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Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers.
Anyone remember Attorney General Kathleen Kane's investigation of Gov. Tom Corbett's handling of the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal at Penn State? Well, it's still going on and it just might be the biggest unknown in this year's campaign for the governor's office.
Depending on when it's released, Kane's report on Corbett's handling of the investigation he initiated while serving as the two-term attorney general, could be a bombshell.
First a little context: When she took office last year, Kane, a Democrat, promised her own investigation of the investigation that landed Sandusky, a former assistant Nittany Lions football coach, in state prison on child-sex charges for the rest of his life.
Corbett faced allegations that he dragged his feet for the three years it took to get Sandusky off the street. Corbett countered that the investigation had to be thorough -- all the better to make sure the state got its man. The eventual charges were filed by Corbett's successor, interim AG Linda Kelly.
More astute readers will recall the chain reaction Sandusky's arrest provoked.
In case you don't, our pal Brad Bumsted of the Tribune-Review runs it down for you. It included the campus protests, the firing of Joe Paterno and the criminal charges filed against former PSU President Graham B. Spanier and two administrators. Bumsted also takes on the political liabilities Corbett faces as a consequence of the probe.
If Kane's report hammers Corbett -- which is probably what's going to happen, Bumsted opines -- then she'll be accused of playing politics in an election year. If she sits on it until after the Nov. 5 election -- which Bumsted thinks she should -- then she takes a powerful arrow out of the quiver of the eventual Democratic nominee.
So stay tuned. The rest of the day's news starts now.
County commissioners are looking for the restoration of the $86 million, or the 10 percent, that was cut from state human services funding in Gov. Tom Corbett's budget, The Times-Tribune of Scranton reports. With Pennsylvania facing as much as a $1.4 billion budget hole, that should make things interesting.
Ever wonder what happened to that property tax break you were supposed to get because of casino gambling? Yeah ... you're not the only one.
As noted elsewhere in these pages, a Feb. 3 forum in Harrisburg will look at the shortage of women in local and statewide elected office and how to close the gap.
A new George Mason University study finds Pennsylvania state government's financial health among the worst in the nation, The Tribune-Review reports.
Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators are split over a new free-trade agreement (Hint, Bob Casey is challenging the White House on it), The Morning Call reports.
With Harrisburg set to jack its parking prices, Keystone Politics looks at the tangled history of the humble parking meter.
PoliticsPA rounds up the best of last week's news from the governor's race.
Monday's Gratuitous Football Link.
Heavy Rotation. Anyone for some new music from James Blake? The blubstep impresario debuted a track on BBC1 the other day.
Monday's Gratuitous Football Link.
Of course, Richard Sherman's post-game rant to Erin Andrews was the best moment of television yesterday.
And now you're up to date. Enjoy your Monday. We'll see you all back here on Tuesday.


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by Dr. Vern Grubinger Vegetable and Berry Specialist
University of Vermont Extension
With springtime just around the corner, optimism abounds.
Red Sox fans think World Series; school children hope
for straight A's; and gardeners dream of their vegetables,
fruit, and flowers to come.
My seed catalogs are dog-eared, the dilly beans are
gone and it's too early to plant much in the windowsill.
So what else is there to do but plan for the best garden
ever? Forget last year's weather woes and pest problems.
Optimism is the engine of horticulture in Vermont.
These are my predictions for the coming season. The
last frost in early April will be followed by steady
warming until summer temperatures hit 75 to 80 degrees
F--and stay there. Rainfall will be uniformly distributed.
An inch or two every week, between Mondays and Fridays,
with full sun on weekends.
There may be hail, flood or drought in other states,
but we'll have none of that. The season will stretch
on into autumn, the first frost holding off until after
a bumper crop of fall raspberries has been picked.
Japanese beetles and European corn borer will promote
international harmony by doing no damage on these shores.
Blights, wilts, scab, and smut will not live up to their
names. Birds and bunnies will find enough food in the
wild. And the local deer herd will enjoy a menu that
doesn't include cultivated crops.
Just in case these fantasies don't come true, I am
making some practical plans, too, trying a few new things
in the garden this year to tilt nature's balance in
my favor. I'm attaching a trickle irrigation system
to the outdoor spigot. For a hundred bucks I can get
all the components, including a filter, pressure regulator,
tubing, connectors and oodles of drip tape. Another
60 dollars buys a programmable water timer. This system
will save many hours of dragging hoses and standing
around like a human sprinkler. Plus, my plants are going
to get the steady supply of water they need to grow
best. And since leaves won't be getting wet as often,
foliar fungi like tomato early blight will be kept at
Once my crops are growing like Jack's proverbial bean
stalk, they'll need plenty of nutrients. Instead of
applying lime and fertilizer based on intuition, this
year I'm going to test my soil and apply only what's
recommended. I'm swearing-off manure that's not fully
composted, since it usually contains vast quantities
of weed seeds, and it has the potential to cause illness
if it splashes onto food crops. Instead, I'll be mixing
a couple of inches of mature compost into each bed before
planting annuals or spreading a layer around my perennials.
However, I'll still get my load of manure--to make next
year's compost.
My homeland security plan for the garden emphasizes
exclusion to manage the onslaught of flea beetles, potato
beetles, and cabbage maggot flies. I'll be covering
many early-season crops with a floating row cover like
Remay, a lightweight cloth that lets sun and water in,
but keepspests out, as long as the edged are covered
with soil and weighed down with rocks. The moment young
caterpillar pests arrive I'll be ready to with B.t.
biological insecticide to keep them under control, without
harming beneficial insects. On my apples, I'll use a
non-toxic insecticide made from kaolin clay, called
Surround, to suppress plum curculio.
For noxious weeds (Is there another kind?) I'm planning
on hand-to-hand combat. I've sharpened my trusty old
hoes, and even ordered a special 'collinear' hoe, designed
by horticultural guru Elliot Coleman. It has a special
thin blade for cutting off small weeds in tight places,
before they become big weeds.
Of course, the joy of gardening comes not just from
triumphs over uncooperative weather and ravenous critters.
There's also the pleasure of trying new crops, cultivars,
and growing techniques. This year I'll be trying out
edamame, also known as vegetable soybean or butterbean.
I've ordered multicolored radishes, red and yellow carrots,
and purple tomatillos. Like many commercial growers,
I'll experiment with planting strawberry plugs in the
fall and harvesting fruit the following spring, rather
than growing the plants for a whole year before harvest.
Some of my plans will bear fruit, and others may wilt,
but one thing I know for sure. By the end of next winter
I'll be dreaming of the perfect garden once again.

