NEW HAVEN, Conn. The Southern Connecticut State University Athletic Department announced today that it will join up with the American Red Cross South Central Connecticut Chapter for the Oct. 4 mens soccer game against Southern New Hampshire. Red Cross representatives will be on site to educate and accept donations for the Red Cross National Disaster Relief Fund, which has been depleted due to the dramatic Midwest flooding in the spring and recent hurricanes Gustav and Ike. The Owls will take on the Penmen at 7 p.m. in a pivotal Northeast-10 Conference match at Jess Dow Field.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. The Southern Connecticut State University athletic department has announced that it will host a Play 4 The Cure event on Oct. 4 in conjunction with its field hockey game against St. Anselm. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Owls will look to raise awareness for this cause through this event. The team will wear pink jerseys and pink socks for the game, and all fans in attendance will receive special pink-themed promotional item giveaways.

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Let me start off by saying that I fully believe in the FREE Market! I think the Bailout Bill would have been a huge mistake!!!! Bailing out AIG/Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac would devastate our democracy! That bill would totally turn us into a socialist country!

I have never been so disgusted with our elected leaders in Washington! What is going on up there? I do not know how they can sleep at night with their delusion! They say falsehoods as if they are truth! Stop blaming left or right! This is a basic accounting lesson!

The government should stay out of the housing market! Requiring companies to give loans to people who could not pay for them! Government greed is all around us!

Best Quote:
Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States, in 1832

Repeating the Sins of the Past! Will we ever learn?


I think there should be no bail out at all! (I know many people disagree with me, even close to home) Sell Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/AIG assets! Those companies should be dissolved! America is built on the fact that the strong, inventive, smart, survive.

Just think if Jonathan's company had a bad year, could we get the government to pay us if a customer stiffed us? Could we sue the government because uninsured illegals get work and we can not bid as low because of government requirements! No we can't! We work hard because we want a future! We have the American work ethic! If you dream it, work hard, you can achieve it! So many people now want the government to solve your problems, regulate things, give you pay that is guaranteed! But you lose so many rights/freedoms in the process!

Sorry I have thought about this topic for a while and am sorry that the words do not flow as easily on the blog as they do in my head!

Representatives in favor of the bill:

Lindsay Graham
(202) 224-5972
Bob Inglis
(202) 225-6030

Representatives against the bill:

Jim DeMint
(202) 224-6121

Demint has a plan for the failed Bailout:

DeMint Statement on Failed Bailout
Americans demand Congress do the right thing to grow our economy and reform our government


September 29, 2008 - Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement after the House defeated the Wall Street bailout bill:

President Bush and the Democrat Congress gave Americans two bad choices: do nothing or pass this bailout. Americans have said 'no' to both and demanded that we take a third way and do the right thing to grow our economy and reform our government.

Our economy is going through difficult times, but the American people are resilient. Americans have told Congress they are willing to work through this problem instead of expanding the failed government that created it.

s now time to reform the misguided government policies that caused this mess. Its now time to enact real solutions that grow our economy and increase opportunity for all Americans. Its now time to stop the knee-jerk political reactions that have earned this Congress the worst approval ratings in history, and focus on real solutions to secure our nations future.


Senator DeMint has outlined a Plan for Economic Growth:


REFORM A TAX CODE THAT DISCOURAGES CAPITAL FORMATION
Suspend Capital Gains Tax for 2 Years, Index it for Inflation: Immediately suspend the capital gains rate from 15% for individuals and 35% for corporations on assets, including stocks, homes, and commercial real estate investments. This provision would unleash funds and materials to create jobs and grow the economy. After the two-year suspension, capital gains rates would return to present levels but assets would be indexed permanently for any inflationary gains.

Reduce the Corporate Income Tax Rate: Reduce the corporate income tax rate, which discourages job creation and investment in the U.S., from 35% to 25%. For over a decade, the U.S. corporate tax rate has been 50% higher than the average among our counterparts in the industrialized world and nine key trading partners cut their rates during 2007. According to the Tax Foundation, the corporate tax quietly taps family pocketbooks for nearly $370 billion per year, over $3,000 per household, in the form of higher prices, lower wages and poorer return on investment.


REFORM FAILED GOVERNMENT REGULATION
Suspend Mark to Market Accounting: Suspend the mark-to-market regulatory rules for long-term assets. These rules require financial firms to mark assets at current market levels, even where no market exists and any immediate transactions would result in fire-sale prices. Instead of allowing firms to mark these assets to their true economic value, these rules contribute to a downward spiral as firms have to evaluate their assets not on the basis of their long-term investment but rather on a short-term panic.

Reform Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley: Make voluntary the duplicative reporting requirements under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, allowing companies to comply with standards that better fit their size while still insuring that they protect their investors. The average compliance cost for a business under Section 404 is $3.8 million, with smaller businesses paying over twice as much in percentage of revenue as large businesses. Relieving this burden will reverse a policy that is chasing capital offshore and encourage more companies to go public in the United States.

Repeal federal mandates for risky loans: Repeal the Carter-era Community Reinvestment Act, which requires banks to make loans available to borrowers who would otherwise be deemed as too high a credit risk, and who often cannot afford to repay the loans. Under this law that contributed to our current crisis, if banks dont make enough risky loans, community organizers can take financial institutions hostage during regulatory proceedings when banks try to merge, acquire or otherwise alter their status.


