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PHOENIX -- Before Wednesday's game against the Phoenix Suns, Doc Rivers knew the Los Angeles Clippers were going to be challenged over the next two games.
They were facing back-to-back games against two teams fighting for their playoff lives, the Suns and the Dallas Mavericks.
"The playoffs have started for Phoenix. The playoffs have started for Dallas," Rivers said. "It's hard to get your intensity to match that."
The Clippers' intensity for much of Wednesday night's game didn't match the Suns' until they looked up at the scoreboard in the final minutes of the third quarter and found themselves down by 17 points. That's when the Clippers mounted a comeback and completed their third double-digit come-from-behind win in their past four games, 112-108, and claimed their second consecutive Pacific Division title in the process.
How it happened: The Clippers looked finished in the waning minutes of the third quarter. They were down by 17 points, Blake Griffin, playing with back spasms, could hardly move and the Clippers looked ready to fly home after their five-game trip. They then mounted a comeback and outscored the Suns 34-17 in the final quarter.
What it means: The Clippers have won their second straight division title, which is also their second in franchise history. The Clippers are also only 1.5 games behind the Oklahoma City Thunder for the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs and are four games up, not including the tiebreaker, on the Houston Rockets for the third seed.
Hits: Griffin came back after essentially missing two games because of back spasms and had 23 points and six rebounds. Darren Collison had 23 points and five assists. Chris Paul had 20 points and nine assists, and Jared Dudley had 12 points off the bench and the game-clinching free-throws.
Misses: There were not a lot of misses after the third quarter. Even though the Clippers' bench was outscored by the Suns 42-23, it helped kick-start the team's comeback.
Stat of the game: The Clippers hit 11-of-26 from beyond the arc. The Clippers are now 33-1 this season when making at least nine 3-pointers.
Up next: The Clippers travel home to play the Mavericks, another team battling for their playoff lives. The Clippers came from behind to beat the Mavericks in Dallas last Thursday, 109-103, and a win this Thursday would give them the season series sweep.


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I wanted to paint a garden but I ended up with this instead..
*sighs heavily* Now I'm really frustrated....
*sighs heavily* Now I'm really frustrated....
Surreal beauty
it's still a very beautiful piece though
Very,very nice.
That's really nice, you know; those colors running together make such a surreal picture and I LOVE the rough but honestly kind of calming texture. The forms of the trees are cool, too. You're awesome :* You keep at this and eventually, one day, you're going to be able to paint the exact same image as you imagine :*
I still think this is absolutely beautiful. Even with what happened to it, it still looks stunning. The colors are just so pretty and I love the sort-of-texture this has.
I never really got the chance to see this up close 'til now and wow it's amazing
Wow, great colours
Excellent work.
I really love how colorful this is and I think it's a lovely garden!
It's a lovely garden! A colorful garden of one's mind, is what this painting reminds me of. Lovely painting!
That´d be a weird type of frustration, this is awesome you know?
So beautiful!! I love all the colors and how well they all go together it's almost magical
this is amazing *O* i wish i could work like this -_- XD awesome job
but you DID make a garden!
A candy garden filled with yummy sweets and surprises, and all the awesome happiness you don't normally find in the world nowadays!
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NEWARK - The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey applauded New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram for signing onto a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's Health Care Denial Rule on the same day the national ACLU announced a separate lawsuit on behalf of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) against the same rule. The rule, promulgated in the last throes of the Bush administration, allows a broad range of health care workers to refuse to provide health services, even in emergencies.
"The attorneys general play a critical role in fighting this rule, and we applaud Anne Milgram's initiative to step into the fray as the ACLU has," said ACLU-NJ Legal Director Edward Barocas. "The federal government has always been able to balance both patients' rights and the personal beliefs of medical professionals, and this rule is the Bush administration's way of toppling the balance away from patients' needs. This rule puts access to contraception in jeopardy and leaves women in a medical limbo where they have to question whether they'll get the services they need in time, if at all."
In addition to the ACLU's lawsuit on behalf of NFPRHA and the lawsuit brought by the six states' attorneys general led by Connecticut and including New Jersey, a third lawsuit was filed today by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America with Planned Parenthood of Connecticut.
As stated in today's legal papers, the rule significantly undermines the ability of millions of women and men in the United States to access essential family planning, reproductive and other health care services and information. It expressly permits a broad range of health care workers and facilities to refuse to provide services, information, and counseling, potentially even in emergency situations. At the same time, it fails to require refusing providers to either notify their employers or their patients of their objections to providing care.
"Experts, medical professionals and the patients whose rights this rule limits all agree that this policy will endanger lives and sacrifice patients' individual liberties," Barocas added. "The Bush administration should be ashamed that it spent its last months slipping in last-minute policies that put Americans' health at risk."
During a 30-day comment period, HHS received more than 200,000 responses. The overwhelming majority opposed the rule, including major medical associations such as the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, women's health organizations, members of Congress, state governors and attorneys general, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, religious advocates, and the general public.
The final rule fails to address many of the concerns raised in these comments, including whether the rule prevents states from enforcing their own laws enacted to protect access to reproductive health care, whether the rule allows providers to refuse care even in emergency situations, and whether women seeking family planning services at federally funded health centers are still assured counseling for abortion care if they request it.
The Department of Health and Human Services promulgated the rule on December 19, 2008.
The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association is a vital membership organization representing the nation's dedicated family planning providers-including state, county, and local health departments; family planning councils; hospital-based clinics; and other private nonprofit family planning organizations and providers.
The ACLU's complaint is available at: http://www.aclu.org/reproductiverights/gen/38321lgl20090115.html
TRENTON, N.J. -- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey today applauded Governor Jon Corzine's decision to sign a bill into law that will help ensure women's ability to access birth control at the pharmacy. The bill, sponsored by Senator Fred Madden and Assemblywoman Linda Stender, makes New Jersey one of a handful of states to protect patient's ability to access prescriptions at the pharmacy.
"Today's law strikes an important balance between protecting patient's health and religious freedom," said Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the ACLU-NJ.
