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Golden Alga Back in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — Fish kills caused by naturally-occurring, toxic golden alga are occurring at several lakes and river systems in North and West Texas.
An active fish kill on E.V. Spence Reservoir north of San Angelo has affected largemouth bass, white bass, and other species; however, 99 percent of the estimated 316,500 fishes killed so far are 3-5-inch gizzard shad.
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The ability to draw: Taking risks and opportunities
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In the awe-inspiring world of professional wrestling, the wrestling business strives off of having the desire to succeed. It's something that's separates the wrestlers who are in this business for the love and respect of it to the wrestlers who use wrestling as a stepping-stone to achieve another career in entertainment (this isn't a shot at The Rock but at wrestlers who don't have a care for the business). Week in and week out, wrestlers who are new to the business and would take any opportunity they can get is the same attitude that can establish top draws in professional wrestling. It's the willingness to learn and study the pychology of the wrestling business which creates opportunities. Taking opportunities is also something that can get you ahead in this business and judging by the draws that took the opportunity to do what they love to do, I have cogent points to prove so.
Let's face it, wrestling is a cut-throat business. Every man is in it for themselves and will love nothing more than to throw someone under the bus just to get ahead in the cards. Some wrestlers just love competing in a wrestling ring no matter how they are booked on the card but most people want to be the top draw in professional wrestling. Backstage politics is something that has been in this business for a LONG time and will continue to be because like I said, everybody wants the opportunity of being the top drawer of their respective company. Shawn Michaels and Hulk Hogan are two good examples of backstage politics getting you ahead in this business. While I do not agree with throwing your respective peers under the bus and causing someone their jobs, you have to protect yourself in order to get ahead. You have to build up your self-importance because if you don't feel like you are great enough to carry the ball when given to you, then the bookers/promoters won't either. Sure, it'll rub people off the wrong way and can come off as a little chesty but eh, it's about getting over in this business and that's what really matters. The whole "I'm just happy to be here!" nice guy act isn't going to cut it and isn't something that can help create opportunities for you. Sometimes, people need to be arrogant every now and than as well as being humbled.
When it comes to wrestling companies, the more there is, the more it gives other wrestlers an opportunity to succeed and to do what they love to do. Just like wrestling territories from back in the day as well as companies like the WWE, WCW, and ECW in the 90's, we have WWE, TNA, developmental wrestling schools, and Indy promotions such as ROH. Let's not forget major wrestling promotions overseas. I can't stand it when people say they want Vince to buy out these companies. I get it that some people may not like companies such as TNA and have been watching WWE all their lives but we need more companies so that other wrestlers can get paid more and have more wrestling ogranizations to compete elsewhere.
It's pretty known that in order to get opportunities, you must take chances with your career. This could mean jumping ship to another wrestling promotion that you feel can benefit your career so that you can be used to your full potential. For instance, lets take a look at the Kenny King and ROH situation. Kenny King made a gamble to compete in an X-Division qualifying match in TNA even though ROH did not want him to compete in TNA which violated their hand-shake agreement. Although Kenny King did tell ROH that he wasn't going to wrestle for another company without their request which is kinda wrong on Kenny King's part, you certainly can't blame him for wanting to take an opportunity to be show-cased in the second biggest wrestling promotion in America today. Kenny King seen a chance to compete in a bigger company fly at him and took it, just like any other person would do. This move was smart on his part and it now gives him a new opportunity in succeeding in TNA.
Another example of a wrestler jumping ship to find more opportunities is none other than Chris Jericho. Y2J traveled all over the world to perfect his craft and study different wrestling styles to work with. Jericho went to ECW and had some pretty impressive matches there. He then jumped to WCW in which he got their attention with his impressive matches in ECW. He found amazing success being in the WCW Cruiserweights division and became one of the top heels in WCW. However, he still wasn't used to his full potential and was only seen as a mid-carder rather than a guy who can work main event matches if given a chance. This motivated Jericho to jump ship to the WWE to find more success and the rest is history. Y2J's debut in the WWE will go down as one of the best WWE debuts in history and also one of the best decisions he ever made seeing as he became the first ever WWE Undisputed champion along with the other success he has had in the WWE and also since he left before WCW went out of business.
One more example of wrestlers jumping ship to find more opportunities is one word; Radicalz. Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn left WCW as a unit to find more success in the WWE. This was one of the most shocking debuts in wrestling history and was one of the reasons WCW went downhill. They lost all four of their top talent due to not doing anything with the four of these talented wrestlers. They jumped ship in the WWE in 2000 which was the best year of the Attitude Era for me personally. They got to wrestle the likes of The Rock, Stone Cold, Triple H, Rikishi & Too Cool, The Hardys, Chris Jericho, and Kurt Angle. All of these guys were phenomenal wrestlers and were given the chance to give us amazing matches and also become a WWE World champion (Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero). At the end of the day, you have to make a decision on what you think is best for your career and it'll pay off well.
Paul Heyman has always been about taking chances and opportunities to do something more with his product when he was the promoter of ECW. His vision of ECW was to take risks and bring something new to the table. He didn't want to settle for just being a little wrestling promotion. He did everything he could to get ECW on television and to give them PPVs for their loyal fans. Heyman knew that if he didn't take any risks, ECW wouldn't have brought anything new to the table and the reason why ECW was able to last longer than they did was because he took risks and gave his talent exposure. Paul Heyman was indeed a bad businessman but one thing he didn't do was play safe with his ECW promotion. ECW is now owned by WWE but the fact that you still here ECW chants and people like CM Punk praise Paul Heyman of having an intelligent mind for wrestling is exactly why taking a chance worked in Heyman's favor. Without ECW, we wouldn't have the Attitude Era, simple as.
Speaking of the Attitude Era, that brings me to the man who was known for taking risks during the Attitude Era, Vince Mcmahon. In 1995, the wrestling business was in serious danger, especially in the WWE. Nothing was drawing in more fans and the WWE was actually losing money. Then WCW started to grew bigger and bigger with the NWO angle in full swing which put Vince on panic mode. The final straw was when an epsiode of Raw scored one of the lowest ratings for a Raw episode. Vince Mcmahon decided to make his promotion more edgy and controversial to brighten his product a little more instead of his product continuing to be black and white. With Stone Cold's rise to the top, the Montreal Screwjob, D-Generation X, The Rock and Nation of Domination, and Mike Tyson, this gave Vince the opportunity to do something new and fresh with his product and beat Ted Turner and WCW. All Vince needed to do was go outside of the box and get in touch with the audience who wanted to see something new from the WWE and it made the WWE the #1wrestling promotion yet again. Do I think Vince Mcmahon is a genius? Not really but he is indeed a risk-taker and an opportunity seeker just like Paul Heyman and that's the best quality to have as a wrestling promoter.
In conclusion, I'm not trying to come off as Mr. know-it-all or a smark who thinks he knows everything about what makes a successful wrestling company but I'm merely seeing opportunities and risk-taking as being an importance to pro wrestling. I hope you guys enjoyed my blog. Take care blog-readers.

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On Wednesday, April 17 at 11:30 a.m. at the Gallivan Hall at Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, along with members of the City and County councils, will be presented with design concepts for the New Performing Arts Center by Cesar Pelli and Mitch Hirsch of the architecture firm Pelli Clarke Pelli.Pelli and Hirsch will present architectural renderings of the Main Street and Regent Street views of the building as well as a 4' x 4', 1/16 scale model of the theater as it is proposed to be situated on Block 70 in downtown Salt Lake City.
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Scanning the mileage postings in the various mileage games I'm a participant I notice that some people are running less miles than they have in the past, some a lot less. A few are running a lot more but those seem to be the exception. Naturally those of you running less than 2-3 years will likely be running more, so my question is directed to those running 5 or more years, though anyone is welcome to reply. Your answer doesn't have to be limited to 2013. And feel free to give a reason why your mileage has gone up, down or about the same. Thanks.
Are You Running More or Less in 2013?
I'm ahead of where I was in 2012. I think I ended last year with a weekly average of around 32 or 33 miles. Right now I'm around a 35 miles per week average for 2013. Hit the five year mark for this running career in May. I'm testing slightly higher mileage this year in case I decide to run a full marathon next year. And that is by no means a done deal.
I'm running a lot less due to knee surgery in February and a recent soleus strain. Trying to come back in the heat of the Phoenix summer is somewhat of a challenge as well. Been a tough year, I am looking forward to the fall, but I will end up with about a 1/3rd of my planned mileage.
I'm running more this year. Interestingly enough, it's because I've concentrated very hard on reducing the number of weeks in which I run very low mileage. I've had fewer really high mileage weeks as well. It's just the average that has increased.
This is the first time in 3-4 years that I've been neither injured nor recovering from a prior year injury. I'm up well over 300 miles from last year and have almost as many miles now as I did at the end of October last year. Last year was injury free but I started the year in recovery mode.