EXPAND ENERGY EXPLORATION
Permanently Repeal Bans on Energy Exploration and Expedite Production: Expedite offshore and oil shale exploration, ensure states share in energy revenues, and prevent endless litigation from frivolous environmental lawsuits. American reserves offshore are estimated to hold over 20 billion barrels of oil and 97 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In the West, oil shale is estimated to be between 800 billion and 2 trillion barrels of oil -- that is more than three times the proven oil reserves in Saudi Arabia alone. Permanently ending these bans on American energy will help fuel our economy and stop sending billions of dollars overseas for foreign oil.


REFORM FAILED GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS
Schedule the GSEs for Privatization: Transition Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over a reasonable time period to truly private companies without special government privileges and expose them to real market competition. This reform would 1) establish commonsense limits for their capital requirements and portfolio holdings relative to their size, 2) focus their mission on affordable housing only, not profit making, 3) require them to pay an appropriate risk-based amount for the government guarantee they enjoy, 4) subject them to state and local taxes and accurate SEC filings like every other private for-profit corporation, and 5) ultimately provide for the phase out of their GSE charters once their conservatorship has ended.

Stabilize the Dollar: Repeal the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, which diverts the Federal Reserves attention from long-term price stability to short-term economic growth. In an effort to fuel the economy, this additional mandate has encouraged the Fed to keep rates artificially low, leading to economic booms and busts, a rise in inflation and the decline of the dollar. This reform would require the Fed to establish a numerical definition for price stability and maintain a policy that promotes it over the long-term.


I have emailed and called my senators and representative! Please do the same which ever way you feel.

