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The Phoenix Suns took a 2-1 advantage and control of the series much the same way they did in Game 2, only with more conviction. Phoenix again came out from the opening tip (or bell) swinging, landing repeated haymakers and leaving Portland dazed and confused, weak in the knees and stumbling to regain their footing.
The Suns shot out to a 19-6 lead late in the first quarter and never looked back, building the lead to 29 by halftime. Portland has allowed at least 30 points in five out of the last six quarters against Phoenix. In the series, the Blazers have scored better than 30 points once in 12 quarters.
Portland is failing to score and failing to prevent Phoenix from scoring in the last two contests, digging large holes in both games. In Game 2 Phoenix's largest lead was 39. In Game 3, the Suns led by as much as 31 before the Blazers even looked to have arrived at the arena. Portland cut that lead down to 11 (91-80 with just over five minutes to play), but by then it was too little, too late.
The Suns routinely make the Blazers pay for open shots (see: 71 points in the last two games from Jason Richardson), while forcing the ball out of the hands of Portland's remaining playmakers. In Games 2 and 3, Andre Miller and LaMarcus Aldridge have combined for only 51 points on 18-for-40 from the field. In the Game 1 win for Portland, the two combined for 53 points on 18-for-37 shooting.
If the Blazers' backs weren't against the wall after a momentum swinging Game 2, it's firmly pressed against it down 2-1. Portland has an opportunity to do what Phoenix did Tuesday, even up the series, but it's going to take more than just putting on that white jersey with the diagonal red and black stripes across the front.
The Blazers need to top the energy, effort, hustle and physical (yes, physical) play from the Suns. They need that sense of urgency that's been floated around.
That's exactly what Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry expects from Portland come Saturday.
"If you think they're going to quit, you don't know Nate."
Jason Quick, Blazers lose to Phoenix Suns 108-89:
The biggest momentum changer came late in the first quarter when the Blazers appeared to have an easy fast-break opportunity to cut what had been a 14-point deficit to seven.
Marcus Camby stripped Steve Nash near the Phoenix bench, but when Martell Webster scooped the loose ball and threw a pass to a streaking and wide-open Bayless, he led him too much and Bayless could only leap and save the ball to the Suns' Stoudemire.
Phoenix immediately attacked, with Nash finding Richardson for a lob dunk and a 27-16 lead.
It would only get worse.
Miller couldn't hit a free throw. Aldridge missed his first six shots. And Fernandez remained a shell of the player everyone thought he was. And all three were forced to the bench with two early fouls.
Meanwhile, Suns reserve point guard, left-handed Goran Dragic, was nailing long three-pointers, Leandro Barbosa stripped Aldridge of a rebound and layed it in, and a Richardson three-pointer bounced off the rim, the backboard and went in. Even Jarron Collins, a guy the Blazers cut in preseason, blocked a Miller layup, which translated into another Richardson three.
Joe Freeman, Forget offense, the Phoenix Suns want to talk about their defense:
While the Blazers were pondering what happened to their offense after the Game 3 disaster, the Suns were smirking in the visiting locker room at the Rose Garden. Might it be that their defense has been overlooked?
"Yeah I think so," Hill said. "Obviously with what the team has done here and what we've done the last few years, we're going to score points. We have enough offense and we have guys who are capable of stepping up and playing. But the thing (where) I think we've really taken a big step this season is our defense."
These are no longer the days of the Sun's Seven Seconds or Less offense. Coach Alvin Gentry placed an emphasis on defense in training camp and, according the Hill, right around the All-Star break the team finally embraced the change.
Gentry said he has been pleased with his team's weakside rotation, one-on-one pressure and the fact that the Suns have limited "straight-line drives to the basket." Hill said he's seen a change in the Suns' mindset and desire. Whatever the reason, it's working.
John Canzano, It's hard to believe in the Trail Blazers when the players don't:
Aldridge let Amare Stoudemire push him around the court as though he were a $65 million wheelbarrow in the first half. Then, finally, after Stoudemire threw an elbow during a skirmish, Aldridge jawed back and there were offsetting technical fouls.
On the bright side, the late scuffle was the first time all evening Aldridge played Stoudemire with an even outcome. But I remain unconvinced that Portland's power forward learned a thing on Thursday.
Same goes for Fernandez, who whined about his playing time over the last year. After making a few shots in the fourth quarter, count me among those who still believe the Spaniard can be a factor in the series. But damn, watching Fernandez clunk around the court in the first three games of this series was like seeing an eyeball suffer a paper cut.
The Blazers whined to the officials in Game 3, but really, all they had to blame were themselves.
Casey Holdahl, Another awful first half dooms the Blazers in Game 3:
If the Trail Blazers are to even up the series 2-2 Saturday afternoon at the Rose Garden, they'll have to take what good they can from the second half of Game 2 and apply those lessons to the start of Game 4.
"You've got to battle," said McMillan. "You've got to get up into these guys and guard them. We won the second half and that was something we need to take into the game on Saturday: that we did win the second half. We've beaten this team before. We can do it, but we can't start the way we have in the last two games."
Mike Barrett, Suns Roll to 2-1 Lead:
Perhaps not, but it is clear that with Roy sidelined, and now Batum ailing, Portland is over matched. The only thing that could possibly give them a chance is energy and intensity- something the Blazers have lacked in the last two games. I'm not even sure if it's fair to put it that way, as it's probably more inability and uncertainty at this point.
While it is possible to say that Portland could simply be out of emotional gas, and out of available weapons at this point of this crazy season, all is not lost. No one expected the Blazers to go into Phoenix and win one of the first two games. They did that.
So, to stay that after three games of this series the Suns would be up 2-1 was not a stretch, and probably was even expected. I do realize that this probably isn't just a matter of being down 2-1 in a series, but more the way the last two have gone. It certainly doesn't feel like this series is even close right now, given the way the last two games have gone.
John Hollinger, ESPN.com, Suns too talented for the Blazers:
With no Brandon Roy, no Greg Oden, no Joel Przybilla and no Batum, the Blazers were basically bringing a knife to a gun fight. Forget the Xs and Os -- the Suns are just better. Thursday it was Amare Stoudemire who set the tone, flying up and down the court at both ends and showing rare defensive focus, including an impressive defensive rotation to partially block a first-quarter Jerryd Bayless 3-point attempt.
Meanwhile, Jason Richardson continued to prove unguardable for Portland, posting a 20-point first half for the second straight game and finishing with a game-high 42 points, including eight 3-pointers. Afterward he called it the best game of his career. The Blazers invested heavily in stopping the Steve Nash-Stoudemire pick-and-roll play that's the Suns bread-and-butter and continually left Richardson wide open in the far corner.
"If you trap the pick-and-roll with Steve," said Suns coach Alvin Gentry, "then you have to have an extra defender, the weak-side defender has to take the roll guy, and if he takes the roll guy, then if we swing it to Channing [Frye, who stood at the top of the key], then they rotate to him or they have to play it halfway. Channing did a good job of swinging it to J-Rich right away and they couldn't close out in time."
Paul Coro, Arizona Republic, Suns beat Portland Trail Blazers to take 2-1 series lead:
Portland continues to pull its defense inside to thwart the offense of Amar'e Stoudemire, who proclaimed this a defensive series for him after starting Game 3 by taking a charge. The attention on Stoudemire left Richardson open repeatedly to bury his previous playoff career-high of 30.
