At the beginning of his career, Adam Scott was touted as a strong challenger to Tiger Woods. His swing -- matured by Butch Harmon -- burberry handbags outlet was a close kin of Tiger's powerful, athletic move. The Australian came after Sergio Garcia and before Rory McIlroy. He was a surfer attached to beautiful women.
At 23, Scott won the 2004 Players Championship and two years later the Tour Championship. He was on the move, but his game wasn't showing up at the majors. Coming into 2011, he had only four top-10s in 39 majors, but then in one year garnered top-10s at the Masters and the PGA Championship. He had five other top 10s last year, including a win at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in August.
AP Photo/Scott A. MillerAdam Scott's 6-under 66 on Thursday at the WGC-Cadillac Championship was just his sixth round of the season.
At Augusta, where he finished in a tie for second, Scott held the lead late on Sunday, but his 5-under 67 wasn't enough to hold burberry beige handbag off Charl Schwartzel, who had four closing birdies to win by two shots. Scott had Tony Navarro on his bag for Augusta, but then he hired Steve Williams in July after Tiger fired the caddie after 13 years.
From swing instructor to caddie, Scott has seemingly followed in Tiger's footsteps. Now he's taken up Tiger's habit of not playing very much golf, building his schedule around the majors and a few select other events, including the World Golf Championships. For years Scott kept a torrid schedule -- during one stretch early in his career he played 14 weeks in a row -- but now at 31, he wants to pace himself for the long haul.
On Thursday, his 6-under par 66 in the first round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship was only his sixth round of year.
"I'm trying to keep myself fresh and have myself ready, also at the same time for the biggest events of the year," said Scott, who is in a tie for the lead with Jason Dufner. "And that certainly starts here, I believe, until the end of September.
"When you're 21 it's pretty easy to fly around the world nonstop and just go play and do everything you want to do, but it's different when you're 31. You've got to do the right things for your game and not just go running off playing every week chasing World Ranking points or whatever you're playing for."
In December, Scott, the 11th-ranked player in the world, spent a month on the couch back in his native Queensland recovering from a tonsillectomy. He didn't have his first start in the U.S. until mid-February at the Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles.
"I just really enjoyed being home for three months. I think it's the first time in my whole career that I've been home that long," Scott said.
With world ranking points and millions of dollars burberry bags on the line seemingly every week in tournaments around the world, the long view can be a difficult proposition. Players who keep reduced schedules have the added pressure of performing well over a fewer number of events compared to most other players. They also tend to be players who love to practice.
Scott sounded like Tiger on Thursday when he talked about the joy he finds in working on his game.
"I enjoyed the practice as much as any result I had last year, so I do enjoy going home and spending hours on the range and the chipping green and the putting green." Scott said. "I feel that's the balance that I need to perform the best."
In 2011, Luke Donald, who shot a 2-under 70 on Thursday in his first week in 40 weeks not at the top of the world ranking, played in 27 worldwide events in a career-defining season. He won the money titles on both the European Tour and the PGA Tour. But how much did his busy international schedule hurt his ability to perform at the majors?
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After a tie for burberry sunglasses fourth at the 2011 Masters, Donald tied for 45th at the U.S. Open and missed the cut at the British Open. Yet he won the Barclays Scottish Open in the tournament leading up to the British and had top-10s in all but five events between the Masters and his season-ending JBWere Masters in Australia in December.
Donald's game was peaking at the right time, but for whatever reason he didn't play as consistently in the four majors as he had in his 23 other events.
Scott said he might play next week in the Transitions in Tampa, Fla., but he'll rest at least two weeks before heading to the Masters in early April.
"I'm just kind of leaving it to the last minute about next week. I feel like I'm playing well; it might be a good thing to go and play and keep building the confidence," Scott said.
Thus, the paradox: how do you keep building the confidence if you don't play? By Sunday night, Scott will have matched his total rounds of the burberry kids skirts cheap year coming into Doral. Can he withstand the pressure that many of his other competitors have already seen this year?
After 13 years as a professional, he believes he knows the answers to some of these questions.
"I think overall, for a lot of different reasons, I learned to trust my own instincts again," Scott said. "Do you really want to play; you've got to find the real answer inside, and not for other people and not for reasons other than what you really want. I think that's how you get the best out of your game."
So no matter how blustery the Blue burberry bags outlet Monster becomes during the weekend or what hell the water-filled 18th hole casts on the these top 74 players in the world, Scott will be rested and in the right place at the right time for his career.
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2012年3月7日星期三
Fast forward to 2012 and the thrills are live
At home in Texas, Hunter Mahan burberry handbags outlet turned on the telecast of last Sunday’s final round of the Honda Classic. Never mind that the whole idea behind taking a week off is to untether oneself from the tour.
“I watched a little bit, because I saw Tiger was playing good,” Mahan said.
What if Tiger Woods, who closed with a 62 to tie for second, had been playing poorly? Would Mahan have kept watching?
“No,” he replied with a laugh. “I would have turned it off.”
At No. 10, Mahan is six places ahead of Woods in the world rankings. He has won three times on the PGA Tour since Woods’s last official victory — the 2009 BMW Championship — but has no illusions about his standing.
Woods, who counts 14 major titles among his 71 tour wins, “moves the needle like no one in the game,” Mahan said. “I mean, just when he’s there and when he’s not there, there’s a difference, there just is.”
The buzz created by Woods’s fantastic finish at the Honda Classic translated into the tournament’s highest overnight television ratings burberry beige handbag in a decade and has carried over into this week’s W.G.C.-Cadillac Championship at Doral’s Blue Monster.
The field is comparable to the Masters, with the top 50 golfers among those vying for the $1.4 million winner’s prize. For fans, it is as if the tour’s trade winds have created heavenly conditions: three generations in a competitive swirl.
There are the 40-somethings led by Phil Mickelson and Steve Stricker; the 30-somethings headed by Woods; and the 20-somethings steered by Rory McIlroy, who ascended to No. 1 with his victory in the Honda Classic. In the middle of it all is Woods, who turned pro in 1996 and brought to the tour an attitude and an approach that forever altered the game.
The proof is in Keegan Bradley’s victory in the P.G.A. Championship in his first major appearance; the 21-year-old John Huh’s win at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in his fifth tour start; and most of all, in McIlroy’s ascension to the top spot two months before his 23rd birthday.
