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Re: Black ops 2 suggestions for DevelopmentLordCacorao Apr 23, 2012 7:05 PM (in response to cb765)
man I think the new call of duty also should have the zombie mode, I thought the new black ops have a way to make the MW3 and I think this place is also very business of killing 24 players and have moab could have that too in the new black ops, but in a way that does not copy the MW3
thanks for reading, will be one of the best games of the call of duty.
I think they should also take this business of drop shot
place and also ways to see the player as in real life type Subri stairs could show the soldier's hands
Re: Black ops 2 suggestions for Developmentmixxinkiller Apr 23, 2012 7:12 PM (in response to cb765)
Some good ideas man, i totally agrre with the melee stuff, it will do the difference, a lot of times , je, well, moreover, im really up to see a huge and fresh customization system, for guns, emblems, titles, and of course, your character, what i would like to see is something that everyone could nottice, even you in the first person view, that way if you have a real good feature on your set, unlocked via some hard challenge, every one could see that you earned it , and it really helps your character with its appearance, i think it would be cool. Furthermore, i belive, if they are keeping the support package, that you should not be able to earn deadly kill streaks, it is too easy even if the ponits are high, to get a very powerfull kill streak such as the stealth bomber, wich i think should be an assault kill streak only, because, most of the matchs i play i MW3, there are always two or three stealth bombers at least, wether for the enemy team or my team, i think it is overused. However i always manage to get my kills so this are just some advices that i belive will make the next game mor enjoyable, (even more ) ;D , so i hope you read this Treyarch, and very good idea cb765, what do you think abuot my ideas?
Re: Black ops 2 suggestions for Developmentinfamy96797 Apr 23, 2012 8:37 PM (in response to cb765)
they need less stealth things like motion sensors/portable radars and heartbeat sensors so i dont have to use ghost/assassin jus to move around the map. they need perks that help mainly rushers like stalker and recon, mayb a perk that lets you reload while running. they hav enough stealth perks in mw3 like blind eye, assassin, and dead silence.
Re: Black ops 2 suggestions for DevelopmentiCarlyPro Apr 24, 2012 7:24 PM (in response to cb765)
Lag compensation will never be fixed unless they get Dedicated Servers which Treyarch won't get because it's not cost effective to them over time. Anyways, the problems I hate the most is when I **** the host team, they quit, and instead of a Win, I get a Lost. I really hate that crap!
Now, 'bout the stealth issues, well, a well balanced Perk system could fix that easily.
First of all, Ghost/Assassin or whateva', should only keep that player hidden during a UAV. However, a turret or sentry gun should kill them out right. In other words, split the stealh between 2 or 3 perks.
Covert/Ghost/Assassin - Undetectable By UAV.
Covert/Ghost/Assassin Pro - Undetectable By UAV, Air Support. No Name Or CrossHairs When Targeted.
Engineer/Hacker/Sit Rep - Detect Enemy Equipment.
Engineer/Hacker/Sit Rep Pro - Hack Enemy Equipment. Undetectable By Sentry Turrets And Motion Sensors/Port. Radar.
So, Even if you have Ghost/Covert on you can still die via a Sentry Gun or Turret Gun and such. Let me know what you think?
Re: Black ops 2 suggestions for Developmentcircle8 Apr 26, 2012 2:59 PM (in response to iCarlyPro)
you guy's want to change something that's alway's been on the game's, your cry baby noob's. ghost/covert/Assassin and dead silence Has been in every Call Of Duty you just want easy kill's cause your not good. Their's my point of cod getting noobish / wimpie , if you got skill you would'nt be care about those's perk but what the new one's will do to ruin the game.
Re: Black ops 2 suggestions for DevelopmentJustANormalKidd Apr 24, 2012 9:35 PM (in response to cb765)
I think that the AC130 should be in black ops 2. Also i dont think players should get 10000000 health for the first 5 seconds of spawn. Thats gay. Killstreaks like the AC130 should be as good like they were in MW2
Re: Black ops 2 suggestions for DevelopmentiCarlyPro Apr 26, 2012 8:01 PM (in response to JustANormalKidd)
Yep...I agree as well. AC 130 in MW2 was great!!!
Re: Black ops 2 suggestions for DevelopmentAWSEMO Apr 26, 2012 8:41 PM (in response to iCarlyPro)
Something I didn't understand in Black Ops was why there was no AC-130 Spooky.. As far as i know, The Vietnam conflict was the AC-130s prime time. I was really dissapointed that it wasn't implemented into campaign/multiplayer. Hopefully, Puff the magic dragon will make an appearance in the next COD!


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A bruise is the visible evidence of bleeding under the skin. Seldom more than a cosmetic nuisance, it goes through a well-defined series of changes, beginning with a dark purple and red coloration, gradually fading through greenish yellow, then disappearing. Some people are particularly prone to bruises, developing them after injuries too minor to affect most people.
is so widely believed to be an effective treatment for bruises and other minor traumas that it is found in the medicine cabinets of millions of people, especially in Europe. However, there is as yet no consistent scientific evidence that it is effective.
For example, two very preliminary clinical trials were performed to test whether homeopathic
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In these unpleasant-sounding experiments, the subjects allowed themselves to be bruised on the inside of their forearms by a 2.3-pound (1,041 g) weight, which fell from about a foot and a half (44 cm) above the arm. Participants were given either
or placebo before the experiment and then were bruised on one arm. Subsequently, they were given a second dose of whatever they had just received and were then followed for a period of 3 to 4 days. The goal was to see whether the bruises treated by
got better faster than those treated by placebo.
Researchers found a hint of benefit in the first study, but none in the second study. Unfortunately, the numbers of participants in each study were too small to allow for the results to have much statistical meaning.
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A more recent study, involving face-lift surgery, found equivocal benefits at best.
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Challenges in understanding Sjögren's syndrome - improved insights into the pathogenesis generate hope for innovative therapies?
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Arthritis Research & Therapy 2011, 13:123 doi:10.1186/ar3425
See related reviews by Jacob and Stohl, http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/4/228; Shao and Cohen, http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/1/202; Holle et al., http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/3/224; Sipsas et al., http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/2/212; Vitali, http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/4/233; Low and Witte, http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/3/218; Youinou and Pers, http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/4/227; Delaleu et al., http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/3/217; and Kallenberg et al., http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/1/205Published: 19 August 2011
The reviews in this series on Sjögren syndrome provide an up-to-date summary and perspectives on the pathogenesis of this interesting entity with glandular and frequently systemic manifestations, the value of preclinical models, and our current understanding of therapeutic approaches. The last of these includes what has been learned from trials blocking tumor necrosis factor and, more recently, anti-CD20 therapy. Potential therapeutic targets, such as blockade of the B cell-activating factor, the role of interferon-alpha, and targeting CD22, are discussed.


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The vendor posted third quarter revenues of $302 million, up 38 percent on the same period last year, but well below analyst estimates of $307.2 million.
On a GAAP basis Quantum posted a fiscal Q307 net loss of $9.5 million or 5 cents per share, compared to net income of $819,000 and breakeven per share in the third quarter of 2006, although these figures included over $30 million in stock-based charges, expenses, and costs related to the acquisition of its tape rival. (See Quantum Reports Earnings.)
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DEKE DICKERSON kicks my ass! Not only is he among the best guitarists you'll ever see (Joe Maphis lives!), but his albums are so much fun they make me feel like diving naked into a pool filled with blue Jell-O. I have no idea why this occurs to me, so don't ask. Dickerson just holds mystical powers that compel you to perform unnatural acts with cool, refreshing dessert products.
