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They are building at Richmond-Burton.
A brand new gym, that is.
There's a gigantic addition being built to the school's old gym that is near completion. It will provide the Rockets with a state-of-the-art fieldhouse with plenty of seating for games as well as extra practice courts.
Construction is due to be complete next month.
The boys basketball team is hoping that it's on the verge of building something as well.
It's been a rough start to the season for the young Rockets, who entered Friday's nonconference battle against visiting Round Lake with just one win in 13 games.
But thanks to a decisive 63-45 victory over the Panthers in the old gym, which was separated from the new gym by a floor-to-ceiling white curtain, Richmond-Burton finally has something positive to build on.
"We talked about the second half of the season and making a move and getting better," said Richmond-Burton coach Brandon Creason, whose team improves to 2-12 on the season. "We've got (the new gym), we did some nice things tonight we're building all sorts of things here."
Against Round Lake, which drops to 3-12 on the season, sophomore forward Sam Kaufman was the heavy lifter.
He scored a career- and game-high 30 points, including 19 points in the first half that got the Rockets off on the right foot. Junior guard Michael Kaska also reached double-figures for Richmond-Burton with 12 points on two 3-pointers.
"Shots were falling it felt good," said Kaufman, who connected on 11-of-18 field goal attempts. "The locker room is more fun tonight. Everyone is happy. This week in practice, I'm sure we're going to have a much more positive outlook. This (win) is going to help a lot."
A nagging press also helped Richmond-Burton, which lost to Round Lake at the Grant Holiday Tournament last month but was down to seven players because of an illness that wiped out nearly half the team.
The Rockets pressured Round Lake into 25 turnovers on the game and scored off of a handful of them. By the start of the fourth quarter, they were up by 15 points (48-33).
"It's just a constant battle to get our guys locked in 100 percent while they're on the floor," Round Lake coach Jim Roberts said. "Against their pressure, if you're consistent and disciplined every time, you handle it fine. But we're not and that's been our story all year. Turnovers led to layups (for Richmond-Burton) and we just kind of compounded our mistakes."
Round Lake junior guard Karnell Wright did his best to be a neutralizer. He scored a team-high 18 points, including two 3-pointers.
"I'm disappointed on the turnovers we had," said Wright, the only player to score in double-figures for the Panthers. "Our team, we're struggling right now. We need to learn how to work together and be together. We need to communicate better and bring each other up. When one person gets down, the whole team gets down."
The Panthers got a bit of a lift by the return of star freshman forward James Mobley, who sprained his ankle last month and missed the Grant Holiday Tournament. He practiced for the first time on Thursday and played throughout the Richmond-Burton game, although he did not assume his normal spot in the starting lineup.
Mobley had 4 points and turned a steal into a layup early in the fourth quarter to cut the Round Lake deficit to 11 points. But Kaufman went on to score 8 points in a hurry to keep Richmond-Burton's cushion comfy.


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Grandparent's Day is Sunday, September 8, 2013. We want to send big bear hugs to all the amazing grandparent's out there who never seem to run out of hugs and kisses for their families.
Helen has worked at World Bearquarters since 1998, and she became a grandmother last August when her first grandson, Colton, was born. He just celebrated his first birthday, and Helen has fallen in love with being a grandparent. She says being a grandma is definitely the best thing ever, especially to a sweet boy like Colton who is an excellent baby and rarely cries.
Colton's first Build-A-Bear Workshop stuffed animal was a Sweet Velvet Teddy with his name, birthday, and weight embroidered on its tummy. He loves to give it hugs and carry it around. The first furry friend Helen made for Colton was a giraffe to go in his jungle-theme nursery. It's stuffed with lots of love!
When Helen joined the team at Build-A-Bear Workshop, her daughters, Danielle and Michelle, were just 10 and 8 years old. Danielle and Michelle were both members of the first group of Cub Advisors, which is a group of kids who give feedback and opinions about new furry friends and fashions. They grew up as Build-A-Bear Workshop grew into a worldwide company, and now Danielle's son will also grow up with Build-A-Bear Workshop.
This Grandparent's Day, Helen looks forward to spending the day with Colton and his parents. How will you celebrate your day?
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KLRU presents eight stories about women and girls who are making a difference both locally and globally. These women were nominated by the community to be featured as part of the station's participation in the national Women and Girls Lead campaign. Today we spotlight Katherine Craft. Craft is the founder of Conspire Theater, a program that provides incarcerated women a healing and empowering experience through the arts.
You can watch KLRU's other Women and Girls Lead videos at klru.org/wagl and be sure to watch stories about other women making a difference on Makers: Women Who Make America on Feb. 26th.


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November is Adoption Awareness Month, and local groups like Mid-South Alliance and Agape Child & Family Services are working to provide safe and loving homes for more than 1,100 children in foster care in Shelby County.
Mid-South Alliance volunteers giving out Christmas tubs to foster children last year. The group is working to put together similar tubs for more than 300 children this Christmas.
(Mark Ottinger of Mid-South Alliance and Fellowship Memphis Church)
"Nearly 50 times in scripture, it says we are to defend the fatherless, seek justice for the fatherless and for the orphan, and so I really feel like the faith community needs to step into this area," said Mark Ottinger, who has four adopted children and is a campus pastor at Fellowship Memphis Church.
Nationally there are more than 400,000 children in the foster care system, and an estimated 100,000 of them cannot return to their birth families because of past abuse or neglect. Ottinger wants to find ways to help children coming from rough situations.
"We want to find out how we can get them into a home to experience healing because many of them have been through abuse and trauma," he said.
Ottinger and some friends formed Mid-South Alliance, a group that has grown to 25 people representing 20 local churches that meets monthly. The group wants to provide opportunities for people to get involved, even if they might not currently want to adopt or provide foster care.
"It's estimated that 40 percent of people at some point in their life will say they want to adopt, but less than 2 percent actually do. So I just want to give people opportunities to jump in," said Ottinger, who cited other ways to be involved like mentoring or serving food at parties for foster kids, or arranging Christmas presents and holiday activities.
Mid-South Alliance is currently working on putting together Christmas tubs for more than 300 foster children in Shelby County.
"That's every child that is in a Department of Children Services Shelby County home, and we will also have a Christmas party for them in December at White Station Church of Christ," Ottinger said.
For the past two years, Mid-South Alliance has had a program in place to help foster children going off to college.
"Less than 3 percent of foster children graduate from college. This past year we had 24 foster children that graduated high school and got into college, and we worked with 10 to 12 local churches to help furnish their dorm rooms and give them everything they would need for a first year of college," he said. "We also matched those kids up with mentors."
He stresses that Mid-South Alliance works on the preventative side to try to keep families together before children are removed from their home or given up for adoption.
"The ultimate goal with foster care is always reunification of the child with their birth families," he said.
Mid-South Alliance works with the University of Memphis and Agape and to provide wraparound services, including counseling and therapy, for children possibly coming from difficult circumstances and for families after they have fostered or adopted.
"We want to work with the children and the families so they will be successful," said Ottinger, who completed his first adoption 13 years ago. "We do a nine-week class two to three times per year."
Other local groups working with adoption include Life Choices, Bethany Christian Services, Youth Villages and Agape Child & Family Services.
Agape is a Christian-based, nonprofit organization that has provided local adoption and foster care services since 1970 and serves Memphis through community restoration, homeless services, mentoring, adoption, foster care, maternity services and counseling.
Alisha Worthey, Agape adoption support therapist, works with the Mid-South Alliance on the Adoption Support Center initiative to help pre-adopting and post-adopting families who are struggling with adjustment issues such as attachment, bonding, troubles at school or behavioral problems.
"Children coming from adoption or foster care are usually coming from a hard place. They either did receive the care and nurturing that they should've gotten, or they could've been pulled from a home where there were drugs or domestic abuse," said Worthey, who has worked at Agape for nearly six years. "Many times these children have problems attaching, trusting adults, and dealing with the trauma they have experienced. We can provide in-home counseling services."
Worthey sees substance abuse, violence and neglect as major problems in the Mid-South affecting children and their families.
"We counsel the children to help them understand that the difficulties and changes in their lives are not their fault, with the hope of making their transition much easier," Worthey said.
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Promenade of the Cranes
Nikki McDonald 1/24/2012 2:46:35 PMSo happy to be the first to congratulate you on this Finalist, Priscilla. I love the line of cranes marching across the frame, the pair of eagles, the layers of light and color. I hope and believe this will go on. #1438773
Heather Loewenhardt 1/24/2012 7:00:48 PMWow simply amazing!!! How lucky for you to be there to capture this. Congrats on your finalist award. Good luck in the next round. #9942329
The Judges at BetterPhoto.com 1/25/2012 5:30:42 AMFun repetition and juxtaposition of species #9944225
Kimber Wallwork-Heineman 1/25/2012 11:50:38 AMI know where this is - I was there last week.
Nikki McDonald 1/25/2012 3:15:07 PMWhat did I tell you :) Grinning big, I am. Congratulations on the win, Priscilla. #9945935
Usman M. Bajwa 1/25/2012 8:07:15 PMHuge CONGRATZ on a well deserved Second Place Gold winner, Priscilla!!!
