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Before his fellow villagers understood what he was up to, they called Wafula "the moneyed mad man"-"moneyed" because he had enrolled his daughters in secondary school rather than send them off to hard labor in the nearby Kakamega Forest; and "mad" because every day he could be seen running around with a butterfly net while other men logged and farmed and the women collected firewood.
Eventually it turned out that Wafula wasn't so mad after all, but it took a while for this truth to emerge. Wafula's concerned neighbors actually complained about him to the village elders, who considered the matter and recommended a cleansing ritual to heal his madness. Without cleansing, they said, his weird behavior would only continue, thus causing more failed rains, further climate change and environmental degradation, depletion of the forest cover, and disease outbreaks, among other ills.
Shocked, Wafula asked for a hearing. In what had by now become a communitymeeting in the chief's yard, Wafula said that it is encroachment on the Kakamega Forest that has resulted in over 50-percent depletion of the precious forest cover in the past 25 years. He also explained that over-exploitation of the forest resources for food, herbal medicines, firewood, and timber to construct houses was rapidly diminishing forest resources and destroying other forms of biodiversity and water catchments.


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And I need very little in the way of an excuse to whip up a dish using them. So when the carrot of disco-by-post was dropped in front of me by Wrighty in exchange for a summery Japanese dish, I had no choice but to deliver.
It probably makes me a hostage to disco and soulful house, but you know what, I'm very happy with that. It's music that's good for the soul and it acts as the soundtrack to much of my life, so having some mixed especially for me feels fab.
And lets face it, when the weather is as glorious as it is today, a zingy, fresh and filling noodle salad is the perfect supper – along with a chilled bottle of Asahi. Bliss.
The flavours in this are really fresh, fragrant and bold, but the textures are great too. The soft slinky noodles are especially good when you get one of the crispy pickled cucumber noodles mixed through them, and the chicken is juicy and tender, a lovely contrast to the al dente broccoli and firm broad beans.
On to the dish…
Ginger marinated chicken breasts poached gently in white miso, with buckwheat soba noodles, tenderstem broccoli, broad beans and pickled cucumber noodles, all wrapped in a Japansese dressing.
For two
- Two skinless chicken breasts
- Buckwheat soba noodles, I use 3 bundles between 2 of us but use however many you like. Cook as per the pack instructions, rinse under cold water until cooled and then set aside in a bowl of cold water until needed
- 3 heaped tablespoons white miso paste
- 1 pint water
- 1 very large piece of ginger, peeled and grated – we want juice and pulp
- A couple of handfuls shelled broadbeans (take frozen ones and boil for 1 minute, drain, rinse and cool and then shell them – easiest way)
- 2 strips pickled cucumber ribbons, cut into fine noodle-like strands (pickled cucumber recipe below – it'll take you about 15 minutes to do)
- 6 tenderstem broccoli florets, blanched for 1 minute in boiling water before being rinsed under cool water and drained
- A large handful fresh mint leaves
- A small handful fresh coriander leaves
For the dressing
- 2 shots mirin
- 1 shot light soy sauce – Japanese preferably but don't worry if you can't get any
- 2 shots rice vinegar
- 1 tsp black sesame seeds and 1tsp white sesame seeds, lightly toasted for a few minutes in a dry frying pan
- 1 large thumb of ginger sliced finely into matchsticks
- 3 tablespoons of the poaching liquor from the chicken, once the chicken is done
- 2 spring onions finely sliced
For the pickled cucumber : This tasty and simple recipe is taken from Food.com
- 1 cucumber
- 8 tbsp rice vinegar
- 4 tsp salt to sprinkle
- 4 tbsp white sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- A few black peppercorns
- You'll want two strands of the pickled cucumber cut finely into noodle like ribbons as in the picture
- On a mandolin, finely slice the cucumber into ribbons, discard the ones that have the central core in.
- Place them into a bowl and scatter with the salt, leave for 15 minutes.
- Whilst that's happening combine all the other ingredients into a jug, stir thoroughly and for a little while as the sugar takes a while to totally dissolve.
- After 15 minutes rinse the cucumbers, roll each around your finger so like a tube, and pack them into a jar or tupperware box, once all in there pour the liquor over them, cover and put in the fridge. You can eat them straight away but they're better after a day, and they'll keep for up to about 5 days.
For the salad
- Take the chicken breasts and slice into slender strips, then take the ginger juice and pulp and cover the chicken with it. Cover and refrigerate, 24 hours is best but you could use it sooner – it just won't be tasting that much of ginger.
- Put the miso and water into a pan and bring to the simmer, add the chicken and poach gently until it's just done – this will take around 7 minutes. Remove from the pan, reserve the liquid you need for the dressing and then strain the chicken, sitting it to one side to cool.
- Into a jug or container combine all the dressing ingredients and give a good stir.