Dickerson's new album, More Million $eller$ (yeah, right!) ought to remind all rockabilly fans that you don't have to pose as a scowling, greasy badass to have fun with the music. Deke's a clean-cut feller with a 2,000-watt smile, and he's single-handedly bringing a badly needed sensa yoomer back to the 'billy scene. Lessee what's on here: Dickerson imports world-famous midget Billy Barty to recite musician jokes ("What's the difference between a guitar player and a savings bond? A savings bond eventually matures and starts to earn money!" "What does a drummer say when he steps up to the microphone? 'Would you like fries with that?'"). He sings a double-entendre-filled duet with 82-year-old Hadda Brooks that's raunchy enough to launch your lunch (the sound of an octogenarian imploring him to "give it to me, daddy" somehow creeps me out), even though Brooks is a legendary R&B diva. He closes out with Jerry Scoggins, the voice of the original Beverly Hillbillies theme song, singing the tune with new lyrics imploring you to buy more copies of the CD ("Deke needs a new pair of shoes!").
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For all the guests he rounds up to help him out (former Big Sandy pianist Carl Sonny Leyland, steel guitarist Jeremy Wakefield and former Unknowns guitarist Mark Neil—who also produced—are among those onboard), this album still belongs to Dickerson and his rockin' backup combo, the Ecco-Fonics. I demand that you purchase More Million $eller$ at a record store near you and check out Deke and the Ecco-Fonics when they play the Blue Cafe on Sunday night. So it has been written; so it shall be done!
The name YNGWIE MALMSTEEN also makes me snigger, but it does not make me want to dive into a pool full of blue Jell-O. It doesn't make me snigger just because the name itself is so dorky—the guy can't help it if he's Swedish, after all—but because Malmsteen himself is such a quintessential dork. Say the name Yngwie Malmsteen, and visions of Spinal Tap and Wayne's World dance merrily in my head.
Back in his mid-'80s metal heyday, Malmsteen was briefly anointed the prodigious shredder guitar guy of the hour—an anointment he loudly concurred with. But in the ensuing 15 years, his brand of play-thousands-of-notes-per-second-and-throw-in-a-bunch-of-pseudo-classical-bombast has fallen from favor, and the once arena-packing attraction is now reduced to playing clubs and theaters. There's something at once sad, quaint and amusing about the spectacle of a self-proclaimed heavy-metal genius on the downslide, girlie-man hairdo all-a-twitter as he endeavors to survive off the fumes of a reputation that lasted about 15 seconds a decade and a half ago. While it's true that Malmsteen remains an amazing technician, the real reason to check him out at the Galaxy Concert Theatre on Wednesday is to have fun thrusting your Bic skyward at the conclusion of every grandiose solo and to shout requests for "Big Bottom" until the notoriously hotheaded Malmsteen blows his stack. Dood!
I wasn't familiar with JANIVA MAGNESS until she turned in some excellent vocal work on the recently released Kid Ramos album. Now I have her debut, My Bad Luck Soul, and although I was a bit disappointed with it, I still feel safe in saying that the LA-based Magness can sing up a righteous hellstorm of blues fury. The problem with the album isn't in Magness' performance, but rather in the inferior recording and production (I hope producer Joe Morabia has a secure day job).
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ANTHONY Albanese has got into the Territory spirit, ditching the suit and tie and getting acquainted with some big-name Territory locals.
Shadow Tourism Minister Mr Albanese - along with Territory Senator Nova Peris, teased and fed the famous 80-year-old crocodile Burt, who made his name starring along Paul Hogan in the original Crocodile Dundee, at Crocosaurus Cove yesterday.
The menacing 5.1m, 700kg croc snapped up the slabs of meat offered by the pair but resisted trying to have a taste of either politician.
Mr Albanese also had a new experience holding a baby croc for the first time.
Mr Albanese wasn't just in town for some croc-handling fun but also criticised the Abbott Government's plans to cut tourism funding in half and restructure Tourism Australia, calling the cuts "a croc" that will damage the economies of northern Australia and capital cities.
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Dances, concert will lead Mon Valley oldies buffs down Memory Lane
Three icons of the national entertainment scene will highlight a busy schedule for oldies aficionados in the mid-Monongahela Valley in the coming weeks.
The lineup includes concert promoter, author and Pittsburgh Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Rich Engler; Jimmy Beaumont and The Skyliners, one of the enduring groups in recording history, and legendary disc jockey Porky Chedwick.
The journeys to yesteryear include an All Oldies, Only Oldies dance from 8 p.m. to midnight April 5 at the Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department's community social center.
Engler will be a special guest at that event and will present a pre-dance program at 7:30. He also will be available for autographs and photos. Copies of his autobiography, "Behind The Stage Door: A Promoter's Life Behind The Scenes," will be on sale, with portions of the proceeds going to the Cancer Caring Center.
Memorabilia from Engler's 40-plus years as a major concert promoter in Pittsburgh will be on display and will include classic guitars from such artists as the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, the Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Bon Jovi, James Brown and Smokey Robinson.
Engler was honored as the first inductee into the Pittsburgh Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in ceremonies Jan. 21 at the Hard Rock Cafe at Station Square.
Disc jockey Ralph Trilli, co-host of Cruisin' Sunday on WJPA, will provide music from the 1950s and early 1960s.
Admission to the BYOE (Bring Your Own Everything, food and beverages) is $10 and tables of eight or more are available. Previous dances over the past six years have drawn more than 500 people.
"It appears that we will have another sellout, but a limited number of tickets is available," said Al Marcy, first assistant fire chief and entertainment chairman at the Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department.
Reservations and additional information are available at 724-330-5002.
Charleroi benefit
Jimmy Beaumont and The Skyliners will headline "A Blast From the Past" show April 11 at the Charleroi Area High School auditorium.
The benefit is sponsored by the Charleroi Area School District Education Foundation, which provides student scholarships, teacher grants and other programs.
"We are very delighted to present The Skyliners for this special journey down memory lane," said Carol Claybaugh, vice president of the Education Foundation. "They are synonymous with quality and their repertoire of songs incudes some of the biggest hits of the 1950s and '60s."
The Skyliners are perhaps best known for their national hit "Since I Don't Have You" in 1959. Among their other signature songs are "This I Swear" and "Pennies From Heaven." Lead singer Jimmy Beaumont is a founder of the group and is joined by current members Donna Groom, Nick Pociask and Frank Czuri.
Tickets for the show, which begins at 7 p.m., are $50 for VIP seating, $35 for reserved seats and $25 for general admission. They may be purchased by calling Claybaugh at 724-483-7075 or Tom Nutting at 724-984-5510 or by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope with checks made payable to CASDEF to CASDEF, Box 382, Charleroi, PA 15022.
Complementing the performance by The Skyliners will be appearances by "Elvis" (Jamie Harris), Billy Hartung and the Hooligan Brothers Band and Joey Papadakos. Disc jockey Frankie Day of WKFB will be the master of ceremonies.
Porky in New Eagle
The Monongahela Area Chamber of Commerce will present a "Community Oldies" dance from 7 to11 p.m. April 26 at the New Eagle Volunteer Fire Department's social center.
Porky Chedwick is scheduled as a special guest at the event.
"Porky is truly an icon of the music and entertainment businesses in Pittsburgh and beyond," said Dorothea Pemberton, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce. "We are thrilled that he will be returning to the area and joining us for the dance."