The pharmacy access law requires pharmacies to fill prescriptions for in-stock drugs or devices without undue delay, despite the sincerely held moral, philosophical or religious beliefs of an individual pharmacist. Pharmacies employing pharmacists who object to filling prescriptions can accommodate the objection so long as the pharmacy ensures that customers receive their prescriptions, including birth control, at the pharmacy without undue delay.
"Access to safe and effective contraception is a central component of basic health care for women," said Jacobs. "This law will go a long way toward ending sex discrimination at the pharmacy."
The ACLU's long-held advocacy for both reproductive rights and religious liberty uniquely positions the organization to address this issue. In April, the ACLU released a report, "Religious Refusals and Reproductive Rights: Accessing Birth Control at the Pharmacy," which examines legal questions raised when a pharmacist or pharmacy refuses to provide contraception based on a religious objection.
The report is available online at: http://tinyurl.com/2pms2q
TRENTON, NJ - The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded a decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court dismissing a medical malpractice lawsuit that could have improperly forced physicians to give a non-medical, value-laden speech to their patients before performing an abortion. The ACLU called the decision a victory for reproductive rights and free speech in New Jersey.
"We are pleased that the court dismissed this frivolous lawsuit, which had no basis in law or medicine," said Brigitte Amiri, a staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. "This case was nothing more than an underhanded attempt to turn doctors into ideological mouthpieces and subject women to non-medical moral judgments."
In 1998, Rosa Acuna brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor in New Jersey, claiming that he had failed to properly inform her at the time of her abortion that the embryo was a "complete, separate, unique and irreplaceable human being" with whom she had "an existing relationship," and his failure to do so caused her emotional distress. According to court papers, Acuna, who had two children prior to her abortion, stated that at the time of her abortion she understood that she was pregnant and signed a form consenting to the procedure.
"Today's victory sends a message that New Jersey will not tolerate backdoor efforts to curtail reproductive rights or free speech," said Ed Barocas, Legal Director of the ACLU of New Jersey. "We will not allow the anti-choice lobby to force its moral or theological beliefs upon others and to intimidate doctors or women with lawsuits that are without merit."
In its unanimous decision, the court noted, "we know of no common law duty requiring a physician to instruct the woman that the embryo is an 'existing human being,' and suggesting that an abortion is tantamount to murder. There is not even remotely a consensus among New Jersey's medical community or citizenry that plaintiff's assertions are medical facts, as opposed to firmly held, moral philosophical, and religious beliefs."
Acuna's lawsuit is one of three instances where anti-choice foes have insisted that doctors must read a similar script to their patients prior to performing an abortion. A class-action medical malpractice lawsuit with similar claims was recently brought in Illinois, and in South Dakota, reproductive rights advocates are currently challenging a law that may require doctors to read language identical to that found in this case.
Today's decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court only reaches the issue of whether Acuna's malpractice case should go to a jury trial. Later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if it will consider a separate issue in the case regarding the legitimacy of a federal equal protection challenge involving New Jersey's wrongful death statute.
Today's case is Acuna v. Turkish (Docket No. 59, 525). Lawyers on the ACLU's friend-of-the-court brief include Amiri and Talcott Camp of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project and Barocas of the ACLU of New Jersey.
NEWARK, N.J. -- The American Civil Liberties Union today announced a multi-state action calling on the federal government to fix medical inaccuracies in federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula. Eleven ACLU affiliates sent letters to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services alerting the agency to problematic curricula in their states and asking HHS to take steps to remedy the situation.
"States all across the country, including New Jersey are telling the government enough is enough," said ACLU-NJ Executive Director Deborah Jacobs. "It is time for the federal government to start properly monitoring the content of the abstinence-only-until-marriage programs that it funds."
In New Jersey, the Peer Challenge program is of particular concern. The Peer Challenge curriculum inaccurately states that condoms fail to prevent pregnancy one-sixth of the time, and that the failure rate for preventing sexually transmitted disease is "far worse" because both sexes can get sexually transmitted diseases. It falsely states that "[s]ome of the latest findings are revealing up to a 45% condom failure rate in preventing the transmission of the deadly AIDS virus," and that condoms provide "little or no protection" against herpes and HPV. It claims that the "term safe sex is actually a myth" and that "condoms have a 16% failure rate for preventing pregnancy during the first year of use and in some groups of teenagers this failure rate rises to 36%. So the odds are good that pregnancy will eventually result even while using condoms."
In 2005, the most recent year for which information could be obtained, Peer Challenge was offered in the North Wildwood School District, Middle Township School District, Ocean City School District, Lower Cape May School District, Upper Township School District and Wildwood City School District.
Today's action comes on the heels of an April letter the ACLU sent to HHS, which said three federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula, Me, My World, My Future; Sexuality, Commitment & Family; and Why kNOw, along with HHS' own 4parents.gov Web site and pamphlet, Parents, Speak Up!, all violate a federal law requiring certain educational materials to contain medically accurate information about condom effectiveness. In that letter, the ACLU called on HHS to immediately remedy the violations or face a legal challenge.
"It is clear from today's action that federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula across the country contain medically inaccurate information about the importance of condoms in preventing pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted disease," said Julie Sternberg, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. "Spreading misinformation about condoms in many abstinence-only-until-marriage programs violates federal law and endangers teens' health."
The ACLU affiliates participating in today's action include: Alaska Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Arizona, ACLU of Florida, ACLU of Illinois, ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri, ACLU of Kentucky, ACLU of Louisiana, ACLU of New Jersey, Rhode Island ACLU, ACLU of Tennessee, and ACLU of Texas.
Last week, the ACLU asked HHS and the Oregon Department of Human Services to investigate evidence of misuse of taxpayer dollars to promote one faith over others in an abstinence-only-until-marriage program Stop and Think. The ACLU threatened to pursue legal action if sufficient measures are not taken to correct any problems.
In early April, a federally commissioned study by a Princeton, N.J., think tank was released showing that, notwithstanding the more than a billion dollars that the federal government has poured into the programs since 1996, abstinence-only-until-marriage programs don't work. The study looked at several federally funded programs and found that teens who participated in them were just as likely to have sex as teens who did not participate. Furthermore, these students had first intercourse at the same age and the same number of sexual partners as students who did not participate.
