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Sarah Payonk and Spring-Ford are on a roll right now. Mercury File Photo
ROYERSFORD ? Ask veteran Spring-Ford girls basketball Jeff Rinehimer what has him the most pleased with the Rams? impressive start, and you?d figure to get several different answers.
It could be the Rams? uncanny depth in a rotation that goes double digits.
It could be the strong inside trio of Sarah Payonk, Mariah Traywick and Courtney Hinnant.
It could be the athletic backcourt spearheaded by Sammy Stipa, Brittany Moore, Sammy Haas, Jaida Burgess and Nikki Lynch.
It could be the bench effort of players such as Shelby Mueller, Haley Puckett, Maggie Locke and Kirsten Landis.
It could be a full-court attack that has seen the Rams score at least 70 points four times and surpass the 60-point mark in all but two games.
Or it could be a strong defensive effort that has held all but one league opponent (two-time defending champ Boyertown) to under 40 points.
Rinehimer, however, proudly points to a different barometer of his team?s success: the intensity chart.
The chart ? the brainchild of assistant coach Randy Doaty ? measures areas that include statistical realm and beyond.
?They get points for certain things,? Rineheimer explained. ?Baskets, deflections, tips, steals and rebounds. It?s our way of trying to measure intensity and trying to get the most out of every player.? Continued...
Through the first half of the season, the Rams (6-0, 9-2) certainly appear to have done that. They are outscoring their league opposition by an average score of 66.5 to 28.8, with their only two losses coming to Cheltenham (60-46 in their opener) and Notre Dame Academy (64-60) in the Spring-Ford Holiday Classic.
The 5-11 Payonk leads an ultra-balanced attack with a 9.8 scoring average. She had 17 points in a Spring-Ford Classic victory over Central Bucks South, and has also been a rebounding force while displaying a nifty perimeter game.
Stipa, a cat-quick 5-5 sophomore guard, is averaging 9.6 points per game. She scored a season-best 14 points in a win over Owen J. Roberts.
Traywick, a 6-foot center headed to Shippensburg, averages 8.6 points, highlighted by an 18-point effort against Notre Dame.
The 5-10 Hinnant is averaging 7.9 points; Moore (7.8 ppg) has a team-high 15 3-pointers; and the speedy Burgess (6.6) handles a lot of the ball-handling duties.
?I really like their overall effort in practice,? Rinehimer said. ?They come to work. I haven?t really had to coax effort out of them. It?s just been a joy to come to practice, and that?s translated over to the games.?
AROUND THE AREA
Daniel Boone earned a share of the Berks Conference Division 2 lead by defeating Fleetwood, 53-35, Friday, getting a career-best 14 points from Kiana Hurley. ... Spring-Ford and Boyertown will both participate in the Scholastic Play-By-Play Classic Saturday at Philadelphia University. The Rams face Mount St. Joseph at 2:15 p.m, while the Bears take on Rutgers Prep at 7 p.m.
HOT/NOT
Methacton and Boyertown each have five-game winning streaks. The Warriors got a season-high 18 points from Jenna Carroll in Saturday?s 60-38 victory over Phoenixville. ... Pottsgrove has lost eight straight since a 3-2 start, while Upper Perkiomen has lost 5-of-6 since a 2-2 start. Continued...
BOYS
SHOWDOWN LOOMING
The Pioneer Athletic Conference?s division leaders ? and remaining teams perfect in league play thus far ? will face off Thursday evening. Liberty Division leader Methacton will visit Pope John Paul II, the PAC-10?s defending champion and current Frontier Division kingpin, in a clash of 6-0 teams looking to establish undisputed supremacy on the circuit.
Both clubs come into the contest with modest winning streaks and overall records ranking with the area?s best. The Warriors (9-3) topped Upper Perkiomen and Phoenixville this past week while the Golden Panthers (10-2) handled Pottsgrove, Perkiomen Valley and Owen J. Roberts ? the game with the Falcons (9-3) going overtime before it was decided.
Playing a big game before a home crowd was the atmosphere for the PJP/Pottsgrove tilt. It was the kind of setting on which the Panthers thrived ? particularly Jamel Stinson, who had 18 points and 14 rebounds against a Pottsgrove unit whose 3-0 league record coming in matched PJP?s mark on the circuit.
?I like that,? Stinson said afterward. ?I like the noise and everything. I feed off the energy. I like when the crowd is noisy.
?We knew what we had to do to win ... play defense and make our shots when we needed to.?