When McIlroy took burberry bags leads into the final rounds of last year’s Masters and the United States Open, nobody wondered if he was too young to win. Shortly after Woods, then 20, turned pro, he was interviewed by the two-time major champion, Curtis Strange, who asked what were his immediate goals.
To win, Woods replied. Strange, taken aback, noted that victories were hard to come by on the tour and that second was not a bad finish. “There’s really no point in going if you’re not trying to win,” Woods reiterated, to which Strange smiled and said, “He’ll learn.”
A generation of golfers acquired a fearlessness, a disregard for an age-old pecking order, from watching Woods’s 12-stroke victory at the 1997 Masters. Mahan, who was 14 at the time, said, “I think he just opened the door for our imaginations to run wild.”
He added: “I think his attitude and the way he went about his business opened doors for us to realize that, you know what, we can do anything in burberry sunglasses this game if we want to. We are not held to anyone’s standard.”
McIlroy, who won his first PGA Tour event a few days before his 21st birthday and his first major, the United States Open, a month after turning 22, said, “I’ve never let anyone tell me that I was too young to do this or too young to do that.”
If Woods’s career trajectory crashed through one age barrier, Vijay Singh’s blasted through another. Jack Nicklaus’s win in the 1986 Masters at 46 inspired more awe than ah-ha’s, as other golfers assumed it took the Golden Bear to stave off golf’s golden years. Then along came Singh, who has won 22 of his 34 tour titles since turning 40. In doing so, he has inspired a generation that includes the 45-year-old Stricker.
“When Nicklaus won the Masters at 46, you’re like, ‘How can he do that?’ ” Stricker said. “But I can actually see that happening to players now. I can see them winning late into their 40s.”
Stricker, who has won 9 of his 12 tour titles since his 40th birthday, added: “As players, we’re always looking burberry kids skirts cheap at other players, secretly trying to compare ourselves, compare our games. I was looking at Vijay and saying, ‘Golly, if he can do that into his late 40s, why can’t I?’ ”
Somewhere, surely, a 7-year-old watched McIlroy’s poise under pressure in the final round of the Honda Classic and acquired the confidence to dream big — just as McIlroy did as a child in Northern Ireland watching the telecast of Woods’s 1997 runaway Masters win.
“I remember it quite well, actually,” McIlroy said, adding: “I remember he went out in 40 on Thursday, went back in 30, shot a couple of burberry bags outlet rounds of 65 and 66 on Friday and Saturday. I remember I had the tape of it, and watched that all the time.”
Fast forward to 2012 and the thrills are live. “Golf is in a great place with Rory being No. 1 right now and so many guys up there very, very close,” Mahan said, adding, “it’s pretty fun to be part of.”
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“I watched a little bit, because I saw Tiger was playing good,” Mahan said.
What if Tiger Woods, who closed with a 62 to tie for second, had been playing poorly? Would Mahan have kept watching?
“No,” he replied with a laugh. “I would have turned it off.”
At No. 10, Mahan is six places ahead of Woods in the world rankings. He has won three times on the PGA Tour since Woods’s last official victory — the 2009 BMW Championship — but has no illusions about his standing.
Woods, who counts 14 major titles among his 71 tour wins, “moves the needle like no one in the game,” Mahan said. “I mean, just when he’s there and when he’s not there, there’s a difference, there just is.”
The buzz created by Woods’s fantastic finish at the Honda Classic translated into the tournament’s highest overnight television ratings burberry beige handbag in a decade and has carried over into this week’s W.G.C.-Cadillac Championship at Doral’s Blue Monster.
The field is comparable to the Masters, with the top 50 golfers among those vying for the $1.4 million winner’s prize. For fans, it is as if the tour’s trade winds have created heavenly conditions: three generations in a competitive swirl.
There are the 40-somethings led by Phil Mickelson and Steve Stricker; the 30-somethings headed by Woods; and the 20-somethings steered by Rory McIlroy, who ascended to No. 1 with his victory in the Honda Classic. In the middle of it all is Woods, who turned pro in 1996 and brought to the tour an attitude and an approach that forever altered the game.
The proof is in Keegan Bradley’s victory in the P.G.A. Championship in his first major appearance; the 21-year-old John Huh’s win at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in his fifth tour start; and most of all, in McIlroy’s ascension to the top spot two months before his 23rd birthday.
When McIlroy took burberry bags leads into the final rounds of last year’s Masters and the United States Open, nobody wondered if he was too young to win. Shortly after Woods, then 20, turned pro, he was interviewed by the two-time major champion, Curtis Strange, who asked what were his immediate goals.
To win, Woods replied. Strange, taken aback, noted that victories were hard to come by on the tour and that second was not a bad finish. “There’s really no point in going if you’re not trying to win,” Woods reiterated, to which Strange smiled and said, “He’ll learn.”
A generation of golfers acquired a fearlessness, a disregard for an age-old pecking order, from watching Woods’s 12-stroke victory at the 1997 Masters. Mahan, who was 14 at the time, said, “I think he just opened the door for our imaginations to run wild.”
He added: “I think his attitude and the way he went about his business opened doors for us to realize that, you know what, we can do anything in burberry sunglasses this game if we want to. We are not held to anyone’s standard.”
McIlroy, who won his first PGA Tour event a few days before his 21st birthday and his first major, the United States Open, a month after turning 22, said, “I’ve never let anyone tell me that I was too young to do this or too young to do that.”
If Woods’s career trajectory crashed through one age barrier, Vijay Singh’s blasted through another. Jack Nicklaus’s win in the 1986 Masters at 46 inspired more awe than ah-ha’s, as other golfers assumed it took the Golden Bear to stave off golf’s golden years. Then along came Singh, who has won 22 of his 34 tour titles since turning 40. In doing so, he has inspired a generation that includes the 45-year-old Stricker.
“When Nicklaus won the Masters at 46, you’re like, ‘How can he do that?’ ” Stricker said. “But I can actually see that happening to players now. I can see them winning late into their 40s.”