Rona L. Schwarz 1/25/2012 8:40:18 PMWTG, Priscilla! I am thrilled for you - I knew this had winner potential the first time I saw it :) so I'm also grinning big! A spectacular image in every respect HUGE CONGRATULATIONS! #9946843
Stan J. Bendkowski 1/25/2012 10:53:33 PMCongratulations on your fantastic winner, Priscilla! #9947014
Kathryn Wesserling 1/26/2012 4:13:18 PMWonderful scene. I love the 'largeness' of it, while the Cranes remain the 'stars'. Congratulations, Priscilla. #9948787
Larry L. Redmon 1/26/2012 8:01:45 PMCongratulations, Priscilla! Love the horizontal lines in this! #9949120
Amanda D. Austwick 1/26/2012 8:13:04 PMLovely image, and Congratulations on your GOLD WIN!!! #9949142
Joannie Bertucci 1/28/2012 10:54:21 AMNow this is a nature image! Congratulations on your very well deserved gold badge Priscilla! #9952352
Merna L. Nobile 1/29/2012 11:09:37 AMYou can feel it in the air, the anticipation of waiting for the awards to arrive. The talent that is on display for all to see and share is amazing. Congratulations to all the January, 2012 winners. Merna #9953863
Summer A. Kozisek 2/2/2012 9:18:27 PMFantastic capture, congratulations on your well deserved gold!! #9962284
Laura Greene 2/21/2012 10:34:16 AMPriscilla, Congratulations on the wonderful photo and award! Well earned. #9994418
Nikki McDonald 5/4/2012 7:18:15 PMCongratulations on the win here and in your local fair - Best in Class is quite a coup! So very pleased for you and I'll bet it looks amazing on canvas. #10123362
Phyllis H. Burchett 11/23/2012 6:21:28 PMWonderful capture from Bosque and use of textures Priscilla! #10430816
Priscilla J. Burgers 11/23/2012 6:25:04 PMThank you, Phyllis. #10430823
A pair of bald eagles watch as sandhill cranes ready for their early morning flight to the farm fields.
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NEW DELHI – India's home minister has accused key Hindu nationalist groups of promoting terrorism at its training camps, a charge strongly denied by hard-line groups.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde says an investigation by government agencies has revealed involvement of Hindus in the bombing of a Pakistan-bound train that killed 68 passengers in 2007 and an explosion in a crowded market in western India's Malegaon town that killed seven people in 2008.
At a meeting of the ruling Congress party in the western Indian city of Jaipur on Sunday, Shinde accused main opposition Bharatiya Janata party and its parent organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, of blaming minority Muslims for these bombings.
Mukhtar Naqvi, a BJP spokesman, demanded an apology from Congress leader Sonia Gandhi for Shinde making such "a baseless and provocative charge."


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It Is SO About Time!
So Taguchi finally came through with a HUGE 2-run double tonight in the ninth inning to tie the game and propel the Phillies to an 8-6 win over the NY Mets. Please pass the Valium…my heart won't be still!
That was followed immediately by a J-Roll 2-run double and the Mets simply shook their heads and did a double-take as they could not believe what was happening. What looked like a game that was locked up since the 6th inning, had just been blown wide open.
It began with Joe Blanton's Phillies debut, which frankly, was a bust. Blanton did not produce a quality start, going 6 innings and giving up 5 earned runs on 8 hits and 3 walks with one of those hits and one walk each being to the opposing pitcher. I liked his variety of off-speed pitches, but he was too easily rattled and unable to come up with a strike when he needed it. In the 6th inning, he walked Marlon Anderson on 4 pitches even though Marlon literally sat the bat on his shoulder for the last 2 pitches of the at bat and was clearly not going to swing; and still, Blanton could not find the strike zone. Next batter, 2-run home run – NOT good.
Defensively though, we saw some really amazing plays in the field tonight. Endy Chavez of the Mets was thrown out at home plate twice tonight – first by Pat Burrell via Jimmy Rollins to Carlos Ruiz in the 3rd and then, he was actually dumb enough to try it again later in the 7th inning when Jayson Werth nailed him on a one-hopper to Ruiz.
Also in the 7th, Chase Utley made a jumping / diving "Superman" mid-air grab of a line-drive off the bat Fernando Tatis for the 3rd out of the inning. As he ran off the field, Utley tore open his jersey to reveal the Superman logo hiding under his uniform to taunt the NY fans…J But we already knew that Utley was Superman…really, the secret has been out for some time now. Get with the program people! J
Back to planet Earth…the offense continued its struggles throughout most of the game, albeit against a red-hot Johan Santana. However, they were able to get at him right away in the first inning with back to back to back singles from Howard, Burrell and Werth, scoring a run; and all this with 2 outs. So, what happened after the first inning? Well, to sum it up for you, a whole lot of nothing. Shane Victorino did hit a solo homer, but sadly, that was not going to make up for the 5 runs the Mets put on the board. Then suddenly, no more Santana and a ninth inning explosion! So Taguchi comes to life, finally! This is a guy who hit over .400 as a pinch hitter last year for the Cardinals but had yet to nail one down for the Phillies, so it really was about time. Let's hope the real SO has just stood up! This game should have lit a fire under the Phils…we could not have asked for a better vibe to go into Brett Myers' start tomorrow. Go Phillies!


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My July weigh-in puts me at an impressive 82.6kg, down 1.8kg on the month and 12.8kg since January 1st. The stress of writing this week has meant I've done more snacking and less exercising, so it could have been better. But I am still very pleased with that. I am now lighter than I was at my best 6 years ago. The vegetables and the throwing medicine balls from above my head to the floor seem to be working.
A half day of rehearsing today and for a wonderful few minutes I thought we had the whole play cast, but then I got word that one of the actors had dropped out of the project. This was a bit of a blow at this late stage, but we now have everyone else and we should be able to find someone else pretty quickly. It's just one of those things that can happen on a complicated Edinburgh show like this. We're not yet at Terry Gilliam style levels of disaster, but this might be the first blow. Rasputin might be haunting us from beyond the grave, which seems a bit rich as the play is very positive towards him. Maybe he wants to be the bad guy.
Typically just as the ideas started flowing I had to jump in the car and head to Walthamstow for a preview. But after I'd got home I did another couple of hours of writing, really pushing to get a complete script in time for tomorrow's first full rehearsal and meet up with the technical crew and publicity team. These 19 hour days are taking their toll. No time to stop, not too much time to sleep and still the gaps in the script gape and laugh at me. There's no time to play snooker against myself, no time for audio Warming Up and almost no time for Warming Up at all. Certainly nothing funny is happening, or it is is I am too tired to notice it.
5/6ths of the cast and 4/5ths of a script. And still about a month until the first night. I wish I could jaunt forward in time until then. And in a way I am going to. Just very slowly.
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Breathtaking incompetence … but I'm glad … no, really …February 27, 2014 at 7:02 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 6 Comments
Tags: arthritis, doctor, folic acid, GP, joint pain, medicine, NHS, R.A., RA, rhematoid arthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatology
I'm Pollyanna right? I can do this glad-game thing! OK, I'm glad I've had to go to the surgery and the chemist three times this week because it's given me an opportunity to enjoy more of the beautiful spring weather (in between the showers). I'm glad the doctor completely screwed up my last prescription in three different ways, because otherwise I wouldn't have had that lovely experience I'm so glad about. I'm glad that I had to go in to the surgery reception tonight and point out that even after a conversation with the doctor yesterday, he had not sorted out the correct repeat date for my folic acid, because if I hadn't, I wouldn't have had that amusing conversation with the receptionist about kicking her cat.
Hmm … doesn't sound too convincing, does it, really? Well I am at least trying – but it's very trying, especially as I'm still at the tail end of a flare.
Here's what happened – in brief – I hope, although I do have a tendency to waffle on, as you may have noticed.
I put in my repeat prescription as normal, picked it up Monday, got it home and realised that my folic acid was missing. As my folic acid was the only thing I'd run out of (I just ordered all the RA drugs at once to save another visit to the chemist) I was a bit peeved. I contacted the surgery reception and had a conversation something like this:
Polly: I've collected by repeat scrip but it doesn't include my folic acid.
Receptionist: Ah … let me look it up. Oh I see, that's because you're not due any until March.
Polly: Yes I am, I've run out.
Receptionist: Oh no, you can't have. You see it was issued last month, and you take it three times, on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
Polly: Yes
Receptionist: So that's three times a week
Polly: Yes
Receptionist: And they issue you twelve, so …
Polly: Yeeeeeeees …
Receptionist: <lightbulb going on> Oh! That is actually a month's worth, isn't it?
Polly: YES!!!!!!!!!!
Receptionst: Oh … in that case it looks like the doctor's made a mistake.
Well, to cut a long story short(ish) that wasn't the only mistake he'd made, so although I was able to have my folic acid rushed through and pick it up in time for me to take it on Wednesday, I then realised there were two other things (non RA-related) also missing from my prescription! I checked the repeat prescription paperwork and it quite clearly said that those things were due now … and that the next batch of folic acid was due in … April.
