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This article appeared Saturday, May 29 in The Birmingham News. Scroll down to see how much money SEC baseball teams receive from bat companies.
That ping heard at Regions Park this week represents, for better and for worse, college baseball since the 1970s. However, with more frequency lately, some people within the sport wonder whether metal should be replaced by the crack of a bat.
Division II is surveying its baseball coaches to gauge whether the entire division wants to use wood. Could Division I ever follow suit?
"I could see it some day," said UC-Santa Barbara coach Bob Brontsema, last year's chairman of the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee. "It's not as unrealistic as it may seem."
Wooden bats would shorten games, provide lower scoring, and place more emphasis on strategy. They would also eliminate the annual issue of testing aluminum for equity and safety reasons. Next season, the NCAA will again change the bat-performance standard to produce batted ball speeds that more closely resemble wooden bats.
On the other hand, some people say switching to wood would bring unnecessary risks to a sport that is as popular as it's ever been. Wood could threaten the lucrative relationship some Division I programs have with bat companies that pad athletics department budgets or, in some cases, simply keep baseball teams afloat.
"When you talk wood bats, the aluminum bat companies cringe," Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin said. "You know, I don't blame them. It's business. You're talking about people who are making money and dump a lot of funds into our programs."
Most SEC programs receive lucrative endorsement deals. Coaches and schools get cash and free products while in turn exclusively using bats, apparel and equipment that can be marketed to the next generation of players.
Such deals have helped college baseball grow into an increasingly bigger business.
"All it takes is one big accident with aluminum, God forbid, and there will be a push for wood," said Brontsema, who slightly favors aluminum. "And it's unfortunate because aluminum bats have been great for college baseball."
Composite bat ban
The wood vs. aluminum debate was reignited in March when a 16-year-old high school player in California was severely injured after being struck in the head by a line drive off a metal bat. California lawmakers are debating whether a two-year moratorium should be placed on the use of metal bats in their high schools.
Wooden bats have also caused serious injuries over the years. For instance, a minor-league coach was killed a couple of years ago when he was hit by a ball off a wooden bat.
Alabama shortstop Josh Rutledge said wood would be fun in college, and although there would be fewer home runs, "it would probably be safer. There are some wicked balls that come off aluminum. Some of them are pretty juiced."
Last summer, the NCAA placed a moratorium on bats that used composite barrels.
Composite bats are a blend of metal and carbon-fiber technology and first became popular with recreational softball players. The bats are generally constructed with the same aluminum exterior as standard aluminum bats, but have a woven graphite wall on the inside. They tend to significantly enhance the trampoline effect toward the end of the bat's life. Some composite bat speeds were measured at 115 mph, well above the NCAA limit of 97 mph.
Composite bats are also susceptible to a form of tampering known as "bat rolling." That process increases the ball speed and distance off the bat and can allow the bat to reach its maximum hitting potential immediately.
When the NCAA tested some composite bats prior to last year's College World Series, 80 percent of them exceeded the acceptable performance level, causing safety concerns. The NCAA also cited significant increases in batting averages and home runs in 2008 and 2009 as a reason for the moratorium.
"I just thought it was ignorant of people looking beyond this issue for so long," said Corbin, who became a public face in the debate last year. "It was almost like looking at the pro game and saying, 'People don't use steroids.' I know people disagree with me, but the (composite) bat was harmful."
Said Alabama outfielder Taylor Dugas: "There were guys hitting home runs last year who shouldn't have been hitting them. If you're a big guy with power with those composite bats, it makes you look like Barry Bonds up there."
Brontsema, the chairman of the rules committee when composite bats were banned, said the bat companies were not pleased by the NCAA's ban. Although there have been financial burdens for some schools and bat companies due to the ban, money wasn't a factor the committee wanted to consider, he said.
In 2009, nine SEC schools used bats from Easton, which produced the most popular composites. This year seven SEC teams swing Easton.
A spokeswoman for Easton said the company continues to research and develop composite and aluminum bats, and rollout dates will likely come between the fourth quarter of 2010 and the fourth quarter of 2011.
Jacksonville State coach Jim Case, a member of the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee, said he would be interested in exploring wooden bats for Division I and noticed little difference in ball speed off the bat this season.
Technically, any player could use wood right now, but he would be at a decided disadvantage. Aluminum offers a bigger sweet spot for hitters. College pitchers tend to be reluctant to throw inside because a pitch on the hands against aluminum can be muscled over the infield far easier than wood.
"I think if the bats reacted more like wood bats, the game would be shorter, there would be less scoring, and there would be a little bit more room for the small guy like it used to be with the bunt and hit-and-run," Case said.
Cost impact of wood
It's one thing to want wooden bats. It's another to figure out the financial implications of such a switch.
Many Division II teams receive "buy three, get one free" aluminum deals, so going to wood could be cheaper for them, because most wood bats cost less than aluminum. According to the University of Florida's contract with Easton, for example, the wooden bats it receives are valued at $63 each while the aluminum ones are $299.
But wooden bats break, which would add to the cost over the course of a season.
If D-I went to wood, Brontsema believes major programs would simply shift to wood contracts with the same manufacturers, still getting all their bats for free and allowing the rich to stay rich. It's the have-nots among the roughly 300 D-I programs he worries about, and there are more of those than the haves.
"The bat companies would suffer the most, and in turn they would flip the lost revenue down to certain programs," Brontsema said. "If they're not selling as many aluminum bats, they're not going to be able to give away some of their product."
Then there's the issue of the quality of wood.
"If you went to the wood bats that don't break, there's only so much of that wood that goes around and the majors get the best wood," Case said. "It's not as simple as, 'We all can use wood bats.'"
Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco doesn't understand why anyone wants to change a game enjoying increased television coverage from ESPN and record crowds at the College World Series. He believes fans don't want low-scoring games that last 2 hours, 15 minutes, as might happen with wooden bats.
