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Helpers will be given a time frame around dusk to set out for the count, and the process will be repeated on three separate occasions. An average will be calculated to be show result, Mr. Jobes said. He said he plans to to assign volunteers to a zone near where they live so that they are familiar with the area they sur...
No real estimate has ever been done in the town, Mr. Jobes said.
“We feel that a project like this could be a step in the right direction and we look forward to involving the public and our residents in the collection of this data,” Mr. Jobes said.
Southold Town runs a deer management program that formed in 2008 with the goal of reducing deer numbers through bow-hunting on 23 properties in town in the 2017-2018 season, four of which are jointly owned with Suffolk County. Hunters, residents or Suffolk County veterans, are chosen by lottery.
Local concerns about the deer population over the years, including those raised at deer management committee meetings, have included health matters such as Lyme disease and other illnesses carried by deer ticks, otherwise known as black-legged ticks. Other worries are ecological, with deer eating the undergrowth of for...
In addition to getting an idea of the local deer population, the data collected will be used to learn more about where hunting efforts could possibly be focused, whether by using a town-owned property through the deer management program or by connecting private landowners with local hunters, Mr. Jobes said.
Teneo Hospitality Group has appointed graphic designer and tech expert Victoria Myrand as Content and Design Specialist. In this newly created position, Ms. Myrand will expand Teneo’s digital marketing, social media, e-mail communications, digital advertising and branding services. Teneo is active on Instagram, Faceboo...
“Victoria’s passion for both design and technology are a winning combination for Teneo as we expand our digital marketing inventiveness and brand presence,” says Teneo Marketing & Communications Director Danielle Halbert. Ms. Halbert notes that Teneo is forging new digital strategies and marketing initiatives to help i...
With a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design from The International Academy of Design and Technology, Ms. Myrand’s experience spans design, technology, social media and advertising platforms. She has been employed by leading Detroit advertising agencies, prior to creating her own consultancy, offering both innovative des...
The Gunn High girls basketball program has a new varsity head coach, Cass Taylor, who formerly coached the JV girls and assisted with the varsity at St. Francis.
"I am very excited to have him as a new and leading addition to our girls basketball program," said Gunn Athletic Director Jill Naylor.
Cass Taylor is the new varsity girls basketball coach at Gunn High. Photo courtesy of LinkedIn.
Taylor, who last played at St. Francis High under coach Bill Delaney in 1986, brings a wealth of experience to the sport.
"I have been coaching for 20 years," Taylor said. "I have been coaching at St. Francis for seven years and before that I was over at Lincoln High in San Jose. I coached all through NJB for over eight years and I was president of the Palo Alto chapter for two years. I actually coached a lot of girls that went to Gunn, s...
As a player at St. Francis, Taylor was named to the All-Peninsula team by the Peninsula Times Tribune in 1986.
"He played for me when he was a freshman and I was the freshman coach at SF," said former Lancers hoop coach Steve Filios. "I also assisted Bill on the varsity in those days. Cass was, and still is, a great person. His personality is charismatic and was key as a player with his leadership, his intensity and competitive...
"He was a very strong coach in the St. Francis girls' program. Obviously, being on the boys side, I did not get a chance to see a lot of their games but, in what I did get a chance to see, he held true to standards he set for the girls yet insured that there was fun involved and pride in what the team was doing. I am a...
While Naylor has filled the position vacated by Melanie Murphy, who left to take the girls' basketball job at Sacred Heart Prep, new Palo Alto AD Jason Fung needs to find a new girls volleyball coach and a new baseball coach.
Dave Winn, who guided the Vikings to back-to-back CIF state titles in 2010 and '11, left to become the new head girls volleyball coach at Mountain View. Erick Raich, who guided the Paly baseball program to its first-ever Central Coast Section title in 2011, left to become the head coach at De Anza College.
Now that participating in High School Sports involves a voluntary fee, schools like Gunn HS are having trouble raising enough funds to pay its coaches. Given that situation, they are going to be moving to more stable positions. Without a large, rich set of boosters, Gunn sports is going to suffer financially.
Is funding for school sports handled differently at private schools? Are private schools permitted to impose a mandatory participation fee?
