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New Sounder parking spots in Edmonds slow to fill
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The Sounder train readies for the 7:11 morning departure for Seattle on Thursday.
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Sound Transit has added 53 additional but temporary parking spaces near the Edmonds Sounder Station. The marked spaces are located along the perimeter of the Waterfront Antique Mall parking lot.
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Passengers load the Sounder train for the 6:41 morning departure for Seattle from Edmonds on Thursday. Sound Transit has added 53 additional but temporary parking spaces near the Edmonds Sounder Station. But on Thursday morning, there were still open spaces in the main parking lot after the last morning train departed for Seattle.
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Sound Transit has added 53 additional but temporary parking spaces near the Edmonds Sounder Station.
The first week, an average of about eight cars per day were parked in some of the 53 newly set-aside spaces at the Waterfront Antique Mall, near the train station, after they became available Dec. 3, Sound Transit spokeswoman Kimberly Reason said.
Last week, the numbers were in the teens and 20s, with a high of 23 on Thursday, she said. December ridership typically dips because of holiday vacations, she added.
The new owners of the antique mall property, Salish Crossing, of Bothell, agreed in October to lease 103 spaces to Sound Transit for commuter parking.
The Sounder trains run from Everett to Seattle and back four times on weekdays, with stops in Mukilteo and Edmonds. The trains have been shut down since Monday morning because of mudslides on the tracks in Everett. Another slide occurred at 5:50 a.m. Tuesday, said Gus Melonas, a spokesman for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. The railway, which owns the tracks, requires a 48-hour waiting period for passenger trains to resume service on the line for safety reasons, so the next Sounder service will be Thursday morning, barring more mudslides.
Closures from the slides have been frequent in recent winters. These have been cited as a factor in low ridership on the line, as well as the parking shortages at Edmonds and Mukilteo.
In Edmonds, Sound Transit last month agreed to pay $150 per space per month to Salish Crossing for the parking for five years. This will amount to $15,450 per month or $185,400 per year for all 103 spaces.
The lot at the train station, which is shared by riders for both Sounder and Amtrak trains, has 156 spaces that are usually full by the time the third train of the day departs at 7:11 a.m., riders say. Those hoping to park at or close to the station and catch the fourth train at 7:41 a.m. have been out of luck.
Amie Armstrong, of Lynnwood, had been taking the 7:11 a.m. train to downtown Seattle to avoid losing the game of musical parking spaces at the train station. On Tuesday, for the first time, she parked at the antique mall and caught the 7:41.
She previously tried taking the bus, but the Lynnwood park-and-ride lot was full, she said.
"I don't want to drive," Armstrong said.
About half the 103 new spaces are not yet available because they're part of the owners' remodeling plans for the mall, said Nick Echelbarger, a manager for Salish Crossing, a subsidiary of Echelbarger Investments, a Lynnwood real estate firm.
The work includes tearing down the southernmost building on the property and creating new parking in that area. The job is expected to be done next May.
In the meantime, the company set aside 53 spaces around the perimeter of the antique mall for Sounder train commuters. Signs mark the areas designated for train parking.
"I'm glad they're doing it now. I'm glad they didn't wait until May," said Melody Harris, of Edmonds, who had been parking downtown and walking about half a mile to the station.
She parked in one of the new spaces on Tuesday, as did Greg Banasek of Edmonds. Like Harris, he had been walking from downtown Edmonds.
"I think it'll be a huge benefit," he said.
Readson said Sound Transit will spread the word about the new spaces "via customer outreach, social media, and other marketing efforts."
The Sounder North line averages about 1,100 boardings per weekday, less than half of what was projected when the service began. Sounder service between Seattle and Tacoma averages between 8,500 and 10,000 boardings per day, according to Sound Transit.
A citizen oversight panel suggested in a recent report that Sound Transit consider cutting back the service if the numbers don't improve.
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Can you imagine leaving your pets behind in your former home, even in the worst possible circumstances? We can't either. And yet, after Jerome Smith, 23, was evicted from his Harlem apartment, he chose to do just that to his six-month-old puppies.
When New York City Animal Care & Control officers opened the door to Smith's former home in September, they found Terrier mix puppies Jack and Jill, all alone and in bad shape.