Stricker, who has won 9 of his 12 tour titles since his 40th birthday, added: “As players, we’re always looking burberry kids skirts cheap at other players, secretly trying to compare ourselves, compare our games. I was looking at Vijay and saying, ‘Golly, if he can do that into his late 40s, why can’t I?’ ”
Somewhere, surely, a 7-year-old watched McIlroy’s poise under pressure in the final round of the Honda Classic and acquired the confidence to dream big — just as McIlroy did as a child in Northern Ireland watching the telecast of Woods’s 1997 runaway Masters win.
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2012年3月6日星期二
The funerals for the three dead students began Saturday
A fired employee of Episcopal High School burberry handbags outlet in Jacksonville, Florida, returned to the school Tuesday, shot and killed the headmistress and then killed himself, authorities said.
The gunman, who was terminated earlier in the day and carried an assault rifle in a guitar case, went to the office of Headmistress Dale Regan, Undersheriff Dwain Senterfitt with the Jackonsville Sheriff's Office told reporters.
"He shot and killed Ms. Regan and then he killed himself," he said.
The sheriff's office later identified the suspected gunman as 28-year-old Shane Schumerth.
No students were believed to be involved in the incident.
"Our prayers go out to the Episcopal community," Senterfitt said, noting that he knew Regan personally and that his daughter had burberry beige handbag recently graduated from the same private school. "It's a tough day for us."
Regan had worked at Episcopal High School for 34 years, according to Kate Moorehead, dean of St. John's Cathedral in Jacksonville.
"We have full confidence that Dale Regan is already with God and in heaven," she said. "We ask you to please pray for us as a community."
A 17-year-old boy charged in a school shooting rampage that left three students dead was told by a judge on Tuesday that the case could be sent to adult court for trial.
Authorities will decide later whether T.J. Lane will be tried as an adult and face a possible life sentence if convicted.
Lane, who is charged with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault, did not enter a plea Tuesday when he appeared before Juvenile Judge Tim Grendell.
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Lane watched the judge without visible emotion, blinking occasionally. He was taken into court under heavy security, a deputy’s hand on his arm. He was dressed in an outfit similar to what he wore last week in court — a tan, open-collared dress shirt and dark slacks.
Relatives of the victims faced Lane from the jury box. Some wore memorial ribbons of red and black, the colors of Chardon High School.
Lane spoke in response to routine questions from the judge about his understanding of the case and his rights.
“Yes, sir, I understand,” he said repeatedly, and, “Yes, I do, your honor.”
Prosecutor David Joyce says Lane has admitted taking a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the high school, near Cleveland, on Feb. 27 and firing 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Besides the three students burberry sunglasses killed, three were wounded, two seriously.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear, though Joyce has appeared to rule out theories involving bullying or drug-dealing. He has said that victims were selected at random and that Lane is someone “who’s not well.”
Joyce said he expects the case to be moved to adult court, where Lane could face life in prison if convicted. Minors are not eligible for the death penalty in Ohio, whether they are convicted as juveniles or adults.
Lane didn’t attend Chardon High School. He attended an alternative burberry kids skirts cheap school for students who haven’t done well in traditional schools, and he had been at Chardon waiting for a bus.
The funerals for the three dead students began Saturday and continued Tuesday, with the final one scheduled for Thursday.
The judge, who earlier banned courtroom photos of Lane, allowed them on Tuesday and, after a hearing, said that decision would stand. The judge said he would rule later on whether to release the county social services agency records on Lane.
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The gunman, who was terminated earlier in the day and carried an assault rifle in a guitar case, went to the office of Headmistress Dale Regan, Undersheriff Dwain Senterfitt with the Jackonsville Sheriff's Office told reporters.
"He shot and killed Ms. Regan and then he killed himself," he said.
The sheriff's office later identified the suspected gunman as 28-year-old Shane Schumerth.
No students were believed to be involved in the incident.
"Our prayers go out to the Episcopal community," Senterfitt said, noting that he knew Regan personally and that his daughter had burberry beige handbag recently graduated from the same private school. "It's a tough day for us."
Regan had worked at Episcopal High School for 34 years, according to Kate Moorehead, dean of St. John's Cathedral in Jacksonville.
"We have full confidence that Dale Regan is already with God and in heaven," she said. "We ask you to please pray for us as a community."
A 17-year-old boy charged in a school shooting rampage that left three students dead was told by a judge on Tuesday that the case could be sent to adult court for trial.
Authorities will decide later whether T.J. Lane will be tried as an adult and face a possible life sentence if convicted.
Lane, who is charged with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault, did not enter a plea Tuesday when he appeared before Juvenile Judge Tim Grendell.
The judge postponed a hearing on the adult-court matter from March 19 until April 3 because two new attorneys have joined the defense burberry bags team.
Lane watched the judge without visible emotion, blinking occasionally. He was taken into court under heavy security, a deputy’s hand on his arm. He was dressed in an outfit similar to what he wore last week in court — a tan, open-collared dress shirt and dark slacks.
Relatives of the victims faced Lane from the jury box. Some wore memorial ribbons of red and black, the colors of Chardon High School.
Lane spoke in response to routine questions from the judge about his understanding of the case and his rights.
“Yes, sir, I understand,” he said repeatedly, and, “Yes, I do, your honor.”
Prosecutor David Joyce says Lane has admitted taking a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the high school, near Cleveland, on Feb. 27 and firing 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Besides the three students burberry sunglasses killed, three were wounded, two seriously.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear, though Joyce has appeared to rule out theories involving bullying or drug-dealing. He has said that victims were selected at random and that Lane is someone “who’s not well.”
Joyce said he expects the case to be moved to adult court, where Lane could face life in prison if convicted. Minors are not eligible for the death penalty in Ohio, whether they are convicted as juveniles or adults.
Lane didn’t attend Chardon High School. He attended an alternative burberry kids skirts cheap school for students who haven’t done well in traditional schools, and he had been at Chardon waiting for a bus.
The funerals for the three dead students began Saturday and continued Tuesday, with the final one scheduled for Thursday.
The judge, who earlier banned courtroom photos of Lane, allowed them on Tuesday and, after a hearing, said that decision would stand. The judge said he would rule later on whether to release the county social services agency records on Lane.
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2012年3月5日星期一
Syracuse has dealt with off-the-court problems this season
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As if the monstrous AlphaDog wasn't intimidating enough, it now has a feline friend, the "Cheetah", that will certainly have you running for the hills. Chances are you won't be able to outrun it, though.
