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Source: Tulsa World (Original Article)

The price for fixing our streets is reported to be $2 billion.

Two billion is two thousand millions.

That’s a lot of traffic cones.

This figure might have been more consumer-friendly expressed as $1.99 billion and change, stopping under the next big number, the way it sometimes is done with houses and vehicles.

Coming in the choppy wake of a failed big river improvement plan, it will be interesting to see how any advertising or promotional campaign for street salvage and salvation is managed. Offhand, I might think beyond using kiddies in private school gear, standing beside a pothole, singing: Please all you grown-ups, do it for us.

Children might sell trucks and sofas, but probably not taxes.

As the river is smoother than certain streets, a high-tech ferry up the big creek, Jenks to downtown, might just work one day.

Pushing for pencils: Paying for something over and beyond what’s the rule is nothing new.

Last fall I found myself at a table dedicated to helping a public school provide the basics to its students.

The project being funded at the table was not for anything extra-curricular or athletic, it wasn’t about uniforms, or sets

for a play.

It wasn’t about buying a computer for a class.

It was about pencils. Schools depend on the tax base of the district. Sometimes a few miles can seem like another world when it comes to opportunity. As they’re logging-on in one school, they might be sharing paper in the same grade level on down the way.

When you give money, this thought goes with it, however briefly, no matter the apparent neediness of the recipient: Wonder if all that’s really going to the right place?

Giving a box of pencils and a couple of Big Chief writing tablets to public school children, being thanked warmly for such a generous gift; brother.

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Source: RedOrbit (Original Article)

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Posted on: Friday, 13 June 2008, 00:00 CDT
* Of course the Gazette is going all out with support of Obama. Too bad nobody on their staff will have the guts to research and tell the truth. Tell Gazette readers about all the skeletons in Obama’s closet and his ties to some pretty radical groups. * It seems like the editors of the Gazette and myself are constantly at odds. I noticed in Friday’s paper half the editorial page is devoted to slamming Mike Garrison, who I think is a good man, and the other half is devoted to praising Barack Obama, who I can see nothing but embarrassment in. * War could have been avoided, Rockefeller said in today’s paper, yet he is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Is this a political ploy? * I just want to compliment the new government and city council in Clendenin for coming out of the deficit and making a surplus in less than a year. * Thanks to the city of Charleston for the new green pet receptacles with the educational message that pet feces transmit disease and a plastic bag to clean up after your pet. Another suggestion is to carry a kid’s plastic beach pail with handle and shovel filled with cat litter. The bottom line is that one must take responsibility for your pet. * The artwork that they chose for FestivALL to be painted on the building is terribly cold and unwelcoming and I don’t think it is the right choice. * Someone made a comment about not getting their stimulus rebate check; if you get an actual check you will get it later than the direct deposits. It has to do with the last two digits of your Social Security number as to how late you will get them. You will get them as late as sometime in July.

* The old hippies are in dreamland if they think Obama is going to be the next president. * If America’s young people would register and vote, Barack Obama will become president. However, most young people are too busy with their gadgets to take the time to register and No Annual Fee Credit Card vote. * There is a lot …continue reading

Source: Yahoo! News (Original Article)

By Jonathan Zimmerman
Thu Jun 5, 4:00 AM ET

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On Thursday night, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics will resume the most famous rivalry in professional basketball. The two teams met in the NBA Finals seven times in the 1960s and three times in the 1980s, leaving an indelible mark on the game. So to American sports commentators and fans, who are sentimentalists at heart, this year's Final looks like a blast from the past.

Look again. Sports rivalries as we once knew them are dead, strangled by the constant movement of players between teams. These days, it seems, pro athletes change their uniforms more often than their underwear. That's why comedian Jerry Seinfeld has famously likened spectator sports to "cheering for the laundry."
This year in the NBA, there's plenty of new laundry to cheer for.
The Lakers were also-rans until January, when they acquired forward Pau Gasol from the Memphis Grizzlies. And the Celtics were absolutely woeful before the arrival of Kevin Garnett (from Minnesota) and Ray Allen (from Seattle). One Celtic reserve, Sam Cassell, is playing for his eighth NBA team; another, P.J. Brown, is on his sixth one.
Just before the trading deadline in February, in fact, more than 50 players changed squads in 11 different transactions. And one of those trades involved 11 different players! Quick, can you name the current employer of Ben Wallace, Larry Hughes, Drew Gooden, or Wally Szczerbiak? I didn't think so.
True, Lakers superstar and 2008 Most Valuable Player Kobe Bryant has been on the same team all along. Between 2000 and 2002, Bryant joined with Shaquille O'Neal to win three league titles. But then O'Neal departed for Miami, which traded him this season to the Phoenix Suns. The only other present-day Laker who played on the old championship teams is Derek Fisher, who made stops in the Golden State and Utah before coming back.
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By Darnell Mayberry and Jason Singer
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Source: Seattle Times (Original Article)

It’s fat city in Puget Sound country, with some of the lowest tides of the season arriving this week right at midday picnic time.

There are primo beachcombing opportunities to enjoy all week. Pick a beach, any beach: Golden Gardens, Carkeek Park, South Alki, Lincoln Park, or even hop in the car and head north to Richmond Beach Park or south to Seahurst and Des Moines.

Captives of downtown Seattle offices towers can even kick off their shoes and enjoy the low tide at the Olympic Sculpture Park’s pocket beach, just minutes and worlds from their cube farms. There’s much to discover, even at the city’s most urban beaches.

