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Im glad to see a mild mannered/ humble chess guy who happen to be a chess columnist beat trash talking chess hustlers of washington park. Cecil Rosner is the name. Well i wished we had someone like that beating hustlers in our parks. :)
Is there a link where we can see more about this?
I tried playing at a place like this in San Francisco. Those guys rely on talking trash to win. It is part of their tactic. The best way to deal with it is to talk bigger trash back at them.
its on you tube
ah...the scent of victory.
but mr rosner wasnt....hes just beating em all without antics and dirty tactics.
@konhidras - thanks for the link, will watch it when I get home from work
your welcome Ipswichmatt.
I coulndt tell you how great it feels when i see chess hustlers get beat. lol
he beats em all.
Have you ever played them?
This doesn't happen in the UK, as far as I know. I'd like to visit Washington Park someday
Ive played the old guy with a hat a few years ago as a highschool student on vacation but he wasnt sitting on that table it was quite different then (including the chess park itself or maybe the camera was just in a different location). i think i beat him 3-2 with 2 draws then at 5min to 3min (not fair huh) the other guys never played me.It was 3 dollars a game back then.
You had 3 mins, he had 5 ? You did well then! How strong are these guys, in your opinion?
According to the Canadian Chess Federation website, Cecil Rosner has a Canadian rating of 2034, which would roughly translate as USCF ~2000.
Assuming Posner's blitz rating is similar, I would guess the hustlers play in the 1500-1800 range in blitz.
No. i had 5mins and he was giving odds by playing at 3mins. I think the old guys playing strength was maybe at a 1700- to 1900 .Im amazed as to how the old man didnt know the lucena position back then and hes hustling?. I dont know if he knows em now though. What is funny is that those guys are business men, when you beat one in a tough game all em dont gamble playing with you. Anyway i was younger then it was just afew years lol or two . Ahhhh the sweet feeling of victory. And now im surprised and happy to see em still playing at the washington park and being convincgly beaten by mr Rosner.
Nice video, would love to read the article.
"The 2nd challenger is tougher, he attacks with the Ponziani opening. Rosner counters with the Leningrad Dutch defense."
Well noticed. Last time I looked, the Ponziani started e4 and the dutch is a defence to d4.
Openings can transpose, I guess. Quite a long way to travel though.
When Magnus appeared on the BBC, the presenter started to play a game with him. The presenter had White. A few moves in, the presenter said "hmm, I'll be interested to see how you respond to my Sicillian Defense"
He did say at the end of the video he was having an exceptional chess day.
I think it was his mate who talked of the Ponziani. Maybe he wasn't having such an exceptional commentating day.
Maybe the chess player told him it was the Ponziani just to mess with him.
Who said chess players don't have a sense of humor.
Could be. He seemed a pretty together guy (the chess player/chess columnist guy).
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Huh or Duh or Der, but not Aha. The Aha moment is reserved for that moment of discovery and understanding. The Der moment is when you realize you've done something quite silly!
My recent one was during my final weekend with my book files, the weekend of July 4th. Friday was the Independence Day holiday, so I hung out with my husband while the kids were at day care, we saw Transformers, and then I spent about four hours with my book. I took my son to swimming lessons, where they have wifi (this is Austin, baby!) and continued final proofing and so on, getting it ready to send to the designer for his final touch.
When we got back from swimming lessons, I uploaded the zip file so the designer could get to it. Saturday morning, I had a mild heart attack when I thought I had lost all my changes I worked on Friday, when the zip file was returned from the designer with none of my text changes or two index additions. Yikes! I had to wake my system admin husband up and everything. 🙂 He found the files – my searches came up with nada, nothing.
Come to find out, I had stupidly been working in a "Downloads" folder instead of in my usual work area, after downloading the file from the designer in a previous handoff. And neither Microsoft's Desktop search nor Google's Desktop search was configured to find files in the Downloads folder, because it was marked "hidden," isn't that annoying? (Here's more info from Google on how to fix that problem.) But my hero husband came to the rescue, whew.
What's your biggest "der" moment lately? On Twitter, @dmnguys say "Too many of those moments to list…" 🙂 How about you?


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Oudin still alive! Just held for 5-4 in the second. She needs to see a third set though to keep the dream alive...Petrova needs to get her butt to the net on those shorter balls when she gets a chance. I wonder if players realize the net is actually not that bad of a place to be...
Well my girl Serena is still there. (thank god for that). Oudin and Kimmy are great stories, but I still want Serena to defend her title.
I am just hoping for good tennis to watch from women side. Less crying, self destruct , double faults, UE. So I am hoping Serena VS Kim in semifinal. And whoever win between them will meet (hopefully) Sveta in final. Cause I cannot see Yanina, Bondarenko or Oudin can give Kim or specially Serena a real fight in final.I really do not want to see a final like Aussie Open and French Open 09 and Wimbledon 09 final (second set) again. Not interesting at all.


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Celebrating 70
KIHEI Married for 70 years, Pat and Ruby Lea De Blasio still hold hands – even while sitting in separate recliners in their Kihei living room.
And though in their 90s, recollections of their initial meeting remain vivid.
It was during World War II. Pascal "Pat" De Blasio was stationed in Boise, Idaho, as a bombardier. The then-black-haired Ruby Lea Taylor lived in Boise.
She was cruising around town with friends.
"I tell everyone (that) it's his uniform that got me," the now silver-haired 90-year-old Mrs. De Blasio said smiling, as she recalled catching sight of the man with a full head of black hair.
A whirlwind romance and courtship were followed by a wedding on Dec. 10, 1943, in Mountain Home, Idaho.
Seventy years later, the couple can't believe they've reached such a milestone.
"I never thought I'd live that long, much less be married that long," said Mrs. De Blasio, the more vocal of the two, Wednesday.
Mr. De Blasio, 91, light-heartedly added that if The Maui News wanted the real story, his daughter, Sandy Weisenstein, would have to leave the room.
"Sandy, you go home so we can talk," he joked.
On Saturday, the De Blasios, along with family and friends, will laugh and celebrate their 70th anniversary at the Maui Sunset condominium where the couple has lived for 23 years. They usually hold a Christmas party around their anniversary every year, but this year will be different, though the gathering still will be about family and friends and not about them, they said.
Weisenstein of West Chester, Pa., is on Maui to help out because her mom hurt her hip recently. She thinks humor and fun have made her parents' marriage last.
"They always laughed a lot and kidded around a lot, and that had a lot to do with it," she said.
Mrs. De Blasio joked that, in the early years, she couldn't run away from the marriage even if there were problems.
"If we had an argument, he hid the car keys and the checkbook, and I couldn't go home," she said laughing.
But all in all, she said, they worked out problems together, whether they involved financial issues or living apart when Mr. De Blasio worked in another state.
"I think young people today marry until something goes wrong. We married and worked through what went wrong," Mrs. De Blasio said.
"And that was a lot," Mr. De Blasio chimed in.
"We had our ups and downs," Mrs. De Blasio said.
"It's been a very good life," she said later. "There have been times we didn't have much money; we had our struggles. But he has given me a wonderful life."
She explained that as a young couple with two young sons, they drove across the country from their Idaho home in their new convertible to visit family and friends.
They were young and had no worries, acknowledged Mrs. De Blasio.
That was until they returned home. Then the couple realized that they didn't have any money.
Mr. De Blasio worked assorted jobs and obtained more education. Mrs. De Blasio was a stay-at-home mother for the two boys and Sandy, so she wasn't able to contribute financially.
Mr. De Blasio eventually found a job in Washington state. He worked for Boeing for 30 years doing various jobs, including overseeing facility construction.
It was during those early months with Boeing that the couple was physically separated. Mrs. De Blasio remained in Idaho for nine months taking care of the children and trying to sell the family's assets.
After settling in Washington, they became active members in their community of Des Moines. Mr. De Blasio said he felt he should give back to the community and served as a council member from 1973 to 1989 and mayor from 1984 to 1989.
Mrs. De Blasio was the owner/operator of Circuit Rider Christian Bookstore in town.
As members of the United Methodist Church, they hosted many youngsters in their home, they said.