Created by Boston Dynamics, Cheetah is allegedly now the fastest legged robot on the planet. DARPA released a video today showing the bot running at various speeds on a laboratory treadmill, ultimately hitting its maximum speed of 18 mph. This breaks the previous land-speed record of 13.1 mph set back in 1989.
Engineers designed the Cheetah bot by patterning its movements after real fast-running animals, such as its namesake. By flexing and unflexing its spine, the four-legged droid is able to lengthen its stride and increase its running speed.
Back in February 2011 when the www.buymyfavorite.com robot was first commissioned, Boston Dynamics President Marc Raibert said he saw no reason why the robot couldn't go as fast a real cheetah (up to 70 mph), but he admitted that this would take some time to achieve.
The Cheetah is part of DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program, which seeks to advance and improve robotic capabilities. Though the agency didn't provide any specific examples, a robot, such as Cheetah, could help in various military applications.
DARPA plans to test a free-running a prototype later this year.
Syracuse announced Monday that the N.C.A.A. was investigating its men’s basketball program after Yahoo Sports reported that at least 10 former players since 2001 had failed tests for a banned recreational substance or substances and that the program did not adhere to the university’s drug policy when it came to disciplining them.
The reported failed drug tests and lax enforcement coincided with a period when the Orange captured their first and only national championship under the Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim in 2003. The university said that the N.C.A.A.’s inquiry does not involve any players on this season’s team, which is 30-1 and ranked No. 2.
Boeheim declined to comment when reached on his cellphone. Daryl Gross, Syracuse’s athletic director, did not return a message left burberry ties on his cellphone.
Yahoo, citing four “sources with intimate knowledge” of the Syracuse program, reported that the 10 players who failed drug tests were allowed to practice and play at times when they should have been suspended. Yahoo reported that Syracuse violated its drug policy in at least two areas: failing to properly count positive tests and playing ineligible players after they should have been suspended.
“We self-reported issues with drug testing to the N.C.A.A., and there is currently an ongoing inquiry,” Kevin Quinn, the senior vice president for public affairs at Syracuse, said in a statement. “The inquiry does not involve www.fashiontoy.com any current S.U. student-athletes. To ensure the integrity of the ongoing process, we are unable to comment further at this time.”
The N.C.A.A. does not require its member universities to have their own drug-testing policy, but if one does have such a policy in place, it is required to follow it. The N.C.A.A. tests athletes at its championship events.
If it is determined that Syracuse knowingly violated its own drug policies, the N.C.A.A. could invoke the “willful violators” clause, which allows the N.C.A.A. to reach beyond its four-year statute of limitations in order to levy sanctions. A willful violation is considered one that occurs during a pattern of deliberate rule-breaking.
Word of the investigation came a day before www.cheapburberryoutlet2012.com the start of the Big East tournament, in which the Orange are the top seed. Syracuse plays its opener in the quarterfinals at noon on Thursday.
Syracuse has dealt with off-the-court problems this season. In November, the longtime assistant coach Bernie Fine was fired amid allegations that he molested a former team ball boy and his brother. Fine has not been charged.
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Created by Boston Dynamics, Cheetah is allegedly now the fastest legged robot on the planet. DARPA released a video today showing the bot running at various speeds on a laboratory treadmill, ultimately hitting its maximum speed of 18 mph. This breaks the previous land-speed record of 13.1 mph set back in 1989.
Engineers designed the Cheetah bot by patterning its movements after real fast-running animals, such as its namesake. By flexing and unflexing its spine, the four-legged droid is able to lengthen its stride and increase its running speed.
Back in February 2011 when the www.buymyfavorite.com robot was first commissioned, Boston Dynamics President Marc Raibert said he saw no reason why the robot couldn't go as fast a real cheetah (up to 70 mph), but he admitted that this would take some time to achieve.
The Cheetah is part of DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program, which seeks to advance and improve robotic capabilities. Though the agency didn't provide any specific examples, a robot, such as Cheetah, could help in various military applications.
DARPA plans to test a free-running a prototype later this year.
Syracuse announced Monday that the N.C.A.A. was investigating its men’s basketball program after Yahoo Sports reported that at least 10 former players since 2001 had failed tests for a banned recreational substance or substances and that the program did not adhere to the university’s drug policy when it came to disciplining them.
The reported failed drug tests and lax enforcement coincided with a period when the Orange captured their first and only national championship under the Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim in 2003. The university said that the N.C.A.A.’s inquiry does not involve any players on this season’s team, which is 30-1 and ranked No. 2.
Boeheim declined to comment when reached on his cellphone. Daryl Gross, Syracuse’s athletic director, did not return a message left burberry ties on his cellphone.
Yahoo, citing four “sources with intimate knowledge” of the Syracuse program, reported that the 10 players who failed drug tests were allowed to practice and play at times when they should have been suspended. Yahoo reported that Syracuse violated its drug policy in at least two areas: failing to properly count positive tests and playing ineligible players after they should have been suspended.
“We self-reported issues with drug testing to the N.C.A.A., and there is currently an ongoing inquiry,” Kevin Quinn, the senior vice president for public affairs at Syracuse, said in a statement. “The inquiry does not involve www.fashiontoy.com any current S.U. student-athletes. To ensure the integrity of the ongoing process, we are unable to comment further at this time.”
The N.C.A.A. does not require its member universities to have their own drug-testing policy, but if one does have such a policy in place, it is required to follow it. The N.C.A.A. tests athletes at its championship events.
If it is determined that Syracuse knowingly violated its own drug policies, the N.C.A.A. could invoke the “willful violators” clause, which allows the N.C.A.A. to reach beyond its four-year statute of limitations in order to levy sanctions. A willful violation is considered one that occurs during a pattern of deliberate rule-breaking.
Word of the investigation came a day before www.cheapburberryoutlet2012.com the start of the Big East tournament, in which the Orange are the top seed. Syracuse plays its opener in the quarterfinals at noon on Thursday.
Syracuse has dealt with off-the-court problems this season. In November, the longtime assistant coach Bernie Fine was fired amid allegations that he molested a former team ball boy and his brother. Fine has not been charged.
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Michigan State’s planned celebration turned into a reminder of what was lost, not an outright title gained, as Ohio State won, 72-70, on a last-second shot by the senior guard William Buford. His 20-foot jumper, coming off a screen with 0.8 of a second left, helped Ohio State join the Spartans and Michigan in a tie for the Big Ten regular-season title.
