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By Sean Mortimer
What was your scene like when you started skating?
Mike V: the funny thing about my scene when I was growing up was that I was one of the people who formed it. There was a group of us who picked up skating at the exact same point of time. We all built it together and found a role to play. It was very much a collaborative effort. Everyone pitched in. We consciously looked at it as a scene, thought about it as a scene. A good number of us were involved with punk rock and that was a [defined] scene so we took that same mentality to the skateboard scene. We made our own zines, formed our own teams, even back then [1984] there were guys filming, taking photographs. We wanted to make it a scene, not just something that was aimless and people doing their own thing in different places. We tied it all together and put on events. It was exciting. It was a lot of fun.
How did building that scene in New Jersey affect it?
I'm not sure. I think the same thing was happening everywhere in skateboarding. Tom Groholski was a local pro and he had a ramp in his backyard. He only lived two towns over from me. That was a big deal because people like Jim Murphy, Bernie O'Dowd, Dan Tag would show up and skate that ramp. They were heroes and legends in our community and we had access to that.
Did you guys have a spot where the core crew would always meet?
We definitely did. We had a couple. One was George and Mike Daher's house. Mike was a pro for Stereo for a while. Mike was younger than me and was probably the best skater in town. He and his brother were diehard skaters and his parents built ramps and had an open-door policy with all the skaters in the community.
And [we skated] a church parking lot with very smooth asphalt. And we had a spot called the Noside banks, which is Edison spelled backwards. That was a small asphalt bank with a curb on top. It was a great, great spot. Some of the best skating I've ever seen in my life went down there, undocumented and by guys you've never heard of. (Interview con't after slideshow)
How did you find the banks?
Before we started skating, every now and then if we were cutting through that parking lot, we'd jump our bikes off of it. It was behind a Dunkin' Donuts and a Burger King, next to these apartments. If you saw it today, you'd say, "This is your skate spot?" But it meant everything to us. It was the meeting place and people would come and skate there from all over New Jersey. You'd hear about kids taking the train to skate the Noside banks and obviously after I was sponsored, it became an even bigger spot. People knew I skated there and there'd be intense sessions. It was great.
Are the banks still skateable?
No. The funny thing is that the apartment complex eventually had the city put a fence in there so we couldn't fly out of it anymore and it kind of ruined skating the bank as well. The parking lot was behind a vacant building for a long time and the local skate shop leased the property and we thought, Oh man! Our skate spot is back! They ended up dozing the bank and making it a flat parking lot. That was the end of that skate shop. No one ever went there again. It wasn't run by skaters. It wasn't a core skate shop. It was a hunting and fishing store that carried skateboards. They didn't care. They didn't think it'd be that big of a deal, but it killed their business.
You ever think back and wonder how you squeezed so much fun out of a crappy spot?
I think part of it was that we didn't know better. Another part was that even if we did know better, we didn't care—we just loved to skate. We made something out of nothing—that was the spirit of it.
I remember when the "skate problem" in our community became big enough that a reporter came down to interview us, I told him, "You don't understand—we can have a major session on this one little block of cement. We can make something out of nothing." That's where our heads were at.
Are you glad in a way that there wasn't a lot of prescribed terrain, like skateparks, when you were growing up? That you had to find the places to skate yourself?
Of course. I think street skating was a revolution—physically, spiritually and mentally. It was the ultimate freedom. As glad as I am to see skateparks in all these communities and kids having a place to skate, I don't know if that would attract me today if I was a young person. The idea of challenging my environment and making something out of nothing was really where it was at. I'm glad to have grown up in the time period I did and participate in what street skating is.
How much do you think growing up away from the central California scene affected you as a skating?
I do think that was crucial. It was everything. I feel my roots in skating were so innocent and pure and so full of optimism. It was just so fun. I loved every second of it. I just loved riding my skateboard. And it was hard. We got our asses kicked, we got harassed by the cops, we couldn't go anywhere without being hassled by somebody, being spit on in the face, punched out or arrested. It was constant war but at the same time we were being so creative and doing something that was so radical and against the grain and it felt so good. I felt totally alive.
I think not having exposure or access to the best places to skate and not having all the information helped my skating grow in it's own individual way. That and my energy and intensity when I skated led to my being discovered, getting sponsored and turning pro. I wouldn't trade growing up in New Jersey with anything. I still think back on it fondly.
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According to the researchers, we all view others as having two aspects of mind: the ability to plan, act and exert self-control, called "agency," and the capacity to feel, called "experience." So in this experiment, one of the first to apply to both sexes instead of just women, participants were asked to focus on both the body and the mind of photos of people in various states of dress.
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The goal of this proposal is to advance our understanding of two key aspects of neuroinflammation: the mechanisms of cell recruitment, and the production of specific molecular effectors. They will determine whether the chemokine CCL2 and its receptor, CCR2, cause the influx of innate immune cells into the CNS, and they will determine whether monocytes and/or DCs, once recruited into the CNS by this chemokine, induce inflammatory CNS disease.
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Chemokines and chemokine receptors regulate trafficking of innate immune cells into healthy and inflamed tissues. We have used transgenic mice to test the ability of the chemokine CCL2 to promote leukocyte trafficking into the central nervous system (CNS). An increased number of monocytes/DCs was observed in the CNS of animals that expressed CCL2 under the control of the myelin basic promoter. Despite accumulation of cells in the CNS the mice were healthy and did not show signs of neurological disease.
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HANG TIME MIDWEST BUREAU — With his Spurs facing three games in three nights on a West Coast road trip this week — at Golden State, at the L.A. Lakers, at Sacramento — San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich has an opportunity to get creative again with his roster deployment. However he decides to play it — or whoever he decides not to play — is evidently perfectly acceptable to the league.
NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver said Friday that the Spurs would face no fines, suspensions or other reprisals for Popovich's decision last week to withhold the services of Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker from San Antonio's game at Utah.
