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The college football season is officially over. So it's time to break out the crystal ball and offer our projections for the preposterously-too-early 2012 Big Ten power rankings.
1. Michigan State: The Spartans must replace a lot of leadership, including quarterback Kirk Cousins, receivers B.J. Cunningham and Keshawn Martin and All-American defensive tackle Jerel Worthy. But nine starters return off the Big Ten's top overall defense, featuring Will Gholston, Denicos Allen and Isaiah Lewis as potential breakout stars. Le'Veon Bell could have a big year as the No. 1 tailback, and if Andrew Maxwell can adequately fill in for Cousins, the offense should be fine, especially if Tennessee transfer DeAnthony Arnett gets his waiver to become immediately eligible at receiver. Plus, the road schedule (at Central Michigan, at Indiana, at Michigan, at Wisconsin, at Minnesota) is far more manageable than what the team navigated in 2011.
2. Michigan: A lot of things went right for the Wolverines in 2011, including a favorable schedule. That slate gets harder in 2012, beginning with Alabama at Cowboys Stadium and including road trips to Nebraska and Ohio State. Still, Denard Robinson and Fitz Toussaint form one of the most dangerous offensive duos in the league, and the second year under Brady Hoke and his staff should mean more familiarity and comfort. Coming off a BCS win, Michigan could start the season in the Top 10.
3. Wisconsin: The Badgers will have to overcome many challenges to reach their third straight Rose Bowl. The biggest concern is at quarterback, where there's no experience to replace Russell Wilson and his record-breaking efficiency level. Bret Bielema will have to remake almost his entire offensive coaching staff after Paul Chryst took several assistants with him to Pittsburgh. Still, Heisman Trophy finalist Montee Ball returns to keep the Wisconsin running game among the best in the country. And the two Big Ten teams who beat the Badgers in 2011 -- Michigan State and Ohio State -- must come to Madison in '12.
4. Ohio State: The Buckeyes aren't eligible to make the Big Ten title game, but don't be surprised if they put up the best record in the Leaders Division. A transition period can be expected as Urban Meyer takes over as head coach and installs an entirely new offensive system. But Ohio State had a small senior class in 2011 and brings back many talented players, such as defensive lineman John Simon, quarterback Braxton Miller and running back Carlos Hyde. A schedule that features eight home games should equal much improvement over this year's 6-7 record.
5. Nebraska: Few teams will be as experienced on offense as Nebraska, which returns seven starters and just about every key skill player on that side of the ball. Taylor Martinez and Rex Burkhead should be even better with another year in offensive coordinator Tim Beck's system. The questions are on defense, where the Huskers struggled at times in 2011 before losing their top two players in linebacker Lavonte David and cornerback Alfonzo Dennard. Nebraska must get tougher up front defensively to handle the Big Ten grind and has difficult road assignments looming at Ohio State and Michigan State.
6. Penn State: For the first time since 1965, we'll see what a Penn State team looks like that is not coached by Joe Paterno to start the season. New coach Bill O'Brien made a wise decision to retain defensive assistants Larry Johnson and Ron Vanderlinden, and even without All-American lineman Devon Still, that side of the ball should stay stout with standouts like Gerald Hodges, Jordan Hill and hopefully a healthy Michael Mauti. O'Brien's biggest impact should come on offense. The former New England Patriots offensive coordinator will try to bring the Nittany Lions attack into the 21st century with a competent passing game. Tailback Silas Redd provides a nice crutch while that transition occurs.
7. Iowa: After two straight 7-5 regular-season finishes, the Hawkeyes will look to get back into Big Ten contention. But they'll have to overcome the losses of star receiver Marvin McNutt, offensive tackle Riley Reiff, defensive linemen Mike Daniels and Broderick Binns and cornerback Shaun Prater. When he's on, James Vandenberg is as good a dropback passer as there is in the Big Ten, but making up for McNutt's production won't be easy. Assuming Marcus Coker returns from suspension, the running game should be very good. The defense simply has to improve after giving up too many big plays in 2011, and Kirk Ferentz hasn't yet named a successor to veteran defensive coordinator Norm Parker, who retired.
8. Purdue: The Boilermakers have a chance to make a move in a Leaders Division that is marked by coaching changes. They return most of the major pieces of their Little Caesars Bowl-winning team, and the return of Rob Henry from his season-ending knee surgery opens up some interesting possibilities at quarterback. Kawann Short should be one of the top defensive linemen in the league if he decides to return for his senior year. We'd still like to see more consistency from Danny Hope's program before we rank Purdue too high, however.
9. Northwestern: Dan Persa and his record-breaking accuracy are gone, along with top receiver Jeremy Ebert. Yet we're not too concerned about the offense and like the multi-dimensional options that Kain Colter provides with his all-around athleticism. Northwestern's issue is whether it can fix a defense that had trouble stopping anybody. The fact that the Wildcats lose their top three defensive backs from a secondary that was routinely torched does not inspire confidence.
10. Illinois: New coach Tim Beckman has his work cut out for him in Year One. He has to completely revamp an offense that couldn't shoot straight in the back half of 2011 while implementing a new spread style. He has to try to maintain the defense without coordinator Vic Koenning or All-American defensive end Whitney Mercilus. And he faces a schedule that sees the Illini going to Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan, all three of which won in Champaign this past season. There's still talent on defense, led by promising linebacker Jonathan Brown. Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase needs to build on his second-half showing in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.
11. Minnesota: After a horrible start, the Gophers showed a lot more fight down the stretch in 2011, beating Iowa and Illinois at home. Jerry Kill knows how to build a program, and the team can't help but be better in 2012, especially if MarQueis Gray continues to develop at quarterback. But Minnesota still has some holes on its roster that can only be fixed through recruiting, and while the Gophers could make a run at bowl eligibility this year, they'll be hard-pressed to make too much noise in a stacked Legends Division.
12. Indiana: The good news for the Hoosiers is that they played a ton of freshmen in 2011, and the growing pains should start to pay off for guys such as Tre Roberson and Mark Murphy in 2012. The second year under Kevin Wilson should also bring progress. Still, this is a team that went 1-11 in 2011 with no wins over FBS teams, so it remains an uphill climb.


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Arts Calendar
September 2012
Monday, September 10th
- Hand, Voice, & Vision begins (through Nov. 25)
Wednesday, September 12th
- Shakespeare on Film: OTHELLO 7:00 pm
Thursday, September 13th
- Cuban Choir Visit: Meet the Artists 4:00 pm
- An Evening of Cuban Choral Music 8:00 pm
Friday, September 14th
- Art Treasures/Curricular Resources: Two Teaching Exhibitions begins (through Nov. 14)
- Ibid. (Referencing Carleton Collections) begins (through Nov. 14)
- Ibid. Opening Reception and "Creativity and the Colleges" Art Crawl 6:00 pm

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Mets officially decline option on Putz
Infielders Cora, Martinez among those filing for free agency
By Marty Noble / MLB.com
The three-year, $13.1 million contract Putz signed with the Mariners in January 2007 included an option for the 2010 season for a $9.1 million salary or a $1 million buyout provision. The Mets chose the latter, making him eligible for free agency.
Putz was not among the 39 players who filed for free agency Friday. Mets infielders Alex Cora and Ramon Martinez were, as were catchers Bengie Molina, who interests the Mets, and Yorvit Torrealba, who is their third choice for a catcher after Molina and Rod Barajas. Barajas has not filed.
Putz was to have been the Mets' eighth-inning reliever in 2009, the primary setup man for Frankie Rodriguez. They thought theirs would be the most dominant eighth- and ninth-inning tandem in the National League. Nonetheless, the idea of playing $9.1 million for a setup man in 2010 unsettled them even before Putz threw a pitch in last year's Spring Training -- or the World Baseball Classic.
The elbow problem, a bone spur that was removed June 9, cost Putz most of the season and made the club's declination a foregone conclusion. Putz anticipated it. The club had until 10 days after the end of the World Series to act.
Putz, 33 in February, could re-sign with the Mets. The club intends to explore that scenario. And with or without Putz on the roster, the Mets would be as unsure of their bullpen as they were during the final four months of the season.