So I phoned again and asked for a doctor to call me back to discuss this, which he duly did! I had a very pleasant conversation with him, while being driven to my mum's house by a colleague in order to turn off mum's faulty burglar alarm … but that's a whole nuther story … and, after an entire repeat of the conversation with the receptionist – 'You take it three times a week … we issue twelve … OH!' etc. he assured me he'd change it on the system and also put through a prescription for the other two things.
Tonight I went to pick them up, feeling happy, relaxed and full of the joys of spring. I went into the chemist and sure enough they did have my other two items ready. Hurrah. Then, foolishly perhaps, I checked the paperwork. Instead of saying 'Folic Acid – due 26 March 2014' in nice, neat print, it said 'Folic Acid' and then 26 March 2014 scribbled in in biro over the printed '26 April 2014'! All very well except that a) I could do that myself, and indeed when I next put in a repeat request the doctor (probably not the same one) would assume I HAD done it myself and just not issue me any, just like the last two months and b) what happens when I want some more in May or June or whenever and the issue date is for two months down the line again?
So I went in and, having honestly been really nice and polite to the receptionist the first time (and not mentioning breathtaking incompetence at all), and really nice and polite to the doctor (in spite of mum's alarm going off in our ears in the middle of the conversation), this time I blew my top, flipped my lid and generally had a big squawk! The receptionist was lovely – didn't apologise exactly, they never do I've noticed, and neither do the docs, probably terrified if they say sorry I'll sue them for something, but was very helpful. She put in a note for the doctor saying it did need to be changed, please, and suggested I call tomorrow to find out if it's actually been done. (She obviously has as much faith in the system as I do!) When I said that I was sick to death of going in there and had had to come in three times in the last three days she said, 'You should try working here. I love my cat, but honest to God I go home each night and want to kick it!' Don't tell Enormous Cat, but this evening I knew how she felt!
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Aughh! Even from here in bonkers old Nigeria, that is breathtaking incompetence. Bit worrying that doctors can't seem to count doses….
Comment by mrsmooseface— March 3, 2014 #
Are people determined to make me feel much much much happier about living here? If I run out of anything the chemist will give me a pack. I have to pay the full price at the time – but when I bring a script I get it back. If there is a problem like that – the chemist will phone the GP and explain if it's REALLY necessary. And although I can't have more than 2 months worth at a time – all I have to do is ring her up and the scripts will be in her postbox after the end of surgery that day to drive past and pick up. And there are no appointments for daily surgery so you will always be seen same day – but if you work you can make an appointment with her to suit. AND she does house calls. 🙂
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Rangers, a club in complete crisis, have turned to Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney's agent Paul Stretford for help as they look to rebuild after liquidation.
The Scottish giants fall from grace has been total and looks nearly complete. A 55th Scottish League Championship couldn't look further away as the blue half of the Old Firm begins life in the Scottish Third Division next season.
The Glasgow club have paid a heavy price for entering administration after a tax dispute with HM Revenue and Customs, and last month the club was forced into liquidation.
But like almost every other penniless team in the history of the sport, a new phoenix club has risen from the ashes to take its place.
Rangers "newco" as they are known, has been established by Charles Green, a former Doncaster Rovers reserve team player turned venture capitalist. Green's latest purchase finds itself hammered by new punishments each day, and Green has drafted in Rooney's representative to "assist" with the running with the club.
But while Rangers' present is clouded in controversy, so Stretford's own past is mired in intrigue. A dispute over Wayne Rooney's representation in 2002 went to court, and Stretford has found himself on the end of a few hefty punishments - including an 18-month FA ban and a £300,000 fine for misconduct charges for his acquisition of Rooney.
But Rooney's agent has acted as something of a footballing troubleshooter in recent months. Stretford is renowned as a fierce negotiator, motivated only by securing the best interests of his client.
When Harry Redknapp prepared for showdown talks with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy this summer, who did Redknapp want in his corner? Stretford. He is obviously well-respected within the game - top managers like Redknapp recognise his value, and now Rangers have come calling.
Few people in football have been brave, or foolish, enough to challenge Sir Alex, but Stretford became known as "the man who changed football for ever" after he secured Wayne Rooney a new five-year deal in 2010. After the Rooney saga, the secret was out - all the power lies with the players.
Such hard bargaining has won Stretford a reputation as a shrewd operator, and an accomplished dealmaker. His particular association with Old Trafford - although now soured - dates back as far as the 1980s. Operating out of his basement, Stretford signed United striker Frank Stapleton - his first client - and built up a relationship with those in and around the Carrington training base.
In the 1990s he was responsible for bringing David May and Andy Cole to United, and reportedly played a part, along with the Portuguese super-agent Jorge Mendes, in securing Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer from Sporting to Manchester.
Now he finds himself north of the border, parachuted into a crisis of cash and confidence. Rangers, a club with more top-flight national titles than any other club in the world, will face trips to Elgin City, capacity 3,900, Peterhead, capacity 4,000 and Berwick Rangers, capacity 4,100.
With a squad seemingly disintegrating by the day, Rangers face the prospect of assembling a side made up of kids and journeymen. And the prospect of a 12-month transfer ban means Rangers are unlikely to alleviate their troubles anytime soon.
At present, they have 17 players who look likely to stay at the club, three of whom are goalkeepers, and the vast majority are under 22 years old. In the short term, such a hugely reduced wage bill will stand them in good stead but the squad looks desperately thin.
Perhaps the greatest beneficiaries from this situation will be young Scottish players. With Rangers demoted three divisions, and more established stars jumping ship left, right and centre, the void will inevitably be filled by the youth academy, or young, hungry and cheap players from rival clubs.
And perhaps that's why Rangers have decided to call on Stretford. The club plans to challenge a number of the players who have taken the opportunity to leave the club, as Green argues the players have illegally terminated their contracts. Stretford could be a useful ally in any negotiations going forward.
Rooney's agent also has a record of working with younger players, and Stretford could be a handy facilitator if Rangers feel their best strategy is to sign up young talent. At the moment, the transfer embargo stands to come into operation from September 1. Not much time to put together a squad.
So far, Rangers have not elaborated on Stretford's position, beyond that he is merely "assisting" the club. Although the move has raised a few eyebrows, Rangers find themselves in a crisis.
Stretford has proven himself as one of the game's biggest movers and shakers, and one of the most well-connected agents. It remains to be seen what he can bring to help the struggling giants but it should certainly be interesting.
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Reds conundrum
They often look like a talented team. Some of the statistics indicate they should be a successful team. Except the one that matters. Adam Bate looks at why Liverpool are in the bottom half of the Premier League.
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This was supposed to be a new dawn for Liverpool. But the club's supporters could be forgiven for feeling as though they've seen it all before as the hard luck stories continue to come out of Anfield. Former boss Kenny Dalglish spent much of last season bemoaning the team's poor fortune and the statistics were indeed remarkable. In the top five leagues in Europe, only Barcelona spent more time in the attacking third of the field, while the Reds out-shot their opposition in all but five of their 38 league games. And incredibly, the phenomenon has continued.
Of all the traits Brendan Rodgers would like to have inherited from Dalglish, this was unlikely to have been near the top of the list. While the Northern Irishman can content himself that his much-vaunted 'footballing philosophy' is reaping dividends in terms of shots, possession and passing statistics, the currency of points continues to elude the new man in charge at Liverpool.
The identity of the teams with similar statistics to the Reds would indicate that results should follow. Only Everton and Manchester City have had more shots. The country's Champions League representatives are the only sides that can better Liverpool in terms of possession. Arsenal, City and Tottenham are the only sides to concede fewer efforts on goal. Rodgers' men are in good company and seemingly doing the right things to precipitate successful results.
|Liverpool - PL 2012/13
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And yet, the wait for this dominance to be converted into points goes on. Delving deeper into the figures reveals some of the issues that remain. While the Reds rank fourth-best for shots conceded, they are 14th when it comes to goals conceded. Third-most shots on goal translates into joint-11th for number of goals scored. It all raises the question - Are Liverpool both creating and conceding the wrong type of chances?
Defensively, as Sky Sports' Ian Watson recently explained in The Last Line, Pepe Reina's poor form can account for at least some of these problems. Moreover, one of the flaws of adopting a passing approach is that the ball can spend longer than is absolutely necessary on the edge of your own box. Martin Skrtel's disastrous backpass against Manchester City at Anfield in August killed much of the momentum of an impressive display. But it is presumably a hazard of the job.
As Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo noted after David Luiz and Oriol Romeu made avoidable errors in the 5-4 Capital One Cup win over Manchester United: "We gifted them some goals but we're trying to instil a philosophy and sometimes you have to take a step back to move forwards." Rodgers may well take a similar view that mistakes will be made as his players adapt to a style that can bring long-term benefits.
More complicated is the conundrum of Liverpool's chance-conversion rate. Could it be that the individual brilliance of Luis Suarez is distorting the figures? The Uruguayan forward has had by far the most shots on goal of any player in the Premier League so far this season and that's been rewarded with a healthy goal return. But it also reflects the fact that as an isolated figure in attack, he rarely has the inclination or opportunity to set up others.