Watch the sea lettuce drift in cold, crystal salt water as it slinks down the beach; tickle an anemone with a wet finger. And this week trained naturalists will be on hand to reveal the secrets of the low tide: Who knew bright orange sunflower stars have 15,000 tube feet, enabling them to zip along at 10 feet a minute? That barnacles spend most of their life standing on their head? Or that geoducks can live to be old-growth clams, clocking 150 years in the same spot?

More than 35 volunteer naturalists were at city beaches on Sunday, with the pleasures of the low-tide beach to share, including tips to preserve and protect Puget Sound.

The results of some 20 years of hard work and investment in sewage-treatment plants, reducing industrial pollution, and restoring habitat are already there to see, in the diversity of life squirming, squirting and scuttling in the low tide zone.

At Golden Gardens, a slow-lane drama unfolded as the tide dropped Sunday. Clams startled the strutting crows with zesty squirts. Red rock crabs spangled clean, gray sand, and stately herons stalked eel-grass beds with Zen grace. And everywhere, the kids did what they do best.

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Source: Providence Journal (Original Article)

You couldn’t ask for a better script.

The Celtics and the Lakers meeting in their first NBA Finals in 21 years, a throwback to the time when the names were Bird and Magic and the NBA was as hot as a Hollywood opening. Back when the Celtics and Lakers were basketball royalty — one of the great rivalries in sports history.

As if this is all direct from Central Casting.

And it only seems fitting.

For if the Celtics are going to get their 17th NBA title, somehow you knew it was going to be against the Lakers, who are right behind them with their 14 championships and their celebrities sitting courtside. Somehow, you knew it was going to have to come against megastar Kobe Bryant and celebrity coach Phil Jackson. Somehow you knew it would come against the showtime that’s always been the Lakers in Los Angeles.

Hasn’t it always seemed to come down to the Celtics and the Lakers, a rivalry that has stretched back to the ’60s, when the Lakers went to L.A. from Minneapolis, and Doris Day — one of America’s celluloid sweethearts — was always in the front row?

Hasn’t it been the Lakers, who throughout that decade were always being billed as the franchise of the future, with their two great young stars, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor, while the Celtics were supposed to be about the past, even as they kept winning NBA titles?

That was the back story, and the intensification of the rivalry in the ’80s just gave it another huge chapter, right there with the “Beat L.A.” chants that used to bounce off the old Garden walls.

They were in the finals three times together then: The lunch-pail Celtics, who played in the drafty old Garden, next to the elevated railroad tracks on Causeway Street, in a neighborhood right out of a grim Edward Hopper painting; the showtime Lakers, who played in something called the Fabulous Travel blog Forum, complete with the dance team …continue reading

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Source: Chicago Sun-Times (Original Article)

Ozzie’s patience tested, Cabrera should take note
INDIANS 8, WHITE SOX 2 | Cabrera unhappy, Dotel in altercation and Buehrle still struggling

May 28, 2008

BY JOE COWLEY jcowley@suntimes.com

CLEVELAND — Ozzie Guillen’s baby-sitting service is officially closed.
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Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (Original Article)

Beachgoers braved $4-a-gallon gas to embrace summer’s unofficial launch at beach towns along the Jersey Shore today, enjoying the warm temperatures that graced the state.

For Walter Valentine, 37, of Brielle, who has been staking out the same patch of sand on the beach in Manasquan for the last 15 years, it couldn’t have been a better way to start the summer. Valentine and his group of friends typically set up one or two volleyball nets and play every weekend, Saturday and Sunday, of the summer.

“The volleyball’s not so good because we’re all rusty,” Valentine remarked while slathering on some heavy-duty sunscreen.

Water around 55 degrees kept people on the sand, although a few fearless little ones took the plunge. Four-year-old Katie Killeen barely flinched when water rushed into the small hole she had dug for herself with her blue shovel and pail.

“She really wants to get in,” said her mother, Kendra Killeen, 33, of Basking Ridge. “I’ve been holding her back.”

Temperatures hovered in the 70s today and are expected to remain their Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

For boat owners like Jim Waugh, 57, of Manhattan, there were other ways to test the waters. Waugh, who keeps his 33-foot Hydrosport in Manasquan, was taking out the brand new, cherry red Yamaha personal watercraft he bought for daughter for a test drive.

“This is for my kid, supposedly,” he said, as he maneuvered the craft to the dock.

Waugh said he’ll feel higher gas prices but it won’t change how often he uses his boat.

“Once you resign to a boat, gas is secondary,” Waugh said. Romantic Getaways “It’s just a hole in the water that collects money.”

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By Nini B. Cabaero
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A GOOD thing happened in Cebu City last week at about the same time when parts of the world were coping with high death tolls from natural calamities.

While death tolls were rising in China from the earthquake and in Burma from the cyclone, an accident about to happen was prevented in Cebu City when local officials decided to move mountain barangay residents away from danger.

Barangay Sinsin is a mountain barangay in Cebu City. It has a small population of mostly farmers that if an accident like a landslide had happened, the number of fatalities would not be as dramatic as the figures coming out of China and Burma.

But in the work of saving lives in disaster situations, one person removed from danger is a life saved.

It was a wet week when rains fell in Cebu in what the weather bureau described as the early start of the wet season last week.

I was one of those who grew anxious one evening last week with the sound of waters rushing past our backyard because the sound usually evoked images of houses being washed away and women and children drowning. It wasn’t long ago when I saw a nipa hut floating past our backyard and heard about a grandmother swallowed by the swirling waters.

Landslides and flashfloods have become expected occurrences after heavy downpours in Cebu City that it has become easy to get mad at local officials.

I wondered when officials would learn to act fast and act right to save the lives of women and children, the elderly and the Bank Credit Cards young, who are often the victims …continue reading