Putz is recovering from surgery to remove a bone spur from his right elbow performed June 9. He and the Mets have been told that the minor tear in his medial collateral ligament detected in late August isn't expected to cause a problem.
"Neither doctor thought it would be an issue," the pitcher said last month.
Putz provided the Mets what they wanted until his stuff and availability was compromised by his elbow. And that scenario began weeks before the surgery. His first 20 appearances produced a save, a victory, a loss and a blown save in the same game, another loss and eight holds. He completed his first National League season with a 1-4 record, two saves, two blown saves, 10 holds and a 5.22 ERA. His ERA increased by 2.01 in his final three appearances (seven earned runs in 1 1/3 innings).
Marty Noble is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Who says that the kids should be the only ones who get treats on Halloween? You deserve some sweet indulgences, too. Thankfully, several high-end brands have come up with delicious, Halloween-themed treats that beat the pants off of the usual Skittles and Tootsie Roll Pops. Be sure to order soon so you'll have something more stylish to enjoy when the trick-or-treaters arrive. Here are a few of my favorites.
Godiva Chocolate Pumpkin Patch Truffles, $12.50 for 5, available here. These beautiful, festive candies are filled with pumpkin-spice ganache and dusted with cinnamon.
Vosges Haute Chocolate Day of the Dead Skulls, $8 each, available here. In honor of Mexico's Día de los Muertos celebration, these chocolate skulls come in three surprising but delicious flavors: Blanca (white chocolate), Red Fire (chiles and cinnamon), and Barcelona (smoked almond and sea salt).
To see the last one,
Neiman Marcus Pumpkin Cookies Tin, $40 for 24, available here. These 24 buttercream-frosted cookies come packed in a cute autumn-themed tin.


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Gordon on DL with elbow inflammation
Phillies veteran reliever also dealing with sore right shoulder
By Kevin Horan / MLB.com
PHILADELPHIA -- Phillies reliever Tom Gordon was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday night with right elbow inflammation. Gordon had 11 days off, from June 15-26, to rest a sore right shoulder. He has appeared in four games since and threw two-thirds of an inning Saturday night, allowing the Mets to score a run on a wild pitch and tack on two more on a double by Brian Schneider. After Saturday's game, Gordon said that his shoulder felt fine. Still, he has not pitched well recently. He has a 13.50 ERA in six outings since June 11, giving up six earned runs on six hits and four walks in four innings during that span. He left the Phillies' clubhouse Sunday without speaking to reporters. "He's had a little tenderness," manager Charlie Manuel said. "We want to see if we can get him up, 100 percent." Gordon also went on the 15-day DL last season with a strained right rotator cuff.
"It's too bad," closer Brad Lidge said. "Hopefully, it won't keep him out for a long time. He's a big piece of our bullpen. Hopefully he can take care of what's bothering him. We need him, for sure. He's a stud, and we're hoping for him to have a speedy recovery."
To fill Gordon's spot on the roster, the Phillies recalled left-hander R.J. Swindle from Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
Kevin Horan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Russellville Recreation and Parks Department will register teams for the Summer Adult Softball League until 5 p.m. Friday. Teams that register must pay the entry fee and submit an entry form and a team roster. Necessary forms are available in the Russellville Recreation and Parks Department office or online at www.russellvillearkansas.org or call 968-1272 for additional information.
Poor boy buddy bass tourney March 30
CLARKSVILLE — The Lamar Bass Club Federation will host its annual poor boy buddy bass tournament at 7 a.m. March 30 out of the Spadra Park recreation area east ramp.
Entries will be taken until 6:45 a.m. the day of the tournament, which will conclude with a weigh-in at 2:30 p.m. Entry fee is $50 per boat, including $10 for big bass. Rules and additional information can be obtained by calling the federation at (479) 754-2915.
18th Battle on the Bayou softball tourney on March 30
The Russellville Recreation and Parks Department will host the 18th annual Battle on the Bayou softball tournament March 30 at Pleasant View Park. The USSSA-sanctioned tournament is for men E and C/D teams and women D and below teams. Entry fee is $175 plus a sanctioning fee. The entry deadline is noon March 27.
Contact the Hughes Center at 968-1212, 880-1519 or email@example.com.
Church softball league spring meeting on April 1
The Russellville Church Softball League will conduct its spring meeting at 7 p.m. April 1 at the First Baptist Church in Russellville. All churches must have a representative present. The season will start on April 15. Entry fee is $425.
There will be both men's and women's teams and two churches may combine to form a team if neither team can field a team of 10 players alone. Females can play only on a men's division team if their church can not field a woman's team.
Call Robert Kelley at (479) 890-1582 for additional information.
Softball umpire clinic in Russellville to be held April 6
A softball umpire clinic will take place at the Boys and Girls Club of the Arkansas River Valley in Russellville on April 6. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m..
The clinic will be from 9 a.m. to noon and will cover all aspects of umpiring fast- and slow-pitch softball.
Clinician will be Charles Lemley, a 10-year college fast pitch umpire, a longtime slow pitch umpire and several years of college and high school baseball experience. The clinic fee is $15. Troy Norton, ASA youth UIC, will register summer youth league umpires. All prospective umpires for youth, high school, church and open leagues are encouraged to attend. For more information call 970-5248 or 967-3426.
ARVTA's fourth annual tennis scholarship available
A scholarship(s) will be awarded to a graduating senior with a GPA of 2.5 or above and a member of a high school tennis team for a minimum of two years in a school under the umbrella of the Arkansas River Valley Tennis Association (ARVTA), which includes Russellville, Clarksville, Dover, Pottsville, Atkins and Dardenelle.
He/she must plan to attend an Arkansas university or college. Applicants must submit an essay (minimum 500 words) detailing why they are deserving of this scholarship and how tennis has influenced them. Applications must be received on or before March 31 to be considered.
Interested persons may visit the website www.rivervalleytennis.com to fill out the scholarship application.
5K run/walk April 6 at Bona Dea Trails
A 5K run/walk to benefit the River Valley Heat basketball teams has been scheduled for April 6 at Bona Dea Trails. Entry fee is $25 per runner or walker, and every participant will receive a T-shirt if they pre-register by March 15.
Email email@example.com for additional information.
Benefit golf tournament April 12
The Russellville Adult Education Center and the Arkansas River Valley Literacy Council will host the first Scholarship Golf Tournament on April 12 at Galla Creek Country Club in Pottsville. A lunch will be provided at 11 a.m. with a shotgun start at noon for the golf.
Proceeds from the tournament will enable the organizations to provide educational opportunities for their students. The entry fee of $165 per team includes a cart. Various sponsorship levels are available. The deadline to register is April 5.
Call center director Gregg Grant at 968-5244 or mail the Russellville Adult Education Center, P.O. Box 928, Russellville AR 72811.


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We've come to the portion of our program where controversy rules. Where someone is getting jobbed and no one has answers. Have we not learned, everyone? After all these years of the crazy, convoluted mess we call the BCS, you would think panic wouldn't continue to be the overwhelming reaction.
— BCS standings: Alabama, Kansas State, ND 1-2-3
There are five weeks remaining in the regular season. If you don't think a lot can happen, we give you this year's No. 1, Alabama. The Tide lost at home this time last year, and through a convergence of unthinkable losses found a way to play in the BCS National Championship Game against the very team to whom they lost. And won it all.
Relax in Manhattan. Take a deep breath in South Bend and Eugene. Don't lose hope in Gainesville or Baton Rouge or Athens. Who knows what happens from here?
"We're barely into this thing," says LSU coach Les Miles.
— Photos: Best of college football Week 9
Settle down, folks. We've got a long way to go. Let's analyze this week's BCS rankings:
Too high
No. 5 LSU. Seriously, how in the world are the Tigers the top-rated one-loss team, much less in terrific position to get back to the championship game? LSU can't throw the ball, doesn't have a legitimate playmaker on offense and has struggled all season to find itself. Yet there Tigers are—if they can beat Alabama—in perfect position to watch everyone fall in front of them.
