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'If it wasn't for Missi,' beloved neighborhood pool 'wouldn't be open'
Forty-two-year-old Missi Pfeifer meets me at the east Lawrence neighborhood pool that's just across the street from her house.
It's an unusually warm day for the first week of March. Pfeifer is wearing blue jeans and a short-sleeved black shirt and vest with slip-on shoes.
After unlocking the wire-fenced gate, she takes a seat next to me on one of the four wooden picnic tables in the deck area that's shaded by trees, and I don't have to ask a question. She immediately begins talking about the pool and why she's volunteered her time, energy and money to keep it open for the past 11 years. At times, her bright blue eyes fill with tears.
How to help
The County Fair Swim Club pool in east Lawrence typically opens Memorial Day and closes Labor Day. It's open from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily and costs $2 for a day's pass.
Missi Pfeifer, club president, estimates it costs about $14,000 annually to operate the pool.
Donations can be sent to: County Fair Swim Club, P.O. Box 976, Lawrence, KS 66044 or they can be made online at countyfairswimclub.org.
If you would like to volunteer or learn more about the pool, contact Missi Pfeifer at firstname.lastname@example.com.
"It is an amazing little place," she said. "I started swimming here probably when I was a year old. This is where I learned to swim."
She said her mother, Charlotte Hastings, operated the pool about 35 years ago for five years. Pfeifer, her twin brother and her sister spent all day, every day at the pool during the summer. They also made lifelong friends.
"This is where we grew up," she says. "I love it. I love it more than anything and I hate to give up on it, but we are near."
The pool — at Maple Lane and Clare Road near Kennedy School — was donated to the neighborhood by developers Bob, Bud and Al Moore in the 1960s. Since then, parents have volunteered to operate the pool, which is called the County Fair Swim Club. The area actually has a baby pool and a large pool that goes from 3 feet deep to 9 feet deep with a diving board. There also are restrooms, a concession stand area and a storage shed.
"Somehow, it has just kind of passed from volunteer to volunteer. Somebody just steps up and says, 'I'll do it,' and then it just ends up being their group of friends or whoever wants to be involved," Pfeifer said.
Problem is fewer people want to help and nobody has stepped up to take over Pfeifer's job as president of the club. She's volunteered in the position longer than anyone before her.
Dale Rorabaugh, who helps with maintenance and lawn care, said his close friend is the reason the pool has remained open.
"Missi organizes everything, buys supplies needed for it, does general maintenance, cleans it about every day. She organizes the lifeguards every year. Makes sure insurance is paid. She does a lot."
She also recruits about a dozen friends, like Rorabaugh, to help out. The two used to hang out at the pool as kids. They swam, snacked on foods and played cards. It's a bond that's lasted a lifetime.
"I've have men who are just wonderful and willing to do almost anything for a 12-pack," Pfeifer said, laughing. But she doesn't sit back while they work; she's right there with them.
"It has to be treated with muriatic acid and that is like one of the most atrocious jobs you ever want to do," she said, explaining that it will take three or four weekends before they can even begin filling the pool with water. "We get better at it every year. I am an awesome cement worker because of it."
She let out a sigh as she looked at the work ahead. A trash barrel sat in the baby pool filled with mucky water and leaves. The big pool also had dark brown, foul-smelling water inside it. Leaves were scattered everywhere and the trees overhead needed trimmed.
"I can't even tell you what's in the bottom of that big pool and I don't even want to know," she said, laughing. "Stuff falls in over the winter and it's the worst smelling thing you've ever experienced in your life."
But, that's not the toughest part of her volunteer work.
"Running the pool is the fun part. It's the trying to raise the money to run the pool that I'm tiring of," she said.
Pfeifer has organized every kind of fundraiser you can imagine: chili feeds, silent auctions, Bingo, poker tournaments and holiday-themed parties. She's filled out grant applications, but the grants are hard to come by.
"We just don't fit a category. We are just a bunch of parents trying to keep the pool open for the kids," she said.
She said the pool hit the jackpot — $22,000 — one year when it was chosen as a beneficiary of Lawrence's annual St. Patrick's Day parade. That helped her get through two summers.
Every year, she gets more creative. Last summer, Pfeifer booked her first wedding and reception. There were big tents and floating balls in the pools that looked like strobe lights. "It was pretty cool," she said, enthusiastically. "I am willing to rent it for just about anything."
It costs about $14,000 to operate the pool each year and she often ends up digging into her own pocketbook to help make ends meet.
"Honestly, we are broke," she said. "But, I've been here before — many, many times. Every year, I don't know how I do it."
She charges $2 a day, but if somebody can't pay she doesn't turn them away. She estimated about 60 children use the pool each day and most of them are from low-income families. Many of their parents are divorced. If the pool weren't open, she isn't sure where they would go.
She gets to know all of the kids on a first-name basis and often they will do small jobs like pulling weeds along the fence to go swimming.
"When it's hot, this place is packed," she said with a big smile. "It is packed." Pfeifer said people will order pizza and bring lunches.
"It doesn't feel like the city pool. It feels more like your backyard."
She has also hosted movie nights at the pool where they play a movie on the backside of the concession stand area. Sometimes, they furnish bags of popcorn or will have hotdogs and chips.
"It's hard to find someone who loves it like I do," she said.
Her mother agrees.
"If it wasn't for Missi, the pool wouldn't be open," Hastings said. "For some reason, the community involvement isn't as great as it used to be. I suppose it's because of everybody's busy schedules. Maybe, they are busier than we were back 35 years ago. I don't know."
She said her daughter spends a great deal of time on fundraisers and joked that somehow she still gets roped into helping.
"I'm real proud of her for being involved in the community that much. I think it's great," she said. "Missi's devoted to keeping it open. That's for sure."
When she's not at the pool, she's working her full-time job as a hair stylist at Shear Perfection or attending her children's activities. She and her husband, Rick, have three children: Steven, 24; Noah, 16; and Garett, 13. She said her children have grown up around the pool just as she did. Noah is looking forward to being a lifeguard this summer if Pfeifer can raise the money to keep the pool going through the summer.
Her dream would be for someone to give a big donation that could be invested, so the pool would remain open for years to come. Heck, she would love to rename the pool for that donor.
"Listen, I've got lots of things I could do with my time, but none that quite have the payoff that this does at the end of the summer," she said.