"I think this is a unique season," Silver said. "And the fans understand that competitive strategy is part of what goes into coaching this year. It's unique and teams like the San Antonio Spurs are playing to win a championship, and I think fans understand that."
Popovich said he picked that game "pretty much when the schedule came out" and didn't even have them travel with the club to Salt Lake City. The league was fine with that, Silver said.
"The strategic resting of particular players on particular nights is within the discretion of the teams. And Gregg Popovich in particular is probably the last coach that I would second-guess."
For the record, the Spurs have held Duncan, Ginobili and Parker out of the same game seven times in their 10 seasons together; their record is 0-7, with a losing margin of 15 points. Last week's loss at Utah was closer — the Jazz trailed by as many as eight points in the fourth quarter — but Popovich also did it at Portland Feb. 21 and his team got trounced 137-97.
The collective shrug at NBA HQ seems a little surprising, considering the response the Lakers got a couple decades ago when Pat Riley sat out Magic Johnson, James Worthy and Mychal Thompson for the final game of the 1989-90 season. L.A. got destroyed by 42 points that night at Portland and the league fined the Lakers $25,000. Even their owner, Jerry Buss, was quoted at the time: "Our fans would have been disappointed if the same thing happened here."
Utah forward Paul Millsap felt insulted, calling the move "a slap in the face" and citing it as "a little motivation that … got us through."
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We're enjoying some fine spring weather, and I have pizza on my mind. Grilled pizza is, after all, the first reason to pull out the grill in the spring. And homemade pizza is one of the simple, delicious delights of the home kitchen. With just a few ingredients and a home oven you can create pizza that rivals even the best artisanal pizza shops. Here's a dozen of our favorite pizza recipes, with a no-time thin-crust pizza recipe, instructions for grilling pizza, topping ideas and more!
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July 4th is almost here! I love to host an vegan holiday gathering this time of year. I often start my party by serving "no-cook" appetizers; offering mixed nuts, hummus served with veggies sticks or salsa served with whole grain tortilla chips on the side. Another favorite appetizer of mine, is to whip up some quick avocado dip by combining mashed avocados with a clove or two of minced garlic, lemon juice, cayenne, chili powder, sea salt and pepper. Or I just mix together mashed avocados with prepared salsa for an instant guacamole! I serve it with a variety of veggie sticks such as: jicama, carrots, zucchini, red peppers or celery.
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8 ounces organic mixed baby greens
16 Kalamata olives, pitted and chopped
4 teaspoons sunflower seeds
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North High School — which has the lowest graduation rate and highest dropout rate of the city's seven high schools — will hire a graduation improvement specialist.
Only 57.3 percent of the North High class of 2012 graduated in four years, compared to 72.3 percent district-wide. Superintendent Melinda J. Boone said the school is at risk of becoming a state-designated Level 4 school, which would trigger dramatic intervention.
The School Committee voted 6-1 tonight to create the position. The graduation improvement specialist was considered at a meeting Feb. 7, but no vote was taken.
This time, the compensation had been dropped from $45,000 to $35,000 for the remainder of the fiscal year, with the other $10,000 going to school safety measures districtwide. The money for the position was part of $455,000 in new money from the City Council.
Committee member Dianna Biancheria had opposed the position in February. She changed her mind after speaking to North staff and after the compensation was reduced, she said.
Tracy O'Connell Novick was the only one who voted against the position. On Feb. 7, she said she would rather see the money go to long-under-funded elementary school libraries. (Some schools don't have libraries, and only three have librarians.)
The School Committee had a broad agenda tonight. While North High will receive a graduation specialist, student athletes will receive free after-school snacks and — in case you hadn't heard — the vast majority of the city's elementary school children already get free instrumental lessons.
The committee looked at which elementary schools offer in-school, free instrument lessons. All of the elementary schools except Chandler Elementary, Flagg Street, Gates Lane, Quinsigamond, Union Hill, and West Tatnuck offer such lessons. Lessons are offered at principals' prerogative and as their staffing budget allows, according to district officials. In addition, Woodland Academy, while not offering district-funded lessons, is working with the Neighborhood Strings Program.
Ms. Novick asked for a report on how much it would cost to add instrumental lessons to the remaining schools and in the meantime encouraged the district to brag a bit more about the music offerings. The fact that so many students get free, small group lessons, she said, is "something we ought to be shouting from the rooftops."
The committee also learned tonight that the district's nutrition and athletic departments are working together to bring the U.S. Department of Agriculture After School Snack Program to the city's high schools. The program would provide free snacks, such as yogurt, fruits and granola to high school athletes. Seventy-three percent of the district's students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Also tonight, Mayor Joseph M. Petty suggested naming the gym at Columbus Park Preparatory Academy after 27-year-old Marine Sgt. William B. Soutra Jr., who attended that school. He received the Navy Cross last year for valor in a firefight in Afghanistan.
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Olmstead remembered as a family man
He was known as a hard-working family man who knew New Canaan better than anyone else. But, most likely, Benjamin Olmstead will be remembered as a problem solver.
"His common phrase was `No problem,'" his daughter Lisa Weed said.
"Nothing was ever a problem for Dad," his daughter Kim Dennehy said. "If it was, he would find a solution."
Olmstead, a 37-year veteran of New Canaan's Department of Public Works, died Thursday at Norwalk Hospital, one day after he was struck by a pickup truck while spray painting a road in New Canaan.
The 71-year-old was hit by a Dodge Ram at the corner of New Norwalk Road and East Avenue at about 11:20 a.m. Wednesday, according to police.
The pickup truck was traveling north on New Norwalk Road and was attempting to make a left turn onto East Avenue, Police Chief Leon Krolikowski said. Olmstead, who was a Norwalk resident, suffered "serious injuries" and was transported to Norwalk Hospital by the New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps, according to the chief.
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"This is a tremendous loss and my deepest sympathy is extended to the entire Olmstead family as well as our Town Hall family who worked with, and loved, Ben so very much," First Selectman Robert Mallozzi said Friday morning in a news release.