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The Random Thoughts Presents: The Real MLB Truths and Predictions for 2008!
(All Star Break Update)
Boston and Colorado are not making the world series again.
White Sox and Cubs are playing in the 2008 World Series.
The Red Sox are now in first place at the break over surprising Tampa team. The Sox have stayed in the hunt for two months without having to use David Ortiz or Manny at the same time.
The Rockies play in the worst division in baseball with a dismal 39-57 record. but if you think about what streak they went on last summer, maybe there is still hope in the rocky mountains.
Brand new MLB fitted hats are now around 30 dollars.
My mistake, they are now 35 bucks!
The Devil Rays are now just called the Rays.
The switch in names has turned the whole team around into a contender. I think it has more to do with having the first pick in the amateur draft for ten straight years. But at the same time the rays finished off the first half with a seven game losing streak. This team reminds me of the 2003 Royals, came out of nowhere only to fall apart and finish third in a tough AL central.
NL hitters have fun with Johan Santana.
Johan record at the break is 8-7 with a ERA right under 3 with 114 strikeouts. Good numbers but for a guy who is making around 17 Million, the Mets expected more. It is now a 3 team race for the NL East crown and Santana was brought in so the Mets will run away with it. He has put up good numbers and the next two and half months will really show if the Mets were smart in trading for the former Cy Young.
It only costs 90 dollars to watch every game for every team, all season on the internet.
MLB made a new rule where you have to be out of market to watch certain games online. So if you live in New York, then you can’t watch the Yankees or Mets online. You can watch every other team you want for a monthly price. In Iowa there is a restriction because Iowa lives in the market of other states that have teams. So the following teams cannot be watched online in Iowa. The Cubs, White Sox, Twins, Brewers, Royals and Cardinals. That is every team possible for which someone in the Midwest would want to watch. And people wonder why people become Red Sox Fans.
No one knows what color of skin Derek Jeter is.
More People talk about the love life of Alex Rodriguez then anything that Derek Jeter has done at the plate this year.
Don’t respect any team that couldn’t win at least one playoff game from the previous playoffs.
The Cubs are tied with the Angels and Red Sox with the best record in baseball at the all star break. Like most years, cubs fans think this is the year the cubs go all the way. Translation, Cubs need to win a playoff game before they can start having parades on Michigan Ave. Same rule applies for the Phillies and Angels.
Washington is opening a new stadium this season.
The Nationals won on opening night on national television and that was the last time anyone has heard from them. They have the worst record in baseball and there are now allegations against the front office, but at least they got that new stadium.
King Felix will maybe be ready to scare people in 2017
Hernandez has a 6-6 record on the worst team in the AL. The manager, GM and Ritchie Sexon have already been fired, Jim Riggleman is now the manager. Where is Jay Buner when you need him? 2017 seems about right.
The Twins are going to trade away their fans this season to make enough cap room to sign a below average hitter next off season.
The twins are a game and half of first place in the upside down AL Central. I will say it again, the twins are the best regular season organization in baseball. Great GM and Great Manager. NO World series championships since 1991 though.
Houston will have a HGH giveaway night by mid July.
The Astros got two all stars in Berkman and Tejada. How does a team with a record of 44-51 get two all stars? No giveaway night joke here but still, explain to me this one?
The Blue Jays will finish 3rd for the 15th straight year.
I was wrong again, it is now fourth place, the Yankees are trying to make history here.
With the first pick in the 2009 Amateur draft the KC Royals take.
The M’s are so bad in Seattle, that they might get the first pick but watch out for the Nationals. If only baseball was like the NFL draft though.
Dusty Bakers dream lineup card for this season, leadoff Nefi Perez, Cory Patterson…………..
I was just making a joke back in mid march, but no really, Corey Patterson is on this team and playing. No Nefi Perez though. Damn.
Billy Beane will write a new book entitled: I am good enough to lose in the first round of the playoffs and then trade away all my talent.
Beane Traded Rich Harden earlier in the week to the Cubs. Season over, see you in 2009 A‘s fans!
Sorry to interrupt this 37th straight episode of Family Guy but here is Chip Carey with your play by play of Braves Baseball on TBS.
TBS doesn’t even show the Braves anymore on TBS, but they at least show every Sunday home game of the Boston Red Sox with Chip Carey.
The Angels will now be called: The LA Angles of Vlad cant hit a fastball in the playoffs of Anaheim.
K-Rod says he is going to file for free agency this off season after he breaks the saves record and gets swept in the first round by the White Sox. Thought I should fill you in.
Bortolo Colon would just like to say: hey remember me!
Yeah Hi Bortolo, didn’t you sign with Boston?
Prince Fielder will wish it was still 2007.
Fielder stats: .270 18 HR 52 RBI 670k 2008 salary! Wow, he only makes that much. The bat boy for the Cubs makes that much. For that price, Fielder is having a great season. No I understand how the Brewers can go after CC Sabathia.
And yes Juan Uribe, the camera does add 300 pounds.
Uribe was waived during spring training, not traded yet but still might be by the trading deadline. But now was kept on the team as a back up over Ozuna, as Alexi Ramirez has come out of nowhere to help the Sox stay in first place for most of the first half.
For the 4th straight year, steroids dominated baseball talk and then went away opening day.
Correct, see you next march.
Roger Clemons and Barry Bonds wish it was still 1996.
Turns out Clemons was worse than anyone ever imagine and Bonds asked every team that he was ready to play in ten days. All 30 teams said no. But now there is a rumor by foxsports.com, that the Yankees might be interested. You thought sports center was annoying before!
The D-backs will wear 90 different jerseys this season.
47-48 first place in the NL West, they better wear 900 jerseys in the second half to make the playoffs.
Haley Ramirez is the best player you have never heard of until he is traded to Boston or New York by the trade deadline.
Starting SS for the NL all stars and hits over .300 on the season for a over achieving Marlins team whose payroll is under A-rod Salary for the season. Was involved in the Josh Beckett trade to the Red Sox a couple of years ago. He was signed long term earlier this season. I hope you know who he is now.
Think fast, tell me what team Sammy Sosa plays for?
Josh Hamilton took his job. Good move Texas. .300 AVG 21 HR 95 RBI.
Mike Cameron is going to sit out the first 25 games because of steroids and then complain in game 27 of not having enough days off in the MLB season.
It seams no one cares about steroids while the season is going on. Hits .230 but plays on a contender so no one cares until winter hits.
The Pirates will have a contest in mid May, the first 9 fans to show up, make tonight’s line up card.
By august the Pirates should have a contest, first 5 fans to answer which Pirate made the all star game gets a free sub for life.
Ozzie Guillen will ask to be fired 49 times this season.
Blow up dolls, taunting opposing hitters during games, happy when players hate each other and thinks his team is garbage compared to the Cubs. Translation, most exciting team in the AL on and off the field.
The Cubs will win the division again without winning 90 games this season, which translates to 9th place in the AL.
The Cubs might now win 100 games this season and I could see them still not making the playoffs if they played in the AL.
Every team will automatically lose 60 games this season.
Washington is already there!
Every team will Automatically win 60 games this season.
Angels, Cubs and Red Sox the closest with 57.
The great teams have 42 games to do something this season.
I wish the White Sox and Twins could fight for 42 straight games for the division. But no! Someone thought inter league play was a great idea.
You have to be a true psycho to watch baseball.
MLB is fun to watch, but try to be the in studio guy for high school baseball. I would rather watch that Lohan show for 30 straight hours and take a quiz afterwards.
You should be put in a mental institution if you root for Baltimore.
Sometimes I think the O’s have been cursed since that little kid reach over the fence and grabbed that Jeter Home run in the playoffs over ten years ago. That was worse that Bartman!
Albert Pujols will hit 43 homers this season and everyone who roots for the Red Birds will tell you how they invented Baseball.
The Cardinals are contending again. Pujols body should have falling apart five weeks ago, but big Albert is still putting up non Josh Hamliton MVP numbers.
Nomar is going to try to play 3rd this season or the Dodgers. The only position he hasn’t tried is Dodger Dog vender in LA.
Remember ten years ago at the all star game, when fans thought the next three great SS were Jeter, A-rod and Nomar. Funny how things turn out.
The Indians will be 10 games out of 1st place in late August and will ask Lebron to show up and wear his Yankees hat, just so the Indians can make the paper again.
At the break Cleveland is 13 games out of first place and traded away their best pitcher who won the Cy Young last year. Perfect example of how Mark Moses knows what he is talking about when it comes to baseball.
Jake Peavey will win 21 games this season and people will still think he looks like Randy Spears.
Only a 7-5 record at the break on a last place club, but he still looks like adult film star Randy Spears.
Barry Zito will lose his 13th game by August and still make 30k a pitch for the Giants.
Zito already has 12 loses already on the season. Did you know this guy won the Cy Young six years ago?
The Marlins will win the world series again in 2009.
The Marlins will win the world series again in 2009.
A-Rod will be called the most feared hitter in baseball until the playoffs start.
I should add until Madonna get a hold of him. You now don’t need Red Sox pitching to shut him down, its now Kabala.
The Rockies will not make the playoffs again until the year 2039.
Call me crazy but the NL West is so bad I still think every team is still alive.
Gary Sheffield will call himself a racist against black people by April 30th.
Most baseball experts including myself picked the Tigers to win the AL Central. The best thing to happen to the rest of MLB is by letting the Tigers trade for Cabrera and D-train, then sign them both long term.
Manny will be Manny until Manny says his new name is Manny.
He hasn’t said much this season but just wait till the trading deadline comes and goes.
Jim Thome looks like Mr. Incredible.
No one drives Mark Moses more crazy than Jim Thome at the plate.
The Philly Fanatic will make it 3 straight years of Philly players winning the NL MVP, until it is later found out that he was taking HGH during the season.
Chase Utley might really win the NL MVP award to make it three in a row for the Phillies.
NL Predictions:
NL EAST-New York Mets Mets
NL CENTRAL-Cubs Cubs
NL WEST-Padres D-Backs
NL WILDCARD-D-Backs Brewers
AL Predictions:
AL EAST-Boston Boston
AL CENTRAL-Detroit. White Sox
AL WEST-Angles Angles
AL WILDCARD- White Sox Twins
Six out of eight picks are in contention to make the playoffs. Should be a exciting second half with the Cubs and White Sox meeting in the World Series.