"He's so often off balance because he's creating his own chances," claimed Guardian football writer Gregg Bakowski on Twitter. And the fact that Suarez ranks second in the Premier League for the most successful dribbles hints at this possibility. Twisting and turning past defenders, the former Ajax man frequently finds himself firing off a shot from an acute angle.
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|Leighton Baines
|Santi Cazorla
|Luis Suarez
|Steven Gerrard
|Steven Pienaar
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|Jermain Defoe
|Marouane Fellaini
|Demba Ba
|Santi Cazorla
|Dribbles Completed
|Times Dispossessed
|Hatem Ben Arfa
|Luis Suarez
|Raheem Sterling
The result is that Liverpool have become over-reliant on their controversial striker. And it's something Rodgers is well aware of. Speaking after bringing on Suarez and skipper Steven Gerrard - who incidentally features among the top passers in the Premier League - for the Capital One Cup defeat to Swansea, Rodgers appeared frustrated by the situation.
"I would have loved to have kept them on the side to give them a breather but obviously when you need them you need to put them on," said the Liverpool boss. "The problem then is your squad becomes even thinner: I can't keep playing Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez, who is my only striker. That will evolve over time, it is a team thing and we can't rely on two players. Over the next couple of transfer windows we'll get time to build the group."
There's an old truism in football that states you should add up the number of goals you'd expect each of your players to score in a season and if it isn't enough to achieve your ambitions then you have a problem. With Raheem Sterling probably outstripping immediate expectations already, it would seem Rodgers is a worried man.
Consider his comments on £10.5million signing Fabio Borini. "Fabio probably hasn't scored as many goals as he would have wanted to but I have been playing him in his No.2 position," said Rodgers. "He is better through the middle where you can see his qualities of moving off the shoulder and running in behind. Strikers, unfortunately, are judged on goals in games. That is where he is at. But over time, he will prove himself. Regardless of what anyone says, to come to a massive club at 21 years of age is a big ask."
Borini was injured after netting just once in his opening 11 games for the Reds. He has been replaced in the starting line-up by another young talent in the form of 18-year-old Spanish import Suso. "He is a wonderful technician, he's very bright and a thinking player - which I like," explained the Liverpool boss. "He needs to add goals to his game but obviously when you are a young player coming into the team you are really just trying to settle in."
In the meantime, Rodgers will plead for patience in the knowledge that he is playing a waiting game - hoping that his young guns will come good. His team are doing the right things and there seems a willingness, both in the board room and the stadium, to accept that the process will take time. But for now, supporters may be left wondering whether Liverpool are en route to becoming a top side as the statistics suggest or merely a mid-table imitation like Rodgers' former club Swansea.


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — With his retirement this month, Ralph White has received a steady stream of testimonials for the 32 years he devoted to the 600-plus-acre James River Park System. He's being celebrated as a conservationist, an anti-litter activist and a natural born naturalist who has made it an oasis for visitors when it once was a foreboding, crime-ridden place to avoid.
His biggest skill, however, seems to be managing people, not trails.
When bikers gathered along the banks of the James to party in the early '80s, leaving broken bottles in their wake and spooking families, he appealed to leaders of competing gangs to tone it down. Then he brought in a different demographic of school groups, families and "the Audubon folks" to discourage the bacchanals.
"It ain't fun here anymore," one of the bikers told White. "How can I sit here and have a beer sitting next to some pregnant lady and her squalling kid?"
White would often have to impart some cultural lessons to newcomers, such as when Cambodian fishermen hauled generators to the banks of the river, shocking fish with an electrical charge that brought them to the surface. He went to the head of the local Cambodian association.
"Is there anything you can do to stop this?" White recalls telling the association's president. "It's a very serious thing."
"He said, 'Three days. Give me three days,'" White said.
As promised, three days later the Cambodian fishermen had left their generators at home and took up fishing poles along the James, smiling broadly at an approving White.
"The point is," White said, "they just didn't know."
He's posted interpretive signs in Russian and Spanish to reinforce the rules of the park, and he's not averse to using sex-appeal in service to the wilderness. Once, he sent a shapely young environmentalist to the water's edge to clear trash and glass.
"Word got out this voluptuous girl was wading in the water," he said. "She had lots of volunteers, all of them guys. I hate to sell sex as a way to clean up the park, but she had a marvelous impact."
While White can fuss over litter and scold inconsiderate dog owners, the James River Park System is not a sterile, theme park version of wilderness amid an urban setting. People flock here to enjoy a day outdoors right in the middle of a city of approximately 200,000 and a metropolitan area of 1.2 million.
Rutted bike trails crisscross the heavily wooded, hilly shores of the James River. In the summer, thousands descend on the river to swim and sunbathe on the smoothed boulders that freckle its surface. The rapids — which range up to Class V — attract canoeists, kayakers and paddle-boarders to a 7-mile stretch through the city. Often, the only hint of the city from the park is the skyline peeking through the trees or the quiet hum of traffic on the Nickel Bridge.
Under White's stewardship, the park has expanded and visitors number nearly 1 million annually, earning Richmond the title of best river town in America by Outside magazine.
Pretty much everyone credits White.
"I think of Ralph as the sentinel of the James River Park System," said Matt Perry, who runs Riverside Outfitters with Scott Turner. "You see him everywhere."
White can usually be seen snatching up a piece of litter, gathering up bottles and cans to recycle or sweeping out rest rooms. He can't be missed with his Santa-like beard and, during the summer months, his calf-high dark socks and shorts.
"You can always tell it was Ralph from a distance, looking like your dad on the worst vacation ever and wearing short shorts like Magnum P.I.," Perry said. "I can't tell you how many times I've seen Ralph White early in the morning and late at night."
"I must admit, I have put a lot of my soul and all of my effort into this park," White said. "I love it dearly, as I love the river."
Brooklyn-born, White followed a girl to Richmond in the late 1970s after a stint in the Peace Corps and work as a National Park Service ranger. He was initially hired to do trail work, but also offered up lessons as a naturalist, which would launch a career-long series of disagreements with his bosses.
"You are working out of classification," a supervisor once told him. "You cannot be a teacher if you are a trail worker."
He's held on, though, and now at age 68 he's retiring. His wife, Cricket, advised him to retire before he's fired.
During a conversation in Pony Pasture, one of the most popular sections of the park system, White wore a Greek fisherman's cap and seemed immune to the damp chilly air from the river as geese honked and bobbed in the smooth surface of the river. Part of his approach to engaging people in the natural world around them stems from his experience in the Peace Corps in Thailand. One day, he gathered a menagerie of small, native animals for a lesson for Thai children. But all the kids could talk about were animals native to Africa.
"The stuff of their folklore, the stuff that their grandparents know, they had a total disconnect," White said. "I came back to the United States and it's the same damn thing."
It's a lesson he's kept in mind while reintroducing a new generation to the wilderness along the James.
"I actually believe that when people know their own human and natural history they begin to take pride in it," he said.
Mary A. Elfner of the Virginia Audubon Council has worked with White and led tours with him of a heron rookery on the river. His devotion to the park and the river is unwavering, she said.
"Persistence, persistence, persistence," Elfner said. "He's stayed with it, he's passionate. He's amazing. He really, I'm sure, has helped create a new generation of conservationists in Richmond."
Elfner, and others, wonder if White's influence will wane once he's retired. "It worries me considerably," she said.
Mayor Dwight Jones issued a statement on White's retirement: "His service to the city of Richmond will be forever intertwined with the incredible history of the James River."
White plans to write, audit college classes and travel. He too worries about the park system's future, but he believes city residents won't give up what he built.
"This is what defines us as Richmonders," he said. "Owls. Eagles. Osprey. This is like a national park."
This past summer, he and his wife made a rare sighting: an endangered 7-foot sturgeon lolling in the city's section of the river.
"That was a symbol for me. That was a sign for me to leave," he said.
Steve Szkotak can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sszkotakap.
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It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to develop, encourage, and maintain a coordinated, comprehensive, and long-range national program in marine science for the benefit of mankind to assist in protection of health and property, enhancement of commerce, transportation, and national security, rehabilitation of our commercial fisheries, and increased utilization of these and other resources.
(b) The marine science activities of the United States should be conducted so as to contribute to the following objectives:
The accelerated development of the resources of the marine environment.
The expansion of human knowledge of the marine environment.
The encouragement of private investment enterprise in exploration, technological development, marine commerce, and economic utilization of the resources of the marine environment.
The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in marine science and resource development.
The advancement of education and training in marine science.
The development and improvement of the capabilities, performance, use, and efficiency of vehicles, equipment, and instruments for use in exploration, research, surveys, the recovery of resources, and the transmission of energy in the marine environment.
The effective utilization of the scientific and engineering resources of the Nation, with close cooperation among all interested agencies, public and private, in order to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, facilities, and equipment, or waste.
The cooperation by the United States with other nations and groups of nations and international organizations in marine science activities when such cooperation is in the national interest.
(Pub. L. 89–454, title I, § 2, June 17, 1966, 80 Stat. 203.)
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Free-to-play games often get a bad reputation. Many of these games intentionally prohibit player progress to make a quick buck, while others allow players to buy their way to success in what have become known as "pay to win" games. However, just because there are examples of free-to-play done poorly doesn't mean there aren't numerous examples of free-to-play games that do it right. No longer is a gamer who doesn't have money to spend out of luck – there are a huge number of free-to-play titles that can hold their own against games bought at retail. If you are looking for some great entertainment and don't want to pay, you can't go wrong with any of these stellar games from a variety of genres.