Currently, no federal funds are dedicated to supporting sexuality education programs that both teach abstinence and include complete and medically accurate information about how to use contraceptives effectively, despite evidence that these programs can delay sexual activity and increase contraceptive use among teens.
NEWARK, N.J. -- The American Civil Liberties Union today called on the New Jersey Supreme Court to protect women's reproductive rights and physicians' free speech rights. The ACLU urged the court to overturn a lower court medical malpractice decision that would have the effect of improperly forcing physicians to give a non-medical, value-laden speech to their patients before performing an abortion.
"Forcing women to listen to non-medical, moral judgments from their doctors prior to an abortion violates both state and federal constitutions," said Talcott Camp, a deputy director with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, who argued the ACLU's position before the court today. "Doctors should not be compelled to act as an ideological mouthpiece when caring for their patients."
In 1998, Rosa Acuna brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor in New Jersey, claiming that he had failed to properly inform her at the time of her abortion that the embryo was a "complete, separate, unique and irreplaceable human being" with whom she had "an existing relationship," and his failure to do so caused her emotional distress.
According to court papers, Acuna, who had two children prior to her abortion, stated that at the time of her abortion she understood that she was pregnant and signed a form consenting to the procedure.
"This case is nothing more than a backdoor attempt to enact an extreme biased-counseling law -- something our legislature and governor have refused to do," said ACLU-NJ Executive Director Deborah Jacobs.
Today's argument before the New Jersey Supreme Court focused on whether Acuna's case should go to a jury trial.
The ACLU argued that an unfavorable decision in this case could extend far beyond abortion, including interfering with physicians prescribing certain birth control methods, pharmacists dispensing birth control pills and emergency contraception, and emergency room personnel treating sexual assault survivors.
Today's case is Acuna v. Turkish. Lawyers on the friend-of-the-court brief include Camp and Brigitte Amiri of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project and Ed Barocas, legal director of the ACLU-NJ.
TRENTON, N.J. -- Advocates for comprehensive sex education praised Governor Corzine's decision today to reject onerous and overly restrictive federal funding to provide abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in New Jersey. The federally designed abstinence-only-until-marriage program violates students' rights, embraces sexist stereotypes, isolates GLBT youth, promulgates religious views and contradicts New Jersey's core curriculum for stress-abstinence comprehensive sex education.
"All students have a right to accurate and honest sexuality education and Governor Corzine's actions speak to the heart of the matter: we must not mislead and misinform our young people when it comes to sexuality education, because to do so leaves them at great risk" said C. Danene Sorace, Director of Answer at Rutgers University, a leading national organization dedicated to providing and promoting comprehensive adolescent sexuality education. "The mandates that come with the federal funding are simply not right for New Jersey. We refuse to leave our young people in the dark about their sexual health," continued Sorace.
In an October 24 letter from Fred M. Jacobs, Commissioner for the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, and Lucille Davy, Commissioner for the New Jersey Department of Education, to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, the state of New Jersey informed the federal government of its decision, explaining that the abstinence-only-until-marriage guidelines contradict the core curriculum content standard in comprehensive sex education that New Jersey has had in place for more than 25 years. Moreover, the governor's office cautioned that accepting federal abstinence-only dollars may in fact cost the state money because students may require additional sex education to clarify the partial and misinformation that is taught in abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
New Jersey has received abstinence-only-until-marriage funding since 1997. In past years, the federal government allowed states the flexibility to run programs in a way that was consistent with its core curriculum content standards. This year, however, the federal government is requiring strict adherence to all the elements of the abstinence program.
"We are pleased that New Jersey has put the health and well-being of our teenagers first," said Deborah Jacobs, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, which urged the governor's office to reject the abstinence-only funding. "We need to put resources into programs that work, include medically accurate information and protect teens from discrimination."
Recently, the Society for Adolescent Medicine, in one of the most exhaustive reviews to date of government-funded abstinence-only programs, rejected the current administration's policy that promotes abstinence as the only sexual health prevention strategy for young people.
Reports show that many abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula used by federally funded programs contain false and misleading information and perpetuate harmful stereotypes. Alarmingly, these curricula also misrepresent the effectiveness of contraceptives by vastly understating the effectiveness of condoms at protecting against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and preventing unintended pregnancy. Such misinformation is particularly alarming given that each year in the United States, nearly 9.1 million 15- to 24-year olds are infected with an STD and more than 800,000 15- to 19-year olds become pregnant.
"New Jersey's decision to reject the dictates of Washington ideologues in favor of its own state's laws sends a clear message that Washington should stop playing politics and give states the flexibility to craft and fund programs that meet their own needs in helping youth make good decisions," said William Smith, vice president for public policy at SIECUS, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the US, a leading sexuality education advocacy group. "New Jersey is not alone, joining other states like Maine, Pennsylvania and California, in taking a principled stand in turning back funds tied to these policies of extremism," Smith continued.
TRENTON, NJ — Reaffirming the fundamental right of young women to choose to terminate their pregnancies, the New Jersey State Supreme Court, in a 4 to 2 decision, today struck down a law that would have prevented pregnant teens from getting an abortion unless they notified a parent or obtained a court order. The law did not impose a similar requirement on minors seeking other pregnancy-related care.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged the law on behalf of health-care providers and their patients throughout the state, said that today's decision sends a strong message that the state cannot enact laws that uniquely burden minors seeking abortions.
"Today's decision recognizes the unfortunate truth: not all teens come from perfect families," said Jennifer Dalven, an attorney on the case with the National ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project. "The Court's decision should serve as a guide to legislatures and courts around the country. It makes clear that when you put aside the state's rhetoric these laws do not further family communication, but instead put teens' health and rights at risk."
In its decision, the Court recognized that a parental notification law will not serve to foster family communication. The Court explained, "[T]he Notification Act cannot transform a household with poor lines of communication into a paradigm of the perfect American family."
The law in question, the "Parental Notification for Abortion Act," would have radically changed the way medical care has been delivered safely in New Jersey for over two decades. It would have amended a long-standing New Jersey law that expressly permitted pregnant minors to consent to all care related to their pregnancies — whether they wanted to have an abortion or become mothers.
It would have singled out pregnant minors who choose abortion — but not those who carry their pregnancies to term — and imposed on them alone the requirement of notifying a parent or going to court.
