Another one bites the dust

It was only a matter of time.

If Okemos High School, where our kids went, felt pressured to abandon its largely innocuous “Chiefs” mascot (when, in fact, Okemos is named after Chippewa Chief Okemos), what chance did the Lansing Sexton “Big Reds” have? 

Exactly. None. Indeed, This week Sexton dumped the “Big Reds” logo for a mascot to be named later. And when you look at it from the Native American point of view, it’s hard to say anything but, “Good riddance!”

Originally the “Big Reds” logo featured a Native American in full headdress; it transformed over the years in to a red block “S”.

The rebrand will cost about $250,000, $87,500 of which will come in the form of a Native American Heritage Fund.

Now that the Cleveland “Indians” are now the “Guardians” and the Washington “Redskins” are now the “Commanders”,  I’m hoping the Atlanta Braves’ “tomahawk chop,” which is racist and obnoxious, is also doomed.

DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK

DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK

Economy DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK Thursday December 01 2022 Former energy and finance cabinet minister Chris Okemo. PHOTO | POOL Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has lost a bid to extradite former Finance and Energy Cabinet Minister Chris Okemo to the United Kingdom for trial over alleged corruption and theft of Sh1.5 billion 23 years ago. City court Chief…

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Friday Discussion ~ Friday Discussion

In today’s Friday Discussion we are blessed to be joined by Ira Childress – Athletic Director at Okemos High School in Okemos, Michigan. In his role with the Chiefs he utilizes his creativity and vision to provide innovative solutions and experiences for OHS student-athletes, coaches, and surrounding community. As a result of his efforts, Childress is currently a finalist for NATIONAL ATHLETIC DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR!

Prior to his arrival at Okemos he worked at the NCAA National Office where he served as an Assistant Director for Student-Athlete Development for the NCAA. While there, his work provided cutting edge programming that helped shape the careers of hundreds of NCAA coaches, administrators, and student-athletes.

PODCAST: Episode #24: Friday Discussion ~ Ira Childress

During our conversation, the questions/that topics that we covered are as follows:

What led you/inspired you/called you to become an Athletic Director in the high school setting?

Do you have a set of core values? And if so, what are they?

Why do you feel sports have the ability to help shape a person’s life for the better?

How has your role as an Athletic Director aided your development as a person?

Have a beautiful and joy-filled weekend my friends!

God Bless,

Coach Kub

The 'calm wolf'

Personally, I saw nothing particularly insensitive in the Okemos Chiefs. The mascot for Okemos Public Schools was, after all, derived from an Ojibwe (Chippewa) chief.

And the school logo, unlike the Cleveland Indians' Chief Wahoo, was dignified.

But, not knowing what it feels like to be logoed or mascotized, I guess I'm not the best judge of that.

Anyway, after decades of back-and-forth, the erstwhile Okemos Chiefs are now the Okemos Wolves.

It so happens that I'm intimately acquainted with three products of the Okemos School system. I surveyed them on their reaction to the new name and logo. The result:

Justin: "Yeah ... They had to do something ... The wolf is sufficiently ferocious."

Benjamin: "I personally would have gone with a more unique mascot. 'Wolves' is kinda generic. I always thought 'Oaks' or 'Mighty Oaks' could be a pretty good mascot. But I guess trees aren't very intimidating ..."

Caitlin: "I like that it's a calm wolf."

Cub tennis future looks bright

Nate Lichwalla ‘19

As the second semester is underway, and the spring sports seasons just around the corner, the cub tennis players are still hard at work, preparing for the 2019 Tennis season. As head coach James Slaughter, and his players look to improve from their impressive run last season, at states. Last season, the cubs finished 7th in the division II high school, boys tennis finals, falling to the division II champions, the Okemos Chiefs. The cubs have not won their division since 2016, when they still played in division III. However, they have high hopes for this upcoming season, starting with a strong junior class.

Though the season is six months away, players continue to play and prepare themselves for the upcoming season. Junior players Theodore Yaldoo and Theodore Melnyczuk-Gould prepare themselves by playing in weekly USTA tournaments. The tournaments are attended by high school players from all around the state, and pose as great practice and competition for preparation for the upcoming season. As said by Yaldoo, “I really enjoy playing in these tournaments. I often attend the doubles tournaments and find that they always bring great competition and I am always improving as a result.”