Michigan gained its share by defeating Penn State on Sunday and with the Ohio State victory. It is the first Big Ten title for the Wolverines since the 1985-86 season.
“I almost feel like apologizing for not winning the Big Ten title outright,” Izzo told the crowd during the ceremony. “We’re going to go to the Big Ten tournament and we’re going to win our title back.”
Michigan State (24-7, 13-5) burberry sunglasses will be the top seed in the conference tournament, which starts Thursday in Indianapolis, with Michigan (23-8, 13-5) second and Ohio State (25-6, 13-5) third.
“We love March; it didn’t start great, but it has 31 days and that’s the Final Four,” Spartans forward Draymond Green said.
While Michigan State lamented opportunity lost, Ohio State relished winning a share of its third straight conference title. The Buckeyes proudly donned their Big Ten championship hats.
“My teammates had faith in me and I had the chance to knock it down,” Buford, Ohio State’s lone senior, said about the winning shot. “This feels great. We came and did what we wanted to do. We’ve got our piece of the championship.”
Buford, who was not a factor in Ohio State’s 58-48 home loss to Michigan State on Feb. 11, had a game-high 29 points. He had been inconsistent on offense, but this time he was the spark that helped end Michigan State’s 18-game home winning streak.
“You don’t have to like Will Buford — we do, burberry ties and we trust him with that shot every time,” Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger said.
The game was an emotional roller coaster, with No. 5 Michigan State coming out aggressively. The Spartans jumped out to a 22-9 lead, powered by aggressive defense, superior transition speed and clutch shooting. Sullinger, a sophomore who came into the game shooting 52.5 percent against Big Ten teams, found little room to operate. He was doubled-teamed, and sometimes tripled-teamed, with Michigan State’s defense collapsing on him every time he tried to penetrate. He finished with 14 points.
But Michigan State’s intensity, and that of the frenzied crowd, changed midway through the first half when freshman guard Branden Dawson went down with an apparent injury to his left knee after becoming tangled in a rebounding scrum in Ohio State’s end. He was helped off the court, the crowd went silent, and he did not return.
Ohio State started finding its footing, and despite shooting 25 percent in the first half, managed to whittle the Michigan State lead to 9 by halftime.Burberry bags, burberry ties, burberry watches cheap on sale.
The comeback continued in the second half, with Buford, guard Aaron Craft and the reserve Evan Ravenel making the difference. Buford was especially tough on Michigan State, shooting 7 for 10 in the second half.
Michigan State became bogged down with foul issues, and the shots that seemed so open in the first half were disappearing in the second.
Ohio State took a 51-50 lead, its first since the opening minute, at 9 minutes 53 seconds. After that, the game stayed within 3 points. Michigan State jumped out to its last lead, 70-68, with 1:08 left after two free throws by Green. Craft tied the game nearly 10 seconds later, setting up the tense finish.
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“I don’t know how we all did this, but I know that we never stopped believing in ourselves and what we can do,” said Craft, who had 9 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals. “We’ve believed in ourselves all season this way.”
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Michigan State’s planned celebration turned into a reminder of what was lost, not an outright title gained, as Ohio State won, 72-70, on a last-second shot by the senior guard William Buford. His 20-foot jumper, coming off a screen with 0.8 of a second left, helped Ohio State join the Spartans and Michigan in a tie for the Big Ten regular-season title.
Michigan gained its share by defeating Penn State on Sunday and with the Ohio State victory. It is the first Big Ten title for the Wolverines since the 1985-86 season.
“I almost feel like apologizing for not winning the Big Ten title outright,” Izzo told the crowd during the ceremony. “We’re going to go to the Big Ten tournament and we’re going to win our title back.”
Michigan State (24-7, 13-5) burberry sunglasses will be the top seed in the conference tournament, which starts Thursday in Indianapolis, with Michigan (23-8, 13-5) second and Ohio State (25-6, 13-5) third.
“We love March; it didn’t start great, but it has 31 days and that’s the Final Four,” Spartans forward Draymond Green said.
While Michigan State lamented opportunity lost, Ohio State relished winning a share of its third straight conference title. The Buckeyes proudly donned their Big Ten championship hats.
“My teammates had faith in me and I had the chance to knock it down,” Buford, Ohio State’s lone senior, said about the winning shot. “This feels great. We came and did what we wanted to do. We’ve got our piece of the championship.”
Buford, who was not a factor in Ohio State’s 58-48 home loss to Michigan State on Feb. 11, had a game-high 29 points. He had been inconsistent on offense, but this time he was the spark that helped end Michigan State’s 18-game home winning streak.
“You don’t have to like Will Buford — we do, burberry ties and we trust him with that shot every time,” Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger said.
The game was an emotional roller coaster, with No. 5 Michigan State coming out aggressively. The Spartans jumped out to a 22-9 lead, powered by aggressive defense, superior transition speed and clutch shooting. Sullinger, a sophomore who came into the game shooting 52.5 percent against Big Ten teams, found little room to operate. He was doubled-teamed, and sometimes tripled-teamed, with Michigan State’s defense collapsing on him every time he tried to penetrate. He finished with 14 points.
But Michigan State’s intensity, and that of the frenzied crowd, changed midway through the first half when freshman guard Branden Dawson went down with an apparent injury to his left knee after becoming tangled in a rebounding scrum in Ohio State’s end. He was helped off the court, the crowd went silent, and he did not return.
Ohio State started finding its footing, and despite shooting 25 percent in the first half, managed to whittle the Michigan State lead to 9 by halftime.Burberry bags, burberry ties, burberry watches cheap on sale.
The comeback continued in the second half, with Buford, guard Aaron Craft and the reserve Evan Ravenel making the difference. Buford was especially tough on Michigan State, shooting 7 for 10 in the second half.
Michigan State became bogged down with foul issues, and the shots that seemed so open in the first half were disappearing in the second.
Ohio State took a 51-50 lead, its first since the opening minute, at 9 minutes 53 seconds. After that, the game stayed within 3 points. Michigan State jumped out to its last lead, 70-68, with 1:08 left after two free throws by Green. Craft tied the game nearly 10 seconds later, setting up the tense finish.