"Wood works in the majors," Bianco said. "But that's 30 teams with 25 players, the best in the world from ages 20 to 40, and we've got (future) accountants and engineers playing for us. In my opinion, wood would make it a worse game."
Corbin doesn't buy that notion.
"Fans do want to see quick games. Nobody wants to see a three-hour game. I don't," Corbin said. "But a 2 1 2-hour game, yeah, I'd see that. You're still going to have 7-4, 6-5, 8-3 games. You won't have as many 14-13, 17-15, but those aren't fun games for anyone. Wood is a more pure game."
Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan regularly uses wood in fall practice to teach pitchers to trust throwing their fastball across the plate, to help the defense because the game isn't as quick, and to improve hitters' barrel awareness.
"There are pluses either way (to wood or aluminum) and I really don't have a preference," O'Sullivan said. "But maybe for the good of the game it won't be bad to go to wood, over the long haul, for a 10-year period."
South Carolina coach Ray Tanner, who supports aluminum, said that considering the number of broken bats, the costs for wood would be too expensive unless major league baseball covered a lot of the expenses.
"The game is playing much truer than it used to be," Tanner said. "I think it's playing very close to wood now."
Several SEC hitters said changing to wood could help pro scouts better evaluate them. Right now, college hitters are typically scouted swinging wood only during summer leagues.
"Do you know how much extra money was spent last year on kids using composite bats who probably got their bonuses jacked up because teams thought they legitimately had a lot of power, and in essence they didn't have any power at all?" Corbin said. "I like the home run. I just like the fair home run."
Dave Keilitz, executive director of the American Baseball Coaches Association, said it's not the college game's job to help the pros scout players. "Our No. 1 goal is to create interest for our programs," he said. "Our game is very popular right now."
In other words, wood vs. aluminum boils down to a constant consideration in bigtime college athletics: money.
"Wood is real baseball, and I could see going to wood one day," Alabama coach Mitch Gaspard said. "The underlying factor is going to be the aluminum bat contracts and how many schools can supply wood throughout the course of the year. Money controls everything."
Bat contracts are lucrative deals for some baseball programs, through cash compensation and free products. The Birmingham News sent openrecord requests to the 12 SEC schools for their bat endorsement contracts. Arkansas (Easton bats) and Vanderbilt (DeMarini), which is private, did not provide information. Alabama currently does not have a contract; this season, it purchased Louisville Slugger bats and gloves and is outfitted by Nike.
Company: Louisville Slugger
Length of contract: 5 years (through Aug. 31, 2013). Deal doesn't include uniforms and apparel, which come from Under Armour.
Annual compensation: Auburn receives $60,000.
Bonuses: Auburn receives money for SEC regular-season championship ($2,500), NCAA regional appearance ($5,000), Super Regional appearance ($15,000), College World Series appearance ($15,000), and national championship ($30,000).
Company: Easton (joint agreement with softball team)
Length of contract: 3 1 2 years
(through July 1, 2010)
Annual compensation: Florida receives $250,000.
Bonuses: Florida receives money for SEC Tournament championship ($5,000), Super Regional appearance ($7,500), College World Series appearance ($17,500), second place in College World Series ($32,500) or winning College World Series ($57,500).
Company: Nike (multi-sport agreement)
Length of contract: 10 years (through June 30, 2017)
Annual compensation: Georgia receives $600,000, largely due to football.
Bonuses: Georgia receives money for national championship ($10,000), College World Series appearance ($5,000), SEC Tournament championship ($2,500), or SEC regular-season championship ($2,500). Maximum bonus is $10,000.
Company: Nike (multi-sport agreement)
Length of contract: 10 years (through Aug. 31, 2017)
Annual compensation: Kentucky receives $1.7 million annually, largely due to men's basketball.
It increases to $1.8 million in 2012-13.
Bonuses: None for baseball.
Company: Easton
Length of contract: 4 years (through July 1, 2011)
Annual compensation: LSU receives $150,000.
Bonuses: LSU receives money for Super Regional appearance ($5,000), College World Series appearance ($10,000) or national championship ($25,000).
Company: Easton
Length of contract: 10 years (through November 30, 2015)
Annual compensation: Ole Miss receives $60,000. The annual rate increases by $10,000 for any year Ole Miss makes the College World Series.
Bonuses: Ole Miss received a $50,000 signing bonus in 2005.
Mississippi State
Company: Easton
Length of contract: 5 years (through Jan. 1, 2014)
Annual compensation: Coach John Cohen receives $100,000, assistants Lance Burroughs, Butch Thompson and Nick Mingione each get $10,000, and Mississippi State receives $10,000 for naming rights to practice facility.
Bonuses: None.
South Carolina
Company: Easton
Length of contract: 5 years (through Feb. 28, 2011)
Annual compensation: Coach Ray Tanner receives $120,000.
Bonuses: Tanner received a $50,000 signing bonus in 2006 and a $10,000 signing bonus in 2007, and gets a $50,000 signing bonus if the contract is extended through 2016. Tanner gets money for winning the SEC East ($2,500), SEC regular-season championship ($2,500), SEC Tournament championship ($2,500), NCAA regional ($5,000) and College World Series ($25,000).
Company: Easton
Length of contract: 10 years (through April 1, 2015)
Annual compensation: Tennessee
receives $95,000. It increases to $100,000 next year.
Bonuses: Former coach Rod Delmonico received a $50,000 signing bonus in 2005. Current coach Todd Raleigh receives money if he wins SEC championship ($5,000), wins a Super Regional ($10,000) or wins the College World Series ($25,000).
As part of their bat endorsement contracts, SEC schools receive free equipment and apparel from manufacturers. For instance, here's what Florida, the nation's No. 4 team, receives from Easton every year. It's valued at $85,752.