Methacton?s record has been built on a combination of potent offense and stiff defense. The Warriors have outscored the opposition by a 59.5-42.2 margin in the games they?ve won, allowing only four teams to exceed the 50-point mark and three to hold them under 50 points ? all in the losses.
?We have guys who understand the game,? Methacton coach Jeff Derstine said. ?Our guys have been playing with a high level of energy. They do a pretty good job of keeping level heads when the other team makes plays.
?Our eight seniors have a lot of experience and that is certainly helpful. They keep their composure and that is a big part of it. They don?t let the last play affect them.? Continued...
ON THE MARK
He?s ranked among the top scorers in The Mercury?s coverage area since the beginning of? the 2011-12 season. But this past week, Elijah Jackson has made even bigger strides on the court with the Pottstown boys? squad.
Jackson had a big overall showing in the course of the Trojans? three-game swing, moving up in several offensive categories. With a combined 76 points in games against Upper Perkiomen, Boyertown and Perkiomen Valley, Jackson? boosted his per-game average to 19.5 ? second on the area chart, but highest among teams who?ve reported 10 or more games? results thus far. At the same time, Jackson is shooting a gaudy 83 percent from the foul line, making 53 of 64 free-throw attempts.
Jackson has also taken a commanding lead in the 3-point field goals category, upping his total to 33 after collecting 14 the past week. In addition, his career total is at 842 in his push to become the 10th member in the history of the Pottstown boys? program to reach the 1,000-point mark ? the first since Randy Purnell accomplished that feat in 2009.
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ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) ? A 25-year-old Muslim man born in Kosovo was charged on Monday with trying to obtain explosives and firearms to attack Florida businesses and a police station, authorities said.
Sami Osmakac, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Kosovo -- a disputed Balkan state once a part of the former Yugoslavia that declared its independence from Serbia in 2008 -- was charged with one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.
He was arrested Saturday night after taking possession from an undercover FBI agent of what he believed to be explosives and firearms. He then armed what he thought was a car bomb intended to explode outside an Irish bar, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney. The devices were rendered inoperable by the agents.
Osmakac also planned to strap on an explosive belt and "get in somewhere where there's a lot of people," according to the release. Osmakac hoped to take hostages and demand the release of some unidentified prisoners. He told the undercover agent that police could "take me in five million pieces," according to the release.
"We all have to die, so why not die the Islamic way?" Osmakac, who said he is Muslim, was quoted as saying to agents.
Shortly before his arrest, Osmakac made an 8-minute video of himself, recorded at his request by the agent, explaining his motives for carrying out the planned attack, according to the release.
Osmakac said in the video that Muslim "blood" was more valuable than that of people who do not believe in Islam, and that he wanted "payback" for wrongs to Muslims.
The investigation was triggered by someone who told the FBI in September that Osmakac asked about obtaining flags representing Al-Qaeda, the Islamic extremist group responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
William Daniels, spokesman for the prosecutor's office, said he could not release the name of the source. The statement thanked the local Muslim community for its help in the investigation.
The press release described events leading up to the arrest: Osmakac met again with the source in November, discussed potential targets for attack in Tampa, and asked for help in obtaining firearms and explosives. The source set up the first of a series of meeting between Osmakac and an undercover FBI agent, all of which were recorded.
Osmakac identified his targets as several nightclubs in Ybor City, Tampa's historic Cuban community and popular tourist district; and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's operations center.
He planned a night car bombing followed by a hostage taking with the explosive belt 6 hours later, to increase the terror. He discussed his ambitions to attack the Army and local bridges. At the last moment, he switched his target to the Irish bar to avoid a heavy police presence in Ybor City.
Osmakac's shopping list, for which he provided the undercover agent a $500 down payment, included the explosive belt which he specified should be constructed to "rip flesh" with a multi-directional, 15-yard blast range.
He asked for enough explosives for three car bombs with cell phone triggers, but settled for one car bomb when the agent told him a bigger purchase would draw attention. He also requested an AK-47-style machine gun, Uzi submachine guns, high capacity magazines, and grenades.
On January 7, the day of his arrest, Osmakac met the agent at a Tampa hotel. Osmakac looked at the purported 100-pound car bomb in the agent's truck, then went into a hotel room to take possession of the other weapons. Osmakac recorded his video while sitting cross-legged on the floor holding a pistol with the AK-47 displayed behind him.