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NEWARK -- Martin Brodeur is in net as the Devils host the Chicago Blackhawks, the team with the most points in the NHL.
The Blackhawks are coming off a 3-2 loss at the Islanders Thursday night but beat the Devils 5-2 when the two teams played Dec. 23.
"You never want to wish to play a team like Chicago but I think with the way we played last game and how lopsided it was in almost every facet it's going to be a great challenge and a great opportunity to rebound and at least throw our best game at them," coach Pete DeBoer said today.
Chicago re-takes the lead after Patrick Kane skates down the right side of the ice, throws the puck towards the net and sees it go in after deflecting off Brandon Saad's skate right in front of the crease, then off Marek Zidlicky and past Martin Brodeur. Chicago leads 2-1 and Kane is credited with the goal.
Patrick Sharp quickly adds another goal on top of it as his shot from the red line perpendicular to the goal beats Brodeur inside the near post. Chicago leads 3-1.
Blackhawks extend their lead to 4-1 as Toews skates to the left faceoff circle, then drops off to Marian Hossa who shoots it over a diving Bryce Salvador and past Brodeur.
The Devils get a goal back to the cut deficit to 4-2 after Andrei Loktionov feeds Marek Zidlicky inside the right faceoff circle, who then beats Raanta on the far post.
Zidlicky brings the Devils to within a goal after the Devils circle around the puck in the Blackhawks zone on the power play before Erik Gelinas finds the defenseman atop the left faceoff circle and he blasts a goal past Raanta. Chicago leads 4-3 with 6:23 left.
Brodeur makes a save on Sharp's wrist shot then Jonathan Toews' rebound but can't stop Sharp's second shot from above the faceoff circle after the Devils can't clear the puck. Chicago leads 1-0.
Devils tie it 43 seconds later as Andy Greene finishes an odd-man rush started by Steve Bernier and off a pass from Stephen Gionta. Devils and Blackhawks tied at 1-1.
Bernier wins a loose puck in the Blackhawks' zone and turns to hit Gionta above the crease alone with Antti Raanta, who makes a glove save.
Raanta makes a save on Zajac in front of the net, off a pass from Gionta while shorthanded.
The Devils kill off a Blackhawks power play, earned when Mark Fayne was called for tripping 42 seconds into the game, without allowing a shot on goal.
Devils kill off another penalty, this time because of too many on the ice, although they have to grit through a Duncan Keith shot that hits the post and Martin Brodeur makes a save on Kris Versteeg's one-timer from between the faceoff circles.
Chicago goaltender Antti Raanta makes a save on Marek Zidlicky's shot from the point, then makes two more off rebounds, including Steve Bernier's shot from behind the net.
Travis Zajac finds himself with the puck above the crease but Raanta makes a point-blank save and covers up with 5:49 remaining


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ORANGE BEACH, Alabama -- The Gulf Shores portion of the $16 million beach renourishment project wrapped up Sunday and work began this week on the next leg in Orange Beach.
"The intake site is at the Cotton Bayou public beach," Orange Beach City Administrator Ken Grimes announced at Tuesday night's council meeting. "They'll be working toward Turquoise Place and when that is completed back to Cotton Bayou they'll shift the pipe and then they'll go to the west from Cotton Bayou. After that they'll move the pipes."
Grimes said crews with Manson Construction Co. are a week or two ahead of schedule. "So it's actually a good thing as we approach spring break."
The project began in October at Laguna Key at the edge of the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Gulf Shores and when the job is finished it will have replenished sand through Gulf State Park and Orange Beach to the Florida state line.
The project is restoring roughly 2.2 million cubic yards of sand, the equivalent of about 688 Olympic-size pools, lost along Baldwin County's shoreline from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008, Ida in 2009 and Isaac in August.
Grimes said the work shouldn't disturb condo owners and renters for too long.
"If you hear the tractors running it is a 24/7 operation and typically they're not in front of any condo for more than one to 2 days max."
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is paying 75 percent of the project's $16 million price tag, while the Alabama Emergency Management Agency is paying 12.5 percent and the two cities and Gulf State Park are covering the rest, depending on each one's share of sand.
Anyone wishing to track the restoration project's progress can do so on project engineer Olsen Associates Inc.'s website at http://olsen-associates.com/obgs/.


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A man wakes up in a strange bed, hung over and not remembering what happened the night before. He remembers it is his wedding day. In the bed next to him is a woman he doesn't know – certainly not his fiancée.
Thus begins "Perfect Wedding," a comedy by British playwright Robin Hawdon. While the Jefferson Performing Arts Society's current production transfers the location of the play from its original London setting to a plantation home bed and breakfast hotel in central Louisiana, there is no doubt of its origins. This is a pure British sex farce designed strictly for wacky fun.
From that well-worn setup, the plot includes just about every cliché one can imagine about a crazed wedding day, from Bridezilla to the befuddled bridegroom. Further twists and turns in the silly story are hardly new, involving mixed-up girlfriends, clueless lovers and mistaken identities, and most of the plot can be forecast literally minutes into the proceedings.
Despite such familiarity with its devices, a brightly energetic cast makes "Perfect Wedding" a perfectly delightful evening of unbridled laughs.
Director Phillip A. Benson has a strong feel for the building hysteria, allowing his actors broad latitude in their characterizations, while also playing the stringent traffic cop keeping each frenzied entrance and exit precisely timed. The frenetic pace never lags as he keeps the plot moving swiftly, while always keeping the audience in the loop.
The general tone of the show is distinctly contemporary, but follows in the tradition of such established comedy classics as "Plaza Suite." The comedy does have a sharper edge to it at points, and the underlying commentary about relationships between men and women can start to feel more like Neil LaBute than Neil Simon.
Enthusiastic and satisfying performances are presented across the board. Jacob McManus is a lovable lunk as Bill, the hungover groom-to-be. Without getting too deep, the playwright allows Bill more character development than one would expect. The audience rightfully may question his suitability for marriage, but McManus' performance wins us over. He is a charming, if accidental, cad.
Erich Abbott is Tom, the best man, whose own complicated love life becomes wound up in the plot. Beginning as the calming influence, his step-by-step descent into madness is hilarious.
Lindsey M. Page is the hotel chambermaid pulled into the maneuverings as Bill's attempts to cover up his indiscretion expand beyond control. As the outsider, she is able to raise the questions the audience might pose, more than a few times, primarily "What were you thinking?"
- What: The Jefferson Performing Arts Society presents playwright Robin Hawdon's comedy about a bridegroom who awakens on his wedding day and finds a strange woman in his bed. When the bride arrives, the strange woman is trapped in the bathroom. And then things get complicated. Directed by Phillip A. Benson; starring Jacob McManus, Claire Speers, Erich Abbott, Hope Leigh, Lindsey M. Page, and Margeaux Fanning.
- Where: Teatro Wego, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego.
- When: Performances at 7:30 Fridays and Saturdays, and at 3 Sundays, through March 23. The production moves to the Greater Covington Center March 28-30, and to the Northshore Harbor Center in Slidell April 4-6.
- Admission: $30 for adults, $27 for seniors and military, $20 for students, and $15 for children 12 and under. The show is recommended for audiences 13 and older. For information, call 504.885.2000 or visit the company's website.
Claire Speers tackles the toughest role as Judy, the girlfriend (just whose remains to be seen) found in bed at the opening. She is both the mortified guilty other woman, and the character who seems most able to recognize genuine love. Speers creates an endearing portrayal.
As Rachel, Hope Leigh lightly unveils the inner self-centered monster of the bride so attentive to the details of her "perfect wedding" that she may be missing the bigger picture of the advisability of her pending marriage. Margeaux Fanning adds crisp comic timing as the mother of the bride, delivering some of the play's best zingers.
Michele Miatello's set is tastefully done, capturing the sense of a romantic two-room hotel suite. As the main action moved from one of the rooms to the other, the back-and-forth lighting changes were unnecessary and served more as a distraction than as a means of focusing the audience's attention.
In its clichés, there may not be much that's new in "Perfect Wedding," but within its something old and something borrowed, its plentiful laughs will leave the audience anything but something blue.


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If the Eisners or the Harveys were to give awards for best comics advertising - - hell, even whatever awards organization's out there - - they'd need to re
cognize whoever came up with this whole "full-shot of a character in front of a big logo with a quoted mantra" scheme. Image has been rolling out teasers for their GUARDIANS OF THE GLOBE title that's hitting this August - - and it's the REAL one this time - - and the line-up so far includes Brit, Kaboomerang, Outrun and Yeti. Have a gander at the their solo spots throughout here.
A little back story, of course. You might recall that Image ran an ad campaign to introduce members of the GUARDIANS OF THE GLOBE last week. Invincible, Spawn, Rick Grimes from WALKING DEAD, President Obama and Harry Potter were announced in what was eventually revealed to be a hoax (and there's a lot of that going around in comics, lately). Going back further than that, you might also recall that the images were modeled after the one-sheets Marvel was rolling out to announce new members of the Avengers, the New Avengers, the Secret Avengers and the Avengers Academy. They also offered a no-prize for whomever could actually keep track of all four teams (well no, but they SHOULD have). Going back even further, all these campaigns remind me of the house ads Marvel was running in 1996 around the time of the MARVEL VS. DC crossover. They were similar singles of characters in front of white backgrounds with their choice quotes warping around them and, sadly, I can't find them anywhere online. Anybody else remember these?
Anyway, what do you think of this real line-up, oh stark-and-simple Comicvine community? Do you embrace the reality or would you have preferred the fantasy?
-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. Watch out for the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover collection this March - - available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.