Olmstead's family described him as someone who was always fun to be around and who was supportive. In fact, his nieces and nephews would call him "Funcle Ben."
"He was always there for any of our sporting events throughout our entire lives," Dennehy said. "My sister plays softball and he never missed a game, my daughter plays softball and he never missed a game. He was dedicated and always there ... He just wouldn't want it any other way. He just wanted to be there, no matter what."
Olmstead and his wife, Donna, had been married for 40 years.
He was passionate about car racing and traveled to NASCAR races all over the country.
He retired two years ago but continued working part time, his family said. He was an engineer and surveyor for the town, according to Director of Public Works Michael Pastore, who said Olmstead was working alone when the accident happened. In an interview on the day of the accident, Pastore likened Olmstead to an "encyclopedia" of New Canaan.
"He probably knows more about the town than anybody I know," Pastore said, adding that Olmstead was always helpful and a great asset to the department.
His family agreed.
"He knew New Canaan inside and out," Dennehy said. "He didn't need a map to tell you anything."
In addition to a funeral service that was held Friday afternoon, a wake is scheduled for Tuesday, July 29, from 4 to 8 p.m., at Magner Funeral Home, 12 Mott Ave., Norwalk. A funeral Mass is set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Jerome Church, 23 Half Mile Road, Norwalk.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clients of Charles Schwab Corp. ramped up trading in January as the big retail brokerage firm on Thursday reported an 8 percent increase in average daily trades from a year earlier and 5 percent higher than in December.
The total included trades on which Schwab did not collect commissions. Average daily trades on which it did receive transaction-based revenue, a figure watched closely by analysts, were up 12 percent from December. At the end of last year nervous investors were shunning stock trading out of concerns about budget problems in the United States and ongoing issues in the Euro zone, according to brokerage firm executives industry wide.
In January, Schwab clients made daily average trades of 504,700, the highest average in at least the last 12 months, rising nearly 5 percent above December's average client trades of 480,200.
Schwab's online brokerage rivals earlier this week also reported big jumps in client trading. The discount brokers are often viewed as proxies for individual investor interest in the stock market.
"Overall, today's activity update was largely in line with our expectations and anti-climactic given similar peer reports," David Trone, an analyst at JMP Securities wrote in a note to clients. Trone rates Schwab shares "market perform."
Daily average revenue trades at TD Ameritrade Holding Corp in January rose 3 percent from a year ago and 17 percent from December. At E*Trade Financial Corp, daily average revenue trades in January were up 6 percent from January 2012 and 18 percent from December.
Trading volume on U.S. stock exchanges in January was up 8 percent from December but down 7 percent from January 2012.
Brokerage executives said that investors built up heavy cash positions in December by selling businesses, real estate and other holdings in anticipation of higher 2013 taxes and started investing the cash in January.
Net new assets at San Francisco-based Schwab in January from existing and new clients fell 49 percent from December to $12.1 billion but were up 70 percent from the amount collected in January 2012. The inflow last month was bolsted by $2.2 billion from a mutual fund clearing services client that Schwab did not identify.
Schwab's total client assets reached a firm-record $2.01 trillion at the end of January, up 16 percent from a year earlier.
The firm, the largest by market capitalization among online brokers, ended January with 8,819 active brokerage accounts, up 3 percent from a year earlier. Late last year Schwab removed 30,000 brokerage accounts from those it considers active.
Schwab's January trading metrics offered further evidence that both individual investors and institutional money managers, who trade through Schwab, pulled cash out of money-market funds that pay virtually zero interest and redeployed them into mutual funds.
Schwab clients pulled $6.0 billion from money-market funds in January - reversing net inflows in the previous eight months. They added a net $3.4 billion to taxable bond funds, $2.7 billion to international funds, $1.2 billion to hybrid funds and $1.1 billion to large capitalization stock funds. January was only the second month in the last 12 that investors put more money into large-cap stock funds than they removed, according to Schwab.
Despite the jump in January trading, investors' interest in buying and selling stocks remains relatively low.
"All the signs are there that the retail investor is coming back into the market, but not robustly," TD Ameritrade Holdings Chief Executive Fred Tomczyk said at the company's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on Wednesday.
At Schwab's business update meeting last week, Chief Executive Walt Bettinger said trading is "not anywhere near the levels that you might anticipate in history." Clients are investing, he added, but not trading.
Bettinger and other executives also have said that client trading is becoming a less vital metric for the online brokers because they are increasing their fee-based offerings that produce revenue based on client assets.
Schwab also has been growing its bank subsidiary, with its deposit accounts growing 1 percent in January to 874,000. Since bank stocks trade at lower valuation than brokerage stocks, some analysts have said that Schwab shares, which have produced a total return of 39.2 percent over the last 12 months, may be overvalued.
(Reporting By Jed Horowitz; Editing by Theodore d'Afflisio)


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As an alternative to pods, capsules, or ampoules, Hissy Fit's Saving Face saves space by combining color and hydration with SPF 30 sun protection, while Freeze 24/7 combines their foundations, bronzing powder, and blush with anti-aging properties. For men, Jack Black has got a Jet Set Traveler kit with airline-approved cleanser, scrub, shave lather, and moisturizer.
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Versace unveiled its Resort 2019 lookbook, featuring August Alexander, Gabriel Thiam, Igor Kapitanets, and Niccolo Patti, shot by Greg Swales and styled by Giorgio Ammirabile.
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Gui and Thom at Boom captured by the lens of Elena Ovecina and styled by Martina Amato, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
Calvin Klein Jeans SS19 Campaign
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CAL SOUTH ANNOUNCES STATE CUP ADULT CHAMPIONSHIP FOR 2010 December 2009
November 30, 2010 (Fullerton, CA) – Cal South is proud to announce that registration is now open for the first annual State Cup Adult Championship, which will be held in the coming year over two separate weekends.