> 110 aluminum bats
> 72 wooden bats
> 20 youth bats
> 5 fungo bats
> 50 fielding gloves
> 150 batting gloves
> 100 wristbands
> 45 equipment bags
> 45 travel bags
> 5 sets of catcher gear
> 5 sets of knee savers
> 5 sets of catcher bags
> 20 sets of helmets
> 1,500 T-shirts
> 10 batting tees
> 5 dozen Incrediballs
> 50 sunglasses.


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Liverpool, NY -- The Liverpool Central School District Board of Education voted Monday night to approve a redistricting plan for the start of the 2015-16 school year.
The Liverpool school board has discussed the need to redistrict since 2012 and its goal was to create a Redistricting Advisory Committee that would develop recommendations to redistrict school boundaries for the start of the 2014-15 school year.
The school board accepted one of the committee's recommendations Monday night and also voted to delay the start of redistricting until the start of the 2015-16 school year, said Liverpool Superintendent Mark Potter.
Potter said there isn't enough time to complete the redistricting in the next eight months.
The board approved a redistricting option that includes moving students from a section of Casual Estates from Willow Field Elementary to Soule Road Elementary and moving students on Avon Parkway from Liverpool Elementary to Morgan Road Elementary.
Specific details of the redistricting plan will not be determined or made public until next year, Potter said.
For more information, visit the district's redistricting website.
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CLARK — Kara Alongi, the Clark teen who authorities believe fabricated her disappearance via a Sunday night tweet, is still missing, police said this morning.
"There's nothing new," said Lt. Vincent Concina. "No update, no news."
But Kara, despite her elusiveness, continues to attract attention, including the 100,000-plus people who are now following her Twitter page, where there has not been an update since the tweet that sent authorities in search of the so-far elusive 16-year-old, and unnerved her family and friends.
At 6 p.m. Sunday, the Arthur L. Johnson High School junior tweeted a message suggesting that she was about to be kidnapped.
"There is someone in my hour ecall 911," she wrote.
Police, though, believe she took a cab from her Hall Drive home to the Rahway train station a few minutes later. There, a surveillance camera caught an image of the 16-year-old girl holding a backpack and a large purse. She is seen wearing sneakers, blue jeans and a short-sleeve shirt.
Her plight – whatever it might be – has spawned dozens of YouTube videos, most of them short, many critical of her motivations, whatever they might be.
But family and friends just want the girl to return home.
"You can't say anything bad about this girl," her grandfather, Mike Virchick, said at the train station yesterday.
He was there posting fliers with Alongi's picture, hoping that someone would recognize her and alert authorities.
Her other grandfather, Paul Alongi Sr., pleaded with her to come home.
"We want her to know it's OK to come home, we know that she might be embarrassed or even fearful," he said to an editor from Clark-Garwood Patch. "But we know she's has got a great life in front of her. She's got her family supporting her, her friends supporting her and we love her. … Come on home. We just want you honey."
Township police had received upward of 6,000 calls in about 12 hours — more than the number of households in the Union County municipality. Most were false leads. Twelve of the department's 41 officers went searching in the first hours, department Chief Alan Scherb said.
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There is broad consensus that electronic health records (EHR) have the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare providers. Yet, to date, there has been no reliable estimate of the prevalence of EHR use among U.S. hospitals. In a new study, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Massachusetts General Hospital and George Washington University found that less than 2% of surveyed hospitals had implemented comprehensive EHR; further, less than 8% had basic EHR in place. It is the first nationally representative study of the prevalence of EHR in hospitals. Comment: Like other policy issues the adage "Follow the money" applies. Insurance companies reimburse billing costs, but little reimbursement is provided to improve medical records, yet almost all other developed countries have integrated record medical systems and better health outcomes than the US.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a lawsuit on behalf of four illegal immigrants who were arrested near Montgomery for fishing without a license, AL.com's Kim Chandler reports. Three were held for several hours, while the fourth person was held for a few days.
The provision of the law requires the state to keep and publish a database of illegal immigrants who have had criminal infractions. The SPLC says that the system denies due process rights because there is no way for those in the database to correct erroneous information or update their immigration status.
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Sen. Shadrack McGill just can't help himself. Last year he came under fire for saying at a prayer breakfast that it was unbiblical to give teachers raises, drawing national scorn. This week, McGill compared abortions to destroying eagle eggs.
According to the Jackson County Daily Sentinel, McGill said that he worries that aborted babies might go to hell.
"So my question concerning aborted babies is, where do they go, heaven or hell?" McGill said. "I just want to know what [people's] perspective is."
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At least 60 of the 210 employees laid off when Jefferson County closed inpatient care at Cooper Green have appealed their terminations, the Birmingham News/AL.com's Barnett Wright reports.
Today the Jefferson County Personnel Board will hold a hearing to determine how to proceed with the cases. The county insists that it implemented the layoffs legally.
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Dear Federal Way Public Schools community,
Because of your support for education, Federal Way Public Schools' 2010 replacement technology levy passed by 619 votes. King County Elections certified the results on Feb. 24.
We would like to thank the community for continuing to support our local schools. This levy will replace the 2005 technology levy, which expires this year. The district will spend levy dollars to sustain existing technology equipment and programs, continue upgrading aging computers, train staff for success with emerging technologies, initiate pilot programs that use emerging technologies, and improve the connection and data transmission feeds within the school buildings.
Our students' world will continue to change rapidly. With a strong foundation in today's technology, they will be better prepared to learn and adapt to the innovations the future holds in store for them. The technology levy will ensure that Federal Way students have a level playing field when competing with students around the state, across the nation and in our global community.
This replacement levy continues local support for technology through the year 2016. It was structured to keep taxpayers' contributions to schools level through the next six years.
We would also like to thank the hundreds of volunteers who dedicated their time and resources to promote supporting our students through the technology levy. The Students for Federal Way Schools and Citizens for Federal Way Schools groups, in particular, were extremely valuable resources for the campaign.