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Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:15 AM
The Fort Calhoun nuclear power station in Fort Calhoun, Neb. is surrounded by flood waters from the Missouri River, Tuesday, June 14, 2011. The costly flood disaster was softened by massive federal aid -- the sort of aid one of the state's U.S. senators voted to deny to the 14 states hit by Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo)
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RICHARD METZGAR and DOUGLAS PIPPIN, faculty members at the State University College at Oswego, will receive the 2012 President's Award for Excellence in Academic Advisement. Metzgar teaches art; Pippin teaches anthropology.
ROBERT BARRER, a partner at Hiscock & Barclay LLP, spoke about the disciplinary consequences of lawyer impairment at the 2012 annual meeting of the County Attorneys' Association of the State of New York. Barrer, of Syracuse, focuses his practice on complex commercial and tort litigation and ethics and professional responsibility.
TOM MERRICK has been promoted to executive creative director at Eric Mower & Associates. Merrick, of Baldwinsville, has worked at the agency for more than 20 years. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, in New York City.
New medical staff members at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center include: Dr. FRANCIS L. KIRK, of Binghamton, anesthesia; Dr. MICHAEL A. LACOMBE, of Vernon Hills, Ill., radiology; Dr. JOHN SCHUBMEHL, of Hamilton, psychiatry; and Dr. RICHARD F. SEIDNER, of Fayetteville, family medicine.
The South Side Innovation Center has been named the Dinah Adkins Incubator of the Year by the National Business Incubator Association. The association advances business incubation and entrepreneurship, with more than 1,900 members in more than 60 nations. The innovation center is a program of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
JOHN SCHMITT has been named business development representative for truck hydraulics at D&W Diesel Inc. Schmitt is a graduate of Cornell University and has more than 18 years' experience in sales and sales management.


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Northshore's Parker Morris is in very select company.
The senior-to-be was one of 12 outfielders nationally to be recently selected to the Louisville Slugger High School All-American team. In fact, Morris was one of only five Louisiana players to make the team and the only one from the metro area, and the only underclassman to win the honor.
Other players from the state were Barbe catcher Bryce Jordan and his twin brother, outfielder Beau, along with St. Thomas More pitcher Wyatt Marks and his teammate, catcher Chase Vallot, the Louisiana Sports Writers Association's Player of the Year.
In his junior season with the Panthers, Morris was 49-for-102 (.480 batting average) with a .902 slugging percentage. He hit 14 doubles, four triples, seven home runs and knocked in 30 runs, leading the team in just about every offensive category.
Still, after hitting just below .300 in his sophomore season he wasn't quite sure of what to expect. He knew he would be better and thought he'd have a great chance to be All-District and maybe even All-State. But he never dreamed of a national award.
"It was pretty cool," Morris said. "My friend, Zach Buster (who plays for St. Paul's and with Morris on the NOLA Baseball 18U travel team), called me. I was just chilling at my house, and when I answered the phone, he said, 'Dude, you're an All-American.' I didn't really believe him at first, but I checked when he sent me the link and my name was up there.
"I didn't expect All-American at all, whatsoever. All-State, I thought it was possible, but I guess things turned out all right."
It was a roller-coaster ride at Northshore this season. The year began in February with Coach Rick Mauldin winning his 500th career game, and later a very slow start in District 6-5A play made it tough on the Panthers.
In early April, Mauldin announced he would have to miss the remainder of the season due to impending back surgery. However, with Morris leading the way, the team surged after that under acting coach Vincent Ruda and won six consecutive games to get themselves back in the playoff race before falling just short.
"It was a great season. We lacked a little bit of pitching, but we were really a great hitting team," Morris said. "When Coach Mauldin left with his back, we started winning more and more games; it was weird. I don't know why. … Coach Mauldin is a great coach.
"As for me, I was coming off my sophomore season when I hit .294, and I just got locked in. I never really got in any slumps. I had a couple of 0-fer games and missed one game with an injury, but it was a great season."
Morris said he is grateful to the help he received from experienced seniors Dane Pedersen and Nico Cuccia this past spring, and "they're good friends of mine; they left a big impression and are leaders on and off the field."
He said he isn't sure what he might do as far as college. He can begin interaction with schools July 1, and he said "I guess we'll see then" who might be interested. For now, he'll continue to "think about (life after high school) every day."
Morris is playing summer ball with NOLA Baseball, and it won't be long before school starts again and he'll begin preparation for his senior season. No matter what happens, he'll look back fondly on what turned into the best junior season in the state of Louisiana this year.
"I don't know if there are any higher awards, but I'm going to try and do it again (as a senior)," he said. "There were some big names up there. It was quite an honor."
Jim Derry can be reached at email@example.com or 504.232.9944. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/JimDerryJr.


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It is arguably the grandest stage in all of dog land.
Today, at the 135th annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York City's Madison Square Garden, 15-year-old Ludlow High School freshman Katherine R. Menches and her pet Australian shepard Austin will take to the show ring.
Austin, aka
To win the prestigious best-in-show award at Westminster, a dog must first win best of breed and then its class. The Australian shepherd is in the herding class.
Menches was supposed to show a dog at Madison Square Garden last year, but because of snow, the dog was never flown in.
"It was the first time I attended the show. I observed, and I learned a lot," she says.
Since then, she's gotten a lot of experience, including showing in the Australian Shepherd Club of America national show in Waco, Texas. She and her mom, Francine Guerra, also plan to attend the 2011 national shepard show in Wisconsin.
Showing dogs is exciting and nerve wracking, according to the teen, but there also is "an adrenaline rush" when you win, she said, the same as when Ludlow High School is in the state championships in soccer.
She says Austin is a great pet.
"He's goofy, and very sweet," she said. Australian shepards, which originally were bred as herding dogs, usually require a lot of exercise and like to run.
Austin, a 4-year-old, though, is "kind of a couch potato," Menches said. Fortunately, he also has a high metabolism so he hasn't gotten fat.
Australian shepherds have been growing in popularity and winning big shows, Guerra said. It means there should be a lot of interest around the Australian shepherd ring at Madison Square Garden.
And, if a dog wins best in show it can increase the popularity of the breed, Guerra added. It also carries a potential downside if a rush to produce more of the breed results in poor breeding practices.
Guerra said she got her first Australian shepard, a rescue dog, six years ago from a pound outside of Boston.
She and her two daughters became hooked on the breed, and Guerra now owns seven Australian shepherds with a friend. She also has a litter of Australian Shepherd puppies.
Showing dogs is a great hobby for her daughter, Guerra said.
"It has kept her focused," she added.


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MOBILE, Alabama -- It will be sunny today, but cold temperatures will be hanging around.
Look for a high near 53, according to the National Weather Service. North winds will be 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight, it will be mostly clear with a low around 31. North winds will be around 5 mph.
There is a Red Flag Warning for the entire state of Alabama due to "critically low" relative humidity. A Red Flag Warning means that you are urged not to burn anything outside because low humidity can increase chances that fires can grow and spread.


