows bankruptcy proceedings to proceed despite orders to withdraw the filing from an Ingham County judge who said the filing violated pension protections in the Michigan constitution.
Those orders were before a state appeals court, but Rhodes' decision filters the matter into federal bankruptcy proceedings.
He also granted a stay extension that halts any legal actions against the governor, state treasurer or emergency loan board related to the city or the bankruptcy filing.
He said the stay will "enhance the debtors likelihood of reorganization, ...assist in expediting the reorganization and will reduce the city's cost."
"The court finds that this injunction is in the public interest," Rhodes said, calling the alternative, "an administrative nightmare."
Representatives of the city's pension systems and others filed lawsuits in state court seeking to halt the proceedings because the pensions of Detroit employees and retirees are expected to be at risk under bankruptcy, despite being protected by Michigan law.
Attorneys for the city successfully argued that the federal court has jurisdiction to address issues of state law and is "the only appropriate forum" for matters involving the bankruptcy to be heard.
"They will have their day in court," said Heather Lennox, a Jones Day lawyer representing the city. "They will have these issues decided... but they will have them decided in a tribunal with proper jurisdiction."
Lennox also argued that the bankruptcy filing doesn't specifically target the pensions.
"It does not even mention what would happen to pensions in this state," she said.
But both Gov. Rick Snyder and Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr have made clear that they'll be looking to slash pensions and change retiree health benefits, which constitute a large portion of the debt that cripples Detroit's ability to provide basic services.
She said she receives a monthly pension check of about $3,000.
Snyder said last week that the city's pension systems are about 50 percent funded, and that the unfunded half will be vulnerable during Detroit's restructuring.
Detroit firefighters, meanwhile, who protested outside the courthouse Wednesday, claimed that they have estimates that indicate their pensions are 96-percent funded.
"They're just after city workers and blaming the workers of the city of Detroit," said firefighter Darryl Brown. "This is not our fault."
Brown said that between pay cuts, health care changes and demotions, many firefighters already lost as much as 40 percent of their pay as the city made deep cuts long before filing for bankruptcy protection last week.
And they don't pay into Social Security, so their pensions could be their only source of income when they retire.
He said city pensions, other than those of department chiefs and other high-ranking officials, are not lucrative. A 12-year-veteran of the department, Brown said he would get about $300 a month if he retired immediately.
Brian Cross, a firefighter for 20 years, said he would get about $24,000 a year if he were to retire immediately.
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Had new coil/leads/plugs etc, and cambelt done the other day. Been mapped several times. Runs fine on petrol.
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U.S. stocks declined as investors sold companies whose earnings are least tied to the economy after Dell and Intel bolstered confidence that the outlook for technology spending is improving. The dollar rose against the euro, while oil advanced.
Merck, based in Whitehouse Station, McDonald's and AT&T fell as drugmakers, sellers of consumer goods, and phone companies posted the steepest drops in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Dell, the second-biggest computer maker, gained 2.6 percent after beating analysts' profit estimates. Intel, the largest chipmaker, added 4.2 percent following its increased forecast.
The S&P 500 lost 0.2 percent to 1,028.64 after rising as much as 0.8 percent amid a global rally in stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 43.31 points, or 0.5 percent, to 9,537.32 in its first drop since Aug. 17. The dollar gained 0.4 percent to $1.4294 per euro, from $1.4341 yesterday. Crude for October delivery added 0.5 percent to $72.83 a barrel.
"People are perhaps considering shifting from playing defense to playing offense," said Lawrence Creatura, a money manager at Federated Clover Investment Advisors, which oversees $2 billion in Rochester, N.Y. "The offensive playbook says sell staples, sell safety, sell large-caps generically."
Makers of telephone equipment and drugs and suppliers of household goods failed to keep pace with the S&P 500 as it rebounded from a 12-year low on March 9, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. They also trailed the benchmark gauge for U.S. equities as it doubled between 2002 and 2007, with so- called consumer-staples providers climbing 40 percent and drugmakers increasing by 41 percent.
Merck, maker of the asthma and allergy treatment Singulair, fell 1.8 percent to $32.29, leading health-care companies to the biggest decline among the 10 industries in the S&P 500. Bristol-Myers Squibb, the maker of anti-clotting drug Plavix, slid 3.3 percent after Morgan Stanley lowered its rating on the shares to "equal-weight" from "overweight," saying they aren't cheap.
