Danny Monteverde, WWLTV 1:35 PM. CDT August 08, 2017

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NEW ORLEANS -- Sewerage & Water Board Executive Director Cedric Grant, who came under fire in recent days after he blamed two weekend flood events on global warming, announced Tuesday he will retire this fall.

He said that information he learned in the last day indicated that some parts of the drainage system did not work as designed. "It contradicts information that I was given to provide to the public. Our staff was not forthright, which is unacceptable."

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On Monday, S&WB officials first said seven of the 121 pumps were not working. They later said eight were offline.

"Rather than be a distraction to the hard work of fixing the system, earlier today, I notified the mayor of my retirement later this fall," he wrote in a prepared statement. "It is also clear to me that there are additional personnel actions that are needed to restore confidence in this organization. I look forward to helping our Mayor, this Council and the Board identify what specifically needs to be done to rebuild this organization and our critical infrastructure."

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A new life coaching business, Tranquility, has opened in Klamath Falls and offers guidance and workshops, according to a news release.

The business, operated by life coach Angeline OConnor, offers services to help clients build self esteem, create self conflict resolution and inner strength, achieve balance, learn life skills and more.

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Linda Lanker has had a 48-year nonstop association with track and field.

The longtime area community college and high school coach has been to China and Miami as part of USA Track & Field teams. And shes a three-time masters national hurdles champion.

Additionally, Lanker was inducted in January along with former Washington State coach John Chaplain into the Washington State Track and Field Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Nothing tops her recent experience, though, as the womens head coach for the U20 Pan American team that won the team championship in Trujillo, Peru.

Its the best experience Ive ever had as a coach, the 61-year-old Coeur dAlene resident said.

Lanker met her future team members at the U.S. National meet in June in Sacramento, California. A week later, she called each of the 48 team members.

Then when the team flew to Peru, she had four days to get to know the athletes better before they competed.

As a USATF coach, youre there to serve, Lanker said.

Lanker was appointed head coach in December 2015. She was nominated based on her past experiences with USATF.

Ive always gotten high recommendations from the athletes, Lanker said.

USATF coaches are asked to simply encourage and support the athletes, Lanker said. Its off limits for coaches to talk to athletes about their technique unless the athletes request assistance.

For Lanker, this is where she encountered one of the highlights of her involvement.

Quincy Hall of Raytown, Missouri, a hurdler on the mens team, asked Lanker for some technical help. She told Hall he had to ask his individual coach for permission.

Halls coach knew of Lanker and gave his blessing.

Quincy told me he had terrible form, Lanker said. I noticed he was struggling with his alternate leg, sort of stuttering going over the hurdles. So I showed him a drill I had taught it to (former WSU standout) Jeshua Anderson years ago. Its a four-step drill that forces you to use both legs going over the hurdles.

He had three days to prepare for his heat in the 400-meter hurdles.

Quincy was so coachable, Lanker said. There were just a couple technical things that we worked on.

It made a huge difference. Hall won his heat and the next day captured a gold medal, winning in a personal best time of 49.51 seconds and setting a Pan Am record.

He looked absolutely beautiful, Lanker said. All I said to him before the final was, Youve got this. Give it all you have and the last 150 meters give everything going home.

Hall will be a sophomore at College of the Sequoias, a two-year community college in Visalia, California. Lanker said several NCAA Division I schools are recruiting him.

Hall posted on Instagram his gratefulness for Lankers help.

God sent me an angel. Coach Lanker, thank you for everything, Hall wrote.

Hall plans to spend a week in Coeur dAlene in October getting additional training from Lanker.

Lanker said there was a big police presence around the athletes at the stadium and hotels.

Trujillo is the third-most dangerous city in Peru, Lanker said.

The opportunity to coach the U.S. womens team allowed Lanker the chance to see the best of the up-and-coming athletes. The team consisted of juniors and seniors in high school and freshmen in college.

Theyre next in line for the Worlds and the Olympics, Lanker said.

Two other people with ties to the region also assisted the womens and mens teams in Peru Spokane chiropractor Dru Lopez and University of Idaho assistant track coach Cathleen Cawley, who was an event manager for the women.

Lanker was allowed to keep the Pan Am womens team championship trophy. She plans to find a place for it in her home office.

She wants to continue coaching for another nine years and will welcome any additional opportunities with USATF.

I feel so blessed, Lanker said. Who would have thought at 61 I would have had this opportunity?

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SANTA BARBARA, Calf. Twenty years ago, Virginia Tech gave Bonnie Henrickson her first head-coaching job.

She's a long way from Blacksburg these days.

