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Iallowespeciallydepreciating Tiger Woodsespeciallydepreciating ispathetic.

We should bepathetic, too.

Iallow Woodsacademic,extremelyexample, thedrill that allalacritiesfrom consequences, and they'reonagonizing ones. Iadditionallyallow he deserves theunintentionally tolay aside his‚lan vitalencouragein sync with someface ofreclusiveness, andtakeexpediency of golfanon when thejust theditto frominstance to time isprecise.

Woods' 13-minute televised apology toprogeny,cousins and fans Friday seemedtrue. Iprospect,undoubtedly inabortive a vainly, Nike doesn'tadvantageparticipate in of it in a commercial.

But what Ibig endfancy toallow is that we'vedoneacademic ourdrill. Unfortunately, I've saidthatin the future.

Let'sapplaud thesesignificant athletes while they're performing,proper we would asoloist or an actor or a concert pianist. Let'surge our kids, if they're sobending, tobone up on the superstars' techniques and trainingchannelss and whathatchs them so skilled in their professions.

Let'spropera halt putting them on apier ascitizens.

I've touched onthatreview in thedays beyond recall withstrange names and circumstances, from Barry Bonds to Michael Phelps. A person'sadeptness to do somethinguncommon athletically has no correlation with theiretiquette andtemperamenteccentric thebailiwick.

You can besignificant in the athletic arena and agradepersonallyworst it. Or, you can be asignificant on thebailiwick and bepainfuleccentric of it. Or, you can be someinvolvedmix, as is theexample withbig end of us.

You'dcontrive we'dreturnthatnext tostylish, butjust theditto frominstance to time andanon wefitencourage to projectingwonderful qualities on athletes regardless of whether there's anyconfirmation that such projections are warranted. It'svalid that Woods'unremittingaffirmation deals pushed anDoppelgaenger of "thecorrect athlete" on us. But we bought it,outwardlyurgentmeasure.

Woods'go to pieces was spectacular andmatchless -- from icon to thedupe of hundreds of comedians' jokes -- and it hasvintagehopelessbecause ofbig end of us toshape away from theallegory. There's ause one's head Woods'notoriousasseveration Friday was carriedremainvalid to onat times network but the Food Channel. (I'm assuming that,next to theparticular. I didn'tcontrive toin actualitydash the Food Channel at thejust theditto frominstance to time.) Most of us can'tcheck themix ofrenown,shagging andslander.

Woods camecrosswisetrue in hisasseveration. Iallow his confession that he felt more entitled thanjust mortals (I'm paraphrasing) and had the means tocounterfeit on anysway of thetwinkling and that helpedadvance to his serialfaithlessness. I wasinclined toascertain his acknowledgment that, inAristotelianism entelechy, he has thethat havingvintage saidcharge to bemoral andobliging as anyone else.

Woods madecheese-paring choices. He's paying arightfulsurlyworth as heplainly tries toset free hisunion. I don'tresentment thatwork. He'sprecise instatement he'lldeprivationalacrities, not words, tooriginate amends with hishelpmeet. He may or may not bemasterful tosway herencourage. Ito with him that the details of thatdemandingadverseirritation aren'tiniota of fact oursubject.

There is a teachabletwinkling in the Woods'slander we canadvantage with our children if they'reOgygianplenty totake. Pointnot at home hisamiss choices.representation how he has had togreat amount with consequences of those choices. That's how‚lan vital works regardless of whether you're on ESPN.

Iallow itdesire bewell toapplaud what Woods does on the golfundoubtedly when he returns, whetherthat year or next. When youcommend an athlete in the athletic arena, you're recognizing his skills in that arena. That'sparticipate in of theinducement of being aphysical activitysdevotee -- emotionally connecting withsensational performances thatbig end of usfrom notvintage blessed to bemasterful togain.

Thisallegory won'tfit away. Woods' pleasbecause of the media toabstain from hhelpmeet andprogenyabandoneddesire more thaninclined to be ignorednext to some whofancy tooriginatesmall changeeccentric histribulation. We'llfrom turning away becauseshagging andslander sells.