McDonald's, the world's largest restaurant company, fell 2.2 percent to $55.90. AT&T, the biggest U.S. phone company, dropped 0.6 percent to $26.27.
"What's doing poorly is what I'd consider defensive-type names," said Nick Kalivas, a market analyst at MF Global Ltd. in Chicago.
"You have companies truly showing improvement, not just earnings getting better because of cost-cutting, but showing top-line revenue growth," said Michael Mullaney, a money manager at Fiduciary Trust Co. in Boston, which manages $9 billion.


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Pennsylvania Treasurer: A Vanguard in Energy Efficiency Financing
Keystone HELP was introduced by the Treasury in 2006 as a means for providing homeowners with unsecured loans for improving the energy efficiency of their homes and heating systems.
The Pennsylvania Treasurer's Office expects that the anticipated sale of its $25 million portfolio of residential energy efficiency loans will serve as a prototype for national efforts to take such loans to scale on the secondary market. That means that one day, large numbers of private investors will be able to reap the investment rewards of supporting loan programs that benefit homeowners making energy efficiency improvements.
The drive to create a secondary market for its "Keystone HELP" (Homeowner Energy Loan Program) is the Treasury's next step in its efforts to create innovative financing mechanisms with large-scale application potential.
As Treasurer Rob McCord puts it, "Creating a liquid, functioning secondary market for energy-efficiency loans should reduce the cost of capital and help more homeowners. Doing so can make help make private loans available cheaply enough to support financing for the retrofitting of America's 120 million homes."
Keystone HELP was introduced by the Treasury in 2006 as a means for providing homeowners with unsecured loans for improving the energy efficiency of their homes and heating systems. The Treasury created an innovative public-private partnership with AFC First Financial, a consumer lender with an established regional presence in energy financing. AFC originates and services the energy efficiency loans, for which the Treasury provides the necessary investment capital.
The unsecured financing is structured to keep the loan recipient's total monthly cost for the loan equal to or lower than the resulting savings on energy bills. The program also relies on a network of local contractors who are prequalified for relevant experience, ethical practices and business stability, specific training, good conservation-oriented motivation, and a multi-tiered quality-assurance program.
The program has proven so popular that, to continue financing it, the Treasury is now pursuing the sale of a $25 million portfolio. At the same time, the Treasury is working with several partners – both philanthropic and private – to develop a national financing facility that can serve as a transitional structure towards aggregating loans at a scale large enough to sell to secondary investors.
Bostonia Partners LLC, Treasury's financial advisor for the portfolio sale, is meeting with potential investors who have previously expressed interest in the nature and quality of these energy efficiency loan assets.
Treasury is also working with the Energy Programs Consortium (EPC) and Forsynth Street Advisors to design and model the business needs of the financing facility, and are in discussions with a number of foundations that have expressed an interest in providing grant or program related investment support to develop a loan "warehouse" that can help stimulate the growth of a secondary market for these loans.
Through Keystone HELP, the State is hopeful that it has found an entry point to tap into the $600 billion in potential economic activity experts predict could be generated nationally by energy efficiency efforts. Private investors may soon gain a new vehicle for supporting their return targets made feasible by the aggregation of loans.


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Ron Artest is heading to the Los Angeles Lakers, according to various media reports.
The free-agent forward told CBSSports.com on Thursday that he was leaving the Houston Rockets to join Kobe Bryant and the defending NBA champion Lakers.
"I'm definitely going to L.A. -- to sign, yeah," Artest said. "Lakers, Lakers, Lakers. I'm in L.A. right now."
Artest told the Web site he met with Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss and coach Phil Jackson, and was completing details on his deal.
In a text message to ESPN.com on Thursday night, Artest wrote: "I am happy to say I am goin' to L.A."
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Well, at least we know Sammie Lee Hill grew into a 6-foot-4, 329-pound behemoth honestly.
The defensive tackle, picked by the Detroit Lions out of Stillman College in the fourth round, specializes in bulldozing blockers on the field, but also knows what to do and how to do it in the kitchen.
Hill learned to cook from his mother and became good enough that his college teammates would frequently ask him to whip up their meals.
The Detroit News, May 11: "I'm a baked chicken, macaroni and cheese kind of guy," Hill said. "I'm pretty good at everything, so I'll make sure I don't go hungry."