After visiting Maui regularly for at least eight years, the couple settled on the Valley Isle in 1990.
Mrs. De Blasio still keeps busy with painting local landscapes and flowers and even special Christmas bottles.
Mr. De Blasio spent a lot of his time in his early years on Maui as a volunteer with Mediation Services, AARP and South Maui Citizens Patrol and serving on the boards of the Kihei Community Association and the Maui Condo Association. He is now officially retired from work and community service, he said.
In 1998, Mr. De Blasio was nominated Outstanding Older American of Maui County by then-Mayor Linda Lingle, the family said.
The couple also belongs to Ala Lani Methodist Church in Kahului.
Sandy lives in Pennsylvania; son Jim in Olympia, Wash.; and son John on Maui.
The De Blasios have five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
They have made longtime friends with other residents of the Maui Sunset during their two decades on Maui.
"They are my hanai parents," said fellow resident Patricia Brown, who also helps the couple when family cannot.
Brown said that being married for 70 years is "a goal we should all strive to reach."
Mrs. De Blasio was asked what she loves about her husband.
"I think he is very kind. He's always been really loving," she said. "He has always surprised me. . . . I always know I am loved."
Some of the surprises included a trip to Jerusalem and, early on in their marriage, the purchasing of her "dream house" in Idaho.
Asked what he loves about his wife, Mr. De Blasio said, "I just appreciate her manners and her love that I have."
Mrs. De Blasio offered advice to couples looking to get married today.
"I do tell them to make sure you are not just marrying because they think they are in love," she said. "Make sure you are going to stick together. Remember, it's not all going to be fun. There are struggles."
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The field, if you could call it that, was a patch of balding grass and lumpy dirt where kids played pickup baseball in a neglected corner of Newark's South Ward.Little League didn't exist there. It was an afterthought, wedged between basketball and football seasons.
Then, last winter, county construction crews tore up the bumpy old field and rolled out a carpet of emerald turf. They erected a scoreboard, lights, bleachers.
When the weather broke, dozens of boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 12 flocked to the field to join a new neighborhood Little League team.
The kids from Elizabeth Avenue had never played organized baseball. Some had never worn a mitt. Several couldn't afford the $25 registration fee. They had no uniforms. They used hand-me-down equipment. Their coach was a paraplegic ex-con.
They were surrounded by poverty, drug addiction and violence. But this new field was where, for a couple hours a day, they could learn to play.
It wouldn't be pretty.
There would be fists and tears, lopsided losses and humiliating errors. Players -- and an assistant coach -- would threaten to quit. And their remorseless neighborhood would press in on them each day.
But there also would be pure joy: Little League Baseball stripped to its essence by a ragtag bunch of kids and their underdog coach. And the journey, just two months long, would turn them into a team.
Rodney Mason pulled himself into his electric wheelchair, slipped on a black hoodie and tugged a San Francisco Giants cap low over his forehead. He took a moment to settle his nerves in his tiny sixth-floor apartment above Elizabeth Avenue.
It was April 29. In a couple of hours, Mason, 41, would coach the first game of the Elizabeth Avenue Eagles' inaugural season in the Jackie Robinson Little League. Just getting to this point was a triumph. But there was one disappointment he couldn't shake. When his team took the field, his players would be wearing T-shirts and denim.
"This is embarrassing," Mason grumbled. "I remember when I played Little League. When I got my uniform, I wore it to school. Sounds funny now, but I was that proud. These kids should have the same chance."
Mason was upset, but in a life riddled with indignities, he'd weathered worse. A former standout pitcher for Shabazz High School in the 1980s, he abandoned his dream of professional ball and ran the streets, eventually serving five months in prison for dealing drugs. In 1995, he was shot by the jealous boyfriend of a woman he'd been seeing. The bullet lodged in his spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.
He spent years in near-seclusion in his apartment, depressed and scared. But he slowly emerged from his gloom, and challenged himself to do something to help kids in his neighborhood.
Then he saw the field.
He wheeled himself into a church basement, where the league committee was holding a monthly meeting, and proposed a team made entirely of kids from the neighborhood.
"I don't know if you can really do this," the league's president, Kelley Spear, told him. "You're going to be on the field with the kids? Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I can do it," Mason said.
Spear was torn. She knew how badly Elizabeth Avenue needed a team. There were hundreds of kids living in its high-rise apartment buildings who couldn't make it to any Little League fields. At the same time, she was wary of wannabe coaches who talked big.
But she saw something in the eyes of this stoic, muscular man with a shaved head and beard. It was determination.
More than six months later, on April 29, Mason, his nerves now settled, motored up Elizabeth Avenue to the new field, where his team waited for him in the chilly afternoon sun.
There were about 30 kids, all clustered around Mason, tossing balls, putting each other in headlocks.
''Coach Rock, who we playin' today?"
''Can I pitch?"
''We gettin' uniforms?"
Mason wondered if he could really pull it off.
He had help from three volunteer coaches who saw his notice in the newspaper about the new team. They ran drills for him and carried the equipment -- a few used softball bats, donated helmets and four flimsy rubber bases. But Mason heard what other adults in the neighborhood said behind his back after seeing the first few practices: how sloppy and unruly the players looked, cursing at each other, chomping candy, throwing like shot-putters and swinging at pitches over their heads.
The players didn't seem to mind. On opening day, when Spear showed up with a bag of cheap white T-shirts with iron-on numbers, they grabbed them, yanked off their own shirts and changed behind the backstop. They chanted loudly during pre-game stretches in left field, even as their opponents, the Black Sox, fanned across the infield in clean black-and-orange uniforms, devouring ground balls and firing them to first.
Just before the game started, one of the assistant coaches, Abdul Raheem Cook, showed the Eagles' starting pitcher, Kemar Thompson, how to throw from a rubber. The lesson came a little late.
His first pitch hit the leadoff batter, who stole second on the following pitch, took third on the next, and scored on a ground ball.
The rest of the game went pretty much the same way. The Black Sox scored most of their runs on passed balls and errors, while the Eagles pouted over bobbled grounders and strikeouts. They lost, 12-2.
Mason stopped two or three kids from crying. He was embarrassed, too. But he swallowed it and told the kids they needed more practice.
Later, he'd recall thinking to himself, Please, God, I hope I can do this.
On a warm Sunday afternoon on May 4, during their third game against the Philly Stars, the Eagles' 10-year-old captain threatened to beat up one of the assistant coaches.
The boy, William "Pooh" Jones, was pitching. He lost his control, then his cool, and got tagged by Stars batters.
An assistant coach, Jamaal Calloway, walked to the mound to pull him. Will, the team's most emotional and outspoken player, curled his hand into a fist and said, "You wanna fight?"
Other coaches rushed to intervene, while the umpire and the Philly Stars watched. Calloway, an intense Newark native who lived in suburban Roselle Park, wanted to bench Will. But Mason worried what would happen to the boy if he was removed from the game.
"If you don't take him out, I quit," Calloway said. When Mason told Will to catch, Calloway stormed off the field.
Mason could feel his new team falling apart. A couple of innings earlier, a promising second baseman named Delonte Livingston struck out and slouched on the bench in tears, saying he didn't want to play anymore. Calloway pulled him from the game.
Calloway, accustomed to coaching well-organized suburban teams, wanted discipline. But others, Mason included, worried his hard-nosed style would turn the kids off.
"These kids need discipline, but we can only discipline them so much," Mason said.
As ballplayers, they had a long way to go. They ran circles under popups, and jabbed at fly balls as they sailed overhead. Some couldn't complete a lap around the outfield without getting winded.
Kaneisha Robinson, one of two girls on the team, put her batting helmet on backwards when she stepped to the plate for the first time. An 8-year-old boy, hardly taller than 3 feet, got reprimanded for sucking his fingers at second. The shortstop forced a halt to one game when he ran off the field to pee.
Mubarrak Chase, a quiet boy with bushy hair who bugged his parents to let him play, got his first hit, and when the first base coach tried to wave him to second and stretch his hit into a double, the boy froze.
"Now?" Mubarrak asked.
"Yes, now!"
When the kids made errors, they hollered at each other, threw their gloves in the dirt and lost their concentration. Which led to more errors.