No. 6 Georgia. The Dawgs needed six turnovers, the worst game from a young quarterback, and a fumble in the end zone on the last series of the game to beat then-No. 2 Florida. Yet there's Georgia, a couple of weird turns away from playing in the SEC Championship Game and a chance to play for it all. With a 28-point loss on its resume. We haven't seen that happens since Oklahoma lost by 28 on the last weekend of the season—in a league championship game—and still made it to the BCS National Championship Game in 2003.
— Latest polls: SN | AP Top 25 | Coaches
Too low
No. 4 Oregon. The ultimate eye-test team. I can't tell if the Ducks really are that good or if the competition really has been that bad. I'm taking the former, and for this reason only: Oregon is fast on defense. The Ducks aren't physically imposing on defense, but they're never out of position and have closing speed all over the starting 11.
No. 9 Florida State. Eye test team No.2. Yeah, they play in the horrific ACC. Yeah, they somehow lost to NC State when Jimbo Fisher panicked. But how can you not watch this team and see that if anyone can match up with Alabama on both sides of the ball, it's Florida State? If anyone can press the Alabama defense and get physical with the Tide offense, it's the Seminoles. One big problem: FSU likely needs complete chaos to get there.


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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Oslo
I had the opportunity today to read through President Obama's address at the Nobel ceremony. Imagining the words being spoken in his particularly cool baritone, I enjoyed the ebb and flow of the sentences as they entwined themselves together, growing into ever larger and more noble thoughts. And then I stopped cold. It hit me square between the eyes. Barack Obama is to politics what the New York Yankees are to baseball.
See, with the Yankees it's not so much that they spend billions of dollars to buy the best players. It's that they take the best players away from rival teams so they can't be hurt by them. CC Sabathia has their number as a member of the Indians staff. So, give him a year in the NL and then snap him up. Problem solved. Curtis Granderson was part of the Tigers squad that knocked the Yankees out in the first round of the 2006 playoffs. Bring him on board, stick him in center field and he won't be knocking you out again. The list goes on and on, all the way back to Babe Ruth himself.
So how is this like the President? Simple. Look at the speech. At a time when Republicans sense blood in the water and start to churn in anticipation of the kill, he co-opts one of their key arguments and makes it his own. How bold was this move? Well, consider that this was the ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize and then consider that he said this:
To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism
— it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the
limits of reason.
That's more than bold. That's straight up brass cojones.
Don't take this argument the wrong way. I still have no love for the Yankees. But I can appreciate them for the same reason I can appreciate the President. Because they're stone-cold killers. And that's saying something when you've just accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.


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OCEAN CITY — Authorities are warning residents and visitors of a new rash of a relatively old scam targeting vulnerable elderly people in the resort area and around Worcester County.
The Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) and Worcester County law enforcement agencies announced this week an alarming increase in scams directed at senior citizens and retirees. The most recent scam, which has become increasingly common, has several variations, but almost always involved an elderly person being contacted by a loved one in trouble and needing help getting out of an embarrassing or harmful situation.
In most cases, the scammer will call the victim and claim to be a child, grandchild, niece or nephew depending on the level of information that have about the family. The scammer will indicate he or she has been arrested and in need of help. In other cases, another scammer will contact the victim by telephone and claim to be a lawyer, law enforcement officer or bail bondsman and provide the same basic information in order to provide legitimacy to the first caller.
The scammers will then request credit card information or ask the victim to wire money to a Western Union office or other transaction facilitator out of the area in order to get them out of jail or whatever harmful situation the scam presents. Police have learned the scammers are accessing family knowledge, typically over the Internet, in order to make the scam more convincing.
"We're seeing it some in Ocean City, but they're really seeing more cases out in the county," said OCPD Public Information Officer Mike Levy this week. "They are calling late at night or early in the morning when the victims are a little disoriented or a little more vulnerable. It's really unbelievable."
In one recent example, an 84-year-old Ocean City woman got an early morning call from an individual claiming to be her grandson who was in trouble and in dire need of financial assistance. The caller told his "grandmother" he was in St. Lucia for a wedding and that he had been in an accident, had broken his nose and was in jail on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. The caller told the victim he needed $2,000 to get out of jail and get medical attention.
The unsuspecting grandmother wired the $2,000 requested to the individual at the appointed place and time and also paid the $115 to complete the transaction. She later learned the caller was not her grandson, who was safely home in the U.S. and was not in a dire situation. On the other end of the transaction, a unknown individual picked up the wired money and completed another successful scam.
The scheme is not an entirely new one and different variations have been carried out on those most vulnerable for years, but the latest version is particularly insidious because of the resources the callers are using. In this case, the caller claimed to be the victim's "favorite" grandson Jonathan and sprinkled references to other family members and other personal information throughout the plea for money that helped convince the victim the call was legitimate.
With the proliferation of social networks, such as Facebook, for example, personal information including family members, pictures, birthdays, vacations etc. are easily accessible to criminals intent on scamming the vulnerable. Facebook and used that piece of information to set up the victim. The OCPD is reminding citizens to never wire money to strangers as such requests are almost always a scam. Requests to wire money for family members in trouble are almost always red flag signals of an attempted fraud.


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Fast facts: Malaria [infographic]
In honor of World Malaria Day, observed every year on April 25 as a day of awareness and recognition for global efforts to end malaria, we challenge you to educate yourself on the facts, raise awareness, and take action against this deadly but preventable disease.
Malaria is a disease of massive proportions that disproportionately impacts children. Each year, approximately 780,000 people die from malaria, 85 percent of whom are children under 5. World Vision works in 62 countries affected by malaria, 23 of which are in Africa.
Impact on children and families
- Malaria is the 4th leading cause of death for children globally. According to latest figures, globally 8% of under-five child deaths are attributable to malaria and in Africa it is 16%.
- More than 1,800 children under 5 die each day from malaria. That's approximately 1 child every 45 seconds.
- Half of the world's population is at risk of malaria: There are 106 malaria-endemic countries with 3.3 billion people at risk. Malaria infects approximately 250 million people each year.
- Malaria has been estimated to cost Africa more than U.S. $12 billion every year in lost economic productivity, and can cost households as much as 32 percent of their entire monthly income.
- Insecticide-treated bed nets could prevent as many as 1 million deaths from all causes of malaria for children under 5.
Global malaria prevention
- If universal malaria prevention can be achieved by 2010 and maintained until 2015, an estimated 2.95 million African children's lives can be saved.
If current scale-up trends are maintained until 2015, 1.14 million African children's lives can be saved.
- If funding ceases and prevention levels are allowed to fall, an estimated 476,000 additional children would die.
(Sources: World Health Organization, UNICEF, Malaria Journal, World Malaria Report)
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- Pray for the millions who live in the world's malaria-prone regions, who remain at risk from this deadly disease. Pray for the collective will within the United States and internationally to eradicate this preventable, treatable disease once and for all.
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Selectman Brian Murray won a fourth term in yesterday's town election overwhelmingly defeating challenger Mark Wassarman.
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Selectman Brian Murray won a fourth term in yesterday's town election overwhelmingly defeating challenger Mark Wassarman.
Murray earned 2,292 votes to political newcomer Wassarman's 1,243, and last night thanked all the supporters who believed in him as the most qualified candidate to lead the town in tough times.
"That's tremendously gratifying," he said at Town Hall, wearing jeans, a shirt that said "Brian Murray Selectman," and a backwards Red Sox baseball cap during a live election results show broadcast on local cable access Channel 8.
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Murray celebrated afterwards at his Congress Terrace home with family and friends, while Wassarman gathered with his supporters at the Portuguese Club.
"I'm very disappointed about the loss. People made their choice," said Wassarman, a local businessman who made his first run for political office.
During the campaign, Wassarman promised to cut the town's spending and lower property taxes, while Murray emphasized the need to maintain the integrity of the budget and preserve town services.
Last night, Wassarman thanked those who voted for him, and vowed to not give up, saying he plans to make another bid for selectman.
"Next opening, I'm running," he said.
During his after-election party, Murray received a congratulatory call at home just before 10 p.m. from Wassarman.
Earlier, at Town Hall, Murray talked about prevailing over campaign attacks and "a lot of innuendo, a lot of negative comments, a lot of untruths."