His mother, Gloria Jean Hill, is a caterer, and forced her son to hone his culinary chops early -- 6 years old, to be exact.
"One day I asked her to make something to eat and she wouldn't," Hill said. "So I got up and made my own breakfast. But I didn't get really good until I was about 11 or 12."
Once his teammates at Stillman found out his special talent, the two-time All First-team SIAC performer was flooded with requests. Hill obliged, believing it helped create a family atmosphere.
"They called, I cooked," he said with a laugh. "That's all we did. I barbecued a lot for them, steak and shrimp, things like that."


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EWING - The white tarp stretched across Lyn Scott's home in Ewing does little to shield a gaping hole torn out of the roof over the second-story bedroom, revealing shirts and jackets hanging in the bedroom closet.
Nearly nine months after Hurricane Sandy sent a 95-foot-tall tree in her backyard crashing down, Scott still has not been able to move back into her home of 25 years.
She still can't talk about that night without being brought to tears.
"There's nothing that quite prepares you for the sight of a monstrous tree on top of your house," she said. "It's all gone in just a few hours."
Like some of the other New Jersey residents affected by last year's devastating storm, Scott has found her rebuilding efforts stymied by a dispute with her insurance company, whose settlement offer she said is inadequate to restore her home.
Yet in some ways her situation is unusual. After Sandy, inspectors and disaster assessment teams determined her house had suffered the worst damage of any home in the county, she said. And though Mercer County took a walloping in some areas, towns and residents appear to have largely recovered.
For example, the cleanup of fallen trees and power lines, though massive, is largely over — officials in Lawrence, Princeton and West Windsor said they are done except for removing a few fallen trees in public areas and repairing some sidewalks. Princeton dealt with a final surge of debris in the spring, when residents were able to resume cleaning their properties after the winter and put out materials for pickup, said Bob Hough, director of infrastructure and operations. Ewing officials could not be reached for comment.
New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance, the state's fourth largest home insurer, has settled all but 32 of 3,290 Sandy-related claims in Mercer County and paid out $12.1 million to policyholders, said Pat Breslin, NJM's director of legislative affairs. Statewide the Ewing-based insurer received 56,117 home and auto insurance claims and paid out $270 million statewide.
"The number of claims in Mercer and Middlesex counties was significant in comparison to other inland counties," Breslin said.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has paid out nearly $10 million in the county and $5.3 billion statewide in public and individual assistance, including help for disaster-related housing needs, furnishing, transportation, medical treatment and other needs, the agency said.
Businesses in the county were impacted by a weeklong power outage after the hurricane, but they have recovered, said Lorraine Allen, regional director of the New Jersey Small Business Development Center at The College of New Jersey in Ewing.
An insurance struggle
Lyn Scott knows about handling emergencies — she's an area disaster-response manager for the American Red Cross.
The night Sandy struck, she was setting up shelters in Middlesex and Hunterdon counties when her phone started "blowing up" with calls from police and neighbors, she said. A tree had fallen on her house and they wanted to make sure it was unoccupied.
The next morning she returned home and tried to gather as many belongings as possible, but she could not get much because the tree had caused tremendous damage to most of the rooms and the fallen roof blocked the front entrance, she said.
Nine months later, the red, two-story Colonial, on a winding, dead-end road lined with beautiful homes and manicured lawns, still looks just as it did the night of Oct. 29. She has been living with her boyfriend in Ewing and her daughter is staying nearby with Scott's mother, she said.
She wants to rebuild, but said Encompass Insurance, a subsidiary of Allstate, has offered her only about half of the estimated $300,000 cost.
Encompass Client Manager Geralyn Thompson declined to discuss the specifics of Scott's claim, but said her insurance policy does not cover building code improvements, and some items she wants repaired were not damaged as a result of the storm.
A settlement that falls short of the estimated repair cost usually does so because of the terms of the insured person's policy, Thompson said.
"We have paid her a fair and proper price based on the contract that she has with us," she said.
Scott met last week with a public adjuster in an effort to negotiate a better settlement with her insurer, she said.
Her efforts to get help elsewhere also have proved fruitless. She is not eligible to receive assistance from FEMA because her insurance is paying more than the agency's maximum grant of $31,900, FEMA spokeswoman Maria Padron said. A state program provides grants of up to $150,000 to residents whose homes were destroyed, but it only covers the nine most affected counties, which do not include Mercer County, Gov. Chris Christie's office said.