The officers called ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement, and our agents brought the pups to the ASPCA Animal Hospital right away.
ASPCA veterinarians found Jack and Jill to be dehydrated, malnourished and severely underweight. Jack weighed 12.7 pounds and Jill weighed 8.5 pounds. By contrast, after being fed a balanced diet and receiving treatment by ASPCA staff, Jack now weighs 36.5 pounds and Jill weighs 30.3 pounds—a 187 and 256 percent increase, respectively.
The ASPCA arrested Smith in December. He was charged with two counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. If convicted, he faces up to two years in jail and/or a $2,000 fine.
Jack and Jill's story ends happily. On January 13, Jill was adopted! Jack is waiting for a forever family at the ASPCA Adoption Center, located in Manhattan. To learn more about how you can adopt Jack, please visit the ASPCA Adoption Center online.
Update 1/18/13: We are thrilled to report that Jack was adopted!
If you suspect you've witnessed animal cruelty, please report it.
I would punish those who starve and mistreat innocent animals to a minimum of 1 year taking care of any of them, by feeding, bathing, cleaning their facilities, and not allowing to have any other pets at home, in order to avoid future misdeeds. People of that kind should be held responsible and punish by law.
I had a Yorkie & got to where I could not take care of her my heaalth was not good I gave her a good home with a family of 4 Mom & Dad & 2 children they were happy to have her
An eye for an eye I say. This guy should suffer the same fate or worse. Definitely prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Some people just make me sick.
I cant see why anyone would do this to any animal.If Thomas does go to jail, why is it for only 2 years. I think if he is found guilty, he should get at least 5 years. After all if this was done to a human they would get more than 2 years. Animals need more rights. Animals dont get enough justice for what is done to them.
I am an attorney in ny. I am offering my services for free to prosecute this man. Someone needs to stand up for these poor defenseless and loving creatures.
The problem with the animal laws is that the judges, prosecuters and attorneys just don't understand the laws. They need to have a special animal court to deal with scumbags like. this. Also Congress needs to stiffen the penalties for people ( I mean sickos) who treat poor defenseless animals in any cruel way... God bless all of the animals tonight who are suffering.lets get all of these animals to a safe place. Please adopt from a shelter and lets get all animals a home..... until there are none...
Make animal abuse a felony, with minimum mandatory sentence and fine.
I am happy to hear that both pets are adopted. I wish they were kept together but I am sure ASPCA has found them good homes. Maybe they can get to see each other every once in a while.
I am unhappy that the charges were misdemeanors. What that jerk did should be a felony, with at least 5 years jail time. Crack down harder!
So happy for Jack, shame they had to be broken up.
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Again, Michael Pollen sums it up pretty well:
As long as the sun still shines. There is the energy to produce the food. The thing we need to remember, when people ask, "Can we feed the world sustainably?" is that about 40 percent of all the grain we're growing in the world, which is most of what we grow, we are feeding to animals….
.... yield isn't everything — and growing high-yield commodities is not quite the same thing as growing food. Much of what we're growing today is not directly eaten as food but processed into low-quality calories of fat and sugar. As the world epidemic of diet-related chronic disease has demonstrated, the sheer quantity of calories that a food system produces improves health only up to a point, but after that, quality and diversity are probably more important. We can expect that a food system that produces somewhat less food but of a higher quality will produce healthier populations.
If this system is so sensible, you might ask, why did it succumb to Confined Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs? In fact there is nothing inherently efficient or economical about raising vast cities of animals in confinement. Three struts, each put into place by federal policy, support the modern CAFO, and the most important of these — the ability to buy grain for less than it costs to grow it — has just been kicked away. The second strut is F.D.A. approval for the routine use of antibiotics in feed, without which the animals in these places could not survive their crowded, filthy and miserable existence. And the third is that the government does not require CAFOs to treat their wastes as it would require human cities of comparable size to do. The F.D.A. should ban the routine use of antibiotics in livestock feed on public-health grounds, now that we have evidence that the practice is leading to the evolution of drug-resistant bacterial diseases and to outbreaks of E. coli and salmonella poisoning. CAFOs should also be regulated like the factories they are, required to clean up their waste like any other industry or municipality.