"I'm under no illusion as to what this campaign was about," he told Al Correia and Emilio Diotalevi, who hosted the results show on Channel 8, as he speculated political opponents of his were behind Wassarman's run.
Murray thanked his wife, Emily, their three children, his mother, friends and others who supported him.
"It's the people who believe in me, and they're the one who've carried me to victory," Murray said.
Wassarman said he was thankful for the support he received.
"I just didn't get enough people to come out (to vote for me)," he said.
Voters also decided contests for constable and library trustee.
For two seats on the library board, voters chose incumbent John Byrnes, who received 1,738 votes, and newcomer Rory D'Alessandro, who earned 1,102.
"It felt like winning the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, the World Series," Byrnes said at Town Hall after learning he was re-elected.
D'Alessandro, 19, a longtime library volunteer, was also excited.
"I'm feeling ecstatic. I'm very honored to be on the board especially being so young. I'm glad to see that I have a chance to make a difference," he said.
The two edged out hopefuls Shannon Vinton-Delmore, who received 1,012 votes, and Cheryl Butler, who earned 963.
Butler, who was also at Town Hall, said she plans to run again next year.
For constable, six candidates vied for five slots.
The victors were incumbents Raymond G. Pagucci Jr., who was the top vote-getter with 2,186 votes; Joseph F. Arcudi, 2,085; Emilio E. Diotalevi, 1,805; and newcomers Barbara E. Clement, 1,680; and Joseph A. Palladini, 1,314.
B. Gregory Johnson, who lost, had 1,062 votes.
There was no race for School Committee, but voters brought back incumbent Paul Mazzuchelli with 2,504 votes and elected newcomer Patrick Holland, who received 1,882 votes.
Also running unopposed and re-elected were: Town Treasurer Barbara Auger, Board of Health member Gerald Hennessy, Joseph F. Arcudi for the Board of Assessors, Park Commissioner Arthur Morin, Planning Board member Marble Mainini III and Sewer Commissioner Richard Cenedella.
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There is a certain surreal air to the discussion surrounding a new White House health care reform proposal and the upcoming "summit" on health care between President Obama and congressional Republicans scheduled Thursday. Proponents of government-oriented health insurance reform confidently predict that if the president can simply expose the Republicans as obstructionists with no constructive proposals of their own, the way will be clear to pass the latest version of Obamacare to the applause of the American people.
How to do it? Simply have the Democratic-controlled House pass the Senate bill and take care of any minor changes through the "reconciliation" process, which requires 51 votes on matters affecting budget and tax policies. The Obama proposal, released Sunday, is essentially the Senate version with a few tweaks, including modifying the tax on high-end health plans, giving more subsidies to low-and middle-income people, increasing Medicare prescription drug coverage, reducing payments to Medicare Advantage plans and giving the government power to control private insurance prices.
The premise behind this scenario is that there is an insatiable majority desire out there for beefing up the government's power and reducing the number of uninsured Americans. The problem with this assumption is that, as the Tea Party and Town Hall activism and the recent senatorial election in Massachusetts should have demonstrated to anyone paying attention, it is simply not true.
Pollster.com compiles an average of almost all the recognized national polls on various candidates and issues. On the Democratic health care plan, Those opposed surpassed those in favor in July, and opposition has increased steadily. The composite most recently stood at 41.3 percent in favor and 51.7 percent opposed. President Obama's poll numbers on handling health care are even more dramatic: 54.2 percent disapprove and 38.1 percent approve.
The House passed its version of reform 220-215, many in favor only because of the anti-abortion Stupak amendment, which is not in the Senate version and can't be placed there through reconciliation. House Democrats since have lost three votes (by death, resignation and reversal) and have an unknown number of other waverers. It is also uncertain now whether Democrats can muster 51 Senate votes for a proposal that only a minority of Americans support.
Make no mistake, the Obama administration and congressional leaders are still likely to push as hard as they can for some kind of reform bill. Their prospects, however, appear rather slim.
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Discussion in 'Odds & Ends' started by zapvor, Apr 24, 2007.
what did happen to Chem??
Things must be getting back to normal for CB with the food talk. We have to meet up soon for some lunch.
I packed my lunch be forgot it. Where I eat depends on how cold it is outside and whether I want to walk in the cold. Roti is only about 20 ft from the front door of work. Au Bon Pain, Food trucks, Harris Teeter or Star Backs are a half-block walk.
mclovin, i have your pacific frame....but no time to string it...
you playing tonight?
wow. u have food trucks, HT, and Au Bon Pain's in front of work? You can set up your very own green zone and we won't be able to see you for 20 years..
working at home for the next couple of weeks. Trying to get things settled, hopefully we'll go out to lunch and get to hit outside. Still dying to hit with my newly acquired mod'ed less lead filled NYC.
Free any Friday's? It seems like only gov'ies like Sap and I are able to play on Fridays. Although I heard that's a strong chance that we may get an extra day a week for the next 22 weeks. 20% pay cut for the next 6 months is going to feel like gloves after hemorrhoid surgery.
i am off this friday. but it varies.
so on a star 5 i am dropping my string time even more! doing all poly bed under 20min now....
will count you in zap to play in March then.
haha i kind of want to join to see where you guys go for yummy yummy food
We usually have one Food truck show up daily and HT and Au Bon are about a block away, though the street to Au Bon is like a wind tunnel.
My remote work day rotates every week so I usually have a Friday once a week, but time away is limited as I gotta be logged in.
At least they will keep you govies, us contractors will get axed.
i hear there is a giant hiring freeze
iRad, I'm in my last semester of nursing school. Fridays I'm at Sibley in clinical rotation all day.
Zap, I'm not sure there is anyone else I would take a food recommendation from other than Sappy. TMonk is a very very close second.
@Topaz Congratulations! I'm doing the Army's LPN program at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Heading into our Peds rotation in about a month. When you graduate perhaps you'd like to join the dark side and commission as an Officer!
my +10% body fat from everyone should automatically place in front of the pack
yeah. all the agencies don't know if the sequestration will happen and if so, how bad will it be? So everyone is on a hold and wait status. All the politicians point to a flat 10% cut across the board. But anytime when anyone gives a percentage, it leaves room for negotiations.
Alot of the plans are pretty much drawn out already as many agency heads have dusted off last contingency plans when the last govt shutdown was adverted. I have a feeling it's going to be another kick the can for another 3 months scenario again. It's going to be interested how furloughs will be implemented if it happens?
As you already know, I played tonight. Tough match, but we pulled it out 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. My partner, one of the local high school players, was a bit nervous in the beginning, but once she loosened up, she ripped some nice shots. We were the only 7:00 win for CFAC.
How'd you do? Ed has a killer server & a nice forehand. I've always joked with him that he's "a backhand away from being a 4.5", although he did get bumped this year. He'll be on the 4.5 team.
good comeback win tonight! even if it was at the expense of our team...haha, you were the only court to go the distance! i like that they play out the 3rd set...that's how it should be!
but yeah, that Ed guy is pretty good! he burned me a few times up the line with that big forehand and his serve is definitely 4.5...but yeah, i went after his backhand -- especially when i was serving...i've been feeling "on" lately and my partner was solid at the net...so yeah, we won...6-3, 6-1...
do you play tomorrow?
I've given it thought before...but I may be too old? Also, I will have a AD RN...this is a second (really third) career for me. I think military wants you to have a BSN. But, I think I'm only two more courses from that once I graduate. I haven't investigated it further yet.
We actually don't get a peds rotation. Kinda sucks. I'm in telemetry right now, and we do float to ICU. What are you in now?
Or your discerning palate??? Unsurpassable wit? Blazing fh?
Yeah, playing the 3rd set is much better than that 10-point TB crap. We spotted them 4 games in the 1st set, but I just kept telling my partner that it was a marathon, not a sprint. Whether we lose the 1st 6-0 or 7-6 makes no difference: They have to win 2 sets. I also kept cracking jokes throughout the match to keep her loose. She's got some of the most fluid strokes off both sides, and once she gains confidence, lookout.
How was Ed's partner? He was supposed to play w/ Derek's partner (another high school girl), but there was a last-minute lineup change. I've never seen her before tonight, and my wife said she was a bit nervous.