I'm running more, but I'm a newer runner - just started Jan '12 and ended up taking about 8 weeks off over the winter and had to build back up again. I'm getting faster with the increased mileage, which I'm enjoying.
Less for me due to little annoying injuries. Nothing that has demanded taking significant time off, but just enough to cause cutback weeks here and there and keep me from building my mileage in training plans as I have in the past. Even without the injuries I might have down some, simply because last year I was training for ultras, with long runs of 20-30 miles, and this year I'm not targeting anything longer than marathon distance.
I'm 200 miles ahead of last year's pace. Of course, 2012 was down from the previous two years so I'm looking to reverse that downward spiral. After running more miles over a 5 year span I felt I could slack off and focus on other elements of training in the off-season; elevating my lactate threshold and improving my mechanics.
What I learned is that despite running high mileage for several years I seem to perform best when I maintain reasonably high mileage. The trick is finding the right mix while keeping all the body parts happy. I'll run more than 2012 but roughly 500 less than 2011 and 700 less than 2010. The last two years mileage was affected not only by a change in philosophy but also bouts of fatigue and minor injuries. Averaging 75.4 mpw the last 10 weeks it appears I'm taking the proper steps to avoid these setbacks in 2014.
I fit neatly between the lower limit (2-3 years) and upper limit (5+ years) of running time. However, I will go ahead and add, my mileage is way up and has only continued since my start.
2010 - (starting in may) 105 miles
2011 - 538 miles
2012 - 1302 miles
2013 - On track for just shy of 2k miles
Last year hurt just 438 miles
this year already 416
I am very injured still. I haven't been running normally since spring of 2012. So less. A lot less. Not by choice.
So far this year 730 miles.
2012:1,255 miles
2011: 1,166 miles
2010: 781 miles
2009: 586 miles
not sure about yearly mileage prior to 2009. Athlinks records my earliest race in 1999, but I would run a 10k annually starting in 1990(?). Mileage through those years would be low, probably about the same as 2009.
My mileage started increasing when I started lurking here in 2010. I had just got our new dog and started taking him out for a short run before work and then before bedtime. I was worried about getting injured with the extra miles and was just kind of looking for reassurance. You were an inspiration to me then Moth. I could sense you were about the same age group as me, and I thought you were a mother of 3 as well (moth=mother). So when I saw what your mileage was, I stopped worrying about the few extra days of mileage injuring me.
Then, another factor was the mileage games. Once I was accepted onto a team I wanted to keep my miles consistent and not let my teammates down lol.
Thirdly, a basebuilding thread last year changed how I approach my training. As the kids are getting older their sports take precedence over my running and I was finding it hard to keep to any kind of schedule. I believe it was Squirrel2 who made a comment that when base-building you put the miles in when you can. If you have 20 minutes while dinner is cooking that's when you run. It was a lightbulb moment for me. Now I may run twice / day; I end up running approx. 12-13 days out of a 2 week period. My miles are mostly easy, and I try to keep my mileage towards 30/week. If I don't make it I don't stress, things work out. Right now I am finding this approach is working well for me.
Definitely more running for me this year.
Slow start, more. Started the year with more strength training less running, started low heart rate training in March, with a goal of building to 50 mpw & and train for a half marathon. I had as a 2013 goal originally to run @ 2000 miles, left that goal go when I did the strength training. Now, I have that goal again as I've passed the 1000 mile mark. The goal now is to continue the 200+ mile months through the end of the year.
More this year, between January 1st and June 1st, with many weeks over 80 miles. Then I got injured and had to stop running completely for 7 weeks. I still have pain. I won't be doing this kind of mileage ever again, because I am not willing to run tons of slow miles. I need variety, such as MP runs, intervals, strides, hills, tempo runs, etc.. and my body can't seem to be able to do both quality work and high mileage. I'm not strong enough. So high mileage is out the door from now on, I will be staying in the 50-65 weekly range for the rest of the year.
About the same or slightly more by end of year. Last year I hit 1.5k for just the second time in my life. Right now I am on pace to beat that, but am 50 shy YTD which I will beat next month.
Last year I never ran more than 12 without having a setback as I have been battling hip flexor issues off and on. This year I have already beat 12 a bunch of times, and have 2 halfs, and a full to do.
I'm running more than last year (which was my first year running) but significantly less than I thought I would be. I didn't run for about 7 weeks at the start of the year due to illness, and due to basically starting over after that, I'm way behind my goal for the year.
Yes - more than most years but less than last.
2009 - 580
2010 - 1,138
2011 - 1,256
2012 - 1,643
2013 - on pace for about 1,600
From memory:
2008: 2100 miles
2009: 1800 (had a stroke)
2010: 1900 (had heart surgery), one marathon
2011: 2200, 3 marathons
2012: 2600, 5 marathons
2013: above 1400 miles so far, including 7 weeks of no running and 10 weeks of taper/recovery for 2 marathons and one half-marathon.
I'm running a lot more this year. A big reason is because I haven't been dealing with any injuries this year, and because I'm training for NC24 again. I've also dropped about 30 pounds.
2008 - 1040
2009 - 475.1
2010 - 675
2011 - 796.7
2012 - 1028
2013 - 802.75 so far
I had foot surgery in early 2012, so I am running a lot more in 2013. Also, I resolved to maintain 20-25 miles per week (that's a lot for me) in 2013, and so far that has worked out well.
2013 so far : 370 (on pace to for 634...new years goal was 600...might push it up to 650)
2012: 460
2011: did not track. probably ran less than in 2010 due to personal issues
2010: 235
I've run more in 2013 than I've ever run, due mostly to marathon training. This month, though, I cut way back. The first two weeks of the month everyone in my group was - or was supposed to be - on a break as per our coach's instructions. And after I started back I got a minor muscle pull, so I took some more time to rest and heal and just started back.
Very happy with my accomplishments thus far this year. I'm not racing this summer; my last race was at the start of June and my next one will be a 5K in October. It was a distance I'd never even considered (I started with 10Ks) but now I'm intrigued by it, especially after a disappointing result after my first one.
I am so far ahead but this is my first year full running so was not that hard to pass last year. I have had great year running so far. I only had a couple races where I did not PR but they were expected. Did an couple events out of my comfort zone that has been nice and got some new goals for next year. Looking forward to upping my base little more now and preparing for next years season.
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Less this year due to my knee surgery, but it looks like I'm prime for a hell of a second half.
2011: 1070
2012: 2300
2013: est. 1300 the last six months of the year and thrilled I'll be able to salvage that.
I think the results might be a bit skewed because those who are likely to be running less this year may not be on the forums.... I find there's a direct correlation between my running and time on the forums.
run more = forums more (for advice, help, support, etc.)
run less = forums less (jealous of others)
2007 - 67.09
2008 - 672.19
2009 - 636.35
2010 - 244.71
2011 - 115.35
2012 - 22310
2013 - 202.35 (so far - on current pace for about 550 for 2103)
Unfortunately about the same-- I had wanted to be running more but after a March marathon I had a bunch of lower-mileage weeks. I had wanted to hit 2000 miles this year, but I just hit 1000 and doubt I'll be able to get 1000 more over the next five months. This is my eighth year running, FWIW. Last 2 years have been, I think, between 1500 and 1900.
New runner (2010), but I'm 130 miles over last year at this point. I ran 1380 miles last year.
Unfortunately about the same-- I had wanted to be running more but after a March marathon I had a bunch of lower-mileage weeks. I had wanted to hit 2000 miles this year, but I just hit 1000 and doubt I'll be able to get 1000 more over the next five months. This is my eighth year running, FWIW. Last 2 years have been, I think, between 1500 and 1900.
That's very solid. I didn't go over 2000 miles until my 18th year running.
More this year than last
I just passed last year's total of 844. But I only started running mid last year. I'm probably on track for 1500 or higher this year.
Unfortunately about the same-- I had wanted to be running more but after a March marathon I had a bunch of lower-mileage weeks. I had wanted to hit 2000 miles this year, but I just hit 1000 and doubt I'll be able to get 1000 more over the next five months. This is my eighth year running, FWIW. Last 2 years have been, I think, between 1500 and 1900.
That's very solid. I didn't go over 2000 miles until my 18th year running.
Thanks Moth-- Consistency and higher miles have been working very well for me. My 2010 HM PR was 2:15; this year I broke 1:53. Still not quick by most measures but I am satisfied with my progress compared to my first five lower-mileage years.
I stopped running around May 2012 and picked it back up January 2013, so I have definitely run more this year. Even without the hiatus last year I wouldn't have reached this volume. Right now I am running more than I ever have in my life.
Looking at the poll numbers it's seems not to reflect the impression I had, That or those that are running less simply chose not to reply. Wishing all of you suffering from injury a speedy return.
