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We are pleased to see it appears Portage City Council members are stepping away from the council table and taking a deep breath.
Recent tensions between factions on the Portage City Council come at an inopportune time — just at the city prepares to transition to new leadership with a search for a new city manager.
Issues came to a head during the naming of an acting city manager in the wake of the retirement of city manager Maurice Evans. The council split on whether to offer the acting city manager position to longtime Deputy City Manager Brian Bowling.
Mayor Pro-tem Jim Pearson and council members Patricia Randall, Richard Ford and Nasim Ansari have said they want to consider a new approach in city management and declined to endorse Bowling as acting city manager. Portage Mayor Pete Strazdas and council members Terry Urban and Claudette Reid argued that Bowling would provide continuity to the city while they search for Evans' permanent replacement.
A statement by Mayor Pro-tem Pearson was meant to underscore the need for better communication, but left some feeling the council might be taking a misstep. While his suggestions for more access to information and openness at city hall struck a welcome note, another that the city's department leaders meet with the council sounded a bit like micromanagement — stepping into a role that should be handled by the city manager.
Mayor Pete Strazdas wisely called for civility before public comments at Tuesday's council meeting. "We all need to come together to show the community what kind of city we are. We have to show whoever is coming to lead us what kind of community we are."
And the council seems to understand the need for cooperation and respect. In a subsequent article on Thursday, council members acknowledged that infighting can only hurt their search for a new city manager. No one wants to step into a situation where the leadership threatens to devolve into backbiting.
It now sounds as though he and Pearson are ready to focus on the manager search and put the city's best interests first, which is what is needed at this important time. We all remember all too well the lingering effects of the rancor in recent years at the school board.
There are important challenges facing Portage. The city council's best bet to deal with them is in a cooperative spirit that demonstrates respect for each other and community members.
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Arthur Pierce retired in 2010 as the Oneida Indian Nation's public safety commissioner after building the nation's police department into an organization recognized as a top law enforcement agency.
A year and a half later, he is back at the department with the new title of superintendent of nation police.
"I created the department in 1993," he said, and he discovered after retiring that he wasn't quite ready to let it go.
The police department, with 37 officers and 10 support staff, works to protect nation residents and properties. That includes Turning Stone Resort and Casino, SavOn service stations and other nation-owned businesses that employ about 5,000 area people and bring some 5 million visitors to the area.
Pierce, who has served 20 years with the New York State Police, said he leaped at the chance to put together a new police department the minute he heard it was in the works.
"It intrigued me because it was in my backyard," the Wampsville native said. "I took a vacation day (from the state police) and came out for an interview."
On his way home to Albany the following day he got a phone call: the job was his if he wanted. He put in his retirement papers and was on the job with the Oneida Nation the following week.
Serving beside the new superintendent will be the new Oneida Nation Police Department Chief Joseph Smith, who worked for the state police for 31 years before joining the nation police in 2002.
Pierce said the department doesn't have to handle many vehicle accidents or tickets, so that gives officers more time for other duties such as working with "Nation members and employees at various enterprises, protecting property (and providing) robbery and burglary prevention training."
The police officers, Pierce said, also make time to "interact with tribal members from advising them on current issues that may affect them (such as) crimes in the area, down to doing Santa Claus for them and putting on instructional classes (and) bike safety rodeos."
Smith said one thing the nation's police department can do is help area police departments with investigations and training.
Next month, for example, the department will conduct methamphetamine investigation and diverted pharmaceutical training, Smith said. In July, the departments will train on gang violence and police photography.
During his previous tenure with the Oneidas, Pierce led the effort to earn the department recognition from the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies.
"It's unusual for anyone to be creating a police department, particularly a tribal department," Pierce said. "We needed to demonstrate to the community our level of professionalism."
The nation police had to meet 475 standards, "a pretty heavy list," he said. Today it's the only tribal law enforcement agency in North America accredited by the group and one of only seven accredited departments in New York state. It has to go through "a rigorous reaccredidation program" every three years, he said.
The department has a staff member whose job is accreditation coordinator to keep the department aware of the latest changes around the country in technology and equipment and training.
"Part of the accreditation process is to survey the local community, the Oneida people and employees of our enterprises to see if they're satisfied with police performance," Pierce said. "Our reviews are consistently high and when recommendations are made we take action on them."