- Drain the noodles and place into a large bowl with the chicken, broad beans, broccoli, cucumber noodles and herbs, then pour the dressing over the lot and mix together with your hands.
- Place it into a serving bowl or individual dishes and serve.

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Editor's Note: The following is an article that appeared in the San Angelo (Texas) Standard Times profiling a local RV service center that has been experiencing growth and recently relocated to a larger facility. To read the entire story on Freudiger RV services, including a shot Q&A, click here.
Despite the turbulent economic climate and spiking gas prices, Jake Freudiger's RV business hasn't just gone unscathed — it's thrived.
Freudiger two years ago opened Freudiger RV Services in San Angelo, Texas, after relocating from the Dallas Fort-Worth area, where he worked for an RV dealership. The business quickly outgrew its first location and earlier this month moved to a larger facility.
"I originally started in the boat business," said Freudiger, who has been in the RV industry 33 years. "RVs and boats are basically the same — one leaks on top; one leaks on the bottom. I was told many years ago when I bought my first boat business that as long as you work on people's toys, you will always have work, and that has held true."
The services the business provides is another reason for its success, Freudiger said.
"We specialize in insurance repairs," he said. "I do all the written estimates, I coordinate with the insurance adjusters and order all the repairs, and we do the repairs at our facility. We are the only ones in a 100-mile radius that specialize in the insurance industry and RV industry combined. We go as far as Menard; we've gone to Del Rio. The area (the business can) encompass is fantastic here."
Business, he added, is booming year-round.
"A lot of customers opt to do the big insurance jobs during the offseason so they won't be without their RV during peak vacation times," Freudiger said. "We also do full service work. We work on everything in the house — air conditioners, furnaces, plumbing, electrical. About 80% of our service work is done in the field; we go to the customer's house or the storage facility to do the repairs there."


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Obama "concerned" Edward Snowden could leak more
Updated at 8:50 a.m. Eastern
DAKAR, Senegal President Obama said Thursday he won't engage in "wheeling and dealing and trading" to get NSA leaker Edward Snowden extradited to the U.S., but he remains "concerned" over what other classified information Snowden may still try to disseminate.
Asked by CBS News White House correspondent Major Garrett whether the U.S. would try to interdict any flight Snowden might take through U.S. airspace, Mr. Obama said he wouldn't be "scrambling military jets to go after a 29-year-old hacker."
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- Ecuador: Decision on Snowden's asylum request could take months
President Obama said he hasn't personally called the leaders of Russia or of China, because he "shouldn't have to." He referred to the Snowden case as something that should be dealt with through routine legal channels and said it was "not exceptional from a law enforcement perspective."
The U.S. chief executive said that while the, "damage was done with respect to the initial leaks," Snowden was still believed to be in possession of further classified information.
"I continue to be concerned about the other documents he may have," Mr. Obama said at the joint news conference in Dakar with Senegalese President Macky Sall. "He has those documents. He's released some of them but not all of them have been released."
Mr. Obama also said the fact Snowden obtained the secret documents had revealed significant vulnerabilities at the National Security Agency. He said his first priority was preventing a repeat of the entire episode, which began when the NSA computer guru went on the lamb with reams of top-secret data.
Snowden, meanwhile, remained holed-up Thursday morning in an airport in Moscow, seemingly waiting on travel documentation after the U.S. government invalidated his passport.
Ecuador is considering his official request for asylum.
The Ecuadorian government confirmed Thursday morning, however, that no travel documents had been issued as yet for Snowden, and their decision on granting asylum to the former NSA contractor was still pending.
Ecuador's National Secretary of Political Affairs, Betty Tola, told reporters in Quito on Thursday that the reason there has been no decision on Snowden's asylum request was because one could not be made until he was on Ecuadorian soil -- either in Ecuador or in one of their consulates or embassies in another country.
Ecuador's foreign minister said Wednesday his government could take months to decide whether to grant Snowden asylum.


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Syria Today: Europe Lifts Arms Embargo on Insurgents
Head of Free Syria Army Threatens Attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon
The Free Syrian Army's Chief of Staff, General Salim Idriss, has warned, "If the attacks of Hezbollah against Syrian territory do not stop within 24 hours, we will take all measures to hunt Hezbollah, even in hell."
Idriss continued with the threat to intervene in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based, "I will no longer be bound by any commitments I made, if a decision to stop the attacks...is not taken and implemented," said Idriss.
Idriss said, "We are being subjected to a genocide conducted by Hezbollah," and, without giving details of specific operations said he hoped "that everyone will excuse the Free [Syrian] Army" for retaliating.
The principle sticking point involves voting. Existing members of the coalition insist that the inclusion of new members must be based on balloting by existing members only. But this would change little in a monopoly that was made possible by interference from regional countries to begin with, rather than based on consensus among Syrian opposition. The existing members were not chosen by the people to decide whether certain opposition figures should be members or not.