About the same. 475 miles so far, and I should be able to get to 1000 for the year. If I do that'd be just a bit more than 2012. I'd like to run more, but this is the life balance I've got going now. The biggest thing is to keep the running going. It's far easier to build up from even a modest base than from zero, if that base is long and continuous.
Just now I'm coming back from a gardening injury. I pulled up a gigantic weed, lost my balance and tweaked my hamstring. I usually stay pretty injury-free. This doesn't seem too bad but has meant some run/walking and rest days the last 10 days or so. I'm about back to normal easy-pace runs at least, but no speed for a while. Makes me appreciate what I can usually do!
I ran around 1800 last year and barring injury should hit a little over 2000 this year, not a huge difference, but more.
Last year I developed a pelvic stress fracture in early March and wasn't able to run for 7 months. Then I was very careful building miles, so last year only ended up running about 400 or so. This year I'm at about 740 so far, but I just got injured again, so I'm not sure how soon I'll be back to normal running.


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...meant exactly what it said. I didn't mean "I have no more time for this" or "this is no longer worth my time". It meant I had some place to be and had no time left to fully read and reply to the posting(s).Originally Posted by Bball
I have no time to reply to this post properly but from what I read above it seems like you are saying "it depends on what the definition of 'is' is..."


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Lakewood (Wash.) Lakes four-star athlete Cedric Dozier officially committed to California today via his facebook page, saying, "Finally made up my mind … Committed to the University of California about 10 mins ago."
Bears coaches had gone out to see Dozier before facing off with another contender for the dynamic athlete's services -- Washington -- on Sept. 23.
Ace recruiter Tosh Lupoi traveled to see the second half of Lakes' game, viewing both Dozier and teammate Zach Banner.
Back in June, Dozier -- who sources say will come in as a wide receiver -- came down to California to throw with four-star quarterback commit Zach Kline.
At 5-foot-11, 175 pounds, Dozier had scholarship offers from the Bears, Huskies, Oregon, Arizona State and others.
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I've become addicted to being able to fax directly from my computer using my HP printer that has the capability to do this.... unfortunately HP really suxx badly, so needless to say I will be dumping my HP printer soon...but, I want to still be able to fax any doc I'm looking at on my monitor from my computer, which was the primary reason I bought my HP printer since it provided that capability.
Yes, I do have a modem in my computer so I should be able to send faxes out directly, if I can just find a program that works well....
Anybody know of any good programs that allows me to fax directly from my computer...that also works with Win 7
will help http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306550
That's for XP... got anything for Windows 7 64bit ???
Thanks, but I'm looking for "software"... not a monthly payment plan, as in pay once for some software and I'm done paying.
You have a computer with a telephone modem in it to do that? That's pretty rare nowadays.
HelloFax has a non-subscription option. 5 free pages per month then 99 cents per fax.
"Windows Fax & Scan" will probably do the trick. It came with my Windows 7 64bit (Ultimate), I don't know if it's available with all the other 64bit versions of win7
In other words, after I pay for whatever software I get... I'm not interested in paying anything to send faxes.
On my wife's computer (that I'm setting up for her now) she has Win 7 professional, but thanks for letting me know...when I get my new PC, I'll get the ultimate version... meanwhile, I'll search and see if MS sells "Windows Fax & Scan" as a stand alone product.
My version of Windows Fax & Scan still needs a fax modem or fax server to send the fax. And I don't think those come for free?
Have a look in the "C:\windows\system32" folder for wfs.exe
No, but a fella can easily install a modem in their box... once that is paid for, and the software is paid for... I'm dona paying from that point forward which is what I am looking for.
I looked, and it is there...but after reading the documentation, it requires a scanner.
What I'm looking for is a way to fax anything I'm looking at on my screen without having to print it and scan it first and then having to fax it from the Windows Fax console.
The HP Printer over on my computer allows me to print anything I see on my screen immediately by simply hitting "print" and choosing "HP Fax"...and since the fax machine has a telephone modem, it send the fax right out.
Most printers do not have this feature...and, since HP suXX... I need some software that can do the same thing using the modem I will install in my computer so I can both send and receive faxes because my computer will then have the ability to act like a fax machine...so I can send and receive faxes without printing which helps reduce global warming and saves mother earth and all that jazz (actually, I'm just interested in efficiency and convenience)
On my "Devices and Printers" section of Control Panel in the "Printers and Faxes" one device listed there is called "Fax", try printing to that device in the Print dialogue of an app (I think you need to have a fax server setup/available for it to work).
That's why I need a good fax software prog, as it takes care of all that enabling me to fax anything I can view on my screen right out of my computer...
Even if you buy the software you are still paying monthly for a phone line and presumably toll fees for long distance so it isn't like you buy it once and it is all good forever.
Is the modem a fax modem? IIRC, a number of the last generation of winmodems were not.
In our business...I do alot of long distance calling so we already have the unlimited calling program...and the modem I'm getting is a fax modem that plugs right in to the mobo...so, there's no need to signup with some service that charges me for each fax I send when I can buy a few items that enable me to do this on my own without the need of any service.
It's all about keeping costs as low as possible, and sometimes you have to spend a little money to do that... at least this will be much less expensive in the long run as well as more efficient and environmentally friendly so I can impress my liberal friends! What's not to love?
Ok big guy.
Have you just tried printing to Fax, seems to do what you want. Or at least I got so far as it asking where my fax modem was before I gave up.
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The 24 Hours of Le Mans holds a special place in the world of motorsports. The Circuit de la Sarthe is so huge that it easily accommodates up 300,000 spectators from across Europe. The atmosphere is carnival-like, but the bread, cheese and wine is superior (akin to eating bratwurst at Road America). The rivalries and history are what make the action so special at Le Mans. In the 1920s, it was Bentley versus Bugatti versus Alfa Romeo. Jumping to the 1960s, it was Ford versus Ferrari. Porsche dominated the 1970s, fending off challenges from Renault and Matra-Simca. Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar and Mazda duked it out through the '80s and early '90s, with McClaren and Panoz shaking things up after that.
This year, we're watching the Chevy Corvette, because this will surely be the American car's toughest challenge to win at Le Mans. While Chevy's fiberglass race car has won six times since 2001, those victories came in the lightly contested GT1/GTS class. Now the brand has switched classes to the GTE Pro division (formerly GT2), where many of the world's top sports-car manufactures run. The sole American entry will compete with the Ferrari 458 Italia, Porsche 911, BMW M3 and Aston Martin Vantage. The two Corvettes entered qualified fourth and sixth, but as with any 24-hour race, reliability often trumps outright speed.
In addition to the sports-car battles, the top LMP1 division should be thrilling as well, with Peugeot and Audi set to lock horns with competing diesel-powered cars. In the past two years, Peugeot has had the faster car, but Audi has returned with a new car that appears exceedingly quick (it won the pole position).
Rules changes and advancing technology keep the battles unpredictable. The following pages point you toward this weekend's excitement. A robust field of more than 50 cars is expected to make the grid Saturday afternoon. LMP1, LMP2 (prototype classes) and various GTE Pro and GTE Am production-based contenders take to the circuit's 8.47-mile course at 3:00 pm Paris time Saturday.
Even with a chicane installed in 1990, LMP1 prototypes routinely accelerate to more than 200 mph on the long Mulsanne Straight. Prior to 1990, speeds approached 250 mph.
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The killings are what stick in the minds of teachers and administrators.
"I always listen when I hear of shootings on the news," says Virginia Alcocer, principal of the Garcia School in the Murphy Elementary School District. "And I say, 'Please don't let it be our area, please don't let it be kids from our schools.'"
But over the past decade, it often has been. "It seems like we've gone to one or two funerals every year," says Jeanetta Martinez, a fifth-grade teacher at Kuban School, who has taught in the district for more than 20 years.
School officials and community leaders characterize what has gone on here and in other neighborhoods afflicted by gang and juvenile violence as a quiet massacre -- Columbine on the installment plan.
"Sometimes it makes the front pages," says Jose Leyba, superintendent of the neighboring Isaac Elementary School District, "but usually it shows up in a small box in the paper. These are mostly brown kids and black kids, so it doesn't bring the attention that other killings do."
The neighborhood straddling Murphy and part of the Isaac district, defined by the 85009 zip code, has consistently been among the top 10 areas in Maricopa County for juvenile crime and violence.
In the past seven years, 31 kids under age 19 have been killed there -- mostly with guns and about half because of gang violence. The dead include students and former students from schools in both districts. Another five youngsters have taken their own lives. By far, most of the victims have been Hispanic boys.
The killings haven't happened on school grounds, or provoked the public shock and soul-searching that followed the tragic killings of middle-class children at Colorado's Columbine High School and other predominantly white schools. (By comparison, the area of northeast Phoenix, defined by zip code 85254, bordering Scottsdale, has had one homicide and six suicides over the past seven years.)
In the largely Hispanic, impoverished Murphy and Isaac districts, the killings have come one and two at a time, usually at nights and on weekends.