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Everyone has a friend that lives in Lakeview, or so it seems.
Okay, that may be stretching things a bit, but it seems like just about anywhere one turns, there is a Lakeview resident within earshot. Like of "Six Degrees" of Lakeview, it often takes only a couple of degrees to get to someone who lives in this picturesque, popular and pleasant area.
From charming doubles (side-by-side; one-up, one down; and, one-front, one-rear) to stately homes that grace extra-large lots, Lakeview offers a wide assort of home styles.
Architecturally, it is an eclectic melange of manors and cottages that welcome personal style and good taste, from contemporary to cottage and just about anything else a home buyer could desire.
Lakeview has seen much moving and shaking in the past few years.
Renovations, rebuilding and restoration have been at the forefront of the activity.
New home buyers, many looking at the area for the first time, found entree to a section of the greater metropolitan New Orleans area that had heretofore been more cloistered.
In other words, prices were attractive and opportunities were plentiful for folks to make the move to Lakeview.
Civic organizations in the area have been galvanized with a "can-do" attitude that borders on supernatural. Through the efforts of these homeowners groups, things get done and pride is pronounced.
Challenges are met and conquered.
But this attitude translates into a close-knit neighborly approach the residents enjoy. They look out for each other with admirable intensity.
Building excitement
All this points to Lakeview as being an area in demand — not only by buyers but also, according to Realtors, by builders.
"We're really having an uptick" in business, said Al Palumbo of LATTER & BLUM, Inc., Realtors. The uptick includes a "surge of young folks wanting to get into the area. There's still some affordability in the Lakeview area — under the $300,000 range. It's exciting."
One of my favorite sections of Lakeview has always been the area around Canal Boulevard and Harrison Avenue — and for good reason.
"Harrison Avenue crosses the middle of Lakeview and provides a variety of restaurants, shops, banks, churches, drug stores, grocery stores and services," notes Arthur "Chip" Levy of PRUDENTIAL GARDNER, Realtors. "Most everything anyone needs can be found on Harrison Avenue and, best of all, within walking distance of many of the residents."
Along the Harrison section, the retail corridor is reminiscent of a quaint downtown area from some chic hamlet nestled in a by-gone era.
But this up-to-date area is a magnet for sophisticated shops, delectable dining and a mix of necessities and niceties to make living in the area just that much more convenient.
Residents point to this convenience as a boon for Lakeview. And as more businesses open and reopen locations, the more they attract other businesses and additional homeowners.
They also point to other economic parcels that boost the area, including those along Robert E. Lee, Canal Boulevard and other nearby parcels that add beneficial goods and services to the many residents of Lakeview and the nearby lake front and Gentilly regions.
Work steadily continues on the thoroughfares and side streets of Lakeview.
Improvements to the area's infrastructure elevate the livability of this classic neighborhood.
And owners and sellers continue to improve and rehabilitate properties for sale.
New construction can also be seen in this sector. Once, not too long ago, new construction was rarely in evidence.
But those looking to live in Lakeview can have an assortment of options. New homes, totally renovated dwellings and everything in between can be found.
Gathered together in a bouquet of possibilities, Lakeview is a section of the greater metropolitan area that has been and will be a great place to buy a home and experience life in the Crescent City.
And that's a few degrees to which anyone can relate.
Victor M. Andrews
Special Sections staff writer
Victor Andrews can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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One of the best things about raising kids in London is the abundant green space and spacious playgrounds. Unlike the many small, paved playground lots you find in most cities, the playgrounds and parks in London are often set inside a beautiful grassy surrounding, removed from the 'hustle and bustle' of busy London.
Coram's Fields is exactly this kind of place. This unique 7-acre park located in the heart of central London, close to the British Museum, is home to grassy lawns (perfect for a picnic), sandpits, a few different playgrounds, a paddling pool (opened in the summer time), a kid-friendly café, and even a little city farm (sheep, goats, ducks, chickens, etc.)! The gated lot provides a safe place for children to run freely and play; adults without children are not allowed to enter.
An entire city block devoted just to kids. Now this is why I love London…
Above image found here.
Spent many hours here with my little ones during our month or so in London. Love the bunny rabbits, the sandpit, the crazy swing thing in the back!


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Any one been out there lately?
(MD side, end of MacArthur)
I was there about a month ago, road was blocked by workers and trucks. Just wondering.
do you mean at the top of macarthur at the turn onto falls rd? i was out there on saturday and it was clear. going tonight so if anything's different i'll report back!
You may have to enter the park before you discover whether the road work is done, and the road open. Not sure if that's what you did Sat.
Last time out there instead of going right on Falls I went straight into the park. After the first little downhill, a work crew was set up working on the park road (may still show as Macarthur on a map), it was down to one skinny, one way at a time lane with cars backed up each way, mid afternoon middle of the week.
Have a great ride and report back if you learn anything.
I rode down the road to Great Falls Park and turned around at the bottom and of the hill last Saturday. The road surface is a mess but it's seems the road works are carried out during the week. Just need to be a bit more careful on the descent and climb as there are lots of rocks and pot holes.
Perfect. Thanks Alex!
hey y'all sorry i never responded -- i've been out there a handful of times since then and yes it is still kinda gnarly. no idea how long they'll be working there! will let you know if it ever appears to be cleared up...