The second issue is the "blocking third", or the veto power held by a third of the members. This idea was advanced by the coalition's secretary general, Mustafa Al Sabbagh, and was clearly meant to maintain the monopoly of the current core group within the coalition.
Hassan argues that this stalemate may cripple the group, and will only fuel the stalemate seen on Syria's battlefields.
On the other hand, The Atlantic's Shadi Hamid argues that the political stalemate can only be solved by progress on the battlefield, and that progress has not happened because the international community is waiting for a unified leadership that will likely never occur:


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The District of Columbia Court of Appeals effectively upheld gay marriage in the nation's capital by legitimizing the city's decision to block a popular vote on the issue.
In a 5-4 decision published Thursday, the court agreed that Washington's Board of Elections and Ethics had the right to deny an initiative measure on the city's recently passed law legalizing same-sex marriage.
Opponents of the law, led by area pastors, were confident that the majority of Washingtonians would have voted against gay marriage if given the chance.
They argued that residents of the District "are … entitled to voice their views through their votes on this important issue" – just like the voters in 31 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot. Every time the question of same-sex marriage has been put to voters, they have voted against it.
But that could have conflicted with the District's 1973 "Human Rights Law," which declares that "[e]very individual shall have an equal opportunity to participate … in all aspects of life."
The question, according the court, was whether such an initiative measure "would authorize or have the effect of authorizing discrimination on a basis prohibited by the Human Rights Act."
"We have no difficulty concluding that the proposed initiative would do so," the court majority wrote.
While the decision was close, even the four-judge minority (which questioned the basis on which the DC Board of Elections rejected the initiative) agreed that the referendum could have been discriminatory.
Gay rights groups applauded the decision.
"The court's ruling today is a significant victory for justice, the rule of law and the protection of all DC residents against discrimination," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, in a statement.
While the ruling – which could be taken up by the US Supreme Court – addresses a signature issue in today's political culture wars, it also relates to DC's unique position under the scrutiny of Congress.
The 81-page ruling is set in the context of the history of Home Rule in the DC, over which Congress retains considerable power.
Republicans and some conservative Democrats in Congress are trying to exert congressional authority over the District in this matter with a bill called the "DC Defense of Marriage Act." The bill would define marriage in DC as the "union of one man and one woman."
"The ideal institution for raising children is family, it is moms and dads," Rep. Jim Jordan (R) of Ohio said at a rally announcing the bill in May. "This is the national capital of the greatest country in the world, and this is a fight worth getting into, defending that key institution."
The bill has 30 cosponsors in the House, but it is unlikely to generate enough support to pass.
Meanwhile, federal courts have been getting more involved in gay marriage questions at the state level.
In Massachusetts last week, US District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional because it "plainly encroaches" on the right of states to define marriage. Specifically, Judge Tauro ruled that DOMA unconstitutionally denies married gay couples some federal benefits. Massachusetts legalized gay marriage in 2004.
"This court has determined that it is clearly within the authority of the commonwealth to recognize same-sex marriages among its residents, and to afford those individuals in same-sex marriages any benefits, rights, and privileges to which they are entitled by virtue of their marital status," Tauro wrote.
It's unclear at this point whether the Obama administration will appeal Tauro's ruling.
In California, both sides of the gay marriage debate are awaiting the decision of US District Judge Vaughn Walker in the case involving Proposition 8 – the 2008 ballot measure restricting the definition of marriage to between a man and a woman. At issue is whether Prop. 8 violates the Equal Protection Clause in the US Constitution.
Five states (New Hampshire, Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut) and DC now recognize same-sex marriage. This week Argentina became the 10th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
Opponents of gay marriage vow to continue fighting – in federal courts and at the voting booth.
"Individual states shouldn't have the right to impose a radical redefinition of marriage on the rest of the country," Austin Nimocks, senior legal counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund, said in response to Judge Tauro's decision in Massachusetts.


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Once you select the hotel rate, from among the various prices offered by multiple reservation systems, and click "select", the website
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Everyone knows that air tickets are the most expensive during the holidays. Holiday ticket prices can be priced up to 103% higher than normal rates during the off season. If you need to travel during the holidays and want to save money, there is still hope. In the eyes of the airlines, not all holidays are the same and if you want then you need to ask the right questions the best deals on tickets. One of the major factors in saving the cost of airfare is flexible arrival and departure times.