With this kind of community support, it is easy to see why Federal Way Public Schools are recognized as a leader in public education. We continue to raise expectations for all students and staff, and exceed them — improving academic outcomes and strengthening our teaching workforce. We do this together. As a community, we continue our relentless pursuit of an outstanding education for all students.
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A public forum for candidates in the 19th District Congressional race will be held at Dickinson College at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 15.
Incumbent Todd Platts, R-York, and Democratic challenger Phil Avillo, a York College history professor, will present their positions and field audience questions.
The forum, which is free and open to the public, will be in the college's Anita Tuvin Schlecter auditorium on West Louther Street between North College and Cherry streets.
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It's a beautiful day out, so I'll keep this one short. If you have a pulse and you love action movies then you must go see Iron Man. Heck, even if you only meet one of those two requirements you should grab your keys and head to the theater right now.
Iron Man is skillfully delivered throughout its fast paced two hours. Kudos to director Jon Favreau on what will most definitely be the door busting opener to a summer of blockbuster, big dollar earners. Iron Man is currently predicted to make over $100 million in its opening weekend and from what I saw today it deserves every penny.
Robert Downey Jr. could not have been better cast as Tony Stark, the ego-centric, womanizer turned superhero who faces his own mortality to break free from a terrorist plot and redeem his years of war mongering. Jeff Bridges is excellent in his near unrecognizable bald and bearded state as Stark's second in command at Stark Industries and enjoys a bit of War Mongering himself. Terrence Howard is smart and smooth as Stark's liaison to the U.S. Air Force and keeper of his secret identity. Gwenyth Paltrow finds herself a bit underutilized as the mousy assistant turned potential romance, though a few moments show her potential for the sequels.
Yes, sequels. Iron Man is the first of a planned trilogy with pre-production on the second installment set to start immediately. But before we get ahead of ourselves this first chapter is a winner in every way. While the story may take its time to build the momentum never slows and as I watched my rating for this movie climbed from 4 stars to 5 out of 5 for its cast, story, and direction which are excellent in each aspect.
Tony Stark tells us, "sometimes you have to run before you can walk," and as audiences will find, Iron Man hits the ground sprinting and never lets you down.
Bonus: Wait through the lengthy credits for a glimpse of things to come with Samuel L. Jackson's cameo as Nick Fury, the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Oh! I love this movie! One of the MArvel flicks that I love and of course I do love XMEN too, my favs! I am sure this is just the first installment. …:)
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A car driven by a man who suffered from chest pains crashed through the plate-glass windows of a Pathmark supermarket in Irvington this afternoon, injuring the driver and two people inside the store, officials said.
The crash occurred about 1:45 p.m. on Lyons Avenue, after the driver suffered from chest pains, losing control of the car, said Irvington Fire Deputy Chief Felix McNally.
McNally said the driver and two store employees — apparently injured by the vehicle inside the supermarket — were taken to a local hospital. He had no information on their medical condition.
The car, a black sedan, left a huge hole in the front of the Pathmark, shattering glass and breaking part of the brick exterior not far from the self checkout counters and produce section.
Glass and bricks and debris coexisted with oranges and pears.
James O'Laughlin said he had just finished his shopping at the Pathmark and was getting into his car when he heard a vehicle "rev" up.
He turned around to see the sedan moving quickly toward the supermarket.
He said he heard "a big kaboom!" that was followed by people in the parking lot yelling profanities and pulling out their phones to take pictures.
O'Laughlin said had the crash occurred five minutes earlier. he might have been hit in the checkout line.
"It really freaked me out," he said.
The store is closed and yellow caution tape covers the area.
Star-Ledger staff writers Mike Frassinelli and Len Melisurgo contributed to this report.


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Tracking teen drinking
Four Saturdays ago, a car full of teenagers one of them an Islander nearly ran over a police officer while driving recklessly near West Mercer Way on S.E. 30th Street around 1:45 a.m. Moments later, police stopped the car and arrested the young driver for a DUI. The other passengers, who were all under 21, were arrested for being minors in possession, a crime that usually picks up around this time of year, according to Island police.
The Reporter recently looked at data compiled by the police department and its own record of police reports dating back to January 2007. According to the most recent numbers from the Mercer Island Police Department, there were 12 MIPs for those ages 18-20 and 26 juveniles were arrested or cited for using alcohol since January 2007. During that same time period, three adults were arrested or cited for furnishing liquor to a minor on the Island.
According to Mercer Island police detective Art Munoz, late spring is a time when police tend to find and arrest more teens for drinking than other times of the year.
[Teen drinking] usually picks up around this time, said Munoz. Its right after spring break, and kids are going out more or there are more events taking place where they might be drinking.
Based on the record in the Reporters police report, there have been a few recent MIPs. Some of those arrested are Island youth, but teens from Bellevue or other nearby cities are also caught drinking in Island parks after hours, are arrested at house parties or pulled over by Island police after drinking.
This weeks police report includes an incident about an older teen who hosted a party and was cited for furnishing alcohol to minors in addition to an MIP.
Theres three common ways teens get alcohol Munoz, who is also the school districts School Resource Officer.
Teens usually get alcohol one of two ways, said Munoz. Theyre either getting it from somebody older or they go over to a store in Seattle and try to get it themselves, sometimes with a fake id. They can often times get it from their own homes.
According to Munoz, each MIP arrest, which is a gross misdemeanor, is handled based on the given situation.
Sometimes we take them down to the station and process them so theyre photographed and fingerprinted, said Munoz. But if its a large party with maybe more juveniles than the police want to bring to the station, then the parents are called and theyre released at the scene. In both cases, the incident is documented, and the youth are released to their parents, eventually.