The cubs will only graduate two seniors, leading to the junior class especially working hard. With five juniors being members of the varsity team for all four years, they are constantly working. These juniors, Kagan Shetterly, John "JT" Dahmer, Theodore Yaldoo, Theodore Melnyczuk-Gould and Joseph "Joe" Steele consistently hitting at the bubble, in Birmingham. They attend Coach Keith’s camp. Keith is the Seaholm tennis coach and has been a coach for over 15 years. These camps are heavily attended by the best U of D and Seaholm tennis players. As said by Shetterly, “I have been seeing Keith for about two years now. He is very helpful and he brings in some of the best competition”.

Who is Tom Welling?

Tom Welling is a standard figure in news sources. Expertly, he is an entertainer, chief, maker, and model. He appeared with the film Judging Amy and is bewildering for his progression in Cheaper by the Dozen, Draft Day, The Choice, and the strategy Lucifer. Find astoundingly about this on-screen character.

 Early Life

 Tom Welling was envisioned in Putnam Valley, New York, the United States with the name Thomas Joseph Welling on the 26th of April, 1977. His family are Tom Welling Sr. in like manner, Bonnie Welling. He has three family, two sisters named Rebecca Welling and Jamie Welling and one reliably vivacious family named Mark Welling. Seeing his enlightening cutoff conditions, he went to Okemos High School. He is an American with Irish ethnicity. He follows the Christian religion.

 Body Measurement

 Tom Welling stands to 6 feet and 2.5 inches (1.9 meters) tall and weighs around 85 kilograms. He has a striking pair of green eyes with decay hair.

 Affiliations

 Tom Welling is hitched. His first teammate is model Jamie White, whom he wedded on July 5, 2002. In any case, the couple bound in 2015. The explanation for his division was his extramarital issue with Jessica Rose Lee. He by then connected with Jessica in 2018. The couple wedded on the 30th of November, 2019. They passed on a pre-experienced youth with the fifth of January, 2019.

 All around assets  

Tom's unbendable assets is concentrated to be around $14 million. He for the most part gets cash through his ruler calling.

 Online life

 Tom is dynamic by philosophies for online structures association media and has individual Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts. His Instagram account has 955 k fans.

 Movies

 Welling's first film is Cheaper by the Dozen, where he expected the progression of Charlie Baker in 2003. Following two years, he saw the relationship of Nicholas "Scratch" Castle and Charlie Baker in films The Fog and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. He came back to the film business 8 years a short period of time later through the film Parkland, where he expected the advancement of Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman. In 2014, he showed up on Draft Day as Brian Drew. Tom Welling then away from progress of Dr. Ryan McCarthy in films The Choice in 2016.

 TV Series

 In 2001, he showed up in 6 scenes of Judging Amy as Rob Meltzer. Around an in each sensible sense faulty time, he saw the occupations of Male Victim and Tom in system Special Unit 2 and Undeclared self-rulingly. He was then the titanic cast of the structure Smallville for different occupations for 217 scenes from 2001-2011. He showed up in the show Man Fire Food in 2015 out of one scene. From 2017 to 2018 he saw the action of Cain or Lieutenant Marcus Pierce for 17 scenes. In 2019, Tom showed up in Professionals and Batwoman.

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Ski the East Coast

At last, there’s good news for those who live in the shadow of America’s lesser range. Throughout the Northeast, a variety of enhancements—from season pass access to snowmaking and mountain improvements—will make it a particularly exciting year to be an East Coast skier. So don’t listen to your hater friends who ski out West or outside the U.S.: There are plenty of things to look forward to in the season ahead.

Easier (More Affordable) AccessVail Resorts and Alterra Mountain Co. have been busy scooping up East Coast resorts such as Vermont’s Killington and Stowe and a handful of other ski areas. With their multimountain passes, you can now ski them all by simply buying lift tickets for your annual weeklong trip to Colorado. “One of my clients from Long Island was taking his entire family to Vail,” said Gloria Saiya-Woods, a travel agent with Ski.com, “and realized that the Epic pass was the most economical option for his family. Now he’s thinking about taking the grandchildren up to Vermont since he’s already got a lift ticket to cover them there.”