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Unqua Rd., Massapequa, NY 11758 (Merrick Rd. & Unqua Rd.)
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The Walk Ribbon Cutting will happen promptly at 11:00 a.m.
Lunch will begin at Noon (Fall Festival Lunch/Entertainment)
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Walkers raising $100 or more get free admission, Walk t-shirt and a Walk tote.
For questions please call Mary Ann Malack-Ragona at (631) 820-8068
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Graveside services will be at 2:00 on Friday at the Westside Cemetery Mausoleum.
Lifelong Taft resident Jackie Lynn Bonham Capps passed away on Sunday, April 15, 2012, at her home with family members by her side. She was born in Taft, California, on April 29, 1947. She was a 1965 graduate of TUHS.
Family was especially special to Jackie. She always had room for one more plate at her table. She was happiest being surrounded by her children and grandchildren.
There will be a viewing at Westside Family Mortuary on Thursday, April 26th at 6:00pm.
Graveside services will be at 2:00 on Friday at the Westside Cemetery Mausoleum. Presiding over the services will be Wes Gilbert. Reception will be held at The Oasis following services.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill Capps, parents Lester and Vera Bonham and brother Don "Butch" Bonham.
She leaves four children: Michael, Bill and Candace all of Taft and daughter Patsy of Tennessee. She has ten grandchildren. She leaves one sister Becky Coffey and her husband Randy of Norman, OK. She also is survived by several aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews. She will be dearly missed.


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BREATHER (PENTA 16) Short-Cycle Therapy (SCT) (5 Days on/2 Days Off) in Young People With Chronic HIV-infection (BREATHER)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01641016
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified July 2013 by PENTA Foundation.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : July 16, 2012
Last Update Posted : March 2, 2015
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The overall aim of the BREATHER trial is to evaluate the role of Short-Cycle Therapy (SCT) in the management of HIV-infected young people who have responded well to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and to determine whether young people with chronic HIV infection undergoing Short-Cycle Therapy of five days on ART and two days off maintain the same level of viral load suppression as those on continuous therapy, over 48 weeks.
To assess the advantages and disadvantages of the strategy, the incidence of toxicities, immunological control, resistance mutations, acceptability, quality of life and adherence to the randomised strategy will also be compared.
Importantly, because of insufficient data on short-term viral load rebound after stopping ART in this population, the trial will incorporate an initial pilot phase in selected centres, to assess the safety of the SCT strategy by evaluating detailed HIV-1 RNA profiles of participants on the SCT strategy.
|Condition or disease
|Drug: efavirenz
|Phase 2 Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|160 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|BREATHER (PENTA 16) Short-Cycle Therapy (SCT) (5 Days on/2 Days Off) in Young People With Chronic HIV-infection
|Study Start Date :
|April 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|June 2016
Active Comparator: Continuous Therapy
Continue with current antiretroviral therapy regime as per standard care
Drug: efavirenz
May be taken as 600mg tablet, 200mg tablet or as part of a combination pill
Other Name: Trade name: Sustiva
Experimental: Short Cycle Therapy
Take current antiretroviral therapy 5 days a week (2 days off) as instructed by clinician
Drug: efavirenz
May be taken as 600mg tablet, 200mg tablet or as part of a combination pill
Other Name: Trade name: Sustiva
- HIV-1 RNA ≥50 copies/ml (confirmed on a separate sample within 1 week) at any of week 4, 12, 24, 36 or 48. [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]This outcome measure only considers HIV-1 RNA measurements at these time points due to the difference in viral load monitoring in the pilot phase and the main trial. However if a young person enrolled in the pilot phase has HIV-1 RNA ≥50 copies/ml at weeks 1, 2 or 3 (reproducible on the same sample) or at week 8 (confirmed on the same sample within 1 week), they will be considered as reaching the primary outcome at week 4 and 12 respectively
- HIV-1 RNA <50 c/ml at 24 and 48 weeks [ Time Frame: 24 and 48 weeks ]
- Number of HIV mutations present at week 4, 12, 24, 36 or 48 conferring resistance to drugs taken at randomisation or during the tria [ Time Frame: Weeks 4, 12, 24, 36, 48 ]
- Change in CD4 (absolute and percentage) from randomisation to 24 and 48 weeks [ Time Frame: 24 and 48 weeks ]
- Change in ART (defined as any change from the ART regimen at randomisation) [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Grade 3 or 4 clinical and laboratory adverse events [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- ART treatment modifying adverse events (all grades) [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- New CDC stage B or C diagnosis or death [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Changes in fasting glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL, HDL and VLDL levels through 48 weeks [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Adherence, acceptability, and quality of life over 48 weeks as assessed by patient completed questionnaires [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|8 Years to 24 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infected young people aged 8 to 24 years inclusive (Young people recruited between the ages of 16-21 must either be in regular physical contact with their clinician or be able to transfer to an adult physician at the same site for follow-up or to an affiliated adult site).
- Parents/carers and/or young people, where applicable, willing to provide informed consent.
- On a stable first-line ART treatment containing at least 2 NRTIs/NtRTIs and EFV for at least 12 months and willing to continue the regimen throughout the study period. Young people on regimens containing nevirapine (NVP) or a boosted protease inhibitor with undetectable viral load for over one year who wish to enrol should switch to EFV. Once they are stable on the EFV containing regimen for more than 12 weeks they may be enrolled (must have 2 subsequent HIV-1 RNA measurements <50 c/ml over a minimum period of 12 weeks). Previous dual therapy and/or substitution of NRTIs is allowed providing any changes were not for disease progression, immunological or virological failure (where virological failure is defined as two successive HIV-1 RNA results>1000 c/ml) subsequent to virological control having been achieved on ART.
- Viral suppression (HIV-1 RNA <50 c/ml) for at least the prior 12 months (at least the last 3 measurements, including screening): young people who have experienced a single viral load >50 but <1000 copies/ml (preceded and followed by VL<50 c/ml) in the last 12 months can be enrolled.
- CD4 cell count ≥350 106/L at screening visit.
- Centre must routinely use an assay which detects HIV RNA-1 viral load ≥50 c/ml.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy or risk of pregnancy in females of child bearing potential.
- Acute illness (young people may be enrolled after illness).
- Receiving concomitant therapy for an acute illness (young people may be enrolled after finishing therapy).
- A creatinine, AST or ALT of grade 3 or above at screening.