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Regulators may let big lenders like Bank of China hold fewer provisions against dodgy credits. That will boost reported earnings but weaken balance sheets just as financial strains are growing. The willingness to bend the rules is another reason to avoid Chinese bank shares.
American banking has its own Tea Party
Like the anti-establishment wing of the GOP, the Independent Community Bankers of America has emerged as a highly vocal opponent of all things Wall Street, including a Lazard banker's nomination for a Treasury role. These are the plaintive cries of a dying breed of banker.
Olympus fiasco strengthens the case for Japan reform
Olympus' embarrassing decision to dump its foreign chief executive two weeks after naming him to the job shows that reform is a slow and fitful process.
U.S. banking overhaul gets a second wind
Two years after Dodd-Frank thudded onto desks across Wall Street, regulators are on the stump with ideas from the cutting-room floor. Fresh on the heels of the hoopla to break up banks, the Fed's top cop is pushing to cap their size. Too big to fail clearly hasn't been resolved.
New banking sheriff will aim further to the right
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Goldman needs to mark business model to market
Goldman Sachs has been at the vanguard of Wall Street firms in accepting the realities of the marketplace. During the crisis, Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein noticeably stood out among his investment banking brethren arguing vociferously against an industry-wide push to relax mark-to-market accounting. But on matters relating to its image, Goldman has been stubbornly resistant. That may be about to change.
U.S. financial reform no longer a done deal
The political calculus for U.S. financial reform is suddenly more complicated. Last Friday's 5 a.m. Capitol Hill compromise was meant to be the culmination of months of hard-fought wrangling. But Republican Scott Brown's wavering and Democrat Robert Byrd's death put the proposal back in jeopardy.
U.S. financial reformers hang tough to bitter end
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SUDBURY, Ont. - Three decades ago, a nine-month miners' strike in Sudbury devastated the northern Ontario city's economy and drove home the perils of being a one-industry town.
Today, more than 3,000 employees of nickel miner Vale Inco are approaching their seventh month on strike with no end in sight. Like the Inco strike of 1978-79, this increasingly bitter labour dispute is causing great hardship for those workers who rely on the company for their income.
However, the city as a whole is coping in a way that would have been impossible 30 years ago, thanks to a concerted attempt at economic diversification.
Mayor John Rodriguez said the city's leaders realized after the devastation of the '78-'79 strike that without diversification, "we were condemning ourselves to forever being hewers of wood and drawers of water, and (the resource companies) would just rip and run."
"Following that strike, the leadership of the community got together and said we wanted to imagine Sudbury in 2000," Rodriguez said. "It was decided that we'd diversify in health-care delivery, in education, in government services, tourism and retail."
Inco - a Canadian mining icon that was bought by Brazil-based Vale for $19 billion in 2006 - is still the largest private-sector employer in Sudbury, but the city's effort to become a regional centre for various public services has rewarded it with a far more stable economy.
Today, the city prides itself on being a northeastern Ontario hub for health care, education and government. With a cancer research and treatment centre, two colleges and a university, provincial government services - including the head office of the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines - and a growing retail sector, Sudbury is no longer a one-industry town.
The city of 150,000 had little choice but to diversify its economy if it wanted to keep its unemployment rate in check as Inco and Falconbridge - the other major employer in the region's mining industry, now known as Xstrata Nickel after an acquisition by the Swiss mining giant in 2006 - slashed their workforces over the years.
At the height of the mining industry's influence in the 1960s, Inco's Sudbury operations employed 25,000 people and Falconbridge had 7,500 workers. Automation and technological advances whittled those numbers down over the years to 3,200 and 700, respectively. As a result, the mining companies that used to dominate Sudbury's economy now account for approximately five per cent of the region's workforce.
And outside of the mining sector, "those people aren't affected by the strike at all," said Debbi Nicholson, president and CEO of the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce.
"They're still going out and buying the new vehicles and buying the furniture and taking the trips and doing all of that stuff, so all of that money still flows in the community."
Nicholson said there are several indications that Sudbury's economy has only been negatively impacted by the strike "to a very small degree."
"We've attracted a lot of new retail development to the community, with some of the big box stores, new Wal-Mart and new Lowe's stores, and those people wouldn't invest in this kind of a community if they didn't think that there was going to be a return on that investment."
Ultimately, Nicholson said the attitude among Sudbury's business owners during the strike is one of "life goes on." She was supported in this assessment by several community business leaders.
"We had a new restaurant open in late fall, and I went there on a Saturday night before Christmas and at 5 p.m. there's a lineup outside the door. What recession? What strike?" said Mitch Speigel, a mortgage broker and former president of Acme Building and Construction Ltd.
Speigel said the commercial real estate market in Sudbury is relatively slow, but blames this on the recession more than the strike. Meanwhile, the residential market is "steady," with an average home price of $200,000.
Some sectors, such as the mining supply and service industry, can't avoid the impact of a seven-month-long strike at the biggest mining company in the region. However, even mine suppliers are reaping the benefits of diversification.
Dick DeStefano, executive director of the Sudbury Area Mining Supply and Service Association, or SAMSSA, estimated that 4,000 jobs in the industry have been lost either temporarily or permanently due to the strike. He said that while most companies in the industry were operating at around 85 per cent capacity at the depth of the recession, that has dropped to as low as 30 per cent in some cases, taking an estimated $500 million out of the local economy.
"Yet all the big box stores are still busy," he said. "The rest of the economy seems to be sustaining a level of economic activity... that seems to be reasonable enough to create some wealth amongst the retailers and so on," DeStefano said.
In part, this is because Sudbury's mine suppliers - a huge industry that DeStefano says includes about 700 companies with combined revenue of $5 billion to $6 billion and 12,000 to 15,000 employees - have branched out to other minerals, other locales and even other countries.
For example, some Sudbury-area suppliers have found work in the so-called Ring of Fire mineral deposits in the James Bay area of northern Ontario, the gold fields near Timmins, Ont., and farther afield in Newfoundland, British Columbia, the potash mines of Saskatchewan, and even Mexico and Chile.
DeStefano estimated that 30 per cent of Sudbury's mine suppliers were completely reliant on Vale Inco for their revenue before the strike started, and about half of those companies are now "looking at alternative markets and alternative commodities." He added that not a single member of SAMSSA has gone out of business since the strike started.
Sudbury's unemployment rate was 10.4 per cent in January, the most recent month for which data is available from Statistics Canada. By comparison, the Canadian unemployment rate was 8.3 per cent, but several Ontario communities, including Oshawa, St. Catharines-Niagara and Windsor met or exceeded Sudbury's level.
Diversification helps Sudbury keep economy in check as Vale Inco strike drags on
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Another large section of the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge will start taking shape today as crews begin work on the roof of the future toll plaza, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
Using a crane, crews will place two large steel roof truss segments on top of the large support columns already set in the toll plaza lanes.
Once hoisted into place, the trusses or beams will be welded together, forming a roof structure almost 113 feet long and weighing 90,000 pounds.
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Also this week, WSDOT crews planned to complete repair work on a section of the bridge damaged in an accident last October. However, due to snow forecasts, WSDOT has cancelled the planned closure of the right eastbound lane of the existing Narrows Bridge on Saturday, Jan. 8 to repair pedestrian handrails damaged by a vehicle collision.
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-- WSDOT is hosting an open house at Tacoma Alliance Church Jan. 25 to inform State Route 16 corridor commuters about the 2005 Construction Season specifically road and bridge activities between Union Avenue in Tacoma and Olympic Drive in Gig Harbor. Four 30-minute presentations are planned, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Doors of the church, at 2401 S. Orchard Street, open at 6 p.m.
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Starting this spring, the Narrows Bridge Project will install the first of five eastbound ramp meters, which control the rate of vehicles entering the flow of freeway traffic. To acquaint peninsula communities with ramp metering and how it will work, WSDOT plans to host public meetings on Feb. 9 in Purdy, Feb. 16 in Key Center and Mar. 1 in Gig Harbor. Watch for details on the TNB Project web site, www.tacomanarrowsbridge.com
-- Possible eastbound on-ramp at 24th Street NW?
WSDOT has been analyzing the feasibility of adding an eastbound SR 16 on-ramp from 24th Street NW, which would be limited to drivers paying toll fees electronically. It reports it has begun the lengthy approval and permit process that must take place before negotiations, design or construction can begin.
-- Narrowsgate property community planning.
In the fall, Gig Harbor residents and leaders within Pierce County finalized a conceptual plan that could convert the Narrowsgate property (north side of SR 16 between 14th and 24th streets NW) to a park. The plan prepares the community and local leaders to take action in the future, which would entail WSDOT deciding to surplus the property and the new owner carrying out the plan. The plan was the product of two workshops convened by WSDOTs TNB Project Office, and the group meets with WSDOT again in early January.
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Obviously the cops gave the mayor special treatment
The mayor of Port Orchard facing a DUI charge?
Doesn't want special treatment?
Claims to be willing to accept responsibility for his actions?
Surely his attorney will get the charge reduced to negligent driving. Or reckless driving.
Hmmm, I wonder, will the state revoke his driver's license?
Will he have to call Vern Fonk?
And by not disclosing his blood-alcohol level, isn't that special treatment?
Seems whenever there is an accident with alcohol, the reading is always listed — depending, of course, on who you are.
We have adult sons and there have been a few close to them that have made the wrong judgment call. They will attest that a $50 cab ride would have saved them tens of thousands of dollars.
Fines, court costs, attorneys fees, etc. (They had jobs, therefore did not qualify for public defenders, and were not anyone in public eye, so they got the full fine the first and only time.)
A family friend lost their 2-year-old son to a drunk driver. The driver continued to drink and drive.
Craig would be 26 now.
Statistics show that when a driver has been pulled over for DUI, it is almost always not the first time he has made a bad judgment call.
How can the fine citizens of Port Orchard trust the mayor to make the right judgment call in what's right for the city?
Yes, it's a personal thing. Just as the state director of Public Instruction's alleged DUI was personal.
He just has to tell the kiddies, "Don't do as I do."
There are a few lingering few questions I have. For example, how did the chief of police get home after sharing a couple scotches?
And how can anyone not understand that you do not drink and drive?
Thank the Good Lord he only blocked the Kitap Sun delivery person and didn't plow into them.
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I think you are onto something, and if you are weight training, you may not see quick drastic results on the scale, but lost inches. Do you measure yourself? I am in a similar predicament. For many years I did the low cal thing, and it worked, but boy, when I turned 38 my body totally rebelled against that! Its taken me a long time, but now I eat the food. Healthy, real food. And I weight train. And do HIIT workouts. And even though the scale is not where I want it to be, my body has, slowly, lost fat and built muscle. I went from eating 1200 calories a year ago, to anywhere between 1800 to 2000. But it was a slow progression. If you went up in calorie intake quickly, you might see an upward trend on the scale, but it's not fat. Add to that an increase in workouts, and there's your 7 lbs. You're doing the right thing, it may take some time, but keep up the good work, and keep listening to YOUR body.
BTW, I am 43, started at 142 lbs. a year ago (which may not seem big, but I am 5'3" and it all settles in my butt/hip area). Now I fluctuate btwn 126-129, am a size 4, and my progress is sustainable. Lasting. And that's what we want, right?