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Fans dont forget to vote Chris Thomsen for Liberty Mutual Coach of the year. Click on the banner above to do so.

The Jog for Heart run benefiting the daughter of former Wildcat basketball player Corey Stone was a success. The family was in town for the weekend for the run and they made an appearance at ACU's football game.

The 5K run saw over 100 runners and through registration fees, donations at the football game and from the social club Ko Jo Kai, the event raised over $3,000.

"We were extremely pleased with the turnout and it was exciting to see the interest within the community in helping us with the cause," said ACU head basketball coach Jason Copeland, who administered the event.

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It's Week 3 in the high school football season and tonight the Wildcats play host to the Interlake Saints. It looks as if fans may be in for a fun night tonight, as both QBs (Mount Si's Tyson Riley and Interlake's Matt Malos) seem to have an affinity to throw the ball. Riley showed some of that as you will remember in the Eastlake game, but Malos from Interlake, well, he's a different story. The Seattle Times, in naming Malos an Athlete of the Week this week, reports Malos threw for over 400 yards and a school record for most passes for touchdown in a game (7) as Interlake beat Yelm last week. Now, Yelm and the Western Cascade Conference, I would say maybe they're not as good as Kingco, but if Malos if even halfway as good tonight as he was last week, watch out.

That said, Sean Snead will likely carry the bulk of the offensive load tonight for Mount Si as he did last week. Interlake's interior line will need to work hard to stop Snead if they want to win this game. Meaning of course Mount Si's line will need to make sure their teammate has plenty of room to work. Look for another 100 yard game from the senior RB.

With Malos' clear ability to pass, the Mount Si defensive secondary will have its work cut out for them. They will need to find a way to stop Malos' receivers, which include Scotty Gelhausen and Willie Beatie, from catching passes tonight. Junior running back Brett Kirschner also poses potential problems as well on the ground, meaning work for Mount Si's defensive linemen.

It clearly appears that while this game is winnable, and with the Wildcats' continued improvement, that's to be expected, this Interlake team is pretty dangerous. Mount Si is at home though and that always gives scarlet and gray the edge. Prepare for a long one, but a good one tonight.

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Ray Downes on August 26th, 2008
Athletics Director Barry Street will introduce WTCCs first three coaches and talk about the sports schedule, which starts this week!
Tomorrow, Barry will be live on WRALs morning news at 8:45 am. Then in the afternoon, there will be an informal send-off for the womens volleyball team, which hits the road for its first game. More details to come.

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Blogs are everywhere. They're on news sites, corporate sites, personal Web pages and just about every other genre of Web site. Some are simply online journals chronicling some adventure or another, while others are written around a central theme and ask readers to create their own free blogs in response, creating a community of sorts.

Three-year-old tBlog, is a content-based community site built around themed blogs. The company was born as the result of a happy accident. Site creator and programmer Taylor Bayouth was looking for a new venture and decided that he would create a new company built around the next hot technology he heard about. This was three years ago, when only about four or five blogging platforms existed and there wasn't really a need for more because hardly anyone had even heard the term Weblog, or blog.

This didn't stop Bayouth who, along with a colleague or two, wanted to do something different than what was out there. tBlog saw that blogging had much more potential beyond simply being someone's online journal or a way for company executives to share their thoughts with customers or employees.

The start-up saw the potential for blogging infused with community, says Bayouth. And what better audience for this type of site than the Gen X and Gen Y demographic? They're young, looking to meet people with similar interests, looking for potential dates and - at least the ones who spend time chatting online - love to talk about themselves.

Last month tBlog added a new feature designed to make it even easier for its bloggers to connect with like-minded folks. Dubbed tMatch, the new feature is meant to bring tBlog users together based on similar goals, hobbies and thought patterns rather than on purely visual aspects or random encounters.

tMatch uses a sophisticated algorithm that essentially takes the blogs and boils them down to unique concepts, searches out other blogs with similar and presents the user with a network of potential friends or matches, said Bayouth. We have so much data on everyone on the site, we decided to build a tool sophisticated enough to extract text that defines who they are, he said.

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The Knights Crossing Invitational cross country event took place this morning at Green Hill Park in western Roanoke County. Click here to see a gallery of photos by Roanoke Times photographer Stephanie Klein-Davis. Megan Marsico of Glenvar High School won the varsity girls' race.
Check back later this weekend for more photos from community journalist Miranda Adkins.
And to read community journalist Emily Flora's preview of Knights Crossing with organizers Tommy Maguire and Laurence Loesel, click here.
Glenvar's Megan Marisco runs in the Knights Crossing Invitational Cross Country meet on Saturday, winning the girls' race.

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That morning, truck driver Brent Desormo (pictured, right) was in the home stretch of his twice-weekly run, hauling auto parts from Indianapolis back to Guelph. It was his daughter's 11th birthday, extra incentive for Desormo, then 38, to get to Guelph, drop off his rig and head home to Keswick in his pickup. In his 20 years driving a transport, he'd seen his share of road carnage but had never been in a serious crash.