- On a regimen including nevirapine or a boosted PI (young people may switch to an EFV based regimen).
- Previous ART monotherapy (except for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01641016
|United States, Tennessee
|St Jude Children's Research Hospital
|Memphis, Tennessee, United States
|Villejuif, France
|Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt
|Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 60596
|Our Lady's Children's Hospital
|Dublin, Ireland
|Program for HIV Prevention and Treatment (PHPT)/IRD 174
|Changklan, Muang, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 50100
|HIV-NAT Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre
|Bangkok, Thailand
|Joint Clinical Research Centre
|Kampala, Uganda
|Kiev City AIDS Center
|Kiev, Vidpochynku 11, Ukraine, 03115
|United Kingdom
|Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
|Birmingham, United Kingdom
|University Hospital Bristol
|Bristol, United Kingdom
|Leeds General Infirmary
|Leeds, United Kingdom
|Leicester Royal Infirmary
|Leicester, United Kingdom
|Evelina Children's Hospital
|London, United Kingdom
|Great Ormond Street Hospital
|London, United Kingdom
|Mortimer Market Centre
|London, United Kingdom
|St George's Hospital
|London, United Kingdom
|Nottingham University Hospital
|Nottingham, United Kingdom
|John Radcliffe Hospital
|Oxford, United Kingdom
|Principal Investigator:
|Karina M Butler, MRCPI
|Medical Research Council
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|PENTA Foundation
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01641016 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2009-012947-40 ( EudraCT Number )
|First Posted:
|July 16, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 2, 2015
|Last Verified:
|July 2013
Keywords provided by PENTA Foundation:
short cycle therapy
young people
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers


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Tottenham midfielder Rafael van der Vaart believes Luka Modric's desire to leave White Hart Lane is not down to financial reasons.
The 25-year-old Croatia playmaker last month stunned Spurs supporters by declaring he wants to leave - with Chelsea his preferred destination. The north London club have rejected a £22million bid for Modric, with chairman Daniel Levy saying the player is not for sale.
However, Holland international Van der Vaart said on Sky Sports News: "If someone wants to leave it's difficult to keep them. When a player is unhappy it's not a good thing. Luka and (Gareth) Bale don't play for money - they play to win something. If they have to go to another club it's their decision."
He added: "But I hope they stay because they are fantastic and really important for the club."
Van der Vaart was speaking on the day Spurs players returned for pre-season training, seeking to make up for the disappointment of missing out on Champions League football in the forthcoming campaign.
The 28-year-old added: "Drop too many points and you don't deserve to be in the Champions League. So next season we are going to focus on the Europa League.
"As a player you want to improve every year but the important thing is to help the team. If we stay together we have a good squad."
One player who has arrived at White Hart Lane is Brad Friedel - the 40-year-old former Aston Villa and Blackburn goalkeeper having signed a two-year deal last month.
He joins Heurelho Gomes and Carlo Cudicini on Spurs' books, and Van der Vaart said: "I had a chat with him (Friedel) and he's a really nice guy.
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While Angelina Jolie finalized adoption proceedings for Pax Thien in Vietnam, Brad Pitt was getting some risky behavior out of his system here in Los Angeles.
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Leonardo DiCaprio: LAX Landing After French Open
Leonardo DiCaprio hides under his hoodie while arriving on a flight at LAX Airport on Wednesday (June 12) in Los Angeles.
Over the weekend, the 38-year-old actor enjoyed the 2013 French Open final with his close pal Lukas Haas and watched Rafael Nadal defeat David Ferrer in three straight sets for his eighth Grand Slam at the tournament.
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B1G Soccer Title Game live on BTN Open Thread: Michigan vs state
Michigan is in it's second B1G Tournament Championship game in three years. Michigan upset conference co-champion and number 2 seed northwestern on the home field, 3-0 on Friday. state upset conference co-champion and number 1 seed penn state 3-1 on Friday.
3 Michigan vs 5 state for the B1G Tournament Championship. Michigan ruined state's chance at the outright B1G Championship on the final day of the regular season, beating state at home 1-0 for the Bear.
The Big Bear trophy is not up for grabs in postseason games. Instead, a more important trophy is on the line. Let's hope Michigan takes that one home this year as well.
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Location: Utah
Established: November 19, 1919
Size: 148,733 acres
Rising in Utah's high plateau country, the Virgin River carves its way to the desert below through a gorge so deep and narrow that sunlight rarely penetrates to the bottom. As the canyon widens, the river runs past great palisade walls rimmed with slickrock peaks and hanging valleys.
A million years of flowing water has cut through the red and white beds of Navajo sandstone that form the sheer walls of Zion. The geologic heart of the canyon began as a vast desert millions of years ago; almost incessant winds blew one dune on top of another until the sands reached a depth of more than 2,000 feet. You can still see the track of these ancient winds in the graceful crossbedded strata of Zion's mighty cliffs.
Unlike the Grand Canyon where you stand on the rim and look out, Zion Canyon is usually viewed from the bottom looking up. The vertical topography confines most of Zion's 2.5 million yearly visitors between canyon walls.
Streamside on the canyon floor grow thick stands of Fremont cottonwood, box elder, willow, and, a short distance away, cactus and Utah juniper. Vegetation changes rapidly as the terrain rises almost a mile in elevation. The high plateaus support Douglas fir and ponderosa pine.
Within the park's 232 square miles lies a landscape of remote terraces and narrow gorges. A number of these canyons are so hidden that early surveyors overlooked some that are 20 miles long. More than 100 miles of wilderness trails crisscross the backcountry, while 15 miles of paved trails encourage casual visits.
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As the intersection of three separate ecosystems, Zion has a variety of plants—more than 900 species—not found anywhere else in Utah. The 287.4-foot-long Kolob Arch, perched high on a canyon wall in the park's backcountry, is one of the world's largest freestanding natural arches. In 1920, Zion National Park had 3,692 visitors. In 1998, the park had 2.7 million visitors.
The park is named after the Hebrew word, "Zion." This word translates as "a place of peace and relaxation."
Copy for this series includes excerpts from the National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States, Seventh Edition, 2012, and the National Parks series featured in National Geographic Traveler.


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WHO Collaborating Centre for Emerging Infections and Biological Threats
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has been granted by the World Health Organization (WHO) with the status of a Collaborating Centre for Emerging Infections and Biological Threats on 26th April 2016 (biological threats are defined according to the WHO-specifications).
