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PITTSBURGH -- Home ice has meant everything in the Stanley Cup finals.
The Detroit Red Wings can only hope that trend continues in Friday's winner-take-all Game 7 at Joe Louis Arena.
The Red Wings had a chance to wrap up their second straight title Tuesday in Game 6, but the Cup was kept under wraps because the desperate Pittsburgh Penguins dominated early and held on late, getting strong goaltending from Marc-Andre Fleury to edge the Red Wings 2-1 at Mellon Arena and tie the series 3-3.
The home team has won all six games thus far.
"We knew they playing unbelievable in their home rink,'' Detroit forward Darren Helm said. "We just didn't come out with the effort we should have.''
Pittsburgh outshot Detroit 12-3 in the first period and 24-12 through two periods, getting goals from Jordan Staal (51 seconds into the second) and Tyler Kennedy (5:35 of the third) to take a 2-0 lead before the Red Wings got untracked.
Highlights of the Pittsburgh Penguins' victory Tuesday over the Detroit Red Wings in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals:
Key play: Tyler Kennedy knocked in a shot from the side of the net to give the Penguins a 2-0 lead at 5:35 of the second period. It proved to be the winning goal.
Hero: Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, pulled after allowing five goals the previous game, made 25 saves, including 13 in the third period when the game was on the line.
Goat: The pressure seems to be getting to Marian Hossa, who didn't generate much (no points, one shot) and has no goals and only three assists in the series.
Analysis: The Red Wings aren't accustomed to seeing a team have so much puck possession time against them. The Penguins have done a good job controlling the tempo in the games they have won. It is surprising that Detroit has only 10 more shots in six games. Pittsburgh's defense is doing a good job moving the puck quickly, not giving the Red Wings a lot of time in the offensive zone.
"I thought they were better than us at the start of the game, probably for the first almost 32 minutes,'' Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "They won more races and more battles, had more play, were on top of us more, and they kept us to the outside.
"I thought we started to build some momentum at the end of the second period, and then ob viously we had a good third period.''
But it wasn't good enough.
Kris Draper cut the Penguins' lead to 2-1 at 11:59 of the third period with his first goal of the playoffs. He corralled the rebound of a shot from the point by Jonathan Ericsson and fired it past Fleury.
Detroit had an excellent chance to tie it in the final two minutes, but Fleury stopped Dan Cleary on a breakaway. The Red Wings then pulled goalie Chris Osgood for the extra attacker and pressured the Penguins, getting several scoring chances, but they couldn't convert.
"They kept it very simple. They took the red line and dumped it in,'' Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall said. "And then they went really hard forechecking. We weren't able to get the puck out as quick as we were able to a lot of times. They got a lot of shots, maybe not that many scoring chances, but a lot of grind time in our zone.''
The Penguins needed to kill off two penalties in the last 11 minutes of the third period -- a cross-checking call on Evgeni Malkin and a high-sticking call on Bill Guerin -- to preserve the win.
"They took it to us pretty good for two periods,'' Osgood said. "I was just trying to give us a chance at the end, trying to keep it as close as I could for as long as I could, hoping the tide would turn. I did a bit at t he end, but not enough.
"They dumped pucks, put us on our heels. We couldn't generate offensively, just couldn't get to the net.''
Kennedy put the Penguins ahead 2-0 by knocking the puck past Osgood from the side of the net.
"He's got pretty good hands. He tried to jam it and he saw that he had more time because there was nobody there so he stick-handled out a little bit and put it far side, just inside the post,'' Osgood said. "He made a great play. It's my job to get to the post as fast as I can. He sees that he has time because there are three guys behind (the net).''
The Penguins struck fast in the second period, as Staal scored at the 51-second mark, knocking in his own rebound during a two-on-one break with Matt Cooke. Staal created the odd-man rush by knocking the puck past Valtteri Filppula at the Pittsburgh blue line. Brett Lebda was caught up ice, leaving only Ericsson behind to defend.
"He had an open net,'' Osgood said. "He rocketed it off my chin, the first (shot) and it bounced right back onto his stick. I tried to dive across to get it and it just nicked the bottom of my glove.
"When it's 0-0 and you're kind of on your heels for 25 minutes you can't be giving up two-on-one's. You try to keep it 0-0 for as long as you can."
Henrik Zetterberg was the Red Wings' most dangerous player. Paired once again with Pavel Datsyuk, they teamed up for two excellent scoring chances in the first period. Zetterberg rattled a shot off the goal post late in the second period.
"We had enough desperation, we wanted to win this badly,'' Zetterberg said. "We can't forget we're playing a good team, too.''
The Red Wings, however, were better in the regular season. That is why they will host the seventh game.
"That's something we've been fighting for all year, to gain that home-ice advantage,'' captain Nicklas Lidstrom said. "Now you want to take advantage of it.''

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TUSCALOOSA -- Alabama guard Mikhail Torrance waits for free throws, if only to notice if opposing players have hands on their knees.
"That's how we know we've got them," Torrance said with a smile.
First-year coach Anthony Grant promised an up-tempo style for a traditionally slow-paced basketball program, and for the most part he's delivered. The Crimson Tide uses a full-court press defensively and pursues transition buckets offensively.
But the nature has gone against perception. Do not confuse "up-tempo" with the term "run-and-gun."
Despite its quick pace, Alabama (12-7, 2-3 SEC) ranks 10th in the SEC in scoring offense heading into tonight's 7 o'clock rematch with LSU (9-10, 0-5) at Coleman Coliseum. The difference this year has been on the other end of the floor, where the Crimson Tide now ranks third in the league.
"I think our defense has given us chances in every game that we've played," Grant said.
UA presses not only to force opponents into mistakes but to speed up offensive decisions with less time on the shot clock.
"Every day he hollers about, 'Defense wins the game,'" guard Senario Hillman said. "Everybody is buying into it, and we work real hard on defense. We try to wear them down, get their guards tired and just get up in them. ... We can see the difference in the second half."
The Crimson Tide has held its opponent below 40 percent shooting in four of five SEC games. Mississippi State was the SEC's best 3-point shooting team but was only 2 of 18 in Saturday's 62-57 defeat. LSU scored only 18 first-half points while losing to Alabama 66-49 on Jan. 9 in Baton Rouge.
"It's a combination of things," Grant said. "Sometimes other teams are missing, but I do think our guys are giving good effort. I think we understand the intensity that we have to play with against the competition that we're playing against every night."
Last season, the Crimson Tide held a league opponent below 40 percent only three times in 18 games.
So what's the difference?
"It's just effort," Hillman said.
"A total difference," Torrance said. "Everybody is having so much fun this year. We're an athletic team, and we actually get a chance to show how athletic we are, because we get a chance to press and run and show what we can do on offense. Last year was so slow tempo and half-court, it wasn't playing to our strengths."
While pleased with the defensive numbers, Grant warns: "The truth of the matter is that we could come out this week and not play well defensively. We have nothing figured out."


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New principal is selected for Woodinville High School
Vicki Puckett, currently principal of Black River High School in the Renton School District, has been selected as the new principal for Woodinville High School. She will replace Jan Peterson, interim principal, who has chosen to return to her role of vice-principal.
Ms. Puckett is no stranger to the Northshore School District. In the late 1980's, she taught at Canyon Park Junior High, and developed a pilot program at all junior highs to meet the needs of at-risk severe behavior disability students. She also worked as Northshore's Extended Year Coordinator, facilitating the summer school program. Vicki and her husband Blake, principal of Woodmoor Elementary, live in Woodinville. They have two grown children.