Path of Exile (PC)
Path of Exile is as good a game, if not better, than similar titles in its genre with one major distinction – nearly everything is free. Because of this, Path of Exile blasted onto the free-to-play scene last year and quickly made a name for itself. Heavily inspired by the loot-filled dungeon crawling of Diablo II, Path of Exile is an overhead RPG that nearly drowns the player in customization options. All the classes, difficulties, loot, and player-versus-player options are available to players at no cost, other than time. If you do want to throw down some cash and help the developers pay the bills, a variety of cosmetic effects and pets are on sale. Other than that, it doesn't get much more fun or free than Path of Exile.
League of Legends (PC, Mac)
There is a reason 27 million players log onto to play Riot Games' hit MOBA every day…League of Legends does free to play right. All of the games 100+ playable champions can be purchased either with in-game currency (IP) or with premium currency (RP) bought using real-world dollars. Gamers don't have to spend either, as a weekly rotation of 10 playable champions keeps the game fresh. This also allows players to essentially test drive champions before purchasing them and adding them permanently to their collection. The only parts of the game requiring real cash are cosmetic only skins or various XP or IP boosts.
Loadout (PC)
If Borderlands and Quake had an outrageous, over-the-top, hyper-violent baby, Loadout would be it. Players jump, roll, and spew rockets every which way in a variety of game modes, all while being blown in half or spewing fountains of blood in a vibrant cartoony art style. The core appeal of the game lies in its extensive loadout and weapon customization options. Loadout could have gone the route of numerous other free-to-play shooters and allowed for players to purchase gun upgrades with real world currency. Thankfully, that isn't the case. All weapon upgrades can only be purchased using experience points earning from playing matches. After only playing a few games I had more than enough experience points to tweak my weapons in a variety of painful and creative ways and daily XP bonuses coupled with large amounts of XP for leveling up means Loadout rarely feels like a grind. Players who want to stand out from the crowd can buy the game's premium currency with real world dollars and spend it to customize nearly everything about the game's current three characters, ranging from wacky hair styles to an assortment of humorous and vulgar taunts.
Dota 2 (PC, Mac)
Much like League of Legends, Valve's successor to the founder of the MOBA genre doesn't require an investment to succeed. Because all the game's heroes are available to players from the start, Valve is a little more creative in regards as to what players can spend their money on. Everything from new HUD skins and announcer voice-overs are on sale, in addition to skins and cosmetics for the game's numerous heroes. None of the items for sale have any effect on gameplay. It's for that reason – and of course great gameplay – that Dota 2 came away with three Game Informer Best of 2013 Awards.
Team Fortress 2 (PC, Mac)
This cartoony class-based shooter wasn't always free-to-play. Valve made the decision to change the business model in 2011. TF 2 now has thousands of players and hundreds of items, mostly an assortment of guns and hats, as a result. New players start with the standard weapons the game shipped with, and will quickly notice others running around with much fancier weaponry. But unlike some other games, the various weapons in TF2 aren't necessarily more powerful as they are just different. Each piece of gear comes with some benefits and drawbacks. Thankfully, these new weapons can be earned in a variety of free ways other than being purchased; either by completing a certain number of a specific classes achievements, crafting them from weapons and equipment already owned, or waiting for the item to randomly drop. If you are looking for something specific, waiting for a random drop isn't much fun, but otherwise frequent players will find themselves with a collection of new weapons in no time.
Head to page 2 for more free-to-play titles ranging from cooperative shooter Warframe to Blizzard's card game, Hearthstone.


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Channel Ten newsreader Helen Kapalos has been sacked by the embattled network, which will go to a single reader format with veteran Mal Walden from December 1.
The popular news presenter had worked for Ten for the past six years, before the shock decision was made after the Friday night bulletin.
Ten has rejected initial reports that Sydney presenter Bill Woods' had also been terminated.
Kapalos declined to comment as she boarded a plane for New York, but sent a tweet at 10.50am: "Fall down seven times get up eight".
A Network Ten spokeswoman said: "We will not be renewing Helen's contract, the details of which we will not discuss publicly."
The staff cuts are believed to be part of new austerity measures introduced by the network as it battles a massive slump in ratings.
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I stand firmly with President Barack Obama. Speaking at the Newtown memorial service on Sunday evening, the president said "these tragedies must end." Usually so much empty political talk, saying something like that, but he backed it up. "No single law, no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society. But that can't be an excuse for inaction."
In the coming weeks and months, we're going to hear a lot about guns and what to do about them.
I've got a plan. Actually, I first outlined this plan over the summer, days before the Aurora massacre. I had to edit that horror into my completed column. I'm revisiting my ideas here, in some cases simply stating again what I said, in some cases expanding on them, because — and forgive me for my hubris — but because I think they're pretty good ideas that should probably make no one on either side of the gun issue too thrilled. In short, it's a compromise.
Here it is.
1) If you're over 21, you're allowed to register to be a gun owner. Background checks would be carried out by some combination of federal, state and independent agencies. If you have a criminal record, mental issues, assorted other problems, you're probably going to be denied.
2) Why 21? Well, we've decided that's the age you can legally drink a beer. So with that in mind, 21 seems like that a reasonable age to be allowed to own your own gun. You can shoot if you're younger, but you can't own.
3) Once you're approved to be a gun owner, and before you can legally purchase a gun, you need to be trained in the use of firearms and pass a written and practical exam. In short, getting a gun license would be exactly as difficult as getting a driver's license.
4) There will be no permit necessary to own any firearm technology that was already created in 1791, when the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was written. You want to own a musket? Go nuts. Enjoy. There will be more about the Second Amendment later. Hold your tongue.
5) If you ever use a gun in a criminal act, or get caught with an illegal gun, the mandatory minimum sentences are going to be sky high. We're talking decades, if not life. This will go a long way to the quiet those who insist "well then only the criminals will have guns." Nope. You want a gun, you can have a gun. Simply register for it. You don't register for it, or use it in a criminal manner? You'll rot away in prison. (Stopping here for a moment: I realize everything I've laid out so far, and everything I will lay out, cannot be done in a day. Illegal guns aren't going to magically disappear. This will take time. But, to echo Obama, can't use that as an excuse for inaction.)
6) A ban on some semi-automatic and all automatic weaponry. I'll even bend a little bit here. You can still own them, but they must be stored at whatever gun club you'll join to shoot them. Think of them as race cars. You can enjoy the thrill of driving 180 MPH at the track, but you cannot drive the race car home with you.
7) And the now the Second Amendment. The right to bear arms. Here's my take on the issue. If the writers of the Second Amendment were around today, do you really think, for one moment, they'd be OK with semi- and automatic weapons being legal to buy in most states? I can't imagine so. There is no way they would see this as a good thing. And if you're of the opinion it does make sense, and the Second Amendment is the Second Amendment, period, end of story, allow me to ask this: Is it OK for me to keep a tactical nuclear weapon in my living room? Or maybe just a few bunker buster bombs. Those are my "arms" of choice. Tell me how they are covered by the Second Amendment. I'll wait.
And …
That's the plan. More or less. I'll let brighter minds flesh it out.
It's a federal plan to be instituted by the states, and the states will comply because the feds could simply tie billions of dollars into it, much like they do with federal highway money and blood alcohol content limits. In short, you want your federal tax dollars, you'll institute the laws.
So what would the above plan do? Pretty simple, you ask me: It would make it a lot harder for a homicidal maniac to get their hands on dangerous weapons. Would it make it impossible? Of course not. Just a lot harder.
In your angry emails and comments, please note I'm not looking to destroy the Second Amendment. There's plenty of room for the "right to bear arms" in my plan. It just makes it a little harder to do so, makes it more of a thought-out decision than simply showing up at a gun show and walking out armed to the teeth.
It's true what the gun lobby says. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. And right now, in this country, we make it all too easy for unhinged people to get their hands on guns.
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Linked by Howard Fosdick on Thu 28th Mar 2013 21:49 UTC
Like many OSNews readers, I use Ubuntu. I also use several less popular distros. What is it like to use these lesser-known distros compared to the dominant systems? How does running, say, VectorLinux or Puppy or PC-BSD, differ from using Ubuntu or Fedora? This article offers a few ideas. Obviously, it broadly generalizes about distros for the purpose of discussion.
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I think it depends on whether you miss/want Mint artwork, extensions and Cinnamon/Nemo or not. Like with lots of Debian derivatives it is all about details, and most of the times they are really "subtle".
Anyway, my time trying a lot of distros is over now. I settled around openSUSE (my main option mostly) and LMDE for desktop. On servers I use the usual suspects, CentOS and Debian. For NAS it is OpenMediaVault or FreeNAS. And for a media center is XMBC + Debian.
I really like the fact that with Debian there are lots of stable applications pre-packaged and ready to use but I like also the up-to-date nature of openSUSE for development and yast to easy configuration.


