Case Study Carried out By Bevan Houghton at Akarana Golf club Inc
Bevan Houghton is the course superintendent at Akarana Golf Club and comes from a strong golfing background; his father Ray was the professional at the Pakuranga Country Club for many years. He completed his turf management apprenticeship at Maungakiekie Golf Club then took up the assistant superintendent position at Peninsula Golf Club to the north of Auckland.
He followed this as the ‘grow-in’ superintendent for the new holes at Remuera Golf Club before heading to KeriKeri Golf Club for his first superintendents role. Following 18 months at Kerikeri he achieved his life-long goal, being appointed course superintendent in Auckland city at Akarana.
In this short case study he looks at the selection process for the purchase of a new riding tees and surrounds mower.
Eighteen months ago we were looking to replace our Jacobsen Greens King VI tees and surrounds mower and definitely needed a machine that could handle undulating terrain in wet conditions. We approached the ‘big three’ machinery companies and narrowed our choice down to the two-wheel drive Jacobsen Eclipse 322 diesel-electric hybrid and a standard hydraulically-driven competitor’s riding triplex with three-wheel drive.
We spent several weeks trialling both machines and the decision was made using three criteria:
1.) Can the machines handle the terrain we have and more importantly how will they perform over the wet winter?
2.) What would be the annual and lifetime operating costs?
3.) Do we want to embrace new technology and become a more sustainable golf course?
The first possible issue with the Eclipse 322 was that it was only available in two-wheel drive at that time we were considering it. If the traction wasn’t up to it, then it would be out of the equation.
Surprisingly, the two-wheel drive Eclipse did not fail this test. Jacobsen’s dealer, Power Turf, demonstrated that with the Eclipse braking system we had better control downhill and we could control the wheel spin in wet uphill conditions using the machine’s sophisticated electronic controls. It was possible to slow down the mow speed, without affecting the frequency of cut (FOC), until the wheel torque was reduced to the point that the front drive wheels didn’t lose traction and spin.
In terms of operating costs we could cut our fuel consumption bill by a third and our mechanical maintenance time in half with this machine. I would estimate that the total saving is in the vicinity of NZ $2,000-3,000 in 18 months.
As a business, we decided that we wanted to embrace the new technology and take advantage of the diesel-electric technology of the Eclipse 322. All the systems on the machine are powered by electricity – literally; all the small diesel engine does is power a continuous generator and this runs the electrical systems – steering, reel lift/lower, cutting reels and traction drive.
Once you’re using electricity as the primary power source, you can use electronics to do some clever things. Take the FOC feature as an example; you can control the number of cuts per metre and maintain it, whatever forward speed you are doing. You can also lock it in, using a PIN code, so that whichever operator is on the machine, it will always cut at that exact frequency. That means consistency across all green; no other machine on the market can do that!
So, you can see that the Eclipse ticked all the boxes for the direction that Akarana was heading in. We purchased our Eclipse in December 2010, the first diesel-electric hybrid mower in New Zealand, and it proved it could handle the terrain in wet weather. Add to this the new technology such as the FOC facility, the braking system, no hydraulics, less noise, reduced maintenance, the list does go on. These were the reasons we brought it, and it outperformed all other mowers we trialled.
Well, the FOC facility has to be the best thing about this machine; the braking system for health and safety reasons is perfect especially when you have steep terrain; operator comfort, ease of maintenance, and above all, operating cost reductions because of its unique design.
To be honest not much; if I had to be picky having to waterproof lube the electrical connections that connect to the reel motor on a monthly basis, but that would be all.
Finally, a word of praise for Terry Sullivan at Power Turf NZ Ltd, who has been supplying Jacobson machinery to Akarana Golf Club for around 15 years. We have a fantastic relationship with Terry and his team and their technical support and service has been outstanding over that time.
Bevan Houghton’s assistant superintendent, mowing with the Jacobsen Eclipse 322 at Akarana Golf Club


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How do you feel about the movement to ban trans fats in restaurants, such as the one New York recently enacted?
I think it is fabulous. It is a great start to making a positive change. It would be even better if we could next come up with a set of nutritional guidelines for restaurants, chefs, fast food chains and manufactures to follow.
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I think we've already made grand efforts to stop this concerning epidemic by giving the subject a lot of media attention. Childhood obesity not only affects a child's physical condition but their emotional and psychological well being as well.
What more can we do? As health professionals we must continually provide parents with better food strategies and exercise options. We also need to add extra support in the school system. And of course, it's equally important to empower the kids themselves with information about staying fit and healthy. That way, our children will want to make better choices when they're on their own.
As Americans, we tend to look at foods as harmful, in a way, or at least in a negative light (causing weight gain, overeating, junk food, binging, "guilty pleasures," etc.), rather than as healing. Do you think we need to change the way we see the functional value of food? How do we do that?
I think it is okay to sometimes use food to celebrate a happy occasion or make us feel better when we are feeling down in the dumps. However, food is most importantly fuel for our body to function optimally. Eating the right food in the right combinations can improve the quality of our lives?both psychologically and physically.
In my new book Food Cures, I clearly define how food can impact your life in a positive way. We all eat everyday ... why not eat the right foods, in the right combinations, that can help you feel fantastic!
In your book you mention that one of your cheat foods is frozen peanut M&Ms;, but do you have any others? How do you keep from over indulging in these foods?
I have quite a few less-than-stellar foods that I love to eat. Some of my favorites and sometimes trouble foods are frozen chocolate, ice cream, sugar cookies, and nuts. I'm a huge cashew and almond fan. Once I get started on them, I could go on and on. And although nuts are quite healthy, they're also very caloric, and man, I can eat a lot.
I try to buy these foods in pre-proportioned packs. With peanut M&Ms;, I'll purchase the small fun packs and keep in the freezer. If my husband buys a big bag, I'll count 10 out, put them in a cup, and close them back in the freezer. I try never to eat cashews or cookies out of a larger container, because I know they?re my downfall and I'll keep going and going.
I definitely allow myself to have this stuff, but work HARD at not going overboard. And when I do go overboard, and yes, it happens, I just make sure to hit the treadmill in the morning and eat healthy the next day.[pagebreak]Do you have a favorite healthy snack you eat to curb off cravings or hold you over to the next meal?
A few of my regular favorites are: Baby carrots and spicy salsa Nonfat, vanilla yogurt with a tablespoon or two of wheat germ Raw green beans and sugar snap peas Red and yellow pepper sticks Low-fat cottage cheese mixed with ground cinnamon A cup of green tea
What do you believe are the 3 key steps to weight loss?
Number one, have a food and exercise plan ready to put into action. In my Food Cures book, the weight loss chapter provides everything you'll need in order to lose pounds appropriately. I include specific meal plans, a grocery list, delicious recipes and strategies for troubleshooting.
Second, have a support system in place. A lot of people find that they do better with the encouragement and support of a friend, coworker, counselor, nutritionist, weight loss group, or even an online buddy. If you prefer to keep things private, be your own support system. Create a food log in a book or on the computer and monitor your own progress.
Third, slow down the pace of your eating AND get appropriate sleep. Studies show people who eat slower, eat less at meals. You'll be diluting your overall calories without feeling like you are cutting back. And when it comes to getting your zzzz's, know this: if you are well rested you'll have more resolve to follow through with the food plan. When women are tired they are more likely to grab unhealthy food. Probably because you don't have the energy to fight off urges. Also, new studies show that sleep deprivation not only makes us tired and cranky but can also mess up certain hormones that regulate appetite. In other words, not getting enough sleep can make you more hungry.