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“I don’t know how we all did this, but I know that we never stopped believing in ourselves and what we can do,” said Craft, who had 9 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals. “We’ve believed in ourselves all season this way.”
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He even co-opted Mr. Gingrich's longtime argument
With 10 states up for grabs on Tuesday, burberry ties Newt Gingrich has retreated to Fortress Georgia.
He is spending five crucial days in the state he long represented, and which until recently he regarded as a launch pad to a Super Tuesday sweep of the South, not a final redoubt.
Weeks ago, Mr. Gingrich confidently unveiled a comeback strategy in which he would win three Southern states on Tuesday -- Georgia, Tennessee and Oklahoma -- and vie closely for delegates in Ohio.
But that was before a debate in Arizona last week that failed to reset the race in Mr. Gingrich's favor, and before Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum's close finish in Michigan on Tuesday reinforced the impression of a two-man race for the Republican nomination.
Mr. Santorum, whose conservatism appeals to many of the voters Mr. Gingrich must reach, is now the one who polls suggest may capture Tennessee and Oklahoma and arm-wrestle Mr. Romney for Ohio.
Mr. Gingrich conceded as much on Thursday when he offered yet another path to a comeback. This one looked beyond Super Tuesday.
"Let me just be clear: I have to win Georgia, I think, to be credible in the race," he said at a business breakfast here. "If I win Georgia, the following week we go to Alabama and Mississippi. I think I'll win both of those. And we have a good opportunity to win Kansas."
He seized on a glimmer of optimism in a Drudge Report item about him that blared "Lazarus rising again?!" It linked to a blog post about a Gallup daily tracking poll that showed Mr. Gingrich's numbers burberry bags rising by two percentage points on Wednesday. (But Thursday's tracking poll showed him down a point. Variations of a point or two from one day to the next are not significant.)
Mr. Gingrich seems to be suffering from a cycle in which voters give candidates a close look and then move on, with the erosion of support feeding on itself.
"I think people figured out this is down to Santorum and Romney," said Mike DeWine, the Ohio attorney general, who predicted Mr. Gingrich would not do well in that state. "Among the traditional Republican base," said Mr. DeWine, who supports Mr. Santorum, "Rick has got a stronger message than Newt does."
Mr. Santorum aimed a few arrows at Mr. Gingrich's Georgia fortress on Thursday, making two campaign stops in the state and seeming to taunt Mr. Gingrich when he said, "It's Governor Romney and me, 1 and 2."
But a sign of encouragement for Mr. Gingrich is another seven-figure contribution to a "super PAC" from his wealthy Las Vegas supporter, Sheldon Adelson.
The PAC is spending the windfall in Super Tuesday states, running commercials that depict Mr. Romney as out of touch with ordinary people and without core beliefs. "I looked at Mitt Romney's record," a woman says in one ad, "and I can't figure out what he stands for. It changes."
It is possible, however, that after months of televised attacks from Romney and Gingrich supporters, the ads have diminishing returns.
One place that appears to be true is Georgia, where attack ads from Mr. Romney's supporters seem not to have tarnished Mr. Gingrich much; his standing in recent polls has improved.
"We know just about everything burberry sunglasses about Newt that there is to know in Georgia," said Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party. "It's like when you raise a child: you know all about him. I don't think the attack ads are having an effect."
Mr. Gingrich's spokesman, R. C. Hammond, said the candidate was not writing off the other Super Tuesday states. Mr. Gingrich plans to visit Ohio on Saturday, and on Monday he will go to Tennessee, where a recent poll by Vanderbilt University had him in fourth place with 13 percent.
"The campaign has long known that the primary season is set up to go for a long time," Mr. Hammond said. "You have to get to 1,144" delegates. "It's not going to happen Wednesday morning."
Since Monday, Mr. Gingrich has barnstormed around Georgia as if it were Iowa or New Hampshire -- the only state in play on Tuesday.
He has greeted old friends from his burberry shoes decades of living in the state, though it has sometimes made for odd spectacles. As Mr. Romney and Mr. Santorum held election-night parties awaiting the returns in Michigan, Mr. Gingrich was in Carrollton, Ga., where he once taught college. He gave a rambling speech on national television in which he never mentioned the primaries in Arizona or Michigan, where he had run only token campaigns. Instead he told a long story about cutting down a tree as a young professor.
Mr. Gingrich is clearly well liked in the state. "He's got my vote," said Janet Clayton, one of hundreds who applauded him at the business breakfast here. "If people will just wake up and look at what this country needs so desperately, it's Newt."
Even if Mr. Gingrich wins Georgia, which awards the largest number of Super Tuesday delegates, 76, his prediction of then rolling to victories a week later in Alabama and Mississippi is far from assured.
"I don't put any stock in the fact that if someone wins this state, they win that state," said Bill Armistead, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party.
Citing a recent poll that had Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Santorum in a tie for the lead in Alabama, he said, "I believe it's going to be very competitive."
While Mr. Gingrich has been hunkering down, Mr. Santorum has been racing through Tennessee, Ohio, Washington State and Georgia. "We're competing in every state, and we're going to do well," he told about 100 supporters who met him at a hangar at the Atlanta airport on Thursday.
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"This race is narrowing down, and we need the people of Georgia to stand with the conservatives to make sure the Washington establishment doesn't again give us another moderate who will not motivate our country," Mr. Santorum said.
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He is spending five crucial days in the state he long represented, and which until recently he regarded as a launch pad to a Super Tuesday sweep of the South, not a final redoubt.
Weeks ago, Mr. Gingrich confidently unveiled a comeback strategy in which he would win three Southern states on Tuesday -- Georgia, Tennessee and Oklahoma -- and vie closely for delegates in Ohio.
But that was before a debate in Arizona last week that failed to reset the race in Mr. Gingrich's favor, and before Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum's close finish in Michigan on Tuesday reinforced the impression of a two-man race for the Republican nomination.
Mr. Santorum, whose conservatism appeals to many of the voters Mr. Gingrich must reach, is now the one who polls suggest may capture Tennessee and Oklahoma and arm-wrestle Mr. Romney for Ohio.
Mr. Gingrich conceded as much on Thursday when he offered yet another path to a comeback. This one looked beyond Super Tuesday.