"That's part of the problem with some of our troubled kids," says Leyba. "Monday through Friday we can keep an eye on them. But on the weekends, we can't control their environment. Unfortunately, the environment controls a lot of what they do."
Children have been killed at parties and parks, in cars, bedrooms, backyards and at a few of the area's many vacant lots. Some have been killed outside the area, when one gang has crossed another's path, or drug deals have gone bad.
"Usually what happens is you see a car wash," says Pamela Jones, curriculum director for the Murphy district, "because most of these families don't have the money to bury their children."
The toll reflects the enormity of the task facing schools in areas where protecting children has become as important as teaching them.
"Around here, it really has to be safety first," says Daniel Cooper, assistant principal at Murphy's Kuban Elementary School, at 31st Avenue and Sherman Street. "If our kids don't feel safe here, or the families don't feel safe here, the kids won't learn."
School officials and community leaders say the killings are also emblematic of the social vacuum in which Murphy, Isaac and many other school districts in hard-pressed communities must function.
That vacuum, experts say, comes from concentrations of poverty and families broken by abuse, alcoholism, transience, crime and drugs. Those factors have mixed with the easy accessibility of guns to produce numbing levels of violence.
"What's happening in these neighborhoods," says Michael McCort, a commander with the Phoenix Police Department who has studied gang violence and developed a violence prevention strategy for the city, "really requires a fundamental rethinking of our approaches. We spend a lot of money on hiring police officers. That may be a necessary thing to keep people safe. But we don't put enough into the kind of prevention this problem really needs."
In the Murphy area, that effort to rethink prevention has been going on for some time. Unlike anywhere else in Phoenix, it is the school district that has taken the lead.
For more than a decade, the district has scrambled for every available dime to expand the traditional schoolhouse role from that of teaching children to educating and caring for families.
It was the first inner-city district to sponsor comprehensive after-school programs; the first to house an office of the Arizona Department of Economic Security at a school; the first to host a satellite Boys and Girls Club; and the first to work with the City of Phoenix on what eventually became known as community policing.
Community leaders contend that it makes good sense to turn schools into all-purpose community and youth centers. Schools are where the children are. And in economically depressed districts like Murphy and Isaac, they are about the only public agencies in the neighborhoods.
However, years of inadequate funding by the state have left the schools barely equipped to cover basic academic standards, let alone assume the role of community organizer and protector. And traditionalists in education have resisted opening their schools to anything but basic education.
Robert Donofrio, Murphy's superintendent since 1986, says that schools and districts saddled with problems similar to his don't have much choice: "Our kids don't drop their emotional baggage at the schoolhouse door. They bring it right in with them.
"Some of the narrow thinkers said that all we were doing with the DES office was putting in a welfare center. But the fact is, if you can't stabilize a family in crisis, you can never teach the kid.
"So let me have the food stamps and bring in a job-training component. That way families can get emergency assistance and food stamps. They can get AHCCCS [state-funded medical care]. And their kids can get on with their education."
On any weekday afternoon, the rooms and playing fields at the district's four schools are usually hopping with some of the district's dozens of after-hours programs. They range from the extracurricular sports and clubs found at other Valley schools to the kinds of things usually found at a social services agency: English classes and family-development workshops and parenting classes. Sometimes in the evenings, the district offices become meeting rooms for neighborhood organizations. On Friday nights, the field house at Garcia School (27th Avenue and Buckeye Road) draws kids and adults alike from all over the area for "midnight basketball." And it isn't unusual to find the campuses open on weekends for other community workshops or events.
Over the past 10 years, school attendance rates and test scores in the district have been edging up, and the number of complaints against Murphy children to the Maricopa County Juvenile Court overall have been falling.
As good as his district's efforts have been, says Donofrio, they amount to just a patchwork attempt to fill the area's most glaring educational, cultural and social holes.
Patchwork or not, the district's commitment to community involvement, say many gang-prevention experts, is a model of what schools can and should do to ease the conditions that feed gangs and juvenile crime.
"If somebody could dissect what they're doing and make a template out of it," says McCort, "it would be one of the best approaches we could put together."
On a recent Saturday morning, while the gates to many other schools in high juvenile-crime areas of the city are closed and locked, Murphy's Garcia School is open. About 20 Hispanic families are gathered among the tables in its cafeteria. They are talking, eating and playing with one another as part of a two-day workshop sponsored by a family-service organization called Creciendo Unidos (Growing Together). The organization, which operates under the umbrella of Safe Haven Inc., a private nonprofit community development corporation in the Murphy neighborhood, brings Hispanic families together to learn to get along.
Guille Sastré, director of the program, says she developed it about five years ago to fill a gap in many prevention and intervention programs.
Manual Avitia, who lives in the area and came with his wife and two young children, says he heard about the program through the school. Sitting in the school's courtyard during a break, he says that the area has too much violence and too many drug dealers.
"I thought this would be good for many families in my neighborhood, so we can get along better and learn how to control our children without using violence. That's important for us now."
Sastré's organization is one of dozens that use the Murphy schools after hours. She comes here partly because of the need in the community, yet also because her shoestring budget can afford it. The Murphy district doesn't charge her a dime.
That isn't the way it works in other districts. This past summer, the Alhambra Elementary School District, which also covers parts of west Phoenix that have high rates of juvenile crime, charged the City of Phoenix more than $3,600 to run a summer recreation program at Westwood Elementary School.
Like Murphy, Alhambra has numerous after-school and prevention programs and is benefiting from a $348,000 federal education grant. But the district draws its purse strings tight when it comes to the community.
"We give community organizations free usage of the facilities," says Alhambra district superintendent Carol Peck. "But I don't think you could expect the school to pay for custodians' overtimes for weekends and evenings."
Donofrio has little patience for such thinking.
"We're talking about reaping millions of dollars in community resources and services for a couple thousand dollars of additional custodial time. What here at our schools doesn't already have to be cleaned? So what if there's some extra cost on the weekends?"
He says groups like Sastré's are as essential as teachers to the district's work. "They're helping us overcome these social, economic and educational barriers our kids face. They're assets. We need them here. They're helping me develop my mission for young people."
In the late 1980s, Donofrio discovered that former Murphy students were dropping out of Central and Carl Hayden high schools because the Phoenix Union High School District didn't -- and still doesn't -- provide transportation. City buses didn't come frequently enough to get them to school on time. He started his own bus service with district funds.
Many observers say Donofrio's willingness to broaden his schools' mission and share school facilities has been a key to the district's success with lowering juvenile crime rates and keeping kids in school.
For the past six years, the Garcia Business Partnership, headed by Holsum Bakery President Ed Eisele, has involved Fleming Foods, the Maricopa Juvenile Probation office and numerous others in projects at the Garcia school.
The district has been working closely with Safe Haven to create new housing in the neighborhood -- the first significant residential development to reach the area in a generation.
And many neighborhood leaders credit Donofrio and his colleagues with helping to spark the community coalitions and block watches that became active in the late 1980s.
"Bob's area is a good example of what can happen when you get more people involved," says McCort. "You have business teaming up with education and government pulling its role.
"And Bob also has the community. That's the hardest thing to do. If you can't get the community involved and find a way to maintain that, you're doomed to failure."
The Murphy district is a gritty 12-square-mile area that extends north from the Salt River to Van Buren Street, and west from 19th Avenue to 39th Avenue. It's split by Buckeye Road, one of the most notorious strips of drugs and prostitution in the city. The residential neighborhoods toward the Van Buren edge are checkered with dilapidation and occasional efforts to keep things tidy. South toward Buckeye and Durango Street, the district is an urban backstage filled with the ugly industrial props and services that cities need but neighborhoods don't want.
Few trees grow here, and few neighborhoods, either. The pockets of private residences, apartments and trailer parks are engulfed by trucking firms, used-tire outfits -- businesses that sprout overnight, then disappear weeks or months later -- and scrap yards where broken cars are stacked like so many crab shells above the rooflines of nearby buildings.
For many years, the area had no realistic city plan and no planning committee to represent the community's interests in zoning or development issues. While other neighborhoods had village planning committees and friendly names like North Mountain Village or Camelback East Village, Murphy and its surroundings were known at City Hall simply as Peripheral Area A.
Last year, after a decade of lobbying by Donofrio and neighborhood leaders, the city renamed the area Estrella Village and established a planning committee. More recently, the Phoenix City Council approved a village plan to guide future development.
Call it what you will, but Murphy remains a peripheral area. It has no safe parks, no library, no community centers. Its only food stores are Circle Ks.
The most prominent public facilities are the line of county juvenile and adult jails along Durango Street, the city's wastewater treatment plant and a solid waste transfer station near the river bottom.
