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The story takes place in Sumaru City, Japan, population 1,280,000. Its protagonist attends Seven Sisters High School ("Sevens" for short), whose emblem is considered a status symbol even amongst students from other schools. Soon, though, a rumor that Sevens' emblem was actually cursed, and that wearing it would disfigure one's face, had spread around the city. Even worse, the rumor came true. And it was only the beginning of a string of rumors becoming reality, one after another. Before long, the protagonists discover the power to summon another side of them called "Personas," which they use to investigate the strange incidents around the city, all while facing their own personal demons as well. Time is once again on the march...
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FORLORN: 1. Abandoned; disconsolate; hopeless. 2. Characterized by sadness or loneliness, especially from being deserted or abandoned. [see leu- , to forfeit, lose.] DEPRESSED: SYNONYMS blue, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, downcast, downhearted. Affected or marked by low spirits: lonely and blue in a strange city; dejected but trying to look cheerful; disconsolate leader of a besieged town; dispirited worker facing a plant closing; downcast after a defeat. DISCONSOLATE: 1. Seeming beyond consolation; extremely dejected. See Synonyms at depressed. 2. Cheerless; gloomy. [Latin dis- + consolatus, to console.] HOPELESS: Bleak; comfortless; forlorn.
COMFORT: SYNONYMS comforted, consoled, solaced. Given hope or help in time of grief or pain: solaced with a hot cup of coffee. CONSOLED: Having allayed the sorrow or grief of. [Latin com- + solari, to comfort.] See Synonyms at comfort. HOPEFUL: 1. Desiring and considering possible. 2. To look forward with desire and usually with a measure of confidence in the likelihood of gaining what is desired. CHEERFUL: 1. Having comfort or encouragement. 2. Having lightness of spirits or mood; having gaiety or joy. 3. Being in or characterized by good spirits; merry. [Old French chiere, face.] SPIRITED: Having an attitude marked by enthusiasm, energy or courage. [Latin spirare, to breathe.] SOLACED: Comforted, cheered, or consoled, as in trouble or sorrow. Allayed or assuaged. See Synonyms at comfort. [Latin solari, to console.]
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Each week more signs appear behind the stage at ESPN's College Gameday. Some are original and funny (Knowshon Crossing sign with his leaping outline), some are entirely inside jokes (let's make a sign with our friend's name on it and hold it up for three hours early in the morning), and some are deemed offensive and are destroyed by ESPN heavies. Which brings us to the sign posted above, "Lou Holtz Spits, Mark May Swallows." It comes to me via reader Pete and he says, " By 10:05 AM ESPN had already confiscated it and broken it apart, but it did set off quite a commotion the few minutes it was up." So now you know if you're interested in trying to sneak your sign past the heavies at ESPN, you're out of luck. Unless that sign says, "Lee Corso is a penis", then you may survive for a little while. I've always thought that Gameday doesn't take advantage of this signage enough. For instance, what if they actually made Desmond Howard do something, anything worthwhile on the show, and put him to work selecting the five best signs of the day and bringing them on set for the final segment? Or the top three signs? Actually, given his sense of humor Howard might not be the best choice. But wouldn't this be a great idea? To acknowledge all the fans who show up early in the morning and scream and yell and make the show such a success. Granted "Lou Holtz spits, Mark May Swallows" is not going to make the cut, but for original signs with good humor, wouldn't it be cool to encourage the creativity? Instead of, you know, taking a college kid's sign and breaking it up after deeming it offensive. (Offensive is a stretch here anyway, Lou Holtz does spit and Mark May does swallow...sometimes, or he would die.) Could Pete have gotten away with, "Lou Holtz Expectorates and Mark May Ingests." I think so. I want to know which ESPN guru is in charge of deciding whether a sign is offensive or not. I'm picturing this bespectacled guy sitting in front of a large HD screen on the Gameday bus, television images reflected off his glasses, laptop in lap, and googling sign phrases with laser-like focus. Then he has like fifteen guys dressed entirely in black (the ESPN shockforce), snaps his fingers, and Gino Torretta goes outside and wreaks havoc. Either that or they borrow David Pollack from CBS and send him out to say, "Golly gee, y'all should have known better," and Pollack throws the signs down and then skips from one side of the sign to another, smiling at you all the while, as he destroys your sign.
Anyway, if you've ever wondered whether ESPN brings the muscle to break down offensive signs, now you know. On to 8 other things I noted from this week's games. 1. Someone finally stopped Tim Tebow on a 4th and 1 shotgun sneak. That team was Ole Miss. Prior to this stop, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Ole Miss had all been victimized by the Tebow fourth down sneak leading to victories. It was believed by many, much like the four minute mile, that this play simply couldn't be bested. And then Ole Miss stopped it. A Houston Nutt coached team stopped it. Wow. When this final score was announced at UT-Auburn, there was a roar throughout the stadium. A roar so loud that the Florida guys with their sleevless t-shirts and the Florida girls with their bingo wings, felt a sudden chill of air on the backs of their exposed arms. Here's the play.
Note how Ole Miss sends every single player storming into the center of the line. There isn't a single player more than two yards from the line of scrimmage. If Florida goes play action here, they win. Or even with the Tim Tebow jump pass. New theory: Florida can't handle the rural SEC schools. Ole Miss has won two in a row in the Swamp, Miss. State sent the Zooker packing, and Auburn's owning of the Gators is well-chronicled. There's something about cows that spells Gator disaster. Otherwise how to explain the incongruous site of Ole Miss fans mocking the Gator Chomp with a derogatory chop of their own in Gainesville. 2. Wisconsin blows a 19-0 lead at Michigan and loses. As if that weren't bad enough this was the biggest second-half comeback in Michigan stadium history. That's 500 games. This is one of those losses where if you're a Wisconsin fan you find yourself sitting outside in the fading light staring off into the coming darkness thinking, "No matter what happens, Michigan is always going to be better than we are at football. Always." Michigan had 5 turnovers and only 21 yards of offense in the first half. And they won. Wisconsin had an undefeated team, was favored, and choked away the second half. How painful was it? Wisconsin scored on a two-point conversion to tie the game but was penalized and failed on the second attempt. 3. Tennessee quarterback Jonathan Crompton is the worst quarterback in my life at UT. He was 8-23 for 67 yards against Auburn. To say that this game was an atrocious display of football is insulting to the word atrocious. From UT giving Auburn a defensive touchdown by failing to execute the always complicated handoff, to Auburn's quarterback, Chris Todd, having the arm strength of a girl's power puff quarterback, this thing was epically bad on every level. How bad? Auburn's fans booed their team while they were leading in the fourth quarter. How bad part two? Jonathan Crompton's entire quarterbacking skill seems to consist of throwing the ball really hard. He didn't complete a pass for the final 20 minutes of the game. At one point, though, he did manage to throw a three-yard slant pattern 400 miles an hour. No one on earth could have caught this thing. Yep, he's Ricky Vaughn. My book is going to be awesome. It might just end up being an itemized roster of how much money Jonathan Crompton has cost me.