I have coached at both schools, and while my kids were in school, was also active with the boosters program. The "voluntary" participation fee does not pay the coaches. They are paid by the district, and their pay is set based on number of years of coaching experience, which tops out around 7 or 8 years.
My point is -- the participation fee is not connected to what coaches get paid.
In the so-called minor sports, the head coach is given a stipend and is told to divide it up with the rest of the coaching staff as he/she sees fit. For example, water polo receives $3500. Divide that up by 4 and you get $875 each...which comes out way below minimum wage when you add up the hours.
This is why it is hard to attract a decent coach top the public high schools.
As a former coach at Palo Alto HS, I can attest to the fact that PAUSD pays its coaches some of the worst stipends in the Central Coast Section. It's not all public schools... PAUSD is in an affluent community and yet it pays its coaches stipends far less than East San Jose. Good thing us coaches aren't in it for the m...
Abdullah has acquired a reputation as an unlikely reformer after this year’s Valentine’s Day reforms, in which he sacked the head of the infamous religious police and appointed a woman to his cabinet for the first time. But as Saudi Arabia expert Toby Jones argued at the time, Abdullah is probably less interested in li...
The firing of Shethry certainly seems to be an example. The university — which is named after the king, of course — is something of a legacy project for Abdullah. He has touted it as a “beacon of tolerance” and as part of his plan to make Saudi Arabia a center of technological innovation. His patience for unsolicited s...
How do you measure up at the Olympics?
In Rome in 1960, a very strange thing happened in the men’s 100m freestyle Olympic swimming final: the man who recorded the fastest time was given the silver medal.
In the absence of touch pads to record a swimmer’s finishing time, the method of determining the winner was complex in the extreme. Firstly, there were finishing judges, three of whom were assigned to either first, second or third. Their job was to record who they thought had come in their position. In addition, each l...
The race was very close, with Australia’s John Devitt and America’s Lance Larson heading towards the end of the pool with nothing between them. The lane judges timing Larson recorded his time as 55.0, 55.1 and 55.1. The judges timing Devitt all clocked him at 55.2.
Two of the finishing judges for first place recorded Devitt as the first placed swimmer. The third found that Larson had won. Of the three second place judges, the position was reversed, with two recording Devitt as finishing second, and only one recording Larson as the silver medallist.
Instead of referring to the timings, the head judge overruled the tie, and declared Devitt the winner. He took Gold, while Silver was awarded to Larson. Subsequent appeals from Larson’s camp were unsuccessful.
Unsurprisingly, touch pads were brought in as quickly as they could be developed, making their Olympic debut in 1968.
makes a sound in a speaker behind each athlete.
With the technology available to us today, can you imagine what would happen if the starting pistol had failed to start the clock for a race – or that the clocks were somehow faulty and failed to record an accurate time? Making sure this kind of thing couldn’t happen today is in the hands of watch company Omega, which ...
But it isn’t just the timing that matters: what would the repercussions be if it transpired that the 100m had in fact been the 99.5m? Can you imagine what would happen if, for some unimaginable reason, all the measuring tapes used for field events were found to be five per cent out? It could make all that fuss over the...
Someone has to make sure none of this happens: and arrange things so that we can be sure that the races run this summer will be directly comparable to the races run in Beijing; that the swimming pool in London is exactly the same length as the pools in LA, Barcelona and Seoul; and that when the clock reads 9.572s, it i...
Enter Imre Mátraházi, technical manager at the IAAF competitions department. It is his department that ensures that distances are accurately measured, and that the 100m really is what it claims to be.
He explains that the general rule for races is that the distance as measured from the start line must not be shorter than the stated length of the race – there is simply no margin for error in this. There is a little more give in the other direction, but not much. A course can be slightly longer that its stated distanc...
“During the survey, distances longer than 20m are to be measured by electro optical instruments. Angles are to be measured by theodolite, and certificates of instrument accuracy must be attached to the Measurement Report,” Mátraházi told us.
As these instruments have to be calibrated every year, a certificate of less than one year old is required. Off the shelf Electronics Distance Measurement (EDM) devices are supplied to an industry maximum standard deviation of ± 3mm.
“Calibrated steel measuring tapes and steel bars are also used for measuring distances (where no scientific device is used) and the height of the [high jump] bar. For the Pole Vault, it is customary, in major competitions, to check the height by EDM as well,” he said.