The nation police department's success wouldn't be possible without the support of nation leader Ray Halbritter and the nation's Men's Council and Clan Mothers. "They've provided the resources to make it happen," Pierce said.
"The Oneida Nation takes great pride in the fact that we have established one of the most highly decorated, professional and experienced law enforcement agencies in the region," Halbritter said in a news release.
Art Pierce
Residence: Sherrill
Family: Wife and two grown children
Experience: Served 20 years with the New York State Police, where he was Interpol Coordinator and assistant director of training at the State Police Academy. Retired with the rank of captain in 1993.
Joseph Smith
Residence: Sherrill
Family: Wife and two grown children
Experience: Served 31 years with the New York State Police, retiring in 1999 as zone sergeant in North Syracuse. Served 26 years with the Army Reserve's 414th Civil Affairs unit out of Utica, in which he was assigned to two tours of active duty in Iraq.


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I disagree with the fundamental idea that there are separate means of learning. The categories that you've mentioned are artificial constructs that are in reality parts of the the whole learning system.
Mel Levine wrote a decent book "a mind at a time" than explores the whole learning system.
However, the general categories are not terrible. For instance, math is an artificial construct too, but I find it really helps me plan my finances. Imperial evidence suggests to me that people do specifically favor certain modalities. I have folks that can't understand anything unless they have it done to them and get to do it themselves. I have folks who can't get themselves to even attempt a movement which is counter-intuitive to their normal way of doing things unless I can explain it to them and help them feel safe about it. I have folks that just really want to watch me do the technique to someone else and then want me to watch them try. If I can figure out how to best help someone get started exploring aikido, any general guideline(s) for how to try to most effectively communicate with them is appreciated. Lets face it, teaching is a completely different skill from aikido martial ability.
What frustrates me is when someone explains to me that a good dojo only has the kind of learning they like. O-sensei wanted to spread aikido to everyone. I doubt he meant just the kinesthetic folks who are emotionally strong enough to put up with arrogant and short-sighted sempai.
At this point, I have a stronger sense of how things are supposed to feel, and how little effort you are supposed to be putting in to create the overall feeling - while not being overly evasive. I can't really teach that in any modality. I use the modalities to get people through the learning of the form so that they can experience what I really care about transmitting to them in the assimilation part(s) of class. In summary, I think learning modalities are good for getting out of the way of the real learning.
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Back Nine: Musings on Meyer, Masters and Muschamp
Defense looking for playmakers in absence of Powell
Published: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 6:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 9, 2012 at 9:58 p.m.
The Back Nine comes at you after a glorious weekend that included football, baseball and plenty of golf. I think I have broken in the new outdoor recliner that my wife gave me.
10. Matt Hayes of The Sporting News had an interesting piece online Monday about how Florida got to where it was last season, basically saying Urban Meyer coddled his most talented players. "Over the last two years he was there," one former player told The Sporting News, "the players had taken complete control of the team." We saw signs of this and have heard stories, but Hayes was able to get them confirmed through sources. (The story about Percy Harvin attacking receivers coach Billy Gonzales and not being punished is deplorable. From everything I've been told, Harvin was the most coddled athlete in the history of Florida football). Hayes' story paints a picture of a program that is "broken" and we all know that's what Meyer told Will Muschamp when Muschamp took the job. I know Muschamp felt he inherited a mess when he took over and it has taken him a year to get it headed back in the right direction. All you need to know about players' sense of entitlement was the meeting between Muschamp and Janoris Jenkins after multiple arrests and failed drug tests by the cornerback. When Muschamp told Jenkins he would have to be suspended, Jenkins replied, "Do you know who you're talking to?" And that was the end of his career at UF.
11. The Ronald Powell injury certainly is a blow for Florida because the light was finally turned on for the talented player. It also means incoming recruit Dante Fowler better have his chin strap buckled when he shows up on campus. I wouldn't be surprised to see Fowler starting a few games into this season. Florida is going to play Dominique Easley at the other end with Sharrif Floyd moving to tackle. And when you add Damien Jacobs to the rotation at tackle, I really thought the defensive line would be one of the strengths of the team. We'll see if that holds up. By the way, in several conversations I had with Muschamp before Saturday's game, he was raving about Antonio Morrison, the freshman linebacker. Then I got to see him play and I came away with the same feeling. He's going to be the next great linebacker at Florida.