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ITHACA, NY—The fall 2013 Ithaca College Gerontology Workshop series will sponsor three continuing professional education opportunities for local practitioners wishing to stay current on Alzheimer's disease, strategies to handle stress that occurs with change, and mental health challenges for cognitively impaired elders. Running from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Country Inn & Suites, 1100 Danby Rd. (Rte. 96B), the workshops will take place on Thursday, Sept. 19; Wednesday, Oct. 16; and Tuesday, Nov. 19.
Advance registration is requested and is on a first-come, first-served basis. The fee is $25 per workshop or $60 to register for the series of three; for retired persons, the cost is $15 per workshop. For more information and to register, visit www.ithaca.edu/agingworkshops or contact the Gerontology Institute at (607) 274-1965 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The first workshop, "Research and Treatment Updates for Alzheimer's Disease," will take place on Thursday, Sept. 19. The Alzheimer's epidemic will directly impact health and aging services professionals and make it increasingly important for them to stay current on information about the disease. Frederick Marshall, M.D., chief of the Geriatric Neurology Unit at the University of Rochester Medical Center, will discuss recent updates on research and treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and provide information that can be used to improve care in residential and community-based settings.
"Behavioral Interventions for Depression in Cognitively Impaired Elders" is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 16. Rapidly emerging changes in Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act can cause stress for older people, their caregivers and the professionals who support them. In this workshop Francis Battisti, executive vice president and chief academic officer at SUNY Broome Community College and author of "Checchino: A Father and Son Journey toward Dusk," will provide health and aging services practitioners with practical strategies and tips on how to understand and handle the stress that often comes with change.
The last workshop, "Behavioral Interventions for Depression in Cognitively Impaired Elders," is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 19. Cassandra Bransford, associate professor of social work and director of applied clinical research at SUNY Binghamton's Southern Tier Center on Aging, will share insights from her research on depression in older adults with cognitive impairments. The workshop will examine specific theories of mental health and teach participants how to turn them into practical applications for behavioral interventions in health and human services settings.
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Dartmouth Men's Soccer
This Week
Friday, Sept. 13 – Lafayette (Burnham Field), 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 15 – Massachusetts (Burnham Field), 2:00 p.m.
The Dartmouth College men's soccer team will conclude its four-game homestand this weekend when they welcome Patriot League member Lafayette College and A-10 local rival Massachusetts to Burnham Field. The Big Green opened the home slate on Monday evening with an overtime 3-2 victory over ACC member Boston College.
Boston College Recap - Junior Robin Alnas slipped in a loose-ball rebound in the 105th minute to lift Dartmouth over Boston College, 3-2. The win was the first in the head-coaching career for Dartmouth's Chad Riley, now in his first season at the helm of the program.
We Have Robin, But Who's Batman? - Robin Alnas sits atop the Dartmouth leaderboard this season with four points. Senior Justin Rosner, junior Colin Heffron and freshman Alexander Marsh are tired for second with two points each. Marsh and Rosner have each added a goal.
Extra Time, Part Deux – A year ago, six of Dartmouth's games went into overtime. The squad finished 2-4 in the extra frames. So far this season, the Big Green have forced OT twice ending with a win and a tie.
A Glance at Lafayette – Through four games this season, the Leopards have yet to drop a tilt. Sitting at 1-0-3, the Easton, Pa. school has a victory over Bryant and draws with Quinnipiac, Saint Peter's and La Salle. Peter Adubato leads the squad with four points on two tallies. Ryan Dodds has also found the back of the net and was credited with an assist for three points. Nathan McDonald has held court in the cage and posts a 0.86 goals against average and a 0.765 save percentage. The Leopards will travel east for a second Ivy League non-conference match with Harvard on Sunday.
Massachusetts in A Minute - Heading into Sunday's contest, the Minutemen are riding a four-game winless streak with one more contest against Hartford before meeting the Big Green. Prior to the Hartford contest, the Minutemen competed in a pair of tournaments to begin the season. At the Hotels at Grand Prairie Classic, UMass went 0-1-1 against Evansville and Bradley. The following weekend, at the Windjammer Classic at UVM, New Hampshire and host Vermont defeated UMass.
Sideline Shakeup – In the spring, top assistant Chad Riley was promoted and named the 10th head coach of the Big Green men's soccer program. Assistant Chase Wileman was promoted and the team added Ryan Fahey to the staff.
Strong Recruits – The Class of 2017 has eight members joining the Green and White this fall. Ricardo Gomez, James Hickok, Nick Ford, Devin Pierre, Brendan Barth, Jett Oristaglio, Alexander Marsh and Emmanuel Arteaga look to help Dartmouth claim another Ivy League Championship.
Returning Firepower – The Big Green return three All-Ivy players from last season, including leading goal-scorer Alex Adelabu. Adelabu netted nine goals in 2012 and added a trio of assists. Colin Heffron and captain Colin Skelly are the other returnees who boast conference accolades as they look to solidify the midfield and defensive backline, respectively.
Oh Captain, My Captain – Colin Skelly will wear the captain's armband for the Big Green this season. Skelly is coming off his most successful season with the Big Green as he tallied three points on a goal and an assist in 2012. The Wrightstown, Pa., native scored the game-winner against Brown on Nov. 9 and earned All-Ivy Honorable Mention recognition. His .625 shots on goal percentage was tops for a Dartmouth player.
Looking Forward - Dartmouth will compete in the South Carolina Tournament next weekend, meeting SEC members Kentucky and South Carolina. Both squads finished in the middle of the pack last season, but are looking to improve. The Big Green will return to the Granite State for a three-game stand with Albany, Vermont and Princeton.
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– Sheamus says he likes the new WWE Title belt but would change one thing about it. He tweeted on Thursday:
"I'm really liking the new #WWE Championship Belt, it has a real Sheamus-y feel to it. MC Hammer can have the old one back. Here's the only improvement I'd make to the new #WWE Championship belt. Well, #StPatricksDay's a coming"
– The Wrestling Observer reports that Darren Young could be out of action until October with his knee injury. Young tweeted the following messages on Thursday:
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Young is 100% @WWE! #ClearYoung #PTP2Mania #MOD"
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'Gummy bear' breast implants just approved by FDAPosted: Updated:
PHOENIX -- A new breast implant just approved by the FDA is offering women another alternative when considering breast augmentation.
It's been nicknamed the "gummy bear implant", because like the candy, it's soft, but holds its shape.
Cosmetic surgeon Dr. Daniel Shapiro explained to Kaley O'Kelley what makes it so different from silicone implants. "They're fantastic, but there are are limitation to them," he says, referring to silicone implants. "There are not that many shapes for a particular size of implant."
Silicone implants are also tear-drop shaped, and the top of the shape can lose volume when the woman stands up. They also don't maintain their shape as well.
The "gummy bear implants" hold their shape. "If you were to cut the this with a knife, you'd have two separate halves, and they'd be soft but they'd hold the shape."
The new implants were just approved in the United States by the FDA last month.
"They leak less. They hold their shape better. They tend to fold less," Dr. Shapiro says. "Basically, they look and feel more natural."
But the so called "gummy bear implants" aren't for everyone. "Since they're firmer, if someone has some laxity in their breast, some droopiness, it really won't hold their shape as well in that breast," Dr. Shapiro explains.
The best candidate is someone with little or no breast tissue, or has some asymmetry in their breast.
Dr. Shapiro says the new implants offer more choices in shape. "There are actually 12 different configurations in each size," he says.


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He is thought to be in his 50s. Officials say they know very little about him. He became a ward in 2004 after the guardian's office was approached by a social worker at Madden Mental Health Center in Hines. The social worker was seeking a guardian to facilitate John Does move to a nursing home. He suffers from schizoaffective disorder, officials said. The Office of State Guardian asks that if you recognize him, please call 866-274-8023.
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Microsoft could be looking towards integrating Kinect technology with other devices, namely smart phones. Reuters (via CVG) offers a highly speculative, but nevertheless intriguing idea of how the company could be moving its pieces in place to make a serious jump in smart phone technology.
In 2010, Microsoft acquired the gesture recognition firm Canesta. The report states that with Canesta's engine in play, Kinect-like tech could shrink to roughly a square centimeter, which would allow it to fit in mobile devices like the Windows Phone. This would allow "natural user interfaces, autonomous navigation and many other tasks."
The report goes on to claim that this would help the robotics field as well. Connectivity to the "cloud" would expand robots' access to information, so simply connecting a cloud-enabled smart phone to a robot could function as its brain. Gestural and object recognition through Kinect would make it more advanced still. Yes, we know this sounds exactly like Skynet. Connecting the robots to each other and letting them recognize our frail human bodies is a terrible idea.
Of course, this is all one pundit's opinion, and even if true it could take quite a while before we see any such technology integration hitting the market. That means we have a little bit of time to find the robots' weakness before they become smarter and more aware, and turn all murdery.


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I would like to personally thank each and everyone of our members and friends here at Battlestar Raven, for helping us reach a milestone of reach over 10,000 FB LIKES. WE could not have done it without each and everyone of your help! So please continue to share our page so we can do to the best of our ability, to keep helping spread the word about the our beloved BSG show and her legacy.