"With Steve (Nash) coming off the screen, it seemed like I was open every time," Richardson said. "I was surprised they kept on leaving me. I know in Game 4 it's going to be a different story. They're probably not going to leave me. There is not going to be that many open looks. It's going to be somebody else's night if it's not mine.
"I've only been in the playoffs twice. I spent seven summers at home. Right now, I'm just not taking anything for granted. I'm leaving everything on the floor."
Phoenix was unfazed by the road environment. The Suns have won 14 of their past 18 games and got Thursday's victory going with 11-0 and 14-0 runs that sent them to a 39-16 lead early in the second quarter. Portland had three starters pick up two fouls in the first quarter and shot 36 percent for the half after shooting 38 percent in Game 2.
Dan Bickley, Arizona Republic, Phoenix Suns continue to rock Portland Trail Blazers:
Hot? The Suns are sizzling like a summer parade in the desert. After losing Game 1 in Phoenix, they responded with 185 points in the next six quarters, stealing back the home-court advantage.
Peaking? When Jason Richardson is engaged, the Suns are nearly impossible to handle. In successive games, Richardson had 20 points or more . . . by halftime. These days, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who wants a mulligan on that Boris Diaw-Raja Bell trade, and feel free to e-mail all apologies to the general manager.
After freaking out the Valley with a subpar performance in the opener, the Suns twice have embarrassed a proud team. And after a 108-89 victory on Thursday, they are threatening to blow this series wide open.
All this, and Amar'e Stoudemire has yet to have a serious impact in the playoffs
Kerry Eggers, Portland Tribune, Series not over, but time's a wastin':
Playing in front of a frenzied Garden crowd that was geeked up, ear-splitting loud and prepared to take no prisoners.
Too bad the Blazers didn't come in with the same kind of swagger.
Blazer fans couldn't believe what they were seeing. The boobirds came out in the second quarter, reminding their team that this was supposed to be playoff basketball, not the Trotters toying with the Washington Generals.
"We just seemed tight," Portland coach Nate McMillan said. "The first half, we seemed to be putting a little pressure on ourselves. Looked like the last game."
Let's dismiss the game right now, banishing all talk of winning it so we can talk about what the Blazers did well in the second half without pretending they actually had a chance to come back, as they didn't. But Portland did establish a couple of things for Game 4.
First and foremost Portland amped up the physicality in the second half which was both necessary and good. Amare Stoudemire started it by jawing at his opponent and getting into it with LaMarcus Aldridge. After that guys like Juwan Howard, Dante Cunningham, Jerryd Bayless, and Martell Webster started bumping and fouling hard. That put the spine back in Portland's game and took Stoudemire off of his pedestal. This is critical for the next game. If Phoenix is really that good, if they're going to win it, there's no way they should do so unscathed. If they're giggling into their hands after any period in that game Portland is doing something wrong. They need to come out of it knowing they have played the Blazers and knowing they don't like it. The fact that the Suns started tightening up when jostled should be all the incentive Portland needs to press the physical advantage.
Wil Cantrell, Bright Side of the Sun, Suns Thump Blazers:
The Blazers came out in the first looking lost and meek. Their own fans were booing them. But they manned up n the 3rd and it changed the complexion of the game, for a little while at least. It's all they have left. LaMarcus and Bayless are the only consistent threats now that Miller has been boxed up. And let's face it, with the Suns it's pick your poison. Amare wasn't much of a factor and he still scored 20 points. Jason Richardson has proven that he can and will hit shots. The only way you eliminate him is pray he loses his touch, double team him, or bring a man out on him instead of trapping Nash on the pick 'n roll. If the Blazers do the latter, then there's more room for Nash to create, and more room for Amare to operate in the paint. Choose your poison, Portland.
Andrew Tonry, Portland Roundball Society recap:
Like Tuesday's blowout loss before it, the Blazers resembled a team without energy, and worse, without hope. Thursday's 108-89 drubbing, however, recalled something even worse: last year's playoff opener against Houston.
And just like the Rockets did one year ago, Phoenix did the Blazers Thursday—they ate their souls. Phoenix pushed a heel down into Portland's throat, watched the body's life drain away, then twisted and dug in one more, just to be sure.
The home court advantage—both in number of games remaining and the psychological edge it provides—has been stolen by Phoenix.
Every adjustment that the Suns made in game two carried over unchallenged to game three. Grant Hill again contained Andre Miller, the carburetor of Portland's offensive engine. Quick double-teams stifled LaMarcus Aldridge into another hapless night the post. Rudy Fernandez couldn't do anything right (until the game was well out of reach).
Michael Schwart, Valley of the Suns, Suns blitz Blazers, take command of series:
We have seen all season long that this Suns team is more or less unstoppable when Richardson plays like a third star to complement Amare and Nash, as Phoenix went 26-4 in the regular season when he scored at least 20 points.
When Richardson is going like this, it's really a case of pick your poison. You can hedge Nash on the pick and roll and have an extra defender come at Amare at all times, but if you do that the Suns have options like J-Rich waiting in the corner for another three, an efficient Grant HIll lurking with a 4-for-5 performance and Channing Frye spotting up from three.
There's a reason this Suns offense was one of the most efficient in NBA history this season, and we've seen why the past two games, when the Suns scored at least 30 points in five of six quarters (Game 2 and the first half of Game 3) after the Blazers had never allowed a team to go for 30 in more than two quarters all season. You just can't shut down all of Phoenix's options, and on this night the Blazers chose to make J-Rich beat them, and he did.
Mike Schmitz, Valley of the Suns, Blazers lack offense to combat Suns double team:
Gentry would have never employed the double team if he thought the Blazers' perimeter punch could burn the Suns with deep balls and driving layups. And after watching the game tonight, he was definitely right in his thinking.
Most Western Conference playoff teams have the shooters and penetrators to read the double team and take advantage, but not the injury-depleted Blazers.
Every time the Blazers kicked it out of the double team, either a three-pointer was attempted (and missed more often than not) or Portland swung it around the horn and ultimately drove to the hoop only to attempt an off-balance, contested layup.
Who on this team can possibly shoot the Blazers out of a double team?
If you're searching for glimpses of clear skies in this iffy weather analogy, that's it. It's another growing experience for the young fellers, a chance for LaMarcus Aldridge to experience life as The Man in the playoffs. It's good for them, it's healthy. And it's also incredibly painful to watch.
This team also isn't young anymore. This isn't like last season, when the Houston Rockets pushed around the playoff first-timers and we were all able to — fairly — label it a building block. But now Andre Miller, Marcus Camby and Juwan Howard are on this team. They've had these experiences. They're grown. And they're probably all frustrated in their own ways that all the young players have are just now experiencing the mistakes and failures that will mold their careers.
This was a thrashing, no doubt, but it's tough and unfair to finger the blame on any individual. Group successes, group beatdowns. Besides, why blame when we can understand?