Collaborating Centres (CC) are designated throughout the world by WHO in different areas. The centres are national institutions, e. g. public authorities or research institutes that support WHO with expertise and staff in the implementation of their programmes and tasks. They advise WHO with specific scientific expertise in developing preventive policies and assisting public health programs at international level. There are at present 25 WHO Collaborating Centres in Germany involved in a broad range of health issues.
The WHO Collaborating Centre at RKI is part of an international cooperation that aims to support WHO and its Member States in preparing for and responding to emerging infections and biological threats with specific tasks.
These supportive activities are structured in four Terms of Reference:
- Support WHO in its function to prepare for alert and response to outbreaks of international importance by building laboratory capacities.
- Provide expertise in event investigation and outbreak response and preparedness including laboratory diagnostics, epidemiology, infection control measures, and clinical management.
- Support WHO's epidemiology and surveillance activities including training in outbreak response, applied research, data analysis and modelling, when requested.
- Support the implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 regarding emerging infections and biological threats.
The Collaborating Centre at RKI is a cooperation between the Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens (ZBS), the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and the Department of Infectious Diseases.
Head of the WHO CC
Prof. Dr. Lars Schaade, Vice President of RKI and head of the Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens (ZBS)
Dr. Osamah Hamouda, Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
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A trail of poisonous secrets: Arafat's tomb-raid exposes 'other' state assassinations
Usually tight-lipped about targeted assassinations, Israel recently has gone public. Why the sudden openness? The answer may -- or may not -- lie buried in a tomb in the West Bank.
On Nov. 1, Israel acknowledged involvement in the death of Khalil al-Wazir -- better known as "Abu Jihad" -- in 1988.
Actively involved in organizing militants against the Israelis in Gaza, becoming a trusted aide to Yasser Arafat, joining the Muslim Brotherhood and becoming a founder of Fatah -- a faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization -- Abu Jihad was shot in his Tunis home on April 16, 1988.
Although the Israelis were suspected, no evidence of their involvement ever surfaced.
The Israeli commando who said he killed Abu Jihad, Nahum Lev, recounted the raid in an interview just before his death in 2000: "I shot Abu Jihad. I shot him with a long burst of fire. I was careful not to hurt his wife. Abu Jihad was involved in horrible acts against civilians. He was a dead man walking. I shot him without hesitation."
Censored for 12 years for national security reasons, the Lev interview was released in November.
Two weeks later, in an acknowledgement that initiated an eight-day war between Israel and Hamas, Israel announced it had targeted and killed Ahmed Jabri, head of Hamas' military wing, in the Gaza Strip for his involvement in carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel.
In tracking down, one by one, and killing all eight Palestinian militants involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, which claimed the lives of 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, and in killing several Iranian nuclear scientists more recently, Israel never acknowledged involvement. Why now?
Last August, a formal complaint to reopen an inquiry into the cause of death of Yasser Arafat at a French military hospital in 2004 was filed with the French government.
For two years prior to Arafat's death, the long-time Palestinian leader remained holed up by the Israelis in his Ramallah compound in the West Bank. After suffering a stroke and showing no improvement, Israel allowed him to be flown to France, where he died two weeks later at age 75.
Although doctors determined the stroke was caused by a bleeding disorder triggered by an infection, the infection's source was never identified.
Eight years after Arafat's death, his widow -- Suha Arafat -- turned clothing last worn by her husband over to the Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera to determine his cause of death. In July 2012, al-Jazeera initiated an investigation, turning the items over to a Swiss lab, which said they were tainted with high levels of the very toxic radioactive isotope polonium-210. This was the same substance that gained international attention in 2006 when determined to be the cause of death for Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent and critic of Russia President Vladimir Putin.
Permission was given to exhume Arafat's body from its Ramallah tomb. At dawn Nov. 27, tissue samples were removed and distributed among Russian, French and Swiss experts to determine whether Arafat had been poisoned, despite poison being ruled out by Arab and French doctors attending him in 2004.
His wife had denied permission for an autopsy then, preventing confirmation of leaked medical reports of a liver problem which, obviously, would have undermined Arafat's image among Palestinians if found to be alcohol-related.
While finding traces of polonium-210 would strongly support a claim of poisoning, the substance decomposes rapidly, making it less likely to be found in a deceased's tissues -- or clothing -- years later.
But Israeli actions suggest a concern something may be found, therefore, causing them to lay the groundwork for acknowledging their involvement in Arafat's death as well? Is the timing of Israel's acknowledgement in the deaths of Abu Jihad and Ahmed Jabri an effort to blunt accusations of possible involvement in Arafat's death?
A positive poisoning report doesn't necessarily implicate the Israelis as two other options are possible: accidental exposure or intentional poisoning by Palestinian political rivals.
Detection of polonium-210 is "a key indication of a nuclear weapons program in its early stages." Arafat had no such known access but an associate who did could have contaminated him. Accidental exposure also could come from polonium-210 known to power monitoring devices used in conducting espionage.
Involvement in Arafat's death by political rivals has also been alleged, especially since a "blood feud" was avoided months later when a relative making claim to succeed Arafat was killed. Interestingly, Arafat's treating physician was denied access by Sura Arafat during his illness.
As Arafat spent his last two years in Ramallah, one of these two options would seem more feasible.
In any event, since Sura Arafat is eager to raise the issue, possibly stirring up anger among Palestinians should results prove positive for poisoning, asserting blame against Israel despite other possible protagonists, another investigation should be launched into how Sura Arafat benefitted from her husband's death -- at the Palestinians' expense.
Upon his death, Arafat was among the richest men in the world -- riches gained leading people who were among the world's poorest.
As Yasser Arafat lay dying, Sura Arafat, who lived in Paris and hadn't seen her husband for three years, rushed to his bedside. Speculation was the visit wasn't to profess her love but to obtain banking information and codes to receive a piece of his vast wealth, estimated at $11 billion.
In return for sharing this information with the Palestinian Authority, she receives a $22 million annual payment. The payments continue despite periodic PA claims of "insufficient funds" to make its payroll.
As Sura Arafat seeks to hold someone accountable for her husband's death, so too should she be held accountable for ownership of wealth belonging to the Palestinian people.
