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Some disassembly required: 5 lessons to put yourself back together after falling apart
Ever feel like life has left you in a jillion pieces?
Read this story about my client, Sue, who was completely disassembled by life. She'll show you how to find peace and hope again.
Sue kept her world in tight order.
A driven yet unfulfilled business owner, she came to see me because she wanted to explore a new career for herself.
Yet, as often happens in therapy, other issues began to arise.
At first it was a trickle.
A little hiccup in her marriage.
Maybe a bit of concern about her parents and siblings.
Oh, and of course, there was that thing about trying to achieve one-hundred percent recovery from a severe stroke five years beforehand.
The trickle began to widen and grow into a river.
The economy was affecting her business more and more. Money was getting tight.
The hiccup in her marriage was turning into a chronic cough – it felt like she and her husband were getting further and further apart.
Her parents and siblings started to bring their chaotic lifestyles into hers.
And the stroke. That damn stroke! Every day it seemed like two steps forward and one step back. Despite her intensive daily workout routine, she just was not getting that last ten percent back that she so desperately wanted.
Sue realized that control wasn't working very well in her life and began to explore the idea of letting go of some of her cherished ideas: that, if she just worked hard enough, everything – business, family, physical recovery – would be okay.
The dam finally broke and the river became a raging flood through a great abyss, dashing apart everything Sue knew about herself and her life.
For months, Sue came into my office in tears. Broken with grief.
Her business teetered on the brink of collapse.
Her marriage wobbled on that same edge.
Her family's chaos forced her to see them for who they were rather than who she wanted them to be.
And she had come to a realization about her stroke. One that was liberating and devastating at the same time. Through her sobs, she told me, "Bobbi, I've been working so hard – SO hard! – all of these years because, deep down, I thought if I just worked hard enough, I could erase that it ever happened. I brought it on myself and I've been trying ever since to fix it."
After several months of mourning the devastation caused by the flood, Sue came into my office with an air of peace.
"I think I finally hit bottom," she told me. "After all this time, I realized that I have been motivated by fear. Fear of losing my husband, my family, and my business. Fear of not getting back to full physical recovery.
"This is why I've been so tightly in control all these years. I was afraid.
"I finally decided to turn and walk into the abyss of fear."
I listened carefully and then said, "Sue, it's as though this journey through the abyss has disassembled you. But the good thing now is that you can reassemble yourself any way you want. Your reassembled self may be even stronger than who you were before."
Sue nodded enthusiastically.
"That's right! I can put myself back together in a new way after falling apart. I know I'm still in mourning for the things I've let go of, but I see a light at the end of the tunnel now. I feel like I have more options – I don't have to control people and things. I can still love them and let them go at the same time."
I love it when my clients teach me things.
Here are five lessons we can learn from Sue:
1. Resiliency doesn't always mean bouncing back right away.
Sue has worked hard – really hard – for the last few years to get where she is today. It didn't happen all at once for her.
Are you frustrated because you're not bouncing back as fast as you'd like? Be patient and have faith that you are moving forward even though you may not notice your progress right now.
2. Sometimes we bounce back to a different place.
Taken literally, resilience means "regaining one's shape and form after being bent, stretched, or pressed."
But we are not pieces of rubber. Sometimes we do bounce back to exactly where we were before, but many times we end up in a different place. One that might be even better than where we started from.
Are you locked into bouncing back to right where you were before? Or can you learn to be flexible and land exactly where you need to?
3. We can't erase the past but we can let go of it.
There were many different ways that Sue's stroke impacted her and her family. And she didn't like any of them so she tried to use her cosmic eraser to go back and fix the problem in the first place.
It didn't work.
She still struggles with her body and its limitations, but she has really begun to own the idea of letting go of the guilt that motivated her to "erase" her experience.
How many times do we try to erase the past? Most of the time – like Sue – we don't even realize we're doing it.
Is there something from your past that continues to trip you up? Take a good look to see if you are trying to erase it in some way. Perhaps it's time to let it go rather than make it go away.
4. Walking into the abyss of your fear is damn scary and freeing at the same time.
Awhile back, I wrote about the story of Ged, a young wizard who ran from his greatest fear only to find out – after he stopped running – that it was an integral part of him.
Sue has courageously re-taught me this lesson. Even though it felt like she was going to her own death, she turned around and walked directly into her fear.
And, to her surprise, is now coming out the other side with more freedom and peace than she ever could have imagined.
Freedom is on the other side of your fear. And since fear is an essential part of you, you must turn and embrace it.
5. Some disassembly required.
Sue's tightly controlled life wasn't working for her and finally reached its breaking point. It was only then that she could learn the value of letting go, of doing something different, of being able to create the new Sue she always wanted.
Do you need some disassembling? It can be painful, but the re-assembly can make up for the pain in joy, creativity, and lightness.
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Annual Giant Chanukah Menorah Llighting in Springfield's Court Square
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12-1-10 Springfield - Republican staff photo by Don Treeger- The annual lighting ceremony of the giant Chanukah Menorah in Springfield's Court Square. Here, students from the Lubavitch Yeshiva Academy on Longmeadow sing Chanukah songs during the ceremony.
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Could The Rumored $99 Nexus Tablet Be On Its Way?
Rumors have been floating around for months now surrounding the $99 Nexus tablet, and despite ASUS denying those rumors, there always seems to be evidence that prove its very existence.
New benchmarks have just been released that points towards a new, budget tablet made by ASUS themselves. The new benchmarks say that the tablet will run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on a 1GHz processor. There's no word yet on how many cores the processor will have.
According to the benchmarks, the tablet will also feature a Mali 400 GPU, which is the same GPU that's featured on Samsung's Exynos 4 SoC's. The display for this device is mediocre however, carrying only a 1024 x 552 (1024 x 600) resolution. The model number for this ASUS tablet is ME172V which is similar to ASUS's other 7-inch tablet, the ME171.
There have been rumors floating around that this device will support microSD cards, and if that's true, then there's a chance this tablet may not carry the Nexus name.
Despite not carrying the Nexus branding however, this device still looks to be a budget device from ASUS. With the low price tag combined with ASUS's huge rep from doing such a great job with the Nexus 7, this tablet might have enough buzz to become a huge success.
What do you think? Are you in the market for a $99 budget tablet?
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"The 21 Kitsap County freeholders will learn how other counties have reinvented their governments, as well as discuss how they will work together, during a daylong workshop meeting scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 6.Freeholders plan to discuss proposed by-laws and ground rules, in regards to how we're going to treat each other, according to freeholder Leif Bentsen, chairs of the committee planning the workshop. Freeholders also plan to draft an overall work plan, as well as determine how to deal with and solicit public input.The remainder of the meeting, scheduled for 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Island Lake Community Center near Silverdale, will revolve around a presentation by state Constitutional law expert Hugh Spitzer and a panel discussion featuring veterans of charter efforts in other Washington counties.Spitzer, a professor at the University of Washington, will address the relationship between the state and county governments, vis-a-vis the state Constitution, according to Bentsen.Spitzer also is a counsel in the Seattle law firm of Foster, Pepper and Shefelman, where clients include a number of local governments in Kitsap and throughout the state. In addition to years of experience working with local governments, Spitzer consulted with charter movements in Island and other counties, according to Terrie O'Neill, a county staff member assigned to the freeholders. He is expected to provide background and history on county governments in Washington and to discuss what the freeholders must do to have a legal and workable charter.Following that will be a panel discussion featuring Gary Lowe, the former executive director of the Washington Association of Counties; Lois North, a former state legislator, King County freeholder and King County Council chair; Sue Gould, another former legislator who served as a Snohomish County freeholder and chair of the first Snohomish County Charter Review Board; and Dennis Weber, a high school teacher and former chair of the board of freeholders in Cowlitz County, where a Home Rule effort in 1997-98 was unsuccessful.Some of the freeholders' experience wanted to hear other peoples' experiences before they started planning Kitsap's Home Rule effort, Bentsen said. The freeholders were elected Nov. 7, at the same time Kitsap voters authorized a county government reform effort. They have up to two years to write a new charter, or constitution, for Kitsap County.Mary Ellen Madison, interim chair of the freeholders, said Kitsap residents would benefit from hearing Spitzer and the panel speak.We've been elected by our fellow citizens to wade through this process, Madison said in a press release. We want people to come and observe the work so that they are comfortable with our recommendations when we complete the process. "
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OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, MI – Eight Oshtemo Township homeowners – including Minnesota Vikings star Greg Jennings - have been ordered to remove their mailboxes after a Kalamazoo County Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of the road commission's right to enforce its encroachment policy for non-conforming mailboxes.