Ben's Media Row Report from Blazersedge:
As for Aldridge he displays all the tell-tale signs of being overwhelmed. His shot isn't there, the turnovers are, the smart/hustle plays he has made in the past are fewer and farther between, and he doesn't have very specific or convincing answers when he tries to explain what's going wrong. Aldridge's intelligence and basketball intelligence, generally speaking, are underrated. But right now it's clear he doesn't know the answers to Phoenix's defense. He doesn't anticipate what is coming. He doesn't assert himself with confidence. He's simply overwhelmed. At times during last year's playoffs Brandon Roy was clearly overwhelmed too. This isn't just an Aldridge thing. That's a problem.


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Carla Young, Joni Walsh, Kelly Countway, Kim McBurnie, Teresa Elliott and Sharleen Martell drop into the muddy pool of water MudCraft participants had to cross to complete the six-kilometre obstacle course.
Ashley Thompson
Published on July 03, 2014
Michael Peach, of Falmouth, was the first to complete the MudCraft "warrior course."
Ashley Thompson
Michael Blois is already thinking about MudCraft 2015.
More than 300 participants attempted the first MudCraft adventure obstacle course in Gore June 28.
"It was a solid turnout and everybody who came there had a really good time," said Blois, an eighth generation dairy farmer who built the course on his family's land.
"They found the course challenging, yet really interesting."
MudCraft, featuring 20-plus obstacles, offered routes for warriors and beginners looking to test their limits while having some fun in the mud at the same time.
Blois said he didn't get a chance to run the course the day of the event, but his personal favourite obstacle is the Tarzan swing.
Observers taking in the day tended to congregate around the final obstacle for the warrior course, which required participants to jump off of a 13-foot tall platform knowing they'd land in a deep pool of muddy water.
All participants had to swim across the murky water to cross the finish line.
Michael Peach, of Falmouth, was the first to complete the MudCraft course.
"I run a lot but adding obstacles to it adds a new element to it," said Peach.
Amy Lawlor, of Gore, had the opportunity to watch a couple waves of participants finish the course before her heat crossed the start line.
"I've got a feeling I'm not going to be able to move for a couple of days," she joked.
Based on the positive response from participants, Blois is expecting MudCraft will become an annual event that only gets bigger and better with age.
"Everyone thought it was amazing and they can't wait until the next one," he said.
View a slideshow of photos from the event here.

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Jennifer Monteverd, the daughter of Kenneth and Kriss Monteverd of Greenville, Greene County, was united in marriage to Matthew Rhodes, the son of Robert and Judy Rhodes of Sammonsville at 6 p.m. Sept. 24.
The ceremony took place at the Hall of Springs, Saratoga Springs. Judge Thomas Baldwin officiated.
The bride was escorted by her father.
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The matron of honor was Jennifer Nicholsen of Greenville. The bridal attendants were Renee Grossman of Jackson, N.J., Helen Haslinger of Buffalo, Erie County, and Tracy Rankin of Raleigh, N.C. The flower girl was Koralee Dininny of Canisteo, Steuben County, cousin of the bridegroom.
The best man was Mark Eppolito of Georgetown, S.C. The ushers were Joshua Rhodes, brother of the bridegroom, Sal Casale, and Brian Miller, all of Johnstown; Matthew Monteverde of Boston, Mass. and Brian Monteverd of Worcester, Mass., brothers of the bride; Brent Pollack of Saratoga, and Alan Zoracki of Rochester, Monroe County. The ringbearer was Callum Nicholsen of Greenville.
A reception for 225 guests took place at the Hall of Springs.
A wedding trip took place in Hawaii. The couple resides in Rensselaer.
The bride is a 1997 graduate of Greenville High School; a 2000 graduate of Layfayette College with a degree in economics and business; a master of business administration degree from the University of Albany in 2006. She is employed by Deloitte Consulting, based in Boston.
The bridegroom is a 1997 graduate of Johnstown High School; a 2001 graduate of St. Lawrence University with a bachelor's degree in psychology; and recently received a MBA degree from the University of Rhode Island.


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BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Upgrades to security cameras and access control systems are under way at the Baldwin County Courthouse in Bay Minette.
The upgrades, also planned for the satellite courthouses in Fairhope and Foley, come courtesy of a $500,000 grant from the Department of Justice, according to David Pimperl, communications and information services director for Baldwin County.
In all, 169 cameras will be installed in the three courthouses, he said. Technicians have been running wires in the courthouse in Bay Minette for the past week or two, he said.
The system will be an upgrade including digital components and additional cameras, according to Baldwin County Sheriff Huey "Hoss" Mack.
Currently, the cameras are not monitored outside each of the courthouses. With the new system, cameras will also be monitored from a remote sheriff's office. Mack said in an email that the added view will increase security.
Pimperl said the new system will allow for digital recording of camera images and access control upgrades will allow security staff to remotely unlock doors, for instance.
"Hopefully, that will provide them with some better tools to better manage the buildings," Pimperl said.
He said work in the courthouse in Bay Minette should be completed by Aug. 17, with Foley upgrades done by May 19 and Fairhope by Nov. 15.
"Our goal is that we'll be done with the project this year," he said.


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M. Ajzenstadt and J. Gal
Social Politics, vol.8, 2001, p.292-324
Article examines the impact of various Israeli social policy initiatives from the 1950s to the 1990s designed to benefit women. In spite of these policies, women are still disadvantaged in current Israeli society. This is because the initiatives were designed to meet other state objectives as much as to improve the status of women. Thus the introduction of maternity benefits in the 1950s was designed to encourage large Jewish families in the face of high Arab fertility rates. Similarly state childcare in the 1970s was intended to bring women into the workforce in order to combat a severe labour shortage. The policy initiatives studied also discriminated systematically against Arab and African and Asian Jewish women who were regarded as being "undeserving".
T. Fahey
European Sociological Review, vol.18, 2002, p.51-64
This paper explores the role of state support for family-based economic production, especially family farming, in the evolution of welfare regimes. Using the example of Ireland's 'social policy' from around 1870 to the second world war, the paper illustrates that both the financial and agrarian dimensions have greater significance in welfare regimes than has yet been recognized.
T. B. Jorgensen and B. Bozeman
Public Management Review, vol.4, 2002, p.63-81
Authors consider if the rush to market competition in the public sector has altered the sense of public values? Three different cases are examined and the authors consider how the role of values in each case varies.
C. Saraceno (ed.)
Bristol: The Policy Press, 2002
This book explores welfare state regimes and welfare recipients in contemporary Europe. It compares poverty policies in a range of northern and southern European Countries. Focusing on the actual working of their policies, the cultural background and implementation of policies it looks at why some people are more likely to be on social assistance than others.
T. Atkinson et al
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
This book aims to make a scientific contribution to the development of social indicators for the purposes of European policymaking. It examines the principles of policy-relevant indicators, the definition of indicators, and the issues that arise in their implementation. It looks at theoretical and methodological issues relating to measuring poverty and social exclusion, covering key areas such as:


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CAMDEN — When she was asked if she'd like to teach photography at Rowan University's Camden campus, Kate Pollard Hoffmann was a bit nervous.
But the Penn State graduate, who also has a master's degree in photography from Edinburgh College of Art, in the U.K., accepted.
And she eventually found herself immersed in a labor of love.