Where do most people usually go wrong in their attempt to eat healthier?
They follow a black and white mentality ? they either eat perfectly healthy, or go the other extreme and indulge all day long. When some people feel that they've "blown it" by eating one unhealthy food, they throw in the towel and allow themselves to eat all the wrong stuff for the remainder of the day.
I encourage people to instead use my "90/10 food strategy". That stands for 90% healthy food and 10% fun food. There is room in every food plan for portion controlled unhealthy items -- in fact, it can often help people stick with a food plan. That's because it removes the feeling of deprivation so commonly associated with weight loss regimens.
What is one change a person can make that will have the greatest positive impact on her eating habits and health?
Eat more vegetables and fruit. Try to eat at least 5 servings of produce a day, but go heavier on the vegetables. Vegetables are low in calories and LOADED with vitamins, minerals, fiber and phytonutrients, which thousands and thousands of studies have found can reduce the risk of numerous medical conditions and enhance your overall health.
You can buy fresh, canned and frozen produce -- it all counts! For frozen and canned vegetables, look for varieties without high fat sauces and salt. For frozen and canned fruit, make sure there's no added sugar.
What do you say to people who want to join the latest fad diet craze? Do you think they are helpful or harmful for people trying to lose weight?
Please, please be smart about the food plan you follow. Review what has not worked for you in the past and finally move forward in a positive direction. Your goal is to follow a sound plan that will not only help lose weight now, but keep it off forever.
In your book you create eating plans to improve specific aspects of a person?s health, but is there a food (or foods) that has the highest healing or preventative power "across the board?"
Vegetables -- and eat a varied assortment! Vegetables provide the biggest bang for your buck in regards to calories, volume and nutrient density. Wild salmon (fresh and canned) provides heart healthy omega 3 fats and is equally fabulous!
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When there are wars and conflicts at home, when there is no work even in agriculture for self-sufficiency due to destruction or epidemics, people are desperate, seeking about ways out and away from misery, not to be killed or even starve because of hunger.
This aspiration has existed since the beginning of human history, it is probably also the self-preservation instinct to attribute (which is more than natural) and repeats itself continuously and permanently (today Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, but also the Balkans). We are “happy” to close our eyes to these realities, a few real helpers are often looking desperately for solutions, but then again to experience the same misery elsewhere with other stakeholders.
It is often forgotten that there has been misery in Western Europe, indeed in Germany, not only in the Middle Ages but also in the recent past. Perhaps it helps a bit further to know the story and the consequences of understanding why people cannot be “forced” to leave their native homeland of their own volition. Such an example in history is Hermannstadt, today Sibiu in Romania, where probably the first German settlers reached this region in 1147; They settled on the hill above the Zibin River, today's Upper Town.
Settlement of Transylvania by German settlers
If one deals with the descent of these people, their areas of origin mostly lie in the areas of the bishoprics of Cologne, Trier and Liège (now between Flanders, Wallonia, Luxembourg, Lorraine, the Westerwald and the Hunsrück into Westfälische). Part of the settlers (in North Transylvania) came from Bavaria. The majority, however, came from Middle Rhine and Moselle Franconian. This group of settlers was in no case homogeneous, but contained, besides the German-speaking groups, also Old French-speaking Walloons and Dutch.
The folk legend describes the settlement of the predominantly German settlers as a process in which the settlers, who had had it very bad life in their homeland (which is in fact covered by reports of famines and epidemics from the first half of the 12th century in the bishoprics of Trier and Liège), would have found their own way to Transylvania. At the first resting place in Transylvania, the settlers had consulted and some settlers had settled for staying on the hills (where today lays Sibiu).
The region of (historic) Transylvania in today's Romania
Source Own work, based on NASA Visible Earth The Carpathian Mountains. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC, Author DietG
As a sign of taking possession of the country, the two leaders Hermann and Wolf are said to have pushed two large swords crossed into the ground. These crossed swords since the time formed the coat of arms of the settlement Hermannsdorf (later Sibiu). Other groups of settlers would then split up and move north and east.
Saxons are recruited - like guest workers in the 60s
The arrival of the Transylvanian Saxons happened in the context of the German East settlement. The settlers were professionally recruited by locators and immigrated in several spurts in appropriate mass to Transylvania. Their route took them via Silesia, Saxony or Bohemia (assuming there was an intermediate home) via the Zips to Transylvania, or via the Danube and the Mieresch. The first settlements took place around 1150 under King Géza II.
This settlement was based on set priorities, so targeted villages and towns were established and enforced the internal settlement. The first 13 primary settlements in the Sibiu chapter were Sibiu, Stolzenburg, Großscheuern, Burgberg, Hammersdorf, Neppendorf and Schellenberg; in the Leschkirch chapter it was Alzen, Kirchberg and Leschkirch as well as Großschenk, Marlingen and Schoenberg in the Schenker chapter. Even the number of first settlers can be calculated by researching the corridor and hoof classification of Saxon communities. The settlements initially consisted of always the same number of a little more than 40 hooves, means about 40 farmsteads. 13 settlements of 40 hooves give 520 hooves (farmsteads). Assuming an average family size of five persons, conservative estimates give a figure of 2600 persons. Further inflows over the following years and decades (also from the areas of origin) are likely. From the primary settlers in the time settlers poured in start-ups and little developed area. Starting from the chairs Sibiu, Leschkirch and Großschenk, the royal soil, the Burzenland and the Nösnergau were settled. In addition, internal settlement also took place on aristocratic soil.
Only in the course of the centuries this colorful community of settlers did form a true people with their own cultural memory, their own language, their own law (own land law) and autonomy administration (nation university).
Stephan II relies on German noblemen, artisans, miners and farmers
In addition, they were not the only Germans in the former Hungary, since Stephan II had repeatedly called German nobles, civil servants, artisans, miners and peasants to various parts of his empire. In this development, the settlement of the Transylvanian Saxons is classified. Geisa II, King of Hungary, had expanded its sphere of influence across Transylvania to the Carpathian crests in the middle of the twelfth century and had the area, which at first was very sparsely populated, developed by the German settlers.
In order for the settlements to develop quickly and to generate corresponding tax profits for the state, he gave the settlers special privileges, as he had previously done to the aid people of the Szeklers. In it, they were initially granted various privileges (Freitümer) and granted certain tax and economic benefits. These rights were codified in 1224 in the Goldene Freibrief (Andreanum) under Andreas II. In addition to the free use of water and forests and duty free for the German traders, the settlers were also neither the nobility nor the church submissive and thus free citizens (in the sense of the then Understanding of active citizens, ie male, tax-paying and adult).
The young settlements developed rapidly. The population increased rapidly due to influxes and birth surpluses, but was considerably decimated by the Mongolian storm of 1241. The country was heavily set back in its development. In some settlements, only two to three generations had lived before they became deserted by the attacks of the Mongolian riders. However, the recovery was relatively fast, the internal settlement gained momentum again. After the country's construction in the 12th and 13th centuries, a long period of prosperity followed.