Chedwick's career in radio, dances and concerts spans nearly 70 years. His record hops of the 1950s and 1960s were among the largest ever in western Pennsylvania and beyond. He is the only Pittsburgh broadcaster to be honored in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
Longtime disc jockey Bill Lemon of Disc Inferno will provide music from the '50s and '60s at the April 26 affair.
"And we always take requests," said Lemon, who has been performing at dances, class reunions, wedding receptions and special events for over 35 years in the area and elsewhere around the country. "I'm certainly looking forward to working with Porky Chedwick at New Eagle. He has been such an integral part of our lives for so many years."
Pemberton said Lemon is a "perfect fit" for the dance.
"Bill has an extensive of music from all eras and genres," she said. "He has extensive experience in this profession that is complemented by his knowledge of the music and an outgoing personality that makes the crowds feel at home."
Tickets for the dance at New Eagle are $15 per person and a cash bar will be offered. Additional information is available at 724-258-5919 or www.monongahelaareachamber.org.
Proceeds will benefit the myriad community events sponsored by the Monongahela Area Chamber of Commerce.
The most recent Oldies event at the New Eagle site was a Valentine's dance on Feb. 15 featuring Pure Gold. It drew more than 400 people. "There's no question that the oldies span the ages and remain so popular today," Pemberton said.
Other events
A St. Patrick's Dinner-Dance will be held March 15 at the Charleroi Elks with DJ Ralph Trilli providing the music. Doors will open at 6 p.m., a buffet dinner will be served at 6:30 and dancing will begin at 7:30. Admission is $15 and reservations are required.
Trilli will return to the Charleroi Elks on April 12 for a pre-Easter dinner-dance with the same time format as the March 8 affair. Tickets are $15 each and reservations are required.
Additional information about the dances at the Elks is available at 724-483-4727 after 4 p.m. or 412-881-7223.
Dances featuring Trilli also are scheduled March 29 and April 19 — both from 7 to 11 p.m. — at the Sons of Italy social hall in Perryopolis. Admission is $10.
The events at the Elks and the Sons of Italy will feature oldies, pop music and line dancing.
Ron Paglia is a contributing writer for Trib Total Media.
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"... is doing for Cuban baseball what Ry Cooder has done for Cuban music ..."
A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864-2006
"Bjarkman delivers the definitive work on Cuban baseball"—Library Journal
Baseball's Other Big Red Machine: A History of the Cuban National Team
A long-awaited history of the Cuban national team and its near century-long saga of international tournament dominations
Who's Who in Cuban Baseball, 1962-2013
First English-language biographical encyclopedia of post-revolutionary Cuban baseball, scheduled for 2015 publication
Diamonds Around the Globe: Encyclopedia of International Baseball
"... this gem is truly a triumph of research and good writing ..."—Library Journal
Smoke — The Romance and Lore of Cuban Baseball (co-authored with Mark Rucker)
is visual, visceral energy ... Rarely does a baseball book offer so much ..."—Sports Collectors Digest
Baseball with a Latin Beat: A History of the Latin American Game
"An unrivaled definitive history of the Latino invasion of the North American pastime."—amazon.com
Baseball Anthologies
The Baseball Scrapbook (appearing in five editions)
"A celebration of the powerful grip that America's game has on its millions of fans, and an attempt to recreate baseball history as it lives in our memory and imagination."
Baseball Histories
The New York Mets Encyclopedia (and others)
Five-decade illustrated history of major league baseball's most successful and popular post-expansion-era franchise
Basketball Histories
Basketball Histories and Biographies
Nine early Bjarkman authored volumes on basketball history, including a popular illustrated history of the Boston Celtics and what some in the late-1990s called a definitive history of college basketball
Young Adult Readers
Young Adult Reader Sports Biographies
Nine early Bjarkman authored sports biographies for Young Adult Readers produced in the early and mid-1990s
May 2015 Interview
Wall Street Journal Hedcut
Inside Baseball: This Yanqui is Welcome in Cuba's Locker Room"
The PDF copy of WSJ front page story detailing Peter C. Bjarkman's Cuban baseball saga (November 9, 2010)
Click photo to view 2010 WSJ video reporting on Peter C. Bjarkman's Cuban baseball travel adventures
Forthcoming Winter 2015/16
Forthcoming Winter 2016
Peter Bjarkman Looks Inside Cuban Baseball
"If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end."
— Pico Iyer ("Why We Travel")
Cuba's Baseball Defectors: The Inside Story of Major League Baseball's Hottest Issue (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
The headline-grabbing impact of a hefty number Cuban sluggers and hurlers has become one of the hottest stories in contemporary big league baseball. In June of 2013 flashy Yasiel Puig burst on the scene in media-rich Los Angeles with one of the most sensational opening months in the career of any major league rookie. Less than a year later slugging José Abreu was rewriting American League record books in Chicago with a Cinderella debut month of even greater portions. For the past four seasons flame-throwing Cincinnati southpaw Aroldis Chapman has been stunning enemy batters with an unparalleled 105 mph heater. In only his fifth big league start Odrisamer Despaigne came within an eyelash of hurling the first no-hit game in San Diego Padres history. Oakland A's five-tool Yoenis Céspedes launched his own media circus with a pair of consecutive Mid-Summer Classic Home Run Derby crowns and the 2014 MLB All-Star Game featured five Cuban-born players for the first time in 45 years. And as the recent season wound down the normally hapless Chicago Cubs showcased phenom outfielder Jorge Soler (three homers in his first three big league games) while the often conservative Boston Red Sox tendered a mid-boggling $72-deal in order to corral still another recent Cuban League escapee named Rusney Castillo.
The unrivalled Cuban baseball talent font has always been acknowledged, though Cold War politics and clashing social systems have for decades held the door closed on domestic Cuban baseball and thus kept most stateside fans largely in the dark. Cuba dominated international tournaments for a half-century, but there was always a very large caveat surrounding those victories. For 50 years Cuba won or reached the finals of every single major international tournament (a string that ended with a second round elimination at the 2009 World Baseball Classic), but the bulk of those triumphs (before 1999) all came in the aluminum-bat era and were earned largely against amateur university-level squads. Cuban exiles in the USA were particularly unwilling to acknowledge the quality of the current Cuban League, clinging to a notion that the "baseball glory era" on the island had ended with the disbanding of organized baseball-affiliated winter league play way back in 1961. An inaugural World Baseball Classic (2006) nonetheless seemed to put at least some of those doubts to rest. Now an increasing wave of "defectors" (top Cuban League stars illegally leaving their homeland in search of big-league fame and lucre) have successfully thrown wide open a long opaque window on Cuba and its seemingly endless supply of high-quality baseball talent.
This recent "defector phenomenon" has been as clouded in misconception, however, as has almost all of Cuban baseball's vast history. The Cuban baseball story is crammed with endless mythology – inaccurately told tales that never measure up to careful factual analysis. From a fantasy notion that pre-revolution Cuba provided a racial paradise (the popular island amateur league was in fact an "all-white" affair until World War II), to the undying legend of Fidel Castro as pro pitching prospect (a myth finally destroyed with Bjarkman's own A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864-2006), down to notions about Cuban stars playing under virtual armed guard on international tours during the first decade of the current century, misconceptions continue to abound. And no aspect of 20th or 21st century Cuban baseball has been more wildly misreported or consistently misunderstood than that involving the misinformation spread by popular US press accounts concerning the "defections" of recent impact stars like Yasiel Puig, Aroldis Chapman, Yoenis Céspedes and dozens of similar skilled ball-playing island refugees.