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USDA Expands Initiative to Include South Dakota; Proposals due January 28, 2011
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking proposals for new conservation projects that support comprehensive efforts already underway to improve the water quality and overall health of the Mississippi River from North-Central Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
"The Mississippi River is one of America's most valuable water resources," Vilsack said. "Through the cumulative actions of conservation-minded farmers, we can continue to provide our nation with the food, fiber and fuel we rely on, while at the same time ensuring cleaner waters than we've seen in decades."
As part of its Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative, USDA is providing up to $40 million in financial assistance for new partnership projects in 43 priority watersheds in 13 states. USDA will use a competitive process to distribute the available funding through existing conservation programs such as the Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative and the Wetlands Reserve Enhancement Program.
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service administers this initiative, first announced in 2009. At that time the following 12 states participated—Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin. This fiscal year USDA is adding South Dakota to the list of participating states in response to a recent comprehensive cropland study assessing conservation effects in the Upper Mississippi Basin, which includes South Dakota and several states listed above. The USDA study showed that much progress has been made in reducing excessive sediment losses on cropland acres in eight states; however additional treatment is needed on cropland acres in all the states.
Through approved projects, eligible farmers and landowners will voluntarily implement conservation practices that avoid, control and trap nutrient runoff; improve wildlife habitat; restore wetlands; and maintain agricultural productivity.
Key conservation practices include nutrient management, conservation crop rotations and residue and tillage management. Farmers and landowners can also restore wetlands and plant trees along streams to filter nutrients out of water draining off the farm. On a voluntary basis, participants can use financial assistance to install edge-of-field monitoring systems in specific locations within the selected watersheds. This monitoring will allow NRCS to assess environmental outcomes of the project.
USDA published its Request for Proposals (RFP) in the Federal Register recently, and project proposals are due on or before Jan. 28, 2011. The RFP explains the procedures for potential partners to sign agreements with USDA for projects that support the initiative's objectives.
Federally recognized Indian tribes, state and local units of governments, farmer cooperatives, producer associations, institutions of higher education and other nongovernmental organizations can download the RFP at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-11-29/html/2010-29958.htm.
The RFP contains a list of the eligible watersheds as well as information about where project proposals should be submitted.
USDA also is seeking applications for Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG), with priority given to new projects in the Mississippi River Basin. Pre-proposal applications must be submitted by close of business Dec. 28, 2010. The CIG program funds the best new ideas for achieving environmental goals on agricultural lands.
In addition to the new projects, Vilsack also announced funding for existing projects in this initiative on Nov. 29, 2010. Forty-three million in financial assistance from conservation programs will be used to support more than 70 existing projects in the 12 states.
For more information about the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative, including the RFP and the eligible watersheds, as well as the CIG requirements, visit http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/mrbi/mrbi_overview.html.
NRCS celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2010 and the federal commitment to conserve natural resources on private and Tribal lands. Originally established by Congress in 1935 as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), NRCS has expanded to become a conservation leader for all natural resources, ensuring private lands are conserved, restored, and more resilient to environmental challenges.
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His team needed to get tougher, and enough was enough.
Michigan wasn't perfect Sunday in a 79-71 win over Penn State, but the Wolverines now realize where they stand -- and know where to go from here.
"This is big boy basketball," Beilein said Sunday. "You're going to get hit, you're going to get shoved, people are going to wall you up and you still have to play through it.
"When you lose a game the way we did at Michigan State and we've got guys with one foul, there's more in you ... you have to give us more, and they understand that."
The Wolverines didn't respond to their embarrassing loss at MSU earlier in the week with a dominating performance over Penn State, the league's worst team. Far from it, actually.
Michigan didn't have much energy at the start of the game, Tim Hardaway Jr. struggled again, the Wolverines were out-rebounded by the Nittany Lions, they continued to have trouble defensively and got a combined 0 points from the four big men they trotted onto the floor.
But, they did win.
And right now, that's enough.
"Toughness, that's the biggest area in growth that we (need)," said Michigan point guard Trey Burke, who finished with a game-high 29 points. "That's the biggest thing we saw at Michigan State, they were the tougher team.
"We've got a lot of young guys and we haven't been used to adversity. We were 16-0 until we lost our first game, we've learned, definitely, from the adversity that we went through."
Aside from Burke being fantastic Sunday (once again), Michigan did get a jolt from two of its youngsters who had been struggling.
Glenn Robinson III bounced back from a rough three weeks with 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Nik Stauskas regained his scoring touch, dropping 18 points in the win.
But can that duo perform at a consistent level for the remainder of the regular season?
Can Michigan find toughness?
"There were some moments these last couple weeks (in practice) where we just said 'enough is enough,' " Beilein said. "You don't want to get on them so they lose their confidence, but at the same time, getting tougher is one of those things that's important for us."
The remainder of Michigan's regular season schedule is manageable. There are no more road gauntlets.
The Wolverines will have a week off before hosting Illinois on Sunday. From there, Michigan pays Penn State a return visit before bringing Michigan State in for a rematch at the Crisler Center on March 3.
The season closes with road date at Purdue and a home contest against Indiana.
At 22-4, 9-4, Michigan's not completely dead in the hunt for the Big Ten regular season title. The Wolverines will need some help, as they remain two games behind Michigan State and Indiana.
Stranger things have happened, though. Just look at last season.
"We were just trying to go out there and play as hard as we could," Robinson said. "It starts with defense, and we need to remember what got us here. Some of us were just trying to do what we could do to help the team, but we just need to execute."
Michigan will get a week off to get itself back on the right track. From there, the stretch run starts.
A title isn't out of the question, but it won't happen without toughness.
"Five games left … you can win every one of these games, one day at a time," Beilein told the team in the locker room after the game. "We can win every one of these games and win a championship.
"It's still very much in our reach. You think 14-4 wins a championship in this league?"
We'll find out.
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(Image: Brett Favre and Bernard Berrian tackle Percy Harvin in the end zone after his first career touchdown. The Vikings are high up on the list, but who is number one?)
So what does the 2009 season bring from Football? Well, for starters, it brings people like me back out of hiding to start writing about some football again.
It is obvious that the most exciting time of the year for any football fan is between September and February.
What happened or have we learned from Week One?
Brett Favre won his debut as a Viking, however, it wasn't because of him. We all might have to look at the man we have come to know him as, "All Day".
Either the Buffalo Bills are good, or the Patriots and Tom Brady aren't so good.
Michael Vick's suspension needs to be shorter.
Ben Roethlisberger can still play, even with all of the stupid legal accusations against him.
Green Bay's secondary is still as stingy as they were at the beginning of last season. Of course, Dom Capers and the new three-four has helped.
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Objet VeroClear, a new, rigid water-clear transparent material used to simulate transparent surfaces like bottles or glass lenses, is now available for all Objet Eden and Connex 3D printers. A member of the Vero family, this new offering is the only clear material available on rapid prototyping systems for under $100,000, according to Bruce Bradshaw, director of marketing for Objet Ltd.
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Nationals well-represented in South Atlantic League & Carolina League MiLB All-Star Games
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The first half of the minor league season came to an end on Sunday for the Single-A Hagerstown Suns (South Atlantic League) and the Advanced-A Potomac Nationals (Carolina League).
Potomac claimed the Carolina League Northern Division first-half title with a 38-31 record, besting Lynchburg (ATL) by 4.5 games. Hagerstown finished in a tie with Greensboro (MIA) for their division crown, however Greensboro was granted the title via tiebreaker.
Team success often garners individual honors, and, as such, both Hagerstown and Carolina will be well-represented in each team's league All-Star Games.
A quick look at the players and coaches representing their clubs, as well as the Nationals organization, is below:
South Atlantic League
All-Star Game: June 17, 2014 at L.P. Frans Stadium in Hickory, North Carolina (Hickory Crawdads)
Patrick Anderson — Manager
- Led Hagerstown to a 44-26 first-half record.
Sam Narron — Pitching Coach
- Suns hurlers posted a 3.78 ERA and a 1.32 WHIP (5th in the SAL) through the season's first half.
Luis Ordaz — Hitting Coach
- Suns hitters rank in in the top four in the SAL in stolen bases (1st, 118), triples (T1st, 24), runs scored (3rd, 359), hitting (3rd, .272), and RBI (4th, 318).
Spencer Kieboom — C
- Hit .319 with 12 doubles, two triples, three home runs, 23 RBI and 24 runs scored in 37 games. At 2.2 plate appearances/team game, he falls just short of qualifying to be amongst the SAL leaders (2.7 PA/G).
Wilmer Difo — 2B
- Leads the Suns in batting average (.308), doubles (tied, 16), triples (4), home runs (7) and RBI (54). His 31 stolen bases lead the South Atlantic Leaguer and are tied for fifth-most in all of Minor League Baseball.
John Wooten — UTIL
- Hit .288 with 16 doubles, two triples, six home runs, 39 RBI and 36 runs scored in 60 games for the Suns.
Nick Pivetta — RHP
- Tied for the South Atlantic League lead with eight wins, he is 8-3 with a 3.95 ERA in 12 games/11 starts for the Suns.
Austin Voth — RHP
- Voth is second in the the SAL in WHIP (1.05) and ranks among SAL pitchers in ERA (6th, 2.45) and strikeouts (3rd, 74). He has posted a 4-3 record in 13 starts this season.
Jake Walsh — LHP
- Has posted a 1.80 ERA (5 ER/25.0 IP) and a 1.00 WHIP in 19 appearances out of the Suns' bullpen.
Carolina/California League
All-Star Game: June 17, 2014 at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, Delaware (Wilmington Blue Rocks)
Stephen Perez — INF
- Leads the P-Nats in runs scored (42, 6th in Car. League) and stolen bases (18, 6th in Car. League) while ranking second on the club with 16 doubles. Perez is hitting .299 (7th in the Car. League) with one triple, one home run and 30 RBI in 64 games this season.
Shawn Pleffner — INF
- Leads qualified Potomac Nationals and ranks fifth in the Carolina League with a .312 batting average. Pleffner has clubbed 14 doubles and two home runs, while driving in 21 and scoring 23 runs for the Nationals this season.
Derek Self — RHP
- Is 3-0 with a 1.69 ERA (5 ER/26.2 IP) in 17 appearances out of the bullpen. Self has recorded 30 strikeouts and posted a 0.90 WHIP along the way. He was recently promoted to Double-A Harrisburg.