12. Count me among the plethora of people rooting for Bubba Watson on Sunday. I've been a Watson fan for a long time and you're welcome to jump on the bandwagon. It was a terrific Sunday on the back porch of the Dooley Dome because The Masters always delivers. On one day we saw two of the greatest shots in the history of golf, we saw a shank, we saw a playoff, we saw Matt Kuchar come out of nowhere to take the lead, we saw Phil Mickelson make his second triple bogey of the tournament. It was great theatre. But I don't agree Mickelson lost the tournament with the six on the fourth. He had plenty of time to get back into it, but he had four or five putts slide past the cup, missing by less than an inch. Two of those drop and he's in a playoff.
13. The only things missing, of course, were Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. McIlroy's collapse was stunning, but it just goes to show you how tough it is to play a fickle game on a major championship course. Tiger, on the other hand, showed us two things — 1. He's not all the way back; 2. His behavior on the course is still boorish. Kicking his club, cussing up a storm. Tiger needs to relax, have fun and stop overthinking everything. Just play golf the way you used to play golf. And quit being such a bad sport on the course. This is golf, not hockey.
14. The most stunning thing to come out of this year's Masters wasn't Watson's pink driver or Louis Oosthuizen's double eagle or Tiger's inability to make birdies on par fives. It was Sergio Garcia basically saying he is giving up. "I'm not good enough, and today I know it," he said Saturday. "I've been trying for 13 years, and I don't feel capable of winning. I don't know what happened to me. Maybe it's something psychological. ... I'm not good enough for the majors." I was blown away when I saw that frank admission. Just blown away. That he would say that says a lot about why he hasn't won a major.
15. I keep getting the question about what is wrong with the baseball team and I always have the same answer — it's baseball. The balls hit a foot to the left are now a foot to the right and finding holes. It's a daily game (especially the way the season is crammed together) and you have to show up every day. Let us not forget that this team has been hampered by injuries to Tyler Thompson, Josh Tobias and Karsten Whitson and played the LSU series without Hudson Randall. The Back Nine thinks it will get turned around, but this four-game road trip to FSU and Tennessee is not going to be easy.
16. I don't know if he's the next Bubba Watson, but I know there are a lot of people out there with a lot of nice things to say about Christian Blanchet, the former Buchholz golfer who is trying to make it as a pro golfer. "He seems to be doing a lot of the right things," said Bob Gates, who has worked with Blanchet off and on and is the father of PGA Tour golfer Bobby Gates. Blanchet will play in a Nationwide Tour qualifier in two weeks and has his own tournament scheduled for Meadowbrook to raise funds that will help him pursue his dream. The "Quest for the Card" tournament will be May 5 at Meadowbrook if you are interested.
17. Tweet of the Week comes from a guy who likes to Tweet a lot and I'm sure picked up a few followers this week, Mr. Bubba Watson on Monday — "Up early can't sleep, don't want to miss any part of being a dad & going to get a new cell phone number! It's crazy how people get ur number." It will be interesting to see if he shows up at Tim Tebow's tournament on Saturday. Things change when you win The Masters, but Watson and Tebow are good friends.
18. Because of a knee injury suffered on Thursday (don't ask), the iPod got the weekend off, but thanks to some readers I have some download suggestions. Try "Hold On" by Alabama Shakes, "Mountain Sound" by Of Monsters and Men and for the old school in you "I Second That Emotion" by The Miracles.
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Skip to comments.The Shrinking Immigration Problem (The number of illegal immigrants from Mexico is getting smaller)
Posted on 04/26/2012 6:24:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The illegal-immigration problem is going away.
Thats the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States.
Pews demographers have carefully combed through statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Mexican government, and have come up with estimates of the flow of migrants from and back to Mexico. Their work seems to be as close to definitive as possible. They conclude that from 2005 to 2010, some 1.39 million people came from Mexico to the United States and 1.37 million went from the U.S. to Mexico. The largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States, they write, has come to a standstill.
The turning point seems to have come with the collapse of housing prices and the onset of recession in 2007. Annual immigration from Mexico dropped from peaks of 770,000 in 2000 and 670,000 in 2004 to 140,000 in 2010.
As a result, the Mexican-born population in the United States decreased from 12.6 million in 2007 to 12.0 million in 2010. That decrease consisted entirely of Mexican-born illegal immigrants, whose numbers decreased from 7 million in 2007 to 6.1 million in 2010.