Mason felt responsible for every opposing run that crossed the plate.
"We just need some pitching and practicing," he told the kids after one loss. "I fault myself for that."
What kept Mason motivated was the kids' enthusiasm. Every day they showed up at the field at 5:30 p.m. and waited for his instructions. Any routine accomplishment -- throwing someone out, a base hit, a run scored -- was reason to celebrate. They mobbed each other in the dugout, dancing and rolling on the ground.
Other neighborhood children stopped Mason on the street, wondering if they could sign up. He never said no. He'd already let so many kids onto the team that the league had to create a second team -- the Black Yankees -- to accommodate them all. That's also where Mason sent Delonte, the boy who wanted to quit; he thrived in the new environment.
"How can you tell a kid he can't play?" Mason explained. "What if he's shot and killed the next day hanging out on the street? I can't deal with that."
A few days earlier, on May 2, in their second game, the Eagles got a boost with a win against the Black Crackers, another new team. The runs came cheap -- on walks, weak hits and passed balls, mostly -- but it was still a victory. The finishing touch came from pitcher Kemar's diminutive younger brother, Versace Graham, who ran onto the field and did a series of backflips.
But now, in the middle of their third game against the Philly Stars, Mason's top coach was walking away.
Darnell Chase, a Pop Warner football coach and the father of Mubarrak, the boy with base-running difficulties, stopped Calloway just outside the dugout after the dustup with the wild pitcher.
"These are some hard kids, but we're trying to show them better," Chase told him. "You can't give up on them. They're used to people giving up on them."
Between innings, Chase explained further: "Coaches are like the last line of defense, along with parents and teachers. For some of the kids, this is it, this is the only thing they got."
Calloway stuck around until the last out. But he never returned.
Mason, back in the dugout, turned back to watch the game. Later, he admitted thinking, I'm trying to teach these children how to play, and I have to worry about these grown-assed men.
The Eagles lost to the Stars, 13-4. Afterward, Mason gathered them in a circle on the pitcher's mound. "We'll be alright, y'all. We need to have fun."
Then, on his count of three, they all shouted, "Eagles!"
DeWan Johnson -- "Puda" to his teammates -- crouched into a batter's stance at Modell's Sporting Goods in downtown Newark. On his hands were a bright white pair of batting gloves. Facing a mirror, the 11-year-old boy took an imaginary swing and beamed a gap-toothed smile.
At the counter, Mason was paying for the gloves and the boy's first new mitt.
Until this moment, no man had ever done much to help DeWan play ball. His father was never part of his life. His stepfather was in prison. He learned to throw by watching kids on the playground, and learned to swing by watching the Yankees on TV.
DeWan had a strong arm and could field grounders, so Mason put him at third base. But the boy struggled at the plate. He struck out a lot, yet always jogged back to the dugout smiling.
When DeWan joined the Eagles, his uncle handed him an old mitt. But its holes and tears made him the butt of jokes. He told Mason, who agreed to buy him a new one. On Memorial Day, they caught the bus from Weequahic Park.
The trip made a lasting impression on DeWan. He saw the NJ Transit driver lower a platform to accommodate Mason's wheelchair, and watched as two young men refused to give up their seats in the handicapped section of the bus.
"My coach wasted his whole spare time getting this for me, and I thank him for it," DeWan said later.
Mason bought the gloves with money left over from a $1,100 donation made by a woman working on a documentary film about Newark violence. He'd already bought the team bats, a pitching target, a new set of catcher's gear and a season's worth of water and Gatorade.
Leaving Modell's, Mason told DeWan to break in his glove by sticking it under his bed at night.
"Like, under my pillow?" DeWan asked.
"Under your mattress," Mason said.
After he got home, DeWan told his mother how much he looked up to Mason.
"Puda said, 'Mom, he's like a real role model,'" DeWan's mother, Joey Welch, recalled. "I was like, 'Yes. He is.'"
She added, "It doesn't matter he's in a wheelchair. He's doing so much more than some people who walk."
The team was looking better now. On May 15, after a three-game losing streak, Mason imposed a new rule: "No more arguing."
He and the other coaches reminded them every game. And Mason believed it was working. The Eagles won their next two games.
Will, the player who threatened a coach, contained his emotions better and settled in as the team's primary catcher. In one game, he threw a runner out at second and hit a ball to the outfield warning track.
Versace, the acrobatic infielder, stopped pouting when he struck out.
Kaneisha, who started the season unable to put her helmet on right, got her first hit -- and in the excitement carried the bat to first base.
The team's other girl, Hassanah Boykins, caught some liners in left field and hit the ball harder than some of the boys.
DeWan, playing shortstop with his new glove, executed a perfect relay from left field and threw out a runner at third.
Mason also was making them more aggressive base runners to take advantage of catchers' young arms. "I don't know if you noticed but there aren't any Thurman Munsons back there," he said. "So I'm running them raggedy."
Better yet, the players finally got their uniforms: yellow hats, yellow socks, and black shirts that said "EA Newark" in large yellow type, and "Eagles" below. They changed into the new clothes minutes before a game against the Black Sox on May 17 and sprinted onto the field together.
"Look like a team, feel like a team," one parent shouted.
The bleachers got more crowded, with several generations of players' families.
Some were young fathers who talked about their own fathers never coming to see them play. One of them, Thaiquan Scott, had two kids on the team: Kaneisha, the girl who ran with the bat, and Nasir Scott, a beanpole center fielder. Their family often took up half the bleachers, sharing snacks with the others.
Mubarrak's mother, who earlier in the season had wanted her son moved to another team, started coming to games with an airhorn, which she blew after big plays. Kemar and Versace's mother led everyone in a new cheer:
"Everywhere we go. People want to know. Who we are. So we tell them. This is EA! Mighty mighty EA! Strike 'em out EA!"
Irene McKoy, whose grandson, Derek Fykes, played infield, said Mason's commitment to the kids made her forgive the disorganization. When other teams tried to poach Derek from the Eagles, she fended them off.
"He was the only one willing to take kids who didn't know anything about baseball," she said. "I respect that."
Mason said it took time to learn how to handle the frustrated kids, the angry parents, and his own insecurities.
"Things are getting good," Mason said after a 16-2 win over the Black Crackers. "We're past all that negative stuff."
In many towns and cities, baseball can be an escape, a way for kids to lose themselves in a game. But that wasn't the case for the Eagles.
No matter what happened on the field, this was still the South Ward of Newark.
Mason knew that as well as anyone. He liked to describe his team's gritty journey as "the raw cut," an unblushing inner-city adventure into the American pastime.
But the season's last few days would be the toughest.
The Eagles had been gearing up for a final-game grudge match on June 14 against the Black Yankees, the Elizabeth Avenue splinter team that, weeks earlier, had edged them, 4-3. On the night before the game, Mason gathered the players at the field and told them that Mubarrak would not be playing.
Mason had fretted over how much he should tell the kids. They hadn't taught this one in the training class for coaches.
If he explained too much, the kids may be too shaken to play. Many of them had grown accustomed to violence in their neighborhood, and he didn't want to make it any worse. So he decided not to tell them what happened.
Earlier that day, Friday the 13th, Mubarrak's father, Pop Warner coach Darnell Chase, had been stabbed to death at home, his wife and children nearby. The killer had not been caught.
Mason left the kids' questions unanswered, figuring that word would eventually get around, later. With the season about to end, he wanted them to focus on the team, and on avenging their earlier loss to the Black Yankees.
"I need this one," Mason told them. "Real bad."
The Eagles heard his plea, and beat the Black Yankees, 9-4. DeWan enjoyed a personal victory, ending his hitting struggles with a line-drive single down the right field line. Back in the dugout, Kemar, the pitcher, put his arm around DeWan and said, "You did it!"
DeWan boasted, "Yo, next year, we're going to be undefeated. How much you wanna bet?"
When the game ended, the Eagles lingered on the field, soaking in the win. They ran around the bases and slid into home. Versace did another flip.
Mason headed back to the dugout. "They're looking good," he said. "Remember how they looked in the beginning? I did a good job, right?"