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Many pitfalls with per-mile vehicle tax
In response to James W. Whitty's Sept. 30 op-ed column recommending a per-mile fee for vehicles instead of raising gas taxes, I offer these point-by-point responses to his arguments:
- I believe the reduction in gas tax revenues has resulted from a reduction in miles driven as a result of the slumping economy. A quick Internet search indicates Americans are driving billions of miles per year less.
- The infrastructure needed to collect a mileage fee for every car would be huge and expensive.
- The privacy of such a tracking system concerns me greatly. I refuse to get an E-Z Pass for that reason.
- How do you collect a per-mile fee on my 1965 Dodge? Make me buy something to do it?
- I don't need another utility bill. Tax at the pump gets the money immediately.
- How will they monitor the miles traveled for a flat rate?
- Fuel-efficient vehicles would fill up the roads less quickly without the incentive of higher fuel prices/taxes. The price of gas would be cheaper and the environment would suffer!
I travel more than 30,000 miles a year in a diesel car that averages 45 mpg. Diesel already has a higher tax than gas. Cars are smaller and lighter today and have less impact on the infrastructure.
Maybe such a fee for the scarce plug-in car is warranted, but they are paying taxes on electricity. Plug-ins have severe travel limitations, thus fewer miles to charge for.
Superintendent's cash payout makes no sense
Nazareth School Superintendent Victor Lesky has a current salary of $149,708 and is receiving a $53,892 cash payout as a way of "encouraging long-term employees to retire and be replaced by lower salaried ones."
If that's the case, then the new superintendent's salary should be no more than $95,892. Otherwise, the amount of the payout defeats the purpose of the payout.
Maybe it's time for the Nazareth Area School Board to revisit their pension payouts and give taxpayers a break.
School districts refuse to see the need for sacrifice
Thank you for the Sept. 28 editorial regarding the Nazareth Area School District. You were 100 percent right. We won't be one bit surprised if the next superintendent will be hired at the same or higher salary that Vic Lesky is receiving. That would be true to form in Nazareth.
Kay Kondash (letter, Aug. 30) referred to our exceptionally overpaid teachers as gifts and challenged others to walk in their shoes. She obviously hasn't walked in the shoes of people who have lost their manufacturing jobs to imports or the many seniors choosing between eating and meeting their monthly bills.
We're hoping not to receive one of those types of blessings as a new superintendent. People make this school district out to be perfect. We have experienced it first-hand, and it's not.
Our plea is to change the school board. Now is our chance to make some fiscal changes. We must. If not, the day may come when most of us will no longer be able to pay.
You can't take everyone's property to sheriff sales. Then the blessings won't get their paychecks, either. It's time for school districts to really sacrifice as the rest of us have had to do.
Bushkill Township
Wallet caper shows some people still have integrity
I read with dismay The Express-Times article about the now deservedly former Easton police officer who failed to report a wallet that was turned in to him.
Almost lost in this sordid story is the fact that someone who remains anonymous found the wallet of a stranger containing $375, but instead of pocketing this substantial amount of cash, tried to do the right thing by turning it in to the authorities.
This "random act of kindness," I believe, helps reaffirm that there is still much good in our society and many good people. Thank you, kind stranger!
U.S. still in denial about morality of Vietnam War
The bill of fare of the corporate press makes constant use of the psychological defense mechanism of denial (i.e., the refusal to acknowledge painful facts, feelings, memories etc.). The latest example is David Sarasohn's Oct. 1 column: "To the considerable relief of a people who grew up watching for nuclear missiles in the skies, we no longer have the Cold War."
He left out a minor detail which is what Daniel Berrigan referred to in his book, "Uncommon Prayer" as "Hounds of hell, hungry for human meat, their noses point one way. The day they long for, the day they bring nearer is named Doom."
The H-bomb tipped rockets that sit in silos in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Russia, China, Israel, Great Britain, France, Pakistan and India await flying orders that will come "sanely down the chain of command" (Merton, "A Devout Meditation On The Sanity of Eichmann").
Recently, The Express-Times ran three or four pages of text and photos of the funeral of one of our fighter pilots who "served his country" in Vietnam. The country has been in denial about the legality and morality of the Vietnam debacle from the non-incident of the Gulf of Tonkin to the present.
I wonder how many still think of the naked little Vietnamese girl running away from her village, screaming, who had just been napalmed by one of our "heroes."
As Tom Leherer wrote in one of his songs of the Sixties: "Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? I'm learning Chinese, says Werner von Braun!"
Ask Sen. Casey to vote for the Fair Farm Bill
It's a definite problem when small and medium-sized farmers can't make ends meet because of decades of bad food policy which favor large farms and agribusinesses. It's an even bigger problem when consumers can't get healthy, pesticide-free produce and meats, especially with the number of recalls just in the past few months.
The Fair Farm Bill, also known as the GIPSA (Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration) rule, needs to be implemented to prevent small and medium farms from becoming extinct. Consumers need and deserve the choice to provide their families with safe, healthy, and fresh food from sustainable farms.
Many Food and Water Watch volunteers, my husband and I included, helped generate more than 300 phone calls from the Lehigh Valley/Kutztown area to Sen. Robert Casey's office on Tuesday and at least 830 calls statewide, which far exceeded the goal of 200 for the Lehigh Valley and 600 for the state.
Casey, D-Pa., a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, needs to stop waiting on the sidelines by not actively supporting small and medium farmers, consumers and the GIPSA rule. The goal by calling was to get him to actively fight for the farmers and consumers of Pennsylvania.
Advocates of local, sustainable food sources need him to step up to the cause and do what is best for farmers and consumers and not the almighty dollar. In fact, we need him to do the right thing for the future of food.
Pen Argyl
'Bill's Benefit' a tribute to many
We wish to thank the sponsors and friends who helped make Bill's Blazing Benefit, held Sept. 24 at Nancy Run Firehouse, such a huge success.
We appreciate donations by Chick-fil-A, Texas Roadhouse, Bethlehem Deli, Red Robin, Coca-Cola and Bud Light. A special thanks to local businesses and people who created appealing baskets and donated gift certificates for our raffle, along with the talented entertainers.
This event could not have run so smoothly without the direction of Deb Boyer. We also wish to recognize the members of "Team Williams" for their dedication and drive in making a conversation into a reality.
Bill's Blazing Benefit highlighted the importance of family and friends as they came together to let the Williams family know they are not alone in this fight. We are extremely grateful to all who went above and beyond anyone's expectations to make this benefit possible.
Palmer Township
Bethlehem Township
Don't forget to spay, neuter pets
Anyone who adopted a pet this summer and hasn't had it spayed or neutered, please don't wait. If a pet is 6 months old, call 908-689-4425 and purchase a low cost certificate and get it done now.
A thousand innocent loving pets are killed every day in New Jersey because they are unwanted and are dropped off at a shelter, or they are abandoned, only to die of starvation or killed by a car or picked up by animal control. In some places, if the shelter is full, after seven days they are euthanized.
If you do not intend to give a new pet a home for life, please for the sake of the animal, do not adopt or purchase it. It does not need a short-term home.
Warren Hills Animal Society Inc.