Hoffmann recently created a collection of photos documenting the pain with which Camden families have dealt in the wake of their loved ones' violent deaths. The project and an essay Hoffmann wrote about it were featured in a Huffington Post article.
She said the project has been rewarding in ways she didn't expect.
"I initially applied to teach photography at Rowan University in general," Hoffmann explained. "They asked me if I was interested in teaching at the Camden campus, and at first I was a little trepidatious.
"But I fell in love with the campus and the students there immediately."
Hoffman has now worked at the Camden campus for six years. In that time, she's met plenty of students whose own family members have been murdered.
"I can't even count how many times a student will say in conversation, 'When my brother was killed,' or 'when my cousin was shot,'" she wrote in her Huffington Post essay.
About a year-and-a-half ago, she continued in the essay, she noticed a "mass of crosses off the side of the road."
They were a memorial to all those who'd become victims of murder in Camden that year. There was another similar memorial in front of city hall.
"I first thought I would photograph the shrines to add to another series I was working on," Hoffmann wrote. "But the more I looked at this sea of murder, I decided that this story definitely needed its own platform."
She met some of the families of the victims, and the collection of photo tributes to them followed.
These Are the Faces of the People Who've Been Crushed by Each Murder (PHOTOS) http://t.co/ScIfCrz9Dv
— Kate P Hoffmann (@klp179) June 13, 2014
Among those on whome Hoffman focused in her collection are the following:
- Alma Brito-Reyes, 49, who was beaten with a handgun and choked by her boyfriend in June 2012. Brito-Reyes was planning on breaking up with William H. White, then 59, of Camden when he attacked her.
- Qua'Nyrah Houston, 15, who died of smoke inhalation June 29, 2012 as she tried to escape a home that had been firebombed. Her boyfriend, Kenny Holmes Jr., also died in the fire.
- Kevin Miller, 19, who was shot and killed in June 2011, authorities said, by another man over a romantic rivalry.
- Jawan E. Gideon, 19, who was shot in the head in December 2011 and died later from his wounds.
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If this weekend's heavy rain storms trigger widespread flooding anything like Monday's mess, the best place to run for dry ground in Northeast Ohio might be the last place you'd expect -- federally designated flood zones.
That's what you might conclude from a Plain Dealer analysis that compared the location of hundreds of flooded Cuyahoga County properties with Federal Emergency Management Agency flood plain maps finalized in late 2010.
The comparison revealed that other than along the Cuyahoga River flood plain in Valley View, flooding nearly everywhere else was outside flood zone boundaries.
Experts said this week that such a seemingly contradictory notion was the likely result those very rivers and streams running through flood plains being engorged. That forced groundwater, unable to push into the streams, to rush up through floor drains or seep through basement walls or along the concrete pad under homes without basements.
"That's exactly right, at least for this past storm," said Hugh Shannon, assistant director for the Department of Justice Affairs, the county agency that oversees the 911 system and Emergency Management Agency.
He and other experts said the lack of damage in federal flood zones doesn't mean they aren't needed, but only this storm did not produce enough water to cause the rivers spread far enough to reach homes and businesses in the zones.
The EMA was also compiling precipitation records and stream-gauge readings to develop a model that might predict the location and extent of future flooding.
"But for now, we've got to see how we hold up against what's coming next," he said.Rivers heading for flood if weekend storm hits hard
What's coming might already be here.
National Weather Service meteorologists, tracking a storm system saturated with moisture, predict maybe another inch and a half of rain today in flood-weary northern Ohio.
That kind of deluge would likely again put nearly every major river -- from the Blanchard near already besieged Findlay to the Grand near Painesville -- near or above flood stage at some point today through Monday morning, according to the Ohio River Forecast Center in Wilmington. Eight northern Ohio rivers at 13 locations were under a flood warning Saturday morning.
The one exception might be the Cuyahoga River, a welcome relief to soggy residents, business owners and weary safety workers still recovering in Valley View. The Cuyahoga is predicted to crest a foot short of major flood stage there, the center said.
"We could use the break, but we're still preparing for the worst," said Fire Chief Tom Koscielski. "We've still got a number of people who had their furnaces wiped out in the flooding and it's too cold to go back home.
"We haven't had flooding like this in five years, so I hope we don't get it twice in one week."
That hope depends not only on how much rain comes to Valley View, but what happens upstream in Akron and Canton today, said Koscielski. Those areas expected to get up to two inches of rain, the weather service said.
"We're going to get another good burst of precipitation through (today), but things can always change as it develops" said meteorologist Tom King at the weather service station at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. "The best new is that unlike Monday, this one will take a little longer, though, so maybe we won't see the really terribly bad flooding."
More than 500 homes and businesses in two dozen communities reported flood damage this week in Cuyahoga County.
That figure counts the 312 reports turned into the EMA, an estimated 100 from Valley View and dozens more in other communities yet to report like Bay Village, Olmsted Falls and Independence.
There was also significant water damage to the west in Lorain, under a state of emergency when the Black River overran its banks, and to the east in Lake County where both the Grand and Chagrin rivers were swollen and more than 100 residents were evacuated. The heavy water flow was the result of melting snow from a snowstorm the Friday before and two to three inches of rain on Monday, Feb. 28.
A small dam in Gates Mills was also washed away Monday morning when the Chagrin crested. The lone death occurred in Norwalk when a car being driven by Lisa Roswell, 51, of North Fairfield in southern Huron County was swept away by floodwater Monday morning, police said.
Most flooding outside FEMA flood plains
But, apart from Valley View where the Cuyahoga overwhelmed more than 100 residents in four low-lying streets, the majority of flooding in Cuyahoga County Monday was not around rivers and streams as you might expect.
In fact, among the 312 flooding complaints from 21 different communities (Valley View had not yet reported) all but a handful were outside known flood plains. Further, only 1 of the 236 EMA flood reports from adjacent communities -- Brookpark, Parma, Seven Hills and North Royalton -- came from within a federal flood plain.
Map showing Feb. 28 flooding (zoom in for actual location, by address)
Rich Exner, The Plain Dealer
Source: Cuyahoga County Emergency Management Agency
So what precisely went wrong in the areas not in flood zones?
"Generally, I think it's the continuing effects of urbanization -- pavement and other impermeable surfaces simply extend the drainage range of any overflow," Shannon said. "Water shoots right off the streets and parking lots and since the ground was frozen hard and saturated, the groundwater got into a lot of homes in a lot of different places."
That was certainly the case in Brook Park, said Ed Piatak of Euthenics Inc., the engineering firm for Brook Park, where 70 flood reports were filed this week.
"Still, even though none of the flooding here was in the flood plain, it was related in a way because the surface and ground water had nowhere to go because the streams and large ditches that drain the area were so surcharged with water already," Piatak said.
He said a drainage basin known locally as the Kolleda Ditch, which runs diagonally across the community, didn't overflow -- in part because of improvements made since the record-high 2006 floods that ravaged much of southern Cuyahoga County.
The same was true in other communities, even those which came through unscathed this week.
"I've never been able to sit and watch TV like I did Monday and see other communities flood while we came through with almost nothing," said Jim Stanek, city engineer in Solon, which had more than 1,000 homes flood in 2006. "Most of what we had was associated with private property, not our sewers. The improvements we began five years ago, the basins we built to store the excess, are making difference."