By James. G. Zumwalt
As the plot thickens, what do you think? Black widows, dirty politics or Israeli agents? Could tomb-raiders dig up poisonous secrets in Arafat's grave and is his widow's cooperation a sign that she is confident that Israel had a hand in his sinister demise? Is it likely that the enemy was much more within (his Ramallah compound?)-- Should they let sleeping dogs lie and will the truth still out in cold case?
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Foundation for Defense of Democracies fellow Tom Joscelyn on clues about who may be behind the Boston bombing. Photos: Getty Images
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Even as the Patriots' hopes and dreams were strangled in the Super Bowl, the iOSsphere rumors for iPad 3 mounted anew on wings like eagles.
This week: pictures that prove iPad 3 will have a quad-core CPU and LTE even though you can't see either of them, or even the iPad 3, in the pictures; the February surprise, unsurprisingly, will not happen; understanding how the choice of MacBook Air processor means iPad 3 will have a hardware keyboard option; and a blogger thinks its news that a market watcher thinks the iPad 3 will be very popular.
You read it here second.
"Macotakara has had a mixed track record in the past, but has had enough hits that they continue to warrant attention."
~Arnold Kim, MacRumors, on why the Website trumpeted a rumor started by the Japanese Website Macotakara that iPad 3 will be announced in February. And, presumably, on why it will continue trumpeting.
iPad 3 has an A6 processor because pictures prove it, even if they don't show it
Talk about news. "Photos show quad-core iPad 3 processor, Wi-Fi and global LTE options," proclaims the headline at Boy Genius Report (or BGR, "the three biggest letters in tech").
And sure enough there are photos, four all told. These are not photos of the actual iPad 3. Instead, they are screen shots from a "development and debug tool called iBoot," writes Jonathan Geller, which supposedly reveals a wealth of details about the next iPad. (For what it's worth, the iPhoneWiki says "iBoot" is the name for "Apple's stage 2 bootloader for all of the iDevices.")
The BGR photos are from a "source claiming to be in possession of an iPad 3 prototype," Geller writes, and assures us that "we can infer plenty of information about the upcoming iPad 3."
A rather obvious question seems to be: If the source actually has a prototype, why isn't he sending photos of the actual device instead of cryptic debug output? (Possibly he left it in a beer garden and doesn't have it anymore.)
The key word here is not "quad-core" or "LTE" but "infer," which according to one definition means to "deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements." Geller seems to infer rather freely.
According to him, the four photos show the following:
a) Two model numbers, J1 and J2 (which he also designates iPad3,1 and iPad3,2; he doesn't explain how the two different nomenclatures are related);
b) The two models are a Wi-Fi-only device, and one that adds "embedded GSM/CDMA/LTE for all carriers;"
c) And, "confirmation" that iPad 3 will have an A6 processor "with model number S5L8945X" which is "also apparently a quad-core model...."
The only problem with this is that the four photographs that accompany Geller's paragraph-long story show almost none of this information, and certainly not enough for inferences, at least as far as Rollup could determine. Inexplicably, large parts of each photo have fields that are deliberately blurred to obscure the text. But equally inexplicably, Geller doesn't mention this and doesn't say if BGR or BRG's source is responsible for it.
The only references we could find in the four photos that relate to Geller's claims are the following:
Picture #2 has near the top: "iBoot for j1ap" (which perhaps could indicate the J1 model Geller claims).
Picture 3 has at the bottom: "/DEVELOPMENT_ARM_S5L8945X" (which could indeed indicate an ARM processor; Geller references the numbers for the A4 and A5 chips, but the question is whether this new number indicates an entirely new processor or a variant of the dual-core A5 currently in the iPad 2).
Picture 4 has, at the bottom: "machine model "iPad 3, 1","; which certainly is a reference to iPad 3 and could refer to one model.
That's it.
There's nothing we could find in the published photos that indicates LTE, let alone a global LTE option; and nothing that in fact actually "confirms" a quad-core processor. The "two models" are what we would expect based on how Apple has configured iPad so far: you can buy it with just a Wi-Fi connection, or with an additional embedded cellular connection. Did we miss something?
This is like viewing a grainy photo of Janet Jackson's 2004 Super Bowl Wardrobe Malfunction and concluding she's had an appendectomy, two dental crowns, and a butterfly tattoo at the base of her spine.
Forget about iPad 3 for February
So much for a great Valentine's Day or a great Steve Jobs Birthday.
Last week, the iOSsphere seethed with anticipation after rumor outlets liked what they read at the Japanese Mac fan site Macotakara, which claimed that Apple was holding a special event in February, with release of iPad 3 planned for March.
The Loop's ace Apple-watcher Jim Dalrymple single-handedly shredded those hopes.
"This is not going to happen, according to my sources. Apple will not hold an event in February, unusual or otherwise. That's it."
One of the sites picking up on Macotakara's rumor was MacRumors, where Arnold Kim justified its coverage this way: "We had expressed some doubts about the long lead time between [February] event and [March] launch. Macotakara has had a mixed track record in the past, but has had enough hits that they continue to warrant attention."
You may not be right all the time, but you're right enough for rumors.
iPad 3 will have a keyboard option because Apple won't use ARM chips in MacBook Air
What started out as an honest attempt to tease out some implications of a few general statements by Apple CEO Tim Cook has turned into full-blown rumor.
"Apple's recent statement that it may not introduce ARM-based Macs in the future has led CNET to believe that Apple's highly anticipated iPad 3 may arrive with a keyboard option," declared Ambrosia Sabrina, rumoring for International Business Times.
That might come as a surprise to CNET columnist Brooke Crothers, who was a lot less definite in his recent column, "iPad-like MacBook Air now unlikely? Was it even necessary?" As the headline suggests, Crothers was mainly writing about the Air, not the iPhone.
Crothers took as his starting point yet another Wall Street analyst's note, this one released last Friday by Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner, who had met with Cook and Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer the day before. Crothers quoted this excerpt from Gardner's note:
"Tim Cook reiterated his view that rapid innovation on the iOS platform (and mobile OS platforms in general) will significantly broaden the use case for tablets, eventually pushing annual tablet volumes above those of traditional PCs. We [that is, Citigroup's Gardner] have wondered whether Apple might offer an ARM-based version of MacBook Air [MacBooks currently use Intel CPUs] at some point; we walked away from this meeting with the impression that Apple feels iPad satisfies -- or will soon satisfy -- the needs of those who might have been interested in such a product."