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– For flight distance up to 1500 km, where the passenger has experienced a delay of 3 hours or more, the
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– For flight distance over 3500 km, where the passenger has experienced a delay of between 3 and 4 hours, the
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– For flight distance above 1500 km and up to 3500 km, where the passenger has experienced a delay of over 3
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– For flight distance over 3500 km, where the passenger has experienced a delay of 4 hours or more, the
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The airline has obligations to fulfil during the waiting period for the flight
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Changes in the file formats for both file-based and JDBC-based persistent data stores were introduced in Message Queue 3.7, with further JDBC changes in version 4.0 and 4.1. As a result of these changes, the persistent data store version numbers have been updated to 370 for file-based data stores and 410 for JDBC-based stores. You can use the imqdbmgr query command to determine the version number of your existing data store.
On first startup, the Message Queue Broker utility (imqbrokerd) will check for the presence of an older persistent data store and automatically migrate it to the latest format:
File-based data store versions 200 and 350 are migrated to the version 370 format.
JDBC-based data store versions 350, 370, and 400 are migrated to the version 410 format. (If you need to upgrade a version 200 data store, you will need to step through an intermediate Message Queue 3.5 or 3.6 release.)
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Amid the raft of new signings at Anfield, only one of the seven new names didn't raise an eyebrow on Merseyside; Jose Enrique.
The remainder of the new faces were brought in to assist the Reds' plight at the top end of the pitch, and not in the case of Alexander Doni or Sebastian Coates, were household names to the Merseyside faithful.
Stewart Downing, Charlie Adam, Jordan Henderson and Craig Bellamy were all signings to bring the excitement back at Liverpool following a dire spell under Roy Hodgson. Furthermore, the modern day fan seldom gets excited about defensive signings.
Hindsight may be a wonderful thing, but in fact the recruiting of Enrique was the shrewdest move of Kenny Dalglish's spending spree.
Others, especially Downing and Adam, have wavered from the brilliant to the average on too many occasions this term, while the infrequent appearances of Bellamy means his has never been over a sustained period so to affect the club's inconsistency. Henderson meanwhile, is still discovering where his best position is.
Enrique has reverted to type. At Newcastle he stayed loyal, helping the club out of the Championship with performances as metronomic as The Toon's style of play that season. Despite the step up, Enrique has looked at home in Liverpool's problem left-back position to the extent that Vicente del Bosque's continued neglect of the 26-year-old now appears baffling.
What probably made the signing of the Spaniard perhaps even more underwhelming from a fans perspective was now necessary it was to make. As oppose to Adam or Bellamy, luxury signings on the face of it, Enrique filled a gap eight players failed to make their own in the previous campaign.
Along with the necessity, the fee involved with the transfer of Enrique would hardly have got pulses racing either. Newcastle allowed him to leave for £6 million, exactly the same amount they paid Villarreal for his services in 2007. But bar the signing of Demba Ba at the Sports Direct Arena, you'll struggle to find better value during last summer.
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|Florida Gulf Coast turned the sports world upside down. Can Stevie Johnson (right) and the Buffalo Bills follow suit?
A No. 15 seed made the Sweet 16 for the first time in the history of the NCAA men's basketball tournament on Sunday. The story of Florida Gulf Coast University is absolutely epic, transcending sports. It's historic, captivating and breathtaking.
It also makes me wonder, is there a team in the NFL that could star in its own version of the out-of-nowhere, rags-to-riches Horatio Alger tale of FGCU? Which NFL team would count as a legit No. 15 seed, capable of shocking the world?
I've written about the Arizona Cardinals making a run this season. Their defense is legit. I love what the Kansas City Chiefs have done; they will win at least six more games this year. Jeff Fisher, meanwhile, has the St. Louis Rams trending. But none of those squads are flying under anyone's radar. if you want to follow a potential Cinderella story, you have to find the dark horse. Look for a team so low, no one can see it.
The potential NFL equivalent of FGCU is the team with the longest playoff drought in the NFL: your Buffalo Bills.
Of course, tradition-steeped Buffalo has a higher profile than FGCU. But the Bills haven't made the playoffs since the 1999 season, when they were victimized by the Tennessee Titans' "Music City Miracle." From that point on, they've been breaking the hearts of their die-hard fans on a consistent basis. Boys and girls who root for Buffalo still have nightmares about Week 17 of the 2004 season, when an unknown third-string running back on the Pittsburgh Steelers named Willie Parker gashed the Bills -- and dashed their playoff hopes.
Ask any fan or anyone who covers the NFL for a quick, one-word answer to the question, "Will the Bills make the playoffs?" Conventional wisdom says 100 out of 100 people will scream, "No!"
But if the Bills were to somehow make a run, they would captivate the nation, starting with their amazing fan base. Thanks to the four straight Super Bowl losses they suffered in the 1990s, they also generate a wonderful amount of sympathy and have a healthy bandwagon. Finally, of course, we all love an underdog, and Buffalo definitely counts.
While that might seem like a hypothetical scenario, I think the Bills are in position to shock the world this year with a legit playoff push.