"Let me just be clear: I have to win Georgia, I think, to be credible in the race," he said at a business breakfast here. "If I win Georgia, the following week we go to Alabama and Mississippi. I think I'll win both of those. And we have a good opportunity to win Kansas."
He seized on a glimmer of optimism in a Drudge Report item about him that blared "Lazarus rising again?!" It linked to a blog post about a Gallup daily tracking poll that showed Mr. Gingrich's numbers burberry bags rising by two percentage points on Wednesday. (But Thursday's tracking poll showed him down a point. Variations of a point or two from one day to the next are not significant.)
Mr. Gingrich seems to be suffering from a cycle in which voters give candidates a close look and then move on, with the erosion of support feeding on itself.
"I think people figured out this is down to Santorum and Romney," said Mike DeWine, the Ohio attorney general, who predicted Mr. Gingrich would not do well in that state. "Among the traditional Republican base," said Mr. DeWine, who supports Mr. Santorum, "Rick has got a stronger message than Newt does."
Mr. Santorum aimed a few arrows at Mr. Gingrich's Georgia fortress on Thursday, making two campaign stops in the state and seeming to taunt Mr. Gingrich when he said, "It's Governor Romney and me, 1 and 2."
But a sign of encouragement for Mr. Gingrich is another seven-figure contribution to a "super PAC" from his wealthy Las Vegas supporter, Sheldon Adelson.
The PAC is spending the windfall in Super Tuesday states, running commercials that depict Mr. Romney as out of touch with ordinary people and without core beliefs. "I looked at Mitt Romney's record," a woman says in one ad, "and I can't figure out what he stands for. It changes."
It is possible, however, that after months of televised attacks from Romney and Gingrich supporters, the ads have diminishing returns.
One place that appears to be true is Georgia, where attack ads from Mr. Romney's supporters seem not to have tarnished Mr. Gingrich much; his standing in recent polls has improved.
"We know just about everything burberry sunglasses about Newt that there is to know in Georgia," said Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party. "It's like when you raise a child: you know all about him. I don't think the attack ads are having an effect."
Mr. Gingrich's spokesman, R. C. Hammond, said the candidate was not writing off the other Super Tuesday states. Mr. Gingrich plans to visit Ohio on Saturday, and on Monday he will go to Tennessee, where a recent poll by Vanderbilt University had him in fourth place with 13 percent.
"The campaign has long known that the primary season is set up to go for a long time," Mr. Hammond said. "You have to get to 1,144" delegates. "It's not going to happen Wednesday morning."
Since Monday, Mr. Gingrich has barnstormed around Georgia as if it were Iowa or New Hampshire -- the only state in play on Tuesday.
He has greeted old friends from his burberry shoes decades of living in the state, though it has sometimes made for odd spectacles. As Mr. Romney and Mr. Santorum held election-night parties awaiting the returns in Michigan, Mr. Gingrich was in Carrollton, Ga., where he once taught college. He gave a rambling speech on national television in which he never mentioned the primaries in Arizona or Michigan, where he had run only token campaigns. Instead he told a long story about cutting down a tree as a young professor.
Mr. Gingrich is clearly well liked in the state. "He's got my vote," said Janet Clayton, one of hundreds who applauded him at the business breakfast here. "If people will just wake up and look at what this country needs so desperately, it's Newt."
Even if Mr. Gingrich wins Georgia, which awards the largest number of Super Tuesday delegates, 76, his prediction of then rolling to victories a week later in Alabama and Mississippi is far from assured.
"I don't put any stock in the fact that if someone wins this state, they win that state," said Bill Armistead, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party.
Citing a recent poll that had Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Santorum in a tie for the lead in Alabama, he said, "I believe it's going to be very competitive."
While Mr. Gingrich has been hunkering down, Mr. Santorum has been racing through Tennessee, Ohio, Washington State and Georgia. "We're competing in every state, and we're going to do well," he told about 100 supporters who met him at a hangar at the Atlanta airport on Thursday.
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"This race is narrowing down, and we need the people of Georgia to stand with the conservatives to make sure the Washington establishment doesn't again give us another moderate who will not motivate our country," Mr. Santorum said.
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Then there was the ice storm that downed tree limbs all over this part of the state in 2009; a tornado that damaged hundreds of homes here in the 1980s; the flood of 1937 when Harrisburg was, in the words of the city’s official Web site, nearly wiped off the map; and, as is common in this part of Illinois, an economic struggle lasting decades to hold onto jobs and young people in a coal-mining town that was once had many more residents.
“We’ve taken our share of blows,” said Bill Ghent, an insurance agent who stood on Thursday staring at his own battered house in a neighborhood of houses battered by a system of violent tornadoes that swept through the Midwest and South this week leaving at least 13 dead, 6 of them just blocks from Mr. Ghent’s house. “The truth is, we’re used to taking cover by now, one way or another.”
In a city of 9,017, as the names of the dead from the latest storm began to trickle out, there was a special toll — most everyone knew at least a few of them. Among those killed: a married couple who had survived health problems, friends said, only to perish in the storm; Jaylynn Ferrell, burberry watches sale 22, a nurse who taught Sunday school to toddlers; Mary Osman, 75, a widow who had once worked as a hatmaker.
But if residents in this region of Illinois have had to take hit after hit, they also have had to rebuild, over and over.
So, with whining seemingly not an option here, homeowners were by Thursday carting out tree limbs, combing through rubble for necessities and matter-of-factly snapping photographs for insurance adjusters, as city officials pledged that Harrisburg would, of course, soldier on again.
“Nothing fazes these people,” said Rhonda Belford of the state treasurer’s office, who was handing out information in Harrisburg about a disaster recovery loan program — a program that she said the place already was acquainted with, thanks in part to last year’s flooding.
“There is a real tradition of rising to the occasion in southern Illinois,” Gov. Pat Quinn said in an interview, ticking down his own surprisingly long list of disasters that have brought him to the region in just the last three years. (There was the ice storm, he said, “a siege where they lost power for eight days, and then there was a horizontal hurricane.”)
Harrisburg is hundreds of miles from Chicago, and it feels, some residents here happily say, like a world away, with an atmosphere more Southern than Northern. A city since 1889, Harrisburg boomed as a coal mining town. In 1930, its population was 15,659, but the numbers have since faded, as mining slowed and small towns all around grew smaller.