It will be argued that moving animals off feedlots and back onto farms will raise the price of meat. It probably will — as it should. You will need to make the case that paying the real cost of meat, and therefore eating less of it, is a good thing for our health, for the environment, for our dwindling reserves of fresh water and for the welfare of the animals. Meat and milk production represent the food industry's greatest burden on the environment; a recent U.N. study estimated that the world's livestock alone account for 18 percent of all greenhouse gases, more than all forms of transportation combined. (According to one study, a pound of feedlot beef also takes 5,000 gallons of water to produce.) And while animals living on farms will still emit their share of greenhouse gases, grazing them on grass and returning their waste to the soil will substantially offset their carbon hoof prints, as will getting ruminant animals off grain. A bushel of grain takes approximately a half gallon of oil to produce; grass can be grown with little more than sunshine.
The final point to consider is that 40 percent of the world's grain output today is fed to animals; 11 percent of the world's corn and soybean crop is fed to cars and trucks, in the form of biofuels. Provided the developed world can cut its consumption of grain-based animal protein and ethanol, there should be plenty of food for everyone — however we choose to grow it.
In fact, well-designed polyculture systems, incorporating not just grains but vegetables and animals, can produce more food per acre than conventional monocultures, and food of a much higher nutritional value. But this kind of farming is complicated and needs many more hands on the land to make it work. Farming without fossil fuels — performing complex rotations of plants and animals and managing pests without petrochemicals — is labor intensive and takes more skill than merely "driving and spraying," which is how corn-belt farmers describe what they do for a living.
Our focus should be on teaching ecological farming systems to students entering land-grant colleges today. For decades now, it has been federal policy to shrink the number of farmers in America by promoting capital-intensive monoculture and consolidation. As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for "better" jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories. To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America — not as a matter of nostalgia for the agrarian past but as a matter of national security. For nations that lose the ability to substantially feed themselves will find themselves as gravely compromised in their international dealings as nations that depend on foreign sources of oil presently do. But while there are alternatives to oil, there are no alternatives to food.
The revival of farming in America, which of course draws on the abiding cultural power of our agrarian heritage, will pay many political and economic dividends. It will lead to robust economic renewal in the countryside. And it will generate tens of millions of new "green jobs," which is precisely how we need to begin thinking of skilled solar farming: as a vital sector of the 21st-century post-fossil-fuel economy.
A decentralized food system offers a great many other benefits as well. Food eaten closer to where it is grown will be fresher and require less processing, making it more nutritious. Whatever may be lost in efficiency by localizing food production is gained in resilience: regional food systems can better withstand all kinds of shocks. When a single factory is grinding 20 million hamburger patties in a week or washing 25 million servings of salad, a single terrorist armed with a canister of toxins can, at a stroke, poison millions. Such a system is equally susceptible to accidental contamination: the bigger and more global the trade in food, the more vulnerable the system is to catastrophe. The best way to protect our food system against such threats is obvious: decentralize it.
There are other kinds of information about food that the government can supply or demand. In general we should push for as much transparency in the food system as possible — the other sense in which "sunlight" should be the watchword of our agenda. The F.D.A. should require that every packaged-food product include a second calorie count, indicating how many calories of fossil fuel went into its production. Oil is one of the most important ingredients in our food, and people ought to know just how much of it they're eating. The government should also throw its support behind putting a second bar code on all food products that, when scanned either in the store or at home (or with a cellphone), brings up on a screen the whole story and pictures of how that product was produced: in the case of crops, images of the farm and lists of agrochemicals used in its production; in the case of meat and dairy, descriptions of the animals' diet and drug regimen, as well as live video feeds of the CAFO where they live and, yes, the slaughterhouse where they die. The very length and complexity of the modern food chain breeds a culture of ignorance and indifference among eaters. Shortening the food chain is one way to create more conscious consumers, but deploying technology to pierce the veil is another.
Yes, sun food (sustainable food) costs more, but the reasons why it does only undercut the charge of elitism: cheap food is only cheap because of government handouts and regulatory indulgence (both of which we will end), not to mention the exploitation of workers, animals and the environment on which its putative "economies" depend. Cheap food is food dishonestly priced — it is in fact unconscionably expensive.