He had told the kids there would still be more baseball because the Jackie Robinson Little League allowed all teams to make the playoffs.
But after the game, Spears told him that the league couldn't come up with the $600 to pay its umpires. The playoffs would be postponed until they found the money.
In an era of richly endowed youth leagues and eight-figure professional salaries, the Jackie Robinson Little League couldn't afford a few hundred bucks to pay someone to call balls and strikes.
To Mason, it was another painful indignity. He couldn't bear the Eagles breaking up, even temporarily.
"Man, I'm sad as a puppy," he said. "I've gotten attached to these kids."
The disappointment was still nagging Mason later that night, when he received a tearful phone call from Irene McKoy, whose grandson Derek had nearly been poached by rival coaches.
Derek's ill mother had just died. McKoy worried how the boy, who already had trouble controlling his anger, would handle such a crushing loss.
Derek needed the baseball team. He also needed more men like Mason. McKoy asked Mason if he'd help mentor the boy.
Mason agreed. Maybe he was doing a good job.
"He was wonderful," McKoy said later, explaining her request. "He took the kids off the streets, some kids who had never played baseball before. But the season wasn't long enough for Derek."
A week passed. Mason visited the field almost every day, watching the league's all-star tryouts and trying to keep track of his players. Finally, Spear called to say the league had come up with the money. The Eagles would play their first playoff game on Friday, June 27.
It would be a final showdown -- against the Black Yankees.
But even that would end in disappointment.
The Eagles showed up eager to play. But there were only seven Black Yankees, not enough to field a team, and, even worse, none of their coaches showed up.
Mason and his squad waited around for 45 minutes until the umpire called a forfeit, and awarded the game to the Eagles.
Although it was a win, the Eagles walked around looking dejected.
Then Mason reminded them that they were still in the playoffs. The more they won, the more games there would be.
"They know there's more baseball left," Mason said. "That's what matters."
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The Big Orange Meal Share program, which launched in January, allows students to donate their unused guest meals and allows others to contribute funds to benefit students in need. Anagha Uppal, a junior in the College Scholars Program, and Melissa Shivers, associate vice chancellor for student life and dean of students, worked together to bring the program to life. Media outlets showcased the Big Orange Meal Share.
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UT Launches Meal Share Program to Assist Students in Need
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Nominate Outstanding Students for Courtside Experience
The Office of the Dean of Students, in collaboration with UT Athletics, will give students an opportunity to watch UT basketball games from the comfort of Smokey's Sofa, a courtside experience at Thompson-Boling Arena.
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The Office of the Dean of Students and UT Athletics is calling for nominations of outstanding students to participate in Spirit Row. Students chosen for Spirit Row will sit in section E, row 1, of Neyland Stadium during football games. This initiative honors UT's most spirited students by giving them an opportunity to sit in the front row and cheer for the Volunteers.
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UT has disciplined two fraternities, Sigma Chi and Lambda Chi Alpha, for alleged hazing incidents that occurred early in the fall semester.
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Faculty and staff can now arrange a special Safe Zone training for their department or unit. Safe Zone is a voluntary network of faculty, staff, and students who believe that every member of the community should have an equal opportunity to grow and learn in a safe and open environment. Safe Zone training explores LGBT issues in an honest and open way and provides an opportunity for participants to become LGBT allies
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Running Start
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Jumping Jacks & Jumping Trunk Twists
Two dynamic stretches for the legs, torso, and arms
Tags: middle school, stretches & strength, dynamic stretches
Jumping Jacks:
- Stand with the feet together, pointing forward, and the arms hanging straight at the sides.
- In one jumping motion, bend the knees and extend both legs out to the sides while simultaneously extending the arms out to the sides and then up and over the head.
- Immediately reverse the motion, jumping back to the starting or neutral standing position and repeat.
Jumping Trunk Twists:
- Hop up and down on both legs while rotating the lower and upper body in opposite directions.
- Change direction with each hop.
- Move the arms in the same direction as the torso to facilitate its turning and to provide added stability.
Performance Points:
Jumping Jacks:
At maximum extension:
- Extend the feet more than shoulder-width apart.
- Keep the arms fairly straight with the fingers almost touching.
- Jump and land on the balls of the feet with a slight knee-bend.
- Point the knees and toes forward throughout the jumping action.
- Maintain upright posture with the head up.
Jumping Trunk Twists:
- Keep the feet together.
- Takeoff and land in the same spot, with the feet directly beneath the hips.
- Jump and land on the balls of the feet with a slight knee-bend.
- Twist with a fluid motion.
- Maintain upright posture with the head up.
Training Specifics:
Duration / Reps: For both exercises, 10-20 repetitions. Count one rep each time the legs and arms reach their starting position.
When: Toward the end of the pre-workout, warm-up routine; after a jog and some lower intensity stretches
- Warms up the whole body, loosening muscles in the legs, torso, and arms


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island's Albany lawmakers will soon be representing redrawn legislative districts.
But the redistricting process, so rancorous in other parts of the state, didn't cause much controversy on the Island.
That's because the borough's six Albany lawmakers saw their districts little changed.
Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-East Shore/Brooklyn) saw the biggest changes, with the freshman lawmaker losing a chunk of Brooklyn that included the Bay Ridge Towers apartment complex.
But that was a boost for Ms. Malliotakis, as the complex is known as a bastion of Democratic voters.
In other changes, the Island will now be home to Assembly districts numbered 61 through 64, instead of 60 through 63.
Ms. Malliotakis' district number was changed from 60 to 64 under the new maps.
State Sen. Diane Savino (D-North Shore/Brooklyn) gained a piece of real estate that had previously been carved out of her district: Nixon Avenue on Ward Hill, home neighborhood of the late GOP state Sen. John Marchi.
The distinctive, circular block had long been drawn into Marchi's district, now represented by state Sen. Andrew Lanza (R-Staten Island). It will now be part of Ms. Savino's district.
Assemblymembers Michael Cusick (D-Mid-Island), Matthew Titone (D-North Shore) and Lou Tobacco (R-South Shore) had no complaints about their redrawn districts.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo had for months threatened to veto the lines drawn by Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats, thinking they were "hyper-political" and protective of incumbents. The threat of a judge getting involved and drawing the lines loomed. But Cuomo signed off on the lines at the last minute in exchange for a constitutional amendment that would create an independent panel to supervise redistricting a decade from now.
Good government groups and newspaper editorial writers, including the Advance's, slammed Cuomo for backroom wheeling-and-dealing, saying that the new maps favor incumbents, not voters.
Members of both parties, including Cuomo, had vowed during the 2010 campaign to support fair redistricting, but abandoned such efforts after the election. Republicans drew a 63rd district in a bid to protect their shaky 32-30 majority in the Senate, while Assembly Democrats came up with maps that leave them outnumbering Republicans 96 to 49 in the chamber.
And critics said the plan to change the constitution in order to seek an independent panel in 2022 is no balm, because it will have to be approved this year and next by the partisan majorities in both the Senate and Assembly even before there is a referendum by voters.
The deal also assures Senate Republicans of a strong voice in redistricting if they lose their majority in a state, where Democrats hold a nearly 2-to-1 voting edge.
The New York Public Interest Research Group said the promise of a constitutional amendment isn't worth skewed and partisan lines that favor incumbents in the Legislature for the next 10 years.
About the districts
Staten Island includes two state Senate districts. All residents not part of the North Shore/ Brooklyn-based District 23 are part of District 24.
The borough's four Assembly districts, formerly known as
Districts 60-63, are now 61-64. The lines have been slightly redrawn in the redistricting process, and the former District 60, East Shore/ Brooklyn is now A.D. 64. The eastern portion of the North Shore is still District 61. The South Shore/ Mid-Island is District 62. The West Shore/ North Shore is District 63.
Advance Political Editor Tom Wrobleski writes the Polit Bureau blog


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Here's the reality for those who think President Obama cannot run on and has no record to run on:
Unemployment down to 8.2 percent from 10.1 percent is a failure?
GDP growing at +1.9 percent rather than shrinking at -6.8 percent is a failure?
Stock market, pensions and retirement funds up to high of 12k+ from low of 6k+ is a failure?