In its opinion, the Court accepted the ACLU's argument that the New Jersey Constitution does not tolerate such discrimination. The Court held in no uncertain terms that "the State may not affirmatively tip the scales against the right to choose an abortion absent compelling reasons." In this case, it found that the State had "failed utterly" to show that it has any significant interest to justify the burdens and discrimination imposed by the Act.
"This decision is not only a victory for young women in New Jersey who will now continue to have access to safe and legal abortions but for all state residents who will be able to rely on the state Supreme Court and Constitution to protect their fundamental rights," said Lenora Lapidus, Legal Director of the ACLU of New Jersey and co-counsel in the case.
The case, Planned Parenthood v. Farmer, number A-52, was filed by the ACLU in September 1999 on behalf of 13 health-care providers, including Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey and the American Academy of Pediatrics/New Jersey Chapter. Attorneys on the case were Jennifer Dalven, Julie Sternberg, and Catherine Weiss of the National ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, and Lenora Lapidus of the ACLU of New Jersey.
Elizabeth, NJ — A first of its kind settlement agreement will ensure that Elizabeth residents continue to have access to reproductive medical services even after Elizabeth General Medical Center merges with St. Elizabeth Hospital to form a new Catholic hospital, Trinitas Hospital.
Under the agreement, which was signed last Friday, Elizabeth General Medical Center will set aside $2.4 million in two separate trusts to be used by Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey to ensure delivery of certain medical services that will not be provided by Trinitas Hospital, which will be governed by the Ethical and Religious Directives of the National Catholic Bishops Conference. The funds will specifically support the provision of tubal case management, abortion referral and options counseling, direct financial assistance to women who cannot afford the full cost of abortions and tubal ligations, and transportation for women who will have to leave the City of Elizabeth to receive certain medical treatment after the formation of Trinitas.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Foundation and the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic intervened in proceedings regarding the transfer of Elizabeth General Medical Center's charitable assets to the new Catholic hospital on behalf of the ACLU of New Jersey, the New Jersey Religious Coalition for Choice, New Jersey Right to Choose, Dr. Martin Hyman and two Elizabeth residents. In those proceedings the Honorable Miriam N. Span of Superior Court, Chancery Division, Union County, found that the conversion of the secular Elizabeth General Medical Center into a Catholic hospital was a change in charitable mission.
"This is a first," said Renee Steinhagan, Special Counsel for the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic. "This is the first time that a court has permitted community organizations to intervene as a party in a court hearing held to determine the propriety of a merger between two charitable health care organizations, the first time that a court found that the transformation of a secular hospital to a Catholic one constituted a change in charitable mission, and the first time that a court approved a charitable asset payment that appropriately accommodated that change in mission."
Lenora Lapidus, Legal Director of the ACLU of New Jersey, agrees with this sentiment. "This is a great precedent that can be used by women's groups both in New Jersey and around the country to preserve women's access to important medical care. In this era of healthcare consolidations, the Catholic Church's strength in the hospital market, no longer has to mean the end of a women's right to choose."
Steinhagan says that Judge Span's decision is important for precedential legal value and as an example of a judicial decision that considers important public policy principles as New Jersey's continuing loss of secular hospitals puts women's reproductive rights at risk.
HACKENSACK, NJ — The American Civil Liberties Union today filed suit on behalf of health care providers and their patients throughout the state to prevent New Jersey from enforcing a restrictive new abortion law aimed at minors.
In its lawsuit, the ACLU challenges as unconstitutional New Jersey's newly enacted Parental Notification for Abortion Act, which prevents minors from obtaining an abortion unless they first notify a parent or get a court order waiving the requirement.
"This law will harm, not help, teens," said Jennifer Dalven, an attorney with the ACLU's National Reproductive Freedom Project and counsel on the case together with the ACLU of New Jersey. "While most teens already involve a parent in their decision to have an abortion, some cannot because a parent is abusive, terminally ill, or opposed to abortion," she added. "Those who are forced to notify a parent may be beaten, kicked out of their homes, or forced into motherhood against their will."
The law, if enforced, would radically change the way medical care has been delivered safely in New Jersey for over two decades. It also imposes financial penalties on any person who performs an abortion without complying with the law and holds them civilly liable to a parent who is denied notification.
Currently, pregnant minors in New Jersey may consent to all of their own medical, surgical, and hospital care related to their pregnancy. Although abortion is considerably safer than continuing a pregnancy through to childbirth, the law singles out pregnant minors who choose abortion — but not those who carry their pregnancies to term — and imposes on them alone the requirement of notifying a parent or going to court.
In legal papers, the ACLU argues that the law infringes on minors' right to privacy and discriminates against pregnant teens who choose abortion in favor of those who carry to term, in violation of the right to equal protection as guaranteed by the New Jersey Constitution.
But forcing minors to appear before a judge for a waiver is not the solution, the ACLU said. Many teens will be too afraid to go to court; others will be discovered as they attempt to make their way through the process, subjecting them to the very harms they seek to avoid.
"Whether minors in New Jersey have a physician notify a parent or go to court, their access to abortions will be delayed," said Lenora Lapidus, Legal Director of the ACLU of New Jersey and co-counsel in the case. "This delay will increase the medical risks associated with the procedure and also make it more difficult, if not impossible, for minors to get the medical care they need."
Major medical organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association oppose laws that require parental involvement in a minor's decision to have an abortion, Lapidus noted.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 11 health care providers, including Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey, Planned Parenthood Association of the Mercer Area, and the American Academy of Pediatrics/New Jersey Chapter. They are represented by National ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project attorneys Jennifer Dalven, Julie Sternberg, Cora Tung, Mariann Meier Wang and Louise Melling, and ACLU of New Jersey Legal Director Lenora Lapidus.
The case, Planned Parenthood v. Farmer, number Ber-L-8026-99E7, was filed in Bergen County Superior Court in New Jersey.