There was no joy in either fan base aw we left the stadium. Everyone looked like they'd just witnessed an execution. 4. Duke beats UVa 31-3. Meaning that Duke, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt are a combined 12-1 this season. The only loss among the three? Northwestern beat Duke. All three are likely to go bowling. As if that weren't enough ESPN's College Gameday just announced yesterday that they're coming to Vanderbilt for the game against Auburn this weekend. Seriously, Vanderbilt is hosting College Gameday. Any Tennessee fan who said that losing offensive coordinator David Cutcliffe wouldn't hurt was a fool. Duke is probably 1-3 without him, UT is 3-1 with him. Anyway, the big news here is that Vanderbilt becomes the smartest school since Williams-Amherst to get College Gameday. I'm expecting signs that are so insulting, biting, and smart that ESPN isn't smart enough to note their sublime subterfuge. Don't disappoint me Vandy, don't disappoint me. 5. Alabama eviscerates Georgia. Much to the chagrin of Georgia fans, I've been one of those people who has been saying all along that Georgia was overvalued relative to the other teams in the SEC. But even I was shocked by this outcome. 31-0 at the half? Imagine how bad it would have been if Georgia hadn't blacked out the stadium. What's the only thing worse than watching your team lose 14-12? Having to drive back across the whole state of Alabama and listen to Crimson Tide radio announcer Eli Gold have 48 orgasms on the radio.
Here's Eli, pictured above. By the way, can Alabama fans back me up on this, is Eli the only radio announcer on the Crimson Tide broadcast capable of speaking in sentences? Everyone else he had on-air with him just spoke occasional words and then uttered sounds after. How did they select these guys? Worse, who did they beat out? Eli Gold sounds like a Shakepearean actor and his co-workers sound like stand-ins for the missing link. 6. Oklahoma is your new number 1 team after the dust setlles on Saturday's results. The Sooners dispatched TCU 35-10. Four of the top ten lose. Alabama slides in at number 2 after their pasting of Georgia. Three teams from the Big 12 join two from the SEC. Anyone who tells you they have any idea what the hell is going to happen for the rest of the season is a damn fool. Survival is the operative word. Are we headed towards another two-loss national champion? Perhaps. 7. Don't look now but BYU is going to cause some major BCS headaches. They moved up to number 8 and only play one top 25 opponent for the remainder of the season (at home against Utah on the final week of their regular season) With all the attrition up top could BYU end up in the title game? Yeah, they really could. 8. UConn took down Louisville to go to 5-0 and reach the top 25 at 24 with fellow top ten crasher South Florida from the Big East. Which brings us to a second crazy thought, could BYU and South Florida end up in the national championship game? Looking at both of their schedules they'll be favored to be undefeated come season's end (with the possible exception for USF's season finale on December 6th at West Virginia). Fans would demand a playoff then, right? Right?


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By Merope Pavlides Oct 19, 2011 6
Gimme Shelter: Housing for Adults with Autism
We worry a lot. As parents of teens and adults with autism, we worry about all the ways the world can harm our children. Our daily refrain is, "What happens to him when I'm gone?" And central to this concern is the question of where our children will live if not with us.
There was a time when children and adults whose needs were consistent with autism (whether they received such a diagnosis or not) were routinely institutionalized. This trend peaked in the mid-1950s. A decade later, however, the movement to deinstitutionalize—through discharging numerous residents as well as closing facilities—was underway. This movement included individuals with a variety of challenges—developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and mental illness. To fill the void in housing and caregiving, it became necessary to develop and expand community service models.
Today a wide variety of housing models exists to serve adults on the autism spectrum. To underscore the desirability of providing community options, the Supreme Court ruled in its 1999 decision in the case of Olmstead v L.C. that services for people with disabilities must be provided in the "most integrated setting possible." Determining what is possible, however, can be difficult. As with most services for adults with autism, it becomes incumbent on the individual and family to thoroughly examine options and determine which model is the best fit.
Overview of Models
The models outlined below reflect two components: 1) type of residence; 2) relationship to service provision. Typically, the more intensive the living support, the more likely the residence and support services will be inextricably linked. Thus, the ability to change service providers does not exist in certain residential models. These models are generalizations; all manner of permutations can occur. It is important to note that when state and/or federal monies are involved in housing support, individuals must be found eligible for the model.
- Institutional setting: The process of deinstitutionalization nationwide means that fewer and fewer adults with autism receive such placements and thus must be absorbed into community living arrangements. In addition, because states are closing many, if not all, of their facilities, adults currently living in institutional settings must be transitioned back into the community. Adults with autism who also have co-morbid mental illness may still receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals if deemed necessary.
- Living with parents or other family members: There are currently no solid figures on the percentage of adults with autism who reside with their parents or other family members nationwide. Studies typically involve small sample sizes, may not be limited to adults with autism alone, and results seen in one state will vary from those in another. However, existing data seem to indicate that well over 50% of adults with autism continue to live with parents or other family members. Support in this setting can come strictly from family, or can be augmented with in-home services. (Which may be privately funded, or may stem from state or federal programs.) Choice in provision of support services will depend on how those services are funded.
- Adult foster care: Like foster care for children and youth, adult foster care consists of an individual living in a family setting other than with their own parents or relatives. Adult foster care providers are reimbursed for their services through state agencies and/or Medicaid, and an individual's Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments may also be used to support this service. The number of adults receiving care in the foster home will vary based on state regulations, as will the types of disabilities any one home may serve.
- Group home: The primary difference between adult foster care and a group home is that while foster care is provided by a family, a group home is typically run by an agency. Caregivers in these settings are employees of the service provider, and choice of service provider in the group home is not usually an option. Some group homes specifically focus on adults with autism; many serve a variety of people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Many states are now capping the number of residents a group home may serve, with three to four housemates a typical number.
- Supervised community: In this model, adults with autism receive support at a less intensive level than in a family or group home setting, and services are provided by the agency that runs the community. The specifics can vary from a number of supervised apartments or homes in urban or suburban communities to a model such as a farmstead.