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News out of New York has Penn Station shut down Wednesday night due to what is being called a switching problem, and no trains are able to arrive or depart from the terminal.
The malfunction comes on one of the busiest nights of the year for traveling, and thousands of Thanksgiving commuters are finding their plans for the holiday put on immediate hold.
He also said "I have no way to know how long it's going to take" to clear things up."
On Twitter, Amtrak issued a statement at 6:50 p.m. saying that that all runs to and from New York would be delayed by 60 to 90 minutes due to a commercial power failure.
The delay would appear to affect three trains involving Springfield. Two are due to arrive at Penn Station at 8:50 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. Wednesday night, while another from New York is scheduled to arrive at the Amtrak terminal on Lyman Street in Springfield at 10:10 p.m.
WNBC 4 New York is reporting that police were not allowing anyone else to enter Penn Station out of concern for overcrowding.
Dozens of pictures posted on Twitter by people caught in the middle of it all show the terminal packed nearly wall-to-wall with travelers.
"In honor of the busiest travel day of the year, Penn Station decided to indefinitely delay all trains," tweeted Christina Morelli (@the CEOartist).
"Penn Station is a nightmare tonight with delays. It's like a real-life 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles,'" tweeted Jim Norton (@JimNorton).


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SOUTH AMBOY – County officials say that the massive sinkhole that opened on North Stevens Street and Main Street a few weeks ago is almost all fixed.
Richard Wallner, the acting Middlesex County engineer, said that the project should be finished by the end of this week. The sinkhole appeared when a water main broke and washed out a large chunk of the road.
Traffic – including the South Amboy Memorial Day parade – has had to maneuver around the hole since it first appeared.


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Why North Park?
A master of human resource management degree from the School of Business and Nonprofit Management will prepare you to manage a human resources office with a foundation in ethical leadership that will help you lead your organization in retention, benefits, and HR strategy. You'll learn from seasoned faculty—both full-time PhDs and working executives—who will get to know you in small classes so they can help you achieve your goals. Coursework in our fully-accredited program integrates theory with real-life situations to help you develop strategies for success and implement best practices in your human resources career.
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Corey Moore, 24, of Walnut Street in Salem, was arrested Friday evening after being tracked to a Gloucester County hotel, Salem County Prosecutor John T. Lenahan said.
Moore was apprehended by detectives from the Salem County Prosecutor's Office lead by Sgt. Steven Ware along with officials from the U.S. Marshals Service at the Hampton Inn in Logan Township, Lenahan said.
Moore was charged Sept. 30 with murder in connection with the brutal slaying of Angel Montes in his Eighth Street home in Salem earlier this year. Montes was found dead on the morning of Jan. 21. He had been shot multiple times, authorities said.
Since being charged with the murder, Moore has been on the run. He was believed to have been in Penns Grove when the charges were filed and then fled the area, authorities said.
A cooperative effort between Salem County detectives and the U.S. Marshals Service lead to Moore's capture, Lenahan said.
Lenahan said the Salem City Police Department, the prosecutor's office, the FBI and the New Jersey State Police Major Crimes Unit had investigated Montes' killing and came up with evidence that lead them to Moore.
Lenahan also credited local residents with having a key role in the case.
"The general public played a big role in his being charged and with his apprehension," Lenahan said.
The murder of Montes marked the first homicide in Salem County in 2010.
Neighbors of Montes were surprised to hear the news of his death, saying he would pretty much keep to himself at his home on the north end of 8th Street.
Friends said Montes had just started to return work after a serious motorcycle accident on Grant Street in January 2009.
Moore was being held Saturday night in the Salem County Correctional Facility, Mannington Township, in lieu of $800,000 cash bail.
Authorities have not released a motive in the slaying.


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PARIS — Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki will have to wait for her first major title after losing to Daniela Hantuchova 6-1, 6-3 Friday in the third round of the French Open.
The Dane has been No. 1 in the WTA rankings for almost the entire season but never really challenged her Slovak opponent on Court Suzanne Lenglen, having her serve broken five times.
This is the first time in the Open era that the top two seeded women failed to make the round of 16 at a Grand Slam tournament. No. 2 Kim Clijsters lost Thursday.
Sam Stosur, last year's French Open runner-up, was also eliminated, but 2010 champion Francesca Schiavone advanced to the fourth round. On the men's side, 16-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer advanced.
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HOBOKEN Defying the winter storm that battered the area yesterday, the ShopRite at Madison and Ninth streets will open its doors today for the first time since Hurricane Sandy flooded the Mile Square City last October.
"It's very exciting and we're very happy to be back," said Bill Petsch, the store's general manager.
The Hoboken ShopRite has remained closed since Superstorm Sandy sent more than 4 feet of water into the store. Petsch said the damage was so bad that the store had to be gutted. Everything from refrigerators and shelves to walls and electric wiring had to be replaced before the supermarket could reopen, he said.
"This store has been completely remodeled. We had to strip this store down to the studs (framing)," Petsch said, adding that all products, including shopping carts and baskets, have been replaced.
During the store's three-month closure, employees were temporarily transferred to other area stores. Many of those employees returned to the Hoboken store two weeks ago to prep for today's reopening, which will feature a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m.
"We've been looking forward to this for a long time," assistant store manager Bob Dubon said. "We're excited to get rolling. We're looking forward to seeing our customers again."
Both Dubon and Petsch said customers had been calling the store in the past week, asking when it would reopen.
"We're hoping for a big rush," Dubon said of today's reopening, which is not being postponed because of winter storm Nemo.
Petsch added: "The biggest thing for us is to be here for the community. A lot of people have stopped by and they're excited for us to come back."