My next match is Sunday @ 2, although I'm playing tomorrow before the matches w/ my wife for fun.
Oh, and on a side note, my demo order has finally shipped. It consists of:
Yonex VCORE Tour 97 (310g)
Yonex VCORE Tour 97 (330g)
Dunlop F 3.0 Tour
Donnay Pro One (16x19)
So downs, if you want to hit over the next week, let me know. I've got high school practice throughout the week, but can definitely get time free on the weekend for a hit.
Oh ok, there are a few states that will let you Comission into the National Guard with an ADN so long as you get your BSN within 24 months. For Active Duty the age cut off is 42 I believe. Nice, I can't wait until our critical care rotation, right now we're in classroom mode unfortunately. Endocrine test on monday.
wow endocrine. all I remember back in physio class is remember them ducts.
If you go service, you gotta go Navy. Those other outfits are pretty good, but USN is just a tad better in every way you can measure. And you would look good in Navy blue.
Just sayin'.
Congrats on all you have accomplished, BTW, both in the classroom and on the court. Shows you have a singular commitment to excellence. Proud of you.
Captain my first match in 4.0 55+ tomorrow; wish us luck. (We stand a chance to win a match since I'm not in the lineup. LOL)
Psshhhhh Go Army!
Go where without ships and airplanes? Tupelo, Mississippi? Sure can't get to Europe or Asia or anywhere else withour us or the AF.
Unless you guys have a submarine tank we don't know about.
LOL, all in good fun, of course. All service branches are special in their own way.
Of course! My Dad was Air Force and we talk mess to each other constantly haha. I had never worked with the Navy or Air Force before coming to the Naval Hospital here for nursing school but it is really fun working with the other services. The Navy puts out some outstanding nurses and the corpsmen great as well.
Full reviews for each please
ooo. i guess i should be happy i am a poor tennis player? hah
what are you people eating for lunch? i'm thinking wegmans...
want a gyro. but nothing around Gaithersburg area.
edit: okay, broke down to 2nd choice. Korean Noodle Soup at Han Kook's in Lotte's. Besides Noodles, should I get them fake Bonchon's? It's like $13 for around 20 wing sections. $13/20 wings is like 65c a wing. Not that bad, right?
If I had a Wegmans nearby, I'd be all over it, but all I've got is Safeway.
On a side note, stocking shelves at Wegmans was my first job...almost 30 years ago...
CB -- the ganpoongki is probably the best in the area. ask for side of steamed rice. goes great with the peas and carrots that are cooked with the fried chicken. they give you pickled radish and kimchi. you could also go to the viet place next to it and get some pretty good banh mi.
when is the weather going to warm up enough for me to hit outside again?
yeah, wegman's is about 3 minutes away from me...a little dangerous...
thanks tmonk. Learned a new dish. I guess its not even close to bonchon's afterall. Speaking of banh mi's went to eden got the buy 5 get 1 special. It's at Banh Mi So. They bake their breads there too.
heard Wednesday is going to be 55 but I have to work late. =(
paulman. thinking about picking up a pair or 2 of vibram fingerlings for myself and thumber.. what type should i get? this would be mostly for light jogging/walking. unlike you, i actually value my knees.
sap: just saw this. don't know if these apply to your shoes:
i've played dubs many times with pman in his vibrams. he moves around like a cat. his back gave out last time we played so the rest of his body is falling apart but not his knees and ankles.
Haha. You need to go to REI and try them all out but you can get them cheaper elsewhere. I like the Kangaroo leather KSO Treks most. They're the most durable and don't stink up your feet (leather) as much like the man-made materials do. You can jog and walk and do hikes in them just fine. Also, if you don't wanna go sock-less, get the Injinji toe socks. Usually 1 size difference max between no socks and Injinji.
Still gotta pay and get that 20 yo Scotch bottle from you...if it's not already empty?!? :shock:
Haha monkey, thanks for being so kind but I shamelessly corrected you above! But monkey is correct - they won't hurt your ankles and knee any more per se but until you're used to them, your feet (sole/heel) will hurt running around at first.
tx paulman. cb. pick up some bikila for thumber. i didnt end up getting a pair in fear of stinky feet.
Well I have gall bladder anymore. The cuts from Lapro are healing pretty well. havent noticed anythign different yet as far as taste and digestion is concerned.
Was in quite a biut of pain for about 4 days. Then its was tolerable pain. Now there is harly any pain at all. They hit me after surgery pretty hard withpain meds or they went extra hard on anestesia. It took me quite a while to be able to stand up and be comfortable after the surgery.
Still cant do any heavy lifting or activity for another 2 weeks though.
A girl I work with and my father-in-law had the same surgery. Certain foods just pass through both of them. You'll want to be close to a bathroom anytime you try new foods until you figure it out.
hope u feel better soon. Since you won't be able to digest fats as well. Does this mean you can't have greasy burgers anymore?
hw! welcome back. so should i chalenge to that pong match now
for the gov workers, can you collect unemployment if furloughed? it'd be pretty sweet to bum it out in utah for a couple of weeks
Hope you feel better soon man, how old are you? I was 20 when I had mine taken out and recovered fairly quickly, the first couple of days were damn terrible as I remember them though but it was smooth sailing after that. I worked at Lowe's at the time and I want to say that I was lifting bags of concrete again in about 10-14 days. Pretty easy recovery if you're younger and in fairly good shape.
HW that's the same exact surgery I had for it. Because there are multiple 'puncture' sites you will feel it in your abdomen for a while. They also pump you full of CO2 during the surgery to expand everything (so they can get inside! heheh) and it takes a while for that to completely leave your system.
iRad and X, they are *both* options...but I have to say, since I've flirted with the Navy before (through the Navy Band) I'd probably go blue first. Xis, thanks for the kind words...it has not been easy. Tennis has definitely taken a hit, too. Kinda makes the bump to 4.0 pretty ironic.
Just found out today I got a preceptorship for the second half of my LAST semester! Woowoot!
LOL...are you like my long lost twin brother? I worked at Lowe's back in the day too!
hungry...what's for lunch?
LOL what are the odds of two nursing students who play tennis that worked at lowes and had their gallbladders removed being on the same message board! Soooo weird :shock:
quick, both of you fill out the following questionnaire:
1. racquet of choice
2. tennis shoes of choice
3. 1hbh or 2hbh
4. net or rally
5. federer or djoker
6. 1 horse sized duck or 1000 duck sized horses
7. now kiss
I know, that's what I'm saying! Makes me think I should join the Army!
We have some students actually doing their preceptorships at Ft. Belvoir...which is interesting. I think they actually have to so some kind of background/security clearance before they start.
1. Babolat Pure Drive GT (of course)
2. Depends on day, alternate between Nike and Adidas
3. Both...depends if I'm slicing (one hand) or not (two hands)
4. Djoker
6. 1000 duck sized horses!
Separate names with a comma.


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At 1:18 p.m. Monday, four units of Russellville firefighters, including 3 engine companies and 1 truck company, under the command of Battalion Chief Brent Hamm, responded to a call of a commerical building on fire, according to a press release from Russellville Fire Department.
When fire crews arrived at 3943 East Main Street, the location of Southwind Animal Hospital, firefighters found heavy smoke and fire coming from the storage area of the building.
Firefighters entered the structure and confined the blaze to the rear of the business.
During the initial fire fight, one firefighter was briefly trapped when a steel roll-up door collapsed above him, pinning him. Firefighters were able to quickly remove him from the building. He was transported, with a minor injury, to St. Mary's Regional Medical Center by Pope County EMS, the release stated.
The part of the building where the fire originated sustained heavy fire damage, with the remainder of the office area sustaining light to moderate heat and smoke damage.
The business was open at the time of the fire and all the animals were rescued, the release stated.
Fire units remained on the scene late into the afternoon Monday.
Preliminary contents and property losses are unknown at this time. The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Fire Marshal's Office.


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The Barkbuster S-7 fits the recent RT. It can also be adapted to other models not on their list by machining bar weights to proper dimensions, a fairly simple job. I mounted a set on SOs R1100S, for example.
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I think this belongs in the Knicks Forum (Should we pick him up or not) and a poll would be nice (yes or no).