- Supported living: While a supervised community typically means that a specific service provider oversees residents' care, supported living in an apartment or home allows the individual with autism to choose agencies, and to change service providers but to remain in the same residence if so desired. There are a number of permutations possible here—an adult with autism may live alone with in-home supports or may have one or more roommates. If the roommates also need supports, other service providers may be involved.
- Independent living in leased or owned home: Adults with autism who are able to live on their own in the community may qualify for housing assistance. Some adults with ASD may desire to purchase their own home or may have homes purchased for them by family members, while others will choose rental options.
Considering Options
Thinking about optimal housing for an adult with autism must involve thinking about feasibility. What is feasible in terms of independent functioning? And. what is feasible in terms of affordability? Answering these questions will narrow choices. Keep in mind that feasibility is impacted by availability of support services. For example, an adult with ASD may wish to live in her own apartment in the community in which she grew up, with her parents nearby. How much independent living support is necessary to make this feasible? What would it take in terms of fiscal resources to make this arrangement possible?
One of the most difficult aspects of making housing decisions is to accurately assess an individual's functioning level in terms of independent living skills. It is frequently the case that adults with autism demonstrate a much higher level of competence in independent living skills in non-family residential placements, as the habits they learned as children in that environment are no longer engaged in. Parents often unconsciously contribute to learned helplessness as well, because it can be easier to simply do things for the adult with ASD than to take the time to teach and develop new skills. Help in assessing independent living skills may be found through state vocational rehabilitation agencies, state developmental disability agencies, or private therapists and/or consultants. (Remember to check your private health insurance for reimbursement options for services from psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, etc.)
Once a decision is made regarding the best fit for residential model, the next step is to determine what the actual availability of this model is, both in terms of access to admission and in terms of funding. In other words, suppose a group home in the community seems the right fit for your adult child's level of independent functioning and personal and family preferences. Your state developmental disability agency can then help direct you to providers in your community who offer this residential model. You will then need to determine which of those providers actually has openings. Many people will find that the wait for an opening can be several years long. The same will often be true of supported communities.
Should your family determine that continuing to live at home is the right choice for the adult with autism—or if that is the only choice available for a period of time—it is important to then learn about options for in-home services available to your through state and federal programs. Supports can take on a variety of forms, from respite care to transportation to teaching independent living skills in the home. Caregiver burn-out is high among families of adults with autism, especially as the parents themselves age. In addition, generalization of skills will increase if taught by a variety of instructors.
As always, it is important to think in terms of lifespan of the adult on the autism spectrum. Most people with autism will outlive their parents. And most parents of adults with autism will, sooner or later, become too frail to be appropriate caregivers and may well need care themselves. In addition, adults with autism—like all of us—change over time. New skills may be acquired that indicate a step down in support. Alternatively, physical or mental health issues may change, resulting in the need for a higher level of care. Housing options should be evaluated as the person with autism approaches adulthood and through the years.
Katie Schaufelberger contributed research to this article.


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I'm super psyched to announce that on Monday February 11 (as in, NEXT MONDAY) Andrew and I will be the speakers at Boston Design Salon at 6:30 at the lovely Twelve Chairs shop on A Street in South Boston. A first for us, and for Design Salon (who have never had a dude speak before- go Andy!) There are a lot of business people and entrepreneurs who read this blog and are members of Design Salon that want to know more about selling, and what Andrew and I offer is a "he said/ she said" approach to the art of selling. You see, I am super timid about selling and being sold to. I get annoyed by pushy sales people and do everything (probably to a fault) to try to NOT to be a pushy seller to my clients (even when I KNOW something I have picked would be beyond perfect for their space). Andrew, on the other hand, loves working a trade show, any retail opportunity and thinks cold calls are "a fun challenge" (I'd rather go get a root canal). I have the challenge of selling myself as a brand (including monetizing my blog and developing partnerships), while Andrew has the challenge of selling to others and managing those relationships. Together I think we have a good amount of experience that might offer some tips to others.
It's bound to be an off the cuff, fun, open discussion about selling and being in business. I really hope some of you will come and join the party! I'd love to meet more of you and hope that we could help out in any way we can! Plus I can guarantee there will be a boatload of this on my part behind Andrew's back:
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The greater prairie chicken, which once faced extinction in the state, also calls this prairie home. Other rare animal species found here include the sandhill crane, marbled godwit, upland sandpiper and the prairie vole.
In all, this land is home to 39 bird species, six mammal species and four amphibian species.
From Twin Valley, take State Highway 32 about five miles south to the intersection with county roads 39 and 113. Turn west and travel four-and-a-half miles. The preserve is on the north side of the highway and is marked with The Nature Conservancy signs.
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Twin Valley Prairie contains a prominent beach ridge of Glacial Lake Agassiz that supports plant communities ranging from wet to dry prairie. Sedge meadow and marsh communities occupy the poorly drained swales alongside the beach ridge. Sedges and cottongrass dominate these low areas, with cattails, American great bulrush, and Buxbaum's sedge also occurring. The remainder, nearly 150 acres of choice mesic blacksoil prairie, is dominated by big bluestem and prairie cordgrass, with forbs such as tall meadow rue, prairie sunflower, and golden alexanders.
Moose, white tailed deer, jackrabbits, ground squirrels, the white-footed mouse and masked shrew make their homes here. This site is one of several in the area that are important to the long-term survival of the prairie chicken.
Why the Conservancy Selected This Site
This high-quality prairie is part of a larger complex of private and state-owned land that forms a major hotspot for biodiversity within the Agassiz Beach Ridges landscape. Located in the center of the landscape, Twin Valley Prairie SNA serves as an important staging area for sandhill cranes. Additionally, this site was selected because it contains many of the plant communities found in abundance prior to agricultural expansion in northwestern Minnesota. The site has a narrow band of dry prairie only yards away from bulrush and cattail marshes, meeting the habitat needs of a wide variety of plant, insect and bird species.
What the Conservancy Has Done/Is Doing
Over the last five years, the Conservancy has reclaimed a former gravel pit, reseeded a portion of the preserve that was formerly farmed to native prairie species and removed numerous mature trees. The tree rows reduced the site's value to grassland nesting birds. Tree rows in the midst of open prairie provide habitat for predators such as raccoons, skunks and birds of prey, which can diminish the ability of grassland birds to successfully nest. Many of these grassland birds, such as prairie chickens and upland sandpipers, select areas of open grassland, avoiding areas with mature trees when building their nests.


