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On top of all that, the coach tells us he still has kids scattered all about, with many unable to return! |
"We have kids in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Pensacola, Orlando, Destin." coach Tillman told me. "We have them pretty scattered. Right now, we left, we played Arnold on a Friday night we had 43 on the varsity roster. And today we had 25 at practice." |
So that begs the question, why did he work to schedule a game Friday with Marianna? He tells us he only made the decision after consulting with players and their families. |
"You know it's three weeks after the storm." says the coach "Everybody has been able to evaluate homes and family. But we need...these young men have invested a lot of time and effort. Yes there's still more to be done at home, everybody still has tarps on (their roofs) and trees down. And some still have trees in thei... |
Coach Tillman says it especially important for the seniors, they'll have some sort of senior night for them. And oh by the way, the Rams still playoff eligible with a win! |
That game Friday at Chapman Field-Tommy Oliver set for 6 o'clock. |
CAWONGLA resident Andrew Hanlon has puzzled over the glowing, unidentified shape that appeared in a photograph he took of the moon two months ago. |
Mr Hanlon, who has an interest in astronomy, said he was trying to take a picture of a planet traversing behind the moon on January 30 with his new Panasonic DMC digital camera from his home. |
With the camera on a tripod he was taking photographs every 30 seconds, following the movement of the moon and waiting for a break in the clouds. |
The next day he was going through the photographs and spotted a bright and unidentifiable object in one of the frames. |
"It's glary all over but the moon is behind it, so it's not moonlight," he said. |
"I'm just very curious. I'm trying to identify it." |
Originally, Mr Hanlon thought he may have just taken the photograph at the same time the lights on an aircraft were flashing, but was told by an "expert" that couldn't be the case. |
In the half an hour he had been taking photographs, he also hadn't heard anything like the engine of an aircraft, which he found odd. |
And he's not the only one who has spotted strange shapes in the sky. |
Wollongbar resident Maurice Collins said he noticed a strange light around midnight on Tuesday. |
"It was too slow to be a shooting star," he said. |
"But it was too fast to be a satellite. |
"It was like a really, really bright star, heading east to west in the northern sky. |
"Maybe it was space debris. |
"I was just wondering whether anyone else had seen it. It was really bright." |
Spotting unusual objects in the sky is certainly not a new phenomenon. |
On May 29, 1950, The Northern Star reported on a "Saucer Mystery" in Coraki that had been puzzling residents for two weeks. |
A Mr C Hetherington of Bora Ridge said he saw a "shining light" which looked about the size of a football. |
However, with the help of a telescope it was discovered the obscure shining light, spotted at 7.46am, was in fact just an aircraft reflecting light in the morning sun. |
The finding ruled out a further seven or eight saucers that had been spotted coming into Casino within the two-week period. |
Evans Head Memorial Aerodrome Committee president Richard Gates said the object in the image looked like the International Space Station. |
"It moves across the sky rapidly in a matter of minutes and does not follow the same path night after night," he said. "I have seen it described as the third brightest object in the sky. |
"You can even see it through all the visual pollution of the night sky in the city." |
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Mercedes O'Neill lives just two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean in a zone so imperiled by Hurricane Florence that it has been marked for mandatory evacuation. |
But for now, she plans to ride out the hurricane in her home with her boyfriend, her 6-year-old daughter and two cats, even though the prospect scares her. |
O'Neill, who has a son due Sept. 27, thought hard about leaving. But because her family lives paycheck to paycheck, the idea seemed too costly. And she worried about not getting home in time to return to her job at a Family Dollar store after the storm passes. |
Their dilemma reflects the limited choices faced by many households in the storm's path. |
First, a family member offered a hotel room 200 miles (320 kilometers) inland from her North Myrtle Beach home in Aiken. Then Florence slowed down, suggesting that the coast would get even more rain and evacuees would be forced to stay away longer. |
Since they were surrounded by helpful neighbors and the storm weakened from Category 4 to Category 2, the couple decided to board up and hunker down. |
"I could go. But you can't go for every storm. Yes, I'm scared. But I would be more scared if we were alone. Neighbors helping neighbors, you know?" she said as her daughter, Sophie, rode her bike out of the driveway and into the empty street. |
Emergency shelters are available, but O'Neill worried that they might not offer enough privacy or take pets. She worried too about her soon-to-arrive baby. Would she be safer somewhere else? Or would she have to accept lesser medical care in another town? |