Economic heyday of the Transylvanian Saxons
The first period of great cultural and economic prosperity of the Transylvanian Saxons is therefore to settle in the 14th and 15th centuries. The population of the Seven Chairs and the other districts of Königboden grew rapidly and steadily. In the mines of the Carpathians and in the Rodna Mountains, gold, silver and salt were mined. Trade flourished and the economy was able to develop. The routes of the Saxon merchants ranged from Danzig on the Baltic Sea via Krakow, Vienna, and Belgrade to Constantinople and the Crimea. Until 1395 (first Turkish invasion), there were no major external threats, and the upswing of German settlements now led to the formation of real urban centers. Sibiu, Kronstadt, Cluj-Napoca, Bistrita, Schäßburg and Mühlbach became towns, other places such as Agnetheln, Broos, Biertan, Marktschelken, Mediasch and Saxon rain market towns. The craft was already diversified. Thus, in the oldest surviving guild regulations of the seven chairs of 1376 already 19 guilds and 25 trades are noted. From the middle of the 15th century, the cities of the royal estate (especially Kronstadt) became so financially strong that they lent money to the Hungarian king against the pledging of entire places.
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Chelsen Vicari, evangelical program director for the Institute on Religion and Democracy, recently penned a wonderful biographical piece about a Great Depression-era minister from the Blue Ridge Mountains.
A special thanks to Vicari who agreed to our publishing the piece here at The Washington Times. I know you’ll find it worth your time as you consider the impact one individual can make, even in the most difficult of environments.
The Minister Who Moved a Mountain, by Chelsen Vicari
If you ever visit Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, then you’re sure to hear wild stories of rough mountain people and their gritty Appalachian history. Old-timers will tell you tales of crafty bootleggers, notorious family feuds, and shadowy superstitions. But if you’re lucky, someone might tell you the astounding story of a simple Presbyterian preacher who moved a mountain closer to Jesus.
I married one of those rough mountain people from the Blue Ridge. My husband Eric is related, although “distant kin,” as he says, to Robert “Bob” Childress, a well-known mountain minister who during the early 20th century built six churches and served at least eight congregations across the nearly impassable peaks of the Blue Ridge. Curious, I sought out to learn more.
The Man Who Moved A Mountain was written by Richard C. Davis in 1970. It is the only published biography on Childress I could find, but if offers first-hand accounts into a little-known, yet the extraordinary ministry of a simple mountain man.
A Mountainous Mission Field
Smack dab in the middle of the Great Depression, Childress brought the Gospel to the deepest coves and hollows of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It wasn’t easy. During this dark period of Appalachian history, there were multitudes of challenges facing the young preacher and his growing family.
No warm greeting was offered when Childress moved his family onto Buffalo Mountain in Floyd County, Virginia whose summit resembles a charging buffalo.
Here was a man of God who came to the mountains to preach against bitterness and hate, vices and violence, and spread the transformative truth and love of Christ. Meanwhile, his new neighbors were liquor distillers, bootleggers, drunks, and rifle-toting murderers mighty skeptical of outsiders.
Hardly any of the locals, then called mountaineers, ever stepped foot off their plots of land, much less traveled off the ridge. National news couldn’t quite make it that far up the mountains. There were neither paved roads nor bridges. Families were considered fortunate if their pantries contained a pail of apples and a little corn meal. Education was not much of an option and Christianity was given its limits.
During this dark period, the Blue Ridge was Primitive Baptist country. They are said to have ruled religion in the ridge with their liquor and guns. In his Childress biography, Davis wrote of the denomination, “It had roots in the Scriptures but thrived on superstition and fear and was kept alive only by man’s ageless hunger for worship.”
Primitive Baptist preachers were nicknamed the Hardshells, for they were staunchly intolerant of most everything from seminary educations to Sunday schools, late night services to new church buildings. Imagine the scandal when suddenly Childress encouraged the local children to attend his Sunday school and day school and began “sprinkling” babies at baptism.
A Rough Start
God knew exactly what He was doing by calling Childress to this mountain mission field. No city slicker would’ve survived. The people of the Blue Ridge needed a minister who spoke their language, and even then they weren’t excited about him.
Childress was a stubborn, hot-tempered mountain man who grew up at the bottom of “the mountain” in what was called The Hollow, Virginia. He was born in 1890 and his family was said to be “the poorest in a place where everyone was poor.”
“Our home, at best, couldn’t be called a happy one,” Childress wrote of his early life. “When I was not quite three, I got drunk. That’s the first thing I remember in my whole life… Brandy was god in our cabin. It was brandy that made life bearable.”
He was first introduced to Scripture at six years old. A Quaker college in North Carolina sent a young teacher to The Hollow to start a school and lead Sunday school. The schoolhouse was five miles away from Childress’ home, but his older brother insisted on all five children making the two-hour walk on Sundays.
As a teenager, Childress was a rowdy rebel. There wasn’t much to do in The Hollow for a teenage boy looking for excitement except to drink liquor, gamble and pick fights. That’s exactly what Childress did. By age 20, Childress was in total despair. “I was miserable and sick to my soul,” wrote Childress. “[T]wice I went out into the woods and put my pistol to my temple. But each time I put it down. I can’t tell you why.”
A local Methodist church held a revival a short time later. Childress was walking by and heard singing. He went in. When the minister gave an altar call, Childress surrendered his life to Jesus Christ. He wrote, “For the first time in my life I felt a power stronger than liquor and rocks and guns.”
Childress’ heart was heavy for his rowdy friends and family. He hated the corruption and despair he saw all around. So for two years he served as a deputy sheriff arresting Moonshiners and busting up distilleries. But after watching his fellow law officers steal the liquor they were supposed to confiscate, he knew the law couldn’t change Appalachia. But he knew Christ could.
He felt the Lord calling him to seminary. Childress desperately wanted to be an ordained minister. But by this time, he was 30 years old with only an eighth-grade education. His teachers and minister told him it would be impossible and encouraged him to focus on lay leadership.
Childress was determined to become a minister. He finished high school in one year. Seminary would be a harder feat. Childress was a penniless mountain man with a wife and five children. But through several miracles occurrences, he went on to graduate from Union Theological Seminary of Richmond at the top of his class.
After graduation, Childress was offered two jobs. One in a prosperous community in North Carolina. The other on Buffalo Mountain back in the Blue Ridge. But Childress knew God called him to seminary so that he could return to Appalachia. Transformation would soon move beyond the man to the mountain.
No towns or villages lay on Buffalo Mountain, or simply called “the mountain.” Only a few storehouses and dispersed cabins.
During the week, he would ride his Model-T along bumpy dirt trails to introduce himself to local families and invite them to a Sunday service. Often families explained they couldn’t attend because they felt ashamed to show up in their tattered clothing and barefoot. The next day Childress returned with second-hand suits and dresses.
When he learned of a widow, Childress would ride out to her cabin and chop firewood. If a family was ill, Childress would ride over with the food his own family was willing to spare. He worked hard to build friendships with some of the most feared mountaineers around. When moonshiners were arrested and thrown in jail, Childress would plead with the judge for their release. Still, gaining the mountaineers’ trust was a slow process.
Childress was a jovial man who loved to make others laugh. So he used jokes to try softening the mountaineers. During one visit a man told Childress he wouldn’t go to a church filled with “too many hypocrites.” Childress only smiled and said, “There’s always room for one more.” The man nodded and laughed before accepting the invitation.