Osmakac drove a getaway car to a parking lot near the Irish bar, then returned to the hotel in a second car into which he loaded the "car bomb." Osmakac followed the steps to arm the car bomb, at which point he was arrested. (Editing by Greg McCune)
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FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2002 file photo, released by the U.S. Department of Defense, detainees wearing orange jump suits sit in a holding area as military police patrol during in-processing at the temporary detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Open for 10 years on Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012, the Guantanamo Bay prison seems more established than ever. The deadline set by President Barack Obama to close it came and went two years ago. No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on transfers, and indefinite military detention is now enshrined in U.S. law. Prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba plan to mark the day with sit-ins, banners and a refusal of meals, said Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who represents seven inmates. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Shane T.McCoy, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2002 file photo, released by the U.S. Department of Defense, detainees wearing orange jump suits sit in a holding area as military police patrol during in-processing at the temporary detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Open for 10 years on Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012, the Guantanamo Bay prison seems more established than ever. The deadline set by President Barack Obama to close it came and went two years ago. No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on transfers, and indefinite military detention is now enshrined in U.S. law. Prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba plan to mark the day with sit-ins, banners and a refusal of meals, said Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who represents seven inmates. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Shane T.McCoy, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, a detainee stands at a fence holding Islamic prayer beads in Camp Delta detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Open for 10 years on Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012 the Guantanamo Bay prison seems more established than ever. The deadline set by President Barack Obama to close it came and went two years ago. No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on transfers, and indefinite military detention is now enshrined in U.S. law. Prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba plan to mark the day with sit-ins, banners and a refusal of meals, said Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who represents seven inmates. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
FILE - In this June 30, 2004 file photo, reviewed by US military officials, a detainee, who uses a prosthetic leg, sleeps inside his cell at Camp Five, the maximum-security detention and interrogation facility at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Open for 10 years on Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012 the Guantanamo Bay prison seems more established than ever. The deadline set by President Barack Obama to close it came and went two years ago. No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on transfers, and indefinite military detention is now enshrined in U.S. law. Prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba plan to mark the day with sit-ins, banners and a refusal of meals, said Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who represents seven inmates. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, a shackled detainee is transported away from his annual Administrative Review Board hearing with U.S. officials, in Camp Delta detention center at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Open for 10 years on Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012 the Guantanamo Bay prison seems more established than ever. The deadline set by President Barack Obama to close it came and went two years ago. No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on transfers, and indefinite military detention is now enshrined in U.S. law. Prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba plan to mark the day with sit-ins, banners and a refusal of meals, said Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who represents seven inmates. (AP Photo/Brennan Llinsley, File)
FILE - In this June 1, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, Chinese Uighur detainees, who at the time were cleared for release, show a home-made note to visiting members of the media in Camp Iguana detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Open for 10 years on Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012 the Guantanamo Bay prison seems more established than ever. The deadline set by President Barack Obama to close it came and went two years ago. No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on transfers, and indefinite military detention is now enshrined in U.S. law. Prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba plan to mark the day with sit-ins, banners and a refusal of meals, said Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who represents seven inmates. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ? Suleiman al-Nahdi waits with dozens of other prisoners in a seemingly permanent state of limbo five years after he was cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay.
"I wonder if the U.S. government wants to keep us here forever," the 37-year-old al-Nahdi wrote in a recent letter to his lawyers.
Open for 10 years on Wednesday, the prison seems more established than ever. The deadline set by President Barack Obama to close Guantanamo came and went two years ago. No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on transfers, and indefinite military detention is now enshrined in U.S. law.
The 10th anniversary will be the subject of demonstrations in London and Washington. Prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba plan to mark the day with sit-ins, banners and a refusal of meals, said Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who represents seven inmates.
"They would like to send a message that the prisoners of Guantanamo still reject the injustice of their imprisonment," said Kassem, a law professor at the City University of New York.
Human rights groups and lawyers for prisoners are dismayed that Obama not only failed to overcome resistance in Congress and close the prison, but that his administration has resumed military tribunals at the base and continues to hold men like al-Nahdi who have been cleared for release.
Critics are also angry over the president's Dec. 31 signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision allowing indefinite military detention without trial.
"Now, we have Guantanamo forever signed into law," said Andrea Prasow, senior counterterrorism counsel for Human Rights Watch. "Instead of pushing forward with the agenda of closure, he has accepted the idea of indefinite detention for the duration of some undefined hostilities."
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Obama still wants to close Guantanamo because "it's the right thing to do for our national security interest," a view that he says is shared by senior members of the military. He noted President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain, while running for president in 2008, also supported closing the prison.
"The commitment that the president has to closing Guantanamo Bay is as firm today as it was during the campaign ... I think this is a process that faces obstacles that we're all aware of and we will continue to work through them," Carney said.