CAL SOUTH ALUMNUS LANDON DONOVAN NAMED AS 2009 MLS MOST VALUABLE PLAYER November 2009
November 19, 2009 (Los Angeles) - Landon Donovan, the star forward with the L.A. Galaxy and the Men's National Team, and former Cal South ODP standout, was named the Most Valuable Player for the 2009 Major League Soccer season Thursday.
ROSTERS FOR ODP THANKSGIVING REGIONALS ANNOUNCED November 2009
November 13, 2009 (Frisco, TX) - 33 Cal South players -- 20 girls and 13 boys -- were named to six elite Olympic Development Program teams as US Youth Soccer announced their rosters for the upcoming ODP Thanksgiving Regionals for 2009.
CAL SOUTH AND THE LA84 FOUNDATION PRESENT "FINISHING AND GOALKEEPING" SPECIALTY COACHING COURSE November 2009
November 6, 2009 (Fullerton, CA) – Cal South and the LA84 Foundation announce open registration for "Finishing and Goalkeeping," their latest specialty coaching clinic, to be held on Saturday, Dec. 12 at the L.A. Expo Center...
ELECTION NOMINATION FORMS MAILED TO ALL CAL SOUTH LEAGUE PRESIDENTS TODAY September 2009
FULLERTON, CA (September 11, 2009) – Nomination forms and official notices for the upcoming Elections of District Commissioner and Cal South Officer positions went out via the mail today (Sept. 11) to the presidents of all approved Cal South leagues...
10 CAL SOUTH ODP PLAYERS MAKE FINALIZED FALL SEMESTER ROSTER FOR U-17 MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM RESIDENCY PROGRAM September 2009
CHICAGO (Sept. 9, 2009) - U.S. Under-17 Men's National Team head coach Wilmer Cabrera and his staff have finalized 40 players, one quarter of whom have participated in Cal South's Olympic Development Program (ODP)...
STATE TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE RELEASES PLAY LEVEL GUIDE FOR STATE CUP & NATIONAL CUP September 2009
FULLERTON, CA (September 5, 2009) - The Cal South State Tournament Committee recently announced new divisions for the 2010 Cal South State Cup. Play in the State Cup will now be broken up into a Governors Division and a Presidents Division...
CAL SOUTH SRA GEORGE NOUJAIM ANNOUNCES NEW STATE REFEREE COMMITTEE SELECTIONS September 2009
FULLERTON, CA (Wednesday, September 2, 2009) – Cal South State Referee Administrator George Noujaim announced today his selections for the new Cal South State Referee Committee, who will combine to administer and nurture the various levels of the Cal South Referee Program, as well as serving the entire Southern California referee membership.
BRADLEY NAMES 24-MAN ROSTER, INCLUDING 7 CAL SOUTH ALUMNI, TO PREPARE FOR CRUCIAL FIFA WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS August 2009
CHICAGO (Aug. 27, 2009) — U.S. Men's National Team head coach Bob Bradley has named a roster of 24 players, including seven Cal South alumni, that will train in advance of the critical FIFA World Cup qualifiers against El Salvador and Trinidad & Tobago. The U.S. first hosts El Salvador on Sept. 5.
CAL SOUTH SELECTS GEORGE NOUJAIM AS THE NEW STATE REFEREE ADMINISTRATOR (SRA) August 2009
Fullerton, CA (August 21, 2009) – Cal South officially announced today the naming of George Noujaim as their new State Referee Administrator (SRA). Cal South was named an official "joint" Youth and Adult State Association back in March by the USSF, and along with this comes the responsibility of having all State Referee Committee activities falling under the Cal South umbrella...
USA BID COMMITTEE RECEIVES $100,000 DONATION FROM CAL SOUTH TO SUPPORT U.S. BID FOR FIFA WORLD CUP™ IN 2018 OR 2022 August 2009
NEW YORK (August 18, 2009) – The USA Bid Committee today announced a donation commitment of $100,000 from Cal South, the state soccer association for both youth and adult soccer in Southern California, toward the effort to bring the FIFA World Cup™ to the United States in 2018 or 2022.
2009-2010 US YOUTH SOCCER NATIONAL LEAGUE TEAMS ANNOUNCED August 2009
FRISCO, Texas (August 5, 2009) – US Youth Soccer is proud to announce the teams chosen to compete in the 2009-2010 US Youth Soccer National League season, including 9 teams from Cal South.
CAL SOUTH TEAMS GO THREE FOR THREE! July 2009
In a sweep of their final games, three Cal South clubs will bring home winners' hardware from the US Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Massachusetts...
CAL SOUTH AT THE 2009 ODP REGION IV CAMPS: '96 Girls Go 18 for 18 July 2009
Even with all of the major successes of the Cal South Olympic Development Program (ODP) over the years, it seems there are still some firsts at hand...
CAL SOUTH'S BU14 LOS ALAMITOS TITANS CAPTURE TITLE AT PRESIDENTS CUP July 2009
The BU14 Los Alamitos Titans, one of six teams representing Cal South at the 2009 US Youth Soccer Presidents Cup Finals, captured a championship...
6 CAL SOUTH TEAMS ATTEND 2009 PRESIDENTS CUP NATIONAL ROUND July 2009
July 15, 2009 (Raleigh, NC) - Six teams from Cal South will begin play in Raleigh, North Carolina on Friday, July 17 at the 2009 US Youth Soccer Presidents Cup National Championships. The full event takes place from July 16-19...
CAL SOUTH DONATES $120,000 MORE TO ITS CHAMPIONSHIP-BOUND TEAMS July 2009
July 10, 2009 (Fullerton, CA) – Providing the ultimate in "member benefits" to its leagues and clubs, Cal South recently announced the donation of $120,000 – $10,000 each – to its twelve teams set to attend the pair of upcoming national US Youth Soccer events being contested within the next three weeks...
