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My cousin told me that some parents have stopped sending their kids to school, though he hypothesised that it's just because they're too lazy to get stuck in traffic. The overwhelming opinion is in favour of the protestors, though some are worried about the protests affecting business, especially those whose work is in the demonstration area.

Despite the support, few dare to dream of success. A professor friend told me: "The pace of democracy is painfully slow. One step forward, ten steps retreat."

China's position is also unenviable. If President Xi is seen to allow protests in Hong Kong, it may spark student protests in other reaches of the country, or even Tibet or Mongolia. If it is seen to be reneging on one country, two systems, this will affect its only chance to unite with Taiwan.

I was five years old when the Tiananmen Square massacre happened, but I remember its impact, and people wearing black ribbons in honour of the students who died. I think, as the closest place to China to have seen uncensored news footage, Hong Kong has a special responsibility to ensure nothing like that will happen again.

For this reason I was extra shocked by reports of tear gas being used by police against the unarmed demonstrators; it was another sign that we need to be constantly reminded of each other's humanity, and for this I thank the peaceful members of the Umbrella Revolution.

In a city of plentiful luxuries, they have shown that Hong Kong people know the difference between a luxury and a right.

Emma-Lee, known by her stage name Emmy the Great, is a musician and culture writer. Follow Emmy the Great on Twitter

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SAFETY HARBOR| The city has called an emergency meeting for 6 p.m. Monday to consider a possible moratorium on tree removal while commissioners finish work on an ordinance that strengthens its existing tree protection law.

The meeting, to be held at City Hall, comes amid protests over last week's removal of about a dozen trees by the privately-owned Safety Harbor Resort and Spa to make way for an improved parking lot.

Safety Harbors current ordinance protects only grand trees of a certain size. So, the spa, which city officials say has been considering its project since at least 2005, applied for and was granted permission by Pinellas County. The spa is pursuing permits for additional tree removal of dead, dying and hazardous trees.

The project has upset a vocal contingent of residents who call it an affront to the environment and the citys charm.

City commissioners in recent months have revisited a years-old request that the city tweak its ordinance to expand authority to all trees within city limits.

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Man released from jail accused of rape

A 40-year-old man was accused on Tuesday of raping a 64-year-old woman who had picked him up after he was released from the Marion County Jail on Monday.

The victim told Marion County Sheriffs Office detective Mark Peavy that she picked James Patrick Kane up at the jail about 4 p.m. and took him to her residence. She said they talked and she told him she had a busy day the next day and needed to go to bed. She told him she did not want to have sex because she had a headache, a report states.

She said she gave Kane a kiss on the cheek and he grabbed the back of her head and began kissing her and then forcibly had sex with her, the report notes.

Peavy and a sheriffs deputy found Kane and talked to him. According to the report, he said the woman picked him up and they went to her home. He said they left and later returned, and that she told him she did not want to have sex because of a headache. He admitted to having sex with the woman without her consent, the report states.

Kane was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail, where he was charged with sexual assault.

Police: Woman sent drugs to inmate

A woman who is accused of sending drugs through the mail to her incarcerated boyfriend turned herself in at the Marion County Jail on Monday. She was charged with introducing contraband into the jail.

A jail employee was checking mail and noticed a suspicious envelope and showed it to Detective Meyer Carter.

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Laderas director of golf, Sam Zimmerly, says there hasnt been this much grass on the course in decades. This photo, taken in July, shows the No. 6 hole. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. If you havent played Ladera Golf Course in recent weeks, then you havent played Ladera in many years.

Maybe ever.

After years of struggling to have much if any grass on the fairways, and after what appeared to be a botched $2 million renovation for a new sprinkler system in 2011-12, something very interesting has finally happened at Ladera.

Its turned into a golf course, and it is still improving daily.

I got here in June of 1995, and Ive never had this much grass here ever, said Sam Zimmerly, the courses director of golf. Even in the heydays of the late 80s, when I played here as a competitor at New Mexico Opens, there was not nearly this much grass.

Its the new watering system. They put the heads in the correct position to water where we needed to water, and we have the proper fairway lines and even rough lines where we never had them before. And even though we have so much more grass, the new system cut the water bill down by 25 percent.