Once busted, the police, court and schools begin to work together to limit the chance of the youth becoming a repeated offender. Each juvenile MIP arrest or citation is forwarded to Munoz who also contacts the school. Youth and Family Services are also involved with its early intervention program. According to YFS director Cyndy Goodwin, the Island program helps youth complete the program before a judge orders them to do so.
Since we are a small city, its likely a youth case is sent to the Bellevue committee. It could take months before a youth is even seen in court, said Goodwin. Our early intervention program is that police ask the family if they can give the students name to YFS to get the same services on a quicker scale. It shortens the time the kids deal with the issue and court.
If a teen decides against diversion and is convicted of the crime they loose their drivers license for a year. But you dont see that often, said Harnish, who has been counseling Island youth for a decade.
Periodic surveys show Island youth drink consistent with national norms, and there are definitely times when youth get hurt because of alcohol consumption. For instance, an 18-year-old high school student was injured in a roll-over collision in the 6700 block of West Mercer Way around 6:50 p.m. last January after she was drinking at a friends house earlier that afternoon. While the young woman was taken to the hospital for her injuries, she was also later placed under arrest for a DUI. There was also the tragic accident in September 2005 that left one Island teen partially paralyzed and broke anothers leg.
According to Youth and Family Service drug and alcohol counselor Chris Harnish, who works out of the high school, most teens dont get caught when they drink. It was prom last weekend, and while some teens may have celebrated by drinking, the community continues to remind teens of the dangers of alcohol and drug use.
The messages are definitely out there, said Harnish, but what they do with it varies widely.
Harnish said the high school asks students to participate in a anonymous drug and alcohol use survey to gage current use. According to the results of a survey taken in April 2007, about 70 Island seniors, 55 sophomores and less than 10 eighth graders said they had drank alcohol. Conclusions of the survey stated alcohol consumption on the Island is similar to the national norm while marijuana use among high-school students is significantly higher than national norm, particularly among high-school boys.
Some teens say they often drink in the woods or the car before attending an event, such as a basketball game or school dance. There are also the youth that use or experiment with drugs. According to Harnish, those Island teens that choose to use often drink alcohol or smoke marijuana. Methamphetamines, psychedelics and ecstasy are there but just not used by most, he said. Munoz concurred that teens are typically caught for drinking or smoking marijuana by the by police.
According to Harnish, it isnt always the drinking or smoking that is the greatest concern, its the amount of consumption during a night.
Binge drinking is our biggest problem here, he said. Alcohol and marijuana two most popular drugs and while rare to see kid get more than one MIP, we are worried about how much a teen may choose to drink not knowing the consequences.
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AMHERST - Wray Gunn was back at the University of Massachusetts Saturday night, returning to the campus where he was once an athlete, scholar and pioneer.
"I've been back a couple of times in the last few years," said Gunn, the first African-American player in UMass men's basketball history.
A 1952 graduate, Gunn was among several players from the pre-1960 era honored at halftime of the UMass-Boston College game. This was the first of six such nights this season, during which players from various eras will return to help UMass celebrate its 100th season of basketball.
A resident of Sheffield, Gunn's family roots in the Berkshires date back to the Revolutionary War. He has lived in Lee, Stockbridge or Sheffield since 1940.
Gunn was a 5-foot-6 guard for coach Lorin Ball's UMass teams from 1949-52. In baseball, he played second base and hit leadoff for the legendary Earl Lorden, and says he might have been UMass' first black athlete in any sport.
He's "pretty sure" he was the first black player to become captain of a sports team, he said. UMass media relations director Jason Yellin confirmed that Gunn broke the school's color barrier in basketball
"I was lucky enough to make the freshman team, and made the varsity as a sophomore," he said. "I played with Bill Prevey; he was my old 'feed man.'"
Gunn said he was quick enough to make steals, but sometimes went so fast he would miss the layup at the other end. That left Prevey, who was trailing the play, to convert the putback.
"Bill knew enough to follow me," Gunn said.
Prevey and Gunn were among at least 16 former UMass players expected back Saturday night. The oldest from what the school calls its "Classic Era" were 1940 graduate William Walsh, and Ed McGrath, class of '43.
Gunn earned a chemistry degree, with minors in physics and math. He worked as a laboratory technician and quality control director for more than 40 years before retiring in 1996.
Gunn, who acknowledges his age is "about 77 or 78," said the UMass fraternity houses did not begin accepting minorities until his junior year. Even after they began doing so, he didn't join because he couldn't afford it, he said.
"My first dorm room was in Butterfield Hall, Room 101," he said. "There were four of us to a room - myself, a fellow from Athol and two from the Boston area.
"It was the first time they had been this close to a black person, but we did a lot of things together," Gunn said.
Gunn became vice-president of his senior class. He has fond memories of UMass, which he remembers as a campus willing to accept diversity, new as the concept was in the early 1950s.
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Statements made by former Warren County employees revealing years of suspicion that ex-Sheriff Edward Bullock had a perverted interest in young boys carry potentially heavy weight in civil litigation against Bullock and the county, according to legal experts.
The experts, including one with experience in similar lawsuits, agreed the county appears vulnerable as the statements indicate those in a position of authority knew -- or should have known -- Bullock may have been preying on children but took no steps to prevent it.
"It's very significant that people would come forward," said Jeffrey Fritz, a Philadelphia-based attorney who represented numerous victims in the Jerry Sandusky case at Penn State. "It's the smoking gun."
Anthony Bocchino, a law professor at Temple University and civil procedure expert, agreed.
"One would think they could make out the claim against the county without too much trouble," he said.
Allegations resurface
Bullock, now 86, took over the sheriff's office in 1982 and ultimately left in disgrace. He resigned in 1991 amid charges he tried to curry sexual favors from an undercover New Jersey State Police trooper at the Phillipsburg Mall.
Bullock, formerly of Phillipsburg, pleaded guilty to a charge of official misconduct and served nine months in the Hunterdon County Jail.