Buffalo made a significant change by rightly firing overmatched coach Chan Gailey and smartly plucking Doug Marrone from Syracuse to replace him. Marrone is an NFL guy (a former assistant with the New Orleans Saints and New York Jets) who did a superb job getting the Syracuse football team back on track. As I wrote shortly after the hire, this was a great move by the Bills.
Moreover, Buffalo has some talent; the cupboard is not bare. The Bills simply needed someone like Marrone to maximize it. The new coach told me he wants to "smell the breath" of his players, making sure they are focused solely on winning. You have to love that.
One year ago, after signing Mario Williams in free agency, the Bills were an en vogue pick to win about 10 games. I thought the Bills' defensive line was good enough to be one of the best in the NFL. That prediction bombed, and so did Buffalo. Williams felt pressure to live up to the gigantic contract and dealt with injuries. Williams' fellow lineman, Marcell Dareus, lost his brother.
Both Williams and Dareus should bounce back brilliantly this year under Marrone, a no-nonsense coach who will get his players to achieve. Also, Marrone was smart enough to pick Mike Pettine as his defensive coordinator. Finding an experienced defensive coordinator with a great reputation was key, and Marrone nailed the hire. Pettine will help Mark Anderson, who failed to make an immediate impact last season after coming over from the New England Patriots as a free agent. Having a refocused defensive line will boost the entire unit.
After rightly cutting ties with Ryan Fitzpatrick, a major underachiever, Buffalo is going to draft a quarterback. I still believe Marrone finds a way to pluck his former Syracuse signal-caller, Ryan Nassib. Nassib knows the offense of Bills coordinator Nathaniel Hackett -- whom Marrone brought from Syracuse -- backwards and forwards. He's also gaining traction as a top quarterback in the run-up to the draft; Greg Cosell recently called him a "young Drew Brees." I love the fit. As I argued in January, the Bills should take Nassib with the eighth overall pick, critics be damned.
Of course, whether Buffalo takes Nassib, Geno Smith, Matt Barkley or someone else, whoever's under center will certainly be better than Fitzpatrick. Buffalo can run the ball with authority with Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller. Stevie Johnson is a legit No. 1 receiver, though they need some depth behind him.
The New York Jets are rebuilding. I think the Miami Dolphins are over-hyped. The Bills can split with the Patriots, provided Buffalo can generate a pass rush and run the ball. All of this means that the Bills can easily go 4-2 in the AFC East.
A Bills run would make them the stars of a riveting Cinderella story.
Here's hoping -- for the long-suffering Bills fans -- that it happens.
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The Commanderettes knocked off Fort Knox (1-1) on Monday night at Idle Hour Park.
Check back next week for stats and quotes from head coach Leonard Abell.
Washington County vs. Nelson County
Score: 8-1 Washington County
When: Friday, March 25
Where: Nelson County
Key players: Jaclyn Kelty, Olivia Thompson, Zana Yocum, Hannah Simms, Linda Libby
Washington County lost to Green County 15-6 on Monday night at home. Check back next week for stats and quotes from that game.
Washington County vs. Adair County
Score: 0-0
When: Saturday, March 26
Where: Adair County
Game highlights: The Indians and the Commanders battled to a scoreless tie after five innings of play.
The game was called on account of rain, and will be recorded as a tie.
Washington County vs. Hart County
March 25-26
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Children ages four through 12 may sign up.
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The St. Catharine College baseball team has been used to scoring runs in bunches over the last few years, but the Bat Pats have had a more difficult time this season denting home plate.
That was evident last week as St. Catharine, now 16-16-1 overall, scored 24 runs over six games while posting a 2-4 slate.
The six-game home stand started last Wednesday with a split against Oakland City.
The Mighty Oaks (10-2)rebounded from a 5-2 loss in the opener to gain a split with a 6-1 win in the nightcap.
The St. Catharine College softball team won only two of seven games last week, but those two wins were historical for head coach Holly Smith.
Wednesday the Patriots split a doubleheader at home against Union College, and Thursday they gained a split at Mid-South Conference rival Campbellsville.
It was Smith's first wins over those perennial powers in her seven-year coaching career at St. Catharine.
The St. Catharine College Patriots were well aware that if the opening round of the NAIA National Tournament became a free-throw contest, it could not result in a favorable outcome.
Wednesday's game was, indeed, decided at the charity stripe – and the outcome was most disappointing for J.T. Burton's team.
The Lindenwood Lions (29-5) came into the game in Kansas City as the nation's top-ranked free-throw shooters at 74 percent.
When the confetti fell on Rockcastle County girls' basketball assistant coach Ken Mattingly's shoulders on March 12, his parents were likely very proud.
After several seasons on the sidelines as an assistant at Rockcastle County, Mattingly was able to experience a state championship for the first time when his team beat DuPont Manual in the finals at E.A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green.