CAL SOUTH APPROVES 6 MORE NEW ADULT LEAGUES June 2009
June 25, 2009 (Fullerton, CA) – The Cal South Board of Directors has approved six more new leagues for the 2009-2010 seasonal year. The six new approved leagues include the...
CAL SOUTH CAPTURES 9 CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES AT 2009 US YOUTH SOCCER FAR WEST REGIONALS June 2009
June 21, 2009 (Lancaster, CA) -- Teams from Cal South captured nine championship trophies at today's Finals round of the 2009 US Youth Soccer Far West Regionals at the Lancaster National Soccer Center.
15 CAL SOUTH TEAMS STILL IN RUNNING FOR 14 FAR WEST REGIONAL TITLES June 2009
June 20, 2009 (Lancaster, CA) -- While one Cal South team missed out on making history at the US Youth Soccer Far West Regionals, fifteen other Cal South teams get to continue theirs by winning their semi-final matches this morning, allowing them to each compete for a Far West Regional championship trophy on Sunday, June 21 on the fields of the Lancaster National Soccer Center.
27 CAL SOUTH TEAMS MOVE INTO FAR WEST REGIONAL SEMI-FINALS June 2009
Cal South only lost five teams of its overall 32 teams in the quarterfinal round as the US Youth Soccer Far West Regional Championships took place today upon the fields of the Lancaster National Soccer Center in Lancaster, California. Cal South will send 27 total teams into Saturday's semi-final round -- 12 boys' teams and 15 girls' teams, with the girls' side only losing one team in the quarters -- and still has teams competing for a title in every one of the sixteen age and gender brackets.
32 OUT OF 35 CAL SOUTH TEAMS REACH THE QUARTERFINALS AT 2009 FAR WEST REGIONALS June 2009
June 18, 2009 (Lancaster, CA) - After three very competitive days of preliminary matches, 32 out of the 35 teams Cal South entered in the US Youth Soccer Far West Regional Championships have moved successfully into the event's quarterfinals round on Friday, June 19th. In all, Cal South's team count is split evenly between boys' and girls' teams with 16 apiece, and Cal South has at least one team in each of the 16 age and gender brackets in the event, which is comprised of teams from U12 to U19.
CAL SOUTH CAPTURES 8 OF 10 US YOUTH SOCCER REGION IV PRESIDENTS CUP TITLES June 2009
Tri-Cities, WA - Teams from Cal South captured eight of the ten championships this weekend at the inaugural US Youth Soccer Region IV Presidents Cup, which concluded this weekend in the Tri-Cities area (Kennewick, Pasco and Richland) of the state of Washington. The championship teams will now head to Raleigh, North Carolina in July for the 2009 US Youth Soccer Presidents Cup National Championships.
CAL SOUTH DONATES $157,500 TO ITS REGIONALS-BOUND TEAMS June 2009
In order to provide what is considered the ultimate in "member benefits" to its leagues and clubs, Cal South has maintained a tradition of donating funds to its teams going to the US Youth Soccer Far West Regional Championships. This year being no different, Cal South has provided $87,500 to its 35 teams – $2500 per team – taking part in the 2009 Far West Regionals...
FINAL TWO NATIONAL CUP CHAMPIONS DECIDED OVER WEEKEND June 2009
June 9, 2009 (Chino, CA) - Cal South's final two participants in the upcoming U.S. Youth Soccer Far West Regionals were decided this weekend as the U19 girls of the Eagles Soccer Club and the U19 VC Fusion DMS 11 boys captured Cal South National Cup titles on the fields of the Ayala Park Community Soccer Complex in Chino. Both teams automatically advance to the 2009 Far West Regionals...
SCMAF & CAL SOUTH SOCCER ENTER INTO EXCLUSIVE 10-YEAR PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT June 2009
OFFICIAL CAL SOUTH PRESS RELEASE -- Fullerton, CA – June 4, 2009 – The Southern California Municipal Athletic Federation (SCMAF) and Cal South announced today that they have entered into a 10-year exclusive agreement aimed at...
CAL SOUTH APPROVES FIRST ADULT LEAGUES May 2009
May 15, 2009 – In less than a week after posting the new Adult League Application, the Cal South Board of Directors has approved its first three leagues for the 2009-2010 seasonal year. The approved leagues include the City of Los Angeles Municipal Sports Adult Soccer programs, Laguna Niguel Football Association and the Copa Cabana Beach Soccer League.
CAL SOUTH NATIONAL CUP NAMES 7 MORE OLDERS CHAMPIONS May 2009
May 18, 2009 (San Juan Capistrano, CA) - Seven more championship trophies were handed out to some most deserving teams this weekend during the Cal South National Cup Semi-Finals and Finals rounds, held at the Rancho Capistrano Soccer Fields on Saturday and Sunday, May 16 and 17.
3 MORE CHAMPIONS WIN NATIONAL CUP TITLES May 2009
Champions in the Boys Under-14 bracket and both Under-18 brackets were crowned this weekend at the Cal South College Showcase Weekend in Temecula.
CAL SOUTH STATE CUP CHAMPIONS NIGHT WITH CHIVAS USA! May 2009
Cal South wishes to invite its entire membership to visit the Home Depot Center on Saturday night, May 16, for State Cup Champions Night with Chivas USA. Game time is 7:30 pm. Chivas USA vs. DC United ...
CALSOUTH.COM GETS A NEW LOOK May 2009
Cal South launched a new look on the web today by introducing to its membership an updated, more user-friendly Cal South.com. The revised site went live at midnight. This is the first upgrade for the Cal South website since April 2005.
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Cal South will be offering FREE world-class college recruiting seminars at the Cal South National Cup Quarterfinals and Round of 16 in Temecula, CA this weekend on Saturday, May 9th...