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Cypress SemiconductorDividend Yield: 4.10% Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY) shares currently have a dividend yield of 4.10%. Cypress Semiconductor Corporation provides mixed-signal programmable solutions, specialized semiconductor memories, and integrated semiconductor solutions. The average volume for Cypress Semiconductor has been 2,497,900 shares per day over the past 30 days. Cypress Semiconductor has a market cap of $1.7 billion and is part of the electronics industry. Shares are up 1.6% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. TheStreet Ratings rates Cypress Semiconductor as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the company has favored debt over equity in the management of its balance sheet. Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment industry. The net income increased by 72.1% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from -$28.48 million to -$7.93 million.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 204.79% to $25.19 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 3.29%.
- CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP reported poor results of -$0.33 versus -$0.16 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($0.53 versus -$0.33).
- Current return on equity exceeded its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a clear sign of strength within the company. Compared to other companies in the Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment industry and the overall market, CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- The debt-to-equity ratio of 1.36 is relatively high when compared with the industry average, suggesting a need for better debt level management. To add to this, CY has a quick ratio of 0.69, this demonstrates the lack of ability of the company to cover short-term liquidity needs.
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Dad's time was his most important giftPublished 12:33pm Friday, March 15, 2013
As I drove home the other day, something caught my eye off to the right of the road.
Usually, my drive home from work is done in complete darkness. But the time change meant the sun was still out, casting just enough light over this front yard that I could see some sort of baseball pitching backstop.
The image sent me on a trip down memory lane. For a moment, I was just another 6-year-old kicking dirt around in center field, chewing on my glove.
This was tee ball. I don't have many complete memories from this phase of my life. I remember our uniforms were green, and for some reason our team name was Kenny Baker Paint.
But I don't remember whether we ever won a game. I can't for the life of me tell you any of my teammates names.
But I clearly remember two things – Strawberry Yoo-Hoo and my dad picking me up from practice in his beat up old grey car.
At the end of every practice, dad would be sitting there waiting; idling in a vehicle we affectionately called the "Runtmobile".
It didn't have any air conditioning. It smoked. Rattled. Pinged. And the paint was cracked.
But I loved it. I remember sticking my head out the window on the way home, drinking strawberry Yoo-Hoo (which was for some reason my post-sporting event drink of choice at the time).
My mom has since asked me if I was embarrassed to be seen in the Runtmobile. But to me, that beat up clunker taught me something, though I had no idea at the time of what that might be.
That car represented everything my dad valued in his life. He didn't care what it looked like. He didn't care if it would be the envy of everyone on the block.
He just wanted to be a father, and in my opinion that desire is what set a chain of events into motion that inevitably landed us in the faded seats of the Runtmobile.
When I was almost two years old, my dad made a decision. I have never asked him much about it, and I don't know if I could make the same one if I was put in his shoes.
His career was going well. He was managing multiple states for Sbarro Italian restaurants. Our house was gorgeous – probably the nicest one we have ever owned as a family.
But six days on the road every week took its toll – and Dad got fed up with watching my sister and me cry in the airport terminal watching him board plane after plane.
So he walked away. He took a huge pay cut in exchange for some semblance of a home life. We moved to Albany, and we never looked back.
And quite frankly, I don't know what sort of person I would be had he chosen differently. Maybe we would have had a nicer car. Maybe I would have gone to a private prep school instead of a public high school. And maybe I would have been reared without ever having to know what it means to want something.
He turns 60 tomorrow. I have been trying to think of the ultimate present to give him, a way of repaying him for 26 years of fatherhood.
I thought of all the gifts he has given me over the years – the unexpected Christmas presents and 11th-hour birthday surprises.
And none of them meant as much as just having my dad around growing up.
I didn't need an automatic pitching machine or the finest Louisville Slugger bat. I didn't need my parents to pick me up in a fancy car, and I didn't need a top-of-the-line radar gun to clock my fastball with.
All I needed was someone to play catch with. And that is the best gift my dad ever gave me.
So Dad, I won't be able to buy you a Harley Davidson Softail this birthday around.
But I'll see you Saturday.
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High number after exercise
Is that a typical meal for you with good numbers? Are you vegetarian? Beans don't count for protein in diabetes. They're good for you but a but of carbs. I always need chicken with mine.
How many weeks along are you? Typically after GD diagnosis, I think doctors like to give women two weeks to try diet control before going to medication... (I was diabetic prior to pregnancy, so it went differently for me.)
Honestly, even with medications you still have to watch what you eat in terms of portion sizes of carbs/protein/fats. Even now that I am on insulin I couldn't eat a meal of peas, bread, beans, and tomatoes without a protein and not have a high blood sugar. Has your doctor set you up with an appointment with a dietician? Typically they can help give you ideas for meals and what you should include in each.
Strenous exercise has a tendancy to raise my blood sugars, but usually not something like walking or the prenatal yoga dvd that I do. For me, it has be something more like running or spin class.
I could be wrong but it seems to me there were a lot of carbs in that meal with the bread and cereal, but of course I don't know exactly what you ate or how much.
I do know that in my personal experience, exercising before eating has helped my bs stay lower, or if I eat then exercise I wait about an hour because I have been told, do not know if it's true though, that exercise can keep your bs up if done too close to eating (after). PP is right in my experience also that if I test too soon numbers seem to be higher but if I test in an hour or so it seems much lower and they usually continue to go down over the next couple hours, unless I eat again.
Are you self controlling? I was before I hit 19 weeks and then all of a sudden no matter what I ate or how much I exercised my numbers were getting too high. I am on an intermediate acting insulin now and it has helped greatly, although is not perfect yet.
DD born 4/9/13
new baby EDD October 2015
And protein is definitly key! My numbers are much better if I add protein, even if I increase my carbs a little.
DD born 4/9/13
new baby EDD October 2015
You want to shoot for an equal serving of carb to protein for each meal (2-3) and go from there.
Do they have you meeting with a dietician? It would help give you a starting point.


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So hey, here is a Warriors drawing for the free Fella project ;D
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Great Starclan, this is beautiful...
Excuse me while I go sob for five years.
;A; umg, it's perfect!
This is the BEST JayXHalf pic I've seen yet. And that says a lot.
You get my epicness award.
It's just so beautiful:')
This was by far the saddest forbidden love. Beautifully done!
Technically not forbidden, except Jayfeather could not stay in the past. That's why I hate Rock!!
I don't hate Rock^^ Jayfeather DID have to return...but still, that love story was utterly heartbreaking.