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Close reading in elementary schools
by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
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Close reading is a recommended instructional approach to meet the challenges of teaching complex texts. But close readings are more common in high school and college than in elementary schools. In this article, we identify the components of close reading that were developed after a group of elementary school teachers observed their colleges in high school. In addition, we focus on the modifications necessary to implement close reading in elementary schools.
Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2012). Close reading in elementary schools.The Reading Teacher, 66(3), 179-188.
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NEW YORK—Ricky Smith remembers vividly his first day at work. His new boss told him to keep his bag packed.
"I should probably tell you that tomorrow we are flying to Florida," his boss said. "I am going to shoot David."
"David" was the prominent magician David Blaine and Mr. Smith's first assignment was to photograph him doing the famous "bullet catch." His boss was going to pull the trigger.
Mr. Smith works at a library full of magic secrets: The Conjuring Arts Research Center, located a few blocks from the Empire State Building. The archive has over 15,000 books, plus manuscripts and letters serving magicians, historians and screenwriters. The documentation is all created by magicians for magicians.
The magic library has taken on the sometimes dueling missions of preserving the art and making it more accessible—while being entrusted with mysteries magicians have guarded for centuries.
The center doesn't allow browsers, but members of the public with specific interests can make appointments to seek out volumes such as "Indian Rope Trick" or "Mnemonica" (for memorizing cards).
"It's extremely difficult for me to tell you the secret of anything," says Bill Kalush, 47 years old, founder of the center. "Real secrets are psychological and deep. To take a simple secret and perform it in a way that looks like magic is extremely difficult." He offers as an analogy: "This is a scalpel. See how sharp it is? That's how to do surgery."
The library is a warren of rooms with towering bookshelves and velvet drapes. Labels mark sections on such topics as mentalism, ventriloquism, juggling, hypnosis, escapology, sleight-of-hand and cheating at gambling.
Antique tables and chairs fill the rest of the space, giving readers more room to spread out what they are studying than to turn around. Artifacts such as a pair of Harry Houdini's handcuffs lie in glass cases. Behind a 7-foot-tall vintage poster of "The White Mahatma" is a hidden door to rooms including the small storage room where Mr. Smith now lives.
"The magician who lives in the closet called me a Muggle," says head librarian Jen Spota, after her first day of work two years ago. She says the "Harry Potter" references abound whenever she tells friends she works in a magical library.
It is the kind of place where, one recent day, when cupcakes were served to celebrate a birthday, candles weren't blown out. Instead, they were extinguished with a hand clap.
One of the oldest documents in the collection comes from 1476—a fragment from Caxton's "Canterbury Tales," by Chaucer.
Mr. Kalush's prized page includes the passage in which a pilgrim recounts a story about a magician conjuring at a party. Other treasures include rare Italian pamphlets from the mid-1500s sold by street magicians, and science and math books revealing magical secrets—the kind made even more rare by those who burned books they saw as witchcraft.
Mr. Kalush, a specialist in sleight-of-hand with cards, was introduced to magic by his father. After college, he founded a produce business and began seriously collecting magic books. They began to multiply, so in 2003 he founded the nonprofit library. It now has six on staff, plus interns and volunteers, many of whom are magicians.
One of its largest projects is the digitization of magicians' personal papers, including letters collected over the years and trade journals for the library's online database. It's called "Ask Alexander" after a poster of a turban-wearing stage mentalist. Members pay up to $500 a year for access. Mr. Kalush also sells services and products for magicians, such as custom-made decks of cards.
The collection makes other magicians both envious and grateful, including illusionist David Copperfield, also a well-known collector. "We each have books we'd love to have in each other's libraries. But he has made his material accessible for all time. It's inspiring for someone like me," he says.
Mr. Copperfield, known for such feats as making the Statue of Liberty disappear, says Mr. Kalush is uniquely committed to preservation, perhaps the only private collector with a team of librarians and archivists. "He's made arcane and secretive knowledge that's been buried throughout time available to the people who need it," he says. "It's an enormous gift for the history of magic."
Teller—of the performing duo Penn and Teller—says magical libraries have previously been "impenetrable" but the center's online database helped him find in 30 seconds a reference book he had been unable to track down over decades. "It took my breath away," he says. He wouldn't reveal what he was seeking. Ricky Jay, a sleight-of-hand expert, says he appreciates the translator Mr. Kalush employs, which opens up secrets from magicians all over the world.
Mr. Blaine—who has been buried alive, encased in ice and submerged underwater—says Mr. Kalush was supportive when he was an up-and-comer on the New York magical scene. He recalls their first encounter in 1991, at a since-closed deli where magicians used to meet and perform for one another.
"When Bill walked in, he did some very underground card moves. There were probably 80 magicians there and everybody went nuts. I basically wouldn't let him leave until I cornered him and made him show me, again and again.''
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We had literally just paid for our food. It was some takeout place without any seating close to our hotel that the front desk had recommended as the only place still open. I walked outside to enjoy the crisp evening D.C. air, quite different from the still-tepid Arizona evenings we had just left. Next door to the take-out place was a lively dive full of guys deeply invested in the soon-to-end Redskins/Giants game on Monday Night Football. The neon sign in the glass glowed "open." I told my buddy we had made a serious mistake on our dinner choice. Tyler replied, "I already paid, man." "Go and get your money back," I pushed. He said I was more the type to go insult the nice woman behind the counter and cancel our order. It turns out he was right.
Inside the new place, we settled down to a few beers and ordered some finger foods to watch the rest of the football game. Nobody cared that Robert Griffin III was playing a below-average game. You could tell these guys had watched this team before without a good quarterback and now with one - a seriously good one — he would get a pass. The Redskins converted on third down. RGIII could take a knee. The room went nuts.
It was a friendly place; the locals allowed us to be fans with them. The owner came up and brought a little extra food on the house. All told, it was a great American night: Friendly football fans at their favorite neighborhood dive, where everybody knows your name, treating the new guy like your childhood pal. You could imagine the Founding Fathers smiling down upon us.
Except Tyler and I were likely the only native-born dudes in the room. Everybody was cheering on the Redskins in Amharic while we ate injera, tibs, and wat with our fingers and drank St. George Lager. A picture of Haile Selassie and JFK together in a town car framed the wall. I love tibs.
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This is why we were at this Ethiopian dive. Several pastors from Arizona decided to attend a summit that brought together Bibles, Badges, and Businesses to call for a sensible and humane solution to our immigration challenges. And it is looking promising.