"The road commission will no longer be required to devote its scarce resources to defending this lawsuit, and the road commission appreciates the many residents throughout Kalamazoo County that voluntarily conform to the road commission policies governing public road right-of-way," said Managing Director Joanna Johnson in a prepared statement.
The road commission has said the boxes violate state and county standards because they are made of stone and brick and could pose as a hazard for motorists or interfere with road work.
Last September, the homeowners filed a lawsuit against the road commission after two mailboxes were removed in June. The lawsuit claimed the road commission did not provide proper notice before tearing down the mailboxes and that the plaintiffs were being unfairly targeted. It also claimed several of the plaintiffs had received permission from the road commission's previous administration to build the mailboxes.
"We continue to believe the road commission's enforcement of its policy is unjust and continues to be unjust," said Steve Sielatckyi, attorney for the plaintiffs. "Unfortunately we will not be pursuing the matter further because of the financial burden further legal action would place upon the plaintiffs."
The order, which came on June 3, requires the plaintiffs to remove their mailboxes within 30 days of the order.
So far, at least two of the residents have removed their mailboxes and the road commission is reviewing the other cases before deciding to remove the structures itself, according to Johnson.
Sielatckyi said he believes his clients have been unfairly targeted.
"There are 1,000 similar mailboxes in Kalamazoo County, but only my clients' mailboxes are being targeted for removal," Sielatckyi said.
The lawsuit provided the addresses of more than 300 other county addresses that have similar mailboxes.
The resolution of the lawsuit comes after much debate between the plaintiffs and the road commission, going back to 2011 when the issue was first raised. In February 2012, the road commission voted to enforce its policy, prompting the lawsuit later that year.
According to the press release issued by the road commission, it will continue to review potential encroachment issues throughout the county, including the potentially 300-plus non-conforming mailboxes that were identified by the residents associated with the lawsuit.
The road commission wants to remind residents of the following in regards to mailboxes:
• Any mailbox and its support considered to be a hazard should be removed from the right-of-way and replaced.
• Steel tractor wheels, milk cans filled with concrete, bricks and other items can also present a roadside hazard to motorists.
• These non-conforming objects can also create a liability risk for residents.
• Non-conforming mailbox encroachments are considered an unauthorized use of highway right-of-way.
• Only one support should be used per mailbox or group of mailboxes.
• Wood posts should be no more than 4.5 inches in diameter if round, 4x4 inches if rectangular.
• Metal pipes should be standard steel or aluminum with no more than a 2-inch inside diameter.
• Supports should yield or collapse if struck.
• Supports cannot be fitted with a metal post, embedded more than 24 inches into the ground or set in concrete.
• Mailboxes should be placed on the right-hand side of the roadway in the direction of the delivery route except on one-way streets where they may be placed on the left-hand side. The bottom of the box should be set at an elevation, established by the United States Postal Service, usually between 42 and 48 inches above the roadway surface.
• Mailboxes should be constructed of aluminum, plastic or lightweight galvanized steel. Newspaper delivery boxes should be of light steel or plastic of minimum dimensions for holding a newspaper.
For more information about the mailbox encroachment policy, contact the road commission at 269-381-3171.


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I purchased this painting for a make over for my friend who is coming out of the hospital after a long stay. It is really beautiful. Hanging over bed. I am sure she will love it.
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The regional disposal and recycling company Casella Waste Systems has purchased the local business Jones Carroll Inc.
Casella, which has a local facility at 4735 W. Lake Road, Dunkirk, is a northeastern United States company which is headquartered in Rutland, Vt. Joe Fusco, Casella vice president, said Jones Carroll operations will continue to run as normal. Jones Carroll has a location at 2142 Lodestro Lane in Jamestown and a transfer site at 29 Railroad Ave., Frewsburg. Fusco said Jones Carroll employees will not be losing their jobs during the change of ownership.
''We typically, from time to time, will acquire companies in our industry,'' he said. ''They're typically smaller, mom-and-pop operations, with people that have been working their whole lives to build a good company, and now want to find another good owner for it when it is time to move on.''
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Casella Waste Systems, which has a local facility at 4735 W. Lake Road, Dunkirk, has purchased Jones Carroll Inc., which is located at 2142 Lodestro Lane in Jamestown and has a transfer station at 29 Railroad Ave., Frewsburg.
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Fusco said Jones Carroll did collect waste and recycling for about 1,500 customers, both commercial and residential. He said changes may occur as far as which day disposable and recyclables will be collected, but nothing else will be different.
''Other than the name on the truck, nothing will change for customers,'' he said. ''Their employees will still have a job and their customers can still expect great service.''
Jones-Carroll was a family-owned and operated business offering services in New York and Pennsylvania. The company started in 1990.
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The company's recycling facility is one of the largest in the area and processes residential and commercial cardboard, plastic, several types of paper, metal cans and glass.


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The Salzburg Festival's artistic director Juergen Flimm announced Friday he had signed a deal allowing him to quit Salzburg in 2010, a year early, to join the Berlin State Opera.
"I am happy and relieved," the German-born Flimm told the Austria Press Agency after the signing.
His contract with the Salzburg Festival, one of the world's most exclusive summer arts festivals, was originally due to run until 2011.
Flimm will now replace Peter Mussbach as artistic director of the Berlin Opera on October 1, 2010.
"I will of course concentrate fully on Salzburg in 2010," Flimm said Friday.
"In the summer of 2011, I will not constantly be in Salzburg naturally, but I will oversee the productions for which I'm in charge," he added.
"When I'm needed, I'll be there," he also said, noting that the programmes for both the 2010 and 2011 editions were already complete.
Friday's announcement came a day before the start of the 2009 Salzburg Festival, where Flimm is also directing an opera, "Moise et Pharaon" by Gioacchino Rossini, on August 8.
Flimm, who has run the festival since October 2006, announced last December that he would not renew his contract after 2011, prompting protests from local officials.
Alexander Pereira, current head of the Zurich Opera, is to take over as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival but will only so do in October 2011.
Salzburg's organisers will thus hold an emergency meeting on Monday to find an interim director for the 2011 Festival.
This year's edition opens on Saturday with the opera "Theodora" by Georg Friedrich Haendel, directed by Christof Loy.
The Festival runs until August 30.