Henrickson is heading into her third season as the women's basketball coach at UC Santa Barbara.

UCSB plays in the Big West Conference, which lacks the prestige of Henrickson's previous stints in the Big East and the Big 12. But Henrickson is loving life on the California coast.

There are palm trees outside her office. Some of the dormitories on campus overlook the Pacific Ocean.

Henrickson was hired by UCSB in 2015, six weeks after being fired by Kansas. She has never unpacked her winter coat and boots, which remain in a box in her garage.

"I feel very fortunate," Henrickson, 54, said in an interview at her office last month. "When I finally met the players, I'm like, 'You guys really go to class, right?

"In Chicago [at the women's Final Four this year] I saw Geno [Auriemma, the Connecticut coach] and we talked for a while. He was saying, 'You've landed in a good spot, haven't you? and I said, 'Yes."

UCSB does not have a football team, so Henrickson can't bring visiting recruits to home games like she did at her previous two schools. She takes them to the beach instead.

Henrickson also takes advantage of her locale on her days off. She lives about a mile from the ocean, so she takes long walks on the beach on the weekends.

"This just happens to be icing on the cake that it's this beautiful," said Henrickson, who grew up in Minnesota. "But if we win, it wouldn't really matter where I live."

Henrickson coached the Hokies from 1997-2004 back when the team played in the Atlantic 10 and the Big East. The "Bonnie Ball" era produced the glory years of the Tech women's basketball program.

Henrickson was 158-62 with five NCAA tournament appearances in seven seasons. The Hokies advanced to the Sweet 16 in the 1998-99 season, when the team averaged a school-record 5,221 fans at Cassell Coliseum.

"It was fun," she said. "It was the place to be there for a while.

"For me to get a start there at a place like that will always be special for me."

Henrickson had been a Tech assistant for seven years, followed by a two-year stint as an Iowa assistant, before then-Tech athletic director Dave Braine made her a first-time head coach.

She was 34 years old when she took over the Hokies. After winning just 10 games in the final year of the Carol Alfano coaching regime, Tech went 22-10 in Henrickson's first season at the helm.

"The first trip we ever took, we played in the St. Mary's tournament [in California]. I vividly remember being on the bus going to Roanoke to fly out, thinking, 'Oh my God, I'm not mature enough. I'm responsible for everyone right now and we're going to fly and go to the West Coast," Henrickson said.

Henrickson not only has fond memories of some of her NCAA tournament games but also of attending Hokies football games. Former Tech football coach Frank Beamer called her when she got the UCSB job.

"So many good friends in the department and the community and former players. Facebook is for old people, so that's how I catch up with those guys," she said with a chuckle. "I need to go back and see some people."

Lew Perkins, then the athletic director at Kansas, hired her away from Tech in 2004.

Henrickson was 186-171 in 11 seasons with the Jayhawks, including Sweet 16 berths in 2012 and 2013. But those were her only two NCAA bids at the school, and she never had a winning Big 12 record. Perkins' successor, Shehon Zenger, fired her in March 2015 after back-to-back losing seasons.

"Injuries affect success. Success affects recruiting," Henrickson said. "The ability to maintain the level of recruiting at the level it takes to be successful in that league, we didn't get it done."

Henrickson landed her current job the following month. Perkins knew UCSB athletic director John McCutcheon and recommended Henrickson for the Gauchos' vacancy. UCSB needed a replacement for Carlene Mitchell, who was fired after a 2-27 campaign.

Henrickson had recruited in California a great deal when she was the coach at Kansas, so she already had the AAU and high school connections in the state that UCSB was seeking.

When Henrickson visited the campus for her interview, she was impressed.

"The place sells itself," she said.

She also liked the fact that USCB has been to the NCAAs 14 times since the early 1990s.

"At that time, being 52 [when] taking the job, it was really important for me to find a place that I really felt like we could be successful. Because we don't get it done here, this is it for me," she said. "I'm not going to get another chance. For me to be able to land at a place that had so much success and is built to have continued success as long as we do our job, I couldn't have asked for a better situation.

"Sometimes we don't recycle as much on the women's side as we do sometimes on the men's side."

The Gauchos went 12-20 in Henrickson's first season after winning just 10 games in the previous two years combined. The team went 8-8 in Big West play her first season.

Last season, the Gauchos were 16-16 overall and 9-7 in Big West play. They lost to Long Beach State 56-55 in the Big West tournament title game.

"There's no reason we can't be successful here," she said. "There's so much talent in the state of California and [on] the West Coast."

Competing with the beach isn't easy when it comes to luring fans, though. The Gauchos averaged just 673 fans at home last season.