Evacuating isn't cheap. The cost of gas, food, lodging and other essentials adds up quickly. And for many workers, fleeing also means being away from the jobs that provide their income. |
O'Neill got off work a few hours Wednesday before her boyfriend and a neighbor finished putting plywood on the widows. On one window was spray painted "Thank God for Trump." On the other piece of plywood was "God bless the USA." |
If the forecast takes a sudden, drastic turn, they still might leave and join the estimated 300,000-plus people who had left South Carolina's coast by Wednesday afternoon. |
The decision cuts across economic classes. About a mile away, Simon Ohayon had not decided whether to leave his home because he wants to be near his beachwear store, Kings At the Beach, which sits across the street from an oceanfront park. |
"I think we can get 3 or 4 feet of water up here. And then waves," Ohayon said. "I put my merchandise up off the ground, but I don't know if I want to leave." |
Ohayon said he would look at the forecasts and leave if Florence looks likely to hit as a Category 3. |
After the system is gone, O'Neill figures the Family Dollar store will try to reopen as soon as possible, and then she can get back to making money. |
"It just takes forever to get back in," said O'Neill's boyfriend, Kelly Johnson. |
She plans to keep in touch with her store manager and several neighbors waiting out the storm. If one of them is in trouble, they figure the rest can help. |
"I think we all thought about leaving. But since we're together, I think that will make it easier," she said. |
And then there were the cats. Even if she had money and a place to stay, she could hardly bear to leave Klepto ("He always steals the kitty toys") and Mia ("It's pronounced mee-ya, but stands for MIA because I could never find him") behind. |
"Pets are part of our family too," she said. |
Follow Jeffrey Collins on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JSCollinsAP . |
Read his work at https://apnews.com/search/jeffrey%20collins . |
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Keyport, New Jersey - NY/NJ Baykeeper has been awarded a contract in the amount of $155,676.60 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in support of the NY/NJ Baykeeper Oyster Restoration Program. This funding will allow Baykeeper to evaluate three oyster support structures to determine which will provide the hi... |
Baykeeper and the Rutgers Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability will construct a new experimental oyster reef using three types of oyster support structures, 1) Reefblk, 2) Reef Ball, and 3) a cargo pallet. The structure with the highest survival rate will then house oysters in order to study long term survival... |
"We thank the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for recognizing the value of our oyster work and funding this important research," said Baykeeper Debbie Mans. "Between the Navy graciously hosting our scientists, receiving the permit from NJ DEP, and receiving this infusion of funding, this project has tremendous mo... |
In 2010, NJ DEP banned research, restoration, and education projects using oysters in waters classified as "Restricted" or "Prohibited" for shellfish harvesting. This essentially deems the vast majority of the waters from northern New Jersey to Monmouth County off-limits for oyster restoration. As a result, NY/NJ Bayke... |
Oysters are vital to the ecological integrity of the Hudson-Raritan Estuary and Baykeeper has been working to restore oyster beds in NY and NJ waters since 1999.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Hudson-Raritan Estuary Comprehensive Restoration Plan (CRP) calls for oyster restoration in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary, prima... |
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was working with congressional Republicans on a "phase two" tax-reform plan to help middle Americans and corporations, telling Missouri business leaders that "it's going to be something that I think is very special." |
"We're going for a phase two, which will help — in addition to middle class — companies," Trump said at a roundtable at the Boeing Co. plant in St. Louis. "It's going to be something that I think is very special." |
He said that Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Senate were "working on it with me." |
"It's going to be something that I think will really be a big incentive to do a lot of things like we're doing right here," Trump said. "A tremendous incentive for the workers." |
Touring the Boeing plan with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, President Trump touted his economic successes — from Wall Street gains to job increases to lower jobless claims — and slammed Democrats for not supporting the tax bill passed in December. |
"Unfortunately, on the original plan, we didn't have one Democrat vote — which is pretty incredible," he said. "Now, they're regretting it. |
"But we're going to do a phase two." |
The president also said that the White House had asked Congress to finance 24 new F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets from Boeing in its upcoming budget. |
"The F-18, one of my favorite planes, to me, it's a work of art," Trump said. "You look at the workers. Look at the talent that went into it. |
"It's spectacular. It's a beautiful thing to watch. |
"We're working on price," the president added, looking at Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg. "Maybe we can work out a good price." |