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The two most pressing questions for local college basketball fans involve Philadelphia schools Villanova and Saint Joseph's. For Nova, it's about seeding. For Saint Joe's, it's about dancing.
Last first: The Hawks were one Langston Galloway missed 3-pointer with :19 left in Friday afternoon's Atlantic 10 quarterfinal at the Barclays Center from very possibly getting dumped into the NIT. That would have been a crushing blow for Phil Martelli's team which has not been to the NCAA tournament in six years and looked like a near-lock before back-to-back losses capped its regular season.
But Galloway made that trey after a rather blatant but very savvy forearm push-off on a Dayton defender. It gave Saint Joe's a 2-point lead on the way to a critical 70-67 win that turned the NCAA key for the Hawks.
Then on Saturday, the Hawks' second-half blitz of 9-seed upstart St. Bonaventure for a 67-48 A-10 semifinal win was more about NCAA breathing room than desperate need. It should allow the Hawks to sidestep the First Four and skip ahead to the second round on Thursday or Friday at one of eight sites. SJU gets Virginia Commonwealth on Sunday (1:00, CBS) in the A-10 championship game with an automatic bid on the line.
Both of the most reputable bracketologists, ESPN's Joe Lunardi and CBS Sports' Jerry Palm, had the Hawks not only safely in but also out of First Four range as of late Saturday afternoon. Even before the rout of the Bonnies, Palm had Saint Joseph's (39 RPI) slotted as a 9-seed and Lunardi had the school for whom he works as an administrative vice president as an 11-seed but above the Dayton first-round play-in games.
Meanwhile, Villanova's chances at a No. 1 seed seem to be melting. Big-league regular-season champions Virginia and Michigan kept rolling on Saturday while the Wildcats crapped-out Thursday with a first-round Big East tournament loss to 8-seed Seton Hall. Either the Cavaliers or the Wolverines could easily pluck the last 1-seed if they seal their deals Sunday in the ACC and Big Ten finals, respectively. SEC champ Florida, Pac-12 champ Arizona and undefeated Missouri Valley champ Wichita State are generally regarded as near-locks for the first three No. 1s.
In Indianapolis, Michigan fought from a 3-point deficit inside the final TV timeout and finished on a 7-1 run to topple Ohio State in a Big Ten semi, 72-69. The Wolverines play Michigan State, winners over Wisconsin, on Sunday (3:30, CBS) in the championship.
In Greensboro, N.C., UVa finished off the sort of taut, low-scoring battle in which they specialize and topped Pittsburgh 51-48 in an ACC semi. The Cavs will meet Duke, winners over N.C. State, on Sunday (1:00, ESPN) in the title game.
In the case of both the Big Ten and ACC, either of two teams could supplant Villanova for that remaining No. 1 seed. Though the Wildcats stood with a 6 RPI rank at the beginning of Saturday's action, Duke (8), Virginia (10) and Michigan (11) were all in the vicinity. Combined league and tournament titles for UVa and/or Michigan would certainly bolster their cases.
An outside shot at a No. 1 is still held by Creighton (7) which owns a regular-season sweep of Nova -- each game a rout -- and plays for the Big East tournament title tonight (8:30) against Providence. But, even with a win, it seems unlikely the Bluejays could nose in ahead of a viable Big Ten or ACC candidate.
The tournament selection committee must begin making decisions about contingencies today and can't wait for all of tomorrow's results. Saturday's action means a lot in beginning to rank the teams 1-to-68. Sunday's action many times is simply built into contingencies decided on Saturday.
That's one reason Villanova being on the sideline and other contenders vying for the final No. 1 seed still being active is a major detriment for the Wildcats.
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2014 State English Learners Alliance Conference
Click here to view the Governor's ESOL Awareness Proclamation.
Kenji Hakuta, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Dr. Kenji Hakuta is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University and the Co-Chair of the Understanding Language initiative. He is an experimental psycholinguist who has worked on research, practice, and policy supporting English Language Learners for over 30 years. He recently served on the Validation Committee for the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Click here to visit Dr. Hakuta's website.
Kathy Escamilla, Professor of Education, University of Colorado
Kathy Escamilla is Professor of Education in the division of social, bilingual and multicultural foundations at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Escamilla's research centers on educational issues related to Spanish-speaking language minority students in U.S. schools. She is specifically interested in issues related to the development of bilingualism and biliteracy in early elementary grades for this Spanish speaking population. Dr. Escamilla has served two terms as the president of the National Association for Bilingual Education. She is a co-editor of the Bilingual Research Journal, and has served as the chair of the Bilingual SIG for the American Education Research Association.
Click here to download the conference program.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
7:00 to 7:45...................... Registration / Continental Breakfast
7:45 to 9:15...................... General Session I
9:15 to 9:30...................... Break
9:30 to 10:40................... Interest Sessions: Round I
10:40 to 10:50................. Break
10:50 to 12:00................. Interest Sessions: Round II
12:00 to 1:00................... Lunch
1:00 to 2:10...................... Interest Sessions: Round III
2:10 to 2:25...................... Break
2:25 to 3:40...................... Interest Sessions: Round IV
3:40 to 4:30...................... Reception/Team Planning
Friday, March 14, 2014
7:00 to 8:00...................... Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00 to 9:30...................... General Session II
9:30 to 9:45...................... Break
9:45 to 10:55..................... Interest Sessions: Round V
10:55 to 11:05................... Break
11:05 to 12:15................... Interest Sessions: Round VI
12:15 to 1:15..................... Lunch
1:15 to 2:20....................... Interest Sessions: Round VII
2:20.................................. Adjourn Conference
2:20 to 4:00...................... Team Work Time
The Hilton is full for this event. However, the Valley River Inn is pleased to offer overflow guestrooms for the Oregon English Learners Alliance Conference at the Eugene Hilton. They are offering the current per diem rate of $94.00 for single/double occupancy.
Reservations may be made via phone at 1-800-543-8266 or online at the dedicated COSA online reservation link.


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TC finishes 6th at Lakeland
FOSTORIA – Ian Johnson fired a par-70 to lead all individuals and guide Lake to a runner-up finish Friday at the Lakeland Invitational.
Johnson's medalist round helped the Flyers finish with a 321, but Rossford used Ryan Niese's 72 and Mason Robinson's 75 as the springboard to a 311 for the team crown.
Columbian topped area efforts by upending Lakota 347-355 for sixth in the 10-team event. Fostoria finished 10th with a 392.
Jack Burkes and T.J. Wickham both carded an 81 for Columbian.
Makayla Dull's 84 and Hunter Chalfin's 85 paced Lakota.
Fsotoria got an 87 from Trey Yates and a 98 from Collin Bernal-Danner.
SE ends second in triangular
Elmwood held off Seneca East 181-185 Friday to claim a triangular at Seneca Hills. New Riegel shot 202.
The Royals (2-1) got a 43 from Trevor Robbins and a 45 from Marc Day to set the pace for the win.
Johnny Diehm's 41 for Seneca East topped everyone. Jack Daniel added a 47 for the Tigers (1-4).
Lance Smith shot a 48 for New Riegel (0-2) and Travis Williams had a 49.


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Hoboken Board of Education votes 7-2 on hiring new superintendent
In a vote of 7-2, the Hoboken Board of Education, 1115 Clinton St., offered the position of superintendent of Hoboken public schools Tuesday night to Dr. Frank Romano, presently a Fort Lee assistant superintendent.
Romano will begin his job on July 1 for a three-year contract. He will earn $190,000 for the first year with a 3.5 percent annual salary increase for the second and third years.