Henrickson looks different than she did during her reign at Tech. She had short, brown hair when she was in Blacksburg, but she now has long, blonde hair.

Her coaching style is a bit different, too.

"All the former players, if they were around me now, would say I've gotten soft in my old age," Henrickson said.

Although Henrickson is still an NCAA Division I coach, she is no longer in a major conference.

"Big-time's not a place. It's a state of your heart," she said. "I think we can be big-time here.

"I love it here. And I think we can win."

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One night we drove through what seemed to be an empty field and ended up swimming in a volcanic vent where hot water seeped straight out into the ocean! - Kaitlyn, retreat guest

We got tossed upside down and around and the only thing that kept us steady was just holding onto the rope. - Kit, retreat host

If, in your world travels, you happen to come across a volcano, youre likely to also come across Rosie and Kit Volcano, who hold periodic retreats at active volcano sites around the world, like this one in the Azores islands off Portugal. They call themselves Yoga Life Coaches, and when theyre not visiting volcanoes, theyre working magic with their coaching clients, both offline in San Diego and online. Youve probably never met a Yoga Life Coach before. Neither had I, until I met these two. Not being into yoga myself, I had to find out just what a Yoga Life Coach can offer thats different from other life coaches, and how much into yoga do I have to be to experience the transformation they offer.

Apparently, not much. Rosie and Kit offer life coaching in person or online, and then offer up live Yoga sessions to their tribe on Facebook. Anyone at any level of yoga, from beginners to the most advanced practitioners, can experience the magic of The Little Volcano, their self-named business.

These two megastars however are from from Little. From their manifestation bathtub series every Monday on Facebook to their Volcano Yoga Retreats, the upcoming one taking place this September in which they will experience the Autumnal Equinox atop Mount Teide in the Canary Islands, where they will experience one of the the most spectacular views of the Milky Way available on earth.

The Volcanoes brand of Life Coaching revolves around mind, body and spirit, with a heavy dose of accountability thrown in. As life coaches, Rosie and Kit help support you in both determining and manifesting your vision, clearing out the blocks that have been holding you back from your deepest desires.

How they do it is signature Volcano style.

So what does yoga have to do with it? Well, in a sense, everything. Rosie explained it to me by sharing her experience the first time she trained with Ana Forrest, creator of the Forrest Yoga technique Rosie and Kit espouse.

So it comes time for the handstand, and I haven't done a handstand since I was a kid. I remember just thinking, Everybody else will do a handstand and I'll just do this thing called down dog on the wall. It's okay if I never do a handstand. I'm just not a handstand person. And then one of the assistants comes over to me and she tells me that Im getting in a handstand, and I was like No I'm not. It's okay. I don't need to do a handstand, and she said Yeah, you do. Come on. And so she basically coaches me through it and I go upside down and I remember just this crazy thought going through my head. It was like panic. And then I come out. And I'm Wow. The thrill that you get and the sense of accomplishment and a sense of fear conquering that you get just from doing a handstand. It applies to every other area of your life as well. It applies to other things that you might be irrationally scared of. There are things in life that people have a lot of fear around that the fear itself is what's keeping them from moving forward. Once you actually go after the actual thing [youre scared of] you realize it wasn't that scary to begin with.

So it's about taking the lessons you learned in yoga and applying them to other areas of your life, other areas where you're not growing, where you're making yourself suffer more than you should, or where you are putting up with a quality of life that [you dont] want.

One of the trademarks of Forrest Yoga is in holding poses for freakishly long periods of time. Rosie advises us to pay attention to, when the pose gets too uncomfortable, or metaphorically, when life gets too uncomfortable, where you start to check out, where you numb yourself to the present moment, where you vacate presence, and where you, like Rosie and the handstand, give up before you even begin.

Through their Yoga Life Coaching, Rosie and Kit guide you in reclaiming the present moment, pursuing your vision and experiencing transformation, through a combination of meditation, shamanic journeying, yoga and ceremony. It may sound sort of woo-woo and out there, but it may just be the kind of out there woo woo that the world needs to reignite passion and fire.

Being a lesbian couple, there were few traditions Rosie and Kit felt particularly beholden to when they got married, least of which was their surname, for which they randomly decided on Volcano, after a thrift store Make Your Own Volcano Kit sitting on their shelf.

As time went on, they realized how appropriate their seemingly accidental name turned out to be. Volcanoes represent creativity, destruction and new life. They destroy, and yet the earth following their eruptions becomes new and fertile.

Volcanoes are also a source of healing. People come from all over the world to experience the healing powers of mineral hot springs, whose heat is generated by the flowing magma underneath.