The area is loaded with poverty, drugs, prostitution and homeless drifters trekking back and forth from the indigent services on Madison Street near the state Capitol to the Phoenix Rescue Mission at 35th Avenue south of Buckeye Road. Like other poor areas of the city, people walk long distances here because they have no cars. Mothers make their way along Buckeye or north through the neighborhood to buy food and other essentials on Van Buren, two or three young children straggling behind them.
The area, says one urban planner who works regularly with the city, is "Phoenix's model for slum development."
The real estate boom of the 1970s brought junky duplex and triplex apartments that later declined into some of the city's nastiest slums. In the 1980s, they festered into busy fencing and drug operations.
During that same period, the city regularly rezoned Murphy's residential neighborhoods into industrial property, turning the area into the Valley's auto scrap yard and junk heap.
"The assumption at the city," says Conrad Spohnholz, who heads Safe Haven, which has been building new homes for low-income workers in the community, "was that the area was going to go industrial. That industrial thrust would force out the occupants, so there would be no need for residential property."
But it hasn't worked out that way. A steady flow of impoverished immigrants into the district has given it as many students today, about 2,500, as it had 20 years ago.
Such issues might seem far removed from academic achievement. But Donofrio links them to the education and welfare of the district's families, and the long-term fight against gangs and juvenile crime.
"A lot of people don't understand," he says, "that you cannot deal with gangs unless you're dealing with economic renewal. Gangs fester on the poverty and hopelessness out there. And they move in wherever you have the kind of family instability that leads kids to gravitate toward adoptive families, which is what gangs really are."
When Donofrio arrived in the district as a special education teacher in the early 1970s -- a longhaired, blue-collar kid from central New Jersey -- Murphy had the friendly feel of an old-fashioned neighborhood.
"It was poor then," he says. "But there wasn't any fear."
After 12-hour days, he'd go over to the Coffelt Community Center and play basketball. And people would come out.
"They wouldn't let me go home," he says, smiling. "They'd say, 'Aaah, come on over and have a burrito.' People knew each other, and they cared."
The massive influx of crack cocaine and crime in the 1980s chased the neighborhood indoors. "People just hid," says Donofrio. "And it became 'see no evil, hear no evil.'"
Those troubles have only compounded the many educational ones that Murphy faces.
In 1989, the Arizona Department of Education ranked Murphy as the third most "at-risk" non-Indian school district in the state.
The so-called risk factors have only worsened since then.
"We've got some nasty poverty down here," says Donofrio. "We've got about 95 percent, or something like that, who qualify for free or reduced lunches. We've got a low literacy level. We've got a lot of impoverished single-headed households.
"And we have a notorious problem down here with kids baby-sitting for other kids. A lot of 8-year-olds are going home from school to take care of their 3- and 4-year-old brothers and sisters."
Donofrio and other officials can only guess at the number of undocumented immigrants attending Murphy schools. But they say that more than 50 percent of the children -- documented and undocumented -- come to school with little English proficiency. And there has been a disturbing trend in recent years of a small yet growing percentage of incoming students -- less than 10 percent now -- who don't test literate in any language. Many are coming from the rural communities of Mexico.
The mobility rate of students is also high, considered an indicator of problems by educational experts. Last year, more than half of the students who ended the year at Murphy schools weren't there at the beginning.
Donofrio says he tracked one of the district's four entering kindergarten classes from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s and found that by the time those kindergarten students reached the eighth grade, only 26 of the original group of 330 were still in Murphy schools.
In 1993, the state Department of Education placed a couple of Murphy's schools on probation for poor test scores. The scores hovered in the teens and low 20s, while the state average that year was in the 40s.
At the state's urging, Donofrio brought in Mary Belle McCorkle, president of the Tucson Unified School District and an educational consultant.
"Bob told me he'd done all he could do to add resources outside the classroom, and that he was convinced the real problem existed in the classroom."
What she encountered, she says, was a district with "a group of teachers who in many cases had given up. They felt like the job was so impossible, they just got through the day."
"The kids were doing drugs. The homes didn't have the support the kids needed," McCorkle says. "There was danger in the neighborhood. The kids came to school hungry, without clothing -- all the ingredients of poverty."
She focused on developing the curriculum and bringing some consistency to how the schools approached literacy.
She says it's fairly easy for teachers in impoverished districts to "get into the syndrome of thinking: these poor kids, this poor neighborhood."
"The minute you start that 'poor kids' stuff, you tend to lose the expectations they need to succeed," she says. "The fact is, they can rise to the occasion, but they need a hell of a lot of support to do it."
She says the community-school model that Donofrio has built provides that.
Donofrio says the model was shaped by community need.
"When you look around down here, it's pretty obvious that we don't have what a lot of other places would consider normal amenities or services. They're just not here."
Donofrio says that one of Murphy's biggest problems in the 1980s was that there weren't many after-school programs.
(In the early '80s, the city eliminated after-school programs in a financial dispute with schools over sanitation fees. The loss of programs came at the same time street gangs were rapidly expanding in the Valley and many kids turned to gangs for lack of other alternatives ("Net Loss," September 16).
"Kids were easy prey," says Donofrio. "They were just hanging on the streets, with the pushers and everyone else out there to entice them. We figured if we could minimize the time latchkey kids spend alone, we could start to win this battle."
The district started changing that in 1988, when it landed a five-year, $2.5 million Drug Free Schools and Community Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The money was intended to reduce the prevalence of drugs in communities. It enabled Murphy to lay the groundwork for many of the partnerships with local businesses and other organizations that exist today.
The district used some of the money to help create neighborhood organizations that began tackling local blight and crime.
"The fear factor was huge," says Donofrio. "I had neighborhood activists whose car was firebombed. And we were never able to get more than a handful of leaders. The burnout rate was huge."
Jennie Navarro, who sent six children through Murphy schools and has lived in the neighborhood for 31 years, says it's still difficult to get people involved.
She recalls that she and a handful of other neighbors joined the efforts because drugs and violence had made the community a desperate place. "The killings and the drugs made it hard for families to stay here."
Navarro notes that another obstacle to community involvement has been the political divisiveness that erupted in the area in the mid-1990s. In 1996, three members of the Murphy school board were recalled from their posts. Ever since, a vocal minority led by Elena "Helen" Madrid, one of the recalled members, has been lobbing charges at Donofrio and the district. Among other things, Madrid and her allies say that Donofrio intimidates people.
The federal grant allowed the school district to bolster police enforcement efforts and to initiate neighborhood cleanups of trash-strewn alleys and vacant lots.
The grant also bought the district numerous after-school and summer programs.
"We told the grant administrators, 'Look, we've got all these drug education and just-say-no programs in school. What about giving kids structured, supervised activities after school?'" says Donofrio. "It seemed obvious to us that one of the reasons young people get involved in drugs is that they don't have anything to do."
When the federal money ran out in 1993, the Phoenix Parks, Recreation and Library Department started its own after-school programs.
Around the same time, Ed Eisele of Holsum Bakery, located not far from Garcia School, approached Donofrio about the idea of forming a business partnership to help the district.
Eisele, who is a member of Greater Phoenix Leadership, the group of influential business and corporate leaders formerly called the Phoenix 40, says the 1992 Los Angeles riots had made him wonder "what the flash point was going to be for us. I wasn't sure what we should be thinking about in the way of prevention."
Eisele says that, up until then, he was the personification of the Detached Businessman. His company had donated lots of products to charities that feed the poor. But he had driven in and out of the neighborhood around the bakery without ever paying much attention to it. When he finally took a good look, he saw an area that was suffering from severe neglect. Even stop signs and other basic items were missing.
On a recent tour of the neighborhood, Eisele pulls his car over on 23rd Avenue -- the access road beside I-17 -- at Lincoln Street, and points to a dirt-covered strip beside the road.
"That may not look like much. But it took four friggin' years to get the city and SRP to fill in the ditch that had been there. Four friggin' years.
"I used to watch people in these little motorized wheelchairs having to roll out into the street to get by there."
Eisele says that in addition to rousting criminals and tearing down dilapidated dwellings that had become nests for illicit activities, the area badly needs more safe places for children to go.
"That really hit home one day," he says, "when folks from the Maricopa County Juvenile Detention facility, one of the business partners at Garcia School, told us that the preponderance of juvenile crime occurred between 3 and 8 p.m. And by the way, that's also the time when most unwed teenage mothers become mothers."
Eisele called Rick Miller, then director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix, and broached the idea of the organization opening a satellite club at Garcia School.
Miller says it wasn't difficult to see the logic of it. The facilities are already built and paid for. Schools provide ready access to children -- minimizing the problem of transportation which often prevents kids from getting to after-hours programs.
The arrangement also saves money.
Boys and Girls Club officials say it normally takes about as much as $2 million to build a stand-alone club and another $400,000 a year to operate it.
The Garcia Club, which opened in the summer of 1995 and averages 100 children in its daily after-school program, costs only $73,000 a year to run because it shares expenses with the school.
That compares to the $54,000 a year it costs to detain one juvenile in a detention facility.