CAL SOUTH STATE CUP CROWNS U14-U17 CHAMPIONS April 2009
April 27, 2009 (San Bernardino, CA) – The 31st edition of the Cal South State Cup competition closed with a flourish this weekend as eight teams in the U14 through U17 age brackets took home championship trophies. Semi-final and final matches for the last of the 2009 Cal South State Cup Olders brackets were held on Saturday, April 25...
CAL SOUTH STATE CUP CROWNS U18, U19 CHAMPIONS April 2009
April 21, 2009 (San Bernardino, CA) – Four talented teams in the Under-18 and Under-19 age brackets left the fields of San Bernardino this weekend with some very impressive hardware in their hands: a 2009 Cal South State Cup championship trophy. Semi-final and final matches for the two oldest of the seven State Cup Olders brackets were held on Saturday and Sunday, April 18-19 at San Bernardino's Blast Soccer Complex.
CAL SOUTH CAPTURES 1993 GIRLS ODP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE March 2009
March 22, 2009 (Frisco, TX) - Any time wind is a factor, a soccer coach's approach is simple: have the wind at your team's back in the second half. Cal South coach Daniel Codina adhered to that tried-and-true principle, and in the end, his team got the only goal they needed in the second half with the wind at their backs to prevail 1-0 over North Texas in the 1993 Girls final of the 2009 US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (US Youth Soccer ODP) Championship at Pizza Hut Park.
CAL SOUTH TAKES 1993 BOYS ODP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE IN OVERTIME March 2009
March 22, 2009 (Frisco, TX) - It was an all-out battle between Oklahoma and Cal South for the 1992 Boys title in the 2009 US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (US Youth Soccer ODP) Championships at Pizza Hut Park. After the smoke of a full 90 minutes of regulation and two 15-minute overtimes had cleared, Cal South had emerged with the championship in a 4:3 win. For Cal South coach Steve Hoffman, this match summed up what youth soccer is all about. "You've got to give credit," he said. "To get a showcase like that, a 4:3 game in a championship final was great.
CAL SOUTH CAPTURES TWO 2009 US YOUTH SOCCER ODP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS March 2009
March 22, 2009 (Frisco, TX) – The 2009 US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (US Youth Soccer ODP) Champions were crowned on Sunday at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. These state-level US Youth Soccer ODP 1992 and 1993 Boys and Girls teams, Under-16 and Under-15, earned their way to the US Youth Soccer ODP Championships by \winning their respective regional championships.
YOUNGERS ROUND OF 2009 CAL SOUTH STATE CUP CROWNS 10 CHAMPIONS March 2009
March 16, 2009 (Lancaster, CA) – The Youngers brackets of the 2009 Cal South State Cup finished up the last two weekends of February with the crowning of 10 champions in the U9 through U13 age brackets. Play had been delayed off and on through February due to inclement weather, but totally concluded by March 1. In a showing of just how diverse the strength of play has grown throughout Southern California, teams from ten different clubs took home State Cup trophies in the Youngers round.
SOCCER NATION EXPO 2009: 24,000 STRONG, UNIFIED IN LOVE OF SOCCER February 2009
February 27, 2009 (Los Angeles, CA) – Surely, as a soccer fan of the first order, you were at the Los Angeles Convention Center recently for Soccer Nation Expo 2009. What's that? You weren't? Well, we're sure you had some pretty pressing business that kept you away, but we should clue you in on one clear fact: you missed one great party! Soccer Nation Expo, Cal South's annual celebration of the beautiful game, landed in the L.A. Convention Center's South Hall on Saturday, February 21 to kick off two amazing days of high-spirited soccer action, education, shopping, networking and just plain fun, at the biggest free family soccer expo in the country.


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Imagine learning among banana plantations, parakeets in the rainforest, monkeys in the jungle, volcanoes, rapids and waterfalls. That is what 21 seventh and eighth graders from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (SCH) will experience when they travel to Costa Rica next week for nine days (March 20-29).
This is not the first co-ed trip at SCH Academy, but it is the first middle school trip abroad and the first co-ed middle school trip. (SCH middle schools are still single gender, with a middle school for girls and a middle school for boys.)
This trip is an eco-immersion educational opportunity designed to bring the pages of students' textbooks to life. Students will participate in research projects at biological reserves, live in homes with local families, engage in community building projects and experience sustainability firsthand.
"No one is educated in this day and age unless they have an appreciation of the way different people live," said Marilyn Tinari, head of Middle School for Girls at SCH. Tinari, 60, a Mount Saint Joseph and Chestnut Hill College graduate, is one of three faculty members attending the trip organized by SCH faculty and the owners of Chill Expeditions.
The itinerary reads like an adventure plan for scientists: after breakfast they drive to the base of Arenal, one of Costa Rica's active volcanoes. Upon arrival they have a chance to compare different strategies for sustainable and organic agriculture with a visit to Don Juan's Farm … they investigate organic farming, sustainable agriculture, bio-digesters, raising tilapia, milking cows and even squeezing sugarcane juice.
"We try to create what we call intellectual adventure," said Crawford Hill, owner of Chill Expeditions, which organized the trip.
Raised in West Mt. Airy, Hill, 60, attended Episcopal Academy before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. He taught biology at Episcopal for 35 years and also coached wrestling.
In 1999 Hill collaborated with Costa Rican Adventures (CRA) to bring students to Costa Rica. He had met the owners a year earlier at a biology convention. Since then he has traveled with 35 groups to the island and led more than 800 students. "It brings history to life," he said.
In 2010, when the opportunity to purchase the company developed, Hill moved on the chance. The past two years he and a partner have worked to expand the company.
A tiny village in Spain where he vacationed with his family for 25 years seemed like a good place to start. He changed CRA's name to Chill Expeditions (his friends call him "Chill") and realized that he had to provide an educational opportunity beyond mere eco-tourism. Instead, students immerse themselves in local communities and work alongside the people who live there.
The company now works with over 800 groups and schools across the nation that have traveled with Chill Expeditions or are interested in doing so. The company offers trips to Ecuador, Belize, Spain and the Galapagos Islands.