Well, what I mean is that I wish Rock had been able to let Jayfeather stay. =3
I agree After he'd have missed his family, though...but Half Moon~
Yeah… He would miss his family if he had to leave. Which is why I know, just like he does, that it was the right thing to go… But Half Moon doesn't help his heart from breaking. I'm not blaming her, but it's just so sad!!
Well, not hate, but I hate that he made Jayfeather leave.
It's so cute and sad!!
I love this!
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Chatterbox Pub
2229 E. 35th St., Minneapolis; (612) 728-9871
Hours: 11:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m. daily; food served until midnight
Is there any future for the south Minneapolis 3.2 bar? If you'd asked me that question six months ago, I'd have said no. I'd have figured that once the current crop of 3.2 patrons died off--run into the ground from so many to-the-bathroom miles, I'd guess--that would be that.
(For the edification of foreigners: A 3.2 bar is an establishment permitted to serve only drinks that have no more than 3.2 percent alcohol in their total volume; the drink of choice is nearly always beer. In comparison, standard beer usually has an alcohol level of 5 percent or 6 percent; most table wine is between 10 percent and 15 percent. In Minneapolis nearly all bars south of 31st street are 3.2 bars, which is how lawlessness, anarchy, and inbreeding have been prevented from seeping up from Iowa. Pronunciation is "three-two"--ignore the dot; alternate pronunciations include Whizzy Bar and Leaksalot.)
Where were we? Oh yeah. Formerly, I would've said the 3.2 bar was doomed, but I wouldn't say that now, because I have seen the future, and lo, the future is the Chatterbox Pub. From outside, it doesn't look like anything, just a few dark windows and some neon on the corner of 35th Street and 23rd Avenue. But take the time to look closer; some of that neon is actually Lite-Brite. Step inside and you've entered into an entirely unique experience: A Gen X/Gen Y student-center/cruise-ship activity center/dream basement circa 1983.
Yeah, I know that's a lot of phraseology to explain. But as usual, I beg your patience. The Chatterbox is divided into two rooms: one a standard bar, the other nothing but basement. A dozen thrift-shop recliners and couches grouped around televisions, a lot of Christmas lights, a silver holiday garland wound around an oversize beer-cap clock. Not too promising. But settle down in one of the TV rings, and the transition is quickly made from basement to fantasy basement of adolescent dreams.
Servers offer you Chatterbox Ale (craft-brewed for them by Schell's, in New Ulm), root beers in white-frosted, chilled glasses, turkey sandwiches on crusty rosemary bread, and, of course, bountiful baskets of fries or onion rings. Then, as in so many of the world's fine-dining establishments, you are afforded an opportunity to peruse a second menu, a second menu you need plenty of advance training to make any sense of whatsoever. And no, there isn't a chardonnay on it. It's an Atari game list. Frogger. Asteroids. Space Invader. Donkey Kong. Tron.
A dollar gets you two games and the paddles, and the chance to conjure up memories you might not know you had. It certainly happened to me. As I sat there, strange things came bubbling out of my mouth: "Oh, the hammer isn't for now, it's for when you cycle back around in level three... What you gotta do is trap the scorpion things in the middle of the girders... The only way you'll get through this is to jump when the alligators' mouths are still open." What? When my last guy died and I reached for the reset button on the Atari 2600 game console without even thinking--well, let's just say that self-knowledge really comes at odd times, and it brings sometimes unwelcome information. Exactly how many formative years did I spend on the couch in front of the TV?
(In the Halloween spirit, I'd like to add this to the popular dialogue: The baby-boomers might have had all that hide-under-your-desk-from-the-nuclear-bombs training, but Gen X was the first razor-blades-in-the-candy generation, when playing outside unwatched was tantamount to standing on the side of the highway with a "kidnap me" note taped to your chest. No wonder so many of us feel closer to the Bradys than to the actual neighbors.)
Still, this trumps childhood, because no matter how many years I spent in front of the TV, I'd never have gotten Mom to bring me pitchers of beer and baskets of fries. That house beer, the Chatterbox lager ($1.95 a mug; $8.50 a large pitcher), is pretty good. It's an attractive brown color, has a clean aftertaste, and a nice bite of hops. Not amazing, but a significant improvement over the pale lawn-mower beer that's standard in 3.2 bars. And you've got to applaud owners Andrea Lefavor and Steve Miller for having the vision to try to improve on the formula. Miller says patrons haven't seen nothing yet: They're currently working on developing a Chatterbox Belgian White Ale, which will be served with freshly muddled whole raspberries, lemon wedges, or orange slices.
The same can-do, almost-there kudos goes for the food menu. Most of the offerings are sub sandwiches, which cost $6.95 for a really vast 8-inch offering, or $11.95 for 16 inches. They're much huger than ordinary subs, thanks to the superchewy artisanal rosemary bread that makes their hull. Fill that bread with some basic choices, such as Gardenburger, roast beef, turkey, ham, or lemon-pepper chicken breast. Add cheese--Swiss, mozzarella, or American--and then sauce (fajita ranch, honey mustard, marinara, or the mild house Parmesan-curry mustard) and toppings (the standard lettuce, tomato, and red onion as well as Chatterbox specialties such as sliced mushrooms sautéed in a garlic marinade; sliced green olives prepared in a similar manner; pickles). If you're splurging, throw on some pay-more extras, like bacon (50 cents) or spinach artichoke dip ($1). Voilà!
There are also some house-special subs, like a Pub Melt, made with chicken, mozzarella, garlic mushrooms, and fajita ranch sauce--it's an odd duck, and tastes better cold. It took me awhile to realize this, but all the sandwiches are served hot, and many of them are better special-ordered cold: Turkey with mayonnaise? Better cold. Ham with Parmesan-curry mustard? Better cold.
The sandwiches aren't bad, but--and I can't believe I'm writing this, given how much time I spend agitating for non-squishy bread--several of them would be better with a softer, more conventional bread choice, especially the burgers. I tried the Chatterbox burger ($5.95) twice and I liked it very much. The burger itself is flavorful; the meat is marinated and tossed with dried herbs, and then topped with bacon, herb-sautéed sliced green olives, Swiss cheese, and a liberal dollop of Parmesan-curry mustard. The overall effect is salty, savory, and pleasantly unusual, like some kind of gourmet fusion muffuletta-mustard-meatloaf.