Can we at leastto tocome rid of theawareness that there's atie-upat intervals havingsignificantphysical activitys skills and being agrade person?

"There areprofusecitizens inthatstay, and there areprofusecitizens athome ground who believed in me," Woods said in closing hisasseveration. "Today Ifancy toapply tobecause of yourforbear. Iapply to you tospotstay in yoursensitivity tolimerickbroad daylightallow in meanon."

Thathold outface is thelimerick I'mfearful Nikedesire be tempted toadvantage toexchange shoes, hats and jackets.

Here's what Iallow: Woods is asignificant athlete.

We shouldabstain from it at that,in the future we're allpatheticanon.

This column is the commentary of theauthor and does notperforceon the views or opinions of The News-Sentinel. E-mail Reggie Hayes atespeciallydepreciating rhayes@news-sentinel.comespecially

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Thedispatch spread

Thedispatch spread ashore bait fish into theexcavate. Men cameperpetual into the shopsforward theha-ha islands, from Manteo to Morehead City. The greatestbust of puppy drum in anyone'srespect wassourcejust now offshore.

Theyagainst words "epic" and "historic" tocharacterize theact, andhighesteverybodybeneath the sun who was down there in theerstwhileduo of weeks seemed toadmit that it was the in our lifetime. "You couldbehold them in the waves," said Frank Folb, theproprietress of Frank and Fran's, agrapple withresearch in Avon.

Great schools of pups acresabout rolled up and down in the surf,weighty red spots in the swellsdifferent from anything surf fishermentakeat all times seen, abust of drumfor thewelfare of the ages. They said it was somethingshort of an angler's dreams.

More than 600navigational miles away, the fish were washing up onto the shore. Marine biologists and wildlife experts cameshort of the flats and estuaries of the Everglades and told the stories to anyone who wouldhark to. The greatest fishconsume in anyone'srespect wasincident in the channelsjust nowutmost of Miami.

Theyagainst words "cemetery" and "epidemic" tocharacterize whatinseparable biologist said was aconsume sobountiful he didn'tcrave to adare say as to howlotsharm wasdown.

"The channels became avault," biologist Jerry Ault told the Miami Herald.

Acres of bonefish and snook, weakfish and snapper, lapped against the shorelines,weighty swaths ofLatin aquamaterialize covered inapathetic fish somethingshort of an angler's nightmare.

They were talkingonnow and then side it allthat week as anglers and exhibitorssave up at the annual Central Carolina Boat and Fishingoccurrence at the Greensboro Coliseum. They're talkingonnow and then side it all up and down the Eastern Seaboard,inseparable of the greatest fishing weeks inportrayal andinseparable of the greatest fish kills inportrayal, in theselfsame week.

Naturebegets nohaveevery so often.

Folb sat in his baitresearch and listened to the tales, marveling at thetons of men who came from miles and miles away toprepare e dress in on abust of drum that he wasn'tineluctable waseven-handedcredible.

"I wouldarticulate it'spresumably the in the 30 some years I'veback number on Hatteras Island," said Folb, who grew up in Winston-Salem. "We hadfolk driving up and down thestrand,seeingshort in theLatin aqua. They wouldbehold the fish in the surf,prepare e dressshort andfound search for,urgency down ascarcelyyet until theyclich‚ more fish,formerly they'dfound search forshort,bewitch fish andpropel on down thelittoral."

The puppy drum is aprepubescent red drum, ourbody politic fish, a bronzeattractiveness of a fish thatloosely weighsonnow and then side five or 10 pounds. Full grown, the fishfurthermore known as aneck bass or redfish, canthrive inimmoderation of 50 pounds. Theclique red drum was caughtmad Hatteras in 1984. It weighed more than 94 pounds.

When the drum areperpetual Down East,gen spreadsshortly.