Cook's view is hardly new. In earnings calls for at least the last two quarters, he has said Apple is seeing iPad sales taking the place of some Mac sales ("cannibalization"), but taking many more from Windows PC sales. And many observers have thought for some time that tablets will replace laptops as the device of choice for many end users.
Crother extends Gardner's comment, to speculate that if the iPad becomes increasingly capable, this trend will accelerate. "So, if the iPad line indeed meets this need, as Citigroup's Gardner said, what is Apple cooking up? Here are some thoughts..."
Crother floats three thoughts: first, hardware upgrades to iPad, including a quad-core processor, higher-resolution screen, and LTE option, that put it more on a performance par with laptops; second, a "more elegant physical keyboard solution for the iPad from Apple" possibly like the separate, slot-in keyboard Asus developed for its Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime; and third, new iPad models that might be different sizes.
IBT's Sabrina doesn't care much for nuance. "As Gardner clearly stated that the iPad would soon satisfy the needs of an ARM MacBook, it's quite likely that Apple's forthcoming tablet may be launched with a keyboard dock option...," she declares confidently, breezily reinterpreting Crother's speculation into definite rumor.
Speculation that Apple might switch to ARM-based processors for its Mac and MacBook lines is not news. Responding in May 2011 to assertions at SemiAccurate.com, that Apple's decision to switch to ARM from Intel was a "done deal," Ars Technica's Chris Foresman, argued to the contrary: "Apple could adopt ARM for laptops, but why would it?"
"With no clear performance or efficiency benefit derived from moving to ARM, it doesn't seem likely Apple will be ditching Intel wholesale for its notebooks, even two years from now," Foresman wrote. But, he, too, speculated that some future MacBook Air, given Apple's announced iOS-ification of the Mac OS X, could be ARM-based.
"iOS is clearly the future of Apple's operating system efforts, so if iOS slowly overtakes Mac OS X, and users become accustomed to some of these [performance and other tablet-related] constraints, it seems entirely possible that Apple could build a MacBook Air using a higher-performance A5 descendant that works less like what we're used to today and perhaps more like the iPads of the future — with a keyboard attached," Foresman wrote.
iPad 3 will, uh, be bought by a lot of people
It's good to get this kind of thing settled early, in case there are any doubters.
"Third-gen iPad's 'window of opportunity' expected to drive Apple market share gains," AppleInsider breathlessly revealed.
This insight is based on a rumor (or "note" as it's ingenuously called) to investors, this time sent by Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore.
"Apple's third-generation iPad is expected by one market watcher to soon arrive during an advantageous 'window of opportunity,' in which competitors have nothing significant to offer, that will further increase the company's lead in the mobile computing market," writes AppleInsider's Neil Hughes, analyzing the analyst's analysis.
This appears to be the Window of Opportunity that Apple threw wide open in 2010, when it released the first iPad, and which hasn't been closed since.
The post includes a chart, created by Whitmore, that shows Apple's tablet market share trend compared to five other tablet vendors, such as Asus, Acer, Dell, HP, etc. Hint: Apple is the one that goes up; all the others go down.
So, Hughes lets us know that Whitmore thinks that iPad 3 is probably going to continue that trend.
Whitmore says that "the line between tablets and notebook computers is rapidly blurring as devices like the iPad become more powerful," Hughes writes. The more powerful iPad has been around for less than a year. And the first one was pretty zippy to most users. To Rollup, it seems more accurate to say that the line between tablets and notebooks is blurring simply because people are finding more things to do with the iPad.
The Wall Streeter recycles a bunch of standard expectation for iPad 3: a high-resolution display, a quad-core CPU ("more powerful"), improved graphics performance (which may be more important than raw CPU power), and Siri voice control.
Even if it doesn't have any of those things, it will probably sell like gangbusters, because the world is still waiting for other computer vendors to come up with something even half as compelling as iPad.


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After a two-year absence, competitive surfing is set to return to area shores this summer.
After a two-year absence, it looks as though Wilmington surf fans won't have to wait for competitive surfing to return to area shores this summer.
Sweetwater Surf Shop in Wrightsville Beach, which helped put together the Sweetwater Surf Fest from 2005 to 2011, plans to bring the tournament back this summer.
Jo Pickett of Crystal South Surf Camp and Jack Viorel of Indo Jax Surf School also hope to revive the Wahine Classic, an all-female event, in August.
The Wilmington area has always been one of the best surf areas, not only in the United States but also the world. In 2012, National Geographic named Wrightsville Beach one of the top 20 surf towns in the world for culture and laid-back attitude.
"The culture here is as rich as any other place on the East Coast," said Dylan McNamara, coach of the UNCW Surf Club. "It doesn't have the level of depth as the West Coast, and the wave quality isn't as good, but for as small as it is, it's a great surf town."
So how did such a great surfing town lose both its tournaments in one year?
While each event suffered because of local changes in organization or financial backing, there also were larger changes beyond their control. Early in 2012, economic troubles forced many major surf companies – including familiar names Reef, Quiksilver and Billabong – to cut back and downsize, forcing them also to withdraw as sponsors for the tournaments.
"Quiksilver had one of the biggest international teams, and they pretty much took all of their funding and cut a lot of people," said Colin Peterson of Surf City Surf Shop in Wrightsville Beach. "I think a lot of the big companies just decided to pull funding back."
While some surfers harbored ill will toward those companies for cutting back, Peterson looked more into the irony of it all.
"I wouldn't say there is resentment," Peterson said. "It's just funny, because the reason that they started all these companies was to get away from the big mainstream company. But now (the surf tournament industry is) all owned by a big company. So it just seemed funny."
"I think the only resentment is just that they pulled the plug on it," added Dalton Gilley, another employee at Surf City. "That was something that everybody looked forward to each summer. It brought great money into the community."
For McNamara, the loss of the tournaments was unfortunate, not only because of what it brought to the community, but because Wilmington deserved to have one based on its reputation as a surf town.
"It was very unfortunate, because Wilmington deserves to have a tournament at the second tier or pro level," McNamara said. "It makes sense to have one here so that they can reward some of the businesses."
For Sweetwater manager Spencer Lem, losing the tournament did, in a way, feel like a letdown to surfers in the area. Its revival could only come with the correct planning.