From the celebrated (and later debunked) 1998 accounts of "El Duque" Hernández braving shark-infested waters on a flimsy raft, down to recent distorted accounts of Cuban League "defection"-inspired suspensions imposed on future MLB stars Aroldis Chapman, Yoenis Céspedes and Yasiel Puig, tales of harrowing and heroic escapes by coveted Cuban Leaguers have universally strayed far from actual events – suffering self-serving embellishments often crafted by gold-digging player agents or gleeful South Florida exiles looking for any blow against the Castro regime. A fresh look is needed – one that clarifies some actual details related to Cuba's rich baseball pipeline.
Nothing brought MLB's "Cuba issue" to center stage faster than breaking press accounts this past spring revealing harrowing details of Puig's flight from his island homeland. Most are familiar with the outline of the story that broke in LA Magazine (authored by Jesse Katz) and its allegations that MLB was in some measure guilty of closing a blind eye to human trafficking of high-ticket Cuban prospects. Puig had been smuggled through Mexico with apparent aid from Zeta drug cartel members and for a brief time his future and even his physical well-being had been seriously jeopardized. When Puig reached Mexican shores as a virtual prisoner and the price was jacked up for his delivery to a potential player agent, other organized crime elements from Miami virtually "re-kidnapped" him from the original smugglers. A hefty price reportedly remains on Puig's head as the resulted of the Zetas being stiffed ay their own game. Details remain sketching, as they also do in the parallel case of Texas Rangers outfielder Leonys Martin who underwent a similar harrowing trial several years earlier. And there are further ugly elements as well to the departure sagas of Puig, Cespedes and even Aroldis Chapman. Puig fled after being suspended from the Cuban League on the heels of a shop-lifting incident during a national team tour in Rotterdam; Céspedes eluded Cuban authorities after being implicated in a fatal auto accident on the island the very week when Puig was also failing into disfavor. A dozen Cubans have served jail time back home as fallout from aiding Chapman. And ESPN "30 for 30" has now prepared a documentary entitled "Brothers in Exile" to kick off their 2014 autumn season that will explore in vivid detail dramatic circumstances surrounding the Cuban "flights" of Liván and half-brother El Duque Hernández.
Now for the first time an author close to the Cuban baseball scene for two decades peels away the mysteries and cuts through the fog of rumors and misinformation to lay out the details surrounds Cuba's current burgeoning big league pipeline. Peter Bjarkman has traveled to all corners of the island baseball scene over the 20 years separating Cuba's impressive early Olympic baseball triumphs in Barcelona and Atlanta from the recent domestic economic crises that have spurred increasing numbers of top Castroland stars to abandon their homeland for the promised riches of North American professional contracts. Having enjoyed rare island access and personally knowing most of the top Cuban stars, Bjarkman is now able to reveal the complete story behind the "Cuban big league phenomenon" and answer the numerous questions lurking behind one of the biggest sports stories of the past several decades.
Bjarkman here explains precisely how Cuba has managed to generate such remarkable baseball talent over the past quarter century, how it has until recently kept most of that talent sequestered at home, and why Cuban government and sports official are so adamant about rejecting any open trafficking with major league ball clubs. He reveals the personal histories of some of the highest-profile stars among recent Cuban imports and explains unfolding events that have lend them to eventually choose "defection" from their homeland. In the process he explores the personal risks that many have taken to achieve their North American baseball dreams. He also examines the steps that Cuban authorities are now taking to stem the talent loss at home and speculates on what those countermeasures may mean in the future for big league clubs coveting a continuing flow of top-level Cuban talent.
This book not only reveals behind-the-scenes developments in one of baseball's biggest unfolding stories, but also raises questions concerning baseball's next crisis of perhaps scandalous proportion. Recent revelations about the smuggling of potential superstar Yasiel Puig (including the misadventures of his transport through Mexico with the aid of Miami-based crime syndicates and Mexican drug cartels) reveals the true dark underbelly of the "freedom flights" of top Cuban athletes and colors their quests for promised big league riches. Similar tales surrounding Rangers outfielder Leonys Martin and Oakland slugger Yoenis Céspedes add further fuel to the fire, as do recent courtroom confessions of a Miami crime syndicate "hired hand" involved directly in the Leonys Martin case. Does MLB's blind-eye current stance on Cuban player recurrent actually aid and abet the illicit operations in Cuban player smuggling? Are big league moguls guilty at the very least of "looking the other" way and ignoring egregious human trafficking that is putting the lives of many top athletes and their families at risk? And how precisely do five decades of failed Washington policy and the odious effects of an unworkable Helms-Burton economic embargo bear the brunt of responsibility for this current state of affairs? Bjarkman's treatment delves into the complexities of these troubling issues and offers tentative solutions to what is now one of American baseball's biggest ongoing headaches.
The "Yanqui" in Cuba's Dugout: Travels Inside Fidel Castro's Baseball Empire (McFarland & Company Publishers)
For almost two decades now Peter Bjarkman has been hot on the trail of Cuban baseball, chasing after both its luminous history before the 1959 Fidel Castro-led revolution and its often-obscure contemporary realities of the post-revolution era. The writer known as the "Bill James and Peter Gammons of Cuban baseball" made his initial fact-finding trips to Castro's forbidden island nation with photographer Mark Rucker in the aftermath of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Across the succeeding 17 years he has logged fifty-plus visits and ventured into virtually every hidden byway of an anachronistic Communist bastion that today stands continually on the cutting edge of history and Cold War politics. And here for the first time the well-travelled author provides detailed accounts of his Cuban adventures and thus provides an unprecedented insider's portrait of the island's national pastime as it today struggles for both survival and continued international prominence.
Others have penned engaging travelogues recounting their eye-opening and often mind-bending journeys throughout Castro's Cuba. Numerous previous authors like Tom Miller, Zöe Brân, Andrei Codrescu, James Michener and Carlo Gébler have chronicled visits normally spanning only a few months (as with Tom Miller's ground-breaking Trading with the Enemy), or a perhaps only a few weeks, or even as little as six days (in the case of Michener). By contrast Bjarkman's unique travelogue is drawn from dozens upon dozens of return visits spread across a wide span of gradual social, economic and political changes that have marked the final years of Fidel's near half-century in power and the opening decade of Raúl Castro's tenuous experiments in modified survivalist socialism.
The focus of Bjarkman travels has remained squarely fixed on Cuba's contemporary domestic baseball scene – an arena that is both the source of an engaging alternative diamond universe untouched by corporate big league baseball and also a wellspring for the recent flood of highly celebrated "defectors" now enriching stateside major league play. But his adventures have also opened enduring personal contacts with Cubans from all walks of life, everyday citizens of a "revolutionary" society heroically struggling to survive within the island nation's harsh late-twentieth and early twenty-first century economic and social realities. The result is an examination of Cuba both on and off the baseball diamond from a perspective rarely granted to North American visitors.