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Sen. Inouye, A War Hero Who Broke Barriers, Dies At 88
Hide captionSeeking the U.S. Senate seat from Hawaii is Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, shown in this 1962 photo.AP
Hide captionIn this Jan. 9, 1963, file photo, Daniel Inouye takes the Oath of Office as Democratic senator from Hawaii from Vice President Lyndon Johnson in a re-enactment of the swearing in ceremony in Washington, D.C.AP
Hide captionU.S. Rep.-elect Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii and his wife, Margaret, wave as they arrive at Friendship Airport in Washington, D.C., Aug. 9, 1959.AP
Hide captionInouye's wife, Maggie, waves to a neighbor as she, the senator and son Kenny prepare to leave their home, Aug. 4, 1973, in Bethesda, Md.Bill Weems/AP
Hide captionInouye and Sen. John M. Montoya, D-N.M., are shown during the Watergate Senate hearings on Capitol Hill, Aug. 2, 1973.AP
Hide captionPresident Clinton presents the Medal of Honor to Inouye, one of 22 Asian-American soldiers receiving the Medal of Honor for service in World War II, June 21, 2000, at the White House in Washington.Joe Marquette/AP
Hide captionInouye, escorted by Army Gen. Charles Taylor, inspects the troops outside the Pentagon during the annual National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony Sept. 14, 2004. Inouye lost his arm in World War II combat.Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images
Hide captionSecretary of the Army John McHugh greets Inouye before a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee March 21 in Washington, D.C.Win McNamee/Getty Images
Hide captionSenate Appropriations Committee Defense Subcommittee Chairman Daniel Inouye delivers an opening statement during a hearing on the proposed Army budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 on Capitol Hill, May 18, 2011.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Hawaii Democrat Daniel Inouye, the Senate's senior member, died at a Bethesda, Md., hospital Monday. He was 88 years old and was suffering from a respiratory ailment. The Japanese-American was known for his heroism in World War II and for breaking racial barriers.
Born to Japanese immigrants in Hawaii in 1924, the young Inouye dreamed of becoming a surgeon, but world events intervened as he was listening to the radio on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941.
Inouye relayed the story last year on NPR's Tell Me More: "All of a sudden, the disc jockey stopped the music and started screaming: 'The Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor,' " Inouye said. He wanted to enlist — but couldn't at first because Japanese-Americans were classified as "enemy aliens."
"The thought that I was an enemy agent not just insulted and angered me, but, like many of my colleagues, young kids, we decided we'd do something about this," Inouye said. "We began to petition."
They petitioned the president to let them fight for their country. In 1943, he joined a Japanese-American unit sent to Europe and saw heavy combat. In Italy, he personally stormed three German machine gun nests, taking them out but losing his right arm in the process. Half a century later, Inouye and 22 other Asian-American World War II vets received the Medal of Honor for bravery in the battlefield.
"We had an extra burden because it was not only serving our nation in uniform but also proving and demonstrating a loyalty, which I'm glad to say my country has said we did," Inouye said.
After the war he went to law school and then got into politics. When Hawaii became a state in 1959, Inouye was elected to the House and three years later to the Senate.
In Congress, he kept a low profile until the Watergate hearings made him a star. When scandal caught up with another Republican president in 1987, Inouye was on TV again, this time chairing the investigation of Iran-Contra — the secret deal by members of the Reagan administration to sell arms to Iran to fund right-wing fighters in Central America.
Inouye used his seniority to send billions in federal projects to Hawaii, and he became even more influential in 2009, when he took over the chairmanship of the all-important Senate Appropriations Committee. He easily won his ninth term in the Senate in 2010 and gave no indication it would be his last.
His death took his Senate colleagues by surprise: "Mr. President, I rise with a real heavy heart. Our friend Dan Inouye just died," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on the floor of the Senate.
Reid recalled Inouye's insistence on serving in World War II: "When asked why he fought the way he did after having been declared an enemy alien, he said he did it for the children. That's Sen. Inouye. His commitment to the nation will never be surpassed. His service in the Senate will be with the greats of this body."
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It's sweet news — homemade peanut butter eggs are making their annual arrival.
Better get them while you can. The seasonal confections are sold individually wrapped in wax paper, plastic bags or colorful foil at churches, convenience stores, gas stations and beauty shops.
This year, fans of the Easter candies might be paying a few cents more to satisfy their cravings. Churches and other non-profit groups that rely on egg sales as fundraisers say they have no choice but to raise the prices on the candy by as much as 25 cents a piece.
Blame the skyrocketing cost of key ingredients like peanut butter, chocolate and cream cheese.
The church is charging $1.25 per egg, up from a $1 last year. Sales will start later this month. They also sell coconut eggs and chocolate covered pretzels, peanuts and raisins.
A year ago the committee paid about $7.99 for a two-jar pack of Jif peanut butter. This year, the price is hovering between $11.99 and $13.99, Shade said.
At Calvary United Methodist Church in Lower Paxton Twp., they also raised the price on the 2-ounce candy eggs in flavors like peanut butter, coconut and butter creme by a quarter — from 75 cents to $1.
"I think we are still the cheapest. We had a really hard time raising it. It has been years since we raised it," said Patty Packer, co-coordinator of the church's candy making committee.
Aside from higher peanut butter costs, the church is paying $5 for its chocolate sold in 50 pound lots and about $1 more per pound of coconut, she said.
Last year, Calvary raised $20,000 through egg sales. The money is mostly funneled into the church's mission committee and donated to food banks and other community groups in the Harrisburg area.
Packer said she anticipates the sales to match last year's sales despite the higher price. Customers know it's a fundraiser and in previous years they often paid the $1 price anyway.
"A lot of times, a lot of people would just give us a dollar. Keep the change," she said.
Penbrook Church of God's Shade said she expects the eggs will continue to sell well. "It's a tradition. Sometimes some things can be more than I want to pay but it's that time of year. It's the only time you'll get it," she said.
The reason for higher peanut butter prices is being blamed on one of the worst peanut harvests in decades in key peanut-producing states such as Georgia, which suffered a hot, dry summer.
In addition, competition from more profitable crops such as cotton have significantly shrunk the U.S. peanut crop this year.
Zimmerman's Nuts and Candies in Penbrook sells its all-natural peanut butter to several local churches for peanut butter eggs.
The peanut butter prices have risen from $1.85 to $2.49 per pound in the past six months and are expected to continue to climb, said Lee Zimmerman, the shop's owner. Many of the churches Zimmerman deals with were afraid to change the prices.
"They come in and ask me and I tell them, 'Don't be afraid to raise your prices,'" he said. "People look forward to these, they really do."
Several churches like Faith United Church of Christ in Grantville decided to hold their candy prices at 75 cents per egg and $9 per dozen.
"I guess they figure with the crunch a lot of people are feeling with the gas prices and the concerns and anxiety around the economy they didn't think they could raise them," said George Robertson, pastor.