"There was a little bit of that feeling, but the idea was to get everything right and try to come back bigger and better," Lem said. "Itjust takes a lot of time and effort. Guys started planning for it at the beginning of this year. Actually, over the years, it seems that as soon as it ends, you have to start planning for the next one."
Sweetwater currently has its tournament scheduled for the second week of July, just like the orignial one. The Wahine Classic is aiming for Aug. 17-18.
Pickett and Viorel, who each have their own local surf schools, are going to local businesses and former students raise money for the event. They expect around 100 surfers to participate in skill categories ranging from pro to novice.
"I've opened a bank account, and I'm collecting sponsorship contributions so I can buy the permit and get ready to fund the event," Pickett said. "And I'll do it on whatever I bring in. At this point, I don't know what I'll bring in."
Pickett believes it is important for Wilmington to have a surf competitions because it helps everybody in the community.
"It helps all of us," Pickett said. "It helps the business community, and it entertains the tourists. The kids that look forward to this event may or may not compete in other circuits, but this one could be very important to younger girls. They talk about it constantly. I'm even surprised at how much lip service this event has. They're excited to do it and excited to be a part of it."


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(AP) -- Thanks to their longest winning streak in 16 years, the Oklahoma City Thunder own the best record in the NBA.
The San Antonio Spurs aren't far behind and Tony Parker is a big reason why.
Kevin Durant and the Thunder go for their 11th win in a row Monday night when they host Parker and the Spurs for the first time since eliminating them in last season's Western Conference finals.
Oklahoma City (19-4) has won 10 straight for the first time since an 11-game run in November 1996 when the franchise was the Seattle SuperSonics.
The Thunder are averaging 109.6 points and shooting 50.2 percent during the current streak, keeping them perfect since a loss at Boston on Nov. 23.
"It's good. We're 19-4 and we just want to look at the bigger picture instead of winning streaks," said sixth man Kevin Martin, who is averaging 19.7 points in the past three games. "We're a pretty talented team, so we're just taking baby steps and getting better every day."
Durant continues to be the team's driving force, averaging 30.2 points over his last 12 games, with Oklahoma City winning 11.
The superstar forward kept the Thunder rolling Friday, making 10 of 14 field goals to finish with 31 points and four steals in Friday's 113-103 win over Sacramento.
Durant had 23 points, 14 rebounds and five assists in an 86-84 loss at San Antonio (19-6) in the Thunder's season opener Nov. 1.
He's averaged 25.8 points in 18 career regular-season meetings with the Spurs, but totaled 29.5 while helping top-seeded Oklahoma City oust San Antonio in the conference finals last spring.
Durant was stellar in the decisive 107-99 victory in Game 6 on June 6, tallying 34 points, 14 rebounds and five assists.
Parker finished with 29 points and 12 assists in that meeting, and had 14 and 11 in this season's first matchup.
The four-time All-Star enters this game averaging 22.9 points and 8.0 assists during San Antonio's 6-2 run, and had 22 points with four steals in a 103-88 win over Boston on Saturday.
"Tony's a phenomenal player," said guard Gary Neal, who had 20 points. "Through the years I've been here, he's done some phenomenal things."
Tim Duncan was far from phenomenal Saturday, missing 11 of 13 shots to finish with a season-low five points and 12 rebounds. He was much better against Oklahoma City last month, collecting 20 points, eight boards and three blocks.
Manu Ginobili may miss another meeting with the Thunder after back spasms kept him sidelined for the first matchup. The veteran swingman suffered a bruised left quad in the opening quarter against the Celtics.
He averaged 18.5 points against Oklahoma City in the playoffs, but was limited to 10.3 on 37.5 percent shooting in the three road games.
While the Spurs and Thunder are back atop the West standings with a burgeoning rivalry, Parker doesn't feel it's on the level as San Antonio's others against Dallas and the Los Angeles Lakers.
"No, not yet," he said. "Not like the Lakers or the Mavericks. Sure, it's starting to become a rivalry."
Spurs 107
Blunder 102
Spurs had been in OKC since Sat Late night or Sun early morning.
I think Spurs are more than ready to Payback OKC at their home ever since that Hideous 4 losses in the PO.
If Spurs stay FOCUSED and play as a TEAM they should be able to get the W even if Manu, Leonard, or Jack are out.
Spurs Come Together to Bring it!!!!!!
They have been looking forward to this game for a long time!!!
Spurs go against the World who is picking OKC to win tonight!!!
Tim Duncan will be a HUGE Factor!
Tony plays like an MVP!
And Danny Green Brings it!!!!!!
Gary Neal shows SHOW UP!
Splitter Brings his BEST Game!
And the rest of the Spurs RISE UP!
I am calling the wounded animal with too many injuries (Spurs TEAM) ALL of them to RISE UP!
Spurs win even if they took OKC to Double OT.
Spurs 108
*Keep in mind Spurs won their home game this season the pressure tonight is on OKC*
Also Captain Jack will be sending karma for Spurs to win this game...
Go Spurs Go!
With 3 of our top perimeter guys watching from behind the bench, our active crew will have their hands full. And with the bench strength being lessened, everybody has to give 110%. It ain't gooding to be pretty but if we can somehow force OKC off their game and either Westbrook or Durant don't show up, we might squeak one out. I just hope our guys come out of this one healthy, win or lose.
Did you ever notice, when you put the 2 words ' The' and ' IRS ' together it spells 'Theirs...'? Tis the season............
Well Spurs started the game slow. They never could catch up with OKC. The Thunder played very physical and had more weapons.
The best things I seen in this game were
1. Captain Jack back he looked awesome even for few minutes!!!!
2. Nando was great with his hustle and energy!!
3. I wish that Pop would play more of Mills I loved the energy he brought!
4. James Anderson was very good on D
5. Splitter was AWESOME!
6. Blair needs to be in the game earlier he creates a havoc. Vs OKC.
Great call by Pop to sit the starters in the end of game!!!
Don't show all your weapons Pop. Adjust in the PO and make them second guess every move. Good job by Pop.
That way starters don't get over used on a no hope to win game since we did not have our shots clicking and our defense was slower than OKC. That was almost impossible to win and if we brought our starters back we lose the game and our starter.
Remember the Spurs have to play tomorrow at Denver. The altitude + the long bus ride to the arena + a Physical Team in Denver at home which is a another very strong home team it is crucial to keep starters fresh.
This game ended on the beg of the 3rd Q.