So we can be sure that the distances are right. After all, the people who check this sort of thing are not the sort of people who approximate. There is no “about half a mile” here. Similarly, timings are looked after by people who would never arrange to be somewhere in “about half an hour”. This is serious stuff.
Dartmouth and Columbia claimed upset wins this weekend.
s Cornell fell to 0-3 after a disappointing 21-7 loss to Colgate, the Red’s Ivy League foes continued their non-conference dominance on a weekend that featured two exciting Ivy League upsets.
In a nationally televised Friday night game, Dartmouth upset Penn on a last second touchdown in Philadelphia. Down 13-10 late in the game, the Green’s offense orchestrated a 15-play, 80-yard drive to win the game and improve to 3-0. Trailing by three with seconds remaining, the Green went for the win on 4th and inches ...
Penn’s co-champion, Princeton, was also victim to a visiting league opponent thought to be one of the weaker Ivy teams. Like Dartmouth, Columbia is a surprise 3-0 team after beating Princeton, 28-24, after a 63-yard touchdown pass from Anders Hill to Ronald Smith II with under two minutes remaining. Hill threw for 400 ...
Though Cornell is 0-2 against nonconference opponents, Ivy League teams have found great success against teams outside their conference. Harvard beat up on Georgetown, 41-2, after taking a 7-0 lead on a first quarter punt return for a touchdown and never looking back. Running back Charlie Booker III ran for two touchdo...
Yale beat Fordham, 41-10. Deshawn Salter, one of two backs who ran all over Cornell’s defense two weeks ago, scored three touchdowns in the Bulldogs’ victory. A 21-point first quarter powered Yale on the road as they improved to 3-0.
Facing a 14-3 halftime deficit, Brown came back to beat Rhode Island, 24-21, powered by a 21-point third quarter, including two touchdowns from running back Darius Daies. Rhode Island quarterback Tyler Harris threw for 298 yards and two touchdowns in the loss.
For some members of Cornell football, the NFL protests hit home especially hard.
Cornell will be without its leader in receptions for the remainder of the 2017 season.
A PGA golfer's wife was arrested Saturday for allegedly attacking her husband and his mother and resisting arrest after being handcuffed by police, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.
A PGA golfer’s wife was arrested Saturday for allegedly attacking her husband and his mother and resisting arrest after being handcuffed by police, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.
Krista Conley Glover, 36, who is golfer Lucas Glover’s wife, was charged with misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor resisting arrest, according to her arrest report.
An unredacted version of the police report indicated that Lucas and his mother, Hershey, were the victims in this assault.
The incident occurred Saturday night in Ponte Vedra and Krista Glover allegedly “forcefully attacked” him.
Lucas' mother intervened to get Krista to stop. Krista allegedly caused Lucas and Hershey to have multiple lacerations to their arms.
Deputies responded to the scene and handcuffed Krista. While escorting her to a patrol car, she became combative and tried to separate herself from the deputy, the arrest report said.
While trying to put her in the car, Krista allegedly wrapped her legs and feet around the door and frame of the car, preventing the lower half of her body from getting into the vehicle.
Krista was ultimately put into the car, but she then began screaming and forcefully kicking the rear driver’s side door of the patrol car. She caused the door to visibly separate from the cell of the door frame.
Her husband, Lucas Glover, won the 2009 U.S. Open.
New details from the unredacted police report show that Lucas told police that every time he played poorly in a tournament, his wife Krista would begin yelling at him, "stating that he is a 'loser' and 'p***y'."
Krista also allegedly threatened to leave him with their children and that he would "never see their kids again," the report said.
She started an altercation with him that day, according to the report, and she started it after allegedly drinking all day and in front of their kids and his mother, the document said.
After Krista was arrested, Lucas allegedly started to change his previous statement, as well as Krista's dad, who also was at the scene, according to the report.
While transporting Krista Glover to the jail, she allegedly continued screaming and told the deputies "wait till the tour hears about this, you will lose your job."
She also said "this is why cops get shot in the face" and "wait till I talk with the judge, you will be f*****g fired over this."
Read the full arrest document below.