There's a unique culinary vision playing out here; please use caution when picking out the potatoes that accompany all subs and burgers. The fries are a safe bet, but the garlic-dill potatoes are strange. They are neither boiled nor mashed, but somewhere between the two poles--imagine smallish bits of potato that seem to have been through a rock-tumbler and enrobed with an indistinctly herbal, buttery sauce. Mostly they reminded me of bottled salad dressing, but they reminded a friend of mine of what you can make in the dorm kitchen in the middle of the night, when the potatoes and Knorr packets lay unprotected. And here we are again! Back at the core of it all: The dorm lounge-ness of it all, the third-best-couch-where-you-can-drink-grape-juice-ness of it all. Atari generations rule!
It's enough to make you challenge a stranger to a round of Atari Video Checkers. Video Checkers, isn't that sweet? As if there were some danger of their being confused with the other checkers. As if there was any reason to play checkers on a TV screen, when half the pleasure is physically bumping the checkers up and down. And if actual checkers are more your speed, there are tons of non-Atari games behind the bar at Chatterbox too.
And that's to say nothing of the all-bar costume mega-games masterminded by soon-to-wed owners Lefavor and Miller. As I was writing this, they were gearing up for a Fifties Las Vegas-lounge murder mystery. Scripted by Miller (who plays a fat cat with unclear motives), it will involve ten costumed lead characters, one of whom plans to murder another. There will be a casino set up in the bar, and patrons will receive a stack of Chatterbox cash. Take your moolah to the casino, and try to increase it. Once you have sufficient coin, attempt to bribe the characters to divulge their motivations and histories. There are two contests: one to figure out who will get murdered, a second to figure out who did it. Customers must work together, pooling the information--and misinformation--they gather. Chatterboxers who come in costume get to participate in more depth, perhaps even gaining their own character identity, and clues to peddle. I'm sure you've heard of events like these--they're usually at some $100-a-head bed and breakfast, not at a south Minneapolis 3.2 bar.
"Yeah, that 3.2 license is something of a stigma," says Miller. "People think it means they can't get drunk or we're going to have terrible beer. But that's not us. We're a community space. We're where, the first week in December, there's going to be a Scooby-Doo mystery party. The premise is that me and Andrea are close to having to sell the bar because it's haunted. Then those meddling kids show up. You can come dressed as your favorite Scooby-Doo character or guest host. Personally, I'm hoping for the Harlem Globetrotters and Phyllis Diller."
If Miller gets Phyllis Diller and the Globetrotters, chances are they'll come holding the IDs of the typical Chatterbox customer: twenty- and thirtysomethings drawn to the Corcoran neighborhood by all that cute, affordable housing. "Sometimes it seems like everyone in here just bought a house," says Miller. "Everyone used to live in Uptown, everyone was looking to raise a family or spread out, to get access to space that isn't commercial space. That's what we are: A community space. A family room."
A family room? Suddenly, it hit me. The Chatterbox isn't a peculiar alley in the history of the south Minneapolis 3.2 bar, it's the inevitable next step. If family rooms were, for an earlier generation, a place where you smoke cigarettes around a kitchen table, it's inevitable that for the generations of the TV-room womb, the 3.2 bar is where you sit around on couches and play Atari while eating chicken tenders ($5.95). One thing though: All this thinking about 3.2 bars is making me eye today's super-scheduled Echo Boom with suspicion. Will the 3.2 bar of 2020 be where you go to eat Lunchables while you learn how to draw, improve your vocabulary, and play soccer? Stay tuned...
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Not to leave SAHM out but I was wondering if any working mom started potty training their LO yet? Since potty training requires consistency, and we are not with our LO for the most part of the day. How and when do you potty train?
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We put her on the potty at home sometimes or if she says poop and hasn;t yet but totally inconsistent and infrequent. my DC doesn't start enforcing til the 2YO room where they have a bathroom. unless she is showing all the signs and can pretty much tell you accurately when to use the potty, just put her on it when you know she usually goes or at certain times like before bath or when she wakes up and see where it goes. will your DC provider do it too?
Mich LO goes anytime. She doesn't have a specific time when she would normaly goes. She stays at home with my family.
Silence is golden. Unless you have a toddler. In that case, silence is very, very suspicious.
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I was lucky and my SIL watched Syrie until she was 18 months. We did early potty training so SIL was doing the same stuff with her that we were doing. When she started preschool at 18 months, she actually had a lot more pee accidents BECAUSE the same consistency was not there and the providers didn't know her sign for "potty" (even though I told them!). Now that she is more comfortable at the school and is speaking better, she tells them all the time and hasn't had an accident in weeks. So you just have to get your family on board with the same thing you are doing - learn her cues, make her clean up her own accidents, have set times like always before nap, things like that. She will get the hang of it even without you training her FT!
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I was working 2 days a week and I started trining my LO at 18 months. I was using flip trainers which make her feel wet but contain the mess. She was going to my MIL's on the days I worked and maybe one more day here or there. My LO was doing great for me. She barely had any accidents (except poo which we are still struggling). My MIL hated the fact that it was messy if she pooed even if she just had to unsnap the sides and put it in a bucket for me to take care of. She went out and bought pullups (which I only use when we are going to be out or something). Well my DD just peed in them because she thought they were diapers. It was SOOOOOOO frustrating because then she kept regressing. I started staying home mid Dec. and it is way easier. I would do it if the other party was going to be consistent. Lay out a plan that both can reasonably do and I think it will be easier.
if she isn;t showing any signs but you want to start training then just have a schedule and have your family put her on the potty at those times like once every 1-2 hours or whatever works for you. if she won;t sit don't force her bc she may just refuse to do it altogether if she isn;t ready. with ODD she started waking up dry around age 2 and we started actual potty training then. by 2.5 she was 100% trained. we sat her on the potty till she peed in the morning and made a big deal out of it rather than trying to sit her on the potty every hour but most kids don;t just start waking up dry that early. have activities like a book or TV to have her sit longer.
if she isn;t showing signs I would say wait a couple months and sit her on it when you have time to get her used to the potty but not necessarily potty training
I trained DD when she was 20 months. I had a week off work and we potty trained. She went back to daycare, and back to diapers, but we continued potty training on the weekends and evenings. By 21 months we were done, she went to daycare in underwear, initiated all trips to the potty on her own, etc.