In Pepper Pike, however, where 24 homes or businesses reported flooding, officials said there wasn't really one particular explanation.
"This certainly wasn't a case of river water running overland and flooding out homes or a failure of the city storm sewers," said Donald Sheehy of Chagrin Valley Engineering, the engineer for Pepper Pike.
"In our case, it was root infiltration here, a partially collapsed drain pipe there, jammed gutters there -- lots of different reasons. Basically, when you really test the system, any system, you find all the flaws and a lot of times those flaws have nothing to do with being in a flood plain."
Valley View floods first since 2006
Valley View residents, however, knew exactly where to look for the source of their flooded-and-frozen yards, basements and belongings: The Cuyahoga River.
"And I'm on watch again, through Sunday night at least," said fire Chief Koscielski.
Many Valley View residents hadn't really yet recovered when they were put back on flood alert late Thursday night, he said.
VIDEO: Cleaning up from the Feb. 28 flooding
"The Red Cross served 100 people lunches and dinners in last two days," Koscielski said Friday afternoon. "A third of those aren't back in their homes and most of their furnaces have had to be replaced, so it's too cold to go home.
"And after all, why put everything back and fix it up, if it's coming again?"
Roughly a four-street area -- Canal Road, Frances Drive, Charles Drive and Stone Road -- was mostly under water earlier this week. Several adjoining streets also often flood, the chief said.
The flood affected more than 100 of the 800 homes in the village of 2,200 people, officials had said.
Plain Dealer Data Analysis Editor Rich Exner contributed to this story.


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Master of ceremonies Bill Detweiler recognized her as one of the first-responders in the World Trade Center attacks, and Mack got a standing ovation from attendees.
"I'm overwhelmed to have people so generous and kind here," said Mack, who retired from New York's court officers academy as a firearms instructor and moved to New Orleans less than a year ago. "People here, they say, 'Let's embrace this story (of 9/11 first-responders) and honor their lives, not their deaths.'"
Taped inside Mack's police cap is a photo of Capt. Harry Thompson, one of her colleagues who died while he was trying to rescue people inside the towers.
The museum's memorial event brought dozens of employees from the city, including Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas and City Council President Jackie Clarkson, and neighboring parishes together to take part in the ceremony. It was one of at least 14 such events throughout the metro area commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks on the United States.
The museum event also drew attention to the its recently unveiled outdoor display of steel from both New York's destroyed World Trade Center and from the USS Arizona, which sank after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
Marcia Molloy, who volunteers at the museum, brought a bouquet of flowers bearing the name and photo of Frederick Cox to place at the base of the display. Cox was a friend of her son's who died inside the towers, she said.
While she waited for the ceremony to begin she chatted with Kirk Holman, a Pennsylvania resident who was in New Orleans visiting his son. Holman said he lived very close to the field where United Flight 93 crashed, when 40 passengers and crew decided to fight four hijackers for control of the plane.
Holman said he felt "a sense of loss and of prevailing" Sunday at the ceremony.
The museum's president, Nick Mueller, gave the first of five speeches during the event, and pointed out the similarities and differences between the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pearl Harbor.
"In both cases, both enemies misjudged us," Mueller said. "In both cases, Americans came together."
Clarkson compared her feelings of watching Sept. 11 first-responders in New York on TV to her feelings of watching first-responders help New Orleanians after Katrina.
"America has nothing greater" than the people in uniform who are willing to help others in distress, Clarkson said.
After Serpas and St. Bernard Parish Fire Chief Thomas Stone spoke, Coast Guard Capt. Peter Troedsson said his remarks "seemed rather feeble in comparison" and requested the audience to turn to the windows to look at the U.S. flag hanging between two firetruck ladders outside. Instead of giving his speech, he simply recited the uniformed services oath of office he took when he entered the Coast Guard to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies."
Events were held in Orleans, St. Tammany, Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. John the Baptist parishes to remember the attacks and commemorate victims and first-responders. Churches, schools, a fire station, park, shopping center, auditorium, zoo, courthouse and even a car dealership opened their doors, lawns and parking lots to the public for a day of remembrance.
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten made an appearance and spoke at a Patriot Day memorial at Visitation of Our Lady School in Marrero, where the New Orleans Navy Band performed.
Mack said that since helping and rescuing others in New York, she feels the value of her life and her freedom more acutely.
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Johnston was certainly devastated and shocked by what happened, but he dealt with it, showing the same class and character that has made him so highly respected in the hockey world.
Johnston remains hopeful he will be able to fully plead his case, and the franchise remains hopeful the penalties will be reduced.
There has been no comment from the WHL office, which wants to keep the process private.
Johnston is highly restricted in what he can say publicly, given the tight-lipped WHL's propensity for leveling fines.
"The worst part of it all is not having a chance to be heard," said Johnston, reflecting on a season he will never forget for a number of reasons.
"It really has been an unusual year. Unheard of at our level. Unheard of at a lot of levels. It's a strange year anytime you're dealing with something so extraordinary it's never happened before."
The WHL hammered the Hawks with the harshest sanctions in league history for player-benefit violations -- sanctions that included removing Johnston from the bench for the rest of the regular season and the playoffs, leveling a staggering $200,000 fine and taking away bantam draft picks for the next five years.
Portland was 20-4-1 when the penalties came down. Barred from coaching and having anything to do with the team, Johnston hasn't been in his office for months. He was forbidden from entering any WHL arena, forbidden from having anything to do with the May 2 bantam draft.
"It hasn't become easier," he said, "but anytime you're dealing with adversity like this, you have to ask yourself, 'OK, what am I going to do? How can I make myself useful?'"
Johnston is keeping busy. He travels to observe Hawks drafted players and list players, "which has been key for me because it's given me something constructive to do."
He can't enter the building, but he said he watches Portland games -- and other WHL games -- on his home computer.
Johnston lives on the Portland waterfront, meaning physically he's just a few minutes away from the Rose Garden or Memorial Coliseum on game nights, which makes his absence cut even deeper.
There were no restrictions on Johnston's conversations with acting coach Travis Green, and the two men talk frequently. The Hawks finished their regular season Sunday with a franchise-best 57-12-1-2 record under Green, and they go into the playoffs favored to crash their third consecutive WHL finals series.
"Doesn't surprise me how things have gone," Johnston said. "Travis is a very focused, very driven guy."
Johnston said he's proud of the job Green has done, and proud of the team for not letting the sanctions become a season-long problem.
Problem? In fact, what the WHL did to the team has served to bring it closer. The Hawks are comfortable playing the villains' role. They are adopting an "us against the world" approach to the playoffs, which probably isn't necessary given their talent level.
The players say they miss Johnston's presence in the room. Green does, too. "We miss Mike a lot," he said. "He's a huge part of our staff. He's a great coach."
Hawks president Doug Piper said Johnston has been a huge positive during his suspension, which doesn't end until the bantam draft and the Winterhawks' season are both completed.
"We're very pleased with Mike's professionalism throughout the entire incident," Piper said. "He's used his time really wisely, helping a lot of our charitable efforts and participating in our youth programs, which means a lot to us. ... He's continued to be an inspiration to everybody in the organization. ... The fact Travis has been able to step in and do a phenomenal job is as much a tribute to Mike as it is to Travis."