Women and girls were the first to fill the little Presbyterian sanctuary and Sunday school classrooms. The mountain was filled with uncertain dangers for women. Childress’ church was a safe place to socialize and simply escape the harsh realities of mountain life for a while. The men needed more convincing.
“If you want a little excitement, try serving the Lord,” Childress often said during his sermons while rowdy men stalked outside. Childress didn’t hold back Gospel truths for the sake of feelings. His sermons tackled the sins destroying the mountaineers. He rebuked drink-induced abuse, killing, and gambling. Childress’ unwavering witness was met with hostility. Some pelted rocks at the side of his church. Others tried or threatened to kill the mountain minister during the middle of the service. But he never softened his sermons. He was just as stubborn as them.
Childress was a man of action. The Presbytery warned Childress to mind his own business on the mountain and just focus on his preaching. But Childress was unsatisfied with merely speaking against bad behaviors from the pulpit. His heart broke for the mountaineers. So he actively sought out ways to reform some of the harmful Appalachian habits.
Idleness was the mountaineers’ biggest obstacle to growth – both spiritual and fiscal. Childress sensed consistent work would distract the men from their constant drinking and fighting, and perhaps inch them closer to church. The problem was the Blue Ridge had few resources and so fewer opportunities. Tobacco, the cash crop at the time, was unable to thrive in the mountain’s hilly terrain as it did in the Piedmont just below the ridge. Some mountaineers had apple orchards. Others grew cabbage and potatoes. But the produce the mountain could yield was barely enough to feed the local population.
Timber is what grew on the mountain, Childress knew. But without trucks and roads, it seemed impossible for the mountaineers to haul loads of timber into nearby cities for a profit. “Does it matter?” thought Childress to himself. His goal was to move the men towards work and away from trouble-making. So he took out a loan, bought a second-hand sawmill and put some of the local men to work cutting timber. If they wouldn’t go to church, then at least they would go to work. It was a start.
The next project was construction. Childress wrangled together the men to build multiple church buildings across the area so that the mountaineers wouldn’t have to travel far from home to worship. Childress even got the Hardshells to join in on the work. He offered the Hardshells access to the building for their weekly meetings, so long as they helped with construction. A savvy means of unity.
The Mountaineers were still low on materials. So they took advantage of another natural mountain resource: rock. And so, Childress became notorious for his beautiful “rock churches” scattered across the Blue Ridge.
Childress chiseled slowly away at the hearts of the Hardshells, the moonshiners, the smugglers, the wife beaters, and the killers. In private, the mountain men asked Childress about repentance and salvation. Then the mountaineers slowly drizzled into his sanctuaries. Before long, Childress’ sanctuaries were overflowing.
A Lasting Legacy
In January 1956, Childress died suddenly of a heart attack. In his book, biographer Richard Davis included a snippet from the Roanoke Times:
In spite of snow and threatening weather, hundreds of people rode on those roads to pay tribute to one who loved his fellow man and never spared himself in the service of God. They crowded a large stone church overflowed into the church yard for the funeral of the Sky Pilot of the Buffalo Mountain country, and a Good Samaritan to many man, woman and boy and girl to whom, for more than a quarter of a century, he ministered.
A remarkable man, a remarkable career and a wonderfully fruitful ministry was Bob Childress. His personal friendship and his ministerial influence extended beyond the area dominated scenically by the lofty peak where he made his home, to include much of Virginia and portions of other states.
“He gave most of us all the upright we ever knew,” recalled mountaineer Steve Kemp to Davis. “He moved this ol’ Buffalo.”
A lot has changed in the Blue Ridge since Bob Childress. Then again, some things haven’t changed at all.
Looking about our current cultural climate, we are tempted to feel these days are the darkest they’ve ever been for the nation. I’m not sure I believe that anymore. The story of Bob Childress is not only eye-opening, it offers us hope for today.
Despite facing abject poverty, alcoholism, grief, domestic abuse and gun-wielding foes, Childress didn’t cave to culture pressers. He certainly didn’t soften his theology. But he did soften hearts and minds to Jesus.
The challenges we face look different, but sin is ever-constant. With unfaltering boldness in Jesus Christ and his teachings, we too can move a mountain or a city or a suburb closer to the Kingdom of God.
Note: This piece was published originally at the website of the Institute on Religion and Democracy.


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There’s no doubting the importance of Saturday evening’s fixture. Levante are the visitors to Camp Nou and they’ll be aiming to ensure that Ernesto Valverde’s side don’t earn the three points that will ensure another La Liga title. For their part, Los Granotas also are in need of the victory as they sit just three points above the bottom three.
How to follow the game live
The game kicks off at 8.45pm CEST. A list of broadcasters can be found here and these are the timetables for the rest of the world.
Top scorer: Roger Martí (12)
Coach: Paco López
Ex-blaugranes in the team: Oier, Rubén Rochina
La Liga record (2018/19): P34 W9 D10 L15
#1 Barça W W W D W W
#15 Levante W D L D L D
Interesting stats and facts
Barça have scored at least two goals in 12 of their last 13 league games at Camp Nou, whilst Levante have failed to win in 11 of their last 12 away matches in the league.
Levante have scored at least two goals in five of their last six league games, and Barça have kept a clean sheet in six of their last eight home matches against Los Granotas in all competitions.
Barça are unbeaten in their last 22 league matches, have won their last 13 home matches against Levante in all competitions and scored at least three goals in the last six of those.
Levante also wear blaugrana as their home kit. This was as a result of their merger in 1939 with Gimnástico. Both clubs were formed in 1909 as Levante FC and Gimnástico FC, but during the Spanish Civil War, Levante’s ground was destroyed whilst Gimnástico lost most of their players. Therefore, Levante Unión Deportiva (Levante UD) was formed.
The blaugrana colours of Gimnástico were used as the home kit, whilst Levante’s black and white kit would become the away colours. Los Granotas, or ‘The Frogs’ was the nickname inherited from Gimnástico for the newly-formed club. They were so called because Gimnástico’s Estadio de Vallejo was located close to an old river bed which was home to a large number of frogs.
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Ernesto Valverde named a 22 man list for the visit of Levante after training on Friday - more details right here.
Levante welcome back Rubén Rochina after the former blaugrana missed the 4-0 win over Betis due to suspension. Defenders Cabaco and Postigo are also back after missing Wednesday's win at the Ciutat de Valencia stadium due to injury.
Paco López: "Barça are playing for the league but we are also playing for our own league"
Ernesto Valverde; "Tomorrow we want to be Champions"
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Former deputy sports minister expelled from Party for graft
Updated: 2015-09-24 15:21
By Sun Xiaochen(chinadaily.com.cn)
File photo of Xiao Tian. [Photo/Xinhua]
China's former deputy sports minister Xiao Tian has been expelled from the Communist Party of China for serious violation of Party discipline and law, the top anti-graft watchdog announced on its website on Thursday.
Approved by the CPC Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection recently filed and investigated the case of Xiao, former deputy director of the General Administration of Sport of China (GASC), the country's top sports governing body.
Investigations found that Xiao seriously violated political discipline and the rules of the Party, organized groups within the Party and exchanged favors for personal interests.