But definetly sign this guy. Even to a 10 Day contact, give him some minytes and see what he can do.
"One Team, One New York"
Why should it go in the Knicks forum? The Rockets released him, and they're an NBA team not the Knicks.. we might not pick him up, so its an NBA announcement.. you can go ahead and make a poll if you want...
Your saying if we should pick him up. What I meant to say is make a poll in the Knicks Forum.Originally Posted by Peach_NYK_21
"One Team, One New York"


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MIAMI — A season ago, things seemed much different for the Miami Heat. In South Florida, the team was celebrated before ever playing a game. In every other NBA market, the Heat was maligned, again before ever playing a game.
There's a sense that is now changing — well, maybe just a little bit.
Drama seems to be the rule these days in many NBA cities, but not Miami.
"I don't think anything can be as bad as it was last year," Heat forward LeBron James said Monday.
For Miami, any change would be a refreshing one, especially if it means basketball can seem like the top priority entering basketball season. It's a far cry from last year's training camp, when all the buzz — and there was a lot of it — around the Heat was about how James and Chris Bosh changed teams to join Dwyane Wade in Miami, whether a so-called "superteam" was good for the NBA and if three stars could get along happily while sharing one ball.
"Look around. You remember how it was last year — it's nothing close," Bosh said. "This year, we can concentrate on just building our team. We can concentrate on picking up where we left off. I think that's huge for us. We know what to expect. There's nothing really surprising us right now and we can just work on focusing to get better."
The team needed a police escort to their annual media day in 2010, with security lurking around just about every hallway inside the University of Miami facility where that annual meet-and-greet session was taking place. Reporters from four continents showed up. Press conferences to start the year were held in a cavernous auditorium.
On Monday, media day was tame by comparison.
"I heard some stories," new Heat center Eddy Curry said. "I thought it'd be a lot worse than this."
Expectations are still high for Miami, of course. Bringing virtually the entire core of last season's Eastern Conference championship-winning club back would figure to put the Heat ahead of some teams who are dealing with roster shakeups, the distraction of potentially moving some superstar-level players, or even simply finding guys to sign to contracts.
So as is not the case in many NBA cities, things seem calm in Miami right now, and that's one of the reasons why oddsmakers in Las Vegas list the Heat as favorites to win the 2012 title.
"We're still going to have a lot of attention, of course, and a lot of high expectations placed on this team because of the fact that we have three star players," said Heat forward Juwan Howard, who's entering his 18th season. "But last year, that was a different element. Everyone wanted to see how the Miami Heat was going to mesh. Was chemistry going to be a problem here, was there going to be drama here? It all brought us together as a unit. Family became even tighter."
James has said in recent weeks that he is going to change his approach as well, after the experience of last season.
It stung him that fans in Cleveland burned his jerseys, national commentators lined up to attack him more than he felt was necessary, that the reaction everywhere Miami played last season was downright hostile — all because he exercised his right as a free agent to sign with a new club. Playing the "villain" role weighed on him too much, he said, and hurt him on the floor.
"I'm at a good place right now," James said Monday. "Not too much bothers me anymore."
That doesn't mean he's not as driven.
If anything, the Heat think James is more title-starved this year than ever.
"He'll be as committed as he's ever been and that's all we're looking for, for him to be committed to the team, committed to the organization, committed to what our goal is and to be a leader of what we're trying to do," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of James. "He will be. All I had to do was see what he was doing this summer to see that his actions were backing up his words. And he'll be ready."
The perceptions of the Heat notwithstanding, there is another reason why this camp seems different for Miami, and it's a significant reason at that.
Wade, James and Bosh know better how to play with each other now, how they best fit inside the Heat system. A year ago, that was a process, which became one of Spoelstra's buzzwords. On Monday, James said Spoelstra hasn't used the word "process" even once around the team in this year's training camp.
"Guys know each other a little more, just a little bit more familiarity," Wade said. "Last year was just about seeing — seeing what can happen. Obviously time helps everyone. It's only our second year together. We feel obviously more confident coming into this training camp than we did the last."
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College football coaches are a purposeful lot. So when North Carolina decided to move practices from Chapel Hill to Charlotte (N.C.) Mallard Creek and then Greensboro (N.C.) Grimsley, there was clearly a reason.
The program -- much like Duke, N.C. State and Wake Forest -- has struggled to keep top-ranked local players and in an effort to curb the exodus, the Tar Heels are making a concerted effort to take the show on the road.
The early returns of those decisions have yet to be tabulated, but the fact that Charlotte (N.C.) Catholic five-star running back Elijah Hood took notice was a step in the right direction.
"I think that's kind of cool," Hood said. "It's always good to spread your influence and lock down your state.
"North Carolina is a great state for recruiting and I think a lot of SEC teams would be very happy with some of the kids they got out of here and if those kids start seeing North Carolina everywhere they could start committing to North Carolina and that could change the program."
The last time in-state programs closed the borders was with the Class of 2009 when North Carolina and Duke combined to sign eight of the 10 highest-ranked prospects in the state.
In the Class of 2010, only one player in the top 10 went to the SEC. Three went to N.C. State and only one went to North Carolina -- No. 8 T.J. Leifheit.
In the past three years, the SEC broke through the barriers and raided the best from the state.
The Class of 2011 saw four of the top five players from the state go to SEC teams. The highest-ranked player North Carolina was able to secure was T.J. Thorpe at No. 7.
The next season did not change much as the SEC claimed six players within the top 10, including the four highest-ranked. North Carolina teams signed only one player of the top 10, with UNC securing James Summers, who was No. 9.
North Carolina was able to bolster the top end by signing second-ranked T.J. Logan in the Class of 2013, but he was the lone player in the top 10 to go to any school in the state. The SEC signed five players from the top 10.
Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell said the aggressive approach might be just what it takes to stem the tide.
Moving a practice -- or even a controlled scrimmage -- off campus is a statement that a program is looking to dig in its heels to recruit an area. When Ohio State packed up the buses and played its spring game at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati instead of at The Horseshoe in Columbus, well that was a shot across the bow of newly hired Tommy Tuberville and his Bearcats program.
Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell said that the message was intended to be delivered loud and clear.
"It is part of the plan for Urban Meyer," Farrell said. "He wants to own Cincinnati because it is a talent bed. Having his spring game there and being active in the area is saying to the high school coaches, 'If Ohio State offers your kid then we expect them to be a Buckeye.'
"Ohio State doesn't have to do that because it owns the state already but it is a huge statement that they did."
Several other schools went away from home to have controlled scrimmages or play its spring game.
Below is the list of those schools:
IOWA: Held a practice at West Des Moines (Iowa) Valley and drew nearly 8,000 fans.
PITTSBURGH: Played its spring game at local Bethel Park (Pa.) High instead of Heinz Field.
SOUTHERN MISS: Due to an F4 tornado, the team played its Black and Gold Game at Petal (Miss.) High.
TEXAS TECH: Went 120 miles south of campus to Midland (Texas) High for an intra-squad scrimmage.
TULANE: Building a new on-campus stadium forced the team to Tad Gormley Stadium for its spring game.
WASHINGTON STATE: Had "Spokane Week" -- including parades -- then played at Joe Albi Stadium.
"It is forward thinking and creative so I am all for it," he said. "To move a scrimmage to Mallard Creek is smart because it is the major program in Charlotte and there is a big alumni base there for them. By doing it like this schools are winning in two ways: they can cater to recruits and fans by coming closer to them and then they are able to give back to the area high school coaches and show them some support."
Mike Palmieri is the head coach at Mallard Creek and he said that if the move was an olive branch to his peers in the region, then it worked.
"A lot of the other local coaches thought it was a great idea," Palmieri said.
"It was a just a practice but it was to show support to the people in our area. They didn't have any access to recruits and it was business as usual for them. They got off the bus and got to work. They had their practice and left. I still think that it was good to have kids be able to see them and for the families to see the team, too."
Mallard Creek also hosted the Charlotte stop of the Rivals Camp Series presented by Under Armour and the turf field and facilities were part of what drew both events to the school.
Of 13 players who have signed since Mallard Creek opened, Palmieri has had three sign with the Tar Heels, and he hopes that the relationship continues with North Carolina.