Mitt Romney has been ridiculed for saying that illegal immigrants should self-deport. But that seems to be exactly what many of them have been doing. The U.S. government has been sending back more illegals lately, but most of the flow to Mexico has been voluntary.
The Pew analysts hesitate to say so, but their numbers make a strong case that we will never again see the flow of Mexicans into this country that we saw between 1970, when there were fewer than 1 million Mexican-born people in the U.S., and 2007, when there were 12.7 million.
One reason is that Mexicos population growth has slowed way down. Its fertility rate fell from 7.3 children per woman in 1970 to 2.4 in 2009, which is just above replacement level.
Meanwhile, Mexicos economy has grown. Despite sharp currency devaluations in 1982 and 1994, its per capita gross domestic product rose 22 percent from 1980 to 2010.
Mexico, like the United States, experienced a recession from 2007 to 2009. But since then, Mexicos GDP has grown far faster than ours 5.5 percent in 2010 and 3.9 percent in 2011. Mexico seemed yoked to the U.S. growth rate after passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. But since the recession, it seems yoked to the more robust growth rate of the state with the biggest cross-border trade, Texas.
An end to the huge flow of immigrants from Mexico has huge implications for U.S. immigration policy.
Because of our long land border with Mexico (the Rio Grande is a trickle most of the year), it has been relatively easy to emigrate illegally from that country. As a result, Mexican immigrants tend to be younger, poorer, less educated, and less fluent in English than immigrants from other countries. They are also more likely to be illegal Mexicans are 30 percent of all immigrants but 58 percent of illegals and less likely to become U.S. citizens.
A continued standstill in Mexican immigration means that the number of illegals in the United States will probably continue to decline, even in an economic recovery. Children of illegals born in the U.S., who are automatically U.S. citizens, dont add to the illegal numbers. And no other country has produced or is likely to produce anything close to the number or share of illegals that Mexico has.
The central focus of the debate over the so-called comprehensive immigration bills that came to the floor of the Senate in 2006 and 2007 was their provisions for legalization of those illegally here amnesty, to opponents. On the campaign trail, Barack Obama is promising to push for such legislation, just as he promised in 2008. But he didnt deliver when Democrats had supermajorities in both houses and is unlikely to get anywhere on this project in a second term.
It may not matter much. With the Mexican reservoir of potential illegals dried up, and with better border enforcement and increased use of the much improved E-Verify system in workplaces, the illegal population seems likely to decline.
The key immigration issue for the future is whether America, like our Anglosphere cousins Canada and Australia, will let in more high-skilled immigrants.
Michael Barone is senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner
Great. We're solving our illegal immigrant problem by driving our economy into the toilet and destroying our future.
RE: Were solving our illegal immigrant problem by driving our economy into the toilet and destroying our future.
Well, that's one way to do it... make America more like Mexico instead of the other way around... California is doing this even as we speak...
I thought it was impossible to deport all these people? I thought there was no way for them the re-partriate. It was deemd impossible, remember?
Stopped right there.
Rats aren't into a sinking ship.
This is direct evidence that "self-deportation" is the answer.
In other words: No we do not need to deport 20 million illegal aliens.
Just don't let anyone in the country illegally work.
Couldn't be simpler. Presto: they'll find jobs. By being resourceful, determined, even if necessary making difficult and sometimes dangerous treks long distances - with personal perseverance, risking elements to heroically travel to where they can find jobs.
At home.
How many of those 1.4 million leaving just happened to have a baby here and left it with relatives with cradle to grave gov't bennies?
The only reason this is even news right now is because Obama wants it to be. He will use this to say "see, most of the illegals have left so lets just legalise the one that remain". It will be around that time that we find out those statistics were inaccurate. It's the "bait and switch style" of this administration. If immigration was no longer a problem, they would have dropped the Arizona law suit. They haven't.
It does it you actually interpret the Constitution and the 14th Amendment corectly. And as far as allowing in more highly-skilled workers, we should be producing those ourselves. It would be an exponential benefit to do so.
And there has been no decrease in legal immigration, which is about 1.2 million a year, with about 150,000 a year coming from Mexico.
Of course it is just possible that the only people left in Mexico these days are tourists, drug cartel members, and the ruling elite.
All the rest have moved north so no more folks to cross the border
Any media story about the border is suspect.
Notice how none of them interview border county sherriffs.
