KENOSHA, Wis. A day later, the only thing clear about Venric Mark is that he no longer plays for Northwestern. He departed Camp Kenosha on Wednesday, much to the sadness of his teammates.

Its a family member our guys know and love, safety Ibraheim Campbell said.

Said quarterback Trevor Siemian: Were just praying for him and hoping everything works out.

The circumstances of his departure will remain murky until Mark addresses them. For a second day, he and family members did not respond to calls or text messages.

Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said he and Mark had a mutual discussion Tuesday night and Mark could have remained with the team. But it seems apparent Mark would have faced more discipline beyond the two-game suspension handed down to him in June for an unspecified violation of team rules.

Faced with the prospect of more punishment, the star tailback and return man opted to return home to Texas. Campbell said Mark told him he was going through some things at home and he needed to be closer to home. I told him we love him and whenever he is back in Chicago, he should hit some of us up.

Mark is one class shy of earning his Northwestern degree, and he can do that at another school and transfer the credit. Whether he also can play for the school as a scholarship athlete or walk-on is unclear.

Asked if he expects to get calls from schools inquiring about Mark, Fitzgerald replied: I hope so. Hes an outstanding football player and a terrific young man. Like I told him and his mom, well help him in any way we can. The challenge, quite frankly, is on him to speak up and reach out. We move on. The program moves on.

In that vein, Fitzgerald took the unusual step Thursday of announcing that four freshmen would play this fall, rather than being redshirted running backs Justin Jackson (Glenbard North) and Solomon Vault, defensive lineman Xavier Washington and superback Garrett Dickerson, younger brother of receiver Cam Dickerson.

Hes really athletic, a strong kid who blocks really well, Siemian said of the 6-foot-3, 250-pound younger Dickerson. They dont burn shirts for no reason, so the kid can play.

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Grosse Pointe Park is being accused of trying to wall itself off from Detroit by erecting farmer sheds across Kercheval Avenue at its border with the city. And thats a hard assertion to deny.

But consider what the suburban community is walling itself off from. The area of Detroits east side that borders Grosse Pointe Park is among the most blighted in the city, perhaps in the country.

Blocks are sparsely populated, with more vacant lots and burned out or abandoned homes than viable dwellings. The area also has a high crime rate.

Meanwhile, across Alter Road, Wayburn Street in Grosse Pointe Park is home to a diverse population and older but well-maintained single and multiple family dwellings.

But Grosse Pointe Park has seen from the experience of other ring suburbs how blight can cross the border, and is making an all-out effort to keep that from happening.

It has taken a series of creative steps to shore up the residential blocks closest to Detroit, including providing low-cost home improvement loans.

And it is in the midst of transforming its business district on Kercheval into one of the coolest outside of downtown Detroit. New restaurants and retail shops have opened, and the city is trying to create a pedestrian-friendly entertainment district.

Thats where the vegetable sheds come in. The temporary structures across Kercheval force traffic to go around the central business district, instead of straight through it. That cuts down on traffic.

Originally, the plan was for permanent office buildings. The temporary sheds were a bow to criticism that Grosse Pointe Park is walling itself off from its urban neighbor.

Residents from Detroit can easily walk from their homes to the downtown area. If they choose to drive, they can still take Alter Road, a short block north of Kercheval, turn right and follow a paved alley that has a sign directing visitors to the Kercheval Business District.

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"I'm fine now, I'm OK, and then...next thing you know, it's not OK. You're standing at a precipice and you look down, there's a voice, and it's a little quiet voice that goes, 'Jump.' The same voice goes, 'Just one.' For someone who has no tolerance for it, that's not a possibility," Williams said during a 2006 interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer.

Williams had just completed rehab for alcohol addiction when he did the interview. While he openly talked about his battle with alcohol and a cocaine addiction in the 1980s, his deep struggle with depression was not as well known.

ABC senior medical contributor Dr. Jennifer Ashton says the two are separate illnesses that can feed off each other.

"Of course, depression can lead to addiction and addiction could lead to depression. But they can be two parallel disease processes, and when one or both are out of control, they can spiral precipitously downhill very quickly," said Ashton.

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Ashton says one thing we can learn is that depression needs to be taken seriously.

"Let's not let another person die in vain. Let's increase our awareness and understand that when a person is profoundly depressed, they need one to one medical attention," said Ashton. "It's a true medical emergency, and the first step is getting that person help."

While paying tribute to Williams on Twitter, some celebrities also issued a serious message to fans.

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To some folks, watching grass grow could seem sort of tedious, especially if they just planted it.

Ask Andrea Small about it, however, and it could lead to insights on subjects from saving shorelines to cutting carbon emissions.

Thats the cool part, said Small, surrounded by acre after acre of marsh grass near Guana Lake in St. Johns County. The ratio of how much you have to take versus how much you benefit, because it is a fast-growing plant its such a good return.

Exactly what the ratio is really isnt clear yet, but it could be fairly soon.

Small, manager of the states Northeast Florida Aquatic Preserves, is overseeing a two-year project to draw scientific lessons on growing and harvesting the saltmarsh cordgrass that lines miles of First Coast waterfront.

The project was launched last month with a $10,000 federal grant to cover the cost to monitor grasses, restore two acres as a demonstration and publish a guide on best practices for cultivating the cordgrass, known formally as Spartina alterniflora.

Spartina is used a lot now in places that arent natural, from highway berms and ridges to manicured golf courses, said Forest Beeman, vice president of Beemans Nursery in New Smyrna Beach.

Thats okay, Beeman said, if someones ready to water the stand of grass regularly and tend it carefully.

But thats not the life cordgrass was built for, or the muddy, crawly environment where it flourishes.

Its in the muck, it seems, where Spartina is most precious.

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