Collective passes don’t just offer shared access to mountains in Vermont and Colorado; they cover much of the globe. On the East Coast, Okemo, Stowe, and Mount Sunapee now accept the Epic pass. Killington, Loon, Stratton, Snowshoe, Sugarbush, Sunday River, and Sugarloaf, meanwhile, can be accessed with the Ikon pass. (Prices start at $749.) With those season passes, it’s also possible to ski in far-flung locales including  Japan and the Canadian Rockies for one single price.

The development is so significant, Dan Sherman, chief marketing officer of Ski.com, is conservatively predicting a 30 percent rise in East Coast business—all from people who’ll see the region as a “gateway drug” to the bigger resorts elsewhere or who’re now seeing it as icing on the cake.

New Yorkers Get a Key UpgradeHunter Mountain, the most conveniently located resort for New Yorkers, is adding 80 acres of terrain this season, plus a high-speed, six-chair lift. That means five new trails, four new gladed skiing areas, and an overall 30 percent boost to acreage. And for those who normally see next-door neighbor Windham as the most beginner- and intermediate-friendly mountain, that might start to change: None of Hunter’s new terrain will be flagged with black diamonds.

Vermont’s Total MakeoverIn Vermont, Mount Snow will welcome a $22 million base lodge that, at 42,000 square feet, is five times larger than its predecessor; expect more retail and food offerings, plus two new bars. Then there’s the $30 million snowmaking system, which Mount Snow claims will be the most powerful one on the East Coast. (It’s being developed with low-energy tech, to boot.)

For mountains that are now accessible on Epic and Ikon passes, head to the state’s two most famous mountains. Killington will see tech upgrades including RFID lift tickets and faster chairs; the addition of the bubbled-in Snowdon quad will send up to 3,000 skiers up to Snowdon Mountain peak, one of the resort’s more popular areas, every hour. And an effort to regrade and reroute some overly trafficked areas will result in a better balance between advanced, intermediate, and beginner terrain.

Stowe, meanwhile, will finally be fully on board with Vail’s Epic Mix software, which lets you track how much you’ve skied and compete with your friends. (It’s integrated into the RFID lift ticket system, also new at Stowe.) For families, the addition of on-mountain “Kids Adventure Zones” will be another boon.

It’s just going to keep getting better. Both Vail and Alterra are planning to invest tens of millions of dollars—if not more—across their East Coast resorts in the coming years. “Expect more in terms of new chairlifts, gondolas, easier access, adventure offerings, snowmaking—even summer experiences,” Sherman says. And if you’re worried that the entry of these large corporations will suck the soul from your local resort, Saiya-Woods says to breathe easy: “These smaller mountains will always retain their uniqueness, but they would have never had the money to improve on what they were otherwise.”

A Forecast That’s Feeling (Mostly) GoodAccording to Mike Halpert, deputy director of NOAA’s climate prediction center, this winter will see a mild El Niño weather pattern—which makes for difficult-to-predict snow conditions in the Northeast. “We’re giving it better-than-even chances of being a warmer-than-average winter in the Northeast,” he says. But he adds that doesn’t mean it will necessarily be any less snowy. On the contrary: Too-cold temperatures can impede lake effect snow, he says. “Sometimes the ski resorts do better off when it’s a little warmer, because the air mass can hold onto more moisture,” he explains. If barely freezing temperatures and decent snowfall sound like the best of both worlds, that’s because they are: But don’t count it as a done deal. Halpert’s predictions are based on what he calls “noisy data” and a “weak signal,” which make forecasts less decisive. “We’ve only had about 10 winters that we would classify as a mild El Niño pattern in the past, so it’s not enough data to draw patterns from,” he adds.

Don’t sweat it. With all of the major mountain resorts adding snowmaking enhancements across the board, conditions should be prime. Slipping on ice in the East may just become a thing of the past (no promises).

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