I absolutely think you can train them at home while they still wear diapers to daycare. DD caught on very fast that there were no diapers at home anymore and within a month she was out of diapers day and night, even at daycare.
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Trying to figure out how she might move in combat.
I would have loved to have played as her it's a shame it got cut
I fell in love with those sketches. It's a pleasure to see such a skillful artist, who understands what the drawing so well... that even the creature with that anatomy look perfect and logical. Great... great work!
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Was Artemis suppose to be in GOW III at the beginning?
Just beautiful. Reminds me of Claire Wendling. Where did you go to school? You draw like the French.
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She was a design I worked up but was rejected for God of War: Ascension.
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Whatever you have with her, bring it forth, because this is a masterpiece. *breathing heavily*
Whatever you have with her, bring it forth, because this is a masterpiece. *breathing heavily*
I FREAKING LOVE THESE. I mean, I always loved Artemis and always thought she was a badass, but these make her even more badass-ER! I can't wait to see you're final drawings of this concept!!!
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For a city more renowned for it's red light district and coffee shops, Amsterdam has an amazing array of galleries and museums.

The Anne Frank House in the city centre is fantastic for history buffs or anyone who has every read her famous diary. Although he did most of his work in France, the Van Gogh Museum in the city's south has a great display of the impressionist legends work. For a wider variety of art including, Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' and the enigmatic 'Girl with the Pearl Earring' you cannot go past the Rijks Museum, only steps from the Van Gogh.

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The gym where tiny Elbert High School has played its basketball games since 1957 has character. And eccentricity. For example, boys basketball coach Mac McGuire explains that the roof holds firm in a rainstorm. Melting snow causes no problems. But if there's a thin dusting of frost on the roof, moisture leaks and leaves water spots on the playing floor.
McGuire doesn't think a new roof is the answer.
"We need a new gym," he said.
Maybe so, but the old gym, even with an unpredictable roof, has served the school's basketball program well. Elbert, with a student body of 77, won a state Class A-II title in 1988.
"We like our gym," McGuire said. "We get good crowds when we play (rival) Kiowa and Simla. It can get loud in there."
The Elbert gym is one of a vanishing number of timeless treasures that have been part of their school, and in many cases, the local community, for decades.
Weldon Valley High School in Weldona, about 60 miles northeast of Denver on the Platte River, plays in a gym constructed in the 1950s. With standout Bill Ellis leading the way, the Warriors won a Class C state title in 1960, a team coached by Ken Shaklee.
"The original gym burned down the year before my freshman season," Ellis said. "We had to practice outdoors until the gym that's there today was built."
The floor was dedicated in Shaklee's honor in 1993.
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The playing floor is small. Fans sitting in the front row of the stands can touch the sideline with their feet. And it can get loud.
"It's so loud at times that the visiting coaches say they can't be heard," Wood said. "It gives us a home-court advantage. It would be great to have a new gym, but on game days I love playing in this gym."
Another gem among the older gyms in Colorado is the one at Denver Christian High School, where Dick Katte has coached for 48 years. The gym opened in 1958. It has a playing floor of 94 feet by 50 feet, standard size for a college court. A number of visiting college teams have practiced there when in town.
"We've been able to create a really good basketball atmosphere," said Katte, who is retiring at season's end. "Basketball probably is our most successful program. We've been able to put a lot of banners up in the building. It's a unique place with a concave ceiling."
Katte has taken the Crusaders to the state championship game 13 times and won seven titles. The Crusaders once had a 47-game winning streak.
"One of our players said the other night that what we were doing in practice was like what he saw in the movie 'Hoosiers,' " Katte said.
While Katte's team plays on a big floor, most of the notable old-time gyms have much smaller playing surfaces. With school consolidation and new facilities being built, the undersized bandbox gyms are disappearing. Former longtime Regis Jesuit coach Guy Gibbs believes the larger floors are a better fit for today's style of play.
"The game is played faster," Gibbs said. "In some of the old gyms, the wall was right at the out-of-bounds line. That doesn't work anymore. There's a safety factor."
Safety wasn't the biggest concern at the old gym at Branson High School on the Colorado-New Mexico border, which provided one of the great folklore stories of state high school basketball history. In 1967, Branson won the Class A state championship despite having just 17 boys in the high school. Fifteen played basketball. W.M. Nickell was the superintendent of schools in Branson and also the high school basketball coach. His twin sons, Jerry and Gerry, were on the team.
"The walls of the gym also were the out-of-bounds lines," Jerry Nickell said. "You learned how to bounce off the walls and keep playing."
The playing floor was so small that it required two so-called "midcourt" lines to accommodate direction of play.
"When they put in the 3-point field goal, there wasn't enough room in the corners to place the lines," Jerry Nickell recalled.
There's no longer a high school program at Branson, which has consolidated with Kim High School. The gym and the memories are all that's left.
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A look at a handful of gyms around the state that have their own distinct charm.
1. Burlington High School
Town: Burlington
Built: 1966
What you should know: Called "The Pit," this gym features three-sided seating. "Great place to watch a game," said athletic director Greg Swiatkowski.
2. Denver Christian High School
Town: Denver
Built: 1958
What you should know: Has big floor of college dimensions. Court is named after legendary coach Dick Katte, who is retiring at season's end.
3. Edison High School
Town: Yoder
Built: 1961
What you should know: Featuring wooden seating, this gym has the tendency to get really loud because, athletic director Rachel Paul said, it has "horrible acoustics." Still, Paul adds, it's a "good size gym for the time it was built."
4. Elbert High School
Town: Elbert
Built: 1957
What you should know: Charming home to 1988 state champions, you might want to look out for a puddle or two on the floor, though.
5. Granada High School
Town: Granada
Built: 1968
What you should know: It, too, has wooden benches for seating. Oh, and the practice gym was built with The New Deal.
6. Weldon Valley High School
Town: Weldona
Built: 1950s
What you should know: Replaced the school's original gym after it burned down in a fire. Aside from basketball, is also home to most community activities.
Ryan Casey, The Denver Post