Donald Trump wants his border wall funded, but he apparently wants to keep the government open on his 100th day in office a little bit more. Facing the prospect of a government shutdown in four days, the president reportedly backed off his demand that a must-pass spending bill include a downpayment for the wall he want...
The president’s softening line wasn’t all that surprising. Democrats had held firm against funding the wall from the start, and Republican leaders were in no mood for a countdown-clock showdown so early in Trump’s tenure and after they had already muffed their attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. A ba...
Trump’s bigger worry may be of a pattern beginning to emerge. In March, the president sent his staff to deliver a well-publicized ultimatum to House Republicans: Pass the leadership’s health-care bill, or Trump would leave Obamacare in place and move on to other issues. The lawmakers balked, and a month later, it becam...
The two parties must still agree on how much additional money to appropriate for defense, how much they might give the president for border security that doesn’t include building the wall, and whether Congress will tell the Trump administration to continue making subsidy payments to health insurers as part of Obamacare...
Perhaps Democrats thought if they praised the president fast enough, he wouldn’t have time to reverse himself. Indeed, by the morning, Trump was tweeting again about the wall.
Nobody believes the president has given up entirely on building the wall; the issue is whether Congress will start funding it now. Trump’s tweet was not a veto threat. There’s still time for Trump to change his mind again and confront the Democrats. Assuming he doesn’t, however, his tactical retreat might benefit him i...
The ceasefire deal, which is meant to suppress local violence, depends on the expansion of an alliance that risks even more consequential regional violence.
Since the beginning of 2018, with no announcement of a change in policy, more than half of applications for medical permits from Gaza have been turned down or left unanswered.
At the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, Kushner said that “peace is within reach,” but, on the same day, Israeli soldiers were firing on demonstrators.
The Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi joins forces with the authors of “The Gaza Kitchen” to create a sprawling medieval Middle Eastern feast.
Hamas has boasted of building fifty tunnels since the Israel–Gaza conflict of July, 2014.
Amid an atmosphere of increasing intolerance, Israel’s conservative President calls for civility—and pays a price. David Remnick reports.
A once secret Israeli military order puts soldiers at risk to prevent their capture.
The United Nations calls for an investigation into Operation Protective Edge.
Public and diplomatic opinion were swinging heavily against Israel until Hamas broke the ceasefire in Gaza.
Does the Easter story have authority?
This week, we’ll read narratives about Christ’s suffering and resurrection. But are we equipped to read them?
This is what I mean….we easily recognize the authority of epistles since they state ideas quite directly. On the other hand, we tend to think of stories or narratives as descriptive. So, how do narratives carry authority?
Here’s a summary quote from an older article by Mark Hargreaves titled “Telling Stories: The Concept of Narrative and Biblical Authority” (Anvil 13, no. 2, 1996).
The authority of the Bible involves a challenge to see the contingent happenings of this world, of my life, as part of some universal plot. It is a challenge, or better still an invitation, to see things from God’s perspective….
Readers are issued with an invitation; they too may enter the master-narrative which structures the text. We are invited to locate ourselves within this plot and thematize our lives in accordance with this narrative. The events of my life make sense as they are placed within a configuration which features the events of...
The following unpack each thought one by one.
What then, is the authority of a parable and how does it work? The parables issue a challenge to see things from a different perspective; that is their appeal and why they continue to be so striking. They are great moments of disclosure. They reveal God’s point of view, which is shown to be so different from the human ...
The parables ‘work’ as they involve us. That is why Jesus told them and why they are so powerful.
One of the implications of this reading of the Bible as master-narrative is that it incorporates the contemporary reader into the story that is being told. If it is universal history that is being recounted then the contemporary situation must feature somewhere in the plot.
What the Bible reveals, therefore, is not so much a recital of events, as a way of reading events as part of a configuration in which they appear as meaningful. The authority of the Bible lies in a pattern, a narrative within which the acts of God can be recognized and interpreted….
The most important aspect of the Bible to bring out in our preaching is its plot. We should always be prepared to tell its story. This is not the same as telling stories in our sermons; it is the systematic presentation of the narrative logic of the biblical master-narrative.
These quotes are well worth thinking through as we listen to the passion and resurrection narratives this week!
April 19, 2017 Is Christ's reputation lost on the church?

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