Bjarkman's special access in Cuba has drawn considerable main-stream media attention over the years here in the United States. He has been continually quoted by numerous print and electronic media outlets for reports on high-profile Cuban League "defectors" debuting in the major leagues; his columns on the popular www.BaseballdeCuba.com website have remained a valued source of information on island baseball developments and on the potent Cuban national team. When renowned TV chef Anthony Bourdain took his Travel Channel "No Reservations" show to Havana in March 2010, Peter Bjarkman was at his side as the featured Cuban baseball guide and knowledgeable insider. During November 2010 the conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal profiled Bjarkman with a front-page story stressing his remarkable insider's perspective on the island national pastime and also highlighting the considerable furor this access has generated among a North American Cuban exile community. As reported by WSJ writer Christopher Rhoads, many transplanted Miami Cubans prefer to see the author as "a stooge and shill for the Cuban government" and as one who glosses over realities of a failed revolution to protect his own special access. In brief, while some chose to see Bjarkman "as doing for Cuban baseball what Ry Cooder has done for Cuban baseball" … still others "consider him akin to John Reed, the controversial American journalist whose leftist sympathies allowed him into the Bolshevik inner circle to chronicle the 1917 Russian Revolution."
With this new volume – part-travelogue and part baseball history – Bjarkman not only tells his own side of the story but also exposes a Cuba that few Americans have been privileged to experience and judge first-hand. The Yanqui in Cuba's Dugout chronicles the author's numerous informal conversations with Cuban baseball officials, relives encounters with star ballplayers who have become his personal friends and confidants, and recounts often contentious debates with fanatic fans from all walks of Cuban daily life. The narrative is crammed with surprising (often even mind-bending) events witnessed both on and off the playing field and rarely imagined in a sanitized world of American professional baseball. Within twenty chronologically arranged chapters, Bjarkman tackles the complex and controversial issue of ballplayer defections, reveals the pros and cons of a socialist baseball system that eschews both player free agency and the corporate business model ubiquitous thorough other baseball-playing nations, and offers Cuban ballplayers' own outspoken views on why some stay and others leave a restrictive baseball culture that has both trained and nurtured them. Throughout these pages the author lays bare numerous myths surrounding a contemporary island national pastime he zealously defends as a true Golden Age. And in the process we discover precisely why he prefers Cuba's non-commercial approach to baseball as an instrument of national and community pride and a "socialist right of the people."
The book is filled with numerous anecdotes revealing behind-the-scenes developments not previously available to those who view Cuban baseball from the outside. Among the previously buried events recounted here for the first time is a controversial suspension of idolized star outfielder Freddie Cepeda, the result of an unlikely September 2010 cloak-and-dagger scene staged in Puerto Rico with the author himself smack in the middle of the unfolding drama. Bjarkman reveals the nuts and bolts operations of Cuban security struggling overseas to protect national team stars from hordes of vulture-like MLB player agents; he reveals how top Cuban players live both at home and on road trips abroad; and he lays bare the often horrendous playing conditions found in today's island ballparks. Found here is the backstory surrounding the ground-breaking 2011 Havana filming of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations Cuba" documentary, as well as the inside scoop on a recent unprecedented island visit by ESPN – a junket that signaled a rare opening in an iron-clad wall long blocking the national sport from probing by the foreign media. Also revealed is the intriguing tale of how in February 2001 the author himself became the first American in over a half-century to be interviewed on the topic of domestic baseball by primetime Cuban national television. With the book's concluding chapter Bjarkman analyzes and clarifies developments behind recently announced changes in Cuban player salaries and related lightening of restrictions on players traveling abroad.
Bjarkman's personal accounts provide a lucid window into the rocky evolution of Cuban baseball – stretching from the reintroduction of wooden bats and the initial Olympic triumphs of the mid-nineties to the troubling new millennium scenes of the 2000s, an epoch marked by increasing player defections, sliding international stature, and an island-wide economic collapse that today threatens island baseball's very survival. In many ways the contemporary Cuban League parallels the lost spectacle of pre-WWII stateside Negro league baseball. All we now own of that murky Blackball universe is a handful of sketchy oral histories too often cheapened by mind-stretching exaggerations, overzealous nostalgia, and the lack of first-hand accounts from a contemporary mainstream sporting press. What American observers now possess of the Cuban baseball scene is a similar shroud of mystery and misunderstanding stemming from Washington's half-century Cold War blockade of Castro's realm. But imagine for a moment some miraculously unearthed contemporary report carefully penned by an outside observer who painstakingly captured realities of the lost 1930s-era Negro leagues scene in Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, or Birmingham. That is precisely what veteran author Peter Bjarkman now places before North American readers, scholars and historians for the frequently misunderstood and heavily romanticized world of contemporary Cuban baseball.


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Professor Dr. Michael Franz' doctoral dissertation: Code-Generation On-the-Fly: A Key to Portable Software (PDF). I've been harping about Semantic Dictionary Encoding (SDE) ever since I first read the paper back in 1994, and got quite close to actually implementing at one point. So let me give a brief overview, since I can't drag it out often enough (someone take it mainstream, damn it!): SDE is, at it's most basic, a compression mechanism for the intermediate representation of a compiler. Similiarly to Huffman coding, an SDE encoder and decoder pair both builds a dictionary of the datastream while building it and decoding it respectively. The dictionary entries is the used to encode/decode the following part of the data stream, which cause more entries to be added to the dictionary, etc., meaning that the later you are in the data stream, the more of the stream will refer to previously added dictionary entries instead of having to be all verbose and include the full definition. But to call it just a compression method would be selling it very short. The appeal of SDE is that it can be used as a machine independent representation of a program, while at the same time it can (if used properly) retain far more semantic information about the program than a typical bytecode. Contrary to most bytecode, SDE retains the structure of the program as represented by the compiler. This has a few very appealing properties beyond the nice parts of JIT (such as being able to target specific CPU versions):
- When (re)building the dictionary on decoding, you can store auxiliary information and even partway generated code, to speed up generation of subsequent pieces of code that use that dictionary element. The compression removes the need for pattern recognition - the pattern recognition was already done at encoding time. Franz' specifically tested outright code copying to speed up the code generation, where small pieces of code that was generated was tracked if it was invariant, in which case future uses of the same dictionary entry would lead to just copying the previously generated piece.
- You retain the ability to do JIT, but have high level flow information available, making it trivial to do things like sub-expression elimination and a number of similar "cheap" optimizations at JIT time based on knowledge available at runtime. The more you can defer generation and the more additional information becomes available before generation, the better you can do.
- The code generator can be modified to specifically recognize higher level dictionary elements that can be specifically optimized, while dictionary definitions for those elements can be provided that represents them in terms of lower level patterns. What that buy you is a backwards compatible way of improving performance that can provide significantly improved performance when running on systems or platforms for which the newest decoder is available, while still retaining full compatibility with the lowest common denominator - lowering the threshold for porting and for innovation.
- SDE retains the block structure and type information of the program, making it well suitable for highly dynamic languages (such as Ruby) that tend to either result in complex, bloated and slow bytecode or highly specialized, language specific VM's. With SDE, a highly specialized decoder can still exist, but by providing dictionary entries that act as templates for the specialized constructs of the language as part of the program, a generic decoder can still execute the program. The same benefits apply for more static languages, but it would appear to be more pronounced for dynamic languages where the final generated code can be far more effectively optimized once more information is known (i.e. in Ruby you can potentially do a far better job if you can JIT and cache specialized versions of code that take into account the actual layout of a class once all code that may reopen and extend/modify the class has been loaded - this doesn't really apply to languages where the structure of a class is known definitively at some point before the program is run).