The coach, whose parents are Buck and Emily Mattingly of Springfield, said the experience was more than he could have ever dreamed of.
The sun is shining, my yard needs mowing and March Madness is on my mind.
That can only mean one thing: time to take a sick day.
Just kidding, boss.
It means spring is here, along with spring sports.
After checking out the 18-0 thumping administered by the Washington County High School baseball team in a nine-inning scrimmage, I think we may have a nice spring ahead of us.
If the Commanders play like that all season, they should have no problem reaching their goal of 20 or more wins.
Growth is evident in Washington County High School's track program this season.
Returning to the team are five members that competed at state last season.
"The girls' 4 x 200 meter relay team of Shay Yocum, Gabby Cheser, Alex Yantis and Mouriah Hourigan are all returning, as well as Kyle Curtsinger who advanced in the boys' discus," Bodenhamer said.
Because of the trip to state, around 30 members are now on the team, a number that head coach Paul Bodenhamer said is the highest it has been in five years.
The Washington County High School Commanderettes get ready for battle this week as they start the season.
Play began on Tuesday against John Hardin at Idle Hour Park. Results from that game will be in next week's edition.
Washington County will play host again on Thursday, this time to Burgin. The first pitch is set for 5:30 p.m.
Washington County continues play on Friday against Nelson County for the first road game of the season. The first pitch is set for 5:30 p.m.
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|Bryce Brentz
Brentz is lucky. It doesn't appear the injury will hurt his baseball career. But if it does for a period of time, it would be interesting to see if Red Sox disqualify him instead of disable him. My guess is they disable him rather than disqualify him, since this was an accident and not a result of him losing his temper. For more analysis of these two lists, please read the post below on Ryan Sweeney.
And, yes, Brentz is making his second appearance on Sports Law Blog. He was the player we talked about in our post "Bryce Brentz and Teams Requesting that Players Use Medical Devices for Abnormally Good Health"
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In the eight inning of last night's Red Sox -Tigers game, Red Sox outfielder Ryan Sweeney became upset after grounding out. So angry that after returning to the dugout he let a door feel the brunt of his frustration, which caused a hand injury:
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Ryan Sweeney will need X-rays after he punched a door in the dugout following a groundout in the eighth inning of the Sox' 7-3 win over the Tigers. Sweeney injured the knuckle on his left pinkie and had to come out of the game when he couldn't make his warm-up throws in the top of the ninth inning.Should Sweeney be placed on the disabled list -- or the disqualified list?
According to a team source, the outfielder -- who is hitting .260 with a .303 OBP and .373 slugging mark in 63 games -- is likely to require a DL stint for the injury.
From: Mike Petragalia, WEEI.com* * *
The seldom-used disqualified list is for players who, according to the CBA, "fail to render services to his club." While disqualified, a player is not paid his salary and is removed from the roster, though the player can workout with his team and receive healthcare benefits. On behalf of a disqualified player, the Major League Baseball Players' Association can file a grievance to fight the disqualification. The grievance procedure may eventually lead to a hearing before three-arbitrators.
The disqualified list is purposelessly defined in vague terms, since its definition gives teams flexibility in interpreting it. Teams are hesitant to use it, however, because it likely damages the team's relationship with a player. It may also damage the team's relationship with the player's agent, which in some instances may be a big deal.
Because of these downside for teams, few players have been placed on the disqualified list in recent years. Two years ago the Mets placed Francisco Rodriguez on the disqualified list after he injured his hand in a fight with his girlfriend's dad. Last year for SI.com, I wrote about the Cubs placing Carlos Zambrano on the disqualified list for 30 days after he bizarrely walked out on his team and claimed to be retiring. Earlier this month the Cleveland Indians placed minor league pitcher Nick Hagadone on minor league baseball's disqualified list for a self-inflicted injury to his pitching hand after he pitched poorly in a game. Teams sometimes use the disqualified list as a threat - in 2006 the Nationals threatened to disqualify Alfonso Soriano after he refused to play the outfield. The threat worked.
Should the Red Sox use it for Sweeney?
Reasons for Yes
Punching a door or any wall shows terrible judgment, if for no other reason than the fact that it is completely predictable that you can, and probably will, injure your hand by doing so. It isn't like Sweeney threw his bat in frustration and it somehow hit a wall and bounced back at him, or that he suffered some other freak injury. He punched a door.
Sweeney didn't act in the heat of the moment - there was at least 30 seconds between his ground out and his punching for him to cool down. The fact that he had time to think about what he was doing, and still did it, makes it worse.
Sweeney, who Baseball America called the White Sox's No. 1 prospect in 2006, is not new to the game. He's in his 7th MLB season and is 27-years-old. Punching a wall might be more excusable for a rookie, but not for a seasoned vet.