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A dog's day in the sunPublished Sep 4, 2013 at 10:34 am (Updated Sep 4, 2013 at 10:34 am)
The threat of rain didn't squelch the fun for people and pooches this Labor Day, as both descended upon Mineral Beach in Finleyville to beat the heat and say goodbye once again to summer. For three hours, dogs of all shapes and sizes were invited to swim or sunbathe at this second annual Dog Swim hosted by the Washington Area Humane Society. A "best swimsuit contest" was planned and each dog was presented with a goodie bag filled with doggie treats. All monies raised benefits the WAHS. Dormont Pool also held a similar event, but over two days as thunder and lightening postponed the large dog swim until yesterday. The first two swims for small and medium-sized dogs went off as scheduled on Labor Day. Proceeds benefited the Dormont Pool and the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society. The Feltz family of Cecil Township (Southpointe): Tucker, Catherine (not pictured) with daughters Alexis and Page; had a blast swimming with their dog, Rufus.
Jomie models the Pittsburgh sports' bikini fitted by owner Susan Rothengass of Peters Township while other dogs swim in the background. Jomie had hoped to win the swimsuit contest during the Mineral Beach Dog Swim on Labor Day
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South African rugby is renowned for producing talented young flyhalves on an annual basis, and 2010 has been no different with Marais Schmidt excelling for Hoërskool Monument.
Monnas coach Wynand Moolman believes the 18-year-old's all-round ability makes him the complete package.
'Marais is great on attack and defence, and he has an accurate boot, too. He's the type of flyhalf who likes to attack the advantage line, and he keeps his opponents guessing as he has a great rugby brain and vision. He's also a versatile player and can slot in at fullback if there's a need.'
Schmidt is a born-and-bred Joburger. He attended Laerskool Fairland but now boards at Monument in Krugersdorp.
'I've always played flyhalf, from primary school through to high school. In Grade 11, they experimented with me at fullback, so I can play both roles,' says Schmidt. 'But flyhalf is my ideal position. I enjoy playing fullback, but at 10 I get more time with the ball. I like to attack – I have good hands and an accurate boot.'
Schmidt admits he has some weaknesses.
'I need to become stronger mentally and avoid making those little errors on the field. I also want to continue working on my conditioning [he is 82kg and 1.80m].'
Schmidt is already on a junior contract with the Golden Lions and will represent the union at Craven Week in July.
'I want to perform well for the Lions at Craven Week, but I will keep my options open for after school,' he says. 'I see myself going through the age groups before getting Currie Cup and Super Rugby opportunities. I've set myself the goal of playing for the Springboks by 2015.'
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Moscow Mule (from left), raspberry champagne and raspberry Arnold Palmer cocktails use liqueurs brewed at Snohomish's Skip Rock Distillers.
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Moscow Mule (from left), raspberry champagne and raspberry Arnold Palmer cocktails use liqueurs brewed at Snohomish's Skip Rock Distillers.
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Moscow Mule (from left), raspberry champagne and raspberry Arnold Palmer cocktails use liqueurs brewed at Snohomish's Skip Rock Distillers.
The distillers use local berries, apples, potatoes, grain, wine and many other local ingredients to create artisan spirits.
"I grew up here," Ryan Hembree said. "I love that our products come from here."
Hembree and his wife, Julie, are majority owners of Skip Rock, which is in downtown Snohomish.
Hembree says he enjoys the transformation and creativity of taking something like raspberries and turning it into something like the raspberry liqueur.
He started out making beer and wine as a hobby. He completed the Washington State University wine-making program, in addition to private distilling lessons in Kentucky.
Skip Rock sells several liqueurs -- raspberry, blackberry, coffee and spiced apple -- as well as vodka, gin and whiskey.
Hembree takes pride in his liqueurs. If there were an overall theme, he says, it is that they're not too sweet. The liqueurs highlight the natural flavors.
"I want to make something that really features the raw material that it came from," he said.
Another of Skip Rock's products, its vodka, is unusual in that it's made from potatoes: Yukon gold potatoes from Skagit Valley.
A tiny percentage of the vodka in the world is made from potatoes, Hembree said. He said the process of creating potato vodka is harder and messier than using the more common grains.
He describes the flavor of his vodka as creamy, earthy and sweet. The vodka scored 92 points and a Gold Medal from the Beverage Testing Institute. He says it's perfect for Bloody Marys, Dirty Martinis and Moscow Mules.