But one thing in particular could derail us. It's the thing that has derailed us many times before: people who have been here longer, who have a head start understanding the beauty that is American football, these folks might get scared and force their elected officials to shut the whole conversation down.
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I don't believe these fears are defensible or warranted and this is just the most recent iteration of immigrants asking for the same kindness and hopefully less animosity shown previous groups. That night watching the Redskins play the Giants alongside some Ethiopian guys demonstrating a truly American hospitality only confirmed for me the wonderful and complex miracle that is immigration in America.
God reminds the Israelites of their immigrant background (Deut. 10:19) helping them see themselves in the new group of newcomers. "It was pretty tough remember? Folks used to treat you badly. Don't be like that. You can afford to be generous. I promise to provide for all of you."
We share American football and RGIII, and we share our injera and tibs. It's a pretty good deal all around.
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Russ McGlenn: Well, tell us a little bit about what you were doing here. I am just going to let you tell it. I have read one newspaper article, but you know how they do with newspapers and things. You said there was a sand spit here you were working on.
Louis Breteche: There was a sand bar just out that direction but it has all grown back into some weeds. This was probably in 1957. My Dad sent me with a half-ton truck to pick up some, well I was hauling more than one load, hauling gravel to put in front of the garage because there were a lot of rough bumps in there. So, I was hauling gravel. We had a hired man named Eddy Knicknack and we were down there shoveling away. We put in a half truck load because it was pretty heavy gravel and all of a sudden one of {us] happened to look towards the lake and we saw an object coming in the water coming about, oh, three four hundred yards and it looked like a bunch of ducks. But, they were all in line so we said, well gees that looks funny for ducks. It kept coming this way. We just quit shoveling right away and we started looking and kept on looking. It kept coming closer and it keep coming a little bit on the angle. I don't know if it could hear us or what, but then it got pretty close. As it got closer to us, within about 100 yards in the water, it lifted its head right out of the water about four feet and it had a head something, oh I would say just about like a horse. It was hard to explain it. The head was fairly long and it just lifted out and slapped the water again and did that a couple of times.
R: With its head, kind of slapped its head down.
L: Yes, he hit the water with his head, you know. But, I guess the bumps it must have been about 25 feet long and it had, I guess it was just like in the water, out the water. I tell you it was just like a, it wasn't flat, like it just kept like a snake, like to was...
R: Now, did it seem like it was going in and out this way or this way?
L: No, to me, if I remember right, it was going like this.
R: Up and down?
L. Yes, up and down.
R: You see, that is one characteristic of mammals. A mammal-like creature will tend to go this way where as if it is a reptile, it goes this way.
L: No, it wasn't going sideways. It was going up and down.
R: Now, you said its head was kind of like a horse. In other words it would be like a horse's head is long this way.
L: Well, it wasn't all that wide that I can recall, but it was fairly long. The head was more like a, it is hard to explain. The head on a horse is not that wide but longer going downwards. It had a head something like that.
R: Then, could you estimate, now you said about 25 feet long. The head, could you estimate this long or this long?
L: Oh, I would say the head must have been about, when it got out of the water a couple of times, it must have been at least 3 feet.
R: Now, was the head sticking straight out or kind of down again like a horse would have its head down?
L: Down, yes.
R: Did you see anything that looked like hair or sometimes they talk about a mane or a tuft of something behind its head?
L: No.
R: Anything look like ears or horns?
L: No, I can't say I seen anything that looked like ears.
R: Did it open it mouth at all so you could see teeth or anything like that?
L: It opened its mouth, but I didn't see teeth.
R: Maybe too far away?
L: Just too far away and I don't remember seeing teeth. It opened its mouth but not very wide, you know.
R: Now, as it was moving along, do you think you could, could you see its tail at all or rear end or something back there?
L: As it went along, I would say 20 feet was bigger and then the last 5 or 10 feet was smaller.
R: Thinner.
L: Yes, thinner.
R: Because in the newspaper article, it talked about it looked like the back of a tea kettle. Now are [you] saying like a tea kettle is fat and then the spout comes up? Is that what they maybe meant or maybe those weren't you words?
L: No, that wasn't my words. I don't recall seeing that.
R: Maybe that was another report, somebody else's.
L: To me it was just like it was pushing itself, like the tail, the back end, the rest of it was smaller but just it could have been up like a tea kettle but it was in the waves.
R: Could you see anything in the rear as well as a fin or a fluke like a whale? You know how a whale has flukes that spread out like this. Did you see anything like that?
L: No.
R: Anything in the front or sides that might look like fins or paddles or anything like that?
L: I can't recall that I saw anything like that, no.
R: Ok, how far then, Ok it [was] coming towards the shore then what finally happened?
L: Well, when it was coming toward us, then after that it started turning the other way again. I remember over there it starting going towards the southwest and then when it raised its head I would say it must have been from here to the end of that thin willow tree. So, that wasn't that far and then it kind of turned because we were looking and kind of making noise I guess. It kind of turned and started swimming.
R: Turned like broadside to you?
L: Yes, broadside. Like it was coming and just when of turned that way and it went that way. It didn't go any faster but we watched it for a little while and we were about that distance, about a quarter of a mile where we were with the truck, so we just left everything there and we took off with the truck and we came across here and we come to get these people that were living here.
R: Ok, that house was still there.
L: It was a house and not a cabin and we came to get them to see what we had seen and they did not want to come. They thought we were completely crazy. They said, you know, you are stupid, you a dumb, we are not going. So, ok that's fine, don't come.
R: Now as it was leaving it would be going almost south?
L: Well, it kind of turned and went like you know away from the shore and it just kept going south.
R: Do you know right out here does it drop off pretty fast in 10 or 15 feet?
L: Well, you don't have to go very far for the water to be deep. It you go 20-25 feet the water is deep.
R: Then, did you go home and tell your parents? How old were you then? You were in high school then?
L: Yes, that was in 1957 and I was born in 1941, so I would have been about 18.
R: Then you told your parents about it?
L: Oh, definitely I told my parents and they got all excited about it and from there it went to.....The man that was looking over Manitoba beach was Tom Locky and he, I don't think he is living anymore, but he was the main like the supervisor of all parks and I told him and he right away got ahold of the media, the CTDM in Daufin, the Winnipeg Free Press and in a day or two the Winnipeg Free Press was here and Winnipeg TV and it was on the radio and all that. Then, later on in life he seen it himself. Mr. Locky, yes, he seen it but he passed away.