"Raising money with bake sales and all is really fun, but you don't really get to meet the people," said Mei Rose Connor, 13, a seventh grader who will attend the trip this March. "You get to talk to them and see if what you're doing is working. It's like a two-way thing."
Connor, an Ambler resident, is most excited for the visit to Frog Heaven, a family's frog conservation project visited by biologists around the world.
"What we liked was the whole story approach," said Tinari about working with Chill Expeditions.
This story approach connects lessons with themes. Students will study connections with nature by white-water rafting through a scenic river that slices through primary rainforest and plunges through mountain gorges in the Puerto Viejo area. Afterwards, students will spend the night in a small village.
Another day students will zip-line hundreds of feet up in the air across the rainforest to get a monkey's eye view of the canopy and flora below. Afterwards, students will study at the San Gerardo Biological Research Station, part of the 54,000-acre protected Children's Eternal Rainforest.
It's this kind of experience that helps students think about questions like: how do interactions with and conceptions of nature shape economic, social, and conservation issues? Or how might damming the river affect those interactions? And what's it like to live in rural Costa Rica?
The program fits into a number of SCH efforts to get their kids outside the classroom and into the world. Last year it launched its Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) through which it sent a number of students to the United Arab Emirates.
"Hopefully they'll bring back an excitement for seeing the world with new eyes and other ways," said Tinari. "The idea is that they'll see what another people's lives are like."
For more information about Chill Expeditions, visit www.chillexpeditions.com.


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1. Virginia boasts more miles (544, to be exact) of the famed Appalachian Trail than any other state, and 101 of those miles are within the 196,000-acre Shenandoah National Park. Be right at home backcountry camping or hitch a ride with a Trail Angel into one of the Appalachian Trail Communities.
2. If you enjoy your adrenaline with a cityscape backdrop, you must visit Richmond. The James River courses through downtown and provides up to class IV rapids to canoe, raft and kayak.
3. How remote can you go? Give False Cape State Park south of Virginia Beach a try. It's only accessible by foot, bicycle, boat or park service vehicle, and is one of the last few undeveloped areas along the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Take a long downhill stroll on the Virginia Creeper Trail. At 34.3 miles from Whitetop to Abingdon, the Trail follows an old railway bed. Horses are permitted on the trail and cycling outfitters can equip you or shuttle you to Whitetop.
5. Have an adventure in the sky when you parasail or hang glide over Coastal Virginia.
6. More than 111,000 acres make up the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge near Suffolk, and more than 200 species of birds call it home. Bring your bug spray and paddle through the canal for an ultimate aquatic wilderness experience.
7. Can you pull in a monster catfish? Virginia currently holds the IGFA World Record for a 143 lb. blue catfish pulled from Kerr Lake in Clarksville. It was wrestled in by a father and son team on Father's Day weekend, 2011. See other fishing destinations.
8. Does singletrack mountain biking make you salivate? From National Forest to Liberty Mountain, state parks and beyond, you can get your fix in Virginia.
9. Bouldering takes on new meaning when you visit The Channels Natural Area Preserve near Saltville. The hike is 5.5 miles to get to the gigantic sandstone outcroppings, but you'll have a ball playing hide-and-seek among them.
10. Looking for the world's greatest swimming hole? We might just have it, but you'll have to work to get there. Devil's Bathtub is a naturally smooth swimming hole complete with a rock slide. You'll have to scramble boulders and cross the water several times to get to it on the 7.2-mile Devil's Fork Loop Trail in Scott County.
11. If you think you love the outdoors but could do without some of the packing in, bugs, campfire cooking, etc., try glamping. From people who will pitch your tent for you to the arrangements that make you say, "this is my kind of 'camping,'" five destinations have nailed it all down for you.
12. Get your motor runnin', but not in too high of a gear. You'll want to keep it low as you wind your way through the ribbon turns of the Back of the Dragon. Meandering from Marion to Tazwell on Route 16, this is a favorite road for motorcyclists.
13. Mud is the word when you take to one of Virginia's ATV destinations. The newest and most rapidly growing is Spearhead Trail System in the Heart of Appalachia. The trails are for ATVs, side-by-sides and dirt bikes; no horses allowed.
14.Ziplining is an adrenaline rush that accommodates most ages. Tether on and feel the wind in your face as this family-friendly activity continues to grow across Virginia.
15.Horseback riding across the Virginia countryside is a beautiful thing. Pull your own mare in or ride one at an awaiting ranch, but stick to the designated trails to ensure the safety of your four-legged companion.
16. A round of golf isn't simply a round of golf in Virginia. Here you'll find one of the world's great mountain courses, one of the world's great golf destinations, and courses designed by the world's biggest names.
17.Blueway trails are emerging across Virginia. Some are based on historic travels while others are purely for recreation and beauty. Slide your kayak in the water near Mathews or Rocky Mount and breathe in nature's glory. More rivers and streams.
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As Alec Hansen readied himself on the mound, a host of scouts are doing the same thing behind home plate.
Arms are raised, radar guns poised to clock the next pitch. There's a synchronized rhythm to the dance, and it carried on throughout all five innings of last week's game with Bear Creek -- and any future starts the Loveland High School senior throws this spring. The pitch comes in, the guns go down and the speed and other notations are recorded. The ball goes back to Hansen, he takes the sign from his catcher and the guns go up again.
In all, it happens 80 times. That's how many pitches Hansen threw in the 11-1 gem he tossed against the Bears at Swift Field. And when it was all said and done, the guns were packed away and the scouts, about 20 of them representing Major League teams, went on to their next game.
While Hansen's deliveries are registering up to 94 mph on the guns, none of it seems to be registering in his mind.
"At first, it was kind of strange and kind of threw me off, but I've gotten used to it," Hansen said. "I mean, all summer and all fall, and now I'm getting used to it. I just block it out.