During his tenure at GASC, Xiao violated personnel rules to arrange a job for his wife Tian Hua as an official in the cycling and fencing administration, where Xiao used to work and oversaw.
The investigation also found that Xiao made use of his position and power to help close relatives make profits in sectors he used to administrate. Xiao also changed schedules for overseas business trips to stay extra days abroad with his expenses charged to public funds, seriously violating self-discipline regulations.
He also accepted bribes, invitations for luxury services and VIP cards of golf clubs for seeking profits for others by taking advantage of his governmental post, which are suspected criminal offenses.
According to the CPC's regulations, the CPC Central Committee approved the expulsion of Zhao from the Party while dismissing him from administrative ranks.
Xiao's case has been transferred to judicial organs for further procedures.
Xiao was recruited by the former National Sports Commission, now the GASC, in 1981 from the Anhui provincial sports system, where he used to train as a fencing athlete.
He was appointed deputy head of the GASC in August 2005.
Xiao was also elected vice-president of the Federation of International Basketball Association, basketball's world governing body, in September.
Xiao, who was in charge of training and competitions for all national teams under the State-run sports system, is the highest-ranking sports official probed by CCDI since it sent an inspection group to scrutinize the operation of GASC and its affiliated sports administrative centers from July to September last year.
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In addition, many unloading yards are not designed to carry heavy equipment, yards do not meet 12 inch pavement requirements, or the yards themselves are small and narrow and not designed to withstand the use of heavy vehicles.
When Sadleirs Transport re-located their Queensland operations, it was identified that while the new premises were not designed for the larger forklifts it still needed a system that could maintain the 15 to 25 containers a week that are unloaded.
Sadleirs Transport knew that the answer was the Mobicon. Sadleirs had already been using a Mobicon in its Victorian premises, so they knew that it would be a perfect fit for the Queensland operations as well. Mobicon is one of the innovative and cost effective inventions to come out of Australia.
The Mobicon is designed to handle any length container, from 20 foot (6.1 metres) through to 48 foot (14.6 metres). Mobicon lifts the load from the bottom, which allows the operator to handle flat beds, tank containers and curtain sided containers. The Two Tower design provides the flexibility to operate on slightly sloping or uneven surfaces. Compacted gravel yards are also suitable for the Mobicon.
The Mobicon Mobile Container Handler has two independent lifting towers, connected by drawbars. When handling a container, the towers are coupled to the container.
Mobicon = low wheel height
Container forklifts weigh approximately 35 tonne, and then carry up to 30 tonne containers. Therefore they have an axle loading of 50 tonnes or more and many industrial estate pavements are not suitable for carrying these loadings.
The Mobicon can operate on pavements where a forklift or straddle carrier cannot.
The Mobicon weighs only 12 tonne empty, and as the weight is evenly spread across 8 wheels, the wheel loadings are less than 6 tonne when carrying a 30 tonne container. This makes the Mobicon a lighter and safer solution than heavy vehicles.
Mobicon = low height = inside sheds
According to Sadleirs Transport, the larger forklifts also need a wider turning circle than the Mobicon. If your yard is small or narrow then this can become a problem running forklifts.
The Mobicon can back containers in to tight spots and will pass through a 3.8 metre high by 4.7 metre wide door opening. This allows the operator to transport the containers inside sheds and unload into the doorways.
This is a tremendous advantage as the Mobicon allows Sadleirs Transport’s staff to unload containers undercover, out of the rain and wet. Forklifts cannot do that. With the Mobicon Sadleirs Transport can get a 48 foot container in to the shed; this is because it is designed to straddle the container, which is fantastic. Mobicon has the ability to move in restrictive areas and can fully utilise all areas of the yard. The Mobicon is the first system that can actually get containers into restricted warehouse spaces.
According to Sadleirs, it has also seen an increase in productivity levels across both the Victorian and Queensland operations since they started using the Mobicon.
Previously Sadleirs’ docks were capable of unloading 2 containers on 2 trailers at any one time, they can now unload 4 to 5 containers at the same time which spreads labour and increases the productivity.
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Mobicon = low operating costs
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Mobicon = simplicity and ease of use
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The low centre of gravity makes the Mobicon stable. There is no need to lift the container more than 300mm for travelling. The operator also has a view of the operating area, as he does not have to look through the frame of the equipment as with a forklift.
The Mobicon system was designed by Mr Tom Schults, and is 100% Australian designed, owned and operated.
Sadleirs Transport has one Mobicon in Victoria and one in Brisbane. The Mobicon replaced the capital investment of larger forklifts and heavy equipment in Sadleirs Transport unloading yards.


From Comcast SportsNetMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) -- The coach no longer wears houndstooth. The result is the same. Another Alabama dynasty.Quieting the Irish by the first play of the second quarter, Eddie Lacy, AJ McCarron and the No. 2 Crimson Tide rolled top-ranked Notre Dame 42-14 for the BCS championship Monday night, locking up a second straight national title and third in four years with another laugher of a title game.The Bear would've been especially proud of this one -- Nick Saban and the Tide romping to the second-biggest rout of the BCS era that began in 1999."We're going for it next year again," said Alabama offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandijo, only a sophomore but already the owner of two rings. "And again. And again. And again. I love to win. That's why I came here."Lacy, the game's offensive MVP, ran for one touchdown and caught a pass for another in the final minute of the opening half. He spun away from the vaunted Notre Dame defense not once, but twice, to cap a 28-0 blitz before the bands even got on the field."They just did what Alabama does," moaned Manti Te'o, Notre Dame's star linebacker and Heisman Trophy finalist.Lacy finished with 140 yards on 20 carries, coming up with two of his best performances in the two biggest games of the year. He rushed for a career-high 181 yards in a thrilling victory over Georgia in the SEC title game, and was nearly as dominant against the Irish. McCarron wasn't too shabby, either, completing 20 of 28 passes for four touchdowns and 264 yards, adding another dazzling effort on top of his MVP in last year's title game.You could almost hear television sets around the country flipping to other channels, a hugely anticipated matchup between two of the nation's most storied programs reduced to nothing more than the second straight BCS blowout for the Crimson Tide."We've had a lot of really great football players who've worked really hard," Saban said. "Because we've had a great team, we've been able to have a significant amount of success."Alabama (13-1) scored 69 straight points against its title game opponents, going back to getting the final 13 against Texas in 2010, followed by a stifling 21-0 victory over LSU for last year's crown, then scoring the first 35 points on Notre Dame. Saban's team made the Irish (12-1) look like a squad that would be hard-pressed to finish in the middle of the pack in the mighty Southeastern Conference, which has now won seven straight national championships.The Crimson Tide wrapped up its ninth Associated Press national title, breaking a tie with Notre Dame for the most by any school and gaining a measure of redemption for a bitter loss to the Irish almost four decades ago: the epic Sugar Bowl in which Ara Parseghian's team edged Bear Bryant's powerhouse 24-23.Bryant won five AP titles during his brilliant career. The way things are going, Saban might just chase him down.The diminutive man with the perpetual scowl has guided Alabama to the top spot in the rankings three times since arriving in Tuscaloosa in 2007, and if he's serious about finishing his career with the job he has, there seems no reason he can't win a few more before he's done with "The