Bet they have a much different story to tell.
RE: Of course it is just possible that the only people left in Mexico these days are tourists, drug cartel members, and the ruling elite.
Last time I checked, Mexico's population is 113 Million people. Hard to believe that most of them are tourists, drug cartel members and ruling elites....
How about we put enough boots along the border to count them as they leave?
That way we can be SURE the problem is going away.
Otherwise, not so much.
They may not be working here but I can assure you they are on virtually every government tit that is available together with their anchor babies. They are not going anywhere.
and the unemployment rate is really 8.3%
"Any media story about the border is suspect."
Yep. I see no shortage of the invaders in Houston.
I call B.S.
Illegals avoid the census carefully. Many are living in unauthorized converted quarters like garages. That was a big problem in east LA years ago, & it has only gotten worse.
Due to limits on occupancy, they also lie about how many people are living in any particular residence.
I don't trust a single word that janet Nappy says—at anytime—so why should I trust her with this piece of info?
Ask the people who live within 300 miles of the Mexican border & you will find out better answers.
Mexico's poverty problem got exported to the USA. No wonder they are doing better than us. They don't have to fund all of the welfare cases they had, while we have to pay billions upon billions for the health care and education of 15 million illegals from Mexico on top of all of the legals.
We could fix that booming Mexican economy by busing our ghetto rats to Mexico so they could vote in their elections, collect free health care and education from them and fill up their prisions. We'd have bus them. They'd never make it on foot.
We could tell them it's a free Obamamoney trip to Mexico!
Barone is whistling past the graveyard in support of Mittens, trying to take his OBL position off the table w/ conservatives.
(Article) Children of illegals born in the U.S., who are automatically U.S. citizens, don't add to the illegal numbers.
Not technically, but they do add to the sociopolitical and wage-breaking problem, because they are still Mexican, culturally and attitudinally. Mexicans are the most culturally conservative immigrants we have, after Jews I would say. That means they'll vote straight-ticket Democratic for the next three, and probably as many as five, generations to come. They will also continue to resist the American value of seeking education to the maximum degree possible; the Mexican custom, dare I call it family duty, is to go to work as soon as old enough (in the teens) to help support the family.
His flat statement that Mexican immigration won't return with a pickup in U.S. economic activity is bootless, and surveys in Mexico completed recently flatly say he's wrong. The respondents who said they'd decided to stay home this year, all predicated their unwillingness to cross the border again on two things: A) bad employment prospects up here and B) tougher migration conditions, mostly in the form of increased squeezes by the cartels, but also in the form of police activity in e.g. Arizona.
Even without a big pickup in economic activity, a reduction of policing Stateside, or a relaxation of the cartels' geographical zone fees, would produce a reacceleration of illegal immigration.
Lastly, Barone fecklessly assumes that the U.S. OBL, momentarily standing down from mass importation of wage-breakers, won't turn to, oh, lessee .....the Chinese for example, or India, to make good their drafts of masses of semiskilled and unskilled labor, if the economy picks up and the Mexican migrant workers, for some reason, decided to continue to stay home.
Barone is begging the question on the real cause of the sociopolitical and demographic problem, and that is the big OBL employers, whose favorite candidate is Mitt Romney.
Naughty, naughty, naughty!! ;)
You are right, and my trip to Home Depot this moring confirmed that there are a parking lot full of people of color shall I say, looking for day labor jobs..
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By DAN HICKLING
PORTLAND, Maine – Perhaps it doesn't completely make up for Canada's recent World Junior Championship loss to the United States.
But Monday's 18-12 triumph by Our Neighbors to the North over PlanetUSA in the AHL All-Stars Skills Competition, staged at the Cumberland County Civic Center, will provide it with a small measure of satisfaction.
"I guess," said Charles Linglet, the lone Springfield Falcons' representative, "we put on a good show for the fans. It was like a road game. We kept it simple. That was our game plan from the get-go."
The victory interrupted PlanetUSA's mastery in the competition. The PlanetUSA squad had won in each of the last three years, five of the last six and now 10 of 15.
"We did the little things right," said Tyler Ennis (Portland). "I guess maybe they tried to get a little too fancy. We wanted to roll up the points and got the win."
Former Falcon Blair Jones, now of Norfolk, unleashed a blast of 100.7 m.p.h., the third highest number in the history of the hardest shot event.