Boy now we all know that Bench is ok but never going anywhere without Manu in them playing and guiding them.
Without Manu we are all screwed!!!
Get Healthy Soon Manu!!!!!!!!!!
Let's go to Denver and kill Denver tomorrow!!!!!
Go Spurs Go
Go Spurs Go!
OKC is still trouble for the Spurs. We can't match their energy, athletism and defensive intensity. Plus Parker can't play is usual game when Sefalosha is on him and Ibaka is guarding the rim. Solutions remain to be found. Maybe De Colo and Anderson are part of a solution, but that won't be enough.
I am so glad they don't have that beard man Harden this year. Those OKC are not going to beat my Spurs in the PO if Pop did not sit his starters and Manu and Leonard played.
In a 7 game series I am liking Pop OVER Scott Brooks all day long!
Side Note: NBA scheduling [email protected] made it super ugly since FOUR OUUT OF FOUR Spurs OKC meetings were on a B2B.
Spurs won their first OKC game at home on Nov 1st. And OKC won their game yesterday at their home!!!!!!!!!
Spurs/OKC next game is in San Antonio vs OKC on Monday March 11th and it is 1st game on a B2B since Tue the 12th Spurs play @ Minnesota.
Next and last season game Spurs go to OKC on Thursday April 4th and that is also a second B2B game since wednesday April 3rd Spurs play Orlando @ Home.
Go Spurs Go!
Every aspect of OKC's game is top shelf but the one aspect that stands out above the other teams in the NBA is their ability to deflect shots and passes. Somehow that's what the Spurs need to address.
I am not sold yet on OKC. They get good benefit from easier schedule than Spurs and won 11 in a row. This is going to catch up with them by the end of the year.
By the way here is NBA Scheduling [email protected] on the OKC - Spurs games for OKC:
Next Matchup between Spurs/OKC
Mon March 11th OKC will be on the road on a second B2B where they play vs Boston at home on Sun early tip off game at 12:00 pm NOON
Thursday April 4th then OKC at home would be rested for 4 days Since they play before that on Sat March 30th on the road vs Milwaukee
Fist game we played OKC on Thursday Nov 1st in San Antonio where they were rested almost a week since Wednesday Oct 24th pre season game.
Than yesterday OKC played at home vs San Antonio where they were rested for 3 days since Friday Dec 14th they played vs Sacramento at home... They were rested and ready.
Now how is that fair. 1 of the 4 games OKC are on a B2B while Spurs have all those match ups on a B2B games?
Go Spurs Go!
Spurs won on back end in Nov and lost on the front end yesterday.
Secondly, Scott Brooks was on the bench for OKC last year when they beat SA in the playoffs so he's proven his worth against Pop.
Wish I could share your optimism but I just don't believe SA can beat OKC in a series.
We'll see...
So far when Manu and Leonard and Jack (All Spurs) were healthy and played like the first game we played OKC in San Antonio Nov 1st we saw how Spurs won that game.
Ibaka will not be playing that accurate all the time. And Martin might not be as tough as they think come PO.
Only time will tell in the Playoff when Harden will be missed by OKC.
Also Tim Duncan is playing much better this year than last year defensively-yesterday was a fluke for him though since it was a B2B.
But you can't judge Spurs vs OKC so far with these messed up regular season scheduled games. Even though almost all sports analysts have already judged Spurs and said that we don't compare this Almighty OKC team.
2. Pop is working his way to solve the Spurs defensive issues that they have. And by the end of the season come April I expect Spurs to be a much better defensive team because by then Pop would have figured his Playoff rotation.
Pop last year was playing different style than this year that is why I am not comparing last year's PO to this coming this year.
I know Pop does not play he is the one who plans all the rotations and he is the one who calls the shots for Spurs. He was coach of the year last season. Pop has 4 rings and Brooks has ZERO rings.
Also Pop did not ever go to the finals and lost and Brooks lost last year to the Miami Heat in the finals.
Go Spurs Go!
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MEDFORD, Mass. – The No. 2 Yale women's sailing team proved its depth this weekend by winning the Duplin Team Race Regatta at Tufts University. All nine teams at the event sailed a full round robin and then were divided into a final four and bottom five based on the results from that round. Yale and Boston College, which tied for the best first round record with one loss each, were joined by Tufts and Brown University for the final four series on Sunday.
The regatta was sailed on Mystic Lake which is notorious for having some of the trickiest wind conditions. Saturday of the Duplin Regatta was no exception with wind speeds ranging "between zero and 20 knots throughout the day," according to sophomore crew Katherine Gaumond. Sunday's velocity changes were less extreme, ranging from five to 12 knots.
At the end of Saturday, all but the last race of the first round had been completed, so teams returned on Sunday to finish that race before they were split into groups based on win-loss records. The Bulldogs only loss in the first round was to the Roger Williams Hawks who ultimately finished fifth in the regatta.
On Sunday, the Bulldogs again lost just one race, this time to the Boston College Eagles. This loss came in the first round of the final four series, but the Bulldogs prevailed when they met the Eagles again in the second round of the final four.
The Bulldogs went on to finish with the best overall record at 12-2 and were awarded the Joseph Duplin perpetual. Senior skipper Claire Dennis said that her team's victory "was a testament to all the work we put in over spring break."
Additionally, Dennis noted that the Bulldogs were "also pleased to get some time in larks and on Mystic Lake" since the Women's New England Championship will be sailed in the same boats and at the same venue in April.
This was a unique weekend for the Yale women's sailing team since the Duplin Trophy is the only women's team race regatta of the year. Nonetheless, it was a very productive weekend for the Bulldogs who "had really great teamwork all weekend and communicated well during and after races," according to Dennis. After a successful weekend of team building, it is back to New Haven for the Bulldogs, just in time for classes to resume along with their daily practice routine. Next weekend they will return to fleet racing at the Dellenbaugh Trophy in Providence, RI.
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We've all griped about spotty service but only about 1% of the over 300 million wireless contract customers switch carriers. Spencer Ante discusses on MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
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The problem was annoying me for very long time: under PuTTY, applications (e.g. less, vim) using tek window (alternative terminal screen) had totally screwed keypad. Solution was found here.
Apparently, PuTTY tries to do something smart. And fails.
- Change function key/keypad mapping from standard "ESC[n~" to "Linux".
- Disable application keypad mode
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