When the sanctions became public on Nov. 28, Johnston met with his staff, then addressed his players. "Probably one of the toughest things I've ever done," he said. "Looking at these guys, these young kids, I wanted them to understand what had happened. I wanted them to know that we do operate in the right way. I told the older players to take some ownership and deal with the situation. Don't get wound up with this. Get back to playing hockey, and move on. And they did."
The WHL slammed Portland for 54 player-benefit violations involving 14 players over a five-year period, which sounds ominous until it's broken down -- air travel for seven in-need families, three incidents of offseason training for players and three seasons where the team provided cell phones for its captains.
Given the scope of what Portland did, knowingly or unknowingly, the sanctions seemed harsh.
Some argued the Hawks got exactly what they deserved. Others said it was like administering lethal injection for jaywalking.
Johnston knows there are divided opinions. What rankles him the most is the perception that other, unreported violations have occurred.
Johnston said when the sanctions came down, "we listed off what we did (angering the WHL) because I wanted to protect the Nino Niederreiters and the Sven Bartschis and the Ryan Johansens to make sure it was very, very clear there was nothing (illegal) with those guys."
Johnston said he doesn't dwell on what all of this has done to his reputation. He said the people close to him, "know what I do, and know how I operate."
For now, Johnston is taking his punishment and looking forward to the day when he can go back to work.
"If there was a hearing, and I had a chance to at least" state his case, he said, "then I would be much more satisfied because I would have at least cleared the air."
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Down only a hair from last week, another two-hour "So You Think You Can Dance" carried FOX on Wednesday night, as the night's only other original programming -- "Duets" and "Dogs in the City" -- made only small ripples.
Among adults 18-49, FOX averaged a 2.4 rating for Wednesday night, far ahead of the 1.3 rating for CBS in the key demographic. ABC's 1.1 rating and the 1.0 rating for NBC followed, with The CW posting a 0.3 key demo rating.
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When a juvenile bald eagle hit Bettina Fishers picture window Tuesday, it learned a lesson known to even teenagers of the human species: Love hurts.
The fully grown but still brown-headed bird hit Fishers window after what appeared to be a fight with a more mature bird who controls a nesting site in the First Street area. Fisher, who was in her living room at the time of the accident, said the sound of the bird hitting the window, then struggling to get off her deck was like an explosion.
Just stunned in his encounter with the window, the eagle stuck around for a few hours, though not by choice. The glass enclosure around Fishers deck confused the bird, which could not figure out why it could not fly away. It flapped repeatedly against the glass before calming down to wait for something to happen.
Thats when things got interesting, at least for Steve Layman of Clinton. A falconer who has experience with rehabilitating raptors, Layman showed up at Fishers house a couple of hours after the eagles crash landing. After stepping past a Langley police officer and onto the deck, Layman used a little sleight of hand to distract the bird, grab its huge talons, and roll it onto its back.
Calm once in Laymans grasp, the bird displayed only a few scratches on its talons, injuries consistent with a midair fight with another eagle. The whack against the window did no damage, Layman said.
After releasing the unhurt bird over the deck railing, Layman surmised that the territorial fight which was probably over nesting space and, hence, potential mates drove the eagle to look for a hiding place. Fishers house was almost ideal, except for the window.
Layman said these sorts of events will be more common as spring sets in. The day before rescuing the eagle from Fishers porch, he was called to a clients house to examine unusual marks on another window. A window washer by trade and a bird biologist by training, Layman found delicate impressions of owl feathers on the window the result of an owl fighting with its reflection in defense of its mating territory.
Since there is little to be done about these collisions, Layman recommends that homeowners in raptor and owl territories keep on hand the phone number for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, in case a bird rescue is needed.
He also encourages people like Fisher to leave the collision residue on their windows for a while, even though it goes against his instincts as a window cleaner.
Dont wash it off right away, he said. Its a great conversation piece.
Layman said he expects squabbles over territory to increase as eagle populations skyrocket over the next few years.
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I have recently gone through an appeal to the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board (GMHB) of King County procedures/lack of effective notice for several environmental overlays adopted in 1997-adopted separately from the county's annual comprehensive plan (complan) amendment process where it belonged. One of the issues involved repeal of pre-GMA community plans tree retention requirements. County notices recommended repeal because Title 21A, adopted under GMA procedures, superseded community plan requirements for tree coverage and native vegetation retention. The last date for public testimony on all of the environmental overlay issues was published as May 27, 1997.
On June 16, 1997 Councilman Brian Derdowski introduced amendments that created tree-retention overlays that could be applied countywide, and the public hearing was held that same day. Then the overlays were applied to the Northshore and Soos Creek planning areas, where they had been originated in pre-GMA community plans. Not one affected landowner testified, including myself, because we knew nothing of what Mr. Derdowski was doing; i.e., complete lack of notice. (The amendments are significant and will drive up development costs as builders try to position apartments and commercial structures around existing trees and clumps of trees.)
The GMHB-in my mind bowing to the enormous political clout of King County-supported King County and denied my appeal petition. However, the decision's ending statement said "NOTICE: This order constitutes a final order as specified by RCW 336.70A.300 unless a party files a motion for reconsideration pursuant to WAC 242-02-832." I saw serious flaws in the GMHB decision and filed a motion for reconsideration on March 27. (I worked really hard and spent a lot of time on that motion.) Yesterday I called to see when I might expect a response. The answer was never. The GMHB chose not to respond. It seems that no response means the decision stands.
If current rules allow a petitioner to be strung out awaiting a response that will never come, those rules should be changed, if only to force the hearings boards to add to their notices that no response means no change. However, it should be required that the hearings boards write saying "We stand by our original decision." The shared waters/shared stewardship concepts promulgated by the Washington State/British Columbia task force will significantly affect shoreline use in Puget Sound and the Straits of Juan de Fuca. Recommendations for permitting single-family homes within 200' of high water would allow use of only 30% of an owner's waterfront, plus required mitigation for use of that 30%. I'm following that process, as should those working on Shoreline Management Act issues.
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NEWARK — With the victims' families looking on, four men pleaded not guilty today to charges related to the shooting deaths of two Essex County teenagers in June.
The four defendants – Ali Muhammad Brown, Jeremy Villagran, Eric Williams, and Andre Fields – made their first court appearances in the unrelated killings of19-year-old Livingston resident Brendan Tevlin and Cheyanne Bond, 17, of Irvington.
Brown, Villagran and Williams are charged in Tevlin's homicide, and Fields is charged in Bond's slaying.
Bond's family sat on one side of the Newark courtroom and Tevlin's relatives sat on the other side as each defendant appeared separately with their attorneys before Superior Court Judge Ronald Wigler.
The attorneys each entered pleas of not guilty, and Wigler said the matters would be referred to a grand jury for possible indictments.
The four defendants are in custody at the Essex County Correctional Facility. Bail has been set at $5 million for Brown, and $1 million each for Villagran, Williams and Fields.
The Bond and Tevlin families declined to comment.
In speaking with reporters after the court appearances, Thomas Fennelly, Essex County chief assistant prosecutor, said the family of any homicide victim has "suffered tremendous losses."