"I mean, after I went to the Area Code tournament in August, there were probably 70 guys there. In the fall there was a tournament where I had 30 guys watching me. From there, it's gotten to be more reality."
To his credit, it's still just a game to him. Yes, he wants to impress, but he rationalizes that if he throws well, the Indians will win and everybody will go home happy. And right now, his goal is to get Loveland into the postseason.
Loveland coach Jake Marshall is amazed at how well Hansen has handled it all, and in fact, he doesn't worry about it anymore. Neither do Hansen's teammates. They don't tease him about it, and that has a lot to say about how Hansen hasn't allowed it to become a circus.
Now, if it were Marshall on the hill, he's not so sure the nerves would be as calm.
"For him, it's like that movie, For The Love of the Game -- clear the mechanism," Marshall said. "He's definitely got that figured out. If I was him throwing with that many guys around, I'd be nervous as hell."
But as Hansen noted, it's all been a progression. It didn't happen all at once, just like he didn't arrive on the scene a finished product.
He entered the halls at Loveland at 5-foot-11. Four years later, he's 6-7. Two years ago, he couldn't make the varsity team. Last year, he was wondering if he had the talent to pitch at the Division I level. Then the fastball started popping the mitt at 90 mph and the crowd followed. That's called potential, and at the time, it was a bit of a whirlwind for the Hansen family, his father, Nick, admits. But it was also a curiosity where the ball would end up. Remember, he grew eight inches in four years, and that's a lot growing limbs to learn to control.
"All those long levers," Hansen said. "I like how hard I'm throwing. I've been working hard in the offseason, lifting and running, and also just being able to command the strike zone and be able to throw strikes. Now that I've kind of grown into my body and I'm starting to fill out, it's gotten easier for me. I feel like my command has gotten better."
Hansen went to Denver to work with Darryl Milne of Slammers baseball for help with all of that, but Milne said he'll take no credit for his development.
He spent 10 years as a minor league pitching coach, so live arms and good builds fill his past. The ability to separate oneself is the road he believes Hansen is following.
"It's all attributed to him, not to me," Milne said. "Emotionally, he's made huge progress. His control and him growing into his body, that's really serving him well. He has a good aptitude. It's one thing to be told you have to change something, it's another deal to actually change it."
Control has always been the key. Hansen's mechanics are vastly improved, and Milne said he's better at being able to replicate his pitching motion pitch after pitch. It's not perfect, but improved.
In the fourth inning against Bear Creek, Hansen threw 10 pitches. None of them were balls. That never happened last spring. He only needed 80 pitches in five innings to strike out 14 in a one-hit effort, and Marshall wonders if that would have gotten Hansen out of the third frame.
"It's huge. That's what we've been telling him all year, and he's heard it a thousand times," Marshall said. "For the success of this team, he needs to set a goal he can get past that fifth inning. If he can get past that fifth inning with what we've got offensively and defensively, we're going to put some runs on the board and we'll be fine."
But Tuesday, with a 10-1 lead, Hansen didn't want to go past the fifth inning. Neither did the team, which was hoping to get out early via the 10-run rule. The scouts, however, wanted to see more, so they left disappointed when Jay Larson drove in the clinching run.
Hansen knows the scouts wanted more. He saw all he needed.
"I mean, I want to try to impress them, I want to throw hard and open their eyes," he said. "At the same time, I'm worried about how I'm doing. I want to win. Today I was hoping we were going to win in the fifth inning."
Besides, the scouts will come back. He knows them by name, and they've all been to his house. They email and text to find out when he's throwing and where, so none of it is really a surprise anymore. It's just another day at the yard.
They come back to see the progress, and to see where he might fall into their plans. A few of them have privately suggested he could land somewhere in the first 10 rounds of the First-Year Player Draft should his spring continue.
There are still those other occasions, against Thompson Valley on Monday, when Hansen shows he's still a work in progress. He walked four and struck out one and lost a battle of wills with the home plate umpire and was ejected when his body language said too much.
Marshall is convinced Hansen will learn from the situation, including the one-game suspension that will follow.
"Just because the way his season has gone, he can't do whatever he wants," Marshall said. "He needs to find that composure, and in an appearance like this, he has to show his composure."
So far, Hansen is 3-1 and has struck out 41 batters in 14.2 innings, including a school-record 15 in one start. He's allowed one earned run, and while his 16 walks are still a work in progress, it's a much better number than before.
Milne, who also scouts for Baltimore, said the key for a scout is imagining what a prospect will become. In Hansen's case, part of that process is looking at his family of two parents who both swam in college and a younger sister who's a state champion in the pool. That's called good genes.
Hansen is trying to grow into them and control and use them to his advantage. While he tries to block out his own version of paparazzi, he also wants them to come away with a good picture of the pitcher he hopes to become.
"I think if you're trying to pitch to impress, you're going to pitch good at the same time," Hansen said. "I think trying to impress someone, you're going to try to do your best. Ultimately, hopefully, that gets you a win."
And until the Loveland schedule plays out, that's all he really has on his mind.
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Soldier Ride the Hamptons will be dedicated on Saturday to Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter and will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit that makes financial, medical, and emotional assistance available to United States soldiers wounded overseas.
Registration will get under way at 7:45 a.m. at the Principis' Ocean View Farm on Montauk Highway in Amagansett. The dedication and blessing, given by the Rev. Steven E. Howarth of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, will begin at 8:45, and the riders will set out at 9.
The shorter, 30-mile route will take riders into Sag Harbor, where a ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. in part of which marines from Lance Corporal Haerter's battalion will accompany the wounded vets as they cross the bridge there that was named for the lance corporal, who grew up in Sag Harbor and was killed in action in Iraq in 2008. For walkers, the 4.5-mile course will begin and end on Long Wharf. The event has grown not only as a way to provide assistance to young, wounded American servicemen and women, but also as a way for them to meet one another, which in itself is a source of support, and engage in the uplifting and physically restorative activity of bicycling.
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