In honor of this milestone, is a new Facebook banner dedicated to her current members on the Raven, which by the way, was another milestone with 200 members. Just a less than a year ago, she had no more than between 9-10 credible members after the current crew roster list was purge when she was in dry-dock for maintenance and a change of Commmand took place. This is another blessing that all of us here at Battlestar Raven, are thankful for due to her current members and the wonderful friends we have made along the way, since she got out dry-dock and climb to the top. It is our sincere hope that she continue to prove her worth in the Field of Battle and that she may continue to not only grow in quantity but more IMPORTANTLY, IN QUALITY, which is the most important thing of all as a Battlestar Chapter! HELP US reach that GOAL!
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Aug. 24, 2009
NORMAN, Okla. - University of Oklahoma vice president for intercollegiate athletics programs and director of athletics Joe Castiglione and head women's gymnastics coach K.J. Kindler announced OU's 2010 schedule on Monday.
The slate includes regular season match-up's with four squads that competed at the NCAA Championships last season, including OU's season-opener on Jan. 8 in Norman against the Florida Gators, a Super-Six team finals squad in 2009.
The reigning Big 12 Champions also host events against Nebraska (Feb. 5), Iowa State (Feb. 12), Alabama (March 5) and Washington (March 12). Alabama won the second qualifying session of the 2008 NCAA Championship, advancing to the Super Six.
OU's meeting with Big 12 rival ISU on Feb. 12 will also feature the OU wrestling squad grappling with Chattanooga in the third-annual Beauty and the Beast night.
"We are extremely excited about our upcoming schedule," said Kindler, who has guided the Sooners to the last two Big 12 titles. "The Big 12 Conference always provides a strong test against high quality opponents. We also get a chance to compete against some regular season opponents that we have not faced recent years.
"Our fans will see some great gymnastics with a top-notch home slate that features Super Six qualifiers Florida and Alabama, a match-up with Washington and battles with traditionally strong Big 12 programs in Nebraska and Iowa State."
OU travels to Auburn (Jan. 15), Illinois (Jan. 23), Missouri (Feb. 19), Michigan State (Feb. 26), and Arkansas (March 19) for its road slate.
Oklahoma also travels to Dallas for the Metroplex Challenge on Jan. 30, in a quad meet also featuring Alaska, N.C. State and TWU.
Nebraska hosts the Big 12 Championships on March 27 in Lincoln, Neb., as the Sooners seek their third-straight conference title.
NCAA Regional competition is scheduled for April 10 at six campus sites, while the NCAA Championships will be hosted by Florida in Gainesville, Fla., April 22-24.


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A man helps carry a coffin during the funeral procession for 10 members of the Vasquez family in San Cristobal Cucho, Guatemala, Nov. 9, 2012. The family died when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck on Wednesday, collapsing their home and burying them, including a 4-year-old child, in the rubble.
Associated Press reports — The 10 members of the Vasquez family were found together under the rubble of the rock quarry that had been their livelihood, some in a desperate final embrace, others clinging to the faintest of dying pulses.
As Guatemala tried to recover Thursday from a 7.4-magnitude quake, the country mourned a disaster that killed at least 52 people; left thousands of others without homes, electricity or water; and emotionally devastated one small town by wiping out almost an entire family seeing the first signs of success in a tireless effort to claw itself out of poverty.
Neighbors filed past 10 wooden caskets lined up in two rows in the Vasquez living room, remembering a family reduced to a single survivor, the eldest son about to graduate with an accounting degree. Full story…
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People carry the coffins with the remains of 10 members of the Vasquez family in San Cristobal Cucho, Guatemala, Nov. 9.
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A woman reacts as she looks into the coffin of one of the 10 members of the Vasquez Gomez family, who died during the earthquake that struck on Wednesday, in the cemetery of San Cristobal Cucho, Guatemala, Nov. 9. Rescue workers on Thursday carted out dead bodies found under rubble in the aftermath of Guatemala's most powerful earthquake in decades, while others cleared wrecked cars and collapsed buildings as they searched for survivors.
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Berta Miguelina Miranda holds flowers during the funeral procession for the Vasquez family in San Cristobal Cucho, Guatemala, Nov. 9.


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7 Awesome Beer Cans in Celebration of Beer Can Appreciation Day
The good news is that it's never too late to begin your beer can collection. The even better news is that January 24 is Beer Can Appreciation Day, so there's no excuse not to get going on that collection.
While no one knows who named the day, or when it began to be celebrated, we do know that it commemorates the first day beer was available to the public in cans. And what a great day that was indeed.
We're so excited about it that we dug up some pics of our favorite beer cans over the years. Surprisingly, some of them are actually worth some money.
Coors Light 2-Stage Cold Activated Can
There's nothing like mixing beer and fancy ink technology. Coors topped its single-stage cold activated cans and labels by now showing you if your beer is super cold. Don't drink it until those mountains are really blue.
Guinness Nitro Widget Can
No beer can technology can match the brilliance of the nitrogen widget shrewdly placed inside cans of Guinness Draught. The widget lives in there until the can is opened and the pressure change sends it to the bottom in a trail of nitrogen bubbles. Excuse us, we need a Guinness.
White Horse Pilsner
In the 1940s, they knew how to make a beer look stylish and manly all at the same time. A White Horse guy knew how to drink a beer and look good doing it. These days, a White Horse can in good condition can get you more than $15,000.
Pabst Blue Ribbon
We don't mean to be all hipster here, but nothing makes you feel like a champ like that big blue ribbon on a cold can of PBR. It's a beer you can drink anywhere, at anytime, and look like a winner.
Session Lager
Is it a canteen? Is it a grenade? Who wouldn't want to drink their beer out of something that makes them look like they could spring into action and either head off on a hike or blow something up at a moment's notice? There's no losing your beer at a party with this can.
Heineken DraughtKeg
Ok, so it's slightly bigger than a can, but still the Heineken Draught Keg is one of the better beer containment and dispensing innovations of this century. It holds about 10 pints of tasty Heineken and will keep it fresh for up to 30 days. But who lets Heineken sit in the fridge for that long anyway?
Robin Hood Cream Ale
When you didn't have money for good beer, you had to drink a poor man's beer. Enter Robin Hood. Sadly, while the can made it seem like you had stolen it from the rich, the taste didn't. It was no Billy Beer, but this tight wearing, feather-capped brew wasn't winning any prizes either. And, strangely, now you would have to be rich to buy a can.


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USA TODAY Sports provides your March Madness therapy
Welcome to another session of Bracket Briefing, our attempt to provide you with essential information on the Big Dance — forecasting the Ali Farokhmaneshes before they spark the stunning upset we're talking about for days.
Soundtrack: Before you read any further, listen to today's jam of the day.
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Tournament's biggest myth: Louisville's greatness
Look, there's no denying the Cardinals are A) the best team in the tournament, thus making them the favorite to win the national title, and are B) playing with the momentum of a Big East Conference tournament championship. Whoever's picking Louisville is making a smart, conservative pick. But they're also wearing blinders. When Louisville is clicking — Russ Smith scoring at will, Peyton Siva penetrating and creating, Gorgui Dieng controlling the paint — this team looks Final Four good. When it's not, though — Smith forcing shots, Siva going scoreless and Dieng in foul trouble — this team looks Sweet Sixteen good at best. We're forgetting Rick Pitino's group lost three consecutive games earlier in the season and that was due to an ailing offense. Yes, the Cardinals will smother teams on defense to lead to chemistry in transition. But in the halfcourt sets, this team is shaky.
History tells us: Another reason Louisville loses: Only five times in NCAA tournament history (including last season) has the No. 1 overall seed won the title. Last year's Kentucky team was the first overall No. 1 seed to win it all since 1995. If this year's unpredictable regular season was any indication of the tournament's outcome, it's difficult to see even one or two No. 1 seeds winning. When it comes to dissecting Louisville, yes, momentum is crucial — but this team is not like Connecticut in 2011, the last Big East team to win the conference tournament crown and then run the field in the Dance.
What you missed: The tournament started yesterday with North Carolina A&T surviving an upset (if that's such a thing in a No. 16 vs. No. 16 seed clash) by holding off 15-20 Liberty. Then Saint Mary's proved it clearly belonged in the field of 68 with a convincing win over Middle Tennessee.
NIT trumps NCAA tourney? Yes, it's rare that this happens. Because even a Big East team vs. a Big East team at Madison Square Garden fails to top the aura that the Big Dance can provide. But Robert Morris became the NIT's Cinderella with a stunning victory over a snubbed Kentucky team that looked like it belonged in the College Basketball Invitational.
Hat tip of the day: Jay Bilas. You got it right, Jay. Middle Tennessee was a bust. A tremendous bust.
Name to know: Saint Mary's Matthew Dellavedova is the star of the Dance after Day 1. It's always interesting to see the C.J. McCollums and Eric Maynors of the college basketball landscape step into the spotlight because, in reality, they've been doing it either the whole season or, in Dellavedova's case, his whole career. Sure, Dellavedova was impressive with 22 points and analysts will make the argument that if you stop him, Saint Mary's will be in quicksand. But no player on the Gaels' roster has shown glaring weaknesses. If Saint Mary's loses (as it did to Gonzaga three times), it's likely because Dellavedova isn't shooting well, not because teams are keying in on him. He's a glue guy in every sense of the word — meaning he'll find teammates when they're open and yell at them when they're not getting open.