- Because of the level of semantic information retained in the file format, SDE is not at odds with generating native binaries. Where a typical VM such as JVM's may or may not suffer a semantic disconnect with the destination architecture which means that a native binary generated from their bytecode might end up varying significantly from what a code generator would have generated with full knowledge of both the high level structure of the program and the target architecture, SDE doesn't have the same issue since very little of the semantics of the original program is lost in translation.
This means that a compiler can reasonably be split into a portable part outputting SDE binaries, and either a runtime SDE decoder/linker and/or a linker producing native code without loss of information. Such a native code generator can be run either prior to delivery of the code, or it can be run on installation, to be able to optimize for a specific CPU model, and can use more expensive optimizations than might be acceptable for runtime code generation.
- Instructions for tracing, additional safety (bound checking etc. in languages that don't require it) can be generated at code-generation time automatically. Thus you can support constructs that would slow down the final binary and only turn them on if needed. This can go as far as leaving in debug assertions and logging constructs that can be turned on at the command line, that need never even make it into the generated code if the appropriate switch isn't present, thus allowing extra capabilities to be included without burdening the system in normal use.
For programs where large parts of functionality is switched on or off from the command line, large parts of the program may just get discarded as a result of simple sub-expression elimination in the code generator, something which is particularly beneficial where the various parts cross-cut the same algorithm and substantial simplifications can be made.


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We love your style questions. From what's appropriate, to what's "in," to what you're just dying to pull off – your queries get us thinking, and searching for the best answers. This time we turned to Misty Huber, stylist and co-founder of StyleSalt.com and DIYbeautiful.com. Here's her chic, practical say:
Q. I never know if it's okay to tuck tops into pants anymore. A few years ago my teenage daughter told me absolutely no tucking in.
A. It's definitely okay! Tucking in your tops is an easy way to define your waist and create an hourglass figure. The trick to pulling it off is to make sure you have a great-fitting pair of pants that lay flat across your stomach and flatter your derriere without bulging, pinching, or pulling. Choose a substantial fabric. Thin fabrics aren't as forgiving and can show the excess fabric where you've tucked in your top.
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Q. I have to wear the famous little black dress for work events, and that's often! Who has the hottest styles this season?
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Q. Help! I am a 41 year old single mom of two teenage boys (can't believe I said it out loud). I want to be stylish and sexy without dressing too young for the office and when I go out. What are some basics? I am a slender 4-6.
A. If you're slender, you want to bring out your curves and emphasize your waist with skirts, tucked-in blouses, and dresses. Dark denim is a fantastic choice because it's on-trend and flatters every figure (and is very age appropriate). You can still do bold colors as long as they're not of the fluorescent family, along with sophisticated neutrals and feminine prints.
Q. I need a new black blazer. I like the length of boyfriend jackets because I can wear skinny jeans or leggings while covering my derriere. Is that too fall/winter-ish?
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Q. I saw the Galliano preview and am mesmerized by his ability to mix patterns that you'd never think would go together. I would love to do that but are there any rules so I don't end up looking like a hot mess??
A. The idea is to not come too close to matching color tones – you don't want it to look as if you were trying to make them work together, but were off base – or colorblind. If you're shopping online, open two windows and look at the patterns next to each other. Go with your first reaction as to whether they clash, or if they bring out the best in each other. The combinations you are drawn to may surprise you: mod prints mixed with florals, or a batik print paired with stripes.


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Caught up in the hubbub of Mythic's Call to Arms announcement for Warhammer Online was the revelation that they would soon be launching an official forum (OF) for the game. Since release, the brunt of these responsibilities has fallen to unofficial forums like Warhammer Alliance (WHA) and IGN's Warhammer Vault. These forums/fansites are currently the place to go if you want to catch the attention of a developer or simply engage the WAR community in a healthy (and sometimes unhealthy) debate on the state of the game or feature X vs. feature Y.
Obviously, there are benefits and drawbacks to having your community spread across several unofficial forums. Ryan Shwayder of Nerfbat recently came up with a list of three things official and unofficial forums can and can't do. One of the biggest questions people have right now is, "What will happen with the unofficial forums once Mythic launches OFs?" Will they remain relevant or fade away into obscurity?
We here at Massively decided to get the official word from the unofficial sources on this matter and had a chance to interview Mithan, head admin for all VN boards and Frank "PhoenixRed" Sanchez, assistant site manager at WHA. Continue reading below the cut where they answer some pressing questions.
What was your immediate reaction to Mythic's announcement that they will be hosting official WAR forums and why?
Mithan: I was expecting it. The biggest reasons really come down to the fact that today's market requires a level of feedback, support, and interactivity that you will only get from having your own OF. I've been running or involved in forums for well over 14 years now and I can say they are a huge asset for companies that use it properly (most don't) and I think it was just that Mythic moved to it. This will be good for the game.
"Blizzard and Sony have done a decent job of this... but they have not even come close to harnessing the potential available."
So in the end, I think it was a combo of the negativity on the boards, the total lack of "control" in the medium and them wanting to capitalize on the opportunity that forums provide for them that helped them make the decision to take this route. Ultimately, I agree with it because I feel it is best for the game, even if it does hurt the fan sites.
What are your opinions on some of their proposed forum features (paid mods, strict COC, special privileges, etc.)?
Mithan: The feature stuff will be difficult but doable. Done right, they will turn their OF into a full "hub" for all sorts of in-game stuff being accessible out of the game (integrated mail system, pm system, bank system, etc) on top of the usual avatars and forum features that modern day boards have. Blizzard and Sony have done a decent job of this in my view, but they have not even come close to harnessing the potential available.
As for the moderation side of things, it will be difficult and have a lot of challenges and growing pains and I expect they realize this. Professionalism is expected if they are going to have a "strict COC." Examples of this include 24/7 coverage, very consistent moderation, and all the moderators being on the same page. To run them professionally requires a LOT of work and failing will result in many angry paying customers. We get away with issues on VN because at the end of the day, we are a free forum that uses volunteers. If you don't like us, you can go elsewhere and no harm is done. I expect they will start out with a Strict COC, learn that it doesn't work so well, and then ease up with time.
How do you feel about Mythic releasing official forums several months after release?
"They do NOT want to start with a negative atmosphere."
Mark said he would maintain a relationship with your forums for all the past support you have given Mythic. Can you give us any details?
Mithan: I am not aware of any specific details but he may have spoken with Beibhinn or Swanny about it or is just making a general statement. Either way, we will try and maintain a board where hopefully Mark and the rest will feel welcome (and not threatened) to come and post a few times a week.
Where does your forum go from here? Do you have any big things planned in the near future?
Mithan: We will continue mostly as we have for the last few years. Our Boards are mostly a niche market now anyways, as most publishers have their own OFs, so the people we tend to get are people who have posted here for years and like the slower pace. The days when we were getting 70-80k posts a day are probably long gone.


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Notre Dame players (from left) Eric Atkins, Jack Cooley, Cameron Biedscheid and Jerian Grant walk toward the bench during a game against Seton Hall.
Normally, the Notre Dame basketball team would head back to South Bend, Ind., immediately after tonight's game against the University of Cincinnati at Fifth Third Arena.
But this isn't a normal night for the Fighting Irish.
With the Notre Dame football team playing Alabama in the BCS championship game at 8:30, the Irish have elected to stay in town to watch the game together at the team hotel. The Irish have been in town since Saturday night. ...