R: Before this time, before you saw it had you heard stories about it or were you aware of it at all.
L: Yes, I was aware of it. There was Pete Adam and there was a Carl Adam and his sister, Lucille Adam, had seen it in Crane River. There was not too many people had seen it so far. There was maybe two, three. Then after that, when I seen it then after that there was a few more after that and that was it.
R: It seems like there have been a few sightings every year off and on for a few years.
L: There hasn't been for quite a few years now. I don't know, someplace.
R: Now in the newspaper it says they went over to Eagle Point and hiked back into Steep Rock Lake. Do you know why they decided that was the place to look for it?
L: Well, Eagle Point I think there is a cave there or something.
R: Yes, they said there was, well the newspaper article seemed to indicate that the cave was back at Steep Rock Lake, but you are thinking maybe the cave is right there a Eagle Point.
L: Well, one or the other because I remember them going to look out there and there is a cave and it is still there but I am not sure if it is Eagle Point or Steep Rock Bay.
R: Oh, maybe Steep Rock Bay, because it sounded like they walked up the creek to Steep Rock Lake, that bog back there.
L: There is a big stone ridge there. It is all stone in there and that is why they call it Steep Rock and it just drops right down.
R: At the bay though, so maybe we are still looking at the wrong place. Maybe Steep Rock Bay is where we should look. Maybe a cave along the edge of the cliff there.
L: My cousins know all about that. Clemon Bretecher lives just the other side of the lake there and he has got cattle. They use that Steep Rock for pasture.
R: The bay area or up to the lake too?
L: Yes, up to the lake. He would know more. He lives just the other side of the lake there.
R: He might even know where the cave is.
L: Oh yeh, I think he does, yep.
Tricia McGlenn: Did you want to ask about the weather and the time of day?
R: What was the weather like?
L: It was nice and sunny.
R: Was it very windy or was the water fairly calm?
L: The water was, I would say, about like right now. Not calmed down but it wasn't the waves where you see the waves.
R: Was it morning or afternoon?
L: It was later on in the afternoon, I would say about 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon. We had been hauling gravel most of the afternoon because I remember going to see these people and they were going to just have supper before too long. That is when they told us to get lost.
R: Now, the man who was working with you, how did he respond? He saw it too, right?
L: Oh yes. He was quite excited and then he was from Stonan Manitoba, which was about 40 miles north of here and he took his story home. He was an Indian.
R: Now he was an Indian. Do you know if the Indians had any stories or legends about this creature?
L: There were some that had some stories but then the one or two that I know off have passed away already too.
R: The newspaper said there was a LaFleur, an Indian man that took them over the Eagle Point. I can't remember his name. Fleury I think it was.
L: Marshtan Fleury. He passed away too. That is the one that I was thinking of that saw it a long time ago.
R: Did you have any other questions?
T: What time of the year?
R: Oh, do you know what month that was? Was it September? The newspaper article was dated September, but I didn't know if that…
T: It might have been before if he was working and not in school. It could have been in August because they came a couple weeks later.
L: Yes they came a couple weeks later, well a couple days later. They came as soon as Tom Locke told them and really Tom Locke, he was a nice guy but he told them about it and he teased me because I was fairly young at that time, about 18 or 19 and every time he would see me he would like of laugh at me about the Monapogo and I kind of laughed at him because about 4 or 5 years later he was fishing with his wife and some friends and they spotted it.
R: Did you write down Tom Locke?
T: He passed away, right?
L: Yah, I don't know if Mrs. Locke is even living anymore, but he passed away. He was in ......ok River.
R: Did you talk to him after he saw it then and what did he say?
L: Well, we had kind of the same story. They were in a boat and they were fishing and they seen it out at Crane River also. There is a little bay in Crane River there and people fish off the bridge, but I remember him saying that he was out in the bay and they were fishing and all of a sudden they noticed this thing coming towards them. Then the same thing, it kind of got out of the water a little bit and then it took off.
R: Did you have any theories about, maybe it is just curious do you think and maybe he was attracted by the noise of you working or them fishing or something.
L: I don't know what made it come this way, really. I don't know if it could have been the noise. I doubt it very much. I think it was just the way it was traveling and then when it heard us I think that is when it turned away from us.
Mary: It didn't make any noise that you heard, huh?
L: No it didn't make no noise. It just lifted itself out of the water, you know, maybe I would say it was a good 10 feet out of the water, yeh, 10 feet of the whole thing. We could see it real good. I can still remember just like the day that I seen it.
R: He lifted his head over 10 feet up?
L: Yeh, the body and the head and then he just let it go down.
R: He kind of slapped the water when it came down?
L: Well, yeh, with the weight it kind of slapped the water. I knew it was a big reptile or something pretty huge because when it was going sideways. We couldn't see it this way. We thought it was ducks coming. Little ducks sometimes follow each other in a row, but they kind of spread out and make a V. When it was straight and raised itself out of the water, I could see that it wasn't duck anymore because it was going like this. That is when I could tell the length of it because it had about 6 lumps in there, at least 6 humps.
T: What about Bird Island?
L: Oh, Bergs Island?
R: Well, there is an island up here, a pure white island with all the birds on it, is that called Bergs Island? Now, as we drove up there, we were over at Eagle Point.
L: You went to Eagle Point already?
R: Yes, today and we hiked clear back to Steep Rock Lake thinking that is where they hiked and we followed the creek up there but we could not find any cave. So, maybe it is Steep Rock Bay that is where we should be looking.
Sketch by Louis Bretecher, who saw the creature in the 50's when he was about 18. We interviewed him in August of 1999.
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'To a Lady, who was very kind to him in the place.'
Madam, when first your Beauty shin'd
Into my Cell, on me confin'd,
I grew in Love with my dark Cloister;
Slighted (poor and hungry) Pearl and Oyster:
The Apricots which you me threw,
The thoughts of Paradise renew;
In Eden's Garden sure they grew,
Transplanted to Moorfields by you.
You gave me Silver; whence I hold,
I ought not to Envy Danae's Gold;
For though on her Jove rain'd a Shower,
'Twa'nt real, but Poetic Ore.
You me with Paper, Pen, and Ink,
Madam, suppli'd, as well as Chink;
This my Muse studies to requite
In part, to you when she does Write.
Your Charity sent me a Shirt, each thread
Whereof, to you me fast does Wed;
And thus from your extended hand,
The Shirt in mine, turns to a Band.
At Night in Straw, Lying a-long,
To th'Oaten Pipes this was my Song.