Board President Rose Marie Markle said Romano is young and energetic and had a great rapport with students when he spent time in Hoboken.
"His references were unbelievable," Markle said. "He was practically running the [Fort Lee School] District."
Markle said she and board member Irene Sobilov spent three hours in Fort Lee on Tuesday, observing the status of the schools. Markle said she felt more comfortable that he can handle the job in Hoboken and was impressed by the new programs, such as online courses, that Romano helped organize at Fort Lee.
The most prominent concern from the two dissenting board members Maureen Sullivan and Carrie Gilliard, the board's vice president, was that Romano lacked sufficient experience.
Sullivan said she was ostracized from the board's decision-making process until the final vote last night. She said she was in favor of a search firm recruiting someone who had served as a principal or superintendent outside of the state.
The vote was pushed on the agenda last night, she said, and the board was hell-bent on hiring him and money was no object.
"We have too low expectations for Hoboken," Sullivan said. "We can get a real dynamite super. I argued over and over that he's a rookie. This decision was just old-style machine politics."
Sullivan said she opposes Romano's plan for "fuzzy math," introducing calculators and timetables into early elementary grades.
"Until you are actually the chief executive, we doing the hiring have no idea know he'll be in that role."
Markle said it was a collaborative effort among the board in writing an ad back in September and they all agreed that past superintendent experience was not a requirement.
"Dr. Romano met or exceeded all of our requirements in the ad," Markle said. "The board didn't feel this way when we started the process."
The other frontrunner for the position was Dr. Gayle Griffin, an assistant superintendent in Newark and former principal in Pittsburgh.
The Board of Education also approved the hiring of an interim principal for Hoboken High School for the period between Feb. 10 and June 30 at a rate of $560 per school day worked. Albert Joy, a retired secondary school building administrator from outside the district, was selected. He will serve as principal in place of current principal, Dr. Lorraine Cella, who announced her resignation in January.


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gg gamble with their friends. gg\'s friends win the round. doorbell rings. bebo opens the door. it is prabjot in disguise wearing a dress, sunglasses and a big hat covering her face. prabjot shows goldie a paper. goldie says she is at the wrong address. prabjot says to goldie luck is good, she will win. goldie says she didnt see them herself yet. goldie says today is a bad day, she already lost 4 times. prabjot says she wants a chance. goldie says fine. goldie tells everyone that prabjot will play on her behalf. prabjot says her name is honey chawla. they sit. goldie says to gursheel that the lady keeps winning, honey might make them win. bebo walks away. they gamble. prabjot gambles 5,000, then 5,000, then 2,000 more. prabjot wins the round. goldie and gursheel are happy. prabjot says she has to go now. gursheel says they were having fun. prabjot walks and bumps into daljit. her sunglasses fall off. prabjot tries to walk away. daljit stops her and says he feels like he has met her before. bebo says he is crazy, she came to ask for a address. prabjot says today\'s men want excuses to talk to girls. gursheel tells prabjot to stay. daljit says he has met her before but cant remember. gursheel tells daljit to go to his room and think. daljit walks away. gursheel says daljit is a close relative, so she has to tolerate him. prabjot says she has to go. gursheel says they will drop her off where she wants. they sit back down. bebo says she will get bakshish from whoever wins. bebo serves them drinks. they bet money. gursheel has 3 queens. prabjot has 3 kings. gg look on shocked. prabjot gets a phone call and says she is coming. prabjot says she has to go now, she had fun playing. gursheel says prabjot won all the money, they became poor in diwali. goldie tells gursheel she told the lady to play. gursheel says she didnt know they would lose their money. gursheel cries that they are poor and ruined.
viju gives amrit the injection. viju takes amrit to his car. viju signals the girl who wore the bebo mask. viju drives. the girl follows in the other car.
outside, prabjot gives the money to bebo. bebo remembers how prabjot took out the 3 kings cards from her bag when she took out makeup when bebo gave her the drink. bebo wishes diwali to prabjot.
prabjot brings all the things for the pooja. amro asks. prabjot says a wellwisher gave her the money. amro says they cant take a outsider\'s money. prabjot says bebo\'s friend amarjit met her at the bazar, she said she knows about their home, she forcibly gave money, she said if bebo gave it they wouldnt have refused. amro says amarjit used to come every diwali, bebo used to say that amarjit is like her sister. amro cries and says her bebo. prabjot says bebo is not far from them, bebo is always with them and must be watching. amro says everything changed after bebo left, its because of that unlucky accident. bebo sees all this and cries.


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One year ago to the day, T. Boone Pickens presented his eponymous plan to cure America's dangerous dependence on foreign oil. The media blitz was impressive, but have Pickens' ideas made a lasting impact on the way our country is addressing energy security matters?
Wind power, one of the pillars of the plan, certainly seems to be one of the most politically favored alternatives, with or without the Pickens push. In April, Energy Secretary Steven Chu identified wind energy as "one of the most important contributors to meeting President Obama's target of generating 10 percent of our electricity from renewable sources by 2012." There's a decent chunk of change earmarked for wind power in the federal stimulus plan, and the House energy and climate bill paved the way for a national renewable electricity standard, which would push more utilities to embrace wind projects.
That said, the wind isn't entirely at this renewable power source's back. As we've seen with First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR ) , SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWRA ) , and the rest of the photovoltaic crowd, financing for clean energy projects has become strained as credit markets have tightened. The commodities collapse, which has brought down the cost of conventional electricity alongside natural gas prices, also challenges the economics of new wind installations.
Another stumbling block, which I touched on in our recent roundtable on the House energy bill, is transmission. Without extra high-voltage power lines stretching from windy regions to urban demand centers, wind power can't flourish. That's a key reason to keep an eye on infrastructure players like Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR ) , EMCOR Group, and ITC Holdings (NYSE: ITC ) . The last company, with its proposed Green Power Express line, is the purest play on transmission of them all. The stock ain't cheap, though, with valuation multiples more reminiscent of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG ) than of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK ) .
Transmission capacity, as it turns out, is proving to be the prime sticking point in Pickens' own proposed giant wind project in Pampa, Texas. The state's putting in $5 billion worth of new transmission lines, but they won't run close enough to Pickens' site in the Texas Panhandle. With one gigawatt of turbines on the way from General Electric (NYSE: GE ) , Pickens is still planning on installing plenty of wind power -- just not in the place he originally had planned.
As for the other prong of the Pickens Plan -- shifting our natural gas supplies from electricity generation to powering our vehicles -- I see far less momentum. Both next-generation biofuels and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles appear to have captured more mindshare. Warren Buffett, for example, is on board with the plug-in vehicles, through his investment in China's BYD. I'm also quite keen on diversifying our auto fleet away from a single source, whether it's a hydrocarbon, algae, or an ear of corn. Feedstock-agnostic electricity seems like the ticket to me. Wind, natural gas, nuclear, and other sources can all kick in.


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A federal district judge in New York ordered film-maker Joe Berlinger to turn over more than 600 hours of raw footage from his documentary "Crude," about a lawsuit by natives in Ecuador charging Chevron with polluting the Amazon rainforest there.


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By RUSS HELD
There was a method to the madness, and it was pretty much methodical.
The East Longmeadow High School football team scored on its first five possessions en route to a 42-24 victory over Chicopee in a big Suburban League battle Friday night at Szot Park.