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Mysterious Objects Tear Through Saturn's 'Weird' F Ring
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Mysterious objects have been wreaking havoc on what scientists refer to as Saturn's "weirdest ring." NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of Saturn that show strange half-mile-sized objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving a glittering trail in its path. Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team member, says this is significant because the F ring is more dynamic than they imagined. Scientists already know the profound effect Saturn's moon, Prometheus, has on the F ring, creating channels, ripples, and snowballs... but now objects, around half a mile wide to the size of a small moon, are breaking away, colliding with the F ring, at gentle speeds, dragging glittering ice particles out of the F ring with them. Scientists are now calling these trails "mini jets." The Cassini imaging team had to comb through 20,000 images of the F ring, taken over the past 7 years Cassini has been at Saturn, and found 500 examples of these "mini jets." The F ring, which is the outermost of Saturn's main rings, is known as Saturn's 'weirdest ring' because it is ever changing, constantly leaving new images for the Cassini team to analyze.


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The goal of Burke's inpatient programs is to ensure that each patient makes the maximum recovery possible.
The Burke Medical Research Institute is developing new treatments for disabling diseases and injuries.
Burke offers physical, occupational and speech therapy as well as other outpatient programs.
Burke sponsors support groups, educational events and fitness programs for the community.
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West Seattle schools: More portables for Gatewood, SealthJune 24, 2013 at 4:02 pm | In West Seattle news, West Seattle schools | 9 Comments
Seattle Public Schools is sending an alert about portable deliveries coming up this week and next. From Tom Redman:
· Gatewood Elementary, one single portable (one classroom) scheduled to be delivered on Wednesday, June 26 between 10 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. The route, assigned by SDOT, is Fauntleroy to Myrtle, turning left to the school.
· Chief Sealth International HS, one double portable (two classrooms), scheduled to be delivered on Monday, July 1, between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. via the Kenyon Street (north) entrance to the campus. (Not sure of the route yet- SDOT will notify us later this week)
· If there are "no parking" signs to be located on any streets on the route, they will be placed in advance of the delivery day, in accordance with SDOT requirements.
The district's been talking about more portables for crowding relief since last fall. We're checking to see what other portables, if any, are slated for West Seattle schools before fall.
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2 double classrooms to Schmitz Park, out front by the alley.
Comment by Tony — 6:06 pm June 24, 2013 #
Sealth— just re-built and needs a cabin?
Comment by comment — 6:37 pm June 24, 2013 #
Comment, they actually got portables before last year so these are ADDITIONAL portables …
They wanted a single portable on the Denny side as well, probably next year. There are 30 total portable classrooms district wide going in this summer.
Comment by Tony — 7:11 pm June 24, 2013 #
Oh those were the days, my elementary had 7 by the time I left. My high school had 19. Luckily my junior high was on septic and couldn't take extra students due to the septic capacity.
Comment by trickycoolj — 10:58 pm June 24, 2013 #
It's pretty sad that we hold public education with such low regard in this state.
Comment by Wess Cider — 11:32 pm June 24, 2013 #
…and two leaving the K-5 STEM playground, hopefully.
Comment by Brontosaurus — 1:07 am June 25, 2013 #
If there are any kids to be living in any of the new buildings to be built in the junction, where will all those kids go to school? There is already no room for the kids in west seattle! The 2 schools reopening in the next two years will not give enough relief!
I agree with Wess Cider…
Comment by wsparent — 9:11 pm June 25, 2013 #
I hear that next year the plan is to re-open school on Fauntleroy, Fairmount Park. Then Gatewood and other schools will be stuck with ugly, empty portables…but hopefully smaller class sizes.
Comment by AMG3000 — 8:36 pm June 26, 2013 #
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For the first time in a long time, the Portland Trail Blazers enter a new season without the irrational expectation of imminent greatness, or under a cloud of disappointment raining the meniscus particles of lost dreams, or glazed in the apathy that comes when making a bench out of paper-mâché and Jared Jeffries. Greg Oden is in Miami like flea market furniture. Brandon Roy is dried tears and an argument about retiring jerseys. The wounds might not be totally gone but at least they are no longer bleeding.
There is no more getting mad at the coach for allegedly holding the team back, getting mad at the players who allegedly tried to mutiny the coach for allegedly holding the team back, or living sadly in the rubble that it all left behind. If the era of the great Jail Blaze segued straight into the Roy-led "Rip City Revival," then the late 1990s would have to be the last time that a new season of Blazers basketball felt this fresh, free from pressure, and self-contained. It's just a basketball team now, rather than a runaway bandwagon or a vehicle for revolution or a pile of smoldering wreckage.
There is the established star in LaMarcus Aldridge and the precocious climber in Damian Lillard. There are the proven role players in Nicolas Batum, Wes Matthews, and Robin Lopez, as well as genuine NBA players to round out the bench in Mo Williams and Dorrell Wright. There's the budding potential of Thomas Robinson, the ready-made shooting stroke of Allen Crabbe, and the ongoing excitement of the Will Barton experience. There's even the hope of an eternal flame lighting inside of Meyers Leonard, Victor Claver finding consistency, and Joel Freeland doing whatever it is that he does at an improved level from how he used to do it. The team looks good enough to compete for a playoff spot, but still flawed—or maybe just unrealized—so as to remain free from pressure. What a perfectly benevolent space to inhabit.
The journey is the destination, if there can even be a destination when the journey could go so many different directions, or maybe it's just a journey of pure exploration, and sorry but there has to be a "Trail Blazer" pun in there somewhere. The point is, the season should be fun. The outcome likely will depend heavily on how creatively and effectively coach Terry Stotts can employ the versatility of players like Lillard, Williams, Batum, Wright, Barton, and Aldridge to create kaleidoscopic lineups of surreal terror. It will also obviously depend on the players themselves: whether Lillard can avoid the dreaded sophomore slump and even improve where he lacks, whether Williams can consistently contribute as both a shooter and playmaker, whether or not Batum emerges finally into something resembling a star, whether Freeland can be a serviceable backup center, whether Robinson can live up to his pedigree, and whether Aldridge can remain a dispassionate machine of nightly 21 and 9 lines. But watching all of those variables manifest and collide and hopefully flourish in concert with one another will make for an exciting season, because nothing is more exciting than blazing a new trail into uncharted territory, and there's that pesky pun I was looking for.
Too much is put into the importance of championships. Not to get on some "everybody's-a-winner" ish, but it's terribly unfortunate that the only team that gets to endure in the annals of history is the one that brings home the big trophy at the end of the year. Though the banner might officially legitimize the memory of that season as worth hanging onto, there are plenty of other teams whose names ring out in oral history because the experience of watching them was too damn exciting to ignore and their fans just won't shut up about it. Think Baron's Warriors or the '04 Pistons or the entire existence of the ABA. They might have begun with little expectation and often with glaring flaws that never quite went away. But over the course of the season, the players gelled into a team to create an unorthodox, Frankenstein's monster of an identity that allowed them to surpass anyone's expectations and capture the hearts of their fans forever. This Blazer team may not be able to get on that level, but they do have some of the right ingredients, and watching those ingredients get put to use should be exciting enough.
Now first, to saddle them with the weight of expectation: 45 wins, 7-seed, first round playoff win over the Clippers.


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By Amy Schwanz
My daughter, Kyra, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) in September 2004 when she was 3 months old. She was diagnosed through a sweat test done at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in St. Paul. It was Kyra's "failure to thrive" that prompted the sweat test. Since other possible causes of her inability to gain weight were ruled out, it was the natural next step/test. After Kyra's pediatrician gave Mark and me the test results and diagnosis, he comforted us, explained the disease at a high level, and informed us that we were fortunate to live near two excellent CF Care Centers. He also immediately scheduled an appointment for Kyra at Children's Respiratory and Critical Care Specialists (one of those two excellent care centers).