As of today, the entire course has again opened.

For much of the year, only the front side was open while new cart paths were being completed on the back nine. But all 18 on the championship course, as well as the executive nine, are ready to roll.

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A new study from North Carolina State University sheds light on how some collegiate student-athletes deal with uncertainties ranging from excelling in both school and sports to their career prospects outside of athletics, and urges university athletic programs to adopt new efforts to support student-athletes.

"We wanted to explore how student-athletes at top-tier universities cope with the dual challenges of meeting the expectations of their teams while simultaneously complying with their responsibilities as university students," says Dr. Lynsey Romo, an assistant professor of communication at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

The study was based on in-depth interviews with 17 student-athletes at a university that is considered to be "elite" in both its academic and athletic programs.

"This is a qualitative study, so we can't generalize these findings to all college athletes,"Romo says. "But it's highly likely that universities with both high-level academics and athletics can use this information to examine their own programs and explore possible services for their student-athletes."

The researchers found that student-athletes reported feeling uncertain in three areas: personal uncertainty, such as uncertainty about balancing school work and sports; social uncertainty, such as uncertainty related to who their "real" friends are; and future uncertainty, such as uncertainty concerning their post-collegiate careers and whether the time they spend pursuing athletics will hurt their career prospects.

Most of the student-athletes reported using a variety of techniques to reduce uncertainty. These uncertainty-reduction strategies included seeking social support from friends, family, or academic counselors; socializing with friends to take a break from sports and school pressures; negotiating with coaches in an attempt to raise their scholarship; and sometimes concealing their athlete status from peers to minimize people befriending them for the wrong reasons, or prevent negative stereotypes. Other student-athletes came to terms with uncertainty as a natural part of life and turned to prayer to help them cope.

"Our findings suggest that universities can do more to prepare students for life outside of athletics," Romo says. "For example, athletics departments may be able to work with employers to offer flexible paid or unpaid professional internships around student-athletes' seasons. In this way, student athletes can receive work experience in fields outside of sports.

"In addition," Romo says, "university athletics programs should take steps to give student-athletes more free time -- what is sometimes overlooked amidst a heavy athletics and academic schedule is the scholar athletes' need to unwind and decompress. Study participants reported having to make a concerted effort to see family and friends, often at the cost of time that could have been devoted to schoolwork. They need more downtime."

The paper, "'You Never Know What's Gonna Happen': An Examination of Communication Strategies Used by College Student-Athletes to Manage Uncertainty," is published online in the journal Communication & Sport.

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To every thing there is a season.

As the minister read Ecclesiastes 3 to the assembled at Memorial Square in Barrie Wednesday afternoon, a flock of grey pigeons rose above the Canadian flag, breaking away from the white seagulls they'd been flying with around the shoreline to perch on a rooftop across the street.

Against a grey sky, a faint mist fell as Rev. Colin MacDonald read from the Old Testament in memory of Lucy Pinho and other homeless people who've recently died in the city of Barrie.

There's a time to be born and time to die, MacDonald said to the social workers who sat beside homeless people, and to street beat police officers who were there to pay their respects to Pinho who was found dead near the washrooms at Heritage Park Friday, Sept. 5.

Originally from Toronto, Pinho had moved to Barrie and at one point, accepted the services of the Canadian Mental Health Association and the David Busby Street Centre. But due to mental illness, Pinho became distrustful of people and being inside buildings, and refused to enter churches during the coldest months of the year to take comfort in the Out of the Cold program.

There's a time to weep and a time to laugh, the minister said to the middle-aged woman carrying two white and one blue rose in memory of a lady she'd never met.

Debbie said she drove up from Mississauga after she'd visited Barrie in September, and followed the white ribbons tied around poles and sign posts to the similarly decorated grate where Pinho used to sleep.

Tears were quickly brushed away as she described her own life two years ago, living in her van in the snow without a home and how when she saw Pinho's grate, she knew how easily that could have been her own fate.

Pinho slept on a steel platform in an alleyway behind the TD bank on Collier Street, but was asked to vacate the property by city staff who said they'd received complaints that a woman was camping downtown.

Near the end of August, a large fence was installed around the grate so she couldn't return to the spot and soon afterward, her health began to fail.

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