A search on EEBO for early works on, about, or treating of madness (prompted by the mad-house in The Changeling) led me to James Carkesse's Lucida intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems, written at Finsbury and Bethlem by the Doctors patient extraordinary (1679). Carkesse, who brought all his troubles upon himself, was incarcerated in Bedlam in 1678, and wrote his book of verses there (and at Finsbury). He probably experienced madness; he certainly experienced the treatment of the insane meted out by the Bedlam regime.
In the poem above, we see some of the inhumanities which his poems complain of at large: being kept in the dark, with nothing to do (when Carkesse wanted to write his way out of confinement, by addressing versified complaints to former patrons and protectors), sleeping in straw, and naked: "Without either Shirt, or Cloaths, / I lodg'd my merry Mad Youth", another poem has his doctor gloat.
His lady visitor seems to be on the cusp between visiting Bedlam for the old reason of idle amusement, and an age of sensibility, visiting to perform charity. She was probably one of Carkesse's supporters, as her gifts met all his needs: writing materials, money, a shirt, and throwing him the apricots as a change of diet.
Other poems reveal more about the regime: the vermin ("In a place I did him stow, /
Where Rats and Mice do swarm", a poem makes his doctor say). "I'm opprest with cold", says another. He was chained up: "Iron locks my Leg fast", and beaten if he resisted treatment.
The brief ODNB entry on Carkesse says that by the standards of the time, the doctor in charge, Thomas Allen, introduced a relatively thoughtful regime in Bedlam. Purgings and phlebotomy were the medical norms for just about all ailments, and the inmates were subjected to both. Carkesse says he resisted as best he could. In the poem written to be voiced by Thomas Allen, the doctor complains about his patient:
My Chirurgeon he fiercely withstood,
And he led him such a Dance;
That to let this same Gown-man Blood,
A Sword was more fit than a Lance.
I order'd his Keeper, at Large,
On occasion to ply him with Blows,
That what Jugular did not discharge,
The mad Blood might come out at his Nose.
I can imagine copious blood-letting might have kept the wretched inmates quiet. More specific as a treatment was Allen's notion that an infantile diet might reduce his mad patients to a more docile condition:
His Diet was most of it Milk,
To reduce him again to a Child;
And Butter as soft as Silk,
To smooth the Fierce and the Wild.
My Potions he turn'd into Drenches,
For he freely would take ne're a jot;
But by Thomas and the Wenches,
They were forced down his Throat.
The potions Carkesse threw down would have been purgatives and emetics.
Here's another complete poem – it uses the conceits of a love poem to express gratitude to another lady visitor:
On the Ladies looking into his Cell.
When Doctor Mad-Quack me I'th'Dark had put,
And a close Prisoner in my Cloyster shut;
A Lady chanc'd peep in, whose Beauty bright
Enlarg'd the crannies, and let in new light:
Quack, I'm now pleas'd, without the Sun, confin'd
See how he Blushes, by my Star, out-shin'd.
Throughout his 'Lucid Intervals', Carkesse maintains that he has been thrown into Bedlam by the contrivance of his enemies:
Satan's Agents, my false Friends, combine
A Minister to Silence and confine.
I'm forc'd (though Sober) Bedlam to inherit,
When they, who put me here, the Prison merit;
For they're possest, not I, by th'Evil Spirit…
These enemies seem to include, interestingly, Samuel Pepys, who had caught Carkesse peculating at the Navy Office, and had him dismissed from office:
… Mr. Pepys, who hath my Rival been
For the Duk'es favour, more than years thirteen:
But I excluded, he High and Fortunate…
Elsewhere, he blames his wife: "me to be Tam'd, / My Shrewish Wife and her Relations send".
His actual confinement seems to have been prompted by an outrage against the Dissenters. Carkesse fancied himself to be a parson. "I am a Minister of God's holy Word", says the poem he addressed to the King (the ODNB entry says there is no evidence to suggest that this was true), and to have a divine mission. The revealing poem title is 'On his being Seiz'd on for a Madman, only for having endeavoured to reduce Dissenters unto the CHURCH.'
"Whether Carkesse was incarcerated for a specific offence is difficult to determine" says the ODNB. It may not be quite so obscure a matter as this makes it sound. One has to imagine that there was at the time a pretty broad tolerance for attacks upon dissenters, but he seems to have gone just too far. In a poem in which he imagines himself in self-defensive dialogue with his doctor, we learn that Carkesse went dressed as a parson to a 'Conventicle', where he seems to have torn his parson's gown. He was probably doubly drunk on zeal and spirits. His poem tries to explain these circumstances away: "in a Conventicle, / Who Sober would wear a Gown?" The Dissenters seem to have locked him out, so Carkesse tried to break in: "Oh but, Parson, you break the Wall, / And Burglary you commit". Carkesse does not think that these charges warrant defending:
"the way to Build up the Church,
Is to pull down the Chapel o'th'Devil.
Then throw the House out at Window,
And lay it flat with the Ground."
In other poems Carkesse suggests that he had also strongly taken to the taint of madness about the 'Popish Plot': "Titus destroy'd Jerusalem; and Rome / Her self, from Titus, may expect her doom. / Grow, Titus Oates, and thriving in this Land, / A Promise of our future Triumph, stand." Jesuits and the Dissenters both set him off.
At other moments in the 'Lucid Intervals', he tries to assert that the whole incident was a feigned enragement, a piece of devout acting: "Madness in Masquerade …A Mad-man I have Acted, as a Feat". Perhaps this half admits that he was merely dressed as a parson, and tore up the robe on being challenged about his right to wear it. Carkesse makes allusions to plays like The Humorous Lieutenant and The Mad Lover, in which insanity is performed by the actor in the role, rather than a medical condition.
But the self-exposing 'On his being Seiz'd on for a Madman, only for having endeavoured to reduce Dissenters unto the CHURCH' indicates that Carkesse was taken straight off to the asylum after his attack on the 'Conventicle', looking very much like a dangerous maniac, but (from his point of view) on his dignity and determined to make it look as though he went without constraint:
as I did pass,
I arm'd my hands in Coach with broken Glass;
Threatning the Slaves, which waited on my wheel,
That if they touch'd me, they should find 'twas steel,
Th'affrighted multitude observe their distance,
Without their help I enter, or my resistance:
But the great Tumult, and such solemn state,
Amus'd the Officers of Bedlam-Gate:
So well I Acted, that they did not stick,
Me to receive as their Arch-Lunatic…
The old print DNB apparently said that Carkesse ended up as a Catholic. The current ODNB says this is not evidenced. But he was, to say the least, unstable, and may have ended up in one of the churches he had previously attacked. My image is of course one of Goya's mad houses.