Mark, Kyra and I met Cindy Brady and Sandy Landvik at Children's Respiratory and Critical Care Specialists (CRCCS) the morning after Kyra's sweat test and diagnosis. That first visit, Mark and I were educated about CF, and Kyra had a physical exam. Specifically, Cindy explained the genetics behind the disease and how CF impacts different areas of the body. This helped us understand how the disease resulted in Kyra's failure to thrive. At that first visit, we were given the option of having Kyra be an inpatient at Children's in Minneapolis for a few days for testing and education, or for Kyra to continue as an outpatient, which meant we would come back to the clinic/hospital every few days for testing and education, spread out over a few weeks. Since we had another young daughter at home, we elected for the outpatient option. We brought Kyra to CRCCS quite frequently. At first it was every few days and then the time between visits extended as Kyra became healthier, with the visits happening weekly, and, finally, monthly. Although this happened nine years ago, I can still recall how patient, comforting, and reassuring the entire CRCCS staff was with us during those first visits. It was a very difficult time for us, but it would have been much worse without the support and care of the CRCCS staff.
Following the treatment plan prescribed by CRCCS, Kyra VERY rapidly gained weight and finally looked like a healthy baby with pink chubby cheeks. She also didn't cry as often, slept better, and became a much happier baby. This change literally happened in days; it was amazing! Over the course of the first few months, Kyra had several diagnostic tests done (chest X-ray, blood work, etc.) to determine her health status. Although these tests were important, more vital was for Mark and I to learn how to care for Kyra. It is not easy to care for a child with CF and it takes a lot of time to learn it all. We learned the how and why of everything we did for Kyra – from pancreatic enzyme replacements to bronchial drainage techniques. We also worked with all of the CF care team members associated with Children's to get the specific information about respiratory care, nutrition, etc.
Over the past nine years, our family has fallen into the routine of life with CF. Kyra has certainly had some ups and downs, as is to be expected with a chronic life-limiting illness. But, for the most part she has remained very healthy, and Mark and I are successfully managing the many challenges–medications, respiratory treatments, clinic visits, school health plans, travel considerations and medical bills. Kyra continues to have appointments four times per year at CRCCS, with one of those being her "CF annual visit" where we meet with the entire CF care team. Over our many visits to the clinic and Kyra's one inpatient procedure (sinus surgery) in 2009, we have become very familiar with Children's and CRCCS. I cannot say that every interaction at the hospital and clinic over the years has been perfect, but I can say that from the office staff, to surgical staff, and certainly to our great CF care team, I am frequently impressed with the level of care Kyra receives. The CF care team works closely with us to do what's best for Kyra.
In 2004 when Kyra was born, CF newborn screening was not being done in Minnesota. On one hand, I wish that Kyra would have had the screening and been diagnosed at birth so that she would not have had such a rough start to her life. However, on the other hand, while Kyra's diagnosis was devastating, it was also somewhat of a relief for us— to finally determine what was causing her inability to gain weight and to be able to "fix" the problem and see an improvement in her health. I think of the parents whose newborns are diagnosed, they must not have that sense of relief that we did and I think that would make the diagnosis more difficult. But, those parents also do not have to go through the first few months of their child's life wondering why they won't gain weight and they can get started on treatments right away, improving their outcome. I empathize with parents whose children are diagnosed with CF – at birth or later in life –because no matter when the child is diagnosed, it is a devastating diagnosis. It is a challenging road they will travel. Fortunately, with Children's CF care team, they will, like us, have an excellent medical support system to help us along that road.


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The dogs have already been adopted and went home with new families after graduation, but not before showing off their new obedience skills in a demonstration during the ceremony.
Program directors say it's a partnership between Mesa County Animal Services, Division of Youth Corrections and the Rob Roc Dog Training Program. More than 200 youths and dogs have graduated since the program began in 1999.
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Sao Paulo - Brazil kicks off the World Cup here on Thursday hoping to unite the football-mad country after a chaotic seven-year build-up plagued by violent protests.
The 32-team extravaganza gets under way in the teeming mega-city of Sao Paulo, where the host nation's beloved "Selecao'" faces Croatia at 5pm before 61 600 supporters and a worldwide television audience of several hundred million.
Thursday's Group A match signals the start of a month-long football fiesta taking place against backdrops which showcase Brazil's breathtaking diversity, from the picture postcard beauty of Rio de Janeiro to fading colonial grandeur of Manaus, deep in the Amazon.
After years of apathy and simmering resentment at the tournament's record $11-billion price tag, Brazilians were grudgingly embracing World Cup fever in the final hours before the big kick-off.
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari urged compatriots to unite behind his players as they launched their bid for glory.
"To all Brazilians I want to tell you the time has arrived. This is our World Cup," Scolari said in an eve-of-tournament rallying cry.
The popular Scolari, who masterminded Brazil's last World Cup win in 2002, said his team were seven matches from immortality.
"The first step is Croatia," he said. "After that we have six steps that we want to go up if we want to win the World Cup."
As the last of the 32 teams who will contest the greatest prize in football arrived in Brazil, mounting evidence of World Cup fever was visible.
Rio's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue has been illuminated in the colours of all nations taking part while Brazilian flags fluttered from cars, bars and apartments as excitement built.
In Rio de Janeiro, some of the 600 000 foreign fans travelling to Brazil thronged the famous Copacabana beach, staging impromptu football matches.
Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio was among the overseas multitude jetting into the country, taking in the tournament from the luxury of a mega-yacht offshore.
Twelve government leaders or heads of state will be among the VIPs at Thursday's opening ceremony.
But even though more Brazilians are sporting the yellow jersey of star forward Neymar, discontent continues to bubble.
Scattered protests are planned in several host cities during the tournament.
And while Sao Paulo subway workers late on Wednesday voted against a repeat of the strike which plunged the city into gridlocked paralysis last week, airport workers in Rio were planning a partial 24-hour walkout.
"We're Brazilian and we continue to root for Brazil, but it's our duty to fight for workers rights," union leader Rui Pessoa said.
The multi-billion-dollar cost of the World Cup has angered many in a country which has chronically under-funded health and public services and violent crime.
Rage at poor public services morphed into a nationwide movement during last year's Confederations Cup test event, with deadly clashes rippling across the nation.
For the World Cup, a vast security blanket is being deployed, with 150 000 soldiers and police on duty along with 20 000 private security officers.
Brazil's leader Dilma Rousseff warned that her government will not tolerate a repeat of last year's protests.
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Football's governing body Fifa begins the tournament under mounting pressure over allegations of corruption linked to its decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has responded to the scandals by shoring up his power base.
On Wednesday he signalled his intention to seek a fifth four-year term next year, despite calls for him to step down.
"My mandate will finish next year... but my mission is not finished," he said to boos from sections of the Fifa Congress.
For all the off-field problems dogging the build-up the tournament itself has the makings of a classic.
Reigning champions Spain are bidding to make history by becoming the first side from Europe to win a World Cup in South America, which last hosted the tournament in 1978.
Vicente del Bosque's side have dominated international football for the past six years, winning two consecutive European championships either side of their 2010 World Cup triumph. - Sapa-AFP
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