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Syracuse, N.Y. — Two retailers from Baldwinsville are planning to open a joint location in downtown Syracuse.
A la Maison, a home decor shop, and The Changing Room, a vintage-inspired clothing retailer, will open in about 1,300 square feet of space at 425 S. Warren St. later in March. The businesses will keep their original locations, too.
The two stores are neighbors in Baldwinsville. Both are located above Olive's Eatery on Syracuse Street.
"We find that a lot of our clients are the same," said Michele Graham, owner of a la Maison. "We thought it would be neat to get space downtown under one roof."
A la Maison carries everything from gifts and rugs to lighting and gourmet specialty foods, Graham said. She's aiming to tap into downtown's professional population with services like gift concierge.
"I just know there's a need," said Graham, who works downtown as an events planner and communications manager for AXA, in addition to owning a la Maison.
Graham and Kathie Morris, owner of The Changing Room, looked at locations throughout downtown. Graham said the Warren Street store front is closer to a number of professional offices than Armory Square.
Morris said the stores should do well downtown. In addition to clothing, The Changing Room carries handbags and other accessories.
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DAVISON, MI -- A Republican state representative who's introduced a bill to give municipalities the power to regulate medical marijuana facilities paid a visit Wednesday, April 2 to a Davison location that could be impacted in the future.
Jamie Fricke, operator of Holistic Earth, the city's first medical marijuana dispensary located off State Road, hosted state Rep. Mike Callton, R-Nashville, giving him a tour of the facility and chatting about House Bill 4271.
"It's designed to establish places like this in the law," said Callton, noting the state's Medical Marihuana Act of 2008 "really only deals with individuals and individual caretakers" and not dispensaries, or provisioning centers as they are labeled in the bill.
Fricke and Callton said following the McQueen ruling, barring patient-to-patient transfers and dispensaries could be declared a public nuisance under the state's health code, hundreds of the facilities closed out of fear.
Callton said those seeking medicine immediately, be it a child suffering from seizures or cancer patients, should be able to obtain it quickly and safely without fear of prosecution. He questioned why bills about medical marijuana are reviewed by committees that don't include health professionals, but focus more on the potential legal aspects.
He noted provisioning centers may still be shut down, if they are creating an issue in a community even after they are approved. The bill would also not allow a center to sell marijuana after March 31, 2015, unless the medication had been tested and cleared of containing mold, fungi, mildew or pesticides.
"There are not enough caregivers or good caregivers," said Callton, with a need for safe, secure places for people to go who have received a prescription from a medical professional.
"These are our friends, relatives, family," he said, citing an instance of a highly regarded orthopedic surgeon in his home area of Barry County between Lansing and Grand Rapids that tested positive for marijuana and lost his practice. "They're not some drug zombies."
Callton said the bill remains under committee review and had no date on when it may go before the state Senate.
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Last night, Joey Terdoslavich went 4-for-4 with three runs scored and an RBI. It was the first time he has amassed four hits this season and the first time completing the feat since 8/25/11 at Myrtle Beach. On the season, Terdoslavich is hitting .314 (89-for-283) with 15 homers and 51 RBI. He has a team-leading .558 slugging percentage and a .907 OPS…
He will lead the Braves as they face Syracuse right-hander Ryan Tatusko on Saturday night. The Chiefs hurler is 1-2 with a 3.08 ERA in 14 games (six starts) this season. Drafted in the 18th round of the 2007 First Year Player Draft out of Indiana State University by Texas, Tatusko began his professional career with the Rangers' organization. After two short seasons with Texas, he was traded to Washington in exchange for Christian Guzman in 2010. He had a breakout season in 2010, going 12-3 with a 2.63 ERA as he split time between Double-A Frisco (Texas) and Harrisburg (Nationals). Baseball America ranked him the 26th– best prospect in the Nationals organization at the end of the season. However, he has scuffled since then, finding little success at any level.
Entering 2013, he has recorded a minor league record of 36-42 with 3.92 ERA in 184 games (90 starts). He can overpower hitters, striking out 527 batters in 664 innings (7.1 SO/9).
Tatusko features a live fastball, clocked in the mid-90's, and three other secondary pitches. His curveball is his second best pitch, throwing it ahead and behind the count. He also throws a changeup and slider, but his fastball is his best pitch.
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Minnesota, a 10-game winner last season by closing the season with four straight wins all as an underdog, appeared in great shape for the 2013 season.
Here was a playoff team, with head coach Leslie Frazier firmly in place, the MVP of the league in running back Adrian Peterson and three, yes three, first-round draft picks.
Compare that to say the Eagles, who won just four games last year, including just one of their final 12, with a new head coach fresh from the college ranks in Chip Kelly and your normal collection of draft picks.
So why, in week 15 of the season, are the Eagles heading to Minnesota as a four-and-half point-favorite and in sole possession of first place in the NFC East, while the Vikings are in last place in the NFC North at 3-9-1, with Frazier in trouble and fans already thinking about next year's draft?
Well, let's go back to that 2013 draft, where the Vikings took three swings in the first round and compare it to what the Eagles did with their first three picks.
Picking fourth overall, because when you're as bad as the Eagles were in Andy Reid's final season you get to pick that high, the Eagles looked over the possibilities and decided to select Lane Johnson, a big, but inexperienced tackle from Oklahoma.
Johnson, like many rookie tackles, had his ups and downs through the first half of the season.
From about Week 9 on, the big man who handles the right edge of the Eagles' line has gotten better and better.
When the All-Rookie team is announced, it would be a shock if he wasn't on it.
"He has gotten better each time he's gone on the field," Eagles offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur said. "You know, he's still a rookie, and there are still some things that he needs to improve, but we feel good about the progress he's making. And he's going to even get better."
The Vikings first, first-round pick was their original pick, No. 23 overall, and they just couldn't pass on defensive lineman Sharrif Floyd, a Philadelphia native who was expected to go much higher. The University of Florida product has not had the year the Vikings or he hoped he would. And maybe that's why the first 22 teams passed.
Floyd may still have a bright future, but his rookie year has been sub-par in Minnesota's 4-3 scheme. Playing inside behind starters Kevin Williams and Letroy Guion through 13 games, he has 14 tackles, two for a loss, two-and-a-half sacks, he's knocked down a pass and he's forced a fumble.
Two picks later, at No. 25 with the pick they acquired from Seattle in the Percy Harvin trade, the Vikings took another player expected to go in the top 20, or even top 15, in Florida State cornerback Xavier Rhodes.
Recently bothered by an ankle injury, Rhodes has started some games, but has played a lot of nickel as well. He has 48 tackles, no interceptions, has 10 pass defenses and a forced fumble. Again, there have been signs of promise, but not the year the team or the player expected.
Not through yet, the Vikings traded back into the bottom of the first round, surrendering four picks (a second-, a third-, a fourth- and a seventh-rounder) to New England for the 29th pick in the draft.
There they selected wide receiver/returnman Cordarrelle Patterson.
Considered talented, but raw, before the draft, Patterson has excelled on returns and is starting to come on as receiver as well. For the year, he leads the league in kickoff returns with 36 returns for an average of 33.3 yards per return and two touchdowns, including a record 109-yard return.
As a receiver, the Vikings have had to find ways to get him the ball, and thus far he has 35 catches for 395 yards and two touchdowns. Six of his 35 catches have been for
20 yards or more.
The Eagles, in the second round, with the 35th pick, didn't "need" a tight end, but couldn't resist Stanford's Zach Ertz, who Kelly knew all too well from coaching against him in the Pac 12.
Ertz, just like Johnson, has gotten better each week and for the season has caught 26 passes for 342 yards and three touchdowns, with seven catches for 20 yards or more, and 17 of his 26 receptions for first downs.
"I think he's a lot like Lane," Shurmur said. "He's a rookie playing quite a few snaps, and he's done a good job with the run-blocking. He did some good things in the run game the other night, and we've seen where he can make plays in the pass game."
Then in the third round, the Eagles finally looked to the defensive side of the ball and came up with defensive lineman Bennie Logan of LSU.
A backup for the first half of the season, Logan showed enough in practice and in the limited time he saw in games that the Eagles traded veteran nose tackle Isaac Sopoaga to New England and promoted Logan.
It might not be a coincidence that the team is 5-0 since Logan became the starter at nose tackle.
For the season, he has 21 tackles, two for a loss, two sacks and a fumble recovery. He also blocked an extra point attempt.
Floyd, Rhodes and Patterson — all in the first round — looked good the night of the draft. Thirteen games into the season, Johnson, Ertz and Logan sure look better.
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Valley's logging era is at an end
Last week's news that Weyerhaeuser Co. was closing the remaining sections of the Snoqualmie mill came as no surprise. Unfortunately, it was a prediction I had made in a previous editorial, with a shorter time frame than I originally expected.
But the news still came as a last reminder that this community once thrived as a logging town. Snoqualmie will always be remembered as a place where log trucks rolled frequently through town; where the shift whistle blew several times a day and where steam and towering smoke stacks rose above the trees.
The logging era in the Valley is officially coming to an end. The scenes of striped shirts, cork boots, suspenders and hard hats will be gone forever. Few, if any, log trucks will grace our community parades.
But we do have memories, and for those fortunate enough to remember all these things, it will always be a logging town.
I was amazed that as the news broke, the first places many news-gathering types went to were local taverns or the Eagles Hall in Snoqualmie. I guess they haven't figured out that the stereotypical logger is long gone. Maybe they should have called them at home, where they may have been talking with their families, trying to figure out what to do next.
The last of our Weyerhaeuser employees are joining the list of the unemployed in Washington state that is growing daily. We are moving from a society that used to make things to one that merely provides services. Unfortunately, those manufacturing are now in other countries, selling to us. But at some point, as our jobs become strictly service-oriented and wages fall, we will no longer be able to buy the goods we want or need. It appears to be a vicious cycle with no end in sight.
I hope the state or federal government steps in to provide retraining services for the future unemployed Weyerhaeuser employees. It seems if we can rattle our sabers for war, we sure as heck can spend a few dollars here at home to help the unemployed.
Maybe we will get lucky and someone will buy the mill and return logging to our area. That direction seems muddy at best right now, but it is a hope. If not, it is likely Weyerhaeuser will develop the land into some kind of industrial park. After all, growth management has assured that there are fewer industrial areas in east King County.
To all those facing the end of their Weyerhaeuser careers, we are thinking of you and hope your career directions turn for the better.
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Listen: Ingrid Michaelson's wrenching new single, 'Ghost'
It's been a while since we've heard from Ingrid Michaelson, but she's back to haunt us with the dramatic "Ghost." She's "broken down the middle of my heart, heart...." from love's disastrous results. She's left to roam the halls with the pieces of her that haven't already died from her lover's negligence.
The string-laden, wrenching track, which premiered on EW.com today, is a stunning return from the New York singer-songwriter and the opening salvo from her David Kahne-produced fourth album, "Human Again," out Jan. 24. Hear it here. If you're having a tough time with your own relationship and need to have a good cry, you'll be sobbing by the time you reach the bridge.
"The album is called 'Human Again' because it's taken me a very long time to be happy," Michaelson says in a press release. "The music on this album might surprise some people. I was really singing out, physically; I was writing about a really dark time in my life."
While the album won't be out until 2012, you can see Michaelson when she performs on the 85th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC, along with Cee Lo, "American Idol' Scotty McCreery, and Avril Lavigne. You are also, undoubtedly, hearing her in the trailer for "Like Crazy," which features her dreamy remake of Elvis's "Can't Help Falling In Love," which originally appeared on her 2008 album, "Be OK."