"It was very methodical, every possession we had was outstanding," East Longmeadow coach Scott Raymond said. "Our execution was outstanding and we were pretty diverse, a lot of people touched the ball tonight."
East Longmeadow (6-3, 5-1) clinched a spot in the Western Mass. Division II playoffs and also pulled a half game in front of South Hadley in the league standings. South Hadley (5-3, 4-1) was upset 40-14 at West Springfield. The Spartans close out their Suburban schedule next week against Cathedral (2-6, 2-4),
"I don't know what this means now, for the league, but we know we're in (the playoffs)," Raymond said of the defending league champions.
Joe Bonano rushed 31 times for 205 yards and three touchdowns, and the Spartans ran 57 times for 335 yards.
"Bonano is the real deal, we has tremendous ... he had one run where I really think all 11 of our guys had a hand on him," Chicopee coach Alex Efstratios said.
East Longmeadow allowed held a huge edge in time of possession, chewing up 32½ of the game's 48 minutes. The Spartans consumed 8:47 on a 16-play, 74-yard drive on their first series of the second half. The score gave them a 28-6 lead.
"We were just trying to move the (first down) chains," Raymond said. "We weren't necessarily thinking about chewing up time."
East Longmeadow's offense was not stopped until 6:05 remained in the game.
Chicopee scored its four touchdowns on big plays, with its most time consuming scoring drive being 62 seconds.
"Chicopee is very explosive, they have some quick and dynamic players," Raymond said. "Eddie Green fought hard all night for them."
Eddie Green led Chicopee with 106 yards and one touchdown, and he now has 1,116 on the season. He also threw for a 48-yard TD and.
"It came down to the line of scrimmage and I think they owned it," Efstratios said. "That surprised me, because we are a senior line. But our kids never gave up, and we left it all on the field."
Chicopee's Josh Rosado scored twice, including a 68-yard kickoff return as six touchdowns were scored during the final 11 minutes.
Cathedral 40, Ludlow 33: Things continue to rise for the Panthers as they clawed their way to a second consecutive victory against host Ludlow.
"This was the best game our team played all year," Cathedral coach Dennis Fenton said. "Ludlow fought us tooth and nail tonight, and it came to the last series."
Cathedral was led by running back Avante Lelaind. The junior tailback punched out with a night's work of 234 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Lelaind was the headliner of a handful of backs who moved the chains for Cathedral. John Robinson and Davian Madho also had effective nights on the ground for the Panthers.
Madho got the Panthers on the board in a tight first quarter with a 42-yard touchdown capping off a brisk two-minute drive. Madho's tally would be the solitary score in the opening quarter.
Cathedral padded its lead with a 82-yard touchdown from Lelaind.
The Lions roared back into the game by successfully pulling off a hook and ladder play for 73 yards. Tim Casey tossed a lateral to Anthony Twining who had nothing but daylight in front of him for the score.
It wasn't long before an opportunistic Ludlow special teams unit led by Arthur Santini pounced on a Cathedral miscue. Santini capitalized on a bad snap on a punt and scored a 30-yard touchdown to knot the score at 14.
Cathedral went into the half ahead 28-14 lead, but Santini and company still had a great deal of fight left in them for an explosive second half. Capping off a 4:50 drive, Santini scored from the one to shrink their deficit to 28-21.
The Panthers quickly answered on their ensuing possession as quarterback Jon Pieterse tossed a 15-yard touchdown pass to Gage Azeez.
Set up by Chris Theocles interception of Mike Kennedy's first pass on the next drive, Cathedral capitalized as Pieterse connected with Ian Morgan-Drain on a 37-yard score.
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Chicopee Comp 40, Commerce 6: At Springfield, Chicopee Comp (5-4, 3-2) dominated the game, with quarterback Jesse Warren going 12 for 16 for 172 and three touchdowns.
"We had a real tough loss (against East Longmeadow) last week," Warren said. "This was a very big for us."
Matt Toczek had seven catches for 92 yards and two touchdowns. Cody Richards caught three passes for 55 yards and a touchdown.
Trent Schieb was the leading rusher with 110 yards on 17 carries, while Najee Hillman and Ryan Gagne had rushing touchdowns.
The Comp defense recorded five sacks.
"Commerce played us real tough," Comp coach Marc Schuerfeld said. "We really had great preparation this week to get the needed victory."
Commerce was led by Jerome Corbett, who had 16 carries for 66 yards and the lone touchdown.
Quarterback Kevin McCoy finished with 105 yards passing. Kayshawn Brantley had three catches for 58 yards, and he made an interception.
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A critical component of educating girls is building their
self confidence. Historically, girls are not encouraged in the same ways as boys
especially when it comes to a traditionally male academic pursuit â math and
The inspiring STEPS
program founded at the University
of Wisconsin at Stout answered that call a dozen years ago and is still
going strong. STEPS stands for
Science, Technology, and Engineering Preview summer camp. For four weeks each
summer, 160 12-year-old girls spend five days in groups of 40 learning about
electronics, physics, motors, metal casting and bending, plastics
thermo-forming and how computers work. Each student pays $300 tuition (cost per
student is $650) and disadvantaged youths, who make up a quarter of the group,
attend for free. They all gain insight into the college campus at an early age.
For the past two years, campers have each built from scratch
a radio-controlled speed boat which they race at the end of their stay in a
brand-new manmade water course in a large lab. They built and flew
radio-controlled airplanes in the program's first decade.
"We got sort of tired of the airplanes and the process is too
sophisticated," says STEPS
indefatigable program director and founder Peter Heimdahl. Officials do not
recite how many campers eventually pursue engineering, but they have determined STEPS graduates are 9.5 times
more likely to enter engineering than non-campers.
"We work with each instructor to make sure we meet the
mission and that it's appropriate for girls 12 to 13. STEPS has got to be pedagogically
correct," says Brenda Puck, Stout's STEPS
activities director. "We want to make (STEPS) interesting and attractive to young women
and give them role models and mentors."
Heimdahl started it all born
out of a different need â finding qualified female engineering instructors.
Frustrated when he could not find them when he was associate dean at Stout, Heimdahl
came up with the idea for the university to grow their own.
"Pete is the pioneer. He put
together the STEPS curriculum. (Students) learn the wonders of math, science and manufacturing and now they have been at
it for 12 years," says Bart Aslin, director of the Society
for Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Educational Foundation (SME-EF). SME
liked the idea so much, it became the program's first sponsor and has since
been joined by blue-blooded companies such as 3M, Caterpillar, Phillips
Plastics, Ford, Alcoa and Target.
No one can explain the program's origins better
than Heimdahl, who recently retired from Stout. Originally an Army field
artilleryman, Heimdahl retired from West Point
in 1992 as a Brigadier General where he headed the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department. A follow-up email to this reporter's visit to the program
drew this response:
started a new Manufacturing Engineering program at Stout in 1994. We had
to hire new engineering faculty as a result. We had several searches
going on, and when I went to the chancellor with the lists of finalists, he
didn't like them because there were no women in the pools. After a
fruitless search for qualified women candidates, I finally made a deal with the
chancellor that we would have to grow our own engineering faculty and start
influencing them before they got into middle school. That was the
beginning of STEPS."
Everyone celebrates when a STEPS camper pursues an engineering
career, but there's a larger goal. "STEPS
boosts their self-confidence so they can do anything in life," says Heimdahl. Indeed,
the testimonials
page at the STEPS
website captures the intensity and transformational effects of the
Nora Perkoff from Richland,
WI, was one young woman deeply
influenced by STEPS.