He faded from the public eye until 2012, when allegations of sexual abuse were made in a tort claim, a legal notice generally filed leading up to a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in April 2013.
Spurred by the civil action, prosecutors launched a criminal investigation and a grand jury indicted Bullock in February on three counts each of aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault. Prosecutors say he began sexually abusing the victim, a then 10-year-old boy, in December 1986 and the abuse continued for more than a year.
Bullock, who now lives in Ocean County, New Jersey, has pleaded not guilty to the charges and remains free on $100,000 bail.
Together, the charges and civil lawsuit have brought renewed focus on Bullock's tenure as sheriff and county officials' handling of a scandal involving him then.
In a three-part series published earlier this month in The Express-Times, former Warren County officials told the newspaper they had suspicions about Bullock dating to the 1980s, and a former freeholder said he privately raised concerns then that Bullock might expose the county to liability.
In statements to a private detective working for the plaintiff -- the transcripts of which were obtained by the newspaper -- a former sheriff's officer also expressed a belief there was a "general knowledge" of Bullock's alleged behavior, yet "no one seemed to care" and it became a running joke among staffers.
'Problem in the sheriff's office'
Bocchino, who said he knew of the case based only upon media reports, called the claims "incredible."
"Given the facts laid out in articles, it doesn't seem like there's much question there was a problem in the sheriff's office there," he said. "It's incredible to me. This whole story is incredible to me that this was allowed to go on."
A secretary for Bullock's attorney, Brian White, declined comment on the lawyer's behalf and Jerald Howarth, the attorney representing Warren County in the civil litigation, did not return a phone message.
Mark Crawford, director of the New Jersey Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said the parallels are stark between what is alleged to have happened in Warren County and previous high-profile sexual abuse scandals involving the Catholic church, Penn State and the Boy Scouts.
People are often hesitant to be a whistleblower, particularly if the person is in a position of authority or is well respected within the community, Crawford said. There can be additional concerns over bad publicity being brought upon the organization, he said.
"Whenever you have an institution that has a vested interest in keeping a reputation, people tend to look the other way," Crawford said. "Instinctively, they try to protect their own reputation, so to speak, instead of doing the right thing.
"It appears this may be one of those examples," he said.
Kenneth Lanning is a former FBI agent, who worked in the agency's behavioral science unit, and authored the book, "Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis." He said cover-ups or cases of people looking the other way often come down to two factors: ignorance and damage control.
"These are two predominant ones that seem to explain why so many organizations do such a poor job of dealing with this," he said.
'Nice guy' molesters
Lanning said he does not know the facts of the Bullock case but could speak generally to molesters and their victims.
According to Lanning, sexual predators come in various forms. But unlike an abusive family member or a stranger who kidnaps a child, the hardest type of abuser for people to understand -- and the one who often gets away with it the longest -- is the "nice guy" acquaintance, he said.
They can be priests, babysitters, teachers or coaches -- people who are around children frequently and develop a relationship with them and their families.
"It's all very troubling for people because they want to believe these predators are dirty old men wearing raincoats with hunchbacks and pockmarks rather than to believe he's someone who was likeable and works with kids," Lanning said.
In statements to a private detective working the civil case, one former sheriff's officer said Bullock would send her to the deli to buy boys cigarettes. Another officer said he would take boys fishing and buy them "whatever they needed."
Lanning said abusers often are able to manipulate and "groom" their victims, spending time with them, taking them on trips and showering them with gifts and attention.
Often, he said, the nicer someone is, the longer they get away with their crimes.
"If the acquaintance is in a position of authority then they have added leverage," Lanning said. "Any adult can do this to any child but being in a position of authority makes it a little easier."
Civil case stayed
Currently, the civil litigation facing Bullock and Warren County has been stayed until the criminal charges against the former sheriff are resolved.
Fritz, who previously served as president of the National Crime Victim Bar Association, said that is not unusual. But regardless of how the criminal proceedings play out, it's unlikely the civil case would be negatively impacted from the plaintiff's perspective.
If Bullock were to be acquitted at trial, the verdict would not be allowed to be introduced in the civil proceedings, Fritz said. On the flip side, "if (Bullock's) convicted, he's automatically liable," he said.
Bucchino said he believes a conviction could influence the county's decision about whether to fight the civil case.
"I think it would impact it in the sense that one would think the county would then settle the case," he said.
While he made clear he does not know Warren County's position on the matter, Fritz said it is possible county lawyers may contest the suit based on New Jersey's statute of limitations.
New Jersey has no statute of limitations for criminal sexual assault of victims less than 13 years old. But a civil complaint is more ambiguous.
According to the state Child Sexual Abuse Act, a complaint must come two years after a victim makes a "reasonable discovery of the injury and its causal relationship to the act of sexual abuse."
"If the county is saying it's too late to bring the case, and I would expect them to make the argument, whether the requirements are met under the Child Sexual Abuse Act would be decided by a judge before it reaches a jury," he said.


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The second was the setup. Crowded House percussionist Matt Sherrod had two drum machines and an Alesis synthesizer attached to his kit. Mark Hart ran his slide guitar through an array of effects. And an easy arm's reach from head honcho Neil Finn stood a vocoder.
The frontman used it.
Crowded House, makes music of towering beauty. However, Neil Finn's band, which will be at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair this Friday and the House Of Blues in Atlantic City on Saturday, isn't best understood as a soft-rock outfit. Finn's songs are gorgeous listening, but not "easy" listening -- especially if you truly concentrate on them. The emotional intensity of his songwriting can be overwhelming. Finn doesn't write background music. He intends for you to fall in love with his melodies, and falling in love is an active process. Even as his music is dreamlike, he means for you to be awake.