Sweeney's injury makes it much harder for the Red Sox to trade him before today's deadline. He's been rumored to be on the trading block (see NESN.com). If he's placed on the disabled list or disqualified list, he can't be traded absent the commissioner's approval. Even if he's not put on any list, his already low trade value (he's a corner outfielder who has 0 home runs in 204 at bats) has likely plummeted even lower. On today's Dennis and Callahan show on WEEI, it was even discussed that Sweeney may have intentionally injured his hand to not be traded - if so (and that seems unlikely and would also be hard to prove), the disqualified list would be even more appropriate.
Reasons for No
Unlike Carlos Zambrano, who had a long history of strange behavior, Sweeney has never attracted controversy and seems to be a good teammate. His temper just got to him and he did a foolish thing. To his credit, Sweeney has acknowledged responsibility and fault. He admits he let his team down (see Boston.com). It isn't like Sweeney is refusing to acknowledge he did something wrong.
If the Red Sox disqualify Sweeney, they will almost certainly have to deal with a grievance filed by the MLBPA, which will argue that the penalty is excessive, especially for a player without a track record for misbehavior. Keep in mind, the MLBPA does not want a precedent of teams disqualifying players, since other teams could do the same in the future. They would fight for Sweeney, if not so much for him than for their collective membership.
Moreover, as sports attorney/professor and MLBPA certified agent Jim Masteralexis tells me on Twitter, Kevin Brown and Doyle Alexander were not disqualified after they punched walls and were injured. While the Red Sox could argue those instances do not preclude them from punishing Sweeney, they are still persuasive precedent.
Although Sweeney is a free agent at the end of the season, the Red Sox would damage its relationship with him going forward by disqualifying him. The same is probably true of the team's relationship with Sweeney's agent, Larry Reynolds, who has a pretty impressive list of clients. Along those lines, would free agents be less likely to sign with the Sox because of how it treats Sweeney?
Verdict: I doubt the Red Sox will disqualify Sweeney, but if they did, I believe they would have sufficient grounds.


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David Turcotte, Sc.D., is Research Professor in the Department of Economics, Senior Program Manager at the Center for Family, Work, and Community, and Director of the Institute for Housing Sustainability. His research focuses on innovative approaches to developing more affordable and sustainable housing, workforce development issues within the clean energy industry, health and the build environment, and sustainable community economic development.
Turcotte is Principal Investigator for an $875,000 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Healthy Homes Demonstration Program grant and Co-Principal Investigator with researchers from UMass Amherst and UMass Boston on a National Science Foundation funded project, "Decision Models for Foreclosed Housing Acquisition and Redevelopment." He is also Co-Editor of the Merrimack Valley Housing Report, an electronic newsletter that focuses on regional housing issues.
His recent publications have examined local foreclosed housing acquisition and redevelopment efforts and a framework to guide sustainable housing development in the United States. He teaches courses on community conflict resolution and sustainable housing development and land use: policy and practice.
He holds a Master of Science degree in Community Economic Development and a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Turcotte is also Chairperson of the City of Lowell's Green Building Commission and the Massachusetts Asthma Action Partnership's Healthy Housing Committee. He also served as President of the Coalition for a Better Acre, a community development corporation and has more than 25 years of community development experience.


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Co-founder of Public Lab (publiclab.org) and co-founder of TreeKIT (treekit.org), Liz Barry develops geographic tools and civic science methods for collaborative cities. Her background is in urban landscape design, and she teaches at Columbia University, Parsons the New School for Design, and Pratt Institute. Previously, she worked at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill planning international new cities and campuses, at Durham Inner-city Gardeners (DIG) coordinating youth urban horticulture enterprise, and has travelled around the country catalyzing interaction among strangers with a "Talk To Me" sign - a project that received international press including the New York Times, AP, CNN, Oprah and NPR's This American Life. She likes to play outside.
landscape design, social innovation, urban design, urban ecologies
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PHOENIX (AP) Michael Beasley scored a season-high 27 points and the Phoenix Suns rallied from 13 down in the fourth quarter to hand the Los Angeles Lakers their eighth straight road loss 92-86 on Wednesday night.
The dramatic comeback came in Steve Nash's first game in Phoenix since he left for the Lakers after last season.
The Lakers, who had won three straight - all at home, lost Dwight Howard when he reinjured his right shoulder with 6:57 to play.
Beasley, whose previous season best of 25 came two games earlier, scored on a scrambling layup as the shot clock was expiring to put the Suns ahead 88-86 with 43.8 seconds to play.
Kobe Bryant had 17 points and nine assists, but missed what would have been the tying layup with 24 seconds to play. Howard had nine points and 14 rebounds before he left after aggravating the shoulder injury that sidelined him for three games earlier this month. Metta World Peace scored 15, Pau Gasol 14 and Jamison 13 for Los Angeles.