Process."Already, Saban is the first coach in the BCS era to win national titles at different schools, capturing his first at LSU during the 2003 season. Now, he's the first coach with back-to-back BCS titles, and given the youthfulness of his team, Alabama figures to go into next season as a heavy favorite.In an interesting twist, Saban's fourth college title came in the stadium where he had the only stumble of his coaching career, a two-year tenure with the NFL's Miami Dolphins that ended ugly, with the coach insisting he wasn't planning to leave -- then bolting for Alabama just two weeks later. His tactics may have been underhanded, but it's hard to argue with the call he made.Before a record Sun Life Stadium crowd of 80,120 that definitely included more green than crimson, Lacy ran right through Te'o and the Irish on a 20-yard touchdown run before the game was 3 minutes old, capping an 82-yard drive that was longest of the season given up by the Fighting Irish.It would only get worse. Alabama marched right down the field on its second possession, this one a 10-play, 61-yard pounding that finished with McCarron completely faking out the defense and lofting a 3-yard touchdown pass to Michael Williams, standing all alone in the back of the end zone.On the first play of the second quarter, T.J. Yeldon powered over from the 1 to make it 21-0, the finish to another impressive drive -- this one covering 80 yards -- that included two long completions by McCarron. First, he went to Kevin Norwood on a 25-yard gain. Then, he hooked up with freshman Amari Cooper for a 27-yard gain to the Notre Dame 6.By that point, it was clear to everyone that Notre Dame's hopes of winning its first national championship since 1988 were all done. But Alabama just poured it on."We've got to get physically stronger, continue close the gap there," said Brian Kelly, the Irish's third-year coach. "Just overall, we need to see what it looks like. Our guys clearly know what it looks like now -- a championship football team. That's back-to-back national champions. That's what it looks like. That's what you measure yourself against there. It's pretty clear across the board what we have to do."Lacy's 11-yard touchdown reception with 31 seconds left in the half left the Irish fans shaking the heads in disbelief, while the Alabama faithful broke out that familiar "SEC! SEC! SEC!"Alabama made it 35-0 on McCarron's second TD pass of the night, a 34-yarder to Cooper without a Notre Dame defender in sight.The Irish finally scored late in the third quarter, a 2-yard run by Everett Golson that served no other purpose except to end Alabama's remarkable scoreless streak in the BCS title games, which stretched to 108 minute and 7 seconds -- the equivalent of nearly two full games -- before the Notre Dame quarterback fought his way into the end zone.The only BCS title game that was more of a blowout was USC's 55-19 victory over Oklahoma in the 2005 Orange Bowl, a title that was later vacated because of NCAA violations.About the only time Alabama stumbled was when McCarron had a miscommunication with his All-American center, Barrett Jones, in the closing seconds. The fiery McCarron shouted at Jones, who just shoved him away. But as the seconds ticked off, they were right on the same page, hugging Saban and celebrating another title.Notre Dame went from unranked in the preseason to the top spot in the rankings by the end of the regular season. But that long-awaited championship will have to wait at least one more years. Golson completed his first season as the starter by going 21 of 36 for 270 yards, with a touchdown and an interception. But he got no help from the running game, which was held to 32 yards -- 170 below their season average.Kelly had vowed this was only beginning, insisting the bar has been raised in South Bend no matter what the outcome."We made incredible strides to get to this point," he said. "Now it's pretty clear what we've got to do to get over the top."
SAN DIEGO — Rick Renteria isn’t shy about what he wants for his White Sox.
No, he’s not out there on Twitter, demanding the front office adds Gerrit Cole, Anthony Rendon, Nicholas Castellanos and Dallas Keuchel. But every chance he gets, he talks about where he expects his team to be in 2020.
“We left the season last year, the last series of the year, talking about this year, what we were going to expect and what we wanted to do and the things that we want to accomplish,” the skipper said Tuesday at the Winter Meetings. “Obviously winning more games and being a part of a relevant season is important to us, so we're going to ask a lot of these guys.
“It's time. We talked about it being time. Guys are going to have to step it up. We've made tremendous strides, made growth, but we still have to continue to add pieces to put us over the top to give us an opportunity to be relevant.”
Don’t misconstrue those words as Renteria poking his front office. Rick Hahn & Co. know very well they’ve got more work to do in the wake of giving the richest contract in team history to free-agent catcher Yasmani Grandal.
But a generally silent first two days at the Winter Meetings — there is a rumor suggesting the White Sox are trying to trade for Texas Rangers outfielder Nomar Mazara — have not lived up to the sky-high expectations of fans, who anticipated hearing the South Siders tied to the biggest names on the free-agent market.
Because the White Sox have been so quiet, it’s hard to figure out what new toys Renteria will have to play with in 2020. It’s hard to figure out if the White Sox will even be ready to leap into contender status by the time March rolls around.
That doesn’t seem to matter to Renteria, though, who was talking about the 2020 postseason while still wrapping up an 89-loss season in 2019. He’s instructing the fan base to start thinking the same way.
“People, have expectations,” he instructed. “Have them on me. Have them on our team. Have them on everyone.
“What scares me is if people don't have expectations. That scares me because then it means you're not striving to be better. We want to be better. We want our guys to improve.”
The idea that all the young White Sox who broke out in 2019 still have a good deal of growing and improving to do is what makes the future so bright on the South Side. And it’s what drew Grandal to sign with the team. It’s what Hahn says should make the White Sox a destination for all free agents.
“There's no one, I don't think, that we've talked to, even toward the end of last year and even people that we've spoken to in terms of possibly coming here that don't see where we're at right now,” Renteria said. “I think there is an optimism and an excitement about the South Side right now that is legit. I don't think it's made up. It's not. It's real.”
As Hahn has alluded to for some time now, any skeptical fans out there likely won’t believe the White Sox have arrived as contenders until they see it, be it through the huge splashes of offseason additions or the fusion of the young core into a true force to be reckoned with. Rumors of reclamation-project outfielders and stopgap solutions in the starting rotation aren’t exactly bringing folks to Renteria’s level of excitement.
But any stretches of offseason inactivity shouldn’t make anyone forget about Yoan Moncada or Lucas Giolito or Tim Anderson or Eloy Jimenez or Luis Robert or Nick Madrigal. Or, you know, Grandal.
That’s what’s real. That’s what’s got Renteria so excited.
Playoffs? A Jim Mora style reaction to that question wouldn’t be unwarranted. But Renteria is asking you to dream bigger.
SAN DIEGO — While the rest of the baseball world is occupying their time with free agent signings and trades, the Cubs have been waiting for their number to be called.
They've been trying to nail down extensions with key players that are only a couple years away from free agency, though nothing appears imminent on that front.
Kris Bryant, Javy Baez, Anthony Rizzo and Kyle Schwarber are all free agents after the 2021 season, leaving the Cubs two years to work out a deal or trade the player before losing them for nothing but a compensation pick. Willson Contreras is a free agent after 2022. Theo Epstein's front office reached a four-year, $55.5 million deal with Kyle Hendricks in spring training, extending his team control through the 2023 season.
The Cubs won't comment specifically on the current extension talks, but they'd ideally hope to wrap anything before spring training this year, so the players can focus solely on baseball by then.
"We always take the position of not commenting on extensions, but are we having those discussions? Yes," Jed Hoyer said Tuesday. "People focus so much on trades and free agent signings at these meetings, but all the agents are under the same roofs, also, and allows us to have those kinds of discussions. I'm not gonna specify who or what, but yeah certainly those conversations are ongoing."