From losing 780,000 jobs a month to gaining jobs for the last 28 months is a failure?
4.4 million private sector jobs gained is a failure?
18 tax cuts for small businesses to help jump-start our economy is a failure?
Ending war in Iraq is a failure?
Getting Bin Laden is a failure?
Respecting our gay troops just as much as our straight troops is a failure?
Saving the auto industry is a failure?
Increased manufacturing is a failure?
Tax cuts for everyone for the last 3 1/2 years is a failure?
Feeding and helping hungry and struggling fellow Americans in our time of need is a failure?
Our children with pre-existing conditions getting health care is a failure?
Our seniors saving money on prescription drugs is a failure?
Our kids staying on our health care polices until age 26 is a failure?
No lifetime caps on our health care is a failure?
What would be a success if all of this is failure?
If everyone repeating this GOP talking point about President Obama not being able to run on his record ever really bothered to listen to President Obama speak, they would know that he runs on his record all the time. Oh right, they know that and that is the whole idea, misinform and muddy the water so people are misinformed and confused. Wake up my fellow Americans!


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Making a Career of Anime
Name: Adam Sheehan
Current Job: Senior Events Manager, FUNimation Entertainment
First Job: Washing dishes at a diner
Education: Bachelor's in marketing, University of Texas at Arlington
How I got here in 10 words or less: By always striving to create a better event
Adam Sheehan has what Japanese animation fans might consider a dream job. As a senior events manager for Funimation Entertainment, a producer of shows like "Dragon Ball Z" and "Soul Eater," he sets up video screenings, autograph signings and other activities at about 20 anime conventions a year. But Mr. Sheehan, 32, says launching a career tied to a special interest typically requires more than deep-seated passion. Education, pro-bono experience and networking is also essential. Edited interview excerpts follow.
Q: How did you get hooked on anime in the first place?
A: I grew up I watching cartoons like Astro Boy, Voltron and Robotec.
Q: You also got involved in college. How?
A: I majored in marketing at the University of Texas at Arlington and served as president of the school's anime club for three years.
Q: How did you land your first anime job?
A: During my junior year (in college), I did pro bono work at anime conventions for a friend who had just started a marketing firm. It was to get something on my résumé. I learned so much and so fast. After graduation, I got a job offer right out of the gate with Score Entertainment as a tour manager for the Dragon Ball Z TCG (trading-card game). My job was to go to malls and conventions around the country in an H1 (Hummer vehicle) decorated with characters from Dragon Ball Z. We ran demos of the game, gave away prizes and had voice-over actors for the show sign autographs. It was incredible.
Q: After three years, you changed jobs. Why?
A: I'm more of an anime fan than a card-game player. So one day I called Funimation and said 'I'd love to work with you guys.' I got to know them through the mall events and conventions because we hired their actors a lot. You have to grow relationships however they come. If it wasn't for me being so close to these people, getting my job wouldn't have been so easy.
How You Can Get There,Too
Skills you need: The ability to stay organized and communicate well with others is critical. Event planning requires juggling multiple tasks at once such as ordering materials from vendors, coordinating schedules with support staff, and setting up and taking down booths at conventions.
Where you should start: Student groups specializing in marketing and anime. Mr. Sheehan joined the American Marketing Association's campus group at the University of Texas at Arlington while he was a student there, as well as Delta Sigma Phi, a business fraternity. He also belonged to his school's anime club.
Degrees you should go for: Bachelor's in marketing.
Best advice: Do volunteer work to grow your network and get experience you can add to your resume.
Professional organizations to contact: American Marketing Association
Salary range: Event planners earn an average annual salary ranging from $45,000 to $63,000, according to Salary.com. Senior event managers earn more, and pay varies by industry and job demands.
Q: Fans at anime conventions often dress as their favorite characters. Do you ever forget you're working?
A: I always need to keep a friendly and professional demeanor. I have to demonstrate full knowledge of all of our shows, the company and the industry overall. When I'm speaking on panels, which average about 500 to 800 people, I have to say everything very carefully since I may be quoted. Someone might be blogging about the event while it's happening or filming it for the Web.
Q: Any career highlights to share?
A: There's a super group of four female Japanese manga artists called Clamp, and (Funimation) had a chance to bring them to the U.S. for the first time in 2006. It was the biggest event of my career. It involved six different companies world-wide and took about the nine months of the heaviest planning I've ever had to do. It was for the Anime Expo in Anaheim, Calif., and it drew the biggest crowd that Clamp had ever received—about 5,000 people.
Q: Any advice for pursuing a career like yours?
A: Get involved as soon as possible. We get a lot of fans who come up to us and (tell us) they love your shows and want to work for (us). Some clearly just want to be closer to the shows they love, but others talk about the business and how they're going to school for it. Those are the ones who actually get to the next step.
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Wrapped in ribbons and bows
Joy Global (Nasdaq: JOYG ) was not included on the naughty or nice list, but its results for 2006 were definitely nice. The mining equipment manufacturer posted excellent results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2006. For the quarter, earnings per share rose 58%, driven by a 21% increase in sales, improved margins, and a lower share count. For the year, profits jumped 181% to $3.38 per share. Excluding $0.88 of tax adjustments, profits were still extremely strong. Orders for the quarter rose 28% over 2005 levels to set a record of $836 million. Plus, the company increased dividend payments, continued to buy back shares, and increased earnings guidance for the 14th quarter in a row.
The background to these results is a global commodities boom. Joy Global is divided into two segments: P&H Mining Equipment, which makes surface mining equipment (for open-pit mining), and Joy Mining Equipment, which makes underground equipment. Surface equipment generates about 40% of revenues and is driven by commodities like copper, coal, and iron ore. Underground equipment accounts for roughly 60% of revenues and is largely driven by the coal market.
A lump of coal
When we were kids, adults would threaten, If you don't behave yourself, Santa Claus will give you a lump of coal. Probably the most surprising thing about the results Joy Global posted for 2006 was that they occurred during relative weakness in the domestic coal market. With 30% of P&H revenues and 90% of Joy Mining revenues driven by coal, one could have expected different 2006 results.
With the heavy dependence on coal in mind, investors ought to wonder whether or not the party may be coming to a close. Oil prices have eased, alternative energy garners big headlines, and dirty old coal seems so much like Dickens and the 19th century. Yet the future for coal is quite bright. Coal demand was weak this year mostly because of mild weather, which may or may not persist in the short term. 2007 could be another year of mild weather, coal stocks could pile up, and projects for mine expansions could be delayed.
Looking further into the future, it's a fair assumption that mild weather won't persist. Coal provides the lion's share of U.S. power generation capacity and will do so for the foreseeable future. The Energy Information Administration projects 156 gigawatts of new coal-fired generation capacity are going to come online by 2030 in the U.S. alone, with coal-fired capacity actually increasing its share of U.S. power generation. Internationally, coal-fired generation is also growing, and companies like Sasol (NYSE: SSL ) are forming partnerships with coal-rich nations like China to develop automotive fuels.
Warm up to the long-term view
Joy Global, and other equipment manufacturers like Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT ) and Bucyrus (Nasdaq: BUCY ) , seem to get kicked around every time commodity prices drop. Mr. Market has been very emotional with Joy Global, sending shares to over $70 last spring, then down to $32 in September. Even with the 10% jump in Joy Global shares over the past couple of days, the stock remains 30% below its high price from early May.
However, Joy Global is benefiting from long-term growth in commodity extraction. Traders react to price reductions in coal or copper as though the sky is falling. Yet for most commodities, current prices are far above production cost, global demand is growing, and companies all over the globe are investing to upgrade aging equipment or expand capacity.
If you believe in the long-term prospects for the commodity market, Joy Global is the picks and shovels company. Buying during the current ebullient mood of Mr. Market, however, is probably a bad idea. Wait a while and a warm winter week might create a bit of weakness in coal demand, sending shares tumbling to more reasonable levels.