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MILLBURN — Police have charged a 23-year-old Newark man in connection with two vehicles stolen in Millburn during a recent spate of car thefts and burglaries in the normally quiet suburb.
Nikhil A. James of Newark was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of theft of movable property, conspiring to commit a theft and possession of stolen property, spokesman Lt. Peter Eakley said.
Typically a tranquil town, Millburn has faced a surge of car thefts and burglaries. Just last week, 15 incidents were reported in a two-day span, and two of the four stolen cars were recovered in Newark. There have been more than 40 incidents reported in the last three weeks, Eakley said.
James was arrested Friday in connection with a 2010 Lexus and 2007 Infiniti stolen from Athens Road, said Eakley. Authorities from Millburn and Summit worked together to make the arrest. Police are still searching for other suspects.
Millburn has seen a dramatic spike in car thefts and burglaries with 18 stolen vehicles so far this year. Police have recovered 15 vehicles. There were 14 car thefts reported the entire year in 2010.
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What I thought was going to be a relaxing Christmas day with family and friends, turned into a quick frost cloth mobilization effort to protect the garden vegetables from the snow that is just pouring down here in North Texas.
And although is not one of the prettier pictures that will be taken of our snow dressed yard today, it is my contribution to the food preservation fire drill we had.
I figure, based on the thickness of the cloth, I have about a 6-7 degree warmth buffer that should keep the greens from becoming frosty vegi-sicles.
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The Upper Kali Gandaki is Nepal's second most popular rafting river and provides an exciting three-day itinerary out of Pokhara. Serious whitewater (Class 4-)starts at Beni, and runs down to the usual put-in point near Baglung and on all the way to the take-out at the confluence with the Andi Khola – where a dam puts a stop to the action. This section of water is away from roads and civilization, set in a stunning valley that offers excellent upriver views of the Annapurnas. However, it's a popular stretch of river, and camping beaches are limited in number, well used, and may be squalid. There have been quite a few accidents on this river, so choose your operator carefully.
The Kali Gandaki is probably at its best for rafting at low and medium flows: mid-October to mid-December and March to April. It's a good idea to think about adding this raft trip onto the end of a trek in the Annapurna region. Consider flying to Jomosom, trekking or taking buses and jeeps down the Kali Gandaki to Baglung, and then continuing down the river on a rafting trip – a journey from the highest mountains on earth to the jungle lowlands. You could even carry on from the take-out south on rough roads to Rani Ghat and Tansen.


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UPDATE: Here are the SurveyUSA numbers. It's coupled with a poll that shows Democrat Barack Obama up by 19 points in Oregon. And with both the Obama and Merkley campaign tying themselves so closely together, in their advertising and their field work, you could see how Merkley appears to be benefitting from that strong Obama lead.
Smith dismissed the results of the poll saying he didn't trust SurveyUSA and that his own internal polling shows it closer to the 47-47 tie that Rasmussen Reports found two weeks ago. Merkley said he thought the SurveyUSA poll captured what he said has been a steady rise in support for him over the fall campaign.
According to the new poll, Merkley is clobbering Smith in the Portland area and among women. No surprise in either case given that Democrats usually do better in both of these categories. But the survey also shows Smith only running even among men, which if true is a real problem for the senator.
Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley, seeking to oust Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, now has a 7-point lead, according to a new poll from SurveyUSA.
That's the biggest lead that any pollster has shown for Merkley - and his 49 percent level is the highest he's been in any poll. The survey, reported a while ago on KATU's noon news, shows that Smith has 42 percent and Constitution Party candidate David Brownlow at 5 percent.
SurveyUSA, which hasn't yet reported this poll on its web site, uses automated voices to question voters, a technique many pollsters dislike. Still, SurveyUSA has a pretty good track record in election contests and this poll is yet another indication of the difficult situation that Smith is in. I expect a few more surveys before the election, and we'll see if they show the same trend.