It's a comparison that has particular relevance for Murphy schools.
Eisele notes that the number of juvenile complaints against kids at Garcia began falling the year the Boys and Girls Club opened. The year before, in 1995, there were 38 complaints against children. In 1996, that total plummeted to 16.
Over the past decade, complaints against juveniles throughout the district have dropped from about 225 to as low as 124 in 1997.
The delinquency rate drifted upward in the past year -- to 151 complaints. It's something that Donofrio and others are watching closely; they don't know why it went up.
Such statistics aren't lost on the children or parents of Murphy schools. Before they talk about the fun and educational benefits of after-school activities, they commend the schools for keeping children safe and out of trouble. The schools are seen as neighborhood oases for children.
On almost any afternoon, one can find former Murphy students who have moved on to Carl Hayden and Central high schools hanging around the field house at Garcia School.
Many more come back for the midnight basketball program that runs on Friday nights. Kids say they come back to the school mostly because it's a place they feel safe.
"We feel at home here," says Daniel, a teen who was hanging out with about six other boys on a recent Thursday afternoon.
All of the boys say they know someone who has been shot or stabbed. They say there's too much violence, but they don't know what they can do about it.
They also come to the gym because there is no other in the area. They wish there was a safe park with a teen center nearby.
So do Karessa Rodriguez, Victoria Hobein and Zayra Herrera, seventh-graders at Kuban School -- north of Buckeye Road, not far from Garcia.
They say after-school programs are fine for younger children, but they want something more for older kids.
The programs, says Victoria, "help out parents who have to work, so they can get you more things that you need. They also give us a chance to do homework."
Victoria spends most of her summer days at the Homes branch Boys and Girls Club at Sherman Street near 17th Avenue. But she prefers the after-school programs at Kuban during the school year.
"Right now we're playing volleyball," she says.
Karessa prefers acting. Last summer, she attended a daily arts workshop at Kuban, funded with a "Project Intervention" grant from the Governor's Office. She says she performed in a play.
Zayra likes the folk dance program that had been part of Kuban's summer arts activities.
All three of the girls are participating in the Phoenix Police Department's "Wake-Up" club at Kuban, a promising program in which seventh- and eighth-graders carry out school- and community-service projects, and try to raise funds for special events and field trips for themselves.
The problem, says Karessa, is that older kids -- eighth-graders -- "think they're too good to go to the after-school program. They think they're just for little kids."
Attendance numbers bear that out. The after-school participation rate at Murphy schools falls when it comes to older children, plummeting along with puberty.
Jemeille Ackourey, vice president of operations at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix, says schools and other organizations like hers struggle constantly with how to involve more older kids. That's especially true with children who show signs of gravitating toward the street.
"The kids we're trying to attract and need to attract are typically the kids that aren't doing well in school. But the last thing they want to do is spend any more time there. They want their own space. They want a place of their own."
Some of the boys and girls say they've gone to the Carl Hayden Community Youth Center, on Van Buren near 31st Avenue. But they'd prefer to have a closer center, with a greater variety of programs. All agree they'd like to have more of a hand in determining the programs and activities.
They also think there's plenty of vacant land on which to build one.
Eisele has bought three empty lots at 24th Avenue and Hadley where he hopes he can convince the city to build a pocket park. He and others say the city has been resisting the idea. But he doesn't intend to give up.
"These folks down here have no place to go. There's no swing set for kids. They don't have money for swing sets in their own yards. And the nearest park is too far away to be convenient."
Neighborhood leaders say city parks staff have told them it will be well into the next century before they can expect a park.
City councilman Doug Lingner, who has represented the Murphy area in District 7 since 1995, says a park is needed. But, he cautions, pocket parks can become gang turf.
Eisele's three lots may be too small for a park. "I'm not saying people wouldn't use that park, but the money is so scarce we've got to get the biggest bang for the buck," says Lingner.
But the biggest issue, he says, "is that the neighborhood has been so split up between housing and industrial that it's hard to find a good site."
Once a site is found, Buckeye Road and other major streets in the area often serve as barriers to kids. He wants the city to consider a park on the seven empty acres adjacent to Kuban School.
Whichever plan emerges won't be built without voter approval of the next bond package, which Lingner says is expected to be decided in October 2000.
Since 1993, after citizen activists finally got the city's attention, the city has pumped more than $7 million into 90 after-school programs. Recently, city officials have also identified gaps in youth services, largely on the west side. That's led to a commitment by the city council to add another $2.4 million for after-hours programs at 90 more school and park sites in the next three years.
Many educators and city officials acknowledge that both schools and cities are playing catch-up after years of neglect.
Jose Leyba credits the city for its recent investments. But he says that the patchwork of programs amounts "to Band-Aids on the problem -- a lot of short-term fixes. The after-school programs make the difference for some kids. But other children need much more. We need family programs. And we just don't have the resources for those."
A New Times examination of programs in the more than a dozen school districts working in areas with the highest rates of juvenile crime bears Leyba out ("Net Loss," September 16).
The survey, conducted over the summer, revealed significant disparities in available programs, and a haphazard patchwork of inconsistent funding supporting them. The patchwork reflects the prevailing lack of public-policy focus about what communities and children need.
Schools in impoverished areas tend to rely exclusively on outside sources of funds and services to run their programs, if they have them at all. Few districts can say how many children are involved in those programs, or how much the programs cost.
Several districts in troubled neighborhoods -- notably the Roosevelt Elementary, Wilson Elementary and Cartwright Elementary school districts -- could not provide any substantive information about their schools' programs.
The number and quality of available programs vary enormously. Some schools have extracurricular "no-cut" sports programs that involve many children. Others have only "cut" sports where limited numbers of children play only if they can make the team.
Ryan Johnson, a senior policy analyst at the Morrison Institute of Public Policy, recently completed a study of after-school and nontraditional school-hour programs as part of the Violence Prevention Initiative, an effort by numerous local governments and private organizations to increase funding and programming for violence prevention in Arizona. He says the situation with after-school programs is a complex and confusing mix of "the haves, have-nots, and the piece-it-togethers."
"Most of the schools I've talked to are the piece-it-togethers," he says. "They make things happen somehow. They go to the community. They ask for 5,000 bucks from some business. Jerry Colangelo out of nowhere drops them a bunch of school uniforms. They rob the field-trip budget. They ask teachers to volunteer. And somehow or other they manage to pull it off. Others have an abundance of programs."
Most, but not all, of the inequities boil down to money.
The Kyrene Elementary School District, a perennial example of a well-funded local school system, bordering Chandler and south Tempe, has a full menu of after-hours programs supported primarily by fees paid by parents. District officials say they provide scholarships for children whose families can't afford the fees.
Less affluent districts, like Murphy, Phoenix Elementary, Isaac and Alhambra, scramble to keep programs afloat. They rely heavily on grants and other outside help.
City officials and community leaders say that some schools resist hosting or developing extensive after-hours programs because administrators simply haven't embraced them.
This year, Maryvale High School, in the Phoenix neighborhood with the Valley's highest rate of juvenile crime, refused an offer from the Phoenix Youth at Risk Foundation for a program that works with troubled youngsters over the course of the school year. The foundation raised the $50,000 to operate the program; all the high school had to do was provide a room for weekly meetings, and allow a teacher or counselor to attend the three-day program orientation.
A spokesman for the Maryvale school says the school wants the program but simply couldn't implement it this year. The foundation gave it to Camelback High School instead.
In 1997, the Arizona Legislature approved a tax credit for people who contribute to after-school programs. The credit allows a deduction of up to $200 to public schools and $500 to private schools.
But many educators say that the tax credit may only magnify the inequities between schools in wealth areas and those in low-income neighborhoods. State documents show that in 1998, the first year the credit was allowed, several schools in the Kyrene elementary school district each received more in contributions than all of the schools in the Murphy and Isaac districts combined.
ASU's Johnson says many after-hours programs depend on creative financing and budgeting. Often, to support them, school administrators have to rob other parts of the school budgets, and rely on volunteers and special grants.
By any measure, the Murphy district exemplifies a "have not" school that, through aggressive scrambling for funds and programs, has turned itself into a "have."
Donofrio says that scramble never ends. This year is the last of the five-year grant that pays for the Boys and Girls Club at Garcia School.
"Unless we pull another rabbit out of our hat, that program could go away," he says. "All I'm going to tell them [Boys and Girls Club officials] is that this has been a model program. But I can't spend district money on it. I just don't have it."
Jemeille Ackourey of the Boys and Girls Clubs says her organization won't "fold up shop and say our commitment is done."
"I can guarantee that's not going to happen. But as far as what our game plan is for next year, we do not have one. We're going to have to write grants and work with Safe Haven to find more funds."
Murphy's school-as-community-center model clearly isn't for everyone. Traditionalists view it as too much social work, and a distraction from the real role of educators and schools.