"I would think they will come back," he said. "It seems to have gone over well on our end and I hope it was good for them, too."
Farrell has his doubts that the move off-campus will be the next big idea in recruiting tactics.
"If this is about feeding the community your product and making relationships with coaches that ultimately will lead to a pipeline to your school, then I believe it could be successful and expanded upon," he said. "If it is just about landing a player or two, then I can't see that the ends will justify the means.
"I think it will have to be tempered and used at the right schools, too. If I am a 17-year-old, it is probably pretty cool to be able to go up the street and see the team, but really it isn't that far of a drive to get to the school if you really want to.
"Also if you are a middle-of-the-road team, then you are feeding a smaller fan base and if you are big school -- the dominant school in the state -- is it really worth the bus ride for the current players who probably hate the idea?"
The current players may not be among the groups whose wishes are taken into account. The North Carolina coaching staff is focusing on filling the bus the next year with Charlotte-area kids and making that 140-mile, one-way bus ride more tolerable for players as they will be showcasing their talents in front of family and friends.
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|Auxiliary Bishop Luis R. Zarama of Atlanta elevates the host June 20 as Bishop Dominic Kimengich of Lodwar, Kenya, joins him on the altar during the opening Mass of the Eucharistic Congress in College Park, Ga. The congress, sponosred by the Atlanta Arch diocese, drew an estimated 25,000 people. (CNS photo/Michael Alexander, Georgia Bulletin)
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (CNS) -- Archbishop Gregory Wilton D. Gregory urged participants at the Atlanta Archdiocese's Eucharistic Congress to find candidates for discipleship by following "the example of Christ himself."
Jesus found would-be disciples sitting at a well, at a tax collector's table, on the road to Damascus, "in the most ordinary places of his time," he said.
Today, they might be "under the city overpasses or standing in soup lines, in prisons where they may languish under perhaps well-deserved punishment, but with hope," Atlanta's archbishop said, "or in high-rise office buildings."
"These are those who we must invite into discipleship," Archbishop Gregory said in his homily at the June 21 closing Mass of the congress.
Traditionally the largest annual gathering of Catholics in the Southeast, the congress drew an estimated 25,000 people and centered on the call of Jesus to "Go and make disciples of all nations."
Held June 20-21 at the Georgia International Convention Center, the family gathering of Catholics from the Atlanta Archdiocese and beyond included addresses by national speakers in several languages, a eucharistic procession, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, music and fellowship, and a healing service.
At an adjacent hotel several hundred young adults enjoyed a track called "Revive!" with praise and worship, adoration and a talk by Father Dave Dwyer, a Paulist priest who directs online and radio ministries.
"We do not so much instruct others as we need to witness to our faith," Archbishop Gregory said in his homily at the closing Mass. "The way we attend to the poor. The way we look out for the little ones. We entice people into faith as Jesus himself did for the crowds who saw him in action."
"Our faith is a great and matchless treasure — one which needs to be spread far and wide — and renewed in the hearts of those whose faith may have grown weak," he said.
The day began with young and old from across the archdiocese gathering outside the convention center to form a eucharistic procession. They represented most of the Atlanta Archdiocese's 100 parishes and missions, its schools and ministries, and a variety of ethnic cultures.
Parish groups, schools, ministries and religious congregations were identified by their respective banners. The crowd grew quiet and knelt as Archbishop Gregory came out to lead the procession, holding a large monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament.
Choirs from Our Lady of Vietnam Church in Riverdale and Queen of Angels School in Roswell sang as those seated inside a hall set up with 10,000 chairs awaited the arrival of the procession.
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo Galveston-Houston was the morning homilist.
In reflecting on the theme of discipleship, he talked of moving from the center out to the peripheries.
"The center is always Christ," he said. "Pope Francis reminds us, from the center we go out."
Atlanta, Cardinal DiNardo said, is always poised to go and teach the nations, which is the aim of the congress.
"We have to make the good news vivid and significant for all," he said. "We're supposed to be a good virus. People want to catch us."
Disciples must themselves be in "intimate" friendship with the Lord through eucharistic adoration so that they may take Christ to others, he said.
He singled out catechists as heroic disciples and applauded their efforts.
"Nothing is more brilliant or more scary than to get up in front of a group of young people and try to teach the words of Jesus," he said. "You are the infantry people, the front lines."
Tracks were offered in English, Spanish, Vietnamese and American Sign Language, and there was a track and for children.
Speakers included Mother Dolores Hart, a cloistered Benedictine nun and former actress; Greg Willits, director of evangelization for the Archdiocese of Denver; Jeff Cavins, catechetical leader of interactive Bible studies; Patty Schneier, lay Catholic author and evangelist; and, in the Spanish track, Sister Adela Galindo, foundress of a Miami diocesan order.
Nearly 60 exhibitors participated in the congress, offering items for sale from prayer pillowcases to religious jewelry. Some exhibitors were on hand to promote ministries or programs such as the Pregnancy Aid Clinic and Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' overseas relief and development agency.
Attendees also could visit the adoration chapel, where the Blessed Sacrament was exposed, to spend time in quiet prayer and to leave prayer requests in writing.
For Erin Kline, the congress is a spiritual revitalization, said the parishioner of Prince of Peace Church.
"I love the congress — everything about it — being able to see everybody and reconnecting with God. I have a hard time with that at times. Being with him and feeling such peace and connection is why I continue coming back," Kline told The Georgia Bulletin, newspaper of the Atlanta Archdiocese.
Ginia Taylor, a parishioner at St. Thomas More Church in Decatur, has been coming to the congress for 10 years, since she was 14 years old.
"What I love about it is the sheer number of people who are here," said Taylor. "It's a microcosm of the universal church."
Atlanta Auxiliary Bishop Luis R. Zamara celebrated the Mass to open the congress, and in his homily he reminded attendees to receive the body of Christ with a joyful mind and to let Christ into their hearts, so they can communicate his love to others.
"Don't be afraid to smile," he said in his homily. "When you smile, you have been touched by love. After that, go and make disciples."
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Indiana University faculty, staff, students, and concerned citizens: sign petition to stop the privatization of campus parking
We the undersigned urge IU to look for creative, in-house solutions to any parking revenue issues
The proposal to privatize IU parking operations has generated much opposition on the Bloomington campus. A private, for-profit corporation will not treat IU facilities and staff with the same degree of care or provide the same personal service that patrons expect, and are likely to shift the cost of making a profit onto patrons, while degrading workplace conditions.
Due to ideologically-driven budget cuts at the state level, IU seems poised once again to attempt to balance its budget on the backs of the IU community. This reflects a disturbing trend of addressing fiscal issues through quick, easy solutions and one-time payoffs. Recently, such an unpopular plan was implemented at Ohio State University.
IU has implemented unwise privatization schemes in the past, with predictably poor results. For example, the IU Motor Pool was privatized and in a short few years was brought back in-house when the vendor failed to live up to its obligations. And examples of privatized parking elsewhere are not encouraging. In the City of Chicago, Chicago Parking Meter LLC has failed to maintain its parking meters and has greatly increased prices in order to turn a profit.
We believe that IU should not mortgage its future with plans that have a proven track record of failure. On the contrary, we believe that IU resources focused on exploring privatization could, and should, be used in-house to resolve parking funding issues. This would be preferable to relying solely on free market solutions that take the profits of parking operations and send them out of state (and even overseas), instead of investing them in IU in the form of services and programs.
Based on numerous precedents, these are our main concerns:
1)Loss of Price control. A private company would be free to raise rates as it pleases in order to turn a quick profit - as happened in Chicago. There is no guarantee that garages would be available and free for events such as theatre shows and athletic events or that current services will be - at the very least - maintained at their current level.
2)Loss of service. Free IU-provided motorist assistance services such as Safety shuttle, engine jumpling, flat tire changing, and various other services would likely go away or users would be charged a fee.
3)Loss of jobs. Most if not all IU Parking Operations staff would lose their IU jobs and the benefits that go with them, with a negative impact on their families as well as the local economy. While promises have been made about finding jobs for these employees, those promises are not reliable. Although Barnes and Noble made similar promises about keeping IU Bookstore employees and compensating them fairly, most were squeezed out in a few years and replaced by cheaper workers.