"I just basically tried to keep it as low as I could," said Jones. "And aim for the back of the net."
Jones also had the second hardest drive, having registered a 99.9 reading with his first try.
"I didn't want to (skate) in too fast," said Jones. "I just wanted to shoot how I would shoot in a game. It worked out."
In the fastest skater event, Bobby Sanguinetti (Hartford) lapped the Cumberland County Civic Center surface in record time, 16.677 seconds, giving PlanetUSA its only win of the seven events.
Canada won four events, and two ended in ties.
The AHL All-Star Classic festivities will continue today with the league's Hall of Fame inductions, which will welcome four new members.
That will be followed by the All-Star Game, in which Canada holds a 9-5 series advantage.
Springfield Falcons' Linglet takes part in AHL All-Star Competition
By DAN HICKLING


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More accurately: Jump Roo Jump
How do you bring originality to the Endless Runner genre in one easy stroke? Make it single screen, according to Scribblenauts developer 5th Cell. Run Roo Run does just that and instantly makes itself an App Store classic.
The brief, but beautifully crafted intro sets the story. Your young Joey has been captured and it's up to you to head across Australia from Perth to Sydney in order to rescue your baby. This means hopping over plenty of obstacles while using others to aid you in your quest.
Each screen requires you to move from the left to right hand side as quickly as possible, jumping over pretty much everything. At first it seems like a very simple mechanic that has a danger of outstaying its welcome, but after the first few stages new items and tricks are learnt to add depth to the single jump control.
One press on the screen performs a simple jump, pressing again will do a double jump for larger objects in your path, but only when the level shows a green marker to allow this. Jumping over tyres, fans and other helpful items will aid your jump further by providing height or speed. It's very simple to learn but the trick comes with timing your presses, just as it does in endless runners like Canabalt.
If you don't succeed on a level, the game throws you a bone by placing markers down where you last jumped. Completing the level is often a case of learning from your mistakes. It never feels overly harsh and replays often reward you with success. There is also the reward of the Extreme levels that are opened up once you complete a stage. These take a lot more effort to complete, but as they are optional it doesn't detract from the game for players who find them too much of a challenge.
Run Roo Run's art style runs along a similar line to their previous game, Scribblenauts. It's bright and colourful, but it also contains a lot of attention to detail. While you'll be concentrating on the objects in your path for the most part, the art in the background aids the overall presentation and yet is subtle enough to make the task ahead clear.
There are over 400 levels in the initial game, more being promised every week by the developers. That's an extremely good bundle for such a small price and should give most gamers plenty to work through. Add the challenging Extreme mode and you'll be playing this for a long time to come.
Run Roo Run takes a simple concept and creates a game full of depth, style and character. It's a perfect example of what can be achieved with a bit of imagination and a one touch control system.
- Sound: 8
- Graphics: 9
- Gameplay: 10
- Longevity: 9
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By Dave Wagner
Despite a .413 batting average that was just short of the school single-season record, Eastern New Mexico University's Bryan Moore maintains he wasn't anticipating a lot in the way of postseason accolades.
Despite that, the senior second baseman and leadoff man from Woolforth, Texas, was a first-team choice on the All-Lone Star Conference South Division baseball team and shared Player of the Year honors in the division with Texas A&M-Kingsville catcher Steve Yaden.
The awards kept coming this week. Moore was named to the NCAA Division II All-America third team by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America.
"He certainly had a deserving year," said Greyhounds coach Phil Clabaugh, adding he's never had an All-American in 18 years of college coaching, the last 14 at ENMU. "He was the catalyst for us all year. He didn't necessarily get off to a big start, but it seemed like every game he was 2-for-4 and that type of thing."
Clabaugh said Moore, who was eighth in the LSC in batting average and second in both on-base percentage (.513) and walks (31), found it hard to believe when he learned of his All-South honor.
"I wasn't expecting too much," Moore said of the accolades. "(The All-American citation is) probably the biggest honor I've ever gotten in my life."
Moore, who has a semester left before graduating in communications and is working on campus this summer, was pushing Dallas McMann's 2003 school record average of .433 with less than two weeks left in the season before falling back a bit in the final nine games against Tarleton State, New Mexico Highlands and South champion Abilene Christian.
"I ran into a little bit of trouble against Abilene," said Moore, who hit .378 during his two campaigns at ENMU. "But this will definitely go down as my favorite season of all time. Dallas McMann was just a great hitter, and to be in that category is an honor."