As Rosie explains, The whole idea of volcanoes [is in] being this kind of contradictory thing where they can either destroy or create. They can provide these healing, clear mineral rich waters that people [flock to for healing, or] they can create these bubbling boiling geysers of mud that [kill].

Rosie and Kit Volcano embody this contradiction themselves. What started as a marriage between two lesbians, Kits transitioning to becoming a man has made their marriage ironically far more traditional. Their woo-woo shamanic journeying and ritualistic ceremonies are wrapped in extreme accountability that would make a conventional business coachs repertoire pale in comparison. And the transformations that their clients are manifesting are life-changing, within the bathtub, and without. After all, life tends to toss us upside down and around, and sometimes the only thing keeping us steady is the rope we hold onto. Yoga life coaches Rosie and Kit help us find that rope within ourselves.

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A social worker once labelled six-year-old Sophie Willan rebellious, disruptive and rude.

Willan, whose early life was spent in and out of care, reclaimed this description of herself in her critically acclaimed and very funny show On Record.

Her new show, Branded, is a continuation of her life story, and also reveals that between the ages of 19 and 22, she earned her living as an escort.

I just really wanted to talk about marginal people and how we brand people and put them into boxes, says Willan. I think whatever you are branded there are only two ways you can interpret it, usually you are a victim or you are a hero it ends up being a single narrative.

Willan, from Bolton, wants to challenge expectations and labels whether it is being northern, female, working class, or a former sex worker. In particular, Branded hinges on an experience she had at the Fringe.

We were in Edinburgh, I had come up with a feminist theatre group and I told one of them about the escort work.

She said, Dont you think its a very unfeminist thing to do? Dont you think you are contributing to the patriarchy and male oppression?

It has taken her until now to be able to talk about it but Willan always wanted to look more closely at that experience of being judged and labelled.

I just felt embarrassed. I hadnt processed it properly myself. Im a lot more confident as a person and I trust myself more. She came from a good background where she had a bedroom and went on holiday. I thought she was a better person than me.

Willan makes the story a launchpad for an examination of class, privilege and economic freedom. Her aim is to challenge perceptions and to make us question the way we label other people.

I didnt want to make a whole show about it. This is just part of a larger story, a bigger conversation.

If you make it the whole thing it puts too much importance on sex work. For me it was a means to an end. I never saw it as a career.

With sex work we tend to glorify it or demonise it. But we need to stop doing that with marginalised groups of people.

One of the things Willan loves about putting her life on stage is when audience members say how much they enjoy the opportunity to laugh about lives like their own.

For health reasons, outings with her mum or with her step-dad can be stressful. But they can also be hilarious.

I talk about my mum, who is a heroin addict, looking like Iggy Pop, and about living with my step-dad who has multiple personalities. Its important to me to introduce them to the world from an affectionate point of view.

I have had care leavers come up to me after a show and say, Thanks for talking about that. It was like you were talking about my mum. Nobody sees her like I see her.

Willans unconventional, eventful and deprived childhood has given her a lot of access to therapy, psychology and counselling and she has benefited a great deal from that.

I think I have come out from it as a whole, rounded person and I think I am emotionally intelligent.

She now spends a lot of time mentoring other care leavers. In June this year she launched Tales of the Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful, an anthology of eight stories written by care leavers. The young people she works with always get free tickets to her shows.

I also offer life coaching sessions. Helping them think about where they want to live and what they want to do.

Working with care leavers is something I have built up over time. Its good because I have been through that experience. And because I am a high-achieving care leaver the idea of giving something back is quite important.

Willans own mentors in the arts are Lem Siss, a Manchester poet who is also a care leaver, and Louise Wallwein, another care leaver who is a playwright and poet.

Although her shows have an exuberant anarchic energy, they are carefully crafted. I think it is stand-up comedy because the jokes are written like stand-up but the structure of the show is quite theatrical. If I set something up there is always a call-back it never just disappears.

In previews, working out her script, she often threw in some random beat boxing. She says she might also throw in a bit of a tit wobble just to annoy people who think she shouldnt. I had a promoter say I shouldnt do that because it puts women in comedy back 20 years. It is amazing the amount of white privileged men who think, Im going to tell you what you should be doing.

Its not a good idea to tell Sophie Willan what she can and cant do or to try to limit her ambition.

She remembers entering the BBC New Comedy award and being told, in reverential tones, that if she did well she might end up writing a joke for Miles Jupp. I said, me and Miles Jupp have nothing in common.

In future shed love to write a sitcom or something for children. And shes newly enthusiastic about politics after seeing the way young people got behind Jeremy Corbyn in the last election. I found Glastonbury really inspiring. It was like Woodstock but better. It felt really positive.