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Troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been accused of stealing $US15,000 ($14,475) worth of clothing from the set of her latest film, Scary Movie 5.
The accusations came from a set insider, who told the National Enquirer in the US that the actress allegedly took "nice tops and skirts" from her wardrobe racks while shooting for the film last month.
"It was the talk of the set in Atlanta," the source said.
"I guess Lindsay thought she was entitled to it, like free soap at a hotel. All other actors knew about it, but the producers just put it down to the price you had to pay for doing business with Lindsay."
Lohan is said to play herself in the fifth instalment of the comedy horror franchise, which is expected to be released next year.
Charlie Sheen is also among the cast.
While it's not the first time Lohan has been accused of stealing — she was convicted of jewellery theft last year — the 26-year-old's spokesman, Steve Honig, told UK's MailOnline that the recent allegation was "pure National Enquirer fiction".


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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Remember when the Boston Red Sox couldn't find anyone to play outfield, when their outfielders were hitting .215 and on pace to be the worst offensive outfield by a Red Sox team since the 162-game era began?
Looking ahead to 2015, there is no longer a shortage of offensively-productive outfielders on the Red Sox's roster.
Getting Shane Victorino healthy is a priority.
Victorino was back with the Red Sox on Friday at Angels Stadium, not playing, but walking around without pain following successful back surgery. He's already dreaming of dancing around Fenway Park to celebrate a 2015 World Series title.
Victorino, who feels as guilty as anyone for the Red Sox's disappointing 2014 season, is restricted to only walking over the next month and plans to spend much of that with his family in Las Vegas, but expects to be fully recovered by spring training next February.
The Red Sox have said newly-acquired outfielder Yoenis Cespedes will play right field while fellow trade acquisition Allen Craig will play left field. The expected outfield alignment in 2015 is still up in the air, but Victorino plans on returning to his spot in right field.
"I'll play wherever," he told reporters before Friday's game agains the Anaheim Angels. "I don't care if it's left, right, center, wherever it may be. If the trades of getting Cespedes and getting Craig, people have spoke about it and I've read and I pay attention to what's being said, and people are probably understanding, 'Well, you know, Cespedes is going to be the right fielder, where are you going to play?'
"I have every intention of being the right fielder next year. I don't have any mindset that I'm not going to be the right fielder and focus on that. But like I said, wherever I'm going to play, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to be out there, I want to be healthy, I want to be a part of this team, and hey, I love playing the game and that's what I focus on."
The 33-year-old underwent successful lumbar diseconomy surgery on Tuesday in Los Angeles, ending his season after playing in just 30 games. He tried playing through the pain in his lower back, which crept into his hamstrings, but it eventually became too much.
He hasn't felt pain since the surgery was performed.
"I couldn't feel any happier," he said. "You never want to have surgery, you never want to be in that position. I think this is for me a surgery that was probably something that was in the making and probably needed to get done. Understanding the circumstances we were in, I think that made a decision a little bit easier. It definitely wasn't something that I wanted to do. I saw some of the guys today and told them it's not fun watching. Understanding where we're at and what we're focusing on, it was the time for me to get this done and be ready for 2015."
Next season will be Victorino's final campaign while under a three-year, $39-million contract he signed before 2013. While he had one of the best seasons of his career in 2013, his injury status this season has given him a reputation of being physically vulnerable. He's hoping to turn that around and put together a career year in 2015.
"I don't doubt any point that I can go back to being the player that I am," he said. "As I said, it's a matter of having time and understanding that and make sure that we take the time and not try to rush and get back to being that player when we're not physically ready."
If Victorino, Cespedes and Craig are all still wearing Red Sox uniforms to begin next season, those in the front office will have to decide how to get Brock Holt playing time, which position Mookie Betts will play and how much belief they have that Jackie Bradley Jr. can hit in the majors.
Bradley was hitting .375 in July before the All-Star break, but has since hit .157 with 20 strikeouts in 53 plate appearances since.
"Our expectation was, the way he went into the All-Star break, he would come out of it picking up where he left off and keep going," general manager Ben Cherington told reporters in St. Louis this week. "It hasn't gone that way for him. He keeps working at it. He's certainly learning still at the big-league level. His defense has been elite, as you said, and we know at some point there is going to have to be more offense. He knows that, too."
At least the Red Sox now have too many outfielders. That's not such a bad problem to have.
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A Biggby's Coffee shop will open its doors Monday at 4575 West River Drive NW in Comstock Park.
It will be the first new store to introduce an identity change for the former Beaner's Coffee chain of franchises. The company announced earlier this year its name would gradually change because of its derogatory implication towards Hispanics.
All new franchises will open as Biggby's and existing Beaner's shops will tout the new name and orange logo by the end of January.