Deborah Dillon, education program coordinator for the City of Phoenix, says that part of the problem many schools have with taking on all sorts of extracurricular matters is "they're not evaluated on how many after-school or anti-gang or anti-teen-pregnancy programs they have."
They're evaluated on test scores.
"So even though those other things are important," says Dillon, "they often wind up not being a school's priority."
Margaret Dugan, principal at Glendale High School, is one school official who's convinced that schools aren't equipped to raise kids and teach them, too.
"That's what families and churches are there for," she says. "Someone just needs to say, 'Hey, that's your responsibility and let us, the schools, get back to doing what we're supposed to do: educate children to read and write.'"
Dugan, who began her teaching career in 1973 at what is now Garcia School in the Murphy district -- long before Donofrio's tenure as superintendent -- says she doesn't have much time or patience for anti-gang, anti-teen-pregnancy or other programs that shift the school's focus from educating to moralizing.
"I've told people I don't want to do that," she says. "Because if we start being a social agency and asking, 'Okay, who got fed,' then we're going to worry about having a breakfast, a lunch, about getting clothes, and then all of a sudden we've forgotten we're supposed to be teaching these kids algebra."
Like other educators who resist being social saviors, Dugan is convinced that "one of the problems in education is that we're trying to do it all."
"I know there are people out there who say the kids are hungry and this and that. But I say, yeah, that's true, but what are you going to do, be with them 365 days a year? I don't believe that's our job."
As a result, says Dugan, Glendale High School, which draws students from an area that had the sixth highest juvenile crime rate in the Valley last year, has no formal gang intervention program. But it does have extracurricular activities.
Pamela Jones, Murphy's curriculum director, wishes the Murphy district could afford to take that view.
"But we can't run our schools without taking care of the people who attend them. We can't. We wouldn't have a school."
Jose Leyba of the Isaac district says the reality is that increasing numbers of students are entering school with serious social problems.
Says Leyba, "We see so many who lack the basics not just in how to learn but also how to socialize with other children."
Jones points out that Murphy screens all of its kindergarten students. "What we're finding is we have kids who have never seen a pencil, who actually don't know how to pick up a pencil. We have kids who can't tell you what the cover of a book is. They can't even tell you if a book is upside down or not."
Leyba says those disturbing trends signify more than just an educational problem. "What they tell me is we have kids, young kids, who aren't getting the nurturing they need at home, who don't have parents spending time with them and helping them."
But Glendale's Dugan contends that those issues too easily become excuses for educators.
Even in the Murphy district, some educators are wary about the educational cost of balancing those harsh realities with the need to raise test scores.
"I'll be honest with you," says Clay McAllester, principal at Kuban School. "We butt heads with Bob sometimes when it [extracurricular programs] starts to impede on instruction. Because we're of the philosophy that our job is to educate children."
A number of parents say the Murphy schools' academic achievements still aren't what they should be.
"I think we tended to hide behind excuses," says Kuban's assistant principal Dan Cooper. "There was a time that we felt that a reason we didn't do so well on test scores was the kids were in and out of school so much."
But the schools tracked the effect of mobility on test scores, he says, "and we found that kids coming in and out were doing about the same as kids who were here continuously."
But Donofrio and others say the real problem with transience for kids is that they aren't able to form lasting relationships with peers and teachers.
Those relationships are why Lisa Acosta brings her daughter, Victoria Hobein, to Kuban from their home across town at 16th Street and Baseline Road. Although she lives down the street from an elementary school in the Roosevelt School District, Acosta takes her children to Kuban because, she says, they're in better hands there.
"When they were at Roosevelt, I was getting calls from the school saying you have to come pick up your children, we've had a drive-by, or, we've had threats. We shouldn't be having problems like that."
One morning several years ago, she saw a jumble of kids roughing up a child in an open field beside the school. She got out of the car and yelled at them to stop. When the dust cleared, she saw that her son, an epileptic, was at the bottom of the heap.
"The kids were kicking him because he had caught the football and wouldn't throw it to someone else."
She says school officials didn't seem interested in dealing with matters like that.
People wonder if she's scared, taking her children to school in the Murphy district. "But I'm very comfortable with the school," Acosta says.
She has reason to be.
As a child, she attended what was then Garcia School. "I came from a troubled family that bounced me around in foster care," she says. "Then I got into Mrs. Hobein's special education class and we bonded."
Pat Hobein, now a teacher at Kuban, legally adopted Acosta.
Acosta's is a one-in-a-million tale. Yet it underscores what many gang-prevention specialists and educators say the troubled kids need, both in school and out, to avoid falling victim to the violence in the area.
"Basically, our kids need good, strong relationships," says Donofrio. "You can't disconnect them from their families. There probably isn't an after-school program in the country that can take the place of a long-lasting, nurturing family."
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That's the problem in Murphy and elsewhere. "Once the school doors and programs close," says Donofrio, "these kids still have to go home."
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For the Ukiah Daily Journal
In May of 2012 an experienced tree faller with Shuster Logging was killed by a falling limb; in July of 2012 an owner/operator driving a logging truck was killed when his vehicle overturned; in April of 2013 a mill worker at Redwood Empire Sawmill was killed while trying to clear a jam in an automated tree debarking machine. These are three of the most recent fallen workers, workplace tragedies, all of whom died since last year's honoring at the annual Workers' Memorial Day, an international event, a day of mourning, for remembering lives lost or injured in the workplace.
Terry Poplawski organized the first event in Ukiah in 2000 to honor the death of a co-worker's husband. The Workers' Memorial Fund was formed and its members, the primary organizers, have worked to create the program for this year on Saturday, April 27, from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the Saturday Afternoon Club.
Poplawski will begin the evening followed by Dora Briley speaking about what the event means to her and the positive significance of her deceased son still being honored as a worker. Dawn Senften will follow with a singing performance and the names of those whose lives have been lost will be read. This portion of the event, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., is free to everyone.?????????
A dinner of spaghetti, with gluten free pasta and a vegetarian option available upon request, garlic bread, salad and a drink will follow culminating with dance music provided by DJ Ryan Fabian of Tah-dah Productions. The requested donation is $20 for the entire evening. Marcos Pereda will perform during dinner and included will be a silent and dessert auction and a wine toss.
All the proceeds are held by the Community Foundation of Mendocino County, the umbrella agency that distributes money to families who have lost a loved one.
Shari McAsey, vice president of the Workers' Memorial Fund, says that when they hear about a worker who has been killed, they contact the foundation that then provides a one-time monetary grant to the nearest relative of the fallen worker. The idea is to replace a paycheck that will no longer be coming to that family.
She says, "The first year when I attended the event I realized that families are not only devastated emotionally but also financially. A group of us decided to do something to help. When you have a loved one killed, you are in a state of shock. Although I was fortunate because my husband and I had worked very hard to prepare for retirement, I recall how lost I felt. I was in shock when I found out that Social Security provides a one-time death benefit of $300. I thought about how other families who were not as fortunate, who have dependents, were going to get by.?A light went on for me; realizing that this could be anybody at any time. I?tapped into those feelings and decided to do something to help."????????
The Memorial Fund committee includes McAsey, Terry Poplawski, Jean Davis, Carrie Brigham and Toni Martin with two new members, Star Gilley and Tammy Ingle, coming on board. They have been able to help 19 families; since keeping records they have noted the death of 52 workers in Mendocino County. If people know of someone to be added to the list they can contact Davis at?707 468-9095.
Davis says, "I worked with Shari for over 20 years and when her husband, a dear friend, was killed, it was my deep love for her that urged me to became involved. It is gratifying to be able to help people the way we have been able to help; there are so many families that have to go on; they continue to have expenses. There have been many people killed over the years and the need has become greater."
People's lives are changed with this kind of a tragedy. Most of the time it is men who are killed on the job, the ones who bring in the bigger paycheck. The fund is there to help families with immediate expenses and lets them know that there are people who care.
The event is sponsored by donations from unions, notably a contribution by North Bay Central Council of $500, the generosity and hard work of the committee members, and the help of SEIU that provides insurance coverage.


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The PlayStation Vita crams console quality graphics and gameplay into a powerful handheld for the next generation of gaming on the go.
Featuring a large front Touchscreen and rear touchpad, as well as dual analogue sticks, the PS Vita offers controls like no other handheld. And it's jam-packed with online and social features, from Facebook and Twitter to music and mini-games, as well as full access to the PlayStation Network.
Get your hands on the great new handheld with the Sony PlayStation Vita.


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A Kanawha City man who allegedly broke into homes in Kanawha City and South Hills was arrested Monday night, police said.
Jordan Dickens, 24, is charged with two counts of burglary, according to Charleston Police Chief of Detectives Lt. Steve Cooper.
Last week, police say, Dickens broke into homes on Lower Donnally Road, in Kanawha City, and Sheraton Circle, in South Hills, and stole jewelry and electronics. The incidents occurred during the day while no one was home, according to police.