Shes nervous about talking about escorting on stage but shes pretty sure she can find a way to make people laugh about it.

Im quite a wild personality and as a performer I jump around a lot. And Ill be making them laugh. If I can write a bit that can make myself laugh I know that will be a fun thing to do.

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Editors note: This story originally ran in the Bangor Daily News on May 11, 1994.

OLD TOWN, Maine Dick MacPherson surveyed the faces of the senior class of Old Town High School gathered expectantly before him in the schools cafetorium. He selected a story.

I was at Mass on a Saturday night in California a few months back when the priest told everyone to write down on a piece of paper what you hope to do with your life. Im almost 64, so Im thinking what am I going to write? MacPherson recounted, working the room with the ease of a hometown hero among the kids and grandkids of his friends.

I ended up writing down to make sure my wife and I kept our health, kept our love and happiness, and to hope our death would be a pleasant one so we wouldnt be a problem for our kids, MacPherson said before pausing a beat. I looked at that piece of paper and thought, Is that all Ive got left? Ive got to find something to do!

It was the kind of story upon which MacPherson built a 30-year football coaching career that carried him from college assistant all the way to head coach of the New England Patriots: Profound without being hokey. Motivational without being overbearing. Personal.

I kept that piece of paper, as a reminder, MacPherson told the high school kids.

The reminder is that there is indeed life to be lived as long as life remains. There is life after coaching. More specifically, there is life after being fired by the Patriots.

If it seemed MacPherson was relegated to lifes scrap heap 16 months ago when his stormy two-season tenure with the Pats was halted following eight wins and 24 losses, its because he couldnt do much to fight the perception. As a condition for receiving from the Patriots a reported $300,000-per-year settlement of the two seasons plus an option year remaining on his contract, MacPherson had to go away quietly.

By contract, I cant coach right now, MacPherson explained. By settlement, any money I make in any form of athletics be it radio or TV or anything would go back to the Patriots.

So MacPherson went away, agreeing to stay out of the sports klieg lights until March 1995 when his settlement runs out.

Outwardly, MacPherson appears satisfied with the arrangement. He is healthier, wealthier and, yes, wiser, since returning to Syracuse, N.Y., site of his greatest successes as coach of the Syracuse University football teams of the 1980s.

The acute intestinal inflammation that added injury to insult in Foxborough, sidelining him for seven games during his final season while the Pats went 2-14, is long gone. Regret is not in his vocabulary.

Heres what I told my wife and family. If someone were to ask us to come there and go through what we went through, and have that experience and the financial rewards that come with it for me and my family youve got to go, he said.

Probe a little deeper, however, and MacPherson cant help but reveal his view of what went wrong in New England.

When youre a head coach in name only, it isnt as much fun. Thats the reason Jimmy Johnson is done. Thats the reason Tommy Coughlin left BC. There arent many Don Shulas left in the world that can run their whole program, said MacPherson, declining to comment further on his relationships with former Pats owner James Orthwein and former general manager Sam Jankovich. The settlement, again.

MacPherson could have simply sat around and waited for his checks to arrive. He could have gone the golf route, or the world traveling route with his wife Sandra. Instead, he took a job as vice president for corporate communication for a business funding group.

Leave it to MacPherson to find the coaching in the job. Its getting people together and helping them get things done, he explained.

MacPherson is enough of a realist to know at his age he is unlikely to ever coach football again at either the major college or professional level. If thats true, he said he can walk away satisfied.

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If you've been curious about mindfulness, this is your chance to find out what it's all about. From August 9th through August 13th, Athleta will hold a free 30-minute meditation session at each of its 133 locations across the country.

The chain will offer "Permission to Pause" meditation sessions designed by Unplug Meditation, which will focus on the basics of how to incorporate mindfulness all day long, not just when sitting down to meditate. Participants will learn techniques to incorporate mindfulness into everyday life, including a 16-second meditation technique. (Here's a technique that will help you clear your mind.) The class will cater to all levels of experience, says Andra Mallard, chief marketing officer at Athleta.

"You can be the biggest skeptic in the world, the earliest beginner, or you could be a devoteethere's going to be something for you here," Mallard says.

Athleta is holding the events to promote its new Restore collection, which is made with soft, sustainable fabrics meant to be conducive to meditation and relaxation. The events are part of Athleta's "Permission to Pause" campaign, which is all about allowing yourself to prioritize self-care. (Here's what happened when one writer prioritized self-care for one week.)

The events will kick off on August 9th and run through August 13th. Visit the "store classes and events" calendar on the company's store locator to find a session near you.

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