"Everyone is having issues. There is some help available, but it's not available for me," Scott said.
Despite the setbacks, Scott said she wants to stay in the neighborhood where she has lived for nearly half of her life, with the neighbors she has known just as long.
"I want to rebuild my house, I love my house, and I have the best neighbors," she said. "I feel so bad for them. They have to look at this eyesore every day. It's not fair to them."
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Print publication: Monday, Jan. 21
For those of you intending to refuse to enforce guns laws, please recognize that you have not been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court just yet. Ever since 1803 (see Marbury v. Madison), we have recognized that the power of judicial review is held by the court. Though none of us agrees with every court decision, we cannot reasonably govern ourselves if every local official feels entitled to interpret the Constitution on his or her own.
If enforcing the law troubles your conscience, you are free to express yourselves, and you are free to resign in protest.
Northwest Portland
This raises some interesting questions: Will the sheriff also refuse to enforce state laws that he feels the same way about? If the courts subsequently uphold such laws, will he then enforce them, or does he believe that his own interpretations trump those of the judicial branch of government (as he apparently believes they do with the legislative and executive branches)? What about laws that might infringe on other constitutional rights? Will he take the same approach, or does he see the Second Amendment as being somehow superior to the rest of the Constitution?
I think that Sheriff Garrett -- and the other sheriffs -- have some more explaining to do.
People are getting very tired of our elected officials ignoring our Constitution, which they swore to defend against all enemies, foreign or domestic. This includes Gov. John Kitzhaber, for ignoring the will of the people who pay him and refusing to execute killers who were convicted and sentenced to die.
How were we so childish as to re-elect our congressional representatives after the polls showed them having a dismal approval rating?
We just got what we asked for, and I am sure, because there was no punishment, they will continue to do as they please and continue to ignore us.
Northwest Portland
I think the sheriff is only following a well-known precedent established by the liberal politicians in Portland, as well as those at the state and federal level. These elected officials have deemed it OK to ignore federal laws, such as those governing same-sex marriage, drug enforcement and illegal immigration, to name a few.
If the sheriff should be removed from office, then elected officials from Obama on down should be removed as well.
The false doctrines of interposition and nullification aside, why do the sheriffs hold the Second Amendment more precious than the First, Fourth or 14th? We have not heard them complain about the heinous violations of these amendments coded into law in the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, National Security Letters and FISA, all of which have been implemented against Oregon citizens.
We can admire their indignation, but should we fight the fire in the toolshed while the house is in flames?
Southwest Portland
We have heard you loud and clear saying that you will not support new gun regulations that you think infringe on our Second Amendment rights. Because you all are so keen in opining that you will not support regulations or laws that you believe violate the U.S. Constitution, I have a sincere and heartfelt request for you all.
Please stand up and say that you will no longer enforce Oregon's ban on gay marriage. The 14th Amendment states that we are all granted equal protection under the law, but when straight people can marry but gays and lesbians cannot, it is clearly not equal protection. And because this amendment applies directly to states, Oregon's ban is in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution.
So I urge you to show the same amount of zeal to civil rights as you show to fighting gun control laws.
If, for example, a law is passed to ban assault rifles and the sheriffs knowingly refuse to enforce the law, then they should be prosecuted for abetting a criminal act.


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Bay County commissioners on Tuesday offered their reasons for demanding that Bay City's Downtown Development Authority give up a portion of the tax captures from a new $8 million Mill End redevelopment project.
They say they're faced with the need to balance the county's budget, while at the same time asking themselves the question: "Do we invest in downtown?"
They reached a compromise this week, striking a deal in which the county has agreed to split its share of tax revenues that will be generated from the project 50-50 with the DDA. Also, 100 percent of tax revenues from special countywide millages will go back to the taxing jurisdictions, instead of being captured by the DDA's Water Street district.
That's expected to give an additional $17,350 to special millage funds, while both the DDA and county would get $11,450.
Commissioner Vaughn J. Begick, R-3rd District, was the only commissioner to express disagreement with the county's decision to play tax-dollar tug of war with the DDA.
"I'm still concerned that we're sending the wrong message to business," he said, fearing such actions could result in an "empty lot" where a developer might otherwise build.
Patrick H. Beson, D-2nd District, said small businesses, not big developers, supply most of the jobs in Bay County. Beson, who owns a supermarket, said small businesses use their own money and don't ask for tax breaks.