Triple D Seed

No disciplinary action handed out

Kolten Yamaguchi's three-run shot earned Hawaii a top seed in today's Pool "A" semifinals, but manager Kaha Wong wondered if he'll be allowed back into the park after an apparent altercation with a Northern California coach and 16-year-old player.

"I compiled as much information from people on both sides and witnesses and then sent a report to Williamsport (Pa.) and waited for a decision," tournament administrator Alan Fitzgerald said. "Northern California presented us with video of the incident and we sent that as well, and as of 4 p.m. Sunday we've been told they're going to let it ride and not make any suspensions."

The game started with a moment of silence for 30 U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan on Friday. Flags also were lowered to half-mast in what appeared to be a display of unity among fans and players from both sides.

But post-game taunting and bad blood became so heated many Hawaii players had taken off their jerseys as if they were ready to fight.

One player from Hilo had to be held back from charging over to the first-base side where Northern California was trying to recover from the stunning loss.

Wong was confronted after the game and, in the presence of Fitzgerald and assistant administrator Linda Nakaoka said, "I don't let my own son disrespect me, so I'm not going to let someone else's kid do that. I was going to (mess) him up. They're (Northern California) just poor losers and we hope to see them in the finals because we'll beat them again."

Fitzgerald said he wanted to set a precedent that this type of behavior, especially from an adult coach, will not be condoned, but he's also concerned that players from both sides should hold themselves to a higher standard of sportsmanship.

Hawaii scored three first-inning runs on Koa Matson's two-run double and Korin Medeiros' sacrifice fly.

Northern California tied the game in the top of the third on a two-run single from Austin Spainhour and Taylour Reidt's RBI single.

Hawaii regained the lead in the bottom half of the inning when Korin Medeiros tripled and scored on a Kaimana Moike base hit. Hawaii added a run in the fourth on Kean Wong's single.

The Standard | Online Edition :: Parenting is about seed dispersal

By Ted Malanda

There was a time when parents went to great lengths to ensure their children left home as quickly as possible and for good. In fact, boys were beaten into men the moment they started walking.

As a young lad, my father made it clear I had no business hanging around the kitchen. He was particularly averse to me fooling around the fireplace. And to ensure the message sank home, he connived with a circumciser who wasted no time turning me into a man.

Unfortunately, that didn’t quite stop me from hanging around the fireplace and clutching onto my mother’s skirt. That’s probably why he constructed a boys’ hut for me and my big brother next to the gate and made a big fuss about us being his bodyguards and all that.

But what he didn’t know is that we spent half the night shivering with fear of ghosts, wild animals, night runners and Angola Musumbiji — the meanest bandits of that era. Waking up was such a pleasant surprise because it confirmed that we were alive, we’d survived.

It was no different for other children. From when they were babies, their mothers would hold them firmly, cup an unwashed hand over their screaming mouths and force a nearly bucket full of sugarless porridge down their throats. The more they wailed, the more porridge gushed down their throats. In short, you either ate your porridge or your drowned.

Mothers confirmed that babies were full by tapping the tiny stomachs. If they rung out like a strung guitar wire, the little fellow was good to go. Of course many of those children died — from malaria, whopping cough, worms and other ailments engineered by the village witch.

But those who survived were the fittest and they grew up tough as nails. They are the ones calling the shots in government, rule Nairobi, run banks and own the skyscrapers you see all over the place. They are easy to point out because they will most likely lace the Queen’s English with an accent that pinpoints their exact village of birth.

It never, however, ceases to amuse me that as soon as these survivors make it, they go to great lengths to create eternal babies out of their children. Our babies are raised in such sanitised environments that the slightest contact with germs is enough to kill them.

We kiss them every morning, escort them to school, remind them every two minutes that we love them, help them with homework and employ house helps to carter for their every need. We even go as far picking them up from the university on graduation day.

A system of vegetables, according to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences ...

Encyclopaedia metropolitana, or Universal dictionary of knowledge ... comprising the twofoldadvantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings

The encyclopedia of seeds, science, technology and uses

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Capture, October 23-26, 2003, Florida, USA : K-CAP 2003

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