"We're here to try to seek justice and also help to navigate them through…the judicial process," Fennelly said.
Prosecutors have said the motive in both killings was robbery, but they have declined to provide certain additional details about the cases – including how the three defendants in Tevlin's homicide are connected, and how Fields became a suspect in Bond's killing.
In Tevlin's slaying, prosecutors have said Brown, 29, of Seattle, and Villagran, 19, and Williams, 18, both of West Orange, pulled up in a vehicle behind the teenager's Jeep Liberty as he was stopped at a traffic light at Northfield Avenue and Walker Road in West Orange.
Williams allegedly stayed behind the wheel, while Brown and Villagran got out and surrounded Tevlin's car, prosecutors said. Brown then fired 10 bullets at Tevlin, striking him eight times, prosecutors said.
Williams and Villagran fled the scene, while Brown got into Tevlin's vehicle, prosecutors said. Brown moved Tevlin's body to the passenger seat, drove to a nearby apartment complex and stole personal items from him, leaving the car behind, prosecutors said.
Brown – who was arrested on July 18 when he was found living in a makeshift camp area in West Orange -- also has been accused of killing two gay men in Seattle. Due to the nature of those offenses, Brown would be eligible for the death penalty if convicted.
Essex County prosecutors said they have been in talks with authorities in Washington State about extraditing Brown, but no decisions have been made.
Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Jamel Semper, who is handling the Tevlin case, told reporters after the court appearances that he could not address how Brown traveled from Seattle to New Jersey.
"What I can say is that this is an active investigation, and that certain things are still being looked at," Semper said.
Four days after Tevlin's killing, Bond was gunned down on June 29 during an attempted robbery on the 500 block of South 17th Street in Newark, prosecutors said.
Bond was walking on the street with a 17-year-old male friend when Fields, 31, of Irvington, and another man confronted them, demanding they hand over an iPhone, prosecutors said. The iPhone belonged to the friend, who also was shot, but survived his injuries, prosecutors said.
The second suspect is being sought, prosecutors said.


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Ricardo Hernandez, 21, Elm Park Inn
Like a family that gathers round grandma's table for Sunday dinners, Elm Park Inn's Friday night crowd buzzes around this barkeep's counter. Only, he's the baby of the "family."
At 21, Hernandez is young enough to be the son of several regulars. He's like a devoted son, they say. "He wears himself out making you happy," says Gloria Pleszewicz, 61, of Graniteville. She and her friends gave him a black leather wallet for his birthday.
When he needed advice about moving into his first apartment, Hernandez checked in with his Baby Boomer customer fan base. Known as Rich to his patrons, he's just as good with the younger crowd, say devotees.
A junior majoring in business at the College of Staten Island, Hernandez wants to become a firefighter and eventually own an Italian restaurant. "I just like talking to people," says the New York Yankees and Giants fan. "I always know what they're kind of feeling. I may be young, but I may be the oldest 21-year-old you'll ever meet."
When the Mariners Harbor resident, who bar-backs at Chic-N-Bones in Mariners Harbor and also bartends at the Lion's Den in the West Village, isn't working, the single guy pals around with friends and looks out for ladies.
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The Alabama Supreme Court last week gave new hope to those with an interest in keeping state lawmakers off the payrolls of two-year colleges.
And by those with an interest, we mean taxpayers.
Those of us footing the bill for the community colleges and the Legislature got the shaft coming and going because of lawmakers collecting paychecks from various campuses.
But the state Board of Education's attempt to end the abuse -- and eventually to ban any employment of lawmakers in two-year colleges -- was met with furious opposition from the lawmakers themselves and from the Alabama Education Association.
Montgomery County Circuit Judge Johnny Hardwick sided with the challengers, saying the school board hadn't met the requirements of the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act in adopting the rules on "double-dipping." The Supreme Court last week ruled the school board didn't have to follow that act and sent the case back to Hardwick.
The 8-0 ruling doesn't mean the double-dipping rules won't face other challenges. The AEA said it intends to keep fighting. But at least for now, the school board's policy has carried the day.
Taxpayers should be more than pleased.
Sure, some lawmakers had bona fide two-year college jobs even before they were elected, and some of them tried to be scrupulous about their duties. But even they were gone from campus much of the time, and there were built-in conflicts of interest. How is a supervisor going to treat an employee who votes on the state's education budget?
And if the best-case scenario was bad, imagine the more plentiful rotten scenarios.
The Birmingham News reported on lawmakers who got their jobs because of their elected positions, rarely if ever showed up for actual work and had nothing to show for years of supposed employment.
Others appeared to be getting paid by a college to serve campus interests in the Legislature.
A number of lawmakers gave up college jobs after the scandal hit. But the school board is right to try to ensure lawmakers stay off two-year college payrolls. The potential for abuse is too great.
The Supreme Court ruling offers hope the double-dipping ban -- and taxpayers -- will come out of this fight on top.


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A 47-year-old man Tuesday was booked on 100 counts of possessing and distributing child pornography involving juveniles after an investigation by the Louisiana Attorney General's Cyber Crime Unit.
Richard Mudd, of Livingston, violated a state law forbidding an individual to produce, distribute, possess, or possess with the intent to distribute pornography involving juveniles.
The arrest is a result of a joint investigation involving the Louisiana Attorney General's Cyber Crime Unit, Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office and Homeland Security Investigations.
If convicted, Mudd faces up to 20 years in prison on each count.


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But folks have been enjoying the unseasonably warm weather.
Two such fresh-air seekers were walking on the pier at Heritage Landing on Thursday. Larry and Tina Walker, from Muskegon Heights, were enjoying the spring melt.
"It's beautiful today," said Tina Walker as birds flew over the lake.
Larry Walker was grateful for the warmth, but "it could've been a little earlier," he said. "It's Michigan, though, so I'll take what I can get."
Crystal England, who was enjoying her time at Heritage Landing with her nephew, Ryan. "I think this is the most sun we've had in March since I can remember," she said.Wayne Hoepner, a meterologist at the Grand Rapids office of the National Weather Service, said spring weather in Michigian can be unpredictable.
"It's spring, but we get measurable snow as late as May," he said. "Even though we're on a warming trend, there's still a chance for winter-like weather."
The weather service's forecast for Muskegon calls for a high of 39 degrees and a 70 percent chance of snow Saturday. Sunday and Monday could only be slightly warmer, with a high of 44 and 43. Temperatures will begin to climb again Tuesday, with a predicted high of 51.
This is typical for this time of year, Hoepner said. "Colder temperatures will come in and stick around for at most a couple of days."
The current weather comes at the beginning of what the National Weather Service considers to be the spring months.
Data from the weather service shows that Muskegon had a mostly average winter, with a little more than 73.2 inches of total snowfall and an average high of 31.8 degrees. This is only around nine inches less than the usual total amount, and only half a degree shy of the normal average temperature.
March's current average is 48.6 degrees, which is more than 7 degrees higher than the normal.
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Left behind at the docks while the broader equity markets sailed into rallyville, the dry bulk sector is bound to steer into some relative strength at some point ... right?
In a word: yes.