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Fool contributor Robert Aronen owns shares of Joy Global but no other company mentioned in this article. He's not so sure he was nice this year. If this is the year he gets the lump of coal, he just hopes that Joy Global had a part in mining it. The Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Bear Mountain is home to Southern California's highest lift-served peak sitting at 8,805 feet. With the only half-pipes in So Cal and its famous trendsetting terrain parks, Bear offers a youthful and core environment. In summer, make time for nine at 7,200 feet at the Bear Mountain golf course.
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Celebration of life Sept. 6 for Rev. Joseph Carney
LOPEZ ISLAND — The Rev. Joseph Carney, a former pastor of St. Charles Church in Poulsbo and early member of the North Kitsap Fishline board of directors, passed away peacefully at home with his wife by his side on Aug. 19.
He was 84.
A celebration of his life is scheduled for Sept. 6, 11:30 a.m., at Grace Episcopal Church on Lopez Island, with a luncheon reception following in the parish hall. A memorial service will be held at St. Charles on Little Valley Road at a later date.
Carney was born on Dec. 23, 1929 in Vancouver, B.C. and attended various schools before graduating from Vancouver College Prep School in 1948. He then pursued his long-time desire to enter the priesthood by enrolling in the Roman Catholic Seminary of Christ the King in Mission, B.C. He was awarded a bachelor of arts degree in 1953 and a degree in theology in 1957. He was ordained on April 6, 1957.
He served in various Vancouver area parishes as assistant priest, and as editor of the Diocesan newspaper of the Archdiocese of Vancouver. He was appointed to The Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps in 1963 with the rank of second lieutenant and served in that capacity until 1967.
After much soul searching, he knew that he wanted marriage to be part of his life and in November 1965 he married Tanya Dournovo. The marriage was followed by a brief stay at Huron College, University of Western Ontario, and Carney was received into the Anglican Communion in December 1966.
In October 1967, the Carneys and their infant son, Rex, emigrated to the United States. Carney entered the U.S. Episcopal Church through the Diocese of Olympia and was assigned to St. Barnabas on Bainbridge Island and its satellite mission churches in Poulsbo and Port Gamble.
Over the next several years, he oversaw the independence of the Poulsbo and Port Gamble congregations, the building of a church and parish hall in Poulsbo, and considerable congregational growth. He was also involved in the community in many ways.
He served on the Board of Fishline when it was housed at St. Charles Church and was a charter member of the North Kitsap Counseling Cluster, which was designed to provide help for people regardless of denomination or creed.
He and St. Charles helped establish the North Kitsap School for Handicapped Children in 1970 and housed this program for several years. He was a founding member of the Kitsap County Council on Alcoholism and served on the board for several years. His parish sponsored immigrant families from Vietnam and Poland until they were settled in their new American home.
Carney served twice as president of the North Kitsap Ministerial Association.
"He believed strongly in bringing the churches together to serve the needs of the community," his wife, Tanya, wrote. "Two of his most rewarding forms of ministry were serving as chaplain to the Poulsbo Fire Department and to Hospice of Kitsap County, which he continued until moving to the San Juans in 1999."
He resigned as rector of St. Charles parish in 1989 and became vicar of St. Bede's Mission, Port Orchard, where he served until his retirement in 1995.
He and his family enjoyed sailing the San Juans and Canadian Gulf Islands for many years, so he was happy to come out of retirement in 1997 to serve as part-time vicar of Grace Church on Lopez Island. He retired for the second time in 1999 when he and Tanya decided to make Lopez Island their permanent home.
The Carneys were active members of the Poulsbo Yacht Club for many years. He was also an avid crab fisherman and would be one of the first ones to put out a pot when the season opened, according to his wife. He also had a private pilot's license and enjoyed flying his Ercoupe.
"Joe was loved by everyone who knew him for his ready smile, his sense of humor, and the joy and kindness he exuded," his wife wrote. "He will be greatly missed by his family, his former parishioners, and all his friends."
He is survived by his wife; sons, Rex (Jennifer) and Brent; grandchildren, Brennan, Casey, Chloe and Dillon; sister-in-law, Verlie Carney; brother-in-law, Martin Dournovo (Virginia); and numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Robert and Nora Carney; and brothers, Robert and Fred.
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Visit South America and travel to Patagonia on a trekking adventure
Visit South America and travel to Patagonia - a fascinating region in the far south of Chile and Argentina, rich in natural beauty, dramatic vistas and cosmopolitan cities oozing with passion and culture. Feel the contrast as you trek the W Hike through the Patagonian wilderness and explore the urban metropolis of Santiago. From camping near the end of the earth and witnessing gargantuan glaciers to indulging in the modernity of Buenos Aires, this trip will reward those with a sense of adventure, an appreciation of nature and an interest in diversity.
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- Santiago, Chile
- Finish
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Argentina, Chile
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- Discover two very different sides of Chile – the big-city pusle of soulful Santiago and the adventure-fuelled atmosphere of lakeside Puerto Natales
- Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier must be seen to be believed. This massive, blue-hued natural wonder is one of Patagonia's real crown jewels
- Trek past granite pillars, sparkling lakes and gushing waterfalls in Torres del Paine National Park on a four-day camping trip with all your meals taken care of
- Finish in Buenos Aires, Argentina's sensational and sultry capital. Stay on and explore its many corners at your leisure, from the star-studded Recoleta cemetery to the tucked-away milongas (tango halls)
This itinerary is valid for departures from 01 January 2016 to 31 December 2016. View the itinerary for departures between 01 January 2017 - 31 December 2017
Day 1 Santiago
Notes: If you need to hire a sleeping bag for your upcoming trek, let your leader know at tonight's welcome meeting.
Day 2 Punta Arenas / Puerto Natales
Day 3-6 Torres del Paine National Park/W Hike
Notes: During these treks you will carry a small day pack with your personal belongings, such as a rain jacket, water, snacks and a camera. Dinners are simple (pastas, rice, chicken) and are served in a common dining area. Lunches consist of sandwiches, fruit and sometimes a chocolate bar. Soft and alcoholic drinks are not provided and there is a limited selection to buy from at the general store. If you'd like fruit, nuts, wine or spirits, you'll need to buy these beforehand and bring them with you. Bathroom facilities are available in the campsite, with communal showers and bathroom separated by gender. You and a fellow traveller will share a tent for these four nights. Sleeping bags are not provided on this trip, but can be hired if you don't have your own (USD40 for the 4 nights). Make sure you inform your leader of Day 1 of the trip if you plan to hire a sleeping bag. A thermarest / inflatable mattress and small pillow are provided.
This a traditional 'W hike', which usually involves staying overnight at Camping Los Cuernos. The space available to set up camp in this area is very limited (particularly on the busy summer months) and the terrain is uncomfortable. This itinerary skips this campsite by driving to the other side of the park (Laguna Amarga). We believe this change enhances the enjoyment of the trekking days.
Day 7 El Calafate
Day 8 El Calafate/Perito Moreno Glacier
Day 9 Buenos Aires
Notes: If everything goes to plan, you'll arrive in the early afternoon, but keep in mind that airline schedules in Argentina are known for changing without much notice. This means you could arrive in BA as late as 10 pm tonight.
Day 10 Buenos Aires
Meals9 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 4 dinners
TransportPlane, Local bus, Private minibus, Boat
AccommodationHotel (5 nights), Camping (with basic facilities) (4 nights)
Included activities
- 4 Day W-Trek in Torres del Paine
- Entrance to Los Glaciares National Park
- Perito Moreno Glacier visit
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Archive » May 22, 2008
Village Beat
By Kelly Mahan
CVBA Town Hall Meeting
"If you could make a postcard for Coast Village Road, what would it look like?" This was a question posed by business owner Trey Pinner to attendees at last week's Coast Village Business Association Town Hall meeting. "Think about what the picture would look like on your postcard, and think about what that little saying on the back would read," he said, "What is so great about this place?"
It was a question over 60 business owners, residents, land owners and community members thought about for close to three hours on May 8; the first of two town hall style meetings to be held by CVBA.
The meeting, which was held at the Montecito Country Club, started with short "informational position statements" with reps from several agencies. Kirsten Ayars with Ayars and Associates spoke about the upcoming roundabout construction and the impact on Coast Village Road. "It will be built in sub-stages, meaning that they're going to allow traffic to drive through the area; they'll be shifting the two intersections around while they build the roundabout; you'll still be able to drive through the area," she said.