The Lakers played the first of seven straight on the road, where they haven't won since Dec. 22.
The Suns, who improved to 3-2 since Alvin Gentry was fired and replaced by interim coach Lindsey Hunter, outscored the Lakers 29-13 in the fourth quarter.
Down 78-65 with 10 minutes left after Antawn Jamison scored 10 straight Lakers points, the Suns went on an 8-0 spurt to 78-73. But Bryant's 22-footer with 6:05 left had Los Angeles ahead 80-73.
Phoenix outscored the Lakers 19-6 the rest of way.
After Bryant threw up an airball under P.J. Tucker's tight defense, Jared Dudley sank a 3-pointer to tie it at 82 with 3:39 left. After a turnover by the Lakers, Beasley's 17-footer made it 84-82, then Luis Scola sank a 15-footer to complete a 13-2 run that had Phoenix ahead 86-82 with 1:55 left.
Bryant's driving layup cut it to 86-84 with 1:35 to go, then Nash knocked the ball loose from Scola for a turnover and Bryant's two free throws tied it at 86-86 with 1:07 to play.
That set up Beasley's drive. The Suns reserve, whose play has blossomed since Turner took over, almost lost control of the ball as the shot clock wound down, but managed to drive to the hoop for a layup that made 88-86. Bryant's driving miss followed and the Suns wrapped it up from the foul line.
A video tribute to Nash during a first-quarter timeout drew a rousing standing ovation from the crowd, a mixture of Lakers and Suns fans. Nash responded with a wave as the Lakers came back onto the court.
It was a warm remembrance of the high-flying style that Nash and coach Mike D'Antoni, now coaching the Lakers, brought to Phoenix. Nash won two MVPs and the team made the Western Conference finals twice in Nash's eight seasons. Nash, who turns 39 on Feb. 7, left the Suns for Los Angeles in a sign-and-trade deal at the end of last season.
Nash finished with 11 points and two assists.
Marcin Gortat had 14 points and 12 rebounds as five Suns reached double figures.
Neither team led by more than five points in the first half with the game tied 41-41 at the break.
The Lakers outscored Phoenix 23-10 to start the third quarter, taking a 64-51 lead on a layup by Peace with 3:26 left in the period. He also had a pair of 3s in the run.
Jamison finished the quarter with a long 2-pointer, followed by a 3, and the Lakers led 73-63 entering the fourth.
It was a stretch of 10 consecutive points for Jamison, whose layup made it 78-65 with 10 minutes to play.
Notes: The Suns were in black uniforms for the first time since 2000. ... The Lakers don't play at home until Feb. 12, against Phoenix. ... Suns C Jermaine O'Neal missed his fifth straight game because of an irregular heartbeat. ... D'Antoni had lunch Wednesday with good friend Gentry. ... 18-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps was in the crowd.


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As FHA Mortgage Volume Increases From 2009, Serious Delinquencies Spike
The rate of seriously delinquent mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) declined slightly from May to June, but the gross number of mortgages that are either 90 or more days past due or in foreclosure increased 35% year-over-year. According to the FHA June single-family operations report, the total volume of mortgage insurance in-force increased more than 24% to 6.4m in June compared to the same month one year ago. The total value of unpaid FHA mortgages was $865.5bn in June, up 30.3% from $663.8bn one year ago and up 3.3% from $837.8bn in May. But with that increase came a rise in serious delinquencies, 7.6% last year, compared to 8.3% in June. The gross serious delinquencies of 532,757 in June was down slightly from 530,140 in May. Year-to-date for the FHA fiscal year, the administration paid 207,715 claims insurance — 124,191 were for loss mitigation and 83,524 were for property conveyances. The rise in FHA delinquencies is having a substantial impact on lender balance sheets. JPMorgan (JPM) disclosed in its Q210 quarterly report that the value of its government-backed REO assets nearly tripled in one year. The bank later confirmed to HousingWire the surge in both REO and nonaccruing mortgages on its balance sheet was the result of buybacks of assets from Ginnie Mae securities. In June, the FHA received 168,915 applications for insurance, down 29.4% from one year ago and down 6.9% from May. The June application pool included 89,951 purchase transactions, 69,876 refinance cases and 9,088 home equity conversion mortgage (HECM, or reverse mortgage) applications. Of the refinance applications, 23,659 of the applicants were trying to refinance an existing FHA loan, while 46,217 were conventional mortgages converting to FHA loans. There were 50 Hope for Homeowner cases that were part of the refinances. Based on applications received, the FHA said the seasonally adjusted annual rate of applications was nearly 1.9m, down 13% from the previous month's rate and the lowest since January's rate of 1.69m. Write to Austin Kilgore. The author held no relevant investments.


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