4)Loss of perspective. The grass might seem greener on the other side of the fence, but when IU privatized the Motor Pool, it was a disaster. Prices rose, selection and service decreased, and IU was eventually forced to bring the Motor Pool back in-house.
To reiterate, we maintain that IU should not privatize parking operations and should instead look for creative, in-house solutions to any parking revenue issues.
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Throughout the holiday week, YourObserver.com will be counting down the top 12 stories of 2009 (one from each month) from our Longboat, East County and Sarasota Observers. Check back each day fro a reprinting — and any relevant updates — of the biggest news items of the year.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED April 9, 2009
The Longboat Key Town Commission held a special meeting Thursday, March 5 to officially close down the town's most northern beach access, 100 North Shore Road, because massive beach erosion has made it unsafe for visitors and residents.
The situation is so bad that during high tide, what little beach is left in the area is overtaken by the Gulf of Mexico, eliminating the formerly connected beach that led to Greer Island, also known as Beer Can Island.
Not wanting visitors and residents to use the Longbeach seawall on private property or the wall of rocks that protect the shoreline to get from one part of the beach to another, Town Manager Bruce St. Denis had the beach closed down days before the special meeting.
"The situation was too dangerous," St. Denis said. "I had to take action."
The 120,000 cubic yards of sand that was placed near the beach access two years ago had eroded so quickly that the Longboat Key Public Works Department staff built a wooden bridge in November to help people navigate the beach safely.
That bridge is already rendered useless.
"The area is very dynamic, and (we are) losing sand at a very accelerated rate," said Public Works Director Juan Florensa.
The north end of the island loses sand rapidly because the shape of the beach sits in a series of inlets, creating irregular wave activity that takes the sand and dumps it into Longboat Pass or on top of Greer Island.
The town has invited Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) officials to visit the area this week so state officials can examine the situation.
FDEP has already suggested two options to help hold Longboat's beach.
One option is a groin field of two to three groins and another groin to be placed on the northern tip of the island to prevent Greer Island and other accreted sand from flowing into Longboat Pass.
FDEP's other suggestion is to build a breakwater, an offshore structure that protects a harbor from wave energy and deflects strong currents. The breakwater could be anchored parallel to the shore to prevent waves from eroding the sand near the beach-access point.
Taking wave data that the town has already collected, along with FDEP's suggestions, town staff has begun modeling a breakwater solution that will be presented to FDEP this summer.
"We notified the state of our emergency situation and have asked them to expedite applications as they are submitted," St. Denis said.
In the meantime, the town may receive some interim relief for the area in the form of dredged sand from Longboat Pass.
Florensa said the West Coast Inland Navigational District will be dredging portions of Longboat Pass later this year as part of its continuous, navigational-district maintenance plan.
If the sand dredged from the pass meets beach-quality requirements, the town may ask for permission to acquire some of it for placement on the north end.
St. Denis said he is also confident the town will be receiving federal reimbursement monies from sand loss that occurred when three storms churned through the Gulf last summer, which caused massive erosion on the north end.
"We can put sand down in that area and other hot spots before a structural solution is approved," St. Denis said.
Contact Kurt Schultheis at [email protected]
Public Works Director Juan Florensa is urging town residents and visitors who frequent the North Shore Road beach access to move south to the Broadway beach access, 100 Broadway.
"There is a lot of beach and a lot of parking in that area," Florensa said.
The North Shore Road beach access was closed because of a loss of sand in the area.
"We also don't want to encourage people to go through private property or the nearby sea oats to access the beach closer to North Shore Road," Florensa said.
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text: A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island early Monday, killing at least two people, damaging buildings and infrastructure, and prompting emergency services to warn people along the coast to move to higher ground to avoid tsunami waves. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck just after midnight in a mostly rural area that's dotted with small towns. Near the epicenter, it opened up snaking fissures in roads and triggered landslides.


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DDOT advanced the proposal in September in a document outlining the ways the city plans to mitigate the effect of the streetcar line on historic properties. Preservationists have been among the more vocal opponents of streetcars within the district, primarily due to concerns voiced over the impact of overhead wires on "view corridors" in the city, particularly involving iconic buildings such as the U.S. Capitol Building.
"It's a clever option as well as a peace offering of sorts," one Washington, D.C. rail advocate told Railway Age. "It may be much harder to object openly to a streetcar design on historic grounds when it actually used to be part of the district's history."
DDOT plans to evalute the potential to acquire and restore PCCs. At present one of the larger caches of out-of-service PCCs is in Jersey City, N.J., with several PCCs owned by New Jersey Transit, once used for the Newark City Subway (now named Newark Light Rail), literally under wraps.
DDOT has reiterated its interest in powering streetcars without overhead wires where possible, likely through the use of dual-power streetcars, such as the ameriTRAM prototype being marketed by KinkiSharyo.


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By Joe Dysart
While initially a novelty, K-12 educational opportunities in the virtual world Second Life (www.secondlife.com) are gaining heft, crystallizing into formal courses, and in some cases, even offering high school students the opportunity to earn college credit.
"They (students) like technology and understand the use of it as a means of communication and collaboration," says Shirley Carraway, director of special projects at East Carolina University, who oversees a series of college credit courses in Second Life for students at North Carolina's Pitt County Schools.
An outgrowth of the virtual reality craze, Second Life first gained popularity in the mid-1990s as an online social meeting place where members could reinvent themselves in any shape, color, or form, and interact in virtual worlds whose only design limitation was the human imagination.
"The fact that today's students are so technologically savvy is one of the reasons high schools and universities are looking at social applications such as Second Life," Carraway says.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Right now, there's a trial underway with a new vaccine that's keeping dogs, cats and horses with certain types of cancer alive without chemotherapy or radiation. Local veterinarians say they are thrilled with this medical breakthrough.
So far there are very few, if any, side effects and it's much less expensive then traditional treatments. Southeast Veterinary Oncology and Medicine in Orange Park is using the vaccine now and really seeing great results.
Veterinarian Dr. Tracey LaDue knows what it's like to go through chemotherapy. She's a breast cancer survivor, but when it comes to our pets, doctors focus on quality of life, not quantity.
"Some of those tools are pretty heavy and it's our goal in veterinarian oncology to not cause any side effects when we treat with chemo and radiation, and there have been zero effects with this vaccination to date," explained LaDue.
Abby is a dog that has been on the vaccine for years. She has improved greatly since she first came to the vet.
"She couldn't even stand up," said Abby's owner, Kendall Bryan. "I mean, it was like she went from swimming the day before, well not swimming, but out running, playing tennis ball with me like she does every day, and all of the sudden she couldn't even stand up."
Abby's been with the Bryan family since she was a puppy so when they later found out it was cancer, they were determined to do whatever they could to keep her alive.
"You can probably still see she doesn't have fur, but it was right under here the lymph node that was biopsied," said Bryan.
Experts told Local 6 each vaccine is tailored specifically for each patient. Lymph nodes are taken from the body and then taken to a lab in Tampa, where they are combined with a harmless bacteria. That creates the vaccine which goes back into the body, and the idea here is that your body and your immune system will then seek out the cancer and fight it.
"The scientists at Morphogenesis have figured out a way to make the cancer cells be recognized by the immune system. Normally cancer cells are hanging out in your body and we have no idea that we have them, and the immune system is not doing its thing," explained LaDue.
Right now, they're looking for dogs with B cell lymphoma, exactly what Abby has. She's got a month left of the vaccine and the hope is she can spend this winter in one of her favorite places in the North Carolina mountains.
"When she knows we're going, she's jumping all over the place and jumping in the car because she loves it up there because it's 2,100 feet up," said Bryan. "It's next to a national historic site that has like 15 miles of hiking trails."
"She's got a super heart. We're really hoping that she's going to finish up and get that trip to the mountains that dad wants," added LaDue.
For more information about the free trial, talk with your veterinarian. You can also contact Southeast Veterinary Oncology and Medicine in Orange park at 904-278-3870. There, they will do a free test to see if your dog is eligible for the vaccine. If so, the vaccine is absolutely free.
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