A year too old, she so badly wanted in the STEPS camp she fibbed about her
age. "I cried when I graduated from STEPS
because I did not want to leave," she says. After being a camper, she came back
into the advanced STEPS
program as a 15-year-old and served as a junior counselor. She served one summer as a lab assistant in the plastics activity and was elevated to the position of counselor of a ten-camper team this summer. She enrolled this fall at Stout as a student in the Manufacturing Engineering program.
The Stout program has been so successful, the SME
Education Foundation replicated the model nationwide into Gateway
Camps for elementary school students and Gateway
Academies for both middle school boys and girls. There are 179 academies in
27 states involving 4,000 kids each summer with expansion plans to 250 Academies
programs by 2010.
"The program helps break down
stereotypes that young girls and minorities find at that age," says Aslin. "We
want every child in America
to experience this, knowing full well they won't all become engineers and
scientists. A great aspect of what Pete teaches is teamwork. Everyone has
different skills and abilities, but we have to work in teams to get something
The girls divide into teams of ten and move through several
workstation areas taught by qualified instructors. They include thermo-forming to
make the plastic boat body, building electric motors, making aluminum castings and
disassembling and rebuilding computers. The girls are eager and highly engaged
as this reporter witnessed and as evidenced in the STEPs
web pages complete with videos and blogs.
"STEPS opens
up new opportunities. I did not know there was so much to engineering. It's
kind of neat to do manufacturing and plastics. My sister came here and when I
saw the pictures, I wanted to do it," says 16-year-old Andrea Marten, a lab assistant in plastics and boat assembly.


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DALTON TOWNSHIP —A 39-year-old woman is in custody in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a 32-year-old mother of two at a Dalton Township intersection early Friday, officials said.
The woman — who was lodged in the Muskegon County Jail early Monday — turned herself in to authorities on Sunday, saying that a vehicle she was driving struck 32-year-old Stephanie Tennant.
A memorial service for Tennant — who was apparently visiting family in the Muskegon area when the incident occurred — is planned for Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Clock Funeral Home, 413 S. Mears, Whitehall.
Tennant is survived by two children, Makenzie VanDeCreek of Whitehall and Jozlyn Tennant of Wyoming; her mother, Bonnie Sue Kari of Whitehall; and her father, Jerry Gardner of Montague.
She was proceeded in death by her husband, Jason Tennant, who died in 2001.
Authorities said several witnesses had seen Tennant staggering along Whitehall Road near Tyler Road moments before someone called to report her body in the road.
Michigan State Police Troopers issued a press release Sunday that indicated investigators from the Grand Have Post arrested "a female from the hit-and-run crash" that occurred around 2:30 a.m. Friday some time after Tennant, a Montague native, had left the Full Moon Diner & Saloon, 3408 Whitehall.
Authorities said the investigation into the deadly crash led them to the suspect's residence where a vehicle and vehicle parts were seized.
The suspect was expected to be arraigned Monday in Muskegon County 60th District Court. She is being held on a charge of negligent homicide, according to the Muskegon County Jail website.
"The suspect was determined to be the driver of the fatal crash," the MSP press release stated.
Authorities had said interviews of witnesses revealed that Stephanie Tennant was involved "in an altercation" at the Full Moon Diner & Saloon at some point before the incident.
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In the beginning, there was one phone number and immense enthusiasm. Webster County Crime Stoppers has come a long way since then.
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TRURO - It looks like Mother Nature isn't quite done with winter just yet.
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the province, including all parts of Colchester County, as a "very intense" low pressure system makes its way across the province.
Strong winds and snowfall, with a potential of exceeding 25 centimetres, are expected with the system.
Snow heavy at times is forecast to begin Wednesday morning and change over to rain in the afternoon over the eastern half of the mainland, as well as Cape Breton. It's expected to change back to snow overnight Wednesday and taper off by Thursday morning.


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The Elm Street Historic District Commission will hold a public hearing regarding the application of Omnipoint Communications Inc. to install a Telecommunications Antenna on the St. John's Episcopal Church tower, located at 48 Elm Street, Northampton. Map 31D, Parcel 101.
A quick news google of who the hecky-becky Omnipoint is brings up a few leads including these stories, two from Mass. and one from outside the Bay State:
From Waltham: Lincoln Street office pushes plan for cell tower.
From Hudson: Hudson Planning Board Likely to Approve Cellphone Towers
From Suffolk County, New York: Cell Tower to 'Spring Up' in East End Hamlet?
Omnipoint is a T-Mobile subsidiary and evidently from these and other stories is working with towns across the state to either lease or buy lots or parcels to erect antennae or towers. The ones going up in the center of towns and cities are meant to improve reception in cars and buildings.
I'm not a T-Mobile customer and don't have reception problems in my car or in downtown buildings so this decision will not affect me beyond the aesthetics at hand of having a big honkin' antenna rise above Elm Street. I'll be at that meeting.


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Plumbing subcode official James Gonroski and electrical subcode official Mark Stepper were honored at the Dec. 11 town council meeting for reporting a bribe attempt to the town in January and assisting Morristown police in the investigation, Mayor Tim Dougherty said in a letter to both men.
Dougherty said the letters were intended for their personnel files to recognize a job well done.
"In this day and age, you constantly read of different officials that get jammed up when they don't do the right thing and try to circumvent the process," he said. "(Gonroski and Stepper) show that there are a lot of good employees and good officials out there."
Elmer Lopez, 31, of North Plainfield, the business owner accused of trying to bribe the town officials with $1,000 in order to open a Portuguese BBQ on Spring Street in January, was admitted recently into a pre-trial intervention program, a special probation program for nonviolent first-time offenders, according to the Daily Record.
If the situation was reversed, Dougherty said, officials taking a bribe would have received a much higher sentence than PTI because elected officials and municipal employees are held to a higher standard.
"If you do the right thing, though, you don't ever have to worry about that impending doom that could ruin your career," he added.
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Most of these vehicles will be manufactured in Russia itself, while the company is also in the process of opening a string of dealerships to offer technical and service support to the fleet. Special volunteer programs are also being undertaken which will see employees of VW RUS take active part in their bid to support the 2014 Sochi Games. Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games will be the most compact games in the history of the Olympic movement. Sochi Olympic park will be able to accommodate a total of 75,000 guests at one time.
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An Easton man led authorities on a chase, exceeding the speed limit and swerving between lanes, before fleeing into a popular outdoor mall, according to Lower Saucon Township police.
Police charged Joshua O'Nuttall, 33, 100 block of West St. Joseph Street, shortly after the 5:38 p.m. June 16 chase, according to a news release today.
O'Nuttall reportedly told police he didn't stop when police tried to pull him over on Route 378 just south of Black River Road because he had a suspended license. Instead, he fled down Route 378 into Upper Saucon Township, swerving in and out of the southbound lane and fog lines and turned right onto Center Valley Parkway, police said.
Police said O'Nuttall continued down the parkway in excess of 65 mph before turning into The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley and not stopping at stop signs. He then began driving on the wrong side of the road, police said.
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Cumberland County is proposing changes to three district judge districts to make caseloads more equitable across the board.The plan doesn't call for eliminating any districts. County Court Administrator Melissa Calvanelli, who prepared the plan, said the county needs up to two more district judges to meet rising caseloads. But officials say that because of the economy now is not the time to ask the state to fund more district judges.
The plan would relieve rising caseloads in District Judge Vivian Cohick's district by removing Dickinson Township from her jurisdiction, while adding Lower Mifflin, Upper Mifflin and Upper Frankford townships.