His bid for McMann's record was hampered a bit in the final weeks by a knee problem, but Moore led the Hounds in hits (76), runs (52), doubles (16) and stolen bases (17) and was second in runs batted in (36).
Moore, who transferred to ENMU in 2003 from Howard College in Texas, also posted a school-record 22-game hitting streak and was the only player to start every game in 2005 for the Hounds.
Clabaugh points to Moore's contributions in the field, noting that ENMU (26-27, 10-10 South) was second the LSC in both double plays and overall defense.
"Bryan played harder than any kid I've ever coached," Clabaugh said. "He was one of those guys that led by example."
At 5-foot-9 and 165 pounds, Moore isn't sure a pro career is in the cards for him. Still, he plans to try to get his knee better in the next few weeks and attend some open tryout camps in Texas in July.


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FLINT, MI -- Canadian police announced Monday, April 22, that they thwarted an Al-Qaida plot to derail a Toronto-to-U.S. passenger train, and arrested two men in a scheme that couldn't have made it across the border directly to Flint.
U.S. officials said that the targeted train line runs between Toronto and New York.
Until 2004, passenger trains ran between Toronto and Chicago, making stops in Flint.
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The Value Of Opposing Voices
Wednesday - November 10, 2010
When Mainland America woke up last week covered in a blanket of Republican red, Hawaii managed to hang onto its Democrat blue blanket - in a pretty decisive way. While the rest of the country was rejecting big government and big spending solutions, our state voted in leadership and representatives who believe that government will take care of us if taxpayers just give them more money to work with.
Hawaii voters - at least the shamefully little more than than 50 percent eligible voters who cast ballots - have spoken. Congratulations to the winners. Condolences to those whose message of lower taxes, supporting small business and reining in government spending did not motivate our citizens - enough.
Here are my thoughts on last week's election and the issues therein:
Take heart, all of you who worked so hard on campaigns of those who did not find themselves with a check mark by their name. Yours is the message that carried the day across the nation. And, at least, regardless of the big-government ideology of our congressional representatives, you won't - if the federal tax cuts are extended by the new Congress - be hit with a double whammy: higher federal and state taxes, which are sure to go up. There are so many things our state can be proud of, but the CNNmoney.com state tax ranking isn't one of them: ninth highest in the nation for personal income tax; first highest for sales and excise tax; and fourth highest for total taxes.
Republican candidates, for the most part, failed to make the case that high taxes and regulations on our job engines, small businesses, are directly related to unemployment. While it's true that Hawaii's unemployment rate is lower than the national average, we have hitched our major economic wagon to only three main entities: tourism, military spending (a surety regardless of who serves in Washington) and construction of the rail. Lucky for Hawaii (but bad overall), the Japanese yen today is very strong against a weakening dollar. But remember 1992 when Japan's economy went south? The unstable strength or weakness of the yen (or any currency) is hardly a solid economic anchor. We can only hope that the Chinese, who own us and our gigantic debt, will find our beaches attractive.
Further, pinning eternal construction jobs hopes on our massive train project forgets that, with this new fiscal attitude in Congress, federal transportation dollars may not be forthcoming. Our children who would like to find jobs in Hawaii after college deserve new enterprises in a broader array of industries supported by a friendly business climate of lower taxes and less regulation.
Tradition is very important, and change is slow coming to Hawaii, where I've made my home for almost 30 years. I get this. Tradition is important to me as well. Ironically, voters embraced the Democrat slogan of "change" when the only change we're likely to see will be no "checks and balances" to an overwhelming Democrat Legislature. Remember, Gov. Lingle vetoed 14 tax hike bills last session (four of those overridden), held firm on traditional marriage and reined in spending to balance the state budget. Let's hope Governor-elect Neil Abercrombie will at least not change these traditions.
By electing Abercrombie, by all measures one of the 10 most liberal members of Congress, Hawaii rejected the huge national movement toward a centrist, moderate, constitutionally principled American government.
The voters clearly spoke, and I honor their voice. Still, don't expect me as a columnist and member of the media, often called the fourth rail of government, to forfeit my solemn duty to use my
voice when I differ with positions of our elected officials, not by attacking them personally, but by challenging them on issues.
Thank you, MidWeek, for allowing opinion columnists to speak on both sides of issues throughout this often contentious election cycle.
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