Local leaders and Boeing workers praised how the tax plan benefitted them, with several telling of how they used their gains to help better serve their families or add to retirement. |
Renee Cricker, an employee of the College of the Ozarks, a Christian liberal-arts institution in the state, she used her bonus to fly abroad to be with her daughter, who had been in a medically induced coma because of double viral pneumonia. |
"This bonus could not have come at a better time in my life and my family's life," Cricker said. |
Muilenburg, the Boeing CEO, said his company used the tax savings to announce a $300 million investment "back into our people." |
Besides increasing compensation, the effort includes upgraded plants and offices, improved training programs and "investments in our communities and veterans." |
"We're going to continue to put tax reform to work," Muilenburg said. "We appreciate your leadership and Congress' leadership on getting that passed." |
Trump later tweeted about the visit. |
The Russian state-owned news website Sputnik has applied for a White House hard pass and is seeking membership in the White House Foreign Press Group in order to become a part of pool rotations. |
Sputnik, which Foreign Policy magazine described as the "BuzzFeed of propaganda," would be part of a rotating group of roughly 22 overseas outlets following President Donald Trump in his everyday interactions along with pool reporters from American print, TV, and radio outlets. |
Andrew Feinberg, Sputnik’s White House correspondent, has been in talks with the WHFPG head Philip Crowther, who told POLITICO that if Feinberg and Sputnik complete the boilerplate criteria for being a member of the press group, there "shouldn't be any reason" they wouldn't join the White House press pool. |
Among the criteria to become a WHFPG member is a White House-approved hard pass, membership in the White House Correspondents’ Association, and State Department verification that the network is, indeed, based in another country. Other state-sponsored outlets are part of the rotating foreign pool, including Crowther’s F... |
Sputnik is one of Russia’s government-funded news outlets aimed at international audiences. Launched in 2014, Sputnik has a goal of providing “alternative interpretations that are, undoubtedly, in demand around the world,” its head Dimitry Kiselyov said at the launch. |
During the 2016 U.S. election, Sputnik's coverage tended to be favorable toward Trump, sometimes in a breathless way: "Secret File Confirms Trump Claim: Obama, Hillary 'Founded ISIS' to Oust Assad," proclaimed one headline. And the network once tweeted out a Trump's statement about "crooked Hillary" along with one of h... |
Feinberg, a former staff member for the newspaper The Hill, joined Sputink in January. He said he also reports for Broadband Census News, which he described as a telecom trade news outlet. |
Feinberg said as far as he knows, he is the first Sputnik correspondent to apply for a White House hard pass in order to be a regular presence at the White House. Feinberg said the organization is also in the process of getting Congressional press credentials for its reporters to cover Capitol Hill. Feinberg noted that... |
An email sent to Sputnik’s press office was not immediately returned with comment. |
On last night’s episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Joe Giudice spewed some very nasty words at his wife, Teresa Giudice. Now, Teresa’s sworn enemy, Jacqueline Laurita, is not only refusing to comment but is also showing a bit of heart. While Jacqueline and Teresa may not be able to agree on most things, most... |
How awful is that? We think it’s bad, and so does Teresa’s sworn enemy Jacqueline. Jacqueline and Teresa have been pitted enemies all season long and their wars even got so bad that Jacqueline has said their friendship is over. However, she apparently knows her boundaries and chose not to comment directly on Joe’s nast... |
“I wouldn’t want to comment on something that is so personal, sensitive, and hurtful to Teresa and her family,” she said to Fox News contributor Tom Murro. |
What do you think about Jacqueline’s move? Honorable? Or do you think she should have stood up for her frienemy even more? Let us know what you think in the comments section below. We’d love to hear for you. |
Joe Giudice Caught Cheating On Teresa Giudice! |
Seven restaurants in Phoenix, Mesa and Tempe on this week's inspection list of four or more violations. Also see 20 spots that earned top scores. |
Get details on restaurants cited by Maricopa County inspectors for four or more priority violations the week of Feb. 25. |
Employee placed dirty dishes in dishwasher, then put away clean dishes without washing hands between tasks. | Corrected. |
Raw roast beef cuts covered in a white wrap labeled "not for sale." The beef was donated, according to the person in charge. | Discarded. |
Cooked potatoes improperly cooled. | Discarded. |
Salad mix, cheese, pasta salad and cheese sauce at improper temperatures. | Discarded. |
Enchilada sauce, opened cheese sauce, tuna salad and pasta salad stored in cooler past seven-day discard date. | Items discarded. |
Y-valve improperly connected to chemical dispenser at mop sink. | Removed. |
Chen Wok Express, 8115 N. 19th Ave., Suite A102, Phoenix. |
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