Middlesex Township would be added to District Judge Paul Fegley's district, while Fegley would lose Lower Mifflin, Upper Mifflin and Upper Frankford to Cohick.
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LAS VEGAS – Jeff Mayweather has a spot again on the show where his nephew Floyd Mayweather stars, and his brother Roger Mayweather trains the star. The bright lights of MGM Grand will suit him, on the undercard, reflective of how he has carved out his career as a trainer, carefully and craftily, and on the fringes of the family limelight.
This particular afternoon, he is racing from Mayweather Boxing Club, where he trains a world champion featherweight, over to a different gym to work with a popular UFC fighter, Roy "Big Country" Nelson, who has cut an identity for himself as a bumpkin with a mullet.
"He's not from the country at all, he's from Las Vegas," Mayweather said. "And he hates the mullet. But it's an image."
Jeff Mayweather's image as a family peacemaker who was a decent professional fighter, without the fanfare of his more famous relatives, is well-documented.But he possesses the Mayweather craft, and in 12-plus years since his active involvement in his nephew's career ended, he has turned that into his own industry.
Floyd Mayweather fights for Miguel Cotto's World Boxing Association super welterweight title Saturday. Jeff Mayweather will work in a different 154-pound fight, training 23-3 Deandre Latimore against Carlos Quintana in their second bout together.
Latimore won in his first fight under Mayweather but got dropped twice late in the 10-round decision win over Milton Nunez in February. Latimore lost a split decision in his only title shot, three years ago in Cory Spinks' hometown of St. Louis, and has been on the cusp of a championship for some years without breaking through, yet still is only 26.
Mayweather said Latimore never used, or was taught, much boxing technique because of his raw power.
"Last fight, he actually boxed brilliantly for eight rounds, then he just happened to get caught," Mayweather said. "Because he can punch, he hits guys, and he stands there and waits to see what's going to happen. So sometimes, he's going to get caught himself. We work on 10-punch combinations. I figure that you're never going to need that many, but if you get used to that, it becomes a habit."
Mayweather's prized pupil is Panama's Celestino Caballero, who last year won the WBA featherweight championship and has defended it once. The bulk of his work is in boxing, the sport that made his family famous. His crossover work with mixed martial artists who are interested in improving boxing technique is a side gig which he called "a growing trend."
This week, the fight world's focus shifts to Cotto-Mayweather, and while Jeff Mayweather hasn't worked with his nephew since being dismissed from an advisory role in the camp purge of 1999-2000, he has moved his boxing training operations over to his nephew's gym within the last few months.
He said he sees Cotto as "no threat at all," and added that there isn't much the Puerto Rican can do about it.
"Cotto is a counterpuncher," he said. "You can't all of a sudden turn him into something he's not. And there's no way he's a better counterpuncher than Floyd, so he's already going to lose that battle. And secondly, if he tries to pressure Floyd, I think he's going to make it tough for himself, as well, because he's going to probably run into something.
"Don't get me wrong, I mean, of course, it's boxing, anything can happen. I mean, one punch can change everything. But I think if both guys bring their 'A' game, Floyd's on a whole different level than Cotto."
Floyd Mayweather doesn't dance much anymore. But Jeff Mayweather said that isn't because he can't.
"With age comes wisdom and that's what it is," Jeff Mayweather said. "Most people think that, 'Oh, he doesn't have the legs anymore.' It's not that. It's not that at all. Because in here, when he wants to move, he does. But when you're young and flashy and flamboyant, you want to show everything. You want to show everything that you've got. I think that was the case when Floyd was young. You want to showcase everything – 'Look at me, look at me, I'm dancing, I can do this, I can do that.' But now that he's older and wiser, why waste energy doing that stuff?"
Jeff Mayweather said that even after years of watching his nephew's unique gifts, he has "seen something different" in this camp.
"It's amazing to watch him," he said. "He's really, really mastered the game of boxing. When I see these guys right in front of him, and they can't land nothing, even for me it's amazing, and I've been seeing him do it his whole life."
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PERDIDO KEY, Florida -- The first two days of the debut of Shindig on the Sand, the Flora-Bama's three-day music festival, went off without a hitch organizers said. The weekend included more than 50 acts and some 200 musicians from all over the Southeast performing on five stages, including a large stage on the beach.
Despite wicked temps hovering in the mid 90s on the beach on Friday and Saturday, fans still made their way to the beach stage. And it's where Andie Williams, 22, of Huntsville was on Saturday afternoon. She was also working the event.
Some folks took refuge from the heat in one of the most popular spots -- the Gulf of Mexico.
"This is the best seat in the house," shouted Ellen Pugh who came down for the weekend from New York. She was floating in a inflatable raft about 10 feet into the surf, a can of beer in hand. "We got the stage right here, the water, life's good."
The crowd at the main beach stage was sparse all weekend, but more than 1,000 enjoyed the Zydeco sound of Wayne Toups on Saturday night.
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CITY HALL -- It wasn't just the Upper East Side: Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday he's also concerned about the response to Tuesday's snow storm on Staten Island.
"I'm concerned about the reports that I've heard from Staten Island, and I'm going to be spending time on Staten Island, talking to people about what happened, and I want to learn from them how we can do better," de Blasio said at a City Hall press conference.
The mayor took heat from residents of the tony Manhattan neighborhood for a lack of snow plows there -- and then personally went out to inspect those streets himself, ordering additional equipment to hit the roads.
"The concerns raised by folks in Staten Island make me feel the same thing: We have to do better," de Blasio said.
He promised, going forward, that when he hears concerns that are "that consistent and that persistent," he or a top member of his administration will visit the area and make adjustments.
"We're going to try to learn what worked and what didn't work and how we do it better the next time," he promised.
Minority Leader Vincent Ignizio (R-Staten Island) has called for an oversight hearing in the City Council to do just that. De Blasio praised Ignizio as someone he thinks highly of, despite their party differences.
"I think the way he framed it was very responsible. He said, 'This is not a shot at anyone, we want to figure out what happened,'" de Blasio said. "'We want to figure out how to do it better.' I think that's fair."
But de Blasio dismissed any notion that the troubles on the Upper East Side or Staten Island -- two areas where voters did not support the mayor in the election -- were politically motivated.
"The approach we took was absolutely consistent. The order that went out was absolutely consistent for every single neighborhood," he said. "The execution wasn't good enough in some areas, and we have to do better."
To that end, de Blasio's staff met with Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, a former Staten Islander, Thursday. A New York Post reporter tweeted a photo of the commissioner outside the mayor's offices, looking like a "school kid outside the principal's office."
De Blasio said the situation for Doherty is the same as it has been: He's been asked to stay on during the snowy transition season. The mayor had not spoken with him much, but First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris had, de Blasio said.
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DAVISON TWP, MI – A 60-pound tortoise known as Franklin is back home after a harrowing four days on the run -- or rather crawl -- from his Washburn Road home.
The pet strayed from home Thursday afternoon, May 29, and was found Sunday, June 1, by a Grand Blanc resident.
Franklin is a sulcata tortoise, measuring in at 60 pounds and two feet long. Owner Chris Breuhan said the tortoise that fit in the palm of his hand when he was purchased from a Royal Oak pet store had gone missing a few hours when he arrived home.
"He goes outside during the summer," said Breuhan, 30. Franklin goes into an enclosure when the temperature reaches above 60 degrees. "I live out in the country. I gathered up the family and we started walking the property and farm fields," Breuhan said.