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Warm-up after deep freeze a problem for pipes
Robert VanNatta said the effect of the pipes bursting in his home was like taking a shower in his dining room, with sheets of water cascading down around light fixtures that sent him and his wife, Dorothy, scurrying to find the shut off valve.
"I've never had anything like this happen in all my life," said Robert VanNatta, a retired Methodist pastor from Claysburg. "So this has been a spell. I won't forget this – it is history making in my book."
Robert VanNatta is one of a number of residents to experience pipes bursting as a result of warmer temperatures following this week's polar vortex, which brought wind chills of about 30 degrees below zero to some areas.
He said he was expecting a visit from his insurance adjuster by Thursday evening and hoped the problem would be resolved quickly.
In the meantime, Robert VanNatta, his wife and son are using the bathrooms at a nearby Sheetz gas station and borrowing water from neighbors.
"I'm hoping it's not weeks until we get our water back," Dorothy VanNatta said. "You can't turn anything on because it will come back through the light."
The deep cold was more than enough to freeze some pipes, and many area plumbers are now swamped with calls about fixing the damage.
Charles Kimmen, owner of Kimmen Plumbing and Heating in Altoona, said his company has seen a "massive volume" of calls reporting damage from either frozen pipes or burst pipes over the past three days.
He said he received about 20 calls on Thursday and would normally get about four or five, estimating that the number his company has received during the cold spell was quadruple that of a normal week at this time of year.
"The majority of them weren't even our usual customers but people that were just going down the phone book and calling every plumbing and heating contractor they could," Kimmen said.
Amber Hughes, an administrative assistant at Smithmyer Plumbing and Heating in Altoona, echoed the sentiment, saying that the company has gotten a number of new faces this week.
"I've worked here since 2009," she said, "and this year was the most frozen, broken pipes calls I've ever seen."
And homeowners weren't the only people affected by the warming temperatures.
Lee Bowden, general manager of The Omni Bedford Springs Resort and Spa, said several sprinkler heads burst in the facility, damaging 20 guest rooms.
Half of the soaked rooms are almost ready to be reopened, but the others will require new drywall and other repairs.
Some of the flooding also forced the resort to close the 1796 Room Steak and Chophouse on Wednesday, Bowden said, but the restaurant wasn't severely damaged and opened again Thursday night.
Julia Reusch, a spokesperson for Allstate Insurance, said the insurer could not estimate how many claims reports it received during the deep freeze but said most people should be in the clear if they have not already had issues with their pipes.
The steps to follow if a pipe does burst, Reusch said, are pretty basic. Start by making sure to turn the water off, and shut off the valve on the hot water heater
if the damage is to a hot water pipe.
She said the emergency number for a plumber should be kept somewhere that can easily be found, and not just saved in a cellphone, in case of an emergency.
Once a plumber has been alerted to the situation, Reusch said homeowners can call their insurance agent and will likely be asked to take pictures of damage,
regardless of which company they use.
Reusch also recommended that homeowners catalog their belongings to make a claim easier to file. Allstate offers the Digital Locker smartphone application for free to help make this process more streamlined, and the app is available to those who do not have Allstate insurance.
Kimmen said the most important preventative measure a homeowner can take if very cold temperatures are on the horizon is to be aware of the possible damage that could occur.
A number of calls he received were from people who didn't plan for the deep freeze, he said.
He said sealing up a home against drafts, especially for those who are in older houses,
can help keep the pipes from freezing.
Opening ceiling tiles to allow warm air into that space, if possible, is another precaution. However, Kimmen said there weren't many measures that could be taken when temperatures drop as low as they did this week.
"I've been doing this for 25 years, and I've never seen temperatures this low and this extreme before," Kimmen said.
As for the VanNattas, they're working to limit the damage and taking solace in some small blessings, like the fact that roof or ceilings didn't come down.
"We were glad a neighbor helped us to turn off the water because the ceiling might have caved in," Dorothy VanNatta said. "Thank goodness it's drying. It's always something. You just take it one day at a time."
Mirror Staff Writer Paige Minemyer is at 946-7535.


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About LeCharles Bentley ...
Bentley lost faith in the Browns' medical staff after the infection. He decided to train on his own. The Browns would have preferred that he remain under their care, or at least working out at the Berea facility with their trainers. But Bentley believed it was best for him to do it his way, with his own trainer and doctors.
Bentley had four knee operations to clean up the infection and repair the damaged knee. He wanted to come back last season, but when he was given the same test as last Monday -- running 40-yard dashes -- it was obvious the knee was weak and he wasn't close to being ready in the opinion of the Browns. They wanted him to take his time and make sure the knee was strong. If he suffered another setback with the knee -- his comeback would probably be over.
The Browns paid Bentley $12 million in a bonus and salary in 2006. He received another $3 million in salary in 2007. Some fans think the Browns "didn't want" Bentley to come back. That's ridiculous. They had $15 million and a large chunk of their salary cap invested in the Pro Bowl center. They put him under the care of Cleveland Clinic, one of the best medical institutions in the world. Certainly, the team didn't want him to blow out his knee in his first practice, or to get a staph infection. The plan was to build the offensive line around him.
This was the first major injury of Bentley's career. It frightened him. It bothered him that Phil Savage never called Bentley during his first trip to the hospital. The general manager was allowing Romeo Crennel and the coaching staff to be in contact with Bentley. His general rule was it's best for the coaches to deal with players, and he deals with the coaches. Sort of a chain of command. Savage now admits that was a mistake, and did apologize to Bentley for not making some calls. But that didn't help the trust issues between the player and the team.
Nor did Bentley's decision to train away from the facility and be absent from the team for months at a time. Contact between the two sides was sporadic, the Browns realizing the best move was to give Bentley freedom to control his own comeback, because that made him the most comfortable. In this case, distance did not make the heart grow fonder.
Bentley returned to the Browns last weekend, and passed a Monday night test of running 20 sprints of 40 yards, several times in the 7-second range. That's impressive for a 300-plus pounder with his knee history. It was the same test that he failed badly the year before.
The Browns welcomed him back, but as Bentley said, this was not the same team that he joined in 2006. Bentley was signed as the hometown hero, the guy from St. Ignatius and OSU who will help revive the Browns. But in his two years mostly away from the facility, the once-depleted offensive line has been rebuilt into one of the best units in the NFL. In Bentley's own mind, he sees himself as the Pro Bowl player before the injury. The Browns see him as a guy coming off a major knee injury who still has to prove his knee can handle contact. He has not taken part in any sort of football game since 2005.
Offensive linemen are very close and protective of each other. Hank Fraley was brought in to replace Bentley at center. While not an All-Pro, Fraley has made every snap the last two seasons. He was voted a team captain by his fellow linemen. The Browns were not about to move Bentley ahead of him on the depth chart, at least not until Bentley proved he could play.
Bentley also discovered that other than Ryan Tucker, all the key Browns offensive linemen have changed since he signed. In a sense, he was an outsider. It was difficult for him to hear that he would begin as a backup at center and guard, that he had to work and earn playing time. Bentley believed his pre-injury performance should count. After being released, he talked about not seeing any All-Pros in front of him. That's true, but Fraley and right guards Seth McKinney and Tucker are solid and respected by their fellow linemen and coaches. Newcomer Rex Hadnot has played so well that he may win the right guard spot even when Tucker recovers from his hip surgery.
Bentley would have been third string to begin, behind Fraley and Hadnot, both capable of playing center. Behind Tucker and Hadnot at right guard. McKinney also plays some center and right guard. That was tough on his pride.
It bothers Bentley when anyone would say "if he come back," or "we'll see how strong he comes back." Bentley took that as a lack of faith. The Browns believed they were just being realistic. It's the same approach they have taken with Gary Baxter, the high-priced free agent cornerback who is trying to come back from reconstructive surgery on both knees. Baxter has stayed close to the team. He is currently listed as a third-string safety, and working to find a spot in the defensive backfield, even if it's in nickel and dime packages as opposed to starting.
The Browns were shocked when Bentley requested a meeting with Savage Wednesday morning and asked for his release. He told them that he thought it was best he moved elsewhere, echoing what he said Tuesday about "playing somewhere." It was a very thoughtful, even pleasant, conversation. Bentley believed the team had changed, and he really didn't fit. His agent later said Bentley didn't want to be "an insurance policy," which he correctly sensed would be his role with the Browns -- at least at the start of veteran camp. The Browns didn't want to prevent him from trying it with another team. So they agreed to the release, rather than have a discontented player in camp.
So fans wondered why the Browns didn't try to trade him. Missing two full seasons and with his medical history, he has little value. Rather than hold up Bentley or limit him finding the right situation, they believed the fairest approach was the release. Some of the best, most cordial meetings, between Bentley and the Browns came during his final few days because it was now clear: Both parties had moved past each other.
The Browns reworked his contract after 2007. He signed for the minimum of $605,000. If he took 65 percent of the snaps, it began to escalate and could have been worth as much as $4 million. By being released, he does not count against the cap, nor is he paid more than the $15 million he received over the first two years. Obviously, having a contract primarily based on playing time made sense for the Browns, but it didn't exactly thrill Bentley -- especially when he saw all the linemen in front of him.
About the Browns...
Some fans automatically think receivers would want Quinn. They like both QBs, but they also know that Anderson's strong arm helps them rack up big yardage. Braylon Edwards and Kellen Winslow made the Pro Bowl with Anderson throwing them the ball, and they appreciate it. The line also likes how Anderson gets rid of the ball quickly to avoid sacks, and that's an area where the coaches want Quinn to improve.
A year ago in the OTAs and minicamp, Anderson and Quinn were completing 60-65 percent of their passes in drills, etc. Ken Dorsey was tops in the low 70s. They all struggled to learn the new offense. Now, Anderson is in the high 70s, Quinn approaching 75 percent along with Dorsey.
It was great to see Winslow in a good mood with his knee coming back strong from surgery. While they have not made any commitments to a deal, Winslow's agent Drew Rosenhaus and the Browns do have a very good relationship. Meanwhile, Winslow just catches everything from his toes to the tips of his fingers as he flies through the air.
Shaun Rogers is a big man at 360 pounds, and he is amazingly quick. Because these are not practices in full pads, the accent is on speed -- yet Rogers stood out. That's a real compliment. It also means if it takes two blockers to stop Rogers, defensive end Corey Williams (14 sacks the last two years) and outside linebacker Kamerion Wimbley can bring real heat on the QB.
Meanwhile, rookie Beau Bell looked just OK because he's learning the scheme, and speed is not his thing. He is a gritty tackler, and that won't show until veterans camp. D'Qwell Jackson has improved as an inside linebacker. Andra Davis is second best at that spot. Leon Williams seems a bit stalled in his development, and needs to improve by veterans camp or he will be limited mostly to special teams -- especially if Bell can mature quickly into a pro.
About the Tribe...
As Kelly Shoppach takes over behind the plate for the injured Victor Martinez, the Indians want him to work at blocking balls in the dirt -- making sure not to have those lapses of attention where he occasionally has a pitch bounce off his glove. He had four passed balls coming into the weekend, a lot for his sporadic playing time. By comparison, Martinez has two. They like Shoppach's throwing, his attitude and his game-calling.
It makes sense to drop Grady Sizemore into the middle of the order because he is one of the few power bats still healthy. They gave some thought about Shin-Soo Choo as a leadoff hitter, but Eric Wedge said Sizemore likes leading off and the manager doesn't want to take him out of his comfort zone. Sizemore entered the weekend with 14 HR, more than any other AL leadoff hitter. In a month or so, I'd drop Sizemore in the lineup.
The Indians already consider Choo an above average defender. "His arm is still recovering [from Tommy John surgery] and it's still better than 80 percent of the guys in the league," said Wedge. They believe he'll get even better. Coming into this weekend, Choo is a career .299 hitter in the minors. In parts of three seasons with the Indians, it's also .299 (58-of-194). Odds are, he will hit if he gets a chance. In the past, he has struggled vs. lefties, but is effective vs. righties.
It's a small sample, but in the last two years with the Tribe, Andy Marte is 10-of-76 (.131) vs. right-handers. He's 8-of-27 (.296) against lefties. How about giving Marte some time against lefties? You can play Marte at third, move Casey Blake to first and DH Ryan Garko. With so many injured players, it makes sense to look at Marte -- at least part time.