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Donations For Pakistan Flood Victims
Because I have been given much, I too must give.
Because of thy great bounty, Lord, each day I live.
I shall divide my gifts from thee with
every brother that I see,
who has the need of help from me.
Because I have been sheltered, fed by thy good care…
I cannot see another's lack, and I not share-
my glowing fire, my loaf of bread, my
roof's safe shelter over head,
that he too may be comforted.
Because I have been blessed by thy great love dear Lord,
I'll share thy love again according to thy word.
I shall give love to those in need.
I'll show that love by word and deed,
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NEW CANAAN -- Now in his third season as head coach of the Darien High boys basketball team, Kyle Marian is living by a motto that speaks to visions of a bright future for his oft-struggling program: "Turn the tide."
"This program has been down for so long," Marian said. "What we're really trying to do right now is turn that tide and make it into something moving forward that we're not at the bottom of the league every year."
Although the season is roughly only three weeks old, Darien is already showing signs of changing its fortunes around after slumbering to a 2-18 finish a year ago.
Trailing Staples by as many as 13 points in the first half on Monday afternoon, the Blue Wave rallied to pull out a 50-47 victory over the Wreckers in the LaVista Tournament final at New Canaan High School.
Darien junior guard Matt Staubi, a transfer from Rye Country Day School, led all scorers with 23 points and earned Tournament MVP honors. Staubi put in the Blue Wave's final seven points, including two free throws with 21 seconds left to push the lead to three.
The Blue Wave (2-3), which trailed 29-21 at halftime and by four points after three quarters, took only its third lead with 2:07 left on a 3-pointer by Staubi. Following two missed free throws by Staples guard Peter Rankowitz, Staubi hit a bucket to put the Blue Wave ahead 48-45 with 48 seconds left.
"Going into halftime, we came together as a team," Staubi said. "We really wanted to come out and get this championship. We haven't won this, I think, ever since we've been in this."
Darien had a chance to create more separation on the scoreboard late following an intentional foul called on Staples' Joe Greenwald, but Darien's Ian Burgoyne missed two free throws. With the Blue Wave retaining possession of the ball, Staubi calmly stepped to the line following a foul and hit both his attempts, making it 50-47 with 21 seconds left.
The Wreckers had three chances from behind the arc to knot the game on their final possession, but two 3-point attempts by Rankowitz and another by guard David Katz clanged off the rim.
"We had a couple good looks," Staples head coach Colin Devine said. "Next game we'll knock them down."
Staples, which got 18 points from guard James Frusciante and 15 from Rankowitz, led for nearly the entirety of the game. The Blue Wave scored the game's first bucket, to which the Wreckers responded with a 7-0 run.
The Wreckers (3-2) led 21-10 after the first quarter and went ahead by as many as 12 points in the second. But after slicing through Darien's man-to-man defense early, the Wreckers weren't nearly as effective against a zone look late.
"You've got to credit (Darien)," Devine said. "They changed from man to zone. Darien did a good job and we've got to get the right people the right shots at the right time."
Staples also found it difficult to drive into the paint and avoid Darien center Chima Azuonwu, who obstructed several shooting attempts. The 6-foot-10 junior, who moved from Nigeria during the summer, pulled down 17 rebounds and scored nine points.
"He's a game-changer," Devine said.
Trailing 43-40 early in the fourth, Staples tied it on one of Rankowitz's three 3-pointers. The Wreckers regained the lead 45-43 on a pair of free throws by Frusciante. Just seconds later, Staubi put Darien ahead for good with a trey.
"He's a battler. He's a year-round basketball player," Marian said of Staubi. "He's been in a lot of different situations in his career. ... He's a gritty kid."
Staubi was named to the all-tournament team, along with his teammate Liam Naughton, Rankowitz, Greenwich's Alex Wolf and New Canaan's Claude Chandonnet Jr.
"I was very impressed with our tenacity to just come back. ... To come back and keep battling, keep battling shows where we're at as a program, which is nice to see," Marian said.
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Alex Addessi 0 6-8 6 Nicolaas Esposito 0 0-0 0 James Frusciante 3 11-14 18 Joe Greenwald 1 0-0 2 David Katz 0 0-0 0 Jacob Melnick 0 0-0 0 Andrew Felman 0 0-0 0 Peter Rankowitz 6 0-2 15 Nick Ward 0 0-0 0 Ross Whelan 2 0-0 4 Darryle Wiggins 1 0-0 2 Todd Goldstein 0 0-0 0. Totals 13 17-24 47.
Chima Azuonwu 4 1-3 9 George Phillips 2 0-0 4 Bobby Fitzpatrick 0 0-0 0 Brian Wiegand 0 0-0 0 Liam Naughton 1 0-0 2 Charles Travers 0 0-0 0 Colin Sullivan 0 0-0 0 Matt Staubi 9 5-6 23 Henry Baldwin 1 0-0 2 Kyle Green 0 0-0 0 Ian Burgoyne 4 0-0 8 Ames Murray 1 0-0 2. Totals 22 6-9 50.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
"Just to win a salami in ridiculous races."
"Interest in doping has lessened," Italian Olympic committee (CONI)head Ettore Torri said at an anti-doping conference in Faenza. "Before there were few tests and the penalties were light. Now it's not worth it any more."
He claims, however, that while the situation among professional riders has improved monumentally the situation in amateur racing is getting worse. "The situation there is serious. I've met entire families who dope. From lawyers to manual labor workers, they do anything just to win a salami in ridiculous races."
It's not only in amateur races. Several of the major granfondo events have been tainted by doping.
On the subject of doping, the "my steak was tainted" defense by Alberto Contador begins tomorrow before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. The hearing will last until Thursday, a decision is not expected until next year. This for Contador's positive for Clenbuterol in the 2010 Tour de France. If the finding is in favor of the UCI, Contador could be stripped of his 2010 Tour de France and 2011 Giroi d'Italia victory (more backgound here).
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Love that Faggin photo! The salami looks pretty cute too...but the only doping to win one should be with vino rosso! Sadly, Faggin's bikes were destined to be a sales dud in the USA where our shop said, "nice looking bikes, but it would be hard to sell someone a bike that says faggin on it to our customers." even though the importer at the time was our friend "Chairman Bill" of Torelli Imports.ReplyDelete
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