Breuhan's property, sitting well off a dusty dirt road, encompasses 10 acres, including large grassy areas, trees and a large hill off the home's west side. The family started putting up flyers around the area to see if anyone had noticed a peculiar animal roaming around near the road.
"He was probably a half mile away when I picked him up," said Breuhan, noting the man who picked up Franklin spotted one of the flyers. The man said he had the tortoise in his possession after passing through the area and noting the dome-shelled reptile that resembles something from a prehistoric era.
"He's fine, he looks grumpy still, kind of like everything is an inconvenience for him," laughed Breuhan, adding that his biggest concern was Franklin, which could live up more than 100 years and grow to three feet and nearly 200 pounds, would get run over.
"Nothing will eat him," said Breuhan, placing Franklin back in his 16-foot by- 4 foot enclosure. "He's too big."
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Hi printed a shipping label & then due to something changing, the transaction did not complete & all money paid was refunded through Paypal. I need to void the shipping label & get the money refunded to me. It says I have 5 days to void the label, and I am within that window. However, I can't find where to void it. When I bring up the screen for the label it says to void or reprint, visit the detail screen, so I do but it doenst give me an option to void. Where or how can I void an unused shipping label? I've looked in ebay and paypal screens and can't find anything. HELP! I don't want to lose my window of opportunity to void it.
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on 07-02-2011 09:39 AM
you only have 48 hrs to void from paypal so you must have printed on ebay, go to the order details page for that item, the void link (if still available) will be located there.
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You can log into Paypal and void the label from there. The option is near the bottom, but depending on the time the label was printed it may take several days to get the money refunded.
If you just printed it and click void it will refund quickly. But if it's a day or two old USPS will wait to see if it's been used before refunding you.
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"Though 50 years old, the Kitsap Conservation District is considered a breath of fresh air among the hundreds of farmers and ranchers currently living in Kitsap County. Especially since at least a few say they've felt stifled and overwhelmed by an ever-increasing number of county land-use regulations that are, in large part, a direct response to the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) guidelines or water-quality concerns as a whole. The conservation district is a non-regulatory agency, said Chuck Arnold, owner and operator of Bear Creek Meadows ranch, and a private property owner who found a friend in the Conservation District. That's the key point in all of this. Arnold is but one resident who owns and operates one of roughly 2,000 ranches and farms scattered about the Kitsap peninsula. Don and Arletta Baskins, a retired couple, also own a farm in Poulsbo that encompasses parts of Dogfish Creek. They too, found a friend in the Conservation District when the couple first decided to improve the family farm, which has been passed down on Arletta's side of the family. Problem is, Kitsap farms are invariably bordered by or contain critical creeks and watersheds. As a result, water quality and fish health problems tend to surge to the forefront. Don and Arletta Baskins of Poulsbo have firsthand experience with what the Conservation District can accomplish for small farm operators and the county as a whole. Quite understandably, the couple felt a tad overwhelmed when they returned to the quiet of Poulsbo several years ago from the hustle and bustle of Seattle. After all, on the farm, some project is always pending and some improvement in the works, they say. After the couple started to divide up the family farm to deed a portion to their son, the Conservation District wrote the couple a letter, proposing how Dogfish Creek could be preserved and maintained for generations to come by employing several management techniques on their property. Dogfish Creek, which carries salmon and other fish, drains into Liberty Bay. Don and Arletta liked what the District had to say. Soon, native plants were installed along the creek by local volunteers and, on March 4, anther such planting is in the works. The Baskins estimate more than 840 native plants will be installed to provide the creek and its salmon with much-needed shade. Special drainage systems were installed on their property, and an animal waste composting shelter was constructed as well. The planning and implementation means a lot of work for the couple, but they say it's worth it, as well. Hard work and planning now, means that the family farm will be available to their children's children and so on, for generations to come. That means everything to Don Baskins, since he grew up for the most part along that creek, and knows exactly what it's like to have access to such a valuable and pure resource. "
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Support for same-sex marriage is at a record-high 59 percent in the United States, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, which put opposition at 34 percent.
The Post reports that half of all Americans believe that "gay men and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry" and "a large majority also said businesses should not be able to deny serving gays for religious reasons."
"Fifty percent say the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection gives gays the right to marry, while 41 percent say it does not," the Post report says.
The Post reports that, "Support for same-sex marriage has changed more rapidly than almost any social issue in the past decade. In a Post-ABC poll in March 2004, 38 percent said same-sex marriage should be legal, while 59 percent said it should not, the same percentage now in favor of allowing gays to marry."
The current poll was conducted in the wake of a series of rulings by federal judges that state bans on same-sex marriage and prohibitions on recognizing marriages performed elsewhere are unconstitutional, the Post says.
In the 33 states that prohibit same-sex marriage, including Louisiana, 53 percent of those polled support allowing it, while 40 percent oppose doing so, according to the poll. The story did not provide an individual breakdown for those states.


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One late summer day a few years back, my father and his friend Tom were at the driving range. My father was working on his 7-iron swing. He hit one really well and said to Tom, "I think that shot was perfect."
A few swings later my father caught another one flush and said, "That one was even better." And Tom, without missing a beat, turned to my father and said, "Better than perfect?"
Manchester City are not a perfect football club. But it is getting harder and harder to find the flaws in the diamond these days.
"City's record since their last defeat—that now traditional 1-0 reverse at Sunderland—is now played 17, won 15 and drawn two across all competitions. And scored 57," wrote David Mooney recently for ESPNFC.com.
It is probably for this reason that the transfer rumours that generally pop up around City are noticeably subdued. As they are playing right now, how much can manager Manuel Pellegrini really do in the transfer window to make City better?
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READING, Pa. - It's been 11 years since America was changed forever by the attacks on September 11, 2001.
All across the country, memorial services were held Tuesday to honor all those who have died and the heroes who responded to save peoples' lives.
It was a beautiful day in Reading on Tuesday. In City Park, a sense of sadness filled the hearts of those who gathered for the fire department's annual memorial service honoring the victims of September 11, 2001.
"We had a cousin who was with the Port Authority. She perished that day," said Peggy Floriani, of Pottstown. "She used her weapon to shoot out the windows in the World Trade Center so that people could escape."
Reading Deputy Fire Chief Gary Mogel said services remembering his fallen brothers and sisters have made him value his own life and loved ones more.
"I had an opportunity to be a New York City firefighter and turned down the job. Who knows if I would have been working?" said Mogel.
Three hundred forty-three American flags representing the firefighters who lost their lives on September 11 lead the pathway to an American elm in City Park. The tree, said Mogel, was dedicated to the people who perished 11 years ago.
Cark Geffken, Berks County's chief operating officer, worked for the New York City Department of Investigation 11 years ago. His building was blocks away from the World Trade Center.
"When we walked outside, there was two feet of debris around. You walked through it and it looked like a war zone," said Geffken.
Geffken also said that services help him find solace.
Eileen Scheibner, of Reading, said her life changed in a different way the day of the attacks.
"I got to hear my baby's heartbeat for the first time," said Scheibner.
The important lessons every American can learn from the past: never take your life for granted, said Mogel.
"It's a job that we choose, the career path that we choose to do," said Mogel.
"I have to pray for them because that's the closest I can get to giving them any kind of support," said Scheibner.
Following the ceremony in City Park, firefighters took a moment to honor some of their brothers for exceptional work.
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Mayor Vaughn Spencer was on hand, as well.
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