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BIG RAPIDS, MI – For the second time in three seasons, the quarterfinals were within reach of Fruitport Calvary Christian's girls basketball team.
Just like two years ago, however, the Eagles had another dream season end in the regional finals.
Calvary Christian trailed 8-0 less than two minutes into the game and couldn't get its offense going enough to catch up.
The 1-2 punch of sophomore center Averi Gamble and senior guard Sara Hansen combined for 42 points to lead the Irish to a 65-46 win over the Eagles Thursday at Big Rapids Crossroads Charter Academy.
Unranked Sacred Heart (19-5) advances to the Cadillac quarterfinal Tuesday at 7 p.m. to face No. 3 Frankfort, which beat No. 10 Bellaire 61-33 Thursday for its regional title.
Calvary Christian's season ends at 20-4.
"It's a tough moment," said Eagles coach Brad Richards, whose team lost to Portland St. Patrick, 57-39, in the 2012 regional finals. "We really thought we had a chance to go to (Michigan State University's) Breslin Center (home of the state semifinals and finals), but this team took us out of everything we wanted to do."
The 46 points scored isn't a season low, but it is a far cry from the 65 points the Eagles averaged during the season.
Leading scorer Taylor Richards didn't take her first shot of the game until 4:28 remained in the first quarter and didn't take her first shot of the second half until 2:12 remained in the third quarter, in large part because of Sacred Heart's swarming defense.
"We struggled to get a shot off, let alone make it," Brad Richards said. "Our offense really struggled this game, and you have to give (the Irish) credit for that."
The Eagles rallied to within 10-7 and only trailed 16-11 after the first quarter.
That's when the Irish defense clamped down again and held Calvary Christian scoreless for the first 3:24 of the second quarter. They stretched their lead to 24-11 during that span with an 8-0 run.
"The girls played a great defensive game," said Sacred Heart coach Damon Brown, whose team is making its second straight trip to the quarterfinals. "They really got after it and really set the tone early defensively. We talked the last two days about being aggressive and physical with (the Eagles') point guard and post players, and I thought we executed the game plan to a 'T.'"
Freshman Allyson Richards paced the Eagles with 18 points and seven rebounds. Taylor Richards, a junior committed to Cornerstone University, recorded 11 points and 10 rebounds.
It wasn't enough to counter Hansen, who totaled 25 points, and Gamble. Hansen was quicker than any Eagle on the court, and her ability to handle the ball, gain separation from defenders and drive to the basket caused all kinds of problems.
Gamble was just too big to stop 1-on-1, and proved tough to stop even when help came. She scored 14 of her 17 points in the first half to help the Irish to a 36-20 halftime lead.
"They were so fast," Taylor Richards said. "(Gamble) was huge on the boards, and we just didn't rebound like we had to.
"I'm obviously sad we lost, but really thankful for this season because a couple of weeks ago we didn't know where we were going to be. We pulled out some huge wins to get here."
The Eagles held a 31-28 edge on the boards, but the Irish had 10 second-chance points through three quarters. Six of Gamble's eight rebounds came on the offensive glass.
Calvary Christian had designs on getting the game to single digits in the second half. The Eagles pulled out narrow wins against Muskegon Catholic (63-60) and Fowler (69-68) in their most recent postseason games, and felt if they could just get within shouting distance they would have a fighting chance.
Allyson Richards helped get the Eagles off to a good start in the third quarter, scoring six points in a 6-2 run to pull her team within 12 points.
Hansen keyed another 8-0 run for the Irish, though, and Calvary Christian never threatened again.
"These girls are fighters," Brad Richards said. "I didn't think for one second the game was over after (the 8-0 start), and sure enough the girls fought back.
"We just tried to come out every game and play as hard as we could. The girls played hard and fought, but Sacred Heart had a couple of players that gave us a lot of trouble."
Riley Terwilliger recorded 13 points, five rebounds, five steals and four assists for the Irish.
Senior Sophia Zelenka tallied eight points and senior Brianna Zehr dished out eight assists for the Eagles.
"This season means a lot, but next year we want to win regionals," Taylor Richards added.


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