Shortly after 10 a.m., after nearly 800 kilometres of his 830 kilometre journey, Desormo was approaching Ayr at about 90 km/h. He pulled into the left lane to pass a car, glancing at his right-side mirror to measure his progress.

"I looked back, I looked to the right, looked in the mirror," he recalls. "And when I looked forward, out of the corner of my eye in the vent window, I saw a car coming at me."

The green station wagon was barrelling across the barren median directly into his path. With a 15,000-pound trailer loaded with car parts behind him, he couldn't slow down in time. He couldn't stop.

"I knew if it hit head on, I would just go over her."

Desormo did the only thing he could do. He sped up.

Mary Wybrow's son didn't see the truck tire across the road, but immediately knew something was wrong. "I remember Mom's face when we swerved," the now 14-year-old Kemal says, turning to his mother. "It was kind of one of your angry faces -- a gritted teeth kind of face."

When Wybrow swerved left, she hit the gravel shoulder and lost control. The next thing Kemal remembers -- one of his only memories of the crash -- is soaring.

When she finally came to a stop, Wybrow didn't know she'd crossed the highway. She didn't know she'd smashed into the belly of a truck.

"I looked at my sister and I said, 'I'm really sorry but I guess we're all right.' " But Bev took one look at the bleeding Wybrow and "she realized that I was really hurt."

Someone called 911.

The car had smacked the driver's-side fuel tank on the tractor-trailer, directly below Desormo. The truck jackknifed, and the cab swung into the median ditch. Diesel fuel pooled on the ground.

Most of Wybrow's car came to rest farther west in the median. The airbags had sheared off with the car's hood and engine.

Wybrow's left leg was pinned under the dash, but Kemal and Bev were able to unfasten their seatbelts and get out. Other drivers came to help.

The sirens got closer.

Desormo sat stunned in his cab. He put on the parking brakes, mainly out of habit, since his jackknifed truck was now wedged in the median ditch.

"It slammed me around in the truck pretty good," he said. "The impact of hitting the trailer knocked the cab probably about two feet off of its frame. My driver's seat was sitting on an angle. I took my seatbelt off and fell to the floor."

Desormo felt pain in his knee but he knew the driver of the car had to be worse.

"I started walking back to the car and someone else said, 'You don't want to see that.' "

The second the 911 call was made the material costs of the crash started to grow. Two fire trucks and nine firefighters from the North Dumfries Fire Department raced to the scene. Seven Ontario Provincial Police officers also started rolling.

Until help arrived to cut Wybrow free, an off-duty paramedic held her head steady from the back seat. "I was in and out of consciousness, but I was having this conversation with the paramedic in the back. For some reason, I thought I knew her."

An air ambulance was dispatched. Desormo, with a bruised leg and hand, declined medical help.

All lanes of the highway were closed for more than 15 minutes while a helicopter landed and paramedics worked. Glass and metal littered the road and the thump, thump, thump of the helicopter blades filled the air. It was more than three hours before police and fire left the scene.

Wybrow doesn't remember much of the trip to Hamilton's regional trauma centre. She does remember chuckling while -- still pinned in the car -- a paramedic tapped on her window and asked if she'd like to take a helicopter ride. What an absurd time to be offering, Wybrow thought, not realizing the severity of her injuries.

When she was assessed in hospital, Wybrow learned she had a broken femur and dislocated hip. Her eye was bleeding and she briefly lost sight on one side. She also broke her nose and several bones in her face when she smashed against the windshield.

Wybrow would need surgery, but it couldn't be scheduled until the following week. As she waited in emergency for a hospital bed, victims from another crash were brought through the door. An SUV carrying 11 people had flipped on the Queen Elizabeth Way.

"The nurse came over and said to me, 'You're going to hear a lot of screaming and things, so we're going to try and get you upstairs as fast as we can.' I thought that was really nice."

Brent Desormo wasn't whisked away in an ambulance. He stood by the side of the road watching two tow trucks hoist his rig out of the ditch.

The midday heat baked the pavement. His exposed skin was sunburned. After the helicopter took off, police opened the westbound lanes and one eastbound lane. Traffic trickled through.

"The worst part was people driving by taking pictures -- all the rubberneckers," Desormo said. "I guess some people must not have TVs at home."

He was taken for mandatory drug and alcohol testing in Kitchener, which he passed, then to his company's office in Guelph. Best to fill out insurance papers while the details were fresh, he reasoned. It was 10 p.m. before Desormo reached Keswick.

"I broke down when I got home," he said. "After all the excitement was finished I realized, 'Wow, 20 years of driving and someone almost died.' "

His supervisors told him to take the next run off.

Kemal and Bev were taken to Grand River Hospital in Kitchener. The worst they suffered were trademarks of serious impact -- the long, lingering bruises where their seatbelts had gripped them tight. "It took a couple of months before they went away," said Kemal, whose red and purple marks fascinated his friends.

Despite breaking one of the sturdiest bones in her body, Wybrow's biggest fear in the immediate aftermath was she would have a heart attack.

"Because of my age and the fact that I am a bigger person, I was very conscious of that." She didn't want to be kept too long from the responsibilities of home.

She was put under while doctors shifted her hip back into place. She was awake when a metal skewer was hammered into her leg.

During the 90-minute surgery, three screws were inserted into Wybrow's femur to repair the break.

"After the surgery, I said 'You guys have two weeks to get me out of here. I want to be home in two weeks.' They liked that. Sure enough, I went home two weeks and one day later."