Dellavedova, who hails from Australia, told USA TODAY Sports earlier this season: "I think playing internationally has helped me (develop) fast. I'm comfortable off pick and rolls and that comes from playing against grown men who know how to play the game. I just try to control the game the best I can, getting my teammates open and leadership-wise making sure everyone's doing their job."
On deck:
— LIU-Brooklyn vs. James Madison, 6:40 (truTV)
— Boise State vs. La Salle, 9:10 (truTV)
Kickin' it old school: The NCAA tournament vintage clip of the day goes to...
Jimmy V. Had to.
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TRENTON -- A judge refused to lower the $750,000 bail for the city teen who allegedly shot and killed a club-wielding man over 10 bucks.
Aljava Gaither, 19, was charged with murder and weapons offenses in the fatal shooting of Craig Fitzgerald, 24, at the intersection of Calhoun and Bernard streets on April 9, prosecutors said.
Mercer County Assistant Prosecutor James Scott said that at 1:30 that afternoon, Fitzgerald went to buy food from the deli he lives above at 423 Calhoun, but first ran upstairs to get a wood club. He returned to the deli, Scott said, and allegedly fought with Gaither over a months-long dispute involving $10.
Gaither lives in the nearby North 25 complex off Calhoun.
The deli owner forced them onto the street, where Fitzgerald hit Gaither over the head with the club, causing him to fall, the prosecutor said before explaining that "Gaither pulled out a a revolver trying to protect himself and shot Fitzgerald in the leg."
He said the bullet broke Fitzgerald's leg and caused him to fall onto Gaither.
"Gaither fired three more shots into the victim's chest, one hit the sternum, severing the aorta," Scott said.
The victim was taken to the hospital and died.
Police didn't know who was involved with the shooting but heard about someone being treated at Capital Health Regional Medical Center-Mercer for a head wound. They went there and found Gaither.
A witness to the shooting identified Gaither as the gunman, Scott said, asking Superior Court Judge Gerald Council to maintain the $750,000 cash or bond bail as the defendant has a number of convictions involving drugs and weapons.
Defense attorney David Schroth told Council that Gaither, a recent Trenton High graduate and lifelong area resident, was acting in self defense.
He was visiting his son and went to the deli to buy cigarettes when he saw known drug dealer Fitzgerald, Schroth said.
"Fitzgerald, when he saw my client, went upstairs to his apartment, got a club and assaulted my client," Schroth said.
Schroth described Fitzgerald as being 6-foot, 300 pounds and his client as being 5-4, 125.
"My client was under assault. I don't know if the witness was on drugs. This incident was fleeting and momentary," Schroth said as he asked for a reduced bail. "As you can see, my client has six staples in his forehead from the blow. Clearly there was a violent assault on my client."
Council said the defendant used a gun, the medical evidence shows there were three gunshot wounds to the chest, the defendant is awaiting sentencing on a drug charge -- and has a prior record.
"Clearly, your client is no angel," Council said, maintaining bail.


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July 11, 2013
Juniors Erin Gortze, Jess Reusch, Kayla Hodgkins, and Gabby Angelini with Coach Stewart's daughter, Kallan, at the quarter finals game at BU.


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Using 'Web Inspector'(Safari) or 'Inspect Element'(Chrome) the height metric for the UL list element is more than the 406px in the parent div above, so it's cut off.
I've been trying to fix it here myself, and have used .suf-mag-category {height: 100% !important;} in the custom css, which will get it to show the content, but it's then uneven and then takes away the choice of button positions in Suffusion Options Suffusion Options > Templates > Magazine > Button position (below the excerpt or at the bottom of the excerpt box).
Hope this was clear. I have this Button position setting set at "At the bottom of the excerpt box", but have tried it the over way. I've turned off all plugins, and taken out custom CSS. If anyone knows of the right CSS to resolve this better than what I have above, I'd be very appreciative.
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The bruised wooden boxes in the basement of the Dow family house look like they have been through combat. In front of them is an old hockey net, its posts dented and frail.
There is a tarp behind the net, but it is not wide enough to snag the bad misses. That is where the boxes get in the way.
Jordan Dow calls this space his "little Crosby area," an ode to Pittsburgh Penguins star forward Sidney Crosby and the tale of his countless hours spent honing his shooting skills in his mother's basement while she stomped her feet above with every miss, signaling her knowledge of his poor accuracy from the beating that her clothes dryer was taking from his errant pucks.
"That's where it all starts," said Dow, a senior center at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional. "I shoot post after post after post, work on a quick release, accuracy, to get the timing down. Once you have it, you can build off it."
The basement may have been where it started, but the finished product has been glimmering on display at local hockey rinks all winter. With a sneaky wrist shot that has tormented goalies, Dow has scored 23 of Lincoln-Sudbury's 51 goals through its 11-1-2 start.
In addition to his responsibilities as varsity hockey coach at Lincoln-Sudbury, Peter Elenbaas has been a longtime youth lacrosse coach, so he has seen Dow in action in that sport as well.
On the grass, Dow plays close to the same style as he does on the ice. He is slithery around the net and he knows how to finish.
Eight years ago, Elenbaas was leaving New England Sports Center in Marlborough with one of his hockey teams when Dow, in the fourth grade, walked in with his hockey bag.
"I was so excited," Elenbaas recalled. "I didn't know he played. I was like, 'That kid plays hockey too? This is awesome.' "
Early on, though, Dow, an undersized child who is now about 5-foot-9, 155 pounds — Dow's dad, Mike , compares him to Boston College forward Johnny Gaudreau and Eagle alum/current Buffalo Sabre Nathan Gerbe — was unimpressive.
"I didn't love it initially," he said of hockey. "My dad kept pushing me to stick around and I remember holding on to the boards, watching these kids whiz by me and then I got that goal to be a successful hockey player, to be the best I could be — that goal to perform at the highest level, to push myself to see how far I could go and compete. It's kept me going.
"I wasn't the biggest kid, which meant I had to work a little harder than everybody else."
Even for 6 a.m. weekend practices, Dow was always excited.
"When he was young, he just loved to be on his skates," said Mike Dow, a sales manager for a printing company, who always taught Jordan the importance of simplicity.
"All he wanted to do was skate all the time. He never complained about going to the rink. Ever.''
Lincoln-Sudbury senior Matt Hall, when asked to talk about his team, was a bit confused initially.
"Wait, which sport are you talking about?" Hall said. "Lacrosse?"
The Lincoln-Sudbury ice hockey team has not necessarily been bad, but it has not been elite, either. Not like its lacrosse team, which is a perennial contender to win it all behind the town's stocked youth program and a crafty, intense leader, Brian Vona .
Not since Connor Quinn has the Warriors had a player like Dow who could carry the team whenever it needed a lift. Quinn was a standout forward but left the team before his senior year to pick up an additional two years at the Pomfret School in Connecticut. He is now playing at Bowdoin.
Dow's sudden rise to statistical supremacy has reshaped Lincoln-Sudbury's outlook.
"We've been good in the past," said Elenbaas. "But we haven't had this. Now we have an incredible senior class, a star goal-scorer, and a really good goalie'' in Erik Kessler . "It's a lot different."
Area hockey coaches agree that Dow has been a top-tier player for years, but this season something changed.
"He's taken it to a whole new level, that's for sure," said Waltham coach John Maguire .
Dow is not sure what happened, but said he is more relaxed when playing, simply trying to enjoy his time on the ice.
Following the passing of Scott Milley, a 2005 Lincoln-Sudbury graduate who died in 2010 while serving his country in Afghanistan, Dow helped organize the Warriors 4 Warriors game this winter, raising more than $15,000 for Milley's family and the Massachusetts Military Friends Organization. And after sophomore Matt Hall (no relation to the senior Matt Hall) returned to the team after a battle with leukemia, there has been a bond that Dow's presence has only enhanced.
"He's such a great captain," said fellow senior Owen Maron . "He's really good, but he's not cocky at all."
Said Mike Dow: "We always encourage our children to be humble and work hard."
Dow plans on spending a postgraduate year somewhere locally while waiting for his college options to expand.
There is always room to grow, he figures.
Now, back to the basement.
Framingham says thank you to Brown
Bobby Brown thought he was ready to retire in 2000 when Framingham varsity coach Paul Spear asked him to join his coaching staff. Brown declined, but three years later when another job opened up, Spear asked again, and Brown could not say no.
"It started in the 1960s — he was the person involved with the evolution of Framingham youth hockey," Spear said. "He just loves hockey, loves being at the rink, being a part of it. He just became this grandfather-type guy down at the rink where it seemed everybody knew him."
Brown coached on Spear's staff from 2003 to this winter, when he was finally forced to hang up the skates following a battle with prostate cancer.
Framingham honored the longtime coach with a pregame ceremony and plaque before Saturday's 2-0 loss to Braintree at Loring Arena.
"Too many times we allow people to finish up and then say thank you too late or don't say it," Spear said. "Nobody wants a plaque when they're gone."Jason Mastrodonato can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.