Bryant has long been thought of as the toughest of the group to lock up long-term given that his agent, Scott Boras, typically advises clients to hit the open market and maximize their value. Boras reiterated Tuesday afternoon at the Winter Meetings he and Bryant are still open to extension talks with the Cubs.
Baez and Rizzo loom as the two most likely to extend their Wrigley Field stays, with the two emerging as the faces of the franchise in their own ways.
As the Cubs try to navigate an offseason where they're "serving two masters" (trying to compete in 2020-21 while also enhancing the long-term future of the franchise), a potential extension would check both boxes in a major way. If Hoyer and Theo Epstein knew Baez would be locking down shortstop and the middle of the lineup for the next six seasons, they could breathe a bit easier thinking about the big picture and long-term health of the franchise.
At the same time, they can't operate as if anything is a certainty. Bryant could decide he likes the Cubs' offer and make Chicago his baseball home forever. Baez could conclude the opposite.
It's what makes this particular offseason so tricky for the Cubs.
"We have to be able to have parallel tracks in our mind," Hoyer said. "We have to be able to do multiple things at once. It doesn't make it more difficult. We have a lot of really good players. We've had them for a long time. When we talk to these players about contracts, there's no player that we talk to that we haven't had a conversation with at some point before about a contract.
"We've talked about these players for five years in some way, shape or form. When we sit down with these players, we're not covering a ton of new ground. We've already been over a lot of it. I think we're able to have parallel tracks."


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On average, they take some three and a half years to grow and the trees can be harvested, said Chau Hung Dung, owner of HD Wood Ca Mau Co. Ltd. Years ago, Dung was a gold and jewelery trader in Ca Mau. He turned to the forest planting and wood processing business in 2017 by acquiring Ca Mau Wood Processing and Export Co. Ltd. and then changed its name to HD Wood Ca Mau Co. Ltd., which now owns some 1700 hectares of wetland forest that feeds a wood chip mill and a wood pellet factory. The company owns forests and 8 hectares of factory space capable of expanding from 5,000 tons to 30,000 tons of wood pellets per month, creating jobs for some 500 workers and contributing toward a green environment.
The acacia tree is easy to grow and quick to harvest. The tree can be used for several purposes such as wood chips for paper, wood chips and wood pellets for biomass power generation and the skin can be used to replace soil in hydroponic farms.
There is a growing demand for the export of wood chips and wood pellets from Vietnam to Japan. Since 2018, Vietnam's biomass material exports to Japan have surpassed Canada and the demand for imports of biomass material from Japan is growing as its government has a policy for biomass power plant investors in order to reduce coal-fired power sectors. The demand for biomass material imports from Japan is growing to some 20 million tons per year and is forecast to grow further.
|From 2010~2019, Japan invested some US$202 billion in renewable energy and this is likely to grow further|
|By 2019, Vietnam exported about 800,000 ton of biomass material to Japan|
|The business circle of HD Wood Ca Mau, a typical forest creation entrepreneur in Ca Mau Province|
We discovered that there is a huge potential to grow acacia forests in Ca Mau as well as in nearby provinces such as Kien Giang. This will help increase the income of residents and create a green environment as part of sustainable efforts to reduce the impact of climate change in Vietnam.
Besides exporting wood pellets to Japan, companies such as HD Wood Ca Mau can collaborate with biomass generation technology in Japan to invest in biomass power plants right in the province. It could be a completely eco-friendly business circle and very sustainable: growing acacia trees, harvesting them, producing electricity and repeating the cycle. Besides solar and wind power generation, Vietnam offers great potential for biomass power generation that the central and local Governments should consider.
About the author: Atsushi Kanai is president & CEO of JPBM Research Investment Co. Ltd. based in Tokyo. He used to serve as general manager of the Tokyo Bank branch (now Mitsubishi UFJ Bank) in Hong Kong and head of JPBM Research Investment Co. Ltd., a private institute for investment and investment research, M&A services in Japan and Asia. JPBM is now advising on renewable projects, including biomass power generation in Japan and Asia.


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From Courier-Journal recruiting guru Jody Demling’s blog, a couple of quick updates on some future and potential future Wildcats. Here are the highlights:
—Jon Hood continues to light it up, even if his team isn’t having great success. He scored 25 of his team’s 51 points in a one-point win over Hopkinsville Tuesday night. Hood and the Maroons travel to play the proud alma mater of Scotty Hopson, University Heights, tonight at 7:30. Despite Hood’s stellar play so far, his team has still managed just five wins in 12 games this season.
—Dakotah Euton scored 18 points and added 8 rebounds in a win for Scott County over Henry Clay. Standout point guard Ge-Lawn Guyn added 16 points. Scott County will host defending state champions, the fighting Darius Millers of Mason County, tomorrow night at 7:30.
—Vee Sanford scored 17 points in only 17 minutes as his Lexington Catholic Knights knocked off Casey County Tuesday night.
–Finally, as Matt mentioned earlier this week, KC Ross-Miller will be playing in Lexington this weekend in the Dunkin Donuts Shootout hosted by LexCath. Miller’s God’s Academy will play at 8 p.m. Saturday against Ohio’s Campbell Memorial. According to Demling, he is scheduled for another game Friday night but details on that are not clear yet, and if they’re not clear for Jody Demling, you can bet your ass they’re not clear for me. (**Update: Demling has just posted that Ross-Miler’s first game will be 4:30 pm Friday. It will be an exhibition against the St. Catharine’s College junior varsity team at LexCath.) Miller’s coach/father calls the game says it’s a big weekend, as it’s the first time KC has played in the Bluegrass. The tourney will be going all day starting at 2:00, and Lexington Catholic plays right before Miller’s squad, so get out early and check out some good high school basketball in addition to the future cat.
There you have it. Someone will be around shortly with…something…I promise.

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Wednesday, January 8 – Christmas tree collection
We would like to remind you that the City of Pointe-Claire Christmas tree collection will take place on Wednesday, January 8, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
With this collection, your tree will be recycled and turned into wood chips and compost.
Here are some instructions to follow:
- Remove all decorations from the tree, including hooks, decorations and lights, to ensure that the chipping process is safe.
- Do not wrap the tree in a plastic bag.
- Place your tree curbside as of Tuesday, January 7, at 6 p.m. and by Wednesday, January 8, at 7 a.m.
- Do not block the sidewalk.
- Place the tree horizontally and clear the snow around it so that it can be spotted easily.
After January 8, you may dispose of your tree by bringing it to the Saint-Laurent Ecocentre at 3535 Rue Sartelon to be recycled.
For more information, visit the Christmas trees page.


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On certain motorcycles, the throttle cable retention nuts for either the pull or push throttle cable may have not been torqued correctly.
What are the hazards?
If the retention nuts are loose, they can become dislodged and interfere with the throttle function, increasing the risk of a crash hazard.
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Colleges have been trying to stop COVID-19 from spreading on campus, and after a year of experimentation, failure, and success, officials may have found their way. Campuses are combining widespread testing, a reduction in social activities, limited in-person classes, and altered schedules to avoid shutting down campuses like many did last fall.
Colleges do deserve credit for learning on-the-fly. They’ve gotten better at testing students, building capacity for testing, and figuring out what works to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Some changes sound more dramatic than they are in practice. An example is the growing use of sequestration, which has been tried at the University of Maryland, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, among others.