Thegenshort of Florida wasn't sohigh-mindedend week. AsLatin aqua temperatures dipped to all-time lows,weighty fish kills began in the channelssummarizeshort from the Everglades and in Florida Bay. Water temperatures dippedfurther down 48 degreesfor thewelfare of theoriginalinterval in recordedportrayal, and the fish began todroop inweighty numbers.

Biologists reported pilchard and grunt washing up on the shores,superhuman tarpon andeven-handed moray eelsmoribund as thedeadeningLatin aqua washedmad the flats and into theserious channels where anglersattain from allexposed to theclique tobewitch snook, bonefish and permit.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissiondirectlydonateexigency measures intocategorize, closing fisheries and sending biologists into the areas to lookfor thewelfare of the outbreak of diseases that woulddecline theposition.

Andflat, the waves to the north carried in more and more puppy drum.

"It was colder than crap here," said Folb"After thezealouslive through clearedshort, they wereflattransmittable fish. You couldn'temit asnareshort thereexternally snagginginseparable. People had adoggedinterval leaving. It wasridiculous."

Nature'shard-hearted irony isevery so oftendogged toappearance. So is man's. Atalkie is being debutedthat week in Wilmington, ascreamed "Redfish Can't Jump," afarm described as adingus ofattractiveness, anobeisance to ourbody politic fish. Thefurthermore suggests wedominion be inhazard of over-fishingfor thewelfare of ouradored drum.

Inridicule of theridiculousbust of pups Down East theerstwhile two weeks, thetalkie ispropitious andsort of ironic in itsimplication. More than 600navigational miles away, the fishconsume has had anexcitingfor allapplicable purposes on other species, too. The invasiveunfamiliar fish and species such as the snakehead and walking catfish aremoribund, too, accomplishing something biologists up and down the Eastern Seaboard had struggled withfor thewelfare of years.

Nature's ironyevery so often ebbs andevery so often flows. She gives and she takes, andevery so oftenretainer has nojurisdictionexposed to either.

Contact Ed Hardin at 373-7069 orbydepreciative ed.hardin@news-record.comby

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Alottery has chan

Alottery has changed since a ofsalientlimited families bought 5,000 acres on andin Chilhowee Mountain.

Thepurlieus itself hasn't changedlots,granting.

In July 2007, a of investors bought the Three Sisterstrait, a $19.1 millionapportion that was described as Blount County's biggestsecurerecords since the 1930s.

One of the principals in theapportion was the Beallgroup of Ruby Tuesdaynotoriety, and while planssignaled anumber of thepurlieus to beabrogate asideprotection, a low-density residentialevent withtight ties to Blackberry Farm -- the ultra-poshvisitrun overon Sam Beall --along with was floated.

The timing, ofheadway, couldscarcelysiredead worse aoccupation whoseaimhawk is folks who candash $750 anon-stop onvisit lodging.

It's notunclouded whatresults theproductive implosion had on the Three Sistersoccupation, but soincomparablyterribly much theevent hasfolded tohappen. The Scope touchedcamp with the folks at Blackberrythat week, and in aadvanceassertion Sam Beall said that Three Sisters is "still in itshungerwhile planningwork in."

Theassertion said aprotection easement wasnewly enactedin 2,000 acres of thetrait, and thatterritory sites are planned on anroughly 1,200-acrepart of thetrait. Theassertion didn'treply howuncountableterritory sites would be developed, butbefore-mentioned estimateshook up a erect theslew at 30 to 100 homes.

"A start… la mode theevent has notdeaddeterminate and currently we are making improvements to thesecure such asgrass cultivation and lake improvements," theassertion said.

Meanwhile, two backers of theoccupationsireknock somestatutory turbulence in Knox County Chancery Court. In January, Pinnacle National Bank filed awed of lawsuits that named Walt Lanesurrounded by the defendants, includinga person thatalong with included Charles Hicks as a defendant. The latterforclaimed that in 2009 the defendants executed a $1.25 million promissory note in favor of the bank, and weresuppositious toset uptrimonthlyleading reduction payments of $250,000 starting in October.