Cooper said he expected the arrest would curb the number of burglaries on the south side of Charleston.
"Mr. Dickens is suspected of other burglaries and detectives are actively investigating," he said.
Dickens was identified with the help of LeadsOnline, a law enforcement resource that helps locate stolen property, Charleston Police Lt. Steve Cooper said Monday.
The items police say were stolen have been returned to their owners.
Dickens was also arrested last month for burglary and is a suspect in an ongoing embezzlement case, according to Cooper.
Dickens was taken to South Central Regional Jail late Monday.


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Pupils past and present of Devizes School have been quick to jump to its defence after it was accused on Facebook of not respecting the hour of darkness to mark the start of the First World War on Monday evening.
Lights were turned off across the country between 10pm and 11pm but a number of people took to Facebook sites to criticise the school for keeping floodlights on at a parking area.
But it turned out the lights were operated by Devizes Leisure Centre which said that as it was open until 10.15pm it had to light the car park for safety reasons.
One person said: "Truly disappointed to see that when we were all asked to turn our lights out and light a candle at 10pm to remember those who fought in the First World War, Devizes Senior School still had their sports field lights on glaring away lighting up the whole area."
But others jumped to the school's defence including Michelle Harfield.
She wrote on The Devizes Issue: "Would really like to see some of the people on here retract their statements about Devizes School's lack of respect at the Leisure Centre Flood Lights being left on at 10pm on Monday. A - Devizes School has always been very proactive in teaching World War History with respect and decency. B - The flood lights are owned and operated by the Leisure Centre and are used by Devizes School as they share the land and C - the Flood Lights are used to light the car park and as they Leisure Centre doesn't close until 10pm, it has to provide a safe environment for its users and staff."


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MADISON, Wis. – World Dairy Expo is expanding the trade show offerings to visitors in 2011. The Outdoor Trade Mall has been expanded again this year, making this the second year in a row the exhibit area increased in size and number of exhibitors. The International Lounge area exhibit space has also been bumped up to accommodate greater needs for global commerce.
The Outdoor Trade Mall is quickly becoming the area in highest demand as companies search for ample display space for new larger equipment. This year, producers will be able to view a wider range of new products in the Trade Mall, from the new side-entry skid loaders from JCB, new forage equipment from Claas to giant TMR mixers from Italian company Storti S.p.A.
"We're in the unique position where demand for the exhibit space exceeds the supply. That means that we can be very selective about only allowing the best new exhibitors into the show each year," according to John Rozum, World Dairy Expo Sales Manager. "It's all about making sure that we have the latest products and services that the dairy industry has to offer. That's what the producers come to Madison to see."
This year promises to be the best commercial exhibit display at World Dairy Expo to-date featuring over 130 companies making their first appearance at the event, some that are making their first appearance in North America. This year 120 of the 800 exhibiting companies are from outside of the United States. They represent 28 countries bringing their products and technologies to the global market here in Madison. Without question, dairy producers will want to include the 2011 World Dairy Expo as their one-stop event to view the world's best dairy industry products and services. A list of participating companies and interactive maps can be found on Expo's website.
World Dairy Expo is recognized as the world's largest dairy-focused trade show. Last year's attendance topped 65,000 and included representatives from 87 different countries.
World Dairy Expo takes place at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. "Around the World of Dairy in 5 Days" is the theme for the 2011 show scheduled for October 4 through October 8. For more information, contact World Dairy Expo at 608-224-6455 or visit www.worlddairyexpo.com.


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The closing date for sealed bids on this year's North Platte Community College custom-built home has been extended to 1 p.m. on Friday, July 19.
The bids were $102,111 and $97,000, Salestrom said.
This has happened before and, while its unfortunate, some community family is going get a new opportunity to be the proud owner of this year's house, he said.
The process and procedures remain the same. The NPCC Foundation requires a minimum bid of $85,000 and bidders must submit their sealed bid to the college.
Since 1971, students and faculty in the building trades programs at North Platte Community College have built a three-bedroom house as part of the hands-on aspect of their education.
The NPCC Foundation sponsors and oversees the sale.
This years house features an open floor-plan and includes special elements and upgrades.
Approximately one third of the 1,780 square foot house is dedicated to the master bedroom and bath, which is separated from the guest bedrooms by the living area. Some of the features of the spacious master suite include a recessed ceiling, a contemporary cultured marble shower, his and hers vanities and a whirlpool tub.
Another third of the house is dedicated to two guest bedrooms, both with walk-in closets, and another full bath. The remaining square footage is dedicated to the kitchen, dining room, and living room areas.
The kitchen area features Whirlpool appliances, a breakfast island, hickory cabinets and solid surface countertops. The dining and living areas come together under cathedral ceilings with recessed lighting.
The floor plan also includes a dedicated utility room and an area that was designed for a crawlspace or basement stairway. Hickory trim is used extensively throughout the house.
Flooring in the home includes carpeted bedrooms, Dura-Ceramic tile in the utility room, stairway and bathrooms, and three-quarter-inch hickory wood floors in the living area, dining room, and kitchen.
The home was built with a tongue and groove floor system and laminated I-beam floor joists. DuPont Tyvek energy saving house wrap was used to conserve energy and all exterior walls and ceilings were sealed to meet 2011 Green Build Savings Standards.
The front of the house features a double sidelight front door. Heritage Asphalt shingles on the roof have a 30-year warranty and there is a 50 year guarantee on the house siding.
Bids will be accepted by mail or may be delivered in person. No faxes will be accepted. All bids must be in sealed envelopes and addressed as follows:
Bruce Bergman NPCC House Bid, c/o North Platte Community College North Campus, 1101 Halligan Dr., North Platte, NE 69101.
Interested individuals can stop by the northwest corner of the North Campus (Technical Campus), 1101 Halligan Dr. in North Platte, to view it from Monday through Friday or by appointment for other times.
Open houses are scheduled from 5-7 p.m. on June 27, July 11 and July 18, Salestrom said.
Someone is going to get a fabulous home on July 19, he said.
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A Rummage through the archive
The Northern Ballet archives are bulging with posters, photographs and programmes from over forty years' worth of productions.
From the early days of Northern Dance Theatre in Manchester up to today, here's a whistle-stop tour through some of the best hidden gems our archive cupboard has to offer.
Company curiosities
The Northern Ballet of today in fact started out life under a completely different namesake. Established by Laverne Meyer, who became the company's first Artistic Director in 1969, the name Northern Dance Theatre seemed the definitive name of choice, so much so that this emphatic poster (left) was created, repeating the company name 18 times (just in case you forgot).
Then, with a new Artistic Director, Robert de Warren, in 1976, a new company name came into play and Northern Ballet Theatre was born.
Here's a snap of Northern Ballet Theatre, headed by de Warren, for their production of Swan Lake in 1986. In the centre sits Ballet Mistress, Dianne Richards; Artistic Director, Robert de Warren; and Assistant Artistic Director, Jeremy N. Leslie-Spinks.
This year, the company also struck up a prestigious link to ballet icon, Rudolf Nureyev, as he became Artistic Laureate of Northern Ballet Theatre.
Here is Robert de Warren rehearsing for Othello with Marcello Angelini (Othello) and Daniela Buson (Desdemona).
A few years later in 1989, the company were fighting for survival. In the picture below, dancers from the company join new Artistic Director, Christopher Gable, actress Jenny Seagrove and dancer Lynn Seymour, outside the House of Commons.
In a rare personal photograph, away from the business of ballet, here is a picture from Christopher Gable's 50th birthday party. You may notice a familiar face to the right of the photo: Northern Ballet's current Chief Executive, Mark Skipper.
In the place of rehearsal photographs, we uncovered this rather novel way of documenting the rehearsal process with these large, colourful sketches. The sketch caption reads: 'The Creation of Miss Carter Wore Pink. A new production by Northern Ballet Theatre. Artistic Director Robert de Warren. Sketch in the Hall of the Zion Institute, Zion Crescent, Hulme Walk, Manchester'.
And when it comes to posters, things were similarly artistic, featuring glistening colours, intricate sketches and attention-grabbing designs. It's also interesting to note the cost of tickets on the Aladdin poster (left): from 60p for an evening performance and 50p for a matinee; I'd say that's a bargain!
The author of this article is Katharine Wootton, an intern with Northern Ballet currently studying at the University of York.
Unfortunately much of the Northern Ballet archive was lost to a fire in 2001. For surviving elements of the archive we have not been able to identify the sources of or people in each photograph and poster. Please email us with details so we can properly credit each image.


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April 3, 2008
Neil Nguyen, EVP, Sales and Operations, DG FastChannel, and Nate Frink, VP, Operations, West, DG FastChannel, discussed the changes and challenges that advertisers and broadcasters will face when the mandated conversion to HD is complete.
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