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Fireworks, Raymond Drive: Police were called to the 4100 block of Raymond Driver at 1:55 a.m. on reports of a loud explosion in a front yard. A burned firework was found in the yard and it is suspected that the explosion caused several houses on the block to lose power. Ohio Edison was contacted and police had no suspects at the time of the report.
Theft, Glenbrook Drive: A man and woman reported at 8:30 a.m. July 20 that the woman's ex-boyfriend broke into their house, stole a set of house keys from the woman's purse, took a pair of the man's shoes and left. The man was caught and arrested in the parking lot of the apartment complex. Police had previously been at the residence on a fight call and had warned the suspect to stay away.


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Here is what the lines looked like tonight:
Parise - Zajac - Kovalchuk
Zubrus - Elias - Sykora
Ponikarovsky - Henrique - Clarkson
Carter - Josefson - Bernier
I mean I'd like to give credit to DeBoer for putting those lines together, but I can't. I've been using those lines in NHL12 for about 2 months now. I mean it really doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. ZZChuk is a no-brainer to me. Keeping Sykora with Elias and Zubie is simple, especially the chemistry they've shown this season. That drops Henrique down to the third line to add offense with Clarkie and Poni who have been wonderful this season. Finally, that leaves Ya-Yo (as twitter likes to call him) centering Bernier and Carter who love to bang the boards. The biggest thing is that Cam Janssen and Eric Boulton don't need to play which keeps Kovy from getting double-shifted and screwing everything up.
The move was so simple because Travie has been amazing since his return - easily our most effective forward in our last few games, especially in the faceoff dot (HALLELUJAH!). The problem was that we couldn't score. Problem solved! Every single line scored tonight. Every one! Kovy repping the top line, Zubie for line 2 (shorthanded I may add), Poni and Clarkie for the 3rd line and Ya-Yo to round it out. We even got support from the D with Zidlicky adding a PP goal and Salvador - who scored before it was shown Poni actually tipped it in. Our defense still needs fine tuning, but if DeBoer messes with these forward combinations, at all, he should be fired.


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IN 1989 house prices on the upper north shore were among the highest in Sydney, outstripping most of the lower north, inner west and parts of the east.
Median prices in Killara were higher than in Mosman – now the 10th most expensive suburb in Australia – and streets ahead of other waterfront suburbs such as McMahons Point and Manly.
Two decades later this haven of rambling gardens and stately homes has been left behind. Australian Property Monitors figures show that in the past decade the upper north shore, which extends up the train line from Roseville, has had the lowest median growth of any Sydney region apart from the northern beaches.
A post-Federation house with five bedrooms, a pool and tennis court at 2 Nulla Nulla Street, Turramurra, on a 2250-square-metre block, is typical. It sold for $2.7 million last month, $575,000 less than it sold for 11 years ago.
Yet David Bokor from LJ Hooker Wahroonga said that was a good result – "exceptional" – for a property near recently built medium-density units. In the current market price drops of $500,000 or more were not uncommon.
Some experts believe there is more to it than the cyclical nature of the housing market or the economic woes that have depressed prices in other wealthy suburbs.
The director of the buyers agency PK Property, Peter Kelaher, said families did not have time to maintain big gardens and travel so far to the city. They preferred smaller blocks on the lower north shore and northern beaches, which also offered a more vibrant lifestyle. "People don't want the big sprawling block any more, it's just too stressful when they get home. Socially there's also not a lot up there for them."
But now families wanting more space are recognising that upper north shore suburbs offer relatively good value. In the past 12 months the region outperformed the eastern suburbs, lower north shore and the northern beaches, APM figures show.
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Vincent Okello, 27, was one of the many men who turned up for circumcision in northern Uganda in recent months.
Yet despite his interest in the exercise, Okello is concerned about the reaction of his wife once he returns home.
This is because of reports that some women in the north have rejected their circumcised men, accusing them of having become sexually weaker after undergoing the operation that experts say helps reduce the chances of contracting the deadly HIV/Aids virus.
"I came here for circumcision after hearing messages from the media about the benefits of circumcision; that it protects us from acquiring HIV/Aids and other infections like Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs," Okello said. "However, my concern is about my wife who is likely to abandon me after circumcision following misconceptions from the public that I will become sexually less powerful."
Okello told The Observer at Gulu hospital, that some of his colleagues who were circumcised before had already been abandoned by their wives. However, according to Roselyn Oyella, the safe male circumcision counsellor at Gulu hospital, such perceptions are false.
"If you have been impotent you remain impotent. If you have been sexually active, there won't be any change after circumcision," Oyella said.
Virility is not the only reason why circumcision is causing conflict in families, according to Stuart Ochora, 25, a resident of Layibi village in Gulu Municipality. It is said that the practice contradicts local cultural norms and many locals think it is meant to convert people to Islam.
Medical personnel such as Dr Leonard Were, the voluntarily medical male circumcision (VMMC) officer, attribute the lopsided perceptions to lack of or limited sensitisation of people, especially women, about the importance of circumcision in the fight against HIV/Aids.
"Because of removing the foreskin of the penis, the virus has lesser area [through which] to enter the man during sexual intercourse," Dr Were said.
Dr Were, who is also the programme officer of the Northern Uganda Health Integration to Enhance Services (NU-HITES) project, says for the last one-and-a-half years, 74,000 men have been circumcised in northern Uganda by NU-HITES project alone. However, he fears that due to cultural beliefs and lack of sensitisation about its importance, they might fail to meet their target of circumcising 100,000 males every year.
The RDC of Gulu, Catherine Lamwaka, said the low number of males circumcised would eventually become a social and economic burden to government.
"We are fighting hard to sensitise people in the region about the importance of circumcision," Lamwaka said.
At 8.3 per cent, northern Uganda has the second highest HIV/Aids prevalence rate, after the central region.
There are valid reasons including cancer of the foreskin for a man to be circumcised. That decision should be entirely his.
what makes you think God was stupid to put foreskin on there?
Take it from me that foreskin is there to keep the warheads moist and natural for doing good job. 2. It's also put there to provide grip during sex. If you travel 'Tororo- Mbale- Tororo- Mbale- Tororo- Mbale...', you need some bumpers, don't you?
Circumcision only makes things very boring in the sense that it removes the grips/ magnets and makes Mbale road very 'slippery'. My advice is that,before you attempt go for a circumcision, your wife/girlfriend must consent to it.
If really Circumcision minimizes the chances of getting HIV, why on earth are Muslims also dying of HIV?
Nkongih lll,
I agree with you! Countries-tribes that parctice circumcision as tradition-religious belief seem to have men who don't appreciate normal sexual relations with women & they blame this on the women.
It's like wearing condoms - natural excitement-enjoyement is rduced-non existant-frustrating-too long to come & when they do, they leave partners so unsatisfied-disappointed!
Sexual relations that satisfy each time need no violence; but those that leave males unsatisfied make tham angry & make women pay for their frustration; while women who are not satisfied with men wearing condoms-circumcised, get satisfaction elsewhere, naturally!
The scared looks of the two girls in the picture seem to confirm that circumcised men have no future in Gulu!!
But are those kids supposed to witness the "cutting"?
There are valid reasons including cancer of the foreskin for a man to be circumcised.
You know to my knowledge there is only 1 tribe (Bagisu in East), that have a tradition of circumcision! I have never know any other tribe in Uganda having this tradition!
Circumcision is useless to prevent cancer...!
Circumcision is useless to prevent cancer, or AIDS, or absolutely any disease!
surgically removing malignant growth is not a preventive measure.