Today, Guantanamo holds 171 prisoners and it's an odd mix. Thirty-six await trial on war crimes charges, including the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. There are 46 in indefinite detention as men the U.S. considers dangerous but who cannot be charged for lack of evidence or other reasons. The U.S. wants to release 32 but hasn't, largely because of congressional restrictions, and 57 men from Yemen, like al-Nahdi, aren't being charged but the government won't let them go because their country is unstable.
"There is not a thing keeping them from going home except that our clever government is waiting for conditions to improve in Yemen, where they have only deteriorated," said John Chandler, a lawyer based in Atlanta, Georgia, who represents al-Nahdi.
Few expected Guantanamo to reach this milestone. The prison, which occupies a portion of the 45-square-mile (115-square-kilometer) U.S. base at the southeastern corner of Cuba, started as an impromptu place to hold men scooped up at the start of the Afghanistan war, a mix that turned out to range from hard-core al-Qaida members to hapless bystanders.
Al-Nahdi seems to be in the middle. He was detained because he attended an al-Qaida-linked training camp in Afghanistan but he was not accused of any specific attacks on U.S. forces. The military classified him as a "low level" mujahedeen who could be transferred out of Guantanamo, where he has been held since June 2002.
The first prisoners, brought to the base shackled and hooded and clad in bright orange jumpsuits, were kept in outdoor cages and interrogated in wooden huts when they arrived on Jan. 11, 2002. With detainees later kept in steel mesh cells, the population grew to nearly 700 by mid-2003.
From the start, the camps seethed with tension. Prisoners, some subjected to harsh interrogations and sleep deprivation, staged mass hunger strikes, and banged on their cell doors for hours and hurled bodily fluids at guards.
In ensuing years, the military erected a modern prison complex virtually indistinguishable from a typical jail, keeping most men in communal blocks with amenities such as video games and cable TV.
U.S. officials have rejected most allegations of abusive conditions, and reports of clashes with guards and turmoil have dropped along with the decline in the prison population.
But the U.S. government also decided Guantanamo's reputation was more trouble than it was worth and began trying to empty it under Bush. His administration released 537 prisoners, transferring them to other countries or freeing them outright.
Under Obama, Congress balked at releasing prisoners, citing concerns that some already let go had rejoined the Taliban or al-Qaida. Congress imposed a requirement that the Defense Department certify a prisoner did not pose a threat if released, a guarantee that officials said was nearly impossible to grant. The law Obama signed Dec. 31 softened the language, but it's been a year since a single man has been transferred out.
"These are men who were in their early 20s when they were picked up and now they are in their early 30s and a significant amount of their lives has slipped away while this debate has gone on and on and on," said Cori Crider, a lawyer for the British human rights group Reprieve who represents several Guantanamo prisoners.
Zachary Katznelson, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said Congress was more interested in scoring political points, and should listen to security experts.
"We are not talking about releasing anyone who is dangerous. We're talking about releasing people who the intelligence and military communities have unanimously agreed should be released," Katznelson said.
Congress also has prohibited moving any Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S. for detention or trial, which effectively blocked Obama's goal of closing the prison by January 2009 and trying the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and others accused of war crimes in a civilian court. Mohammed is expected to be arraigned at the base later this year.
Congress also stripped the prisoners of the right to challenge their detention in the courts by filing writs of habeas corpus. The Supreme Court returned that right, but the courts have said the U.S. can still detain men even if there is little evidence against them and no intention of charging them. When prisoners have won their cases in a lower court, the government has appealed and won.
With such a bleak legal landscape, Chandler and his co-counsel withdrew al-Nahdi's appeal rather than face certain defeat. It's made for difficult meetings when the lawyers must explain why so many others, including prisoners who were convicted of war crimes, have been released.
"He says: 'How come I can't go home? I've never been charged and I'm never going to be charged. And of course, I have no answer to those questions," Chandler said.
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A new guidebook offers fascinating details about the 47 species that populate the United States and Canada
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Bats have an image problem. Throughout much of the world, they "often are associated with the devil, the underworld and the supernatural," write Michael J. Harvey, J. Scott Altenbach and Troy L. Best, authors of the new field guide?Bats of the United States and Canada?(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).??In fact, these flying mammals are among the most agriculturally and ecologically beneficial of animals, consuming vast numbers of insects, dispersing seeds, and pollinating plants. A study published last year in Science showed that insect-eating bats save the U.S. agricultural industry at least $3 billion per year. Yet most North American bat species are in decline as a result of white nose syndrome, habitat loss and extirpation by humans. The book discusses threats to bat populations, efforts to save them and the latest research on how the nocturnal creatures live, breed and feed.
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