"I'm not a big fan of neutral vodkas," Hembree said. "I guess I drink water if I don't want flavor. That's why I love craft spirits; they have flavor and character you just can't get in mass-produced products."
Many of Skip Rock's spirits can be savored on their own and they also make great mixed drinks. Hembree shared these recipes that go well with their spirits.
Raspberry Arnold Palmer
3 ounces lemonade
3 ounces iced tea
1 1/2 ounces Skip Rock Raspberry Liqueur
Pour over ice. Also try raspberry liqueur with just lemonade or iced tea.
Hot apple
2 ounces Spiced Apple Liqueur
Warm the liqueur up in a small sauce pan for a brief time. Be careful not to leave it on too long or get too warm. Perfect for sipping on cool spring nights.
Moscow Mule
2 ounces Skip Rock Vodka
1/2 ounce lime juice
4-5 ounces ginger beer (Rachel's Ginger Beer is a local favorite)
Pour over ice and enjoy.
Raspberry champagne
4-5 ounces Champagne
1/2-1 ounce Skip Rock Raspberry Liqueur
Pour Champagne into glass and top with liqueur.
Spring / Autumn Splash
1 ounces Raspberry Liqueur or Skip Rock Spiced Apple Liqueur
1/2 ounces Mac Donald Distillery Isis Gin (also a Skip Rock product)
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1 dash orange bitters
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Shake, strain into flute, top with sparkling wine, tonic, or lemon-lime soda.
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1 1/2 ounces Skip Rock Blackberry Liqueur
Chilled demi sec sparkling wine (tonic or lemon-lime soda are great as well)
Frozen blackberry, for garnish
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Add the vodka and the blackberry liqueur to a flute glass. Stir once or twice. Fill the glass about three-quarters full with sparkling wine. Stir again, briefly. Garnish with the blackberry by dropping it into the glass. Add an ice cube if your sparkling wine isn't chilled enough.
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1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
3 tablespoons light brown sugar
1/4 cup liqueur of your choice (coffee, raspberry, blackberry)
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I'm sure many know here that there is a reasonably sizeable percentage of the population (Xians) who get very bent out of shape, proven by statements/sentiments such as:
I don't want my beliefs assaulted (or ridiculed).
Why do you tear down my beliefs every time we talk?
Why are you shoving your secular beliefs down my throat?
Why must you step on my beliefs?
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What if a group of atheists congregated (no pun) around a church on sunday and outwardly, talking amongst themselves either:
1) matter-of-factly talked about Osiris, Mithras, Sumerian, Santa Claus (technically a deity) or any other earlier religion discussing the parallels between Jesus and those deities, etc. with the INTENT of confusing their kids (or even the adults).
2) made outward fun of people who believed in god or Jesus, etc., laughing about it, making fair (but ridiculous in their minds) analogies.
Assume for now that we're not loitering or doing anything against any ordinances (technically, or in spirit).
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If they had to go to church EVERY sunday for the foreseeable future KNOWING they are going to be "subjected" to anti-religious talk/sentiments, they're going to crack eventually (especially since their kids are involved and can hear).
Further down the line, if things were to get so out of hand that eventually state lawmakers were lobbied to pass restrictions on religious speech in the public square, we'd all know a theocracy has been born and it's time to move.
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Bakkies Botha has lost his ongoing battle with injury and will play no further part in this tournament.
The Bok enforcer has struggled with an Achilles injury since the team arrived in New Zealand. He was expected to return to action in the play-offs, but after a heavy fall at training on Wednesday, the Bok coach believes that Botha's World Cup is indeed over.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. Barton Colleges first two hitters in Ryan Daughtry (Princeton, NC) and Chris Rawlings (Charlotte, NC) combined for a 6-for-8 day at the plate with three RBI, a pair of walks and seven runs scored during a 10-6 victory over Pfeiffer University in Conference Carolinas baseball action on Sunday afternoon. The Bulldogs avoid the weekend sweep by improving to 12-21 overall, 4-12 in league play, while the Falcons drop to 19-16, 10-8.