He's also stayed restless, continually pushing himself. Monday night's two-and-a-half hour show at Bowery Ballroom -- the first of three scheduled for New York City's intimate stage -- contained plenty of singalong hits, including "It's Only Natural," "I Feel Possessed," "Fall At Your Feet", and "Don't Dream it's Over," the song by which most Americans know him. But it also frequently erupted into fiery psychedelia. Lengthy instrumental sections connected the songs; Finn frequently took exploratory leads on his Korg synth; Hart's effect-drenched tone felt like a fevered sonic hallucination. Songs from 1993's "Together Alone," the last album Crowded House made before their initial breakup (they're since reconvened, with different personnel, after the death of original drummer Paul Hester) proved to be particularly fertile territory for these excursions. A transition between "Private Universe" and "Black And White Boy" -- both from "Together Alone" became a launching pad for one of Finn's many frenzied guitar solos.
Neil Finn, guitar hero? Well, why not? His love for melody is well-established, but he's always been fascinated by sound, too. His guitar tone, bell-clear with a hornet's sting, lends itself to soloing; his musical intelligence and imagination ensures that his leads will be fascinating to follow. In between songs -- when the colored lights stopped swirling and the spell faded away -- the New Zealander was his usual amicable self, kidding around with bassist Nick Seymour, asking the New York crowd about Rudolf Giuliani, telling slightly racy jokes.Then the music would start again, and he was once more a man possessed, playing and singing with the fervor of a penitent.
Neil Finn first came to international prominence in Split Enz, his older brother's band. The younger Finn was expected at first to be a complementary part, but he wrote the Enz's biggest hit. Later, big brother Tim returned the favor, collaborating with Neil on "Woodface," Crowded House's best-loved full-length set. Split Enz and Crowded House are two chapters in the story of a remarkable tribe: the musical first family of New Zealand, and maybe Australia, too. Neil Finn was joined on the Bowery stage by his son Liam Finn (a popular recording artist in his own right), who added his voice to two stately rockers from Crowded House reunion set "Time On Earth," and his wife Sharon, who sang backup on two more from the recently released "Intriguer."
"Stranger Than Fiction," Mike Chunn's poetic book about Split Enz and New Zealand rock, suggests that the Finn brothers were, like all residents of small Te Awamutu, deeply affected by their proximity to the sea. Crowded House can sound positively oceanic -- the music crests and swells; it contains hidden mysteries; it speaks to the spirit. James "Lawrence Arabia" Milne, another New Zealander, also seems smitten by natural forces. The engaging opener and his band, the Prime Ministers, played a thirty-minute set of well-written, spectral folk-rock decorated by eerie multi-part falsetto harmonies. Lawrence Arabia and the Prime Ministers would occasionally strip all of the instrumental accompaniment away, and let the high, haunting voices fill the hall. Still, the band was at its best when they rocked a bit, as they did on "Fine Old Friends," a standout cut on "Chant Darling," their fine debut set.
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Love is All That Remains
Four Seasons in One Day
(We're Not) The Jet Set
When You Come
Distant Sun
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The first trial Thursday will feature co-hosts Dana Perino (press secretary for President George W. Bush), Lewis Black, D.L. Hughley, public radio host Kurt Andersen and "Daily Show" correspondent Larry Wilmore. Video packages by the Onion will be included. Issues to be debated include the role of the news media, the economy, President Obama's performance and the culture wars. Guests for specific topics will include former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. The show also will feature stand-up performances.
"So many late-night shows are single-person and host-driven," Morton said. "But you can plug various talent into this format."
The Aspen experiment also is a sign of the times. With cutbacks in the development and pilot process, the producers decided to take matters into their own hands by taping the show with the goal of showing it around town themselves.
The festival, which runs through Sunday, also will host various sessions about hot topics in media and entertainment including blogging, "Content of the Future," "The TV Crack-Up" and Twitter. Speakers include Michael Eisner, Bob Pittman, Steve Brill, Michael Kinsley, Norman Pearlstine, Walter Isaacson, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton and TV executive Michael Jackson.
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ISHPEMING - Baseball pitchers toss shutouts. Hockey goalies will stop every shot they see. And even football teams occasionally keep the opposition from scoring.
But it's not supposed to happen in basketball.
It did for a quarter on Friday night in Ishpeming's 46-28 victory over Negaunee that gave the Hematites their fourth straight MHSAA Class C district tournament title.
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Ishpeming High School junior Jessica Spencer (34) tries to dribble past Negaunee High School senior Rosalie Anderson (42) during the second quarter of the Class C District finals Friday at IHS. Ishpeming won, 46-28. (Journal photo by Adelle Whitefoot)
In that time, Ishpeming hasn't won a Mid-Peninsula Conference championship, thus entering as an underdog for what is yearly an all-M-PC tourney.
But the Hematites have put the "second season" first on their calendar over and over again.
"We haven't won a league title since the 1970s," said IHS first-year coach Tom Graves. "One of our goals was to win the conference, but I told the girls we have other goals we can attain."
With the score tied 14-14 to begin the third quarter, Graves immediately had his girls employ a somewhat risky - but what proved to be strangling full-court press - on the Miners when they brought the ball up court.
It turned into a big fat zero for Negaunee on the scoreboard in the third quarter as Ishpeming built a 26-14 lead heading into the fourth.
Though Ishpeming had applied some backcourt pressure to Negaunee in the first half, the second half was pressure turned up to another level.
Generally, three Hematites defenders stayed home, at least one hounding the inbounder and double teams converging on whomever had the ball. Occasionally, the double team would turn into a triple team.
"We really wanted to get on the initial inbound pass," Graves said. "What we were doing was just a man, trapping press.
"We wanted to get on Aleda Johnson, maybe rattle her, since she's a freshman."
Johnson had been the hero of the past two games for the Miners, making a total of 23 out of 24 free throws in those contests.
On Friday, she went to the line just once, making 1 of 2 early in the fourth quarter when the Hematites already had a double-digit lead.