Desormo didn't work for two days.

"It was probably about a good year before I didn't think about it all the time," he said. "For a long time, it was nightmares. You'd wake up sweating and wondering, 'Where am I?' "

He replayed the crash in his mind. He is a professional, he said, and it didn't keep him off the road.

"For the first month, I spent most of my time watching the opposite traffic, which is not good. You've got to watch everything around you, too, right? I still look at everything a lot more closely. I'm more aware of oncoming traffic. Some days, too much aware."

Twice a week for more than a year, until it was paved over, Desormo drove over the skid marks his truck left on the 401 at the point of impact.

It was simple architecture that allowed Mary Wybrow to recover at home rather than in a rehabilitation centre. Her two-storey house had a bathroom on the main floor, so a hospital bed was moved into her dining room.

"I was very lucky I was able to do that because I couldn't get upstairs until Christmas."

Bev took a month off from her job in Toronto to take care of Kemal, arrange for her sister's care and deal with the insurance. A team of home-care workers and nurses changed dressings and tended to the things Wybrow couldn't.

Wybrow moved to Waterloo in 2000 after retiring from a teaching career in downtown Toronto that spanned 31 years.

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When: Thursday, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Tigerland Stadium, College Station
Radio/TV: 1370 AM.
Records: Westlake 0-2; AM Consolidated 0-2
Last season: Westlake won 27-6.
Foe to know: Taylor Kieschnick – A one-man wrecking crew, the linebacker has a team-high 25 tcakles and an interception through the first two games. 
Stat that matters: 28 – Unanswered points by varsity newcomer Cypress Woods in a 28-17 loss last week. Consol led 17-0 at halftime. 
Rundown: Much like Westlake, Consol has stumbled to an uncharacteristic 0-2 start. The Tigers suffered five turnovers in a 26-3 loss to Round Rock McNeil in the season opener but trimmed that number to one against Cy Woods. Consol will try and pound the middle of Westlake’s defense with bruising RB Jarvon Searcy, who has 79 yards and a TD this season. If the banged-up Searcy can’t play, expect a heavy dose of Adam Anderson The Tigers gave up 345 yards rushing to McNeil and 440 total yards to Cy Wood. This is the ninth consecutive meeting between Westlake and Consol.
Picayune’s pick: Westlake 24, AM Consolidated 17.

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Last Friday, I was doing a little research and found something very odd. In my job I try my best to research every team to find out about newcomers, transfers and potential super stars in the NAIA. Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised like I was with Saint Xavier and their new sophomore quarterback Anthony Kropp. In his debut as a starter for the Cougars, Kropp was 27-46 with three touchdowns and 293 yards.

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Art students from James River and Lord Botetourt are participating in the upcoming Historic Fincastle, Inc. Gather to Gavel art auction event. James River seniors David Bordett and Martin Burch are both from Fincastle. Burch is an accomplished photographer and Bordett a multi-media artist. Dorothy Barnett who is the art teacher at the school is pleased both agreed to donate work to Gather to Gavel.
Burch and Bordett are 2nd and 3rd generation artists. Burch’s grandmother Phyllis Burch is an accomplished artist well-known in Fincastle and Bordett’s father is a professional artist with an art studio on Main Street in the town. Both plan to go on to art school after graduation.
At Lord Botetourt, Sarah Cox, a senior, from Cloverdale and Nick Weirup, a junior, from the Blue Ridge area are donating water colors. Weirup currently has a watercolor chosen to hang in the nation’s capitol by the office of 6th District Congressman Bob Goodlatte. Cox, a senior, is an Art 3 student and portfolio prep student who plans to major in business management at National Business College.
Patti Kapral and Ingrid Moldenhauer, art teachers at Lord Botetourt, will also have their students on hand to help with the Friday afternoon prep of the show on September 19 at Greenfield. "I think that will be a good way to introduce the students to preparing to hang an exhibit," said Kapral.

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By James P. Gannon
Moving to improve the countys emergency communications system for fire, rescue and law enforcement, the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday awarded a $513,197 contract to Motorola for a new radio communications system.
In a second major decision, the supervisors also authorized County Administrator John McCarthy to execute a construction contract of up to $550,347 with a Harrisonburg, Va. firm to renovate the old Scrabble School to become the Rappahannock Senior Center and an African-American heritage site.
The contract award to Motorola was the culmination of more than two years of study and discussions on how to improve the countys emergency communications, which have relied on obsolete technology and one radio tower that leaves parts of the county uncovered.
The new, high-frequency 800 megahertz system will link in to an existing system in use in neighboring Culpeper and Fauquier counties, improving the ability of the Rappahannock County Sheriffs Office and its fire and rescue units to communicate among themselves and with emergency responders from those two counties as well.
It is going to be a far superior system, said Art Candenquist, secretary of the Rappahannock County Fire Rescue Association, who came to the supervisors meeting to monitor the boards decision. The existing low-frequency system is based on 1940s and 1950s technology, with signals beaming from a single tower in the town of Washington, he said.

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"I declare the Games of the XXIX Olympiad closed . . . " My heart dropped.

I've loved this Olympics, maybe more than any of the others I've watched diligently over the years. In 1972, we were in Belgium during the Olympics. That was the year of ongoing controversy for the Olympics. It included the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes, the gold medals in basketball going to Russia in the most controversial game of any Olympics before or since (the American team to this day has refused to accept the silver medals the IOC attempted to award them), two American runners being disciplined for their lack of respect on the gold and silver platforms during the playing of their (our) National Anthem, and several other ongoing problems. It was also the year the world was introduced to Olga Korbut and Mark Spitz won his 7 Golds in swimming, which remained an Olympic record until this year's run by Michael Phelps.