Daughtry and Rawlings didnt waste any time getting things going with back-to-back singles to start the game. Both would later score on a Phillip Williams (Gibson, NC) double down the left field line and single up the middle by Collins Cuthrell (Rocky Mount, NC). Pfeiffers first run of the day came in the second on a Jacob Yates (Blairs, VA) sacrifice fly to left.
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Both teams would be very quiet at the plate through the middle three innings until Barton took control with four in the seventh and two in the eighth. With runners at second and third, one out, Rawlings dropped down a safety squeeze bunt while the throw to the plate got away allowing both Matthew Berry (Rocky Mount, NC) and Daughtry to score the go-ahead runs. Cuthrell would conclude the inning with a massive two-run shot to left.
Rawlings would finish the Bulldog scoring with a two-run single in the eighth while Pfeiffers final run came in the ninth on a Lyon RBI-double to left. Lyon would lead the Falcons at the plate putting together a 3-for-4 day with his RBI and run scored while Harris, Lindley and Sharpe each recorded two hit days.
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OXFORD, Ohio - The Miami University women's basketball team fell to Toledo, 80-49, Wednesday night at Millett Hall.
The RedHawks dropped to 14-8 overall and 6-3 in the Mid-American Conference, while the Rockets improved to 20-2 and 8-1 in league play.
"Toledo is a very strong team and I think it was a good learning experience for us," coach Maria Fantanarosa said. "We are learning right now a lot about the importance of the little fundamental things."
Miami came back from an early 5-0 deficit and led 8-7 at the 16:45 mark after senior point guard Courtney Osborn hit back-to-back treys and a transition layup.
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Freshman forward Hannah McCue nailed two free throws and senior forward Kirsten Olowinski made one, which evened the score at 17-17 at the 8:22 mark. But the Rockets started to pull away, as they finished the first half on a 24-2 run.
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If 'sual left, who would start at the 2?Originally Posted by Harvey Hornet
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From what I've read at the Bobcats forum, Okafor doesn't seem to care about basketball that much.Originally Posted by NBA Champs
Maybe you trade Sual and one of our bad deals for a 2.Originally Posted by whoah whoah
Remember, it goes beyond the surface and what we see. The Okafor deal proves as much. There could be a reason a team would want to move a 2 for one of our bad deals and a guy like Sual.
I think all of this proves that as fans, we aren't equiped with enough knowledge of the details to judge what we can or can't do.
or maybe he was tired of losing and the team not getting better. or playing in a empty arena.Originally Posted by Napoleon Solo
I wouldn't like basketball either if I played for the Bobjohnsoncats, the Blunder, the Clippers, etc.
From his draft bio:Originally Posted by Napoleon Solo
He's developed a nice 10-foot jumper and has been looking for his shot more. To top it off, he's extremely smart and a very hard worker. Most scouts consider him the most NBA-ready prospect in the draft. The comparisons to a young Alonzo Mourning don't seem that far off.
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I find it a little hard to believe that a guy who hasn't missed a game in two years in this league isn't that interested in basketball. Especially while averaging a double double.
Ideally, to me, I think Okafor is a true center. In today's game, the blueprint for PFs are guys that are 20-10. Okafor just doesn't have the post moves to average that, but he is PERFECT for 15-10 and defending other bigs. I read that the Bobcats even ran the offense thru Okafor. At least now teams will have to respect the Hornets inside game on BOTH ends.Originally Posted by NIH
He plays much taller than 6'10" (which is only 2 freaking inches from 7'0" anyway ).
Okafor's wingspan is 7'4.
Larry Brown liked him but wondered if he had any interest in improving his basketball game as much as he did Yoga or Pilates
to add to that the pf and c positions have changed over the nba during the 2000's. you can say the same for the sg position. 7-0 centers doesn't grow on trees. the new wave pf's come in at 6-8 to 6-9. a few teams use pf size players as centers. denver with nene, dwight is actually more of a pf, gasol played the 5 with injuries, there is okafor, duncan is more of a pf. wing spans, athleticism and length can more than make up for supposedly lack of size.Originally Posted by luckyman
Yep and the exact reason i never really post trade ideas. They get boring after a whileOriginally Posted by Harvey Hornet
larry brown has been known to publicly kill younger players who doesn't fit in with his criteria. he is a good coach. maybe okafor doesn't fit in for what he wants. sort of like the hornets need to go in a different direction to accomplish or reshape the team that will fit in how they want to play.Originally Posted by Napoleon Solo
Agreed. It can be hard for some fans to look at things from every perspective. I think they call it "black and gold glasses"....Originally Posted by Harvey Hornet
Check 1:32.