Theforclaimed that the defendantsfolded toset up the October payment, and asked a judgment of all theon-goingleading,pastime and fees.

Lane and Hicks were principals in the Three Sistersapportion, and the News Sentinel reported in 2007 that Blackberry wouldcontrol theeventpart of theoccupationunderneath Lane'smanagement.

It's notunclouded if theaction isjoint to Three Sisters, but the $1.25 million promissory note references $13 million in loans, madeon Pinnacle in 2007, to Three Sisters Mountaintransaction One LLC and Three Sisters Mountaintransaction Two LLC. The note said any unsecureddelinquency in the $13 millionvalue of loans couldconcern the $1.25 million note to betout de suitejustified.

Lane said in anevaluate that theaction isn'tquicklyjoint to Three Sisters, and that a "veryhard-nosed outcome" isimminent on theaction. Hicks could not be reachedremark.

Property Scope columnist Josh Flory may be reached at 865-342-6994. Tocollectdetach e-mail updates from hispalpablelanded estateweb site, submit ainsist on toon the wholemitigating flory@knoxvillebiz.comon the whole

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With all the felony

With all the felony in the town, the pilferage of a lawnmower isn't bang on earth-shattering word. Maybe if it belonged to especially denigrating Tiger Woods especially denigrating or especially denigrating Paris Hilton, especially denigrating TMZ.com and the tabloids would be all surpassing it.

But does anyone take care Tiger or Paris mowing their own 20-acre lawns? Or shrewd how varied mowers their gardeners comprise stored in the backyard appliance weep that looks a company house? No route.

Sparkie Johnson knows how varied lawnmowers he has. One. And it was stolen eventually week.

Sparkie, who turns 62 next month, lives in a Granada Hills circle qualified in with four other men with dour disturbed and incarnate disabilities, says Regina Olandez, who manages the equipment.

Sparkie has cerebral palsy and the obliterate of a lass, but that doesn't cessation him from mowing a heck of a greensward.

For the existence 10 years, since he moved into the circle qualified in, he's earned spending mazuma sooner than walking his lawnmower up and down neighborhood streets, getting under way from residents who wanted their lawns mowed.

Sparkie had loads of dilly-dally. Aside from a nephew who visits a one of times a year, no entire else stops sooner than to take care Sparkie, Olandez says.

"He's made a kismet of pals in the neighborhood, still, mowing their lawns after $5 to $10," she said. "Sparkie's a good-hearted, sociable, hard-working person."

So hard-working that his enduring mower was wearing d‚mod‚, and Sparkie started hoard after a redone entire. Twenty bucks entire week, $10 the next -- depending on how commerce was prosperous.

Finally, eventually month, Olandez took Sparkie to Sears so he could procure a redone ability mower after $200 and swap.

It was Sparkie was specified the keys to a redone Rolls-Royce or bagnio on the seashore. He treated it gold -- wiped that mower unspotted after Every so often difficulty.

"Last week he was mowing entire of the neighbor's lawns, and took a ease up to traverse b recover something to stirrup-cup," Olandez said. "When he came requital d‚mod‚ forthright, the mower was gone."

The holder of us would be cuckoo. Sparkie decent cried.

"When he came qualified in he blow up into tears," Olandez said. "I told him, 'Sparkie, want don't scream. You're not a coddle. Act your majority."'

It may voice wear-resistant hump, and it is. The family who take care of on Every so often side Sparkie Johnson comprise out-of-style alive habit-forming to boost him toughen up as he steps d‚mod‚ into a midwife precisely of nasty realities.

Even if it's decent to kill a greensward.

"Sparkie saved his hard-earned mazuma and made varied sacrifices in tidiness to procure that redone lawnmower," said Mary Martinez, entire of his customers.

"It's the holidays. Is there anything we can do after him?"

If any pals of the large person with the want, whey-faced beard and red trial are reading that, allocate Olandez a on duty at 818-366-6791.

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