The pressure wasn't meant to create steals, but simply to impede the progress of Negaunee's ballhandlers, according to Ishpeming junior and leading scorer Jessica Spencer.
"The plan was to put a lot of pressure on them and not let them get any openings," said Spencer, who despite struggling with her offense in the first half ended as the game's leading scorer with 14 points.
Graves said players like Spencer and fellow junior Kaylie Engler, both the tallest on the squad at 5-foot-9, could create havoc for a smaller player like Johnson, who is only listed at 5-3.
Those "trees" didn't have to defend so closely that they would draw repeated fouls, and it was actually the Miners who were called for enough fouls to put Ishpeming in the bonus for nearly the entire fourth quarter and the double bonus for the game's final four minutes.
It thwarted Negaunee's strategy of fouling Ishpeming down the stretch - that and good free-throwing shooting by the Hematites.
"The name of the game is making free throws," Graves said.
To the tune of 12 of 16 in the fourth quarter by IHS, including 5 of 6 by both Spencer and junior teammate Tammy Simula.
Negaunee coach Brandon Sager conceded Ishpeming played a better game Friday.
"We got outplayed, flat outplayed, tonight," he said. "But my girls left it all out on the floor. It wasn't for a lack of effort that we came up short.
"I think we got a little rattled. We had some opportunities when the game was close to make, but we missed a few layups off of our steals."
Ishpeming just seemed a step ahead of the Miners all game.
Though Negaunee jumped out to a 7-2 lead about four minutes in, the Hematites rediscovered a post-up game with their lone senior, Gabby Croley.
She was fed several passes inside, needing to just take a step or turn around for a relatively easy layin.
"We went to isolating me in the post. I knew I could get inside with my height advantage on all their players," the 5-7 Croley said.
In the second half, she served as a last line of defense in case the Miners broke the double- and triple-teaming in the backcourt.
Simula scored 11 points and Engler 10 for Ishpeming (16-6), which opens regional play against St. Ignace (20-2) at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday in Escanaba.
For Negaunee (12-10), Johnson finished with team highs of 13 points and eight rebounds.
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With wiretaps and surveillance, law enforcement officers tracked three Cleveland-area residents to the hub of what authorities believe was a huge, drug-smuggling operation along the Canadian border.
Officers listened and watched as the trio planned trips to northern New York, a Drug Enforcement Administration special agent said this month in a federal complaint.
The mission of each trip: To bring 100 pounds of hydroponic marijuana back to Ohio, authorities said.
Konstantin Sorin and Ashley Schmid of Beachwood and Mark Veverka of Willoughby face charges of attempted marijuana possession after being nabbed June 14 in Franklin County, N.Y. Five New Yorkers also were charged in the sting, which prosecutors say involved millions of dollars' worth of pot that came through the border-straddling St. Regis Mohawk Reservation.
The building blocks for the bust, announced Wednesday, trace back two years and 500 miles to Northeast Ohio. What began in suburban Beachwood and Reminderville as a quiet investigation of alleged Russian mob nudged officials toward a flourishing drug ring.
The local probe continues, with more charges likely, but authorities are astounded by what their digging already has uncovered, Beachwood Police Chief Mark Sechrist said Thursday.
"I hesitate to limit it to one group," Sechrist said. "I'm not saying there are not Russians involved, but we don't want to get so narrow-minded."
But the Russian angle is what got the ball rolling, said Franklin County District Attorney Derek Champagne, who heaped praise on the Beachwood and Reminderville police.
"I will confirm that we needed a Russian translator at one point," Champagne said.
Prosecutors believe regular shipments of marijuana came through New York's North Country and into Cleveland. Early in their investigation, Beachwood and Reminderville police identified a Stockholm, N.Y., man who was making biweekly deliveries, officials said.
Then, in May 2008, the deliveryman was murdered, Champagne said. So the Northeast Ohio trio began driving to New York to pick up the drugs themselves, he added.
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But two other political newcomers, Anne Lauritzen and Deborah Sweaney, battled their way onto fall ballot by winning Democrat nominations, along with Baldwin and Guillaume, creating a six-person field for the general election.
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Sitting Badly Isn't Magically Healthy by Calling It a Hamstring Stretch
You already know that sitting bent over your desk, steering wheel, and computer is unhealthy for your back. Then you go to the gym and sit bent over to touch your toes to stretch. It is the same bad bending. It is not magically different or healthy because it is called a stretch.
Sitting and leaning forward to touch toes, even with your back straight, is a common contributor to lower back pain. It may stretch your back and legs, but sitting, especially sitting bent forward puts high forces on the discs of your lower back.
The sitting hamstring stretch also practices the same bad bent forward posture that you already are probably overdoing at your computer, desk, and other daily activities. Modern lifestyle predominantly favors being bent forward, overstretching your back and tightening the front of your body until it becomes natural to slouch forward and uncomfortable to stand straight. Lower back discs become increasingly squashed and pressed outward from all the forward bending. It starts feeling "normal" to stand and move with your back rounded in unhealthy position.
Sitting and bending forward is not even the most effective way to stretch your hamstrings, even though it is a common stretch, and has been done for many years. Many things that are common and traditional are also not healthy, like smoking and hostility. Use healthy ways instead. The previous post Healthier Hamstring Stretching shows one easy effective hamstring stretch. Posts to come will show many more.Check back often.
Every day in my Sports Medicine practice, I see patients who are instructors of yoga, Pilates, and aerobics with ongoing back pain from doing bad stretches. They say they need the stretch because their back hurts. Then they learn that much of their pain is from the stretch. When they realize this, they smile, stop the bent over stretches, both sitting and standing. I show them more effective hamstring stretches to do instead. They quickly become more flexible from the better stretches, and the pain stops that they were getting from pressuring their discs and lower back with sitting bent forward. Have fun using your brain for stretching, and putting health back into fitness.
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