Tom Mosby with Montecito Water District spoke to the serious water shortage the district is facing. "We just do not have the water supply to handle additional water demands at this point," he said, "We hope that all of you recognize that water is very precious, it's limited, and that you try and control its use." Pat Kelly with Public Works, city councilman Grant House, Acting Community Development Director Dave Gustafson and Scott Klacking with the Santa Barbara Police Department also briefly spoke.
Attendees CVBA were separated into six groups for the bulk of the meeting; each group was led by a board member, and in one case the wife of a board member. Danny Copus, President of CVBA, secretary Jan Atkins, and business owners Trey Pinner, Maureen Murphy, Maria Arroyo, and Tom Bollay were chosen to facilitate the discussions at each table. Over a dozen topics were touched upon including traffic, parking, pedestrian accessibility, ADA guidelines, public vistas, night lighting, solar access, landscaping, building height, aesthetics, bulk and scale of new development, and "flavor" of the street.
A significant concern heard from many seemed to be maintaining the "village feel" Montecito has become known for. "Let's create a reason why the tourists want to make Coast Village Road and Montecito their destination," one participant said. Not installing traffic lights, prohibiting massive buildings and maintaining public vistas were important, but interestingly, several people said they would like to see more sidewalks leading from CVR to nearby neighborhoods, an idea that many in Montecito have historically been against.
A few other fresh ideas brought up were a parking garage on Coast Village Circle and bringing national merchants to CVR. By bringing real estate offices, insurance offices and banks to the lesser traveled Coast Village Circle, mused one property owner, more retail stores could be on the road itself, attracting more visitors. And by adding high-end national merchants within the retail sector, he added, CVR could become more of a shopping destination and create more foot traffic. Several people agreed this was an idea to look into.
"We had a good turnout," said Copus about the meeting. He told us many attendees came up to him after the meeting and thanked the Association for hosting the event. The second town hall meeting is scheduled for May 28 at Montecito Country Club from 6-9 pm. Results of the first meeting will be reviewed, ideas will be refined and conclusions will be sent to City Hall. For more information call Jan Atkins at 969-0965.
Montecito Association
On Tuesday, May 13 the Montecito Association Board invited Kirsten Ayars to give the board and meeting attendees a presentation on the upcoming road construction. Expected to take four years and to cost $53 million, the Highway 101 Operational Improvement project is slated to begin in early July.
In the first phase of the project, a roundabout will be built at the intersection where Coast Village Road, Hot Springs Road, Cabrillo Blvd and Old Coast Highway meet. The roundabout will be similar in scale to the current Milpas Street roundabout. Although Ayars confirmed no detours would be required for the roundabout construction, she did mention two major closures to take place in the first year of the project. The first is a seven-month closure of the northbound 101 off-ramp at Milpas Street. The second, a closure of the southbound 101 on-ramp at Milpas, expected to be closed for five months. To the dismay of at least one resident present at the meeting, Ayars also announced the permanent closure of the southbound ramp at Cabrillo Blvd. She explained the entrance, which brings cars onto the freeway in the fast lane, is very dangerous and creates bottlenecks. She reminded us that detour routes are available at sbroads.com.
Ayars did mention the expected delay time that Cal Trans has calculated: an average of 10-15 minutes in addition to the current commute time. Some board members asked if that estimated time was calculated by using traffic at peak times; she answered that the calculation is an average of different times throughout the day.
In other Association news, Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Wallace gave an update about the site analysis for a third fire station. The site analysis will be complete and available for residents to look at on May 20. A district board meeting will be held on May 27 to discuss the results. "At that meeting we want public input about the report," he said. Wallace and Sergeant Tom Walston from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department reported that the evacuation drill held on April 26 was a success.
MA President Bill Palladini explained a recent amendment to Resource Management Zone (RMZ) guidelines that was unanimously passed. "The Association realized through a series of controversial projects the last couple of years that something wasn't working right. So we began working with Montecito Planning Commission, Supervisor Carbajal's office, MBAR, and County Planning staff to ask for a higher level of review of all projects [in the RMZ zone] which would include a review by the MPC, which has not been done in the past," he said. Palladini said he was happy to see that MPC and the Board of Supervisors both passed the amendment with a 5-0 vote. "What this change will do is require the MPC to review the project for approval; it will still have MBAR review but the planning commission will be the final decision maker," explained Executive Director Victoria Greene. Palladini added that the amendment has the potential to provide a better review process for the homeowner as well. "It will hopefully cut down on the number of appeals," he said.
Land Use Chair Ted Tedesco briefed the board on the land use meeting that took place on May 5 in which 37 speakers voiced their opinions about the controversial Miramar project. "I thought it was an excellent turnout; everybody was very courteous and yet very serious about their concerns about the project," Tedesco said. Palladini explained that the land use committee will study the staff report, due to be released Tuesday June 2. On June 3 the committee will hold a meeting to prepare a recommendation for the board. An ad hoc MA board meeting to hold a vote on whether or not to recommend approval of the project has been tentatively scheduled for Thursday, June 5, at 4 pm. The time and place is subject to change due to a possible scheduling conflict. Although members of the public are encouraged to attend one or both meetings further public comment about the project will not be heard.
With land use issues one of the main things the MA deals with, board member Tony Harbour asked the board to consider requiring the MA president to be a member of the land use committee. "Bill [Palladini] is extremely involved with land use issues and is among all of us one of our most informed land use people and is not currently a voting member of our committee, which is a shame," said land use committee member Darlene Bierig. After much discussion, a motion was put on the table to elect Palladini as a voting member of the land use committee. It passed unanimously.
The next meeting of the MA is scheduled for Tuesday June 10, with a special ad hoc meeting on June 5 to vote on the recommendation that will be sent to MPC regarding the Miramar project.
Santa Barbara Retreat Speakers Set
Snagging former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (1995 – 2007), author of "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good" was the final step in a series of ground-breaking maneuvers that Montecito's Mary Belle Snow performed to finalize the speakers' list for the second annual Santa Barbara Retreat, beginning Friday May 30 and ending Sunday June 1 at Four Seasons Biltmore. Friday night's other honoree is Ed Snider, founder of Comcast and recipient of the Anti-Defamation League's Americanism Award. TV's Alan Thicke ("Growing Pains") emcees and Andy Granatelli will introduce Mr. Santorum.
The rest of the weekend promises to be a salve for disoriented conservatives and libertarians unhappy with the current crop of presidential candidates and unsure of where to go or what to do next. Featured speakers include senior writer for U.S. News & World Report Michael Barone, Civil Rights Institute founder (and MJ columnist) Ward Connerly, Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund, former Clinton advisor Dick Morris, Colorado Congressman and former presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, radio talk show hosts Tammy Bruce and Dennis Prager, and a dozen others.
One of the most appealing elements of this retreat is the amount of face-time attendees are granted with some of the biggest names on the U.S. political scene.
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You can almost hear an Irish songfest in the background while preparing the Jammin' Pork Tenderloin. Pork tenderloin is on the leaner side of meats available. If trimmed, a single portion has only 1 gram of saturated fat. Three to four thin slices come in at 154 calories, according to the "Quick and Easy Diabetic Cooking" cookbook. Marinate for at least 4 hours or overnight, and then it's quick going when you're ready to eat.
An easy fix and oh so Irish are Parsleyed New Potatoes. With a little butter and fresh chopped parsley, they're simple but delectable.
The Shamrock Dessert has an appropriate lime green filling with a chocolate crust base. It's simple and done with no baking required. Make ahead of time and allow chilling time. When ready to serve, top with a chocolate cut shamrock or chocolate curls on top of each piece. This will say with an Irish brogue, "Happy St. Paddy's Day!"
1 cup chocolate wafer crumbs**
¼ cup softened butter
1 3-ounce package lime-flavored gelatin
½ cup boiling water
1 pint vanilla or pistachio ice cream, softened
2-3 drops green food coloring
Combine crumbs and soft butter. Press against bottom and sides of an 8-inch dish or pie plate.