The young people on our military base (S.H.A.P.E. Headquarters) in Mons, Belgium, gathered around a small t.v. set in the Teen Club. There was not even a square inch of space on the floor and we spilled out the door and into the large hallway. Some of us couldn't even see the television set, but we could hear the Commentator. We all watched (or listened) in rapt silence as Spitz and Korbut made history. One of the American gymnasts was a friend of one of the girls who went to school with us, so we faithfully watched every bit of gymnastics coverage and celebrated each victory together. The events bonded us all to each other even more and gave us yet another thing in common - we were AMERICANS, after all.

I was 11 years old and those Games are ingrained on my memory. Since then, I've been a faithful follower of the Olympics. By the time the next Olympics rolled around, my oldest sister was married to a California boy whose brother was an alternate on the Olympic wrestling team. In 1980, the amazing American win in Ice Hockey captivated the whole world. The Goalie, Jim Craig, lost his father to cancer during the Olympics (I think that was the story - it's hard now to remember) and his team's rise to Gold was dedicated to their friend as he postponed his grieving to accomplish the impossible. I watched every second.

Yes, I'm a believer in the Olympics. In the closing coverage last night, Chris somebody (an NBC Football commentator) said that for two weeks every two years, there is no division between countries. We all come together in one place, put our differences aside, and choose sportsmanship over petty gripes. And it's true. The Olympics are energy. They're electric. You can feel the tenseness, the joy, the complete surrender as you watch. You're swept away in the flood of emotion and all the problems of the world melt away as American pride replaces all else.

Deanna asked me at the beginning of this Olympics why I love them so much.

"Because the Olympics are magic," I told her. When one eyebrow went up, I tried to explain further.

"Things happen during the Olympics that could never happen anywhere else. And if you're not watching, you'll miss it!" I don't think she understood until Nastia Liukin took the all-around Gold in Gymnastics. Over the 18 days of coverage, I watched as the Olympics grabbed Deanna's spirit. She's 11 now - the same age I was when I realized the potential of the Olympics.

This morning, we're watching a DVD Don made of some of the events we missed. Right now, a Men's Volleyball match (U.S. vs. Brazil, who we eventually beat for the Gold) is playing and she's watching. After Michael Phelps finished his 8th race in first place, I ran into her bedroom to give her the news. She had been in bed for 2 hours, but was wide awake. She couldn't sleep, waiting to see if he would accomplish his goal. I let her come back into the Den for the after-race pandemonium - both on TV and in our house.

We'll be watching these DVD's for a long time to come and remembering the excitement that is the Olympics. About the time they get old, it'll be February, 2010 and we'll be able to see the next Winter Games.

Despite the excitement and the performance of our U.S. Teams, my heart was heavy as the President of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, declared the Olympics closed last night. Time to get back to real life.

I just hope the lessons of selflessness, unfaltering bravery, tirelessly working towards a goal will remain with my family for a long time to come. And the memory of past Olympics will live on.

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I just got back from Baguio, and I feela cold coming on. Haven't had good sleep in days so I guess thats why. I heard the song "Echo" by Incubus and it reminded me of D d _en__. Haha. It's funny because in his friendster profile he put this song as one of his faves, and I was the one who gave him that song! Or at the least, introduced it to him..
So yeah, I remember our relationship. I was only fourteen!!! And he was sixteen! Oh my goodness, I was so young.. I remember when our relationship just began, when he would buy me things and give me a present every 11th of the month because it was our monthsary. I remember when we were still sweet and went on small dates in small cafes all over Baguio. I remember our long hour talks, and our "miss call the house phone" as a signal for one another to call. It was rather short, but it was vivid. I was so attached to this new guy in my life.
After an abrupt 3 months, he started moving away from me and ignoring me. Little by little, cutting me away from his life. First, he tried to get me to text other guys by asking them to text me and if I replied he would use it as an excuse to break up with me. And then I didn't give in so he started to do more things like NEVER text and call me. I would miss call his house telephone, but he would never return my call. Since I was so innocent, and forgiving them I never took it up with him, ever! And I never took it against him. I kept making excuses for him just so that I would feel better. My God, I remember the late hot showers I used to have just so that the pain I felt deep inside, and the tears I cried could be masked by the hot shower. My tears never becoming obvious to the people around me. It didn't help that the music at that time were old love songs, and heartbreaking songs.
I think that went on for a month or two. I was so pathetic. I hardly slept, and ate. I lost over 20 pounds. I remember people asking why I was so thin. I remember the teachers telling my mom I never ate. I remember eating, but not tasting anything that touched my mouth.
My friends started telling me they started seeing him around town with another girl. I remember crying so hard to my friends, because I just couldn't believe it. I went over to his house after school, and confronted him... And ofcourse. He lied to me. And I being the stupid little girl that I was believed him. Still the pain was there. The midnight hot showers, and sleepless night. The lack of food. Everything! One day, finally. After all the stupid pain that I kept feeling. Without understanding why, his brother finally told me "Hey, open your eyes. He's cheating on you."
I broke down.. The next day I woke up early and brought him breakfast. It was summer already, so I was allowed to leavemy house. I was in his house from around 8am till noon.. And that whole time, he totally ignored me. As in. Totally. I just wanted closure. I just wanted him to tell me why. Why did he have to play with my heart as if I never meant anything to him? Why couldn't he just tell me he saw his ex-girlfriend, and fell back in love with her? Why did he have to break my precious heart?
I left, without looking back. I remember how his dad told him to talk to me and be a man. I remember him slamming the door in his face. I remember everything. I remember all my tears on the way to Chantal's house. I remember everything.
I was such a sweet girlfriend then, I was too understanding, and too stupid.
I am so lucky to find someone better than this guy who until today has never had the courage to apologize to me. Everytime I see him in my hometown, I look away, because he is not worth my gaze. Even though this were probably the hardest months of my life, I grew up and matured after this experience. I found truth in the heart ache I had succumbed to.
Never again will a guy ever get to cheat on me this way, never.
Thank God for Charlie who is man enough.