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Still, the median household income in Harrisburg is $33,278, more than $20,000 less than in the state as a whole, and a larger percentage of people are living below the poverty level.
“The economy is so bad,” said Bill Horning, 76, who is retired from the local bank. ”Yes, there is mining, but not that much, and there’s just no other industry in any way, shape or form.” Residents complained of an aging, vanishing population and a younger generation with few choices but the mines, the military or fast food restaurants.
“It’s not easy to be 19 around here,” said Eli Rodgers, who had huddled in a closet with his fiancée and her family before dawn on Wednesday as much of their house blew away when the storm hit. “It took me six months to get a job,” he said, at the local Walmart, but he added that he hopes to get a spot in the mines.
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“They built this town in a swamp, and you can write that,” said Doyle Hedger, 83.
But in the parts of the city most damaged by the storm, few people were asking such questions. They were more worried about finding their wallets, their medications, their photographs, and then just getting on with things.
“What people don’t understand is you just make it out, just make it done,” Mr. Ghent said, glancing out at a sloping hill covered in trash, boards and insulation. “We’ll be mowing grass here in a few months.”
Ashley Plumlee, whose daughters, 5 and 6, had crouched beneath a mattress through this storm in their Barbie bicycle helmets — now kept at the ready, she said, for such occurrences — seemed less certain. Last year, a peculiar wind storm had swept through their yard, Ms. Plumlee said, destroying the family’s swing set. On Thursday, a new swing set was a pile of crumpled metal, lifted up and dumped not far from a next-door neighbor’s trailer, cheapburberryoutlet2012 which had blown away.
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Then there was the ice storm that downed tree limbs all over this part of the state in 2009; a tornado that damaged hundreds of homes here in the 1980s; the flood of 1937 when Harrisburg was, in the words of the city’s official Web site, nearly wiped off the map; and, as is common in this part of Illinois, an economic struggle lasting decades to hold onto jobs and young people in a coal-mining town that was once had many more residents.
“We’ve taken our share of blows,” said Bill Ghent, an insurance agent who stood on Thursday staring at his own battered house in a neighborhood of houses battered by a system of violent tornadoes that swept through the Midwest and South this week leaving at least 13 dead, 6 of them just blocks from Mr. Ghent’s house. “The truth is, we’re used to taking cover by now, one way or another.”
In a city of 9,017, as the names of the dead from the latest storm began to trickle out, there was a special toll — most everyone knew at least a few of them. Among those killed: a married couple who had survived health problems, friends said, only to perish in the storm; Jaylynn Ferrell, burberry watches sale 22, a nurse who taught Sunday school to toddlers; Mary Osman, 75, a widow who had once worked as a hatmaker.
But if residents in this region of Illinois have had to take hit after hit, they also have had to rebuild, over and over.
So, with whining seemingly not an option here, homeowners were by Thursday carting out tree limbs, combing through rubble for necessities and matter-of-factly snapping photographs for insurance adjusters, as city officials pledged that Harrisburg would, of course, soldier on again.
“Nothing fazes these people,” said Rhonda Belford of the state treasurer’s office, who was handing out information in Harrisburg about a disaster recovery loan program — a program that she said the place already was acquainted with, thanks in part to last year’s flooding.
“There is a real tradition of rising to the occasion in southern Illinois,” Gov. Pat Quinn said in an interview, ticking down his own surprisingly long list of disasters that have brought him to the region in just the last three years. (There was the ice storm, he said, “a siege where they lost power for eight days, and then there was a horizontal hurricane.”)
Harrisburg is hundreds of miles from Chicago, and it feels, some residents here happily say, like a world away, with an atmosphere more Southern than Northern. A city since 1889, Harrisburg boomed as a coal mining town. In 1930, its population was 15,659, but the numbers have since faded, as mining slowed and small towns all around grew smaller.
In recent years, mining has picked up again in the area, residents here said, and there are signs of economic growth. Harrisburg, a county seat, draws shoppers from smaller towns nearby, and some of burberry sunglasses the houses among those destroyed in the tornado were part of a well-to-do neighborhood near a country club.
Still, the median household income in Harrisburg is $33,278, more than $20,000 less than in the state as a whole, and a larger percentage of people are living below the poverty level.
“The economy is so bad,” said Bill Horning, 76, who is retired from the local bank. ”Yes, there is mining, but not that much, and there’s just no other industry in any way, shape or form.” Residents complained of an aging, vanishing population and a younger generation with few choices but the mines, the military or fast food restaurants.
“It’s not easy to be 19 around here,” said Eli Rodgers, who had huddled in a closet with his fiancée and her family before dawn on Wednesday as much of their house blew away when the storm hit. “It took me six months to get a job,” he said, at the local Walmart, but he added that he hopes to get a spot in the mines.
As the sounds of repairs — whirring saws, a buzzing power generator, endless lines of rumbling supply trucks — filled the air here on Thursday, some residents speculated about why so many natural burberry sunglasses outlet disasters touch the region.
Sure, they said, everyplace has its own set of storms to remember, but this seemed like an awful lot. Some guessed that farm fields outside towns might allow tornadoes to build strength. Others said the fallout from the Ohio River, with nearby streams that feed it, was always destined to be a problem for Harrisburg.
“They built this town in a swamp, and you can write that,” said Doyle Hedger, 83.
But in the parts of the city most damaged by the storm, few people were asking such questions. They were more worried about finding their wallets, their medications, their photographs, and then just getting on with things.
“What people don’t understand is you just make it out, just make it done,” Mr. Ghent said, glancing out at a sloping hill covered in trash, boards and insulation. “We’ll be mowing grass here in a few months.”
Ashley Plumlee, whose daughters, 5 and 6, had crouched beneath a mattress through this storm in their Barbie bicycle helmets — now kept at the ready, she said, for such occurrences — seemed less certain. Last year, a peculiar wind storm had swept through their yard, Ms. Plumlee said, destroying the family’s swing set. On Thursday, a new swing set was a pile of crumpled metal, lifted up and dumped not far from a next-door neighbor’s trailer, cheapburberryoutlet2012 which had blown away.
“Last year we got by fine, and this year we barely got by,” she said, searching through the items that filled her yard. “I don’t know if next year I want to risk it. Maybe we need a basement.”
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