Although the sizeable overhang of excess supply in the world's dry bulk fleet has exerted immense forces against the shares of dry bulk shippers, the strongest operators among them are finally showing signs that this shipwrecked sector is preparing to get under way.
Diana Shipping (NYSE: DSX ) beat expectations this week with first-quarter profit of $28.8 million. Absorbing a further 8% decline in the average daily charter rate, from already impaired prior-year levels, Diana sustained revenue of more than $62 million by virtue of a steady fleet expansion that added 10% to available operating days. More importantly, Diana's addition of three new vessels since last year coincided with a restoration of the near-perfect fleet utilization rates we witnessed before the perfect storm. That expansion is just the beginning; according to one recent analyst report, Diana "has the ability to double its fleet without external equity."
Forging a strategic move into ships of ultra-massive scale with the well-priced purchase order for two 206,000-deadweight-ton Newcastlemax carriers, Diana has begun to transmit its long-awaited signal that the coast may be clearing. Notwithstanding the potential 40% resource tax in Australia that has mining investors concerned, these huge ships fulfill the pan-Asian demand for seaborne coal with a cost efficiency that surpasses even the popular Capesize carriers. These unrivaled behemoths are purpose-built to serve the expanding coal export capacity that miners BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP ) , Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU ) , and Yanzhou Coal Mining (NYSE: YZC ) have joined forces to build in Newcastle.
Meanwhile, just as the equity markets began to crest, and it seemed nothing was on the rise, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) -- an index of prevailing dry bulk charter rates -- initiated a huge surge that has yielded a 40% increase in charter rates just during the past month. Now, given the disruptive oversupply of vessels, I don't view the BDI as the reliable economic indicator it's customarily interpreted to be. However, it's certainly a welcome sign for shippers that spot rates are showing significant strength. It's possible to infer, furthermore, that perhaps Asian demand for commodities has not ebbed to the extent that recent declines in the region's stock markets might suggest.
Looking back over the past couple of years, the dry bulk stocks that I have highlighted as relative outperformers have stood the test of time. Diana Shipping, in my unwavering opinion, remains the queen of the fleet, while Navios Maritime Holdings (NYSE: NM ) and Genco Shipping & Trading (NYSE: GNK ) are worthy of an extended look. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Fools are strongly encouraged to resist the urge to speculate on the ultimate fate of DryShips (Nasdaq: DRYS ) .
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Sam Yaghmaie joins WHPacific's construction management team
Sam Yaghmaie, PE, LEED AP joined WHPacific as construction manager in the company's Bothell office. Yahhmaie has more than 29 years of diverse experience in providing project management, construction management, business development, design peer review, client management, project LEED certification, and materials engineering.
"I am thrilled to have Sam Yaghmaie join our construction management services team," said David Williams, Bothell office operations manager. "Sam's reputation, capabilities, and focus on customer service will continue our strong growth in Construction Management for clients throughout the Pacific Northwest."
His project experience includes geotechnical consulting for water and wastewater facilities and conveyance systems, transportation, transit, tunnels, dams, ports, high-rise buildings, and power facilities. Sam excels at managing teams of engineers, geologists, environmentalists, scientists, construction managers, and field QA/QC staff on public and private projects. While managing projects, he was responsible for staffing, contract and scope negotiation, budget maintenance and reporting, scope management, and quality control supervision.
Prior to joining WHPacific, Yahhmaie held positions with CDM Smith, Inc. and Harris & Associates, where he was involved with a variety of large projects in Washington, such as the Brightwater Treatment Plant in King County, various phases of Sound Transit projects, and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) projects, as well as smaller roadway improvements projects.
Yahhmaie regularly publishes articles and presents on public works issues at Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association (PNCWA), Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), Washington Association of Sewer and Water Districts (WASWD), and American Public Works Association (APWA) conferences. Sam's focus as WHPacific construction manager will include sales and business development, managing projects and staff, and providing technical oversight and guidance on projects.
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Q: What are some of the major changes that customers at Giant have seen in the last 40 years?
A:Technology! While it has changed all of our lives over the last 40 years, I can remember working in the store and when the power went off we would be called to the front of the store to hand-crank the IBM cash registers. The cashier would key-enter the item, and you would crank the machine to make the transaction. Today you have self-checkouts, scanners to help check out the customer. Or if the customer so chooses, they can check themselves out with handheld scanning devices as they are making their purchases in the aisles.
Similar things can be said about how we order products for the store. You used to write your orders and deliver the order book to be transmitted into an order over the telephone.
Today the technology takes care of that for you, and the computer writes your order. We still have to follow all the processes, but technology tracks what the customer is buying, and you are not trying to guess, "Should I ordermore orange, grape or strawberry?"
Q: What is your favorite thing about your workplace, or what would you change if you could?
A:My favorite part of the workplace is the people. It is not just the associates but the customers as well.
You have the opportunity to have an impact on the lives of many individuals as well as receive the influence of others. You build teamwork and great relations in the workplace that can stand the test of time.
You have the ability to help others and share in their success. It is amazing to see the associates take on a challenge and what theyare capable of completing. You also make friends with customers where you have earned their trust and have been rewarded with their repeat business throughout the years — on top of the privilege to get to know them better. Giant is a great place to work and shop because of its associates and its customers.
Q: What do you remember about first becoming someone'sboss?
A:I remember that I thought I was really ready take on a new assignment.
I learned quickly— maybe not so much. It is not about what you know but what your team knows and how they will support you. That first decision or direction that you give and how you do it begins to set the tone!
Once you have made that first decision you have begun on-the-job training in leadership. You need associates to believe in you, and you have an obligation to build their trust. Your team needs to have a sayin how you are going to accomplish the task before you. Listen. There might be a better way. Each time you take on a new assignment — or every day when you get up — there are associates and people whom you have agreed to give guidance to and take responsibility for in the workplace.
It was not just about your skills and talent, but the ability and obligation to get the job done through the people and tools that you were provided.
There are people counting on you; that is what you signed up for.
Q: Who were your biggest influences as a leader?
A:My father and his brother. Both earned their way to become Presidents in the banking industry where honesty and integrity were part of their lives when dealing with customers and the business world. I learned quickly that you present an image in your life that defines who you will become.
Once you start a project, you have committed to complete that project to the best of your ability and there is the great potential that other people are counting on you.
I was taught to hunt, fish and play sports by my father and uncle. To respect my surroundings and to understand the world is a marvelous place and all creatures in the world have a purpose.
I admired Abraham Lincoln for many reasons but more for the fact that he was a man who made many decisions in his life to strive for different goals and did not achieve success in those goals each time. Yet, he became the president, so never set your dreams or goals too low.
Q: What is the most fun part of your job?
A:Visiting the stores and spending time with associates in the store. This is really where it all happens.
The associates taking care of the customer and having products ready for sale.
It is a great feeling to go to the stores and see how hard everyone has worked to offer a good store for the customer to shop. Giant's goal is to be the supermarket of choice for the customer offering quality, selection and savings better every day. It's great to see the vision of the company come to life and the ability to serve customers and be a part of the community in which each store operates.
Talking to
the associates on how we can help change a process that will make their
jobs easier and serve the customer faster and better while still
achieving their expectations. Talking to the customers and finding out
how we can serve their needs better or what we can do to make the store
their store of choice.