Empty gelatin into a bowl; add boiling water and stir to dissolve. Stir in ice cream a few spoonfuls at a time, beating vigorously as it thickens. Pile mixture into lined dish and chill until serving time. Place a chocolate shamrock or chocolate curls on each serving. Serves 6-8 depending on serving size.
**Simplify even more by using a purchased chocolate crumb pie crust and proceed with filling directions.
¼ cup honey
1/3 cup lime juice
1 teaspoon grated lime peel
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons yellow mustard
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
2 pounds well-trimmed pork tenderloins
In a large resealable plastic bag, combine all ingredients except the tenderloins; mix well. Add the tenderloins, seal and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours or overnight, turning the bag occasionally.
Preheat the broiler. Place the pork on a broiler pan or rimmed baking sheet; discard the marinade. Broil for 7-9 minutes per side, or until they reach desired doneness. Slice the tenderloin across the grain and serve. Serving size is 4-5 slices, and the recipe serves 8.
1½ pounds new potatoes, red- or brown-skinned
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup butter
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
Scrub potatoes to remove any loose skin. Pare a ½ inch strip around the center of each potato to prevent splitting. In a saucepan, bring about 2 inches water to a boil. Add salt and potatoes. Cover and boil about 20 minutes or until tender. Uncover and quickly boil off remaining water, shaking the pan to dry potatoes. Add butter, in pieces, and parsley, turning potatoes to coat evenly. Serves 4.
1 16-ounce can pear halves
1 3-ounce package lime gelatin
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup boiling water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
6 ounces cream cheese (2 small packages)
1/8 teaspoon ginger
Drain pears, reserving ¾ cup of the juice. Coarsely dice pears and set aside. Dissolve gelatin and salt in boiling water. Add pear juice and lemon juice. Measure 1¼ cups into an 8x4 loaf pan, 4 cup mold or clear glass dish.** Chill until set but not firm, about one hour.
Meanwhile, soften cheese until creamy. Slowly blend in remaining gelatin, beat in until smooth. Blend in ginger. Stir in pears. Spoon over set gelatin in pan. Chill until firm, about four hours. Unmold and serve with mayonnaise or salad dressing on the side if desired.
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With holiday parties kicking off this weekend, you just know you're going to have to come up with a dish to pass.
How about two?
A recipe I get a lot of requests for year around is BLT Spread, sent in by Amy L. Schmitt of St. Helen. Everyone that has tried it says it is so good, and so easy to make.
Another easy choice is meatballs, made in a slow cooker. Love foods you can make in one dish, and take to the party in that very same dish. Mary Lou McNeil of Kawkawlin sent in her favorite.
BLT Spread
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup Miracle Whip
1/2 pound bacon, cooked, crumbled
1 small tomato diced
Small lettuce leaves, shredded
Combine sour cream and Miracle Whip. Add bacon; mix well. Stir in tomato and lettuce.
Serve on bread or crackers.
Amy L. Schmitt, Roscommon
1/2 pound hamburger
1/2 pound ground pork
1 cup saltine cracker crumbs
2 eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
1 cup ketchup
1 cup water
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 onion, chopped
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon mustard
Combine hamburg, pork, cracker crumbs, eggs and salt and pepper. Roll into balls. Brown.
Combine sauce ingredients. Place in slow cooker with meatballs. Cook on high about 2 hours.
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Ryan Tatusko closed out his 2012 season in style, firing five shutout innings to lead the Harrisburg Senators to victory in the second game of Saturday night's doubleheader vs. Bowie at Metro Bank Park. The Baysox torched Chien-Ming Wang early in the opener and rolled to an 8-5 victory, but the Senators snapped a four-game skid in the nightcap by winning 4-0. Tatusko finishes his season on a 19.2-inning scoreless streak, as he last allowed a run Aug. 9. There are two games remaining — 2 p.m. Sunday and Monday on City Island — in Harrisburg's (63-77) Eastern League season, while Bowie (77-63) will advance to the playoffs.
Making his ninth and final rehab start for the Senators, Washington Nationals RHP Wang yielded a single, walk and single to the game's first three batters to load the bases. Rhyne Hughes followed with a grand slam. Bowie would add two more runs off Wang before chasing him after just two innings.
Destin Hood's RBI single in the first gave Tatusko and reliever Zech Zinicola the only run support they would need, but to be sure Jimmy VanOstrand (two-run shot) and Anthony Rendon hit back-to-back homers in the third to bump the advantage to 4-0.
Wang (1-5) suffered the shortest of his nine rehab starts for the Senators, and he allowed 33 runs over his final seven starts. ... Tatusko (4-5) walked two, struck out five and scattered five hits. He ends the season with 3.50 ERA. ... Tatusko and Zinicola combined to roll four double plays in the nightcap. ... For the Baysox, Robert Hinton (1-1) picked up the win in relief in Game 1, and rehabbing Orioles pitcher Tommy Hunter fired the final inning for the save. ... Bowie spot starter Andy Loomis (0-1) yielded all four runs in the nightcap. ... Ty Kelly (3-for-3) and Zelous Wheeler (2-for-4) also homered for the Baysox in the opener, while Sean Nicol (2-for-2, RBI) topped the Senators with his bat and several outstanding defensive plays at third base. ... VanOstrand finished 3-for-3 in Game 2. ... Before the game, C James Skelton was promoted to Class AAA Syracuse, and C Jhonatan Solano was activated off the Nationals' disabled list and was optioned to Harrisburg, where he was already playing on rehab assignment. ... Richmond RHP Chris Heston was named the Eastern League's Pitcher of the Year Saturday.
"He's made huge strides for us, and he's really put himself in a good situation for next year. His confidence right now is off the charts." — Senators manager Matthew LeCroy on Tatusko.
1. 3B Sean Nicol (2 points) in Game 1; 1. RHP Ryan Tatusko (5); 2. DH Jimmy VanOstrand (3); 3. RHP Zech Zinicola (1) in Game 2.
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About Courageous
Our Mission
Courageous Sailing transforms lives through sailing programs that inspire learning, personal growth and leadership.
Our Vision
Courageous Sailing is a community that embraces sailing as a platform for life-long learning, personal growth and leadership; a center of sailing excellence committed to removing barriers to access for all Boston youth, the public and people with physical and intellectual challenges.
Courageous Sailing was established in 1987 as a 501(c)(3) by the late South Boston sailing enthusiast Harry McDonough. It was Harry's dream to use sailing to build character and camaraderie among Boston children from all economic and ethnic backgrounds. For 25 years, we have continued to grow and deliver our mission to transform children's lives through sailing programs that inspire learning, personal growth and leadership. In Harry's words, "Every child's perspective is improved 50-yards off-shore."
Courageous is now a nationally recognized year-round educational center for community sailing and youth development. Courageous offers Boston-area youth free and low-cost out-of-school-time programs in sailing, environmental education, job skills development, and leadership training. In 2011 we were honored to be named one of the top 10 community sailing programs nationwide by both US Sailing and Sail Magazine.
How Courageous Got Its Name
The America's Cup 12 meter "Courageous" once lived at Pier 4 in the Navy Yard. This two-time America's Cup winner lent its name to Courageous Sailing in the late 1980s. The boat now resides at the Museum of Yachting in Newport, Rhode Island, where it has been restored and is still being raced.
Our Partners in Community Service
Courageous is proud to partner with many like-minded nonprofit organizations. During our longstanding relationship with Special Olympics of Massachusetts, Courageous has hosted the Special Olympics Summer Games, and continues to be a host training venue for Special Olympics athletes two days each week. We have another close partnership with The Carroll Center for the Blind, whose pioneering Sail Blind program has called Courageous a home base for two decades. With the Carrol Center, Courageous has been host to national blind sailing regattas, the annual Harry McDonough Regatta for the Blind, and weekly Sail Blind racing and recreational practice sessions. Courageous is also home base for the Big Sisters Association of Greater Boston's annual Adventure Sail program for inner-city girls, an event that has drawn hundreds of women and girls into the sport of sailing. In recent years we have been developing new and exciting relationships with Boston Family Boatbuilding, Boston Afterschool and Beyond, and the Boston Public Schools.


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