Sequestration keeps students in their dorms or campus apartments and restricts them from leaving unless it’s for meals, a COVID-19 test, or to get medical attention. Sequestration is more of a formalized “lockdown” that campus officials would declare when students returned to campus or when cases would spike.
The details of sequestration vary from campus to campus. At UC-Berkeley, students must self-sequester:
- when they move in
- when they return from a trip
- if they are exposed to COVID-19
- if health services ask them
Students must sequester for 10 days after receiving notice.
Other schools, such as the University of Maryland, order students to sequester when a surge in COVID-19 cases happens. At Maryland, the sequestration period is longer: 14 days.
The sequester experiment isn’t always useful, however. Campus officials can’t monitor all students and whether they are socializing or wearing masks outside their rooms. The sequester order depends upon student cooperation.
Some campuses, however, treat it as a mandate with punishments for breaking the rules. At UC-Berkeley, the university has hired officers to keep students in their dorms. The campus “security officers monitor residence buildings” and “outdoor exercise is banned due to coronavirus concerns,” a press release noted. The sequestration was set to end Monday, February 8, but has been extended due to a spike in positive cases. More than 200 students, staff, and faculty have tested positive for COVID-19 since the end of January on Berkeley’s campus.
UC-Irvine also mandated a sequester, stating that students must self-sequester before classes resumed and restricting them to “pods” formed within their dorms. “Failure to comply with these requirements will result in disciplinary action. Some restrictions will continue beyond the sequestration period,” vice-chancellor of student affairs Willie L. Banks, Jr. said in a campus message.
The effects of sequestration depend on how the university administration enforces it. If they don’t enforce it with punishments, it may not make a difference. But it differs from some lockdown policies of the past that meant students had to move off-campus and return to remote learning.
Universities use sequestration to avoid canceling in-person classes and sending students home. As a result, sequestration may become more common in the near future.
Colleges have also changed their academic calendars, shortening spring break or delaying it so students can stay on campus and avoid travel. At North Carolina State University, administrators created “wellness days” that give students the day off and ask professors not to require assignments as an alternative to spring break. Students stay on campus but get a free day (though professors have not always spared students an exam or assignment on a wellness day).
On-campus testing has also become common so colleges can isolate students with COVID-19 before they can infect others.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign created a COVID-19 testing method, required students to be tested twice a week, and blocked students from accessing campus buildings if they tested positive. As a result, they had no major outbreaks, hospitalizations, or deaths during the fall semester.
The plan worked because campus leaders included students in the decision-making process and depended upon them for cooperation, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Student buy-in can make or break COVID-19 protocols, and top-down enforcement can cause some students to flaunt the rules.
Until COVID-19 vaccines are more widely available, campuses will continue to change their policies to try and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Getting student feedback is crucial, as the University of Illinois shows. Punishing students who disregard the rules may help, but getting student support will make sequestration and other restrictions more bearable.
Megan Zogby is a Martin Center intern.


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Evenings are comprised of seven fully-produced short plays. These plays are selected from among the 36 works developed as part of the Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series held throughout the past season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The 2005 Festival also includes staged readings of two new full-length plays commissioned by PlayGround.
This season inaugurates the relationship of PlayGround and San Francisco’s Zeum Theater. “Following a decade of explosive growth and our search for a new San Francisco home, we are grateful for this opportunity to relocate the Best of PlayGround Festival to Zeum.” Says PlayGround’s artistic director, James Kleinmann. “I can’t imagine a better platform for a new generation of Bay Area playwrights.”


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Located at the western tip of Texas, nestled between New Mexico and Mexico, the city of El Paso, Texas stands as a cohesive mix of Southwestern, Mexican and Native American traditions, and boasts more than 400 years of recorded history. This recorded history includes early Spanish explorers, Mexican revolutionaries and well known legendary figures such as Pancho Villa and Billy the Kid. Today, El Paso is home to the University of Texas at El Paso, one of the country’s largest military facilities - Fort Bliss, and nearly 650,000 residents.
The city itself is made up of four distinctive districts: West Side, North East, East Side, and Downtown. Each district offers its own culture and unique neighborhoods. Downtown is most reminiscent of Mexico and houses a beautiful plaza, several museums and a public zoo. The North East district has one of the largest military bases in the world, Fort Bliss, as well as the Briggs Army Airfield. El Paso’s East Side is close to historic sites such as the Hueco Tanks State Historic Site and the Mission Trails, where many locals still attend church. The West Side of the city showcases the breathtaking natural scenery that surrounds El Paso and offers such places as Franklin Mountains State Park, where nature lovers can enjoy picnics, hiking, biking and rock climbing.
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The laughs are loud, lewd and low in "Let's Be Cops," a spoof of cop "buddy pictures" that is pretty much the definition of "an August comedy." The last full month of summer is typically a dumping ground for titles that studios don't have high hopes for. Sometimes, that's because of the lack of marketable stars. Sometimes, they're just too hard to market. And sometimes, if they're comedies, it's because the belly laughs are few and far between. All of those apply here.
"New Girl" cast members Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. star in this farce about two Ohio losers losing their way through Los Angeles, a tough place to be a single guy with zero status.
Justin (Wayans) is a meek and mousy video game developer who is so passive he gives off a feminine vibe. Ryan (Johnson) is an ex-jock who once quarterbacked for Purdue but now spends his days roughing up kids in pickup games on a local playground. Nobody gives either of these guys a second look.
Justin's cop-centric video game may have been rejected by his bullying boss, but the police gear he has around the house is handy to have when he and Ryan want to drop in on an alumni "costume" party. People there mistake them for police.
Women eyeball these manly men in uniform. And Ryan, who used to feel the love of the crowd, gets hooked.
"Let's be cops!" Next thing you know, they're walking the streets, in uniform with fake guns. Ryan trades his battered '80s Camaro for an eBay police cruiser, adding decals and lights, boning up on police procedure, listening for real police calls on a scanner.
Things get more and more out of hand, from domestic disturbances that turn out to be spirited sorority girl brawls, to tangles with the Russian mob.
Johnson has made a number of smart indie film choices that allowed him to shine -- "Drinking Buddies," "Safety Not Guaranteed." But here he has ended up in a summer comedy that's barely funny enough to warrant -- ahem -- release in the summer.
PLOT Two losers pretend they are police officers.
CAST Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr.
BOTTOM LINE Not very arresting.


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Bernie Adell was renowned internationally for his scholarship in the employment and labour law field.
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A man has been taken to the hospital with injuries he is expected to survive following an incident on Friday evening.
Police Chief Mike Wilson said that the man, age 33, suffered several lacerations to the head in the 100 block of South Second Street. The incident prompted a significant police response, with at least three APD patrol vehicles observed racing east on Commercial Street to the scene at about 6:30 p.m. Friday. Atchison County EMS transported the victim to an area hospital.
Wilson said Friday that first responders believe the man will survive his injuries. On Monday, he said no progress had been made in the case because the victim won't cooperate with investigators.
"The victim refuses to tell police officers what happened or who is responsible," Wilson said.
Anyone with knowledge of information pertinent to the investigation may make a report at all hours of the day by calling 913-367-4323.
Fire Department units assisted at the scene.