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By James P. Gannon
Moving to improve the countys emergency communications system for fire, rescue and law enforcement, the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday awarded a $513,197 contract to Motorola for a new radio communications system.
In a second major decision, the supervisors also authorized County Administrator John McCarthy to execute a construction contract of up to $550,347 with a Harrisonburg, Va. firm to renovate the old Scrabble School to become the Rappahannock Senior Center and an African-American heritage site.
The contract award to Motorola was the culmination of more than two years of study and discussions on how to improve the countys emergency communications, which have relied on obsolete technology and one radio tower that leaves parts of the county uncovered.
The new, high-frequency 800 megahertz system will link in to an existing system in use in neighboring Culpeper and Fauquier counties, improving the ability of the Rappahannock County Sheriffs Office and its fire and rescue units to communicate among themselves and with emergency responders from those two counties as well.
It is going to be a far superior system, said Art Candenquist, secretary of the Rappahannock County Fire Rescue Association, who came to the supervisors meeting to monitor the boards decision. The existing low-frequency system is based on 1940s and 1950s technology, with signals beaming from a single tower in the town of Washington, he said.

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Blogs are everywhere. They're on news sites, corporate sites, personal Web pages and just about every other genre of Web site. Some are simply online journals chronicling some adventure or another, while others are written around a central theme and ask readers to create their own free blogs in response, creating a community of sorts.

Three-year-old tBlog, is a content-based community site built around themed blogs. The company was born as the result of a happy accident. Site creator and programmer Taylor Bayouth was looking for a new venture and decided that he would create a new company built around the next hot technology he heard about. This was three years ago, when only about four or five blogging platforms existed and there wasn't really a need for more because hardly anyone had even heard the term Weblog, or blog.

This didn't stop Bayouth who, along with a colleague or two, wanted to do something different than what was out there. tBlog saw that blogging had much more potential beyond simply being someone's online journal or a way for company executives to share their thoughts with customers or employees.

The start-up saw the potential for blogging infused with community, says Bayouth. And what better audience for this type of site than the Gen X and Gen Y demographic? They're young, looking to meet people with similar interests, looking for potential dates and - at least the ones who spend time chatting online - love to talk about themselves.

Last month tBlog added a new feature designed to make it even easier for its bloggers to connect with like-minded folks. Dubbed tMatch, the new feature is meant to bring tBlog users together based on similar goals, hobbies and thought patterns rather than on purely visual aspects or random encounters.

tMatch uses a sophisticated algorithm that essentially takes the blogs and boils them down to unique concepts, searches out other blogs with similar and presents the user with a network of potential friends or matches, said Bayouth. We have so much data on everyone on the site, we decided to build a tool sophisticated enough to extract text that defines who they are, he said.

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Head coach Renee Altendorf and senior Erika Heberer both agreed theperformance was first game jitters. The team competed very well in the second game win and the third game loss, but couldn't do it the entire match. Altendorf said the team must improve passing and serving. There were a lot of service errors made by both teams. During the third game the scorekeeper and officials were not on the same page. There was a five to 10 minute delay to figure out Slinger's serving rotation. Altendorf said the girls were in the right place, it was the new scorekeeper who lost track. Slinger was penalized two points in the match for serving out of turn.

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As a person that is not afraid to give their opinion, I have come across some items that have helped me in my personal life. As a person who had problems balancing the check book, keeping up with deposits, and debit card charges, I was tired of paying those darn late charges. However, as of over a year ago, I changed all that.

The first thing I did was switched my checking and savings accounts all to Bank of America. I was upset with the way some of the larger banks had done business and decided to give them a try. Mainly because of their association with Nascar. BOA allows you to do all of your banking online. You can setup all your bills through their secure site, type in the amount to pay to each, and give the day to be delivered every month or have it automatically done. No more checks, just pay online and use your debit card for the rest. Put aside some money in your savings account so that you have that extra security. You can transfer funds to each account and they are accessible instantly. No more waiting for 24-72 hours like the big banks. Deposits go in immediately as well. It has alot of features to help you categorize your expenses to tell you where your money is going. I also created a simple excel spreadsheet to balance my deposits and expenditures. BOA also has keep the change program which makes everything so much easier. For example, if you spend 22.01, BOA rounds the charges to 23.00 and the .99 gets sent to your high interest savings account. No more change collecting in a drawer,dish, or ashtray. If you don't believe me, just give it a try. It has really helped.

The second thing I have done is read Dave Ramsey's "Total Money Makeover." In his book, Dave tells you what to do with your money and what to watch out for. Yes, alot of it is very simple, but you have to do it. Many people have gone through this system and had great success. I am not telling you to go to seminars, get the CD's, etc, but merely telling you to read this book. I am not a fan of reading, but it does make the light bulb go on. It was addictive. Since my wife and I have read it, we have knocked down alot of debt and will be debt free in 12-18months (minus the house of course). Take the time to read it, it is well worth it.

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