Too short to play center huh? Even Shaq got some!! Larry Brown is nuts!
I dont care if he doesn't score a point. On defense, no more crappy layups for Parker or Ginobilli.
My glasses are blue and black...Go Panthers!Originally Posted by whoah whoah
Frontpage on ESPN NBA section reads "Sources: Deal Done"
Anyone with insider, can you post excerpts from what Stein says about it?
It's done. From what I've heard it's straight up...BUT...there was a point where they discussed other parts. It's just a matter of if it's Okafor for TC or with other pieces involved.
I like the trade (a lot) but I went on YouTube and searched for "okafor" and literally have not seen anything but -insert player here- posterizes emeka okafor. At least we know he'll try to block the dunk even though it could make him look bad. Right? right???
Good trade though, I'm excited about it.
the only potential starting SG that i can see us having a chance in trading for after looking at every teams rosters is mike dunleavy...and that is about all that is out there
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About 16 per cent of people in Uzbekistan live below the poverty line, 75 per cent of whom live in rural areas. One of the most difficult challenges the country is facing is a lack of employment opportunities, with a high disparity between rural and urban areas. High unemployment and low wages have resulted in a mass labour migration to Russia and Kazakhstan, while remittances have accounted for about 12 to 15 per cent of the nation's GDP from 2010 to 2012.
Governance remains an area where further reforms are needed to improve participatory decision-making, transparency, and the openness of government bodies. Other pressing issues include the need to improve public awareness of and adherence to human rights principles, ensure access to justice for vulnerable groups, and promote gender equality.
Uzbekistan faces a number of environmental challenges compounded by the country's geography and climate, by its rapidly-increasing population, and by its economic activities including those that have damaged the nation's fragile ecosystems. Access to drinking water is a pressing issue, while the Aral Sea disaster has had a negative impact on regional economics, the environment, and the health and livelihoods of local populations.
In the last decade, Uzbekistan has achieved significant progress in reducing low income rates and tackling malnutrition. Official statistics indicate that the national poverty rate has decreased from 28 per cent in 2001 to 16 per cent in 2011. Social cohesion has been maintained through more equitable income distribution, the creation of employment opportunities with a specific focus on rural areas, and attention given to vulnerable populations.
Gender equality in primary and secondary education has been maintained, and the percentage of female students in higher education establishments increased from 25 per cent in 1998 to 36.1 per cent in 2011. The number of women in the Parliament of Uzbekistan has increased from 6 per cent in 1994 to 19 per cent in 2011.
Uzbekistan's maternal mortality rate has gradually decreased from 33.1 per 100,000 live births in 2000 to 23.1 in 2011. This achievement has been the result of a reduced fertility rate, fewer unwanted pregnancies and abortion cases, and longer time periods between pregnancies. Rates of iron, folic acid, iodine and vitamin A deficiencies have been identified and addressed by the Government, and work is underway with international partners to develop effective health care programs.
Uzbekistan is committed to halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria by 2015. The HIV epidemic in Uzbekistan is still in its early stage, with a relatively low rate of infection. Uzbekistan has made significant progress in containing and reversing the spread of TB. In 2011, the incidence of TB cases in Uzbekistan comprised 53.1 of every 100,000 residents, which was 30 per cent less than the level registered in 2005.
The Government has also recognised the need to improve environmental management, and to develop and adopt a number of strategies on environmental protection, natural resource use, biodiversity, agriculture, renewable energy and the prevention of desertification.
- Capital:
- Tashkent
- Population (2013):
- 29,993,500
- Area (in sq. km):
- 447,400
- Area (in sq. mi):
- 172,741
- Language(s):
- Uzbek, Russian
- Poverty Rate (2011):
- 16%
- GDP Per Capita, PPP (2011):
- $3,287
- Human Development Index (2012):
- 0.654
Sources: 2011, World Bank's 'World Development Indicators'2011, Asian Development Bank 'Country Partnership Strategy'UNDP Human Development Index